Penn State
VOLUME 11 NUMBER 22
IMPORTANT SENIOR
CLASS MEETING
Memorial to be Decided. Valedic-
torian to be elected. System of
Selecting Candidates Explained.
At the class meeting to be held
this evening, the seniors will elect,
from a list of five candidates pres
ented by the registrar, the man who
will be the 1915 valedictorian.
According to the regulations laid
down by the faculty, these candi
dates are taken from the 15 per
cent of the senior class who, at the
close of the first semester, have at
tained the highest grades in all sub
jects; and in addition, they repre
sent the five men whose grades in
rhetoric and public speaking are
the highest in that division of the
senior class. These candidates
are: George Vandegrift Luerssen,
Arthur Carl Horst, Reginald Heber
Radcliffe, Ralph DePuy Bole, and
Beatty Henderson Dimit.
The senior memorial vote will
also be taken.
Pitt Wins Fifth
Before the largest crowd that
ever attended a basketball game in
Pittsburgh the University of Pitts
burgh team defeated State by the
score 39-35.
Both teams were in excellent
condition and the game was ex
ceeding fast as the score indicates.
Pitt started off with a rush getting
a foul from the jump off but State
tied them up a moment later. Park
got another foul, putting State in
the lead. From then until the
close of the first half the score see
sawed back and forth ending with
a 19-18 score in State’s favor.
This half was the faster one and
both teams showed wonderful team
work.
Matson, Pitt's center opened the
second half with a basket from the
center of the floor, placing his team
in the lead which they held
throughout although State was
never more than four points be
hind.
With two minutes to play and
the score 37-33, Captain Park got
two fouls out of three and Lubic
ended the game with a long shot
The lineup:
STATE 35
Parks
Blakslee
Jester
Walton
Wilson
Field goals —Park, Blakslee 2,
Jester 3, Wilson, Walton 2, Lubic
3, Matson 3, Hastings 4. Foul
goals —Lubic, 19 out of 26; Parks,
17 out of 25. Referees, Davis and
Taggert.
The 1916 Class Meeting
Th; Juniors met in Old Chapel
last Thursday evening and started
to thresh out the annual problem
of the Junior Prom. Some senti
ment was voiced in ‘favor of abol
ishing the custom altogether: but
the cone nsus of opinion favored
its retention and the question final
ly narrowed down to a matter of
what means should be used in
financing the affair. Here the
differences of opinion were even
more marked and the outcome of
the meeting was the laying on the
table of a motion to levy an as
sessment of $1.50. The From com
mittee has sent out letters to some
16 different colleges inquiring as to
ways and means, and as soon as re
plies to these are received, another
meeting will be called, and, it is
hoped some decisions made.
STATE CAPTURES RELAY
State’s Relay Team Defeats Big
Uuiversities of the East in Classic
Penn State’s track team took
another step forward when the
relay team, composed of Captain
Hammit, Mason, Cottom, Dolbin
and White, defeated Yale in the
finale of the 750 yard relay, for five
men, Saturday night, at the Madi
son Square Garden.
In the first heat State had little
trouble in winning from Pennsyl
vania, while Cornell defeated Col
umbia. Yale then won from Cor
nell in a fast race, thus bringing
Yale and State together for the
finale. State was given the pole,
and Captain Hammit, running first
man, took the lead with the start
and by wonderful speed gave
Mason, our second man, a two yard
lead. Mason maintained this mar
gin, as did Cottom, and Dolbin,
proving too fast for his man, in
creased this lead. White made a
grand finish of the race five yards
ahead of the Yale runner. The
finale was run in the fast time of
1:23 2-5.
Next Saturday State’s track team
goes to Pittsburgh for the Middle
Atlantic association meet at the
Duquesne Garden.
State Debaters Win and Lose,
Penn State’s debaters met the
debating teams from Franklin and
Marshall on Friday night in the
first intercollegiate debates of the
year. The subject was, resolved:
that the United States should
abandon the Mon:oe Doctrine.
Our negative team won the debate
held in the Auditorium by a 3-0
vote of the judges while our affir
mative team was defeated at Frank
lin and Marshall by a 2-1 vote.
The debate held here proved to
be very interesting because the sub
ject under discussion is one of the
great national importance. The
merits and defects of the Monroe
Doctrine were argued at length, but
when the last rebuttal speech had
been delivered State’s negative
team had presented much more
evidence to prove that the United
States should not abandon the
doctrine.
State's negative team was com
posed of W. R. Deem, ’18; D. K.
