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VOL XXII, No. 18
BLUE AND WHITE .
SOCCERMEN FIGHT
TO 2-2 TIE WITH
TORONTO VISITORS
Serry and Griffin Score Pair of
Pointers in First Minutes of
Play—Both Teams Show
Aggressive Attack
CANADIANS ON TOUR
Will Meet Syracuse, Haverford
And Swarthmore Booters in
Invasion —Visiting Goalie
Stars Despite Injury
Two five minute overtime penods
following the regulation ninety min
utes of play failed to determine a
winner and both the Penn Stats and
Toronto soccer teams had to be con
tent with a 2-2 draw in a game that
was a real battle from the opening
whistle here Saturday. Five hundred
persons were on hard to view the en
counter.
The Nittany booters literallv swept
the Canadians off then-feat m the op
ening minutes of the fray and before
the visitors could get their healings
Penn State was in the \an by a two
goal margin. From this point a let
down in the play of the Blue and
White aggregation was noticeable
The Toronto playeis, undaunted by
the sudden turn of affairs, kept plug
ging away until they had drawn up
on even terms with their opnonenls.
Griffin and Serry Tally
Less than three minutes of the
game hod been played when Guilin
got loose from a scrimmage in fiont
of the Toronto goal and shot the lea
ther into a coiner of the net for the
first tally. It was a perfect place
ment.
Shortly after this score, Sei'j bj a
brilliant piece of individual work
dnbbled -the spheroid 'thrrty yards
through the uprights for Penn State’s
second and final counter.
Toronto Braces
With seeming defeat just around
the corner Toronto stiffened m its
defensive play and with an offense
made effective by short snappy pass
es, soon carried the play into Lion
territory. The seoond scoic on the
othci hand had an inveise psycholog
ical effect on the home team The
Lions appeared to underestimate the
leal strength of their opponents fol
lowing the two quick scoies The Nit
tany players became an oidinaiy
team.
Near the end of the initial quartei
Downing, the visiting outside right,
icceivcd an accuinte pass from the
wing in fiont of the Blue nnd White
goal and quickly converted it into a
score.
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TO INSPECT R. 0. T. C.
UNIT AT MONDAY DRILL
Lieutenant-colonel Deems Will
Represent Third Corps
Area Head
The Penn State R O T. C. unit
will be inspected Monday, November
fourteenth by Lieutenant-colonel
Clarence Deems, Ji., of Baltimore,
Maryland
Every year the commander of the
Third ,Corps area sends out a staff
of officers on a tour of inspection and
Lieutenant-colonel Deems is repre
senting lus superior, Major-general
Douglas MacArthuv. He will review
the drills on Monday evening, and on
Tuesday morning will examine mili
tary equipment and supplies.
Penn State is one of the ten insti
tutions in this district that has never
received honorable mention. For this
reason the local officers desire to make
a creditable showing. There are
twenty-three colleges listed in the
Tihrd Corps area.
Chemistry Department
To Study Crude Oils
A study of the metallic constituents
of crude petroleum is the project as
signed to the School of Chemistry foi
investigation by the Amcncan Pe
troleum Institute. One hundred
thousand dollars is being distributed
among thirty-one colleges and univer
sities by the Institute for the purpose
of conducting research upon diffcicnt
problems.
Investigation will proceed under
the direction of Dean Wendt Tho
project is mostly theoretical.
Prim S»tatf £
Cercle Francais To
Present French Play
Lc Cercle Francais is working on
a French play which will be presented
m the Old Chapel early in December.
The play, the name of which will be
announced later, will be presented en
tirely in the French language
The organization had a meeting last
week and several French songs were
sung. The next meeting is scheduled
for Monday. A feature of the meet
ing will be games that were played
by the students who were enrolled in
the Fiench institute here this sum
mer.
