Page Two PENN STATE COLLEGIAN PulilMicd scml-wccUly tlurinj- Ibe College year, except on holiday*. Ijy .student* of The Pennsylvania State College, in the interest nr the Coilcße. the students, faculty, alumni, and friends. THE MANAGING BOARD ROBERT E. TSCHAN ’33 RALPH IIKTZEL JR. '33 Managing Editor SIDNEY li. BENJAMIN ’33 Sports Editor RICKARD V. WALL ’33 Assistant Editor DONALD P. DAY ’33 • Assistant Mimitguig Editor ERNEST It. /.UKAUSKAS ’33 Assistant Sports Editor ROLLIN C. STBINMETZ ’33 News Editor W. J. WILLIAMS JR. *33 Now* Editor ASSOCIATE EDITORS Charles A. Myers *34 Wm. B, Prolhcro ’3l Wm. M. Stegmoler ’34 George, A. Scott ’2-1 Bernard H. Koseniwoig *34 James M. Sheen '34 ASSOCIATE BUSINESS MANAGERS Harold J. BaUch '3l 11. Edgar Eurman *34 John C. Irwin *34 I rederii-k 7„ Tnvior ’3l Francis Wacker ’34 WOMEN’S ASSOCIATE EDITORS . Eva M. itlichfeidt *34 Ruth M. Harmon *34 Mae P. Kaplan ’34 Editorial Office—. business Office-. Niltany Printing Building Phone 292-W Member Eastern Intercollegiate Newspaper Association TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1932 OBJECTIVES OF THJS COLLEGE It would be difficult to pick a quarrel with the sug gested objectives of the College as stated in the report of the Senate committee. In the first place, it is so gen eral and vague that every statement is open to the broadest range of interpretation. And, secondly, prac tically every objective which could possibly be attributed to an institution of learning is included as one of the objectives of this College in the report. Significant, however, is the placing of this sentence at the head of the list of instruction objectives: “To pro vide education for earning a living.” This is the reitera tion of an ideal of the College which is sometimes lost from sight here. This College, then, is fundamentally a training school for workers in the trades and occupa tions of the ‘middle class.’ Ardent Liberal Arts advo- cates must not lose sight of this utilitarian purpose in their zeal to spread the cult of pure culture. . It may not be too long a time before this item will have- to be placed second to a statement: “To provide education for enjoying a living.” Let the earning busi- ness conic after. Some persons do more enjoying than ‘earning- while others are inclined to earn rather than As yet, the original purpose, to provide education in agriculture and the mechanic arts, pervades the objec tives of the College with the enlargements, of course, along other technical lines. However, as the ideals and methods of education change, it is inevitable that the place of cultural training will come back to claim its place in the technological institution. There is appear ing now a .reaction to.the .highly l specialized and ex-‘ clusively, technical trainings which- grew so important' during years of boom production. l • It is also significant that the second purpose stated is: ‘*To improve the various industries and professions of the Commonwealth.” It impresses the distinctly sec tionalized purpose of the College upon the faculty and students. Such a codified statement of the purposes of the College will he distinctly valuable to students and fac ulty who will be able to justify almost any practice in the name of one of the purposes of the College. The interpretation of these purposes still returns to College officials, however, and they, in turn, will be able to justify any decision in the name of another stated pur pose of the College. The action of at least one fraternity in eliminating Christmas cards this year strikes a sympathetic note cf.economy that might well be heeded by other groups that have not already made their purchases. The ex change of Christmas greetings by fraternities is at best an empty gesture. Sent more in the spirit of out-doing, and keeping up with the other houses, the cards might well bo eliminated as one of the unnecessary luxuries that must go for economy’s sake. CATALOG ECONOMY In an attempt to reduce the expense of the College catalog for the coming year, a committee guiding its editorial make-up has recommended changes to eliminate fifty pages. The group is to be commended for its em phasis on making course descriptions brief and at the same time reasonably complete. If .reduction in size is further’ desired the editors could do nothing better than eliminate the many courses that are carried on the pages of the catalog that are neither scon nor heard of anywhere else. There are listed in the catalog approximately eighteen hundred graduate and undergraduate courses. Seven hundred and thirty courses are actually