/JP'. sis ,- - ,k \ , Successor j COMPLETE , .01 To The Free Lance, b. 4 ,9- CAMPUS COVERAGE Established 1067 r • •cr ''; ,VOL. 36—No. AO :' 616e,Club To Sing , On Fred Waring's Apol,llßroadiajt ''A j ipearance At New York' Climax 3-Oay'TOr ;:Of Other Eastern Cities .",•';Penn StMe's Glee Club ;was of; fered,' a spot on Fred Waring's hesteifield."- program Thursday, ItiloW,ll , "by long distance tele- Plibile - yesterday, Samuel Gallu 4 40 .reVesiledi - ,This is the first time 4 =ts at at any, college' or Outside glee ;;club h&ever been iiivited4o sing With -Waring e,o , TheAbroadcast' with Waring's 4.hMylvaniims wilt , take place `..-Iretatb - the Vanderbilt Theatre in ":1 11 11 1 W York City and will climax l Glee Club'i, annual concert Jedtti.,As a return favor, the pop qfler,Waring Glee Club will sing , Z .iWitli`the_Penn State group at its I:VOticert , later in the night addition to the regular pro 'filtem the night, the 990adcast will be repeated for the. ;Waft Coast at 11 p m. In both of `l,riete'programs,,the Glee Club and ' io:Ssiblyeseveral soloists will sing. explained' that the pro ., OW came `about, after several :`pet‘Oilal letters hed been' received ~,I ckitir! Waring and: his manager, Dcittee: It was culminated by the ',lreig-distanCe teleplione call' and the Glee Club of national Pc!thtrence , ; ., , ,,,irsiddition to the New York ,engagement, the outfit will visit Wilmington, Del., and [Plifladelphia on April 8,9, and 10 retOdetwely. , '.f`-his letter. - Manager: Lee , sdaletf; "It wi l,be a most - inter ',.entmg feature tor have the Penn ,Stat'e,• Glee - Club and 'Fred War; I lng?sf,Glee- Club combine - on'' the ,":rrne'program.": Citifs6nairig'Seiii§t Selection of the outstanding sen ior by-the Collegian Junior Board fins now been, narrowed down to **tee. prominent members of the 'doss and' final ,voting will take 'tame next week. Presentation of ittko trophy will take place between fiattres of the Penn State-Pitts liirgh basketball game in Recrea bon Hall March 2 - • The problem of eliminating three seniors at a vote Sunday night was frarrassing, but the Board, decided that, the met its of the eligibles must Maude all-around prominence, and Seme . action that has proved espe 'malty good for the name of the College The electois also expres sed a :desne to publiwe, the fact ,that no' pal Willy, is being shown fer'm against women Requirements stated in the e:lee "tioit,bave included the work done 'W. the outstanding senior regaid- Jag his entire foul years in College ft also' includes 'outstanding work Ili may have done in' the' past and never received - recognition fot 2 it. :it' ;,,Inseribed on the ,trophy,,will be rie , Penn State Collegian Award, lal4tstaridmg senior 1939-40. It will Jia;engiaved on the base 'of a 15- figure of Victory and will be Ungar. to those presented to Sol *lmhoff '3B and Joe Peel '39 ' 1m" 'allieniiitiod Plan LA ,council; Problem ,i,dnThe,Liberal'Arts School Council ,iiitoPted a' resolution that ",3" stu- Ytditts_ be-excused from finals sand I 411tiornted a committee to investi lad the Liberhl'Arts building traf ife congestion at its meeting Mon ' resolution on final exemp 'tiolt",,,which had been'under con .Mderation for some time„will 'be pfresented to Dean Charles-, W. ,Sffiddart for recommendation to ,fite,,Cduncil of Administration. Er ridßerkasaw '4O and Leslie , L 14wis '4l were appointed by chair ' "Leonard, Cooper. '4O , to study 'factors which have caused the con gestion at:the south entrance of the ILiberallArts building. ,Scheduling ' Officer igiiy o V..Watkiris reported that con ditions'at the entrance,were mate ifiniroved as a result - of pub ittcifyieceived in The Collegian'and .4•lolices''read to all classes in „the 'bittilding, by professors,yesterday. .'fifddent cooperation, Watkins ern ilifideized,,,can easily wipe' out the t fifttitem -„ Los Dos Senores Ode Dirigiran El Baile 'Senior' Senior Ball Co-Chairmen Jaines R. Sausser and David J. Morgan Mexican Atmosphere Pervades Ball Tonight Something new uncler thesu ; l of Rec Hill—"shuffle ihytlun' in the gay, - tomantic backdrop of Old Mexico. A carnival of topical excitement under blue and gold , canopy, in surroundings of typical "South of the Border" picturesqueness, to tne-melodie' of Jan Savitt and his Top Hatters That's the setting for tonight's Senior Ball in Rec Hall from 9 p m to 2 - With well over 40 fraternities and other groups signed up for booth reservations early this week, indications to a successful Ball this evening were upheld by co-chairmen David J Morgan and James R Sausser yesterday. Saviit's First Dance Here Savitt and his band, featuring the colorful song stylist, Bon Bdn, Will be making their first appear ance here'affer a long sucdesiful, stay at,the_Luicold"Hotel in Nes; .