Bezdek’s Boys Sure Will Have Some Backing. VOL. XVI. No. 8„ WELCOME HOME ALUMNI FULL PROGRAM ARRANGED FOR RETURNING ALUMNI Large Number of Former Students To Return For Get-together Celebration •' • • BIG SMOKER IN ARMORY ON SATURDAY EVENING Alumni Day la growing. Now fea tures h&vo boon added to the already full program and word has been re ceived saj log that over twelvo hun dred alumni will be bade. Also Gover nor Sprout has assured the Commit tee that ho will bo hero to addroaa tho monster Smokor to bo hold In tho Arm ory Saturday night. Everything la In readiness to rocoivo the homocomors; the collogo welcomoa them back to tho fold and wants them to fool that they aro a strong, vital part of their Alma Mater as they felt in their undergrad uate days. Tho first’duty of oach alumnus will bo to register at tho Alumni Head quarters In' tho Armory as soon as ho arrives in town. Information concern ing rooms and meals can bo had thero und a general Information bureau will be maintained. Friday ovoning all the fraternities and clubs including .the University Club will have an opon houso so that the old men vvlll have on opportunity to look up old acquain tances, and make now ones. Mass Meeting I’rlday Evening. Tho first ovont to toko place will bo tho mass mooting in tho Auditorium _at six-thirty p. m. Tho -team will b<j noluefest'wiil bo & order., Tho aro planning to march on mono to tho Auditorium. Thoy will form In' tho ordor of class precedent and par ado around town headed by tho Band and then proceed to tha muss mooting. Following that, at eight p. m., tho New York Orchestra will provide entertain ment of a calmer nature. Tho college work will go on as us ual Saturday morning. Classen .will, not bo excused but It Is oxpoctcd Uiat tho alumni will mako uuo of this fact to go to class with tho rest of tho boys and pay their respects to tho faculty members that taught them in tho past. At ton o’clock a meeting of tho Varsity Club is scheduled at. tho University Club. All former athlotcs aro eligible and many will no doubt at tond to talk ovor tho strategy and ploys usod In tbo contests In which thoy took part for tho honor of Penn Stato. Tho soccer gumo with Haver ford will take pluco at ono-thirty p. m. bohlnd tho Armory. Haverford has always had a strong team In tho past and Is known as one of the big soccer colleges in tho oast. Tho two blggost events of tho en tire week end will undoubtedly bo tho football game with Dartmouth and tho Alumni Smoker In tho evening. Ono of tho largest crowds that has over witnessed a game on Now Bcavor Field Is expocted to attend. Twice as many applications have boon deceived from Alumni than ovor before and a largo Dartmouth dologatlon Is oxpoctcd. Be sides tho three special cars which ore bringing Dartmouth alumni to tbo gamo from Ohio, Now York and tho eastern states, there aro a numbor of Hanover undergraduates that wilt accompany tho football squad. Tho Now England era considor Saturday's contest a crisis for tho Groon team and ’ore determined to support their men to tho limit. They roallzo that tho Nlttany Lion U' out for blood and thoy bopo to provent tho Bluo and White oloven from gottlng revenge for last year’s dofeat. Lots of Spirit at Smoker. In tho evening at olgbt-flftoon p. m. tho big Alumni Got-togethur and Smok er wilt bo hold In tho Armory, Gov ernor Sproul will speak on an appro priate subject and thon tho evonlng wliybo glvon over to renewing acquain ancos. Hero tho old grads can hail a long-separated collogo frlond and over tho elder and proUols recount all that happonod since graduation Tho Fresh man Quartotto of last year will bo thoro and rondor several selections. Al so song teaflots will bo distributed and tho old familiar songs wIU bo sung onco again. Tho members of tho two upper classes aro invited to tho affair and will add to tho festivity of the oc casion. Refreshments in tho form of cider and pretzels as woli as smokes havo boon provided. Elaborate provisions havo boon mado by tho Alumni Day Commlttco to take caro of ovory returning graduato. Tho ropresentatlvos of the commlttco will bo at tho Armory at all times and will havo a chart of all tho rooms In town avallablo for tho visitors. In tho pos sibility that those rooms are not su(ll ciont to accommodato ovoryong, two hundred cots havo boon scoured from tho military authorities at Harrisburg and will bo- sot up, with blankets, In tho Armory to take cars of tho ovor flow. Extra meals will bo servod at flrnn otatr A FIRST CONCERT NUMBER TONIGHT Chamber Music Society Appears Here with