Riley& The President's Reception—Today And Thursday VOL XXII, No. 35 Fifty-Nine Receive Degrees At Commencement Tonight Seven Others Get Masters Degrees at Mid-year Graduation in Auditorium—Lovell To Give Main Address Degrees will be confeired uncut fif ty-nine seniors tonight at the four teenth annual mid-year graduation exercises in the Auditorium at seven thirty o'clock. Seven additional can didates in the graduate school will receive the dgiee of Master of /Mts. Seniors will meet in Old Chapel at sever o'clock to get their caps and gowns before the exercises. The pin cession will then loon The addiess to the graduating class will be delivered by the Revetend M R. Lovell, pastor of the Mt Pleasant Congregational church — of Washing ton, D C A graduate of Boston university, Mr. Lovell served four yews as pastor of the Congiegation. al chinch at Durham, New Hamp shire. First honors awarded to not mole than fifteen per cent of the graduates, irom full four year College courses, ranking highest in general scholar ship were Wen by: 11. G Barone, AI R. Chase, Irl E. Evashrck, E Grafilus, It W. Huston and G Wein berg Second honors given to not more than fifteen per cent of the (Continued on second page) FOUR LION ORATORS GO TO WASHINGTON Oppose G. W. University Friday In Nation's Capitol—Argue On Volstead Act CARD OF EIGHT TILTS ARRANGED FOR SEASON Four representatives of Penn State's debating team will leave Fri day for Washington, D C, to oppose the forensic group of George Wash ington univei sity that night in Coch ran Hall. The verbal tilt will be for mal with three judges rendeting a de cision at its conclusion Tho question that mill be argued pro and con in the Capitol City is. Re solved, "That the Volstend Act should be so amended as to permit the manu facture and sale 'of light MlRes and beer" The peisonel of the team is. N E. Adams '2B, J 'iv Mundt '29 and Gilbert Nurick '2B. J R Richards '3O will accompany the team as alternate. Tho remainder of the debating schedule, recently completed follows February 25—Dickinson at Carlisle (negative); Dickinson at Lock Haven (affirmative). February 26—Western Malyland at State College; Lincoln university at Philadelphia March s—Rutgers at State College Maich 19—Michigan State at State College March 26—Bocvdoin at State Col- lege. April 2—Geneva at Beaver Falls April 7—Albright at 111yeistown. April B—Pennsylvania at Plnladel phut. ATTEMPTS TO SHORTEN FLOUR MILLING PROCESS Professor Studies Conservation Of Power and Losses Due To Er aporation For the purpose of shortening the pre-vnt flour milling process, Prof. D W Dedrick of the department of me chanical engineeting has been conduct, mg a &ties of experiments in power consumption in flour milling. In these expernnents Prolessor Dc drink is also investigating the peeves used by grinding roll, the form of cor rugation giv - mg the best results and tho manner of the entry of the gram into the rolls. The problem of conser vation of power as well 'as losses due to dust and evaporation of products is being observed. As far back as 1913, Professor De drick, together with Professor Helm& conducted a series of experiments in order to determine the power required in the grinding of wheat, corn and other grains. The tabulations from these experiments were printed in a bullet= on power issued by the Col lege in 1916 This bulletin was the first of its kind ever printed and has been accepted as standard by the null ing profession. Professor Dedclek is a frequent con tributor to the various American mill ing jour mils on all parts of the imlling industry. _ ..., ...,,_ ;"'.•,, , ,:;a: •.. = S emi - Weekly II I run a . fk . .... i .e,..,,,.i ~:,„..,,., ,:c=„ir. •: . . ~..,,:..:„..,....