r • lE TWO Atomic Landmark ADM. LEWIS L. STRAUSS, chairman of the Atomic Energy p erninission. will dedicate the nuclear reactor, shown above, at 3 p.m. today. The reactor is almost completed and is expected to be ready for usa in the near future. The reactor itself is located :',under the steel enclosed may on a 24-foot deep pool of water. I The pool ads as a coaling agent and a shield against radiation. Reactor Dedication— ,; (Continued from first page) Inc., and Merchants Fire Assur ance Co. He is the president of the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Ad vanced Study and is a trustee of the Sloan-Kettering Institute, Me morial Center for Cancer and Al lied Diseases, the Brooks Institu tion, and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and is a past-president of the Congrega. ttpia Ernanu-El of New York City. Secretary to Hoover Born in Charleston, W. Va., Ad miral Strauss entered government service in 1917 as secretary to Herbert Hoover in relief opera tions in Belgium. From 1919 until 1,946 be was associated with the Congratulations Penn State On a Century of Progress banking firm of Kuhn, Loeb and Co., New York. He entered the Navy in 1941 and served on active duty until 1946. His assignments included staff assistant to the Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance, assistant chief of Procurement and Mater ial, special assistant to the Vice- Chief of Naval Operations, spe cial assistant to the Secretary of the Navy, and Navy member of the Army-Navy Munitions Board. Marmons, Peerless, Oldsmobiles, Champions, Overlands and Fords could be rented at the University for big weekends in 1923 for 15 cents per mile. In 1932, nearly 1000 bluebooks were sold to students. McLanahcm's is proud to have been a part of Penn State's century of progress—from a Farmer's High School to a great University. For over a quarter of that century McLanahan's has been serving the students of Penn State with the finest in drugs and notions. From a small drugstore, we too have progressed to the largest, and most modern departmentalized drugstore in State College - today. Progress is not only' the byword of Penn State, but of McLanahcm's also. McLan-ohan's•'-..--,..' - ', THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA So congratulations Penn State on your century of progress. We're prowl to celebrate it with you. Birthday Third in Although the 'University has seen 99 previous birthdays, today's ceremonies mark only the third major observance of its creation in the school's history. The "semi-centennial celebrat at commencement time in 1905, heralded by a special three-day program during homecoming weekend in Oct., 1930. There was no observance of the University's first quarter century of existence, however. The fortunes of the young insti tution were at their lowest ebb, its future uncertain. By the time of the semicenten nial, the picture had brightened considerably. There were 749 students, and the faculty and staff had grown to 68. The latter figure was more than the number of students enrolled 25 years be. tore. Until 1905, University cata , iogues had always given the school's founding date as 1859, the year when the first students were admitted. But the Board of Trustees now voted to establish the founding date as the year in which the law chartering the school was signed—Feb. 22, 1855. If they had so chosen, the trus tees might e:so have made the University one year older than it is presently reckoned, for the school's first charter was adopted by the legislature in 1854. This act set up a governing board of 60 members. It quickly proved impossible to get so many trustees assembled at one time, Lnd the next year the original charter was repealed and a new one adopted fixing the number of trustees at 13, George W, Atherton was presi dent of the University during the semi-centennial ceremonies. A full day of the commencement week was set aside for speeches an the early history and growth, Party Is History on," as it was billed, was observed and the 76th anniversary was ana the current status of the in stitution. At night, the' campus was lit by electric lights in Japanese lanterns, and streamers of lights were strung from the top of. Old Main's tower to the four Corners oh! the venerable building, which in its early years had housed the entire University. Several of the addressees se. MISPM' , IMO re r , rt 5.5 lu . v tfiktitit iCinf y as a pioneer in scientific and ensinoiring edu. clition and in Witt - altdral train ing an d research. Others re counted the history of the school and 14 place in the State's sys tem of public. ducation. When in 199 0, its seventy-fifth anniversary was o•lobrated, the University was hardly recog nizable as the school of 1905. Among other things, the celebra tion marked the dedication of 1$ new buildings, among them a rebuilt 014 high*. Some 4000 atudente paraded daring the feetWitiaa and there was a sizeabbr academic proem ;ion. More than 400 faculty mem bers and representatives front other institutions participated. President Ralph D9M Hegel, sumlning upthe achievements •of 'rare, said the University faculty and sta ff now .comprised 1000 persons, and some 4600 duderits were enrolled,
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