Entertainment? «*Y»» O' Course! VOL. XXII, No. 1 Forty Gridders Report For Pre-Season Drills Rain Fails To Halt Progress Of Nittany Squad—First Scrimmages Held Monday And Tuesday Seven days of alternate inin and shine have sufficed to build the 1926 Penn State gridiron squad into a uni fied camp which has bi ought a twink le into the eyes of Hugo Bezdok, ar biter of Lion football destinies, when he speaks of his forty stalwarts. Tanned by the elements and streng thened by hard physical labor dm ing the summer months, the squad reported In ideal condition to start actual practice Wednesday morning. Building steadily upon sound physical mechanism, the Nittany mentor whip ped his proteges into shape foi scrim mage Monday after oon The lino that faced the ’* rt cond team on Labor Day aveiagcu 137 i pounds, yet opposed to it was u line: of equal brawn In the back fields were six letter men. Through a driving rain the warnors battled, with the temporniy varsity always in the van. 4 At the final whistle the second team admitted defeat by a margin of two touchdowns, both icg istered bv Dangerfield. Grccnshields and Krall Return With the return of Grccnshiclds and Krall, star linemen of the 1928 yearling team, the line problem is losing some of its complexity. Green shields, who captained his freshman eleven, has been assigned a tackle while Krall has been stationed at guard. Faulkner, substitute end two years, ago, has acnin donned moleskins and is putting in a strong bid for a wing post. Captain Ken Weston, stellar end, has trained faithfully duung the (Continued on page five.) PROFiJ. A. FERGUSON —: WILL TEACH AT .YALE Head of Forestry Department • Here Granted Leave of : Absence for Year Prof J. A. Ferguson, head of for estry instruction here, has been granted leave of absence for one year so that he may act as visiting professor of forest management at the Ynlc School of Forestry during the coming college ycai, it was learn ed here yesterday. At Yale, Professor Ferguson will take the place of Prof. 11. II Chap man, the Harrimun Professoi of For est Management, who is on Sabbati cal leave He will teach seniors m the forestry school until e.uly spring when he will accompany them to the Yale Forestry Camp, at Uiania, 'Louisiana, where the school owns a large tract of virgin pine timber. Professor Ferguson came to Penn State following his giaduation fiom Yale Forestry School in 1908, and lat er started the foicstiy school at the University of Missouri, returning here in 1912 ns head of the depait ment. He is a former vice-pzesident of the National Society of American Foresters and is un assistant editor of the Journal of Forestry He is one of the organisers and the first secretary of the Pennsylvania State Conservation Council and is n fellow of the Amcncnn Association for the Advancement of Science Storm Calls Time Out On Tower Of Old Main State College tunc came to a stand still Monday afternoon nt ten minutes past one when, in the midst of a thun der shower, a playful bolt of lightning hit the flagpole on top of Old Man and ran through the west side of the clock. Workmen at once set to icpan the damaged timepiece Feverishly they labored on 'the highest part of the building, for sometime, somewhere, the zealous employees of the college heard or load that time means money and the boiough of State Col lege needed cash to pay the wages of the police foicc and fire company ns both had been sadly overworked and were ready to go on stnkc. After twenty houis of fi antic en deavor, the wheels were once more set in motion but thcic still remain two gaping holes in the side of that aged Ingorsoll which faces directly into the westerly winds which uie so prevalent on the campus at various times of the year. Time will tell whether the workmen Irmt g>latr COLLEGE’S SERVICE SHOWN AT SESQUI Benefit to Stale Portrayed By Pictures, Models, and Demonstrations PALACE OF EDUCATION HOUSES NOVEL DISPLAY An exhibit designed to show the service of Penn State to the State and Nation, has been csscmblcd and n now m place at the Scsqui Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. It has been placed in the Palace of Educa tion. Every phase of activity of the Col lege is shown in the display that oc cupies a generous space adjacent to exhibits by other Pennsylvania col leges and universities It has been assembled through months of work by E K. Hibshman, assistant to the president of the college. Outstanding m the exhibit is an ac tual demonstration of the threefold service function of the institution, the resident instruction of 3700 stu dents, the more than 200 research projects being undertaken on the cam pus, and the extension service in agri culture, education and engineering. Two working models are included One shows m miniature the animal respiration colorimeter of the Insti tute of Animal