FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1948 Dean Submits New l A Plan A plan for revamping the loWer division curriculum of the Lilberal Arts School in keeping with changes already instituted by some off the country's outstanding colleges has been sent to the de. partment heads for their approval Dr. Ben Euwema, dean. of liberal arts at the College, announced yesterday, The proposed revision in curri culum drafted by the Liberal Arts Student Planning Committee( ap pointed by the all_college cabinet last spring) involves a well-de fined program of study for the first two years in the L. A. School and recommends the creation "of A liberal Arts Student Council. Dr.' Euwema szid he thought these provisions would improve the libgral arts setup at the Col. lege. Dean Euwema, former head of English and director of languages and literature at Mich. State Col lege, has been at the college since September 9 and considers the cEmpus on of the most beautiful he has even seen. He also com mented about the friendliness of the people in State College and said. he thought he- would enjoy being here. Before serving with the Michi.. gan State faculty, Dr. Euwena spent eight years at Westminster College. Professor Wm. W. Ham ilton of the speech department and Mrs. Guest of the psychology department were students there at the time, he declared. Dr. Euwema is now living with his family on South Patterson street in the house 'fOrmerly oc cupied'by Dr. Glenn. Saturday afternoon Phi Delta Theta entertained their sister 'lra rteniity, Deltl?. Gamma at an in_ formal party and Alpha Tau Omega entertained Kappa Alpha Theta at a buffet supper Wed neSday. ,1001111111111 •.. Houseparty Weekend Dr. Walker Off To London To Consult With British Dr. Eric A. Walker, head of the department of electrical engineer. ; ing and Director of the Naval Ordnance Research Laboratory at the College, has been Chosen as one member of a party of four research experts that will leave by plane Monday morning for London to act as a connecting link in the naval ordnance activities of Britain and the United States. Visiting Portsmouth, Glasgow and London, at the invitation of the British Admiralty, the party consult withßritish naval and civilian research and produc tion experts in the course of a two-week tour. The other men on the four-man civilian-Navy team are Captain 0. E. Livdahl USN of the research branch. of the Bureau of -Ord nance, Captain R. Hotitel, produc tion division of the Bureau of Ordnance, and Dr. Robert Knapp of California Institute of Tech nology, who was in charge of the hydrodynamics laboratory at that college during the., w,ar. Trip to Cambridge In addition -to visiting these three cities, Dr. Walker will make a special trip to Cambridge, Eng-• land where he will talk with a group that maintains a radar re ceiving station there. This station is the -counterpart of the trans mitter atop the Naval Research Laboratory on our campus. Our transmitter sends out high fre quency radio waves which are picked up by the receiver in Eng land. A second receiver, midway between State College and Cam bridge, England,' is located at Cambridge; Massachusetts. Dr. Walker )graduated from Harvard in 1932.. He received his S.M. in engineerin! in 1933 and his Sc. D. in engineering in 1935, both from Harvard. He was born in Long Eaton, , England in 1910. Delta Upsilon Initiates 6 Delta Upsilon announces the fallowing new'', initiates: Ray Brooks, Arthur' Dodd, Jeffrey Durkota, Gayle Gearhart, Edward Stashak, and Jack Starch. 9:00 o. m. to 1:00 a. m. • Penn State - Temnle Football Game THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA TICKETS ON SALE NOVEMSER 8 AT A. Make Yo - ur Plans • Soph Hop Some Alumni (Sigh) May, Sleep (?) In Park Rooms, alumni? You can't find rooms? The Daily Collegian,. to make this story as short and sad as befits the subject, can't find any for you, either. The hotels and som e of the larg er tourist homes were called, but each of them reported that all rooms were booked for Home coming Weekend. Likewise, fra ternity houses will be filled to the eaves. The Alumni Office reported that no hotel rooms were available in either Bellefonte or Lewistown, and has advised alumni who do not have room reservations to plan to return to their homes _Satur day night whenever possible, The, only recommendations that can be offered to those trying to find rooms in State College is to ask students who mayknaw, of rooms in town houses, and to trek around to the numerous local touriat . homes. That's tough on feet, but that's life. See S. U. Now Three designs for a Student Union building are on display in the Athletic Store window this weekend. - These designs were pioblems in the Archi tectural Designing course last spring and represent some of the best of over a dozen sub mitted in the course.' p Committee Announces . The Annual ; / I I i-Formal Weekend (Continued from page one) Blue Band Starts Rally Blue Band, under the baton of Prof. Hummel Fishburn will march from the fraternity section of State College to the Lion Shrine in a pre - Penn State-Michigan State football pep rally scheduled to begin at Fairmount avenue and S. Allen street at 7 o'clock to night. Students are asked to join the parade as it passes, with the Nit tany Lion, grid team mascot, lead ing the procession. Hat society A FTER THE GAME or A FTER THE SHOW A PPLEGATES is the PLACE TO GO APPLEGATE'S PE-RO DAIRY STORE 10 A.M. 11 P:M. 101 W. Nittany Ave. DIAL 3942 YOUR VOTE IS ONE MORE NICK TO MAKE CAMPUS-KEY CLICK men and women have been asked by Robert Foote, representative of the Hat Society Council, to march. The rally proper will begin at 7:30 in front of the Lion Shrine, with Hal Benjamin, head cheer leader, leading the cheers and singing. After short talks by Coach Bob Higgins, grid captain Red Moore, and several other mem bers of the squad, the head cheer leader will introduce the new Penn State yells, as selected by the judges in Collegian's recent cheer contest. Pag e Seven
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