-'Se'riii'-W/eelcly "="1 Prttu Slate © (Erilegtau. Vol. 29, No. 22 GRANT SEEKS STUDENT AID IN ARTISTS COURSE Music Director . Appeals. to Undergraduates For Return of Cultural Programs Disappointed fey the lack of interest on the part of both faculty and students thus far, Director Richard W. Grant, of the music department; made a direct appeal to the student body in an interview yesterday to bring back I the Artists’ Course of former .years' to the College. .; i “Generally’speaking the broad cultural development of the students has been,sadly,-neglected during the last two years,” Director Grant declared. ■‘■“The time has come when the stu dents, should decide whether, they are or are not to acquire proper intellec tual knowledge outside their own par-' ticular sphere of activity.” /The music director contended that students are becoming aware of the fact that their, education .will fall un less they make an attempt for richer and fuller living, such ‘ as : is attained through an-appreciation of art and culture, right here and now. He was of the opinion that action should be taken .-immediately to warrant a re vival of the-’series. ' ' Asa means for solving, the finan cial difficulties of the.past, Director, Grant endorsed a plan whereby the students would vote an extra fifty cent fee per year.for the organization and’ perpetuation of an association, whose work/would be to sponsor things cultural fen the campus. “With this fund as a foundation the proposed association could' - be assured of feufficient supporfin order:to bring annually to. the : College outstanding speakers, artists," and musicians! In this way a. well-rounded program-of entertaining, -intellectual, and artistic interest could'be offered, at a ’ticket price' so .reduced as to fee,within the means, of .everyone,”'he declared.’ The Artists Course In former years was- a - losing ’ proposition mainly be cause .the admittance ,-charge was, too ,average Renn.-State.'stu .dent^Director rpoifetea butt. The! fault' .did not* lie. sfe'fmuch'in! lack'- of desire, to/attend the! series^-tief said! - -“A .cdmmunity. as 'isolated as ouri,' should by all support and, nipm-' tain an Artists : G6urse. ii The; 'fa'dbity and students, .owe, it to themselves, and-’ to their/ duty. : of ttj6, ciassf.that fosters-.knowledge, to - show an’inter est, in-such a” necessity to a liberal, education'as'art,” He concluded. • ‘COLLEGIAN’ CALLS 1936 CANDIDATES Freshpian Editorial . Aspirants Will Meet in Old Main * ' Tuesday Night . Men and women freshman candi dates for the editorial staff of the Collegian will meet in Boom 405 ’6ld Main at 7:15 o’clock Tuesday night;. Meetings will continue on every Tuesday night throughout the first /semester, according to-. Richard V. Wall '33, assistant editor, who will have charge of the instruction during thfcse periods. The meetings will bo •limited to forty-five minutes '' in length. Will Outline Course The course for the candidates will be outlined as a feature of the first gathering of the candidates. Instruc tion in 'news reporting,- writing .in Collegian style, and headline writing will-also be started. Following-a few weeks instruction, quizzes will be given on the work cov ered during the -period.' Questions, will cover writing ofylead paragraphs, and.the ture 'stories.' - •.•'•-‘--i”', >'{■;;'» ■■. , 'Prof. Franklin C. Banner, Prof.'.Wil* liam F; Gibbons, and,Prof.- Herbprt' M. Hofford, of the journalism. depart ment,, will address future meetings of the first-year candidates. ~ ' MUTCH WILL SPEAK IN CHAPEL SUNDAY ‘Supremacy of Character’ Selected As Subject for Address by Bryn Mawr Pastor . “The Supremacy of Character” will be the topic of the address of Rev. Dr. Andrew .Mutch, pastor' of the 1 Bryn Mawr Presbyterian church, who will speak, at chapel services in Schwab auditorium at 11 • o'clock Sunday morning. Dr. Mutch, who was born, in Aber deenshire, Scotland, was graduated from -Edinburgh University' in 1894, • and after attending the divinity school at the same'university was ordained to the ministry, in 1899. After thir teen years of service in three churches in' his home country, { the chapel speaker