The daily collegian. (University Park, Pa.) 1940-current, March 19, 1952, Image 2
PAGE TWO 'Greatest Shows of Century Collection Given to Library . "The Greatest Shows of th e Century," a collection of 28 rec ord albums bought by the junior class ,was presented to the Pat tee Library yesterday at a short dedication ceremony. The collection was purchased with a $lOO fund set aside each year for the class project. Robert Sherman, committee chairman, said his group hoped to interest the present sophomore class in. the project with a view toward building up the collection next year. The albums, all of the 33 1/3 rpm speed, will circulate from the reserve book room of the library for a three-day period. A matric ulation card must be presented to obtain an album and, for the present, only one album at a time will be signed out to a person. Fines similar to those on re serve room books will be applied to any album kept over the three day period. Breakage charges will be assessed at the list price of an album and will be paid if an al bum is lost or damaged. Included in the collection are "Anything Goes," "P or g y and Bess," "Vagabond King," "Annie Get Your Gun," "An American in Paris," "Show Boat," "Babes in Toyland," ''l'll See You in My Dreams," "Songs by Jane Fro man," "The New Moon," "Rober ta," "Blossom Time," "Call Me Madam." "Desert Song," "G uy s and Dolls," "The King and I," "Okla homa," "Song of Norway," "Gen tlemen Prefer Blonde s," "Ex cerpts from 'The Student Prince' and 'The Chocolate Soldie r'," "Brigadoon," "Sweet hear t s," "Naughty Marietta," "Rose Ma rie," "Night and Day," "South Pa cific," "Carousel," and "Kiss Me Kate." School Plans Open House Agriculture school students are planning an open house to be held on May 22 primarily for high school seniors and their parents. The event, a new feature for the school, will coincide with the school's visiting day of the sum mer series. David Stabler, Agriculture Stu dent Council president, has nam ed William Griffith and Theodore Kimmel as co-chairmen of a com mittee working with the faculty to plan for the occasion. Tenta tive plans call for students to serve as hosts to visitors to guide them to points of interest on campus and answer questions concerning courses, classes, and college life. J. Keith Thornton, superin tendent of the college farms and head of the Sch o o l of Agri culture's public relations commit tee is arranging the student pro gram as part of the visiting tours. Clements Publishes Scholarship Article Dr. Robert J. Clements, profes sor and head of the Romance language department at the Col lege, has contributed an article entitled "A Cecennium of Ameri can Scholarship in the Romance Languages and Literatures" to the 1952 volume of the "Romanistis ches Jahrbuch," published by the University of Hamburg . The article reviews the entire field of scholarship in the Ro mance philology during the period when European scholars were out of contact with America due to the war and postwar conditions: Riding Club to Show Two Movies Tonight Two movie shorts will be shown at a meeting of the Riding Club at 7 tonight in 217 Willard Hall. "Bluebloods," a 12 minute sound film, is about the training of horses. The other, "Swinging Mallets," pertains to polo horses. A short business meeting con cerning the forthcoming • horse show will be held prior to the movies. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENIstgYLVkisTIA Junior Project MICHAEL HANEIC, (ce plaque to Ralph W. McComb, ceremony for the junior class pro: The project is a collection of 28 re' Robert Sherman, committee chair Woodward Concert To Be Postponed Until May 12 The concert to be presented by the Philadelphia Woodwind Quin tet, sponsored by the State Col lege Choral Society and originally scheduled• for March 31, has been postponed to May 12, Dr. John De Novo, chairman of the society, has announced. The postponement is due to the illness of John De Lancie, as sociate solo oboist with the Phila delphia Orchestra and one of the five members of the quintet. Other members of the group are William Kincaid, solo flutist with the Philadelphia Orchestra; An thonY Gigliotti, associate solo clarinetist; Mason Jon e s, solo horn; and Sol Schoenbach, prin cipal bassoonist. The concert will be presented at 8 p.m., May 12, in the State College High School auditorium. The program will consist of or iginal works for