“He Who Laughs Last—” VOL. XXI, No. 67 SENIORS, ALUMNI TO TAKE PART IN VARIED PROGRAM Graduate Nine Opposes Varsity Saturday—Trustees Meet At Two O’clock COMMENCEMENT DANCE SET FOR MONDAY NIGHT Thespians And Players Present Final Showing—Classes To Hold Parade Penn State fraternities, with danc es and the Players with its presenta tion of “The Boomerang," will usher in the long procession of activities thnt will fcatuic the sixty-sixth an nual Commencement exercises The activities will start Friday evening and end Tuesday at noon. Fraternities will be allowed to con tinue their dances until two o’clock Saturday morning and guests must leave the houses within one hour af ter the dance Alumni Baseball Tilt Penn State visitors and students will witness a well-filled piogrnm on Saturday The Alumni-Varsity baseball game is scheduled for New Beavei field at tw o-thirty o’clock Requests have been sent to many of the alumni base ball players and an effort has been made to have Miles Thomas '22, now with the New York Yankees, twirl for the old-timers The annual meeting of the Board of ‘•‘Trustees will be held in the piesident’s office at two o’clock At the same time in Old Chapel, the election of trustees will be held, and in Room 180, Old Main the alumni will convene to elect of ficers and directors An Alumni Council meeting and banquet will take place at five o’clock and at six-thirty class banquets will get under way _ The Penn State Thespians will en tertain the visitors by a final showing of "The Kid Himself" m the Auditor ium at eight o’clock. Fraternity dances will be conducted until mid night. Baccalaureate Sermon The Rev. Maitland Alexander, D D , of Pittsburgh, will deliver the Bacca laureate sermon on Sunday morning m the Auditorium at ten-thirty In the afternoon, the College Band will give a conceit on the front campus at three-thirty. Vesper services on the front campus at six-thirty will termi nate with a concert in the Auditorium at eight o’clock Monday will be known as Alupini (Continued on third page) LIONS SWAMP CENTRE HILLS LINKSMEN, 29-1 Greer And Cluley Each Score A 75—Canon And Taylor Win At Last Hole The Niltany golfeis completely ov erwhelmed the Centre Hills country club here Saturday, 29-1, in the final game of the sensun The low-hall foursome system was used, scoring one point for each nine holes and one for the match. Fouitcen men com peted for each team. Displaying a brand of golf thnt kept them out of danger rft all times the Penn State lads cinched their fifth gnmo, turning in a season’s card of five wins and but one loss Although a light ram Satuidny morning threatened to stop the match, the couise was in excellent condition, the Lion tec artists having complete con trol- of the ball on the green. Herb Canon and Captain Doc Tay lor, Penn State and Moinll and Tay lor, Centre Hills provided the fen tine fouisomc of the uftcinoon. At the end of the fust nine holes the score stood four up, Penn State. Can on and Morrill went onto the eight eenth green deadlocked, but Canon’s four to the latter’s five turned the tables and captui ed the hectic duel. Canon turned in a ciud of 7(1 while Morill’s count was 80. Captain Tay lor, of the Lions, scoicd an 80 while Ids like-named opponent shot an 83 Both Greet and Cluley, Penn State, tallied a 75 each, the lowest of the day Then opponents Smith and Uib made an 84 and BG, respectively, giving little trouble. . The only in vading pair able to tally was RciU and Johnson matched with Myeis and Robinson. With the exception of the intercol lcgintcs to be held at Philadelphia from June twenty-ninth to J.uly third over the Merion couise, Sntuidny’s encounter was the final game on the Nittnny schedule. ffettn A Librarian Calls For Return Of All Books All books should be returned to the Carnegie Library before June tenth, accoiding to a request made by the circulation department. Although a large numbei of volumes mude an ap pearance on Clean-up Dny, especially those overdue, there are many otheis that are yet to be returned. It is in older to relieve congestion