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Voltime 34—No. 8
LIONS::PLAY... - GETTYSBURGI::.BEFORE - .VISITING DADS
December 10
Set As Date
For Soph Hop
S. U. Board Announces
Tentative Dates
Of 10 Dances
New Ruling Requires
Bonds From Peddlers
Paralleling last years proce
dure, Soph Hop will again inau
gurate the big-dance season
here this year before Christmas
vacation, it was revealed yester
day in a tentative list of dance
dates issued by Student Union
Board. According to the. an
nouncement, Soph Hop will be
held December 10 in Recreation
hall.
The three other major dances,
all listed for Recreation hall, have
been tentatively set as follows: , In
terfraternity Ball, February 25; Sen
ior Ball, April 8; Junior Pro'in, May 6.
7 Olher Dances Listed
Seven other dances will dot the Col
lege social program in the interim
with the following tentative schedule
expected to be approved definitely:
Beaux /Vas Ball, October 16; Penn
State Farmer's Dance,
.October 23;
Cwens' Dance, -October 29;' Harvest
Ball, December • 3; Panhellenic Dance,
January 14; and Military Ball, Feb-
A. date for,.the Philotes
Dance has'yet...tO be set:" -
Harvest and Beaux. Arts
.balls have
been definitely scheduled for the ;Ar
mory, but the sites for the other af
fairs have not yet been selected.
4Vleanwhile, the board also_ announ
ced a ne t ik i ruling requiring peddlers
who wisli4o ifenter fraternity houses
to post a sfObohci at the Student Un-,
ion desk before soliciting. The new
ruling, it was explained, is expected
to eliminate the tramp peddlers, who
have become such a nuisance in the
past few years.
I.M. Entry Lists
To Close Monday
Program Accelerated In Effort
To Start Fall Sports 'Cal
endar Next Week
The entire program speeded up, in,
an effort to open the fall intramural
sports calendar some time next week,
entries for touch football,., golf putt
ing, cross-country, and horseshoes
will close Monday afternoon at 5 o'-
clock, John C. Miller, fpothall man
ager, announced yesterday.
Meanwhile, Eugen C. Bischoff, fac
ulty adviser to the' Intramural Board,
announced ..that the championship
cross-country meet will be held Octo
ber 21. Trial heats will be conducted
prior to the championship run, with
'the first three placing with each team
automatieally' moving into the final
heat, Only team awards will be made.
Mast Compete in 10 Runs
Cross:country entrants must com
plete at least 10 practice runs prior
to the final meet, Bischoff explained,
adding that they must cheek in and'
out at every instance.
• "Any student in College who has
not earned numerals or letters in
football is eligible to compete in touch
football," Miller said. : • r
T. S. Marlow and Fred :Carlson
have been. Um - Minted managers of
horseshoes and golf putting, respec
tively. William R. Joachim was
named cross-country manager.
Entry fees arc: football, $1 per
Lean; horseshoes and cross-country,
25 cents per man; golf putting, 10
cents per man.
War Exhibit Opens
A set of 25 American Civil War
lithographs by Kurz and Allison, per
sonal friends of Abraham Lincoln, has
been loaned by Dr. Asa E. Martin,
head of the department of history, to
the depa,tment of fine arts for exhib
tion in the Main Engineering build
ing. The exhibit open's today.,
First Class. Honors
Go To Collegian
In recognition of "excellent"
service rendered during the 1136-
37 schOol year, the Collegian has
been awarded first class honor rat
ing by the Associated Collegiate
Press of the National .Scholastic
Press Association.
The Collegian this one of a se
lect group of collegiate newspapers
to be considered at the 17th Na
tional Newspaper Critical Service
of the Associated Collegiate Press
at the University of Minnesota.
In issuing its awards, the judg
ing committee considered among .
Other qualities the typographical
and grammatical
,excellence, .gen
eral campus news and sports 'cov
erage, and editorial policy.
Freshmen Learn
Tribunal's Power
Seating Of 1941 Class In East
Stands To Be Enforced
By Hat Societies
The Men's Student Tribtinal ex
empted four freshman from customs,
refused another, and found three
guilty of violating the Freshman
Code at its meeting Tuesday night.
Ronald Barraclough, Thomas, W.
