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Volume 31- Number 4
Total Enrollment SetiAt 4,467 Last Night
400 Students To Get
F.E.R.A. Employment
Total Reaches 525 With
Engineering School
Still to Report
Men Will Work in All
; College Departments
; Almost 400 students from schools
iii the College other thantho School
of Liberal 1 Arts and the School of
Engineering' will receive P. E.' R. A.
jobs.today.’ln the last issue of the
Collegian, it was stated that 125 stu
dents from the Liberal Arts schools
would receive jobs. Until the School
of Engineering turns in its report, it
will be impossible to estimate the
total number of workers.
Three mem will be used in the office
of the purchasing agent to index and
assort materials while four men will
aid Major Wilfred 0. Thompson in
the distributing and checking of mili
tary uniforms. In the public informa
tion office several men will be used
to continue the advertising work of
the College. A survey will be made on
the present results of the publicity.
'To Work on Records
'.To index materials,.overhaul- equip
ment, and make a steam study, three
men will, be employed in the power
plant The Registrar’s office will use
.seven or more students to make a
study of mortality rates of students
in the past ten’ years,, to make an in- ;
tensive study of the class of ’32, to
transfer old records,to tracing cloths,
and to tabulate advanced student’s re
cords.' • s
The department of military science
•and tactics will use four ‘ men to do
research make drafts. The
'Dean of Women wants one or more
persons to report on loans made to
students-and to. study the; problem of
i-student-self-supp'o'r.t^^^'-*'
7, She will also use someone to ar
range reference matter and complete
the records of women graduates. Ap
. proximately twenty-two men will be
used in the College Library to move and
reshelve books, as well as clean tfyem,
. (Continued on page four)
Bell ’29 To Fill Post
Vacated by Hofford
That it is quite a different feeling
to be an instructor in journalism at
Penn State rather than a student in
that curriculum or even editor of the
Collegian was the opinion of Louis
H. -Bell ’29’ recently appointed to fill
the vacancy made by the resignation
of Herbert M. Hofford. At the same
time' Mr. Bell was appointed, Wil
liam K. Ulerich ’3l was named part
time; assistant in journalism.
Mr. Bell has been'connected with
•the. Chester Times ■ for the past few
.years as sports col-umnist. He taught
journalism at night school in Chester
high- school for more, than a year.
While ari undergraduate here he was
a member of Lion’s Paw, Student
Board, Sphinx, LaVic staff, junior
prom committee, freshman proclama
tion-committee, Pi Delta Epsilon, hon
orary journalism fraternity, and Stu
dent Union.
•Mr. Ulerich'was also editor of the
Collegian and a member of Sigma
Delta Chi, professional journalism
fraternity, as well as Student Union,
Student Board and several commit
tees;. For the past-two years he has
been associated with the Centre Daily .
Times as managing editor.
WBYA Positions Open
To Radio Operators
Students holding amateur radio li
censes are eligible to apply for posi
tions .as assistant operators on the
College radio' station staff, which op
erates WBYA, the College station,
•and: WLMA, the Army network sta
tion,it was announced today by Gil
bert X. Crossley, instructor in radio
engineering.
Positions are open to freshmen as
well as upperclassmen, and it is not
necessary that.the student be enroll
ed in the School of Engineering, as
long as he is qualified to act as. an
amateur, operator.
Letters • of application should be
sent to Mr. Crossley, in care of the
electrical engineering .
before next Wednesday, in order that
they may reach the department by
the following day. * The application
should contain the experience, grade
of license!-held, and nil other per
tinent facts.
Honorary Fraternity
Accepts National Bid
Alpha Theta Epsilon, local wom
en’s professional journalism fra
ternity has been installed as the
Alpha Tau chapter of Theta Sigma
Phi, national professional journal
ism fraternity. The petition of the
Penn State chapter was accepted
at the annual convention of the na
tional chapter last June.
The president of the local chap
ter is Margaret Minnig *35. Kath
erine M. Gorman ’35 and Wilma E.
Hcineman ’35 are treasurer and
secretary respectively. Other mem
bers are Marcia B. Daniel- ’35, E.
Marion Tomlinson ’35, Florence M.
