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Volume 34—No. '24
Plan Finished
For Phi Beta
Kappa Group
Dr. Frank Graves Will
Induct New Lambda
Chapter Tuesday
Ceremonies Will End
With Mass Meeting
Plans for the installation of
Phi Beta Kappa , oldest Greek
letter society in the United
States, here on Tuesday are rap
idly nearing completion, the
Committee on Arrangements
announced yesterday. The Penn
sylvania State College chapter
of Phi Beta Kappa will foficial
ly be known as Lambda of Penn
sylvania. •
Dr.. Frank P. Graves, presi
dent of the University of the
State of New York and Commissioner
of Education for that state, will, as
president of- the United Chapters of
fratern:ty, conduct the installation of
the College's chapter. Membership to
Phi Beta Kappa is regarded by un
dergraduates as the highest honor
college students can attain.
Ceremonies Begin Tues. Afternoon
Present arrangements• call for the
ceremonies to begin Tuesday after
noon at 4:80 o'cicick when the induc
tion proper will take place in the
Alumni Association offices where aca
demic gowns will be worn. A. formal
dilater in the Nittany Lion • Inn at
6:45 o'clock will follow and the exer
cises will
,be concluded with. an open
--meeting .',Seliviab, auditorinni
. at: 8130 ,, o'elock •••.,4a-. •
The • , Committee . on' . .Virrangenients
has, extended' a 'special invitation 'to ,
honorary and: sccial fraternities to be
represented; on the platform and in
the audience, at the open meeting.
Students, faculty, and townspeople
are also invited to attend the mass
-meeting at which Dr. Graves will ad
dress the congregation on the evolu
tion and aims of the society.
Alumni Officers franslferred
• Members of the Phi bettr 4 Kappa
Alumni Association, which functioned
Ideally in the absence of a chapter,
voted to transfer their present offi
cers to the same offices in the newly
installed chapter. The officers are:.
.Dr. Carl E. _Marquardt, College' ex
aminer, president; Cyrus V: D. Bin
sty; secretary; and Charles J. Row
land, professor of economics, treas
urer.
Dean Frank C. Whitmore, "School
of Chemistry and Physics; Roy D.
Dengler, - professor of pomology.;_and
Robert S. Dengler, profeSsor of clas
sical languages, were named as mem
bers of the executive committee, petl
lug installation. t
The stated objectives of Phi Beta
Kappa are to encourage scholarship,
culture, and liberal education. .In its
first four years at William and Mary
. where it was founded Dec. 5, 1776,
the society formulated the essential
characteristics of what ,were to be-
(Continued on: p)tgo two)
Harvest Queen
To Reign At Ball
Ai;• Student Council Dance Will
Feature Rural Decorationa
With Modern Music
The identity of the Harvest Queen,
selected by a poll of the Agriculture
and Rime. Economics . students, will
bd made public at the Harvest Mall
tomorrow evening in the Armory.
Two .attendants were selected in the
same election.
The dance, sponsored by the Ag
Student council, will take place in a
rustic, atmosphere. An old-fashioned
rail fence, evergreens, and bales of
bay will combine for a rural setting.
The rural costumed dancers will
dance to the music of Bill Bottorf.
The Harvest. Queen will be 'crowned
during intermission , and her atten
dants will be made known at that
time. George L.
.Settlemeyer '3B is
chairman of the dance committee.
Both and Neiric Oglevee were
crowned, co-queens at the Harvest
Ball in the,Armory last year.
