Page T~c. PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Successor to The Free favnee, established 1887 Publlfthtd ihirtu'g the College year, except on holtdtyi, by etndenU of The Pennsylvania State College, In the internet of the College, the eturfenli, faculty, alumni, and friend*. THE MANAGING nOARD JOHN A. TIIOANOVITCII MO lit ANTIS A. C. VOSTER. JR. M!> Eilllor lluiincHx Maniiiror JEROME SHAFFER 'lift AiH'crtfcihir Militui’or RICHARD W. KOOMAN *:ii> Circulation Manntrcr 16A I,l*ll H. OUNDLACH MO Promotion Munniw DALLAS It. LONG MO rmvitfii AJvoriLinir Manager MARY J. SAMPLE. Mil Senior Secretary LUCILLE H. GREENBERG ’SO Women's PMltor . IiI'.HJIBRT It. CAUAN *:*.*.• Munn/inir Editor ROY ». NICHOLS. .IH. -M Sjioph Editor SALVATORE S. SAI.A *:iit Nr*w<s Editor AI.AN n. MrINTYRK ‘an Fifiliir** Editor THOMAS A. lIOAL "I!* MntiiutiiU! Editor imilCß M. TRASUJE ':«* A-ipi<tatii SjxirtH Editor JtEITA E. SHEEN "lit As*.ooinie Womon’i Editor Miiimi'.inu I'Mimr Tlii- l*«an«* I-Mitnr Thin Tuesday, April 12. 193 S IT WAS THE WEEK BEFORE EASTER 'mi-; FUTURE MAS caught up with the present again. Something- that seemed brand new* all year is suddenly old and wasted. The Collegian has encoun tered the spirit of Easter once more, and a new Saviour iijr.t been admitted to the fold. Today a new editor lakes charge and a period of transition, adjustment, and resurrection is under way. It is always so. In a long-term point of view there can be no elli ceney. no achieved goal with a rapid turn-over of bosses. So it is with the Collegian. The Collegian is an educational device that is more closely patterned sifter actuality than any othc-r project in operation at Penn State today. To the Collegian there can bo no make-believe, no theory, no benefits of experience. To each Collegian editor there can be nothing but educa tion and the absorption of the hates, loves, and happen ings of u small world. The Collegian has never boon able to save the small world. It has never been able to •save the big world. It never will. Hut it will always he educational and interesting to those who have en joyed its opportunities. Til’s year it has kept faith with the w-onl “news paper” and has attempted to break faith with propa ganda and make-believe. The way that the new era will use the Collegian is its responsibility and pleasure. There is no fear as the old staff leaves that the new* will be unable to carry on. There is no basis for such a fear. It is confident of the ability of next year’s administrators. Contrary specu lation is foolish anil wishful. N T o self-hypothesis can reach a reasonable conclusion. To the new* staff, the old says good-bye and good luck upon the appropriation of an organ that is real, life like, and in which there is an honest opportunity for education. This is a time when the Collegian means Collegian to the staff ami the public, happily, may hr* damned once move. HOW ABOUT FRESHMAN DORMS' THE COMBINATION OF facts concerning the room ing situation expected next fall seems to add up into a practicable solution if the College administration can lind place, time, and money. What confronts the student body is a room shortage next fall as the result of the.current building program, during which some 1,500 workmen are to be quartered somewhere in the immediate vicinity. Simultaneously approximately 500 women move from nondescript down town dorms into Frances Atherton hall. When the stu dent body leaves this spring, their downtown rooms arc*' expected to he rented to workmen who will pay more money for lodging than will students. Student Council has recommended that students returning next year make rooming arrangements before they leave. But all this leaves no place or assurance for incom ing freshmen. Fraternity men will have snapped up all short-term rooms available for rushing purposes. Most of the other roams already will have been let. Land ladies will be reluctant to a<k workmen to leave for students. The College dorms for men are too small. What to do? K would be most helpful if thy College would exert the influence or control it has with the operators of the present downtown dorms for women, and rent them to lease, as dormitory space to incoming, freshmen. One of the why college spirit has dropped and'the im personal attitude of an urban college has developed, is because the College has no influence or control over freshmen. If all newcomers could be placed in the pres ent dorms and the downtown dorms to be vacated by the women, the rooming problem would be alleviated no end and a more wholesome living atmosphere would have been