lursday, September 10, 1931 lee Glubs Provide Student Music Work Jlow. Freshmen Participation After Try-outs Iri Fall—Bands, Orchestras Constitute Instrumental Organizations Possessing vocal and instiumunti ivoiablc imputations throughout the oilumty'for varied evlin-curricular o Oigamzed m 1002, the men’s gre illegiatc Glee Club in 1914 and sim oi four consecutive years the Club wi Itib Association. Under the leader lip oi Ridiard W. Giant, director of 10 dopaitment of music, the Club was ade up of sixty-seven students last jar. With tryouts taking place early in ictohcr, the men’s group affords an pportunity for first year men to take art in the activity from the beein ing of their collegiate work In last oar’s organization, sixteen membeis 'ere freshmen, twenty were sopho ioios, sixteen mniors, and fifteen 'ere seniors. This distribution has con given to show the opportunity n freshmen of making the group ither than os any fixed distribution flicthei the freshman class this year ill have sixteen representatives on ic Glee Cluli depends entirely on the dent which then mombers show in 10 Fall tiy-outs. In addition to the advantages of raining given to members of tho ioup, the Glee Club makes numerous ppoarancc' - ' throughout the College eai It gives concerts throughout ic State as well as to College audi ices and takes part in the mtercol >giatc contests which are held every print,. Pleljos in Military Band Selected by competition from the up jrclnosmen in the Glee Club, a Vai ty Male Quartet is chosen. This rrup has attained popularity for its jht. senu-populoi, humorous type of usic In addition to supplementing ■gulai Glee Club performances the uutet appears at smokers and gath ings of all kinds. Like opportunities for vocal work re afforded women students at Penn tatc Both a Glee Club and a quar it aic organized eaily in the yeai on competitive basis. Usually consist ig of fifty members, the women’s ioup sponsois the production of tality choral music and makes at nsf one public appearance, usually i the form of a mid-winter concert ho quartet is chosen from the mem ;rs of the Ulee club and makes ap mrancos with that group and at var us social affairs Band work for freshmen is con ned to the military organization Inch plays at the student Monday ‘teinoon reviews. First'year men •c selected on a competitive basis and •o excused from all other R. 0. T. C. ork. Two nights a week are de )ted to piactico The ; fieshman roup lemams intact throughout the ist two years of College while in the inor and senior years members of io Blue Band are recruited from REASONABLE PRICES Penn State Laundry 320 West Beaver Avenue Phone 124 HORSEBACK RIDING SPECIAL TICKETS ON EASY TERMS Beginners—6 P. M., .Daily Other Groups—4 P. M. FREE INSTRUCTIONS—MAKE RESERVATIONS Students, Ask About Phys. Ed. Credits CAMPUS SADDLE SCHOOL Rear of Hotel and Theatre Phone 9799 TUXEDOS TAILS Made-to-Measure Garments Suits $25.00, $29.50, $34.50 / Suits Pressed Free Entire School Year / Nationally j Justly 5 Known 'j^ Famous For Clothes Becoming to You, You Should Be Coming to Us Freshmen—Make this store your headquarters. HATS ® SWEATERS IB , • al organizations which have attained East, Penn State affords students op letivitics along musical lines. •oup became affiliated with the Inter* ice that time has progressed rapidly ms champion of the Pennsylvania Glee tin'll ranks. Consisting of seventy-five pieces, the Blue Band is the premier unit of the College It appears at all football games at home and at a majority of those played away. Concerts and other appearances at athletic events complete its program Under the di rection! of Bandmcbtcr Wilfi':d O Thompson, the Blue Band is made possible by financial aid given by the Athletic association, the School of Phvsical Education, and by the de partment of military science and tac tics. • A college symphony orchestra, num bering about sixty memflirs, gives several concerts throughout the year and plays at the Commencement ex cicises and at a few outside engage ments. The performers of the orch estra aic selected by competition from tho entire student body. Twenty ono freshmen were included in its organization last year. STUDENT COUNCIL ELECTED YEARLY {Continued from first -page) The House of Representatives deals with rules of lesser importance, gov erning the women’s dormitories, quiet hour, signing out for social privileges, and appoints all chairmen of social events. This group has no voice on any of the Senate’s actions, merely making suggestions to the higher gov erning body. Open Politics Here Class officers at Penn State are elected each spring at a time desig nated by Student Council. Men and women students have separate elec tions and elect a different set of offi cers An elections committee ap