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Friday, May 14, 1937
THESE, OUR FORGOTTEN AIEN
T()NIGHT MEMBERS of the local chapler of the
American Association of University Professors
will hold a dinner in the Sandwich Shop to honor
the. "forgotten men" of the faculty, who will retire this
rummer. Invited will be the Executive Committee of the
Board of Trustees.
The purpose of the dinner is a good one. It is to
pay rightful tribute and respect to the many gentle
men who have worked on the Penn State faculty for
many years, but whose work has been overlooked here
both from monetary and aesthetic angles.
Many of these men have received national recogni
tinr heirt work. Few have received even a portion
a g..Yustice from the College.
.1 Jt i. too late to do right by these "forgotten men"
now. This provides good thought for the future.
MODERN REGISTRATION
TIE CUTTING OF :REGISTRATION time to. five
or six minutes per student by use of a new simplified
systeth and modern machines is a sensible and timely
Move: The long periods of tiresome enumerating of
data that had been recorded many times before vas her-
ing, unnecessary, and foolish. Registrar Hoffman is to
be commended for his installation of a sensible system.
Another good angle of the change is the payment
of fees in the Bursar's office at specified times instead
of in the long lines in Rec Hall. Moves for efficiency
and common sense in the Bursar's office, too, are en-
EC=
-At this rate efficiency may spread into other ad
ministration offices some day.
Another good reform for Mr. Hoffman to work for
would be the installation of his suggested four-day ex
aniinaqon Schedule. It is being, blocked now by schedul
ing officers and department heads who fear their duties
:may .be enlarged. ,
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‘ , BeftlNG' FtVER" ' •
NE1.1 7 011.''.1 OF spring fever has arisen. It
Maim; peMde sick at the stomach and puts them in bed.
The explanation of the epidemic of stomach sick
ness and virtual dysentary has been interesting. IL
,seems that there is really nothing wrong. It is just
sPring. This happens every spring. Just let it go.
People get sick and go to bed in the spring because
they like it. It is like Hitler's armies of cobblers, tin
smiths, etc. The boys wear uniforms because they like
to look that way. They march in step and in fours be
cause they like to walk down the street that way. They
aren't soldiers.
So don't let this sickness worry anybody. It isn't
. -an epidemic. It's spring. There couldn't be anything
'wrong with the water supply. They are just overloading
'irwith chlorine, beause chlorine tastes good. Don't wor
. ry. Everybody is getting sick and going to bed, because
'that is the proper thing to do in the spring. They en
'joy it very much.
SLAP-HAPPY
IT IS HONORARY TIME again. The hat societies
chosen their initiates for the coming years from
the crop of student, leaders and athletes available. IL is
a .period of back-slapping, slapping, and general taffy.
A good number of the boys who won't be slap
happy will forget about the whole thing until back-slap
'ping time next year. That is the general attitude they
take. They like to become members because they never
refuse. Then they like to ridicule.
If hat societies and honoraries ore going to mean
what they have in the past, are going to do anything.
be up to the new .members that join them this
spring. In the attitude they take toward honoraries
will be found the answer to whether or not they are
worth-while, whether or not they arc necessary.
OLD MANIA
Long Distance:
The telephone brinnngecl in the Froth office.
A lone female business assistant answered. It was
for Jim Dugan. She tripped to the hall, looked around,
and made a coy call to the general vicinity:
"Don-gan. Jim-tnee Doo-ga»."
Just as she called, a brusque passerby heard the
call. and without turning, monotoned: "You'll have to
yell louder than that, sister; Jim's in the infirmary!"
And so he is, poor fella.
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End-of -the-IVm•ld Note
Prof. Bill \Verner eta a I o'eloel: Wens(ly
IZZI
Espy Hamm
If you are a collector of faculty cracks, you'da had
a field day at the A. llowry Espenshade testimonial
in the Homo Ex Auditorium last Friday. To quote
"I am in favor of having this honor bestowed while
I am still alive. Yen know, an ounce of tray is
worth a pound of epitaphy."
This one snuck up behind most hearers:
"I plan to live to a ripe old age. I may become an
octogenarian—or even a nonentity."
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Sandwich Shop Sallies
One of the host-liked customers of Sandwich Shop
waitresses is billiard bald Dr. Richmond, of entomol-
ogy extension. Waitresses and the genial Doctor• do
a lot of friendly chatting. Real pal-ship has resulted.
One day, weeks ago, one of the S. S. girls slipped
quietly behind a barren pate, smacked it resounding
ly, and offered the usual friendly greeting: "llkya,
Pop?"
Around turned Prof. Gardner, red-faced, perplexed
A ixnutdl turned the waitress, not at all perplexed.
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Getting the Bird
"Only one thing I can't understand," bragged a puz
zled co-ed in one of Helen Savard's art classes. "When
you draw a bird's-eye view, how much of the bird do
you slow?"
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Eenie !Weenie
Those gawjnss pink-bloomed trees flanking campus
Main Gate are Japanese 'cherry trees, no less . . .
