Four-Class Compulsory Athletic Program Proposed
Athletic Board Advises
Three-Hour Training
For War's Duration
Stepping up its war-time plans
for an 'tall-out" Penn State physical
education program, the Athletic
Advisory Board recommended the
adoption of a compulsory • three
hour curriculum for all students
for • the duration of the war at its
spring meeting in the Nittany Lion
Inn last Saturday. •
This proposal would compel
freshmen, sophomores, juniors and
seniors to take three hours of phy
sical training each week. It-would
call for the doubling of present
education facilities, because under
the present system only freshman
and sophomore men have cempul
sory training.
Dean Carl P. Schott, head of the
School of Physical Education and
Athletics, stated that his faculty
:would be able to handle the. as
.signment although it - would be • a
strain upon the teaching and plant
.facilities. • • , •
. In order for the proposal to be*-
'come part of the College curricula,
It• must be passed by the College
Senate and referred for final ap
proval to the Board of Trustees.
•It was emphasized that this ac
tion shOuld not interfere with the
present intercollegiate sports pro
gram.
Another important action taken
by the Board was the refusal to
place Penn State athletic teams
upon a "proselytizing basis" by
.eliminating the status of freshman
sports in intercollegiate competi
tion. The Board yoted unanimous
ly _to maintain its freshman sports
schedules and not throw its. fresh
man athletes into open intercolleg
iate competition.
This decision. not only applies to
freshmen, but it affects transfer
athletes. - The present rule states
,that a student_ must spend one Col
lege year in residence before he.is
permitted• to conipete in varsity
sports.
The cancellation of the .New
York UniVersity football . games
,scheduled for. November 13, 1943,
here,. and November 11, 1944, at
New York, was approved :by the
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Glee Clubs Affect
Morale Of Nation;
Fred Waring Says
Soldiers and glee clubs may
have little in. common in a • per- .
son's first impressions. However,
Fred Waring's Pleasure Time
National Glee Club Competition
has tied them together in im
portance.
Explaining the rise of glee
clubs in national popularity, 'War
ing in a letter to the College Glee
Club said that they have a de
finite 'place in building the nat
ion's morale.
Lately it came to Waring's at
tention that glee clubs have had
a definite role in international
morale. When, the second AEF
landed in Irelandi it was a dis
appointinbent to the People there.
The Yanks seemed ..to. have no
songs. They were silent, destroy-:
ing their happy-go-luCky repu
tation with • the people which
they h'ad built . un 25 :.years be
fore.
• The Irish, it was said, 'waited
in vain for unison singing and
whistling. 'Yankee spirit, expres
ed in singing, had contributed no
small part to fighting morale in
the last war.
"I never was good enough to
make the Penn State Glee ClUb,
but I thoUght I could sing be
cause I loved it, "said Waring,"
PeoPle who love to sing help
others who wish they could."
"By launching this competition,
I hope to challenge all college
glee clubs to become modernized
and popularized by more activity.
By using microprones, they must
qualify as shqwmen in our popu
lar medium, radio," Waring said.
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VOL. 38—No. 100
Courtmen Accept NCAA Invitation
WHAT'S COOKING, TOM?
Thomas J. L. Henson '42, IFC
president, refused to give out any
information last night concerning
the rumors going about campus
involving several fraternities in
mixed drinking violations.
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!No , Information.'
On .-IFtiliolillaiii
(See Editorial Page 2)
In , answer to'the many rumors
that were floating around cam
pus yeQterday, Thomas J. Hen
son '42, Int erfraternity Council
president, stated last night that he
"declined at the present time to
give any information concerning
fraternity violations of the mixed
drinking code until I have defin
ite information and can give an
actual report."
In the event there were viola
tions reported to IFC They would
be turned over to a committee,
Robert F. Wilson '42, chairman of
the dating code committee, ex
plained last night.
This group would then call the
president of the accused frater
nity; and if the president denied
the chaige, the committee would
investigate. If they plead guilty
the committee would try the
house.
If violations were turned in
yesterday, they would have been
in the hands of the committee last
night, but since a committee has
not been . approved by IFC yet,
Henson intimated, no action can
be take'. officially.
The .revised dating code became
a. law Thursday evening when it
receiveu the final approval of the
Senate,.Committee on Student
Welfare. The slight revisions in
the code, namely the defining of
mixed drinking, have not been
presented to IFC yet.
Debaters Face Heavy
Schedule This Month
Entering their fifth month of
intercollegiate. competition, Penn
State's varsity debate team faces
the heaviest part of its schedule
throughout March.
John B. 'McCue '43, debate man
ager, announced the schedule for
the debaters which will be climax
ed with the Penn State Debaters
Convention, here, March 20 and 21.
OF THE PENNSYL
TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 3, STATE COLLEGE, PA
Elections Group
Asks Dale Change
All-College Elections Commit
tee, upon the suggestion that
Interfraternity Ball on March 27
will interfere with the final day of
voting in the All-College elections,
will ask Cabinet tonight to move
elections up one day.
Elections, if approved by Cabi
net, would start on Tuesday March
24 and continue March 25 and 26.
The committee has set the opening
of the polls in the lower lounge of
Old •Main for 12:30 p. m. daily on
those dates.
The opening of campaigns will
be staged Tuesday, March 17 at an
All-College mass meeting. Plans
for campaigns and estimates of
each party's expenses must be sub
mitted to the Elections Committee
on or before Tuesday, March 17.
• However, the group set Thurs
day noon, March 12, as a deadline
for all petitions. It stipulated that
all candidates must signify they
will attend College the third semes,
ter of the 1941-42 term. A total of
200 petition-signers, 25 per cent of
whom must be women, must •be
presented by each candidate for
All-0511ege 'president and vice
president. '
Candidates for the offices of
each class, president, vice-presi
dent, secretary, and treasurer, will
be required to have 100 petition
signers, 25 per cent of whom must
be women.
