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PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
Successor to The Fret* Lavrc, established 18S7
Published semi weekly during the College year, except
on holidays b, students of The Pennsylvania State College,
m the interest of the College the students, faculty, nlumni,
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THr MINAOINI. BOARD
A WILLIAM ENGEL. JR 10. Editor
c RUSSbLL ECK ’JO, Business Mnnnecr
Helen L Cnmi' MO, Women's Editor
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* Sports Ed tor Clrruiution Manager
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News Editor Senior Secretary
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I cature E*Utor Assistant Senior Secretary
PAUL HAI.DEMAN 1R *4O W BRADLEY OWENS M 0
Assist! nt Managing IMPor Assistant News Editor
HERBERT NIPSON M 0 pm LLIS R GORDON Mu
Assistant Sports F-iitor Assistant Women s Ed tor
Mat aging Editor This Isdue
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Lu.rcd ds veeoAd*clnss matter, July 5 . J9 . 3 it fSjg’
iffac at State Collere Pn. tinder the act of March 3. lt»«
Tuesday, December 5, 1939
IT ISN'T SO DARK
TONIGHT the first m the senes oC Lib
eral Arts lectures Will he presented in Home
Economics Auditorium.
The Coftdge Administration has often
been accused of not attempting to make
aiailable to students here the well-rounded
and notable roster of speakers, the distin
guished program of cultural activities
whioh mark the curricula of other institu
tions of higher learning throughout the
country
'I he Collegian'neither affirms nor dis
putes these allegations.
What the Collegian wishes to point out,
however, is that the yardstick of an insti
tution’s cultural breadth is not wholly de
pendent on the contracting of Nicholas
Jiu. ray Butlers, Norman Thomas’s, or
M A. Overstreets.
Heie at Penn State it’s been the case of
I Up hills further away looking a bit green
,-r. There are fine speakers among the State
faculty, speakers whose wisdom and mter
pie ations are born of an expert knowledge
end hrofed experience '
Let’s hot drop the subject with “Well,,
these guys may be all right, but really,
they’j'c not krtown and distinguished and
. . . wellv we hear ’em in class every day.
don’t we?”
■ 1 lie Liberal Arts Lectui es have much to
offer to this isolated college community. In
more than one instance the speakers have
national reputations in their respective
fields. Any way you look at it:
There’s gold in them thar Nittany hills
- —E R.
DUTV VERSUS
COMMON SENSE
THERE IS NO DOUBT that this year’s
Artists’ Course is the most outstanding m
he history of the College
Enthusiasm for the renowned artists
c osen to appear here mounts daily and the
Artists’ Course Committee deserves the
i ghesl. commendation upon the splendid
execution of its duties ,
jipiyevfr, we can raise the question: Do
1 1 sl§fSti , fg~phd'-»wi)fi. , ithev.selgstipn and con- ,
iracling of peiformers? I
Can no system be devised whereby sub
serd’ers to llhe Course need not stand in
line for four, five and si\ hours before the
ticket office opens? Is there no possible
rlan whereby tickets can be sold “on an
cqu'tahlc basis to the campus and general
public without the necessity of forming a
queue of people?”
It a few hundred persons are willing to
lorsake “",000 man hours of sleep and'rest”
to take advantage of a unique program of
culture, cannot the Aitists’ Course Com
mittee at least recognize this interest by
opening the ticket office somewhat earlier,
■jv nevising some plan to eliminate what
sureiy must be an antiquated piactice?
Entertainment and cultm e become more
c-moyable when a barbed wire ferice does
not separate the audience from their gates.
—E.R
.THE WINTER SPORT season is just
getting underway in Recreation Hall and
with it comes the annual problem of smok
ing in the Hall.
Obviously it is detrimental to the par
ticipating athletes. The majority of stu
drnis realize this. Let, if nil ‘outsider chosen
to smoke, students and faculty alike, say,
• Shucks, if he smokes m here, so can I.”
Such an attitude should not be assumed.
On the contrary, every Penn Stater in the
Hall should request such individuals to re
frain from smoking.
