Page Two PENN STATE COLLEGIAN CHARLES M. WHEELER. JR. '3B JAY H. DANIELS '3B Editor Business Manager JEROME WEINSTEIN '5B CARL W. DIEHL '3B Managing Editor ' Advertising Manager FRANCIS H. SZYMCZAK '3B ROBERT S. McKELVEY '9B News Editor Circulation Manager WOODROW W. BIERLY '3B JOHN G. SABELLA '3B Feature Editor Promotion Manager SHIRLEY R. HELMS '3B Women's Editor ROBERT. F.. ELLIOTT JR. '3B Foreign Advertising Manager GEORGIA 11. POWERS '3B KATHRYN M. JENNINGS '3B Aqq.late Women's Editor Senior Secretary - CAROLINE TYSON '3B Associate Women's Editor itlonostior Editor This Issue N.•va Editor 'TIIII ISStle.-- A QUESTION OF STANDARDS ON LAST TUESDAY PENNSYLVANIA Lambda chapter of Phi Beta Kappa was installed on this camp us after a light of 16 years to bring it here. Per a long, long time the Liberal Arts school has been the butt of jokes and held in disdain by members of its own faculty as well as others on the campus. And, despite recognition by a body which is held in esteem by most people, there still remains unanswered many ques tions concerning the standards and equipment of this school. _ _ Are the standards of the school high, as Dean Stud dart says they are, when in the last three years 227 students have transferred to this "haven" of "retired" chemists, ex-engineers, and agriculturalists unable to make the crops grow, when on the other hand a mere 7ti have left the shelter of this indulgent school? Of this number, 71 were transferred front the Chem istry and Physics school, and 18 from the Engineering echo 1. A total of 57 came from Dean Warnock's tran sition •school, which included transfers from all the schools. If the standards of the schoOl are so high, as Dean Stoddart claims, then the students there must be taught how to study, if nothing else. But if we look at the fig oyes again, where do the Liberal Artists go when they transfer? In the same period, of the 79 that left it, only 9 went over to the Chemistry and Physics school, 15 to the Agriculture schoc-1, and IS to the Engineering schciol. Surely, if the supposed "standatds" are that high, as the Dean states, then the unfavorable balance of trans-. fors would not exist. But they do! The Dean also claims that Liberal Arts subjects are not exact in nn true, but they are exact enough to have some kind of a boundary, a boundary in which not all students can be correct! In considering the number of students dropped each year from the various schools, again we find the Lib-• oral Arts school the easiest in that matter. The Chem istry and Physics school; which has a tradition to Main tain, a faith to keep with its former students who have come to take the new graduates on the mere fact that they graduated from Penn. State, each year drops from 3 per cent to R per cent of its students. They candidly tell their students that only one nut of three entering will ever be graduated in that school. The Engineering school fails up to 3 per tent of the total 'enrollment each year, the Mineral Industries school up to 5 per cent, while our good friend, the Lib eral Arts school, who has not a harsh word for any stu dent, reluctantly .drops 2-2V2.. per cent of its •enroll= ment. ' According to a recent iSsue of the Collegian, a com mittee, headed by Dr. - Charles C. Wagner, proposes a plan to eliminate students in the Liberal Arts school who fail 50 per cent of their subjects. At long last! A custom which has prevailed in the other schools fin ally to taken up by the Liberal Arts school. To show just how low the standards are, this com mittee has shown that students who were supposed to have at least 72 grade points by the end of their soph omore year, and did not, were allowed to continue in college, the administrative heads, hoping, that these poorer students could make up the deficiencies. And so, until these and other questions are answered, the L:beral Arts school will have to travel some in or der to,make Phi Reta'Kappa on this campus mean any thing. "I's prove to its own professors and students that it is a "lirst-class" school as the Dean says, the fhow ing questions need be answered: 1. Why did the 'administrative heads of the school Blow Professor Waller, acknowledged by his colleagues to be the hest professor in the school and one of the best in the East, to seek a new'position after he asked for a small raise in pay which was refused? The ironic al part about this question is that the man who takes Prof. Waller's place asked for and received more than Prof. Waller had asked! 