Nittany Gridders Aim For Pitt After Army Deadlock
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To The Pree.Uno*, ‘ J
Established 1887 Jfl | ’QSy&BjgMe&K B 1 % % ON THURSDAY
, . VOL.. 36—No 20
Rollins Is Out Of Panther
Game With Injury To Hip;
Ickes, Nemeth Also Hurt
DasKes By Kniaz, Ickes Bring State
Scores; Pollock Kicks Extra Points;
Pass In* Final Minutes Giyes Cadets Tie
, Looking foiward to Saturday’s battle here with a de
oomphasfzed Pitt Panther, in’ whichthey stand their be»l
chance in years to bring home a little Panther steak, Penn
State’s Nittany Lions are hard at their chores on New Beav
er Field following Satui day’s deadlock battle with the
Army. Campus fingers are crossed and more than one Lion
fan is throwing salt over his shoulder m anticipation of a
possible Nittany upset over the* Smoky City eleven
Independent
Party Arranges
Old Main Dance
'43 Affair Planned For
Tomorrow; Freshman
Elections Code Listed
7 By WILLIAM E. FOWLEF?
, Celebrating the lifting of fresh*
, iqan dating customs, the ’43 Inde
7. pendents will, hold a dance in the
.. drst floor lounge of Old Main from
~9 p m l to 12 tomorrow J
'■ Dating customs will be' lifted
half an hour before the affair,*
which will feature recorded music
, The dance, for members
‘ qt- the party ) and those interested
r * its activities, will involve no ex*
funds -
' freshman political gioups
*^^ffcdr^yt7the s j43 7 cora-,
vi4|ttee last.week. .The All-College
‘'’Party’s 1 affair,*. also-’ 'irufinanced,
y took place - Saturday,’night '
Freshman Independents wilt
meet in Room 14,’ Home Econo
mics, at 7 30. p in tomorrow
‘ - Officers Elected
’-.'Selection of peimanent ofllceit
■ by. the All College Parly last week
resulted in the election of Bob Ba
con 1 as chahman, Gloria Kilepper,
secretary, and - Wayne , Shaffer,
treasurer '
the 43 elections
announced an 11 point
code for freshman elections, Its
provisions
Election Cod^
( X T Elections will be held in the
/First Floor Lounge, Ofd Mpin, De
■' comber. 12, 1939. 'Election hours
sliall be B’,u 'm. to 12 noon, and
12*45 p m to 5 15 p m.
' 2 To be eligible to vote, t matri
culation yard and “AA" book shall
he presented at the'place’of elec
*tiqn ' ( '
' To 1 be eligible for office every
“'candidate shall present a petition
iwith ylgnatures of (SO members of
..bis; respective class to the election
- committee before the' mass meet
-ing December 5 f ,
sJ'*o)Bcers5 J '*0)Bcers elected shall be. tho
. class-, president, class vlce-presl
dent, class secretary, class treas*
urer and class historian. The class
historian shall' servo for four
'years . \ (^ ,
i,V 6. Any. candidate receiving one
below'grudes shall be in*
' ‘eligible for office _
y 6 Theie shall be no monoy
campaigning'for any pur-
. \ 7 Campaigning will begin aft*
mass meeting December 5
1 j 8 - '-No' campaigning shall ho al
lowed inside Old Main., '
_ >'-9 Each party shall be allowed
/one,,, checker _ .Checker may bo
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Cramer, Kennedy
Left In Race For
Harvest's Queen
< • ' “W,-'. ’* , l - r
y|£WJlth, final -voting-',for Harvest
-Ball^, Queen scheduled ' for - next
week, Helen B/ Cramer *4l and
7.Ruth JD Kennedyi ’4O 'have been
as winners «of the prl
'•mary election heldyat“* Atherton
■/and McAllister halls-last week. •
Backenstose ’4l/ of
-;thq"ball committee) stated that the
s and that
1 the/committee'took’the, ’two high*
/eSt' candidates' for. Anal selection.
lt’also has been announced t that
/Josephine E'Condrin
1 placed In charge of the coronation
‘"ASsisting her will be,Marion M.
