f Don’t Forget | I To Take Your | | Books Home j VOL. XVII. No. 26 SOPHS SCORE WIN OVER FROSH TEAM IN GRIDIRON SCRAP Deadlock of Last Five Years is Broken in Fierce Battle On Old Beaver TOUCHDOWN IN SECOND PERIOD BRINGS VICTORY Contest is Marked by Brilliant Work by Both Teams—Final Score is 7 to 0 The scoreless tie which has existed for five consecutive year* in Sophomore-Freshman football scrap was finally broken last Saturday af- ternoon on Old Beaver field when the Second- Vear grinders defeated the Fresh eleven by 7 to U. Contrary to all expectations. the gridiron was in good shape and. with the cold but clear weather which existed, provided ideal conditions for the annual Tray. The game was hard fought from start to finish, both teams exhibiting flash es of mid season form at various in tervals, but the Sophs were more con sistent in their work and consequently held the better side of the argument. Due to the powerful line-plunging of Hynes, Soph fullback, the yearlings were, at times, incapable of stopping the 1924 attack and in the second quarter finally yielded sufficiently to allow their opponents to score a touchdown. Hynes carried, the ball over from the two yard line after he and his team mates had inarched doww the field from the forty-three yard mark. Run ser made the game more secure by booting the goal. The playing of both elevens was .rather remarkable considering the fact that the players for each were collect ed hurriedly and that neither team had had any real practice for about three weeks. Both teams did not start their full strength either, altho the Sophs, in the final period, sent In Cornwall, Palm, Johnson and Ham 11- - ton,*' who had just returned from the trip r to the .Pacific,Coast .with the var sity, Gregory and Artelt were missed In the Frosh line-up. The Freshmen attempted to use Tays, star quarter back at the beginning- of., the -season, but he was ruled out on account of scholastic standing,. .. Game is Devoid of Thrills Thrills were very scarce in the scrap because or the fierceness with which both elevens fought, and be cause of the lack of concentrated strength on either teams*'part. The biggest sensation probably came in the fourth quarter when Kratz intercepted a Soph pass and ran thirty-five yards to the 1924 forty-ftve yard line. He was dropped by Patton, who was the only man between Kratz and the goal line. Frequent punting on the part of each eleven detracted from the In terest of the game and delayed it considerably. The entire second half (Continued on third page) MANDOLIN CLUB TO ALTER TYPE OF ENTERTAINMENT Within a short lime the student body will be afforded the opportunity of hearing one of the musical organiza tions of the College in an entirely dif ferent style of performance than has hitherto boon known. The Mandolin Club whirh has not been ■ prominent in the past is now completely reorganiz ing its style' of music and In place of better doss of music is being rehears ed. in addition to this, in order to make the volume and scope of the the common popular type, a new and Club larger, a violin, cello and flute have been added which will produce a more orchestral effect. New music is being imported from France and in time the Club will be able to present themselves before an audience with a high type of program equal to any other student organization in the school. RIFLE CLUB TO PRACTICE UNDER NEW REGULATIONS A meeting of the Penn State Rifle Club was held Wednesday evening December 7th. Officers were elected for the year as follows: Pres., H. H. Conrad ’22; Vlce-Preu., F. W. Hecker ‘it: Sec,, R. M. Spongier ’23: Treas., P. E. Harding; Executive Officer, Maj or H B. Johnson. Practice hours will be held on the following days: Monday.'from 7:00 to 3:00 p. m. Wednesday and Friday from 3:00 to 6:00 in the afternoon and from 7:00 to 9:00 in the evening. A competent instructor wIU be on hand to give instruction and correct mis takes. Membership to the club Is open to all students who are Interested in rifle work. Applications for member •hip will be received by any of the ottfcers. BOOSTER MASS MEETING AUDITORIUM n»nOATKI«B ARMAMENT MEETING WILL BE HELD HERE National Student Committee For Lim itation of Armament Adopts Penn State Organization Plan The went meeting of the National Student Executive Committee for the Limitation of Armament was respon sible for several momentous derisions that will have «Hwt bearing upon Penn .State anil the part that the col lege will play In the country wide student movement that is attracting the attention of all the colleges and uni versities in the country. As the student organization lms reached the stage when the final ar rangements have to be decided upon, a