Page TrO PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Published eeml.sseckly during the College year, eumpt on h.oliguya. by student. of The Pennsylrenia State College, in the intereet of the College, the students, faculty, alumni, and friends. THE MANAGING BOARD CHARLES A. 111YE.RS . Editor GEORGE A. SCOTT ISA Miinticing Editor WILLIASI 51. STEOMMIER '5l Assi,thni Editor BERNARD 11. .ROSENZIVEIC '3l Foreign Advertising Manager FRANCIS WACKER '34 Clnssified Advertising Manager MAR I'. KAPLAN '34 Women's Managing Edit:, 'EVA M. 111.1C111411.DT '3l Women'n News Editor News Editor JAMES M. SIiEEN '3l Sporty Editor RUTH Si. MARMON '3l WorarP'd Editor James B. Bratty jr. '35 John A. Brutnnttn . 35 Phillip W. Fair jr. A. Conrn•! Ilaideo '35 Kenneth C. ItolTtnna 15 Burton Rowlea Jr. '3: Jame:. B. Watson Se. '35 Fred W. lirrittht .35 !tarry J. Knoll' '35 H. Kenneth Lyons '35 Jack A. Martin ID Sohn J. Mather, 15 George A. Rutledge '35 Earl G. Keyser jr. '35 WOSIEN'S ASSOCIATE EDITORS Slnrcln•ll. Dlniel ' Tilde M. Douthelt 15 slnrcaret W. Kimble 15 Editorial Office, 313 Old Main Business Office, Nittany Printing Bldg._. 3hinirni Etlithr This 1,.:e rows Editor This Issue THURSDAY EVENING, AIARCH 1, 1934 WHAT DO THEY READ? T•he old qu2stion of what college students read and what they danlt is raised again by a letter published in this issue. The writer considers the two humor columns, the Campuseer and Old Mania, a waste of space. Ile suggests in,!rea:dng student and faculty circulation by running two other columns in their place. One would be a ; , ummary of campus events and the other a column et national and internatimml• news It is true that the humor columns often contain "nothing of importance." But that, is precisely what the student naders like. In a survey made last year, Ilmost ninety percent of the seniors said that they liked the humor columns more than anything else in the COLLEGIAN. In 1112 face of such a demand, it is not so easy tG dispcnzie with the 'foolishness. Names are news, however trivially they may be used. to the _first suggestion, the Student Union Sul letin gives a summary of the coming events of the week, while a summary of the mast events can be gathered by a glance at the headlines of tha two issues for each Week. And a column of national' and international news was run weekly. during the first semester. Its temporary discontinuance, however ; has caused no great outcry. It was read by a minority, while the majority gobbled up the humor next to it. This, then, is the conclusion that one must reach after observing student reading .habits for some time. Perhaps, howzver, the lack of rtudent interest in serious reading has been exaggerated. If so, additional Sugges- tions or criticisms, such as the one in the Letter .Box will be rmicome, CLASSICS VS. MASSES College students have become accustomed, in the last few years, to hearing increasing moans froM the mora classically-minded in our faculties and among our writers. They point out semi-annually that not enough so•called 'cultural classical' courses are included in our curricula. This plaint is especially heard in reference to such colleges as Penn State, where the condensation into four years of study of enough .technical knowledge to last a lifetime prohibits, for a large percentage of the student body, the scheduling of Greek and Latin studies, the karning of intricacies of the Bible, and research into Virgil and Plato, Horace and Demosthenes. Students, as a defense., measure,. have 'come. to the point whe{•¢, when an argUment, either or 'against classicism starts, they eithei•unim;blie assent, Tointing at the same time to a Emtal6dae• filled avitk I:eqUiretrsUb- . juts, or answer, simply, "r wouldn't cant to study that stuff•. what use would it ever be to me?" - In the latter s,tudent reaction, we can find the real answer to at least one side of the problem. Students don't want to take classical courses because they are of on practical value to them. A glance into the history higher education shows the paint clearly. In the medieval university, and up to about 1850, students stayed for four, five, six or more years, learn ed Greek and Latin very well, learned what was known cf history very well, learned the intricacies of the Bible very well. Students in those clays came either from the upper reach:c of the social- hierarchy, to which they would return after graduation, or from a..slightly lower tier—sure to rise after college was over. On their level, tlr., language of the classics meant something—they cculd use it, and be understood. Today, with mass education as it is, things are de cidedly different. Students don't come from the upper classes, they come from all classes. They don't float off the commencement platform into assured positions that will place them higher in the world, they step down from the graduation stand to look for a job, to return to the class level of their parents. To a man who has hot for a moment stepped away from the world of work, classics mean little. For his personal satisfaction, for an appreciation of the better things in life, they very definitely have their place, but from