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PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
Successor to The Free Lance, established 1887.
Published send-weekly daring the College year, except on bonder..
by students of The Pennsylvania State College. in the interest of the
College. the students. faculty, alumni, and friends.
I=l
JOHN A. BRUTZIdAN 15
Editor
FRED W. WRIGHT '33
Sports Editor GEORGE A. '35
KENNETH C . lIOFF\IAN
3I , Lsing Editor - P,;,',1E',1,7111;11;;Y0X,,,g'1 5 r
JAMESAILDS;ATErtror". ' 35
FoliretittillidvaertiaiNn2F3Fl'anTger
PHILLIP W. FAIR JR. '35 JOHN J. MATTHEWS '55
Assistant Managing Editor Asst. Foreign Advertising Manager
A. CONRAD HAIGES '35 EARL G. KEYSER JR. '53
News Editor Asst. Local Advertising Manager
JAMES B. BEATTY JR. IS MARGARET W. KINSLOE
News Editor Women . .. Managing Editor
MARCIA B. DANIEL '35
Women's Editor
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
John K. Bnrnes jr. '3C W. Bernard Freunsch . 36 Vance 0. Packard MG
Hurry B. Henderson jr. William P. McDowell MG
John E. Miller Jr. MG Donald P. Sanders '3G
Charles M. Schwarta jr. '36
Manacinz Editor This -
Newn Editor This Issue
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Penna., as second.clais matter.
Friday, January 4, 1935
THE GOLD STANDARD
The recent meeting of the National Collegiate
Athletic Association has seemed to clarify one point.
The matter of subsidization of athletes was discussed
at some length with rather pointed results.
These are schools that have gone of the "gold
standard" definitely, and by so doing have placed the
game for the game's sake above a phenomenal string
of victories and colossal gate receipts. Then, too,
there are institutions which are openly in the business
of having good teams, of drawing thousands of specta
tors every Saturday, always with the eye cocked toward
the Rose Bowl or some other bowl with the hope of
added financial returns therefrom.
It appears that there are far too few schools fall
ing into the first class. As a matter of fact, several
rather strong speeches were given on the floor of the
convention in which coaches intimated that it was no
body's business what any school does about inducing
athletes matriculating in any . institution. Further, it
was the expressed thought that if any schools did not
like this arrangement, that school could schedule insti
tutions which confovned to a policy of similar purity.
At first, it seems a black outlook for the Penn State
athletic policy which has weathered several rather
harsh seasons. Avowedly, the College schedules only
teams which conform to our standards. . Does this
mean that the College will be : unable to find suitable op-_.
ponents. Admittedly, it looks discouraging, but when
on remembers that a few .weeks ago Washington and
Jefferson adopted' a.simon-pure c ,poliCY;' , sife Caii•deel
that probably in the future, itAvilOie much easier to;
schedule suitable and lOgicil.opponents.
It will be a question Of 'time and educitiion. While
there are victory-mad alumni andi'mortgagd 7 bedraped
stadia here and there, it will be necessary to pot on n;
circus which will draw the -ral;ble through.-the gates
in great numbers, each !member `thereof learini his
token at the box-office.
Eventually, alumni May grow more 'complacent;
mortgages can be burned publicly between halves of
some game; and college football can become another
extra-curricular activity rather than a high-geared
business. It will take a long time—it may or may not
work out, but it will be interesting to watch.
A FEW EYEBROWS may be lifted while the re
quirements for entrance to the Upper Division are
being read. There is no question that these require
ments are extremely high. It is a very straight line
of reasoning that has been followed.
Every effort is being made to bring the Schools of
Liberal Arts and Education to the highest possible
plane. One of the quickest ways to do this is to' make
scholastic standards very tough. A few yeara under
such regulations, and a diploma front the culture
hopper of the educational mill of Penn State will mean
much more.
"NON-PREFERRED"
College authorities are worried, and rightly so,
over the present financial emergency which exists. The
College is run on a biennium appropriation and at pre
sent is just rounding out the last few weeks of the
present budget.
It is this factor which casts an, extremely grave
light over the picture. Two years ago, budgets were
slashed as much as possible because it was known that
the state financial load would have to be lightened. What
does the present situation portend for the oncoming
legislative session?
Avowedly, state administrative heads feel that
a cut will have to be made somewhere. At present,
penses of government and other "preferred" bills, in
cluding payment to the public school system, are all
that the revenue will accommodate, "Non-preferred"
bills, including payments to hospitals, homes, colleges,
and assistance to aged mothers, are left lying in the
executive drawers until more funds are available.
