.. , , • •,...,..ir- . - - - Baskeball- - 41; ~;,- 4..,, ,. • - -., ' • - . Weather --:;5. "I. " PeT."l- Si,.fe7- 47 .•- • . . . s , 4 tiling i 0 Tottr .. #,:.,..., . Continued '.-.liig gt`tut Cold. VOL. 37. r -No. 69 Cornell Professor Will Gi v e Midyear :Graduation:.Talk - - The •speaker for the midyear 'commencement exercises • will . be `Prof. Charles L. Durham, head'of the classics department at Cornell University, it was announced yes- , terday. - The commencement has been set • for January 28, a week before the start of second semester classes. The graduating class is expected -- to be - approximately the same size as at the last midyear commence ment when 223 candidates were :awarded bachelor's, master's or doctor's degrees. The present class .-will be made up almost equally of graduate and undergraduate stu dents. • This is an unusually large num ber of candidates for the midyear commencement, Which is by far the smallest of three—regular ses sion, summer and midyear—held annually by the College. Professor Durham is a veteran educator with almost 50 years of academic service. He is the present incumbent of the John Wendell Anderson distinguished professor ship a Cornell. Except for periods spent in studies,abroad and a brief tenure as vice-consul in Geneva, Switzerland, he has been associat ed with Cornell continuously since 1896. Nef Prof if Of $5 Shown By Talent Night Report :. Showing a profit of approxi -iiihreli'llir"e report for . the Penn State Club's Talent Night held December - 19, was released last night by Arthur Peskoe '4l. This year, instead of the usual collection asked of the audience, admission was charged. The report shoWed that the only income was from the paid admis sions. This amounted to $77.40. Advertising, prizes, payment of a master of ceremonies and an- ac companist, and rent were the ex penditures listed, adding up to $72.601. Galbraith Wilt Speak "Smart Writing" will be dis cussed by Robert E. Galbraith, associate professor of English com position, at a faculty coffee hour sponsored by Grange Dormitory Friday night, Sylvia P. Schmidle '42, president, has announced. Defense Teachers Here Today,, Tomorrow For. Final Instructions The 300- special extension in structors who will have charge of actual teaching in the engineering defense classes sponsored by the College have been summoned to the campus to attend a conference •tonight and tomorrowmorning, it •was announced yesterday. With the training course ready to start in 40 cities during the next nine days, the conference is in fended to give instructors an op . portunity to obtain assistance from resident instructors and . to ...gain • complete information on the program.. • • Classes - were started in 'Pitts . burgh ,'last Monday . when-. 1,350 •-inen:---nearly," 400 "more than were v-expected—met • for. the. first time. Present indications are .that the original - forecast of about 8,000 ap „plicants. will be fulfilled. This "represents more than half of the SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 11, 1941, STATE COLLEGE, PA T. Dorsey 0 Tommy Dorsey and his Orches tra have been sighed to play here for Senior Ball on February 28, Co-Chairmen Thomas C. Backen stose '4l and William Shevock '4l, announced yesterday. The official statement came as an anti-climax to a report yester day in Collegian's gossip column, "Collegiana," that Dorsey was al ready signed and the date had been listed in Variety. Newspaper's band bookings column. The com mittee verified this. - -They explained that Dorsey had been arranged for during Christ mas by the committee which, they said, had beer. appointed but not announced. On its b. , :sis of information from Variety, Collegian interviewed William H. Bartholomew, senior class •president, late Thursday af ternoon. Book Exchange Opens January 14 Tentative dates for--the opera tion of the book exchange, a non profit student organization, are January 24 to January 31 and February 3 to 7, David I. Finkle, senior adviser of the committee in charge announced last night. Gerald F. Doherty '42 and Wil Liam P. McFadden '43 were named co-chairmen by William B. Bar tholomew, senior class president. Books will be received in Room A on open dates. Correct book liSts are being sought and compiled from the seven •schools by the committee. The commitee will resell books at a greater profit to each student stores: Fees for this service will be five cents both to the seller and buyer. Whatever profit the \exchange makes will be donated to a worthy cause. This is the fourth year of exist ence for the exchange. Last year over 1200 books and $2500 were handled at an estimated saving of $5OO for the student body. Committee members assisting the co-chairmen are: Betty A. Bischoff '42, Sybill R. Martin '4l, George M Rums - ey '43, Benjamin L. Seen '42, Robert A. Wasser '42, and Gilbert D. Zuccarini '43. Russian Group Meets The Penn State Russian Society will