AZ, KKG Top Greek
Scholarship Ratings
(See Group Averages On Page Three)
With what amounts to almost monotonous regularity,
Alpha Zeta again captured first place in the fraternity
scholarship standings for the second semester of the 1941-
42 term, according to statistics released last night by Regis
trar William S. Hoffman. it was the fifth straight semes
ter that found the Alpha Zetas topping the list—this time
with a .1.91 average.
Among the social fraternities, Sigma Phi Alpha, with a
house average of 1.63, topped all others in their class to cap
ture the Interfraternity Council - 111 s:t /
social fraternity scholarship cup.
Top averages, however, went
to the 1941 Mortar Board and the
1941 Cwens, women's honorary
groups, who compiled averages of
2.43 and 2.13 respectively.
Kappa Kappa Gamma edged out
its nearest competitors, Delta
Gamma and Kappa Alpha Theta,
among the sorority groups with
a 1.89 average. .
Tops in the non-fraternity
men's groups was Pioneer House
with a 1.72 mark. Ingleside Club
ran a not-too-gOod second in this
.clivision . with a 1.54 average.
Contrary to the general opinion
that Penn State students have
been lying down on the job since
the beginning of the war, the All-
College average took a slight
jump from 1.39 to 1.42.
Only three groups, Fraternity
Women, All-Fraternity, and Fra
ternity Men, showed a decrease
in averages over the previous se
mester. All other groups showed
slight improvement.
'Changes in the All-C6llege rat
inticfrom the first semester of' the
-1941:42 term to the Second•semes
ter Of that term are as follows:
Semester
Ist 2nd
Fraternity Women ... 1.81 1.70
All-College Women ... 1.68 1.69
Non Fraternity Women 1.68 - . 1.69
Non Fraternity 1.42 1.47
All Fraternity 1.35 1.34
Non Fraternity Men .. 1.35 1.40
All -College 1.35 1.42
*ill College Men 1.30 1.32
Fraternity Men 1.24 1.22
Late News
Flashes .
LONDON—;British Broadcast
ing System reported last night
that_ Prime Minister Winston
Churchill has returned after a
war conference with Joseph Stal
in in Moscow. The Prime Min
ister left Moscow eight days ago
and it is believed that in the in
terim he has visited and made a
survey of all of the critical battle
fields. He is reported to have
flOwn through skies that were
scouted by Axis planes.
VICHY—A dispatch received
from this point last night states
that the pro-Axis Laval govern
ment has protested to the United
States the bombing of Rouen on
the grounds that many French
citizens were killed. Meanwhile
U. S. Army bombers paid no heed
to the dispatch , and continued
with their raids on occupied
France.
RIO De JANElRO—Unofficial
'.eports from this port state that
three Axis .submarines have been
sunk around the coastal waters
of Brazil. In the meantimq, the
governments of Uruguay, Para
guay, and Chile have declared
Brazil as a non-belligerent and
have given her the right of pass
age through their territories.
President Vargas stated in a note
to the secret service that all spies
caught within the country are to
be given picks and shovels and
send out to build roads for Brazil.
WASHINGTON Donald M.
Nelson, war production chief, has
asked all United State citizens to
"get in the scrap" and salvage all
material in the form of unused
rubber and metal, pointing out
that the country is urgently in
the need of these materials.
RELEASES AVERAGES— R egis
trar William S. Hoffman last
night released fraternity and
group averages for the second se
mester of the 1941-42 term.
Caps And Gowns May
Be Picked Up Today
Seniors who will be graduating
Thursday may get their caps and
gowns at the Athletic Store be
tween noon today and 4 p. m.
Thursday, David J. McAleer '43,
senior class president, announced
last night.- To get their caps and
gowns they must present receipts.
All caps and gowns must be re
turned to the Athletic Store on
Friday. They will receive their
refund of $3.75 upon return of the
garments. Failure to make the
return on Friday will result in
reduction of the refund.
McAleer also announced that
seniors who have not yet picked
up their . invitations and an
nouncements should pick them
up at Student Union as soon as
possible.
