2 c op.ies Semi-Weekly . •- ™r-j prttu Ira (EnUrgfeut. Vol. 29 No. 43 5 COLLEGES ENTER INTERCOLLEGIATES HERE NEXT WEEK Boxers Listed From Dartmouth, Harvard, M. I. T., Western Maryland, Army MASSACHUSETTS SCHOOL TO SEND 5 CONTESTANTS Complete Pennsylvania Squad May Compete—Officials Plan Meeting . With entries received from . Dart mouth, Harvard, and M'. I. T. Wed nesday, the number of schools which will compete in the Eastern Intercol legiate Boxing tournament here next weekend has mounted to'five, accord ing to Edwin S. Maimed ’33, boxing manager. In addition, although no official no tice has been received from either Army or Western Maryland, both in stitutions, as members of the associa tion, will send boxers here. Army of ficials said last weekend that they would probably enter a full team, while it is likely that Western Mary land will send some of -its strongest boxers to the tournament. Dartmouth Enters 2 Men After indicating last week that they would probably send some of their intramural champions, Dart mouth ofFicials definitely entered two men,, one in the 115-pound class and one-in the 125-pound class. Harvard’s assistant athletic director wrote that! because .of illness among the squad members, only one boxer, Hines in 1 the 155-pound class, would probably be entered. Five-men were officially entered by M. I. T., according letter received Wednosday.:Thc Massachusetts school will be represented in the 115, 125, 135, 145, and 165-pound weights. Penn To Enter Boxers University of Pennsylvania author ities have already signified their in tention of entering either a full, team or.a selected group of boxers, while Syracuse officially entered eight men last week. No entries have yet been received from either New Hampshire or Yale. Neil M. Fleming, graduate manag er of athletics here, and Maimed will attend a meeting of the Eastern In tercollegiate Boxing association at; Philadelphia tomorrow ' morning.! Drawings, ofFicials, rules, and other | details will- be decided upon at the j meeting. I , An attempt will be made by the officials of the association to keep the entries limited to a perfect bracket of eight men in each weight, Mr. Fleming said. It may also be decided to change the starting time of the Friday afternoon preliminaries from 2 to 2:30 o'clock, and the Friday and Saturday night sessions from 7 to. 8 o’clock. CHAIRMEN OF MAY DAY COMMITTEE ANNOUNCED Barnard ’34, Thompson ’34 Selected By Co-cd Group Last Week - Margaret E. Barnard ’34 and Betty B. Thompson ’34 will serve as co chairmen of the May Day committee, ns a result of the action of the wom en’s House of Representatives last week. Committee chairmen appointed Were Rosamond W. Kainos ’34, music j Victoria R. Magda .’34, decorations; Carlyn V. Manifold ’34, properties; Kathryn V. Roberts ’34, entertain ment;- and Elizabeth L. Warner ’34, ceremonies. Ethel H. Filbert ’34 will serve, as mistress of the wardrobe for the queen’s party,, while Fora A. Shoe maker ’34 was selected mistress of the. wardrobe for. the informal pro cession. : Lucy J. ,Erdman '35, a*s .president of Cwens, sophomore wom en's society, will take'care of the breakfast arrangements.' ‘Collegian ’ Business Candidates To Meet All freshman candidates for the business staff ’of the Collegian will meet in Room 318 Old Main dt .7. o’clock Monday,night. Talks by several faculty mem bers are included'on-the program. Definite plans for the beginning of active competition will also.be an nounced. Future College Will Offer Common Courses—Steidle Mineral Industries Dean Foresees Uniform Curriculum for First Two Years The Penn State of the future'will offer a common course of study for all freshman and sophomore students, in the opinion of Dean Edward Steidle, of the School of Mineral Industries. “I am firmly convinced that present educational trends will eventually lead to a .common curriculum for the first two years, with specialized work to be offered-in the junior and senior years,” said Dean Steidle in an interview Wednesday. "The movement may be gin with a* universal course through out the College in the first year and common