was called to the Bryn Mawr church, where/he has .been'minister since 1912. ■ ' ■ For many years the Scotch pastor served' as president of the Main Line Federation of . Churches, an organiza tion which he helped to found, and is at the present time president of the Presbyterian Board of Pensions. He has often, addressed meetings at Yale hnd - Princcton ; ,Universities . and 'at Lafayette, -.College during the last few Vcars. . \ ( Lafayette'College has conferred an honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity iipon Dr. Mutch. After the serviced Sunday morning, .the.'chapel speaker AVIII remain in State College to ad dress the evening.service of the local Presbyterian church. FIRST ROUND OF I. F.. BRIDGE TOURNEY TO END TOMORROW "•First round contests in the Inter fraternity auction'bridge tournament trill bo completed by tomorrow, ac bbrding .to Ralph B. Vance '34, .man ager of the competition. Thirty-one teams are entered in the tournament. .Entries,for the ribn-fraternity tour nament to be sponsored .by Student tJnion must be filed at the- Student Union desk in Old Main as soon as possible. •; „ , ' f ' MAZER GETS;APPOINTMENT . Lawrenco M.'Mazer .'35, Inter-class hnd intramural wrestling champion in ..the 125-pound class - last, year, receiv ed an appointment to .wiest Poipt last wed;. . - . PARENTS INITIATE LOAN FUND DRIVE Association Sends Out Appeal for Payment of. Membership' Fees This ’Week The first move in the accumulation of. the $lO,OOO revolving loan fund war. started this week by the Associa tion of Parents of -Penn State, when that organization 'sent out an appeal to all parents io pay the membership fee of one dollar. , Eight students’, have, applied for aid this year, according to Mrs. Frank W. Haller,.chairman of the student loan fund committee. Last year the asso ciation aided fourteen students. .‘The money loaned is obtained pri marily from dues, along with special contributions.ln past years the ex pending of -the loans has been depen dent largely upon the payment of dues. /' ’ "Every applicant for aid must have the. endorsement of the dean of the school in. which " the- student, .is cn-. rolled, so that" we know money loaned is going to conscientious students who are really i in- need,” the committee chairman said in the appeal. . • Penn State Men Chii Favorable on ‘D Penn State men. are.still chivalrous! At least that was .the impression given by the answers of many of the repre sentative men 'students to the ques tion of their opinion of “dutch treats” on dates. . . , ' r ’ • •• 1 Of the co-eds interviewed almost all were hi favor of this practice, espec ially in college towns of the size-of State College where «the women'stu dents have aboutjtKe same amount.'dl spending money as the’men. •Marjorie G. Groat’*33 «hd Laura-B.‘ Lee.'33 think' the.men should expect to pay'all the expenses on a date un less the couple goes together steadily, and then • they is only fair that the.girl should pay Her own share at times. , Emily R. ; Gans. ’34 and ,-L.. Isabel Loveland ’3l lire two ’of the eo-eds Brutzman Appointed . Soph Hop Chairman • Franklin J. - Brutzman ’35 has been appointed chairman of the Sophomore Hop committee, Walter G. Benner jr., 1935 class president, announced Wednesday night. Additional members of the com mittee are James V. .Baker, Charles E. Bartlett, Joseph A. Benner, John M. Bernat, Robert M. Brown, Rob ert. B. Dambach, Edward M. Eber hard, Walter F. Gaylor, A. Kenneth Maiers, and Ralph P. Needle. The all-College • dance will be held March 3. ' SOCIALISM UPHELD IN OPENING DEBATE Wilson, of. Oxford, Berbatis ’35 ' Gain Audience Decision Monday Night Upholding socialism; Geoffrey M. ; Wilson of Oxford University, Eng : land, and Angelo N. Berbatis ’35 won an audience .decision over A. J. Ervine of'Oxford and Scott Keyes, graduate student, in an international split-team debate Monday night •’. Nearly 600' people attended the opening contest .of the forensic'sea-’ son. Of the 470 ballots cast by the audience after the debate,- 206 voted for. the negative of the question“Re solv.ed, that socialism ‘ offers no rem edy* for the. present economic disor der,-” while 111 voted for the affirm ative, and 153 .were unchanged in their opinion. ' Control Necessary ’ Keyes, in opening the case for the affirmative,.’ said that governmental control, of .individual, effort and not a would. be^Secessary^to;.bring-the t fuil.b ; ehefit of private enterprise, to the’'American .economic system. Berbatis, first neg ative ;speakcr/' inaihtained ;that '/in equalities' in,. ,-,the distribution .’ of wealth/, busjnessj;!cycles, •'ja;nd j/war could' be /prevented u'nd£r/ socialism. .Characterizing his opponent's.argu ments’ as .“sound—mere sound,”’lrvirte emphasized the point that “we must look, to a powerful man for a way-out and hot to socialism.' Great leader ship seeking the spiritualization of the machine and not a materialistic, noh-idealistic socialism is. needed,” he said. Contrasting the two systems, Wil son pointed out that under capitalism capital employs labor for the benefit of capital, while under socialism labor employs-capital-for the benefit of labor. Socialism with centralized .economic* planning for the benefit, of the '.whole community is needed, he concluded. BILLIARD TABLES INSTALLED IN STUDENT UNION LOUNGE • Completion of the transfer of one poohand one billiard table from the basement of Varsity Hall to the Stu dent Union Lounge on the third floor of Old Main is expected today, ac cording. to H. Aubrey Myers ’32, Stu dent Union secretary. Application to use the- new equip ment should be made at the Student Union desk. According to present plans the new tables will replace one oi\the ping-pong tables now in use. LEWIS ATTENDS CONFERENCE Willard P. Lewis, College librarian, represented Penn State at the twen-. tieth annual; conference of 150 East-, era College Libraries at Columbia University, Saturday. Ivalrous, Co-eds )uich Treat’ Subject who disapprove of dutch treating, and say. that when a fellow calls them up to go to the movies, they do not ex pect 1 to pay their own way. Adam 8.. Barnhart ’33 and Edwin S. Maimed ’33 were the two men most opposed to the idea of a girl paying Her own ’ share of expenses. When asked why they felt this way, they blamed it on a combination of.' pre cedent, chivalry, and a desire not to feel cheap by having a girl hand them a sum of money. . . J Arthur R. Anwyll jr. '33 and John C. Munch '33- say dutch-treats- are “6. k.” at times when a couple goes together regularly, especially in this year of depression... Although most of the men students were not in favor! of dutch:treat?, Robert C. Hanawnltj ’3l is a staunch supporter of the idea.! STATE COLLEGE, PA:, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1932 11CODRTCONTESTS INCLUDED ON 1933 BASKETBALL CARD Cagers Will Face .Susquehanna In First Encounter Here Wednesday, ; Jan. .4 A. A. REDUCES SCHEDULE BY 4 GAMES THIS YEAR Lions To Meet. Colgate, Army, Penn, Temple,] Syracuse During Season Ily W. M. STEGMEIER ’3< Four games thinner than the cus tomary fifteen-game cards of the past few years, the 1933 basketball sched ule of eleven gairiesiwas released by j Athletic association-officials Wednes day. The new court program includes contests with' Penn,/Army, Temple, Colgate, and Syracuse. . None of the opponents listed on this year’s card will He/entirely’ new to the Nittany ’ Lion, four schools, ‘ Susquehanna,. Washington and Jefferson, Lafayette, and Temple, have not-appeared' on a. Penn State basketball schedule,.for several years. Eight of the eleven feames will be played in Recreation'fliail.. ’ . For the opening- game/of Lioni season; 'appear in’ Recreation hall on -,\y»«inesday, Jan uary 4. Three days J'afer Coach Spike Leslie’s team will.travel ib’Philadel phia to play Penn hva&ontinuation of the series of tilts resumed last year after a two-year iapgd.’ To Play/Army Here Following the .Philadelphia contest, the -Lion five 'willvset‘lle ,'down for a long sojourn in heath ns seven to-. ;l>e?rplayc{Li.'o?iJ^^»4lAi , eatfdh';H‘aH: court..: Western Maryland .will-oppose the Nittany quintet on January 14 for. the first.of the string of home games while a tilt with Washington; and Jefferson follows on January 21.1 Army is scheduled to appear here I on January 28, Lafayette on February) 8, Temple, February• 15, and West! Virginia, February 18.. iThis will mark the first Owl game on a Lion! program since 1928 while the last time the Blue. and White courtmen encountered a Lafayette team was in 1930. Freshman Schedule Announced In the last home attraction of the schedule, Penn State fans will have a chance to see Carnegie Tech in action' . when the Tartans appear here on Feb- vuary 25.' The Lions will close their season with a New York trip including games with Colgate and Syracuse on March 3 and 4. A pre-season prac tice game- with Lock Haven State Teachers College at Lock Haven on December 30 was. approved, by the i Board of Athletic Control along with! the regular schedule. . i A freshman basketball card of six j games, four at home and two away,, has been arranged.- The yearlings willi open their season on February 4! against Newton Academy. .Games' with Dickinson Seminary on Febru ary 11. Wyoming Seminary on Feb ruary 18, and Carnegie Tech fresh men on February 25 follow. On March 10, the freshman five will meet the Bucknell plebe team at Lewisburg while a return game with Wyoming Seminary at Kingston is scheduled for the following day. * ' O’BRIEN SUFFERS OPERATION Joseph F. O’Brien, instructor in public speaking and coach of the Col lege. debating team, underwent a ma jor operation.at Flemington Hospital, Philadelphia,- last weekend. *He will probably return to the College some time during January or the early part of the second semester. Who’s Dancing Alpha Omicron Pi at Sigma Pi (Closed) • Vursity Ten Scabbard and Blade at Omega Epsilon , (Closed) Campus Owls Tomorrow-Night .Alpha Chi Sigma (Invitation) Bill Bottorf: Phi Gamma Delta (Closed) Campus Owls Grange Dormitory ‘ (Closed) Blue tnul Wb.itv Freshmen Will Hold Nominations Monday Prospective freshman class presi dents will be nominated at a meet ing in the Chemistry amphitheatre at 7:30 o’clock, Monday night, John N. -Rathmell, junior class head, has announced. Four, trial presidents will be se lected at a meeting a week later, while 1 the final election will take place immediately before the Christ mas vacation, Rathmell. said. At tendance of' all freshmen at each of the three meetings will be com pulsory. FLAGS TO FEATURE DANCE DECORATION Military Bail Plans Include Use ' Of. Gold, White Draperies, Ceiling Streamers Featuring a national flag on which arq inscribed the names of all Penn State men who were killed in the j World War, decorative plans for the j Military Ball-in Recreation hall next Friday night have been completed, ac cording to George H. Grabe ’33, who! is in charge of the decorations. * i A contract with a Wilkes-Barre ! decorating company was signed' last week, Grabe said. According -to the contract, red, white, and blue stream ers will be employed to disguise the ceiling of the hall while lattice-work and gold and white draperies will cover the sides. The canopy above the' orchestra will be draped .with flags of other countries. To Draw for Booths •Fraternity booths this year will be placed out on the main floor ami the space under the balconies will -be 'cldsed.' , "T6^6ften'tHe'Hgh'tfng^e’ffccts l '- all overhead-illumjpation-will be-dis pensed with.' Forty’small lanterns scattered around .tju*. hall will be the j only lights used. | The charge for booths at the affair will be four dollars, with-a three idol j lar assessment for-catering sfei;Vice. This is a reducpqh ‘.of. thi*i*e.. <loila*3 j from the'eost of a booth and ’cnteiibjg service last year/ .Willia’m- C. :Bilrr> ; ’33, committee-chairman, said.' • Drawings for booths will be held at tHe Student Union office In Old Main at 7 o’clock Wednesday night. Baron-Lee and his Blue Rhythm or chestra will furnish the music for the dance. DR. TSCHAN NAMED TO NATIONAL A. A. U. P. BODY Nominated for Executive Position in Association of Professors j Di\ Francis J. Tschan, professor of | I history, has been nominated as aj ; member.of the national council of the, ! American Association of University l j Professors, according to an an-] I nounccment by the local chapter yes | terday. Dr. Tschan was one of ten