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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...
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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.
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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
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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.
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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’
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Try us, you will be convinced—Remember the Place
THE PEOPLE’S RESTAURANT
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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. »
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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.
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OUR CLASSIFIED ADS
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Tuesday, January 10, 1933
COLLEGE SENATE MAKES 7
8 CURRICULAR CHANGES j
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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
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TUESDAY—^
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In Ernest Hemingway's .
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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
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SATURDAY—
Constance Bennett, Paul Lukas,
Joel McCrea tn x
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1 v Jimmy Gleason in
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FRIDAY— .
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SATURDAY—
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