Page Two PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Published semi-weekly dorin? the College year, except on holiday*, liy student* of The Pennsylvania Slate College, In the Interest of the College, the students, faculty, alumni, and friends. THE MANAGING BOARD ROBERT E. TSCHAN ’33 RALPH HETZEL JR. ’33 Managing Editor SIDNEY 11. BENJAMIN ’33 Sports Editor RICHARD V. WALT. '33 Assistant Editor DONALD P. DAY *33 Assistant Managing Editor ERNEST B. ZUKAUSKAS '33 Assistant Sports Editor ROLUN C. STEINMETZ '33 Nows Editor W. J. WILLIAMS JR. *33 Nows Editor Editorial Office... Business Office Nittany Printing Building Phone 292-W Entered at the Postoffice, State College, Pa., as Second-class Matter TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1933 CLEANING HOUSE It is inevitable in the growth of a large institution such as this College that there should pile up a consider able mess of educational bric-a-brac, stuck about in odd corners and clogging the hallways. When an institu i:on grows steadily, these ill-fitting little ornaments cling :n their places in growing numbers, ignored in the gen eral progress. But then sometime there comes a time when stock must be taken. Then the place gets a good housecleaning. When departments, schools, and colleges are being built* up, the method of adding courses and curricula cannot adhere to the line of sweet reasonableness. The ambitions of deans and department heads and profes sors and students take little cognizance of the intrinsic valuo of their pet pedagogic hobby when they are seek ing to have it incorporated in the College catalog. And, in spite of all efforts, College officials cannot always separate that of intrinsic value from the ballyhoo which may be shouted forth by those whose interests will be promoted by the addition of such a course. 'So, by this means and .others, it happens that every ro often the catalog becomes clogged with courses and curricula which fall below the average that the study here should maintain. Now it is difficult* 1 to clean out these when there seem to be plenty of funds to support them all. But when the College faces the sharp curtail ment of funds it now must expecl, the opportunity ap pears for it to clean its house and to make every course justify, its existence. , Already the College Senate has adopted some course and curriculum cuts which point the way. And when the Senate survey committee on courses of study makes its report, it is probable that more drastic changes will tako place. * It would be well for the committee to look carefully into the schools.which are intrenched under State and federal laws and those which have'sprung up rapidly within the f last decade. Over-inflation islikely to be evi dent because so.much enthusiasm may have attended the building of something new that the real values have lost their power of guidance. And also beneath the cover of blanket legislation, other, departments have puffed them selves up. like frogs. ■There is a danger that a cutting of courses will avoid tender spots merely from the kindly intent of the raring crew —that some spots may be left to belie the sincerity of the investigating committees. There must bo a clear, clean, and impartial lopping in order to sat isfy the whole College that the only consideration was the greatest good of the entire institution. • The results of the Carnegie tests given to seniors in education arc anything but an endorsement of pre \ ailing tendencies in the educational system. One cannot suppress the feeling that the test here was taken in rather a half-hearted manner and depended for its num erical success on roping in by compulsion students in the education course. "Whatever its values, which will be argued pro and con for some years, the test in general has been another indication of the false emphasis plac id on method and specialization by modern educators. Content and cultural courses have been waging an un equal battle against the forces of ever finer nnd finer specialization. POWER NEEDED A committee of the Senate has for some time been studying the numerous problems and ramifications of extra-curricular activities. That some improvements may be effected by this group is the fond hope of the appointing organization. No one can deny the fact that a group of men looking into activities with the perspec tive that only distance can give and with no appreciable bias can really detect changes that would make for greater efficiency, prevent over-lapping 1 , and even elim inate useless organizations. The purpose of this group then is constructive. The process of its inquiry has been a slow one. Last'Spring graduating seniors filled out a questionnaire on activ ities. The results were interesting for the many queer and unfounded notions that people seem able to acquire even after four years of that intellectual panacea—a collego education. Fantasy and imaginings notwith standing, the questionnaire did do one thing. It fur nished