COMPLETE CAMPUS COVERAGE Volume 32—Number 1 fratetnitie§TO . ,Begin - ,', :,,'--.R:osjiii.itg::ol...Th!iiifsdiv 53 Social Groups Will Open Ten-Day Period of Organized 'Rushing' on First Day of. Freshman Week Fifty-three Penn !State social fraternities'will begin a 1.0-day "rushing" : period at 8 'o'clOck. on the first-day of Freshman Week, Thursday, Septerriber • 'l2. During this period the first-year , men, desiring to be considered for • fraternity membership, will be entertained at luncheon and 'dinner engage ments at the various' fraternities. The "rushing" of first-year men is an_organized system used by the ,fraternities in securing members-from the freshmen class. The activities of bcith the:freshmen and the fraternityf men during this' period 'of ten days are governed by a rushing code-which has-been adopted bithe Interfratern - Council.. Every Penn State social fraternity, •riational and local, is represented in a gioup, known as the Interfraternity ' CoUncil. The purpose of this organi zation is to aid and assist the so lution of problems common to the var ious, member fraternities, and to reg ulate - and govern their relations with one , another, , with the College, and, with the general public: The way in'which fraternities may rush, bid, and pledge new members is one of the important duties of, the council. Each year the outgoing rep resentatives draw -.up a "rushing" code which.applies for the forthcom ing College year. The codeis revised, each year in an attempt to eliminate all, undesirable regulations, and• to meet the changing conditions. The 1935 Rushing Code defines "rushing" as "any communication or' association between a fraternity man and a rushes" during the, specified' period. A "rushee" is defined as any, non-fraternity -man in his first year' at-Penn State. Freshmen desifing to be considered for fraternity membership should go to the Student-Union deal,' Old Main, immediately 'after "their , counselor's meeting OnlVednesday, '§entember 11; where they may nrocure "date" cards which, in addition :containing a ,Metnorania„Of c - agagamenta7(for:•tha entire , AiShilig'Vensen;alio-aontaina ,-;the.1935 Rushing Code: . - . . A fee' of liftylcenti , will be charged to help defray rushing , costs of the Interfraternity Council. These cards are the only legal means - of making dates in the first rushing period. The making of a date consists of signing the fraternity's name, by representa tive of fraternity in question, in space alloted. These date cards are the only legal means by which a fraternity may mako rushing dates. All rushees not classed as, freshmen—sophomore Mont Alto.,transfer students—may receive - date cards and further instructions at the Student Union desk in Old Main. At•the, first section meeting during Freshman Week each new student will be asked-to Make out-a card giv ing his name, local address, home ad dress and religious preference. This information will be distributed to all fraternities by the following morning. Rushing shall begin at 8 o'clock Thursday, September 12, and shall end .8 o'clock Sunday night, September 22. It will be divided into-two periods, the first ending at 8 o'clock Wednesday night, September 18, and the second ending at 8 o'clock Sunday night, Sep tember 22. , Between these periods - there will be observed a "silent" period during which there is to be no communica tion or association of any -kind be tween fraternity man and rushee, from the close of .each evening date until the following morning at 8 o'clock. , The schedule for silent periods is as follows: from 8 o'clock Wednes day night, September 18 to 8 o'clock Friday, 'September 20; from 8 o'clock Sunday night, September 22 to 7 o'clock Tuesday, September 24. `Collegian' To Issue 8-Page Supplement Beginning with the issue of 'Wednesday, September 12, the COLLEGIAN will distribute, with ev ery issue the Collegiate Digest, an eight-page, nationally circulated' pictorial and news magazine. coy ering events of importance, pic tures of campuses, student leaders, and activities at colleges in all parts of the'United States. Printed on rotogravure type pa per, the' Collegiate Digest will serve as a record of activities in other colleges. By means of the cooperative news • service under which the Digest is run, news of Penn State, as well as pictures of interest, will appear in the maga zine from time to time. No ad vance will be made in prices for thin added feature. • , c., em - ee ye: .;/ . . . 47 ESTABLISHED 1 I run : a t .• ,(--,-.JA,),,, • ,so ~,,_,,„ ( i f, ...,855., _. 1904 t 18 Staff Members Given Promotion 16 College instructors Are Elevated to Higher • Post's by Move ' Promotion of sixteen staff members at the Pennsylvania State College to the rank of assistant professors, and two to the rank of instructors, was announced today by President Ralph D. Hetzel. The announcement. of their promotioni supplements a previous announcement that fifteen other staff members have been elevated to posts above the rank of assistant prates sors.with the approval of the Board of Trustees. The sixteen receiving promotions to the rank of assistant professor were formerly ranked as instructors. The two promoted to instructorships were ranked previously as research assist ants. The complete list of the promo tions to assistant professorships' fol lows: Irving C. -Boerlin, from • instructor to. assistant professor of engineering extension; Millard .T.' Bunnell, from instructor . to, assistant Professor "of Engineering extension; Donald E: H. Frear,:. from :instructor ' to 'assistant professor of -agricultural . - ,and biolo gical chemistry;' -Thomas ~ 1 3: Keith, from' instructor to 'essistant'Professor of. husbandry. .