meeting of the National Student Executive Committee was called with gratifying results. The officers ten tatively decided that the plan as out lined and presented by the Penn State Committee was Lite Itest for this kind of organization and that it would be adhered to by the Student Movement. This means that simultaneous mass meetings will be held throughout the United Slates during the week end of January fourteenth and that the re sults of the poll taken at these mass meetings would he forwarded to the student delegates assembled in Wash ington who will then present their reports to the plenlpotentarles of the world's powers as conferees of the World Peace Conference. With this matter definitely decided upon, the chairmen of the various state conferences will immediately make plans for the state conferences that are to be held in the near future. Slate Conclave lo Be*. Held Here Chairman Overdorf, head of the com mittee for the state of Pennsylvania, has decided to accept the Invitation of the' student body of Penn State to call the state conference to be held at the college and he will send out the call during the week. MUSIC IS THEME OF LA. LECTURE Head of Music Dept. Will Explain . How To Listen to Music To Enjoy It. Tho second of the Tuesday Even ing Free Lecture Series given under the auspices of the School of Liberal Arts, will be delivered this evening at 7:00 p. in. sharp. At this time Profes sor C. C. Robinson, Director of Music in the College, will speak on “How to 'Listen to Music.” This lecture will give an opportunity to many members of the student body and of tho faculty, as well ns the other members of the community, to hear an • interpretative lecture by an authority on good mus ic. Due to the combined efforts of the Department of Music and the Y. M. C. A. there are a large number of musicals being presented at the col lege this year and yet, many experi ence great difficulty In listening to the performances in that they arc not able to feel clearly what the composer or artist Is getting at. Director Rob ison's lecture therefore will clear up this problem for many and while It will in itself furnish much enjoyment It will also have a permanent value for rendering musical performances more intelligible and clear. The lecture will begin promptly at «;00 p. m. and dose just as promptly at 8:00, allowing full time for any affairs that may be scheduled for the latter part of the evening. PLAYERS TO REPRODUCE “NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH” The Penn State Players announce a reshowlng of “Nothing But the Truth” on January 13 in the Auditorium. This play was given lost month by The Players with such success that there have been insistent requests for its re appearance. The date has been Anally decided upon. Those who saw the play will un doubtedly want to see it again and those who have not seen it have a rare treat ahead of them. FRESHMEN SELECT CHEER LEADER FOR COMING TEAR Lost Friday evening, E. P. Kerr '25 was elected cheer leader of the fresh man class. N. J. DeL&ny '26, one of the six trial presidents elected by the class,.opened the meeting with a short talk about behavior of the class at school and at their various home towns when on vacation. He was fol lowed by R. H. Burtner '22, Vice- President of the Senior Class who spoke shortly on the different honor societies at Penn State. Dutch Her man was introduced, and he spoke of the mainlalnonce of courteous treat ment- of visiting teams, and of being good losers. These talks are the first of a series of short talkß to be given the freshmen on various activities around the campus to Interest them In taking put in mmm wUikl. STATE COLLEGE, PA., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1921 In the pian accepted by the National Committee, the* dale of January four teenth' was suggested as a jioiwible date on which to hold the simultan eous mass meetings or stale confer ences and all state chairmen will no doubt call the conclaves for that week end. Penn State will In? host to the student armament delegates on Janu ary thirteenth and fourteenth. Several localities including Harris burg. Philadelphia.. ami Pittsburgh were suggested for this conclave hut. with the purpose in mind of securing a centralized point to which nil the delegates may go with the same ef fort. Penn State* seemed to possess the desired advantages to the greatest de gree and was finally selected. During the week, the secretary con templates mailing a circular letter to institutions outside the state, inform ing them of the action of the National Committee and of the steps that are hying taken In the Eastern region to carry out the plans adopted. Also, a prospectus is to be mailed to the In stitutions in the state giving out in-- formation about the coming stale con ference. Details will be printed in a later edition of the COLLEGIAN. Girls Are Active The movement is by no moans lim ited to the male students for the girl students enrolled in eu-educational in stitutions and purely girls' Institutions are doing nil in their power to make the movement tho success that H should he. A woman delegate Is on the National Committee and woman delegates are present at all confer ences. Penn State co-eds are to he hsked to entertain any women, delegat es that may eijmo to Ponn State for tile state conclave. P. R. R. PLANS TWO SPECIALS FRIDAY Train Leaves Lemont, Going East, at 6:00 P.M.