Page 'lVo PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Published semi-weekly during the College year* except on holidays, liy students of The Pennsylvania State College, In the Interest of the College, the students, faculty, alumni, and friends. THE MANAGING HOARD ROBERT E. TSCIIAN M 3 SALTO IIETZEL JR. *33 Mnnnging Editor SIDNEY 11. BENJAMIN M 3 Sports Editor RICHARD V. WALL M 3 Assistant Editor DONALD P. DAY M 3 Assistant Mnnaglng Editor ERNEST It. 7.UKAUSKAS M 3 Assistant Sports Editor ROLLIN C. STEINMET7. M 3 Nows Editor W. J. WILLIAMS JR. M 3 News Editor Entered at the Postoffice, State College. Pa., as Second-class Matter Editorial Office ’ &13 Old Main .—.Nittany Printing Building Business Office.. Phone 292-W FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1933 DOUBTFUL HONORARIES The belief of a surveyed group of prominent alumni that keys dangling from watch chains may be, and in many cases are, an index of anything except all the ideals for which they stand only serves to take a little more wind from the sails of many so-called honorarics which have been undergoing no end of criticism from student and faculty sources. Efforts have been made repeatedly to make the numerous honorary organizations as an entire group justify their existence by at least serving members who are elected and if possible the entire student body. That much rehabilitation work remains to be done is evident. The obstacle to progress along this line lies in the fact that there is no arbiter for determining the value of honorarics or for taking steps to eliminate the useless ones. It is true that the Honor Society Council, by scholastic and other standards of admission, maintains the level of scholastic attainment in'many of the honor aries. Tho work of the honorary should not stop, how ever, with, the recognition of scholastic proficiency. It should continue so that the members, through personal contact with the group and with prominent guest speak ers may be aided in further developing. Tho students who are to become the future.members of honoraries control the fate of the worthless honor ary. If they are to consider the attainment of a key as the sole return for the money that they will spend for an organization, things unfortunately will go on much the same. If, however, more than the exterior sign is sought for, if students, weighing the value tube received, make their decision on that basis tho worthless societies will be forced out of existence by the difficulty met in get ting members. Some students will grab a key no matter what the Renditions, may be and how much respect the organization which it represents.may command. (Others, with a little more thought than that exhibited by the student generations before them, can reasonably decline membership in groups which they consider of no value. By their action they not only can spare themselves re grets in the future hut can also administer the most effective test to the score of existing honoraries. Tho compilation of figures on the educational ante cedents of the members of the faculty is enlightening because it summarizes what may seldom if ever be called to the attention of the students. The breadth of view that must bo represented in a group with so many and such varied contacts serves to increase confidence of the students in the ability of the men under whom they arc studying. The recent exchange of a member of this faculty with one from another college for a semester seems a policy that might well be extended. A change, bringing with it new and fresh contacts, in addition to inspirational values is one of the best tonics for minds that can too easily become sluggish from the same en vironment. STUDENT AID ; '• : Student .organizations, have been striving:-doubly hard this year in.their sponsorship of loan fund projects, so thntnefcdy students might remain/hr college, i Sup port of these projects is the only way In which‘students contribute to the fund. Accordingly, a final program for tho year, planned to supplement an already depleted loan treasury, merits the cooperation of. the entire un dergraduate body. With the organization of the loan fund here in tc cent years an opportunity was afforded students who found themselves in financial straits to secure assistance in continuing their quest for an education. In the per iod of its history the loan fund has received the sup port of the student body, parents, alumni, and others in terested in the welfare of needy students. The result has been that approximately twelve thousand dollars has been loaned to needy students. Two hundred upper classmen, receiving loans of fifty and seventy-five dol lars, have demonstrated that they were worthy of finan cial assistance in that they secured a scholastic average of 1.8. Last year, with' all the hardships experienced, the fund was only sufficient to aid half the number of students benefitted the year before. Unless support for tho coming program is widespread another large de crease will he noted next year because of the ever in creasing number of applications for loons. Recognizing fully this period of financial stringency, the committee in charge of the student projects for the fund has maintained a policy that does not include di rect solicitation. If parents, because of existing condi tions, find it impossible to build up the Parents* associa tion fund to its former proportions, an. increase must emno in student aid. Whole-hearted support of future benefit projects is the only means by which these de mands can ho answered. Tho