Sophomorc * Proclamation— We Need Funds! VOL XXI, No. 33 NITTANY MATMEN DOWN ALFRED IN SEASON’S OPENER Rumbaugh, Chenoweth, Long and Liggett Get Falls—Lions Win by 26-5 Count A. A. DECLARES PREVOST INELIGIBLE TO WRESTLE Crantier Provides Best Match for New Yorkers—Visitors Score on Default Shoving form that pro-season dope ' ould not have predicted, the l’enn State grapplers opened the 182 C vrcstling activities by defeating the University of Alfred giapplers lib to G on the Armory mats Satin day at ternoon. Less than twenty-fours hours be fore the meet, Coach Leonard receiv ed the upsctUng news that Jules Pre vost, Varsity heavv-weight v/rcstlci and last year’s letter-man, had been declared ineligible by the Athletic Association He was disqual.licd on: Hie grounds that lie had played three years of inter-collogiato football Default Unlimited Mitch Since Garrison, the only other heavy-weight on the squad has been loiccd to gne up wrestling on account ci an infected leg, Penn State vvai left without a repiescntative in the unlimited class Coach Leonard un forced to default the heavy-weight natch winch accounted for the lire points gamed by the visitors. To open the meet Kaiser, Nittany 115 poundci, took Captain Gaiuse or Alfred to the inat3 but lulled to get him turned over and was foiced to be satisfied with a decision Kaiser had a tune adv antage of G minutes “2 sec onds. Liggett, in the 125 pound class, piovcd to be mote successful and al ter 3 minutes 51 seconds of wrestling succeeded in ptnn.ng both of Mofiltt’a shoulders to the mat foi a iall. Lig gett threw Ins man with a half Ncl —son •and ibOdy ‘loriyholrf. "Tins- made j the score 8 to 0 in favor oi Pern State. In the thuty-fnc pojnd class, Chcnoueth proved Ins supeuonty by Ihrowing Pi uden, of Alfied, in t> imn (Contmued on lust page) CLASS IN ENGLISH-303 TO STAGE FOUR PLAYS Onc-act Comedies Will Display Talent of Students After Semester’s Training OlTuing u piogiam teeming with comedy, my stay and thrills, the cluss m play-p:oduction, English >U.S, will present foui one-act plays in the Aud itorium on baturdny evening ’lint class has been giving plays throi gh rut tho semestn and has selected liom those alicady presented lour ol the best foi public shoving The plays to bo presented are ‘ Moonshine, ’’ by Arthur Hopkins, a comedy of the Kentucky moonslunci, “The Man Who Died at ’lwelve O’clock,” by Paul Green, a comedy dealing with the superstitious, old rcgio, Jus grarddiughtci and her colored innee; “The Drums ot Onde,” by Austin Strong, a tlmlling melo otamo, the plot ot which is laid m India, and the last, a comedy acted entirely by gills, entitled “The Ke licarsal ” The secr.etv, costumes and lighting clfccts, as well as the coaching and directing are the work of the students themselves. The plays are jndcr the gcncial direction of l’rot. A C Uloc tmgh, whose comment states that all of the production*? have a stiong pop ular appeal and should prove exceed ingly entei taming Ticketu for the performance are on bale ot the store of James Bloom, and arc puced at tiity and seventy-live cents. GIRLS’ GLEE CLUI! PLANS LATE WINTER CONCERTS The Penn State Unis’ Glee Club has made tentative plans foi the sec ond semester ot the college yeai, ac cording to Miss M A Ucindel '2b, president ot tho organization. limy m lobxuary tho club will icn dei a sacred numbei at the bunday morning chapel service. A week latei the quartet will sing scrota! special numbers and assist the chon rt the Lutheran chuich. This year the glib’ club will appear jointly’ with the gleemen in the seriei of annual Sunday afternoon concert* Although plans lor a two or three days' conceit torn including Altoona and a lew othci places arc being con- ' « the Tilim Metal companv|ji complete l-eport ol w inch STATE COLLEGE, PA.. TUESDAY, JANUARY 26. 1926 committee reached a decision. It de cided that at all* costs the freshmen must have a pioclamatlon. A com piomfse was linally reached and the postei drawn - up. The men who wrestled with the problem; F. AI. Gaffer, chairman, J. W. Coleman, L. isi. Stitt, H. E. tialmcr and 11 K Elankenbillcr, plan to send the result of their efforts to be photographed The poster will then bo lithographed by the firm submitting the bebt bid. To embody both sides of the ques tion the five men on whom the bur den rested agreed to liberate the fieshmcn (on the postet alone of course) but then to bnnff them back to ffnra reality. The joys and sor rows of the yearlings aie humorously portrayed in pictures In the center of the proclamation is an unusually iorceful poem The stupendous con flict that raffed among the members of the committee has its faithful ro -11-ex in the portrait of a freshman who '■ is torn with grief at the fate of his chasmatos. AH m all its is a very picturesque pioclamatlon that wilii greet the freshmen several weeks af ter the second semester opens PROGRAMS CHOSEN FOR SENIOR BALL Committee Names Wilkes-Barre Company To