Page Two PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Successor to The Free Lance, established 1887. Published scml-wcvkly durlnt: the College year, except on holidays, by students of The Pennsylvania StaK l Colloko. in the interest of the Collette, the students, faculty, alumni, and friends. SING HOARD THE MANAI JOHN A. BRUTZMAN '35 JACK A. MARTIN *35 Editor ltuslness Manascr FRED W. WKIGnT '35 GEORCE A. RUTLEDGE '35 Sports Editor Circulation Manoßer KENNETH C. HOFFMAN '35 D. KENNETH LYONS '35 Mnnattlm: Editor Local Advertising Manager JAMES 11. WATSON JR. '35 HARRY J. KNOFF '35 Assistant Editor Foreign Advertising Manager PHILLIP W. FAIR JR. '35 JOHN J. MATTHEWS ’35 Assistant Managing Editor \ftst. Foreign Advertising Manager A. CONRAD HAIGES *35 EARL G. KEYSER JR. '35 News Editor Asst. Local Advertising Manager JAMES B. BEATTY JR. '35 MARGARET W. KINSLOE '36 New* Editor Women’s Managing Editor MARCIA B. DANIEL ’35 ELSIE M. DOUTHETT ’35 Women's Editor Women's News Editor ASSOCIATE EDITORS John K. Barnes jr. '3(5 W. Bernard Freunsch 3(5 Vance 0. Pnckard 35 Harry 11. Henderson jr. '36 William P. McDowell 35 John E. Miller jr. ’3C Donald P. Sanders 35 Charles M. Schwartz jr. '35 ASSOCIATE BUSINESS MANAGERS Thilip G. Evans '35 William B. Heckman '35 .£• .Sf 8 ® ‘ 36 Roland W. Oberholtzcr jr. JC Vi illinm 11. Skirble 35 Managing Editor This Issue— News Editor This Issue Editorial Offices. 313 Old Main— Telephone 500 Application made for entry at the Poßt Office, State College. Fenna., as second-class matter. Tuesday, November 20, 1934 WITH MORE THAN conventional sadness wo prepare the obituaries oC the victims of Friday’s tragedy. College seems such a pleasant, carefree place that any such occurrence strikes deeper than usual. The students who will never complete their courses, the rooming house proprietors familiar to so many, and the alumni universally remembered and respected have left a de finite void in the environment. Certainly their brief stays here have left a contribution which will linger. TOWARD COOPERATION The approval of the set-up of the Schools of Liberal Arts and Education marks the final -step in a co ordination that shoulH murk a definite improvement in matters curricula. For a long-time, an over-lapping be tween the two Schools occasioned much confusion in the determination of courses and scheduling. The two were so closely related that misunderstanding were inevitable. Probably the point most appreciated by faculty members is the pronounced wish for greater participa tion in the formulation of departmental policies. At the same time, division heads will welcome an executive secretary to carry the administrative duties. It would seem most impractical to saddle the foremost men of each department with an undue amount of office work. One of the most interesting features of the plan is the unformed policies regarding admittance into the Upper Division. At present, a committee is working on the requirements for the entrance of juniors. Routine subjects, such as proficiently in English and Languages are to be expected, but the rest of the tentative pre requistes will be awaited with no little interest. Recom mendations from departmental heads must be secured, while certain aptitude tests will be arranged. Personal qualifications have also been, listed as one of the tenta tive requirements for admission to the Division. Just what will be faculty attitude on these last points? Is it possible and probable that anyone will attend classes here for two years and then'discover that his personality bars him from completing his education? It docs not seem plausible that many will be kept from the Division. There are too many students who have to drop out. * THE OPEN SEASON for candidate gunning on the part of honoraries is just around the corner. Undoubt edly, the annual investigation of the value of such organizations will be started soon. Now more than ever, the question of their worth is being raised. There is littlo quarrel with a few well-established organizations nor with professional fraternities which contribute fur ther to the knowledge of their members, but honor for merely honor’s sake is empty, very empty. ‘ Intrinsically, most keys have little value removed from the campus, and now that financial exigencies have tended to lower initiation fees, even the gold content of the keys has been lowered until the trade-in value is almost nothing. SIGNIFICANT, IF TRUE In line with the increasing significance of the college man's participation in governmental affairs comes the announcement that