Page Two PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Successer to The Free Lance, established 1887. Published semi-weekly during the College year. except on holidays, by students of The Pennsylvania State College, in the interest of the College, the students, faculty. alumni. and klends. INC BOARD EMEME JOHN A. BRUTZMAN 15 JACK A. MARTIN 15 Editor Business Manager ' FRED W. WRIGHT 15 GEORGE A. RUTLEDGE 15 Sports Bailor Circulation Manager KENNETH C. HOFFMAN 15 B. KENNETH LYONS 15 Managing Editor Local Advertising Manager JAMES IL WATSON JR. 15 lIARRY J. KNOFF '35 Assistant Editor Foreign Advertising Manager PHILLIP' W. FAIR JR. '35 JOHN J. MATTHEWS '35 Assistant Managing Editor nst. Foreign Advertising Manager A. CONRAD lIAIGES '35 EARL G. KEYSER JR. '35 News Editor Ant. Local Advertising Manner JAMES It BEATTY JR. '35 MARGARET W. KINSLOE '95 News Editor Women's Mtinaging Editor MARCIA B. DANIEL '35 ELSIE BL DOUTHETT '35 Women's &Hair Women's News Editor Mani:mine Editor This Issue --Charles M. Schwartz Jr. '36 News Editor This Issue.—_— John E. Miller Jr. '3G Friday, January 25, 1935 OUT IN THE COLD AGAIN FIREMAN, SAVE MY CHILD It was a nasty night, cold and wet. It had rained i:or an hour or more and was still raining, not a timid drizzle, but good, healthy drops spattering in the pud dles. The slush was an inch or so deep where the snow had melted, and a cold, penetrating wind blew along the streets. It was the kind of a night that even a dog is allowed to remain in the warmth of a kitchen or a cellar. A fire drill had been scheduled at Grange Dormi tory for 10:30 o'clock. The fire chief took one took at the night and then one look at the most fire-proof building on the campus before going to the chaperone to ask for the postponement of the scheduled drill. But fire drills are important, much more important than warm rooms and warm buds, and Miss Dyson was unmoved by the fire chief's arguments. So Grange Dorm had a fire drill Monday night at 10:30 o'clock. Women clad only in thin pajamas 'and slippers and with coats thrown about them, were roused from their studiss and their beds to go out in the rain and slush to learn how to behave if Grange Dorm ever caught on fire. And they couldn't learn that lesson in one minute, oh, soy, no, but three min sites say the State rules, and so :for three minutes the women stood in the slush and the rain and the cold, dreary wind. Many were already suffering from colds in this epidemic which is taking women out of dormitories and sorority houses all over the campus. Many were in a run-down condition from studying into the early morn ing hours, and finishing term papers. All of these women stood in the damp drizzle. One case now in the infirmary is directly 'trace able to this silly exposure. More may result.. Chaper ones of dormitories are supposed, in same measure, to take the place of the students' mothers, and provide some of the common sense and counsel which college undergraduates usually leave'at home., If parents-per mitted similar exposure of their children they would find hospital and doctor bills consuming the major por tion of their budget, and•could probably be charged in a court of law for criminal negligence. Certainly Miss Dyson could not have thought that Grange Dormitory would be razed to the ground Mon day. night; the rain itself would have helped prevent that. Surely Tuesday night is as good a night as any in the week. Surely one day's postponement of a fire drill would not be an infringement of any State or College rule. It lay in her power to cancel that drill. It was for her to call it off until more suitable weather permitted its accomplishment, and the censure of every thinking student and parent should fall on her head !for allowing such a thing. The protests of the Grange Dorm women have echoed 'throughout the whole stu dent body. Why can't the administration use a little intel ligence in directing the students under it? Why can't a little regard be given to health and sensible living while regulating the hours that a girl must be inside her dormitory? Why not try a little common sense and a bit of consideration for the students themselves? And yet the administration is pained and feels in jured when students are not as anxious to cooperate as they believe they should and not as loud in their acclaim as the administration's unquestionable merits deserve. AT LAST! Another significant