Decorate for Upper Class Function DATE SET FOR DRAWING OF FRATERNITY BOOTHS With the selection of the Sdvci stern Decorating company to lurmsh the decoration for the Senior Hall in the Atntory, February twelfth, all ar langements for the upper class Junc tion oi c now complete. The design, submitted by Jacob S;lvcrstem of Wilkcs-Danc was con sidered the most original and most appiopriatc for the occasion. It con sists of a lattice ceiling composed of fireproof buntmgnjrthc center ot tho Arrnoiy with the class colors, blue and gold, predominating The squares between the strips ot bunting will be Idled until Southern Simlax which will be arranged to hang below the ceiling The sides of the ceiling will be covared with a draped border tiom' (Continued on last page) I STUDENTS WHO FINISH R. O. T. C. TO RETURN UNIFORMS NEXT WEEK All students who have completed the tour semester comses in K. O T C. should retain their umlorms to the storeroom of the militaiy depailmcnt m DlacAlhstor Hall any day of ex amination week, between the hours, of nine to twelve a. m. and two to five p .m. itefunds will not be muds by the College treasurer betoic Feb ruary eighth. Those students who have newly* scheduled K 0. T C foi the second semester will receive their umlorms at the sume time fiom the stoicroom A receipt fiom the Collcgo treasurer ehownng that the icquircd twenty five dollar deposit has been paid will be necessary to procure the clothing. Engineering Heat Specialists Declare Value of Fuel Savers Overestimated So-called "iuct savers” lor attach ment to furnace pipes or doors aie practically valueless when it comes to cutting bills ten to fifty pet cent, a> cluimed b\ manufacturers, heating specialists at the engineering experi ment station have diseoveicd, alter many months ot painstaking research experiments at the college heat test ing laboratories When anthracite costs began ris ing several years ago, augumented by the frequency ot strikes m the hard coal fields, several varieties ot iuol saving devices appealed on the mai led, extensively adveitiscd. Saving Claimed It was claimed that big savings could be made on coal bills thiough llieii use, and users gave testimonials m then bciull It was claimed toi liic “fuel savcis” that through ad mitting air ovci the lire, gases vveie consumed that usually passed up the chimney as waste. Four of the devices weie tested by Frof. F. G Heehler, ot the engineer mg experiment station, lie used a Inboratoij heater and the one m his home throughout all of last winter, totting the various deuces. He also tested the licateis without the ”lucl suv eis.” “Only one ot the loui showed a l'artlclc ot fuel sunner," Prolcssor Ifoehler said in icviowuifi* his lirtclings, ARCHITECTS SET EARLY DATE FOR ANNUAL BALL The Annual Architect's Club Hall v, ill be held FobrJary nineteenth at the Omega Bpsiloi) fraternity house, hi years past thesf frolics have taken the form pf tnasl«*d airairs, but this year, it has been announced, the ball vail be of a strictly foimal character, cuitc in contrast to the colorful and picturesque Russian Hall of 1924 and the equally unique' Egyptian leativnl of last year. The committee has rot decided whether or not this jcar’s at fair will be an open or closed dance, but they promise more complete de tails within a few dajs. Mnchlan’s orchestra will furnish the music FRESHMEN GAGERS NOSE OUT BISONS Trail Bueknellians During First Half but Recover To Win by Score of 31-24 TEAMS ALTERNATE LEAD THROUGH CLOSING PERIOD After trailing fopalmost three per iods, the dittany .freshman basket ball team staged & strong comeback in the second half and defeated the Eucknell plcbcs Ul’’.o 124 in an excit ing but loosely played game Saturday evening in the Armor) The game started out with neither team showing an effective offense The ball passed team to the other, bhootmg wr> liequent bu* - wild, while personal louls ucic plen tiful Bucknell scorned to be the bet ter organised team and as a result the lighting was mostly in Venn Mate territory, liowever, the guarding of the yearlings was close and prevented mucii scoring. { Bucknell Scores Firt Bucknell jumped . Apul 21—Crescent A. C— Hole May I—St Stevens—Here M.iv B—Syracuse—lleic WELL-BALANCED SCHEDULE OF ACADEMIC AND SOCIAL EVENTS OUTLINED Provisions for a two-day fraternity house party in June, open to all classes, and a Commencement Ball, for seniors and juniors exclusively, were made in the report of the Senate Com mittee on Commencement Program for 1926 which was accepted by the College Senate at the last meeting of this body. Friday will piobably be formal night, with a Penn State Player show also scheduled, while one of the features of Satui day’s program is the Thespian pertormance The new Commencement program came about following tho Program Committee’s attempt to provide social entertainment for every undergraduate and at the same time maintain the academic atmosphere of the 1925 graduation exercises