Lafayette IVelconic! Use (he Mat VOL. XXII, No. 31 Grapplers Open Season With Maroon Tomorrow LAFAYETTE HAS EVEN BREAK IN TWO FORMER ENCOUNTERS—VETERANS TO MAKE UP LION TEAM Seven veterans will comprise theD spi e dd- ; :oached team which initiates y • the wrestling seassm tomorrow after- Bi ll. Wood To Coach noon with a dual meet against the Lafayette grapplers on the Armory Wesleyan Next Year mats at two-thirty o'clock. The non aggregation has already had the experience of two previous ennae ments. a victory over Temple tinker- Fti and a setback at the hands of Princeton. Captain Kaiser will start for Nan State. and will probably meet Lee. 3laroon 115-pounder. in the I:15- pound division. Liggett will stack up _ainst Munakata. Lafayette sm:u•. Although the veteran has the post clinched for the opening meet. Coach Spiedel is keeping • I eye on Pollock. iiromisiong sophow rc who amy break in later in the seariin. lien Long: and Ace will wrestle in the 135 and 145-pound classes, op posing Smellow and Cisney. respect ively. Thsi will he Long's first en counter in the ranks of the 135-pound ers. Last year lie alternated with Ace in the heavier post. l'atkard. given the ISS-pound berth, will meet Drake. The 175-pound class choice alone has not been definitely decided. Al• though Ike Long has had a slight ad , vantage in the bid, he has been fol. lowed so closely by llollobaugh. that it is difficult to say which man wil wrestle tomorrow. The Lafayette Ili-pounder is Petressa. Garrison has recovered sufficiently from the injury which hindered him earlier in the season, and will answer the tun limited division call. Ills opponent asuill be Soloti, Maroon heavy. MID-YEAR CLASS MEETS TO PLAN COMMENCEMENT Senior Officers Will Preside al Graduation—Formal Garb For Ceremonies Because many members of the class of twenty-six and a half were orig. finally hi the group which graduates in .tune, it was decided that officers o: the present senior class should lea( the mid-year graduates at commence. ment. February eighth. The graduates. began plans for cap meneement exercises after discussing the matter with Dealt A. It. Warnock Caps and gowns will he worn tote the exercises will be made as formal as the time of the year permits. The Invitation Committee consists of I. C. Reby. C. E. Mel:widen, d. L Ekenhoth and Miss Harriet Butcher. Members of the Cap anti Gown rota mittee are W. 11. D. B. Kahan and C. I). Uibel. UNIVERSITY CLUB ELECTS OFFICERS FOR YEAR 1927 Transacts Annual Business al Smoker—Kaulfuss Named 'form President Election of officers and re-organiza tion of the University Club marked the annual meeting of the body 31on day night when a smoker was staged for its three hundred or more mem bers. The Club was founded in 1910. E. Kaulfuss. professor of high way engineering. was elected presi dent for the coming year while W. R. Chedsey. professor of mining. became vice-president. The new secretary is W. 11, MacMillan, assistant in the for estry department. and C. C. Wagner. associate professor of mathematics, was renamed treasurer. To fill three year terms. Professor E. I). Walker, head of the department of civil engineering and 11. G. Mesley. professor of agricultural economies extension, were elected as directors. They will serve on the board with Hon. J. 1.. Holmes. member of the State legislature. Dean E. A. Hol brook, School of Mines. and J. E. De camp. professor of psychology and as sociate research professor of the ex periment station. Who's Dancing Friday Alpha Chi Rho Football Dance (Closed) Saturday Omega Epsilon Delta Pi Alpha Gamma Phi Sigma . . • . 40 0 . A run . a .44 t .• ,14..0& • ' l* • 1" ... . . •,,syc 111 Warn 11. Wood 'l5. forme• Penn State football. li:isketball and lacrosse star and former assistant coach. will assume charge of lVesloyal' univer sity's gridiron destiny neat fall. For the past nine years Mr. Wood has been head coach at Gettysburg col lege as well as a member of their faculty. and his teams have shown marked ability at defeating 1110:q. of their rivals. SELECT PROGRAMS FOR JUNIOR PROM Committee Chooses Thirty Page Souvenir Booklet—Contains Five Sections FIRST CA LL 3IA DE FOR ADVERTISING POSTERS An elaborate thirty leaf dance pro gram in the form of a souvenir book let has been seleted by the committee to be given each guest at the Junior Prom on April twenty-ninth, it was announced by P. I'. Iles; '2B, chair man. With a covering of grey roan leach the booklet is about four inches by air in size. On the front cover is a (lain embossment of Old Main with 'Junior Prom" and "1928" immediate !y below it. The College seal is stamped on the rear fly. in addition to the dance program. he pages contain a section listing all vents of the week-end. The remain- Icr of the booklet devotes almost :hirty pages to three sections, one for engagements, another