WEDNESDAY, NOVE Strauss, Failures Hugo Weisgall that Richard Stia operatic tradition were failures. Weisgall said Strauss' fai and that Puccini was respons ROTC 'lan Is Approved By Cabinet SGA Cabinet approved Mon day night the recommenda tions concerning ROTC as set forth by the now defunct All- University Cabinet last year. The recommendations will be presented before Assembly to morrow night for debate. Endorsed by SGA President Leonard Julius with the unani mous support•of his cabinet, the recommendations were: ei Limiting the compulsory two year ROTC prograr to one year; expanding the advanced program to the sophomore year; establish ing scholarships by all three serv ices. The Naval program already, has this in effect; expanding the, ROTC program to such fields as' survival, civil defense, and re lated phases. •Grouping all ROTC depart ments into a civilian administered School of Military Affairs; con sideration be given to the possi bility of voluntary ROTC in +he University's long-range develop ment plans; and encouraging the military to promote its programs to schools throughout the coun try. Walter Darran (C.-Jr.), who in troduced the report to Cabinet, said the recommendations had not been discussed by the University or the Board of Trustees, to the best of his knowledge, and that SGA's approval would carry ad ded weight in their eyes. Julius also endorsed a report given by Norman Kahn, chairman of the SGA Committee on Com monwealth Campus Integration. Julius accepted the resignation of Hart Langer as chairman of the 1960 Spring Week festivities, Langer resigned because of "per sonal reasons." THANKSGIVING VACATION BUS SCHEDULE From Stale College to Lewßlown Monday, November 23, 1959 Lv. S.C. 11:15 a.m.-3:25 p.m. 6:50 p.m. Tuesday, November 1 4, 1959 Lv. S.C. 11:15 a.m.-12:05 p.m. 3:25 p.m: -6:50 p.m. Meets eastbound trains at 1:22 p.m.-4:48 p.m.-8:10 p.m. Sunday, November 29, 1959 Buses will meet all p.m. westbound trains . . Boalsburg Auto Bus Lines Inc. Reservations will be appreciated ®ER 18, 1959 Puccini Called as Composers By AMY ROSENTHAL Laid in his first of a series of four lectures ss and Puccini in trying to follow the ; of Richard Wagner and Guiseppi Verdi ure was due to lack of talent ble for the debasement of the Italian opera tradition. Both Wagner and Verdi devel oped and climaxed the develop ment of their separate traditions, Weisgall said. No composer could follow after them. Wagner set out in the 19th century to set a new tradition in opera. His most successful and most dangerous experiment was to shift the emphasis in op era from the voice to the or chestra. The orchestra articulat ed most of the drama in Wag ner's works. "He :;rimmed up romantic ideals in music and created the epic na tional drama," Weisgall said. Verdi, on the other hand, want ed to improve on the Italian op era tradition. He never for; of that the central point of opera was not the orchestra but the human voice 'and he tried above all to have naturalness and simplicity in his dramas. Weisgall said, when you com pare composers you see the de cisive gulf beween 19th cen tury art and 20th cergury sen sationalism. Strauss, Weisgall said, under stood Wagner tpo well and put all his drama in the orchestra. He said the acting or singing did not compare with the orchestra. "Ev erything is in the orchestra and when it'd not we wish it were." Puccini tried to graft Wagnerian ideas to the Itaian opera tradi tion and he chose poor stories. Weisgall described Puccini's "Tos ca" as a shabby little shocker. Weisgall said Gian Carol Me noffi's drama was banal. "He has dying babies in every opera, and I'm sick of dying babies on the stage." Weisgall also mentioned his dis taste for televising of Menotti's opera "Amahl and the Night Vis itors" during the Christmas sea son. However, Weisgall said, there were a group of 20th century compost...es who wished to break from the 19th century tradition. Weisgall will discuss this group in his next lecture, "Tradition and Revolution." —Andrew Johnson was the first U.S. President to be formally in terviewed by the press. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Froth Makes Another Try For Success Froth tries again! After last month's feeble attempt to analyze the college coed, Froth magazine tries for success once more—this time by analyzing academic life. College teaching is self-taught says Froth. (Wonder what the profs would have to say to this.) You can give your fraternity and sorority bluebook files a rest this month and look instead at Froth's shining examples of psy chology, history, and sociology bluebooks. Froth goes so far as to deal with the teaching and legalizing of crime in the article "Crime as a Career." The magazine attempts to give us a lesson in Shakespeare by pre senting a parody drama "Much Ado about Frothingale." Diane Derrickson, freshman in art education from Pittsburgh, graces the pages as Froth's Girl of the Month. Froth will go on sale today at the Hetzel Union desk, the Cor ner Room, and on the Mall. Special Holiday Dinner Will Be Held in HUB A special Thanksgiving candle light dinner will be held from 5 to 6:45 p.m., tomorrow in the Hetzel Union Terrace Room. A choice of roast lamb, roast turkey with dressing, baked ham or chopped beef steak will be served. Desserts will include apple, mince, pumpkin pie and 'coconut cake. 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