P AGE TWO GRIN AND BEAR IT Campaigning can wait! Sleep can wait! I must dash off congrats to Penn State now for choosing Eisenhower. Everybody's doing it! Rusty Reference Our face reddened after a recent Issue of the Daily Collegian which referred to the College Board of Trustees as the Board of rustees. Typbgraphical error, of course! It so happened that was the day before they announced the selection of a ,new president for the College. No Dancing Dancing was not permitted on campus until 1890. When the ban was first lifted, there were only three dances a year to which girls could be invited. Gilt Daily Collegian Successor to THE FREE LANCE. oat. .1887 Published Tuesday through Saturday mornings in. elusive during the College year by the staff of The Daily Collegian of The Pennsylvania State College. Metered as second-siass matter July 5. 1934. at the Stall College. Pa.. Post Office under the aet of March 3, 1879. Editoi Business Manager Tom Morgan Marlin A. Weaver Managing Ed., Wilbert Roth; News Ed.,Jack Reen; Sports Editor. Elliot Krane; Edit. Dir.,ottie Werlin felt; Society -Ed., Commie Keller; Feature Ed..Syl4ia Ochner; Asst. News Ed., Jack Senior; Asst. Sports d., Ed Watson; Asst. Society Ed., Barbara Brown; Promotion Co-Mgr.. Charlotte Seidman; Photo MI, Ray Benfer; Senior Board, George Vaduz, Albert Ryan. Bob Kotzhauer, Myrna Tex, ,Roy McHenry; Staff Cartoonist. Henry M. Progar. Met. Business Mgr., Joe Jackson; Advertising Dir, Louis Gilbert; Local Ad Mgr.. Don Baker; Ass't. Local Ad. Mgr., Mark Arnold; Promotion Co-Mgr., Karl Borish; Circulation' Co-Mgrs., Bob Bergman and Torn Karolcik; Classified Ad Mgr., Thelma Geier; Personnel Mgr., Betty Jane Hower; Office Mgr., Ann Zekauskas; Secretaries, Marion Goldman and Sue Stern. STAFF THIS ISSUE Night Editor Deanie Krebs Ass't Night Editor Florence Tietz. Copy Editor John Ashbrook Assistants Pegge Shierson, Joyce Moyer, Joan Kuntz, Anne Collins Advertising Manager Jim Cochrane Assistants Peter Vrabel, Ruthe Phillips, Kathleen Robb, Barbara Sprenkle, Ray Beis wanger A buyer from the largest book clearing house will be on hand to purchase all kinds of college textbooks. WILCOX & FOLLETT CO. SELL THOSE BOOKS JANUARY 25, 26, and 27 METZGERS BOOK DEPARTMENT- 1 111 S. Allen THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Pii;esident --- (Continued from page one) sometime in the future, and that he wished to discuss his plans Friday with the board of regents at Kansas State. He told the same paper he was proud to gain the job and that he would be here "as soon as possible." Through college administrative circles, he had been a friend of Dr. Hetzel, of Adrian 0. Morse, assistant to the president in charge of resident instruction, and others. Acceptance His acceptance was made Sat urday by telephone from his home in Manhattan, Kan. He had been elected unanimously by the 28 trustees present in Harrisburg. James MacCallum, All-College secretary-treasurer, said yester day he was "happy" the trustees finally had elected a president, stating that this would make possible more definite action on issues of student government which have lagged in the past few years because of lack of authority. Harry Kondourajian, president of the junior class, termed the 'selection "a very good thing;" and said he thought it would help the College in the long run by bring ing the students closer to the school and the administration. 'Beautiful. Spot' "Naturally I'm proud to become associated ' with such a distin- The Gripes. of Roth Now that the Board of Trustees has graciously presented us with a president—and a good one at that—there's only one thing of almost equal importance that the campus needs. That's a sweater queen. DURING THE COURSE of a school year we're, annually bom barded with "queens." There's a Belle Hop Ball queen, a Mil Ball queen; a May queen, a Spring Week queen, ad infinitum. The only thing we haven't yet chospi is an Obelisk queen. But one thing is to be noticed about all this feminine royalty., It's all chosen from strictly a countenance angle. Seldom do the judges concerned give much weight to 'the evidence below ,the neck. NOW THIS, I think, is a grave injustice. Because, some little lady doesn't • have a Roman nose, or big, bright blue eyes is no reason to disqualify her from one of the bevy of crowns that are yearly doled out. After all the curves which lie between the collar and / the belt are aesthetically attractive, too. More• than that, some men think a well-formed body is even more essential that a Leman like face. Now the big question is, who's going to sponsor such a contest if it's ever to be held. Many alternatives come to mind. The Penn State Engineer might be a logical choice except for the fact it would be hard to get a sweater big enough to fit the contours of the water tunnel. THE PENN STATE FARMER is another possibility. Here too we run into difficulties. How would Penstate Veeman Josie take to having her milking equipment encumbered in the product of a knitting mill. Or how would the judges be able to get close enough if the Farmer decided to spread a sweater out over the Jordan fertility plots. 