THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, During the 74 years since _then, the invention and the ;institution have done a lot of When the new UNiversaty dial; central office is placed in oper ation Aug, 16, some 5000 tele- , 'phones will be serving University !customers, and campus enroll !merit will exceed 15,000 students. , Early records show that only 1500 students were attending Penn Satte in 1910, and there were less than SO telephones. By 1926, shortly after the Bell :I Telephone Company of Penn ; sylvania purchased the tele- phone system serving the Uni -1 versify, the number of tele- ; phones had increased to 150 1 and the institution's enrollment was almost 4000. The Bell Company needed two ',switchboards to serve Penn State in 1938. one to serve the Univer sity's 300 administration tele :phones, and the other board for 'some 300 student telephones. En- WHAT A FUNNY P r USSY CAT, say Martin and Joey Thorton ;I-aliment here during 1938 was of Johnstown, as they inspect one of the exhibits at the summer mole than 6400 students. art display at the Hetzid Union Building. • The number of telephones serv - ,ing the institution's administra-, tive personnel and the students! • 'tripled, while campus enrollment' Associate Dean 1950. almost doubled, between 1933 andi • • ; Some 2600 student and 2400 ,To Start Duties , administration telephones will be serving the University when Bell's new UNiversity dial of- On August 17 fine goes to school on Sunday, Aug. 16, Leroy F. Austin, dean of stu- Starting at that time, it will! dents at Pratt Institute, Brook- be possible for off-campus tele phone users to dial calls direct lyn. N.Y., for the past three years, phone University telephones by dial ;has been appointed associate dean i n g the first two letters of the j ; of men at the University. new central office name UNiver- He will begin his duties on sitY and the five figures of the August .17, succeeding Dr. Har-.desired number. old W. Perkins who resigned to' callsAt the same time, on-campus , accept the appointment as admin- from one UNiversity num istrative head of the Wyomissingiber to another, will be completed Center of the University. . D dialing only the five figures ' y Austin is a graduate of the of the new number. University of Tulsa, where he re-' ceived his bachelor of science de-:Athiefic Manager Named gree in business administration.lA_.••.."..,o His master's degree in business, sfailli to Controller administration was conferred by. Edward M. Czekaj, business the University of Michigan and manager of athletics, has been he is now completing work on hisinarned assistant to the controller doctor of education degree at, with headquarters in the College Teachers College, Columbia Uni-lof Physical Education and Ath versity. lletics, Prior to his appointment at' Carl R. Barnes, controller, ex- Pratt Institute, he was directoriplains that in this position Czekaj of student personnel at Quinni—will represent the controller as piac College, Hamden, Conn., for l related to the financial affairs three years; assistant director ofiof the College of Physical Edu recreation for City College of cation and Athletics and will be New York; and director of resi- I responsible for carrying out ap dence at the University of Tulsa.lproved policies, Magazine Praises Rayback's Book The. book, 'A History of Ameri can Labor," by Joseph G. Ray back, professor of American his tory and head of the department of labor education, is one of four labor studies recommended in the current edition of the Saturday Review by Harry J. Carman, for mer dean of Columbia College. Carman, who served for five years as a member of the New York State Board of Mediation, says that Rayback, like the au thors of single-volume accounts of the history of American labor, refills the ground that has been cultivated previously. "Factually, this book contains little in the way of additional information about American la bor," he continues, explaining that Rayback's contribution is rather in the manner in which he has handled his factual infor mation. Sammy's Billiards NOW OPEN open at 4 p.m. closes at ? Rt. 322 North (underneath the Victory Diner) This is the time of year when the fall merchandise is coming in. I need room to put it on the shelves, SO all remaining summer merchandise is re duced , drastically for a final clearance. HABERDASHERY `7iticow 1 .b the Center of Pennsylvenie Ma c ......5 7 e2... need room. SUMMER COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA . . . for the finest in seafood served in a luxurious atmosphere, why not try the EUTAW HOUSE ? . . . we specialize in . . . steamed clams .. . oysters on the half shell ... lobster dinners . and many other delectable seafood and country dinners . and with your meal, enjoy your favorite cocktail All this at the . . futam flutist POTTERS MILLS 13 Miles East of State College On Route to Lewistown EM 41039 First Phone in 1883 Phone System Grows To 5000 in 75 Years The University was 30 years old and had an enrollment of 125 students when the first telephone came to the , campus lin 1885. growing up together AMP/ JEfintrit; 218 E. College Ave. 04,1 HAPPY HOME LIFE before electricity became cheap and plentiful It's been many a moon since a housewife was decked out like this. Now, you put low-price elec tricity to work on jobs like these—and dozens more. Day and night, in every room in your house, electricity is at your command—ready to make your life more comfortable and enjoyable. Yet electricity works for a few nickels a day! WEST PENN POWER a tax-paying business managed company working to help your community grow Patent medicine consumption increased 740 per cent from 1880 to 1910 while the population in creased only 83 per cent. alitimunonnillitimmummittitutituntimaitoting_ i THICK I MILK E g HAKES I i 35 c Morrell's! Opposite Centre Daily Times f- - 111111111111111111111111M11111111111Ittli111111111111111111111111E PAGE ELEVEN Not one, Ili but three dips of delicious Breyer's Cream
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