-. —Helmut Landsberg, 'from . instructor to assistantprofessor-of geOzphysics;., _from: Ipar:ie . *: to. aSsistant. professbi'bf.Psychofogy ; MaberC. McDowell, frOm instructor to assistant professor, of clothing ex tension; Arthur C. Mclntyre, from instructor to assistant professor in forest research;. Russell C 7 Miller Miller from instructor to assistant professor of agricultural and biolog ical chemistry. William H. Pfeiffer, from instruct or to assistant professor of forestry; Albert P. - Powell, from instructor to assistant Professor of electrical en gineering; A. 0. Rasmussen, from instructor to assistant professor of ornamental horticulture extension; R. D. Reid, from instructor to assistant professor of bacteriology; G. J. Stout, from instructor - to assistant profes sor of vegetable gardening; 4t.. H. Zerban, from instructor to assistant professor of mechanical engineering; and 0. W. Pflueger, from instructor to assistant professor of forestry. The two staff members to receive promotions from research assistants to instructors are: Dorothy Quiggle, chemistry; and C. 0. Tonberg, chem istry. Penn State First Founded As Farmers' High School Refounding Through Acceptance of Morrill Land Grant Act Caused Development The Farmers' lligh School, baptis mal name of the Penn State College, was a pioneer in airicultural educa tion; its roots go back as early as 1850. Its development, if not its very existence, is due to its re-founding by the acceptance of the Morrill .Act, signed by Governor Andrew' Gregg Curtin, April 1, 1863, pledging the "faith of the State to carry the same into effect." The first quarter of a century was marked by a struggle to hold the Land Grant, and by drifting and experiment in eduCational aims. Six presidents in twenty-three years was scarcely compatible with continuity, of plan or purpose. Dr. Evan Pugh, a man of rare vision, trained by six. years of study in the universities of Germany, France, and England, the 'first great president, ( died at the early age of 36, just as he was laying the foundations I of Penn State. His successor, Dr. 'William H. Allen, formerly and later aresident of Girard College, served two years - with .no marked internal changes but with important activities in disposing of the Land Scrip. Only one course, agriculture, was offered up to 1866, but the settlement of the entire Land Grant upon the , College .by, the Act of 1867, led Presi dent John Fraser and the trustees•to a "reorganization" in which engineer STATE COLLEGE,-PA:,'FRIBAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1935 Will Register Freshmen William S.'lloffman, College Reg istrar, who will-supervise the reg iStration of freshmen during the first three days of Freshman Week. Groups Reward High Scholarship 2 Freshman Honoraries Select New Members For High Scholastic Rating • There are two honorary fratcrni- ties for freshmen with scholastic.am bitioni, one for the men and one for the women. Forty-three upperclass groups recognize further. :achieve ment along various lines later in the collegiate career. Phi Eta Sigma awards membership to all freshman men who at the end of their first semester have attained 0.2.5 scholastic average or better. To those who have raised 'their grades to 'the minimum mark on the .basis.of work for the first two semesters, membership is also extended. With chapters in twenty-threo.colleges and universities throughout the country, tliO freshman honorary elects from thirty-five tO forty new memberi each da-Dclta,'sister,.orgin iiiition'l of :Ph Eta honors highistanding freshman women. Each yearlrom five to eight women fulfill the 2.5 requirement. ' Honorary fraternities usually set up a minimum standard which a stu dent must attain before he is consid ered for membership. Fulfilling the' minimum requirement does not au tomatically make the,stuUent a mem ber ,'of the society. An 'election must first be held among the active mem bers of the organization. Nearly every branch of collegiate activity— scholarship, journalism, dramatics, debating, or a department.' al interest— has its honoraries which usually elect members from the jun ior and senior classes 'on the basis of their achievements. When under classmen have been outstanding in the field and the society ruling per mits, exception is made to the cus tom of excluding freshmen and soph omores. Elections are in most cases held twice a year, once in the fall and once in the spring. For freshmen with scholastic •am- (Continued on page four) ing was to be taught, agriculture and the arts expanded. The program was too ambitious and too expensive to carry out. The trustees voted a "de organization" and called Dr. Thomas If. Burrowes to salvage the College and restore it to its original pur poses. His personal