• -. COMPLETE CAMPUS run f a t e . kip ? COVERAdE . • • VOL. 27, No. 39 32 LEADERS AGREE TO DIRECT Y.M.C.A. • FIRESIDE SESSIONS Chairman Hutchinson Asks That Groups Select Advisors, Topics This Week DEAN WARNOCK, FRIZZELL WILL HEAD DISCUSSIONS Members of Faculty, 4 Local Pastors, College Staff_ Comprise Speakers Receiving the consent of thirty-two faculty, administrative, and religious leaders to head Fireside Session groups, William L Hutchinson '3l, clown= of the Y. M C A. Fire side Session; committee, announced yesterday that fraternity and non fraternity bodies would be asked this week to select their topics mid atha sors fon informal discussion periods Included in the list of leaders to be submitted to the fraternities for their choice are well known members of the faculty, administrative staff, and four pastors froin borough churches. The discussion groups will be held after the noon meal or at night, Hutchin son said. Last year the majority of the fraternities found it convenient to bold the sessions at night as more time could be allotted for the informal discussions then, the chairman added The speakers will be invited as gue , ts of the fraternity house at ',hid, they are to lead informal dis cussion groups, Hutchinson revealed. Although no limit has been set to the number of discussion sessions a group may hold, the fraternities are request ed to plan fel no mole than three Fireside Sessions a weelc Topics selected cover a wide range of subjects while leaders have been chosen to discuss subjects in which they are especially interested. Ad ditional subjects may be added by the individual groups to the topics which have already been selected. The top ics discussed by Sherwood Eddy in his recent series of talks here mere among the subjects recommended. Arthur It. Warnock, dean of noun, will be one of the discussion leaders Dean-Warnock will discuss with the individual groups the question of fraternities Among leaders who have signified their willingness to lead discussion groups arc Edward K. Hibshman, alumni secretary, and John If. Frisson, acting college chaplain. HARRIS ADDRESSES CHAPEL AUDIENCE Lara3ette Chaplain Scores Future In Governments To Realm Irrationality of War "If government; nould be frank, they could come to realize the ir rationality of over," declared Dr Charles W. Hama, chaplain of Lafa yette college, in his address to the chapel audience in Schwab audito rium Sunday morning During the last war. Di Harris stated, men mho could discuss math ematical theories at night had to fire a gun during the daytime with those who could neither read nor writ^ This e‘iimple of nested genius carries men bock .1.000 year, to a low level of humanity, he added "II we can chininate war, we can aid life civilization," the chaplain con tended "Irrational governments are responsible for the present world sit uation Unless it is corrected, un obstructed war in the future must be faced The present form of warfare, including the part of infantry and navy, is out of date," the speaker declared. SARGENT GIVES 430 BOOKS TO CHEMISTRY COLLECTION Four hundiod thirty books hove been donated to the Chemistry and Physics library recently by Dr. George IV. Sargent, research associate in the department of' Physical Chemistry. These books will be placed on the shelves with other volumes recently bought for the' branch library. These include "Hydrogenation of Organic Compounds" by Ellis, "Animal Survey of Chemistry," published by the American Institute of Chemical Engi neers, "Conductivity of Solutions" by Davy. and "Mysterious Univeroe" by Jeans. ADDRESSES PRUITGROWERS Piof. Frank N. Fagan, of the hor ticulture department, addrroscd mam bos of the Cleveland• Fruggroweis' association at Cleveland, Ohio, last week. `Shop-work Necessary Part Of Training,' Says Neyharti Practical Knowledge, Theory Combine To Make Outstanding Technical Men Cla;srooni theories arc valueless without shop-work, in the opinion of Mr. Amos E. Neyhart, of the indus trial engincenng department, who believes that , colleges abandoning practical training will make their stu dents misfits after graduation. Easing his belief on a study of col ! lege graduates made in factories at Milton, Mr. Neyhart attributed to the successful employees a