. . c,Serriir eekly . A, li • tiAti..i...a. . , . • COMPLETE 01 „ it .tua . f.„„ , 313 LIIIIErAI, .32:2123 ' . a t i zL,------is "THE PURSUIT • CAMPUS . I , ...f t -'4,:.:,..7z.)i , , , :' ' : • COVERAGE ~ 1 . (i 2 (ii:M 1 , ' ''''''': : Ye / ( Eli trgiall4 t OF HAPPINESS" Saturday 8:30 P. M. Tickets—Corner, Fri., Sat. '' ( •:_!.:S - 5 . ' V01um,045: - -Number.26 I I Players Present Comedy At 8:30 Tomorrow Night For Student Loan Benefit Giles, Binns Have Lead As Bundling Team . . 'ln Prodtiption. Pit . Orchestra Chosen From Women's Group With a cast' headed by Lucille Z. Giles '3B and Edward T. Binns,'3B us the romantic leads and bundling team, the Penn State Players will present "The Pursuit or Happiness" in the auditorium tomorrow night at 8:30 o'clock.- . . The play is being directed by Frank S. Neusbaum, associate director of the division of dramatics, and will be a benefit performance for the Student Loan Fund of the State College club of the Penn State Alumnae. Arthur C. Cloetirigh, director of the division of dramatics, is staging the perform ance' and Mrs. Merit Scott has de signed the Colonial sets. A hit on Broadway, "The Pursuit of Happiness" aroused press contro versies 'and Inspired historians' to in vedtigate the factual background of bundling. Published reports proved that the Pennsylvania Dutch bundled and that it was common in the terri tory in sections around Williamsport.. Older denizens of _Kutztown tell sto -1 ries of the use of gunnysacks in which the bundlers were enclosed by the young lady's Mother upon retiring. The playwrights, Lawrence Lang ncr and Amino Marshall Languor, directors of the Theatre Guild in New York, satirize American customs-and inconsistencies in their play which has captured the title "a truly Amer ican comedy." An all-girl pit orchestra ,selected from.the Women's Symphony orches tra will provide the music. Other members- of 'the: cast are: '..ThOmasS,Franetsj39i , :Beatrice-Con , ford '37, .3Ohn E. BMus '36, WM:liffe Crider .'36; Nellie B. Cravatt, gradu ate student, David 0. Berk.'39.. Sam uel Johnson-'39, Donald B. Geiger-'37, and Charles W. MeMoran '37. 37 Freshman Attend Ist Collegian Meeting -Thirty-seven freshman men and women candidates .for the editorial staff of the COLLEGIAN attended the first of a 'series of instructional meet ings under the .direction of John E. Miller, assistant managing editor, in Room 405, Old Maim last Monday night. The second meeting is sched uled for Room 418, Old Main, next Monday at ,7 o'clock, at which time additional candidateS may report. The meeting will not interfere with the Artists' Course, Miller said. Those Candidates attending the first meeting include Marshall C. Ander son, Leonard R. Applebaum, Rose mary Binder, Ruth Breitwieser, Ray mond Buck,' Roger E. E. Clapp jr.. Arthur Corner, Jack Di Girolamo, El mer J. Disque, Dorothy W. Downes Joseph Erkes, James A. (Hunt, Rob ert L. (louder, Adolph Greenberg, Lucille Greenberg, John F. Hartzell, Glenn Hill. William Joachim, Betty Kennedy, Frederick E. Machmer, Jos eph Matthews, Elizabeth McDowell, Alan C. Mclntyre, and Robert C. Mul len. Roy B. Nichols, Nuomi Pugh. Sal vatore Sala, Daniel Slater, Ruth C. Sthith,„ Edwin K. - Taylor, Gordon Thomas, Bruce Trabue, John A. Tro anovitch, Jeanne Walker, Mortimer E. Weiss, Walter Wetterau, and Peter A. Zelinsky complete the list. I. E. Seniors to Send Booklets to Factories Booklets entitled "Personal Histo, ries and Practical Experiences of In dustrie' Engineers," prepared by the seniors in industrial engineering,,will be ready for distribution in about two weeks. They.will be sent to industrial firms all over the United States. Many -firms, after seeing the booklets last year, have written to the department requesting that they be sent this, year's edition. The booklet specifies that it is Published in the interests of factory managers and executives looking for college graduates having specialiied industrial training. Each senior has a page on which armours his picture, name, age, and height. Practical experi ence, college activities, and 'prefer ence of location are also listed on the page. An outline of the industrial engineering curriculum for the four college years is included. Also listed are the college activities which the class us a Whole has eng,aged-in: I Bundling Expert LUCILLE Z. GILES '37 Friday, March 6 Named Hop Date Horace