influence stemm ed the tide of discouragement at home and oppoSition abroad (in which the so-called Model Experiment Farms largely figured), but he died in office after but three years of service. Dr. James Calder, a classically trained, classically minded executive succeed ed. The College grew in numbers largely due to preparatory students, to. music and art pupils. Three courses, agriculture, classical, and scientific, were offered, and women students were admitted on equal terms in 1871. An unfortunate interregnum in 1880-1881 under President Shortlidge re-opened the flood gates of criticism and personal recrimination.. Students were few,and in open rebellion. Fac ulty, trustee, and legislative investi gations followed—the Pennsylvania State College was passing through its darkest days. • . However, a new leader, the second great president, lir. George W. Ather- (Continued on yoga sevon) WOithy[:'SOidents Wilr:ROOiveAid Thrii: NYA--Wbrk Appropriation Provides $l5 a.Month for Each Job 12% of Studcilt Roll Elibible Or. Relief Approximately six - handred students here will be able to -earn a' part of their College . expenseS 'ad a .result of the new NationaL;YoA -Administra tion set up by the ledr-4-al . government and replacing , the' . l7.llA work. , Of ficials-received notification today that Federal aid would agniil be available at the College undetY,eiMditions si milar to those o s btaini:.g lait year for students not otherwivi able to attend I college. - -•; • The aid will -be provl'4ed by the . Fed eral - government through the Nation al Youth Administiatlan and will be allocated to the Coll ; ' re under regu lations laid - doivii in - Paahington. A total of 12 per cent :of the student enrollment as of Octbber 15, 1939, will be eligible to . receive the average sum of $l5 per student month. Those! receiving .aid are. expected to, teal; more than 500. • Students must engesl in "socially desirable work including the sort cus tomarily done •in the institution by students who are Ive.king their way through college,. such as clerical, li brary, and research work," according to the regulations.- Many applications arc already on file in various College . offices for part-. than employment' on federal funds, College authorities stated. • A committee comprised of Stanley, Maddox, ' administrative -.' assistant, chairman,' Dean Arthur It. Warnock, clean of men; Dean ;Charlotte E. Ray, dean of women, 'and William G. Mur tortf, College' treasurer,. has been se lected to approve applications from worthy students. • :-• • • - ?0:-C1,44-:g...a:::, , s.' - ItitL';.': i,.liti itlallYACtViltie§ Groups With Common Interests Form for Professional Social Benefits .) Twenty-six recognized student clubs are now in existence'on the campus, filling a need for assembling students with common interests. Their num ber is constantly increasing as new interests arise. The majority of the clubs have no scholastic or class requirements. Their membership consists solely of those students who are interested in work that the club carries on. One of the oldest clubs on the cam pus is the Penn State club, an organi zation of non-fraternity men. It seeks to provide far its members the same advantages that are enjoyed by mem bers of fraternities. The club holds dances and other social functions, pro motes athletic competitions, and aids non-fraternity men in becoming better acquainted.. Non-fraternity men of all classes are eligible for member ship.' , . The Social Problems club is com- Loosed of students interested in con temporary affairs and holds open for ums every two or three weeks at - which members of the faculty and outside speakers talk on current prob lems. Last year the club also spon sored victrola concerts of classical music. DeMolay Forms Club The International Relations club is one of a large group of societies which was founded by the Carnegie Endow ment for International Peace. The purpose of the club I+. to foster stu dent discussions in world affairs. The local chapter has participated in re gional conferences,at other colleges, and last year sponsored the appear ance'of a famous lecturer. . . Members of the DeMolay society enrolled at the College have formed a DeMolay club which sponsors social !functions throughout the year. The Anzar club takes its membership from the campus Police force, and endeav ors to promote good fellowship and efficiency among them. Founded in 1910, the Cosmopolitan club has a purely social function in promoting a finer spirit of fellowship among students from foreign coon . tries. Its membership is open to all classes. In addition to this group is the Hispano-American club, composed of students who come front Spanish speaking countries. The Liebig Chemistry Society serves as a medians of contact between the undergraduate and the graduate stu dents and the faculty in the depart ment of agricultural biochemistry. The Floral club performs the same (Continued 016 page three) 1,400 Freshmen Will Gather for First. Assembly Wednesday Night To Address Assembly DEAN RALPH L. WATTS Students Here Govern Selves Government Vested In Board, Council Composed of Undergraduates Student government at Penn Stole is vested in two legislative. groups, the Student