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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1931
1932-33 CALENDAR CHANGES
With sensible ilthough diastie changes ave. pre
yeals, 1932-18 College calends: %las passed up
in Senate sesteidav afternoon aftei emeful consul
on by the Student Boaid. The undergiaduate
9, leeenong the tentatis, ealendal hem a Senate
nittee, left it intact es, cent for the lengthening of
I vacation at the expense of a i ace, between
The thiee changes incorporated in the newly pro
d calend,u ins (I) F,rst semester lengthened by
week, (2) cutting dour, Thanksgiving recess to
day, (3) extra days added to Easter vacation (Stu-
Boaid recommend:dam) 01 between semesters
late committee recommendation)
Li
,ngthentng of first semester by a week seems to
reasonable inmwation The continuity of study
always been quite broken up, and the additional days
somewhat compensate for the frequently inter -
41 per and of !Andy A longer span of school between
tons recess and exannnattons would also he Intel
. to both students and faculty.
No doubt thenc are loans , w•ho mill p 1 otest against
tailed Thanksgisnng sacation. It uas believed that
710.11 negs of this holiday to Cluistmas had always
e a lather oven-balanced first semester. Elimina
of the $5 fine for cutting should take cnie of those
' , ruts ,ho one especially anxious to leave for home
more likely, travel to Pittsbungh fon the game
We ladle% c that a longer cce,9 at Fasten will he
populat with students than vacation sand. ailed
Ten in ,t and second semesters. Penn State stu-
s base neyei been known actually to frown at a
lion of any length, but there sons a marled sent,
t against a between-semester recess tow years ago.
as pointed out then that there are few ways for a
ge student to spend time dui mg a job-less Febru
eithei lest at home or go away on a pleasure
t The Col mm, although less expensive, is eel tally
exciting' so — close to a long Christmas yacation
one justifiable eseose for a holiday at this time
o um eased burden upon the cleileal force at the
istiat'i office It seems that emergency measures
ceitainly overcome this objection
A majoi ity of the colleges consider Easter a logical
to suspend activities, and then e is no doubt but that
State students would welcome any action by the
ge Senate to telleye the long, drawn-nut period
Fe/manly to June sloth a opting vacation of ap
table length.
This year it seems very likely that a great num
of students sill lie forced to remain in State College
the vacation period because of reduced financial
un,tances ouldn't it be exceedingly chantable
many of the students who are fortunate enough to
el home 10 prn.ate automobiles to offer rides with
any assessment,
ALWAYS BELITTLIN
Despite the well-known value of good, sound mai
, very trying to find on cooly hand these dis
ging people uho can paint black no el the crane
on neat them in the time it talus them to stop and
and smoke a eminent , . Es ely good fiaternity
probably has its male, .ho sits somly in the club
i. Probably n feu houses ale blessed with 1,0 or
e. Then conemsation w maiked only by untie
1110,i ,eOlll
Tub, that chapter ain't so much
that', nothing but a cheap eating
come day that Idiocy cc ill give up and admit
•n't teach . .cc ell, he may be a }night guy, but
ohs like a lemon to Me . . . 111.01 .. . "
iVe'vc all hand it. Always belittlin', the Process
been collect And the people who use it most,
ngely enough, ate often those who ate most heal I
disliked by then associates Peihaps they don't
ire that. In most cases they mocced tin ough Col
tinder the cloud of delusion that they ate socially
ninent, and in a place to fudge all others. A meat
y people speak to them on the sheet, at dances.
the pi ale of the.e penpla Mould be rudely unsettled
ley knew how !natty of their kind vime recoiled to
an after giaduation in one terse sentence:
"Well, don't be like him,
With the establishonnt of the Purple Quill libraly
he second Pool lounge of Old Moan, an opportunity to
y light leading in occasional sandwich hoofs is ❑f
lad The hooks plovided thole ale an mann* of a
Inc optimism which exists despite the vandalism
h curtails the benefits of this !emotional centre.
