fitter, March' 9, 1938 DARTMOUTH TAKES FIRST IN GLEE CLUB CONTEST Audience of Over Three Thousand people in Attendance —Prince- ton Takes Second Tbe beautiful silver cup which Is an -gUy awarded to the winner of the Intercollegiate Glee Club Contest was Lrfed home this year by the Dart -jath College songsters. Princeton jras accorded second place and Yale naked third. Starting at eight-thirty last Satur fcy evening- the contest was continued cstfl eleven o'clock, before .an audl jjjce of over three thousand people. Every minute was filled with the best that the talent of the eastern college glee clubs was able to put forth, and the attention of the audi eDce was held throughout the entire performance by the high quality of Phasic produced by the competing clubs. Various Interpretations were given to ,he. contest number. "The Hunter’s by Mendelssohn, and each good in its own style. As a whole, the concert was another great step in the bettering of music among college circles. After a short deliberation the judges of fte contest, who were Dr. Waiter jjjjnrosch, chairman, Mme. Marcella Sembricb and Mr. H. E. Krc-hbl* 1 gave Iheir decision announcing th Dart mouth Glee Club as the prize winner. jico hundred and sixty-nine points out of a possible three hundred were gained by the winner. Princeton came sec ond with two hundred and sixty-five tad Tale was third with two hundred , usd sixty points. ; Dr. Damrosch In announcing the de drion of the judges made a short speech in which he said that the con test was one of high quality in almost every detail. The pianissimo work of iD the contesting clubs was exception ally good and the diction and enuncl etlon were excellent, he said. DAIRYMEN’S COMPANY WOULD HEL p CAMPAIGN One Day’s Milk Supply To Be Set Aside During Month of May for Building Fund The advisory council of the Dairy men’s Cooperative Sales Company, at its quarterly meeting at Youngstown, Ohio, on Friday, March second, unani mously voted to recommend to the dair ymen in Cooperative Sales territory tbti ohe day’s milk supply during the month of May. 1923 be set aside as a contribution from the members toward the Health and Welfare Building cam paign for Penn State. There are over four thousand members in western Pennsylvania, and the contributions of one day’s milk supply from all the members will amount to several thou nnd dollars. A copy of the resolution follows: WHEREAS: The Pennsylvania State College which Is the head of the state’s, free educational system is un able through lack of buildings and tpuipment to admit hundreds of young men and women, who desire a higher education, be it RESOLVED: That the duly appointed Pennsylvania Delegates from the Lo cals of the Dairymen's Cooperative Rales Company, recommend to the state legislature that provision be made for ample support of the Penn sylvania State College and further be It RESOLVED: That we recommend that one day’s milk supply consigned by*the Pennsylvania Producers in Dairymen’s Cooperative Sales terri tory during the month of May 1923 be set aside as a contribution for the erection and equipment of Health and Welfare Buildings at the Penn sylvania State College, provided, how ever, that this action shall not ap ply to any producer who makes ob jection in writing to the dealer hand- Hoc his product prior to the month of May 1923. BURTHEN'S ASSOCIATION TO HOLD ANNUAL CONVENTION The sixteenth annual convention and toky show of the Virginia State Dair- Kooa's Association is to be held at Qurkutesville, March seventh to ninth, frofeasor A. A. Borland, head of the B*lry Husbandry Department of Penn State, has been requested to address tte Association on the subject of "Dair nwo’s Part in. the Successful Market of Dairy Products”. * fI *BD WALLS FOB TBGANT " CO-EDS OF OXFORD UNIT. A recent custom of the women stu ”***■ ‘of Oxford University, England **■ been to slip out after dark and late via the garden wall and the hick of her escort. In order to “to this “playing truant” three-foot P**® railings have been placed on the walls of the several colleges the young women live. SATURDAY We are offering the following combination Regular Price 1 Pint Bottle Sweet Pickles - - -38 c 1 Cake Ivory Soap 7c , 1 Pound Jar Peanut Butter - - -30 c Total 75c SPECIAL AT 49c W. R. GENTZEL NEW DORMS RAPIDLY NEARING