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VOLUME 32—Number 2
collogo-gody . Towo6in.e.-1450Freshmen
I.F.C. To Tax
Freshman for
Rushing Costs
Fraternities To Open
• • •
Yearly Campaigns
In Morning
Fee,To Help Defray
Council's Expenses
The .. charging of freshmen who de
sire to be considered for fraternity
membership fifty cents to help defray
the Interfraternity Council's rushing
expenses is the only major change in
this year's rushing code over last
year's code, according ,to Joseph P.
Swift '36, Interfraternity Council
president and E. John Ambrogi '36,
Council rushing chairman.
' Freshmen , desiring to be consid
ered for fraternity membership
should go to the Student Union desk,
Old', Main, immediately after their
counselor's meeting tonight where
they may procure date cards. These
cards . are the only legal means of
making dates in the first rushing per
iod.
Silent Period Starts Tonight
The rushing code will gO into effect
immediately after the freshmen coun-
selor's meetings when rushees may be
signed up for dates but cannot, be
entertained. During this time the fra
ternity men may not legitimately have
any other association or communica
tion with a rushee.
. Under this year's code the rushing
is di"ided into, two periods,
during the
- first of which, 'from 8 o'clock - tomor
row Until. 8 o'clock Wednesday' night,
'the rushee, who has been: defined as
- ,any..inon r fraternity
V•yearsnt' Penir s , State;will be- . allaWid
only 'dates ,with a' single frater
.
Pates Shortened 1 Hour
During' this first period there shall
be-two dates a day. The length of
these dates • has been set as follows:
11 to 2 o'clock for luncheon and from
5' to 10 o'clock for dinner dates. Dur
ing the second period of rushing the
dinner dates have been cut one hour,
lasting until 9 o'clock. • ,
During the first period the hours
between 8 and 11 o'clock in the morn
ing and between 2 and 5 o'clock in
the afternoon will be known as free
-periods during which any fraternity
may associate with rushee legiti
mately. During the second period
these will run from *8 o'clock in the
morning' to 9 o'clock at night.
To Pledge September 23
Between the first and second rush
ing periods an absolute silent period
between rushees and fraternity mem
bers will be enforced.' During this si
lent period, which will begin Wednes
day night at 8 o'clock and will end at
8 o'clock Friday, rushee will find out
preference cards naming the first
three houses of their choice at the
Student Union , desk •in Old Main.
Failure to obtain these cards and fill
them out .aw.directed will prohibit
a freshnian• from being pledged for
thirty days. .
A silent Period will 'also ,be ob
served froni 8 o'clock Sunday, night to
7 o'clock Monday night. During this
second silent period a rushee may re
ceive all bids assigned to him by call
ing Student Union desk from
8:30 to 5, o'clock. Monday. He will
then apidaf 'at - the fraternity of his
choice at dinner-at 6 o'clock one hour
later. •
Freshmen failing to obtain their
rushing cards immediately following
their counselor's meeting may do so
at any time during the rushing sea
son 'at the Student' Union desk.
Violations of the rushing code
should be reported, .in writing and
signed, to the elected faculty member
of the Board of Control,' Prof. Shel
don C. Tanner, of the department of
political science and economics, who
will in turn make an investigation
and' report to the board.
The following penalties, in - part or
in full, depending upon the severity
'of the violation, shall be enforced by
the Board of Control:
(a) Publication in the Penn State
COLLEGIAN. •
(b) Notification, of national offi
cers.
(c) Forfeiture of fifty dollar bond
previously posted.
• (d) Suspension of social privileges
' for semester following that in
which violation occurred
Each fraternity must post a bond
of fifty dollars with the rushing
chairman of the Council before it can
receive s bid cards for dipttribution
to its rushees..
Head Interfraternity Rushing
E.. JOHN. AMBROGI '36
Seamans Predicts Bankruptcy
For Nazis by October 1, 1935
"The Nazi government in Germany
will be bankrupt by October 1, 1935".
Thit. was the statement made by
Harry W. Seamans, general secretary
of the P. S. C. A., on his return from
a nine-weeks social and political.sur
' vey of Europe this summer.
