6-65 # 44 41, COMPLETE CAMPUS aft, ESTABLISHED COYERAGE r 4,1, sp • 1904 Air Vol. 30 No. 40 UNION TO SPONSOR LOAN FUND DANCE TOMORROW NIGHT Bill Bolted, Campus Owls" Will Play, for, Year's First Benefit Function ADMISSION FEE .OF $l.OO • • 'TO AUGMENT TREASURY Freshmen Women To' Receive 1 O'clock Permission for All-College Affair • With two campus bands furnishing rhythm tomorrow night, dance' lovers will attend the all-College Student Loan fund dance hi Recreation hall frcim 9 until 12 o'clock. 'An admis sion fee of $l.OO per .couple will be charged. Music for the affair will be fur nished by Bill Bottorr and the Campus Owls. Playing side by side at the west end of the hall, the bands will alternate with rhythmic melodies dur ing the entire evening. The amplify ing system of the College will be used. "Stags" Must Pay $l.OO Planned primarily 'to augment the ,depleted Student Loan fund,treasury, all proceeds will be turned over to-the Union, according to Carson W. Culp '34, chairman of the. Junior. Loan fund committee which is sponsoring the function. This is the -first 'Loan fund dance held this year.: In order to facilitate matters , a checking charge of ten cents per couple wilt also be made, with the ;Profits benefiting the Unioti'Loan fund. All !"stags" attending the, ail- College function will be charged the ,$l.OO - fee, the committee has ruled. Poster Winners Announced Held 'as a free social function, all freshmen womeW who attend the af fair will be grintad 1 o'clock perm's-, nion,•.•accord '34,• president_ of the 'W.' S. G. A. Freshmen ctiatoma . will..not belenfore et! for the all-College function. RObert , A:''NVii . r6o . . '36 and' Jamea Dugan '37_,have been. named• as winners_ in the poster contest conduct.' 'ed during the. last two weeks by-the committee, with Lynn F. Christy '35 , in charge Both' will receive tempi'. mentarY tickets. TEAM TO DEBATE - DICKINSON ON NRA Durkee '35, Townsend '35 Will Meet Oldst Rival: in Thirty-First tnnuel Competition In the thirty-first annual debate between . Dickinson College and Penn State Robert L.'Durkee '35 and Jarhes W. Townsend '35 will represent Penn State, presenting the affirmative ar guments in an . Oregon style debate, on the N. R..A. in the Little Theatre, Old Main, at 7 o'clock tomorrow night. Under the Oregon style of debate the, audience participates in the dis cussion on which,•in thisinstance, will be on the advisibility of making the essential policies .of the 14, - R. A. the permanent policy of the United States government. The debate will be over in sufficient time :for the audience to attend the Loan Fund dance in Re creation hall at 9 o'clock. This debate is the sole surviving meet of the Pennsylvania Debatihg League organized , in 1903 by profes sors at Franklin' and Marshall; Dick inson; SwarthinOre, and Perin State. Of the four founders,,two are liVing today. 'They arc pi. Paul. Pcarion; present Governor 'General of the Vir gin Islands and ; termer professor of public speakini.iit Swarthmore, and, Prof. 'John' H. 'Frieze% head of the, division of public speaking .here. . The two other founders were Aler via G. Filler, who was, at the time of the founding, professor of Latin at Dickinson College and who later be came president of the college; and' Doctor Schaffer, professor of eco nomics at Franklin and Marshall. Col lege.' MEDRICK RESUMES WRITINGS 'Benjamin W Dedrick, of the de partment of milling 'engineering, has resumed writing.' a. column for the Northwestern Maki , entitled "Notes at Random."... Mr.lsCdrick is writing a series of articles for the. same magazine 'concerning the ' technical Work of, milling.' He is alio consid ering a company'e offer: to exploit the wheat extract which he discovered several years 'ago',ind which, it is he lieved, 'will greatly. 