It is hard to be charitable concerning such a policy
when one remembers that for every dollar of relief
expended at present, eleven dollars are necessary for
administrative detail concerning that lone dollar; when
one remembers that in the foothills of Centre County,
persons who have existed only for all their life' are now
bewildered with the money that is poured in upon them
monthly by a benificent government.
When the College looks at her comrades in trouble,
she feels a bit reluctant about complaining, but surely
cuts could be made elsewhere than against hospitals,
Trick of the week
Down in the little town of Flemington, N. J.,
they're having quite a time of it these days. Some
fellow named Hapman or Hauptmann or something
is being tried for kidnapping, and a lot of people are
interested. Wednesday morning, with legal counsel
— for both sides all• ready to swing into action, tila
courtroom found itself packed, while the big guns of
the court started to pick themselves a jury. After
interviewing a slew of people who had read too many
newspapers to be 'in ignorance of the crime,' or
whatever you have to be in ignorance of to get your
self on a jury, they finally got one man who was
o. k. •
JACK A. MARTIN '3l
Business Manager
ELSIE M. DOUTHETT '35
Women's News Editor
Harry B. Henderson Sr. .36
Vance 0. Puckard '36
OLD MANIA
Then there was a hitch. They wanted to swear
the gent in and couldn't find the Bible. And, you
see, you cant get a man to put his left hand on the
Bible if there isn't any Bible. They looked all around
all over town, and after half an hour went on with the
trial. A Bible had been found.
That doesn't have anything to do with anybody
from this institution of culture? The hell you say.
We just found out yesterday that a rising young
journalist from the Phi Ep house was down there
during Christmas vacation; he tried to interview
Ifauptmann but couldn't get ii, and thought it
would be nice to take the witness stand Bible home
for a souvenir. So he did, and that's. why the wheels
of justice didn't get rolling on time Wednesday morn-.
Clipping
Tom Daly's column, Rhymes and Ripples, in the
Philadelphia Eresing Bulletin for December 27, 1934
had in it a famous name, none other than that Penn
State's own little man-about-town, Mr. Robert E. Gal
braith. Here's the clipping:
"An attention-caller who shall be nameless here,
but in whose veracity we have confidence, reports
that Robert E. Galbraith, well-known instructor in
English composition at Penn State, recently qualified
for membership in the Mixed Flaunters and Flouters
Club with this:
" 'Aldous Huxley often flaunts the rules of Eng
lish Grammar:"
Accident
Probably the wierdest tale to come out of the
jumble of .screwey incidents which makes up any
body's vnentiop,, is concerned with the present plight
of .one of ,the:Phi Psi's more bulky pledgesi a
Davis.
Somebody was driving. along the. main . street of
Mr. Davis' honie! town early on' the morning of ,a
cold January 41 SPY - Mg . a figure sprawled'; across
the edge of the Sidewalk, they Stopped, , and conveyed
the figure to tlie• hospital. Thete. the figure Woke
up, disclosed itself 'to be' said 'MI. foind
out that he'd somehow broken his leg while on his
ramblings the previous evening.
The hospital, wasn't able to do anything fO r r Mt:.
Davis right away, on account of how they found
out that llfr. Davis wasn't feeling so well in other.
parts of his anatomy. So they put him to bed, and ac
cording to all wire reports, he's going to get the leg
Put back where it belongs, soon.
About Town and Campus (and peoples' home towns)':
Members of this paper had strange experiences also—
Mr. Harry Henderson got himself conked on the head
by a bottle, wielded by some gent he never saw before,
while Mr. Henderson was sitting in a booth adjoining
the wielder's (that's sort of a hysterical sentence,
but so was Harry) . . . and Mr. Vance Packard had
himself quite a time trying to get into his own f rat
house, Phi Delta Theta ; during vacation, seeing as
how the Hi-Y from town had borrowed the place for
the evening for a dance—they just didn't think he
belonged—and even if he did, so what?
THE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
`l' Grade Needed
For Admittance
To Upper Division
Board Accepts Plan
Of Committees
For Merger
Rule Not to Effect
Present Sophomores
An average grade of "1" for the
first two years will. be required of
all sophomores for admission to the
Upper Division, new merger of the .
former junior and senior years of
the Schools of Liberal Arts.
Members of.the present sophomore
class will not be affected by the rul
ing. Recommendations of the com
mittees on admission to the Upper
Division, proficiency in Foreign lan
guage, and English usage were ac
cepted by• an executive board under
Dean Charles. W. Stoddart, as part
of. the general program of ;raising
the School's scholastic standards.
Examinations for proficiency in
English and attainment in foreign
languages must be passed before a
student may go from the lower to
the Upper Division. No sophomore
can take the language examination
who has not a "1" average for two
years of a language. •
The equivalent of four semesters
of one language will be required be
fore a student will be eligible to take
the foreign language attainment ex
amination. The examinations .will be
given early in May, and for repeat
courses in January..