scheduled in the first semester time-table. This number doubled to allow liberally for additional new courses in the second sem . ester still leaves a balance of several hundred courses that apparently arc nothing more than “filler” as far as the particular academic year is concerned. These courses, cither because they have been discarded or represent nothing more than pipo dreams, should not be carried to swell the page numbers of the catalog. The saving in page numbers by the elimination of courses not actually given might well be used in retain ing the complete list* of staff members instead of elim inating all under the rank of assistant professor as the report suggests. The College catalog, representing the only widely distributed record of personnel and courses, should be as-complcte as possible in respect to pertinent statistics. Treated again to one of those exuberant ramb ling.*; on what the well meaning male student should be, the readers of this edition should be well-nigh ready to go off on a Christmas beer bender or at least find release for their emotions in tearing the coat hooks off the booths of the local eatery as they scan the latest co-ed male demands. ALFRED W. HESSE JR. ’33 Busings Manager ROBERT M. HARRINGTON ’33 Circulation Manager I’AUL UIERSTEIN ’33 Local Advertising Manascr WILLARD D. NESTER ’33 Foreign Advertising Manager ARTHUR E. PHILLIPS ’33 Credit Manager MARION P. HOWELL ’33 Women’s Editor Isabel McFarland *33 Women'# Managing Editor ELIZABETH M. KALB 'S3 Women’s News Editor What floors us is the insistence of one authority that big cars are a barrier which forever will stand in the way of her friendship and that of any man. Thumbing the pages of our Freud and Spengler and whatnot with true psychological astuteness we sec for this co-ed ah inhibition or even maybe a phobia. No doubt some sad experience with elephants has caused this complex. And just to illustrate in what slight esteem some of the lady friends hold their dates list to the paeap of woe that is being chanted from the polits dept. One fair student inadvertently handed in with her sea sonal report a list of-her conquests. Last names and fraternities are given at first but lo—soon first names and then only the fraternities are recorded. Ah, woes innumerable have come upon the manhood of Penn State that their full names should not even be recorded in the co-ed annals. —313 Old Main This week’s limerick prize goes beyond a’doubt to tho contributor whose facile pen has scratched the be low out of one hour of philosophy: There was a great thinker named Plato Who is given a: very high rato. When people make love Their passions they shove Behind them and love a la Plato. Thank you, and maybe Simonedese days we can do as much for you. Our wanderings through North Liberal Arts bldg not so long ago brought to our attention some queer goings-on that even the Campus Patrol has not re corded. From some cavernous depths strange noises were rising. As we crept to the door of class room number one we heard .... “One, two, three, shift!' Hut tuh, tree, heeave.” And all this accompanied by much grunting, moaning, and the noise -of shoes scraping on tables. Overcome by considerable curiosity we drew tho door ajar and there, pfft, there was the debating team hard at work practicing putting their feet on tables .... after the Oxford manner. The initiation season is upon us, so get out your keys and shine them up for all good little honoraries havo keys and shingles. There’s the one going the rounds about how. the-light of Truth, Justice, Purity, and .a few VtHer virtues went out because the bulb went blooey in the crucial moment and the poor of ficer couldn’t read the most impressive part of the ritual. Or maybe.you’re in om.the story of the man who missed the election meeting only* to confront a newly-elected member, who chanced to be a fraternity brother also, with: “Congratulations, what is the rib bon you’re wearing?” ' • And now for a little chit-chat that must be told 1 Max Moore gains the palm for most ardent suitor for his meritorious delay of a Tyrone bus during a twenty-five minute talk with a lady acquaintance .. . . Poo! tables replace ping-pong in Old Main and there’s many a die-hard .... Scott Geesey foils around in front of the Lambda Chi lodge .... fency that .... Marge Miller thinks the Sigma Nu beanery is a bar-, be-r shop .... many a man about town is wearing one of these five down and a buck a week suits .... ah ■ We Take Pleasure In ANNOUNCING The Opening of Our Branch Store Display ■, at H. Montgomery’s "»)/ IlmSUc Where You Will