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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
"For A Better Penn State"
Established L94-')„ Successor to tae Penn State Collegian,
established 1904. and the Free Lance, established 1887
Published daily except Sunday and Monday during the
regular College year by the students of The Pennsylvania
iSlata College. Entered as .second-class matter July 5, 1934
Hi-the iKwt-o-ffiee at State College, Pa., under the act o-f
March 8» 1870
Editor _ _ Bus. and Adv. Mgr,
Adam StKywc "41 ’ Lawrence Driever "41
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Ml ; Women’s Feature Editor—Edythe B. Rickel ’4l.
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ngor—Robert G. Robinson ’4l; Senior Secretary—Ruth Gold
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Junior Editorial Board—John A. Baer *42, 3.. Koler.
Gordon ’42, Ross B. Lehman ’42. William J. McKnight ’42,
Alice M. Murray '42, Pat Nagelberg *42. Stanley J. PoKemp-
DO 1 *42, Jeanne C. Stiles '42.
Junior Business Board —Thomas W. Allison ’42. Paul M-
Goldberg ’42. Jama* E. MeCaughey '42. Margaret I*. Embury
*42, Virginia Ogden ’42. Fay E. R-jes '42.
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Gnuluate Ownrie'oir
Wednesday Morning, March 19, 1941
Tte iDafof Code Again
—rWhifher Bound!
Another violation of the fraternity dating code,
the second this year, has refocused attention on
IFC. This idea of this being the second violation
ibis year should bring a big snicker from the fra
ternity section. Most fraternity men would esti
mate the code violations at upwards, of 100—and
Only two reported.
The present violation, timed as it is, may be
important. It comes less than a week after the
president of IFC urged fraternities to cooperate
in enforcing the dating code and warned that a
new drive would be launched against violaters.
Perhaps this is the new drive. Collegian hopes
so. IFC’s interest may in some measure be influ
enced by the recent activity of women’s organiza
tions on the matter of fraternity dating. Dean
Ray called a meeting of sorority presidents to dis
cuss dating In fraternities. WSGA Senate last
week urged alt coeds to cooperate in living up to
the code Behind these moves were vague hints
that perhaps the women'might take matters in
their own hands if IFC continued to flop.
It is a popular misconception thai-the Interfra
tc-mity Dating Code forbids all drinking in fra
ternity houses. Actually, it is directed only
against drinking with mixed groups.
Mixed drinking and the practice of allowing
women to stay in fraternity houses after hours or
to allow them in rooms other than the social
rooms, are the most objectionable fraternity of
fenses. They are also the most common.
Both houses which have been punished for code
violations had parties in which only a few of their
members were involved. Yet, to bring full en
forcement of the code, the whole house has had
to suffer in each case.
Collegian is not suggesting that the whole house
should not suffer. Being practical, that is the '
best way to encourage houses to break up their
parties.
Usually each fraternity has only a few heavy
drinkers, ardent enough to break,whatever code
h; set up. Three-quarters of the members of each
bouse either don’t drink at all or drink so seldom
(hat they would never violate the code if the de
cision were theirs.
A couple of good organizers can get a 'Whole
bouse in trouble, though, and it’s about time the
fraternity boys realize this and clamp down when
one or two of their boys set out to start a party
for which the whole house will eventually be ac
countable.
bans. Mm The Mural
Word that $54,000 Js about to be converted to
additional loan and scholarship funds indicates
that one hungry mouth is about to have a feeding
that will take care of it for awhile. With the loan
fund thus increased, there is more reason than
ever to begin work for the mural, which the sen
ior class vote indicates is desired by almost as
many students as desire the loan fund. That 247
to 242 vote is important, not from the sour grapes
standpoint, but because it indicates the consider
able interest the student body has taken in a strict
ly cultural subject. .
Downtown Office
113-121 South Fra&ier Sc.
