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Dean Gladfelter Owen E. Landon
Editor '4EI O " Business Mgr.
STAFF THIS ISSUE
g t Editor: John Dalbor; Copy Editors:
!Ran Degler, Dean Gladfelter; Assistants: Jack
Garretson-Butt, Len Kolasinski, Ted Soens,
Margaret Troller.
Advertising Staff: Manager: Edward Shanken;
Assistants: Shirley Bush, Frank Cressman,
Judith Goldberg, Doris Grumes, Joan Harvie,
Phyllis Kalson, Eleanor Mazis, Marion Morgan.
The Open Door
Milton S. Eisenhower is a busy man. Any
, man in his position as President of one of the
I nation's largest universities has plenty of work
to do and few spare moments to toss away in
idle frivolity.
BUT THE characteristics which impress one
when calling on the 11th President of Penn
State are his willingness to become engrossed
in the conversation at hand and his relaxing,
welcoming approach. Even when tired and beset
by numerous official worries, President Eisen
hower has put these aside and has given all his
attention to the interview of the moment each
time this writer has visited him.
A respecter of the rights and opinions of
others, he has not allowed disagreement to
color conversations or change his friendly
attitude. This writer recalls a particular in
stance. of disagreement which ended with
both the President and himself still con
firmed in their beliefs—yet the talk was en
joyable, apparently on both sides, and the
writer, at least, felt he had profited from it.
Such an attitude will aid President Eisen
hower immensely in his work at the College.
Although it may mean that some people will
consider him not firm enough, it will allow him
to hear all sides unemotionally, to judge argu
ments in their own merits, and to retain the
good will of those with whom he works.
HIS POLICY of not remaining aloof behind
closed doors should make for better under
standing between the student body and the
administration. It should mean that, once the
first rush to business is over with and he has
more time on his hands, President Eisenhower
will be able to develop a wide, personal ac
quaintance with many of the students and
teachers that will help to mould what hereto
fore has been a somewhat disjointed mass of
people.
When the late President Hetzel died, one of
the Collegian editors wrote commemorating the
"open door" policy of the "Prexy." From all
indications, President Eisenhower appears to
be wholly in favor of the same attitude, an
attitude which should make for a wholesome
intimacy between himself and the student body.
—Dean Gladfelter
Gazette . . .
Wednesday, October 4
PENN STATE DUPLICATE BRIDGE CLUB,
TUB, 7 p.m.
ETA KAPPA NU, 7 p.m., 203 E.E.
FLYING CLUB meeting, 7:30 p.m., 107 Main
Eng.
FROTH Circulation staff and candidates. 7
p.m., 418 Old Main.
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS RE S EAR CH
ASSOCIATION meeting, 7:30 p.m., 409 Old
Main. •
ALPHA NU, 7:30, Phi Sigma Kappa Fraterni
ty, 501 South Allen Street.
WRA DANCE White Hall, rhythm room,
7:00 p.m.
WRA BRIDGE, White Hall, play room,? p.m.
FUTURE TEACHERS OF AMERICA, 2 Car
negie Hall, 6:45 p.m.
AG STUDENT COUNCIL meeting, 103 Ag.
Building, 7 p.m.
COLLEGIAN Editorial Sophomore Board, 8
; Carnegie Hall, 7 p.m.
COLLEGE HOSPITAL
Admissions: Lavier Procopio, William Grif-
Joseph Brown, Anthony Matour, Richard
Patterson, Margaret Con'idine, Elizabeth Isen
( berg.
Mose 61432
—music for dancing
—ls Cooper vocalist
7 --dix piece orchestra
third year on campus
DARRELL RISHELL
orchestra
'HE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
Two Challenges
If you mentioned the name Eisenhower to a
central Pennsylvanian one year ago you meant
a deep-throated man, most famous for a flaming
torch on the shoulder patch of his general's
uniform.
IF YOU mentioned that name today you
would mean the man who since July 1 has
directed the tentacled activities of Penn State
from the large second floor office in the south
east corner of Old Main.
Even though Dr. Milton S. Eisenhower has
been in State College only a few months, he
has become so well liked that shouts of "new
era" are being heard on all sides.
