Page Two PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Successor to The Free Lance, established 1887 Published mnni•weekly during the College year, except on holiday., by students of The Penneyimnia State College, M the Interest of the College, the student., faculty, alumni, and friend.. I=l JOHN A. TROANOVITCII . 39 FRANCIS A. C. VOSTERS, JR. '39 Editor Rosiness Manager HERBERT B. CAHAN Sporis Editnr ROY B. NICHOLS. JR. '39 RICHARD W. ROOM AN . 39 Miaowing Editor Circulat ion Aloniotor SALVATORE S. SALA '39 RALPH R.. MINDLACH '35 News Editor PrOinot lon 31anatter ALAN C. McINTYRE '39 Feature Editor THOMAS A. BOAT. '39 Assistant Managing Editor BRUCE B. TRABUE..'39 LUC/LI.E B. GREENBERG '.lO Assistant Sports Editor Wrosn's Editor REITA E. SHEEN ID Associate Women's Editor 1937 Member 1938 Pssocialed Colle6icrte Press Distributor of Colletsiate DitSest A. William Engel, Jr. 90 Paul S. Heldman. Jr. '9O Bernard A. Newman '4O Herbert Nipson '4O Bradley Owens '4O Emanuel Both '4O George B. SOless '4O Robert L. Wilson '9O Women's Associate Editors Natalie K. Atkins 10 Helen 1,. Camp '4O Phyllis R. Gordon '4O Associate Business Managers C. Russell Eck '4O Richard L. Skirble '4O Doris C. Gutman '4O Alternates to Associate Business Managers Eleanor H. Holler '4O Elroy T. Wenner '4O National Advertising Service, Inc College Publishers Rejl iiiiiiiiiii 420 MADISON Ave. New Y 044 N.Y. CNICADO • BOSTON • RAN FRANCIS , Lo• ANGELS. • PORTLAND • Nlnneeinw Editor This Issue News Edhos This Issue Tuesday, May 24, 19:18 AMEN NOW THAT 'fin Class President Joseph A. Peel has indicated his future course, a much-needed investiation of the campus honorary societies seems imminent. Only unexpected intervention by the Senate Commit tee on Student Welfare o• an adverse vote by Student Board would he able to block the investigation. In view of the past record of the Senate Committee nn Student Welfare, however, it seems highly improh ah:e that any intervention will come from that source. Ever since its establishment almost a decade ago, the Senate Committee on Student Welfare has wisely pro. ceeded upon the grounds that satisfactory student con ditions can best be attained through independent stta dpnt action and that outs:de intervention' should come, only when students become incapable of handling the situation or when administration policy itself is in volved. This course has proved satisfactorily workable and efficient, and its continuation is to be commended. It is in line with this policy that the prevent govern mental machinery exists on this campus. And it is in line with this policy that the Senate Committee a few years ago delegated its authority over student organiza tions like the honorary societies to Student Board, one of the leading organs of student self-government. It must he understood, however, that Student Board has no inherent right to control campus honorary socie ties. The right is only one growing out of the powers delegated to it by the Senate CoMmittee, which alone holds life-and•death authority over the societies. But under the existing setup, Student Board could go aliete and investigate the honoraries here, although its control over them is limited to the presentation to the Senate Committee of recommendations for desired action. Nevertheless, it is not taking too much for grunted to say it is more than likely that the Senate Committee would abrile by the wishes of an organ of student gov ernment on an issue involving only students themselves. Thus it becomes not only the right but the duty of Student !Board to act. As for the investigation itself, them , seems to he no doubt but that one is badly needed. The honoraries definitely have lost a good deal of the'a• prestige. Average student opinion has turned against them—if not against all' honoraries, then against most of them. These are facts which need no further elucidation. If you don't believe them, just stop any student On the campus and ask him what he thinks of the honoraries. At least nine out of ten would sub stantiate this. For the sake of the students and for the sake of the honm'aries themselves, these conditions should not be permitted to exist. An investigati•n could 40 nothing but aid in remedy ing the situation. The least a thorough investigation could do would he to present the facts more clearly. If . for no other reason titan this, an investigation is needed. Above all, however, it should he a thorough and a sin cere investigation. It should be an investigation aimed not at deliberately destroying the honoraries without any reason whatsoever, hut an investigation aimed at clearing up the muddle and helping not only the :ancient body but the honoraries themselves. Now that . the personnel of the honoraries has under gone the usual yearly change, it must he remembered in dealing with the whole matter that the new members are not responsible for whatever may he