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PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
Published semi-weekly during the Collece year, ezeept on holidays,
by students of The Pennsylvania State Collece, In the Interest of the
Collece, the students, faculty, alumni, and friends.
THE MANAGING BOARD
ROBERT E. TSCIIAN *33 ALFRED W. HESSE JR. *33
Editor Business Manager
RALPH IIKTZEL JR. *33 ROBERT M. HARRINGTON *33
Manncinc Editor Circulation Manager
SIDNEY H. BENJAMIN *33 PAUL BIERSTEIN '33
Sitortu Editor Local Advertising Manager
RICHARD V. WALL *33 WILLARD D. HESTER ’33
Assistant Editor Foreign Advertising Manager
DONALD P. DAY *33 ARTHUR E. PHILLIPS ’33
Assistant Managing Editor Credit Manager
ERNEST U. ZUKAUSKAS '33 MARION P. HOWELL ’33
Assistant SporU Editor
ROLLIN C. STEINMETZ *33
News Editor
W. J. WILLIAMS JR. *33
News Editor
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Charles A. Myers ’34 Wm. U. Prothero *34 Wm. M. Stcgmeler ’34
George A. Scott '34 Bernard H. Roscnzweig '34 James M. Sheen '34
ASSOCIATE BUSINESS MANAGER 3
Harold J. Batsch '3l H. Edgar Furman ’34 John C. Irwin '34
Frederick L. Tuvlor ‘34 FraiMs Wacker '34
WOMEN'S ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Eva M. Bliehfeldt '34 Ruth M. Harmon *34 Mae P. Kaplan '34
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1933
THE SKELETON of “Hell Week” has been dragged
from the closet and once again as initiation season as
sumes top position in campus talk the question will be
argued in all corners. The results of the survey of fra
ternity presidents would indicate that “Hell Week” is
practiced extensively, that it is a good thing, and, para
doxically, that it does not interfere with scholastic mat
ters. For several years crusaders among national of
ficers, faculty, deans, and students have been striving
to eliminate barbaric initiation practices from frater
nities founded as they are on brotherhood. At first
glance it would seem that all efforts have been in vain.
Further inquiry will show, it can reasonably be main
tained, that some progress has been made. The images
conjured by the phrase “Hell Week” today are different
from those of five or six years ago. With few excep
tions the pre-initiation practices have lost most of the
old-time flavor of physical injury. Such rigamarole of
endurance that may be retained is kept more for the
sake of what it once signified than as an actual test.
However, it cannot be asserted that matters of study
under the present set-up arc not interfered with. As
long as there is any initiation at all, formal or infor
mal, interference will exist.. Who.would eliminate for
.mere scholarship’s such a matter as an initiation?
The situation reduced to simplicity, shows that, 're-,
assuring progress has been made in bringing fraternity
informal initiations to a more reasonable plane. Be
cause it is a human' problem and because humans don’t
do things because they are rational but depend largely
on their prejudices the ideal of anything can nob be at
tained in one step. As improvement has come in the
past, so will it continue to come in the future —if the
ideal is held before the groups long enough.
A DEFINITE PROPOSAL to establish a fund from
which all manner of cultural projects could be financed,
at least partially, comes as welcome relief from the
maze of comment in favor of such things as Artists’
Courses at Penn State. If students who hold responsible
positions delegated to them, are in sympathy with such
a student financed program, the remainder of the under
graduate body will no doubt go along with them. It is
common opinion around the campus that this College
should offer more opportunity for cultural advance-
ment through visiting artists. Unless these lamenta
tions are nothing more than a feigned interest in things
cultural, there should be no objection to the small sem
ester fee that is proposed. At any rate some time there
must come a satisfaction for all the demand for an Ar
tists’ Course. Whatever way it comes no one particular
ly cares. The proposal that has received widespread ap
proval of student activity men at least should be con
sidered from all sides.
BECAUSE THE entire system of education in
America is built to meet the ability of the average stu
dent and to develop liim as much as possible, the future
for honors courses seems dark. That the system should
be tried in some subjects and extended wherever pos
sible approximates the most constructive policy. Edu
cators launching broadsides from all parts of the coun
try bear witness to the fact that the better students
are held to the limitations of the average, that the fire
of knowledge for knowledge’s sake can more easily than
not be suffocated by boredom of routine which only the
poorer student requires. Worth-while as the raising of
the general intelligence may bo, nevertheless there is
something vicious about a system that hampers the
more gifted. The use of honors courses would be a step
toward shifting a little emphasis from the average stu
dent and using it to benefit the more capable and serious
minded.