curricula in the various schools in the second year, but I be lieve that even the final objective is not far distant.” Dean Steidle believes ulso that some policy should ! be established by. the College for a minimum percentage of credits to be of vocational, citizen ship, cultural.or English composition in any given professional curriculum and that the percentages, be based on degrees to be granted rather than on a particular school or course. Such a policy would be in keeping with the "Objectives of the College” as recent ly proposed, he feels. • "I am also convinced that special ized instruction in any field.of a-giv en curricula should be limited to thir ty credits,” declared the Mineral In dustries dean. "Adoption of the com mon freshman-sophomore curricula system would make this a necessity and pave the way for graduate in struction during a fifth year in highly specialized fields leading toward the (Continued.on page two) I. F. GROUP LIMITS DANCE ATTENDANCE Restriction Gives Fraternities 25 Tickets for Function Planned March'3l' Fraternities participating in the annual Interfraternity ball, schodul ed for March 31 at Recreation hall, will be limited to twenty-five tickets each with the privilege of purchasing .additional tickets at $l.lO each as a result of a ruling by Interfraternity council at its meeting' .Wednesday night. A desire to 'remedy the usual over crowded dancing conditions prompted the action of the.council. Forty-five houses have . definitely announced their intention of taking part in the annual function, with sin additional groups still in doubt. Each frutor nity attending the ball will be assess ed a fee of fifty dollars. May Sign 2 Orchestras Two orchestras may be signed to play for the dance, according to Har ry A. Bauder *33, chairman of the committee in charge of the affair. Bands which arc being considered by the committee include Fred Waring, George Olson, Bert Lown,' Ben Pol lock, Isham Jones, Paul'Tremaine, Ted Black, Will Osborne, and Casa Loma, he said. A poster contest will- be conducted by the committee, with dish prizes of five dollars, three -dollnrsv and two dollars offered to the three best sub mitted. Posters should be submitted to Bauder at ,th'c Alpha Chi Sigma house by Wednesday, March 22. • Discussion of the dance arrange ments occupied the major part of Iho council meeting. In the only other action taken, Robert R. Morgan ’33, John J.. Voorhees ’33, and Theodore S. Rogers ’34 were appointed as a committee to- investigate . costs of hauling garbage from fraternity houses. ' : MASON WILL PRESENT FINAL .“ ‘MONTAIGNE’ TALK TUESDAY Speaking on “Montaigne’s Influence on European Literature and Philo sophy,” Prof. David D. Mason, of the romanco languages department, will address the final meeting in the Mon taigne scries, in Room 14, South Lib eral Arts, at 4:15 o’clock Tuesday af ternoon. - The discussion series has been ob served in honor of the four-hundredth anniversary of the famous French' lit erary figure. * HENRY.’O9 TO-SPEAK HERE Mr. Ciarenct Henry ’O9, of -the com mitteo oh education of Chicago Board of Trade, will address students and faculty of the School, of Agriculture on “Functions of the Grain Ex- 1 change,”-next Thursday and Friday. 1 STATE COLLEGE, PA., FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1933 DEFICIT OF $3OB INCURRED BY HOP Financial Statement Shows 400 Paid Admissions at Affair In Recreation Hall Sophomore I-lop incurred a deficit of approximately $3OO this year, ac cording to the financial statement of the dance released Wednesday by Franklin J. Brutznian ’35, chairman. Incbme from the dance totalled $l,- 041.80, of which $1,200 was received from the sale of 400 admissions. The tax on admissions amounted to $157.80, while booth rentals brought in $lBO and checking $lO4. Expenditures Total $1,941.75 Expenditures amounted to $l,- 941.75, Vincent Lopez and his orches tra receiving $650 of this amount. Decorations by a Wilkes-Barre dec orating company cost $362, according to the financial statement. i Programs for the dance were listed at $l5O, while two compensations also