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VOL,-37—No. 85
New Record Set
ilpSororities
Pledge t 63 Coeds
Thirteen campus sororities set
an all-time record of 163 pledges
to top last year’s total of 149-as
Chi Omega and Kappa Kappa
Gamma surpassed the individual
house record with 19 each in Sun
day’s pledging.
' Alpha Epsilon Phi and Kappa
■Alpha Theta tied for second place
with .17 pledges and Emanon
came in third with 16. Other
houses were Alpha Chi Omega,
14; Phi Mu, 12; Delta Gamma and
Zeta Tau Alpha, 10; Alpha Omi
cron Pi and Theta Phi Alpha, 9;
Gamma Phi Beta, 8; and Chari
tides, 3. ,
This year,-215 bids were sent
to 189 women with 163 accepting
as compared to last year’s 193
bids to 175 women with 149 ac
ceptances. Of 330 freshmen 149
were bid this year .with 124
pledging. Although there were
340 freshmen last year only 119
were'bid and 99 accepted.
Sophomores received 28 bids
this year and accepted 26 in con
trast to last year’s figure of 41
acceptances out of 47 bids. Eleven
juniors were bid and 10 accepted
Sunday; last year the 8 junior
bids were all accepted. A grad
uate student pledged this year
and a faculty member last year.
Refusals this year totaled 24, two
less than.last year.
Alpha" Chi Omega
Colors: red and green,
' Freshmen—Margaret D. Camp
bell, Lois A. Dosch, Phyllis E.
Garrison, • Helen Grace Hall,
Janet M. Henninger, M. . Jean
Tittle, Jane H. Murphy, Anne G.
Norris, Mary Jo Powell, H. Joyce
.'Sli-djgWJp'Tibis 'A.'. i.Wickersham;
sophomores—Kathryn A.- Bean,
Pauline E. Kennedy; juniors
Elinor F. Herrman.
Alpha Epsilon Phi*
Colors: green and white.
Freshmen —Lillian M. Abram
son, Jane R. Bartikowsky, Edythe
Dobnoff, Sara M. Fisher, Eleanor
M. Freedman, E. Doris Gilbert,
Doris S. Hammel, Sally L- Hirsh
berg, Pearl Kolbe, Pearl E. Kop
lovitz, Daisie J. Kranich, Fleu
rette MarguLies, Adrienne H.
Miller, Betty J. Podell, Marian
R. Rabinovitz, Nell N. Wortman;
sophomores—Bernice L. Turner.
Alpha Omicron Pi
Colors: red and white.
Freshmen —Eugenia D. Bund
(Continued on Page Four)
Murals Or Loan
To Be Senior Gift
Murals or loan fund?
Seniors will make the final
selection of their class gift at the
All-College elections to be held
March’ 11, 12, and 13 when they
pick one of these two sugges
tions, it was decided by the gift
committee Sunday night.
Selected from a list of seven
suggestions the continuation of
murals in Old Main received the
unanimous vote of the five mem
bers of the committee present as
oner suggestion to appear on the
ballot.
After a long and heated dis-
cussion the second candidate was
decided when four votes were
'cast for a loan .fund. One vote
went for a scholarship fund.
:One part of the lean fund
.would be invested while the oth-
er part would be loaned to jun
, dors and seniors, W. Lewis Cor
bin, chairman of the committee,
explained.
■ Approximately $5,000 will be
• left bv the Class of 1941 for this
- gift;
TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 18, 1941, STATE COLLEGE, PA.
Mountain lodge Nears
Actual Construction
Several recommendations con
cerning the 1939 mountain lodge
were adopted by the Recreation
Committee last night- and the
lodge was officially turned over
to the department of grounds
and buildings for construction.
As recommended ! by the com
mittee, the .lodge was brought
within the $7,300 budget. . It will
be located on a .five-acre plot
midway between Boalsburg and
the ski trail. "
The lodge will be two stories
high. There will- be no dormi
tories. A kitchen and mess hall
will be on the ground floor and
a club room, 60 feet, by 30 feet,
will be on the second floor..