The report also carries a recommendation to the effect that the restriction which last year prevented freshmen and sophomores from having guests at the fraternity parties bo removed m order that tho social af fairs of the two days be made a complete success CINDERMEN SHOW ABILITY IN TRIALS Wintry Blasts and Icy Track Hinder Nittany Runners in Handicap Meet COX STEPS 4.42 MILE FROM SCRATCH TO WIN Braving ity northern blast.'', iun-; ning on a truck that was slipper) to i the point of being treacherous, Loach Lartmell’fl track proteges competed m the initial aU-coUcgu handicap meet of tbo indoor season on the Ai mory boards Batin day afternoon. Al though no exceptional •spued mark - , were established -dao to the condition of the oval ,lho events afforded Natuj on opportunity to see how* his me" j shape up under compctit.on loi the! coming indoor imitation mectu. j Bill Cox, Irishman lununmy, pro.- rd too fleet to: the entries m the or.o mile race Clone on his heels were Barcluy, houraerc, and Johnnon vhn brushed i:i that order. These tout runners, starting at scratch, were ev en with the handicap men ot the halt. way maik and vvcic clocled ot 214 Cox bet the paco throughout and I bi cozed across the final line m 1 12 H. j Offenhausei with o twenty-five yard handicap, Brown and bnyrier thirty. I Reis and llaskins thirty-live, Wild-* fort)-ftve and Fisher with a Mty-hve (Continued on bCtond page) PENN STATE DEBATERS FACE TRIANGULAR MEET Coming Bucknell and Dickinson Clash Precedes Series of Contests for Locals Having defeated Washington and Jefferson at Washington and tied Fitt here December iittb, the Bonn Sliita debating team, coached by 1). D. Henry ’2O, is pi sparing foi the triangular meet with Dickinson and Huckncll. The Blue and White affir mative team will be host to BuckncllS , negative group while the Nittany squad contends with the Dickinson affirmative team at Carlisle. Several new men have shown abil it) to take the place vacated by one of the veterans oi last y cat's squad Coach Heniy was pleased w.th the pood showing made m the hist en gagement, and expects the new men to profit greatly by that th. meets temaimng on tho schedule rrc as follows March twelith, Rut gers umversitv, in New Biunswich, Now’ Jersey, Match thirteenth, La ia)ettc college in Easton, Maieh eighteenth, Allegheny college n Moadvtllc, March nineteenth, Kansas Stale college at home; March thirti eth, Wyoming Stale college at home. An Easter tup to Syracuse is pend ing. YMien the Kansas squad was met m Manhattan, Kansas, in 1025, the Penn State team was defeated Y\ yomng State was visited by the Nittany lor c'ixic artists in 1921 In the contests •v.th these mstiutions, the twontj four hour system will be omployed. In this type ot debate, the question is not announced until twenty-tour horns befoie the debate. Although there arc now sixteen men on tho squad, none of the places on the team are secured permanently, accoidmg to coach Henry As there were not sufficient lunds available to Numcials were nuaided to the in! Io« mg members of the clus i ot }V. J. Cox, O. U Heinrich, A w lioss, J. H. Wilde, U K. Olicnhjuvji . , , ,I' «>• Lockwood, A. W. I J ettit and li suppoit u freshman team, hrst >e.ir|G. Monts-omeis. The team Lost! 194 Pounds of Jules PRICE FIVE CENTS 3 The Friday night program calls lor |d: i.ees in the Armory and at frater nity houses and the l’lajers show, 'while Saturday’s festivities include ’ the Thespian show and dances in tho IA nr or> and Uatern’ty houses han |dc> us reserved lor the Uaccalaureato •service, band concert. Vesper service i and the Choral Club conceit. Monday jis Aluinm Day and the crowning '(.lent will be the Commencement Dali J in the Armory, open to faculty, alum- Jn, seniors, jumois and guests. f*o j underclassmen will be permitted to j attend this affair. Tucsd ty is Com i mcncement Day. ! In commenting on the nev Com ii.icncement program, Dean \Vjmoc hive a wntnig on dramatics An earnest endeavor Is being made to have !•’ 0 Nolle, formerly ot the trench department and J. Gordon An end, who was previously engaged in the English department, lcprescnt cd. The two are now landing m Paris The staff desires to make this pub lication us representative as possible. Ilowcvci, this Will not be possible un less more manuscripts from the stud ents ate forthcoming. All material should be turned m at or.ee to It. h Taj lor '2G at the Froth oilito as it j*- the purpose ot the editors to get tlm magazine on press ps, soon us possible. FOURACRE TO- CAPTAIN 1926 HILL AND DALERS K R. l'oui.iac ’27, who has c.Olll - Ins third \car with Penn State cioss-countiy teams, has been elect ed to captain the lnll-and-dalcrs dui mg the 192 G season. Letters weie awarded to the Al lowing. K. B Barclay ’2G, K K loui atio ’27; P. Reis ’27; U K .Johnston -<, J H. Mew-art ’27, and G A Gu\- rr '27. These lunncis eompiiscd the Blue and White aggiegation thut placed tifth in the inteuollegiutcs tin-, 3 cat.