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VOL. 28, No. 26
Schedule of Dances
Approved by Board
Calendar Provides One
All-College Formal
, Every Month
SENIOR BALL TO OPEN
SEASON ON JANUARY 15
Military Ball, Soph Hop Retain
Same Week-End Dates
As Last Year
Pim/Wing for Senior Sall on Jan
uary 16 and an all-College dance each
month during the second semester,
Penn State's 1932 dance calendar
gained approval last night by Student
Board. The dates must yet be con
sidered by` the Senate Committee en
Student Welfare.
The 1932 class dance opens the so
cial season the second week-end after
the return to school following Christ-,
mas vacation. Home sports events
for January 16 include a basketball
game with 'Waynesburg and the open
ing of the boxing season against
Dartmouth •
Little more than a month later,
the annual Military Ball will be held
in Recreation hall, February 19, ac
cording to the proposed calendar.
The Lion court team will oppose West
Virginia and the boxing team will en
gage in its first meet with Pittsburgh
on the home floor the following night.
Dates Moved Up
Coming next in the succession of
social functions, Soph Hop will take
place Harch 4. The Pittsburgh bas
ketball team will pay its annual visit
to State College the following night
to engage the Nittany five in the last
home game of the season, while West
Virginia will come here to meet Penn
State's boxing team.
Although these dances are sched
uled for the same week-ends on which
they were held last year, the third
annual Interfraternity Ball will be
moved up a week to take place April
18, the Board decided. The dance
was held at the relatively late date
of April 17 last year hocause of the
late Easter vacation The recess will
end on March 29 this year.
Junior. Prom holds its customary
place at the end of the calendar May
6 This date also is moved up a week
from last year's and the Board felt
that this change should prove very
satisfactory because, in last year's
calendar, the Prom date of May 15
was only three weeks from Spring
Houseparty, June 4.
WORK STARTS ON
NEW LABORATORY
Part of Old blining Unit Converted
For Research in Household,
Textile Chemistry
Conversion of part of Old Mining
building into laboratories was begun
this week following action by the
College Board of Trustees. The new
laboratories will be used by the
School of Chemistry and Physics for
research in household and textile
chemistry, according to Dean Frank
C. Whitmore.
Several special laboratories will be
outfitted as soon as the necessary
service lines are installed in the
building, Dean Whitmore said. Re.
search will be carried on under the
direct supervision of Prof. Pauline B.
Mack, head of the division of textile
and household chemistry.
One of the new laboratories will
deal with laundry problems, Prof.
Mack said. Full size machinery such
as is used in commercial laundries is
to be installed. Part of this equip
ment has been in storage for some
time becaube the laboratory space
necessary for its use was not avail
able. Other machinery is being ob
tained from the laboratory of the
Pennsylvania Laundryowners' asso
ciation, which is supporting a fellow
ship here.
TEACHERS HEAR ANDERSON
Prof. Clarence S. Anderson, of the
agricultural education department,
yesterday addressed the vocational
section of the Washington County
Teachers institute at Washington.
The topic for his morning speech was
"Professional Improvement for Teach
ers of Agriculture," while in the af
ternoon lie spoke on "Objective Ex
aminations and Student Dishonesty."
Army Joins College
Boxing Association
The United States Military
Academy has accepted an invita
tion to become a member of the In
tercollegiate Boxing association
and will participate in the tourna
ment to be held at Syracuse, March
18 and 19, according to Francis C
Grant, secretary of the association.
Army will take the place of
Navy, which resigned at the close
of last season. In addition to
Finn State, other members of the
assn c lot ion are, Pennsylvania,
Syracuse, Western Maryland, and
Massachusetts Tech.
STUDENTS TO HOLD
CHRISTMAS DANCES
2 Intercollegiate Balls, 7 Penn
State Functions Planned
In Holiday Period
Seven distinctly Penn State dances
have been announced for various
'parts of the State during the Christ
' mas holidays in addition to intercol
legiate balls at Pittsburgh and Har
risburg
The first annual Penn State Schen-
Icy club dance ',III open the seises of
functions Wednesday, December 23
Following this, the Hazleton club of
Penn State will hold its tenth annual
ball at Hazleton Christmas night.
