LYTLE CABIN w. c, c SPENDS FULL TIME WITH ORGANIZATION OF FIRST-YEAR MEN Has Office Hours for Interviews With Yearlings—Leads to Close Acquaintance 1930 .CABINET WILL BE CHOSEN IN FEW WEEKS Bible Study Groups Formed for Creative Discussion of College Issues As the class of 1030 makes it.; plunge into College life at Penn State, Freshman Secretary W. Carl Cal houn ’25 enters ujjon the second year of his work. He will* devote all lus time to organizing the “Y” group from the yearling class, including daily scheduled interviews with the first-year men. Last year as part time secretary. Calhoun saw personally more than seven hundred of the class of 15*29. In commenting on his work for the present year and tentative plans for the freshman, Calhoun said: “Despite the fact that incoming freshman classes of the past few years, have been hailed as being in creasingly better, the details connect ed with.their first few days on the campus have caused them, less per plexity, and the problems of the first year of college life'have, become no lewer and no easier of solution. “For a long time the Penn Slate Christian Association has. earnestly tried to render First Aid-to!Freshmen in every way possible during the op ening of College, and throughout the whole year. The letters of welcome and the Student Handbooks which are sent out before the new students leave home arc advance agents of hospital ity. The freshman reception on the front campus has become a tradition, and the whole student body, as well as many of the faculty, look forward to that event. (Continued on following page) Extension Workers Will Enter New Field With Boy Scout Organization With the advent of greater oppor tunities than ever before for exten sion Sunday Schools. William Hoek enberry ’2S, in charge of this division of the “Y” work, has entered the field of Boy Scout organization and Junior Project work. He comments upon the extension work as follows: “During the College year the ex tension service group of the Y. M.. with the aid of the Y. W., is busily (Continued on following page) Christinas Party—l 924 Gathering of Extension Sunday School Children The “Y” Suppl LHOUN ’25 I 11)20-27 .BUDGET I Contributions I Lytle Cabin $lOOO j Colored Work in South f>oo | Stale Y. M. C. A 100 | Xat'l. Conn. V. M. C. A. M 0 | Extension 500 | Books and Magazine 200 | Cabinet Expenses 100 | Conferences 400 S Freshman Reception I and other work 375 ) Campus Service 125 j Social 100 j Office Expenses 400 ! Building Equipment 150 ( Speakers 000 j Total $lOOO Y. W. TO DRIVE , • , ■ FOR $5OO FUND Solicitors To Ask One .Dollar From .Every Woman To Carry on Work CONTEMPLATE MEETINGS ON EAGLESMEKE PLAN Canvassing all women students in the college, the Y. W. C. A. begins to day a campaign for funds to complete their budget for 15120-27. The Y. W. icceivcd this year $2OO of the blank et tax, and one dollar from each wo man. is expected to ‘furnish’ sufficient money for the following activities, in these proportions: national obligations •—2SV, social aelivUios-p2o7r, stud ent work— : 2u f -r. conferences—2sV ami ’women's, handbook—MV. Sending delegates to the Kaglcs mere Conference has for-many years been.a,policy of.the,V. \V. C. A., but the institution of Freshman Week and the necessity for paying the cx feases of the cabinet members who return for it. has cut short the amount the V. W. could spend in sending dele gates to KagJesmere. If the cam paign this year is successful the local organization hopes to send other mem bers in addition to the one sent last June. Miss Helen George ’2S, vice presi dent of the Y. W. C. A., and acting president for the year in the absence ol Miss Edith Ochme '27, president, hopes to use in the work on the cam pus this year the plan for meetings which was outlined at Kaglesmcre last June. Short meetings will be held every Wednesday and an effort will be made to have speakers of in terest to everyone, and special music every week. Mrs. Kitchen, national secretary of the Y. W. C. A., will be located at State College after Christ mas. With her help, the cabinet hopes to increase student interest in the Y. W. C. A. Freshman Reception Made Popular Here With the front campus brightly lighted for the occasion and decorated with blue and white streamers and Japanese lanterns, the class of 1930 was given its official welcome to Penn Slate through the efforts of the Y. M. C. A. in staging the freshman recep tion