—Other Goes West From Tyrone at 3:21 P. M., In an effort to relievo the congeal ed traffic conditions that always ne- ?ompaiiy the exodus of Penn State students at vacation times, Mr. N. S. Ixmgakcr, division passenger agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad, has made arrangements to run two special trains Friday afternoon and evening, December sixteenth. One of these specials will leave lemont at six o'- clock Friday evening and will connect with alt points in the' eastern section of the slate. The other will leave Ty rone at 3.21 as a s|>ecial section of five coaches in advance of the regular train for that time and will connect with Pittsburgh and ail intervening points. An extra stop at Tyrone ,of train num ber 27, going west, at 5:12 has also been arranged, to accommodate stud ents who cannot catch the earlier train. The train which leaves Lemont at six o’clock is being run as a special as far ns Sunbury and if a sufficient number of students make the trip, the train will be split at this point, one section continuing ns a special to Har risburg while the other will be run to Wllkes-Barro. In any case, the Le mont special will connect with all regular trains from Sunbury. Since the train docs not leave until six o'- clock, students will have sufficient time to make the train after the last hour Friday afternoon. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company is also providing all the regular trains with extra equipment. No extra trains will be provided for the return trip and the former practice of selling Pennsylvania Railroad tickets at the local Bcllefonte Central offices will not be in effect this year. No Extensions The Council of Administration wish es to make it clear that no extensions of any kind will be granted this year because of train service. Classes be gin promptly at eight-twenty, Tuesday morning and the regular fine will be in effect. Rule sixteen of the Regu lations Affecting Students reads as fallows: For an unexcused absence during the twenty-four hours preced ing or succeeding the Christmas or Easter vacation, a student shall ‘pay a readmlssion fee of five dollars to the College Treasurer in order to secure a permit of readmlssion to College. CADET UNIFORMS WERE ONCE MORE. POPULAR ] It is hard to realize that only a few years, ago ' the Student'• Council had to a resolution requesting Dr. Sparks", and Major: Bayliss .to ~ advise the* underclassmen against, wearing their cadet uniforms home during va cations. MASS MEETING, 7:00 P. M. TOMORROW NIGHT Big mass meeting is called for tomorrow night at seven o'clock in the Auditorium. All nut! MANY POSITIONS STILL VACANT ON GRAPPLING TEAM Watson and McMahon Are Only Men Sure of Places on Wrestling Team TWO OPEN DATES ON CARD Washington aiid Lee, Springfield, or West Virginia May Fill Vacancies-in Schedule With the first 'meet, of the season of the wrestling . schedule less than two months away, and two weeks of that time being flven over to the Christmas vacation which will tend to interrupt the work of the varsity can didates, Conch Detar is working with hi.s squad with the purpose of build- ing up a tenif. of wrestlers who will equal if not surpass that successful squad of last year,- Many of the can didates are now beginning to come Into the desired form and prospects so far this year look promising. Im mediately after the Christmas holidays. Conch Detar Inlendp. to have all var sity candidates working on the mats between 5:30 and 6:30 «ach evening of the week. Since the beginning of the. workouts a month ago, several men have shown themselves as strong candidates for , the various positions and* it Is' certain that whoever succeeds In filling the different weights will have overcome strenuous opposition to fill the berth. In the 115 pound class Captain Watson is. without a doubt, the best man. Ev ans and Williams - are both strong candidates for the l3ft pound berth, and n very close trio Isfi found In Early, Wicrfand and Romberg** - who are try ing to fill the 145 pound class. In the 125 pound class, Coleman and Hunter are striving to.