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VOL. XXII. No. 21
COACHES GROOM
LION SQUAD FOR
ANNUAL BATTLE
WITH PANTHERS
Dummy Scrimmages Follow Day
Of Rest Monday—Yearlings
Fitted Against First
And Second Lines
BACKFIELD UNCHANGED
Bezdek Sends Varsity Against
Pitt Formations—Hastings
And Greene Idle During
Opening Sessions
With everything to gam and noth
ing to lose, the Penn State football
squad is focusing its attention upon
the annual conflict between the Pitt
Panther and the Nittany Lion sched
uled for Thanksgiving Day.
A day of rest Monday served only to
whet the insatiable appetite of the
now ravenous beast. Lion fangs in
Panther flesh is the goal of the entue
New Beaver outfit, from Captain
Weston to the lowliest third assistant
manager.
Greene, Hastings Injured
George ‘‘Cowboy” Greene, injured
in the Penn clash, and Hal Hastings,
\eteran gunid, are the only members
of the squad on the injured list at
present. Hastings developed a flight
infection in his knee after the Buck*
ncll battle and did not don the mole
skins daring the early part of the
week. Greene leportcd in uniform
but was not used in any of the heavy
work.
Under the direction of Coach Con
over, the fiist and second vaisity lines
were pitted against the first and sec
ond-string freshman forwards in
what developed into real battles The
yearlings, eager to impress in their
first appearance against the varsity,
offered plenty of opposition
Special attention was paid to the
formation and maintenance of ade
quate interference Ends were
taken to task dally in an effort to
make them one hundred pei- cent ef
ficient in boxing tackles
The line was made up of Captain
Weston and Delp, ends, Greenshtelds
and Filak, tackles, Krall and Darragh
.guards, and Mahoney, center. The
sooond-stnng phalanx included Lcsko
and Faulkner, ends, Munz and Kerr
tuckles, Neidel and Roseberry guards,
and Reed, centei.
Greene is the sole incapacitated
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HENRY VAN DUSEN MEETS
WITH COLLEGE STUDENTS
Theologian Will Meet Leaders
To Discuss Student and
Campus Problems
In order to discuss questions con
cerning student and campus life, Hen
ry Van Dusen of Union Theological
seminary, New York City, will meet
with student lendeis m various ses
sions from Friday evening to Sunday
evening at the Andy Lytic cabin They
will remain at the cabin during the
entire thiec days.
Henry Van Dusen Is tnc youngest
member of the faculty now at the
seminary He has had n brilliant
record ns a student in Princeton, Ab
erdeen, Scotland, and finally at Union
Theological seminary from whicn he
was graduated with honors. His schol
uiship and peisonnlity fit him admir
ably for woik among the students.
Hns Wide Experience
For the past two yeais, Van Dusen
has visited oil parts of the United
States, conducting conferences of stu
dents in search of life at its best He
comes to Penn State with experience
gamed from other colleges as u back
ground. He will give his opinions
from a younger man’s viewpoint.
About seventy-five men will be at
the conference The group will be
made up of a representative of each
fraternity, and about fifteen non-fin
ternity men.
The problems to be discussed ate
those which the students indicated
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MAY STOP TENNIS TOURNEY
All contestants in the tennis tour
nament arc asked to make arrange
ments for their remaining tennis
matches, soon, 01 the tournament will
be postponed until next spring, ac
cording to J. N. Chattawny, ’2B, who
is m charge of the tourney.
pmn Stott
B. C. Hibler Named
Winner in Contest
For Players Poster
Presenting a well-made postei
painted in four colors, C. Hibler ’29,
won the first prize of five dollars of
fered by the Penn State Players for
posters announcing its play, ‘‘The
Witching Hour,” which will be shown
in the Auditoruum tomorrow night.
