“Down To The < Sea in Mils'* VOL XXI, No. 40 NITTANY PASSERS TO FACE STRONG GETTYSBURG FIVE Blue and Gold Quintet Includes Four Veterans—Team Has Been bcfcatcd Twice LUNGREN AND SAYLOR TO START FOR LIONS Light Practice Sessions Mark Let Down After Strenuous Southern Contests Facing a strong experienced team that has met with defeat but twice this season, the Lion quintet will en gage Gcttjsburg on the Armory floor tomorrow night as the evening's head liner. i Practice this week for the Nittany passers lm3 been unusually light The heavy strain on the men caused by the encounters with Navy and Georgetown last week necessitated a much-needed rest. Coach Hermann, however, sent the team through a l.ght scrimmage and devoted Wed nesday night to a drill on fundament tola. Change of Line-ap Another change m the line-up has resulted from the practice sessions t) is week and Lungren will cavort at a guard position Saylor and Cap tain Hood will again fill the forward berths. Saylor ljas been displaying a good brand of basketball and prov ed to be one of the mainstays of the ouint against Georgetown and Navy MacDonald will remain at the tip* rfT position. He will be kept busy v niching Captain Gerhardt, brother cf Pipe Gerhardt, last year’s Lion leader. Von Ncida and Lungren will hold down the defensive posts. Al though Lungren was late m reporting this season, he has developed rapidly into the fastest man on the team and to quote Coach Hermann, "is the best scoring guard/’ Roepke '"lias recovered from his siege with a crippled foot and al though he is somewhat out of form due to the loss of a week of practice, the blond boy will be held m reserve r.arron, Greene and Lefty Page ma\ also be called into action Veteran Team The team Coach Doyle Leather* will send in against the Lion court men is composed, with one exception, of \ctcran players The soldiers 1 R\e met with only two reverses this \car, Navy being victorious by a live point margin in a game played at Annapolis and Lebanon Valley win ning by a few points at Gcttjsburg early in the season. (Continued on fourth page) Fraternity Boxing Bouts Marked by Uncommon Antics In baseball ye old sporting scnbcs portray a batter missing a third strike as “fanning the air.” Think ing in that manner, the crowd which witnessed the initial Interfraternity boxing bouts in the Armory Wednes day were fearful lest n hurricane should arise after watching numer ous arms flying nowhere in particu lar after having been originally in tended to reach the bobbing bead of an opponent. To return to the diamond pastime, u pluy associated with “inside” base ball is known as the “hit and run.” Hoxfighting fans saw* the same play ir the ring Wednesduy but in name only. Eclipsing the basketball trick was a new one that was introduced by the brotherly pugilists and which may be termed “miss and run.” In de fense of the new addition to the al- replete bag of tricks connected with the circle sport, it might be mentioned that it was impossible to count the number of times it was at tempted and successfully worked out But even though the gentle zeph jrs of spring have wafted their path through State College of late, this story has to deal with the antics of pugilists as they entertained fight loving spectators Wednesday night. Four fraternity teams boxed and na turally there were two winners. Lambda Chi Alphn and Phi Knppu Sigma were on the wrong end of the scores, all of which goes to prove that they were superior in the “miss and run” game to Sigma Pi and Phi Gamma Delta. AH the night's bouts cun be sum med up in the same manner. The first round usually started out with the speed accredited Charley Pad (Continued on Inst nage) Pr tut glair @ PROMPT PETITIONS FOR TEACHING STAFFS URGED Seniors who wish to secure teach ing positions for next year should reg ister with the Bonid of Recommenda tions immediately m oidci to secure the advantages which come from early enrollment. The boaid is alieady iccetvmg calls for.tcachers for next year and within a few weeks the number of calls will greatly mcicasc Full information concerning the work and seeming of positions may be had by cnlling at Room 120 Old Main to interview’ D A. Anderson, directoi. 