COLLEGE TIMES
State Teachers College, Lock Haven, Penna.
Vol. IX, No, 31

FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 1932

5 Cents Per Copy

Sorority Alumnae in Attendance at Annual
Rho Omega Lambda Entertain
Alumnae Guests at Banquet
on Saturday Evening
Fourteen almunae were the guests of
the Rho Omega Lambda Sorority at the
annual alumnae banquet on Saturday
evening at Herlocker's banquet hall.
At tables decorated with pink roses
and sorority colors, a most delicious
chicken dinner was served. After t h e
guests were welcomed by Kathleen Noll,
the president, the evening's program was
turned over to Mary Steiner, t h e toastmistress; to the Junior members, whose
entertainment was most humorous; and
to Miss Mabel-Louise Arey, sorority advisor, who gave several delightful readings. The remainder of the evening was
spent in dancing.
Novel vanity cases, engraved with t h e
Greek letters R. O. L. were the favors.
The alumnae, who w e r e present were:
J a n e Lohr, Nancy Galbraith, Mary Farr,
Eileen Philipps, Esther Fyock, Dorothy
Joy, Peg Zyrenich, Edith Hoy, Verna
Mae Kurtz, Ruth Grier and Evelyn Bosworth.

Fraternity Redecorates
Room in Training School
Under the direction of Carl Hatter,
president, the members of the Delta Rho
Beta Fraternity are redecorating their
room in the Old Training School. F o r
the past two weeks the members through
voluntary work have removed t h e paint
from the walls and ceiling of the room
and painted them in cream trimmed with
mahogany.
Previous to the fraternity's work, t h e
Superintendent of Building and Grounds,
Mr. George Hursh, personally supervised
some much needed repairs to the room.
The old casing of the steam pipes was
removed and replaced with an attractive
casing so arranged as to serve as a window seat. Hall space was increased
when an unsightly and useless blackboard was removed. New plaster completed the college's contribution to t h e
fraternities renovated quarters.
When completed, under the present
plans, which include a new floor covering and more suitable furniture, the D.
R. B's. remodeled room will be reserved
for fraternity members.

Nonsense Verse Stressed
For Value to Children

Naturalist Club
Homecoming Day to
Take Place Tomorrow
The annual Home Coming Day of the
Naturalist Club will take place this Saturday, April 23. An interesting and
novel program has been arranged for
the entertainment of the alumni members. Members of the club will receive
the alumni in the Blue room on Saturday
morning, thus giving them opportunity
to stroll about the campus before entering into the actual program of the day.
In t h e afternoon the members and the
alumni will go to the park at the McElhattan reservoir, which will form a natural setting for the event. The program
for t h e afternoon will be characteristic
of a family reunion. Talking, renewing
and making new acquaintances, playing
games as baseball will be some of the
activities of the day. A treasure hunt
will also be a feature of t h e afternoon
program. In the evening the members
and t h e alumni will be entertained at
the h o m e of Mr. Ulmer. Here the group
will gather about the fireside and listen
to stories told by various members of the
group and by Mr. Ulmer. Mr. Ulmer
has been faculty adviser of t h e club ever
since its organization in 1923. Since he
is acquainted intimately with both
alumni and present members of the club,
his presence is an essential factor to the
success of the reunion. About twentyfive alumni members a r e expected to be
present for the homecoming.

Freshman Class to Give
Dance Tomorrow Night
As t h e second social event of their flrst
year at coUege, the Freshmen have completed plans for a Spring Sport Dance
in t h e gymnasium on Saturday evening,
April 23, at 8:00 o'clock. The dance, to
which each freshman may bring an invited guest provided he or she is enrolled as a student in the college, is in
the hands of competent committees appointed by the president, Elwood Rohrbaugh. Mabel Burd is chairman of the
Invitation Committee and has as her
aides Ruth Lakin, Clarence Eld, and
Paul Mills. The entertainment is in
charge of Walter Wilkinson, Florence
Hunt, Stewart Wilson, and Beatrice Berg.
Geraldine Simpson, Ronald Aldrich and
Lynn Norman a r e the music and refreshment committee of which J a c k Bryerton
is chairman.

Those attending the dance, at which
the Lyric Orchestra will play, are r e quested to come in sport clothes, as the
Miss Belle Holaway, who had charge party will be very informal.
of the Chapel Service on Monday morning, gave a brief but interesting talk on
the value of nonsense verse as a means
of interesting chUdren in poetry and inducing them to read it.
Tomorrow at noon the poetry contest
Miss Holaway emphasized the value of closes. If you haven't placed your enappreciation in poetry. Appreciation is tries in the Times Poetry Box in the
a matter of both knowing and feeling. Times Room, do so now. You still have
Many times we fail in teaching poetry until 12 o'clock noon on Saturday.
Next week the Times will publish the
because we proceed on the knowing
winning poem. The judges are Miss
basis only.
The poetry chosen should be within Pearl A. Payne, Miss Berthe A, Daniel,
the child's perception. It must be ma- and Mr, Weldon M, WiUiams. Watch
for t h e prize poem in next Friday's issue.
(Continued on page 3)