profess ors from various sections of the coun try nominated to the council for a three-year term. .Positions which Dr. Tschan has held in the association include the presi dency of the local chapter for. the past two years and membership in*the na tional committee on oiganization. and conduct of local chapters. Fraternities, Customs Have No Place In English University, Debaters Say Freshman customs and social fra ternities, two institutions which seem indespensible at Penn State, hate no place in the English university system, declared A. J. Irvine and Geoffrey M. Wilson, Oxford debaters, in.an inter view Monday. “Freshmen at Oxford University are not made to remember that they are freshmen one atom,” Irvine , said, with his broad English accent. “Haz ing and restrictions occur only in pre paratory schools, and they are dropped completely in the university.” Contrary to the popular belief that [customs are necessary to keep. 'a freshman in his place, the absence of restrictions does not make the Oxford freshman “uppish,” the debaters' said. “We believe in treating the freshman as a college man, and if he doesn’t respond, he is gently snubbed,” they added. “We object very strongly to the ex clusiveness and rough initiations of fraternities/’ Wilson stated. “At Ox ford, where twenty colleges have 200 PRESIDENT DENIES ‘RACKET’ CHARGE Dr. Hetzel Finds No Trace of Irregularities In Senatorial Scholarship Awards To Penn State Students Charges that racketeering has, cr scholarships’ to State-uided university Penn State is concerned by President this week. “So far as I know there have bee the granting of these scholarships to si statement said. Three ' scholarships covering tuition arc granted annually by each of fifty State senators to stu dents at this College and at the Uni versities of Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, and Temple. ’ i Investigation. Threatened Frauds in connection .with the scho- lastic subsidies were exposed early this week when a Philadelphian was arrested on the charge that he had swindled .several persons out- of large ) amounts through the sale of “bargain I scholarships.” An investigation of ! the matter, unless it was cleaned up immediately was threatened by. State Senator William D. Mansfield. ‘ Willingness to cooperate with any effort to wipe out the practices was expressed by President Hetzel.and the presidents .of Pennsylvania, Pitts burgh',’ and ' Temple in’ a joint state ment issued at Harrisburg Tuesday. “As heads of these institutions we deplore the practices which-have been! exposed and stand ready to cooperate j fully and freely in any effort made by‘‘responsible legislative groups to eliminate such practices and prevent their recurrence,” the statement said in part.' Holders Here Total 554 enrolle’d.-atVPenn State, total •554,-. ac cording to. Adrian 0. Morse,.executive secretary to the President. These scholarships are good for the , four year course of study and exempt the holder from the incidental fee of one hundred dollars a year. . . ..“Only two honor points more than the number of credits carried in the preceding years are necessary for the holder to retain his scholarship,” Mr. Mprse said in pointing out the fact that the awards are not made primar ily oh the basis of the applicant’s scholastic standing. “Supposedly they are given to needy and meritorious students,” he added. Possible changes in the method ofj awarding the scholarships suggested! by Mr. Morse were the establishment of a general average prerequisite or a more rigid examination of the ap plicant’s financial condition. EXTENSION WORK SPEAKERS wiLL MAKE LECTURE TRIPS Three of the speakers of the Ex tension Lecture Program service of the College have been’engaged to lec ture during December and January, Prof. J. Orvis Keller, head of the ex tension service, announced recently. Prof. Harney W. Stover, of the de partment of economics extension, will address the Franklin Rotary club next Thursday on the topic,.