Coatsworth, Edgar C. Huselton, and
James C. Lewis • were exempted be
cause of age. The .Tribunal warned
that these were the last to be ex
empted. Freshmen caught without
customs and minus a Tribunal ex
emption, cord will be punished, the
board 'stated...
Emil h. Axelson, * Buffalo transfer,
.was,-;ref used ;;;Rerknissimo.to
customs grounds that'elitomS.
at that institution were not equal in
severity to State's and because Axel
son commuted between his home and
the school.
Three Found Guilty
:However, the Tribunal found Nor
man Blankinan, Mathing Ortwcin,
and Porter Rosenberry guilty of vio
lating customs. Ortwein, caught with
out his link, was sentenced 'to wear
a sign on his back reading "I forgot
to read the rules." Rosenberry, who
walked the campus minus clink and
tic, must sandwich himself between
two signs, one rending "Freshmen do
not forget" and the other "The bu
nion billboard presents (Collegian
dance ad)." They will wear the signs
for one week,- ending Thursday.
Miamian, for not. wehring cus
-toms, for dating, and for not appear
ing before Lhe Tribunal when called
(three Blue Key men . had . to escort
him before the court), will add color
and comedy to the campus. The Trib
unal ordered Blankinan to shed the
conventional male attire and don a
bright red dress coming' LO his
knees.
Legs t0 . 1.k Bared
H. long pants arc worn beneath the
dress, they must be rolled up above
he knees sd that they do not show.
Loud sharpie son, different style for
each foot., most be worn and upheld
by fashionable men's garters. He
must also wear one white and one
black shoe.
A bird cage will cove• Blankman's
face with the door of the cage in
front. lie also will wear signs, one
of them saying: "Speak to me and
the doe• opens," and the other, "I
got squirrel-y and the Tribunal caged
mc."
When one addresses Blankman, lie
is to open the little door before. his
eyes. The other sign speaks fur it-
(Continued ,eilk , nuge, tour)
7 Will Attend , State
. Debating tonferenee
Seven representatives from Penn
State will attend the annual meeting
of the Debating Association 'of !Penn
sylvania Colleges at the Hotel Har
risburger, Harrisburg, tomorrow. The
chief question to be debated .at: col
leges in the state during the coming
year and questions of policy will be
discussed.
Delegates 'from the' College are:
Prof. John H. Friezell, executive sec
retary of the association; J. P.
Brien and Harold P. Zelko, men's de
bating Coaches;' Clayton Schug and
Holle G. Deßoer, women's debating
coaches; Frederick Young, men's de
bating manager; and Lucille Hayes,
women's debuting manager.
STATE COLLEGE, PA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1937
Stunt Night Program °kens
Panhellenic Council Activities
Alpha Epsilon Pi Wins Skit Contest Opening
Rushing And Orientation PeriocVFor
New Women Students
Panhellenic Council, composed of the 10 national . women'Slraternities on
the campus, opened its year's activities with the presentation'iif Stunt Night
Wednesday in the Armory.'
Alpha Epsilon Phi was awarded
,first prize for the skitvith the most
merit. The winning presentation portrayed the houseparty '.!fninort" through
the eyes of the co-ed. Natalie Atkins
'Tad explanations of each type 'a B.
P. Q. as the mannequins walked
across the stage.
Gamma Phi Beta was awarded hon
orable mention for its satirization of
the girls' behavior at the health ex
amination during freshman week.
Opens Panhellenic Program
Stunt Night, featuring skits by
each or the 10 fraternities, marked
the beginning of Panhellenic's efforts
in the orientation of 'freshman Wom
en' and transfers. Throughout the
year talks will be given concerning
fraternities, their organizations, his
. torics, and functions.
The committee in charge of Stunt
Night included Betty Rayburn, Sally
Solberg, and Ruth Marcus. The foods
committee consisted of Martha Meru
sal, Mary Stotler, Caiolyn McCon.:
nell, and Louise Sutton. ,
Promulgates Friendship
The council is led by Carolyn Ty
son,' president; Vivian Doty, vice
president; Georgia . Powers, secre
tary; and Barbara Diehl, treasurer.
Two representatives from each of the
10 fraternities are on the council.