SOCIETY DISCUSSES
PRIMARY ELECTIONS
Advisability of System at Penn
Stale Is Considered by
Pi Lambda Sigma
SUGGESTED TO DESTROY
INFLUENCE OF CLIQUES
Discussion of the advisibibty of in
troducing primaries into the election
system now in vogue at Penn State
was heard at a meeting of Pi Lamb
da Sigma, honorary pre-legal frater
nity, last week Arguments were ad
vanced concerning both the merits
and disadvantages of election by the
rrimary system.
The discussion, lesolved itself into
two main points. First Would the
introduction of primaries assure the
election of bettor men? Would it
strengthen or lessen the influence of
individual cliques?
Disadvantages Outweight Merits
General opinion was that the pri
mary method of election would bene
fit conditions to a certain extent, but
that on the whole its advannges Mould
r.ot be great enough to warrant its
adoption.
A debate on the proposition, “Re
solved* That Ameucan social frater
nities should rush _-only after they
have completed the first year of co,-
loge work,” will take place at the -revt
meeting of the oiganization S H
lorchia '27 and E L Willard ’27
will argue the affirmative; C. C Ber
ryhill ’2B and A. S. Goiny ’2B, the
negative. This meeting will be an
open one and those interested arc in
vited to attend.
Book-loving Canine
Keeps Library Vigil
Shades of the Ghost Walk and a
pair of hot dogs! One studious cam
pus camne, ambitious, yea more am
bitious than is the wont of some col
lege men, rooted in the whys and
uhorefors of the Carnegie Library
one night last week until his nose be
came so engrossed in a volume of
"Campus Hounds,” that lie neglected
the passing hours.
That there was no illumination
made no difference, so absorbed was
ho. He thought it was a joke But
10, as the night grew on and tho cold
of the outside night moused him
from his reverie he became frighten
ed. Fear gave way to tcrroi and
teiror yielded to baying His an
guished howls proved futile.
It is not known whether the unfor
tunate canine spent the remainder of
the evening in peaceful slumber oi
whether ho again “hit the books ”
All that could bo learned was that he
seemed particularly glad to see the
librarians when they threw open the
doois of tho Carnegie bookery the
next morning
COLLEGE TENNIS TILT
ENTERS SECOND ROUND
With the first round matches all
played off in the all-Collcge tennis
tournament, it is expected that the
second round will be completed this
week. Sixteen players remain in
the second round including McCabe,
Hinkle, Mitchell and Barr, all mem
bers of last year’s varsity team. The
winner will be declared the tennis
champion of the College.
Collegian Candidates
Will Meet Tomorrow
Freshmen candidates for the j
editorial staff of the COLLEG- j
lAN will hold then* third meet- !
ing of the year in Room 14 Lib- I
oral Arts tomorrow evening at j
tcvcp o’clock. Fieshmen and j
sophomore woman candidates S
will meet in Room Ifi Liberal !
Arts on Thursday at eight |
o’clock. Additional candidates |
may still report. |
STATE COLLEGE, PA., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1926
THESPIANS LIST
TEN NUMBERS ON
VAUDEVILLE CARD
Miss M. J. Gobreclit, Marimba
Artist, In First Co-ed
Act Since 1918
MUSIC AND MAGIC VIE IN
HEIGHT OF ORIGINALITY
W. T. Neff Opens Performance
With Sleight-of-hand—
Finale a Feature
The Penn State Thespians have be
gun their final week of rehearsal, pre
paratory to the presentation of their
annual vaudeville show which will be
given Friday A diversified card of
ten acts is expected to become cne of
the major house-party attractions.
The ten skits all involving the
cream of College talent, figure on the
*impleted program, among th*>m be
ing a great number of musical novel
elties, a skit borrowed from the Mus
ic Box Revue and a sleight-of-hand
performance by the leading campus
prestidigitator. An unusual feature,
added this year, is the admittance of
a co-ed into the realms of Thespis
Magician Opens Program
W T. Neff '2B, will open the per
formance with a senes of mystifica
tions that smack of the late Houdinu
His bag of tricks is always replete
with wonderment Following Neff’s
curtain, P F Foster '2D, will appear
on the boards with an educated mus
ical saw. L W. Fisher ’2B, will pro
vide piand accompaniment foi this
act.