Bill Introduced
For Ml Allocation
HARRISBURG, Feb. 17.—A
bill which would appropriate
$75,000 for'coal research at the
School of Mineral Industries at
The Pennsylvania State College
was introduced in the Senate to
day by Sen. Robert M. Miller,
Rep., Luzerne County.
Principal opposition to the bill
came from Sen. Anthony Caval
cante, Dem., Fayette County,
who objected because- there was
no allocation in Governor James’
budget for the appropriation.
However, Senate minority
leader, Sen. ■ Harry Shapiro,
Dem., Philadelphia County, hint
ed the bill would pass if funds
were available.
No appropriation for the
School of Mineral Industries at
the College was contained in
James’ budget which he present
ed to. the Legislature two weeks
TUgo. In the’.'last Appropriation
granted by the state two years
ago there was an allocation of
$50,000 which-was to be matched
by Pennsylvania industry.
Action has not yet been taken
by the Legislature on the propos
.ed appropriation of $4,375,000 to
the College. This is exactly the
same figure which was granted
for the 1939-41 biennium.
Tryouts Tomorrow
Open tryouts for specialty
numbers to be used between the
acts of “The Streets of New
York” will be held in the Little
Theatre at 7 p.m. tomorrow. A
call has been issued for comic
dance routines, blues singers and
duets, trios and quartets.
; We Three 7 Team To Entertain
At Collegian’s Washington Ball
“We Three,” a new comedy
team composed of Leon Rabin
owitz, Doris Disney, and Don
Taylor, will entertain at inter
mission of Washington’s Birthday
Ball, an informal. dance to be
given by the Daily Collegian in
Rec Hall from 9 p.m. to midnight
Friday.
A special comedy skit on the
life of George Washington will
feature the merry-makers’ pro
gram. Impersonations by “We
Three,” Don Taylor’s number,
“The First Nighter,” and imita- _
tions in costume of Bing Crosby
and Dorothy Lamour will high
light the program. Musical scores
Will be handled by the Campus
Owls.
New second semester subscrip
tions to the Daily Collegian plus
eight cents federal tax will be the
admission. General admission
will be 75 cents.
Although no advance sale of
dan'de tickets will be made, sub
scriptions to the Qollegian may
OF THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE
H. Auden Here For Week’s Visit;
I Give First Speech At 8 Tonight
These Two Men Speak On Campus Tonight
Robert -C. Mackie, left, will speak in Schwab Auditorium at 7
o’clock tonight and W. H. Auden, right, will talk in Room 121 Sparks
Building at 8. Mr. Mackie’s speech will be the opening signal for
All-College Cabinet’s drive for funds for the p.ritish War Relief So
ciey and the World Student Service Fund. Mr. Auden’s visit to the
campus is sponsored by the College.
Mackie Opens British Relief Drive
At Mass Meeting In Auditorium
Dollar-A-Sfudenf Goal
Set For Campaign
' All-College • Cabinet's ctollar
per-student war relief drive of
ficially opens at a mass meeting
in Schwab Auditorium at 7 p. m.
today, with Robert C. Mackie of
the World Student Service Fund
speaking. The drive will con
tinue through Friday.
Mr. Mackie, through his recent
extensive travels in Europe, In
dia, China, Japan, and North
America, has intimate knowledge
of the needs of students through
out the world.
A mobile feed kitchen to be
used for feeding civilians in
Great Britain will be displayed
near the main gate Thursday and
Friday and arrangements will
probably be made to serve tea
and coffee for 10 cents.
The varsity debating team di
vided first place honors with
Houghton College- in the debate
tournament at Shippensburgh,
Saturday. State won five out of
six debates with Albright, Am
erican University, Bucknell, Po
tomac State, and West Virginia,
losing only to Farmersville State
Teachers College.
State’s team was composed of
David R. Benjamin ’4l, Bernard
M. Weinberg ’43, Thomas J.
Burke ’42, and John R. Wishart
’4l. Prof. Joseph F. O’Brien
accompanied the debaters. The
topic discussed was ‘'The hemi
sphere question.”
