Page Two PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Pahßolled semhweekl, during the College yeur, except en holidays, by students or The Pennsylvania State College, in the Interest of the College, the students, faculty, alumni, and friends HUGH R RILEY 3R '32 WENDELL L REHM '32 Editor Business Manager HUGO K FREAR . 32 SAMUEL SINCLAIR '32 Managing Editor Circulation Manager EDWARD W WRITE '32 LIN V EBB '32 Assistant Editor Athertising Manager THEODORE A SFRRILL '32 EDWARD S DEERING '32 Sports Editor Foreign Ada t Manager WILLIAM II IRVINE '32 COLLIN E FINK '32 Nen. Editor Asst Circulation Manager W. STEWART TOWNSEND '32 JESSE C McKEON '32 News Editor Asst Adsertising 3lanager DIARY 51. WRIGHT '32 MARGARET TSCIIAN '32 Women's Editor , Anaren's Managing Editor LOUISE MARQUARDT '32 Women's Watts Editor l'!M=Z: TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 1932 GRADINC TO FLUNK If they ale successful in attaining the glade as erage of their school, students in Chemistry and Physics stand re chance of graduating, according to a survey released by the Registrai. With the numerical requirement set ra, 1.00, the average is 89. No other school in this Col lege has this condition. The nest lowest merage is 1.14. Instead of training, then, it would seem that this school has taken as its dut3 one of elimination by rig- Grow. marking. When were the purposes of education construed to mean this' Too enty-f our instructors in the School of Chemistry and Physics hare set their standards below the grade of 1.00; and in one case, that of a professor who in structs 112 students, the at erage of his classes is .12, barely passing. One instructor whose standard was .28 had under his control 917 undergraduates. On the basis of these records, compiled for the first semester of 1931-32, 2230 students in one class or another are sub jected to this method of grading. The mystery of how such a situation is tolerated is an deep as how it has developed If this is the result of instruction by graduate students who cannot see over the brim of a test-tube, then it would appeal that graduate students are sexy necessary accessories of the labora tory, but unfit for the classroom. This condition is not a new one• records foi 1924, 1925, 1929 and 1931 show a definite consistency of grade averages below the graduating minimum An investigation and correction of such a condition is more than appropriate. It is nrceqsary. The dveiage student has few occasions to snake any lasting contribution to his college. The splendid service tendered to the Penn State student body by Fiances L. Mathews, Interfiaternity Council president, in conduct ing the successful Student Loan fund dance Wednesday sight, should certainly be considered as a very worthy contribution to College welfare. LATER DINNER HOUR Although a majority of the students who favor Day tight Saving for State College base their opinions on the assistance such a move will render intramural sports, a very mom tent conti Muting factor still must Le consulei ed If trate, nitres and boarding houses keep their lin net hoots at 5.30 o'clock under Daylight Saving, it Will La recessaty to conduct the too-hoot sports period after the evening meal. Under this procedure the athletic period must combat the various organization meetings, band practices, movies, ete. In order, then, to secure an uninterrupted tv,o-hour sports period, it will lie necessary to move dinner hour up to 6 30 o'clock and conduct intramural athletics from 4to 6 o'clock. The later dinner hour has long been con templated here as a more reasonable time for the eve mng meal, and such a change would probably not be seriously opposed by the fraternities A MATTER OF ETHICS It is difficult to untletstand the average college mar's conception of ethics He could scam to rob a bank, he would fioan on refusal to pay honest debts, roil yet he blatantly displays towels and sthemare •"lifted" from hotels and other establishments he has N. !sited. Perhaps it is a feeling that such items as towels and silvensale ale common