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PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
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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
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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
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• 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.
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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