It’s a .very simple taskj but one which
must .prevail from the beginning of" the
OLD MANIA
First Niff liters
As emcee Buddy Yanofsy said Satidee mte, “If
you like the new Drydock, then give Ed Hall and
his assistants a big hand foi bringing it about”
We’ie still applauding, for it was the real
thing . The enteitainmenl, table-arrangements,
lighting and everything else looked the real McCoy
Even the two sharpsters sitting at i ingside, stag
but in tuxes Sock Kennedy reminded us so
much of Charlie Speidel while his iThespians were **
hoofing
The setting almost caused Berme Sandson to
slip Bea Winn his pin Tor Toretti and Ruthie
Kistler only had a lighted candle keeping them
apart as they looked into each other’* eyes across
table Too bad Helen Briola couldn’t get there
. Her new love, Lenny Cooper, spiained his
ankle that afternoon playing football in back of
the plnep mans Never saw Don Cresswell
dance so smoothly as be did with Ann Halbei
stadt A plug foi Vosburgh, the magician .
He should forget the teaching racket and stick to
pulling .quarters put of peoples’ clothes
Reporter’s Notebook:
.Edward J MeLorte 41
„.Adam A Jsmyser 41
. DJythe B Rickel *4l
Dick Porter, sae, mixed letters the other day .
His mom wrote back and asked if was getting a
bit balmy His girl sent him five bucks for Arf
ist Course tickets Looked like Yankee Stadium
in Old Mam Sat morn with a ragged line of ex
hausted people waiting for A C ducats Neil
Griffing, frosh who eloped with Elsie Brockwav
last week, is honeymooning in Florida Stones
are about that the only way he could get lus cai
was by pledging DTD a/id then pointing out to
his folks how far he had to walk to classes
Pauline Crossman and about five others went to
Harvest Ball in then bare feet Lanky Carl
Guckelberger and Tiny Eleanor Hoistemke re
ceived a coTsage for being the prettiest couple at
the Kappasig formal . Preston Prostlethwnite
presented it »
This dope is about a month, premature, but
next year’s rushing code is going to be wide op&n
with pledging allowed anytime after Freshman
Week begins Arid the prospective' pledges will
be allowed to live at the Houses . It’s a scheme
to put emphasis on the fraternity selecting the
freshmen instead of the other way around
Then’re Saying:
The Mhigie Strode-Bill Hubler affan is his
tory . Ironically enough, she went to the Beta
dance (Hubler’s house) with Don Eyer Ditto
Jeanne Stiles and Bill Stohldiier Jim Ritchie
took her to kappasig formal Ciaig White,
Frankie Clark and Bob Reese did some fiist class
wolfing at that affair They went stag Wal
ly Syphert had Ben McKechnie And we thought
she and Parker Russell were like that
" The Anchorage has been having so many reci
procal dinner parties with the Pines lately
Paul Gift edn’t stop thinking of Marjorie McFar
land Vic Sandham was up again'last'week
end to see Eleanor Fagans . Bill Mayer de
pinned Anne Borton after three measley weeks
Winnie “Farley” Watson, member of women’s
judicial com, was campused by that same outfit
last week And right after she received phi
kappasig jewelry from Bob Einst . And right
after she gets Frank McClure all hepped up
Paul Haldemnn is still nuts about the blind date
lie had for houseparty . She’s Dorothy Johnson
Shrine oh Harvest Moon:
Here are some of the replies from the Collegian’s
Shrine survey “The shrine should be made use
of on moonlight nights" “Tt should be used
every campuscop picks up a stew” Lo
cation—“ Hole 18, golf course” Additional re
rnaiks—“Make frosh bow each time in passing”
Add remarks—“ Free beer at all rallies” .
According to the art work on two contribs from
428 Alb Hall, the occupants of that room aie
quite , v v
tule* sftgish‘e said
/ about the Monday vacation last week. . He called
Hnvay patrol at Phihpsburg and had the mounties
stop her and ship her back —The MANIAC
KEELER’S
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PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
CAMPUS BULLETIN
Notices of meetings to be pub
lished in this column may be
left a( Student Union Office in
Old Mam up to 1 pm. on the
day preceeding publication.
TODAY
The Riding club meeting at the
slock judging pavilion, Bpm
TOMORROW \ -
Candidates and staff members
of Froth at Froth Office, Old Main,
? 80 p m
THURSDAY
K C Heald, chief geologist of
the Gulf OH Corporation, will ad
dress the Mineral Industries Soci
ety In Room 11*1, Mineral Indus
tries building
We Women
AT LAST PENN STATE’S get
acquainted « , phit is being revived.
