Summer Edition VOL. XIV, No. 3 M’FEE TO PRESENT NEXT LITERATURE LECTURE TONIGHT New England Novelist To Begin Address at 8 O’clock in Schwab Auditorium SPEAKER TURNED FROM ENGINEERING TO WRITE Will Discuss ‘Sordid Side' of Literature’—Publishes Eight Volumes Continuing the series of talks by prominent visiting lecturers sponsor cd by tire Summer Session, William McFee, New England novelist, will speak on “The Sordid Side of Litera ture” at 8 o’clock in Schwab auditor ium tonight A mechanical engineer during the greater part of his life, Mr. McFee did not turn definitely to wilting un til ten yems ago He has published eight books since turning to litera ture. Starting as an apprentice in Lon don to a fum of mechanical engineers, Mr McFee went to sea as a marine engineer in 1906, and remained in similar occupations until 1922, ex cept for a brief stay in the United States writing. Wrote “North of Suez” When the World War began, he scived as an engineer of transports for the British navy Returning to the United States at its conclusion, he served as chief engineer for the United Fruit Co until 1922. The visiting lecturer is an advocate of entering business before turning to writing. Ho bases his beliefs on the fact that writing, too, can prove as uncnchantmg a tiadc as the least successful of clerkships. ..Many of his works are based upon experiences and contacts he had as n__marine .engineer "An Ocean Tramp,”" “Aliena,” "Casuals of /the Sea,” "Captain Macedoine’s Daugh ter,” "Ifaibours of Memory,” and "A Six Hour Shift" are among his publications. Ills, later books include, "Com mand,” “Race,” "Sunlight on New CSranadc,” "Swallowing the Anchor,” "Pilgnms of Advc'rsity," “Sailors of Foitune,” and "North of Suez.” He also wrote "The Life of Sir Martin Frobisher ” ' THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE TWENTY-SECOND SUMMER SESSION OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS THURSDAY, JULY 9 7:00 P. M.—Lecture, "The Sordid Side of Literatuie,” by Wil liam McFee, Westport, Connecticut. Auditorium. FRIDAY, JULY 10 8:00 P. M.—Lecture, “The Way of Restoration Drama,” by Dr. W. S. »Dye, Jr., Professor of English Liteialurc. Room 315 Mineral Industries Building. SATURDAY, JULY 11 Classes corresponding to those regulaily scheduled for Friday will be held on Saturday, July 11th. 1:30 P. M.—Excursion to Penn’s Cave. Leaves from front of | Auditouum. Secure tickets not later than Friday noon at Sum'mer Session Office, Education Bldg , or at Student Union Office, Old Main Bldg. Cost of transportation, 75 cents. 0:00 P. M.—Faculty Dinner, Nittany Lion Inn. Tickets may be secured at Summer Session Office not later than Thursday noon, July 9. Cost per plate $1.50. SUNDAY, JULY 12 7:00 P. M.—Vesper Song Service. Address by Rabbi Morris S. Lazaron, Baltimore, Md. Open Air Theatre. MONDAY, JULY 13 First sessions of special intensive couises on ■ "Study of Problems in Rural Education” “The School Building Program” 7:00 P. M—Student Assembly and Group Singing. Direction of Professor R. W. Grant. Auditorium. 8.00 P. M.—'Lecture, “Abnormalities” of Peisonality,” by Dr. H. V. Pike, Director of Clinical Psychiatry, Dan ■ ‘ \ille State Hospital for the Insane. Auditorium. TUESDAY, JULY 14 8:00 P. M.—Vocational Teacher Training Conference. Topic, Practical Arts and Vocational Education m Mil waukee,” by Mr. William Rasche, Pnneipal of the Milwaukee Vocational School, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Room 315 Mineral Industries Building. WEDNESDAY, JULY 15 7:00 P. M.—Lcctuic, “Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gaugin,” by H. E. Dickson, Assistant Professor of Fine Aits. Room 315 Mineral Industries Building. • NOTICES A questionnaire has been mailed to all students who expect to graduate at the end of the Summer Session. Those who have not received the questionnaire are asked to call at the office of the Registrar for a copy. 1 Summer Session Students who* wish to have transcripts of their records sent at the end of the session to other colleges and institutions should call at the office of the Registrar to make ar rangements for such transfers. There is a fee of $1 for tran acriptts of records This does not refer to ordinary grade lejiorK ffritn State $ Registrar Devises System For Grading High Schools Compiles Index Number To Show How College Work of Students Compares With Previous Class Ranking Whnt chance is thcie that a gradi work at Penn