Successor-to -
the Fret;, Lance,
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VOL. 37—No. 70
:Lion .- Booteri: Afjii n . . Share
Title With Princeton
Penn State Has Better
Record Than Tigers
K. fitting cliinax to their eighth
- whirlwind season of no defeats was
the honor accorded Coach Bill
- Jeffrey's varsity booters when they
were selected Saturday to share
'the -5 1.94'1 national soccer champion
'ship with Princeton.
'....Although the records of the
Lions and the Tigers compare
favorably„ the Nittanymen hold
the. edge in that th6y finished the
season undefeated and that-Prince
ton was tied .by Yale. The Penn
State eleven also' blanked both
Army and Penn while the Tigers
won with one point margins, beat
ing Army, 2-1, and 'Penn, 3-2.
-Representatives' from 39 schools
attended the New York meeting
at which the committee on awards,
'appointed last year for the first
time, named the titleholders.
,Representing Penn State at the
- annual meeting were Jeffrey, Neil
M. Fleming, graduate manager of
athletics; Dr. Carl P. Schott, dean
.of the School of Physical Educa
tion and Athletics; and Roger S.
Findley, Jr. '4l, manager of the
1940 Lion eleven.
The 1940 award was number
seven for/ Penn State, although
Engineering Personnel Booklet
To Cover All Five Departments
Departmental Guides
Will Also Be Published
-;-For. the 'first time in the history
of the..Engineeringachool, a_ sen-_
lished in one wilume containing
material from all five departments
of the school. —.
Previously, each department
published its own booklet, but due
to lick of uniformity in both size
and contents, it was decided to
include personnel material from
all departments in the same loose
leaf binding. Fifteen of these
large volumes will be published
arid 1500 departmental booklets
will also be printed for the indi
vidual use of each department.
Included in the booklet will be
a picture of each-Senior, his age,
address, vocational experience,
college activities, membership in
honorary fraternities, sclplar
ships, and an account of the per
centage of college expenses he is
earning. The booklet will be
published at a cost of approxi
mately six dollars per student.
• The committee of seniors in
charge of the booklet includes:
Richard M. Geissinger, chairman;
Otto W. Luek, David •L. Garret,
John C. Williams, Albert E.
Ilimey, and Jack R. Hogan.
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Dr. Erwin W. Runkle
Badly Hurl In Fall
Dr. Erwin W. Runkle; - 71, pro
feSsor emeritus of philosophy, was
painfully injured yesterday morn
ing" when he suffered a stroke and
101 to the ground badly cutting his
'right eye.
Dr. Runkle is in a serious con
dition at 'his home at 319 South
rgh street. He was treated for the
severe cut under his eye incurred
When his glasses broke.
Deadline Today
-- ::All seniors graduating in Febru
'try who have not ordered their
caps and gowns are requested to
call at Student. Union and place
their orders, anytime between 9 a.
m. and 5:30 p.m. today. After to
'clay, no •orders will be accepted.
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BILL JEFFREY
Nittany Lion soccer teams have
held' the "Association Cup"—as it
will be known hereafter only
twice without having to share it
with at least one other school.
State held the honor alone in 1929
and in 1938.
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No. Extension Of. Draft
,Doi 1D 1(0ra Says
NEW HAVEN Conn., Jan. 13
—The Yale News reported today
that Clarence A. Dykstra, na
tional director of selective serv
ice said, "There will be no de
ferment past July 1 for college
students called in the draft."
Dykstra excepted from this
statement students such as doc
tors and engineers about to get
degrees which will enable them
to take places in vital industries.
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Thespians To Give
Dance February 4
The second-semester social sea
son will get 'a head start Tuesday
night, February 4, when the Thes
pians present their 1941 edition of
the "Joe College Rat Race" with
the Campus Owls supplying the
music for the informal dance in
Rec Hall.
In addition to making arrange
ments for the dance, George L.
Parrish '4l, president of the Thes
pians, also announced that the
following students had been pro
posed for memliefShip and will be
initiated in the near future: H.
Lindsey Arison '4l, Bernard A.
Berlin '43, D. Garth Dietrick '42,
Henry F. Daley '43, William S.
