PAGE TWO 523 Get Degrees At Graduat ion Free Enterprise In Ideas Needed, Commager Says A society that is to survive and prosper must preserve and en courage, above all else, free en terprise in ideas—in science, schol arship, politics, economics—Dr. Henry Steele Commager told more than 500 mid-year graduates in Recreation Hall last Tuesday, • “Freedom is not the product of a,, particular economic system; rather our economic system is the product of freedom,” the noted "historian and author said. Commager was the principal speaker at commencement exer cises during which President Mil tori S. Eisenhower conferred de grees upon 523 graduates. “Every day, every hour,” Com mager charged, “our ears are as . sailed and our minds confused by words from which meaning has 7jj.een drained words like ‘ap peasement,’ or ‘left-wing,’ or ‘regi mentation,’ or ‘socialism,’ or ‘pri vate enterprise,’ or ‘subversion,’ or ‘isolationist,’ or ‘intervention ‘ist’.” These words are rarely used to clarify meanings, but rather to confuse them, he said. They are used as epithets and weapons, and w.e delude ourselves to believe “that if we have succeeded in put ting a name to something we have solved a problem,” he added. This habit of falling back on ! epithets is intellectual self-indul gence and will end in intellectual bankruptcy, Commager pointed out. .‘.'."Asserting that the concept of free enterprise is widely, if not 'generally misunderstood, Comma ger said the real meaning and -significance and function of free enterprise is in the intellectual and moral realm. - “We must.” he urged, “insist upon freedom for scholarship and science, because society wants to ’be secure and prosperous and pro gressive—to discover truth.” Fire Causes $lOO Damage To Frat House . One hundred dollars damage •caused by a fire of undetermined origin was reported at the Phi Sigma Delta fraternity annex on S. Pugh street Saturday after noon. The two-story frame house was .unoccupied at the time. Eight members of the fraternity live there. .- Firemen said the fire started in a corner near the ceiling of a .downstairs'room, but the cause is -unknown. Since none of the stu dents had been in the house in the four hours before the fire was dis covered, Fire Marshal Bruce Ho man expressed doubt that a cig arette could have started the blaze. A fire at Lambda Chi Alpha, on Jan. 24, caused no damage. At about 2:30 a.m. fraternity mem bers saw flames shooting out of the chimney,' and called the fire department. The fire was extin guished in about fifteen minutes. Hort Parking Lot Action Postponed Action on the proposed Hort Woods parking lot has been post poned until the March meeting of the Board of Trustees, Walter W. Trainer, physical plant, said yes terday. The proposal, would establish a 181 car lot along the fringe of Hort Woods by Beaver Field, be tween Curtin road and Park ave nue. Trainer said at that time the lot would occupy one sixth of the woods, but would necessitate re ihbving only 13 “good risk” trees. The proposal was approved last month by the Agriculture Stu dent Council. Trainer said the plan was to be presented to the trustees at the January meeting but was then postponed until the March meeting. He said President Mil ton S. Eisenhower will consider the plan before it is presented to the trustees. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE —JLLSGE. PENNSYLVANIA 25 Are Graduated With Honors; 20 Get Commissions Twenty-five students received their bachelor degrees with hon ors at commencement exercises last Tuesday 'in Recreation Hall. In all 523 degrees were confer red by the College, 129 of them advanced degrees and 28 of them doctorates. More than 400 of the 523 grad uates were men. Of the. graduates, 140 are veterans of World War 11. Twenty received with their de grees regular or reserve commis sions in the armed forces. Com missions are awarded to students who have completed a four-year Reserve Officers Training pro gram. 2.4 Average Needed To be graduated with honors a student must have at least a 2.4 All-College average. Those grad uated with honors were: Gayle Baker, BS in education; John Blauser, BS in industrial engineering; Willard Conrad, BA in labor management; Emma Ann Evans, BA in arts and letters; Ar lene Fox, BA in education; Henry Gardner, BS in industrial engineering; Harold Hawk, BS in dairy husbandry. Gay Hill, BS in music educa tion; Edward S. Howey, BS in electrical engineering; John Hriv nak, BS in industrial engineering; Edward Kotchi, BS in vocational industrial engineering; and Dol ores LinkoWitz, BS in psychology. Charles Mann, Jr., BA in edu cation; Susan Neuhauser, BA in education; Barbara Pintar, BS in education; Lois Pulver, BA in arts and letters; Nancy Saylor. BS in home economics; Arnold Schilk. BA in commerce. Receive Commissions Robert Schultz, BS in hotel ad ministration; Frank Shaheen, BA in commerce; Alfred Speers, BS in agronomy; Milton Underwood, BS in physics: Dean Unger. BS in physics; and Charlotte Zislin, BS in zoology and entomology. Graduates receiving reserve or regular commissions in the armed forces were: Andrew Adelman, 2d Lt., U. S. Marine Corps; Stewart Brosius, 2d Lt.. U. S. Air Force Reserve; John Brown, Ensign, U. S. Navy Reserve; Joseph Burlew, Ensign U. S. Navy Reserve; Donald Gibble, Ensign, U. S. Navy Rel serve; John Hrivnak, Ensign. U. S. Navy Reserve; James Hub er, Ensign. U. S. Navy; John Hull, Jr., 2d Lt.. U. S. Air Force Reserve: Roderic Ingleright. 