COMPLETE CAMPUS COVERAGE Vol. 29 No. 52 McFarlane, Ryan Seek ’34 Class Presidency Moyer, Platt, Stocker Listed as Junior Candidates CLIQUES MUST SUBMIT PETITIONS BY TOMORROW Stevens, Locust Lane, Pruitt, Campus,' To Compete for' Sophomore Head Norris B. McFarlane, Locust Lane, and John T. Ryan jr., Campus, will run for the presidency of next year’s senior class, according to unofficial announcements made by the cliques today. Petitions of class and Student Council nominees for elections on April 25, 26 and 27 must be sub mitted to the elections chairman on or before midnight tomorrow night. . A three-cornered contest developed in the junior presidential race last week when an. Independent clique -of non-fraternity men entered a candi date. Willard D. Moyer will run on the Independent ticket, with Vernon D. Platt as the Locust Lane nominee and John M. Stocker representing the Campus group. ’36 Ticket Listed In the elections for next year’s sophomore class president, J. Briggs Pruitt is lined up against Harold B. Stevens. Pruitt will run on the-Cam pus ticket, while Stevens is the Locust Lane selection. Campus clique nominees -ror other -senior class offices are Grant A. Col ton as secretary and Maxwell S. Moore as treasurer. Donald G. Bru baker will run for the 1934 secretary ship on the Locust Lane ticket, with S. Jack- Caraher competing for the 1 treasurer’s post. . - . . i . John u 'L. Miller/ Campus,* * Howard K. Johnston, Independent, and Robert! W.‘Brown, Locust-Lane, will'run for! the secretaryship of next year’s jun-| ior class. . Albert P. Mikelonis, Cam-J pus, and Howard C. Madsen, Locust! Lane, are the-nominees for 1935 1 treasurer. Council Nominees Named In the sophomore minor class of ficers’ race N. Randolph Cressman, Campus, will oppose William D. Bor lollette, Locust Lane, for'the position of secretary. Raymond G. Sloan jr., Campus, is lined up against Herbert E. Bohren, Locust Lane, for the 1936 treasiirership. Senior Campus nominees for three Student .Council seats in the School j of Agriculture are James C. Altemus, i Peter W. Fletcher, and A. Chester! Richer; while the Locust Lane nom-| inccs arc Thomas A. Smith, Thomas! A. Adams," and Norman E. Seibert. For the two Chemistry and Physics (Continued on page four) DR. TWEEDY GIVES CHAPEL ADDRESS Declares Modern Men, Women ‘Hard Baked’ Against AH Needed Social Reforms “Students today are so ‘hard baked’ with regard to the really terrible events that surround us every day that they never notice them, with the result -that many things nieding changed are hardly noticed even by the most interested/’, .Dr. Henry H. Tweedy, who professor of practical theology ai-Yale University, pointed ,out in his address to the/chapel audi ence Sunday morning. “The student attitude is not so much a symptom of being ‘hard boil ed/ as it is a proof of callousness that merely grows on one. These condi tions have existed since everyone’s childhood, we are used to them, they have become a part of our daily life/’ Dr. Tweedy continued. As an example of just how far this callousness to conditions can go, the speakerpointed to the public behead ing in some parts of China. The Yale theologian showed that the inhabit ants were so used to .seeing the exe cutions that they paid ho attention, but went on about their business, merely passing aside to allow the be heading to go on. “Every great power in the world to day faces the almost immediate pos sibility of another war, yet the citi«‘ zens are so hardened to the practice on the part of one nation warring - on the inhabitants of another, that all that is done is the designing of an other battleship, or the building of another dirigible to penetrate ‘enemy lines/ ’’ the speaker concluded. Prim otatr l|| (EnUwjutn. [~=~ For President . Norris B. McFarlane (Locust Lane) John T. Ryan jr. iCawpntf) Willard p. Moyer {lndependent) Vernon D. Platt {Locuat Lane) John M. Stocker {Campus) 1936 J. Briggs Pruitt ( Campus) Harold B. Stevens (Locust Lane) GRIDIRON BANQUET SET FOR TONIGHT First Sigma Delta Chi Affair Will Take Place Here At 7 O’Clock A new Penn State tradition will make its debut at 7 o'clock tonight when .Sigma Delta Chi,' professional journalism fraternity, plays host to more than one hundred student and faculty leaders of the College who have accepted invitations to the Grid iron Banquet at the University club. At the banquet, campus Institutions and individuals will be “taken for a ride” when their popular weaknesses are pointed out and burlesqued’ in plays, skits, and humorous features. The tentative guest list Includes fif ty-five members of the faculty, for ty-eight students, arid several alumni and others who are living in State College.,, j. Guests Listed Faculty members who will attend are-F. Joseph' Bedcnk, Hugo Bczdek, Cyrus V. D. Bissey, Robert E. Deng ler, Harold E. Dickson, Wes W. Dun lap, George W. Ebert, Neil M. Flem ing, Hummel Fishburn, Robert E. Galbraith, Theodore .J. Gates, Scott S. Geesey, William F. Gibbons, Har old R. Gilbert, and William A. Good. Other guests from the faculty will be William. L. Hammacher, William L. Henning; Edward K. Hibshman, Robert A. Higgins, William S. HofF- i man, Herbert M. Ilofford, Frank D. | Kern, Willard P. Lewis, Carl A. Mar-1 quardt, William G. Murtorff, H. Aub rey Myers, Frank Neusbaum, Edward J. Nichols, Frederick W. Owens, and Charles C. Peters. The list of faculty members at tending concludes with Hugh R. Ril ey, Joseph P. Ritenour, Edward H. Rohrbeck, Robert B. Rutherford, Robert L. Sackett, Harry W. Sea mans, Oscar F. Smith, Raymond F. Smith, Charles Speidel, Charles W. Stoddart, Wilfred 0. Thompson, Francis J. Tschan, Russell V. Ven able, Marsh W. White, and Arthur R. Warnock. Students who have accepted invita tions are Harry H. Balthaser, Harry A. Baudei*, A. Albert Blaess, Herman C. Brandt, William C. Burry, Wiley (Continued on page two) Formal Classroom Courses Most Valuable , Alumni Say Formal courses taken in the class room are of more value to success in after life than college extra-curricular activities, a majority of prominent Penn State alumni believe. Twenty-eight of the graduates who answered a Collecian questionnaire indicated that curricular courses had helped them most, while eleven said that extra-curricular enterprises were more important factors in their suc cess. .Twelve' gave no definite an swer/ . However; in answering another question, the alumni wore almost un animous in their opinion that, extra curricular participation had ' been very' valuable to them. Athletics, publications, Y. M. C. A. work, stu dent government/ outside reading, and athletic managerships were listed as the most helpful. “It takes a balance of courses and extra-curricular activities to get any where,” seemed to be the general be lief of the alumni. Too much onc sidednoss in either direction was held to be detrimental To the college man. “I think extra-curridulnr activities held real value and still do in many recpecis above formal courses,” was STATE COLLEGE, PA.;-'TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 1933 AMES TO DISCUSS ‘POLISH CORRIDOR’ IN TALK TONIGHT International Relations Club Sponsors Lectures on * World Affairs SPEAKER WILL CONDUCT OPEN FORUM TOMORROW Peace Treaty Revision Chosen As Subject for Closing: Address of Series “The Polish Corridor—Danger Spot of Europe,” will be the subject of the first of a series of addresses to be delivered by Sir Herbert B. Ames, former financial director of the League of Nations, in Schwab aud itorium at 8:15 o’clock tonight. At 4 o’clock tomorrow afternoon Sir Herbert will hold an open forum in the Little Theatre, Old Main, for discussion of topics on international affairs. He will speak on the sub ject, “Should the peace treaties be revised?" in his final talk in the Schwab auditorium at 8:15 o’clock tomorrow night. Opened First World Court Sponsored by the International Re lations club, the addresses will be open to the public with no admission charge, Dr. Jacob Tanger, faculty adviser to the organization, has an nounced. Sir Herbert will begin, his first lecture tour of the country with the talks -here. The lecturer has been very prom inent in international affairs, and has : travelled extensively abroad in con nection with his work. As the League’s financial director for seven years, he was responsible for the or ganization of its financial framework. Sir Herbert also opened t the first meeting of the World Court at The Hague in Holland. ; "■ / Served iii Parliament l Previous to his entrance into in ternational work. Sir Herbert served for thirteen years in the Canadian parliament. During the World War he was successful in directing the col lection of $50,000,000 for the Patriotic Fund of Canada. The international ist now resides in the United States. The lecture tour of the country is being undertaken by Sir Herbert un der the sponsorship of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, which fosters the ‘ International Re lations clubs at colleges throughout the world. Milton I. Baldinger ’33, president of the local organization, will act as chairman for the ad- 1 dresses. 300 LECTURERS OF GRANGE ENROLL FOR SHORT COURSE | Nearly three hundred Grange lec- I turers have enrolled for the third an l nual short course for Grange „ lee ! turers to be conducted here by the Pennsylvania State Grange,- April 13 to 15, according to Dean Ralph L. Watts, of the School of Agriculture. Among the speakers included on the program, -which has just been com pleted, are President Ralph D. Hetzel, Dean Watts, Philip H. Dewey, secre tary of internal affairs, and John A. McSparran, State secretary of agri", culture. • the opinion of one,alumnus, while another said that “extra-curricular enterprises are equally valuable in many cases, but the,formal courses are - more fundamental.” “Extra curricular work is essential but its value-is