VOL. XXI. No. 28 -* # THE KID HIMSELF” MEETS UNRIVALLED SUCCESS ON TOUR TJiospians Produce Show Before Packed Houses in Six of Eight Performances. MANAGER PREPARES FOR SECOND TRIP AT EASTER Play Will Make First Local Ap pearance Night After Senior Bali ■ Presenting "The Kid Himself," n; musical comedy Hint. piovod even more populai with Pennsylvania audiences than last gear's p,oductlon, the Penn State Thespians completed thou* first trip of the year and arc now working to peifect the show for its initial staging in Stats College ur.d foi the spring toui during tl>e Easter vacation Judging trom com ments mado upon the holiday per formances, the club will continue to piny to crowded houses foi the re mainder of the season ■ Having coached the playeis to the point whole ho was satisfied with their production" as the best college show that he has ducctcd, Mumice Darcy, of the Ned Wayburn studio., Ims left the gioup to continue its work undoi the guidance of G E Biumficld ’2O. Plan 3 are now bung made for tho first pcifoimancc hers m the Aud.torium on Saturday Fcb luaiy thirteenth, the evening aftei the Scmr Ball The ticket salo will begin soon at the stole of Jainc-* Bloom on Allen street. Prices will he from seventy'-five coats to two dollars. Spring Tour With engagements foi the spimg trip now booked in six cities, the Thespian organization will Have! through eastern Pcnnsyhan'.v uiid will also go into Ohio during the Easter recess. Without those dates which aro yet indefinite, "The K.d Himself" will bo staged in Altoona, Johnstown, Hue, Butler, Mcadvillo end Cleveland. « In addition to this extended torn. (Continued on fourth page) ANNUAL MILITARY BALL SCHEDULED IN FEBRUARY Widenor’s Orchestra To Furnish Music for Affair—Several Innovations Planned After completing plans for the an nual Milhtary Ball to be held Fcbru aij twenty-sixth, Student Colonel A C. Miller ’2O has uimouncd that the afTan this year vvjfi be more elabor ate than cvci before. Appealing in full militaiy uniform, “Russ" Widcnot undhis band of mus icians will furnish the music for the occasion. The scheme of decorating Ims not yet been decided upon but the committee have several novel j lans under consideration. The pio grams and favors for the mid-winter function have been selected and the older placed in* the hands of the pimteu Something unusual will bj given us a souvenu of the dance and committee promises that the fu voi* will be unlike anything which bus c\ei been given at a Penn State dance An attempt will be made this year to reform the methods of holding a dance which have befoic maihcd all functions held m the Aimoiy To elmunmtc crowding on the dance floor the committee has ai ranged to beep the crowd away fiom the mam doorway. There will be no nubs eliminate exchanging ot tickets nnd pass out checks will be given to tho3D who wish to leave the dance at anv time Th.s will be done with the idea of insuring the plcusuro of those who attend the dance Fraternity booths will be sc ittered •Jong the sides of the Armoiy ami cheeking privileges foi the alfair vv.ll he sold Students mtciestod in chocking privileges are tequested to see A C. Millet at the Della Pi house. The concessions wll be sold with permission to charge a fee for checking wraps and ai tides. . All the It 0 T C units m the country arc holding then military hall on this evening, and it is tho de sire of tho committee that the danco he strictly formal R. B. WRIGHT WILL SPEAK It. B Wnght, v iLc-picsidcnt of the American Society of Mcehanic.il Engineers and managing editoi of the Railway Age, will deliver the engin eering lecture next Fndav afternoon in Old Chapel There will bo no lectuic this after noon R. S Benkerd, the sponhei, is unable to appeal Mi Wright’s talk will be the last befoic the ex aminations Prim iTatr (gl Knotty Ropes Tangle up Penn State \ ■ i Professor With Novel Championship' , Upon the waste stretches of ng lull the bosoms of the faculty elite swell with justified pride. And why knot? One of "their number one Trof. R W. White, familiarly known Ins "Fanner," has just thrown a coup jlj of half latches nnd n double car jnek around a national chamuionship! | Professor White accomplished this ifeat by tying no less than two