The daily collegian. (University Park, Pa.) 1940-current, September 25, 1957, Image 8

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Beta Sig, AZ
Earn Top
Averages
Beth Sigma Omicron sorority;
and Aloha Zeta fraternity re-;
ceived the highest averages among'
fraternity, sorority and indepen-,
dent groups for the spring semes- ,
ter, according to statistics released!
by the dean of men's office.
Beta Sigma Omicron's aver
age of 3.12 was the highest
average for any University
group and Alpha Zeta placed
first among fraternities with
a 2.83 average and 13th among
all groups.
Kappa Alpha Theta was in sec-,
and place with a 3.09 average.,
Runner-up for fraternity honors!
was Triangle with a 2.73 average!
which placed it 22nd among all,
groups.
Both the sorority women's andl
The All-University women's aver-,
ages-2.85 and 2.7 l—were higherl
than the independent women's'
average of 2.61
The All-University average was;
2.48, The independent average was
2.45, The All-University average
of 2.48 is higher than that for the,
fall semester of 1956 when the :
average was 2.39.
Both Pi Sigma Upsilon and
Pi Kappa Phi made the big
gest improvement in fratern
ity scholarship. Pi Sigma Up
silon moved from 45 to 16
while Pi Kappa Phi jumped
from 44 to 17.
Others ratings are:
Delta Gamma. 2.88 e Alpha Chi Omega.
2.97; Gamma Phi Beta, 2.9 G: Alpha Xi
Delta. 2.91; I'hi Mu. 2.91; Sigma Delta
Tau, 2.1)0: Alpha Epsilon Phi, 2.148; Chi
ttniega. 2.87; Kappa Delta, 2.87; sorority
women. 2.85: Delta Zeta. 2.83.
Alpha G'aninla Delta. 2.+11 : Alpha Kappa
Alpha. : Phi Sigma Sigma. 2.79 Kap
pa Kappa Gamma. 2.79; Zeta Tau Alpha,
274; Delta Delta Delta, 2.73; Pi Beta Phi,
2.79; Trion, 2.72; all women. 2.71; Sigma
Sigma Sigma. 2.49; Delta Theta Sigma.
2.6 h.
Beta Theta Pt. 2.67; Alpha Omicron Pi.
2.67 independent women. 2.61 ; Theta Delta
Chi. :AO ; Theta Phi Alpha. 2.60; Phi
Sigma Kappa. 2.59; Alpha Epsilon Pi. 2.5 G;
Alpha Rho Chi. 2.53: Chi Phi. 2.53; Phi
Mu Delta, 2.53: Alpha Gamma Rho, 2.52:
Alpha Tau Omesns. 217.
Delta Chi. 2.60; Sigma Tau Gamma, 2.49
All-University, 2.4 b; Phi Epsilon Pi, 2.47
Pi Sigma Upsilon, 2.4 t;; Pi Kappa Phi
2-44: Sigma Alpha Mu, 2.45 Theta Xi
2.45; independent men. 2.45: Acacia. 2.43
Beaver House. 2.43; Tau Kappa Epsilon
2.43; Tau Phi Delta. 2.43.
Theta Chi, 2.43; all men. 2.41; Alpha
Chi Rho, 2.41; fraternity non, 2.41; Phi
Delta Theta. 2.41; Sigma Alpha Spallomi
2.41: Sigma Chi. 2.41: Alpha Sigma Phi.l
2,40; Phi Sigma Delta. 2.40: Pi Lambda,
Phi. 2.40; Lambda Chi Alpha. 2.37: Phi
Kappa, 2.37: Delta Tau Delta. 2.35; Delta .
Dindlon, 2.30.
Kappa Delta Rho. 2.35: Phi Kappa Pal.
