...; :.1. , ..v . ..„& , Successor to 41. r i llir i t 0 1 'I I 13 . it the Free Lance, '' tiL -I ,t i ft 4e . :. Established 1887 1 41110 , ' -7!"-- VOL. 37—No. 119 1,015 Couples Brave Drizzle To Attend Ball In spite of the promise of a sun-drenched spring weekend being washed away in a steady drizzle of cold rain, approximate ly 1,015 couples braved the dis heartening weather to dance and listen to Will Bradley_ and his orchestra at Interfraternity Ball in Rec Hall last night. The estimated attendance was not expected to surpass last year's total of 1050 couples. - The weekend's festivities will be- continued tonight at various fraternity dances. The following hpuses are dancing tonight: Alpha Chi Sigma, informal closed; Beta Theta Pi, Phi Delta Theta, and Sigma Chi, informal, closed, at the Beta house; Delta Chi, Ranch dance, costume, clos ed; Pi Kappa Phi, informal, clos ed; Phi Kappa Psi, informal, in vitation; Phi Kappa Tau, inform al, open; Phi Sigma Delta, in formal, invitation; Phi Sigma Kappa, informal, open; Sigma Alpha Epsilon, formal, closed, at the Nittany Lion Inn; and Sigma Phi Epsilon, informal, closed. On the sports calendar are a spring football game with St. Francis at 2 p.m. and PIAA gym and volleyball tournaments in Rec Hall in the afternoon and evening. Draftee Lists. :Rapidly Depleted WASHINGTON, April 4- - More than six million of the 16,000,000 selective service re gistrants have been classified by local draft boards, authoritative . reports reaching Washington in dicated today. Indications that over one . third of, the October registrants have already been classified has been interpreted here, as evi dence that many local boards • are moving rapidly through re gistration lists. At this rate, it is reliably forecast, numerous boards may exhaust their lists before .January 1. Approximately 200,000 regis trants have been inducted from this number according to draft officials. The two-fold signifi cance of this figure, they point out, is first there is a wide spread tendency td place in Class 1-A only unmarried and unemployed registrants, and second that most local boards are far ahead of the Army, and are at 'present building up . a sizable backlog of eligible in ductees well in advance of • im mediate quota requirements. Tri-Team Debate Meet Held. Here Last Night William H. Harbold '43 and Robert W. Miller '43 _represented the Penn State debating squad in alri-team meet with Lincoln and Temple Universities in Sparks Building last night. The debate followed the panel discussion form with two teams, composed of a representative from each school, competing. The topic was the Western Hemis phere Union question. Will Tour Penitentary An inspection tour of thelffest ent Penitentiary at Bellefonte Will be taken by the PSCA Fresh man Council at one o'clock this afternoon, James L. Bachman, chairman of arrangements, has announced, To Cut Or Not To Cut 8 aciocks 6 Annual / Morning • Alter / Query Weary-eyed students return ing from Interfraternity Ball this morning will face the annual problem—" Shall I go to my 8 o'clock or shall I cut?" In vestigation into what actually happens at these Saturday mornings after the big nights reveals that" profs themselves have problems. Lecturers who ordinarily face gatherings of three or four hun dred students may find a mere handful of wide-awake people in class. On the other hand, the entire dancing force may be there,-bravely clutching note books against shirt fronts that once were stiff. In order to match the unpre dictable, the profs have adopted some general plans of-, action. Certain honorable men of the faculty feel that they are duty bound as servants of the state to carry on, come fire or water. Grimly they approach the class room and with great determin ation plod through the lecture's scheduled speech. If the stu dents aren't there or are too weary to catch anything it is of little importance. Duty has been done! This type of professor often New Bus Slop Vexes Imporfs We could almost hear the ner vous IF import "Are you sure that this is State College?" as she stepped off her bus out by . 