Accomplished Per sonnel. The student body, tbo Alumni Day visitors and tbo citizens of Stato Col lege will havo tho opportunity to uight of listening to ono of the must unusual and oxcollont wuuiuii treats uiut is the Unlaid Status at the pioscnt tirno —tho Now York Cnuuibor Music bocioty, whan cornus nore under tno auspices of Uio Depart ment of Music ami Uio colleges Y. ja. u. A. in uriuglng such un organi zation or uiiunieu piusicuius to i-omi mule ino I’. ai. C. A. und tho Depot c iiu.nt oi Music have gone to great cx so unit aro to ou nlgnly ~coaxinundua m ottering tho \ury bust uiut Is to bo uuulutho way of modern musical xcoll eiiio ami genuine onloitaiumuu *Tliu program tonight wilt constitute 6f' tho winter ontertaip iXfUl: itr.an 'kspeoiollyc attractive fouturo in connection with Uio' ucUvlUos of Alumni Homocoming Day. Tho Now York Chamber Music Soc iety is a group of artists, all of whom iiavo established reputations in musical circles, who huva banded UiomselMjs in a permanent body This organization is unliko most of thu musical groups of today. It is composed of eleven mem bers, ono woman and ton men, who, through an unusual comblnuUon of stiingud, reed, und wind instruments, are ablo to provide oxcopUonal pro grams of vurlod character. Each mem ber is a soloist of great repute as wull us an ensemble player of such skill as to mako for porfcctlon unity. Unliko tho small orchestra where tho buton of the loader guides and interprets for all, in tho harmoniousness of thls'un liy of players there is readily discern ible Uio Individuality of each urUst's expression. Thoro is rovoalod tho special design ouch instrument is weav ing, compullblo to tho larger bolder design of tho work as a wholo. In other words, It is a perfect blondlng. Tho insirumentaUon is composed of piano, two violins, viola, cello, flute, clarinet, beacon, oboo, French horn and doublo bass Tho Society plays, with these instruments, a Utoraturo of mus ic not played* by any other organiza tion, comprising tho works of many of tho famous masters which could not bo heard othorwlso. Those works In cludo music wrllton for combinations of flvo, six, sovon, eight, or moro in struments, both wind and string, which cannot bo playod by tho regular cham ber music quartettes or any of tho sym* phony orchestras. And It Is Intercut- Ing to noto horo, as IndlcaUvo of tho quality of'tho personnel of tho group that of tho olovon members, ton havo formorly boon soloists and onscmblo players in tho Now York and othor world famous symphonies. Tbo Society, is now In its fifth year as a distinct organization. It has re cently completed a very successful tour through tho south, and tho performunco tonight will bo ono of many that arc scheduled on its* first transcontinental trip. Many tickots havo boon disposed of for tho ontortalnmont this, evening and a largo audlonco will groot tho players as thoy mako their dobut at Ponn Stato DEAN BTODDAET HEADS * VOCATIONAL DEPARTMENT At a recent mooUng of tho Board of Trustees, Dean Stoddart of tho Lib eral Arts School •was appointed Super visor of tho' Vocational Teachers Training In tho collogo. Coursos aro conducted in tho Schools of Agriculturo Engineering, Mining, and Homo Econi rales and aro glvon for tho purpose of training tcachors In agriculturo and tho various trades and industries of tho country. PENN STATE PROFESSORS TO ADDRESS AGRONOMY SOCIETY Two profossors of tho Department of Agriculturo will address tho convention of tho American Socioty of Agronomy, Dr. William Froar, tho hoad of tho De partment of Experimental Agricultural Chemistry, and Profassor F. D. Gard ner, tho hoad of tho Agronomy Depart ment. Thoso two men will base their talks on experiments conduotod horo at tho college. STATE COLLEGE, PA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1920 POVERTY DAY FOR FROSH TOMORROW Prize Will Be Awarded to Worst Dressed Freshman. Parade On New Beaver Field. What promises to bo an Interesting and amusing part of tho ’festivities at Ponn Stato this wook-ond will bo the Povorty Day’colobratlon by tho Fresh man class on Saturday. Inasmuch as this will bo but Uio second time tho custom has been usod, obsoluto co operation from all students will bo no cossary to mako tho affair a success. * Coming as it docs on Alumni Homo- Coming Day, added zest will bo glvon • tho affair. Last year tho idea received its initial trial and tho result was such, a groat success and tho Froshmon and collcga In gonoral enjoyed it so in tensely that Übo mado a collogo custom For tho groat body of Alumni this new