. , , ' ..- 42 ,.. t,x - ..: 1, I? ;. c cI4IVI , -F--. % ir. „ . TA ~: F ' r, , le' 4Arioleog C toif 0 F N.S . ~. d.. • _4 IL- ' - ef ( 1 .4 ° ' zvq- i 4, 0 , , • ( 4 7) , 44 4 ,... at , . , VOLUME 7 NUMBER 14 \'t WRESTLING ,:'.EASON Schedule Inclucks Most Pfominent Umversitieg in Slie.,East. ARMORY SCENE OF GOOD MEETS Manager Neidig 'lna Succeeded in Securing Home Dates That Will be Far Better than Any Evei Witnessed Here Before. Team Composed Of Experienced Wrestl ers; Many from Last Year's Var- sity Squad. In the very neat future- a new branah, of athleacs will be inaugurat ed at Penn State, in the from of a regular varsity wtestllnp team and a properly ananged schedule, consist ing of a certain number of meets both at home and abrra 1. Tal - s has been a subject of discussion for some years but the movement was always met xv.th some antagonistic form that prevented it from tieing successfully developed. The Athletic association has not been able financially to support a wrestling team, ina - much as the basketball team necessitates a large expencltture of funds and the base ball, football, and trade teams re quire their specific amount of. money It has appeared from this, fact, that if a wrestling team rtas to be 12;uilt up to rept esent Penn State, it would hare to be necesarily self-supporting. No doubts lingo, however, but that the student body will consolidate in the hearty sup part. to' A • lti ,F titr• the wrestling team thiplit,ates, in any meastne, the woik it did in its two meet, last yea!, the foundations will be .ndesituothly I,ncl for its permanent establishment. ' The maragmcnt has arranged for meets with Lehigh, Yale, Columbia, Cornell and Pennsylvatna pending. Lehigh will be met in the Ain - ory on February 11, Yale at New Haven on Febitaty 24 Columbia Univer sity in the Aimoi3 , on Match 4, and Cornell at Ithaca on Match 10 The meet with Penn has not been definitely settled, but a stienuoi, effort is being made to close with themloi a meet hoe in Match. This schedule is undoubtedly a formidable one, and includes in every case colleges laiget than out own, nevertheless with the sterling material of preaent on the squad, the team should give a good ac count of itself Prominent amonrY yeai's men are Glanville, 115 lbs, Diehl 125 lbs, Morrison 145 lbs, Vet v 153 lbs 'and Lesh 175 The new men who ate doing steady woik are Jones, 115 Fisher, 125 lbs, Karcher, 135 ibi s Vull`man, 145 lbs; Shollenberger, 158 lbs; Rang, 1'1.5 lbs, and Vogel and MeVean, heavy. These men ate plactiong with vigor and the men who will compose the varsity team will not be chosen tot some time. A naming table has been started in the track house and strict Tralniug will he obseivecl from now until the close of the sea son. A most imr.oi raid. featt're m con nection with the maintenance of the team \tit I be that telatiN,c to financ ing it successfully In the case of the home meet, a(linvtslon to the Amory will be it;;,11, ted at 25 and 35 ccnt, cicr crd nrr, on the location of :ea:.s. Ftifly thice hundred and fi,ty-, MOl3 can be seat ed and those unable to obtain seats will have a good view of the mat. Columbia and Lehigh will un doubtedly furnish sufficient excite ment to satisfy the demands of the -todents and the regulatio'ns of price seems to be very fair, LEGISLATIVE LETTERS Fully 15000 of These Have Been Distributed Throughout the Entire An important feature in connection with the legistative campaign is,the sending of letters to the most in fluential men through.mt the State. The mailing list includes all mem bers of the Senate and House of Representatives, prominent state officials, parents of present stud ents, prominent members of State G ang,e, Alumni, Boaid of Trustee•, Faculty members and Judges of Court of Common Pleas. The letter is self-explanatory and and the justice of the cause is ao patent in every statement. A large numbci have been disti ibuted throughout the various departments ,of the college and have been sent out bearing the signature of those in charge of the department from which they issued. A copy of the letter is herein copied,— As a 'friend of every movement looking to bettering the condition of the pcpple, you will be interested, I hope, in the enclosed description of some of the attempts made during the past year to carry the benefits of this college and its experiment stations directly to the people of I the l state. The national arid state en expending, thn...