Page Two PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Published icmUwcvkly during the Collece year, except on holidays, by students of The Pennsylvania State Collect 1 , in the interest of the College, the students, faculty, nhinmi, and friends. THE UMiMHXC BOARH JOHN A. imUTZMAN '35 JACK A. MARTIN '35 Editor Du»i,n\«s Manager FRED W. WRIGHT ’33 GEORGE A. RUTLEDGE '33 Sports Editor Circulation Manager KENNETH C. HOFFMAN '35 R. KENNETH LYONS '35 Managing Editor l-ocul Advertising Manager JAMES H. WATSON JR. '35 JIARRY J. KNOFF MS Assistant Editor Foreign Advertising Manager PHILLIP W. FAIR JR. MS JOHN J. MATTHEWS M 3 Assistant Managing Editor Foreign Advertising Manager A. CONRAD UAIGF.S MS KAUI. G. KBYSEft JR. *35 News Editor Asst. Local Advertising Manager JAMES H. DBATTY JR. MS MARGAHET W. KINSLOB M 3 News Editor Women’s Managing Editor MARCIA If. DANIEL M 3 ELSIE M. DOUTHETT M 5 Women's Editor Women’s News Editor Managing Editor This Issue News Editor This Issue MCMBEfi Associated (sfoltec -* 1 D34 (£ol]fgifllrjiiljfol 1935.- WOSCII WISCCNSW Editorial Officv-*, SIS Old Main—Telephone 500 Application made for entry at the Post Office, State College, Penna.. as second-class matter. Tuesday, October 2. 1934 SELECTIVITY AND SCHOLARSHIP Those who decry the present fraternity system here surely can find something to justify their claims in the standings just released. The all-College average for men is nearly one-tenth of a point above the fraternity average. Fraternity men are prone to consider them selves superior to the average student, and wore the system correct, such would be the truth. Fraternities owe it to themselves to be selective. Only the best material should be accepted into mem bership. This is impossible under the present system. When it becomes necessary to fill more than fifty boarding clubs within two weeks, only the sketchiest of selectivity can be employed. Scholarship and per sonality are considered to some degree, it is true, but the important'thing is to fill the dining room and be gin the ageless battle against the mortgages piled high against the chimney. With their study hours and carefully kept files of term reports and engineering calculations, frater nities should boast averages much higher than the all- College one, and at best, above the all-College men’s mark. However, only sixteen houses fulfilled this sec ond provision, and four of those were professional fra ternities to whom grades mean much. The women’s fraternities, by this argument, can justify their existence. Only two of the ten fell- below the average set by the typical woman on the campus. The balance were far above the all-College average. This may be explained by the fact that a year of con sideration almost automatically makes eligible the best type of woman for rushing. There can be no guesswork as to their ability. Naturally, no one wants to transform the campus into a hungry mob of grade chasers. A certain amount of attention should be given to this phase of college, however. Six fraternities, with averages below that necessary for graduation, should indicate something unhealthy. IT IS TO BE REGRETTED extremely that the in terests of efficiency must be served rather than the in terests of the guests of the College. As has been said many, many times before, there is a certain fatal fas cination about a high building. No one is too dignified to succumb to the lure of a panorama similar to the one lying about Old Main. Sooner or later, students take their parents or other visitors to the tower for a complete view of the campus. But students are so forgetful. They do not remember that efficiency decries that the tower door be locked at four o’clock promptly. This was made pain fully plain Sunday afternoon when from five until- ten minutes after four no less than fifteen’people toiled up three flights of steps with that thought in mind. “They sure close this up on time,” plaintively re marked one woman who had carried a small child to the fourth floor of Old Main. Efficiency at any price. TRUE EDUCATION ! The trend toward broad, liberal education ns en visioned by Dean Stoddart may mark the step that will ultimately give a'college education a deeper significance. It shows clearly that a changing world has brought -about different standards without which it will be more difficult to face modern problems. A few years ago, too many colleges were turning out only artists with a genius for manipulating a slide rule. A wealth of technical knowledge seemed the most essential equipment for success in a busy world. The old prayer of “if not an engineer, then smooth,” was not entirely facetious. Curricula were crowded with required technical courses and a few electives which were