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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
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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: ??? •
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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."
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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.
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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.