4 TICKET SALE SET FOR MILITARY BALL Widenor’s Orchestra WiH Play At Formal—lnvitations Sent to Notables HOOVER AND SMITH TO PROVIDE UNIQUE FAVORS Having perfected eveiy nmjoi de tail of the Militaiy ball, scheduled for Friday, the committee in charge has arranged for ticket sales to begin to night at seven o’clock, at Co-op These sales will be continued Tuesday and Wednesday also and on Tuesday fra ternities may make airangemcnts foi booths. With regard for custom, all R. 0 T. C. units throughout the countiy will conduct the foimnl on the same evening. Invitations have been sent to many noted army officcts as well ns President Coolidge and Gov ci nor Pmchot and it is expected that the presence of numerous visiting offic ials will make the affait a distinctive military function Favors different fiom any tint have ever been given at a Penn State function have been ordered fiom Hoover and Smith, fraternity jewel ers Because of the tjpc of fnvoi selected, the admission puce Ims been set at §3 50. The decorating scheme will be exceedingly novel and will be of a military nature to confoim with the affair Russ Widcnoi and his orchestra, dressed in full military uniforms, will! furnish music for the nffau. Bids for checking concessions should be submitted without delay to A. C. Mil ler '2O at the Delta Pi house. REV. DOWNS TO ADDRESS CHAPEL SERVICE SUNDAY Tyrone Pastor Will Speak for Fourth Time to Students in Auditorium Coming to Penn State foi the fourth time since 1023 the Revet end Francis Shunk Downs, secretaij of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian church, will address the student body at the chapel *»er ice Sunday morning. The Rev Mi Downs was pastoi of the First Presbyteuan chuich at Tv rone, fiom 1922 to 1925, and in tiic eaily part of 1925 lie was elected to his present position m which he is as sociated with Dr. Robert E. Speer, also a welcome chapel speakci heio. After being gmdunted from Mei cersburg academy and Lafayette col lege, the Rev Mr. Downs spent a year at the University of Pennsylva nia law school. In 1910 be was grad uated from the Punceton theological seminary and alsq took one year of post-giuduulc work at Johns Hop kins university. During the wai he served with the National Service Commission and the International Commission of the Y W C. A ns a special piencliei. Tie was the founder and first pastoi of the Culvmj Presbyterian (.hutch of Bultimore, Mankind, wlieie he served from 1910 till 1918 From 1918 to 1922 lie was pastor of the Maikct Square church at Gcimantown, Phil adelphia. SIGMA GAMMA EPSILON ELECTS NEW OFFICERS Sigma Gumma Epislon, honorary mining fraternity, hawing elected its new officers for the j’ear, is now plan ning a smokci for the honotaiy mem bers on March twenty-second The 'smoker will be held in the Old Mining building and all students m the School of Mines uic invited to attend. The officcis elected this semestet were: H. F Weaver, president: C. J. Ban, secretary, Charles Jones, cor responding editor and Sylvcstei Kun igonis, vice-president and historian. Prof. C. A. Bomne will lepiesent the fraternity at a convention to be held at the University of Michigan April first. STATE COLLEGE, PA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1926 DR. C: W. GILKEY ENDS SERIES OF . ADDRESSES HERE New York Engagement Compels Lecturer to Shorten Slay by One Day LARGE AUDIENCES HEAR SPEAKER AT MEETINGS Talks to Fraternity Groups and Rotarians—Lincoln Quintet Receives Applause Forced to shorten his visit at Penn State because of an unexpected call to New York city, Dr. U. W. Gilkcy concluded his .series of lectures with that given in the Auditonum lust 1 ight and left immediately for the metropolis Although Dr. Gilkcj was compel led to cancel tonight’s lecture as well as some of the informal talks which he was scheduled to deliver, he was able to icach a large pciccntagc of (he student body and