'advance the pro cess of bread luapufacturing. Scholarship, Finances Bar 109 Men From , Initiations 62 Lack Prerequisite Averages While 47 Give Insufficient Funds as Reasons for Continued Pledgeship Scholastic ,find financial reasons! seem to be the . chief obstacles that! bar the.fraternity neophyte from ini tiation, a recent survey of fifty-three fraternity houses on the campus , re veals. • -SixtY-two pledges did not have aver ages high enough, to satisfy the house initiation requirements, the replies to , the' questionnaire show. Forty-seven I gave the lack of sufficient funds as the reason for, their continued pledge- Ship. . . The number of pledges broken and withdrawals ,from the house were nearly identicak seventeen pledges be ing terminated by the houses, while eighteen' withdrew Wore initiation. TWelve.mcn 'gave .miscellaneous rea, sons for, not joining the organizations, including the, cryptic, statement "can not get parents'. consent." Of, the 406 freshmen pledged by the fraternities. here, 468 have been or will be initiated this month', the survey shows. ,One hundred fifty-five of the 173 upperclassmen who were pledged during thelirstaernester will also be come members some time during Feb- Vuary. Thirty-seven of the fraternities re- HETZEL DISCUSSES JUNIOR COLLEGES President :Believes College I Will • • Nat' ESCabliSli Them in .; Near. Future "I doubt if the Pennsylvania State CollogeAs4oine-to Ini-icady„to estab lish junior colleges in the near future,", Proiderns of the Junior dollege" before' a. meeting of mem- Vers .of the College ,chapter of the Americam•Association+of University Professors in the Home Economics auditorium' inst - night. _ ...President• .liletzei. stated that the rapid growth of-,the junior college as an. educational. institution makes it necessary for the' College tO . consider action'. uptuf this trend but that ex perimental units which are not finan ced by' the , College should precede the establishment of any form of rec ognized junior college. fteserrtWork Cited The president also pointed out the need of flexibility in the College edu cational Policy which will permit stu dents. who have taken work in exist ing junior 'colleges in the State to complete their work here with the least possible difficulty. The experimental community in struction in first year college subjects which was. put into' effect this year by the School of Education was men tioned by the President as an example of the 'sort. of experiMental work Which may be conducted in an effort to discover cautiously the soundest method of procedure regarding the junior college problems. Several members of. the association participated in the infornial discus sion 'of the President's remarks which began at the close of the address. Deans" 9f the Schools of the College contribined their Ideas of the typo of procedure which was necessary to fit in with work covered in the respective school. -0 DEBATERS TO. DISCUSS NEW GRADING SYSTEM Delta Alpha Delta Will Award Cup rTo %mica's Intramural Winne- • • "Resolved, thk. a grading sykem should be adopted •at Penn State I whereby the grades should be *sig naled by 'pass' and 'fail'," is the ques tion Which will be discussed at the 1 first of a series of women's intramural 'debates to be held in Rooin 1, North Liberal Arta building at `8 o'clock Tucoday night. Delta Alpha Delta, women's honor ary debating•fraternity, will award a silver cup to the winner of the tour naiUent, whiCh will include teams from the.wothen's fratornities,dormitorick; and independent groups. The trophy is atot,•to •be permanent but will be awarded each year. , • Two . speakers will compose each team, each speaking seven minutes. areinbeys. of Delta Alpha Delta will act as judges for the debates. Mem bers of all elassei are eligible to take part,. except members-of. tbo frater nity or of the lobating squad. STATE COLLEGE, PA., THURSDAY-,EVENING, F quire an average of at least a "1" to make the pledges eligible for-initia tion, while one house has a "0" re quirement. One named ".7" while another gave ".75" as the standard.. One house allows a maximum of six credits flunked, another permits five credits not .passed, while a third will initiate a pledge who flunks no more than three 'credits. The requirement of one fraternity was given "As long as signs are shown of remaining in school, the man may be initiated.;' Another insists on a rating better than the all-College aver age of the previous semester. The remainder of the fraternities did not list their requirements. I. F. C. PASSES $5O SECRETARIAL WAGE Unanimous Ballot Cast To Pay Secretary-treasurer at End of Office Term After u 'hectic discussion' lasting nearly half the meeting, Interfrater nity Council last night passed a mo tion to pay the secretary-treasurer of the organization a fifty-dollar salary at the completion of his