Page Two P&NN STATE COLLEGIAN ‘Swcessor to The Free Lance, established 18S7 Published semi-weekly during the Collect ytnr except on holidays by student* of The Pcnnsj Unnitt Suite College, In the interest of the College thi students, faculty tilumni, »nd fr.end* THE MANAGING BOARD A WILLIAM ENGH, 1R MO. Editor r 7 i RUSSELL FCK MO Hunhiww Manager * Helen 1 Cnmji 40 Women’s Editor Managing Filltoi Thin I«ue. Ne*i» Editor Th * I«ue Entered an second clots mntt*r July 5 19M nt the post* office at State -Colktce Pa under the act of March 3, 1879 Thursday, September 14, 1989 JUST A NOTE -DEAR JOE ,y2TQ „asked me do write vou a lettei giv you all of the dope vou may be able to youi lour year’s at State - v;£feel sort of guilty handing this to you, l’ll confess tha* peihaps vou didn’t asfethe right guy to do the job Yes, I guess X do-occupy the role of a pontifical senior but going to meet a helluva lot of tliese seniors who are so blissfully lgnor •ant-ihat you hate to «peak to them foi 1 fear!qf breaking their smoky halo of sugaiy illusifljis .-t why waste time apologizing ’ It’s 'yilfr'funeral, not mine It may hurl youi feelings for me to tell you this, Joe, but if you’re entering college -tfrirave a rip-roanng lime, go home and make room for someone who’s thinking m • terms of a products e future. 'Ji-ySee, Joe. things ai e bad enough as they stand now. The ability of college graduates is no longer the big stick to security and We have enough educationa 1 leech es; now so why block the path of most of jj& who are in earnest about the whole busi ness 9 You’re going to ne lonely the hrst couple of days here, Joe. I know I uas I had never been.- away from home foi any pei lod of time’and to be on my own, was an expen ence that 'left me dangling in mid-aii But you’re going to make new friends, you’re gomg'fo write home, see shows, get buried m your work In no time at all that lone and deserted feeling will be all gone And, Joe, before I foiget, don’t come here with any. ideas in your head about scoring any "quick and easy triumphs Maybe you were captain of the high (school football team, the best dancer m your class 1 maybe you were editor of your high school paper, head cheerleader, piesident of the class— forget it all, Joe, they don’t mean a thing here You're on a new battlefield and you’ve got' to win all over again Your fight’s half TbsTjTyou feel Penn State owes you some thing. Remembei, Joe, there’ie 7,000 of us here and if we all felt the same way, where would we stand’ Try to utilize the things you leai ned and won in high school, but please don’t flash sfour5 f our trophies here and expect us to bow to you: * On the other hand, Joe, don't come here wilti any inferiority completes about this and thal. Potentially,, you’ie as good and better than most of us Go about things in your own quiet way and remembei that we don’t* judge things here bv the sound of the symphony but by its depth/'beauty, and authenticity. Write home about twice a week, Joe Whether you know it 01 not, they're always worrying about you back there—worrying about your health, whether you’ve gained or, lost any weight, woitying about that cold you had when you left home, wni rying about your studies and countless other little things' you never stop to think about. And don’t put on the dog when you go home for vacations, Joe. It makes you seem ridiculous and only hurts those who knew 33)»_li!when.” Pei haps your ideas have changed since you left home, perhaps you tir&s Ja bit differently and perhaps you can use campus slang fluently—but save them all until you get back to the campus. ’ "tali’re, going to live in a somewhat arti ficial world for four years, Joe, and you can’t lose-sight of the inevitable fact that The fiiawn will come again after those four years- Try your best to retain the qualities yotir family and friends admired in you be forfc y[iu left home. j E could go on and or, Joe, but a stop’s gotta tome somewhere. Drop in and see me ■Jvhfn you get in town. You’re on your own from ljow on; it’s going to be tough in spots, easy in others, above all, no matter what happens—take your part as best you can. You may muff a few plays now and then, blits its an