-Yodrk;:•;sohEidAtlie.Orepleieedz - Ail Shai; and made new popularity history Using- , his famous "shuffle rhythm" a vat lotion of. swing which relies for its effect on the use of eight full beats to a mea sure instead of the customary four, Savitt will bring something new to Rec Hall in music To complete the shuffle effect, which is made by the alternating of these eight beats between the brass and reed sections, Savitt has constructed two _ special valve trombones , - Ice Skating Pond Fadlilies Possible' For Next Year ' According To Dean Schott Next winter the College may, provide ice skating facilities on' Thompson's Pond along East College Avenue extended instead of on the tennis courts opposite Ree Hall, it was indicated yes. terday. - Dr. Carl P. Schott, doan of the School of Physical Education and Athletics, said that if it is found Possible to back off a stream of, warm water which now flows through the pond it is likely the. College may use it next year. - The pond has the advantage of• being larger and less expen. sive to keep up than the flooding experiment successfully tried this winter on the College tennis courts. New Observatory Unit Opens For Planet Study As• the heavens prepare one of then most unusual displays with five planets visible and almost equally spaced in the night sky for a few days next week, it was announced yesterday that the second unit of,th proposed multiple observatory will be put into use in time to study th'phenonena. - , For a week beginning Tuesday the observatories' will be open every clear night from 6:30 p. m to 8:30 every night to students and townspeople. The second unit of the observa tory is 'coupled to the first by a complete address system, permit . - ting" the visitors in both units, to heart short' lectures and descrip-' tioris, of the celestial objects being observed,and giving an indication of the possibilities the observatory will have when its nine units are finally complete , • • 'Many Use First Unit • Until now large groups of pm sonsshave had , to wait in line to Seniors Start , Class Gift Voting Will Cast Ballots In Poll At Student Union Office EDITOR'S NOTE: Yotinkf on the senior gift`now -underway; the , Colleglan, , ,offers ,siaie„, of- :pit, rAiirrirßhanilso;,rvordi:forletters," from the sponsors of each pro ' jest suggested as - a gift explain mg the project and its benefits. I These must be submitted to Stu dent Union by 4 pi m. Sunday. Senior class gift voting—now confined strictly to (Jess members —has opened with an elimination poll at Student Union desk to be carried on during the next sevetal weeks Object of the elimination will be to select suggestions for s use of the $5,000 gift fund, these to be placed before the seniors rot anal vote at the all-College elections in May Voters Must. Sign Mimeogiaphed toms including nine suggestions and , pi oviding loom lot others will , be used in the balloting at Student Union Each senior voting must sign his name on ,the tom Original plans to have students from all classes participate in the gift eliminatioi poll were aban doned David Pergi In '4O, president of the senior class said yesterday, because of widespread opinion that selection should rest wholly with the class Callle Care Course Given , •• A short course in the case of beef cattle or sheep, opening March 4 and continuing through March 9, has been announcer by Franklin L Bentley, head of the department of animal husbandry I use the single observatory. Open ing of the second unit Is expected to provide some relief for this con gestion ' The observatories—which were paid for by a gift of the Class of 1938—ate located 200' yards east of Buckhout Laboratory and - are best approached from Shortbilge Road by a newly 'lighted path marked "Observatory" which leads'eastward,from - a point near the new Forestry Building. Planets which will be visible are Mars, Saturn, Venus, Jupiter, and Mercury The last will be seen-on only , two or three eve nings around the 28th:- STATE COLLEGE, PA ,-F*!)AY, FEBRUARY 23, 1940 Burrowesßudding:,°, liny.While Fellowship Application Blanks Now Now Occupied By 'Mailable For Seniors 1,1 i ' A pplications for the John W. EducatonGroups White Fellowships for 1940-41 graduate study are now open Further Installation_Of „Jar consideration by the COITI• Liruttee Academic Standards l'''4lßlanks may be obtained in Fixed Equipment Awaits! ,', , ,R00m 409, Old Main and should Übe returned by March 9. Final GSA Assignments -13 Three fellowships will be • awarded to graduating seniors Occupation of the ne w Burr '-£!possessing those qualities which rotes (Education) Building be- Phe committee thinks will en came a reality this - week as the F able them to profit best by psycho-educational clinic and the ,graduate study. The recipient department of nature educate:in, , ;(of - the fellowships may spend Were shifted to the new structure:- he year taking advanced study The psycho-educational , r „ , .4:i,this or any other college. headed by Dr Robert G Beiorldr_ rcuter, now occupies rooms 1, 1A1• 18, 2, 28, 3A, 38, 3C, and 3D In; Phi Beta,Kappa the Burrolves building, recently - named after the former College ' president' by the Board of True- ill Launch Drive tees Furniture and equipment of the clinic, purchased when it was organized a year and a half ago, ' or s3oo 000 Fund was moved to the new location from Old Main Nature Department Changed '''Local Chapter Appoints 5; The department of nature edu - - cation was transferied from 'the 'lociety Denies Futility old education unit to the Bin- 4 ..