Council And the Student Board, composed of undergraduate representatives elected for a term of one year. In addition to these two bodies there is a combined student board, established last year, which seeks to coordinate the legislation of the men's and. women's governments by hand ling problems affecting both' groups. I The board includes four men:, pres- I ident of. th&sen . i6r.eltiis;'•editer: - of ' , the from Student Board, and one elected from Student Council. Two Women are elected from the Senate. The members -of Student Council, are elected by schools from the three upper classes, with each of the seven' schools in the College having at least one representative in each class. The President of the senior class auto matically becomes president of the Council. The Student Board is made up of seven students and the Dean of Men. Three of the members, two seniors and one junior, are elected from the Council. The presidents of the three upper classes. and the editor of the COLLEGIAN are other students on the Board, with the president of the sen ior class also serving as chairman of this group. The actual legislative duties of I Student government lie with the Stu dent Council, 'for . this body recom mends, creates maintains and regu lates the customs and traditions of the College. It also takes the neces sary steps- to support and curry into effect any policy to sustain the good name of the College, and to promote mutual understanding between the faculty and student body. The primary mission of the Stu dent Boai'd is to act as a coordinat ing unit between the Student Council and the College administration, meet ing once a week with the Dean of Men to discuss' student problems. The Board makes recommendations to the (Continucd on. papa Un•cc) Collegian To Hold Dance For Subscribers Oct. 12 The Class of 1999 will be given its !first chance to get together socially on October 12 when the second annual "COLLEGIAN Dance" will be held in Recreation ball, beginning at 8 o'- clock. Freshman customs, such as the (link, tic, and socks, will not be enforced that night because of the efforts of the COLLEGIAN. William H. Skirble, business man ager of the COLLEGIAN, said today that Lynn Christy's Famous Band Thad been engaged to play for the oc casion. Christy's band, which sprang into prominence around this section 'of the country last year, has just completed a summer's engagement on the Ile do France and also a three weeks' engagement in Paris. Last year a lack of social events early in the year and a jamming of such affairs towrd the middle and end of the second semester caused the COLLEGIAN to decide to hold its dance shortly after College opened. Because of the tremendous success of the af fair, it has now been decideito . make the "COLLEGIAN Dance" an annual Dean R. L. Watts To Welcome New Students at Convocation Thursday; Attendance s To All Meetings Compulsory More than 1,400 members of the Class of 1939 will gather in Schwab auditorium Wednesday night for the informal assem bly which will officially open the eleventh annual Freshman Week of the College. In the absence of President Ralph D. Hetzel, •‘vho is still on his vacation. Dean Ralph L. Watts, of the School of Agriculture, will represent the Administration in welcoming the incoming freshman class at the convocation at .8 o'clock, Thursday, Sep tember 12. Included on the convocation program is the singing of a hymn led by Prof. Richard W. Grant, of the department of (music, and the invocation by Acting Chaplain John H. Prizzell, of the de partment of public speaking. Fol lowing the invocation, Dean Watts will address the freshmen. The con vocation will close with several an nouncements by Registrar William S. Hoffman. Student Union Aids Activities Coordinating Unit Was Formed In 1930—Has Grown Rapidly Endeavoring to serve as a co-ordi nating unit for all the extra-curricu lar activities at Penn State, the Stu- dent Union has taken its place as one of the valuable student organizations in the short period since it was or ganized in 1930. The Union has no legislative power and is • not supervisory but accom plishes its work-by suggestions to its component groups in the form of rec ommendations. Representatives from each of the major activities constitute the formal membership of the Union Board although every student engag ing in activities is automatically a member of the Union. Elected by outgoing members of the Board, new 'members are selected from each particular field of activity. One representative from each of the following groups is a member of the Board: men's athletics, women's ath letics, religious organizations, men's student government, women's_ student government,'publications, Interfrater nity Council, Inter-JJnit'Couneil, Parr 'fi'eliimic - tonna, - iionora,'Y ties, Penn State club, and ona.repre , scntative front the Interclass Budget committee. In addition to the student members there are included in the membership the Dean of Men, the Dean of Wom en, the Student Union manager, George L. Donovan, manager and two members from the administration or faculty elected for terms of two years. The first three arc ex-o_cio mem bers. The purpose of the Union is the furtherance of the welfare of 'each student