, . . .. . _ .. „ .• . • a ~ f ti . it _k;----• ` • - ).- 0 COMPLETE CAMPUS . N I t4t.“ •Az ; , ...1., .. CPVERAGE 4• r u • . to z4 f; - . 7.:::•.; .:: ,: s. ~.. '. 2 G X 414 1 4U4X ..\.„;\-,:.- -,--,, . . ..,,,._•:-- .2„...„. . . . .. • . . . Vol. 29, No. 5 YEAR-BOOK THEME ABOLISHED IN PLAN FOR 1933 'LA VIE' Illustrations Will Follow Trend Favored by Present-Day Popular Magazines SENIOR.BELLES SECTION TO REMAIN UNCHANGED Design Replaces Vignettes With Rectangular Photographs Of Fraternities Abolition of a yearbook theme is the outstanding change in the Plans for the 1933 La Vie, according to Arthur E. Phillips. '33, editor. This will be the first time in a decade that no theme has been used. That the art work will follow a modern trend such as is used in pres ent-day mhgazines, but will not be re stricted to a general classification was decided 'by the editors in an attempt to make possible a much wider scope. Belles Section Continued No important changes will be made in the senior belles section.' Eligible candidates will be selected by, a com mittee and then will be submitted to a theatrical producer for final election. In keeping with the trend of mod ern page decoration, vignettes in- the fraternity section and at the end of each division ivill be discarded. In.,' stead, a photograph, of - each frater nity house and campus view will ap pear on the page in rectangular form. Included in the' yearbook for the first time last year, the events section will be enlarged by at least four.pag es. An effort will be made to include in jt snapshots of practically every major and minor campus event during the year. Athletic., Division ; Created.?~+; The. athletics"section , in tbe'1.63.3 Yearbook will be prepared by the ath letics editor.and Will not be included in the activities section as in pre vious years. This change will result in five major divisions in the year book instead of four. Additional candidates for the edi torial and • business staffs of :the La Vie should report to Room 315 Old Main at 7:30 o'clock Monday night. The first meeting of staff aspirants was held, last Friday. VAN DUSEN GIVES CHAPEL ADDRESS Attributes Economic DepreSsion to Violation of Divine Laws at Opening Services Inability to forsee the 'present de pression was a religious failure, Dr. Henry' Van - Dusen said at the first chapel services of the College year in Schwab . auditorium Sunday morning. "Depression is the judgment .of his tory upon the world and the living proof. of the reality of God," claimed Dr. Van Dusen. The speaker is Dean of Students at the Union Theological Seminary, Rochester, N. Y. When the divine laWs on which the universe is run are opposed the result is alwitys disastrous, the theologian explained. lie added that we were most certainly going contrary / to all divine. laws In the boom years before 1929. • Dr. Van Dusen criticised the schol ars who are so prominent in times of Prosperity, but who disappear with a chorus of "I told you so's" as soon as bad'times arrived. If the scholar has no message at the time of a crisis, he has no real reason to exist, he said. CROSSLEY ISSUES CALL AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS 'Call for candidates to operate Penn State's shortwave amateur radio sta tion, WBYA, was issued today by Gil bert L. Crossley, of the department of electrical engineering, who is man ager of the station. Applicants are requested to write 'Profess - or Crossley. in care of the de partment, stating name, State College address, class of government oper ator's license held, -names of stations operated, and experience. • WILL CONDUCT DISCUSSION' Sneaking on "Activities;" Dean of Mort kethur R. Warnock will lead the second of a series of discussioris spOn iored by the P. S. C. A. in the Hugh Beaver lounge in Old Main at. 7:45 O'clock tomorrow night. •' INJURIES OR SPORT? I.M. UNITS TO DECIDE Organizations Will Choose Between Regular, Touch Football for Fall Competition By ROBERT E. TSCHAN '33 Thirty-seilen injuries are on the records as tangible resulth of the intra mural football contest last year. Whether competition this fall should be under the regular rules or by the touch syitem is now left for the groups to decide. - • Because of widespread comment from individuals, not groups, in oppe, sition to employ such a "softies" game as touch football, Intramural Board has referred the problem to the . representatives 'of groups which would enter either one or the other type of competition. Touch football differs. from the intercollegiate type in that there is no tackling, which always reaps a harvest of injuries. Speed and a little more science are required rather than brute' strength to play the game.. Smaller men, nearer the 'average student's build, can more easily compete. Last year's injuries, 14 of which were broken bones, 13;.were strains, and so on, can be attributed to at least three fictors. - Contestants were not in the best of training. Not always was sufficient equipment available to prevent injury. Rank .amateurism of the players made accidents, inevit able in regular football, :more com mon. Training Won't Improve This year contestants will train no better than last year._There will be sip better equipment ecause money has stopped giowing on trees. There will be the seine eleirient of amateur ism and, of the same accidents that cannot be avoided in football. In touch football, contestants need not be trained to as fine v. point as in regular football in order to 'guard against injury. As very, little , equip ment is required, most of ,the causes for accident in'yegtiliir style. football are eliminated in'tlie:touch system. Groups Mt~Nti ; Decid _e,::,_..