»Senil-VUeekly ' ~=j jlrnn otafr @ (Cflllratati. V 01.29 No. 37 1933 SOCIAL WHIRL TO OPEN TONIGHT WITH SENIOR BALL Emerson Gill Will Furnish Music For Annual ;Dance Event In Recreation Hall GOOD ANNOUNCES TICKET SALES AT TREASURERS’ Old Promenade Superceded By Novelty—Smilax, Palms . Decorate Floor - . Opening' the 1933 social whirl, sen iors will dance to.the.music of Emer-' 'son Gill and his orchestra at. Senior Ball in Recreation hall from 9 o'clock until 2 o’clock tonight. Tickets for tha function will be on sale at three dollars.plus thirty cents tax at the. Treasurer’s office in Old Main today, John H. Good, chairman, of the dance committee,. has an nounced. Programs will be given out: : with the tickets. Novelty Planned A novelty to Jte' announced at the affair tonight will .'replace - the old. promenade for seniors, a feature of dances in the past. .Catering service , will be from a central stand on the' • dance floor, while fraternity booths and two non-fraternity booths will be 1 situated „under , the balconies of Rec •j rcation halLy ’ -•' The ha.ir.will be solidly decorated " with a large crystal ball suspended •from the of the ceiling, while ‘ spotlights at each !end of the hall will throw. vari-colored lights on the dancing floor. Groups of palms and Vsmilax will also be placed at inter '•vals'''su'rroun’ding,ithe floor. ’ , 3VSingcrs Featured ! '//Emerson Gill and . i, •liei'c fro|h‘;Pittsburgh:wherer'he played club last u hight;'>Reccntly l th k e-orches;- ■f: _’ completed ‘an, engagement, at'the ‘t ; ;Clevelahd.’ . Thp Gill ‘first'organized on*'the’Ohio ; 'llßtate campus .and has since had en- 'at'the .largest hotels in : and • has broadcast from . mors than fifty radio stations. - , . * A feature of'.thc orchestra. is the singing of Miss-Marion Mann, Clcye land debutante, “Pinky” Hunter, and ,/Frank Devol.. This . will mark the. *, first tima that a woman singer has. . been featured .by an .orchestra at’a’ large dance here. .The band also car ries its own amplifying system. ' Programs for the function will fea-, ture transparent celluloid covers back ed .by silver .foil, the chairman has ' announced. Winning posters ini. the : 'po.ster contest .were submitted by Ar- . . thur B. Bernstein *33 and A'ien Roth . crmel ’36. VARSITY DEBATERS TO MEET JUNIATA Baldingcr, 'Heagney Will Represent Penn State in Oregon Style Contest* Here Tonight .• An affirmative team of Milton -I. Baldinger .'B3 and Dan. Heagney .'33 will oppose tho’Juniata College de baters on the question,-“Resolved, that all intergovernmental war debts should •be • cancelled,” in the Little Theatre, Old Mtain,'. at .7:30 o’clock tonight. The contest .will be conducted as an Oregon stylo debate, with the first; speaker presenting the arguments, and to cross examination. Heagney. will conduct the affirmative cross-examination, and will summarize the constructive argu ments. The* decision .will be deter mined by the audience. Defending socialism' against capital ism, Ernest C. Miller'34 and Angelo Berbatis ’35 lost ■an audience decision debato to St. Francis College orators at Loretto "Wednesday night. The vote was .109 to: 90. The Penn State orators will debate against the Dickinson College team at Carlisle next Friday night. Dual de bates with Washington and Jefferson and Franklin and Marshall, colleges 'arc included inth’e schedule of debates for next month./- ; STEIDLE WILL READ PAPER • Discussing tho “Basic Trends in ! Mineral Industries Education,” Dean ; JSdward Stcidlc, head of the Mineral ■ Industries i School, will .read a' paper the American Institute of Min ing land Metallurgical Engineers con ■ vention at New York Wednesday piorning. . The convention,Svill open; . Monday and' hold its final- session Thursday afternoon;’ '* V \ Local Organizations Plan Loan Fund Aid In order to supplement the Stu r dent Loan fund the Cathaum The ■ atre will donate one-third of the returns from the Loan fund ticket sale, while the Stetson D store has announced that it will contribute five.percent of its daily receipts to, the fund. Theatre ticket books will be on sale by fraternity representatives •.and at the Student Union desk/in Old. Main. The ticket sale began Wednesday and will continue until March. •» * * . DUMONT REPORTS TO A.A.U.P. GROUP Summarizes Changing Condition , In, Coliege World Before . Faculty Chapter “Colleges and universities have de veloped too fast- within the- last ten years. ■ They have expanded depart ments too much, and 'the time' has come, when, programs must be con tracted,” 'Dr.