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VOL. 28, No. 38
Alpha Chi Omega Accepts
Oread Sorority Petition
National Organization Will Hold Installation
- Ceremony This Spring—Social Group
Established Here in 1927
Alpha Chi Omega, national sorority,
has accepted the petition of Oread,
local soma? group founded at Penn
State in 1927, according to an an
nouncement this week.
The eighth of the local women's
fraternities to join a national organi
zation, Orend will be installed by Al
pha Chi Omega sometime early this
spring as the fourth chapter in Penn
sylvania. Other chapters in the State
are at the University of Pennsylvania,
at Bucknell University, and at Al
legheny College. Founded at De Pauw
University on October 15, 1885, Alpha
Chi Omega now has fifty-eight active
chapters.
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Miss Julia G Brill and Miss Pauline
A. Locklin are advisors of the local
group, with Mrs. H. N Heist as
patroness Active members of Greed
include, Hilda V. Bitting '32, Marian
WASHINGTON FETE
PLANNED MONDAY
Historical Pantomime, Musical
Numbers Will Feature
' Birthday Program
Penn State students and State Col
lege residents will observe the two
hundredth anniversary of the birth
of George Washington in Recreation
hall on Monday night at 7.30 o'clock
in a program sponsored by the State
College Bi-Centenary committee.
The program consisting of musical
selections, community singing, and an
historical !pantomime, will be Pre
sented jointly by students and towns
peo plc. "Washington of Young
America," the pantomime, directed by
Herbert Koepp-Baker, will be enacted
in six scenes, with musical interludes
furnished by the Blue Band.
Approximately 40 characters, in
cluding a male chorus of Indian
dancers, will be represented in the
cast of the pageant A string en
semble, under the direction of Prof.
Hummel Pishburn, and the College
Choir, under the leadership of Prof.
Richard W. Grant, are a part in the
presentation.
George Washington will be enacted
by Benjamin L. Wise '33, and Martha
'Washington will be portrayed by Mrs.
Herbert Koepp-Baker. Other charac
ters include Paul K Hirsch '35 as
Lord Fairfax, Richard J. Fisher '35
as George Fairfax, Peter G Meek '32
as Jack Custis, Mrs Stevenson W.
Fletcher as Mammy Sal, and Austin
B Moore '32 as Marquis de Lafayette.
Professor Richard W. Grant will be
in charge of the community singing
and has arranged a number of favor
ite selections for the program. A
minuet chorus also has been provided
by the State College Women's club.
The staging, costuming, and lighting
are under the supervision of Prof.
Arthur C. Cloetingh.
ORATORS MEET IN RADIO
CONTEST FEBRUARY 28
O'Brien Names Kernel '32, Keyes '33
'fo Face Dickinson Debaters
Coleman Hanel '32 and Scott
Keyes '33 have been selected by Jos
eph P. O'Brien, men's debate coach,
to meet the Dickinson College debaters
in the radio contest over station WFSC
on February 28.
With "Resolved, that capitalism as
r. system , of economic organization is
unsound in principle," as the ques
tion for discussion, the Penn State
pair will support the negative. The
debate will be held Oregon style and
will be bioadcast as a part of the
regular Sunday afternoon radio pro
gram.
William and Mary College, of 'Wil
liamsburg, Virginia, will be the next
opponent on March 1 here. Negotia
tions arc being carried on to have the
debate on the centralized control of
industry question.
ADDRESSES YALE STUDENTS
Dean Frank C. Whitmore, head of
the School of Chemistry and Physics,
returned last night from New Haven,
Conn., where he adds eased a group of
Yale University students on a series
of chemical topics. _
Dunning '32, M . Catheime Little '32,
Ethel A. Lux '32, Margaret A. Maule
'32, Rhoda J. Oberdorf '32, Dorothy
B. Rissinger '32, .Mary K. Rissinger
'32, Virginia M. Spangler '32, Mary M
Byrd '33, Regina M. Frets '33, Eliza
beth N. Hepner '33, Elsa I. Ottmger
'33, and Helen F. Ransom '33
Other members are Dorothy J.