leads for the committee to follow. The work of the group during the past semester has been one of in terviewing participants of different activities. Those who are interested simply in improving ac tivities need only hope that the committee may have sufficient power to place some of its recommendations in effect. After a fair review of a situation it seems reasonable that such a group could arrive at the proper decision. Accordingly it seems reasonable to expect an acceptance of its decisions. t Shades of little old New York thought this par ticular maniac when a gent sidled up to him and of fered a ground floor position in the Rapid Prosperity Sales Co. or something like that name the other day. For some time this maniac has-been reading with avidity of such a scheme in the metropolitan press and here it was —the golden goose with the fountain pen egg or something like that right-in State College. More fellows than you can shake a crooked stick at are now tearing around as Mr. A, B, C, or D, on into in finity—units in this gigantic scheme. If you sell three fountain pens, or shirts, or bill folds, or baby car riages, even cuspidors, after having bought one your self, you get nothing. The fellow who sold you gets a rake-off. The fourth man yoti sell is your meat and so are the first three men He sells. All of which is .Very nice if you can follow it. To complete the sensa tion of eating the rind off Edam cheese with milk we give you a few statistics how, after fifteen stages, your profits amount to some seven million, no mean sum. On the other hand your product will be in every hand in the country and maybe a couple of times. We ■don’t quite understand it yet since large numbers al ways stagger us and besides we don’t need any pens, shirts, razor blades—no not anything.* ALFRED W. HESSE JR. ’33 Business Manager ROBERT M. HARRINGTON ’33 Circulation Manager PAUL BIERSTEIN ‘33 Local Advertising Manager WILLARD D. NESTER ’33 Foreign Advertising Manager ARTHUR E. PHILLIPS *33 Credit Manager MARION P. HOWELL ’33 Women’s Editor ISABEL McFARLAND ’33 Women’* Mnnaging Editor ELIZABETH M. KALB ’33 Women’s News Editor ._313 Old Main While snorting around through the debris on the * ‘Collegian’ floor we came across a letter that brought the tears to our eyes. Tears of old comradeships, of sunset over lagoons, of trysts and the smell of saw dust in back rooms. After all, every soul is a circus. But wc wander. “All the best known colleges are rep resented in Sing Sing prison,” explains some fellow who has written an article on Who’s Who in prison. A perusal of the article made no reference to Penn State but we don’t doubt the fact that Penn State men have made their mark on prison walls as well as anywhere else. Sortietimes we wonder about the little ■chap our freshman year who was always going off in blue funks and talking about the inherent evils of so ciety and the stupidity of college education. He prob ably is now writing “T am a Fugitive from a College Education.” * This prison sentiment, the bars and stripes for ever idea, made us wonder about other alumni items. Is any alumnus engaged in beach combing and search ing the sands for ambergris? Is anyone gouging holes in Swiss cheese? Oh, who cares? We’ll be with you after June. » ‘Santa Claus was replaced at one of the local book stores by J. Caesar, S.P.Q.R., who was advertised as “Here Today.” Aside from the fact that this was given to us by an old fellow with a long nose, we don't see a thing funny about it since the whole point rests on one of those tripey ideas like Wallace Beery, In the Flesh, Moran in Prosperity around the corner and Life begins Thursday and so on. We always did have a weakness for old fellows with long noses. Beer & Skittles: after four years Zionts has fin ’ally been blessed. He is on record as having hypnotiz-. ed several freshmen after coming out of a psychology class. The upperclassmen won’t be much harder .... tea at four with the librarians .... “Tiger” Douglass is the proud possessor of a shiny, new gas cart. Bir mingham, here he comes! .... a pretty sentiment, that Alpha Zet hay ride .... more vacation circles' under the eyes .... a lot of people got.an eddycation this week-end .... edly, wholesomely, and practically, may some day be- come ideal citizens. According to Keynes, economic intimator of wholesale spare time in the not so dis- /tant future, the ability of the human race to amuse itself wholesomely in its leisure hours may some day save our civilization from destruction. While machine production is leading to just such a state of affairs, our universities are. as rapidly training men to spend those surplus hours. Surely, no son of this university, who has safely maneuvered his week-ends in Chapel Hill throughout four long years can ever be at a loss as to how to while away leisure hours. ,For the Saints in Keynes “economic paradise,” •nyjro reading, travel, works of art, sports, and con istructivo thought have been suggested. If