Only Eighteen
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COLLEGE TIMES
State Teachers College, Lock Haven, Penna.

Vol, IX, No. 18

JANUARY 15, 1932

5 Cents Per Copy

The Student Teachers
Hockey Varsity Is
Miss Armstrong Weds
One Hundred and
Sixty Dollars Raised
Entertain Supervisors
Mr. C. E. Kirkpatrick
Selected for 1931-32
The Honorary Varsity for the 1931-32
For Free Milk Fund The fourth grade Student Teachers hockey
season has been picked. The
A quiet wedding was solemnized at
To date the sum of one hundred sixty
dollars and ninety-three cents has already been raised towards the 1931-1932
Training School free milk fund. Through
the mite-boxes placed in the various
rooms before Christmas vacation, t h e
sum of $22,93 was taken in. The other
contributions so far are as follows: Faculty $80; Student Government Association $25; Young Women's Christian Association $10; Young Men's Christian Association $5; Alpha Sigma Tau $5; A r t
Club $2; A. C. E, $10; anonymous $1,
Previous to last year the milk fund
drive was made by the Women's Athletic Association, This organization is
to be commended for its contribution
through sponsoring Stunt Night. Miss
Avis Edgerton, adviser for W, A, A, r e ports that it never fails to give less than
$50 toward the milk fund. Since in the
last two years there have been a great
many more Training School children in
need of proper nourishment, the faculty,
the students, and various clubs have
been asked to make contributions. Mr.
R. S. MacDougall is now in full charge of
the fund.
Last year 60 bottles of milk were given
daily to the Training School children
free of charge. This has been made possible by the interest and work of Miss
Edgerton, who has taken charge of t h e
distribution of the milk for the last three
years.

'Blue Moon" Proceeds
Added to Milk Fund
"The Blue Moon," a dream play b y
Nellie Burget MiUer, was presented at
two performances on Friday by t h e
Girls' English Activities Club for the enlargement of t h e Training School Milk
Fund. Miss Mabel-Louise Arey, director of dramatics and instructor of t h e
activities class, directed the play, which
was supervised b y the students,
Kathleen Conrad played the part of
Rosalie, dreaming of her Prince Charming. Plain Robert Gray who later b e comes the Prince Charming was aptly
portrayed by Hazel Harris. The comedy
role, Drusilla, was cleverly handled by
Esther Thompson and the model Grandmother, sitting b y the fire was characterized very well by Sara Mapes, The
poor bent Gorgas the scissors-grinder,
played by Maude Brungard, and Pete,
the newsboy, played by Olive Shaffer,
won the audiences' heart. Isabel Welch
portrayed the role of the Blue Moonshee,
owner of the famous wishing-pearl.
The dreamers wandered through colorful scenes of a yesterday in a small
village. An elusive atmosphere was created by the effective stage settings,
which shifted from the street to the
Grandmother's flreplace and back to the
palace of the "Moonshee,"
Those on the committees for the play
were: Directors—Marian McCloskey, Aldine Glossner, and Ruth Shaffer; business—Ruth Brown, Geraldine Simpson,
Mabel Burd; advertising—Hazel Harris,
Beatrice Berg, Wanda Brown, Mildred
Murren, Violet Yeager, Madelyn Faulk(Contlnued on page 8)

entertained their Supervisor, Miss Bertha Rowe, on Monday evening, Jan, 11.
They had dinner at Achenbaeh's, where
the room was attractively decorated for
Valentine's Day. After dinner they went
to the Roxy to see "The Champ."
The Student Teachers who entertained were Dorothy Radusin, Hazel
Myers, Eleanor Phelan, Dorothy Geist,
Clara Hellberg, A n t o n i a Palenski,
George McMullen, Ray Zaner, and Michael Lucas.
The flfth and sixth grades united in
entertaining their Supervisors, Miss Cophine Rooke and Miss Helen Pollock.
The party went to t h e Colonial Tea
Room, Monday evening, Jan. 11, where
they were served a chicken dinner.
Then they divided and some went to the
Roxy to see "The Champ" and the rest of
the party went to the Garden to see "Delicious."
The Student Teachers who attended
w e r e Marion Jones, Lois Lockard,
Gladys Gearhart, Amy Burns, Mary
Triponey, Thelma Brownlee, Louise
Brown, Anna Quigg, Olive Pelton, Dorothy Gustafson, Helen KoUar, Ester
Nearhoof, Woodrow Wolfe, James Renninger, and Alton Miller.