exciting game—if you don’t Weaken. Your pal, Hello, Penn Staters: Please do not take the above, our first line of the year, as an example of what Is to foi* low It’s been running through our mind ever since we read the PSCA’s freshman Bible, and we just had to get it out of our system We got back In town in time to take a fly* Ing trip around the village, visit our favorite spies, dig our battered hat out of the third drawer on the left In the chief grafter’s! desk, loosen our tie, stick a cigarette in the corner of our mouth, sit down to our Remington Paragon No 12 and valiantly go over the top to do or die in our annual battle with Old Man White Space and his axis mate, the notorious Dead line (pause for breath) Adnm A Smyser M’ .-William E Fowler Ml (Editor's Note’ Campuseer, without a struggle, gets the leather bound Espenshade and Gates for the most involved paragraph of the year) (Campuseer’s Note The editor Is just jealous because people know whom to blame for the editorials, while we sneak around and work subverslvely, underhandedly, anonymous ly, heh, heh). But, To Go On! — As we were saying, we started to write this column in what we considered a rather unique manner We listed all the standard types of columns on slips of paper, placed them in the aforesaid but oh so-professlonal hat. drew out a slip, and lo and behold, the Take* My*Pen*lnHand style won the raffle So, dear readers, if you are still with us, here we go In column number one of the year’ Dear Mom I have «ulived safely aft"r a dull tup It wni wondeiful to duve down the io n d from bfte pasl the sewage disposal plant, and to get oui fii st glimpse in thiee months of OM Main tower Theie, I said to stands one of the greatest diploma mills m Centre Count* t And my heart pitter-pat tered at the meie thought of.it - By the way, mom, 1 was hned twelve-fifty be cause Buigess Leitzell and I hive difTeient opin ions of the constitutional i ights of the motoi ist in regal ds to fieedom of the londside, so vou had bettei wire me a 'twenty spot Things ,aie just about the same mound heie. Higgins says the team is biggei and toughei, but «-o is the schedule Professoi MacCai ty, the sage of Ag Hill, predicts the Nittiny Lions will break tiadition and add a new plav then lcneitoire There aie a few new stoies on town and one of them is the piopeity of than yokel Youglc Remembei, ne was clvef of pohee mv fieshman veai We never expected fo «ee him le* tuin to the seat of hn fame! reign of tcnoi Bv the way, mom, toice d'ffeient fellows insist that I boirowed fiveis fiom them duung Spnng Housepnrty Of couiso, you and 1 know that this is* absurd because you sent me a hfty foi the weekend, but I had bettei pay off the blackguards rather than have them make a fuss* about it A twenty by wire would i.elp Oh yes, mom, befne I foiget it—Remembei when you saw* a Thespian show two veais ago, and inved and raved about the music Well, Bill Provost, who penned many a Thespian hit, has written the music foi a new */iow called “A Vote For Youth ” It went big at Spnng Lake this summei, and Piovost**. tunes may cany it to the Great White Way That’s about all, Mom, except that they lemoved the led light in fiont of the postoffiee thus making it unneccssniy to stop going up Allen Stieet hill It makes motoring here a plca«me Wou.d it be possible to win*, a conveit’hle sedan, piofeiably in niaroon to match m, r new tie 9 Youi loving ion, STINKY Weil, there she lies—column number one We now get down dig one lone nickel out of our pocket, and head down town for a cup of coffee Just remember one thing, dear readers, if you think this smells, remember we were idle all summer Plug at request of busi ness manager ' Hello, Everybody! We’re happy to, welcome back our old friends and to greet new ones, too. We hope that you will find The Corner a con venient place in which to spend some of your lei sure time. It will be a pleasure to serve you once more. The Corner unusual CAMPUSEER BY HIMSELF —CAMPY PENN STATE COLLEGIAN LIST. OF FR. NATIONAL Acncla (2551), Locust Lane and East Fostei Alpha Chi Rho (841). Locust Lane and East Fan mount Alpha Chi Sigma (SSI), Pugh and East NRtanj Alpha Gamma Rho (C7l), Thompsor Alpha