- Francis M. DuMont, head of the department of romance languages, said, in . summarizing a committee report of'the national con vention of the American Association of University Professors before tie local'chapter Wednesday night. . Dr. DuMont quoted a report to. show that-the United States pays a smaller percentage towards higher educa tional institutions than many coun tries of more limited finances. The local delegate to the convention, also pointed, out that no. relation had ever been fount! between success in college teaching and courses in educational theory. Lewis Addresses. Group '.-.Speaking- on “New - Library. De vsslopments/'.'-Willard.P.' Lewis, Col 'Hiese' include tho ground'noW; Occupied:''by;-'the) -Women's building, with the new.structure facing on . cen ter-drive.* " . “That’ campus sentiment is in fa vor.of a new library-is undeniable,” Mr. Lewis said. “Complete pians afe being drawn upjfor a new unit to ac commodate 500,000,b00k5, suitable for a college of 10,000 students, so that when tho legislature is ready, wc will be. ready to start,".he'added. ; ' Following a discussion of ; -the ef fects of the possible deputizing of tho campus patrolmen,'the executive com mittee of the local chapter was re quested to study and recommend ac tion on the question of contemplated salary cuts’among the College faculty. MRS. DU BOIS "TO TALK HERE - Mrs. Rachel Davis- Du Bois, edu cator and .author of a scries of As sembly, Programs on Worldmindcd hess, will address members oft local church student groups on the subject; “Youth and the International Mind” at the Friends Meeting House at 6:30 o’clock Sunday night. ■* Value o f Honoraries Rated As‘Negligible* by Alumni Graduates Deem High Scholarship Important\ . To Success in Later Life—Show j Need for Wide Interests Dy CHARLES Keys dangling on a college man’s watch chain.mean little as far as their contribution to success in after life is to thirty-two of thirty-eight' prominent Penn • State alumni who’ were members of honor ary organizations while undergrad uates here. . • ’Twenty-one of the graduates who answered a questionnaire, sent out by the Collegian believed that the value of honorary groups is “Negligible,” while eleven considered/ them "Per ceptible.” Five marked their value as “Great” and one “Very Great.” ‘ High scholarship in college, how ever, is considered of greater import ance ,to success by the alumni. Over half of them, twenty-seven to be exact,' judged its value as either “Very Great” or “Great.” ] Sixteen considered it “Perceptible” and seven “Negligible.”. The keynote of-alumni’opinion on the value -of honorarics was sounded by a'graduate who said that"“the work necessary’ to ! make the fraternities was worthwhile, but not the frater nities , .themselves.’’ Another- com mented, that “it is -hard to discern any actu'al aid, buf thesc honorary sqcie- STATE COLLEGE, PA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1933 BLANSHARD TO GIVE NEXT FORUM TALK; HERE ON MARCH 14 ‘Technocracy Versus Socialism* Announced, as Subject of ‘ - Reformer’s Speech CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION WILL SPONSOR MEETING Leader in Industrial Democracy League Assisted Seabury .’. ' With? Recent. Case . Dr. Paul Blanshard, director - 'of the City- Affaire committee, a reform group.of-New York City, will again address, a Penn State audience on Tuesday, March 14, as the next speak er of the Perin" State Christian asso ciation’s Forum series.