TODAY'S WEATHER: FAIR AND MILDER VOL. 51 —No. 124 First Honors Day Set For Next Week Penn State’s first Honors Day ceremonies will be held next Wednesday in Schwab auditorium. . Dr. George D. Stoddard will be keynote speaker at the cere monies. He will speak on “The Lump of Learning Fallacy.” Dr. Stoddard is one of five alumni to be honored during the services, which will also see the presentation of several scholastic awards and installation of new student officers, ' . The Honors day is,an innova tion. It is ; designed to bring to gether, in oneprogram, a number of major awards which would or dinarily be made separately. The Distinguished Alumnus awards-are also new. They will provide a method of honoring Penn State graduates who, be cause the school grants no honor ary degrees, would otherwise go unrecognized. Classes Dismissed The ceremonies will begin at 10:45 a.m. Ten o’clock classes will be dismissed at . 10:30, and 11 o’clock classes will be cancelled. Besides Dr. Stoddard, alumni to be honored include Charles E. Denney, Bayard D. Kunkle, Clar ence G. Stoll, and Ray I. Throck morton. The ceremonies will begin with an organ prelude by George E. Ceiga. Chaplain James T. Smith will give the invocation. Scholastic Awards President Milton S. Eisenhower will greet the assembly, and the scholastic awards will be made by Dr. Robert L. Weber. These awards include the John W. White medal and fellowship, the Evan Pugh medals, and the President Sparks medals. . - All-College- President Robert Davis will speak, and Tribunal Chairman Neil See will swear in the new All-College president. President Eisenhower will then present the Distinguished Alum nus awards, and Dr. Stoddard will speak. The program will close with the singing of the Alma Mater. Eisenhower To Go To Loyalty Meeting President Milton S. Eisenhower and other leading college presidents in Pennsylvania have been invited to closed hearings Monday on the faculty loyalty oath bill now pending in the state House of Representatives. The action came as two Republican representatives revealed that the oath bill might be laid aside in favor of strong legislation intended to curbing Communism in Pennsylvania. Senator Albert R. Pechan (R- Armstrong), sponsor of the origi nal-bill, said the meeting will be held to let educators and leaders of veteran’s groups present their views on the measure. It has al ready passed the state Senate. College presidents attending, in addition to President Eisenhower, will be Harold E. Stassen, Univer sity of Pennsylvania; Rufus Fitz gerald, University of Pittsburgh; and Robert Johnson, Temple uni versity. Veteran’s group represen tatives will be Joseph McCracken, state American Legion comman der, and Louis'Feldman, state Vet erans of Foreign Wars commander and president of the Pennsylvania Joint Veterans council. The new legislation being dis cussed in Harrisburg might in corporate some features of the bill now under discussion. That measure would compel all state employees, including teachers at state-supported schools, to swear they belong to no “subversive or ganizations.” Trained Dogs Featured (n Livestock Show Carroll Shaffner, new sheep superintendent at the College, will demonstrate the keen train ing of two imported sheepdogs in a new feature at the Little In ternational Livestock show this Saturday. “Hoy” and “Nell,” the dogs Shaffner will show, have been featured at the International Livestoqk show at Chicago. They have also appeared at Fort Worth, Texas, and other promi nent livestock events, Dorlin Hay, special events chairman, said yesterday. In this event, Shaffner will have the trained dogs round up, separate, and place four sheep in the livestock pavilion. No spoken words will be used in getting the dogs to move the sheep, Hay added. AH instruc tions will be made by hand sig nals, with the dogs responding by moving the sheep through specified stakes in particular pens, or bringing the sheep to a given spot and holding them ttiese. " ©lp* ffjpl I*NH STATE Chem Prof To Lecture I n Osmond Leo H. Sommer, assistant pro fessor of chemistry, will talk to day on “Organosilicon Chemistry: Recent Advances” at 4:10 o’clock in 119 Osmond laboratory. Sommer’s speech is one of a series of chemistry lectures given each afternoon at the same time in Osmond. ' Dr. W. Conrad Fernelius, heapl of the Department of Chemistry announced the schedule for the remainder of the semester. He said that anyone desiring to con sult with any of the visiting lecturers during