Successor To The Free Land, Established 107 VOL. 38—No. 82 ~ ... ••• :New Standards. . Freshman, Coed Goes r • rour More STCD• • S t L. •d• Finished• Home For Diploma For.• A. Picking Honor . One of Penn State's coeds Wili Courses Released • r • • cut classes this afternoon, but she _ , has a good :reason—to graduate Men- Announced from-high school. The .organization of the Student For Ski aampionships Training for Civilian Defense Laßue Jane Cassey ,45 register- • a Anew method of selecting the ed as a first semester freshman on short courses moved another step • closer to completion yesterday, Dry Dock To Close Winter Cabin Built five senior class honor men— January 26 and has been attending super-Bunnell, cane man, spoon man, barrel man, classes since then, although she when Millard T. At Base Of 'Ski Trail pipe' orator, and class. donor, was has not officially - graduated from visor of the STCD program, releas- For Five Weeks . e . d four. more course descriptions. Penn State's newest cabin, the announced last night by H. Leon- William Penn High School in Har- . Because of the heavy social cal- ' • • Six of the defense courses were Winter Sports Lodge, will be fin .ard Krouse, -senior class president. risburg where she finished her endar during the remainder of , .Four norriinations for eaph of studies two .vvedlcs ago. announced previously, and more ' fished this Saturday, according to are nearly organized. Registra- the month, the Dry Dock night the . class honor. positions will be And because William Penn High . . . Ray M. Conger, who is in charge club will be discontinued for five Made by a committee composed will not hold commencement ex- tion and the beginning of actual of the project for Recreation Co of-- - weeks following this Saturday the presidents and one mem- excises until tonight, the Mac Hall classwork is expected within sev- ordinated. two eral weeks. night's entertainment in the Sand ber from each of the school coun- coed had to register nearly with Shop, William H. Cissel '43 ells, with Krouse serving as chair- weeks before she received her di- Courses announced yesterday from the Class of '39, which do and Thomas R. Heidecker , 43, co man. . .ploma. She will return to Penn follow:chairmen of the Dry Dock, an- noted $5,300. To that sum, All - . This committee will meet with- State . as soon as graduation exec- 1. Mental Hygiene and Morale. College Cabinet added $2,000 from nounced last night. in 'a week to make the nomina- cises are over. Meeting • once a week for eight Followingthis' program the night the defunct numeral award fund. .Formal opening of the Lodge tiOns, Krouse stated. The names weeks, this course is designed to• club will close down until March selected will be sent to each sen- give, the student a clearer con- will take place February 21 and 7. On the following Saturday for .luau on a return poStage post if.s-medical.BOar— . d ception of the processes of men- night, March 14, the Dry Dock 22 . when the state ski champion card. All that will be necessary' tal -hygiene and morale, the inter- ships are staged at the ski trail will present its last entertainment for "voting - is to check the desired . • actions of these and their varia- of the social year. near Boalsburg. Details of the To v bons under wartime conditions. • celebration will be announced lat - choices and drop the return card in the - mailbox. isit Campus Dr. C. R. Carpenter, associate pro- . . er. In this way Krouse believes - - ' • fessor of psychology, is the course F 43 Mazer vember after numerous delays and Construction was begun in No • that, a much larger representation The physical board of the V-5 coordinator. of the senior. men can, be obtained Naval Aviation Reserve Corps will 2. Mechanics for . the "Home - postponements. War priorities and than by the old system of holding be on campus all next weeklo give Front. This six-weeks course will lack of electricity were the two • class meetings. final • physical exams ,to - seniors, be offered by the AgricultUral En- Prom i ses Ac hon chief causes for holding up the "There have been years when juniors and sophomores inteersted gineering department and is de- work - as few as 50 seniors attended in enlisting in this branch of the signed to provide training for wo- Defiinte action concerning the The lodge, a two-story struc these meetings," said Krouse. "By service. meninthe abilities necessary to Junior Blazers will - be taken today ture built in a rustic style, is sit :sending cards to all senior men Information concerning the pro- maintain home equipment and by the committee in charge, it was stated on a hillside, only a short and" explaining just what they are gram can be obtained in 305 Old fixtures. Women students will be .revealed yesterday by Co-chair- distance from the foot of the ski Voting for, we, hope to make the Main at the following 'houi•s: Tues- taught the use of wood, cold met- men Philip Jaffee '43 and Richard trail, and overlooks the valley be -selection of senior honor men into day- 10 to 11 a. ra.,.and 1:30 to al, and soldering tools; repairing S. Peifly '43. low. A fireplace, five feet wide something worthwhile," he added. 