negligible without success in the formal courses,” was another con tention. “Scholarship cannot be-emphasized too much, but with it extra-curricular activities should be encouraged since they help immeasurably to round out the man and develop initiative,” wrote another alumnus.' “The greatest dan ger in formal instruction is that the student during his adolescent period becomes moulded by his instruction to follow directions only. As fine an asset as this may be, it kills or tends to kill initiative, which is the main asset the world pays for, and extra curricular activities help greatly to overcome this fault.” “My own feeling in the matter is that the best preparation is lor one to give his very best to his studies, but at the same time to take part in a few selected extra-curricular activit ies along the line of his greatest in terest,” was the belief of another graduate. Triangle Holds Lead In Schotastic Rating Triangle led : mien's fraternities for the past semester with a 1.72 average, according to figures re leased by Registrar William S. Hoffman. Tau '.Phi Delta, with a 1.G2 average, led/men’s local fra ternities. Gnmmaiphi Beta led all women’s fraternities with an aver age of 1.98. • The all-College-average for last semester was 1.29. Non-fraternity men, witn a mark*'of 1.36, and non fraternity women, with averages of 1.42, compiled, higher marks than the all-fraternity v mark of 1.2. Women’s all-College average for the past semester was 1.51, while the men’s all-College mark was 1.25. A complete list of the fraternit ies’ standings will be found on page three. •“ • •* BAKER WILL GIVE L. A. TALK TONIGHT “This Talking World” Chosen As Topic for Fourth Lecture Of Annual Series Speaking on "This Talking World," Prof. Herbert.Koepp-Baker, of the division of public .speaking, will give the fourth of the-Liberal Arts lectures in the auditorium-of; the Home Econ omics building at 7 .o’clock tonight. Professor Baker/ a graduate of the University of Michigan, has been di rector of the speech clinic here for three years. - ‘He'studied at the Uni versity of Berlin'; after graduating from the former institution, and later returned to this country to conduct investigations in pathology and ther apy. ; Has Stage Experience From 1926 to 1928, the speaker was connected with various stock and rep ertory companies /as a ; professional actor,., as'.'-welU'.a&sr:ih v - known chautauqua* company/ under whose auspices he gave several lec tures and recitals. Educational radio production and institutional work in laliatry claimed his attention from 1928 until he came here in 1930. In addition to his professorial du ties, Professor. Baker formerly had charge of College radio activities, hav ing been director of station WPSC when that station operated regularly. He also directs* the Parish House Players of St. Andrew’s Episcopal church of this town. His . topic, “This Talking World,” will account for the professional speaker’s reactions to present-day discourse, popular and otherwise. Be cause of his numerous contacts and his personal experience, Professor Baker is enabled to treat with his subject thoroughly. JACK ’33 RECEIVES AWARD CANDIDACY Phi Kappa Phi Member Will Compete Against College Seniors for Memorial Fellowship Following consideration by the scholarship committee of the local chapter of Phi Kappa Phi, national scholastic- honorary society, Eugene L. Jack ’33 was selected from a score of applicants Friday as the College candidate for one of the three Sparks Memorial Fellowships which are sponsored cooperatively by chapters of the honorary. Only senior students who have been elected to Phi Kappa Phi may apply for a college candidacy. Jaelc will compete with the candidates chosen at the other colleges where Phi Kappa Phi is represented. A national com mittee on awards will select the three successful candidates within the next six weeks. The fellowships were established' last year by the local chapter of Phi Kappa Phi. Three students selected by the national committee will each receive five hundred dollars to be ap plied toward a year of graduate work in their respective fields. Jack is enrolled in the School of ; Agriculture with a major in dairy production and a minor in agricul tural bio-chemistry. He has complet ed the regular four-year course in six semesters. • COLE. SPEAKS ON GENETICS Dr. Leon J. Cole,, head of the de partment of genetics at the Univer sity of Wisconsin, described the re | search program of that institution at !a meeting of 'students and faculty 1 members of the School of Agriculture ! yesterday. The lecture was sponsor-' ed by Sigma Xi, honorary scientific i fraternity. College Officials Plan No Action To Prevent Sale of Wine, Beer President Hetzel’s Statement WE. will face at the week-end one of those significant tests which from time lo time measure our individual and collective powers of' self-control and sell-respect. The legal aspect of