FRATERNITY representatives will discuss tbe
“graduate tutor” system that has been adopted in many
colleges and is actually being practiced in slightly
different form at several fraternities here. If guidance
can solve the problem of failing 'students, the tutor
system can bo of material benefit to fraternities who
dread tho prospect of losing men through dismissal from
college. More than that the assistance of tutors could
do much toward advising men who arc at sea in their
work. Obviously, guidance would be the limit of the
tutorial assistance. The work must always rest on the
Ah, the ingeniousness of youth! And the utter
naivetee of the powers that he! Not so very long ago
two innocent appearing young gentlemen presented
themselves at one of the larger girls dorms, announc
ing that they were the brothers of one of the inmates.
Said inmate rushed downstairs and after suitable
greeting they were ushered courteously aloft and re
mained to cheer the dismal afternoon and evening,
until at last it was announced that all visitors must
leave, whereupon they made graceful exit—to their
respective fraternity houses and bull sessions!
Hats off, people, we give you two of nature’s
nerviest noblemen!
Women’s Editor
Isabel McFarland *33
Women’s Managing Editor
ELIZABETH M. KALB 'S3
Women's Nows Editor
A certain English Lit professor appeared before
ono of his classes recently in a rather pitiful state.
Ho was sadly in need of sleep and showed it. Pain
lay in the deptli of his eyes. Somberly he regarded
his class. Then grasping the back, of a chair for sup
port, ho began to speak:
“I wish to make apologies for presenting myself
in such a condition of sleeplessness, and so evidently
disgruntled. Last night my youngster was ill, and I
was forced to walk the floor for some hours with him.
I am not fond of such exercise. In fact I dislike it in
tensely. At any rate he could not go to sleep and
neither could I. Hour after endless hour'l paced back
and forth, back and forth, until I thought I should go
mad with the torture of it! And then—suddenly—
the child slept. As I, too, fell off to sleep (he took a
firmer hold on the back of his supporting chair) —the
phone rang! Dragging myself to the receiver, I
growled a hello. Came a voice, ‘Oh doctor, I’m hot
feeling well!’ What the , neither am I!
And the name is not spelled Rffenour! . . . Let us pro
ceed with the class.”
313 Old Main
We think we’re going crazy. Daily, the vestiges
of our sanity are leaving us. In fact, we’re cracking
up. Soon there won’t be anyone to write such lovely
columns for you, but we have our consolation. Life’s
just not worth living anyway. Why just the other
night, wo peeked into the Kappa House and there
were three of ’em doing jig-saw puzzles . . . jig-saw
puzzles! . . . Aw, what’s the use . . . *
Yes, we heard about the lad who recently re
ceived a certified check for some $14,000. Whereupon
we immediately put our fertile brain to work dream-
ing of what we could do with such an amount. Our
, final-decision was to invest it by buying- one of the
Liberal Arts buildings and. turning it into a gleam
ing, brass-fixtured saloon, with sawdust on the floors
and everything. The catch is that business probably
wouldn’t he any good, because everyone is always late
. in getting to the L. A. buildings ...
* * * * $ * ' *
We’ve heard of girls being bored and walking out
on their dates, and such, hut we hand the palm to a
certain visitec. at the Chi Phi lodge on Sunday eve
ning. She was the pride of Kappa Kappa Gamma
am! who was a lowly Atkinson to keep her awake?
She suggested a game of hide-and-seek. He didn’t
wanna, but she hid anyway, and stayed hidden until
closing time, when she was located sound asleep be
hind the piano! Oh dear .. . !
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Curds and Whey
,Why doesn’t someone kill that guy Lombardo . . .
Dave Long and Croohe doing their act to the tune of
“Tho Sidewalks of New York” at the local rendezvous
on Saturday night. . . who was the elderly gentleman
■who patted Doc. Ritenour on the head at the bashct
"ball game i . . that closed Kappa Sigma dance
Theta been better off if it hadn’t rained so hard
Warnock come and see us some time?,
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THE MANIAC
THE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
High School Students Rival College
,Contemporaries as ‘Handshakers’
“High school students can hand
shako as well as college students,”
stated Lucretia I. Blochcr ’33, after
nino weeks of practice teaching Jn
Johnstown.
One young hopeful came early to
school every noon to bring his teacher
candy and inquiro about improving
his work. Another, after having a
little difficulty with his teacher in
classroom work and completely ignor
ing her, bid her a repentant goodbye
when she left.
Learning the peculiar names of her
pupils was one of the most interesting
and puzzling phases of her work, Miss
Blochcr said. In one class she had a
Venus, a Plato, and an Electra; while
the name Luminary Holliday appear
ed on another class roster. .
“I learned' more German in nine
weeks of practice teaching than in
four years at College,” said Elsa P.
Karger ’33, in describing her teaching
experiences in Johnstown. Some of
her exceptionally bright pupils in first
and third year German classes were
ever on the watch for an opportunity
to “trip up” the teacher.
