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Senior Class Considers
slo,OOOforStone Valley
One of the five senior class gift suggestions calls for the
$lO,OOO to go towards building a beach complete with
benches and fireplace—for the proposed University lake and
recreation area at Stone Valley.
Bernard
P. Taylor, executive director of the Penn State
who has been trying to raise most of the lake’s
Foundation,
Dean Sees
Relaxing Of
Dress Rules
Dean of Women Pear’ O. Wes
ton has said that some relaxation
in the rules pertaining to coeds
wearing bermuda shorts will
probabiy be made next fall.
Miss Weston, on Monday said]
she is '“quite confident there will
be some changes next year.”
When asked if the changes
would probably Jbe relaxation of
present rules, she said: “I think
probabh' they will be.”
Shown Comments
Miss Weston was shown com
ments from 48 coeds in a letter
to the editor appearing in the
May 8 issue of The Daily Col
legian. The letter protested the
present • rules. All of the com
ments in the letter favored relax
ation of present rules.
Miss Weston said the Univer
sity and her office's policy on
women students wearing ber
muda shorts was very simple:
‘‘Bermuda shorts may be used for
relaxation and recreation.”
WSGA Limits Bermuda Wear
The present Women’s Student
Government Association ruling
prohibits the wearing of bermuda
shorts or skirts above the knees
for dormitory lounge entertain
ing, in dining halls and adminis
trative buildings and in class
rooms. They are only allowed in
class rooms if the class is a labor
atory or field trip and the in
structor permits them to be worn.
Bermuda shorts and skirts
above -the knees are allowed in
recreation rooms of residence
halls and when coeds are passing
through lobbies.
Wife Tells Group
Apple-Eating Expelled Poet Masters
By DAVE FINEMAN
It is ironic that eating an
apple in class should have re
sulted in the expulsion from
grade school of one of the
country’s most brilliant and
noted poets, Edgar Lee Masters.
Mrs. "Edgar Lee Masters, who
teaches English at Ogontz Center,
related this incident to a group
of persons in her talk to the
"Belles Lettres Club last night in
Atherton lounge.
She said that when the poet
was a student in grade school,
his father was summoned by the
principal who reported the “bad
deed” of the boy’s eating an ap
ple in class.
Boy Transferred
The elder Mr. Masters, now
thinking very little of the petty
school head, transferred the
young poet to a smali German
school where he began his more
fortunate academic training. Mrs.
Masters said.
During her talk, Mrs. Masters
■was questioned about the simi
larities between her late hus-|
band’s “Spoon River Anthology”;
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expected cost of $250,000 from al
umni, is in favor of the senior
class gift being spent.lhis way. j
He said it need not be spent!
on construction of the dam itself,,
but could be used to construct a 1
beach or to place fireplaces and
benches around the entire area.
Will Cover 70 Acres
The proposed lake, v/hen com
pleted, will have more than two
miles of shore line and will cover
70 acres. It will be 30 feet deep.
The lake will be filled by dam
ming a stretch of Shaver Creek
which runs through the Univer-i
sity-owned 6300-acre tract of land:
in Stone Valley. - j
The lake would not only be 1
used for recreational purposes—it
would also be used for hydrogra
phic study and underwater re
search.
The Forestry, Civil Engineer-!
ing and Mineral Industrv camps'
now occupy the site. ” _ I
The camps v will not need to be'
moved because of the project, but j
instead may even be used at cer-J
tain times of the year for recrea
tional activities.
Plans call for winterizing the
cabins in the camps with a view
to using them as lodges for hunt
ing and winter sports. .
These camps were built during
the 1930's by the Civilian Conser
vation Corps.
$lO Thousand Allocated
The project was endorsed last
fall by the foundation when it
allocated more than $lO,OOO to
the plan for preliminary work.
Preliminary work included test
ing the ground for its ability to
held water.
These tests showed a sub-sur
face of limestone, but the experts
say the structure of the rock will
not be susceptible to leakage.
Subsequent donations to the
project brought the -total, as of
March 15, to $23,654.
“Winesburg. Ohio,” and of the
possible influence of Masters on
Anderson’s work.
