Page Tivo PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Successor to The Free Lnvce, established 1887 Published lemf-vmkly during the College year, except on holiday*, by student* of The Pennsylvania Stale College. In the Intereit of the College, the student*, facility, alumni, and friend*. National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publishers Reprrsmtathe 420 Madison Ave. NewYohk.N.Y. CXICAOS • BOSTON . SAN F*4>NCi;o Lot ANOCI.XV • POHTLAND • SCATIkC THE MANAGING BOARD JOHN A. TROANOVITCII ’:tft FRANCIS A. C. VOSTRRS. JR. “19 Rdllnr Rmlnnpa Mnrnißer HERBERT H. CAHAN *:tf( Sports Editor ROV It. NICHOLS. JR. ':ift Managing Editor SAI,VATORK 8. SALA ‘:S‘j New* Editor AI.AN G. Mi-JNTYUK *»*.» Fenture Editor THOMAS A. ROAI. '3ft Afrtietsnt Mutinying Editor BRUCE M. TRAIiIJK Vlft LUCILLE It. GREENBERG '■* As'i'lnnt Sport■» Editor Women’* Editor RRITA K. SHEEN 'aft Assorlute Women’s Editor Associate Editors A. William Engel. Jr. 40 V Paul S. Ilnkioman. Jr. ’4u Bernard A. Newman *4O Herbert Nipson *4O Bradley Owens "40 Kmamiel Hath '4O George B. Schlcss '4O Robert L. Wilson ‘4O Women’s Associate Editors Natalie K. Atkins *4O Helen L. Camp *4O Phyllis R/.Cordnn *4O Associate Business Managers Morion Nieman '4ft C. Russell Eek '4O Richard L. Skirble '4O Doris G. Gutman *4O Alternates to Associate Business Managers Eh-anor N. HolTer '4O Elroy T. Weimor '4O ( 1937 Member t9\B Associated GoUeSicite Press Distributor of Colleftiate Di6es! Manuring Editor Thi> Ni'w« Editor TitU Nil- .. Tuesdiiy, May 3, 1938 THAT MID-YEAR VACATION NEARLY two months ago the Collegian proposed a plan for a mid-year vacation—a full-week respite be tween semesters. Tlu* Collegian pointed out that an extra week be tween semesters would give the faculty that much .more time in which to grade examinations and li.e final grades with the Registrar’s office; That it would tend to product! greater efficiency in the administration by reducing the number of drop adds which are filed by students who do nol learn until the following semester is in full swing that they have failed lo pass a required course or u prerequisite; That it would give the student who fails plenty of time to register at another college to continue his studies; That it would eliminate for the student whA fails Un necessary expenditures for board, room, pnd books, a »mvg other things, for which he must pay as long as lie 'emains here; ' hat it would give to ail students a breathing spell between a grueling final-exam week and the slari of the following semester From what the Collegian has been able to learn, stu dent, faculty, and administration opinion on the whole seems to be in favor of such a vacation. In fact, the School of Liberal Arts already has filed a petition for a mid-year recess. But'there 5s a catch «n what the adnjjnistration would want to do. The administration favors a mid-year va cation, provided the students arc willing to make up the week at the end of the semester in June. This is one thing which the-Collegian delpiitcdy does not want. For however great may iie the benefits of a mid-year vacation, these benefits would be overbalanced by the addition of an extra week in June. Most of all, the hardships of an extra week in June would fall upon those students who are eager to find summer employ ment but who would find themselves at an unfair dis advantage Sn competing with students from other col leges which end their school years earlier. Rut why must an extra week he added in June in the event a mid-year vocation is granted? Some members of the administration have stated that there is a required number of school days which must he scheduled by the College. However, according to I.ester K. Ado, superintendent of public instruction in Penn sylvania, there is no state requirement to such on effect. Thus the matter seems to boil down to the belief that ilie College must schedule a certain number of days in order to receive a certain rating from some private em ployment agencies or other private organizations. But even if this is t.