Miss Dixon Attends
Chalif School of Dancing
During Christmas vacation, Miss Maloise Sturdevant Dixon spent several
days at the Chalif School of Dancing in
New York City, the only school of dancing whose students are exclusively from
the teaching group. About thirty teachers from various parts of the country attended the class, but only about flfteen
took the entire dancing course,
Mr. Chalif, the dancing master, is a
Russian who came to this country about
thirty years ago. He started his work in
a small studio but has since founded his
own school in an elite part of the city.
His particular work was to bring t h e different dances over h e r e from Russia and
set them to different tunes of our music.
Already he has written down and fltted
to music about 850 dances. The pianist
for t h e dancing is a graduate of t h e
school.
The dances that the students learned
during this course were: Natural dancing, advanced folk dancing, ball room or
social dancing, musical comedy dancing,
tap dancing, Russian ballet, Spanish
dancing from a Spanish teacher, and a
new German dance. These students
learned six complete dances the first two
days and four on the last day.

Day Room Girls
Draw Up Constitution
At a meeting of the Girls' Day Room
on Tuesday morning during chapel period, the Student Council was appointed
as a committee to d r a w up a constitution. It was decided that each girl
should pay ten cents towards a fund to
be used for flowers.

people making up this team are chosen
from the class teams and are considered
the best all-around players of the year.
THE FIRST TEAM
Forwards
Cora Beck
Alice Marie Hackett
Beatrice Berg
Betty McKenna
Marguerite Bovard Marjorie Young

Halfbacks
Erma Callendar
Ann Oven
Dorothy Drake
Mary Thompson
Fullbacks and Goal Keepers
Margaret Dorries Mary Hill
Pearl Drick
Anna Seminitis
SECOND TEAM
Forwards
Dorothy Beish
Margaret Potter
Marion Francisco Sidney Sauter
Reba Ickes
Adelyna Tiracorda
Halfbacks
J u n e Breining
Hazel Hanna
Juliet Ellenberger Olive Shaffer
Fullbacks and Goal Keepers
Kathryn Kitko
Caroline Laye
Sara Belle Myers Martha Schmidt

Miss Daniel Concludes
Her Y. W. C. A. Talks
Continuing her discussion of the pamphlet, "Toward a New Economic Society," Miss Berthe Daniel spoke at the
regular Y, W, C. A. meeting on Wednesday, J a n u a r y 6,
Miss Daniel's topic was "Toward a
New Economic Order," She impressed
the students with the fact t h a t religion
is based on the conviction that we cannot live by bread alone. We live by aspirations; yet we are compelled to r e member the need of material sustenance.
Miss Daniel stressed the fact that each
individual should have the spiritual
values, such as art, music, and healthy
imagination to make their life more
worth-while. At the present time we, as
students, have the privilege to enjoy the
fine things in life, but there are many
who do not even have bread.
"Religion, Reinhold Niebuhr has said,
is the champion of personality in a seemingly impersonal world. Therefore r e ligion," said Miss Daniel, "needs to be
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Y. M. C. A. Movie
Was Well Attended
On Saturday night, J a n u a r y 9, t h e Y,
M. C, A. presented in the auditorium a
movie, "The Headless Horseman," featuring Will Rogers.
"The Headless
Horseman" is taken from Washington
Irving's story, "The Legend of Sleepy
Hollow." Will Rogers played the part
of Ichabod Crane, the new school teacher in the community.
Between reels, Walter Wilkinson and
Thomas Scalzo entertained t h e group
with song and music.
The show was well attended and enjoyed heartily by all.

the residence of Dr. Dallas W. A r m strong, President of the College, on Saturday evening, J a n u a r y 2, at 8:30, when
Dr. Armstrong gave his daughter. Miss
Margaret Armstrong, in marriage to Ensign Charles E. Kirkpatrick, of Standardville, Utah, an officer in the U. S.
Navy.
Miss Margaret Armstrong was g r a d u ated from Lock Haven State Teachers
College in the class of 1930, having done
special work in the Kindergarten-prim a r y course. While attending t h e college she participated in Dramatic Club
work. She had previously matriculated
at Grove City College, where she received her Bachelor of Arts degree. Miss
Armstrong has been teaching kindergarten work in Upper Darby, near Philadelphia.
T h e ceremony was performed b y the
Rev. William M. Taylor, pastor of the
Trinity Methodist Church, in t h e presence of seventy-five guests.
The bride and her attendants entered
the room from t h e stairway, which was
decorated with red roses, snapdragons
and ground pine. Lohengrin's "Wedding
March" was played by a trio composed
of Mrs. Philip R. Kamp, pianist. Garth
Kleckner, violinist, and Robert L. Myers,
cellist.
Miss Katherine Armstrong, a sister of
the bride, was maid of honor. Little
Alice Patterson, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. A. D. Patterson, was fiower girl.
Dale Bauer, of Newark, N. J., a classmate of the bridegroom at the U, S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md., was the
best man.
Dinner was served at t h e Armstrong
home after an informal reception following the ceremony, A U, S. Navy
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L. H. T. C. Loses Second
Game to Potts College
A last half rally by the locals fell six
points short of victory in a game played
with Potts Business College on the Dickinson Seminary court on Saturday, Janu a r y 9. The final score was 33-28,
Having trailed the Potts five b y ten
points at the end of the first half, the
Kaiser-coached team shook off its shell
and staged a real come-back led by Hal
Poust, who scored 16 points in an effort
to overcome the early lead enjoyed by
Potts. If the locals had played the same
sensational b r a n d of basketball both
halves, there would have been on doubt
as to the result.
Lock Haven played its customary
man-to-man defense against the fiveman defense of the Business College
team and succeeded in holding Potts to a
low half-time score but could not get its
own offense going.
Gair was the high scoring star for the
Wolfmen with a total of 15 points, while
Bodle scintillated both on offense and
defense. In addition to Poust's last half
scoring spree, Cook played a spectacular
g a m e at guard for L. H. His passing
ability proved a big factor in the scoring
done by the locals and to prove his ver(Contlnued on page 4)