• to be hoped that the bust placed in those who will
I these hooks is ampted, and that petty thieves fin
then glowing tradition of self-satisfaction long
OLD MANIA
The di eadful business of finteinities' exchanging
pretty Xmas cards is upon as again Something
ought to be done about this. Lodges Which oidinailly
regard each oilier as something unclean go solemnly
about sending each other chum y messages of Yuletide
cons warily & all that, and litter then ono mantels
and living-room tables with the accumulated rubbish.
This practice, we maintain, is about as ridiculous
as the late lamented hello custom, ssloch would hose
everybody going around baying hello hello hello to
everybody else, whether they knew them or not, or
cared to kilos, them. (Never mind the antecedents--
you get the idea.) Roughly speaking, a person would
say hello Some hundred S fifty times in scathing ham
Co-op to the Lithos} , at a rush hour. The chances
are that after the first few times, everybody would
just stay down at Co-op, nod the hell with the Library.
We lino, of several houses which actually get
sonic meager benefit floor the nice Xmas cards they
receive The cards are piled neatly in one coiner of
the cad-room and used for bridge scores That's
what becomes of your Ins ely tokens of Xmos senti
ment, you dopes
But, Oleic, these,—M!'lo getting iconoclastic
again, Noel!
According to one of oui contemporary animals,
n survey at the Unnei city of Virginia shooed that 99
pocent of the men more four-in-hand ties, and fifty
percent of the ties more solid in color.
Piovinx, no doubt, that one percent of the men at
the Univeisity of Voginta wear bow tics of none at
all, and that fifty peicent of the four-in-hands are
striped, checked, 01 dotted.
There must he a School of Education at the Tim
vemly of lin alma.
There was something pitifully burlesque about
the et,,lnbstion bouts at the gymnasium last Saturday,
when Grantland Rice Sportlights tool, their mom
pitcheis of Penn State's athletes in action. The whole
thing hail the alt that goes with the Senior Class
Play in a small high school, what with the lights &
the prompters & all.
We kept hoping all though the box-fighting
bouts that Referee McAndrews, at the conclusion,
would step into the center of the ling, the judges'
slips in his hand, and cheerfully announce• "The
winnah—Crantland Rice Spoi tlights Teem porated , "
But he didn't.
The I.lteation which commences tomorrow will get
o very big hand from this department. Well go
home, and spend tsso weeks rn co piping about the
dullness of things, the fact that we're broke, the
weather, and the wmk v. ell have tondo uhen we get
back to school
Then we'll come back to State college, Pa, and
get back to the routine of griping about the dullness
of things, the. fact that we're bloke, the weather,
and the wink that we have to do.
And it's got so bad that burglars at e`even robbing
f t aternity houses.
Will the Commons Club please call off thew
bugler,
Around the Corner
Student Graders
The custom of hosing students grade examine
tion and quiz impels :momently is becoming mote
popular. Where foimerly at was confined to one or
two depaitments, it is now common in nearly all de
partments
We believe that only the person who has taught
the class and conducted the e•anunation in assigned
the paper should be culled upon to grade it Applica
tion of this rule would probably cause hardship to
piotessors uhose classes ale slimily owsicrowilsd,
but the hawlship which a poorly graded paper can
work on a student is much gleam.
they can't
Educators base long deplored the personal ele
ment which makes objective grading of a student's
work nnpossible; but the use of student assistants to
grade papers more than doubles the effect of this
element. The student assistant seldom has a thor
ough command of the subject, and an answw ostrich
he marks wrong may indeed be merely a novel ap
proach to the subject He, riot having been in the
class, frequently is uncertain as to just what the pro
fessor has said and what arms...r is expected on the
examinatron.
The student assistant is occasionally a member
of the class, but mole often an advanced student.
In either case, he is known to the other students and
is subjected to innumerable Requests to "Be kind of
easy on mine" in connection with the examinations.
Ile knows the students whose panels he grades, too,
and it has been shown that far inoic mature and ex
pelienced men can not Remove entirely subconscious
considerations and cßaluations.
