TIE- up HOUND lo he KNOTTY VOL XXII. No. 20 LOWER CLASSES MEET IN TIE-UP SCRAP SATURDAY C. R. Bergman '27, Named Head Of Committee —Societies Will Bend Aid ABSENT SOPHOMORES TO APPEAR BEFORE COUNCIL Present Sophomores Stand As Champions in Tug-of-war, Push-hall Scraps Renewing one of the class contests discarded last year, the freshmen and sophomores will engage in a tie-up scrap on Saturday. The exact time and place will be announced in the next issue of the COLLEGIAN. The entanglement will be regulated by a committee headed by C. R. Berg man ’27, who is chairman of the class scraps committee. This group will be assisted by members of the various campus societies. In the tie-up scraps the members of the classes arc divided into tennis consisting of fifty men. These men are supplied with ropes. At a given signal the teams rush at each oilier and ntempt to tic their opponents' hands and feet. For each pair of feet tied the opposite team receives a point. To make certain that class scraps this year will be successful, the Stu dent Council has passed a ruling to the effect that sophomores will be dealt with in the same manner as freshmen if they do not attend. Fail ure to be present at scraps will mean an appearance before the Student Council. Fraternities arc urged to make certain that ail members of the lower dosses report. Last year the present sophomore class defeated its “superiors” both in the tug of war and push ball scraps, losing only the football game. < KDKA OBSERVES ANNUAL PENN STATE RADIO NIGHT Judge Mitchell, Milhollaml and liezdek To Speak—Varied ■ Program Arranged . ‘‘Penn State Night at KDKA” Ims kc-come almost a tradition on the night before Thanksgiving of each year, for the College department of public in formation which takes care of Penn .State's radio program, announces that the third annual event of its kind has been scheduled to “take the air” from the Pittsburgh Pont studio of the' Westinghouse station at ten-fif teen Wednesday evening. Previous broadcasts from KDKA at this season have made the Penn .State Blue Band world-famous, and Band master Thompson’s !>oys will be the headline attraction once more for Penn State’s IH2O contribution to the ether from the Steel City station. Judge Mitchell to Speak Judge Mitchell, Coach Bezdek and Jimmie Milhollaml. president of the Penn State niunmi association, will be the speakers for the occasion. During breathing spells for the band the varsity quartet will be mak ing its first official appearance before the KDKA “mike,” and they will he relieved occasionally by Johnny Vance and some of his Thespian specialists in the art of novel enter taining. Both groups profess to have sonic unique broadcasting tricks up their sleeves and promise to make the air interesting for the million or more people, including thousands of alumni, parents of students and also friends of the college, who will be lis tening in. The entire program will last two hours, and the variety and quality of (Continued on second page) Six Candidates Taken In by Phi Sigma lota Phi Sigma lota, honorary romance language fraternity initiated six can didates at a meeting held Tuesday night at the University club. Petitions for charters from the University of lowa, Drake university, Coe college, Beloit college and Illinois 'Wesleyan university were received and acted upon. After the business -meeting, a luncheon was served. , .Three of the initiates, P. R. Blan ket, E. H. Arnold and D. I. Tedrow, are faculty members, the others. Miss Biles, Miss Margaret Pitncr and Michael Evashwick, are seniors. flnm (Eollrgt Van Blarcom Will Give' Next Engineering Talk Mr. Harold Van Blarcom, manager of the Prime Mover Sales department of the Westinghouse manufacturing company. Philadelphia, will speak on “Choosing a Job” at four-thirty Fri day-afternoon, in Old Chapel, as one of the series of Engineering Lectures. In his work Mr. Van Blarcom has had wide experience with* college grad uates in industry and he is well ac quainted with the qualities which help men to succeed. This subject should be of particular interest to senior en gineers, according to Doan R. L. Snek ett of the School of Engineering. DEBATERS NAME TENTATIVE CARD Two Triangular Engagements Hooked—May Compete Against Oxford I'KOPOSEI) NEW ENGLAND JAUNT DEFINITELY OFF Penn State debaters will have a full season if the present schedule and tentative (-.gagomvnts arc ap proved. At present, the local verbal wranglers are preparing for the op ening debate, a triangular contest with Washington and Jefferson col lege ami the University of Pittsburgh, scheduled to take place in the Audi torium, December eleventh. George Washington university pro vides the second opposing team. The Capitol students will engage Penn State debaters at Washington on February eleventh. Following this encounter, the second triangular i:lt, with Dickinson college and Bueknell university, will take place on the Auditorium platform, February twen ty-fifth. Rutgers will send a team of debaters to oppose Professor Friz zell’s orators on March fith. The Penn State debating mentor is at present negotiating a debate be tween the Oxford team of England and the Nittany squad. He is plan ning to have the English scholars dis play their wares cither here some time in January or in Harrisburg late in December. Air. Frizzell recently announced that efforts to schedule debates in New England and send the Penn State squad on a trip through that section of the country proved futile because the schedules of various New Eng li.:id colleges were completed with the institution of the Eastern League. 