pointed from the Council is responsi ble for the proper carrying out of an Elections Code which has previously been adopted and the violation of which will disqualify any candidate. A system of “open politics” is car ried out at Penn State. Various gioups of fraternities, clubs, or a number of non-fraternity men may organize under a party name and nom inate students for. the class officers Officeis of the freshman class, hgw evei, arc not elected in this manner, but are chosen at a class meeting af ter several nominees have presided at previous class meetings. NEW Senior Class Women's President M. LYDIA lIALLEIt '32 STUDENTS ORGANIZE INTO MANY CLUBS Groups With Common Interests Form for Professional, Social Benefits Filling a need for assembling: groups of students with common in-1 teroats, ninny clubs have been organ ized at Penn S.ate and then num ber is constantly inuoasing as new interests arise. The mnjonty of the clubs have no requirements of class ranking but en roll mcmbeis fiom students who aie interested m becoming members for the social, professional, and othei ad vantages One of Jie oldest clubs on the cam pus is the Penn State club, an organi zation of the non-fraternity men. It seeks to provide for its members the same advantages that arc possessed by membeis of fraternities The club holds an all-Collegc dance ns well as other social functions, promotes inter unit athletic competitions, and aids non-fraternity men in becoming bet ter acquainted. Non-fraternity men of all classes arc eligible foi member ship The president of the organiza tion is an ex-officio member of Stu dent Council. Cosmopolitan Club The Outing Club has for its aim the promotion of interest m all foims (Continued on page eight) “Freshman”—AUSTlN'S BARBER SHOP WELCOMES V 017—The Ontj Second Floor ttarlicr Simp In Town “There’s a Iteanon" Why Vou, Too. Should Cllmh the Stair* (SIVE US A TRIAL Acrovi from Foul Office on Allen Street EGOLFS FRONT CAMPUS DRY GOODS and NOTIONS LINGERIE ' BLANKETS “You Can Get It at Metzger’s” Penn State Seal Stationery 60c to $1.75. Fountain Pens $1.50 to $lO.OO. Eversharp Pencils. Student Desk Lamps $l.OO to $7.50. Alarm Clocks and Watches $l.OO to $6.50 Penn State Pennants—Banners. Pillow Tops, Souvenirs Athletic Goods of All Kinds Official Gym Uniform. White Jerseys. White Pants Sweat Shirts Sweat Pants Rubber Soled Shoes L. K. METZGER, THE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN HONOR SOCIETIES REWARD FRESHMEN 36 Upperclass Groups Choose Students for Success In Varied Lines Two freshman scholastic honoiaiv fraternities give the enihest recog mtion to •jtudents who have been suc cessful m scholai ship during then first semester Thirtv-st\ upiiciclasl - recognize fuither achieve ment in various lines Intel in the col legiate career. Phi Eta Sigma awaids membci ship to all freshmen who at tho end of their first semester have attninec a 2.5 minimum average and to al 1 who raise their giade to that by tin end of the first yeui. With chnptei' m twenty-nine colleges thioughout the country, between Unity-five am forey gain membership to the Ponr State chapter. Alpha Lambda Delta sistei fraternity to Phi Ela Sigma performs the same functions foi tin women students. Each yem fioir five to eight women usually fulfill tin 2 5 requirement The honorary fraternities usual!' set up a minimum standard which i* necessary foi a student to secure be fore ho is considered for mcniboiship Membeiship is not automatic on the fulfilling of the paiticulai require ment but depends on an election held I by the active chapter at the College Neatly every line of college activity— scholarship, journalism, debating— has its honoiancs which usually ■•lect juniois and seniors When undci classmen have been exceptionally out standing and the society ruling pei mits exception is made to the custom of excluding underclassmen Elec tions are m mos. cases held twice a year, one in the fall and anothei in the spring. Journalistic Work The highest tanking honomry foi the recognition of scholarship in all schools is Phi Kappa Phi which was established at Penn State in 1000 To become eligible foi election a student must be in the uppei twentieth of the class on the condition that his avci age is at least 24. Election takes place in the senior yeai. Election to membeislup in Pi Delta Epsitonj men’s national fraternity, is on the basis of achievement m journalistic work on the campus pub lications Alpha Theta Epsilon is the women's journalism society. Alpha Beta Sigma is a professional journal istic fraternity foi men students ma- (Continucd on page four) Text Books and Student Supplies Complete as Low as $5.35 Complete Line of Smokers Supplies UNION WILL START SECOND YEAR HERE (Continued fiom page one) vcnis, one expuing each year. The