' eiSeml-vjtfeekly' --- 1 ppitn i>talp Qlollgman. h-=~ Volume 31 Number 5 Faculty To Examine New Carnegie Report Local A.A.U.P. Chapter To Test Validity Of Study Pennsylvania Colleges Termed ‘Diploma Mills’ The executive - committee of the lo cal chapter of the American Associa tion of University Professors voted Wednesday ‘night to examine the va lidity of the forthcoming report of the. Carnegie Foundation which charges that the average Pennsylva nia college is a diploma mill, turning out graduates who have failed to rise from the intelligence level of their high school days. Within the - next several weeks, Prof. Roy D. Anthony, president of the local chapter, will appoint com mittees to investigate the report. Pub lic forums will be held and an oppor tunity to express ‘their views will be offered to various faculty 'members and students. Several years ago the Carnegie Foundation published a report on commercialism in college athletics which .occasioned a great amount of controversy and far reaching chang es. The new report, called “A Study of the Relation of Secondary and Higher Education,” is loaded with in. finitely more dynamite than its pred ecessor. The indictment against American' Education is to be made public after a six-year study of 31 Pennsylvania colleges, including Penn State, and 18 public school systems, including Pittsburgh. The report implies that the whole set-up of higher education as pi*acticed in this State is at fault -and lays the chief blame upon the so called credit system by which degrees are awarded. The foundation report will cite fig ures to prove that thousands of boys -and girls in Pennsylvania are wast ing four valuable years of their lives -and 1 $4,OPO'-of-. their r-parents’/. money per pupil to. obtain a degree that means almost nothing as a standard of educational development. ✓ John R. Tunis discusses the new re port in the September issue of Scrib ner’s magazine in an article entitled “Human Waste 1 in the Colleges.” The question the study tried to answer, in the words of Mr. Tunis was “Whether the American college, as typified by these Pennsylvania institutions, trains minds or whether it feeds the student facts for four years and then hands him a degree.” ( Among the colleges participating in the “Pennsylvania Study,” as the pro ject was known, were the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute of Technology, Washington and Jeffer son, Allegheny, Waynesburg, Du quesne, Westminster, Geneva, and Grove City. Identical new type tests, covering broadly the entire field of instruc tion, were given to high school stu dents, college freshmen and subse quent classes. Among the startling disclosures which seem to show that College is not worth while were: As far as general knowledge was concerned, seniors not only failed to show a worth-while advance over the freshmen, but in some subjects, such as spelling and English literature, seniors actually knew less than soph omores. Seniors about to be graduated from college achieved scores lower than 30 per cent of the high school seniors four years younger. The' average intelligence standing of the seniors in your typical high schools, Reading, Altoona, Elkins Park, and Wayne, was above the av erage 'of all college sophomore can didates for education , degrees throughout the State. In fine arts 14 per cent of the girls who .were ,seniors in high school did better than 45 per cent of the senior women in college who got their high est score in this subject. Dutcher Will Address Chemists’ Convention Prof. R. Adams Dutcher, bend of the department of agricultural bio chemistry, will be tKe main speaker at the opening meeting of the Cen tral Pennsylvania section of the American Chemical Society here Thursday. Professor Dutcher has just return ed from a six months trip to Europe where he visited most of the import ant biochemical research laboratories. He was especially interested in the chemical research now being carried on in Germany, and At is expected that he will discuss this to some ex tent in his speech. ‘Collegian’ Candidates Will Report For Work Sophomore women candidates for the .Collegian staff will meet in Room 312, Old Main at 6:30 o’clock tonight. At that time they will be instructed in the work which they are to do during the year. At 8 o’clock tonight, the sopho more men candidates for the edi torial board will also meet. Those men who worked last year but do not appear at this meeting will be dropped from the stafF. Additional -candidates may report for work at this meeting. 