The .presidency r otates annually.
among, the houses.
creation: and retention 'of friendly
feelings among the women's fraterni
ties and the discussion of related
problems.
Under a Panhellenic ruling, fra
ternity women are not permitted to
contact new students. Only excep
tions to this rule are Senior. Spon
sors, Big Sisters, and Cwens.
' Rushing Prohibited
Rushing is defined as any contact
made by a fraternity woman with a
new student with the exception of
parties given by the council, open
housesthree of which are held in
November—and free association.
Free association will start in De
cember when freshmen and transfers
may be entertained by members of
the 10 fraternities.
Committee Appointed
For Traffic Offenses
.Robert P. Kelley '3B, Lewis N.
Pearce .'3B, and Donald W. Wright.
ttl9 were appointed to the traffic vio
lations committee by John D. Kennon,
senior class president., at a meeting
of Student Council Monday. Wright
will serve for two years, Kennon An
nounced.
Three faculty members also were
appointed to the committee, which
will try students accused of violating
the campus vehicle 'code. Dean of
Men Arthur R. 'Warnock presided at
the meeting.
College Building Program - - Electr
sThe CA){legion presents today the fifth
of a series of short, articles describing
new buildings to be erected at the .Col
lege in the General State Authority's fire
dollar building program, scheduled
to get under way this fall—Material . for
there articles has been furnished to the Col
legian by the State Authority. of which Col.
Augustine S. Janeway is'executive director.
The electrical engineering building is a completely brick lined and other walls will be plastered or finished
new fireproof structure with a main section 200 by 50 with terracotta tile. Floors will be of mastic, asphalt
feet, three stories high, plus basement, and a rear con- tile, terrazzo, smooth brick, linoleum, and cement. Plus
tral wing 115 by 75 feet, two stories and a basement. ter in the interior will be plain and atecoustile, trim
Foundations will be of reinforced concrete, and the will be wood.
structure will have a steel frame. Other features to be The. building will incorporate n "standard Inborn
included are reinforced concrete joists and tile tiller tory" with the floor and island isolated from the rest
floor slabs. of the building. Plumbing, wiring, and heating will be
Finish of the building will be of face brick with lime
stone trim, and it will have steel windoWs, steel ex
terior entrance doors, other doors of wood, and a pitch
and slag roof. Stairs will be steel. Stair halls will be
Senior Stri'eken
By Poliomyelitis
Elliott Viciiiiv'Ypf" Infantile
Paralysis, In Inkmary
Since Selit.:,;l7
A senior in chemicEil engineering
I has been in the College infirmary
since September 17 faxiffering from
' anterior poliomyelitis, - ;better known
as - "infantile paralysisr it was re
vealed yesterday by . ...1)r. Joseph P.
Ritenour, College physician.
The student is Robert E. Elliott,
Jr., foreign advertising. manager of
the Collegian. Elliott, reported to
Ritenou'r on Septemboil;l7 complain
ing of a. severe headache and appar
ent head cold: He _was•placed in the
infirmary, and the :following day
complained of a stiffrias in his left
shoulder.
State Authorities ;Notified
From these symOtOm , Aitenour di
agnosed the ailment.' aqlnfantile pa
ralysis. He immeckatelv ,isolated El
liott and notified ..3the#ollege and
It was thought better not to publi
cize the case immediately,- inasmuch
as it occurred at the time 'of enroll
ment and would have caused unneces
sary alarm, Ritenour explained. El
liott has shown considerable improve
ment, although his left shoulder is
still paralysed and there is a slight
paralysis in his right shoulder and'
right foot.
The Collegian was unable" to learn
of the ease until yesterday because
the State College Board. of Health
had not been notified. C. 'Edgar Book,
secretary of the State College Board
of Health, said he knew nothing of
the case until he called• Doctor Rite
nour yesterday when it was called to
his attention that the. Collegian had
the story.
The Collegian queried Harrisburg
and learned via United Press that no
report of the case is .on file in the
State. Department of Health offices.
Expected to Leave Soon
Inasmuch as Elliott lives in Maple
weod; N. J., it is necessary to get the
Permission of the New Jersey health
department before he can be removed
to his home. Ititenour expects Elliott
to be removed to his home within the
next few days.
nitenour said there is no cause for
alarm, claiming that more importance
is attached to infantile paralysis than
is warranted, since there ,are many
other contagious diseases, such as
scarlet fever, that have worse after
effects.