The poster was chosen from a group
of sixteen
The second prize of three dollars
was awarded to Miss Laura Winter
f 2Q There were three awards of two
tickets to the performance The win
ners were John Y. Roy ’2B, A S. Bom
berger ’2B, and 11. E. Balmer '29. The
winners of all prizes are enrolled in
the School of Architecture with the
exception of Miss Winter who is list
ed in the School of Education
KDKA BROADCASTS
"PENN STATE NIGHT”
Thespians, Varsity Quartet and
Band To Participate in
Broadcasting
MITCHELL AND BEZDEK
HEAD LIST OF SPEAKERS
The famous Penn State Band, Var
sity Male Quartet and Penn State
Thespmn entertainers will feature the
third annual “Penn State Night” pro
gram to be broadcast on Wednesday
fiom KDKA, the Westinghouse Elec
tric and Manufacturing Company’s
radio station at Pittsburgh, starting
at ten-fifteen o’clock m the evening
This event has come to be one of
the outstanding features' of the Penn
State student and alumni visit to
Pittsburgh on the occasion of the an
nual football game between the Nit
tany Lions and the Panthers on
Thanksgiving Day. Each year the
piogram attracts larger audiences,
and in the past the variety and qual
ity of the Penn State entertainment
has won praise from every section
of the United States Two years ago
the band was heard in Euiopc
A shoit message to alumni and
friends of the College will be bioad
east by Judge H Walton Mitchell,
president of the Board of Trustees,
and greetings will be extended to
alumni by James Milholland, Pitts
burgh, president of the Penn State
Alumni Association. “Bez” is to give
a talk on football.
ANNUAL HORT WEEK TO
OPEN EARLY IN DECEMBER
Discu&sions and Digest of New
Discoveries Will Mark
Conference
Ilorticultuie Week, a short couise
for vegetable gardeners, orchaidists,
and landscape architects will be held
at Penn State Deccmbei seventh to
tenth, Dr. S. W Fletcher, head of the
Department of Horticulture, said
Wednesday. Round tabic discussions
and question boxes will constitute the
piogram.
Each visitor will receive a book en
titled “What is New in Ilorticultuie"
a digest of the new things discovered
m both the research and commercial
fields of horticulture This year, for
the first time, there will be a program
in floriculture and landscape nrchitoc
tuie, dealing especially with the home
grounds und the growing of flowers.
One of the features of the piogram
will be “Selling the Crop.” The
Pennsylvania railroad will co-operate
by sending a refrigerator car m which
proper and improper methods of load
ing fruit and vegetables will be dem
onstrated.
Detective Squad Detailed
To , Post Office Robbery
Post Office Inspector George Me-
Minn, state police, and several finger
punt experts are working on clues
following the robbery of the State
College Post Office early Tuesday
morning. The thieves obtained a
laigc sum of money and stamps, the
exact amount of which post office
authorities refused to divulge.
The lobbery occurred between
midnight and throe forty five o’clock
Tuesday morning George Sluglc,
the first employee to enter the build
ing heard slight noises Thinking these
were caused by a rat m the pm eel
room, t ho failed to make an investi
gation. Nothing unusual war not-
STATE COLLEGE, PA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1926
COUNCIL FAVORS
NEW SYSTEM OF
GIVING NUMERALS
Recommends Change in Present
Methods of Awarding
Class Insignia
INVESTIGATES ALLEGED
PROFITEERING ON DINKS
Freshmen and Sophomores Meet
In Football Game and
Tie-up Tomorrow
A recommendation that the pres
ent system of awarding numerals to
class athletic managers and teams be
abolished, was passed by the Student
Council at a meeting Tuesday night.
A committee composed of W P. Reed
’27, II S Buck ’27, J C Belfield ’2B
and W S. Liggett '2B was appointed
to investigate the prerent method and
to suggest u better system.
To regulate the pi ice of fieshman
dinks next year, a committee consist
ing of T. A Mathias ’2B, B. T. Con
rad ’27 and W. J Gorman ’2B was
named It is the mm of this group
to fix a puce which will be icason
able to the freshman and yet allow
the distributors of the dinks some
compensation for their e(Torts.