The bouquets,go to Junior Service
Board. WSGA’s experiment in
31 eater coed participation Jun
ior Service Board liaB more than
proven its woith by tackling the
ambiguous relationship existing be-,
tween coeds and faculty members*
and between coeds on campus and
in downtown doims and by pro
viding channels for new acquaint
ances between nppei clnsswomen
and men
We've long needed moie Infor
mal student-faculty relationships
and, now ‘that even our present
vague faculty friendships are be
coming rarer due to Penn State’s
mushioom growth, we welcome
Junior Board’s plan for faculty
open houses and Informal advisor
advisee meetings
We’ve long needed women in
downtown doimitories to ,become
moie integiated-into campus life
and campus women to become
tei acquainted with women off
campus Junior Service Board is
In Caking down the wall by cooper
ating with Miss Matilda Bentley,
assistant to the dean of women,
who has planned get acquainted
c/iffee bom s s
We’ve Jong needed opportunities
foi uppei class wofnen to beebme
acquainted with men students and
Junior Service Boaid has met the
breach with exchange dinners and
dances ,
Moie power to vou, Junior Serv
ice Board 1 You’re doing a fine job
. —E B R
Ticket Line
< i
(Continued From Page One)
with well over a hundred envious
ducat-desirers behind him ‘Par- 1
ky goes for some breakfast ‘ ’v
5 00 to 6 00 a m —[Very sleepy
at this' point, that nap in the' car
was only a teaser sex has en
tered the picture as coeds, held in
.the dormitoiies by a ft o’clockrule.
aie beginning to appear Some,
cbiseler tries to- better his ’ posi-i
tion in line and does he go for a
ride some guy down by the
public information office with a
portable radio several games
of bridge hi_ progiess coeds
right across from me gnawing very
hungrilvxon an apple, and trying
to study at same time a cam
eia fan dashing around but no pic
lines taken yet tills guy on my
left i‘. snoring, nnd he’s only been
n line since 830 ' <
600 to 800 a m —Only two
more horns now . Parky hack
;ahd devouring
two > eggs I ,' toast. Wo coffees/ ana
un order of[ doughnuts says
he will jake over for the remain
ing time so that T can get some
much needed sleep off to,bed.,
(What happened from this point
on is much' of a repltitlon of that
before, but the important thing-=- v
Parky was first In line and got the
first six tickets sold to a'ny pur
chasers for the 1939-40 Artists*
Course )~
CINEMANIA
One of the bloodiest and most
dramatic periods in all history, the
fighting 15th century, reaches the"
screen for the first time in “Tow
er of London,” showing at the-
Cathnum theatre next Thursday
and Friday 1
The story centers around the life'
of Richaid 111, whose ambitions
nnd treachery lead him to destroy,
five who stand between him and"
English throne Basil Ratlin
hone gives a brilliant charoctcrizar
tion of this dmholic “crookback”
king ' _ . '
Boris "Frankenstein” Karloff
has, a powerful art as Richard’s 1
ally, the gum, club-footed execu
tioner of the Tower . '- 1
Based on authentic historical
records," “Tower of London” faith
fully portrays the _lsth century
pageantry of the English courts,
the gruesome torture chambers;'
the famous battles, and the cour
age of fighting monarchs who'
crushed empires to win their wo
men. . ’ ', r
If you like bloody conflict, mad*
monsters", and grisly lust, you’ll'
he sure td like "Tower of London,”
which showsjwhat ‘a“ sissy Hitler
is. " V
HARVEST QUEEN
Ruth E Kennedy '4O was chosen
Harvest Ball Queen by all Col
lege voting last week. The
Queen, who ruled over costumed
“hill blllys,” won a close deci
sion in her election over Helen
B Cramer ’4l
Give Now!