term in office. The vote was unanimous. At the same time, the Council tim ed down a proposal to make the office of president a salaried position. The discussion came up as a result of recommendations, reported by Donald G.. Brubaker '34, and made by the executive .coinolittee of the Board of Control at its meeting yesterday of- MM=M Clyde C. Colo '34, speaking as an unofficial delegate, attacked the recommendation of paying the Coun cil president a salary, holding that the honor attending the office was sufficient recompense. He favored, however, a salary for the secretary treasurer. Karl P. Wilber jr. '34 defended the recommendation on the grounds that the president does work commensur ate with any other executive on the campus and should be remunerated beyond "mere honor." Carson W. Culp '34 took the opposite view, but concurred with Weber on 'the secre tary-treasurer salary discussion. On a motion introduced by William A. Hansen '34, the Council passed the resolution, amending it so that the president will receive's gift from the Council at the end of his term. The motion will go into effect mext year, since both H. Carl Brandt '34 and A. Homer Manwaring '34, - present presi dent and .secretary-treasurer incum bentsi.Aleclined to receive salaries for their work this year. RYAN '34 TO SPEAK FRIDAY John E. Ryan '34 will speak before the American Society of Mechanical Engineers on "The Diesel Engine in Municipal Power Plants" in Room 107, Main Engineering, at 4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. 5 Freshmen in Probation Section Given Chance To Improve Grades The difficulty of securing jobs at This year there are 672 in the up the- present time has been cited by perclasses, eleven of whom were in Dean Charles W. Stoddart, of , the the probation section because they had School of Liberal Arts, as the real below grades in fifty percent or more reason for continuing the freshman of their work during'their first year. probatioh.section. ' Of this number, four did not return "If I could be certain that every to College the second semester and student in this special section would two were dropped by the College be. be able to get•a job," the Dean stet- cause they flunked more, than half ed,."l would get rid of the group en- their credits for the second time. The tirely.' As' it is now, I think it is remaining five students' are on pro worth while keeping these men it they batten under the direction of Dr. show any promise' of being able' to' Willard Waller, of. the department t Manage tho work assigned, to them. of economics and sociology. Vir.e have salvaged eleven out of twen- If, at the end of the first eight ty-six failures and that is a high weeks of this semester, any one of enough percentage," the Dean de- them has a below grade in more,than Oared., .. one subject, he will be required to Of 281" freshinen students 'in the leave College. This is the third year School.of -Liberal ArtS, five flunked for this system of permitting defi fifty percent or more of their credits dent students to continue their M at the end, of the first semester. This lege training for an extra period at number is twelve less than the num- least and as long thereafter as they . _ her last year in spite of the fact that make passing grades. „Two years ago, there are thirty-nine more students in there were twelve' students in the this 'year's class than. in last year's, group. Four are still in College, two Dean Stoddart explained. In the up- with no below grades and two with perclasses; of the 684 students lastionly one below grade. One of these year, ten •%have heed in the special students has better than a "1" ava st:L:l,lmi -Since their freshmen year. age. Date for.Soph Hop Booth Drawings Set Drawings for fraternity booths at Soph Hop will take place at the Phi Epsilon Pi house at 8 o'clock Tuesday night, Harold B. Lipsius, committee chairmaii announced yes terday.. Each house desiring a booth will be assessed five dollars, due and payable Tuesday night. All posters entered in the annual contest conducted by the commit tee must be submitted to Lipsius by Tuesday noon in order to be eligible for.judging. A ticket to the dance will be awarded to the winner. SCHLINK TOI SPEAK • HEREON' ERCH 15 Head of Consuners' Research Will Give Talk; Sponsored , ' By 2 Honoraries