PAGE TWO THE DAILY COLLEGIAN 'Tot A Better Penn State" Eribablishol 1940. Successor to thte Penn State Collegian, established 1904. and the Free Lance, established 1887. Published daily except Sunday and Monday during the regular College year by the students of The Pennsylvania State College. Entered a? second-class matter July 5, 1934 At the Post-office at State College, Pa., under the act of March 8. 1879. Editor Bus. and Adv. Mgr. Gordon Coy '43 Leonard E. Bach '43 Editorial and Business Office Carnegie Hall Phone 711 Managing Editor This Issue !Nowb Editor This Issue ■Women’s Editor This Issue Sally L. Hirshbei'fl .Assistants This Issue . William Slevin, Walter Fischman. Stephen Sinichak Graduate Counselor * Tuesday, April 28. 1942 The accelerated, three-semes ter program is Penn State's ma jor contribution to America’s war efforts. For the duration, it is to be regarded as a normal and not a special program of study. 'Corsages For‘ Junior Prom With the announcement that Junior Prom wilt combine both defense stamps and corsages, the dance committee has made a successful attempt to satisfy two opposing factions. ' Almost all students on campus have finally be come war conscious and are willing to direct all their efforts toward winning the war. However, there are still a few who can’t forget peace-time .traditions, and these few will have to have cor dages until their pacifist ways •of thinking are altered. Those attending the dance on Friday night will be expected to purchase . defense stamps .when they place their order for flowers. State College florists have consented to cooperate by including 50 cents in defense stamps with each ■ corsage, and in order to signify that the stamps have been purchased, a special red, white and ihue ribbon will be worn With the corsage. The stamp plan was very successful at,Senior «H3all, and the same success is practically assured for Junior Prom. He Might Have Been This is an editorial about a Penn- State man who tried to do something and failed. This is a word of comment about a Pehn State student who failed, and in the manner of his failure was more worthy of any acclaim we might give him than if he had reached the goal he had striven to gain. Last Saturday at 1 p. m., Sophomore James B. Craig stood before a microphone in thb City Club of Cleveland and tried to win a trip to South America. He wais one of six students who had weathered three grufeling mental eliminations in 'the states of Ohio. Michigan, Indiana, and Penn sylvania. The job at hand was a simple one: Jim Craig had to know more about South America than any of the other five present. He had to be the personification of a cultured young American talking at his ease on a subject with which he was familiar. Lined up against him were the finest students of th'e Universities of Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania, the best speakers of Notre Dame, Adrian, and Depauw Universities. Jim Craig of the Pennsylvania State College had nev er had any training in public speaking whatso ever; he was one of six students in four states who had triumphed over hundreds of other stu dents, many of them debaters forensically train ed, to compete in this final competition. The strain on these six students competing for u trip to Latin America was tremendous. Craig confessed that he was terrified while speaking in the event. Nevertheless, he was soundly cheer ed by the audience when finished. Staid business men crowded to tell him of his superior intellect, iii is ready use of wit while under fire in cross examination. The judges awarded the prize to “led Groenke of Depauw University. There were oio consolation prizes. During the hour after fiie decision was announced, all that Craig could c.ry over and over again was that he wished the faculty members who had helped him would just know that he tried. That's all. A Penn State student tried to do something and failed. To us he was a complete success. To us ■ll ie is a phase of Penn State not reflected in the ihrj«s of the Blue Band or the yells of the cheer leaders. is to the stor;. That's' all th.ere Cim -j, * i know that we know he trie. Downtown Office 119-121 South Frazier St, Phone 4372 Larry T. Chervenafc Robert T. Kimmei _LouU H- Bel) \VY want Jim —F. M THE DAILY COLLEGIAN Campuseer Orchid Of The Week Campy will pow dedicate three loud cheers, a mighty