Fiftieth Anniversary - ,,0f colleke,N?wspaper—.2-m'A"D
800-Queller
JOHN ECONOMOS '3B
Aiming to quell possible booing at
iridoor athletic contests during the
winter, he called a meeting of all
campus hat societies Wednesday
night to discuss solutions to the pro-
African Designs
Chosen For Hop
'Congo Drums' fo Be Motif For
Dance Next Friday; Booth
Drawings Monday
A caged jungle lion will roar your
welcome to Soph Flop next Friday
night, and you will thus be transferred
from the wide open spaces of State
College to the dense jungle atmos.
pnere of darkest Africa. This was
revealed yesterday by the dance chief.
talus, F. Richard Bloom and Irwin
R:_SupOw, .when they heat their tom;
I.lolo,AililgOK.ihg. , :tio,tic:. ; l9,r,,,, - ke)
They,%also- tittered sortie deep gut
terals that . Were interpreted as meam
ing.. that fraternity booth drawings
will be field nth' o'clock Monday after
noon. and that the deadline 'for hand.
ing in the live-dollar booth deposit
was set an any time up to the hour for
the draw, Monday.
Rec hull will be decorated in' the
manlier of African savagery, lav,ish in
deep blues, yellows, oranges, and
greens. The entrande will be furnish.
ed with a cage and lion in paper
macho composition, and , decorated
with panels of 'primitive deSign. ,
The band stand for the "Mr. and
Mrs. of Swing," Red Nary°, Mildred
Bailey and their orchestra. will look
like a native -hut with thatched roof,
and .flanked by two small huts and
palm trees. The center electric fixture
will be designed to represent un Afri
can tribesman, and six Congo' drums
will be suspended at InterVals in the
ceiling and lighted within each drum
with entered lights.
Bnlarged shields and heads of jungle
tribesmen will be hung on the balcony
railing and zebra sklds and spears
with colorful hangings will be used.
thus resembling a head-hunter's para
dise.
The two chieftains also announced
that two =axons have been added to
the flop tribe. They are Mildred L.
Long '4U and Marguerite R. Scbeaffer
'40. , These appointments wore prompt
ed by the recent W.S.G.A. request for
representation on'clance committees.
WSPA Makes Awards
Rose Kozak '4O and Lois I'. Myers
'4O have been awarded the annual W.
S.' G. A. scholarshla for the women
students with the highest average In
the Freshman class. They each had
an average of 2.79. '
Peace Fo
Group Decides Isgue
Referendum Law
Is Best Idea
13y a vote of. 86 to 26, the peace
forum conducted by Forensic council
went on record Tuesday night as fa
voring a popular referendum on the
Issue- of mitering n s war 'before the
college student should be willing to
participate in war.
The motion was one of eight pro
posed measures that pissed tne group
after an open sythposium discusalon
of the question. "When Should the
College' Student 'Se Willing To Par
ticipate In War?" The discussion fol
lowed four, panel speeches by Weston
D. Gardner, president of the P.S.C.A.,
Amy F. McClelland, president of W.S.
STATE COLLBGE, PA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1937
Players Will
Give Pulitzer
Prize Winner
`ldiot's Delight' Chosen
For Production On
January 21
Monday, Tuesday Set --
As Cast Tryout Dates
The Penn State Players will
present the recent Pulitzer prize
winning play, "Idiot's Delight,"
by Robert E. Sherwood, on Jan
uary 21, according to Director
Frank S. Neusbaum. This pre-'
sentation is in keeping with the
Players' endeavor to give to the
campus the -best that is avail
able. It' will be the first non
professional production of this
Broadway success.
Mr:Neusbatim also announced
that appo!ntments for tryouts
may be arranged by signing up at
the Players' office in 413 - Old Main
between 3 and 5 o'clock Monday and
all day Tuesday. Rehearsals will be
gin as soon as possible since "Idiot's
Delight" requires a cast of over 30.
To Give 2 More Plays
At the same time, it was revealed
that the Players have arranged for
the presentation of two more plays.
They. will give "The Dybbuek" by S.
Ansky on March 18-19. This is a very
unusual Jewish folk legend. The oth
er :production will be presented:. for
Moth&S' Day, and .it is Helen Je
yomels-..laiaous. dramaEiiation7:ef;:the
Tiovel,'"Priceand Jin't
Austen.
'"ldiot's Delight" takes place in u
mountain resort in the Italian Alps
On the borderof Switzerland and
France, and near an Italian flying
field. During the play the "next war"
is started by a surprise 'ltalian bomb
ing flight over Paris and the play
ends with the hotel, tottering under
the bombs of the French counter at
tack.
