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V.ol. 29, No. 10
PRESIDENT LAUDS
PEP RALLY PLAN,
CUSTOMS REVISIOI
Hci,zcl Praises Mature Studeni
" Attitude in Speech at
Mass Meeting
PROGRESS DEPENDS ON
UNITY, WARNOCK SAYS
Coach Higgins Explains Policy
- Of Players, Introduces
12 Team Members
Replacement of Stunt Night by the
pep rally and modification' of fresh
man customs were lauded by President
-h Ralph D. Hetzel, who spoke informally
to 3,000 students and faculty mem
bers at the all-College mass meeting
■in Hall Wednesday night.
Progress toward a mature attitude
•on the parf of college students is no
where more marked than • at Penn
State, the President said. He praised
tho. Penn State athletic policy as pro
moting honest sportsmanship.
Warnock Addresses Meeting
Dean of . Men Arthur R. Warnock,
who spoke before the President, point
’e'd.out that the breaking up of the
, student body into small units tended
- to destroy Penn State spirit. Pro
gress in the years to come depends
•y -on unity and solidarity among the
students, he said.
“One method is to come together on
such occasions like this'in order tjo
see how many of us there are - and
what we look like/' the dean added.
“ ‘“lf we are to'keep Penn St&te pro
gressive we must have .one eye on
'ourselves and the other on the designs,
policies, and programs of the College
.and .its units.’’-- -
• / ■/'rUWood-- , 33iPresides •.
Coaoh) Bob
"****& ootball Jwam was - play;
' • ing for. 'two : reasons: ‘.first, the. love
• / .of- the game; second, the. honor of
•' playing for Penn. State. Twelve team
, members, who left for Harvard yes
, terday .afternoon, were on
the platform by Coach Higgins. •
John A. Wood *33, president of’Stu
dent Council, presided at tthe mass
meeting which is" planned as a per
manent’ fall.- The Blue
Band and the cheerleading staff were
also present. ; . « ,
STUDENT TRIBUNAL
JUDGES VIOLATORS
6 Freshmen Must Wear Signs for 2
Weeks—McAndrcws ’33 Asks
Student Cooperation
Punishment was meted out to six
freshman customs - offenders at the
, first meeting of the Student . Tribunal
in Old Main Tuesday night.
\ -Paul Kennedy and James Bray were
sentenced to wear signs bearing the
words ‘I Talk Too Much’ for a period
of;two‘.weeks. James Conaham will
traverse the, cdftipus bearing large
cards with the slogan ‘I Like .Cus
toms'- on' them. Albert Foster will
advertise with *1 Like The Co-eds'
signs. Lewis Viganola will also carry
posters for two weeks, while George
Cope received' punishment before the
Tribunal members Tuesday night.
• .Upperclass students who attended
the meeting voiced their disapproval
, of/freshmen smoking in public. The
question will be placed before mem
.bers of the Student Council and Stu
dent Boards After a decision is reach
ed, the Tribunal will act accordingly.
/John L. McAndrcws ’33, president
of the Tribunal, asked the coopera
tion of the upper throe classes in en
forcing the ‘Hollo’ custom among, the
freshmen. The next meeting of the
Student Tribunal will be held in
Room 405 Old M&in.at 8:00 o’clock
Tuesday night. -
3 PROFESSORS TO ATTEND .
DETROIT DAIRY EXPOSITION
Professors Francis -J. Doan, Dana
H. Bailey,* and Chester D. Dahle', all
of the School of Agriculture, will at
tend the annual Dairy Industries, ex
position which will be held at Detroit,
Michigan during the entire next. week.
’ Papers will be read by Professors
/ Doan and Bailey at a meeting of the
. International Milkdcalers association,
. while Professor. Dahle will address
’ the International Association of Ice
’’Cream,Manufacturers.- Both of these
organizations'.will meet in connection
/with. the exposition. ...