a strictly pragmatic point 'of view, they are worth less. Culture, the study of social science, of human his tory, will give him a much deeper insight into the affairs of the world today than would any amount of stored up knowledge' of the intricacies of Greek and Latin, or r. knowledge: of the Bible. -Classical culture, as such, lost its.place; and rightly so, with the spread of higher education to' where 'great middle classes could reach it. -4. B. W. jr. Collegiate morals are definitely on the down swing. From all sections of the country We hear of new lows in undergraduate culture traits. Co-eds are painting their finger nails a brighter, more sugges tive shade of red, an increased number of dogs are running around college campi with tin .cans on their tails. two students at Drexel have allegedly kept dates FREDERICK L. TAYLOR 1.4 Business Manager HAROLD J. BATSCH M 4 Circulation Manager IL EDGAR FURMAN U 4 Local Advertleing Manager JOHN C. IRWIN '34 in a fraternity house until after three o'clock in the morning, and Bob Ellstrom has abandoned training rules. Shocking things are taking place in all collegiate institutions. From Bucknell we hear reports that just the other day a Bison basketball player removed his sweat pants right before a game and revealed to all the spectators that he had not bothered to wear pair of trunks underneath. Lack of forethought, you may say, but did the student audience blush, did they turn their faces until the matter could be properly ad justed? No. Instead, they gave their vociferous ap •proval by uttering cat-calls and cheers. __Telephone 500 _Telephone 292-W I=l Our own undergraduates are not any betteor•. Most shocking scenes may be observed in any of the numerous drinking parlors which infest the town. All sense of propriety seems to have vanished as sud denly as, if not quicker than, a puck of cigarettes in rushing season. The action of the town authorities is encouraging. They ore meeting the situation just as Brandt met the Governor. In other words, Burgess Leitzell, Chief Yougel, and his entire corps of officers are taking a hand in the matter and shaking that hand vigorously. One incident just last week proves the point. A prominent manager-elect who should have known better was sitting in a local beer cellar with -a just-as-prominent-co-ed. They were drinking their third glass of ale, the third fitassLThis pair of drunk en sots would have probably taken a fourth, and so have drunk themselves into a stupor had it not been for the timely appearance of the Burgess and Chief Yougel. "You've had three glasses of ale. You're drunk now, aren't you?" the Burgess asked very kindly. There was a quizzical gleam in his eyes. "Waddaya mean, drunk? Who's drunk?" the stu dent answered rudely. And his co-ed friend tittered disrespectfully as unbefits any co-ed with a Sense of Decency. "Aro you over twenty-one?" our good Chief Yougel then interrogated in a pleashnt tone of voice. "Hell, yes," replied the nasty student who seemed to have no respect for his 'superiors. - It was quite obvious to the Good Chief and to our Honored Burgess that the fiend which sat before them iwas lying. Why he might even be some desperado froni;AicagV, they rightly reasoned. Whit, the con versation continued, and it finally developed that the two culprits- really were students — undergraduates 'at our own Glorious'State (whose name we all - dearly dove). It seems a shame that our Borough officers have to spend so much time keeping.: . nnruly, immoral !students from disgracing the town-With their sodden (habits. Yes, you can definitely say that College mo•- als ore on the down-swing. • "Dear. Old Panzer." For weeks before the gym team's match with Panzer College, Charlie Speidel raved about the institution. "Dear Old Panzer," he would say, "how I long to be back at'my Alma Mater. Oh, you'll love the place." And so, for weeks the gym team looked forward to the trip ,to New York and Pan zer with expectation. The Great and Eventful Day arrived and they speedid away to Panzer. In New York they had difficulty finding the place. Charlie had given them'explicit .direCtiOns and yet the place • just didn't seem tol,e..xist;', " "Oh, yeS," : .; said their i',,td‘orlhaite, ''. r you'•ivan s titorto to Panzer. 4 Well, drive don-n the street 'two blocks, turn to your left, and it's the third house front ,the corner" CAMPUSEER BY HIMSELF 1;=•flMI THE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Letter Box To the Editor 'Believe it or not, but the COLLEGIAN, of Penn State wastes space and op portunity. The "Old Mania" and the "Campusseer" columns fill about one and a half columns of, space in each issue. And they contain nothing of importance. , Why not substitute for these worth-. less columns a column - written in the manner of-" Time" magatific and con taining a brief history of the campus activities for the week? Your second issue of the week could contain a simi lar column dealink briefly with the trend of national politics, governmen tll policies, and international news of the week. If you reason that these are unim portant, also remember that: I.Such 'columns would create more faculty readers. 