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PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
Successor to The Free Lance, established 1887
THE MANAGING BOARD
JOHNSON BRENNEMAN ‘37 ALAN L. SMITH ’37
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News Editor This Issue
Friday, October 9, 1936
GENTLEMEN AND SCHOLARS
(Continued from pat/e one)
Earle was the guest of the town and of President
Hetzel. That alone should have been assurance of ev
ery possible courtesy. But as the Governor of Pennsyl
vania even more regard was due him.
It also seems unnecessary to mention the effect it is
likely to have upon this College’s appropriation at the
next session of the Legislature. George H. Earle is a
gentleman. It is not likely that he will allow his per
sonal feelings—whatever they may be—to color his at
titude as Governor toward Penn State. While he can
not help but feel hurt at his reception, we are certain
that it will not influence any decision that he may make
regarding this College.
On Monday night Penn Slate’s students disgraced
themselves. They perhaps placed in jeopardy the State’s
appropriation to their College. But they did something
more serious than either of these.
IN HIS term as Governor, George H. Earle has proved
that he is a champion of freedom and liberty. Any
open-minded citizen or student, regardless of his polit
ical beliefs, will admit that fact.
He has denounced teachers’ oaths and has, opposed
all legislation that seemed likely to stifle academic free-
He has announced that the state militia will no
longer be used—as it was in the past—as a strike-break-
He has fought attempts of the administration of
the Mellon-controlled University of Pittsburgh to curb
and limit academic freedom there.
He has exerted all the powers of his office to pro
vide food, clothing, and shelter, for the ; jobless in the
State.
• He is a representative of the first political party to
attempt to do anything for the youth of this nation.
And for the man who has done and who stands for
these things Penn State students had nothing hut boos
and insults.
College students are representative of the higher
social and intellectual level. If a speaker can expect a
fair and unprejudiced hearing anywhere it should be in
a college town before an audience of “gentlemen and
scholars.”
Yet on Monday night, a fair-sized proportion of
these “gentlemen and scholars” demonstrated conclu
sively that they were neither. They refused to listen
to a man for no other reason than that he "belonged to
the wrong side.” They would not allow others to hear
him. They interrupted his speech with irrelevant ques
tions and when he attempted to answer them would not
listen.
It is axiomatic that we are living in a period of
social and economic change. If that change is to be for
the better it will be necessary for those 'who are the
leaders to study the problems which they face carefully
and critically. Our educational system is supposed to
train them to do this.
Does anyone who was on Co-op Corner Monday
night believe that it does?
While it is perhaps true that it was only a minor
ity of the students who were active in the booing, it is
equally true that it is the active minority that leads any
movement—no matter how important.
The important thing about Monday night is not
that a few students insulted Governor Earle while those
about them did nothing to stop it.
The important thing to note is that these students
proved by their actions that the educational system of
which they are a product is failing in its function.
“HOW’S THE TEAM?”
“How’s the team -look?” will again be the most
frequently heard question as returning alumni get into
town.
Impressing them most, however, will not be the
football team itself but the general student attitude
toward it. In other years it’s been, “Yeah, they look
pretty good in practice, but wait until they hit a team
that amounts to something. It’s just going to be too
bad.”
Students this year ore willing to admit that we’ll
probably drop the Pitt game. They know that we’ll go
against Penn and Syracuse as the underdogs. But they
are confident that this year’s football team is good
enough that no opponent will be able to look at it as
a breather. ‘
Nor is this attitude due to wishful thinking. The
long lean years since 1920 have conditioned the stu
lent body here to have no illusions about their football
teams. Their usual errors are on the side of pessimism.
If John J. Student ’37 admits that Penn State has
a good football team this year, there is a good possibil-
Seein’ Things
For the past four years now I’ve been wondering
about those fellow’s who are apparently surveying the
campus . . . wondering what they were doing, what
they saw, and just wondering in general. Well, the
enigma has been solved, for as I was walking down
the front campus the other day one of the tripods was
set up near the walk and I saw one fellow looking
through the instrument, another fellow taking down
notes, and a few others crowded around. After hesi
tatingly deciding that I would brave the stares of the
engineers. I walked over to the group and heard the
fellow who was doing the looking call out to the fel
low wlio was doing the scribbling:.