Only 4 More
Days To Help
Coed Christmas Fund
To Provide For Needy
! j ' 1 I U S *
‘ - By VERA L fCE tAP'
‘Coeds' Theie ( ard"" only four
more davs to give 25 cents t’o mem
bers of WiSGA House of Repre
sentatives, luoior Service Board*
and Freshman Council " which
should interest those who have not
yet contributed lo the Christmas
diive which staited last week-and
ends Friday
Your quai lei will help to buy
bread for children evacuated‘from
war rones in Europe, provide Cun
for children whose families 'can
affoid only the barest necessities,
and help your schoolmates over
financial ciises. ,
The Christmas fund will he div
ided among the American Wom
an's Hospitals, Mifflin County Chil
dren’s Aid Society, and Mrs Hetr*
el’s'emergency fund, which is be
ing organized now to help needy
students pay small fees and buy
books
-Your' contributions will help
Give'now*
Co-Edits
Each jwioiily will entertain 15
freshmen from 4 lo ft 30 p m to
morrow
L Eleanor Benfer, student chair
man, Mrs Elwood/C Davis, Miss
Maiy T Nil/ky and WRA club
president* are arranging games, re
freshments, and a Mickey. Mouse
movie for a party in White Hall at
4 pm, Fiiday, December 15. for
undci privileged child) en Dean
Schott will sub for Santa and dis
tribute gifts furnished by the co
eds t
Gamma_P))l Beta supper pail led
-Nichols
and * f Mr»-anrt ‘-Mi s •Bitter,-Cfcectfo
'Slovakian refugees, were guests nt
in AOPI gei together Stinday
Delta Gammas heard classical
’•ecords Sunday afternoon ns part
of their cultural program
\ Jean'Gillis ’39 visit’ed TPA sis
’ters this week-end
War Benefits Cited
By Chinese Student
Lai Yung Li, Chinese exchange
student doing graduate work in
horticulture, spoke on the present
Chmese-Japancse war before the*
Knvanis Club of Clearfield last
Tuesday.
' Lai said that the war has
brought great benefits to Ghina
through unification, disappearance
of social classes, the rise of a lib-,
oral government, and rapid indus
trialization
Magazine offers
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Newsweek —20 weeks —sl 00
4arper’s Bazaar—-1, year—s 2 50
.tfe 1 (until Dee. 10) 1 yr.—s 3 50
Colliers—2 one year sub.—s3)so
Saturday Evening Post—2 one
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Reader’s Digest—2 one year
subscriptions—Ss 00
A. Christmas card sent free
with'every/order. 1 ,
Any Renewal Promptly Entered
, MRS. PAUL-MARGOLF.
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Romig Named Matrix Girl
At Journalism Banquet
* lon© A Romig MO war named Matrix Ghl, M Elizabeth Miller ’4O,
Cap Girl, and Geoigl.i \V Owen *4O Quill Girl, at Theta Sigma Phi's
annual Matrix Dinner in the Niltany Lion Inn lasi night Attending
u6re 135 piomltient town and campus women
The matrix award is given each
year to the senloi woman who Ims
done 'most foi tho college, a cap
goes to the most veisatile woman,
and the quill is presented to the
woman voted most popular by
women students - ■
Guest speaker, Miss Doris Flee*
som, Washington coi respondent
for the «ew York Daily News,'dis
cussed “Personalities In Politics M
Members of Theta Sigma Phi
presented a -skit entitled “Famous
Women Hn Journalism!’ —a take-off
on the lives of Queen Elizabeth,
Elizabeth Mnllot, Dorothy Thomp
son, and Mrs ("Roosevelt, and on
Jtlie problems of a college gossip
columnist
Pottery, Paintings
In Combined Show
A double display of pueblo In
dian pottery and of 12 framed fas
(.mules of contemporaiy American
paintings will continue in the Col
lege Art Gallery, Third Floor Main
Engineering, until 4 the strict of
Christmas vacation '
The pottery display includes 50
reproductions in coloi of pueblo
Indian potteiy circulated by tho
American Federation of 1 Arts,
Washington, D. C '■
The faseimiles of American
paintings are gift to the
College by the Cainogic Corpoia
iioh of New Yoilc American ar
tists represented me Adolf Dehn,
Leon Kroll, Giant" Wood, and
Luigi-Luciom
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4 Debaters Enter
Tourney Saturday.
Four local debaters will repre
sent the College in the annual Tri-
State Debate tournament at West
minister College, New Wilming
ton, next Saturday
- fcddie G Couch ’4O and Leonard
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Tuesday, December 5,1939
S Schneider ’4l will form the
affirmative team, while'David E.
Benjamin *4l and Harvey Levin
’4O will debate the negative side
The subject will be. “Resolved
that the basic blanie for the pres
ent Europenn war tests on the
allied poweis” , -*
/The debate tournament, first of
the yeai for the local varsity, is
expected to nttiact representative*!'
from about 20 schcools Last year
the Lion team tied for thud with
Ml MWy, Washington and JefT
: crson, and'Waynesburg,- after hav
■ placed first foi four successive
j ears
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