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The Cummings
Grad Cou
Will Spons
Dance Ton
The Graduate Stude
tion will sponsor a s
dance from 9 p.m. to
today in the Hetzel
room.
Lynn Christy and
puseers will provide
the dance
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The GSA also anno need that
the first fall meeting o new grad
uate students will be September
25. Dr. Harold K. Sh'lling: dean
of the graduate schoo ' , and sev
eral faculty members will speak
at this meeting.
At the last council meeting, the
group suggested that a guided
tour of the campus be a part of
the students' orientation, They
also suggested that some of the
Orientation Week activities plan
ned for the undergraduates be ap
plied to new graduate students to
help them become acquainted
with the campus.
A newsletter will also be dis
tributed in the fall explaining the
various activities of GSA and tell
ing the students when and where
the first meeting will be held.
Student guide books will also be
distributed Jo new students.
Convocation will be held Octo
ber 2.
Assembly--
(Continued from page one)
ply because the SGA president
is an ex-officio member of the
Assembly, this is no reason to
limit his powers. Steele said
the passing of the proposal
without thorough study is be.
low the concept of SGA.
Jean Van Tassel, acting chair
man of the Reorganization Corn
mate, said that debating powers
of the SGA president would ruin
the SGA plan. She pointed out
that the president could speak
through the SGA vice president,
and also the executive debating
issue was thoroughly discussed at
the 1958 Student Encampment.
Theodore Haller (C.-Sr.) was
the only assemblyman opposing
the passing of the proposal.
The Assembly also passed other
Rules Committee recommenda
tions:
•Names of legal alternates for
assemblymen must be submitted.
• Assembly meetings would be
held in 203 Hetzel Union Build
ing until a more suitable room
could be located.
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ble at the Hetzel Union desk.
1. rogram will end the current academic
year's Artist Series. It is the 17th
presentation for the 1958-59 sea
son.
Cummings, one of America's
foremost poets, will read a collec
tion of his poems.
Cummings' poetry is the sub
ject of careful study in many
high schools and universities.
He has been compared to
Henry Thoreau for having the
same rebellious spirit against
the conventional American cur
rent, and a love for perfection
and individualism.
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In reply to a request for advice
to aspiring poetry writers, Cum
mings stated the importance of
being "n obody- but-yourself."
Charles Norman quotes Cum
mings in his biography of the
poet as replying! "As for expres
sing nob od y-bu t-yourself in
words, that means working just
a little bit harder than anybody
who isn't a poet can possibly
imagine."
his Cam
music for
Cummings is one of the few
poets to set the pace for his style
of writing. His poetry is unique
with its lack of punctuation and
capitalization, its variety of line
lengths, and its lyric quality, an
uncommon characteristic of mod
ern poetry. Cummings' audience
has now come to accept the un
usual but pleasing style which
was condemned when it first ap
peared in literature.
Cummings was born and
raised in Cambridge, Massa
chusetts.
He attended Harvard
University and then joined the
French army in World War I.
In 1917, he was arrested and
placed in a concentration camp.
He describes his experiences in
the camp in "The Enormous
Room." Following his release
from prison, he returned to the
United States and served as an
infantryman in the U.S. Army.
Cummings has also received
recognition in the fields of drafts
manship and painting. He recent
ly had one-man art shows in New
York and Chicago.
His most recent poetical work
is "Poems 1923-1954," called "a
prodigious acc o m plishment in
American verse" by one critic.
Fisheman's Paradise
Contains Muddy Water
Abnormally muddy water will
present problems to fishermen
planning to attend -the opening
of Fisherman's Paradise at 9 a.m.
today.
The stream probably will re
main muddy in varying degrees
throughout the nine-week season,
predicted William Voigt, Jr., ex
ecutive director of the Fish Com
mission.