- Mr. Seamans and a party of prom
inent writers, speakers and educators,
including Dr. Sherwood Eddy, who
lectured here last year, visited the
cities of London, Paris, 'Geneva, Ber
lin,Warsaw, Moscow, Leningrad and
Hesingfors. Audiences with high
officials in England, France, Germany
and Russia furnished much informa
tion on the contemporary chaos in the
old .world. • , -
"The Hitler government has • ex , .
hansted:.iti, :resources:lo r borrowing
Money!" Seainani.•:stated;^!.:Thek
iVilrgo ! bankrifpi on Gaselier
credit with' other nations is exhausted.
The German people are not aware of,
the impending financial crisis, be
cause of the strict newspaper censor
ship. The only medium through '
which the people can find out what is
happening in their own country is
through foreign 'newspapers."
• Mr. Seamans said'the predominant
attitude, not only of the people, but in'
`Bell' Describes
Collegiate Life
College Literary Ilagazine
Re-opens 'Town / Versus
Gown' Argument
Making its first quarterly appear
ance on Thursday, the Old Main BA
student literary and opinion magazine,
will contain material of vital interest
to new students. The articles, "1400
Guinea - Pigs" by Vance 0. Packard
!36 and "Undergraduate Credo" by.
Harry B. Henderson Jr. '36 are design
ed to aquaint freshmen with folkways,
opinions and decisions that lie before
the newcomers in the four years here!
• The leading article, "Town - vs.
Gown", a candid treatment bf the old
feud with emphasis upon the latest
development locally, defines the posi
tion and states the problems of both
factions in this ancient rivalry. Up
perclassmen will find a great improve
ment in the quality of Bell verse. Two
full pages of verse; "Two • • City
Themes' by John Oeschger '37 and
Jules Vernik '36 and 'an. amusing
mountain ballad collected by Samuel
Bayard '34 raise the standard of Bell
poetry.
There are five short stories—by
Timm Wilson '36, Johnson Brenneman
'37, Donald P. Sanders '36,. Frank
H. Hillgartner '36 and Sarah 'C. Ross
'35. Prof. Warren Mack of the dept.
(Continted ojt page-four)
All College Classes
Will Begin Sept. 18
Although first-year . students
Will attend the annual Freshman
Week orientation period from
September 12 to 18, classes will
officially begin for freshmen at. the
same time as for members of the
three upper classes, 1:10 o'clock
Wednesday afternoon, September
Fraternity rushing, which will
begin at 8 o'clock Thursday
September 12, will be con
tinued after the official opening
of classes and will close at 8 o'-
clock Sunday night, September 22.
STATE COLLEGE, PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1935
JOSEPH P.: SWIFT '36
government circles was one of passive
resistance, and the officials he had in
terviewed privately admitted that
fear was the only unifying force in
the government. The German officials
interviewed had to be seen secretly.
"The main reason far Nazi opposi
tion from Austria," Mr. Seamans
pointed out, "isthe Austrian objec
tion to religious persecution by the
Nazis. In Austria the Catholics are
strong and, despite the fact that the
government is dominated by Italy,
there is a strong !United tiont.' which
includes the one hundred. percent pa
triots, composed largely-of Catholics.
This • group opposes- any, political ,af
filiation. with 'Germany!:
Mr..Scainanst leeks
. for , :n.newhali
ancenfeppWeiae.cOmedrnnkthe : chaos
in , in 'Ger - Mini%
is expected late in the fall, hoWever,
unless the government can avert
bankruptcy, which seems impossible."
Impressed by Russia
Mr. Seamans was' profoundly im
presed by Russia. "They are building
a-new world there," he said,. "they
are eager and enthusiastic to recon
struct' a new society. Their motiva
tion arises 'from their social and - ec
onomic*,ideOlogy which is 'analagous'
to' our conception of the Utopian
state. From &sluggish, dull an unin
spired people; the Russian workers
have become 'a strong, aggressive,
closely knit class, inspired by their
progress toward 'the socialist state."
Russia would rather deal with the
United States than any other coun
try," said Mr. Seamans. He explained
that the misunderstanding between
the two governments on the matter of
Russian propaganda in the U. S. has
checked the increase of trade between
the two nations. The Russian respect
for the superiority of American man
ufacture leads them to desire busi
ness with us. The officials of the So
viet Union, Mr. Seamans spbke with,
unanimously held this belief. ' •
Soviet Censorship Relaxed
Government censorship .and sup
pression of criticism in the Soviet Un
ion is being diminished, according to
Mr. Seamans. He pointed out that cri
ticism of projects is allowed and en
couraged but only a limited amount
of criticism of bureaucracy is al
lowed.