hurrah, and the next two inches of space to the Student Union Board for its action of last week. After devoting our earlier masterpieces to some weak outcries for a little social activity for the Summer semester, George Donovan and his boys came through with a calendar resplend ent with things not in the line of regular duty, including the heretofore annual Fall affair, Soph Hop . . . We still have one more pet peeve for the time being. Maybe WSGA will take suitable action in the near future, we hope,' about the lengthen ing of coed hours for the Summer semester. It's Spring And Stuff Ah, Spring . . . Len Krouse parading in front of Ath Hall with Olive Kalar riding the ex- Senior Class prexy pig-a-baek style . . . Bill Mey ers and Johnny Fleming, who can really hit that ball, playing golf ... Ed Blackburn’s car parked suspiciously close to the ’Skellar all Friday night . . . Carroll Blackwood finally be stowed his Kappa Sig jewelry upon Ruth Thomas, and took that opportunity to grab his first kiss from the fail' damsel . . . Army Manoeuvers The Rotissie boys went through their annual inspection drill yesterdaJy in a slightly putrid manner. Some of the senior officers looked pretty silly. One future commissioned officer, who dealt out many orders to freshmen violating customs earlier in the year, changed cadence eleven times in one short march, and then at tempted an unsuccessful flank attack against an unprotected, harmless, innocent clump of pine trees ... In the classroom, Campy’s agents re port, ominous silence greeted the queries intend ed to show off the brainwork of Penn State’s mighty unit . . . Brush up, boys, MacArthur needs you. Ugh—More. Formats Approaching Summer and high temperatures haven’t discouraged the white tie and tail boys as the weekly reports dribbled in. Weekend af fairs on the docket' were the Tri-Dorm dance, the Players’ formal, and the Alpha Chi O trot at the • Sigma Nu house. Operatives at the last rat-race spied on Jo Powell and Phi Gam Johnny Jones, Sis Herrman and Don Taylor, Anna Mary Vaughn and Chuck Elder, Sue Patterson and Herb Jennings (the SAE’s really made out), Lue Wassink and Kappa Sig Dick Stebbins, and Col legian’s own Louise Fuoss and Bob Faloon. Prom, — Palm Beach I f y FORMAL COAT Utipfe -flirt ** * i Schott Lauds Summer Term “Approximately two out of three present freshman, sopho more, and junior students in the School of Physical Education and Athletics will return to the Col lege for the Summer semester,” it was announced yesterday by Carl P. Schott, dean of the School This estimate is hased upon the returns of the questionnaire sub mitted by each of the students. “This is due, in part, to the em phasis which the Army and Navy ore placing on the program of phy sical fitness, as well as to the ser ious shortage of adequately pre pared men and women in the fields of health and physical edu cation and recreation,” the dean said. Over 80% of the present junior class will return in order to com plete the work for the Bachelor’s degree by December 19. All of the professional courses normally offered in the first se mester will be given from May 13 to August 28 and since many of the courses to be taken later have prerequisites, it is desirable for students to continue their work in the Summer semester. Although many students have stated that they have in the past held Summer positions such as playground directors, camp coun sellors and life-guards,' most of them are foregoing this work in the Summer of 1942 in order to complete, the work for the degree and gain permanent employment much earlier. Students who have accepted positions for part of the Summer will be offered courses in Health, Physical Education, and Recreation in panels of three weeks each of intensive full-time study. It will be possible to take work for any multiple Of three weeks beginning either on May 18, June 8, June 29, July . 