; - cSemi-ffeeekly ' '' ~~ ~ I (Enllrgian. h" Volume 31 Number 6 568 Students Accept Deaterly Leads Graduated Class With 2.89 Grade Leopold, Stout Lead ’35 Class, Kilmer Heads Juniors Kirnak Leads College With Average of 3.00 Charles F. Deaterly led: the 827 members of the class of 1934 with’ an average of 2.89, class standing lists at the end of the past year, pub lished’ by the Registrar’s office, re veal. Irving H. Leopold and Robert D. Stout were first among'B66 members of the 1935 class with averages of 2.96, while GlenW. Kilmer, with a 2.97 average, was first among • the present junior class of 1,064 mem bers. The class of 1937, with 1,131 members, was led by Alex W, Kirnak, with an average, of 3.00. School of Education Leads The School of Education led all oth er schools on the campus in the num ber of students in the upper twen tieth of the class .with fifty-four members In this group. Forty-three members of the School of 'Engineer ing rate that school as second, fol lowed by the School of Chemistry, and Physics with forty-one, Liberal Arts with thirty-eight, Agriculture with twenty-seven, and Mineral In dustries with thirteen. The School of Liberal Arts claims the most seniors>in the upper twen tieth of the class* having eleven. The School of Education has ten in this select group, while-the Schools of Agriculture - and Engineering ' each' have. tives from the*. School of Chemistry and Physics and four from the .Min eral Industries School .in this group. In the junior class, twelve engi neers, and twelve education. students are found in the upper five per cent, followed by ten members of the School of Chemistry and Physics, eight from the School of Liberal Art'., and two each from the Schools of Ag- (Continued on page two ) Noel Reports No Code Infractions Panhellenic Rushing Chairman, Dean Ray Commend Fine Women Rushing No violations of the women’s rush ing code have been reported, accord ing to Nellie T. Noel ’35, Panhellen ic rushing chairman. Both Dean of Women Charlotte E. Ray and Jeanne S. Kleckner *35, president of Pan hellenic council, expressed their ap proval of the success of the short enedS-ushing period." ©ean Ray, commenting on the co operation of the fraternity officers and rushees in the handling of the ballots, .said, “Nearly all- of the fra ternity presidents had their invita tion lists'in my office long before the appointed time, which was 11 o’- clock Saturday night. Likewise the sophomore , girls began returning their ballots early on Sunday and caused no rush in the recording at the end of the day. What might have been a strenuous task was rendered easy by the prompt action of the girls concerned.’’ * 154 Invitations Issued The nine women’s national frater nities and one local club issued a to tal of 164 invitations to 102 girls, an average of 1.6 bids per person. Out of the sophomore class of 226 girls, 101 received invitations, the remain ing bid going to a graduate student. As 25 sophomore girls are new on the campus and therefore ineligible for bidding, just half of the eligible sophomores received invitations. Fourteen girls declined their invi tations, three giving financial reasons, the others saying they were not ready to decide. The number of accept ances was 88. Traffic Signs Switched Traffic signs at the corner of Bea ver Avenue and Pugh Street have been switched to make Pugh Street motorists liable to the stop signals. Through traffic .has again been grant ed cars travelling on Beaver Avenue. /. F. C. Head, Rushing CkairmanCommend Code A. KENNETH MAIERS ’35 ‘Preference Cardigan Forward Step’-Maiers I. F. C. President Calls Period Just Closed Most Successful Rushing Season Ever Heid Interviewed last night, A. Kenneth Maiers • ’35, Iriterfraternity Council president, declared, “This has been the most successful rushing season in, the history of the Interfraternity Council and .has' proven the “prefer ence system” of rushing to be a defi nite step ahead in the controlling of rushing.* “Last year,” he continued, “ap proximately 400 freshmen pledged; to fraternities at th 6 close of the regu lated ,rushing., period' while this year 40Jfu:&.-±hah_6Qb -men:, filled out-profor-- ence cards. 