Summer Edition VOL. XIV, No. B BAKELESS TO TALK ON POETIC EFFECT OF ORIENT TONIGHT Magazine Editor Will Deliver Lecture in Auditorium At 7 O’clock WRITES OF ECONOMICS, , - LITERARY CRITICISMS Contributes Articles for Many Publications—Works on Forum, Independent John Bakclcss, editor and author) will present the fifth of a tsurics of talks by visiting lecturers when he discusses “Chinese and Japanese In fluences on American Poetry” in Schwab auditorium at 7 o’clock to night. As Managing Editor of Forum, Mr. Bakclcss is among the foremost of current magazine editors and con tributors. His writing is chiefly in two fields, that of world politics and literary criticism. He is the author of two books, “The Economic Causes of Modem War,” ip 1921, and "Origin of the Next War,” in 1926 From 1921 to 1923 he was literary editor of Living Age, and from 1923 to 1925 he served as managing editor of that magazine. Ja 1928 and 1929 he was editor of the publication In addition, Mr. Bake less was literary adviser to the Id dependent during 1925 and 192 G He was managing editor of Forum from 1926 to 1928. Frequent Contributor Among the magazines which have published his contributions are the Atlantic Monthly, The Living Age, Book Chat, the New Republic, Forum, the Independent, the Outlook, Current History, Saturday Review of Litera ture, the New York Times, the Tri bune, Current Literature, and the (Saturday International Book Review. A native of Pennsylvania, Mr. Bakclcss was born at Carlisle in 1894 He studied m the State, was graduated from Williams college, and took graduate work at Harvard uni versity. In addition to his work as an edi tor and author, be has lectured wide ly ‘tori w'orld politics and* literature He* was also lecturer on journalism at New York university from 1927 to 1029, and an instructor m journalism there during 1929 COVERT WILL GIVE VESPER ADDRESS To Discuss ‘Moral Obligations of Educated People’ in Open Air Theatre Sunday Discussing “The Moral Obligations x>f Educated People,” Dr. William C Covert, general sccrotaiy of the Board of Christian Education of the Presbyterian Church, jwill deliver the fourth Vesper talk at 7 o’clock Sun day night in the outdoor amphithea tre. Dr Covert was graduated from Hanover college, Indiana, in 1886, re ceiving his master’s degree from the same institution in 1888, anti doctor of divinity degree in 1905. In 1888 he received a degree from the Mc- Cormick Theological Seminary of Chicago and was ordained in the Presbyterian ministry at St Paul, Minnesota, in the same year Since 1924 Dr. Coveit has held his present post as secretary of the Pres byterian board He is the author of “Glory of the Pines,” “Wildwoods and Waterways,” “New Furrows in Old Fields,” and “Religion in the Heart.” Snedden Prophesies Of Intercollegi Believing that intercollegiate sports will have no place in college life thirty years from the present, Dr. David Snedden, educational ex pert and prophet, declared emphati cally to a Collegian representative Tuesday night that college athletics today were “producing their own dis ease.” “In 1960, when I phophesy that colleges will be training students for a definite vocation, intercollegiate sports'will have no place,” Dr. Snod We Go Insane' at 8 O’clock In Schwab Auditorium “Why We Go Insane” will be ex plained by Dr Horace V. Pike, elm* ; ical psychiatrist at the Danville Stato Hospital for the insane, in the fourth lecture of his series on abnormal psy chology m Schwab auditorium at 8 o’clock Monday night In the third lecture Dr Pike dealt with the relation of the emotions to physical and mental health. He point ed out that no individual can get along without emotions, and asked with the assurance of obtaining no answer, who in the audience could tell of a single experience which hud not brought him either pleasure oi pain in some form An interesting sidelight to the dis cussion "was Dr. Pike’s declaration that no one ever shed tears because of pain AH tears are shed when peo ple are pleased, he told the astonish ed audience “Think about vvhnt you are weep ing the next time you cry,” he said “When you watch a motion picture, you don’t cry when the villain has the heroine by the throat, but when the hero rushes in to rescue her” Dr. Pike stressed particularly the tendency of many people to side-step reality, allowing their emotions to make away with them. Those who faint in -almost cveiy instance are sidc-stcppmg some situation, he said People often become sick, paralyzed, or mcntully unfit to continue work be cause subconsciously they have some trouble they do not want to face. Overdorf Asks ’22 Alumni To Gather Elliot Overdorf, secretuiy of the class of 1922, has called a meeting of all members of that class who reside in State College or are at tending Summer Session at 7 30 o'clock Sunday night in the Alum ni office, room 104 Old Mam. The class of 1922 will celebrate its ten year reunion