- Mr. .Seamans interviewed workers
in many industries and found that the
Russian proletarian considers him
self as the guardian of the State.
The badge of social statas •in Rus
sian men and women is their worker's
card, signifying that'they work with
their handS. '
Will This. B
Freshmen Plan IntroducticM
OF'Fight
OW State'
Ai Games
Introducing the new collegiate song
hit of the year, Fight On State.
It was.ritten by an alumnus, Jose
ph E. Saunders 'l5, of Atlantic City,
N. , J., with revisions ln the lyrics by
Prof. Richard W. Grant, director of
the department of music, and" J.
Ewing Sock Kennedy '26. It will be
featured, this year as an additional
"pep" song, and will be introduced
throtigh .the incoming freshmen in
place of their usual class song.
' Explaining the purpose of the song,
Director Grant said, "Until last year,
each incoming freshmen class had its
own class song, which was popular for
College - Makes
Revisiop in
Office:Set-up
Morse, Mills; Keller
Hostetter , lMade
Chief Aides
Program To.E'rovide
Closer Corrdination
Changes 'in the adidnistrative set
up-of the Penusylvanla State College
to' insure a closer coordination of the
major functions -of , the - College were
'announced by ,Preaident Ralph D.
Betzel t following approval by the
Board of Trustees. ,
Under the new set-up . , there will be
four administrative assistants to the
President, one each in charge of resi
dent' instruction, research, extension,
and business finance. The new or
ganization became effective Septem
ber 1.
Adrian 0: Morse; executive secre
tary of the College, has 'been elected
to the position as assistant to the
President in charge' of , resident in
struction., He will :also continue to
serve as executive secretary.
Samuel K. Hostetter,• for 'twenty
five years purchasing agent of the
College, has been electe'cl to the posi
tion of assistant to'the' President in
charge of business .and. finance. He
will exercise the'.general jurisdiction
previously vested in th 4; Comptroller's
office which, by'actien•Of the Board,
has been abolished..',Nt. J. Mills, ex
ecutive accountant,' will be
in immediate : . charge 7 „:6' . 1 accounting
and controls. -
,5 ,- .l:,Orvis4.lceller..,wiklgrWinue. the
pOaitiiiff of assistant' to' the' Preiidene
in Charge of extension, to rwhich he
was elected .in June; 1939. • For 'the
time being, the office of assistant to
the President in charge of research
will not be filled.
`Collegian' Dance
Will Inaugurate
Social Season
If every one of the Penn State.
COLLEGIAN'S subscribers takes ad
vantage of his opportunity to attend
the second annual COLLEGIAN. sub
scribers' dance in Recreation hall on
Saturday night, October 12, with a
partner as the COLLEGIAN receipt per
mits, the Sall will be packed to over
flowing.
However that will not be the case
for many of the COLLEGIAN subscrib
ers are faculty members who do not
care for dancing and then too, a great
many freshthen and freshman women,
as well as other subscribers, go
"stag."
• Last year the dance floor was well
filled but not crowded and the danc
ers had plenty of room. The dance
was planned as an affair to enable
the new freshmen to get acquainted
with members of their own class so
cially but it was surprising last year
to find that a large number of up
perclassmen and women also used
this means of getting acquainted with
the various members of the new class.
Lynn Christy's Famous Band, who
very 'capably and delightfully played
for last year's dance, have been
again secured to play or the affair,
through the efforts of William H.
(Continued on page two)
Penn State's, New Song?
FIGHT ON STATE
By Joe Saunders 'l5
Chorus
• •
Fight on State, Fight on Stale,
Strike your gait and win.
Victory we predict for thee,
We're ever true to you, dear old White and Blue
Onward State, onward State,
Roar Lions roar.
We'll hit that line, roll up the score,
•
Fight on to victory evermore,
Fight on Penn State. •
a week or two, and then was promptly
forgotten. Last year, the tradition
was abandoned. This year, Fight On
State will be presented to the incom
ing freshmen class instead of a class
song, and will become, it is hoped, a
permanent College song. The tune
and the
,words are appropriate for
pep Tallies and games."
Other College songs which were
written by alumni include Victory
Chairman of Meeting
J. BRIGGS I'RUITT '36
Leaves Granted
To 9 of Faculty
Public Service and Study
Claim Professors
•
For This Year
' Public service and advanced study
will claim nine of the faculty mem
bers of the Pennsylvania State Col
lege and they will be absent on leave
when the new College year - opens on
Septeinhe'r 18, according to informa
tion released today from the office of
President Ralph D. Hetzel.