„‘7.,._ !iisst .. ... . .. Collegian Will Publish Senior Ball Guest List Following a precedent estab lobed for the fast tone last year, the Collegian is printing the names of all out-of-town Senior Ball guests Lists should be submitted to the Collegian of fico not later than ten o'clock to morrow night for publication in Friday's issue WPSC BROADCASTS ATHLETIC EVENTS Saturday's Sport Card Relayeb From Armory to College Station by Wire HOPE TO EXTEND CABLE SYSTEM TO AUDITORIUM The busiest radio bioadcasting ses sion since the re-opening of the col lege shawl a month ago took place mei the week-end and last night It started at one-tx enty o'clock Sat urday morning when Hobey Bottorf's dance orchestra entertained a west ern audience for an hour, a perfoira once that is expected to bring ri many responses from that section of the country The musical program last night in cluded Lew Fisher at the piano, B A Stanley with his violin and Hap Wal- Cain and hts'Saxophone al talks were given by C. 0 Clamor, H C Knandel and W. L. Henning. • Program Tomorrim Tomorrow night Joe Buck's orches tra will make its bow to WPSC aud iences with a selected program Talks at that time will be given by Di. A. S. Harrell on teacher timing extension work, F. G. Heckler. o, the economic use of fuel and by Dean F D. Hein on a popular science ob ject. It is expected that a that will be made in the broadcasting of dance music from the Senior Ball at the Ai mory Friday evening Chief Operator Gilboa L. Crossley and the College carpenter staff woik (Continued on third page) Doctor Lose, Blind, To Address Faculty D.. Charles Lose, former pi memo' of the Central State Noma' school at Lock Haven, will address the faculty members of the School of Education at a dinner at the University Club Monday evening. While acting as principal of the Normal school, Doctor Lose became totally blind. Since then lie has won ide recognition as a lecturer and philosopher Ile is noted not only fin his remarkable interpretation of life, as revealed to him since becoming blind, but also because of his almost unexcelled poa °is of description and the ease and elegance with which he expresses his vivid thoughts. INTERFRATERNITY QUINTS RESUME ACTION TONIGHT Four Teams Open Competition At Eight O'clock After Week's Lay-off Aftei a week's lay-olf on account of the mid-year examinations, the inter fraternity basketball league competi tion will resume operation tonight o hen six teams sie for court honors. Chi Lambda Zeta will line-up against Delta Kappa Sigma passers In the only game at eight o'clock while one hour later Phi Lambs Theta will tangle with the Alpha Chi Rho couitinen while Beta Lambda Sigma battle, with Alpha Sigma Phi on an adjourning court. The schedule Thursday is• Sigma Tau Phi vs. Sigma Pi, Sigma tin Sig inn vs. Alpha Chi Sigma at eight o'clock. Kappa Delta. Rho vs. Alpha Gamma Phi, Sigma Nu vs. Alpha Tau Omega at nine o'clock. The Theta Kappa Phu-Pin Epsilon Pi game orig. I orally slated for tonight has been postponed until next Tuesday. STATE COLLEGE, PA., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1927 President Initiates Mid-year Receptions Poi the first time in the history of Penn State the newlent will hold a reception for mid-year graduates this afternoon from three-thirty to five o'clock at his residence Presi dent and Mrs It D. lletsel, uho have initiated this move, will be assisted in tho role of hosts to the seniois, them patents and friends by the deans of the various schools Invitations Inv, been sent to rela tives of the sixty or more graduates and it is especially urged that all thoso m toss n be present at the in formal affair. LIONS SMOTHER ORANGE MATMEN IN 22-5 VICTORY Long Brothers Score Falls for Penn State—Kirkpatrick Is Lone Syracuse Victor ACE AND WARNER PUT ON SPECTACULAR BOUT Injury to Knee Keeps Packard Out of Action—Bell Robs Carlson of Fall Before an onslaught that easily proved the mastery of the Lion., a touted Syracuse mat squad withdrew Saturday holding only the small rnd of a 22-5 count The match was en interest-exciting exhibition from be ginning to end and furnished bits of grappling history that will line for months Three falls mete registered The Long brothers, Hank and Ike, each tamed in one of the five-point count ess. The thud, that went to the es