4 Freshmen Cast In Player’s Show To Give ‘The Late Christopher Bonn* As Part of Dad’s Day Program on Oct. 13 Four freshmen will have parts in the Penn State Players’ production' of ‘The Late Christopher Bean,’ to be presented for Fathers’ Day, Sat urday, October 13. The .play went into rehearsal last week under the direction of Frank S. Neusbaum, of the department of English Composi tion. .Betty Nichols ’3B' and Edward Binns ’3B have the juvenile leads, while Frank Warrington ’3B appears as Dr. Haggett, and Graham Luck enbill ’3B as Rosen, an art dealer. ‘The Late Christopher Bean’ is a comedy adapted from the French by Sidney Howard who won the pulitzer play in 1924 for his play, ‘They Knew What They Wanted.’ Howard's cur l'ent play, ‘Yellow Jack,’ was runner up for this year's award, and he also wrote.‘Alien'-Coiin,’ Silver- CordJ •and ‘Ned McCobb’s Daughter.’ ‘The Late Christopher Bean’ was included by Burns Mantle in the ten best plays of 1932-33. The play con cerns the efforts of Abby, the Hag gett’s hired girl, to keep possession of a batch of Chris Bean’s paintings which suddenly have been acclaimed by art critics. She has to do battle with art dealers and especially with her shrewd New England employers. The part, of Abby will be played by Lucetta Parker Kennedy ’33, who previously appeared in the Players’ production of ‘Hay Fever.’ Mari Yan ofsky ’35 plays Mrs. Haggett; ‘A. Katherine Miller ’35, Ada; John 0. Linton, Davenport, an art critic; and Leon Lurie ’37, Tallant, another art dealer. , Ceramics Group Plans Convention Oct. 5 and 6 Engineers, chemists, and'scientists in the field of ceramics throughout the East will hold their second annual symposium on ceramic problems at the College on October 5 and 6. The symposium is sponsored cooperatively •by the College and the Pittsburgh Sec tion of the American Ceramic Society. Two of the national officers, Keith McAfee, president, of New Castle, and Ross Purdy, secretary, Columbus, Ohio, arc expected to attend. The general topic of the two-day session will*'be “Colloid Problems in Cera mics.” “American Public Demands Music Not Jazz, Fast Tunes Instead of Just'Noise”—Little “The American public today wants music, not jazz. When they listen to fast tunes, they want them fast, but they want music, not noise.” This was Little Jack Little's opin ion of the recent trends in the popu lar type of music.. The genial orch estra leader and vocalist, who ap peared at Hecla Park Friday night named the Casa Loma orchestra as having the best technique for fast music, and declared that their style of playing has brought about the change, wresting supremacy on ‘hot’ tunes away from the colored bands. “Each orchestra strives for a dis tinctive style,” he declared. “If they get something which appeals to the public, other bands copy, them, and the style becomes famous. The radio has made it possible for bands to be come popular almost overnight.” His band is one which has had-a spectacular rise to fame, having.been started ten months ago in Cincinnati. Before he organized the band, Jack STATE COLLEGE, PA., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1934 Skemp Selected To Fill Borough Council Position Will Deliver Students’ Ideas Concerning Local Topics Appointment Revives Long Absent Custom Leo N. Skemp ’35 was appointed to Borough Council, representing the student body, by Paul K. Hirsch ’35, senior class president, late last week. Skemp is the first student in sev eral years to be appointed to the Council, although an old ruling per mits a student representative to sit in on all meetings and voice student opinion on all issues and legislation. Skemp will not have a vote, but he will be the so-called “voice of Penn State students.” It is hoped by ough authorities, that, with this cus tom revived, a better understanding between themselves and the student body will be effected. Revival of this custom of having a student representative sitting in on the Borough Council sessions was made possible through investigations of the Borough statutory books last year by the Collegian. A reporter discovered the ruling and brought it to the attention of Borough authori ties. 