'Tis rumored that's not Chanel No. 5 emanating from the reknowned acres IFC Newsletter's staff is still another group that might be led into sponsoring such a contest. I doubt if P4te Giesey would , look too well in a sweater,' however. No slam at Pete but he's just not built for the competition he'd have to buck. There's another campus publication, a so-called humor maga zine, which is not averse to holding queen contests if it can blow its own horn at the same time. That angle hasn't been checked yet. Until the contest is sponsored and a Sweater Queen named, however, I don't see how any red-blooded 'American boy or even a Penn State student can sleep easily through a lecture. guished American educational in stitution," Dr. Eisenhower told one newspaper. Commenting on the College, which he visited about ten years ago, he said, "It's a beautiful spot, and the College is exceptionally well balanced academically." The new president created a stir In collegiate athletic circles last month when he revealed how much Kansas State is doing financially for its athletes. "I don't have a program unless I can announce it—we will have no dealing under the table," he said at that time. He also said he would like to arrange a football game between Penn State and Columbia, where his brother, Gen, Dwight D. Ei senhower, is president. Among students interviewed yesterday by the Daily Collegian, only one said she dissented on the choice, but her husband, also a student, said "I think he'll be a good man." "One of the best things that ever happened to the College," said another Said another, "It's a good thing we no longer have just an acting president." Two senior women said they were "very glad" about the ap pointment because they wanted a president with "liberal views." Thelma Hobaugh, a graduate student in physics, summed it up with: "Thank God we have a president at last!" By RED ROTH 1:!3 CHICAGO Students DOW FEEL LIKE THIS . . 48 % FEEL LIKE THIS ! ( cti FOR THAT 10 O'CLOCK SNACK— ____ • ti AFTER STUDYING FOR FINALS SANDWICHES . . . SODAS SUNDAES . . . at . . . Mark's Peßo Dairy 101 NITTANY AVE. TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1950 Safety Valve.... Hats Off TO THE EDITOR: Hats off to the members of the college symphony orchestra, its leader, and to Leroy Hinkle, the baritone soloist, for the excellent, well-balanced program on. Sun day afternoon. The capacity audience Along with the pres ence of many of •this year's leading football players surely indicates that symphony music belongs on our campus, and that it isn't for "sissies." • Name Withheld Dangerous Thinking TO THE EDITOR: I have just read your edi torial asking for the reestablishment of Frosh customs on the campus, and I believe it repre sents some very dangerous and unrealistic thinking. You would have the college return to a period which can never return. You look back fondly to the days when college was a rich man's institution, when horseplay was the order of the day, when freshmen came to col lege for fun, for laughs, and—only incidentally —to study. Today's student—on the whole; there are some of the others, of course—is here on serious business. His degree is not to be used as proof of past glories but as a meal ticket. The veterans were the first students of this new crop, and when they walked through a college's doors, customs fled out the nearest window. Your ears itch for the cry of "Button, frosh." You are eager to humiliate these same almost-mature men with sandwich signs and women's clothes. And yet, oddly, in an editorial less than a month ago you deplored the lack of maturity in up-coming students. You wondered if maybe a year of work mightn't be advisable to make men of them before they enter college. And you excuse this silliness with righteous cries of "school •spirit." The old days of rah rah, however, are gone, and the customs advo cates• might just as well resign themselves to the fact. A newer, healthier college, a true institute of higher learning, where the term gentleman and scholar has some meaning has replaced the "old school tie" institution of nostalgic fame. Don't try qo return to the old days, Mr. Edi tor. Progress is a one-way street, and right now it points in the right direction. —Malcolm H. Waldron • Letter Cut Gazette . . . ' Tuesday, January 24 ' COLLEGIAN Advertising Salesmen, 9 C.H., 7 p.m. DUPLICATE BRIDGE CLUB, T.U.8.,- 7 p.m. COLLEGE PLACEMENT , Further information concerning interviews and job piaci,. !flouts can be obtained in 112 Old Main. Mergenthaler Linotype Co., Jan. 26. February grads in ME for sales positions. General 'Electric Co., Jan..3l. PhD candidates in Metal, Cer, and Solid State Phys. Nu-Car Carriers, Inc., has three management understudy positions open in fields of (1) main tenance and construction; (2) records and fi nances; (3) tariff rates, labor relations, and in surance administration. Engineers, other than electrical; CF; LMR; and those interested in sales may have basic qualifications necessary. A group meeting, of those interested in obtain ing additional information about company and positions will he held in 217 Willard Hall, 7:15 p.m., Jan. 24. Interviews will be scheduled after meeting. COLLEGE HOSPITAL • I Admitted' Saturday: Theron Hanley, John Reitz, John Clark, Edward Erotas. Admitted Sunday: Forrest Blakesley, Theo dore Lieb, John O'Donnell. AT THE MOVIES CATHAUM 7 —Pinky, . NITTANY—Mad Monk. STATE—On The Town.
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