FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1947 College Loan Funds Aid Veterans; Check Delay Causes Borrowing The Joan of $9027 in the past year from one $l5OO fund viTs mace possiblp by prompt repay ment of the loans, according to Bursar Russell E. Clark, who has Made nearly 500 loans to veterans from various loan funds. Clark said, "The loans are very informal, 'and excep for one fund, th e signed receipt of the borrower s.!the only prerequisitt. There arc no legal notes and no ofSicial tape." . • Robert tE. - .Galbraith, faculty counselor of veterans, who ap proves requests for loans, has found that failure of the . yeterans to receive his sUbsi.stence check Library ! . features fqllo .f9lnpan.Anwican.:Week Library exhibit for Pan Ameri-. can . Week will be on display - from Tyesdi:y until April 19, according to Marcel 'Carvallo, 'cliairn.an of the' exhibit. The observance o f the .College's annual . Pan American Day cele bration Will be on 'April' 14. 'A. gag-rais,ing ,ceremony in front OC Old •th - diti will be conducted by the Pershing Rifle company with music provided by prof. Hummel Fishburn and the St?t e College Drum and Bugle Corps. Twenty one flags of the Part American countries will be do nated by the Pan Atherican ;Un ion in Washington, D. C. for the ceremony. The Inter-American Club is ar ranging a dinner to be .held in the Maple .Rcom at 6 p.m. on April 14. 'Givens, NATRA, IWA, 13rid the Panhellenic 'Council hav e con_ tainted money to the celebration. Students willo will able to con tribute 'Latin American: articles t o the' Library display ar e ' urged to contact CEirvallo. before ',Tuesdy or'eav e the fnfopn.iatioyi with the segfetary Of the .SP:•4nish depart ment.. . . . . . .. . ........ .. ~ .T. , ..„.,...„,....:,... , . / / Allb .... 1 ', • . :in y . ~,,:i ..,...; ir..,,_,,,,„..„, FRIDAY APRIL 18 • Boyd 9 p.m, r 1 a.m. ... $4 per cegple Thespians Spring Show Baseboill;W.Virginio.vsPerinstale Look Miagczzine . Says Boyd Raeburn's Orchestra is the cause for nearly every loan. "Half of the loans," he explai:l - "go to married men with chil dren." The average married man who needs money borrows $5O to 5100 while loans to single veterans ,us nally range between Sl5 and $2O. No veteran is allowed to borrow more than $ll5O in any one se mester. One $115,000 loan fund,- estab lished at the ,Colleg: ‘ ,. Bayard .I(unlcle, vice-president of „Geperal Motors, Inc., tifild his 'wife, available only to. married veter 7 ans. - • , •-• • In addition 134 students 're ceived a total of .:.$2,9A21:86 - in loans . through the StUderit 'War Loans Program from 194 e to 1944, according to 's final report of the program • published by , the United . States ()Eke of .Educa tion. Raeburn features Unique Music When Boyd Raeburn and his orchestra appear it the Iriterfra ternity Ball on April ars, local music fans 'will be treated to 'a dis play .of unusual and widely varied instruments for a dance' band, .ac cording to Robert Foote, dance chairman. Teamed with the more ccmmon popular instruments are the so prano sax, bass sax,.alito clarinet, bass clarinet, flute, cbde,: . p4exiph horn and bassoon, which. 'ire in large part. responSible..for the un-. Usual sound' and striking contrasts Of the Raehurn orchestra.. `,When - arranger Johnny Richards .seek and booming oresten dE)S,•the',leat*es the drumnie r with the isekibin-seen tympanni, bass snare, and torn-toms. To The Biggest . ..Weekend of the .Year! Her-Fraternity Ball -- Sprinj Houseparty Roeburn - -00d.H15.