combination of practical and theoretical knowledge which less _skilled workers failed to show. Students previously trained in shop work proved far more efficient than those that came from colleges where theory alone was stressed, the engi neenng instructor pointed out. A machine constructed for the factory by a man with purely theoretical ex perience proved a costly failure be cause it was not adopted to practical use. Demonstrating flaws in - arguments for theory in college backed by train ing in factories after graduation, Mr. Neyhart declared• "Students who graduate without having been brought into contact with FRESHMEN ELECT SYBERCROP HEAD Choose Troutman, Hutchinson Hines, Ryan for Other 1934 Class Posts C. Len is Sybererop si as elected president of the freshman class at a meeting last Thursday in the Chem istry amphitheatre The runner-up, Norman C. Troutman, became vice president. The secretary-elect, Hamilton Hut chinson, polled a larger vote than any of the other office.. Philip F. Hines received the post of secretary and John T. Ryan that of class his torian. Sybererop defeated Troutman, John N Rathmell, and Edward C. Yorke for the presidency The candidates for the executive position were green an opportunity to demonstrate their ability in two meetings last Aceek be. foie the elections John S Knesti ich and John T. Davies were selected from a large field of contestants for cheer leaders in a meeting February 11 Alfred E Lewis, president of the Junior class and freshman organizer, expressed approval of attendance and attitude at the meetings. 85 DELEGATES ATTEND FERTILITY CONFERENCE State Clubs Send Itcpre,entaine4 To Greenkeepers Meeting __ __ Eighty-five delegate., representing approximately sixty-live State clubs, attended the Iliad annual Greenkeep ers Fertility conference held at the College from Wednesday noon until 'Friday noon This is the largest num ber of delegates yet to attend the annual conference Wendell Maim, Chicago commeicial diamage engineer, spol., befoic the assembly Thin :day morning, while Dr. John Monteith, who Is in charge of experimental work on golf courses for the United State, Golf associa tion, W. the neat visiting speaker. Joseph Valentine. superintendent of the Merlon Cricket club of Philadel phia, gave a report of activities of the Greenkeepers committee, of which he is chairman. - The con:m ence mu. opened by Dean Ralph I, Watts of the School of Ag riculture mho welcomed the delegates Wednesday afternoon. At a dinner held for the delegates In Old Main Thursday night. Jonathan W White, professor of •oil technology, gave on illustrated talk on the nitrate fields of South America. Professor L Pat rick of sod technology was chairman of the conference committee. ETCHERS' SOCIETY TO OPEN EXHIBITION HERE TOMORROW Tim opening view of an exhibition of productions by members of the Philadelphia Society of Etchers will be held in 801 Nom Engmeming building, tomorrow night. Over sixty pieces of prominent art its, including Samuel Chamberlain, John Sloan, and Frank llention, me to be shown in the exhibit which will be continued tun weeks STATE COLLEGE, PA., TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 1931 actual work face the danger of find ing out too late that they are misfits The fact that so many undergraduates transfer from engineering courses in college is an indication that they have found shop-work tea stenuous or too Irksome" "If shop-work were abandoned, this opportunity to change occupation, would he lost, and the number of col lege graduates who fail to continue their original employment mould be motet sally increased." To be a successful Manager in fac tory or mill work, it IS necessaly to be grounded in a fundamental know ledge of the machines used, and the Inca employed, the former technical manager asserted. Few industrial executwes could maintain their posi tion; without a combination of the practical and theoretical In addition to his observation, in a supervising position at Milton, Mr. Neyhart has confetied frequently ugh managers in similar work con sermon the advisability of practical work. The reactions of industrial exe cutives in planks at Bethlehem, and several southern state, mete ident ical with his own, he declined SOPH HOP PLANS