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ACTIVITY PARTICIPANTS
EXCEL IN SCHOLARSHIP
Only 7 of 29 Groups Obtain Average Below
1.33 y All-College Mark Last Year,
. v Compilation Reveals
By CHARLES A.
Evidence that activity men and wo/
men surpass non-aotivity. students
scholastically is shown by a" compila
tion of theindividual'grade, lists made
this week. Practically all of the im
portant activity groups maintained
an average scholastic grade above the
all-College mark of 1133 for two se
mesters last year.
Since most of the activity men and
women were above ‘the 1.33 mark, it
follows that most of .those ,who en. :
gaged in no activity, last year were
below it. \ Only seven of the twenty
nine activity units analyzed had
group averages lower than 1.33.
Men debaters last year averaged
the highest of any group, attaining
a 2.28 collective grade, while the wo
men's vocal quartet . ‘followed with a
2.08 mark. The two lowest activity
groups on the list were the 1935
Druids, sophomore athletes’ society,
with .72, and initiates into Parmi
Nous, upperclass campus society, with
1.01. r
The four women’s junior class offi
cers secured a 2.07 mark, and the Old
Main Bell staff topped the other pub
lications with 2.02. This year's
Cwens, sophomore women’s campus
society, made a 1.91 collective aver
age, and were followed closely by the
now active Lion’s Paw, senior campus
society, with 1.90.' 1 -- ,
Three activity
groups came next in close succession.
The 1935 women's class officers aver
aged 1.87; last year’s P! S. C. A. of
ficers secured a 1.85 .mark; ; and the
1933 Archousai, senior women’s- cam.
pus .society, reached 1.85.
/ .This year’s women!* class of-,
ficers-averaged-1.74,/while the.pres-.
average-among the
publications- with ; 1.73. Men’s senior
class officers for this year lead the
.other men’s political groups with 1.71.
Members of the Penn State Players
last year, including those who took
leads in productions, averaged 1.67.
I. F. C. TO SPONSOR
C DISPLAY CONTEST
Fraternity Decoration Competition
Planned as Annual Feature
Of Alumni Week-end
[Continuing a custom inaugurated
last year, Interfraternity council will
sponsor a house decoration contest for
Alumni Homecoming week end, it was
announced Wednesday- by Herbert E.
Longenecker ’33, president of the
council.
Fraternities entering the ■ contest
will decorate their lawns with novel
football displays following the plan in
vogue at mid-weStorn universities at
homecoming time. A silverioving cup
will be presented to the winning house.
“‘By offering a prize .this, year, we
hope to interest a larger-number of
houses in the contest,” said .Longe
neckeri “Although the number enter
ingl last year's contest was small, the
decorations brought such favorable
comment that the council hopes to
make, the contest- an annual affair,”
he added.
A committee composed of faculty
members, assisted by Edward K.
Hibshman, alumni secretary, will
judge the displays.
DELEGATES OF Y/ W. C. A.
WILL MEET TOMORROW
To Represent Dickinson, Lock Haven,
Susquehanna, Bucknell
' Representatives of the Y. W. C. A.’s
of Bucknell and-Susquehanna univer
sities, and Dickinson‘and Lock Haven
State Teachers colleges will hold their
annual conference with the Penn'State
Y. W. C. A. in the Hugh Beaver
Lounge in'Old Main tomorrow; morn
ing.
Leaders of the conference* will be
Miss Gladys Taylor, travelling secre
tary of the'National .Council of the
Y; W.C. A., Elizabeth M. Kalb ’33,
Doris E. Hazelton ’33, Isabel McFar
land ’33, and Mrs.. Harry W. Sea-:
mans,, secretary ,of the Penn State
association.
This will mark the first time the
Central Pennsylvania area committee
conference has been held here. The
group will plan programs for the com
ing year.
STATE COLLEGE, PA., 14,1932
MYERS ’34
The-present La Vic staff secured a
1.56 mark,- while the Penn State
Funner staff averaged 1.55.
