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VOL. 54, No. 63
GSA Apprs4pkitite
Ex-Trustee
To Address
Graduates
Henning W. Prentis Jr., chair
man of the board of Armstrong
Cork Co., Lancaster, and former
trustee of the University, will
speak at the mid-year commence
ment exercises at 2 p.m. Wednes
day, January 27 in Recreation
Hall.
No tickets will be required for
admittance of guests to Rec Hall.
There has been no limit set on the
number of guests permitted to
each January graduate.
Specific instructions to Janu
ary graduates will be issued later
from the office of Herbert R.
Kinley, administrative assistant.
Prentis received his A.B. de
gree from the University of Mis
souri in 1903, his M.A. from the
University of Cincinnati, and his
LL.D. from Hampden-S ydn e y
College in Virginia. He has been
with the Armstrong Cork Co.
since 1907.
In 1940 he was elected presi
dent of the National Association
of Manufacturers, and an honor
ary vice president for life in 1946.
1-1.?. served as president of Arm
strong Cork from 1934-50, and
has been chairman of the board
since 1950.
Prentis is also a member of the
Business Advisory Council of the
U.S. Department of Commerce,
and a member of the Personnel,
Security Review Board of the
Atomic Energy Commission.
The subject of his address was
not announced.
Eraternities to Reveal
Chriitmas Tree Sources
Fraternities have been asked to
submit a list stating where they
obtained Christmas trees and
greens, 0. Edward Pollock, as
sistant to the dean of men in
charge of fraternity affairs, an
nounced .yesterday.
The request was issued, he said,
after trees had been removed re
cently near the Forestry depart
ment's test plot, and from private
property in the borough.
Churchill Confident
Ike's Sold on Plan
LONDON, Dec. 17 M—Prime Minister Winston Churchill voiced
confidence today he has sold President Dwight - D. Eisenhower and
the French on "the justice and advantage" of offering Russia guar
antees against aggression.
"The Soviet Union is entitled to assurances against aggression
- after what she suffered at Hitler's
hands," the 79-year old statesman
told the House of Commons in a
sweeping review of world affairs.
.f`l think I was successful in
pressing upon my colleagues at
Bermuda . the justice and advan
tage of such a course even though
Russian strength is so vast," he
said,
Churchill expressed hope the
proposed four-power foreign min
isters' meeting in Berlin would
produce "some means to provide
Russia with' a sense of ' security
arising from other facts than mere
force."
Russia has agreed to the Berlin
meeting, but has riot yet accepted
the Jan. 4 date proposed by the
Western Big Three at Bermuda.
Ire termed President Eisenhow
er's recent United Nations speech
proposing a world pool of atomic
powers for peaceful development
of the atom as "one of the most
important events in world history
since the end of the war."
"I fervently hoped the Soviet
Union will not ignore this beam
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, tt t I 1 41° r ttitt . Merry Chiristmds,
Happy New Year
•
Joyeux Noel
JEAN EVERMAN, Carol Kylander, Lois Nissley, and Shirley Kay
sing at the annual Christmas Carol sing sponsored by the Penn
State Christian Association and . the Department of Music which
was held last night in front of Old Main.
Homeward Bound!
Forecast is Fair
As Students Depart
With continuing good weather, cold and 'fair to partly cloudy,
forecast for today and tomorrow, students will begin leaving the
University for the two week Christmas holiday. The College of
Mineral Industries Division of Meteorology predicts unhampered
traveling conditions • today and tomorrow with a chance of snow
University Receives
Half of Bequest
The University has received
half of a $25,000 bequest left by
the late Mrs. Elizabeth Valentine,
Bryn Mawr.
The bequest was made in mem
ory of Mrs: Valentine's husband,
the late John R. Valentine, who
died in 1921.
of light amid so much darkness
and confusion," Churchill said.
In Washington, State Depart
ment Press Officer Henry Suydam
declined to comment on Church
ill's statement= ,ab out security
guarantees. But he pointed . out
that representatives of the. United
States, Britain and France are
busy in Paris considering prob
lems which may come up in Ber
lin. He said, "it is our desire to
have an affirmative approach to
the amelioration of international
difficulties at Berlin." .
Churchill defied a faction in his
own Conservative party, declar
ing the government was standing
fast in its policy leading to with
drawal of British troops from the
Suez Canal zone.
Without elaborating, he Said it
would be a pity for Anglo-Ameri
can:relations "to be expressed in
McCarthy-Bevanite terms."
This thrust at Sen. Joseph Mc-
Carthy (R-Wis.) and Aneurin Bev
an, leader of a. left-wing faction
in the British Labor party,
brought some cheers.
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
STATE COLLEGE, PA„ FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 18,. 1953
late tomorrow or Sunday. •
The' vacation begins officially
at 11:50 a.m. tomorrow and ends
at 8 a.m. Jan. 4. University dormi
tories will close at 5 p.m. tomor
row' and will reopen at 1 p.m.
Jan. 3.
Dining halls will close follow
ing the noon meal tomorrow and
will serve. breakfast Jan. 4, ac
cording to Mildred A. Baker,
director of the University Food
Service.. The 'evening meal will
not be served on Jan. 3.
The Pattee Library has an
nounced 4 . 1 e following hours for
the vacation period: tomorrow,
7:50 a.m. to noon; Dec. 20, closed;
Dec. 21 to 23, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.;
Dec. 24 to 28, closed; Dec. 29 to
31, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Jan. 1 to
3, closed. The library will resume
regular hours Jan. 4.
