PAGE TWO With the Editor— Who Cares About The Alma Mater ! We Do, Let's Sing If More Often The proper reaction to Tuesday's front page story about the Alma Mater is one of outrage. It is a little bit hard to arouse, however. An Mina Mater which only 12 per cent of the upperclass men know obviously isn't that interesting. Lest someone suggest the Alma Mater be chang ed, it should be said here that the advantage of an Alma Mater is its tradition. It's hard to beat the fact that the alumni of 'OO can sing it as well ; , is the boys of '4O (and in this case probably bet ter). The Alma Mater may be unsatisfactory, but it's not unsatisfactory enough to beat down the opposition from that direction. Several previous sporadic attemots have failed on those grounds, the music department reports. Actually, the Penn State Alma Mater has first class lyrics, far better than most colleges can boast. The trouble is students haven't had enough chance to sing them recently. The Blue Band last year played through two Verses while the crowd was trying to jam its way out of Beaver Field after each fdotball game, laut not many people paid attention. This year the Alma Mater will be used in all four verses• at focithall half. Atherton Hall is go ing to sing .it in its dining commons. • A few more .steps like that and a poll next June will show that 100 per cent of the students know the Alma Mater rather than 88 per cent don't do 4 O'docks 'Among the items which came up before the All- College Cabinet at its first meeting on Tuesday' Milli was a - proposal for no 4 o'clock classes so that extra-curricular activities could be facili tated._ ' The discussion started with a request for one 4 o'clock a week, gained steamroller proportions when it was learned that such was the practice in the past and became a full-throated demand when it was learned the plan already has the sym pathy of the Council on Administration. Apparently the free 4 o'clock hour was grad ually encroached on by a harried scheduling offi cer whose job was to get more and more students into a non-elastic amount of classroom space. Fin illy he was forced into night classes. At last the $5,000,000 building program is com plete and classrooms in the new buildings are be ing. used. The reasons, then, for a continuance of 4 o'clock classes are a bit harder to justify. The Cabinet—by the tone of its recommenda tion to President Hetzel—apparently hopes no rea sons will have to be given. Word that the College will conduct its own draft registration should be satisfying ,to every body concerned. Students will save the expense of long trips home to register. • The county commissioners of Centre County are relieved from the task of providing place for some 1,800 non-residents to register. (This last is a real saving in time and money because it is estimated that each registration will take about eight min utes.? And the College now knows that a problem very vital to it will be administered through sympathe tic hands. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN "Foi A Better Penn State" SucCessor to the Penn State Collegian, established 1904, and the Fiee Lance; established 1887 Thursday Morning, actober 3, 1940 Published daily except Sunday and Monday daring, the regular College year.,by.. the„ litudenta of The Pennsilvaida Sist‘i College Entered as isecOnd l :clats matter -Sub , 6. 1984., at the post-:Office at State College. Pa.. under the act of March 3; 1879. . , Editor ~ Eusiness Manager. Adam A. Strirser '4l LEiVrrerice S. Driever . Women's Editor—Vera L. Kemp, '4l; Managing Editor ,—Robert H. Lane "41; Spott Editor—Richard C. Paters *4l; News Editor—William E. Fowler '4l; Feature Edit Or. —Edward J. K. McLorie '4l; ASSistant Managing .Editlir— Bayard Bloom '4l; Women's Managing Editor—Arita L. Befferan '4l; Women's Promotion Manager—Edythe B. Rickel '4l. Advertising Manager- - .Tolan H. Thbtnss '4l; Oireulition manager—Robert G.. Robinson '4l ; Senior Secretary—Ruth Goldstein '4l; Senicir S'eoretary—Leslie .H. Leiria '4l. Junior Editorial Board—John A. Baer '42, • R.,. Helen Gordoil '42, Mao B. Lehman ',42, William J. McKnight '42, !knee M. Murray '42. Pat Nagelberg '42, Stanley J. PoKtimri ixer '42. Jeanne C. Stiles. . Junior Businesi Board-Thomas W. Allison '42, Paul M. Goldberg '42, James E. McCaughey '42, T. Blair Wallace '42, Margaret L. Embury '42, Virginia Ogden '42. Fay E. Rees '42. Russell Eck Graduate Counselor Editorial and Business Office 313 Old 'Main Bldg. Dial 711 Managing Editor This 14SUe Nagelberg '92 News Editor This Issue George Sebenkein '4l Sophomore Assistints __Richarl Stebbins, Herbert Zukaustras 1:1:9 :t: Downtown Office 119-121 South Frazier St. Dial 4372 1111111li11111111111111111111111111f1H111111111111111M11111111111111111111ffill1111111111111111111111 CAMPUSEER 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 The idea struck us as we were halfway through our coke in the crm. UNUSUAL and we dashed headlong for a phone, dialed 711 and asked breathlessly fora certain executive office. A tense three-minute wait and we were demanding an answer to the questions which promised to rock ' State College to the bottom of its political founda tions: "What about it, President Hetzel—do you intend to run for a third term?".. Now It Can Be Told • But it remained for Cap Dennis, beaming M C of the campus patrol, to furnish the most interest ing comment of the week on the College Prexy. At football practice Tuesday• afternoon the good Dr. Hetzel served as a linesman, attracting in quiring comments from bystanders. Why 'this presidential interest? Explained the astute Dennis: Maybe he wants to look the boys over to knoW just hoW to place his bets! All of which reminds us that Penn