townspeople. Impressive audiences greeted the not ed speaker at all three of his major lectuics and the convocation exercis er Wednesday were conducted m a Ihiongod house Quintet Wins Approval W'lth its opening selection, "Give Me That Old Time Religion,” the Lincoln university colored quintet, which accompanied the famed visitor v on tremenduous popularity with the students Each “number which the five men sang drew undivided atten (Continued on second page) YEARLING FIVE SET FOR G-BURG GAME Freshman Lineup for. Contest Remains Unchanged—Game Begins at Six-thirty BATTLEFIELD PASSERS PRESENT STRONG TEAM Five snarling Lion cubs intent up on keeping their iccord of five straight wins untouched, will go into action against the Gettysburg plebes on the Armory court tomorrow night at six thirty o’clock Conch Killtngcr an nounced that he will start the same combination which has come through the season without a single reverse to date. Although the Battlefield freshmen have come out on the short end of the three starts made last week, the quin tet, as a whole, has been showing ag gressiveness in goal-shooting and de fensive work. Even though Bucknell trounced tonionow’s visitors GO-20 lust Saturday night, Coach Ixillinger made it cleai that he was by no means considering them lightly Gcttjsburg Lineup Filling the lolc of jack-of-all-posi tions, Lipskj, who plays equally well at the forward, center and guard po sitions, will most likely begin the game with the Geltj sburgians in the tip-off position. lapsky is also con sidered dungciuus on the foul line With Slumpf and Mcllhenny as run ning mates on the offense and Chol (Conllnued on third page)* BLACK-LEG DISEASE OF CABBAGE IS TREATED IN AGRICULTURE BULLETIN A new bulletin, numhei I'l'i, entit led “Experiments on the Conliol of Black-Leg Disease of Cabbage,” bus been issued by the School of Agricul tuic and the Aguculturc Experimen tal Station here. The bulletin takes up m detail the Irstorv, disuivcrv, spread, causes, ef fects and means of prevention and destruction of a vegetable disease that is comparatively new m tins country, having been tiansmitted from France, Australia mid Geunany in 1911. According to the contents of the publication, the farmer must ncccs saiily concern himself in the preven tion of a disease which since it ap pears m almost every stnte of the Union, is lanked with the most dts . astious. The author of the new h-issued booklet is Mr. E. G. Rex '22, formerly giaduato assistant m botany and plant pathology at Penn State. Mr Rex, at piescnt, is the pathologist in charge of seed certification m the New Jersey Department of Agricid ituio. Dean Wendt Named Research Assistant Dean G. L. Wendt, according to a recent announcement, has been ap pointed assistant to Major-general A. A Fries, head of the Chemical Wnrfaie Service of the United States army. In this capacity, it will be ncccssnry for Dean Wendt to absent himself at least once a week from the College to superintend the lescnrch work being earned on in the govern ment laboratories in Edgewood, Mary land. These laboratories arc engaged in developing and experimenting with poisonous gases to be used by the United States'Armj in cmeigcncics The vvoik is for Dean Wendt a con tinuation of the experiments conduct ed by him in 1918. During Ins brief term of servico with the government, at that time,‘he experimented with more than three thousand different kinds of gas. One of his notable a chicvcmcnls was the development nf a gas mask which was accepted by the government but was rendeiesi useless by the termination of the v.ai. NITTANYRINGMEN TO BATTLE NAVY Lions Face Strong Aggregation In Middies—Heavyweight Entries Uncertain GANSIMPROVES THROUGH BOUTS WITH McCLERNAN Invading the environs of the Mid* thipnici) tomorrow, the Penn State pugilists will go forth from the fast nesses of the Nittanj \alley with (he scalps of Catholic university and Virginia safety tucked under their Wits to engage the Annapolis aggre gation in what promises to be one ot the stifTcst buttles on the Blue and Yvhitc ring card