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VOLUME 7 NUMBER 1e
THE THESPIAN TRIALS
Largd Turnout to the Initial Ti ials
for Places in the Chorus. Com-
petition Will Be Aeen This Yeiti
The preliminary trials fox positions
in the Thespian choi us held last
Friday and Saturday evening in the ,
Old chapel were very well attended,
and the committee in charge of the
trials was more than satisfied with
the showing made by some of the
new men. Since there are quite a few
of the old men back at school this
year, there promises to be some
very interesting races foi positions
on this year's chorus.
The final trials for the chorus and
cast will be held. Friday, Feb. 171
and Saturday, Feb. 18; the exact
time and place to be announced I
later. Copies of the show are now
being printed and can be obtained
from th following members on and
atter Feb.l3. Prof. J. H. Fiizzell
270 Main or 230 Pugh St.; J. A.
Hassler, Alpha Kappa Delta house,
J. Millholland, Phi 'Sigma Kappa
house; E. E. Tanguy, S. A. E. house;
and R. G. Guthrie, 227 McAllistei
hall. The books will only be loaned
to those who intend applying for a
position in the cast.
There have ,been no changes
made in the trip as outlined in last
week's Collegian. The 1 hespians
hope that the different clubs of the
towns in Which the Thespians will
appear on their trip, will take the
matter up with the, Alumni and
friends at home, and make the hip
a social as.wrll ac a financial sur-
Less. , The Thepians will take the
trip during the latter part of the
Easter recess.
The Thespian advisci y, commit
tee consisting of Pro Es. F. L. Pattee,
W. H. Espenshade, and J H. Friz
zell, are. earnestly working and hope
to bring the Thespians to such a
position at State as that occupied
by "The Masque ar.d Wig" at U. of
P; "The Masque" at Cornell; ',The
Triangle" at Princeton, and "The
Blackfriers" at Univ. of Chicago.
This object can only be accomplish
ed with the aid of all the student;
and alumni.
Mr. C. L. Downing of Phila., who
has' so successfully coached the
Thespians the past two seasons, has
again been selected to coach this
season, and he will be on hand to
supervise the final trials, Feb. 17
and 18.
Why is an Olive ? The story with
a staing to It.
Important Experiment Completed.
The Animal Husbandry depart ;
has recently completed , a feeding
experiment inNolving the use of '2l
high glade draft homes. The
object of the test was' to determine
the relative efficiency of different
rations for fattening purposes. The
horses were divided into three
groups as nearly equal as possible
in age, weight, quality, breeding
and condition. One lot wa's fed
corn, oats and hay, a second corn,
cottonseed meal, and hay; and the
third, corn, cottonseed meal, hay
and silage. There was but little
difference in the rate of gain in each
lot, but the cost was decidedly in,
favor of the group receiving coin,
cottonseed meal, hay and silage
As this is the first test ever con
ducted in which silage constituted a
portion of the 'atoll, the iesults will
prove valuable to every horse feed
ing section in the country
Have an olive Everybody is in
on it.
Change in Engineering Faculty.
Mr H P. Sauerheiring, formerly
of the department of heat engineer
ing is now located at Buffalo. He
has charge of the course in electrical
engineeling at the Bi yant and Stia
ton Business college
The place left vacant will be filled
by Mi Alexander Ritter. Mi. Rit
ter has had 14 years of experience
in several European states. -
He is a graduate of the Austro-
Hungarian Technical college where
he specialized along naval and mai ine
lines I-Es first work was with the
Austi o-Hungaiian Naval Engineer
ing school and dockyard, which
position he filled for three yews,
,then leaving it to accept a position
as engineer on the royal yacht and
toipedo ookt.
He• w s chief draughtsman for
the Northeastern IViarine Engineer
ing Co., lot ated at Wallsencl on
Tyne, England foi a period of three
year, and was als I foi a number of
yeafs the thitish icpiesentative foi
the Westinghouse Electiic and
Manufacturing Co , Ltd. at Tiaffoid
Palk, Manchestei.
His previous work in teaching
was clone at the Technical Erigineei
ing collcge of Germany, dt.rirg
which time be made preparation
fol and passed the examination for
Chief Naval Engineer.
Mr Rittei will take up his work
here in about a week.
Mr. H. McCready, assistant elec
tiical engineer of the Union Switch
and Signal 'Co of Swissvale Pa.
'pent a few days here last week,
come mer , for the three
year apprenticeship courses offered
by his company. A "few of the
senor electr,cals signified their in
tention of taking the course.
The new wireless station, located
in the Electrical annex, sent its first
message last Saturday afternoon.
fhe receiving station was located on
the Mountains near the gap and was
arranged Saturday morning. No
messages were received here since
the station at the gaps was only a
receiving station. It is the intention
of the
,department to locate a send
ing and receiving station on Bald
top mountain. Comaimical ion will
later be attempted with the numer
ous Stations located over the coun
try
Attention 1911
Dr and Mrs. Schieffelin of New
York have consented to address the
Senior class in the Old- Chapel on
Sunday at 2.15 p. m.