Zerbey ’35, A. Frances Turner. ’36,
Ruth E. Koehler ’36, Florence J.
Reese ’36, and Anne M. McCaughey
'36.
50 Seek Places
In Players Show
‘Late Christopher Bean’ Named
As Dad’s Day Production;
Technicians Chosen
More than fifty candidates for the
Penn State Players tried -out for
parts in the next show which will
be given in the, Schwab auditorium
as a part of the annual Dad’s Day
program. The play to be presented is
“The Late Christopher Bean” by Sid
ney Howard and will be directed by
Frank S. Neusbaum, of the depart
ment of English composition.
In addition to the candidates for
acting parts, were..al.mostXorty
freshnien^opplyihg'for.'placesjoh"
Players technical staff. At the meet
ing in the Little -Theatre’ Tuesday
night, : Prof. Arthur C. Cloetingh,
director of the Players,- and Mr. Neus
baum introduced the present senior
technical- staff who explained the work
required of scene technicians.
Technical Staff Chosen
Following the freshmen meeting,
the technical staff for “The Late
Christopher Bean” was selected.
Edith R. Cottom ’35 will handle the
costumes, H. Chester McLaughlin ’35
has been appointed to design the
stage setting and Charles Raudcn
bush ’35 will act as electrician.
The advertising manager is Robert
L. Grum ’35-and the publicity agent,
Katherine M. Gorman '35. The stage
manager will be Charles R. Stockier
’35.
College Seriate Membership
Announced for ’34, ’35 Classes
All Schools Represented in Governing Body-by
Deans, Many Heads of Departments
The College senate, governing body
composed entirely of faculty mem
bers, for the academic year 1934-35
was announced Wednesday. The
members of the senate are:
-President of the College, Ralph D.
Hetzel; College Registrar, William S.
Hoffman; College comptroller, Ray
mond H. Smith; Dean of Men, Ar
thur R. Warnock; Dean of Women,
Charlotte E. Ray; Executive Secre
tary, to the President; Adrian 0.
Morse; College librarian, Willard P.
Lewis; College publicity director,
Walter F. Dantzcher. _
School of Agriculture
From the School of Agriculture,
Dean Ralph A. Watts, Prof. Adam
L. Beam, of the department o£ dairy
husbandry; Prof. Franklin L. Bent
ley, of the animal husbandry-depart-!
ment; Prof. Ralph U. Blasingame, of
the agricultural engineering depart
ment.
Prof. Andrew A. Borland, of the
department of dairy husbandry; Prof.
Edward H. Dusham, of the zoology
and entomology department; Prof. R.
Adams Dutchcr, of the agricultural
and biological chemistry department;
Prof. William G. Edwards, of the
forestry department; Prof. Steven
son W. Fletcher, of the horticulture
department; Prof. Ernest B. Forbes,
of the animal nutrition department;
Prof. Frank D. Gardner, of the ag
ronomy department; Prof. William
Li Henning, of the animal husbandry
department.
Prof. Herman C. Knandel, of the
poultry husbandry department; Prof.
Milton S. McDowell, director of agri-
STATE COLLEGE, PA., FRIDAY;. SEPTEMBER 21, 1934
$15,182 Deficit
Shown by A.A.
For Last Year
Income Totals $89,208;
Expenditures' Set
At $104,390
Football, Track Incur
2 Heaviest Expenses
For the first time since 1928, and
for the third time in fifteen years,
the Athletic association failed to
show a surplus. The excess of expen
ditures over income, for the fiscal
year ended June 30, 1934, was $15,-
182.13, as compared with a surplus
of $20,484.90 the previous year. The
total of the two previous deficits in
the period was $9,259.28.
The total yearly income from all
sources was $89,208.53, as compared
with the previous year’s income of
$130,584,93. There was not a mark
ed difference in the expenditures,:
however, the total for the past, year
being $104,390.66 as compared to
$110,100.03 for 1933.
Football Deficit
The principal items of income were
■ student fees, $60,597.24; ticket sales
and guarantees, $27,457.88; faculty
and season tickets, $1,089.60; and
expenditures, for sports, $83,484.09;
general association, $16,831.58; and
maintenance of athletic, fields, $4,-
074.99.
