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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:
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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.
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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-
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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-
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WOithy[:'SOidents
Wilr:ROOiveAid
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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
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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. • :-• • • -
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.•
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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.