a laboratory course in training for public affairs is being offered by the National .Institu tion of Public Affairs of Washington. Under the propos ed plan, each student will serve as an apprentice to some govonmental official. The course will bo conducted by socialscience pro- fessors on leave of absence from various institutions. Students will attend conferences of high officials, ob serve the practical operations of the Federal govern ment, and serve a so-called “interneship” which will include actual work in a department of particular per sonal- interest. Should this plan be carried out in the best possible manner, much practical benefits can be expected. There is little question that far too little is known about the functions of the Federal government. If this is a sincere undertaking and students are actually allowed to ob serve important conferences, a vivid conception of ad ministrative problems will be developed, with the pro bability existing that College training can be utilized better to meet them. On the other hand, it is altogether too likely that the whole matter will.be swallowed up in “poliical expediency” and only the harmless little mat ters will be discussed before such classes. The plan sounds entirely too ideal to be realized. That James Stephens, who’s to talk in the audi torium Thursday is surely no daisy-picking poet with vine leaves in his hair is now certainly evident to us. We have Prof. Bill Werner, of the estimable Eng. Lit dept, to thank for the proof. Ho sent it to us with the following note: “Perhaps the Collegian colyumnist might like to print a poem by James Stephens. It deals with an Irishman who has boon bounced out of a saloon by a muscular barmaid. This is what he thinks of her” The lanky hank of a she in the inn over there Nearly killed mo for asking the loan of a glass of boor: May the devil grip the whey-faced slut by the hair, And beat bad manners out of her skin for a year. That parboiled imp, with the hardest jaw you will .Charles M. Schwnrt* jr. '35 __Vnnco O. Packard '35 On virtue’s path, and a voice that would rasp the dead, Came roaring and raging the minute she looked at me, And throw me out of the house on the back of my head! If I asked her master he’d give me a cask a day; But she with the beer at hand, not a/gill would arrange! May she marry a ghost and bear him a kitten and may The High King of Glory permit her to get the mango. one of Nature’s noblemen, cool, polite, and he’s worked hard to keep the reputation. But no more. He’s anti-politeness now. No longer will he be a gentle man at all times. He was helping walk an elderly, mustachioed gentleman home Saturday night, and having a swell time. He and the elderly gent wandered slowly out College avenue. Every time Burkey would meet one of his many pals he’d chime, “This is my Grand-pap, he always gets this way on houseparty,” and then all three of them would laugh and laugh. They were about to the Power Plant when some one ho had never seen before unaccountably tapped Burkey on the shoulder ,and snarled, “If you over do that again I'll kill you.” Burkey ejaculated an amaz ed, “What?” Just as the newcomer (police descrip tion, six feet, fairly heavy, with small black mustache) swung, first on Burkey, then at the old gent. Now Burke never lets people beat up old gentle men. He lit into the intruder*, and, after awhile, knocked him firmly down. - Then he made*his error. Gentlemanlike, he waited for the guy to get up. The guy didn’t—he was no gentleman. He tackled our hero, got on top of him, and efficiently banged his noggin against the curb. After awhile Burkey smiled vaguely, and got up, with assistance. He looked around for the victor, didn’t see him anywhere. The old gentleman was standing there. The crowd had gathered and they were standing there. Burkey was standing there. The mug had gone. Burkey helped the old gentleman on down the street and then went home to philosophize. Finally he reached a decision. No longer will he be a gentleman at all times. It just doesn’t pay. Trick of the week—Mel Fox held six pals, in cluding dates, at bay in his apartment Saturday night. He was polite about it, merely wandered into the room holding a gun, murmured, “All of you sit still or I’ll shoot,” in the best Gangland Novel manner, and then stood there. After awhile he left the silent-scared room. So did his friends, precipitously . OLD MANIA RIGHTEOUS ANGER —James Stephens. REFORMATION UNDER PRESSURE King Burke has himself the reputation of being * # * * * * —THE MANIAC NOVEMBER BOOK SALE CONTINUING WITH NEW