next week that the libiarians me making their request for all books to be returned whether or not they me due Special anangements ran be made, however, foi cither keeping books or taking them out over the Commencement period I. F.C. RESTRICTS RUSHING METHODS New Rulings To Take Effect Next Year—Pledging To Begin September 13 PENALTY PROVIDED FOR INFRACTIONS OF RULES Interfraternity Council pioceed ings indicate that with the re-open mg of College in September methods of lushing the incoming freshmen will be somewhat restricted A new provision, was presented and accept ed b> the Council at its meeting Inst week. The motion follows* “No lushing shall take place be foie twelve o’clock noon, Saturday, Septcmbei eleventh, and no pledging shall begin until twelve o’clock noon, Monday, September thuteonth “The Intel fraternity Council in teipsets the statement, ’no rushing,’ as meaning that no fteshman sha’l be entertained by any fiatcrnity in any manner, such as being accomp anied to movies, lunches, meals at hotels, out-of-town parties, motor rides, and the like. -“From the poriod beginning twelve o’clock noon, Saturday, September el eventh and ending twelve o’clock noon, Monday, September thirteenth, no ficshman shall be allowed to stay overnight on any fraternity premis es, the word ‘overnight’ being defined ns between the houis of 10 p m. and 8 a m on any two consecutive days. “The penalty for proved mfiac tions of this code shall be a vote of censure by this council to the guu v fraternity, the notice of which shall (Continued on third page) PURNELL APPROPRIATIONS TO AID AG DEVELOPMENT Ten Thousand Dollar Increase Over Last Year Will Be Used For Research According to Dean R. L Watts, the depaitment of Agriculture will be considerably cnlniged for the next school year New coutses will be given m rural sociology, farm man agement and efficiency of laboi. Spe cial emphnsib will be placed upon courses m Economics. The Purnell appropunlion of Uni ty thousand dolhus is used exclusive ly for lcscaich work. Piohably the gicater pait of the money will be spent m the investigation of foiest conditions within the State Anothci portion will be spent studying the in sects and diseases that arc said to be harmful to mushrooms. It is plan ned to learn more about fiuit tiees especially apple, chcny and pear Figures regaiding the use of modem machinery in up-to-date fanning wiM be compiled. Three Musical Groups Plan Combined Recital Holding daily rcheaisals, the Col lege Oichestra, Glee and Mandolin Clubs have completed nirangements for a combined concert on Monday evening, June fourteenth, in the Aud itoi mm. Tickets for the combined concert will be placed on sale tonight at Co op at seven o’clock. Foi the remaind er of the week the pasteboards may be secured at the Music Room A musical score, including a spec ial arrangement of “Oh Miss Han nah, ’’ will be sung by the Glee Club. Vocal and instrumental numbers of vaned clmrncter me on the proposed progrnm. In ordei to prevent inter ference with other Commencement Week activities the program will be limited to one hout. Indications point to this us one of the most suc cessful of the traditional concerts. STATE COLLEGE. PA.i TUESDAY, JUNE 8. 1926 LIONS SWEEP EIGHT EVENTS TO DEFEAT PANTHERS IN MEET Pittsburgh Held To Lone Point On Track—Moore Captures Both Hurdles BLUE AND GOLD MAKES FAIR SHOWING IN FIELD Filkins Registers Double Win In Sprints—Mathias And Idc Take First Places Completely eclipsing Pittsburgh’s track squad, the Lion undermcn ran wild in the Pitt Stadium Saturday, taking cveiy place m the running events except thud in the high hurd les and scored an overwhelming 09 2-3 to 35 1-3 victory The Panthers were saved from utter rout only by the pei foi ounces of Linn, Welch and Archibald in the shot put and discus tluow. In scoring its seventh consecutive, and incidentally most decisive victorv ovci the Pitt tiaekmen, the Nittany Lions raided every' event on the tiack amassing 71 out of 72 points without even being extended Captain Moore and Filkins were the high scorers for