Seml-AA/eekly " 304 OLD KAIL' •Hr | Jjrmt #tatf A (Snllrgiatt I=■ .■ --35 1 VOL 36--No. 13 Between The Lions Bolj Wilson Dear Mr Higgins: I have!,just summoned the Society for Prevention ox Cruelty to'Good Athletes to an emergency meeting here to- morrow. ■ ; , I took the' liberty,of wiring them because I feel, like all of the undergraduates here at school and the alumni abroad, that drastic steps should taken at once to aid your be wildered football Lions—especially in the face of what hap pened to them, at Cornell last Saturday ..As if I need to remind vou, Saturday’s defeat was the worst any Penn State, football team has suffered in the past ten years. And yet, this was supposed to have been the best Lion outfit to stalk'the Niltany Valley for a good many sea sons. . Now don’t get me wrong, Mr. Higgins, your team isn’t bad. It’s the way they’re taught to play! Your system might have been great back in the days when Penh State teams ’used to pack ’em in. I say "might ’have been great” simply because I can’t find liguies that prove you ever did coach a really great team ' ’ - In fact, a suick glance at your record shows exactly the ’opposite.: In nine-seasons (not counting the current one) as (heiid Lion mentor your teams have won only 28 games aga/inst 40 defeats.' Four games were, deadlocks. The books 'alsc show that while your team managed to defeat Lebanon ‘Valley and Lehigh rather consistently and maybe pull one m'pset a season, they were drubbed often and easily by teams If rom inferior schools. Pitiful, isn’t-it? ’ , r l- ' There must'be some reason, then, for Penn State’s per ennially poor showing on the gndn on I for one (and I ami mot alone) believe that the answer lies in State’s inbred coaching system. - . - Eminent physicians claim that inbreeding weakens fam ilies. Eminent sportswriters claim that inbreeding also weakens football systems And youis, Mr. Higgins,, is cer tainly, an inbred system. Penn State coaching staffs for years have been composed of Penn State men only—men who .know no othei system than the Penn State system. ' _ , Oh, I won’t say your system is the worst in the country. '(But-I can think", what T-damn J please, and boy, am i! think- iinir!!! -;' - ■ .''i’-'- - - 1.", ',, , !the Cruelty Prevention tomorrow..' - " ■ . •' the m?,-,' ,J ' ' ' / Should ijsay that'Bob Higgins has 45 good athletes, the majority .of.whom would be stars at any other college? i / Shoiild Lpomt but that at Penn State they are not stars: that their’talents are being abused?' ( •i 'Should;l,tell them that Bob Higgins is making sows’ •ehli'h out'of silk purses? ; _ r - What would you tell them, Mr Higgins? >43 ‘Ali-College Party’ Enters Political Scene By WILLIAM E. FOWLER Political histoiy was made last 'week The '43 f All-College Party—a new 1 name on Penn State's political liorizon—was oftieially christened by a'group of some 60 freshman ‘politicians J With the choice of Gloria M. Knepper as" temporary secretary ! fhe! new clique became the first lo number a'■womun among, its 'officers. £*Not to be tlie > *43 In (dependent.group set' a 'precedent 1% selecting George A. Palmer, a fraternity- man, as permanent ‘chairman, Ot/ier Officers, Elected %T C. Bacon was chosen - chairman 'of- the ,AII- Pai ty, with William J. as temporary treasurer fGeorge -Cotten - was elected perm* qnent 'secretary* by .the Independ-_ Rents' * ‘ 1 ” ’ . ‘ -Plans for an all-freshman dance 'sponsored by-the party, were dis cussed by. the All-College group. been tentatively slated for the Armory in tlie near | future, with recorded'music |C-’AI committee to consider sugges tions < on, clique organization] and .'campaign techniques, with Jack -Hanley, Howaid A rCassel fonry, arid- William - P.' Christman sas, r members, 1 was. appointed by . r, " , v-t About 20 women were reported at the meeting of the'All- Party, while the Independ ents listed seven. , , ' The' freshman r Independent ch eque-will, meet* in next Thursday night. No Meeting ' has • been slated by the 1-other' ’43' group until after ~the dance.