Blue Key SUCCESSOR To The Free Lance, EC= Volu 34—N0.,6e INVESTIGATION OF -- '.:H0N0R..• . .'......:50C1ET1ES • INDICATED Members Of Society Give Future Plains Ask Peel '39 To Name Society Member On Tribunal Sec editorial, "katen," page 2 Asking that "the organization . he judged not by the size of membership, but by what we do next year," neWly-elected. mem bers, of Blue Key, junior class honorary society, in a letter to the Collegian Sunday night in dicated their intentions of "jus tifying our existence" by soon formulating "definite plans of what we are going to do next, Among otherthings, the soei ety appealed to Joseph A. Peel, '39 class president, to name one rep resefitatiVe.from 'Blue Key to Student :Tribunal in order to carry :out "our sincere pledge to aid in. the enforce ment of freshman customs," and promised to be available for service as ushers at College athletic events "whenever called-upon." The society alto pledged 'itself to 'slash; at least in .. half its "outstanding financial, obligation Icon treeted. in :41_re-. .Officers- of the honorary, elected Sunday night, ure - Howard G. Ander sin], president; Frank C. Anderson, vice-president; Murk H. Vinzant,• Sec, retary; and William H. .Simms, treas urer. The full text of the letter, obvious ly an answer to the Collegian's drive to ,elean up the hoporaries, follows: To the Editor: We,' the newly-elected members of the. Blue Key society, junior 'class' honorary, wish to state our attitude • and our activities for the coining year, realizing fully the seriousness :of justifying our ex istence. We ask that the organization be judged not by the size of member ship,-but by what we do next year —and we intend to formulate defi nite plans of what we are going to do next Year in the near future. As one of our activities will be (Continued On Page Two) Robert WistrandlB Named Poetry Winner Robert B. Wistrand '3B has been adjudged winner of the Merritt 'M. Harris Poetry AWard with his poem "The Thad of Land." Wistrand, who was also the winner last year, will receive $lO in cash. Honorable mentions went to, Max ine L. West '4O for her "Wine Like the Word;".G. David Hess '3B; for the second sonnet in his "Ode to Mein;. ory;" and to Frank 13: Henderson '3B, for "Dance; Kinetic Sorrow." Theie entrants will receive prizes of books mode availahle through the depart ment of Enilish composition and - the local book stores. The Poetry:Award is given annu ally by the members of the depart ment • in honor of Prof. Merritt M. Harris who retired last spring after 20 years of teaching. Professor Her,' ris taught 'course's in the writing . :of poetry for the 'last decade.; ' To further .stimulate - interest in'the writing of ' verse; the deportnient'wilf organize, early , next fall, a . local chap. ter of the College Poetry Society of America. Library Sets Book Return Deadline Dr.' Willard P. Lewis, head li brarian, has announced that all stu dents must return library books before leaving for the summer. Stu dents failing to do so by ,June 2 will have .a charge lodged against their amount at the ISursar's office. , t 1; .ar m C Y?. ' - „ _ Announces Intention To ; x r rk. • . rutt q tr y r ifftt;:. r tit tt ' • • , e Class Periods May Increase To 9 Hours Next Semester Players Pick Fry As '39 President Doty, Eames, Yanofsky . , Franck Elected To Other Offices; Members Initiated aCathri'n 1,. 'Fry 'B9 %VII:: chosen president of the Penn' State Player s at their annual dinner-dance at . the University . Club Friday night. :Other officers nanied were Vivian S. A. Doty '39, vice-president; Jane C. Eameti '4O, secretary; Herbert. S. Yanofsky '4O, treasurer; and Thomas S. Francis ''39, board member. Active members who were initiated before the supper are Jean - L. Brant '39, Karl R. Brethey '4O, Eleanor Hoffer '4O, Robert K. Ludwig '4O, and A. Noreenc Mitchell '39. • New associate members are Joiepo D. ,Bertolino '4l, Jane D. Boller '4l, Ralph R. Bollinger '4l, EdWard 11. Catlin '4l, Joseph W. Dobbs '4O, Roy , M. Hanna '39, Charles D.,llough '4l, Betty .Jantlorf '4l, Florence Mar quardt '4O, 'Jean E. Porter '4O, G. Naomi Pugh '39; Robert Robinson '4l, William A. Recap, Jr. '4O, Verna Se vast '39, C. Allen Tapman '39; Ruth L: Taylor '39, Mid Ruth E. Wagner' 3,000 Will Gather On Farmers' Day Ag. Staff 'Plans Entertainment . Here June 9; Will Explain Recent Progress Members of the staff of the