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Dull and Routine?
Complaints about professors, like blue books
and class dues, are always with us. Already this
semester the usual charges have begun to circu
late—this prof can't lecture: how did he ever get
a Ph.D.? This one could use some new jokes!
Students who feel consistently dissatisfied with
the quality of professorship facing them, may find
solace in a recent assertion by the dean of Colum
bia College, Dr. Harry J. Carman, who said:
"College staffs are weighted with well-mean
ing but often dull and routine people."
Terming the scarcity of able college teachers
, "alarming," the dean said the principal cause for
( ineffective teaching is that graduate schools use
knowledge of subject and ability to do research
in it as criteria, rather than other qualities that
make good professors.
Among the latter are integrity, attractive per
sonality, breadth of training, competence in field,
and ability "to stimulate the student to formulate
an intelligent and satisfying philosophy of life."
Students at Brooklyn College some time ago
listed similar qualities they desire in professors.
"Encouragement of thought" rated highest, with
"organization of subject matter" next.
Thus, what the students want coincides quite
closely with what at least one educational leader
believes they should have. Few profs indeed could
hope to be all things to all students, or even to all
good students.
- Nevertheless, since student reaction to the pro
fessor often means the difference between success
and failure of a given course, it is hoped that
some way will be found to raise teaching stand
ards to the point where the vast majority of stu
dents can look forward to every class with much
more anticipation than now prevails.
In view of the likelihood of a sharp increase in
college enrollment before many years, the prob
, lem of adequate professorship may well be the
most pressing one facing educators.
Emergency!
A common misconception about medical treat
ment by Health Service physicians in students'
rooms is a potential source of danger, especially
when accident or sickness strikes late at night.
The semester health fee does not include calls
or treatment in students' rooms. According to the
Health Service, ill or injured students can always
be moved to the Infirmary by taxi or car, except
in the "rarest medical emergency."
If the ill student prefers treatment in his room
on his own responsibility, he is expected to call
one of the Borough doctors. An exception to this
rule may occasionally be made by Dr. Herbert R.
Glenn, director of the Health Service, in "critical
emergencies."
Unfortunately, very few students have been
aware of this• fact, and naturally would turn to
the Health Service in cases of illness or accident.
And there is a yawning chasm between lay and
medical definitions of "emergency."
Evidently room treatment can never become an
established part of Health Service, because of
shortage of doctors, opposition of the County Med
ical Association, and the tendency for calls on
minor cases.
Yet preventive measures must and can be
taken. Dissemination of the news that town doc
tors should be called for non-emergency treatment
of patients unable to be taken to the Infirmary.
Another, which is already being considered by
the administration, is the compilation of a list of
"do's and dont's" for emergencies, copies to be
posted in glass cases near telephone booths in all
living units, including off-campus houses.
The absence of an ambulance and the unavail
ability of stretchers also constitute grave menaces
to the health and safety of the College com
munity.
The few thousand dollars necessary for these
urgent purchases are small in comparison with
the millions in the College's biennial budget, and
infinitesimal when balanced against the possible
deaths they may help prevent.
Wrong Place
Presumably the Borough Council is receptive
to suggestions concerning its newly-instituted
traffic reforms, and constructive criticism about
their operation.
The corner of West College avenue and Bur
rowes street is a dangerous intersection for pedes
trians crossing College on the east side of
Burrowes.
Most of them are unaware of, and are not apt
to notice (unless forced upon their attention by a
near-hit), a sign permitting west-bound drivers to
turn right on red, "with caution."
Such a device is common for sI
of traffic, but it should never be u
stitutes such a menace to pedestr,
Scholarships—
Continued from page one
grants from the 1920 Class Schol
arship Awards, are: Mary F. Dee
da, junior in arts and letters;
Robert V. Dermott, junior in pre
medical; Marilyn Guillet, junior
in agricultural an d biological
chemistry; Jean Ma ri e Laßar,
senior in education and Robert
B. Wenner, senior in arts and
letters.
