. „.- - 074 - : s COMPLETE CAMPUS • ./; F-T 'i,,k;‘,.4' ''',., • 1 nut at r „.22,,,,,,,,_ a .,,,., COVERAGE \ - .c:r •,,,Lel 55' . t VOL. 28, No. 37 $7,850 ADVANCED TO 135 STUDENTS . FROM LOAN FUNDS 108 Men, 27 Co-eds Receive Aid Through Faculty, Parent, Alumni Donations 'AMOUNT IS EXHAUSTED,' DEAN WARNOCK REVEALS Need Foreseen for Extra $3,000 Before End of Present College Semester Aid totalling $7,850 has been meted out to 135 men and women students from the loan funds this semester, Dean of Men Arthur R. Warnock an nounced Saturday One hundred and eight men have re ceived $6,250 in amounts ranging from $6O to $75. This figure does not in clude a certain number of deferred payments on fees allowed by the Comptroller's office. At least a hundred more men have applied for aid from the loan funds than have received it. Of this num ber more than half are judged by the loan committee to need the loan and to deserve it, Dean Warnock said Holnever, the present funds are en tirely exhausted Many Need Aid Twenty-seven l% omen students are being helped this semester by $1,600 in funds coming from various indivi dual gifts, alumnae club funds, and parents' contributions. Thirteen of these women are seniors, seven are juniors, and seven are sophomores The amounts of their loan range from $2O to $75 Eighty percent of the men receiving loans are in - the two upper classes. Many of them are prominent in ath letics and other campus activities, Dean Warnock said, and still other well-knoun men at the College arc unable to obtain aid on account of lack of funds Faculty Ch. 55,000 Before the end of the semester $3,- 000 will be needed to keep men in Col lege who really need aid, Dean War nock said. Also, it will be necessary to have at the beginning of the first semester next year $3,000 more to help through what is expected to be a difficult time, the dean pointed out. This must be secured over the sum mer and will be in addition to ap proximately $2,000 'which will conic in from repaid loans. "Already this semestet the , faculty and staff have given over $5,000 to the loan fund. Parents have contri buted $6OO, while the alumni and in dividuals have given a large sum also," the dean said. REGISTRAR WILL DISTRIBUTE GRADE CARDS UNTIL MARCH Students who have not obtained their grade sheets at the Registrar's office must secure them before March 1, according to William S. Hoffman, College registrar. All not called for will be destroyed after that date. Errors of any kind on the sheets should he reported to the office of the registrar. The sheets were released lust Thursday. `College Fraternities Must Modernize Antiquated Methods,' Elliott Believes That college fraternities will have to change their antiquated methods if they expect to retain their place in the educational system, was the belief expressed by Arthur J. Elliott, asso ciate national secretary of the Y. M C. A., in an interview to the COLLEGIAN Sunday. Mr. Elliott has had personal contact with over 27,000 college students. "Most fraternities seek to attain scholarship by external pressures— methods which are as antiquated as whipping posts," Mr. Elliott said. "To "enfoice scholarship with fines, paddles, bathtubs, and Hell Week is a violence to personality, and few constructive results are achieved that way." By trying to outdo each other in such things as houses and dances, fra ternities have got themselves into fi nancial straits, he pointed out. Na tional headquarters have made the mistake of judging a local chapter by the campus offices it holds, thus en couraging politics in the fraternity. "Fraternities must respect indivi dual conscience and stimulate indivi duality rather than level every mem ber &oil to the lou est common de- Warnock Supports Listing Of Fraternity Dance Dates Dean Believes Regulatin . Congestion by Ho Affairs on ' A system for centialmed fining of fraternity dance dates, designed to overcome the congestion and irregu larity of these dances, is supported by Dean of Men Arthur R.Warnock The suggested plan would have each fraternity submit at the beginning of the school term a list of all its pre (erred dates for chapter dances. These dates would then be reduced to the proper number by a