COLLEGE

TIMES

Seniors Make Contact
With Supervisors

Mr. Ulmer Speaks on
New Year's Resolutions
In a speech at Vesper Service, Sunday
evening, J a n u a r y 10, Mr, Ulmer made
t h e point that there are two kinds of
resolutions, those made carelessly to be
broken and those made in earnest to be
kept.
One of the significant statements Mr.
Ulmer made was, "All changes come
from resolutions made in our innermost
hearts."
Cards were passed to the audience
with the New Year's thought printed on
them, "I will put First Things First."
Several illustrations were given of putting first things second. One taken from
the Bible was of the rich young ruler.
Several were taken from H a r r y Emerson Fosdick's "Twelve Tests of Character." Another was that of the great masterpiece that was lost and later found in
a warehouse, behind some trash, with
white-wash over it. Someone had not
known t h e first from the second.
Mr. Ulmer suggested that we take a
few minutes each day to weigh things
and to decide which were the first
things.
Before Mr. Ulmer spoke Fredolyn
Walker and Evelyn Livingston sang "I
Would Be Like Jesus." They were accompanied on the piano by Hildegarde
Baer.

Girls Play Interesting
Basketball Games
Several basketball games, w h i c h
proved to be very interesting, were
played during the week of January 11
to 16, Six games were scheduled, but
three w e r e forfeited, due to lack of players. The outstanding players proved to
be Madeline Anderson and Vivian Benson. Both girls made beautiful fleld
shots from any place on the court.
The scores are as follows:
Second Year Intermediate vs. First
Year College
Score 2
Captain, Ann Oven.
Score 0
Captain, Madelyn Faulkner.
Second Year Intermediate vs. First
Year Intermediate
Score 2 (forfeited)
Captain, Ethel Stanley.
Score 0
Captain, Hazel Singer.
Second Year College vs. First
Year Intermediate
Score 4
Captain, Helen Munson.
Score 16
Captain, Vida Goodman.
Second Year Intermediate vs. First
Year Primary
Score 0 (forfeited)
Captain, Mary Thompson.
Score 2
Captain, Sidney Sauter.
Second Year Primary vs. First
Year Primary
Score 22
Captain, Vivian Benson.
Score 6
Captain, Martha Schmidt.
Second Year Primary vs. First
Year College
Score 2 (forfeited)
Captain, Margaret Dorries.
Score 0
Captain, Geraldine Simpson. '

In a survey of t h e Training School Department work during the past eighteen
weeks, it has been found that approximately 2,500 contacts by seniors alone
have been made with the different supervisors. The freshmen surpass these
figures w i t h 3,500 s i m i l a r contacts.
These contacts, individual and group,
a r e through the demonstration lessons
taught and the observations taken.
In regard to t h e freshmen observations, it is interesting to note that more
are taken in Reading, Arithmetic, Social Studies, and English than in other
subjects. This proves that these subjects
are recognized as major ones and consequently freshmen concentrate their efforts upon them. They use observations
as a means whereby assistance may be
sought in order to acquire t h e more accurate techniques required by these subjects which form t h e core of the entire
curriculum.