= iowes Building, where it occupies' Of A Liberal Education ,looms 308, 309, 310, 311 A, 3118, and 31IC. Prof George It Green ' • k heads this depai tment, assisted by r te membersmembers of the College chapi of Phi Beta Kappa, honor- Dt George J Flee ary scholastic f raternit y, have been It was announced some weeks appointed to a local committee ago that certain poi bons of the pal ticipate in a nation- Burrowes Building would be uhl 'Ade Phi Beta Kappa campaign wed this semester Installation of to,, solicit an endowment fund of fixed equipment Is still going on $3,0,000, it was announced yester in the building, with movable equipment contracts awaiting as- Phe committee consists of Fran signment by the General State I k el lyn B Krauss, associate professor Authority of ' Latin, (chairman), Adrian 0 The Buirowes Building and M rse, assistant to the president, Frear Laboratory were named by MissaNlabel E Kirk, associate pro the Board of Trustees at its De- fetior of education, Carl E Mai - umber meeting A committee has qttardt, College examiner; and Mi s been appointed by the Board to Paulin B Mack, professor of lex designate titles for the other nine til t — chmistry _ new structures, according to re- r ,Ralph D. Hetzel, president ports, and as'expected to announce olthe' College and an honorary 'its selectiOns at a future Trustees' member of Phi Beta Kappa, is au- Meeting , ' toThatically a member of the Edu ctqffirs.-Sponsoring,_Committee . "?3 , ,.A . W0r - ctilig to a bulletin issued by the local committee, the sum of $300,000 Is needed to "offset the loss in income from present sources of revenue and to insure the unim paired continuance of the society's traditional activities" The bulletin continues "Phi Beta Kappa recognizes that the eco nomic growth of our country has expanded the curricula of our col leges to include subject mattes that was not dreamed of in 1776, when the society was formed It IrecognizeK also that the educational objectives of students have been altered consider ably by these new- er curricula "Phi Beta Kappa condemns nei ther these cun mule nor then ob jectives, but it does challenge the I opinion that our institutions of I higher learning should devote) themselves primarily to training in applied sciences and vocational techniques It objects even more strenuously to the thesis that lib-1 eial studies have only a negligible bearing on contemporary life and must, therefore, show their acces any value to 'practical' studies in perish." Open 1940 , Political Activity Norma Stillwell Named '4l Campaign Manager By WILLIAM E FOWLER Campaign rumors, schemes, and connivations continued to gain mo mentum early this week as two Campus groups and the '43 All- College Party met in initial 1940 meetings The first woman campaign man ager in College annals was chosen by Campus '4l, meeting Tuesday night in the Comet Room, with Noinia Stillwell named to the pos ition Other reolganuation plans were delayed until next Tuesday, when the men's group will meet at Phi Gamma Delta An intensive dove to gain ; 011- rratel nity clique members aas planned by Tom Henson's Campus '42 outfit at its meeting Tuesday night. Jack Mahoney was elected to the post of secretary-treasurer of the group, with nommation, plafform, and campaign comm't tees to be appointed at the next meeting Chuck Ruttenberg and Chuck Phillips were selected as co-chair men of the approaching '43 All- College campaign by Chairman Chuck Elder. The freshman poli ticians will meet again February 29 to debate a possible change In party name 19 Accidents And One Fatality Occur Among College Workers In 1939 Twenty-mile accidents, includ ing one fatality, occurred among the 1,670 College employees dur sing 1939 and resulted in a loss of 6363 working days. Greatest toll, was in the physt cal plants division where the only fatal accident occurred with a workman falling to his death from the new Liberal Arts building. Nine lost-time accidents among ' 222 employees in the division re sulted in a loss of 6045. The greatest number of acci- I dents occurred in, the School of Agriculture where - 13 mishaps re sulted in a loss of 217 days Agri culture also had the largest num ' per of employees, 545. Other' accidents reported with days lost in - parenthese were' En gineerlng-1 (49), Chemistry and Physics-2 (7), Service Divisions 2 (40), and Nittany Lion Inn 1 (5). HMO Foundation To Hold 'Stag' Night Club Social; Stern