• SUCCESSOR | + THE POLITICAL To The Free Lance, eslab- —I SS/ IXJ ' I . . I B M'b’ I I WT' "m XI mm' Storm Begins To Brew, liehed 1887. V See I'ngc 2. Volume 34—No. 37 Sororities To Pick Pledges Sunday Night Notification Deadline Set For 6 O’clock Rushing Ends 19-Hour Silent Period ' Closes Tonight At 5 Women’s, fraternity rushing will end Sunday night when the ten national' fraternities will be • ptow their pledge ribbons oh the women who' have accepted their bids. By 6 o’clock Sunday night' both-the fraternities and the rushees will,’ have been notified through the. office of lh« Dean of Women of acceptance of bids. The silent period which began last night at 10 o’clock after in vitations to the forma! dinners had teen delivered, will end tonight at 5 o’clock- The formal dinners to be held tomorrow night from 5:30 until 7. and fr.oni. 7:30 until 9 are limited to an expenditure''of $3O bv each house. Formal ‘ dress is customary for the dinners. Must Keltirn Ballots Sunday morning, ballots will be distributed to those rushees who have .been bid by a fraternity. Each rushee who receives a ballot must fi'l it out and return it to the Dean’s office by 3 o’clock Sunday. If a rushees does not wish to affiliate with any house she may not list the houses in order . of her preference, but she most sig nify on the ballot t'hnt she does not wish to. accept any bid. Women who will be pledged to the various houses will be given pledge .ribbons, which., 1 .be .req’uired, ' lo'wcaf forrtlie time"' designated 'by the ‘fraternities they huye pledged. Pledges of the ten houses will be rec ognized by the following colors: AU pha Chi Omega, red and grom; Al pha Epsilon Phi, green ‘ and . white; Alpha Omicron Pi, red and white; Chi Omega, cardinal and straw; Del la Gamma, pink, blue, and gold Gamma Phi Beta, mode and brown; • Kappa Alpha. Theta, black and gold; Kappa-Kappa Gununa, light ard dark blue; Phi Mu, rose and white: Tlieta Phi Alpha, silver, gold, and b.ue. Eight Exhibitions In Art Scheduled Displays To Include All ’"'onus Except Sculpture; Museum , To Lend 25, Photographs Eight exhibitions of art in all forms except, sculpture have been scheduled ,for the, remainder of the semester, Prof. .1. Burn lleinic, ar chitecture, said yesterday. Tlit first exhibit which* follows the present one, .that of the work of American] artists, is a loan exhibition of the American' Federation.of Arts. This one consists of 115 photographs of Mayan* pottery and. is enl by the University of Pennsylvania mu seum. The exhibit will be held from February 21 to March, t. Following this is' the annual' show of the Pennsylvania Women’s Ar tists, members of tile Plastic .Club. These pictures are original oils. From March 15 to 31 original paintings' of three New York artists, Pelle.v, Bosa, and Bliun, will be seen. . Fletcher Show on March 31 Just before Easter vacation Miss E. Hartley'Fletcher, division o' Fine Arts,will show'scmic of the oil paint ings and .in .other media that she has done. Two other Pern Stale artists will b’o represented when Frank and. John Craiglmad^display, their photographs.'. This sljow will run from, the middle of Aoril to Easter vacation,’ The featured show of the year will be -a series'of large, photographs loaned by the Royal;lnstitute of Brit ish Architecture. The title of the ex hibition is "British Architecture of Today.” From May ito 15, tre third annual Central Pennsylvania artists show is scheduled. '• The' final exhibition' of the year, May 15 to 31, is a selection of»or iginal prints from- the Federal > Art Project’s "Index' of .American De sign.” All objects with a peculiar design to America, such us hats, jugs,' chairs, and so forth, will be displayed. 5- Year-Old Hermit Child May Become Ward Of Sociologist Alice Harris, Isolated In Attic, Sought By Dr. Kingsley Davis In Case Examination Attracted by the universal interest shown in the case of ‘hermit-child" Alice Harris, who was recently discovered in an attic where s»c had been confined since babyhood, Dr. Kingsley Davis of the department of sociology made a special trip to Perryopolis, the home of the child’s moth-, ar. with the object in mind of bringing the child to State College whore she may get the advantage of the best educational work and -technique and per haps be brought back to normality. Immediately upon reception List Causes For Change In Texts Professor Warns Students Of Danger In Buying Boohs Before- First Class . For Students wjio have been won dering vNiy last-minute changes were 'made in textbooks that were listed on the o/lictal bool; list, the Collegian has interviewed instructors in two of the three courses in which changes were made, Their sUitemenls follow:’ 11. David Jtix, instructor in Eng lish Composition 8, in which thc text .was changed from Descriptive • Eng lish Grammar by Ilousc_and Harman to Common Sense Grammar by Ai ken, said: “Some timc*“*inst fall one of the secretaries asked mo what book was going to be used this sem ester. J hadn't made up my mind, so she just put down the boo 1 ; that had been used, although it wa..n’L sat isfactory." Stores Notified Dr. Edward B. VanOrmcr, instruc tor in Psychology 1-1. in wh’ch the text was changed from Psychology and The New Education by Pressey, to Educational Psychology by Jci\ dan, stated: "I wasn't originally scheduled for this course, but due to the leave of absence granted' Dr. Chaniplin, I was originally scheduled for one of the two sections, and then I was given both sections. “But the book stores were notified of the change,’.’ he continued. “Per haps the Student Book- Exchange wasn't notified. I think the Exchange is a good idea, and that they should eonlact each department so that they will be .notified when changes are made. It is dangerous for students to buy their books before attending the first session of .the class." The other change was made in French *l, in which the booic listed was Tovarieh by Ernst, whereas Lhe book required was Toinwe by Pagnal. Journalism Honorary Plans Gridiron Dinner Sigma Delta Chi’s annual Gridiron Banquet will bo held at the NiUaiiy Lion Inn, March 8, Merlin W. Troy ’3B chapter president of the national professional journalism honorary, an nounced yesterday. Composing the committees for the exclusive student-profesJor affair are: program committee —John G. Sabella ’3B aud Dallas 11. Long ’39; invitations committee —William D. Fish *3B. Sal vatore S. Sale ’39, William C. Eudeau '3B, and Merlin W. Troy '3B; publicity ccftumittee Charles M. 'Wheeler Jr. ’3B, Herbert B. Calian '39, aud Roy 8.- ; Nichols '39; properties and decora tions committee —Woodrow W. Blerly '3B and John A. Troanovitch ’39; aud skit committee —Dean C. Miller '39, Joseph P. Erkes '39. Henry C. Carl in ”JS, aud Woodrow W. Blerly '3B. Planned for the banquet are short skits burlesquing campus activities, porsouulitics—both sltideuls aud pro fessors, and organizations. Watmough Will Play For Mac Hall Dance -’The annual Mac Hall Dance will be held Friday night, February 18, from 9 to 12 o’clock. Booth "Walmoogh and his orchestra will play. This year tickets may bo pur chased by both men and women at the Student Union desk. The dunce will be informal. • .. Beulah F. GeiTieim ’39 is chair woman of the affair, which is to be field in the Mac Hall dining room. Others serving on committees are R. Elizabeth’ Bogar. ’4O, Ruth V. Koch '39, 'E. Ruth Salmon ’39, *and Mar guerite Scheaffer ’4O. of the grotesque tale of the five-year con- finemenl, Professor Davis dryre' to the scene of the incident, interviewed ■many people to .get facts' on the child's background, and put in an ap plication for the custody of the child. The first scientific observer on the scene, he noted the effects. of the socialized isolation imposed on the child by her mother and grandfather. Being the second, illegitimate child born to this woman, her father or dered her to. Lake the child up Lo the attic and keep her there so*that "he might never sec it again. Barely kept alive, the child renmined there from infancy, never moving from a chair which also served as a bed. Fed nothing but milk since baby hood, the child is extremely emaciat ed from rickets; although Dr. Davis is purely interested,in the case from a sociological point of view. He at tempts to find whether complete iso lation caused the child to be unable j to learn to talk or whether the child | was born an imbecile. 1 “There is a fifty-fifty possibility vhat she may prove to be fairly nor mal,” declared Dr. Davis. "Although there have been cases where tne brain was normal at birth but because of isolation it may never leavn to’func tion. / "It will require the best of care and scientific methods lo alLempL to (bring the child back lo normality, for at the present she is unublc to even make a sound, let alone spcutc. It is even difficult to ascertain vdielher .she is able to hear," he addc^l. The child is now at the County Home near Uniontown where it was ' It-is‘ unknown what will-be doiie with the child, for her'mother and alleged fa ther have been indicted on criminal charges, while public sentiment in that section has been considerably in censed. • | As long us the trial continues, the child will be in charge of authorities and held for evidence, nlthor-gh siic lotild immediately be pul in the finds of individuals who can give ill* the advantages of the nest of ire, Dr. Davis declared. LaVie Elects Junior Staff Of Twenty Two • Twelve women and ten men were .elected to Use junior staff of La Vic, William L>. Fish, editor, announced oday. • They are Mary Ann Frits, Marga ret P. Jlernnan, Jean Kinney, Cecile J. Meta, Mary IS. Moyer, Ann IS. Palmer, Lucy C. Pascoe. Louise’ IS. Patterson, June 0. Price, Je:i.