Find a Wide Variety of EXCLUSIVE : FRATERNITY JEWELRY The " Hoover Smith Co. Jewelers and Silversmiths For More Than 100 Years JOSEPH S. MILLER ’32, Representative OLD MANIA ««a * * $ #so # * # ss* # * * THE MANIAC THE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN 4 Schools Show Increase In Semester's Enrollment Four of the eight schools of the col-; lege have enrollment, increases this semester, although the general enroll ment of the College has decreased three percent, according to the classi fied report Issued by William S. Hoff man, College registrar. Tho largest gain was shown in the School of Physical Education, with 76 students enrolled this year as com pared with 41 for last year. The I Graduate School enrollment increased i from 309 to 390, while the School of I Education and the School of istry and .Physics showed gains of eleven and.fiye percent respectively, j In tho School of Mineral Industries, where the greatest drop was record ed, the enrollment fell from 251 to 197 students. The School of Engin eering, which has nearly one-fourth, of tho total*.enrollment of the College, suffered a decrease of 12 percent. The Liberal Arts School, with 924 students enrolled'this year, showed a drop of; five percent, while the School of Agri- 1 culture showed a similar decrease. Tho enrollment of women under graduates increased from 656 to 731, although the men's enrollment dropped from 3664 to 3450. There are 126 Weaver Approves State Sales Tax As ‘Democratic’ “Although bitterly criticised, the State unemployment relief sales tax is one of the most progressive moves towards real democracy taken in re cent years," Dr. Frederick P. Weaver, head of the department of agricul tural economics said in an interview Friday. . The bill was passed by the State Legislature late last August. “Every man, no matter what his salary, should realize that legislation before State and National Legislative bodies is of concern to him,” Dr. Wea ver maintained. “The‘ : 'sales tax, tak ing care of the small portion of the budget that it does, cannot rest heav ily on- anyone, yet it makes every voter conscious of the fact that he is helping, to support the government,” he added. . “Contrary to the opponents of the tax, the assessment does not curtail business.: In an emergency such as the one which national and state bud gets face, today, such a business de crease. is inconceivable” he said. “The present unemployment situation demands the assistance of State funds.” “Balancing the budget would in crease, public confidence, thus encour aging the: inflow rather than the out flow of gold,” he declared. - HOW TO AVOID BONERS tHe united states IS LOCATED IN THE TEMPERANCE ZONE POOR BILL BONER—he just can’t think straight. 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Meals and Sandwiches—A La Carte Service Opposite Front Campus East College Avenue THERE IS A DIFFERENCE IN BARBERSHOPS .75 % of Our Customers Arc Faculty and Upperclassmen There Is a Reason , Try AUSTIN’S 270 Allen Street special.students taking courses here this year in Comparison to last year’s figure of 92. . . The report, based on a survey of tho information given on the registra tion forms, also includes a geograph ical distribution of the students and a census of parents’ occupations. Each of the sixty counties of Penn sylvania is represented, with Centre county leading with 531 students, Al legheny, Philadelphia, and, Luzerne counties follow with 349, 319, and 315 students. Forest county sends the fewest students, with only six stu dents coming from that district. Thirty-three of the other forty-sev en states are represented here, while! there are students enrolled from three J other continents, including Europe, I Asia, and South America. New Jer-j sey leads the states with sixty seven, } while New York follows with one less.' ; 'More thafy one-fifth of the students ; enrolled hero list their parents as be • ing in the industrial group, according to the census of parents’ occupations. The artisan group is lifted second, followed by the mercantile, agricul ture, professional, clerical, official, and unclassified groups. PRODUCTION CANDIDATES TO SEEK PLAYERS POSTS Faculty, Moller Will Supervise Work Of Men, Women Aspirants All freshman and sophomore candi dates for the pi’oduction staff of the Peim State Players will meet in the , Littlo .Theatre, Old Main at 9 o’clock tomorrow night, according to Frank S. Neusbaum, director. : At that, time, a short explanation of the nature of the work and its pos sibilities will be given by-Neusbaum, Marx D. Moller ’33, senior stage man