Peke Tgo PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Published semi-weekly during the College Tear. swept on holidays. he students nf The Penne,lvisnlo 'state College. In the interest of the College. the students. alumni. and friend. THE lIIANACINC BOARD R. RILEY an wraovr7 L RFTINI '22 raimr Ittninm4 lilnnußcr 1111(20 R rnrAtt 'to SAMUEL SINCLAIR . 12 Mannrlnte rumr Circulation Matunme rnwAnt. W WHIT!. 'l2 LIN 1 rittl 'l2 Advertlylnc Itanyeer EDWARD 5 SITRING EorelLn Achl 31anlrer COLLIN E I INK •9^_ ArAlsinnt nulls.; 711F000RE A SFRRII.I, 'l2 Snort, moor WILLIAM II 1112126 'l2 Mit Clrenhtion Inemn.er JCSSE C SIeKFON 12 Nrx• Fthtor 9TEWART TOIVNSI- NO •32 Neu, Editor AthertlAing Monn.er MARY 11 WRIGHT 12. MARGARET . I , CIIAN 92 Women . . rditor Wontrtin Mlnaulnr rolitor I 0111 SI MARQUARDT '32 INomen's No,l Fdßor I=l Sidney it T 1,111.111113 Raba) D Hard Jr •91 Robert r Trehan 33 Donta.l P Mr . 33 C.JIIItt C. Slonmrtr 13 IN hard V Wall '37 V. J. Wllltarni Jr 17 . I rant II Vukonskar 13 %TOM'. VS ASSOCIATE riwrons lOn:inn P 11n5..11 11 I S-Al.eth II WI. •CI Isibel McFarland 'l3 ASSOCIATE BUSINESS \ TANAGERS Paul W !bereft In •11 Rolm. rt M Ilirrinelon LI Alfred W Ileme Jr •33 lVellard TI Need, 11 Arthur F Fluildel %Id =lM==l FRIDAY, NOVERBER 6, 1931 JUMPING A STONE WALL Annually stholais and others in each of the thice vimerclasses ate nominated and selected fin Jan W. White and Louise Carnegie scholarships; the meetings fat elections, no otter how much energy Is spent in ?mining a lepresentatne guar um, sic raiment affairs. The men who are chosen ale, disiegaiding their quali fications, the men who can command and trade ft ater rity Notes, lather than the needy whose support is often Novel m recent Yeats has thole been sufficient attendance at these meetings to justify any statement that the majority of the class made the selection.' It is fan ly obvious that cc en if students did ewe_ to CX01.90 any judgment on the question of uhom they considered earths, personal prejudice and clique meth ods ate sufficient to make student Notes almost useless And glanting that election is by the unbiased map - nay fuluch Is nes ei tine) the chances are still high that student selections ale not inclined to lie my judicial lot tunately the student selections ale suppleinented by a deans' list, ft one v Inch the final pi...unmet s are often taken An irvesligation of the situation last yeah, with a view to diminishing the difficulty by establishing a stu dent-faculty committee, culminated in the discrnm y that the deed, of gift tot these anal ds could not, ro it is said, be changed These deeds made allowance for selection in clam meetings, and no otho method could lie substituted It mould be unlawful to disregard these commands which have been out-dated Yet essentially the faculty committee on academic .tarclards IS best qualified to make any selection, and it is impossible for this body lawfully to select a candidate rf merit whose name has been eliminated in a class meeting, unless he chances to he picked by the dean To nvei come this difficulty, the only iecom se is to ad mit that student elections do mole harm than gond, and to eliminate the class elections eNcept as a mattei of formality. By limiting these class selection.; to a mole nomi nation of candidates, without omitting any'nernes by any I,oting pincess, it would be possible to pi esent the fac ulty committee M. Ith a complete hat of those who Al shed to petition scholainhip, No wrongs would be done A laughable spectacle would be elinunated. And the code the deed of gifts, unless scene pool lawvei s, nould be fulfilled THE FOUR-QUARTER SYSTEM Although the relative merits and demetits of the ,our-quattei system as opposed to the semester system PON, in operation bete have been matters of debate among Penn, State's faculty rot a number of- years, few undeigiaduates have the least idea concerning the qualities of the two opposing stews The foot-quarter plan divides the school year into tout tel autumn, ,Intel, spring, and summo The evmage student would schedule three cow ses each quin tet, each coot se usually mvol,lng five recant!nn ni lee tut e hours pm week. If the student schedules the sum mer tel Ins a college muse could be completed In three yeas s. A questionable issue deals with whether the com mittee appointed to study the quartet system accom plished its rematch at institutions which have used it in a "pate" form on whethei its research was confined to colleges which have attempted the system and failed be cause, after dividing the school yeas into quartets, they 11.111 scheduled classes under the semester plan On the other hand, those definitely opposed to the cuatter system cite the fact that the conditions under a Melt it has v.eibed successfully at Ohio State Unice, sity and Chicago ate vastly diffei eat lions those under I,i ionic it should he forced to operate at Penn State There have been many arguments presented both Inc and against the quai ten system. Prom all educational annilpoint, it has been pointed out, the concepts salon of rousse, would he o*qt emely beneficial, pal ticulasly to I.OOIIIMICS and language. The new plan would also Wind mole [mum tunity for