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THE DMLY COLLEGINN
"Tor A Settle Penn State
1910. SUCCO,Wir to the Penn Slate Collegian.
( 1,1. ddished 1901, and the (glace. established 1887.
Pluiliqhed .ept Sunday and Monday during the veg.-
+i College yedr by the students of The Pennsylvania State
College. Sntcrel Him second-class matter July 5. 1954 at the
-11'oM 0 Mee at State College. Pa., under the net of March S.
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Editor-in-Chief Business Manager
Paw. X. Woodland '44 Philip P. Mitchell '44
Managing Editor Advertising Manager
likhard D. Smyser '44 Richard E. Marsh '44
111(likirial and Bueinetni Office
Carnegie Hall
Phone 71t
Staff This Issue
Magazin* Editor, This Issue .
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alreduate Counselor _---____.____
Wednesday, November 18, 1942
]VJiore About Phi Ely
An upset of the Penn-Penn State calibre can
;').(rdly go without comment long after the grid
ry-making fray. Long will the 13-7 turnabout
remembered, and with it an excellent football
goes down in *the books. But something else
•- e' which is a step in a different direction
cuui although mention of it may belong in a sports
..!,)lumn, the Collegian considers it significant
, :»,rugh to treat it here.
is in reference to the attitude of Philadelphia
:ports writers who have begun to give the Nittany
Lions more attention in the newspapers and more
favorable publicity at that. Some of the credit for
tbe. turn toward better Penn State writeups can
r.!)._ given to Ridge Riley and The Department of
Public Information whose sports news he edits.
Ridge has worked hard for more, intimate rela
tions with the Philly sports scribes, and articles
and after the Penn game are evidence of
Ini:4 efforts.
. Some students took offense at Red Smith's Sun
writeup of the game, but anyone reading
his Monday morning column praising the Lions
would be convinced to the other side. What Red
wrote Sunday was not detrimental, but merely a
method of emphasizing the youthfulness of the
icosh stars in an imaginativ'e way. Red has his
own style and his own angles from which to cover
4 i . game.
Analyzing the situation further, it can be found
•liat criticisms prior to this season may also have
l'i'en partially unfounded. It is natural for stu
.:ints to look at Penn State publicity in a Pitts
burgh paper, then compare it to writeups in the
"))iLadelphia newspapers and rap the Quaker
C.!iy press for its smaller coverage.
But as as representative from one of the Philly
:o,toers told a large journalism class, the Philadel
]o))io. papers have to first take care of the- local
cAeges, Penn, Temple, Drexel, Haverford, P. M..
C, ,and many other smaller colleges in surrounding
because most of their circulation is there.
:People in that district. with the exception of Penn
alumni, want to read of the local teams
)Ir,;t, then the ones from regions beyond.
In Pittsburgh, writers consider Lion teams as
p . irt of their territory, and with only one excep
4.ionally 'large college there, they have adopted
:l'enn State as a district team. Another factor, and
very important, is the intimate relations Pitt
'writers have with the College and other persons
rare. Many journalism grads have gone to Pitts
''u to write and these have an effect on the
:oolicy of Lion coverage.
Ridge Riley, seeing that personal relations mean.
:1 lot, has worked on that angle. The College is
i , JON/ on such intimate terms with the Philly wri
^'•ers that the football coaching staff, Penn State
:;ports publicity men, and the Philadelphia scribes
had an informal get-together Friday before the
game. No longer should the City of Brotherly
Love press be accused of poor Penn State cover
-10: considering their district situation and the
way they came through last weekend:
Give Thanks On Campus
Plans have been afoot, although details have
211::.nged considerably, to sponsor an Aft-College
Thanksgiving Service on the morning of Thanks-
Day. Promoted by the PSCA and represen
q.:itives of town churches, the student service was
scheduled in one town church, then shifted to
. inothe.r larger one. The Collegian contends the
All-College Thanksgiving Service should be held
Schwab auditorium and decorated to provide a
alma:where. Despite persons leaving
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Downtown Office
119.-121 South Frazier St.
