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CMICAd* • • LOS AHGBLS3 * S.4H F^ASCU.ZiJ
G) oduate Counselor
Wednesday Morning, March 12, 1941
liberal Artists And War
•‘Johnny get your gun!’’ is rapidly becoming the
theme song for all male Liberal Arts students if
ihe attitude prevalent in the Liberal Arts School is
any criterion. To hear some of them talk, one
would think that about the only purpose the C and
F’er will serve in the near future is to earn his
three squares a day and $3O per month in one of
Uncle Sam’s army camps.
True, his prospects of beginning a useful private
citizen’s life are none too bright, but what about
the future? What will happen, shall we say, five
years from now, or whenever the present emer
gency for national defense will have disappeared?
Probably one of the main reasons for the down
in-the-mouth attitude of the liberal artist is the
apparent kicking around he has been getting un
der the Selective Service Act. He is seeing the
engineering and technical students placed in the
exempt class and besieged with job offers right
and left, while he is completely ignored and feels
useless in the midst of the greatest industrial ac
tivity in the history of the nation. And yet a care
ful analysis should convince him that his service
id society will be in demand when the country
goes into an inevitable economic talrspin following
the World W r ar 11.
It stands to reason that once the emergency has
passed, there will be a diminishing request for
technically trained men who are riding on the top
f)f the world right now. By that we don’t mean to
.imply that all engineers will find themselves with
out jobs. There is little doubt, however, that out
colleges and universities will turn out an oversup
ply of mechanically trained men. It has happened
in- previous national crises and will happen again
this time.
It is then, when the country will be trying to dig
itself out of the post-war tailspin, that the well
prepared liberal artist will receive his opportun
ity'. There will be a necessity for the readjust
ment of our financial policy, our banking and tax
ation muddle and government administration.
There will be urgent need for immediate attention
to the acute housing administration, the tinem-
X>loyment problem and relief. Who will be better
fitted to guide the nation out of its dilemna than
the young men of America best trained in eco
nomics, politics and social problems?
The young liberal artist will do ■well' to shake
off that feeling of uselessness and discoux-agemeht,
and keep pace with the times until his nuriiber is
called the second time.
What hbmt The Faculty;!
An anonymous Collegian reader has sent us a
clipping which points out that at four New York
City colleges faculty members have been asked to
criticize the regulations under which they teach
and to suggest changes.
“Should happen here,” the sender remarks. Col
legian is inclined to agree. Students here are tak
ing the liberty of criticising the faculty through
their school councils and Collegian presumes that
the administration has always exercised that per
ogative. That puts the faculty in a riot too hdjjpy'
middle and it seems only fair they should be en
couraged to reply to those administrative sources
which would give them fair consideration.
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In the full realization that we ought not to in
trude upon the province of the mighty, and that"
we are already considered more than a little ob
noxious for our inquiries into spheres wherein we
are not concerned, we should yet like to make an
other suggestion. We’ve heard a great many pe
culiar rumors floating about, many of them in con
nection with the unorthodox practice of signing
contracts for orchestras before the dance commit
tees have been appointed, many of them in con
nection with the prices paid to those orchestras,
and some of them in connection with the manner
in which class committees serve only as stooges or
figureheads, their work having been done for them
and their decisions made by persons having no
public hand in the pie. Thus far we've heard
neither denial or confirmation of these rumors.
From all we’ve been able to gather there’s some
thing under the i-oses that doesn’t have quite a
rosy fragrance, but no-one knows what it is. Or
if it is. It would be reassuring to have some man
ner of answer to all this. Either the student gov
ernment or the administration would do well, we
think, to recognize the growing discontent engen
dered by such rumors and take measures to prove
them either false and unfounded or true. There's
no pleasure in feeling as if you’ve been taken for
a sucker if you really haven’t.
Today finds the political mechanisms of the two
cliques grinding away at full speed. It has -been,
we are in£ormed~by one who is potent and cunning
among the seekers of votes, great election weath
er. Paraphrasing Napoleon’s acute commentary
implying that God is on the side of the heaviest
artillery, we might say that the elections this year
will apparently go to the clique having the most
.automobiles. No point in asking any one to walk
through snow and ice simply to vote.
We are waiting patiently for the modern dan
cers to announce that they will dance one of Mr.
Roethke’s poems. Mr. Auden has already been
thus honoured we hear. If we - may be permitted
the liberty, we have a vague feeling that one day
the modern dancers will get themselves in for
■something they hadn’t bargained for. This bus
iness of dancing about to just anything can lead
to inconceivable results. Consider the Encyclo
pedia Britannica.
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It might perhaps be of passing interest to the
casual reader to observe that Mr. Hervev Allen
had absolutely no part in the composition of Mr.