COMPLETION The men's dormitories arc rapidly nearing completion, to which the steady sound of riveting and hammering, and the growing skeleton work of the buildings will readily attest. With this week, the construction of the roof will start and the fllllng-in of the last con crete floor will end. Three-quarters of the steel structure of the roof Is in place, and the work next week will be in the nature of placing the sheeting on the roof. It is stated. Shortly after this work is completed, the plastering of the walls .and ceilings will com mence. The stair halls In the future men’s building are made of light-col ored Kittaning brick and they are ap | proximatelv one-half finished. At the Irate the work is progressing now, it |is highly probable that the dormitories nuy be ready for occupation by stu dents of the summer session. PENN STATE GRADUATE AWARDED WITH D.S.M. Developed Searchlight Used in Anti-aircraft Defense During War [ The following account of a son of ;Penn State appeared recently in a daily : newspaper. "For exceptionally meritorious and | conspicuous sendee in developing I searchlight anti-aircraft defense and ;teaming American searchlight units in ; France, Major John C. Gotwals *O6, Engineer Corps, U. S. A., of Norristown, :Pa.. has been awarded the Distinguish ed Service Medal. Major Gotwals Is i chief engineer officer of the Alaska Read Commission, with headquarters here. "He is a graduate of Penn State,, hav ing taken the civil engineering course and receiving his degree In 1906 and spent an additional 3’ear there after be ing awarded the J. G. White fellowship. ; The holder of that fellowship Is selected by popular vote from the ten students ; having the highest scholastic standing. He was also an athlete, attaining con siderable fame In collegiate circles by this work at tackle on the Penn State football eleven of 1905 and 1906. Regular Trail ‘Hog* i "Major Gotwals Is a genuine trail I'hog.’ That is, he Is equally at home I mushing dogs or breaking trail for them (through snowdrifts In forty-below [weather or mushing across trainees [country through the summer heat, Dies jand mosquitoes. There Isn't any part of Alaska that Is habitable, and few waste places he has not visited during his three years. He mixes with Legislators, Governors, merchants, bankers, profes sional men, miners, muckers, and what is most difficult of all, dogmushers of a quarter century standing and mokes ! good with all. j "He alone knows how* many thousands |of miles he has traveled In that terri- tory. In a single season, river and | ocean steamers, automobile, packtrain, (afoot, on a raft he himself built and | which he later traded for a prospector’s I poling boat by throwing in a moose he 1 had shot, and by train, he covered more ; than 5000 miles. He has discovered [streams never before reported officially and gathered data on a region as big as several ordinary-sized States. Much of this will be shown on a new map of Alaska to be published by the American Geographic Society. Gets Honorary Degree j “In the winter of 1920-21, Major Got i wais made u trip that gained him a local I decoration of which he is almost as ! proud as the D. S. M. He broke trail |in the severest kind of cold for many [hundred miles and covered the entire 1 distance between Nome and the Alaska Railroad. The record he made gained entry for him into the innermost circle of the Alaska Dogmushers Union, which, represented by some of the most hard bitten members of the tribe sitting in solemn conclave at McGrath, away over in the Kuskokwim River region, be ! stowed on him the title of D. M. E. This signifies ‘Dog Musher Extraordinary.’ It never before was bestowd on an army officer.” HORSESHOE TRAIL WILL INCLUDE STATE COLLEGE The placing of State College on the new Horseshoe Trail, running from Wiillamsport.to Cumberland, Maryland, a route that will connect Canada and the North directly with the Virginias and the South, Is expected to turn out as one of the biggest attractions on the route because of the location here of the Pennsylvania State College. Thousands of motorists already find their way to State College from May to September of each year, end the trail proposed by enthusiasts to run through the scenic beauties of Central Penn sylvania is expected to become very popular