Showers '33, Mabel L. Thompson '33,
Ruth A. Wick '33, Eunice L. Chamber
lin '34, Phyllis I. Chumard '34, and
E. Christine Hoffman '34. Imogene
A. Carson '34, Bernice L Rods '34,
and Dorothy I. 31ergenthalei '34 are
pledges.
Oread alumnae living in State Col
lege include Mrs. W S Hoffman, Mrs.
Albert P. Ponell, Mrs. E. R. Queer,
Mrs. E. R Vansant, and Mrs. Anne B
Wenger. Mrs. Kenneth B. Barnes
and Mrs. J Mylin Will me local Al
pha Chi Omega alumnae.
55 STATE PAPERS
WILL AID CONTEST
To Co-operate With Alpha Beta
Sigma in Conducting High
• School Competition
Fifty-five newspapers of Pennsyl
vania have indicated their willingness
to co-operate in the second annual
high school page journalistic contest
which m being conducted here under
the supervision of Alpha Beta Sigma,
professional journalism fraternity,
and the Pennsylvania Newspaper
Publishing association
Five prizes amounting to a total of
seventy-fise dollars will be distri
buted by the publishers to the win
ners of the state-wide contest which
began last Tuesday and will termin
ate on May 1.
Only senior high school reporters
who contribute regularly to the col
umns of some professional newspaper
are eligible to participate in the con
test. The editors of the various
newspapers send copies of the con
testants' news stones here to be
judged
The judges who will select the win
ners arc• Prof. Franklin C Banner
of the journalism department, C M.
Morrison, editor of the Philadelphia
Ledge, a, Floyd Chalfant, publish°. of
the Waynesboro flew) - Hm old
Charles BI Meredith, past president
of the National Editorial association.
and Clifford A. Shaw, city editor of
the Clearfield Po og, csa
Approximately 200 high school sen
ior reporters competed in last year's
contest With a considerable increase
in the number of nenspapets repre
sented this year, the committee in
charge of the competition expects it
to cover the entire state.
SENIOR ENGINEERS TO HEAR
LECTURE ON RUSSIA FRIDAY
"Russia" will be the subject of the
lecture foe senior engineers to be given
in Schwab auditoe ium at 4:10 o'clock
next Friday. Tho speaker, John Cal
med}, of New York, is president of the
Society of Industrial Engineels and
editoe of Facto, y and Industr ial Man
agenten:
The lecture scheduled last Wednes
day by Val Cronstadt, of the Lycom
ing Manufacturing company, William
sport, -has been postponed to next
Wednesday. The talk is to be given
in Room 215, Main Engineering build
ing, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon.
1 Who's Dancing
Tonight
111 11 'tars, Ball
Recreation hall
(Subvcrlptlon)
Austtn Nude and the Vmsity Ten
Tomorrow Night
Phi Kappa Tau and Phi Lambda
Theta
'ut Phi Hamm Tau
(Invitation Only)
Vdnitty 7'.
Phi Sigma Kappa, Theta Xi and
Ti angle
at Phi Sigma Kappa
(Closed)
Austin Wyno
Student Union Dance
Rem cation hall
Bill Bottod
STATE COLLEGE, PA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1932
SELECTED FOR Dedication By
College Annual -
4.
\
DEJ
`LA. VIE' DEDICATED
TO DEAN WARNOCK
Seniors Select Men's Adviser
For Highest Honor Given
By 1932 Yearbook
• Dedication of the 1932 La Vie will
Ye made to Dean of Men Arthur R
Warnock, according to Charles 1V
Rico '32,•editor-m-chief of the College
annual.
"In looking too a man who could
combine intimacy with the students
with prominence, we came to the con
clusion that none other could qualify
foi the honor as well as Dean War
nock," Rice said. A half-tone cut of
the Dean in the dedication section of
the yearbook will be accompanied by
a short biographical sketch.
z - Dean' Warnock will complete his
thirteenth year as Dean of Men at the
College m September He came here
in 1919 from the University of Ill
inois, where he served as assistant
dean of men under Thomas Arkle
Clark.