'llie Penn State debating tutor de clared that many colleges, California and Michigan noably, have asked for engagements at the local institution, bu: that no definite dates or engage, ments have been awarded. SOCIETY WILL DEBATE DELAYED RUSHING PLAN Freshman Week Also Will Be Discussed at Land Grant College Convention. “Resolved: That American social fraternities .should rush men only af ter they have completed the first’year of college work” is the proposition which will be debated at a regular meeting tomorrow night, by Pi Lamb da Sigma, honorary pre-legal frater nity. S. 11. Torehia ’27 and K. L. Willard ’27 will argue the affirmative; C. C. Borryhlll ’2B and A. S. Gurney ’2S, the negative. The meeting will be held in roam 15 Liberal Arts and will be open to the public. Pro-legal students partic ularly are invited to attend. Follow ing the debate, a general discussion of the subject will take place among the members. In the near future the society will follow up the discussion of last week, upon the introduction of primaries in to Penn State’s election system, by discussing the advantages and disad vantages of the prcferenetal method of election. The basis of this meth od is that the voter indicates a first, second and third choice. Outing Club Elects Officers Tomorrow The Outing Club will hold a special business meeting tomorrow evening at seven o’clock in 215 Old Main for the purpose of electing a new treasurer and a new vice-president. The construction of the proposed Beaver Dam cabin will be discussed and building plans formed. After the Thanksgiving recess W. R. White will address the club on the subject of hiking in the Seven Moun tains. STATE COLLEGE, PA., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1926 ROOTERS TROUNCE NAVY TEAM, 5-1 IN FAST, ROUGH GAME Both Combinations Handicapped By Muddy Field—Nittany Line Shows Fight WIN KEEPS PENN STATE LEAGUE RECORD CLEAN Lions Awarded Six Free Kicks On Fouls—Visiting Back Scores for Lions Overcoming the disadvantages of a wet, muddy field, the Nittany soccer eleven completely outfought the Navy hooters to count five goals, trouncing the middies 5-1 in a fast, rough game on Old Beaver field Saturday morn ing. The victory carried the Lions’ league record to three wins and no defeats. Determined to avenge last year’s loss at Annapolis and to continue their fight for league championship, the Blue and White hooters displayed ft brand of socucer unseen here this season. Although the heavy field handicapped both teams the Lions were consistent in their aggressive ness, heating the visitors to the bail thioughout the game. On both offense and defense the (Continued on last page) PLAYERS PRESENT MYSTERY DRAMA “The Witching Hour” To Be ' Shown Saturday—Road Tour Arranged FAVORABLY RECEIVED ON PREVIOUS PRESENTATION “The Witching Hour” will ho pre sented by the Penn State Players in the Auditorium at eight-twenty o’clock next Saturday evening. Tick ets for the performance may be se cured at “Whitey" Musser’s for fifty and seventy-five cents. The Players are particularly anx ious to make a good impression on their road trip which starts next Mon day and are therefore working dili gontiy on this production, according to Director A. C. Cloetingh. When “The Witching Hour” was staged five years ago, it met with re markable success, and was one of the most talked-of plays ever presented on the campus. The subject of telepa thy backed by a powerful plot should appeal strongly to a college audience. The play is not a tragedy, but a dra ma with rich humor and extremely tense scenes. The scenery for the play has been designed by members of the class in stagecraft. Each person in this group first built the sets in miniature. From these miniatures two were cho sen* and reproduced for the large stage. The snVall stages wilt be on exhibition in the lobby of the Auditor ium on the night of the play. R. 0. T. C. IMPRESSIVE IN ANNUAL INSPECTION FiritTii Hundred Underclassmen Participate—Equipment Inspection Today Ilcn'lctl by the military burn! of olio hundred twenty men nnd fifteen hundred freshmen nnd .sophomores, Hie Ifenn State It, O. T. C. regiment held their annual inspection review yesterday. The regiment and hand, with flags and company colors Hash ing in the hreeze, made an imposing sight ns they marched in review be fore tile inspection officer nnd the U. S. Army stall of the College military