Summer Edition VOL. XIV, No. 2 M’FEE WILL OFFER L NEXT LECTURE IN SERIES THURSDAY Horvey Allen Concludes 3-Day Program with Discussion % Of Modern Poets CITES FROST, ELIOT AS CONTRASTING LEADERS Credits Whitman’s Thinking to Emerson—Gives Pinckney High Ranking William McFee, New England au thor, will discuss “The Sordid Side of Literature,” as the second speaker in the Summer Session lecturcis’ pro gram in Schwab auditorium at 7 o’- clock Thursday night. Concluding a historical discussion of American poetry, Hervey Allen, the first speaker, explained some pres ent <lay tendencies m poets and poet ry, last night. With Robert Frost, probably America’s outstanding poet today, and T. S Eliot, leader m mod ern poetry, as subjects, Mr. Allen ex plained the contrast between the two. In the preceding talks, the speaker developed early American poetry chronologically from its first stages. His first lecture dealt with the period before the Revolution Praises Pinckney “Philip Fienau was the first to view an American background aes thetically in his ‘lndian Burial Ground,"’ Mr Allen said “It is the first attempt at romanticism in America.” Following the revolution, there de veloped a vacant period m poetic cre ation which existed until the signing of the Constitution, he said In Bal timore, Edward C Pinckney was the outstanding member of a poetic group which is famous in history. Pinckney was the best lyric poet America pioduced before Edgar Allen Poe, according to the visitor. His “Voyagers’ Song,” dealing with the quest for the fountain of youth, stands high in early American poetry Poe Influenced France t " ‘Thanatopsis,’ youthful and clear cut, is to ,be marked as the next mile stone m 'American poetry,” Mr. Allen said , ShortljMattcr, ‘Snowbound’ rep resents an American type of culture ctnanuting from New England. "Po etic utterances express the culture of their period,” the speaker pointed out m passing. A copyright law which compelled publishers to pay American authors loyalties while no fees were charged for the use of English books "was shown to be detrimental to American writing in the early nineteenth cen tuiy. American books were seldom published, since English novols of {'Continued on page three) ELLIS TO ADDRESS VESPER AUDIENCE Juniata President Will Speak at 7 O’clock Sunday Night in Open Air Theatre As the first speaker oC the Sunday vesper services Dr. Charles C Ellis, president of Juniata College, will talk at 7 o’cock Sunday night m the out door amphitheatre. Dr. Ellis, a noted educator and lecturer, received his bachelor’s de gree from Juniata College in 1898, and his doctor of divinity degree from the same institution in 1925. He has taken graduate work at Harvard, Columbia, and the Princeton Theo logical school, while receiving his doctor of philosophy degree from the University of Pennsylvania m 1907 and his bachelor of divinity degree from Temple in 1920. The Juniata president is the author of many books and papers which arc widely read throughout the country. Three of hii books which arc partic ularly well known are. “Studies in Doctrine and Devotion,” “The Relig ion of Religious Psychology,” and “The Christian Way of Life.” After his graduation from Junrnta in 1898, Professor Ellis became pro fessor of English at the Huntingdon school until 1907 when he became head of the department of education. In 1917 he was named as vice-presi dent of his alma mater. Extension Engineer Reappointed J. R Haswcll, College extension ag ricultural engineer, has been reap pointed official representative of the American Society of Agricultural En gineers on the advisory council of the Federal Board of Maps and Sur veys, Department uf Interior, JJeim i£4atr 3385 Registrants Set New Summer Enrollment Record 3031 Entrants Establish Highest Mark for Single Day—Students in Branch Schools Boost Total Exceeding all former records for Summer Session attendance, 3385 students arc estimated to hnvc registered for courses, Registrar William S'. Hoffman revealed yesterday. An early count of registrants showed 3082 students enrolled on the campus, while late entrants will probably boost the total above 3100. In addition to classes being held hero, the Summer Session attendance u increased by 285 registrants m courses off the campus. The Altoona Sum ’mcr Session has an approximate at tendance of 200, while twenty arc en rolled at Reading and fifteen at Har risburg. Fifty students at the nature study camp add to the final figure. Records for the number of students registering in a single day at the College were smashed Monday, when .1031 students filed through Recrea tion hall within nine hours. The pre vious mark, set several years