To Appear In May
A nen section of informal snap
shots of typical events, scenes, and
'people around the Campus is an ad
. dawn to this year's annual. A sim
lint section appeared in the yearbook
several years ago, but was discon
tinued.
-Although none of the publication
has gone to press as yet, Rice expects
to have the class section ready next
week and the fraternity section in the
hands of the 'Williamsport publishers
in two necks. The complete copy will
be in by April 1, and the annual will
;appeara during the first Nseek In May.
A call for sophomore candidates will
be issued early next month, and elec
tions for the new senior staff will be
held in the middle of April, Rice
stated This year's La Vie is the first
to be published under the new com
petitive staff system, all proms
staffs having been appointed.
'PERSHING RIFLES'
TO INSTALL CORPS
National Honorary Will Initiate 89
Undergraduates, 3 Facult)
Menibery Monday
The Penn State ifoninary Drill
Corps, composed of eighty students,
will be initiated into the "Pershing
Rifles," national honmary R. 0 T. C.
society, by Commanding General Ver
non E. Cordel at 7 o'clock Monday
night in the Armory
In addition to the students three
faculty members, Captain Ernest E.
Tabseott, adviser, Captain Wraith' op
A. Hollyer, and Sergeant Jack II
Weske, will be inducted. A smoker
will follow the induction ceiemonies.
Penn State will be the fifteenth
chapter in the national organization,
which was formed in 1894. Its head
quarters is at Ohio State Univer
sity, with most of the chapters dis
tributed throughout the south and the
middle west.
The local unit consists of tno pla
toons commanded by William C.
Burry '33, captain. Other officals
me Donald G BruhnLet '34, first lieu
tenant, David D Locke '34, second
lieutenant, and Winifred 0. Vosbury
'34, sergeant-major.
CLASS OF '27 WILL MEET
B. Gail Wharton, of Mount Union,
secretary of the class of '27, will meet
with local representatives of the class
in Room 104 Old Mom, at 4.o'clocic
Saturday todnake plans for the June
/.eunion.
GRIPPE, INFLUENZA
EPIDEMIC SPREADS
,THROUGH COLLEGE
Dispensary Treatments Reach
New Levels as Sickness
Strikes Wednesday
SUSPENSION OP CLASSES
DENIED BY DR. RITENOUR
2 Additional Nurses Augment
Regular Staff—lnfirmary
Filled to Capacity
Doctor Sets Rules
1. Get at least 8 hours of sleep
every night in mdei to prevent
fatigue.
2. Be legulai in every one of your
health habits
3. Eat regularly and don't eat
between meals
4. Cover your nose and mouth
whenever you sneeze 01 cough,
and you will cut the spread of
the disease very materially.
5. If you don't feel well, get into
bed immediately. Get plenty
of rest and Nentllatlon. Hon
-
ever, at the first signs of ill
ness, go to the piopoi authori
ties and be examined so that
you will know shat is wrong
with you.
With College dispensary tieatments
reaching new high levels and hundreds
of students being cared for en frater
nity and rooming houses, Penn State
was in the clutches of a giippe and
influenza epidemic Wednesday.
Rumors that eln.ses would be su
spended or thatiiny unusual action
would be taken by College authorities
wele dispelled by Dr Joseph P. Rite
near, College physician, in a statement
to the COLLEGIAN Dr Rdenoui point
ed out that such methods of dealing
with epidemics are now antiquated,
since they tend to spread the disease
over even wider areas
First signs of the situation appear
ed Friday when the usual daily aver
age of seventy dispensary treatments
swelled to 171. Saturday morning's
record totaled 107, and Monday the
total of treatments soared co.er the
two hundred mad:
Infirmary Filled
Tuesday's mark of 221 visits had
been bettered at 'I o'clock Wednesday
afternoon when 230 cases had already
been treated Many who were un
able to secure treatment immediately
because of crowded conditions were
taken care of by private doctors in
the borough.