*- ' / \ --- ' ; -f —— * ’ &^,';Anderson 1 Recuperates €§Dr ‘A: .K: 1 Anderson, professor' f«H,physiologacal Vi chemistry, has pisjAmt* several* weeks at the Mayo s£blimc>and<is recuperating in Min §iSsota. In^his'absence'Dr 1 R. J. aattilleVis taking over 1 teaching [Katies.;, Penn State Club' To Sub For Cupid With Date Bureau ' Penn State’s first' date bureau is scheduled to begin operation in a few weeks! ' Tlie Penn State Club is going to sponsor a dating service for the ,use of members only, Theodore Rice ’4l, secretary of the club, an nounced 'yesteiday At the same time a change in the opening of the club’s all-College dancing class was announced > Any member wishing, to sub scribe to the services of thtf dating bureau may do so at t!\e clubroom any day between_4 and 5 pm A small ,’fee to "cover operating ex penses may be charged The- first all-College dancing class ''will be held in' Rec Hall this< evening beginning at 8:30 instead of 7.30 as originally planned Tic kets for the complete series of 10 lessons are priced at $2 50 and may be purchased at Student Un ion desk or at the door . The last class,' on November 28, will be' a three-hour dance Miss Jessie Cameron will be in chaTge of the instruction, which is designed primarily for beginners and intermediate dancers. Instruc tion in only the strictly social 'dance, steps will be'given? v ; Shigley Attends Meeting ‘ Dr * James* Shigley,' professor 'of yeterinary science, /will' represent Penn State at the annual' meeting of the Pennsylvania State Veterin ary Medical Association at Harris burg today'and tomorrow He is , secretary of the association Z 658 STATE COLLEGE, PA., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1939 Lion Eleven Crushed By Bears, 47-0 Cornell Capitalizes On Early Fumbles; Gajecki Outstanding By DICK PETERS A bewildered Nittany Lion football eleven, caught with their mouths .wide open, swat .owed one of the bitterest pills ever taken by a Penn State team Saturday afternoon, as Cornell’s Big Red forces ad ministered the unfortunate medicine m the - form of a 47-0 dose Never In tlie running after the fiibt two minutes of the walkaway, the Lions we're completely taken unawaies by two eaily first period tallies by the Ithacans, both of freakish nature, and when the final gun sounded to end the slaughter, the Blue and White gpul line had _ been cut to ribbons by the elected feet of Big Red backs, who rolled on and on and on Haidly had the 7,500-odd specta tors settled down in their seats at Schoellkopf Field, when the Bears began to take the Lion apart from tail to front Incisor Following an exchange of punts, witli the ball in Penn State’s possession on their own 29-yard ‘line, Steve Rollins started out around light end Hit h'ard at the scrimmage line by a host of Big Red tacklers, the State tailback fumbled and the pill was promptly gathered in by Hal Me Cullough, a Lion tamer if there evei was one, who just as prompt ly “scampered the 29 yards over the State goal line vhfick Drahos boot* ed-the conversion - ) 1 ' " ‘ Touchdown Fumble Repeated. ‘ ~'On the second-play.,following the Una' 'With' the’ball on*the State 41, Rollins' again started around eiid, this time the left side, and as lie was tackled the ball sailed into the arms of, Kenny Brown,' ‘ Ithacan fullback, who dashed ovei for the second tally Drahos missed the tiy for cpnversion (Continued On Page Three) 5 More Rooms Opened By GSA Classroom Fac l.ties Now ' Betler, Watkins Asserts Of Shift In E. E. Building Acting at the request of the Col lege, the General State Authority yesterday permitted the opening of five more classrooms in the new Electrical Engineering Building The new rooms, 3, 111, 219, 220, aud 22i; will accomodate classes formeily scheduled In the Sand wich .Shop; Water Tower, and rooms adjoining the slaughter house - Foui 'other Electrical Engineer ing rooms have been open 'to classes for several weeks English composition, physical education, education, and other courses will be held in the five new units, which have a seating capa city of 218' . -- t • , Interruption Foreseen Temporary inteiruptions of classes In Electiical Engineering will be made neceßsary„later in the semester by drilling«of floors