Tucsday/Fobruary 13,1923 OPERA SINGERS PRESENT VARIETY OF SELECTIONS Operatic Scenes and' Ballad Num ,,-bers Constitute Interesting' “Y”, Course Program A variety of selections ranging ftom scenes from Grand” and Light Operas to modern - popular songs was tho offer ing of the 'Mary Adel Hays Opera .Singers In the Auditorium last Satur day evening as the fourth number of the Y. M -C A and Department of Music's Entertainment ’ Course for this winter ' Through a misunderstanding as to the Intricacies of reaching Penn. State from Bollofontc, the concert was lute - in sotting started and the first number on the program, a scene from Act-2 of the opera ••Martha", was, not as well done as some of the latter, num bers Throughout the evening’s en tertainment, the artists - were, as a whole, much more successful in their solo and ballad numbers than they were in the heavier operatic pieces and ' showed that their voices were bettor adapted to the lighter work than to tho grand opera scenes Miss Katharine Richards, contralto, a‘nd Mr Claude Schell, tenor, were at 'their best In tho scene from "II Tro vfttoro" and showed a tine dramatic sense in their- Interpretation bliss Richards has a. good contralto -voice and the support which she received from Mr. Schell made this number ono of the most successful on tho program Mr Schell then sang '‘Duna" as tho seventh number of the program, and his sympathetic tenor combined with the fine quality of feeling which he put into his work won his audience at once As an encore, Mr Schell sang "love Sends a Little" Gift of Roses" that was equally well "received The program follows - , * 1 Scene from Act II of "Martha”* Entire Company 2 Plano Solo' "; Mendelssohn Schumann Miss Beulah Clark 3 Scene from “II Trovatore" ‘Miss Richards and Mr Schell 4 Solos Farewell Kitty O’Toole Sir Walnman,"baritone 5 Solos with flute accompaniment: Under the 'Greenwood Tree (From As You Like It) Mad Scene (From Lucia dl Lnm mnmoor) _ Miss Huys, soprano, and Miss Clark, flutist 6 Duet. Tho Jolly Beggars Wile ilr Schell and Mr .Walnman 7 Solo. Duna ~ McGill Love Sends a Little Gift of Rosos Mr Schell, tenor- , 8 Lesson Scene from "The Daugh - ~-“tGT of the* Regiment" " v- '(Miss Hays. Miss Richards,’Mr Scholl 9 Pluto solo. " The Merry Lark 'Benedicts The Kiss - * ' ~ Ciard! ailsß Clark 10 Old ' Colonial Dance "Amary Ills" Tell Me Pretty Maiden from light opera “Florodora" - Entiro company - * PENN STATE MENTIONED IN LITERARY PUBLICATION An indirect and brief, but interesting mention of Penn State has been mode .In one of the current annuals of lit erary achievement. This spring Pierre Loving, Editor of tho combined” New Fiction Publication of Now York City, is going to edit an anthology of Amor lean' plays Tho book is to bo published by Bron tanos, a firm of International pub lishers Ono of tho plays Included is "Pandora’s Box” by J. GordoAmend, of English at ThJ Penn sylvania State' College, "Pandora’s Box” ~is a play for a dancer In one act with two scenes Tho (Irst depicts the old legend of Pandora with"'all its simple beauty, while the second scene is Pandora’s legend as It might have been If she had lived today This" play has been produced twice to date, once before tho local chap 'ten of the Daughters of the American Revolution In the Women’s Building lost December; and again on Nfcw Year's Eve at Colonel Boal’s recep tion. It was originally written for Ethel C Sparks It Is also Included In the spring repertoire of the-Nation al School of Elocution and Oratory of Philadelphia. -“ELECTRICALS” COMPLETE. PLANS FOR APRIL DANCE All plans have boon completed for tho Electrical Engineering Society dance whlch-is to bo held in the'Alpha Chi Rho house on Saturday evening, April twenty-fourth Tho committee in charge of tho dance, comprising R. H Njprton ’23, chairman, B L Chaplin '2B, and J. L. Garjott '24 have announced that the affair Is open to members' of all other engineering.' societies Tho price of-the 'tickets, which has not yet