custom will bo Interesting to say tho toast, and Its enactment Saturday Is sure to add greatly to the day’s events, Tho data for Poverty Day was set 1 at tho last mooting of Student Counull and tho following committee appointed to assumo chargo of the affair. F. H. Louscbnor *2l, Chairman ;A. E. Kin caid ’2l, E. M. Aiken '2l and B. W. Knapp '2l. Tho affair will begin' at eight o’clock Saturday morning and terminate at flvo o’clock p, m. All Freshmen aro required to wear nothing but tho most povorty stricken cloth ing avallablo, and any persons who do not follow this rule will bo severely dealt with. Tho ontlro costumo must bo In as dolapldatod condition as pos sible, tho moro ludicrous tho hotter. Tho dink will bo worn as usual. Tho ontiro Freshman 'class will bo required to attond tho football game In tho af ternoon and during tho halves will par ado around tho Hold. Tho commlttco will act as judges of tho affair 'and tho Freshmen with the best make-up, or rather In tho most dciapidatod con dition will bo awarded prizes. Poverty day is meant for a time when tho ontiro 'college shall onjoy itself, with .tho first year mon providing tho amusement. All members of tho other three classes aro privileged to mako tho Froshmon go through any reason able or foolish antics during tho day, j Hod to th 6 campus and tho Freshmen aro not compellod to do stunts on Iho • streets of tho town. This Is not to bo a time of Indiscriminate hazing nor 1s any, student to roqulro unreasonable or crude actions. It Is a time for gen eral onjoyment and all hopes hre point ed to a rdpltltion of as successful an event as was tho ono last year. ENGINEERING EXTENSION CLASSES INCREASING Tho Reading Coal and'lron Company, ono of the largest organizations of 'ts kind in tho state, has Anally permitted tho Engineering' Extension Division to organlzo classes for its employees and Mr. W. R. Young returned from a vis it to tho works whoro ho took tho on rollmont of thoso who dcsiro to take tho courso. Tho opening of this now field Is considered a flno dovolopoment In the fall promotion work of tho de partment and It Is planned to further incroaso tho work by giving instruc tion to Rehabilitation men in tho stato through their local centers or by moans of correspondence. Tho school In Har risburg that Is run under the direc tion of tho Enginering Extension Di vision opened last week with an en rollment of over two hundred and fifty mon while tho branch In Erlo already has an onrollmont of about six hun dred although it has not begun yot. BULLETIN *11:00 a- m.—Bet Froth at MuSlc Boom. 6:30 p. m.—Football Mass Meeting Auditorium. 6:45 p. m.—Friday Club Room 19 Liberal Arts. 4 :00 p. ra.—Members of second glee club report at Old Chapel. 3:00-5:00 p. m.—Alumni—Secure tickets for Y. M. C. A. concert at Metzger’s. 8:00 p. m.—Y. M..C. A. Concert in Auditorium. 6:30-8: p. m—-General Sale of Dartmouth Tickets at Co-op. 10:00 a. m.~Varsity Club Organization at Old Chapel. All former Yarsily men are expected to be present 8:30-1:00 p. m.—General sale of Dartmouth tickets'at Co-op. 1:00 p. m.—Soccer—Haverford-Penn State—Drill Field. 2:30 p. m.—Football Dartmouth vs Penn State. 6:4spjn.—Mission Study meeting, H. L. Kingman in 14 L. A. 8:30 p. iil—Alumni Smoker at Armory. SUNDAY Morning Chapel—Speaker Dr. Samuel C. Black* President of W. and J. College. TUESDAY 7:00 p. m.—Civil Eng. Society Feed Eng. F. 7:00 p. m.—Franklin County Club Meeting* 314 Old Main.' Yorsity Wrestling Practice from 4:30 to 5:30 Daily. ALUMNl—Register immediately upon arrival at the Alumni Headquarters in the Armory. Information concerning rooms and meats can be had there and a general information bureau will be maintained. Friday evening oil Fraternities and Clubs, including the University Club will have open house. Visit around and get acquainted. Ex-Varsity men don’t forget the Varsity re-organization in Old Chapel Sat urday. All former athletes are expected to be present. Alumni tickets for the football game can be secured at the A. A. Office 273 Old Main. GOVERNOR WILLIAM C. SPROUL The chief speaker at tlie Alumni Smokcr«in the Armory Saturday evening will be the Honorable William C Sproul, Chief Executive of Pennsylvania. ‘The Governor will also be present to witness the foot ball game in the afternoon. Penn State considers herself fortunate in having as her-guest so distinguished a personage, especially when it is the governor .of this great state. Governor Sproul will be in State C 9 as. it, is necessary jhat he be in Pittsburgh PLANS STARTED. FOR . PENNA. DAY PROGRAM