committee, prob ably from Interfraternity Council, and apportioned over the available weep-, ends., The new system, if adopted by the fraternities, would not, however, su persede the prerogative of a frater nity to hold dances on week-ends, par ticularly desirable to it Just the dates for which chapters usually toss a coin would come within the com mittee's jurisdiction "Some frateinities," Dean Warnock pointed out, "lean toward closed dances, while others prefer open ones Another point to be considered is that some fraternity men desire to hold dances on 'big' week-ends when num erous others are being held "A gentlemen'e agreement could have to be reached by the fraternities, probably through the established need- Interfiaternity Council," the IDean of Meet added. "Closed dances could be arranged to fall on nights vihen one or more open ones nre sched ' sled." Dean Warnock believes that the "closed" feature of dances would be CRONSTADT TO DELIVER SECOND DIESEL LECTURE Manufacturer Will Gne Address in Main Engineering Building Speaking on "The Effect of Recent Aircraft Fuel Developments on En gine Design," Mr Val Cronstadt, of the Lycommg Manufacturing company at Williamsport, will deliver the sec ond of the series of Diesel engine lec tures in Main Engineering building at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon Arranged by Prof Harold A Ever ett, head of the mechanical engineer , mg department, the lectures are be ing held weekly in conjunction with the graduate instruction given to the Naval officers studying Diesel en gines here. Other men scheduled to speak in the series are Hillman De Jahnsz who received the Diesel medal of the American Society of Mechanical En gineers in 1.9.11., and Dr. Merrell R. Penske, director of the petroleum re fining laboratory here CONVICT COMPLETES COURSES An inmate of the western peniten tiary at Pittsburgh has completed his forty-second correspondence course in agriculture mid home economics of fered by the School of Agriculture, Prof. Thomas I. Matra of the depart ment of agricultural correspondence has reported. A course in home coon , anises which is practically impossible for him to take is the only one now open to the man nominator," Mr Elliott stated "'Alumni should come back with a ore, ative and helpful attitude rather than Ito 'raise the devil'" In regard to the compulsory R. 0. T. C. situation, Mr. Elliott said that "the result on ninny campuses has been an instrument fat instilling the minds of college students with preju dices, fears, and hates. There have been exceptions, of cosine, but these were due mainly to the personalities of the officers in charge." Mr. Elliott com Mended Penn State's new policy on national defense as a very decided advance. He said that It would be part:calmly progressive if attitudes of suspicion and prejudice against other nations will be elimin ated from the whole program. "That type of college excellence ought to be on a purely voluntary basis," added Mr. Elliott, in regard to the compulsory feature of R 0. T. C "I would not have it compulsory any more than I would have football par ticipation required. If drill has any place In the College pogrom it shook' be a part of the physical training de partment in which them would be bet- I let couidinMion of mind and muscle. STATE COLLEGE, PA., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1932 g Functions Would Avoid (ding Closed, Open Same Nights espeeted more if it were wen that a chapter was holding sonic closed and some open dances He thinks that the whole plan would effect a mole even distribution of dance dates, and consequently remedy the present state where over-cmwding and the possibility of no dances being held on some week-ends, exist. When asked if he thought frater nity men on the committee would show bias toward their own houses, Dean Warnock cited the activities of the Rushing committee and said that on this committee there was a ten dency to discriminate against rather than for one's own fraternity. RUNKLE TO WRITE COLLEGE HISTORY Philosophy Professor Granted Leave of Absence During Present Semester To complete the only projected his tory of Penn State. Dr. Erwin W. Runkle, professor of philosophy and College