*.e case, there seems to he no sound argument for the.nddition of an extra week in June. As It is, the schedule for 1938-39 lists a totul of 188 days, the most that has 'been scheduled at any time dur ing the past decade and perhaps the most in College his tory. In fact, the College could grant a full-week mid year recess next year and still have one-half day more of school than there will he this year (11137-118). Here are the number of days included in the College calendar since 1029-UU: First Second Semester Semester Total 1020-1030 1930-1931 !031-10J2 1032-1933 J 933-1934 1934-1033 1035-19315 1930-1937 1937- 1938- 02 80 % 178% 87 91% 178% 87 91 178 02% ■ Bfi% 178 03 80% 182% 00% 80% 180 03 80% . 182% 02% 01 ♦ 183% 03 80 182 00 80 188 Once again—tho ( Collegian repents: The -College could grant a full-week vacation between semesters next year and still have one-half day more of school than there will he this year. Why not grant the vacation? At least, why not .give if a try and see how it works? What is there to lose? JEROME SHAFFER ’aft Ariverilidnsr Mnnnyrr RICHARD W. KOOMAN *Mi Circulation MiionriT RAI.I'II 11. GUNDLACII ’aft I'romol Inn Mimuyrr DALLAS R. LONG Mil I’oLeitni A«ivprii«ii>K M«n»"cr MARY SAMPLE ’»» Scnitu Secretary • Morris Schwab *4Ol Burton C. Willis. Jr. ’4O j .land E. Story ’4O , Em,-iihi'-I R'iili **n j Ucrnuril A. NVsvman 'Hi ; Tommy Silvano, former Lion griddor, was back aver the week-end and asked for Chubby Chollie Wneeltr . . . the two were very friendly when Tom my was paying football and Chuck was reporting it far tiie Collegian . . . the campus may be afrainst rote nearly 100 percent but that doesn’t stop the army from taking over . . . Colonel Venable has been loading his in front of Old Main. . .. Prof. Naylor with the Roots on Old Main terrace . . . had shoes and stockings off taking a sun bath... '■Rest pun of the week . . . the hligh school kid who called -Saturday's score 11-1 “in flavor of vanilla’’... somebody better tell A 1 Fletcher what a yokel is... he broke a date with a ernrm. waitress when Arnie called her one f.. a lot of hoys around town will remi nisce when-'they heard that Betty Lutz, the little mink of Atherton St., was married recently . . . some will -be relieved . . . —MANIAC (- REMEMBER HER ON mOTHER’S Dfly SUNDAY MAY 8 • • COMPLETE SELECTION OF CARDS e THE LATEST AND BEST , BOOKS • 5 SUIT BRIDGE DECKS • /SCROLL BOOK ENDS • GUEST BOOKS • GIFT STATIONERY DESK PEN SETS • BIBLES PaeknKcs Wrapped For Mailing At No Extra 'Charge ♦ ♦ + KEELER’S CATHAUM THEATRE BLDG. , OLD MANIA Mustn’t Touch: Georgia Powers -got merry holt from George (grounds and bldgs) Rbcri for painting an old porch swing at the theta manse the other day. It seems the College strictly forbids the enhancing as well as the defacing of house property. So from now on, Boys, it’s a nands-off policy on furniture at the iheta house. Hi-Hb! lU-Ho! Lion coals, truly a great tradition, have made their aniiunl appearance on the campus, covered with every thing from a rearing Nittany Lion lo Gypsy Rose Lee. The best art exhibits are,usually found inside the coat pockets or under the lapels. Chocolate-coal ed orchids go to Phi Kappa Tau for originality. The seven seniors in the house are each named after one of the seven dwarfs, and carry a resenVbluncc of their pint-sized counterparts on the .hacks of their lion coats. This is how they're named: Boh Common __. George Bowman Bruce Dra who t ■ trh .... . .Bob Smithers Lou Pearce Dave Jenkins .. Marshall Evans If they hail had another little fairy in the house they would have railed him Snmv White. Doc Happy ..S.eepy Sneezy. Bashful Grumpy Dopey What Have We Here? This help-wanted ad appeared in Saturday's Cun- “YOUNG WOMAN desires ups Lairs work. Dial State College 2£()rt(i. Experienced and ran give ref- erences.” Short Changed Phigain Ralph KmiLsong had that flu rolissie ru eeipt feeling when he received a card to appear at Bursar Clark’s counting house for a refund on his fees. Marching into the oflice, Ralph was handed a check. Tula I sum —so.ol. Four’s a Mob: Connie Buch_ has a hard time golting rid of his phi, kappa sig playmates, Curly Pomeroy and Jim Harper, whenever he lias u date with Jean Fox (not Theta’s Wolf) of the Cables. Things