The anticipated 'muddy condi
tion is likely to result from the
extensive highway construction
work under way on Benner Pike,
four miles upstream from Para
dise.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
Behind Alumni Relations
Courses, Lectures Started for Alumni
By 808 FRANKLIN
Last of a Series
Courses for alumni and spec
ial lectures at class reunions
are two of the relatively recent
advances in the University's
on-campus alumni program.
Campus headquarters for the
more than 60,000 alumni is the
office of the Alumni Association,
104 Old Main, which is headed by
Executive Secretary Ridge Riley.
Although only about 13.500
graduates are members of the
association-6000 of these are
life members—the office oper
ates services for all alumni.
The Alumni College, the only
one of its kind in the nation, )ast
month sponsored its first pro
gram to bring back alumni for a
I weekend of concentrated liberal
and humanities studies.
The College is co-sponsored by
Prot Finch Speaks
On Egg, Blockheads
If eggheads and blockheads do not develop mutualities of
interest and do not supplement each other, there won't be any
heads left at all, Henry A. Finch, professor of philosophy, said
Wednesday night.
Finch spoke on "The Dut'
and Vice Versa" at the Associa
tion of Independent Men-Leoni
des banquet at the Eutaw House.
The warfare between the in
tellectual and no n - intellectual
has a long history, Finch, said,
and there is wrong on both sides.
He suggested that both should
recognize their deficiencies.
Finch outlined four possibili
ties for an egghead-blockhead
relationship. The first of these
was that they should be iso
lated from each other, the egg
head in the ivory tower and
the blockhead perhaps in the
cave. But this is sociologically
impossible, he said, because the
two are inter dependent in
many ways.
A second possibility, he said,
is that blockheads should instruct
and guide the eggheads. This
would end in possible conserva
tism, perhaps anarchy in some
ways, and the collapse of certain
prerequisites of civilized life, he
said.
He also said the eggheads
might lead the blockheads. How
ever, he added that to do this
it would have to be assumed that
the common man makes no im
portant contribution to the world.
The best idea for a relation
ship between the two, Finch
said, is an exchange of ideas
and interaction between the
two. For this relationship, he
said, the intellectual's task
must be explained to the com
mon man so he can make a sac
rifice—in investment, taxes or
obedience —to support the in
tellectual:
The intellectual can learn "wis
dom of the heart" from the com
mon man, Finch said. He sug
gested that a would-be intellec-
the Alumni Association and the
Center for Continuing Liberal
Education. It is headed by Dr.
Cyril F. Hager, director of the
center.
The college plans to expand its
program this summer with a 1-
week program in liberal and hu
manities refresher courses.
The Alumni Institute, estab
lished eight years ago, consists
of a series of free lectures and
panel discussions given by pro
fessors and held in June during
class reunions.
Lectures and panels in the
past have covered such diversi
fied topics as "Creative Think
ing." "Live Longer and Like
It,' "Nikita Khrushchev's Gam
ble" and "Rebirth in Africa:
Ethiopia."
These innovations are in ad
dition to such long-established
University functions as the class
es of Eggheads to Blockheads
tual read a good newspaper, get
some form of a liberal education,
work more with his hands and
recover some of his innocence.
LSA presents
THE PROBLEM OF CONTEMPORARY
ADAM
Dr. Joseph Sutler
Federated Theological Faculty, U. of Chicago
Lutheran Student Center
412 W. College
Sunday, May 17 3:30 P.M.
reunions maintaining alumni files,
as well as the alumni publications
program.
The Alumni Association spon
sors a reunion for each class every
fifth year, beginning with the
10th reunion. "Penn State Pio
neers," graduates of 50 years or
more, are invited to participate in
every reunion. The reunions are
held during a 3-day period in
June.
The Alumni Association of
fice keeps a complete file on
every alumnus and relays this
information upon request to
other alumni.
A full-time staff of nine and
many part-time workers are kept
busy filling these and other alum
ni requests including information
on entrance requirements, names
of possible speakers for special
events and how to get help for
civic projects throughout the
state.
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