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The other evening as we danced barefoot upon
tile misty greensward behind the cattle barns we
were approached by a leprechaun who asked ,us
in a very decent manner whether "or not we had
written Beethoven’s Fifth. Naturally we knew as
well as anyone there, and there must have been
several hundred of us boys of- Putman Hall, that
we hadn't written Beethoven's Fifth at all. We
said as much and went on with our festivities
which consisted of some routine procedures and
eating with the older children down in the base
ment of the Home Economics Building which is
not, as many people are wont to think, a bad
place. As a matter of fact Ludwig van Beethoven
who had come in later with a friend from the so
ciology department with whom he was discussing
housing trends in industrial Milwaukee, said just
that. ‘‘The Home Economics Building is not a bad
place." are his exact words, if you must know.
And so we all fell to laughing and presently began,
a vicious little session of double solitaire. As
might be expected this brought up the subject of
modeni poetry as it was related to reality and it
was generally agreed that so far as we were con
cerned Milton was absolutely correct. Since we
bad neglected to bring along a volume-of Milton’s
works we were pretty much at a loss as to what to
do.
Not a whit dismayed we called forth from our
midst a gay fellow who was Hell on the glocken
spiel and then joy reigned supreme. How that
chap could play a glockenspiel . . . gentlemen,
hush! We turned to a friend of ours who had
been with us in the grim retreat from holy Mos
cow and together we hummed a few stirring pas--
sages from the March Slav, so deeply were we
moved. It was bitterly cold and our feet, wrapped
as they were in potato sacks, left ghastly bloody
prints as we walked guard there in the snows of
Valley Forge. Heroic times, we shall not look
upon their like again. Shall we ever forget that
great day when Justice Mcßeynolds, in a dissent
ing opinion, voiced the will of the people and, in
words that will thunder down the halls of the
years, said, “This sort of thing has got to stop?”
Hand us our long rifle Lissie,. Jackson’s at Win
chester and Patterson holds the upper Shenan
doah. Afl through that night the trains crawled
through Mannassas Gap while our troop of Black
Horse demonstrated before the Yankee outguards.
And then finally Appomattox where our only
words to General Grant were a request that our
men be given rations and permitted to retain their
mounts for the spring plowing.
Then, as suddenly as one might say Jack- Rob
inson, we found (incidentally it takes only one
and one half seconds to say Jack Robinson as a
scientific colleague of ours once proved by a com
plicated mathematical formula which involves
only three right triangles) that it was dawn . . .
the cock had crowed and the eastern sky was
dimly grey. The dew lay silvery: a crystal laugh
as a golden-haired peasant girl commenced her
morning’s chores. A shepherd’s pipes sang, high
on the gj-im face of the old Gebraunshclickeitberg
which towered over the tiny village. In the cav
alry garrison reveille sounded, and the patrol of
hussars that watched the border trotted out spark
ling in their uniforms. The old Emperor Franz
Josef turned to us, excusing himself from the
Archduke Franz Ferdinand (whom we later
messed up at Sarajevo after the low fellow had
beaten us at whist), and said in a low voice, “The
lights are-going out all over Europe.” Viscount
Grey copped the idea several months after this, ,
but everyone knows that that was only another
example of British imperialism. With a last look
at the dawn’s beauty we returned to our lonely
grave hi Transylvania, carefully replacing the '
wooden spike which had been driven through our
bosom several years previously when we got a
bit out of hand.
Emotional upset causes more student failures in
college than either academic incompetence or lazi
ness in learning subject matter. That is the opin
ion of Dr. Gwlym Isaac, dean of the department
of philosophy and student counselor at Indiana
State Teachers College. Students are more dis
turbed by family troubles than by any other wor
ries, including their own love affairs, and the
grades of many good students have nose-dived
when their parents at home were breaking, up.
Dr. Isaac asserts.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
—Cassius
$54,200 Gift
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1920 and 1922 is still in the pro
posal stage with no definite in
tention filed with the College.
Present loan funds operating
on income from invested prin-
Name
1. Andrew Carnegie
(Men Only)
2. Mary Beaver White
(Women Only)
3. James A. Beaver
(Men Only)
4. William H. Stone . ..
5. York County
. Penn State
6. Class of 1937
Uninvested loan funds (Re
volving). Repayments determine
amount in fund. Loans range
from $l5 to $lOO. with average
about $5O.