NEAR COMPLETION ;tiorkmen Will Begin Decorating Tomorrow—judges Make Poster Awards With the ao aiding of the decomt log contract last week to the Silver stein Flag and Decimating company of Wilkes-Bane, preparations for Sophomore Hop to be held Friday , night are nearing completion, Cherie., A. Landis '33 announced y esterday. IVorkinen will begin transforming Recreation hall tome] row night, when supporting cables for an once hanging canopy, the first to be em ployed at an all-College den, will be erected Blue, gold, and grey, col ors of Penn State's sports opponents this weep-end, will be the motif of the closed ceiling Draperies of Blue and 'Mute will be suspended along the balconies and onto ined about the pillars, %chile 1 radio lanterns and a crystal ball, ref lecting multi-colored lights, o ill fur- , nish the illumination Ferns and southein smilax will add a touch of, peen to the color scheme, Announce Poster Winners Tommy Chi iquin and his ~ itaphone mordini.: orehesra, I reently returned from a tool of college; in New Yoik state, will provide the rhythm for the dancers from a festooned platform at the nest end of the hall. Fraternity booths wdl be placed in the concourse undei the balconies Maynard P Wood Le , ,he T. Jane, '32, and Lincoln It Scott $1 uere adjudged first, second, and th•rd place winners in a poster con -test held hut week Ticl,As and favors for the dance may ho obtained at the treasinees office Friday and at the Recicatien hall office Fridny night. NOTES INFLUENZ 1 DECREASE Notable deem.ge im the number of influenza cases which have flooded the Infirmary recently sins apparent this week, according to Dr. Joseph -P. Ritenour, College physician. With the dismissal of mole than one half of cured students, no new cases have been reported FACULTY MEMBERS EXPRESS PREFERENCE FOR PROCTORING, PERCENTAGE SYSTEM OF GRADING Proctoring rather than the bonen to regard the 'l' as the lowir,t pas. 53 stem would be lint as suemssful system for examinations WRY favored sing grade, instead of the 'o' otoch here as at Annapoli, if the students by a majority in a rein esentative , was originally intended to be a pus- wei e willing to uphold it faculty stir, ey recentls Most of the lsing `to ;tile without honor." JL, Julia 7%1 Gainer, instn inter in eight fuctillv members interviLwed I 'When acted his opinion of honor pitilogy, risen toil nn hen inlet view, so revealed in proton once for the ir.l- 1 point wading and the honor sy stein "Whether the honor system would be John W Keened, 'g2 toll tenduu centime system of ginding rather for examinations, Prof. Cheslengh A. ,ILLesful here can only be determined David P Vining "12 nn the lemon than the use of honor points Dome, head of th• geology demo ti nil For tin present. I ant In fo an interview y^rteiday, Piof. I meet, declared, "We have no see ton 1-11110,1 to fan on the numitoi system " , r „"" l " e ""'"" tte " , .n".uneed Chillies L. Minsk)°, head of the do-,a grade as indefinite as 'within 101 Prof, Grocer C Chandlee, head of, `"' Panes ':l2, than ems of Lb; com mittee 5 esterdiny Voting did not re pertinent of electionl engineering.' percent.' I am not in favor of the the depot taunt of theinish y, disiip.. said, "I believe that the nut levity of i honor system for exonllnation " proved of the honor point system turn to ,Innol the Necond , env,t-s the students are fundamentally honest Prof Joseph E. DeCamp, of the to hen he stated, "It in not pen feet in P a nes. WI mak e nto'l' to Ch."'" and that they themselves should be :department of education and psycho.; that it does not disci iminate between en the near fain r to Intel vice Isham permitted to set their oun stand., logy, replied, "I am, at present, in, the eighty point student and the 'lones, pull...tie 'maim ,la mas a' ite for honesty. The honor point system I favor of the monitor system it seems !eightv-nine percent student, as both for 11111.11. Itt tins 11111111111 de mg rolomi of grinding V, satisfactory." ; the percentage system for grading are given a '2' gr a de" Prof. Theodore J. Gates, of the I would be slummy to the honor point' of, ',rook Clotdie,„ hood o r; EltN 'lO 51'1: Is ON BOTANI departmirnt of English composition, system because it has-the advantage the depot Unmet