Grades Due September 2
Grades for students not graduat
ing Thursday will be due in the
office of the registrar not later
than Wednesday, Sept. 2, at 5 p. m.
in order that reports may be ready
for registration on September 9.
Hetzel Swaps . Yarns With. James ;
Proves He's A Typical Father
Fathers are all alike, and Ralph
D. Hetzel; College president, is
no exception.
He proved it when the governor.
visited him in State College last
week, and the two executives
were discussing youth training
for a Collegian reporter.
Governor James had just told
of the work he was required to
do as a youth, and the value of
such training in preparing for fu
ture responsibilities.
President Hetzel broke into the
conversation with a bit of his own
experience in youth training.
It seems that Penn State's
prexy was bent upon teaching
Ralph Jr. the value of work.
From the day his oldest son was
able to understand the facts of
our work-a-day world, until he
was
. ready for high school, Father
Hetzel reminded him constantly
of the chores he had been forced
to do as a boy,
The example which seemed to
OF THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE
VOL. 39—No. 63 TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 25, STATE COLLEGE, PA. PRICE THREE CENTS
Students To Watch
Lunar Blackout
From Observatory
Another phenomenon of nature
will take place tonight when the
moon will be eclipsed by the
The eclipse will continue from
9 p. m. until 2:30 a. mOomorrow
morning. However, the total
eclipse, which can be observed
more clearly, will begin at 11 p.
m. and end at 12:30 a. m.
Dr. Henry L. Yeagley, in
charge of the College Observa
tory situated east of the Forestry
Building, stated that students can
obServe the lunar eclipse through
the Observatory telescopes from 9
p. m: to 12:30 a. m.
In case of inclement weather
the Observatory will not be open
for the event.
Queries Mailed
To Locate Rooms
Approkimately 350 question -
aires will be mailed to local land
ladies this morning to query them
on the number of rooms that they
will have available on September
10, according to Harry W. Sea
mans, general secretary of the
PSCA.
"Considering that many of the
landladies to whom the queries
are directed will have a number
of rooms available, our lists
should be quite complete," Sea
mans stated.
"However," he continued,
"since our mailing list was de
rived from former housing lists,
many of the landladies will be
overlooked."
Seamans, along with members
of the Student Housing Board,
have asked that , anyone
.knowing
of available rooms that have not
been contacted by the question
aire, should contact the PSCA of
fice by mail or phone.
The lists will be compiled over
the brief vacation period, and will
be available immediately upon
the matriculation of the new
freshman class on September 7.'
impress Ralph Jr. most was the
tale of the spacious lawn• sur
rounding the old homestead that
Penn State's future president was
required to keep in good condi
tion. Ralph Jr. never tired of
listening, and Ralph Sr. never
tired of telling of how he would
no sooner get the vast estate all
cut than he would nave to start
all over again.
Years later, when Ralph Jr. was
17, President Hetzel felt that he
was quite old enough to become
acquainted more closely with the
family property and posseSsions,
cnd therefore took him on the
long trek back to the old home
stead.
The President's son halted sud
denly_ as they approached the
"vast estate of green"; his eyes
scanned the Hetzel homestead
and the tiny green lot that sur
rounded it.
"Dad," he asked Penn State's
president, "where's that lawn?"
Successor To The Free Lance, Established 188?
Tittirgia tt
Plesser Asks
To Use Book
Blaze Destroys
$4,000 Chemicals
In an early morning fire Sat
urday, approximately $4,000
worth of extracts, gathered for
study, were destroyed in a blaze
at the research laboratory of
Dean F. C. Whitmore, head of the
School of Chemistry and Physics,
in the New Physics Building.
The extracts, collected from
Mexico and the southwest by R.
E. Marker, associate professor of
research in organic chemistry,
represented a large expenditure
in both time and money and were
being used by Professor Marker
in his experiments with hormones.
The fire started when the re
frigerator in which the extracts
were stored became short-circuit
ed, causing the solvents to heat
up and finally resulting in an ex
plosion which burst the refriger
ator and filled part of the third
_floor..of
..the building with smoke
and ammonia fumes.