-OrCV*O "Varsity .Sweetheart" THE DAILY COT ,T STA% E COLLE(.., E. PENNSYLVANIA Miss Stiles Finds Unique Poem About The waiter ihe to him cloth call And gently whispers—" One fish- bail." The waiter roars it through the The guests they start at "One Fis.hball!" The guest Then says, quite ill at ease, "A piece of bread, sir, if ycu ,fplease." The waster roars it through the - "We don't give bread with one The !above is misquoted, you say? It's one meatball and not one flshball? Alt, !but maybe it is— . dt seems that back in,the middle 18 1 60's a certain liatln profeSsor at Harvard had an embarrassing ex perience in a restaurant anvolving a waiter, '.la fishball, and 'a piece of bread.. Like most embarrassing sit uations it seemed. Sunny to him (afterwards) so he wrote 'the above doggerel. "on e Fishbaill" was translated into Latin by Prof. F. J. , Childo who, with James RusSell Lowell, made a .one-act opera called ."Il Pesce bal:o" from it. This 'they presented on a Harvard stage in 1862. ICredit for- this expose .of the true origin cif the "one meatball" ditty goes to Miss Jeanne stiles, assistant to the Dean of Women, who unearthed Professor Lane's poem in 'a book of collected quota tions and .short poems. • Now the' only mystery is, down through the years how did the main ingredient of the . thing dhange from fish to meat? At (least it's clear that you don't get bread with either. 4ero Group prgct izes William Sunday was elected chairman of Institute of Aero ;natitioal Selences at its first meeting. Others elected • are Jo seph Eisenhuth, • iricechairman; Irvin Mabry, secretary; acid Wil liam Barre t t, treasurer. The meeting was under the super Semi-Formal One Fishball at e • ! „ •, • „ • istF ' I , esti e 1 or 194/ MI School Fuelmen Work On New Coal Processes Pittsburgh :k , cently became the scene of great hope and sp~cul:9 Lion when the release was made that it would become the home of a new industry. It is expected that the business which will convert. Western Pennsylvania bituminous coal into gas, gasoline, diesel and fuel oils and industrial alcohols will become a 120-million-dollar concern. Research, long recognized as one of the most important factors in the future of modem industry, made it possible for Pittsburgh Consolidation and the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey to combine interests in planning for this hoped-for industry. According to Mr. Calvert C. Wright, professor of fuel technolo gy and chief of that division at the College, similar research 'is being carried on in the School of Mineral Industries. ' Five hleiribers 'of the staff of fuel technology spent 'six weeks at a commercial plant 'in British Columbia .to study 'the marulfae titre of synthetic gas: 'The infor mation they obtained in this study Was later used ih a course at the College which dealt with the gas!-, efication of coal, "At the 'p resent time," Mr. Wright 'said, "t here are two courses offered by the MI School On the manufacture of synthetic Medical Society YOfficer Speaks on Health Plans Lester Perry, executive secre tary of the Medical Society of Pennsylvania, will speak in 110 Home Economics 'at 7 p. m. Tues day. Sponsored. by the Pre-Med So ciety, Alpha' Epsilon Delta, hon orary pre-med, Phi Epsilon Kappa, physical education hon orary, and the Health Education Society, Perry will speak on va rious health plans including health insurance, consumer and volunteer plans. Norman Halpern, president of the Pre-Med Society, announced that the public is invited. vision of Profs. David J. Peery arid Sarnuel.K. Hoffman. In addi ticin to the eleatiOns, 54 members . were taken . SATURDAY, /'APRIIL 11, Houseparty Dances Thospiatis Spring Show Baseball,W.Virginia vs Penn State Lacrosse, Loyola vs Penn State liquid fuels and synthetic natural gas forn solid fuel. However," he continued, ' . 'there have been sev eral processes developed and the ones we use here are more appli cable to anthracite and coke than bititmincius fuitheir developed, the new process will be' the' salvation of the ,thal indOstry," Mr. -Wright ,concluded. • • "Varsity Sweetheart" PAGE SEVIII39' ..„ . The Whole Town's. Talkin' About sK y 0 Now Open to AVC Members and Their Guests Busses Leave from CO-OP CORNER FRIDAY SATURDAY 7:45 and 8:45 Rettgui: 1209 and L2:40 mgmgERSHIP CARPS AT S.U.
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