English themes furnished the most
amusement to Sylvia R. Breneman ’33
and Marian I. Gillette ’33. In one pa
per, Miiss Gillette received: “He en
tered the room and there lay a man
on the bed in his fifties shot through
the heart.”
jTo Miss Breneman came the follow
ing comments on Burns' poems “Hal
lowe’en” and “Tam O’Shanter”:
“Hugging the darlings around the
barns arid stables was his idea of
pleasure,” and “Tam would have
Library To Display
Valuable Books in
Treasure Collection
Six valuable books, four journals of
the Congresses of one-hundred fifty
years ago, and a : collection of letters
are included in a “treasure collection”
which will be displayed in the library.
The collection is a step in the plan to
catalog all valuable items in the li
brary.
Among tlitrvolumes in the Treas
ure Collection is a first edition of
Hawthorne’s “Life of Franklin
Pierco” published by Tieknor and
Fields in Boston in 1852 and has the
original covers. The Tribune Primer,
Eugene Fields’ first book, privately
reprinted‘in Boston .inT.9OO, is inthc
collection.. Vy-- , ..
of .'the correspondence : between Gen
eral and Senator Sherman from 1837
to 1891 edited by Rachel Sherman
Thorndike, New York, 1894, and a first
edition of Irving’s “The Alhambra,”
published in two volumes 'by Carey
and Lee, Philadelphia, in 1832, arc
to be seen at the library.
The library ,als'o contains the Jour
nals of Congress, containing the pro
ceedings from Sept. 5, 1774 to .Janu
ary 1,177 C, for the year of 1770, for
the year from January 1, 1777 to Jan
uary 1, 1778, and for the year 1781,
all of which were published in New
York or Philadelphia about 1777.
Other books in the collection arc:
Tho Castle of Otranto, first edition of
a story translated by William Mar
shall, Gent, and published in London
in 1705; Japan, an attempt at inter
pretation by Lafcadio Hearn, a first
edition, published in 1904 by Macmil
lan, New and Kokoro, hints and
echoes of Japanese innerTife, by Laf
cadio Hearn,-which was a first edi
tion published* by Houghton, Boston,
in 1890.
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reached the bridge all right if the
mare’s tail hadn't given out.”
In one of the.history classes taught
by Sarah A. Ferree ’33 in Altoona, a
staunch supporter of Roosevelt* was
denouncing President Hoover, pointing
out that he couldn’t even give a speech
without reading it. Suddenly, how
ever, the youthful orator stopped, gaz
| ed at his audience blankly, and reach
ed down into his pocket for his paper
to tell just what eke was wrong with
Mr. Hoover.
Frothy Funsters
Feature Foibles
For Future Year
With or without ice and snow, the
Winter Sports issue of the Penn State
Froth, will be released Friday. Ac
companied by a deluge of frigid hu
mor, the comic magazine will unveil
the mysteries of the future by depict
ing life at Penn State in 1902 as one
of .its features.
Enshrouded in glaring color com
binations, the magazine will appear
with a cover drawn by Dan Gordon,
metropolitan illustrator whose work
has appeared in various periodicals. A
keen insight into the true version of
athletic events at Penn State will be
presented. ,
Features of this issue include “Har
po and Chico Marx at the Winter
Sports,” and “The Early Worm Gets
the Birdies.” . Other philosophical
treatises to be presented to the read
ing public for the first time are “How
To Raise Bunions in Two Parts,” and
“Romeo and Juliet .with a Capulct
Letter.”
Feeling that Winter sports at this
College have been sadly neglected and
realizing the unlimited possibilities
for scintillating wit in this field, the
Frothy men have attempted to set a
precedent in this, their first attempt
at a Winter Sports number.
The regular departments of the
magazine—“ Mug and Jester,” “With
the Editors,” and “The Situation,” —
have caught the spirit of the issue
wit'll icy bits of mid-winter humoi*,:
according to the editors. An abund-;
anco.of short, pithy jokes will, supple
ment the features.
NEW ROAD FROM BOROUGH
TO POTTER’S MILLS OPENED
.The new'concrete road from Potters
Mills to State College has been opened
to traffic. Continuation of work on
the road across the Bald Eagle moun
tains north of State College has been
suspended until the return of warm
weather.
The nov; highway shortens the dis
tance from State College to Lewistown
by eight miles, avoiding the old road
over Nittany Mountain.
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Speaking
Of
Books
Vocational and placement guidance
are more important than ever in this
time when places are few. Some
agencies have been unusually success
full and the story of one and its
methods is contained in “How to Get
a Job During a Depression” by W. C.
Graham, a record of actual and suc
cessful experience. For tne science
major in college Edward J. Menge
has written “Jobs for the College
Graduate in Science” which tells him
what courses to take, the personality
needed and the types of positions
available. Dr. Menge is a biologist
and thoroughly familiar with the field
and work he is discussing.