created. And all this is desirable under the strain that we are to feel the next few years. “HIGHER EDUCATION?” OF TlIiE CONCLUSIONS that can be drawn from the Carnegie- Foundation for Advancement' of Teach ing reporL in Pennsylvania, the most encouraging is the fact that many of our youths are not losing any thing by not attending college. And that at best is il legitimate glory. hi a ten-year survey in which intelligence-tests were given to high school seniors, high school graduates who did not attend college, college sophomores, and college seniors it was discovered that one quarter of the high school seniors scored above the college sophomore av erage and that the superior 50 per cent of the high school seniors who went to work stood higher than the lower 25 per cent that did attend college. Also it was learned that 15 per cent of the seniors tested before ns sophomores scored 'lower as seniors than they had as sophomores. Something’s rotten in l Pennsylvania. It must be the colleges. We know now that selection for college is poor and that college'education .is not the best influence for a I.right young mind to undergo. We know now that this traditional “must” philosophy that prompts many of us to seek college educations is the bunk. We know now that the colleges must select more carefully, that stu dents must take college opportunities more seriously. Above all. however, is the realization that college facul ties need a severe shaking up and cleaning out. One of the host, ways to do this, of course, is to pay in structors the salaries they deserve. There are too many hangers-on- and soft-pillow boys in our college facul l-os. There must he a way to separate the crenin from the skim milk. “Higher education,” indeed! OLD MANIA S— entimental, But Sober It is 7 o'clock, Sunday night. Wc must write our Inst column. Everyone just sits around. Wheeler is opening his mail, the Inst mail to him, the editor, while •Weinstein is dummying his 00th sports page. Szyinczak is standing on a waste paper basket trying to give his farewell speech, but no one listens. Bierly is answering the 'phone—“No election results available yet.” Shirley Helms is worried, wondering if she did ns good n job ns women's editor as Marion Ringer did lust year. Georgia Powers, thetn proxy at one time, is trying to eheer us up with one of her simon-pure simple jokes. In another corner stands Caroline Tyson on a soup box, showing us her new $1.1)8 shoes. Shimmy's basket caved in • Rut we can’t laugh pages . . . and then A. Willinm Engel, Jr. MO .....Emanuel ftolli Mfl o — h! Yes! We Forgot J. Russell Smyth, sps, does not want it known that art import got his pin at IF hall . . . while >Bob Goer der says he's through with Aggie Kosb . . . Skippy Jennings sent a telegram to Bob Pike at Duke telling him there will 'he a letter “tomorrow” explaining someone's idea of a joke (See last issue) . . . Garf Thomas and Ga. Powers (An unwritten Maniac rule is to avoid using the names of stair mem bers) bought four paring knives at a recent local sale. Meeting B. M. 0. C. Campbell shortly after wards-they handed him one of the knives as a souve nir. Chuck’s sudden appearance foiled their original plan of having Garf draw the knife from the girl's hack and returning it to Campbell. ~ . ~ • + 4 ♦ L — ei’s Have a Short Yell President Iletxel was entertaining guests in his of fice recently. A noise overhead was terribly annoy ing. So Mr. Watkins, the scheduling officer, was sent out to investigate hut could find no cause for the noise, ft wasn't the CA this time. So a few days later the same thing happened again. Going up another floor Mr. Watkins discovered the trouble. Dusty Rhoades was rehearsing with a gang of would-be cheerleaders. o—ur Own Selection Snow White N—ever Do This: Being a firm believer in the profil-by-pracliee the ory, we pass on this advice to our successors: Never use Ray Fishliurne’s name, ffe is reported t.) have been married just to crash the column. And ~ that goes for Chuck Campbell, too. . ,- N Don’t abbreviate errm, beta p\e, phi delt, etc; . Don’t print trash like this: Janet Bliss, visiting Misercordia College, was shown the Tudor Room (o which she replied, “We -don't gel Utdnrcd in rooms like this at Penn State.” Don’t go to the Student Union afternoon dances in the Armory—Nate Handler always cuts in when you have a smooth babe and you can’t find any dirt there. Don't fail to have a contact man in ouch house, es pecially Sigma Nu and the Kappa Kappa joint. In other words, don’t do anything we have done. ♦ + ♦ G—ood liije or Thirty: Be'ng a Maniac was