State? Registrar William S. Hoffman, gli can tell at a glance the probability of that student should succeed If it is ) In the first known file of its typt caior which tyill grade every high sell REGISTRAR W. S. HOFFMAN DENGLER DESCRIBES EURIPEDES IN TALK Dr. Dye Will Present Second of Lectures on Drama at 3 O’clock Tomorrow With "Euripcdcs, Father of Our Drama,” as his topic, Dr. Robert E Dengler, professor of Greek, opened a senes of lectures on drama Friday afternoon. Dr Willium S Dye jr, bead of English literature, will con tinue the lectures with a discussion of “The .Way of Restoration Drama" in room 815 Mineral Industries build- (Continucd on second page.) STATE COLLEGE, PA., THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1931 luatc of your high school will do good mcmg at an index number in his files, his success. If the number is 11116, £9700, his chance is not so good. 2, the Registrar has compiled an indi tool in the State according to whether the ranking of its students in college agrees with the ranking they have been given upon high school gradua tion. Realizing that any comparison of students from different schools would be valueless unless their relative rank in graduating classes was considered, Registrar Hoffman set out to compare tho students of all schools who grad uated in the first fifth; then all in the second fifth; and so on. Grouped in 10 Sections Taking the 318 secondary schools listed, the registrar grouped them first in ten divisions, according to the aver age rank in the Freshman class of those graduated in the upper quintile of their schools. A table has been worked out, giving the range of average rank of those in the first group, second group, etc. If some high school finds that the stu dents it graduated in the first fifth; arc coming to Penn State and drop-, ping below the sixth tenth of their class, its standards need bolstering. Tho same method was followed in arranging the average ranking of stu dents who graduated in the second fifth. Tho remaining three-fifths were worked out along the same scheme. In the final index number, the first figure represents the school’s rank ing on the basis of its graduates from the first fifth who entered Penn State. Tho ranking of each of the four re maining fifths arc indicated by four succeeding numbers. Compare Equalized Groups Since there dre ten groups the letter "X” is used to represent the tenth group for any qumtile, and when no of a high school is listed m any quintile, the ('Continued on page four) SCOPE OP DRAMA COURSES EXPANDS tao Candidates Report for Players' Show—Bo Enroll in New Composite Class With twice the number of students cmollod as last year, the courses in drama during the Summer Session are reflecting a steadily growing in terest in stage work Moic than 100 candidates reported for the cast of “The Haunted House,” which* the Summer Session Players will offer July 22. Many of these candidates who were unsuccessful n their quest for parts in the show will seek parts in the several one-act plays to be offered during the sum mer. Eighty students arc enrolled m a composite drama course, forty-five arc working in a play production course, and twenty in stagecraft. The composite drama course is given by six members of the faculty, each tak ing up the outstanding drama pro duced by different races In the study of marionette plays thirty-five students arc enrolled where eighteen took the work last year The course, under Prof Ar thur C Cloetingh, director of dra matics, attracted considerable atten tion when the students presented half a dozen plays last summer. In this class the students learn to make the marionettes, how to operate them on the miniature stage, and how to di rect and produce an entire play in this medium. ADVANCED MUSIC STUDENTS GIVE FIRST RADIO CONCERT Advanced students in music at Summer Session gave the first of a series of twilight radio concerts Tues day and Wednesday nights of this week over, the College radio station WPSC. Herbert Kocpp-Baker was m charge of the announcing and ar ranging the program, with the assis tance of James Woodsidc, director of music In the Institute of Educa tion. The twilight concerts supplement the regular noon program which is sent out throughout the year five days each week, Monday to Friday. The musicians this summer will be on the air every Tuesday and Wednesday evenings at 7 o’clock Rain May End Heat Here Over Week-end Despite the sweltering weather of the past week, local w'cuthcr forecasters report that showers probably will relieve the situation later this week-end. Students plodding reluctantly to classes in the midst of the heat may be forced to don rain-coats and slickers tomorrow and Saturday, if the weather man’s guess is correct. The week-end will probably be cool er, with intermittant showers. 