Tuesday; April 5, 1932 PLAYERS TO ENACT - `ELECTRA! APRIL 23 Cloetingh Directs. Tragedy With Beidler, Hirsh Appearing In' Leading Roles “Electra,” a Gicek tragedy now un der preparation by the Penn State Players, will be presented in Schwab auditorium Saturday, April 23, Prof. Arthur C. Cloetmgh, director of the play, announced Sunday. Phyllis G Benller '33, cast in the role of Electra, will ploy the major feminine part while Paul K. Hirsh '35 will appeal in the leading male role as Orestes, her brother. Shirley Thorpe '33, who will assist Professor Cloetingh in directing the play, will take part in Clytemnestta, mother of Electra and Orestes. Play MOD in F,picndeq Making their first appearance be fore a Penn State audience, Mary B. Calvin '3l, Roger H Hetzel '35 and Robert E. House '35 will portray minor characters in the play. The Greek tragedy will be the first play taken from Greek literature to lie presented here since 1928, when "Odeipus Rex" was staged as a Play er production Both "Oedipus Rex" and "Medea," given in 1927, found de cided favor with then college au diences The plot of "Mourning Becomes Electra," current Eugene O'Neill drama, was taken directly from the play which will be given by the Play ers, according to Professor Cloetmgh. Increase in Private Student Loans Shown by Financial Survey of 1000 to slight &maae of dependence on parents or guardians as a source of income for all students and a comes pending increase in plinth loans is observed in figures obtained by 300 students in English composition 4 and 7 dui mg a recent questionnaire an swered by nearly 1,000 undergradu ates A more decided bend was noticed rr r decrease of previous personal earnings and an met ease of plesent personal income of the undergradu ken questioned. Loans from general educational funds sync doubled foi seniors civet the sums received last I year, and a similar change was notic- I ed with the Juniors. Of 192 seniors questioned 68 75 pet cent are receiving more than half their money from patents or guanhans, as competed to over 70 percent of the same group in the two incomes years. In the Juniot doss, a decrease of 3 percent is noted from the mark of 75 percent of 237 Juniors foe last year. The sophomores ate an exception showing an inctease front 73 17 foe last year to 80 35 this year as repre sentative of the percentage of 300 second-year men receiving most from these sources Too }writhed and nine freshmen show the very high mask of 95 31 this year Potato loans trete the major' in come for 025 percent of the seniots two years ago, whereas last year and this year the figure is 10 percent Juniot representation has increased flow 4 64 for 1929-30 to 590 for 1930- 11,1 and to 10 54 percent of the 237 tuniots tot this term who rely on pii vnie loans The advance was not "STUDENTS" Arrange NOW to have your Friends' Car stored in our FIREPROOF GARAGE for the week-end Mechanical Repairing of the Highest Quality KELLER'S GARAGE 1000 East College Avenue Phone 282 OUR WATCH REPAIRING SATISFIES' Give Us a Trial HANN & O'NEAL Opposite Front Campus Summer Styles in Flannels Now on display at prices so reasonable you cannot help but buy. Smith Tailor Shop 110 East Beaver Avenue CLEANING PRESSING REPAIRING Proposal of Honors Course May Herald New MOvement Off cs mg what may be the first step toward general honors work for su pmor students in all the various schools and departments of the Col lege, an honors course In advanced psychology has been proposed. Tho recommendation, which is now it the hands of Dean Will G. Cham bers of the School of Education, pro pose,. the honors work for uppmelass men who have maintained a 2 as er age throughout their freshman and sophomore years and have completed at least one other course in psychol ogy. Although it is a comparatively new ' idea at Penn State, a similar system has been in practice at Swarthmore College for several years. The Uni vm inky of Chicago is also offering sev. - iral courses as experiments in this typo of work. Drawn up by the advisory corn ; mittee of Psi Chi, honorary psychology fraternity, the report recommends honors work to supplement the emst. ing courses in psychology Although the scheme would involve no radical department change, it would °fret the decided educational benefits o£ inten sive and high-level activity for the superior