Poetry Contest Closes

Receptions

Beta Sigma Chi's Assemble at Alpha Sigma Tau's Hold Eleventh
Clinton Country Club for
Annual Banquet at New
Homecoming Day
Fallon Hotel
The annual Beta Sigma Chi Homecoming Day terminated with a colorful
formal banquet held at the Clinton
Country Club. Twenty-three alumnae
members, with Miss Avis Edgerton and
Miss Gladys Erickson, faculty advisers,
were entertained at a dinner dance given
by the members of the sorority.
A program in charge of Alice Marie
Hackett followed the dinner. Marion
Francisco played a violin solo, "To a
Wild Rose." Edith Sharpe gave a humorous reading. Miss Edgerton gave an
address calling upon t h e alumnae members for short reminiscences of the sorority. Miss Erickson gave a response to
the girls, Clarissa Wainger and Beryl
DeWalt played piano solos. Vivian Messimer, the vice president, presented the
officers for the year 1932-33, They are
Alma Probst, president; Edith Sharpe,
vice president; Madeline Anderson, treasurer; Mary Evans, corresponding secretary; Clarissa Wainger, recording secretary, and Margaret Freeman and Marion
Francisco, Inter-Sorority Council representatives. Jenice Sharpe acted as toastmistress.
The dinner favors were individual
wrist corsages of daffodils tied with yellow, and white gold-filled bracelets in
modernistic design with the sorority seal
on a link. Attractive orange and brown
programs made in the shape of the bittersweet seal completed the decorations.
A gay dance in front of the huge flreplace followed t h e dinner.
The alumnae who attended the banquet are Mrs. Curtis Lauer, Mary Gates,
Marjory Young, Ruth Hunter, Harriet
Rorabaugh, Lil Bressler, Anna Yockey,
Charlotte High, Alice Ratchford, Mary
Corrigan, Catherine Bennett, Essie Noll,
Peg Creighton, Catherine Cook, Kay
Gorman, Peg Coira, Alice Fodge, Ivah
Thompson, Judy Coffey Noll, Lillian
Rhode, Louise McCann, and Kay Bowes
Smith,
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The New Fallon Hotel was the scene of
the eleventh annual alumnae dinnerdance of the Alpha Sigma Tau Fraternity.
Dinner was served in the private dining room. The tables were simply but
beautifully decorated with yellow tea
roses and candles. The favors w e r e silver pennants with the Fraternity's seal.
Between courses Peg Dorries, acting
as toastmistress, introduced the speakers
and entertainers, Mrs. William Ross
(formerly Grace B r o o k s , 1922), of
Smethport, flrst president of Alpha Sigma Tau, amusingly told the history of
the Fraternity, In concluding, Mrs. Ross
compared t h e present day attitudes of
the three sororities on our campus with
their attitudes when she was in college.
She expressed her pleasure at seeing the
sororities successfully co-operating, and
mingling at the inter-sorority tea without a thought of prejudice.
Blanche Swope, '27, sang "Pale Moon"
and Thelma Yingling recited "But I'm a
Girl." Mrs. MacDougall, t h e Adviser,
told of her experience at the national
convention of the Fraternity. The convention was held during August, 1931, at
Denver, Colorado,
After dinner, the Fraternity's four
pledges, Violet Sanders, Emily Williams,
Evelyn Livingston, and Sally Hoffman,
entertained with an interesting program
of songs. The remaining part of the
evening was quickly passed with dancing, and with renewing and making acquaintances.
The alumnae who returned are Dorothy Killen, Blanche Swope, Margaret
Spooner, Lenore Sharpe, Eleanor Little,
Ethel Hartsock, Elizabeth Van Sco.voc,
Martha Maitland, Phyllis Kinkead, Grace
Brooks Ross, Alice Read, Gwen Knapp,
Roberta Seltzer, Betty KeU, Gertrude
Marks, Margaret Beeson, Avonelle Catlin Martin, Edith Hile, Charlotte Knapp,
Geraldine Conway, Dorothy Gearhart,
Emma Frances Fry, Geraldine Greaser
and Mary Thompson,

President of College
Attends P. S. of A.
Meeting at Pittsburgh Tea Dance Attended by
Dr, Dallas W. Armstrong attended the
meeting of the Western Pennsylvania Large Group of Alumnae
section of the Pennsylvania State Education Association, on Friday and Saturday of last week, at Pittsburgh.
On Saturday evening Dr. Armstrong
also attended and gave an address at the
annual meeting and banquet of the Lock
Haven Alumni Association of Western
Pennsylvania. The banquet, which was
attended by about seventy-flve alumni,
was held at the Fort Pitt Hotel in Pittsburgh.
Dr. D. W. Thomas, President of the
Board of Trustees, and Dr. J. W. Sweeney, also a member of the Board of
Trustees, attended the meeting and made
addresses. The Lock Haven Alumni in
that section of t h e state are reported to
be very loyal to their Alma Mater and
active in its interests. W. J. Thomas,
1911, was president of t h e Pittsburgh
Branch of the Alumni Association this
year and Russell C, McElflsh, 1908, was
elected president for next year.

A delightful spring tea dance was held
in the Gymnasium, Saturday afternoon,
April 16, from 3:00 to 5:00 o'clock, by the
Rho Omega Lambda, Alpha Sigma Tau,
and Beta Sigma Chi sororities for their
alumnae.
Margaret Gardiner and Helen Munson
presided at a beautifully decorated tea
table. Those who received were Kathleen Noll, Jenice Sharpe and Alma Soyster, presidents of the organizations.
The color scheme was light pastel
shades of green, pink, yellow, blue and
lavendar,
A colorful tie-dye drop
served as a background for a huge blue
and white wedgewood tea-set. A portion of the gym was set off with crepe
streamers of the light shades. The tea
gowns accentuated the April Note.
A large nuniber of alumnae guests enjoyed dancing and renewing acquaintance with sorority girls and advisers.