ed it of Kukpatmck, Orange 158-pound er,-counted for the lone score Of the Nlsltors Kaiser lost no time in unleashing a vigorous attack against Okun, Syr acuse flyweight, and at every turn proved his mastery of the bout The °crease tactics of the visitor, howev el, successfully warded off a fall and the Nittany captain had to content (Continued on last page) McDowell Acting Dean In Place of Bressler Prof. ill ,S MeDom ell has been handling the administrative duties of the School of Agricultuie in lieu of Prof B G Messier, who was recently appointed deputy secretary of agricul ture of Pennsylvania. Professor Mc- Dowell is 111 act in the'capacity of Deun until the return of Dean Watts from China nest month. Falling Plaster Bids Nodding Class Adieu Thirty-five students store resting peacefully in Zoology Lab. in Mac Hall at eleven-thirty o'clock on Saturday morning—nothing to do but scant fol. ty 'ninnies longer and bid farewell to first semester leeitations Nothing unusual had happened din ing - the semester in this paiticular class Classes had been held regular ly—the students had been the average iun of college men—blue books had been passed and flunked with care and precision. But wait, we have more to tell. Suddenly fate, for season of its own, took a hand Crash! A portion of the plaster cells sg shopped to the floss with a thundering roar After the dust had cleated no one was found to be inmied A niece of plaster did hit one of the students but the many was not serious Quiet sins restated in a feu minutes Stu dents settled down and the twehe-ten bell rang usher mg out the bout. Thus endeth the lust lesson- Lacking Permits, Two - Salesmen Draw Fines Arrested for selling merchaudise State College without a permit, Viv ian Steele and Berkeley Bedon, both of Ithaca, New Yolk, wen e fined twenty-live dolliits each last week and °Heimd to leave town by Din gus W. P. Rothrock. The men mete vending haberdash ery in addition to selling punch bound chances at the various fraternity houses. According to Chief-of-police Yougel who made the arrests the two men have been operating in college towns in New Yolk and Pennsylvan ia. TEMPLE RINGMEN BOW TO NITTANY SLUGGERS, 4-3, IN SEASON'S OPENER Wolffs Technical Knockout of Kerns and Beloff's Quick Victory Over Robb Feature Bouts ALLIE CLINCHES MEET Kolikoski, Boruch and Grazier Win Decisions—Harrington Drops Extra-period Battle to Ritz Temple university threw se‘eral bombshells into thetAi may ring Sat urday afternoon,lut the Philadel phians were Just or bomb short and the threatened explosion nese! took place. As it was, Penn State's re vised boxing team got off to a lair start, Mlle Wolff scored a knockout and Grazier, Borsch and Kohhoski won decisions to gi‘e the Nittany Lions a 4.3 edge For a while ethane° piediction stock took a big drop Mahon, a little uneeitain in los first bout, thorned a close one to Monello, the Temple fif teen roundel, and though Koliko,ki made his boo, more unpressi,e by outpointing Annumiato and Borsch won on a foul in the second, Penn State stood uncomfortably near defeat when Beloff despatched Robb, toe Nittany welter, in the lust sound Grazier made the scale 3-2 by troun cing Rubenstein, the rival captain, in the next fight. Wolff Cinches Meet Penn State needed one mot c decis ion to cinch the meet and Wolff, with this in mind, went after Rerun, the Temple light-heavyvelght, intent on knocking him'tkericdt liecred him With a short light , at the end of the first sound and again in the second Wolff leaped in like a tiger when the (Continued on last page) I. F. BOXING, WRESTLING, TOURNEYS OPEN TONIGHT Nineteen Quintets Seek Mat Crown—Eight Sextets After Ring Title - Witls the initial meets scheduled for tonight interfratetnlty mestlets and boxers ate all set tot the opening gong in then tournament engage ments. Nineteen houses hate entered strutting teams, elide eight boxing squads mill compete in that division. Drawings for both events base been posted in the Athletic Store. The Sigma Phi Sigma