;AGE TWENTY-EIGHT - - Merchants to Greet Freshmen State College merchants win greet incoming freshmen and ;heir families this afternoon with gala community welcome desig mated • Hospitality. Sunday." Re freshment stands and information booths will line S. Allen Street from 1 to 4 p.m. and freshmen will :have end opportunity to meet the merehants and other citizens of ;State College. Prepared for the freshmen by the Downtown Retail Division the State College Area Chamber of Commerce, the plan was de signed to relieve traffic conges tion that normally occurs on cam pus during student arrival hours, Welcome Freshmen . . We Have 6 Expert Barbers to Keep You Looking Your Best During Your Stay at Penn State Penn State Barber Shop 110 S. ALLEN 5T.... Dorn a Bit from The Corner William F. Polito, executive di rector, said. All booths will be, staffed by the Pep Girl Can organization of high school' girls from the State Collegeareal - Freshmen will also have a chance to win free prizes from various State College stores by registering during Orientation Week at a store displaying a spe cial poster. No purchase will be required to register. All downtown stores will dis play "Welcome Penn State Fresh men" signs throughout this week, Polito said. This is KEELER'S East OPPOSITE EAST CAMPUS GATE Sorry No Sunday Sales . . .We Wish to Greet KEELER'S College Avenue 1 "East or West - At either store you'll firti the best" THE DAILY CMMIAN. UNIVERSrIY PARK. PENNSYLVANIA SEEOZES 143 S. ALLAH - STATE COLLEGE 206 East You Are Cordially Invited to Attend Our OPEN H.:*':-.USE TODAY, September 16, 1962 2 p.m.. to 4 p.m. To enable us to meet you, and for the new students & parents to familiarize themselves with our, services we invite you all *0 come in, browse around,!and get acquainted. Refreshments to be Served by Frosh Must. Leorn Campus iLottdmarks "Where's the only grave on campus?" "Hair many tines do the chimes in Old Main toll' at p.m.?" "What's the legend at the Obelisk?" These are just three of the mul titude of questions which fresh men can expect to be barraged with by persistent—and often seemingly • hateful upperclass men during that period of trial and tribulation known as Fresh man Customs. FEULSHMEN WHO wish to avoid embarrassment would be wise, then,' to learn the answers to these and any other passible questions coneernin# University lanalYmrks and traditions. The only grave on campus is marked by a flat stone plaque beside Schwab on Pollock Road. It is that of George Washington Atherton, president of the Uni versity from 1682 to 1906. The Old Main chimes, presented to the college by the 1937 grad uating class, toll IS times at 6 p.m. to commemorate the Ange lus, or cessation of the work day. They also toll every 15 minutes during the day and every hour during the night. , THE MUSICAL NOTES are ac tually produced by five coils of wire, four of then corresponding to the four' notes of the chimes East SEFnNfflt 16.:1962 and the fifth serving as the hour gong. A roaster clock in the/tourer regulates plungers which strike the coils, giving off a certain. pitch. The notes sere then ampli fied electronic:oy and broadcast cram. the tower bud speakers. The Obelisk, lociied on the Mall, is constructed from 231 samples of Pennsylvania mks arranged in geologic order ac cording to boa and age. The mysterious legend ,of the monument can only. be 'learned from a well-informed upperelass man. Also located on the Mall, which stretches from College Avenue to Pattee Library, is the willow tree, which WWI VOWn from a branch taken from venerable "Old Willow" that arcs destroyed by a storm in 1922. • OTHER CAMPUS landmarks Include the famed Nittany Lion Shrine, symbol of the University's athletic teams. The shrine was a gift of the class of 1940 and was carved from limestone by sculp tor Heinz Warneke in 1942. It is located next to Recreation Hall. On the other side of old Main is the Little Mall, which contains the Quarry Memorial, a boulder taken from the quarry .which pro vided stones for the original Old Main. Our Staff You! 0 .•
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