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athletic programs. This omission is probably due to the fact that the major part
of the season falls in the vacation period
of the school.
Colleges and schools are noted for their
football and basketball teams, but rarely
ever are they noted for their baseball
teams. This indeed is quite unfortunate.
Even considering the fact that the summer vacation conflicts with the baseball
season, there is a definite place for the
development of a strong baseball club in
a school.
There is some rumor that Lock Haven
State Teachers College ma.v have a varsity baseball team, and that games before the close of school are now being
scheduled. Those who are undertaking
to promote baseball in this college are
to be congratulated. Without a doubt
baseball should be considered a major
sport at our college.
Since there are so many students in
school and so few reporters, it is almost
impossible for them to get in touch with
all the personal news of the pupils. For
this reason the College Times Staff has
devised a special contribution box as
an opportunity for you to let others know
just what is happening. This box is
placed in the Times Room, Room 27,
which is the room next to the Inflrmary,
If you wi.sh to help make the Times
more of a student paper now is your
chance to show some cooperation by contributing your share. Any place you go,
anything you see or do will be of interest to others. Why not let them know
about it?

Training School Will
Hold Spring Festival

Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Section 1103, Act of October
3, 1917, authorized June 3, 1923.
Entered as Second Class matter November 6,
Every child in the Training School
1928, at the Post Office at Lock Haven, Penna.,
who is in a class under the supervision
under the Act ot March 3, 1879.
! of Miss Maloise S. Dixon will take part
in the Spring Festival to be given May
APRIL 22, 1932
11 and 13.
Each grade has some deflnite act to
contribute to the program. The flrst
grade will play dramatic games. Under
the direction of the Music Department,
the fourth grade is learning to sing accompanying rhymes for the flrst grade
A distressing practice prevalent among games. This grade is also working out
some ol the students is that of tearing typical games and races. The girls of
down decorations at our school dances. the second grade a r e doing tumbling in
Perhaps a little discipline exercised rhythm to the music of the flrst and
by the men upon their partners when fourth grades. The girls also do t u m they start begging for a souvenir would bling during one episode and the boys
solve the problem. After all, the girls during another. The third grade is workdo seem to be the chief cause; they ask ing on the annual Maypole dance. Fifth
for decorations, and their escorts, thus and sixth grades are working on clogencouraged, nobly provide them with ging and a gypsy dance, as well as a dramatization that is made up of gymnastic
the furnishings of the room.
exercises practiced during the year.
The group sponsoring the dance works
In the dramatization of the Cinderella
hard and diligently at considerable expense to make these decorations pos- fairy tale, among other unusual persible. If you cannot enjoy the dance sonifications a group of Junior High
without robbing the room of its beauty, School girls wUl bring to life the prancsacrifice this pleasure and show respect ing horses that drew Cinderella's coach.
to the person who does enjoy dancing in
a beautiful hall.
The Junior Prom is near at hand. The
juniors will undoubtedly work hard and
go to considerable expense and trouble
to decorate the gymnasium. Are you
Appointments for Dramatic Club trygoing to help cooperate to make this a
successful dance? If so, show some ap- outs will be held this week for the purpreciation of the decorating committee pose of casting the Annual Junior Play,
to be given on May 19, and to choose
and do not destroy their work.
new members for the Dramatic Club.
Anybody who is not graduating this
"Play ball, batter up," is the call heard year is eligible to try out for memberall over the United States at this time ship and will be given a fair chance to
of the year. It is the time of the open- show what he can do. The try-outs will
ing of the 1932 baseball season. Base- not be difficult, and will not require adball is probably the most outstanding vance preparation or former dramatic
game played in America toda,y. Played training. All that is necessary is a litby small boys in the back yards and tle imagination, and this is possible alstreets as well as by men who make the though self-consciousness my persist.
g a m e their profession, it is the most Nothing will be asked that is not within
popular sport that the people of Ameri- the ability of an average student.
ca have.
The Dramatic Club requests every one
Yet we find that our schools and col- who wishes to belong to try out and not
leges do not stress this game in their be too modest about it.

Students Reveal Talent
In Dramatic Club Tryout

TIMES

Freshman Select
Class Symbols
In order to keep those of you who a r e
cinema-minded posted on current movies
downtown, this column will give you advance notices of coming attractions,
"Alias the Doctor," the Roxy movie today and tomorrow stars Richard B a r thelemes and Marian Marsh. It is a
drama of the medical profession with its
locale in Bavaria. Many of the hospital
scenes are said to be hyper-realistic. The
movie falls in the average-program
category.
Next week, for the first three days, t h e
Roxy screens M-G-M's "Tarzan, t h e
Ape-Man," an adaptation of Burrough's
imaginative novel directed by W. S, Van
Dyke. Van Dyke directed "Trader Horn"
and "White Shadows in the South Seas."
Johnny Weismuller, swimming champion, makes a perfect Tarzan. Supporting him are Maureen O'SuUivan and Neil
Hamilton. The movie was filmed in
Hollywood and uses every trick device
known to the studios. Lock Haven is
able to see it simultaneously with first
showings in Philadelphia and New York.
It is a triple-A picture.
Maurice Chevalier, guided by Lubitsch
and supported by Jeanette MacDonald,
Genevieve Tobin, and Charles Ruggles,
appears for the last half of the week in
"One Hour With You." This is a sophisticated comedy based on Lubitsch's
silent movie "The Marriage Circle."
There are a number of lilting melodies
in the score and these are perfectly r e a l ized through the efforts of the cast.
Chevalier, MacDonald and Lubitsch—
you'll be delighted.