Football Game and Evening Con cert Feature Events on Novem ber Sixth. From all IndlcuUons, Ponn Stato is going to havo a kola timo on Penn sylvania Day which will bo celebrated this year on Saturday, November Gill. Plans for tho affair aro ns yet In tho embryonic stuto but thoy have pro ceeded far enough as to show that ev ery, person will bo amply repaid in tho way of an interesting time for be ing in Stato .College on that date. Tho program for tho day will include a football game, a cadet review, a con cert that will be given Jointly by tho Gleo Club nnd a singer of wldo repu tation and probably a mooting nt which somo prominent man will bo prasont and give tho principal address. Many alumni aro expected to return for tho ovont and they together with tho largo (Continued on loot page) SATURDAY (Cullrgum. HAVERFORD FIRST ... SOCCER OPPONENT Stiff Opposition Expected From Main Line RQoters' Tomorrow. Crowell’s Men in Good Shape. Tho Ponn State soccer season for 1920 will be opened tomorrow’when tho unusually strung Haverford aggrega tion will meet tho Bluo and White (ontcndcis on tho drill Held nt ono; thirty, in the afternoon Iluverford. since stalling tho Inter collegiate Soccer Association, has gain ed un extensive reputation for tho cal ihro of tho soccer teams which it pro duces Many times tho Main Lino In stitution has captured tho Intercol legiate soccer title nnd In past years Its teams linvo lieon coached by Eng lish professional players. This year, n new com.li has taken chargo of tho Ha\erford soccerltcs and Is doing much to maintain thu standards which have been previously set in this *Rport at (Continued on Inst pago) DARTMOUTH GAME WILL BE GREATEST IN EAST Large Number of Green and White Rooters Coming to Cheer Veteran Team BLUE AND WHITE MEN READY FOR GREAT FRAY W. & J. HEAD TO SPEAK IN CHAPEL Dr. Samuel C. Black Has Wide Re putation as Educator, Author, And Soldier. Ono of tho best known moif* on tho list of chapel speakers for tho y oar will address the services in thv S> h’.vi.b Auditorium next Sunday when Doctor Samuel Chuilus Black, president of Washington and Jefferson Unh 2 -ally will visit Penn Stuto us collogo punch er for tho day. Doctor Black has hud a vurlod and extensive career, both as u toucher and as a minister, lie was born In Monticcllo. lowa, In JBG9, nr.d durlng-hls early life received a com mon school education. After graduation . from high school, ho worked for four years us a telegraph operatoi lu order to earn enough *to complule his edu cation. Ho graduated from Parsons College, lowa, in 1892 with thu degree of Muster-of Arts. Following this, ho spent thteo years in tho banking busi ness In tho cities of Fairfield and Lcs Moines Ho then entered tho McCor mick Theological Seminary and in 1698 ho was ordained into tho Presby*torlan ministry. Alter holding successfully xhargea-atJguwaneo and Clinton, mm ols, Boulder, Colorado, and South Chic ago, Illinois, ho became a lecturer und Instructor In tho Hebrew language at the ’ University of Colorado. In 1910. bo returned to tho ministry and be vamo pastor of tho Colliugwood Avenue Church in Tolodo, Ohio Last .year, ho accepted tho Presidency of Washing ton 1 and Jefferson University, a post which hs occupies at tho present time At the beginning of our war with Ger many*, Immediately after tho canton ment plan wus Inaugurated, Doctor Black was commissioned Major and Muralo Olllcci at Camp Got don, Georg ia. At this camp he performed very remarkable services In strengthening 1 and maintaining a very high standard J of morale among thu troops, Doctor Black Is tho uuthoi of considerable 10- puto, having written a number of books and mngazlno articles on religious questions. SIIMOH CLASS HOLDS IMPORTANT MEETING The class of 1021 met last Wednesday vcnlng In Old Chapel, at which thnu 10 elections for Student Council and tho i'orscnlc Council were held. J B Dommlnß and IC. It. Stark of tho Bcboo of Engineering, J. L. Romig of tho School of Agriculture, nnd C. A. Way of tho School of Liberal Arts, wero elected to Student Council, whilo J. L. Packer nnd E D. Thomas wero chos en to represent tho class on tho For senic Council. After some discussion it was decided that Uio class would glvo twenty-five dollars toward tho alumni smoker. Tho matter of Sonlor Scholarships was brought up nnd it was decided that tho first twenty-five names on tho list Hhould bo glvon tho tho faculty com mittee fur consideration A membership commlttco was ap pointed consisting of C . B. Seods, chalrmnn, J. A. Bailey and R. Whiold on. Plans wero mado for