Height—s’3”
Neck—l 2.2
Bust—36
Waist—24
Ankle— 5.
Woodrow W. Bierly ’3B
Charles M. Wheeler, jr. '33
In the mad scramble I finally did get a peek and
sure enough, there was lola Murray strutting across
the walk in front of Old Main. Surveying is a great
thing.
Quips of the week honors go to Drs. Werner and
Alderfer. Werner was droning on in his dry mono
tone in which so many of his dry crocks are buried
when he pulled, “London’s most famous work was
‘The Call of the Wild.’ It was put on the stage and
on the screen. In the silent version Rin Tin Tin was
starred and the talkie version had Clark Gable.”
Dr. Alderfer, back from an extended trip, vented
this odorous cpigi’am, “In Boston they live on baked
beans and in Long Island they live on the sound.”
But before you go forming any high opinions
about our faculty there’s another story you should
hear. It seems that an attorney from Hahvahd, don’t
you know, was visiting the campus this week, and
having some time to kill he.ambled (all hahvahd men
amble) into the Registrar’s office and inquired,
“Could you tell me, dear lady, whether or not there is
a class being conducted this hour by any nationally
known professor that I could visit?” The clerk
thought a moment and then confessed that there was
none. The Hahvahd man spent the afternoon visit
ing the cow barns.
Our own Sports Editor just back from the Slate
Belt thought he would glim the gridiron greensward
when up jumps Jack McLaughlin, first assistant
manager and clamorously cries that no common peo
ple are allowed on the field when the team is prac
ticing. Ye ed immediately implores his friends to
establish his identity as not one of the common herd
and everything was fine until he challenged us.
I still maintain that the best broken field run
ning at Saturday’s game was done by the Blue Band.
Nancy Fletcher: Please deny or affirm the rumor
.that that picture .which you had taken. Wednesday
evening was for a application for a position as a Liq
uor Lounge hostess . . . When the history depart
ment congratulated the Collegian in class for not
printing anything about the Earle speech ICathleen
Noerr laughed and laughed because she knew the Col
legian, was printed before the speech was made . . .
And then there is the old, old saying “the Bez is
none too good” . . . Marion Ringer’s portrait graces
the most prominent part of Walt Peterson’s desk...
the Chi O’s got their plaque back . . . the thief was
a kappa sig . . . Then there was the Pi K. A. who,
when he was losing too much money in a poker game
the other night and didn’t want to he a piker and
quit, called up the president of the house and im
personating the Dean of Men demanded that the
poker game be cancelled . . . Aside to the Daily Half
Colyumist—stop it, you have us all crazy reading the
ads looking for something funny . . . The Mug and
Jester sadly laments the innocence of the students
since there are so few hellraisers to supply column
items . . . we too . . . Hugh Ralston predicts the score,
Penn State 33, Villanova 6, with the Wildcats get
ting their only goal in the third quarter . . . The
main reason for playing Muhlenberg this year was
to get revenge at their coach who rubbed it in when
they defeated the Lions three years ago and now
when the Lions did wallop them they wore under a
new coach See you at the Collecl\n dunce . . .
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Addenda:
Alumni...
Make it a point some
time this week - end to
visit the new room at
The Corner. On its walls
are pictures of Penn
State “greats,” many of
whom you know. You
will be interested in see
ing them.
The Comer
THE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
Letter Box
The Idler in Tuesday's Collegian
was written by It. Edward Dinnnick
To the Editor
Enlightened educators and psychol
ogists of today have been telling the
ncn-collegian world that the average
college student of today has become
more intellectually alive and alert to
local, national and international
problems. He is no longer the rah
rah boy of F. Scott Fitgerald days,
living a life of gin and gyrations. In
short, our college boys is now serious
minded.