Campus Patrolman. Nevin E.
Houtz discovered the blaze and
sounded the alarm which called
out the Alpha Fire Company • at
3:15 a. m. Using chemicals and
water from the booster tank, the
firemen soon brought the blaze
under control. The recall was
sounded at about 4 a. m.
Dean Whitmore commented on
the strangeness of the blaze. He
stated that in 20 years experience
with laboratory refrigerators, he
had never come across a similar
occurrence.
V-5 Officers Will Be
In Lewistown Tomorrow
Lieutenant Kane of the Navy
Recruiting and Procurement Ser
vice, will be in the Embassy
Theatre Building in Lewistown
from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. tomorrow
to interview students interested
in the Naval V-5 flight training
program, it was announced last
night by Prof. Robert E. Gal
braith, FAWS.
Reason for the shift to Lewis
town, according to Galbraith, is
the ban still on 'traveling recruit
ing units on 'the campus, pending
settlement of the jurisdictional
scrap between the recruiting ser
vices for the right - to enlist col
lege students. Until the . ban is
lifted all recruiting officers must
set up temporary headquarters in
adjoining towns to conduct their
recruiting campaigns. •
Lieutenant Kane will answer
all questions about the Navy's
V-5 program, Galbraith stated,
and will also administer prelim
inary physical examinations to
thOSe desiring immediate enlist
ment.
Time Tables Today
Time tables for the Fall semes
ter should be in today, according
to Ray V. Watkins, scheduling of
ficer, who pointed out last night
that they were mailed from the
Philadelphia printing office yes
terday and "should" arrive today.
Students
Exchange
Will Open In Armory
Tomorrow Morning
Bernard A. Plesser '43 yester
day asked that all students who
will have books to sell at the end
of this semester make use of the
student book exchange.
The exchange will open tomor
row morning at 9 o'clock in the
rear rooms of the Armory with
entrance by the door facing the
Mall. It will handle any books
students desire to sell during the
period from tomorrow morning
until Friday noon.
It will reopen again then after
vacation atii:lo Wednesday, Sept.
10 and will remain open to sell or
buy books until September 29.
Charges for buying and selling
will be five cents per book for
purchaser and seller.
The exchange will be operated
by student labor under the direc
tion of All-College Cabinet. The
labor quota for this term has been
filled, Plesser stated' yesterday.
Any profit from the venture as
okayed by Cabinet wil be turned
over to a local relief or loan fund.
The exchange will be a new
venture for Cabinet. It was. run
originally by the Independent
party • as a profit-making venture
under the-same setup as Cabinet
will run it by. According to the
arrangements students set their
own prices on books which they
are having the exchange sell for
them.
When the exchange closes
Sept. 29, books not sold may be
picked up by the students who of
fered them for sale and no charge
will be made them.
War Priorities Kill
Chances For '44 Blazers
Government priorities have
made it impossible for Penn
State's class of '44 to have Jun
ior Blazers, Larry T. Chervenak
'44, committee chairman, an
nounced last night.
The committee, with the assist
ance of Neil M. Fleming, graduate
manager of athletics, contacted
every leading manufacturer
without success, according to
Chervenak.
Last hope was gone yesterday
when the only company willing
to consider making the traditional
class coat sent a telegram stating
that they, too, had been given
government orders that demanded
preference.
Most companies contacted by
the committee, the Blazer chair
man stated, indicated that there
was no possibility of supplying
the class coats again until after
the war.' •
LaVie Pictures
Martin H. Duff '43, editor of
LaVie, has • released today's
time schedule for photograph
ing campus groups. All groups,
except the Men's Debate team
and Thespians, will meet in
Room 305 Old Main. The lat
ter two will meet at the Photo
Shop on E. College avenue.
Student Tribunal
Skull and Bones
All-College Cabinet 4:30
Interclass Finance Board 4:40
Druids 4:50
Men's Debate Team 7:00
Thespians 7:15