To K C. Program A ,gala night club social with all the trimmings of soft lights, danc ing., entertainment and refresh ments Is expected• to draw a cap acity crowd of Hil'elites to the Hillel Foundation, West Beaver Avende, tomorrow night. The ,social, the first complete], "stag" affair in recent Penn State history, will be unusual in that dates have been banned for both men and women All are to come unescorted Entertainment will be provided by talented members of the Foun dation ,doing specialty dancing, singing and novelty numbers, all folloWed by dancing to the latest of swing Into Master of cetemomes will be Arthtir E. Stern '42 The program will open at '8 30 p m and close at 12'30 a m Arrangements to take rate of out-of-town guests include the lift- Mg of, the "no date" ban rot a very limited number of couples 11,534 Degrees Awarded The•-total number of degrees awarded' in Pennsylvania's col legei,and universities grew to 11,- 534 hist year compared to 10,694 in 1937-38. More than a quarter of - the 9,314 persons receiving bachelor's degrees last year in tended to enter the teaching field. Fletcher Will Begin Lecture Series On College's Research Activities Monday Night I, Research Advocate 1 IF( Sing Entries Due By March 1 Will Hold Contest Finals At Interfraternity Ball March I will be the deadline Cm enti les for the first annual In terfratei nity Sing, Warren G El liott '4O, chairman of the affair, announced yesterday Entries for the song competition which is sponsored by Interfra ternity Council, should be turned -in at—Student Union-desk... Elliott decraied Eliminations will be held at intervals ,throughout the month of March, with the final iound to be held diming the inter mission of Intern ateinity Ball, Apiil 5 Sixteen men has been set as the number foi each choral gioup, El hott indicated, with each group iequued to sing four songs Choice of songs will be left to the indi vidual chows A large trophy will be piesent ed by Interfraternity Council to the winning team Judging will be taken care of by Hummel Fish bum, head of the music depart ment, and other music professors Young '4l Heads Cabinet At Wesley Foundation At the annual election of offi ce's of the Wesley Foundation, Methodist student center, held last Sunday, Rollin Young '4l was elected president of the 1940-41 cabinet to succeed Robert Fiske '4l Othei student officers elected weie Rosemary Hams '4l, vice president, Gail Rogers '43, secre tary ,and David Mai tin '4l, treas urer The installation of the new cabinet will take place in the Wesley Foundation at 730 p m. Sunday, March 10, with Dr W Emory Hartman as guest speaker. Kirby Page Advocates Propaganda Education "What you sow, so shall you reap," warned Kirby Page, noted author and lectuier, in his speech on "How To Keep America Out of Wai" in the initial lecture of a series sponsored by the Penn State Christian Association in Schwab Auditorium, Tuesday night Contending that present world conditions are due to the selfish interests of current world powers, Dr Page suggested that America can be peaceful only by sowing the seeds of public education on propaganda and war movements, by equality of foreign treatment, and by a religious front toward the suicidal methods of war "In meeting war methods with war, a nation breeds hate and sel fishness, and eventually loses its democracy and sacrifices its lib erty," Dr. Page said Pointing out that totalitarian government Is necessary during wartime, Page stated that dicta torial powers would continue in peace-time because of the stagger ing debt, excessive taxation, and unemployment which follow wars According to 'Dr Page, there Sigma Xi Sponsors Campaign To Popularize Penn State's Scientific Contributions To State Among Students And Alumni See Edzional, "Research Revival," on page 2 A far-reaching effort to popularize Penn State research activities aong both students and alumni will have its begin nings on the campus when Sigma Xi, national honorary scien tific fraternity which is sponsoring the campaign, presents a lecture on "Research at Penn State in the Sei vice of the Com monwealth" in Schwab Auditorium at 7 30 p. m next Mon day . Monday night's general lecture will be followed by late& talks at which outstanding College re ,eaiclusts will explain their par ticular lines of work Introductory brioche' will be iStevenson W Fletcher. (hall man of i the council on research and clean of the School of Agriculture Dean Fletcher will make a general out line of the research work done by the College and will then explain the activities of the School of Agri culture which curries on about half of the College research Following Dean Fletchei's talk. the research carried on in the other undergraduate schools a dl be explained by a speaker from 2ach Dr Frank C Whitmore, dean of the School of Chemistry and Physics, Prof Charles C Peters director of research in the School of Education. Prof