students who are mu rung their way through college to shop out for a quarter at any time dm nig the year. The additional %cosh involved segistiation, and the additional class loom hems for each mtluctos ale factors against the new system which must be ,etiously considered. Thole will bp, no doubt, much controversy before the question of the edaptability of this system to Penn State's needs is settled. But the suggestions offeic4L Loth pin nod eon ale at least worthy of student dis co 5 sm. OLD MANIA We came nom, the cutest little catalog the other dap•. It', called Abgborts of Storbe.; in Education of the Peno..yleamo Store College, and it's put nut by the School of Education. There aren't any pictures, but them's a lot of ‘ely valuable dope For instance, do` tau have any idea how ten muscly school children null lona in play with blocks and kiddy bats? What do you Lana about the olfectnene, of keeping after ,chool as a means of collecting Tailrace In mathe matics? Hoe. accurate is a stop-watch? What! Yoe don't know ' Well, nn page 30 there is n study in education called Reactions of Ten Nurscuy School Children in Play 00th Blocks and Kiddy Kars This article says that the ...elation hetaseen age and kiddy kars is - 617 (We had suspected this all along ) On page 51 is a study called The Effectiveness of Keeping After School as a Means of Collecting Fail ures in Mathematics, in ulna, a party named Ben tha Svpiit.7 uses a Comilla six inches long to prove that making a high school student stay often school doesn't ,mp, me his algeln a. (It novel 0010 oved ours, either.) On page 67 you'll find a study called The Accur acy of Tuning with the Stop Watch. This article maintains that persons using stop-uatches often make elm, of one-fifth of a second, and sometimes a whole second. If you'i e fussy about things like that, the cull !utmost you. Pelson:Illy, sse could 'level get veil , escded about one-fifth of a second It just doesn't seem snot th These ale all ahsti nets ft om theses for Master s' Degrees and show conclustvels that the School of 17.iluestam Is I milt op on its toes. Not to mention Dean Stmlilat t's In NI, Shearei's polar class, the talk got around to possible methods for getting people to vote. Some one made the suggestion that an Amendment be added to the Constitution uhich mould absolutely prohibit voting, and the polls set up in back alleys, with peep holes in the does, and caul, neeessmy lot admit tance. Possibly a poison could get in to vote by say ing that he was a fiend of Joe's. This stilLes us a.; being a very sane & progressive suggestion, and simply moves our contention that sohat this country need- is more college-ti ained politicians Tho only dorm-bock to the alcove scheme is the probability that the ballots ,ould he cut We net. nuns a chance to lead Arthur• Blisbane's column Planning as me are for a you nahstic career, it clams us immensely to Icahn that Bi !shone gets mod for mi sting Pm instance it seem,. that President-Hoover re cently congratulated Kemal PaVa, Turkish ruler, oh the birthday of the Turlisb Redublic. Mr Brisbane say, "Kemal deseises congratulations for wiping out much nonsense, veils on women' faces, control of ha mar being, on ear th by a telidious personage, sup posed to represent the prop Pet Mohammed, and especially for ending the nude of a viciously cotrupt, cruel and murderous Sultan." Noss uhen President Morel wipes not Empress Eugenic detbies, Ammo Semple Maerhelson, and Alphonse Capone, Kemal Pasha can turn right around and congritullte Piesulent Iloosel, and evelybody will be happl,. In this country there seems to be some direct association between buns & coffee. (The School of Education should look into this.) Judging !Min the Pucka, d that Al Buono & Flank Tejon, Moth mag nates, are clueing mound, thole seems to be some dual association between nuns & coffers. The bun is the lowest tom of wheat. Caterers ! Here's Some Good News 19.31 Food ,Values Are Exceptional ROYAL SCARLET PURE FOODS are or the Fine 4 Qualit) All cold-packed Fruits and Veg etahles—from where they grow the best—in man) cases better than so-called FRESH Products Sample Value Royal Scarlet No, 1 Fancy Donation Sliced Pineapple No 2 , /, Tins @ $225 1107011 Enunalent No 10 @,5700 doyen This item in 1930 sold for $335 doyen 120 Years in Business Enables R. C. WILLIAMS & CO., Inc. NEW YORK CITY to ser‘e you well through W. D. Cahert, Representathe Shoemaker Bldg. STATE COLLEGE Telephone 009-R-3 or 530 THE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Glancing Back (From Past 'Collegian' Files) 25 Year 4 Ago "Saturday, (October 13) foi the fist temt• in State's twenty years of football history, a varsity eleven was played to a stand still on Beav er field.