Dr.. Austin. L.. Patrick, 'professor
Of soil technology, will continue on
leave until June 30,1.936, to serve as
director of 'the U. S. Soil Erosion
Service .in Pennsylvania. : Professor.
Itarry::'ParkinsokThead.:cif
pertinent 'of rural education at the
College, will also continue, on leave.
to serve 'as dean of the College of
Agriculture at the University of
Puerto Rico during the new academic
year.
Dr. Harold Alderfer, professor
of political science, 'will continue on
leave until the end of the present
calendar year, to serve as Pennsyl
vania field agent for the American
Municipal Association.
Among the staff members who will
spend the next academic year in study
at other institutions are: Hr. George
W. Hartmann; professor of educa
tional psychology, Who will continue
work as a post-doctoral research fel
low _at Columbia University; Profes
sor Harold E. Dickson, associate pro
fessor of fine arts, who will continue
his
.graduate work toward a doctor
ate at Harvard University; and-Pro
fessor Charles D. JelTrleS," who will
study during the winter term at the
University bf Wisconsin.
Others who will be on leaVe to con
tinue study .are: - Professor Louise G.
Turner, home economics education;
Mary R. Frear, instructor in English
and history in extension, who has ac
cepted a fellowship to finish work on
her doctorate at Yale; and J. P. Kir
by, instructor in English Composi
tion, who will complete the residence
requirements for his doctorate at
Yale University during the next ac
ademic year.
Announce Short Course
The fiftheenth annual poultry short
course was announced today for the
weeek of October 21. The semi-annual
meeting of the Pennsylvania State
Poultry Association will be a part of
the course. The program will start
Monday afternoon. October 21, and
continue until Friday afternoon Oct-
and The Nittany Lion, by J. A. Leyden
'l4; and Win Again Today, by Cole
man Harrison '2l. The Alma Mater
was written by Dr. Fred Lewis Pattee,
who served on the faculty here as
professor of American literature until
a few years ago. Dr. Edwin E.
Sparks, President of the College from
1908, until 1920, was the author of
Pennsylvania State, one of the oldest
of the College songs.
Watts Will Extend
Official Greeting in
Absence of Hetzel
Eleventh Freshman Week Period Opens Today
As Newest Class Begins Programs
•
Of Orientation Activities
Penn State's official welcome to its new class of 1450 fresh
men, the largest in the history of the College, will be extended by
Dean Ralph L. Watts, of the School of Agriculture, in the ab
sence bf President Ralph D.. Hetzel, who is still on his vacation,
at the. annual freshman convocation. in Schwab auditorium at .8
o'clock tomorrow morning. At 7:30 o'clock tonight the new fresh
man class will be welcomed informally by the Penn State Chris
tian Association and other religious workers. The meeting will be
in charge . of John E. Binns '36, assisted by J. Lloyd Larkins '37,
and Anne McCaughey '36. .
Tonight's meeting will open the series of Freshman Week ral
lies to be conducted by prominent student organizations. At the
meeting tonight freshmen will be given temporary address cards
,which they will fill out , at . that
time and turn over immediately
to members of the Interfraterni
ty Council. These temporary ad=
dresses will be made up in a list
that will be distributed to the
fraternities for rushing purpos
es as soon as possible. •
Immediately . following' tonight's
meeting, where they will receive in
structions as to their section meet
ings, the freshmen will go to theii
first section meetings at which stu
dent counselors, selected from the up
per classes, Will instruct them upon
.the regulation of the College and
particularly the rushing code. Fresh
man attendance at all 'theie Meetings
is compUlsorY as , they will, ,be re . .-.
quested td'All 'out registration ' data
from time to ,time. Upperclassmen
will 'net be permitted to attend the
freshman mass meetings because of
the limited seating capacity of the
auditorium.
o the i Registrar's nconiing
fr
e o s ff h i m ee en set at
th l e 4s n o u , m t b h e e r
The latest available report from
largest in the history of the College.
Of the total number of freshmen al
i
rieady enrolled, 1037 are men. This
s seven more than the expected quo
ta. The women's quota wag exceeded
by 19, giving a 'total of 269 fresh
man women enrolled. There are 150
Ifreshmen enrolled in the forestry de
partment at Mont Alto.
