' 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.er which they specialized.