a Sonlor Danco and a commlttco composed of F. Gladding, chairman. C. A Gold- Ktrohmgmd II L. Stuart, wero appoint ed to complcto tho arrangements SOPHOMORE CLASS MEETS Tho Sophomore class held Its second meeting Wednesday ovonlng In Old Chapel. In tho nbsonco of President Schuster, Vico President Adams presid ed. Tho regular routlpo of business was carried on after which nominations for olnsB football manager wero re ceived as well as tho nominations for thoso mon eligible to compoto for tho Sophomore Scholarships, <on Cfje <§rtbtton Penn Stato vs Dartmouth, Stato dollogo Unlv of Ponn vs Swnrthmoro, at Phil adelphia. Pitt vs W. Va Pittsburgh Ynlo vs N. Carolina, at Now Raven. Cornell vs St Bonavcnture, at Ithncn W and J vs ICalnmazoo, at Washington. Georgia Tech, vs Davidson, nt Alanta. Princeton vs Maryland Stato at Prince ton. Wonder How Bluo and Green and White Will Mix? PRICE FIVE CENTS Thu greatest football gamo In thu eustun part of this country will take pl.ieu lumonow after at Now Beaver 1 leiu w hen thu Big Green tuam from Dartmouth tackles Bezdek’s Nlttany Lions for the supremacy. Both teams uiu us much prepared for Uio fray us It hus been possible to make them in tltu timo available Thu contest will be tho third gamo on thu Bluo urd White schedule, while it will bu but the second strugglu for tho Hanover warriors. Thu Dartmouth squad thirty in num bet were given u reusing send off ut llanovcr yesterday morning on thglr dcpartuiu to this pluco for thu annual gumo with thu Bluu and While eleven which will talcu place on Now Beaver field tomorrow aftornoon. Several of the varsity men aro out of tho gumo with injuries but tho majority aro lu good condition and aro optimistic In tegurd to Uio outcomo of tno gamo. Many students accompanied tho team while many Pennsylvania and Ohio Duilmouth alumni aro scheduled to bo on hand for tbo game. Tho latest lino-up to bo rccoivod from Hanover came In tho form of a tele gram from tho official paper of that college lust night. It places tholr slur halfback, Shelbourno, a mighty no gro und a mainstay of tho team on the Injured list und not ablo to take part In tho gumo. Captain Robertson according to tho report is still out of . tho_gumo as a result of an injury to-. hlu~s!id(ndc?'sustained 'several weeks ugo. Ho is accompanying tho team but It Is quite probable that bo will not start Uio gumo but will p'ay in cuso ho is needed. 'The backflatd even without him ‘ls Very fust. Grundman at left halfback is noted for his open field running and Is usually culled upon to make thu end runs and is always counted upon for sovcral yards. JBowor at quaitcrbuck has been running tho team In tlno shupo ail year und has tConUnued on lost pago) FORMER DEAN HUNT ■ RECEIVES APPOINTMENT T. F. Hunt is Made Permanent De legate to Rome Agricultural Thomas F. Hunt, formerly Dean of tho Pennsylvania Stuto College School uf Agriculture und present Dean of thu College of AcrlcuHuro of the Uni versity of California, hus accepted an appointment us permanent delegate of the United Stutvs ut tho International Institute of Agriculture, Romo, Italy. Dean Hunt hus long boon interested In the problems of liio instituto and was ono of tho delegates of this government at thu last mooUng of Uio general as sembly und spent much Umo, then trav eling over Europe and studying agri cultural problems Ho went to Europe in September, 1918 os a member of tbo commission sent by tbo United States Dcpui uncut of Agriculture to mako a study of agricultural conditions in tho ullli’d countries His wjdo lutowlodgo of agricultural condlUons in America coupled with his extensive investiga tions In Europo, mako him an excep tionally well-qualified man to repre sent this country at thu InsUtuto. Tho Instituto Is concerned primar ily in gathering world statistics of crop production and crop movement. Undo? tho present system of gathering stat istics, a commodity cannot bo accurat ely followed after it changes form. Until a system is perfected whereby all countries supply this informaUon It will nover bo possible to give any data us to tho world supply of any product. It is by this cooperation of all govern ments that this condition of affairs lu to bo remedied. Lehigh vs Rutgers at So. Bethlehem Syrucuso vs Univ. of Malno, at I’rovl donce . Navy vs. Lafayotto, at Annapolis Colgate vs Allegheny, nt Hamilton. Haverford vs Stevens, nt Haverford. Harvard vs Valparaiso, nt Cambridge. Dolavvaro vs 000. Wash. Unlv** at Washington. Bucknoll vs Uralnus, at Lewiaburg.
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