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Volume 33—No. 20
Vienna Choir
Boys Chosen
For Recital
Artists Course Group
Signs Singers For
March 9,1937
20 Boys, From 8 to 12,
Give Varied Selections
The Vienna Choir Boys have been
signed as the fourth number on the
1936-37 Artists Course program, it
■was announced today by,Dr. Carl E.
Marquar-dt, College Examiner, chair
man of the Course committee. On
their fifth American tour, the singing
group wilt appear Here on Tuesday,
March 9, 1937.. .
, Composed' of’ twenty hoys, aged
eight to twelve, the Austrians will
appear in a recital of songs and cos
tumed opera. They are the pick of
the oldest choral organization in the
world, the Vienna Choir Boys being
founded nearly 600 .years ago by im
perial edict of Maximilian the First.
To Give Varied Selections
Famed throughout the musical soci
ety of Europe for. their bell-like voices
the Vienna Choir Boys will present a
Repertoire' that includes arias and
choruses of Wagner, Schubert, and
Mozart; selections, from operatic
works of Humperdinck, . Haydn, and
Mozart;, as well as national choruses
and Christmas songs..
Over sixty Austrian boys are
trained by experts and from these
the Vienna Choir group is chosen.
The boys are schooled in the classics,
in athletics, and in general subjects,'
as well as music. They travel each
year throughout Europe and the
United States.
PS Club To Hear
Basketball Coach
Lawther Will Address Meeting
About Season’s Prospects;
Group To Be Active
Basketball Ccach Johni D.’ Lawther
will address a meeting of the Penn
Slate Club in the Old Main Sandwich
Shop on Saturday night at, 8 o’clock.
Ccach Lawther will discuss the pros
pects and schedule of the team.
At that meeting the executive com
mittee under the leadership of Rus
sell Gohn ’3B, president, will present
a program of, the winter activities.
Activity Program Outlined
The committee .has - arranged for
several dancing parties at the vari
ous girl dorms. The December events
include several mixed swimming and
sleighing parties, a Christmas ban
quet on December 16, a bridge tour
nament, and .an all-College New
Year’s dance.
At Saturday’s meeting Howard
Frankenfield ’37, chairman of the en
tertainment committee, will .report on
the. informal houseparty dance, held
on October- 30, which 120 couples at
tended.
Chapel Speaker Talks
On Art of Fine Living
i “Let the intelligent know how'to
handle life,” was the quotation from
Proverbs with which the Rev. Arthur’
J. Pfohl,jiastor of the Zion Lutheran
church of Indiana; Pa., opened his
chapel address on “The Art of Fine!
Living,” Sunday, morning. .
“We handle everything, from the
infinitesimal to the gigantic, .with
scrupulous care and attention. In
handling the material things of life
we have' neglected' to Handle our
selves,” said Reverend Pfohl.
If we arc to attain a fine living, we
must realize three things: that life
involves a deep sense of sacredness
and devotion, that life is a duty, and,
that life is! an opportunity for divine
fellowship, the speaker concluded.
Students Given Holiday
' For Penn Football Game
In accordance with an arrange
ment made with the student body
several years ago, a- football holi
day has been scheduled on Satur
day, November 14. This holiday
was granted with the understand
ing that the students would not ex
' tend the holiday by absenting them.-
- selves from Friday classes. No ex
cuses from .Friday classes .will be
granted, therefore, except in cases
of unavoidable absence.
(Signed) A. R. WARNOCK,
■. Dean of Men
‘Swell’ Expresses Eddie Roberts’
Feeling After First Solo Flight
lakes First Solo Flight
ELLEN ROBERTS ’37
SU Board Picks
Powers, Shaffer
Sets Dates for Major Dances;
Other Future Activities -
, Planned by Group
Georgia H. Powers ’3B and Ross P.
Shaffer ’3B were elected to the Stu
dent Union Board at its meeting last
Thursday. They will be the junior
class representatives-at-large.
The inclusion of two junior mem
bers-at-large is something new in the
Student Union Board. Previously but
one junior was elected.
At the same meeting tentative date?
for all the major dances were set, and
plans for the Board’s future activities
were made.