01e ,gplt. course at the new bus. stop - yesterday: - "Yell, this is State College, even if it doesn't look the same as the last time you were here," is the probable answer of the bus driver, hardened by years of conveying the same imports, always feigning surprise and a rapturous 'expression. The gas station at which she got off is exactly three and one half blocks from Co-op Corner, a fact xv.hich indolent Liberal Ar tists, guys without cars, and Crrm habitues must find de pressing. • We can imagine the disap pointment of perpetual imports who find it difficult to get along without the customary whistled greetings from the Corner grandstand. Yeh, it must be hard for them to pull their "Oh, I'm sOOOO thrilled" act without a gallery. And their proud importers— what a calamity not to be able to show off the home town gal to the critical Corner crowd. Coeds, we presume, would be even more satisfied if they mov ed the bus stop to Boalsburg or Port Matilda!!! Tramp To Hell? No, We'd Rather Dive AUSTIN, Tex., April 4 Nearly half the nation's college men would join the air force in preference to the army and navy, if they had to enter the armed forces, the Student Opin ion Surveys of America found this week in its weekly samp ling of the college campuses of the nation. Less than one-sixth of the male students polled, however, say they would leave school and join the armed forces should the U. S. have to send an army to aid Britain. The Surveys found the fol lowing results, excluding the 6 per cent who held no opinion in answer to the question, "If you had to enter the armed forces, would 'you prefer the OF THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 5, 1941, STATE COLLEGE, PA finds his soul-mate in an excep tional student. Recently a fa culty man proposed to excuse the single student who reported to class. With great indigna tion the student demanded his rights and forced the professor to lecture to him the entire per iod. Then, satisfied with his 'newly acquired knowledge, he went home to bed. The second approach of ten taken by a lecturer is to review. This treatment is greatly appre ciated by the student. After struggling to keep awake for a few minutes, he hears familiar words and with conscience plac ed at rest gives up the fight. A little more advanced than the last mentioned system is the bull-session attempt. Here the prof has two alternatives. Un der the guise of informal and wandering discussion he may basely sneak pertinent informa tion into the student's gray matter. However, he may play fair and square and stick to such objects as the draft, sex, and "what's the matter with Penn State?" Few faculty members will go to the trouble of openly enter (Continued on Page Three) College Choir To Present Easfer Musical Service An Easter musical service AVM be presented at Chapel in Schwab Auditorium at 11 a.m. tomorrow, Richard W. Grant, director of the College Choir, announced yester day. • . The selections to be sung by the choir of 'lO5 voices- include "All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name," "As It Began to Dawn" (Vincent), "Madgalene" (War ren), "God Hath Appointed a Day" (Tours), and two Easter carols, "By Early Morning Light" and "Three Men Trudging." Trustees, Council Voted Upon By Alumni Ballots have been mailed to 21,000 alumni for election of members to Alumni Council and a list of the new members will be published on April 16, Edward K. Hibshman, executive secretary of the Alumni Association. an nounced yesterday. The new council will meet early in June to elect 11 members to the execu tive board and two to the athletic advisory board. Balloting is also being conduct-: ed for nominations to the College Board of Trustees, of which the alumni select three - members each year to serve three-year terms. Nominations will close on April 30, with the final ballot being published on May 1. army, the air service, or the navy?": Air Service 48% Navy. 27 Army 25 The Far West, where 57 per cent favored the air service, and the West Central, where 55 per cent preferred flying, were the strongest supporters of that branch of the service. The Middle Atlantic section was least enthusiastic over aviation, with only 39 per cent, still a larger vote than either the ar my or navy received there. Airplanes have come into such prominence in the present war, and Britain has so repeat edly pointed out the great sig- nificance of that mode of war fare during recent months. that rgiatt Mclntyre '39 Aboard Plane Grounded In Florida Alan G. Mclntyre '39, former Collegian Board mOnber, was one of the 16 passengers on the northbound Eastern Airlines plane grounded in a swamp' near Tampa, Fla. late Thursday night. Mclntyre, an employee of the airline company in West Palm Beach, Fla., was on his way here to attend Interfraternity Ball. A telegram to his Theta Xi fra ternity brothers, informed them that he was uninjured but would be unable to be here. Defense Program Needs Engineers WASHINGTON, April 4 (IWP)—The defense program is placing a premium on aero - nautic, radio, and diesel engin eers, Civil Service recruiting of ficals disclosed this week. "Urgently