School of Agriculture and Experiment Sta tion will . entertain approxitnately 3,- 000 farmers at the annual Farmers' Field Day here Thursday, June 9. New developments in agricultural engineering, agronomy, animal hus bandry, botany, dairy husbandry, for estry, horticulture, poultry husban dry, and home economics will be ex hibited and explained to visitors by members of the• departments. There will be a picnic dinner at noon in the woods near Patterson Hall, followed by entertainment and recreations in charge of Herman S. Brunner, instructor. in agricultural education, and Willis Heron, associate Professor of rural . sociology extension. Sight-seeing buses will tour. the College farms every 20 minutes. and at 3:30 in the afternoon, groups from agricultural organizations will take part in the fourth annual state-wide rural chorus 'contest in Schwab Au ditorium. Thomas I. Mairs,. .professor in charge of correspondence courses in agriculture, is in charge 'of the pro gram. WOmen's Honoraries Elect New Officers Paula 'B. Wohlfeld was elected president of Mortar Board, senior women's 'honorary, in elections held Saturday afternoon in the Hugh Bea v& Room, Old Main. L. Jean Still well was named vice-president; Eliza beth B. Long, secretary; June C. Price, treasurer; and Margaret P. Herrman, editor. ~ Ruth K. , Rieder was elected presi dent! pt . Owens, sophomore women's activities hiniotary, at elections held Sunday night, Jane IS. Hoskins be &Me vice-president; Jean C. Craig head, secretary: Harriet L. Dayton, treasurer; and Georgia W. Owen, alumna adviser. Dairy Course Offered A course in testing dairy products will be offered here August 1-6, the department of dairy manufacturing has announced. • The course is de signed to give special training in dairy testing and to qualify the stu dents for a state hoard examination. STATE COLLEGE, PA., TUESDAY, .MAY 24, 1938 Room Shortage Makes Change Necessary,. . WatkinS Says . An increase in the number_ of class periods each day begMning next, sem ester became apparent with the ap pointment yesterday of a Committee by the Council of Administration at a meeting in Old Main to study' the situation. The committee, composed of Adrian 10. Morse, Samuel K. Hostetter, as. sistants to tlie President, and Regis trar William S. Hoffman, is expected to approve the proposal early in Au gust if "deemed necessary," Ray V. Watkins, scheduling officer announced. The plan, designed to eliminate the present lack of classroom facili ties, culls for morning classes to be gin at 7:30 and end at 12:20. After. noon classes will run ,from 1:30 to 0:20. The ten-minute period between classes will be retained, ' Watkins said. Class periods will be increased from the present seven to nine per day if the proposal goes through: New Buildings Will Help • The` scheduling officer pointed out that classrooms will be lost in North Liberal Arts with more offices being added and the water tower will not (ContinuetiOn Page Tw.o) Group Discusses Social Problems International Relations Confab To Bring Many Prominent Educators Here World economic and social prob lems • will he surveyed and discussed at an institution of international re lations to be held here June 21 to July 1. The-institute has been arranged by the Auterlean Friends Service Com mittee and the Council for Social Ac tion of the Congregationalist Church. Courses to be offered include "Eth ic's and Religion Applied to World Affairs," "Economic Foundations of World Life," -"Community Programs of International Relations" and "The Present World Situation." There will also be seminar discus sions, led by prominent-educators. Chili Meng,' author of "China Speaks" and director of the China In.: stitute in America, will be one of the members of the faculty of the insti tute.