P Two THE DAILY COLLEGIAN "For A Better Penn State'" iSuceessor to the Penn State Collegian, established 1.904, and the Free Lance. established 1887 Published daily er.cept Sunday and Monday during the regular College year by the students of The Pennsylvania £tate College. Entered as second-ciasa matter July 5. 1934. ,at the post-office at State College, Pa., under the act of .Bf.ar , :h 3, 1873. Editor Business Manager Adam A. Sroyser '4l/. Lawrence S. Driever '4s Women's Edit„Or—Vera L. - Kemp '4i; Managing Editor —Robert li. ,tbatte : Sports Folitor,,BielLard •C, Peters •41; News . EdifOr--William E. Fowler :11, ; Feature Editar. —Edward J. K. MeLorie '4l 'Assistunt Managing Editor-- J ayard Bloom '4l; Women's Managing Editor—Arita L. 4Kefferan - 11: Women's Promotion Manager—Edythe B. ilielcel '4l. • Advertising Manager-3'4:V= H. Thorna.l '4l; Circulation Manager—Robert G. Robinson '4l; Senior Secretary—Ruth Goldstein '4l; Senior Seeretary:--Leflie H. Lewis '4l. --Editorial and Buninesa Office 313 Old &Lain Bldg: Dial 711 . • klAnaging Editor This Issue ______William S. McKnight '42 Vews Editor This Issue ___________-__Ross B. Lehman '42 WOmen's Issue Editor ___ ___Seanlte 'C. Stiles '42 ilrztrihuniore Assistants _-Donald W. Davis, Richard S. Stoebbin.: Thursday Morning, November 14, 1940 Thinking Ahead, What Will The Senior Gilt Be This Year ? Lest anybody take offense at the title of this editorial and accuse Collegian of being premature. we wish to report that the Class of 1941 will have graduated in 30 more weeks. The class this yeas will do well to profit by the experience of past classes. (Of course, other classes would have done well to Profit by the ex fierience of classes preceding them. The trouble is most of them did not.) Perhaps this, too; will be metly a futile shot in 'la the dark. Perhaps this year's class 'president will do as One president did two years ago.--:call a class meet ing, get a meager attendance, ask for a show of .hands, and decide there; and then how more than $4,000 was to be spent. Incidentally, the wish of that class still hasn't been 'carried cut. Perhaps, too, this year's senior class will com mit some of the other errors which have compli cated the expenditure of class gift money. It is Collegian's natural hope that the class will not make any mistakes. Collegian begs thsl opin ion be heard now on the matter of the senior gift rather than on the day before thri selection is made. By no manner of construction is this a plea for any one gift. Necessarily it is a plea against some which can have no worth. The class gift fund is the residue of the damage fund into Which each student pays one dollar 'every year he is in College. Left-over class dues go into a fund for reunions. The money is used to pay only for damage on campus and, usually; by the time a class 'graduates the payments Of its i7iembers have accumulated a surplus of four or dive thousand dollars. It is up to ihe'class to dis loose of this money as it will, the established cus tom being to use it for a gift to the College. Two grievious errors have been committed.- in the. past: (1). On graduating the class has so tied up its fonds that the delegation of the gift cannot leg ally be changed without the coment of all the members of the class, or at best, a trip through the courts. Thus the Class of 1922 has a fund of $29;- 902 for a swimming pool that the College no longer • needs. (2) The gifts are frequently ideas; never work ed out in detail (like 1940's whiz-bang Lion Shrine) or they are beyond the means of the gift fund (like 1939's $15,000 mountain ldclge). The result 5s that these funds necessarily remain idle for lye.ars after the class graduates. College officials; grateful for, but wearied by the class gifts, usually have tO.bear the brunt of arrangement after the class gradttates. linagine how happy the faculty committee-Must be that has $5,000 for a Lion Shrine, but no plans and no site. 