~,~;, .The decision • rests primarily.ln the• hands'Of the competing 'groups. Their members will.receilie injuried or will not, depending on their decision. Ath letic officials' have indicated that two competitions may be held if opinion is fairly equally divided , between the two types. Fraternity-managers. sbould, report , in writing which type : of football they prefer to play to •R. Henderson Beatty '33 at the. Sigma Phi- Epsilon frater nity by tomorrow night. Representa tives of non-fraternity teams or groups will meet with Jedse H. Brew ster '33 'at 321•' West- Beaver avenue at 8 o'clock - tomorrow, night to dis cuss the tourney as well as intra mural probleins . in general. 36 CO-EDS WILL HAVE INCREASED PRIVILEGES Women Required To Wear u Ribbons, Name Cards Only Weeks Customs regulations - for freshman women will be More lenient this year than for any previous class because of the change in the , length., of time re quired for wearing green ribbons and name Cards, according:to women's stu dent government officials.. ' , The ribbons will be worn four weeks this year instead of the customary eight; while the name: cards will be re quired for six weeks in order to faci litate learning- each other's names. ' 'After the cards are removed the freshman women will be permitted to and in town until six o'clock. Former walk and talk with men on the campus ly these privileges were withheld until after the Easter vacation. Poles Keep Campus .Well. Posted Keeping the campus well, posted in spite of the time-honored taboo on bulletin boards is the new policy of the department.of grounds and build ings, if the new line of poets in front. of the south Liberal Arts building is any indication. • -- -••— From everywhere arise professional queries on what purpose the new cam pus embellishments may serve. Stu dents gaze' fondly on the posts and remember from the dim past an era of lolly-pop traffic markers and two Af-. rican lions. Growing pains—they pass it off. ' Pievention. of promiscuous parking seems the only, logical explanation.. As one professor opined, "Only an army tank could penetrate the thick ets of California, RedwOodi that line the Mall." Another savant mourns a class gone hay-liire in its desire to establish a pole-sitting record on the STATE COLLEGE, PS., WES AY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1932 16 TRUSTEES MAKE' FIRST INSPECTION Show Surprise 'at Growth, Size, • Complexity of College on Visit Here Friday Surprise at the complexity and size of the College arid at its recent growth both academically and in research, was evidenced by the sixteen mem bers of the Board of Trustees' upon their first inspection in recent years of the entire College Friday. Although numerous visits have been made - at the College by members of the board during the last feel years they have' always been of a business nature. The tour of inspection • Fri day gave most of the trustees their first picture of the lines of work eni, ployed both in class and research. InclUding avisit of the various schools, the College infirmary, library, farms', institute , of. animal nutrition, and' fraternities, the tour of-inspection begittOat . :9 -O'clock .in' the *MOrniriearid ended at. 6 o'clock. The group had luncheon - and-dinner at the Nittany Lion. Officials Accompany Board [Accompanying the board 'on the in spection trip were President Ralph D. Hetzel," Riymond H. Smith,, College Comptroller, Dean of Men 'Arthur R. arnock, Edward K. Hibshman, Sec retary of the Alumni association, and Adrian 0. Morse, executive secretary to the President. Student leaders entertained the members of 'the board at the Nittany Lion Friday night, giving the visitors their first contact with' the student body. "The trustees were noticeably impressed by the clean-cut, alert man ner and obvious sense of responsibility and seriousness of purpose in the stu dents," declared Dean Warnock, who was' present at the meeting. A short business meeting of the ex ecutive committee to pass on - recent appointments and reappointments was held Saturday morning. A number of the trustees remained over Saturday to make a more thorough inspection of various divisions that had been visited Friday. NEW WACO PLANE ADDED TO LOCAL AIRPORT EQUIPMENT Capable' of a maximum speed, of 140 miles' per hour and a cruising speed of 100 miles, a new red' Waco bi-plane has been added to the equip ment of the State College Air Depot. Application for a certificate of pub lic convenience was made by ten State College residents interested in the air depot at a hearing before the' Pub lie Service commission at Harrisburg Wednesday new.objeti d'art. Not only cause for collective eye brow raising among the faculty and students, the miniature telegraph poles held up' the work of a • corps of photographers seeking to take artistic shots of campus buildings. 