P—uncil S—lingers! Join C—ollegiun VOL. XXI, No. 14 COLLEGIAN CALLS CANDIDATES FOR EDITORIAL STAFF Freshman Aspirants Will Study Fundamentals of Collegian Work for Six Weeks MEETING OF CANDIDATES WILL BE HELD TONIGHT Co-ed Classes Continue During November—Organization of Paper Is Explained All freshmen -with journalistic in timations, aspiring to positions on the cditm ml stall* of the COLLEGIAN will meet m Room 14 Libcial Arts Building tonight at seven o’clock in answ ci to the fu st call of the college yeai foi men icportcr? Those at tending the meeting will be .staitcd in a si\ weeks’ com sc of instiuclion designed to acquaint them with news paper wntmg The couisc foi men will consist of a In lef sui \ ey of the field of joui nal-sm, with spec’nl attention being paid to lead-writing, liows-gathcimg and make-up At each meeting ceitain points of COLLEGIAN style will be considered and the cmbiyo icpoitcis given a chance to put then newly ac quncd knowledge to practical appli cation. The chief woik of the class will consist of the studv and wilting of leads to be followed by the wilting of news “stones.” Co-Eds Take Course Fifteen ficshman co-cd icpoitcis have nhcadv met twice in the wom en’s couisc of instiuction, which will continue until Thank-giving \acation A. K. Smith ’it> is conducting the class foi women, giving them instruc tion e\erv Monday night Upon the completion of the six weeks’ couisc, the ticshmen automat ical!, become icpoitcis on the COL LEGIAN statt, wntmg the news “stones" assigned them bv the juntoi news cditois until elections shortly bcfoie Easloi, at which time they as sume the icsponsibilitics of sopho more repoiters .Fieshmen whose work mcasuies up to the standaid ic quned by the COLLEGIAN will be zctaincd on the stag dunng then sopliomore year unless a Luge mini-, bei lepoit m which case positions will be placed on a competitive basis. Senior Staff Fiom the piesent gioup of sopho inoie icpoitcis six will be chosen foi positions of jun'or news editors foi the year l f »2ts-27 At the same elec tions, the editoi-m-cluef, assistant ed itoi, managing cditoi and tluee asso (Contmued on last page) ALUMNAE CLUB TO HOLD BAZAAR FOR LOAN FUND Women Graduates Arrange for Get-together for Annual Home-coming Day Foi the puiposc of incieasing the loan fund foi Penn State women, the State College Alumnae club will hold a bazuai Sntuiduy, Novcmbet twenty first During the past two years the benefits of the annual sale have been added to the Girls’ Building Fund, to which it has been credited with n contribution of more than one thousand dollais Because the loan fund was so small compaied to the needs foi which it was held, the local otgam/ation de cided to place the piohts of this yeai’s bazaar at the disposal of the committee. At present the fund is icpicscnlcd bv $llOO in papci but there is but one hundred mailable foi cash aids As fast as the monev is pan! back it is reloancd so that practically the whole sum has been borrowed by those still cm oiled at Penn State Requests have been greater than it was possible to meet. The emerg ency was partially Idled by limiting the loans to fifty 01 seventy-five dol lais each Contributions Sought Ciuds lime been sent to all the alumnae asking foi contributions of ni tides foi sale All articles are to be sent to Mrs. P II Dale, IJIB West College avenue, State College, on or before November fourteenth In nddition to the bazuai, the club plans foi a little get-togethei in the Women’s Building at seven o’clock Sutuulay evening of Alumni Home coming dav As stated by the com mittee m cliai gc “We piosume that the men will wnnt to appear in the Aimorv for the cider party at eight- Unity since they asked us last year. Me aie theicfoiu inviting all the re turning alumnae to chop into the Womens Budding pailoia at seven (’clock Sntuiduv evening to have n little gossip-fest of our own before the big meeting.’' frtm BtateA Phonographs Grind Forth Sentiment in Large Orders as Queens’ Exodus Ends If all the mcn'Uics of soft and sen timental music which were played on phonographs Sunday and Monday were placed end to end. thev would leach cleai to Pittsburgh, back to Philadelphia, out to Pai missus, into Baltimoie, up to Wellesley and Smith and back to Stule College, wlieic the glamor of the housepnrty queen will be wealing off slowly but suiely by fust horn this morning Now that