TITLES ADDED One Special Lot Juvenile titles—clean fresh stock—less than half price. Literary Guild Titles Back Numbers and others at less than one-haif the original price. A new supply of Architec tural, Art and History Books: Buy Books Now! Give Books for Christmas • >- + KEELER’S Open Evenings Cathaum Theatre Bldg. THE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN FOOTLIGHTS “Bargin’ Around,” a short revue directed by Prof. Richard W. Grant and J. Ewing (Sock) Kennedy, and presented by the Penn State Thes pians and the Men’s Glee Club in Schwab auditorium, Saturday night, November 17. Though the great God Thespis might have been shocked at what passed for art at the Thespian-Glee Club show Saturday night, he un doubtedly would have been entertain ed. Thrown together with all the rhyme and reason of a first class pajama parade, the show nevertheless possessed all the- color and speed nec essary to keep a none too critical houseparty audience happy. , Shades of long gone Thespians roamed the boards during that divi sion's part—the smirking faces of Norris and Johnston, of Vance and Baer, of Maimed, and of the Whelan- Porterfield-Merrill • combine peeped out from behind the reincarnations of their acts, as presented by the mod erns, Edwards, Taylor, Binns, Park er, Dixon and Hutchinson. To Sock Kennedy must go great credit for his masterful attempt at really moulding together a jumble of half-forgotten scenes from the Thes pian shows of a dozen years, mixing in a few new numbers, and coordinat ing his part of the show with that produced by the Glee club. By means of a clever traveller, executed by Henry K. Porterfield, and by the in terlocutor-like work of rubberneck Graham Luckenbill, he almost achiev ed a sort of continuity. The Glee club slipped seriously in only one number—the excerpt from the “Desert Song.” Even the excel lent voices of Ralph DuVze, bass, Harlan Wovthley, baritone, and Jack Yeager, tenor, couldn’t save that pre sentation from fiat. The num ber was well done, but entirely put of place on a light program such as the one Saturday night. In “The Song of the Wheel,” writ ten by John Naylor and Robert Bas sett, of the English composition de partment, the vocal organization, aided by the Thespian men’s chorus, made up for the showing in the Des ert song number. Beautifully staged, and effectively sung, the symbolic song of the workers in the Detroit automobile factories carried to every member of the audience the story of sweat and toil involved in the making of a labor saving device. Bassett and Naylor deserve highest praise for this composition, as well for their lighter contribution, “I’ve Got a Week-End to Share.” By far the most unconventional number of the whole review was the singing of “St. Louis Blues,” by the Girls’ Singing, .Qh*rus, .-.with Sandra Schindler doing ’a pseudo—Ethel Waters as the lead. Miss Schindler threw her body, as well as her soul, into the rendition of the number. It is unfortunate that she is not a dan- On Oilier Campuses Did you ever hear about the Rhodes scholar candidate from Illinois who was refused because he didn’t know what Andy Gump’s political aspira tions were? The Dartmouth classmates of Dob Michlet paid him their greatest Honor by electing him permanent president of the class of '34. This was extraordinary because Bob Michlet was dead. During his four years at Dartmouth, Michlet was chosen as the most versatile, the most popular, most respected, and the one who had done the most for Dartmouth. He played guard on the football team, he swam for the varsity, each spring he hurled weights for the track team. In his senior year he was made a senior Fellow and a member of Phi Beta Kappa, was president of his frater nity and of his class, and headed the student governing body. Excuses for cuts are not required at the University of Kansas because the maintenance cost of the absence file in the dean’s office was too ex pensive. One of the candidates for editor of the annual at Southern Methodist cer—a flavoring of gracefulness would have added the final touch to a number that was certainly com pletely different from what has been done here recently. To Helen Taylor and Bill Edwards must go their usual orchids. As the comedy leads, the pair lived up to what their reputation as Thespian ‘squirrels’ has taught Penn State au diences to expect. Their rendition of the famous Malmed-Johnston num ber, “Won't You Be My Valentine?” was very well done, while Edwards, ■the ‘cut-up’ in every scene in which he appeared, shone particularly in the ‘Quaker Town