The afoimentioned pianist will re
main on the stage to offer the syn
copation to which S. C Runklo '27
and R G Kennedy ’2B, wil clog Both
men have had prominent parts m for
mer Thespian successes and foot it
with the familiarity that is born of
experience.
Miss Gobrccht Provides Feature
The radically new feature of the
annual vaudeville is to be saved for
the fourth act In this number the
Thespians introduce the first co-ed
to have taken part in any of its pro
ductions for ten years. The girl is
Miss Martha Jane Gobrccht ’3O, and
hei unusual approach to melody is
made via the Marimba, a little-known
instrument that is much like the xylo
phone Miss Gobrccht has played
for several organizations in Tyrone
and Altoona and has broadcasted
from seven mdio stations through
out the middle-west Her work has 1
icceivcd much commendation.
Following Mm Gobrecht’s act, a
newly-formed piano tno will appear
on the boards. The components, R
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DEAN WENDT ADDRESSES
ACETYLENE ASSOCIATION
Will Speak of Relation of
New Gas to Modern
Progress
Dean G. L. Wendt of the School of
Chcnustry and Physics will deliver
the principal address at the opening
of the convention of the International
Acetylene Association m Chicago on
Monday morning. “The Relation of
Acetylene to Modern Progress” will
be the subject of his speech. On the
following Fuday evening he will
speak informally at the banquet
marking the end of the convention.
The School of Chemistry and Phys
ics is generally recognized as an au
thority m the acetylene industry.
The late Dean G. C. Pond’s mono
graph “Calcium Carbide and Accty*-
lenc” has just been revised and
brought up to date by Prof. W. B.
Mack. It is the fourth edition of the
monograph and will be off the press
in December Copies wil bo distrib
uted all over the world. Already an
advance call for ten thousand copies
has been received
Senior Architects in
' Beaux Arts Contests
For the nation-wide Beaux-Arts In
stitute of Design competition at New
York senior architects heie have
completed designs for "An Architects
Office” which will be judged on No
vember twenty-third For the same
competition sopliomoic architects arc
entering drawings of “An Entrance
to a School of Architecture." Thirty
drawings arc being submitted by the
seniors and thiity-fivc by sophomores.
Prof. J. B. Helmc will represent Penn
State on the board of judges.
Mining Students Leave
On Toiir of Inspection
Seniors in the school of Mines nnd
Metallurgy nnd senior students in
mining geoldgy under the direction
of Professor Bomnc left for an in
spection trap to Cornwall and other
part 3 of Pennsylvania last week.
Later the party will study the geolo
gy of Franklm furnace at the New
Jersey zinc mines.' These mines or
dinarily are closed to visitors and this
permission is unusual.
Leaving on their annual inspection
trip the junior students m ceramic
engineering, under the direction of
Profesor Shaw departed last week on
an itinerary which includes eastern
Pennsylvania and Trenton, N J. The
pottery works will be the subject of
interest in Trenton', after which the
time will be divided among the cement
and brick plants In the eastern part
of Pennsylvania. .
CUBS LOSE FINAL
GAME Tff SYRACUSE
Two Misplays Cause Plebe’s
Downfall and Syracuse
Gets Revenge, 13-0
PENN STATE YEARLINGS
FAIL TO WIN A CONTEST
Playing valiantly but handicapped
by two costly misplays, a fighting cub
eleven went down to defeat at the
hands of the Syracuse yearlings, 13-0,
Friday on a soggy field at Syracuse.
A hail storm made handling the ball
difficult and hampered the attendance
It was the plebcs’ fifth defeat and
their final game of year.
Errors Converted Into Scores
Both teams were evenly matched
but the anxiety of the Orange to av
enge last year’s setb ick and two Lion
errors, one in the first quarter and
the other in the last, both resulting
in touchdowns', gave the home team
the edge. -
After these misplays, a fumble and
an intercepted forward pass, it was
Sammy Sebo, the Orange fullback,
who plunged’thiough for the markers.