- Yakishiro Sunni, counsellor of the Japanese embassy in ,Washing ton; Clark Eichelberger, director of the League of Nations Association; Kirby Page, author, lecturer, and world traveler, and other prominent educators mid economists are also in cluded. ' Average Student Is Mixture Of Conservatism, Liberalism At the annual Pennsylvania Debaters Convention held here recently it was discovered that the average American college.student is : a queer mix, Lure of the conservative and. the liberal.. • The student refuses to have the present powers of the 'Supreme, Court enlarged or cut, 'yet he is liberal in his attitude toward labor. For three years he has been a strict isolationist, refusing to sanction any entangling alliances with foreign powers, and he' believes that the United State's should not become involved in any 'wet' con cerning land action outside the Unit ed States, Among some of their opinions, as ton:piled by Prof. Joseph F. O'Brien of the division of speech, are these: :Married *omen should not be re-. placed in industry except on the basis of efficiency. The college graduate should feel tree to marry before the age of 25 on an income of $1,500 an nually. In the field of education the aver: age student advocates more careful diagnosis and guidance of incoming students; two years of general cul tural preparation before specialize- Releases Revised '3B-39 Rushing Code Mertz 37. Wins Beyer '39 Named Head Rome Fellowship Of Committee By Landscape Archgecture Award Ray Coskery Permits Gradnate Study For TwO . '}, Years Stuart M. MerW '37 has been awarded the AmeriCan Academy in Rome•fellowship a - f,andscape Archi tecture, Prof. John At. Bracken, divi -sion. of landscape : . itrellitecture, an nounced today. —,.. The fellowship which, according to Professor Bracken is the highest award that can be : g!iined in America for proficiency in thiS field, is valued at $l,OOO and willsay Mertz's ex penses and tuition .ifer two years of study in Europe. Mertz, who is now doing graduate work at Cornell, w4one of six stu dentS selected as linallsts from a field of forty entrieoqm all over the country in• a prelimiKary competition. Paul M. McCloud' another Penn State graduate, Was:lilso a finalist. In the finals, Mertz:suinnitted the best design of a batanicalgarden. Penn State hms.hail.•five men reach the finals in: previous. competitions for this . fellowship;4 Mertz n is the ta"'gain* . " While here, Mertz was president of Scarab, honorary architecture frater nity, and also a member of GM Phi, social fraternity. The winner of the competition for the Rose 'Prize in architecture, in which Joseph Bails '36 is a finalist, has not yet been announced. Balls was runner-up in last year's com petition. • Musical Grows Hold Banquet Last Night The Penn State GlCe Club and the Louise Homer Club held their annual banquet at the Nittany Lion Inn, at seven o'clock last night. A program of entertainment was presented by the two clubs. The girls' Varsity Quartette, and the men's Varsity Quartette sang after which there was dancing. The folloWing men' received' Glee Club keys for having sung with the club for three years: Frederick H. Serif '3B; Robert J. (Baxter '3B; Rich ard W. Tyrrel '39; Wilson C. Dick son '39; William M. Andrew II '39; Robert \V. Trichn '39; and Robert T. Bogenrief '3B. Oil, Gas Experts Meet Nine petroleum and natural gas technologists will lead a joint confer ence here Thursday and Friday to discuss the economic. and technolog ical nhases of the twin industries. tion; admission to the junior year only on passage of a broad, 'compre hensive examination; concentration of at least 40 per cent of the work on a specialty after the sophomore year. and adequate state scholarships for students who are intellectually ca pable but financially handicapped. The annual convention was inau gurated here to provide practice in genuine problem solution. The first convention in 1936 drew 17 delega: tions from 14 colleges and anindivid ual registration of 55. At the recent meeting 22 colleges 'and universities were represented by 25 delegations and 91 individuals. A radically revised Inferfraternity Rushing Code which w:II govern Llit. 1938-39 season was released yesterday by Raymond S. Coskery ':39, Interfrn ternity Council president. The code ivas approved by the council Thurs day night, at which time William F. Beyer II '39 was named chairman of the rushing committee for next year. Other members of the committee are Leonard Cooper, W. Jerome Ho warth, Hugh F. McKnight, Jr., and William R. Walker, all sophomores. Several minor changes have been made in the code, which was approved by the council last month with the. provision that iL could be revised ate any regular meeting of the group. Cabin Parties Permitted Under the code as it • was first passed,-'rushing outside the limits ,of State College was forbidden. This has been changed to make permissible properly chaperoned cabin parties. The code forbids the use of women in any way for