papers recently passed over with little emo tion a news item that marks the end of an era, the de struction of a tradition held sacred since the first horseless carriage was used for commercial trans portation. Wc refer to the action of the Pennsyl vania Motor Truck Association in promulgating a new and revolutionary code, among whose Chester fieldian provisions is “imposing upon the driver the necessity of meekly accepting any criticism from oper ators of passenger vehicles and insisting that such reprimands he topped with a courteous apology by the truck driver, even when he is admittedly in the right.” Tho apparent indifference of the press affected us deeply—so 1 deeply, in fact, that wc were inspired thereby to the following monumental effort: “Courtesy, Consideration, and Cooperation” Are now .Uni watch words of the Pennsylvania • Motor Truck Association you’ll never receive words of censure From the New Truck Driver, ami hence you’re Always sure of soft polite answers From Moving Van pilots who may turn out to he aesthetic danswers But don’t exercise your .Tack-the-Giant-Killer complex or megalomania On unemasculated truck drivers that aren’t from Pennsylvania. ALFRED W. HESSE JR. *33 Business Manager ROBERT St. HARRINGTON *33 Circulation Manager PAUL BIERSTEIN *33 Local Advertising Manager WILLARD D. HESTER ’33 Foreign Advertising Manager ARTHUR E. PHILLIPS *33 Credit atunager MARION P. HOWELL *33 Women'ii Editor Isabel McFarland *33 Women’ll Managing Editor ELIZABETH M. KALB *33 Women’ji News Editor We don’t go in much for pediatries, or pedagogy, or whatever it is they call the study of feet, but our little verses, such as the above,- arc edifying to no slight degree. And remember, don’t look a gift horse in the mouth—he may have halitosis. Did the Pi Kappa Phior alarm get you out of bed too? We'have been told that all the dates got out safely, with the exception of one who sprained an ankle running down stairs. However, it is rumored that the Flame of Brotherhood, in the guise of a cig arette stub, consumed most of the ritual robes that were getting pretty old anyhow, and a moth-eaten pile of hand-me-down finals that people had been try ing for years to get up enough courage to throw out. At first we thought the racket outside was the gar bage man, or Chandu the Magician, hut it turned out to be that rather sad bell- on the chemical truck. Three cockroaches and a cricket, which had been breaking up study hour for some time, were overcome by smoko. Tho clamor and shouting sounded distressfully far away, there were no flames in the sky; so we officially declared the whole thing a fizzle and returned to bed. IHavo you ever considered the distinctly Mater nity-hospital implication in the name of a certain hotel hereabouts? . . . One of the more irrevocably Lost Souls suggests that-Charlotte be re-christened Dean Roue .. . Especially since we ovbvheard a co-ed pro mulgating “What’re these men for, if you can’t use them when you need them?” ... Which of the S'wich Shop gels went catty with a bunch of comic valentines for the rest of the waitresses? ..: Has Herbie Hofford at last found his niche, as editor, of the High School Press Exchange? . . . Our favorite tonsorialist reports the puzzling phenomenon of the freshman who insists on singing and whistling during the process of being shorn . . . “Engineering A” trembles as Tanner and Tschan blast away at opposite sides of a flimsy parti tion . . . Bona fide white flannels on Allen street . . . Idle speculation: How many of these Ice Carnival Empresses and Snow Queens ami such resort to heavy winter underwear? . . . We’ve got termites in the trousers trying to figure out whether a riot among tho co-eds could he called a femaclstrom . . . Did you hear about the deep-dyed plot to get some trusting lad a blind date for the Ball, the Indy’s gender to be subject to change without notice? ... it all fell through because the conspirators could not find any women's shoes in size 71b . . . When the cynic cried out in his disbeljef, “Divergence are-few and far between/!:.... sve’ Answered, “Them’s fife-fingered 'words, 1 and we’re WiPictfoi’o player;” 1 , KEUFFEL AND ESSER Slide Rules Polyphase Duplex Log-Log Rule Prices Include Leather Case and Book of Instructions The Athletic Store : On Co-op Corner CAMPUSEER BY HIMSELF ****** ****** THE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Fraternity Tutors Aid Scholarships, Officers of Organizations Maintain Scholarship in the two Penn State fraternities that have chapter house tutors has been aided materially dur ing tho past semester, according to fraternity officers in each house. One of the fraternities said that the aid of the tutor had resulted in a greater understanding of undergradu ate subjects, especially mathematics and chemistry. The other house also emphasized tho point that scholarship in technical subjects had been aided. In tho Delta Chi fraternity hero the tutor is a graduate student anti a member of the local chapter. His duties are purely scholastic, holding classes in some subjects and teaching individually in others. Phi Kappa Psi has a system in which the tutor, also a graduate mem- PISH,HORN WII.I, ASSUME CHARGE OP GI.EE CLUB Grant Ml Appointed Student Leader For Annual Philadelphia Affair In tho absence of Director Richard W. Grant on his sabbatical leave, Prol’. Hummell Fishburn, assistant di rector of the music department, will lake charge of Penn State’s Glee club when it enters the state contest at Philadelphia, March 37. Selection of tho men to compete