'Hemmed lin on all sides, the Liberal Arts bund ling mid library- could -not be found through the maze of stumps and it is reported that the photographers had to go - around by the back way to Belle fonte in order, to reach Recreation Hall. Liberal. Artist; who ' know, their Greek culture will-ponder the archi tectural group .under which the wood en posts may be classified=-Doric, lonic, or Corinthian. Column • what you fike.. However, there is no doubt in the pedagogical mind that the col unmade will be Elysium for cavorting campus canines.. ' College.Red ; stration • Reaches ;4562 Mark Registration f9l. first semester has reached a totkof . 4562, accord ing to a count b4the' Registrar's office yesterday r. Although the t ot al' registration is nearly 200 lesi4nn it was at a corresponding, da*- --- a year ago, Registrar William 4.llOffman pre dicts thit the numb_ will reach the final 1931 figuin. LOAN FUNDPHELPS 66 UPPERCLASSMEN 4,000 Lent, to. N i eed , Seniors, Juniors This ear—Plan Benefit PrOgrams Sixty-six junior :find senior men students received sit( from the stu dent loan fund this year, Dean of Men Arthur R. Warnock announced yester day. Amounts of fifty. and seventy-five dollars, totalling $4000,• were loaned to needy students. , :The scholastic averages of the students whom the loan fund helped averaged 1.84, the Dean of Men found. Plans Discussed Plans to add to the fund during the coining year were forjnulated by the Student Union committee at a meet ing Friday night. Benjamin L. Wise '33 is chairman of ' the committee which is composed of William S. Zen ker '33 and John A. Wood '33. A, series of programs. consisting of entertainments, lectUres, and dances will be held to increase the fund, Wise stated, with musical'anddramatic,or ganizations' being asked Tto' present these progratus t .;eire . ral.:.en`mpus;or-" - chestraehaveidigidlurifeered.lB• furnish music for' the '• respective dances. No donations from stuhnts will be asked this year, the committee chair man emphasized. Although definite dates have not been- set for the vari ous programs, the first will probably be given on-Alumni Day, Wise added. 46 EXEMPT . FROM FRESHMAN COURSE Placement Tests Excuse First-Year Studnts From Required Class In English Composition Forty-six freshmen were exempted from taking the course in English Composition, 1, according to the re port of the placement tests given by the department of English composi tion. This is six more thanthe num ber exempted last year., Three of the students' were grad uated from the Reading high school for boys, while two are graduates of Wilkinsburg high school. The School of Liberal Arts heads the groups with sixteen exemptions, while the School of Chemistry and Physics follows with thirteen. Exemptions in the School of Liberal Arts were granted to William H. Cramer, Mariana Frantz, . Betty Freer, Walter B. Freunsch, Nelda G. Gillespie, William Gould, _Dorothy F. Hull, Ruth C. Koehler, Anne Mc-. Caugher,, Virginia S. McDowell, Len ore Mprgan, Jean Poffenberger, Beau ' la M. Rhoads, Eleanor H. Ryan, Don ald P. Sanders, and Jules Vernick. Hilda M. Ekert, Bryson Filbert, Robert L. Hickling, Norman H. Ish ler, Ned Kelly, Carl C. Kessler, Gerald R. Livingston, Robert W. Miller, James J. Nicholson, William ,Parker, William H. Robinson, Bernard T. Shu man, and Robert G. Stover were ex empted in the School of Chemistry and Physics. Those exempted in the School of Education were Eleanora. Bane, Jean Beman, Marion Blankenship, Frances E. Conklin, Gretchen H. Diehl, Will iam E. Gamble, Frances R. Hartman, Arthur John, and Arthur Lewis. Ex emptions in the School of Engineering were granted to George S. Evans, Robert S. Greenberg, Charles C. Houtz, George F. Miller, Harold L. Shambach, and Conrad H. Zierdt; while William G. Balderaton and Hu bert W. Fringe were the' two exempted in the School of Agriculture. 28, TAKE GRADUATE COURSES Twenty-eight men are•. enrolled in the graduate division ofthe . School of Engineering, Dean Robert L. _Sackett, announced today. . • Physical Chemistry Course Dropped by College Heads Curriculum Eliminated as Step in Weeding-out Process After Senate Committee Report to President Elimination of the curriculum of physical chemistry by the School of Chemistry and Physics this year is the first step in the weeding-out process instituted in the College as a result of the report submitted last June by the Senate committee on courses of study, according to an announcement from the President's office. Changes are being considered by the deans of the Schools of Education and Mineral Industries, while the School of Engineering has replied to some of the suggestions and will take action on the others: The School of Liberal !