Friday, 'February ft ’ 1923 PROF; CROCKETT DESCRIBES OLD = ROMAN EDIFICES Monuments Erected During l Reign of-Caeser Are Visited'by Dr. and Mrs. Crockett i Time was,-when ail or Ancient Gaul was Homan, in name at' least; and forjmany centuries, from tho days of -Julius -Caesar, on, the Homan eagle hold sway from Marseille in tho south to the" English Channel on the'north In-ahundred ways the Romans_left 'traces of their conquest: In tho lang uage of tho country, that In the south, become Provencal, and In Middle and North "France; after many centuries, modern French. In the customs of the people, that,. In many respects, despite the , flight of years, are as Roman as are many of tho ways of tho Italians, In the tangible maika of their great ness: In'temples, theatres, amphltheup tree, bridges;. triumphal arches, aque ducts, and other monuments." Such monuments are scattered more or less all over France. A year ago T - recall seeing In the war zone of North eastern Franco some tall iVy-covered arches .of an ancient aqueduct of which I had never heard till that day - Early _ ln our tour wc visited, In’ißelma, a very-stately and quito'unique Homan triumphal arch In Paris , we found the ruins of un amphitheatre and some other. Roman remains, not very Impor tant 'And so .wo might have kept on, I fancy, to our prosit, and delight, see ing, in local museums records-of.the Roman and " the Roman-Gallic civili zations, and here and -there Roman monuments of some kind, that," singly - and In the aggregate, would have beon ■ very much worth while But such "a pilgrimage Is only for the-mon of'-lelsuro, or-for one'who r can spend several summers in France 'By such travelers os we, the emphasis must be put on tho high lights Now " -it happens that In or near the Valley of the Bower Rhone are' grouped so many and such great monuments l of ' Rome’s greatness - that together they overshadow all tho rest of-tho Roman * remains in France, and, now and then, the like remains in the Eternal ',Clty Itself To see Rome,to. know*Romo, one must therefore" see and know Southern Franco, or" that restricted _ part of Southern France that, months . ago, my .studies led me to name Ro > man France Whcthei or not tho ' phrase is of my own coining, I can - not say^—so many times' have T used it these past months' To Lyon Mrs. Crockett and li.had gone on schedule time, and even, two hours ahead of-time, thanks to', on extra fast train .which we caught at . St Germain-tiea-FoaseH, which , had not’boen schediiled'in tho official tlme "tables But here- we. changed, our plans., wo would omit-“doing” Lyon, and hurry on- to Avignon, whore we ' should find rest and mail awaiting ,us .In the Hotel de l’Europe The Journey - from Bourses to Lyon had been moot tiresome, with two changes of cars, and annoying waits, and' from' noon - - till' half after nine at night But our unexpected gain of a couple of hours - in getting Jnto Lyon," had .heartenfed 3-‘ tho Ro tel -within easy distance'from \ tho'station, had been more efflcaccous, "and we were ready for another.ovent ful .day, as. we loft Lyon at 8:40 the •„ morning of'September 12th . An hour later'we bad reached "Vi- enne. a city- by the Rhone some twenty ‘ ‘ miles south of Lyon, which I would ~ describe as the northern limit of Ro man Franco The placo Is of sufficient importance to be given a half-page •. "map by 'Baldeker; but* the distances looked short, and wetsollied forth afoot. " ' Nqw our. French Cathedral pilgrim age‘.had ended, as wo had thought, tho-noon before at Bourses, but. so _ addicted to catbedrals had we become that-'we made straight for tho Gothic Cathedral of Vienne Once upon a -time, it, too, must have-been worth while, at least in-Its northen.fagade, but'a fire of many years ago and the weather of eight centuries have loft is sadly marred, though It Is even yet noble In its decoy. It possesses, more over,' two windows of very good glass of tho sixteenth century Next we sought tho Temple of Au gustus and Livla, built about the year 41 of- our era under the Emperor Claudius It -resembles the Matson CarrGo at Nlraes, and next to that tem ple Is the best preserved of any Ro- •- man temple in -France, It measures fifty by nlnoty feot, and is flfty-seyen - feet high, its] facade has six fluted ' Corinthian columns, with five along -"-the sides, followed pilas , tors - It, too,--is noble'.in its decay, ' and