The Elections Committee also
reminded School Councils that they
must hold their elections before
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Bible Collection
Now On Display
The Plumb Bible collection, re
cently presented to the College by
a State College citizen, Claude G.
Aikens, is on display today at the
Library lobby. According to Wil-
Hard P. Lewis, Librarian, the col
lection will be shown until March
31.
The valuable collection, former
ly the property of Prof. Charles S.
Plumb of Ohio State University,
numbers 94 volumes. The out
standing items being six incuna
bula—Bibles published before the
year 1501. Seventy-six, of the vol
umes are Bibles and the remaining
eighteen are note-worthy books on
the Bible in general or upon spe
cific translations of the Bible.
The Bibles are printed in var
ious languages, one in Hungarian,
one in Ethiopian and one in Italian.
Three translations are French and
four give versions in two or more
languages within the same book.
Oldest of the collection is Biblia
Latina which was printed in 1477
at Cologne, Germany. The only
other copy of this rare edition is in
the New York Public Library.
In • relation to time the Bibles
date back to early .centuries. Three
Bibles were printed before Colum
bus came to America, 11 were de
scribed before Shakespeare's birth
and 18 during his lifetime. How
ever, nine of the Bibles are less
than 100 years old, 22 between 100
and 200, 12 between 200 and 300, 24
between 300 and 400, and eight in
the 400 to 500 year class.
ANIA STATE COLLEGE
Lions Will Enter Eastern
Playoffs In New Orleans
By GORDON COY
Three months ago, Coach John
Lawther predicted that Penn
State's basketball Lions could
consider themselves lucky if they
would win at least half of their
games. Yesterday, that same
court team accepted the invitat
ion to represent District 2 in the
National Collegiate Athletic As
sociation tourney - in New Or
leans on March 20 and 21.
Chosen as the outstanding
team in the section including the
state of New York, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and
Deleware, the Nittany cagers will
be one the four teams east of the
Mississippi that will vie for the
Eastern Regional championship.
Dartmouth, Illinois, and Ten
nessee or Duke are the other top
ranking contenders for the crown,
IF BALL SONGSTRESS—HeIen
with the titlist advancing to bat-
Forrest, acclaimed as one of the tle the Western finalist for the
top feminine vocilists,-of .the . day,
national championship in. Kansas
will be featured with Harry James City on March 28. This is the first
and his Music Makers at Inter-
time that Penn State has entered
fraternity Ball on March 27.
a national post-season basketball
tourney.
The NCAA invitation was not
the only honor that came to the
mighty basketball Lions following
their 43-35 victory over. New
York University on Saturday
night. With the triumph, the Nit
tanymen set two all-time Penn
State records for the most wins
in one season, and the longest
consecutive victory streak.
By winning their 11th straight
game, the Lions shattered the
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James Selected
As IF Ball Band
Harry James, "the World's No.
1 Trumpeter," and his Music
Makers .mve been signed to play
for Interfraternity Ball on March
27, it was announced yesterday by
Charles F. Matterh '42 ain d
_Arthur
H. Shapiro '42, co-chairmen of the
dance committee.
James and his troupe will re
ceive $1,500, the committee re
vealed. Admission will be $2.85
a couple. AS in previous years,
the dance will be .formal and a
closed, fraternity function.
Currently scarring at the Mea
dowbrc,ok in New Jersey, where
his nightly 11:30 to. 12 broadcasts
originate, James will stop at State
College for the ball before hop
ping off to Hcllywood to make a
movie next month.
Featured with the band are
Helen Forrest •and Jimmy Saund
ers, ranked as two of the. finest
vocalists of the day, and Corky
Corcoran, young tenor sax wizard.
Rated by many as the only
trumpet player capable of filling
the late "Bix" Beiderbecke's shoes,
James has had tremendous suc
cess since he left Benny Good
man's brass section in 1939 to
lead his own orch'estra. Contrib
uting to the band's popularity
have been its
. color, instrumental
brilliance, perfect balance, im
aginative al rangements, and
danceable rhythms, not to men
tion the maestro's mastery of the
trumpet.
In addition to Mattern and Sha
piro, the IF Ball committee in
cludes Robert A. Etien, Robert W.
Fickenscher, William H. Long,
Robert U. Maeser, James J. Ratti
gan, and George K. Schubert, all
seniors.
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WEATHER
Light Snowfall
Changing To Rain
PRICE THREE CENTS
March 20, 21 Set
As Tourney Dates
Late News
Flashes ...
WASHINGTON—GeneraI Arch
ibald Wa yell was relieved as the
Mead of the United Nations cam
paign in the Pacific, it was 'an
nounced last night. A Dutch
leader is expected to replace him.
LONDON General Charles
de Gau'le's Free French National
Committee released a statement
from Washington asserting that
the United States would recognize
French island possessions in the
Pacific as bleing under, the com
mittee's effective control.
MOSCOW Russian officials
reported 77 German planes shot
down yesterday as the Russian
army was said to be in sight of
the key northwestern city of Stair
aya, Russia, where 90,000 Ger
mans ate said to be trapped.
WASHINGTON Plans are
afoot to reorganize the nation's
armed forces into ground, air, and
supply service departments to
eliminate present overlapping.
BERLIN The German high
commard put British air losses for
the week eneing February 28 at
62, of which 3P were reported lost
in the Mediterranean.
CALIFORNIA, Pa.—Workers at
the Vesta No. 4 mine of the Jones
and Loughlin Steel corporation,
on strike since Thursday night,
voted t return to work.