ago dur ing the regular college term, was 2825 Accommodations for registering students after their signed schedules have been made out are adequate enough to care for 750 students in an hour, Registrar Hoffman said. The facilities have never been taxed to their limit, over a long duration of time, according to the registrar. More Graduates Enter 100 REGISTER FOR FRENCH INSTITUTE Dr. Frederic Ernst Will Direct Colony—Members Plan Plays, Lectures With nearly one hundred students, the largest enrollment in its history, the French Institute m Varsity Hall is 1 virtually a French colony in the hcait of State College Pledged to the exclusive use of French, the students have given up English out of the classroom as well as n. Nothing but French is spoken during meals or on excursions or pic nics. The purpose of the Institute is to give advanced students, prospective teachers .and especially teachers of French, an opportunity to achieve flu ency in speaking while continuing their study of the language, litera ture, and civilization of of France. Has Large Staff The courses offered are m liguis tics, phonetics, methods of teaching, French literature and civilization, daily conferences with able and ex perienced tutors, evening lectures, songs, plays, with the constant 6u . pervision of experienced native French professors. The staff for the Institute includes Frederic Ernst, professor of French at New York University, who is di rector of the Institute, Rene Guiet, associate professor of French at Smith College; Paul Blanchct, assistant pro fessor of French at Penn State, Dora Schatzberg, instructor in phonetics, Hunter College, Jeanne Guiet, in structor in French, at Smith College; F. M DuMont, instructor m Ficnch, New York University. Week-end lecturers will include such , outstanding scholars, as Prof. Henri Muller, head of the French de partment at Columbia University, and Prof. O. T. Robert, head of the de partment of romance languages at Smith College. TWENTY-SECOND THE PENNSYLVANI Official Announcements FRIDAY, JULY 3 3:00 P. M.—Lecture, “Euripodes, Father of Our Drama,” by Dr. R. E Dengler, Professor of Greek. Room 315 Mineral Industries Building 8:00 P. M. —Reception and Dance for Summer Session Faculty and Students. Recreation Hall. SATURDAY, JULY 4 Holiday 7:00 A. M.—Excursion to Gettysburg Battle Field. Leaves from front of Auditorium. Secure tickets not later than Friday noon at Summer Session Office, Education Building. Cost of transportation $6.00. SUNDAY, JULY 5 7:00 P. M.—Vesper Song Service. Address by Dr. C'.’C. Ellis, President, Juniata College. Open Air Theatre. MONDAY, JULY 6 - First sessions of special intensive courses on: “The Organization and Administration of the Local School Unit.” “School Repoits and Publicity” 7:00 P. M.—Student Assembly and group Singing. Direction of Professor R.” W. Grant. 8:00 P. M.—Lecture, “The Unconscious Mind,” by Dr. H. V. Pike, Director of Clinical Psychiatry, Danville State Hos pital for the Insane. Auditorium. TUESDAY, JULY c 8:00 P. M.—Vocational Teacher Training Conference Lecture, ’ “Visual Education,” by Dr. Wm. A. Broyles, Pro fessor of Agricultural Education. Room 315 Min eral Industries Building. WEDNESDAY, JULY 8 7:00 P. M.—Lecture, ‘‘Paul Cezanne,” by H. E. Dickson, Assist ant Professor of Fine Arts. Room 315 Mineral In dustries Building. THURSDAY, JULY 9 7:00 P. M.—Lecture, “The Sordid Side of Literature,” by William McFee, Westport, Connecticut. Auditorium. NOTICES Because of dangerous conditions created, students are re quested not to bring cars to, nor park them on the campus. The attention of students is called to the exhibits of text books which are being held by various publishing companies from time to time in the building adjacent to the Armory. STATE COLLEGE, PA., FRIDAY, JULY 3, 1931 This year’s total enrollment to date exceeds the entire enrollment cover ing last year’s Session by more than 150. Including late registrants and students who took classes later in the summer, the figure last year was 3240 A comparison with the count made last year at this time shows an increase of 378 over the former figure of 3007. The number of graduate students entering this year is far greater than previous records. With 540 already entered, the final count will probably exceed last year’s 452 students by more than 100. More men than ever before- have registered this year For the first time in the history of the session, the ratio of two women to one man has been broken, with 1330 men enrolled to make the ratio more nearly equal. HIBSHMAN IS REAPPOINTED TO BANKER’S ASSOCIATION GROUP Mr. Edward K. Hibshman, alumni secretary, was recently reappointed as a member