H eleit Wood Morris scholar-
—John Bonne!.
Seeding the flow
sed when it con
ans.
ships of $5O each were awarded to
Joyce S. A. Knauss, junior in pre
med&cal, and John F. Palmer, lib
eral arts sophomore.
Other awards are the Vance C.
McCormick scholarship of $118.47
to Ann Barbara Zekauskas, jun
ior in home economics; and the
Lieut. Ha rry Edward Wagner
scholarship of $155.70 to Michael
Nakonechny, Jr.. senior in elec
trical engineering.
..a. S. /4 Vake
Letters te the eater swat lie signed fee indented' t• the
Safety Vale,, nithowath name will be withheld on request. Tele
phone numbers snd soldhreimes must be Inielwded Is feellitalle
rerilleatlon tilmmtlr el slamstauree. Letters enosedins
200 words iw length ma► be mot whew witinhed be spare
limitations.
Answer cm Parking
TO THE EDITOR,: Stadents who have been
fined for overnight parking in boro streets will be
interested in the following communication from
T. E. Transeau, Director of the State Bureau of
Highway Safety.
"Local Traffic Signs—Local authorities, in
their respective jurisdiction. may cause official
signs, in accordance with section 1105 of this act,
to be erected and maintained, as may be appro
priate, to give notice of legal parking and other
local ordinances, rules and regulations. Local
parking and other local ordinances, rules, and
regulations shall not be enforceable against an
alleged violator, if, at the time and place of the
alleged violation, an official sign, giving notice
thereof, is not posted conspicuously by the
municipalities making the same at points where
any highway affected thereby joins other high
ways."
—Nelson B. Eldred.
Collegian Gazette
Wednesday, February 23
YOUNG Progressives of America Meeting, 409
Old Main, 7:30 p.m.
PETROLEUM Engineering Society, 121 MI, 7
p.m.
DRUIDS Hat Society, 410 Old Main, 7 p.m.
WRA Badminton Club, Gym WH, 6:15 p.m.
WRA Bowling Club (beginners), WH, 6:30 p.m.
WRA Modern Dance Club, WH, 7 p.m.
WRA Modern Dance Concert Group, WH, 8 p.m.
MASQUERETTES, Study Lounge, Simmons,
6:20 p.m.
MORTAR BOARD, Dean of Women's Office,
8:30 p.m.
COLLEGE PLACEMENT
Arrangements fer interviews should be made in MI Old Main
it once.
Allied Chemical and Dye Corporation, February
25, June grads with degrees in Chem. Eng., and
Chem.
U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Rec
lamation, February 25, sophomores, juniors, sen
iors, in CE, ME, EE, AE. Group meeting for all
interested students in 110 EE at 7 p.m. Febru
ary 24.
New Jersey Zinc Co. of Pa., March 3, to inter
view June grads in EE, Metallurgy, ME, Min
ing Eng.
General Electric Co., March 3 and 4, June grads
receiving B.S. or M.S. degrees in Chem Eng,
Chem, and Metallurgy. Group meeting in 110 EE
at 7:30 p.m., March 2, for interested students.
Allis-Chalmers Mfg. Co., March 4, June grads
in ME and EE. A group meeting for those inter
ested in 110 EE at 5 p.m., March 3.
George A. Hormel & Co., March 2, June grads
for sales work in C&F, Adv., Journ.
B. F. Goodrich Co., March 1. June grads in C&F
interested in distribution.
Pennsylvania Railroad has relaxed physical re
quirements to men whose eyes are correctable to
20/20 vision with the use of glasses. Also out
standing men up to 24 1 / 2 years of age rather than
23. June grads in CE and EE. Applications avail
able until March 7.
Swift & Co., March 3, Ph.D. candidates for re
search work in Chem, Commercial Chem, Ag &
Bio Chem, Dairy Husbandry and Physics.