Kirkaptrick '4l, Herman K. Klauk
'43, Jack F. Mahoney '42, John E.
Phillips '43, Jbhn W. Pierce '42,
Ralph M. Pierce '42, Donald G.
Reihard '43 and Frank Rumbaugh
'42.
Thirteen pledges will:. also he
initiated. They are Samuel P.
Brown '43, William D. Bartho
lomew '4l, Edward R. Clauss '43,
Joseph P. Gavenonis ,'43, Lesley
J. Hetenyi '43, Edward F. Joslyn
'44, Robert M: Koser '43, Leo G.
Morrell '43, William P. Nesbitt '4l,
Donald L. Russell '43, Robert W.
Saunders '42, James T.. Smith '43
and. Alan R. Vinicoff '43.
OF THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE
YyN PANVO MOO IZOhMW voff•Not DM
No Flu Epidemic
Among Students,
Dr. Rilenour Says
Although a mild epidemic of
influenza has spread across many
eastern states, there is no evid
ence that the disease has reached
the campus, Dr. Joseph P. Riten
our, director of the College Health
ServiCe, said yesterday.
Quelling rumors that the "flu"
was spreading among the students
on the eve of semester finals, Dr.
Ritenour pointed out that most of
the new cases in the infirmary are
due to upper respiratory condi
tions. The rise in the number of
patients is not unusual, Dr. Riten
our continued, since there is in
evitably an increase in Infirmary
cases following Christmas vaca
tion.
This does not insure, however,
that the flu will not spread to the
campus just as it has spread to
the east from the west coast, Dr.
Ritenour said. If students con
tinue to keep late study hours
prior to finals, there is reason to
believe. that the lowered vitality
of the students may aid tale spread
of the disease to the campus, he
warned.
No deaths as a direct result of
the flu • have been reported
throughout the country and any
tendency for it to develop into
pneumonia has been reported in
only one state, Texas. As of Sat
urday, 77,144 cases were reported
for the country as a whole. Al
though this mark represents a
peak for the present epidemic, it
is still 13,000 below the peak of
1932.
Cases are increasing along the
eastern seaboard, although the
disease has not reached propor
tidns which require reports from
State authorities in Pennsylvania,
New York, and Delaware. How
ever, New York City, which re
ports separately, showed an in
crease from 32 to 77 cases last
week.
Collegian Candidates
To Report Tonight -:
Freshman candidates for the
editorial and business staffs of The
Daily Collegian should report to
Room 405 Old Main at 8 p. m.
today.
Positions on both staffs are open
to men and women. It is not ne
cessary that candidates intend to
enter the journalism curriculum.
Scotch Didn't Invent 'Fast' Time,
Quiz Program Experts Discover
It took 28 questions and a whole
hour to do it, but 11 lucky stu
dents finally stumped the board of
experts, Prof. Hummel Fishburn,
Prof. John R. Fredland, Prof. War
ren B. Mack, and Prof. Charles
S. Wyand, and collected $27.50
from Alpha Lambda Delta's second
"Information, Please" program in
Room 10 'Liberal Arts at 3 p. m.
Sunday.
The first $2.50 went to M. Paul
ine-Rugh '43, when the four ex
perts failed to icrentify the dog,
of "Dorothy and the Wizzard of
Oz" in spite of a broad hint from
Prof. Robert E. Galbraith, medi
ator a la Fadiman.
Professor Wyand knew what the
Magna Carta was, but since he
didn't know that no one signed it,
$2.50 was collected by Flifrence
E. Held '4l. One of the experts
also suggested that the Scotch in
vented daylight saving time, but
according to Mary Jean Popp '42,
it was really the Pennsylvania
Dutch.
Another $2,50 went to Emily J.
Sperber '42 whose bluebook in
formed the board that a British
flag is flying over only one city
Committee OF 100 Urges
Additions. To Alumni Plan
Can't Get Rid Of $5,000
W. Lewis Corbin '4l, chair
man of the.-senior class gift com
mittee, shown above, issued a
call last night for more sugges
tions for the glass gift. He point
ed out that the committee will
not make a final selection of the
gift but merely pick Out the best
suggestions to be put before the
class at the All-College Elections.