The infirmary is filled to capacity
at present, and the regular staff has
been augmented by two nurses Five
eases of pneumonia, three of mumps,
one scarlet fever, and one chicken pus
arc being taken care of there, while
many less serious and convalescent
cases are being nursed by students
and professional nurses in fraterni
ties, dormitories, and roominic houses
Sounding a precaution to the stu
dent body, Dr Rdenour pointed ,out
that every new case is brought on by
contact with the afflicted person. He
scow ed carelessness on the part of the
ill individual in snowing and coughing
without covering his mouth. The
epidemic, he said, was caused by
changing weather conditions.
Phi Kappa Phi Places Less EmPhasis
On Grades, Seeks True Scholarship
From the chaos of discussion on the
condition of honorary societies at
Penn State, one organization at least,
has set aside talk for action and taken
a definite step in the direction of
higher standouts
Phi Kappa Phi, general scholastic
honorary fraternity and generally
' acknowledged cream of societies
recognizing scholarship, has an
nounced a mole selective system for
its coming election placing less em
phasis on guides and time on other
'evidences of scholarship.
"The mere possession of a high
average does not necessarily rank the
student as an outstanding scholar"
That is the modified attitude of the
otganization. A prelinunary quali
fication has been set as a grade of
24 providing it places the student in
the upper tenth of his class Front
then on, requirements become mole
difficult.
Infoi 'nation will be secured from
the dean, tiepin tment head, and other
Mathews, Kennedy Approve
Fraternity -Dance Proposal!
Council, Union Presidents Indicate Support by
Students--Believe Better Distribution
Of Functions Would Result
Student approval of the proposed
system for fraternity dance tegulation
was indicated yesterday by favorable
statements from Francis L. Mathews
'32, president of Interfraternity Coun
cil, and W. Jay Kennedy . '32, Student
Union president.
The new elan, which Dean of Men
Arthur R Warnock endorsed earlier
in the week, would require each fra
tetnity to submit to an Interfraternity
Council committee a list of its pre
ferred dance dates for the semester.
These dates could be reduced to
the stipulated number, and those not
marked as "particularly attractive"
' would be arranged at the commit
tee's discretion. Closed dances, if
such are indicated, would he fined to
fall on week-ends when open ones are
scheduled
Mathews `believes that the plan
UNION WILL HOLD
DANCE TOMORROW
Third College Affair of Series
To Follow West Virginia
Basketball Game
Following the basketball game with
West Virginia tomorrow night, Stu
dent Union 1,111 hold the third of a
series of dances in Recreation hall
As at the pie,ous affairs the only
requirement for admission will be the
presentation of the athletic associa
tion card The music, which will he
prosided by Bill Bottorf's orchestra,
will begin at 9 30 o'clock and last
until 12 o'clock
In accordance nab a recent ruling
made by Student Tribunal, freshmen
having dates wd(be allowed to attend
without customs Freshmen not es
corting girls, however, must adhere
to the customary freshman rules.
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Tomo,low's dance cull mark the
close of the trial series to determine
the. ads inability of making these af
fairs part of the regular customs.
The prone purpose of the idea is to
offer entertainment to visiting ath
letic teams and stimulate social actin,
ties betas een nien and nomen students
Because of the success of the bas
ketball dances so far, David F. Young
'B2, chairman of the committee or
:ranging the affairs, ndl present a
recommendation to Student Union and
to Student Council to continue the
functions next yeas aft.. carious ath
letic events
DIRECTOR REPORTS LINGNAN
UNIVERSITY SAFE FROM IN AR
langnan Um‘ersity, "Penn State
in China,' in not in danger from the'
Sino-Japanese conflict now being,
waged ut Shanghai, the COLLEZIAN
learned yesterday front Dean Ralph L
Watts, of the School of Agricultme,
who is a director of the College
Situated two miles from Canton
which is approsimately 1000 miles
faonr•the scene of conflict, Lingnan is
doubly guarded by being neat to Jiang
Kong, a British possession
faculty members with whom the can
didate comes into contact They will
comment confidentially on qualities
wiedi lank lain as an outstanding
scholnr. Scholarly achiesement,
in
disidual initiative in studies, research
abilities, promise of success, and the
extra-curricular activities of a schol
arly notate in line with the major
moik, will all be considered in this
analysis
In commenting on this procedure,
Cyi us V. D. Bissey, scheduling °Mem
and secretaiy of the society, rcmaik
ed that in this process students who
were of teal saluc rind mollusc would
be icwaided instead of adding an
other key to name mum k-maggots
The attainment of the 24 average
is within the lenge of any sincere,
schohnly student, in Ills opinion. The
higher giade standard of 26, form
oily the requirement, cuts out many
who do not came to sacrifice taking
difficult courses on a wide range of
subjects in order to gain honor points
by scheduling the bare requirements.
