Right' Dress I ! Student Council VOL. XXI, No. 53 STUDENT COUNCIL OPPOSES CHANGE IN DRESS CUSTOM Juniors Must Continue To Wear Hats—Blazers Are Not Legitimate Excuse COMMITTEE FAVORS MAY THIRD FOR SPIRIT* WEEK Body Voles To Aid Finances of Student Handbook—May Give Tribunal Keys Diess customs at Penn State ahull remain as thev now are This was Student Council's edict at its meet ing Tuesday night Befoie Tuesday’s meeting the gen* oial opinion of Council membeis was that jumois who wear blazeis should be permitted to go without hats— that the vveuimg of hats was not m keeping with the wealing of blazcis However, since only fifty class coats were guaranteed, because of the Pas* saic~imll strikes, sentiment changed This fact and the thought that Penn State customs aie declining lead to the decision of the governing body Secretaiy of Student Council, Thomas Cam, Ji , ’2G, lcpoitcd for the committee on the class and La Vie elections, April twenty-eighth and twenty-ninth at Tuesday’s meeting Cam described the plans of the com mittee and uiged the co-operation’of e\ ery member of the body in making the election a success The question of open politics m the campaign foi votes was discussed. A rcpoit on the mattei will be made at the next meet ing of the Council Favor Spirit Week The class scraps and spirit commit tee favors a levnal of Spirit week this veai, accouling to the report of cliau man H D Fritchman '2O The time suggested is the week of May third, with a pushball sciup between the freshmen and sophomoies on Sat urday of that week. Details will be published after definite plans me submitted at the next meeting F B Jackson '29, piosident of the ireshman class, asked for the opin ion of Council inembeis concerning a freshmun-sophomore smokei planned by the y callings The suggestion was unanimously approved and Stu (Contlnued on thud page) PLEBE DIAMOND SQUAD TO UNDERGO FIRST CUT Three-Inning Games Mark Daily Workouts—Flay Slippery Rock May First With an euilvvcut in mind Coach Houck has been running his fiushnun diamond pioteges through a stiff pio giam of batting and fielding dull and daily three-inning sessions on New Beaver field The oitginal iiunihci of eight}-five men who repotted to Coach Houck on the fust day of j>iuc tice has been growing stcadilv and a considerable cut must be made to keep the squail in woikmg ordCi The first game on the plebo “chcdule will be played with Slippeiy Rock Noimal, Satuulttv, May hist I'iom isini,* player? June already made strong bids for several positions but no places have been definitely assign ed as yet Conch Houck plans to have a squail of thntv men in leadint-s foi the Slippeiy Rock game and la canv that aggiegation throughout the sea son Choice selection of pitchers is pi util ising and fiom all indications the plebe mentoi will have no gie.’.t task in selecting a good mfield combina tion but the catching depaitment seems to be weak The piactice games which ‘he squad has gone through have been helpful in weeding out the incompetent and enabling Leo to decide on a picked lineup In addition to then game with Slippery Rock, the freshmen will meet Bucknell, Wyoming, Cornell, Kiski, S}incuse and Shippensbmg Noimul. BOXING TEAM PRESENTS TRAVELING BAG TO LEO lrtm§lalp A Automobile Owners To Be Suspended April It) The Council of Administra tion, at its meeting on April 12, 1'12(5, passed a resolution stating that the penalty to be imposed .upon students who are disobey ing the rule against student owneiship of opciation of auto mobiles should be suspension from College for the lemaindei of the semester. This ruling on the penalty to be imposed is to go into effect on April 19, 192 G. C E Marquardt, Sccietury pro tempoie of the j Council of Adnnnjstiation THESPIANS PREPARE FOR PROM SHOWING Few Changes Made in Cast and Chorus—Ticket'SalC Next Week » CLUB PLANS* EXTENDED SOUTHERN TOUR SOON With but fe\v changes in cast and chorus, the Penn State Thespians will piesent then Tumor Prom showing of “The Kid Himself” in the Auditor ium next Saturday night at seven (•’clock The ticket sale, with two collars and fifty cents at top price, will be held at Stalk Brothers store on College avenue Wednesday and llnusdav evenings between six-thirty nul eight o’clock." As in past performances, J. L Nel *•00 *2O and R. W. Graham ’2G will lead the cast as Richard Bums, the Kid, and Sallv Merrill, respectively, with D D Northrup ’2B and S C Runkle *27 as Jimmie Atkins and Marjouo Ware. The comic