-Raima place on the final choice. .Coleman probably has the. edge on Hunter in this class. Wct zcll is. the. best man in the 158 class while another trio is found striving for .the 175 pound berth. In the heavy weight class there Is no doubt but that Tfcy McMahon is tho only man worthy of that opposition. Two open dates remain on the sche dule announced in a previous issue of the COLLEGIAN. These dates are on February twenty-ninth and March twentieth. For tho first date the manager is trying to secure Wash ington and Lee and on the latter date either Springfield at home or West Virginia away. Preliminary Sophomore trials for the class meet were held Saturday af ternoon and the semi-finals are to be held Tuesday night' at seven o'clock. Coach Dctar stated that the showing of the Sophomores at the preliminaries Saturday was very poor and much bet tor work is needed if the Sophomores hope for a strong team. CHRISTMAS CAROLS ARE SUNG BY CHAPEL CHOIR President Emeritus Sparks Gives Brief History on Origin of Old Time Songs Christmas and vacation was brought closer homo Sunday by the Yulotide way that the Choir sang the various Christmas Carol* The chapel was a distinct success from the musical point of view and there woe not a person present who did not leave with out a thought toward the calendar. Besides the singing of the old time Christmas ‘songs, the spirit of the sea son was further Increased by Dr. Sparks who conducted the services and gave a short talk on the origin of our Christmas customs. The program is as follows: Doxology Invocation—Dr. Sparks ; . •; Carol—" The First Nowell" Scripture Carol—" See Amid the Winter Snow" Hymn Prayer*—Dr. Sparks/ Carols—“We Orient Are." ?,v "' “It Came Upon the Midnight Clear’ Carol—“ Holy Night" Benediction. SENIORS AND JUNIORS : All LaVie honor slips jmuat be In before/ the Christinas vaca tion. These slips should be plac ed in the LaVlc box on the first floor of Old Main or in the box located in the "Y" Hut. ' SENIORS VOTE NOT TO PETITION FOR CHAPEL EXEMPTION Class Nearly Dead Locked, 102 Opposing And 94 Favoring Petition-Prexy Gives Administration Viewpoint CLASS MEMORIAL COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS SWIMMING POOL AS 1922 GIFT TO COLLEGE The decision of the Seniors by an extraordinarily close vote not to send a petition to the Board of Trustees asking to be excused from chapel ex* eivlscs, and the consideration of a class memorial, were the features of the nieetlng of the Class of 1922 In the Hull Pen last Thursday evening. After listening to an address by ■•President Thomas setting forth the position taken by the College with re gard to Senior exemption from chapel, a motion was made that a petition be sent the Trustees to present to them the views of the Seniors and their de sire to be exempted from the chapel exercises, in accordance with the cus tom followed for a number of • years, A lengthy discussion followed with much argument pro and con, some saying that the daily chapel exercis es were a farce and a waste of time and that Seniors should not be com pelled lo go to chapel if they do not desire. Others declared that the chap el exorcist's were beneficial and that since President Thonias was striving to better them In every way possible, the class should not oppose his ef forts by petitioning for exemption from attendance. A vote was finally taken and resulted in the downing of the motion 94 to 102. M No Exemption” Says Pres. Thomas Dr. Thomas opened his talk by re peating what he said in his address to the student body at the opening of college in the fall. He stated then that one of the policies to be strictly fol lowed was the absolute observance of all regulations regarding attendance at the weekly and. Sunday chapel ser viced. - - These-‘Yegulatlonir' as set forth in the College catalogue are supported by alumni, parents of the students, faculty, and the Board of Trustees, and therefore must he enforced by the ad ministration of the College. Excuses from chapel will not be granted as a payment Cor services rendered he said, tf excuses are looked upon in the light of a privilege, those who must attend will consider attendance a pen alty. Such n feeling, he explanied would make a proper attitude toward chapel impossible. Dr. Thomas said that he was en- VIOLIN VIRTUSO SCORES SUCCESS IN “Y” CONCERT Young Russian Violinist Presents Interesting Program to Large Audience Having presented to them Grisha Mnnasevitch last Saturday evening in tho Auditorium, lovers of music at Penn State had the rare opportunity of hear ing the renowned young Russian Vio linist whose work is fast becoming