next June and Secretary Overdorf is calling this meeting to make plans for the gathering. (Mlrgiatt Summer Edition Clark, Backstage, Foresees New ‘Dramatic Freedom ’ Broadway Reigns Supreme As Play-Mart From Lack of Outside Competition, in Visiting Critic’s Opinion The speaker: Barrett Clark, dra matic ciitic. The setting: back-stage in the Auditorium, where Summer Session Players prepare for their last rehearsal of “The Haunted House ” The time Tuesday night On the platform just beyond the curtains another lecturer is talking Actors in the mystery play which will go into rehearsal soon arc lounging in stage-prop chairs nearby. Barrett Clark, dark-bUitcd, quick of speech, whimsical smile, is leaning against a table He offers us a cigarette, smokes one himself. “Playwrights today aren’t slaves to their audiences,” he says "Under stand, fney still pay attention to them, of course, but far less than they used to. It’s necessary to think of your reader when you write a poem, 01 a short story. The playwright works on the same principle, but he’s no more hampered by what the audi ence will think than the poet is That’s one thing that makes modem American plays worthwhile ” ‘But isn’t the American audience SNEDDEN DELIVERS VOCATIONAL TALK George McGarvcy Will Continue I. E. Lecture Series on Tuesday Night In the third of the series of mdus-; trial education lectures, Dr David Snedden, professor of education at Columbia Univcnsity, prophesied the future of education in the United States “As I See It,” m Schwab au ditorium Tuesday night Continuing tho lecture series, George A. McGarvoy, regional agent of the Federal Board for Vocational Education, of Washington, D. C, will discuss the subject “Are *We Progres sive,” at 8 o'clock Tuesday night in room 315 Mineral Industries build ing. , -i “In 1960,” Dr Snedden said; “cer tain sociological changes such as a population limit of about 134,000,000, a drop in family size and increased longevity will materially affect our vocational life. Our great capacity for economic production assures us that there will be no need to dread a lack of supplies, but that the chief economic problem will concern itself with distribution " High School Content Poor “Thj key to progress today,” Dr. Snedden said, “should be* called the American Eleventh Commandment— ‘Thou Shalt Do Better Than Thy Fa ther and Thy Mother.’ Thirty years hence families will be able to k-ep their children in school until they are twenty-four or twenty-six.” Dr. Snedden said that vocational proficiency hus declined in the United States today, unlike the professions, because we have relied on vocational tram.ng m the schools as merely a by-product of some other phase of learning. “TBo high school system in Ameri ca today is wonderful in administra tion. but onlv about ten percent effi cient in content,” Dr Snedden said "In 1960 I predict that there will be no trace of vocational training in the high schools, which is as it should be.” DICKSON WILL DISCUSS RECENT AMERICAN ART Lecture Next Wcdncsdaj Night Is Last of Current Senes “Recent Painting in Ameuca” will be the subject of Prof. Harold E. Dickson’s’ next ail lecture m room 315 Mineral Industries building at 7 o’clock Wednesday night. Discussing “Some French Moderns” n his last talk. Professor Dickson dealt with some of tho more recent movements in French painting His series of lectures, which is il lustrated with luntcin slides and fac simile reproductions, deals with paint ing of the last fifty yours The talk noxt Wednesday night will conclude the senes, which 'included discus sions of “Impressionism,” “Paul Ce zanne,” and “Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gnuglun ” IS AWARDED FELLOWSHIP J Fred Ocsterlmg, of Butler, has boon avvaidcd n fellowship to Penn State by the Pennsylvania Laundry Owners Association. The fellowship will begin July 15. really a Now York audience''” he is asked “And therefore isn’t evei y play more or less a ‘New York’ play'’” “Of couisc there arc few success ful plays which aren't produced in New York,” says the critic, “because other cities have litt'e initiative to take plays away from New York. Other places are afraid to experiment, even amateur organizations They must wait until the play is a Pulitzer prize-winner to produce it “But the plays today don’t deal with New York, or nave the New York atmosphere Their entire foun dation is utterly outside New York “I should like,” he said, “to be able to set down a theatre fifty miles fiom nowhere, pioducc what I pleased, and tell New Yorker* who said they | might want to see it to get a time- j tabic. 