totalled. $l5O. Advertising cost $120.40, College labor, approximately s7sj and checking, $lO4. Catering service cost $61.50, ticket •printing, $28.55, a seller,'slo, 'and • two 1- 'doormen, $5 each. "Piano" rental was listed at $lO, while inci dental expenditures were estimated at $52.50. j Student Loan fund was to be the; recipient of any' profits made by 'the Hop, following an announcement by the sophomore class president 'last week. - This is the second all-College dance this year that incurred a deficit. PAUL BLANSHARD TO LECTURE HERE Civic Reform Leader Will Speak on', “Technocracy and Socialism” * At 8 O'clock Tuesday Dr. Paul Blanshard, civic reform leader of New York City, will speak. on "Technocracy and Socialism” at an.l CAMP COOKING MENUS open meeting in Schwab auditorium! at 8:15 o'clock Tuesday night. PREPARED BY HARDING The lecture is the feature of the Penn State Christian association’s! Rile,,our - Chaco Plan for Student Forum series on “Aids to Significant! Classes in Arranging Meals Living. Talks by four faculty mcm-j bers are also included in the group. Mcnus for tho contemp i at ed classes Dr. Blanshard will hold a discus- [j n camp cookery have been completed smn with the Social- Problems club by Prof. Edith V. Harding, of the at 4:10 o’clock Tuesday afternoon and I home economics department. The will address the State College Rotary; outline for the course has been pre club on the topic, “The Routes of Civ- J pared by Dr. Joseph P. Ritenour, ic .Corruption,” at a dinner that night, j College Physician, and Miss Edith P. , No other definite plans .have been an- j Chaco, director of the home economics: nouncod, but arrangements are being! department. made to have the speaker address sev-| • According t 0 tha pl . oposUli phlns J eral undergraduate classes during the l students who ~a vi! bei ! n eooking their i !own meals will have an opportunity' The lecturer is known for the lead- j to do so under competent supervision. l ing part which he took in the Seabury! Classes will be held twice each week 1 investigation in New York City lastj in the Home Economics .building un-' j*ear. For several years, he has-been ider the direction of Miss Harding, j connected with the National League j As soon as a su ir icient number „£ for Industrial Democracy. He has ! tud .. nts baV(! cnroIll!d in the course> made special studies of social condi- the dasses wil , bcgin . acco ,. ding to ' tions ,n European countries. . j Dr . Kiteaoul .. Thc enrollment fee of, ~ J five dollai's may be paid at Miss ChacVs office. * | ‘FROTH* ELECTED TO HEAD COLLEGE COMICS The Penn Slate Froth was named: president of the Associated College j Comics of the East, at a convention I in New York City last Friday. Sec-j ond honors were carried by the Co - J Ittmbiu Jester and the Drown Jay, as| treasurer and secretary, respectively. | ' The presidency, which is an annual; award, has been won by Froth twice! during the last four years. . The po-i sition carries .with it the unofficial ti-j tie. of the best college comic in the! East.' . . ’35 CO-ED DANCE SCHEDULED Sophompre women will* hold their! annual dance on Saturday, March 25,! at the Delta Sigma Phi fraternity. Elsie M. Douthctt, 1935 women’s class president, has announced. The dance 'jtfill be closed because, of the large number of women in the class. FACULTY PLEDGES TOTAL OF $5,989 FOR RELIEF FUND Pledges totalling‘.';ss,9S9.lG have been received to data-by the faculty general relief committee, a report issued this week Edward Steidle, chairman, reveals. With the faculty donors privileg ed to designate whether their con tribution shall be used for general relief work or for-the faculty stu dent loan fund, $3,774.43 of the to tal pledged thus far in the cam paign has been set aside for gen eral relief and $2,21*1.73 has been turned over to the Faculty Student Loan fund. Cash pledges received to date' amount to $3,536.83. Pledges will be received by the committee until March 31, Dean, Steidle announced. /Faculty mem bers who desire to contribute may do so by turning in .