Fred G Hech ler, director of the Engineering Ex periment Station, Prof Herbert Koepp-Baker of the School of the Labeial Arts. Prof Alfred W Gauger, director of the Mineral Industries experiment station, and Dr Elwood C Davis, of the School of Physical Education and Athlet es; The vast College research pro gramr—which has xecenred com paratively little attention on the campus—cost $673,497 60 last year Engaged in research work this yea! are 300 of the 1,493 employees of the College Of the 300 individuals engaged in research w0rk,1155 devote their entire time to this field while 145 are engaged in both instruction and research The group doing full-time research includes per sons of all rank, from graduate assistants to full professors Sources of the money which the College spent last year on research were Federal appropi cations, $208,- 873 33, state appropriations, $239,- 1 534 87, industries and other coop erative agencies, $178,717 24, and general funds of the College, $46,- 372 16 Home Ec Handbook Staff Candidates Meet Today Candidates for the Home Eco nomics Handbook staff will meet in 118 Home Economics at 4 p m today The handbook, published for the first time last year, describes the department's honoraries, cour ses, and professors, and ,is sent to freshmen and transfers during the summer. , Virginia K Barger '4l, chairman of the handbook committee, urges all home economics women inter ested in art or journalism to at tend the meeting would never be Hitters or Stalms if Germany and other suppressed nations had been treated with fairness, and if world powers had used justice and tolerance in try ing to help them solve their prob lems. By following a policy of non aggression, regardless of national pride, one may overcome evil with good, rather than using the alter native of massacre against massa cre, Dr Page contended. "There are only two Ways to cope with our present dilemma," he concluded. "Either use the Hit ler-Kaiser method of dictatorial selfishness and propaganda and perish by the sword, or run the risk and take the consequences by sowing seeds of justice, mercy, and tolerance." 1 PRICE FIVE CENTS Miller, Shloss Invited To Address Convention Here:: May Shift Friday Nighi : Banquet from Atherton: Hall To University Club BULLETIN Leon W. Shloss, editor of the Washington bureau of the Inter national News Service, accepted the committee's invitation to at tend the Student Government Convention in a telegram to - the Collegian late yesterday. - `-,, Two nationally-known news papermen, Paul Miller, superin tendent of the Associated Press in - Pennsylvania, and Leon. W. Shloss, editor of the Washingthn Bureau of the International News Service have been invited'; to speak_ at the .state-wide, Student Government Convention, to.'-be held here on March 1,2; antr3 One change may be made in the tentative convention schedule' announced last week The ban quet slated to be held in,Ather ton Hall on Friday night maybe shifted to the University Club, otherwise the schedule. will t!p.4 main as formerly planned The student forum on the sub ject of "Student Government, and College Publications," will be led by Shloss, who Was formerly a ofessoi here The subject 'of talk has not yet been 4de cided upon - , In addition to the two guest speakers, Pies Ralph D Retie], Dean of Men Arthur R Warnock, Dean of Women Charlotte E. Fitly; and Col Ambrose R Emery, head of the ROTC department will speak at the various luncheoni and dinners slated for Friday and Satui day Sigma Delta Chi Will Dig Up Ghosts Of Past Yea At Gridiron Banquet We bury the dead, because they stink, but Sigma Delta Chi is goirig to dig them up again and see whether they stink even more af ter a year in the deep, dank earth Yes, Penn State's dead past will be thrown up into its very lace when the national Journalism hots: wary fraternity holds its annual Gridu on Banquet in the Nittahy Lion Inn, Monday, March 11. That annual occasion when no= body on the campus is safe from Jibes and digs, the Gridiron Bin quet, will revolve around a theme of "War and the Dead Past"—with scenes from Penn State's 1939 bat tles and the return of ghosts of the year gone by Nobody will get a pat on the back, and everyone will reek with the odor of a cadaver except those lucky individuals who receive 'the annual awards—the brown derby to the biggest loafer, the beer.mug to the College drunk, and the_big red apple to the most outstanding handshaker on the campus. This year, for the first tiniCilile banquet will be informal. Tickets for the affair will be priced at $1 ho Marlin Talks Al Banquet, Dr Asa E. Martin, head ,o e f ih " department of history, addressed the annual banquet of the Fine Turf Conference in the Nittimy Lion Inn on the subject of Ameri can aspects of the European war last night. The association of greenskeepers will end its 12th an nual meeting today.
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