been set, will bo within tho reach of evcn.rono desiring to attend. , Griffith's .Orchestra which””has beon secured if furnish tho music for the occasion, will be augmented by the ac companiment of H B Sohlossor ’24, who has but recently roturnod to col . lege frdm traveling throughout*- the United States on Keith’s ‘Vaudeville Circuit. *„ 11UCKNELL ADOPTS HUGE TIMBER WOLF FOR UNIVERSITY MASCOT Bucknoll now has a .mascot 'that will provo a worthy foe of tho,Nittany Lion, Navy Goat, Pitt Panther,, and the Ya,e Bulldog. This mascot is a huge timber wolf and was presented to Buccnoll by one of tholr ardent UNIT CAGE SCHEDULE - j ANNOUNCED FOR TONIGHT On account of tlic Aimory being pul to other uses, the lost weok's sched ule of the inter-unit basketball league was uncompleted, so that those games will be played off tonight. The'tour nament Is .getting ■well along toward the finish, and keen competition is being shown by the teams playing The following schedule will be played through thlH week* Tuesday, February 13th—8 00 p m. Unit 4 vs 8 Unit 7 vs 10 Unit 19 vs.'27 Unit 16 vs 28 •Thursday, February 15th —B‘oo p m Unit B'vs 25 Unit 0 vs. 26 Unit 7 vs. 12 Unit 19 vs 24 PENN STATE INSTRUCTOR ACCORDED GREAT HONOR Emile Walters of Summer Session 'Staff Has Painting Placed rin Houston Gallery Word has been ‘ received by Dean W. O Chambers that Emile Walters, a teacher in the Summer Session School of Penn State, has-had • a great honor accorded him by the Houston Art So ciety of Houston, Texas, when tho so ciety placed one of Mr Walter's works in the ipeimoncnt collection of the Houston Art Gallery __ The picture is one of marvelous beauty White silvery birches with a foreground of snow dotted with under brush and laurel and the background broken by evergreens,, with a blue, green sky overhead .Every lino, every stroke of the brush portrays winter Mr. Walters, who made a great suc cess at Penn State last summer, is re turning this summer as a member of the_ Summer Session Staff. He is a member of. the University Club and comes to Penn State from New York Lost year Mr. Walters was the winner, of the Go'odwin Prize of Chicago He Is a momber of the Sallmugundi Club of New York and a Follow in tho Acad emy of Fine Aits, Philadelphia. - 'Especially noted.for his treatment-of greens, blues and yellows, Mr. "Walters follows the impressionist school of painting He has been painting in Greenwich, Connecticut, 'all wintet and has finished several canvasses which made quite'an impiosslon at the art exhibit of the Friends'of “Art Society of Chicago, the Sallmugundi Club of Now York, and the Carnegie exhibit at Pittsburgh STUDENTS LEAVE FOR VOLUNTEER CONFERENCE ..Thirty-five -*Ponn-State- v students left Friday for the annual confer ence of the Eastern Union of Student ■Volunteers 'which ,was being held this year at Drew Seminary, Madison, N J The conference, which extended over the week-end, was attended by student representatives from ail tho colleges In Pennsylvania and New Jersey and In past years has been a groat success in furthering tho work which tho Student' Volunteers are do ing in the East A total of nino prominent spoakors had'been secured to address tho meet ings of tho conference, including such men as Dr.. Sam Zwemor, who is a well-known missionary to Arabia at the present time. Several of tho re maining number of speakers have just returned from missionary work In foreign countries and the rest are men who have become ' prominent in tho United States through their work along tho lines of the Student Volun teers PROF. WALKER VISITS - AG. EXPERIMENT STATION Professor Elton D Walker, of the Department of Civil Engineering,' re cently made a visit to tho New Jersey Agricultural Station In order to In vestigate the changes in sewage Professor Walker -wont to become acquainted with tho work being done in the investigation of the organisms responsible for the changes taking placo in sewage’ treated In tho ImhofC tanks and trickling Alters Work of importance