James Hilton’s novel “Lost Horizon,” despite any
opinion oi' ours to the contrary. Which of the two
gentlemen is to be congratulated for the fact is
something of a question. For our part we’d just
as soon forget the entire affair, having spent a
rather wretched week trying to explain away a
pretty nasty mistake
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Supervises Elections
Richard C. Peters ’4l, chairman
of the All-College Elections Com
mitte, will supervise All-College
elections which began yesterday
and ends tomorrow. The com
mittee will be in charge of the
voting booths and enforce the
election code.
Letters to the Editor —
Loan Fund Already
Established Here
To the Editor:
- In consideration of the Class
of 1941 gift, the seniors should
be aware that the Class of 1922
has recently diverted its fluids—
about $30,000 —from a swimming
pool to the student loan fund.
Although a loan fund is a com
mendable gift, it seems to me
that toe Class of 1922’s actioti
makes' it desirable for, 1941 to
provide for the completion of
the Old Main mural project while
Henry Varnum Poof is stili avail
able.
The loan fund has already been
established. Let’s complete what
promises to be one of the most
outstanding works ,of art in the
country.
'Fascism' In WS6A,
Reader Charges
To the Editor
I wish to register a protest
against the action of WSGA in
making last week's mass meeting
compulsory. Not only were they
exceeding their authority in so
doing, but they committed the
same blunder that fascism com
mits in supposing that forcing one
to adhere to the external form
makes one respect the underly
ing ideal. Compulsory saluting of
tlie flag does not bring respect;
neither will compulsory attend
ance at meetings produce the
interest sought by WSGA. If the
girls are not sufficiently interest
ed perhaps the fault lies with
WSGA.
—Cassius.
Captain Held to Leave
Capt. Lewis I. Held, ROTC in
structor, has received notifica
tion from the War Department
ordering him to leave the College
Friday, to assume duty as instruc
tor at the Tactical Section of the
Infantry School, Fort Benning,
Ga. Captain Beld was initiated
into Scabbard and Blade on Sun
day.
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"A Penn Stale Tradition"
RCA VICTOR
RECORDS RADIOS
Very truly yours,
Harold G. Wilson ’4l
Your sincerely,
Jean Lowry ’42
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1941'
TODAY:
Engineering, applicants for U-
S. Naval Reserve report to 202
Engineering E to make appoint
ments for interviews;'
PSCA Speakers Committee;""
304 Old Main, 4 p. m.
PSCA Fireside chairmen, Hugh
Beaver Room, 4 p. m. Dean A;
R. Warnock, speaker.
Housing lecture, Ellis' Tomp
son, executive assistant, to Pitts
burg Housing Authority. “Pub
lic Housing in Pennsylvania,”’
124 Sparks, 4p. m. • • -
PSCA Cabinet, Hugh Beaver
Room, 8:15 p. m. Election of
1941-42 officers.
PSCA Community' Service
Committee, Hugh Beaver Room,
7 p. m. Amy G. Gardner, asso
ciate professor of Home .Eco
nomics, speaker. •
Meeting of' woman debaters,
varsity and freshmen. Campus
Photo Shop, 6:45 p. m.
.Coffee Round Table Hour, Hil
lel, Foundation, 4 p. m.;
Womens Rifle Club meeting,
2 White Hall, 7 p. m. Nomina
tioris for officers, all members....
should bb present. • ••.•••
Participaiits in intercollegiate ..
telegraphic . swim meet,._White
Hall pool, 7:45 p. m. Officials; .
7:30. Meet, 8 p. m. n
All-College elections,. 'iti&'J
floor lounge Old Main, 12;30 p, ,
iri. tb 8 p. hi.
Student Union dance, Armbry;
4 p. rii. 'L\. -V
IMA Central Council, 318 Old
Main, TO p. m. . " -
Hbtise of Representatives, 305
Old Main, 5 p. m. '
Ail fraternity presidents should;
turn in IF bridge tournament'
applications and fees by noon to
Student Union.
TOStORROW:
All-College elections,' fitst ”
floor lounge Old Main.
Student Handbook editorial-.,
staff, 7:30 p. m." Room to' be an
nounced. . ' czzzz,
Playing at the State for
last time today is the Loew ancE -^" -"j
Lewin production “So Ends Our ™
Night.” a moving and poignaht- ~::.:
love story. Told through the eyes, .. :
of political refugees, the' story vss..
takes place in several European' '
capitals. - -
“So Ends Our Night”’ stars
Margaret Sullavan, Fredric
March, Frances Dee, and. Glenn.
Ford. It is the movie version of-'
Erich Maria Remarque's “Flot
sam” and depicts the battle: :of
the refugees to overcome oppresr;™.::::::
sion at the time of Hitler’s.•ihv9n“:~j"
sion of Austria.
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dents from one fraternity~ehrdlE>2-:: : : '■
in the course sportsorecEßy fther..—. ~
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Athletics as part of . the >5H
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These special classes•-'Wltlr fife
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time desired by the.situd.ents.
Application blanks should be-15S*j : -
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