for seat pedestals, accoidiug to Sched uling Offlcei The class rooms are at present equipped with straight chairs and lap boards * 'The College is now “much bet ter off” with regard to classroom facilities than ( earlier in this se mester as a result of GSA co-oper, ation In'opening the new rooms, Mr Watkins stated * .He added, howevei, that classroom ptoblems .were'by no means completely solv ed - ' r NYA Students To Affirm Citizenship In Old Main AII*NYA-students who did not appear before the notary public yesterday to affirm ..United States citizenship, should do so either to day or tomorrow, Stanley B. Mad-, dox. director'of NYA, urged today. . The notary public will be. in the first floor lounge of Did Main to day and tomorrow from. 9 a. m to noon and 130 pm. to s ( p m. Ma triculation cards are necessary for identification 7 ‘ s , 1 Artists’ Couife Signs / Cleveland Symphony With the engagement of the'Cleveland Symphony Oichestra now definitely set for March 29, the srtmt Course Committee, enlarged last Spring by President Ralph will soon announce the se lection of the remaining numbers -ra, this year’s senes, Dr Carl E. Marquaidt, chairman of the commiVe** - In selecting the Cleveland Sym--« phony Orchestra, the committee'', followed the preferences turned in,; by last year’s subscnbers to the< course The National Symphony' Orchestra has appeared here the! last foui years 1 ' ; Dr. Marquardt stated that “we, are not only obtaining the, services' of a fine orchestral group but are responding, as we always attempt ed to do, to the expressed prefer ences of subcnbers There appear-' td to members' of the committee to be unmistakable evidence of a growing'prefeience for a new-or chestral group and the Cleveland’ Symphony has not appeared. ■ on, our series for six years.” ’ ,' The committee includes foul ” students, as well as?several lesid ents of State College and faculty members. iThe group includes David E Pergnn ’4O, senior class'* president, Jane A Romig ’4O, piesident, A William Engel, Jr",- 40, editor of Collegian, Frank C Anderson ■’4o, president of Intel - fraternity Council; Miss Jessis Cameron, modern dance mstruc loi; William F Dantzscher, direc tor of public information, Neil M Fleming, graduate manager of athletics, Richard W Grant, pro fessor of music, Burton K John stone, piofcssor of architecture: Edward Steidle, dean of the School of Mineral Industries, William K Ulerich, managing edi tor of the Centre Daily Times, and William L Werner, profes sor of English literature Glee-Thespians’:i Script Adapted < To those of you who have seen conventional presentations of Gil* bert and Sullivan’s immortal oper atic saga of the English Navy, "H M. S. Pinafore," the ultra modern Glee Thespian Fall Houseparty pi eduction of the opera in swing tempo will put a refreshing new zest into the oft told drama for you To those of you who have never seen the saga in its 19tli cen tury dress, it will be a sparkling new musical comedy, as modern as tomorrow Under the able pens of Morry Feldbaum *4O and MJke Brotman '4O, even the familiar plot loses its hoarinesb These two veteran adapters have been working on the script since early last summer, making the dialogue as stream* the battleship which will he the setting, and the wisecracks as racy as the modern costumes The action of the swing opera hinges around the fortunes and misfortunes which befall "the lass that,loves a sailor." Ag School Organized First Council In 1937 Editor's Note—This is the fuel m a seues of at tides concerning the organisation and functioning of the respective School Councils, wiitten m an effort to acquaint menibcis of each School with their Councils. First of the school councils to be organized, the Agricultural Stu dent Council adopted a constitution on December 9, 1987. ' v By the terms of this document “any organization whose object is the promotion of any phase of agricultuie or home economics is eligible to membership in the Council ” Today a total of 21 department* al clubs, including one honorary fraternity. Alpha Tau Alpha, are represented on the Council. Each of,these is entitled.,to two repre sentatives, one of .whom must be an officer of the group he repre sents 'Has Ready Check On, Opinion Through the club setup, the Council which meets once a month can quickly> ascertain undergradu ate opinion. At the request of Act ing Dean S W. Fletcher, it re cently’ conducted a survey which revealed that students want a dean’s list published for. the School of Agriculture. Among the matters handled through the organization last year were 'the continuance of judging team fees and the openipg of Ag Library,Sunday afternoons.