should be giten a test nest seniestei
and that, if Council adopts the meas
ure. a committee should be appointed
this spsing at the same time as the
rushing group. lie sees no obstacles
to its adoption
Citing the inability of fiaterinties
to foiesee financial reveises, Mathews
said he favored basing the dance lists
diamn up each semester. rather than
foi a year's period This mould also
enable fraternities to know when ath
letic meets mill occur before submit
ting their list.
"Although Student Union attempted
a lough sot t of regulation this beat,
by asking chapter, to turn in their
dance dates beforehand, it is evident
that Interfraternity Council mill base
a better opportunity for success, be
cause its measures represent the
opinions of the fraternities," Kennedy
said "I behme that the measure will
be appimed
Both Kenne4 and Mallet, fed
that the plan mould effect a better
distribution of dances titer the open
week-ends Thet believe that the
system mould hate piesented sonic of
this )em's dance congestion, eten
though fewer functions have been held
this year than ordinarily.
WINTER CONCERTS
POSTPONED WEEK
Musical Organization? Part in
Washington Bi-Centenary
Advances Programs
Bemuse of active participation in
the College Bi-Centenary obqemance
of George Washington'i, birth. the fine
winter concerts to be given by Penn
State musical organisations hase been
advanced one week. according to an
announcement by Professor Hummel
Fishbuin, of the music department.
Originally scheduled for this Sun
day, the Blue Band under the direc
tion of Prof Wilfred 0. Thompson is
now arranging to present their con
ceit of overtures and military num
bers, the first of the series, at 3:30
o'clock next Sunday afternoon, Febru
ary 28, in the Auditorium
Broadcasting Discontinued
A neck later, on March 6, the Col
lege symphony orchestra, Professor
Fishburn. in charge. soul gue a pro
gram On March 13, the Girls' Glee
club is scheduled to present a pro
gram of vocal numbers. The newly
foi med co-ed orchestra %%ill also of
fei several selections at this concert.
Phi Mu Alpha, national honorary
music fraternity, is planning to pre
sent a program of modern music on
Match 20, o ole Kappa Gamma Psi,
also a national music fraternity, will
complete the series of concerts on
Apill
Contrary to past custom, the con
lcmts tics year N,Il not, be broadcast
lover the College radio station, WPSC
One of the reasons cited for this
change Utll a poor attendance last
year at the concert,
A. A. U. P. WILL OBSERVE /
ANNIVERSARY AT DINNER'
Julius Hopkins Profe.sor To Speak
For Celebration IVednesda3
, --.
Oliseiving the, came minister of the College church
tenth anal% chary
of then local oigamaation, one hum- at Wesley on Um ' or city. 1 ‘ Ink there,
he arranged too intcrcollegiute par.
