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VOL. 28, No. 41
PROPOSED RUSHING '
CODE RECOMMENDS
DIVISION OF PERIOD
Agreement Gives 43-Hour Rest
Between 2 Sections in
15-Day Program
COUNCIL WILL VOTE ON
PLAN AT NEXT MEETING
Dating To Begin September 15,
End October I—Chapters
Can Submit Changes
Division of a fifteen-day rushing
period into Lao sections 'separated by
a forty-three hour silent period is the
only major change in the, proposed
rushing code for 1932 submitted by J.
McLain Crookston '32. chairman of
the Interfraternity Council's corhmit
tee on rushing, at Council meeting
Thursday night.
This code has been submitted to
fraternities for proposed revisions and
these changes will be considered at the
March meeting of the Council. Final
action on the code will be taken at
that time. A minor revision in the
proposed 1932 rushing code recom
mends that all bids be typewritten on
regularly prescribed cards
Propose 2 Silent Periods
Rushing will formally begin at 5
o'clock Thursday afternoon, Septem
ber 16, and the first period will con
tinue until 4 'O'clock Friday, Septem
ber 23. A silent period in which no
communication between a 'fraternity
man and rushee will be allowed, will
extend from 4 o'clock Friday after
noon until 11 o'clock Sunday morning.
September 25 The second period will
begin Sunday afternoon and -rushing
will close at 8 o'clock Friday night,
September 30:
Bids will be distributed at the Stii
dent Union office Saturday morning,
October 1. Rushees will signify their
acceptance of a bid by appearing at
the fraternity of their choice for din
ner the following day. A second silent
period will begin when tusking for
mally dose's and will continue until 6
o'clock Sunday night. ,
==l
According to the proposed code for
1032, fraternities may not make more
than two Ades in each period. No
dates for the second period may be
made until the completion of both
dates in the first period. Fraterni
ties will be allowed two dates a day,
a luncheon date from 11 to 4 o'clock
and a Milner date from 5 to 10 o'clock
from September 15 to 21 and from 5
to 8 o'clock all other nights
All fraternities will be required to
post a $5O bond with the rushing com
mittee before October 1 or bids will
not be accepted for distribution. yin.
lotions of the code will be determined
according to their severity. Penalties
movided include publication in the
COLLEGIAN, of the offenders, notifica
tion of national officers, forfeiture of
bond, and suspension of social priv
ileges for one semester
NIXON ADDRESSES
CHAPEL 'AUDIENCE
Rochester Pastor Describes Lite as
Lung Journey Into Unknown
At Sunday Services
"Darwin and Copernicus made the
world a more interesting place to live
in, just as Einstein 0 doing today,"
Dr. Justin W. Nixon, pastor of the
Brick Presbyterian church in Roches
ter, N. Y, told the chapel audience in
Schwab auditorium Sunday morning.
_
Speaking on "Making Life an Ad
venture," Reverend Nixon said that
life may be compared to a great ex
pedition into the unknown. It is only
in the hour of adventure, when we ac
cept the challenge of the unknown
that we keenly realize that life is
worth living, he said.
"The enemies of the spirit of ad
venture today are tradition and con
vention. The older generation misses
adventure because it is bound by
traditions, and the younger people, be
cause of conventions," the chapel
breaker said.
The trouble with most of the ad
venture with which we come in con
tack in modern America, is that it is
cheap and immoral, he said.
WRITES TECHNICAL ARTICLE
Prof. Harrison H Arnold of the de
partment of romance languages is the
author of a technical article appear
ingqn the present issue of the Modern
Language Annual, entitled, "A Sem
inars of Ii regular Verb Forms."
Students Suggest
Scheduling Sports
During Afternoon
All those students who have had to
watch athletic events With one eye on
the clock—all those who have had to
miss basketball games because of
dance's—all those who have had to
miss dances because ,of basketball
games—all these, we say, may well
hearken to some glad tidings.