-'Eberts'; ’42, Ethel Taylor '42 and
/.Gloria M. Knepper *43. • - .
♦* Chief problem facing -the Nit
tany forces this week is the injury
trouble. Steve Hollins is definitely
out of the Panther dash with a
hip injury. Lloyd Ickes is nuising
a fractuicd wiist but may be able
to play Saturday with a cast on his
aim Frank Platt has'been dismis
sed from the Infiimaiy and Carl
Stiavinski, Jtlic othei Lion regulai
tackle, is now in but will probably
*L»e able to play Ted Nemeth, suff
ering a bioken nose in the Aimy
liacas, will see if propoi
piotection can be made for the in
jured proboscis
In one. of the wildest exlubt -
nons of the gridiron pastime seen
'in some time, the Lions and Cad
ets fought to, a 14-14 diaw at
iilichie Stadium Saturday ' 1
Linemen Open Scoring
Unusual was the fact that both
of the first two touchdowns»were
scored by linemen, with 'Wall;
Kniaz, Lion tackle, and Bill.Gjllh,
Cadet‘center)
ducers ( -Kniaz scored/on-an inter,
'cepted^pass)throwiU;by;'Jere f
45, yards’fo'r-theifirst State/maric* 1 ,
bi afte^Jonly/two' minutesthe
fiist period had ticked by’Ben Pol
lock, Lioiupineh-kickey, converted
the extra I
Lato'in the first chukkei, with
the .Lions'; stymied by ,the - Army
foiward ,wall on the State 1 25)
Lloyd Ickes went' lntcTpunt foinr
ation It' seemed ‘as ■■though half
the Cadet line decided to take a
vacation an the Lion backficld at
just this moment, and when Ickes
booted, Cadet Jim Rooney, guaid,"
stuck out his chest and bounced
I he‘pigskin gouhvards, where Ca
det Gillis scooped it up and prj
(ceded to travel the lemaming 20
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No Cut Fines Over
Holiday, Warnock Says
No cut lines .will be Imposed
on students missiug classes 24
hours befoio and after the v
Thursday Thanksgiving holiday,
A. R. Warnock, dean of men, .
said yesterday ,
Tbo $5 fine usually applied be
fore and aftor vacations applies '
oply to prolonged, holidays, ho
explained. Students absent from
classes will, of couise, be charg
ed with regular cuts, he added '
Pershing Rifles To
Subsidize Auxiliary
Unit At Mont Alto
With a unit of approximately!
ICS freshmen and sophomores now
under organization on the campus,
Pershing Rifles, honorary, society,
for basic ROTC students, has
•made plans to subsidize a platooH
at the Mont Alto Forestry School
Under present/plans members,
of the Mont Alto platoon would
become members of the campus
unit when they come here for their
sophomore year.
Of the 165 students being organ
ized into the Pershing Rifle unit
here, approximately 37 are sopho
mores who belonged to la?t year’s
group. After a period of elimin
ation, remaining freshmen will be
formally initiated into the society,
probably during December.