2. If the standards are so high, as Dean Stoddart claim:•, why did that school have to appoint a commit tee to investigate these standards with the aim to raise them? S. Why was Prof. Dickson put under pressure to make his art 14 course easier? In reeler that more of the Liberal Arts students could pass, it? 4. Why was Mr. Druckman 'called on the carpet and made to compromise his standards so that there would be less flunks in his philosophy courses? v. Why do instructors and professors in that school have to go "over the heads" in order to secure long de served raises in salary? When the administrative heads either answer these questions or begin to alleviate these conditions, there will be more sympathy and esteem for what could lie the best sehrol on the campus.—T. ADMISSION-$14.75 WHEN BURGESS LEITZELL gave three students a choice between paying fines and serving jail sentences for playing football on Nittany avenue Tuesday, focal . authorities struck a new low in intelligent adjustment of student cases. Perhaps police did warn the offenders several times before making the arrest on Tuesday. But certainly wiling a football back and forth among three people; a violation of an ordinance passed in 1897, is not an offense that should plice students in the criminal class, forcing them to choose between jail and fattening local coffers. The students were willing to go to jail until they saw where they would have to stay. There were two cats available for three persons. The cell was filthy and unsanitary. Since most students are cleanly. there was no choice. They had to pay the fines or submit selves to disease. If fining students $14.75 for a few football passes is indicative of intelligent student adjustment, it is dis couraging to think what conditions will be like here when the same authorties attempt to adjust problems rising from the building program. CAMPUSEER A Rig Boy Now: Kathleen Barron, the' red-head that chesty Ter Toretti has been seeing a lot of lately,vins out at, the Sigma Tau Phi house. Bernie Sandsom fought 'his way through n throng of admirers and mindful of his rival sputtered, —.Alan C. Mclntyre '39 Thomas A. Boal winter. Will yon talk to roe?" Rat Trap: The tale.goOs around that the boys who ran afoul the Burgess Tuesday night for tossing a football around went out to Leanll's home. Ducting the't.alk ing a big, black rat scampered'across the roam. The boys, we learn, plan to send Leitzell . a nice, shiny new rat trap with a piece of cheese. Tsk, tsk. isk: ' • And speaking of law and order, the tale is out that none rgher than Dean 'Warnock has fallen. under the pn!ice a three times since this fall + + This Man Van Said: Tales about Prof. Van Sant are' numerous. A late one has him announcing Wednesday that there would be a blue book today unless he was sick. He had missed Tuesday's class 'because of a cold, he contin- ued. He had no sooner finished, when there was a rush and some hardy individual threw open a window Recently Van Sant was describing in glowing tones the joys derived from the back-to-earth movement. lie had just finished a touching 'picture of hoeing and raking, when . Joe Ida, kappa sig flash, piped up with "Did you ever raise cucumbers?" Collegiana: Tzzy Richter is expecting a letter from Greta Gar- bo any day now, offering to sponsor him girls of 18R S. Frazier are quite disturbed by two braver how , e boys' hack-to-nhture movement of run- n:ng around in their shorts perhaps‘the girls ob- jeer to the shorts . .. and speaking of nudity; Chuck Miller, sigma nu, was tossed into the snow by irate sophomorons, sans clothes' much to' the embarrass- Meet of two passir;g coeds Ex-editoi' Henderson has been' Contend since back in 'June, we bear . . A cheerleader•by' the name of .Murray is now' leading cheers for Dixie Smith ... Bill Hoot fixed up the chi omega rushing hopes in the errm the other night when he lit into a boothful of the damsels alsiut their ways, etc . . . who should he in their midst but rushee Helen Kelly ...Prom the way Lullaby Murphy combats the' old, his nickname might aptly he changed to flopsie-wopsie- . . Who said praying en your hands and knees doesn't help . . . i. e. the Betas didn't have any broken windows in the snow ball 'festival . . . they begged the boys not, to shatter their leaded windoWs ... To the Man ii/C'4 All-American crrm waitress team, we nomi nate Malty Mateer . as water, boy.. . According to Nate , Handler, he will be next heavyweight intercol legiate champ. Early arrival for Soph 116 p week-and is Marshall Goldberg, Pitt's gre'at halfback. 