step in: the progress of the United States toward international peace and amity was taken with the reporting out of committee of the resolution advocating the adherence of the United States to the World Court, or to give it its full title, The Permanent Court of International Justice. For the last ten years the advisability of this move has been discussed from all angles, has -been approved by all of the Presidents since the war, and by both the Democratic and Republican parties. Now, with the approbation of, President Roosevelt, , a rem -- lotion that is acceptable to peace leaders has been adopted by the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. College students interested in promoting the cause of peace have here an opportunity to voice their opinion in a fashion even more unmistakable than any "straw vote" could be. Here is a chance to participate directly in the molding of Congressional opinion by sending a letter or card to the Senators of this state expressing your views in the matter. After these years of indecision, the Senate will begin debate this week on the resolution, which . peace leaders hope to have adopted Avithout amendments. It is no secret that Senators are influenced by the amount of mail that they receive on such subjects. The col legiate influence cannot be overlooked•; a simple message is often as effective as a scholarly epistle. Speed is CAMPUSEER BY ITIMSELP Love-Lorn" Department Dear Campy I am a soccer player of some fame in these parts, and I have a problem which only you can solve. I'm a Delta Upsilon, and the boys at the house can tell• you that I'm a nice fellow. Now, the trouble is that I have a decision to make, and I need your help. Last Saturday, sec, Frank Allebnch, the Phi Psi shot, and .I started down to Waynesburg to see my true love. (She had my pin and everything.) I had written her that I'd be there about three, so we start ed without even eating dinner, so that I could make the date. Well, we had trouble, and after the second fiat tire (on the car) I telegraphed that I'd be in a little after four. We got to my girl's house at five, and you, Campy, can imagine how my soul was torn when I found that she was out—that she'd been so base as to go on a date with another guy at 1 o'clock that very afternoon. Well, I.was mad, so I went looking for her, as soon as I could after taking Frankie to Chambers burg to see Jo Cramer, his babe there. I looked all over all the joints and places in Southern Pennsyl vania, and finally got back to 'Waynesburg to the girl's house at 2:30 Sunday morning. You can im agine that I was pretty mad. I was. So I woke up the old man and told him to get the gel to come downstairs immediately. She did, and I demanded what th, hell loud enough and long enough to get my pin back. Now that would have been all o. k., but when I got to Chambersburg to pick up Frankie, his babe, Jo, had an idea. Just as soon as she found out that I'd gotten my pin back, she put down the tea she was drinking (Yes, I said tea), and propositioned me. "You give me your pin," she said, "and I'll get you a nice girl from here at Wilson to wear your pin. Then you can come down and meet her and everything will be fine." Well, it was . 4:3o a. m. Sunday morning by then and I was weak. So I gave her the pin that I'd just gotten back, and she said she'd fix, it up. Every thing looked rosy. Now today I get a letter from the ex-babe in Waynesburg. She's sorry, she says, and she would like to have both me and the pin back. So what am I to do, Campy, old soul? Shall I take a chance on Wilson, or get Jo Cramer and Frankie Allebach sore by getting my pin back from there and giving it back to the Waynesburg doll. Please see if you. can think of • anything. tired. • • Illy poor lad, We've thmight and thought, and best - bet, we think, is for you to lay in Shiny stock of D. U. pins, so that you won't have to worry about losing out in Waynesburg. It ~ would never do to depend on Wilson. —J. Heartbalm Campy Drama Note For Messrs. Binns, Dixon & Crider Play-producing classes Make of themselves—donkeys. Hash-ish COLLEGIAN plebes, Grubb, Oeseheger and 'Heisler get slightly mistaken for a Mr. Karpis and party by three highway patrolmen while going home at 3:30 Sunday morning—and get out of it, worse luck . . . Minnie (The Great) Feldman is doing a nice series of anglings these days . now the main element of success. It