hun |died separate and distinct varieties jef krots, hitches, braids and splices land mounting them upon large ox [hibit.o’.i boards in such a way a 3 to liliovv how they were assembled Each I is numbered and named and the w hole 'collection tacked to.twin panels now I lunging m the Agricultural Expci i imcnt Stato*\ Soma of the more intricate knots amt splices no woven m rope with eo'orcd strands to enable laymen to follow the vanous bights and loops Included among these are tuc Japa nese knots, tho masthead, the Turk’s head, and log and eye splices Dis playing skill m artistry as well as draft in fashioning hempen puzzles, tlij rope artist wove a symmetrical vase from common barn straw and put the work of Indians to shame YEARLING TOSSERS RESUME PRACTICE Coach Experiments With Var ious Combinations—Mater ial For Team Is Excellent PLEBES TO MEET BISON FRESHMEN IN FIRST TILT Experimenting with a diffei ent combination each night, Coach Kill mgur is giving every man on the freshman basketball squad an oppor tunity to show Ins ability before the opening game with tho Bucl.neU plebos Maich twenty-thud Practice was lesumed immediately efter the vacation with about twenty five mcn.rcportmg, Hamas, who had been playing icgularly on the tem po} ary first team, sprained an ankle fit rng tha boll ’sv-s ahiThiis hern un able to begin work Good Material With a wealth of material from which to choose, the coach in finding difficulty in selecting a fir3t team. All the cond dates aic showing good form and competition is strong at i.jch posit on* Vanous combinations jne being woikod with, but as yet r.o team has been outstanding. At the center berth Biownstcln end Reilly have been alternating, neither seeming able to gam tha up per hand Competition at tire for ward positions is proving to be fast with manv accuiatc shots fighting im tha call, llamas, Monohan, Jac obson, Snyloi ami Rmchold aie out* sUiuLng among the foiwards I)clp at Guard Delp who prior to the vacation was playing at forwaid has been ic turned to guard wheie he will prob ably lcniam Other guards who arc showing* good form aic Horn and Inum. In addition to these many food players aie still in the running Most of the playcis now on the rquad conic Horn schools where they hin c mude enviable records Schools that are lcprcscntcd aie West Phila delphia, Easton, Germantown, East Rutherford, La Salle and Uppei I'aiby Police Force Hounds Newfangled Burglar As Delta U’s Worry Member* of tho Delta Upsilon fia tcimly are seriously consideimg lur ing a house detective to clear up a mystenous lobbery During the Christmas vacation tho chapter house was tho victim of a thoft that has. tho local polite detachment com pletely baffled No dues have been uncovered, it is not even known how many pnitici pated m the tlistt. At picscnt a fooling of gloom pervades the houso on Locust Lane The faith of tho local chuptoi m the honesty of man mul incidentally in the piotection ot locks has been rudely biuiscd il not shattered Scveial oi the biothers ictuvnod to college Inst Saturday and noted nothing anuss—at fust. Then they decided to play the victrola, but found no iceoids A fiantic search jevealed that all except two disci were gone, Foi some icason the thieves left “Yes Sn, That’s My Pabv” and "Stumbling All Around " Piobably they ivcie tiled of heating them. Furthct investigation showed that the houscbieakcrs luul us discrimin ating a taste in clothing ns m music. Two valuable fur conts, thiec to,i coats, one ovouoat, thiec suits mid othci nppnicl was the pnncipal loot. STATE COLLEGE. PA.; FRIDAY, JANUARY 8. 1926 with an example of ornamental knot work. The twin boaids were awarded first prize at the Eastern States Exposi tion held in Springfield in September 1923 nnd have enrried off numoious ether blue ribbons Prof. White ha 3 lust completed a third board, contain ing kuota and tics of paiticular in terest to tho famcr. ’ Tacked to the venccied surface of the latest board arc knots such ns tho Spanish bowline, the harness hitch, the farmer's loop, the binder knot, tho timber hitch and others hav ing a purely agricultural application A photogiaph of this collection will U published m the February issue of the Penn State Farmer. INTER-CLASS MAT