2.35: Phi Gamma Delta. 2.34; Phi Kappa,
Sigma. 2.34; Theta Kappa Phi. 2.34; Delta
Sigma Phi. 2.33: Alphu Phi Delta. 2.30:,
Phi Kappa Tau, 2.29 ; Alpha Chi Sigma,
2.29; Sigma Phi Epsilon. 2.21 8 : Sigma Pi,
2.27: Sigma Nu. 2.2: • Alpha Kappa Lamb
da. 2.25: Zeta Beta Tau. 2.24: Beta Sigma
Rho. 2.21; Kappa Sigma. 2.14; Ot..tg. Pal
Phi. 2.14; Pi Kappa Alpha. 2.09; Kappa
Alpha Pal, 1.90 i.
'Howdy Night'
(Continued from page one)
made in the library.
Beatty said subscriptions for
The Penn State Farmer, Forester
and Scientist were not selling
very well. Of the •1300 students
on Ag Hill, only 200 had bought
subscriptions. He said that a new
drive will begin within the clubs
this week. A plaque will be given
to the club with the largest per
centage of members subscribing
to the magazine.
Of the 300 languages and dia
lects now spoken, the Bible has
been translated into about 260 of
them.
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Class Size Shows
Little Significance
Little difference exists in achievement between students
taught in large classes and those taught in small groups, ac
cording to the findings thus far of experiments conducted by
Dr. C. R. Carpenter, professor and head of the Department
of Psychology.
But, Carpenter said, many critics of mass education be
lieve educational objectives re
lated to the personal and intellec
tual development of students are
lacking in larger classes.
These include objectives regard
ing attitude formation, organiza
tion and expression of ideas, and
group participation skills.
Carpenter is directing a re
search study to find ways of rid
ding some of the undesirable fac
tors in mass education
The University has received a
$14,800 grant for the current aca
demic year from the Fund for the
Advancement of Education in or
der to conduct the study.
Carpenter said large amounts
'of money have been spent by col
leges and universities to avoid
large classes.
He said because of growing de
mands on colleges and universi
ties, it will become increasingly
difficult to avoid large classes.
"Institutions of higher learning.
therefore, must face this fact, and
must find ways of avoiding 'the
leveling effects' of mass educa
tion," said Carpenter. ,
Graduate students and outstand- 1
ing undergraduates will be used
,in the study.
I Students majoring in psychol
ogy will be requested to help ini
tially in the experiment, with
half of them scheduled for actual
participation in group discussions,
!and the others as control groups.
Students enrolled for the ex
periment will have weekly sched
uled opportunities for planned
discussion and study in small
groups. These group discussions
t will be led by six seniors who
will have participated in previous
training and planning sessions
,with three graduate assistants and
one assigned faculty member.
, Carpenter is assisted in the pro
ject by Leslie P. Greenhill, asso
ciate director of the Instructional
Research Program: Dr. Deno G.
Thevaos and Dr. William S. Ray,
associate professors of psychol
ogy: and Dr. Francis L. Whaley,
'assistant professor of psychology.
Twenty-six Named
To Chapel Choir
Twenty-six students have been
selected to sing in the Chapel
Choir, according to Willa C. Tay
lor, choir director. APARTMENT FOR rent One or two per
sona. Close to campus—with kitchen.
They are: Reasonable. Phone AD 8-0073,
Sopranos: Kay Esslinger, Judith:
Ficca, Eleanor Hansen, Patricia'
Kampureier. Gale Leister, MarY i wAN^rEn a2l kinds of tyPimr- Ex-
Ann Miller and Judith Von Leu_ l3 peri 3 S. en G cea lll . . Call AD 5-6950 or ineuire at
enberger.
Altos: Suzanne Estock, Carolyn, WORK WANTED
Goodfellow, Ellen Mills, Martha
Prasse, Janet Stakel and Susan
Suhr.
Tenors: John Avigliano, Glenn
Hesse, Rolland La Pelle, Frederick
Shaver and Richard Stuby.
Basses: Warren Caw:el, Harry
Gerber, Ralph Griner, John Hew
etson, Chester Mais, Thomas Rob
erts, David Schoming and Robert
Sprague.
IGN'T IT
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
.