'This means that all'first year men' who may be pledged to a house some time before they graduate have at least signified their interest.” When asked concerning reported violations of the code, Maiers replied that as yet no violations of the code have been reported to Prof. Sheldon C. Tanner, faculty member of the Board of Control of the I. F. C., thus indicating that this year’s code has been a successful one, and that “lead piping” has been eliminated, at least to a greater extent than ever be fore. Maiers recommended that. the length of the first silent period in next year's code be extended at least twenty-four hours in order to give more of a rest to the fraternity men. Under the. present code the silent period begin at 8 o’clock - one night and was ended at noon the follow ing -day, giving the fraternity men no chance to relax from the strain of rushing activities. 39 Exemptions Made In Freshmen English Thirty-nine freshmen the lowest number in recent years were ex empted from English composition this year. This is in considerable con trast to last, year’s record of fifty four exemptions, although the stand ards are the same this year, and the first year class is larger. The School of Liberal Arts led with seventeen excused. They are: Dorothy E. Bollinger, Ralph E. Dim mick, Morton Frdmm, Kathleen E. Gilbody, George L. Harwick, Charles E. Kenney, Eleanor W. Ley, Jean L. Lyman, Dorothy Marquardt, Wil liam E. Matson, Edgar F. Miller, Eleanor Robinson, Anne M. Quick, Virginia Seifert, Robert I. Shadle, I Virginia Swart, and Frank H. Tit low. Nine were exempted in the School of Chemistry and Physics. They are: Donald B. Broughton, George W. ConvTay, James H. Fry, Deri Hess, Neal D. Lawson, John P.- Messerly, George W. Statler, Wilke G. Teb bens, and David S. Weddell. In the School of Mineral Industries, George F. Rouault was exempted. In the School of Agriculture the following were excused: Daniel D. Berolzheimer, Annette A. Judd, John E. Prettyman, Howard Watson, and Alvin K. Wilson. Mary Bechtel, Kathryn A. Cunningham, Doris A. Sander, and Helen E. Smith were the members of the School of Educa tion v who were exempted. In the School of Engineering there were Ed gar J. Higgins, Leo J. Schlachter, and Arthur Y. SHambach. STATE COLLEGE, PA-,-FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1934 JOSEPH E. DENTICE ’35 Maiers reiterated the statement of Joseph -E. Dentice ’35, chairman of the I. F. C. rushing committee, in crediting'the‘success of the rushing season to the close cooperation which the rushing, committee of the Inter fraternity Council received from the rushing chairman and presidents of the various fraternities. ' Continuing his recommendations for next year’s code the I. F. C. pres ident stated, “The regulation provid ing -that.'all. freshmen who. do. ,not uled' time • arc ineligible for pledging for. thirty ,days should be continued because - that is the only way of mak ing them’ turn in preference cards. “While the preference card system was subjected to a great deal of ad verse criticism at first, it has proven to be of great service both' to the fra ternities , and. to the freshmen, espe cially the fraternities, saving: them undue rushing expenses, time, and al so pointing out. to them the men who were really considering their house,” he added. In reference to the rushing of transfer students, Maiers declared that all transfer students should be eligible to open rushing, the same as sophomore forestry students who come here from Mont Alta "Tran sfer students know more about fra ternities than the sophomore forest ers do,, and it seems unnecessary to make them be rushed as freshmen and not the sophomore foresters,” he concluded. P. S. C. A. Plans Retreat A joint re:reat of the men’s and women’s Christian association cabi nets is planned for this weekend, at the association’s cabin at Shingle town Gap. The group will leave for the cabin tomorrow afternoon and return Sunday. Fred H. Light ’35 is chairman of the retreat, which will be an informal- “get-acquainted" party. Scoop! Cornetist, Trombon ‘ Vie For Plaudits of G Eighty members of the Blue Band arrayed in $5,000 worth of new uni forms and led by a goose-stepping drum major will dazzle spectators at the Penn Statc-Lebanon Valley foot ball game at New Beaver Field Sat urday, October 6. But masked by the glamour of the new" military outfits, the blare of trumpets and ruffle of drums, will bo a drama as poignant as ,it is power-' ful and one known only to the two principals, Major Wilfred O. Thomp son, director of the band, and Col legian subscribers. It’s all about who will be drum ma jor for this season. This year the drum major must not only lead the band through intricate maneuvers and see that they all start and stop playing at • approximately the same time;-he must be able to juggle the baton and spin it through the air with the greatest of ease. Competitors for this important post are. Jim Townsend of the trumpet section .and Price Longstreet of the trombone choir. > But when queried on which of these Bids from 55 Houses College Enrolls 4,847 In Current Semester Enrollment figu ies at the close of registration Wednesday after noon reached 4,847 r of which 114 were Mont Alto students, William S. Hoffman, CollegflJßogistrar, an nounced. • 'These figures did not include approximately six!??