hold its annual Christmas celebration in the Sandwich Shop in Old Main at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow. The group will observe the Greek Orthodox Christmas which fell on January 7. combined total for all colleges in the state. Classes will start Monday in the 20 cities in which registration was held this week while in the other 20 cities applicants will register next week and begin classes the following Monday. Courses in pre-foremanship, training will start later' in the month. The first general meeting of the conference tomorrow will be held after dinner tonight. At this meeting instructors will be divid ed into groups for specialized in struction tomorrow morning. Instructors from the campus will meet with the groups tomore row. morning. .At .this. time .the resident instructors will inform the special extenilorimorkers.con cerning methods and standards of instructions. OF THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE icially Signed For '4l Ball "All I can say is that Backen stose and Shevock have been named co-chairmen," Bartholo mew said. "If you want any more material, see them." College then telephoned Shev ock who did not want to release any information without first con sulting Backenstose. . "Call Tom if you want any in formation about the orchestra," Shevock said. "I don't want to say anything unless Tom and Bill are in favor of a release at this time." . Backenstose was then contacted. "We don't have any okay or confirmation," Backenstose said. "I went into Nail Fleming's office and found out that he had not heard anything about a confirma tion being received from the agency in New York City. I'm 1111111111111111111111111MI1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 Think You're Smarter Than Your Profs! •If you've ever felt smarter than the "profs" and longed to watch them squirm under a bar- rage of questions, now is -your chance At Alpha Lamda Delta's "In- formation Please" program, Robert E. Galbraith, associate professor of English composi tion, will give an oral bluebook to Hummel Fishburn, associa ate profe2goi of music educa- tion; John R. Fredland, instruc tor in English composition; Warren B. Mack, head of the horticulture department; and Charles S. Wyand, assistant pro fessor of ecoilomics. The. place:. -.Room 121, -lAb:• eral Arts. The time: 3p. in. Sunday. The winners: ??? • 111111111111111111111111111111111111MIIIIM111111111111111111111111111 Snow Ball Dance First '4l Informal Snow and' snow balls—even though there is none in sight cli maticly—will typify the spirit of the Penn State Club's informal Snow Ball Dance to be held in Rec Hall Saturday night from 9 p.m. to midnight. This, the sixth' annual dance sponsored by the club, will feature the popular music of Rex Rock well and his orchestra. The dance will be an informal affair and is scheduled to begin after the wrest ling matches starring Charley Speidel's proteges and the Uni versity -of Maryland squad. Formerly called the Penn State Club's New Year's Dance, the af fair will employ colored lighting and other features for the pleasure of the dancers, the committee stat ed last night. The admission price for the dance has been set at $1 per cou ple. This admission price includes both tax and checking. Handbook Sfaff To Get Keys And Pins Sunday Keys and pins will be awarded to the staff of the 1941-42 Fresh man Handbook at the PSCA Pro ject Council meeting in the Hugh Beaver Room at 4 p.m., Sunday. "John A. Currier '42, presient of the PSCA, and Harry W. Sea mans, PSCA secretary, will pre sent keys to Stanley J. PoKemp ner '42, ediotr, and David•E. Wag .enseller '4l, business manager, and pins to Betty Jo Patton '42, associ ate editor, and Marjorie L. Spring er '4l, advertising manager. going to see him tomorrow (Fri day) to find out if he had any further word." Yesterday afternoon Backen •stose and Shevock said that they had decided to release the band and to confirn , Variety's report. T. Dorsey has attained an excel lent recorn concerning dances at the College. His music for Senior Ball in 1938 attracted 1280 couples with a $2,004 profit. Seven hun dred and fifty-six couples attend ed when he was booked for Junior Prom in 1939 and the dance netted a $214.57 profit. The maestro can swing it "hot" as well a:• "sweet" and has the knack of being able to satisfy both ends and the middle of the aver age dance crowd—those who like it hot, those wro like it cold, and those in-between. Debaters To Face Six Opponents The Penn State debating squad, confident after - winning the first Westminister debate tournament this year, will see plenty of action next week when they engage in six debates, William E. Harkins, men's debate manager, announced yesterday. Their first encounter will be at St. Francis College, Loretto, when Paul R. Decker '42 and William C. Ritzel '42 will meet a negative team to debate the question, "Re solved: That the nations