CRAMMING FOR EXAMMING"

Events in the Life of a
Co-ed
PART I
'Twas the night before finals
And all through our mind
Ran jumbles of data
And rules undefined.
Not a note-book was flnished
Not a term-paper done.
And all hope diminished
When came the sun , , .
Alas and alack, oh grief and oh woe!
Now to the testing of knowledge I'll
go . . .
And when I return, if a smile lights my
face
You'll know that I managed to keep in
the race.
But if I return with a limp, ragged
frown.
You'll expect me to giggle and still play
the clown;
I'll do better this coming semester, I
swear;
(The prof's heard those words till he's
pulling his hair).
Honestly, truthfully, candidly, man,
I'll do the best that I possibly can;
But profs are bard-hearted and sniff t h e
ozone-y
When we try to string them a line of balone-y.
PART II
Hurray! They're over, and now for a
day
Everything's clover; let us be gay.
In a chic new gown and a Paris hat
We'll paint the town—no, not quite
that—
We'll view it through rose colored
glasses
And tell the world that she who passes
Exams like those that we just downed
Deserves a lilting, holiday round.
But while we cut our care-free capers.
Pity those dears who correct our papers.
JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL NEWS
At Christmas time the Ninth Grade
girls made a large illustrative scrap
book which they gave to t h e Orphans'
Home on Susquehanna Avenue. This
scrap book was a very flne piece of work
and the children are enjoying it immensely. Small stocking dolls were
made by the girls' Art classes, and were
presented to the Salvation Army.

Freshmen, Sophomores
Learn the Ways of Gym
Coach Kaiser has had his freshmen
and sophomores working just as hard as
the regular athletic teams would. The
boys have been very enthusiastic and
have learned a great deal about the fundamentals of volleyball and basketball.
The freshmen boys recently finished
eight weeks of volleyball. Four teams
formed the league. The Bear Cats, the
Wild Cats, and the Twenty Grands had
to admit the superiority of the team with
the cast iron name—the Railroaders,
This team finished the season with eight
wins and two defeats. This team was
made up of Captain Buchanan, Rader,
Tipton, Cooper, Moon, Ammon, Breth,
Kamp, and Yoder.
The gym class is now lending itself to
the task of learning wrestling. Snare
and Biddle, two of last years' mat men,
are helping to teach the freshmen the
techniques involved.
The sophomores have spent most of
their time on basketball and should be in
good condition for t h e intramural basketball contest which begins after the
tests have been tackled. They had a
tournament composed of four teams.
The beginners in basketball had a twoteam affair. Captain Haagen's Farmers
took Captain Fry's Tigers to the tune of
three wins out of five games. The two
experienced teams had a rather difficult
time. The Majesties, captained by Shishak, whitewashed Hoy's Shooting Stars,
by winning five out of five games. Shishak's champions were Kachik, Drick, J.
A. Smith, and Shearer.
The sophomores have begun the new
year with some boxing. It is hoped that
they will last until about the middle of
February.
Coach Kaiser expects to have some
tournaments in boxing and wrestling in
a short time. It is expected that some of
the champions of previous years will
have to fight for their laurels.

The present facilities of t h e Training
Department enable the staff to adequately care for the work involved in the
large n u m b e r of contacts. With a staff
consisting of 41 in the Training Department, 41 of the College Staff, 39 of this
group doing teacher training alone, and
with 56 training rooms, the department
of today has made remarkable progress
over the department remembered b.v
some of t h e alumni, which consisted of 8
or 10 supervisors and 8 or 10 training
rooms.
In the past, the number of children attending t h e training schools was 140.
What a larger opportunity the training
department t o d a y offers prospective
teachers with its 1,300 children, 900 enrolled in the city schools and about 400
in the campus schools.
Much credit is due to these faculty
people who have m a d e possible so many
excellent demonstration lessons in order that Lock Haven State Teachers College m a y graduate efficient teachers.
These people have contributed regularly
to the demonstrations and observations:
Mr. R. S. MacDougall, director of the
Training School; Miss Gladys Erickson,
who is in charge of the Kindergarten in
the Penn School; Miss Lyndall Fox, supervisor of Penmanship in t h e Training
School, and College Art instructor; Mr,
H. J, Kaiser, football coach and gymnasium instructor; Mr. George Lehman,
music instructor; Dr. Kenton Vickery, of
the Foreign Language Department; Miss
M. S. Dixon, Miss Nellie A. DuBois, Mr.
Ira O. Fleming, Miss Lillian Russell, Mr.
Samuel Smith, Mr. J, F. Stemple, Mr. L.
J. Ulmer. The supervisors who have
aided in this work include Miss Sue
Northey, Miss Laura Barkhuff, Miss Mabel Phillips, Miss Helen Lesher, Miss
Bertha Rowe, Miss Cophine Rook, Miss
Helen Pollock, and Mr. Allen J, Patterson, director of the Junior High School.