State CAN beat Bucknell. Tales Of The Dungeons By all odds the most interesting experience of last weekend, Campy wagers, was that of Buddy (Pablo) Goldberg, whO served a two" day term "in Bellefonte Jail on Leitzell's Chain Gang. - A• few highlights of the sojourn, as related by "I am a Fugitive" Goldberg, himself: "All the fellows. hollofed 'fresh meat' as they brought me in . . . there was another guy who —well, they won't let him out until he marries the girl . . . I was so interested in talking to my buddies over there I didn't get any studying done." If only Campy had a car he would park illegally too so he could get a chance to mingle with the cellblock intelligentsia instead of paying his fine. Just shows you miss a lot without a car. Short Short Story Then theie's the tale of the gal who came into Frazier St. Dorm the other night and discovered het dress was on wrong side out. He's In Again • It seems that Eddie was sitting in the Corner Room with Jackie Reese the Other day when tragedy struck. Jackie looked out and saw a local copper writing out a ticket as he stood be side said Harris' battle-scarred Plymouth. Just then Eddie remembered he had forgotten to de posit the essential nickel in the meter. "Run out and put in a nickel, you dope," said Jackie sweetly, "before he slips that ticket on your crate." "I'm too tired," sighed Eddie. "Besides, I'm saving those tickets for my album." Tips To Frat Club Freshmen Don't be sloppy pouring, water for the brothers. Otherwise might happen to you what happened to Bill Wagner, deltachi pledge. And how would you like to drink your . Vvater out of a bottle - every day —through a nipple? Mine Haney Returned: One phi sigma delta pin to Buzzy Shearer from , Shirley LeWis. Returned: Former coed Sis Davis, loOking fit and fur-clad, to see Tommy Miller, whose delta chi badge she wears, last weekend. Not returned: Rosemary Radnagle has not re turned to Theta Foo Alpha manse since plaster in said suite hit her on head, reliable sources have indicated. Awakened: One Arnold Laich, in his, apartment at 1 a. in. on the morning .of• his .recent 25th birthday, to - answer the telephone and be greeted by the lovely songstre.ss Of Chi Oinega - singing "Happy birthday to you!" Instigator: One Norma (Panama Masie) Stillwell. Namet ! Names ! Names ! ACcording to . unreliable. and obviously biased sources, this column does not 'cat - AM - 11 enough names. Okay, here goes: Ginnie Burkhouse and Davey Wilson—Knobby fiefferan and Wake Thompson—Jiminy Stagg and Carl Zeigler—Fran Talley and a certain D U (can't get in a rut here)—Dolores Paul and some lucky chap—La Verne Hewitt and Jim McCaughey— and all the cute freshman girls, Bunny of Mac Hall, Jane Gdtshall (Proliably inisPelled but cute), Dottie Witirrian, Phyllis Garrison— Aw, nuts.. If - you Want names, buy a directory. If you think this' COlumn disseminates a slight aroma, tear off the three nearest manhole covers and mail together with your complaint to the Col legian Office. - We'll see that you get your marbles back. - • MMWT . I - 4 - WOVRM'M Old Paper lisp Early Fees, Rules "No charge whatever is made for tuition except for special in struction in music. Each student is required to pay $l7 per year for use of recitation rooms and to deposit $5 as security against gen eral damages." So goes an article in the Keystone Weekly Gazette in the issue of April 20, 1894.. The Gazette, published in Belle fonte at that time, continues, "The charge for rooms in the College dormitOry, including steam heat and electric light, is $73 per year to a student rooming alone and $56 per ye'ar to a student with a room mate. "Board may be obtained in the village at rates ranging from $2.50 to $3.50 per week. • "For admission to-the freshman class, candidates (of either sex) must be at least fifteen years Of age, and pass a satisfactory exam ination in the following subjects: "English graminar, arithmetic, geography, U. S. history, physio logy, higher algebra through quad ratics and progressions, Went worth's plane geometry, and the elements of physic.s, as much as is contained in Avery, Rolfe, and Gillet, or Gage. "For entrance into the Latin scientific course, the same as above with the addition of four books of Caesar -and four orations of Cicero." About 15,000 chickens, 2,200 tur keys, and 600 ring-necked pheas ants are reared each year by the department of poultry husbandry. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1940 numuntimmminnwnmilmniimffiumminthimim CAMPUS CALENDAR 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111i11111111i TODAY - The College senaie meets in Room 121 L.A., at 4:10 p.m., All Sophomore and Junior Col. legian tinsiness men meet aticol: legian office, 7 p.m. business staff of freshioan hind: book ineet iti,Hugh Beaver Room in Old Main at 7_p.m. Friars initiation in front of S, A. E. house at 8 p.m. Phi Epsilon Kappa fraternity meeting, Room 318, • Old Main, - American Society. for Metals meets in Room:121, M. I. Building, 7:30 p.m. Zoological Society meeting in Room 1, Zoology Building, 7 p.m. Lakonides business meeting, in WRA Room, 6:30 p.m. Registration for Perin State Club. golf tournament, Room 321 Old Main. Women's Outing Club, meeting, Room 3, White Vali; 6:30 p.m. • WRA splash party in White galls 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Wonien's Dance Club meets in White Hall Rhythm Room, 4 p.m. Journalism students meet in 304, Old Main, 4:10 p.m. Women's Swimming Club, meet. ing, White gall pool, 7:30 p.m. Golf Club meets in White gall at 6:30 p.m. '44 Campus Party meeting in Room 10 L.A. at 7:30 p.m. -; The Horticulture Blinding flanks the Agriculture Building -on , the west and was built between the years 1910 and 1916.