It may be justly argued that student assistants
are absolutely essential if a small faculty is to tale
care of a large student body, but the fact remains that
their use in grading examinations Is frequently un
just both to the other students and to the assistant
himself. ,
THE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
8 PLAN TO ATTEND
FACULTY MEETINGS
Will Serve as Delegates at 10
Conventions in Coming
Vacation Period
Eight faculty members are planning
to attend meetings and confmences
dining the Chi stoics holidays
Prof Ftanklm C Banner, head of
the journalism depaitment, St 11l put
ney to Minneapolis where he mill at
tend n meeting of the American As
sociation of Teachers of Journalism
of which he is vice-president. He
will ghe a talk on "Foreign Lecturers
fin Schools of Journalism "
Dr Francis J. Tschan, professor of
history, mill also go to Minneapolis,
where he mill attend a meeting of the
Amm icon Historical association Dr.
Jacob Tanger, and Di. Haiold P Al
derfo, of the depaitment of political
science, will attend a meeting of the
American Political Science associa
tion in Washington, D C.
Will Read Paper
Representing, the School of Physical
Education, Dean Hugo Renick and
Prof. Elwood C Basis mill go to New
York to attend a scooting of the Na
tional Coaches association. While
there they will be piesent at an N. C.
A. A. meeting, a conference of the
Society of State Dnectors of Health
and Physical Education, and a gatlies
mg of the Society of Directors of
Physical Education in Colleges. They
plan to return January' 1.
Dr S W Paths mill represent the
deportment of zoology and entom
ology at a menting of the American
Association for the Advancement of
Serener, in New Orleans.
Raymond E. Murphy, assistant ino
fessol of economic geography, will
read a paper at a alerting of tha Geo
logical Sui,ey in Ypsilanti, Mich.
28 TO ATTEND BUFFALO
VOLUNTEER CONVENTION
Penn State Will lime Quoin of 31
Delegates, Hamm'ter Sa,”
Twenty-eight delegates will repre
sent Penn State at the eleventh quad
iennial Student Volunteer convention
to be held at Buffalo, N Y., from
December 30 to January 3. Arlth
tional delegates to fill Penn State's
quota of thirty-five are expected be
fore the time for the conclave, ric
coiding to Wnllnam L Hammaker, as
sociate P. S C A. secretary.
Student delegates who have reg.
isteied on to tin present are Helen
F Ramsom 'l9 YfSry E Freeman '35,
Leonard T Shure '32, Rollin L. Wolf
'32, Charles W Yoder '32, James F.
Neill '39, William E Bell '3l, Andrew
L Bioun 'll, Gnomic W. Brown '34,
John D Colvin '34, Colson W Culp
'3l, Gerald R. Gummo '34, G. Wayne
Heberly and, Frank T Hoffman
'34.
The list also includes Rollin R. Rit
ter '34, John E Ryan '34, John M.
Share]. , 31, Gayle V Strickler '34,
William Q. We '34, Lloyd T. Barnes
"35, JAmes A. Gaiser '35, William H
Glover "35, and Rhett G. Harris '35
Rev Donald W Canutheis, Rev. W.
Emmy Hai tman, Mr. and His Harry
M' Seamans, and William L. Ilam
maker ,ill attend also.
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BOARD SANCTIONS
1932-33 CALENDAR
(Continued front fiy at page)
November 12 on the Temple game
(late.
While Thanksgiving vacation Is
listed for Thursday, November 24, in
the calendar, Christmas would start
at noon, Saturday, December 17, and
end at 8 o'clock Tuesday morning,
January 3, 1233.
Two plans tot the transition period
between semesters wdl be submitted
to the Senate next month. One
method, smulai to this year's system,
sets Thursday, January 29, 1933, as
the end of the first semester with
Mid-Teat Commencement the follow
ing day.
