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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
'Tor A Boiler Penn Stale"
Established 1940. Successor to the Penn State Collegian,
established 1904, and the Free Lance, established 1887.
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Graduate Counselor
Friday, January 9, 1942
A Physical Contribution
1 Many students are eager to make some physi
cal contribution toward the nation’s war efforts.
Some’feel stymied because they are so 1 far apart
from, the national-sacrifices wbich are being, made,
• Here, .is the.,student’s chance. ; Penn. State has
been asked^,to. help, supply the blood-line of the
nation’s soldiers by donating; 400'pints ,of blood,
for-.use in blood transfusions in' the theatre of
War zones.
An opportunity, to contribute , something beyond
mere.-words; is. presented. ..Four hundred Penn
Stater students' can rbe the .saviors of 400 soldiers
•who -.may need sudden blood transfusions’ during'
battle* ’
’ No. physical, harm and. little, discomfort is ex
perienced in blood, .taking,., A small amount p£,
IqcafanesthetiQ is used so that; there is relatively
little pain involved.' Donors are accepted only
if'-they-are Capable, of giving 500 c.c.’s of
The. blood taking requires only; about 115 minutes?'J
Any student or professor who is Willing.. ta give n ?
blopi donation’, is asked .to .sigii'up at, Stude|it*
tJniojv. . .
, That ,bipod. .Which you , give, today may save
Bome soldier’s life, possibly your own.
Students And Defense
Another;, encouraging, note. in Penn. State’s part
in national defense is the 2,000 students 'who en
rolled Jfor.- the extra-curricular defense courses
to. be. offered by the. dollege faculty-’ Relinquish- ’
ing: their,, tinted for*, instruction. in vital- defense
aidSj..these ;students,have signified their willing-,
ae,ss to helpt Uncle- Sam- through' ;a crucial period!.
’ Groundwork for the courses will be laid next -
•week with; instruction being offered in at least
50 various .classes... The. First -Aid course has ,
already begun with .205 preferences listed by
students.
Npt , only has Penn State been noticed for its
extension trainihg_ of .Pennsylvania, but this
large-scale instruction of students-in defense ac
tivities has been hailed as one of the most pro
gressive steps that any college or university has
taken in national defense training. It has given
the student a chance to feel • that he is showing
some interest and action.
The problems of getting the machinery of class
scheduling and faculty instruction in working
order are the chief hindrances im getting the.
courses started immediately. It is expected that
these.will.be ironed- out by next week.
Thanks Prof!
Thanks, prof! Sometimes students forget that
professors, aren’t men who sit in front of a class,
throw, words of wisdom .at bored ears, and con
coct; the.- hardest one-hour bluebook they can
muster.:
Instead, professors are sometimes just as bored
with: their students, listening amusedly to “apple
polishing’? nit-wits, and correct bluebooks with a
can of aspirins at their elbows.
The action taken by the Senate last night in
recommending to its faculty that it try to elim
inate final examinations indicates that “profs”
usually understand their students’ . problems,
sometimes better than the students.
Lou la H. Ball
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Through The
Needle's Eye
It was an interesting Christmas vacation. We
saw a lot of'seenes. qnd thought a lot of thoughts.
In Buffalo we'had eggnog with defense Workers
on a week arid we were offered
the charice 'for a job with a deferment and about
. 50 doilarSj a week besides.’■ That's "mbrb 'than bur
- father.,.makes^after’3s years ' of business. e’xpe'r-'
'' iericef ■•■%e patched a soldier from South Carolina
kiss a fniddle-nged man gqodby, .bqtti were. weep;
tag. pWrywhefe .they, played “The .Anthem”, on
any ’pretext'."’ . '•
Prexy Hetzel. wrote our parents: “Patriotism re
, quires jtiiatfstudehts hot act "impulsively, but that
each one'give- ititeitigeht" consideration to how lie
can -One of the. Lion’s Paw lads
.. Wrote "jus:''“ft’s,, a’ helluva" thing, to have nothing
to cjp except, think.- Doing, that ,to excess .
v about’comprised my vacation activity so far.”