in this field, is being car ried on. in New Jersey and also at the sewage disposal plant of Tho Pennsyl vania State College. NEW COLLEGE DEPARTMENT The department of History, Political Science and at the" Penn , sylvanin State College Is to bo divided next year into 1 two separate depart ments Dr A. E. Mortis, present head of the department will become head of -tho Department of History and_Polit ical Science, and Dr. O'J'.'Bou'cko will bo acting head of tho new Deportment of Economics and Sociology PATRONIZE OCR ADVERTISERS The promise you made to yourself . , the first of the year, to be on time every morning will be a 1 lot easier to live up to if you are sure of your clock. Westclox ? ‘ ring'you up bn the dot. From $1.50 to $4.75, regular and luminous dials. THE CRABTREE CO. - ' Jewelers . State College, Pa. DR. BARTON DESCRIBES WORK OF MISSIONARIES Authority on Questions of 'Near East Discusses Relation* of ♦ - Turks to Americans Doth chapels Sunday were addressed bv (Dr James L Barton, a well-known authority on questions regarding the iNcar East Illustrating his talk with many examples from his expci lencc In tho Near East, Dr Barton brought out the powerful theme that “Right eousness of Chaiacter Is tho Greatest Influence In Life" Showing the great good which the Ameilcan missionaries have done in all of the countries of tho Near East, Dr Barton told how much .the American missionaries and institutions wore appreciated Tho Turks have always been pious talkers, but tho 'Americans -have al ways acted righteously and piously, and have showed tho Turks that thev* stand for ull that Is good-and educat ing Tho Turks as well os the Greeks and other peoples of the Near East now welcome tho American missionar ies and institutions These and oth er thoughts were included In the talk by Dr Barton, who was himself a mis sionary in Turkey for some time Tho American schools in these countries arc recognized as being the best that they have and 'the people of this coun try are anxious that tho American schools should be continued since the} realize that these schools not only turn out educated men, but also men of character Doctor Barton has for many years been the advisor of the Secretary of State on questions regarding Turkey and other that part of the world. In early life ho was a mission ary to Turkey and served as presi dent of tho Euphrates College at Har pert, Turkey SI CHOE* CLUB, GIVES MDSICAL PROGRAM AT AFTERNOON TEA The Sychor Club, piomlnent among .the girls’ campus societies, enteitained at a musical tea in the, Woman’s Building on lost Saturday afternoon from threei until five 'O’clock Tho guests Included the ofacers of all the! girls’ clubs and a number of towns-i people The program given* by mem bers of the Sychor Club consisted of vocal solos by Miss Betty Cioll. ij leading by Miss Katharine Hughes ' •a piano solo by Miss Mary Reno Tie-1 ni, and a violin solo by Miss Maigat ct Halt Miss Ray, acting dean nf> women and Mrs Hughes acted as hostesses CHICAGO ALUMNI WILL - HOLD BANQUET IN MARCH The Penn State Alumni .Society of Chicago'will hold-its annual meeting and election of officors ’on Tuesday. thirteenth ' Tho'meeting will ’•bo preceded by a banquet Tho cam paign situation in ‘the Illinois district will bo discussed ,at this time and plans'made , for tho coming year D E Perham ’ll, is campaign chairman of the society and Willard Rhoads ’ll, is secretary It is expected that Alumni Secretary, E N Sullivan will attend this meeting AG. EXTENSION DEPT. DOBS MORE VALUABLE WORK Potato spraying has boon one of tho foremost activities of the Agricultural Extension, division -of Penn Slate during the past five yours Sixteen million one hundred and seventy thou sand flvo hundred gallons of Bor deaux mixture have been sprayed on 32,341 acres of potatoes All thoso potatoes were in demonstration fields, and were sprayed five times each sea son There were 1,617,050 pounds of copper sulphate used, and the same amount of lime. The sulphate