The leading characters, among
which were the Lunts during the run
in New York, are an American vau
devillian louring cheap European the
atres and cabarets with a bevy of
blondes, a mysterious white Russian,
"noblewoman"—who looks strangely
familiar to the American—and a sin
ister munitions magnate with finan
cial interests in several warring coun
tries and loyalties in none. .
Frosh Dating Rules
Lifted By.' Tribunal ;
Others Still In Effect
Freshmen will no longer have to
abide the dating custom law, the
Men's Student - Tribunal announced
yesterday. In other words, the Board
Dr. 'Abram Hirschberg, rabbi or
said, the freshmen men may now date Temple Shot= or Chicago. will he the
within the three-mile limit without •
guest speaker at the Hillel services in
fear of being court-marshalled. - Old Main tonight at 7 o'clock. The
At' the same meeting, Charles W. services are open to all.
Eigenbrot was tried for not wearing The title of Dr. Hirschberg's discus
his dint:." Found guilty, he was sen- sion is "Facing This World." He will
teneed to wear a farmer's straw brim- deal with various problems arising
med hat and two .signs. One sign from inter-group relations. His visit
reads: I violated customs twice. The here is part or a speaking tour that
other: 'Customs have not been lifted.j takes him through the northeastern
The penalty will be lifted Tuesday. ' states.
um Favors War Vote
G.A., Ross P. Shaffer, wrestling cap.
taro and vice-president of tile senior
class, and Charles M. Wheeler, Jr.,
editor of the Collegian.
. Prof. - Joseph F. O'Brien, of the div
ision of speech, presided at the forum.'
symposium.
Gardner advocated no participation
in any war whatsover, claiming that
the supreme value of numan life out
weighed any charges of cowardice for
non-participation on the, part
,of the
coleige student. Gardner insisted that
the key to peace was the breaking
down of traditional antagonisms by
combined efforts toward international
kinship.
Miss McClelland upheld an Isola
tionist 'policy for the United States,
declaring that the territory in which
a student should be willing to fight
be confined to North and South Amer
ica for the purposes•of protection, Sne
College 7 Town
Plan Housing
CanvaSs Here
2 . 0-Mile Radius To Be
Covered By. N.Y.A.
Data Collectors
Census To Determine
Total Available Rooms
An extensiveliousing survey,
conducted jointlity the College
and borough, ill begin early
next week, it was announced
yesterday by Bijisess Wilbur F.
Leitzell and G4rge Lucas, di
rector of the ca i vass. The sur
vey, which is to be conducted by
N. Y. A. studentS, will make a
house-to-house 'canvass of all
homes and fermi in a twenty
mile radius of Stete, College.
. ,
The• College, rdalizing that the
;building prograrM--,will mean a
"business boom in ;the locality, has
'asked the authoritie'S- and townspeo
ple to cooperate with the students,
who will have sheit. 'questionnaires
to be filled out. Fifteen hundred men
are expected to be "'imported" as la
borers for the erection of the new
buildings, which are scheduled to
start around the middle of February.
The survey will lie:useless, it was
said, unless a complete census of
rooms available to laborers is taken.
Should a . householder:', not want to
board outsiders, he 'should designate
it cn the card haniiiili,:to him.
• , Oarraekstrnsuited
lli k
''lis" -1 '
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*tele,wlP - _
at
lid-t•zalofn-tte:clwoA Len
an ,ijlthen nozwhatthey
wish. - Information "sought is: name
and' address' of home owner, number
of men the party-can room,• whether
Or not a party can room a man and
his family, other. facilities, price of
room and: board, moms available for
'housekeeping,' and. distance fro m
State College. . •
"Erection of barracks for housing
the workmen would be entirely unsat
isfactory," Burgess.Leitzell said, "as
it would mean much more trouble in
keeping the men in order than 'if they
, were scattered about the town." Oth
er problems, brought about by the
large number of men brought here,
will be discussed at later meetings of ,
College and borough officials.