Four officers on the Y. W. C. A.
cabinet last year attained a 1.51 aver
age, freshman men's class officers
made 1.46, and members of-this year’s
Froth staff earned a 1.45 mark. In
itiates into Skull and Bones, upper
class campus society, averaged 1.37,
while members of the Engineer staff
this year and members and principals
of last year’s Thespian club tied at
1.34.
In addition to-Druids and Parmi
Nous, those groups, under the all-
College average of 1.33 for the year
were men’s' 1934 class officers with
1.21; Friars, sophomore athletes’ so.
ciet.v, with 1.20; Blue Key, junior hat
society, with 1.10; this year’s cheer
leading staff with 1.02; and the 1931-
32 men’s varsity quartet with approxi
mately a 1 average. .
ORCHESTRA LISTS
18 NEW MEMBERS
Fishburn Announces Additional
Players—Plans- Concerts
For Symphonic Unit
Eighteen new musicians were se
lected for the College symphony or
chestra at the completion-of try-outs
last week, Prof. Hummel Fishburn,
conductor, has announced. Together
with : last year’s members; the; ensem
ble now consists of fifty-five members.
■ ’Additions to-, the violin section in
Kaplowitz’* ’35; Ver*non'*"E. Dyer ’36j
Oberdan L.. Nicolanti ’36, Sergius P;
Pechinsky. ’36/ and Thomas H. White
’36. Julius J. Lodzsum ’36 is the only
new viola player.
Concerts Planned
In the cello section, Donald C. Wie
gand ’35 has been added, while Joseph
T. Roncone ’35, Olin F. Butt ’36, and
Michael A. Lolli ’36 will augment the
bass division of the .orchestra.-Wilton
E\ Halstead '33 is a new member as
signed to assist the percussion group.
New flute players in the symphonic
organization are Charles M. Brown
’36 and Douglas G. Hill ’36. Other
appointments are Martin J. Schei
man ’36, horn, Forrest W. Hunsicker
’36, trumpet, Bertone Hall '34, trom
bone, and John G. Mohr ’36, tuba.
Two try-outs werfe held before the
final, selections were made. Plans for
two concerts during the year are now
being made, Mr. Fishburn said.
TURNER ELECTED PRESIDENT
Frances S. Turner was elected tem
porary president of the women’s
freshman class at a meeting held
Monday night. Jean R. Beman was
chosen vice-president, and Virginia
W. Lewis,-secretary, while M. Eliza
both Springer and-S.,Elizabeth Shaf
fer were named treasurer and social
chairman, respectively^
Higher Entrance Standards
Raise Grade, Hoffman Says
Better Prepared Freshman Classes Increased
All-College Mark Last Semester, ’
. Registrar Believes
More- rigid entrance requirements
which raise the level of successive
freshman classes was given as the
reason for the'l.4o all-College aver
age last semester, by William S. Hoff
man; College'registrar. This is the
highest the all-College mark has ever
been.
Statistics determined by the Regis
trar for the four classes ;n College
last , year show that the scholastic
composition improved with each new
class.- On this basis, the Class of 1935
was better prepared than any class in
College last year.
Un last year’s freshman class, 77.6
percent, of, the students were gradu
ated in the upper two-fifths of their
high school classes, the figures show.
In the .Class of 1934 there were 76.8
percent’ in the upper two-fifths, 70.4
percent in the Class of 1933, and 67.3
percent in the Class of 1932.
Increased quality of entering classes
was also stressed as the most impor
tant reason for the rise in the aver
age by Dean of Men Arthur R. War-
‘Collegian’ TojGive
Grid Gamk Returns
To provide student?;who do not
go to Cambridge for the game to
morrow, with an opportunity to
follow the Lions in their, test against
Harvard, the* Collegian will furnish
a short play by play/detail of the
game at the end .of each quarter.
