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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
'Tor A Better Penn Stale"
Established 1910. Successor to the Petm State Collegian,
ORtablifihed 1904, and the Free Lance, established 1387.
Published dattv except Sunday and Monday during the reg
ular College year by the student? of The Pennsylvania State
College. Entered n? second-class matter July 5, 1934 at the
JPoofc Office at State College, Pa., under the out of March S,
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Winter ’44 ; Editorial Associates, Fred E. Clever *44, Milton
Dolinrer Ml, Richard B. McNaul *44, Robert T. Kimmel M 4,
j&obert E. Kinter ’44, Donald L. Webb *44, Sally I*.. Hirshberg
c 44. and Helen R. Keefauver *44.
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Alice R. Fox, Margaret L. Good, Lewis L. Jaffc, Lee 11.
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Jtnsenberg, Stephen Siniclmk.
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Graduate Counselor
Wednesday Morning, January 27, 1943 «
Cooperation
Military Ball, like most of the other dances
scheduled for this semester, ordinarily is a “sec
ond semester” dance. However, due to requests
from the department of military science and
tactics, the affair has been carded for this semes
ter and will be held April 30.
Orie thing Cabinet requests iit setting the date
is that Mil Ball have a campus band instead of an
•outside one. The students feel that times like
these are not appropriate for big dances every
mother weekend, and thus request, that all dances
■except Soph Hop and Junior-Senior Ball use
■campus musicians.
To show their cooperativeness,' Cabinet even
changed the date of the biggest dancg- of the
semester, Junior-Senior Ball, to April 9 so that
three weeks instead of two would elapse before
the military dance. It would be only fitting now
for the military department to cooperate with the
•Cabinet recommendation about having a small
band.
Some advanced ROTC students on Cabinet,
those who would be most interested in having a
"name” band, weighed the difference between
v/hat is best for the reputation of the College with
what suits their own interests and decided for a
better Penn State. No action has been taken yet,
but it is hoped Mil Ball chairmen wilt follow the
student recommendation.
Dear Froth
This is in answer to some filler, the material
between both covers, that you had printed in
your last disgrace. You mentioned something
about alcoholic beverages and connected that vile
istuff with the Collegian. The staff members feel
hurt abbut having anything said concerning their
morals. They consider themselves far better than
.'Froth writers in every respect. •
Froth needs only two men on its staff. The duty
of one is to wield the scissors and cut jokes from
the identical issue of ten years ago. He also needs
.a can opener to get at the canned stuff Frothy"
The second necessary man is the poor ad man
who spends his time pestering local merchants for
•revenue whilst getting kicked out of every estab
lishment. Why he hangs around Doggie’s so much
is something which can’t be explained.
It is whispered too that Froth is the under
ground leader for the gremlins, and runs the
black market for gasoline coupons. The Foolish
Gentlemen print libel and pictures of gals with
■ guvs who paid the photo editor five bucks to get
id>■ ■ snep>'. , . , 'i. printed.
•< m rffr* tinm y.’.is o:
Business Manage*
Philip P. Mitchell '44
Downtown Office
119-121 South Frazier St.
Phone 4372
Serene F. Rosenberg
Lee Learner
Art Miller
Ben French
Ray Becker
Herbert Hasson
..Louis H. Bell
said Collegia!'
si.iv: feus wh-.c.i
A Lean and Hungry Look
By Milton Dolinger
"War," said Heraclitus," is the
mother of all things." And apparent-
ly Mother War is raising another
minute battle in her already oversize
brood. Meaning, of course, the strife
the girls, or rather the Women’s Rec-
reational Association, is raising anent
our foray on White Hall. One maid,
by name “Cordelia,” and doubtless
without a doubt acting at the behest
of WRA, took it upon •herself to an
svvei- us' with a letter printed in Sat
urday’s Collegian.
"Cordelia" means "of Delos"—the “
home of the Delphic Oracle, but in this instance
the pseudo-soothsayer was a trifle befuddled. Her
paltry arguments in the epistle only prove our
point that not enough girls are utilizing the “White
Hall Hareem,” so why not throw it open to men.
If she had perused last week’s column with any
measure of intelligence she would have .seen that
we ne’er advocated a “M arch on Rome” to
White Hall by the males, but rather a program for
that muscle mint such as. Old Main Open Houses
have. Perhaps, .if calmer heads would prevail lor
the merest nonce, such a program could be worked
out, or, at least, considered.
'Tis whispered that one of the muscle minders
said that everything in White Hall is just for
women. Whati Even the water in the swimming
pool? Well, so much pro hac vice, and Shakespeare
once wrote about letters such as Cordelia sent us:
“She draweth out the thread of her verbosity finer
than the staple of her argument.” Cordelia —that’s
a GOOD name. ' '
*!< * <(•
Last semester, we had occasion to mention an
article in “Fortune” about the worth of American
colleges and universities in the defense and War
effort, and what they are doing about it. Penn
State was not mentioned, nay, not even hinted at
in that story. Now we know why. Among other
things, that' illuminating chapter told how Cor
nell—you know,- that College we occasionally imi
tate—had done away with all dahice’s for the dufai-
Yesierday, vfre read Student Union's social calen
dar. This semester, we are to have a Soph Hop,
Jr-Sr Ball, IF-Panhel Ball, several Independent
dances, and a Mil-Ball; pending. Of course, Cab
inet recommended that the war effort be promoted
at each of these social events. That makes every
thing fine. The boys buried at Bataan would be
glad to hear that.
Come, Tredwynkle, let us away to “the cup that
cheers and inebriates.” My mouth hath a bitter
taste.
