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Vol. 29, No. 20
UNION TO SPONSOR
FREE ALL-COLLEGE
FUNCTION TONIGHT
Year’s First Dance Will Follow
Freshman Reception *in
Recreation. Hall
A. A. CARDS REQUIRED
FOR INFORMAL AFFAIR
? 36 Students Granted Customs.
Removal—Women Obtain
Social Privileges
Preceded by a,, reception for the
freshman class, the first free all-Col-
Icgc dance of the year will be held in
Recreation hall tonight.
Absorbing what was formerly call
ed .the freshman frolic, an annual
dance exclusively for first year stu
dents, the affair, tonight is expected
to serve as a get-together 'for stu
dents of'all classes. The reception
will be held from 8:30 o’clock until
9:15 o’clock while the dance will start
immediately after the reception and
continue until 12 o’clock.
.Must Show A. A. Cards
To accommodate students, a check
ing service will be available at ten
cents per person. Proceeds will go to
the Student Loan fund, according to
officials of Student Union, which is
sponsoring the affair. The dance will
be informal, and students will be re
quired to show their Athletic asso
oiution cards for admittance.
Two bands, the Varsity Ten and
the Blue and White, will play alter
nately for .the dancers. To induce all
students, to be present, Student. Tri
bunal has decreed* that all customs
will be off tonight, while W. S. G. A.
officials have decided to. designate
the dance as a free social function for
women students. ‘ '.. ,• ’ .
•TT' .
v At the .reception, Dean of Women
Charlotte E. Ray;-Dean, of Men Ar
thur R. Warnoclc, class officers, and
members of Student Union will greet
the first year, man and women. On
the success of to-night's dance and on
th*e interest shown in it by the stu
dent attendance, will hinge the pos
sibility of similar dances in the fu- j
turo, Student Union officials have in
timated.
Paul A. Filer '33 is chairman'of the
committee in. charge of the dance
while Angelin Bressler ’33 and Ben
jamin L. Wise ’33 are assisting him.
The committee was appointed by Rob
crt M. Maxwell '33, Student Union
president. Faculty members are in
vited to attend both the reception and
the dance.
MARGARET SANGER
ADDRESSES FORUM
Speaker at First Meeting Cites 7
Definite Reasons for Birth
Control Practice
•“Birth control is not a panacea for
all the social and. economic ills in the
world but at least it is the most im
portant immediate help which con be
applied as a solution to the present
•problems of millions of men and wo
men here' and now," Mrs. Margaret
Sanger said,, at the opening Forum
of the year in the Auditorium Tues
day night. ; • •
Mrs. Sanger cited several definite
reasons for the practice of birth con
trol. Contraception, , she believes,
should be used in the case of com
municable diseases, where the mother
is physically weak and incapable of
bearing children, and where parents
produce sub-normal offspring. The
' practice is also valuable in the spac
ing of children in a family, protect
ing adolescent married couples from
having children too soon, and also in
the case of poverty stricken parents.
. “Birth control will give women a
. chance to - develop • and to ; express
themselves; it will, above all, mean
happier marriages," Mrs.' Sanger
stated., “Instead of the customary
single child in families of the higher
classes,, and ten or eleven, in the poor
er classes, birth control will usher in
a new era of families with three‘or
four children. This will constitute
the American family of the future,”
the speaker, believes.
Mrs. Sanger left the College yester
day afternoon. In addition to Her
open .lecture, she. addressed a wo?
men's club meeting Tuesday nighit.
-While here, a number of teas and
luncheons were held'for* ho by her
sister-m-law-. Mrs. Robert A. Higgins
and several faculty members..
Mrttn #tatr (Callpntait. |
Enrollment Limitation
Important , Hetzel Says
Entrance Restriction to Students Qualified
For University Work Significant
In President’s Opinion -
Limitation of enrollment in state universities to. students who are best
qualified to do university, work “promises to be a factor of permanence and
of increasing significance and importance" in the educational world, in the
opinion of President Ralph D.'Hetzel, who will speak before a meeting of
the National Association of State Universities at Washington, D. C., today.
