“Jaz2 Passing,” Says Don- Passing Oul? VOL. XXI, No. 45 LIONS WIN FOURTH PLACE IN INDOOR INTERCOLLEGIATES Track Team Scores 15 Points In Startling Upset at Classic Saturday HARVARD SQUAD DEFEATS GEORGETOWN FOR TITLE Clue and White Runners Place In Six Events for New Penn State Mark A Penn State track team, latcd hard ly an outside chance in the indoor blue ribbon event of the year, sprung a sensational upset and won fourth place with fifteen points in the fifth annual indoor intcrcoUegiptcv at the 102nd Engineers’ Armor/, New York .City, Saturday night. Tne Nittany Lions ran in amazing form m scor ing the highest total a Blue and White indoor track team ever achieved in IC-4A events. Nnto Carlmell’s men placed in six of the eight event* they entered, tying llarvatd, the winnci, In this respect. Gaming no higher than thud place in any of the events the formidable Nittany team might have mole sci iously menaced Harvard who won with 28 point*, Georgetown second with 20 1-2 and Pennsylvania thud with 23 1-2, had one or two Blue and White runners finished higher up As it was, Captain Mooic was third in the 70-yard high hurdles, Ide thirl in the 35 pound weight, .Stewart fourth in the mile, Bniclav fourth m the 2-mile, Eggers fifth m the 7U yard high hurdes, Mathias Xutb m the broad jump and the 1-mile relay team, Torrence, Mollingcr, Sands and Davis, third. Lions Total Climbs Crip Mooic was dethroned in the 70-yard hurdles when Captain Bay Hass of Georgetown flashed home in 8 1-5 seconds. "It wus a grueling race ail the way and Crip nosed out by ta llies by Bay Wolf, Pennsylvania cap tain, while Eggcis was the fifth to break the tape. In the afternoon Ide (Continued ou last page) JUNIOR GIRLS SET PACE IN BASKETBALL TOURNEY Co-ed Sextette Conclude Season April Twelfth—Complete Lineups Announced With the firct series of the girls’ intcrclass basketball tournament com pleted, each class has played each other class once. A similar round, beginning nc\t week and continuing until April twelfth, will conclude the season. Besults from the fii,t two weeks show two victories foi the jun jorsy one for the sophomo.es, and one for the freshmen. The remain ing games of the first sc* km were played last night m the Armory. Class teams were announced by Miss Mane Ilaidt, instructor in physical education, and class managers were appointed by the W A. A. board Miss B C. Bowen being chosen to manage the seniors, Miss M. M. Math er for the juniors, Mios N II IJjc- Guffie for the sophomoies, and Miss J. G. Rittei foi the freshmen. Complete membership of the c*a«s squads is as follows* Seniors—Miss scs E. J Leitch, M. S. Lciteli, U. C. Bowen, M. B. Chambers, C. F. Heil man, 0. Keefer and A. M. Hcmdcl Juniors—Misses E. R Frank, L. H. Robertson, N. E. Slieudnn, E. R Frear.J. 11. Sclmntz, E. R Passmore, C M Ogmbene, P. A. Chapman and E. A. Bullock. Sophomores nre the Misses M. D Reed, E H. Macklin, E. D. Pomeroy, N. II MaeGuffic, 11. Lewis, M. V. Hugglci, M. M Wheeler, A. M. Downing, L. M. Bossier Freshmen —Misses E. T. Doubler, E. B Hender son, C. P. Hudnall, M. E. Herman, G. A. Toovvc, N. Krout, J G Ritter, M. Lcitzcll, and D. E. Callaway. A silver sixteen-inch loving cup is now being chosen as the trophy for thq girls' inter-doimitory tournament which was captured by the third floor Mac Hall. It will be engraved with the title “Inter-dormitory Basket ball,” and the name of the winner each year will be placed beneath. The cup is being given half by the Ath letic Store and half by the Woman’s Athletic Association. CLOVER CLUB MEETS TONIGHT Members of the Clover Club will assemble m Room 103 Agriculture building tonight at seven o’clock to j cceive an address by Prof. C. I*\ Noll of the Agronomy dupuitment] frttn ifciir A Bestor Predicts Passing