ager, and other members of the senior staff. This year close faculty super vision and instruction will be given all candidates, Neusbaum said. JTho work includes stage manage ment, stage carpentry, scene design and painting, stage electrical experi ence, costumes, and properties. Both men and women are eligible for posi tions!. BOOKS DONATED TO LIBRARY •Gifts of two books were made to the College library recently, accord ing to Willard P. Lewis,- College li brarian..' One of two volumes of the works of Robert Burns, published in Edinborough, Scotland, in 1834, was presented by Nancy B. Sankey ’33, while the second gift is Dr. Oscar F\ Boucke’s “Laissez-Faires and After,” recently published arid presented by the professor of economics. Speaking Of Books Lamb—“ Nut Mahal” » The lure of the orient surrounds and pervades the history and romance of a Persian heroine and queen is the more noteworthy because she lived in a land where and at a time when wo men were largely confined to t the harem. Boucke—“Laissez Fairs and After” i Men are wondering why the good times have gone and when and if they will return. A full and free discus sion of the failure of the old laissez faire thebry and of what may possibly be expected its place in the future is timely and helpful, par.ticr ularly from the pen of Professor Boucke. ! Headley—“Making the Most of Books” ! Perhaps reading is taken too much I for granted by most of us tut when one stops.to think that reading is all that connects us with the past, it is well to know that here are different and better ways of reading; and that libraries are scientifically taking care •bf the storing up and making avail able the past and present'in books. Siigimoto—“A Daughter of the Nari- The author of “The Daughter of the Samurai” picturing the old feu dal nobility tries his hand.not quite so successfully in' a presentation of the daughter of the modern Japanese business man. It is beautifully writ ten and ends with the daughter en shrined as a priestess in a Buddhist temple. . i Walker—“ Frank Norris” -This member of the famous Norris family has had little written about him though he founded with “The Octopus” and “The Pit” a new series of business fiction and was showing great promise when appendicitis took him at thirty-two. DEAL & SON Plumbing . and Heating 117 South Frazier Street First for unbroken joints How to keep silt arid sand from clogging tele phone cable ducts was one problem put up to engineers at Bell Telephone Laboratories. .No knowo-method'of joining sections of vitrified clay conduit effected a seepage-tight joint. With scientific thoroughness, telephone men made many tests under service conditions. They devised a bandage of cheese-cloth,’ waterproof paper and mortar. Easily made and applied, this mortar bandage is-tight against silt and sand. It prevents clogging, greatly simplifies the installation of newtelephone cables arid the removal of old ones. . Through solving, such interesting problems, Bell System men work steadily nearer to their goal —telephone service of highest possible efficiency. BELL SYSTEM ■ V\ ; .' \\ A NATION-WIDE SYSTEM .OF INTER-CONNECTING TELEPHONES ' '(Tuesday, December 6, 1982 WOMEN DEBATERS CHOOSE ‘DEBT CANCELLATION’ TOPIC “Cancellation of War Debts’* will bo the subject on which women’s debating team will take the affirma tive side when it meets the women’s team of the College of William and Mary at Williamsburg, Va., next Tuesday.- ? Co-ed debaters will uphold the,.iieg ative side of the same question in a | contest with Ohio Wesleyan here !February 22. , ' SIGMA DELTA CHI (Profmional Journalum Society) t Richard. S. Oyler *33 Karl E. Knccht ’34 ", George A. Scott '34 . t ' James M. Sheen. ’34 ■William M. Stegmeier;’34 Richard G. Wolf '34 * (Matinee at 1:30. Evening Opening C :30. Complete Late Showing After 9:00 p. m.) TUESDAY— Paul Muni in .“I AM A FUGITIVE FROM i A CHAIN GANG”, n WEDNESDAY— Clara Bow in Tiffany Thayer's “CALL HER SAVAGE” ‘' THURSDAY— Ann Harding, Richard Dix ip “THE CONQUERORS” .‘ r |. FRIDAY— ;i , Janet Gaynor, Charles FarrelMn “TESS OF THE STORM COUNTRY” Special Added Alti'action ' THE FOUR MILLS BROTHERS “I Ain’t Got Nobody” '«■: SATURDAY— ' • * Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett iii “AIE AND MY. GAL” NITTANY . TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY—*’ Stuart Erwin, Allison SkipworiH in “HE'LEARNED ABOUT WOMEN” THURSDAY— . . “CALL HER-SAVAGE” ■'!! FRIDAY— • ' “THE CONQUERORS” - ** SATURDAY— . “TESS OF THE STORM COUNTRY” THE FOUR MILLS BROTHERS Aid
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