'Along with him were Prank Souchak, Johnny Michelosani and ass't coach Joe Bowser on their way to a banquet in Berwick be fore returning here. TIP on a TRIP to New Orleans and the Gulf Coast - Leave Saturday night, Decem ber 25th. Arrive home Sunday,. January 2nd. All-expense, including train fare,' all meals, all hotel expenses, tips, baggage transfers, cond'uctor's service from Pitts burgh and return- $114.75' Visit for one day in Chicago. Two days in Memphis attend ing the annual "Charity Ball." Four days in New Orleans and a trip to Biloxi. ' Personally conducted by Miss Anne Egan of Pittsburgh For further information call HOTEL STATE COLLEGE TRAVEL BUREAU Louetta Neusbaum Dial. 733 "I'm getting a lerin'cli "S" this ISEZ:I IMZI -CAMPY TEE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Carnegie Music Now Available Recordings At Public's Disposal 1n . 417 Old Main; Regulations Set By Fisblown- Approximately. 900 records, scored, and books, a gift of the Carnegie Mu 3IC corporation, are now at the dis posal of students, faculty, and towns people, according to Rummel Fish hum, professor of music. Unlike last year, those wishing to hear' the recordings, will not have to stop at the Student Union desk, hut may go s directly to, - room 417, Old Main, where the records are played. NYA students will he in charge. The hours for the use of the re cordings are: Monday, 1042 o'clock; Tuesday, 1-6 o'cldcli; Wednesday, 4-6 o'clock; Thursday,--10-12 o'clock and 1-6 o'clock; ,Friday, :1-5 o'clock; Sat urday, 8-12 o'clock and 1:30-5:30 o'- clock; and' Sunday, 1:30-5:30 o'clock. Professor Fishhurn urges that no user, of the records will remain more than an hour and -that if others are waiting, they will take • less time. Smoking will' Ix prohibited and abso lute quiet must prevail, Fishburn stated. This marks the third year that the College has profited' by the 'Carnegie gift, valued at more than $2,500. The corporation's purpose in making such a gift is to make available to approv ed institutions the use of the finest phonographic records for the further: once of music appreciation. $3,750 Awarded In Scholarships (Coy, limed from pile mu) ation of the United States to a stu dent in the School of Agriculture, based on exceptional ability in sheep 'husbandry, need, scholarship, and hab its: Thomas N. Blamer '29. Detwiler Memorial scholarship, an nual awards of $250 each given to students who are graduates of Col umbia (Pa.) high school, based on financial need, scholastic standing, and personal character: Ann Hoover '3B and Dorothy M. JOhns '4O. George T. Rodgers, Memorial schol arship, annual award of approximate ly $5O, maintained by Daughters of the American 'Revolution, Brookville, Pa., presented to a World War veter an, a near relative of one, or any worthy or ideserviltg*.student now in college or about id enroll: C.-Howard Chestnutt '39. Harold B. Shattuck award,. income from $l,OO given Annually to junior in civil engineering, based on scholar ship, general character, personality, and leadership:.Henry S. Hull. Home Economics scholarships, three awards of approximately $l4O each given annually to women students in home economics by the State Federa tion of Pennsylvania Women: Sara Blackwell '3B and Henrietta Nichols '3B. The third award - was not made. $5OO Prize Announced By Purchasing Agents The' National Association of Pur chasing Agents has announced the 1938 Boffey Memorial Award, consist ing of prizes totalling $5OO, which will be awarded to college students contributing the best papers on some procedure, policy, 'or management of 2omme'rcial purchasing. The competition