Dr. Frederick J. Schlink, co-author of "100,000,000 Guinea Pigs" and "Your Money's Wonth," and execu tive director of Conilanters' Research, Inc., will speak in Schwab auditorium Thursday night, . March 15. Dr. Schlink's appearance here is being sponsored by Alpha:Delta Sigma, na tional professional.ndyertising frater nity, and by lota Sigma Pi, women's honorary chemical fraternity. Dr. Schlink, ,who speak on "Safeguarding the Consumers' Inter ests," Will answer onestions from the audience after his address. A popu lar lecturer before college groups and a specialist in the technique and ere nomics of advertising, Dr. Schlink first came into national prominence several years ago when he published, with Stuart Chase,' "Your Money's Worth." Founder of Consurners Research This expose of. certain trade evils was an outgrowth of Dr. Schlink's in vestigations while ot:the staff of the United States Burdo] . of Standards. there'ltuld be a gov ci:liMantai .agency,Zt&Jook • •after , Che problems of the consumer, Dr. Schlink was instrumental in the organization of Consumers' Research, a non-profit investigating body which analyzes consumers • goods on the market and rates them on a basis of value to the buyer, The speaker was graduated from the University of Illinois in 1913. He was formerly secretary of the Ameri can Standards Association, is a mem ber :of the American Society of Me chanical Engineers, a Fellow of the Philosophical Society of Washington, the American Physical society, the American Association for the Ad vancement of Science, and Sigma Xi, national honorary science fraternity. Alumni here of the University of Illinois, members of Tau Kappa Ep silon, and members of the faculty and administration are planning a testi monial dinner for Dr. Schlink. Harold J: Batsch '34 is chairman of the com mittee completing arrangements. IOURNALISNI 11ERE Mrs, Robert Mann; national presi dent of Theta Sigma Phi, national women's journalism honorary, was the guest of honor at a tea given by Alpha Theta Epsilon, local women's journalism honorary, at the Delta Gamma 'house yesterday afternoon. Other guests were. Miss Rebecca Gross, editor of the Lock.Homm presa; and Miss Janite Steinmetz, of the Lancaster litlelligenec. BRUARY 22, 1934 BEEBE WILL GIVE ARTISTS' COURSE LECTURE TUESDAY First Speaker in 1934 Program Will Present Illustrated Talk on Underseas SCIENTIST WILL DISCUSS - SEA LIFE OFF BERMUDA Zoologist Descended to Depth Of 2,200 Feet in 1932 For Observations As the second number of the 1534 Artists' Course series, 'Dr. William Beebe, scientist and lecturer who has won fame by his submarine explora tions conducted in a huge steel ball, will give an illustrated lecture on "Four Hundred Fathoms Down" in Schwab auditorium Tuesday night. Dr.' Beebe, director of tropical• re search for the New York Zoological society, has made special studies of the habits of birds, animals, insects, and fish. His new, lecture deals with studies of marine life off the coast of Bermuda. Reached Depth of 2,200 Feet In September, 1932, the scientist, descended to a record depth of 2,200 feet near the Nonsuch Islands, Ber muda. He was sealed in a huge steel ball, or bathysphere, which was at tached by' a specially •constructed, . non-twisting cable to a barge. The bathysphere was equipped with oxy gen tanks, telephone, electric lights, fans, and thermometers. The portholes were windows of fus ed quartz,, capable of withstanding a pressure of 5,000 tons. The lectur er maintained constant communication with a stenographer on the deck of the barge and dictated his observe tidns and impressions of the myster ; ies he saw. To Show Animated Cartoons FiSh'that — PrOVide•their'oww - light; and fish that' swine upright on their tails .are among the •oddities which Dr. Beebe has. observed in his deep sea pilgrimages. As these "queer fish" swam paSt his vision, the scien tist made records and sketches of them' and these studies provided the material for . his lectures. Since it was impossible to make motion pictures under the conditions at that depth, Dr. Beebe has prepared a series of detailed animated cartoons to provide illustrations for his lec ture. In addition, motion pictures showing how the dive was made will be shown. Dr. Beebe has written several ar ticles 'based on his explorations for the Atlantic Monthly