which has become a firmly es tablished tradition on the campus. Booths forming a “who’s who” con tain men prominent in student activi ties anti add to the value of the af fair. For the past two years it has been aided much by the help of the women t tudents through the Y. W. C. A. OPEN REMAINS Y. M. C. A. BEGINS DRIVE TONIGHT TO MEET BUDGET OF $4750 FOR THIS YEAR Beginning this evening at eight o’clock the Penn State student Y. M. C. A. will open its three-day financial campaign to cover a budget for $4750 under the direction of J. (L Hesse ’27 who has complete charge of both the oratorical and athletic divisions of the campaigners. Heading the ora tors is S. L. Reeder ’27 while the Ath letes will be lead to the fray by K. R. Weston ’27. Hesse has divided his working units into captains and lieutenants. ’’ For! the national fraternities, Captain R. A. McQuade ’27 with. Lieutenants J; M. Russel ’27, B. C. Wharton ’27 and K. B. Donaldson- ’27, and Captain G. M. Harris '27 with Lieutenants J. C. Belfield ’2B, M. E. Tlirikle"’27,' F. E\ Ulf '27 and C. E. McFaden ’27 will canvass with the aid of men chosen from each chapter house; Local Fraternities Captain A. C.Alloway ’27 with the aid of Lieutenants W. E. Philips '27, Recent (Picture of Senior Y. M. C. A. Cabinet M. M. HARRIS APPRAISES VALUE OF “Y” OBJECTIVE In order to set forth clearly the ob jective of the Y. M. C. A. Cabinet for the present year, a creed was formu lated. Professor M. M., Harris did much in wording the purpose and he has conlmented on the creed in thu : followng: “To realize in our lives the desire for the richest way of life, and to in vite others to join us in the attempt tc find life at its best.”- At an all day.“retreat” of the Penn State “Y” cabinent and a few" sympa thetic friends last June, the statement above was, after much deliberation, adpoted as a statment of the object ive of the Penn State branch of the Student Young Men’s Christian Asso ciation for the present College year. This is the whole platform; It is capable of wide interpretation; it is worthy of your consideration and sup port. Desire Universal The desire and the quest for rich es is universal, and the gratification cf the desire manifests itself in var ious ways, according to the different opinions men hold about what consti tutes riches. The savage and the bar barian set value upon trinkets, orna ments, personal adornments which to us seem bizarre; men of a higher de gree of civilization count their rich es in flocks and herds; others, more civilized still, acquire vast tracts of land; others again, heap up money for its own sake, or for the sake of the material possessions and physical luxuries that money will buy. A few there arcwlio gratify their craving for wealth by the'pursuit of knowledge, and lay up rich stores of learning to enjoy in the mind and souk Another group of men, para doxically called “the poor in spirit,” store up the riches of the soul—invis ible, intangible, but just as real as are the possessions of those who know wealth only as material. Closely Related. So closely do the riches of the mind and of the soul resemble each other and supplment each other that it is not easy to separate the two.' 1 shall not attempt to do it. In each realm FOR STUDENT USE AS FRESHMAN SECRETARY G. P. Lippincotl ’27 and S. 11. Culp ’27 will have charge of soliciting from the local greeks. B. C. Conrad ’27 and the members of the cabinet form the organization which wil canvass the faculty. .This group has set its goal at one thousand dollars. The non-fraternity students have been divided.dnto sections which cor respond to the fire districts and wili be covered by Captains H. S. Buck ’27, J. M. Stazewski ’27, 11. V. Cord ing ’27 and-H. G. Womsley ’27. Buck will be aided by Lieutenants P. A. McWilliams ’2B and H. E. Blankcn biller ’2B with the sophomore cheer leaders for men. Lieutenants W. 11. Royer ’27, 1L R. Shorrad '29 and.O. A. Burgess ’27'are organized with Stazewski. Genling will he assisted by Lieutenants C. D. Übel '27, D.K. Hendrix ’27 and W. S. Liggett ’27. Womsley’s aides arc E. L. Spitler; ’27 and A. B. Angney ’27. The captains and- lieutenants met the riches which men may have, if men strive for them, are not material. 