is an annual con test and award commemorating the writings, editorial leadership and con tributions of L. P. Boffey to business education. All students in any rec ognized. college or university having a school of commerce Or college of business administration. are „eligible to, compete. Manuscripts must be in the office of the National Association of Pur chasing Agenks not later than June 1, 1938. There is no limitation on length or method of presentation. De tailed information about the contest is posted on the-. bulletin board in South Liberal Art's building. BOWLING Men and Women„ Young :and Old Are You Enjoying This Sport at Dux .Club This Question .0f ROTC Dollars and Sense By JOHN A. T If you were the operator of a (huge factory, producing a certain product at a cast of 81,003.99 per unit, then discovered you could produce the same product—and perhaps even' a better one—at a cost of $850.75 per unit,' you would immediately shift your method of production and adopt the cheaper plan, wouldn't you? And if you were producing for pro fit, say 10,399 units per year at that cost you certainly, wouldn't even think twice before switching methods. Why, just multiply the saving of , $153.24 per unit by - the total output and you realize a total saving of $1,593,542.76 each year! Just think. of it, a million and a half dollars to spend each year on added improvements, expansion, promotion of efficiency, and a hun dred-odd other things. Yet latest available figures released by Major General E. T. Conley at t l he request of Senator Gerald P. Nye show the converse - to 'be true in 85 American colleges' which still main tain compulsory military training. In those 85 colleges—and Penn State is one of them—a total of 71,189 stu dents are compelled to take two years of military training. eighty-fire out of every 100 of those students repudi ate the course as soon as they get Co-Edits Do you remember when you believed in Santa Claus? Do you recall your first train or doll or gun, the candy, nuts, and toys, the Christmas tree with its gilded balls and angels? Do you remember mailing a letter to Santa Claus, believing he would not fall to bring you what you wanted Pet Mips it was a letter something like this: Dear Santa Claus: Please bring me a tricycle, train, cork gun, big rubber hall, bag of marbles, and a telephone. I am a , goml boy part of the time. Wishing You a Merry Christmas. Or this: Dear Santa Clans How are yen, I want to tell you what I want for Christmas. Will yon get me a pair of mittens and some candy and a story book to read at home and oranges, too, please, and get me a dress to wear to sun day school and church. I don't need a doll. " A' little girl gave- we a , doll Coodby Santa Claus. EMI= These letters are some of those re ceived each season by the Mifflin County Children's Aid Society, and. iryou've always had a warm spot for good old St. Nicholas, here's your chance to pay hack some of the things he's done for you by helping him a little. Yom• contribution, no matte• how large or small, to the Christmas fund conductg by the \ rfouse of Rep ell will help answer these letters and resentatives and, the Freshman Conn keep a small child's faith In Santa Clans. How could anyone who had even been young 'and eager and ha., a Christmas resist this, written 'by nine-year-Old hey: Dear Santa: I s ain a poor•hay and daddy basn'i. any work and I wish you would bring me a sheep-skin coat, a cap. stockings anil some playthings, a truck •with lights on it. And -Santa, please bring my little sister.a rubbed dolly and some play things. I guess that's all Santa we wish for. P.S.—and please bring us sumo candy. Thank you! Are Profs Men Or Beasts?