of Jazz; Likens Fad to Young Man’s Fancy “Jazz?” Bestor raised lus oyo brows, and then smiled. music lnes forever, but jazz is j'ust npasa ing fancy. Jazz is a fashion, to be compared with the style of young men's trousers. “The place of variance in the com parison, however, is this: the spirit of jazz has lasted longer than the spirit of skirt-like pantaloons. “Yes, jazz is passing, slowly, it scemv—at least, it is passing When the spirit of j‘azz first invaded the United States, the older folks tried to ,clamp down on it, but the younger generation took up the fad with all the vigor of a cat clawing at its first mouse. Someday, musi cians are hoping, dancers will be able to appreciate tho extreme rythm m good music and will do away with the “moaning” of the saxophone and the “blaring” of the trumpet and permit these two instruments to find their nautral tones Until then,*' PLAYERS TO STAGE MELODRAMAFRIDAY “The Seventh Guest” Will Be Given Here After Long < Run in Chicago HEAVY PLOT LIGHTENED BY TOUCHES OF lIUMOR Staging their first mclodiama of the year, the Penn State Players will present "The Seventh Guest” m the Auditorium Friday night. This pro duction, written by Inms Osborn and A. J. Aubrey, combines into a thriller some of the best parts picked from Ihe twelve biggest bits played m New York during the last four years. “The Seventh Guest” had an ex ceedingly long run m Chicago and proved a great attraction during The length of its stay in that' city. Al though the play has not yet been staged in New York city, special per mission has been'secured irom the Century Play company al'ovving the I’lu/ers to present it here. A play of this type has not been attempted at Fenn State since the (Continued on second page) PENN STATE ARTISTS TO GATHER AT ANNUAL BALL Plan Unusual and Elaborate Decorations—Architects Will Wear Smocks Pens, ink and T squares will go in fo the discard Friday evening, Minch rmetccnth, when the Penn State art ists gather at the Omega Epsilon bouse for their annual Architect’s Ball. The affair is an outstanding social function of the year for tho pen vvieldcrs and their friends and extensive plant, arc under way to make it a complete success. Decorations for the dance lmo been promised, which according to reports will be elaborate and unusual. This setting will be designed by the architects themselves All of the T square experts will appear m smocks, v Inch will give an artistic appearance to the affair. All others attending the ball may be in mformul uttne. Music will be furnished by the Col lege Crew and dancing will continue from nine until two. A fee of one dullar and fifty cents will be assessed Patrons and patronesses for the affair will be Dean and Mis. U. L Sackctt, Mr. and Mrs H. W. Stover, Plot, and Mrs. F. C. Disque, l’rof and Mrs A. L Kochci, Mr. and Mrs C, L Harris, Dean C E. Ray, Miss II M. Savjrd, 11. L. Dickson and J. B. Ilcimo. The memDers oi tne committee m charge of the ball nre II E Balmoi '2B, M R. Kiefer '2B, D. G. Cook '2B and J. E. Boodon ’2B. FLOATING COLLEGE WILL VISIT THIRTY COUNTRIES Carrying a faculty of fifty selected men and a student body ot 450 under graduates, a Boating university will leave its dock at New York Octobei second for a tour providing for visits to thirty foreign countries. Many countries are cooperuting with this new idea in education and me now arranging programs to be presented to the students ns the ship docks in each respective port. Noted speakers will greet the traveling stu dents end at one of the Japanese pot U ithlctic meets will be held with stu dents from Nippon colleges. STATE COLLEGE. PA., TUESDAY. MARCH 9. 