the gills me gone, we can talk about ’em. As one cellar-digger to another, the gills this lime weie pictty fair. Thoic vveien’t any which one could call—ah—exceeding sharp, but there were a couple of keen queens fionting mound Usually, the keen ones weie w ith somebody else Eveiybody seemed to enjoy evciy body else, even at the foimal dance. No one minded his stiff collai—it left his tluoat, wilted, at about two-forty one a m. Saturday rooming. And the freshmen 1 Did you ever see such a bunch of dim-wits turn into n galaxy of “Stepping Stones” over night’ No—and you’ll not sec it agum—until next house party Fiothy’s “Diusilla” was in evidence everywhere She gets that wav by reason of hci having been to so many houscpaitics— at W and J That’s where the bims learn all their tucks ; ORANGE HARRIERS WIN CLOSE MEET One Point Margin Gives Victory to Syracuse—Lions Take First Two Places CAPTAIN BARCLAY SETS NEW MARK FOR COURSE Despite the efToits of Captain Bar clay and Swede Johnson, who finished fust and second lespectively, the Penn State cross-country team went down to defeat at the hands of the strong Syincuse combination by the narrow mmgm of ( one point, the final score being 28*'to'’27 The Orange team gained the verdict and maintained its iccord of sixteen years without defeat in dual competition when it won all places from thud to ninth with the exception of sixth, which was cap tured by Reis, of tiic Lions Captain Baiclay, individual vvinnei of the lace, set a new maik for the couisc when he negotiated the four and one half miles in 20 minutes, 27 and 1-5 seconds In the final mile he passed Bell and Gottlcib, Syracuse hamers. when they deviated from the loute and stiode home a winner by more than a hundred yard-. Johnson Second Johnson uncoikcd a beautiful spunt to overhaul and pass Proudnoek of the Orange m the final quaiter mile, win ning second place by a comfortable maigin He was followed to the tape by Proudnoek, Ruppcit and Louck in the oidei named bcfoie Reis, anothci Nittany lumei, crossed the line. Gottlieb and Cell of Syracuse and Fomacre and Guyer of the Blue and White finished seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth respectively At the ciatk of the pistol the hill and-dnlcis swung into action, lound (Continucd on last page) LION BOOTERS PREPARE FOR LAFAYETTE CLASH Soccer Team Scrimmages With Yearling Eleven Several Times During Week Taking a much-needed test after then toil id buttle with the Altoona Shops team last week, the Nittany booters remained idle last Satuidny in ordci to anay then strongest combi nation against the Lafayette eleven on Satuidav. Duitng tire past week the Lion Vatsitj has encountered the yearling eleven in several piacticc games m an effort to impiovc dribbling and pass ing. Another sciimnrnge will prob ably be “cheduled early tins week, fol lowed by conditioning work Change in Lineup Several changes have been made by Coach Leoraid dunng lus last few (lavs, affecting both the forward line ami the backficld At the outside light berth Leonaid has substituted Michael Gil for Keen, while Cuptum Ravmond Gil is back at lus old place at the pivot halfback position. Handicapped by an inability to scoie when the oppoitumtv olfers it self, the team is being coached in this particular phase of the game in the daily scrimmages Inexperience seems to be the reason for this failing punch at crucial times, accoidmg to Leonard, and tins obstuclc will prob ably be ovcicome ns the seuson contin ues. STATE COLLEGE. PA., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1925 and by the time they leach Penn State, the<tucks me so old they need clean shirts. On Saturday afternoon, eveiybody we saw was well-soaked—by ram. In fact, the crowd at the game was “all shckeied up.” And Satuidny night, everybody was “nil tangled up ” And by Monday morning, everybody was "all wakened up ” Let’s have a “Col lege Yawn” for the “Queens.” But to lcmmisce, all a digger had to do to giab off a date was to show a hen that page in Fioth which was so ably conti ibutcd by Eschenbach and “Doc” Tayloi When that poem hit the light and the shadows deep ened aiound the gill’s pictuie, the only thing that was censored was the floor lamp, and that went “out” with one shove. Well, nnywny, we had a darn good time, and each and every pcison we talk to has the same line, even the co eds—but thej’ll say anything