Both Prominent Leaders
Both Miss Powers and Shaffer are
outstanding student leaders. Miss
Powers was_ sophqmore. rwomen’s..sen
ator last- year and-was-a-member of
the sophomore activities honorary,
Cwens. She is a member of .the jun
ior board of the Collegian.
Shaffer is the junior class presi
dent and secretary of Student Coun
cil. Shaffer also held the presidency
of his class two years ago as a' fresh
man. He is the varsity 173-pound
wrestler, and was runner-up in that
weight at the Intercollegiates at
Princeton last spring, t
Exhibitions of Bowers’
Drawings Shown Here
The department of fine arts an
nounces. an exhibition of portrait
drawings in charcoal, pencil, and pas
tel by Edward Bowers, during this
week in the exhibition room, third
floor Main Engineering.
Bowers is 'a printer by trade, liv
ing near Bellefontc. He is entirely
self-taught, having been interested in
art for only three years. His work
has won the unqualified admiration of
the members of the -fine arts depart
ment
The group exhibited this week com
prises portrait sketches of his neigh
bors and friends. The drawings arc
for sale at moderate ‘pricics. The
quality of his work may be indicated
by the fact that the department has
several drawings under consideration
to purchase for their permanent ex
hibition.
Worm-Eaten Book Among Many
Unusual Collections in Library
Among 170,000 volumes in the
College library, several arc interest
ing because of their unusualncss and
contrast to the others.
A worm-eaten copy of Rousseltot’s
“Histore Naturalc et Politique de la
Pennsylvanie” published in Paris in
1768 was found by the late Dr.
Boucke in a South American monas
tery where it had been immersed in
several' inches of water. He pur
chased it for the equivalent of a few
cents.
The library has a bound file of the
Federal Gazette published in Philadel
phia from January 17, 1789, to Au
gust- 17, 1789. This file covers the
founding of the constitution and con
tains letters debating the relative
merits of New York and Philadelphia
as the capitol city of the new nation.
A collection of Rbles- includes 18
different editions published -before
1800. Several of these are the Latin]
COLLEGE, PA., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1936
“Swell.”
That’s the only word that can de
scribe Ellen “Eddie” Roberts' feelings
after she made her first solo flight
Friday morning. .The solo marks the,
climax of her six weeks training with
Sherm Lutz, director of the State,
College airport.
Scared? “No, I wasn’t scared,”
she' said, smiling radiantly, “because
I didn't have time to be. I knew that
if Sherm had enough confidence in
mo to send me up alone, I should
have', enough nerve. Even if I was
risking my neck, he was risking his
plane.”
“I; was- afraid just once when I
tho’ught I was going too, fast. I knew
I had to land and I was too High and
goitfg-'tdo fast, so I circled wider and
came down.” •
. Lutz Confident of Her • »
When asked his pupil’s behavior,
Sherm- sa:c} that she made her best
landing'Friday morning. He seemed
to be perfectly confident of her abil
ity. • '
Eddie was in the air about five min
utes, at an altitude of 500 feet, going
at a speed of 80 miles' an hour.
, “I was so busy all the time I could
n’t be scared,” she said, laughing
about the experience. “I was too con
cerned in taking off, then circling
around and remembering to turn'off
the motor in time. All the time I
had to watch the field and the trees
and remember not to look to the right
at'the seat where Sherm had always
been. .When'l landed all I thought
of was to avoid bouncing the plane.
Gee, it was swell!”
Only Make Believe?
When Eddie was asked what she
was going to do now that she had
soloed, she laughed, “Spend a little
time making myself believe that I
really did.it”
Ellen Roberts ’37 is the first Penn
State co-ed to receive her wings. She
owes her success in the achievement
10 her instructor, Sherm Lutz, who
conducts a flying course at the local
airport. In the past two years he has
trained more than sixty faculty mem
bers. and undergraduates of Penn
State.
Marionette Show
To Open Institute
Players ‘Personal Appearance’
Other Public Performance
In Drama Convention .
A marionette program Friday
night and tbe Players production,
“Personal • Appearance,”' Saturday
night, will be the two events open to
the public during the Dramatics In
stitute. here on Friday and Saturday.
The Kingsland Marionettes will
conduct the first number. Under the
direction of Prof. Frank S. Neus
baum,’ the Players will give their sec
ond performance of their season’s
first show.