student, the report reads. Under the proposed plan, students registered for the honors work would meet weekly in an informal sympos ium fashion foi a ciitical discussion of appropriate theoretical and expel.]: mental problems. Individual research topic siimlar to graduate woilc quite so marked with the sophomores ir a change from 5 55 to 6.20 percent tor this year Two yea], ago, 14 68 percent of the seniors found their mainstay in meta- Gus personal earnings Last year the number aemeased to 625, and this yeat it has reached 5.72 percent of 192 snails questioned. Junior figures have shown respectne drops Stain 17 3 to 11 53 and to 4 21 percent this yeas., The 306 sophomores show a decided decrease flout 11.10 percent for last year to 4 57 for the yeas, while 17.20 pet rent of the 209 freshmen boast fin ancial nest eggs Necessity has prompted rises in the number of upperclassmen at present Kilning more than half of their ex penses. The 360 percent of the sen iors in 1929-30 has mown to 5 72 for ' last year and 625 for this term. Among the juniors questioned, the ad o once was flow 1.70 in then• freshman year, to 3.40 in their second year here, and to 591 pacent of their entne present number earning most from working white attending college. We Sell Ail Kinds of SANDWICHES Wholesale Soft Drinks TEXAS LUNCH might be undertaken by the candidates during their semor'year. The tentative arrangement suggest ed by the report mould pm mit the honors candidates to carry eighteen hoots of college work with sia of these devoted to the special honors pro ' gram. The remaining twelve hours Would allow the student to carry enough courses to fulfill College le quirements. The committee which formulated the proposed program includes Dr. George W Hartmann, chairman, Dr Robert G. Bernieuter, both of the de par tment of educational psychology, and Helen A. Hoover '33. TWEEDY EXPLAINS VALUES IN CHAPEL Yale Man Speaks on 'Getting Your Mono 's Worth at Regular Sunday Sees ices Lost profits, excessive production, and damaged goods are the scourge of the realm of supreme values as well as of everyday commercialism, Dr. Henry H Tweedy of the Yale University Divinity School told the regular Sunday morning, Chapel au thence in Schwab auditorium 1 With "Getting Your 'Money's !Worth" his topic, Dr. Tweedy main tamed that it was easy to oveipio duce even knowledge. What is need led to balance an excess of knowledge, he said, is the development of char acter good enough to use it. "Does the man who buys damaged goods in life ever get his money's worthy" he asked. "The fact that we are now going through one of the worst depressions the world has eve, known is proof enough that we must always pay for imperfections in om characters and our petty misuses of fine things," Dr Tweedy said Speaking for Lingnan University, I%lrs. Yam Tong Hoh,. who with hei husband is visiting the College, thank- ed Penn State for its active and kindly interest in the work of the Chinese institution located , at Canton DOGGETT ARTICLE APPEARS Ar article by Prof. Leonard A. Dog gett, of the department of electrical engineering, on "Non-Sinusoidal Volt ages and Currents in Polyphase Elec trical Cacuits and Appal atus" ap peared in the February issue of the Elekt; otechmsche &ditch, ;f t Chesterfield Radio Program MON rt MR TOES & FRI WED & SAT BOSWELL ALEX RUTH SISTERS GRAY ETTING 1013 Op in EST 1000 p NEST lOp IT EST SHILKRErS ORCHESTRA every night but Sunday NORMAN BROKENSNIRE Announcer COLUMBIA NETWORK THE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN 8 NITTANY BOXERS WILL•ENTER MEET - 0 — (Continued born pat page) holder of the Southern' 125-pound In tercollegiate title, will rasa preside stiff comoetition in the lightweight division. Eldred, Pacific Coast amateur middleweight champion last yea], fail ed to gain another title foi Washing ton State, this year's winner, when lie dishicatcd a bone in his hand but con tinued to fight and won three matches only to lose in the finals by a nai row um gin Ills minium or, Bi lance Buckner, of San Fiancisco Uni,msitr, Inlay find his hands full if they should !meet again of buntp up against any lof the folloning—Kutcher, of Temple, IDvonk, of North Dakota, Schricker of Pitt, Page of Mississippi, oi Payne, of Catholic Unnersitv All bring re gional titles Noah them in then quest 'for