His offensive drives continually kept
the yearlings on tho alert and he fur
nished tho real threat in the Onon
dagan camp Although the Lion
team showed improvement over its
past playing Joe Miller, quarterback
was the invading satellite
Disastrous Season
Friday’s reverse marked the end
of the Penn State plebcs’ unsuccess
ful season, failing to win a contest
in five starts It was the worst sea
son in years Three times tho cubs
cringed before prep school gndders
and twice they were downed by col
lege freshmen. It was a badly patch
ed eleven that entered the final con
test but there were practically no in
juries and few* substitutions Coach
Hermann's main changes were Sta
ley for Maxwell, Davis for Faulk and
Faulk for Reilly.
Syracuse elected to kick-off Pan
accion received the boot and returned
it to Syracuse tcuibory Miller rip
ped off ten yards around right end
and Staley added five more with an
off-tackle plunge Ridgeway fumbled
on the next play and Syracuse recov
ered the leathei. That wns the break
that turned the tide against the
L.ons A long spiral surprised the
yearlings and placed the ball within
striking distance, Sebo driving
through tackle a moment later with
the initial touchdown, Louchs mist
ed the placement attempt
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H. A. Canon ’27, Wins
College Golf Tourney
Erratic at times, but displaying
good golf in spite of a strong wind,
H A. Canon ’27 and T. S. Pannac
cion ’3O, battled in the finals of the
Penn State golf tournament last
week with Canon winning the match
seven up and five to go m a thirty
six hole match
Canon was thice up at the end of
the first eighteen holes and Pannac
cion’s spurt at the start of the second
eighteen was futile.
List Cross-Country Scrap
For Four-thirty O’clock
The soph-frosh cross-countiy
scrap will be held this afternoon
at four-thirty o’clock. Start-
New Beaver field ilia
race will be run over* the fresh
man three-mile course. Candi
dates for both teams are to re
port at that time in uniform
The intcrclass scrap will be
staged Friday.
(EoUrgtatt.
GLEE CLUB VISITS
ALTOONA IN FIRST
SHOWING TONIGHT
Forty-five Songsters Leave for
Initial Concert—Rotaiy
Club Is Sponsor
POPULAR MUSIC CARDED
FOR PENNSYLVANIA DAY
Make First Local Appearance
Saturday TVith Popular
Monologuist
Forty-five membois of the Penn
State Glee Club are ready for their
initial appearance of the season to be
made tonight at the Peim-Alto hotel
in Altoona Accompanied by Direc
tor R. W. Grant the group vmII levac
State College late this afternoon.
Tonight’s concert is to be held un
der the auspices of the Altoona Ro
tary club and will serve as a condi
fcjoner for the annual Pennsylvania
Day program The latter event
scheduled for Saturday* evening and
given before an assemblage of hou->c
party guests has become traditional,
it marking the twelfth ye3i that the
gleemen have performed on this oc
casion "
Popular Program Arranged
Realizing that the social activities
of the coming week-end demand a
program of a light natuic Director
Grant has airanged a repertoire of
humorous and populai selections that
should win the approval of the Penn
sylvania Day audience
Highlights of the vocal enteifcain
nient to be given by tho gleemen in
clude offerings bv the 192 G-27 Var
sity Male Qumtet and Miss Nona
Fales Peck a famous pnno nronolo
gist of Hartford, Connecticut This
year’s Quartet is composed of V/ C
Bowie ’29, first tenor; F. E Ulf ’27,
president of the, Glee Club, second
tenor,' J. JS Dickson ’2B, baritone and
D E Jenkins ’27, bass
An advance ticket sale for the
Pennsylvania Day performance will
bo held tomorrow and Thui3day even
ings at the Athletic Store at seven
o’clock. Prices are one dollar, seven
ty-five and fifty cents
ENGINEERING PICTURES
SHOWN TO A. S. C. E.
