Seml-1211eekly 10, LIBRARY EWES SUCCESSOR . ) 7 -;11:3 - 4 - . - y ; „ . _ P IIH* tin /// 40 titlar , - \''' • ''''' L. 2 Tottrgi '- ' To The Free Lance, ' . ( 4_ : 7 1 Established 1887 .S ,---. ' - p `:!./:„; _ VOLUME 35-NO. 36 Z 658 . , Trustees Shelve: Definite Action On Name Change JAMES TO CUT APPROPRIATION REQUEST, IS BELIEF Committee , Asks More 'Study Time Proposals I May - Not Be Acted Upon • Until June . Possibilities 6f changing the name of the College to University before the coming Jiine commencement appear ed dim today, with the Board of Trustees deferring definite action on the proposal at'its semi-annual meeting in Har risburg January 28 The move to delay official action _ . on the name change was prompted • by the report of a special com mittee studying the College dilu tor, which wilted for additional time to complete its milk. The committee was appointed by the Booed last year to sm.-am ize the chatter for outworn pro 'Visions so that -they might be changed along with the name and thus eliminate the necessity of mote than one-special court Lie ' lion. Board Meets en June Inasmuch as the entice mem bership of the &aid, which must approve the change before It goes to the courts, does not meet again until June, the name cannot be changed before then unless, the Executive Committee calls a 'spe-' 3hial -meeting 'at one , of-Itai egulaV monthly sessions indicatone were that the special charter committee' would be unable to complete its studies before then, ptimarily be cause the trustees ate non-salaried officials from all wilts of the state, engaged in titivate enter- prise' This, it was believed, would In event any immediate completion ) of the charter study 'Charlie Smith'S Band To_ Play Forestry Ball The second annual Forestry Ball, sponsored by the forestry society, will be held in the Manny Lion Inn on nifty, February 17 Music will lie futhished by Chadic Smith and his orchestra The dance will be An mal.with the admission pima set at $8 pet - couple, dancing hum 9 pin to I p m Women students will have Mee `o'clock - permissions for - the ball t . which' is being arranged by a Com- Mitten composed of Japes K. -Brown '4O, Wißlain W. Sutherland '39; and Henry C Hitchcock '39 „A dinner for all members of the fore Stay department will be given before the dance by Prof.Nictor Beede, head of the department Revisions In=Tirne Table Announced By, Watkins Stxty-eiglit changes , in the .,. bet nuanced yesterday gy Bay V. Watki The chaiiges include temsions time of meeting, ilea' place of mee chided in the tune table. - ABCh 26'00.8 SotHb Py W 9-12 Th 1-4 205 PH - ABCh 20900 A Agio Th 10 F 3 206 Ag T F 10-12 205 PH A H 421 07 A.B Recitation M 3 2O6Ag Art 52 10 Fr ArtEd f M 1-4 221 Eng F ' But 40013 All Sections TFII 208 BuLab ChE 416: Sr',ChE(L-Z) T 8 304 Bil Lab Th 9-11 1-6 Chß Dram 311.22 M 9 5 Main T 7-10 -"pm 308 MEng ,Econ 512, 501; 507, 508, 508,Appt F 4 3,NLA ' ' Ed 70 25 A 'and B 1' W 1 200 WT Ed 424 25. PCI Th 1 110 HE'Kelly EnglConip 9.32 t W S 11 T Tit, 2 ' .41 F ;11.2'SLA EngLA 100 83 31-Th 11 F 4 124 SLA , , Eng Lit 456 82 M Th 8 F 1 5 Main , ZngLit 473.33 I".F 8 W 1 239 SLA College Senate Re Student requests to reopen the question of the mid-year vacation for next yeas in order to present their views on the mattes Nieto grantjd by the College Senate at its meeting Thursday.- The three representatives whose names ap peared on the official petitioq of Student Board and Student Council will be permitted to'present the students' case at the next Meeting of the Senate, ,Thursday, March 3. The representatives ,are Joseph A. Peel, '39 class president, who also is chairman of Board and Council; Raymond S. Coskery '39, president of Interfrateintty Council and secretary of Board, and-Walter A Jones, '4O class head and secretary of Council, A motion to set up a special committee to hear the students' views and report to the Sen ate and another to call the Senate into-special Co-Ed Party Will Launch Rush Period Plit-ilet Lists 2-Weeks Rule.l4. Regulations Sorority rushing opens on a two weeks ,period tumertow with _the Pun-Hellenic party for all sorority and interested women students in Athol ton• Hull from 3 to 5 011 p m This all sorority open house is ht charge of Marled hi Watson '4O, Doria I. Jones '.lO, and Ann R Mainhort '4O Mrs Robert C Bern route!. Mrs Elwood C