each and everyone of us have not experienced all of these di versifications in one lone week-end, a few experiences have not been representative of general student dif ficulties. More original ideas for ways of passing the Sabbath have arisen about campus than the number of students seen bumming rides out of town on Sat urday afternoons. Borrowed cars, rented cars, purchased cars, and Austins serve many students in their search for levity and excitement. ; Library volumes, Sunday papers, novels,' and'school books keep the more literary of our numbers from joining the ranks of the poker players, bridge players, pitch, and spank-tail heart enthusiasts. The more amorous of our number find Spencer hall, tho arboretum, and Gimghoul castle indispensable in lightening otherwise heavy hours of leisure.—L. Ml Tar Heel, North Carolina. OLD MANIA 4< » » $ $ * V ****** ****** ****** AROUND THE CORNER TRAINED LOAFERS Those persons who can really loaf, wholeheart- THE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Seniors Will Begin Cap, Gown Ordering Orders for caps and gowns and for invitations to the mid-year graduation exercises, Friday, Feb ruary 3, may be made at the Stu dent Union desk in Old Main be tween the hours of 7 and 9 o’clock tonight, tomorrow night and Thurs day night, it was announced, yes terday by John A. Wood ’33, senior class president. A deposit of five dollars must ac company orders for caps and gowns, Wood said. Edward H. Bohn ’33 is in charge of the committee hand ling the work. I. F. Head Approves 1933 Rushing Code —— o— - (Continued from page one) cil president, who pointed out that the opportunity for “movie” dates, in formal parties, -etc., following the pledge dinner will make for imme diate fellowship between the pledges and upperclassmen. Deferred rushing will be carefully investigated by the Council later in ' the year in an effort to determine its adaptability to conditions here, Long eneeker said. A survey of the ability of fraternities here to carry the fi nancial burden entailed by this system of rushing is now under way and the results will be presented to the Coun cil, he added. . “Fraternities must keep in mind the necessity of cooperation with the Freshman Week program in carrying out their rushing next -fall,” Long enecker pointed out. “Orientation to College customs is just as important as the fraternity orientation period.” PROFESSIONAL ARCHITECTS TO JUDGE STUDENT WORK Work of senior architects here will be judged Friday by a group of prac ticing members of the -profession, ac cording to Prof. Lewis F. Pilcher, act ing head of the department of ar chitecture. Grades will'be placed/by Benjamin F. Betts, editor of - the American Architect, M. Edwin. Green, president of the Southern Pennsylvania Chap ter, American Institute of Architects, John Hunter' and William Caldwell, architects of Altoona. David A. Camp bell, assistant professor of architec tural engineering, and John R- Brack en, px’ofcssor ,of landscape architec ture, will complete the jury. BARBER, GAINS $2OO AWARD Everett ■ 7s. . Barber, graduate scholar, has'been awarded the'first prize'of $2OO for the best student paper submitted at the annual meet ing of the American Society of Re frigerating Engineers. Barber, who was the only student to read a paper at the conference, hail conducted re search on lubrication under the direc tion of Louis J. Bradford, professor of machine design, and used this for the subject of his paper. HANN & O’NEAL EXPERT WATCH AND CLOCK REPAIRING /.cress from Campus 1C21& East College Avenue The Maniac Desirable Rooms AVITH SHOAVER Half Block from Co-op $2.50 per week Call at" Gernerd’s Clothing Store South Allen Street FOR THE BEST FUEL Use ■- ' , Neville Coke ANTHRACITE AND BITUMINOUS COAL HILLSIDE ICE & COAL COMPANY Phone 136-J. TO INTRODUCE TO THE STUDENTS OF PENN STATE The People’s Restaurant The meals are prepared by an expert chef using the best and freshest Meats, Vegetables, Pastry and Cereals ■ For a limited time, Ave'wiH ;sell our $5.50’ ! Meal Tickets for $4.50 Try us, you will be convinced—Remember the Place THE PEOPLE’S RESTAURANT , . 145 Allent Street LIBRARY WILL AID FRATERNITY UNITS To Act..as Purchasing,! Agent Tor Individual Groups—List of 500 s . Volumes Distributed . To promote student .reading in, co operation with the Interfraternity council recommendation, the College Library has compiled a list of seven hundred books to be called “The Fra ternity Five-foot Shelf.” Intcrfraber nity council is printing five hundred copies of the list of . titles, and will distribute them to fraternities this week. The College Library 'has agreed to act as purchasing agent for frater nities, thereby obtaining Kberal dis counts on volumes bought in this way. The legal requirement of three-fourths payment in advance' is the only stipu lation imposed by the library. .Library officials; have, arranged adequate supervision of the collection. Fraternity librarians will catalogue and provide cards for the books. Plans include the provision for a cataloguing system in order that each chapter may have, a card record of its books. As a further aid to fraternities, the library will confer with them prior to the purchase of any volume or volumes not on the “Five-foot Shelf,” particularly in the case of reference works and encyclopedias offered by subscription houses and book, agents. MARTIN tyILL LECTURE ON “VALUE OF HISTORY STUDY” Dr. Asa E. Martin, professor' of American history, will address grad uate students in physical chemistry on the subject, “The value of the study of history” at the home of Dr. Wheel er P.