W4ntci Mak! 3's ? : Then Take Ed 105 Says Professor By Dr. Agnes R. McElwee Special to The Collegian That ":3" strident you knew last semester who had time for - all sorts of extra-curricular activi ties may, have had a superior in tellectual endowment, but a large part of his academic success was probably due to a well-organized method of study, or by taking Education 105. . Study habits •.;.n d techniques are not instinctive. They have to be consciously cultivated and developed. To get the most out of your Spr?ng Semester courses, follow these suggestions: An Early Start Is Important The most difficult part of a now course is the first part. What (Continued on page four) Alpha Sigma Phi To Give Party Alpha Sigma Phi invites all male students and their dates to an informal open-house , party and dance 'at the Ski Lodge, one mile on, the other side of BoalAburg, from 5 p. m. to midnight, tomor- TOW. Gene Sprague and his orchestra will play for the group froM 8:30 until 11:30 p. m., according to Alexander P trowsk i, , Alpha Sigma Phi social chairman. (Refreshments will be served. Petrowski said that the mode of dress wil be skt suits or dunga rees. N o charges will be made, he added. Raise Funds For Trioph Funds raised by student sub scription were assigned _today to an 'annual Penn State boxing award to be Officially - knoWn as the Paul Smith was Trophy. The fund was raised shortly .after Smith's death and a student committee advocated establish ment of the award as a memorial to the former Lion boXing star, Smith died suddenly while visit ing .a friend 'in Greensburg last Spring. • The Hollidaysburg, Pa., • war veteran captained the Lion ring team in 1946 and the year before was the recipient of the Frank J. Goodman Most Valuable Boxer A_ward. He•also competed in base ball and traCk and was awarded his .degree.' posthumously :1 as t June. • iUnder the terms off the award, as apProved by the Penn State board of trustees, a student-,fac ulty bdard will name the winner on the basis Of scholarship, char acter and all-around athletic abil ity. The award will go only to gradating seniors. A student cotmlmittee headed by.,13-ieliand Lose advedated pre sentation of the trophy at Class Day exercises in June. The per manent engraved trophy will be retained at the College, and a small replica will be presented to each winner. All - High School . Chorus Sings In Schwab ; Miss Helen Hosmer To Direct 210 Voices Major attraction on campus this . weekend Wilt be the presents ithe Sdnool Chorus singing under the dkrec tittni of Helen I M. Hosmer in Sahwiab Auditertuc at 1 8:15 to morrow night. Composed this' year - of 210 voice s ;selected from 1 141 schools, the Chorus •annualy features the best. vocalists 'from Pennsylvania high. Schools' in slat., wide com- Petition. Tickets for the event at sl'.(t - nsy be obtained. at the Com merce Club and at Schwab. No 'reserved seats will by sold. Stand ing wont tickets will be sell be fore • the concert. The doors will i:04:44) eq. et . 6430 p.m. Hosmer, guest conductor, isf the director of the Crane De- Piitiment of Music,. Potsdam gilt Daily Tull VOL. 45,—N0. Registration Begins As Spring Semester Five hundred and fitty-three students have been admitted to the College for the-second semes ter, Registrar - William S. Hoffman said today as thousands of old and new students headed for Recrea tion Hall to fill out their registra tion forms for the Spring semes ter. Veterans are reminded to fill out additional forms for subsis tence and books in the basement df Carnegie Hall at the conclusion of their regular registration. The new Auderits will fill va cancies left by the 365 men and Women wino received their degrees last Saturdarand others who have witindrawn from the College for Various reasons. New Courses . Among the new courses this Se meger Will be one in Victorian Poetry listed as English Literature 44 Whidh will be conducted by Dr. Army Offer s Active Duty Former Army Air Forces of ficers, qualified for training as weather officers; may request call to active duty to take such training at civilian universities, the department df military sci ence and tactics at the College was notified today by the War Department. -- Courses will be differed at the University Of Chicago, Ma ssacliu .setts - Institute. of... Technology,. New York 'University, 1 . and University of California. at Los Angeles. They will begin during the mid term semesters and 'additional quotas for summer. `and . fall se mesters are Dianne& .. •-• " . Reserve officers- in the grade of major and below who have corn-. pleted - at least three.years of col lege' work' including mathematics through . integral Calculus,. and also one year of college physics, are eligible, provided they are