Favorable recommendation - of the
faculty advisor and curricular offi
cer will be necessary for admission
to the Upper Division.
Other information which will be
used before admission is granted is
a transcript of the student's record,
his general intelligence score, and
statemegt of his curricular choice
with reasons for that choice. An
interview with the dean may be re
quired, but will always be granted
on the student's request. Special ex
aminations may be given if consider
ed necessary' after reference to stand
ing in the class on the Registrar's
list.
• The •exaMination in English for
admission
,tO: the Upper Division . will'
be the' Cooperative English Test, of
the American Council on Education.
The test is at present used by many
colleges •throughout the country.and
is revised 'and corrected :annually, 1 . ,
„Comparison with results of, tlietest
in ;Uther Inatttutions wi 11 :p_ermit: ; the
draWink •S an_ accurate' certification
line, the committee , stated- in •its:
port. .
Avenues of Fishtail.
by E 4.
• A, good fashion like a
good man is hard to
' keep down. Just about
,' • three years ago the first
• . reversible Harris Tweed
,••• and Gabardine top coat
~ Made its appearance at
one, of the Eastern foot
, • „•' hall stadiums. It wasn't
• , long before it had gain
ed for itself a very im
portant place'ln• the wardrobe of most
university men.• Not only did it have
the practical ,all purpose value for
almost any type of weather (includ
ing rainy) for'which a coat might be
used, but;it also featured a tendency
towards looser models and rough
fablies. ',ln 'another year, it reached
the - ,point where so many reversibles
were being sold, and so many men
wearing 'them, that they lost favor
with those who prefer to feel that
their apparel has something not nec
essari)y.in common with the taste of
drug store collegians. However, now
that the:latter group have dropped
the reversible, those who were first
to take it up are again feeling kindly
disposed towards it, to the extent
that this is- one coat which is defi
nitely back in an important position
in every campus wardrobe.
Far be it from us
to get mixed up in
any geographical'
reconstruction; but
there seems to be
some relation be-; , • ;" ,••• ,••••
• , tv- - • •9•!0, - :
tween Norway and
Scotland when it
comes to the mak-
ing of hand 'knit , •
'gloves, even •••<•,`
though that dirty
bit of water, the' North Sea, has sep
arated the two' lands for as far brick
as one cares to" go. Nevertheless,
with knitted — gloves becoming more
popular for' all types of Wear and
On youtway to class stop
at ,
HARVEY'S .
for a cup' of real coffee
and a sandwich.
220 g: dollege
Exam Schedule
(Continued from.
,vage four.)
Phys Ed 203 F 8 3 SLA
Phys Ed 212 Th 8 101 CA
Phys Ed 225 M 10 200 EngD
Phys Ed 391 M 8 102 NLA
Phys Ed 955 T 8 3 SLA
Pol Sci 1 TlO 100 Hort
Pol Sci 5 W 10 Amp
Pol Sci .13 Th 10 200 Ag
Pol Sci 20 F 10 25 SLA
Pol Sci 914 F 8 25 SLA
Pol Sci 417 T 10 206 Ag'
Psy 1 F 10 Amp
Psy 2 W 8 Amp, 120 Dairy
Psy 14 111 2 315 MI
Psy - 412 TJO 200 TC
RME 1 T 2 206 Ag
RR 1 M 10 201 EngA
Soc 2 W 2 Amp
Soc 10 Th 8 203 EngA
Soc Sci 1 TlO Amp, 315 MI
Sp 1 W 8 100 Hort, 109 Ag
Sp 2 FlO 14 SLA
Sp 3 W 2 109 Ag
Sp 4 T 8 101 NLA
Sp 5 , 301 T 8 101 NLA
Sp 401 NI 2 101 NLA
Sp 407. TlO 101 NLA
Sp 415 By Appt.
Str 1 W 8 101 MEng
Str 47 T 2 101 MEng
Str 401 Th 10 201 EngA
Str 403 F 10 102 MEng
Sur 45 Th 2 201 EngA
Sur 56 T 8 Arm
Sur 57 , T 10 102 MEng•
Sur 58 F 10 201 EngA
Sur 62 TlO 201, 205 EngA.
Zoo] 25 . 1 31 8 206 Ag
Zool 26 .F 2 See List
Zoo] 35 M 10 1 SLA
Zool 41 M 10 315 MI
Zool 45 F 10 3 SLA
Zool 46 T 8 1 NLA •
•
Zool 437 W 8 2 Zoo!
Co-ed Chatter
Now that the new lounge on the
second floor of Mac Hall is ready for
use, the W.S.G.A. Senate is breathing
easily after a four-Month's struggle
with the well-known red tape.