element again will be supplied by P J Farley ’29, Louis Zacomdc ’29 and the Ken nedy biothcis, Ralph ’2B and Ewing '26 The Club will appear at the high School auditouum in Lewisfown Tues day evening and one week later the southern tour, which takes the place of the postponed Easter trip, will be gin Road Showings The fast toad showing will be at the Majestic theatre m Williamsport, following which, the production will be staged at the Oiphcum in Yoik Thursday will find the Thespians pei* forming before the patrons of the Majestic thcatic in Ilarnsbuig Tra veling farthei south, “The Kid Him self” is slated to be the first Penn State show* to appear in Baltimore in I (Continued on third page), CO-EDS WILL INNOVATE COSTUME BALL TONIGHT Mrs. Phillips, New Penn Slate Trustee, Will Chaperon E\elusi\c Cotillion The Co-ed Costume Cotillion, the Hist exclusive gnls' affair to be held at Penn State, will take place m the Aimoiy tonight Miss B. V Dallas ’2G is in chaige of the dnnee, while Mrs Phillips, Penn State's new trus tee, has consented to seive as chap el on Puces foi the dnnee, which is sponsored by the W S G A., aie one dolhu a couple or sixty cents foi single tickets. Decorations Fiope papoi stiearners diaped from the center top of the Aimoiy to the sides m canopy effect and v twelve panels decorated with black figures in outline, will conceal the Aimoiv walls Miss A. M Ulench ’27 is cluumnn of the decoration committee Pioginms painted with silhouettes m haimonv with the decorations arc be ing made under the direction of Miss :G. A. Yoagei ’2B and will be sold at the Aimoiv tonight foi a small a mount to those who have not already pui chased from the committee Women of the. fueultv will act as" judges in choosing the best costume for which a pnzc will be given. Only couples dicssed, one ns a mnn and one us a girl will be admitted JUNIORS DROP BLAZERS TILL MILL STRIKE ENDS STATE COLLEGE. PA.. FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1926 NITTANY STICKMEN MEET U. OF P. IN OPENERTOMORROW Untried Lacrosse Combination Opposes Red and Blue On Franklin Field .PENNSYLVANIA BEGINS SEASON WITH DEFEATS Eighteen Lion Ciub-wieiders To Make Trip—Coach Leonard Uncertain of v Line-up , Penn State meets Pennsylvania a gain tomoiiovv on Fianklin field—this time in the opening game of the Nittunv laciosse schedule Although the Lions will entei the contest un.- tiled, the 'Philadelphia aggregation has ahendy met two stiong oppon ents this season. Foui'weeks’ piactice undei the tu telage of Coach Leonaid, have primed the Blue and White sticknien loi then first battle New candidates foi the squad have been displaying skill and grace dunng the trials while moic than seven of last yeai’3 men have stiengthoned various positions Eighteen men will make the trip to Philadelphia but Coach Leonard is undecided ns to the lineup lie will use At goal, Hiukins, Kiefei and Hell* (Continued 011 last page) OUTLINES SETTLING OF STATE IN TALK Dr. W. F. Dunaway Delves Into Histoiy of Colonization Of Pennsylvania LIBERAL ARTS LECTURER TRACES'IMMIGRANT TIDE Outlining the histoiy of the settle ment of Pennsylvania, Di W F. Dun away delivered his lectuie on “The Peopling of Pennsylvania” before stu dents and faculty* membeis in Old Chapel* Tuesday night Beginning with the eaily estabhsn ment of Dutch and Swedish stations which left only a few plate names ns a sign of then occupation, the spcnkci continued with the lcnl colonization of the Qunkcis undei William Penn Previous Immigration Aftei the lust Quaker scttlemenvs, immigiation into the state took the foini of thiec mam cuncnts the English, the German and the Scotch- Irish The most numerous gioup, the English, coming dneclly fiom Eng land, indirectly from lieland, fiom the West Indies, and from Connecticut, occupied the region about Philadelphia and Hie noitheastem coinei of the colony Geinians, atti acted bv the advant ages \\ illuim Penn offeicd them while tiavehng through Geimnny, came to make then homes m the counties of Lancaster, Yoik, Lebanon and Bcu<b To the west of these colonists, the im pel tunt clement of the Scotch-lush settled in the Cumbciland valley. Dunns the century front 1790 (0 1890, the main tide'of immigration continued to come fiom Enland, Ire land, Scotland and Geimnny Attoi 1890, the picdominutmg nationalities of the incoming peoples changed to Russian, Italian, Austrian, Polish and 11 imgitriart At the piesent time, Pennsylvania has moie negiues than all the