Tomorrow morning College students and
faculty will take time off to watch and hear
the formal inauguration proceedings of Dr.
Eisenhower. Witnessing these ceremonies, we
can well feel that Penn State and Dr. Eisen
hower have both profited from his transfer
from the presidency of Kansas State.
To the College Dr. Eisenhower has brought a
national reputation as administrator and edu
cator. His success with the Department of Agri
culture, UNESCO, the Office of War Information
and at Kansas State speaks for itself.
THE COLLEGE on the other hand need have
no fear its new boss is a big fish in a little pond.
With the enrollment, research and extension
work all expanding yearly, the College has be
come one of the most active land grant uni
versities in the country.
Just how important the College and its new
president are is indicated by the number of
celebrities to be on hand of New Beaver field
tomorrow.
Behind and beyond the limelight that will be
focused here tomorrow, however, Lies a chal
lenge of unifying the College's multiple activi
ties and aiming them not just for a better school
but for a better world.
Safety Valve .
Not Enough Collegians
TO THE EDITOR: We would like to take
advantage of our right to free speech by
criticizing the department of the Daily Col
legian which has charge of distribution. To come
directly to the point, why aren't there enough
Collegians to go around? Many times they are
unavailable even at 10 o'clock in the morning.
How can we possibly keep informed of the
activities on campus if we have no better source
of information than the grapevine?
Please correct us if we are mistaken, but, isn't
it true that we students pay for our copy of the
Collegian through college fees? If this is the
case, many of us aren't getting our• money's
worth.
Ed nofe—Opening of. the new West Dorms
caused the shift of a considerable portion 'of
the student body. The circulation staff is
currently re-apportioning the number of
Collegians distributed at the various points
in town and on campus. The 75 cents-a
semester fee covers only a part of the cost
of publishing Collegians, which are printed
on the basis of one for every two students. If
every student demanded a copy, the fee would
be about $7.50, the Collegian business mana
ger informs us, figuring on the basis of 5
cents for each of the 150 issues printed a year.
• Discharges: Dorothy Chadwick, Charles Pat
terson, Anthony Matour, William Oldt, Richard
Robinson.
COLLEGE PLACEMENT
Further information concerning interviews and job placer
ments can be obtained in 112 Old Main.' •
Seniors who turned in preference sheets will be given
priority in scheduling interviews for two days following
the initial announcement of the visit of one of the com
panies of their choice. Other students will be scheduled
on the third and subsequent days.
Merck and Company will interview January
M. S. graduates in chemistry, chemical engi
neering and science, Wednesday, Oct. 11.
Allied Chemical and Dye corporation, general
chemical division, will interview January grad
uates in chemistry, chemical engineering and
mechanical engineering Monday, October 9.
STUDENT EMPLOYMENT
For information concerning the following jobs applicants
should stop in 112 Old Main.
Room and board in exchange for housework
and other duties.
Linotype operator, experienced only.
Experienced clothes presser.
—Herbert Stein
—G. Nelson Bevard
Richard L. Hunter
Happy New Era
for Penn State
with Dr. Eisenhower
at the Helm
HARTMAN
BARBER SHOP
State College Hotel
Looking Backward . . .
College Presidents
While it took more than two years for the Board of Trustees to
name Dr. Milton S: Eisenhower as the successor to Dr. Ralph D.
Hetzel as president of the College, delay in naming a president is
not new to the history of Penn State. It was not until eight months
after the start of classes in 1859 that Evan Pugh was named the
first president.
It was President Pugh who had the honor of getting the name
of the College changed from
Farmers' High School to the
Agricultural College of Pennsyl
vania in 1862, one year after he
had "harvested" his first crop of
11 students, under an accelerated
three-year course.
President Pugh died in 1864.
His death was followed by a per
iod of 17 years in which five men
served short terms as president.
Prof. James W. McKee, instruc
tor in Greek, served four times
as acting president.
Fund Defended
William H. Allen, who served
two years, was the first of these
presidents. In addition , to defend
ing the land-grant fund of the Col
lege from demands of rival col
leges, he was able to exchange
the institution's debt for a seven
percent mortgage.