Registration for the freshmen will
be conducted in Recreation hall W
morrow, Friday, and Saturday, ac
cording to the assigned periods listed
in the Freshman Week program. The
week's activities will close with the
'beginning of regular classes Wednes
day afternoon.
Student government activities will
be outlined to the freshmen at to
morrow night's • mass meeting in the
auditorium. The meeting will be in
charge of J. Briggs Pruitt '36, senior
class president, in the absence of
William D. Bertolette '36, president
of Student Union.
The last mass meeting which the
freshmen will be compelled to attend
will be held Friday night, and will
be in charge of the P. S. C. A., with
Charles 11. Sall '36 and Dorothea E.
Ruth '36, Christian Association Cabi
net president, acting as chairmen.
The usual Monday and Tuesday mass
meetings have been discontinued
Players To Stage
`The Last Mile'.
Try-outs for Prison Drama Will
Be Held in Little Theatre
Next Monday Night
The most ambitious season ever at-
tempted by the Penn State Players
will start with the death-house dra
ma, "The Last Mile," to -be preient
ed before a Dad's Day audience in
.the Auditorium' on Saturday night,
,October under-, the -direction- of
Frank S. Neusbaum, of the . division .of
dramatics,
Mr: Neusbaum and Arthur C. Cloe-
tingh, directorS of the .Players, have
decided to present this year a pro
gram .having as ranch entertainment
value and at the same time more pro
vocative than any year in the past.
Searching about for a play having
the sincerity and thrill of "Peace on
Earth," given last spring, 'the direc
tors. chose "The Last Mile," an all
male production of and in the death
house of a state penitentiary, right
outside the execution chamber.
"The: Last Mile," which was pro
' duced in New York in the 1929-30
season, was written by John Wexley.
It presents an authentic picture of
death hbuse life.
A condemned murderer, Robert
Blake, wrote a short play consisting
of verbatim conversations he heard
while in the death house waiting for
his own execution. Re left the play
as his only legacy to his mother, and
it was published, after his death, in
The American Mercury for July,
1029.
Mr. Wesley used this play by
Blake as material for the first act of
"The Last Mile," and added material
gathered from the prison mutinies in
Canon City, Colorado, and Auburn
Penitentiary, N. Y. It ran for nine
months on Broadway.
Burns Mantle included the play in
his anthology for the 20-30 season,
calling it the best thing of its kind
since "What Price Glory." He said
of it: " . .. The result is a tragedy
so tense, so stripped of theatrical ar
tificialities, and emotionally so mov
ing that even calloused reviewers of
plays were frank to admit its dis
turbing and unsettling effect upon
their nerves."
Try-outs for this show will he held
in the Little Theatre next Monday
night. Aspirants may come any time
between 7 and 9 o'clock. Work will
start immediately. Mr. Neusbaum is
particularly interested in Negro stu
dents, as there is a strong Negro
part in the show.
Candidates who find it impossible
to try out on Monday night are asked
to call Mr. Neushaum at the office
of the division of dramatics in \ Ohl
Main or at his home. Women stu
dents will get a chance to participate
in a Players' show within a month.
Next Issue of Paper
Will Not Be Delivered
The next issue. of the COLLEGIAN
will appear Tuesday. Subscribers
can get their paper by presenting
their receipts at the Student Union
desk or at the Corner Room stand.
Regular delivery of the COLLEGIAN
to subscribers will begin with the
following issue.
PRICE TEN CENTS
(Continued On page fora•)
Rev. Hartman To Give
First Chapel Address
W. Emory Hartman, minister of
the Allison Memorial Methodist Epis
copal Church of Carlisle, will deliver
the opening chapel address Sunday
morning. His subject will be "Be
coming a Whole Person."
Rev. Hartman has been closely re
lated to the student Christian move
ment throughout the Middle Atlantic
, States. He received his early educa
tion in the public schools of Tyrone
and Harrisburg. He is a graduate
of Ohio Wesleyan University and re
ceived his doctorate from Boston Uni
versity. He was later elected to a
traveling fellowship of that place and
studied in Strasbourg, Berlin, and Ox-,
ford Universities.
Rev. Hartman served as pastor of
the St. Paul's Methodist Church of
State College for two years. At pres
ent he serves as advisor to the Dick
inson College Religious Association,
and as a member of the Executive
Council of the Student Christian
Movement in the Middle Atlantic