- ;/ : •. • •j “Technocracy' * Versus . Socialism” will be Dr. .Blanshard's subject. When he 1 spoke' here last year his-topic was “Racketeering, High and Low.” The lectuier is known for the leading part he. took in ,the recent civic investiga tion instigated by Judge Samuel Sea bury.of New York City. . • Collaborated With Thontas This lecture is the first feature of the Christian, association 'program which is made possible partly through the success of the Lowell Thomas lec ture last. week. Financial returns from; the .-Thomas lecture were enough to. insure, to a much‘greater extent, the carrying ’out of the Forum pro gram as originally planned.at the be ginning.'of the’ year, officials of the association said. For several years, Dr. Blanshard has been .connected with .the League for Industrial Democracy,, of. New. York City. ~ In, addition to being the author, of :“The British Labor Mo've qieijt” • and :‘/Laborvin Southern Cot •tcyijMUls/'-rthe'speaker-rccently'pub-’' collaborittion with Norman ■ Thomas ’ called “What’s', the Matter .'With * New York?” In 1928 and 1920\he;wa's associate editor'.of the Nation, controversial magazine. Other Lectures Planned Dr. Blanshard studied at Michigan, Harvard,. and .Columbia .universities. After serving as a labor union or ganizer -and directing a labor college for several years, the’ reform director began lecturing in American colleges. He Has'. studied social conditions in China, Japan, Russia, -and Great Britain.' i Since this is a feature of the reg ular Forum series; no admission will be charged. Negotiations-arc now being made' by Christian association officials to bring several other.nation ally known ’speakers here before the end of the College.year. PROF. KELLER WILL SPEAK Prof. J. Orvis Keller, head of the engineering extension department, will deliver the opening address of the Greater New York Safety conference at New York City on March 1. A. MYERS. *34 tics are undoubtedly valuable in build ing- character.” Honorary societies represented in the collegiate records of the alumni were Lion’s • Paw, Skull and Bones, Parmi Nous, Blue Key, Friars, Druids, and Sphinx. . Fraternities and clubs in dramatics, chemistry, press, Latin, French, science, botany, and debating, as well as numerous county clubs and departmental, societies were also in cluded in the list. - Alumni comments on the value of high scholarship indicate that it’is' considered important, but that its at- j tainment should not take up the stu- { dent’s tvhole time. One alumnus cm- j phasized that .“the attempt to attain high scholarship should not absorb aj student’s' time and .energy to the point whore he/has no interest in other im-. portont phases of college life.” “High scholarship .fs desirable, not necessary,’’ according to another prominent aluhinus. “Good judgment und ability to: analyze and get-along with other people is'more important.” The grade system was criticized when one • graduate 'auid, "What you have learned doesn't necessarily - come through scholarship as it is rated- in grqdo'reports.'’/* • • • - Grid Team Will Meet Penn in 1934 First * official; /confirmation of - Nittany Lion foothill opponents for the 1934 season vrsg made this week ‘ when Philadel'phiav-newspapers an nounced that :‘th6; University of Pennsylvania • would meet Penn State in a’football game at Phila delphia November 10, 1934. The Lion grnlders will resume their series with—Pennsylvania on November 18* thisFyear after a lapse of four years in the tradi tional series. r~WitK: the series be • ginning in 1890,/thisy2ar’s tilt will •be the thirty-Second between 'the . two institutions, /Pennsylvania hold ing a twenty-onevto eight edge in . victories .with;twoi(tf the games re . suiting in ,tieSij ; -;^f|; . PLAYERsIfGIVE SHOIpARCH 25 Organization Selects ‘Last of , ’.v'SNfrj . . Mrs. Year’s ■ Second Prasuclion “The Last of Mrs/Cheyney” -will be enacted,by Players in ; Schwab auditorium-Mkrch 25, as the second production of-'tjj&j"season. Cast ing has' been ’ completed,v'and rehear sals have already .started. Kutz'er L. RichardsVSC, in the role of Lord Dilling, and fchyllis G. Beidlor ’33 as Mrs. Chpyhey,will-head the cast. Benjamin'L. Wise'..’33- as Lord Elton and Marjorie I.’ -KusClike- ’36 as Lady Frinton complete’ th'e/principal leads in the cast- •* - 4- New Players' Listed j Charles, ; a butler,* is;.played.by John E. Binns ’36, Hon. 'Willie Wynton is portrayed by Wilbur, 'ElUisney jr. '36, and .the part of William,' a-footman, is taken by.:Milton"‘Df/Carver; jr. ’36. George, a footman/is/played bytHenry K. Moulthrqi) leurjiis portrayed byi'Ned'KeliyF36. ■ ,Lillie Keil .’33- takes /the part .’of Mrs.'Bblcry, a cousin of Lord Dilling, L. .Marybel, Conabce ’36 'assumes the rolo of Hon. Mrs. Wynton, while M. Theresa Baer’'34 and-Frances S. In man '3? take the; parts of Joan and Mary. • ‘ ( Only four newfplayers will appear, in “The Last of-Mrs. Cheyney,” with Binns, Moulthrop," Kelley, and Miss Inman appearing in a Players produc tion for the first time. Richards, Car ver, and Miss Kuschkb took important roles in “Hay Fever,” while Wise and Disney appeared in “Black Flamingo.” HETZEL APPROVES NEW SCHOLARSHIP PROPOSAL Board of Trustees Must ‘ Sanction Evan Pugh Honorary Award i The proposal of the Senate Com | mittce on Academic Standards to de signate Evan- Pugh Scholars as recog i nition for high attainment by upper classmen has received the sanction of President Ralph D. Hetzel. Before final adoption the proposal must re ceive-the approval of* the Board of Trustees. Under the proposed plan the Evan Pugh'scholarships 'will become one of the highest honors for, undergradu ates, and will be awarded to upper classmen who do not receive other fel lowships or scholarships. The Honor Society Council has voted to present medals to students receiving the Evan Pugh awards. - The Academic Standards committee originated the plan of awarding for high scholarship, honors to juniors and seniors, not receiving other awards, deciding to call :the honorary awards- Evan Pugh Scholarships in honor of the former President. Students re ceiving these scholarships''wil-1 be list ed in tho .College catalog. Who’s Dancing Tonight Senior Ball Recreation hall (Subscription) Emcrnon GUI i - .Tomorrow Night Sigma Pi and Sigma Phi Epsilon At Sigma Pi (Closed) Varsity Ten Alpha Gamma Kho, Sigma Phi Alpha • At Alpha Gamma Rho (Closed) ' j Allen Quirk 1 - Bela Sigma Rho* (Invitation) Al Hollander ■ Phi Kappa Tau * . . (Invitation) • Campus Owls , • GRANT APPOINTED TO DIRECT CHORUS AT WORLD’S FAIR Music Department Head Named Conductor of American Group in Festival COLLEGIATE QUARTETS WILL COMPOSE SECTION Varsity Unit Invited as College Representative—Foreign. Gieemen Entered • Director Richard W. Grant, of the department of music, has been selected as leader for the American section of tho International Festival- of Student, Choruses at the Chicago World’s-Fair August 7,8, and 9, according to word received from directors of the project this week. Professor Grant will have complete charge of a men’s chorus composed of representatives of more than two hun dred American colleges and univer sities, members of the Intei'collcgiate Music Council. Each member of the council has been asked to send one or more quartet groups, which wilt be combined into one large chorus under Professor Grant’s direction at the fes tival. Quartet To Appear In addition to representing Ameri can colleges and universities at the festival, the quartets appearing at the Fair will also engage in an 'inter group competition, which will take the place of the annual national- intercol legiate glee club contest this year. The glee club, which placed third in tho national competition last year, will'likely be.represented by the.vav- according Lto .. Director 'Grahi J Planned as one of the features of the Woxdd's Fair, the International festival will-also present' student choruses from Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Jugo-Slavia, Latvia, Poland, and Sweden in addition to the group directed by- Professor Grant. Dele gates of these countries at an inter national conference at Zurich, Swit zerland, last summer indicated their intention of sending chorus groups to the festival.