For, their condition is to be rem
edied. if the Athletic /Association ac
cedes to the wishes of Messrs. Myers,
fathews, and Kennedy who are spend
ing the last semesters of their col
lective senior years guiding the des
tinies of Student Council, Interfra
ternity Council, and Student Union
"It is- illogical," says Myers, "to
crowd out other campus activities by
scheduling the main portion of a day's
athletic events at night. Not only do
the dramatic, musical, and fraternity
activities suffei-, but the event sched
uled at 8 o'clock suffers from lack of
100% support.by the student body."
Facing the metier from another
I'angle, Mathews pointed out that Sat
urday afternoons, particularly in the
winter months when students cannot
, engage to any great extent in in
dividuid recreation, are often dull be-1
cause all, or at least the most import
ant, attractions are given at night.'
"I know I am speaking for many 1
of the student activities co-ordinated 1
in the Union when I favor a change in
the present scheduling of athletic
events," Kennedy said. "I can see no I
reason why athletic events should not,
be scheduled earlier than 8 o'colck for
the general interest of athletics here
as well as to aid other student activi
ties." 1
ORATORS ENGAGE
• SOUTHERN SCHOOL
Debaters To Meet William and
Mary College in Little
Theatre Tonight!, ,
With state socialism-capitalism as
the subject, for argument, Paul L Fox
'33 and Scott Keyes '33, composing a
Penn State forensic team, will pair
with WilliariL'and Mary College de
baters in a split-team' contest in the
Little Theatre at 7.30 o'clock tonight.
According to the split-team plan,
Fox will pair with one William and
Mary debater to support state social
ism, while Keyes and another William
and Mary orator will combine to de
fend capitalism. This contest will be
a return debate, Penn State having
engaged William and Mary College
on the same question at Williams
burg, Va , on December 10.
Debate on Sunday Broadcast
In the first Oregon style debate to
be broadcast in the United States,
Keyes and Coleman Herpel '32 de
fended capitalism 'against Roy R.
Kuebler and David S. Myers, of Dick
inson College. The contest waabroad
cast over station WPSC during the
regular Sunday afternoon program at
4 o'clock.
Opening the case for the affirma
tive, Kuebler pointed out unsound fea
tures in the capitalistic principles of
press enterprise private property, and
the production for profit motive which
is accompanied by riotous and waste
ful competition. In presenting the
negative side, Herpel maintained that
the evils of capitalism are not inher
ent in the system, but are due to the
lack of adequate information avail
able to the business man.
Houck, Speidel, Jeffrey See Benefit
To Sports in Larger Letter Awards
How do the coaches of boxing,
wrestling, and soccer feel about the
larger awards granted their letter
winners In the'student poll last week?
We asked Charlie Speidel first.
Charlie sees the change as an added
Incentive to newcomers to wrestling
and an evression of appreciation for
work done, to the veterans. He be
lieves it's bound to help each indivi
dual sport which received the larger
award and is an expresion of the trend
towel d equalization in all letter
awards.
'"The decision of the students here
at Penn State to grant soccer letter
winners a letter equivalent to that
given in basketball, baseball, and track
will help the rise of the game all over
the country," Bdt Jeffrey said. "At
the same time, it cannot help but
! create more enthusiasm for those of
us who are actively engaged with
I soccer, indicating as it does student
STATE COLLEGE, PA.
FAILING FRESHMEN
GIVEN NEW CHANCE
UNDER L. A. RULING
School Will Not Drop Students
Below in Half of First
Semester Credits
SCHOLARSHIP PROVISION
OUTLINED BY STODDART
Dr. Waller Heads Trial Section;
Upperclassmen Excluded
From Arrangement
Freshmen in the Liberal Arts
school failing more than fifty percent
of their first semester's work will not
be dropped from school, according to
a new plan announced yesterday by
Dr. Charles W. Stoddart, Dean of the
School.
Under the new plan freshmen in
Liberal Arts courses who fail their
first semester are placed in a proba
tier section in charge of Prof. Wil
lard W. Waller, of the department of
sociology. There they are given spe
cial attention and are interviewed by
Dr. Waller from time to time con
cerning the progress of their work.
Worry Cited as Cause
Dean Stoddart pointed out that the
school has been endeavoring for sev
eral years to find the fairest method
of dealing with those who fail during
their first semester and that this was
a trial solution.