The last ease of infantile paralysis
here occurred in 1930, and the victim
has completely recovered.
standard except for especially designed light fixtures
in the lobby of the building.
Forced ventilation will be provided in special labora
tories and class rooms. Estimated cost, $529,287.
Over 1,000 Guests Are Expected
To Celebrate College's Fifteenth
Anniversary In Honor Of Fathers
Lions Hope To Start
On Comeback Trail
Against Bullets
ByEitl3 CAIIAN
Gettysburg's Bullets will send
a big strong team gunning for
the skins of the Nittany Lions
in the' first home game on New
Beaver Field tomorrow after
noon at 2:30 o'clock. A Dads'
Day crowd will have its first op
portunity of seeing
. the Penn
State team, clad in its new uni
forms (silver helmets and pants
and blue jerseys), out to make the
fans forget. last week's defeat at the
hands of Cornell.
Bob Higgins has been drilling the
boys in pass defense, one of the glar
ing weaknesses in last Saturday's del
feat. He has also had them scrim
maging during the early part of the
week, but he lightened the drills aft
er Wednesday.
It was hoped that Co-capt. Johnny
Economos might be in shape to play
against the Bullets, after having his
knee cartilage set back in place last
week. But he injured it again .in a
light drill Wednesday afternoon. The
other ailing varsity lineman, Danny
.DeMarino, was done no good by play
ing•ngainst-the.:lthacans,lli&st;alM4l_
back still bothers him and it is doubt
ful whether he will see action against
Gettysburg.
l'eel, Ellwood to Start
From the way things look though,
two very capable men have been un
covered to fill these vacancies. They
are Joe Peel, who will start at guard;
and 'Bill Ellwood, selected for the
tackle post. Both Peel and Ellwood
played well against Cornell, Peel be
ing the standout Nittany lineman
both on offense and defense, while
Ellwood is a little weak in the former
department,
Three sophomores have been added
to the injured list. Lloyd Ickes is
still nursing a twisted knee, hurt, be
fore the Cornell encounter; Grover
Mishitl=ol, who saw action at end
against, the Dig Red, is in the infir
mary due to a spike injury received
during practice; and Dick Skemp,
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Local Station Offers
Radio Operators Jobs
Students licensed as radio opera
tors have been invited by. Gilbert .1..
Crossley, instructor in radio engi
neering, to apply for positions as as
sistant operators of the college radio
station WBYA or the Army 'control
station WLM.A.
Applications, containing operator's
experience, grade of license, and call
letters of amateur station, must be
postmarked not later than Tuesday
midnight, Crossley added.
cal Engineering
Bullet Tackle
WILLIAM CHESTER
Heavyweight tackle on the Get
tysburg team who is expected .to
cause State's lighter forwards no
little trouble tomorrow afternoon.
N.Y. Critics Hail
`First Lady' Hit
Penn State Players To Present
Comedy Success Tomorrow
Night In Auditorium
'Public Entertainment No. I
Su said Walter Winchell ;Liter he
had Seen "First; Lady" during its sea
son's run on Broadway, and so will
you, yok Dail, and his "First Lady"
all agree after you have witnessed
the Penn State Players' first presen
tation of .the year in Schwab. audi
torium tomorrow night.
All the New York critics "raved"
about this hilarious comedy on Wash
mgton polilieo-social life, written by
;eoree S. Kaufman and Katharine
Dayton. If you naw the Players' pre
sentation of that other comedy suc
cess, "Iloy Meets Girl," last sprint:,
then you are in for still more laughs.
'fops "Boy Meets Cirl"
According to Director Frank S.
Nleusbaum, "First Lady" is even fun
nier than "Boy Meets Girl." George
S. Kaufman is perhaps Broadway's
best comedy author, and Capital au
ihenticity is supplied by Miss Dayton,
an ace Washington correspondent. '
The story deals with a social feud
Petween the wife of the Secretary of
State (Lueetta Parker Kennedy) and
the wife of a Supreme Court justide
(Ida Rickley), and the connivings of
these two, punched with the lines sup
plied by Kaufman, will "lay 'ens in
the aisles."
