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Editorials ...
Victory Spirit
Servicemen at Penn. State have taken their
place on campus ,as undergraduates in an all but
official capacity. They have been extended num
erous opportunities to participate, in- extrg-cuirL
cula activities of' which they; have taken full ad-
vantage. This has brought about a better under
standing and relationship with their temporary
college and its civilian student population.
The Nittany Lion football squad has been bol
stered by military personnel. Many of Coach Hig
gins’ players are servicemen sacrificing free time
after a complete day of required studies. They
are playing for Penn State. They . should be sup
ported by their units cheering for them and the
school they represent. There is no reason why the
rooting section at athletic contests should not be
composed of servicemen with true Lion spirit.
Knowing the history and background of their
present Alma Mater is an important element In the
proper support of athletic teams. Penn State’s
songs and cheers should be learned before the
start of the football season.
This is not meant to_ advocate the antiquated
Joe College attitude on the part of fighting men.
It does mean to suggest however, an intelligent
participation in the school spirit. It will give the
servicemen a feeling of belonging to, and a
wholesome participation in, the life of the College.
It would be an impressive sight if each and
every servicemen were to be seen in the New Bea
ver Field stands September 30, singing and cheer
ing the Nittany Lions on to victory over Muhlen
berg. There should not be a civilian section in one
part of the stadium, and a military section in
another. There should be one large group of en
thusiastic Penn Staters with one idea . . . the uni
fied support for a winning team at all the foot
ball games. —EAK-BJC
Finals . . . Ugh!
In this changing world there are three things
that appear to be with us forever —death, taxes,
and final examinations. The event underlying this
gloomy statement is the announcement of the final
exam schedule for the current semester publish
ed in this issue of the Collegian.
The mere mention of the semester’s greatest
ordeal should in itself be enough to strike terror
in the hearts of Penn State students, but that is not
all. There is a much more frightening fact to add.
The date that has been selected for the start of
the finals scourge is Friday, October 13. That’s
right—Friday the 13th.
One good effect of this date is that it will give
students a ready made excuse for flunking their
exams. “Oh, well, what can you expect on-Friday
the 13th?” they might well say.
Since this is an editorial there should be a mo
ral or something in it. All we can bring ourselves
to say is that all you students had better get on the
ball and study for those exams. —BJC
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Friday, September 15, 1944
-Victor Danilov
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NewsOfTheWeek ..
By DR. JACOB TANGER
Political Science Department
Head
Penetration of the Reich . .
The long awaited invasion of coastal pockets on the Channel
German soil occurred on Monday, from LeHavre eastward. Of par-
September 11, when-the U. S. Ist ticular value to all the liberating
Army under Lieutenant General forces on the continent was. the.
Courtney H.-Hodge, after driving dislodgement of the. Nazi, forces
through the duchy of Luxembourg holding LeHavre, the second larg
in a single, day, plowed ahead for. est port in France. The recondi
five miles into the Reich. This tioning of this harbor will .faeil
penetration of the German wall itate immensely the movement of
brought the U. S; forces to within men and material to the western
fifty-five miles of the Rhine and front.
the great industrial city of Co
blenz. A second U. S. armored
column invaded Germany on the
following day and. still another
was poised on the Luxembourg
border. Reports from the eastern
border of the Reich reveal that
Russian patrols crossed into East
Prussia west of the Lithuanian
city of Kaunas on the same day
as penetration was made on the
west. Russian communiques re
veal, however, that their advance
here was only one of a series of
probes into the enemy’s territory
in this region during the past
several weeks.
Further.'Advances in the West
Other Allied achievements in
the west, less spectacular but of
equal importance in the campaign,
were the crossing of the Moselle
River in several places and . the
taking of a huge sector of the
Maginot Line by the U. S. 3rd
Army under Lieutenant General
Patton; the drive of the U. S. 7th
Army under Lieutenant General
Patch from the south of France
to well within range of Belfort
just north of the Swiss border and
and the establishment on the way
of a firm contract with General
Patton’s 3rd Army in the region
of Dijou. This juncture of forces
securely pockets the German
forces in southern and western
France and cuts pff their retreat
to the homeland. Meanwhile in
the north the British 2nd Army
under Lieutenant General Demp
sey continued its drive through
Cassius Writes ...
Dear Brutus, recognize, but which I was sure
I was walking down the street I had seen in Atherton Hall some
minding my own business when I time.
saw that sign. There it was sitt
ing in the store window proclaim
ing that everyone who could see
the sign and get someone to read
it for them was invited to attend
a WRA Co-Rec Night in White
Hall. I immediately became suspi
cious.
Mary Beaver White Hall is the
primary source of coed brawn on
this campus. Behind its cloistered
doors Penn State women are mau-
led and molded into shape. ’No
man is allowed to sully its sacred
confines with his profane car
cass. And here we were invited,
even urged, to enter this inviolate
harem and play with the girls.
Mighty suspicious, indeed.
I have always mistrusted the
women who operate and inhabit
White Hall since the time they
would not allow Coca Cola to be
served at a dance there because
it is unhealthy. They are fren
ziedly trying to develop sinew be
cause of a feeling of inferiority
to men. They well realize that
man is the animal highest up the
evolutionary scale, followed clo
sely . by the chimpanzee, the
horse, the dog, and the woman, in
that order, and they are jealous.