Thither honors an the middle weight class Cl:l,es L:st Many Champs Kenos. Lokensgard, Pacific Coast Intezeolleguite 175-pound champion, is the last of the Washington State four horsemen. Ire mil have such foi able foes as Al Denied. itz, Temple Eastern Conference title holder, Bah !ash. star Syracuse freshman usho has seventy-Leo sictories out of ses ants foul amateur fights on record, Him!, ins, undefeated West Virginia Unisei sity captain, Zemarray, of Tulane, and Wageman, Ease Hampshile cap tain. The heavyweight class ; ill be plenty .ts of lb while following ninth such entries as Dot less Hill, Tulare, and Genti y University of Virginia, who base been alternating on the South°, n Confer once title. Remus, An 's Eastein champion, Pincui undefeated Western Mai viand pride, and the sit-foot, five, Rutherford, incetonian, ate other strong com petitors. CONDUCTS DAIRY MEETINGS Pilaf Ed,ard B. Fitts, of the agrl ; cultural extension depaitment, has conducted discussions on dairy im provement at a scums of eight meet ings attended by over 200 people in Burks county iccently. Eight addi tional meeting% 'where similar topics Hill be discussed air non being ni langed MARY.—Oh, Ann , Where did you get' that Pretty PERMANENT? ANN —Teo, I like t too I got It at LOUISE LAMBERT'S BEAUTY PARLOR Above the Athletle Store—Phone 210• J Many 13 like a PURE cia *4<, :Wacky ' .41„, 191 ENTER HIGH SCHOOL JOURNALISTIC CONTEST Represent 91 Institutions in Second Annual Eton( Conducted here Representing 91 high schools in the state, 191 contestants have entered the second annual high school page journalistic contest which is being con ducted here undo the supub ism of Alphe Beta Sigma, piofessional journalism lintel nits With May I set as the deadline fob all stories to be submitted by the ed. dui , of the venous newspapei tin oughout the State, work has al tenth been started by the committee villa+ nili select the five winneis Pb in. , amounting to a total of seven ty-five &Mai:: Mill be a,aided Mi. I) Glenn Mooce of Washing tor, has been added to the list of the contest judges Competition has been iestikted to only high .schoolbepmt et^ who conti Mute iegulaily to pio iessional newspapers in the State 5 EXTENSION BRANCHES TO GRANT 82 DIPLOMAS Prof. Keller Announceo Gradual:on Datec During. Next 2 Werke Eighty-tuo students in blanch .chool, conducted by the engineeling extension deportment in five Pennstl tune cities still be gindunted mithin the. next two s‘eeks, Piof .1 01%, Keller, head of the depnitment, has announced Certificates will be granted to Wen tv graduates at Reading on Thtn, dat, ten at Erie on Fllday, fifteen al Wilkes-Boric on Aptll 11, tuentv-two at Scranton on April 1 , 1, and fifteen gladuntes at Allentown on Apt tl 19 Adrian 0. Morse, e•ecutne secre tary to the College president, min he the principal speaker at the exercises in Reading, and Dean Robert L Sack ett, of the Engineering School. mill address the Wilkes-Barre graduates Professor Keller mill speak at the e‘- ereises in Tire, Scranton, and Allen testa. I=l With the program limited to teen dors, the t h u teenth annual Industi mat conierence nill be held bete by the School of Engineeling on May 12 and I'3, Dean Robeit L. Sackett has an nounced. D and ette tha 0,~,i ~ ~5;, ~\ Pl~l ~, e I FOR SALE—Three piece reed Ming Campus Bulletin room suite Also two student tn- Ides 255 S Athet ton St, Phone 813-. T. All candidates for assistant soccei manager are lequested to sign on at the Athletic office immediately. Oidei, for the 1932 La I'me mill be tal,en nt the Student Union office, Ohl Main. A deposit of $2OO IS 'mulled OW= e,liman women COLLEGIAN le poi tei , will meet in Room 315, Old Man. at 6.10 o'clock tonight ——o— Entiants for, the upper-chess and fieslumin women's tennis [muniments me urged to sign up at once on the McAllister hall bulletin bond ——o— Thu Hugh Doom club will meet ii , Room 301 01(1 Man tomorrow night IMIMI Scrims fleshing that then• middle name• be used in the picture section at Lone in place of the nist names should report at the haVre office in Old Main today. CLASSIFIED P,ALLIIOOII DANCING INSTRUC TION—IndividuaI im.tluctlon lot bemnnc, Call 7794, ol see ILs F Manahan, Fye Apartment, Etch WANTED—To buy a cecond band 9‘12 Call Taylor al 12 FOll. 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