to 1 please We hope that no one was dis appointed, although we heard about two boys who drove their fraus over to Williamsport at four o’clock Sun day morning That was a tough break, ’cause we know that one of the gnl3 had a date for a five-day house paity in Boston, stalling Monday aft ernoon. All in all, it was a keenly contested week-end Cosmopolitan Club Is Varied in Membership Living up to the full import of its name, the Cosmopolitan club of Penn State has enrolled among its mem beis, students who hail from every distant corner of the earth During the past two years, the Nittany campus has been tiod by students from China, Korea, Aigcntina, Bel gium, Germany and Japan, while to day there aie enrolled in the College register men whose homes are m i Porto Rico Costa Rica, Egypt, Rus sia, South America and the Philip pines. From this gioup, various commit tees have been selected and these men in turn have arranged a pro gram of the sear’s woik, so that the organization may use its time most profitably in bettering the welfare 1 of the foreign students at Penn State. Moveovei, communication has been established with the Association, of Cosmopolitan Clubs of America, an oigamzation whose principles the Penn State group is endeavoring to maintain With the hope of joining this larger body, the local club will send a rcpicsentative to the national convention of the association which will be held m December Dr. Butterfield Gives Talk Here Addiessing a gioup of students and faculty Friday afteinoon m front of the Agucultuie Building, Dr. K. L Butterfield, president of the Michigan State College spoke on the subject of lendciship The Michigan “piexv” stiessed the pint that the agnculturnl student plays in the ruial communities “Ag riculturists play an important part in the community itself, through then participation in rural gatherings, co operations and the community church es,” said the head of the mid-western institution In commenting on the football game with his college on Satuidav, which he witnessed fiom the presi dent’s box he remarked, “the best team won and deserved all the hon ors.” President Butterfield was pleased with the welcome which was tendered to the football piayeis and said that it was his fondest hope that the team representing the Nittany Valley institution would visit Michi gan State in the near future Comparing the two colleges Di Butterfield stated that the ages of the schools weie about the same and that they were both icgaidcd as pioneers m the field of education j 1 | SALE OF NOTRE j DAME TICKETS j j Jumois may secure then tick- • !cts for the Notre Dame game at | the office at any time today dui- I mg College hours Sophomores | may exchange their coupons to- ! i moiiow and the Freshmen 1 ! f thciis on Thursday. Otheis | may secure tickets for the game l on Friduy To identify the ! classes students aie asked to I ! bring tlicir ticket books with | them when exchanging the cou- i pons for tickets 8 YEARLINGS SCORE LONE TOUCHDOWN TO ROUT ORANGE Rain-soaked Gridiron Hinders Backs on Both Sides as Fumbles Pro ail j FORTUNATE BREAK PAVES, WAY FOR NITTANY SCORE' Penn Stale Goal Endangered Several Times in Early Minutes of Game Playing on a ram-soaked gridiron with an elusive mud-covered pigskin which was difficult for both sides to handle, the yearling gridmen tumbled the invading Syracuse freshmen eleven by a 6 to 0 score last Satui dav. Seveial times during the fracas the Orange eleven threatened to scoi e, especially in the first canto when Goldman, the {Svracuse star fullback had little difhcultv in tout ing huge gaps in the Nittanv line Fumbles and blocked kicks also added to the uncertainty of the contest Long Run futile Eaily in the* game the visiting team made -its* greatest effoit to score, rushing the ball to within ten yards of the plebc goal-posts onh to lose the pigskin to the Lion eleven A fifty-yard dash from midfield by Goldman of Syracuse bi ought gloom to the Blue and White camp again in the first quarter, but the ball was brought back when a Syracuse for ward was discovcied offside During the second quaiter both teams exchanged kicks after a few ti ics to gain, the slippery field mak ing running difficult The Penn State plebes had an opportunity to score as the half neared an end, when eight and ten-yard gains by Neal brought, the ball to the Syracuse twenty-yard’ line. In an effort to uoss the line' bcfoie the whistle blew Wolff at tempted a forward but was cut down by an Orange end for a ten-yaid loss, the half ending a few seconds later.