Davis. Mrs Morris Bench, Mrs IS 4.1 Forbes, Mrs Clyde Haller, Mrs Carl P Schott, hlibß M .6` Burlcholdet.'end Mies Ruth 10' Graham will pool :Invitation parties:and Individual contacts are not allowed this week, (Continued On Page Three) 8 A. M. Classes Open Semester Tomorrow; , Pan Fees Next Week Second semebter' will start with 8 o'clock clashes tomorrow mm sing, Registration Will end this afternoon at 5 o'clock in Recreation Hall Payment of fees is scheduled for a week from this Thursday' and Friday in the Arrnory, ac . cording to a report from the Bur• bar's office Smith_ Will Present Photography ;Course A series of non credit informal lectures and laboratory Practicums in photography will be offered during the second set - nester by C W Smith, photograpitet of the School of Agriculture Enrollment will be limited. GIL Smith stated, - and mged \all per sons'intetested to report to him at. JUG Horticulture Building between :1 and o'clock ,tuday so, that - the enrollment mid the time that - the course can be given may be decid ed upon :cued semester tune table were no uns, scheduling Omer. in 48 courses necessitated by new Ming, or addition of,coursea not in- HealthEd 215.43 MW9 DRIH FlO 121 HE. HE 4384: T Th 2 19 HE Hyd 1.47. 1 A M Th 8 F 1 206 EngE Hyd 2 47 A M. Th 11 T 2 201 EngC Hyd 7.24 M 8-11 T.Q . -12 206 EngA IE 316.48 T 1 120 Engß Th 1 208 Eng C Rouch. FI-3 201'EngC IE 401.48 B M Th 9,201 EngC DI 1-3 T,2-4 201 Eng C I LE 401.98.0 T Th 1 201 Eng C IK 3-6,201 Eng C IE 40148. D Jr IE (She-Z) 01 Th 8 201 EngC T F 8-19 201 EngC IE Lab 104.49. D 'So Foi (Gb-HE) Thlo 123 Engß_W 3.5 101 EngC IniiEd 9v.50 By*Appt Ist Meeting W 4 300 EngC Jour 68.53 Sr Jour TFIO 213 Main Lat 12.56 T F 10 Libß Mchs 3 59. A• ht 4 205 Eng A Math 29.68 WS 10 M 3 239 SLA PolSm 7.77. Th 7 p m 207:HE (Continued From• Page Three) pens Mid-Year Re Seb`.lol) to an the case next Thuisday were both defeated The action of the Senate NHY in answer to petitions adopted by the Men's and Women's Student Government Associations asking that_ the mid-year vacation question be re-opened and that the Senate permit student representatives to present their case Week Added ' The campaign for a recess between semesters \t as launched by the Collegian last MaiLh 15' and intensified immediately by the petition of ,the School of Liberal Arts, asking that the Cal endai Committee pwivide foi one in the 1938-39 calendar. The CoMmittee rejected this proposal and lowed thi ough by adding an additional week, ising the number of school days to 188, highest SWING ? BUNK I DUKE EI:L.JWG;rOI , 4 , . • + + ,+ `Swing 'ls Stagnant, Jazz Moves.on,': Asserts - - Duke Duke Ellington, Slated to play fm Benioi Ball on Febtuare 24, be llwes tßut swing 11111b100 has be come stagnant 111 the February, issue, of Down Beat, the Duke says, "Nothing of importance, nothing new, nothing either original or creative has ot.- canted lit the swing world during the past two years , "It he the repetition and monot ony of the present day, swing ar rangements which bode 111 for the fame," he adds "The mechanics of most of the 'killer diners' are MIIIIIIII and of elementar3 quality." Jazz Still Dvieloping ,J,ltz, which Ellington, says is still In the developing stage, haS fought Its way upward through the effoi Ls of silicate wad Irate music ians. It has been unitualy criticised by its own ' , causitied critics. those fanatical fans who "have woven about It Interminable' toad," he says , , ElHugon. long a , proponent of the artistic in original inlerpreta dolls and creations of contempor ary dame music, feels that the gt on th of popular enthusiasm over b%Sillg has distorted its true values and set up false values in their places ' "As boon as the artistic point of view gains minium alai- standing, which - has happened to swing, ar tistry bows itself out, leaving In bptrattott to die a slow death," Balm the famous Negro composer 'and in ehestra leader To' Speak In Kansas Prof Jonathan ,W White ' , de partmea of agronomy, will ad dress the National Convention of Golf Course Superintendents at Kansas City tomorrow on the sub ject "The State Agricultural Ex periment Station and the Golf Course Superintendent." - ' WHAT do you know And what do you say? See what the stu dent thinks on the mid-year vacation issue. - / . ' - PAGE 3 STATE