Errata and Addenda: The Great White Chief
who resides in Washington will now rest some
what easier when he ..hears that the profligate
Penn State students will no longer be allowed
automobiles. The all-wise omnipotent Cabinet has
made this possible. Perhaps Rube Faloon should
have been in Cabinet last semester, for we dimly
recall his telling us then that if he got oh that
august body, he would lobby for Such control.
Now, with priorities and rationing and the no
pleasure edict, Cabinet’s idea is like putting a
combination lock where already there exists a
padlock.
$ Hi Hi
The accolade for timeliness; on the other hand,
should be given to the Penn State Players for
their choice of “The Moon Is Down” to be pre
sented” in February. Steinbeck’s tale of rebellion
by a supposedly-conquered people is being borne
out in practically every Nazi-occupied country in
Europe—and if time is .taken to read the “New
York Times” daily, you4vill see that we are right.
The Thespians, who are going to attempt a “book”
show this time instead of a hackneyed “review”
will produce their epic of escapism late in March.
And so to bed, or dreams are the stuff of which
Colleges are made . . . —Cassiu.s
remarks), but the four boys who are left challenge
the Foolish staff to a snowball fight two miles out
of State College at sundown.
Collegian asks for physical combat for it feels
well qualified after writing so much about the
compulsory phys ed program, and the writers for
the best morning paper in Centre County haven’t
been violating the gas rationing ruling as Froth
time-putters-ii) have.
" :;'”betTer"" l iivomiug* , paT)er*’.u Tins county,
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
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65 New Ensigns’ Schedules
Include 44 Weekly Hours
The 65 ensigns from the ninth : : ;
crew to be stationed here have be-■ iT) u j,, \.t .t. - ■.* '
gun comprehensive advanced i rOdllCticttl
courses in Diesbl engineering as a tffL a • pop i
part of their 44 class hours a week, .•* Mdlllldt MJj ST d viri.
«f° f * fndiK^hrhkf^fTp f * Mobilization for the war effort
w Slnntf ? is ffe thdme of foitr movies wk&i.
for t-h'or will shown by PgfeA TKurS
o4 training® the College has %e- d «£ af
pared a weekly schedule including twns te the college film library,;
Thermbdyhamics, 4 firs;; Diesel are sent to the College by the War
Engineering, 6 hfs:; Electrical Eh- Bureau in Washing--
gineering, 5 hrs.; Fuel Injection, 2 ■ af featuring
hrs.; Lubrication and, Lubricants, d iSSvffifS S'
2 hours.;, 1 hom-of Physical
cation daily; and a 1-hour drill ll6s Wl ™ natural Am
. . minum, story of an accelerated
p 110 .* .... _ .. . . , aluminum-supply; “Henry Brown
Two hours of professional lec- avmer> »> depicting the American"
tures weekly are also a part of Negro's' part in defeating the Axis'
the course. . ... by tilling the soil; and “Home oh
Special attention is directed to R an ge,” reliving the wartime
laboratory instruction on engines 0 f the Western ranchland,
and accessories of the type that ma jj e the program.
the officers will later use in the’ . . . . .
service. Operation and overhaul- thepgcA movie series , and will ■
mg procedures are studied be h 121 rkg r;3O m _.
Emphasis is also laid on Thei-- T acc6 ' rding ’ to Ned £ in .
modynamics as applied to the In- delate secretary -of the
ternaf Combustion engine. . PSC A. All are invited to attend. ’
Courses in electricity concern ~ : ■
nating currents.
The sixty-five members ■in this
crew have been divided into 11
squads who report' for duty at 8 Dear Editor:
a.m. and attend laboratory lectui'e The members of my staff read
periods until 5 p.m. -They may Bob Kinter’s statement about the
spend free hours in Engineering E recent visit of an ensign to my
home rooms
New recruits will join the ranks ensign'.was probably spinning' a
in March, making a total o£ 120 yarn about his experiences aboard
men' here until May when the the “USS Scavengar.”
present division will graduate after The ensign in question was Mar
having completed sixteen weeks of shall Gates, aiv alumnus of the
intensive training. College and the son of Professor
=—— Theodore Gates.'’ Ensign Gates
Victory Book Drive.
Yields 200 Volumes
. With many local stores and ren- 1 feel, that the reference to any
tal libraries contributing, the Vic- ensign’s record in such words as
tory Book Drive shifted into high “aboard the USS Scavengar” is in
gear this week. Collection centers extremely bad taste. Incidentally/
in town arid on campus have yield- tb e women in my office have voted
ed nearly 200 volumes, while the unanimously to see Mr. Kinter off
committee expects that a house to w hen his number comes up.
house canvass Saturday will re- Very truly yours*,
suit in many individual contribu- Wm. S. Hoffnian
tions. ' Registrar
Conferences held with Army and
•Navy Special Services officers _ ,
slfow that men in the fighting CAMPUS CALENDAR
forces prefer current best sellers, WRA Bridge Club meeting,
adventure and westerns! detective white Hall lounge, 6:30 p.m.
and mystery fiction, technical Members of the House of Repre~
books published since 1935, humor sentatives will meet in 305 Old
books, and small sized pocket edi- Main at 5 p.m. today.
tions of popular works. • Important meeting of the LA
—”—--- “ Council, Room 9, Carnegie Hall, 4
SUBSCRIBE I'JOWi—FOH VOUFI p. TO . All members must attend.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1943
“Don’t be afraid of her,
she’s joined the voluntary-.- ,■:
meat sharing planl" j
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fio/l-ou/r
Letters To The Editor—
office in which he states that the
worked in my office as a student
and naturally he visited it wheri
on furlough after months of ex
citing experiences in the south Pa
cific.