- Two, all-College dances, Harvest Ball and Ag Frolic, are sponsored by the Council. In-addition an Ag- Home Ec' mixer is conducted and 4? ARTUR RODZINSKI £ Conductor, Cleveland Symphony 1)orm Threat Seen Hindrance To Room Drive | ‘Housing Improvement Will '| Be Further 'Discouraged,’ gEvßurgess Believes ’3 ’ threat of new dormitones will only furthei discourage hous ing improvement in State College," it‘was saul yesteidoy by Eugene ?H'..Lederer, local Veal estate agent 'oßd/iormer burgess ’ v :-r . Hisco m m en tiulc wi tli legard tosuggestion that room ing conditions be coirected by liav .ng students start a letter-writing campaign to have the 'Pennsyl vania Genetal Assembly appro pnate money for new College dormitones Tins suggestion was olfered two weeks ago in a .faculty letter to the editor of Collegian Ledeter pointed out that the threat of new dormitories would serve only to discourage peisons who might otherwise build up-to date rooming houses in the boi ough “Until recently when the uncer tainty about new dormitories be gan to anse,” he said, “theie was never any trouble with the housing Now people are afraid to spend money on improvements be cause they don't know whethei the College will build dormitories " If the College will state defin tely that theie are going to be no new doinutories, the ex-burgess said, then householders will be .eady to make improvements and (Continued On Page Two; a dinner for old and new membeis is held at which keys are present ed to members in good standing Council, Tribunal Co-operate Another function of the Council ts .the 'presentation of keys to judging teams It also co-operated successfully with Student Tribunal in settling the matter of 2-year Ag 1 customs this fall Officers of the organization are Donald G Lerch, Jr ’4O, presid ent, Harry E Serfass '4O, vice piesident; Martha Jayne *4O, sec retary, and Sam Dum ’4l, treas urer.- Prof A. L Beam and Dr C S. Anderson are faculty ad visers. At present the Council is fin anced through dance pioflts, with each 1 departmental dub also con tributing one dollar per year. The‘ privilege of having one or two rof its members sit in on all faculty , meetings involving Ag students < has also been obtained by the Council. Forensic Council Contests Debate Fee Split; Suggests Faculty-Student Committee An Open Letter From The Forensic Council In Its issue of October 20. the Penn State Collegian demoted consid eiable space to the piesent debate fee controveisj -Included weie a genuinelv impartial account of the atudou* cabinet meeting, the lesults of a somewhat hapbazaid student poll, an 1 a two-column trout page edi toiial espousing the cause of the glee club us opposed to debate If the Collegian wishes to piomote the glee club at the expense of debate, that is tbe light ol a free press It is also tbe Foionsic Council’s light to present tiie case foi debate, and that privilege is beiewitb exeicised To begin with, the Foiensic Council lajs down the fundamental propositiqn that it is proud of the Penn Stale Glee Club If tiie gale le celpts of that organization aie insi tflcient foi its needs, ceitainlv ,rie quate funds should be piovided fropi other souice’- The Council will coopeiate in secuiing such funds The Council objects to destroying de bate b\ a r>o per cent cut as a solution Nor does the Council belieic that a knock-down, drag-out fight between debatcis and glee clubbers in student cabinet sessions offers tiie best way out Rather, we suggest calm, deliberate action by a joint faculty-student committee, as proposed by formal petition to the Student Cabinet on