The gift will be worth about
$5,000.
Court Trial Forum
On Campus Today
The Penn State debating team
will meet Bucknell tonight in a
court trial forum . to discuss the
question, "Should the Armament
Program be Modified?" The debate
will be held in Room 10 Liberal
Arts at 8 p.m.
The trial will be an imaginary
action for mandatory injunction
by the people of the U. S. against
Congress, compelling it to pass
laws to modify the armament pro
grain in our country.
Actual court technique will be
followed throughout the trial with
a judge, bailiff, tipstaff, and a jury
(selected from the audience) all
taking part. The witnesses will be
Norman Thomas, Senator Wheeler,
Adolf Hitler, President Roosevelt,
and Winston Churchill. These wit
nesses will be characterized by
debaters.
of the United States, Williamsburg,
Virginia.
Professor Fishburn was well on
the way toward identifying the
composers of several "Don" operas,
but he slipped up . on "Don Pas
quali" (by Donizetti, you know)
and lost $2.50 to Stanley Ulick '43.
He was able, however, to line his
fire signals on the blackboard in
short order and tell that the song
of a woodpecker's nightmare is "I
Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls."
The experts fumbled on a ques
tion concerning PreSident Hetzel's
honorary degrees, and $2.50 went
to Lloyd F. Kershner '44. They
also did some wholesale guessing
on, the founding of the graduate
school of the College in 1922, fin
ally missing it by one year and
handing $2.50 over to Jane H.
Firestein '42. A current events
question concerning the Italian
campaigns of last week was asked
by Gertrude H. Hecht '4l and
missed by the board.
$2.50 was given to Walter J.
Kidd '42 because the board of ex
perts couldn't name four seas
which form a part of the Medi
terrean.
Weather—
Cloudy and
Colder.
PRICE THREE CENTS
Membership Scheme
Approved In General
Special to The Collegian
PITTSBURGH, Jan. 13 The
Pennsylvania State College Alumni
Committee of 100 filed a letter
here today for the Penn State
Alumni Association in which it
pledged support for the general
outlines of the Association's new
membership plan but urged that
five more points be incorporated in
it.
The Committee, composed of
recent Penn State graduates, called
.the membership plan "strikingly
similar" to one it had suggested
and urged its adoption by the
Alumni Executive Council when it
meets February 1.
The plan referred to has already
been approved by the All-College
Cabinet. It calls for a solicitation
of five-year Alumni Association
memberships at a price of eight
dollars among sophomores and
juniors but not effective until
their graduation.
Concurring in this plan, the
Committee through its temporary
officers, made these five additional
suggesstions:
1. It should be made clear be
yond doubt that no one will be
forced to pay anything.
2. No student should be solicited
until after his freshman year when
he will have had time to make up
his mind about the Alumni Asso
ciation.
3. Money pledged by the stu
dents should not be turned over
to the Association until they be
conie full-fledged voting members
and thus have a right to say what
should be done with their money.
4. As a step toward making the
Alumni Association self-support
ing, for every dollar received from
the students under this plan, the
College should decrease the appro
priation to the Association by one
half that amount.
5. Money saved by the decrease
in the alumni grant should be
placed immediately in the schol
arship fund set up by the Class
of 1938 to aid deserving students.
The report was signed by John
A. Trovovitch '39, temporary
chairman; Francis H- Shimshock
'3B, temporary secretary; and Har
vey H. Heilman, Jr. '39, temporary
treasurer.
[ale News
Bulletins
Washington Mrs. Roosevelt
expressed her opinion yesterday
concerning the draft bill. She de
clared that young married men
and boys, midway through their
education, should have their draft
assignments deferred with no hes
itation.
London The RAF hurled a
terrific aer i al 'bombardment
against Germany and Italy last
night as they swept far east
through Germany to the Danube.
There they bombed and machine
gunned assembled Nazi troops.
Their attack continued throughout
Germany and into Italy where
they bombed oil wells near Ven
ice.
Dublin —_The DeValerian gov
ernment in Ireland admitted last
night that there was a tremendous
food shortage in Eire because of
the English blockade. It was re
ported in England last night that
they were considering taking over
Ireland forecably so that they
might establish air bases there.