Kappa Pi (2571), EaBt Fairmount Alpha Phi Delta (3412), 501 West College Alpha Sigma Phi (G4l), East, Piospect Alpha Tan Omega (24G1), East Fail mount Alpha Zeta (2261), West Cam pus i Beta Kappa (2751), 413 East Beaver Beta Sigma Rho (2671), East Fairmount and Locust Lane Beta Theta Pi (2271), West Campus Chi i Phi (27(>1), Hamilton and Cm net Delta Chi (2661), East Fair mount Delta Sigma Phi (1221), Locust Lane and East Fail mount Delta Ton Delta (2471), Ham* ikon and Garner Delta Theta Sigma (2011), 126 East 'Fairmount Delta, Upsilon (23G1), Locust Lane and East Beavei Kappa Delta Rho (3141), East Pi ospect and Garner Kappa Sigma (2181), 300 East Beaver Lambda Chi Alpha (3422), Gar net and East Fail mount Omega Psi Phi (no* house) Phi Delte Theta (761), West Campus v Phi Epsilon Pi (3212), 328 East Foster Phi Gamma Delta (662), West Campus k _ Freshman Date Book men sign date cuids 4pm —Student Union dance, Ai moi y 8 p m—Penn State Christian Association religious meeting Tomorrow - , Saturday 8 a ni to noon—Freshman buy 10 n m —First luncheon dJte date cards at Student Union at fraternities ✓ desk Old Main 'V 2 p m to 8 p m Frefdiman 1 p m to 10 p m—Fiateinity Mixei 8 a m—Fieshman convoca tion in Schwab Auditoiium Bpm —Student leaders' mass meeting, Srhwab Auditoiium Class of 1943 Yc&dleu, Arden and'Rubinstein Cbsmeiics ~ Whitman and Martha Washington Candies Patent Medicines Writing Paper (initialed free) Fountain Pens College Cut Rate Store Next to Corner Room 106 W. College Ave. WELCOME 1943 CET ACQUAINTED WITH V THE STORE i;HAT - PENN STATE MEN BUILT WHETHER IT IS A NEW TAB SHIRT. > A PAIR OF ARGYI.E HOSE OR THE LATEST DOBBS HAT YOU’LL FIND IT AT THIS TRADITIONAL SHOPPING PLACE.' 1 i jifck Hatter ' Haberdasher Tailor NEXT TO " THE _ MOVIES t • ~ \ i < ! J , -I 1 ■ r ! Subscribe Now . J"' ' ‘ - TO THE ‘ 1 - ‘- . ' , : ■ PENN STATE COLLEG I AN . Your $2.50 Includes /” , , - .../ ' . , - •66 issues delivered to your door >• . ' - , ' ' - - . • Collegiate Digest—college weekly ~ TJ r , ‘ , • Ticket.to the Collegian Dance featuring Campus Owls ' TERNITIES : Pill Knj pa (2681)." East Pair mount Phi Kuppa Psi (2012). Locust Lane and East Nittnny. Phi Kappa Sterna (2021). 220 East Beavpi t Phi Kappa Tau (2881), Garnet and East Fnirmomit « Phi Mu Delta (3211). 417 Bast Bea\ei Phi Sigma Delta (3322) Allen and West Fail mount r Phi Sigma Kappa (3831), 501 South Allen Pi Kapna Alpha (718) Garner and Bast Prospect Pi Kappa Phi (771). GnrneV and East Fairmount Sigma Alpha Epsilon (2171), Pugh and East Beaver "Sigma Ch* (2281),/We«t Cam pus Sigma Nu (2381), West Camp us. Sigma Pill Epsilon (821). Locust Lune and Bast Piospect Sigma Phi Sigma (3131). Locust Lane and East Piospect Sigma Pi (754), Thompson/and East Foster Tau Kappa Epsilon (750), Gar nei and Bast Piospect Tau Plil Ddlta (2911), 232 East Fairmount Theta Chi (2161) Alien and East Piospect Theta Kappa Phi (2.171), East Hamilton Theta Nil Epsilon (1112), Thompson Theta""Xl (2561). Locust Lane and East Fairmount Triangle (3251 J 224 East Beav- LOCAL “ Be ivei House (S5l), Fraziei Gamma Sigma Phi (2481), 211 East Nittany Signm Phi Alpha (2571), 104 South Pugh BOTTORF BROS, BOOTERY Welcome Freshmen! FOR THE BOYS “ ' FOR THE GIRLS WE CARRY A COMPLETE i LINE AND ALL WIDTHS VERY DRESSY IFOR DRESS ornmnmr ' SHO’ES Freeman, Walkover 1,1 •‘KAALi p or even i n g S an( i anti Bootmaker Shoes , 11 •£> in ' dress-up occasions 55.00 to $7.50 U. O. AKiVII 1 . R-O.T.C. SHOES FOR CAMPUS iir it I C 1 ! We have" the snappiest GnoJ Looking Heavy Goodyeai Welt and n ne 0 f Brogans and Monk Brogans Leal her Soles °' < e , n ords y !“ have ■ ever S 3 95 to $5 00 . 52.85 to $3.95 : i YouHL Find Our Prices —i mn ~ . , FOR DORM WEAR F °B CYM Very Moderate for Quality Beautiful. Bed 'vc"s , ~ room Slippers. Very Sl.OO to $2.25 Merchandise c o in,f o r t a b I e and warm. , • ; FCK YOUR STUDY SEE OUR WINDOWS Bedroom Slippers, . " I'LK I.YM SI 00 to $2.95 (Across from Post Office S] Od'to $1 Gs' - ; ; ; and D.iirv Store) —■—■ Bottorf Bros. Bootery ENTRANCES ON ALLEN STREET. AND' BEAVER AVENUE 129 W. Beaver Ave. Thursday, September - 14, 1939 H. V. ROBERTS
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