COLLEGE, PA.,' TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1939 Students Unite In Reform Of Housing The Housing Situation Collegian housing survey completed December 20) Semite Welfare Committee , I:egins spedal housing discussions (January 10) Collegian !Me room for only 319 More atudent.4 January 13) Dean Warnock lists legal pea era of College with regard to housing State'College Federation of TeaLuers urges action on housing (Janu ari 17) Burgess Leltzell culls on Board of Health for action (January 20) Dr Joseph P -Ritenour answers Lenz°ll No inspectioins of room ing houses unless health hazards 'reported, four point recommendation to Piesident Nebel by Welfare ComMittee on quantity housing (Janu ary 24) State Department of Labor ant rooming houses, ex Buigess, Letl;ir townspeople's investments. (Jams., Students unite in housing refor) gram of action (February 7). Report ,Hazards, Students Urged Forwarding a live point program for housing reform, the Public Af fairs Committee of the Christian Association In a statement to the Collegian yesterday called upon ',Monts to report hazards to health in rooming houses to the Bpi etugh Board of Health The committees proposal ex plained that this should be done "duce this is the only basis upon which the Board is required to make an Inspection according to Dr Ititenout. president of the Board " Remaining nolutb 'minded were I—The College should take a more at.tive interest In the housing of all students and should therefore set up minimum re ntal] miming consistent wit Ii . • healtli and deLentrfor all a tu dent rooms 2—A Ilbt or all houses _meeting these requirements should be (Continued On Page Three) Blind Scholar Honored As 195 Graduate At Midyear Led across the platfoini by his Seeing Eye dug, Vernon Lee Hull, blind John W. White scholar and honor student in Arts and Letters, leceived the applause of a capacity midyear crowd in Schwab Audi torium Friday night, as President Ralph Dern Hetzel presented him with his baccalaureate degree. Leading the 195 recipients of degreeslkeiethe following graduates with an all-College average of 24 or higher. Hull, Justin C. Fuller, Alvin J. Isecovitz, Charles W. Lines, Jr., Martin L Kobh, Charles M Speidel, Montis R Klepper, Carolyn L. McConnell and Jerome Shaffer. Doctor of Philosophy degrees dent of Dickinson College, told the were presented to John S, Bow. candidates before they received man ant Edward J. Nichols, As- their degrees. sociate Professors of English Lit- "This increased interest in be erature, and to Edward J. Ca lief in education is not due to the psychology; L Ru st, increased advertising of, an arti physics; Wilford P. Musgrave, ficial need," Dr. Corson said, "but French; and Julian Glasser, Ben- rather to the deep-seated behef,of ,gamin R. Harriman, Ewald Rohr- the American people that much of mann, and Charles W. Sailer, our trouble is due to the fact that chemistry. Master of Arts degrees we have approached our problems were presented to 33 candidates, ignorantly." While 14 received the degree of Dr. Corson concluded that the Master of 'Science. present widespread progress in Dr. Corson Speaks education has grown out of the "There is a decidedly increasing fact that we live in a world that hope among the American people is scientific, complex, frontierless for the process of education to and pessimistic. Only the scholars, successfully facethe world's prob- har'pointed out, can meet the prob lems," Dr. Fred P. Corson, presi- lems of such a world. , ess Question; Will in the last decade if not longer. According to the' Calendar Committe, how eve:, the proposed calendar for this year was approved by Student Board, and the issue faded The drive fin the recess, nevertheless, cropped up again this year when the Calendar Commit tee asked Student Board to appoint a special student committee to propose changes for the 1939-40 calendar The . committee asked for a mid-yeas vacation and half-day extensions 'of the Thanksgiving and annual football holidays ReJected Without Reason The iequests of the students were tinned down by the Calendar Committee, howevei, and when Student Council appointed another spe cial investigating committee to asceitain the reasons foi such action, Prof. Elton - D chairman of the Calendar Committee, refused to al ludustri to probe fire haiards in 41.1i ' calls on College to