Miller T 5; H. V. Cranston ’l5; and
H. F. Flahaven T 7, alternate.
State excelled in argument and de
livery both in constructive speeches
and in the rebuttal. H. V. Crans
ton, in the closing speeches for the
for the negative presented his
arguments in a very convincing
manner while C. L Martin, who
opened the debate for F and M,
also showed considerable ability as
a debate:.
At Lancaster, State's affirmative
team, although excelling in the
manner of delivery, was unable to
present a better foreign policy than
the Monroe Doctrine and lost by a
2-1 vote. The team was composed
of B. H. Dimit T 5, J. A. DeFene
T 7, and L. E. Malheuish TB.
PITT 39
Graham
Lubic
Matson
Hasting
Ochsenhirt
Saturday afternoon the Intercol
legiate Association of Amateur
Athletes of America held its busi
ness meeting at the Waldorf As
toria, and elected manager Deni
thorn vice-president of the asso
ciation for the coming year. This
is a high honor to an undergradu
ate, and the first time State has
been recognized to such an extent
by a national association.
STATE COLLEGE, PA., MARCH 10, 1915
HONOR SYSTEM IS
PASSED BY STUDENTS
Will Apply to All Final Examina
tions and Written Quizzes —Will
Go Into Effect on Faculty Ap-
Last Wednesday evening at one
of the biggest mass meetings of the
year, the student body at Penn
State passed the honor system by
a vote of 1140 in favor, to 415
against The vote required to pass
was 1088, so that 52 votes were
received above the required num
ber favoring the measure The
system passed as had! been propos
ed, with the exception of one slight
amendment. The clause amended
was the one which stated that the
instructor may or may not leave
the room during the examination at
his own option; it was amended to
read that the instructor remains or
leaves the room at the option of
the class.
The honor system will apply to
all final examinations and also to
all written quizzes given throughout
the college year. It will go into
effect upon approval of the faculty,
which is expected in the very
near future.
The Tuesday Evening Lecture
The lecture given last evening by
Professor Boucke, had to do with
“Student’s Budgets”, and if one of
these lectures could be said to have
been of more practical interest to
the student body tbai the other,
this was the one. The lecture first
dealt with die basic. Tlsca! princi
ples of scientific production, scien
tific consumption, having special
reference to efficiency, health and
morality, saving and investment.
The nature and function of the bud
get was next discussed and the dis
cussion brought out the necessity
of book keeping, the real meaning
of the budget, its functions as a
forecast, and a control and appor
tionment of expenditure, and its
limitations in the availability of
data and the classification of items.
The consideration of student ac
counts introduced the principles of
classification, facts and figures, and
the leading principles of apportion
ment. Finally the mattei of in
vestment was discussed under the
sub heads of insurance, security
and savings deposits, showing the
relative merits and defects of these
various types
A Trip to Bellefonte
To those who glance through
liteiary journals occasionally, the
play, “Damaged Goods” cannot be
unknown. It has aroused a variety
of criticism, some commendation,
and some condemnations. We as
a student body had the privilege of
heating it read sometime last term,
so that the general character of the
play should not be unknown to us.
i'hu announcement now comes that
"Damaged Good*” will be present
ed in Belief rite fhur.day evening
Maich II Ihe piices are 25,50,
75, I.CO ind 1 50 There has been
some talk ol a special train but
nothing definite has as ytt been
decided.
Valuable Library Destroyed,
Early yesterday morning Profes
sor Espenshade’s home was par
tially destroyed by fire of unknown
origin. The entire third floor and
a valuable library were destroyed.
The loss estimated at $2,500, is
fully covered by insurance.
Collegian.
STATE WRESLBRS WIN
Pitt Team Outclassed But Very Ag
gressive—Bouts Were Very Short.
Only One Weight Went Scheduled
Length—Long Elected Captain.
Pitt proved easy prey in the
Armory last Fiiday night when the
wearers of the blue and white won
theii last and shortest wrestling
meet of the season by a 34-0 score.
In the light weight class Forester,
of Pitt, brought Long to the mat
after one minute and 40 seconds
had elapsed and kept him there
40 seconds when Long got up. At
2:40 Long took Forester to the mat
and got a fall on a body hold in 3
minutes and 31 seconds.
In the next weight, Brown, of
State, went to the mat under Reily,
of Pitt, at 1.45. At 4:15 he rolled
Reily and at 5-56 got a fall with a
half nelson and body hold.
In the 135 pound class Kirk, of
State, went to the mat in thirty
seconds but was rp immediately
and soon had a chancery upon Huff,
of Pitt, and earned a fall in 2 min
utes and 1 second, the shortest
bout of the evening.