Heidt Favored for 'Soph Cotillion; Committee Plans - Student Poll. Friday, March 6:definitely has keen set . as the date. for Soph .Hop, Byron H. Creasy and Bernard J. Burkett, co chairmen of the affair, announced to day. The dance committee has, submitted_ a list. of orchestras .that are.. under Consideritiori to • Neil i4l. - I graduate. manager of athletics. AMfing the bands, that were on the I submitted list' were Ray'Noble, Don Bestor, Benny" Goodnian; Henry ,Bus sey, and • Tommy Dorsey. Horace Hcidt is at present, a favorite among the- orchestras that are being consid ered. The dance committee is also con sidering- inaugurating a system whereby the orchestra will be chosen by a poll conducted among the stu dents. According to this plan 'the orchestras under consideration will be narrowed down to three .by the committee and popular choice will determine- which band shall play. Possible arrangements for the stu dent poll and for plans of a poster contest will be announced in the near) future, the co-chairmen said. Dr. Tweedy To Make Annual Chapel Speech - "On the 'Authority of Gashmu" is the subject upon which Dr. Henry H. Tweedy, of the Yale University Divinity School, will speak at the regular Sunday morning chapel serv ice in Schwab auditorium at 11 o'- clock. This is the thirteenth consecu tive year that Dr. Tweedy has spoken here. Dr. Tweedy is the joint author of "Moral and Religious Training in the School and Home," "Religion'and the' War," "Training the Devotional Life," and "The King's Highway Se ries." He was ordained .to the Con gregational ministry in 1898 and be= conic the pastor of Plymouth church at Utica, N. Y., until' 1902 where he was' the pastor at South church at Bridgeport, Conn., until 1909. From that time-on he has been a professor of practical theology at the Yale Div inity School.- In 1893 Dr. - Tweedy received his B. A. degree'froni Yale and his M. A. degree in 1909. From '1893 to• 1890 he was a student at the Union Theo:- ogical, Seminary and attended the 'University of Berlin from 1898 to 1898. Dr. Tweedy' received his D. D. degree at 'Lebanon Valley College in 1921. BULLETIN A thirty-day reprieve was granted to Bruno Richard Hauptmann by Gov ernor Harold G. ,Hoffman yesterday, barely twenty-four hours before the German carpenter was to have been led to the electric chair. The execu tion had been scheduled for tonight. At 3:30 o'clock yesterday after noon Governor Hoffman announced: ?The Attorney. General and I have been in conference on this matter and I have • decided to issue ti reprieve .l'or thirty days." STATE COLLEGE, Flijp2 . LY, JANUARY 17, 1936 Tschan Discusses At Local Mee Reporting on the national conven tion of the American Association of University Professors held. in St. Louis, Dr. Francis J. Tschan, of the department of history and political science, told the local chapter of the discussions held at the convention. One of the highlights of the con vention :was a discussion of the Pitt blacklisting case in which reasons for Ithe University or -,Pittsburgh being placed on the Association's blacklist were pointed out. The Association I agreed that it was not interested' in condemning Pitt as a University, but ,that it did condemn the nets' of the present 'administration of that insti ' tutiori and in so: doing not only aims to' benefit' the faculty of that school abut also the cause of higher educa tion there. as well as throughout the entire country. The convention also discussed "The Effect of 'Oppression and Recovery on Higher Education." In this - discus fsion it was concluded that there was evidence of a definite trend toward the restoration of cut salaries but that in other instances there was. great danger in the possibility that their restoration be postponed and become the basis of new salaries. Tribunal'Handles 9 Custom Cases 5 Guilty,, 3 Acquitted; 1 Freed From Customs at Session Tuesday Evening. Nine freshmen appeared before the Men's Student Tribunal Tuesday at its first meeting following Christmas vacation. Five were convicted and sentenced, three acquitted, and one exempted from customs. Verne W. Aubdel was found guilty of failure to- wear dress customs and was ordered to wear a sign, "I Own the Othef'Half in a Dink." John 0. Chambers' was guilty of the same of fense and' will wear two signs, "I Was.,Goieg :Te:26lop.'