The
Hooter’s
VOL. XXII, No. 23
SOCCERMENHAVE
CLAIM TO LEAGUE
TITLE FOLLOWING
SWARTHMOREWIN
I.ions Down Garnet Hooters To
Maintain Clean Slate for
First Year's Flay in
Official Group
CHAMPIONSHIP IN DOUBT
Ilaverford Also Has Undefeated
Season in Association—Will
.Meet Navy Tomorrow
In Last Contest
With the official soccer season at
Penn State closed, the championship
of the Intercollegiate Football-Soccer
association, to which the Lions lay a
claim after completing an undefeated
league schedule by their 4-0 victory
over the Swarthmore hooters on Mon
day afternoon, is still in doubt.
To date no reports have been forth
coming from the league officials as to
the actual standing of the teams or
as to the conditions on which the
championship will he awarded. The
strong Ilaverford soccermen are on a
level with Blue and White hooters in
claims for association honors because
their season’s slate is also clean.
However, the Ilaverford combination
has one more game to play, that with
the Navy hooters tomorrow.
Ilaverford Meets Navy
The outcome of tomorrow's con
test between Ilaverford and Navy
should have a strong' bearing upon
the awarding of league honors and
athletic officials of the College are
awaiting its results before taking
further action as to championship
claims. Although tomorrow’s tilt
will be the fifth league contest for
Ilaverford, Penn State having play
ed only four, the eastern hooters tied
with Princeton in an earlier game.
Monday’s 4-0 victory over Swarth
more ended another successful sched
ule for the Lions who being undefeat
ed by a college team this year main
tained their record of only three loss
es to collegiate combinations in elev
en years. The last win was over a
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SOPHOMORES TO NAME
HOP COMMITTEE SOON
Class To Nominate Candidales
For Louise Carnegie and
White Scholarships
Nominations far six one-hundred
dollar scholarships given to members
of the sophomore class will be made
and the Sophomore Hop committee
will be announced at the class meet
ing at seven-thirty o’clock Tuesday
evening, in the Hull Pen.
AH sophomores whose scholastic
rating places them in the first quar
ter of the class are eligible for these
awards. There will be five nomina
tions for the -John W. White scholar
ship and twenty-live for the live
Louise Carnegie scholarships.
From these candidates nominated 1
by the class the Faculty committee. 1
will select one student for each posi-,
lion, basing the selection on scholar
ship and need, and Inking into con
sideration qualities of character and
general attitude toward the College.
These nominations arc subject to tin
approval of the President of the Col
lege and the College Senate.
A. J. Cares, president, asks mem
bers of the class to familiarize them
selves with the names of those stu
dents who are in the first quarter of
the class by consulting the records on
the bulletin hoards of Old Main.
Prof. White Talks at
Outing Club Meeting
Speaking on interesting places
within hiking distance of State Col
lege. “Farmer” White gave an in
formal talk at a meeting of the Out
ing Club last Wednesday night.
On Sunday morning the club will
take an organized trip to its cabin
site.. The members will take the
eight-thirty o'clock bus to Pine Grove
Mills and from there they will hike
across the mountain to the site on
which the club is building a log cabin.
Considerable work is yet to be done,
such as the .sawing and placing of
more logs.
Lewis Palmer ’29 was elected vice
president and Carl Dannerth ’2B
treasurer at a recent meeting of the
Club.
Final Date Named
For Senior Formal
The Senior Ball will be held Fri
day evening, February eleventh, with
two orchestras furnishing music, .1.
G. Hesse ’27, chairman of the com
mittee. announced yesterday. Favors
will be omitted this year.
Although no orchestra has been
looked as yet, the committee expects
to secure Coon Saunders and Johnny
Hump for the annual formal.
Decorations will be similar to those
of last year. Silvorstein will prob
ably be awarded the contract to do
ibis work.
PLAYERS REHEARSE
FOR MOVIE DRAMA
“Merton of the Movies,” With
Cast of Thirty-five, To
Be Next Showing
MISS E. GILLOULY ANI)
BUCHANAN TAKE LEADS
A cast of thirty-five Players, one
of the largest ever attempted by the
local dramatists, will perform when
the Auditorium curtain rises for the
initial showing of “Merton of the
Movies," a dramatization of Harry
Leon Wilson’s story of the same name
by George S. Kaufman and Marc
Connelly, tonghl at eight o'clock. A
second presentation will be bold to
morrow night at the same time.