with a most checkered history The spaces between tho columns were .once I 'built up with, stone, and it be came' a Christian church Lator 'lt was used as born' and stable. Since - its restoration in 1854-65, it has again, ns itTwere, come to its own No longer a house of worship, it nevertheless challenges the admiration and the awe of the beholder ' -* To.wh&t is-left-of-the-ancient forum ' wo next went for. a glimpse of what is " the - Arc de Trlumphe There ■ were really- two • arches there, relics of the arcade that once enclosed ho forum, but which, was the arch- wo could not tell s By this time we were realizing that distances wore* greater than we had supposed, and we knew that if we were to ascend Mt. Pipet and later vis it tho* so-called pyramid wo must got cab or .tool Fortunately I was ablo -to find what I think was tho only taxi ' in town We drove as high as wo -could on Mt. Pipet, climbed the rest of the-way on foot, and had a-magnlfl eent view of tho city and tho valley of tho Rhone, got' tantalizing glimpses * of-the-exterior of the ancient Roman amphitheatre, and caught, -as we - looked, across. a stroet corner In 'tho direction of Mt. Plpet'a view'of the ’corner of the mountain with an os corpmont of tho ancient citldol that in picturesquoness was second only tp ’ our plcturo of Montigny of-a week be - fore '’No plcturo of this view was to 7be purchased,- and it is one that-we . ‘ shall he able to preservo only In our memories, until we can awnuade some - artist’lo paint it for, us, somo pho * -tographer with artistic sense to tako a picture of It. , There was still time to drive to Al 'gulllc,' an antique pyramid some eighty ' - feet high, which. is thought >to have ' "bnco adornod tho “spina" or'longltud- Inal wall of a circus" whose ’site has - " 'been traced. Of its no.man can .Tsoy, It Is possibly of the'fourth cen ■ tury of our ora. - Tradition coils it PI- C" -lat’s Tomb , I bad.seen pictures of It; '.'..hut I was prejudiced"against Its pos- on a "square baso pierced with foui arches on the four sides I was there fore very much pleased to bo quite attraoted to the monument, foi it has a dignity and serenity that ore all its own. I'hazaul the guess that It might never have been' constructed but for the larger and more ambitious mon ument to Marius at St'Remy But be that as-it nmy, the type or the typos did.hot capture tho Roman mind suffi ciently to be reproduced, and for-that fact wo need not be sorry The train that was to take us from Vienne down the Rhone Valley to Avignon had no dining car ■ We must therefore lunch Jn Vienne, wo- had thought. But for an hour or longei wo Had realized that it-wo got to see both Mt Pipet and tho Aiguille, we must revise our plans, purchase somo eatables In town, and eat them on the train On dismissing our taxi at tho station, It .was.easy enough to And somo very InvJting baked stuffs, mostly of the nature of pastry and cake, at a "pat isserie”, but it was very much more difficult to And something to drink. We had been drinking nothing but bottled waters since wo had reached France, and wo were both hungry and .hirsty after our rigorous mornlng.in Viehne. At last, after as much search m my time would allow,-! found some Vichy, but In small bottles I there fore purchased two, from.which I had tho meal tops removed, or rather loosened, and which I had accordingly to carry with the utmost core For tunately, our heavy-suitcase I had registered that morning to Avignon, but there were our' other suitcase and hand grip and' other belongings to claim at the station Behold, us. therefore, a noble, cavalcade as we took the train, which,-as good fortune would have it, was -on time Mrs Crockett going before, _ loqded. -With package of lunch and “ (land-bag in one hand, and in the other those two precious bottles .which she would have boon so glad to conceal, but could not, and I, bringing, up the rear with suit case and hand grip, umbrellas and cane We had had the sanity to put on our coats so as to lighten our bur dens Nothing was lucking for a fam ily. group but a band box and bird cage." Travel from Lyon south on our ear ly train had beon light.' we had a compartment, to ouisolves -But wo found travel on the noon train con gested . enough* I" had to search through'three cars In tho second-class coaches before I found a compartment with tw'cT.vacant soats Those we se cured; and