as a result of the college and other points of Interest being located on the route. The name Horseshoe Trail was adapted from the famous Horseshoe Curve just west of Altoo na. which has become nationally known as one of the most striking scenic beau ties of ths east. POULTRY CLUB MAKES PLANS FOR ACTIVITIES _A ciuss in aihletic coaching, conduct ed by Hugo Bezdek, Director of Penn Elects Officers for Coming Year State Athletics, will'be a feature of the anil Annninfs rinilmon Penn Slate Summer SeseJon this year, ana Appoints Uiairmen Of This CO urse, Inaugurated by Coach Various Committees Bezdek lost summer, is the first of its hind in the country. Classes will be conducted in the coaching of football. The recent elections held by the i basketball, baseball, and track Poultry Husbandry Club of Penn Statu a course In industrial training and resulted In the accession of U Todd '25 leadershln Is another new course also to the presidency of the organization. „ pioneer in its line. A few selecl This Is the second time that Todd has men la the employ of manufacturing received this office, since he was char- firms throughout Pennsylvania will be ter PrMldent of the Poultry Husbandry sent by their respective firms to atudy Club when it waa organized last spring, this subject The other officers are E. H. Lehman. x ., _ , vice-president: D. E. Talbutt '2d, see- ln T S J® BlV ®" dUr ‘ retary; and P. T. Kistler '26, treasur- ‘" B !»’ »»<* well «r. The new officers are determined to C ° lon * 1 remtdnde" Darlington. Dr. kichard^BurtaiT already made. ° ver el 6 ht thousand bulletins have . __ . been sent out at this time to prosoec ine following committees wore also _ . t l live summer session students, and the B. L. Slieaffer t! KLstlfr™"' ® nrollment Pe " n , State thls “““'“or publicity. .V. A. Haneen. W. B. Kirk. ‘ ° Ver R. T. Krlebel; social, O. E. Coblelgh ’23. H. O. Stuart, A. K. Brodin ’24. E. ■ „„ TWO DRAWINGS GIVEN delivered a lecture on turkey raising. Tft PINf ARTC fAI I CDV Miss Reitz has had considerable ex- 1 IliL» All 10 UALiliCiIlI perlence along this line of work, and “t'et £t WOfk ° f Ve ™>" Howe-BaUey She emphasized the fact that turkeys' Who Made War-Time Drawings can be raised on a small area of ground «, •vlth no more loss than If left to run 101* Government ree over an extensive area. The Poultry Husbandry students are .rying to secure some of the best poul try men in the country to address the members of the club this spring, the first speaker will probably arrive dur ing the latter part of March, and the others after the holidays. Plans were discussed also regarding the holding of i banquet sometime this spring. PHOTOGRAPHS WILL BE SHOWN IN ART GALLERY Jone by Clarence H. White School of Photography—Exhibit Open to Public Next Week The Dlvialon of Photography of Penn State announces an exhibition of pho tographs by the alumni of the Clarence IL White School of Photography. The exhibit will be opened to the public sometime next week, In the galleries in Old Main, which were placed at the dis posal of the Division by the Depart ment of Industrial and Fine Arts, in or der that the prints might be more acces sible to the general public than when hung in the photographic exhibition room on Ag Hill. The Claremce H. White School of Photography is recognized as one of the finest, if not the finest, de voted to pictorial photography in the world. The men who have been trained at this Institution have been a consis tent force in American pictorial pho tography for the last twenty years. The school is devoted entirely to the development of photography as an art medium and is not concerned with it os a science nor as a commercial profes sion. Among the well known and promin ent exhibitors in American salons, who are represented in this collection are; William A. Alcock, Laura Gilpin, B. 8. Horne, Dr. Charles Jaeger, Sophie L. Laufter, Margaret Watkins, and Mrs. Antionotte B. Hervey. Thor Hendrick son has charge of the exhibit. NEW YORK UNIV. REVIVES LACROSSE AFTER 80 YEARS New York University has revived la crosse. after a lapse of thirty years, and will open its season with a game against Yale at New Haven on April four teenth. $5.00 Shoes and Qxfords Easter is April ist Order your Spring Suit Now You’D be surprised at the . moderate prices we are able to ask for quality garments individually tailored for you Smith’s Tailor Shop Cleaning Pressing Repairing^ THE PENN STATE COLLEGIA!