department. Lieutenant-colonel Clarence Deems, Jr., representing the Third Corps Ar ea of tile K. O. T. C.. came from Bal timore ns official inspection officer. Licutcnnnt-coionel Clenard McLaugh lin, the Penn State commandant, hud charge of the day’s events. Inspec tion of equipment of the infantry and engineers units will take place this morning. For many years the Penn State regiment Ims been striving for hon orable mention with its military or ganisation. This has been denied largely because of the lack of an ade quate armory and other facilities for military instruction, according to the department. Yearling Eleven Plays Sophomores To Secure Canes for Classmates Whether the freshmen will have the grand sensation of sporting canes this year will lie decided when lower classes tangle in the soph-frosh foot ball scrap Saturday. Only one class now at Penn State has felt the tri umphant exhiliaration of carrying the cjvetod walking-sticks, 1027, the pres ent seniors, having downed their dis ciplining elders in 1024. Since the finish of the freshman season, November fifth, the yearling molcskinners have been practicing with the Varsity. The tension of a victory-less season having been broken, the plobes seem lo have taken on a new life. Eddie Craig is again playing fullback posi tion. Miller, who has responded nota bly since taking over the quarter back post, will start at that position in the scrap. RELIGIONISTSHURT REUGION-LAZARON Bigots and Not Scientists Prove Bible’s Worst Foe, Says Baltimore Rabbi “NO CREED VIOLATED I!Y THEORY OF EVOLUTION” “Religionists and hot scientists are the worst enemies of religion,” dec lared Rabbi Morris >S. Lazaron of the Baltimore Hebrew congregation, "hile speaking on the relationship be tween science and religion, at the chapel service Sunday morning. Rabbi Lazaron traced the history of the struggle between science and religion and showed how the former has always been suppressed. The scientists have conducted investiga tions into religion while the follow ers of the Bible have maintained an undeviating faith in religion. In referring to eviction, the speak er stated that the opposition to the much-discussed theory was based on three things: the truth has been giv en once; the truth is in the Bible; on ly one interpretation may be accept ed. Rabbi Lazaron made strong de nials of these facts saying “the truth has not been given once for all; truth is a growing thing and an individual may interpret the Bible us he wishes.” Rabbi Lazaron pointed out that faiths which cannot stand the test of scientific investigation are worth less. True religion is not violated by accepting the theory of evolution. Ho dosed his talk by saying that a generation is needed of Americans, whose minds are open to all truths and who see no conflict between sci ence and religion. “The Contributions of Judaism lo Religious Thought” was Rabbi Laza ron’s subject at an informal discus sion held Sunday evening. A group of more than two hundred people were present at this meeting. BRESSLER SPEAKS ON FRESHMAN ORIENTATION New Freshman Cabinet Will Sell Cards and Book of Famous Poems “Freshman Week and Orientation” is the subject of the speech which R. G. Brassier, vice-dean of the School of Agriculture, will deliver at the convention of I.,and Grant colleges in Washington, D. C. this week. Dean Bressler brings forward his own theory concerning the work ac complishments of Freshman Week, stating that the time should be limit ed to four ilays and that the intro duction of the newcomers to college should be more concentrated. The history of that'carly period of instruction which was inuugauralod by the Univcristy of Maine in 1022 came up for discussion also. Objectives arc only two but are headings of larger classes. Freshman Week is held in order lo provide ben efits for the freshman himself as well as to permit him to get the early rou tine matters of college out of the way without the influence of upperclass men being exerted. To guard the freshman after he once is in college is the purpose of the orientation course. The present course at Penn State meets for one lecture hour and one recitation hour in one of five sections of about forty members each. In his summary may be found four conclusions, Freshman week is for the purpose of starting the newcomer in the proper manner; an ideal system of advisorship is necessary; a person al record card is advisable; and an orientation course is a vital necessity. ASIATIC EXPLORER TO RELATE SEARCH FOR MISSING LINK Roy Chapman Andrews Lectures Here Monday on Life of Prehistoric Alan TO APPEAR IN THIRD “Y” ENTERTAINMENT N UMI3ER Naturalist Will Present Films Of Recent Expedition to Mongolian Wilds Roy Chapman Andrews, famed ex plorer and lecturer, traveler and hunt er, will take his listeners back through a million years of time when he lec tures in the Auditorium Monday night, in the third of the scries of the V. M. C. A. entertainment course. Only recently the renowned natur alist returned from Mongolia because