As an added precaution, borough
authorities plan to add another officer
to the 'police force beginning Janu
ary 1. Realizing that the men brought
here will be in an entirely "foreign"
atmosphere, and that the townspeople
will he in the same position, matters
of public nature will be made more
complicated, College and borough'
heads believe.
Chicago Rabbi Speaks
Before Hillel Group
Campus Leaders Give
Opinions Before
Group Of 110
said that the failure of world confer
ences, boycotts. and tarp made an
isolationist policy the only practical
one today.
Shaffer, pleading the cause of inter
national law, advised that war on the
part of the college student is justified
'only for the maintenance of the un
written law governing international
relations. Ho said that "the United
States is doing China the greatest
injustice in the 'history of man" by
allowing war materials to be trans
ported from this country to Japan.
(Continued on page three)
Yeckley, Hoot, Cross Selected
Managers Of Football, Soccer,
Cross Country For 1938 Season
Successor To The Free Lcince
State Collegian.
EMEME
STATE'COLLEGE, PA., +904
to give a which will ha Innitil in
another column.
SATURDAY, OCT. 1.
no P. M.—Allegheny ~.le
The choir appented mach deplet.
ed. Inn i• now in a healthy and
flonrithing condon.
So rte start in another year. Po
fgood many it will he the loot lap.
or many other, the beginning.
Let tto all get together, however,
and ...et If we cannot make this col
lege yen reven more sinvecatil than
ever before.
81,12,V, Lk, 2.
moo A. Nl.—Chapel. Sermon by
Prof. Benj. F. UHL
6:30 M. C. A. in Old
Chapel. Subject. BibleStmly.
Address by J
State Student Secretary.
Alommv. Ocr. 3.
7mo P. M.—C. li. Soddy i:
Room :to Engineering Iluild•
The annual reception to nn• atm
ghetto wits given in the College Ar
mory Friday evening, September
trith, by the Young MetdsChristion
4emeintion. .The drat half-hour
o ut gieen to handahaking and gen.
teal greeting, among the (dime:
after which the following short pro.
gram was.rendered:
OPENING OF COLLEGE.
College opened .Thurcilay morn.
ing, Sept.; IStb. with chapel core.
claw of eight o'clock, The regis.
tration tip to date had been a little
below that of last pear at the mine
dm, but this uncommitted for by
the large muter of old litre (MUM
conditions. The incoming clewe
manila about two hundred mid
fifty tom, considetably leas than
bad been anticipated.
President Atherton welcomed the
old and new men pith his usual
felicity and gave the latter sonic
good advice nu their future conduct
ideollege. After theesCrcises, the
rat of the day VMS Vent in the
usual organimtion of classes.
Looking about for familiar (aces.
guile a number are found missing.
The Senior class numbers about
ninety,' the Juniors. one hundred
and ten, and the Sophomores, one
hundred and seventy.
Among the facultyaud instruct
tors there, are quite a number of
new. harm. We• havei'endeavired
a tr...
Although Gen. Beaver was re.
watering front a moat illness he
5.111 ed to have lost none of hisold•
that force, which he melt no ever,
in vigoromsopport or the incoming
chi.+. A reception would hardly
be complete without the General.,
Ile brought with 'laitn ant hatermt.
ing talker,Rev. Wilcox, a graduate
of blarieti;• College. The program
no, supplemented by refrerhotent.
consisting of ice cream, cake, and
coffee:,' Everything contributed to
...• ,
on or-about September 3(
issue uncertain.
0, 1904. A delay in printii
Collegian Marks 50th Year
Of Campus News Publications
Founded In 1904, After 17- Year-Old Free Lance
. Failed 'Because State Has Technical
And Practical Atmosphere'
- Marking the 50th year of Penn State news publications, the Collegian
proudlY presents this anniversary issue. In it, we have tried to cover not
only the growth of the Collegian, b ‘ ut also the development of the College,
its sports, its customs, and even its idiosyncracies.