20, or August 10. • “Due to the ofsmands'for profes sionally trained physical educators in the Army, -Navy, and Marine Corps, it will be advan tageous for the men to enroll in the accelerated prograih offered by the College' during the Summer semester,” Dean Schott concluded. Ag Award Winners Attend Banquet —CAMPY Thirty-orie freshmen in ' the School of Agriculture, winners of the Sears-Roebuck Agriculture. Foundation $lOO scholarships, were guests of the company at a banquet at the State College Hotel last night. The scholarship winners are Donald L. Ace, Edward S. Barben, Eugene J. Barrett, Dewey K. Brumbaugh, Merle S. Bryan, Thomas F. Crawford, Howard H. Cox, Earl S. Fox, John D. Heckert, William J. Heinbaugh. •Frederick A. Hughes, Fred W. Jaeger, Clinton H. Leet, Joseph A. McCurdy, Jensen M. Mingle, Earl C. Musser, George W. Myers, Jos eph A. Parks, Raymond L. Pier son, Donald A. Rush, Donald K. Scott, Robert W. Stem, Robert J. Stephenson, Robert J. Wagner, Harold R. Wakefield, Dale R. Wal denmyef, Walter B. Fairman, Jesse G. Rawthorne, Oscar C. Lange, Matthew B. Luce, and Jos eph G. Sick. Penn State is one of 63 land grant colleges which are recipients of the special awards. Scholar ship winners are chosen on the basis of their scholastic record. Newman Club To Breakfast Sunday Penn State Newman Club held its annual communion breakfast this Sunday, Apral 26, at 10 a. m. in the banquet room of the State College Hotel. Newly elected officers of the Newman Club include Leonard J. Gitschier ’43, president; Robert H. Pease ’44, vice-president; Mi Patri cia Strittmatter ’45. recording sec retary: M. Phyllis Strittmatter ’45. corresponding secretary; and Bert Collins '44. treasurer. TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 1942 CAMPUS CALENDAR TODAY LA Lecture by Dr. Kingsley Davis, “Culture and Population in Latili America,” 12-1 Sparks, 7:30 p.m. Theta Sigma Phi meeting, Al pha Chi Omega suite, 5 p. m. All freshmen interested in try ing out for the business or editor ial staffs of the Collegian report to 9 Carnegie Hall, 7:30 p. m. Applications for deferred en listment in the Army Air Force Reserve are available at 243 Sparks from 9 a. m. to 12 noon and from 1 p. m. to 4 p. m. TOMORROW Watch services will be held at the Wesley Foundation, 7:15 a. m. New members of Alpha, Lambda Delta meet in 224 Mac Hall, 7 p. m. Meeting of Big Sisters, Mac Hall lobby, 6:30 p. m. Riding Club instruction meet ing at the haddock, 6:30 p. m., weather permitting. THURSDAY Applications for deferred en listment in the Army Air Force Reserve are available at 243 Sparks from 9 a. m. to 12 noon and from 1 p. m. to 4 -p. m. V-5 Will Seek Recruits Here Members of the Naval Aviation .Cadet Selection Board will be on campus this week to interview prospective V-5 enlistees for the second and third Penn State units for the Naval Aviation training program. Recruiters will be in 305 Old Main from 9 a. m. to morrow until Saturday noon. Physical examinations for as pirants will be given in the in firmary during the same -hours. - The first Penn State unit will leave for the three-month basic flight training in Philadelphia June 4. Following the basic course, the 30 men that have been accepted will receive six-months training in Floridaj prior to re ceiving their commissions. Penn State Unit No. 1 is full, according to Thomas W. Allison ’42, shaman second class, tlrit commander. However, he stress ed, the second and third units, which, will leave in September and December respectively, are not full and students interested in this branch of the service are urged to appear for an interview. Unit No. 2 has bben placed in charge of William J. Debler Jr. ’42. Senior Plans (Continued trom Page One) ton; Mirror Girl, Jeanne C. Stiles; and Class Poet, Alice M. Murray. Following the mirror oration by Stiles and the class poem by Mur ray will be the dedication and the acceptance of the class memorial. All-College Cabinet awards will be presented by Jerome H. Blakes lee ’43, new All-College president, to th twenty outstanding seniors chosen last week. Extension Plans Campus Defense Convention Representatives of the National University Extension Association will hold their 27th annual meet ing on campus May 18, 19, and - 20 with “Adjoining College and Uni versity Extension to War-Timfe Needs” as their theme, Included on the three-day pro gram are speeches, informal dis cussions, symposiums, and mo tion pictures. The varied pro gram has been -arranged by Rus sel M. Grumman, director of Uni versity Extension at the Univer sity of North Carolina, and other members of the program commit tee. According - to Mr. Grumman, this year’s conference hqs been somewhat modified because trans portation restrictions are expect ed to reduce the number of repre sentatives.
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