’day'bf 1941 we had our draft physical
iii By that evehitig we Were in
Greenwich Viiiage where we mixed ; drank mixed
drinks with some.'bf our‘more respectable, stud-,
ents- . Some., of - them. Were “in love” and, when
the ?New;; Year, trotted in, from our view they
weren’t vejy happy about the future.
So yfe saw .a lot’ of the “Aihme'dican scene,”,
and felt'profound as" all get out. - But we felt
pretty" 'gai, wotthehell, too. Because
war| come and wars may go, but once you’ve
: 'resolved'your own particular part in it,.there’s
’•■no. more, reasbni to be perthrbed. There was the
: said to the boogie-woogie boy:
song. Sing it, will you? I’ll
bet you sing beautiful.” And "he said: “I can’t
. f&d.slie: “Well, mutter it a little, then.”
. »■'Ah, universe?
• ‘ There, were’other nice things, too. When we
•..i'flew, over" Niagara Falls (say'we blandly) there.
w’as.'; J stiir : *a. l ra.inbow' in the splash', and Times
-Square " was : filled . .with the damndest mob of
...jpeoiJl'b war" that you. .ever' did see..
i U. There?? was me‘'singing in .the bus coming, back’ to
, State,‘‘Cj|ilegq,^too. That was a nice note;
pbggoheVii?.,say. we! There are a lot of,oafs, it..
; ; i being gloomy at .
. , thifi^s' ; ‘because being globmy seems to be? ithe :
; jthfh£/ to; be. Not"’for‘ : us, we chortle. ■
For'the ' ;tiine .we’ve, figured out; that there’s
so miich to' groan about • that therfe’s no need to
_ «« AU-.iu!!.. ■,.*
groan.;;, - 1 -
If forty-seven, muscles to. frown-(just. to
quotV’An older chestputf and ,;bnly ; thirteen to
smile?" ) Jjhij£'gverwoi'k? —GABRIEL-
“And get it at The' Corner!”
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J TODAY
. Students and faculty may dis- Laurelton State Village commit
card their ear muffs and overcoats tee, WSGA room, White Hall, 4
today, because The Daily ' Colie-, p. m. ■ , v. .
gian weatherman predicts a slight* Cabin Retreat Committee of the
* let-up in the frigid weather. . . PSCA Freshman Council, Hugh
Officially, yesterday’s : tempera-,. Beaver room, 7 p. m.
ture did not pass Centre County’s H. M, Hibbard lecture, Room. 10,
all-time record of 43 years ago, 20 Sparks/Building, .4:10 p. m.
below zero. . However, the mer- Ice Skating tonight, tennis
cury power-dived to 8 below on courts,.7 to” 10 p. : m. . ’ "■
' the ropf of the Mineral Industries. Friday.;Night ,t Services, Hillel.
' Building, College station,. Foundation; 7:15 p. im .
• and- 10-below,.downtown. PSGA Forum ; music committee
The,, expression "cold, as h—l”. meets in 304 Old Main ( 4p. m. i
rings true, judging from the ,wea- ; . TOMORROW
•. theraian’s. underground ..tempera- . BasketbaU.game,, Cornell Frosh,
■ ture.readings; At 0 .inches, below vs. Pehri,:£ftate‘Froshy.Rec. Hall, 2>
. the. soil, it Was 20,be16w, and at p. m.
•2 feet below the surface, it was -
i 34.be10w. On the snow’s surface, •
it fwas 22 below. I ’
' The cold sweep wais. general TX
, from the Plain States all the way •*•.' ; • -• r; i
;fo the. Gulf of Mexico, theleather I||. iyCOfiXapiiy !
. Bureau said. Pittsburgh had 9 , . .■C? *. .J. 7. J
• degrees below zero yesterday; '
Chicago shivered under 12 below , s f than .Per cent of the
. while Mobile, Ala.,'bn' the Gulf, stud ® en ? olled . “n** College
’ reported 22 degrees-10 : degrees taking work in geogra
below freezing.. It was 10 .at as the ° b^ r , v ? tlol ? of Pro '
- Vicksburg Miss.,'and Bat Bir- S ? ss ? r Raymond E.. Murphy, asso
mingham, Ala., in the deep South. Clat f professor . of geography, m re
cent surveys,
Professor Murphy revealed, that
most students, have had no train-'
ing in geography beyond grade
school work.. ’
The observations come from
tests that are being made by the
“What to do about the summer geography division of the College!