Di. Schieffelin's theme will be
"The College Man in the Business
Woild" and the rank that this
man holds in the business enter
prises of the country well fits hirr,
to deliver a highly educational talk.
Mrs. Schieffelin will touch op an
another interesting topic appreciat
ed by college men about to giaduate,
namely "Home-Making". , This re
maikable woman is probably one of
the foremost woman speakers in the
country and her ideas will be un
doubtedly of vital inteiest to the
outgoing senior class
The opportunity- for the 1911
men to hear good speakers while at
Penn State is rapidly dri•wing to a
close and this is a pait culai instance
that no man can really allot d to
Let us have a good turnout, You
cannot iegiet it, in fact you will
find it more than worth your while
Y. M. C. A. pay dap; all this
week ancrnext. Pay your clues and
Can - p_u,;ri subsciiption. . -
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STATE COLLEGE, PA., 14T1310.JARY 9, 1911
Good Reads Trt in
The special train whi :h is help
ing to spread the good roads move
merit through the State is making
excellent picgietzs. Great enthu
siasm has been manifested at nearly
evely stop. At Apol'o, for ex
ample, the ham was met by five
hunched people, heaci.d by a brass
band, and at another place the
Boardl of Trade gave the men of the
train a banquet It can he easily
seen, therefore, that the movement
for good roads in the stite is being
favorably received by th;... people.
The train consists of six cars and
carries a force of fourteen to eigh
teen men. Among tl e lecturers
are.—J P. Jackson, Stare College,
in charge of the 'train; , J P. Gep
hait, State Highway Dept., E. IT
Hass,' State li , gl - may Dept , L. B'
Dodge, the Pennsylvania State col
lege, D H. Winslow, U.iitecl Stites
office of loads. Incluied in the
force ale also a mechanician and an
operator for the lante.in slides.
E‘ ening lectures have bccn schedul
ed as follows.—
Altoona, February 9, Declford, 10,
Altoona, 11, Patton, 13, Beliwood,
14, Clearfield, is, Lock ilaven.,
Panama Banqnct
On Jan. 21, 'll a b.,nquet and
smolar was given by the Penn State
men who are engaged upon the
Panama Canal. The baguet was
set ved at the Hotel Tiyo.i in Ancon
Canal Zone. Toasts we: e 1 -spond
cd to as follows
Tbastmaster, P. B. Van Dine 'O6;
Ladies, E. W. Nick 'O7; Airships,
N: N: - Veensdhoten '0 i r'Ltic Pati
ne' s, Carl Markham ex '1 i ; Bub
bles, C. S. Lomb 'OB, Our Nittany
Lipn, S. Mussina 'O7
Following the banquet the Penn
State Alumni Association of the
Isthmus of Panama was fowled and
the following office's elected: ,
F. N. Weidner '9l, president; E.
W Nick 'O7, secretary and teastnei,
S. Mussina 'O7, social secretary.
Penn State has the largest re
presentation of college men on the
Isthmus and this was the f , rst affali
of its kind even given by college
men on the Isthmus.
The Chapel Speakers
The Chapel service next Sunday
will be a celebration of Lincoln's
Birthday. Mr. W. J. Schieffelin,fhe
New Yo k'manufactulei who spoke
last Feblualy, will be here and will
be accompained by, the Rev. Wil
liam H. Sheppard, colored, a grad
uate of Hampton Institute, Virginia,
and for many yews a missionai y to
the Bakuba tribes in Afiica.
Some regard him as a mole force
ful speaker• than Booker T. Wash
ington. The Hampton Quaitette,
now in New Yolk, will probably
come with Dr. Schieffelin, and will
sing at the service.
James H. Breasted, Lecturer.
ofessor James Henry Bteasted,
who lectures next Saturday night in
the fr-t;t.' lectuic course on "Camp
and Caravan on the Ethiopian Nile,"
is Profess )r. of Aichaology in the
Universit, of Chicago. He spent
several ye us exploring the tombs
and loins of Egypt ;And serval on a
Commission appo nted by Emperor
William of Get many to compile the
Egyptian man 'scripts in Bei lin. He
is the author of many books on the
history and explorat on of Egypt.
Although still a o, g man he is
regarded as the , y Amet ica
on ancient in',cr '3 ` islecture
will be illivtiratt.,
Have an olox,
on it. '
W. T. Creasy Addressed Agricul-
At a lousing meeting held Mon
day evening in the Agricultural
building W. T. Creasy gave an in
teresting address before the students
of that department and the people
of the community The key , note of
the address was "Co-operation
among farmers" in a community in
such a way as to better the interests
of that class of people. He made
plain the fact that the rural farmer
can gain almost nothing as an in
dividual, but a given group of them
must act in unison to accomplish
then purpose. , Several plaos were
outline,d for bettering the conditions
of the rural classes along social and
economical lines. The county
grange under whose auspices the
address was made seems to be the
best possible means of bringing the
wvots of the farming class before
the pCople, and in this way acts as
a central body for co-operation.