Basing his.conclusions on the result, of a questionnaire, sent to presidents
of institutions in the association, President Hetzel believes that in some
COMMITTEE PLANS
7 PERFORMANCES
3 Benefit Dances: • Tentatively
Arranged To Aid Student :
Loan Fund This Year
Seven benefit performances are be
ing planned to supplement the Stu
dent- Loan fund, according to Ben
jamin L f Wise- '33, chairman of the
Student Union Loan fund committee.'.
Tentative, arrangements call for
three benefit dances, Wise has an
nounced. .The first of these functions;
will probably be held shortly after,
the Christmas vacation, with a.winter,
carnival being planned for the latter
part of February. *
Alumni May Appear l
The committee is also making plans
to have-two former alumni appear
here. Steve Hamas has been asked
to speak, while Fred Waring; and his
Pennsylvanians . may also, present a
performance . here this ; winter, .the
chairman has stated. ’•;
Several honor'societies have been
plement loan';fund,'/Wise'has
announced,-while several ■ musical" or
ganizations and dramatic- clubs have
signified their! intention-to stage ben
efit productions. ••/.:-■
Plans’ have been completed for a
benefit movie ticket, sale immediately
after the Christmas vacation, accord
ing to H. Philij) Evans..’33, chairman
of the Interfraternity council Student
Logn fund committee. -. The ticket sale
will be conducted among fraternities
the same as last, year, Evans has an
nounced. . ,
SGHUG SELECTS WOMEN
DEBATERS FOR 1932-33
12 Co-eds Named to Squad by Coach
Following Tryouts This Week ‘
„ Twelve women were named for the
..women’s' debating squad by Clayton
H. Schiig, coach of the women’s team,
following tryouts this week: •
Those selected were Anna L. Miksch
’33, Margaret E. Barnard ’34, .Edith
Macaleer '34,'Marie G. Mahoney'’34,*
and Gertrude Tulin ’34.
Emilie Erickson '35, Jeanne S.
KleckneV '35, E.. Marion Tomlinson
’35,*E; Isabel' Cheney’ ’36, Dorothy j.
Ely ’3G, Bernadette Hcagriey ’36, and
Myra Hilpert ’36 were others selected
for the squad. A debate with the wo
men’s team of the College of William
and Mary at Williamsburg,' Va. has
been arranged for sometime before
Christmas, j
■Solve'Europe’s Population Problem,
Or War Will Result,’ Sanger States
“Europe’s over-population problem
is sizzling now; in five. or six years
something,is going.to explode!"
Mrs. Margaret. Sanger- usually con
vinces the skeptical with- her smile,
but now a vague shadow of serious
ness hovered over it. As she spoke,
spiall, almost unnoticcable gestures
betrayed long -trying hours on . the
lecture platform in championing the
cause of birth control.
“Already Italy has its eye on sev
eral choice pieces of territory. And
when its congested mass of humanity
is so much in excess that it reaches
the-brim and overflows, we shall have
a war." She paused and then added
crisply “This is ; as inevitable as was
the outbreak in 1914.” ‘ !
“Population must .be controlled.
Unless it is limited or some system
of distribution worked, out the nations
of the world might just as well throw
all their peace treaties to the winds,”
Mrs. Sanger said. “Peace will never
be achieved until this 1 problem is
solved; that’s why the. birth control
question hus become-riot-only of fam-
STATE COLLEQE, PA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1932
the limit]
-jCitutions k tation of student
enrollment has received "too little
consideration in view of its -potential
value in - the advancement of ediica--
tional. standards, the* perfection' of
educational techniques, and the es
tablishment-' of a superior educational
ministry.”
5 Limit Enrollment
.Five institutions, including Penn.