vacation is' now the College ad- and which are a continuation., of’:
ministration’s hardest • problem,” a survey started by Dr. John W. j
Adrian O. Morse,,assistant to-the Studebaker, United States Com-)
president, admitted, at Penn State!s missioner of Education. .
first Town Hall in Home As head of the geography divi-i
Ec'last nighh. sion, Professor Murphy released ;
He said problems confronting a yesterday several, courses for the
sumrhef : .semester plan include the second - semester. Geography 41,
Summer Plan
Puzzles Many
questions students- have.-raised “Geography, of South America’'
. about income, and the difficulty, of will be. offered ..Monday,. Wednes
-■ repeating: all the courses each sem- day, and Friday at 11.'a. m. by Dr.
• ester.’: “We’ll- have 'to get some Henry J. Bruman. According to.
plan,” he.stated, “hot only because Murphy, “this- is; the 1 ; first time aj
of the-;desirability of having ,20- lower., division 'Course , of South:
’ year-old would-be draftees as. close American geography ■-. has been
. os? possible, tout toe-"available on-the-.campus. ’4-
cause the government also has ask- - The other change is the offer- i
ed ; colleges; to ;, accelerate pro- ing of Geography 443, '* “Geogra- j
gram?,” • phy of Asia” instead of Geogra-1
’ ' “We hope to squeeze out one phy 442 j now. listed in the time,)
year,” the administrative, aide table,-..The,.course.,will,be' ; taught';
1 pointed ; out,. “but the problem by Professor Murphy.’and may be -
, won’t be. .solved, .soon;” - - scheduled, - ' '!
; -Sponsored -toy the -PSCA,. the . In showing, the value of geog-;
Town Hall meeting was conducted raphy in. ; eveiyday, .life,, hie point--!
on .a • question,•;discussion ./basis, ed out that, persons Who have’
with Morse, Dr.-fßobert G. Bern- taken recent'Courses have found
reuter, psychology department, and the training useful' in interpreting
Col. Edward S. Ardery, department the news and-seeing the Unitedf
of military science and tactics;, as States’ place in world affairs'. - ’
the information . board. Commit- - . -———-—. ;, -.y r ' ' !
tee for. the event included . James _ . . '
. E. Hush ’42, Henry N. Wenger ’44, LA heiHOl'S Get
Gerald E. Baisbaugh ’44,. Benja
min L. Seem ’42, and Daniel S. JOO JLllterVieWS ‘
Keller ’43. ' . -• • ; . : ,
Explaining that army service is Liberal Arts, seniors interested
(Continued on Page Four) in obtaining interviews with re
presentatives of national concerns
were asked yesterday to fill out a
required form, obtainable in" the
Dean’s Office, -132- Sparks Build
ing, starting Monday, January 12.
According to Henry B. Young,
assistant professor of English com
position and counselor for male
College Men
Rise In Rank
’’ 'Eight, former ,‘Penn State men, Liberal Arts students, firms are
now in the branches of the nation’s sending their interviewers to the'
armed forces, have earned promo- campus regardless of world con
tions in. rank recently. Four of ditions.
these have received commissions students are directed to follow
and three have entered schools that the instructions on the mimeo
lead to commissions. One former graphed sheet which they will
student has recently been awarded fl nt i inside the forms, and they
his sergeant stripes. ■ will be informed of the time for
Two former Penn Staters, Ed- their personal interview,
mund J. Averman, Jr. ’42 and Wil- - •
liam P. Malasky ’4O were among a
large class of cadets who received
their silver wings and commissions
as second lieutenants, United
States Air. Corps, at Barksdale
Field, Louisiana.
■Russell H. Smith ’4O and Fred.
■Navas .. ’4l : have • been recently
awarded the Navy wings .and com-
missions as ensigns in. the Naval
Reserve,
Harold L. . Price '4l, Albert A.
Lutskus, and Anton H. Haas are
all taking courses that will lead to
commissions in a few months.
George Pawlslen has been promot-
ed from a basic private to a ser
geant.
FRIDAY, .JANUAT« .9, 4942
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