- - Syracuse Interference Good Following Hillen’s kickoff at the beginning of the second half, the Orange gnddors urleased an attack which carried them fifteen vaids neaicr the Nittany goal before Lliev were compelled to kick. Good inter ference was laigeh responsible for the gains, the backs tearing huge holes in the Penn State line Starting from their own twenlv yard line the plobcs began a du.e at this time which aided by Wille’s interception of an enemy pass, placed the ball within tlmteen yards of the final chalk-muik After seveial at-! tempts to break down the Syracuse stone-wall defense had failed. Neal dropped back to attempt a field goal The ball, howevei, soddened with rain and mud fell short of the up rights With the ball lodged in the gnme on tlie thiee-vurd line, Syracuse punted out of dangei on the next plav, Whitmore running the ball back four yards Four more downs! followed bcfoie the Lion aggregation! was put on the defense Syracuse at! (Continued on last page) PROF. NIXON DISCOVERS CAUSE OF FIRE BLIGHT Thirteen Years of Research Ends in Success for Member of Aff Extension To Pi of i: L Nixon of the Agn cultural Extension department'' of Penn State belongs the credit foi having discovered the life cvcle of the bacteim which causes twig blight o r the apple, pear and quince At a seminar Thursday afternoon Pio fessor Nixon demonstiated the man ner m which those factoru woik around in the coitcx of the plant, cat then wav into the celN and finally destroy the cell protoplasm in such a wav as to make it appear as though a file had ■scorched the ends of the twig Because of this scotched ap- pear ance, this disease is commonly called “fue blight.” It is true that for some time bot nntibts have been familiar with (ho nature of the bacteria which cause this blight, but Profcssoi Nixon is the fit at to have been able to follow the nme-diiv couisc of the bacteria as they move about in a gelatinous substance from an intercellular to an intracellular state Tins impoitnnt discovciv is the result of thirteen yenrs of ic..cnich, during which tune Piolessor Nixon has accumulated about tlucc thou sand different slides demolish!utivo of his wqck with the “fue blight” bacteria- Ptofestioi Nixon, too, hue been very active m connection with potato disoaccs (Ejittajfent FIRST REPORTING CLASSES TONIGHT COLLEGIAN announces fust I call foi freshman candidates for the editorial stall. All those in teiested in journalistic woik will icpoit to loom 11 Libcial Aits Building tonight at seven o’clock 'FALL SCHOLARSHIP DAYDATECHANGED Annual Fall Ceremonies Will Be Conducted Thursday, Not ember Fifth COMMITTEE EXPECTS TO SCHEDUIJS SPEAKER SOON Postponed from November thud, the annual fall Scholarship Day will bv observed at Penn State Thursday. November fifth, in the Auditorium at ten-thirty o’clock it was decided at u meeting of the College Council last week All classes will be excused on Thursday morning in older to permit a huge gathering to witness the pro* giam According to Pi of R A. Dutchcr, than man of the Scholarship Day committee, the reason for the change in schedule was due to the original date falling on election day As this made it piactically impossible to sccuie a piommcnt speaker for the occasion, the two-day postponement was necessitated Scholarship Day which is obscived twice during the academic vear is held foi the purpose of announcing honor society elections together with the .rwaiding of various scholarships to students attaining exceptional av ei ages The President Sparks Medal will be presented to the student with the highest scholastic average foi the past semester Juniors and sophomores who have maintained giades above the standards estab lished by the Honor Society Council will be the recipients of medals fiom i the latter oigamzation, Award Cups j A national fraternity, a local jCicck lettei oigamzation and a girl's ! campus club will each be awarded a ! cup as a reumd for attaining the greatest scholastic pi oficieney in then corresponding gioup dunng the scmcstei just ended Announce ment of the winners of these cups as (Continued on last page) CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS SCHOOL AIDS RESEARCH Durability of