property But a little thought will slims that they ale rigidly on a par with my other foi m of pi ivate property and, as such, should Le viewed with all due respect to the owner's rights. Gate-clashing is another collegiate breach of ethics. Some college 'men boast openly of the number of dances they base clashed, much as the Indian would flaunt his scalp. and take pride in the heap he had been able to capture. Particularly mood is the collegian who dis covers some new and novel means to thwatt those who would make him pay or show proper credentials before catering a dance. The Deily Cab/ avian, student newspaper at the University of Southern Calder nia, reports: "Fraternity men were assented recently for taking thirty-five electric light bulbs from local establishments for their house dance. Their stunt was collegiate and clever, and would have been lauded by upperclass brothers who sent them or the escapade had they been skillful enough to com plete their er rand " This points to another of the many inconsistencies in collegiate ethics, and at the same time to a likely means of bringing these standards up to a plane where society will respect them When college men come to view successful and unsuccessful escapades from the same angle, they will have created a consistent code of ethic, that brands towel-lifting as robbery and places gate-clashing in the category of ciiminal behavior. CA MP USEER CZ= Since it's so close to the political season, we feel that the Campuseer should draw up the following platform and place himself on a ticket sanctioned by Chiefs Yougel and Zargei. We now want the W. S. C. A. (We Seldom Get Anywhere) to hack us to a "mean. We advocate fin our successor One buck a week for cokes in the Corner in order to dig up all the dirt trampled around the premises. Special permission to visit (in disguise) all sneers and dorms, giving us an insight into the lives and habits of the unmitigated few. Invitations, engraved and embossed, to all fra ternity dances. Then we mould not be subject to the indignities of being kicked out. We would rather be t=l2ll The right to publish our name It's not fair to have everybody subject to innuendoes and slurs, all because they ale accused of being the Compimeer. Besides, those suspected couldn't even be funny in No 11 shoes We understand that the girls down in Ivy Inn hose been complaining that they don't get enough publicity in this column. Never fear, girls, we'll take cute of you. Saw some S. A. E's mound Saturday night in tuxes. Must have had a dance up on the hill Come to think of it though, that couldn't have been possible. It was too quiet around here over the week-end. Phil Kestei, foimeily of Varsity Ten fame, now operates the high school band up at Punts—tawny (Pardon, we never could spell it) where he teaches in odd moments. At a little recital the other week the band played its repertoire of tin ee numbers. There was so much applause that Phil was forced to give an encore But the band only knew three pieces. So for the fourth number they played the first number, with a slightly different arrangement. And for the fifth number they played the second number The crowd applauded All of which shows a lot of things. Signs of Soling bring signs of Love and Romance Bich Ritenour and Nan Nace, Betty Brice and Harry Hopkinson, Dick Gehr and Bud Webb, Homer Ress ler and Helen Palmer, Van Van Neuron and Peg Bar nard, Jack Kennady and Kay Mahoney, Charlie Rice and Marge Maim, etc., etc., etc • The Tau Phi Dolts staged an all-College dance Saturday night .. . Among those who survived the scrutiny of the private sleuths at thedoor,,we noticed Jack Carson, Bob Ayres,"somebody_with Alice Bier stem, and of course Shirley Thorp? & Co, feeling quite at home. The Beta Sigma Rho's were sitting down at the festite board Sunday afternoon when a telegram came from Rochester announcing the elopement of one of the bras with a certain co-ed. The boys were quite per turbed until the piodigal son returned home and ex ploded the telegram as a diabolical myth by