historian, has been granted a leave of absence this semester. Dr. Runkle has compiled a large collection of historical data concerning the College in his official capacity as historian His investigations Into the actisities of Penn State go as far back as 1855 when the Farmers' High School was founded here. To lesume Teaching Upon receiving the degree of Doc tor of Philosophy at Yale University in 1803, Dr Runkle came to Penn State as an associate in the philosophy department, teaching that subject un til this semester. From 1004 to 1021 Dr. Runkle vi as dnectoi of the Carnegie Library During this pelted he began his re search into the early history of the College, publishing many articles con coming it from time to time With the publication of the hook scheduled before the end of this se mester, Dr. Runkle intends to resume his teaching here during the coming SWUM= session. '3l FORESTERS WILL PLANT 23,000 SEEDLINGS IN SPRING Freshman forestry students at Mont Alto will plant 25,000 tree seed lings in Franklin county this spring, accordin to William I. Bull, of the ucpartment of forestry extension. One thousand trees will be planted on each of 25 farms. . . The tiees will be obtained from nurseries maintained by the Penney]. soma department of forests and wat ers Reforestration of idle lands as. well as to demonstrate the value of planting and to provide piactical ex peliente for the students, prompted the proposed undertaking, according to the extension instructor. WOMEN'S COUNCIL MAKES RUSHING CODE CORRECTION A misinterpretation of the newly revised rushing code was corrected at. r special meeting of Panhellenic Coon-. ell held last week in 'Women's build ant: With the adoption of the open bid ding season for ,junior transfer wo olen, the phrasing of one clause of the code was connoted to read, "trans ferred women students must be regis tered in the junior class at Penn State or one semester before they can be of fered a bid by a fraternity." McCRORY TO TALK TOMORROW S H McCrory, chief of the bureau of agricultural engineering at Wash ington, D. C., will deliver one of the cones of lectures sponsored by the School of Agriculture tomorrow afte, noon at 4.10 o'clock in Room 100 Horticulture building. Mr McCrory's subject has been announced as "Re search in the Federal Sutras of Agri cultut e Engineering." CANCELS INSPECTION TRIPS Inspection trips for seniors enrolled in the School of Engineering have been cancelled for this year by Dean Robert L. Sackett Summer work hei etotore required fan graduation has also been suspended for this Year. , Bauder '33 Releases Junior Blazer Design Sendai in matenal and design to those of the class of 1032, Junior blazers this yeas will he distinguish ed by an embroidered College seal or a new nose of the Nittany Lion on the breast pocket, Harry A. Bauder '33, president of the Junior class, announced yesterday. Women's blazers a ill be the same type as those worn by the nice, as cording to Bauder, who added that the price will not exceed that of last year, $7.50. GOETHE LECTURES START TOMORROW Miss Hurlbrink To Open Series In Commemorating Death Of German Author ' Commemorating the centenary of the death of Goeth4, German author, :a series of six lectures by members of the department of German will be opened in Room 14 South Liberal Arts building at 4.10 o'clpck tomorrow af ternoon Miss Louisa J.. 1-1 'rlbrink will open the series, speakingion Goethe's uni versity days in Strassburg, while Di. Frederick W. Pierce Wilt gme the second lecture on thh following Wed nesday, discussing Goethe's stay in Italy. MIMII=3 On March 2, Miss Martha Pilger 1 twining Nines will transform Reciea will treat on the German author as bon hall into a fitting scene for the a scientist, while Mr. IL IV. Weigel annual Militaiy Hall Friday night. will contrast Goethe with Schiller on , Austin Wylie's band and the Varsity the succeeding Wednesday Piof Ten will harmonize by turn as paw- George J. lirurfl, on the next Wed. fist mingles with militarist on the nesday, will discuss "Goethe as a LY- i dance flow. Proceeds will be given ric Poet," and Dr. Lucretia V T.l to the Student Loan Fund. •-••- • • • •• Simmons will conclude the series on ! The palm-bordered