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THE PENN , STATE COLLEGIAN
Penn State First Founded
As Farmers ’ High School
Refounding Through Acceptance of Morrill Land
Grant Act Caused Development
The Farmers’ High School, baptis
mal name of the Penn State College,
was a pioneer in agricultural educa
tion; its roots go back as early as
1850. Its development, if not its very
existence, is due to its re-founding by
tho acceptance of the Morrill Act,
sighed by Governor- Andrew Gregg
Curtin, April 1, 18G3, pledging the
“faith of the State to carry the same
into effect.”
The first quarter of _a century was
marked by a struggle to hold the
Land Grant, and by drifting and ex
periment in educational aims. Six
1 presidents in twenty-three years were
scarcely compatible with continuity of
plan or purpose. Dr.- Evan Pugh, a
man of rare .vision,, trained by six
years of study in the universities of
Germany, France, and England, the
first great president, died at the early
age of 36, just as he was laying the
foundations of Penn State. His suc
cessor*, Dr. William H. Allen, formerly
and later president of Girard College,
served two years with no marked in
ternal changes but with important ac
tivities in disposing of the Land Scrip.
Only one course, agriculture, was
offered up'to 1866, but the settlement
of the entire Land Grant upon the
College by the Act of 18G7, led Presi
dent John Fraser and the trustees to
a “reorganization” in which engineer
ing was to be taught, agriculture and
the arts expanded. The program was
too ambitious and too expensive to
carry oat. The trustees voted a “de
organization” and called Dr. Thomas
H. Burrowes to salvage the College
and restore it to its original purposes.
His personal influence stemmed the
tide of discouragement at home and
opposition abroad (in which the so
callcd Model Experiment Farms
largely figured), but he died in office
after but thi*ee years of service. Dr.
James Calder, a classically trained,
classically minded executive, succeed
ed. The College grew in numbers,
largely due to preparatory students,
to music and art . pupils. Thi*ee
courses, agriculture, classical, and sci
entific, were offered, and women stu
dents were admitted on equal terms
in 1871.
An unfortunate interregnum, in
1880-1881 under President Shortlidge
re-opened the flood gates of ci'iticism
and pei'sonal recrimination. Students
were few and in open rebellion. Fac
ulty, trustee, and legislative investi
gations followed—the
Stato College was. passing through its
dai*kest.days.
However, a new leader, the second
great president, Dr. George W. Ather
ton, had been found, destined to serve
nearly a quarter of a century. He re
ceived an institution of one building,
Old Main, completed in December,
1863, a massive but forbidding struc
ture, with a dark, almost prison-like
interior, a student body so. depleted in
numbers that it scarcely exceeded the
faculty; and with a reputation and
name over the State (however unjust)
of an educational failure and not en
titled to the proceeds of the Land
Grant. With rare deteiunination and
insight, he placed the work of the in
stitution squarely upon its charter,
won the people of the Commonwealth
to its support, found in Governor
James A. Beaver, a life-long friend
of the College, a tower of strength
and enthusiasm.
A revamping of Old Main was be
gun, over-crowded departments began
their exodus .to new buildings. The
schools were organized in 1896, dor
mitories were erected, a University
Inn, and the first buildings by private
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donors, the Carnegie Library and
Schwab Auditorium. Agriculture be
gan its modern development with a
building program and expansion of:
facilities under the aegis of The Al
lied Agricultural Societies in 1900,
Engineering owes its first adequate
housing to Governor Pattison who be
came a warm friend of Penn State
during his second administration,
while most caustic in his denuncia
tions in his vetoes of the bills of 1883
and 1885.
Thus the College groped its way
duiing the first quarter century. It
"found itself” under President Ather
ton during the second quarter cen
tury. Its rapid development has come
during the third quarter century, and
peculiarly so in the last five years.
Presidents Sparks, Thomas and Hetzel
are three different types of executives.
Under Dr. Sparks the student body
grew* almost phenomenally, populariz
ing and extension activities were
greatly increased, the Summer School
established on a new basis in 1910.
Comprehensive building plans were
outlined, and genuine additions to the
plant made. More adequate support
was provided in which the active co
operation of Governor Tenor should
be noted. President Sparks bore a
huge burden during the Great War—
a burden which sapped his strength
to the breaking point, leading to his
retirement in 1920. Dr. Sparks hand
ed over to President John Martin
Thomas an institution with 370 on tho
faculty and a resident student body
of 4,016.
The service of Dr. Thomas of four
years was marked by plans for a
greater Penn State, a better physical
plant, more adequate legislative sup
port. The' College campaign to raise
§2,000,000 for welfare buildings was
organized and vigorously carried on.
September 24, 1926, Dr. Ralph.Dorn
Hetzel was called to the presidency
and a new Penn State began x*apidly
to realize itself. An adequate campus
'plan and the following new buildings
which were dedicated as part of the
Seventy-Fifth Celebration tell some
thing of the external story: Recrea
tion Hall, Engineering Building, Min
eral Industries, Old Main, Frear and
Grange Dormitories, Liberal Arts, and
Chemistry units, Power Plant, Botany
Building, Hospital Service Building,
and other permanent units.
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Thespians Will Look
To Class of ’4O
For Talent
Students interested in developing
their thespic talents may do so by par
ticipating in the activities of the Penn
State Thespians, who put on two mus
ical comedy shows during the school
year.
Preliminary try-outs for the Thes
pians’ first show will be held early
in the fall. The exact dates will be
announced in later issues of the Col-
LEfi.'A.v. Freshmen are eligible to par
ticipate. Last year quite' a few first
year men and women earned places
in the singing and dancing choruses
and a few gained lead parts. Casting,
under the direction of graduate di
rectors, is completed by further trials
throughtout the year.
Women students were not allowed
to take part in Thespian productions
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I until 1930. From 1897, when the or-
Ignnization was founded, until that
I time, all the parts were taken by men.
As the musical comedy era began,
the Thespians turned to that type oE
entertainment, with the result that
women gradually earned the right to
participate.
Students Write Shows
The present director of the organ
ization is J. Ewing “Sock” Kennedy
’2(J. Prominent in Thespians during
his undergraduate days, “Sock” went
on Broadway r upon graduation and
played in the east, of “Good News.”
After a number of years, he returned
to State College and immediately be
came connected with the Thespians.
The fall show, presented on the Fri
day night of fall Hnuseparty, is usu
ally in the form of revue. The spring
shor/ is more on the musical comedy
line. The book, lyrics, and music for
both'of the Thespian productions last
year were written by students, assis
ted by Kennedy and Prof. Humnicll
Fishburn, of the department of music.