%up. Tribunal": and. Micas' 'Customs' are' Still Being Enforced."' In addition he will'earry a mop. Others Sentenced Louis B. Hall was found guilty of dating before thut custom was lift ed. He Will - wear two signs, "I've Only Had Blind Dates" and "She'd Have To Be Blind To Date Me." Ken neth I Shoemaker, guilty of violat ing dress customs, will also wear two signs, "Don't I Look Silly?" and "I'm in the Mood for a Sign." William M. Work, for the same offense, will wear. "I Have a Half Interest in a Dinh" and "I Can Find My Bible in Five Minutes." Thomas M. Woodward jr. was grant ed exemptions from customs because of age. Three freshmen who were ac quitted because of lack of evidence were Edmond Camitta, John D. Sharp, and Francis A. Westrick. New Noises Employed Three nurses were employed by the College hospital January 2 to replace Miss Dorothea Budd, Miss Helen Steele, and Miss Edith Witmer, who resigned to do graduate work at the Women's Hospital, New York City. The nurses employed were Miss Claire Schwalm, Miss Julia Bickford, and Miss Louise Bigelow. Allen, Binns To Write Costume Operetta for Thespian Musical I To use. a well-worn phrase, this ;spring's Thespian show will be "some, thing new and something different." Now in the early stages of author ! ship•and yet untitled, the show :is be ing produced Under the most favor ; able auspices that have ever attended :a Thespian musical. The Thespians will introduce an en . tirefy new, type of production to this campus—a costume operetta. The book -is being written by the team !of Binns and Allen—Johnnie Binns and Dick Allen, who collaborated with 'Lloyd Larkins and Eddie Binns on "Fools Rush In," last fall's musical production. Hum Fishburn and Don Dixon are doing the musical score, while "Sock" Kennedy will direct. Enter the favorable auspices: The finishing touches' will be ap plied to the book and musical score and the . show will be put into final form when the staff of five go to At lantic City, February 1. .They will remain there for several days and their workshop will be the suite in the Hotel Claridge in which George White and his staff wrote the latest edition of. the "Scandals." When the show has been .complet ed, the script and score will be read by Frank . Mandel, of the famous team of Schwab and Mandel, which pro duced such hits as "Good News," "Follow Thrn." "The Desert Sony." Pitt BlaCklist ing of A: A. U. P. /In the discussioniot ,!",The Place and Function of -University Faculties in College and University: Government," the AssoCiatiOn agreed on a list of recomMendations.'• ilt recommended that the' fadultY' and. beard of trus tees consult directly thy, faculty rep resentation on • .the board without votes, or by consulting committees. It also recommended that-the faculty be consulted in the election of a presi-. dent and deans and.:io, determining I the budget of the institution. ' "Dr. Tschan pointeg, out that at the present time there ,are seven or eight faculties, that havervepresentation on the control board' dlrko „that the prac tice is becoming' widestiread. Prof. Warred who was j elected president . o6he, local chapter recently, presided:and announced they plans of the executive committee for the rest of ,the year., ',Other new offl- I cers are Bruce V. Moore, vice-presi-; dent, and Harold F,:Graves, secretary. I The executive. committee of the: lo cal chapter will 'conh . istl of three new officers, Sylvester, K. Stevens, treas urer, ex-prisidents . Ridph D. Anthony. Leonard E. Doggett,' and national committeemen Francis J. Tschan and William E. Butt. Swift Ann'ounces Posted-Contest Winner of Seni4r o !ilall Showcard Competitiori'lyill Receive • Free Dan'ii4icket. Announcement of the annual Senior Ball poster contest.was made by Jos eph P. Swift '36,' chairman, yesterday. All students are invited to partici pate in the competition, whether they have any particidaobility in that ! line or not, Swift said. The designer of the best poster -1 . 21'; the opinion of the judgeS will re . ceive complimen tary ticket to the :dance:. „.. Posters must no - t7,be larger than 22x28. inchei and be -delivered 'at.the..Art - cfict , 22 . .