FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1948 Military Dept. Offers Active Duly A blanket offer of two years of active duty will be made to all '1948 R.O.T.C. graduates at the College, Col. Ben-H. Chastaine, professor of military science and tactics said today. He also said higher headquart ers have advised that in addition, 400 to 500 vacancies may be available for honor graduates to be appointed in the Regular Army and Air Forces on July 19, 1948. For this program, an honor graduate was defined as a per son designated by the professor of military science and tactics who is scheduled to complete the Advanced Course Senior Divis ion R.0.T.C., who will be grad uated in the upper third of the male enrollment of his class, and who possesses outstanding quali ties of leadership, charcter, and aptitude for military service. Colonel Chastaine also ex plained that it is expected to fill 1500 vacancies annually in the Regular Army and Air Force from R.O.T.C. graduates of edu cational institutions of the coun try, from persons serving on com petitive tours of active duty, and from the ranks of the enlisted men. College Offers Teacher Examinations Next Monlh National teacher examinations of the American Council on Edu cation will be offered in State! College Saturday. February 7 and February 14, according to Dr. Willis E. Pratt, local examiner. Applicants for the examination should apply to Dr. Pratt, head of the education department, before January 10. No application* will be accepted after that date. The common examination bat tery. consisting of general educa tion and information tests, will be given in addition to special er amlnations covering the subiect matter to be taught. Students in the department of education, as well as other can didates in the State College area, may apply for the examination by contacting Dr. Pratt, examiner. Correction Please It was stated in last week’s Col legian that the WSGA collected $240 for the Christmas Fund. The correct amount is $340. * —sSl «/' J <? / J” oLancLs . The food at The Allencrest makes me think of the good, old days before everyone started fussin’ with those new fangled cooking ideas. Yes suee, you’ll like their home cooking! THE Art, Etchings On Display In Library Many prize-winning works are included in an exhibition of signed, original etchings and litho graphs now on display in the lobby of the College Library. The exhibition was loaned from the Assoclatetd American Artists Galleries of New York and will continue through January. Many of the works being show n were in the selection made for ex hibition in the American Library in Montevideo, Uruguay, gt the request of the Department of State. The exhibit has been chosen to give a representation of the fine print-making being done by contemporary American artists living and working In this coun try. It includes etching, lithogra phy, wood engraving, and aqua tint. Many of the artists represented in the exhibit hold top awards in national art competitions. John Steuart Curry, of Wisconsin, won the $l6OO prize in the Artists for Victory exhibition at the Metro politan Museum; Aaron Boh rod, Carnegie prize winner, also is holder otf five major awards from the Chicago Art Institute; and Joseph Hirsch holds two Guggen heim Fellowships for painting. Other artists represented are Thomas Benton, Ernest Fiene, Luigi Lucioni, Howard Baer, Raphael Soyer, John de Martelly, Doris Lee, James Chapin, Robert Philipp, Georges Schreiber, Dale Nichols, Marion Greenwood, Wil liam Gropper, and Joseph Mar- I gulies. Clements Offers Course On Romance Criticism A new course dealing with liter ary criticism in France, Spain and Italy will be offered for the first time at the College next semester. It will be taught by Prof. Robert J. Clements, head erf the Romance Language department. Literary theory from the past to the present in Romance coun tries will be studied and discussed in seminar fashion, if the enroll ment is small enough. The Ren naissance period will be treated in detail with brief summarizations of less important periods. Prerequisite for the course, French and Spanish 496, i s a pass ing mark in either French 4, Spanish 4 or Italian 4. If you don’t want it, sell it— “ Collegian Classifieds.” THE DAILI COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA Forms Available For Fellowship Application forms are now available in 132 Sparks for five fellowships worth approximately $2400 each for study at either Oxford or Cambridge University in England during 1948-49. Qualifying American students will be awarded the fellowships under the terms of the Charles and Julia Henry Foundation. Both men and women are eligible. Applicants must present a defi nite scheme of study or research. They must be unmarried and prepared to devote their whole time to the objects of the fellow ship. Applications close Febru ary 16. Preference will be given to recent college graduates of dis- tinction or to students who will receive a bachelor’s degree cum laude before July 1 of this year. Earth Sciences The Earth Sciences Research Colloquium will be held in 202 EE. 4 p.m. Monday. Dr. Hans Neu berger will report on "Research Work in the Division of Meteor ology.” La Vie Party Those attending the La Vie party will meet at the Corner Room, 3 p.m. Sunday. The party will be from 3 to 7 p.m. and dress is informal. Business, too, must have expert navigation IN the telephone business, much of the knowledge of "where we are” and guidance as to "where we are headed” comes from the analysis of statistics. Telephone statisticians and engineers are constantly studying trends and figures. They assemble the facts, analyze them, correlate them, discover their significance, draw guidance from them. Cabinet— (Continued from page one) tions, Brown reported. He point ed out that any suggestions or action taken to further a campus co-op should be referred to that committee for integration. Reports on the campaign of students contacting Trustees per sonally over the Christmas holi day are incomplete, Brown said, but about three-fourths of the Board was assigned. Football Trophies In another action by Cabinet, the purchase of 52 trophies to be! awarded to members of the foot ball team, the coaches, the head manager, and team physician at a cost of about $7OO was ap proved. The suggestion that the tennis courts be flooded for ice skating was turned over to the Athletic Association and WSGA for ac tion, with the request that ma triculation cards be used for ad mittance instead of the fee charged last year. Thomas Lannen was desig nated to see that the student book exchange is given whatever aid is possible in obtaining perma nent space for its activities in the Temporary Union Building. Appointments by Cabinet in cluded Herbert Wittman to fill the vacancy on Tribunal; Richard Morgan as Chairman of the UNESCO Fellowship Committee, and Ted Allen as Cabinet repre sentative to the World Student Service Fund. BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM Banquet— (Continued from pope one) mittee of the National Football Conference. Highlight of Broadcast The town’s toasting of the foot ballers will also highlight Bill Brandt’s “Inside Sports” broad cast over Mutual at 7:45 p.m. Monday. The sportscaster will publicize the ceremonies during his program which will be re layed over a loudspeaker in Rec Hall. Wives of the married grldders and dates of the single players will be guests of the Commerce Club. • • Winners of the Collegian-Centre Daily Times poll for outstanding lineman and back will receive their trophies during the eve ning’s proceedings. Ted Rubin, sports editor of the Collegian, will present one statuette, and an un announced representative of the Times will make the other award. All players will receive awards and gifts. Trophy on Display An eight-foot enlargement of the football team will be hung behind the raised speakers’ table. The Cotton Bowl trophy will adorn the center of the speakers’ table. The hall will be decorated with palms and potted flowers. The campus patrol will be on guard to combat any unexpected emergencies or fire. Daniel de Marino of the dean of men’s office is in charge of setting up plat forms, chairs, and the public ad dress system. The work of these men is vital to our never-ending task of inir proving telephone service. In such work many college-trained men have found satisfying and reward ing careers. And this is but one of the many interesting phases of the tele phone business. There's opportunity and ad venture in telephony. PAGE THREE
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