Page Two PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Published semi-weekly daring the College year. eseepi on holiday., by students of The Pennsylrania State College. in the interest of the College, the students. faculty. alumni, and friends. CHARLES A. MYERS '34 FREDERICK L. TAYLOR M 4 Editor Businesa Manager GEORGE A. SCOTT 14 HAROLD J. BATSCH '34 Managing Editor Cireolution Manager WILLIAM M. STEGMEIER M 4 11. EDGAR FURMAN '34 Assistant Editor Loral Advertising Manager BERNARD H. ROSENZWEIG M 4 JOHN C. IRWIN '34 News Editor Foreign Advertising Manager JAMES N. SHEEN '34 FRANCIS WACKER M 4 Sports Editor Classified Advertising. Manager RUTH M. HARMON '3l MAE I'. KAPLAN '34 Wonien'a Editor Women's Managing Editor EVA M. BLICHFELDT '3l Women's Nova Editor James ft. Beatty jr. 35 John A. Ilralrntan '35 Phillip W. Fair jr. '3% A. Conrad Haines '35 Kenneth C. Memo '35 Burton Itowles jr. '3% James It. Wuktin jr. '35 Fred W. Wright '35 WOMEN'S ASSOCIATE EDITORS Murcia R. nani.•l '35 Elsie N. Ilonthett 31/ovar.A W. Kinsloe '3. stanuttinu Editor Thin Totue N.u•.r Fitlitor Till kour-____ THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 12, 1934 HOLLOW OFFICES Although the date has not been set, it is probable that elections for men's Athletic Association officers will he held soon after class elections. Six or seven athletes will run for the position of president o• seere tart'. and the usual amount of campaigning will take It is time to question the value of these offices Leaving personalities entirely out of the discussion, it is doubtful whether there is any excuse for their con tinuance. The student branch of the Athletic Associa tion here has very little to do. It may hold a mass meet ing o• two, hut these could be sponsored by a hat society just ns The duties of the president of the association are not enough to justify a separate office. lie has one vote in all the managership elections and he represents the student body on the Board of Athletic Control. It is open to serious question whether the A. A. president can vote intelligently on the managers and first assist ants in twelve different sports. It is practically im possible for him to know the qualifictitions of over fifty different men. And the temptation in some instances is to play polities. As for representation on the Board of Control, this minor duty could be performed by a se- lected sports captain The A. A. secretary takes minutes of all manager- ship elections. This again is so small a duty that it scarcely justifies a separate election. About the only excuse for both positions is that they are "offices" which can he campaigned for and won. , But the fact that the duties connected with them are either questionable or unimportant is enough• to merit some reorganiza "THE FUTURE OF•AMERICAris in the hands of two men—the investigator and-the interpreter," says Dr. Glenn Frank, president of the University of Wis consin. Ile adds that we have an ample supply of in vestigators, hut lack men who can interpret the special ist's work for the layman. There is need for the latter because "a dozen fields of thought are today congested with knowledge that the physical arid social sciences have unearthed, and the whole tone and temper of Amer- can life can be lifted by putting this knowledge into general circulation." Ifere, then, is the real place of a liberal arts school or college in the educational scheme. It has potentialities for training men to be the inter- preters of modern life. 10f course it has its specialists, too. But more than any other single school, it can give a student that background which enables him to fit new discoveries into past knowledge. It must not be a super ficial training, however. A thorough knowledge of a particular field, gained perhaps by work in one of the technical schools, must supplement the cultural back ground given by the liberal arts school. LINK OR LIBRARY? The question of a new library seems to be definitely settled for the neat few years as far as College offi cials are concerned. They recently decided that a new Women's dormitory and the long-proposed 'connecting link' between the Liberal Arts buildings would have to be' completed before attention may be given to plans for a new library The chances arc that the 'link' win not be completed for a year or two at least, and it will affect not more than 1,500 students. While the need for a women's dor- mitory is evident, it will affect only about seven or eight hundred people (co-eds) connected with the Col- The present library, built to house forty