for addresses nut a third for autographs. The pro ;rams arc being ordered through the E. A. Wright company of Philadel phia. , Call for Posters To anyone submitting four art pos ters advertising the Junior Proiu a 2omplimentary ticket will be given. The posters must be on white card *mard of twelve by sixteen inches in dze and should be done in three col lrs. These should be submitted to 11. R. Hassel '23, at the Beta Theta I'i house. B. T. Webb '2S. head of a special ;:ommittee in charge of the decorat ions, is in communication with six decorating firms and promises an in novation in the way of bedecking the Armory. It is expected that arrange- (Continued on third page) Trackmen To Compete Tomorrow Afternoon In All-College Meet As the opening event of the indoor track season, a meet. open to all who care to compote. will be held on the Armory track at four-thirty o'clock, Saturday afternoon. The meet is open to all classes and Coach Nate Cartmell is particularly eager that freshmen participate an the meet so that any possible mater ial may be unearthed. The follow ing events will be run: fifty yard dash, forty-five yard high hurdles, quarter mile run. half mile run, two mile run. thirty-five pound weight Throw and broad jump. Inasmuch as few of the participants are known and the comparative strength of the men cannot be deter mined. all of these events will be run front scratch. On Saturday, Janu ary twenty-ninth. a meet will be con ducted on the Armory oval between teams which will be picked on the showing of the men on Saturday. This meet will be composed of handi cap events. Horticulturalists Meet With State Association Taking an active part in the annual meeting of the Pennsylvania State Horticulture association in - llarris burg Wednesday and yesterday. Pro fessors R. D. Anthony and F. N. Fa gan served as chairmen of committees on pomology. C. E. Myers gave a re• port on "The Importance of Pedigree Nursery• Stock and Bud Sports to Pennsylvania Horticulturists." STATE COLLEGE, PA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 1927 VARSITY OUT FOR REVENGE AGAINST GETTYSBURG FIVE Memory of 1926 Defeat( Still Lingers—Game Set for Seven Tomorron LINE-GP AGAIN DUE FOR REVISION BY 11E1231ANN llamas. Roeptie. Reilly, Lungren Von Niecla slay Slart—Diek Reinhold Improves The basketball team that account ed for one of Penn State's seven set backs on the court last year, Gettys burg college, will appear here tomor row evening at seven o'clock intent upon duplicating its 1926 feat. A Penn State combination, better forti6ed than last year. will be ready to repel the assault. When the open ing whistle blows memory or the 1926 game will be uppermost in the mind of Coach Dutzh Hermann and 1111 men. The Nittany Lions are seek ing revenge. Get yshurg Dangerous Coached by Bill Wnod, star Penn State gridder is 1:113, 1911 and 1915, the Battlefield boys have not yet been able to strike a winning stride, an nexing but one out of four tilts. Am erican university took the measure of (Continued on last page) WESTERN DEBATERS BOOKED TOMORROW California Forensic Team Will Oppose Penn State at Eight-fifteen SUBJECT TORE NAMED TEN HOURS IN ADVANCE Two of the best known orators in the West will represent the Universi ty of California when the Coast de bating team meets Penn State in the Auditorium tomorrow night at eight fifteen o'clock. The subject of the debate has not yet been announced but will be chos en Saturday morning. and both teams will have the entire day in which to prepare arguments. The debate will be a split team open forum discus sion, the decision to be given by the audience. The teams will discuss both the affirmative and the negative sides of the selected question. Gilbert Nurick '2B, captain of the team that defeated l'itshington and Jefferson, and .1. W. Brandt '29, cap tain of the team that won front Pitts burgh and winner of the sophomore extemporaneous speaking contest, will represent Penn State. The western speakers are P. S. Broughton '27 and L. 11. Ileibron '2B. Broughton is commissioner of debat ing and representative of the Univer sity executive committee while Heil brim is the winner of the University Kraft scholarship and a candidate for the Rhodes Scholarship. Dr. W. S. Dye will act as chairman. Joke Brokerage Is Frothy's New Line The lock has rusted elf the dcor of the upstairs ollice for Frothy sneaked out and is again gallivanting the streets. This time it is looking for a place to park the famous "three ball sign" and likely will choose Gra ham's as headquarten:. For two bits it will vend a Persian orange colored monstrosity. The boys are pulling the "ex change" game this time but nobody seems to know what Frothy gave in exchange tot the couple of rare jokes Front other colleges. We just tum bled down from that humorle3s hole and feel