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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
"For A Better Penn State"
Established 1940. Successor ta the Penn State Col:egian
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
State College. Entered as second-class matter July 5. 1934
at •the post-office at State College. Pa., under the act of
March 8, 1879.
. Editor Bus. and Adv. Mgr.
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W ..mee hditor —Vera L. Kemp '4l; Managing Editor
—Hebert FL L... 111. ;41: Sports Editor—Richard C. Peters
'4" : News Editor—William E. Fowler '4l; Feature Editor—
Edward J. K. McLorie '4l: Assistant Managing Editor—Bay
ard Bloom '4l: Women's Managing Editor—Arita L. Hefferan
'4l; Women's Feature Editor—Edythe B. Rickel '4l.
Credit Manager—John H. Thomas '4l: Circulation Man
ager—Robert G. Robinson '4l; Senior Secretary—Ruth Gold-
Mein '4l; Senior Secretary—Leslie H. Lewis '4l.
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Junior Editorial Board—Jonn A. Baer '42. R. Helen
Gordon '42. Ross 'B. Lehman '42, William J. McKnight '42,
Alice M. Murray '42, Pat Nagelberg '42. Stanley J. PoKemp
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Junior Business Board—Thomaa W. Allison '42. Paul M.
Goldberg '42, James E. McCaughey '42. Margaret L. EmburY
'42. Virginia Ogden '42, Fay E. Rees '42.
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Graduate Counselor -
Wednesday Morning, April 23, 1941
The Student Placement Bureau
One of the things that students wanted but did
not get this year is a student placement bureau.
The College purposely passed it up.
College .monies are never overabundant and the
draft has inclined to make it wary of money
spending adventures. It can not be sure how many
students it will lose to the draft and to defense in
dustry. As a result it has hesitated on all new
suggestions. "Trimming our sails," is the wad•
President Hetzel described the policy last fall.
Today there is no great need for a placement
bureau. The defense crisis is creating more jobs
than there are men to fill them.
However. the crisis will not be permanent. The
need for a placement bureau will be renewed, but
then is not the time to establish it. The time to
organize. the placement bureau is before jobs fall
off, so we will have it when we need it.
How long the College can afford to wait before
setting up the bureau is a question. Even now
there is a need for it as a clearing house for under
graduate employment.
The Eiusive Phrase ,
Success is a word that most men would like to
define so as to describe what they have done.
That so many have succeeded is a credit to the
word and to man's. ingenuity.
In its best sense, success consists of getting
someplace, then deciding that is where you wanted
tc.
It is the latter happy circumstance that has
crowned the efforts of so many people, including
even student leaders and student groups at Penn
State. To your attention, Collegian especially re
commends the highly successful school councils.
More Deans Of Men
Apparently, the dean of men's office will be ex
panded as requested by the dean and the All-Col--
lege Cabinet. Provided, of course, that all goes
well. The plan is still to be officially approved,
but all signs point to its acceptance.
Four reasons were given by the All-College . cab
inet when it recommended to President Hetzel last
fall that two assistant deans of men be employed:
1. Need for leadership in motivating or organ
izing already existing organizations of student wel
fare.
2. Need for additional counseling in the men's
dormitories
3. Need of the IMA and un-affiliated men for
continuing leadership or advisory facilities to con
tinue progress already 'begun.
4. Need•of a continuous connection between the
fraternities and the dean of men for centraliza
tion of the study, drinking and dating problems.
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In the midst of this world's confusion therpast
two weeks have seemed almost dream-like. We
have permitted the mina to vegetate, and put aside
our lethargy only at languorurous intervals to ab
sorb cooling beverages and discuss philosophical
doctrine with the insects which cluster about our
reading lamp. Then, too, there ,has been a little
work done on our Handbook of Bee Culture whith
we are writing as a sort of sedative to Those sev
eral nasty moments we spent with Moriarity above
the falls. Things have, as you might say, been a
trifle dull. But there have- been compensations;
little things that for a brief moment, stimulate.
Consider the awful holocaust which destroyed
Metzger's awning. Consider the latest issue of
Missie Jean Craighead's literary magazine. Con
sider the late President Atherton's tomb.
We have waited for nearly four years for the
pyromaniacal pleasure of beholding something
dreadful happen on Allen Street which we should
be able to see without moving from the vicinity of
the Corner. This past Sunday saw our patience
rewarded, for as we sipped a glass of iced coffee
all Hell broke loose as the Alpha Fire Company's
whistle began its melodious baying. Frgm every
side the brave volunteers came, running and hoot
ing with purely professional glee. Anon, the Al
pha's scarlet juggernaut. Metzger's emporium
was saved. From an aesthetic perspective, Sun
day's blaze had none of the majesty which has at
tended previous events of that nature. Still, it
broke the monotony.