■'•Veterans in Cast
The entire cast of “Personal Ap
pearance,” -which is a fast-moving
comedy, has been seen many times
here. Hermione H. Hunt *37, Ed
wai’d T. Binns *3B, Lucille Z. Giles
’3B, Morton Wolovsky ’3B, Beatrice
Conford ’37, Jean E. Woodruff .’37,
and Harvey Levin ’39 play the leading
roles, v 1 • 'i
Among the speakers of the insti
tute, which is under the auspices of
the division of 'dramatics, arc Dean
Charles ,W. Stoddart, of the School of
Liberal',Arts; Prof.' Arthur D. Cloe
tingh, director of the .division of dra
matics; 'and Darcll. L. Larsen, direc
tor of •‘dramatics at Franklin and
Marshall'College. •
Bible of 1518, 1532, and 1542. Forty
one volumes arc printed in 11 differ
ent languages,' including Chippewa,
Dakota, French, German, Gothic, He
brew, Creek, Italian, Latin,. and
Spanish.
- Di\ Pond and W. H. Teas ’97 are
remembered for their work in secur
ing the Priestley Collection. Priest
ley’s autobiography is kept in the
vault where Tt can be preserved from
dampness. '
.. Odd items of collection include a
copy,'of the Vicksburg, Mississippi,
Daily Citizen, dated June 27, 1863.
This edition was printed on wall pa
per during, the siege of Vicksburg..
A first edition of Mark Twain’s
“Roughing It,” a four-volume set of
Bayle’s famous dictionary published in
Switzerland in‘l73B, .and ex-Presi*
dent Hoover’s famous translation of
“Agricola’s De Re Metallica” are
prized possessions.
Hetzel Decrees Period
Of Silence Tomorrow
* As a mark of respect to the sol
dier dead, the College will observe
a two-minute period of silence at
11 o’clock Armistice Day, Wednes
day, November 11. The national
salute of twenty-one guns will be
fired. The two-minute silent period
will begin with the first stroke of
.11 by tfie Old Main clock and will
end with the first gun of the salute.
(Sfigned)yß. D. HETZEL
' President
Peace Group To
Hold Discussion
Pi Gamma Mu To Conduct Panel
Survey of 1936 Election
Tomorro\v : at 7:30
Instead of the usual peace demon
stration held on. Ai7nistice Day, the
United Peace Action Committee plans
to hold a* panel discussion, tentatively
on Wednesday evening, November 18,
in Schwab auditorium.
The subject of the discussion wilt
be “How Much Defense?” and nego
tiations, are being made to have three
prominent men as speakers.
The Council members are the Peace
Action Group, represented by Edward
Binns ’37; the Christian Association,
represented'by Reva' M. Lincoln ’37;
the American Studenr Union, by Lou
ise Silverstein .’3B and Thomas L. Bol
ster ’4O; and the publications by John
son Brcnneman *37 of the Collegian,
James T. Dugan ’37 of the Froth,
and Richard Lewis ’37 of the Bell.
Ridgway Defines
Transit Problem
Senior. Engineers Hear Lecture
By Transportation Expert;
Illustrations Used
• “The most vexatious problem with
which a municipality has to deal, is
Vhe , one of n '‘(i'ansp'ifr'tatioh!” ‘ stated
Robert Ridgway,- chief engineer of
the New York. City Transit Commis
sion, in a lecture.on “New-York City
•Rapid Transit / Subways,” bfefore u
group of senior engineers • in ' the
Home Economics building auditorium
last Friday afternoon.
There are three subway systems in
New York City, are all pub
licly owned, but, with, the exception
of the Independent System, are pri
vately operated.
Since New York has about forty
five per cent of all the subways in the
world and the only four lane sub
ways, with the exception of Philadel
phia, the problem, of transportation
is quite important, he said. A survey
in 1930 showed that there were two
billion fares collected ‘daily in New
York, and of these, one billion trav
eled in the subways.
Lantern'Slides Shown
Most of the lecture was taken up
with illustrations,' by means of lan
tern slides, of the work in the build
ing of the subways, and scenes of the
development of New York from the
horse-car era to the present day, with
tx*olley cars outmoded by bus and sub
way travel.