The. play, a light comedy in six ep
isodes, deals with the trials and trib
ulations of a country boy who sought
fame in Hollywood as a serious anti
artful actor. His persistence wins a
minor role for him. As an extra ho
takes his work with such' sober re
gard that he appears incredibly
funny and is unconscious of it. He
detests comedians hut finally gains his
glory as a fun-provoker.
Donald Buchanan ’29, is cast as
the aspiring Merton Gill, while Miss
E. E. Gillouly *Bo,.acts the part of
Beulah Baxter, “the wonder woman
of the screen" who hypnotizes the
awkward hero by her beauty and fin
ally marries him. B. F. Ricker ’2B,
: appears as the Simbury, 111., grocer
who employed Merton before his sub
sequent fame. Besides a bevy of
Hollywood beauties, a train of chauf
feurs, maids and valeLs anti a minia
ture army of cameramen, directors,
stage hands ami extras are used to
give the Audtorium stage the atmos
phere of a real Hollywood lot.
FIFTEEN WILL ATTEND
NATIONAL CONFERENCE
Leave December Twenty-eighth
For Y. M. C. A. Sessions
At Milwaukee
Fifteen Penn .State students chos
en by the' V. M. C. A. cabinet, will
attend the National Student Confer
ence at Milwaukee, December twenty
eighth to January first, to discuss the
fundamental religious problems of
the present generation.
The conference will he conducted
by the Council of Christian Associa
tions. composed of college organiza
tions throughout the country. This
is the first of a series of conventions
to he held every four years.
The questions that will be discuss
ed are: “In this modern world of
ours, is it- possible to believe in a God
with whom one may know personal
friendship?”; “Was Jesus’ conviction
that the world can he organized ns a
family of brothers a mad dream?”;
“How, as a matter of fact, does one
experience God?"; “Is it true that
Love stands at the heart of all things
that it is the ultimate power in this
universe?”; “What are we to make
!of Jesus’ failure on the Cross?"; Do
we find life by losing it?"
EXTENSION ENROLLMENT
REACHES EIGHT HUNDRED
A total of about eight hundred
industrial employees in six of the
larger cities of the State arc enrol
led in night schools conducted under
the supervision of the engineering ex
tension department, it was announced
yesterday. This is about one hundred
more than last year's enrollment, and
college officials declare that it is an
indication of increased interest in all
branches of engineering education in
Pennsylvania. The schools are in Al
lentown, Reading, Wilkes-Barre,
Scranton, Eric and Williamsport.
STATE COLLEGE. PA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1926
PITT ONSLAUGHT
CONQUERS LIONS
IN FINAL PERIOD
I.ollft Kilns by Gib Welch Annul
Stellar I’lav of Battered
l’enn State Team
KOEPKE. PINCURA STAR
IN NITTANY IJACKFIELD
Smoky City Eleven Outplayed
liy lilue and White for
Three Quarters
The flying feet of Gibby Welch,
fleet Panther hack, annulled three
periods of stellar play by a battered
Lion eleven and enabled the Pitl war
riors to carve out a 2-l-G victory in
the annual Thanksgiving Day classic
at tiie University stadium.
Outclassed in the opening periods
by the NiUnny attack, the -Panthers
fell in behind the iiulominablo Welch
and scored seventeen points in the
fourth quarter. The battered Penn
State forwards were unable to stem
the Blue and Gold onslaught.
In its final analysis, the game was
a battle of individuals, with Roepke
of Penn State and Welch of Pitt in
the leading roles. They matched
their cunning against the opposition
with phenomenal success, each turn
ing in a total of two hundred and five
yards gained during the afternoon’s
pastiming.
Touchdown Disallowed
Psychologically Penn ' State was
dealt a severe blow while the echo
of the opening whistle was still ring
ing in the stands. Pincura returned
the kick-oir to his thirty-nine yard
line. On the next play Roepke toss
ed a short pass to Del]) from kick
formation. Delp emerged from a
mass of players and raced across the
Pitt linn only to have the bnll recall*
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Ag Extension Mail
List Nears Million
Nearly a million pieces of mail
maltor were handled by the mailing
room of the agricultural extension
service here during the year closing
today. A total of sixty thousand ex
tension circulars were mailed out di
rectly to people of the state who re
quested them or were sent to county
agents for redistribution.
Four extension circulars, aggregat
ing 8(5 pages, were published during
the year. These included "Straw
'berry Culture in . Pennsylvania,”
‘‘Building tin* Farm Dairy House,'*
"The European Corn Borer,” and
the "Extension Project Summary.”