orchestra stand March 21 when ';she lectures on; will occupy the west end of the ball, "Goethe after one lihndred Years" Iwhile fraternity booths are to he On the day following the concluding , ranged along the sides of the floor lecture of the series, Professor Worn instead of under the balcony, as has will treat on "The Man Goethe" as ; been done hmetefoie part of the Liberal Arts lecture series.' Bustard Wm., Contest ' The date of the lecture marks just one I hundred years since the death of the Red, white, and blue bunting, strung poet. with lights, is planned to form an artificial ceiling Spot lights in the The centenary of the death of the four eviler s of the hall null be re famous poet is being observed tl„s fleeted in a nrany -faceted cry stal year by colleges and universities of America, Englund, and Germany.l the center. During the month of March an en- White trehisses and interwoNen habit of Goethe material will be on, vines will decorate the sides of the display in the library, according to floor They hall be hung perpendr- Willard P. Lewis, librarian. I miler to the walls abase the booths o R. Andrew Bustard "33 was ad- EDITORS TO BEGIN judged winner of the poster contest„ for the dance by a committee of ar- LECTURES TONIGHT, id c o hitecture professors including E Dickson, John B Helme, and !Lewis F Filcher. Will One First Addresses in Seriesl Under Auspices of Honor., (LIBRARY CLUB NAMES LEWIS Journalism Societ) AS HEAD AT FIRST MEETINC Willattl P Lewis, College libiartan, Two visiting editor', 'mil addless,w as elected president of the Penn student and faculty tonight in Roomy State Libraty club at its fast meet -14 South Libel al Arts at 730 o'clock.ling Friday night Othet officers ate Hewett! A Oasis, edam of the Wit- hits William R Hamm, vice peen hamtport 6, 11, and Representattve 0 dent, and Katherine C Dote, sone- Albert Stowell., publisher of the Cleat -!turv-treasut et. field nowt:4,4 will open this series al 7he progtam outlined for the club Journalism lector es sponsored by Al-',wlll be to promote libiaty Intel ests ohr Beta Sigma, honoratY Journalism in the College and community, Re atet city. Icottling to Mt. Lewis. Thirty-nine MI Davis and Mr Steuait will es- pi osent and former Unity workers plain opportunities to be found in In itmembers of the library commit newspapm uork in small towns and, tee attended the first meeting, cam. They .11 also :elate thou oun experience:, in ne.pope: v.ork. SCARAB REMAIN Alpha Beta Sigma wlll else 0 din-1 AT COLLEGE FOE TOMORROW no: in boron of the two speaker- at the Univei,ity Club at 4 e'Lloth to- Th e s eem ', ti.nrolmg sketch exhibit night Irtill be on display in the Exhibition 0 room on the third floor of Mon En. BELL, DAVIS WILL CONDUCT Igineermg budding until tomorrow STUDENT DISCUSSION FORUM might. It consists of about 100 ,skelehes executed in scaler colors, ; Elizabeth C. Bell ',12, president of, pencil, chincoal, nod lithograph W. S. G. A, and George K. Davis '32, Gdbm t S Shottmention at the national '32 VMS no at ded vice-president of the P. S. C. A, will, first honorable lead a student discussion on, "Do Cam- Scarab convention in Cincinnati Ms a' umning sketch is included in this ex pus Pioblems Need Leadms 9 " a - t a l haat which is composed of work done meeting of the V. W. C. A. in 105 i .t, callous chapters of the national Old Main at 6 30 o'clock tomorrow i night. ,honminy fratennty. --o - . The session will involve a discussion ' FEN " 'DS FORESTRY MEETING A f of the fiaternity situation, canmusl Pia. John A Ferguson, of the de politics and graft, morals, tiaditions, aitment of forestry, retained this and customs, led by rein esenta lege leaders. This is the he of a tive col-I I t P verl,_ d fro u ni n A ,e t e la i n n t g ic City, where he at t. of the council of series of second semester meetings be- ten de d ing held by the Y W. C A the Allegheny forest experiment eta ' lion, Members of the council, which DECAMP TO TALK THURSDAY Arthur P. DeCutup, number of the board of lectureship EC ' 1.'17;11 D much NS Christ, Scientist, tl iv I give 111 LI [ "NCTON is;.l MED SENATOR a free lecture on Christian Science in! Louise Millington '32 was appoint- Schwab auditorium