The Varsity Ten, local orchestra,
has arranged a schedule of seven
dances over the holiday period, open
ing its tour by playing at the Inter
collegiate Ball en Hotel 'William Penn,
Pittsburgh, Christmas night En
gagements in Johnstown, Towanda,
Punxsutawney, York and Greensburg
follow, with the trip concluding at
Pittsburgh New Year's night
Greensburg and Indiana will be the
scenes of Penn State functions the
night of Saturday, December 26, with
a Greensburg committee of local stu
dents and the Indiana County club as
sponsors. The York County club will
bold its dance at York the following
Wednesday, December 20
The Becks County Alumni associa
tion will entertain at a dance Mon
day, December 28, at Reading, and
the Scranton Penn State Alumni as
sociation will sponsor an intercol
legiate ball at Scranton the following
night.
FRESHMAN CO-EDS TO FETE
JUNIORS AFTER CHRISTMAS
Freshman women will entertain
their Junior "big sisters" at a party
in the Grange dormitory recreation
room shortly after the Christmas va
cation.
Committee chairmen appointed by
Louise E Halbach, social chairman of
the class, use, Martha Bring, Doris
Brubaker, Louise Hansen, and Emil
Stage.
ADDRESSES BUSINESS GROUP
Dr. Carl \V. Hasek, head of the de
partment of economics and sociology,
spoke on business fluctuations before
the Lancaster business men's associa
bon last night.
Junior Colleges Threaten Existence
Of Fraternities, Marquardt Claims
College fraternities will have to i
adjust themselves to the large num
ber of men coming from junior col
leges if their growth and perhaps
their existence is not to be imperilled,
according to Dr. Carl E Marquardt,
College examiner, who has mode n
private study of the junior college
movement in Pennsylvania
"To a group of junior college trans
fers, the fraternities will have to ex
tend a different rushing appeal than
they do now to a group of incoming
freshmen," Dr. Marquardt said.
"And since they will conic in in
creasing numbers the fraternities
cannot ignore these men"
The junior college mot ement, which
has been confined largely to the
West, is now growing rapidly in the
East. Di. Marquardt estimates that
there are about ten in Pminsylvania
alone. These institutions give in
struction parallel to the fast, two
years us college, and consequently
transfers will enter the senior col-.
STATE COLLEGE, PA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1931
BOARD ADVOCATES
DANCES FOLLOWING
BASKETBALL GAMES
Schedules 3 Informal Functions
In Recreation Hall Pending
Sanction of Officials
PRESENT PLANS INCLUDE
NO ADMISSION CHARGE
Local Orchestras Will Furnish
Music Until 12 O'clock ,
Closing Time
Informal dances in Recreation hall
: immrthately followmg basketball
games is the proposal made by a Stu
dent Board committee to College oth
mals.
Three dances are planned to begin
right after the games which usually
end between 9 30 and 9.45 o'clock at
night. All those who are at the
games may attend the dances without
extra charge. David F. Young '32,
head of the committee in charge of
the dances, said.
The four 'dates suggested for the
three functions are January 30 with
the Syracuse game, February 6 with
the Bucknell game, February 20 with
the West Virginia game, and March
5 with the Pittsburgh game.
Final approval of Director Hugo
Bestlek of the Physical Education
School, and officials in charge of the
Recreation hall has not yet been re
ceived, but they have indicated that
they have as yet seen no objection to
the proposal.
The Student Union will sponsor the
dances Local orchestras will be en
gaged to play according to the amn
ion of the committee at the present
time, Young said. The dances will
end at 12 o'clock.
Admission to the dances may be
had by presenting Athletic associa
tion cards. The Student Union will
appoint a committee to direct the
functions as soon as the proposal is
approved
"We hope that the custom may be
continued through the football sea
son in an effort to provide more color
at the' games and to entertain visit
ing teams," Young said.
31 REGISTRATIONS RECEIVED
FOR WINTER SHORT COURSES
Thirty-one have registered already
for Agricultural School winter short
comses, according to Dean Ralph L.
Watts. The courses will be held from
Januaty 4 to February St.
Subjects will include courses deal
leg with farm live stock, poultry,
crops, marketing, and management.