Sweet Scene
She clasped a blossom to h e r breast
And turned her eyes toward t h e west;
There he was, and here was she
Between them an infinity
Of undulating, deep unrest.
A tear, a silver globule, spent
Its new-found course upon h e r cheek.
Then shoulders strengthened, lips were
firm.
Vanished the lapse into the meek.
A youth, a charming youth came by.
And seeing him, she turned her eye;
The blossom dropped, a fragile drift
That lay, forgotten, among t h e flags.
"How slow this silly waiting lags,"
She said to him and merrily,
"One's husband, gone to Reno, tags
One 'married', but temporarily."
—H. L. S.

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has become more or less a mania with
some of them; however, the same accusation can be made against the girl who
does not go away to school. Everyone,
regardless of sex, who is aware of the
possibility of personality development is
interested in attempting it. The reason
why the college girl is more noticed for
developing a personality than t h e girl
who does not go away to school is that
she has more and better means througii
which to expand it: a further advanced
and more intensified curriculum; a wider, and in the majority of cases, a more
intellectual circle of acquaintances; a
chance for leadership, initiative, and development of special abilities through
club activities; t h e opportunity for
learning to like good music, good literature, good art. The fact that the coUege
girl has these privileges and ways to find
an outlet for her creativeness, her taste,
abilities, and originality, accentuates her
personality expansion and makes it appear like a Sears-Roebuck order, a
thought-out, chiseled and well-planned
job, instead of a natural, logical development.

TIMES

Quintet Tramples Purple
And White; Score 34-24
Coach Kaiser's quintet trampled upon the Purple and White at the Lock Haven High School gymnasium on Tuesday night, January 5. The locals displayed the results of the intensive practice they've put in since the Potts College game before the holidays.
The flnal score, 34-24, left the High
School on the short end. It was a hard
fought, fast game every minute of the
way. At the half the score was 19-9.
This part of the game was featured by
some nice passing and shooting on the
part of the Kaiserites. In the third quarter, the High School began to flnd the
basket, and they gradually began to
creep up. The quarter ended with the
score 24-18; however, in the last quarter, Condo helped maintain the ten point
lead originally held, when he caged four
baskets. Condo showed up quite well in
this game and the coach can expect better things from him, Hammaker scored
the last two points when the whistle
blew to end the game at 34-24.

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lege stamp and accent. They put themselves on a plane from which they will
not descend to the common ground of
those "back home." They make themselves appear to have lost all enthusiasm
Many theories have been framed as to
for those interests and pleasures which the origin of leap year. Some look on it
they pursued before going away to as a reference to the fact that the gentleschool. They speak of themselves as a man whom w e are enjoined to take by
class apart, because, instead of going to the forelock — Old Time himself — instead of passing over his accustomed
work at the nearest A, and P, or Five and ground during that period, takes an exTen, or instead of taking a six-months' traordinary leap to the extent of a day
course at a commercial college, they more.
have gone on to assimulate a few more
Another hypothesis makes t h e name a
irregular verbs and a few more facts misdemeanor. If the fourth year had
concerning t h e history of our nation. consisted of 364 days, if t h e difference
had been one of defect instead of excess,
Without a doubt much of t h e antagonism a day would really h a v e been leaped
against the college girl is brewed from over. As it is, the three ordinary years
her attempt to be what she thinks is a would more properly b e denominated
leap-years. Probably t h e most worthy
true coUege product.
supposition as to the origin of t h e term,
is that at flrst, the extra day in the fourth
year and the one before it were one in
the eye of t h e law. Accordingly, the
regular day was considered that one, and
the additional day, though civilly held as
a day, was legally not so. It was missed
or leaped over altogether. So the legal
year as opposed to the civil was in real(Continued from page 1)
ner; stage—Rachel Markley, Catherine ity a leap year.
Pipes, Earline Eraytor, Bertha RoUa,
And now for the history of this curiColette Colquist; costumes—Myra Burd,
Charlotte Heineman, Ruth Lakin, Anna osity. In the year 1288 t h e following law
is said to h a v e been passed in Scotland;
Snyder.
"It is statut and ordaint that during
Miss Arey and the girls wish to thank the rein of hir maist blissit megeste, for
the boys who helped with the stage set- ilk yeare knowne as lepe yeare, ilk mayting.
den ladye of bothe highe and lowe estait
The proceeds of t h e play, which are shall hae liberte to bespoke ye man she
for the Milk Fund, amount to a sum be- likes, albeit he refuses t o talk hir to be
tween twenty-flve and thirty dollars.
his lawful wyfe, he shall be mulcted in