In the 145 pound class Capt. Col
lins, of Pitt, went to the mat beneath
Pickett after 4 minutes of wrestling
but got up immediately. At 7:03
he again went to the mat under
neath and was thrown by an arm
and body hold in 7 minutes and 33
seconds
The next weight, the 158 pound
class was undoubtedly the thriller
of the evening. After six minutes
and 25 seconds of very even wrest
ling, Yerger carried Jones to rbe
mat and veiy neatly earned a fall
The Pitt man rolled out of what
seemed a certain fall, and at the
end of 9 minutes Yerger was award
ed the decision.
In the light-heavy weight class
Stecker threw Kendry in 2:46 with
an arm and body hold.
The heavy-weight bout was even
shot ter. Sotherland went to the
mat underneath when he tried to
trip Lamb and was thrown in 2:42
by a neck and body hold.
Long was elected captain on Sat
urday after the team picture was
taken.
Hunting Pigmies in the Heart of
Dr. William Edgar Geil, the
eminent explorer, delivered a very
interesting address in the Audi
torium, Saturday evening. He told
of the experiences of his exploring
party which searched through the
heart of Africa, along the line of
the Equator, foi the Pigmie race.
His description of the habits of
Pigmies, who dwell in the forest of
the eternal twilight, was very inter
esting. As the speaker was the
first white man to study the life of
the Pigmies he is a high authority
on this subject.
Tnere will be a meeting ot the
Harrisburg club on Saturday even
ing at seven o’clock in room 202
Engineering building. All Dauphin
county men are urgently requested
to be present
Thespian Ticket Sale
Ihe Thespian ticket sale for the
faculty will be held next Tuesday
evening at 6 30 until 8-00 at Krum
rine’s drugstore. General sale will
commence the following evenii g at
the same time and place.
Important meeting of grange Sat
urday night in the Horticulture
building at seven o’clock.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
HAND OF PROPHET
COMES FRIDAY NIGHT
Hospital Benefit —A Rare Opportun
ity to Leave State College Before
Easter Vacation,
On Friday next, March 12, in the
Auditorium there will be presented
for the benefit of the hospital a
play, the like of which has never
been seen in State College. To
miss this performance will be miss
ing the one grand opportunity of
leaving State College before the
Easter holidays, for those who are
generous enough to purchase a
ticket for the "Hand of the Pro
phet” will be carried far beyond
the confines of our good old col
lege town.
That the management requests
your co-operation in the behalf of
this play has been published be
fore. We are of the opinion that
you are all in the market for some
thing new and we have gone to the
limit of our resources to give you
the best representation of oriental
life that art and energy can pro
duce. The costumes were made
by the hospital committee at an
expense of $3OO and the scenery
cost another hundred. It is neces
sary that every student who can
afford the price make the sacrifice,
and we will guarantee that in return
he will witness the most delightful
performance ever seen in the Audi
torium.
The cast of characters follows:
Kodama, a merchaut riad, Harold
McCartney; Halima, his bride, Miss
Daisy Pansier; Sindabad, cousin to
Kodama, Arthur Deering; a danc
ing slave, Miss Ethel Sparks; slave
girl, Miss Ruth Dennison; slave
boy, Searl Welling; first singer, Lin
coln Gillespie; second singer. Miss
Lucy Quinton; first magician, C.
Shumaker; second magician, W. W.
Reeder.
Music in charge of Prof. John
Stanley Crandell.
Tickets are on sale at Gilliland’s
drug store day and night.
WILLIAM L. ELLIS TO LECTURE
Prominent Newspaper Man—World
Girdler—Author of Note,
William J. Ellis a man who has
twice circumnavigated the globe
investigating social, religious and
political conditions for a syndicate
of American newspapers will
speak at the Auditorium next
Saturday evening at eight o’clock.
A number will remember his
thrilling tale of two years ago when
he floated down the Euphrates on
a raft buoyed up by goat bladders.
Mr. Ellis has just lately published
a new life of Billy Sunday.
He has been on the editorial staff
of practically every daily in Phila
delphia and is now editor afield
of the Continent.
He is a frequent contributor to
current magazines and reviews.
And has weekley articles in the
Philadelphia dailies. He will also
speak at both chapels on Sunday
morning.
Piominent Professor Resigns
George F. Eckhard, C. E„ has
resigned as assistant professor of
structural engineering, and has ac
cepted the position of professor of
structural engineering at the Uni
versity of Vermont. His resigna
tion will take effect April 1. Pro
fessor Eckhard is a graduate of
lowa State university from which
he received the degree of C. E. in
1911.