Those enrolled will have eighteen sub
jects to choose from for the first half
of the course, and fourteen the second
half.
SEEKS MISSING 'COLLEGIANS'
In order to complete its records of
past COLLEGIAN files, the College
Library has asked student and faculty
cooperation in locating missing copies
of the 1926 editions Numbers 4,6,
7, 67, 58, and 59 of this publication
are lacking. Extra copies of these
numbers should be brought to the
library, officials request.
loges as Juniors. Furthermore, they
ill be a picked group scholastically,
since the poor students will have been
dropped, Dr. Marquardt pointed aut.
"Consequently, the fraternities will
no longer have to take eighteen fresh
man in order to be assured of nine
seniors four years later," the exam
iner added "There will be fewer
scholastic failures and the fraternity
group will be composed of older men."
Dr. Marquardt believes that in
creased emphasis on scholastic stand
ings is the new appeal that fraterni
ties sill have to make. Rushing will
be from an older group and will take
on a different aspect.
Penn State is not likely to be af
fected for some time unless the Jun
ior college movement in Pennsylvania
grows on a very large scale, accord
ing to Di. Marquardt. Other col
leges, however, are anticipating the
situation and recent intorfraternity
conferences have given St 'mach dis
cussion,
H. AUBREY MYERS '32
ELIZABETH C BELL '32
Elizabeth preo,deot of
the W. S. G. A , and H Aubrey
Myers, head of the senior class,
will attend R convention of the Na
tional Student Federation of the
United States in Toledo, Ohio, from
December 27 to 31.
LA VIE ELECTS 19
TO JUNIOR STAFF
13 Editorial, 6 Business Candidate:.
Selected by Senior Board
On Tuesday Night
Thirteen editorial and see business
candidates mere elected to the Junior I
La Vie staff by semen members of the
yearbook at a meeting of the group
Tuesday night.
Selections to the editoriaPstaff me,
Ruth Crowtheis, Doris Hazleton, Mai
ion P. Howell, Mary M. Westrick, Mil
ton I Baldinemr, Sidney g Benjamin,
I Wayland F. Dunaway 3rd, Jerry S
'Jacobs jr , Robert McC Maxwell,
Robert E Tschan, Richard V. Wall,
John J. Voorhees, and Ernest B. Zu
! kauskas
Juniors named to serve on the busi
ness staff are, Duval Goodman, Rich
ey! AI McClain, Halal(' Needle, Ar-
thur E. Phillips, Eugene W. Sick, and
John R. Warner
These students mill continue m com
petition for major positions until late
to the year at which time a senior
staff m ill be chosen This gloms, con
sisting of sue editorial men and me
men, three business men, and four
art risen, m alt assume complete charge
of the yearbook nest yeas.
STUDENTS ENTER PROBLEMS
IN COLLEGIATE COMPETITION
Ten students of the department of
landscape arclutectule ale preparing
landscape exchange problems which
they vall enter in intercollegiate com
petition. The contest is sponsored by
the Federation of Professional Schools
of Landscape Architecture
Among the colleges entered in the
contest am the University of Illinois,
University of Michigan, Harvard
University, and Cornell University.
The problems, which ale designs of
two adjoining estates, will be judged
in Boston on January 1.
Who's Dancing
Delta Theta Sigma
(Invitation)
The Colley:ono
Phi Delta Theta
(Dinner dance—lnvitation)
Varsity Ten
COUNCIL ARRANGES
FOR CONFERENCES
HERE IN FEBRUARY
National Fraternity Executives
Will Direct Discussions
Of 2-Day Session
PROGRAM TO OPEN WITH
DINNER AT COLLEGE INN
Chapter Presidents, Caterers
Advisors Plan Saturday
Luncheon Meeting
With featured addresses by men
prominent in the fraternity world,
Penn State's Interfraternity Council
will sponsor a conference here Feb
ruary 12 and 13, Paul IV. Henderson
'32, chairman of the committee on
charge, announced Wednesday night.