generally confined, at the student’s choice, in the same narrow field. Literature, the social sciences, and other broader courses were looked upon with derision by the embryo technicians. The social, political, and financial upsets of the past few yeai’s have given the world an entirely different outlook. The social sciences, especially, have become greatly respected. When conventional political methods failed, theorists were asked for advice. The need for a broader understanding has become more and more'evident during the past decade or so. A comprehensive background is now more to be desired than a specialized training. Executive class college training is equivalent to approximately a year’s prac tical experience in a technical field. The broad educa- tion cannot be measured. A few idealists have -always clung to the belief that an education should do more than teach a trade— it should develop one’s ability to think. The trend to ward the liberal arts is showing that more are coming to this point of view. facts, the D. U.’s did. They wanted to know reasons, causes, points pro and con. And they got them. It was a freshman (yeah, a rushee) who gave them the veal dope—-why they’ve been sliding down from year to year, and everything. This gent, it seems, was be ing rushed by the Delta Oops and two other board ing clubs. 'When the preference cards came back, the two other clubs (horror, of horrors) were listed 1 and 2, and the dear farmhouse boys were third. For some reason (Why does one want a freshman rush ee?) the Barnyard Brethren decided they had to have the Plotzville Bacon Co.’s heir in their midst. So they asked him "Why not us’n’s?” John K. Darnest jr. MG Chnifoi M. Schwartz jr. MG fully, “you fellows have been awfully nice to me, you fellows have, and believe me, I appreciate all the free meals and everything. But when it comes to joining here, it’s a different matter. You see, 1 have a girl back home; she’ll want to come down to school here sometime this year. And you see, fellows, when she comes, I want to be able to take her some place I won’t be ashamed of.” ' Donald Frey is quite a guy—he’s held onto his boy-scout beliefs even in this rugged institution of culture. He’s prepared, he is. Last time he was home, his mother gave him a nice big rope. She’d read all about fires in frat houses and was worried. Now ‘Donnie-boy’ has it under his.bed, all coiled up, just waiting for some brother Phi Sigma Kappa to drop a cigaret in a stray wastebasket. The soccer team went to Scotland, or wherever Bill Jeffries took them, this summer, and had a lot of fun. They didn’t win any soccer games, exactly, but they did a lot of spreading of international good will, etc. One of the festivities they attended was a gigan tic dinner, given by the mayor in memory of some team they bowed to or something. It was quite an -affair, complete with whole tables of celebrities on all sides. The orchestra leader, working with the pro gram director figured out a good' liberal ‘idea? They. would have the Penn State soccer crew sing the ‘Star Spangled Banner.’ So they announced-it, and played it. The team recognized the thing, but, like -any ag gregation who havp taken R. 0. T. C., didn’t know the words. So they sat. That’s all. Just sat. Pretty soon some more celebrities gave the ‘Blue and White men' another dinner. But they didn’t take any chances. When the orchestra played the ‘Star Spangled anti so forth,* under each Penn State Soc- cerman’s plate was a neatly printed copy of the na tional anthem. The guests thought the boys had bra’ voices. We were up watching tlie Scranton-Wilkes-Barre Kollikaks (You-know, the Lackawanna county Kalli kaks) booting the football expertly around New Bea ver field, and were playing sports editor, figuring on ‘Penn State’s Chances’ Friday afternoon. We had a lot of fun, and were just getting around to the Columbia*game theories when one of the boys tore loose and punted the ball way off the field, right into the arms of a tall, sturdy fellow on the sidelines. He caught it. While everyone around him was trying to-decide whether he or the football team was the more sur- prised, he tossed the pigskin lightly ahead of him, took a quick step, and booted the thing tremendously aloft, right back to the Astounded players. Our Head Coach, Bobbie, Higgins, was half-way across the field to sign the lad up, when he discovered that there would he a hitch. The gent wasn't reg istered in the College. His name, though, was found to be R. D. Hetzel, Sr. About Town & Campus: Jimmy Olewine, (chem prof.) moans, while explaining -a process of running methane through grain alcohol, “Whatta waste, whatt-a waste.” .. . John O’Hara,.author of "Appoint ment in Samarra,” stops in to see