Thuisday night atled senior senator by the 'IV S. C A 8:30 o'clock. The lecture iq being Senate at its iegulai meeting on Irian sponsored by the Penn State Chi when' day night. She will leplace Jean W. Scientist association. I San eons 'B2, who has lesigned. _ Totirgialt. Too Many Honoraries Show Inactivity, 'Collegian' Finds Survey of 37 Leading Organizations Indicates More Than Half Exist Merely for Recognition Purposes Mote than half of Penn State's lion- Drury fraternities are content to re- I main in a state of lethargy, while then fever, but mote ambitious, contem poraries have adopted u policy of ac tivity, according to the insults of an moony by the Cot.uciitri From a study of thirty-seven load ing honorary organizations, it vas re vealed that approximately twenty five serve at merely a medium tot recognition in their paiticului fields The remainder, about twelve in num ber, conduct annual programs to ac cordance with then fraternity pur pose Houever, it must not be overlooked MILITARY COLORS CHOSEN FOR BALI Artificial Ceiling of Red, White Blue Bunting To Decorate Recreation Building A scheme using the national colors set off by white ttell. cork ',Vail is composed of those interested in for estry, are appointed by the United Staten secretary of agriculture. that a fees of these apparently inac tive groups have ads.mced to a posi tion of prominence through very strict eligibility moan enients These feu may base their justification for existence on their exclusire character which acts as incentive to achie% e ment The maimity of the tv,enty-five ni nety.° frateinities cannot, on ithout fear of refutation, claim a proetesmoc (policy Many in this group meet dur ing the ,y em only to elect and initiate now members Poi the iest of the year, the dormant administration is !entirely in the hands of the president or faculty member. Among the clout active societies, several conduct belies of lectures by prominent businessmen, authorities, scientists, and facult;, members. A feu of these are regularly open to all student, and faculty members and I generally prove a credit to the respec tive organizations which sponsor 'them A high school contest and a conven tion here for secondary school editors are altruistic features of a fey. pro grams One organization sponsors an intramural debating tournament, and another secures e‘hibits fm display to the student body Other outstanding features in hon orary activity at the present time arc aoards for recognized meat outside the circle of the fraternits, the es tablishment of an open 'Army in Old Main lounge, the sponsoung of too publications, and the giants of funds foi scientific insestigation. All these nre an indication of the possibilities in ambitious honorary activity 'FROTH' TO DISTRIBUTE. BALL ISSUE TOMORROW Co-ed Datum Bureau. Ta,uu.t . Shoe Continuing with the second install ment of the dating Imicau, in which menthe, of Chi Omega and Phi Mu aro discussed, the Ml'ltaly Ball =li bel of Fislb still be ideated tornoliov. moining "The Passing Show," a column ie vealing sonic intimate facts written in Waite! Winehell's stile, is n new fea ture addition to the comic magazine The iegulai departments, "Mug and Jestei" and "With the Edam," ale also continued. A militatistic theme piedominates the Fehi uni y issue throughout Frances Cohen utter aittst Sol the last issue contributes .mother modern istic design in this numb°. FRESHMAN PAJAMA P 112 TV TO CONCLUDE MEN MEEK The conduding feature of the an nual Coon Week, a pajarna panty, unh be given fon the fiesluniu , 00- num , Thuisday night at o'clodc no WAllistei hall lobby '1 he object of the oeeb's inogiair to noquaint lust yea, oomen until the piano , . and woik of this national honor any activities 'ouoty, and to en- Lounage extia-etn roulai pantanpution Dean Chambers Favors Specialization Aside From 'Fundamentals' of Gates Columba , Univeisitl, oder+ to seek-1 el, of knowledge a copse m "MA Scouting Coineli Unit ei.,ity include, to its cuilicula "Meat Cutting," Students at Gentile! College ma} Imo the my,tei les of "Relaisation" r couise by that mune Instances like these led Di Thomas S Gates, pi esident of the Univei sity of Pennsylvania, to denount e the, Amin man