Prohibition Is Topic
Of Discussion in
Y. M. C. A. Meeting
At the regular meeting of the Y, M, C.
A., held last Wednesday evening, an interesting discussion took place on t h e
subject of Prohibition. The discussion
was based upon the pamphlet "Let's
Have the Truth About Prohibition,"
published by the American Business
Men's Prohibition Association.
This foundation is a voluntary association organized to collect and correlate
facts regarding the results of National
Prohibition and its relation to the progress and welfare of t h e people of the
United States.
Millard Weber and Myran Biddle led
the discussion.

Y.M.C.A.TakesCharge
Of Employment Bureau
At a cabinet meeting last Wednesday
evening held at t h e home of Mr, Ulmer
the Y, M. C. A. has decided to take over
the work of the Employment service
that Dr. Weber introduced into the college recently.
This new activity of the "Y" wUl be
called the Y, M, C. A, Employment Bureau and will be open to the men of t h e
college and members of the Y. M. C. A.
The organization has laid aside a small
sum of money for the purpose of advertising this Employment Bureau to t h e
people of Lock Haven through the medium of the Lock Haven Express.
Millard Weber was appointed chairman of this bureau and will have full
charge of finding employment for those
applying for such work.

The results of the election of class colors, flower, and motto were announced
on Tuesday morning, April 12, at a meeting of t h e Freshman class. The suggestions had been previously presented to
the class by a committee composed of
Kathleen Conrad, J a c k Bryerton, and
Walter Wilkinson, with Pauline Kessinger as chairman. The lilac was chosen
as class fiower and the colors black and
silver were selected. T h e motto which
most appealed to the freshmen was a
bit of poetry from George Santayana's
"Ode":
"What better comfort have we, or what
other proflt in living
Than to feed, sobered by the t r u t h of
Nature,
Awhile upon her bounty and her beauty
And hand her torch of gladness to the
ages following after?"

Spring Encourages
Girls' Outdoor Sports
HORSE-BACK RIDING
On Monday at 4:15 P. M., six girls will
cross the river to the Armory, to take
their flrst lesson in horse-back riding.
These girls are Bonny Crissman, Elizabeth Gorman, J e r r y Jones, Helen Munson, Claire Wade, and J e a n McClure. Including the faculty members, there will
be a class of ten. T h e classes will be
conducted under the same plan as former ones.
BASEBALL
Anyone desiring lessons in wood-chopping, come out during the regular gym
periods for baseball practice. Any freshman, as well as any second year student,
who wishes to play baseball, may come
to practice at any of t h e following periods: Monday and Wednesday at 8:00 and
9:30, Monday at 3:20, and Tuesday at 3:20.
GOLF
After watching a class of about 50 girls
practice golf last week, Mr. Ulmer decided to get a slow motion picture
camera for the beneflt of the group.
Nevertheless, some will have to show
signs of improvement or they will have
to play on a cow-pasture instead of joining a country club.

Lock Haven High
Loses to Montgomery
Debating Team
Small but appreciative audiences attended the debates held here at the College last Wednesday afternoon when the
Lock Haven High School's debating
team, champion of Clinton County was
defeated by the Lycoming County winner, Montgomery High School, to compete for the privilege of representing
those counties in the semi-finals. With
arguments based on logic, actual practice, and the opinions of eminent authorities, the m e m b e r s of t h e different
teams discussed the question of State
compulsory unemployment insurance, a
question which should be of interest to
every one who concerns himself at all
with t h e conditions of t h e country today,
when there is such a definite need for
some alleviation of unemployment.
In t h e main auditorium, where the
Montgomery affirmative team met the
Lock Haven negative, the latter won by
a score of 2 to 1, In the Junior High
School Lock Haven lost 3 to 0, thereby
losing to Montgomery, who has been
state champion for two years.

Some more freshmen—local color—the
student who asked the music supervisor
And they have come, in Psychology
who was going to teach the music ob- class, to classifying corpses as dead perservation.
sonalities.