/ 1 seniors who are practice teaching in Altoona and Johnstown, nq&did it include those students enrolled at the Col lege's various extension centers throughout the State, New Bleachers Will 2360 Improvements Con 1 inue At Full Speed: To Compete Work For Opening Game With improvements’ ;oing ahead at full speed, New Beavir field will be all spruced up and. r ady. when the first cash customer ci .tiers the gate at the opening game; he week from Saturday. Outstanding in thc\ langed picture will be the new, steel stands on the west side of 'tic field. Still in their original new bleach ers will be able to sdal 2360 specta tors for the first game} Later in the seasonjtac stands will be given a coat of; bhltlcship gray paint and with additiprs planned for next year the-long-wordcn scats will be able to accomodate 6600 specta tors. Concrete Runways Planned Five concrete rumYij L* n the front will make access to tl)'stands'easier 4ba»=horeto£orei...tjS^{»^fe : n<^-wU. extend down both sifles, along the rear, and between each two sections, while at the top willjbe located the press box. • Another improvement is. the new track with its smooth', i black surface enclosed by the nevly whitewashed hoards. It, together with the black surfaced jumping aid; polq-vaulting runways, will .offer a decided contrast to the green grass ar.d the new white, approach walks. ' j The longest of these new walks extends from the cast entrance on Allen street along the edge of the night-practice football field to the east stands. It connects with anoth er additional- walk from the main en trance to the east 3timds. Penn State Song Music Mailed to High Schools Over five hundred [copies of Major Wilfred O. Thompson’s band arrange ment of “Victory” a*nd "Hail to the Lion” have been mailed to high school band directors throughout the state during the past two [years as part of the program being carried on to ac quaint high school students with Penn State. , originally made l and now being > constructed that played separately ibined. The arrangement, for the Blue Band used by them, is so either tune may be ) or they may be coml id Fans two will wear thX Thompson tilted b i took out his brown 1 1 or, inserted and lit ; with the curled end: mustache, looked i nothing. «.* Buzby, Major tick in his chair, gate dgaret hold a cigarct, played of his long white inscrutable, said baton, Townsend practice at such |hs twirl over the ) behind the back, p has also chai'tcd [ric gyrations, and ir the band to cx- With a new bras: has spent weeks o: involved tricks as j goal post, the eaten and body spins. Hj innumerable gooniej letter formations fc ecute. | srom the camp of ire alleged to aver his claims to the : icianship and re c n which he is at in deepest secrecy. Plishmcnts is the >ngue in the sev i playing “Dinah” But dispatches z Pries Longstreet ai that he will base post on solid mu: suits of plans upc present working i: Among his accoiri ability to triple t: enth position whil • in four flats. The first rehear: i this year was h< 1 a] of the band for Id Tuesday night « page two). (Continued Glee Club, Chapel Choir Accept 132 New Men, Women Grant Tests, Classifies 325 Voices Before Making Selection Competition Especially Keen for Placements Testing and classification of the voices of 200 men and 125 women in recent try-outs under the direction of Prof. Richard W. Grant, of the de partment of niUsic, have resulted in the addition of forty-eight men to the Men’s Glee club, twenty-nine wo men to the Women’s Glee club, and thirty women and twenty-five men to the chapel choir. Competition was especially keen for places in the Men’s Glee club, Di rector Grant said. The new men will be given a trial of one month and at the end of that time approximately one-third of them will be dropped. Grant Compliments Group “In these try-outs I have listened to some of the best student voices I have heard in years,” Professor Grant said. “Many of them will be excel lent for Thespian and quartet