* Groups To Combine . Both American and foreign groups will combine to present two songs at the festival, while Professor Grant will direct the American section in singing a program of religious, .mis cellaneous and college songs. The American chorus will number approxi mately five litlndred voices, according to Director Grant. Under Professor Grant's direction, Penn. State glee clubs have won the Pennsylvania intercollegiate cham pionship in five of the past six years. Although he -has never coached a na tional champion, Professor Grant has conducted Penn State glee clubs which have placed second twice and third twice in national contests, which arc held every year. College Faculty Reveals Diversity of Alma Maters 187 Institutions Represented in Instructional\ Staff—-Foreign Schools Included j Ily CiEOkUE Revealing a wide diversity in their alma maters, a survey discloses that members 1 of the College faculty list bachelor's degrees from 187 different colleges - and universities, including eleven -foreign institutions. Penn State alumni form by far the largest'single group on the instruc tional staff, no fewer than 182 grad uates of the College holding positions ranging from extension workers to deans. Columbia University ranks a poor second with twenty-two repre sentatives, while Cornell University trails in third place with nineteen. Only eight other institutions cun lay claim to ten or more graduates on the faculty. -The University of III ! inois is represented by sixteen faculty members, Ohio State University by I fifteen, and the University of Mip- I ncsota by thirteen. ’ Purdue Univcr ! sity with twelve alumni, University of Pennsylvania, University of Michigan, nnd the University of Missouri, have eleven each and -Massachusetts Agri cultural College lists ten as its grad uates. • Foreign universities which granted bachelor dcgicca to 'members of the Senator Introduces (STUDENT COUNCIL College Firtance B,U Iffi if introduced QN MERGER MOVE a bill in the Senate appropriating v - IUV ?l4 $4,120,000 of the State's funds to 1 S 3 y - lv s n!a Stnte Co "° Ke fm ' Combination of Men’s, Women's the 1933-30 biennium. ! • , This is 8412,000 higher than the j Government Agencies figure submitted by Gov. Gifford j Planned bv Wood S. Pinchot in his estimated budget j * for the State last January. At that j time he asked for a ten percent re- | CO-EDS WOULD SECURE duction in the appropriation for the g EC jj ETA jj YgHlp g gw YORK PASTOR e “ gUZ? e TO SPEAK SUNDAY! i %, Campvs politics Buttrick Will Address Chapel ~ Fi '. st st “ l>s in , thc P™i>osed com r bmation of men s. and women s stu- Audience—‘Lamp of Lord’ ; der.t. government will be taken at Stu- Nameri k; Tnnir i (iant CounciLmeeting Tuesday night ‘ ! when the move will be discussed and ! a permanent committee appointed to r\ r- . „ .. . , . Jconfer with a women’s group. Dr. George A. Buttrick will return, b 1 to Penn State after an absence of two I Suggested by John A. Wood ’33, years to deliver the chapel address in; , 188 l )l evident, the proposal Schwab auditorium at 11 o’clock Sun-' vas delegated to a commitlte headed day morning. “The Lamp of the' Ilßrry M * W,lson ’ 33 for considcr * Lord,” will be the topic of the N«wj at,on ‘ This committee will report to York.pastor’s speech. ~ • j the Council 'luesday night, and a per- The eminent theologian, who first; n . ia l ,en * committee with Wilson as spoke here at the 1931 baccalaureate; c,a,rman W, H appealed, services, is a pastor of the Madison i Proposal Outlined Avenue Presbyterian church in New Women’s student government agyn- York City. 