2. The COLLEGIAN would certainly. prove of more value than it is today.' 3. Student circulation would prob ably be increased. 4. Penn State has more serious stu dents than, is realized. 5. Such news columns should -be worthy of a trial Ernest C. Miller '34. -- To the Editor: For their gallant and witty reply to my charges of last week I have only respect for the shoguns of The Ohl. Main Belt. Their good wishes , are encouraging -and I thank them cleen ly. In drafting' their reply they have fallen into their prevalent attitude of flippancy, a state of mind which, SOPH HOP CORSAGES Marimor Ploiists 4 ,® 222 222 West Beaver Avehrte PRONE 861 College Cut Rate Store Scot Towels__ Towel Abiders_ Winter "Chocolatesl lb. 39c Old Fashioned Peppermints 1 lb 33c Laige CaWrfalc _ ._29c Vantines Dusting Powder '39c Seventeen Deritimstration Size Cleansing 'Cream 98c Seventeen Dethonstration Site Cold CreaM 98c • wATca. OUR WINDOW* FOR 'OTHER SPECIALS FRIDAY AND SATURDAY , from a Betty Crocker Recipe ~... ~~ unfortunately has become identified with the Bell. The fine Italian hand of Mr. M. P. Wood was too frequently employed, one believes. They have chosen to take up the gage and have set about concocting a 'plot story. They define their sub ject matter in no uncertain terms; "slave-running in Pago-Pago, incest in a New England farm house, gang ster vengeance, the breath-taking ad ventures of a beautiful female spy in the .Russian White -Army; and "How Frank Meriwell CaMe to be President of the International Harvester Com pany." With this bald stroke they have removed all cause for exis tence of the Eel!. They have out lined the ideal' Froth plot: nothing now stands in the way of the merger of Profit and the Dell. They have also shown .a rather weird conception of "things remote , from the collegiate Merry-go-round"' by theii• admissions that they know" little of "the exotic and . alluring South Seas, of the new Russia,.China, elephant hunting in darkest 'Africa; and other subjects .. . " By "re mote from the collegiate By round" 'I meant things no farther' away , than Bellefonte. • I choose tp believe that their association of these' colorful items; with my:recommendis, HMIs was more a'elever 'evaSion than , a misunderstanding. ' Their kind treatment of my wretch ed usage' of the. language brings a' loud shout of, "Bonsai!" Mr. Eddie Nichols is working on this department' and a turn for the better is expeeted.' Lest the matter descend to what: Mr. Lynn Christy calls, "more fun in' college," it is agreeable to me that . the. war end here, 'our shafts duly, shot andnxhibited. —James•Dugan ltc, 2 for 25c :25c Green or Ivory Tit. ,be safe you buy the genuine Stritebtnatues told-lito COce, look lei 'the Betty Crocker seal-on each cake. SOPH HOP FURNISHES THEME FOR CURRENT 'FROTH' ISSUE Soph Hop tomorrow furnishes the - theme for the current issue of Froth, whidh will go 'on sale tonight. 'The I cover is especially drawn for the oc casion by Benson Eschenbach '26: Froth's masterminds have drawn up plans and .made suggestions for the vaguely proposed armory in which From 27 links . . . ONE STRONG SYSTEM Welded together by common policies and ideals, the 27 Bell System companies work 'as-one. 'Operation is in the hands .of 24 associated tele phone companies — . each attuned to the area it serves. Scientific research and manufacture of appara tus are delegated to Bell Telephone Laboratories and Western Electric. Co-orilination of all System .ac tivities is a function 'of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, . Thanks 'to the 'skilful 'teamwork of these many Bell Syst'em units, you ' can' 'talk to almbst anyone, anywhere, anytime! BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM WHY NOT TELEPHONE HOME ONCE EACH WEEK? • REVERSE THE CHARGES IF YOUR FOLKS AGREE. f ' . . • ,D.Op N . llll . .sNo sec AT YOUR GROCER'S Same Cake lit Bar Shape 2 Layers and king 30c Thursday Evening, March 1, 1934 they present pertinent plans for the military. Jack R. Roivles '35 and Robert A: Dickinson '34 collaborate 'on an epi curean appreciation' of fine liquors in the Julian Street manner. P. Lynn Christy '35 is present with several pieces as are Jacob S. Krakusin '35 and others. The drawings are by Don Gordon, .Bob McKean '3O and Jimmy Dugan '37. A sports supplement for Saturday events will be distributed with the issue. . . 03y °China& of awygoe Gold-N-Sno! . . ..and what a glorious cake it is three fluffy golden layers blending the mellow goodness of cocoanut wit'h the ..flavor of fresh oranges ... tripped With a creamy icing of sfiredded cocoanut Its texture ... its appearance ... its size ... and above all its goodness are so nab uraily appealing that you could hot tell it' from a home-made cake: All NeighbOrhood Grocery stores ate selling Stroehmann'S .Gold-N-Sno take today . .' Saturday. and each anceeed ing week-end. Be among the first to enjoy this new cake. If your grir 18 unable to supply you be sure to ask to reaerve one for you to . serve ,witl.! Sunday dinner.• , . Stroelunann tros. Company 13akers of Kew-Bee and Prize Winner Bread
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