this season. In the opening match of the sea son, last Saturday, the Navj’ leather pushers the- strong. Notre Dame boxing'outfit 5 to 2, the South Pend ringmen scoring points in the feather and heavyweight bouts Gu-> Lentz, middle veteran in the unlim ited class, was til at the time and i* still out because of injuries Spike Webb, Navj conch, boasts of a smooth-working machine that should bid strongly to retain their Inteicol legiate championship. Wthm the memory of Coach Houck, Penn State has never wrested a vie* (Continued on last page) LION MARKSMEN FIRE AGAINST JOHNS HOPKINS Shooting the eleventh mutch of the season, the Vaisity nflc team is pitted against Johns Hopkins umversitj this week, firing m standing, kneeling, sitt ing and prone positions The highest individual score made to date has been handed in b> Captaiu Don Frear vhc picked up 381 points out of a possible* 100 The R O T. C. rifle team is also shooting this week, ns a member of the third coips area, Fortv-fivc men, all members of the first, second and tiuid It. O. T. C. teams, aie engaged in this mutch These results will not be known fot a week because the scores of some of the sixteen school-* in the match will have to be reclieck cd. Clippers Again Applied as Tribunal Frowns on Pranks of Three Plebes A stern Tnlmttul, determined to, curtail the long list of customs violi t.ons, will mete out huirculs to three inant freshman at Co-op comer Wednesday at six-thirty o’clock. AT- Ur deerjing the negligence m the ob servance of college Uruditions, the Tribunal at last Wednesday’s meet ing decided also upon the stringent enforcement of the "hello” custom and of the rule prohibiting sophomore infringement upon uppeiclasa dress privileges While the decrees aimed at the freshmen kept the crowd m good hu mor all evening, the jurors considciod gravely the matter of prohibiting the wearing of fiamboj’ant sweaters and blazers by sophomores unless sub dued under a suit-jacket. Future violators of this ultimatum will in cur the wrath of the Tribunal, and the sophomore who dares to Haunt the colors of the rainbow across his chest in class does so at his own peril Travis and Williams vs. Tribunal To the crowd thnt cluttered up the Tribunal justice chamber, the hair cut decisions for G. D. Williams and C C Travis were charming preludes (Eollegian. BAND INAUGURATES WINTER CONCERTS SUNDAY AFTERNOON Full Schedule of Six Numbers Includes Saxophone and Trumpet Solos MANDOLIN CLUB WILL OFFER NEXT PROGKAiY Recitals Initiated in IDM by C C. Robinson—Band Gains in Membership Inaugurating this year’s series of winter musical events, the* l’enn State* concert band will render its twtilth annual recital in the Auditorium Sun day afternoon at thicc-Llnrty o'clock S« venty-fivc of the best musician* n the baud’* roster will present the program Six numbers, including a saxophone solo and a trumpet trio, make up the the entire program. The personnel directing the production i* led 1»> Bandmaster W O. Thompson, W R. Widcnor ’2G, .student leadei and E. •S Wetzel ’2G, dium majoi. Under the direction of C. G. Rob |m*on, director of music in 1911, the* winter concerts were first begun At that time onlv fourteen men made up the band This year the number hn> leached 177 and it was necessary lor : the director to refuse membership to seventy-five men The piogrnm is as follow* "Sunnee Buttciily”—Sciacca Overture, "William Tell"—Rossini Trio for solo trumpets— ‘ I* lirtalion*”—Clarke ID. F Bullock ’2G, D. I*. Donovan ’2tf W. U. Biery ’2B ) a. Idyll, “April Sigh*” —Riiid-llagar b A Flower Dance “The bwaying Narcissus” —Rtnd-llagar a. Reverie, “Golden bunset” - „ .. _ -B-FjndcL. b \alse Lento— " The Shepherd’s Dream’ —1 aylo* Potpourri, "Songs of the Old Folks’ Comp and An. by 31 L Lake The next concert of the Sundtiv rfternoon senes will be piescnted by the Mandolin Club at tliree-thirtv o’clock next Sunday Lafayette Grants Cut Benefit to Ninety-two [ In connection with the imich-udvei • i tised system of unicstricted class at tendance now in vogue at Lafayette university, it