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PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
Successor to The Free Levee. established 1887
during the College Year. except on holidays,
by stadents of The Pennsylvania State College. in the interest at the
College, the StUdents, fuctsity, nitunni. and friends.
TliE MA.NAG
JOHNSON BRENNEMAN 'l7
Editor
E. TOWNSEND SWAIN 's7
Mooning: Editor.
DIIILTP S. HEISLER '37
Nova Editor
W. ROBERT CRUM '37
Soort4 Editor
RICHARD LEWIS '37
Feature Editor
MARION A. RIIICER '37
Wotorrt's Editor
H. NOTNIPRED WILLIA.NIS '37
Women's illootorinit Editor
Wooilrow W. Wetly '39 Francis 11. Szyinesak 'as
Jerome Weinstein '•^.s Charles M. \Slimier Jr. '3B
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Say H. Daniels '3B Carl W. Diehl TS Robert E. Elliott jr. '3B
Rathry•n M. Jennisscs 'SS Hobert S. Mchelves John G. Ssbrils
WOMEN'S ASSOCIATE. EDITORS
SIIRky R. Helms '3B CronSs It. Cowers '3B Caroline TYSOI3 '39
Mai:lacing PAW!. This Issue.__
24W* Editor This Issue.
Ttiesday, Match 9, 1937
Friday, March 12, 1937
WHY CAN'T something be clone toward a more
natural treatment of freshman women?
' Recently the rule prohibiting freshmen from dat
ing between three and five o'clock in the afternoon was
lifted in order that they might - participate in the Sand
wich Shop informal dances. This marks the first step
toward freshman freedom, not absolute, of course, but
to a degree where they can enjoy normal social life.
Freshman dating is prohibited during the first
three weeks of the first semester, a time when fresh
men should be restricted, W. S. G. A. says, in order to
get accustomed to stud`, to their new life, and become
acquainted with the women members of the school. Dur
ing the first semester after the three-week non-dating
period, one date a week-end is granted, eight of them
being one o'clock permissions. During the second semes
ter, freshman women are allowed one one o'clock per
mission and one ten o'clock permission a week-end.
The change from the continual activity of Fresh
man Week to a period when all dating is prohibited,
is abrupt and forbids the freshman girl from having
normal social activity just at the time when she is most
likely to need the diversion dating offers. This inhibition
leads to violation of the rules, n bad start for any col
lege woman.
The three-week non-dating period should be abol
ished. The first dating restriction should begin imme
diately following Freshman Week by limiting the fresh-
Man's dating to two dates a week-end, one one o'clock
and one ten .o'clock permission. With this leniency she
would get the social contact necessary for proper adap
tation in a co-educational college; she would become ac
climated in a more natural way; she could enjoy the
social functions without doling out one o'clock's for just
the most special occasions; and she would cease to re
gard the upperclass women as a crowd of female "Si
mon Legrees."
In the second semester, as long as free one o'clocks
are given for every all-college affair, why not give the
freshmen the same dating privileges given the upper
class women, two one o'clock and one ten o'clock per
mission for the Week-end, but restrict dating on week
nights. By the second semester, the freshman have got
into the swing of things, realize their academic respon
sibilities, and are as capable of dividing their time be
tween studying, activities, and elating, as the upperclass
women. If such permission were granted, W. S. G. A.
would be relieved of much petty legislation; the fresh
man women would lie given the recognition due a col
lege student; and a more natural relationship between
freshmen and upperclass women would result.—G. li. P.
TENORS VERSUS ATHLETES
IS A HIGH SCHOOL tencr who can hit a high C
as desirable college material as an all-scholastic
tackle? Is a high school Hamlet as welcome here as
a 10 second man?
Probably not, as values stand now. Yet the Glee
Club, the Players, and smilar organizations are just
as. valuable—though in a dilTerent way—to the College
as , the athletic teams.
,;!rrOt*erter Grant a prize-winning baritone is as
wolVdme Wit:,2oo7pound fullback to Bob Higgins. Frank .
Nilis4aurit' Would be as glad to get an actor with ex,
perience in stock as Doctor Houck would be to get a
Golden Gloves 'champ.
But though alumni groups are helping to finance
half=backs, forwards, javelin throwers, who ever heard
of subsidized tap-dancers, violinists, or actors?
What is the reason for this situation?