1476 SEEK PLACE IN CLASS OF 1935 Number Applying for Entrance In Fall Nears Total Set Here Last Year With 1476 students seeking en trance m Penn State’s class of 1935, applications for admission will far exceed the quota of 1225 set by the College, Registrar William S. Hoff man announced yesterday. Although the number of students applying is 100 less than recorded at the same time last year, it exceeds the totals of the two preceding years by 150, he said. The fact that the prospective freshmen conduct their own elimina tions is not only significant, but of great assistance to the College, the registrar revealed. The percentage of students applying who graduated tn the first fifth of their secondary school clashes is five times that of the group from the last fifth who seek admission. Engineering Entrants Lend Four hundred and forty students who graduated in the first fifth of their high school classes are seeking to enter Penn State From the sec ond fifth, 424 seek admission, while 295 atb applying from the third fifth. The fouith fifth group numbers 183, while only 84 applications come from 1 the last fifth' Thee* arc forty-nx whose rank has not been determined. The Engineering school leads i \ the number ‘of applicant.', with 363 so far Two hundred and seventy are seeking admission in the Liberal Arts curricula, while 232 wish to enter in Agriculture The Chemistry and Physics school is fourth with 226 W’hile 217 have signed for Educa-; tion, 27 of this number arc planning to enroll in Physical Education Sixty students have indicated their pref erence for Mineral Industries, and 108 have not decided their preference yet The College will be able to enroll only 1225, the registrar said One thousand men can be accepted at the College, while 185 women may be taken. Fifty students will be regis tered at Mont Alto forestry school In discussing the forestry branch, Mr Hoffman revcnled that of the 232 signing for Agriculture, 108 of these prefer forestry Room can be made for only half this number NAMED DEPARTMENT HEAD Dr. Carl W. Hasek has been named the new head of the department of economics and sociology, according to an announcement from the Presi dent’s office. Dr Oswald F. Boucke was forced to give up his position u« department head because of ill health Cops Hurry To Aid of Girl Shrieking in Old Main—Actors Rehearse Mystery Play Summer Players To Give ‘ The Haunted House ’ On July 22 A girl’s piercing shriek enuaed a vigilant Campus Cop to scurry to wards Old Main on Monday night As the officer neared the building another wad sounded from the base ment windows. Strange cries and sounds of scuffling were heard as the guardian of the law hurried into the west entrance. Down tho steps to the basement he went and quickly pushed open the door to the Little Theatre. But the sounds had apparently van ished The Campus'cop saw a girl huddled backstage, her face covered with her hands Evidently she had jUst witnessed a blood-curdling sight, but the cause of nil the disturbance had vanished. Whnt was it’ The Campus Cop didn’t know, but he did know that the distressing sounds lie had just heard must have conic from a practice of the Summer Session Players rehearsing “Tho Haunted House” to he presented July 22 (tttfllpgtmt PHILIPPE SOUPAULT SEES AMERICA FIRST A TPENNSTA TE, N. Y. C. Young French Novelist Of Experience He i ■About Uni Pailez-vous Francaise? Unless you do, your acquaintance with Philippe Soupuult, visiting pro fevior at the French Institute, is likely to be brief For aside from that populai slang-word, "Okay,” the animated young man who is aMcader in French literary movements has lit tle know ledge of Amci lean vernac ular. It is M Soupault’s first visit to the United States, a visit that he has been cagei to make. His views of America have been restricted so far to New York and Penn State, but he plans to return next year for a more piotractcd tour of the country. "I am anxious to see the real America, to penetrate the surface," he explained to the French Institute student, who interpieted it to us We had