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Getting Personal
EUen Reighard was a week-ender at
Loganton. She has an aunt there, but
then there are other good reasons.
Altoona's population increased by six
when Shirley Emes, Ellen Fleming, Irene
Dougherty, Edith Elvey, Cornelia Davis,
and Dot Cunningham set six pairs of
feet on their home sod.
At Madeira (and only t h e name is
Spanish) Dot Hoffman entertained Peg
McCracken as her guest.
In this same Madeira, last week-end,
you might have noticed Rose Mannino
and Sue Evanochko, sweet-homing it.
Duncansville boasted the personal appearance of its own Gladys Gearhart.
The busy city of Emporium welcomed
Lloyd Stringfellow to its folds again. We
don't know what all t h e attraction is but
he just can't stay away, it seems.
Eloise Pownell, Wilberta Shope, and
Julia Summers took advantage of the
nice spring weather and hiked to Peter's
Steps in the hills across the river.
Cogan House heard with enjoyment
of the return of its native, Minnie Clark,
who was accompanied by her roommate,
Vi Holes. You should hear about the
coaeh they met!
Lock Haven lost its attractions for A u drey Finn, She journeyed north to Renovo and observed the scenery in that
district.
Olive Pelton availed herself of an opportunity to go motoring. She visited
Wellsboro and Sabinsville while on her
tour.
Leitzel, Kepler, and Douty, the three
Musketeers, left their housekeeping duties and journeyed home to t r y Mother's
cooking again, although they agree that
their own could be worse.

Genuflection to Spring
I suppose it's t h e thing.
When one senses spring
To gambol and cavort and frolic,
But with eight lesson plans
Waiting h e r e on my hands
I doubt that I'll feel so bucolic.

W. A. A. Credits
Splendid Acting Redeems
Awards to Girls in
Jane Cowl's Latest Play
Gym Activities Tuesday night at Williamsport, J a n e
In collaboration the two gym teachers
have selected those students who d e served the merits of first and second
place in their gym work, dancing, volleyball, and hockey.
Those receiving first place are credited
with 100 points toward W. A. A. In this
category a r e listed the following people:
Dancing — Kathleen Conrad, Marion
Francisco, Grace Hoffman, Marion Jones,
Harrietta Snider. Volleyball — A n n
Crist, Gladys Gearhart, Vida Goodman,
Hazel Hanna, Geraldine Jones, Kathryn
Kitko, Evelyn Livingstone, Anne Oven,
Olive Pelton, Anna Seminitis, Emily
WiUiams. Hockey—Cora Beck, Beatrice
Berg, Marguerite Bovard, Alice Marie
Hackett, Betty M c K e n n a , Marjorie
Young, Erma Cailender, Dorothy Drake,
Anne Oven, Mary Thompson, Margaret
Dorries, Pearl Drick, Mary Hill, Anna
Seminitis.
Those receiving second place are credited with 75 points toward W, A, A. In
this category a r e listed the following
people: Dancing—Mae Allen, Dorothy
Beish, Wanda Brown, Amy Burns, Betty
DeFrehn, Audrey Finn, Gladys Gearhart, Ruth Henninger, Mary Alice Ketti,
Maxine Laufer, Josephine Leaphart,
Evelyn Livingstone, Nellie Manning, Roberta Newman, Olive Pelton, Florence
Priddey, RoJean Roberts, Virginia Robinson, Ruth Savage, Ruth Straley. Volleyball—Wanda Brown, Amy Burns,
Ruth Hart, Henrietta HUl, NeUie Manning, Sara Martz, Hilda Payne, Ellen
Reighard, Mae Rhodes, Rosanna Shireman, Esther Thompson. Hockey—Dorothy Beish, Marion Francisco, Reba
Ickes, Margaret Potter, Sydney Sauter,
Adelyna Tiracorda, J u n e Breining, Juliet
Ellenberger, Hazel Hanna, Olive Shaffer,
Kathryn Kitko, Caroline Laye, Sara
BeUe Myers, Martha Schmidt.

Exchange

Cortland State Normal School, Cortland, New York, announces that t h e
patronage of the cafeteria has dropped
from a daily average of 275 to 142. This
means that it will become necessary to
close the cafeteria unless patronage increases immediately. The prices of food
a r e extremely reasonable and t h e m a n Assignments are given in Spring, tra la. agement is endeavoring in every way
possible to please the students. Surely
To do them would be the right thing.
But why should we bother or why should they can't be as hungry as we are, or
such a thing would never happen.
we sing
Of assignments that come in the spring,
tra la.
Students at Fresno State College have
Of assignments that hum in the spring; decided that the library is too crowded
But grade sheets come later
during times in which students a r e studyAnd drift home to pater
ing for examinations. They have comWhose notions of spring, mate.
piled a list of rooms available for study
With mine fail to correlate;
during various hours of the day.
So gambol and cavort and whistle and
frolic
Cortland State Normal School anWhile I sit and groan with my late April
nounces that "Helen" is the most popucolic.
lar first name of their girls. As far as
the men a r e concerned "Robert" leads
the list. When it comes to last names,
the Browns and Smiths a r e tied first
place.
The weather is nice,
You've said that just twice
And twice in this case is too much,
If you say it again
You thrice swelled-up pain
You'll be walking around on a crutch.

Nature Study Classes
To Observe Arbor Day

Mr, Ulmer's nature study classes plan
to celebrate Arbor Day by planting trees.
Approximately three hundred trees are
to be planted by each class. This has
been the custom of t h e classes for the
past few years. Due to Mr. Ulmer's
splendid supervision, the hill back of the
dormitory, which was formerly treeless,
is now arrayed with evergreens.

TIMES

The women of the Southern Illinois
Normal University are discussing t h e
idea of having big sisters. They believe
that it would increase social contact fou
the little sisters and give a sense of r e sponsibility to the big sisters. Lock
Haven has had this plan for two years.

When an instructor declared that the
And by the way—where a r e those tie- text his classes use is quite easy to undye hangings that were used in the gym derstand, a student was heard remarkmeet? ? ? ?
ing, "I don't know, is it?"