guarantee ..;"-27) , _- m, Christian Absodation maps pro- Campus Groups To Map Drive Acting to mescall a united stu dent [tont for housing reform ht State College, six organitutions will meet at 4 p m tomorrow in the Christian Association office to consider specific proposals to al leviate the housing situation here The meeting will be headed by Attain Rockwell '4O, 'Chairman of the Public Affairs Committee of the Chi Whin Association Otgitmisations and their repre bentatlves mill be Alen's Studen Govelitment Association, Joseph Peel 'JD, Women's StudeuC Gov ernment Association, Doris Blake mole '49, American Student. tin ion, leda Moskalik '3O, Penn State Club, Robert Smith ':Pi, CM 'Alan Association, Martin Rock% ell '4O, and Collegian, Sm anuel Ruth '4O Hear Studen't Case reveal them, stating the Senate just rejected them without. reason Petitions then were dtawn up by unanimous vote of Student Board and Student Council, ask ing a re-opening the whole case Efforts to obtain amid-yeas recess for this yeas were stymied by the Council of Adminis tiation at its meeting January 23, when it decid ed that the College Senate should not be called into special session on the matte" because it felt that "a change in the calendar for this academic yeas is not practicable." The Pi esident's Office then was requested to notify the petitioners.of this action and to in foi m them that "the petitions therefore would go before the next meeting of the Senate for considelation , insofar as the calendar for the next academic year is concerned " PIANO DUO ° THE LHEVINNES + + + ,_ 40 Years Together, Lhevinnes Mark Anniversary Josef and ROSilld Lhevinne, cele brated too piano team, will appear hem on an appropilate date—St Valentine , ' Day—for their career is truly a romantic ono Both were born in MOSLOW and met as pupils in the Moscow Inn portal Conservgtory of Music Ro shin one 9, Josef was 14 at the time Nine years 'alai they were married and this yeas are celebrat ing the 40th anniversary of their• musical and marital life together The Llievinnes will play here tot the Mild number of the ,At ists' Course as one of thou' appearances In a nation-wide comma tom On January 14 they played in Caine gle Hall, New York, exactly 40 years after their debut In Russia as two Plana team in 1599 Guests of Philharmonic Lust August the Llievinnes up peat ed at the Lew !balm Stadium, New )ork as guest at tists with the Philharmonic-Symphony The New York Times bald of this ton' cent "The pianists . attracted ilia audience of some 6,500 ‘ A poise, which communicated itself to the entire performance, pro- Unified the a itibts of long and common experience" , Josef Lhevinne first tame to America In 1905 Ms o ite Joined him tlqi }eats latei They pet formed hale each season/from 190 to 11114. I%lien the , . retained to Ger many and were interned in Beilin at the outbreak of the AVM Id Wm They returned to America and es tablished permanent, residence here ha 1918 They hare appealed in more than MI cities in the Unit ed States and Canada since that time Tickets for the Llievinues' con cent bete are available at $125 each, according to Dr Coil El Mar emu dt, chairman of the Artists' Course committee To Show Youth Film "Youth Matches On,' a movie short which tells the admentures of three young men in an Oxford Group camp up in Canada, will be shown, at the State Theatte this Thursday and Friday The characters are all hem teal life, with a Canadian named Cecil Broadhurst taking the leading role as a smiling cowhand who sings the catchy theme song, "Wise-Old Horsey." Pinball Games May Get Axe In Police Ban Anti-Gambling Drive To Clean Up,County Whether State College's pinball machines would fall under the axe of Centre County District Attoiney . Mubsel IV Gettig'n anti gambling e,impaign remained clouded today an State Motor Police swung into the nittli day of their drive to clam up the county of all ton mu of gambling and lotteries The cleanup nos ordered lent Wednesday by bintriet Attorney Gettig as li:result of demands from county ret.idontb, following oil the heels of similar action taken in nearby counties in recent necks Specifically listed under Gettig's ban were theatre bank nights, suit clubs furniture clubs, punch boards, slot machines. daily and meekly (11 . 