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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
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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.
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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
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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.