Page Two PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Published M.<m!«wivkly durinf; the College year, except on holidays, by students of The Pennsylvania State Collette. In the interest of the Collette, the students, faculty, alumni, and friends. THE MANAI JOHN A. RRUTZMAN *35 JACK A. MARTIN *35 Editor Uusiness Manager FRED W. WRIGHT '35 GEORGE A. RUTLEDGE ’35 Spurts Editor Circulation Manager KENNETH C. HOFFMAN '35 B. KENNETH LYONS ’35 Mnnotrint; Editor Local Advertising Manager JAMES It. WATSON JR. ’35 HARRY J. KNOFF *35 Assistant Editor Foreitrn Advertising Manatrer PHILLIP W. FAIR JR. ’35 JOHN J. MATTHEWS ’35 Assistant Managing Editor \s«t. Foreign Advertising Manager A. CONRAD HAIGES ’35 EARL G. KEYSER JR. ’35 News Editor Asst. Local Advertising Manager JAhtES B. BEATTY JR. ’35 MARGARET W. KINSLOE '35 News Editor MARCIA B. DANIEL *35 Women’s Editor ASSOCIATE EDITORS John K. Barnes jr. '3G \V. liernnrd Fretm-*ch ’36 Vance 0. Packard ’3C Harry B. Henderson jr. '35 William P. McDowell '3G John K. Miller jr. '3U Donald P. Sunders '36 Charles M. Schwartz jr. '3G ASSOCIATE BUSINESS MANAGERS Philip G. Evans *3(l William U. Heckman '3G Leonard T. StvfT ’3G Rolund W. Gberholtzur jr. MG William JL Skirblc ’36 WOMEN'S ASSOCIATE EDITORS L. Maryhcl Conahee MG Ruth E. Koehler MG A. Frances Turner '3G Managing Editor This Issue.. Nows Editor This Issue Editorial OfTicv-t, 313 Old Main—Telephone 500 Application mndo for entry nt the Post Office, State College, Penna., ns second-class matter. Tuesday, September 25, 1934 THE ZERO HOUR Tonight the majority of the freshman class will he called upon to make what is probably the most im portant decision of their four years of college. At 7 o’clock, those who have decided to affiliate themselves with a, fraternity will present themselves at the houses of their choice. Before the final- decision is made, every freshman should have answered several questions to his own satisfaction. Naturally, fraternities make every ef fort during the two weeks of rushing to impress the rushee with the desirability and advantages which each individual house offers. It is up to the freshman to decide whether the atmosphere is real or artificial; whether or not the courtesies and habits are temporary or permanent; whether or not the good feeling is per manent or assumed. The freshman has heard much about the national and campus standing of the house. The so-called im portant men about the campus have been pointed out pridefully, and the rushee has been impressed with the magnitude and scope of the house's activities. Pres tige and stability have been' poured on him from all angles. All of these things should now be relegated to the background. The most important thing which should govern the final decision is the personalities which compose the house. These personalities should be congenial to the freshman, or at the very least, personalities which he admires and hopes to emulate. It is to be expected that there will be a few mem bers of the class of 1938 that came here solely with the idea of acquiring power or fulfilling certain, ambitions. It might behoove them to pledge a house which would help them realize these dreams, but the average per son has no such ambitious program. To him, friend ship and understanding will far outweigh such a tem- porary, and false thing as campus distinction unless it is coupled with other desirable qualities. At the same time, one or two close friendships in a house should not be the basis for the decision. It must be remembered that four years can be more pleas antly spent with thirty-five genuine friends than with one or two very close ones and a large number for which one cares little. To the majority of men now in College, finances comprise a vital question. It is imperative that every freshman understand thoroughly all financial details of a house, and it is to his advantage to determine whether or not there is a bond hidden away somewhere behind the glib buzzing of a senior. And a word or two to those freshmen who do not go fraternity tonight. Becoming a fraternity man is not essential to a successful and happy college