after lunch, which tasted Jolly good, though a very fat woman who was already occupying a quarter of the compartment looked askance at S as she entered with her two bottles and other paraphernali i, we made’ for the corridor, which, ns good luck would have it, was on the river-side of the car. Here wo stood for an houi and'enjoyed the scenery of thc'Rhone Valley Very varied it is. with hold mountains' and winding river, “witty castes not Infrequent, and always on stretches of some of the most fertile land of France -Vineyards were ev erywhere in evidence, so many of them that one might almost think that little but grapes and t wlne were raised in this pait of tho" country But two other rivers I. have seen with charm equal to that of tho Lower Rhone be tween Vienne and Atignon tho Rhino and the Hudson . As we'went farther south, the,moun tains became' lower, and drew back from-the river,-and th'e scenery natur ally became quieter; but not so quiet os to lose the Aavor of romance So at four-thirty that afternoon, wo reached our first "center” for Roman France," Avignon, the city of tho French popes ----- . WILLIAM DAT CROCKETT Nlmes, France,' < . •September 18, 1922 FIRST ROUND OF UNIT BASKETBALL ENDS SOON The standing of tho inter-unit basket ball teams will be announced as soon as tho first round has been completed Another round will then bo started with the-divislons the same The first round of the'tournament will be completed by the playing off of the following gomes. Tuesday, February sixth at eight o’clock. Unit 20 vs 26 Unit 21 vs 26 Unit 12 vs" 22 Unit 15 vs 24 Thursday, February eighth, at eight o'clock “ Unit 4 vs 8 Unit 7 vh 10 - Unit 19 vs 27 Unit 28 vs 6 BOTANISTS EXPERIMENT WITH TOMATO DISEASE The Botany Department has in press a bulletin of the Agriculture Experi ment Station, entitled "Tomato Leaf- Spot and Experiments with its Con ti ol” The bulletin was written by J H Muncie and contains an account of his threo year's work at the Field Lab oratories at Girard, Pennsylvania which" have recently been closed be cause of lack of appropriations The arranged data will be useful in many parts of the state where tomatoes are giown for marketing and canning Lnew meat market In Fye’s Block, Frazier Street BEST QUALITY OF MEATS ' M. H. VAN ZANT Call 357 3000000000000000ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooc [ PENN STATE BARBER SHOP 5 Barbers ; .Solicit your patronage Ladies’ Beauty Parlor Annex . ' G. L. SMITH. MARY ADELHAYS OPERA SINGERS TO PRESENT OLD CLASSICS IN COSTUME The Mary Adel Hays Opera *Slng< both light and grand opera, as well at here la recital In the near future. St men," "II Trovatore," "Martha," and n presented musically and artistically cc the popular American coloratura-artis distinct forward pace In the standard POULTRY JUDGERS WIN ; AT NEW YORK CONTEST Nittany Team Captures Two Cups and Three Medals—Kistly 23 First in Sweepstakes The poultry judging team fiom Penn State won first place in the Inteicolleg inte poultry judging contest at Madi son Squaio Girder. last TTrlday night with a scoie of 1610 points Connecti cut finished with 1490 points and West Vitglnin Massachusetts, North Caro lina, and New* Jersey placed In the or der named The Penn State team was composed of P T Kiatly ’23 who was flrat in the sweepstakes and tliiid in tho utility class, H A Body '23, C S Platt ’24, who placed third In the standard class, and X A Hanson ’24, alternate Two cups and threo medals wore the results of tho meet in prizes Besides the sweepstakes the team took first honors In. placing standard vmledes P A Seese*’22_won the utility piJze last year' ■', 1 - - The students were accompanied on tho trip by Professor Knandol and As sistant Professor Charles of tho poultry husbandry _ department and were coached by L M Black Tho Madison Square Garden show Is conducted by the American Associa lon of Instructors and Investlgoors of which Mr Knandel is president. Tho Judging display Is divided Into two classes, standard and utility, with four varieties containing - five birds each Tho standard group contains Barred Plymouth Rock pullets. White Wyandot hens, Rhodo Island Red cockerels, and Single Comb White Leg horn cockerels. The utility class con sists of Barred Plymouth Rock hens and White Wyandot pullets HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN COWS MAKE NEW MILK RECORD Two excxoptional milk