The mailing room also sent v out
ever a hundred thousand copies .of
experiment station bulletins and mail
ed 51,000 circular letters as a part
of the servee of the college to the
State. Six different bulletins were
published by the experiment station
and these were sent to different class
ified lists.
Bressler Discusses
Town and Country
"The Inter-relationship of Town
and Country” was the subject of an
address given by Vice-dean It. G.
Bressler of the School of Agriculture
to the Flk County Pomona Grange in
Ridgeway, Wednesday night. Dean
Bressler stressed the inter-donend
nice and close connection of town and
country. He will speak to the Lu
zerne County Pomona Grange in
Shickshinny, tomorrow nigh:, upon
the same subject.
Co-eds, Attired in Tux and Gown, To
Conglomerate in Annual He-She Dance
The co-eds will hold their annual
Hc-Shc dance in the Armory tonight
to the music of the "Collegians." On
this occasion half of the girls will
step forth in borrowed masculine
finery. .Some will be able to acquire
suits and other articles that fit, but
the greater number will seem to have
been supplied by the It. 0. T. C. out
fitter who remarked, "We have two
sizes—too large and too small!”
No one pays much attention, how
ever, to such minor details ns a size
seventeen shirt or a size twelve neck,
or a size seven hat on a size six head.
Everyone is out for a good time. /
The dance this year is in charge of
tour committees, under the direction
of Miss M. V. liuggler ’2B. The.en
tertainment committee, with Miss S.
King of Country’s Harriers
BILL COX. (New C
Who sheared an exaet half minute ;
equalled Willie Kilola’s mark, by coni|
Penn State its second individual chain
SUBSCRIPTION CALL
mai® by Magazine
Campaign for “Old Main Heir’
Will Be Launched
On Tuesday
SOLICITORS WILL CANVASS
FACULTY, STUDENT BODY
A subscription campaign for the
Old Main Hell wilt.be launched Tues
day, under the of B. C.
Wharton ’27, business manager. .Sol
icitors will canvass the faculty, the
fraternities, cluLs and boarding
bouses. The price for the two issues,
appearing in January and May is
one dollar.
Contributions for the first issue
are numerous and of good quality.
The call for short stories made a
short time ago has brought forth
sufficient narrative material to fill
this deficcncy. The wealth of mater
ial alone promises that the next Old
Main Hell will lie one of the best ev
er published, acording to It. D. ,Duu
dore, editor-in-chief.
In addition to poetry, short stone.*,
articles and assays, the magazine will
contain illustrations in the form of
charcoal drawings.
Songsters Will Enter
State Intercollegiates
A state intercollegiate glee club
contest to determine Pennsylvania’s
representative at the national con
test in New York City, has been an
nounced by U. W. Grant, director of
music and chairman of the movement
started by a number of colleges. The
songsters will meet February nine
teenth, at Pittsburgh.
Bucknell, Juniata, Pittsburgh, Car
negie Tech and Penn Slate have al
ready sent in. entries while several
other colleges are making arrange
ments to enter the contest.
According to the regulations, each
club may have, no more than thirty
men, who must be regularly enrolled
undergraduate students. Three se
lections will bo sung by each college,
including a prize song, a representa
tive college song and one number se
lected by the club.
E. Hartz '2B, as chairman, has plan
ned several features, among them an
elimination dance with prizes for the
winning lady and “gentleman.” This
committee has charge also of the re
freshments, to consist of punch and
cakes.
Chairman D. K. Calloway ’2!), of
the decoration committee, has arrang
ed some simple decorations. Confet
ti and colored paper streamers will
be passed out during one of the dan
ces. The finance committee is head
ed by Miss 11. L. Lewis '2B. . Last
but not least, is the clean-up commit
tee, which will operate under the di
rection of Miss G. A. Tocwc *2O.
It is requested that the girls do not
attend the movies before the dance
if they arc dressed in men’s clothes.
boss-country Champion)
from the previous record, ami nearly
plcting the six miles in 80:01. It gave
ipionship and its first team triumph.
THREE ENDOWMENT
PLANS SUGGESTED
College Would Receive $lOO,OOO
At Expiration of Twenty
Year Policies
SENIORS TO ESTABLISH
STUDENT LOAN FUNDS
Three plans for the use of the en
dowment fund now under considera
tion by the Senior'Classj lire being
deliberated upon by the. endowment
fund committee, stated Chairman G.