Cowl appeared in her new play "A
Thousand Summers." The play is the
work of Merrill Rogers and was directed
by Shepard Traube. As an example of
good play-writing, this latest vehicle of
Miss Cowl's was rather disappointing.
It wavered between sophisticated comedy of the "Private Lives" genre and t h e
dramatic basic thing of Van Druten's
"Young Woodley," Miss Cowl was cast
as a glamorous woman of thirty-six. At
a small hotel in the Lake District of England Sheila Pennington (Jane Cowl)
meets a young American artist (Franchot
Tone) who is spending a fortnight there
with his aunt and uncle, Mr, and Mrs.
Thompson. Neil Barton, the artist youth,
becomes infatuated with Miss Cowl who
is emotionally unstable. The plot from
this point on is neither novel nor convincing. Whatever success the play will
achieve will be due to the excellent acting of its cast. J a n e Cowl, a studied but
charming poseur as always, lends to the
rather shop-worn theme her truly beautiful speaking voice and lovely stage
presence, Franchot Tone will assuredly
become one of the theatre's brightest
stars. H e has a natural, restrained style
in speaking lines that made the somewhat unbelievable adolescence of Barton
quite credible. Josephine Hull, who appeared in a recent Charles Farrell movie,
gave delightfully sure comedy touches to
the part of Mrs. Thompson. Other members of the cast who were more than acceptable in minor roles were Stuart
Casey, Flora Sheffield, Thomas Findlay
and Marion Evenson. Merrill Roger's
attempts at sophisticated dialogue were
generally successful. As a whole the
play may be summed u p as an ordinary
comedy - drama, lacking novelty and
definiteness of mood but quite worthwhile because of the undeniable histrionic ability of its entire cast. Watch the
rise of Franchot Tone,
J a n e Cowl's new play proved to be a
distinct success so far as attendance was
concerned, and so Williamsport is booking an impressive array of plays for the
near future. On Friday, May 13, BasU
Rathbone will appear at t h e Majestic in
Levy's "The Devil Passes." In the supporting cast will be, most probably, Mary
Nash and Cecelia Loftus. On the following Friday, May 20, Ethel Barrymore
will appear in h e r staging of "The School
for Scandal."—H. L. S.

Nonsense Verse Stressed
For Value to Children
(Continued from page 1)
terial within his field of interest, material which he will have no difficulty in
understanding.
The century-old Mother Goose rhymes
create the proper atmosphere for a
child's first impression of poetry. In
these rhymes sound r a t h e r than sense
predominates. The rhymes are self-explanatory, and need little adult interpretation.
The pupil should respond in spirit to
enjoy nonsense verse. Each child is
born with a natural love for poetry, but
his love is often killed when the teacher
attempts to make him analyze verse.
Nonsense verse may bring back his enjoyment.
To illustrate the point that children
enjoy poetry which animates their toys.
Miss Holaway read the poem "The Table
and the Chair," in which the table and
chair take a walk together. Among other very interesting selections which were
read was "The Pobble Who Has No Toes"
written by one of the well known children's poets.

W. A. A.
The W. A. A. met Tuesday morning
in the auditorium. Plans were made for
t h e second a n n u a l Play Day to be held
on our campus on May 14. Committees
selected are: Registration Committee,
Alma Probst; Activities Committee, Peg
Davies, chairman, J e r r y Jones, Ruth
Grier, Beatrice Burg, Olive Pelton, Helen
Meyers; Refreshments Committee, Mary
Simon, chairman, Mary J a n e Nichols,
Ruth Sponsler, Ellen Reighard, Gene McLure; Lodging Care, Anne Oven; Treasu r e Hunt Committee, Mary Steiner,
chairman, Josephine Lephart, Lynn Norman, and Roberta Newman,

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EDUCATION CLUB
At the regular meeting Monday night
the Education Club elected their officers
for next year. They are: President, Isadore Ziff; Vice President, Nora Holmes;
Treasurer, Gladys McLain; Secretary,
Rojean Roberts,
F u r t h e r plans w e r e m a d e for the party
to be held in the gymnasium May 2.
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A. C. E.
For a half hour on Wednesday, April
13, the A, C. E, members forgot that
they were college students and again b e came children, when Miss Mabel-Louise
Arey delightfully told favorite childhood
stories. Following the stories Elizabeth
Bigelow played a beautiful waltz by
Chopin.
At the business meeting which followed, the members voted to send Jenice
Sharpe, the president, Hildagarde Baer,
Myra Evans, and Ellen Reighard to t h e
national convention of t h e American
Childhood Education Association which
is to be held in Washington, D, C , on
May 4-7.

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Y. M. C. A.
The Y, M. C. A. will have charge of the
Vesper service to be held on Sunday
evening, April 24, and has been very fortunate in engaging Dr, Theodore H, Herman to speak at the service.
Dr. Herman is Professor of Systematic
Theology in t h e Reformed Theological
Seminary at Lancaster. He is a forceful
speaker and affords an opportunity to
the students that none can afford to miss.
FRENCH CLUB
At their last meeting the members of
t h e Club played charades and "oui ou
non." Mary Simon, Edith Sharpe, and
H. L. Sykes w e r e conspicuously "it." At
a coming ?jieeting a review of French
games will be held.