wrong with the present setup. They have it within their power, however, to aid in remedying and eliminating the exist ing evils, which they have inherited. In view of this, it is heartening to note that President Peel has decided to delay his request for an-investiga tion until next Pall. With ample time to gear themselves to their new re sponsibilities, the new members of the honoraries will have a real opportunity awaiting them next Septem her—an opportunity to cooperate with Student Board if and when the investigation gets under way, an oppor tunity to clean up the dirt and eliminate the evils, an opportunity to regain their prestige, an opportunity to restore the word honorary to its true meaning. Thus the Collegian rests its ease, confident that those honoraries which do not have guilty consciences and those honoraries which really are sincere about cleaning JEItOIIE SHAFFEIt '39 Advertising Manager DALLAS S. LONG '39 Foreign Advertising :Mummer NARY J. SAMPLE '39 Senior Secymary Morris Schwab '4O Burton C. Willis. Jr. '4O Janet E. Story '4O W. Bradley Oxrns 'I _George B. Seldemb OLD MANIA With Our Contemporaries: Editor-In•Chief John Pearce of the Kappa Sigs' chapter newspaper writes •in' his editorial colyum, "Numerous improvements designed to add to the beauty of the chapter property have been made re cently. The bathroom on the second floor has been remodeled and is now one of the showplaces of the CampteL" The paper also includes an article telling of a search conducted for pews for the chapter room, "As yet we have been unable to locate an abandoned church or one being redecorated which might prove a source of free pews. If any alumnus knows of the location of a good set of used pews, let us know:' • And then Co-Edition, W. S. G. A. rag, says in its Fashions for Summer column, "As to acquiring a sun tan, there are lots and lots of really cute lastex bath ing suits that put the lounge; where they should be and take them away from where they should never • • • If at First You Don't Succeed Once there was a football player named Wauga man. He lived at the Theta Xi house. One summer he was married. Then Spring came. Wangle chewed his nails. He forgot his hat. Ile made Many phone calls. Last Sunday he made a hurried trip to Greens burg. Monday night the TX Rushing Chairman re ceived this telegram I GUESS I'M NOT MAN ENOUGH STOP IT'S A GIRL. =Ma Seen in the Funnies: _ During the four and a half hours Maniac spent reading the funny papers on Sunday, he was startled at the following 'dead ringers: Harold Teen Ray Cookery Milquetoast._ Dr. "Whispering" Kelly Bungle. ' Prof. Mitch Little King ..Senator Szymczak Major lionple. _Sheldon "I Ain" Tanner Jiggs 'Jack "Bell" Kulp - • Clarence _ .1. Burne Heinle Boots .Lou Emmert Shadow: Bill Migel Jungls Jim. Doc Lepley =MI Against the Rules No one downtown. Study hour actually kept in the House ... Not 'ouch sleep ... No dates It's final Week again ... Maniac is reminded of the story of last Semester's Phil 7. final when one of the hays lwa 'Leidy , opened his text honk, not seeing good old Dad Runk:e behind kin,. Runkle wired, "Hey, you can't fla that here! Put out that cigarette." =MO It Wouldn't Take Long Doe Dunaway was lecturing his Pennsylvania his tory class on the cultural history of the state the other day. lie had just mentioned in passing about . music: When he 'explained that he . Was sorry' he couldn't take more time to explain all he knew about music, someone from the back of the room called, "Am! Co on, take another two minutes." =Ma Lepley Again: Psy. 2 students, while studying for their final in Doc Lepley's sections, discovered this definition in his list of disinhibitions: "Alcohol—uncovers things ordinarily covered." + + + Chatter: Bea Quinn got that pin from Bud Schenk finally ... and Janet Story is just dying to see her name in the colyum again—saying she acquired her fifth fra ternity pin ... from Swell Boy Ed Hine, delta sig . The Anchorage girls are putting the heartbreak on Phi Delts Williams and Troy . . . Joe Dobbs stingy with that smooth date at Players' dance . . . Lou Bell's heart flipped when he saw a ten dollar bill sticking out of the end of a Journ 15 bluebook . . some prankster had pasted just a corner of a bill on one of the pages . after all these admonishing poems we read on washroom walls about piptures and things ... and Maniac hears Prof Andy Case has a painting in SLA women's rest loom ... the rotissie •cannon wasn't painted by Druids initiates . . . Col. 