He was succeeded by Prof. John
Fraser, who enlarged and im
proved the faculty but also in
creased the student . fees, causing
a drop in enrollment. When he
resigned after two years, the
trustees named as his - successor
Dr. Thomas H. Burrowes who
twice had been head of the state'
public school system.
Under •Dr. Burrowes, public
confidence in the College was re
built. Fees were lowered, more
agricultural courses were addec4
and compulsory farm labor for
all students in their first- two
years was restored.
Switched To Greek
The president who was named
following the death of Dr. Bur
rowes in 1871 was the FteV - . Jarties
Calder. He had little use for
practical agriculture and put the
College in competition with pri
vate sectarian institutions by
shifting the curriculum to Greek,
Latin, and philosophy. Student
farm labor died out and only one
agricultural professor remained.
In fact, President Calder - went so
far as to have the name of the
institution changed to the Penn
sylvania State College.
Co-eds first came to the campus
under this regime, and two wo
men instructors were employed,
But these changes in , policy
brought discontent from farm
organizations and, after a state
legislative committee made an
adverse report, President Calder
resigned.
Resentment Aroused
He was succeeded by the last
of these five, Joseph Shortlidge,
who held the post for only nine
months, and applied school-boy
discipline techniques which
aroused widespread resentment.
This . period of uncertainty
came to an end with the naming
as president in ,1882 of George W.
Atherton, who promised to "con
tinue agriculture and Latin, but
to develop engineering, too."
The enrollment of 87 students
at the time of his taking office
had increased to 800 when he
died in office. At the beginning of
his regime the College was re
ceiving only $30,000 from the
federal government and no funds
from the state, but 24 years later
the national government was con
tributing $78,000 and the state
$230,000 per year.
School Established
A self-made man who had been
WE HOPE THAT THE FUTURE BRINGS
GREAT SUCCESS
to the
PRESIDENT MILTON EISENHOWER
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lactive both in education and poli
tics, President Atherton fostered
the College's engineering pro
gram until the School of Engi
neering was established in 1896.
He also gave attention to pro
motion of agricultural studies. It
was during his administration
that the. Jordan fertility plots
and an agricultural experimen
tation station were set up. Inter
collegiate football and baseball
were begun and the "Alma
Mater" was written.
Dr. Edwin Earle Sparks took
over the presidency when Ather
ton died in 1906. During his ad
ministration, which continued un
til his death in 1920, he took the
story: of the College to the people
through extension work, exhibits
at fairs, lectures, and the county
agent program. Enrollment rose to
a new peak of 3271, and a system
of student self-government was
formed.
Much of the College's facili
ties were converted to military
use in World War I, and President
Sparks took an active part in the
local war effort.
—Dr. John Martin Thomas was
named as the ninth president and
served for five years. Dr. Thomas
advocated making the College a
university in name and in fact.
The Graduate ;school was or
ganized by President Thomas in
1922 and two years later the
Chemistry and Physics school was
added. Meanwhile, other schools
expanded. The School of Mines
and Metallurgy became the sec
ond largest in the nation.
Dr. Thomas resigned in. 1926.
He is now retired and resides in
Middlebury,. Vt., the only living
former president of the College.
Dr. Ralph Dorn Hetzel, who gave
up the presidency of the Univer
sity of New Hampshire to come to
the Nittany Vale, served until his
death in 1947, longer than any
other president save Atherton.
Depression Hits
A reduction of the College's
work followed a drop in enroll
ment during the depression, but
federal aid was , procured and en
rollment climbed to a new height
under "Prexy" Hetzel. By 1940
it had reached 7000.
War came fast on the heels of
depression and, with the 18-year
old draft in 1942, enrollment de
creased. However, the govern
ment stepped in again by sending
military recruits here for train
ing, and a bevy of uniforms blos
somed forth on the campus.
After the war, riding on• the
wave of GI enrollments, the Col
lege population expanded greatly.
hitting 11,000 in 1948. Trailer
camps and temporary dormitor
ies were set up and the famous
"farming-out" system was insti
tuted.
At the height of this expan
sion period, on Oct. 3, 1947, Dr.
Hetzel died, leaving a vacancy
which was not filled until Dr.
Eisenhower's appointment.
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