PAGE FOUR Bischoft Football, Swimming X-Country Set For Fall In cooperaltion with the Na tional movement for physical fit ness, Eugen C. Bischoff, director of the College's intramural sports program, announced last night that the interfraternity and inde pendent tournaments will be more numerous this Fall. Football, cross-country, and swimming tournaments are al ready being planned for and Mr. Bischoff explained that there are possibilities that basketball, box ing, and wrestling tourneys will take place this semester. The court, ring, and mat com petitions were started near the end of the first semester and com pleted during the second term under the normal semester plan. However, the IM director stated that in order to give seniors op portunities to compete in them, tentative plans call for ,he com pletion of them by December. If this proposition is worked out separate tournaments in these there sports will also be run off during the semester beginning in January. Fraternity and independent teams will engage in separate six man touch football - . tournaments. Most of these contests will be run off under the arc lights on the practice gridiron, New Beaver Field. Mr. Bischoff said that he hopes with the aid of the new w: ,r-time to have some of these games played in the late after noon on the golf courses fields. No definite dates have been set for the tourney's beginning. The cross-country run is sche duled sometime in October. Par ticipants in this event are gen erally required to make a num ber of practice runs over the A Common "You TEXT BOOKS-Both New and Used-STUDENT SUPPLIES SLIDE RULES -MECHANICAL DRAWING MATERIALS Stationery With Penn State Seal 45c and up Student Desk Lamps Fountain Pens-$l.OO to $15.00 Blotter Pads Loose Leal Note Books 35c to $7.50 Parcel Post Laundry Cases Penn Slate Jewelry-Pennants-Stickers Alarm Clocks-Watches CAMERAS FILMS - PHOTO SUPPLIES Playing Cards - Card Tables Greeting Cards Magazines - Post Cards - Luggage - Hand bags - Gladstones - Trunks - Brief Cases - Bill Folds 111-115 Allen St Plans Extensive Intramural Program course before they are eligible for entry. Glennland pool will be the scene of the round-robin swim ming competition. Just what type of awards will be made has not yet been decided, c.ccording to Director Bischoff. Trophies for the championship teams will be impossible to get because of government bans on them. He also remarked that the College's present supply of indi vidual medal awards has been exhausted with possibilities of getting more not promising. Pres ent plans call for the awarding of some type of certificates (or plaques to the winning teams. "We'll have to manage on what we can get," he explained. In addition to the intramural program's emphasis on physical fitness, Dean Carl P. Schott, head of the School of Physical Educa tion and Athletics, is planning a toughened required physical edu cation course for freshmen and dophomores as well as an option al program for upperclassmen. 'Library Is A Summons To Sch9larship' Quotation Beckons Frosh To Use Building On the front of the main library That means that only the popu there is a quotation that reads, lar fiction and non-fiction are on "The Library Is A Summons To a display shelf. All the other Scholarship." And how well the books are shelved in the stacks. Freshmen are going to realize To obtain a book, one merely that in the next few weeks. looks up its call number in one of An imposing edifice of four t floors with separate rooms for the catalogues, and then gives everything connected with study the needed information to one of and books, the library is one of the library workers behind the the buildings completed in 1939. desk. Housing 250,000 volumes, includ ing The librarians look. up the book everything imaginable in . print, the bookworm's dream is in a card file—if no card is there run on the Dewey Decimal the book is in, and they go into System. the stacks and obtain it for you. SPORTING GOODS OF ALL KINDS Official Gym Uniforms-Coll-Tennis-Baseball-Swimming-Fishing Etc` Penn Slate Sport Shirts-Jackets- Hats Etc. SHOP AT METZGERS Expression in Town and on Campus Can Get It •At METZGERS" FRESHMEN! WELCOME TO PENN STATE THE DAILY COLLEGIAN College Will Change Flag Policy To Suit National Code Rule No longer will the American flag which flies daily from the west pole on Old Main. lawn be half-masted upon the death of members of the Board of Trustees, the faculty, staff, or the student body, as has been the custom for many years. Wilmer E. Kenworthy, execu tive secretary to the President, announced recently that according to a public statement by the chairman of the National .Flag Code Committee, Gridley Adams, this practice is contrary to ac cepted practice. The committee's ruling reads, "The flag should be half-staffed only for persons who hame once offered their lives in its defense— never for any other person except by Presidential authority. For State or City officials, half-staff the State or . City flag."' PENN STATE 1915 lob Hunters \Hall. These, mixers, together To Register . Af CA N d v a i n th ce t i h o e th f o in A al rmo Stud a e t nt 4 t U o n d i a o y n will provide plenty of opportun ity for the freshmen to become acquainted. Sponsored by WSGA, the mix ers Friday and Saturday nights tvill be closed to all upperclass men. Asked to act as hosts and hostesses at the affairs are mem bers of Mortar Board, Cwens, Druids, Friars, Blue Key, Parmi N us, Skull and Bones, Pi Lamb da Theta, Ellen. H. Richards, and Omicron Nu, according to Doro thy K. Brunner, WSGA vice president. Freshmen and upperclassmen, interested in working at part-time jobs during the coming semester, are asked to fill application blanks in the Penn State Chris tian Association's Employment Bureau, 304 Old Main. D. Ned Linegar, associate sec retary of the PSCA in charge of the employment bureau, said that the demand for students who are 'available for part-time work far exceeds the present number of men who have filled out blanks. Jobs handled by the bureau range from serving as a dish washer during rushing week, in exchange for meals, to an occa sional call for a man who will work as high as 20 or 30 hours a week at a regular position. Registrants from previous se mesters were asked by CA offi cials to phone the , office if they have changed their address re cently. RUSSELL LODGE 424 W. Beaver Ave. ROOM and BOARD •• Showers Phone 3237 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1942 Mass Meeting (Continued nom Page One) store for the incoming class, with four mixers scheduled for this weekend. Two will be held each night, Friday and Saturday, one in the Armory, the other in Rec At Ihe Movies 'CATHAUM: Across The Pacific STATE Talk Of The Town NITTANY Valley Of The Sun BUY DEFENSE STAMPS AND BONDS Stale College, Pa.
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