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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. ‘