Penn State with ten points each. Moore Wins Last Races Moore, running his last race for the Blue and White* scored a double (Continued on last page) CAPS AND GOWNS TO ARRIVE FRIDAY Committee Begins Distribution Friday Afternoon—Other Hours Announced COLLECT OUTFITS AFTER GRADUATION EXERCISES Caps and gowns to be worn by the semois during the Baccalauicatc ser mon and Commencement cxciciscs will probablv be leceived Friday, accord ing to R T. Knebel ’2G, chairman of the scnioi committee Distribution will begin Fndiiv af ternoon and will continue until Mon day night in oi del to give seniors who are out of town for the week an opportunity to get then outfits On Fnday afternoon from four until fivc-thiity o’clock, seniors whose surnames begin with letters from A to II inclusive will be outfitted fiom the first floor of Engineenng A, while on Satuiday morning fiom el even until twclve-tlmty o’clock sen iors fiom I to Z inclusive may secure their caps and gowns. Distribution Hours Announced Other houis during which distri bution will be made fiom Engineer ing A arc* Saturday uftcinoon fiom four until five-thirty o’clock, Sunday morning before the Baccalaureate seimon from mrfi until ten o’clock, and Tuesday morning befoie the com mencement cxeicises from eight un til nine o’clock. The academic lognlia will be col lected immediately after the gradu ations cxeicises at tables in the big (Continued on second page) Commence Work On New Electric Lines Because the piesent electric cables serving the Agricultural farm, Chem istiy buildings ami the Woman's Doimitoiy have been burned out on scveial occasions dm mg the past wmtei, the College elcctiieiuns me preparing to build the damaged poi lion. Work will also begin immediale’y on the now ovci burdened cables sup plying current to the Campus dwell ings. Dunng the lcconstiuetion per iod set vice will be rcgulai until June eighteenth. Fmm then until July third, because of the woik, powci will be intei mittent. According to R I Webber, Supei intendent of Grounds and Buildings, it is leqiiestcd that all concerned may foi m early plans foi the utilization of power duung the lconstruction pctiod GOLF FINALS TODAY Intel fiatcrnity golf foi the 1920 season will conic to a close today when Delta Tnu Delta und Alpha Chi Sigma compete foi the cup. The lost preliminary mntch was played last week when Omega Epsilon was louted by the Delta Tau Delta com bination. Final La Vie Sale To Take Place Tomorrow The final sale and distribution of the 1927 La Vie will be held Wednes day evening at ( Montgomery’s stoie from six o'clock to eight o'clock. Second scmcstci jumoi matncula tion cards must'be presented to re ceive the annual. Single copies nny be purchased for five dollars Fraternities should send checks payable to 1927 La Vie to Montgom ery's store. JUDGES SELECTED FOR SONG CONTEST Harmonics Submitted Mus>l Bo Adapted To Verses Of “State To Thee” WINNERS TO BE NAMED AFTER SUMMER SESSION To facilitate the judging of compo sitions in the COLLEGIAN song con test, Director R ■ W. Giant, of the music department, has selected Dr. R E. Dengler, F. G. Williams and Hum mel Fishburn as his aides on the com mittee of award. Dircctoi Grant is chairman of the quartet of judges The music submitted must be ad apted to the lyric of “Slate To Thee,” wTitten by Prof. Mason Long and pub lished in the current issue of The Old Mum Bell Simptc melodics will not be accepted and the score must be ai ranged in four-piut harmony. A pii'e of ten dollars will be awaided to the winner. Conlest Closes August First All contestants must submit them music to the committee before the fust of August, when the contest will offic ially close. Contributions should be . addressed to Dean Grant, at his of fice. Competition is open to all mem bers of the classes of 1926, 1927, and 1928 and 1929 All members of the faculty may Members of the committee and members of the COLLEGIAN board arc barred. The name of the winner will be an nounced m the second issue of the COLLEGIAN after the summer re cess A reproduction of the scoie will