‘pledge cards at.the office of the. College treas urer. COLLEGE SYMPHONY WILL PLAY SUNDAY Orchestra To Feature Program . Of Classical'Numbers at .Winter Concert •Presenting a program from the bet ter-known. operas and symphonies, the College Symphony orchestra will give the third winter concert in Schwab! auditorium at 3:30 o’clock Sunday af-j ternoon. ; J Prof. Hummel Fishburn, acting head ; of the music department and director i of the organization, has arranged the ■ program in three parts.-’ The prelude to the third act of. “Lohengrin” by Wagner, has been chosen as the first number to be played byv.the orchestra. To Play “Scheherezhda Suite” - Rimsky-Korsakoff Suite,” will be played, in its entirety, Fishburn stated. “Sea and Sinbad’s ; Ship,” the first section of the suite, l.will -be followed by “The Story of; jPiinco Ivalandar.” “The Young! Prince and the Young Princess” will j constitute the third part of the suite, j Concluding Rimsky-Kosakoff’s num-1 bers, the orchestra will present “Fes-j tival at Bagdad,” “The Sea," “The j Wreck,” and “Conclusion.” Albert, Kaplan ’34, will serve as violin soloist’ for these numbers. j “March of the Knights of the Holy [Grail” from Wagner’s “Parsifal” will , be the concluding number by the mem i bers of the symphonic-organization. 1 Thomas A. Kennedy ’33, is president: of the orchestra, while Simon Knulol ji . ’33 and Claude E. Shappolle ’34! serve as manager and secretary re-! spoctively. \ Who’s Dancing Tonight Lambda Clu Alpha (Closed) (Dill IJottorf) Phi Kappa Psi (Closed) ■ . (Campus Owls) Theta Nu Epsilon (Formal-Closed) (Varsity Ten) Tomorrow Night Alpha Zeta (Closed)' (Varsity Ten) Delta Theta Sigma (Formal-Closed) • (Campus Owh) rani (BANKS WILL OPEN "Zs! TODAY,issues™? ITo Carry On Restricted Business —Depositors Faculty Committee Will Work: May Withdraw Limit 0 f $5.00 From With Students in Making: I .Plans for Series | Personal Check Accounts SMITH NAMED CHAIRMAN i fr „ , r State College banks will reopen to transact a restricted busi- OF INVESTIGATING BOD\ |Jiess 9 o'clock this morning and will make payments in scrip. | Officials of the two local banks met in joint sessions which Administration Favors Securing lasted until late yesterday afternoon making the decision. The Financial Support From ' agreement to reopen and to issue the scrip was made in anticipa- Outsidc Sources ' tion of-further instructions from +■ j the national government. on, y (DELTA CM! ABSORBS Another step toward the revival- of j functions which are now* clearly j v “LtUl/IILtU the Artists'Course here for next year! permissabie by action of the i [Af PRATFRNITV was taken by the administration when ; Tl . eilsm . y department at Wash- ' W WUi 1 iltt 1 Lillii 1 X President Ralph D. Hotzel appointed 1 . , , . .. a faculty committee Tuesday to' work i mgton Will be carried on by the in conjunction with a student group! banks in formulating plans for the series, ‘ and for determining a means for fin-; , , . , f . anting it ■ The scr, P "’ill be issued in place of s 0 n „ ' cash to depositors ns payment of | Raymond H. Smith, College Comp- checks dvawn a painst their personal! troller, was named as head of the; accounts. However, the amount of; Culminating negotiations made committee, while other members are j the checks will be limited to five do!- ‘ during the past two weeks, the Penn Prof. Harold E. Dickson, of the fine Jars, and then, payment will be made Stute chapter of Della Chi fratcrnitv arts department, Prof. Hummel-Fish- on iy j n cases of vital need for food' absorbed Alpha Phi Shnna, local so burn, acting head of the music dc- and other necessities. Checks to! c ial fraternity. Official confirmation partment, and Prof. John H. Frizzell, make payroll payments will also bo cf the merger was made bv the presi head of the public speaking division, honoml. dent of each fraternity' early this llclzcl Favors Course Other transactions which the bank morning. The appointment was made at the officials will now permit are the rank-1 Alpha Phi Sigma will relinquish its request of John A. Wood >33, presi- ing of change, flee access to private 1 (.hnrter immediately. The seventeen dent of Student