'ATE COLLEGIAN •Turtric the Collrce rear, eicept on hotldcye. jhnnla State Cnllrice. In the Interest o( the illy, alutunl. and friends. MANAGING BOARD '5l alan n cutting 'si Ruiincsa Manager ALGEUT J MILESKI ’3l Circulation Manager HARRY" C WOOD '3l AilverO'tng Manager WILLIAM D HEtLMAN '3l Tor-lrn Advertising Manager jr ’YI JAIsET L IIROWNBACK '3l htor Women’ll E.litor 11 E LOUISC HOFrEDITZ '3l Utor Women's Managing Eilltor SSOCIATC EDITORS „•!, It Kill') jr 'l2 Slewnrt Townsend 32 ioo<!r>re A Scrrllt *32 Edward W White 'B2 . S ASSOCIATE 1 in-ird T J c!inn '32 Mary M Wright *32 TK ItLSISrSS MANAGERS f m, I\t-cn ’32 Snmnel Sinclair *32 ,re,!ll Jtelim 'J2 niunr.l S Spcrlng '3; Slate Colleee. r«. *' *ccond-cla» matter AY, MAY 12, 1931 [TIONAL AMENDMENTS Lotions concerning the future ath btate will be decided by the undei- Bj \oting toda> students will shoNN to the impoitance of a senous piob- I Penn State foi a number of years. ioIN will indicate students here ate i- paramount to icniain un- IIBEBLi: U)WG >nt to the Athletic Association con ahich will rewaul the entire senior with letteis, a maiked impiovemcnt he quality of cheei leading heie. It cmoi stall nnill remain active duung that' leadeis will face the student ihoipateci in two years of actual ement up foi the approval of stu stem of calling out candidates for *n-> duung the fast pait of their placing competition for the junior bas's as competition for the sport . adopted anothei impiovemcnt over ild soon be evident Duung their >ai the candidates would receive in of leading songs and cheeis. They c\peiicnce at nunoi spoiling event's, n football season began, the junior . be pricon at their jobs, and better -’’HE would result. 'R NEWEST SPORT >nn State students will make at the ici give impetus or hand a setback Niltauj spoits—gymnastics. Com ,poit hoie, the gym team has made past jeai and has given indications place next season among the leading no than any other sport, has proved students who aie chiefly concerned it of then physical condition And of athletics can this desue be more csts with the student body to decide ts m this spoit, long lecogmzed at muld be piopeily iGuarded heie. lould \ote fa\oiably on any action nage such a woithwhtle spoit and 1 inteiests of Penn State’s piesent ts foi a gteatei numbei of students. jdents should feel justly pioud of d activities The splendid peifoim- State Glee Club'and Ttg;' Pehtt;State make the 1991 Mothei’.s woek-opd :e c, sfnl in the histoiy of the Collceo. JILENT APPLAUSE loud applause, Penn State’s Y. II ished manv impoitant functions of I’lantv foi a numhei of years With s spnnsoied welcomes and receptions conducted conferences and foiums, into discussions through the medium ■>, assisted m chnpel exei*cise3, aided ilr, and airanged the publication of wk It has provided a College Con- It ha* helped to seive students, di v, in both major and minor cncum- njny the henefits of such an organ lent appicciation. Editorial com till/ Duily Kansan, listing ninny of hments foi its Y. M. C. A, dcciics e\\ students nic interested in them. in«ns seems to he m the pieocciipa- Lh other affairs. 'ght easily be constructed on this ir the pioblcm of over-lapping pro found thoie, noi has it been wmked iti<.fnetion at Penn State, but oppor td lender service in the Y. M. C A. woik, long-cndunng but seldom son ct value to the College. Day close at hand when institutions n honoi America’s war heroes, it nany Penn State students to check y etiquette Duung last Monday’s t was obsened that many spectators icii bats when the national colors CAMPUSEER nv HIMSELT Well, we went over to Fraser Street Dorm and wo’io entirely disillusioned. Wish vve hadn't gone, in fact This popularity race, vve thought, would be a nice thing to lemember foi our ginnddaughter. You know, one of those stones about bow things vveio when ice went to college. No, it’s nothing of the sort, and we’re going to forget it just as soon as we can Wo knew something was vviong even before we tripped up the stops There weicn’t any ciovvds at all. Ted Sou ill was hangng aiound, but that’s nothing unusual, and, ically, thoie wasn’t any excitmont of any «ort. Aftei vve went inside, things looked much bughtei foi a moment Wc noticed that what used to he a dining loom had been furnished with a davon poit and a few chans and converted into an additional pailoi. That was encouiaging Moie room made necessary by