revealing that he and the said co-ed had ',Timely been in Rochester to see about getting in Med School. Oh yeah? About Town and Campus: Bub Byers just recov ered from the Phi Mew formal too weeks ago . . . Bob Thrasher and his bag of tricks arrived in town to entertain popular Mary Calvin . . .. tough on Ken England and Joe Rubin, etc .... Freddy Pierce and his Blue Key disk at Syracuse over the week-end .... Marge Hudson in an azure blue coat .. Bill Clench, local journalist and ex-pride of the COLLEGIAN staff, tells the students in Prof. Gibbons' journalism class how to make good on 20 per .. , or less .... Here in Time For Easter The New Stylepark HATS Just Arrived $5.00 Also the Blue-Bird Snap Brims An Exceptional Value for $3.50 "....11- MONTGOMERY'S ,J,rzdr THE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN CAST CHOSEN FOR 'ELECTRA' DRAMA Beidler '33, Thorpe '33 Chen Major renunine Roles—liet,el '35, 'Hirsh '3l Selected Selection of the cast for "Electia,"l the next play to be pi esented by Penn' State Plovers, hos been completed' with the exception of two minor chin riders, molding to Prof. Arthur C Cleetingli, of the department of Eng lish literature, who wdl dneet the production. A definite date for the peifoimarec has not been set "Electrr" is a Greek tragedy trans lated by Gilbert Mu ray from the oi l ain& by Euripides. Following the plan of the Greek tragedy, it consists of a series of episodes which present the story. Shirley Thorpe '33 is cast in the role of Clytemnestra, queen of Signs and widow of Agamemnon with Phyl . lis C Seidler '33 appeasing in the putt of Electra, her daughter, and Paul K Hash '35 as Orestes, het son Mat inp, his first appearance as a Player. Roger H. Hazel '35 will portray the character of the peasant husband of Electra Bertram Rosenthal jr. '35 v.lll take the part of an old man. while Robert E Haase '35 IR east In the role of the hero Castor. Lithe A. Kell '3'3 will appear as the lender of the chorus AR al. Mary B. Cal% in '33 ns the second woman at the char us. BEZDEK, DAVIS TO SPEAK AT ANNUAL SOUTHERN CONCLAVE Hugo Bezdek, du ectoi of the School of Physical Education and Di. Elwood Davis, of the physical education fac- I ulty, will be guest speakeis at the an nual southern conference of the na-1 tional Physical Education association, which mill be held on March 30, 311 and April 1 in Jacksonville, Fla Bezdek will speak on "Solving Ad ministrative Problems of Athletics in the State of Pennsylvania," and "In tercollegiate Athletic Problems." Dr. Davis' subject mill be "Scientific Techniques in the Direction of •Pro fessional Preparation of Physical Edu cation Teachers" STORAGE and GENERAL REPAIRING NITTANY GARAGE Phone 49 COME IN AN GET YOUR HAIR IN TRIM KNEW BARBER SHOP Opposite Post Office HEY! The new PENN STATE Bells. Gold finished buckles with Class Numerals. HANN & O'NEAL Opposite Float Campus NOW Is the Time to Get Your Hair Cut for EASTER at Cri - sman Barber Come, of Pugh & College Ave. FOR HEALTH Foreign and Dothestic Fruit of All Kinds Always Fresh FRANK SCIORTINO AND BROS. Allen Street IMI=3II TOMORROW II 43—Attrtettltoral Moto Notes -- 4 00—Prof elCaton It Marto ottellot Ilusintont no a In !Irmo! Prat orlon" Dr I ront t. ottAlont ottenks on ttrhilltne Souanttlt" 11 45—Como. Neu. Ilrh fe Ileglnninsr Thumlny al It. 11 o'clock Stollon WI'SC will he ',Hera unlit nest Tucoday at 11 45 o clock GRANGE SHORT COURSE TO OPEN HERE FRIDAY Ilet,el Will Delver Initial Address Before State Lecture Group With an opening addiess by Presi dent Ralph 1) Ilet/el, the second an nual sleet course for giarge lecture's of the State se dl begin here Friday and continue through Saturday Included in the list of speakers is Di. 0 E. Baker, of the Bureau of Ag ricultural Economics, Washington, D. C.. who will talk on "Economic Changes and Then Effect on Present Problems in Agi wahine" at the Fri , day afternoor session Otheir, elm Neill speak sic Howard 'G. Eiseman, lecture' of the Pennsyl h.anin State Caangc, B. L. Planned, rural sociologist of the Virginia Poly , technic Institute, John A. McSparran, secretory of the State department of agriculture, James C. Farmei, lecturer at the National Clang° ILPHA PI MU ELECTIONS (Honorary Pre-maim() Dr. William A Pearson Faculty Di Toel A. Sperry Undergraduates Palmer L. Aukcl '33 Charles P Pluto '33 Albert M Bilcovitch '3l Jack B Manna '34 James J. Dose Las '34 Lament.