She said that her husband’s
work may have given some sug
gestion to Anderson, but that
there are really great differences
and Sherwood Anderson’s
between the books.
Her husband’s book, she said,
deals with rather plain, every
day people, while “Winesburg
Ohio” is more of a Freudian ex
periment concerning itself with
the abnormal and the demented
Questioned About Influences
She was also asked what in
fluence “The Greek Anthology”
had upon her husband’s now
famous -work.
She said that some influence
may be discovered, but that the
250 odd-characters in “Spoor.
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Mystery Bunny
Takes Back
Easter Gifts
j The Easter Bunny, although a
little out of season, must have
become jealous over the attention
paid to the mothers last weekend
and then decided to take back
;what he had given away on
jEaster.
At least there are no other
| suspects in the latest of the
I Great Fraternity Robberies—l 4
: dozen eggs and other foods
missing from Sigma Alpha Mu.
Some of the in
icluding a beef roast, sherbet,
: je!lo, coffee and sugar, was to be
iused for the house’s Mother’s Day
I dinner.
Lawrence Jacobson, SAM
president, said the culprit could
have entered only py the back
door, since the front door was,
locked. He said the theft oc
curred sometime between 3 and
E ami. Sunday, but the loss was
not discovered until yesterday.
The meat and sherbet were in
a kitchen refrigerator and the
remaining food in the pantry
adjoining the kitchen.
State College Borough police
are aiding in the investigation.
The whereabouts of the Easter
Bunny and the 164 eggs are
[not now known.
2 Frosh Injured
In Dorm Accident
Two freshmen were injured
last night when they went
through a glass door in Nittany
31.
They are William Ginnado, psy
chology major from Upper Darby,
who received cuts of the face,
and Robert K. Smith, business
administration major from War
ren. who received cuts of the arm.
The two students were running
down the hall when Ginnado hit
the bar on the door and it failed
to open. He went through the
door with Smith, who was unable
to stop, following after him.
The University Hospital listed
their conditions as satisfactory.
Speech Prof Honored
Dr. Asa J. Berlin, assistant pro
fessor of speech education, has
been elected a member of the
executive council of the Ameri
can Association for Cleft Palate
Rehabilitation.
River Anthology” are real people
that her husband had known.
She said, however, that her
husband read a great deal of
Greek and was no doubt influ
enced in his style and philosophy
by it.
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Summer Completion
Planned for Building
Workmen are beginning the final phase of construction
on the Boucke Building, scheduled for completion by the end
of the semester.
Earl W. Rife, superintendent for the general contractor,
said the finishing touches have begun and, barring any un
foreseen holdup, the building will be ready for use for the
fall semester. The original open
ing date for the building was
Nov. 1, 1956.
Rife said workmen will soon
begin installing acoustic and floor
tile. Acoustic tile will be placed
in all classroom ceilings. The til
ing job will probably take at
least six weeks, Rife said.'
Rough landscaping was started
last week and workmen are in
stalling forms for walks. Final
landscaping will be completed by
the division of landscape con
struction and maintenance. Eight
een inches of topsoil will be
placed on the present ground be
fore grass planting.
After the completion of all
plastering work last week, paint
ing was begun. Portions of the
outside painting was started in
March. Painters have started on
exteriors of windows and on third
and fourth-floor walls.
r our only cost is insurance plus
regular dry cleaning prices
320 W. BEAVER AVE.
for more information and free
pick up and delivery service
WEDNESDAY. MAY 15. 1957
Rife said he is expecting ceiling
metal to arrive this week. In
about three weeks workmen are
planning to install metal parti
tioning. Doors will also be in
stalled as soon as they arrive, the
superintendent said.
TIM Ticket Sales
Will End at Noon
Ticket sales for the Town In
dependent Men’s banquet to be
held at 6:30 p.m. Saturday in the
Pleasant Gap Grange 1 * Hall will
end at noon today.
They may be obtained at the
TIM office, 203 Hetzel Union or
by calling Bruce Pellnitz at
AD 8-8078. The price is $1,50 each.
Freshmen planning to live in
town next year may attend the
‘banquet.
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