W. T. "Farmer" Creasy besides te
sides being Mrster of tte State
Grange, a state representative, and
trustee of this college is a practical
farmer and is well equipped to
know the conditions and problems
of rural people.
Short addresses were made by
Dr. 3. A. Boosted, of the U. S.
Bureau of Soils, Mr. Dale, master of
the Centre county grange, and by
members of the school of agricul
ture, dealing either with the matter
of co 7 opdation or the extent of the
agricultural work being done at the
college. , .„
The remaining lectures in the free
lecture course are •
Feb. 11,' Dr. James H. Breasted,
of the Aaskell Oriental Museum of
the university of Chicago. "Camp
and Caravan on the Ethiopian
Nile."
Feb. 18, Richard Wyche in Folk-.
Lore of South Uncle Remus.
Feb. 25• Hamilton Holt, editor of
the Independent. The "Federation
of the World."
Maich 4, Graham Taylor of the
Chicago Commons. Subject later.
Maich 11, President George E.
Vincent, of tne University of Min•
nesota.
. March 18, Prof. G. W. Ritchey,
of the Mount Wilson Solar Obser
vatory, Cal. ,
March 25, Arthur de Brearski.
Costume Recital of Shakespeare.
The wireless station has been
established and tried out, the first
test being inn last Saturday by tak
ing the receiving end of the apparatus
to Shingletown with very good re
sults. It is hoped to get con
ractions with Harrisburg, Philadel
phia and the League Island Navy
yards The apparatus was con
stiucted by four' Semots; Thomas,
Turner, Filbert, and Spangle' under
the super vision of Professor Slaught
er of the electrical department.
Next Senior Cotillion.
The committee in charge of-the
Senior Cotillions announces March
31d, 1911, as the date of the next
dance. The last , event, on account
of inclement weather was fathcr
poorly attended, but it is hilly ex
pected that the coming dame will
be a great success. The date is
announced early so that you may
scud your invitations now, thus
n aking swe of their acceptance;
not considering ter usals, in Plenty
of time fof the occasion
~ e i -, `)oclv is in
iural Students
Free Lecture CourEie
Wireless Station.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
HEAR DR. SHEPPARD
This Wonderful Man Has Probably
• r ,
Done More for His People, Es
pecially Those of 'the Congo Free
State, Than Any Living Man.
Do you want to hear thrilling
stories of leopards, elephants, boa
constrictors, and the beasts of the
jungle, hear the man who is to speak
at 3.00 on Sunday afternoon? He
has spent a life-time in their
country, and can tell you more than
our renowned "Teddy" about them.
Do you want to know about the
cannibals of Africa, their barbarous
customs, and how they wage
their merciless warfare? Hear Dr.
Slieppa'rd who has' often been
compelled to see his • own friends
eaten alive.
Do you want to see the man who
is quoted at some length in Mark
T,wain's remarkable book "King
Leopold's Soliloquy", a story of the
horror perpetrated by the king on
the pi ople of the Congo? Th's
pitiless and blood-drenched king,
this money-crazed king, this butcher ,
has cast his awful shadow across
the Congo Free State. and under
him an unoffending nation of
15, 000, 000 withered away. _,and ,
simply succumbed to this misery.
It is a land of graves.
Do you want to look into the eye
of the man who in the face'of all
these obstacles had the courage of
his convictions and became one of
the liberators of these people, and.
emancipated them from theiralav-
Do you want to knoW' more of
the power of this man who 'won
over the celebrated lawyer and
Belgian socialist and free-thinker,
who was sent to oppose him in that
famous trial at Leopoldville and
who came each morning to the
prayer meetings held by Morrison
and Sheppard ? Do you know
that this man gathered four thou
sand into the church, and 8,500 into
the school ?
We shall better understand the val- ,
ite of Lincoln's day if we meet with
the emancipator of the Congo Free
State—this herald of civilization in
a dark continent.
. Hear Sheppard at three Sunday
afternoon. Dr. Scheffelin will
preside at the meeting.
Meek's Attractive Window.
More than one Person has been
seen during the past week gazing
into Meek's show window and feast
ing their eyes on the beautiful dis
play found there.
This decoration consists of hy
acinths, carnations, roses, narcissus
and ,many varieties of ferns,all taste
fully attanged, producing a very
beautiful floral effect. These flow
et s are products of the horticulture
depat tment and the different species
ate grown all winter in the College
gt eenhouses.
Dr. Bonsteel on "Soils and Crops."
Dr. J. A. Bonsteel, of the United
States Bureau of Soils, scent several
days at the college and gave lec
tures on the soils of the United
States, cl"aling pa►iculaily with the
adaptation of the various crops to
the different soils. Although the
soils and crops of the entire
country were talked on, especial at
tention was given to those in the
castcin states. Lantern slides were
used to illustrate many features of
crop adaptation.
Why is an Olive ? The'story with
a stt mg to it.