'And'just, as-the colleges seek not to furnish the youth, with material wealth nor necessarily with the means ol acquiring it,'but rather to make him rich with a well trained and a well stored mind and a soul attuned to harmonies above the earhtly, so the colleges must furnish also the means of coming into contact with and of acquiring a wealth of the soul’s life. This desire for a rich way of life that shall be apart from material things is present in some degree in most civilized men, but the desire is most earnest in the hearts of a stu dent body during the four or five years when students are, with more or less diligence, seeking the wealth that is not material, and the value of which can not be estimated by any monetary system. Organization Worthy of Support That organization which sets be for it as its goal the ambition to bring this almost universal desire of the student up ? to the plane of a reality, of an acquisition, an attainment, and which also seeks to share the richest way of life with others is worthy of encouragement anil support on every campus. In the privately endowed colleges the helpful organization is the church er some arm of the church. In the state colleges, where no religious body may be permitted to exert influence ir. competition with any other, but where ‘interdenominationalism exists at its host, the Young 5 Men’s Christian Association, especially on the Penn State campus, has both a unique op portunity and a. peculiar function. The opportunity lies, not in the num ber of religious gatherings that may be assembled, however beneficial they are, but in the inspiring contacts that may be made through the association, between the finest, highest, richest type of spiritual attainments and those who- are seeking and finding “life at its best.” The* function of the “Y” is to meet that opportunity. It is gratifying to note that our (Continued on following page) ement with Sue rotary Kitchen and Hesse for discussion of organization details last night. Immediately before the men go into the canvass, there will be a bean sup per at the University Club where the wh:le organization will assemble at six-fifteen o'clock. H. 0. Smith will give a short talk on the sales paints and how to handle certain problems. Dean R. L. Watts is scheduled for r. “pep*' talk. Hesse will then giro out the cards with instructions. AH cards for the men have been placed in envelopes with mimeograph ed sales points on them. The cap tains will have’a complete >bt of the names given to their men. To solicit students who are missed, a cmn-up squad will be organized from the men who finish Tuesday evening. The squad goes into action tomorrow and the whole campaign will close Thurs day. Henry Van Dusen Listed For Three-day Meeting With Student Leaders Taking the place of Bruce Curry for the Penn State student body. Ilenry Van Dusen, of Union Theolog ical seminary, New York City, will visit the campus for a three-day dis cussion conference, at which time an attempt will be made to assemble leading students in ail campus activ ities to meet with him. The three-day conference will mark the opening of the general campus wide discussion groups which will take up the questions which are thought to be most pertinent after the gathering has thrashed out sev eral perplexing problems on both stu dent and campus life. Henry Van Dusen is the youngest member of the faculty’ at the semin al y. He has had a brilliant record as a student in Princeton; Adebrdecn, Scotland; and finally at Union semin ary from which he was graduated with honors. His scholarship and his personality lit him admirably for work among the students. For the past two years, Van Dusen has visited all parts of the United States, conducting conferences of students in search of life at its best. He comes to Penn State with this ex perience from other colleges as a back ground. He will do from a younger man’s viewpoint what Bruce Curry did last year. Lost and Found, Room, And job Service ;Part Of Work of Y. M. C. A. Have you lost your fountain pen? Do you want a room for someone ov er Alumni Day or Pennsylvania Day? Would you like to work somewhere that morning or afternoon you ,-have no classes? All students know about the ser vice the “Y” renders at the beginning of each year in finding rooms and boarding places for new men. This service is maintained throughout the year and every effort is made to keep on hand lists of rooms available over week-ends and for special occasions. SENIOR "Y” CABINET R. 1). Pundore ’27, President S. I*. Reeder '27, First vice president B. T. Conrad ’27, Second vice president W. S. Seibert ’2S, Secretary A. C. Alloway ’27. Treasurer (5. M. Harris ’27, Meetings R. B. Donaldson ‘27, Deputation F. K, Ulf '27, Discussions . 