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VOL. 28, No. 3
RALLY TO CLOSE
FRESHMAN WEEK
PROGRAM TONIGHT
Athletic Association Sponsors
'Meeting as End of 1935
'Orientation Period _
LEWIS ’32 WILL PRESIDE
AT 8 O’CLOCK ASSEMBLY
Speakers Include Hugo Bezdek,
Larry Conover, Hermann,
,W. A. A. President
As the last meeting of the seyenth
annual Freshman Week all freshmen
will attend a meeting sponsored by
the Athletic association in Schwab
auditonum_at B,o'clock tonight. Al
fred E. Lewis ’32, president of the
association, will preside. >
Since this is the last gathering of
the class of 1935 before the opening
of the fall term, ail first-year stud
ents, men and women, are expected to
be present. Marie E. McMahon '32,
president of £h'e Women's
association, will speak.
Director of- 1 Athletics Hugo Bezdek
is scheduled 'w address the assembly
and Larry Conover, freshman foot
ball and basketball coach, together
with Dutch Hermann, assistant foot
ball coach • and' varsity basketball
mentor, will say a few words to the
class of 1935. All of the varsity
coaches will be present and will be
introduced by Lewis.
Grant To Lead Singing.
’in ordey to, fulfill the purpose of
the meeting, to acquaint the fresh
‘men with the athletic coaches and
captains of the various, sports, Lewis
will present all the varsity mentors
and sports leaders with the exception
of Ted McKune, . soccer-and- tennis,
captain, who is on his way Jo State
Collego from his home in Johannes
burg, South Africa.
> The singing of College songs and
the freshman class song wijj be un
der the direction of Prof. Richard
Grant, director of music, while Wil
liam B. McCarter '32, head cheer
leader,will be Jin hand with Jiis staff
of assistants to add spirit and pep
to this all-athletic meeting.
P. S. C. DIRECT
DISCUSSION SERIES
Will Conduct, First Group Meeting
For Tomorrow
In. Little Theatre -
The Penn State Christian associa
tion will conduct the first of a series
of four informal discussion groups
for freshmen tomorrow night at 7:45
o’clock in the Little Theatre m the
basement of Old’Main. _ *t
Those groups will precede the or
ganization of. the Hugh Beaver club
The Hugh Beaver club ib the fresh
man . organization of the Christian
association. The general topic for
discussion is, ‘How Con I Get the
Most Out of College?’
~ Prof. J. Orvis Keller, head of the
department of engineering extension,
will conduct the discussion on ‘Frat
ernities’ tomorrow. Next Wednesday
night Dr. Harold, A. Alderfer, assist
ant professor of political science, will
head the discussion group. Prof John
H. Frizzell will .head the succeeding
meeting.
COLLEGE WILL EXTEND
RULE ON AUTOMOBILES
To Restrict Use of Cars lit Borpugh
By Students Living Here
Students at the College who reside
in or near State College will hayp to
have a special College permit in or
der to operate automobiles within the
community this year, according to a
now regulation announced yesterday
by Dean of Men Arthur R. Wqrnock.
Only students needing an automo
bile in somo legitimate business qnd
those Who commute from their homes
daily or reside in State College will
be permitted to operate automobiles
within the community bounds. Per
mits for these students must be sec
tioned by their parents and approved
by the dean of men and the
tendont 'of grounds and buildings.
“Because of numerous accidents
and;abuse of the student automobile
privilege last year, the College will
take'stringent measures this year Jo
enforce the automobile regulations,”
Dean Warnock stated.'
Classes'Will Begin .
’ At 1:10 Tomorrow
■First semester classes will start
at 1:10 o’clock" tomorrow afternoon.
All students' are held responsible
for attending classes from this
time'on.
Drop and add cards must be
executed within the two-week per
iod following opening of classes. If
a student changes courses after
this limit he receives a -2 for the
'subject dropped, according to a
College regulation.
32 APPOINTED TO
COLLEGE FACULTY
Trustees Name Hasek, Everett,
Banner, du Mont as New
Department Heads
The appointments of four new de
partment heads and thirty-two new
members of the faculty have been ap
proved by the Board of Trustees exe
cutive committee, as wel l as the
granting of nine leaves of absence
and acceptance of twenty-two resig
nations.
Dr. Carl W. Hasek succeeds Dr. Os
wald F. Boucke, who resigned be
cause of ill health, as head of the de
partment of economics and sociology.
The place in the mechanical engineer
ing department left vacant by the
death last year of Prof. Arthur J.