thousand books and packed with over one hundred and fifty thousand volumes, lacking faculty studies, seminar rooms, work rooms, laboratories for academic research, modern lighting and ventilating systems, and a modern floor plan, is miable to meet current demands. Quite a large number of people (well over seven or eight hundred) are inconvenienced by the library situation the entire undergraduate body to some extent, the grad uate students still more, while many faculty members are greatly hindered by existing library inadequacies. Aggregately, the number of persons affected by a poor library is about five thousand. Simply from the standpoint of the number affected, might it not be advis able for the administration to plan for a new library to be erected before the dormitory, or, if the dormitory must come first, at least a library prior to the erection of the 'connecting link' between North and South Lib eral Arts? AVE DIED last week they took out their big knives and lunged deeply into our flesh but we just laughed and laughed and the more they stabbed us the harder we laughed it began to get funnier but Ive, didn't care they shouted off with his head and then we took our head off for them it was simpler that way. no fuss no bother at all but we began to feel a hysteria coming on us a courageous' hysteria and we decided to make one last attempt against all the smugs in defense of Waller Dengler Dickson Gal braith Nichols Werner Van Keuren Wood Ryan Rathmell Boring Prexie Simpson and others but the smogs beat us down we wrote our last column but they beat us down they stoned us they kicked us and . we roared with laughter all the time you should have seen us yowl have died laughing at us yowl have laughed but not more than we did damn that empty A. Conrad Itai," '37s Fretl W. .35 gin bottle it haunts us and our beads gone ynu see we died last week after they stabbed us it was fun there was no soap or wed have washed in the blood god it was Ilicrous and oh we know this is a foul stinking last gasp but what can you expect of a dead man with his head chopped off. Ashes to ashes, Yesterday, what with the rain and all, we felt morose and draggy and, having reached that awful ebb where we were wondering, 'Why education?,' we started leafing through last year's notebook thinking maybe we'd find out 'why.' We found something that helped; it was a quotation from Education I and bore the caption, 'My Idea of the Educated Man'. Under iV was the following "I sing at my work. I go to church regularly. I support every good movement. Homeless dogs and cats follow me and lost kittens like my tracks; I love dumb animals, helpless children, defenseless women, and God. I. stop to help my neighbor repair his tire in the rain. I always kiss my wife goodbye. I speak, reverently of all women. I do my bit to make my community a better place for other people to live. in. I believe that American business and American, citizenship can be as good as any found anywhere." That, we thought, is the kind of stuff that makes . College worthwhile. * TO M. FOX (With apologies to the.`Moron' of D. Parker) . , An ExtreitieWShbit Short Short Stork M. Galbraith, who devotes his time to keeping, the student mind off the 0. Henry Memorial Award, was slightly disappointed with one of his' proteges." "Mr. Christy," he said, "where did you find suf ficient effrontery to submit this (here M. Galbraith . waved violently a manuscript belonging:to the Lo cust Lane Clique's secretarial hope) drivel .under the guise of a short. story? The diction is sfilted,.theia . is no direction, the weak excuse for a plot is point less, the whole thing does nothing and gets no place!" As H. Galbraith approached with his manuseript, ,Christy assumed a look of naive incredulity and asked, "You mean you don't like it?" The Fi Delta used to be proud of that pale blue front door that swung back to permit people to s pass through the entrance to the lodge proper. It was, as they would tell you, a very individualistic frint door. It boasted a nuance of blue that was an achieve ment in pastels used in decorative architecture. It was—but there's no,use going on. The Fi Delta told too many people about their beautiful blue door. It was stolen last night. Only the hinges remain—and they aren't blue. and after all . . . CAMPUSEER Ere= Dust to dust The Campy is dead! Long live "us." -THE STEG AT.EVE Education I wish I were a big shot; I wouldn't give a dathri. If asked, 'Are you a big shot? , - SaY, 'You • bet I ani!' GENIUS . 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