rushing, barring the presence of women in a fraternity house while freshmen are there. It also bans rushing in beer establish manta. rushing' . season; ring, September to, is established by the code. The season is divided into silent, Mformal, and open. house peri ods, in addition to the dating periods which existed under the old code. Periods Are Listed A silent period will exist from the I7of summer rushing on September , 7 until 1 p. in. Saturday, September TO. It was originally planned that Sunday would be an open house pet led, meaning that freshmen could come to the house but fraternity men could not contact them outside. In• stead, fraternity men will be permit ted to accompany freshmen to the house in the evening. On Monday and Tuesday there will be informal rushing. During this per iod, fraternity men may have contact with freshmen 'anywhere except in the house and in eating establish ments. The freshmen will purchase rush ing cards on Monday, and will make dates on Tuesday. For the rest of the , week there will be breakfast, luncheon, and dinner dates. On 'Sunday, September 18, there will be another open house, followed by a silent period which will end when pledging begins at 6 o'clock Monday afternoon. After 8 o'clock Monday night fraternities may con tact, freshmen outside the house. Un der the old code, open rushing for the rest of the year did not begin until a month after the end of rushing seaL son. Enforcement Group Established The code establishes an enforce ment committee which consists of three faculty members who belong to fraternities which do not have chap ters here. Each member will be paid a sum not to exceed $15.00 by the Council. Upon finding a fraternity guilty of a code violation, the committee is obliged to impose as a mandatory penalty the postponement of pledg ing for one day, with the silent per iod ending Tuesday instead of Mon day. Story of Beethoven Is 2nd Foreign Film "The Life and Loves of Beethoven." a French production released last winter, will be shown at the Nittany theatre tonight and tomorrow. fc will be'the second outstanding foreign film brought to State College through the efforts of the Friends % of Foreign Films movement. English subtitles make this first musical biography film clear for those unfamiliar with French. The role of Beethoven is played by the outstand ing foreign character actor of the day, Harry Baur. He has been seen here previously in "Poil de Carrotte" and "Crime et ,Chatiment:" $53.64 Loss Reported On Junior Prom A defict of . $53.84 for Junior Prom was estimated in a tentative report. released yesterday by James A. Glum, dance committee chairman. Las% year a profit of $.111.26 'was realized. Kay Kyser played for a crowd of 1 732 this yea r • as compared with the 9.15 who heard Glen Gray at the . same dance in 1937. This year 070 paid ad missions 'brought the total receipts to $3,027.94. Complimentary tickets were issued to 112. Last year 831 bought tickets while 111 were given comps. Kyser's music cost $1,500 and $.lOOl was paid for decoratiOns.. Checking, compensations, advertising, taxes,' progritms and miscellaneous costs brought the total expenditures to $3,087.58. Thu same amount was paid for Casa Loma last year but an added $5O was spent for decorations at the 1937 Prom. $403.05 went for taxes last year compared to $270.84 paid out for this spring's affair. 3,500 Will Attend Summer Session 450' Separate Courses Offered TO Students by Resident, Visiting Staff About 3.500 students are expected to attend 450 separate courses which will be offered at the main summer session her . F beginning June 27 and closing August 5. The faculty will be made up of •175 resident members and 79 from other colleges and miiversities. Courses will be offered undergradu ate students who wish to continue their college work during the sum mer; social workers, librarians, grad uate nurses, and other adults quali fied to pursue with profit the courses given; teachers holding college de grees who wish to review courses in prepir•ation for advanced work,. to pursue regular courses for credit in the Graduate School or to lit them selves better for their teaching; and other graduate students who seek credit toward some particular degree., This is Lout one of the tln•ec sum mer sessions annually conducted by the College. The inter-session will begin June 7 Mul continue until June 24, and