The Dean named Illness, worry,
finances, lack of objectives, and poor
preparation as contributing factors to
failure among the first year students.
Often it is not dullness, in the stu
dent, the Dean said, and a small
'minority of the failures are really un
able to cope with the work; - •
Upperclassmen Not Excused
Through the use of proper guidance
as outlined in the new plan it is hoped
that the pressure of these unfavorable
factors which handicap failing stu
dents may be eliminated and the stu
dents kept in school.
With regardho the members of the
three upper classes, the Dean said,
"The' present colleg e ruling to the
elect that any, student failing over
half his credits will be dismissed from
school, should be uniformly applied
to all regular upperclassmen.
"A freshman should be given a
year's time in which to prove his abil
ity, but if, after failing the first semes
ter, he also fails more than half his
credits during the last one, he should
be dismissed," he concluded.
DRAWINGS, LITHOGRAPHS
SHOWN HERE THIS WEEK
Woodcut Exhibit Will Follow Display
Of Architects' Handiuork
An exhibit of architectural draw
ings from the Beaux Arts Institute of
Design of New York city began yes
terday in Room 307 Main Engineer
ing, and will continue today and to
morrow, according to Prof. Harold E
Dickson of the department of archi
tecture. This exhibit is entirely the
work of students from the largest
architectural institutions in the east.
One of the best of the year's ex
hibits of woodcuts and lithographs
will go on display Thursday in the
same room. This was sent here by
the American Federation of Arts in
Washington, D. C., and contains ten
of the year's fifty best prints.
appreciation for our work."
The soccer mentor pointed out that
the health-building qualities of the
booting game as a competitive sport
are just coming into recognition na
tionally, and raising of the letter
award here will be a boost to this
movement. Time, he sees last week's
election results as far-reaching in
consequence
Leo Houck favors the change and
sees it as an additional incentive to
his nien. He believes, howeven that
the real change should be in making
I individual requirements for a letter
stricter in each sport, thus granting
'.higher recognition to leaders and
1 champions.
Speaking for the athletic associa
tion, Neil Fleming expressed the be
lief that the students had made wise
choices in their ,selections. He sees
the change as an experiment in trend
I with the modern movement toward
I equalization in letters
PESDAY, MARCH 1, 1932
Juniors FixiMay 13
As NeW Prom Date
The date for Junior Prom, 01 ig
mally scheduled for Friday, May G,
has been changed - to Friday, May
13, according to; Adam B. Bala
ban '33, chamifan of the Prom
committee.
Because of themnual interscho
lastic track meet ivhnch will be held
here Saturday, May 7, the commit
tee deemed it advisable to change
the Prom date, ,thus avoiding an
already crowded condition for the
visiting tracknen. .
COLONIAL :SCHEME
SELECTED' FOR HOP
Dance Decor'atiOns To Feature
Early Ameiican Scenes,
Variety of Flags
Carrying the Washington Bi-Cen
tenmal observance into Penn State
all-College dances, the Sophomore
Hop Friday night rill have a colonial
decorative scheme, John T Ryan '3l,
chairman of the committee, announced
yesterday
Thirty-five American flags, em
bracing every type since the inception
of the first one; will form a back
ground to the orchestra stand, which
will furnish a colorant setting From
' a high ceiling, blue and gold drapes
will fall to the balcony and glace the
sides of the booths. Decimating will
be in charge of a Philadelphia firm.
A novelty in the usual decorative
scheme will be the covering of the en
trance by drapes healing a colonial
scene. Lighting effects will include
a crystal ball hung from the middle
of the ceiling and scores of little lan
terns suspended from the ceiling and
side drapes.
Play Not city Numbers
Featkriiig nOinitcy Sargent, soio
singer, a trio, and ensemble singing
specialties, the Casa Loins orchestra
of fourteen musicians will come here
following an appearance at Yale.,
Their musical repetoire includes
"White Jazz,"."March of the Man-1
ales," and 'Black Jazz," original'
novelty numbers.