was worth $94,000 The average cost of spraying one acre was $8 50, and the entire cost was-$276,840. Tho production was in creased "two million bushels As a result of this service tho farmers of tho state .have made investments in spraying machinery amounting to a quarter million dollars LOST—A raccoon fur neck stoto'on or ers,' Friday night. Finder please rc ors, Friday night Fndor plooso rc turn to Miss C P. Halo, Nittany Ini DR. R. L. CAPERS Oesteopathic Physician Office above Varsity Store Hours—lo-5 Bell Phone 74-M. IN STATE COLLEGIAN [PROF. PATTEE’S LATEST BOOK NOW ON MARKET j Profehn<u Priitee’s Intern pioductlon I "The Development of tho Amciicn»| Short SloTy’. was hint week put on] the mnrket by llaipa ind Binthei*’ Company , Jt N the fiist attempt it 1 the one litciarv form Ameilci li.j«] given the world The short story isj shown to be the invention,ot no nlnglej writer but an inevitable evolution brought about by the unique.condi tions during" the century The hook in its wider aspects Is t history of Amer ican literature in its most, distinctive and original, areas STUDENT AID IS URGED IN DISEASE PREVENTION Dean of Men Emphasizes Individ ual Health Precautions—ln firmary Crowded Dean of Men, A R Warnock spoke briefly last Tuesday morning in Chap el regarding the large percentage of students who are affected with colds and coughs ’ He emphasized the ad visability of each individual taking upon* his own shoulders the means for prevention, and cure of these contagi ous diseases A number of grippe cases are prev alent'about 1 the campus iSixty-flvc calls for treatment'of colds alone were made at the infirmary last Monday morning This serves to give an idea of the extent of the discnse.and what its possible outcome may be Elev en cases of measles have been reported since the opening of the sec ond semester Every bed in the In firmni'y is occupied This, as Dean Wat nock mentioned, is not charac teristic of "Penn State as a healthy winter resort*’ Tho report for tho month of Jan uary Indicates an increase In sickness over previous months. Number of Calls 1,119 Number New Patients 670 Number New Conditions 693 Number of Excuses 149 Number Days Absent 311 Number Bed Cases 28 Mumlm Undiagnosed Cases 29 HOME EC. DEPARTMENT ADDS NEW INSTRUCTORS ' Two new instructors have been ad ded to the teaching staff of the Home Economics Extension Drawn tment Miss Mabel. C McDowell, loclplcnt of \ degree. from Columbia University and lately employed by the Univeislty of Minnesota, will be clothing specialist fot the department Her duties will .he to uavel'-nbout the state ind oi ganizc clubs., fot women who make their own clothes Eaoh centa will be visited ;for[,two weeks at' a time and-patterns fftted for the women who bring theii oy.ii cloth for demonstra tion Miss Pearl Shackelford who bos a degree from Columbia, will assume chaigo of the nutrition wotk of the Extension Department Schools will be visited, physical -examinations made, weights tokon and foods used to correct faults whenevei practicable Both.. Instructors assumed their new duties in January ASSISTANT EXTENSION- DIRECTOR ON LEAVE -Professor F P Weaver, who has been closely associated with agricul tural extonslon work In Pennsylvania since its beginning, and who has been an assistant director of the work at tho Pennsylvania State'College during the last ten years, has been granted leave of absence for tho greater part of a y car, to make a study of rural econom ics at Cornell University. The Laundry of Service and Accommodation Collection and delivery every day Penn State Laundry 320 West Beaver Ave. * Phone 124 ENGINEERING EXTENSION DEPARTMENT OFFERS WIDE FIELD OF, OPPORTUNITY |‘ Vciv f«w Penn State students know j [ oi the extent of the good, , wmk Ih it is being dune b\ the Do-I { par Intent of Engineering Extension. | throughout the state Vm fey* re-1 jullre tin* oppoi tunlticH <u instruction thiough the Extension Depirtment or’ know .invthing about the vast mmyl of students nil over the state who ne studying eithei through cones-1 ponrtent-e or in class but who have no| contact with tire college, other thanj through the mails md through the] visits of the extension men Correspondence courses wore first ottered by the Depaitmon't of Engln- Tho machine and allied ti a d<M can eerlng Extension, on a general bisis claim the greatest proportion .cn in January. 