100 Attend Conclave
Of Delta Sigma Phi ‘
More than 'lOO representatives
from ‘seven chapters In the Penn
sylvania dlstrict attended a region
al-conclave of the Delta Sigma Phi
international social fraternity held ,
at the Epsilon.chapter house here
oyer the'past week-end. - j
Z 668 STATE COLLEGE, PA., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21,1939
2,000 Join
In Excited
Team Tow-In
Gridmen Get First
Reception Of Kind
In Two Decades
, School Spiiit, usually noted for
its absence neai Nittany Mountain,
made an impiessive reappearance
on Sunday morning and tbe Lion
football squad, retuining from a
haid-fought-14-11- tie-with Army,
was greeted by 2,000 excited'stu
dents and townspeople’ and given
the fiist “team tow-in" State Col
lege lias witnessed in two decades
The tow-iu wak only the fiist
part of a program which; high
lighted bj next Thuisday night’s
boufiie, is calculated to' raise ex
citement to a fever'pitch for’Sat
in day's home football game with
PUt . - v
Moie than SUU' studeuts a-ud
townspeople luy in wait for the re
turning bus on South Atherton
stieet justjnsfde the borough lim
its on Sunday morning and with a
150-foot iope*towed it down to Co
op Coiner At the,Coiner a ciowd
then swelled to 2.000 cheered and
flourished'"Beat Pitt” r signs and
heard InJeC thanks from Coach
Bob Higgins'and 'Captain, Spike
Alter
The denionstiation, 'suggested
by Carlisle" (Bucky) Tayloi, fotmer
Tenn State cbeeileader,' and oi
gani/ed Saturday night by 'student
leaders, was a complete surprise
to the squad' . _ S' ,
• Thei'flrsL of the, bruised and bat
tered griddeis tonight the crowd
on hlj I v j oii n d edjyi
2 “Hey'” -lie "yelled 2 toxins’'sleep y
’ teammates , .'"There ■£ must* 1
fire 1 Look at that mob out there'”
Years'ago, teani v tow ins w’ere a
Penn State tradition and whether
1 the team won or lostytndents tow
ed tlie griddeis in, fronijas
far as Lemont ,* ‘ '
The retival of the custom took
seed as Bucky'Taylor read ‘play
by-play telegrams to an excited
ciowd at Fred’s.Rostauiant and
midway in the last period called
for the tow-in "win or lose” Stu
dent leadeis got on the'phone, Ed
die Mattil began painting signs
on windows, students dashed
thiough dorms and fraternities on
Sunday morning 1 shouting "Every
body out” —and the'rest was easy
Room Inspection
Talks Wjillj Begin 3I r
During Next;W.eek 4 ?
Discussions of tbo plan for jn-.
spection of student i oomhig houses’*
will begin'next week at a joint
meeting of a special sub-couimit
.tee of the Senate Committee ‘on
Student ‘Welfare and representa
tives of the Student Housing
Board _ v
The meeting was announced'by
Di Warren B. Mack, chairman of 1
the Senate sub-committee, but no
definite time was 'set Prior-to
the first meeting, material is be
ing gathered on inspecton plans at
other schools
The Student Housing Board,
through its temporary, chairman,
Emanuel Roth meanwhile an
nounced a separate, meeting in
Room, 312, Old Main, p m
next Monday. - '
Students' ; i
By Student Opinion Surveys cj
AUSTIN, Texas, November 20. —
If American, students could plan
the’eourse of study for the nation's
colleges and universities, an over
whelming majority would pre
set ibe wide cultural background,
the Student Opinion Surveys of
America find in their latest na
tional poll of campus thought.
Only 17 per cent of the country’s
collegians believe that higher edu
cation should be mainly technical
and professional training. The
rest say,they prefer I .a curriculum
that will embrace a general educa
tion rather than one. that will pro
duce men and women primarily
skilled In the trades' and the pro
fessions. But 37 per cent of this
last group make it clear that their
choice is the school that presents
a blending of the two extremes. |
Smith ||jose£ ICA-A Cross-Country Title
As Lion Harriers Finish In Third Place
Student Leaders Drive
Forßecord-Breakingßally
Driving toward what they hope will be the greatest pep rally m
College history, student leaders . today pushed extensive plans for
Thursday night's Pitt game rally and bonfire on the field east of White
Hall directly above the new parking lot
Under present plans students
will parade to the field from the
different houses and dorms begin 1 '
nmg at 845 pm when a" long
blast, will be blown on the borough
fire,whistlc\ * '
Football Captain Sid Alter, \viil t
let off the bonfile at 9 p.m. witii.