-Davey Friday night. The address is one of a scries of lectures given by faculty ' members whose work lies in a field entirely un related to* physics or chemistry. The series of talks are arranged for the purpose of building up an appreciation of the value of other fields of know ledge in addition to physical 'chem istry. » SPECIAL! Hot Dogs—3 for 25c . And All Kinds of . Short Orders and Home Made Pies IXAS LUNCH KUNE’S SHOE REPAIR 111 East Beaver Avenue Next to "Western Union Shoes Repaired and Dyed Expert Workmanship The Corner / Speaking Of Books “Truth, they say is stranger than fiction—they mean that fiction is often nearer truth than are the facts themselves.” This period of economic crisis has resulted in lar gely increased library circulation. It has also resulted in the demand for, and publication of, fiction which will take the reader, out of the distressing world of the present and into the fairy world of the “might have been.*' Hence a greater number of readers than ever before are enjoying-“ M utiny on the Bounty” by Charles Nord hoff and James Norman Hall—a tale of piracy on the high seas and ro mance in Tahiti and “Peter Ashley” by Dußose Heyward which tells of Charleston just before' the war when feelings ran high—and “Beyond the Blue Sierra” by Honore .Morrow, a romance of Lower California in the days of Spanish dominion—and Charles Rollo .Brown’s “Toward Ro mance” in which the child .of “The Fire Makers” moves but-toward the light—and Duguid’s “Tiger Man” be ing further adventures of the hero in “Green Hell”—and “The Flowering Wilderness” by John Galsworthy, who by the way has just been awarded-the Nobel Prize ' for literature—and White’s “Mrs- Green's Daughter-in- Law.” . Other books in demand at this time include biographies like “Earth Hori zon” by Mary Austin, “Mozart”, by Marcia Davenport, “John Quincy Adams” by Barnett -Clark, the “Mem oirs of Prince Von Bulow”'in four volumes- which shed some light on German foreign relations before, dur ing and after the war, “My Friendly Contemporaries” by Hamlin Garland, “Men and Memories” by ; William Rothenstein which brings in- all the worthwhile people in England in art and literature for the past fifty, years, and “Men Against Death” by De Kruif bringing “Microbe Hunters” down to date. FOR FIRST GLASS LAUNDERING Send It To PENN STATE LAUNDRY 320 West Beaver Avenue Phone 124 , HUNGRY?-:. ; Study Hour-Favorites CREAM PUFFS CINNAMON ROLLS COOKIES The Electric Bakery Always Open For Savings PATRONIZE ' - * -• i The Advertisers: IN THE ■ The Collegian • / ' . ' > OUR CLASSIFIED ADS Are Also Go-Getters Tuesday, January 10, 1933 COLLEGE SENATE MAKES 7 8 CURRICULAR CHANGES j - 1 0 . . . , . I (Continued from page one} ? class .valued at $lOO was reported at the Senate meeting Thursday night. The other selections, as submitted by the Senate - Committee on Academic Standards were approved by the Sen- • ate- last - month. - A minor- change in* classifying transfers as to class rating’’ was also passed on by the group. - Members of the Committee on Courses of Study making the’ report: in addition to Dean Stoddart,. chair-: man, include Director of -Athletics: Hugo-Bezdek, Dean Will Grant Cham- - bers, of the Education School, Prof. William R. Chedsey, of the School .of. Mineral Industries, Dr. David C. Dui> can, of the Chemistry and Physics School, Dr. Prank D. Kern,.dean of the Graduate School, Prof* Charles Kinsloe, of the School Qf Engineering/,* and Prof. Harry. G. Parkinson, of the 5 School of Agriculture; i v (pHiAUM A V,W,Ni.IV BSPS. riiEATRe H Matinee at I:3o—Evening Opening' at 6:30. Complete Late Showing After 9:00 p. m. TUESDAY—^ - Helen Hayes, Gary Cooper In Ernest Hemingway's . “A FAREWELL TO ARMS” , : i WEDNESDAY— -Sally Eiiers, Ralph Bellamy in ■ “SECOND HAND WIPE”. 0 Clark and McCullough Comedy. THURSDAY— ' . Chas. Laughton, The Panther Woman' In H. G. Wells' “ISLAND OF LOST SOULS” FRIDAY— Helen Hayes, Ramon Novarro, Warner Oland in • “THE SON-DAUGHTER”. SATURDAY— Constance Bennett, Paul Lukas, Joel McCrea tn x "ROCKABYE” NITTANY TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY— Edna May, Oliver, Mae Clarke 1 v Jimmy Gleason in “THE PENGUIN POOL MURDER” THURSDAY— “SECOND HAND WIFE” FRIDAY— . • “ISLAND OF LOST SOULS” SATURDAY— “THE SON-DAUGHTER”
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