The Origin of Leap Year

Most college girls a r e described as
hard, brainy, flsty. Other adjectives attributed to them are: Supercilious, p e dantic, strong-minded, dictatorial, emotionless, and masculine. College girls
a r e said to lack charm. What people
who m a k e these charges would say if
they knew them more intimately is that
they a r e too honest with themselves.
College girls do not lack charm. They
have only convinced themselves that to
b e sickeningly polite and gracious is to
be hypocritical; that to be smiling and
agreeable, when in their hearts they feel
morose and surly, is to be untrue to their
higher selves. Doubtless people think
these girls lack charm because, instead
of presenting a flxed false smile when
they do not enjoy a man's company, they
let him know- that he is boring them to
death. They are supposed to lack social
grace because they believe in telling
what they think in arguing for their
opinion. Perhaps t h e modern college
girl is rather assertive—but why should
she persist in living up to false standards?
The charge has been made that she is
daft on developing a personality. This

'Blue Moon" Proceeds
Added to Milk Fund

DAY ROOM Y. W. STUDIES PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH
At t h e meeting of the Day Room Y. W.
on Thursday, J a n u a r y 7, t h e r e was a discussion of the characteristics, origin, and
language of the Pennsylvania Dutch,
Pauline Graden read a story, "The Amish
Man," b y Elsie SIngmaster, which gave
an interesting description of Amish customs and church service.
The Social Service committee of the
Day Room Y. W. has added a new feature to t h e work of the group. Every
Wednesday several "Y" girls go to t h e
Children's Home for an hour of games
and stories.
A. S. T. HOLD FORMAL INITIATION
On Saturday afternoon, J a n u a r y 9,
the Alpha Sigma Tau Sorority formally
initiated twelve pledges.
The Alpha Sigma Tau's announce the
following new members: Dorcas Tressler, Meyersdale; Kathryn Peters, Bellefonte; M y r a Evans, Altoona; Claire
Wade, Emlenton; Martha Schmidt, Wilkinsburg; Ruth Henninger, Davidsville;
Mildred Sechrist, Williamsport; Ruth
Schmoyer, Allentown; Ruth Savage,
Jeanette; Mary Louise Borland, Rockland; Alice Lillibridge, Smethport, and
Thelma Yingling, York.
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R. O. L. INITIATIONS
The R. O. L.'s held their informal initiation last Thursday afternoon in their
sorority room. Following the initiation
the pledges gave their seniors and Miss
Arey a chance to try their skill at eating
at a dinner they served them in one of
the music studios. The menu was Italian spaghetti, Waldorf salad, sandwiches, pickles, coffee, and popcorn balls.
At 5 o'clock on Monday afternoon, Rho
Omega Lambda held its annual formal
initiation ceremony in the sorority room.
After t h e service the new members were
entertained at a waffle supper. The new
members of the sorority a r e Beatrice
Berg, Marjorie Dice, Helen Krape, Martha Hamman, Florence Hunt, J e a n Mateer, L y n n Norman, Elva Powell, Olive
Q u i g g l e , Geraldine Simpson, Jean
Swayne, Isabel Welch, a n d Naomi
Wentz.
EDUCATION CLUB
The Education Club wishes to remind
its members that Mr. MacDougall's discussion of tests and measurements will
be given at 7:15, January 18, in Mr, Williams' classroom, R-26, Everyone is cordially invited to attend.
ye sum a n e pundis or less, as his estait
may be; except and awis gif he can make
it appeare that h e is betrothit ane ither
woman h e then shall be free." Part of
an English law is: "That as often as
every l e a p yeare doth return, t h e ladyes
have t h e sole privilege during t h e time it
continueth of making love either by
wordes or lookes, as to them it seemeth
proper; and, moreover, no man will be
entitled to beneflt of clergy who doth in
any wise treat her proposal with slight
or contumely,"
Up to within a century ago it was another unwritten law ot leap-year that if
a man should decline a proposal he
should soften the disappointment which
his answer would bring about by t h e
presentation of a silk dress to t h e unsuccessful suitor for his hand.
A curious leap-year superstition is
still to b e met with in some parts of New
England, and that is that in leap-year
the beans grow on the wrong side of t h e
pod.