Coach Bob Higgins, the. entire
football squad, the Blue Band, and
the cheerleaders on hund *
If alterations in the skin aic,
<ompletcd by that time the newly
clothed Nittany Lion will also np ;
pear at the rally H. Clifton Mc-
Williams *4O, All-College Presi/
dent, will 'seive as master of cere-y'
ROTC Changes,
Likely-kEmer^
Size Promises College
Preference For Increase > ’’
j Efforts to add new units, to" tl'iV
. -TtOT<^*axo?likely“’tcrbe-‘ -
cessful as Penn , State k probably
Ss ill receive preference from the
'War Department because 'it • has
the laigest male undergraduate en*
rollment in the Thirds Corps Area,
Col A R Emery, head of the mil*
itarj department,,, said > estecday.
States in the,corps, are Penn
sylvania, Maryland and Virginia
Students are at present being
polled on whether they would pre
fer the addition of an anti-aircraft
artillery'unitor a motorized field'
artillery unit ' Other units under
consideration, Col Emery said, are
ordjnance and chemical warfare It
is probable, he said, that one or
morolof these will he established
here jiext' September
V jTheVprefeent, infantry aud en
gineer units, the Colonel said, are
already,'quite large Because of
Uiisj he t ‘would prefer to,add units
inueaso the size of
' '
«however, is beiug ■> left
iip~to,a student<-committe appoint
ed; All-College Cabinet and
jidaded-by, David E Pergrin ’4O
To 1 be'finally adopted, the addi
tional jinits must be requested of
tlio War Department by President
Hetzel, and tbe College must show
that) it 4 will provide proper care
for whatever additional equipment
is sent
Should uew units be added the,
only major changes would occur
in the advanced course Freshman
instruction in all units would be
practically .the same and sopho
more 'insti uction would contain
only a few variations
PSCA, Hillel Plan Service
A - Thanksgiving service, spon
sored jointly'by the PSCA and
the Hillel Foundation, -will be held
m the Hillel Foundation building
at 4ilo p. m. today.
avorCultu
Since the -weekly polls of the
surveys are all based on a! coast*
to-coast sampling determined from
actual enrollments, these results
represent the opinions of the mil
lion and a half - students in all
kinds of colleges, both technical
and otherwise The surveys are
conducted-in cooperation with the
Penn State Collegian and nearly
150 other - campus publications
Headquarters are at the University
of Texas, Austin.
Last month Brooklyn College in
augurated a new president, Harry
D Gldeonse, who once quit a Uni
versity of Chicago professorship
after much argument with Dr
Robert ‘M. Hutchins, chief U. S
exponent' of classical education.
Declared Dr. Gideonse at his In
stallation: “Np college can live by
training the mind alone . . Talent
. v . must now be shifted from
ponies and Richard \V. .Grant
.will lead songs Talks' will 'lie
‘made by Coach Higgins’and’sev
eral of the players j 1 ' ij
'(•.To facilitate parade plans!, the
,Ri»rough will rope’ off 'streets o in
the immediate vicinity. . ,
Warnings that no property dam
jge will be tolciated have been is
sued by McWilliams and by Bern*
aid A. Newman *4O, chairman of
,lhe parade, committee. Student
: .Tribunal will deal severely; with
( hII know'n violators, they said:’
i Final plans for the affair will
1 be mapped at a meeting of student
Readers called for this evening
RJan Artists’
Sr’Martiuaxdl Calls Meeting *
Sf..Of Promotion Committee *
ra-i Planning to intensify a, drh o to .