7 Students Appear
At Traffic Court
Seven students appeared at the
fi r s t meeting of Traffic Court
'Monday night.
Five students were fined a to
tal of $2O, as follows: $8 for traf
fic violations, $5 for failure to
register and display registration
sticker and $7 for failure to re
port to the campus patrol office
;within the next complete school
;day.
Three students had a total of
$l5 in fines suspended.
Three students had parts of
their- violations, which would
have totaled $l7 in fine s, dis
missed.
WSGA Senate Will Meet
The Women's Student Govern
ment Association Senate will
meet at 6:30 tonight in 217 Het
zel Union.
CLASSIFIEDS
ADS MUST BE IN BY 11:00 a.m.
.THE PRECEDING DAY
RATES-17 words or less:
$0.50 One insertion
$0.75 Two insertions
$l.OO Three insertions
Additional words I for .05
for each day of Insertion.
.TWO TICKETS on .50-yd. line for Penn-
Penn State game. Dan Seiner AD 741134.
SINGLE DRAWER letter size file cabinet.
16 inches deep. New taro volume Funk
and Wagnals Unabridged Dictionary. Call
AD 8-685 R.
RCA 45 r.p . .m. Phonograph automatic'
Reasonable price. Call AD S-13441 ext.
3153.
COMFORTABLE '66 model 36-ft. Trailer
set-up, excellent condition. See Bill Eckel,
Park Forest Trailer Court.
1951 FORD 2-door sedan V.B; radio and
heater. Good - ondition $250. Call John
Coyle AD 8-8441 ext. 2417.
1956 CHEVROLET 210 4-door:
powerzlide— 28,000 miles, perfect con
dition. Inherited excellent 1962 Chevrolet
Tudor Styline. Must sacrifice one. Call
Uni%ersity ext. 678.
ONE-HALF DOUBLE Hoorn. Private bath,
large and quiet. Reasohable. Private
phone. 244 S. Barnard St. ,Phone AD
7-7826.
'PARKING SPACE available. 430 W. Bea.
ver A,e. S 4 monthly. Phone AD 7-3126.
GET YOUR clothes in shape for fall. Alter
ations done. Prices reasonable. Phone
AD -8-8310.
WANTED—MAN to work in kitchen at
Pi Lambda Phi- Call Bill Adams AD
5.9185.
STUDENTS EARN up to 11.60 per hour
'working 2 or 3 evening, of your choice
on steady part-time bask. Inquire Dux
Club. 128 S. Pugh St.
BURBERRY RAINCOAT lost Monday Il
a.m . in Boucke 2nr floor. Call Merrill
AD 7-4934 it found.
BLACK LEATHER Key Case with keys—
Sept 20. Phone AD 7-1.'2226. Reward-
LOST— Small Sigml Phi Epsilon fraternity
pin, heart surrounded with purls, be.
tween McElwain and Soufh Atherton St.
Reward offered. Al) 6-0715.
RIDE WANTED for 2 to New York City
Oct. 11. Cats leave any time alter 9 p.m.
Call Essie ext. 767.
PASSENGERS WANTED
RIDERS TO Williamsport, Canton ‘ielnity.
Leaving Sat. Sept. 28 noon—return Sun.
p.m. Write Box 478. State College. Give
bone number.
MUSIC FOR Dancing, 7 piece dance band
Call Ed Fogle ext. 268, evenings.
LOCAL REPAIR Servic• on all makes
typewriters. We will call for and deliver
your typewriter. Nittany Office Equipment.
AD 84125.
FRESH PRESSED CIDER. Truck will be
at Werner's Freezer Freab Saturday eve
nings. Sunday afternoons and evenings-
Please bring Suva. - •
FOR SALE
ROOMS FOR RENT
FOR RENT
WANTED
HELP WANTED
RIDE WANTED
MISCELLANEOUS
Science Teachers
Enter University
More than 50 teachers have en
rolled in the University for- the
Academic 'Year Institute, spon
sored by_ the National Science
Foundation.
The teachers come from 16
;states and the District of Colum
bia. Twenty-six are Pennsylvania
I residents.