in the contest will he made during the latter part of next week. Richard W. Grant jr. ’34, acting student leader, will direct the singers in the contest. Before competing in the contest, the dub will sing-at Radnor and Abington on March 15 and. 10. William If. Stine ’33 will render several baritone selections at ithc meet, while Marian G. Blankenship ’.'JO will play harp solos. BUILD LOG CABIN Forestry students at Mont Alto are constructing a log cabin on the State forest reserve, three miles from the forestry school, for the purpose of week-end recreation. The wood used in the production 'of the cabin has been furnished by the State depart ment of forests and waters. AIRPLANE COURSE OFFERED Instruction in stress analysis of air planes is Being offered to engineers throughout the State by the depart ment of engineering extension 1 this semester, Prof. J. 'Orvis Keller, head of the department, has announced. 'SPECIAL Hot Dogs - 3 for 25c And All Kinds of Short Orders and Home Made Pies TEXAS LUNCH Compacts With Penn State Seal Crabtree’s 132 South Allen Street AFTER THE BALE 1 VISIT • The Fenway Tea Room DELICIOUS HOME COOKING Opposite Front Campus Radio Service Used and New Sets $ 5 Up Long and Short Wave CAL. GRAY 109 So. Pugh Phone 955-J bcr of the chapter, is available at all times to instruct undergraduates. He also takes care of the pledges and ad vises the chapter' heads on many phases bf chapter management. No disciplinary powers are connected with tho. position in either house. "Remuneration for the tutor consists of room, board, and exemption from somo of the fees at one chapter, while tho other furnishes the tutor with part of his hoard. In each case the sys tem is encouraged by the national or ganization of the fraternity. Both of the fraternities also said that the system had a helpful’ moral and cultural effect on the active mem bers. One was of tho opinion that it had “a quieting influence on under graduate rowdiness” and had result ed in “more interest in literature.” 70 FRESHMEN CALLED _ ’ BY STUDENT TRIBUNAL 5 Found Gullly of Insubordination Af Meeting Tuesday Night. Seventy freshmen, the largest num ber to be called to any meeting of Student Tribunal in recent years,'were summoned before that body Tuesday night, and quizzed with regard to fail ure to procure freshman proclama tions. Five others were punished for various customs violations. Freshmen who received punishment for insubordination were Kcnenth S. Dalo and Joseph C. Millen. while An thony Abate, E. Robert Curry, and James Y. Gurley were found guilty of breaking other first year rules. Freshmen who have not as yet re ceived their proclamations must do so within the next week to avoid tribunal summons, according to .John A. Mc- Andrews ’33, president of. the tribunal. Proclamations may be procured at the Student Union desk in Old Main. Make it a Point to Start a Savings Account TODAY Half of the Difficulty is in the Starting. You’ll Never Regret It TIIE First National Bank OF STATE COLLEGE Slate College, Pa. John T. McCormick' President ' ‘ David .F. Kapp Cashier Fraternity Papers. DANCE PROGRAMS ATTRACTIVE WORK REASONABLE PRICES Nittany Printing and Publishing Company Between The Corner and the Movies LIBRARY ADDS 3 COURSES TO SUMMER SESSION LIST Meeting a demand-for more courses of study in library science for' the Summer Session at the College, the Carnegie library has added three in termediate courses to its list, accord ing to Willard P. Lewis, College li brarian. They will, be-given for tho first time this summer. ■ The courses are listed as Library Scienco 3S, Intermediate Dictionary Cataloguing and Subject Headings, Library Scienco ,4S, Intermediate Ref erence Work and Bibliography, and Government Publications, and. Library Scienco SS, Children's Library Work and Literature. Two credits'will be given for each_course.. DISTINCTIVE PORTRAITURE THE . Penn State Photo Shop 212 E. COLLEGE AVE. State College, Pa. Laundry Service PENN STATE LAUNDRY 320 West Beaver Avenue ’ Phone 124 WHY WALK WHEN YOU CAN RIDE TO THE BALL Call RESIDES TAXI SERVICE UNTIL 4:00 A. M. PHONE 750 SENIOR BALL CORSAGE ■ We Are Prepared to Take Care • / of. Your Late Order V week-end special orchid corsAges : " ' $3.002t0 $5.00 .... State College Floral Shoppe Allen Street ‘ . Phone 580-J CATERERS, ATTENTION: YOUR MEAT PROBLEM IS SOLVED ; , Go Back To Your Studies And ’’ Let Us Do Your Work ,! FISHBURN MEAT MARKET - The Home of Quality and Service ■' - At Reasonably Low Prices Masonic Building-. Phone 357 P Spending Is i Saving” YardleyV Lavender Water 75c Size With 3 Cakes . ■ ' yARDLEySOAP. : $ lO5 ■ - , TOILET NEEDS Special! „ WORTHALL . $l.OO Le Pirro Face Powder—69c pt t? AMQTVP TTQQTTF? .$1.25 Le Pirro Crcams '-69c . 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A Warner B/othcrsThGitit • - | (Matinee 1 :30—Evening Opening Complete Lute Showing After 9 p, FRIDAY— Jimmy Durante, Duster Keaton ii “WHAT! NO DEER?” Also Bing Crosby Comedy - SATURDAY— Loretta Young, Warren William “EMPLOYEE'S ENTRANCE‘ V MONDAY and TUESDAY— -10 . George Arliss, Dick Powell,-i “THE KING’S VACATION; WEDNESDAY— ' - Joan Blondcii, Chester Morris in “BLONDIfi JOHNSON” THURSDAY— Lee Tracy, Gloria Stuart in “PRIVATE JONES” NITTANY FRIDAY— “FACE IN TITE SKY” SATURDAY— r “WHAT! NO BEER?” v * TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY—' An-Outstanding',German Picturd “KAMERADSCHAFT” (English sub-titles for those‘Sv cannot follow the language). •>,> THURSDAY— • “BLONDIE JOHNSON”
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