work as well as for the choir and glee clubs.” Thirty new women’s and twenty five new men’s voices will be added to the chapel choir for the first ap pearance of the choir in Schwab au | ditorium Sunday. Seventy members of the choir remain from last year’s ■organTj&ttnir^“'^ ,^vV~^^ ' Following is the list of men added ! to the Men’s Glee dub at rehearsal Wednesday night and who will re main on probation. Those listed with out numerals are freshmen. I First tenors: Herbert S. Cohn, 1 Thomas R. Fitz Gerald jr., Charles D. [ Gammcllo ’37, Devane M. Hoffman : ’36, Ned K-ennman, Clifton J. King, ' Richard W. O’Connor ’37, Herbert R. ’ Powell (graduate student), Herbert M. Scidclman, James D. Sheetz ’37, ; Richard E. Snokc ’3G and Bergen R. Suydam. Second tenors: Robert J. Baxter, Herman Blair '37, David E. Brad bury ’36, J. Vincent Cards '37, Jos eph Cook, Floyd B. Fischer ’37, How ard B. Frankonfield ’37, Ralph E. Haley ’37, J. Briggs Pruitt ’36, Charles W. Tilden ’37, Herbert Uhl, John VanNatta '37, William E. Veen schotcn ’37, C. Charles Walter and Ellsworth J. Warrick. Baritones: Raymond P. Barthol mo, Charles L. Bochcrt, Paul F. Fries ’37, Albert P. Lyford, William L. Orris, John E. Piatt ’37, Ira L. Scn droff ’36, Frederick IT. Scrff, Wil lard S. Sitter, David M. Spccht ’36, John R. Tomlinson '36 and Earl F. Tygert ’35. Basses: William J. Dughi, Ralph DuVzc, Duane Grcnn, William B. Ilannum, Edward Leigh, Albert 11. Rodgers ’37, Raymond G. Sloan ’37, James P. Unangst and Charles H. Witter. W. A. A. Board Adds 3 Sports for Women Swimming, speedball, and (lancing were named for the first time as wom en’s interclass competitive sports by the W. A. A. board at its meeting Monday night. Points toward wom en’s awards may be earned through these sports according to the decision of the board, although the plan for the number of points and the basis on which they will be awarded has not as yet been completely formulat ed. Semester tickets for swimming are being sold at t'he treasurer’s office for two dollars upon the presentation of matriculation cards. This ticket will entitle the bearer to swim in the Glennland pool every Tuesday. The hours from 3:30 to 5 o’clock are being devoted to organized instruc tion for upperclass women in prepa ration for competitive class teams. Women who are interested in be coming managers or participants in swimming, speedball, and dancing, may sign up now in McAllister hall lobby. Speedball will be limited to the freshmen, sophomores, and jun iors. 4 Jewish Fraternities Pledge 70; 4 Locals 28; Professionals Net 45 Total for This Year Hits New Peak by Margin Of 7; No Rushing Code Violations Reported to Chairman Five hundred and sixty-eight men accepted bids to the fifty five fraternities Tuesday night, ending the 1934 rushing season. This is seven more than were pledged at a corresponding time last year. Of the total number, 488 were freshmen. Fifty-two sopho mores, twenty juniors, three graduate students, and one faculty member were pledged. Forty-five men accepted bids to the five •national and one local profes sional fraternities. The four local fraternities garnered twen ty-eight men. Jewish houses pledged seventy men, three less than last year. Pro fessional groups got five less than last year, and the local fraternities got three more. No violations of the rushing code have been reported to Interfraternity Council. Should there be any, they will b? judged by Prof. Sheldon C. Tanner, faculty advisor to the Coun- 4 Foreign Lands Send Transfers Puerto Rico, Russia, Canada, and Italy Represented Here; 15 Per Cent Gain Transfer students from four for eign countries and twenty-four states have taken up work here for the com ing semester, Dr. Carl E. Marquardt, College examiner, announced yester day. The foreign countries from i which students transferred arc Puer to Rico, Russia, Canada, and Italy. A total of 195 students with ad vanced standings have transferred here as undergraduates. It is ex-j pected that there will be over 200 within .the,next few weeks. Last eajr, first semester," an increase jof'neafly fifteen per cent-for this year. . , Although only the same number of men have registered as did last year/ the number of women transfer stu dents has increased thirty-two per cent over last year. To date, a total of 121 men and seventy-four women have signed up. Forty-one of the transfers will be considered as freshmen, ninety as sophomores, forty-seven as juniors, four seniors, nine special students, and four