State, practice arbitrary.limitation of
studeht enrollment, while thiry-five do
not. .-Presidents in the former group,
Dr.'Hetzel points out, testify that stu
dent- mortality, has decreased, stand
ards apd quality of work -have in
creased, and that both student and
faculty .morale have, been advanced
by limiting enrollment. *
• 'Economic depression and mounting
tax-burdens have forced state officials
and.public opinion to favor enrollment
restriction) he .states. Likewise, ex
isting circumstances or necessities of
ten force institutions to adopt limit
ing practices, less as an educational
policy , than'as a temporary expedient,
he adds. .
. “Several of the replies to the ques
tionaire' express • vigorous 'opposition
to the limitation of. enrollment,” the
President' says, ; “but.strongly favor- a
procedure designed to select from ap
plicants'only • those-adequately or/b’est
qualified’'to;’do university work.'"'Such
procedure- clearly results in limiting
enrollment ... . and it.is usually-the
means -by which control is- exercised
institutions which have set
definite numerical limitations.”, ■
EXECUTIVE EDITOR
WILL SPEAK HERE
Frank’ L; Perrin, -Head of 'Christian
Science Monitor’ Staff,
To Lecture Monday ;
Talking on “Adventures in Ideal
ism,” Frank' L. Perrin, executive
editor of the Christian Science Mon
itosy will speak in the Little Theatre,
Old Main, at 7:30 o’clock Monday
night. •
After graduating from the Univer
sity of Wisconsin, Mr. Perrin received
an advanced degree from the same in
stitution. He has - been' associated
with, . the St. Louis Democrat, the
Times, and the Star. .
•In 1916, the speaker joined the staff
of thie Christian Science il/oinVor and
has.been connected with that'publica
tion/ since then. In 1929 he was- pro
moted to the executive editorship of
the paper.
The lecturer will discuss problems
confronting an editor of a newspaper
having national circulation.' §sigma
Delta Chi, professional . journalism
fraternity) is sponsoring the lecture.
i ily importance but of international
significance," ....
• “Fortunately, statesmen are begin
ning to' acquire some- concept of the
importance of the over-populated.
plight, of. many countries.” Mrs.
Sanger, who has travelled .extensively
in foreign countries, is particularly
Interested in the Italian and Japanese
situations. “They, must have some
outlets for these increasing internal
numbers, and they're resorting to in
vasion to find them," she said.
Mrs. Sanger explained that the de
population could be accomplished by
either increasing the death rate or de
creasing 'the birth rate.,. In the past
the death rate , has been raised by
mfeans of famine, disease, epidemics,
and wars; what will happen in the
future remains to be seen,' she -said.
And-then her voice softened,. she
semed almost shy, so that one would
hardly suspect hereof being'a cru
sader, a pioneer.
“After all, nd matter how hard wc
fight, birth control will come. It’s
just a' matter of how toon."
To Speak ih Chapel
‘DR. FULTON-J. SHEEN
SHEEN WILL GIVE
. chApeiSaddress
Catholic. University Professor
To Speak oh'‘The Quest
For God’ Sunday
iSpeaking.on “The. Quest for God,”
Rev. Dr. Fulton J. Sheen; who is pro
fessor of the philosophy of religion
at the Catholic University of Amer
ica, Washington, D.-’C., will address;
the regular chapel services in Schwab
auditorium at 11 'o’clock Sunday
morning. . ", ,
Father. Sheen was.graduated from
Saint Viator College,* Kankakee, Ill
inois, in 1917,- and' was ordained to
the priesthood of - ( the Roman Cath
olic church in 1919. . rAfter six years
of graduate work; .conducted at the
Universities of Washington, Paris,
Louvain,-and, Rome, received de
degrees from' the, twp. latter schools.
Awarded -ffhilosjfghy Prize
1« at ueu - ...«?*•-
-. After teaching- for at an
English school, the chapel speaker
joined the facultyof Louvain Univer
sity 'in 1926. That same year Dr.