needed" in federal service, officials said, are mech anical engineers with experience in designing diesel engines and high-grade machinery, and in applying machine tools and au tomatic machinery. Construction engineers with a knowledge of structural design and electrical installation, ex perienced radio and aeronauti cal engineers, diesel engine op erators, and marine and naval architects also are on the Com mission's personnel shortage list. - Officials said many engineers are available in certain fields, but that in these a definite scar city ,is already being felt in Washington. Cash Awards Offered To Advertising Students Cash merit awards for the best advertising copy will be offered to advanced advertising students in the department of journalism, according to Prof. Donald W. Davis, in charge of advertising courses. A first award of $25 and three smaller prizes will be given by the Interstate Advertising Man agers Association in an exclusive competition for Penn State stu dents. The competition is open to any one in the advanced advertising classes or to any student who has completed two a dyer tis in g courses in the department, Pro fessor Davis revealed. Awards will be made at the association's convention to be held here in May. United States War Department officials have stressed flying in colleges. Addition of CAA courses in many colleges and universities during the last two years certainly has had some influence on the ranking of fly ing as a big favorite over army and navy units. The division of students in answer to the question, "If we should have to send an army to aid Britain, would you leave school and join the armed forces, or would you wait until you were called?" was as fol lows, by percentages: Would leave' school . . 16 % Would wait 84 (Five per cided.) cent were uncle- Weather— Partly Cloudy, Probable Showers. PRICE THREE CENTS Jenkins '4l Wins Highest Award For Scholarship Morton E. Jenkins '4l has been announced as winner of the John W. White Medal and Prize, a gold medal and cash award, the high est honor awarded for outstand iTig scholarship in the senior class. Three John W. White Fellow ships worth $6OO each were awarded to Winston G. Donald son '4l, Nelia M. Hazard '4l, and Oliver A. Schaeffer '4l with Ray H. Dutt '4l named as alternate. Five seniors receiving gold medals as Evan Pugh Scholars are Thomas Czubiak, Louis N. Grafinger, William P. Hindman Jr., Norman Racusin, and P. Jeanne Richards. Silver medals for junior Evan Pugh Scholars will go to William E. Harkins, Edward A. Kachik, John S. Kookogey, and Milton E. Pensky. Evan Pugh Scholars are selected by the Senate Commit tee on Academic Standards for outstanding academic achieve ments. The awards are given by the Honor Society Council. Two John W. White Scholar ships in Spanish have been awarded for linguistic attain ment, one to Alberto V.'Roque '43, and the other to Helen E. Wilde '43. 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111119 iii Late News Bulletins 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111Ilit NEW YORK—I-. Last night in Madison Square Garden, Lou Nova won by a TKO from Max Baer in the Bth round. Ref. Ar thur Donovan stopped the fight MIAMI, Fla.—A National Air lines plane was'forced down late yesterday near Miami. The two man crew of the plane; carrying eight passengers made a forced landing on a water logged field because of motor trouble. This second airline crash in Florida in two days has caused the opening of investigations by the Civil Aeronautics Board and the Eastern Airlines Co. LONDON British govern ment officials signed a coalition agreement with Jugoslavia, Greece, and Turkey. This Bal kan bloc was hastily formed to prepare for an anticipated at tack from Germany in the next 48 hours. WASHINGTON After a three-hour cabinet meeting last night President Roosevelt had great hopes for the settlement of the soft coal workers' strike af fecting 12 states by Monday. A recent development in the labor field was the walkout of the workers in the American Mag nesium Company's plant in Cleveland, 0., maker of airplane parts. Meanwhile Ford authori ties closed plants employing 125,- 000 workers until the River Rouge strike is settled. Decision Expected Soon On 12 Navy Applications Official word is expected from Washington, D. C., this week on 72 engineering seniors' appli cations for ensign commissions in the Navy following gradua tion. In addition to seniors, 42 jun made application for pro visional appointments until 1942. The recruiting activity here is part of a nation-wide Navy program.
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