University offices will be closed
Dec. 24 through 28, and Jan. 1
through 3. The Student Book Ex
change will close 4t noon today
and will reopen Jan. 4.
Last night's broadcasting sched
ule of Station WDFM concluded
its .activities until Jan. 4. The
Daily Collegian will not publish
tomorrow.
Otto Mueller, director of -hous
ing, has extended the deadline
to Jan. 4 for men to submit re
quests to be released from Nit
tany and Pollock dormitory con- .
tracts for the second semester. He
said mail requests would be ac
cepted and should be addressed
to Kearn Hall, - Nittany 20, in care
of the University:
Students transferring' to the
West Dorms need not secure re
leases, he pointed oat, since
transferring is done by the hous
ing department staff on a priority
basis and the students remain in
the University dormitory system.
Statue to be Returned
"The Lineman," the statue by
William Zorach which stands in
the lobby of Old Main, will be
returned to the artist shortly af
ter Christmas, according to Harry
Archinal, member of Pi Gamma
Alpha, fine arts honorary.
$2.7 Million
Two Infirmary Wings,
Classrooms to Be Built
An estimated $2.7 million was approved yesterday by the
General State Authority, the commonwealth's borrow-and
build agency, for construction of two additional wings to the
infirmary and a new classroom and faculty office building
at the University.
Approval of the projects for
the University came as the state
agency approved construction of
eight new projects in the state to
cost approximately $7 million.
The projects will now be adver
tised for bids, though no date has
been set for start of construction
at the University.
The estimated cost of the new
classroom for students and faculty
See results of a student poll
on health service at the Uni
versity on page eight.
office unit is $1.5 million. Cost of
the two wings to the infirmary is
estimated at $1.2 million.
Class Building Site
The new classroom building
will be built between Osmond
Laboratory and the infirmary on
the present site of Maple Cot
tage. The site of the building was
approved by the Board of Trus
tees executive committee.
The building will house 100 or
more faculty offices and 60 class
rooms, Walter H. Wiegand, phy
sical plant director, said.
An east and a west wing will
be added to the present infirm
ary. The structure will be known
as the Student Health Center, and
will bring both the dispensary
and infirmary in one building.
Facilities Improved
The wings will have at least
two floors and include treatment
rooms, an athletic room, psycho
logical consultation rooms, a min
or operating room, dental oper
ating rooms, and a number of
bedrooms. All-round facilities
will be improved, reported Wil
mer E. Kenworthy, director of
student affairs.
A garage for an ambulance is
also included in the construction
plans. No date has been set for
start of construction, though the
start may come after plans have
been reviewed and some minor
revisions made by GSA archi
tects, Wiegand said.
The classroom building will be
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Extra - ours Added
For Registration
Juniors and seniors will be given an extra two hours for regis
tration Feb. 4 in order to eliminate the overcrowding of facilities
which delayed registration in Recreation Hall last semester, H. A.
Sperber, assistant scheduling officer, announced yesterday.
Registration for the spring semester will start at 3 a.m. Feb. 3
for juniors and seniors. Freshmen
and sophomores will begin regis
tering at 10 a.m. Feb. 4 and will
continue through Feb. 6. Graduate
students may register at any time
during this period.
Listings on Timetable
Alphabetical listings are print
ed in the scheduling timetables
which are available in the base
ment of Willard'Hall for 20 cents
Students are asked to report to
their advisers at least 24 hours be
fore they are scheduled to regis
ter. In this way students will have
an opportunity to draw up trial
schedules and receive envelopes
containing forms necessary for
registration.'
Male students must be regis
tered for at least 15 credits to be
considered eligible for Selective
Service draft deferments.
.IsTew
students may make application
for Selective Service form 109 for
the scholastic draft deferment.
Must Have Metric Cards
Students who have lost matric
ulation cards should report to •109
Willard for temporary cards. A $1
fee will be charged. Matriculation
Overseas
Study Trips
Announced
The American College Council
for Summer Study Abroad has
recently made its preliminary an
nouncement of the 1954 curricu
lum.
The council is a non-profit or
ganization designed to give Amer
ican college students opportuni
ties for combining serious aca
demic study with residence
abroad.
The council was founded in
May, 1953, by Amherst, Bryn
Mawr, the University of Chicago,
Mount Holyoke, Oberlin, Rad
cliffe, Randdlph-Macon for Wo
men, Scripps, Smith, Swarthmore,
Sweet Briar, Vassar, and the Uni
versity of Virginia.
The Bureau of University Trav
el, a ikon-profit educational insti
tution which has been active in
the field of educational travel for
sixty years, is working in con
junction with the council. The
bureau has assisted in the forma
tion of the council and promises
to continue this help in arrang
ing the travel and living accom
modations for students enrolled in
courses sponsored by the Coun
cil.
The admission requirements are
set by the member colleges of
fering the course and approved
by the council.. Members of each
study group must be approved by
the professor in charge of the
group.
Students interested in further
details may address inquiries to
The American College Council
for Summer Study Abroad, 11
Boyd Street, Newton, 58, Massa
chusetts.
cards are necessary for admission
to Rec Hall for registration.
Fees for the spring semester
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SHOPPINWPAYS
TO CHRISTMAS :
IN STATE COLLEGE
FIVE CENTS