and other maga zines. He has also contributed to the New York Times. BLACK WILL SPEAK IN CHAPEL SUNDAY Union Seminary Theologian Selects The Outlook of Religion' As Sermon Topic "The Outlook of Religion" will be the subject of the address to be given in chapel Sendai , morning by Dr. Hugh Black, professor of practical theology at the Union Theological Seminary in New York City. Since the speaker's last appearance before a State College audience in 1923, he has spoken before a number of College and university groups in the United States and abroad. Dr. Black has been associated with the seminary since he came to the United States from Scotland in 1906. The theologian published his first book, "The Dream of Youth," in 1894 while minister of Sherwood Church in Paisley, Scotland. Since that time he has written such books as "Culture and Restraint," "The Practice of Self- . Culture," "The Open Door," and "The Adventure of Being Man." The men's glee club making their 'first appearance of the year in Schwab auditorium will take the place of . the regular chapel choir. The or ganization will present a choral ar rangement of the song "Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones." • DEAN 'l2 PUI3LISIIES ARTICLE Samuel M. De . an 'l2 principal of the North ,China School of Engineering Practice,, Peiping, China ; has recently had an article entitled "An ExpeCi ment in' Small Scale, Rural Produc tion" published in the Journal of the Association of Chinese and American Engineers. , His article describes the introduction. of ' the manufacture of, homespun woolens and modern mach incry. Student FERA Jobs Delayed Until March Freshmen `Collegian' Candidates To Meet Another meeting for freshmen editorial candidates 'for the COL LEGIAN will be bold in the COLLEGIAN office, Room 312, Old Main, at 1:30 o'clock , Tuesday night. The meeting win be under the supervision of Bernard H. Rosenz weig '34, news . editor, who will in struct the candidates on the proper procedure in covering beats. BOARD WILL VOTE ON UNIFORM FEES Blue Band Will Get New Outfits If Plan to Assess Men Students Passes New uniforms for the Blue Band will become a reality next semester if the male student assessment of fifty cents for two semesters, passed last night by the Interclass Finance com mittee and Neil N. Fleming, graduate manager of athletics, is sanctioned by the Student Board at its next meeting. Under the plans evolved by the corne mitten last night, all men will be as sessed fifty cents at.both registrations next year... Placement of . the order for the outfits will , be made as soon as• the Board members approve the spec ial fee and the band committee, act ing with Jacob R. Stark '34, chair man of the Finance committee, agree upon a desirable type. of uniform. Model of Uniform Undecided As only male students will be asses sed, according to the plan, the num ber of uniforms, will be limited be- twecn eighty and eightk-fiye,. rather. by the student band committee.. The budget will permit . an expenditure of $50.00 for each uniform, according to Stark. 'lf ; however, women students consent to being assessed; additional uniforms may be ordered. Although no agreement has been reached yet as to the actual type . .of uniform desired, it is expected that'. the old military style will be substi tuted by a flashier type. The new uniforms under consideration will carry out the conventional blue and white color scheme with snore color ' ful braids and stripes. The action taken by the student leaders last week culminates a three years' drive for obtaining the new uniforms. The present type of uni form has been in use here since 1021 I The Blue Band has been under the direction of Bandmaster Wilfred 0. Thompson for the past twenty years. DELEGATES TO ATTEND ANNUAL Y. M C. A. MEET Christina Living' Topic of Buck Hill Falls Conference March 2,3, •1 Seeking a true interpretation of what living as a Christian really means today, representatives from Penn State and other colleges in the Middle Atlantic section of the East will meet at Buck Hill Falls the week end of March 2 to 4. At the annual conference there. sponsored by the Student Branch of the Y. M. C. A., delegates will listen to talks by leading men in Christian work, especially among students, from all parts of the country. The first meeting Friday