Milwaukee Sewage Treatment
To Be Discussed at
Meeting Tonight
Four leels of motion pictures m
reference to the system of sewage
disposal in Milwaukee, will be shown
at a meeting of the student blanch of
the American Society of Civil Engin
ceung tonight in Old Chapel at sev
en o’clock.
The films were loaned to the Col
lege by the citv cngincei of Milwau
kee and weie procured thiough the
efforts of Piof. E D Wnlkci, head of
the Cn 'l Engineering depurtmeri
The pictures will be augmented by a
running lectuic.
The showing of this picture is self
explanatory and would piovc interest
ing to many who arc not scheduling
technical couiscs. All sanitary and
civil engineers especially are urged to
attend
Campus Club Council
To Honor Mrs. Hetzel
At Tea for New Girls
Tlans for the annual Campus Club
Council tea for new guls and the re
vision of the lushing system were
discussed at a recent meeting of the
C C. C The tea will be given in
honor of Mrs Ilctzcl, wife of Penn
State’s new* president, in January,
the exact date not being set
Present rushing rules were brought
up for consideration and shoitcnmg
of the rushing season was advoented
Campus Club Council decided not to
act definitely upon the matter until
each Club has had time to form an
opinion of the proposed change. '
FORESTERS TO DANCE
Plans for tho annual foresters
dance to be held December tenth vvcic
discussed at the meeting of the Foi
estry Society held Inst week. It was
decided to follow the custom set in
previous years nnd have the dunce
informal.
SCULL’S FIELD GOAL
THWARTS LIONS, 3-0
Drop-kick in Opening Quarter Margin of
Pennsylvania Victory—Nittany
Attack Unrewarded
“Masked Marvel”
John Roopkc ’2B
PLAYERS REHEARSE
NEW MELODRAMA
Present “The Witching Hour”
November Nineteenth
In Auditorium
HUMOR AND SUSPENSE
FIGURE IN PRODUCTION
The Penn Stale Flayers will 3lagc
“The Witching Hour” in the Audi
torium on Friday evening, November
nineteenth, a 3 one of the principal
productions of the season Telepathy,
is the basic idea of the play.
Augustus Thomas, author of this
drama and one of America’s most
successful plavwnghts, attempts to
piove that it ib possible for one per
son to communicate his thought to
flrother. Aiound the idea of thought
tiansferenco the author has built a
powerful plot that has been declared
hunman and convincing
“The Witching Houi” has a stiong-
I> developed love theme, powerful
suspense, pathos and an abundance
of good-natured humor
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Hens Lay for Egg
Production Honors
On College Farm
Thcie is intense rivuliy* between
two hens oul on the College poultry
fjim One, a bnried Rock yearling
, has broken .ill records bv laying 288
eggs m ."On day*3 The last egg was
layed several div*. befoie her year
was up, but evidert’v believing that
2SB was enough the bidilv slopped
The othci hen, a white leghorn
Yearling has already layed 287 eggs
and it will not be until Novemboi
fourteenth that hoi veai is up Poul*
tiv department officials me anxiously
waiting to sec the total extent of her
rccoid-lneaking gait
A pen of thn teen Bai 1 ed Rock hens
l.as been shipped to Pon.ona, Cali
fornia, whole lhe\ will compete in
the South California egg laying con
test The contest is being held by
the South California farm buicati
The hens are icpoitcd to Have arrived
in good condition
Lutheran Association
To Hold Conference
Fiom all sections of the United
States, including a deleg ition of Penn
State students, tho Lutheinn Student
Association will draw more than five
bundled representatives when it con
venes at the University of Wisconsin,
Madison, Wisconsin, December thir
tieth. The sessions will close Janu
rry second
The confaience is hold every’ four
years for the puipose of allowing the
Lutheran students to voice their op
inions on student problems and the
Nittany group that plans to attend
will have several matter* of student
intorcst to discuss Inspirational ad
dresses by popular religious leaders
will bo given. One of the finest
church edifices of the northwest will
house the convention.