2:30 p. m.; Thursday-10 'to 11 a. electrical equipment; plumbing • It was decided that the commit- and four feel high, with a mantle The final winners of 'these hon- m. and 1:30 to 2:30 p. m.; and Wed- repair; conditioning knives, shears, tee-will consult clothiers this after- six -feet 'from the floor is in the .ors will be presented with ap- nesday-1:30 - to 2:30 p. m. sickles, etc.; glazing, glueing, and noon and announce the pr i ce social room on the second floor: ._ propriate• awards during -the Class - All men passing the physicals refinishing. 'ranges and Material choice in a few Radio and electric light outlights Day exercises this spring. • next week will be eligible for the • 3. American Red Cross Stand- are provided around the base . days. . Penn State Unit, leaving late in and - Nutrition Course. • This 0- boards. Two, great wagon wheel- Although a surveY of junior stu-, .• P / S t u c k If •• T fro /S m ay-for" flight training.- - IRequire- -. hour - - courae .- includes-the. import-- . thents include two years of college once of food to physical and men- dents will be niade- - next week to style• chandeliers bear light ..fix,.._ titres. . learn a suitable price range, three . . • i work, 19 years of age, good physi- .tal efficiency, stressing food values On the first floor is the kitchen, Caught - Without - cal -condition and being unmarried. and good individual and family preliminary prices have already farm style, with an alcove for the been set. The proposed $3 blazer : , ~..Lieutenant Currau of the Naval food and health. habits ; and train- Would be made from a canvas ma- stove and. sink and a storage room Ccir Stickett • .Aviation Cadet Selective Board ing lay volunteers to participateterial similar to the Lion Coat, the and lavatories. The furnace is a • Win accompany the medical board in -nutrition activities_ in their 'hot air plant which supnlemients Absent-minded professors and: $7 of cheviot, and- - one for $l3 to and willinterview pp.home communities.ln emergency the fire place. The only entrance students, who are lucky or un- all alicants be. made from flannel. - lucky enough to own' cars, will Students interested in taking - this conditions these volunteers would to the lodge is on this floor. . From the survey one price range" soon feel the icy, calculating fin_ physical exam should make pre- serve as Red Cross Nutrition aides. The one entrance simplifies the liminary application in 305 Old 4. Incendiary Bomb will be chosen as the.official blaz gera of the Department of Reve-matter of using the cabin for more Control. er. The color of any of the three than one group. As plans stand nue's special agents on their'shoul- Main sometime this week, it was This six-hour course has as its blazers would be blue with a white dens—if they forget to get three announced by Thomas W. Allison objective the limitation of fire College seal. now, any student is welcome to slips of paper, to stick on their win-- ' '42 . . - . damage from incendiary bombs, use the lower floor, while the up - Co-chairmen Jaffee and Peifly dows. _ and recognition of types of bombs per story will be kept for groups ' , o want to make reservations. who ."- - Deadline for the Pennsylvania Grades Ready Soon . (Continued on Page Two) said that if all arrangements for - material can be made, the blazers ..operating permit and the state in- Grade 'transcripts will be avail- '•- SPections sticker was laSf Saturday able - some time next week, Re- Players Tickets On Sale will be delivered two weeks after they are ordered. - ..night, and any motorist venturing gistrar William S. Hoffman an- • Ti - 7.kets for the Penn State Play- - . ' forth without them today makes nounced yesterday. The exact ers' production, "The Taming of -- -himself liable to fine or imprison- Handbook Tryouts • day that they will be ready has. the Shrew," go on sale at Student . • nient. - not been determined by the regis- Union Monday. The Slikespear- Candidates for business or edi . Still another deadline has gone trar's office, but it will be an- lan play. will be presented in