SCRAP DATE SET Movement Started To Change Intercollegiate Rilling on Third Place Bouts MEET WITH UNIVERSITY OF OHIO IS SCHEDULED Opening the wrestling season ot Penn State the annual intei-class sciap will he held on the Armory mats Saturday, January sixteenth \ On tho following Saturday the Var sity grapplers will meet the ropre-j sentatives of Alfred university m their first match Trials Tor the four class teams will be held the middle of next weak It is important that all men who intend to tiy for tho teams get some scrim mage practice before that time Resume Practice Tho Varsity’ wrestlers lesumed practice immediately after vacation and arc now nard at work undci the lutclaga of Coach Leonard. No ef fort has been made as yat to line up a team which will i opresent the Col lege m tha first match. Most ot tho time iq being spent in practicing tho fundamentals of'wn catling < ' r 'rctn of the'diolds used 'nstf year have been eliminated nnd some new ones have been added. The open date left on tha schedule for March thirteenth has been filled by Ohio unvicraity. The match will be at home nnd will probably be one of the hardest meets of the season Changes Urged At a r occnt meeting of the Inter collegiate Wrestling Association u movement was started to eliminate or change the manner of determining the third place title holder at tho vvicsthng intcicollcgiatcs Under tho present system the winner of I t!i id may have to wrestle five times dunng the same day which is too haid on him A questionnaire is being sent to the colleges m the Association o i this subject and each coach has been ask ed to give his opinion. Another movc (Continucd on last page) LIBERAL ARTS COURSE SPEAKERS SCHEDULED Dean Holbrook To Give First Talk on Program—Five Speeches Planned The Libeul Arts school has again sreured speakers from the vanous departments of the college for the sixteenth senes of vvintoi lectuies to be given m Old Chapel beginning Fehruaiy twenty-third Dean Holbrook will speak on "Coal rnd Our Modem Civilization” at the fast one on Tuesday evening, Fobiu ery twenty-thud On Maich second Dr W. S. Dye of the English dopntt n.cnt will take foi his subject "The Many-sided Kipling" The third lec ture which will be on MJich sixteenth will be “Ameiican Shrines m Eng land” by Miss Simmons of the Gor man department. Dr. W F. Dunaway of the depart* ment of History will speak on “The Peopling of Pennsylvania” m lus lec tuie on Apul twentieth. The last lecture will be given by Dr. Dotteier of the dopaitment of Philosophy, on May font til on the subject “The" Ten dencies in American Philsophy.” Who’s Dancing Friday Ile-ShA Dance—Armoi y Cuhcco Beta Chi Soiority—Country Club Saturday Delta Pi Chi Upsilon Sychoi club—Pin Delta Theta I Scholarship Owners * ; ’ Must Gel DfcfennteAtsft All holders of scholarships must report at the President’s office for deferment slips so far as tha incidental fee is con cerned before they can be reg- . istered for the second semester and pay their other fees. ii—a— Q BORDERDESiGNOF LA VIS COMPLETED Final Dumpiy for ,1927 Annual Made by Editor —Several Sections Finibhed INDIVIDUAL PHOTOGRAPHS ARRANGER FOR PRINTERS With the border and co.ci designs completed nr,d the junior sect.on well under way thg jnembers of the 1927 La Vic staff qtc now turning their attention to finishing the woik in the \ arious departments of tho annual During the Chriatftias holidays a final dummy for tho junior bonk was completed by Editor'll. D Dundore and with this arrangement to woik on the nmteiiil for the various do tnitmcnts is being turned mto the hands of the punters. The senior section is also finished. Bofdpr Selected | The individual page boidci design is the latest )voik of the art depart ment and owes much of its beauty to the simplicity of design The out side bordei is rcctangulai. a key stone bcirg placed in Dm center of the up pci portion and a sketch of the Old Main gates with 1327 m the cental being placed at the bottom Tbc v ord La Vie is placed in the uppei forneis With the exception of selecting the coloi, the leather cover is complete A veiy heavy grain leather is being used which yri|l givo a rugged ap pearance Tiinngies will be placed at tho comers of the border with the