Penn’s New
Society—Scull
And Toe
PRICE FIVE CENTS
"O Turned back from the very brink
of victory by a fighting Pennsylvania
line, the Nittany Lt<?n felt the sting
of defeat when fecull, Quaker half
back, booted a foity-yard drop-kick
m the opening quarter for the onL
score of a brtterlv contested .struggle
on Franklm Field Saluiday after
noon
A v.h.rlwind attack unleashed in
the second quaiter boded ill for Inc*
Red and Blue Roepkc passed to
Lungren for a twenty-seven yard
advarce to the Penn twenty-live yard
str.pe and in two plavs Greene smash
tc* the six-yard maik The Quaker
line tensed itself foi the mrnuit.
Again Greene hurled lus bulk
against a solid wall of flesh, nnd the
goal line was but fo’.r yard.-, ci’st int.
| Fighting with their backs to the wall,
with all the fury of tradit.onil riv al
ly, the Red and Blue foi raids stop
ped Greene’s guard plunge after a
gain of a scant five feet
In the crisis Roepkc was called up
on to crack the adamant Quaker line
His crouching chaigc carried him
headlong into action, but the ent’re
Penn line converged on the piav in!
limited his gam to two feet. Fourth
nown, and five feet y*et remained be
twoan the ball and ultimate victory.
Convinced that deceit would cioa
the Penn backfidd, Lungrtr bnrked
the s’gnal for a reverse prs A 3 the
ball sped back to his giasping fingers
Roepkc wheeled and raced across the
turf with Paster Fields at l"s elbow
The Lion line held out the rushing
Quaker forwards, but Cy misgaged
the distance to the fl.. mg Itoepka and
the ball fell dead at his feet a scant
two feet from tho goal line This
was the high-water maik of the Blue
and White attack
Solve “Shell-Game”
Although the Pcm backs loped for
one hundred and eight,-one yards *i
scrimmage, then famous “hidden
ball” olTense was no puzzle to the
alert Lion line Rogers, the Camden
Comet and ace of the Quaker back
field, romped for twenty and twenty
cnc yards, hut both dr*hcs were made
from a straight tackle buck His
spnnt.s were the longest individual
attempts of the dav.
Paul Scull’s drop-lock in the open
ing quarter was the key to the bat
tle • A sixty-yard punt bv Murphy*
early in the game toned the Lions
deep into then own temtory. A
poor punt and a five-yard pcnaltv
against the Nittany* eleven gave Scull
Ins golden opportunity The chunky
athlete stood at a slight angle on the
forty-yaid stripe
Butler's pass was true and Scull
kicked quickly The bull cleared the
outstretched hands of linemen and
earned ovei the crossbm, directly be
tween the uprights Twice again in
the second anti third quarters Scull
matched the cunn.ng of Ins tec with
the elements, but both attempts fail
ed
A crowd of si\ty-live thousand, one
of the hugest in the history of the
double-decked Fianklin Field, wit
-I,cased the clash Noith and South
stands weiu banked with humanity,
lire few vacancies being in ii>e tem
porary and East and Weal dccki
Itnepke Misses Placement
In the second quartei, when Penn
State completely outplayed the Quak
ers, Roepkc* fell back to attempt a
placement fionr the Penn foity-yard
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FRESHMEN ELIGIBLE FOR
PRIZE ESSAY CONTEST
Departments of Chemistry and
English To Aid American
Chemical Society
The DepaiLmentr. of English nnd
Chemist! y aie co-operating in direct
ing the Amcncrn Ghesmcrl Society’s
pn/e essay contest among tire fresh
men The contest, nn annual one,
offers six prizes of one thousand dol
lars each to be awarded to tho stu
dents .of this country willing the best
essays
In former years the content was op
en to all college and university stud
ents This yen it is limited to fi ash
men. Penn State has more freshmen
taking chemistry than any other Col
lege of similiar sizq in the enuntrv,
and tho Department of Chemistry ex
pects to have a Inigo numboi of ac
ceptable essays submitted. Mimoo
giaphod sheets describing tho contest
will be distiibutcd among the frcslr
[incn this week