Sheen was honoi*ed by being the first
American to receive the . Cardinal
Mercier prize for international philo
sophy.,. He :assumed his present po
sition four years ago.
As author of “God and Intelligence,"
“Life of all Living," “The Divine Ro-';
mance," “Old Errors and New La- i
,ibels,". .and “Moods .and Truths,”|
Father Sheen is well - known in the i
field of religious philosophy. . In J
recognition of his work, he was one i
of the two American priests to speak!
from the platform of the International j
Eucharistic Congress held in Ireland j
this summer. |
For several years Dr. Sheen has
given an annual series of radio ad
dresses as a part of the National
Catholic radio hour. He has also ad
dressed meetings at ' Westminster
cathedral, London, and at the Cath
olic Summer School, at Cambridge
University, while on speaking trips
in England.
MARKHAM DEFINES
POETRY ESSENCE
Nationally KnowjH Writer Reads
Own Works at Lecture
Here Wednesday
“Poetryis something that rises out
of the heart, not out of- the intellect,
and attempts to transmit a noble em
otion,” Edwin Markham, nationally’
known poet', said in a lecture at the
St Paul’s Methodist Episcopal church
Wednesday night.
Mr. Markham read a number of his
poems as-part of - the talk, including!
“The Man With the Hoe',” and “Lin
coln', the Man - of* the People.” Fol-!
lowing the lecture a reception was’
held to give, the audience an oppor
tunity to meet the famous poet. j
Attempting to describe the exact!
feelings and emotions which move
writers to compose verse, the speaker
said a poet must always have thf
youthful angle, which' is often re
ferred to as the “heart of a child."
Above'all, he must avoid any contact)
with cynicism and he must steer clear j
of those who preach the doctrine ofj
the; insignificance of-life, he said. j
' “Where science stops/poetry begins.!
Out beyond the . precipice - where j
science falters, there is another world
—the world of aspirations and im
mortality," Mr. Markham said. “It
is from that world that- the poet comes
to tell of the higher truths, and the
poetry presented o reprosen -these
truths is only good if it is told in a
beautiful, strange, ami unusual way."
FRESHMAN CLASS
NOMINATIONS SET
FOR DECEMBER 1
Student Board Approves Final
Elections Provisions at
Meeting Monday
EVERY FIRST-YEAR MAN
COMPELLED TO ATTEND
Presidential Nominees Will Give
5-Minute Talks Before
Last Balloting
•Nominations for freshman class
president will be held at a class meet
ing on Thursday, December 1, imme
diately following the Thanksgiving
vacation, John N.. Rathmcll, junior
class president who will preside at
the first year elections, announced
Wednesday. r
Freshman elections are being held
nearly two months earlier this year
as a result of Student Board action
recently. A final elections code was.
drawn up and approved at a Board
meeting Monday, John A. Wood ’33,
chairman, said.
Balloting Scheduled
j Balloting on all freshman presi
fdential nominees will take place at a
second meeting which will be held
the week following nominations. Can
didates polling the four highest num
, ber of votes will be nominees for the
i final ballot of the class, according to
! the elections code. I
Each of the four candidates will;
then choose a topic and speak on it l
for five minutes before a meeting of!
the class in the third week in Decern- j
ber. Following the speeches, final
balloting for president- will be held,
with the vice-presidency. .going to the
.nominee -polling .the-t-second
number of votes/ ... *•'
Attendance Compulsory
Election of secretary, treasurer, and
historian will be conducted at the
next regular mesting of the class,
under the leadership of the newly
elected president-. Attendance of all
freshmen at each of these meetings
will be compulsory.
..No nominees for the freshman class
presidency may have more than one
below grade at the eight weeks, the
code decrees. In preparation for the
election, freshman cliques were or
ganized last ‘week under the direction
of - sophomore Campus and Locust
Lane clique chairmen.