Contrary to report, there is'no tummy ache epidemic
in State 'College, local physicians tell the Centre
Daily Rumor was that an overdose of chlorine in
the town water caused the pains . . . But with the
rumor. spiked (and not the water) it looks like we'll
have to pass up the pun that State College is going
to have its own chlorination .. . Picture of futility:
Johnny Economos trying to campaign for A. A. presi
dency—with his right arm in a sling ... Sammy Do
nato campaigned by going to Altoona to throw fists
... And Winnah Proksa, by collecting A. A. books and
passing them to non-owners to vote ... Don Saunders,
ex-Collegian, will dock Sunday night, to city edit in
place of Gee. Scott, signed by Associated Press . . .
Two Thespians look away front the stage for
their love interest . . Lucille Z. Giles spends all of
her time with Prentis Wilson
:wins to he mighty interested in Charlie Gait
Lute Luttringei hue a questionable decoration on his
Lion he, has a newspapO'ri . calle . o the "Utopia
Times" which . earries a headline "Grange Dorm, Phi
Kappa Tau To ,Merge.". That mayjnat be Lute's 4
What are you going
to do this summer ?
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Dr. Dunning Turns 'Magician'
At Atom Structure Lecture
Flashing lights, cracking noises
from odd-shaped machines, small
glass wands producing strange re
sults, and the tuxedoed "professor,"
Dr. John R. Dunning of Columbia
University, performing his experi
ments in the best accepted manner,
all combined to give the lecture on
atoms and atomic structure in Schwab
auditorium Wednesday night the at
mosphere of a magic show.
However, there the air of magic
and mysticism ended. Throughout the
lecture, Dr. Thinning thoroughly ex
' plained the details of each demonstra
tion of his atomic "exhibits" in fairly
non-technical language; During the
demonstration, Dr. Dunning, in his
' best_ magician's form, borrowed a
I quarter from a member of the audi
ence, placed it in a parafin container
I with a glass rod filled with the radio
: active gas, radon, allowed it to stand
Phys. Ed. Staff Plans
Party For Dr. Schott
The staff of the School of Physical
Education and Athletics will enter
tain Dr. Carl P. Schott, the new dean,
tomorrow at an informal party, ac
cording to an announcement made to
day by Dr. Elwood C. Davis. The
arrangements for the affair were
made on Doctor Schott's last visit.
The new dean and Doctor Davis
both received their degrees from Co
lumbia at approximately the same
time. Their viewpoints on physical
education are said to be quite similar.
The whole staff is well pleased with
the appointment, Doctor Davis said,
and co-operation between the dean and
his men will bring about a fulfillment
of the "athletics for all" milicy.
1937 Yearlings Slate
Six-Tilt Grid Schedule
The official freshman foathall sched
ule for this fall was released today
by Neil M. Fleming, graduate man
ager.of athletics.
Six games are listed on the new
schedule, live with freshman teams of
other colleges and one with Kiski
Prep. Tivo, Ilucknell and Navy, will
be played away.
This is one more game than the
freshmen usually play and is the best
schedule ever arranged for the first
year men.
The schedule: October 9, Kiski,
home; Octither 16, Buyl4nell',-away;
October 23, Pitt, home; 'October 30,
Cornell, borne; November 6, Syracuse,
home; November 13, Navy, away.
Local A.S.U. Chapter
Elects Zern As Head
At a meeting of the Penn State
chapter of the American Student
UnUion, Bordon Z. Zern '4O was
elected chairman of the organization
for the next year. Mildred A. Rob
bins '39 was named secretary, Arthur
B. Zeiler '39 was elected treasurer and
Ralph W. Keith Jr. '39 was elected
membership chairman.
'Minerva B. Lehrman '39 was
placed in charge at program, Robert
J. Raman '9O was placed in charge
of publicity, and Do•ia T. Spiegel '3O
was selected personnel director.
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Attends Convention
Dr, Joseph. R. Ililgert, associate
profegsor of economics, will attend'th'e
.egnypation; Of,e4llo,i:PennsylvOia;
AsF:odifition. on Ma . y 10 and 20
at the William Penn hotel in Pitts
burgh.
Who's Dancing
Della Sigma Phi—Sigma
Ted Bi•ownagle
(/nviiot ion)
Della Upsilon
Newell Townsend
(Cloned)
for several minutes, and then with
drew it with the announcement that
a portion of the silver had been trans
formed into another element, cad
mium.
TONIGHT
Junior from
Glen Gray
(Subscript ion)
TOMORROW
Beaver !louse
Booth Watmough
(/»vihrt ion)
Chi l'hi—'Theta Xi
Howard Gale
(I nvi tat ion)
Phi Epsilon Pi
Red Wither:inn
(Open)
Phi Gamma Della
Bill Boltorf
(Cloned)
Scabbard. and Blade
At. Nittany Lion Inn
Vespians
(invitation)
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During the course of the lecture,
Dunning showed how alpha, beta, and
gamma rays were produced/the gen
eral property of these rays, the use
of cloud chambers, ion counters, li
near amplifiers, deflection oT electron
streams, the use of cathode ray tubes,
loudspeakers, mid neon bulbs in de
tecting various phenomena. He fol
lowed this by shooting rays from a
tube containing the radio-active ele
ment, radon, across 30 feet of stage
to a target where they were made
visible and audible by neon tube flash
es and pops in a loudspeaker.