William E. Harkins ’42 and
David R. Benjamin ’4l started an
eastern tour yesterday in which
they will meet teams from six
different colleges. The trip will
.-be highlighted by two radio de
bates with Columbia and City
College of New York.
The debate with Columbia,
Friday, will be broadcast over
station WNYC at 1:05 p. m. State
will uphold the affirmative side
of the question, “Resolved: That
the United States should gain and
maintain a position superior to
be obtained at Student Union or that of any other country in
the Collegian office, land, sea and air armaments.”
‘We Three’
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Cabinet To Hear Report
On Traffic Board
Keports on tfle nzuaem rramr
Board and chapel collections'will
be heard at the All-College Cab
inet meeting in Room 305 Old
Main at 9 p.m. tonight.
Cabinet will also decide the
date of the inauguration of All-
College officers and may pick the
football holiday for next fall.
Progress reports will be given by
representatives of Interfraternity
Council, Independent Men’s As
sociation, Philotes, Dramatics and
Forensics Council and Panhel
lenic Council.
Debaters Tie
At Shlppensburg
PRICE THREE CENTS
Students Can Schedule 1
Personal Appearances
W. H. Auden, noted English
poet and playwright, will make
his first appearance on campus
in Room 121 Sparks Building at
8 o’clock tonight when be will
speak on “English Poetry of the
Thirties.”
Mr. Auden’s one-week visit
here is being sponsored by the
College. The program committee
•is composed of Librarian Willard
P. Lewis, chairman, and Profes
sors William L. Werner, Robert E.
and Theodore Roe
thke.
For those students who wish
to consult Mr. Auden on prob
lems of creative writing, informal
conferences can be arranged
through Professor Roethke, de
partment of English composition.
His tentative speaking sched
ule, except for the talk tonight,
is as follows: Wednesday—noon,
Atherton Hall; 1:10 p.m., Room
239 Sparks Building; 4 p. m.,
Little Theatre; .Thursday,—noon,
McAllister Hall; 6 p.m., Sigma
Phi Sigma; 7:30, Rhythm Room
of White Hall; Friday—7:3o p.m.,
lounge of College Book Store.
Nine volumes of poems and
plays have come from Mr. Aud
en’s pen since 1930. Among his
latest works are “On This Is
land,” “Another Time,” “Letters
from Iceland,” and “The Ascent
of F. 6.” In 1937 he was led be
fore King George VI by John
Masefield, poet laureate of Eng
land, to receive the King’s Gold
Medal for the best poetry of the
year.
He has been particularly im
pressed wn/i xxititsuuciy
to a recent radio interview, first
from reading American litera
ture and now from personal ob
servation, by her universal lone
liness.
“America is a dangerous and
challenging place in which to
live, and the only place for a
writer today,” Mr. Auden told an
interviewer at Swarthmore Col
lege recently.
New Bus Depot
Will Be Erected
A modern bus terminal, com
plete with all station facilities
including a cafeteria and restaur
ant by July 1, H. C. Crawford,
regional manager of the Pennsyl
vania Greyhound Lines, Inc., an
nounced before borough council
last night.
Plans are now being drawn up
to have the new treminal, which
will be operated by Greyhound
Post Houses, Inc., conform with
College architecture and face the
campus. It is expected that the
College will cooperate in provid
ing a walk to the building.
Council was faced with the re
fusal of Burgess Wilbur F. Leit
zell to permit an extension of the
deadline which abolishes the
present bus stop on Thursday.
Unless Leitzell permits buses
to stop on-College avenue until
the new terminal is completed,
Crawford stated that the bus
company would be forced to re
ceive and discharge passengers at
a make-shift shelter on the new
site. ■
’44 Candidates Meet
There will be an important
compulsory meeting of all fresh
man Collegian candidates in
Room 405 Old Main at 7:30
o’clock tonight. All sold subscrip
tions must be turned in.