* BEZDEK WILL CONDUCT CLASSES IN COACHING The Department of Architecture of Penn State announces the acquisition of two large framed lithographic draw ings from the Philadelphia AxtJst, Ver non Howe Bailey. These interesting ex amples of this artist’s drawings are made upon a paper of light ivory tint and show admirable mastery of drawing and pencil technique. They are now on display'in the Fine Arts Gallery’ in Old Alain. One drawing Is of Up-Town New York and in it Is represented crowded Broad way .with the toll buildings that cluster around Times Square as a background. The second drawing was made during the great war when Mr. Bailey was commissioned to make drawings for our government This lithograph Illustrates the loading of an American transport ship. The artist, Vernon Howe Bailey, re ceived training u a staff art ist on a newspaper. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and at the Pennsylvania School of In dustrial Arts of Philadelphia, to 1902, Bailey was commissioned to make a series of drawings of the Coronation of King Edward VII in London. He has made illustrations for Scribner, Harp ers and Everybody's Magazine. During the war Mr. Bailey was the first artist authorized, by the United States Government to make drawings of the stirring activities in navy yards and munitions works. He made the first •drawings ever made inside the great Bethlehem Steel Plant and he was the only artist permitted to make drawings with the Amrican fleet at sea. Vernon Howe Bailey is known as a black and white illustrator because'of his use of crayon ns the medium for ex- Pi casing his artistic ideas. In art cir cles he is ranked with Joseph Pennell as one of our foremost illustrators. PRE-MEDB AT BCCKXELL FORM HONORARY FRATERNITY Upper classmen in the pre-medical school at Bucknell University have or ganized an honorary fraternity known as Sigma Delta Rho. . SELECT SUITINGS FOR THAT EASTS R SUIT Now at GERNERD’S C. N. FISHER PENN STATE LEADS IN VAR VETERAN TRAINING Foot Hundred Disabled Soldiers Enrolled Since 1918—Maj ority in Ag School The Pennsylvania State College is probably doing more than any other institution In the training of disabled war veterans under the federal re habilitation act, according to opinions expressed by government officials and announced recently by Professor R. G. Dressier, faculty counselor for the Vet erans* Bureau. “When a boy is sent to State College for rehabilitation we feel that our trou bles are ended," writes Robert J. Pul ler, Philadelphia, chief of* the rehabili tation division of district three, U. S. Veterans' Bureau. "Penn State has caught the real spirit of the work and is probably doing more to promote the rehabilitation of disabled veterans than any other institution." . Professor Bressler attributes the suc cess otf the work here to the excellent spirit among the former service men and the manner In which they are ' re ceived and taken Into every form otf ac tivity by the entire student body. He says: JUTe Entered Whole-Heartedly “The college from the beginning has tried to make those boys feel at home and not a separate unit in the college. They have been tn'vited to all functions! Realizing that there are more thar. nr.d many have became members of ••'.vrv -f>r .r« ln*crcs:od in the ad* various ■frat'-rnitles. The faculty and ■■ V,r n .e. the "p«in'sta*e administrative olTlccm h'tvo helped the.-.- : t-.‘ the Anvri-Mn f« f to forget their disability. They, them- _ A-ivaiK-oment <•£ Science has' ap selves, have entered into college ac-' pointed a new membership committee tlvhles in a most wholesome manner, to canvass the faculty of the college Some of the most brilliant students in ' for new members. The committee con the college are to be found in this sists of the following members: Sec group which this year numbers 158. rotary. J. Sen Hill. Professor of Bot- One of the boys was recently transfer- any. Chairman; Assistant Professor red to another college in the middle Merk’e of the Agronomy Department; west. He writes that if he ever gets Professor Myers of the Horticulture back to Penn State he will never leave Department; Associate Professor 9mlth ■ until he completes