Football for the second time in re
cent years showed a deficit along
with the rest of the sports. The total
deficit for all sports was $56,026.21.
This was made up from football, $23,-
001.26; track, $6,617.79; baseball $5,-
205.98; basketball, $5,091.37; boxing,
$2,253.35;,, wrestling, $2,731.43; .la
crosse, • s2,9lB.3B;soccer, .$2,880.12;
igolfi>?slV
-2 85.02';’ tennis, $376.58; gymnastics,
.$621.00; and fencing, $573.14.
Football Expenditures
‘The reasons for the large deficit
were as follows: the income for foot
ball was only $18,569.32, whereas the
expenditures amounted to $41,570.58;
the income for track was $567.70,
while expenditures were $7,185.49;
baseball brought in $840.46, but ex
penses were $6,046.44; basketball’s
Income was $1,343.06, as against $6,-
434.43 expenditures.
Boxing brought in $1,797.13, hut
its expenses were $4,050.48; wrestl
ing’s income was $2,728.13, while it
paid out $5,459.56; the income for
lacrosse was only $687.08, as against
$3,605.46 expenditures; the income
for soccer was $350.00, whereas its
expenses amounted to $3,230.12.
cultural extension; Prof. Henry W.
Popp, of the botany department;
Prof. James F. Shigley, of the veter
inary department; Dean Ralph L.
inary department; Prof. Frederick P.
Weaver,.of the agricultuarl-economics
department.
Chemistry, Physics School
From the School of Chemistry and
Physics, Dean Frank, C. Whitman;
Prof. Grover C. Chandlee, of the
chemistry department'; Prof. Donald
S. Cryder, of the chemistry depart
ment; Prof. David C. Duncan, of the
physics' department; Prof. William R.
Ham, of the physics department;
Prof. F. Raymond Smith, of the phys
ics. department; Prof. Oscar F.
Smith, of the physics department;
and Prof. Marsh W. White, of the
physics department.
School of Education
From the School "of Education,
Dean Will G. Chambers; Miss Edith
P. Chace, director of the home econ
omics department; Prof. Joseph E.
DcCamp, of the education and psy
chology department; Prof. Hummel
Fishburn, of the department of mu
sic education; Prof. Richard W.
Grant, of the music education de
partment; Prof. George R. Green, of
the nature education deportment;
Prof. Arthur S. Hurrell, of the teach
er training extension department;
Prof. Bruce V. Moore, of the educa
tion and psychology department;
Prof. Harry G. Parkinson, of the ag
ricultural education department;
Prof. Charles' C. Peters, director of
(Continued ort page four )
Students May Optain
‘Collegian’ iiijOld Main
The Collegian wishes to apolo
gize to its subscribers, who did not
receive the third is,4uc.. This is
sue, which ' was notk’delivered be
cause the circulation; service had
not been sufficiently'organized, may
be obtained at the f-Budent Union
desk in Old Main upon presenta
tion of your receipt.-??/
Kindly notify StudJnt Union im
mediately if you hav i-;any circula
tion complaint at airtime. Stu
dent Union which from 8
A. M. until 7 P. will
also take care of?-all' address
changes immediatelyyipon notifica
tion. ,
I-C Books pst
$17,004 Balance
Committee’s Chairman Releases
Report For School Year
Ending June.3o
, A balance of $17,004.13 for the
school year ending'Juno 30 is shown
by the report of the/lriterclass Bud
get system released by’-tf&l M. Flem
ing, Interclass Budget; Committee
chairman. /!•/' :
This balance represents for the
most part money held' in account for
the 1935, 1936 and 1937-, LaVics. The
accounts of the' T 93 4: LaVic were
closed showing a. surplus of $597.-
55. The income from.lfour-year as
sessments amounted-!, Ad' $10,091.60
and the interest received- on their
saving account, wa5 :; 75628.94. The
principal items of. expense' were the
printing, engravirig, ’ and: binding ac
counts, which to' $8,833.15.