! >, thlS i r *
year's'Artists’ Course series, an
enlarged piomotional committee
will meet this afternoon, Dr. Carl
E chairman of the
Artists’- Com &c, announced yes
terday . > i j
Key'persons among We student
body T 'and the“faculty'have been
invited to attend the meeting at
which tiie aims and purposes of
tho series will be pointed out This
j is the first time that such a large
' group will meet to discuss the pro
motion of the Artists’ Courbe
“In other years, the Artists’
Course committee has depended
veiy, laigely upon the faculty'ad*
vibors, of the several social frater
nitlos -and other organized groups
to present the case for the'eourse
But this procedure has not been
wholly satisfactory Tf the faculty
advisor himself was not enthusi
astic about the course, the student
members of tbo house with which
be was connected sometimes had
uo opportunity to learn’about’ the
advantages of'subscribing to 7 the
Artists’ Course,” Dr Marquardt
stated
Dr. Marquardt announced Wat
illustrated booklets describing the
course would soon be sent through
the mails to students not living in
organized groups and to faculty
members
Customs Off Tuesday
And .Week-end-Tribunal
'Freshman customs will be off
from 8:30 p.m tomorrow until
midnight Thursday, it has been
decreed by Student Tribunal
Tribunal also lifted customs
from 5/pm Friday -until 8 am.
Monday. AH freshmen must,
however, wear customs at the
football game Saturday.
alCourses
slieerj cultivation of intellectual
virtuesc-to education for the whole*
man, for men as ‘knowers and do
era and appreciators’.’’
A < surprisingly largo number
ivould'agree with Doctor Hutchins
—but there is also a large group
that believes college Is the place
to train both “knowers" and "do
ers ” The results of tho poll are:
College Education Should—
Be mainly technical and
professional .. . .17percent
Emphasize a wide cultural,
background . . .46 percent
Include both 37percent
Sentiment for professional train
log is least popular with New Eng
land* students (7 per cent) and
most in favor with Far Westerners
\(24 per cent). All other sections
of the country agree almost exact
ly with national student opinion as
shown above
DROPPED .
‘r ‘BILLY/SMITH—Penn State Harrier
Pitch of i: Soph Hop Hopes
RisSs With Grid Fervor
* r Hopes for the first successful Soph Fop in leceut yeais weie lnighl
today as the Pitt football game pioimsed to diaw «i iecotd uowd of
out-of-town guests into the Centie County hills and lrateriuties pushed
plans to make the week-end a second houseparty
' Excited by a smashing football
victory over Penn and last week’s
he with Army, Penn State fans
arc getting the idea that this may
he the year after all and State Col
lege will overflow this week-end
with fans who wouldn’t pass up
a chance to sec what may be
State’s first-victory ovei Pitt m
20 years
This shouldn’t liuit Soph Hop
on Friday night one bit and it’s
partly to attract these crowds that
senu-fornia! father • than formal
dress has been adopted. The dance
with Hal Kemp’s orchestra will he
a major attraction to merry mak
ers and the price of $0.85 a eoupks
j won’t be prohibitive.
| To further boost hopes that Liu
j dance will be,'the fiist Soph Hop
! to stay out of the red, a number
of ‘ fraternities arc 1 turning the
week-end into a second housepaity
with dances of’their own planned
Sutuiday after x en masse uttend*
ance_at the'Hop Friday.
The , first i available index o'
probable success' for the Hop has
been found in .the, sale of booths
which is of any ptevioui
IIop; Additional'booth leservationi
Tor, fraternities, or independent
gioupsTnuy be,made at Student
Union desk* until Thursday after
noon atVcpst of $5 each
Prof,-To Begin Research
Dr. Helmut Landsborg, assistant
professor 'of ’geophys.es, has been
appointed,to : two special research
committees by-tlie American Geo
physical, Union, a‘division of Na
tional Research Council.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
, A STITCH!