Among outstanding fraternity exe
cutives who have been invited to spoak
here are, Alvin Duerr, national presi
dent of Interfraternity Connell,
Thomas A. Clark, former dean of men
at the University of Illinois, and Jo
seph T. Nate, former national presi
dent of Sigma Chi. In addition, invi
tations have been extended to George
Banta, publisher of Banta's Greek E.-
change and Gordon Smyth and J H
Johnston, prominent publishers of
fraternity magazines.
To Hold Discussions
The two-day conference will begin
with a banquet at the Nittany Lion
Inn Friday night. The Saturday
luncheons, at which special fraternity
problems will be discussed in small
groups, w il l be the most important
events of the conference, Henderson
said. According to tentative plans,
the conference will close with a mass
meeting for all delegates Saturday
night.
Caterers, fraternity presidents,
treasurers, scholarship chairmen, so
cial chairmen and chapter advisors
will meet in individual groups at var
ious chapter houses for luncheons and
discussion periods on the second day
of the conference. These discussion
groups will be led by fraternity exe
cutives who have specialized in that
particular branch of fraternity acti
vity
"The conference will be the most
important affair sponsored by Inter
fraternity Council this year," Francis
L. Mathews '32, president of the
Council, said "This mill be the third
conference held under the auspices of
the Penn State Council, the last hav
me; been held here in February of
1930."
Tnterfraternity Council has request
ed all chapters of national fraterm•
ties to invite one of their lending exe
cutives to attend the conference. At
the last conference a special attempt
ions made to ban "Hell Week" among
the fraternities No definite topic
has been selected as the theme fot
the meeting in February
HIBSHMAN TALKS TO ALUMNI
Arthur R. Warnock, dean of mon,
and Edward K Hibshman, executive
secretary of the Alumni association,
attended a meeting of the Penn State
Alumni club of Lycoming county at
Williamsport Friday night. Mr
Hibshman spoke to the club about the
prospects and problems of the Alumni
association.
Post Office Mail Shows 10 Percent
Gain in Spite of Present Depression
Receipts at the State College post ,
office have increased ten percent in '
spite of the present depression, an
cording to George Glenn, local post
master. As soon as the Christma s,
rush is over, the volume of mail will
deco ease sixty percent because of the
I College Christmas recess, he added
The post office, however, is prac
tically the only business establish
ment in State College that looks for
sutra to the annual holiday exodus of
students. Local merchants, for the
most part, feel a serious depression
in their business dui irg the vacation
period.
"When vacation time comes there
is no,business as far as the theatres
are concerned," the local manager
said. "We lust operate, since the at
tendance is cut about seventy-five per
cent."
State College barbers expenenee a
sudden drop in number of haircuts
and shaves when the annual holiday
period arrives One barber said that,
while from four to six barbers are
TENTATIVE 1932 -3 3
CALENDAR APPROVED
BY STUDENT BOARD
HEADS Senate Group l'rnna , tag
Calendar Changes
$6,702 FOR FUND
GIVEN BY FACULTY
Drive Ends Tomorron With 331
Subscriptions Contributed
Yesterday Afternoon
1
A total of 50,702 seas reached ses
terday noon in the unemployment re
lief fund appeal, William G Mar
torff, College treasurer and chairmiin
of the collection committee, reported.
Subsciiptions seen received from
331 members of the faculty and staff
The amount of cash mailable for im
mediate distribution is 5018, accord
ing to Mr. Mintorff.
The drive end., toinoirov , Dean
Edward Steidle, chan man of the gen
eral committee, urged that all those
who intend to make a subscription
to the relief fund turn in their cards
!today if possible.
The goal toseaid which the drive
aims is $25,000 Th^ first appeal be
gan on Wednesday, December 9
Cards for subscrintions were distri
buted at meetings on the first day of
the drisc
EZd=M!!l
Infos matron concerning unemploy
ment distress in the five counties of
the State which hose riser thirty per
cent unemployment was eceised by
the disbursing committee from relief
agencies in those counties A study
is alto being made of the situation at
the College and detailed reports are
being recessed from agencies in close
touch with the situation in this town
ship and county
Apprmal of the appeal V 6 tIS reemed
from all the School, and departments
of the College except the Engineering
School which planned to consoler the
appeal in a meeting last night.
