FRIDAY. APRIL 20. 1962 . Bunn , . .Easter y, Tradition • 1, . . ~._ . ; . • , B r., .._• eigan m Petitisylv Mia ~ ~ , _.... By DONNAN BEESON l i these. .people were not the ones Aside from the religious aspect',who had a cake on their table in of the! Easter season. a , hare and;the shape of a rabbit laying an a would-be chick have played a; e gg promiOnt role in the celebration ot.this holiday • The!hare, or the Easter Rabbit, Was originally a Pennsylvania phenoMenon. Credit: for this is taken! by' the millions of 19th century , German immigrants who settlo primarily in the southeast :ern. region! of the state ;more corn monlyi ktiown as Pennsylvania Dutchi country. Thus, — wherever the Pennsylvania Dutchman mi grated after his arrival, he took the custom 'of the Oschter_liaws With him.' • • , THE CUSTOM of the rabbit and thg bt'ightly , colored eggs did not spread I from the Dutch culture until some time • after thel Civil War because the Quaker, Scotch= Irish and Episcopalian neighbors of 'the Dutch did not approve of the ce,febration. Acceordifig. to tradition, the rab bit. isi the ; one:who left the egg in children's baskets on Easter morning. .There were, however, some tfamilies who stuck to the "rationalisft view and refused to, tell, their' 'offspring this myth) aloigjwith the similar belief abnuti Santa! Claus. It is supposed that] i ~ .• - 1 - Trustees Hear ar Walk l ees Summary .• '.Of ;New Gifts, Contracts, Agreements . A total of $4;003,591.54 in gifts! with , the, Naval. Weapons Bureau' Two Students injured 1 contracts, and agrements was was the largest. The sum is to; 'n Route 322 Accident ' received by the University durH provide for the continuing opera- 1 1 ing the period 'Dec.: 11. 1961, to, tion ,of the Ordnance Research!. Two .y.tudehts wqre injured' Mardi 9, President Eric A. Walker ; Laboratory. !slightly In a collision on Route reported to,the Board of Trustees, The value of the renewed con- 322 in the Seven Mountains area last, weekend. - ' 'I tracts is $3,020,873.72. 'yesterday afternoon, state police • , - Neiiv contracts and gifti amount-1 . . . ed to: $983,117.82: The two largest: Sor ty Housin g Forms Jeffrey Rosenblum. spphomore agreements were from the Na-i OH in business administration from tional Science Foundation and the: Soiority housing chairmen . nwit East Meadows, N.Y. suffered an American Chemical Society. lsubmit their room. assignment!injury to his left knee and a cut ' 1 .‘s urn _ j applications for ihe' 1962-63 year l liP and, Jerome Deener,. freshman " ! The NSF is sponsoring a anoi to the Department of Housing by, 91 business administration from mar i'lnstitute in • Science ' 'South Orange, N.J. suffered a Mathematics for Secondary School ,M , aY 1 15 . laceration of the left leg and a Teachers" with a $107,000 con-i ! Before that date each sorerity ! forehod bruise. They were treat tract , . * member should talk with her t ; !housing chairman and• plan for ed at Centre,County Hospital and ' Unrestricted re_ earch in the!her room request, Terry Shaffer,' released. petroleum field wild be carried on;Panhel housing chairmen, said.' j The accident occurred when the $BO,OOO ant from the • under a ) 1. Each girl must sign and date car driven by Rosenblum ran into .American_ Chemicl , Society. iher individual application before`the left rear end of a truck driven . Gt . ' 54 contracts or. a reements'subMitting it to the sorority hous-!by George M. Huffman of Grand -1 :renewed, the $2,298,435, contracting chairman, Miss Shaffer_ said. ville. Huffman was uninjured. j • I t l iii` DO YO your clothes' by the put on , active mechani that yo look ffe .you ed process insures you r clothes will always OPEN 9 A.M. 'TO 11 P.M. THE. EGG itself, is steeped in traditions which include not only , decorations. but egg-eating cdn-. ;tests,, easter egg trees and eggs given l as gifts. The art of decorating an egg has. been preserved. !throughout the years, but it hag lost a great deal of the prestige originally ac corded to it. Whereas the modern I child's ; temptation is - to eat the colored egg, collecting the eggs over the'years used to be a hobby, Some of these collectors persist; and they pride themselves on owning .3 . 6-year-old egg: A NEWSPAPER article in 1874 reported an egg-eating contest in which the winner was said to have eaten 56 eggs. The editor reported' at the same time that he was' doubtful about The truth of this' feat. Another widely-held bit of holi day lore concerns weather. There is a saying. "A white Christmas--; a green Easter, or a white Easter. a green Christmas." the white Christmas this year, augmented. by a' favorable weather report, now circulating, encourages hope' for' a; green Easter, according to' believers Of this tale. TWISTERS: i ' . I : , REALIZE the strain lead? Our CENTRAL PENN CLEANERS, Inc. Vnirsrsiiy Shopping Center Westerly Parkes's!' STATE COLLEGE A NORGE Laundry and Drycleanlng Village THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. UNIVERSITY PARK: PENNSYLVANIA Preliminary plans for the , con struction of five buildings on cam pus by the General State Author-; ity were approved by the Board of, Trustees last weekend. Waiter H. Wiegand, head of the• ,physics plant - said that the build-' ;ings include construction • of an' Earth Sciences building, to be located where the present Con ' tinuing education building now, stands; an extension to the main unit of. Recreation Hall: a Con •ference Center, to be located at, 'bid Beaver- Field; the secofid unit; 'of the Education -Psychology unit. 