'This year Burgess Wilbur F. Leitzell formally invited the student body to appoint a representative, who will have a theoretical “power of at torney” for the students when legis lative matters arise which might in any way affect them. Another feature of Skemp’s ap pointment is the fact that he will be the answer to the fraternity ques tion, . which claims ; that fraternities paying -taxes ito *the. Borough,sre; t en- m r tho Coun cil meetings. v 1 • Skemp is a member' of the varsity football team, president of the Trib unal, .a member of Skull and Bones, Friars, and Beta Theta Pi social fra ternity. Last year he was on Student Council. Bankers’ Committee Will Hear McDowell Prof. Milton S. McDowell, director of agricultural extension, will be the speaker at t'hc first session of the meeting of agriculture committee of the Pennsylvania Bankers Associa tion, at the Nittany Lion Inn, Friday night. The meeting of the committee will last for two days. Professor McDowell will tell-of the progress of agricul ture extension. The committee will then consider the cooperation of the key banker and his contacts with the banks of his county. Saturday morning Prof. Allen L. Baker, state club leader, will talk on 4-H Club work, and Dr. Frederick P. Weaver, head of the department of agricultural-economics, will tell of re cent economic developments in agri culture. Dr. Ralph D. Hetzel, Pres ident of the College, will also speak to the bankers. The main speaker Satur day afternoon .will be E; S. Bayard, editor-in-chief of the Pennsylvania Farmer and a trustee of the College. was a popular radio entertainer, and he says that it was his name which helped to get the band started. In explaining how he got his start, Jack declared that he was 'playing a piano in a music store for another fellow who was plugging songs. He said the other fellow used to take frequent vacations and some o'rte had to sing during his absence. Vande villc tours and the radio were givfen the responsibility for his success as a singer. “I got tired of singing alone, so I started a band,” he explained. “I had several ideas and I tried to work them out with the band. At the pres ent, time I have two fellows who do all. of the arranging for the band. I give them what ideas I have and they,do the rest.” . . The band will- conclude their brief tour at Cincinnati where they will remain for two weeks. They will the: return to the Hotel Lexington in New York City for the winter season. Corrected Addresses Wanted Bjj Registrar Freshmen and j. upperclassmen who pledge fraternities or have changed their address for other reasons since registration are re quested to let the (Registrar of the College have the ihew address in order that the official directory may be published Avithin the next few weeks. In order that subscription cop ies of the Colleglan will be de livered to freshmen who have moved into fraternities it is re quested that they, inform the Col legian office of th.e<house to which they have pledged.^ Permit Required To Operate Cars Student Automobiles Forbidden 4 On Campus, In Town Area By Ruling Unless permits are obtained from the Dean of Men or -Dean of Women, .students registered at the College will not be permitted to ioperate automo biles. This regulation will apply to the area in and around the town-as well as on the campus. During the current semester the regulation will be temporarily sus pended during the . opening week of the semester, Dads* Day week-end, alumni homocomingYwoek and fall houseparty week-end only. Permits arc not necessary for stu dents who keep a car for the purpose of making occasional trips home. The College ruling states: “The operating of automobiles in the Col lege community by students register ed in the College rs prohibited, ex . cept in cases ' whete the student’s home is near the .College or where ho is engaged in a legitimate business which makes the.use of.an automo bile necessary to the successful con duct of his business; 1 • ‘Jin such, cases-wriCten pcrmitsjnay •beTissued ' v by'"the' f^T^ai^df^- Meh l ''o’r Dean of Women.