as if we had just come out of the morgue. But the principle of "a dollar now :mei the rest when you catch me'' has worked to the advantage of our un worthy contemporary and the results of Frothy's joke brokerage business will appear in today's issue which is endowed with a shingle bearing the desecration "X -change. Refunds and Adjustments," painted by R.M. Gibbs As usual the whit-nits from above wasted tubs of printers ink with their usual meaningless jabber and then filially consulted a few thousand zol lcge joke hooks in order to produce a tunny-bone tickler. , Six Cross-country Men Receive Major Letters As a special acknowledgment for winning the Intercollegiate erns country championship. six Penn State harriers-have been awarded the major - S." One man was awarded the reg ular harrier "S" in recognition of three ye:tea competition for a posi tion on the team. Men who were given the straight - S" are Captain Fouracre '27. W. .1. Cox '29, eross-country captain elect, G. li. Olfenhauser '29. 11. .1. Stewart'27. P. B. Reis '27. G. A. Guyer '27, winner of the special award, and Herbert McCabe '27, manager. J. I'. Oesteriing '27 was awarded the regulation cross-country letter. MAY ACT AGAINST BROKEN PLEDGES I. F. C. Considers Punishment . Of Neophytes Returning Fraternity Pins DR. MARTIN JUSTIFIES "SNOW FINES" IN TALK To govern the conduct of freshmen fraternity pledges who turn in their pins before becoming members, the Interfraternity Council proposed a new rule at its meting Tuesday The motion states that any fresh man who is pledged to a fraternity and who. for some reason or other, hands in his pledge pin will not be el igible to accept a bid from another fraternity until a period of three months has passed. Any house vio lating this rule will be subject to punishment by the Council. The pro posal will be voted upon at the next meeting. "Snow Pines Justified" In his talk on the affairs - of the Borough Council and their relation to the students, Dr. Jt. v i;. Martin stated that CM. Rotliriick, new - burgess; is enforcing the law more stringently than has been done in the last ten years. Ile also announced that Mr. Shoemaker is the only one uuthorired to collect garbage from the fraterni ties and that he may charge no more than seven dollars a,month. "There has been no unfairness shown in the levying of fines for failure to clean snow from walks," Doctor Mar tin said, "and every property holdler violating this law has been lineal." The petition from the Senior• Ball committee asking that each fraternity be charged six dollars for as booth at the Ball was accepted. A similar re quest that each fraternity pay five dollars for a booth at the Military Ball was granted. A special alcove in tile Library for all national fraternity periodicals will be prcpared in the near future PHILADELPHIA PASTOR IS SUNDAY CHAPEL SPEAKER Reverend Macartney, Prominent Author, Has Princeton and Wisconsin Degrees A Philadelphia pastor, Itev. Clar ence E. N. :McCartney, will deliver the chapel sermon Sunday. The Rev erend Macartney is minister of the Arch Street Presbyterian church in the Quaker city. Ile pursued his un dergraduate work at the University of Wisconsin. Besides receiving his :Master of Arts degree at Princeton university, the speaker graduated from the Princeton Theological seminary. Among his books are "The Minister's Son" and "Parables of the Old Testament." Ile also contributes regularly to literary and historical magazines. Greek Wrestling Will Begin Next Seniestei Interfraternity wrestling will not get under way until the first week of next semester, according to an an nouncement made by D. F. Ilenvick '2B, following a meeting of managers held at the Alpha Chi Itho house on Tuesday evening. The grapplers have been requested by the varsity boxers, who are using the gymnasium at present. to post pone activity until that time. The following fraternities have an swered the call Sigma Phi Sigma, Acacia, Phi Lambda Theta, Phi Della Theta, Alpha Phi Sigma, Sigma l'i, Tau Kappa Epsilon, Sigma Phi Ep silon, Alpha Chi Sigma, Chi Upsilon, Kappa Sigma, Pi Kappa Alpha, Kap pa Delta Rho. Phi Kappa 'Tau and Delta Kappa Sigma. THESPIANS NAME "GIRL WANTED" AS 1927 PRODUCTION Maurice Darcy's Comedy Chosen For Road Tour and .1 unior Prom Presentations INGIIAM ARRANGES TRIP THROUGH PENNSYLVANIA Author of New• Play Will Coach Cast—To Arrive Here on 3la rch Twent iet The Thespians have selected their 1927 road show. "Girl Wanted." a three act musical comedy by Maurice Darcy, is the title of the production which will be presented throughout the state from April nineteenth to the twenty-sixth. The Club will make its State College debut the week-end of the Junior Prom. Mr. Darcy. author of the play. 1A particularly well-qualified to supply a play to comply with Thespian re quirements. having