2d Lt., U. S. Army Reserve: and Wil liam Johnson. 2d Lt., U. S. Air Force Reserve. Robert Katz, 2d Lt., U. S. Air Force Reserve; Richard Klinga man, 2d Lt., U. S. Air Force Re serve; Albert Kovar, Ensign, U. S. Navy Reserve; Thomas Mackin. (Continued on page thirteen) Campus Confuses Frosh , —Photo by Austin TWO FIRST SEMESTER freshmen, Christine Lewis and Mar cia McGoey, find that a map of the campus nelps solve the confus ion of the first day of classes. The failure of women's dress Customs - to arrive at the BX in the TUB created another situation that had many freshmen women running around in circles. English Couple Say Goodbye To Scene of Their Reunion Spring Semester Fees Due February 21, 22 Fee payments for the spring semester will be due Feb. 2l and 22 in the basement of Wil lard Hall, David C. Hogan, bur sar, has announced. Fees will be listed by matri culation number on boards on the one side of the room. Hogan asked students to facilitate fee paying by checking the list to see the amount of fees and making out checks before get ting into line. There will be no alphabeti cal order for fee payment. Stu dents may pay fees any time between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. on either day. Students who pay their fees late will be charged an addi tional $5 late payment fee. 4 Contracts Received For Research Aproval of four new contracts, establishing research grants at the College, was anounced yesterday by President Milton S. Eisen hower. The Stackpole Carbon Co., St; Marys, has provided a research grant to the School of Mineral In dustries in the amount of $16,000 for a study of ferrites. Ferrites are a ceramic product employed in electronic circuits, Dr. E. C. Henry, professor and chief of the division of .ceramics, who will direct the work, ex plained. Feed Study Under, a grant of $B,OOO from the National Biscuit Co., a study of bakery by-products, partic ularly bread crumbs from slicing machines, will be conducted. Dr. R. C. Miller, professor of agri cultural and biological chemistry, and Dr. A. L. Bortree, professor of veterinary science, will dffect the studies of possible harmful effects that may result from the use of by-products in livestock feed. Another grant in the School of Agriculture was made by the American Dairy Association which has provided $1,400 for work on selling and merchandising tech niques in the dairy industry. The work will be directed by Dr. C. W. Pierce, professor of agricul tural economics. Fellowship Continued A project on static and dynamic creep properties of plastics has been supported by tne Research Corporation, which established a Frederick Gardner Cottrell grant in the amount of $2400. Dr. Joseph Marin, professor of engineering mechanics and research professor (Continued on page thirteen) With only two weeks of their month together left, Derek Turn bull and his English fiancee, Gladys .Rbbson; reluctantly said good bye Sunday afternoon to State College and Delta Chi fraternity, the scene of their storybook reunion. “ They will be “popping in again” to see their friends, Turnbull said, for at least one day before Miss Robson sails for England on the lie de France, scheduled to leav< New York Feb. 15. During the next two weeks Turnbull will be in Ebensburg to study American mining tech niques first-hand. Miss Robson will stay with friendg near there before she goes back to,work at her government post in England which is being held open for her, TV Changes Facts The couple went to New York Jan. 24 with two Delta Ghis, Paul Bossart and John Nypaver, to ap pear on the television show, “We the People.” To add to the authen ticity they took along some fra ternity pennants for props. At the first rehearsal they found to their surprise, that the NBC script writers had slightly altered the facts to make a more Integrated, coincidental story. The skit open ed with Bossart arid Nypaver playing table-tennis in the “basement” of the house. A pro fessional actor playing one of the brothers then stepped in and nar rated -the story with what the scriptwriters thought was the best in college slang. Turnbull was shown accepting a blind date “for the good of the house” and then discovering, his fiancee on the night of the dance. Wonderful Experience Turnbull said that people famil iar with the story did not care for the television production as much as those who did not know any thing about it. Although Miss Robson is quite interested in dramatics and has appeared in amateur productions in England, she