records have been made at the dairy barn during January by a couple of Holstaln-Frie san cows Keystone May Segls Beets, a senior four year old, produced in one week five hundred and seven and sev en-tenths pounds of milk testing 4 748 per cont of butter fat equivalent to thirty and one-tenth pounds of butter. This is ho first thirty pound cow that Penn State has ever had . Penn State Segls Queen DeKol, a sen ior two year old, brod and raised at Penn State, produced a very good rec ord at about th esamc time three hundred ninety-five and three-tenth pounds of milk testing 4 3344 per cont ■with a butter equivalent of twenty-one and four-tenth pounds Othei tests are under way among which arc some with stock recently presented to tho college PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS VHE ATE COLLEGIAN era, featuring costumed excerpts from s many concert classics, win be beard cencs from "Faust," “JRlgoletto,” “Car many other old favorites will be used, orreet. Miss Hays’ position as one of sts is secure, and her company seta a of Lyceum music. , NITTANY. DEBATERS TO FACE MARYLAND SOON Lion Will Take Negative View of the Kansas Industrial Court <• _ Question The Penn State Vaisltj Debating Team is scheduled to meet the Unlvcv filty of Mar.Mand at College Paik, Mar yland on February sixteenth to debate the negative side of the Kansas Indua tml Couitt question 'At the present time a team his not been picked but there Is plenty of good mateii.il to choose fiom JSdvwud J Boone '23, ’ one of the-var sity debatets. has dronped debating in cider to devote his time to his studies since he will graduat&j fiom the For estry School next March His absence will leave a weak spo{ In the so far victorious tetm and.is now becomes necessary to select another man In his place The. strongest contosants for this beitlt 'ire^g^flH^yu^ia^/24 CONSERVATION COUNCIL APPROVES BOND ISSUE . i The State Conservation Council met at Harrisburg Inst vvtjek and decld od to support a bond isjsuo of twenty five thousand dollars fqr the purchase of unproductive forest 111 Pennsylvania. Tho Council, of whloh Dean R L. Watts is president, and Professor Fer guson Is secretary, la c imposed of fif ty-three organizations interested in forestry Thirty-five co mtles bavo or ganizations < Tho state now owns 1,260,000 acres of forest lands which were purchased at an average price of two dollars and twonty-flve cents por acre This rep resents an estimated net gain of near ly five millions of dollars "to the Com monwealth during tho la3t twenty years since these same lands are now valued at ten dollars and ninety-eight cents the acre There ore now 3,500,- 000 acres of unproductive forest land in the state which should be stocked and protected WANTED TOR ItKJiT—ss 00 will be paid to the person who will .toll me where I can rant an acceptable me dium-sized house before March first Phone 242-R *2t S. E. Prutzman '24 A. G. Prutzman ’25 JIGGER SHOP Biggest Assortment of 5c Bars in town Our Candy comes Fresh from the Factory Every Week. The Laundry of Service and Accommodation Collection and delivery every day, ~ Penn State Laundry, 320 West Beaver Ave. J j 1 ; Phone 124 Annual Financial Si Budget The follow Inc (inanclul statement of the Class of 192 J, as shown in the to- Tho local sutplus of the 19J2 Class the inteielnn Budget SJete,., (or the ho, i above, there Is K.IOOOO la 1023 an,.mated to JI.SIUI at a hi. b 0,000 00 . „ . ... „ La Vie savings account Constricting lias boon paid to 1- L Otctdmr, Class yeai ending Aumi t thht>-«rsl, -- s accounts leccl% of 1327 50 Sect out v le.ulnp the btlince of submitted h> N'ell Demins. Interclass nn{ , ttCCountH payable of $2807 30, the: <231 41 which will likewise be inns net surplus of the 10’I Class is rntTod to his account $2.192 07. The detailed topint follows In addition to >2.171 87 Surplus foi Balance ae 9-1-21 Surplus $2B 07 Deficit '22 Lu Vie Savins' 9-1-21 Interest ncciued Receipts for yeai *lOB 48 *7,800 10 *12,864,68 *2,688 80 *3,506 00 *28,255 92 *H»7 *450 77 - 5 647 74 $25,80818 TOTAL Deficit Disbursements for year Balance 0-1-21 Surplus ! Deficit *96 07 *450 77 “Y” CONFERENCE PLANS DECIDED FOR NEXT WEEK Annual Meeting of “Y” Organiza tions Will Be Held at Madison New Jersey The annual conference of the Y M C A, will bo hold next week at Drew Seminary, Madison, New Jersey. The Ijost speakers that are available have