of ago °ninny, believes Di Flank D. Km in• bead of the In suporting the home point system, of giving mole definite grades.” that the honor point system of grad- hotooe tiepin tment wll speak on "In explained, "Theoretically the mescal When Intel rogated on his opinion one is commendable in that its per- ten natiornilism in Botany" Inc pail of system of grading is fine. f am in of the honor system fot examinations, I pose is to stimulate Bette scholar- the eightecinth amnal agncultw e la lano if it, but actually the instruct. Prof. Cart of W. Ford, of the econo.l ship by lensing the icousenrantb for lures in 100 Hot tieulture building ors and the students alike base Loine I union department, sad that the honor l graduation. .1.10 unbolt tomottow afteinoon. Publishers Propose Journalism Building A bill for the construction of a 5250,000 building fora School of Jouinalism here was inticduced on the state legislature last night by Senator Mansfield, of Allegheny county. The pi oposal mos the out growth of a conference last Thurs day beta eon a group of newspaper publishers of the state and Gover nor Gifford Pinehot. The lACCUtIVC expressed himself as being heartily 1/I fai or of the project, but stated that his "hands mere tied" because of piesent lack of funds. lie said, nowe,..er, that the money might be available at the beginning of the new fiscal year in June "Estabb hment and equipment" of tin new building acre included in the quarter-mil ]on dollar request. FRESHMAN GROUP PROBES ACTIVITIES English Composition Students To Gather Statistics for First Year Guide Abandoning the routine of com posing therms on ateicotyped tapas and presenting book reports to a bored audience, a class of twenty-six freshmen in English comprcotion 5 is conducting an investigation of stu dent activities Members of the class, under the direction of Prof. Theodore J. Cates, of the depaitment of English compo sition, are interviessing student and faculty heads of about 150 different campus activities this scenic in view of compiling a complete repoit on extra-curricular work here. In this survey, the different athletic musts are consulmed as a single activity. The survey, appio,tl by Dean of Men Arthur R Winning, and Dean of Women Charlotte E Ray, is designed to formulate a guide for incoming classes. The proposo I guide will con tain the local history - of each actisitv, its range, and the possibilities of stu-i Ors lie A HiLheock and Aldine dent participation. Baldinger "11 will made Western Will Inters ion Students Pennsylvania to engage in discussions Other pm poses of the investigation at Scion Hill, Washington .d Jar are to supply mole complete and ac- tenon, and the University of Pitts cm ate infoimation concerning the et- burgh on Thursday, Finlay, and Sat tra-cuilicular oiganizations on the inch* nights iespectivelv campus, and to deter none the effects , One Set. Hill woman will pan of participation on the students Si nab Hitchcock, while the other will regard to health, morals, scholarship, team with Baldingor to argue on Ore and culture gon style the question of sissies'. The psi ticular distinguishing oh - emergence from the home Thinsdas jectives and accomplishments of each night in Cieensbuig The stamen sill actisity will be questioned and the deliver the constructive speeches salute numbei of active participants will be the men will moss-es:llmm, ant recorded The needs for further or- 'Else the rebuttals On the same night gawation will also be consideied. lin Emporium, at the Parent-Teach- The cooperation of student and err association meeting Robert E faculty leaders has been requested m i Tschan '33 and Chitties A Msms '3l granting satisfactory intern ice s so , ndl uphold in Oregon ;We the at that a thorough sunny may be of. lirmative of the unemployment in-ur tented Reports of all findings sell ho acre question against F Melton Sin - pi counted to tb- Dean of Men and bolt '32 and Frederick W Cramer '3l Dean of Women and an effort 1.111 be Lose to Juniata made to niche the information avail- . inn (lUD! contest edh W 1 1 .411,10.0,1 able for students. and Jefferson orators on the anent- • p oyment instnance topic in On cgon PAUL CONDUCTS COURSE IN I st , le, Bolding. and Hitchcock still ' defend the