physically and otherwise quali fied. Chapel Speaker • In keeping with thp spirit of Valentine's Day, Dr. ,Robert E. Slaughter of East 'Cleveland. Ohio, will deliver. a .sermon. en titled "I S.ovp You Truly" at 'chapel services in Schwab Aud:- itorium at 'll a. in. Sunday. - Tames T. Smith, general sec retary of the Penn State Chris tian Association, has been re appointed 'acting-chaplain of, the College for the Sgeng 'semester, Dr. Ralph Dorn lietzel, president of th c , College, announced Yester' day. Smith was named ..acting chap lai the beginning' of last se mester :when - Jobin Frizzell, professor of speech .and debating telatm: coach, !retired to become chaplain emeritus. State Teachers College, Potsdam, New York. She has • been a stu dent and teacher of , music for many years in this 'country and abroad. The concert is sponsored by the Per nsylvania School- Music As sociation whose president is Hum mel Fishburn, head'. of the music department. This 'is the first time a Community the size' of State College has been host to the: !Chorus. Directors of the schools repre sented will be guests of the ,local Kiwanis, Rotary and. Lions Clubs at a banquet in the State College Hotel tomorrow at '1.1..p.m. Dean Ben Enuwema - of the School of Liberal Arts will...speak to. the grouts-on the sUbliect:.(The•Puric tion of Art in the Wentleth Cen tury." • FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 7, 1947-STATE COLLEGE, PA Ben Eu,weina, clean of the School of Liberal Arts. The College will offer what is believed to be the nation's first accredited course on fishing under th e direction of George Harvey, prominent angler. The course will be listed as Principles and Techniques of Observatories Open To Student Astronomers The multiple astronomical observatories cif the SOhool of Chemis try and Physics, located just east of the Forestry buildint are again open for use by students. This was announced today by Dr. Henry L. Yeagley of the physics department With the announcement came an invitation to all students and faculty members t l / 4 :) avail themselve s of the facilities' offered by the observatories. "The obserVatories were popular features on campus before the war;" Dr. Yeagley relliected: , added, with a twinkle, "And for same strange reason people like to view the altars in couples. The observatories were closed during the war," he explained, "because we were engaged in war projects that didn't involve direct use of the cbserVatories." Two aluminum dame units make the observatories readily identi fiable. One has, a ten-inch reflector telescope of special design for simplicity in viewing the planets and stars. The othe r has a modern meridian circle used for measuring time by the stars and for teaching, celeStial naVitgation. The observatories Will be open Tuesday and Wednesday—on clear nights--4from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. or longer. Joseph „....... . G ro ups Religiose r Welcome Students To welcome students back for the coming semester, PSCA and Hillel Foundation .have planned get-togethers for the weekend. • The Hillel Foundation will have an informal dance from 9 to 112 Saturday night. Estelle Siekierka, social chairman, announced that the dance is open to all students. PISCA- is holding open house in 304 Old Main from 2 to 5 p. m. Sunday afternoon. Entertainment will include accordion melodies, dancing, e• songfest and refresh ments. The Brandeis society of Hillel is sponsoring an evening of movies at the Foundation at 8 p. m. Sunday. Featured on the program will be a recently pro duCed color film on Palestine en titled, "Land of Hope" and nar rated by ,Pose Ferrer and "A Tale of Two Cities" with Ronald Colman. A tecord• concert of American. Tat- muSit will be conducted by Edward .Abraanskm, assistant pro r 'fester of sociology, under the .spontsorship of the Common Sense Club in northeast Athenton,llomige at 3 p.m Sumlay, The students in the Chorus will be the dinner guests of the. Elks at the Elks Home tonight at 6 o'clock. Rev. Edwerth korte, Lutheran student pastor, will be toastmaster ald Jo Hayes, su pervising principal of the State College schools, will be the prin cipal speaker. Th,, groups will attend the basket: 41 game 'between State College and Renovo tonight and a dance following the .gaime will be held in Whit,. Hall for them.. The Veterans of Foreign Wars land the American. Legion wit Provide music by Paul Grove's Orehestra. Tomorrow night's program by the. aVlixed Chorus will •InclUde such popular numbers as "Glottis" from the, 12th Mass by aVtozart; Angling and will rate two college credits for the 16-week course. Equipment will be furnisthed stu dents according to present plans. Fly tying, fly casting, and care and repair of equipment are Some of the subjects to be covered in the course. Classroom instruction will be followed in the spring by By William J. Gessner (Continued on page two) Choir Tryouts..