been secured to apeak on various sub jects, several of them ,men who have just returned from missionary work in Europe as well as men who are pro minent In this country’ These meet ings have always been of great interest and instruction to the students who have attended them Reservations ha\c been made for forty-fix e and alieadv thirty-five havo applied to the local “Y* organization There will be no expense at Madison Board and lodging, as well as enter tainments, will be furnished free to all who attend the conference The only expense** will bo the railroad faro, which will be about twenty dollars, with n possibility of reduction if two handled fifty attend the conference, and a two doliai and fift\ cent regis tration fee The conference is open to all who wish to go If there are still some men who are planning to go, they should get in-touch with the loc»l sectet.irx, F I Olmstend PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS The Stag Ho ha 3 tho prido of the peacock, tho courage of tholionand tho combined norvo of thewholo monngcne And why? Because ho is euro of himself and euro of his appearance As tho hut and cleverest touch to his toilet, he omooths his mane with Vnae flno 'HairTanie. His hoadßtnys dapper and Bloch throughout the giddiest whirl* "VaaeUntf* Heir Tonic improves tho hair At all drug stores and student harbor shops. Every “Vaseline" product it rec ommended everywhere become of fU absolute purity and effectiveness. Vaseline HAIRTONIC . ( ' -f. Chesebrouqk f^fg.'Co. K-VCoik^'idaied) "■ latement of Interclass System Shows Surplus For 1923 Class sloij *8 *2,395 3S 782 31 S 607.10 2056 0J 20GU 1 S,JI7 10 3128 13 3,192 77 $3,500 00 *100.48 *7,368 80 10,383 01 8,272 22 2,704 10 * 801 90 3 3,205 21 * 688.83 1,234 57 * 23144 * 2,171 87 SOPHOMORES DISCUSS , HOP AND CLASS HATS Discussion of plans few the coming Soptiomoro Hop was the main topic of importance at the meeting of tho sec ond year men held in the Bull Fen last Tuesday evening It was reported that extensive preparations are being made for tho underclass dance and no ex pense will bo spared to Insure Its be ing a success The class was strongly urged to support tho event to mako it Uie best possible A committee was appointed to solect tho class hats, and draw up designs which will be presented at the next meeting of tho class President Kerr emphasized the fact of the laxity of saying “Hello" on tho campus, and urged the members of the class to enforce this custom imong themselves and the membeis of the freshman class A few new members were admitted to the class UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MOURNS LOSS OF MASCOT Mnikod by an impiesslve ceiomoiiy ' Pig Bellemont," the bulldog mascot of the University of Texas was bulled tho other day The funeral was attended by the students and facultj and was marked bv the eulogy of the Dean over his body If you want a SPECIAL flavor ICE CREAM, | Sherbet or Ice, or a SPECIAL FLAVORED ¥ PUNCH ,for special occasions % ¥ CALL BELL 250 | I SMITH’S ICE CREAM FACTORY f 500 W. Beaver Ave. VALENTINES (February 14) A Complete Assortment The Athletic Store On Co-op Corner Shoes for Spring OURS are* very “dressy”—es pecially the plain toe ones. They’re fine for every day wear and you wouldn’t be without a pair for evening wear. We have them also in tan. Tan'Sport Shoe with the Cordavon Plain Toe, New Crepe Sole Black and Tan - $9.00 $lO.OO THE QUALITY SHOP Opposite Front Campus. Page Three Total Gi and Total *1,970 64 S 1.970 64 OVER SIX HUNDRED FAIL IN CHAPEL ATTENDANCE More than six hundred notices of chapel fniluies hive been sent out to students who failed to attend the re quired rutnber of chapel services last semester Accoidirg to Hummel rish burn, assistant to the Dean of iron, the majority of the students who have filled aie upperclassmen A great many of these failures have since been adjusted According to a ruling of the Board of diusteos no one e in be graduated from tho cotlege or bo honorably dismissed to anothei college who liis not attend ed chapel the* i cfiuired number of times Men who hue filled last se mester will be lotjuited to uttend chap el this semester and is a icsuit the Auditorium w 111 be* completely Ailed during the coming seme«toi I EAT EAT | I t * AT i ! 1 | Penn State Cafe | '’**■’*—l***—*****—%**.—*!—*•**.—l**.* *!—*—*»—
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