THURSDAY, JULY- 3 - i- 1941
Borough July 4 Celebration Will Start Today, End Satu
Universities
Back Workshop
One of Pennsylvania's newest
educational projects is being put
to further test here during the
second annual summer workshop
—where the needs •of the non-col;
3ege high school student get a
thorough airing.
The term :`non-College" applies
to the 80 per cent or more students
now in high school who are not
planning to enter college and who,
some cases, are staying. in
schoPl because of Pennsylvania's
compulsory age law.
The project takes the form, of a-
graduate seminar during which
students and faculty work in close
harmony without the restraint of
many examinations or lecture
hours.
Health, civic education, and oc
cupational adjustment are receiv
ing special emphasis at this year's
workshop. Sponsored by the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, the Uni
versity of Pittsburgh, and the
Pennsylvania State College - , the
program is directed by Mary Jane
Wyland, associate professor of ed
ucation.
Among the new features of the
workshop are a special two-day
conference on education for de
mocracy, the addition of a special
staff consultant from the National
Youth Administration, and the
presence of Dr. N. P. Neilson, ex-
ecutive secretary of the American
Association for Health, Physical
Education, and. Recreation, who
will act as consultant from July
14 to 28.
In addition to providing an op
portunity to earn graduate credit
at any one of the three co-operat
ing universities, the workshop of
fers a chance for teachers to bring
their own particular school prob
lems, to receive the suggestions of
other teachers in the field, and to
obtain the advice of consultants in
special phases of education.
The Pennsylyania Workshop is
sponsored by the Association of
Secondary School Principals, and
has the active cooperation of- the
Progressive Education Association
and the State Department . of Rub
lie Instruction. Enrollment:- . has
been limited to 100 experienced
teachers and administrators.
Calculus Easy,
Professor Says
Although nine years ago, at the from Germany, some quarters have
age of 50, he had no knowledge of raised questions as to the present
calculus, a College professor: )day value of German learned publica
is senior author of a new book pat tion. But it is the general feeling
condenses the whole of calcith.t'*in_ among educators, Mr. Downs re
to 40 pages for students stucbrincr t' ports, that at least the leading
mathematical statistics. 1 journals in several fields of knowl
"I have always believed thatone edge should be continued for the
can study best when face to Ik e present.
with the necessity for it," said .:Dr. "With the' coming of the war
Charles C. Peters, director of eClu- foreign currencies have fluctuated
rational research and author of the in value, insurance and carriage
hook
The new book, "Statistical P- deliveries are slower and more un
cedures and Their Mathemat — 1 certain," says Mr. Downs. "Ad-
Bases," written in - collaborat
r i
vance payments have been requir
with Walter R. Van Vo - rhis,.a .fit - ed on serial subscriptions, with no
mer member of the faculty, is-, assurance that publication would
signed to "take the magic out . : f not be suspended before the sub
statistics."... . -:- - .4 . scription expiration date. The
It is said that its section on'' _ workings of the British embargo
'culus, containing the essentialS. have not always been predictable,
differential and • integral calcui: . - though the interference has been
needed for statistical studies,',e . less noticeable perhaps than during
be learned in less than ten lib the World War."
by beginners with. only a hr
school background in mathernatiir .
t Kent State Students
Transportation Courses - '1 Eat During Class
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Offered First Time. ',...,...:...., KENT, Ohio—(ACP)—Education
• ‘, ':,,-.. with your lunch is the new vogue
CHAMPAIGN, Ill.—(ACP)—Two, in the college of business adminis
new courses in transportation areAtration at Kent State University.
being offered for the first time' bi." . ! r? In a program of 12 noon classes
the college of engineering at the;, t an off-campus restaurant at
University of Illinois. - vhich students in industrial mar-
They deal with the historical de-IFeting sit around the table with
velopment of all forms of trans.: nest sales managers of Ohio in
portation in the United States;.to- stries, students get a first-hand
gether with present and future"' 'tare of the business world they
problems of these,ageac.ies. p.. 4 n to enter
Jackson and Son
Robert H. Jackson and his son,
William E. Jackson, should be
proud of each other. The elder
Jackson has been advanced from
attorney general to the U. S.
Supreme Court and the son has
just been graduated from Yale
University.
War is Problem
For Libraries
Europe's war is.posing a difficult
problem for American college li
braries.
Robert Bingham Downs, director
of the New York University librar
ies, declares it is extremely hard to
keep highly necessary collections
•of foreign periodicals and books
up to date.
In-view of the exodus of scholars
have steadily increased in cost, and
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South Allen Street
Will Be Midway
Students who stay in State Col
lege tomorrow for July 4 will be
able to take part in what is being
heralded as the best July 4 cele
bration ever presented in the bor-
The celebration will begin to
night, continue all day tomorrow,
recess Saturday morning and after
noon, and end Saturday night. It is
sponsored by the Alpha Fire Com
pany.
Attempting to live up to their
slogan, "Something doing every
minute of the Fourth," the firemen
will sponsor a soapbox derby at
9:30 tomorrow morning. The race
will be held on West College Ave
nue, from South Burrowes Street
to South Allen Street. Prizes in the
race, which is limited to boys be
tween the ages of 8 and 12, will be
first prize, $10; second, $7.50; third.
$5; fourth, $2.50.
At 3 o'clock in the afternoon will
be both a pet show and a baseball
game. The ball game will be be
tween the Pine Grove Mills Dodg
ers, one of the leaders in the Tri-
Valley Baseball League, and the
Boalsburg Bisons. It will be on the
community field.