•' The plucky aggressive team from Gettysburg college accom plished this feat in their great 0 to 0 game.... Never before hate State'? students seen their team unable tc moss the goal line cm Beaver field. . . This present season makes the twentieth in, State's gridiron annals, Ind during this period the elevens representing the White and Blue have won no less than fifty-five foot ball games upon Beaver field, with never a defeat nor tie game to mar the record" "The Cadets won new laurels for the College at the dedication of the capitol building in Harrisburg on Oct 1 .. In the reviewing stand were such prominent men as the President, the Governor .... The President (Theodore Roosevelt), as tNe Bat talion marched by, turned around and said to the Mayor ... "I have never seen a better drilled body of cadets in iny life" 20 Years Aga "One of the social events of the coming Thanksgiving season at Pitts burgh will be the concert given by the Musical clubs of Pittsburgh Untve, sity and those of Penn State. The clubs . hare been working for the past four weeks . and it bids fair to be a contest for supremacy." "Last Saturday the first agricul tural ham sent out this year by the Pennsylvania radioad completed a Once day's `tour through the west on part of ,the state The heads of the various departments in 'the Ag ricultural school gave lectures at (numerous) .... places along the line" li Year, tgo with the beginning of the second week of school there are sev enty-five girls enrolled in the fresh men class .. . The majority of the new girls have expressed then desire to take up' the study of domestic science while a few are taking up ag imultural and liberal arts subjects" "One of the most important things to be grasped by the new students this year is the Honor System .... This system was made effective slur ' ing thy - ,speing of 1915 .... The rules cmcludej .."If a student de tects any apparent dishonesty in a quiz or examination, he shall at once quietly inforin the offending party ShoUld the offender Persist, the attention of at least one other person shofild, be called . . and then the ease shalLby called to the honor committee ... ;The instruc tor in charge of the min .... re mains in the scam or leaves at the option of the majority of the stu dents present ... Should he re main, he cannot act as a proctor." EM=l "Penn State Is taking a prominent part in one of the foremost questions of the day and has the honor of be ing the otiginator of a College stu dent movement that will have no small influence on the future history of the world The largest colleges and universities of the country are taking a lively interest in the ques tion of booting the armaments-sup ported by the different nations .... Penn State and Princeton are leading in this far-reaching movement and both have planned conferences al though the plans formulated by tho Welcome H. P. Q'S Eff t3=2l Fountain._Service Tobaccos . , Candies Magazines H. I. Ward Allen Street 5 Experts Carve Intricate Design On Stone Pillars While the walls of the new Home Economics building are mounting ~a pidly, a small but impoi, tont bit of work is being catmed on in the little shelter next to the roadway in front of the. building Here the figured cap stones that will grace the tops of the fount columns of the building are being carved by five expert work men from New York City. A full week is needed to finish the carving of one side of a square cap, according to Peter Calcagni, one of the five carvers at work Intimate designs as well as delicate relief work are cut from the huge blocks of In diana limestone by means of chisel and hammer. Calcagni is a native of Italy al though he has been in this country men 1893. Born in a small Italian village near the Suitzeiland border, he began his apprenticeship in Milan at the age of twelve. His thirty eight years in America have been spent following the trade of stone .carver and In has visited all parts of the United States while plying his trade. "Work isn't as good as it used to be," he commented as he paused from his chiseling, "the rich people of the city are living in apartment houses instead of building homes of their own, and most of our wink nowadays is done on public buildings such as this " different institutions vary in certain fundamentals and both have their strong adherents . . The student body and Student Council adopted the plan .... and invitations were sent to twenty-three of the leading institu tions . to take part in the pro gram." "Educational extension courses for school teachers will be iostablisl.d throughout the state on a huge scale and the annual summer session for teachers will continue in its present popularity when Dr. Will Giant Chambers takes up his duties at Penn State within the next month Di. Chambers was for eleven years dean of the School of Education at the Uni versity of Pittsburgh and he comes to State College as dean of the Lib eral Arts extension courses and di rector of the summer session ...." HOME MADE COUNTRY SAUSAGE SCRAPPLE PUDDING Harter's Market Pugh Street State's Leading Dry Cleaners EXCLUSIVE Dollar Dry Cleaners Free Delivery Service K. V. BENNETT Opposite Postoffice ' Phone 444 Rea El ilerick4 Inc. 'CUT RATE SALE FOR FRIDAY AND SATURDAY "WHERE SPENDING IS SAVING" DENTAL SPECIALS 50e 'Eck Tooth Brush____3lc 1 R. D. 29 Sol. 59c 60c Bonded Magnesia Tooth Paste 39c 50c Pebeco Tooth Paste___29c 50c Pepsodent Tooth Paste 30c 50c Kolynos Tooth Paste 29c 25c Colgates Tooth Paste, 2 for 26c 40c Squibbs Tooth Paste__24c 50c Ipana Tooth Paste___29c $l.OO Listerine 63c 25e Philips Tooth Paste, 2 for 21c 50c S. 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