Ridgway is a past president of the
American Society of Civil Engineers,'
, supervised tfie building of over sixty
miles of the aqueduct which brings
water from the Catskills to New York
City, and one of his most outstanding
projects,.was the syphon under the
Hudson River at a depth'of 1200 feet
below water, which cost thirty million
dollars.
He has been consulting engineer on
the San Fi’ancisco-Oakland .Bridge, on
the Colorado River boai*d for Boulder
Dam, and various oilier important en
gineering works. . He is a member of
many engineering societies, and has
received honorai*y degrees fx*om Har
vard, New York, and Lehigh Univer
sities.
Meteorites’ Subject
Of Lecture Tonight
Dr. H. H. Nininger will speak on
“Our Stone Pelted Planet” at* 7:30
o’clock tonight in room 315, Mineral
Industries building, in . the second of
the series of lectures sponsored by the
School of Mineral Industries and Sig
ma Gamma Epsilon, honorary mineral
industries fraternity.
Dr. Nininger is the secretary of the
society for research on meteorites and
during the last ten years has discov
ered more. meteorites than any man
who ever lived* His personal collec
tion of meteorites is valued at $150,-
000.
Dr. Nininger is credited with the
discovery' of gold-bearing meteorites,
“metcorodes,” and, just recently, of
an entirely new type of meteorite*
Will Roosevelt Remain Liberal?
Faculty Count Indicates He Will
With such a tremendous portion of:
the voters behind him, will President!
Roosevelt become more of a liberal in!
the next four years, or will he turn
to a more conservative course? The
following are the opinions of a rep
resentative group of faculty members
on the question.
Sylvester K. Stevens, associate pro
fessor of history: “Regardless of the
majority President Roosevelt receiv
ed, he will continue on the same
course he has pursued. His Madison
Square Garden speech -is a good ex
position of his . plan. I sincerely be
lieve the President is an honest lib
eral.”
Edward R. Van Sant, associate pro
fessor of economics: “I believe the
majority vote will mean more liberal
legislation. I feel that the fact that
the President hasn’t a campaign
ahead will largely determine his
course of action. Instead of trying
to build a political machine, Roosevelt
will give his attention to the prob
lems of vital social significance.”
Alfred G. Pundt, instructor of his
tory: "President Roosevelt will be-i
come more liberal. This large vote I
is an indication of the endoi’sement
of his liberal policiep. I feel there
will be less spending, more legisla
tion on social security, and more at
tempts to liberalize Roosevelt’s su
preme court and constitution.”
John H. Ferguson, instructor of po
litical science: “In the absence of the
pressing economic and social condi
tions that were present during Roose
velt’s first ’four years, it will not be
necessary for him to strike out in
such broad legislative measures. I
think he will attempt to consolidate
what he has done unless it becomes
necessary to enlarge the scops of his
eaidier actions.”'
Dr. William S. Dye, jr., professor
of English literature: “I cannot pre
dict whether he will become liberal
or conservative, as he has wobbled
from one side to the other since he
came into office.” *
Robert E. Dengler, professor of
classical languages: “I expect Roose
velt to continue with the policies he
has been pursuing as he stated in his
speech on Saturday, October 31. I
believe.. keep. his .word, .and
there were a few others, who thought
so too.”- • ' ~ •
Harold E. Dickson, associate pro
fessor of fine arts: “Frankly, I would
hate to say. I think he will go left,
but that is only a hunch based on pex>
sonal opinion.”
Herbert Kocpp-Baker, instructor in
speech: “Roosevelt’s intentions have
been clear, it seems to me, from the
first sentence of his campaign speech
of 1932. The forces which oppose
him ore not likely to disintegrate lie
cause of a mass expression by elec
tion. He will, no doubt, act upon con
victions.” '
Thespians Sign
Bottorfs Band
Glee-Thespian Dance to Include
Floor Show on November 21;
Honor Football Team
Bill Bottorf and his band have been
signed to play the first annual Glee-
Thespian dance in Recreation hall,
Saturday, November 21, J. Ewing
(Sock) Kennedy, Thespian director,
announced today.
Bcttorf’s band was acclaimed one
of the most popular features of tho
recent Glee-Thespian show, “Steer
Clear.”
Many of the feature numbers of
“Steer Clear” will be presented as p
floor show during the dance that will
be the night of the Bucknell football
game.