-4,h this college considerable sums on a;;Tiictiltuial, engineering and mining experiments whose results the peo ple are entitled to enjoy, but no adequate means have been provided for carrying this information to I them. Wisconsin in 1909; through lits legislature, gave $125,000 to its State institution to carry on work of this kind; Minnesota gave $50,000 and Ohio $20,000. At the suggestion of friends of the college,,we are soliciting an ex- I pression of public opinion under the I following heads: (1) Do you think this exten sion work is important enough to be supported by a special appiopria i tion to be made at the next session of the legislature of the state ? ( 2 , Are you willing to explain to your members of the house and senate the benefits it has conferred fupon your community in the past and what it can do in the future ? I (3 ). Would it be advisable dur ling the session to call a meeting at IHanisburg of all persons interested in this plan of carrying the ce , llege Ito the people ? A prompt and full reply to these questions is earnestly solicited in or der that the board of trustees may determine whether public sentiment is ieacly to support such a request if presented and to push it vigorously to a successful end. I' interesting Engineering Lecture. Engineering problems in storage battery work was the subject of an interesting talk given by Mr J Les tci Woodbridge, Chief Engineer of the Electric Stoiage Battery corn , pany of Philadelphia before the engineering students at 1.30 on last Wednesday. The speakqi illustrat ed by means of slides many of the problems which' he had met in practice, explaining in detail the 'manner in which they had been handled. STATE COLLEGE, PA., JANUARY 19, 1911 PITTSBURG DOWNED Collegians Weee Taken Into Camp 10_14 by the Penn State Five on the Armory Floor. There was plenty of excitement in the Armot v last Monday night when the Pittsburg Collegians were beaten 19 to 14. Last year the same team won 40 to 37 by some sensational shots in the last few minutes, but this time they never had the lead although they were dangerously near tying the score on several oc casions. The first half ended 10 to 7 with Captain Blythe's team in the lead. In that period Shore annexed , three baskets and Blythe one. Artz made two field goals for the visitors and Dolin one. In the foul shoot ing, Dolin and Snyder got one point out of six opportunities while Shore made two out of three good. The half was exceedingly rough and it continued to be even more so as the Contest progressed. . McEntire's injured shoulder handicapped him somewhat and Posey relieved "Mac" at the begin ning' of the second • period, later Craig was ' substituted iCir Posey. Hartz was also used for Blythe in the final, portion of the "bloody encounter." Shore, Blythe and Young (two ) got our freld.goals in the second half while Dolin made pretty ones for thr. Collegians. Shore made one of th:ee fouls count and Dolin scored three counts out of a possible five frOm the foul line in this hat:. rlur tear sho ,elf well able to take care of itself in a rough"-and tumble battle and the victory was well merited. The score.— Penn Stay: lr,/ Pittsbusg Collegians-14 Ivlantrrt Posey Craw f Artz ICat4) 11 )(Wow 130lin Yount). g Borsch Blythe (Copt) Ihtrti p Snyder Gods town 'odd Shoe 4 Blythe 2, Young 2, At '2 ")oliti 3 Gods litou foul Shote 3 out of Dalin 4 out of 7: Sul d,r 0 out of 4 Tune of balvet -two "0 moults 'totem() - J M McKee ,l 0 -- - COLLEGE EXTENSION. From a Report of a Faculty Com mittee to the Boaid of Trustees. , Three schools of the college have made ceitam trials in Extension work (luting the past year, those of the School of Apiculture, being the best organized and equipped. A brief dicription of these ac tivites will illustrate their varied pos sibilities , The School of Agriculture has run B industrial trains over various rail way lines and , through the 40 coun ties of the State. Stops were made and lectures delivered at 159 stations. These lectures were heard by at least 27,000 people. During the year more than 300 addresses were delivered by mem bers of the ;nstructtonal staff in var ious paits ,of the state and were heard by at least 50,000 people. Several Agricultural exhibits were piepaied for county fairs and were displayed at 13 different places this autumn. Farmers' Week at the college last winter enrolled 647 visitors from 49 different counties A similarl'Areek of lectures and demonstrations was held at Greenville, Pa , in co-operation with the Board of 'Dade, ten coun ties being represented in the attend ance. The Correspondence Course dur ing the past yew had a total en lollment of 2,500 students in all parts of the state who prepared one or more lessons. in Agriculture or Domestic Scince. (There is de- mand for an enlargement of this work ). , County superintendents of schoU 4i and teachers are asking assistance in furthering instruction in nature studies and elementary Agriculture by the preparation of guides and other leaflets. ( Cornell University through its Extension appropriation reached 85,00 school children in' this way.) The School of Engineering made a successful test of organizing a voca tional school of apprentices in tike Pennsylvania Railway shops at Altoona, in which 225 students were registered. (Young men in, other industrial plants in the state could be benefited in the same manner). With the co-operation of the Board of Education of Willams port, a night class in Mechanical Drawing was conducted for three months in that.city, being composed 'of 65 workingmen who missed the opportunity of attending college. (With adequate Extension funds. similar classes could be organized in every city of the state). A beginning has been made in furnishing cor