1926 ho laughed, “we ‘moan,’ ‘blare’ and plaV J 1177 ” '"Too Much Publicity In answer to the question “Is it tiue that your saxophonists practice '0 much that then lips bleed'” Don replied: “That is the lesult of too much publicity*. In un interview one time,; I remarked thut during the course of ; an evening’s engagement, every now and then, my tiumpet p'aycis be come us_ debate..the question for argument is not known until the night preceding the discus-! sion. For this reason the speakers have only one day in which to pre pare their material. S. L. Burt ’27 and S K. Stevens ’2G will represent the BUie and White on Thursday* night. According to D D. Ilenty ’2G, coach of the team, this form of debate is the most interesting of verbal duels fiom the point of view of the audi ence The limited time for prepara tion excludes “cut and dried” .speeches ns well as scientific and statistical evidence. The argument is usually (Continued on second page) Coach Killinger Finds Dearth of Moundmen With three members of the twill ing staff ineligible, the mound pros pict for the Varsity baseball team is far from promising. Slate, Sty borski and Van Atta, the last-named, a left-hander, are the players falling under scholastic requn ements al though the two Sophomores have a chance to regain their standing at the end of the first eight weeks of the second semester. Coach Killinger is striving to fill the positions made vacant by the ineligible* fi om Jordan and Schell, kft-hamlers and Haines, Claybaugb, pell, Hosier and Donovan, who toss them up in the approved manner One or tw o of the inexperienced hurl ers have already shown enough abil ity to warrant a regular turn on the lull, by the time the season begins Minister, Patterson, Harrington and Zimmerman, arc handling the shoots of the boxmen with due precision. Gridders Stomp Cleated Brogans in Pavilion as Bez Installs Charleston Charleston! Charleston! No long er is the good old Armory, scene of many a gorgeous Sophomore Hop mid elite Junior l’romcnude, to share alone the churms of the twentieth renturv “dance-madness,” for the latest mysteries and trials ot the ball room have descended upon no oilier place than the Stock Pavilion In this Ag Hill colosseum Penn State football warriors, who have just begun a period of spring train m, arc receiving daily workouts in the vivid pastime. Because of the sloppy weather, piacticc cun not be conducted outdoors and therefore Couch Hugo Bezdek, well aware of the benefits of early season practice, 13 using dance steps as the next best .method of exercise and prclmiinaiy training. Accoiding to “Bez” “if dance halls cun be compared to the condition of (Mlajfeut WESLEYAN U. TOPS COLLEGES IN GLEE CLUB COMPETITION Princeton Ranked Second With Kansas Third—Penn Stale Among Topnolchcis COLUMBIA GOES FOURTH AS LIONS PLACE FIFTH Shore Conceit Tomorrow Ends- Long Trip—Radio Program Broadcast Sunday Before a capacity ciowd of seventy five hundred persons, Wesleyan uni versity was declared winner of the tenth annual Intercollegiate Glee Club contest held in the Carnegie Music Hall, New York city Saturday even ing The Penn State Gloemcn, plac ed fifth. honorable mention went to Princeton uriversily songsters wink Kansas university, winneis of the Missouri Valley* competition earned oft second mention honois It was singular that the winning songsters weic the* only one of the fourteen competing clubs to appeal without n lendci. Standing in a semi-circle the necessarv signals weie given by the bass section of the hi -t (Continued on thud page) CUBS PRESSED TO TURN BACK ORANGE Syracuse Basketecn> Succumb As Yearlings Rally in Closing Minutes SHOTS BY WILSON AND MONAHAN WIN CONTEST Overconfidence came within an urn of spelling defeat foi the untamed Lion cub dribblers in then game with the fast Syracuse fieshmen m Arch- I old gymnasium Satin day evening when the Blue ami White quint mi