the mat ter is at this time somewhat uncertain and confused, but the problem of conduct and the obligation relating to it which rest upon each of us and upon this com munity are perfectly clear. This College and this community and all individuals in terested in them are the beneficiaries of generous public support based upon the belief that we are worthy of it. The College faces the coming test with com plete confidence in the judgment, the good sense, the self respect, and .the loyalty of both the students of the College and the citizens of the College community. Office of the President April 3, 1933 JETTE CONTINUES PRIESTLEY TALKS Columbia University Professor Will Lecture on Topic of ‘Thermodynamics’ Speaking on “The Applications of Thermodynamics in' Metallurgy,” Dr. Eric R. Jctte, professor of metallurgy at Columbia University, will continue his series of Priestley lectures, spon-| sored by the department of chem istry and Phi Lambda Upsilon, hon orary chemistry fraternity, in the Chemisti'y • amphitheatre at 7:30 o’clock tontghtr'- • Dr. Jctte will illustrate his lectm*e by giving a detailed discussion on the physico-chemical calculations neces sary for the problems of Pennsyl vania’s steel and zinc industries. His discussion tomorrow -night will be a continuation of the topic of thermo dynamics and its relation to physical chemisti'y. Began Series Last Night ! Thursday night's lecture will be ! based on the subject, "Rate Deter mining Processes in Metallurgy.” Dr. i Jette will explain the type of detailed ! information which must be used to supplement the thermodynamics cal culations in metallurgy processes which he will describe tonight. The lecturer opened the series of lectures last night, discussing the “General Relationship Between Phy sical Chemistry and Metallurgy.” The entire series is based on the border line between physical chemistry and metallurgy and the processes involv ed in the industries combining the two sciences. Dr. Jette will be the guest of honor at a dinner given tonight by the Met allurgical- society and Sigma Gqfnma Epsilon, honorary mineral industries fraternity. Tomorrow night he will be the dinner guest of Alpha Chi, Sigma, professional chemistry frater nity, and on Thursday night he will be the guest of honor at the initiation banquet of Phi Lambda Upsilon. PROF. STOVER WILL SPEAK IN CLAIRTOX FRIDAY NIGHT Prof. Harney W. Stover, of the de partment of engineering extension, will speak on the subject, “Our Eco nomic Future,” at the final meeting of the . engineering extension course at Clairton, Friday night. Diplomas will be . awarded to twenty-five stu dents, and certificates will be pre sented to seventy. •Professor Stover will speak at a similar meeting in Altoona on Sat urday. At this meeting, eight men will bo graduated and fifty others will receive certificates. NORTHRUP ADDRESSES GROUP Prof. Harry B. Northrup, director of Mineral Industries extension de partment, was the principal speaker at the commencement exercises of the night extension school at -Wilkes- Barre Frjday night. He also present ed certificates and diplomas to thirty six students. ADDRESSES CIVIL ENGINEERS Jesse S. Ritchey ’OB, division en gineer of the State highway dopart- I merit, addressed a meeting of the jPenn State chapter, of the American 1 Society of Civil Engineers Tuesday [night on the subject “Recent High way Developments in the Low Price Field.” CO-ED ELECTIONS START TOMORROW Students Will Vote in Lobby of McAllister Hall—Polls To Open at 8 O’clock Polls for women elections to the major campus organizations will be •opened to all women undergraduate students in McAllister hall lobby at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning. Cast ing of ballots will continue until 5 o’clock in the afternoon. As a result of primary elections: cpnducted last Wednesday, Eva M.j v 4 have been nominated Women Student Government associa- j tion presidency. Nominees for pres-j ideney of Y.'W. C. A., are Margaret! E. Borland ’34, and Betty B. Thomp-j son ’34. ' [ May Queen Candidates Listed Doris M. Acker ’34 and Victoria R. Magda ’34 have received nominations for the position of V/. A. A. presi dency. Lucy J. Erdman ’35 and Nan cy W. Stahiman ’35, have been chos en as vice-presidential candidates of the W. S. G. A., while Elsie M. Dout hett ’35 and M. Elizabeth DifTender fer ’35 will run for vice-president of W. A. A. Phyllis G. Bcidlcr ’33 and S. Lou ise Everett ’33 are nominees for May Queen while A. Frances Turner ’36 and Maria Knepper '36 have been proposed for the freshman attendant. The defeated candidate for W. A. A. president will automatically become treasurer of the organization, accord ing to the code of that body. Rosamond W. Kamos ’34 and Mar garet E. Barnard ’34 have been nom inated for senior senators with Kath erine B. Humphrey ’35 and Elsie M. Douthett ’35 competing for junior sen atorship. Beula M. Rhoads ’36 and Virginia W. Lewis- will vie for sopho more senator., Nominees for the town girls’ senator are Anna M. Dotterel* ’34 and Margaret W. Kinsloe '35. 