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ANDREWS TO GIVE
LECTURE MONDAY
Asiatic Explorer Will Relate
Discoveries of Recent
Mongolian Trip
“SEARCHING FOR BONES
OF ADAM” IS SUBJECT
The nun who set the woild agog
lust fall with the discovery of din
assaur eggs and pichistonc bonos
that may lead to the establishment of
the “missing link” will delve into the
ages with a collection of raic exper
iences Monday mght at eight-fifteen
o’clock in the Auditouum Movies,
“stills" and a thrilling lecture will be
used by Roy Chapman Andrews in
ths third “Y” couise number. Price
at the door is one dollar.
With the promise or an evening just
as thrilling as that of Donald MacMil
lan whose stoiy of artic adventure by
an plane drew a packed Auditorium
last Apul Mi Andiews will speak
upon “Seaiching for the Bones of
Adam.”
Has Varied Collection
When this traveler and researcher
returned with his Third Asiatic Expe
dition last November he brought with
him a gripping tale of prehistoric
and pimutivc man and a wealth of
some fifteen thousand specimens of
mammals, fish, lcptilcs, butricians and
fossils Flint-flakes, old fire-places,
arrow points and spenr heads, all of
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PROF. HELME TALKS ON
GERMAN ARCHITECTURE
“Aichitecture in Germany” was the
jubjeet of an mfoimal talk given by
Prof. J B Holme at a mcet’ng of the
Architect’s Club last Tuesday night.
Piofessoi Ilelmc travelled m Ger
many last summer and col.ectcd a
large number of postcards wh.ch
show dilferent types of architecture
m Germany. These cauls were used
to help give the students a moie nc
cuiate idea of the raturo of struc
tures m Germany
iced until othei empbyecs nrnved
and discovered that the safe hurt been
blown open with mtro-glyume ex
plosives
According to Inspector McMinn,
nothing was done on the case until
late Tuesday evening when finger
print expeits front Harrisburg ar
rived to examine the safe for all
possible clues.' Detectives were al
so summoned from Lcwtstoxvn where
a $50,000 bank robbery had occur
red on the same evening as the local
post office robbery.
A similar theft occurred twenty
yenrs ago when the post office, then
located on E. College Avo, was looted.
Prepare Announcement
Of Summer Schedules
The School of Education is picpar
ing material for the Summer Session
announcement bulletins, the first of
which will be released in January. It
will contain a preliminary announce
ment of the Summer Session The
other will appear in March and will
give more detailed information
Last season 2,540 people took ad
vantage of the courses offered at the
seventeenth annual Summer School.
: Forty percent of this number had at
: tended previous sessions, the remain
ing sixty per cent blng now students
Four hundred students taking the reg
ular four year course were enrolled in
the Summer Session, the other two
thousand were teachers.
SPRINGFIELD WILL
OPPOSE BOOTERS
HERE TOMORROW
New England Soccermen Boast
Strong Combination—Win
Four and Tie Two
NEGOTIATIONS OPENED TO
SCHEDULE SWARTHMORE
Jeffries Works for Accuracy
In Scrimmage—Satisfied
With Team’s Play
With all chances favorable for m
ncxing the championship of the In
terco'legiate Soccer association in »he
East, the Blue and White hooters
have spent the past week smoothing
out the remaining wrinkles in their
passing, dribbling and kicking to en
able them to keep their slate clean
when they meet Springfield college,
New England title winners, in the last
regularly scheduled game on Old
Beaver field tomorrow uitcrnonn at
one o’clock „ , ». i ,
Although a communication from
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PI LAMBDA SIGMA
DEBATES PLEDGING
Gorny ’27 and Berryhill ’2B Win,
Arguing Against First-Year
Men Being Rushed
TORCHIA AND WILLARD
GIVE AFFIRMATIVE VIEW
Pi Lambda Sigma held its fust
oigamzcd discussion of the season
Wednesday evening wren two teams
picked from the members of thr hon
orary pre-legal fraternity, debated
the ments of the present tualvng
system at Penn Stati.