woodwinds by Haydn, Beethoven, Hindemith, Milhaud, Persichetti, Wailly, and Ibert. Gilmore to Speak To Dairy Group The dairy cattle draWing for the Dairy Exposition will be con ducted 7 p.m. tomorrow in 117 Dairy building, according to Wil liam Griffith, publicity manager of the Dairy Science' Club. Herbert C. Gilmore, assistant professor of Dairy Husbandry ex tension, will address the club Thursday•night on "The Value of Dairy Herd Improvement Asso ciation Records." Charles Brosius has been named production manager of the Dairy Exposition scheduled for May 10. Any student may select a cow to show in the exposition, Griffith added. Ag Engineers to Hear Two Students Tonight Two agricultural engineering students will speak at a meeting of the American Society of Ag-• ricultutal Engineers at 7 tonight in 105 Agricultural Engineering. The Penn State Grange will be the guests_ of the ASAE. Shunil Roy, graduate student from India, will talk on agricul ture in India. Mark Shaw, agri cultural engineering student at the College, will tell of his ex periences in China. The first poster, or placard, was made by Jules Charet, a French man, in 1867. _ prt.. ead librarian, at the dedication ject held in the library yesterday. :ord albums of top musical shows. !man, looks on. Council Makes $l5 Allotment Fifteen dollars was appropri ated by 'P o 11 o c k Council at a meeting last night •to provide sheepskins for the council. The proposal was made by Fr an k Schrey, ' chairman of the sheep skins committee. It was announced at the meet ing that an exchange dinner and dance will be held March 28. Dorms 1,2, 21, and 22, will have an exchange dinner with Mc- Allister Hall. Everyone is invited to the dance, according to Rich ard Morman, secretary. William Hain e s, president, named Morman to represent the council at the All-College commit tee meeting that will plan Penn State's 10th Annual Pan-Ameri can Day celebration. Students to Show Horticulture Booth Living flowers, grass shrubbery and trees grown in' greenhouses will be used by students in horti culture who will sponsor a large educational booth at the Phila delphia Flower Show, which opens Monday. Dr. John G. Seely, professor of floriculture, and Milton T. Lewis, professor of plant breeding, are supervising' the exhibit, in which students are putting to work les sons learned in classrooms. The show will last until March 29. Several varieties of tuberous begonia, vinca, and crocus have been specially grown for the ex hibit which was designed, painted, and built by the' students. Text books used by the horticulture students will also be featured at the educational display. Students May Join Enrollment Group Application blanks for those students interested in joining, the All-College enrollment commit- tee will• be available all day to day in the second floor lounge of Old Main. John Allison, co-chairman of the committee, said that advance notice will be _sent to • the high school principal but that the stu dent will arrange his own time for the speech which is intended to increase enrollment •at the Col lege. Brochures, pamphlets, and cata logs will be provided by the com mittee and sent to the high schools of the committee members as well as outside schools. 'Students who apply will be con tacted later by committee mem bers, Allison said. Pivot Will Accept Contributions -. Contributions for Pivot, cam pus literary publication for poe-,. try, may now be submitted for the spring issue, whin will ap pear the - last of April. The Fred Lewis Pattee annual award of $25 will be given to the author of the best poem or group of poems which appeared in the fall issue or will be published in the forthcbming mapzine. Contributions may be turned in at the English Composition office, 243 Sparks, or to one of the stu dent staff member s. Patricia Chandler is. editor of the spring Pivot. Her 'associates are Margot Grossman and Sally Johnson. College -Chats Meet Entrants To Sign up Students interested in entering a College chess tournament may submit their names and 25 cent entrance fees at the Penn State Chess Club meeting at 7 tonight in 3 Sparks,' David Keller, club president, - has announced. The tournament, an annual af fair, will be played on Wednesday nights starting -next week. Stu dents interested in entering• the competition and unable to attend tonight's meeting may contact Keller before March 26. The winner will