6 COUNTY HIGH SCHOOLS • WILL DEBATE SATURDAY To Hold Finals of Annual Contest In Little Theatre, Old Main Six high schools will compete in the annual contest of the Centra county high school debating league to be held in Room 405, Old Main, beginning at 1:30 o’clock Saturday afternoon. The Student Union and the Forensic council will co-operate with the league in conducting the eliminations. Each school will be represented by two teams, and the finals wil be held in the Little Theatre, Old Main, at S o’clock Saturday night. •The coaches of the school teams will, bo guests of.the Forensic council alt dinner in the Old Main Sandwich shop at 5:30 o’clock Saturday afternoon. 1 An organization of the league with the division of public sneaking will be j effected ,iit that time; according to. Prof. John H. Frizzell, head of the. public speaking division. DUTCHER WILL READ PAPER Reading a paper “Utilization ofj Carotene and Vitamin A in the Pres ence of Mineral Oil” Prof. A. Adams Dutcher, of the department of agricul tural and biological chemistry, will at tend the spring meeting of the Amer ican Chemical society, Washington, D. C., next week. . ~•*.*-4 PRICE FIVE CENTS Complete Confidence in Students Yoked by President HETZEL CALLS WEEK-END HERE ‘SIGNIFICANT TEST’ IJorough Officials May Install Prohibitive Legislation If Necessary j “With complete confidence in the j judgment, the good sense, the self - respect, and the loyalty” of students and townspeople, College officials will take no action to prevent the sale of legal beer and wine here after midnight Thursday night. Although no official notification has been given that sale will not be pro hibited, a statement released by President Ralph D. Iletzel- yesterday made no mention of a restriction on the sale of the beverage here. Bor ough officials, likewise, have taken no action in the matter, so that 3.2 per cent beer and wine could probably be sold here legally early Friday morn ing. Local Aspect in Doubt ! '*We will face at the week-end one | of those significant tests which from time to time measure our individual and collective powers of self-control and self-respect,” the President’s statement says. “The legal aspect of the matter is at this time some what uncertain and confused, but the problem of conduct and the obligation relating to it which rest upon each of us and upon this community arc perfectly clear.” “This College and this community and all individuals in them are the beneficiaries of generous public sup port based upon..the hejUf that we ave. 'jcbhtin -’ues! “The College faces the coming test with complete confidence in the judgment, the good sense, the self-re spect. and the loyalty of both the students of the College and the citi zens of the College community,” it concludes. Borough Ordinance Needed Although borough officials will probably not take any action before beer and wine become legal, Burgess Eugene 11. Lederer said early lust week that if the moral standards of the community were lowered the bor ough would pass an ordinance against the sale of 3.2 percent alcoholic bev erages here. Sale of legal- liquor here cannot bo prevented without an ordinance, the borough solicitor told Mr. Lederer late last week. However, he intimat ed that there might be developments within the next few {lays that would prohibit the distribution in State Col lege as a college town. Doubt as to whether or not an 1 Stale law prohibiting the sale of ar dent spirits or mnltjiquors within a two-mile radius of State College would become effective again was set tled by Prof. Sheldon C. Tanner, of (Coniinncd <m two) DEANS TO RELEASE GRADES BELOW T Administrative Council Formulates New Ruling—Will Include Listing of Zeros Zero grades, in addition to the be low grades, will be available at the deans’ offices for the fraternity schol arship chairman this semester, ac cording to Carl R. Ingling ’33, chair man of the student committee on fra ternity scholarship. The motion providing that zero grades lie included in the lists sent to the deans’ offices by the faculty was passed last week by the Council of Administration, following its recom mendation by Interfraternity council scholarship committee, and a commit tee from the Council of Administra tion. i Non-fraternity men will be able to * secure their below and zero grades ! only by forming groups and selecting a representative to go to the deans’ offices for them, according to the new regulation. Individuals will not be al lowed to use the lists, j Whether or not the zero grades [ would be mailed to the students along with the below grades has not yet been determined, Ingling declared. He added that the new motion would be put into effect when the grades are sent out for the present eight weeks’ period.
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