F ---- Saccessotio „y • 4. the Free Lance, Eittittg tit Established 1887 r 4. VOL. 37—No. 132 Baird To Assume All-College Office Tuesday At 4:15 • The third 'annual All-College inaugural will officially place newly-elected class politicians into office at 4:15 p. m. Tuesday. Ceremonies• will be held at the Main Gate. Robert D. Baird '42, All-Col lege president-elect, will be the third person to hold the All-Col lege presidency, having been preceded by H. Clifton McWill iams '39 and Arnold C. Laich '4O. Baird will be administered the oath of office by W. Lewis Cor bin '4l, retiring Student Tribunal head in the 30-minute program in which the three class presi dents will officially take office. All-College president will then make an 'acceptance speech. President Ralph D. Hetzel will deliver a short address in com memorating the installation of the student leaders. The new senior class president, H. Leonard Krouse '42 will also deliver a short speech as he suc ceeds William B. Bartholomew '4l. Jerome H. Blakeslee '43 will_ take his new post as president of the junior class to succeed Frank R. Flynn '43. Jack R. Gray '44, new sophomore class president, will assume the duties that Paul 0. Frey '44, held as head of the class. Raymond F. Leffler '42, will officially take over his duties as head of Student Tribunal, the position which W. Lewis Corbin '4l, held this year. Preceding the inauguration ceremonies there will be a par ade of the Blue Band- and' the Pershing Rifle company. The parade will start at Old Main, go east on Pollock Road to Short lidgesßoad, to East College Ave and up to the' inaugural stand at the Main Gate. In case of rain the inaugural will be held in Rec Hall. fivb Officers Elected To Education Council By Preferential Ballot Five representatives and alter nates have been elected to the education school council by a pre - - ferential ballot sent through the mail, Peter G. Fetzo '4l, chair man, announced last night. The senior representatives elected are Jeanne M. Lindsman '42. and Jeanne G. McAdam '42, Coleman Bender '42 arid William F. Johnston '42. • Frank R. Flynn '43 and Jean Kaiser •'43 are the junior repre sentatives with Elmer F. Webb '43 and Edward A. Tuleya '43 as alternates. H. Anne Carruthers '44 was named the sophomore represent ative and Clermont S. Powell '44 elected alternate. Three education faculty mem bers have been appointed to a committee by Dean Mari On R. Trabue to establish a better stu dent -faculty relationship. They are Dr. C. Ray Carpenter, chair man, Prof. George Free, and Miss Milard A. Larson. Druids Society Taps 5 Additional Freshmen Five freshmen additional ath letes were tapped yesterday by Druids, sophomore hat society, making total of 20 selected for next year. -They are Curtis C. Stone, cross country; Sidney Coheri and David H. Hornste l in, basketball; L. Ken neth Cook swimming; and Char les P.Lebc \ w, gymnastics. Waring Comes To Town Fred Waring, Penn State alum nus who now is maestro of the 'Chesterfield Pleasuretime broad casts, will journey here from NeW Yak today to see his "Swingerettes" perform in "The Joint's Jumpin'," Thespian show in Schwab Auditorium at 7 p.m. AA Nominations Set for Monday Candidates for Athletic Associ ation president and secretary treasurer will be nominated at a meeting of the nominating com mittee at 12:45 p. m. Monday in the Rec Hall balcony. Two pro posed amendments to the consti tution also will be discussed. Consisting of m anagers,._cap tains and coaches of all, sports, the group will choose from two to five nominees for each of the positions being vacated .by two seniors. Jack W. Brand '4l, golf captain, is retiring head of the association, and Frank A. Glea son '4l, wrestling captain, is sec retary-treasurer. Final choice of officers will be made by the student...body in an election Monday, May 12. If none of the candidates receives a majority, balloting will con tinue. Athletic Association constitu tional qualifications require the candidate have a "1" All-College average, while a precedent has been established that he also earn a varsity letter in at least one sport. Loan Fund Drive Begins Penn State playing cards, dec orted with pictures of Old Main and the Armory, are being sold to increase the Alumnae Club Loan Fund which lends money to needy students. The cards are on sale at the desk in the Dis pensary and at Room 240 Sparks Building. Lonely Polylith Ignored By Students ,About 7,000 students walk by has stood there, an experiment it every day. It occupies a central that has never been written com position on the campus. It is suf- pletely and, the -chances are, ficiently different to attract at won't be for hundreds of years. tention. Yet the polylith, the "monument" in front of the Arm- Erected as a method of testing ory, is probably the loneliest the lasting 'qualities of Pennsyl thing on the campus. . vania building stones, the poly- For the first month or so of the lith is made up of 281 samples of year the freshmen stop to read its stones from . 150 localities. Its inscriptions. Dur i n g pleasant chronological series of rocks, 33 weather the student surveyors feet high and weighing 53.4 tons, set up their tripods and aim their represents a span of millions of transits at and around it. At years in the geological formations frequent intervals visitors to the of the earth's crust in Pennsyl campus stop and inspect it, and vania. leave wondering Just what it is In addition to samples of Penn and why it's there. syivania stone, it contains two Since 1396, or for 45 years, it types shipped from England. two OF THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 3, 1941, STATE COLLEGE, PA 443 Sophs Apply Announces Extension For ROTC Posts Applications were made by 443 sophomores—one out of every three male members of the class —for only 90 vacancies in the ad vanced ROTC course, it was an nounced yesterday. The Penn State ROTC unit, one of the two largest in the east, is made up of approximately 2300 underclasSinen, for whom the military training is compulsory, and 230 "advanced" juniors and seniors. The latter, who serve as cadet officers, are awarded re serve Army commissions as sec ond lieutenants upon graduation and are not subject to regular se lective service call. Because of the record number of applicants for advanced train ing, Colonel Edward D. Ardery said he would request an in crease of 45 in the advanced course quota for next fall. If