The principal one is that alumni are interested in
helping the activities here that they know about. All of
them read about the football games. They see that
teams and others in action at Pittsburgh, Philadelphia,
and other places in the state.
The only College activity that most alumni know
Ls athletics. That is the only activity. that they help.
In order for alumni to help other activities they
must know about them.
Recently at the request of certain alumni clubs the
Glee Club has given concerts in cities throughout the
state. The proceeds have gone towards scholarship
funds. At least a portion of such money should be
spent to aid students other than athletes. ,
What the Glee Club is doing, other organizations
should bo able to do. Moving a Thespian Show is a big
job, but some of the Players productions should be able
to go on the road for benefit performances. There re
main many details to be worked out but the Alumni of
fice, the Alumni clubs, and campus organizations should
attempt to arrange some program of this sort.
SENIOR BALL'S UNEXPECTEDLY large profit
resulted from its favorable date, its good orchestra and
the work done by the chairmen and the Class president.
It proves that: (1) for a chance to make money a popu
lar band must he signed even if that means paying a
high price; (2) two or three capable men can do all the
work necessary to arrange the dance; a committee is
absolutely superfluous. (3))* Moving a major dance in
to the first semester is a great financial advance to
the other dances.
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE PLAYERS for
selecting as their next show, "Bury the Dead." Not
Rime "Peace on Earth" has there been a play here of
equal significance. It should he the best of the year.
Can You Take It?:
Dean Grant is playing safe these days and his repu
tation for "being able to take it" remains unstained.
It all began when he received an invitation to the
Gridiron banquet and then discovered that he could
not possibly attend because of an important previous
engagement. Immediately the Dean began worrying.
Having attended past Gridiron functions he realized
that the roasting in the satirical skits presented are
traditionally inconsiderate of position or pride. How
ever, it wasn't the good natured roasting that he
might receive at the banquet that he feared but the
o horrifying thought of what he might have to go
through if his colleagues thought that the reason for
his absence was because "he couldn't take it."
There was only one way out—a public announce
ment that he could "take it"—so here it is:
Prof. Dickson, art department mogul, gave the
Gridiron boys a challenge when he said that he was
going to attend this year and if any of their p . unches
were pulled he'd spend the next two years picketing
the banquet. (You're asking for it, Dickson.)
NC BOARD
ALAN L. SMITH '37
• Ku: o ne. MlllllLger
KENNETH W. ENOEL.'37
Advertising Manoger
PHILIP A. SCHWARTZ '37
Promotion Nanoger
GEORGE W. BIRD '37
Circulation Manager
IRWIN ROTH '37
Sot:Piga Advertising Monager
JEAN C. HOOVER '37
Secretory
REGINA J. RYAN '37
Women's News Editor
Charles M. Wheeler. jr. '3B
__Woodrow W. Blerly ':113
CAMPUSEER
Addenda:
There is quite an odor surrounding the appointment
of Sam Breene as I. F. Ball chairman. George Hacker
did the appointing . . . When Docktor Leo Houck re
turns to the campus Monday with six Intereollegizite
champions, followet•s of the fistic sport will be doub
ly interested in reading the article written by a mem
ber of the faculty for the new magazine, "They Say,"
which will appear on the newsstands next week. The
article is a character sketch of Leo portraying the
real Doektor . . . Last issue the Maniac asked Elea-
nor Acker to explain how her red skirt came to be
hanging on afi delt chandelier• . . Now the A.C:C.
boys are asking Nick Wassel how his trousers came
to be found in the Trees Club club room . . . Charlie
Prosser thought he was doing one of his teammates
a favor when he picked up a bag with a Penn State
seal on it and put it on the basketball team's bus for
Yale. When opened in Yale in it was found four
fencing. uniforms .. . For weeks and weeks the
D. U.'s had been planning on having a great time in
their chapter house up at Syracuse over the Intercol
legiates and now just a few days before the fights
they get word that part of the D. U. house at Syra
cused burned down . . . Dot Carey, chi 0, finds she
can do her best memorizing in the bath tub with her
notes pasted on the wall . . . Now it's legal: Blaine
Pray and Miss Nugent . . . Ridge Riley, sports editor
of the College publicity service, was just about
thwarted in his plans to attend the fights when his
wife, Peg, insisted that he stay home to attend the
Kappa formal Saturday night, saying that he, Ridge,
was the only man in captiVity who has attended all
of them . ..We liked Prof. Werner's memory of
Daddy Gibbons in his column in the last issue of
Froth . . When a freshman in his engl. comp class
didn't know whether Roosevelt was a liberal or con
servative, Prof. Galbraith gives hint three cents to buy
a Philly Record . . . Eddie Carr and Florence Brig
ham aren't phased the least by an audience . . may
be that's what psychology can do fora person . . .