The accounts will be telegraphed
from the press box/, at Soldiers’
dow at Graham’s on Allen Street.
There will be no radio broadcast of
the game. t -i;
STATE LIBRARIANS
WILL MEETTODAY
200 Delegates Hear; Dr. Hasek
. Present Opening. Speech
At Dinner Session
With an address by-Dr. Carl W.
Hasek,- head of • the • department of
economics and sociology, as the fea
ture of the meeting, more .than two
hundred librarians attended the open
ing dinner session of/the- Pennsylvania
Library association -convention last*
night. . The group will hear commit
tee reports and take up.-the business
of the .association at a. .meeting ithis
morning.
Speaking on the subject, “The Chal
lenge of the Times,” Dr. Hasek de
clared the present depression is evi
dence’of a conflict between the highly
technical system of production and the
individualistic system of economy, in
his address'last night. The depres
sion is a challenge to the nation, he;
contended.'.
Hetzel Welcomes delegates
‘ Social insurance, reorganization of
taxation and. better-, financial control
are three solutions to th? 'problem of
fered by Dr. .Hasek. ' delegates
were welcomed by k President Ralph D.
_Hetzel.atj.the-/qp j
session yesterday*
Dr. James N. Rule, superintendent
of the State department of public in
struction, will-.address the convention
at a luncheon session at the Nittany
Lion tomorrow- noon. The inter-rela-
Mon of work in school and public li
braries will be ‘the general topic for
discussion by .the delegates at this
meeting. ‘ l .
A report of the library school con
ducted ' during Summer School this
year will be given by Willard P.
Lewis, College librarian, this morn
ing. The convention will close with a
dinner meeting at the Nittany- Lion
tomorrow night. v
NATIONAL POLITICAL FORUM
SCHEDULED FOR BROADCAST
“A Message to the University Men
and Women of America” will be the
subject of a national political forum
which will be broadcast over an N.
B. C. hookup from 9 to 10 o’clock
Monday night, according to a com
munication received by the president's
office.
Governor Albert C. Ritchie, of
Maryland will present .the program
of the Democratic party, while Secre
tary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wil
bur will discuss the Republican pro*;
gram.
nock and Dr. Carl E. Marquardt, Col
lege examiner. In addition, Dr. Mar
quardt pointed out that since transfers
totalled ten percent of he .entering
students each year, their usually high
scholastic ability tends to raise the
all-Coilege level.
Both Registrar Hoffim i and Dean
(Warnock believed that in increased!
seriousness of purpose w' ich has evi
denced itself in the stude t body, was
also responsible for the a erage. “De
pression times,” said tb Registrar/
“make*students want to git their mon
ey’s worth.”
In explaining the. rise of the all-
College mark from 1.27 )f ther first
semester last year, Dei n-'Warnock
stressed the fact that r any of the
jpoor students arc weedc- out before
the beginning of the sect d semester.
Furthermore, freshmenllnced some
time to get adjusted, anv the contin
uity of studying during the first sem
ester is broken up by fraternity rush
ing, athletic games, an! vacations,
he added. __ J ■
Nittany Lion Gridmen Leave for
Harvard Contest-Will Oppose
Strong Crimson Foe Tomorrow
To Start at Wing Posts
Harvard Writer Predicts
Crimson Victory, 35-to-6
Believes Victims of Waynesburg Debacle Hold
No Threat for Casey ’s Uninjured;
, : --~.y^y~^<^~i/~U^ned : ■ ■
By DONALI
Sports Editor,
Harvard is expecting a fairly easy
victory over’the light aggregation of
Penn State this Saturday.. A predic-.
tion of t a 35-to-G score, would strike,
a happy medium of the general Har
vard opinion 'as to the’ outcome of the
game. / . . .
\ Qne reason for expecting, an. easy
Crimson victory is the fact that Coach
Eddie Casey‘has not yet had his first
string in the games for much- more
than one. period, and even -then the
rest of the squad has been able to pile
up a ."large margin of victory.