Lit. Man Bill Wer ner on hls way back to New York from Hollywood . . . Johnny Brutzman, editor (in-chief, mind you) of this here rag, goes editorially nuts trying to lo cate his senior board: the managing editor (in Phil ly), the Sports Editor (in Morr jsville), the ass’t ed. (in Cleveland), the ass’t managing ed. (in Oberlin), the rest (Lost). Lotsa fun, being a one-man-power of-the-press, huh? . . . Bob Foster ’l9 will be back again on the cover of Froth after a twelve year lapse with the Alumni November 3. He took a running jump from four years In the old office into the top flight of cover artists and commercial designers . . . . . . Kak Klcinbcrg, Kak Kleinberg, Kak Kleinberg, Kale Kleinberg—o.k, pal, four times, even. OLD MANIA INQUISITION They got him in the corner and found out the “Well, it’s like this fellows,” he spoke up man- (The S. A. E.’s, though, have swell furniture!) * * * * * * ****** PATRIOTISM PERPETUATED, ****** “ATHLETICS FOR ALL” ****** —THE MANIAC THE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Two Foreign Debates Scheduled This Year By Forensic Council Orators to Meet Universities Of Hawaii, Oxford Here; AH Men Eligible Two international debates, with Oxford University and the University of Hawaii, are being planned for this year by Forensic Council. No defi nite, dates have'been set for cither contest. In the first debate against Oxford, Penn State representatives will up hold, the negative side of the question: Resolved, That we.condemn ail forms of military training in schools and universities. This was one of five to pics submitted by the visiting team, who chose to defend the affirmative of each. Each of the four contestants will speak for fifteen minutes with an eight-minute rebuttal allowed for each side. The debate will then be thrown open for open forum discus sion. There will be no decision. This method of procedure is the same as was used so successfully last season. All male students arc eligible to try out for the international team. Trials will be held on Wednesday, October 17, and. all students interest ed should report prepared to discuss the topic in a five-minute talk on either side. i From this group a committee of three, two members of the English department and one student or recent alumnus, will select the six speakers whom they think most effective. From these six, Prof. John Henry Frizzell, head of the department of public speaking,‘ and Prof. John F. O’Brien, of the same department, who will not be members of the first committee, will select the international team. The debate with a team from the University of Hawaii will- be held at the beginning of the second semester, and, although the. question of grant ing statehood to Hawaii has been sug gested as a topic for discussion, no definite decision has yet been made. Did You Know That. There are 1,124 members on the faculty and administrative staffs. •95,500,000 have .been expended on new College buildings in the past sev en years. There are over 1-10,000 volumes in the College library system. The. College land holding totals 2,- 000 acres, ■ .. ;Over .lOjPOOjJnaustrial employees enroll yedrly”in~ehgineering extension courses.- ' ' Thirty 'intercollegiate and intra mural sports are engaged in by men and women students during the Col lege year!., ’ Penn State athletes have repre sented the United:*,States in the past four Olympic games. Hiking is listed :as the favorite ex ercise of faculty members. Students use nearly 100,000 blue books annually. First Year Men Discuss Strong, Weak Points Of Fraternity Rushing Season, Freshman Week ‘‘Before I do much of anything else now, I am going ;to get really ac quainted with the Yellows in my fra ternity house,” one freshman was ov erheard to remark!{to another on their way to class the {{morning after the pledging occurred.-} “I’ve met so many fellows in such a * short time that I can scarcely remember their faces, much less their names.” “I had lots of -good times during rushing season as"; well as. Freshman Week,”, said another who was asked his thoughts of hjs first two weeks. “I wouldn’t mind-jgoing through the same thing again {because I certainly had no idea what;T was getting into or what to expect and that’s what made it so swell.” -■< “It’s almost too much to expect of a new fellow,’? another freshman ex plained. “Freshman Week is bad en ough, but this fraternity rushing sea-' son keeps a fellow bewildered for a month after it’s finished.” Two freshmen who were interview ed believed that it would simplify matters greatly if every fraternity printed its “line” and sent it to fresh men during the summer. In that way houses would save a lot of expenses because a freshman could have at least some idea what houses he would ‘Little Things in Life 1 Amount to More Than Greater Annoyances, Psychologist Declares It's the "little things in life” that that has never been met; are most apt to get in one’s hair and Men agree that back seat driving .under one’s skin if results of an ex- is extremely annoying, but listening periment conducted recently by a to baby talk is considered the worst psychology student at a contemporary possible annoyance/ Loud girls, ex college prove anything, for in a list cess use of makeup, and bitten finger of "annoyances” checked by a num- nails also bother the men. ber of subjects, details such as earth- Uncleanliness annoys women most quakes and tornadoes were complete- of and ' quarrelsome people are ly ignored. next in line. Co-eds evidently do not In carrying out the experiment, like conceited people, as "people who lists of ten annoyances were made by know it all” and braggarts were high the subjects, and these “pet peeves” in percentage among the “peeVes.” were in turn compiled into complete College men should know that when lists to be marked as either extreme- they keep'their “dates” waiting, they ly, moderately, or slightly annoying,' are aggravating them to the utter not annoying at all, or a situation most degree. ‘A College Has Long Life, But a Short Memory ...'■ This is the second of a series of short biographies about former campus personalities whose names are Ifenn State legends. Thomas H. Burrowes Fourth president of Penn State . .. Educated at Trinity College, Dublin . . . One of the founders of the pub lic school system in Pennsylvania . . . As Secretary of the Commonwealth in 1835, became executive officer of the free school law passed the year before. On assuming the duties, he con fessed that he knew “no more about the details of schools than about the local geography of the moon” . . . In the twenty-seven years following he fashioned most of our public school legislation. The fact that such a man served as one of the early presidents of the College, after devoting nearly thirty years to the public schools of the State, is another link binding the Col lege closely to the development of free public education in Pennsylvania. - State College has named'one of its streets for Dr. Burrowes. Explains Trend (Continued from page one). school is highly specialized. For this reason, students, not knowing what they want, except an education, en roll in this school. “After being graduated by this school,” -he continued, “they are bet ter prepared, in a’ general'sense, to meet almost any exigency, and to fit themselves into a variety of positions. On. the other hand, students gradu ated irom the specialized and tech nical curricula are lost* if there are no positions available for them in their field at the time of their gradu ation.” When asked what he thought the future offered in his and the other schools, he pointed out that as busi ness improves, the technical schools’ enrollments will rise, and the liberal arts departments will hold their own because they offer the background of economics and social studies. consider and refuse dates to- those which he did not have in mind.- Of fourteen freshmen questioned, only three were of- the opinion that second semester rushing would help the situation. Eleven were inclined to believe that the quicker they join ed a fraternity the quicker, they would become familiar with the “ropes.” One'freshman even remarked that ho thought it was necessary to join a fraternity to, get a, class office or other honorary' positions because, from reading the “Bible”- he remembered some of the: names of' men high in campus activities and found that he met them all in various fraternities in which he'was invited. Four freshmen, all of whom were cornered at one time, were asked what they enjoyed most about Freshman Week. Each had a different answer. The first one enjoyed the song prac tices; the second the mats meetings and the third thought that there was nothing more interesting than the system in which registration is car ried out. ’ * “Well,” said the fourth, “I was mad enough at the time to tell every upper classman what I J bought of him, but now I’m sort of. glad he sent me up to the second floor "of Mac Hall for my R. O. T. C. uniform.” • :300A.'