not th em mid western states, and even moie ([Continued on second page) Arbiters Promise Denudation of Three Plebe Pates' as Cogs of Justice Turn Everything from snake-charming’ teipretation of the Chnileston befoie to the ball-room Ch.uleston was dis- he icceived his sentence He must coveted among the attainments of wnto rules eleven and twenty-thico freshman defendants by the student one bundled times each as a penaltv Tubunal Wednesday mght K. W foi leaving Ins coat unbuttoned and Millei, who was docked foi violations keeping his hands pocketed at oiu of of oveiy conceivable nntuie and who the high school tournament basketball ficelv admitted his guilt, gained ro games clemency* t from the Tubunal _by the In spite of his vehement denial of display of a veiy agile srmk'e which every charge pieteuod against him, lie solemnly dedaied he picked up ini Wilhud Dodge was found guilty by WILL POST NAMES OF LAW VIOLATORS Dean A. U Warnock sounded the death knell for violators of College regulations yesterday' when he an nounced that the names of all students (hopped fiom College [will be posted on the Old Main bulletin bouid with the general nature ofltheir offenses Dean Warnock dedaied thnt lepeated violations of the automobile oidmnncc and the expulsion of several students foi dunking necessitated stringent enforcement of all College dictums. Severn! students’ cases aie being considoied at the present time and should the offenders 4 bc dismissed from College they will be affected by the new regulation |Hovvevei the names of those students who were expelled recently will? be withheld Students still having jems in State College aftei Monday vviil be suspend ed foi one semestet. ; - GETTYSBURG WILL STAGE PLAY HERE Owl and Nightingale Club To Present “You and I” May First VISITORS ARE WINNERS OF DRAMATIC TOURNEY “You and I,” a three-act comedy* will be presented by The Owl and Nightingale Club of Gettysburg col lege in the Audtiormm on Saturday. Mav first it was announced by A C Cloetmgh, /luector of the Penn State PJayeis, yesterday The Gettysburg dramatists were the winners of tho initial Intcrcolleg jate Dramatic tournament held hcic m Decembbr At that time then suc cessful presentation was “The Pot, Boilers” Their peiformance hcie the fiist of next month will be in the nature of a return engagement, the Penn State PUycis having ap peared in November in Gettysbuig with a showing of “Th^J r nst year.” “You and I" is a play written by Phillip Barry depicting in a humoi ous vein, the conflict between the old er geneiution and the present “flap pei” generation. A fathei’s thwart ed ambition and his sacrifice for his son furnish a bnckgiound of gentle pathos Cutics have declared the comedy to be such that it spurkies through its tcais Theie is said to be a tenseness, a touch of humor and lcality about the play that cannot fail but please the audience Tickets foi “You and I" will be placed on snle at Whitey Musser’s on Monday Apul twenty-sixth Thu udmission puce is set at fifty and sev enty-five cents DOCTOR TWEEDY WILL LEAD CHAPEL SERVICE Yale Divinity School Professor Has Gamed Wide Renoun As Lecturer The Rev. H 11. Tweedy, assistant professoi of theology at the Yule Divinity school, will be the speaker at Sunday’s chapel seivices Dr. Tweedy will also deliver an addiess at a special meeting the same night in the foyer of the Auditouum at six tlmtv o’clock , Di. Tweedy is a Yale graduate, and has studied at the Union Theological : seminary and the umveisity of Bei jlin lie icceived the Doctor of Di vinity degiee fiom Lebnnon Valley college in 1921 As tiuvclci and lec turei the theologian has merited the applause of his fellows and his au diences, say lucent bulletins (Mtegtmu DONALD MACMILLAN RECOUNTS ARCTIC VENTURES TONIGHT Polar Explorer Will Describe Hazardous An* Flight To Far North LECTURE TO START AT EIGHT-FIFTEEN O’CLOCK Slides Will Depict Exploits ol Inliepid Assemblies on Recent Trip Commander D B MacMillan, who has only lccently returned fiom a oaring attempt to leach the Noit’i Pole by airplane will tell of his adven tuius when he lectuies tonight in the Auditorium at eight-fifteen o’clock The lectuie will be made moie vivid hy* slides and movies, taken by mem bers of his puitv on its trip MacMillan is known tlnoughout the country, not onlv as a gient cxploici but us un eloquent and engagm ? speaker, and has nlways held lu» aud iencel* spellbound with amazing anec dotes of hts experiences Tales of huge icebergs