Meeting’ and ‘Senate’ scenes. To attempt to criticize individual acts, most of which have been re viewed at least once, and some two and three times by our predecessors, seems futile. The show as a whole was, briefly, tried and true. With but a couple of exceptions, already mentioned, the scenes were well se lected, and well enough presented. What might be known as a ‘revamp ing flatness’ rode with every old scene, but reworked, slightly altered, they presented an intriguing appear ance nevertheless. Without a doubt, the hits of the evening were “Quaker Town Meet ing,” (for laughs), “Song of the Wheel,” (for sheer impressiveness), and “St. Louis Blue,” (for spectcau lar qualities). The Harmony Trio, Helen Taylor, Jane Parker, and Mary Jane Thompson, mnde the best im pression as a group their voices mingled nicely, forming, if not per fect harmony, at least something light, tuneful, and pleasant. Their rendition of “Just a Garden in the Rain” was particularly well done. Mentions: Ruth Edgar, Hannah Judd, and Sammy McKee presented a nicely timed vivaciousness in their dance, “I Want a Man.” . . . “Plan tation,” by the Hy-los, was the best of the numbers presented by the vocal men’s group alone—possibly because in that scene the singers appeared merely as singers, rather than as Arabian chiefs or chorus shouters . .. Jessjio Sehminky’s wailing of “I’m Just a Broken Blossom,” in the Sen ate number was perfection itself . . . Don Dixon was unimpressive, as us ual ... To the stage managers, etc., our compliments for admirably fast work changing scenes the very speed of presentation kept the au dience from ever losing interest . . . the lighting effects on “Emmaline” were very well carried out, also . . . The chorus was consistently adequate, although never really good . . . The orchestra, jointly directed by Hum mel Fishburn and Prof. Richai*d Grant worked together in the best Thespian orchestra manner, except for the. unfortunate flatness in the trumpet section . '. . We laughed and laughed at Binns and Forney in their Senatorial dance . . . and went home vastly pepped up after a pleasant two hours. University is conducting his cam paign by means of victrola records. Popular tunes accompany words em phasizing his qualifications. One re vised song has a refrain, “Now’s the time to vote for Horn.” The lie-detector is being used by the Northwestern University Law school officials to force students to return stolen books to the library. More than 90 per cent of the stu dents at Loyala University come from Chicago and its suburbs. One-third are sons of American-born parents, while one-quarter claim Irish de scent. And from way out west where men are men and ping-pong is a danger ous game. At any rate, one student player at the University of Montana got a six-inch gash on his forehead while playing. ‘ Will an intoxicated hen lay more eggs than her sober sister? This is the problem the agricultural depart ment of the University of Wisconsin has set out to solve. It comes, from a report that an intoxicated chicken lays three eggs to one of the sober hen. Letter Box To the Editor: R.S..V.P. '3G in his recent letter to the Collegian about the Artists’ Course has completely misrepresent ed the situation. He is entirely in error when he charges the commit tee with misuse of its funds. Not a penny, goes to the local mu sical groups under the direction of Mr. Grant. The simple facts ai;e as follows: The Artists’ Course commit tee budgeted a small sum of money to secure four artists to sing the solo series in the forthcoming performance of the “Messiah” by the local choral society. Purchasers of the regular Artists’ Course series tickets at no additional expense will hear four high ranking New York soloists in cluding Mary Craig, brilliant young soprano, Robert Betts, tenor who has sung with the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, Myrtle Leonard, contralto, and Arthur Anderson, bass baritone; both members of the Metropolitan Opera Company. Far from being a “chiseler,” Mr. Grant has given unsparingly of his time and energy to make the course a success, and it was largely due to his individual initiative that it was reestablished last year. Calm yourself, R.S.V.P. ’36, and rest assured that the Artists’ Course committee, made up of representative faculty and students, is not passing out any money to "local talent.” A Student With the Facts *35 To The Editor: At the present time, when elections to the various honor societies are be ing considered, reiteration of the rules of the Honor Society Council may be of interest. ; The ; Honor Society Council com prises in its membership all of the honor societies for which scholastic merit is recognized as a requirement and includes those societies which participate on Scholarship Day. “Article 2. Membership. Section 2, Paragraph 1. To be en titled to .the distinction of high schol arship, a student should be in the up per onc-fifth of his class in.