'Sorry, But—/ Governor
Tells President Hetzel
Alt invitation from President
Ralph D Hetzel to visit the Col
lego ovei tlie Pitt football •week
end has been declined by Gov
Aithur H. James because lie Is
planning a brief \acatlon iu
Texas
This is the second time this
year that efforts to have the
Go>ernor iisit the College have
been unsuccessful A visit
planned at the opening of school
Iu September had to he cancell
ed bv the Govetuot because of
the serious illness and subse
quent death of his sent
TPMS. Pinafore
Re-opens Friday
A smash hit in its Houseparty
Weekend premiere, the Glee-Thes
piaus swing version of “H. M. S
, Pinafore" has beou bi ought back
by popular demand foi Filday and,
Saturday Hundreds were turned
away at the first showing of the
stieamlined Gilbert and Sullivan
operatic classic
Although unchanged In context,
the added polish of a few more re
hearsals pi onUses to make the sec
ond presentation of “Swing Pina
fore” better than before Price of
tickets is 50 cents, with no re
served seats
Stitch In Side
Hampers 7
In New York Run
Team Showing Best
By Lions Since 1931;
Manhattan Repeats
Spc• ial tv the Collcyiav
VAN CORTLANUT PARK. N
V, November 20—Bill Smith,
Penn State slur, lost his inteico
legiate cross country title , here
this afternoon but the NitL’ti/
Lion team placed thud foi its bet."
shoving in eight years Smith, who
complained of u stitch in ins aid.
duimg the race foi the first tune
if his life, ended thud behind Le-
Jie MueMitehell, unbeaten N V U
sophomo! e stui, ,uul Captain
Lai l y Mot uu ty of Manhattan
MaeMitclicH’s winning time of
2G 28 6 was five seconds bettm
than Smith’s peiXormance Uat
veal Manhatturijwon the meet for
iho second straight yeai with
points, Michigan State was second
with 70, and State third with 118*
Captain Frank Maule of Penn
State finished in seventh positior
while ‘other State scorers were
t J}4Ui_4)l huiv. _AJ ex <- -
L’ouigene in SGtli spot, and “Pop”
J’hiel in 88th ‘
MacMilehcll was GO yards ahead
of Manhattan’s Moriarty at the
finish with Smith only a few pace-*
'*• hind the Jaspct captain whom
he had outdistanced in a dual meet
at State College eatJiei this Pail
Lust yea* when Smith copped
the title Mourn ty had finished in
n r th place Mac Mitchell the same
Jay was winning the freshman
I*'4-A title thut had gone U> th *
-statu stai a yeai eailicr
Penn State did not have a fresh
man team enlcicd in the competi
tion today
Smith in Lluee dual meets as a
fioshimtn and in eight vmsit.*
meets has been nosed out onK
once. In national competition hi*
carried off the Eastern IC4-A’s
as a fieshinaii and led by 200
yaids in winning the Eastern
varsity mil last year, but faltered
m the nationals to place fourth
Inteicstingly, both of his defeats
weic sustained on the Michigan
State eouise at East Lansing. The
nationals were theie last Novem
ber and, wearied by his efforts in
the Eastern run a week earlier,
falteied aftei taking' an
tally lead and finished fourtli
This year it was East Lansing
again, and “Wild Bill” went down
to his Inst defout in dual compct
*tion when he was nosed out on
I Jic foui-mile course after leading
rlmost the whole way
Art Groufj Plans
Free Showings
Of Old Movies
A new type of art program de
signed to promote a better under
standing of the motion picture as
a form of art will get underway
here next week with au admission
free showing of “Tbe Last Laugh”,
a (ftattasulshed silent picture of
l t *24, in Schwab Auditorium at
S 30 p m Wednesday.
Sponsored by Pi Gamma Alpha,
honorary fine arts fraternity, the
program will seek to present the
motion picture as a signifeant re
flection of contemporary aesthe
tics, modes and manners
Three Films Expected
, The series this year will prob
ably include three films from the
Museum of Modern Art, all to be
open to townspeople as well as
students without admission.
"The Last Laugh,” starring Emil
Jannlngs, which will open the
series, constituted a revolution lu
Mm-makmg and broke with the
past In both v technique and theory
The old practice of using a sta
tionary camera which shifted only
between scenes was discarded and
for the first time the camera was
moved to follow the action.- * .