is announced that ninety-two students will enjoy such pi iv ilegc* at the Easton institution dining the cuircnt semcstei, accoid ing to the "dean’s list,” which has just been published Undei the new svstein, students rating bettei than *1 25 out of a pos sible five point* me* removed fiom the icstnction* of tlu* “cut system” and allowed to u*e their own disciction in class attendance The new list is almo-l twice a* long as that of last semester, v.lien forty-seven made the* icquucd uvet ngc. .Sixteen of those on last sem«s tcr’s sheet were dropped Fifteen of the new men on the list aie fieshmen, although the senioi class leads with thirty-six mcmbcis enjoying unie *tricted attendance. to tlie moic cumplicnUd jase ol W. S. Seibert In Seibert’s plight, clue*, lad to he found and witm *si*s p.u itned before the denouement was ac complished, but the guilt of Tiavis and Williams was more easily estab lished. Williams opened with the* thrust that he never went out with gills and Travis mournfully seconded his part nei’t declaration. The Tribunal then naively presented three* letters os tiblishmg indisputable evidence that these two had entertained girls on Sunday*, January twenty-second A Tangle of Sisters The confreres admitted the falsity ot then original plea which held that the two girls were their sisters Evidence showed that heveral stud ent* hud seen them uutomobiling and e-mcing curious brotherly atlecliun Battered by the keen verbal nttuck* of the Tribunal and confronted with the cold proof, the culprits confessed that they had indeed entertained bis ters, but that they were sisteis of someone else Besides being ticated to a choice (Continued on third page) LIONS ENCOUNTE CORNELL MATM3 Ali-veteran Ithaca Combination Be Crucial Test for Nittany Championship Hopes | Military Hall Holds f Ticket Sale Tonight | Ticket sales foi the Militaiy | Ball will lie held at Co-op to { night ami Tuesday and WcilnC3- j day evenings at seven o’clock, r Ai rangcincnts for fraternity I booths may be made* Tuesday I night i ■ , w wi SOPH HOP TICKET SALE ANNOUNCED Admission To Be Five Dollars 1 for Both Classes, Verdict of Committee POSTERS AND BANNERS TO ADVERTISE FUNCTION Suphomotes and fieshmen will pay five doll.ns for tickets to the Sopho more Hop as a icsult of the action taken b\ the committee* Wednesdnv. The initial ticket sah* is scheduled! for sometime next week Don I’estor’s orchestra will k*a»** Chicago several days piovious to the! Hop foi a toui of the East according, to leccnt information received from j the Chicago musicians. Besides ap pearing in several Eastern cities, the band will record several dance num ber*- fo»* the-Vielor-Talking.MftcJune conipuny while playing m Philadel phia. Advertising Plans Two huge banners will be strung jcioss Allen stieet, one at Co-op and the other opposite the Post Office a* part of the advertising plan. The contract for the decorating of the Armoiy ha* been given to Silvci stern and company of Wilkes-Barre This is the same firm that beautified the hall for last yc.n’s Hop and the icceiit Senioi Ball A checkerboard i ffcct, combined with stiearners, class numerals and a huge chandelier will predominate m the scheme LARGE BATTERY SQUAD REPORTS FOR SERVICE Fage and Slvbot\ski, Veterans, Furnish Foundation for Twirling Staff Twenty-live V.usity battciy cnndi dalts have *« pm U ] t*i (.'-..eh Uilhng er dining ‘be ,)**.• week lor warm-up jiacticc* m the .Slock Pavilion Ol this gioup, tlieie .ue only two Icllri min. Stybm-ki ami Page, belli pit* chu-. Pete*so i, uhsliliitc backstop last yeai, and i.n**'hk’ci*, Lesku and , Zimmu man, Inst yeat ’* fi eshman cut chois, alternate with Peterson behind *i i {late SI tl-. Vim Atta, D( II and 1 Unties .irj exi’cn 1 to bolster up a \ billing stair w*> l.en.