Perhaps this newly enlightened
group of young hopefuls was not
present, on Monday evening when
Governor Earle spoke at Penn State.
At least they were very much in the
minority. Gathered instead was a
mob, dominated by a group of unbe
lievably crude and stupid morons,
who proceeded to insult the Govern
or, embarrass the College and insult
their own. intelligence'and breeding
by a demonstration of the most des
picable kind. Grant that many peo
ple do not like the Governor either
politically or personally—grant fur
ther that we as citizens have a right
to express our disagreement,—.does
*hat-excuse such a scene of booing
and hissing and thoroughly disgust
ing conduct as to make Penn State
Jessie blush in her grave?
The facts are:
1. Earle was elected by a majority
in 1934 and will continue his four
year term as given by the people of
this state. Under those circumstances,
he is due all respect and honor natur
ally forthcoming to that high office.
It is therefore this disrespect of the
lowest type to act as the Penn State
students did Monday night.
2. Although the Governor may not
veto bills for further appropriation
to Penn State, after that demonstra
tion of stupidity, he will certainly
not go out of his way to work for the
College’s best interests. Yet even so
Mr. Earle shouting out thtrough boos
and other animalistic noises pledged
hin.self to work for the College’s best
interests.
Those persons responsible may not
be representative of the entire stu
dent body, we hope,-yet it Is amaz
ing to have' to recognize such ele
ments in our college. May we hope
that we have seen the last of such
stupidity and puerile demonstrations.
• Edward T. Binns
Milton D. Moore
' Harry W. Reed
To the Editor:
Penn State Jjpirit!
To the' Governor of the Common
wealth this is bound to mean a gross
ly unsporting attitude,—the same at
titude which at athletic meets in re
cent years has lead to the booing of
referees when they have been forced
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CINEMANIA
“Two in a Crowd, 1 ' -with Joan Ben
nett and Joel McCrea plays at the
Cathaum theater tonight. The story
deals with two people who find torn
halves of a thousand dollar bill and
turn out to be Joel McCrea and Joan
Bennett. Neither of them can get
very far without the other in this
case. The complications resulting
jausc comedy.
“Dodsworth,” ithe Sinclair Lewis
novel that has been adapted both to
the stage and screen, plays at the
Nittany tonight. The cinemania ver
sion was adapted by Sidney Howard,
who also prepared the stage play.
Walter Huston recreates Sam Dods
worth for the’ screen as he did for
the play. .Ruth Chattcrton is Fran
Dodsworth. The capt also includes
Paul Lukas, Mary Astor and a not
able supporting group.
Tomorrow at the Cathaum, Joan
Blondell, Warren William, Frank
McHugh and the Yacht Club boys
have fun in “Stage Struck.” i It’s
about a complex situation that de
velopes backstage when the angel be
hind a broadway show insists on in
cluding in the cast a female blue
beard who has kille’d enough husbands
to give her publicity rating. The
dame breaks up the show. It all ends
when the police run in and lake ev
erybody away, or does it?
Another of Somerset Maugham’s
obscure works has been turned into
a screen thtriller and appears at the
Nitlany theater tomorrow night, “Isle
of Fury,” which is the picturizntion
of Maugham’s South Sea novel,
“Thiee in Eden.” It is similar in ro
mantic structure to his “Ashenden,”
a spy story which was retitled in the
movie version of “Secret Agent” or
something of' the sort. Anyway, it
was thrilling enough to keep the 1c-
lo call decisions against State play
ers. The spirit of fair ploy, of toler
ance was sadly lacking on Co-op Cor
ner Monday evening.
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Monday, “Libeled Lady” with an
all-star line-up including Jean Har
low, William Powell, Spencer Tracy,
Walter Conolly and Myrna Loy comes
to the Cathaum. It’s sort of a screen
remp, one of these extra special
rompers in which everybody, has fun,
nobody gets hurt and a lot "happens.
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