Wood will be filled by Prof. Harold
A. Everett.
The new head of the journalism
department, Prof. Franklin C. Ban
ner, will replace Prof. William T. Gib
bons, who had been acting head. One
of the newly appointed members of
the faculty, Prof. Francis M. du Mont,
will succeed the late Prof. Irving L
Foster as the head of the department
of romance languages.
Receive Leaves
..In the-Mineral-*lndustriesi.Schooi,
Prof. Albert W. Gauger will be di
rector of research, and Harry B.
Northrop director of the 'extension
department.
_ The following leaves of absence to
faculty members were announced
from the President’s office last week:
Haskell B. Curry, assistant professor
of mathematics, September 1, 1931,
to June 30, 1932—appointed National
Research Fellow in . Mathematics.
Ernest Koch, instructor m Gorman,
September 1, 1931, to June 30, 1932
has been awarded a Penfield scholar
ship and will take graduate work at
New York University.
H. J. Lutz, assistant professor of
forestry, September 1, 1931, to June
30, 1932—t0 take up graduate work
at the Yale Forest School under a
Charles Lathrop Pack Education
Board scholarship. S. K Stevens, in
structor in history, September 1,1931,
to Juno 30, 1932—t0 take up. gradu
ate work at Columbia University.
K. Carl Walz, instructor in English
(Continued on page three)
‘ls American College Mass
Production? ’ 'Fravilein Asks
Dr. Ella Drescher, Lee
Students on Visi
Finds Schoi
“Oh, Penn State, jt is just won
derful, but—isn’t it you
call it?—mass production?”
-•Dr. Ella Drescher, doctor, of laws at
Heidelberg university, in Germany,
leaned excitedly over her cup o£ black
coffee. For twenty hours she had ex
amined nil of Penn State that she
could.
"There are so many here Can they
all 1 be students, thinkers ? It docs
not seem to be so. And I find that
here they spend the first two years
m what you call high school work.
It 15 not like our universities " ,
Fraulein Drescher came to Stato
College Friday afternoon with eleven
other students from foreign univer
sities whom she was “mothering."
Touring eastern colleges under the
auspices of tho International Student
Service, she goes next week to New
York city to study in the New York
School of Social Work as an exchange
student. She wants to be a juvenile
court judge.
“And the arts, they are the life
blood of us. To be without music,
for me it would be not to live v Yet
here you have stopped the fine musi
cians from coming here in your Ar
tists’ course, because too few listened
to them. To me, it is impossibloto
think of."
“Your students too do not seem to
STATE COLLEGE, PA., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1931
WOMEN GROUPS
BEGIN RUSHING AT
NOON TOMORROW
Fraternities To Seek Members
, From Sophomore Class
In Annual Period
•MRS. ERNEST B. FORBES
WILL EXPLAIN NEW CODE
Panhcllcnic Council Sanctions
' Use of Automobiles for
Carrying Rushees
Rushing by women’s fraternities
will open at noon tomorrow, when
fraternity women will begin an or
ganized search for new members
from the sophomore class. 1
To acquaint the rushees with the
revised Panhelicnic code, a sophomore
women's .class meeting will be held
at 6:45-o’clock tomorrow night. Mrs.
Ernest B. Forbes, advisor to the Pan
hcllenic Council, will ‘discuss the pro
hibitions .and permissions of the new
regulations and distribute pamphlets
containing data relative to the frater
nal organizations.
An informal party is defined in the
code as a gathering at winch no more
than six rushees and six fraternity
women are present. With the amend
ment of th-s code, cars may be used
to transport the rushees to and from
formal and informal parties Rushees
may bo entertained overnight in wo
men’s fraternity houses during the
entire rushing period.
Formal Parties Arranged
Uncomplimentary talk .about frat
ernities by fraternity women or
rushees is condemned by the -code,
which stipulates that not more than
three dollars may be spent on infor
mal'; gatherings. , Reportaof viola
tions'of the code must be written and
signed by the accuser and presented
to the rushing chairman. The Coun
cil as a whole will mete out punish
ment.
Letters explaining the importance
of observing the regulations have
been sent to the presidents of the
women’s fraternities by Miss Eleanor
M. Hill ’32, president of Panhelicnic
Council, and Miss Dorothy W. Cum
mings ’32, chairman of the rushing
committee.
The senes of formal rushing par
ties will start at 6, o'clock Monday
night, and continue' until the follow
ing Friday. Two parties will he held
each night, the first from 6 to 8
o’clock and the second from 8 30 to
10 30 o’clock.