After-the Waynesburg debacle, • the
Crimson; coaches have, little fear, of
the outcome of the Penn State clash.
With its magnificent first line still
untouched by injury, Harvard should
be able to break up most of . the plays
of the Nittany Lions, and if the vet
eran halfback, Crickard is in form,
the visitors will find plenty of dif
ficulty protecting their own goal line.-
In view of the Dartmouth game next
Saturday, it is probable that Casey
will give his first stringers plenty of
work again&t Penn State to -smooth
out their irregularities.’
Casey has apparently started off
his second year as varsity coach with
a first team fully as good as last
year's. Taking the end positions
first, we find Captain Carl Hngeman
and Tommy Nazro, beth lettermen
with a year of varsity experience, be
hind them, and unquestionably as good
a pair of ends as any coach co.uld de
sire.
. In the two tackle berths are * Irad
Hardy, All-American last year, and
Malcolm Bancroft, six-foot-five cap
tain-elect of crew, and a player, with
two years of varsity experience be
hind hhn.
Jim Esterly and Herman Gundlach
hold down the guard positions, the
COMPANY PRESIDENTS MEET
TO DISCUSS REFINING PLANS
Over sixty presidents of the lead
ing refineries in Pennsylvania along
with members of their, technical staffs
attended a meeting of the Pennsyl
vania Grade Crude Oil association at
tho Nittany Lion Wednesday. , '
Professor Merrcll R. Fcnske of the
chemical engineering department, and
Professor W. B. McCluer, petroleum
research assistant, reported on the
progress of the work being carried
on at the* College, which consists of
identifying the properties of Penn
sylvania lubricants.
ANNOUNCES WINTER COURSES
Winter short courses in agriculture
will be offered from January 5, 1933
to March 2, Dean Ralph L. Watts,
of the School of Agriculture, has an
nounced.
,D WELD .’34
Harvard 'Crimson*
former being one of the best Crimson
players last year, even though an in
jury in’the Army.game kept him out
of action.for almost the whole season.
Gundlach/is the only -sophomore inj
the forward wall. Hallowell at center j
is the-man who filled up the vacancy
left by, ( Ben Ticknor, All-American
center, last season. • • ‘
• Turning to the backfield,- we find
three ’ newcomers since last season.
Only the great Jack Crickard is left
from Barry Wood’s famous quartet.
Johnny Dean, the new fullback, is a
tall/ rangy lad" whp is fast becoming
an able blocker and-whose punting is,
excellent. .
Charley Nevin is holding down the'
position of right halfback and does
most of the line-plunging. Danny
Wells is the man who has filled the
shoes of Barry Wood, and so far'he
has shown all the qualities of general
ship which -the great Harvard quarter
back evinced last year.
The - reserves, present ’ the whole
problem of the Crimson coaches this
year. Although Harvard possesses
one of the best A teams that it has
had in years, one which may even
outdo that of iast season, it does not
have sufficient i*eserve strength. The
Iqss of any one of the key men on the I
first team would put the coaches in
a dilemma.
As a mutter of fact, >thc coaches
have been slighting the first team
lineup in their anxiety to discover
.good substitutes for it. In -the back
field their problem docs not seem so
difficult now that the two opening
games huve disclosed some promising
material.
Johnny Grady, a track star who
(Conlinncd on page two)
ENGINEERING EXTENSION
LISTS 3,000 STUDENTS
Low Enrollment Caused by Present
Economic' Slate,. ICellcr Says
Three thousand students were en
rolled in the engineering extension
courses last year, according to figures
just released by Prof. J. Orvis Keller,
head of the department. -Due to econ
omic conditions the enrollment was
lower than usual, Prof. Keller said.
Branch schools in Allentown, Erie,
Wilkes-Barre, Scranton, and Reading
registered 475 students in three year
courses, while 554 students enrolled
in night classes in 25 cities. Night
classes are being opened in twenty
cities this year.