“Recent Trends In Retailing." On January 7, Prof. Harold E. Dickson of the fine arts Jivision will give an illustrated art ccture at Juniata College. students each, there is no place for such a thing as a fraternity. We would get tired of eating our meals with fifty other people.” Each student at Oxford has two rooms in which he lives by himself, they pointed out in describing the English system. Breakfast and lunch 'arc served in the rooms and usually eaten alone, while dinner is served in a common dining, hall. Both English debaters also disap proved of final .examinations, saying that the whole system impressed them as “learning an incredible amount for a short time, taking an examination, and then forgetting it/' At Oxford only two examination's are given dur ing, the college course, one at the end of the first or second terms and one at the end of the four years. “Lectures at Oxford are entirely voluntary—they do happen' and some people go,” Irvine said. “Attendance at the beginning df the term, however, is noticeably larger'than at the end,” he «d‘M. a - . PRICE FIVE CENTS ;cpt into the distribution of senatorial -*s were declared unfounded ns far as Ralph D. Hetzel in n press statement -*n no irregularities in connection with tudents at Penn State,” the President’s BEAMISH FORSEES CHANGE IN AWARDS Believes Inquiry Will Motivate New Distribution Method For Scholarships A new method for awarding sen atorial scholarships will probably fol low the investigation of charges of exploitation by racketeers, Richard J. Beamish, secretary of the Common wealth, said here Wednesday in an interview to the Collegian. He knows of no irregular practices in connection with the Penn State awards, however. “Some safeguard against irregular practices in connection with the awards should be made and undoubt edly will be made,” Mr. Beamish stated. “A competitive examination, such as is used at the United States service academies, may be used,” he added. May Check Awards “If the distribution of scholarships still.remains:in-, the/, hands.of tfie. State senators,'there will probiably.be some check’mad-i by the governor’s office,” the' secretary suggested. “Another possibility is taking the award of scholarships away from the senators altogether and placing them under the jurisdiction of some State depart ment.” •• was of the opinion that the total abolition of senatorial scholarships./ as advocated by certain huiWrities, would be undesirable. Many worthy students who could not otherwise come to college would thus be denied the chance, he tfaid. “I first heard of such practices about five years ago,” Mr. Beamish said, “but they were not’ as wide spread as they are now. The sale of scholarships is largely confined to the large cities and to awards which, are worth more money than they arc at Penn State.” CORBETT SPEAKS IN FORUM SERIES Oriental Traveler, Lecturer Talks On Manchurian Situation at Discussion Tuesday As the second speaker on this year’s Forum series, Charles H. Corbett, lec turer and traveler, talked on “What Next in Manchuria" Tuesday night. Mr. Corbett, who has been a close observer of affairs in. MJanchuria, gave a complete history of the “interna tional sore.” Besides the open lec ture, Mr. Corbett conducted a number of special interest meetings on “Dis armament,” “Race Relations,” and “Christian World Education." The talks were also sponsored by the Penn State Christian association. Born of American parents in the Far East, the speaker has had ample opportunity to witness the changing political situation in that part of the world. At present, he is internation al relations adviser to the national councils of the Y. M. C. A. and Y, W, C. A. In his talk Tuesday night, Mr. Cor bett declared that a Japanese attack on the United States is highly im probable because as the aggressive party the Oriental’ nation would lose in the long.run. Even now, Japan is finding that imperialism does not pay, hu said. CO-EDS TO USE GYMNASIUM Recreation hall will be closed to men students from 7:il0 o’clock on each night starting Monday, according to an ailiouncemcnt by Director of Athletics'Hugo Bezdek. For the re mainder of the indoor sports season the gymnasium will then be turned over for the exclusive use of women ■•uiUciits.
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