'Collegian begs three things of this year's grad :eating class: (1) That power to change the gift be left with the permanent class officers or some other grouP small enough that it can handle the gat money without undue red tape. Otherwise, the unwieldy class of eleven hundred individUals legally must, all take part in decisions regarding the gift. (2) That the gift be planned in detail before it is given. (3)- That it be i'ithin the limffs of the class funds so that the money will not have tO lie idle for years while the College stab ,- ; blindly about trying to find the remaining funds necessary to complete the project. For these points to be accomplished; the class will have to begin its consideration of gift sugges tions almost immediately so that it will have. time to work out full plans hotore it graduates. Doixistowit office 119-121 Sotith Frazieir St. Dial 4372 11Ri61661.111111116111111666111111111131113311111111111161116111111311111166111111R81111111111111161111111 THE • CAMPUSEER 4X41 • 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111114111111111111111111111111111111111M1/1611 We hope Soph Hop Is not a flop, We'd hate to see Attendance drop. We'd go oursell;es To Sw. , ng -and • Stomp',• - - If only we - Could snare a comp. With due apologies for the above bit of verse, which wandered into our mind while . we were sit ting in the Cornerroom debating the comparative merits of fresh lemon and chocolate cokes, the Campuseer salutes the approach of - another week end. May the imports be spicier, the coeds jeal ouser, the band hep-ier, the football team peppier .. but not the Froth Orange Echoes It was a wonderful weekend in picturesque and historic Syracuse . . . where sorority women Live in sure enough sorority houses . . . we liked the Amalgamated Gold Diggers . (Alpha Gamma Delta) --charming girls . . . incidentally, the Beta house is next to theirs .. . Cheerleader LFeworthy beam ing as he talked shop with the SyracUse cheer leaders (need we mention their sex) ... Dave Wag erseller, the orie-man cheering section . . . Carl DeLong looking important behind a sideline badge . . . ditto Tommy Allison. Garzone's Cafe . .. sigma nus and theta chis giv ing the local gals a break . . . a blonde in a white angora sweater smoking a cigar (local color note) .. . the Orange . . Drummond's . . Alice Mtir ray and Jerry Howarth '4O . . . B'irman's and the du's . . . the Hotel Syracuse. Barbaia Hutton, and s',? per couple on the line . . . Ted Winters and Harry Oiler and another SPE house with a red. dont. . . a Syracuse cheering . section which could gave pennsy .scrape some lessons tower . . . Quote Of The Week We bow in awe to Jim Hitchens. Phisigms.kappa who has what it takes to make a visiting Pan-hel girl (from Brooklyn, no less) interrupt a casual conversation with the following electrifying auery: "Pardon me; but would you think it was for ward if I'd suggest we step outside and mug?" P. s. We have it on good authority that Hitch ens is broad-minded about these things. Pin Mystery Jane Gibboney has a thetaxi She lost it last week after eating at the siiinanu house with her kappa brethren. It turned up in sotneboy's car. Very puzzling, eh, George? • IT'S A PLEASURE Wanta buy a pipe for him ! Then be sure to choose from our large selection of Kaywoodie, Friar, Grand Slam, Old Eng land, Royal Teske, Frank Med ico, and Yellow Role pipes. If it's candy you want to, give her—make it, Whitman's, Mary Lincoln, or Schraffts. Or how about a Lady Buxton "3-way" bill fold. They are designed for every active phase of a won - lan's life—adaptable at a moment's notice to suit her every need. ALL THESE GIFTS ARE ATTRACTIVELY WRAPPED FREE OF CHARGE When Thinking of Gifts— Think of McLANAHAN'S SOUTH ALLEN STREET TIM DALLY COI,T,PGIhaLN the water Classified Advertising Will Bring Results! SOPH HOP BOUND 1 • Why Not Wed from Our . Store A Gift For YOUR GIRL - - We Carry A Coniplete Line of - Rings, Bracelets, Lockets and CoihpaitS WITH COLLEGE SEALS Opp. Old. Main SHOMBER6 I S Calleie Avenue Sturdy Double Soles Heavy service stitching Ciiiinfortable easy fitter-least • AntiqUed winter *eight calfskin (Tanwed for Velvety softness) Ask for No. 6900ntique Brown, No. 691 Block BOTTORf BROS. BOOTERY , s S l ivA%- e te ( ) 144 Say, Have You Heard The One About the Travelling Oops! 1 heifer Not Tell. If You Want to know See— ink BALLOON GOES OP November 15 =and 16 at T P.M. in Schwab Aud. Friday-43c Saturday-75C Tickets On Sate At Student Union • THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1940 202 S. Allen Street
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