life. Were every upperclassmen to tell the absolute truth, one would soon discover that there arc many disillu sioned men who entered a house only to find that the members were far, too far human. It should not be considered a sign of a negative personality if one were not rushed or bid. Under the present system, if a freshman does not have contacts and recommendations, he is often overlooked in the rush of looking for those men whom- alumni or others have recommended. Tonight, several hundred men will believe that they have chosen well, A year from tonight, how many.will still have that feeling? THE CARNEGIE REPORT which branded Penn sylvania colleges as diploma mills has aroused con siderable comment among both faculty and students. Its investigation by the local chapter of the Association of American University Professors will be awaited with interest. It has long been the opinion of many undergradu ates that a school can be nothing but a diploma mill when there are so many apparently senseless required courses cluttering all curricula. Graduation becomes merely the question of qualifying for certain specified courses which mean little. When emphasis is placed on true thinking, and consideration is given to.individu al interests, then colleges can successfully defend them selves against the charges of turning out high-grade morons. Until then, there will always be a question. ;V ~ WITH THE APPOINTMENT of a senior to at tend borough, council meetings, a closer harmony should develop, between town and gown interests. If the stu dent’ point of view is occasionally presented and con sidered, some glaring unpleasantnesses of the past year should be eliminated. UNR ItOAKD Women’s Managing Editor ELSIE M. DOUTHETT *35 Women’s News Editor -John E, Miller jr. MG -Vnnce 0. Packard MG CAMPUSEER " BY HIMSELF / ZOOLOGY SEMINAR 503 The Theta? had their ‘informal’ party (at least we presume it was informal) the other night, and for entertainment hit upon a real inspiration. They would have a ‘scavenger hunt.’ -Now a scavenger hunt, it seems, is a weird party where everyone goes wandering about looking for impractical articles; ladies’ size eleven left shoes, a red feather from an Indian head-dress, the left rear tire from President Hotzel’s Packard stuff like that. The Thetas were in earnest—they staged a scavenger hunt that a scavenger hunt. Betty Wells and a rushee, ‘Babe’ Pomeroy’, had a terrific list. Betty was worried. Here was a crucial situa tion—she had to prove her ingenuity before this neophyte, had to prove that ‘A Theta Never Fails.’ Betty did right Well, until- she came to the last item on the list: ‘Two Worms’! Her first inclination, was to head for the Beta house, but then she had another idea. She’d be literal, not figurative; she’d really baffle the girls. With a happy shout, she and Babe converged upon the home of the Supervisor of College Farms. The supervisor was going to lied, but he was a pal. Manning his trusty pick, he wan dered out into the back yard, dug around a bit, and soon held up two nice, juicy specimens. ‘Oh, thanks,’ the girls tittered, and, holding aloft two elongated cellophane test tubes, asked him -to drop exhibit A and B into their receptacles. He did, and they scampered merrily back to the Theta house. We don’t know, but we hope they won. w ■& * * * 0 SEPARATION NOTE Yeah, that was certainly some football game Saturday afternoon. The loam that is going to Smear ‘Syracuse, Crush Columbia, and Pile into Penn didn’t look so hot. We got bored. Everybody got bored. Even the teams looked as if what they really wanted was a nice cold coke somewhere. Along during the second quarter we followed the general craning of heads away from the field and to the front part of the stands. We (thick as wc are,) soon caught on. Everyone was taking a short course in Chiropractics, thanks to the nudist tendencies of a young Lock-Haven visitor (feminine) in-the third row. She was wearing, and quite nicely, too, a bril liant red blouse and a black skirt. The separation, however, increased every time she leaned forward, and she was intent on the game. When she left, during