their stay on campus can contact Miss Jones in 105 Pond laboratory, phone 2013. C. A. Kraus, from Brown uni versity, will speak on three sep arate subjects. On April 30, “The Properties of Electrolyte Solu tions in Benzene,” May 1, “The Conductance of Very Dilute, Aqueous 1-1 Salt Solutions,” and May 2, “The Conductance of Long Chain Salts in Water and Mix tures of Water and Non-aqueous Solvents.” P. M. Doty, from Harvard uni versity, is scheduled for May 9-11. His topic is to be announced. May 14-16 J. C. Bailar, from the University of Lllinois, will lec ture. On May. 14 his subject will (continued on page eight) Dairy Show Contest Milk drinkers and ice cream eaters will get prizes for drink ing or eating at the dairy judg ing show next week. Applications, which may be ob tained from Bettylou Hutton in 106 Dairy building, must be filed Barbara Troxell Cheerleading Tryouts Scheduled Tomorrow Tryouts for next year's cheerleading squad will be held tomorrow at 7 p.m. in front of Old Main. In case of rain candidates will meet in Rec hall. . All sophomore men and sophomore and junior women are eligible to tryout. Rudy Valentino, head cheer leader, will be in charge of the tryouts. the cleaned portions of the Lion, and Reeder said that it “is on to stay.” The stone is too soft for sand-blasting. House Paint Used The paint that covers the statue was originally believed to be maple stain, but a chemical ana lysis proved it was house paint. The oil in the paint had seeped into the stone. Reeder said the shrine would be clean “in a couple of days.” “I wish they would use black enamel the next time they paint the shrine,” Reeder said. “It won’t be so hard to get off.” PRICE FIVE CENTS ium will open at 7:30 o’clock, ablic, will begin at 8 o’clock. A collection will be taken. Miss Troxell, who sang with the choir as an undergraduate, has returned to the campus for each of the four annual concerts sponsored by the choir. Also appearing on the program aside from Miss Troxell, who is a soprano, will be Margaret Tobias, contralto; William McGrath, ten or and Chester Watson, bass-bari tone. George Ceiga will accom pany the group at the organ. Willa Taylor directs the choir. Chester Watson, guest bass baritone, joined the Chapel choir in 1948 and 1950 in the presenta tion of Mendelssohn’s “Elijah.’* Early this year Watson played the part of “Mr. Kofner” in the Ca nadian premiere of “The Consul,” by the Montreal Opera guild. He had played the role with the orig inal cast of the production which early played for nine months on Broadway. At the present time, Watson is bass soloist at the Mable Collegi ate church in New York. Margaret Tobias, contralto, the second female guest soloist to sing with the choir, studied music at the Ober 1 i n conservatory. While there, she toured as a solo ist with the noted Olaf Christian sen’s A Capella' choir, and was soloist in two of Cleveland’s churches. Has Two Degrees Miss Tobias has two degrees and a wide repertoire including such seldom heard /oratorios as the “Saint-Saens Christmas Ora torio,” and Bruckner’s “Mass in F Minor.’ Miss Tobias has toured with Elie Siegmeister’s American Ballad Singers, and has recorded with them two best-selling al bums of folk songs. William McGrath, guest tenor, has appeared about 30 times with the Buffalo Philharmonic orches tra. In 1946, McGrath accepted a fellowship with the Julliard Graduate school and two years later appeared on the Metropoli tan opera Auditions of the Air. (continued on page eight) Graduating Seniors To Choose Gift Seniors will vote for their class gift next week, Otto Grupp, sen ior class gift committee chairman, said yesterday. The committee of Grupp, Wil liam Barr, Jo Ann Esterly, and Joseph Lenchner selected the seven best suggestions which will be put on the ballot. Double post cards with the seven suggestions will be sent to those who graduated in January. Seniors who will graduate in June and in the summer may vote next Wednesday, Thursday and Friday in Old Main on ballots which will appear in the Collegian. The sen iors will be asked to number their first choice one, second two, third three, and so forth. The gift suggestions include a student press, a campus radio sta tion, gridiron statue, grand piano for Schwab auditorium, a gate at the junction of route 322 and Pol lock road, ambulance and a schol arship fund. The gift committee hopes that the seniors will select the gift so that it will be a gift which will represent the whole senior dans. Grupp said.