Union, according to the plan would receive and act upon recom mendations concerning student wel fare, make it possible for a group to seek advice concerning its piojects, act ns a doming house for dates of ‘■vents pei taming to student interest, seive ns a source of general informs ion through the Union manager, and ulvise the administration on the uses *o which the Union feutures of Old Main should he put Elect Permanent Officers The Union has no legislative power nor is it a supemsoiy body, accord ng to the ratified plan It deals with jioups and TiOk individuals and has no| nowei ovei its component groups ex cept in making suggestions in the orm of recommendations after un minious consent of the commutes. The student members are named by *ho constituent gioups. As ratified ij the Senate committee this orgoni ■atirm was to be tiled for one year iftei winch all necessary and ndvis iblo changes were to be made Following the election of perma icnt officers, the Union organized a nass, meeting following the boxing nteicollegiatcs, held an “open house," and acted as a souice of student in foimation thiough its bureau situat ed on the main flooi of Old Main. It also advised the ndnumstra.ion on the use of Old Main as a student center and received favoiable action fiom its recommendations Following the election of now rep resentatives foi the 1931-19.12 Union and the election of officers, the retir ing president in commenting on the Union said “During the first yeai of its existence the Student Union has unified activities to a greater ex tent than has evei been done before.” ENROLLMENT HERE LARGE , Although the depression has cut the emollment of many colleges Rog istrai Hoffman, of Penn State expects the College emollment here to be at least ns large as last year. J. B. MINGLE Fust Class Shoe Repairing 11G Fiazei Street r visf# r \ HE |\ ITTSS"9 lON . J ' -‘I ' l State CmXEGEIPENNsyLVfINirt On Penn State Campus EXTENDS GREETINGS TO THE FRESHMEN CLASS Visiting Families Will Find Delightful Accommodations at Moderate Rates —Booklet on Request LEGENDS TELL OF EARLY STUDENTS (Continued f>om fiat page ) trousers, students considered then ward-robe foi the yeai complete. There were less pleasant moments for freshmen who aimed shortly uf tci the turn of the centuiy than for thoso of 1931. The Old Main bell unger could 101 l about it “Believe me, those boys don’t know how easy they have it,” he said “In 1902 when the boys came m to town they were started off with a bang. No sooner had they stepped from the drays that hauled them from Lemont, but some lowdy sophomores got a hold of them and made ? eni walk the chalk line ” “It wasn’t anything for tho fieshies to be greeted with a lot of old tonia j tbes oi eggs thrown at them ” 1 Pleasanter memories? suuouml the banquets which each class held, and the scraps which surrounded their oc cutrence with an added savor. To Willinmsport, to Bellefonte, or some othei nearby town, tho class-mates would go, pursued by othei classes. At one time sophomores greased the railroad tiacks near the college to prevent the freshmen front setting out on tho expedition Even after 1871, when co-eds were first udmitted to the college, “dates" were scarce Not only was the supply ol available young women limited, but written permission from tho president and the dean of women was required beforehand. For a number of yeais no more than five co-eds were en rolled at any one time Changes in the yeais have obscured ‘ SPECIAL STUDENT DESK and BRIDGE LAMPS Double Sockets—Lamp Cord—Attachment l’luf™. EDISON MAZDA LAMPS Regular Carton Type 51.20 for SI .OS All Kinds, of Electrical Supplies G. E. REFRIGERATORS All Kinds of Repair Work Electric Supply Company Opposite Postoffice 1 202 Allen Street A “Real New England Inn*’ John .V. LeVine, lieitdenl M< 111 Allen Street Pago Tin DEBATING OFFERS CHA; FOR MANY PAKTICIIV 0 (Continued pom fiat pa<y< speeches, anil delivciv constitute work of the squad Hew .ml achievement in forensic lines is i foim of a Key given hv the Colic uny student who pin ticip.itcs u intercollegiate debates in one ve. For the puipoae of administ debating alFuns, there is n Foi Council made up of nine mu appointed bv the scnioi cl.is-, dent fiom the three uppei cl.is-e president is elected and holds bership on the Student Count il Forensic Council sponsois the i muiul debate contest and .lids i Sophomore Speaking Contest which all sophomores are* cligil compete many old legends, anti with Hi pemance of new the old has 1 but foui years fiom now some bei ot the class of ITU! will pic ask, as have thousands before* “Do you remember .. Get Acquainted With THEPENN PRINTING CO. Opposite Postoffiec Phone 871-J State College, Pa. SWEEPER' RADIOS
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