—=See Froth Today. Do you have trouble telling the beasts from your professors? Do you have trouble telling the professors from your beasts? But jou needn't feel ashamed of it, because the December issue of the Froth has taken care of everything, including the profs. Realizing, a long-felt need, the Froth presents a sensational expose, an intimate rogues gallery of beasts and profs, a wide open showdown of out academic zoo, in canny words and candid pictures. On sale beginning Thursday, the Froth features Soph Hop on a cover drawn by Richard Ellenberger, pre- . septa the cream of the funny stuff, especially prepared by a stall' of mad geniuseS. Resides Taxi Reminds You of Soph Hop DIAL '3412 ROANOVITCH the eltance to do so, according to the War Department's own figure. Yet those 86 colleges have done nothing about it. They continue. to force the student to take military training at the threat of losing 'an education, the students consequently continue to take * it, the War Depart. meat keeps supplying the money(and the American taxliayer foots the bill. it's a nice merry-go-round ride, pro vided you're not the one being taken for the ride. On the other hand, 30 colleges have switched to optional ROTC and found that it is not only $153.24 cheiper per reserve officer Produced (War De partMent's own admission), but that the system has weeded out the unwill ing student and made iDe reserve officer produce a better finished pro act. As Major Wood remarked some time after the University of Wiscon sin—a LAND GRANT college—scrap ped compulsory . military ;training: "Voluntary drill hag eliminated those student's who have an intense hatred of drill. Our corps is better because of it" And Major Wood at' first bit terly opposed abolishment of compul sory drill. He changed his mind when he sow die results of voluntary drill. Further More, as Major F. J. De.: Bohan, University of Washington, ...ays: "I would like to give every stu e:ent who does not like drill an ex cuse and tell him to get out.' It_ is a university ruling, not- ours. We do not want compulsory drill." The War Department does not. re quire it. The federal government does not require it. The state does not re quire it. Recent polls have , shown stu dents-do not want it. The faculty does not want it. Who does? And why Geography Professor Publishes Text Book After three years of active prepara tion by Dr. Raymond E. Murphy, asso ciate professor of — geography, and his ;wife, Marlon M. Murphy, research as sistant, "Pennsylvania.: a Regional Geography," has been 'published to book form. The volume, whose content has been the subject of a course offered in the main and summer sessions at the Col kge, divides the state into 19 geog raphic sections, telling the .4ory of their development and analyzing their cultural forms had resources. ' THE CHRISTMAS GIFT-STORE Before buying your gifts, see our complete selection of watches, rings, • ifra:, compacts, seal' jewelry, combs, IT t 4 ' g fr•l dresser sets and many other useful gifts. SHOMBERG Opposite Front Campus Don't Sell. Santa Short! It's So Easy To Give YOUR PORTRAIT and so Acceptable, too! + + + The DEN NTATE HOTO HOP 212 E. College Ave. State College THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF • STATE COLLEGE Member of Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Friday, December 10, 1937 Yuletide Musical Set For Sunday Annual, Christmas Choral• Event Takes Place At 4 O'clock; Mrs. Grant To Play • The annual Christmas musical ser vice will he conducted In the college auditorium at 4 o;clock Sunday after noon. Featured in the Vesper Service will' be several organ -selectiOns by Mrs. Irene Osborne Grant. The Penn State choir of 110 voices under the supervision of "prof: Rich. 'aril W. Grant, director of. the College music,' will stage their•initial.Oppear. mien of the season in their robes of blue and white. Acting chaplain for the occasion will 'be Prof. Robert E. Dengler. Planned for the service is the fob lowing kogram: • Preltule—"Christmiis Doxiflogy • In vocrillon —Lord's 'Prayer Choir—" The Shepherds' Story Dickinson - Responsive Reading—Selection 507 , Choir—" The Song of Mary"' Arranged by Kranz Hymn 138 Choir—" Carol of the' Bells" I eontowleht Scripture. Choir—" Whence Come Italthn Folk Song Prayer—Bumming response 'Silent Night" Offertory—" While Shepherds Ataitro:t3ottoite Choir—" And the Glory of the Lord"'' ' from Nteselah Handel Hymn 144 Benellteatlon, Postltule—"Scherzo in E''. 1=3:1119 ==l BUSINESS TRAINING AI Courses that offer ?, • thorough preparation: rk for, young men. and : women who intencita `: makebusineksocarder. ant One, Two end ThreeTtrare Second Semester, January 31 Forinfcemotion,addressßeolshor PEIRCE SCHOOL
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