THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1940
Buildings Will Open
Wilh Only 45 Per Cent
Of Equipment Installed
(Continued from page 1)
ture. In that case, administrative
and student activity offices will
probably use the vacated space in
Old Main.
Offices in the Liberal Arts
Building have been occupied by
the dean’s staff, English composi
tion department, English litera
ture, and other departments in the
Liberal Arts School. The old Eng
lish Composition Building has
been converted into a home man
agement house for the use of the
department of home economics.
The $300,000 Burrowes Build
ing, designed to house the School
of Education, was dedicated on
August 1. Most offices are still
in the old structure but prepara
tions are being made to move
them in the near future.
At present, no formal dedica
tion ceremonies are planned for
any of the other buildings. Three
agriculture buildings Forestry,
Agricultural Engineering, and
Frear Laboratory (Agricultural
Science)—will be informally dedi
cated at brief cermonies held in
connection'with other affairs.
A housewarming for forestry
alumni will be held on October
11 to mark the opening of the new
Forestry Building. The Agricul
tural Engineering Building will be
dedicated in connection with a
meeting of the Pennsylvania Farm
Machinery Dealers Association on
November 13 and 14. Ceremonies
at Frear Laboratory will be held
during a meeting of Pennsylva
nia chemists. This date has not
yet been set.
The Electrical Engineering
Building, sections of which were
in use last year, will be used in
its entirety.
The 11 new buildings bring to
a total of 13 'the structures com
pleted within the last two years.
The other two buildings are
Frances Atherton Hall, women’s
dormitory, and Mary Beaver
White Hall, ..women’s recreation
building.
The buildings completed under
the GSA program and their costs
of construction are: Liberal Arts,
$460,000; Education, $300,000; Li
brary, $450,000; Mineral Indus
tries, $120,000; Chemistry and
Physics, $800,000; Agricultural
Engineering, $90,000; Electrical
Engineering, $465,000; Frear Lab
oratory, $575,000; Poultry, $90,-
000; Service, $25,000; and Fores
try, $165,000.
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4-Year-Old Government Institute
Boasts Impressive Service Record
Institute Secretary
Prof. Harold F. Alderfer, a
member of the political science
department, is executive secretary
of the Institute of Local Govern
ment. His report on its rapid pro
gress appears in. column three.
College Admits Record
Number of Transfers
The College during 1939-40 ad
mitted more transfer students and
more graduate students than in
any previous year, College Exam
iner Carl E. Marquardt revealed
today in his annual report to Pres
ident Ralph b. Hetzel. The com
bined total admitted was 1271.
Transfer students, who had their
credits transferred from other in
stitutions, number 490. They came
from 132 different colleges in 32
states and enrolled here in 37 diff
erent undergraduate curricula.
Three hundred of them were from
Pennsylvania institutions.
Graduate students enrolled at
the College in 52 different majors,
coming, from universities through
out the country. Dr. Marquardt
reported that 72 per cent of the
535 admitted held degrees from
institutions other than Penn State.
In addition, 166 students were ad
mitted as general graduate stu
dents and 80 as non-resident un
dergraduates.
University of California’s Davis
campus has a new $325,000 library
administration building.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Report By Alderfer
Shows Rapid Progress
Established four years ago as a
wholly new feature in Pennsyl
vania higher education, the Insti
tute of Local Government of the
College today can boast an impos
ing line of services which benefit
every municipality in the state.
A four-year progress report,
prepared by Prof. H. F. Alderfer,
the executive secretary, revealed
that the institute now edits and
publishes official magazines for
six separate local government or
ganizations, besides sponsoring
service meetings and clinics, train
ing students for government serv
ice, and keeping local officers
posted on new ideas and methods.
The magazines, having a com
bined circulation of 5,800, are pub
lished for the League of Cities,
Pennsylvania Chiefs of Police As
sociation, Borough Bulletin, Pro
bation and Parole Officers, Town
ship Commissioners, and County
Commissioners. Three of these
have been started since. January.
In the field of clinics and meet
ings, the institute sponsors annual
meetings of city assessors and mu
nicipal and local finance officers,
and an annual traffic school and
laboratory school for police offi
cers.
Students who have been grad
uated in the public service major
now hold posts in a number of
federal and state departments, in
cluding the U. S. Civil Service
Commission and the State Depart
ment of Internal Affairs. Others
are employed by such groups as
the Pennsylvania Economy
League.