one great scream The realization of our one dream To pan big shots, to dish out dirt That made all laugh (?) but those it hurl. To scoop Friend Froth—That was a thrill To follow Cupid o’er dale-and hill But here’s our end, “there ain’t no more” We join our friends, (frho’ve gone before— Dewier, Watson, TscHan •Va-ri'Keuren, Bell, Sheen Swalm, Sanders, McDowell, I guess we’re “has-beens” now. EASTER FASHIONS • FOll PENN STATE MEN - HATS— • SHIRTS— , A NEW EASTER HAT THERE IS NOTHING MEANS DOBBS OF THAT GIVES A MORE COURSE. THE PENN FORMAL TOUCH TO A STATER SHAPE IS DOUBLE BREASTED THE CORRECT UNI- SUIT THAN A SMART VItRSITY IIAT. LY STYLED TAB COL LAR 4.50-5.00 0.00 to 3.50 SOCKS- 1 NECKWEAR— I N TER W OVEN’S' SMART NEW -ENGLISH SPRING ASSORTMENT FOULARDS HAND IS THE FINEST EVER. BLOCKED IN GREAT BRITAIN. 2 for 1.10 1.00-1.50 JACK HARPER STARK BROS. & HARPER HATTERS HABERDASHERS TAILORS .. we must go on .. . two more . llappy Easter! ♦ ♦ ♦ . Amy McClelland .Merlin Troy . .. .John Genther Bill Lindcnmuth ..Frank Kaminer Joe Erlces find Gordon . . That’s Me —THE MANIAC .THE -PENN STATE COLLEGIAN [ UNDER THE COLLEGIATE SPOTLIGHT "Too ninny college professors ore epitaph polishers • dusting off tomb stones of big names Jn history." With this biting criticism of the academic lenders in the nation’s col leges and universities. Dr. George W. Crane, Northwestern .University psy chologist, begins bis denuncinflon of those who leach in modern educa tional institutions. “For three centuries here in Amer ica wo have been hoodwinked by col lege professors who harp on culture. Most of them neither know wlmt the word' means nor demonstrate cultur ed personalities,” be continues. ‘■lnstead of teaching the students to be the life of the party.” Doctor Crane insists, “most professors ape or unduly reverence the past.. While Letter Box To The Editor: In this effort to crash your popular letter box I want to be a bit philoso phical. | With most of the campus likely to j be torn up during the ’next two years we are faced with the question as j to what shall be our attitude toward! the rest of we bo particularly I careful to preserve the neatness and 1 beauty of the portions not torn up ? | Or shall we allow it rfll to go to the! bow wows temporarily V Recently, sev-j j oral happenings and practices seem to! i indicate that students are following • the latter course. | Now for the philosophical part. 1 Losses in campus beauty can be taken (care of when the building period is [over. But if during this two-year per | iod we are also indifferent to the pres tervatlon of intangibles, then much | that we like now in Penn State stu l dent life and attitudes may go for j ever. j Two years from now about forty ! percent of the student body will be students who are now sophomores and 'freshmen, and sixty percent will.be students who have not yet come to , the campus. To a very huge extent their conception of what Penn State! is will he formed by the impressions: ; they gel and the ideas they form dur-i iug the* next two year's. If during these two torn-up years we tempor-j arily su perd the Penn State that: students now know~ils spirit, cus- j : Loins, traditions,--.and attitudes, then . [ we can expect that much of it will suf-J ; for permanent suspension. % j ; Personally I hope w? shall not' al j low the campus confusion of the tran sition period to tempt u< to be cure- 1 | less and indifferent. On the contrary If- hope we shall boj warned that it I will be a period‘.when \yo-must zenl [ously.hold on to..:what--we-want to j.keop,* and -preserve' by. keeping it iconstantly , living/ and/ active. This! ] seems to me to be the;major problem: 'of student officers and’leaders for the; i next year if present students wish to, ] avoid seeing much that they like now 'gone with the wind. < A. R. Warnodc !-Dcnn of Men Senior-Junior Faculty Tea Set For April 28 The annual Senior-Junior formal ; faculty tea will lie giyen in. Old Main . Lounge Thursday, , April 28, from , eight to ten o'clock.'' Helen E. Barton,; senior chairman and Dorothy Moss, junior chairman •have announced the; following com imitlce heads: Frances'A.Duritsa *38,, 'arrangements; Belt.vtfE. Gillespie *3B, | refreshments, and J.uth M. Oglcvee! *3B. doebrntions. t f ; **»« Others- committee* are: i . Rose D. Tlardes '39, invitations; Nn jomi J. Pugh ’3O, entertainment, and; 1 Paula B/Wnhlfeld |39, publicity. ‘ , Dr. Mack Appointed To LaborjDept. Post Dr. Pauline B. Mjick, professor of .textile chemistry, has been appointed [a staff member of the Pennsylvania Department of Lab&r aid Industry. She will servo