> Still well, Joanne M. Walker, ami Paula B. Wohlfeld. John M. Cousley, Lawrence J. Do lan, Joseph P. Elites, William H. Fi ler, Leo J. Flynn,■Joseph T. Gresh. lack J. Hirseh, Louis A. Hoffman, Silis Schein, and Thcjdore B. Wink ler complete the list. # Hibshman Advocates Marais To Depict History Of College "For years I have fell that in some decorative manner the story of Penn State as a 'land-grant college should be told students and visitors. The proposed murals in Old Mair would fill this need most satisfactorily,’* jpolce. »Edward K. Hibshman, execu tive secretary of the Alumni associa tion, whiht approached upod this cur rent issue. | "When Uhl Main was buid, Ruy mond Smith, then College compti oi ler. had in mind some form or wall decoration, and the walls .were kept bare of. pictures, maps, and tapes tries until a pjan could be carried out," Hibshman continued. "Murals could tell so much better than framed pictures the story of the services per formed by our land-grant col.’ege." Hibshman explained that the mu rals should tell of the conditions that prevailed during the time the land grant plan "’as evolved,<of the self sustaining farm, and then of the signing of the act by Lincoln. Part of the paintings should shew what our land-giant college has done in the Reids of agriculture, engineering, for estry, chemistry, transportation, min ing engineering, 11111! education, lie STATE COLLEGE, PA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1938 . - - 4 ■ Planning Ceremonies Director of mimic and;chairman of U faculty committee'on public uccusioi here who is planning. Dm eeruuionh marking the wide will inaugurate the Jupgust Imlldin program in Iho Hie Collcg The'celebration will .ho'jheld Satiirda; February 20, and ' wnif'slKimlizo tli beginning of the SS,O(JQ.OIM) eonstru lion program sponsnrcil by the Get oral Slate Authority and Public Work Administration. Peace Institute Out; Interest Nil Enthusiasm For Intercollegiate Peace Action, Shown By Only 4 Colleges A typical exampie of student indiff crcncc*, the refusal off 22 different schools and collcges’to even respond or give any indication .of interest in an invitation by the'Perm State Peace Action Council for participation in a Pea'ce "Afctibh^Tnstiiu% A *s«liedirlcd here" on the week-end of- Feb. 18-20, has caused ''the planned Institute to be culled off. • In the midst of a world full of news of* disastrous 'foreign wans in which nations arc banding even at the pres ent moment to outlaw aerial raids on tlio civilian population, only four of a group of 2(3 colleges contacted showed even the slightest interest in the pro posed Peace Institute. The number that responded was deemed insuffi cient to war:ia»t the invitation of spe cial speakers to tlhe campus. Council A Campus Group The Peace Action Council, headed by .Robert Lewis, graduate student, is the one campus .organisation, com posed of representatives of the diff erent student groups, that is making a study of ways and means to prevent world conflict. In sponsoring the In stitute, the Council hoped) to give stu dents a chance to acquire a foundation for their thinking on p: oblcms of international relations, governmental policies, and peace action.' A speaker whom it ws« planned to get was John N. Sayre, chairman mf the committee of Militarism .in Educa tion and chaiiMuau’ of fl.ic Fellowship of Kecoiiciiliation. stated. "The job- would be a tremendous one for the artist and.would »*equire the work of an expert,” Hibshman continued. "The art*st will have so much to learn before lie can begin. The story needs to be worked out be fore the artist is even selected. "Murals would also be. good long range publicity for the school. 'This way the subject matter is brought home to.the onlooker more effectively,; and the alumni would learn ’.no pur-1 pose of the college while in tcJioul," j lie explained. "The murals would-i give the student a nearer conception I of how the college was organised, its] function, and what it lias accom plished as a land-grant college. "hi this manner the alumni, being more aware, will act as interpreters to tliW public of the function and pur pose of the school, and, the public will become more informed about ’ Penn State,” Hibshman concluded. . ' Hibshman suggested that in addi tion* to the murals a map of Pennsyl vania be painted on the front wall of the first floor lounge In’ those sec tions of the State where the College has rendered service, pictorial scenes would depict • these activities. ’4O Debaters To Be Hosts To 6 Colleges Convention On Campus Today, Tomorrow, First Of Kind Committee, General Meetings Scheduled Inaugurating a new feature in their program, the freshman debaters will act. as hosts to freshman representatives of six colleges and junior colleges in a convention on the campus today and tomorrow. Institutions, to Ue represented at thfc meeting which will dis cuss the question. “What Is the Bert Solution to the Employer-Labor Struggle in the Uni Led Stales?" arc Bucknell University and Junior Col lege, Allegheny College, J.uiuVu Col lege, . Scranton-KcysUmc Junior' Col lege, ami the Hazleton Undergradu ate Center of Penn State. First Meeting Tonight Registration* for‘the debaters will begin at 4 o’clock this afternoon, fol lowed by a convention dinner in the Sandwich Shop. The first meeting of the general assembly is scheduled for 7:30 tonight in room 1, North Liberal- Arts. Following this com mittees will meet in rooms 1. 