granted, this would permit the acceptance of 135 applicants. The 70 seniors who will re ceive their reserve commissions in June are expected to be called to active Army service except in cases where their services are more important in another phase of defense. Drink Capacities Stump Science STANFORD UNIVER SITY, Cal. —(ACP)--Science still is unable to explain why some persons can drink heavily while others cannot, according to Dr. Henry Newman of the Stanford university faculty. "Many people," said Dr. New= man, "believe an habitual heavy drinker can 'take it' because al cohol passes more slowly into his blood stream. But experiments showed that the chronic drink er's- blood absorbs alcohol more rapidly. "Others suggest that the habi tuated drinker remains sober be cause his body burns up the al cohol at a high rate of speed. But our experiments showed al cohol is burned up in both am ateur and .professional drinkers at exactly the same rate." Dr. Newman holds that the only possible explanation is that the chronic drinker has acquired some mysterious "tolerance" to alcohol, a mechanism that per mits him to absorb alcohol with out showing its effects. Hetzel Attends Meeting President Ralph D. Hetzel is attending the second day of the annual meeting of the American Council on Education in Wash ington today. He is one of the re presentatives of the Association of Land Grant College and Uni versities. rgiatt imao .... ?~` J. Orvis Keller, assistant to the president, yesterday announced the. largest extension program of its kind in the tuition-free de fense training of 5,000 high school graduates to begin this June. The Legislature College Bills Iota! Nearly $1,000,000 By ADAM A. SMYSER There are 258 men in Harris burg who, if they chose to and were brave enough to buck public opinion, could just about put Penn State out of business. They are Pennsylvania's elect ed representatives, the State Leg islature. However, it is hardly likely they . will try to run up against public opinion and their own personal convictions. The result will be that before they adjourn they will arrange to provide the Pennsylvania State College with anywhere from four to seven million dol lars on which to operate during the next two years. The arranging process is going on now in the form of eight diff erent bills specially affecting the College, only three of them ini tiated by the College. The three the College has asked are its maintenance bill of $5, , 509,545, funds to provide a training air port, and a transfer of the Joseph Priestley home in Northumber land from the College to the State Historical Commission. Three other bills, all appropri ating money to the College, have already been passed by the Sen ate and await action of the House: Senator Wilson's bill providing $125,000 for coal and oil re search, passed April 1; Senator Miller's bill providing the de partment of mines with $75,000 (Continued on Page Two) 875 Couples At Prom As Collegian went to press last night, 875 couples, approximately 200 less than last year's total, were reported as attending the Junior Prom. from Massachusetts, and one each from New York, Ohio, In diana, and New Jersey. Because it tells how various stones withstand weathering, the polylith attracts building special ists and geologists from all parts of the country. Back in the days when fresh men were really green, the up perclassmen's favorite sport con sisted in telling the gullible frosh that beneath the foundation of towering rock rest the bones of Old Jerry, the mule that hauled the stone for the construction of Old Main. Weather— And Cool PRICE THREE CENTS College Will Give Free Ten-Week Defense Course A ten-week, tuition-free sum mer course in introductory en gineering subjects will be offered by the College to approximately 5,000 high school graduates in more than 100 towns and cities throughout Pennsylyania, J. Or vis Keller, assistant to the pres ident in charge of extension, disclosed yesterday. The program, largest of its kind to be offered as part of the nationwide engineering defense training program under the U. S. Office of Education, will begin after the close of the school year. Operating on a f ive-day-a week, full time schedule, the course will prepare "superior" high school graduates who do not intend to enter college in the fall for jobs in defense production. The University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Tech will conduct similar programs in the Pitts burgh area, along with the Col lege. The program will include basic training in elementary en gineering subjects such as phy sics, chemistry, mathematics, en gineering drafting, and mechan ics, but should not be regarded as a substitute for regular col lege training, Mr. Keller empha sized. Enrollees are expected to pur chase course materials not in ex cess of $2O. Tuition charges will be paid by the government. Graduates of this year's senior class and of recent classes who have two years of mathematics (including algebra and geometry) and one year of - science will be accepted. Meanwhile, the part-time night courses in engineering and other technical subjects conducted by the College for approximately 10,000 men in 50 towns and cities throughout the state will be con tinued, Mr. Keller-said. 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 Late News Bulletins iiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiifiliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii( WASHINGTON A transfer of the Coast Guard to the Navy was declared imminent by autho ritative sources. The Coast Guard would help the Navy to extend the protective area of the Western Hemisphere. INDIANAPOLIS The Na tional Executive Committee of the American Legion yesterday approved sending convoys to England. They also urged the withdrawal of Secretary of La bor Perkins because she lacks the confidence of the American people. MAJOR LEAGUES National League Brooklyn 7, Chicago 3 Pittburgh 7, New York 7, call ed in 13th inning. St. Louis 4, Philadelphia 2 Cincinnati-Boston rained out American League Detroit 15, Philadelphia 1 Cleveland 7, Boston 3 Chicago 8, New York 1 Washington 7, St. Louis 4 (12 innings) Riding Club To Meet The Riding Club will meet at the sheep barns at 2 o'clock this afternoon when additional classi fication of riders will be made. Members must be rated before two-hour companion rides will be allowed.
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