A. S Gorney ’27, and C C. Bcny
hill ’2B, upholding the negative of
the proposition, “Resolved: That
Penn State s*cpal fraternities jnould
rush men only after they have com
pleted their first year in e/Uege,”
were awarded the decision oi the
merits of superior debating, alMiojgh
the sympathy of the gathering fav
ored the affirmative side upheld by
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THIRTY-FIVE REPORT FOR
FIRST BASKETBALL DRILL
Coach Hermann Will Cut Squad
To Fifteen Men—Veterans,
In Initial Practice
The fiist thud of the basketball this
year was heard Tucsdny night when
more than tlmty-fivc Varsity candi
dates reported in uniform to Coach
B. M. Hermann Limbering exercis
es, dribbling, passing, shooting and
simple plays marked the opening ses
sion.
Because thcie is only one court
available Coach Hermann said he
would reduce the squad to fifteen men
within a few days in order to facili
tate drill Following the Thanks
giving recess the Varsity quintet will
scrimmage with the yeaihng five, al
though the plebes have not yet re
potted.
Among the veterans to icport were
Mike Hamas, popular “deadshot” who
was forced to quit because of illness
early last season, Whitcy Von Ncida,
guard, Baron, Bclfiold, Page and
Kent. Riley, Brownstein, and Jacob
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EDITOR IS PLEASED
WITH CONTRIBUTION
TO OLD MAIN BELL
R.D. Dundore Announces Receipt
Of Student, Faculty and
Alumni Articles
ATTEMPT TO AUGMENT
GRADUATE DEPARTMENT
Copy Not Sufficient To Ensure
Success—Lack ot Short
Stories Marked
The Old Mum Bell Ims tolled it*
last plea for student, faculty and
alumni manuscripts The recent re
sponse of all three groups has been
gratifying, nccoidmg tc R. D Dun
dore, editor of Penn State’s pi.zc
winning literary magazine. !
Student authors have submit.cd
manuscripts and poetry of all types,
faculty members have offered scien
tific and literary articles and alumr.i
have sent their shate of the contribu
tions.
Still Need Short Stories
At present there is a dearth of
short stones Members of the staff,
m an effort to mcioasc the numbei
of such offerings, are stressing the
opportunity presented to students by
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DEBATERS PREPARE
FOR OPENING .MEET
Practical Tendency in Education
Is Subject of Triangular
Engagement
PROF. FRIZZELL PRAISES
_ SHOWING OF FRESHMEN
The selection of two teams for the
tnangular debate with Washington
and Jefferson college and the Univer
sity of Pittsburgh, on Saturday, De
cember eleventh will be announced
next week, according, to Prof J. 11.
Frizzell, forensic coach
The proposition for this debate is,
“Resolved That the practical ten
dency in American highei education
is to be deploied” There will bo an
affirmative and a negative team on
this subject, each consisting of two
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INTEREST INCREASES IN
ENGINEERING EDUCATION
Penn Stale Extension Schools
Report Increased Roll
For Last Year
Inei eased interest in all blanches
of engmeeung education m Pennsyl
vania is indicated by the enrollment
figures for the six branch schools op
erated by the Dcpaitmcnt of Engi
neering Extension, Prof J. O. Keller,
head of the department, declared yes
tcidov
Although final repoits have not
come in from the Erie and Reading
blanches, the total enrollment will
probably reach eight hundred, almost
a hundred more than Inst yeai Clas
ses aie now m operation m Wiikcs-
Baue, Scranton, Allentown, Willinms
poit, Reading and Eric
Keller Pleuscd V ith Reports
Professor KclJei was highly grati
fied with tlie pielimmaiy reports
“Enrollments,” he says, “me m excess
of the expectations and the depait
incnt’s policy of steady improvement,
stimulated by increasingly valuable
sei vice, has produced gratifying re
sults. The full co-operation of local
organizations, influential committees,
chambers of commeice and the school
boards has assured adequate, official
intoicst m the projects.