101, and 103 of the same building. Saturday's general assembly, open to all stu dents, is listed for 0 a. m. in 405 Old Main. The convention will be divided into three committees for the discussion of different parts of the main ques tion. Each committee will prepare a report which will be submitted to the main, assembly Saturday morning. Parliamentary procedure will be used- throughout the meetings. J. Ed’.vin Mats ’3B will be president of tlie convention. David E. Cohen M 0 has been appointed ■ convention secrctaiy while the managing work is under the supervision of Fred L. Young ’3B and Arthur R. Neary ’39. P. S. Club Will Conduct Dance In Girls’ Dorms Four womens* dormitories will hos tess the Pcuu State club’s dorm dance tonight, Georgo A. Buker, social chair man of the club, announced. The Uauce, which will be held in each of tlio dormitories —Anchorage, Cody Manor, Locust Lane, and Wom an’s buildlug—is for members only. Baker said. However, women from other dormitories are invited to at tend the dance in any* one of the houses, lie added. Representatives elected to the ex ecutive committee of the Penn State club were William A. Bittiug MO, Wil bur Schell ’3O, and Nell B. Walsh '3B. Russell G. Gohn *3B, president of the dub, announced that nominations for club officers will, be held Thursday, April 21, and eleetlous on April 28. Plans for a roller skating party, swim ming party, and an athletic carnival were adopted. Capt Of Skiing Team Will Compete In Meet Captain Paul Massey ’3S, of the skl iug team, is now in Hanover, N. H., where he will compete in the Dart mouth Ski Carnival. Massey was the only member of State’s team to receive an invitation to compete in this meet which Is rec ognized as one of the biggest Inter collegiate skiing carnivals of the East. Only collegiate skiers who have shown up well in competition- are Invited to participate. Plan Rockview Visits j Since a large number of the 160 j people who indicated n ’desire to visit | the Rockview Penitentiary wi>re un able to make the trip because of lack of transportation facilities, the Soph omore Seminar, sponsors of tec trip, are planning subsequent visits to the uenitentiary. The first of these vis ts has been tentatively setfo.* Marcli 5. Announcements of Cite others will be made later. A.S.U. To Discuss Labor A discussion of the C. I. 0., A. F. of L., and company unions will be the (feature of a meeting of the American | Student Union to be held in Room 410, Old Main, at 2*30 o’clock Sunday afternoon. State’s Application To I.C. 150-pound Football League Turned Down Collegian Candidates To Report Tuesday Freshman candidates for the Col legian staffs, both business and edi torial, are requested to report to room 418, Old Main, at 7 o’clock Tuesday evening. There will be brief addresses by the editors and managers ft Mowing which an outline of the Cohegian training program will be given.' New Team PJans Ist Hockey Meet Team Opens Competition With Lakemont at Altoona; Hook Made’ Couch ' The first meet of ’he first hockey .cam to represent Penn State has been scheduled for Saturday against the Lakemont hockey team in Al toona. Penn State’s hockey lentil, a spon taneous, yet unrecognized g*oup of enthusiasts, has sprung into the stu dent eye this year through the ac tions of an organized campaign to "put hockey on Penn Suite’s map.” Lakemont, the first team success fully contacted'for a meet, has an outside rink, and any continuation of the present spring breezes will post pone the meet to a later date. So far the Lakemont team, independent amateurs, are undefeated for the sea son. 15 to Make Trip ' Fifteen members of Penn State's "forgotten team" will, make the trip to Altoona together with th newly appointed couch, A. G. Hook of the School of Physical Education and Athletics. 