Cassius Plays Around
Submerging my misgivings in
my desire to play with the girls,
I trotted over to White Hall Sat
urday night, was sneered down
at by a burly Phys Edess guard
ing the door with a golf club, and
was permitted to enter the Mecca
of muscle. An amazing sight met
my eye.
All over the spacious gymnasi
um games were in progress. Happy
boys and girls were playing bad
minton, bridge, fistball, minia
ture bowling, table tennis, cro
quet, jacks, and other savagely
athletic sports. Here and there in
secluded corners couples were
playing a quieter game I could not
THE COLLEGIAN
Belgium . into the ' Netherlands..
Behind this British Army, and -
operating along the coast, Lieu
tenant General Crerar’s Canadian
Ist Army • liquidated .German
The East and Balkans Area
A several week’s deadlock in
Poland was broken by Russia
during the week and Nazi satel
lites in the Balkans suffered a
severe jolt .as a result of diploma
tic as well as military maneuvers,
directed from Moscow. Bulgaria
was forced to abandon her as
sumed position of neutrality after
being forced to sever her tie with
the Nazis and to openly declare
war on the side of Russia. Sov
iet forces penetrated deeply into
Transylvanian area and advanced
within a hundred miles of Hun
gary’s capital Budapest. The
eastern border of Yugoslavia was
crossed and Soviet forces joined
with Tito’s guerillas with the ap
parent objective of cutting the
Athens-Belgrade trunk railway
line.
In the Pacific
Admiral Halsey’s attack on
Mindanao foreshadows the estab
lishment of an advanced base in
the Philippines. Increased activity
in recent days as evidenced by
U. S. cruisers and
carrier-based planes pounding the
Palau Island indicate a determined
effort to get a roothold in this
area. Based on unofficial re
ports that the present conference
between President Roosevelt and
Prime Minister Churchill will be
concerned in no small part with
the war in the Pacific, it is as-
sumed that a concerted effort will
toe directed toward augmenting
the forces directed against Japan.
I don’t know what could have
possessed me, I am generally so
well behaved. Perhaps it was the
stimulation of seeing violent exer
cises, or of being at last Within
the passionate precincts of White
Hall, but I completely lost my
manners, and without being in
troduced, walked up to a strange
young lady and spoke to her.
“Would you like to play with me?”
I said.
“Yes.” she smiled.
We began to play all the gam
es, provided there for our ( . amuse
ment. First. we play badminton
which consists of beating the'hell
out of some feathers. Then fist
ball which consists of punching
the hell out of a ball. We played
table tennis and croquet, the ob
ject of these games being to beat
the hell respectively out of a small
white ball and a large wooden
one. We also played bridge. The
exertion in this case comes from
beating the hell out of your part
ner for trumping your ace.
Ju-Jiisa Floors Cassius
Somehow I found myself alone
with the coed I had been playing
with. She stood very close, look
ing up at. me with shining eyes
and parted lips. I gently put my
arms around her and drew her to
me. Then I went sailing through
the air landing heavily on my
back. I had not realized that ju
jitsu was one of the games on the
program.
Suddenly a murky green gas
began seeping through the ventila
tors. Everyone gasped and choked
horribly. When no men dropped
dead the lady in charge disap
pointedly told us that some chlo
rine had escaped from the swim
ming pool, and cleared the room.
Imagine her trying to pass off for
an accident a vicious female plot
to kill all the men on campus by
poison gas., —CASSIUS
FRIDAY,. SEPTEMBER 15,: 1944 ,
Collegiate Review 3 ..
Many famous entertainers will take part ip the
-1944-45 Artists’ Course at Indiana University.,
Richard Crooks, the tenor, pianist Artur Rubin
stein and; Marjorie Lawrence merit - individual
concerts. • “La Traviata” and “'Martha"-also! ap
pear on the program, ‘
' Fraternity. men at Washington and Jefferson
are glad that rush week, came when it did. ■ The
fraternities- there recently were given back .their
old suites in Hays Hall and used their new pledges
to tote bags and baggage up flights of stairs.’
A camel-will model the latest shade of tan for
fall during" the 1 intermission act of the Pelican
fashion show at the University of California. • The
spirit of the football season will be carried out in
the gowns and three-piece suits of 22 Pelican
models. .
The camel will be contributed by three mem
bers of Treble Clef. Describing the pretty ani
mal, the director said, “Her legs will have more
beauty than those of any Petty model. We be
lieve, however, that the camel will still be wear
ing one hump in the fall season.”
A front page headline in the Bowdoin Orient
surprise us. It states, “Formal dance Saturday
night will culminate last houseparties before all
fraternity houses are closed.” The eighty expect
ed imports were, housed, in the Beta, DU and AD
houses there.
At Bowdoin College, a bridge tournament is
being hotly contested. We await with interest the
outcome of this physically. and mentally stimu
lating game.
The Southern Cal Trojan lauds itself on pro
curing and printing an exclusive interview. on
Harry James. The said Mr. James played there
recently sponsored by the Spotlight Bands pro
gram.
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The Bowdoin Orient sees little hope that fra
ternity houses will be open- during ■ the' fall' and
winter. It reports that the entire student body
will live in the dormitories and -will eat at the
student union building there.
Milady be wary of Cupid
And list to the lines of this verse
To let a fool kiss you is stupid
To let'a kiss fool you is worse.
" —The Northeastern News"
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In this world of chads we still have some things
we can count on—five on each hand.
Character’s like muscle—it develops with use.
—The Indiana Daily Student
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