Coaled Steels to Be Detei mined in Testing Plant Erected Here Continuing its steady maich of piogiessiveness, the division of in-! c'ustnal research of the School ot j Chennstiv and Physics Ims undei-j taken another impoitant o\pciuncnt> tndei the supei vision of the corosionj committee of the Ymencm Society for Testing Malenals Tor the pm pose of determining the lasting qualities of various types of coated steels and luudvvarc, four stations will be established in the eastern United States to cariy on the woik The fust of these testing plants will be placed at Penn State Some time tins week a cievv of eight men fiom the Pennsylvania Railroad companv will begin the erection of the station One nue of giound located on the Hoi ticultui c farm has been tinned over to the coiosion committee and laige locks, concietc posts and steel lacks will be placed i'eie On these will be exposed gal vanized non at tides togcthoi with diffeicnt kinds of metal-coated steel and linidvvate to asecitain its cndui nnce to an W 11. Finkeldev ’l5, giaduatc of the Muring and Metalluigv School, now with the New Jersey Zinc com pany, has dial go of the erection Qiice a year inspection will be made by various ofiicinls and committees (Continued on last page) PENN STATE BAND TO MAKE SYRACUSE TRIP Attired in the full blue umfoims of the Penn Stnlo Bund, fifty menthol* of the organization will nuke the tup to Syiacuse for their fust away fiom-homc appearance of the year The unit will leave Bellcfontc shortly nftei eight o’clock on Friday evening and will arrive at Syracuse before noon on Satuiday. After the game the members ot the bund will leave with tho team at ten o’clock. On then arrival in Slutc College at about three o’clock Sunday afternoon the Nittuny music ians will puiadc to the track house with the gridiron playeis. J GRIDDERS CONQUER MICHIGAN STATE IN MUDDY BATTLE, 13 6 Michalske and McCann Scintillate for Lions—Aerial Attack Scores for Western Eleven Stars Against Aggies * V, ERNIE McCANN FIRST CLASSSCRAP SLATED TOMORROW Sophomores and Freshmen Meet m Annual Sand-bag Tilt at Four-thirly O’clock CAMPUS CLUBS TO AID IN PREVENTING INJURIES! New Beaver juactice field, the scene of many a hard-fought scrim mage, will once more be the battle ground of a more or less bloody contest when the sophomores meet I the ficshmen m their annual sand bag sciup tomouou afternoon at foui-tlmty o’clock Although this paiticulai sciap is of compaiati\el\ i leccnt ougin, it provokes a great ntciest on the pait of both spcctu tois and pat tieipatoi s because of the not of mirth which is prevalent dur ing the entire length of the contest College customs demand that ever} membei of the pai ticipatmg classes be on hand fm the snap, except those who me phvsically disabled oi those who ate mentioned on ap proved athletic lists All plnsical cducition classes will be excused on that liouis so that each man will ha\c the chance to attend In 01 del to guaid against the use | ol an} questionable practices, allt campus societies will be out in full; force As u result of this mcasuici of piecautum, am possibilities of dangcious iet.uk-> wl' be lcduced to a minimum I As m the tie-up seiap, heats of lift} men cm a side aie utn oil, the opposing classes lining up at oppo site ends of the field In this con test, the ..ttcnlion of the men is focused on a gioup of bags placed m a low acioss the middle of the field These bag-, mimbeung twenty-five, ate Idled with sand, and placed in a line with then necks alternating At a given signal, the vnuleiclassmen nish to the rentei of the held, and attempt to chag the bags to their respective goals A point is awaided foi eveiv ten }Jids that a bag is removed fiom the middle of the held The committee icqucsls that all catcieis dcda.v ditinetsfoi the evening a half hour in oiclci that the seiap mav continue to full length J. 11. HALL TO ADDRESS ENGINEERING STUDENTS Speaking on the piocess of manu facturing manganese steel, Mi J II Hall, metalluigic.il engineer foi the Tavlor-Whnrton Iron and Steel com panv of New Jeisev, will address the engineering students at the regular lecture held Fndav afternoon at four llmtv o’clock. This lectuie will lie accompanied b\ lantern '■hdes and moving pictuics showing the entire process of the manufacture All students iinm the School of Mines and the School ot Chenustr} and Pin sics aie muted to bo present