'Preparedness" Venable had it camouflaged • READING • NO LONGER REQUIRED • SCHOOL OVER! NOW HE'LL ENJOY BOOKS. GIVE THEM FOR GRADUA TION! ON OUR SHELVES YOU WILL FIND THE LATEST BOOKS OF ALL MAJOR PUBLISHING • HOUSES, AND IN ADDITION, PRESS BOOKS AND LIMITED EDITIONS. SUGG,ESTIONS: + THE EDUCATION OF HYMAN ICAPLAN, By LEONARD Q. Ross—s2.oo + THE CULTURE OP CITIES, By LEms . Munworto—ss.oo. THE TYRANNY OP FORDS, By STUART CI I ASE—$2.5O + HOPE OF HEAVEN, By . JOHN O'HARA—S2.OO THE FIGHT FOR LIFE, By PAUL. DE KRUM' —53.00 KEELER'S THE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Serves 10 Years - I JOHN H. FRIZZELL Chaplain Recalls 10 Years' Service Prof. Fri2zell Praises Response; , Calls Attendance Tribute To College Spirit Prof. John H. Prizzell completed ten years of service as College chap lain Sunday morning as he .remi nisced on the subject, "The Signifi cance -of. Sunday Chapel to Pennsyl vania State." "This chapel is evidence and vindi cation of the rightness of voluntary chapel," he said, .and occupies a unique pos:tion among the colleges of America." Ten years ago there was compel-, Sory chapel, and when it was made; voluntary many people predicted that; chapel . would die,. but it has continued I for eight,. year's, .he said. It is now' definitely established as an old and respectable Penn State tradition. Great preachers come to face a group of people who are here because they want to he here, and find a sympa thetic audience that inspires and strengthens the belief these college men and women express, he continued. In the preface of a book contain ing prayers, invocations, and talks he has used in the-last ten years, which he tajn the midst of writing, Prates sor Frizzell explains what it is that makes this chapel unique. lie believes it is- sitth to three main fac tors: the uniforMly high quality of the ninny leading;,Clergymetrof Amer ica who come here Week by week, the splendid music of • the choir, and the vital interest of Young men and wom en of college age in things that have to do with religion. - • "This chapel has strived to give the College a message of its day and for its slay, and not a. decalogue of Thou Shalt N 06," .he explained. "Nobody cares a fig for this so called religion if doesn't make you kind, .considerate, and helpful to I other people," the chaplain said in explaining that - we must learn to live With each other like civilized beings. Nine Class Periods Scheduled Next Year (Continued From Page One) be available when its four rooms will be turned over to' the School of Phys ical Education and Athletics in Sep tember. A total of - 312 seats in both.build ings will be lost next September, ac cording to Watkins. He explained that the situatinn woulil be greatly relieved if the Agricultural Engineer ing, Agricultural Science, and For estry buildings would be completed by the beginning of the second semes ter, as indicate&by building plans. -MANIAC Alumnus Wins Awdrd Charles Ramienbush 'WI, electrical engineering, today was appointed it research fellow at Lehigh University by Dr. C. C. Williams, president. of the aniversity. Ile will hold a James Ward 'Packet d .fieseareh Fellowship - In Mee trieal engineering under Dr. Stanley Scyfert, head of the Lehigh depart meat. of electrical engineering. BARBOUR HOUSE 330 WEST 36th STREET NEW FORK CITY A Residence for:.young business men, women and students. Rates, incind lug maid servic:e, breakfast and din ner. £l2 to SM Aveekly fat• nien; Slit to SI2 for women. Deliglithil lounges, roof terraces, athletic activities. • Lots and Houses Fot . Sale Eugene H. Lederer LICENSED REAL ESTATE BROKER Developer Or the Fraternity Section Office Next - to Post Office 114 E. Beaver Ave. Blue Key Makes Reform Attempt (Continued From Page One) aiding in the enforiement of fresh man customs, we make an appeal to the senior class president, Joseph A. Peel, that in the selection of members for Student Tribunal, one representative from .the Blue Key society he included. This appoint ment will certainly he justified by our sincere pledge to 'aid in the en forcement of freshman customs. ten many occasions the College has need of ushers at athletic events, and as a society we shall be available whenever' called upon. . It is well known that. we have an outstanding financial obligation contracted in previous years and which we naturally inherit. We shall reduce this debt fifty per cent or more. In closing, we want to ask the co operation of the Collegian in all our endenyors to justify our exis tence. (Signed) BLUE KEY SOCJEW Howard-C. Anderson '.lO, President. There are goad jabs with Esquire • Each year ESQUIRE employs a num ber of men from college graduating dames. The publishing business is no Sinecure. Inexperienced people start at the bot. tom, of course ... usually in circulation or merchandising departments. It takes work and real ability to get to the lop and stay there. But it's interesting ... and men with ability climb fast. There's ospecial testing job—in the field right where you're going to school ... that will he remunerative In proportion to results and will qualify outstanding performers to special con• sideration for permanent jobs with Esquire• Coronet, Inc. Seniors write us for complete in. formation. 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