The pet show will be held on the
midway, South Allen Street. Prizes
of $1 each will be given for the
best rabbit, best cat, best dog, and
the best miscellaneous pet. The best
animal in the show will bring a
prize of $1.50.
Two hundred dollars in prizes
will be awarded to the best units
in the parade which starts at 6
o'clock tomorrow evening. Prizes
will be awarded for the best busi
ness float, best fraternal float, best
civic organization, best juvenile in
dividual or group, best-appearing
adult marching group, and the best
comic. The Ferguson Township
band, the Lemont band, and the
junior Dr-um and Bugle Corps will
participate in the parade.
Fireworks will be displayed on
West 'College Avenue, between
South Frazier Street and South
Burrowes Street, as soon as pos
sible after 9 o'clock.
Center of the celebration will be
at the South Allen Street midway
where there will be refreshment
stands and various carnival games.
Leffler Seeks
More M. I. Funds
A. H. Letzler, R., Clearfield
has obtained prompt action in the
state Senate on his bill to appro
priate 550,000 to the Mineral In
dustries school of Pennsylvania
State College for research on new
sources of aluminum needed in de
fense industries.
Letzler's proposal, prompted by
report of a serious shortage of the
metal vital to airplane production,
was for the school to attempt
perfection of a method of remov
ing aluminum from common clay
which contains aluminum silicate
in abundance.
The sponsor pointed out when he
submitted the bill yesterday that
no method had yet been discovered
for tapping this wealthy source of
aluminum, now recovered almost
exclusively from bauxite ore con
taining aluminum oxide.
The bill was promptly reported
with favorable recommendation
from the Senate appropriations
committee and given first reading.
It awaits second reading when the
Senate resumes deliberations late
Monday.
Here's A Way
To Get A Date
Do you have trouble getting ternational recognition with pub
dates? The Haitian peasant doe;nit, lication by the Oxford University
according to Dr. George E. Simp-
press of "Shakespeate's Docu
m
son, acting head of the departmentents, - two huge volumes consist ,
mg of 296 documents.
of sociology. In a paper entitled
"Haitian Magic," Dr. Simpson ex
plains the easy methods by which
a Haitian grabs himself the equiv
alent of our "steady."
He cites several methods of love
making. The first of these is to
capture a certain small bird, re
move its feathers, dry the bbdy,
Make a powder of it, and take it to
a witchdoctor to charm. After the
powder is charmed the man puts
it in a handkerchief and thrusts
it in his beloved's face, immediate
ly causing her to accept him.
Secondly, says Dr. Simpson,
there
. is the mirror method. The
mirror, having been charmed by
a witchdoctor, is flashed on a girl
who is passing along the road. The
third method is to get some magic
powder from the local witchdoctor
and put it in the palm of the hand.
When a man who has this powder ,
shakes hands with a girl she will IN 11
follow him like a dog. Proves. you la r
Dr. Simpson also explains how
the Haitian uses magic to get rid AUSTIN. Texas--(ACP)-Fresh.-
of an enemy. The peasant goes to men students of English can now
a witchdoctor again, who summons, reach . for a magazine instead of a
the client's enemy to appear. If he textbook.
. . .
sees the enemy's soul in his "ter- Designed in illustrated magazine
rine - or clay bowl, he tells the format the Freshman Prose Annual
peasant to strike at it with a dag- —hailed by publishers as the first
ger. At this moment the enemy will new idea in textbooks in 15 years
have something inopportune hap- —was edited by Drs. Mody C. Boat
pen to him, like falling from a tree. right, University of Texas; Robert
In case the enemy should not M. Gay, Simmons College, Boston,
break his neck in his unhappy and George S. Wykoff. Purdue. La
tumble, he will probably be on the fayette, Indiana.
warpath. To protect himself from Material is grouped under five
a foe, says Dr. Simpson, the Hai- sections, college life. problems of
tian has his soul withdrawn from social adjustment, democracy and
his body so that the enemy cannot war, science, and art literature—.
get' at it. To do this, the witch- all illustrated with snapshots, car--
doctor takes a loaf of bread, make. , ...
toons and masterpiece -reproduc
g_ bons.
a hole in it while uttering a ma . . .
ical formula, and puts the bread
in a black bottle.
The peasant carefully buries the Printing
bottle in a place known only to
himself, thus foiling the enemy
who can now do no harm except
if he should happen to find the
bottle.. Dr. Simpson also explains
about zombies, loup-garous, and
other bad spirits, and tells how to
become
c a "houngan" or witch
doctor.
About the only thing the Haitian
peasant doesn't have is a charm
against an unsuccessful football
season, but he would if football
were played in Haiti.
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Shakespeare Documents
Printed tit Wake
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah—(ACP)
—University of Utah is gaining in-
Work of compiling and editing
the documents was done by Prof,
B. Roland Lewis of the university's
English department and Shakes-
peare laboratory.
Pre-publication carbon copies of
the original volumes were sent
upon request to the British mu
seum and the Folger Shakespeare
library in Washington, D. C., larg
est and most complete library of its
kind in the world.
World critics have acclaimed the
massive work as among the great
est ever published. Professor Lewis
is now at work on a biography . -o
Shakespeare based upon the two
volumes.
Magazine Text
The magazine - text. introduced
last fall, is already in its second
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