P.A.GE TWO
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Dolinger '44; Richard B. McNeal '44. Robert T. Kimmel.
flobect E. Hinter '44. Donald L. Webb '44. Sally L. Hirshberg
¶44. and Helen R. Keefauver '44.
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Wednesday Morning, December - 9, 1942
Take it Ear i Please
"Be original. don't make . paths." That was
:the advice given to students aboUt two years ago
•lien the destruction to campus lawns:by students
taking short cuts began to mount quite an expense
Lem in the budget of the department of grounds
and buildings.
Now the old problem has risen again. Stu-
Kiants again are taking to, - the greens and wearing
clown the grass, struggling hard itself to live in the
partially ilrozen ground. To cite a few eyesores on
campus, the Collegian needs only mention the
::-;ftetch of brown from the cement walks in front
<,if. the Liberal Arts building to the door. The
brown, whiCh is mud where the grass died, has a
green background, and doesn't lend itself very well
u beautifying the mall.
Making matters worse now is the lack of fer
tili7ers containing vital war chemicals phos
liocus, for instance. Another important fertilizer
nitrate, the most important element in
These cannot be bought. They're on the
lit:iority list. Unless college workers can restore
the grass through manure, and possibly some sup
tidi-23 on hand, the short-cut paths are apt to re..
Expense of such items as growing grass where
51. was trampled amounts to five per cent of the
))).oney annually spent by the departthent of
:grounds and buildings for repair work.
Don't cut across a path on the grass. Remem
ip.r: when you were struggling to be recognized.
'Don't Tread On Me"
Don't look now but all those final blue books
.of the comprehensive type are closing in fast. Al
though there has been no provision made in the
-College calendar for finals, some of the profs have
ormounced these trials by grueling as a parting
:;liot this semester.. 'We say, take it easy.
There are few courses that won't have a final
I,tue book of the period variety designed to cover
- the portion of the course since the last blue book.
'These in themselves will take plenty of study and
rehearsing. And to go with them are lots of re
ports and term papers that have a habit of corning
due the last week of a semester.
Add to all that a few comprehensives and the
3”) or student is ready for a rest cure in one of the
cuiater spots for a few months. To belabor the
point further, what good will all' these tests and
:o . cams do, if the student has to slight the last guar
-lA±r of his semester's work to brush up on the first
three-quarters?
It is true, as some of the instructors have
that, if no other purpose is served, these
omr.prehensives force the student to review. That
may be right, but it certainly plays hob with the
work in ,hand at the present. With the accelerated
y)rogram, there is no letdown at the end of the
47,imester, but rather a rush to finish the designated
3 in time.
So, please, professors, it e.3'5Y of tivi corn,
pr , .o:-ensive —R,T
Downtown Office •
119_121 South Frazier St
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Seymour Rosenberg
Adolph L. Belser
Alice Fox
Mary lane. McChesney
Dtivid Adams
Hasson
_Louie H. Bell
(Th. expressed in tin., column are those
the eniumniA, and are not necessarily tlax , e of
Daily Collegian.)
A Lean and Hungry Look
By Milton Dolinger
A Mexican
,pr ove r b reads:
"What can one expect of a day that
begins with getting up in the morn
ing " That's exactly how x've feel
right now, especially since our ferret
nosed spy. Tredwynkle, reported the
doings of the days. Know you that
the coeds in Watts Hall have been Ilif
t e
summarily ordered to remove their ~10,
I
various and sundry belongings to Ath i r -.1
Hall by Friday next—without benefit ILI.,
..,....
of transportation. . . .
Transfers all—the
,girls of Watts . ~,'
---who came to this vale of erudition
because, well, because of Penn State's high -rank
ing in many, many fields, are going to be out in the
co-uld. Could not the College, perchance, keep the
respect of these coeds by diverting 'one 'of the
"company" trucks, or would they •rather: see the
girls trundle their own bundles' at. the eXpeilse of.
final week studies? . . .
The giiod and noble l a ndlords an d
..
Yougel's burro have been raising the rents of their
student roomers with the 'plea of rising costs as an
excuse. Tredwynkle, who doesn't entirely confine
his meanderings to geography, brought our atten
tion to the fact that OP. bad frozen rents as of
last March. Investigation .on Our., part, however,
disclosed that that refriggation only applied to
defense areas. Lucky la4alords and ladies! But
then again, why .should lot this place
. be desig
nated as such .an. area? ttudent-training and all
that—as Deans Hainmand and Whitmbre - Will well
testify.
•., . .