di
died memheis of the American Asso:
leys . education, one on wat, and an
clution of Unit ersitv Pi ofessork will
of johos. intercollegi symposium on ieligion
hear Di Walter W. Cook,
Hopkins University, at a dinner in' Alter Bealee yeah of sera ice at. IVes-
Alm Umsersity Club at 7 o'clock on .10., the speaker Was called to his
N% edneeday night. !present position m tic the Federal
Shoat speeches will he given by the Council of the Choi dies of Christ in
past pi eshients of the organization,: America, where he is secretary of thu
while the principal adritess will 'be Commission of International Justice
node by Dr Cook, head of the Inst. and Good Will Ile to also secretary
lute of Lan at Johns Hopkins and to the Committee on Good Will be
president of the national association of tween Jews and Christians of which
proiessois.'Dr. S Parkes Cadman, nationally
- • • .• . 'known theologian, . chairman
A gi aduate of Columbia Uno.ersit
Di Cock has studied at universities in
Sena, Lei P CTl 4 i ' m:L i . l'nendtl ‘VTTiIIEGNrDantI3IC-C h. EN ,b l e ir
of lA t I L
taught ut
lion to the universities of Nebraska,
I.School of Education, will attend the
Montana, Missouri, and Chicago Hi-Centennial convocation of George
While at Johns Hopkins, he organized! Washington Univer,ity to be bold in
the law institute purely for research I Constitution Hall, the auditorium of
purposes Considered an expert on, the Daughters of the American Revo
insurance and taxation laws, Dr. Cook'lution . at Washington, D. C., Febru
ie also the author of several hooks on,ary 22, as the representative of Penn
has specialty. [State
ESTABLISIIED
PRICE FIVE CENTS
AUSTIN WYLIE BAND,
VARSITY TEN PLAY
TONIGHT FOR BALL
Committee Will Donate Proceeds
in Contribution Tonards
Student Loan Fund
METALLIC-FACED FAVOR
SELECTED AS PROGRAM
Cafe Orchestra Will Make Trip
To State College From
Clo eland, Ohio
Snores 0111 flash and spurs xdl
clink to the blended nuotc of Austin
Wylie's band and the Vursitt Ttnas
students and reserve officers dance
at the Military Ball from 9 o'clock
until 2 o'clock tonight in Recreation
hall
Nun 3 student, "Flo other, ise mould
bane been forced to lea,e ,chool fm
~ ant of,mone, will be able to remain
: because of the profits donated to the
Loan Fund hom this dance, for uliith
: the officers lane contributed all labor,
catering service, checking, and janitor
ork.
MilrJ111!M!1!ITEMill
A metallic-faced in o„ ram with gold
background vtll be gieen out to those
ssho attend the ball The cover still
display the sign of the eagle and
crossed flags The six pages are to
be denoted to honor guests and
dances, uhich are to be named after
battles of the Itoolutlonury War.
Austin Wylie's band Is conning bent
direct from a regular engagement in
Glee eland, Ohno, svheie the orchestra
has been play mg at a night club and
,broadcasting seer the lad.
The Var.sit3 Ten, in addition to nu•
merous local engagements, played
with other well known orchestras at
the Intercollegiate Ball in Pittsburgh
during the Chi a.tmas sucation
decorations mdl be a blend of
the national coloio in streamers, bunt
ing, and lights, v ith fraternity booths
along the sides of the dance floor
topped ci tb cl bite tell, mod: and
%sues. Electric outlets are to be sup
plied, so that indisidual groups may
bring floor lumps fur illumination
uithin the booths. according to Philip
C. Cooper '32, chairman of the dance
comnuttee mid student colonel
CHAPEL AUDIENCE
TO HEAR CLINCHY
Official of recierdl Church - Council
W:II Deliier Sermon Sunda)
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"From Neighboi hood to IN urldhood"
will be the subject of the address by
the Rev Eveiett Ross Clinchy, of the
vecretai lute in the T;ederal Council of
the Churches of Chi ist in America, at
the regular chapel some,. 11 o'clock
Sunday morning in the Auditorium.
Reverend Clinch}, a minister in
;the Prost* tenon chuich, gives the
; major portion of his tulle to inter-
Icultural relations in America. In ac
cord milli the nation-wide George
IVashington Bi-Centennial obseii once,
the veaker n IlOn um ling 011 a nu
tional ,eniinat of Catholic% Jeus. and
Protestants, to 1.011,11 C 10 I\*ashlar:-
Iton, ➢. r, Muich 7 to 9, as a part
of the Washington cclebrution there.
1 Folloe ing graduate cork at Union
;Theological Seminaiy. Yale and Col
, unit. Universities, the speaker be-