Nutrition, the only instrument of its kind now operating in the world. The other shows eight Jiffeioiit iypus> oi, wall construction assembled by the-engineering experi ment station, to demonstrate their worth in heat transmission \ Another model is of the fertilizer experiments at State College, the old est m America and the second oldest in the world. It shows the lesults of forty-five years’ experiments with var (Contmued on page five ) Grangers Strive To Meet Memorial Fund Centre county Grangers have set a precedent in their cfloits to meet their quota for the Penn State Grange Memorial fund, It G Brcss lei, vice-dean of the School of Agri culture announced. In a meeting at Milcshurg the Cen tie County Pomona Grange pledged itself to write a check to the treasui ei of the college for the full amount of its quota not yet paid bv the sub oidmate granges of the county on the any ground is broken fci the memor ial In the meantime the subordinate giangcs will proceed to raise us much of the county quota as they can thiough festivals, plays and other ac tivities. The Grange Memorial is to be a gals’ donnitoiy at Penn State. First Hindu Student Enrolls In College Admission of the fust Hindu stu dent ever to be enrolled at Penn Slate was announced last week by Dr. C E Marquardt, college examiner. The East Indian is D P. Roy Chowdhurv, who received a bachelor of science de gree fiom the Umveisity of Calcutta in 1925, and he will iccoivc advanced standing in the Penn State graduate school A cablegram to Chowdhuiy has an nounced Ins admission and advised him of the opening of the college term on September 15 lie has start ed from Calcutta m order to get here in time for the opening. He expects tc engnge in advanced work in agri culture. Girls’ Clubs Welcome 110 Freshmen Co-eds Welcoming one hundred and ten freshman girls to Penn State, ropie sentativos or the W. S. G A, W. A. A. and Y. W. C A will entertnin the new girls nt a paity at the Woman’s Building Satuidny afternoon at two thirty o’clock. These organizations will also take the new girls on n bicakfast hike eaily Sunday morning nnd another hike in the afternoon. STATE COLLEGE, PA.. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1926 LEADING ARTISTS ENGAGED FOR ‘V WINTER CONCERTS Zimbalist, the Master Violinist, Listed With Six Varied Entertainments SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INAUGURATES COURSE Barrerc, Foremost Flutist, Will Lead “Little Band” Here Next Month Five of the foremost artists of the musical w’orld including Efrem Zim balist, violinist, and Marie Tiffany, soprano, will appear here in this sea son's Y. M. C. A entertainment couisc Roy Chapman Andrews, ex plorer, has been secured to relate the liscovcrics of the latest Asiatic expe dition m quest of the nnssng link. Others who will appear on the en tertainment list arc the Barren Little Symphony oichcstra opening the pro gram on October sixteenth; the Llera Mexican Musicians on October thir tieth; Aithur Pillsbury, naturalist, on March twelfth; and Paul Althouse, tenor, on April first. Miniature Orchestra The Barrerc Symphony orchestra, celebrated as the “miniature orches tra,” is conducted by George Barrerc, flute virtuso, who founded the Little Symphony in 191-1. It consists of the choir of wind instiuments, flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, trumpet, und bassoon, combined with an adequate balance of the siring section Press opinions of the Little Sym phony bear out the statement that Ban ere has succeeded m bringing all the delicate effects of the symphony oichcstra to the mtmacy of chamber music Mexican Entertainers Two weeks after the opening con cert, the Llera Mexican Musicians will offer '? ir*(-rpre*T': m, “A .light in Mexico'.!’’ The production will be staged in colloboration with Senor Carlos Berrcia, author, playwright and lecturei. Roy Chapman Andrews, leader of the Third Asiatic Expedition, will tell his personal story of this famous ex pedition on November twenty-second He is bringing not only his own story, but thousands of feet of motion pic ture film, .which will be shown for the first time duung his lecture here. Tiffany and Kindlcr After tiying for a long time to get two artists of nutional icputation on A joint progiam, the Y M. C A has succeeded m securing Marie Tiffany, (Continued on page six.) Enrollment To Total Thirty-eight Hundred When the Armory doors are opened Monday’, one thousand-thirty’fieshmcn will icgistcr for the first time as Penn State students This will make the total college enrollment 3800. Ten per cent of the incoming class is fem inine. Engineering courses attiacted the greatest number of freshmen. More than four hundred will enter this school, while the Agriculture school, next high, was chosen by 186. Be cause of the large number of upper classmen now m the school, the