rtspondence lessons in elementary technical subjects supplemented by occasional meetings between pupils and the teacher. A car is being fitted up with a good 'roads exibit, which with the co operation of the railways will be shown at various stations throughout the state. Ajecturer will accompany the car. (This experiment must be discontinued at the 'nd of four months unless additional , funds are available ). The School of Mines through its dean has i)repared four lectures on Mining topics which have been printed and distributed through the Mining Institute of the State Young Men's Christian Association. These Lectures have been read and studied by fully 10,000 miners in the state. Six additional le6.tures Will be dis tributed the coming year and an instructor should be sent to each institute to review the course at itS close. Lectures on prevention of accidents and other practical mining subjects were delivered by the dean of' this school at Johnstown, Latrobe; Irwin, Castle Shannon, Punxsutawney, Brownsville, Monongahela, Scott dale, and Pittsburg in the bitu minous district; and at Pittston,Scran, ton, and Hazleton in the anthracite regions The project of running an instructional train with stereopticon views showing the proper methods of mining, is under contemplation but plans have not yet been perfect ed. Beautifying the Campus. As soon as the weather permits steps will be taken to improve ap pearances about the college avenue side of the Engineering building. These will consist of the removal of the unsightly foundry, and the ejec tion of a retaining wall which will shut off the view of the coal bins in the rear of the building. The open space will then be turned into a grass plot, with curbing around the edge. - -- -- - New Apparatus. The air brake apparatus in the Mechanical Engineering Laboratory is soon to be replaced by a corn plete No. 6.E T. engine and tender equipment, with explanatory charts. This change will provide far more satisfactory means of studying the operations of the breaking equip ment as it is now used on train service E(ITAN PRICE FIVE CENTS MRS':IOOTH'S LECTURE An Intetes i ting Subject Well Treated L( ; • By,Vamous Woman. Ballington Booth com monly c bell the "Little Mother" of the Prisons 'lotured last Friday night in the Auditorium on her favorite topic, ''Lights and Shadows of Prison Life." This woman has gained a .wide reputation, not only as a lecturer and orator, but as a philantropist and Christian worker among convicts and ex-convicts from one end of the country to the other. The largest crowd seen in the Auditorium in the Y. M. C. A. course appreciated her message of helpfulness which went out in sym pathy for the class of men and women for whose betterment she is striving. Mrs. Booth spoke of her work since its beginning and the wide proportions it has already at tained under her own personal guid ance. Some of the pictures she is able to bring ,before the hearer by means of her wonderful words. preach sermons and tell tales of prison lite. ' It is said that "The message is one from • the shadows inside and out, of prison walls; of the shadows and of the force and the strength and the value of sun shine which has penetrated and which can penetrate." This kind of work has no doubt worked wonders among'ex-convicts when released from prison. From the money secured from her lectures Mrs. Booth supports two Hope Halls or homes for discharged prisoners where they may go when released and left in the world with out friends so that they may have means of assisting them in' regain ing their lost foot hold in society. Summer Session for Teachers. The bulletin of the second sum mer session for teachers, which has just gone to press, gives some idea of the interest in and appreciation of this work, The fact that the number of courses offered has been raised to eighty-one is sufficient evidence of this interest in the sum mer session. As an attendance of over three 'hundred is expected and because of the enlargement in the curriculum, the corps of instructors will be strengthened by the addition of Mr. C. D. Koch, of Harrisburg—State High School Inspector; Mr. 0. H. -letter, Director of Music at Bloonisburg Normal school; Miss Katharine Moran, of . the State Normal school at Courtlandt, N. Y., and Miss Amy I. Peet, of Lake Port, Indiana. COnvention and Fruit Show. The annual convention and fruit show of the State Horticultural Asso ciation of Pennsylvania will be held in Halt isburg, Jan. 24, 25, and 26,'11. This will be in connection with the State Board Agriculture, Penn'a Live Stock Breeders' Association and the State Dairy Union. Quite an extensive exhibition has been ar ranged for among the fruit growers of the State and the large list of varied entries will afford much chance for competition in all lines of horticultural products. Prof. W. J. Wright, of the horticultural de partment, has charge of the exhibit. Director Lewis has planned to give a series of boxing lessons on Saturday afternoon, from 3 to sp. rya.; during January, February and March. This opportunity is open to all students. Boxing