*Arts will adopt all or most of the recommendations, it was disclosed. Nothing as yet has been heard from the School of Agriculture. Dean Charles W. Stoddart, of the School of Liberal Arts, who is chair man of the committee which was or-1 ganized in January 1931 at the re quest of President Ralph D. Hetzel, to make a complete study of resident instruction here, requests "criticism, advice, and suggestions on the part of the administrative staff, faculty, and students concerning the prelimin ary report to the President." 4 HOUSES TO END RUSHING TONIGHT Jewish Fraternities Will Pledge First Year. Men Thursday At 5 O'clock Dinner , With the final. silent period begin ning at 8 o'clock tonight; Beta Sigma Rho, Phi Epsilon Pi, Phi Sigma Delta, and Sigma Tau Phi fraternities will pledge freshmen Thursday night, as a result of Interfraternity council rul ing. The shortened rushing period for these houses is necessitated by Jew ish holidays on Saturday and Sunday, October 1 and 2. The silent period will extend from 8 o'clock tonight un til 8 o'clock Friday morning, although freshmen accepting .bids from any of the fraternities will appear at the house Of their chbice Thursday night. Bid Cards Distributed Rushing, for. all other fraternities i , ,lvßl4UtitFijAiy-ritgh64O4U.atdkiisti. silent period exten4ing frofn that hour until 8 o'clock Sunday night will be observed, with freshmen reporting to fraternities of their choice fox-dinner at 12:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon. Allotments of twenty-five bid cards will be distributed to fraternities by Interfraternity council this week. Ad ditional bid cards may be purchased .from the council. A charge of five cents each will be made for such cards. Fraternities must post a bond of fifty dollars with the rushing com mittee before Saturday. Unless this bond is posted by that date, bids of houses failing to comply with the regulation will not be given out. LEAVES FOR NEW YORK CITY Burke M. "Dutch" Hermann, for mer varsity basketball coach and as sistant professor of history, left Sun day for New York City where he will spend the year in graduate work in history at Columbia University. Prof. Hermann, who had completed his six teenth consecutive year of coaching, resigned last spring in order to con tinue his studies in history. Transfer Students Compliment to College Standards, Marquardt Says • "The number and quality of gradu ate and undergraduate students ad mitted to the College is a distinct compliment to Penn State," declared Dr. Carl E:lktarquardt, college exam iner, in commenting on the.enrollment of graduate and transfer students this' year. "Both graduate and undergraduate students who are admitted from other institutions must present satisfactory scholastic records before they are ad mitted," he continued. "The College will not admit a student who has done unsatisfactory work in another 'insti tution." !Although nearly 1500 applications for admission are received annually from students who have attended oth er colleges and universities, only a very small percent of this number is accepted, Dr. Marquardt pointed out. Approximately 150 transfer- under classmen were enrolled this year. An increase in the number of ap plications from transfer students was revealed by the College Examiner, who noted that less than one hundred applications were received in 1920 as compared with approximately 1500 this year. • Transfer students have been ac cepted this year from the . United States Naval Academy, Eastman School of Music, University of Minne sota, Ohio State University, New an. Possibilities Great "If the College will take the report seriously and consider the recommen dations carefully, a great amount of good will be accomplished in economy 1 and efficiency of instruction at the College," Dean Stocldirt declared in submitting the report. In transmitting the report to the deans of the schools anti the heads of the departments, President Hetzel made the following statement: "The report is challenging, stimu lating, and suggestive of ways and means for improvement in the instruc- I — 7a:thiLwori,-.. of.;..theChltigs.C6ndi.- tions with which all of us are familiar would appear to make• this a most opportune time fora searching study and appraisal of all factors which en-, ter into the educational policy and' procedure of 'the institution." As a plan for the survey the com mitter had the four-fold purpose of determining the efficiency of facili ties employed in instruction, of bring ing about better co-operation between service courses and the schools they serve, of eliminating inter-school and inter-departmental friction, and of es tablishing a better policy for recom mending future changes in, curricula and courses. Outlines Policy As a policy for future considera tion the committee submits the fol lowing statement: "Forty to sixty percent of the total curricular credits should be devoted to occupational specialization and sixty to forty per cent should be