October 20 We propose the following names far that committee Mr Adrian O Morse, Assistart to the President in charge of Resident In struction, Professors John H Frizzell, Richard W Grant, and Theodore J. Gates, and Messrs Harvey Levin, Sam Gallu, A William Engel, and H. Clifton McWilliams. Wbilo the Collegian has been Tail in not attacking debate as such, come account of what this activity dop*» foi Penn State seems in Older The Council submits that debate furnishes direct participation to 150 students annually, draws campus audie-ccs of between 3,000 and 4.CCO each year, and carries the name of Penn State to at least 10,000 more persons in extension ard trip audiences. Other countless thou cards listen in to our annual broaccasts over such stations as WOR, WYNC, and WHP. In addition, tbe name of this College has been eairied to at least 10b 000 additional peisons by the unraialiened publication of Penn State debates, seven lm\lng appealed in the outstanding debate publication n /mciica, "Debater’s Annual,’’ between 192 S and 193 S The complete details of this unusual jeconl aic submitted herewith (Continued On Page Two) ‘KeepAmericaOutOfWar’ BriveßfouglttTuCampus A student campaign to “Keep America Out of War” will begin here tomoirow with a peace meeting in Room 405 Old Main at 8 15 p in Part of a national campaign which had its beginnings on the Princeton University campus, the drive is not intended to advocate any method of neutiahty but to show Congiess that students are “united in then desne to stay out of wai Piesiding over the meeting wil 1 be H Clifton McWilliams '4O who has been made temporary chair man of the steeung committee which will conduct the drive Speeches will be made by J P Selsam of the histoiy department, McWilliams, and David E Pei* gun '4O A plan of action to be formulat ed at the organization meeting to moriow is likely to include the cir culation of a student petition*to be presented to Congressman James VanZandt, McWilliams in dicated yesterday Gioups backing the peace duve have also indicated they would like to bring speakers here foi peace mass meetings during the yeai, and launch a button cam paign to raise funds to conduct the piogram An Armistice Day meet ing is likely to be the hist objec tive of the group Dinner Opens CA Fund Drive Solicitors To Contact All Faculty Members, Alumni. And Students This Year With the beginning of its Gsth vear of activity on the campus, the PSCA began its annual finance drive among the students and fac ultv today Following up on the KlckOff Dinnei for division leadeis and so llcitois, held last night in the Kit tuny Lion Inn, a gioup of active meuibeis aie now on the job In dividuals contributing S 2 50 01 mote will receive u one-year mein bership card Funds received from students will be devoted exclusivelj to the Sei vices aud program features of the Association while salaries aud general overhead expenses are pro vided for by the College, faculty, alumni and friends In this way tire students' contributions are re turned dollar for dollar in work beuefiting them Campaign Is General Every student and faculty mem bet will be solicited v to support the PSCA this year Students unable to contribute immediately may sign pledge cards which will enable them L to give active support but make payment with their next semester fees The purpose of the PSCA as stat ed In its program is To aid per sons'to the fullest possible self re altaation and for furthering the so cial and religious interests of cam pus life through fellowship and ac tivities centered around the dis covery apd achievement of Chris tian values r ~ Borough Council Wants Stolen Street Markers "No questions asked", was the bargain made by Borough Council last Tuesday evening as they ap pealed to the students to return the street signß which were alleg edly stolen by fraternity members during the last pajama paiade The Council issued a final warn ing that they plan to conduct a seaich until the street signs are found, and will inflict penalties upon the guilty persons Bob Crosby To Play At Hecla Tomorrow Bob Crosby, the onginatoi of "Modern Dixieland Music," will ’ppcar in person at Hecla Park to morrow i night The popular band eador will be accompanied by hi** entire orchestra Featured on the program, in ad dition to Ciosby himself, will be The Bobcats, Ray Baudus, Bobby Haggart, Eddie Millei, Nappy La nrare, and Dorothy Claire The hot rhythms of Ciosby’s or chestra may be heard every Tues day evening fiorn 9*30 to 10:00 over a coast-to-coast network Student Directories Ready In Two Weeks' The student directory has gone to press and will be ready for dis tribution in two weeks, it was learned yeste’rday. This year's directory contains 8,212 names, of which 1,330 are fac ulty members Hoffman To Confer With Hull As picsident of the American Association of Collegiate Regis trars, William S., Hoff man, regis trar of the College, has been in vited by Secretary of State Cordell Hull to attend a Conference on Intcr-Amencan ,Relations in the Field of Education to be held at Washington, November 9 and 30. PRICE FIVE CENTS Special Cabinet Meeting Tonight To Decide Action ‘Drastic Cuts* Listed; Debaters Deny Alleged Squandering of Funds Pioposmg “calm, deliberate action by a joint faculty-stu dent comnfittee,” the Foren sic Council took a determined stand against the possible split of the present 50-ceni debate fee in an open letter to the student body yester day The Council has petitioned the All-College Cabinet to refer the current controversy over the de bate fee for investigation and rec ommendation to a committee com posed of the following ' Adrian 0 Morse, assistant to j the Piesident in chaige of resident; ’nstiuction, Piof John H Frizzel, head of the division of speech, Pi of Ritluud W Giant, head of the department of music; Prof Thoodoie J Gates, head of the department of English Composi tion; Haivey Levin ’4O, president of Forensic Council, Samuel Gallu ’4O, president of the Glee Club, A William Engel, Ji ’4O, editoi of Collegian, and H Clifton Mc- Williams, Jr ’4O, All-College President Cabinet JVleets Tonight yfhethe&>ychM.aUiQna.wilUbe-ro— fci red to this committee will prob ably be decided at a special meet ng of the Cabinet tonight. - ’ In the open letter published in the adjacent column, Forensic Council once again stressed the outstanding points in justifying debate and opposing the slash in he fee Five items were listed as “dias tic cuts" brought about by last year’s cut m the budget m an, at tempt to show that the debate team does not only need its pres ent income, but could use more Numerous matteis of finance wcie touched upon in the letter as the dcbatcis denied any squand enng of funds on trips Whether the authorizations mentioned are justifiable oi not has been left to the student body to decide Again no cffoit was made to op pose the Glee Club as the Forensic Council pronounced that "it is proud of the Penn State Glee Club’’ and advocated the securing of sufficient funds for the musical oigamzation Forestry Society Has Outing; Prizes Awarded In Contests About 80 forestry students and faculty membeis attended an out ing sponsored by the Foiestry So ciety at Stony Valley on Saturday Rail-splitting, chopping, sawing, log-iolling, water boiling, and smoke chasing contests were held in the afteinoon Aftei dinner a campfire was held, members of the gioup providing entertainment William McDermott '4O led gioup singing Both the chopping and lail sphtting contests were won by William F Johnston ’42 He re ceded a hand axe and a -natch chain as prizes William H Guer lant ’4O and Werner Lange also weie awarded axes as winners of the log-rolling contest Edward P Farrand '4O raced 400 yaids, then filled a can with water fiom a small hand pump ui four minutes and 25 seconds to win the smoke chasing event He was given a sheath knife Arthur L. Bennett ’4O and Ro beit R Blunienstein ’4O received hand axes for winning the sawing contest Bennett was also the win nei m the water* boiling event. Bohm *39 At C. I. T. David J. Bohm *B9, who was awarded a John W WJiite Fellow ship last term, is now- doing full, time graduate work in physics at the California Institute of Tech ology.
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