The speaker ended his lecture with
several predictions of the possibilities
of the work on the atom and its nu
cleus. "Not from the use of these
studies to produce valuable elements
as much as to release the tremendous
power locked in the stain will be the
object and possibly the result of ef
forts by physicists along these lines,"
said Dr. Dunning. Holding up a four
inch sheet of metal, the physicist stat:
ed that such a small piece of metal
contained. enough energy locked in it
to supply a city the size of Altoona
with electric power.
This lecture, an attempt to popu
larize lectures dealing with such sub
jects on the campus, was sponsored
by Sigma li, honorary scientific fra
ternity, and Sigma Pi Sigma, honor
ary physics fraternity.
Chace Will Travel
After Retiring
As Ec. Head
In 1918 Miss Edith P. Chace became
the head of the Independent Depart
ment of Hone Economics at Penn
State. For 19 years she has watched
the field of home economics extynd
lug into many professions, and its in
clusion in the School of Education.
This summer Miss Chace will re
tire and become Dean Emeritus of
her school. Next year she plans to
go on a world cruise. After she re
turns from abroad she will distribute
her time between State College, Flor
ida, and travelling.
Miss Chace says of State College:
"It's my home. I've lived here longer
than any other place. My interests
will always be right here.
"There is an unusually fine grdup
of co-operative facility people at Penn
State. I can't conceive of a better
way of spending one's teaching years
than with the people here."
Miss Chace also praised the stu
dent body. She said that the girls
had an extremely helpful attitude and
that she has enjoyed working with
them.
Before coming to Penn State, Miss
Chace was on the faculty of Teachers
College in New York for six years.
She says that she is looking forward
to visiting New York City again and
to tour the museums and art galleries.
BLUE KEY
(Junior Activities Honorary)
Stanley J. Brown
Joseph R. Clements
Patrick J. Costello
George J. Cross
Donald C. Duncan
Robert E. Hayes
Willard D. Hoot •
Charles L. Hughes
Robert R. Hutchison -
Herman D. hither
Jack K. Mahaffey
John M. Metager
John 11. Pearce
Wilmer K. Rockmaker
Russell D. Rodham
Charles B. Selab
Jerome Shaffer
David L. Swank
Bruce M, Trabue
Francis A. Vosters
Robert I. Wilson
George W. Yeckley
capital—s2oo,ooo
Surplus and Undivided
Profits—s27s,ooo
The
First National Bank
. of State College
STATE COLLEGE, PA.
Member of Federal Deponit
Insurance Corporation
John T. McCormick, President
David F. Kapp, Cashier
We Women
Advocating an adequate statement
of disapproval of drinking, Chi Ome
ga's Clara Jones and Dorothy Stafford
walked off with the Delta Alpha Delta
cup
,Tuesday night. They defeated
Jane Eames and Mary Louise Frear.of
Kappa Alpha Theta who defended ;i
rigid drinking rule.
A statement issuing disappro
val .of. drinking that is not a
camouflage for Prohibition 'was
the remedy that ' the 'winning
team proposed. They said that
the word disapproval would regu:
late behaviour by permitting each
girl to make her own decisions re
garding drinking, knowing the
attitude 'of the governing body
and its right to punish overindul
gence. They aim at educating un
derclassmen In think for themsel
ves by intelligent questioning so
that they can justify their dcci-
Mac Hall's gripe of the week . is
the plague of 'June hugs that :fly
through the open windows and nestle
in the co-eds hair. Blond curdling
screeches are heard as the irking in
sects whiz around their cars. The co
eds 'are up in arms becaiaal the
screens they were promised two weeks
ago haven't•been put up yet.
Another Pet peeve is the college
telephone service—lackadaisical to
say the least. You take the receiver
off the hook and often wait five
minutes before., you get an answer:
Call a number downtown and you may
get a response if the operator hasn't
gone down to the Corner room for
a lemon blend. 1f you are lucky to
get a quick attention after asking for
2218 the Voice on the other end of
the wire 'barks 'disagreeably that it's
2718 please don't disturb. It's - a case
of needing 'more operators or efficient
operators. Personally we ilon't care
which it is as long as we get better
service.—S. R. H.
We will be able to take care of a
LIMITED number of last:minute
corsages for Junior Prom.
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Yriday, May 14, 1931
Lock Haven Outhits
Freshmen; Wins 16-6
' A hard-hitting Lock Haven varsity
easily defeated the Nittany Cubs, lA
-8; Wednesday afternoon at Lock Ha
ven. The victors batted out 18 safe
ties, to the Froshs' nine. A. Bolder
and Bob Goodrich pitched for the Cubs
while Nolan was on the mound for
the Teachers.
The home team scored in every in
ning but ,the fifth while State counter
in the fourth, fifth, and sixth. Coach
Houck used the same line-up with the
exception of Gajecki who played for
Stover. Gajeeki, Martin Valeri, and
Goodrich batted the strongest for the
Cuhs; each having two hits.—T. A. B.
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Shoes—Men's and
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