would be intoler able if, because of lack of interest, tJe Senate failed to take favorable action in this moment for which we have been waiting ten years THE PENN STATE 'COLLEGIAN All Times Eastern Standard WEAF-660, WGN-760, WJ7-720, The response to our query for your reactions on 'the' classics-jazz contro versy has bebn 'disappointing to date. The cards that - did come in favored the classics in . the main. From now on, it shall lie our policy to devote at least half the space to sympho nies, operas, musical comedy, reviv als, and similar programs. True, as one friend put it, "You can find jazz on any radio anytime," but on the other hand, when really new ideas in 'dance bands and pro grams appear on the jazz-surfeited ether, they - should be called to the attention of those who enjoy synco pation as a means of relaxation. TONIGHT Jessica Dragonette, assisted by Bourdon's orchestra, presents a va ried program at 8 on WEAF ... pre diction: 'Bea (WJZ at 0) must soon show Signs of adaptability or else she will. go ,under instead of on the ether . and if you just can't see her, the next best bet for that hour is Lyman's band and the tune ful duo, Vivienne Segal and Frank Munn . . . if you aren't bothered by skimpy plots,: try Hollywood Hotel with Ted Fio=Rito and Dick Powell on WABC at 9:3o—Fred Astaire, of the tapping toes, and Irene Dunne will do a scene from their next flick er, "Roberta" Frank Black's or chestra and Chorus do pleasing things with current hits on WEAF at 10:30 TOMORROW The "Met" is presenting "Romeo and Juliet" on' WJZ-WEAF at 1:50 . . . Sigmund Romberg conducts, Helen Marshall and Bryon Warner sing, and William Lyon Phelps corn ments--all on WEAF at 8 ... other than their M. c., the Kostelanetz show at 9 on WATI - C gets nothing less than roses . . . Casa. Loma on WABC at 11 always merits attention ... SUNDAY •, - - - Walter Huston will give another of his unforgettable performances in "The Bad Man" on W.TZ at 2:30 ... if Woollcott's'sly quips on WABC at 7 don't jog the funny-bone, you have two alternatives—consult a doctor or dial WJZ at the same time for Ben ny's latest gags .. :-tonight's tabloid opera wil•1 be "Marion" with Lucre tia Boni, on WEAF at 8 . sym phony loverafare advised to turn to VAN SNORING (He Neve; Says a Wor SAY PAL-GET WISE— 11 CoMPOR.T AT 42.50 To@ 3 ANEEK.AT THE COI-ONIAL Ru MING WIMR. AND , 'ol3§ —Ben Palmer -W. B. F CASH ~,:.FOR USED BOOKS NOW. Penn State Ranks 29th Among 569 Colleges, Records Show Twisting The Dial Running neck and neck with Syra cuse University, the University of the Philippines, George Washington University, and Indiana University, Penn State nosed into twenty-ninth place in the 'annual enrollment re port of 56'9 colleges and universities for 1133-34, released by the Amer ican Association of Collegiate Reg istrars. ' With four times as many mien as women, State ranked twenty-first in male enrollment last year. Other schools in the'same predicament were the University of Pittsburgh, Ford ham University, and Northwestern University. If 'Joe College' wanted a large and varied assortment of dates last year, Ira could have tried the University of California with 8,815 women stu dents, or Hunter college with - a fem inine total of 8,266. However, he might have had some difficulty get ting into Floater, it, unfortunately, being devoted exclusively to female instruction. .WABC-860 Penn State, however, jogged into twenty-ninth place again with a se lection of 972 women. Across the wa ters, the University of the Philip pines rated about the same, while the WJZ at that hour for music under the baton of Sir Hamilton Harty ... for a little "hi-de-ho," Cab , Calloway beats it out at midnight en WABC MONDAY The "Carefree Carnival" on WJZ at 8:30 is just that . .. a new show, full of song and story, and conceived by that favorite librettist, Otto Har bach, will have its premiere on WEAF at 9:3o—it's a tip . . . and for out standing two-piano work, Fray and Braggiotti on WABC at 10:45 . . . and tiva St. Louis Symphony is yours it you flick the dial to WEAF at 11:30 . . . and don't let those finals get you! ! The new CoUege.Prom show, aired every Thursday on IVJZ at 7:45, will attempt to recreate the year's social event at the big universities of the country, with the aid of the college authorities in making the atmosphere authentic. Red Nichols and Ruth El ting 'are starred. Art Jarrett's band replaces Kay Kyser at the: Blackhawk for the next three weeks beginning tomorrow night. Kay will tour the South in the interim. Kilocycle Dis and Data 1 1 111111111 f it: •?7;~.