}^Engincering.P, not' later than: noon,-; January 22, Swift said.. They may, be'. done iv any color. scheme and ,any medium, but must not contain .a portrait or picture of the - leader, , he continued. Lettering on posters• must be lim ited to price; . "$3.42 including tax," name of orchestra, and date, .Febrii ary 7. According to 'Swift, the most important attribute of. the postend should be carrying poiver, that is, l they should. stand out, - or attract no tice from a distance. ~As is usual in contests of this sort, the decision of the judges will be final:' Judges of the contest will be An drew W. Case, chairman, Josephine A. Wardell, and Helen- M. Savard, all I of the department of fine and applied arts. Trustee Gives Books William. L. Affeider, of Pittsburgh, a trustee of the College, presented the College library with a set of volumes entiled "Proceedings of the Engi neer's Society of Western Pennsylva nia" Tuesday. The gift, one of the most valuable received by the library this year, consists- of volumes 30 to 48 inclusive with the exception - of volume 32. These books contain the history of the Society. I and "New Moon." "Good News," in cidentally, was the first Broadway • production in which Kennedy appear ed. Dick Burger, MandePs produc tion manager, will also assist in re viewing the show. Mandel and Burger will read the script and score, Suggest changes, and edit it for production. Their latest hit, "May Wine," which opened in Pittsburgh last 'fall, is now enjoying a successful run on Broadway. According to the authors,, the op eretta will be based on the life of Jim Fisk, one of the financial barons of post-Civil War days and owner the . old Metropolitan in New York. To.quote Allen, "Fisk made Diamond Jim Brady look like a piker." The show will probably be in two acts and ten scenes. Arrangements are being node with a large costume house in Philadelphia to supply the 150 costumes necessary to , give color to the production. Since the music will be used to de: velop the plot of the show, most of the score will not be written until the plot is well outlined. "It will fol low the new trend in musical shows in that all songs will be an integral part of the show and will help to de velop the plot," 'Fishburn explains. This type of planning has accounted for the success o f such outstanding productions 'as • "Jubilee" and "Rob erta." Artists' Course Committee Institutes Deferred Payment Plan for Remaining Series Tickets; 'Singers' Due Monday London Singers to Open Chanties, Classical Airs At 8 O'clock. Group to Present Sea Series in Auditorium A. group of four men under the di yection of John Goss, billing them selves "The London Singers," will ap pear as the first number on the I.9aG Artists' Course in Schwab auditorium Monday night:at 8 o'clock. ' These five men, all one-time pro fessional men, drawn together by their love of music, agreed to give up their. callings. and make music their vocation. The organization toured England and the Continent for sonic -ten years before coming to America. John Goss, however, hod already made a name for himself here as a covert' soloist. Most aptly described as "unique," the group violates all of the common ly recognized standards of concert conduct. In the first place there is very little formality. The singers group themselves around a piano as the occasion requires. Sometimes it is a .duet, sometimes a trio or quar tet, with one of the men doubling ut the piano. The solos are sung by John Coss himself, an artist of para mount 'distinction, gifted with a fine baritone voice. American Debut in 1931 The London Singers gave their first concert in this country in 1931, ac quiring an immediate popularity. For it was discovered that at one of their concerts one had a grand time. Even the serious-minded music-love; found that it was not beneath his dignity to smile. In fact, it is a question wheth er anyone could sit through their ren dering of Lillibnier.e,"- that. great .ohl anti-:Jacobite melody without giving vent to quite audible mirth. In some of their songs the singers forsake the straight platform manner and give their selections a comedy relief. Probably the 'most outstandingly different portion of the Singers' re ' pertoire is their rendering of sea chanties, tunes which the old time sailors sang in unison as they worked on the short or long hauls of the ropes. Generally speaking, chanties may be divided into three kinds, short drags, halyard, and capstan chanties, each kind covering certain tasks. Fo'Cas'll Chanties Sung Another variation of sea songs arc the fo'cas'l songs which were sung between 'watches, when the