the half, good seats had reached the phenom enal price of eight cents apiece. * jjs * * if * CUPPA COFFEE, BOY! Lou Bell, ex-CoLLEGIAN head man, and new teach er of ‘How To Be A Reporter ,in Ten Easy Lessons,’ in Mr. Banner’s journalism department, has his trou bles. He used to work on the Philadelphia Bulletin and was quite a pal of Fred Fuller Shedd, who takes a flier away from his duties as editor of that sheet and lectures here once a week himself. Lou, dogged out in natty brown trousers and white coat, dropped over to see Fred and his boss, Mr. Banner, in the corner room Sunday night. iF. Fuller, though, didn’t see very well, some how. After Bell had stood by the booth for a couple of long, embarrassing minutes, Shedd finally looked up, shook his head, as if to say, “Go way, you, we don’t want anything more now. Go away.” But Lou didn’t. Mr. Banner saved the situation. Up he spoke: “This is Mr. Bell, he used to work for you.” Then everything was all right. Shedd said, “Oh, I thought you were a waiter here, by all means sit down.” Lou did. * :|c $ $ # * About Town and Campus: Mel Fox gets in from Canada, wants to know, “Is College started yet?” He was pretty mad when they told him, thought they really should have waited for him . . . Jack Barnes, reporter extraordinary, wandered all over the second floor of Frazier Street women’s dorm looking for a rushee. After barging rudely into a half-dozen rooms he decided that he had gotten the wrong address . . . Hugo 'Frcar and Ralph Jletzel jr., ex-Old Main Bell tinklers were back for a look around . . . King’s beret at the game was nice . . . TEXT-BOOKS New and Second Hand All College Courses New! SHEAFFER VACUUM FIL FOUNTAIN PENS See Them Try Them Now on Display All Prices For all School Supplies Trade at KEELER’S Cathaum Theatre Building THE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN If Attractive Names Mean slo,ooo l Faculty Will Need To Beg Carfares For Poorhouse “An attractive name is worth 10,- 000 dollars to it’s owner,” one. of our intellectual contemporaries said in an article in the American magazine, recently. That being the case, many of our faculty and staff members will have to' work over-time to keep out of the clutches of the poor-house. Our professors bearing the monik ers of Popp, Fitts, Hock, Butt, Bull-, Stout, Queer, Waltz, and Quiggle must have a difficult time mustering the poise and dignity which is fitting to their position. Others of the staff must blush a rosy crimson when they hear their students becoming tongue twisted-in addressing them as Prof. —Pflueger, Theophilns, Schug, Ne geotte, Ifft, Uibel, Woha, Wurfl, Tschan, and Pfeiffer. Many of our dignitaries were blessed at birth with last names de rived from quite common and ordi STUDENT UNI AH notices will be received at the Student Union desk In Old Main until 6 o’clock Wednesday afternoon for a Thursday Issue, and until Saturday noon for a Monday issue. Additional notices may be ’phoned to the' Old Main COLLEGIAN office on Wednesday and Sunday night. Persons not majoring in Home Ec onomics are invited to register for H. E. 209 as an elective. x From one to six credits will be given depend ing upon, the units chosen. There are no .pre-requisites. Group 1 consists of serving luncheons, dinners and Holiday cookery. Group 2 consists of salads and desserts, breads, meats, vegetables, etc. For further infor mation refer to page 285 of the cata logue. The first class will meet in College Men Will Judge at 6 Fairs Specialists and county representa tives of the College agricultural ex tension service will judge exhibits at six county and. community fairs next week, H. G. Niesley, assistant direc tor of agricultural extension, an nounced today. Eight specialists will make awards on agricultural exhibits at the Colum bia county fair in Bloomsburg. W. B. Connell and L. C. Madison will judge the livestock; It. R. Welch and J. C. Nageotte, dairy cattle; E. J. Walter, farm crops; J. M. Huffington, vegetables; J. L. Mecartney,- fruit; and D. C. Henderson, poultry. Miss Eureka Nitzkowski, of Wilkes-Barre and Miss Charlotte Summers, Sun bury, home economics extension rep representative of Montrose, house hold. At the Wayne county fair in Hon esdale, R. H. Olmstead will pick the winning dairy cattle; County Agent S. R. Zug, Scranton, farm crops, fruits and livestock; and Miss Mar tha Bonk, home economics extension representative of “Montrose, house hold exhibits. 