of a political situation which caused him to discontinue his search for evi dence of prehistoric life and the prim itive man which Itc believes to exist in ancient Asia. Under the sponsorship of the American Museum of Natural His tory, the explorer has unearthed what he considers definite proof that an cient Asia is the mother of life in Europe and America. (Continued on second page) COX BREAKS RECORD IN WINNING SCRAP Clips Thirly-lwo Seconds From Three-mile Mark as 192!) Wins Annual Run FOUR OTHER HARRIERS ALSO SMASH OLD TIME Bill Cox, Penn State’s wing-footed harrier, girded with the sophomoric colors and eager to indicate to Coach Nate Cartniell the pace that may he expected of him in the Intereolicgiatos Monday, sheared thirty-two seconds from the three-mile course record Friday, snatching individual honors in the -Interclass cross-country scrap and helping his classmates to first honors with a perfect score, 15-40. Wins By Eighty Yards That the three-mile gallop would be a trying whirl was seen from the start when the field of twenty-three runners bounded away from the bar licr at a terrific rate each intent up on leading. Cox had diflieulty in edg ing away from Roger Fouraore, Jake Reis and Swede Johnson, of the sen iors, Oesterling, the lone junior and Giles, Ratcliff and Makowski of the yearlings. But his giant-like strides and his anxiety for a record slowly gave him the lead as the runners swept around the golf course and, with a last burst of speed, thundered down the home stretch winner by eighty yards. Cox’s time was 14 minutes 18 seconds. Bill already had made the same distance unofficially in 14:28 but the statisti- (Continucd on third page) OLD MAIN BELL EDITOR CALLS IN MANUSCRIPTS Coniributions To He Submilk'd Hcforc Thanksgiving Vacation Manuscripts for the Old Main 8011, Penn State’s prize winning literary magazine, must be submitted to either ft. I). Dundorc '27, or Prof. M. M. Harris before November twenty-fifth, the stalT announced yesterday. Editor Dundore expressed satisfac tion with the material that has been written so far but yesterday declared that while faculty contributions have been numerous, there have been few student articles. In addition there has been a paucity of poetry. Students who contemplate the writ ing of stories, essays and reviews arc advised to have their material in as soon as possible, because following the Thanksgiving vacation the maga zine will be ready to go to press. Since its inception two years ago under the auspices of Pi Delta Epsi lon, national journalistic fraternity, the Old Main Dell has bad two issues, one each year. Should sufficient ar ticles be submitted by students Pi Delta Epsilon will publish two issues a year and if the quality and quantity warrant it perhaps Price a semester. an. Athletic Control To Be Next Forum Topic Athletic control will be the subject of discussion Monday. December six th, at the second of the Open Forums conducted by the Penn State Club. Dean Holbrook will report on the in formation obtained by the Faculty Committee on Athletics from inves tigations during the past two years. Dean Holbrook believes that the subject of athletic control is one of vital interest to the student body and lhat students should be given the real fads of the case. Other faculty members and student leaders will speak on the subject. Following the speeches there will be a general dis cussion. STUDENTS MEET IN “Y” DISCUSSION Group To Gather at Andy Lytle Cabin for 'Three-day Session VAN OUSEN CHOSEN TO LEAD IN DELIBERATION Meeting with various Penn Stale student leaders, Henry Van Dusrn, of Union Theological Seminary, New York City, will open the annual three day student conference at the Andy Lytle cabin Friday. Replacing Bruce Curry, leader of last year’s conference, Mr. Van Du r.en will come to Penn State prepared to hold organized discussions on pop ular and important campus issues of educational interest. The Seminary scholar has had years of training and experience in such work, having held similar discussion groups at numer ous other colleges throughout the country. Prior lo the proposed discussion a ballot will he taken to determine the most popular issues, and those re ceiving the largest number of votes will he the subjects considered in the preceding forum. -"-Seventy students; representative of the fraternity and non-fraternity sections, will convene with the noted religious advocate. The following subjects, concerning the moral ami religious phases of college life, will appear on the ballot: 1. Fraternity Hushing 2. College Honor I>. Relations Between Men and Women •l. College Athletics f>. Compulsory Chapel C. Cliques 7. Prohibition 8. The College Man’s Attitude To- ward His Home Training 0. The Student’s Conduct Away From College 10. What Is Religious Life? , DEAN DECLARES AGAINST EXTENSION OF VACATION Warnock Requests Students Not To Violate “Five-Dollar” Thanksgiving Ruling Making a special request that stu dents do not ask for extensions of the Thanksgiving