of the agricultural com mittee of the Pennsylvania Bankers’ Association. The committee will meet at State College August 25, 26, and 27, and with them the Key bankers from every county will convene. SUMMER SESSION [A STATE COLLEGE Auditorium. GETTYSBURG TOUR TO BEGIN SUMMER EXCURSION SERIES Busses 'Will Leave From Schwab Auditorium at 7 O’clock Tomorrow Morning W. R. WHITE WILL DIRECT SUMMER SESSION TRIPS Students May Visit Penn’s Cave, Fish Hatchery, Allegheny Mountains, Mines With a trip to Gettysburg Battle field scheduled as. the first of the Saturday excursions, an opportunity to view the scenic beauty of State College surroundings will be offcied to students through the program of tours planned as part of the Sum mer Session education program. Busses for the fust excursion to Gettysburg will leave fiom in front of the Auditorium at 7 o’clock tomor row morning The itinerary is plan ned to include as much as possible of, the picturesque scenery of Central Pennsylvania. To Tour Penn’s Ca\e The route will lead through Spruce Creek, Huntingdon, McConnellsburg, and Charobcrcburg to Gettysburg, and will return through Ilarusburg and Lewistown. There will be no *top for breakfast The sandwich shop will open at C 15 for the ac commodation of those going on the excursion Noon lunch may be se cured in Gettysburg, and the evening meal in Harrisburg. The drive over the battlefield i* twenty-two miles long, and will cover two hours. A battlefield guide will accompany each bus to explain the various points- of interest Tickets on Sale A tentative arrangement of the re maining summer trips includes an ex cursion to Penn’s Cave and the State fish hatchery on July 11, and a tour of the Allegheny coal mines, prob ably on July 18. When final arrange ments for further excursions have been made, announcements will ap pear on bulletin boards and in the Collegian. i Any student group wishing to ar riiflfce special picnics or tours should communicate with W. R. White, di rector of excursions, at the agricui ,tural experiment station Excur sion? are arranged and conducted (Without profit to the College j Transportation tickets for the weekly trips will be sold at the Sum mer Session offices and at the Stu dent Union desk in Old Mam Fur ther information concerning the tours may be procured from Mr. White CATALOGUE SHOWS 3 NEW CURRICULA Agricultural Eng , Physical Education And Petroleum Are New Courses Here Three new curncula for the 1031- 32 year were announced in the -new general College catalogue, accoultng to Registrar William S. Hoffman With the new courses, there aic now forty-five curncula leading to a bachelor dcgieo The new additions are agricultural engineering, petiol eum and natural gas engineering, a-id physical education. Tha curriculum in physical educa tion is the first to be offcied by the School of Physical F.dueatiun and Athletics It is designed especially for those students who desire to lpccmhzo in health and physical edu cation. The courses n petroleum ami nat ural gas engmeeung aic of unusual •ntereat with the opening of new gas fields m the State, while the course n agricultural engineering is becom ing more important each year as the use of machinery m all agricultural fields is increased. WPSC BEGINS BROADCAST OF TWILIGHT MUSIC, READINGS The summer twilight broadcast of music and readings has been resumed from WPSC, College radio station. Programs arc put on the air at 7 o’- clock each Tuesday and Wednesday evenings during July and at 6 30 o’- clock in August WPSC operates on 1230 kilocycles The stution also gives a noon pro gram five day* a week, Monday to Friday, throughout the year. The noon broadcasts consist of weathet forecast and news items from the Col -1««! ' . _ ‘ (ttnllrgian Suttiitict Edition College Will Charge Fee on Golf Course All regularly enrolled students and summer session student* who wish to use the golf course during the summer months must pay the $lO fee at the Treasurer* office, according to an announcement from that office.. The charge for summer session faculty is $l5. All persons not connected with the College must pay $5O for a year’s privilege or the sum of $l5 per month. The charge per single round is seventy five cents PIKE WILL BEGIN LECTURES MONDAY Danville Psychiatrist Will Give Scries of 5 Talks on Mental Hygiene With “The Unconscious Mind" as his fiist topic, Dr Horace V Pike of the Danville State Hospital will be gin a scries of lectures on psychology m Schwab auditorium at 8 o’clock Monday night. The talk will be the first of a ser ies of five on “Abnormal Psychology and Mental Hygiene" which" Dr Pike will offer every Monday night during the Summer Session Follow’- I ng