be awarded a medal purchased with the 25 cent entrance fees. Second and third place winners will also receive Imedals. This tournament will also help to determine which players will represent Penn State in a meet against St. Francis College and Gettysburg next month. The team winning this match will go to Harrisburg and participate in a match to decide the state chess championship. Penn State's chess team won the state championship last year. WD Exhibits LaVie Display An exhibit on the production of the 1952 La Vie is on display at the West Dormitories foyer. The display shows the original page plans for the 1952 book and continues through the Printed pages of sections which now are completed and awaiting binding. The exhibit, arranged by the . La Vie staff and Student Union, also includes copies of the-, six Penn State yearbooks - that have won All-American honors in na tional competition. James Geffert, editor of the La Vie, said that the books are expected for distribution by the middle of May. Slavonic Society - To Meet Tonight The Slavonic Honorary Society, a new club representing all the Slavonic cultures, will hold its first meeting at 7:30 tonight in 105 Willard. The society is a re organization of Alpha Rho Orrie ga, Russian honorary. Officers will be elected and plans for further organization will be discussed. Joseph-Mazurkie- Viicz will conduct the meeting which -is open to the public. GRADUATING R.O.T.C. STUDENTS • You can be sure of the finest quality MILITARY, INSIGNIA, at lowest possible prices, when you buy your insignia from Balfour's. Quality assures you of insignia that will stay new looking. And our factory-to-gou prices can't 'be undersold . . . your • money back 'if you can buy for" less. Get your insignia now . .-. avoid the dan ger- of depleted stock. You definitely need more than one set. La G 1 BALFOUR Office In Athletic Store WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19:19,52 Council Asks Detailed Report On Air Depot Centre County's airport author ity was asked Monday night by State College borough council to prepare a coinplete report on the airport situation for a special meeting of council March 31. The requeSt for the detailed re-, port came after nearly two hours of discussion on the airport situ ation at council's monthly meet ing, , (luring which • an organized group protested the air depot site and the use of tax funds for 'air port improvements. Meantime, council asked Bor ough Manager R. Y. Edwards -to learn from' the county commis sioners the last possible . date a ballot may be prepared on the airport problem for the April 22 primaries. The proposed site • for the air port at the present air depot has met with considerable. opposition froth some county residents ,who would rather see the airport con structed at the-present Black Mo. sharmon Airport. ADS to Show Joum Mov ies Two movies, ,`The Story of Printing," and "Do You Beking in Advertising?" - will be shown at 3:10 p.m. tomorrow in 'll9 Os mond laboratory. The films will be sponsored by Alpha Delta Sig ma, national advertising frater nity. "Do You Belong in Advertis ing?" is a 30-minute, color and sound film, the only vocational advertising film ever produced. It is bein g distributed by the Ad vertising Federation of America to colleges throughout the United States. • James Dunmire, head of `the ADS committee for the films, an nounced that the showing will be open to all students and faculty. Leonides Approwes 10 Cent Fee Raise Leonides Council Monday night unanimously approved the - School of Agriculture Student Council's proposal -to assess each student ten cents to pay 'judging _teams' expenses:. The council gave the executive committee the power to choose the delegates for the • National Independent Student Association convention April- 10'to 12 at the University of Oklahoma. Susan Crumley was appointed Leonides representative for the Pah-American week committee. Chem Group to Sponsor Talk on Art Materials Dr. Robert L. Feller, of the Mellon Institute, Pittsburgh, will describe research work conducted' on materials used by the painter and the sculptor in a ,lecture at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in 119 Os. mond. Cosmopolitan Club The Cosmopolitan Club will meet at 8 p.m. tomorrow •at the home of Dr. and Mrs. C. E. Mar quardt, 343 E. Hamilton street. Plans will be made for the com ing election of officers.