came to a pretty pass when the three were walking Jean home from a date last week, and the pests decided that Jean should have Coniiie’s pin. The two took the situation and their |.al in' hand. Took olf his pin. Pinned it on Jean. About Town and Campus Roy* in the erm yesterday report that spring is here very definitely ... a co-ed came wearing just a dress . . . E.ldie Bruno is <|ui:u the quick change artist . came in one door with a certain piano player and, went out a few minutes Inter with a graduate stu dent ... ' \ Fiolfe held its annual elections party‘Sunday night and It’s reported that the ethereal I'ohert. Wistrnnd g.rather stinko . . . Some TNE got mixed up with a pktmk and when Joe Erices returned from the Fndhy -brawl the odoriferous gent chased him all about . . . Ruddy Cerslenzahg was in such a state that she thought seriously, of bestowing his ‘ring on D-.ris Schambelan ... ■THE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Co-Edits TPA’s held their spring formal at the Nittany Lion Saturday night, and the Chi O’s were supper guests of the Kappa Sigs Sunday. Sunday, the Delta Gams entertained their senior -members at a party and Phi Mur held a picnic supper. Among the week-end alumnae guests were Frances Christine ’34, Se- Yna Henriche ’O7 ami Marin Weber *37 at the D G’s; and. Jean Krei-ble '37 and -Mary Swope ’.'l7 at the Thetas. Media Shaw, national inspector for Phi Mu, left Sunday after a week’s visit. Alpha Lambda Delta elected An-; nahel Boyd, president; Nelia M. Ha-' yard, vice president; M. Cordelia; Beach, secretary, and M. Janet Gil-: lespie treasurer, sit a meeting in 41i» Old Main at -1 o’clock Wednesday. J .Philotcs held a dance at the T N E .house Friday night with a circus! :theme. Co-chairmen for the affair; .were Naomi A. Pugh '39 and Dor lathy M. Gibbons ’39. Tomorrow the Home Ec club will j hold the sc'cond of a series ‘of teas in the Home Ec dining room. These j leas, whicli began last week with a j Chinese one, will be held each Wed-j nesday. This week’s will be Russian,; and the next two English and Gypsy. Delta Alpha Delta, women’s speech honorary, will hold initiation in Grange playroom at 7:30 tonight. Initiations, spring formals, and en tertainment of week-end guests head the list of recent women’s fraterni ties activities. Building Program Rumblings By EMANUEL ROTH tPenn State’s greatest undertaking is in full swing. “Keep moving . . . keep moving... keep moving,” signs caution as stu dents gather around to watch the army of sweating, mud-caked labor ers remake the campus with sputter ing drills, yawning shovels, and vuiny hands. “A damn nice place.yu have here,” a worker on the site of the proposed" Electrical Engineering building ven tured. “Too bad we have to tear it' up.” j With work already underway on -each'of the eleven buildings, progress I - Is being .made in excavating, form , building, steel reinforcing, and level ling. Digging on the $300,500 Educa tion building site, facing .North Lib eral, Arts, a .-hovel is loading almosl fa ton at a time on,a ceaseless stream ;of trucks'. ‘ P'l building’s go | lug to have an elevator. , | Tlie ROTC boys are a little worried j now.. Ground for the $529,000 Elec ' Irieal -Engineering structure was bru ;ken during the week on the Armory • field. But the infringement will have :no effect; the golf course is large. . Besides, there’s always the football jfiield or front campus! I If. they’ve never had the experience ! before, two sororities will soon he “taken for a ride.” Theta Phi Alpha and Phi Mu will lie moved from their present locations on Pollock Road to new sites on Holmes Road, near the home of Dr. Ritenour —a distance oi about 900 feet. Reason—the new Chemistry and Physics Building. Prof. Harold E. Dickson of Fine Arts, asked for his opinion on the architecture of the proposed struc* I tures, expressed regret thut no pro-’ | vision had been made for the func j tionnl style in any of the buildings, which he said would relieve the'mon-. jotony of the types now on the campus. 