-l by the lo*s ol i'.Hickson. Ccacli Jvd hil't will buve 1 he* in fill*. and oiiUic-j men oil tin diamond a* soon as Uic v*\it!ui penult- Y«il miii, Harm, Liscnhutli and several olhet vel( ran* of last yeai’** tinni arc limbering up m the Pavilion at Jinlv practice. Hard Schedule The schedule, which is awaiting Inc appiov.il of Hie athletic committee, moulding to Manage! Jones, include'* about twenty games Coach Killmg u will have to mold a hard-hitting combination fiom the reciuits if he is to till the outfield gaps which handi cap the team. Captain McVieker of last year’s team, and main cog in the offense, will have to be replaced in the lineup hy a strong and consistent man Handicapped by un inefficient pit ching staff hist year, the couch is now depending on the sophomore box men to come tlwough Much depend* upon Slate, 1928 speed artist, who won all his games lust yeai, and the addition of Van Atta, a portsidcr, will give the team two southpaws. Lefty Puge, a fair battel and out fielder, and Styborski, a long-distance hitter, are expected to bear the brunt of the pitching burden. in the “Lion’s Dei PRICE FIVE Cl 3 Coming to Penn Stale with erful veteran team, Cornell’: fouled mat combination will In collect a victoiy from tl and While giapplcrs m the Ari two-thirty tomoriovv uftcrnoi Tiic Big Red team is icputc cne of the strongest in the* E.r •ng taken over the Umvci Pennsylvania and Rcussetaci tech. The Quaker City matim thrown hy a count of 21-5 w P I succumbed to supcriui wi and was shut out, Tl-0 Priming his men for what : sideres the hardest dual meet season with the possible c*. of the Nttvv, Coach Leonuid ha much time in grooming hi-, p for the contest with the? It: The squad is in excellent co: and is conceded n chance to vvu •non think and wrestle as the in recent practice sessions Practice Cornell Style Special emphasis has been on holds and styles or wre*lhi plowed by the Ithacans Most Cornell grapplcis aie* of the let: rangy tvpe Chuhm, however, holds clown the tliuty-livo berth, is the exception Continued good work m the pound division has earned 1m d> Kaiser the light to tcpicscn Stale against Cornell Kaisi i napioved in aggressive ness dun veek and will be at top fmin he Lal.es to Hu* mats Satuida ! The twenty-five assignment all pi olmbdily go to Wallace I. who has wrestled in all the nu dal**. Sands, one of the* most i«mg mon in this weight, has oped water on the knee and will of- compctition-for-an' mdertnl! icd Captain Liggett litipnm Captain Walter Liggett, li leginto title-holder in the thu (Continued on fourth pay SILVERSTEIN TO FUR] PROMENADE DECORA’ Distinctive Design To Ft Class Colors—Canopies Diape Exterior Silv cistern again will deem. Armory l Tin* Willv.es-B.ine aitist ha traded to furnish the setting I unnual Juniot Promenade, am the committee, has fen mill.ilul live* plans. Coveting the ceiling »r the A will he long sashes of ioj,il and silver, the 1927 class cohn blue and white, laid in rtnpe lions tlnoe feet m width strings of lights cmimJ with nC'O lanterns will he hung aim* ceiling, and will emnse grteef »i(le walls eight Tn l fiom the II The sides of the gynmu-::ti he sin* tilled m white imislri, panels at tin hack of the i Each panel will lie outlined hv balk, with .Southern smil.ix su over the* lem.uning a tea of tin* i gfis and siiung auuss the ut inleivals of three feel Fratermly Booths Fraternity booths will he put c*d hv ornate fences with cm mi serving as pedestals fot ini.ind lights. The posts will In* den with oak brnnehoH woven into a matting. Liiva leaves and oak bi es will cover the orchestra soui boaid, which will be lighted hy nese kmlf'ins. An illuminated “P)27” will out ovei the oichostm Hub. . utlicr end oT Hie Horn a can-'P aid m shutting util .stags Ai canopy will extend Irom the. su. through the entrance, and m will be used as a llooi mg The exterior of the* Aimoiv \ decked in class and school colm* lights iiilei-pci sed. An clcstu hearing the legend “Jiitnoi 1927” will be hung in the loup of Lite approach. BH/.Diik TO SPFMC AT 01/I CLUB MEETING NEXT Tbl That Couch Hugo Be/dok wit befoic the Outing Club at the mg Tuesday evening was iscd by J. F. Kilgus '27, pte-u the organization. Profs. U I. sulberry and E. 11. Dusham hat secured to talk at the two foi meetings.
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