teals will grapple uith the Acacia giappleis, and the Phi Lambda Theta outfit mill come to grips with the Phi Delta Thetis remesentative, In the tract ility ring tourney Delta Sigma Phi insets Phi Kappa Sigma, ',bile Theta Kappr Phi engages Phi Kappa Psi Thu n restlers mill compete in five 'classes at 120, 112, 145, 158 and 180 pounds The boxing teams will have tepresentatives ni the 125, 125, 115, 100, 175-pound — and unhinged classes D. J. Price Receives Advanced Degree at Mid-year Graduation Not content with ad,vancmg himself to the position of engineer in charge of dm elopment milk in the United States Dineen of Chemistry at Wrish ington, David J. Puce took time MT two }cars ago and earned a bachelm of science depee to graduate from the School of Mines and Metallurgy Ev er ther his life-long ambition was not aealmed, and studies were continued by MI Price iihich will earn foi Inns the advanced dogs cc of Engmem of Mines at the annual mal-yein com mencement /Imo tonight le Wide]) Known David J. Puce is known throughout tho country as a specialist in the pre vention of dust explosions During the war he headed a campaign which prevented these sm boas disasteis the industnal plants of the nation. Recently ho win mode chairman of the newly organized committee on farm file protection of the National Fug Protection association. Mr. Price airived lime lint night to reLeme the E M. degree in person He is already planning a progium of research work for a doctor's degree covering a scientific study of dust V. plosion hazards in chemical industries. Tatirgiatt. Cox Entered in Baxter Mile at New York A. C Coach Nate Cu, tmell mill send six men to the annual Nev. Yeti. Ath letic Club tlack meet next Monday in New Yolk City Bill Cos, captain elect of the cio.s-countiy team, has been entered in the famous Baxter note while Egg., mill compete in the seventy-yard high hurdles Cm tmell has yet to select four men who will carry Penn State's colotb to the mile team race Twenty miler, lemesenting Yale, Princeton, Colum bia, Pcan and Penn State are entered in this event and the lust three men to finish mill be counted in the scot mg, similat to moss-country SENIOR BALL WILL INAUGURATE SOCIAL ACTIVITIES FRIDAY California Ramblers and Lloyd Majors To Provide Music For Formal Dance SILVERSTEIN WILL BEGIN DECORATIONS THURSDAY Plans Blue and White Drapes With Smilax, Lanterns, Hung From Ceiling ely thing is in !mutinous for she opening of the Pen, State social ,ea son when the California Ratable,. and Lloyd Major's pun ate Lontaau ous music for the annual Senior Ball in a transformed Aimly on niday evenrig What . usually a g.l mnaslurn mill he changed into a beautiful ilan..e flair be Sileeistem's of Wilkes-Bane mho will begin decorating the Ar-n -otv immediately after the basketball game on Thursday evening. Th . ° Armor) cc In inesent a bem itching appearance myth blue and white stripes draped from the ceiling to the walls Smila% ernes and japan.e lanterns mill be strung oserhead to make the decoratiee scheme more ef , fedi% e Buoth Salo 1100 Potty-one booths have been sold and nut be placed on all of the Arinou, The Rural:dots will be sit uated on the stage With n entinbng board namethately behind, subtle Lloyd Major's sill play horn a spe cially constructed platinum in the light float cornet (Continued on thud page) Calcutta Student Enters Penn State nom the theills of Bengal tiger Inlets en the jungles of his native In ch,' to studies in agtitultine at Penn State is a fat ei V, but it has been un deitaken by I) P Rot Chowdhury, graduate of the University of Calcut ta. who todat stinted as an ads anced standing student in the School of Ag riculture But to Chowdhuty, uhose father's in °pet e'tcnds oser 230,000 acres of fen the faint land in the inovince of Bengal, there are Just as many thiills in lent ning the operation of American to actors and faint machineiy and the study of plant Weeding and mop out tivaiton, as there HI C I i jungle hunts A genet.os shale of the fathei'b