1,. R. Plolts ‘27, Entertainment Course G. F. Fisher ‘27, Handbook William lloekcnberry ! 2S, Sun day School Extension ,1. C. Delfield ? 2S, Freshmen Mvnihi’i-a tit l.ttrye Members at l.arge R. I). CJeorge ‘27 D. K. Hendrix ? 27 !,. T. Denniston ’27 !.. L. Gwin '2S ! 11. K. Mulvaney ? 2P j 11. 1,. Commvav ’•>« | C. B. Lane ! 2'.l jj _.. DISCUSSION GROUPS PROVE SUCCESSFUL F. E. Ulf '27 Outlines (Extensive Program—Visitors To lie Consulted Often VAN DUSEN CONFERENCE WILL MARK BEGINNING Three years ago Penn State made its first attempt to hold discussion groups among the entire student body for the consideration of questions per tinent to college men in their rela tion to the college authorities and their fellow men. Much of its suc cess cun he attributed to the ability of Bruce Curry who fired the little group with, the ambition and the pos sibilities of the work. An extensive organization was used for the first year but after thorough consideration, those in charge thought it advisable to try a different scheme lust year. The conference which Bruce Curry held was conduct ed on the Penn State campus. The lemilt is evident from the topics which were discussed. Such issues as “What do we get out of College?*’, “The relation be tween college men and women,” “Compulsory Chapel” and “Student Government” found their way to the groups. The extensiveness of the or ganization for the coming term has not been decided but will be deter mined after the Van Dusen confer- F. E. Ulf *27, who has charge of the work, is considering the idea of interviews with men visiting the Col lege *m the capacity of Chapel speak ers, lecturers and entertainers. Views of outside men on college life and problems will be brought before the groups and it is expected that prob lems on other campuses can be com pared through this method. Various student leaders will he ask ed to take charge of the discussions from time to time. When it is not possible for the entire group of lead ers to meet with the visitor, one or more men will be delegated to confer with the College guest. By this plan, the student groups will benefit from Hie report of the interviewer who will present the ideas and thoughts that he has gathered. Exterior View of Lytle Cabin “Y” TAKES FIRST STEP TO ERECT A CHAIN OF CABINS Assumes Lead After Donation of Plot in Shinirletown Gap ( By “Andy” Lytle AVAILABLE TO ANY GROUP ON REQUEST AT OFFICE Outing Club Gives Valuable Aid In Soliciting Contributions During Construction After the lapse of nearly three years since “Andy” Lytle gave a pLt of ground in the Shingletown Gap for erection of a cabin, that cabin is now open for the use of the Penn State student body. Through the initiative cf the Y. M. C. A. enough money was raised to make a start on the first of a proposed string of cabins through the mountains to the South of the town. The Lytle Memorial cabin will be given over freely to the use of any campus or student organization which makes the request. A catalogue of dates is kept and arrangements for the building can be made with the bus iness secretary, C: L. Fritz. The Y. M. C. A. acts in the role of custodian. Along with the triangle workers the Outing Club and the Penn State Club have done much to make the structure possible. The cabin itself is an Lrshapcd building of two units, each twenty by thirty feet. There is in the cast end of the cabin a fireplace which is doub led with one which opens of the east porch. The kitchen is equipped with a smaller fireplace on the north side of the structure, while in front there is a ten-foot porch, along the entire- East End Fireplace length of the section—thirty feet. A rustic appearance has been cre ated throughout the work. The beam ceiling gives the eirect of a log cabin and is one of the outstanding features of it. The outside of the building is of native limestone, adding much to its attractiveness. The upstairs is di vided into two sections. This provides for mixed parties, which must likewise receive the sanction of the “Y”. With an elevation of more than a hundred feet higher than that of the campus, many fine views oi the Xit tany Valley are available. Pictures of the west end anil south si.le and the east end fireplace appear in ano«h et part of the SUPPLEMENT.
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