The orchestra scored its first col
, legiate success so hen it appeared at
the 1929 Princeton Senior Ball Since,
then, it has played at important)
dances at the University of Pennsl.l-1
vama, Cornell, Amherst, Washington
and Lee, Vanderbilt, South Carolina, t
Ohio, Ohio State, Yale, Johns Hopkins,
Lafayette, and 'Michigan.
CANADIAN SCORES
LIQUOR SYSTEMS
Ben 11. Spence Calla Control Laus
_ By Government Failure as
Solution Measures
"From the standpoint of serious
minded citizens who seek a real solu
tion for a grave problem, Canadian
systems are a ghastly, grin, unspeak
able failure," said Den IT. Spence,
Canadian ,iournahst and lettinci,
speaking on "The Canadian Systems
of Liquor Control" in Schwab auditor-
Min last night
Mr. Spence pointed out that "liquor
control" in Canada has not ended boot
legging, foi violations of the liquor
laws have increased 0,230 from 192.3
to 1029 Over 9,000 laud liquor es
tablishments dal a $103,600,000 busi
ness last year, proving that "control"
has been, in effect, a highly efficient
liquor-selling agency
"These liquor systems of Canada,"
he said, "are the old liquoi hectic
back with all the great moneyed in
terests behind it, functioning through
a more efficient selling mechanism,
selling more liquor, and paying great
er profits to the inanufactining Lquoh
trade than the old licensed liquor
systems ever did."
Although some advocates ...nil that
by Lhe encouragement of the use of
' beer the consumption of spin itous
liquors would be lessened, the facts
show that the more beer people di lob.
the more whmkey they Avant, lie said.
90 NEW STUDENTS REGISTER
HERE, FOR THIS SEMESTIAL
Ninety new graduate and under
graduate students wete admitted nt
the opening , of the second semester,
Registrar William S. Hoffman an
nounced yesterday. All the under
graduates were listed as transfers
from other colleges.
At the.same time in meet dance with
the fifty per cent rule, 55 students
were automatically dropped, of whom
15 have been reinstated.
Fraternities Fail To Serve
Original Aims, Says Fassett
Significance of Individual Lost in Present-Day
Chapters--Finances Overemphasized,
Conclave Speaker Claims
Modern fraternities are not living
up to their original ideals and concep
tions, was the opinion of James Max
well Fassett, assistant to the Attor
iney Gemini of the United States, in
his talk to delegates attending the In
terfrateinity Conference here Friday
night.
"In the early stages of fraternity
genii th, concentration upon the de
velopment of the individual was em
phasmed and the friendship which
glow Tvithin a small group were last
. ing Today fraternities have grown
Ito such a size and numerical strength
that the individual has lost his signal
, canoe unless he possesses unusual
qualifications for leadership," Mr.
Fassett said
It "as the speaker's belief that
GLEEMEN TO GIVE
RECITAL ON FRIDAY
Club Will Present Second Home
Concert Preceding Soph
Hop at 8 O'clock
To precede Sophomore Hop, Penn
State ;Icemen will give their second
liaise cornett of this year in Schisab
'auditorium at S o'clock Friday night.
Proceeds of this presentation will
be used to defray pail of the expenses
of the Glee club on its trip to St.
Louis to take part in the national In
tercollegiate Glee club • concert on
Airil 8. The gleemen suill represent
Pennsylvania at the St. Louis contest.
• Grant, Kennedy To Direct
The first a i d last selections of the
pogrom on I.silay night will be sung
by the entire group of sixty voices
under the direction of Richard W.
Grant, head of the department of
music. The intenening numbers mill
be presented by a picked group of
this ty men, members of the Intercol
legiate team; under the direction of
W. Jay Kennedy '32
The group selected mill sing three
numbers chosen by the Intercollegiate
association These songs are "Fight,"
student song of Finland; "Dance
of the Gnomes," by Edward Mac-
Donell, and "Fain Would I Change
That Note," by R Vaughan Williams
The number chosen by the songsters
as their choice song is "Wassail"
The club will be assisted by Wil
kens FL Stine '3.3, baritone, Miss Willa
C. IVilliiimmee, soprano, and Miss
Marion Kerr, pianist The accompan
ist for the program m ill be Mrs. Irene
Grant
'FROTH' TO RELEASE LOPE
HOP NUMBER ON THURSDAY
Continuing the co-ed dating three
lorry v.ith analyse, of Delta Gamma!
land Theta Phi Alpha sororities, the
Sop)' Hon issue of the PI ofh will he
released Thursday
One page of tar:calm es will be fea
, lured along with "The Passing Show."