the course." of the Physics Department; Assistant Almost four disabled voter- Professor Schott of the Chemistry De jans have been'’ enrolled at Penn State partment; Assistant Professor Honess jsince 1919. They have entered courses of the Geology Department; Assistant ,in all schools, £66 in agriculture, fifty- Professor Dotterer of the Philosophy jfour In engineering, one In home econ omics. twenty-seven in liberal arts, eighteen in mining, and seventeen In science. Two hundred of these enrolled are' in four-year courses and the bal ance in short'agricultural courses. PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS !!!SURPLUS STOCKS!!! U.S. ARMY MEN’S RAINCOATS Sale Price $3.95 Value $lO.OO These' raincoats are made of Gas Mask material, same as was used in the U. S. Army during the late war. We guarantee them to be absolutely rainproof and they can be worn rain or shine. Sizes 34 to 48, color, dark tan. Send correct chest and length measurements. Pay Postman $3.95 on delivery, or send u& a money order. If, after examining coat, you are not satisfied, we will cheerfully refund your money. U. S. DISTRIBUTING & SALES CO. 20-22-24-26 West 22nd St. , New York Ci'y, N. Y. L. K. METZGER L. K. METZGER “The Fastest Growing Store in State College” Greeting Cards For All Occasions Easter Cards with the Penn State Seal, Birthday Cards, Place Cards, Tally Cards PLAYING CARDS Toilet Articles for Men Protect your Winter Garments with Noth Proof Bags We are always striving to give you “A Better Store” “Better Goods” “Better Service” L. K. METZGER BLUE AND WHITE TENNIS- I: SQUAD LOSES CAPTAIN ; The tennis squad received a hard blow when It became known that Cap tain McVaugh ’24 had left for Mon tana because of his health. A prelim inary squad, forming a nucleus to work on, and picked from the showing of the men in the tournament last fall, Is composed of Duff, Alexander, Fatzlnger. Laws, Geuther, Heed, Hile, Gillen, and Xissley. Several of the men have taken advantage of the hand ball court, and are beginning to con dition themselves. As soon as the weather permits, the Armory courts will be put In condition, and practice will be started. Men who came through both the freshman and varsity tournaments last fall will be given ranking numbers from one to ten. Any man who failed to enter in the tournament, and who desires to try out for the team, will have the privi lege ctf playing the tenth ranking man who in turn can challenge the man placed above him, and so on. A list of the men on the squad and their ranking will be kept posted. In order that tennis might be brought into greater prominence as a college sport, the hardest schedule in the history of Penn State tennis has been arranged, so that hard workouts wiM be the rule for varsity candidates this spring. A. A. A. S, APPOINTS NEW MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE PENN STATE BARBER SHOP 5 Barbers Solicit your patronage Ladies’ Beauty Parlor Annex G. L. SMITH. JUST RECEIVED A Complete Line of EASEL FRAMES THp D E N N QTATE ine Tooth Paste, Soaps, Combs, Towels, Shaving Articles, Safety Razors and Blades Page Three {Department; Professor Wood cf the Mechanical Engineering Department; Professor Breneman of the Materials of Construction Department; and Moss, Assistant Professor of Home Economics. Membership is of two kinds: national, in which the members who pay the na tional dues and belong to the national association have all the privileges of the national association, and local, In which the members belong to the State College branch and pay only the local dues and have only local privi leges. SENIORS TAKE CUSTOMS IN’ HAND AT STANFORD A system of senior control has been adopted at Stanford University. The system developed out of a movement to abandon the traditional sophomore methods of discipline and after years of fighting the sophomores declared they would let hazing die a sudden but inevitable death. PUBLIC SALE We have purchased 122,000 pair of U. S. Army Munson last shoes, sizes 5 W 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 proof. The actual value of this shoe is $6.00. Owing to this tremendous buy we can offer same to the public at $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 Broadway, New York, N.Y.
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