served as con:h of the last three prwlectizms. "The Magazine Cover Girl." "Woo.ha Shoes" and "The Rid Mimelr." "I feel certain that this production will excel any that the Thepsians have ever presented mainly because it ha.; been written by \I r. Darcy. Ile has found it nue:Nary to rewrite (Continued On second page) PLEBE FIVE OPENS WITH DUBOIS HIGH Initial Engagement Will Follow Varsity Tussle—Yearling Team Unnamed SQUAD NOW NUMBERS FOURTEEN FRESHMEN An untried, untested freshman has kethall team will receive its first ei of lire as a unit when it opposes the Dußois high school quintet to morrow evening. The game will start immediately after the comple tion of the varsity setio with Gettys- MI Mt, Willi the squad now narrowed down to fourteen men COllOl Larry Conover l'as not yet named the line-up that will take the floor - igainst the sel:oul lxiys. Larry wan able to get a good line on Ilk material Wednesday when his pupils engaged !eng practice suasion with the varsity. Motu• guards. three centers and se ven forward candidates comprise the freshman court squad that orgininal ly numbered one hundred and ninety live. Dinwoollie, Staley, Fry, I Fleckenstein, Tatigner and Cavan augh are the players f rom whom Con over must choose his starting, fm'• wards. while the trio now battling for the center berth are Leyda, Ridgeway and Mahle. Anselmo, Lee, Balmer and Mitchell is the quartet available to:• guard duty. Ball-room Antics Replace End Runs Of:-tackle smashes. end runs and line bucks will step aside for the Charleston and Blackbottom when the members of the varsity football squad and the freshman numeral men con. gregate at Varsity Hall tonight for the annual football dance. Joe Buck and his orchestra will be the musi makers. Dancing will be from nine until one o'clock. P. P. Hess, manager-elect of the 1027 team and his squad of assistant managers have invited more than a hundred and twenty-live guests to the affair. seventy-live of whom are "knights of the gridiron." Voflowing, the custom of previous years, silver footballs will be given to the guests. The entire main floor of Varsity 11 has been decorated in blue and white color scheme. Re freshments will be served. iFreshman Class Elects, Five Trial Presidents The five trial presidents elect ed by the freshman class Tues.- I day night are J. N. Stahley, W. ! A. Stone. F. Steele, W. T. Teas and A. M. Holmes. Each one of these five nominees will con- I duct one class meeting. A final vote will then be taken to sel ect the president. 2 CrY an t PRESIDENT ANAL YZES COLLEGE CONDITIONS Wins Confidence of Farmers in First Public Speech at State Farm Products Show Tuesday Booths for Senior Ball Co on Sale January 28 iZe,:ervations for booths at the Senior Bail. which trill bo held i in the Armory on February twelfth. will he placed on sale at Taylor's 3lusie Shop on Fri day. January twenty-eighth. iTiektts are priced at la BOXERS IMPRESS IN EARLY BOUTS Rug Mahoney Improves as Daily Workouts Continue—Houck Seeks Footwork COACH DRILLS MEN FOR OPENING ENGAGEMENTS All was quiet along the Nittany listie sector this week, but excited buzzes regarding Roger Mahoney as a fashionable heavyweight. when the Penn State boxing season gets under way, attracted the usual number of spectators to the rim of the new Ar mory hoxng mat. Rog looked the part WedneMay. Leo sent him in against McClure, a former 145-pound boxer at Notre Dame, now here on a visit to the coach, and Donaldson, a tall light heavyweight, to improve Rug's foot work. Immediately Rog got_ going. lie was faster on his feet, quicker with his hands, and more graceful than his appearance last week would have led observers to believe. Still Lacks Polish Except for occasional wild attempts to swat his opponent down as if .e were a Ily. Mahoney showed marked ability. If he can grasp the correct boxing stance the star football center will prove a dangerous man in the coining dual meets with Temple, V. 31. I. and Navy. 3lahoney's improvement is typical of that of the whole =quad. Rohl) and liendiek, two industrious 1-15- (Continued on last page) I. F. Fives Eliminated In First Round—Tilts To Continue Tuesday Competition for the Intel-fraterni ty basketball championship began on Tuesday night in the Armory when four teams launched the annual ta n •- nunent for, the cup now held by Theta Kappa Phi. - In the opening game Phi Kappa Nu proved no match for the fast Chi Phi Oak. which romped away with a .15 , 2 decision. In a game featured by close guarding. Phi Gamma Delta lest to Clii Upsilon by a 16-12 score. Delta Pi defeated Phi Kappa Psi 25-li in the fastest game of the round. In the final match Beta Sigma Itho subdued Kappa Sigma 19-12. Eliminations will continue Tuesday night when the following teams meet: Omega Epsilon and Theta Upsilon Omega. Tau Kai:pa Epsilon and