the great popularity of the place, wc thought Well, we’re sotiv to say so, but that’s not it. They just novel had enough loom ovci there, and, when they discovered th.it they could do without this dining room, why they simply made a pallor of it, and the local popularity contest wasn’t even thought of. Well, that was om fiist sct-hack Then vve asked about the scores. There was some thing they wanted to tell us about: Snookoy Sovnst, they said, had counted walking homo from class Yes, counted it as a date find put the boy’s name on hei list and everjthing. Well, that's no fan Abso lutely not So the scores me all wrong and Snookey hasn’t had so many dates aftei all, and the whole thing is a big failuic And that's that. Bet none of you cngineeis ever heard of synec doches. No' Put >oui slide rules away for a minute and we’ll explain. It’s a figuie of speech, see 7 Pionounced sy-neck-dough-key The “y” is shoil, like in “cyme” and the accent’s on the last svliable. Ok, now vve can proceed That wend word was unearthed one day in a Lit class, wheie Dr Dye was discouistng on poetry Ho asked the class what the term meant, but nobody seemed to know, they had never heard of a synec doche In the last row was C> Libetman, gunning broadlj “Well," asked the Doctor, “What is it 7 ” “Synecdoche is a city m New Yoik,” replied the •We want to announce that m one of the diawers in the long table up in the third floor lounge there lies a neatly t>ped article entitled “Wax and Honey As Pioducts In Ancient and Medieval Times” Thnt sounds to us like the usual title foi a tcim papei m Economics, oi Hiistoiy, oi Sociology or most anything; ami if you can make use of it, why go ahead—it’s all right with us Third flooi lounge, fir'd come, first solved. About town and campus* Jack Carson with a stick-pin m Ins tic . . . That lucky Ilcnkle fellci who won an Austin for a dime pmks the thing ’nealh the D T. D backstops . . . Prof Wei not placing, tennis . We suggest that Ike Young give the light side of his mouth a rest by talking out of the left side foi a while . . . Bert Lum, Sid Mattis and Betty Paiol deciding what kind of daughters thev’il like to have . Carolyn Ridge, flaxen crowned beauty . . . Co-cds leai ning to clip sheep on Ag Knoll . . . Where oh where is thnt pal of our youth, Sylvester C. McFmch 7 . . . Dot Ley is in town for a week . . . Larry Hann, Theta Chi swam, journeys often to a ciossroads called j “MaithaV Finnnc^” 1 to ,‘visit a dady 'fair-v . . !■ A couple of nonchalant Ags tossing quoits 'in the ’* Stock Judging Pavilion. A NEW ARRIVAL LINEN and NUROTEX SUITS $16.50 . 11. Montgomery's ■WWAV ~ jt Jinn SM* SCHOLARSHIP DAY PRIZES ANNOUNCED (Continued pom first pngc) Sigma Pi, honoiaiy commcice and finance fraternity Cmoline E Jonce was the wmnei of the Omicron Xu freshman pmo, while Geialdme E Wagner '.12 ob tained the Maude Elizabeth Foster Economics and Sociology prize of ?25 in gold The Russell I. Klopp prize was awarded to Carl V Drapievvski ML Chi Epsilon presented its award to Robeit 51 Jlaxwel) Ml. while Sigma Tnu awarded a medal to Beck, and Phi Lambda Upsilon gave a cup to Chailes Michel. Present -19 Council Medals Edwnid J Johnston, piesident of the honoi secietv council, piescnted forty-nine medals to ficshmen and sophomoies who who have maintained a scholastic average of 88 peicent oi better. Thnty freshmen and nine ten sophomores icceived the nwaid Thirteen Louise Cmnegie scholar ships of $lOO each were also announc ed. Four semon, four juniors, and live sophomores aie the recipients who weie named eailicr in the yeai. Owing to a shgh accumulation of surplus income, an additional soph omoic award was made this year WILL ADDRESS L UJXDERERS Coopeialien between the College and the State Lnundry-own-us associ ation will be discussed by Prof. Paul ine B slack, of the chcnnstiy and physics department, at the Schenley hotel, in Pittsbuigh, Tuesday and Wednesday. TO OFFER ELECTIVE COURSE Geophysical'projecting will be of fered next fall as an elective couise by the School of Jlmeral IndustiiCs, ac cording to Pi of Willmni R Ched-- sey, head of the mining department, who will teach the course DRUID ELECTIONS (Sonhomore Campus Society) C Wilson Andeison M 4 N Parkci Bony Ml John R Biggs jr ’ll Selwyn Edvvaids '34 Robeit E. Ellstrom M 4 Louis Greenstone M 4 Thomas J Ilmpcr jr. Ml Geoige E. Keir M 4 Albeit H. slanwanng Ml Albert R Mnrsh M 4 Haloid Rosenberg M 4 John N. Shaffer Ml Thomas A. Slus&er jr. ’9l Andievv B. Snyder Ml Stanley L. 