%^ >ub/ecfs\\ egiateX wtionary,' \ lent for quick reference the best dictionary for. know. ,, -Poioe«.'flteworti icriity of Texas. irtmcntHeadsoMcadlne .111 with tils opinion. ° II Mtrrinm»lPtbtter \ 111 igrm*nts ' ' ■ }}l idlng hundreds of new is. spellings, and correct iographical Dictionary; ) itd-Phratet; Abbnvta-. /> on, Use of Capitals jf ires of.prnctlcal value. Jf o Illustrations. ■ // College'Bookstore // tornmUOa to // iir /y srrlam Co,/' id, Mm.k/7 Fraternity Averages MEN’S FRATERNITIES 1. Alpha Zeta 1.84 2. Triangle 1.77 3. Omega Psi Phi 1.73 4. Beaver House 1.71 5. Delta Theta Sigma 1.69 6. Alpha Chi Sigma 1.64 6. Commons Club -1.64 8. Beta Sigma Rho 1.57- 0. Theta Upsilon Omega 1.56 10. Phi Sigma Delta 1.55 11. Sigma Tau Phi 1.52 12. Beta Theta Pi 1.51 13. Sigma Alpha Epsilon 1.48 14. Sigma Phi Alpha 1.44 15. Acacia 1.43 16. Phi Kappa Tau 1.40 17. Theta Xi L 1.35 18. Phi Sigma Kappa 1.34 18. Sigma Nu 1.34 20, Alpha. Phi Delta 1.33 20. Delta Chi 1.33 20. Phi Kappa Psi 1.33 23. Chi Phi 1.32 24. Phi Delt* Theta 1.31 24. Theta Nu Epsilon 1.31 20. Alpha Tau Omega 1.30 26. Delta Upsilon 1- 1.30 26. Sigma Phi Sigma 1.30 26. Theta Kappa Phi 1.30 30. Tau Phi Delta 1.29 31. Alpha Kappa Pi 1.26 31. Theta Chi 1.26 33. Alpha Chi Rho 1.24 33. Alpha Gamma Rho 1.24 33. Phi Pi Phi 1.24 36. Phi Gamma Delta 1.23 36. Tau Sigma Phi 1.23 38, Delta Tau' Delta 1.22 39. Alpha Sigma Phi 1.20 41. Beta Kappa 1.19 41. Kappa Delta Rho 1.19, 43. Tau Kappa Epsilon 1.17 44. Sigma Phi Epsilon «,Ll5_ r 45. Sigma Pi 1,11 46. Phi Lambda Theta 1.09 47. Pi Kappa Alpha 1.08 48. Phi Epsilon Pi 1.07 49. Chi Upsilon 1.05 51. Delta Sigma Phi 0.97 51. Phi Kappa Sigma 0.97 53. Pi Kappa Phi 0.96 53. Phi Mu Delta 0.96 55. Phi Kappa 0.94 56. Lambda CHi Alpha 0.93 WOMEN’S "FRATERNITIES 3. Alpha Omicron Pi 2.04 2. Kappa Kappa Gamma —. 1.95 3. L’Amitie 1 1.88 4. Kappa Alpha Theta 1.81 5. Delta Gamma : 1.80 6. Alpha Chi Omega 1.73 7. Gamma Phi Beta 1.71 8. Chi Omega 1.64 9. Theta Phi Alpha 1,40 10. Phi Mu r 1.31 ALL-COLLEGE AVERAGES All-College 1 1.42 All-College Men 1.37 All College Women 1.64 All-Fraternity 1.35 All-Fraternity, Men ,1.29 AllrFratemity Women 1.74 Non-Fraternity Men .... 1.48 Non-Fraternity Women 1.59 SWAY To the Rhythms of LYNN CHRISTY and his Penn. Statesmen at the - \ " ■ ' ! Collegian-Froth Dance Friday, October 6 At 9 P. M, In Recreation Hall Tuesday, October 2, 1934 Women Without Men The definite seating arrangement foy the McAllister hall dining com mons was given its first trial at din ner last night. It has been devised by W. S. G. A. to prevent the mad scrambling for tables. The arrange ment will be changed about twice each semester, if the plan is satisfac tory. It has been reported that there arc also plans for the construction of a second door from the lobby into the dining commons, which, if passed, ■will greatly relieve the congestion. Mrs. Louise L. Somerlatt, chap erone of the Grange dormitory for women, is seriously ill at the North Cumberland Memorial Hospital, .in Maryland. Miss Ellen M. Burkhold er, assistant Dean of Women, is sub stituting for her,. The Phi Mu’s will hold pledging at tHeir house this coming Saturday night. Members of L’Amitie are planning a tea for* their newly pledged mem bers to be held at the home of Mrs. W. P. Bell, ji*., of South Allen street. The date has not yet been set. A “spread” for the new Kappa Kappa Gamma pledges was given by Gretciisn H. Diehl in honor of her birthday at the Knppa house on last Thursday night. Members of the Home Economics cluh, both student and faculty,-pic nicked in Holmes Woods last Friday afternoon. Freshman Band Chosen (Continued from J)age one) W. Merriman, Don E. Miller, Robert T. Mitchell, George E. Motz, Robert L. Neff, Harold W. Rcarick, Clifford F. Sarver, Henry H. Showers, Bar tine A. Shupp, George W. Statler, Charles W. Walter, and Howard R. Yeager. Flute and piccolo: Marshall K. Ev vans and Frederick H. Serif. Eb Alto saxophone: George A. Ba ker,* Edwin, B". Giiie, Edward E. Hard ing, Ben F. Miller, and Edmund Turt zo. Tenor, saxophones: William P. Cad wallader, and Wilfred C. Washcoc. Trumpets: John D. Brisbane, Rob ert A. J. Fileri Lewis B. Grube, Dan iel Joelle, Wyllys V. Johnson, Albert P.' Lyford, William "Leon -Shaffer, Robert Strasmyer, and William-H. Williams." Trombones: William H. Bayer, Don ald'M. "Daugherty, D. Charles Davies, W. Evan Jones, William H. Kline, Charles E. Keeney, Chester L. Nes bitt, and George M. Nash. Eb alto mellophonc: Bruce 11. HousekriecHt.. French horns: Robert J. Baxter, Howard ’S- Coleman, Theron C. Hoyt, and Winston A. Shoenbergcr. Baritones: Howard P. Baldwin George "H. Conner, and Marshall" M. Moyer. BBBb bass: Walter M. Geise,- Ralph" B. Knapp, and Wendell B. Stamm. Eb basses: John M. Jnqucth and Irving W." Rutherford. The, following were appointed to the bland but neglected to register with the name of their instruments: Eldridge K. Camp, William' E. Die fenderfer, Jamss G. Everhart, Rich ard E. Rentz, and Max K. Wiant, Additional try-outs for the Fresh man, band will be conducted in'the band room, Room 401, Old Main, at 8:30 o’clock tonight. No more appli cants for the Sophomore band wilt be ; accepted.
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