affirmative, u lido Mrn , MODELING I'OR ARCHITECTS , ton Savbolt 'll2 and Kai! If St, ohl 'll uphold Lhe negative of the same gum,- Arthur Paul, practising land- son in Schwab anditoi am at 7 'lO scope ai chitect of Philadelphia, is o'clock Puday night Ballinger and conducting a short course on special Stroh! will delivin the consti active Problems in model inching for senior , talks stunk Ilitchcock and Saylitill Landscape Archil Tture this neck crows-maimine and give the ichut- • Paul oil! address a I,,,,ting of lids the Topion society, an mg,anization of Tn dotes eof unemployment nisei landscane architecture students, once, Orville A Hitchcock 'Bl and Thursday night A graduate of the Robert E „Tschan 1 lost to Juniata Harvard School of Landscape Archi- debate's at Huntingdon alay night tecture, the visiting lectmei 1 , con- Hairy W Lightstone '3l and Anion 'leered one of the foremost authori- Druckman '.13 mceised a tie audience ties in the East and has designed the vote in the contest on free trade with estates of irony of Philadelphia's Dickinson rep' esentutises ut Cialisle syell-known citizens. Thursday night ToUrgiatt. Survey Shows Instructors Burdened by Large Classes p nl c u w S orbordezung of `Size Unfavorable For Ideal Enrollment,' Says Stoddart The "professorial burden" has continued throughout the past decade, forcing the instructor to teach cies- Fes in which nearly twice the ideal number of students are ...lied, Dean Charles W Stoddart, of the Liberal Arts School, revealed yester day after corrsidering statistics covet ing enrollment in the College and size of classroom groups. "The service schools, Liberal Arts and Chemistry and Physics, are of voted more than the other schools," claimed Dean Stoildart, "in that the entire freshman class and a large number of sophomores are obliged to take required subjects green by these" More than two-fifths of the total enrollment by classes, excluding the It. 0 T. C and physical education course., is at present placed in the Liberal Arts School This place., a burden of appioximately 11,000 stu dent-courses nn 10; professors and instructors of the school for the pie sent college year, Dean Stoddait dis closed. Of this number, only 1400 course cm ollment card, represent Liberal Arts students In considering overerimiled classes in the school, the Liberal Ails dean revealed that forty-fits- percent of the cln,rooms contained fuse toen ty-one to the ty students, and tmenty. ORATORS Tili'llEET 3 COLLEGE TEAMS Hitchcock. Baldinger Will Use Oregon Style Thursday. Friday, Saturday 51, ef „ on, percent more than thi.to students Only t,sint3 -nine pm cent of the total number of classiooms contained than Monty student, "There is no solution to th, allies.; mine space is pin :del for insti action and 010,0 mots asters added to the stall of the ma sem, schools I undm.tand that Inc Stilted of Chem.stry and Ph,acs s, in the same situation as this school," the Libmal :kits dean termil.ed Suggest., Itenush The con.tne two of a nee 1).,,, building and tin addition of too mots to the Home Economic. building mould be no aid to an Inc, ease in en rollment in tau ard, a batten 'cent of the burdened clasmoom condition, the dean aVel rad D., the comb uction of the Mineral Industries budding did not matmallv affect this evil, lie claimed One remelt, Dian StenWalt .ug gentcd, x (Mid I, to obtain rune class. roone space en both the Cheneestet Phsstes and the Liberal Art, school. and thin to increase peopor teonalb the peoles,olial staffs It es neces,aty, he contended. thrt the percent reouned subeects be con tinued en the cureeeula These Louise, ended:. English composition, math eneatecr, valuta, chemistry subject., physics, language, and economics Seteeal other cour,es . , although not IN - tuned, atte act a ',lege number of students, the dean concluded DIETETICS CLASS OPENS FOR MEN I=l Lltderil eight Vailenis nosullott a (noise fin nom sto tltats oho have toniplanuil of pool stholatslup doe to undolutigat Loll. 11113011, DI ChIII ks I) Did teittli, as sistant Colltge 1,1* , 11.11111, Open, ti S, - i,rllity a 1 too 11l filett.tl, POI stu dents Nsbo desne to 10;,11,1 thta loot poundage 111121 cot has been shot n it, a :af fluent nuothei of stutlcnts to 11111 It tills Louise, DI