$34,993.21 Expended
Receipts from aUrSOutces amounted
to $29,960.07, 'items of
which were general
deposit, s4;493.oo;‘Junior Prom, $3,-
530.27; Senior Ball/$1,571.10; and
Soph Hop, $1,544.40.
Total expenditures for the year
were $34,993.21. - Of this amount
$10,283.14 was expended for LaVic;
$5,651.25 on caps and gowns; $l,-
375.00 for interclass sports; $1,274.00
on the Blue Band; $1,415.74 for the
Student Union; $2,712.67 for Junior
Prom; $1,700.70 for Senior Ball; $l,-
1755.61 for Soph Hop; and $651.62 for
Student Council and Tribunal.
Prom Nets $817.60
Tiie final surplus In the treasury
of the class of 1934 was $1,282.19
and this sum establishes their perma
nent class fund. In addition to this,
however, $1,158.25 was returned to
the seniors by paying rental on their
caps and gowns at Commencement.
Deficits of $129.00 and $201.21 were
reported in the Senior Ball and Soph
Hop, while Junior Prom showed a sur
plus of $817.60. Approximately 3,-
200 invitations and announcements
and 800 programs were sold to mem
bers of the graduating class. Near
ly 400 coats were sold- by the Lion
Suit committee.
Tribunal Excuses 23
Men From Customs
The newly re-organized Student
Tribunal held its first meeting for
the year Tuesday night with Leo
Skcmp ’35. as president and excused
twenty-three members of the student
body matriculating here for the first
time from freshman customs. Other
members of the Tribunal who were
on “thebench” for the first time are:
Harry H. Novthrup ’35, Beryl S.
Hicks ’36, Fred P. Davis ’36, and Roy
D. Schuyler ’37, secretary.
Three students who appeared be
fore the Tribunal were excused be
cause they were over the age limit
for freshmen customs which was set
by Student Council at twenty-three.
The. others were excused either be
cause they were transfer students or
sophomores from the Mont Alto
branch of the department of forestry.
24 Excused
Those excused from customs are:
R. Beck, L. M. Boorsc, J..R. Byerly,
SI Ciambclln, W. B. Ciambclla, W. B.
Cleveland, H. Cristman, L. Crissman,
R. B. Harrison, R. Heffelfinger,
S. Kenny, I Levin, R. D. Lewis, R. P.
Lewis, J. Mason, B. Miller, W. R.
Nolf, B. H. Preston, C. F. Sarver, E.
O. Schott, R. Sharpless, F. J. Vicle,
R. L. Weis, and M. H. Wood.
Professor Nesbitt 111
Prof. Russell B. Nesbitt, of the
department of civil engineering, is
recovering at his home, from a severe
heart and abdomenal attack last week.
Second Rushing
Period To Begin
This Afternoon
Season Will Continue
Until 8 O’clock
Monday Night
Freshmen To Accept
Bids at Tuesday Dinner
Second period of the 1934 rushing
season will open at 1 o’clock this aft-,
ernoon, and continue until 8 o’clock
Monday night. During these days,
between 8 o’clock in the morning and
1 o’clock in the morning, tonight and
tomorrow night, and 9 o’clock Sunday
night, rushees will be free to go wher
ever they want.
The second silent period will begin
at 8 o’clock Monday night, ending
‘Tuesday night by the appearance of
the rushees, unattended, at the houses
of their choice for formal pledging
at dinner at 6 o’clock. No rushec,
however, with the exception of the
Jewish first year men, may accept
a pledge for thirty days after the
close of rushing if he has not previ
ously filled out a preference card.
Violations Punishable
Joseph E. Dcntice ’35, Interfrater
nity Rushing Chairman, announced
that violations of this ruling will be
punishable by depledgement. He al
so explained that these preference
cards are not binding, and a rushec
is at liberty to pledge to a fraternity
which he did not name as one of his
three choices.
A. Kenneth Maicrs, ’35, I. F. C.
president, stated that bids must be
scaled when turned in to the rushing
committee. They should be typewrit
ten with the full name of the rushee
and the name of the fraternity in
corner;"'
Bid Cards
Twenty bid cards will be given to
each fraternity. Additional ones may
be purchased for five cents each.