The cuincula offered at the vauous
schools include electrical, mechanical,
mining, industrial, civil and textile
engineering Instructor arc practi
cal engineers, technical giaduatcs who
are actually piacticing their special
ties in industry
LACROSSE SCRAP
The ficshmen and bophomore la
ciosscmen will clash m their annual
map tomorrow afternoon at one o’-
clock on the Armory drill field. Wen
del hns been coaching the sophomores
while Edmunds has been instructing
the freshmen
LION HARRIERS KEYED
FOR TITULAR BATTLE
Have Strongest Team Since 1920 While
Cox Looms—Syracuse Anxious
To Keep Crown Monday
Pill Ticket Sales Today
And Tomorrow at Co-op
All ficshmen and sophomores
miv secure tickets foi the Pitt |
game today upon application at
the A. A Office Three general
sales will be held at Co-op, the
fir.t starting tonight from sev
en until nine o’clock Another
will take place tomoirow af
ternoon from three until five
o’clock while the third is sched
uled foi tomoirow night from
seven unt’l nine
4 l
CHANGE MADE IN
CAST OF PLAYERS
Miss Dutton Will Take Part of
Viola in Tomorrow’s Show,
“The Witching Hour”
WHEATLEY, MISS DAVIS
CARRY LEADING ROLES
One change in the cast of “The
Witching Horn," which will be stag
ed by the Tenn State Players in the
Auditouum tomorrow evening at eight
o’clock has boon announced Miss 15
E Dutton M 0 will play the pait of
Viol i m which Miss G M. Woodrow
was formerly listed To’moi-rovv’s
production will he the second stage
appearance of the Players this sea
son.
Arid sn weelo, “if intcnswe re
hearaata, this play’ will make its sec
ond appearance on the Penn State
stage, the fiist production having
been in 1921
Well-h ilanced Cast
Leading rolci will be filled by
Jackson Wheatley MO a.-. Jack Brook
■ field and Miss G M Davis ’2B .us
Mis. Helen Whipple, while the hum
orous rofief will be porlrnvod by It
W. Huston '27 and O S Andeison
’LS as Len Ellmgci and Tom Denning,
lcspectivelv
I’rofessoi A C Cloctmgh, d'lcct
oi of tiie pliy, has combined expci
lenced actors and newer mcmbeis of
the oiganuation in this production,
the plot of which centers about a mur
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PITTSBURGH ALUMNI
HOLD NITTANY SMOKER
Entertain Penn State Students
At Kaufman’s—Dance
Follows Game
Fiopo.ing to stir the spnit of Penn
State students to a high pitch on the
eve of the annual Thanksgiving day
clash between the Lion anil Panther
elevens, the Pittsburgh branch of the
Penn Stale Alumni Association bus
arianged a giant smoker and mass
meeting to be held at Kaufman’s next
Wednesday night
Admission to all Penn State undei
giaduates will be free, providing they
cun show Athletic Association mem
bership caids, it was announced yes
terday Hugo Bezdek and various
membeio of the football team are ex
pected to speak at the “pep” gather
ing Several prominent alumni mem
bers may also offei a few spirited
phrases to the team and their follow
els
Following the game, tne second an
nual renn Slate dance, under the aus
pices of the Penn State Club of Pitts
burgh, will be hold at the‘University
Club at eight-thirty o’clock The
dance committee lias ai ranged for
muic than three hundred attendants
and has set the admission fee at four
dollars pei couple
G Unmet* Johnston ’ll, and 15 li.
Sykes ’lB, Alumni committee officials,
aie in charge of airangemcnts for the
smoker and dunce.
J!)27 BOXING SCHEDULE
Kobruaiy 12—V. M. I. Home
Fcbiuary 19—Navy Away
February 20—Pennsylvania —Home
March s—Syuicusc . Away
Maxell 12—N. Y. V —--Homo
March 19—Notre Dame Away
March 25-20—Intel eollogiatcs--
— Syracuse, N. Y.
The
Wrong
Numbers
PRICE FIVE CENTS
I Six .ears ago *i light-haneil, wing
; footed Blue ami White nimici loomed
.•cross the Inteicollegi i:c cross-coun
try hoi i/on t-> bung the acel uni of
the count! y upon himself ami Ills Al
ma Matei.