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Peter Scott
__William Reimer
__Rita M. BeHann
Howard Schwartz
Louis H. Bet
A Lean and Hungry Look
Two years ago, in 1940 to be quite
proper, there was born a Collegian
column entitled by just the Shakes
pearian epithet which appears above
this opus and signed by the very
name which coincidentally enough
appears at the end. Written quite
brilliantly by a guy bearing the name
Jake Hay, of whom only the present
Seniors may have dusty memories,
the column had its inauspicious na
tivity with this dedication:
"This is the lean and hungry look•
It is the gentleman's intelligencer
and the young ladies' companion. It carries a
message of faith and hope. Also, it gives the chaps
who write the other columns a bit of a rest."
We should like At the outset to adopt that as our
policy also. But, we digress. Returning to the orig
inal Cassius, we might add he performed his .col
umning (and calumning) with such verve and vi
ger that succeeding Collegian editors have felt
there was no one capable of taking his place and
so retired a very good column head.
But wait, impetuous one. We do not profess to
even hint that we are as good as the mighty Hay,
nor do we feel that there will ever be anyone who
could follow in his inconoclastic footsteps, We do
feel, however, that we might essay blind stabs up
midnight alleyways—and who knows what the
stiletto will bring to bloody light?
Unlike the other chroniclers of collegiana, we
shall not be a bulletin board for the vagaries of
fraternity pins and other sentimental baubles. Let
them have the cake. We'll take a short one—and
keep the head down, .Spider!
By some odd quirk in our makeup, we still be
lieve that College students have brains—Yea, ver
ily in a Collegian column too. We shall not try to
be too erudite. Shades of Bacchus, we couldn't
read the balderdash ourselves then.
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So be it. There you have our platform, and may
it not be as asthenic as those of our "athletic"
politicos. Incidentally, tb leave the aperitif and
start on the first course,—Today is Election Day.
Who shall emerge With the laurel branch? We
make no attempt at prognostication, but pass on a
remark attributed to der kleinan caporal Nappy,
"God is on the side with the heaviest artillery."
That, in this case, gentle reader, could mean a my
riad of things. The party with the most automo
biles or even with the weightiest tonnage of mus
cles might adopt it—if the shoe fits, y'know!
If some kind, god-fearing Soul should like to
earn our undying gratitude by informing us just
what is the score, we would be only too glad to
repay in kind.
"PHASE DRESS"
Make Senior-
Junior Ball a
realsuccess
by wearing the
right clothes.
TUXEDOS
Single and
Double-Breasted.
in Midnight Blue
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MN'S SHOP
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Theodore Roethke, assistant professor of English composition and
a•poet in his own right, has again made the national news-front with a
pbem, "The. Minimal," in the current issue of HARPER'S BAZAAR,
A snapshot of the professor-poet-tennis coach taken by Bob Jordan
'43, is also included in the magazine. The picture .above of Roethke
is a drawing sent in by his publishers.
CAMPUS CALENDAR
WRA Bridge Club meets, White
Hall Playroom, 6:30.
WRA Rifle Club meets, White
Hall Range, 6:30
Penn's Valley Ski Club meets 7 cf the new priority orders recent
p. m. in State College High School. ly - placed on castor castor oil
.Voting for All-College and class officials assure you that there
officers from 12:30 to 8 p. m. in .will be no restrictions placed on .
first floor lounge of .Old Main to- itt3 use when "tummy aches".
—Cassius
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Poet-Coach Again Breaks Into Print
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Today
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1942
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day, .axed from. 9:30 a. m. to 8 p.m.
tomorrow. ,•
• WRA Badminton Club meets;
White Hall gym, 5 o'clock.
• Meeting -for all members of -de.
bate squad, 316 Sparks. •
Note to the Kiddies
"Hi.. Recognize me? I'm one of
your: crowd. You see, I speck for
Coca-Cola, known, too, as Coke.
I speak for both. They mean
the same thing. The gang
say I look just like Coke
tastes. And you can't get
that delicious and refreshing
taste this side of Coca-Cota.
Nobody ellso con dupti,..
note it."
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