STEIDLE TO PRESENT PAPER
Dean Edward Stcidle, of the School
of Mineral Industries, will present a
paper as part of tho program of the
National Metal Congress, which is be
ing held this week in Boston, Mass.
xding Group of Foreign
it to Penn State,
01. Different
feel a&'Wc do that from the universi
ties must come the thought and-ac
tion that must save the world of na
tions now gasping in a terrific cat
aclysm.' Our students arc ail trying
for what thoy can do. Sometimes
they are far wrong but they try.”
“Oh, but Ido like Penn State It n»
different from us, that is all. At our
universities, research by individual
students is the aim Here you are
trying to educate as mnny as pos
sible. That is a great thing, real de
mocracy. But you do lose sometimes
what we treasure above all—acad
emic liberty.”
“Facts, that is what the American
student always wants. ‘Give us tho
facts,’ they Bay, while the German
student speaks in great generalities
and m fine theories. That docs not
get things done the way the Amer
icans do.”
“Women students here are more
keenly questioning, I think,” said Dr.
3 teacher, smiling, “they seem to
ant to Jtnow more about the great
things thut arc happening to this
world. Maybe they will solve them
instead of tho men.”
“Again, very much do I like Penn
State—this College -that is a whole
town alone.”
"Awf WicderBchcn, ,,
Suave Greeks Cater
To Freshman Whims
In Rushing Turmoil
The rush is on in full swing ....
Suave seniors, jaunty juniors, sopho
mores forget their interests to thaw
out bewildered freshmen.
Six brothers escorting two pros
pects around the,,Corner .... They
disappear into the movies . .». . A
car swings into-Allen street ....
Freshmen sit -. . . Greeks
man the mnning'-boards ....
Two • upperclassmen protect a
rushce from a Froth salesman ....
The unabashed entrepreneur returns
to his scat on tho table .... Cheer
ful hellos arc exchanged Intro
ductions .. . . nTore introductions
“Pardon, I’ve forgotten your
The looking like the Great
White Way . . . v Chords of the ‘Al
ma Mater’ boom-in questionable har
mony from a nearby house ....
Everywhere is . courtesy . . . Some
forget .... and} carry it oyer when
speaking to intimates ....
Now the fraternities quiet down as
mobs begin their trek . . .to a meet
ing .... a movie .... an evening
ride. More sodas arc drunk ....
more dates made. Later in the night
the brothers gather .... and talk
and talk ... .In the late hours a
few venture out ‘for more nourish
ment .... they;.'got up weary the
next noon . . and rush ....
and rush for ten'morc days.
FORSTER ELECTED
ALUMNLPRESIDENT
Executive Committee Appoints
6 Officials to Function
For Coming Year
I. G. Gordon of Phila
delphia, was president of the
Alumni association a meeting of
the Executive board of the organiza
tion m Old Main Saturday morning.
He, as welt as the other new officers,
will serve for one year.
Mrs Ethel C Sparks ’l6, of Ruth
erford, N. J, will act as vice presi
dent, along with 11. W. Montz 'O7, of
Wilkes-Barre, and Earl E Hewitt ’3O,
of Indiana Dr. Ralph L. Watts ’9O,
dean' of the Agriculture school, was
elected secretary, while Edward K
Hibshman ’O9 will continue as execu
tive secretary. '
Council Elected Each Year
The Executive board also consid
ered plans for Alumni Homecoming
and activities for this year. Work
of district alumni clubs and organiza
tion of clubs in those districts which
now arc unorganized also was dis
cussed. The board meets on an aver
age of four times a year to consider
matters of general alumm interest.
Officers of the Alumni association
serve also as officers of the Execu
tive board. Members of the board
arc chosen each year by the Alumni
council, which is made up of repre
sentatives elected by the members of
each alumni district. Council mem
bers also are elected for one-year
terms.
The Executive board is made up of,
m addition to the officers, C. C Hil
debrand ’92, Philadelphia, J. T. Har
ris, ’97, Harrisburg, R. M. Rumble,
'O3, Pittsburgh, H. I. Smuh 'O7,
Washington, D. C., J. E Watson ’ll,
Jeannette, and Miles Horst ’l4, Leb
anon. '
4 DAILY BUSES OPERATE ON
NEW LINES THROUGH TOWN
Four buses pass through State
College daily according to the sched
ule begun Tuesday by a line operating
between Scranton and Pittsburgh.
The route includes Altoona, Tyrone,
State College, Centre Hall, Lcwis
burg, Sunbury, Wiikes-Barrc, with
regular stops at all intermediate
points.