lled m the closing minutes of plnv ro annex a 23-21 win Leading at half time b\ the stoic of IG-9, the plebc five slackened up end allowed the Oiunge to creep up to better than even terms m tho final stages of the game. Held shots by hhavv, Wilcox und Muigucrts boosted the Tangerine scoie until with foui minutes of play remaining the stoic book showed a two-point ndvun (Conlmued on last page) 98 “FLUNKS” FOR FIRST SEMESTER Nmetv-eight students, the major itv coming under the fiftv peicent rule, have been diopped pcimnnent h* fionx College suite the end of the fiist senestci according to Rcgistini W. S. Hoffman. The School ol En gineering leads with foity-one drop ped and five suspended foi one sem ester followed bv the Luberal Arts School with tvventv-one The School of Agricultuie lost the least, only thiec men. More sophomoies than fieshmen have left Forty-six setond vt.u men, tlmty-foui fieshmen, sixteen juniors, one senior and one special student is the complete toll Thirteen men have been dropped from the School of Chemistry and Physics, twelve Horn the School ot Mines and Mctalluigv, eight fiom the School of Education and tluee from the School of Agriculture tlu. Panther Studium at Thank-giving time he think* the Lion guddcis can be expected to Charleston tight; thiough the enemy line” In ta*>e Ins expectations aie not real.zed, how ever, "Bez” can be assured that lus good intentions and Lucies* etlort* v ill not be wasted m vam. Foi, d foi in und perfection foictells any thing many of the moleskinned “husk ies” will find it easy to fall back on the subsequent outcome of a dancer’, dicams, n leading pait with a New York Follies’ company “Although the Cliui lesion does not resemble at all aiootlmll game, noth ing equals cithci ot these as an ex cicisc,” according to Coach Uezdek Since it is nearly* impossible to plus football in Mmch, "Bez” believes that a little dancing will do more* than anything else to help condition the squad Ormerod To Address Commerce Students Coming lughlv lecoinmended In colleges at which he has spoken ic ccntlv, Mr. Leonard Ormerod, genu al information mnnagci ol the Bell Telephone company, has been secured Lv Delta Sigma Pi, professional com merce liuteimty, to speak at Penn Slate Mi Oimerud will speak on adveitismg ard will give hr* addiess in Old Chapel, Finlay evening nt seven o’clock. The subject chosen by Mi. Ormc rod is of special interest to students in Commute and Finance, but is in in. way lestncted to any one body The lecture is not technical and should be of mteiest to every student In older that the talk will not con flict with the Player's, show winch is bung staged the same evening, the play will not begin until nftu Mr Oiemiod’s address is finished DRUIDS TO HOLD CONVENTION HERE Local Chapter IMays Host lo Delegates—Banquet Set For Friday Evening DRUID DANCE WILL BE SATURDAY ATTRACTION Representatives from all five chap ters of the Diuid Society will meet at Penn .State foi then annual conven tion Finlay and Saturday, according to G A Sands ’2B, president of the local branch The visiting delegates will be n.m quitnl at the Kappa Sigma homo Fmlay evening at sj\-t]nrty o’clock to foimalh mauguiate the convoi. turn Ml Diuids, active and inactive will be m attendance. The usuj banquet pioginm has bu*u ananged The visitois will be socially intro duccd to Penn State Frulav evening, when thev will be taken the rounds of : dance*' -Arrangements have been made to house the Druid delegates m vauou* fi ifo.mtics A business meeting is listed foi Saturday morning at ten oTloek in the kappa .Sigma house, while Hit afternoon wiill be devoted to the* re spective athletic meets Jn the even ing Machlun will dust off his trouba dois and vend music for a Druid dance in the Sigma \*u house, infor