the last address the College will auangc a tup to Danville, where the psychologist will lecture and conduct visitois through the psychopathic ward In his second discussion, Dr. Pike will deal with “Abnoimahtics of Per sonalities ’’ His- other topics, in the older in which they will be presented, arc “The Relationship of the Emo tions to Mental aid Physical Health,” “Why People Go Insane,” and “Prob lem Children in Our Schools" To Cite Cases In addition to treating mental ab normalities, the lecturer will deal with the manifestations of disordered con ditions and the importance of early treatment of such ca*es. Preventive ;agencies will likewise be discussed During the course. Dr. Pike will mention facts connected with person ality, emotions, hallucinations, the conscious and unconscious mind, nv*-n -tal distortions and disordois, and de lusions He will cite cases which have come under his obscivation dur ing his stay at the hospital Dr. Pike is clinical psychiatrist’and director of clinical work at the Dan ville hospital, which is the second largest of its knd m the State. The institution cares for more than 1700 patients 1 Together with an annual lecture series presented during the regular academic year, the psychiatrist has addressed Summei Session students for the past seven yeais. He hn, spoken to thousands of students n nmilar courses here and elsewhere. DEAN ASKS FOR HOUSE LIST All fraternity chapctoncs are re quested by Dean Charlotte E. Ray to make out a list of house occupants u'id turn it in to the Dean's office not later than Monday’. Hervey Allen, Poetry Critic, Exhibits Versatility in Life ‘T. S. Eliot Risks Exclusion from Literature by Too Much Self Expression, ’ First Visiting Lecturer Says Meet Hervey Allen He’s been a student at the Naval the World War, a school teacher, an lecturer On the side he has done a w Meet him aa wo met him, over g on a night when cool comers are hai much. Just now it’s too warm to talk Perhnps you’io talk.ng about new’ poetry, or new movements in poctiy “T S Eliot," says Mr Allen, “is probably most icpicscntntive of the modern poetic movement. He’s a l eg ulai god to the younger generation He studied at Harvard and Yale, and found out that he couldn’t find out what a lot of universities didn’t know —exactly what they were trying to do So he turned into quite a satiric young gentleman. “Of couise he achieved fame with “Waste Land,” a poem that deals with this lack of purpose in occidental civ ilization. It’s a rather disconnected and highly emotional poem, and right there im method becomes illogical There is too much of T. S. Eliot in cluded in the lines. “Unless poetry appeals to more than n very select group, it cannot live,” the poetry cutic explains. “Eliot depends too much on emotion and self-expression to be long lust mg The movement -to which he be- College Will Greet Students at Dance., Reception Tonight Welcoming Event To Start in Recreation Hall At 8 O’clock —Faculty of Summer Session Plan Affair To afford Summer Session students an opportunity of becoming better acquainted, a reception sponsored by the College will be held in Reel cation hall at 8 o’clock tonight Following the icception, theie will be dancing from 9 until 12 o’clock. All Summer Session student* and membeis of the faculty aic cordially invited to attend the affair, which solves to open the social calemlai during the summer, Piof. Mark M Walter, chan man of the committee in charge, has announced. The event is planned solely for the puipose of having sum mer .session students become bettei acquainted with each other, and to give them an oppoitunity to meet the heads and staff members of the fac ulty Mr. and Mis Adi tan O Moisc will represent the executive offices in the receiving line Dean and Mis Will, Grait Chambers, Dean and Mis Ar thur R. Warnock, and Dean Chnilottc E. Ray have been muted to greet the summer students in the receiv ing line Blairmont To Play Immediately aftei guc-ts have passed the receiving line and before the dance begins, icfrcshmcnts will be served The dance, w ith the Blairmont orchestia pioudmg the music, will begin immediately after ward. Prof Richard W Grant will arrange for music durtng the affair Headed by Professoi Waltei, the .social committee is comprised of Miss Mary J Wyland, Dr William A Broyles, Miss Edith P Chase, and Piofessoi Richard W. Grant, of the regular College staff, and Walter H. Klur, Dr Carmon Ross, and Dr C B. Lewis of the Summer Session faculty. DICKSON WILL DISCUSS | ART OF PAUL CEZANNE To Present Second of .7 Lectures at 7 O’clock Wednesday Paul Cezanne, the leader m new trends of painting, will be the subject for Prof Harold E Dickson’s second