1 “The trouble is, New York is sure; that eventually every good pinv is, bound to show up on Bioadvvay It's right Until some* outside organiza tions show a little initiative, this must be the case " Barrett Clark went to Europe not long after the wai, believing that Amcncan drama would never amount to much He came back in 1921 to score a distinct change European dramatists, were looking to America, to American youth And America and its youth have superseded Europe's declining drama in the past ten years, ('Continued on page three) STUDENTS TO SEE ALLEGHENY MINES Excursionists Start 100-Miic Trip to Grass Flat Region Saturday Morning To observe tin operation and In tel lor of a modern soft coal mine, Summer Session exetn siomsts will journey 100 miles to the* Allegheny mountains, leaving fiom n front of Schwab auditorium at 8 o’clock Sat urday morning Passing through some of the wild cat and most beautiful country in the State, the students will travel from State College to Bellcfonte, and then to Snow Shoe, Grass Flat, Phil ipsburg, Sandy Ridge and Bald Eagle. Provide Own Lunch At Glass Flat the tuunsts will be conducted into the mine, which is the feature spot of tin trip The visitois will be given the use of several mino (Continued oh page three) THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE TWENTY-SECOND SUMMER SESSION Official Announcements THURSDAY, JULY 23 7:00 r. M.—Lcctuic, “Chinese and Japanese Influence on Ameri can Poetry," by John Eakeloas, Authoi and Mnn iiKinß Editor of the Foium. New Yolk City. Audi lonum. FRIDAY, JULY 21 M— Lecture, “Goethe’s Faust, One Hundred Years Af ter Its Completion,” by Geoige Wurfl, Assistant Professor of German. Room 315 Mineral Industries Building. M.—Lecture, “Education foi Living,” by J Milnor Doiey, Executive Sccretaiy, Progressive Education Association, Washington, D. C Auditorium. M.—lllustrated Lecture, “Iceland, the Hermit of the North Atlantic," by Mis Emile (Thoislina Jackson) Walters, Authoi, Lcctuier and Tiunslator, New York City. Auditoiium. SATURDAY. JULY 25 M.—Exclusion through Allegheny Mountains. Will leave fiom the Auditorium Exclusion will include a visit to a Coal Mine. Seeuie tickets not later than •Fnday noon at Summer Session Office, Education Building, oi Student'Union Office, Old Main Build ing Cost of Transportation $1 75 M.—Summer Session Picnic for Membeis of the Faculty and Their Families, Secure tickets at Summer Session Office before Fnday noon. Sec individual announcements for details, SUNDAY, JULY 2(» M—Vesper Song Service, Address, “The Moral Obli gations of Educated People,” by Dr William C. Covert, Board of Christian Education of the Pies byterian Church, Philadelphia. Open Air Theatre MONDAY. JULY 27 M.—Student Assembly and Group Singing. Direction of Piofcssor R. W. Giant. Auditoiium. M.—Lecture, “Why People Go Insane,” by Di. H. V Pike, Dnector of Clinical Psychiatry, Danville State Hospital for the Insane. Auditoi lum. (Continued on second pace.) PRICE TEN CENTS STATE SCHOOLMEN HOLD CONFERENCE HERE NEXT WEEK County Superintendents Begin Annual 3-Day Session On Tuesday PRESIDENT K. D. HETZEL WILL ADDRESS VISITORS Stanford University Professor, Head of P. S. E. A. Listed Among Speakers County and district super, itendents fiom all puits of the State will at tend the annual Superintendents' Week Conference winch will open at the College Tuesday j Beginning with the first of six ses sions at 8 o’clock Tuesday morn ing, an e-ctensico piogtam has been I planned. Six sessions dealing with j various pha* _*s of education have been | arranged foi the three-day eonfer -1 cnee The Superintendents will hold their annu..! dinnei at the Nittany Lion Inn Woclneidjj night President Ralph D Hol-*l ami members of the Summci Session staff will welcome the visitois at an early mceti lg. Man} Speakers Listed Significance of aviation, radio, and the talking motion picture to educa tion will be stressed in the confer ence Demonstrations of the use of radio to teach, and the talking picture in actual classroom woik, w.ll be a part of the program Included among the speakers who are scheduled foi the conference are M S Bent/, superintendent of Cam bria countv schools, and president of : the Pennsylvania State Education As , -oeiation, Percy E DavuLon, hssoci ; afe professoi of education at Stan ford univcisity, and John M Foote, dcpai Invent of education, Baton Rouge, Indiana Other supei mtendents who will -peak are Dan-el J. Kelly, Bing linmpton, N Y, Jane E McKenzie, Webstei school, Pittsburgh, and lames X Rule, Harrisburg, Solmda McCaullev, cl meal assistant to the diiectoi cf special education, Board of Education, Philadelphia, will also address the group Jacob S Oilcans, editor of the World Book Co, Cvnthin Ruggles, in structor at Ypsilanit Norma! school, aid Jcreph Lcswmg, instructor m social stud us at the William Penn high ‘chool„ Ilaiiiohu.g, also will speak Ka-them.i It Donaldson, «u -peivisoi of ait education in Pitts butgh, Mabel A Talbot, director of tho kindergarten at West Chester State Tenehei’s college*, Amelia M Wensc], supervisoi of the primaiy giades at Niagara Falls, N Y, and Mary J Wyhind, •iscreciate professor of education nt the College, complete the list of speakers