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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.
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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— ,
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MEANS DOBBS OF THAT GIVES A MORE
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SOCKS- 1 NECKWEAR—
I N TER W OVEN’S' SMART NEW -ENGLISH
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IS THE FINEST EVER. BLOCKED IN GREAT
BRITAIN.
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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.
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vDUCED EVERY NIGHT AFTER 7 AND ALL DAY SUNDAY.
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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.
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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
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