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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. • --
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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.