famous throughout the music circles in America. Grisha Monusevlteh ap peared here at that time under the auspices of the Y. M. C. A. as the fourth number of their musical and entertainment course. Although this violinist is still quite young, critics have been unstinted In their praise for his unusual and in creasing ability with the violin. His perfect ease and confidence in tho ploy ing of the Instrument Indicates that he is destined to become one of the world's famous vlrtueos. He is able to master an almost limitless range of various types of music and the ab sence of music of any fixed type Is marked. In presenting his program to the audience, Monascvltch astounded his hearers with the variety in the vol ume of the instrument and the ease with which he changed from a piece of dignified, forceful nature to the oppo site type of a quicker and lighter piece One of the most important parts of tho violinist’s presentation was the ex pert accompanist, Miss Edith Klmple, who at the piano was able to give & background to the playing of Monase vltch that otherwise would have been entirely lacking In all its qualities. Be sides furnishing the necessary body and strength to the playing of the violin. Miss Klmple rendered two ex cellently executed pieces on the piano which* brought out her remarkable skill. WRITER PICKS McCOY OR ALL-FRESHMAN ELEVEN A Freshman mythical football elev en* representing all the .college fresh man teams has been given out by A. It. Blake of the Boston Transcript. One man from Penn State, McCoy, wa* chosen to hold down the position at left end. deavoring to make the chapel servic es beneficial and promised his best effort toward that end. “I do not believe in required chapel attendance as a perfunctory exercise or as a hasty formal service, to which no thought is given, ami which leaves no one better for attendance. I do believe with all my heart In a real exercise of the worship of Almighty God each day. attended by the entire student body, or by as many as can ,be accommodated at one time. Such a service can be made one of the most helpful elements of a college course, both for the effect on character, and for the maintenance of the right at titude toward the college." "To me there is no privilege so great as standing before the great student body of the college with hearts subdued by the majestic hymn and the searching words of Holy Writ, and representing the needs and longings of these battling lives of ours. In chapel as in nowhere else, I. fee) the unity of the college, an organism, dis tinct from the thousands of individual lives which constitute U." President Thomas brought out the regard with which chape) la held In some other institutions, saying that at some colleges, chapel is the dearest spot on the campus to the returning alumni. He concluded his talk with the request that the Seniors do not hinder his efforts to fulfllt the wish es of the Trustees and his own desire to make' the chapel exercises of real value to the student body by petition ing for exemption. Petition Downed, IW—£4 Immediately' jt‘was moved that such a petition he ‘drawn up and sent to President Thomas for transmission to the Board of Trustees. The propon ents nf the iwUtlon said that the dally chapel exercises especially were a per functory gathering, with' no benefit and were really a waste of time. Some speakers felt that since they had been compelled to attend chapel for three years, they were at such a stage as to merit a reward and that chapel at tendance for them should be volun tary. (Continued on last page) STUDENT ACTORS FORM NEW THEATRICAL GROUP Dramatic Club Will Cover New Field in Presentation of Plays With the increasing demand for dra matic presentations at Penn State a new group of people interested in dra matics have gotten together to All this now field for amateur theatricals among the students. This group have called themselves The Strolling Play ers and they art* not affiliated with any campus organization whatsoever. The , group do not oven pretend to call themselves an organization as they are , but a few enthusiasts sufficiently inter ested in dramatics to try to kindle a greater response among the students at Penn State. It Is not their intention either to run in competition to either of the organized dramatic clubs already In the institution. They are merely playing art for art's sake. The Strolling Players at present are composed of J. Gordon Amend, George F. Horner, Misa Lucilla M. Mather '22. Thomas G. McCollom '23, J. Wesley Et ter ‘23, and D. Henry Porterfield '23. This group of actors was first organ ized Pennsylvania Day at which time they visited a number of the fraternity houses, presenting "The Perfect Wom