men 'gathered around the fo'cas'l to swap yarns and smoke. It is this practic ally neglected cross section of song which the London Singers bring to the campus Monday night. Included on their program are such gentle lyrics as Gricg's "Ich legtc mich am Abend," and Schumann's "Die Rose stand im Tau," and many other gems from their classical re pertoire. • Curiously beautiful and priceless gems of Elizabethan madri gals and folk songs, rounds, and catches which made of early eigh teenth century England the "nest of singing birds." Critics have received this group of singers with almost. unanimous en thusiasm. "Consummate art that nut !only entertains, but leaves the im print of its worth on the memory," wrote a critic in the Pittsburgh Press in reviewing their program. "A smashing hit," is what the Pittsburgh Gazette calls them. Boston found . "jolly entertainment." And New• York considered that "an afternoon of the London Singers was one of the most diverting of the season." Speech Society Elects O'Brien Vice-president Joseph F. O'Brien, of the depart , ment of speech, was elected vice-pres ident of the Speech Round Table of the Pennsylvania State Education As aociation at a meeting in Harrisburg December 28. Mr. O'Brien has had too artiele,• on speech published recently: "The Place of Extra Curricular Speech in the College or University Today," in the Quarterly Journal of 'Speech, No vember 1935, and "Group Discussion as a Substitute for the Conventional High School Contest in Extemporane ous Speaking," in the Gavel, January 1936. Who 's Dancing TONIGHT Military Ball (Invitation) Johnny ROMUILVB Orchtatra, VI. GA13311 Leads London Group College To Grant Baum $4OO Claim Interclass Budget To Fay Claims For Damages; Dean Asks Auto Investigation. - Following the report of an inves tigating committee composed of J. Briggs Pruitt '36, Student Board chairman, Levan Linton 'V, and Fred L. Young. '3B, the Board at its meeting Wednesday voted to pay the claim for $4OO damages presented by Afaurice Baum last week. Baum is the owner of the barn which was torn down by students'and local youths at the bonfire on the eve Rf Alumni .Day last fall. The coni anittee .had.:haped to havesthe:clatiii lowered, but investigation proved that it would be cheaper to pay the sum asked by Baum than to wait until he started legal proceedings. The sum, together with other claims growing out of the bonfire, must come out of the Interclass Finance budget. To Investigate Student. Cars At the request of Dean of Men Ar thur R. War:tack, a committee was appointed to investigate student own ership of automobiles with the plan of formulating a new rule to take cure of this problem. At present - all students who have cars here are sup posed to have a permit from the Dean of Men and permits are issued 'sly to those who have some legiti nate reason. There are now more cars owned by :tudents than ever before, and the fact that many are driving to nearby towns 'over week-ends is •creating problem that must be solved, Pruitt. chairman of the investigating com mittee, pointed out. The present rule about permits'is not being enforced and some new one will have to be set up in its place, he said. In order to discover local sentiment upon this matter, Pruitt has request ed that students write to the Colle gian or communicate with member.. of the committee their viewpoints on the mutter. The committee, in ad dition to Pruitt. is made up of Lin ton and George W. Raines '36. 23 Faculty Members To Address Farmers Twenty-three college faculty mem bers will give lectures at the twenti eth annual Pennsylvania Farm show. January 20-21, to be held in the Farm Show Building, Harrisburg. The Farm Show is designed to give educational assistance to the farmers U . the state and allow them to com pete in various agricultural subjects. Besides lectures, stock, vegetable, and fruit competitions, the program in 7 eludes 4-11 Club demonstrations, rur cal-one-act play contests, horseshoe pitching tournaments, and n horse show. The Pennsylvania State Police will entertain with platoon drills. The following members of the School of Agriculture will pet as judges in the competitions listed af ter their names; Peter' C. Mac Ken. ' zie-sheep and wool; Prof. Roger P. Reid—milk; Prof. Frank D. Gardner —corn; Prof. Clinton 0. Cromer— small. grains; Prof. Charles F. Noll— potatoes, Herman C. 