M. Harris '27, yesterday. One plan
is to use the fund for building pur
poses, another is to establish a loan
fund and the third is to devote it to
ward the endowment of some College
office.
Details of arrangement have not
yet been completed, but according to
the proposition made by J. F. O’Neill
of the Aetna Life Insurance company,
individual policies for two hundred
dollars each would be taken by mem
bers of the .Senior Class and handled
through the College Treasurer. At
the end of twenty years the College
would receive a gift of one hundred
thousand dollars.
Similar projects have been tried
by tiie graduating classes of Prince
ton, Yale and Columbia universities
and have met with success. It is the
aim of the Senior Class to initiate a
plan which may be followed by suc
cessive classes.
HORTICULTURE WEEK TO
OPEN TUESDAY MORNING
Four-day Session Will Include
Round Table Discussions
And Entertainment
The third annual Horticulture
Week will open Tuesday morning
with an inspection of. the College or
chards by commercial growers of
fruits, vegetables and ornamentals
from different parts of the State.
The session will he of four days dur
arlion and will feature round tabic
discussions among those in attend
ance. A question box will be provid
ed and will serve to indicate the sub
jects desired for discussion.
Among the social activities sched
uled. are an informal reception at.
Prof. 8. \V. Fletcher’s home on Tues
day night, a "Bug-Fungus” lunch
eon Wednesday noon and a “Hurt.”
banquet Thursday night, using ex
clusively products grown on the Col
lege farms and served by Horticulture
students. There will be judging con
tests for students and visitors, with
a silver cup to he awarded to the
judge making the highest score in
his group.
| Who’s Dancing ]
Friday
Phi Gamma Delta
Saturday
Phi Delta Theta
Sigma Phi Sigma
Theta Xi
mt.
TRIBUTES PAID LION
HARRIER CHAMPIONS
Kirby, I. C. 4A. Presi
Of Champion—(
Helps To Wi
La Vie Board Decides
On New Frontispiece
For the first time in the history of
the La Vie, the frontispiece will con
sist of a copper etching instead of the
t'sunl color engraving it was announc
ed at a meeting of the 11)28 board of
editors Tuesday.
The frontispiece is being designed
h.v W. P. Lawson of the department
of architecture anil will picture a fa
miliar view of the campus. According
to Editor-in-chief C. C. Borryhill *2B,
ether campus pictures have been en
graved and,a common border has been
selected for the annual.
FLEMING ANNOUNCES
NITTANY GRID CARD
Schedule Includes Lafayette,
Syracuse, Pennsylvania
And New York U.
MAJOR GAMES FOLLOW
STRONG PRELIMINARIES
Major games with Pennsylvania,
Syracuse, Lafayette, New York uni
versity and Pittsburgh arc the out
standing attractions of the 1027 Penn
State grid card as announced by
Graduate Manager of Athletics, Neil
Fleming, yesterday. The entire sched
ule, ns approved by the Athletic Ad
visory and faculty committees, is one
of the toughest yet undertaken .by a
Nittany eleven.
Sept. 21—Lebanon Valley (home)
Oct. I —Gettysburg (home)
Oct. B—Bucknrll (home)
Oct. to—Penn (Philadelphia)
Oct. 22—Syracuse (Syracuse)
Oct. 29—Lafayette
(Alumni Home-coming Day)
Nov. s—Geo.5 —Geo. Washington (home)
Nov. 12—New York University «
(Pennsylvania Day)
Nov. 21—Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh)
The Lions will be tested in an un
usually hard preliminary season.
Lebanon Valley has always given the
Blue and White plenty of opposition,
while Bill Wood’s Gettysburg col
legians are never far in the van when
pitted against Penn State. Bucknell,
returning to the Nittany schedule
this season, is expeccd to whet tho
Lion appetite for the Penn encounter.
Graduate Manager Fleming exper
ienced some diflicully in arranging
the card, as the third of a three-game
scries with Notre Dame was in or
der. The contract called for the bat
tle to he waged on a neutral field, hut
original plans had to he abandoned
when Penn announced her game with
Harvard November fifth.
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PENN STATE MEETS TWO
TEAMS IN FIRST DEBATE
Triangular Kngagemcnt Includes
Washington and Jefferson
And Pittsburgh U.
Penn State debaters will receive
their first test of the year when they
engage in a triangular debate next
Saturday night. Washington and
•Jefferson's trio will argue with the
affirmative Nittany team in the audi
torium while the University of Pitts
burgh debaters will meet the local
negative delegation.