night will take up "'Urgent Issues in Thought and Action Confronting Us as Christians Today." Following meetings will consider "What Christian Living Involves To day," and "The Validity of the Chris tian Answer" in terms of human na ture, social forces, economic determi minism, modern science, philosophy, and personal experience. STECKEIt '35 , HAS OPERATION Charles H. Stocker '35, is in serious condition in the Bellefonte hospital following an operation for acute ap pendicitis. Who's Dancing Tomorrow Night Loan Fund Dance (Subscription) Bill Bottorf and Campus 0 iide, Saturday Night Delta Chi (Invitation) 13111. Bo:tarf PRICE FIVE CENTS State Board Will 'Act On Request for Aid Feb. 28 OFFICIALS SET UNIFORM WAGE OF $l5 A MONTH Deans Compile List of Possible . Projects—More Than 206 Already Suggested No students will be, given campus jobs under the plan of the Federal . Emergency Relief Administration un til March. The State FERA board, which must pass on President Ralph D. Iletzers request for funds, will not meet until February 28, and until they approve the requisition, the Col lege cannot undertake to employ un dergraduates. Word to this effect was received early this week by College administra tion officials. Dr. Iletzers $3,277 re quest for wages for employment dur ing the last half of February was sent to Harrisburg for approval two weeks ago. No reply had been received un til Tuesday. 200 Projects Suggested Although original plans called fur a scale of wages ranging from $lO to $2O per student, it has been decided to pay each student a flat wage of $l5 a month for his work. All the work will have essentially the same number of hours and entail the same amount of physical labor. Although there is no prospect of FERA jobs until the first week in i‘larch, ' the Deans of the various Schools in conjunction with George W. Ebert, CWA and FERA director on the campus,' have been compiling to list of the possible projects to be un dertaken, Over two .hundred jobs Jobs to Represent All:Schools :Division of the 437 jobs, of which '328 will be given to students already in College, while the remaining 109 will go to students not in College on January 1, has been made by Mr. Ebert. For • the sake of filing, the former have been termed A's and the latter B's. Under this classification, the School• of Agriculture will have forty-nine A's and sixteen B's, the School of ' Chemistry and Physics thirty-eight A's and twelve B's, the School of En gineering fifty-seven A's and nine teen B's, the School of Education fif ty-seven A's and nineteen B's, the School of Liberal Arts sixty-six A ' s and twenty-three I.l's, the School of Mineral Industries eleven A's and four B's, and the School of Physical• Education and Athletics nine A's and three B's. There will also be forty-one A's and thirteen B's taken from the ad ministration, which includes the tran sition 'section. Under administration is found the library, alumni, public information, and other units. DYE TO GIVE FIFTH L. A. TALK MONDAY Will Lecture on 'Philadelphia and Its Theatrical History' in H. E. Auditorium Speaking on "Philadelphia and Its Theatrical History," Prof. William S. Dye jr., head of the department of English literature, will• give the fifth of the annual Liberal Arts lectures in the Home Economics auditorium at 7 o'clock Monday night. Professor Dye was graduated front the University of Pennsylvania. Coin ing here as an instructor in English in 1907, he became one of the pro moters of drama on the Penn State campus. While Dr. Edwin C. Sparks was president of the College, he was active with the Thespians and other dramatic organizations and was one : of the founders of the . Penn State Players. In addition to his interest in local dramatics Professor Dye has made a special study of the theatre in Penn sylvania, particularly in Philadelphia, his native city. One of these studies led to the publication in 1931 of "Pennsylvania Versus the Theater," an article showing the puritanical ideas of the State. Professor Dye received his M. A. front Penn State in 1908 and his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1915. After the war he was made chairman of the department of En glish and since 1927 has served us head of the department of English literature.
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