Film of Christ
Interest Sunday
Evening Audience
The theme of Jesus as a Cjuntry Side
Preacher was illustrated b.v pictures
Sunday evening, April 17, in Vesper Service. The film showed the different
places in the Holy Land where Jesus got
his illustrations from simple everday life.
These common things Jesus used for
many of his sermons.
The pictures shown were of the different things in nature such as the lilies of
the field, the reeds blown by the wind,
and the chaff which the wind driveth
away. Every day tasks of the people
such as helping the thirsty travelers and
working in the field were also shown.
Before the pictures, two musical selections were given.

COLLEGE

Snatched From the
Blotter
That old platitude, adage, or whatyou-will to the effect that beautiful people a r e usually dumb didn't quite hold
t r u e in Temple University's recent investigation. A group of psychology
classes picked out those people who were
generally conceded to be beautiful and
tested their mental ability, Superior intellect was found to be the accompaniment to physical beauty. The only
drawback to all this was the lack of a
thorough agreement on what qualities
constituted beauty. Most of this should
be good reassuring news for about 600
of our own co-eds. There is your bouquet for the week.

The only way we have of knowing of
your interest in our paper, with the exception of oral comments voiced at random, is through letters, signed or unsigned, which you m a y write to the
Times. Any subject that you feel should
be brought to our attention can form
the body of your letter. Each week we
shall print in this column excerpts from
letters we receive. We want you to feel
that this paper is your publication. If
you do not Uke certain parts of it, tell
us. If you commend certain features,
let us know. Just place your letters or
comments in the Forum Box in the
Times room. Surely there have been occasions when you felt a need to test the
conception of "freedom of speech." Write
your thoughts to the Times and they will
see that consideration is given to them.

One of our instructors informed us
that t h e Romance languages were not
necessarily those used in social square.
The prize for ingenuous book titling
in this past month is handed to the author who dubbed his first novel "Heaven
is a Hat." We're wondering about the
nebular or sub-nebular locale inhabited
by the ever-increasing number of persons w h o go hatless winter and summer.
No one informed us of the whole truth
about the Columbia University areopagitica (do you know your Milton?) tiff.
Glory of a sort always surrounds that
person who is thrust from a great university in his senior year. Think of
the magazines that a r e angling for his
(the pupil-editor's) version of the brawl.
We said glory—of a sort. Imagine his
grandchildren pointing to their ancestor
and boasting of his martyrdom for a
cause celebre, Shakespeare once said
"Much Ado About Nothing." Good old
Shakespease!
We thought Miss Arey's "Marie Ducrot" a perfect bit of character delineation. A n d we were dittoed by everyone
you can think of.
"The Education of a Princess," one
of those things you will read eventually
if you haven't already, will serve as a
cinema vehicle for Joan Crawford.

Faculty Advisor Speaks
At Regular Y' Meeting

TIMES

CAMPUS CHATTER
Christie must have received t h e answers to his letters to Beatrice Fairfax
and Dorothy Dix.
Speaking of Christie—they're changing the name of the song "Crosby, Columbo and Valle" and a r e adding the name
Hammaker to the list since Christie's taking Music One.

Among the Plots

Some current books in which you
might be interested:
Bright Skin . , . Julia Peterkin's
Weber, heard mooning to himself: novel of the modern negro who finds
"Nice moon, nite, but t h e Juniors can't that adjusting himself, to cosmopolitan
get out,"
living is not the easiest task in this
world. Miss Peterkin's latest novel is
Mike Lucas and Bob Saxton take long said to be fully as well-conceived and
walks in the moonlight alone, just be- executed as "Scarlet Sister Mary" or
cause it's spring.
"Black April."
Ruth, which did you really enjoy most,
the show or the beau?