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All sixes, lE< pockot paekago to pound humidor tin. Footlights “Not so bad, not so bad,” a haid bitten Thespian adjudged the Penn Slate Players’ pioduction of “The Donovan Affair” as the final curtain mng down on the Owen Davis mys tery show Friday night When a Thespian breaks down with a confes sion like that, Playcis may considoi it the cue for indulging themselves in a dozen or so curtain bows As for ourselves, we doff our top pei to Professor slason foi a nicely* timed and well-staged mystery thnl lei. Aftei putting Ibsen in his place the way vve did the last time this depaitniont appeared, it looks like wc have no kick coming on this show, but vve did pass the detective story stage sometime ago, sir. However, it is no mean bit of management to march twelve persons on and off tho stage no less than ten times in light and dark without one shin being kicked haid enough so thnt we could hear the actoi swear ten rows away The technical details of the show clicked and the general -effects were realistic except when Aber did a Houdim thiough a carefully locked door The gallant effort made by Aber to register the part of a downtown police inspector in an excessive 400 Imc3 of dialog did not convince us that he was a detective, and wc got a wild idea thnt we could swipe the Theta Alphu Phi pm from his waist coat without having him notice it. Anne MeUmgei, in wlmt is prob ably her last perfoimance ns a Play ci, turned in a good bit of woik but lacked nn edge of vitality which may be excused on the highly plausible grounds that anybody would feel en ervated upon being crowned Queen of May and having hoi lovei arrested for muider the same week-end. Ralph Radcliffe, a veteran player, made the best of a poor pnit. The smallei bit 3 which we double CO-EDS Make SCHLOW’S QUALITY SHOP Your Headquarters Foster Coal and Supply Co. GENUINE 'ANITA Punxsutawney Coal Phone 114-M Summer Ensemble—attrac tive in more ways than one. TOWARD I--/'- cun h ns JMADE FOII rov *24.75 - *28.75 *38.75 Smith’s Tailor Shop Exclusive Agents Rexall 1c Sale Thursday -- Friday and Saturday Offers You Big Savings Two for the Price of One Plus 1c More| REXALL DRUG STORE i suirred on the progrum fur excellence were played by Phyllts Bculler, who is nhvnys capable and who is a Play ei no mattei what was punted on tho progiam, by Marjorie Hathaway, who was an excellent maid and who can do a Spanish dance, by Robert Smithi who is a newcomer and who has a fine speaking voice, and by Kenneth Page, who is a member of Theta Al pha Phi and who lisps We had sin gle stars for Frank Morris, Shirley Thorpe, Fairfax .Reilly, and Sylvia slullin. Obviously miscast vyere August Wcitzel and Jerome Kaufman who appeared just ns old<os college men with false mustaches and that is not as old ns college men without mus taches. Peter Meek worked hud and intelligently to characteuze the devilish butler, but his name should have put slr Mason on guard right off Meek is not dcvili&h, nor doe l , ever appear so. PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS DEAL &SON Plumbing and Heating Fraser Street NOW IS THE TIME TO HAVE YOUR LAWN MOWERS SHARPENED BY GRINDING Robert R. Mingle 119' South Fraser Street Phone 385-J DID YOU KNOW THAT- The Town and Campus Bus Has Revised It’s Schedule for the Students’ Convenience Ride It EVERY DAY mother: Has Gone Home But y The Penn State Laundry Is Always With You Our Rates Have Been Reduced It Will Pay You to Investigate .Quick Courteous Service Free Delivery 1 Have l hat'tux shirt laumhiiul nqw! II will be ready ’ '"■* '' J ’ when you want it. " THE PENN STATE LAUNDRY | 320 W. Beaver Avenue Phone 124 Tuesday, May 12, IUSi TUESDAY— Matinee at 1:30 Harry Carey and Star! Cast in “TRADER HORN” WEDNESDAY— Marlene Dietrich, Gary Cooper ii “MOROCCO” Added Attraction BOBBY JONES in “Chip Shota" THURSDAY— Ruth Chatlcrlon, Paul Luhns in “UNFAITHFUL" FRIDAY— Ramon Novarro. Uelen Chandler n “DAYBREAK" SATURDAY— El Brendol. Edward Everett Ilortoi Sidney Fo\ in ‘SIX CYLINDER LOVE' The Nittany TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY— Warner Ol.iml in Harold McGrath’ “DRUMS OF JEOPARDY” I THURSDAY— “MOROCCO” and BOIIRY JONES in “Chip Shot: FRIDAY— “UNFAITHFUL SATURDAY— •DAYBREAK"
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