non-classified. A large num ber will- be regarded as freshmen here because they either lost credits in transferring or changed schools upon entering here. The School of Education claimed the largest number of transfers with a total of sixty-six. The Liberal Arts School ranked second with fifty-five. The numbers registered in the rest of the Schools arc: Chemistry and Physics twenty-three; Agriculture twenty-one, Engineering eighteen, Physical Education seven, - and Min eral Industries five. ’36 Editorial, Business ‘La Vie’ Staffs Called Junior candidates for all divisions of the 1935 La Vie editorial and busi ness departments will meet for ar ranging of work schedules in the publication office, 315 Old Main, at 7:30 o’clock Tuesday night, William Y. E. Rambo ’35, editor of this year’s book, announced yesterday. Staff candidates, who first met last! year, will be reassigned to work, while all those interested who have not yet been scheduled for work will be instructed at this meeting. All new candidates will be addressed by Ramho, who will explain the general plan followed in making up the book, and then will he divided in accord ance to their preference of work. Work on the -editorial side this year will be directed by Rambo, as sisted by James B. Watson jr., man aging editor, while the 1935 art ed itor, Carl It. Conrad, will have charge of art work. E. Marion Tomlinson '35 will direct the work of the wom en's staff, while junior business can didates will work under Harold W. Kalb ’35 and George K. Britton ’35, business managers. Initial work on the publication, which was begun last spring, will be continued immediately. The con tract for the publishing of the book this year has been awarded to the Grit Publishing Co., Williamsport. All engraving and printing will be handled by the Williamsport concern. Covers will be contracted for at a later date, Rambo said. PRICE FIVE CENTS The highest number of pledges was taken by Sigma Tau Phi, with twen ty-three. Other high groups are Beta Sigma Rho, nineteen; Sigma Nu, nineteen; Beta Theta Pi, seventeen; Delta Tau Delta, seventeen; Phi Kappa, sixteen; Sigma Alpha Epsi lon, sixteen; and Phi Epsilon Pi, fif i teen. Alpha Chi Sigma led the pro i fessional groups with thirteen, and | Tau Sigma Phi'was the highest local j with’ nine. A list of the 568 fratcniity .>vlcd{/.CH..ivjtLbc.Jonvil^o>t.ji(i£c t .Jo!ir.. Students Xml Additional Work Steidlc Declares Men Will Drop Out of School Unless Aided In Meeting Expenses "There are still a number of stu dents now registered in ‘the College who will have to drop out unless they can get aid in meeting a part of their living expenses," Dean Ed ward Steidle, chairman of the en rollment committee, said Wednesday. Following a meeting of .the com mittee on enrollment on Tuesday, Dean Steidlc issued the following statement to the townspeople, call ing their attention to the conditions which exist among the present stu dent body. Predicts Enrollment Drop lie predicted that the record fresh man enrollment and the enrollment in other classes would suffer if ad ditional aid were not immediately forthcoming from the householders of the community. He said that in most cases the need was comparative ly small—a room, a. meal- or two a day, or odd job employment. "The committee on enrollment wishes to bring this condition to the attention of the householders of the community with the hope that there may be some homes in which work opportunities may be offered over and above the generous aid which has al ready been given. "Persons able to offer additional work or aid should communicate with •the officers, at once, or the deans of the several schools, or the Penn State Christian association. These several offices have lists of students whose needs and worth have been fully in vestigated,” the dean said. De Angelis ’35 Elected _ To Executive Council Manlio F. De Angelis *35 has re cently been named as secretary of the executive council of the Student Christian Movement, which had its inception at Eagles Mere last June. The Movement is composed of mem bers of the men’s and women’s cab inets of Christian associations in the Middle Atlantic area, and of leading’ religious workers. De Angclis will attend a meeting .of the executive council at Drew Se minary, Madison, N. J., today, tomor row, and Sunday. The council is meeting there at the invitation of Dr. Lynn H. Hough, who gave the bacca laureate sermon on this campus last June.
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