Thirty-two years after the found
ing of the Pennsylvania State Col
lege, the first news publication ap
peared on -the campus. The Free
Lance, as it was called, fought a
losing battle from the time of its
first issue in April, 1887, until • it
"expired with the stroke of Number
1, Volume XVIII (April, 1900," as
the first editorial of the State Col
legian put it.
The'Free Lance was a supposedly
monthly news magazine, but the first
issue 'stepped out on the wrong foot,
being a few days late, and successive
issues followed alm6st the ame path
until the final edition, dated April,
appeared in May. •
It was this among other things that
led to , its failure. The news maga
zine predicted its own death in the
last trip to the presses. An editorial
said, "Students know ten lines to el,r
ery on'e printed in the Lance."
A few words of editorial comment
in 'the first issue of the Collegian in
1504 explains fully the diseases fatal
to -the •Lance.
"The case (of the Lance) could
not have been pronounced other than
an incurable one when such alarming
symptoms as a very irregular publi
cation, weak storks, and an almost
complete 'disintegration of the board,
a very delicate organ, appeared. The
publication might have recovered had
there been a change of literary cli
mate, but under the existing state of
ffnanc!al collapse, this was, impossible.!
the•Lanee failed as literature
because State has a practical and
technical atmosphere rather than. a
literary one. Fact and not literary
effort is to be the basiS of this pub
lication."
And with the premature death of
the Free Lance—exactly 17 years af.:
ter its founding—came the birth of
the Collegian, now in its 34th year
and celebrating the 50th anniversary
of campus news publication.
make it one of the nuot
and enjoyable reieptions ever given
by the V.M. C. A. of this college.
SOniOMORLS WIN ,
The Inm-deferred anntml wrest
ling snatch between the Sophomores
and Freshmen finally occurred on
Wednemlay evening. Sept. oath.
The whole student body assembled
on Beaver field to see the chain
pions of the two classes tattle on
the mat. The wrestlers and their
weights were as follows:
Kunkle easily watt the first two
heavy weight bouts for the Sopha
and heathen as easily won the
middle weight point Par the Fred,.
men. notwithstanding that Mumma
put up a game fight against his
heavy opponent. The first bout
of the lighhweiglits was the thief
hvent of !bevy:ling... It lasted one
our and a quarter mad finally re.
suited in a draw. In the other two
• trial, .I.orith seemed to lose cow
fides.. mid Smith won thepoint for
tgoy. Very little science was din.
played except in the light-weight
bouts.
Tke fur tyoi
Rainey. Stood, Towne) and li c it.
son and for rgoti, Van Iluro, Bow.
dioe and Finkle...rein.
No College mon should allow h
,tvilies to interfere vlth his edu
ikgraittit — wit'slitilitisit •
ng Imade the exact date
Ink-Minded Women
Began Collegian
Work In 1927
Women with "Ink in their blood"
were first lured to write for the Col.
legion on September 25. 1927, in all
appealing, call for freshman condi.
dates. Five days later Katherine Rol.
brook was elected to edit "The Wein.
en's Corner," a column which chided
the women for using careless table
manners, and urged them to read the
bulletin board in Mac Hall. M. Ellen
Burkholder '2B, president of W.S.G.A.,
was interviewed on the advantages of
a it ollege education.
When Grace Woodrow was elected
women's editor in tile Spring she start
ed "Co•Eil Chats" which once warned
against the pitfall of self pity. fur
-ling Miss Woodrow's editorship Dean
Charlotte E. Ray supported Dean Stod
dart's plan of unlimited cutting of
I classes if the student's average was
above 1.:5: -
Editorials and news articles were
written explaining W.S.G.A.'s (Esau
proval of smoking in public. A strict
campus was given for this heinous
offense, which was declared to be
against the ideals of the American
girl. Society frowned on smoking. A
Senate Meeting which was culled to
discuss this moral porblem was
"shrouded in secrecy." Tile co-ed had
to be reconciled with a front page
story announcing that W.S.G.A. had
moved telephone permission from 8
o'clock to 10 o'clock. .