class numerals and th>* woid La Vie embossed within Art Workj£v”~c.ss •Ovui thirty* slcetuT-a - nave been submitted by (he art staff of the book, headed by* R. M. Gibbs, and arc (Continued o.i last page) COMBINED GRID ELEVENS SCHEDULE ANNUAL DANCE Penn .State’s varsity and fresh r.en football i,quads wall hold their annual social eelebrat'on at Varsity liall in a foimal dance January twe i tj -second from nine o'clock to one 1 J. E Smart '27, K. R. Weston ’27, i B G. Giay ’26 and W. W. Allen '2C, Iho committee in charge of tho affa.t, have promised that the dance will be a. festive occasion The decorations a c m the past years will be blue and white. Russ Widcnoi’s orchcstia will furnish the music COLLEGE SENATE APPROVES TENTATIVE 1926-7 CALENDAR Foi the past few weeks the Committee on the College Calendar has been vvoikmg on the 1926-27 roster and the tentative ycaily ptogtam ns foimulaled by them follows* 1926 Freshman Week * .Sept 9-11, Thurs-Tucs, Examinations foi Admission, Advanced Standing and Removal of Condi tions Sept 9-11, Thms.-Snt Rcgistiation Days Sept 13, 14, Mon., Tucs Fust Somoxtci begins 10,JO A M Sept 15, Wed. Alumni Home-Coming Day (Holiday) Oct. 23, Sat. Scholarship Day Nov, 4, Thuis Thanksgiving Recess begins, 12.10 P. M Thark«giving Rcccs, ends 1.30 P. M Christmas Recess begins 5:20 P. M. Chtishuus Recess ends 8 00 A. M Wintci Courses in Agucultme begin Registration ot Students in Residence Rcgistiation of New Students Fust Semester ends Second Scmcstci begins S 00 A M. Mid-Yent Graduation 7.30 P. M. Wmtei Couises in Agncultuic end Eastci Recess begins 5*20 P. M Eastei Recess ends b 00 A. M. Pcliolniilup Das Fathois’ Dnj* Mcmoual Das (Holiday) k Second Seincstei end? Election of Tnibtees Alumni I)a>, Annual Meeting: of Board of Trustees Buccal ampule Das Commencement Da\ Entrance Esqpunationß at the College Young Funnels' Week Fnrmcib’ Field Das Summer Session negotiation Summer'Session begins Summer Session Commencement Summer Session ends Freshman \Veek E\nminatii)iis foi Admission, Advanced Standing and Removal of Condi tions Sept B*lo, Thurs.-Snt. Registinlion Days ' Sept. 12,13, Mon., Tues. Fast Semestei begins 10.30 A. M. (Collegian. •VARSITY PASSERS WIfUffiPRACTICE AFTER LONG REST Mike Hamas Absent From Squad Because of Illness—Greene Also on Sick List WELKER AND ROEPKE CONTEND FOR BERTH Hermann Faced With Problem of Reconditioning of Men for Coming Battles Faced with the pioblem of recon ditioning his ,men nfter an idleness of over two weeks, Coach Dutch Her mann put the Blue and White basket ball squad through active practice sessions daring the past week with the paramount purpose of toughen ing his men for the approaching en- I gagements. Little attention was paid to form or plays, although the Penn State mentor will stress the imo points of the game in the linal prac tice pciiods preceding the clash with Bethany Tuesday night. Consumable anxiety was'caused when Mike Hamas, probably one of the flashiest couitmcn on the Nittany cquad failed to repoit back to school on scheduled time. Hamas suffered a slight illness during the last few nays of Ins vacation and foi uwhile it was thought that the Blue and White passer would not be able to don 5 uniform for some time How ever the former Passaic star returned (Continued on last page) Orchestras Studied By Prom Committee Tak’ng advantage of the opportun ities offered during the holidays, members of tin* Junior Prom Com mittee personally inspected the per formances of several of the orches has under consideration and will re port on them at a meeting to be held cither tonight or Monday evening. A number ot bids havo* been re ceived from nationally famous muoi cal organizations and several i,rcw ones asked to play at the early spring dance. Among these was the “Cali fornia Revelers,” an organization which met with great favor at Penn and Princeton. All bids will be con sidered at the meeting, it being de sired to secure the best music possible for what is recognized as Penn State’s greatest social function ot the year. j Decoration offers will also bo I brought up and a discussion will bo held as to whom the ( contract shall be released Although u subsidiary item to the music, the methods of beautifying the Armory will not be overlooked and the Committee ul icady promise-, something unusual foi the dancers. Nov. 24, Wed. No%. 