Pittsburgh-bound passengers must
use the local State Colicge-Tyronc
buses, boarding the new line at Ty
rone. The buses will leave Co-op
corner for Scranton at 4 03 p. m. and
3:53 a. m., while the Pittsburgh buses
will, leave at 2'41 p. m. and 2*56 a.
m. Extra buses will be run on oc
casions when student demands exceed
the ordinary amount.
FIRE CAUSES SLIGHT LOSS
A small fire in the north wing of
the College service building was
caused early Saturday-Tught when
two oil mops became ignited by spon
taneous combustion. Much smoke
was produced by the miniature blaze
bir v no considerable damage resulted.
President Hetzel Will Address
College Convocation Tomorrow;
Student Enrollment Nears47oo
1130 Freshmen Register
During Regular
Period
ATTENDANCE INCREASE
GREATEST IN HISTORY
50 Matriculate at Mont Alto;
Graduate School Shows
Slight Advance
Resident students at the 'College
will total 4,700 at the close of the
regular registration in Recreation
hall this afternoon, according to a
forecast by Registrar William S
Hoffman. This would be the largest
number for any.semester up to the
present
Surpassing last year’s total by four,
1,130 first year students had regis
tered up to 5 o’clock Friday, when
the regular freshman registration
ended. This number is exclusive of
late registrants, who arc expected to
bring the freshman aggregate to 1,-
250.
Over fifty first year men were
scheduled to matriculate at the Mont
Alto forestry school yesterday. This
number, which was expected to ex
ceed last year’s by at least five, is
included in the estimated 1,250 grand
total.
Changes Cause Tardiness
Special and transfer students regis
ter along with the three upper classes
at regular registration, Mr. Hoffman
stated. There is a smaller percent
age of-this type of students here than
in perhaps any other college in the
state, he said.
Omission of takmg the photographs
of registrants, as in former first
semester registrations, is the only
difference in the routine of registra
tion this year, Mr. Hoffman stated.
Late registration by freshmen is
explained on the basis of changes in
curriculum and late acceptance by the
College. As freshman schedules are
made up by the College scheduling
officer before the opening of Fresh
man Week, a change in curriculum
necessitates complete revision of the
schedule.
Graduate Students Increase
“Business conditions at the present
time arc favorable to large college
enrollments,” Registrar Hoffman said
m confirming a recent statement by
him which appeared in a Philadelphia
newspaper “When an unfavorable
employment situation exists, persons
turn to education This is shown by
the fact that 2,200 applied, for ad
mission to the Penn State freshman
class this year, the highest number
on record.”
More students will enter the Grad
uate School this year than in any
previous registration, according to
Dr. Carl E. Marquardt, College ex
aminer Graduate students will reg
ister in the office of the dean of the
Graduate School rather than at the
regular place of registration.
CASHDOLLAR, MILLER
REPORTED IMPROVING
Recover From Injuries Sustained
In Automobile Accident
Howard L Cashdollar ’3l and Ken
.neth N. Miller ’33 were reported as
improving yesterday -from injuries in
an automobile accident in which Miss
Helen F. Brooks and Robert M
Hippie '3l were killed near State Col
lege on July 29.
Cashdollar, who suffered a frac
tured skull, has been in serious con
dition for a long time and his im
provement has been only recent. Mil
ler sustained severe injuries and he,
like Cashdollar, did not regain con
sciousness for some time after the
accident.
The occupants of the front seat,
Miss Brooks and Htpplc, were killed
almost instantly. The former, a
graduate of Wilson college, would
have received her Master’s degree
while Hippie would have completed
work for his Bachelor's degree in
time' for Summer Commencement.
ATTENDS ANIMAL EXPOSITION
Prof. Franklin L Bentley of l tho
animal husbandry department is at
tending the Eastern States exposi
tion at'Spnngfield, Maes., this week.
TO PRESIDE During Convocation
Tomorrow Morning
DEAN ARTHUR R. WARNOCK
A. A. WILL EXCHANGE
FOOTBALL COUPONS
{Students May Receive Colgate,
Pitt Tickets Following
Game Saturday
The coupons ntcachod to the ath
letic cards which students received
at registration yesterday and today,
may be exchanged for tickets to the
University of Pittsburgh and Colgate
games at any time after tho begin
ning of the football season Satuiday,
Neil M Fleming, graduate manager
of athletics, has announced.
Athletic cards for 1931-32 will not
contain the student’s picture as in the
past two years The graduate man
ager said that the picture did not pre
vent other students from using the
card The size and shape of the card
have not been changed
Seating Assignments Made
Tickets for the Temple, Syracuse,
Lafayette, and West Virginia games
will be on sale during the entire foot
ball season and may be purchased
from the Athletic association in Old
Main during office hours The ath
letic cards arc only good for gumes
on the campus.