tonal staffs of the Freshman into the far beyond. Since last nounced in The Collegian, the Schwab Auditorium on February Handbook will meet in 304 Old . Monday night, all autos in opera- registrar added. -- 13 and 14. Main at 7 p. m. -tonight tion must have the new Federal - • • l -auto-use stamps, which cost $2.09 - • apiece and are good until July 1. • • - • • - These • stickers remain on sale throughout February at the local elchtor SLngs Be s t . postoffice. . Maximum 'penalty for driving an auto without the use stamp is a Lauritz Melchior . , greatest of $25 fine and 30 days imprisonment. the living heroic tenors, will pre- Any student wishing to get out of . sent the second program of the a tough blue book by "squealing"•' 1941-42 Artists' Course series at on his prof has ripe opportunities Schwab Auditorium at 8 p.• m. to awaiting him. night Melchior, who was born in Cop enhagen, Denmark, is Denmark's Kammersanger Singer to the Royal Court—as Well as leading tenor of the Metropolitan Opera. '45 Debaters Meet Bucknell Next Week Penn State's freshmen debate He is also official leader of the squad Will, see its first action next Danes in the United States. Thursday when four members of Taught to love opera by his the yearling team will travel to blind sister, Agnes, Melchior took Lewisburg to engage with Buck- his first music lessons from Paul nell University freshmen in two Bang in Copenhagen when he wcs . symposium -discussions. 15. Four years later he was ad- Prof. Hzrold P. Zelko, depart- mitted to the Royal Opera School, ment of public speaking, announ- an honor accorded only to the ced the tonics for the discussion most gifted. would be, "What Sort of Peace The Wagnerian tenor begLn his Do We Want After, This War?" operatic study as a baritone—and and "What Is,Youth's Part in the as a baritone was offered his War?" first role as the elder Germont in Other members of the fresh- "La Traviata." Later, with a re man group are Carl H. Bergey, perteire of 35 baritone roles, he Robert McNabb, Thomas B. joined the traveling opera corn- Wheatley and Lee J. Wolovsky. -- pally headed by Mme, Cahier. of tr . ji g -(g o tt . _ 'ANI OF THE. PENNSYLV THURSDAY MORNING, 'EI3RUARY 5, STATE COLLEGE, PA When Mme. Cahier learned that he had a full range of two End a half octaves, she insisted that he become a tenor. Melchior's first A STATE COLLEGE * * * LAURITZ MELCHIOR ratan Of Classics role as a tenor was "Tannhauser"; today Melchior's "Tannhauser" has become the model for heroic tenors the world over. Since Melchior's debut as a ten or at Covent Garden in 1919, he has established a world's record for Wagnerian trouping. He has sung 200 Sigfrieds, 152 Siegmunds, 120 fiannheausers, 60 Parsifals, 79 Lohengrins, and 181 Tristans— nearly twice as many as any oth er heroic tenor in history. After 22 years of Wagnerian performances, Melchior .is still vble to charm audiences and crit ics alike. Typical tribute to his artistry is the comment which ap peared last Tall in the Chicago Herald and Examiner: "Melchior, greatest of Tristzins, has-a voice of utmost purity; his half-voice is ecstatically beautiful, charged with greatest vibrancy and warm th." A limited number of tickets for Melchior's performance only will be on sale tilt Schwab Auditorium tonight for $2.75 each. WEATHER Continued Cold PRICE: THREE CENTS 1 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 Late News Flashes ... lIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIr SINGAPORE In an effort to keep morale in Singapore at a high level, General Sir Archibald Way ell, Supreme Commander of Unit ed Nations forces in the Far East, stated that strong reinforcements are being sent to beleaguered forces in the 'South Pacific. The announcement was made, Wavell said, because the supplies are now close enough that it will be nearly impossible to stop them. WASHINGTON— The Trumann Committee of the Department of Justice completed organization of the War Frauds Unit which will serve as coordinator of prices of war materials and products to cut unnecessary fraud between pro ducer and consumer and between the producer and the federal gov ernment. The unit's proposals wilt be followed up by regular Depart ment of Justice action. SINGAPORE— Defense in Sing apore and Dutch East Indies were still holding strongly last night against severe Japanese attack, Military officials there stated. Life in Singapore had returned to near normal yesterday and defense seemed stronger due to help of Australia air aid in attacking land convoy troops and scattered war and merchant ships.
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