college recently tot "shay-' ant, too far ft not the fundamental. "I His denunciation, in tam, led us tol Question Dean Will Giant Chambersl of the School of Education as to whether present collegiate courses hero becoming too diversified "First," Dean Chambers "Wc must distinguish between city' and 'specialization ' Mete diver city of courses is no indication of su pet tor educational advancement, but' specialized cumicula to meet inten sive needs of representative groups of students must always be the aim of the college with progressne ideals "In addition, v.he can say just xshat' ESTABLISHED PRICE FIVE CENTS COLLEGE GLEEMEN WIN CHAMPIONSHIP AT STATE CONTEST Defeat West Chester, Juniata, Lafayette To Gain Title Fm Fifth Time WILL I'RESENT BENEFIT CONCERT HERE MARCH 4 Elite' National Intercollegiate tournament Next Month In St. Louis, Mo. By winning the State Intemolleguite Glee club contest m Philadelphia Thurs,las night, Penn State gleemen regained the title mind, they lust to Lafayette last yea, by fout-tenths of a point Berm,. 2,7,00 nelsons, t h a largest at tentlanee ever recorded at one of these !annual meets, the singers trained by Itichaid IV Grant defeated IlVest Chester State leachers College, Lafayette College, and Juniata Col lege, in N, loony foi the fifth tone out of six tiles 7he meet, under Ow auspices of the Philadelphia Forum, was held at the Acailenic of Music Stme . 31 Sings Solo Singing a selection of then own choice, a College song, and a comp°. sti.ns named ho the dim) n the Glee clubs w. re gl ailed b 3 a boa, 1 of Once judges on Intel ptctatcon, ensemble •13 ml., tone pitch, and diction Bruce Carey, dueetm of inusie at Gourd Collide, Claude Rownbetis Peniwyl vama super mtendent of music, and Marshall Bartholomew, threetca of muse. at Yak. Unit etstt,3, were the judges The Penn State Glee club, com posed of the rcquiled thilt , , men, un der the direction of W Jay Kennew, '32, sang as its choice the "Wass,' Song" of Vaughan Williams "Fight," a folk song by Fa'tin. \N..s the next selection of the club For its College song it chose the "Nittany Lion" 'Arilliam II Stine 'II, baritone, sang the only solo of the moiling PoHomed 3 \ ppearances By winning this contest the Penn State singers snore accorded the right to rein esent Pennsykania at the Na tional Intercollegiate Glee club con test in St Lour, on March 11 Sec tional contests ale held among the 102 members of the national Glee club association to deter mine contestants for the St Loins event In olden to clefnay pant of the es pouses fin the St Louis till, bhgli will amount to about SLBOO, the Glee club c. ill often a concert no the Audi . tonnuni on Manch I 1 his comet t w 111 be entually the same as those e .ented at the (liftmen!. city,. on the Itinenany to Philadelphia Ent-ance inn the contest at Philadel phia mac tine tOilLlll,lOll of a tour-day concert trip which Included appeal ances at 114111bl/01g, El6ma Punk, and Andmone• Ada Romig '2B accom panied the club as guest soloist 11111S1111 A'rl'EN DS ImunNu IC ILlydunnn cleeutnc sect eta, s of the Penn State Alumni osculation, attended a distract meet ing of the Alumni Sem star m asso ciation at Atlantic City, N .1 , last o eel, r the •Ittmlanantaly subjt.t.t. 9 At ont tone ;km , ' ttin' and ' tint C consul. nil ev_lusa, hold ol du, title but .can't the •ax. 'al ,teme , tot ul,tance, oh Ju.t tun gteat 'fundament:o amin tanut today r. "But e,o't thele soon hoot to which this ,pett.th/atunt mat be tamed '^ ‘to asked "I es, of emi,e" the dean milled. "Some r estiaint must he cseiti•ed if the cool se, 10 e a Lily to be 01 Set vise. Thee must satisfy the needs of a group of student, lemesentative enough in :limbos to be of console, aim in the planning of emiieula, then inclusion is union to the gloat es. number of students " "1 mold sat " Dean Chemin, con cluded, "that the gloat majoilty of Amentan colleges are on the right tract today in offering the specialized course" that they do The tone has passed when me can term a man to he of service to the world thiough goner allied 'fundamentav subject, alone Change in the mild must al llay, demand toliesponding change in college cot mule"
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