an,” a one act play written by Mr. Amend. The play had been published just the week before and its first pre sentation became an instantaneous 1 success here at the college. Since thatj time so great has been the demand for their services that they have appeared before numerous organlzalans, includ ing the Wtom&n's Club, the Episcopal ■Society, class smokers, and so forth. The Strolling Players, under the di rection of Mr. Amend, are at present at work on a group of plays including several well known one act plays, as well as others written by members of the group. Mr. McCollum, the man ager, states that the organization has enough dates to keep them quite busy for some time. The Parent-Teachers • Association of the village. The Daught ers of the American Revolution, and The Landscape Gardener’s Club are among the latest Invitations that have BIG MASS MEETING AUDITORIUM WEDNESDAY NIGHT I Merry Christmas ‘"'i i I All Concerned J PRICE FIVE CENTS VARSITY TOSSERS MEET VETERANS IN JUNIATA QUINTET Four Varsity Players From Last Season on Juniata Line-up Contest Thursday COACH HERMAN PICKS TEAM FOR FIRST GAME Koehler, Reed, Miller, Shair and Loefflcr Selected—Others Will Be Substituted A basketball combination of four veterans out of five players moots an absolutely Inexperienced team this Thursday evening In the Armory when the quintet from Juniata battle® with the green Penn Stale team in the opening game of the season here. Coach “Dutch” Hermann is putting his pupils through Intensive training so that they will be able to make the best pos sible showing in the coming early season test of their ability. The team which will probably start the game for Penn State on Thursday has been selected by the coach and consists of Reed and Miller at for wards, Shair at center, and Koehler and lAietfler at guards. _ Only after a week of hard practice, which Included many scrimmages, was the tenative line-up selected, and this entire team may be replaced by a second or ever third five at any time during the con test. The second team will be substi tuted for the first at some stage of the game, so that both combinations will be thoroughly tested. The mem bers of the second team are Fatzinger, Guthrie or Euw’er at forwards, Fixter at center and Marshall and Huston at guards. The first and second teams, in their scrimmages this week showed equal ability until Saturday when, the first team handed the second a decisive de feat!. In these practice games, Reed has been tossing the free throws from the foul line and he will probably act same capacity in coming Juniata game. Although riot; a con sistent shqoter, Coach Hermann hopes to develop him to a foul tosscr of high ability. Acting Captain Koehler may also shoot fouls if. the occasion de mands. Nothing is known of , the real strength of the Penn State team, since Koehler is the only member who has had any varsity experience, and the game Thursday wIU be the first op portunity to test the ability of the varsity combination. Although the material for the team is of high cali bre, the men have had no experience in playing together and it will take a Inrgc amount of development before the Nittany representatives in the cage game can make a showing which is satisfactory to "Dutch." The var sity line-up is now only temporary and members of the present first team may lie replaced any time by others who are showing possibilities as toss ers. Another group of players who arc demanding the attention of the conch Is the third team which may have an opportunity to appear in the Juniata game. The members of this combina tion show* excellent quaJitj* and are fast developing into a formidable quintet. Those who non* make up this group ure Kelly and Euwer or Guth rie at forwards. Decs at center, and Jones and Huber at guards. Kelly, Jones and Huber have been improving all last week and Jones, especially, is showing varsity ability. He was a ■ member of the second team two years ago, but the absence from school Inst season is causing this fast and rangy player some difficulty in reaching his old form. Dewees, an cx-’2l man. who has been out for two years, is an ex cellent jumper and with experience the roach hopes to develop him. Juniata Has Veteran Five With four veterans on its Hne-up, three of whom have hud two or more previous years of varsity experience, Juniata's prospects for one of the best teams in the last few years are very bright. Meeting such a combination on Thursday, the Penn State players are preparing for a hard, fast contest. The line-up which Juniata will use I in the Penn State game consists of j Donnelson and Hofihmn or Engle at forwards. Shaute at center and Wolf gang and Captain Oiler at guards. This is the thir