° L Rackow '34 POPULAR REQUESTS AT THE CORNER Oysters and Clams on the Half Shell Seafood Platters The Corner unusual A Complete Food Service FOR EASTER NEW LINGERS NEW NEW SILKS HOSE NEW GLOVES NEW BAGS NEW BEADS Special $1 00 LAROS VESTS $l.OO LAROS PANTIES $1 00 LAROS BLOOMERS LAROS $1 CHEMISE 00 LAROS BRIEFS $1 00 ANY FOR Mc—Extra Saes Included EGOLE'S BEFORE EASTER HAVE YOUR HATS CLEANED AND RE-BLOCKED Come in and try our new game of pool JIM'S PLACE South Allen St. College Cut-Rate Store Easter Toys, Baskets and Cards-2c to 25c Chocolate Eggs-1c to $2.50 Shellenherger Easter Boxes-50c & 75c Whitman Easter Pets-10c Whitman Easter Nests-50c Whitman Easter Boxes-75c Chocolate Eggs, 4 1 / 2 ,oz.-2,5c Chocolate Eggs, 10 oz.-50c 3 Large Easter Rabbits given away Saturday befoi.e Easter. Ticket on every 25c pur,chase of Shellenberger Candy. COLLEGE ALUMNUS WINS FIRST PRIZE IN CONTEST Former Graduate Manager Awarded $l,OOO by Popular Magazine P. Edwin Thomas 'O9 has been awarded the first prize of $5,000 for submitting the winning magazine title in a nation-wide contest conducted re cently by a popular physical culture periodical. After graduating from Bellefonte Academy, Mr. Thomas entered Penn State where he gained recognition in ' his senior yeas as catcher on the var sity baseball team. He served as graduate manager of athletics here for a few years after his graduation. Until 1929 Mr. Thomas was iasso ciated with several commercial indus tsies in Pittsburgh, but left this work to devote his time to writing. He is now living at Santa Monica, Califor nia. KELLER. BULLINGER ARRANGE PROGRAM FOR SHORT COURSE Prof. J. Orvis Keller, head of engin erring extension, and Prof. Clarence E. Bullinger, head of the industrial engineering department, are arrang ing for the seventeenth annual short course in Industrial Management to be held here from June 8 to 16 The course is given for executives who are interested in current trends of industrial management and person nel problems. • BE / HATS e",..HTS Nny, Spring " . I[9 Berg Hamill top off a smart ensemble in a manner pleasing the most fastidious. Try one on today. Hoy Brothers ALLEN ST. Tuesday, March 22, 1932 AGRICULTUR %LISTS PETITION Students in the agricultural engin ruing cuiriculum have petitioned the American Society of Agricultural En gineers to be chartered as a student branch of the orgamlation, according to Prof. Ralph U Blasingame, head of the depai burnt, and first vice president of the national society. At a meeting of the students en rolled in the curiiculum Tuesday night, a club was formed and officers elected Raymond G. Bressler '32 was chosen President, and Stephen J. Mech '33 secretary-beasurer. KELLER RECEIVES PROMOTION Prof. J. Orvis Keller, director of engineering extension, has been pro-n mated to the rank of Major in the' , Ordnance department of the United States Reserves. Professor Keller, 'will continue his assignment in the' executive division of the Pittsburgh Ordnance district, whole he has been, serving as captain. CA T . #41014. (No matinee during Easter Vacation, Thursday to Monday inclusive) 'Richard Dix and Star Cast in "THE LOST SQUADRON" Penn State Boxers in "Sportlight" WEDNESDAY- Lew Ayres, Una Merkel in "THE IMPATIENT -MAIDEN" =EMS (ENening Showing Only) Nancy Carroll, Richard Arlen in "WAYWARD" METZ Dorothy MaclinslL Don Cook In "SAFE IN lIELL" SATURDAY— Jack Holt, Ralph Graves in "A DANGEROUS AFFAIR" MONDAY— Bailie Dore, Edward E. Horton in "AGE FOR LOVE" NITTANY (Closed During Easter Vacation) TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY— England's Greatest Mystery Paddre "SHERLOCK HOLMES' FATACHOUR" To MEN only! 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