as laige as mountains, of fivmg ovei frozen bauens nevei befo’o seen by* men. and of the nevei ending battle with the elements will commise some of the subject matter ol Commander' MacMillan’s^talk Accompnnicd Peary to Pole Commander MacMillan's love foi the Aictic regions began when lus falhci, who sailed veatly into the Xoith foi halibut, brought his son couvem’-s from the Eskimos, and le tted stories of the noithland Mac- (Conlmucd on third page) TRACKMEN PRIMED FOR RELAY TRIALS Personnel of Combinations. To Be Decided Upon After Races Tomorrow COMPETITION KEEN FOR PENN CARNIVAL BERTHS Wmle the eyes of the tiack vvoild me focused upon the aces of the West, the Middle-West and the Eastern seu boaid colleges, Penn State’s tiuck foices, under the tutelage of Nnte Caitniell, piemiei spunt stai of fif teen youis ago, aie pinning them selves daily loi the must giuolhng tost thev have yet faced—the Um veisitv Relay Carnival at Philadel phia, next Finlay and hutuiday '('rials Tomorrow Penn State .faces the Carnival with chances foi vietoiy* lessened not bv the weakness of its ovn men but by tho super stiongth of the cnitk Georgetown, lowa State, Sy incuse, Holy Cross ami Cornell lunneis Cuuch Caitmell has entcied teams in piacLicully every* event, but will not decide on the exact personnel of each combination until tomoiiovv afternoon at thiee-thuty o’clock when he will hold trial laces on the New Bouvet (Continued on lasi page) Faculty Advises As Collegian Banquets Liku.inir tilt. COLLEGIAN to .. pane of glass tlnough which the stu dents see the affaus of Penn State, Dean Wuinock extended advice anil congiatulntions to the incoming ami outgoing honids of the College news papa at the gtoup’s .twelfth and iaigest annual banquet in the Penn State hotel Tuesdav night. Six other faculty* membeis com mended the changing boards and of fered suggestions foi making this viai’s vcrituie one of the most piofitable in the iii’-toiy of the stu dent journal The guests pies ent weie Dean A R. Wjimock, Plot W F Gibbons, Hugo Be/dek, Piof M M. Hums and Mi D M Ciess well Dean Wninuek dedaied lliat lie hud long planned a cmnculuin of journal ism lor the College and hoped that borne day it would become a lonhty. BA TSMEN ENCOUNTER CORNELL TOMORROW Nittany Lions Meet Early Season Test Against Red and White Nine at Ithaca—Wilson Captain ; Council Asks Names of j J j Class Office Candidates | I ; Candidates foi all class, Stu- j . - « ent Council and La Vie offices ! I i mst submit theii names m I 1 vmting to Thomas Cum, Ji., j | Omega Epsilon house, before | . six o’c'oek on Wednesday even- j ? ing, Apul twentv-fiist f I The Itst of offices foi which j j nominations will be icceived is j j a-, follows piesident, secretniv, j ■ tieasuiei and Student Council * ! members of the class of 1927, I I piesident, secictaiy, tieasuru | | and Student Council members j | ol the class of 1928, editoi-in- j i ; chief and business manager of * , I the 1928 La Vie, piesident. sec- I 1 f uLiry, tiensurci and Student | I j Council membeis of the class oi j 1 j 1129 !j • Candidates for Student Coun- j t I ul should state the school in j j which they aie oniolled when |* j submitting thou names j ! 5- AH candidates foi the above - j I named offices must submit then ! ' j own names in writing Anvone j I | who fails to do this will not be i j considered as a candidate j j GOLDKETTE’S NEW RECORDS RELEASED Junior Prom Second Ticket Sale Slated Tuesday—Booth Space Sold Out SILVERSTEIN TO BEGIN DECORATIONS MONDAY Incicnsmg the already long list of Victoi to its credit. Jean Gold kette’s oichestxa. Jumoi Prom music makers lecoided “Dnfting Apart’’ and “Sony and Blue" a week ago and the new iccokls aie now on sale at the Music Room These latest hits oT the famed musicians aie iated among their best The second and thud ticket snle-. vHI be held ut Co-op Tuesday* and Wednesday nights between seven and eight-thuty o’clock Subscriptions me pi iced at six dollais All booth spaces were sold a few moments af lei the opening sale Tuesdav* Decorators Here Monday .Silverstein and one of his repicscn t itivis will ,mive in State College Monday to begin the decoration of the Aimoiv The scheme is to be one of the most eiabouitc ever used at Penn State Novel innovations aie expect ed to ado distinctly individual utmos ]heie to the function Class colors. io\al puiplc and silver, will predoni n ate I'm the best advcitising posters re ceived the committee will awaul com- I