~ :AV A .O ...tatiri. VALENTINES Now on Display Send a box of Make-Up Material Home 30c, 35c SET 25c, TRADE AT KEELER'S College of the City of New York stood further down on the list with 469 women. In summer session enrollment, State ranked eleventh along with the University of Michigan and the Uni versity of Texas. The College had 2,656 students last summer, a num ber proportionately high to• the total student enrollment. Conferring 934 bachelor's degrees, 167 master's degrees, and nineteen doctorates, Penn State stepped into the front rank in graduate work. It held its own with the University of Chicago, the University of Oklahoma, and Temple. Only eight institutions out of the grand total of 569 represented, had larger agricultural schools. Dropping to fifteenth in architecture and sev e.nteenth position in engineering, the College rose to second place in for estry. Cornell leads. In Pennsylva nia, however, we were second only to Carnegie Tech in engineering. • The department of journalism rank ed eleventh in size, the Universities of /Missouri and Nebraska heading the list. The home economics depart ment took thirteenth place with but a few more students less than Syra cuse and a few less than Drexel In stitute. In mining, Penn State crowd ed into second place again, the 'Uni versity of Utah covered a cing lead. Penn State, from statistical ap pearances, seems to walk out in:front as far as technical work is concerned, but straggles far in the rear in lib eral arts. After seventy-one places had been computed, the collegiate reg istrars, not seeing our name among them, let it go. We must have touch ed bottom since there were over sev enty-one schools with more than 1,- 000 students registered in liberal arts. Taking everything into account, the College ran remarkably high in almost every statistic mentioned. At least two large universities failed to present themselves before the associa tion's scrutiny—Yale and !Boston Uni versities. Locklin Gives Reading Readings from the works of Robert Frost were presented by Miss •A. Pauline Locklin, o£ the department of English literature, at the fireside reading in the second floor lounge of Old Main, Wednesday afternoon. NEW AND Second Hand TEXT BOOKS For Second •Semester NOW READY Friday, Janiiary 25, vax Co-Edits I This question of an all-women's formal dance is now being placed be fore class officers to receive their consent to use funds from the' class treasuries. This dance has been plan ned to take the place of the class dances which have been too crowded and unsatisfactory for several years. Because of the probable large_ at tendance, it has been suggested that the dance be held in Recreation hall. Decorations will be financially impos sible, but everything within reason will be done to make it attractive. And what is there about the word "campus" that makes some women take the liberty to wear ski suits, there—when' they never would on a public street? Mrs. Susan A. Porterfield enter tained the girls of her Spanish class-, es at tea at her home on Tuesday afternoon. She has given several of these teas throughout the past sem ester, with the hope of becoming bet ter acquainted with her students. Rifle Team Maintains . Over 700 Point Lead Four additional wins have been added to the list of the varsity rifle team's undefeated record to date. Still maintaining a large margin of victory, the team has piled up over 700 points over their opponent's to tals. Wilberforce University, with a to tal of 1,117 points, failed to equal the squad's score of 1,360, while the UniVersity of Dayton offered a score of 3,576 against our '3,595. Pennsyl vania Military College reached 1,609 points in contrast to the 1,832 total attained by the varsity. For the first time in many years the A. and g. College of Texas lost to"the local marksmen, when a two point margin was the deciding fac tor. The former totalled 1,358 points against that of 1,360 . secured by the local squad. Cribbing in examinations is an age. old custom, it has been discovered. A handkerchief identified as belong ing to the Kang Hi period of China reveals thousands of tiny marks that were used to convey answers to ex amination questions.
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