as anl,exp<!rt in setting standards fdr -vJomen under the minimum wage,law. : This is an honorary appointment, pnyjng only a year. Phyllis K. Sprague, u: ; feasor of home economic I appointed by Dr. Mack | the .minimum cost of ball i rant meals for women, {work will be financed 1 NYA grant. sociate pro-: s, has been o determine need restau- The clerical y a special Whitmore To P At ACS Texas reside Session . • Dr. Frank c. Whltmof 'llio School of Chemistry i will leave Monday .for, J whore he will preside at meetinK of .the America Society to he held April : Dean Whitmore, who in tho society, will ; pres* awards to several outstui ists of the comury, - JSnrt las, ho will speak at Okl siuil Tulsa, Okla., llou* Donton, and Amarillo, TcJ re, dean, of ml Physics, J alios, Tex.. t; : the spring \i Chemical 18 and 19. lireHldent of *nt national .1 ding cbom •( nte to Dal :lalioma City h-ton, Auatin, j Hard College is (jnndug drive to prevent i their’, from being closed nt'the current school yeur’;* Ilng a fund institution end of the By ROY NICHOLS jtlie distinguished men of the past were good in their day, they should be [mentioned only ns matters of historic j interest, but not worshipped with ns (inine idolatry. I "What we need fs a thorough house-cleaning In education. We send students to college In order that they may. learn how to write English. But : after four, or seven years of majoring in English, ' they still -cannot sell a , poem or a story." Doctor Crane de clares. .“One of the essential troubles with i education, today.'* he says, “is simply the fact that the blind are' lending the blind. College professors ns a class are second raters. “There is an old adage that when a man cannot make a living practic ing a subject, he becomes a teacher In that field. In the game of life, most of them would be on relief.’’ he con cludes. University of Alabama students cur rently are chuckling nt the following “famous sayings of a parent." who | wrote her daughter after receiving [notice that her child had been missing [classes all too regularly: ! - "Dearest Daughter: What are you ! doing, giving up classes for Lent?" I Those who think that Penn State Is faced with a major catastrophe if the name is changed to "The Uni jversity of the Commonwealth or Penn ! sylvonia," should consider the charter [name of the University of Michigan. That university was chartered hack in 1817 ns "The Catholepistemiad or University of Michignnin." Another professor condemns final examinations, hut the time-hound cus tom will probably exist as long as the institutions of which it is a part. This time it is Prof. Seibert Fair mnn of Purdue University who com plains, "I think final examinations are a waste of time, for 1 find that very few students hnve changed their se- grades by taking a final. The time spent on those exams could he better used for further study.” 121 Center Students Favor L A. Courses i Figures released by David B. Pugh, •supervisor of nndergradimte centers, f show that there are 2ft students en ' rolled in the /our centers at the pres* icnt time. 121 of whom are.taking sub jects in the School of Liberal Arts. Over 120 are unclassified, and the re mainder are taking courses distribu ted among the other six schools of the College, representing a total of fif)s7 : credits taken by students in the ! undergraduate centers. [ There are 120 students on the cnm j pus who.hiivc come from the centers for the second semester of this year. ; In contrast to the number of students | enrolled in the School of Liberal Arts jin the centers, the School of Engln j coring'has more center students than any other school, having 111 distribu ted among all curricula in that school. J The School of Liberal Arts has 2ft former center students, and the isohools"of Education and Chemistry 'and Physics have 23 and 22. respec tively. The remaining 2-1 are dis tributed in the other three schools of the college. Advertising Honorary Names New Officers t ; Donald W. Wright '.lO was elected [president of Alpha Delta Sigma, hon orary advertising fraternity, Wed nesday night, succeeding ■ Philip' D. , Levy ’3B. Richard W. Kootnan ’39, Dallas R. Long ’39, and Francis A. C. Vosters ’39 were elected vice-president, sec retary, and treasurer, respectively. Plans were discussed for awarding [of two plaques to •scholastic papers for advertising excellence at the High School Press conference to be held here April 30. Reservations To Close Reservations for the special Grey hound’buses leaving here at 12:45 Wednesday afternoon will close at 8 o’clock tonight, according to Roy Grif