In cooperation with the Insti
tute of Local and State Govern
ment, University of Pennsylvania,
the institute distributes factual re
ports on joint purchasing, man
ager governments, and other stud
ies, and is preparing a standard
manual for Pennsylvania asses
sors. The Penn State institute al
so offers a correspondence course
in accounting for the benefit of
municipal officers.
Summer Session Degrees
Reflect College Growth
Although less than a third as
large as the June exercises, the
recent summer session commence
ment conferred 189 advanced de
grees—which is as many as were
awarded by the College during the
first 48 years of its existence.
The growth of the institution is
reflected likewise in the number
man. The 118 bachelor’s degrees
says Registrar William S. Hoff
man. The 118 bacehlor’s degrees
awarded last month are only two
less than the total given during
the College’s first 22 years.
Total degrees conferred during
the year ending in July numbered
1670, the highest in the College’s
history. Of these, 1157 were
awarded at the June commence
ment, 220 at the midyear gradua
tion, and 293 at last summer’s ex
ercises.
We've No Bachgrowid
For English, Prof Says
Dr. Douglas S. Mead, professor
of English literature, laments the
fact that teachers are too husy
studying other subjects to learn
any Old English.
When Johnnie asks such ques
tions in school as “Who put the
,‘w’ in answer?”, “Why is the fem
inine of fox vixen?”, “Why do we
say sing-sang and not bring
•brang?", his teacher probably tells
him, “I didn’t make the English
•language. Learn it as you find it.”
Consequently, Johnnie must act
through blind obedience rather
•than thorough knowledge, Dr.
Mead says. He believes this is an
.unwholesome procedure and svjg-:
gests that teachers and pupils alike,
learn more about the history of
College Registrar
Registrar William S. Hoffman
has had the job of selecting 1,575
members of the class of 1944 from
almost twice that many applicants.
He reports that the class is schol
astically as well prepared as any
ever entering the College. (A full
report appears in the article on
page one and below.)
Record Freshman Class
Will Boost Enrollment
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ton, Dußois and Altoona. The cen
ter previously operated at Union
town has been abandoned after op
erating with insufficient enroll
ment last year.
Applications this year were
about 200 less than last year, to
taling 2,654 on August 21 as com
pared with 2,837 a year earlier.
The ability of the students ac
cepted, however, is as good as last
year’s class which met the highest
standards ever established by the
College. Half of the freshmen
were in the first fifth of their high
school classes and 80 per cent were
in the upper two-fifths.
The decrease in applications
was marked chiefly by a falling
off in the lower scholarship brack
ets. This group, Mr. Hoffman be
lieves, is being absorbed into the
spurting war industries.
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Business Jump j
Shown for State
Business in 15 leading cities of
Pennsylvania showed an average
improvement of 7 per cent in Juno
over the same month of last year,
the Business Survey of the Col
lege reported today.
At the same time, the level'of
general industrial activity about
the state registered one of the
sharpest monthly increases since
last fall, advancing 8 per cent
from May. This gain, which was
contra-seasonal, brought the in
dex to 82.7 of the 1923-25 average,
the highest point since last Jart.l
uary.
The first six months of 19-10
produced substantial gains over
the same period of 1939. Indus
trial activity as a whole jumped
18 per cent in that time.
June business in individual
cities, based on bank debits, in
dependent store sales and factory
payrolls, were as follows compar
ed to the previous June: Johns
town, 27 per cent; Pittsburgh, 21
per cent; Erie, 18 per cent; Harris
burg, 14 per cent; Allentown, II
per cent; York, 11 per cent; Leb
anon, 10 per cent; Altoona, 8 per
cent; Wilkes-Barre, 8 per cent;
Williamsport, 6 per cent; Reading,
per cent; Lancaster, 5 per cent;
Hazleton, 5 per cent. Philadel
phia, because of a sharp drop of
17 per cent in bank debits, de
clined 0.6 per cent, and Scranton,
affected by a drop in payrolls,
dined 1.4 per cent.
Old Farmers Poorer
Incomes of farmers 45 years of
age or older are lower than those
of younger farmers, according to
a seven-year study of 1,262 Centre
County farms conducted by J. E.
McCord, professor of farm man
agement and agricultural econom
ics. Farmers over 55 had consist
ently lower incomes.
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