- Students who have such permits are required to observe the campus parking regulations. Ac tion will be taken against all stu dents who do not comply with this rule.” New Volume-Honors 12 Faculty Members Biographical sketches of 12 faculty members of the College are included in America’s .Young Men, which made its appearance here last week. The volume, a Who’s Who of the young men of the nation, contains the biographies of 4,182 individuals. Faculty members honored by being included in the book are: Prof. Franklin C. Banner, head of the de partment of journalism; Dr. Robert G. Bernreuter, assistant professor of psychology and education and direc tor of the psycho-educaLion clinic; Lloyd T. Devore, research fellow in physics; Dr. George H. Fancher, of the department of petroleum and nat ural gas engineering; Dr. Merrill R. Fcnske, of the department of chem ical'engineering; and Dr. George W. Hartmann, of the psychology depart ment. . Others arc: Dr. Raymond E. Mur phy, of the School of Mineral Indus tries; Roger D. Reid, of the depart ment of bacteriology; Edwin H. Rohrbcck, agricultural publicity ed itor; Prof. Palmer C. Weaver, assist ant director of the summer session; and Prof. William R. Young, of the School of Engineering. 5 New Appointments To Faculty Announced iFive new appointments affecting the academic year, 1U34-35, were an nounced by the President. In the School of Agriculture, I. E. Parkin was named assistant professor of dairy husbandry extension, and E. A. Richmond was appointed assistant professor of entomology extension. In the School of Engineering, D. G. Hammond assumed the position of instructor in civil . engineering at Mont Alto, while 'two changes were effected in the Arts and Science Ex tension. Margaret A. Yotter will be instructor in French, at Pottsville, and A. R. Cunningham instructor in English at Uniontown. Poultry Meetings Set The semi-annual meeting of the Pennsylvania State Poultry Associa tion and the fourteenth poultry short course will be held at the College from October 22 to 26., , v 88 Co-eds Accept Sorority Bids From 10 Houses; 53 Fraternities Will Pledge Tonight at 6 O’clock Attendance At Dinner Will Signify Bid’s Acceptance Formal pledging ceremonies for fifty-three social and professional fra ternities will take place at 6 o’clock tonight, When rushees will appear un escorted at the fraternity of their choice. Rushing officially ended at 8 o'clock last night. Although the pledging will take place at 0 o’clock, the silent period between rushees and fraternity men will not expire until 7 o’clock. This prevents the fraternities from trans gressing on the clause which reads “unescorted to the fraternity of his choice.” Approximately fifty-one percent of the freshmen handed in fraternity preference cards, it was estimated by Joseph E. Dentice ’35, Interfraternity Rushing Chairman. Because of the new code ruling in effect this year, those .rushees who failed to fill out these cards will not be permitted to pledge until thirty days have elapsed. Dentiec and the other members of the Rushing committee declared themselves to be satisfied with this year’s, rushing season, and as yet no violations of the code have been re ported. Several changes have been advocated, however, for next year’s code. Rushees may call for their bids at the Student Union desk in Old Main between 8:30 “o’clock this morning and 5 o’clock this afternoon. The deadline for fraternities to deposit bid cards expired at 12 o’clock last night. Leaders Clarify Customs Rulings Two-Year Agriculture Students Must Follow Regulations, Hirsch, Skemp Say “All first year men at the College, including two-year agriculture stu dents, all special students entering College with approximately the same rating as a freshman, and all stu dents changing from a two-year to a four-year course are required to un dergo one year of customs,” Paul K. Hirsch '35, senior class president, and Leo N. Skemp ’35, Tribunal president, declared yesterday. This announcement was made as a result of a misunderstanding which arose through the publication of last year’s customs regulations in this year's Student Handbook. At the final meeting of Student Council last spring, two-year agricul ture