411,113g5, bingo games and met chandising schemes Pinball machines, NV h Ith pay money openly despite "tot amuse went only" signs remained un touched, home% m % Graduate Has Lead In Play Alexander May, pro nu Sent. stage, screen and radio ador and a Penn State graduate, this week Is singing the leading role in "Rio Rita," theatiical presentation of York Post, No 127, Amer can Legion. Dean of Men Arthur R War sock and Edward B Hibshman, executive secretai y of the Penn State Alumni Association, extend ed telegraphic congratulations to Gray last week when he appealed at a dinner in his honor in York It was announced that tonight be known as Penn State night at the show. Poll Indicates Students . Favor Free Class Cuts BY Student Opinion Su) yens AUSTIN, Ter, Feb g—Abob in colleges, a subject seldom mentio issue of the day. That development by educators like Robert hI Elute' allows students to attend classes at Few schools, however, have Coll say of Chicago The majority of th e pulsory class attendence in vaiymg Although educators discuss the question among themselves, sel dom have they asked the opinions of the students, who are most interested in the question The Student Opinion Surveys of Mum ma is able to give voice foi the fist time to the students' views on the issue. Poll Taken The nation's college youth teas asked "Should compulsory class attendence in colleges be abolish ed" The vote Yea No Even though the poll revealed a sizeable majority who :favored abolition of compulsory attend- E=MEM IMIEMI EMI= PRICE FIVE CENTS Hoped-For 62 Millions Improbable Governor Won't Cut 1939 Grant Under 1937-38 Level Special to the Collegian HARRISBURG, Feb. 6 In line with his determina tion to balance the state bud get at all costs, Governor Ar thur H. James today was be lieved ready to slash subsid ies to educational institutions for the coming biennium, in cluding the iegular mainten ance appropriation request of the state-supported Pennsyl vania State College. Although the Governor himself would go no fusthes than to ack nowledge the possibility of such a move, authositative sources held firmly to the belief that James would not allocate the 6 3 A millions ,which Piesident Ralph D. Hetzel said he would ask last October Speaking before a special as semblage 'of the College's senior class, President Hetzel said at chat time• "Soon we must ask the Legislature for a 50 percent in mese in the school's appropria tion from the state . We must ask foe 6% millions for operations, during the next ,no years." Won't Cut Old Grant The same sources held, how ever, that it was highly improb able that James would cut the maintenance appioratation below the $4,150,000 allocated by formes Governca George H. Haile for the 1937-39 biennium Theis belief on this point, they explained, was based on the fact that because of the $5,000,000 PWA-GSA building program now neasizig completion these, the Col lege would need ap even largos maintenance appropriation than before. Thus, they said, James could not possibly save any money on this item without sacrificing the full utilization of the College's ex panded facilities. The Governor indicated last week he would present his .fiscal budget to the Legislature tonight but said over the weekendlthar he might be forced tdelay this until lutes in the vieek. Gross Will Speak Tomorrow lis lie C Gloss, leetuiei - foi the Pennsylvania State Giunge, Null speak on "Social Life in-Rue al Communities," at on airienMeet ing in Room 100 Hort=Buie Building at 4 10 p m next Wed nesday bon of compulsory class attendenle ned tuo decades ago, has become an seems largely a result of ironed t nig tuns with has Chicago Plan, Nsinch then own disetetion lowed the lead taken by the Untvet nation's colleges still requite coin- ence, the fact that 'note than a thud opposed the idea is signifi cant It invalidates the claim of many Obis that practically all students, if given any say, would want to do away with compulsory presence in classes thanking down the tesulta "sec tionally, sentiment fasoi mg aboli tion is stiongest in the East. The Middle Atlantic states showed a majority of 687 percent who ans wered "yes " In the West - and Midwest, students wale more even ly divided on the issue. In the West Central states, which include the Chicago section, a bare ma aotity-58 8 pet cent—were for abolition.
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