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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.
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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.
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Late News
Bulletins
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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.