Council, who-named | safe deposit vaults, ami the privilege] act ivo members and pledges will ] the student committee, now studying l o{ making new deposits in a special i transfer to the Delta Chi” chapter the matter. Robert M. Maxwell >3B trust fund from which withdrawals ] housc tomorrow, according to present I heads the student group. A combined i a > a y made at an y time. i arrangements, meeting of the two groups will be! All scrip issued here will be backed j Marks Second .Merger held within the next two weeks. ! one hundred percent by cash in the! “ l T ... tile merger is the second case of a ! In appointing the faculty commit-1 national fraternity absorbing n local , tee President Hetsel stated that the; (Coutiiutul on pn/yt font) 01 . ra ni Z atio:, this venr. since the administration is heartily in i»™rof Pennsylvania Lambda chapter of Phi n course of a cultural nature which, 1H AMffM RFVTCF Kappa Psi ami Omega Epsilon, for | the faculty and student* want and WUWIIiW IU.IULVIO£ m er local organisation, merged on [Will support, but added hat the Col-] niIOIIIMO Pel>™ary 10. Arrangements • were 32. RUSHING CODE;—sL;^ hattiracattc -' amonth j Urges Course Perpetuation ] : i Delta Chi fraternity was installed Commenting further on the financ- pj ans Would Limil Number of it ere when Delta Pi relinquished its ing of, the series, President Hetzel i n r cm « charter to become* a member of the said, “Particularly in these times we rormai I aruta— Silent national organization in May, 1929. should go slowly in recommending Period Proposed The national organization was found taxes, no matter how worthy the ob- od at Cornell University as a law ject of the tax may seem.” He also fraternity on October 13, 1890, and urged that the group in charge obtain Including a short rushing period of n ow is comprised of thirty-seven definite . support from faculty und j from three days to one week in chapters, one in Canada, students in advance, and insure the! length, recommended to supplant the A , j, hi si , ma was ‘ established perpetuation of the course from year; present ten-day period, a number ol{j n , U . JV amJ v .. IR the fourth t 0 • veal ’- - i rushin B co<le ™ visions sl H ast -i oldest 'local ~fraternity* here at .the The student committee has made an'pi *>y_ the rushinßConimiUoa of Pan-i t i n)l . of t |,(, nu .,. gel .. J d,.. c. "irving investigation o£ the methods of fin-! hellenie Council Tuesday night. | hosier, former head of the romance anting the Artists’ Course in former 1 With a shorter rushing period, the languages department, and Prof, years-here, and of financing plans for j number of formal parties which each Chauncey 0. Ridenour,* of the Eng cultural series at other colleges, Jinx-j rushee could attend would be limited,! }j s h literature department, were ac well declared. Plans for general- stu-. the committee pointed out. Under- 1 live in founding the group, dent assessment and for division of J the proposed revisions, all- formal ] the present debating fee have been: parties would be given at the samel proposed by student leaders to revive I time and the rushee would attend the series for the coming year. j Number of. Dales Cut VARSITY ORATORS J The number of informal dates which! my* TTn « 4T A ja rushcc may have with one frater- TO MEET XJPSAEA ; nity was cut from four to two in tiie recommendations of the committee. Overnight visiting was ruled out, while a silent period of from two to four hours to precede the opening of rushing season, was suggested. J | A foity-fivo dollar allotment to. j cover each fraternity’s rushing ox-; , Louis P. Ilinmaa '34, Ernest C. Mil-'Pcnses must include all expenditures! jlcr '34, and Angelo N. Bcrbatis '35! for vushees, fraternity women, alum-j will represent Penn State in a debatei ™e, and patronesses, according to the; : with Upsala College in the Home Ecu-1 suggested revision. There will be no 1 [nomics auditorium at 7:30 o’clock to-1 *iniit on the number of fraternity | I night. women and rushers who may be to- j ■ The Penn State team will argue the ecther at an organized party. Under! negative of "Resolved, that all Inter-j the present code, such a group is Inn- ■ ! governmental war debts including r.'p-| ‘ted to six rushees and six fraternity [ r.rations, should be cancelled.” The ' women. • j contest will follow the Oiegon style! Pinal action will not bb taken on i [of cross-examination. the suggested revisions by the Pan-! [ Miller and Bcrbatis have been hellenic Council until the proposed j named by Joseph O'Brien, men’s do- changes have been considered by the! bate coach, to make the western trip separate fraternity houses. Thesug-j next week. ’ They will support the gestion of the fraternity presidents’! negative of the cancellation of war council that the Pnnhellenic president j debts question on the tour. he elected from within the council. _ ri ... .., Five debates arc scheduled for the was also referred to the individual ""™ ! „ y Jb ' S ",' "Z v,.!, , trip, including meets with Washington fraternities by the committee. R .. v ". . ! e . r . and Jefferson College, Seton Hill and o “ ; ol thc T “ on cl " b ’ Ohflve C slwm U kTt!™”.’ M d | STUDENTS TAKE FIRST TESTS .‘. E e‘o„omic AspeVts of” Pradurtion” Union College in Ohio Six students, majoring m landscape IW J. Oms Keller, head of engm ° - (architecture took their preliminary coring extension, will speak to the W <? r \ Tn Tim n i.'tumn\'c! tets lh " nation-wide competition group on April 11. 11. S. G. A. 10 HOLD liLIsCIIOMs for tho Bome |)ri!!L . in landscape m-!. Teams Will Use Oregon Style on: “Cancellation of War Debts” At Contest Tonight A nominating board composed of jchitceture yesterday. Ross B. Davis Miss Marie Haidt, of the School of f j.‘. ’dll, Eugene D. Ilegarty ’33, Robert Physical Education, as an advisory |\V. Pierson ’lid, George \\\ Wickstead member, S. Louise Everitt ’3ll, A. |'33, and Donald L. Black and Robert Elizabeth Preston ’33, and Eva M. ! Jl'essinger, graduate students, are the Blichfeldt ’34, will submit the list of j Penn State men eligible for the con nominees for W. S. G. A. elections by test. i March 22. The probable date for o ' nominations by ballot has been set fori. WILL HOLD HOUSEWARMING I March 20, with the final election date' ... J on Wednesday, April 5. , Alpha Chi Oniefra fraternity will. 0 hold a housewarming in their new liOAL APPENDICITIS VICTIM " ui ‘ c .„ i ", ''', om . an ’ s builclin(! flom Ito1 to i o o clock Sunday afternoon, according, •i- Stricken suddenly with ail attack of Ho Edith R. Cotton'’3s, chairman of f appendicitis, Robert S. Boat ’3O was j.tho reception committee. An open in-j operated upon in the Bollcfonte Gen- i vitation is extended to all faculty l end hospital Sunday afternoon. I members:, ; > Withdrawals Limited the party of her choice. PRICE FIVE CENTS i National Body. Alpha Phi Sigma I Complete Arrangements Merging Chapters COUNCIL TO INVESTIGATE UNLIMITED SENIOR CUTS Bnldinger, Govne, Wise Chosen ns Committee for Proposed IMan Unlimited cuts for seniors will be investigated by a' Student Council committee, it was decided at a meet ing of the group Tuesday night. Mil ton I. Baldinger ’;io will head the committee, assisted by James 13. Coyne -jo and Benjamin L. Wise After continued agitation, the un limited cuts proposal was voted down by the College faculty three years ago. The present council committee will investigate the possibility of re viving the campaign for cuts and will make a preliminary report at a meet ing of the council Tuesday night. President John A. Wood asked coun cil members to cooperate in checking the booing at the intercollegiate box ing tournament to be held here next week-end. He complimented the con duct of the student body at the Army boxing meet. STOVER WILL ADDRESS CLUB Banquet Date Fixed As Tuesday, April 4 Tuesday, April 4, lias been set as the date for the Gridiron Ban quel, sponsored by Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalism fra ternity, instead of March 23, as previously announced. The airair, an innovation on this campus, will satirize faculty and campus leaders. It is planned to hold the banquet in the University Club.
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