Turning to economics, Walter Lipp
man says that “War Debts and World
Prosperity” by Harold G. "Moulton and
Leo Pasvollky is “a thoroughly re
liable American study of the question
which is indispensable.” It is par
ticularly important for _ the way in
which it brings out the relation of
the debts to world economic recovery
and the international depression as
it affects the United States. An
other volume in this field which bears
the stamp of authority is “Red Eco
| ncmic3” by 11. R. Knickerbocker and
, others with an introduction by Wal
ter Duranty of the New York Time s.
The Russian situation at this time
with the ending of the first “Five
Year Plan” is particularly confusing
when, one Bolshevist report acclaims
its success and another admits its
failure. The library has also ordered
several authoritative volumes in the
field of “the new technocracy” and
these, will be made available as soon
as possible.
Perhaps the most important recent
volume in the x*eligious field is “Re
thinking Missions,” the report of a
commission appointed by the “Lay
men's Foreign Missions Inquiry.”
Seven denominations were represent
ed in this investigation of the mission
situation in the Far East and its find
ings and recommendations indicate
the need for far-reaching‘changes in
the missionary programs.
-Biographies and autobiographies
continue to be among the most nu
merous and popular volumes from the
publishers' presses. “Sherman, Fight
ing Prophet” by Lloyd Lewis is rich
in anecdotes of one of the'greatest
American military leaders. 'Gwynn’3
“Life of Horace Walpole” presents a
picture of the aristocratic society of
which he was a distinguished part.
Through his eyes also arc seen the
France and Italy of his day. ‘Revolu
tionary France is represented, in -this
field by Do Segur's. “Marie Antoi
nette” and Mahan’s “Marie Louise,
Napoleon’s Nemesis.”
* Finally we take a seven-day ocean
trip across 'the Atlantic to Yucatan
where Thompson of Yucatan “has
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THIS sort of thing has gone too
far! 'When asked what product
we get from whales, Bill Boner said,
“Little whales.”
Let's take action at once. Get him
a good pipe and a tin of good tobacco.
We all know a pipe smooths out the
wrinkles, clears the mind for its best
thinking. And we all knofr what
smoking tobacco goes best in a good
pipe. For a recent investigation
showed Edgeworth.to be the favorite
smoke at 42 out of 54 leading colleges.
Nexttimeyou “cram” for an exam,
light up a pipeful of Edgeworth. Ah!
See.how that different blend of fine
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Tuesday, January 24, 1933
SOCIETY HEARS WHITMORI
Bean Frank C. Whitmore, head <
the School of,Chemistry, and Physic
addressed the Maryland section <
the American Chemical society, i
Baltimore recently. On his trip 1
also visited the Edgewood Arsenal i
civilian consultant to* the Chemicj
Welfare service of the United Stat<
Army.
PI GAMMA MU ELECTIONS
(Honorary Social Science)
Graduate
John Barber'
Hugo Bezdek jr.
Wajtcr L. Ferree
Undergraduate
William D. Balitas J 34
Anna M. Dottorer *34
Charles A. Myers ’34
made a forty years study of the n
sterious highly developed culture
the Mayas, of Central America.” 1
“People of the Serpent” relates
own adventures “with snakes, jagui
and the unsubdued Indians of the }
catan hinterland.”
MntSnec at I:3o—Evening Openingnt 6:
Complete Late Showing After 9:00 p. it
TUESDAY—
Shows at 1:30, 3:33, 6:30, 8:45.
Norma Shearer, Clark Gable
in Eugene O’NeiU’s
“STRANGE INTERLUDE”
WEDNESDAY—
Pat O’Brien, Gloria Stuart.
in Jim Tally’s
“LAUGHTER IN lIELL”
THURSDAY—
Leslie Howard, Ann Harding in
“THE ANIMAL KINGDOM” ‘‘
Mickey Mouse, Abe Lyman Orchest:
FRIDAY—
Clark Gable, Carole Lombard in
“NO MAN OF HER OWN” . ,
Also LAUREL and HARDY Comet
SATURDAY— :
Slim Summerville, ZaSu Pittsi
Roland Young, Fifi D’Orsay in
“THEY JUST HAD TO
GET MARRIED”
Special Children’s Matinee ...
Saturday, 10:00—For Showing of
“HUCKLEBERRY FINN” ‘
Admission—Children or Adults; Ifi
NITTANY
TUESDAY and: WEDNESDAY—
Ed Wyrni (The Fire Chief) in.
“MANHATTAN MARY”
From “Follow the. Leader”
THURSDAY—
“LAUGHTER IN HELL” •
FRIDAY—
“THE ANIMAL KINGDOM”
SATURDAY—
“NO MAN OF HER OWN”
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