art lectuie dunng thn Summer Ses sion in icoin .315 Mineial Industues building at 7 o'clock Wednesday night In the fust of bis senes of five talks, Piofessor DicL,on dealt with* 1 impiessicnism, showing some of the innovations in painting that the im pressionist > introduced The set us of five talks, which cov-j cis some more important movements' and masters in painting during the last fifty yeai ~ is presented infor mally The evolution and punciples of tile modem viewpoint aic stressed ,1 academy, a publicity man, offi'ci in n nuthoi, poet, critic, biogiapher md lumber of otboi intei esttng tilings glasses of gingci ale, in n cool comet rd to find, and a little exertion is too scuously on one subject for long longs is a vety interesting section in literary historv, but I’m afiaid it will remain apait from literature, aid not he included as an impoitunt change” “What impoitanco have lypogiaph tcnl devices in poetiy?” he is asked “Poetry can’t lie read satisfactorily as punted lines," Mi. Allen declines “If you icul poetiy thinking how' clcvci it is to omit capitnl lettcis, vou defeat the purpose of the poem “Doubtless changes in the typo graphical conventions surrounding po ctiy would be advisable, but the in novations are so staitling that you forget poetiy is more than an ar inngcment of type We must obey some conventions "Such liteiary devices have the same effect us a man walking down the sticet in shoits You look at the shorts and forget all about the man ” The conversation turns to less im- (Tunfumrd mi ?ngc fcuO PRICE TEN CENTS CAST IS SELECTED FOR PLAYERS’SHOW Carroll D. Kearns Gels Lead in M.vslciy Performance On July 22 Weeding out a talented cast from mom than a bundled candidates for parts in the Summer Session Pluvers’ show- was the task faced In Flank S Neu>baum, associate diroctoi of the Penn State Plaver on Tuesday 'light As a lesult of the tiyouts however, Neu'-baum was able to select an ex perienced cast for the butlosquc mys tery drama “The Haunted House” by Owen Dav.s, which will be picscnted by the Summer Players July 22 Holding down tlu lend of the «how as The Novelist, will be Cairoll D Kearns, a Summei Session student who has bad considerable dramatic expel lence The part of The Wife wiil be taken bv Annette Hannan who tool, the pait of Alice in last sum mers, show “Meet the Wife” Miss Ha-nncn has picuously hid parts in regulai Players’ shows dunng regu ! lar sessions. She will be mnembered in both "The Medea" and “The Cat 1 and the Canaiy ” Hitchcock in Show Tin juvenile lends of The Budc ami The Groom will be bandied by Mary C Johnson and Robert C Ayrc* AVl's has taken pint m two dees plays, “The Importance of Be .■ng Earnest” and “Ciuig’s Wife" Jesse MncKnight, a ic-gulur Playci who stalled irt “Queen’s Husband” and “The Mastoi Buildci” will act the pait of Th'. 1 Tiamp Another '•xpenenccd Playci who has a pail m “The Mask and Face” is Oivillo A Hitchcock, a graduate -student, vho Ims beci selected by Ncusbaum to nl.iv the pa.t of The Father Othci students who have pints in the show am Paul Turlow, as The Chauffci. Doris Willig, as The Gill, Howard E Langhammsr, as The J Shot iff. John S Frizzell, as The Milk man, and Ralph E Berman, as Ihe Detective BROYLES TO GIVE TALK ON TUESDAY To Discuss Visual Education as First •Of Industrial Education Lectire Sctils In the fust of a series of confier t ices held by' the liHlu-.tu.tl Educa tion dep.n tment, I>i William A Broyles, Piofessoi of agucultuial ed ucation, will discuss “Visual Educa tion” m loom 215 Mineial Industries building at 8 o’clock Tuesday night. Mi William Rnsclre, principal of the Milwaukee Vocational School, will deliver the second addiesj, July 14. His tonic will be "Puictical Aits and Vocational Education in Milwaukee” Tile followi lg week. Dr David Sneddon, Fiofe,'Oi of Education afc Columbia Univeisitv, will describe education “As I See It " Iq the last of the sene-,, Mr Georg' l A McGar vty’, agent of the Federal Board foi Vocational Education, Washington, DC, will take sc, Ills topic “Ale Wo Piogiessive The eonfeienccs which are spoil* soud amumlly by this department, me open to all those who aic inter ested PROFESSOR ANDERSON JOINS COLORADO TKVCHIMi STAFF Tiof C. S. Andetson, of the depart ment of agiicultuie education, hits joined the staff of a special three week summei session at the Colorado AgriculU.mil College Piofessoi Amici,on will teach two couises designed punuinly for high school 11st iuctois One couise deals with special method, of teaching vo cational agiicultuie, while the other is an advanced i.oimniu in ngiicultuial education foi giaduntv students.
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