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Health Plan
Made Permanent
A new student health plan call
ing for a week's free hospitaliza
tion and elimination of dispen
sary charges, started last year on
a trial basis, will be put on a per
manent footing under the direc
tion of Dr. Joseph P. Ritenour,
Health Service director.
To finance the plan, the student
health fee was raised from $2.50
to $5 a semester.
According to Dr. Charles D.
Dietterich, assistant director of the
Health Service, "the plan worked
out much better than we expect
ed.",
The hospitalization plan was
first introduced by the Student
Health Board in May, 1939, and
was presented to the Board of
Trustees in. June of that year. At
that time the board failed to ap
prove the plan and returned it to
President Ralph D. Hetzel for fur
ther consideration.
President Hetzel and the Stu
nent Health Board eliminated sec
tions calling for the College to
employ a staff surgeon and to per
mit staff physicians to answer
calls from students in town. After
getting the okay 'of Dr. Ritenonr,
the plan was again sent to the
Board of Trustees which approved
it on January 26, 1940.
Student applications for free
hospitalization must be approved
by the Health Service even
though hospitalization is recom
mended' by an outside physician.
Stays of longer than seven days
in the infirmary will be charged
foi' at' the regular rate of $2.50 a
day.
179 At Post-Session
One hundred and seventy-nine
students were enrolled in post
session courses which began
August 11 and ended on August
29.
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Collegian Will Print
Radio Program
Selections
A new feature of The Daily
Collegian this year will be a daily
schedule of radio program selec
tions covering classical music, the
better popular music, sports, pol
itics, religious programs, drama
tics, and variety program.
Selections will be made by a
radio program selections commit
tee, headed by Peter Danos '43,
and sponsored by the Penn State
Christian Association.
In selecting the programs, the
committee will work with mate
rial supplied by the Columbia
Broadcasting System, National
Broadcasting Company, Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation, and
stations KDKA, WCAU," WOR,
and WQXR.
The programs are intended both
for private use and to supplement
classroom instruction. The first
list of programs will be published
in the September 11 Collegian
issue.
According to Danos, campus
honorary societies will be asked to
name representatives to the com
mittee so that radio programs "in
all fields of interest" can be pub-.
lished. He said Phi Mu Alpha,
honorary music society, has al
ready agreed to help select musi
cal programs.
The committee has obtained the
cooperation of the Evaluation of
School Broadcasts organization at
Ohio State University, which is
sponsored by the Federal Radio
Education Commitee of the Fed
eral Communications Commission.
Several faculty and staff mem
bers have agreed to support the
committee's work. Here are com
ments from some of them:
M. R. Trabue, Dean of ' the
School of Education-I feel cer
tain that both students and facul-
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PRESIDENT of the College is Dr.
Ralph Dorn Hetzel. He has been
here almost 15 years. He'll appre
ciate it if you say hello when you
paSs him on the campus.
ty members will welcome and use
the suggestions of the committee
during the year."
Hummel Fishburn, associate
professor of music—"l find the
work of the committee very valu
able from two viewpoints: as an
aid to class instruction, and as a
guide to use of the radio for pleas
ure."
Harry W. Seamans, genexal sec
retary of the PSCA—"The College
community will welcome a super
ior radio guide this fall."
Danos has asked that all stu
dents interested in the work of the
committee get in touch with him
through the PSCA, Room 304 Old
Main.
Patrolman In Army
Sgt. William B. •Hillbush, a
member of the Campus Patrol for
the past 10 years, enlisted in the
Army on August 14. He has been
stationed with the coast artillery
at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
Allen Street
Land Grant Fresco
Grows In Popularity
Well past its firSt birthday and
a familiar sight to everyone on the
campus, the Land Grant Fresco in
Old Main is still regarded as any
thing but commonplace. In fact,
—as a great work of tart should—
it is becoming better liked as time
pjlsses.
What is perhaps the best evalu
ation of the mural has been ex-,
pressed by Peyton Boswell, Jr.,
critic and editor of Art Digest. - In
a recent book on Henry Varnum
Poor; painter of the mural. Bos
well says: "The artist has brought
forth one of the. great achieve
ments in American mural paint
ing; the College is the possessor
of a painting that will be . . . ad
mire& as long as Old Main stands
—and it is a sturdy building."
The fr,esco, painted on the stair
wall in Old Main lobby, dramas
tizes the founding of the College
which became, under the Morrill
Act signed by' Lincoln in the dark
days of the Civil War, one of the
first schools of agriculture and
'industrial arts America.
The. aim of the mural has been
expressed in Mr. Poor's - own
words, taken from a letter writ
ten when he submitted the first
preliminary sketch to the College
in 1939:
"First, I want the design to
bring a sense of great spatial ex
tension and ordered movement
across the wall. Second, the main.
drama of - the design will be in the
light itself, with 'the farming and
industrial regions of the state
each lying in the light which most
characterizes it . . .
"I want to express the relation
of the College 'to the agricultural
and industrial life of the state . . .
by putting them in their simplest
magazines
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Collegian Staff Writer
terms . . . I want Lincoln to be a
symbol of hope and faith."
As Mr. Poor has also written,
the columns in Old Main lobby,
rather than detracting from the
beauty of the mural, become a
"shifting element" in its design,
supplying the main vertical
masses. They create empty spaces
in an otherwise intentionally too
crowded pattern. •
Painting of the mural was made
possible by a gilt from the class
of 1932. It was done in fres( O r.
(painted on wet plaster which bt"-,
comes a permanent part of the
wall). Mr. Poor began work on
April 26; 1940 and ended on June
18. All painting was done in full
view of the public.
Although actual work did not
start until late in April, the artist
spent almost all his time for six
or sevenmonths before doing re
search and preliminary sketches. .
Thus the mural is the culmination?,
of nearly a year of effort.
Competent critics says that the
Land Grant Fresco is the best
work Mr. Poor has done. There
are other frescoes by him in the-
Department of Justice building,
and the Department orthe Inter
ior building, Washington, D. C.
The College hopes eventually to
continue the mural into a series
which will represent a coordinat
ed picture of the entire institution
and its services to the nation. ,
275 GradUate
Two hundred and seventy-five
students received- degrees at the
18th annual summer • commence
ment on Auguit 7.