been dubious of out own ability to converse in French, and the result STUDENTS TO VISIT CAVERN,HATCHERY Second Excursion Will Permit View of Penn’s Cave, Fish Preserve Saturday An excursion to Penn’s Cave nnd the State fish hatchery will start fiom the front of Schwab auditorium at 130 o’clock Saturday afternoon The trip is the second of a scries planned to enable Summer Session students to view nenrby points of intcicst. Penn’s Cave is located m Penn's Valley, about eighteen miles (from State College It i« a large subter ranean cavern formed by the disin tegration of limestone lock. The stalagmites and stalactites present many diversified and frenkish forms The tour through the cave is made by motor boat, and takes half an hour To Visit Reformatory The State fish hatchery, whiLh will nlso be visited on the trip, is devoted to the propogation of bLook trout and brown tiout for the purpose of helping to maintain fish life in the streams of Pennsylvania An expla nation of the life lusloiy of these fijh from the egg stage until the removal to the sti earns will be made during the tour. Transpoitation tickets will be sold at the Summer Session office nnd at the Student Union desk in Old Main until tonight. The third excursion of the ueiies will be to the Pennsylvania Indus trial Reformatory, leaving next Fri day afternoon at 1 o’dock An op portunity to view conditions of prison life and the system of vocational edu cation established there will be af forded. The following week a tup to Alex ander caverns will be conducted. The loute has been planned sn that stu dents will pass tluough Stone valley und Kishacoquillas valley during the excursion JESSE MncKMGHT Probnbly n cause for many of the scrcnms was Jesse MncKmght, who takes the pmt of Moignn, the tramp. Always a -ni-pinnus rharncter, Mor- at Institute Will Write •e —Revises Views [ted States was a three-cornered dialogue which was a mixture of both languages “Amcnca is not exactly what I ex pected to find,” our dark-haired host •aaid “I looked for bustle, everyone in a big hurry, with no time to an swer questions, to think I found in New York that Americans aie really quite calm, and reflective " “The only place where they arc lushed,” he said, leaning forward and laughing, “is m the subway Theie’s no time for anything there'” M. Soupault, who will write of his impressions in New York and at; State College for French newspapers upon his return, found that the two most interesting “first impressions” he had were the vastness of the New Yoik skjlne and the great contrasts between poveity and riches, modern ity and age, in New York Admitting that the New York skyline attracts the eye*, of every visitor, he claims that its importance is justified While his knowledge of the Amer ican speech is limited, Philippe Sou pault has an intense interest in Amer ican literature In his opinion, Frenchmen are not so much interest led in speaking English as in’reading it, and in interpreting the spirit of America The business, economics, and htciaturc of the United States are most interesting to France, he said Ncvcithcless, Frenchmen do study the American language, and schools similar to the French Institute are to |be found near seashore resorts in France, where the rule is “Speak no French!” Among his friends M Soupault lists E/ra Pound, James Joyce, Theo dore Dricser, Sherwood Anderson, and Sinclair Lewis While his interest (Continued on page four) RABBI LAZARON IS VESPER SPEAKER Lender of Baltimore Congregation To Deliver Open Air Talk 7 O'clock Sunda) Rabin Mnuia S Lnzaron, of the Baltimore Hebrew Congregation, will deliver the second vesper address m the Open Air theatre at 7 o’clock Sunday night. The sneaker is well known at Penn State He has appeared at Summer Session vesper services for the past five years, and n addition, addresses chapclgoeis legularly during academ ic teims Receiving his bachelor’s degree fiom the University of Cincinnati, the Rabbi matriculated at Hebrew Union college, where he secured his master’*, degree Hu first pulpit was at Wheeling, West Vngintn, fiom which he went to his present post at Baltimore Rabbi L.i7.aion seivod on the Jew ish Welfare Board duting the Woild War, under which work he directed nfFniis at Camp Merritt, New Jersey Jesse Mac Knight Takes Suspicious Role in Davis Thriller gnu’s piesence is never quite clc.u in the play It seems ceitmn, how ever, that he is there for some evil puipose “I haven’t