The technical staff, according to
Neusbaum, is the best he has had in
years. Sets were designed by Dor
othy Scott: Wilfred C. Washcoe '3B is
stage manager; ' Eleanor Saunders
'3B, property manager; Sarah M.
Itritchell '3S, costume mistress; Illor
ris 11. Wood '3B, chief electrician;
and Dallas IL Long '39, advertising
manager.
Release '4l Customs •
FOr Farmer's Dance
Freshman 'customs will be lifted for
the Farmer's dance to be sponsored
by the Penn State Farmer from 9 to
12 o'clock Saturday, October 23, in
Recreation hall, the Men's Student
Tribunal 'announced yesterday. Bill
Botto•f will play. Admittance will be
by subscription. to the magazine only.
Three cash prizes will be awarded to
women during iritermission.
Froth Jobs Still Open
Positions on the Froth business
italT still arc open to freshmen and
sophomores, Business Manage• James
Bond announced yesterday. Candi
dates may report at Boom 309, Old
Main, this afternoon or Monday af
ternoon at 4 o'clock.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Keller Urges Parents
To See College's
Environment
More thzui 1,000 guests are
expected to arrive here today
and tomorrow to observe the
College's liith annual Dads'
Day. David B. Pugh, president
of the Association of Parents of
Penn State, is in charge of ar
rangements.
In the letters of invitation
sent to the parents of students,
E. L. Keller, secretary-treasurer or
the association, urged parents to come
to the College and "see the environ
ment in which your boy or girl is
spending four years."
Will Elect Officers
Dads' Day will officially begin with
the annual meeting in the Little The
atre, Old Main, at 10:45 o'clock to
morrow morning. Officers will be
elected and committees will be ap
pointed for the coming year. Dean
of Men Arthur It. Warnock will
speak.
Athletic events on the program in
clude the soccer game at 1:30 o'clock
between Gettysburg and Penn Stale
at NeW Beaver field and the football
game an hour later between the same
schools.
Party in Armory
_ Ajothera,,,datighUrs,_antl. Ants will,
pity tribute tollad at a party; in the
Armory at 7 o'clock ton un •row night.
Entertainment and refreshments
have been arranged.
The party will disband a little aft
er 8 o'clock in time for parents to
see the production "First Lady," to
be staged in Schwab auditorium by
the Penn State Players. Admission
will be 50 and 75 cents.
At 11 o'cicck Sunday morning, 1)1..
Henry S. Coffin, president of the Un
ion Theological Seminary, New York
City, will speak on "Reality and
Fancy in Religion" at the special
Dads' Day chapel services in Schwab
auditorium.
Rise Of Gershwin,
Berlin Is Theme
Of Fall Show
Ge•shwin and Be•lin, names known
throughout the world of music, will
form the nucleus of the fall Thespian
show for which tryouts are still tie
ing held.
The struggle or the. Iwo musi
cians as rising youngsters in "tin
pan alley" is being written in notsiettl
comedy form by John Tholmot
'37, co-author of last spring's Thes
pian show, "Pardon 'My Glove."
Between 00 and 70 students ar•e es
timated to have turned out for the
initial call for candidates. Plans tire
being made for rehearsals next week.
Prof. Richard W. Grant. will leave
today on a trip to Chicago, Miring
which he will attempt to get all avail
able pieces of Gershwin and Berlin
musk:, lo which the show will Inc' re
stricted.
During the tryouts, several !prom
ising teams and talented individual.;
have been discovered, outstanding
among which is a trio of "harmcny"
Dr. Coffin To Deliver
Sunday Chapel Speech
Machining. the Dads' Day program
fo•.Sunday will be a_talk in chapel in
Schwab Auditorium by Dr. Henry S.
Coffin of New York Union Theolog
ical. Seminary on the subject, "Real
ity and Fancy in Religion."
Dr. Coffin, clergyman and author.
was bbrn in New York, graduated
Front Yale, studied in Edinburgh,
University of Marburg, Union Theo
logical Seminary, New York Univer
sity, Yale, Harvard, and Amherst
College. While enrolled in Yale, Dr.
Coffin was a member of the Delb.
Kappa Epsilon fraternity, Phi Beta
'Kappa, Skull and 'Bones, and Chi
Alpha.