Feeling that Mr. Barney Weinberg had spoken
with some justification concerning our comments
in the past about the Portfolio, we read the latest
issue from cover to cover in what we can best
term a benevolent frame of mind. Our old eyes,
which are just dark, guarded pits of cold hatred
for this damn' December moonlight anyhow, were
none too impressed. While our laughter was not a
travesty, in gold, we confess it had a bit of brass
scattered through it. Apparently the sure hall
mark of modern literary achievement is that fine
old word of French •origin signifying illegitimacy;
the more often you use it the more young, and sen
sitive. and terse, and free your prose becomes. Or
vulgar (you'll pardon an old reactionary's ravings)
Credit where credit is due goes to Penny Ritts'
stholary review of Mahatma Ghandi: except for a
sc•mewhat plethora of footnotes it was, we thought,
the best thing in the whole issue. Come out from
behind there, Dotty Bosley . . . we know you're
not Thomas Wolfe. But do not mistake us please,
we admire the spirit which produces the Portfolio
and sincerly hope that that publication flourishes.
It has a definite and necessary place on this cam-
CASSIUS.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Salutatorian
Elinor L. Weaver was chosen
salutatorian of the senior class
yesterday. (Story on Page 1.)
Letters to the Editor—
Lewis Sees Challenge -
To New Staff
To the Editor:.
As the retiring editorial bOard,
Of the new Collegian fades into
history, I would like to expres
a personal word of appreciation
to the board fora new and dif
ficult task well done and for
the many courtesies extended
to the Library. They have left
a challenge to their successors.
Very truly yours,
Willard P. Lewis,
Librarian
Jones '4l fluted Head_
Of Industrial fd Club
Robert F. Jones '42 was
elected president of the Indus
trial Education Society recently
when returns from the prefer
ential ballots by mail were
counted.
Eugene R. Stall '43 was elect
ed to the vice-presidency and
John 'V. Struck '44, secretary
treasurer. •
Contestants that received the
next highest number of votes
and to •be appointed as repre
sentatives to the -governing
board are, Robert W. Mengle
'42. James -- H. Boltz '43. and
Donald L. Yoder '44.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1941
CAMPUS fitENDAR
TODAY
Bridge Club, 'WHA lounge, 6:45
p.m. New members welcome.
Cwen meeting, Miss Steven
son's apartment, Grange Dormi
tory, 6:30 p.m.
English Comp 9 review, Room
305, Saprks . Building, 7 p.nr.
PSCA Cabinet, Hugh Beaver
Room, 8:15 p.m.
Parmi Nous, Room 318 Old.
Main, 7 p.m.
House of Representaitves,
Room 318 Old Main, '7 p.M.
House of Representatives
meeting, 318 Old Main, 5 p. m.
Archery Club meets, Room 3,
White Hall, 6:30 p. m.
Coven meeting, Miss Steven
son's .apartment, Grange Dormi
tory, 6:30 p. m.
TOMORROW
Student Radio Committee s
Room 318 Old Main, 7 p.m.
Chemistry Student Council,
Room 305 Old Main, 7 p.m. .
PSCA Seminar, Hugh Beaver
Room, 7:15 p.m.
English Usage test for 'Lower
Division sophomores will be
given in Rooms 121, and 10
Sparks building, and Rooms 105,
and 3 White Hall from 3 to 4. and
4 to 5 p.m. tomorrow.
Press Conlab
Here May 73, 24
Dates for the annual Penn
sylvania Press Conference,
largest of three newspaper con
claves scheduled this spring at
the College, -have been announc
ed as May 23 and 24.
Sponsored jointly by the de
partment of journalism -and
the . Pennsylvania Newspaper
Publishers -Association, the con
ference this year will center
around the theme, "Defending
America 2!
Preceding' :this--gathering• by
one month will be -the annual
High School Press -Conference,
to be ;conducted by -the depart.;
ment of journalism Saturday.
Prizes- will be awarded to out
standing high school reporters
of the state •by the P.N.P.A.,
and the winners of two scholar
ships to Penn State will , be an
nounced. - •
The other newspaper group to
meet here will be the interstate
Advertising Managers • Associa
tion, whose sessions will be on
May 16 and 17.