'County Agent N. C. Dale, Mont roc, will judge livestock and Miss Mablc McDowell, clothing specialist, will make the awards in home econo mics at the Sullivan county fair at Forksville. At the Carbon county fair in Le hington the judges will be E. P. Fow ler, assistant county agent, Reading dairy cattle, and J. XL Ruef, exten sion specialist, fruits ahd vegeta bles. County Agent O. C. Tritt, Warren, will judge dairy cattle at the Town ville fair in Crawford county Are You Dull, Badly Dressed, Slip ping Socially? 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NEWSSTANDS October Issue New on Sato Get Your Esquire at.the. Nittany News Stand; (Next to thVCathaum) nary backgrounds. Some of these are Bacon, Cobb, Cook, Rice, Snow, Sudds, Davenport, Hall, Ham, Watts, Pyle, Banner, Marble, Marsh, Case, arid Hill. As usual, the name which leads'all ot the large city telephone directories in quanity, also holds sway with the College, staff—that being Smith, with thirteen counts. The Williams take second place with six representatives, and the Forbes have managed to get four places. A visiting professor from Vienna has the distinction of bearing the longest appelation; that feeing Von Gebauer-Fuelnegg. His closest rivals, Varteressian and Koppenheffer, can show only twelve letters. Following these closely are Badertscher, Born tragger, Willihnganz, Williammee, and Porterfield, with eleven counts a piece. The shortest handles are held by Zug, Eby, Fry, and Dye. ON BULLETIN Room 10G, Home Economics building, at 5:30 o’clock. 4 Agricultural Students Council will meet in Room 417 Old Main at 7:30 o’clock Thursday night. A last opportunity will be given freshmen to take the required exer cise on the use of the library,’ Thurs day night at 7 in the library. Staff of Penn State “Farmer,” will, meet in Room. 321,"01d Main, at 8 o’clock. CATERERS It would pay you to learn our prices, on fresh fruits and. vege tables before buying. + ROBINSON MARKET 111 S. Pugh Sf. Phone. 9641 —»“YOU CAN GET IT AT METZGER’S” 500 Sheets Good Paper, wrapped —79 c 500 Sheets Hammermill Bond, boxed $l.OO •Complete Line of Lefox Note Books and Fillers Desk Blotter Pads, 3 sizes, Leather Corners 60c Other Pads to $1.50. Desk Lamps, —..51.00 and up Special, $1.25 Golf Clubs, 98c Balls, - - - - -20 c to 75c Log Log Slide Rules ..... $10.85 Leather Case and Directions. . Police Issue Warning Against Fake Agents Local police have issued a no tice that a man using the name of Roy Craig or G. L. Plumber, and traveling with a man named Stephenson, is offering several pre iums with a three-year subscrip tion to the Household Magazine (Topeka, Kan.) without the au thorization of the publishing house. The solicitor offers, on the pay ment of one dollar, the following articles free: a sack of flour, a serving tray, and a cook book. Persons contacted by these solici tors are requested to get in touch with the local police immediate ly- 2 Bears Killed After Attack on Cave Guide Bill and Maggie, pet bears at the Woodward Cave, are dead. Bill was killed late Sunday evening after his vicious attack on Earl Vonada, vet eran cave guide. The body of- the huge 500 pound bruin was found in the . stream where he fell after his Tuesday, September’2s, f 934 second change on the injured man was halted by a rain of buckshot from a gun held by O. M. Hosterman, own er,of the cave. Maggie was the innocent victim of her mate's fol-ly. It was deemed wise to do away with both animals rather than risk a similar attack such as occurred in the near tragedy of Sun day night. Two cubs, born to Bill and Maggie were given away some time ago. Have You Tried Ojir Hamburgers? You’ll: Like Them LOCUST LANE SANDWICH SHOP (In. the heart of the Fraternity Section). East Nittany Ave. Phone 310 We Deliver
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