Eat'ly in October, furniture,. rugs,
and a library of about 85 books were
ordered—to be delivered by Novem-I
ber 1. Senate wrote a check for about
$350 and then proceeded to pass
.through the successive states of hope,
suspicion, and desperation. Nothing
happened except an occasional reap-
pearance of that tape. After several '
weeks of doubt it was discovered, that
the order for the furniture had been
lost. Then the books arrived—to re-
Main untouched until the - room could
be furoished. , . • ! •• • ! '
But now that it is ready; all women
students, particularly, the day sta.:
dents who ;have, len : needed, such a
Plage; lare !urged ito use the: room..
The Marie Clark Toivri• Shop J . corr.
di ally !invites ithe,!townspeople
ultY,and!,§tikdents „ vto. dro in !for A
cup .of Am -on FridaY.,and, Saturday
afternoons of ;this, week. „ • •
LCt;c..c_
With due respect for the .importance
of the string glove which started :this
fashion tendency, both the •hand
knitted Scotch gloves and the con
temporary Norwegian gloves have an
appeal in common. These gloves,
unique, in patterns and colorings,
knitted of wool have something about
them, aside from the fact that they
ally keep one's hands warm.
In further refer
ence -to plaids',
wool mufflers are
back in the pic
ture in a big way
in all,-types of
checks and varia
tions of plaids.
It seems as
th o h these
mufflers will be
come as . import
ant as the old
solid colored
'has been out of the
picture a few years now. Colorings
in these plaids are more . of .the nue
tral type than overly colorful.
That most recm
Benedict, The DUI
of Kent, along wit
his illustrious brotl,
er have long favor•e
the sort of collar
that has a.front lea.
turing the wide opc
spaces. Original]
worn in a separat
white laundered col- •
Mr, the latest•variation comes in a
collar attached shirt without tabs and
is worn au nature], even without thb
help of a collar pin.
The
Newest
In Collar
Attached
Shirts
Without tabs and worn
with or without pin
Paul A. Mitten
Men's Apriarel.
CAMPUS BULLETIN
TODAY
Members of the Cabinet
who intend to go on the overnight
cabin retreat tomorrow (Shturday)
should sign up at once at the C. A.
office, 304 Old Main. The group will
leave the first floor.lounge; Old Maine
at 2 o'clock, with the return being
made in time for chapel Sunday.
TUESDAY
The Freshman Commission will
meet in the Hugh Beaver Room, Old
Alain, at 7. o'clock.
Classified Advertising
Classified adi:ertiseMents will be'
accepted only at the Student Un-
ion Desk. in Old 'Main and must
be paid for before insertion. Ads
received up to noon on the day
preceding publication.
SPECIAL DANClNG—lndividual and
group. Instruction at reasonable
prices. Call Ellen Mitchell, 708 E.
College avenue. Phone 468-J. .
81-et-np-OW
FOR RENT—Second floor apartment
with two or three rooms.. Privilege
of cooking. 140 North Barnard Street.
57-1 s pd.CIVI
LOST—Black leather note-book con- .
taming Chem. 7 notes. Please leave
at Student Union office reward.
56-2 t pd WAS
Our Christmas, Club for
1935 is now open and we
cordially invite you to join.
The First National
Bank of State
College
Slate College, Pa
John T. McCormick, President
David F. Kapp",• Cashier
,When In
Meld Yorkr
a e very
Dollar Count!
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As for servide, the IVICAlphi staff
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When you can enjoy all these ad
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Write or wire 'your reservations
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. 'Sohn J. Woelfle
Manager
2 50 day.
460 per day
double'
NOM.
McALPIN
"The Centre of Convenience"
RROADIVAIr AT 34TH STREET'
Friday, January 4, 1.938
The Stale Highway Patrol is in
possession of a traveling bag, believed
to be. the property of a student at
this College. It was found on the
Lincoln Highway, route thirty, be
tween Lancaster and Coatesville, on
December 15. For further informa
tion- inquife at the Student Union
Desk.
Star Bros & Harper
Clearance Sale
Substantial savings offered on
the following merchandise—
Manhattan
Pajamas
$2.00 . now $1.65
$2.50: now $1.85
$3.00 . now $2.15
$3.50 . now $2.45
Manhattan Shirts
$2.50 . now $1.85
$1.95 . now $1.65
Interwoven Socks
$l.OO . . now 79c
75c' . . now 60c
50c, now 3 for $1
Neckwear
$1.50 . now $1.19
2 for $2.35 .
$l.OO . . now 79c
2 for $1.50
Stark Bros. & Harper
Next to the Movies
per day
twin•bedded