'also to be .located on old Beaver. :Field. and the Life Sciences Build-, ing, to be located west of rear Laboratory. • ; SUBMISSION OF final plans for all but the Recreation Hall addition is expected before .the erid of the year, with the final plans for that construction expect ed by July 1963, Wiegand said. • Construction on. the Life Sci ences building is scheduled to begin in November of this yea,r with' 'work on the Education- Psychology unit scheduled to be gin in December. Construction on the Conference Center - will begin in January and on the Earth Sci ences building and the Recreation [fall addition in March 1963. The total anticipated cost for the con struction of these five buildings is • slightly over' $8.5 million. Wiegand, Look How Inexpensife! • 10 slipbver SWEATERS • 4 medium weight Men's SUITS $2OO Or •9 DRESSES forriust Trustees OK Plans to Erect 1 .4 1V11 Buildings OPEN 9 A.M. TO I I P.M. Juniois May Apply For Graduate Aid I ;Juniors interested in obtaining ly 2,500 graduate fellowships hi ifinanCial aid for graduate school.seience for a three-year period; for the fall of 1963 should begin;The applications for these fellow talking to their advisors now, Dr. ships must be submitted by the Edward B. van'Ormer, assistant end! of November, he said. • dean'of the Graduate School, said , approximately 950 fellowship! recently. ifor : one year of graduate study Juniors planning to attend the;abroad are available thrOugh the University graduate school should•Ftilbright Act. Applications -= 4of contact the department of theirthes' e Cellowslups• must be sub 4, choice regarding assistantships or milted .by the end of October. F. special scholarships, he said THE UNIVERSITY graduate interested in obtaining fellowships school sponsors 40 non-stipend or any other type of financial aid schohArships, which exempt Stu-, fc4. - graduate' Atudy can obtain d e nts' from all major fees and information on' programs offered are available to qualified stu- by various gradUate schools dents in any field. The student, throughout the country, in, the must. carry a full academic load Griiduate School office. . . • and need financial - aid. van Or- ' . , A FILE IS also maintained by mer said. . . the Graduate .Schoot, which con- STUDENTS DESIRING to at- tains information about scholar tend ,other university graduate ships. , iissistantships and fellow; schools should apply for fellow-'ships available from industrial ships, scholarships or assistant- Organizations, foundations- - And ships before May 1. - 'federal agencies. • ~: ' The Woodrow Wilson Natiimall, , , .1 Fellowship Foundation awards, 1.000 fellowships annually for Approved - Fraternities --.: first-year graduate study at 'an' 'All i ll fraternities are ~approved institution :ot the students' choices. for social event.: today, and to,. The applications for th , -se fellow - morrow except 'Delta Sigma Phi ships must be submitted before and Zeta Psi, which are approved Oct. 31, van Ormer said. • for tomorrow only, the Fraternal' THE NATIONAL SCIENCE A f faVr. Office announced yecter .Foundation awards apinoximato- day. Will you leave these freedoms to your children? Mon have dial to kayo you thus* 4 symbols of hoidens! A Holy Illblo—symbol of your right to worship as you wish (Fir*, Arrouhdrooot, U S. Couttitutiort) • 'A door key—your right to lock your door against illegol gov ernment force and prying. (Fourth Arnohdrosotr. U. S. Coottittelheithi A pencil—freedom to speak or write iivhot you think, whether you ogre* with the government or not. , frfst Amondiliont, U. S. Conslitiolool. And a hue ballot—your right to choose the people who repro. sent you in government—your protection against government tyranny. • (A f ticts t , U. S. comithittest • In half the world today. these symbols and the things they stand for have been destroyed. And Khrushchev says it can happen here. He boasts that our children will live under socialism. Unthinkable? Yes—but only so tong as America guards its freedoMs well. Against threats that come from inside our country, as well as from. the outside. In these critical times you would think that all of America's energies and financial resources should be concentrated on strengthening our country's defense. But there arc some people who would weaken this effort through needless" government spending. For ci- k ample, ;they want to use billions of your tax dollars to put gol?ernment deeper into the electric power business. Such spending is unnecessary because the Investor owned electric light and power companies can supply all the additional power a growing America will need. Each time the government moves further into busi ness—any business—it is another step on the road to socialism. And socialism is one thing Americans do not mean Us leave to their children—or grandchildren—desiiite what Khrushchcv says. WEST PENN POWER bvstor-o!vnae, tax-paying---saving wEsrsrn PfHNsylvania Van Omer. said that student! PAGE SEVEN
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