activity, the coordination of the activities to serve a common pro gram, and the promotion of projects which could not properly be handled by individual groups. In its short history, the Union has undertaken and complete'd many pro jects. Three all-College dances were held free of charge after several bas ketball games last winter, the Student Loan fund was aided through the Un ion projects, a "Dutch Treat" dinner was inaugurated to form additional plans and general services 'were ex tended through the 'information bu reau situated on the first floor of Old Main. Notice To Freshmen Registrar. Hoffman requests that all incoming freshmen, as well as up perclassmen, bring fountain pens to Recreation Hall when they register. The College does not furnish pen or ink. One of the outstanding features of the dance is that it gives the new freshmen tt chance to become ac quainted with members of the oppo site sex in their own class. Admittance to the dunce will be, as last- year, by presenting a receipt given with each subscription to the COLLEGIAN. While the dance was or iginally intended to provide some means for the freshmen to get to know one another, it was discovered last year that as many upperclass men attended the dance as freshmen. "Here's the way I look at it," one student leader declared on being in terviewed: "This is the first all-Col lege dance of the year. I'd go to the thing whether I got a CO LEGIAZI subscription or not, because of the good time I had." COLLEGIAN subscriptions will be ob tainable at the beginning of Fresh man Week. Subscriptions may also be purchased and the paper sent home to the students' parents who may want to keep up on what is going on I around the campus. PRICE TEN CENTS Freshman Week was inaugurated by the College eleven years ago for the purpose of giving new students an opportunity to become acquainted with the College and its various .stu- ' dent organizations before starting on the routine of class work and lectures. The informal assembly Wednesday' night will be conducted by the Penn State Christian association. At this time student leaders will be intro duced, and immediately following the assembly, the first-year men will be divided into groups and will meet with the student counsellor); or ad visors who have been selected from I niembers of the upper classes. Thursday night's assembly 'will be in charge of the Student Union. Oth er similar assemblies will be held on the remaining nights of the Fresh man Week with the exception of Sun 7, day night, and will be conducted by _. one of the campus groups'. Freshmen will be separated into ' groups according to their courses; and • ' will meep at assigned periods for lec tures and consultations.. At these meetings, information concerning the ' Schools and dePartment , i, as well' . as.. the courses will.'lnt%giyen.• . .- . : lll i ' vi*iliti:iz•C'zi:iintleni;'..izi.;:•!!lger..t.c.' , ..' and placeMent tcSts,,and library.prac- tire hours are also included on the program for the Week. All members of the incoming class ' will meet in Schwab auditorium at 11 o'clock each inorning for song and cheer _practice under the direction of Prof. Richard W. Grant, head of the department of music. Following the , afternoon meetings, an opportunity for sports and recreation is provided. Special programs during Freshman Week have been arranged for the wo men. These meetings will be conduct ed by the Women's Student' Govern ment association. 3 Off-Campus Branch Schools Established Three oft-corpus undergraduate centers have been established by the College at Uniontown, Pottsville and klazelton to provide limited college facilities for those high school grad uates who arc unable to attend col lege. The three communities were se lected for the experiment after sur vey by the College indicated that the needs of these areas could h 2 met in no other way. President Ralph D. Hazel said a total of 14 invitations were received from local communities for the establishm2nt, of these off campus schools. The three schools will be regarded as temporary expedients and plans now embrace only a'single year's op eration after which students stay transfer here or to some other col lege. The plan originated with the Association of College Presidents in their efforts to find a means of en abling high school graduates finan cially to go to college to con tinuo their education. "These off-campus schools are ready to render an educational service, but in co-operatibn with other colleges and without any thought of compet ing with them," Dr. lletzci said. "Pro spective students should realize that from many standpoints, it is better to go to an established college." Greetings, Freshmen This issue of the Penn State COLLEGIAN is sent to the members of the Class of 19:19 with the com pliments of the staff. Contained in it are complete descriptions of al phases of student life, which may he helpful in learning more about Penn State. In this issue, as in others throughout the year, the COLLEGIAN has attempted to give an accurate picture of what is go ing on at the College. New stu dents will be given an opportunity to subscribe to the COLLEGIAN ear ly in Freshman Week.
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