hold ings is to come under his came and he want, to lentil Amen neon methods and put them into practice himself uhen he ietuins in tuo vents to his mane I.nd, his %sire and child. Shuns ['referent. to Penn State This young Hindu elected to study agrmultine nt Penn State rather than the study of hio ut a leading unit er say in England His studies at the Umsersay of Calcutta sync sufficient to give Inns standing at Penn State as jinnoi in the coin,: nn agionoiny, and the too yeas necessary to win a degieo ho espects to spend in inten sive study of all the geneial agricul tural subjects he can schedule. • "Ohl Main Bell" on Sale In Local Stores Today / All vubscribers fin the first I ensue of the Old Maw Boil mat. obtain then Lops by wiling at the Oath wan office this after - noon and all li•IN tomm low. ff, Additional copies will on placed on sale at Ginham's, i Nittanv Newv Stand, and find nail's (Set fits) for the benefit of those who weia not reached in the subscription campaign, it was' announced by II C. Wharton '27, business manager. Strong W. and J. Five Meets Lions Thursday Only One Team Has Been Able To Stop Presidents---Varsity Humbles Carnegie Tech, 41-32 i Sonlot Ball Tickets Go p On Sale at Music Room The Seniot Ball ticket z Ile nnill be held tonight from bonen i t t o oo n n i , ne T o i c e lo p e r k ice in ,,f the ,d 2Lti , ,ic is fine &Alms per couple '" I PLAYERS TO STAGE SENIOR BALL SHOW Rehearse for Presentation of "The Itear Car," Mystery Drama, Saturday PRODUCTION DIRECTED BY PROFESSOR MASON A myste, ping, "The Real Cal," hen aided as the v.eirdest and strangest esm piest-ited to a local audience will be unraveled by the Penn State May en., Satutdav in the Auditomum us pint of the seek-erd entertainment afforded the Serum Ball mertym•l.- Cns Written bs S R Rose the drama is snosen about Jealousy, hatred and re venge and is unfolded in such a man net that it V, nil provide thrills men tot the In use Clams base called "The Real Car" the best ms story at tempt since the days of "The Bat." ProduZer The plot centers about a long-lost daughter on het nay to greet a father villem she has never kno,n, the ap pearance on the scene of both the lucky and unlucky t nals for the hand. a baffling out der, the disappearance of a body, an animal-like form cteeptng along in the semi-darkness, groans, cries, sic rains and pistol shots These comblue to choke the production a hair-raibing the lies from stint to lat ish D. D Mason to the director of the lo cal production of "The Real Cat" and rehealsals air being held every night Through the elicit is of T M Bat tram 29 and C B Gilbert '25 a close truest blance of the stage setting used in the plofes,tutial pi esentation has been se- produced E W Batley '2S is in chat ge of the llghtmg effects Ticket, go on sale today at White% 3rasset's on Allen str set at the usual pi ice of fifty and sevelty-fne cents Bezdek Calls Grid and Diamond Prospects In an effort to teach the I'i27 foot ball linemen the collect positions and methods of play, Hugo Boedek null °sheu in this s eiti's football flaming season tonun toy afternoon at tom o'clock when all line candidate, for nest season's elmen cvll report at the luta house foi cunteu ac tion. The not knots Null be conduct ed daily in the Stock Pavilion Candidates for backfield positions will be called out as loon as the m ea thin. pm nuts nook outdom a Base ball batteipnen will begin pie-se son pi name in the stock pavilion Int ro in the week GLEE CLUB GIVES INITIAL WINTER GONCERT SUNDAY Soloists and Varsity Quartet On Program—Songsters To Compete at Pitt With the addition of seer al nmelty attaaetans on the program, the Penn State Glee Club will give its annul! and-ninter conceit next Sunday af ternoon in the Auditorium at duet,- thirty o'clock. The songsters will in clude in their repel tom the numbei, that they will sing in the state inter collegiate glee OM co-nest, Februni} eighteenth in Pittsburgh The club will he nsmsted in the cancel t by the ym city male gum