The largest number of students were
enrolled* in short courses and confer
ence work.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Higgins Takes Squad
Of 27 Players on
Cambridge Trip
BLUE AND WHITE TEAM.
LIGHTER THAN OPPONENT
‘Big- Three* Eleven Favored, in
Battle—Lohr To Start •
.At Halfback Post
Br GEORGE A. SCOTT *3t
Encouraged by the cheers of. more
than three thousand students who
gathered in Recreation Hall'Wednes
day night for the aIL-Collcge ; pep
rally, Coach Bob Higgins and’ .the
Nittany Lion football squad of twenty
seven men left last night for. Carp,
bridge, Mass., for • their ■ scheduled
meeting with Harvard .University to
morrow afternoon.
Outweighted nineteen and one-half
pounds to a man, crippled by injur
ies, and generally considered a "set
up” for the powerful Harvard eleven,
the Nittany Lions will enter tomor
row’s fray with the odds considerably
against them. Harvard' looks' -for
ward .to a U5-to-6 triumph, sport writ,
ers' throughout the East predict an
easy win for the Crimson, and there
are few in the Lion student body who
will venture the hope of even a tie. .
Nittany Morale High
Non* -the less, Captain "Spike** Col
lins and his mates promise a battle
1 that will make Harvard realize that
it’s a football game that is taking
place on Soldiers’ Field, rather than
a simple signal drill. -The morale-of.
the" Nittany; squad hasn’t dropped an
iota since.the start of the season, and
tHe Lions aren’t prepared to - enter the
game with heads drooping. .
. Seventeen linemen and ten backs
were included in the Blue and White
squad when it entrained at 6 o’clock
last night. Captain Collins, Lohr,
j Skemp, • Conn, Harper, Sigcl, Lopg,
'Morrison, Wille and Wantshouse co'm
! prised the baekfield section of the
squad, while the linenien who niqde
the trip-were Slusser, Brewster, Mc-
Kee, and Meredith, ends, Cole, Wbol.-
bert, Berry, Flood, and Park, tackles,
Hesch, Kreizman, Kane, and Johnson,
guards, and Zawaeki, Anderson, and
Rich, centers.
Slusser, Cole, Hesch, Zawaeki,
Kreizman, Woolbert, and Brewster
are scheduled to start on the lino' for
the Blue and White, and Captain Gol
lins, Lohr, Harper and Wantshouse
or Skemp in the baekfield. “Shorty.”
(Continued on page three)
EDWARDS TO GIVE.
CHAPEL ADDRESS
Mcrcersburg Academy Headmaster
Will Discuss ‘Liberty’ at
Sunday Services
"Liberty” will be the topic of Dr.
Boyd Edwards, headmaster of Mer
cersburg Academy, who will address N
the chapel audience in Schwab aud-*
Itorium Sunday morning.
Dr. Edwards, a graduate of Will
iams College, has received advanced
degrees from Union Theological Sum
innry and the University of Pennsyl
vania. During his undergraduate
years the speaker was a member of
the varsity teams in baseball and
football, both at Wiliams and at An
dover Academy, where he attended
preparatory school.
As 'headmaster of Mercersburg Ac
ademy, Dr. Edwards now holds a
prominent position among the prepar
atory school leaders of the country.
Before assuming his present position,
the educator served as headmaster of
the Hill School, Pottstown, for six
years. He has now been at Mercers
burg Academy for four years.
As a trustee of Williams College
and Mount Holyoke College, the
chapel speaker maintains an active
interest in college life. Dr. Edwards
is a member of Zeta Psi, and has
been long connected with college fra
ternity problems.
APPOINTED JUNIOR SENATOR
Doris M. Acker ’34 was appointed
by the W. S. G. A, senate to serve as
a junior senator for this year. She
is to fill the position left vacant when
Helen C. Palmer did not return to
school this fall. -