Lib eral Arts eniollment was slightly de creased. Only 160 new students were allowed admittance. The School of Chemistry and Physics will be increased by 115 students af ter the fall legislation and will re fold one of its laigcst entering class es. Ninety-nine will be registered as *-iadcnts n eauention *uid forty-three m mining oi nnncrology. Cartmell Issues Call For Yearling Harriers Freshmen tiack nspnants will re port to Coach Nate Caitmcll on New Beaver Field this aftornoon at three o’clock. The varsity squad will not icpont until next week when Captain Uiuvey Stewait will lead a promising aggregation on the cinders. Coach Cartmell has no line on the strength of the 1930 men except that ndvanco information indicates an un usually strong squad. Nate expects to watch the work of the yearling cross country men m particular. Last year the freshmen defeated Pitt nnd finish ed second in the freshmen intcrcol- Icgiutos. The Blue and Gold will be mot again tins year and the freshmen will again tiuvel to New York to tnke pnrt in the mtcrcollogmtes. All who have any For the purpose of making further study of certain fungi growths, Dr L. C. Overholtz has been gianted a sab batical leave of absence for the com ing year. He will be leplaced by A. M. Judd. ■During his stay he will be located nt the Missouri Botunmcul Gardens in St. Louis where he was woiking be fore he enme to Pcim State in 191 G. It is his purpose to complete some .. papers which he was pvepanng at ability are requested to icpoit. |ihat time on the subject of fungi. YEARLING GRIDIRON HOPEFULSORDERED TO REPORT TODAY Coach ‘Dutch’ Hermann Expects Host of Candidates for - Initial Practice FIVE CONTESTS SLATED FOR 1930 AGGREGATION Gray and Helbig, Former Lion Stars, Named Assistants To Veteran Mentor With Coach JJ M. Hermann issu ing the initial call for candidates, freshman football practice will get under way for the first time this af ternoon when all aspirants for the 1930 grid machine arc expected to re port on the Nt'y Beaver piacticc field The exact hour of the preliminary workout will bo announced today on the bulletin boards Assisting CHermann in an at tempt to moldu* formidable eleven out of the expected host of candidates will be Bas Gi.iy, captain and center on Hugo BezdA’s Varsity of 1924-25 mid Bill Helbig, a veteran Vaisity back for three v ears. Both men are ineligible for niithcr mteicollcgiate gridiron competition because of the three year ruhrg. First Drills Light For the first few days of practice the coaches will devote the time to putting the candidates through snap py limbering-up exercises in order to whip the men into the best possible condition. Punting, light signal drills and the -catching and throwing of forward passes will take up a greater portion of the work for this week. Anangements have been made to of a -quad of eighty «*nndt dat®«The yearlings will dress in iry loj-ker rooms where ri section as beeV 'Hotted for their ex clusw^i' * > Earl; Cut 'Expected After a thorough seaich for'hkoly looking gndders it is- expected that Dutch will make an early cut in or der to reduce the squad to n mote (Continued on second page) . BAND WILL GIVE FIRST CONCERT AT RECEPTION Rehearsals To Start Next Week For Annual Freshman Entertainment Upholding its custom of being the first college organization to appeal on the campus Penn State’s band will en tertain at the freshman lcccption Fri day evening, September seventeenth. The Blue bnnd will hold a rehearsal sometime prev ious to that date to pre pare several numbers to be offered Although the organization lost twenty-three men by graduation in June Bandmaster W. 0. Thompson hopes to fill their positions with men fiom last ycai’s sophomore class. Ac cording to the program outlined for the coming term the conceit band will consist of seventy-five men, the same number to play for football games. After its initial appearance at the reception for new men the band will ready foi its fall cntcitammcnt num bers including athletic events and all social activities on the campus Dur ing the vvmtei it will picsent sevcial concerts in the Auditorium. To Call Freshmen Following the organization of the Blue band a call will be made Tues day for freshmen who wish to try out for the band composed of undoiclass men Last year this group consisted of one hundred and twenty men. From sixty to seventy-five first-year men will be accepted. Penn State’s conceit orchestra will hold its Aist meeting after the open ing of school, the date to be announced later. OVERHOLTZ GRANTED SABBATICAL LEAVE Gfolbgratt 1030 NEWCOMERS WELCOMED TODAY AT SECOND! FRESHMAN WEEK ASSEMBLY “Official” Dinks Sold Only By Ken Weston Buy youi dmks now, but, above all, buy them from “Ken” Weston, 1926 football captain and abide by the new luling of the Tribunal that all dinks must be puichnscd from men