We certainly admired that picture in
Mary Beaver was found in tears holdthe Times last week. The expressions
were so realistic and all that. By the ing a letter in each hand saying, "Which
way, they must have unearthed a lot of shall it be?"
dusty records to make that headline about
Peg Dorries—"Why a r e t h e r e more
the basketball team.
men waitresses than girls?"
Then there's t h e second grader who
Mike Shishak's kid brother was mighty
told the poor student teacher that the
way to mount a horse was to give it a glad to see "Culture Personified" over
good smell of gasoline and then pin it the week-end.
down on a piece of cardboard.
Even Nelson might go into t h e Frog
Ikey Thomson made some muffins last Leg business this summer, if the condiSunday. The only big difficulty she had tions a r e suitable, so h e informed us.
was trying to flt a big muffin-tin into a
small oven. Ask Ike for t h e particulars.
Floyd Bloom's elbow arouses curious
attention in t h e dorm and elsewhere.
Speaking of cooking, Mary Harvey Have a look, ladies and gentlemen. Or,
tried to cook some dried fruit in a pie it m a y be "speaking of operations,"
pan. Results—something else to eat
and a lot of work for little Mary.
Harris Reynolds does not know his animals yet. He thinks we might t a k e lap
Ask Baker why he doesn't chew to- dogs for rats.
bacco any more
.
Our Conception of the Impossible
Eileen P e r r y broke up Heydrich's ArClint Swoyer teaching in a classroom
bor date the other night. Seems that
with the temperature under 80 degrees F.
Al had to come back and sign.
Cal Cooke's new hop-skip-and-jump
Miss Russell—"Miss Jones, who in your dance proves to be the dancing sensation
of
t h e season.
opinion was one of the greatest chief
justices?"
The Dramatic EngUsh class is producMarion Jones—"The Honorable John
ing plays in class. "Bob" Smith says
Marshall."
it's hard on t h e knees to hunt for imagIt is reported that t h e Coach and inary collar buttons. He maintains, howWhitey went fishing last Saturday, We'd ever, it's harder on t h e nerves to sit
with our fingers crossed hoping w e won't
love to know how many they caught.
be forced to do a Belasco.
It must be t r u e that Norsemen a r e
sailors. For example, Cooke,
We know now why Jimmy Harlan
keeps singing 'Time On My Hands.' The
We caught Sekula writing a letter to vaudeville shows have ended for this
a columnist whose "Advice to the Love- season.
lorn" is a daily feature in a nearby newsNow the "Y" room will have its old
paper. What's wrong, Al?
maestro back again.
A certain gang of day students were
Scenes from the Volga Boatmen w e r e
having such an interesting concert at
Bald Eagle Street that they failed to note brought to our minds by watching the
the arrival of the Lock Haven Fire De- men rolling the lawn.
partment, We're still wondering if the
Hazel Harris's breakfast (an orange)
trucks weren't summoned to drown their
was captured and devoured by four honvocal efforts.
est frosh in biology class. Many thanks
Poor Mike, don't you know it's spring to Hazel for bringing her morning meal
and that's a very poor time to voice your to class.
creed, that of being a woman hater.
Mr. Fleming places confidence in the
Izzy thinks women go to college just frosh. He gives them quarters, dimes,
to pass four years of their life away. nickels and pennies to play with during
He must think we have nine lives to thus the class period.
squander our time. Ask Charlie for his
Lock Haven Teachers College takes
idea on the subject.
the laurels for spreading wild rumors.
the one that chased itself all
Mike Lucas nearly spoiled his week- Witness
around the college and into thin air last
end worrying about his Monday's history week.
lesson. After scramming around to get
it out, h e goes to class only to learn that
After all the English instructors' spellthe teacher is absent. Wouldn't that
ing drills, someone spelled pictures
gripe you!
p-i-c-t-u-r-s, and then posted the sign
on the bulletin board.
Packed court house — Mr. Sullivan —
Izzy—complimentary tickets and a r e The boys appreciate t h e new improveserved seat. Should someone get up and ment in the "Y" room. Now we'll soon
leave in a case like that? ? ?
be able to schedule an exciting game of
checkers.
In the spring a young man's fancy
lightly turns to thoughts of love. AnyAnd then there's the proverbial freshway w e wonder w h y Ernie L. brought man who responded to the roll call with
his Chevy back from home? ? ?
a very pleasant "hello."

At t h e regular meeting of the Y. W. C.
A. Miss Berthe Rowe, faculty advisor of
t h e Y, W. C. A., spoke to the girls on her
r e c e n t t r i p to Mansfield, w h e r e she att e n d e d t h e Eastern Conference of Y. W.
C. A.'s.
T h e meeting, which was very informal, w a s in charge of Alice Lillibridge.
Miss B e r y l DeWalt w a s pianist. The
Ruth Brown goes home over the weekThe latest definition for the Romance
girls w i t h their pillows gathered around
Miss R o w e as she told m a n y humorous end more often this semester than last. languages is those which are spoken in
Is it that patrolman, Ruthie?
Social Square.
a n d i n s p i r i n g incidents on h e r trip.

Hospital . . . A first novel by Rhoda
Truax, notable chiefly for its lucid and
penetrative descriptions of the inner
workings of a large hospital. The rather
involved story of marital strife that
forms the human interest of the plot
seems secondary to the chief character
of the novel, the hospital.
Sons of Earth . . . Pearl Buck's successor to her phenomenally but deservedly successful "The Good Earth" is b e ing published in serial form in Cosmopolitan magazine. While the novel, thus
far, lacks t h e surety of mood of its predecessor, it is vastly superior to anything the magazine has offered in the past
year.
And Life Goes On . . . Vicki
Baum's "restatement of a time-worn
platitude" is one critic's thrust at this
novel. As usual, the most thoroughly
realized of Miss Baum's characters is
an actress. The novel centers about the
havoc wrought upon the lives of a varied group of people by an unfortunate
automobile accident. It is pleasant, diverting, workmanlike, but brittle writing.

Dr. Frances Coppens Is
Recovering From Illness
Dr. Coppens has been ill since the holidays in the Mount Sinai Hospital in New
York, where she underwent a mastoid
operation.
According to recent reports she is convalescing rapidly and will soon be able
to meet her classes again.

Students to Give Recital
students and faculty at the coUege are
looking forward to the annual Student
Recital of t h e Music Department. This
year there will be a formal concert, held
Friday night, May 13. The next issue
of the Times will carry notices of the
program being prepared for this ever interesting event.

Alumni News
A red-haired daughter was born on
April 1 to Mr. and Mrs. Harold Jones,
Camp Hill, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Jones
was formerly Jean L. Ingham of the
class of 1922.

Attention
Faculty Members!
EMPLOYMENT WANTED
FOR
TEACHERS COLLEGE
MEN
See M I L L A R D W E B E R
Chairman of
Y. M. C. A. E m p l o y m e n t Bureau