1920 The eaily and on- dents in tho extension courses, their couraglng response which immediate- workers amounting to thirty-live poi ly made Itself felt, proved beyond cent of tho total students The per doubt that there was open n great ccntagos go down from this point field of opportunity for such work through tiro iron and steel trades, Within two months over a thousand automobile parts makers, power plants, subject enrollments had been taken, electrical ' works, and pumping ata nnd three thousand lesson papers cor- tlons to the building and construc- Tected . tion trades which register tho lowest, About twenty thousand lesson pa- with only one and one-tenth per cent peis have been corrected in tho ex-jot the total of men tension ofllcc during the past year J The distribution of students with They havo covered almost every typo respect to their previous education of engineering course and cover a va- brings several interesting facts to viewi riety of some hundred subjects They’ Men with educations ranging all tlio range from arithmetic to calculus, way from tho third grade of grammar from mechanical drawing to machine school to college and university gradu-t design, from elementary 'electricity ates Twenty-seven and nine-tenth per j, to the theory of alternating currents, cent of tho men are eighth grade and from the first principles of heat graduates: the seventh grade, and;, to advanced power plant.economics fthen the freshman year of high school i Since the opening date, upwards of six thousand enrollments have been received for correspondence subjects In securing these it has been demon strated over and over again that there are in this state, hundreds of thousands of men who would enroll for such courses. If the matter could properly* be bi ought to their atten tion With the small staff that the Extonslon Department now' carries, it has been able to do little more than scratch the .surface Much of the work that is being car ried on Is of college grade, .and stu dents completing such .courses satis fnctorltv receive credit toward their degree V numboi of students havo aiicidv taken such courses when they found it necessary to leave school temporarily, while mim others have taken up uoik fni credit bcfoie coming to college Students aie pei mittid to .take forty uedit hours through the Extension Doputmem,} but thev i innot be i.«libnl students' it the same time Students nt engineering it Penn Suite could profit a great deal by hiving i bettei knowledge ot the of the extension utilities of Upon loivlng college .md issmning duties in industiial plants, there is tlwavs the opportti nitv of being of service in the train- ing ptobloms that ire brought up and such vvoik always brings i man before the eyes ot the higher ofiltlaJs The Extension Depur tment his seen numerous cases where lecent grxdu- ales have worked their way up more lapidh bv t iking pin in the organi- zation md teaching of shop 'classos in’ elementary engineering subjects ALBERT DEAL & SON Heating and Plumbing , 117 Frazier Street- I The vmv complete letoids which, ■ «te kept it the otllcts <u the Extou-j |slon Dcpnrrmt nt ~hr itic mum Inter ■ *• iting statistics to light | Moit students between th»* ige*» of; iwentv-one .md twetuv-llve itc talc-; Ing courses than ol anv other four' I veir group, the group amounting to} 1 twenty-nim pci cent of the total) I nunrbei of studenu, lho ug" vaii-{ I at**.