They can be secured at the Student
Union, desk between 1 and 5 o’clock
Monday afternoon and must be re
turned before midnight that night.
Leo N. Skcmp ’35, president of the
tribunal, requested the members of
the council to cooperate this year in
reporting freshmen for violations of
customs.
Maicrs announced that the consti
tutional ruling, regarding the absence
of Council delegates from two con
secutive meetings, punishable by a
five dollar fine, would be enforced.
3 Psychologists Read
Papers at Convention
Three members of the department
of education and psychology present
ed papers before the recent annual
meeting of the American Psycholog
ical Association at Columbia Univer
sity. Several other members of the
department also attended the conven
tion. ,
Dr. George W. Hartmann read a
paper entitled “The Occupational
Prestige of the Representative Pro
fessor in American Society,” while
Dr. Robert G. Bcrnreuter’s paper was
concerned with “Multiple Factor
Analysis of Impure Personality Trait,
Items.” William M. Leplcy reported,
on an experiment dealing with “Aj
Gradient in Incidental Learning.” |
Lead-Weighted Silk Garments Prove Fatal
To Rats Experimented Upon by Kessinger
“Miss Bell Kessinger of the Penn
sylvania State College pulled a rat
out of a lend-silk sack, noted that it
died of lead poisoning, and proceeded
to Manhattan. There last week she
; told the American Home Economics
Association that leaded silk garments
seemed to her potentially poisonious.”
—TIME, July 9, 1931.
Two years ago Professor Lawrence
Turner Fairhall, Harvard chemist, an
nounced, after a series of tests, that
lead-weighted silk garments might be
worn without danger, even next to
the skin. Miss Polly Bell Kessinger,
a senior student of Textile Chemistry
undertook to check his findings last
year.
Three things she did which the
Harvard experimenters apparently
had not done were (1) to allow the
rats to chew lead-weighted silks, (2)
to tie rats into bags lined with lead
weighted silks, leaving only the head
exposed, ope hour a day for ten
weeks, (3) to test old silks as well
Foresters, Teachers
Not Counted in Total
164 More Enrolled For First Semester Than A
Year Ago, With Late Registrants
Coming in Every Day
As the Registrar’s office closi
of 4,467 students had enrolled her
figure is 164 m|ore than had regi:
ago, according to William S. Hoff
This number does not includi
rolled at the Mont Alto forestry :
Sororities Begin
Rushing Season
Modified Code Shortens Period
2 Days; Formal Parties
Set for Saturday
Ten women’s fraternities began a
shortened rushing season yesterday
morning under the new code which
cuts the period from five to three
days, sets all formal parties for Sat-;
urday night, and allows each frater
nity but two dates, one formal and
the other informal, with each rush-
The Pan-Hellenic council, and the
Student Welfare board, have set up
four rushing standards to determine
the success of the new code. The
code:
1, Should save the time of the
rushee and also of the fraternity.
2. Should enable “free association”
as a new basis for rushing, lessen
ing, the t amount of money each fra-:
ternity may spend.
3.' Should assure clean rushing
with a minimum of violations.
A change to second semester rush
ing of freshmen women next year
depends entirely upon the success of
the upperclass code as gauged by
these three standards.
Klcckner Interviewed
“However,” said Jeanne S. Klcck
ncr '35, president of Pan-llellcnic
council, when questioned regarding
the code, “it is not at all likely that
wc will return to the old system of
five day rushing again. The time
length of rushing was cut, not only
because it lessened the strain on the
rushee and the time taken away from
school, but also because we want to!
show that the fraternity can be prac
tical.”
“Since we do not have rushing im
mediately upon the entry of the girl
into school, the fraternity women arc
well enough acquainted with the
rushees so that there is no need of
prolonging the time of rushing,” con
tinued Miss Klcckner.
She also claimed as another ad
vantage of the new code the fact that
when two semesters elapsed before
rushing, less attention was given to
the freshmen women the first semes
ter, the very time when they were
in need of acquaintances.
All violations of the rushing code
are to he reported to Nellie T. Noel
*35, rushing chairman. If the penalty
for the violation is not stated, it is
decided by the Pan-Hellenic council.