fith of the Ilotel State College, agent for the line. y • Direct buses will go to Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, .New York, Harrisburg, Altoona, Pittsburgh, Sunbury, Phila delphia, Tyrone, Johnstown, Grecns buvg and intermediate points. Nicholas 111 In Phila. Jack 11. Nicholas, a senior in fuel technology, seriously ill of pneumonia in the Hahnemann Hos pital, Philadelphia, will be unable to return to this semester. Nicholas a member of the Penn State Airmen, learned/ to fly at the State College" Air Depot in 1936. He acquired his private pilot-license in the same year. Plan Inspection Trip Senior architectural students will make an inspection trip of various architectural projects in New York City, from April 20 -to 23.' ’ They will visit the World’s Pair, Waldorf-Astoria, and Radio City. Co-Edits A revision of the poticies and ac-- tlvities of the Home Economics club was announced by the new president, Jane A. Romig '4O, at an open meet ing Wednesday night. The club is planning work on a project to he sent to the National Home Economics club convention this summer in Pitts burgh, and is also trying to obtain a club room in Home Economics build ing for Its use. - An. important meeting featuring an amateur hour followed by refresh ments will be held April 27. Mem bers of the club are to be chosen for their interest and attendance. The A. E. Phi’s celebrated their first aniversary as a national soror ity -Sunday night with a banquet in Grange playroom. Guests of honor were Mrs. Charles Schlow, sorority advisor, and Miss Helena Samuel, Al toona, alumnae advisor. (Prof. R. 12. Galbraith, department of English composition, addressed the Delta. Gammas at an informal meet ing Monday night. Students To Attend Political Conference A group -of Penn State students, composed largely of political 'science majors, will attend the Intercollegi ate Conference on Government in Harrisburg, April 22 to 24. Meetings of the conference will be held in the Education Forum and in the Senate and assembly halls. A "Model Governors’ Conference" will bo the theme of this year's meet ing, which will deal ’ mainly with problems relating to inter-state com pacts. At the" conference each school in Pennsylvania will represent a state. The Penn State group will represent Illinois. SMOOTHEST SMOKE YOU EVER ENJOYED V\ HEY, FELLOWS, HOW 43 ABOUT COMING (j i HOME WITH - fi? & [ME FOR THE p>^^WEEK-END? P Gosh, nexttime i llti , IN ADVANCE AND MAKE f EVERYTHING'S O.Kt NO MORE SURPRISE VISITS FOR ME/ ' When you're making your plans, don’t just assume that "every thing is going to be all, right"— make sure. If you telephone ahead, you'll avoid possible dis- appointment and embarrassment. RATES ON ALL CALLS OF 42 MILES OR MORE ARE RE vDUCED EVERY NIGHT AFTER 7 AND ALL DAY SUNDAY. THE BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY OF PENNSYLVANIA Tuesday, April 12,1038 Federal Project Head Speaks on State Art Explaining the work being done by 112 artists on state projects, Miss Mary Curran, director of the‘Fed eral Art Project in Pennsylvania, spoke in Home Economics auditorium Thursday afternoon on “Art in Penn sylvania.” The lecture was sponsored by the division of Fine Arts, the American Association of University Women, and the State College Wom en’s club. The College recently secured 22 or iginal works, the property of the U. S. government, from Miss Curran’s department. They are given as per manent loans to groups which are tax-supported; • 3 Speech Professors To Address Meeting {Professors John H. Frizzell, Jos eph F. O’Brien, and Herbert Koepp- Baker of the division of speech will attend' the 29th annual meeting of the Eastern Public Speaking confer ence in New York City on April 22 and 22. - „ - ’ Professor Frizzell, one of the char-' ter members, will deliver a memorial address on Professor Wilbur Jones Kay, late of University of West Vir ginia, who was founder of the organi zation. A-papcr on “The Place of Parlia mentary Procedure’ in the Depart ment of Speech” will be presented by Professor O’Brien, secretary-treas urer of the conference. Professor Koepp-Baker will talk on “Recent Experimental Approaches to the : Physiology and Pathology of Articu lation.” The senior class girt at Tnrleton Agricultural College this year is .n neon sign for one of {he -campus-build ings. SOUNDS FINE TO US,| P\ BUT ISITO.K. WITH) & YOUR FOLKS? J L 3 supejhey'l; \J GLAD TO HA' YOl I'M AWFULLY SORRY, BUT WE WONT BE ABLE TO JOIN YOU TONIGHT. GEORGE BROUGHT SOME BOYS HOME UNEXPECTEDLY FOR THE m d M r ('
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