Recommended reading for Sally Jordan: "Wake Up
Alone and Like It" . . . We like the International
policy of the R.O.T.C. Of the advanced officers' equip
ment the sabre is made in Germany, the buckle in
France, and the belt in England .. . When Doc.
Ritenour broke off a needle in an R.0.T.0. student
whom he was inoculating his only comment was,
"That's nothing to laugh about. Those needles cost
$1.87 . . . There is quite an argument raging as to
whether that wood frame shack behind Engineering E :
should be called the Fine Arts building or- the Flout:.
Milling building since it houses...both those , depart
meats
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•C 1-zi;al sTA'rE
Stoddart Names
LA Honor Group
Students Rating Highest Marks
Chosen From Each Class;
Senior Gets '3'
An honor roll composed of the ten
leading students in each class for last
semester• in the School of Liberal
Arts was released recently by Dean
Charles W. Stoddart. Those having
a scholastic average equal to that of
the tenth student were also included
in the list. •
The juniors set a new 'scholastic
record with, thirty-nine per cent of
the class making "2" or better. The
seniors placed second with twenty
three. per cent of the class making
"2" or better. , The sophomores stored
seventeen per cent, while the fresh
'men had sixteen per cent of the class
making "2" or better. Transfer stu
dents making outstanding averages
included two freshmen, seventeen
sophomores, thirty-three juniors, and
twenty-six seniors.
Alvin E. Ifeutchy was the only sen
ior to make - a "3" average. Seniors
who made a - grade of "2.8" included
May, M. Dunaway, James E. Hackett,
and William B. Perlman. Four stu
dents with "2.1" averages were Bea
trice Conford, Wilbur M. Frantz,
Martha Shatter, and C. Gregg Thomp
son. Those who scored "2.6" were
Robert C. Miller, William Rosenberg,
and William J: Scarlett.
Five juniors• with an average of
"3" were Ralph E. Dimmick, Marshall
K. Evans, Hermione H. Hunt, John
F. Jagentn, and John 'E. Matz. Sev
en juniors who made "2.8" averages
were Floyd D Altenburg, Jennie B.
Cantallo, John W. Dnghi, Frank A.
Itgen, Robert L. Kaye, Minerva B.
Lehrman, and Robert L. Sinith.
In the sophomore 'class Henry Ba
row, Christine Kauffman, and Henry
R. Smith jr. made "3's." Ruth E.
Huston scored "2.9." Six sophomores
who made "2.8" are Frank C. Craig
head, Frances J. Keesler, Margaret
J. Lloyd,. Barbara McClure, Ellis
Schein, and Rdwin K. Taylor.
Ann W. Banjos scored a "2.9" for
the highest average in the freshman
class. Those making "2.8" were Saul
Richman and George A. Zahorchak,
while Seymour S. Epstein, Florence
C. Kilgore, and Josephine B. Miller
made "2.7'5." Five sophomores who
scored "2.6" averages were Mary E.
Hatton, Helen: M. Hydock, Julius
Marymor, Herbert Nipson, and An
drew D. Warcholak.
Letter Box
To the Editor•
Since the College paper,seems sym
pathetic toward the steel workers on
the water tank, it might be interested
in the salaries, of those of the in
structor grade.' If they are from
$l2OO to $.1.500 a year or a little bet
ter as reported, surely they are below
I the standard for those who must
dress well, pay big rents, advance
themselves, and have front six to nine
years of preparation. The W. P. A:,
the average high school, and the polit
ical jobs of the State often pay $2OOO
or more to those of little training or
experience. Very little -reduction is
given to the instructor at the college.