To Give “Jilted in Jazz"
The modernistic dance creation,
“Jilted in Jazz,” with Helene Hetzel
’4O and F. Barton Henderson ’3B fea
tured will be one of tho floor show
attractions. The incomplete program
also includes the “Top Hat” number
from the fall show, and “It Ain’t
Nccessarily_So,” with* the Hy-Los and
James P. Unangst ’3B.
Members of the Penn State and
Bucknell football teams will be guests
of honor at the dance. Inti’oductions
of the players will take place from
the band platform. The dance will
follow the completion of State’s foot
ball season, but Bucknell will have
another game to play.
Penn Tickets On/Sale
Tickets for the Penn game may be
secured at the Athletic Association of
fice until Thursday night and then at
the Penn State Alumni Club smoker
Friday night in Philadelphia. Seats
in the Penn State cheering section
on the forty yard line are $2.28.
2 Pages of Pitt Game
Pictures in This Issue
Through the courtesy of Harry
Keck, sports editor of the Pitts
burgh Sun-Telegraph, the Colle
cian is running today two special
pages of pictures of the. Penn Stato-
Pitt football game at Pittsburgh
Saturday. The pictures will be
found on pages 4 and 5.
These action pictures were used
by the Sun-Telegraph in their Sun
day editions. They were taken by a
special “magic eye” camera from
the top of the photograpnei’s’ press
box at the Pitt Stadium. This cam
era has a projector four feet long.
Keck said that the Sun-Telegraph is
planning'to use a new camera with
a six-foot projector in the near fu
ture to give the pictures more min
ute detail.
Political Society
Will Hold Forum
Three Prominent Men Expected
To Speak; Council Members
Represent Students
“Results of the 1936 Elections, Its
Viewpoints and Interpretations,” will
be the subject of a round table dis
cussion sponsored by Pi Gamma Mu,
national social science honorary fra
ternity, at 7:30 o’clock tomoriw
night in the second floor lounge of
Old Main.
Prof. S. K. Stevens will preside and
direct the meeting. Other faculty
members participating include Dr.
Harold F. Alderfer and Prof. John
H. Fei'guson, of the department of
political science; Pi'of. Arthur H.
Reede, of the department of econo
mics; and Dr. J. Paul Selsam, of the
department of history.
Arranged for Discussions
The round table will be conducted
so'as to present views of the members
taking part' and include opportunity
for questions and discussion from the
flooi*. The meeting provides a supple
ment to the political forum staged by
the campus publications and Amer
ican Student Union prior to the elec
tion.
The pre-election forum brought the
four major parties m the recent Cam
paign to the campus for a survey of
their platforms, opportunities, and of
ferings. Wednesday’s round table
discussion will provide a survey of
the effects of the campaign as inter
preted through the results.
Hy-Lo Program
Cut Short Sat.
Singers on Air Only 2 h Minutes
After Studio Mixup; Give
• 2 State Numbers
The Hy-Los o£ the men’s glee club
helped the National Broadcasting
system celebrate its 10th anniversary j
by singing over a nation-wide hook-1
up from station KDKA in Pittsburgh j
Saturday night at 10 o’clock. j
Originally scheduled for eight min-i
utes of the hour’s broadcast that in-;
eluded many college glee clubs ami j
bands throughout the country, the Hy- j
Los were forced to limit their broad- j
cast to two and one-half minutes be-1
cause of a mixup at the NBC stu
dios in Chicago. j
Mixup at Chicago 1
As Prof. Richard W. Grant, dircc-;
tor of the organization, explained, the j
NBC switched from city to city, pick-.
ing up tlie various collegiate organi-j
zations that were to have an equal:
amount of time. Through a mixup
in Chicago, the group broadcasting!
there ran five and one-half minutes |
overtime. The Pitt band followed the;
Chicago broadcast and would hove I
equally divided the remaining time j
with the Hy-Los had not they begun,
their time in another adjoining studio.!
As it was the Hy-Los sang “Fight j
On State,” and “The Nittany Lion”,
in their abbreviated time. Following l
the broadcast, an NBC official from i
New York cai'id Professor Grant and j
apologized for the mixup, regretting;
that so many students had made the'
trip and spent their own money to:
broadcast from ICDKA when the time
was abbreviated.