students were added to the list of those required to undergo customs. However, it is believed that few read the announcement. Kathleen Muchemore ’35 was mar ried to George A. Kosch Jr., of Eliz abeth, New Jersey, on August 11 at Ogunquit, Maine. Miss Muchemore was enrolled in the curriculum of na ture education while she attended Penn State, though she was not in college last year. The couple will be at their home at Elizabeth, N. J., after September 22. Morals of State Students Kept Undefiled, Skomp, who was officially named Tribunal president last week, warned all students transferring here from other colleges to present themselves immediately in order that they may have their customs regulated. Untarnished By Mai “Students of State College arc as manly and as honorable in their con duct, and as correct in their morals, as any similar body of young men in any institution in the State or County.”— «o says legal document No. 18, recorded in the State legislature at Harrisburg. It all happened in 1881, when stu dents Bad a right to be honorable. It seems that somebody, sortiewhere de cided that the present management of the institution failed to comply with the requirements of the act of Congress of July 2, 1862. A public allegation was made in our law-mak ing body that “something ought to be done about it.” Hearing of the trouble that was brewing, some trusty trustees of the College held a meeting one night, and figured they would beat the Senate to it. So, first making sure that every thing ,was O.K. about the “U”, the Board of Trustees sent a letter to the Senate and House of Representa tives of the State, urging them to appoint a committee to investigate the affairs of the College on the grounds that the allegation had beeni ‘Collegian’ To Conduct Inquiry on Cigarettes Cigarette-smokers are asked to cooperate with the Collegian in an inquiry which it is conducting to determine the smoking habits and preferences of the student body. These sheets will be avail able at the Collegian stand on Co-op Corner, today and tomorrow in the afternoons. In the questionnaire, students will be asked to answer such ques tions as: what is their favorite brand of cigarette, how long have they been smoking, and why do they choose that particular brand rather than any other one? Geography Class Visits College Clark University Field School Will Stop Over Night In State College Stopping here to examine the geo graphical and geological maps of Pennsylvania,- the peg'map of the oil region and other geographical maps on which Dr. Raymond E. Murphy, of the School of Mineral Industries, is working, the Clark University field school tof geography will spend to night at the College as the guests of the departments of geology, min eralogy and geography. The Clark students are traveling by automobile accompanied by trailers, they will pitch camp in the woods by the side of, the Horticulture building. The group will’ remain' Here’ only one night. The stop was made at Penn State because of the advanced posi tion of the earth sciences here. Stu dents enrolled for the semester in the Clark field school, the faculty and the members of the Penn State fa culty held a seminar in the Mineral Industries building last night. Clark University of Worcester, Mass., is one of the foremost institu tions in the East specializing in the study of geography. The field trip on which seventeen students and four instructors are now engaged had its inception seven years ago in a three weeks trip. The field work now com prises a full semester’s work for gra duate students, covers 5,000 miles and entails, with side trips, some 10,000 miles of travel. The route moves from Buffalo, N. Y., to New Orleans, to Miami, and then north to Worcester, Mass. Muchemore ’35 Married iy Years of Campus Life wrongly made. Thus, the gun was fired, resulting in a committee of thirteen, five sena tors and eight representatives, orga nizing to defend the State. At first, the committee asked for volunteers to act as witnesses against the College. “If your son or daugh ter has held some dislike for State College, come and let us know about it,” they appealed through advertise ments in all the large papers through out the State. “It pays to advertise,” so the say ing