'He was born tn Seaham. c i 2St lls thev now exist, would be done i Harbour. England, and after attend-, away with lJndcr the Comb j n od ing locul schools, stuclied at the Lan- j system. Instead, there would be pro caster Independent College, in Man-; p or tional representation of women Chester, England, where he was grad- • students in Student Council, one or uated in 1910. more women on Student Board, and • Ordained in 1913 a woman would hold the secretaryship ■ Immediately after leaving college,: c ' ass ' Wood said. Dr. Buttrick came to this country, and; Elections would be conducted by was ordained to the ministry in 1915. • Student Council for the combined of-- His first pastorate, which he held: flees. Women would be represented , from 1915 to 1918, was at the First. at men’s clique meetings, which as a U.nion Congregational church at; recognized activity would be held un-'- Quincy, Illinois. ' ' |der the supervision- of faculty ad- Dr. Buttrick then went to the .First] visers. ’Cqn^regaUbna^^phuTch^at/'Rutland,.. ; •• i-cbmbinhVg'. botK'JiriSiiV' "arid '• tho years. . In 19-1 he was sent, to the (■ women's' agencies will result in great- F,rst Presbyterian church of Buffalo,, cr coo])(!ra ti on and more effectual op- New lark, whore he remained until, cra tj on 0 f student government?,’ Wood ho; accepted his present position inj pointcd out . “The mei-ger will also . . , ■ , , 'give women a chance■ to participate Soon after the .chape speaker sue-: ia po |i t j ca „„ an Cl]ual footin with ceeded famous Henry Sloan Coffin at )mon » the Madison Avenue church, the Col-' 4 . ’ lego asked him to speak hero at ! Hwe are to rccogmw tho women chapel, and continued to do so unsuc-: a f ' eB ‘ ,n ’ at .° members of Penn Stain’s cessfnlly every year-until 1031, wheni stud ; nt . bc , d >'’ he th f he was secured for the graduation j raust SIVC a l’ art m » u J’.»t»\ESLE\AN Pborlin College, which , have seven r— alumni each employed by the College.) Upholding the negative side of'the -lowa State and Kansas State Colleges [Question, “Resolved, that all.intergov are represented by six graduates each i ernmental war debts, including rep* on the faculty. jarations, should be cancelled," the Some one hundred and eleven insti- i women’s varsity debating team will tutions have but one graduate as their ’ meet Ohio Wesleyan University in the Penn State ' representative, while! assembly room of the Homo Econom twenty-six lay claim to two alumni j ics building at 8 o’clock Wednesday who hold faculty positions hero. Al-i night. most every state in the union can j Margaret E. Bernard ’3-1, Jeanne claim at least one bachelor's degree's* Kleckner ’B5, and E. Marion Tom represented „on the college staff. at I linson ’35 have been selected to com thc present time. 1 poae the Fcmi Stale team. PRICE FIVE CENTS STEVENS TO OPEN 1933 L. A. TALKS ‘Grover Cleveland’ Named as Topic Of First Lecture Planned For Tuesday Night Speaking on “Grover Cleveland, A Study in Political Courage,” Prof. Syl vester K. Stevens, of the department of history and political science, will open the twenty-third annual Liberal Arts lectures in the assembly room cf the Home -Economics building at 7 o'clock Tuesday night. | Professor Stevens made an exten sive survey of the life •of Grover Cleveland last year while on a leave of absence from the College. He* stud ied under Dr. Allen Nevins, noted his torian at Columbia University, cover ; ing intensively the period of American ; history in which Cleveland was a cen tral figure. After graduating froni Penn State in 1926, the lecturer received his mas ter’s degree here the next year. Since then he has been a member of the history department and has-contrib uted historical articles to various magazines. The lecture Tuesday night will be I the first 'of six talks by members of | the Liberal Arts school, continuing (through the next three months. All lectures this year will be held in the assembly room of the Home Econom ics building unless' previously an nounced. , WOMEN'S DEBATING TEAM