tot, Mu, ❑Liens (Wan ne Ot ant, otgamst, 111 ice Helene Lachenmeyer, humid and 31,s Ada Flongg, soprano, N li Got.alt '2B has been chosen us stu dent glee club lender and will mote hw nutial public appeal noes San day. Bell-uns for Indigest ion— Belolr for Sleep PRICE FIVE CENTS The pie-ent leadeis in the race tot sectional championship lamas in Ives- Lein Pennsylvania. the Washington and Joffelson basketball team will make the going mote than eaten rot Captain Mike Hamas and hot mates when the teams tangle here Thin a day at sin en o'clock Only one team has been able to [lke the mensal° of Coach kncly Hem', quintet this season, Pitt turning the tuck Mu necks ago on the President's Root The lone setback came as a snip, he to Red and Black fullonms West Vitginia, Waynesburg, Alla ahem Westminstet and Carnegie Tech hate all been "also tans' in en gagements mall W and J 'titers In Top Form The leturt of Red Kiikman, formard, to the line-up after u long ito.-oir Is expected to strengthen On already pomerful quintet Until a Icg inJur, .1 month ago forced him to the sidelines Milan:in N., the main stay in the Red and Black oirensi , Ile mill pan moth Rob.tson (ol cluist, mill do the honors at center Kukman, Robpon and Gilchiist ale all sophomores, placing their fir ,t teal on the Satsity Captain Carlin and Vl'ild. both ceteians, form .1 Nix itable mall at the gnat d post , Lions Ilumble Carnegie 'reel, I ong shots from all Ingle, of the court as aS the most effecttte scat mg method on the pmt of both Cal nt,t, Tech and Penn State m the game Sat o] dot, the Laons dt oppmg the mot to mn, 41-11 Johnny Roepke induated a retort to the Aura that oils apparent last yens and oas the stat of the tilt as well an high SLOI Cr • with thirteen points• tithe }lamas oas shadooed consistently by the gnat ding of Cap tain Hind of the Plaid and Al as 110,1 doon to foul held tosses and too foal fin a ten point ,cue (Continued on third page) PLEBE PASSERS REGISTER THIRD STRAIGHT VICTORY Ilm, e Easy Time Downing Polish National Alliance College By 17-26 Score The CI eslunan binskethnll tenon tun ned nt.s tonte,t annth Polnh Na no.' Alliance college of Cannot,' idge Sin Inc.. Penn, loania, into a nun atlas .or., Wtcn n the foils nunut,, of flas oo as caineln ded Use final stoic fawned the seta lungs, 17-26 It no, the thud stn sight fun Coach Lacy Collo, en 's °taint Wen e It not fun the scnsatacnnl play ng of Les da, at center, tl e "ni -1 test so ould lime been fancily nlinie The sliootnog of the hunks' sculling sat 0.15 uncanno and nesulted in eighteen points ton an ds the cause nit the lust-, eat men In the hist hell, Leonia liensunalls brought the viol e !nom I-1 tin 11-1 in a sees fen nun unites no nth hoe ts viecutioe tau-point o„et, The only time dui ring the game thaL the ventin. showed in con.iiiten. - at tack mai; immediately attei tho +tt owl half slanted GaHughci and legistered field goals in quid, 01. del and it looked as though the Cain blidge pl.nce LL °lnd stage a ilk nftet ti ailing 21-9 at the half IL inns ohoit-Ined 'inon after the pieties again opened up all 100.1, t and continued on then Well) to elon p A defeat bt \Vu on high ,thool 81-28 oa, the onl% blein,h on the • 1101's i etcn d pI evious to bin tin day', debacle Four top-hem dceision , RCIC .COICII 0001 Meadedlc, F 1 .11.1t11 collegian, Louise lle and Elie Bud, nees college. Reward "Old Main Bell" Prize-winners Tonight The 1114 1927 number of Penn State', pi i/e-win-ung bloat y maga /me, The Ohl ,?font Bell, is pulil,lied and nail he (lista:hated today. Spe cial festal e,, poems, short stet les, and a n cal t h of creative or tiny comp,- ed by Nittany students and alum , . pronuse to excel? even the esLeption al irmlity of last t'eat's Student solositor4 selling the high est number of copies in nil he tenvud ed tonight ,t a Pi Delta Epsilon meet ing at the Conn/pun office Pt ises of Once, too and one dollars will be gin e') along o Olt ten flee subscriptions,
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