The : Pennsylvania : State : College
EDWIN ERLE SPARKS, Ph.D., L.L. D., PRESIDENT
Established and maintained by the joint action of the United States Government and the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania
qFIVE GREAT SCHOOLS—Agriculture, Engineering, Liberal Arts, Mining, and Natural Science, offering
thirty-five courses of four years each—Also courses in Home Economics, Industrial Art and Physical Edu
cation—TUlTlON FREE to both sexes; incidental charges moderate.
First semester begins middle of September; second semester the first of February; Summer Session for
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THE REGISTRAR, State College, Pennsylvania
ITY BASKETBALL.
Schedule is Completed—Large
Amount of Material to be Drawn
From Class Teams.
In a week Penn State's most suc
cessful football season will have
been closed and at this early
date basketball is beginning to
attract the attention of the lovers of
the popular floor game. H. E.
Shore 'l3 will captain the State
team and J. P. Gordon 'l2 will man
age it. Hermann 'l2, a former star
player has consented to coach the
team this winter. The assistant
managers are Clark, Bevan, and
• Flagg, all of the junior class.
Among the forty-six candidates
who reported for the first practice
Tuesday afternoon were Captain
Shore, Blythe, Craig, Green, Hartz
and Vosburg of last year's success
ful team. Haddow, McEntire and
Young will be missed in this year's
line-up. Mauthe, the great football
player, will most likely play one of
the guard positions. Shore, Craig
and Green are in excellent condition
as a result of their early training.
Material for the center and forward
positions is lacking and men are
urged to try for, these three weak
places. The squad will be picked
shortly after Than .sgiving and a
complete list of the names of the
men making the training table will
then,be announced in the Collegian.
The basketball season will open
on December 8 at home with Al
bright, a team which Penn State
last year defeated 50 to 9. The
last scheduled game is to be played
at South Bethlehem, Lehigh being
State's opponents on this occasion.
From last year's schedule, Penn,
Susquehanna, Pratt Institute and
Columbia have been dropped and
St. Johns, Mt: Alto Academy,
Franklin and Marshall, and Manhat
tan have been added. The sched
ule contains twelve games, half of
which are to be played at home
and the other six on foreign floors.
The 1911-12 schedule follows:-L
Dec. 8, Albright College at home.
Dec. 14 Manhattan College at
New York City.
Dec. 15 St. Johns University at
New York City.
Dec. 16 West Point at West
Point, N. Y.
Jan. 12 . Pittsburgh Collegians at
home.
Jan;l9 Mount Alto Academy at
home.
Feb. 2 Franklin and Marshall
College at home.
Feb. 3 Gettysburg College at
home.
Feb. 16 Bucknell University at
home.
Feb. 22 Bucknell University at
Lewisburg, Pa.
Feb. 23 Swarthmore College at
Swarthmore, Pa.
Feb. 24 Lehigh University at
South Bethlehem, Pa.
Liberal Arts Society.
Meeting of Liberal Arts society
in room K. library at 7 p. m. sharp
Friday, Nov. 24.
Program —Short business meet
ing; Tennyson's Place in Poetry,
Prof. Pattee; Reading, Prof. Friz
zell and Mr. Winterstein, 'l5. Ora
tion, Wm. Ross 'l4.
Every member is requested to be
present on time. Meeting will close
at 8 p. m. sharp.
On Mr• Hartman's Lectures
Saturday night Nov. 11, Mr.
Hartman gave his lecture on Walt
Whitman. Judging from the audi
ance present, however, our College
can claim but few "Whitmanians"
It is to be regretted that a larger
number of the students did not
avail themselves of the opportunity
to hear from a man whose very
presence is an inspiration for the
beautiful and higher things in life.
Of the six hundred present most of
them were people from town and
members of the faculty
In his interpretation of Whitman
the lecturer read "To You", "The
Open Road" and several other
poems. Whitman's strong mas
culine personality was forcibly
brought out by the lecturer. He
was too much of a poet to be a
philosopher and although he allows
no order or rhythm in his poetry,
his simplicity of style raises him
above any other writer of the age.
He sees things in their full view and
expresses them as they appear and
not as he would like them to ap
pear. Whitman is not appreciated
by the reading public, because it
takes more than mere reading of his
poetry to uncle, stand his gigantic
soul. His thought must be delved I
within us.
• Those who were fortunate enough
to hear Mr. Hartman lecture on
Wistler. the French,—English—and
American artist and his comparison
between the Oriental and Western
painters, can appreciate his broad
knowledge of the art world. He is
ranked as one of the foremost art
critics in America. In his "avoca
tion", that is of a writer of short
stories, he takes no second place .o
any American writer of today.
His volume of short stories, recently
published, is so vivid and illuminat
ing that one feels himself in the
presence of the characters while
reading them.
We may consider ourselves very
fortunate in having had such a man
in our midst. Let us hope how
ever, when an opportunity presents
itself to come in touch with a genius
such as Mr. Hartman, more persons
will be the gainers thereby.
The members of the Cosmo
politan club wish • to express their
thanks to all those who so gener
ously offered their assistance in
bringing Mr. Hartman to College.
Young Man
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PENN STATEVCOLLEGIAN
Town Boys Night School
The leaders of the Hugh Beaver
club among the town boys have
decided to start a night school.
This work seems to be necessary
because the public schools are not
Teaching a large number of boys.
This isnot because of the inefficiency
of the schools but rather because
most of the boys 'must work
through the day.
The college authorities have
given the use of two rooms in the
Engineering building. 'the first
meeting for organization was held
on Monday Nov. 20 at 7.30. The
work at present will be in charge of
the acting chaplain Mr. Robert R.
Reed and Mr. Hamlin Torrey of
the college. Mr. Torrey as an un
dergraduate in the University of
Pennsylvania did settlement work in
Philadelphia and is well fitted for
work of this kind.
It is hoped that some of the
students will cooperate in this work.
If any one is interested he can get
in touch with the work by talking
to either Mr. Reed or Mr. Torrey.
Prof. Pattee's Book Popular
Professor Pattee's Elements of
Religious Pedagogy has been made
the text for the first year's work in
teachers-training offered by the
International Sunday School Asso
ciation. The extent to which the
book is now being used may be
gathered from the fact that upward
of 1800 — teiE Weir lie - Sind ying it in
the training classes of Boston alone
and that through the co-operation of
the Religious Pedagogy Depart
ment of the Boston School of
Theology a circle of 1000 was re
cently formed for whom a special
imprint edition was struck off.
Resolutions of Condolence
Whereas God in his infinite wis
dom has seen fit to remove by
death, the father of our esteemed
classmate A. S. Jones, be it resolv
ed that the class of 1913, of The
Pennsylvania State College extend
its sincere sympathy to him and
members of the family in their
bereavement,
Furthemore, be it resolved that
these resolutions be entered upon
the class minutes and be published
in the Penn State Collegian.
Be it also resolved, that a copy of
these resolutions be sent to the
family.
Committee:—Chas. E. Swab, Ira
S. Nippes, Harvey P. Kocher.
JAMES I. THOMPSON
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Sole agency for
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SHOES
The new fall styles
of shoes just in at
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