also be printed at that time The puzc is not offcicil as a monetary* in centive but as a recognition of merit The sole specifications of the contest arc thnt the score be entirely oiiginal and wntten in four part harmony*. THESPIANS MAKE FINAL SHOWING AT GRADUATION Ticket Sale Begins Today At Montgomery’s—Sections May Be Reserved With the Commencement showing of “The Kid Himself” the Thespians will drop their curtain foi the season The same cast which met with much suc cess on the load will be used m this pioduction R W. Graham ’2G, will fill the lole of pretty Sally Mon ill while S C. Runkle ’27 will display the feminine charms of Maijorie Wuic D D Noithrup ’2B will enact Jimmie Atkins while P. J. Farley '29, Louis Zuconick ’29, R. G. Kennedy '2B and J E. Kennedy ’2G will bung foith: their rairth-supplymg talents. Tickets will be placed on sale at Montgomery's Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at the reduced intes of one dollar and fifty cents and one dol lar. Fiatcrnity rows may be icseivcd by calling Comad at the Phi Gamma Delta house today*. The second anmi.il Thespian banquet held at the Centio Hills country club last Friday evening was featured by addresses by Dean Stoddard, Professoi Kinsloc and Bnndmnstei W 0 Thompson During the evening en tertainment was furnished by individ ual members of the club. PROFESSOR HELME JOINS FOREIGN SUMMER SCHOOL Piofessor J. B Ilelmu of the de partment of iuchiteetuie will sail fiom New York as a niembei of the faculty of the Euiopean Summei School of the Bui can of Univeisity Travel of Boston on the twenty-thud ol this month At the head of a huge paitv of students oigiuu/ed by Dr. Shot wood Eddy, Y. 51. C A woikci, Professor Holme will spend most of the summer in Pans, London, Beilin and Geneva as instructor m iuchiteetuie and the fine arts. One of the main .func tions of the entire tour will be the study of the League of Nations and international iclntiomi abioad. fflullrgtan. FAMED PHYSICIST ACCEPTS POST AS PROFESSOR HERE Dr. \V. P. Davey, Well Known Ab Experimenter, To Aid In Research Work GAINED ENVIABLE RECORD WITH GENERAL ELECTRIC Dr. E. D. Ries, Noted Author And Educator, Will Teach In Engineering School Dr Wheeler P. Davey, said to do one of the few intei nationally known American physicists, has accepted ap pomtment as professor of physical chemistry at Penn State, according to an announcement yesterday by Dr. G L Wendt, dean of the School of Chemistry and Physics I)r. Reis Also Coming Dean Wendt also announced thnt Di Emil D Reis, now on the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech nology, and formerly m charge of motoi fuel icsearch foi the Standard Oil company*, will come here as as sociate professoi of chemical engineer ing Both men will stait then duties heic in Scptenibci. The inventoi of an X-iay machine now in gcneiai use in the investiga tion of the structuie of metals, Dr Davey has established an enviable lecoid ns a icseaich physicist in the (Continued on second page; “THE BOOMERANG” TO SHOW FRIDAY Penn Stale Players Give First Local Showing Of Comedy In Auditorium THEME CENTERS ABOUT MODERN YOUNG DOCTOR The first local piesentution of “The Boomerang,” a comedy in three acts, will he given by the Penn State Play ers Friday evening m the Auditorium after successful road trips The play opens in the office of Dr. Sumnci, a modem physician who has spent eleven years studying übroad Now settled in Hartford, with a well equipped olhce, he has everything to insuic success except one important item, patience. Plot Becomes Involved A voung gul, Virginia Xelba, *s seeking a position as a nurse and se cures emplovment as office assistant slis Woodbndge, a society woman, hearing of the doctor’s studies abroad, brings hoi son. Bud, foi an examina tion Dr Sumner examines bis first patient discoveiing that the young man’s ailment is a severe attack of jealousv Confident that he thorough ly* undei stands women, Dr Sumner makes Bud promise to follow his in stiuctions for one month and assigns Virginia to take care of him. Dr Sumner's thorny