SATURDAY, NOVT3M6ER 7. 1953
A Chance to improve Customs Program
Students who were dissatisfied with this
year’s customs program are being offered a
chance to give constructive criticism to the
Freshman Joint Customs Board.
The' board has sent out a request to campus
. organizations— such as Leonides, Panhellenic
Council, Freshman Council, and Hat Society
Council, for recommehdations on revision ol
next year’s customs regulations.
The customs has also asked individua'
students, especially freshmen, to submit recom
mendations. The board believes frosh who
underwent this year's customs would probably
have the most important opioipns- of points
either lacking or over-emphasized in the pro
gram. ’ - ■
Complaints about this year’s program were
primarily against the lack of enforcement kr.
upperclassmen. When customs were strongly
enforced during the- first week, frosh spiri.
was accordingly high. When enforcement drag
ged, during the last two weeks of the program,
frosh likewise lost a great part of their enthusi
asm and adopted an attitude of unconcern - and
disregard for customs regulations.
‘Penn State Yankee’
Pattee Autobiography to Be Out This Month
By DON SHOEMAKER
“Penn State Yankee,” the
autobiography of the late Dr.
Fred Lewis Pattee, will be
ready for sale Nov. 21. Dr. Pat
tee, member of the faculty for
34 years and /of the al
ma mater, completed the man
uscript for the book in May
1950, two years before his
death. . It was presented to the
Pattee Library under the title
of “My World As In My Time,”
along with other writings of
Pattee.
The manuscript remained in
the hands of the library until
this. March, when friends of
Dr. Pattee and the College de
cided it should be published.
Publication of the book was di
rected by a committee' includ
ing William L. Werner, profes
sor of American literature and
close friend of Pattee, Louis
Hi Bell, director of the Depart
ment of Public Information,
'and Richard C. Maloney, as
sistant dean of the School, of
Liberal Art's. Book design
was handled by Wendell S.
Macßae, publications produc
tion manager.
Funds for the project were
donated by friends of Pattee
and the ’College, and his
Dartmouth classmates. A to
tal - of $ll5O was collected
from private contributions
and the remaining sum was
.added by the College. Profits
from book sales will be re
turned to contributors and
the remainder will be pre
sented to the College.
The fact that Dr. Pattee was
a New England “Yankee” for
the first 31 years of his life, be
fore he came to Penn State in
1894 inspired the title, “Penn
State Yankee.”
The book is roughly divided
into three sections. The first
deals with his boyhood in Bris
tol, N.H. The second tells of
his career at Penn State, where
Little Horse Show
Set for Tomorrow
The second Little Horse. Show
will be held at 1:30 tomorrow at
the College riding stables. The
horse show is sponsored by the
Riding Club and contestants are
limited' to club members.
Ribbon awards will be present
ed to four winners in beginner,
intermediate, intermediate jump
ing, advanced, advanced jumping
and open classes.
Book Club Selects
Dugan's 'iron Ship'
A book by James Dugan, 1937
editor of Froth, has been, selected
for distribution by the Book-of
the-Month Club.
The. book, Dugan’s latest, is
“The Great Iron Ship,” which
deals with the Great Eastern, the
largest trans-Atlantic vessel of its
day, 1858. A portion of the boo'k
was serialized recently by the
New Yorker magazine.
Prof tb Attend Meet
Dr. Miriam Lowenberg, head
of the Department of Foods and
Nutrition, will attend the annual
meeting of the American Public
Health Association and a meeting
of the .child health committee of
the association Tuesday in New
THB DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
However, customs will undoubtedly be with
is again next fall, and distant as that time may
■eem, action now will help make next year's
customs a strong and vital part of campus life.
If all campus organizations, and all individual
tudents who have given any thought to frosh
:ustoms—pro or con—would seriously consider
.’actors that might improve the strength of the
program, and would take the time to offer the
customs board definite and itemized suggestions
for future regulations, perhaps next year’s pro-
Tam would actually’fulfill its intended purpose.
—Peggy McClain
Dr. Fred Lewis Paffee
he held what was probably the
irst - full professorship of
American literature in the
country. The concluding chap
ters tell of Dr. Pattee’s life af
ter his retirement in 1928.
Dr. Patiee, noted teacher,
writer and traveler, wrote or
edited more than 25 books.