nuthonzod by the giad uatc manager of athletics and the secretary of Y. M C. A. “Ken" will head n committee of venders who will provide all year lings with a coveted green top to day. Freshmen in the School of Mines will wear pea-green dinks. “Radio Kelly,” Deceased Rattler, Now Mounted “Radio Kelly,” the fiiat reptile to be used as a radio broadcaster and owned by the nature study dcpait ment, has been mounted and will be an exhibit in the department for years to come. “Kelly” broadcast his rattle on the evening of May seventh, 1921, fiom the college station WPSC, three weeks before the nightingales were broadcast in England and prior to the zoological broadcasts m this country. Some months ago, “Kelly” tned of his daily rattling perform ances and died by his own fangs Prof George R Green, head of the nature study department and now president of the American Natmc Study Societv, decided to have the rattler mounted. The taxidcimist placed “Radio Kelly” in a nnturnl “sti iking” position, the same that he held for his broadcasting debut two years ago Freshmen From Five Counties Eligible To Receive Scholarships High school students in Bradfoid, Cnmtion, Centie, Wayne and Wy oming counties who have been ad mitted to the class of 1930 this fall will this week have opportunity to leccive a McAUistci Scholarship, pioviding one hundicd twenty dol lars toward the expenses of their first year at the Nittanv institution. Theie me five of these scholarships assigned annually to the five coun ties of the State showing the high est iat'o of students attending Penn State to the population of the coun ty Tlie superintendent of schools in each county is chairman of the ap pointing board An additional scholarship of one hundicd dollars, the gift of Mrs M Elizabeth Olewine, of Bellcfonte, is open to a piospcctivc ficshmnn gul student of Centro county aftei a competitive examination. Co-ed Plebe Customs Enforcement Delayed Pending the ainval of the sopho more class president, the time foi the beginning of freshman customs is un certain The time is usually set by the chan man of the customs commit tee, who in this case was Miss Naomi Kiaut '29, but as Miss Kraut is not ictuining to Penn State this fall, a new chairman will have to be appoint ed bcfoic customs can be enforced. “Three Bergers, Draw One, Hat On An Apple”—New Penn State English Course A little dictionary expansion is i othing to “Jack" ami lus worthy as sistants who arc coining a new type of chatter for Penn State lads and lassies at Joriv O’Mahoney’s “Get-it quick” Club Dinei. Jack, the boy who’s limning the joint for Jetiy, is the mint where .ill the slang is coined He’s revol utionizing the vernncular of tin lunch loom. “Burr’ tose,” “pitch-* pie,” “ruz-biff,” “seup-cuffy," and "bowl-znpp” have long since served then turns. They nic no moic. At "Jacks” a customer is served not only food but a biand new kind of chattel that leaves him dumb with amazement To Jack, n plate of beans is not a plate of beans at all, it is “a thousand ” "Adam and Eve on a laft,” he yells and, to the customers surprise, Mor ns, his mun Friday, slides up two poached eggs on toast. In a like manner bread and buttei is “a set up," toast is “angel food," Judge H. W. Mitchell Outlines Plans For Incoming Class—Meets In Auditorium Tonight RUSHING TO BEGIN AT NOON SATURDAY I. F. Council Also Prohibits Pledging Before Monday To Protect Freshmen SIX-MONTH SUSPENSION FIXED AS'PUNISHMENT In order to restrict the methods of lushing to be used for the beginning of the semester, the Tnterfraternity Council passed the following motion at its meeting in June “No rushing shall take place be fore twelve o’clock noon Septcmbei eleventh, and no pledging shall take place before twelve o’clock noon, Monday, September thrteenth “The Interfratcinitv Council inter piets the statement ‘no rushing/ as meaning that no freshman shall be entertained by any fraternity m any manner, such as being accompanied to movies, lunches, meals at motels, out-of-town parties, motor rmes and the like “From the period beginning twelve o’clock noon, Saturday, September eleventh, and ending twelve o’clock noon, Monday, September thirteenth, no freshman shall be allowed to stay overnight on any fraternity premis es, the word ‘overnight’ being defined os the hours of 10 p m and 8 a. m, on any two consecutive days. The p’naHy. for-pr ,v ed hi'nct on of this code shall be n vote of cen suic by this council to the guilty fia temity, the notice of which shall be published m the COLLEGIAN and sent officially to every national fia termty at Penn State and to the na tional chapters or headquarter* of the guilty fraternity. “The guilty fraternity shall then be diopped from this council six months of the college year and notice of this action shall also be published and sent to all national fraternities and to