"ItcKolvcd: That the practical ten
dency in American higher education
is to he deplored,” is the question to
In discussed. Competition for posi
tions on both the affirmative and neg
ative teams has been strong and as
i yet Professor .). H. Frizzell, forensic
ccach, has been unable to decide just
who will comprise the two trios.
J. W. Brandt ’29 and Gilbert Nu
riek ’2B arc captains of the affirma
tive and negative squads respectively
and have been helping Professor Friz
zell to organize the men under them.
RED CROSS DRIVE
With more than one hundred and
fifty dollars already obtained from
the fraternities one of the most suc
cessful Red Cross drives will come to
a close Saturday.
More Punch—
By
Welch
PRICE FIVE CENTS
ident, Commends Work
Daptain Fouracre
in First Title
Basking in the glowing tribute of a
nation, the admiration of all from the
Varsity Hall steward to the President
of the Intercollegiate Association of
Amateur Athletes of America, Wil
liam J. “Bill” Cox, sophomore king of
the cross-country world, is at present
modestly seeking seclusion from all
publicity by resting from running the
remainder of this week on Coach
Cartmell's orders.
Bill is jubilant over his glorious
triumph at Van Cortlandt park. New
) ork city, where he outran and out
smarted the cream of America’s run
ners, JOS of them, and slashed thirty
seconds from the collegiate record
by finishing first in the remarkable
time of .70 minutes 4 seconds, just iwo
nnd three-fifths seconds slower than
Willie Ritolas national senior cham
pion record tho day before. He’s jub
ilant, but quiet about it.
Seniors Share in Glory
“Fvc always been aiming at the
crown. I felt l could do it before we
left. With Nate’s encouragement and
coaching and the confidence I hail.in
our team. 1 knew we’d surely come
through with tho Blur and White’and
we did. That’s all there was to it."
Thus did the unassuming, black-hair
ed victor pass over his feat.-
But this bronzed warrior of the
chase does not come in for the credit
alone, hut with tho whole team and
the whole squad. Especially do prais
es ring loud for Captain Roger Four
pore, Jake Reis ami Harvey Stewart,
seniors, nnd all running the beat races'
of their career. They staked thoir aU
and reaped for Penn Stale iis first
Intercollegiate team championship.
Stirring Battle For Title
•The other Nittany stridor among
the five scorers was the speedy George
OfTenhauser, Cox’s classmate. Of
fenhauser ran one place behind Four
acre who was'sixth.'' -Reis came.ih
twenty-second nnd Stewart ..twenty
ninth giving the Lions a three-point
win, G5-f>B, over the mighty Syra
cuse runners, lacking the presence of
Coach Tom Keane, veteran' mentor,
who still is seriously ill in New York.
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PRINCETON PASTOR IS
NEXT CHAPEL SPEAKER
Rev. W. 11. Bryan Will Discuss
Religious Problems of
College Students
The Kcv. W. B. Bryan, Jr., Univer
sity Pastor of the First Presbyterian
church, Princeton, New Jersey, will
speak at the chapel service Sunday
morning. He will also discuss Relig
ion for College men at the Methodist
church at six-fifteen o’clock.
At Phillips academy, Andover, Mas
sachusetts, the Rev. Mr. Bryan re
ceived his preparation for Princeton
university where he was active in un
dergraduate activities. He was a
member of the crew, tho "Princoton
ian.” the Triangle club, and the Senior
Council, in addition to being president
of the Philadelphia society and tho
Campus Christian association. After
graduating from Princeton with a
Bachelor of Arts degree in 1320, ho
spent one year as Graduate Associate
Secretary of the Philadelphia society
and three years in the Princeton The
ological seminary.
After lie received his Master’s de
gree in 1021, lie was part-time as
sistant at the First Presbyterian
church. New York City, spending
more than a year under Doctor Alex
ander, Doctor Fosdiek and Mr. Speers.
F. J. Chesterman, Bell
Telephone Executive, To
Deliver Address Today,
F. J. Chesterman, vice-president
and’genernl manager or the Bell Tel
ephone company of Pennsylvania,
will speak on "Individual Initiative
and Effort in Business,” at four-thir
ty o’clock today in Old Chapel.
Mr. Chesterman is one of the lead
ing engineering executives of the
Bell company, and for the past fetfr
years has had close contact with the
selection of college graduates for
various positions in the telephone
field. He has made an ’ extensive
study of problems of engineering
training and in the .selection and
placement of college men. Dean R.
L. Suckett announced that this will be
the last engineering lecture before
the Christmas recess.