-15 MAIL COURSES OFFERED;
‘ BY SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE
j Forty-five correspondence courses
t in agriculture and home economics are
i being offered by the College for this
year, according to announcement re
ceived recently from Professor Thom
as I. Mairs, of the School of Agricul
ture. '
With over twenty-five teams en
tered in the competition, the Interfta
ternity auction bridge tournament
will open'before next Wednesday, it
was announced this week by Ralph B.
Vance '34, who is in charge of the
RELEASED FROM HOSPITAL j
Eight courses are offered in general
agriculture, animal husbandry, ' and
horticulture, six in dairying, five in
home economics, and seven in miscel
laneous subjects.
Thomas S. Goas, graduate assist
ant in histoi’y, has returned to his
home here after being suddenly
stricken with an attack of appendi
citis on November 8. Goas was held
at the Schuylkill Haven hospital for
observation until it was decided that:
an operation would be unnecessary.
Markham Commends Selection of
John Galsworthy for Nobel Prize
; John Galsworthy is undoubtedly the
j most deserving writer that the Nobel
| Prize committee could have selected
j for this year's literary award, Edward
Markham, the poet, said in an inter*
view Wednesday night.
“His general achievement as a
story-writer and dramatist stands un
rivalled,” Mr. Markham said. “Not
| only is this year’s winner of the
I Nobel Prize one of the greatest writ
i ers alive, but his well-rounded view
point has made him an international
figure.”
"Galsworthy’s essays on women
would be enough to make the English
author eligible for the award, how
ever, his.valuable writings on the!
labor question arc additional points
in his favor, ,f the poet said. • "Ive'
known Mr. Galsworthy for years and
years, and I feel sure that the judges
made no mistake in awarding the
’33 Grid Card Lists
Columbia, Penn Tilts
1933 Grid Schedule
Approval by College Board of
Athletic Control pending.
October 7
Lebanon Valley at Home
October 14
Muhlenberg at Home
October 21
. Lehigh' at Home
(Alumni Day)
October 28
-Columbia at New York
November 4
Syracuse at Syracuse
November 11
Johns Hopkins at Home
(Pennsylvania Day)
. ' November 18'
Penn at Philadelphia
16 NON-FRATERNITY .
DISTRICTS CREATED
Intramural Board Divides Town
On Geographical Basis for
Sports Competition
Arranged on a geographical basis,
the College non-fraternity section was
tentatively divided into sixteen dis
tricts for the purpose of intramuval
competition at a meeting of an intra
mural board commitee Wednesday
night.
With the start of the winter sports
intramural program following
Thanksgiving, all non-fraternity men
desiring to participate .in .the tourna
ments will entsr only in the groups
.they., .haye.been jilaced._by,, the janit
system. No organized non-fraternity,
team other than, these units will, be
allowed' to compete, according to
James B. Goyne ’S3, winter, sports
manager.
To Organize Monday'
Residence of the students will be
determined by the College directory.
Although a student may change his
residence; after the issuance .of the di
rectory, he will be required to play
with the group in which he was orig
inally scheduled, the committee de
cided.
Managers of non-fraternity teams
last yeur will meet with all unaffil
iated students interested in taking
part in intramural activities' in Room
415, Old Main, at 7:30 o’clock Monday
night. The students will be organized
into their respective units at this
meeting.
“In arranging the units we tried to
bring the number in each group as
(Continued on pa ye two)
BRIDGE TOURNEY WILL OPEN
VISITING ENGINEER TO SPEAK
Dr. R. S. Dean, chief engineer of
; the Metallurgical division of the
United States Bureau of Mines will
give a talk on metals and metallurgy
in Room 315, Mineral Industries build-,
ing at 7:30 o’clock Monday night.
prize to him,’’ he added.
Two years ago, Mr. Markham in
dignantly assailed the choice of Sin
clair Lawis as the award winner. The
eighty-year-old poet felt that some
one such ns Edith Wharton who “can
see and write about all sides of life”
should have been honored with the
award.
“Lewis has a vivid pen and has
given us a number of interesting pic
tures of, American life,” Mr. Mark
ham said, “but iiis portrayal of the
‘seamy’ side of life to the complete
exclusion of the dream side made him
unworthy of so great an honor.”