done anything to be ashamed of foi the last twenty-four hours,” he says But we don’t know whethei to believe him oi not. Most certainly he is a ferocious and wicked looking individual He will throw fear into the hearts of the cast and the audience on the night of July 22. Throughout all the excitement Di rector Frank Nvusbnum, fiom his camp stool near the frontstage, guides the characters through their lines, stuvng always for a mysteri ous atmosphere. How well he suc ceeds is indicated by the fact that the Players are loath to leave the Little Theutre after practice. In stead they sit around and tell stones of the famous crimes, endeavoring to baffle each other with minder mys teries of the past Summer Edition PRICE TEN CENTS H.E. BATON GIVEN CONTRACTS FOR 2 CAMPUS BUILDINGS Ground Broken Monday, Tuesday For New Structures— Cost $900,000 PLAN COMPLETION OF UNITS BY MAItCIF, 1932 College To Handle All Plumbing, Lighting Work—Claudcr Prepares Designs Contracts for the constiuction of the new* Home Economics and Dairv buildings weic awarded to H E Ba ton, Inc, of Philadelphia, builders of Old Mam, according to an an nouncement made yesterday by George W Ebert, superintendent of grounds and buildings Stripping of the top soil for the Home Economics building took place Monday morning, while the ground was broken for the Daily building Tuesday. Charles Z Ck.udei, College aichitect, designed both of the new buildings, which will cost a total of $900,000 Start Work at Once Both of the. new buildings will be built of icd brick, resembling the lat est constructions on the campus, and will be trimmed with Indianu lime stone. While the stiucturos aie each to be two stones in height, the dairy unit will also have a laigu manufac turing wing extending to the rear of the main office and classroom section With pillared fiont entrance and cuivcd projection-, at each end, the dauy building will face on the “Coun ty" road opposite th * gieenhoi ,es and will have its center aligned with that of the dairy cattle bain The rear wing, containing all apparatus of the College dairy plant, will extend to ward the b irn College Does Plumbing Dpmpy. f.»j IV borv* «<CoP'iniics building sjiiufj a frontage of 200 feet with a two-stoiv face which re sembles the Main Engineering build ing. Two wings, extending to the icai at »ach end, will be panelled at the front m limestone, while pillars of tie same matenal will guard the main entrance This stiucture will be located nudway between McAllister hall and the formei Mining building, facing Old Mam All tradeswork, such as plumbing and lighting, will be designed and can led out by the department of giounds and buildings with the ad vice of College engineering experts. It i, hoped by College officials that the buildings will be completed by March, 1032 ! The space vicated in Women's building by removal of the Home Ec onomics depailn.mt will ho used for additional dormitoiy nccommodatio is The present Dauy unit will be con veiled into classroom space DICKSON TO GIVE 1 TALK WEDNESDAY Will Discuss 2 Eccentric Artists In Third Lecture—Tells of Paul Ce/anne’s Work Discussing Vincent Van Gogh and Paul C! itighin m the thud of a senes of ait lectures, Tiof Harold E Dick son, of the department of fine arts, will deal with two of the individual ists m recent painting m loom 315 Minctal Inductile, building at 7 o’- clock Wednesday night In Ins second discussion last night, Trofessoi Dickson dealt with Paul Cc 7tinne, the Iciulei of new trends in painting He showed how Cezanne bd painting nto post impressionism, attempting three-dimensional solidity, rathci than pu.c impressionism. Vincent Van Gogh, the first of thu two cccentnc characteis who will be discussed in the next lecture, is not only interesting as an niti-t, hut at -an individual riofnssoi Dickson will review Van Gogh’s hie as well as his work, explmning some of the phases of it which tan be undetstood only by interpreting the man’s strange character Gauglun, equally cccentnc, will be treated in som-ewlmt the same man ner To supplement his talks, Pro fessoi Dickson has augmented his supply of lanlcin slides and facsimile reproductions, and will give examples of the woik of both artist*. ALUMNI SECRETARY RETURNS Edwnid K. Ihhshmnn, alumni sec retaiy has recently relumed from a combined meeting of alumni and alumnae at Lakeside Pink, near Tam iaqun, Schuylkill county. ,
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