of the western hemisphere should enter into a permanent union." Mr. Har old P. Zelko, instructor in speech, will accompany the debaters to aid them in the non-decision tilt.. An extension debate with the same school:will:be held on Thurs day at Centre Hall. Donald L. Williams '42 and John R. Wishart '4l will uphold the negative side of the same question. The team will meet Bucknell at State College Tuesday and will travel to Lewisburg Thursday for an exchange trial debate. The other two entanglements will be with Lock Haven State Teachers College on a home to home basis, Tuesday. The debate at Lock Haven will be broadcast over the Williamsport radio station. Gray's Article Reprinted A Reprint from The Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol ume XX, November, 1940, has just been issued of a twenty-three page article by Doctor William H. Gray of the Department of History entitled "American .Diplomacy in Venezuela, 1835-1865." 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 Late News Bulletins 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111U1111111111 Washington—Congress pondered over part of the proposed national defense bill covering the repairing of British warship in The United States, yesterday. The bill was proposed on the basis% that if the United States was to be the arsenal for democracy, they should, aside from building ships for them, re pair their damaged war vessels. President Roosevelt would not commit himself on the amount of money he 'proposed to ask Congress for' aside from the defense bill quota at a newspaper reporters conference yesterday afternoon. The defense bill appropriation that Roosevelt asked Congress for re cently, underwent a great variety of opinion yesterday by congress men from all over the United States. Berlin—An envoy from Russia was in Berlin yesterday conferring with Aloph Hitler. They drew up a new treaty between the two PRICE THREE CENTS Van Zandt Asks Funds For College Coal Research Special to The Collegian WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 10— A bill to have the federal govern ment appropriate $lOO,OOO annual ly for the Pennsylvania State Col lege to carry out extensive re search in the use of anthracite and bituminous coal and the de velopment of by-products was in troduced to Cofigress today by James E. Van Zandt, representa tive for Pennsylvania. The bill is designed to expand the already established Mineral Research Laboratory at Penn State by having the federal gov ernment appropriate money for a cooperative research program in conjunction with the Common wealth of Pennsylvania. 'The lab oratory has co far been sponsored in a limited program by financial aid of the state and the coal pro ducers of Pennsylvania. With aid from the Federal Gov ernment, as provided in Congress man Van Zandt's bill, an exten sive. research program on the con stitution, mining, preparation and utilization of coal would aid in lowering cost •of production, in obtaining greater efficiencies of utilization and finding many new uses for coal. At this moment, according to Congressman Van Zandt, neither government nor private agencies is spending any large sums •of money on coal research. From the standpoint of labor the develop men t of new uses for coal will have a beneficial effect on the entire in dustry, and especially in the 23rd District where coal mining is one of the principal industries. Civil Service Announces Metallurgical Positions The U. S. Civil Service Commis sion has announced vacancies in the positions of metallurgical en gineer and metallurgist, in con nection with tne National Defense Program. Persons are needed to fill positions in the Bureau of Mines. Applicants must have completed a four-year college course with major study in certain scientific subjects. They are required to have responsible experience in metallurgy or metallurgical engin eering. Salaries range from $5,- 600 to $3,200 a year. All applica tions must be in Washington by December 31, 1941. 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 countries but very little news was released. It was believed, however, that they settled the Russian-Ger man boundary line throug Poland and set up a trade agreement be tween the two powrs. Athens—The Greek "mountain men" drove on to a new position deeper in the interior. of -Albania yesterday. They captured a large town that had been blocking their route of attack to Valona and.were expected to move on toward that city within the next few days. Cairo—The British - Australian army continued their plans of be sieging the city of Tobruk yester day afternoon. They plan to hurl a blitzkrieg •attack, using planes, tanks, and armored cars, at the city. Chicago—William Hoppe, the greatest billiard player of all time. collapsed when about to enter into a tournament to defend his cham pionship title yesterday afternoiin.
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