is that u mod em physician can treat anything and in a scene which follows with Xelba, (Continued on second page) Frothy Has Last Laugh Tomorrow Piotliv will take its last stab at campus humni in the Commencement number, to be icleased tomonow at eleven o’clock at Giaham's Jokes are ccntcicd upon suiuliy featmes per tuining to giaduation with the subse quent beginning in the cold, wide woild The cover is anothci of Eschen buch’s and has as a central fentuic, n young couple—a hoy and hm gul Presumably the cover is appinprmtc, the couple me iippuiontly about to commence something but no conjec tuie can be made on that score In the background, a silhouette of Old Mam, makes the figuie of local mtei est The mam editorial is written rel ative to vacation with a resume of all the j’oys and soirows accompanying it In addition to their latest issue the meme men plan to offer the Jumoi Piom issue which will be on sale to moirow The fcatuic thnt made this edition famous is the well-known song, “I Love a Co-ed," the lyric written by Doc Tuyloi, and composed by Chang bmilh. To fmthei their populimty, the jesters me pondentig over a summer edition of then publication. This will include one issue and will be mailed uny*wheie foi the puce of thiity cents. Varsity Meets Bucknell Nine at Lewisburg Today In Return Tilt—Errors Of Scoring Punch Downfall, 8-4 Seeks Revenge And Lack Cause | Alumni Office Culls | For Graduate Blanks j Wishing to keep all giaduntcs | in close touch with Penn State, i the alumni office requests that | the graduate record blanks | which weie sent out by mail j from the office he returned lm | mediately It is essential, to [ both the student and the alumni P office, that they be returned at j the eailicst possible time i BOARD APPROVES SORORITY PLANS Decisions Referred To College Senate For Final Action At Meeting Friday WILL ASK CHARTERS IF SENATE GRANTS FAVOR Unanimous action in favor of wo men’s national fiulernities was taken by the Student Welfare committee when its members voted last Thurs day on the petition sent to them by the gills’ campus clubs. The com mittee will iccommend this decision to the College Senate for final action at the lattci’s last meeting of the year, Friday The petition sent to the Welfare Committee was brief, referring for further information, to the dctuilcd petition sent previously to the Dean of Women The petitions to Dean Ray and to the Welfare committee constitute the first definite move the campus clubs have made toward se em mg sororities Whether they mav continue in this line will be decided at the Senate meeting. Should the petition be giantcd it: will not mean that soiorities will be: established here at once, the proces, involved being very slow. According to the restrictions placed on them at their founding, none of the clubs have applied for membership in national women’s fraternities Providing the action of the Senate is favorable, the clubs will begin to work foi charters with the hope that sororities will be installed within two veins’ time DELEGATES CONVENE TO ELECT FOUR TRUSTEES 400 Representatives. Assemble Saturday To Choose Men For College Board Teims of foui members of the I’enn State board of trustees expne at the end of tins month, and almost foui hundred agnculturnl, engincei ing, mining and manufacturing so cieties of tlie state have been asked to send delegates to the College on June twelfth to fill the vacancies John S Fisher, of Indiana, candi date foi the office of Governor of Pennsylvania, Charles M. Schwab, Loietta, Vance C McCoinuck, Har iisburg, and Jesse B. Warmer, Lars foul, aie the trustees whose terms expno at this time The term of ofliee is foi Unee years slr Schwab and str McCoinuck have been mem bers of the board for manv years, and sli Fishei was elected by dele gates m 1923. Hath county is entitled to six dele gates at the election meeting, three from the industiial and business st udies of the county and three fiom the agiiculltiral organizations It i. by this means that the College main tains close touch with the people of tlie state