The institute merrbers during
the comingyear will be engaged
,in improving the quality of
!ence teaching in the iunior and
senior high schools by learning
more about science and science
teaching.
eaniple
3 4;ig i t n
(Author of "Barefoot Boy With Cheek," etc.)
FOOTBALL THROUGH THE AGES
The football frenzy is upon us. But let us in the midst
of this pandemonium call time. Let us pause for a moment
of tranquil reflection. What is this great American game
called football? What is its history? Its origins?
First of all, to call football an American game is some
what misleading. True, the game is now_ played almost
exclusively in America, but it comes to us from a land
far away and a civilization long dead.
Football was first played in ancient Rome. Introduced
by Julius Cs..esar, it became one of the most popular
Roman sports by the time of Nero's reign. The eminent
historian, Sigafoos, reports a crowd of MMCLDDXVIII.
people at the Colosseum.one Saturday afternoon to see
the Christians play the Lions.
With the decline of the Roman empire, football fell
into disusß. The barbaric Huns and Visigoths preferred
canasta. Not until the fifteenth century A. D. did foot
ball emerge from its twilight and rise to its rightful place
in the firmament of European sports.
Which brings us to September 29, 1442, a date dear to
the hearts of all football fans. It was on this date, accord-.
ing to the eminent historian Sigafoos, that a sixteen-year
old lad named Christopher Columbus tried out for the
football team at Genoa Tech. He failed to make the team
because be was too light. (He weighed at the time only
twelve pounds.)
And why, you ask, is this date—September 29, 1442
so dear to the hearts of all football fans? Because young
Columbus was so heartbroken at not making the team
that he ran away to sea. And if that hadn't happened,
he never would have discovered America. And if Columbus
hadn't discovered America, the world would never have
discovered tobacco. And if the world hadn't discovered
tobacco, football fans never would have discovered
Marlboro—which, as every fan 'mows, is the perfect com
panion to football. And why shouldn't it be? Look what
Marlboro's got ... Filter ... Flavor ... Flip-top Box ...
You can't buy a better smoke. You can't smoke a better
buy.
The end of football in Europe came with the notorious
"Black Sox Scandal" of 1587, in which Ed Machiavelli,
one of the Pisa mob, paid off the University of Heidelberg
Sabres to throw the championship game to the Chartres
A. and M. Gophers. It was a mortal blow to football on
the continent.
But the game took hold in the American colonies and
thrived as it had never thrived before. Which brings us
to another date that remains evergreen in the hearts of
football lovers: December 16, 1773.
On that date a British packet loaded with tea sailed
Into Boston harbor. The colonies bad long been smarting
under the English king's tax on tea. "Taxation without
representation," they called it, and feelings ran high.
When on December 16, 1773, the British ship docked'
at Boston, a semi-pro football team called the Nonpareil
Tigers, coached by Samuel (Swifty) Adams, was scrim
maging near the harbor. "Come, lads," cried Swifty, see
ing the ship. "Let's dump the tea in the ocean!"
With many a laugh and cheer the Nonpareil Tigers
followed Swifty aboard and proceeded- - to dump the
cargo overboard in a wild, disorganized and abandoned
manner. "Here now 1" called Swifty sharply. "That's no
way to dump tea overboard. Let's get into some kind
of formation."
And that, fans, is how the tea formation was born.
to mu Sbulman, 1957
Double your pleasure at next Saturday's game by taking
along plenty of Marlboros, whose makers bring you this
column throughout - the school year.
WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 25. 1957
Professor to Head
Rural Association
Dr. Roy C. Buck, associate pro
fessor of rural sociology, was
elected president of the American
Country Life Association at the
national meeting in Columbia, Mo.
The association includes farm
organizations and religious and
educational groups.
Buck served as vice president of
the association last year ,and .was
program chairman for the meet
ing.
His research at the University
includes studies of rural youth
adjustment to . adulthood, soci
ology of rural school district re
organization and community or
ganization.
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