the headquartcis of the guilty fiaternity as mentioned above” Berryhill To Appoint La Vie Editors Soon Although C C Bcuvhitl, editor-in chief of the 1928 LaVie has not yet announced the staff of editors to as sist in compiling the junior yearbook he will meet with D O Lane, business managci, and J. R Kershaw and P. U. Smaitz, associate editors, soon at which time the final list of assistants will be decided Immediately fol lowing the selection, work will be gin on the 1928 annual. Editoi Berryhill is consulting many new plans for the volume and announces that no effort will be spar ed in making the publication equal any of the LnVies vet printed Ow ing to the fact that the plans are but tentative and await the approval of the entire staff they will not be di vulged until a future date glass,” a hamburg sandwich is “a bergei ” Anothci mind-weary customer says, "Cup o’ coffee, Jack. Jack yells, “Draw one.” By this time the customer, just out of curiosity asks, "How about some of those sliced peaches ” And Jack holleis to Moiris, "Mrs Browning, on one ” Anothci says, "Apple pie, a-la mode ” “Right,” yells Jack, “Cut the ap ple and put a hat on it." It was all that wc could beat “how much 1 ’” we asked. “Foity cents,” nnswciod Jack and we dug out eight nickels. "Kill the jits,” hollcied Jack and wc staggered out “Don’t forget to tell the boys that Ihcio’s no lock on the dooi,” Jack cnllcd after us. And just about that time old Noah Webstet sat up in Ins giavc, blinked his eyes, looked nrounri, and t-quietly turned o\ci Rushing "Week-end PRICE FIVE CENTS New Men Instructed In College Songs and Cheers—Bez To Ghc /Address LECTURES LISTED FOR YEARLINGS NEXT WEEK Penn State’s newly instituted Fieshman Week, after a successful debut m 192 r >, opened for its second observance this morning when more than one thousand members of the incoming freshman class gathered in the Auditorium to be fonnallv wel comed by Judge II Walton Mitchell, president of the Bo.ud of Trustees Few changes from Iqst yeai aio noted in the outlined progiam found ir. the Freshman Week pamphlet that was mailed to each new student last week prioi to his amval in Stuto College The committee m ch.uge of the Week’s activities, after consider ation, decided to shorten the program by one day This action necessitated the eliminating of one macs meeting m addition to reducing the number of general lectures fiom the eight given last vear to six. Judge Mitchell in his initial ad dress to the incoming class this morn ing welcomed the ficshnten in the name of the College and outlined the plan to be followed lluoughout the week of acquainting the yearlings with the traditions and customs of Penn State He included m lus talk a summniy of the purpose and objcc (Continued on page six ) REV. H. E. NICELY-WILL- OPEN CHAPEL SERVICES First Speaker Is Graduate of Chicago U., Cambridge and Princlon The Rev II E Nicelv, of the Wcst nnnstei Presbyterian Chuich at Wil mington, Delawaie, will speak at the opening Chapel sen ice Sunday. Rcv eiond Xicelv is a giaduate of Chica go umvcisitv, Pimceton Theological Seminal \ and Cambndge, England While at the Unnenitv of Chicago, Revciend Niceh was editoi-in-clucf of the college annual, picsident of the Honoi Commission, chan man of the Senior Societv and Head Marshal. Dunng his three veais at Pimceton, he was aw aided the fellowship in New Testament and v.’ent to Cam budge foi a \e.u of studv. On lus return fiom England m 1925, Reverend Niceh was associated with the Philadelphia Society at Puncctoa until cailv this \e.u when lie took his picsent position lie is a memboi of the Pin Bela Kappa fia temity 4300 Lb. Coal Nugget Presented To College A lump of bituminous coal weigh ing 4300 pounds, said to be the hugest ever taken fiom a cential Pennsyl vania mine, has been donated to the School of Mines and Mctalluigy by the Reitz Coal company of Central City, Pa The lump is of the so* culled smokeless vmiety. Accoiding to the plans of Prof. W. G. Duncan, duccloi of mining exten sion work, the two-ton lump of coal will be utilized in the construction of a monument on the College campus, which will show the vauous cool and clay deposits ol Pennsvlvama in then* geological oidei A lump of nnlhra c'lo coal, weighing nioie than live tons, has been pionused to the College 'ind will be used f<u the same r.urposc, Profcs.or Duncan states. Students Win Jobs As Mine Foremen, Bosses Sixteen of the young men from the bituminous mining distncts ot Pennsvlvama who attended the an nual shm t couise in mining at Penn State this summet, have passed the examinations and will take positions a.s nunc foremen, assistant mine lore men and lue bosses. This number lopiescnts the entnc eligibility list of students in the slioit couise, and each has loomed a ceitiltente from
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