Her findings were: (1) all rats
which chewed lead-silks suffered
from lead-poisoning, (2) all animals
enclosed in •lead-silk-lined bags suf
fered from skin poisoning, one dying
before the end of the experiment,
(3) lead in old silk is much more sol
uble than Sn new, (4) lead-weighted
silk deteriorates too rapidly to jus
tify taking the risk of wearing it.
What the results of Miss Kessin
gcr’s discovery may be is too early
to predict. At least she takes her
place in Penn State’s roll of those
who have “expanded the realm of
knowledge, pushed back the bounds of
ignorance.”
During the school year 1933-34
Miss Kessinger was working at the
College on a fellowship granted by
the American Home Economics As
sociation for the promotion of textile
research. She received her M. S.
in the department of home econo
mics, June, 1934, with a major in tex
tile chemistry. _
PRICE FIVE CENTS
;ed at 5 o’clock last night, a total
re for the coming semester. This
istered at the same time a year
fman, College Registrar.
le the 114 freshmen who are cn
school, the 60 students in the
’Education School who are now prac
tice teaching in Altoona and Johns
town and 175 freshmen in extension
schools.
The total number of freshmen who
have registered to date is 1,340. Al
though several of the freshmen who
paid their $lO fee earlier in the
month were not among this number,
the freshmen total is still about 100
larger than it was at the same time
last year.
L. A. School Heads
The Liberal Arts School leads in
the number of freshmen enrolled
with a total of 356 students. This, is
seventy-one more than were enroll
ed in that School last year. The
School of Engineering follows in se
cond place with 259, and the School of
Chemistry and Physics third with
236. The total freshmen in the other
Schools are: Education, 192; Agricul
ture, 143; Mineral Industries, seven
ty-four; and Physical Education,
fifty-six.
Increased optimism among stu
dents taking forestry courses over
the government’s recent reforestation
projects in the Civilian Conservation
Corps and the Tennessee Valley Au
thority As. Tor ...the -increase
of men continuing in the forestry cur
riculum, administration officials be
lieve.
Exceeds Last Year
Last year Penn State had 869 sen
iors, 891 juniors, 3170 sophomores,
1252 freshmen, 108 two-year students,
319 graduate students, and 132 spe
cial students. These figures will be
surpassed this year. Of the 4,741 stu
dents mentioned above as registered
last year, 4,182 were candidates for
the bachelor’s degree.
Final check on the number of trans
fer students from other institutions,
members of the forestry department
at Mont Alto and practice teachers
now located in Johnstown and Al
toona, and the number of students in
each of the seven schools on the
campus will be made and released in
the next few days. These figures will
not increase the grand total above
an additional 200 students, it is be
lieved.
Dr. Luccock Will Give
Talk in Sunday Chapel
Dr. Halford E. Luccock, professor
of homiletics at the Yale University
Divinity School, will present the sec
ond chapel address in Schwab audi
torium at 11 o’clock Sunday morn
ing. His topic will be "Adventures
in Ideas.”
Dr. Luccock, who has been on the
chapel program for a number of
years, last visited this campus in
March. Graduated from Northwest
ern University in 1906, he received
his degrees of B.D. and M.A. in 1909,
from Union Theological Seminary
and Columbia University respective
ly. Syracuse University and Alle
gheny College have also granted him
degrees.
Ordained in the Methodist Episco
pal ministry in 1910, he was named
to the pastorate at Windsor, Conn.
After two years there, he spent a
like period as instructor in the Hart
ford Theological Seminary, followed
by two years as pastor of St. An
drew’s church at New Haven, Conn.
Other posts held by Dr. Luccock
since that time are that of registrar
and instructor at Drew Theological
Seminary, editorial secretary of the
Methodist Board of Foreign Missions,
and contributing editor of the* Chris
tian Advocate, the latter position be
ing resigned in 1928 when he went
to Yale University.
Among the' books written by the
speaker are *“Fares, Please!” “The
Mid-Week Service,” “Five Minute
Shop-Talks,” “Studies in the Para
bles of Jesus,” “The Christian Cru
sade for World Democracy,” “The
New Map of the Worjd,” and
"Preaching Values in New Transla
tions'of the New Testament.”