Tins Penn Stale meicurv, a anim
al cross-country tunnel and r true
lover of the i ice. outstripped the
pick of the Nation’s hamcis at the
Cambridge championships in l')20,
-matching fiist place in the I C lA’i
and enabling his teammates to take
fouith place, the nearest the Lions
have cvei been to tire crown
Roniig Brilliant
Since liming won. the Nittanv pfod
ders have failed to place a man tmong
the fust ten in that class.c The team
chopped to tilth place the next veai
.nd tenth the foil,wing ser-om When
Coach Caitmcll lick the helm m
192::, his proteges jumpe I to MXth
po-ition In J 921 thev did not com
pete but last vcjii they hid again
stepped into fifth hcith
Not weie these team*- lirillnut
|Theie vvcie no stnis like Rmng
1 The Lest is again here Monda,
afternoon the '•elect runneis of the
East, twenty teams of -oven each
chosen fron a field of J4 r i entrees,
will go to the baitici at thiee o’clock
Van Courtlandt pvk, New Yoik
city The individual and team cham
pionships of the collegiate wot Id will
hang in the offing
Coy Has Chance
i Among the tense hopefuls will ho
r dark-haired robust Blue ami White
tunnel As a high school lunnei he
was a star, en Olympic icptcsenti
tivo. A, a Lion freshman list year
he appeared to be i coming distance
champ on In his lace-. this year he
has shown winning form Upon that
promising, fleet 1 1<| • 'ho v 0 pp<
of another Penn State championship
He is the smooth-striding Bill Cox
But not alone do tu. Blue and
White hopes icst upon tin* litho
sophomore Captain Roget Four.icrc,
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YEARLING ELEVEN FACES
SOPHOMORES TOMORROW
Underclassmen To Battle for
Trophy—l’lehe Customs
Will Be at Stake
fipuued on by the promise of a hol
iday from customs togcthci with the
reward of an espensive silver loving
cup, a savage team of Lion freshmen
will pounce upon a sophomoic eleven
tomorrow afternoon on the New
Beaver practice field at two o’clock in
the annual soph-frosh grid sciap
Both combinations have been punt
ing foi the fiac.is the past week
Coach Nevvsh Bent/ has the plebes in
i tow and is teaching them the Bucknell
and Pitt play- The yearlings will
probably u'e those fotmaltons
Sophs Lack Couching
The sophomore l iprcsentutivrs have
had little coaching but thev will pre
sent a rugged line-lip foi the stiug
gle Among then lummnucs will i»c
Al Wolf, Doinv Doinborger, halfs,
Monoiian, qu.u terbuck, and Cook, full
back Oi the line will probably lie
Lvon-, Lockwood and Cnriv, ends,
Mather and Holmes, tackles, and
Glace, gu.ud, with Tiulash as snap
poi-back, .Steven-, Culloch, Summcy,
Sadd and Truutn.an may also sec ser
vice
Joe M'llei promising signjil-callei,
MeCiackcn and Rulgwav, lulfs, with
the plunging Craig it full is the cub
batt.f.eld (pintlci The cub forw arils
will possibly be Martin .mil Parana,
ends, Ricker and Paimacuon, tackles,
Woil.uui ami Brown, guards with the
vclci an Shutei at icntci
Last Frosli Win m 1921
Since 1921 the ficshmen have not
been able to gloat ovei the sopho
mores by virtue of a gud victon
This vear customs will be oil foi Ihn
test of the day if the plebes triumph
1 Along w ith this decision of customs or
no customs will depend the avvaid of a
beautiful foot-high trophy now on
exhibition at the Fashion Shop.
The cup has usually been kept m
the Vaisity tiophv room suue it was
first offered as a pri/c in 1890 and few
knew of its existence The engra-’ing
upon it would indicate that the elnss
of 1905 was the latest to lecord their
xictoiy upon it.
The winner tomorrow will luxe its
class numerals placed upon the silver
emblem and it will ionium on display
for ten days after whicn it wih be
tetursed to the trophy room.