- of student* tuns ill ,from boys of sixteen to tjffmrn of | sixty -live cent of the students are .gve years of age * standing next for hlglr honors One and seven-tenth per cent of the stu dents are first year.college men, one per cent are second year men. eight per cent are third year men. while the number of graduates of colleges Uses to one and six-tenth per cent of the total number of students There are six cities in the state, including Eric, Harrisburg, and Phil adelphia, which have between three and live hundred students apiece Nine cities, including Pittsburgh and Scranton, boast of from one to three hundred students, twenty-three smil lei cities contain from twenty-five to one hundred students apiece, while a great number of smallei towns con tain less than twenty-five students The Extension Department now his before it several projects of mipou rnee One of the piim-ipil pi ejects is for the Pennsylv.miv stito.Trin- i I-*M* -M-C—• I- -I—I~I- *l* NOTICE | :: Phonograph Hospital! * j All makes of Talking Machines *£ I! repaired and cleaned Repairs made j*! .. to machine or cabinet New springs X ; | and parts for all makes Work ❖ ! [ done by an expert repairman T ;; Drop a card and we will call ❖ :: H. E. REICHARD J ;; Haag House. Bishop St 4* Bellefonte, Pa. | For Your Cleaning and Pressing S&& Us Highland Cleaning Company Agency for Empire Laundry of Lock Haven 220 1-2 S. Allen St. Bell 264 OUR BEST RECOMMENDATION 30 Years Experience m the BVKCItY ant] ICC CREAM Business A uniform quality— A reasonable price— A good service— A trial price— STATE COLLEGE BAKERY Both Phones \V. T HARRISON. Prop. L. K. METZGER ' L. K. METZGER “The Fastest Growing Store in State College’' ' Toilet Articles ValentMes" Schrafft’s Candy Typewriters for Rent Fountain Pens Repaired 7 / - i L. K. METZGER, 111-115 Allen St. Page Three i )/!iom> A*Hocl.tli«v which contemplate jcuiifcj, otei ta*i ( rmiin slate Tu j.ollieis me foi companies, one i« v tot , t n extynsio. | school ol (.olio:,- 0 - ado in lw estab 1 IMiwi in one or the inpo ,Kvh o£ th Htnlc, with tet inuthw'»4 c olout con cutting ji tc\tih omiwrtti'li with xev Cl ll thousand om|»ii» u i.j - fno of tiie ,i not** projects w hicl linn boon tikcii ui> l*j the I’xt*iiH|m Depirjn. in jn n>mi(ciii>_\,ith thi is tli it f'hon nj> ,\! tin Castci i i i id.on’J n/,o(lici ils of Ifhii. whuch* . »*■ I’hilndcl 'tk.n mu hate ihrt institu otiuc itlon Tin t'-»ecs oC <in college ctedlu Jl *- not f ° l jectx only. tu* 3 ' ! Completion*./ , [ .he exu* - .4*^ t*-; | s>uttc ato[^^e^^s / niucli lughlP'an.. coutiiv 'iinteTT tlnough one of tli many <ommeicmJ coriespondence in stitutlons As <i tuie < on.sponflenc courses ate \et\ inolllcloiit but witl the State College method of aelectioi and follow-up. twentj-eight per cen of the students ha\e completed tbel: courses, and oser so\emj-tho po: cent of the aere'ce conti acted for hai been rendu ed This lattoi method o calculation is the leil b.e-ls for deter mining the tlfe-cth eticss of corre spondence work I During the past few yeais the stu dents t iking Inc cuuiscs oltcicd by tho Extension Depirtment have out inumbeicd the resident students in the [entire college by it it cst two to one [Were sulliciuiit appropriations avail able it is not unitisonable to esti mate that coirLbpondenct enrollments in this sia.e could soon be built up to nt lenst twenty thousand cm ailments a year For cich doltu .spent Penn State Is now tar the id of anv othci institution ot the kind In tc.pect to tho number of «tud< nts iciched PUBLIC SALE We have purchased 122,000 pair of U S Army Munson last shoes, sizes sy z to 12 which was the entire surplus stock of one of the largest U S Government shoe con tractors. This shoe is guaranteed one hundred percent ' solid leather, color dark tan, bel lows tongue, dirt and water roof The actual value of this shoe is $6 00 Owing to this tremendous buy we can offer same to the public at S 2 95 Send correct size Pay postman on delivery or send money order If shoes are not as represented we will cheerfully, refund your mon ey promptly upon request National Bay State Shoe Co., 296 Broadways New York, N.Y
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