May Close School June 2
This arrangement leases a holiday
between semesters from January 27
to 30 Registrations for the second
semester would he Tuesday and Wed
nesday, January 31 and Febivary 1
nhile the second semester would open
at 8 o'clock Thursday morning, Feb
rum y 2
A second plan, allowing for the
proposed longer first semestq, sets
the end of this neriod one week later
on Thursday, February 2, with Com
mencement the next day The inter
val betw e en semesters in this propo
sal mould be from Friday, February
'l, to Monday, February 0, inclusive.
Registration for second semester
nould be February 7 and 8 and classes
would reopen Thursday, February 9.
Easter vacation opens at noon on
Thursday, April 13, and ends at noon
on Tuesday, Apid 18, in the calendar
proposed by the Senate committee,
and Memorial Day will be regarded
by the College May 30 as a full holi
day School is scheduled to close Fri
day, June 2. with Commencement
Monday, June 5
TAU BETA PI ELECTIONS
(Honorary Enalnetrint)
Robert L. Jones jr '32
William H. Lohmberg '32
Wilson P Morrow '32
Paul C. Ragout '32
Carl Rolle '32
Arthur E Rows'k '32
George W. Walter '32
Edgar C Wickersham '32
Gilbert H Espenshade '33
Marx D. Moller '33
Benjamin L. Wise '33
WE WISH YOU
A MERRY CHRISTMAS
and
A HAPPY NEW YEAR
CRABTREE'S
132 Allen Street
61 Leave College
Since September,
Hoffman Reports
Despite the depression, only sixty
one students have withdrawn from
College since the beginning of the
semestei as compared with sixty-three
foi the same period last year, accord
ing to figures released by the office
of William S. Hoffman, College Reg
istrar.
The sophomore and freshman
classes lead in number lost during the
present semester with eight,en each
while the Junior class is third on the
list with ten. Other withdrawals in
clude one senior, three graduate stu
dents, five students in the two-year
curl iculum, and six unclassified and
special students
Lack of finances was the reason
given by twenty-five of those with
diawing this year as compared with
twenty gi‘ing this reason in 1930.
Illness caused twenty to drop out dur
ing the present semester while one
less than this number gave illness as
their season last year.
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BEST WISHES FOR A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A
HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR
LOUISE A. LAMBERT'S BEAUTY PARLOR
Le!tun Building Phpe
MERRY CHRISTMAS
College Cut-Rate Store
XMAS CARDS-24 for $1.00; 12 for $l.OO
12 for 50c, Also New 5c and 10e Cards
TAGS, SEALS, TISSUE PAPER and RIBBON
For Wrapping Packages
MEN'S SHAVING SETS PERFUME ATOMIZERS
HOUBIGANT 50c to 15.00
LENTHERIC TOILET SETS
YARDLEY 11.00 to 15 00
WILLIAMS
BOUDOIR SETS
$5OO Up'
MENNENS 25c RUBBER TOPS
COLLATES tot Childlen
PALMOLIVE VANITY CASES
BAYERS 50c to 5500
PARKER PEN and PENCIL GIFT SETS
Whitman and Shellenberger Candy in Xmas Wrappers
Cigarettes and Tobacco in Xmas Boxes
Friday, December 18, 1931
.. •, , A VV.ltimr O AT H ,Bt other Thea
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(No matinees during Christman h
days Vacation opening tune of 7
p m. 'darting Snturdny).
Chriatmos Gift Books at 31.00 a
$2.00 on sale at floc Office. A
about them.
FRIDAY (Cathaum)—
Helen Twehetreec, hew Cody, II
IMIMMEI
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FRIDAY (Natany)—
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy in
"PARDON US"
SATURDAY-
Seth Parker and Joneepert Neighk
WAY BACK. HOME
MONDAY—
Eddie Quillan, Robert Armstrong,
MEM
Leon' Janney in Month Tarkingln
"PENROD AND SAM"
WEDNESDAY—
Tom Meighnn, i‘laureen O'Sullivan
"SKYI.INE"
(Lionel Train Night)
THURSDAY—