distributed among the biological and physical sciences, social studies, and humanities to develop in quisitiveness, power of observation, (Continued on page four) York University, Georgetown, Wash ington University, Lynchburg Col lege, and Randolph-Macon College. Other transfers are enrolled from Ohio Wesleyan, University of Detroit, Alfred University and Muskingum College. Selection of Penn State for ad vanced work by graduate students is another indication of the high calibre of work oxered here, Dr. Marquardt believes. Included in a group of ap proximately one hundred admissions to the Graduate School this year are four students from foreign univer sities, he pointed out. Helmut 'Miler-Stock, a graduate of a German gymnasium, Bergakadepde in Freidberg, and several technical schools in Germany, will enter the School of Bl;ineral Industries as a graduate student this year. He will make M study of mining work in this country. • Two graduates of the University of Dalhousie at Halifax, Nova Scotia, have selected Penn State for advanc ed work. Burton N. Jost has enrolled for graduate study in mining engi neering while his brother, Victor A. Jost, has entered the currriculum of civil engineering. A fourth graduate of a foreign universtiy is Luis Fortune, who has !enrolled as a, graduate student from the University of Port Rico in the curriculum of dairy husbandry. ESTABLISHED PRICE FIVE CENTS Y. M. C. A., Y. W. C. A. CABINETS COMBINE, FORMING NEW UNIT Student Religious Organization • Rechartered To Promote Added Cooperation SINGLE ADVISORY BOARD WILL COUNSEL GROUPS Arrangement Allows Bequests, Endowni,ents—Permits Wider Activities Keeping pace with the new trend in campus religious activities, the men's and women's cabinets of the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. completely amal gamated last week to form a renamed and rechartered organization, the Penn State Christian association. Revamped to permit closer cooper- ation between the two student cab- inets, the newly incorporated organi nation will be counselled by a single advisory board elected by the mem bers. Under the new plan of or ganization, it will be possible to unify a definite program for both men and Women undergraduates. Controlled by Students The need for a self-governing stu dent-faculty organization without be ing subject to supervision front any off-campus organizatitns was the principal reason for the change in or ganization. However, other advan tages including a more democratically controlled unit will result. Allowing the association to develop in harmony With a national trend in regard to a campus controlled fellow ship of men and women interested in religion, the new association will now be permitted to receive endowments, and bequests to carry on its work. addition, more creative contacts with similar religious organizations in other colleges will be maintained, by allowing freedom of choice in matters of intercollegiate relationships. Founded in 1875 The association was founded in 1875, making it now the oldest student organiiation on the campus. Two years after its founding, the organiza tion joined the student Young Men's Christian association movemen t. Since then, this has been the formal title of the group. The current change wlil permit the group, formerly known as the "Y" to be called the Penn State Christian association. Acting as financial advisors and counselors to the cabinets, the board of directors includes College trustees, administrative heads, faculty, alumni, and students. Although the women's cabinet will function as a part of the organization, the co-ed group will con tinue to be known as the Y. W. C. A. OXFORD SPEAKERS TO DEBATE HERE Englishmen Will Meet l'enn State Orators During November In Initial Contest English debaters from Oxford Uni versity will furnish the attraction at the season's forensic opener here sometime in November, according to an announcement by Prof. John 11. Frizzell, director of debating. "Resolved, that socialism offers no remedy for the present economid or der" will be the subject for the Eng lish debate, which will be conducted according to the team plan. Under this arrangement, one Penn State de bater and one Oxford debater will pair to defend the affirmative, with a similar team defending the negative side. Fernier members of the varsity de bate squad are requested by Joseph F. O'brien, debate coach, to report for tryouts to Room 1 north Liberal Arts at 4 o'clock Friday 'afternoon. Five minute speeches either on the affirma tive or negative side of the question should be prepared for this meeting. Present plans call for a two-week debating trip to New York City and New England during the Easter va cation, Professor Frizzell said. A southern pre-Christmas trip is also being considered. PILCHER REPLACES HARRIS Dr. Lewis"F. Pi!cher,. professor of architecture, will serve as acting head of the deicartment of architectur2 dur ing the leave of absence of Prof. Clin ton L. Harris, head of the department.
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