-. !Choir tryouts for the Spring semester will be held in 20111. Oarnegie Hall, Monday and Tuesday nights. Basses and baritones, 7 to 8 p.m.; tenors, 8 to pm. Monday. On Tuesday, tryouts will be held Tor so prams !between 4 and 5 . p.m.; altos from 8 to 9 p.m. Psi Chi Members of Psi Chi, profes sional pSycholtagy fraternity aIE the Colilege, will have a chance to stump the experts 'at a meeting to be held at 7:30 o'clock Tuegday night in Room 204 Burrowes Building.. Dr. William M. Lepley, iass'aci ate professlor of psydhaagy, is re ceiving questions now, which will be presented to tie Panel of ex peas, all faculty members, in an "Inlformation, Please" program. Business Staff Meets Members of the business staff of The Daily . Collegian will meet in Room 8, Carnegie Hall, at 1:30 p. m. Sunday. Moveups will be announced at the meeting, stated Rosemary Gh antous, business manager, yesterday: "Erie Canal" in the Waring ser ies; "Waters Ripple and Flow" as arranged by Deems Taylor, and "Battle Hymn of the Repub lic" also in the Waring series. The Boys' Chorus will include in their selections "All Through the Night" as arranged by Fred Waring, "The March of the Mus ketters" by Friml, and "Sing Me a Chantey' With a Yo-Heave-Ho" as arranged by Zamecnik. Girls' Chorus numbers will be the "Spinning Song" by Mendels saihn and "Nursery Tunes" as ar raged by Wilson. lAiecomtpanitst t s for the 'Chorus will tb r , Gay Brunner of State College and Mina Belle ,Packer of Mt. I,eibarton at the plane,' and Willlsun Miller of Bellenifonte at the amain. . Evian For Students Commences Weather Snow Flurries Today., Somewhat Colder. PRICE FIVE GEWS laboratory practiotnn at the Durk Pond and eventually on county streams Architecture and architectural engineering students are offered a lighting course, Milton S. Osborne,. head of the department of, archi• lecture, said today. The course will consist, of a serie s , o , t lectures given by various aulthorilties on lighting, and dem onstrttions, moving pictures and lantern slides, A course in astronomy and tele scope manufacture will be con ducted by Dr. Henry L. Yeagley of the physics department. "The etas, last semester had ten students who made their own telescope mirrors. Arrangements also were made far them to ob tain telescope mounts. This equip ment, made largely by the stu dents themselves, could not be du plicated for hundreds of dollars," Dr. Yeagley said. The course is listed as Physics 290.75. Mortar Board Initiates 11 Mortar Board, senior women's honorny, recently initiated Jean Alderfer, Kay Badollet, Tam'azine Crum, Caroline Currier, Thodbe Forrest, Sally Holstrum, Phyllis James, Peggy MdKnight, Peggy Martin, Florence Ratchford, and. Patricia Trester. Junior Service Board, junior women's honorary, tap pe d girls at the end of the fall se mester. • They .are Nancy Ault, Barbara Atkins, Wilm a Brehm, Sarah Curry, Jane Foreacre,' Joan Fox, Jean Nye, Nancy Parent, Lois Resler, June Snyder, Beatrice Sil verstone, and Yvonne Worrell. Center Club A reception,• planned to orient transfer students on campus ac tivities and custom's, will- be held in the northwest lounge of Ather ton Hall, 2 to 5 p. m. Sunday. Refreshments and entertain ment are planned. for the get .together which is sponsored by the Campus Center ClUb. Alt men - ilbers and former, students of Penn State's four Undergraduate centers are urged to attend. AA Window Sells Players Tickets Tickets fo r the forthcoming- Players S'h'ow, "The Imaginary Invalid," will go on .sale .at . the Athletic Association window inn Old Main Monday morning • in stead of at the Student Union , desk as has been the custom. •fOr ;previous shows. George L. Donavan, manager of , Student, Union, stated that all: tickets for Players and. Thespian, shows will be sold at the A.A. Window the morning •prior:to the= show. In order to be lair to those who must stand in line, no tele phone orders will be , taken. At 1:30 p. an. Monday, the tick ets will be placed on sale at Stu dent Union and will continue on there for the remait*ler the week. "Imaginary Invalid," a camedy set in 17th century France, will be presented in Schwab Auditorium. next Thursday, Friday, and Sat urday nights. Tickets wil be sold for 50 cents including tax. Gagarin Asks Meeting All students who anticipate registering for horse-back. riding this semester are requested to consult with Captain Gregory A. Gagarin in Recreation Hall today or tomorrow before taking their Sthedules to their advisors for final approVal.
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