Amt. loaned last
collegiate year
$1,750.00
1,570.00
425.00
Name
1. Trustees ...
2. Faculty .....
3. Engineering
4. Alumni Club
(Women Only)
5. Boucke (Economics
Graduate Students) . 65.00
6. 2-Year Agriculture
'Class
7. Class of 1909 ..,
8. Farm and Home
9. Forestry Depart-
ment
10. Class of 1898
11. Philotasian .
12. American
■ Agriculturist
13. Tau. Beta Pi
College Probe
Enters Senate
HARRISBURG, Mar. 18—The
Moul Bill to investigate the Soil
Conservation Board • and the
Pennsylvania State College Ex
tension Service passed the House
today by a vote of 124 to 71 and
entered the Senate for further
action.
Passage was preceded by an
hour of debate on a motion of
Rep. Ellwood J. Turner (Rep.,
Delaware) to recommit the bill
until “both sides of the contro
versy have been heard.” The mo
tion was defeated, 124 to 78.
The bill would revise the law
passed in 1937 to establish state
cooperation in the federal soil
conservation program; would ap
propriate $57,500 for administra
tive expenses and would reor
ganize the Soil Conservation
Board.
Under the reorganization plan,
G. Albert Stewart, the Pennsyl
vania State College experiment
station director, would be re
moved. Stevenson W. Fletcher,
dean of the College’s School of
Agriculture, would serve on the
reorganized board.
All appropriations to the Col
lege are being withheld until
final action is taken on the bill.
WEDNESDAY, 'Mk^H',-i9^J.94t'' :
CAMPUS CALENDAR -
IMA. Central Council/Room '
318 Old Main, 10 p.m. . -
Ag..Ec Club' meeting-ii Sigman
Thi Alpha, 7:30 ,-.r>
Ag. Student Council, Room 418
Old Main, 7:30 p.m.:.---' ■
Student Union dance, Armory,
4 p.m.
Principal
$28,750.00
Co-Editibn, Room 318 ■ Old •
Main, 7:45 p.m.
American Society of Civil Em-- •
gineers, Room 107 Main Enginl ’
eering, 7 p.m. R. R. Cleland, State- .
College borough engineer,. will'- -'
talk on “Water Supply.” - ' •
John G. Good .will lecture on
“Pennsjdyania Police Problems” ' '
in Room 124 Sparks Building;'4
p.m.
27,718,88
18,599.84
500.00
500.00
566.02
Girls interested in professional'
instruction in bridge, Room '3,,
White Hall, 6:30 p. m.
PSCA Speakers Committee,
Hugh Beaver Room, 7 p. ni'
PSCA Cabinet, Hugh Beaver
Room, 8 p. m.
1 Panhellenic. Council meeting
scheduled for tonight has been
postponed until next^week.
530.00
All women interested in secur
ing camp counsellor’s positions
for next-summer should-see Miss
Lucey immediately.
50.00
245.00
150.00
TOMORROW
Grange,. Room 405 Old Main,.
7 p.m. -
_ Student Handbook editorial
staff, Room 318 Old Main, 7:15
p.m.
250.00
225.00
50.00
Liberal Arts Student Council,-
Room. 305 Old Main, 7:15 p.m." '
Student Tribunal, Room 302-
Old Main, 7:30 p.m.
Cwen meeting in .Miss Steven
son’s apartment, Grange Dormi
tory, 5 p.m.
100.00
400.00
$5,820.00
Conscription Bill Change
Urged By Convention
A proposal to change the con
scription bill when it expires in'
1945, so that every boy would be
sent for a year of military train
ing immediately upon gradua- •
tion from high school rose as the
main issue from the sixth annual :
Penn State Debaters Convention
Friday and Saturday.
The general assembly made
one exception to the bill change/
favoring the exemption of men"
planning to take a four-year col
lege course in ROTC..
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