goes, and the ads had to be dis continued because too many “dislik ers” appeared. The ads brought an swers, but they were not the replies the State was calling for. The “dis likers” were of the type who disap proved of the unfair publicity Penn State was receiving. However, the State was not to be downed. -Someone had to be guilty, and it wouldn’t be the agitators. So they met, and re-met, trying case after case, visiting and i*e-visiting the College, until all the charges were exhaustively run down, and the open ing quotation ensued, soon after ward. PRICE FIVE CENTS Noll Proposes Second Semester Rushing Under New Code Eighty-eight women and the wives of two faculty momliors accepted bids to the ten women’s fruternitics at the close of the 103*1 rushing season at 5 o’clock Sunday night. Nellie T. Noel ’35, Panhellenic rushing chairman, commented favor ably on the 193*1 rushing code, say ing she believed it saved time and made conditions more pleasant for both fraternity women and rushccs. She expressed herself as favoring sec ond semester rushing for freshman women and hoped that the favorable results of the new code would war rant approval for the proposal. A list of the women accepting bids to the various fraternities follows. All those students whose names are not followed by numerals are sopho mores: Alpha Chi Omega: Mrs. George F. Mitch, Betty E. Ebright, Kathryn E. Frederick, Anne E. .Johnston, Mar garet B. Miteh, Margaret G. Pease, V. Elizabeth Resides, L. Jeannette Rogers, and Dorothy Wiegner. Alpha Omicron Pi: M. Jane Cator son, Helen M. Clymer, Bertha M. Cohen, Jean W. Cousley, Doris R. Eler, Ruth B. Evans, Mary L. Fen ton, Evelyn G. Kraybill, Regina «T. Ryan, Mary R. Skeath, Doris it. •Smith, and M. Elizabeth Wright. Chi Omega: Marian W. Barbey, Margaret B. Bratton, Althea L. Butt, Dorothy M. Carey, Mary A. Connelly, Margaret 1.. Doherty, Emma Jane Foster, Betty M. Raughley, Dorothy E. Schumaker, and Ann F. Wilhelm. Della Gamma: Elizaboth Balder- E. ..Bar.lges,, Anna Bowers, Grctchcn M. IlafTley, Dor othy A. Ifcnnickc, Betty E. Rreamer, C. Isabelle Nicely, E. Irene Slong, Marie 11. Weber, Margaret A. Went zel, and M. Winifred Williams. . Gamma Phi Bela: T. Harriet Clip fe!y Mary J. Good, Rcva M. Lincoln, Elizabeth R. Obcrlin, Virginia E. Se ville, and Clara L. Shencfelt. Kappa Alpha Thota: Sarah Bush ong, Betty Claudy, Mary M. Dun away, Elizabeth E. Allen, Mary Lou ise Frcnr, Jean C. Hoover, Jean C. Kriebel, Harriet L. Lamb, Lillian J| Lawyer, Virginia W. Loveland, Eliz abeth J. McFarland, B. Lynetto Pease, Alary F. Pomeroy, Mary S. Swope, Jane E. Woolridge, and Gen evra C. Ziegler. Kappa Kappa Gamma: Mrs. El wood C. Davis, Frances L. Kern ’35, Jane C. Hess, Josephine Hobert,.Ma riello Hobart, Margaret E. Laramy, Alice Nixon, Jean B. Northrup, Mar jorie L. Rehn, and Rachael M. Van Artsdalen. Phi Mu: Bernice G. Allen, Ade laide K. Green, Mildred M. Hart man, Anne E. Hughes, Anne L. Mad den, and Martha E. Strong. Theta Phi Alpha: Margaret M. Cummings, Gelsie R. Ferdinand, Frances M. Gates, Elizabeth T. Hen ry, Rose R. Nudo, Bernice R. Rek stis, Margaret M. Waters, and A. Marie Youell. L’Amilic: Julia A. Leopold and Bessie M. Levine. Original Parties End Co-Ed Rushing Season The last formal rushing parties given by the women’s fraternities on Saturday night might be called exer cises in originality. Alpha Chi Omega entertained at a colonial dinner—with the hostesses in costume. Alpha Omicron Pi gave their customary Formal Rose sup per. The Chi Omegas went completely nautical and took their guests to sea for a Sailor Party while the Delta Gammas kept their anchors aweigh and entertained at a Yacht party. . The Gamma Phi Betas conducted an extensive and genuine ‘bus tour’ and Kappa Alpha Theta had all of the trimmings from bingo to pink lemonade at their Kit Kat Carnival. Kappa Kappa Gamma entertained at a formal dinner at the Nittany Lion Inn. The Phi Mus ■were hos tesses at a toy sliop party and Theta Phi Alpha entertained at a formal cabaret supper. Students Obtain Work • More than three-fourths of the graduates of the College agricultural courses from last year have obtained positions in the type of work fo>r which they specialized.
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