'a column written in Walter Wmehell
style. In addition. the regular fea
tuies of Mug and Jester and With the
• Editor will °Lenny prominent posi
tions in the College milk magazine.
Letter Asks Loan Fund Aid
(This Pile, rg one of many ap
peals, kept m the files of Dean Aram;
R. Warnock's office, which COlllO front
min who want to slay in college this
second St III(Nerl NM whose names
air almost a by-word on the campus
hoer Nought rail. The student loan
fund mod have $.1,000 to save the Col
hge cote, is of descrying MCA 1010
!MN' Milted filth)
Deal Dean Wainotk.
I am wilting you this letter because
I um in desperate need of financial
and to early me over this semester.
I am n Junior
sin in a hotly financially.
I have.tileil to tense money front all
possible sources but found it impos-,
Bible to secure any funds. I ant writ
ing this letter to you asking you to
give mu a hand
It is impel ative that I stay in
school this semester, and the help,
o loch I, so hopefully, expect front
you is my last resolt, the last hope
upon which I lean I can hardly put
in muds the intensity of my wish to
remain in school, yet if I receive no
magnificent chapter houses and fi
nancial wealth tend to corrupt the
true purpose of the fraternity. In
too many instances when seeking
prospective members, ' fraternities
must consider the prospect's financial
!standing rather than his personal
qualifications. This corruption has
brought about widespread and just
criticism of the fraternity system by
I some of the most learned men in the
I country, he said.
"In many colleges and universities
where fraternities and societies not
using the Greek letters are present on
the campus, the local organizations
are able to compete on equal terms
with the national organizations," Mr.
Fassett declared. "Many freshmen
prefer to live in dormitories, when .
they are provided by the college and
this constitutes a serious obstacle to
fraternities."
"Fraternity von have show n a more
serious attitude toward scholarship
this year than ever before and as a
result fraternity averages throughout
the country have improved," he said.
"The depression and the realization
that they may not hese enough money
to complete their courses have been
largely responsible for this improve
ment."
A permanent friendship among edu
cated men is more enduring than an}
other kind and the speaker emphasized
'the fact that it was the function of
the fraternity to furnish an oppor
tunity for such friendships. Mr. Fits
sett concluded his address with a plea
for fraternities to remember that they
have more in common than they have
to keep them apart.
50 WILL CONDUCT
FIRESIDE SESSIONS
Organizations Must Indicate Choice
Of Topics, Leaders, Dates
I=l
More than fifty faculty members
have agreed to lead discussions in the
I third annual series of Fireside Ses
sions sponsored by the Penn State
Chnstian association, Robert M. Max
well '33, phairman of this sanity, an
-1 nounced yesterday.
I -Lists of the faculty men and topics
lon which they are prepared to conduct
discussions will be submitted to fra
ternity and non-fraternity groups this
week, Maxwell said Organizations
will be asked to indicate their pref
erence as to leaders, tomes, and dates
'for the disCussions
Groups Select Leaders
Faculty nice skull be signed up in
the order applications front groups
are received By having a represen
tative call at the P. S. C. A. office to
indicate their choice, groups can avoid
conflicts with other organizations de
siring the same leader. In the case
of applications recess ed by mail, the
committee will notify the
,organiza
tion if the faculty member requested
is not available for the date specified
Fraternities that are holding Fire
side Sessions this year foi the first
tune may obtain suggestions at the
P. S C • A. office as to speakers and
suitable topics for opening the discus
sions.
help I must drop out
When I left high school, I worked
fourteen months before I entered Col
lege I earned money during vaca
tions and through part tune work at
the College to carry me through •,o
Gut. Last summer I was unable to
get work I couldn't have bought a
Job. I received a little money from
friends to help me through last belllC,
let. I did not have enough. I still
owe a bill for board and room.