the post-session will begin August 8 and end August 26. ROTC Cadets Honor Cot. Charles Ritehel Lieulenaot Colonel Charles S. Rachel, associate professor of mili tary science and tactics, was present ed with a set of silverware by seniors in the infantry advanced ROTC course at a testimonial banquet in his honor at the Allencrest. The 36 senior cadet officers present, headed by cadet Lt. Col. Eugene For quer '3B, paid tribute to Col. Ritchel as "an officer, gentleman, and teach er." Yesterday afternoon the senior cadet officers in both the infantry and engineer advanced courses took their oath of office as second lieuten ants in the reserve corps of the U. S. Army. They *ill receive their com missions at the 'graduation ceremon ies in Ree,Hall on June 6. Honoi Society Couricil Elects Kay '39 Head Nicholas Kay '139, president of Tau Beta Pi, was elected president of Honor Society Council at the annual meeting of the organization Friday. Edwin H. Rohrbeck, associate profes sor of agricultural extension, was re elected secretary-treasurer. Honor .Society Council is composed of representatives. from 21. honor so cieties on the campus. The Council checks all admissions of members to honoraries and donates the annual Evan Pugh medals, five to juniors and five to seniors. istence l MUSHBALL TITLES Go to Watts, Phi Dolt Z 658 PRICE FIVE CENTS Peel Will Ask Aid Of Board For Clean-Up Probe Next Semester Planned Only For Improvement Sac editorial, "Amor," page 2 A thorotigh investigation of the entire campus honorary sys tem was indicated yesterday by Joseph A. Peel, '39 class presi dent. • Peel, who also is chairman of Student Board, said he would ask the Board to appoint an in vestigating committee to make an impartial probe of all campus honor societies with the hope of bringing them "hack to the level which they enjoyed a few years ago.'.' "We don't want to abolish honor aries altogether," Peel explained. "We just want to improve them and bring them bark to the level which tliey en joyed a few years ago, when students really looked up to the honorary so cieties." Peel Advises Wait Because of the small amount. of time remaining this semester, urge the .Peel said he would not urge the im , estigat!omuntil-aometime nextfall:'^ i An immediate probe, he added,. would more than likely'be just a hap hazard, inadequate study of the situ ation and "might do more harm than good." Student Board has the power to investigate the campus honorary so cieties through the authority delegat ed to it a few years ago by the Senate Committee on Student Welfare, which officially recognizes all student orga nizations. At present there are a half-dozen men's 'societies on the campus, includ ing Lon's Paw. senior; Blue Key; junior; Parini Nous and Skull and Bones, upperclass; and Friars and Druids, sophomore. Student Will Tune Pianos To Get `Seeing Eye' To earn enough money for a "see ing eye" dog, George Risk°, blind freshman student at the College's un dergraduate 'center in Uniontown, will tune 30 pianos this summer. Citizens of Uniontown are cam paigning now to secure the necessary piano tuning jobs for the boy so that he may be able to join the "seeing eye" claiss at Morristown, N. J., on July 17. Dr. It. Wallace Brewster, ad ministrative head of the Fayette cen ter, said yesterday. Risk° is IS and has been Iliad since birth because of defective ret ina. A graduate from the Western Pennsylvania School for the Blind, he .made excellent grades in the Col lege aptitude test given' to hint before he was accepted as a student at the center. Lessons are read to him by six stu dents at the center who work on a definite schedule which utilizes all of Itisko's vacant periods during the day. He takes notes in class by Braille shorthand. All of his written work is prepared nn a typewriter by use of the touch system. At the close of last semester, Itisko placed high in the, upper 25 per cent of-tie freshman class at the center. Final Art Exhibition To End On Saturday The exhibition of water color ren derings of distinguished examples of early American design from all sec tions of the country will be held until Saturday. This is the final exhibi tion of the 1937-38 season sponsored by the Division of Fine Arts. The exhibition is open daily from 8:30 a. m. to 8:30 p. m. in the Col lege Gallery, 303 Main Engineering.
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