-the col lege (not school) in average grade for all his studies, including'the sem ester previous to his election. This standard should be strictly adhered to by those Honor Societies which now elect from the enrollment of an en tire school or more. These include: Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Tau, Tau Be ta Pi, and Gamma Sigma Delta. Those societies, which elect from a more limited number of students, such as from a department in one school, including Eta Kappa Nu, Phi Lambda Upsilon, and Chi Epsilon, may elect from the upper one-fourth of the class. The question as to whether any Honor Society is to,.elect from the upper onerfifth or upper one-fourth .of the class shall be de cided by the Honor Society Council. Paragraph ,2. Election to an Honor Society shall- take place not- earlier than the second semester of the jun ior year; except that twenty per cent of the eligible juniors may be elected in the first semester. This rule dpes not apply to the Freshman Honor Societies, i.e., Phi Eta Sigma, and Alpha Lambda Delta. Prof. H. A. Everett To The Editor: •While attending the ..debate with Oxford, it occurred to me that the sentiment of State College reacted decidedly against the continuance of compulsory military training. Although I am probably an* anti militarist, it seems to me that it is obvious to even the most elementary powers of observation that there is indisputably, one redeeming feature to the solution. It cannot.be denied that the pursuance of the advanced courses- in R.O.T.C. is not prompted by interest in military training par ticularly, but the students provide themselves with a source of income which they receive from their salary. DR. GRACE S. : DODSON OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN Spcial Attention to Sinus Trouble 124 S. Pugh St, Phone 454-J ■ Tuesday, November 20,1984 Mechanical Engineers Perfect ‘Blood Count’ Test For Automobiles A “blood count” for engines, some? thing new in automobile tests, has been perfected here by the mechanic al engineering department.. 1 Under,this new treatment of en gine oil, the oil is examined in much, the. same, way that physicians study human blood. In the tests the oil reveals.little particles, seen only un der a microscope, averaging about one two-hundred and fifty thousandth of an inch in diameter. * These particles are about the same size as blood corpuscles, and the study of these particles aids, the engineers just as the blood count aids physi cians. . Just as the blood counts re veal infections of the human body, so do these particles reveal unseen engine wear and strain. • The tests already show a differ ence of forty or fifty per cent in mo tor oils. It has been found that six, kinds of waste accumulate in the crank case. When any one of these becomes excessive, trouble follows. These particles which cause trouble are carbon, iron abrasion, iron ox ide, dust, aluminum oxide, and bab bitt. The first three have been found to be the most dangerous. Slusser, Cole To Assist Winter Sport Coaches Thomas A. Slusser ’34 and Clyde H. Cole ”34, assistant freshman foot ball coaches, will assist in coaching boxing and wrestling, respectively, this winter. Slusser- will have charge of the Lion freshman ringmen who have a meet scheduled with the Army plebes. at West Point, March 9. The former athlete was captain of the Nittany boxing and football team last year. Cole will assist Coach Speidel with the varsity wrestling team and will have charge of the yearling wrest lers. Two meets have already been scheduled for the freshmen. Cole was heavyweight Intercollegiate wrestling champion two years ago, and .was an outstanding tackle on the football team last year. Although this is not very' substan tial, it aids them in their financial problems. Thus they not only pro vide themselves with monetary wealth, and means.for their intellec tual advancement by remaining in school, but also gives them military training which would be an aid to both them and their country in* time, of war. . •■■■' / vA.'PoweH-,-^ • THE Penn Stater Hat . Formerly. $5.00 ' . now \ $3.95 Stark jtassuL/iRPERj Haberdashers
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