. Mr. Markham was particularly de
lighted to find that Mr. Galsworthy
had been selected for the Nobel Prize
this year because of his intimate ac
quaintance with him. The English
poetry presented to represent these
or at the American poet’s birthday
celebration several years ugo.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
5 New Rivals Appear
On Schedule for
Next Year
JOHNS HOI’KINS TO PLAY
HOUSEPARTY GAME HERE
Syracuse, Lehigh, Muhlenberg,
Lebanon Valley Complete
Football Program
»:>• OKOIUJK A. SCOTT ‘.ll
Contests with Columbia, Penn
sylvania, Syracuse, and Lehigh
will appear on the Nittany Lion
football schedule for 1933, which
awaits final sanction by the Col
lege Board ot Athletic Control,
according to schedules released
by the future Lion opponents.
Lebanon Valley, Johns Hopkins
University, and Muhlenberg are oth.*r
opponents who have announced 1933
contests with the Nittany gridincn.
In accordance with a policy inaugur
ated last year, it is likely that seven
games will comprise the Lion sched
ule.
Lehigh to Play Here
With Lebanon Valley as the first
opponent on New Beaver field October
7, the Lions will encounter Muhlen
berg here on the following week-end,
according to the schedules announced
by these two institutions. Lehigh has
announced the scheduling of a contest
here on October 21, giving the Lions
the first three games at home.
Columbia University will betthe op
ponent in the first encounter on for
eign fields for the Nittany gridders,
with the game scheduled for New
York'dly oh October" 28. A second
contest away from New Beaver field
will be played on the following week
end, November 4, when the Lions
journey to Syracuse for their annual
battle with the Orange.
Johns Hopkins will appear here in
the final home game of the season,
Armistice Day, November'll, and the
■schedule closes with the University of
; Pennsylvania contest at Philadelphia,
November 18. Lehigh, one of the old
est gridiron rivals of th.e College,
looms as the Alumni Day attraction,
with Johns Hopkins appearing here
in the Pennsylvania Day contest.
New Opponents Listed
The Nittany gridders will be es
tablishing football relations with
Columbia and Johns Hopkins for the
first time in the history of the Col
lege, while the Muhlenberg encounter
marks the relations that wove discon
tinued after 1920, when the Lions
scored a 27-to-7 victory oevr the Al
lentown institution. Pennsylvania re
turns to the schedule after a four
year absence and Lehigh after a one
year lapse.
Syracuse and Lebanon Valley arc
the only opponents of the past sea
son remaining on the schedule, Har
vard, Colgate, Temple, Waynesburg,
and Sewanee having been replaced
by the five newcomers to the Lion
grid program. Syracuse has been an
annual rival since 1922, while the
Lebanon* Valley series was inaugur
ated in 1904.
CLIQUES DEPICTED
IN ‘BELL’ ARTICLE
Campus Political Groups Described
By Writer—Magazine Sule
Will Begin Today
"Tammany Jr.” a description of
political cliques on the campus and a
prediction of their termination by Jo
seph J. liubin, is the featured article
of the second fall issue of the Old
Main Bell, student literary magazine,
which goes on sale this morning.
"Miss Sophie,” a • short story by
Elizabeth D. Nave ’34, winner of the
Pi Delta Epsilon prize for the best
short story last year, also appears in
the magazine. Joanne CL Burwis ’33
contributes "Moonlight Sonata” and
"Epitaphs.”
Scott Keyes, graduate student and
adviser to the Social Problems club,
brings up student, realities in “Un
answered Questions.” •'
"The Failure of the Fraternity” by
“A Fraternity Senior,” and "Fresh
men Like Customs” by Vance 0.
Packard ’3G, also appear in the maga
zine. Announcement of a cash prize
contest for the best sonnet on "Albn
trosn Attacks Camel” is made in the
current issue.