BUSINESS MEN liEhrt WATTS
Dean Ralph L Watts, of the School
of Agticulturc, addressed business
men of Huntingdon on "Aglicultural
Research in Relation to Producers and
Consumers," Saturday.
needed v. hen the student, ate here,
only one is I ego tetul to do the stork
dm ing %acetate.
Night trade at local iestaut ant., de
en eases siNty Percent when the stu
dents go home Business astound
midnight, N, hick is quite tin iving on
ordinal y nights, di ops off consul. -
ably at vacation time, atcotiling to
the prop clot of one of the popular
I eating places Lunch, dumm , and
hotel trade, hot, even, deft eases t cry
little.
"Student business is seventy-five
percent of the business we do,' said
one of the State College haberdashers.
."Consequently, dining esery vacation
we have a decided di op in sales"
Crocety stores experience a sev
entysfise percent decrease in orders,
'since many of their custoineio on the
faculty also leave State College,
Only one State College merchant,
the,ploprielat of a book and student
!supply stoic, stated that his business
lis not seriously affected by a College
vacation
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Thanksgiving Vacation
Cut to One Day in
New Schedule
PLANS WOULD LENGTHEN
PRESENT EASTER RECESS
Football Holiday. Scheduled for
Grid Game With Temple
On November 12
A Thanksgiving recess of only one
day and the transposition of one reek
;from the second semester to the first
are morn features of the 1934.33 cal
endar presented by the College Sen
ate committee and approved with rec
ommendations by the Student Board
yostm day afternoon The proposed
plan will be considered by the Faculty
Senate for final decision on January
7.
An extended sacation following the
Easter holidays was a suggestion of
the Board to replace the week inter
sal between semesters in the tentative
calendar planned by the faculty
group. This proposal mould provide
for a six-day Easter vacation
and the usual time between se
mesters
Dean Charles W. Stoddart, head of
the Senate Committee on the calen
dar, stated that the Thanksgiving re
cess may be .reduced to one day for
several reasons, one of mhieh is be
cause of its proximity to the Christ
mas holiday
Prost,.le Temple Half.hohday
Other reasons cited for tho change
inchide the fact that some students
do not avail theinsehes of the oppor
tunity to go home In all probability,
the $5 fine mill not be exacted for
cutting classes before or after
Thank,g,ing, giving students an op
portunity to spend the holiday in their
home-town, actoiding to Dean Stod
dart
The tendency towaid a longer first
semester is based on the contention
that it Is split up considerably by
periods of inactnity while the second
vainest°, is better suited for contin
uous study This change and other
proposals v ill be discussed by the fac
ulty Senate when its meets January
Selection of Saturday, Nmember
12, the date of tha Temple game at
Philadelphia, as the annual football
holulaN etas also made yesterday by
the Student Board subject to the ap
proval of the Senate ,hen it sill de
cide on the calendar
N 1 It Consider 2 Plan
In a summary of the schedule pro
posed, reglsuation would be held on
Monday and Tuesday, September 19
and 20, 1932, and the first semester
%souk! begin Septembor 21 The
football half-holiday is scheduled for
(Cotuuwd on vatic two)
CO-EDS WILL MAIL
BIDS TO RUSHEES
l'anhellenia Council Rules Installation
Of Pledging S.sstetn After
Regular Rushing
Open bids issued by women's fra
ternities lotion inc the official rush
ing period must be I , ent to the justice
through the mad, according to a de
eision of the Panhellenic Council,
!Tuesday afternoon.
The preferential ballots to be used
!dining official ins ng season cull be
tabulated IA a lh,ntei estcd pets=
to be chosen by a Panhellenic rushing
committee for nest Council
ruled
Recommendations that the commit
tee be tompo,ed of the dean of lie
men and hei setietaurs, or the dean
'of women and cm ions fraternity wo
men hying in teen, whose fraterni
'ties are not represented on the cam
pus, were snide to the Council.
Because of the crowded social
schedule for the remainder of this
wmesto, the Panhellenic Ball which
had been under discussion will be
postponed until next semester.
The proposed amendment to the
'rushing code that a stipulated sum
'be allotted to fraternities for second
!semester rushing was 'ejected by tho
group.