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A Personality
Dean Emeritus Arthur R. Warnock, a pioneer
in student activities at Penn State, has re
tried from his campus home to a comfortable
cottage bordering the College farms on Puddin
town Road.
He has watched Penn Stale mushroom from
2400 students in 1919 to more than 10,000 on
its campus and an overall enrollment ap
proaching 15,000.
In his 30 years as Dean of Men, he has held
the interests of both the students and the
College at heart, and this double interest has
manifested itself in a prime function of Nit--
tany student government which Dean War
nock has molded.
IN LINE WITH Dean Warnock’s two-fold
interest, a major function of student govern
ment duririg most of its more than three dec
ades of existence has been v to interpret and
promote college spirit.
In 1941, Dean Warnock explained to Penn
State freshmen: “A part of its (student gov
ernment’s) duty has been to protect the repu
tation of the College and the student body
against misguided and harmful expressions of
so-called college spirit. In 1928, at a' time
when student reaction was developing against
the continuance of certain campus customs
of doubtful value, a. number of student lead
ers worked out with President (Ralph Dorn)
Hetzel the fallowing definition of college spirit:
"College spirit is absolute and complete
loyalty to the highest objectives and ideals
of the College."
“In its practical application to various types
of problems and situations, the principle voiced
in this definition has been a fundamental guide
to both the student body' and College ad
ministration ever since.”
A SIZEABLE CHUNK of this Penn State
college spirit is what Dean Warnock calls
an “institutional personality” at the College.
Typical of his ever-present desire to keep an
“institutional personality” at Penn State no
matter how large it becomes, he has left a
final memorandum to the administration.
Because the College's, interest and the
students' interest often are the same, what,
the retired Dean of Men says in his final
memorandum to the administration might
well be studied by students:
“Supplementing the academic or professional
programs of the College there has long been
a warm, colorful institutional personality; and
that, perhaps, as much as anything else, has
made life' enjoyable and profitable to all of
us, and in many cases kept staff and faculty
members here when they might have gone
elsewhere at higher salaries.
"AS THE COLLEGE grows larger and its
academic programs become more mechanical
for that reason, diligent efforts should be made
to maintain that warm supplementary per
sonality in town and campus life; otherwise
the place will become little more than a fac
tory.
“To a considerable extent this institutional
personality .... has been created by the var
ious kinds of events of interest staged by the
several schools and as supplementary to their
respective programs. I refer to lectures, ex
hibits, concerts, athletic games, receptions,
open-houses et cetera
.... I hope therefore that deans and
divisional heads will continue what they have
been doing in this respect, and will use the
imagination and resourcefulness to plan new
ways of using their diversified facilities in
such a program.
“I speak of this not only because I know
lhat it is an important environmental factor,
though sometimes not fully understood as
such; but also because I know that the more
complicated and strenuous one’s existence be
comes, the more easily he finds excuses for
slighting such things. What is true in this res
pect of an individual could also be true of
the institution. Just as an individual, unless,
he takes care to avoid it, may become little
more than a factory worker, so the institu
tion could become little more than a factory.
"IF THAT SHOULD happen through neg
lect, then the Penn State that we’ve all en
joyed so much in the past would no longer
offer the same attractions and inducements
to our successors.”
@lj? Sailg Collegian
Successor to THE FREE LANCE, eat. 1887
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THE bAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
“Maybe We Should Gi
The Gripes of Roth
Students at the College are noted for their indifference to
world affairs. This is particularly noticeable by the small number
who read daily metropolitan' newspapers.
Now whether you read about atomic explosions in Russia,
the housing shortage, or the coal and steel strikes is really a minor
matter. But in not buying daily newspapers, students are missing
some of the great literature of our time— gossip columns. -
I REFER PARTICULARLY to those New York or Hollywood
columns'written by some of the bright lights of the literary world
Hedda Hopper, Louella Parsons, Dorothy Kilgallen, et all!
Each of these journalistic artists uses one, or both, of two
approaches when writing these epics. They use a number of
famous names, and they usually connect themselves to the
personages intimately by mentioning they were lunching with
them, sleeping with them, or in some other way" hobnobbing
with the idols of millions. '
For the benefit of those of my readers who have never taken
the time or opportunity to peruse one of these columns, follow
ing is an example of what such a writer might do if he (or usually
she) were to write about the College as they do about Hollywood
of New York.
WHILE HOTDOGGING ai the Comer Room the other day I
happened to run into that famous Thespian director, Sid Simon.