'Knadel—haby chicks; Paul H. Margolf—dressed turkey exhibit and poultry Miss Flor ence L. Adoph, of the School of Home Economies will judge 'foods, while Mrs. Jo Hays of State College will judge the rural music contest. • lion. Chester C. Davis, chief of the AAA, will address the opening as semblage in the Main Auditorium of the building, Monday evening, Janu ary 20. PRICE FIVE CENTS 275 $5.00 Seats To Go On Sale $2.00 Down Balance Later. All Cheaper Seats Sold Out, Check-up Reveals With all $3.75 and $2.50 seats sold out and only 275 $5.00 seats remain ing, the Artists Course committee de cided this morning to bring the re maining $5.00 tickets closer to the av erage student anti faculty member who found $5.00 too much to pay at once, by introducing into the ticket sales a deferred payment plan whereby stu dents and faculty members might pay $2.00 down and the balance of $3.00 by February 5. It was pointed out by Dr. 31ar amu•clt, Committee chairman, that the $5.00 fee was keeping many students Who were interested in buying .seats for the series from completing their purchases in time to see the first number. After some discussion, there fore, the Committee decided to re duce the amount of the down pay ment to $2.00 on the remaining tick ets with the expectation of having payments completed by February 5. Since the CoMadaee had stated in itially its intention to contact each student in the College and to persuade . him to buy a ticket, it was thought. that every legitimate inducement should be made to effect a sellout. Dr. iltm•quardt, said the partial payment plan was discussed as one of the most effective means of bringing this about. It was felt that a renewed appeal to the. students should be made to take up the remaining .series tickets on a deferred payment plan rather than to extend an appeal to out-of-towncrs, the chairman continued. This was in accord. with thtt:conunittee's previous ly announced statement of policy which characterized the course as a desirable educational and cultural in fluence in the life of the student, he pointed out. Under the new arrangement, Dr. Marquardt said he could see no rea ton why the students could not im mediately take up the seats that re main. By delaying a part of the pay ment until after the first of the month, it was thought that the stu dent, especially, could plan: his finances for the coming month in such a way as to pay the $3.00 balance before February 5. It. was necessary to designate a deadline fur deferred payments in or der that the: committee might still have another opportunity to sell the unused portion of the series which certain students, _after making their initial payment of $2.00 might not care tic take up. The window at the Athletic Asso ciation wi:l be open all day today to accept applications on a cash or de ferred plan, the chairman stated. In applying for a ticket at the reduced rate, if the student. elects the partial payment plan. he will receive a ticket. for the first number only, and the rest of the series ticket will he held in his name until he pays the balance due. If the balance remains unpaid af ter February 5, Dr. 51m•yunrdt add ed, the rest of the series ticket will Rhoton Recommends Travel for Students Travel was highly recommended for students by Dr. Alvin L. Ithoton, of the School of Education, in a lecture which was the second in a general agriculture series in the Agriculture building Wednesday afternoon. Dr. Ithoton, lecturing on "A World Tour," presented slides of scenes from nearly every country in the world. Dr. 1:hoton described the vari ous points of interest which he vis ited on a five-month trip. Curry Chosen Officer Of Logic Organization Dr. Ifashell B. Curry, of the de portment of mathematics, has been elected vice-president of the Associa ' tion of Symbolic Logic, according to information received recently. Other officers of the organization are Prof. C. J. Ducusse, president, and Prof. C. A. Baylis, secretary-treasurer. Professors Ducasse and Baylis arc both members of the department of philosophy at Brown University. The association was organized for the purpose of bringing together mathematicians and philosophers in terested in symbolic or mathematical logic. It is expected that a quarterly publication. "The ,Journal of Sym bolic Logic," will be started this year.
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