recess, A. R. Warnock, Dean of Men, issued notice of the va cation period which will start Wed nesday noon, November twenty fourth, and end Monday noon, Novem ber twenty-ninth. Dean Warnock emphasized the fact that unexcuscd absences immediately before or after the vacation will come under the provisions of Rule 42, which is the so-called “five dollar” rule. “This rule must be applied uniform ly. It is contrary to the democratic spirit of our campus for a student to expect privileges which he knows ean not be granted lo many of bis fel lows; ‘teacher’s pets’ have never been popular at Penn State," declared Dean Warnock. A special train will be run on the return trip Monday, leaving Sunbury after the arrival of the morning trains from Harrisburg and Wilkes- Barre, and arriving at Lcmont at noon. Regular trains on Wednesday and Monday will carry extra equip ment to accommodate the students. Reichard ’27, Named Manager of Debating 11. W. Reichard 27, has been ap pointed manager of the debating team for this year. Reichard was a mem ber of the debating squad during bis sophomore year and worked as as sistant manager last year. For the position of assistant manager thcie is only one candidate at the present time. Prof. J. 11. Frizzell urges all those interested to hand in their names as soon as possible. Bully Time With the Bison PRICE FIVE CENTS ROEPKE STARS AS VARSITY TOPPLES BISON HOPES, 8-0 Halfback Runs lo Hueknell Six Yard Uni—Pritchard Scores Touchdown LINE HOLDS VISITORS TO TWO FIRST DOWNS Diehl Outstanding; as Orange Eleven Falters Before Versatile Attack The shaggy Bison of Rueknell fail ed lo stampede a cool Lion eleven be fore a colorful crowd of twelve thous and. on New Beaver Field Pennsyl vania Day, a touchdown and a field gcal representing the margin of the 1-0 Nittany victory. The towhoad of Roepko, backfield ace of aees, flashed like a meteor ov er the griil horizon. The lithe half back it was who knifed his way thir ty yards to the Buckncll six-yard line early in the second quarter, put ting the pigskin in position for Prit chard to crash over the final chnik nmrk. Again in the third period Koepke stood on the thirty-eight yard mark and booted a perfect placement for the only other score of the battle. Largely through the efforts of Pritchard and Roepko the Lion elev en garnered thirteen first downs from scrimmage. A sixteen-yard sprint by McCleary early in the game and two line smashes by Wally Diehl in the final quarter wore the only success ful Buckncll offensives. Breaks Figure Breaks of the game favored the Nittany players hut only once, were they aide to convert their opportuni ties into point score. Penalties against Buckncll enabled the Lions to work the ball into Buckncll territory In the opening period, but u brace of field goal attempts by Roepkc wcreT* fruitless.-- - • • -- Again in the second quarter a fum ble by Quinn on his thirty-live yard line gave the" Bezdckinns a scoring op ening. Rocpke wormed his way through left tackle, reversed his field and traversed thirty yards before he was forced out of bounds. Pritchard gained a scant yard at center and Roepko added two more at right tack le. Buckncll was penalized half the (Continued on last page) GLEE CLUB MAKES FIRST APPEARANCE OF SEASON Miss Nina Kales Peck Provides Humor in Well-balanced Program Sat urtlay As the concluding feature of the week-end houseparty entertainment, the Penn State (Bee Club made its first appearance of the season with the presenlrAion of a varied program in the Auditorium Saturday night. It was not an auspicious debut, hut it was promising. Tlu; Blue and White chorus, aided by Miss Nina Kales Peck, Connecti cut light opera star, rendered eleven selections. Miss Peck, in the ride of a comedienne, supported the humor ous cud of the program well, singing and playing "Italian opera as it sounds to the other fellow." Also she portrayed a nervous girl singer making her first public appearance and impersonated an equally nervous young lady playing her first wait/, in public. She concluded her performance by accompanying on the piano her own dance, a feat remarkable to the nth degree, am! by offering an oratorio from a tired business man's point of view. The Penn State songsters opened their program with a rendition of the (Continued on third page) Grange Plans for Anniversary Dance The Penn Slate Grange will hold a closed dunce in the Alpha Gamma Phi house, Tuesday evening, November twenty-third. Music will he furnish ed by the Grange orchestra, a new musical organization which was form ed this year. The dnnce’will he held in celebration of the tenth anniver sary of. the Penn State Grange. Mr. F. F. Liningcr, professor of marketing in the Agricultural Econ omics department, will be present. Mr. Liningcr, the first Master of the Penn State Grange, will relate the in cidents leading up to the organization of the subordinate Grange here and also the early history of the Pena State Grange.
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