It is re quested that these visitors lake seats m the gaiter \ Mi Hall is a mouther of the American Institute ol Mining and Metallurgical Kngmccis, the British hen and Steel Institute, nnd the American Socnct} ol Heat Treating lie is an author and has wntten sev er nl successful hooks, having been awarded the Whiting gold medal by the Wtoneait Foundi}man’ss asioua -1 lion. Pennsylvania Day Reigned Long Enough! PRICE FIVE CENTS Wallowing tlumigh a sea of mud and muck, dienched to the skin h\ Hip pouting inin, grune-bosmeaied but, fighting indomitable, Penn Stale’i giuluon machine icdecined foi itself the lnuiels lost on Mew Bcnvci Field in 1914 b> cmcigtng victonous fiom its mtcrscctional battle with Michigan State by a scoie of K»-G anml tin* j howling of a \cllow-slickered ciowd of Pennsylvania Dav enthusiasts The Xittnm Lions' fust half lead of thirteen points was thicntcncd when the Aggies, aftei going scoreless duung the fust half, launched an aennl attack which tesulted m the sconng of a touchdown towaid the close of the thud qumtci In the final penod, eight passes were at* tempted bv the Given and White, but the Lion defense tightened and seven of the eight weie left incomplete and one was intei ccpted An elusive pigskin dampened l>j the downpour, pievcnted adept handling b\ both teams, and man} times the Penn State attack was halted bv the jaleitncss of the vr.itois m scooping |up a loose ball The Lions v ere gmllv of elc.en ot the clumsy olfcnces, and of these hut thiec weie iccoveicd by Bezdek's wamors Lions Show First Half Drive Aftei Rummell’s fust kickoff had been luled out, Dangei field earned ! the secon I attempt se\ en \ aids to the ! twcntj-eight vard line Thiec plats netted a fust down and on the next plat. Dangerlield sknted his own lelt end behind splendid intei fci cnee ami dashed tlmb-foui yauls to the* Aggies’ twentv-seton-jatd maik In , fite plats, two of them being tcn*\aid ; gains bt Dangei field and MichaUkc, tlie latter went over foi the initial score, ending the opposing left end nftei seeing no opening in the line. Miclirlske’s attempt at a placement tvas blocked Following the kickoff, Giaj punted to Ljman who was dot*red m his i Hacks on his own thirty-one tauK. On the fiist plat, the Gicen jiullcd a hidden-ball tuck and McCo.h sloughed off a twent.\-\md gain bc fme lie wis pulled to eaith The ti« ittng team’s attack was then momcn taiilv halted and McCosli punted out of bounds on the Penn State twcnl}- fne-jaid cli ilkline Aproce-sion bv Dangei field and Michalske took the otal to the opposition’s foitv-four tauls wheic the pigskin stjmrted from Michnlskc’s aims to be giabbed up by Boeluingcr (Continueu on thud page) DR. SPEER ADDRESSES SUNDAY CHAPEL-GOERS Presb.vleri.in Foreign Missions Secret.uy Gives Sermon on Trusteeship Faithfulness in ti iislceslrp w.i. Hip theme of a seimon dcliveied hj I)i. Ilobct t Elliot Sped, sccietait of the Prcsbvtcitnn Boaid of Foicign At is sions, N’ew Yoik Cttj at the chapel semce in the Auditouum last Sun dae “You can go into any American communitr and have men divide it fm \ou into two gioups* the one com- of people who me absolutely dependable and the olhci of ones who evnnot be tuistcd,” haul Di Speer “To be a financial ti lister one mu.t keep Ins lulelitj unsullied and un seamed ” “But tlieic me otliei than financial tiustccships on which American life depends,” dcclaicd Di Spool "Each man and woman is the tiustec of a mime which in ninct}-mnc caves out of a bundled is an honotable one Each one bv Ins actions taiocs or Jew els that name. Each one of us is also the tiustce of the Amoncan nation. “All ovoi the woild people judgo Amciicn l>> Amciicans, and they arc doing it vnuousl}, Thctc me some who me not keeping the tiukt of thou countn And the leal tiustces of State College, said Di Spool, aie the men and women who go out into the woild as ginduntco ot this college. “Not onh me wc the tiustec., of the institutions ot nut countiv, but we aic also the tutstcea of its moial and apintual qualities Fidelity, un selfishness, patriotism, and so oii have no existence in themselves The*, ex ist onlj as qualities in poisons. “AH the lesouieca of the man ot woman you me going to be twenlv vcais 1101,1 now aic in join hands This you do not slime with anvone Will von piove faithful'.’” asked Di. Spceu
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