Dittlet lob stat ,I, and it is esputttl that runt still unull thin Si et-I, Men students ttln, ale lll terested in this course alt' requested to seente Infolniatlon at the diopen sm3' In the ha., meat of Old \lam lininediatel;,, in mdu 01 It at rant:, ((lento niay be 101011 Vol .111 1111 (sell pmpo.t. or tile d,.i Clay. 1. to plot Ide rood VIIII pi titan Calm le V due and to foto th a noel 111 illth lients itiit fill a !mood before monk At the of iaili %eel. showing i lfluurt nn• movement urn br t 11,1111,011 If a nimbiel of tlit class C 1 0 ,4 not gin weight. on imei.tiiration of the WU, will be made 1,1 the health Seivice I( ENNA In lo I'OS I' JUNIOR PROR COST M IT 1141 ESTABLISHED MI PRICE 5 CENTS SUMMER SESSION TO OPEN JUNE 30 WITH 350 COURSES Will Gne Concentrated Studies In Nature, Joutnalp,m, Alt, Drama (lore LECTURE SERIES RAS 6 WRITERS, EXPLORERS Mosel ell, Allen, Clark, Ale Fee, Bakeless, Eastman, Named As Guest Speaker, Onminp. nun e than 150 cm,es n Lhu ty-Gee &Jinn tnu nt,, the 1911 Summer Ses , om e.ll open June 10 and en I August it, Dean Wdl G Chambo do ectot of the Summer SeQslon, announced ye. tcrday An inte,,ession till be held for small groups of achaie. teachers school phninisti atm , ' during the too wed, pt MI to the Fiume, Ses sircl. Each LOlll, in the, session is a lull time unit, the marl:ors being oncentiated on u single pr old on lion, June 15 to June 30 All tom,. ale of college to glade and the credits no canned map hr apoll •d too," I rrg ulai deg, ees in addition to reguln ems, in the Summer Session, nuinbet of concentrated coupes to be otTeiLd in di cllll.l, Joni nalisin, alt, and nature study Lecture, Open ro 111 Src mounnent at and exdlol e, still speak the• 'mantel in the 'atm, of gent al kat., The hot includes Eel nit Itoos,,lt, son of the late president, who will opt here Juts 16 IVllham ItltFce, of ore tales, will speak ulnle Harvey Allen ',ill noen the seises WLtil tfi cc odate, beginning June .60 Bea rett II (Ault, John E Bake !coo., and Mao Eastman v dl each talk tube hue during the series v.luch open to all mend., of the Coiled, Gerooal I ner t nke of Ink rt...t. In tha 'annual snounes ,SSIOII IndlL atm/ hY Iclent emollient ligur , , winch show that 1210 stadent , gathered on the College t.unpun loot VIII nil LOP, usson with 121,0 ent oiled cluing the tner_ent ~111,21 selnestels 600 WILL RECEIVE LIFE WORK ADVICE Intom ILI, W 11, l'aeult3 Member, Ending Tomorrow Complete Perlnd of Coun,elling Siotc than sec hurdled student, ha, Lour scneduled for interview, mah faculty coun,ellors today and terrier. ow in the hi st annual Life Worlc rice!, ed by Pram State Chi Is. Una ashocratams "Stu& nts ha, rereiced a ,illlllllO toward selector; suitable car, r, from inter s mug v ith -irk counsellors," Uar encc l', (An istran '32, chairman of the student-faculty ...mutter, stated cute day. "111 aCCOIIIIIII , IIIIIg ON, the p.m:rain has prstrhed !tech( as a wm thwhde pet loam nt project fur the ssomaturns," he clanmal Opening Sunda% ,nth spec.' h toren in town Ono the, the steel, 55 ill trod toloottot‘ 1 , acuity .idols,,, suit be in then (dm s to, Intel ith student, t0‘1.4. and tunon IIM Appoint...ob. .1t uthu tones at e made thl notch Lout, t Hoes it Liu utoth the Y I‘l CA In add ei,ingi the all-Cor ige nun., ineLting at I Ig Andgoligin la.t night, Al Stwj n oinintig Phila delphia at lin nev i iii iv, oil quahtin of per,rnality W Inch lead to 'nue,- I=lE Than 11'111 (; Chaalla Is, of Ell,. School of Edia alma, was plotted jt Nubia of liu 11141 , 1111 of ttltwatiou villools la 111111 want .llt go. at lii “infia-iiire of lint' National F:datatiou asisianallua m 1)ott tat, JLth, lost Eieli Other munthe, or the School of EdoLetton who all( mho) the meeting ale Pt ofc,von Edith I' Chace, Mat v IVvlnnll. C , a, Ro It Cron, Arno" ti llot ell, hie.; I. !Cotton, Dennis C 'r u, nod Rtho (' it,et lit Chat (' l'etets n un to attention": dun tog the kW I pall of the ,reek 'l . O 1)Ih('lISS THIRD PART) lhote a nc d fin a Ilun t poli tical pally!" quetition to hu (list u•wd at a meeting . of the Social. Plohleins club William McMillan 'dl, plc...lent of the eigittiwat , on, hie, an nounced .t discußvion to begin at 8 o'clock tome, now night tit the .Iloll'l floor lounge of Old Alum.