However, he was probably
best noted for his books on
the history of American lit
erature. His most famous
piece of writing is "Contem
porary Writers of American
Literature Sitice 1870." Since
-there was no source for ma
terial other than the authors
themselves. Dr. Pattee wrote
letters asking them 'or infor
mation. A portion of the
autobiography is devoted to
the replies he received.
Some authors' 1 included are
H. L. Mencken, Hamlin Gar
land, Mary Wilkins, Mark
Twain, and Bret Harte. "When
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Good for one pair slacks or
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with any two-piece suit,
topcoat, or dress.
—One Week Only - Nov. 9-14
UUJN9SBSTTE and SUNWAY CLEANERS
This indicates frosh spirit fluctuates with the
strength of enforcement. And upperclassmen
will obviously not enforce regulations which
they feel to be of no value foward promotion of
class spirit and frosh adjustment to campus life.
At present, the subject of frosh customs is
oot of major importance to most students. Prob
ably the only students actually concerned with
next year’s program are members of customs
■oard and of groups preparing recommendation
ists.
the book was published in
.1915, it caused considerable
controversy, because it was the
first time a critic had dealt
with authors outside the tradi
tional New England school:
Dr. Pattee was one of the
first ,to advocate American lit
erature in United States col
leges. He instituted courses at
Penn State when he came here,
and was a strong supporter of
the teaching of American lit
erature throughout his whole
life.
Dr. Pattee is probably
best known to Penn State
students, as composer of the
words of ihe alma mater. In
1901 Penn State had no offi
cial song, and Dr. Pattee
wrote the present words sim
ply as- an example. However,
the trustees approved them
and they became official.
Originally, there were six
verses, but today only four
are used.
One outstanding land
marks on the campus—the Fred
Lewis Pattee library—was
named after the nationally
known author.
There are many pages'in the
autobiography devoted to Penn
State. But the book is not a
running history of the College’s
growth. Prather, it is a book of
personal episodes and anec
dotes. There are few references
to living people or people now
on the College staff. This is
probably because Pattee’s /lo
cal memories go 'hack only to
-928, the year of his retire
nent.
Sales of the autobiography
are being handled by the
Paiiee Library. A special
pre-publication price of $3.75.
plus one per cent Pennsyl
vania sales tax. is being of
fered to those who order the
volume before Nov. 21. Reg
ular price is $4.75. Orders are
being taken by Ralph W. Me-
Comb, College librarian.
Regular Price!
210 W. College Ave.
Little Man on Campus
'Oh, they're losing yards on 'Time in the Huddle' all right, b'
notice they made a touchdown on every play."
...And So Bio Weekend
By CELIA JOHNS
Imports by the dozen will be tempers are cooled and the happy
floating around campus this ? ou >?," e eads fo J *° dance
tvt„. i j to tlle music of Ralph Flanagan s
weekend. Newly-pressed gowns orchestra.
and crinolines will be cluttering j About 15 minutes will be spent
walls in the dorms. Corsage sales m li ne before coats can be checked
are reaching a peak. Fraternities. Then the ordeal begins. Some
have inventoried so that supplies people say that football is dan
iof food and favors for their dates gerous, but apparently these peo-
I stock every house. |Ple have never been to a Penn
! It’s Junior Prom weekend, the i s * ate d . ance - The gowns begin to
first of the College’s four annual ? how . signs _of wear, guys begin
. “big weekends,” ' complete with to ,X' >1 P e thei f brows and “pardon
houseparties and a name orches-! m p, is constantly repeated,
tra. Somehow the dance finally
I . , . , 'ends, and the race for the coats
1- ex^' ted *-? be. begins. The next obstacle to over
-1 others of its; come j s finding the car. Back at
: Smi *"} T jut - Sown- house, everyone talks about
1 vHll' J ' Uys ; the wonderful time they had at
ai + unc om- ! the dance and, surprisingly, most
evenmg l n . a !tT tux - he ipeople re ally mean it.
usual comments of I wonder j One of the Dartv coeds on cam
f h°e W can * g ” 1 pus that Sis weekend wTI)
i-choed and reechoed 5 are ;Oe unique. She sighed, “At last
a re ec boed. _ ] a chance to live it up until 2 a.m.”
j Cuys will spend hours hunting: No matter what the viewpoipl
• a pair of black shoes and will is, no matter how many head- ■
| end up wearing black loafers. As aches they cause, big weekends
; usual, 9 o clock dates will turn up are definitely here to stay.
at 9:30, but after two minutes
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