The usual allotment of fraternity
tickets has been set aside and draw
ings for these sections will be held
soon after the opening of College
Juniors and seniors will sit on the
West side of New Beaver Field, while
freshmen and sophomores will sit on
the East side
THEOLOGIAN GIVES
CHAPEL ADDRESS
Van Duscn Asserts College Offers
Students Historic Outlook,
Controlling Purpose
That college gives a student a his
toric perspective, a personnl pcispee
tive, and a controlling purpose was
asserted by the Rev. Harry F, Van
Duscn, associated professor of sys
tematic theology and the philosophy
of religion at Union Theological Sem
inary in New York City, before an
audience composed almost entirely of
freshmen in the Auditorium Sunday
morning
“The first essential of a general
education is a historic perspective.”
the speaker said. “It is gamed in
college, a period of motal stability,
and is ncquired when studying his
torical subjects.”
In discussing “What College Does
To Us,” the speaker cxplntncd that
personal perspective is confidence in
one’s own inner self whilo a steady,
dominating, controlling puipose may
be defined ns one’s insight or inter
est in reform today.
COMPLETE INSPECTION TRIP
Juniors and seniors in the inndscnpc
architecture curriculum returned from
an inspection trip jn which they vis
ited Philadelphia, Atlantic City, and
points in Delaware and Maryland
Prof John R. Bracken, of 'the horti
culture department, accompanied the
students on tire tour.,
ESTABLISHED
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Influences Arising Here
Constitute Topic
For Speech
WARNOCK TO PRESIDE
AT OPENING ASSEMBLY
Invocation by College Chaplain
Opens Service—Blue Band
Prepares Program
New forces moulding Penn Stato
will be defined and examined by
President Ralph D. Hetzel at an all-
College convocation in Recreation hall
at 10 30 o’clock tomorrow morning.
Dean of Men Arthur R Warnock
will preside at the meeting Prof
John S Frizzell, acting College chap
lain, will open the ceremonies with an
invocation.
The president will devote part of
his speech to an explanation of new
influences which are shaping the fu
ture of the College. The passing of
the five thousand mark in resident
enrollment, the now athletic policy,
the building of fifteen new units un
der a revised plan for physical plant,
the expansion of the Giadunte school
to a major College concern, the new
role of the alumnus in College af
fairs; all those topics will be discuss
ed by the picsidcnt.
The old traditions which may bo
held over into the future Penn State
will be outlined by the speaker Those
thoughts and practices which must be
discarded in the forward progress of
the College will be biought to the
audience’s attention.
Blue Key To Usher
Penn State songs will ring through
the beams of the big hull when Prof.
Richard W Grant, direciot of music,
leads the entire assembled College in
familiar music. Tho Blue Band,
crack student musical organization,
will make its first appearance of the
coming year.
The freshman class, sealed in the
noith balconies, -will sing their class
song accompanied by the newly or
ganized freshman band. Tho convo
catairm will end with the singing of
the Alma Mater.
Arrangements have been made for
die faculty to be seated facing the
audience on the right .side of the plat
form. while the Blue Band will be
placed on the left sub* Juniors and
seniors are assigned to the seats on
the mam floor of the hall The south
balcony is icservcd for the sophomoro
class
Blue Key, junior campus society,
will usher. This occasion is the only
time khroughout the semester at
which the entire student body and
faculty is gathered together as a
unit College officials believe that
this convocation offers an outstand
ing opponumtv for students to gain
a Hue impression of the whole Penn
State.
WPSC WILL BROADCAST
HOME FOOTBALL GAMES
Chapel Services Included in Year’s
Expanded Radio Program
All vaisitv football games taking
place at Stiuc College will be broad
cast this ycai, officials of WPSC, Col
lege ladio station, announced yester
day
Descriptions of the' Waynesburg,
Lebanon Valley, and Dickinson games
will start at 2:15 o’clock on the after
noons of the centers. Including ac
counts or pre-game activities, broad
casts of the Pittsburgh and Colgate
encountois will begin at 1.45 o’clock.
Plans for this year’s expanded
radio service also include the broad
casting of College chapel services
each Sunday. They will go on the
air at 11 o’clock every Sunday morn
ing.
FILLS NEW FACULTY POST
Dr. Raymond E. Murphy, formerly
of the Wisconsin university, was re
cently appointed the College’s first
economic geogrnphci. In this posi
tion, Dr. Murphy will make a survey
of conditions in the state which is ex
pected to be of great benefit to lo
cnhucs which aie at present depend
ing on a single industry or natural
resource. ,