He was wearing a lovely blue beret with a stunning canary
yellow T-shirt. Sid assures me his current show, “Welcome Willy,”
is simply sensational. •
At the next table were two of the young dancing sensations
of the show, Herbert Arnold and Madelaine Gardner. They both
assured me that contrary to rumors, they weren’t expecting—to
get pinned in the near future. ,
George Kahl. noted disc iockev and radio announcer, hap
pened to walk in and .stopped at my table to chat.• He assured
me that records,, and transcriptions still turn clockwise—or was
counter-clockwise?
The other night I happened to be dining in the country
wide-famous College Diner, with that rising young writer, A 1
(Gleaned from Prints) Ryan, when in walked those three lovely
young starlets, Dianne Scuderi, Francine Toll, and Sonya Tilles,
Dianne was wearing a stunning fuschia blouse while Francine
was adorned in, a shapely lemon-lime sweater and Sonya was
decked out in a dashing sports outfit, black and .'white checked
shirt and cherise slacks.
‘ DR. EDWARD NICHOLS, whom I happened to chat with in
class the other day, assured me he has some delightful assignments
scheduled for his sections this semester.
Bumped into bop enthusiast and ex-Thespian Robert Brooks
the other day. He assured me, definitely, 'he would not join the
road show company of “Abie’s Irish Rose.”
A new fad is sweeping the campus these days. Kelly-green
bows for stylish young women with name cards to match.
All-College President Ted Allen .assured me, confidentially,
he would not run for re-election on the Communist parly ticket
next year.
Heard from the grapevine: The Daily Collegian, contrary to
rumors, will continue to be printed in English.
Is it true—that the hat societies, who traditionally wear black
skull caps, are switching to midnight-blue to get in step with
the “bold took?" “
Limb from Limb
There’s a young woman in Burrowes Building who “might take
an arm from one person, head and shoulders from a second, the
clothes from a third,” The College, staff publication reports.
It’s nothing to become alarmed about, however, because the
young lady, Miss Gloria Slonaker, reference librarian in that build
ing, merely “photographs” the above-mentioned anatomy and trap
pings in her mind aha combines them into pleasing sketches with
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Your nosey reporter,'
Hedda Parsons Kilgallen.
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With The Staff
Schwab Scene . . . An alum from “way back,
when” slipped into his chair, shifted uncom
fortably, and then whispered to the student
seated beside him, “I haven’t been at a chapel
service here for 35 years and they stiH have the)
same hard seats?”
SHADES OF “Father Was a Fullback” . .
Those who saw aforesaid movie last
found the resemblance to our alma mater re-f
markable. The name of the college in the pic- '
ture was State; the football team lost its first 1
two games; Nebraska was fourth on the sched
ule; Higgins appeared as one of the associates 11
with the team; two years previously the team
had had an undefeated season; etc. The team 1
colors—, why, blue and white, of course!
AFTER LOSING a football game it must
have been rather hard to .take a glass of beer
in the face too. The story goes that a Phi
Kappa man opened the door of his room and
tossed a glass of beer into the face of a Boston
College rooter. Apologies were in order and
the embarrassing situation was cleared.
Speaking of the B. C.-State game, sifter the
Lion had tamed his opponent of the day, he
deserved a long rest that evening.
But it seems that a small dog was determined
to contest the monarch’s rule of the Nittany
Valley. The dog stopped at the shrine for a
half-hour and matched snarl for snarl with
the big fellow. But the honored idol, lacking
interest in sUch small fry, remained perched
on his rock content in reviewing the victory
of the day. .
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_ PHILADELPHIA-Penn State alumni sent' r a
bit of. spirit via Western Union when they
sent a telegram to Hicks, Norton and the squad
last. Friday. The 3500 alumni in that area ex
pressed complete confidence in the co-captains
and fighting squad, and advised them to give
out in the College tradition. Their final boost
was, “We are wholeheartedly • back of aH of
you, win, lose, or draw.”
Safety Valve...
The Artist's Course
TO THE EDITOR:' We are objecting to the
discontinuance of the' Artist’s Course. It is
rather pathetic when a town population plus
a student enrollment of 10,000 cannot support
such a worthwhile enterprise. It seems unlike
ly that an enterprise that has been success
ful for the past 13. years cannot continue to
be so with a consistently increasing- enroll
ment. 'We are so removed from any other
source of live cultural entertainment that such
an opportunity should not and must not-, be
bypassed. Is a program involving the works
of well-known composers who by now should
be-familiar, too: “high brow” for that seg
ment of the population which considers itself
educated? Why can’t the College subsidize
the concert series until. if becomes. self sus
taining? How much of an outlay would .. it
involve?
In case you think that we are strictly one
sided, we also appreciate jazz in all its forms.
Dorothy Roseman
Shirley . G. Felman
Helen Ruby
Ruth R. Lopin
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