'To the present date ap proximately 23 have turned out for the team, and have received little pruclicc due to lack of ice this year. Meets ul present are being sought with Pill, Tech, Lehigh, and Lafa yette. In the opinion of Dean Carl P. Schott of the School of Physical Edu cation and Athletics, ice hockey here .vill not be recognized until sufficient Ludcnt interest is shown to warrant he necessary expense attendant to iuch recognition. All who arc inter „sted in the team us candidates for positions should report to Coach Hook In Kce hall. Peace Group Offers Prize For Best Play Hoping to take a step forward in for peace, tho Religious Drama couucli is sponsoring a coulust if or the best one-act play ou tlio sub ject of Peace. Four awards are being offered with 1200.00 cash as first prize. Seeoud prize of fIOO.OO is offered by Samuel French. Two other prizes, $50.00 in cash and a bronze medal, arc being donated by the council and Mr. French respectively. The contest will opeu March 1 and will .c’ose July 1. All plays must be suitable for production in, churches by children or adults. The time of the pluy must not exceed one hour. Judges will be chosen from leaders In the professional theatre, ’ educationa 1 druma, and peace organizations, and the winning play will bo submitted to Samuel French for au offer of pub lication. Further iuformatiou aud a copy of the rules can he obtained from the Religious Drama council, 71 West 23rd St., New York City. Hillel Foundation Will Elect'Cabinet Tonight Members of the Hillel Foundation will elect their new Student Cabinet this evening. Representatives will be elected according to fraternity, soror ity, or non-fraternity affiliation, with ’.lie number in each group to be de termined by the number of students who participate in the meeting to night. The fraternity and sorority repre sentatives are to be chosen by eucli house. Unaffiliated students will hold a special meeting this cvenirg after the regular Hillel service to select their cabinet representatives. Z6SS PRICE FIVE CENTS Refusal Will Not Halt Plans For Light- Weight Eleven Four Game Schedule Planned For Midgets Penn State’s applicant n for admittance into the .Intercol legiate 150 - pound football league was refused at a recent meeting of the League in New ifork. This was revealed in a letter to Dean Car! p. -Schott of the School of Physical Educa tion and Athletics, from Henry W. Clark, director of athletics at Lafayette College and secre tary of the League. This refusal will not halt phms for the formation of a Lion 15'-pound eleven ne\t fall, Dr. Sihott srd, and be feels certain that State will ’be admitted to the‘League wi'-nin the next few years. As it stands now. a foiw-game schedule is in process of b“ing ar ranged with Pitt, Carnegie Tech, Syracuse, and Lehigh as posrihle op ponents. Dr. Schott also pointed out that some of the snudler sclvuls are finding it a financial bjrden to carry their teams, but there is sufficient hacking for a 150-pound aggregation here. At the same meeting in New York, Cornell was admitted 1o the League, with the explanation that they "had already applied one year in advance, and had actually established the sport .'i ./’-thereby giving thwn'prc* foroncc. With flic addition of Cornell, the League now has seven members. The other six teams are Lafayette. Penn, Princeton, Rutgers, Villanovt*. and Yale. Although a coach has not yet been selected for the Niltany Lion mid gets, it is expccLed that announce ment of the new mentor -will be forth coming in the near future. Letter From Clark The letter from Cla-k follov.s: Dean Carl P. Schott Department of Physical Education and Athletics Pennsylvania State College State College, Pennsylvania Dear Dr. Schott 1 am sorry to say that t!v; .150- pound League at their meeting in New York last Friday (January til) vowd to have mi coimmiMcate with you as follows: "We 'egret that the application for number ship of Pennsylvania State college cannot he accepted because r£ the limitations on membership nf our League. Inasmuch as CurnAi had ulrcady applied cue year in ad vance, and liad actually established the sport, we felt their application should take precedence." I might add that this aet'm can be explained in the light of our difficulties of draw.ng up a .-ched ule. The League’ constitution pro vides that practice cannot sl«".*L be fore college opens, or in other words the last Monday in Septem’-er. It further provides that the first game shall not laky place before the middle of UcloLpl* You can readily sec that this reshiction makes it impossible tio get-in more (Continued on page two) Dramatists Complete Plans For Conference Attempting to aid school dramatic coaches, workers engaged in commun ity education and recreation projects, and leaders of women's clubs aud par ticipants in amateur productions, the College has. completed plans for the second. dramatics conference of the year. It will he held at the Erie Play house on Saturday. February 19. Lectures ami demonstrations lu scen ery design, choosing the right play, standards of acting, stage lighting, directing the pluy. pi oduelug oper ettas. aud the art of luake-up will be given. Henry C. Vincent, director of the Playhouse for Uli years, will be general eliuinnan. Members of the division of dramatics who jvlll partici pate are: Prof. Arthur C. Cloetlngh, head of the division. Frank S. Neus baum, and Miss Ida Blckley. Mrs. Merit Scott, scene designer for the Penu State Players, and J. Ewing Kennedy, director of tho Ponn State Thespians, will also take part.
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