29, Mon. Dee. 17, Fn 1927 Jan 1, Tues Jan G, Thurs. Jan 12-15, Wed -Sat Feb. 4, Fit Feb. 5, Sat Feb 7, Mon. Feb 8, Tues Maich 4, Fn Apul 13, Wed. Apul 21, Thins. April 28, Thuis Muy 7, Sat Mav SO, Mon, June 10, Fri. June 11, Sat. June 12, Sun. June IS, Mon. June 15, IG, Wed., Thuis. June 15-17, Wed.-Fn. Juno IG, Thurs. June 25, Sut, 'Juno 27, Mon. Aug 1, Thun. Aug G, Sat. Sept. 8-13, Thurs’-Tucs Sept. 11, Wed THIBAUDAPPE, AUDITORIUM 7 French Master Violinist Here on Itinerary of 1 to American Con' French Violinist JACQUES THICAUD DRAMATISTS PLAN NEW PRODUCTION “The Seventh Guest” Is Drama Filled With Mystery And Unexpected E\cnts CAST TO BE SELECTED IN TRYOUTS NEXT WEEK Replacing then former produc tions of light farcical nature with, plays of a heavier \cm, the Penn State! Players aie holding try-outs for “Th: 1 Seventh Guest" by Inms O3born and, ,A. J. Aubrev. Tha tlvriil producing atmosphere oi ‘’this ' pieA'nchho i should score a {.ureas-, Mimlar to thut of "The Seven Baldpate" when it vns produced in 1921 and again last June. The effect of the latte: play v as to prove conclujivelv that a nclodrama 1 as a great npeal to Penn State aud iences “The Seventh Guest" is a model n, mystery-melodrama i coking with murders and ghostly appari tions, supplemented by mysterious pounds and unexpected happening l ., which always bring the to the edge of their reals, tense vuth cxpcctat on Having as jet assigned none ot (Continued on fouitli page) Dr. Foster Gives Scranton Speech Language tests iecc,.tl. given to a group of iir e t-yem students of Pe n n State would tend to sho v that the averrge .student ol lod-\ i. belt’ei in Esperanto, than in Engl.sh, in wh eh he ha, been trained all Ins 1 fc. Such was the deLla'ation of Professor 1 L l o'tei, head of th • Romance Language d< paitn.cnt of Lhe u liege m addicsing tne annual meet mg of the Pennsjlvaiu.i State Teach ers Association at Scranton bust week Tin derailment g**ve one hundred eighteen iieslnncn the lowa Place ment Examination, published bv the University of lowa and constructed in part bv Prof G D Stoddart, a Penn State giadult 1 : Onh 51 passed the lost as a whole, vhilc (> 1 failed. A total ot 71 failed the English but o’ilj Gl fai'cd tl”* Esperanto, wliuh i*. used in such tests because it re quites some skill m invention .ind ob aenaton, aceo.dmg to the speaker Removal ol Latin fiom the cutricu la of the high schools is one of the chief causes of Innguage fatluies to daj, accoidmg to Professor lo.lei Other mfeiencos to be drawn fiom the iccent tests, he pointed out. weio the neglect of technical Enghsh in piepaiatoij schools of ignorance of the average student of the gi animat uol vocabulaij nccessaiv for the an alytical study ot a language, ot the pitiful stress on the building up of a vocabularj on the pait of the student, and that the habits ot caielessness and inexactness mo growing among the younger generation 1929 Repoitcis Will Have Meeting Tonight AH freshman candidates tor the cditonnl staff ol the COL LEGIAN nic lequoslod to lc pojt to the othce tonight at stx foity-livo. -□ Reserving i for a visit t lone, Tlubaa limst, has n itinerarv fo trip lie v cight-tlmty mm under t C A. and t nrent T cki (the “Y" llu ( After pin concerts in the cclebrat i.o America of Europe twelve sold-i It is cxpcci this couutrv rnce when I ant city No West Th.baud ISBO He lather, ard iatone, vvl gamed a encial suppi Rouge, v he ouaiil Co’o- This fain offered the Lai positio an unexpoc soloist bo 'come that 1 fifty -four ti mts m a c Ills fame Iviolrmt v | cities, and tour in 190 . recognition. ! throughout ' bee stcudiij is accorded I D*Oht of c< | His recu was dunnj and his pi prcssiop tl booked tlic sponse to v as dclnvc va. Tlnb !ol a I’ rsai i quitted bin Among t (Cont Dr. Ti Sp Dr. V V tor, authoi ckes'el Pci times in tl speaker Si rcctoi of Tiinitj m After pi Chm her 1- Yoik, lie A ts dcgn He then c logic il Sei fellow mg earned the Thoologj . svlvanta c< mpletod he acquire and at th m Tonnes- Di Ton an cxccpti lie ha, oc leading c: life weio west and
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