Readers will recall a similar inci
dent when the Columbia Broadcast
ing studios Chicago office permitted
a .recording of Presfdent Roosevelt’s
voice in connection with a political
address by Senator Vandenberg in
the recent campaign.
COMPLETE
CAMPUS
COVERAGE
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Harrison Star
As Pitt Takes
State, 34-to-7
Cherundolo, Economos
Lead Game Fight
Against Odds
Harry’s Sleeper Play
Gives Lions Only Score
By CHARLES M. WHEELER, JR.
Y/hi'.e Messieurs Goldberg, Stebbins,
Wood and company were cavorting
past white stripes for the Golden
Panthers Saturday, a little 150-pound
bundle of aggressiveness by the name
of Harry Harrison was providing
Penn State with its biggest thrill
against Jock Sutherland’s men since
the Lions started dropping games to
them by the dozen after the time of
Coach Bob Higgins.
. For although a gallant line defense
petered out from sheer weariness in
the 34-t©-7 defeat by the Panthers
i Saturday, this was all dimmed by the
sensational work of the West Phila
delphia boy who pulled one of the
oldest gags in football by negotiating
a touchdown on a sleeper play that
caught Pitt dreaming about the Corn
huskers of Nebraska who are a week
away.
And these seven points made it
worthwhile for the many ‘Nittany
rooters that went to Pittsburgh. And
they made it worthwhile for Cherun
dolo and Economos who waged if fero
cious defensive battle against one of
the best functioning offenses in the
country.
Not Once But Twice
Up to Harrison’s touchdown on that
13-yard pass from Wear for which
Joe Metro kicked an extra point, the
game was decidedly a struggle all the
way. When Harry went over it was
only 14-to-7, Pitt. Previously at the
start !of the second half this same
guy Harrison had juggled Merko
sky’s kick on the 2 yard line,'recov
ered and begun to run. He ran this
way and that way and was finally in
the clear when he got ahead of his
feet and stumbled on the Pitt 48 yavd
line. It was too bad and meant a
touchdown less.
State received the opening kick-off
and appeared to be going places. The
Lions made two first downs the hard
way, and then on a fake punt Pat
j rick reeled off ‘26 yards through the
[left side to give the Nittanymen an
j other first and ten on the Pitt 30. But
[then Patrick fumbled and the drive
was over. Cold from the bench after
four weeks of injuries and over-anx
ious to go before the hometown folks,
John shouldn’t be criticized too se
verely for liis frequent and damag
ing fumbles, four in number.
Panthers Pass for Ist
The Panthers took the ball right
up the field for a score that materi
alized when Goldberg passed over 0-
Horn’s head to Stcbb:n3. Daddio
kicked his first of four consecutive
placements for the extra point. That
was all the scoring for the half, as
the Cats fumbled twice within the
State 20 to lose opportunities.
The second half opened with Harri
i son’s spectacular run and his heart
bi’caking stumble. Pitt took the ball
ion their own 20 after •while and
j marched up the field to the 1 yard line
[where Frank Patrick took it over
land Daddio was again good to make
jit 14-to-O. It was '(Turing this drive
! that Nittany fans decided tliat Biggie
| Goldberg was not an elk and that he
'should not be shipped back to Elkins
1 for seasoning, for he flavored that
i drive with tart.
j But what had been a game Lion
| team was still that way, and with
! Harrison and Wear in the backfield,
| the Lions returned the kick-off some
1 30 odd yards and then worked for a
l couple of first downs to the Pitt 40.
[Then Windy, not to be outdone, took
| a reverse 33 yards and the ball was
[on the Panther 13. Then Harrison
, lay down on the Pitt side of the field
inear the sidelines, got DeMarino’s
■attention, watched the Lions conic out
jof a fast huddle, watched a quick pass
i from center, got up, raced over the
•goal and took a perfect pass from
j Wear, and State had scored the sec
ond touchdown of the year against
[Pitt. Joe Metro added a perfect
i placement and the score was only 14-
!to-7 against the Lions. The fans went
| wild and then the Pitt backs followed
! suit.
An Aroused Panther
; Angered, at being caught asleep,
j the Panther attack began to work
: with a vengeance and resulted in
■ three touchdowns in the fourth quar
ter. Stebbins carried a little driVo
of his own for the better part of 71
yards and scored to make it 21-to-7
(’Continued on page three)