Theta Xi. Sign:a Phi Epsilon and Beta Theta Pi at nine. For Thursday night the following teams are paired: at eight o'clock Oni..,a Delta Epsilon and Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Tau Sigma Phi and Delta Sigma Phi: at nine. Sigma Clii and Phi Kappa, Phi Delta Theta and Alpha Gamma Rho. WPSC To Broadcast Midnight Program. Introducing the first early morning program since it began, WPSC,' State College radio station will broadcast musical numbers by the Penn State Collegian orchestra at one o'clock to morrow morning. This innovation is an attempt to continue the state-wide interest which has been manifested in this broadcasting center. Talks by It. 11. Bell. A. A; Borland, I'. T. Ziegler and Pauline Beery Mack and entertainment by Joe Buck's Or chestra will comprise the program which will be sent out Monday night at eight o'clock. Cridders Hold Post-Season Struggle PRICE FIVE CENTS That money spent for higllcr learn ing is not public expense but public investment. that greater service by this College for agriculture and in dustry of Pennsylvania is anticipated. and tint there is cause for some alarm because Penn State has not the facil ities for all its amilicants. were the thoughts left in rho minds of the many hundreds of farmers: addressed by Doctor Ralph D. Iletzel at Harrisburg Tuesday nigh:. President Hemel. in his first publie speech. spoke to the opening convoca tion of the annual State Farm Pro ducts show along with Governor John S. Fisher. Both men have just come into attire in their respective roles. Hopes For Remedy Farmers have long shown deep in terest in Penn States serviee and fol lowing Doctor lletzers message ex pressed the hope that "the Common wealth soon will awaken to her error in falling behind in the development of one of her most vital public insti tutions, and remedy it in the interest of her own well-being." have no %vimd of adverse criti cism." President !toted declared, "of such conditions." "I hope that the time has come when considerable pro gress can be made in this direction. I hope we have reached the point where we are beginning to see that money put into the work of institu tions of higher learning does not rep resent public expenditure but rather public investments." Wins Audience The new executive early in his talk won over the farmer audience by stat ing that he had always found his most sympathetic supporters, his soundest counsellors and his tru e st friends among the farmers of his acquaint ance. Ile had found it so in the Mid dle West, on the Pacific coast and in New England, and "I hope that I may prove myself worthy of equal confi dence here," he said. To the end that P2llll State may better serve the agriculture and in dustry of the State he urged the Com monwealth to look to its investments in the field of scientific research where only the surface has been scratched: to tree the campus as a gathering place for industrial and ag ricultural groups to solve their prob lems. Ile placed his contidenze whole heartedly in the young men and wn melt of the colleges of today as good as material from which to make lead ers of the future. Giv'es Science Importance After giving science . credit for the material well-being of this present lukurious age he went on, "And yet we have not done much for science. A few forward looking men have con tributed liberally to its support; our Federal - government and our states have given it a pittance. (Continued on third page) LION MARKSMEN ANNEX FOURTH CONSECUTIVE WIN Varsity Team Outscores Maine As \Vest Virginia Loses To R. 0. T. C. Squad Penn State's rile team scored its fourth consecutive victory last week by triumphing over the University of Maine and not over the University of Virginia as was stated in Tuesday's C.!legion. Tins Liana made a score of :1784 out of a possible 4000 as against :Maine's :wore of 34:19. The It. 0. T. C. team also shot a telegraphic match with the represen tativos of the University of West Vir ginia It. 0. T. C. unit which resulted in another Penn State victory•, the final score being 11100 for the home squad and :1010 for West Virginia. Twenty-two men have been picked by Lieutenant :Miller, coach of the Varsity rifle team. to compose the freshman squad. There will be no matches scheduled with outside teams. but. Lieutenant :Miller plans to organ ize three IL 0. T. C. teams. The first group will be made up of seniors. juniors and sophomores. the second of sophomores and freshmen. and the third team wholly of freshmen. The Squad The men who have earned a place on the squad picked by coach Miller are Roes. Murphy. Gordon, Kummer, Stra ley, Monroe, Fowler, Dye, Rehm, Prit ham, Davis, Anderson, Bierly, Bur rows, Fisher. Miller. Kupershinsky, McCarthy. Ukich, Walker, Leonard, and Darner.
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