said she was “simply terrified.” Turnbull finds that he does not enjoy television as rnuch as he Used to because it seems much less realistic to him. He cannot stop thinking that the Scenery has only two sides and that three or four cameras are focusing on the actors, he said. Aside from this, however, they agree that it was a wonderful, if nerve-wracking, experience. Visit to Washington Between rehearsals and for two days after the program they be came acquainted with New York City, High spots • were the shops on Fifth Avenue, Times Square at night, and the view from the Em pire State Building. Turnbull was disappointed that they could go on only two sides of the observation platform, as part of.it was roped off because of high winds. Before going to New York the couple spent a few days in Wash ington, D.C. While chatting at the British embassy over a cup of tea, they were surprised to find that the embassy is keeping a file on them with clippings from both American and Britisn newspapers. Bowling Rates Are Unchanged - Bowling prices for students, en rolled in bowling as a part of their physical education instruction will remain at 15 cents a line, at least temporarily, P. H. Gentzel, owner of the Dux Club alleys,, said yes terday. “I would rather operate at a loss than give the students trou ble,” Gentzel said. Regular bowling prices were upped to 27 cents late last year'in anticipation of higher taxes and it had been believed that student bowling prices Would be raised also. The cost of bowling for physi cal education classes will not be raised unless the tax millage yet to be set by the county board ,of commissioners makes operations impractical, Gentzel said. ■ An assessment inbreaSe on the property of which the Dux Club forms a major part was levied last fall by C. Otis Cromer, State College assessor. The increase Was subsequently reduced by the county appeal board from $l5OO to $lOOO. If the millage rate for 1952 is retained the increase will repre sent $62 in additional taxes this year. TUESDAY, FFBfIUASY 5, 195? By BETTIE LOUX Over 300 Students Hear Prexy More than 300 new student# heard President Milton S. Eisen hower give information on how to get the most out of college, when h? Welcomed them Wednesday night in Schwab Auditorium. • ..The President told the students that college is unlike high school m that there are no parents to prompt them and . each student is responsible for getting his own education. He said that tbe Col lege can only help them to learn by providing good teachers and facilities. In pointing out that two hours should be spent in preparation for each hour of class work, Presi dent Eisenhower said, '‘lf you will regularly prepare for every single class, you will do accept able work.” Advises Good Contact The President also told the group, which included more than 100 freshmen, that no one at Penn State wants to see a student fail. “The taxpayers of Pennsyl vania, who are'paying for a ma jor part of your education, asks only that you consider your exper ience here a real opportunity ahd ; privilege,” the President said. He said the best way to show appre-■ ciation is to do acceptable college work and have praiseworthy' con duct. Outlines 5 Values The five values of higher edu cation as outlined by the Presi dent include technical or profes sional competence involving spe cialization to provide a better life and means to make a better liv ing; development of logic and clarity in communication;; de velopment of a broad under standing in fields of knowledge outside the student’s field of specialization; achievement o f Wisdom and sound judgment; dnd development Of a deep and fight ing commitment to the demo cratic way of life and all of .the basic principles of democracy. The President said that the military advantage of the United States is not in numbers, put in a Well-educated and highly trained people. George Places 4th In Speaking Match Clair George placed fourth in an extemporaneous speaking tournament held at Johns Hop kins University last weekend* Fprty-six speakers were entered in the contest. Each, contestant drew three topics 15 minutes before he was to speak, and then prepared a five minute .talk on One. George's first topic was “Is Death Prefer able To Dishonor?” In the finals, in which eight persons took, part, he spoke on “Capital Puhishmeht Should Be Abolished.” In the deba t i n g contests, George and his teammate, David Lewis, won tWo matches and lost, four. The team defeated the Uni versity of Washington and Ford ham University, and lost, to Notre Dame, Lehigh University, West Point, and Georgetown Univer sity. Draft Registrants All students who have reg istered with their Selective., Service board should report, to the Registrar’s office, Wil lard Hall. Ond make applica tion for their scholastic rank to bfe sent to their local board if they have not done so, A. W. - Stewart, assistant registrar, announced yesterday. ‘
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