The recent stateme n ts by c e rtain heads of
technical department's on the army reserve mixup
seem to be disparaging to what are termed "Lib
eral Artists." And the attitude of many so-called
technical students toward these pursuers of khowl
edge is hardly complimentary. Allow us, then, to
quote a remark of The Reverend Hugh O'Donnell,
Notre Dame, about liberd - 1 edncation:
Science and Engineering are important in
war, but unless these studies are implemented
with religion. philosophy, and languages, we
develop mechanics, not leaders—automatons.
not men.
Our own little Diana of the Crossways. Dottie
Brunner, I-told-you-soed at Cabinet meeting t'
other night about how the Curfew, although ridi
culed at its inception, was now the best thing ever
to hit this campus. Consider then the Curfew.
"Consider President Atherton's tomb."
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Doesn't it se — ern unpatriotic' to surely , become monotonous after
stay in school? Do , you' think a few . weeks.. .
you're wasting time that cOuld . be Wi th the background. of train=
put to use in a war plaht? . ing ;which :each coed will, or
If you spend all your time 'should, have after graduation;
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she'll be, doing the -Country a fa-.
thinking about these things,. may- vor to stay in college now.
be you are cheating the. country "Coeds should try to get ag•
out of a good worker on an as- much technical and specialized
sembly line. But, if you keep training as they can before they
studying, you"re doing a big fa- take defense jobs, because wo.;-
vor for Uncle .Sam. men with skill and technical ex-
• War industries are begging for
women—with no training needed
—to fill positions on the assembly
line vacated by men. Salaries
sound enticing, and work would
not be hard.
Yes, it sounds like a good set
up., Leave college, be on your
own, and start saving for the fu
ture. But, as Mrs. John H. Wil
liams, AAUW state president. 'Don't pack your trunks yet,
pointed out in a talk recently, coeds. Wait till they .start draft=
any women can fill these jobs. ing women befcire leaving' the
They are routine and would Nittany valley. —M. J. W.
CAMPUS CALENDAR
TODAY
Senior Editorial Board of Col
legian, News Room, 4:15 p. m.
Basketball game with Susque
hanna, Rec Hall, 8 p. m.
Christmas Carol Sing Commit
tee, 304 Old Main, 5 p. m.
.PSCA Executive Committee, 304
Old Main, 6:45 p. m.
Froth, the College humor maga
zine, will be on sale at Student
Union and the Come on Thin's
day.
WRA Bridge . Club meets, White
Hall Playroom, 6:30.
WRA Rifle Club meets, White
Hall Rifle Range, 6:30.
WRA BadMinton Club meets,
White Hall gymnasium, 6:30.
Badminton Club meets White
Hall lounge, 5 p. m. today.-
Judging Contest
(Continueit from page One)
vited to enter Competition.
The • competition is sponsored
by the - Block and Bridle Judg
ing Club, members of which com
prise the program • committee.
Committtee members include
John A. Christian '43, cattle:
Jarries sA. Christian '43, sheep;
Glen W. Stevens '43,' horses; and
Leon M. Bodie '43, swine.
There wille no entry lee fa!
contestants:'
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1942
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perience are desperately needed,"
according to Mrs. Williams. "Any
woman can learn to work on an
assembly line," she stated, "but.
since only a few have the educa
tion and capacity to lead, college
women shoulcl, be willing to give .
The greatest skill and service of
which they are capable to fui
ther the war effort."' •
Mobile Unit
(Continued from Page One)
Eddie Coles and music will be fur,.
nished by Joe 'Cannon, Ray For
tunato, Don Smith, Dayton Green
ly, Pepper Birchard, George
Washko, and Pat Lamade.
Because of the rubber situation,
'Clauss said, tonight's show will
probably be the last for the dtu..a.-,
tion. In the past, all trips were
made by private automobiles. •
-"Gasoline is no difficulty,",
Clauss said, "as the local rationing
board gives us what fuel we need;
considering us as helping army
morale."
Letters from s ervic eme ri
throughout the state have con
stantly been received by the Thes
pians, asking for, a Mobile Unit to
visit their camps. Thespian produc
tions are rated very high by the
men who have seen them. '
Money for the Mobile Units was
donated by the senior class, which
set aside a fund of $l,OOO to cover
their expenses.
Reseives
(COntinuid from page one)
ert Lagert, Frank. McCowan,
Richard. Okerberg, John Rutter.
• Walter Taccomi, Jack Smith,'
Gayle Starr, Carl Stokes, Fred
Sutter, Russell Teall, Robert
Troxell, Richard Wald, Herbert
Wohlman, Richard Yoder, and
Carl Pfeiffer•.