Free tickets to a dance, etc., usually
go to those with the big salary. If
education is to be upheld by those
who, preach it, why does not compen
sation begin at home? The Civil Serv
ice nays one with a bachelor's degree
$2OOO or more and those in Agricul
tural Hducation ,get aheut p 2409: a
year.'slfbw wall the in'stinctor.
is reflected in' the' quality Of his Woik
-and ltist attitude-toward .thestident
and general morale. The average
thinker outside the college is surpris
edl that the salary of the college in
structor is lower than that in local
high schools. The college regulates en
tirely the salaries paid while the
i State sets the minimum for teachers
in the public schools. Why expand
lin other directions when many of the
instructors now employed are under
paid? It is the instructor in many
colleges who must live on very little
and ,yet make a start in life and keep'
up to high living casts, while those in
higher ranks are fairly well compen
sated: However, many of the colleges
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Banquet - Ticket Sale
Now at Student Union
Tickets for the annual Gridiron
bouquet to be held in the ilittany
Lion Inn at 7 o'clock Thursday
night are on sale at the Student
Union office and will continue to
be on sale up until Tuesday eve
ning.
As according to past traditions
of the function, only those persons
who have been extended invitations
to the affair will he sold tickets.
Among those invited are outstand
ing State government officials, Col
lege administrative officials, in
structors, outstanding State pub
lishers and newspapermen, and
students who have been active in
extra-turricular activities.
Dr. Kern Speaks
At L.A. Lecture
Tells of Influences , in "Spanish
America;" Transportation,
Mail System Slow .
"Spain had a great influence for
300 years over a territory which com
prises approximately one-tenth of
North America and one-half of South
America," stated Dr. Frank D. Kern.
dean of the Graduate School, in the
second of the Liberal Arti lectures in
Home Economics auditorium Tuesday
Ir. Kern's lecture on "Spanish
America" was based on observations ;
made on six tours to the West Inaies;
and South America.
"Nearly all pioneering," declared
Dr. Kern, "was done under the Span
ish flag. About thirty Spanish ex
plorers traveled from Maine to Cali
fornia, exploring most of the river
basins, conquering all civilized peo
ples, and giving Spanish culture to
one-half of the New World in. the
first seventy-five years of the six
teenth century.
"The motive of the Spaniards was
not the same as that of the English.
They came for the love of adventure
and lure of the game. Their settle
mods were not so much like colonies,"
added Dean Kern, "as like kingdoms
attached to Castile and Aragon; with
the rulers their only tie."
Of Spanish America today, Dr.
Kern added that mail and transporta-
are beginning to put their trust in
younger men as a whole.
Yours sincerely,
—CITIZEN
P.S.: An inquiry of those of the
instructor grade, including 'education
and experience, without names would
he revealing. Maybe the one who re
cently look his own life had financial
worries. Retirement is also deducted
monthly.
• Capital—s2oo,ooo
Surplus and Undivided
Profits—s27s,ooo ,
The
First National Bank
of State College
. STATE COLLEGE, PA.
Member of Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation
John „ T. McCormick ,' President
David',P:::Kapp„Cashier
tion systems are slow; that roads are; Irvin Hall Holds Dance
few and for military purposes; that i
Students of Irvin hall will hold an
little has been done with ports and
in
formal dance in the lounge of the
rivers; that most of the people are hall front 9 to l o'clock tomorrow
landless; and that education is defer- night: Only students who have re
live. ' iceived invitations will be able topur
.
Dr. Kern concluded with a discus-!chase tickets which are being sold by
sion of Puerto Rico in which he said ;those living in the dormitory. Music
will be furnished by the Penn State
that it is impossible to cure her eco- Dictators, a campu * s band that has
comic weaknesses with any plan that been playing out-of-town engage
does not make her self-supporting. 'merits to date.
You Know Us by the Companies We Represent
`We've Done Something
WE'VE GOT TO. GIVE OURSELVES
A PAT ON THE BACK
•
IN 1913 MORRIS FROMM A
YOUNG MAN BEGAN GATHERING
THE EXPERIENCE THAT .TODAY
TWENTY FOUR YEARS • LATER
HAS MADE THE NAME FROMM
SYNONYMOUS WITH THE COL
LEGE MAN:'•
•
NOW-IN 1937 WE TAKE
PLEASURE IN ANNOUNCING THE
APPOINTMENT 0 F SEVERAL
NEW MEMBERS TO OUR STAFF.
. HARRY Kipp Formerly of Lang
'rock (Princeton, Penn, Yale)—Brings you
. authentic University' fashions, •
. . .808 Lee
Formerly of Westfalls, Al
toona.—Will advise you on correct stylei in
• , shoes and accessories
. . . ALMA Siiifler Formerly of Alto . o-
na—our "Stenog"
This week-end we welcome your INSPECTION of our
NEW SPRING STYLES and assure you it will be a plea
sure to serve you.
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