to whom it rendcis its pun cipal sci vice as u state institution. THESPIAN CLUB ELECTIONS .1 V. Ingham ’27 C S Myeis ’2B R. G Kennedy '2B .1 P. Knappenbeigor ’2B F M. Gager ’2B F. Close’2B G. Z. Pencil ’2B W 51. McClements ’2B D D. Noithrop ’2B PRICE FIVE CENTS *P Penn State’s baseball lepresentativc. will have another chance to smash the I five-year string of Bucknell diamond victones when it journeys to Lewis burg foi a retuin engagement today I after being outclassed bv the Bison, on n ram-soaked field Saturday, S-l Toi»onow’s contest will iii.uk the finish of the intercollegiate season foi both teams and will be played befoie a large assemblage of Bucknell alun- I ni, returning to participate in the !! Commencement week uctiviliii A game with the Alumni heie on Satur day remains on the Blue and White schedule Scoring Punch Again L.ukmg The old trouble of failing to hit when a bingle would drive in runs was again apparent in Sutuiduy's game The Lions left eleven men • tramlcd on the b ises as complied to Buckncll’s six, and that tells the story Pcim State batters collu.Lid twelve safeties fiom Murphy's deliv ery but lucked the scoring punch Errors weie paitly lesponsible foi Page’s downfall in Bucknell’s big sixth inning uprising when the visit, ms scored five of then mils Aftu Murphy had walked, Gaskill fanned, Shoitr then bounded an easy ioiler lo Schwartz, who with u double pi i\ m sight, let the ball get away and both lunneis were safe The Buckncdli.iii, then took advantage of the bioak met foui safe hits accounted foi five runs Bucknell Assumes Lead Both teams weie iclircd lulloss in the first canto but m the home team’s half of the second llairis m iced one of Muiphy’s oflcimgs foi n* single to left Schwartz bounced one off thud base for another safety but the next two batters could not advance them Bucknell broke into the scoring col umn in the third Quinn walked and after Tuck had made it two out, Mo- Cleary dropped u Tcius Lcaguei back of second sturphy tame through with a timely wallop to left field, scor mg Quinn ami slcCleary. After its six mn scoi mg session in the sixth, during which Page wis vanked in favor of Haines, Bucknell tallied but once This time errois u gam were lcsponsible foi the lone tallv sluiphy singled to ceiitei and continued on to second when WiKon let the ball get awav The Bucknell hurler then scoied when Neil Blaisdell (Continued on Inst page) COMMENCEMENT DANCE SCHEDULED FOR MONDAY College To Entertain Seniois At Annual Ball—Follows Outdoor Reception As n fnicwcdl event, Penn St lie will tender a Commencement B ill to de parting scnioi s Monday evening An outdom leceplion, held at nine thirty o’clock, undei a large tent op posite the Armoiv, will open the fes tivities A host of notables unhiding the Commencement spenku, College trustees, Baccalaureate speaket. Col lege Deans and officcis of tlie Altnnm Association, will be piesent Following the infmm.il outdom gathering, the assembled guests w ill proceed to tlie bedecked Amioiv Dancing will begin at ten o'clock and continue until two Accoiding to II Fishhuin ’22, ol the Commencement ball committee, com plications have arisen with an niches tru engagement. The onginnl choice, the Memphis Five, because ot a pic vious engagement in New England, cancelled a contiact Negotiations me now undei vvuv, und the committee expects to be able to name the new oichestra within a few days TWELVE MEN INITIATED BY GAMMA DELTA SIGMA Holding Us umumt initiation ban quet at tlie Umvcisiiv Club, G 1111111,1 Sigmu Della, hnnoiniy agiicultuiul fraternity, welcomed twelve new membcis Tluusdav evening Di E 11. Diislmm and Di S I Beclidel, fiom tlie faculty, W .1 Canfield, 11. E Gaylcv, J II Kiugci and R. P Tiltslei, fiom the giudii ate school, F. II Calkins ’2b, A W. Fox ’2O, B W Ileywmi ’2(5 and S M Woodlieud ’2G aie the nevvtomei? into Gamma Sigma Delta Elections of officcis lestilted in the selection of A. U Amleiaon, piesi dent; Ptof. J B Hill, vice-piesident Prof R. 11 Sudds, secictuiy-trcasui-
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