mality being in ordei Two lcprosentativcs me expected fiom each Diuid chaplet, though moie may attend the convention Last veai the Uiuveisitv of Del i vvme vveueis of the Oak Leaf, played host to visiting delegates RIFLE TEAM OUTSHOOTS WESTERN MARYLAND U. Blue and White Marksmen Now Tie With Carnegie Tech For Championship Bv defeating Western Mai viand 1 'lol-ITAG in a dual match hist v ock, Penn State’s vaisitv idle team vies with Carnegie* Tech foi the* cham pionship of the noithcin division ol the Appiticlunn league* of seven teams Both teams have a bundled pet cent standing a-. Tech rcccnllv de feated Johns Hopkins lS‘t2-187b With no league match scheduled fm this week the Nitt inv fuels aie* matching N’otwich uiuveisitv, lead ers of tho New England league. The Carnegie match is scheduled for next week ll the State mniksmcn aie victorious the championship will he In ought to the Nittanv Valiev. If Carmgic* wins this match am] lo.es lo Pitt the season will end in a tie V vei*’ dose competition exists a mong the vaisitv iiflemen, the* ten scoieis being sepaialed bv loss than tventv points D E Fiear ’2G, cap tain shot ”88 out of a possible 100 while M A Bud ’2fi scoted 38> points W. E Pi delta! d ’2B, W. G Tuman ’27, J. .J Bums ’27, and U. U Muck ’2B ate* all showing good foim Tiieß. O T C team when matched against twenty cumpetitois ot tho thud coips hi on look second place, the* lesult of the eliminations entitle Penn State to enter the elimination contest foi the national R. 0. T C championship Liboi.il Alls Lccluru Postponed Indefinitely ! Because of the illness of Dr. ! W S Dye, Jr , the Libeial Ails j Icctuic which wus to be I given tonight has been post- | poned indefinitely. I Orange Provei b Hanson Is As Hanson Does PRICE FIVE CENTS NITTANY MATMEN • WREST WIN FROM MIDDIE GRAPPLERS Admn.tls Get Two Falls While Lions Take Four Decisions To Gain 12-10 \ic(oiy 125-POUNDERS BATTLE TO DRAW IN EXTRA PERIODS Edwards, Navy Captain, Throws Garrison for Seventeenth Successive Mat Win Foi the fir>t time in its wiesUmg ln-tory the Navv mat combination went down to defeat m sucte* is evidenced la the activities ol that blanch ot Alum nae which bus ju-t oigant/cd a look out committee to help then w.lUg* -isteis who me* strungcis in tin. “Smokv Gilv” The membeis o| this umum.tc'*, Mis Wmified Meek Moms, i, jjj Howe stieet. Miss Adel,mb Mitdull, 1010 Devon Road, and Mis Romm Hill, 1722 M.uiboe Stieet, hope tb il nil Penn Stale women who (ome to PtUsbuigh wiU not foi gel to get m touch with them In addition to oiguni'ing ilu look out committee a Mai eh ti.i ami an Haslet luncheon weie plumed at the Jwt meeting held in Iclnu.uv All Penn Stale women ol the* I’m-binUi section home foi Eastei ne mvilwl to this luncheon, wlmh will be hid at the I oi t Pitt Hotel The Pitlshuigli Alumnae \—im i tion is the voungest mi mini oi tin tluee oig.mi 'tilions establish d in New Yolk, Philadelphia and Pitl-lmigh These assounlmns aim to ku*p giad uates togethei bv means ol luminous held the last S.itmd n ot i.iih month Miss Maig.iicl Bala i ’IS was (In pioncei in the movement amuml Pittsbuigh but it w.is Miss Dmotliv Mitchell *2l who succeeded in local izing thirtv-eight guls at a uimlieoii ill Jumiatv 'Hus at fan was t'aid od bv both Judge* Mitchell nttd All- Rnv and foi the lust tune a delimit oigam/ation was foimcd ami alaiis weie* made foi active senue* Alumnae of Pittsbuigh an I tin* Pittsburgh district an* utgul m i-oa muiueate with the* new lookui l ioh miltee* while Plul.idniphi.i Miininae .should write to the* cone-ponding see rotary ot that luamh, Miss Ruth Eib, 28 Oichnid Road, Upet D.uln, Pennsylvania The mi responding secretary* foi the New Ymk division is Miss Isabel Hanlon!, 150 West Dud ley Avenue, Westfield, New lersey.