1 The functional building, or the' | type which clearly expresses its fune-j • lion to the subordination of unneces-! js’nry elements, is entirely lacking on ! the campus, according, to Professor 1 Dickson. j “It is interesting to consider what l might have been done with a struc- 1 , ture of this type on the site of the* : present Dairy Building," Prof. Diek-j 1 son stated, explaining that a twentieth ; century structural style would do muchj ! to enhance the beauty of the campus’.} ; “It seems there would be room fori styles,” the art profes- I a diversity of •sor suggested. j Seems incredible Frances Ath-j icrton Hall will be ready for 500 wonl- ! jen when September rolls around. J j Majestically looking down on East 1 College avenue, the dormitory is near-! mg the last phase of actual construe-} ; Lion. In an environment-of thou-! . sands of bags of cement, bricks, ami j marble slabs piled high, workers are 1 , rushing to make the building the first! of the program to be completed. j Houses, Lots and Business Sites Eugene H. Lederer Licensed Real Estate Broker Developer 1 of The Fraternity Section Office Next 1 to Post Office 114 E. Beaver Ave. off the records Tire latest swing l classic by Victor features 'Benny Goodman, with the addition of Bud Freeman on the sax and Dave Tough on the drums. Mar tha Tilton warbles THAT FEELING IS GONE, while Bud Freeman struts his stuff in LULLABY IN RHYTHM. The 'band still seems to be missing Krupa as this platter is only-a little better than the average. Tommy Dorsey’s latest Victor re lease of YOU LEAVE MB BREATH'- LESS—SAYS MY HEART has Jack Leonard and Edythe Wright doing the respective vocals. These two iwaxings by our 'Senior .Ball maestro ! continue his long line of smooth* num jbers. Listen to the intro of BAYS IMY HEART. Concluding the Victors, Larry ! Clinton’s WHO DO YOU. THINK I SAW LAST NIGHT? and “Fats” I Waller’s I SIMPLY ADORE YOU : stand out. Wonder when the dance committees will smarten up and sign Larry Clinton? Kay Kyser has begun his prep for Junior Prom by following Tommy [Dorsey into New York’s Paramount. I Kyscr’s . latest, on Brunswick, "has jSully Mason vocalizing SOMETHING ! TELLS ME and CRY, BABY,. CRY! ! Better hop down to the Music Room [and hear Smilin’ Stoker’s [THINKING OF YOU . . . Kyser’s [theme. Listen 'to Norvo’s ..latest ! Brunswicks. , . j Casa Lmmr keeps with the current I rage 'bv having Pee Wee Hunt.tell us jMY BONNIE LIES OVER THE OCEAN.' Another Decca has our I-F I Ball band ' recording I LOVE TO [.WHISTLE and ' SOMETH TN G TELLS ME. Will • Osbourne brings hack shades of Russ Morgan on the Whistle disc, while a sage one re ' marks about Janice Todd’s vocals re- Isemblitig Deanna Durbin. Edgar ! Hayes has something on Decca No. 1748. Wish somebody would make a good recording of ONE SONG . . . who said Gene Krupa’s band is NG? . . . hope Ileela Park gets somebody bet ter than Duehin next dance ... JUNIOR PROM Nino ’til Two Alumni Group Forms } New Club At Gil Cit3' A nucleus of an alumni club has been started in Oil City; according to Edward H. Hibshmnn', - secretary of the alumni association. llibshman visited alumni .meetings in Butler, Bradford,* and Erie. It was revealed that several dubs .have appointed committees to gather his torical material which will be filed here in the now library. Editorial Candidates Will Meet Tomorrow Freshman Collegian editorial can didates >yill meet at 7 o’clock tomor row night in-the nows room, 312 Old Main, Salvatore -S. Bala ’3O ,news .ed itor, announced yesterday. . Beats will -be assigned and regular Collegian work will be begun. Sportswear " N : FbR all occasions I’ftlii Shirts - Bush Jackets Basque Shirts (Sah Sleeks We invite 1 you to. come in uiict > 1 inspect our complete selection' of FI.OKSHIvIM and JARMAN ' " • Shoes for Mcii Promm's \ ,c -' Opposite Old ‘Main - Slate College ■-* : ; FRIDAY, MAY THIRTEENTH Tuesday,-'May 8, 1938 Students advertising a University of Michigan-'plfiy production picketed the local clnetmmslnn’ to advertise their own play. • for Mother's Day -The world's finest confections —in richly decorated packages for Her special day—2sc to s7.so.Makeyourse!ectionz!otW COLLEGE CUT RATE Next to Corner Room ’ .$4.00 per Couple
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