Although there was only on occas
ional women's column from '32 to '34
news stories announced that the Thes
pians lid' broken their memonly tra
dition by giving loading roles to Mur
iel Bowman, Dorothy Johnson and
Grace Baer in '3l. The co-ed colonels
were excluded from Military 13011 to
save, expenses:
Z 658 PRICE FIVE CENTS
44 Win Varsity Letters,
27 Numerals Given
To Fall Teams
Freshman Managers
Named In Three Sports
George W. Yeckley Wil
lard D. Hoot '39, and George J.
Cross '39 were elected managers
lof football, soccer, and cross
country, respectively ; for 1938.
They succeed William E. Lin
denm.uth '3B, present manager
of football; William G. Thomas,
Jr. '3B, soccer; and Merlin W.
Troy '3B, cross country.
Alvin E. Fletcher '4O, W.
Jerome Howarth '4O, and Hugh
F. McKnight, Jr. '4O were named first
assistant managers in football; Sey.
moor S. Epstein '9O became freshman
manager; and numeral sweaters were
also awarded to three alternates,
Howard G. Anderson '4O, Henry L.
MeKown '4O, and Harry C. Strewn.
'9O. John bl. Metzger '39 and Wilmer
K. Rockmaker '39 were elected associ
ate managers.
Soccer Firsts
In soccer, V. dePaul Cavanaugh '4O,
James F. Malley '4O, and F. Dunning
Rupprecht '9O were elected first as
sistant managers; ,and following. the
successful practice used in football,
the first alternate, Louis G. McAfoos,
Jr. '4O, was named freshman map
;l4er";
sen second alternate::: Richard Crem
ents, Jr. '39 and Herman D. Imber . '39
became associate managers.
Frank C. Anderson, Jr. '9O, Leonard
Cooper '4O, Mark H. Vinznnt, Jr. '4O
were elected first assistant managers
of cross-country; Howard C. Dick '4O
was Chosen freshman manager; and
Stanley J. Brown '39 and David L.
Swank, Jr. '39 were named associate
managers.
18 Football Lettermen
Eighteen members of the varsity
football squad were awarded major
letters; four seniors were given spe
cial awards, also major letters, inas
much as they did not rAy the requir
ed amount of time; and four sopho
mores won special minor letters.
In soccer there Ivey° 11 varsity and
two senior awards given, while five
hill-and-dalers won varsity, letters.
Twenty freshman gridmen were
awarded numerals, and seven '4l
cross-country men won their numer
als.
Varsity football lettermen: Sidney
S. Alter '4O, Ales: J. Barantovich '39,
Bernard E. Briggs '39, Dan A. DeMa
rino '3B, Co-capt. Sam J. Donato '3B,
Co-rapt. Mho J. Eeonomos '3B, Wil
liam T. Ellwood. '3B, Paul S. Enders
'3B, Anthony J. Giannantonio '39,
Dean H. Hanley '39, Hurry S. Harri
son '39, Lloyd B. lobes '4O, Joseph P,
(Continued on papa two)
Plans Completed
For Court Clinic
Opening Experiment Tomorrow
Covers 16-Point Program;
Lions Face Bisons
Featuring an all-inclusive 16-point
program, the lint basketball clinic hi
the history of the School of Physical
Education and Athletics will be held
here tomorrow.
Sponsored for the past few years
at West Virginia University, the
clinic will be introduced us an experi
ment here by Dr. Curl P. Schott, new
dean of. the School of Physical Edu
cation and Athletics.
Highlighting the program will be
the demonstration game between the
Penn State and Bucknell varsity bas
ketball teams. Running comment on
play situations, rule interpretations,
and other clarifying announcements
will be issued over the loudspeaker
during the entire game.
The clinic will officially open at
9:30 o'clock tomorrow morning, with
registration in the lobby of Recrea.
(Continued on page eh)