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START OF AN INTRACAMPUS SUBWAY???—no, construction
is the beginning of a steam tunnel for women's residence halls
being built near Wagner Building. The new Beaver Field is in
the background.
instructor
Pitfalls of
By AMY ROSENTHAL
Three pitfalls faced by the
educated person are exhibi
tionism, scientism, and the
tendency to make sweeping
generalizations, Walter Ralls,
instructor in history, said
Wednesday night.
Rails, speaking to Cwens,
sophomore women's hat society,
said when educated people take
themselves too seriously they be
come caught in one of these pit
falls
He termed exhibitionism the
showing off of knowledge. This,
he said, has led to the new
educational literature which
describes learning as "a chal
lenge." Because of exhibitional
ism, third grade arithmetic be
comes described as living pre
dicaments and biology is re
named living museums. Begin
ning teachers are told they must
prepare themselves for the chal
lenge of the parents," a new
name for the PTA meeting.
Rails also described as exhi
bitionism, the taking up of fads
such as Zen Bhuddaism and
Symposium Participant
Dr. Clarence R. Carpenter, di
rector of the Division of Academic
Research and Services, will par
ticipate today and tomorrow
in a symposium at the Center for
Advanced Study in the Behavioral
Sciences at Stanford, Calif.
Convenien
13. 1959
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Explains
Education
Existentialism to show off intelli
gence.
He said that the professional
and business world is being
caught in scientism, they want to
prove themselves scientific and
so use charts, jargon and num
bered lists of rules.
As an example of scientism
he cited the educators who use
jargon, terming discipline "high
yimness correction." Rail also
mentioned as another example
the brochure put out by the
Pentagon listing IQ rules on how
to walk up its ramps to avoid
tripping.
The third pitfall of sweeping
generalization he described as the
tendency of using basic knowl
edge to solve complicated prob
lems. He used as an example
the curbstone psychologists whose
diagnosis of an alchoholic is "He's
got suppressed homosexual tend
encies."
Rails warned his audience about
using the knowledge_ gained in
basic courses to solving compli
cated problems.
"There are two characteristics
that distinguish hurrlans from ani
mals," Rails said. "One is their
spirit of unpossessive love and the
other is their struggle upward on
the road of the mind."
MIL BALL
December 4
ly located across from Atherton Hall . :
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
Season's First Snow Storm
WITT. k. 7.1
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Expected to Arrive Today
I The first snowfall of the season should hit this area today
bringing cold weather and from two to three inches of snow.
The snow was expected to begin before dawn and con
tinue most of the morning. It may change to rain this after
noon, but will probably turn back to snow tonight as much
colder weather arrives on brisk' night and on Satuiday.
northwesterly winds. The pir will be modified by
The storm will probably con- the time it arrives in this area,
tinue tomorrow in the form of but, nevertheless, temperatures
intermittent snow flurries, will fall below 20 degrees by Sun-
A storm system that is mov-
day morning.
ing on an east northeasterly j Tonight will be cloudy and
path through the Ohio Valley is ; windy with the rain changing
the cause of the inclement wea- ; back to snow. It will become
they. It is producing snow over ! much colder tonight with an
a wide segment of the nation overnight low of 22 degrees.
stretching from the Rockies to
the Appalachians.
Meanwhile a huge mass of 1,-ery!are expected tomorrow with tem
,cold arctic air covers the north- peratures falling to reach the
,western part of the country This freezing mark all day. The high
air, with temperatures as'cold as , will be a mighty cold 30 degrees.
15 below zero in its core, should! Sunday will be partly cloudy
;move into this region tomorrow'and continued quite cold.
Occasional snow flurries, strong
winds and much colder weather
PAGE THREE
Ticket Sale Begins
For Folk Concert
Tickets are now on sale for the
concert of Pete Seeger, an Ameri
can folk singer.
The concert, sponsored by the
University Christian Association,
will be held at 8 p.m next Fri
day in Schwab Auditorium
Student tickets at $1 and non
student tickets at $1.50 are on
sale at the Hetzel Union desk, the
Helen Eakin Eisenhower Chapel
and the Music Room.
For CLASSIFIEDS Call
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on orders of
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(delivery 9 to midnight)
MORRELL'S
112 S. Frazier St
Through the
Looking Glass
with Gabbi
I'm sitting here with a bit of a
nostalgic lump in my throat be
cause this coming Saturday
will be the last game to be
played on Beaver Field. In hon
or of the event, I've communi
cated with the Muses and come
up with a little ditty for to
morrow. "Let's be boss, in the
game with Holy Cross "
ONLY ETHEL
has such a variety of new fall
purses. Especially stylish are
the bags of coarse-weave linen
trimmed in mahogany leather.
For dressy occasions, there are
fur purses in the autumn
shades or satins bags in neu
tral, wear - with - everything
beig'.
ON THE PETER PAUPER
GIFT RACK
you will find, for only $l.OO,
such interesting books as The
World's Best Limmericks, Say
ings of Mohommed, and (if
you're tired of dorm food), one
entitled Simple French Cook
ery.
COMPLETELY
IMPRACTICAL
and designed to catch your
lighter moods is "Hector." He
is a flexible doll coming in
shades of pink, green, blue, and
yellow with white fuzzy hair
and a pink bulbous-nose, Wrap
"Hector" around your desk
lamp or sit him on your book
shelf.
W YOU'RE STUMPED
on a gift selection, why not sur
prise your friend with a Hum
mel 'figurine. Ethel has e, lovely
selection of Hummel children
in all sizes.
TIRED OF BRIDGE
Russian roulette, and table
tennis? For a new indoor sport,
try "Spill and Spell." The game
consists of dice with letters
rather than numbers which,
when rolled, can be used to
spell a variety of word .
See your soon?
Gabbi
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