COLLEGE

TIMES

: Snatched From the
Blotter
AU Ye People
Merle Colby
Writing of a period once popularized
in the works of Emerson Hough, Merle
Colby depicts the pageant of America
moving westward, forcefully, realistically and vividly. Mr. Colby is descended
from families of Vermont and New
York State farmers and clergymen. He
uses, as prototypes in his narrative, experiences native to his own ancestors.
This feeling of authenticity gives the
book its most commendable quality.
In 1810 t h e movement toward t h e
West became a contagious fever infecting the people of seventeen states. In
their desire to see and claim the n e w
lands of their recently won nation, people from all walks of life left their work
and homes and pushed westward. On
every portion of the way into the Ohio
country history was being made. In
shays, Connestoga wagons, coaches,
barges, on foot and on horseback people
formed their part of the pageant. This
much of Mr. Colby's novel is not new to
us. Even t h e sparkling touches of originality, such as the peculiar tang that he
injects into his dialogue, do not relieve
the setting of his book of its quality of
redundancy.
It is in t h e story of John Bray, a Vermont preacher, who leaves his home to
go west, that we are most interested.
Bray enters Ohio with two great desires
—one, for land, the other, his love for a
runaway girl with a price on her head.
Through Bray's eyes we see the thrilling panorama of America's growth. We
ride with h i m on his Morgan mare, w e
travel through cities, across prairies,
forests and uncut mountains. As a book
that might be used in conjunction with
a historical study of this period in A m e r ican history, "All Ye People" is indeed
valuable. It is, morever, a tale of t r u e
adventure; the union of these two merits
comprise a worth-while creation and one
of which Mr. Colby may be proud.
Mr. Colby has contributed articles to
the Atlantic Monthly, but this is his flrst
novel. He is thirty years of age and a
native of Wisconsin. His alma m a t e r
is Harvard University, At the present
time he is living in Paris, working on a
second novel.

L. H. T. C. Loses Second
Game to Potts College
(Continued from page 1)
satility "Cal" rang the bell for three baskets. Bardo, who replaced Hammaker
at guard, also played a bang-up game,
sinking one goal and two fouls for a total
of four markers.
Lineup:
Potts College
Fid F l
T
Gair, f
7
1 15
Rabinovitch, f
0
4
4
Bodle, c
1
1
3
Good, c
1
1
3
Gulliver, g
0
1
1
Hughes, r
3
1
7
Totals

12

Lock Haven S. T. C.
Fid
Condo, f
0
Weber, f
0
Poust, c
7
Cook, g
3
Hammaker, g
0
Plummer, f
0
McLean, f
0
Bardo, g
1
Stehman, g
0
Totals

11

9

33

Fl
0
0
2
0
0
0
2
2
0

T
0
0
16
6
0
0
2
4
0

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Dr. Coppens in Child Study Class:
"And the child liked the tiger you
drew for him? It's remarkable, isn't it,
how little it takes to satisfy t h e child?"
One of our alumnae to a primary pupil:
"I asked you to draw a 'see saw' and
you drew two dots."
PupU:
"The flrst dot is the eye I see you with
now and the second dot is the eye I saw
you with yesterday."
Those of us who were in the library
Friday afternoon were forced to listen
in on a concert broadcasted by station
G-D-R (Girls' Day Room) which sounded remarkable l i k e station D-a-nv-i-l-l-e.
The Day Room's most popular expression "Close t h e door" was changed to
"Watch out for t h e door; it'll close on
you."
It's the New Yale Door Check.
Fry must not be a very good shot. All
he can hit with a pillow is the wide open
spaces (campus).
Pity the poor motorist who is confronted by Cooke and Stover at the same
time. What should he do, go or stop?
Oh, the distress of one poor lady who
got up for an eight o'clock class and then
remembered she didn't have one.

Men's Student Council
Nominates Ofificers

After an extensive survey we see that
A friend of mine recently acquired a
a majority of the boys who received gold
footballs are still in possession of them. copy of Rockwell Kent's edition of
What's wrong, girls, are you losing your "Moby Dick," beautifully bound and
printed. I looked in vain for the n a m e
power?
of Herman Melville, either on the back
or the backbone. Why? Can w e atSleepless nights a r e with us again! tribute this to neglect on the part of the
No, not a stampede—just examinations. author, or to superb egomania? (Much
the same thing happened in the case of
The talk of the campus—Cooke's red Wilde's "Salome." Recently it has been
heralded as John Vassos' "Salome."
trousers.
Egomania or neglect, my admiration for
the book was lessened. It seems as if
CAN YOU IMAGINE—
the artist were using Melville's imMr. Smith without a cigar in his mouth? mortal work as a soap-box upon which
he might stand and exclaim "See how I
Johnny Marshall sneaking a date?
have grown!"
Bob Emery buying cigarettes?
Charlie Hager arriving at an 8 o'clock
Pebeco
toothpaste deserves the
class on time?
Clint Swoyer sitting in an unheated month's biggest "hoot" for advertising
ineptitude. They describe their product
room?
as "far above the average" and dig up
To be or not to be! The Praeco Dance. a photo of Caruso to evoke a comparison
between tenors and toothpaste. May we
all unite in saying "ho-hum."
Definitions from the Nit Wit Vocabulary:
Milch: A popular present-day bevNaturalists and Dorothy P a r k e r r e erage, especially given to babies.
mind us that the elephant has a better
Ossicle: A long pointed formation memory than any other animal. Imagine
found on roof edges in winter.
the memoirs of an elephant and take
consolation in the fact that, at least, we
Serial: A breakfast food.
Salary: A vegetable grown in stalks. have been spared that much.
Carat: An edible vegetable.
Debit: First appearance before so- Random Observations:
ciety.
Maristan (Happy Mountain) Chapman
Prism: A structure in which violators continues her sagas of mountaineer life
in her latest novel, "The Weather Tree."
of the law a r e housed.
Edgar Lee Masters has written a poem
Waver: Method of greeting friends.
in memory of Vachel Lindsay, "Let Us
Build America Again." It's to be found
in last Sunday's "Books."
MISS
Our instructors are gleeful (or the opposite) over an afternoon free (or the
opposite).