limentui \ tickets Each foui plat aids accepted incut one flee ndnns. (Continued on thud page) SQphomores Vend Proclamations to Arrogant Plebes The histone sophomoic* (lag will be unfuilcd foi the lust tune this yeai befoie the eyes of the freshmen when the ycalling class meets in the Bull Pen tonight at seven o’clock Tho pnml postei will sell at sixty cents it copy * The committee has heavily aimed thejioi tals ot the Bull Pen so that no freshman shall escape without ae quiiing a pioci.dilution Those who have seen the finished woik hail it as one of the best in years. The com mittee ltsolt is pi one to icgard the poster as a second mastoi piece of Leonnulo da Vinci. It is, they say, distinctive, oiiginal and titling In the center of the pioclamution is the wide open space of a vcurling’s Many a Frosh Has Found His Spirit Wevk PRICE FIVE CENTS Led bv Claik Wilson, newlv-decb d captain, the Penn Statu baseball squad loft State College cailv this miming foi Ithaca to engage the foimidnole Come!! nine tonunrou in what will be the Just real test of the season lot the Nittnnv Lions | While Penn State’s chances aie m l j p.u ticul.n Iv blight the team has been stiengthoned by the addition of ,Sfr boiski and Van Atta, pitcher i, vho have been deelaicd clegible The d egibility of Ilanv Slate, husky ngl.l- Knndei from last year’s fieslman team, will not be definitely deeid.d until next week. - * Cornell Dangerous j The Ithacans piesent a team tine ms fuitificd in everv depaitment but i bulling Advance lepoits have it 'that tile Red and White pitcheis ire lan uncertain quantity Vickcis, \ it ! ale and Pvle, the lattei a sophomoic, ifoim the bulwark of the Cornel! [ moundsmen, and the choice of Head I Conch Eckley* will rest between ’Ji -,e [men Dagenhaidt, the only 1, ft jhnndei on the squad, and Nash jic inexperienced ard probabh will not 'see action in the clash tomono.v I Shaw, veteran of last season, li s j ictuinod l.is position at fust base bet [Rossomondo, star couitmnn, has oust ed Wendt and will start at the kev j «tone siuik foi Cornell Baldci ,tc.n has the edge on Hall and Heizolrn n foi tho shoitstop post left vacant bv graduation, while Glusser is the i ie->- ent guardian of the hot coinei When the outfield candidates as sembled at the beginning of the senvjn it was found all five of the mui vhu alternated on the lt)2u team hud il tuined in addition to two aspinmts who had come up from the fieshm in ranks It is a raie occasion that thi same tuo of outfieldcis start two 011- cossive games Dupiee, Men ill, Bak er, McConnell and* Ttcfts me the quintet v.lio are reiulv to Ul tailed upon at a moment’s notice \itt.ui\ Lineup Slighth Changed Lesko who stalled the Juniata prnme in iight-fleld has been shifted behind the bat In Coach Be/dck tn place of Ilanmgton who lias an :n -juicd linger rietchei, injected into Saturday's game late in tiie fiuv, will be the dunce foi the open right-held both The sophomnie will bat in ILmingtun’s numbei eight position, while Lesko will still be numbei fh <•,. i The icnuimdei of the line-up will lm unchanged timing at Ithaca at tlnce oVoch this afternoon the Lion squad will indulge in a light workout on !!• \ held, the scene of tomoi low’s clash Be/ has been sticssing batting and base-tunning foi the gieatei jiait ol the piaclice dulls this week and has been pating spceial attention to Ihe slickwoik of tliu men who appimd to be weak in the Juniata game Tin infieldeis aie plating snupp\ ball on the defensne while the outficlilcis aic tConlinuca on Us»t page) COUNTY BOYS MEET IN ANNUAL “Y” CONFERENCE Hundred llijfh School Sludcnls Kxpcclcd to Attend—Will Visit Three I)«t\-s One bundled Centu uuiiiln higli school students will attend the fifth annual Oldei Bins’ confluence of (’t 11- tic county lieie lodiit Ihe confeience is undei tlu auspic es of the Penn Stale Young Men s Chiisliun Association winch is un.p eiiiting with the Centie cotmlv Sab bath School association Last, \cai one hundred delegates who took up the pioblem o£“Choosmg a Lite Wink ’ This year the slogan is "Be .1 LifUi Not n Lcanei.” Following the legislation, ol tin delegates this attcinuon thc\ will go to the \anous fiateimty houses who will be their hosts dining the confei ence At si\ o’clock thine will lit a banquet and an acquaintance (i.ulv undei Call Calhoun, Student Sicu turj, while tomonow a gcnenil dis cussion will be held The \nsitois will attend a basiball
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