Carter Oil Co., subsidiary of Standard Oil Co.,
March 3, Tune grads in Petroleum & Natural Gas
Eng, Chem Eng, ME. Also persons receiving M.S.
degrees in these curricula. Group meeting for
those interested in 417 Old Main, March 2, 7:30
p.m.
AT THE MOVIES
CATHAUM—Snake Pit.
NITTANY—Cry of the City.
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Civil Rights Forum
The Young Progressives of
America will present a forum on
civil rights in 409 Old Main at
7:30 p.m. today. The public is
invited.
Kappa Center Club
Plans for the Friday night so
cial will be completed at the
Kappa Center Club meeting in
Cdd Main at 7 p.m. today.
A iw i Business Manager
Vance C. Klepper
Diplomatic Exchange
Your Lion
I apologize, girls. To every coed whose tender sensibilities were
wounded by last week's column and who has since cursed me both
inaudibly and otherwise I say, "I'm sorry." That even includes the
sweet young thing who sent me a postcard with the following few
words:
"Dear Red—Drop dead—Coed."
She missed her calling. With literary talent like that I'm cer
tain Froth would have an opening high on the editorial board.
But to prove my attempts at conciliation with the weaker sex
are sincere, and also to aid the gals in pursuit of happiness, here's
some tips, girls, on how to make a success of your college career.
OF COURSE EVERYONE KNOWS that to a Penn State coed
the chase for academic 3's runs a poor second to the one for a hus
band. J. Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI, is reputed to have said that
the greatest manhunt in history is now being staged in State College.
And the femmes have good reason to shop around (that's a term
meaning if his proposition is marriage, bring on the boiled rice) for
a spouse while they're here. Once they leave the sheltered Nittany
vale, the happy hunting grounds are overrun with predatory she
wolves, many of them possessing greater physical, if less mental,
equipment for the chase.
Dr. Clifford R. Adams tell his Psych 17 classes that' only in a
coal mine or in a steel mill is the man-woman ratio more favorable
for the rag, the bone, and the hank of hair, than it is right here. So,
doll, start working on the poor jerk in earnest because I understand
John L. frowns on taking young ladies into the United Mine Workers.
IT'S VERY PROBABLE that most of the feminine sex already
realize their plight, however. Although no scientific surveys have
ever been taken, it can be conservatively estimated that four out of
very five coeds are temporarily residing under Dean Weston's super
vision not so much for the mountain air, the wealth of good books,
or the stimulating academic lectures, as they are in hopes of not
only tying, but hamstringing, some deluded man with the proverbial
wedding knot.
You'd better hurry, though. Every year shows a greater pre
ponderance of women over men in the U.S.A. Figures indicate that
in 1880 there were two million more of the male sex than there were
female, but that right now there is a woman surplus of about a
million and a half.
Well, here it is. The thing you've got to do to mare one of the
vanishing species of American home-providers is to stop drinidngt
Not everything, just the stuff with alcohol in it.
Yes, coeds, statistics show it's the truth. A study of 336 college
girls showed that femmes who drink get more dates than non
drinkers, BUT more non-drinkers get that prized diamond for the
third finger, left hand. Incidentally, that study was made right here
on the campus of The Pennsylvania State College.
SO YOU SEE. little ones, Dean Weston didn't make that ruling
about drinking just to be nasty. She was looking out for your
welfare.
The gauntlet has been thrown down. Either accept the chal•
lenge and cease this confounded tippling or remain an old maid.
I've shown myself to be the coeds' friend by publicizing the results
of this qcientific study. The rest is up to you.
Good luck, and happy diamond-hunting!
Very Brief
• When Adam was tempted by Eve to bite that fateful apple,
a piece of it lodged in his throat. To this day ail of his male de
scendants have inherited "Adam's Apple."
• Vets will receive book refunds from the College along about
March 22. In the meantime, it's nice to know the no is in a
side place.
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