Armstrong Weds
Mr. C. E. Kirkpatrick

(Continued from page 1)
sword, owned by the bridegroom, was
used by the bride to cut t h e wedding
cake.
The bridegroom is a son of Mr. and
Mrs. R. R. Kirkpatrick, of Standardville,
Utah. He is a graduate of the Carbon
County High School at Price, Utah; of
t h e U, S, Hall Preparatory School at
Columbia, Mo., and of the U. S. Naval
Academy at Annapolis, Md., in the class
of 1931. He is stationed at San Diego,
California, on the Naval Destroyer U. S,
S. Broome, with the Pacific Coast Squadron,
Election will be held Friday evening
Ensign and Mrs, Kirkpatrick left Lock
at 7:15.
Haven, J a n u a r y 6, for the Paeiflc Coast,
stopping en route to visit the bridegroom's parents. Ensign Kirkpatrick
will assume his duties on the Naval Destroyer on January 16.

At a meeting of the Men's Student
Government on Monday evening, in the
"Y" room, the following candidates were
nominated for officers and representatives of the Men's Student Council for
the second semester: President, Frank
Kitko, Clarence Cowfer; Vice President,
James Harlan, Allen Sekula; Junior
Representative, Kermit M. S t o v e r ;
Sophomore Representative, Clyde Snare,
Myron Biddle, J. Paul Drick; Freshman
Representative, Harry Benton, Dan Robinson, Wilmer Dressier,

Miss Daniel Concludes
Her Y. W. C. A. Talks

(Continued from page 1)
alert for a vigorous defense of the material and spiritual values in a society
sick with ethical blindness and indifference,"
Miss Daniel concluded her series of
discussions with the following thought:
"Collective action engaged in the quest,
organized as producers, consumers, and
citizens, will be a long step toward the
realization of that society. It is quite
true that no social arrangement can ever
be a substitute for kindness, integrity,
and imagination. But it is equally true
in society such as that which we have
briefly indicated. In our complex world
the welfare of each is extricably intertwined with t h e welfare of all. To
understand and act upon this principle
injects an ethical consideration into the
function of bread-winning and regulates
that function to its proper sphere in the
art of living."

Where We Spent the
Week-End
Patty Bonner spent the week-end in
WiUiamsport visiting at the home of
Eleanor Sauers, '31.
Peg Gardiner was a t her home in Renovo.
Mae Allen week-ended at her home in
Williamsport.
Julia Cornely spent Sunday with her
parents in Madera.
Rosalind McConnell visited her roommate, Pearl Drick, of Williamsport,
Dot Cunningham and Gwen Schalles
spent the week-end at their homes in
Altoona.
Barbara Sloop and Jerry Jones were
with their parents in Bellefonte over
t h e week-end.

The Praeco dance was a grand idea
and a stubborn one. Don't fret, co-eds;
the boy friends will respond to the next
one. Christmas does things to one's
pockets . . . or have you a better alibi?
"Life," commenting on the eighth m a r riage of a persistent man, aged ninetyflve, says: "Wisdom may come with age
or age may come alone."
The Radio program that brought Clark
Gable, Marie Dressier, and Paul Whiteman to the microphone couldn't resist
repeated bally-hooing for its own product. Mr. Gable, after speaking his piece
(he insisted that his fame was a d r e a m
and that someone would pinch him, etc.)
spent three minutes lauding his sponsor's
product. And if that doesn't prove that
radio is on the decline so far as advertising merit is concerned, hearken to the
"music that satisfles" program and hear
a dozen mentionings of the product in a
dozen and three minutes . . ,
Trials of a teacher . . . number one:
Prof.—"That composition is positively
terrible. I'm going to show it to your
father."
Student (thinking out loud)—"Better
not, he wrote it."
The production of Sophocles' "Electra"
(and we are mean enough to believe that
it was an attempt to cash in on the
O'Neill trilogy, which featured Blanche
Yurka and Mrs. Pat Campbell was not,
according to Atkinson, a successful venture. We remember the praise heaped
on Margaret Anglin's production of some
years back and imagine that this present
production proves our contention that
Miss Yurka is merely a so-so actress.