I can't expect any money from my
home because there the depression has
left its marks My mother has tried
to raise solute money, but she failed.
She told me it wan up to me. I am
striving hard to stay in school and I
would appreciate it more than I can
eXprets if I .were to be granted a
loan I net writing to you very
frankly. I am sure you know how
I feel
Feeling much obliged to you, I am
closing this letter with a deep hope
that I will he successful In having my
request granted.
Sincerely,
ESTABLISHED
PRICE FIVE CENTS
CRESSWELL TAKES
PUBLICITY POSITION
IN STATE DIVISION
Director of Public Information
Here Will Head Education
Press Department
TRUSTEE BODY ACCEPTS
RESIGNATION WEDNESDAY
Served With College Since 1919;
Dunlap To Assume Duties
Pending Final Action
In miler to accept a position as
editm and director of the mess serv
ice for the State Depaamen'. of Pub
lic Instruction, Donald m Cressuell
resigned from his position as director
of the department of public informa
tion here.
Re was released from College set vice
by action of the eAecutive committee
of the Board of Trustees at their meet
ing Wednesday, Adimn 0 Morse,
executive setietary to the President,
announced yesterdas
Continuing his neuspapei activities,
Mr. Cre,,well will a,ume the duties
of his nearly created position some
time next meek, editing various pub
lications of the State department and
collecting and sending throughout the
State nears items of educational in
terest.
A,umed Dulles :n 1919
'Mr Cres.ell uas appointed di
, recto. of College publicity and College
editor in 1919, and since then he has
beer active editing and arranging
College publications, including cata
logs and bulletins. He had complete
charge of all publicity fat the College
$2,000,000 emergency building fund
I campaign of 1022 and 192:1, and, in
1928, directed the publicity Inc the
$8,000,000 bond ISRIO campaign
Receiving neaspapei training on
the Harnstang Pah mot as earl) as
1911, Mi. Cressisell left that paper
four years later to became a student
here As an undergraduate, lie v,as
editor of the COLLEGIAN in 1917 and
1918 and a member of Lion's Paw and
Skull and Bones societies
No Successor Chosen
Oa the campus, Mr. CI esm,ell his
;boned as assistant sees etaly of the
Pennsyls anal State Editonal associa-
I tion and Irons 1929 to 1931 was sec
retor) of the American College Pub
licity association He has been State
College correspondent rot the As.soci
ated Press, United Ness, Into, national
News Setvice, and all metropolitan
panel:
No successor for his position has yet
been chosen, Ms Morse said. Wes
W. Dunlap, fm the past Ilse teal, ath
letic editor in the department of pub
lic information, nill he acting dircctoi.
LIFE WORK WEEK
TO BEGIN SUNDAY
Facult3 Menther,, Church Athisers
Will Coun,el Student, on
l'oettlinnal Choice
The ...Lund annual Life IVua6 neck,
',ln Much students may obtain voca
tional guidance from faculty and
church counsellors, will open Sunday
'and continue until next Wednesday,
Harry W Seamans, P S C A sec
tetary, announced yesterday
Forty-hve faculty menilmis wall
be available fat lam moss on general
or specific recut:onel guidance on
[Monday, Tuesday, and IVednesday.
Interviews are now being ananged at
the P. S. C. A office
I Sn Stale College churches are co.
'operating with the Mistier, lissom.
,tion in sponsoiing the project Nine
'church counsellors, who ate !tamed in
Igeneral vocational moil, and in spell
ifie church vocations, will speak in the
various thatches as a part of the leg.
'War program.
Dr Paul Blanshaid, duectot of the
'city areas committee of New York
and specie' lecturer of the League of
Induattial Demetatv, 1,11 speak on
I"The Economic Cusco and the \Vey,
.Out" on March In, in the fourth of a
series of sup events planned by the
Penn State Christian asbouation
, TO ATTEND ALUMNI MIUL•TING
Edwind K. Hibshman esecutwe
secretary of the Penn State Alumni
' association, and Director ltugo Hen
tick, of the physical education school,
will attend an alumni meeting tomtit
row night in Hartishing "The Penn
State Athletic Program" will be the
principal subject discussed,