Heaven Ilelp The Sailors on a Night Like This VOL. XXII, No. 38 STRONG BUCKNELL CAGERS HOPE FOR DECISION AGAINST LIONS TOMORROW Bison Quintet Comes here With Impressive Record—Boast Eleven Victories and Two Defeats SEILER, CENTER, IS STAR Varsity Has third Time Downing Juniata—Ceneral Play Itagged—Offensive Inconsistent If the Blue and White pa _sera hope to hang up a victory against a dan gerous Bucknell combination here to morrow night. the basketball temn will have to show a marked improve ment over its exhibition against Jun iata Wednesday. Juniata seas turned back. but the showing of the Lion team was a disappointment compared to the brand of play in the W. and J trad Du quesne victories last week. Bucknell Powerful Luck tell comes to State College to morrow with one of the best teams that has represented the Bisons in years. In thirteen games played thus far, Coach •lobo Plant's charges have been victorious in all but two. Du quesne university stopped the Lewis burgians, 29-19, in Pittsburgh early is the season after Ilucknell had won live straight white Temple university, conquerors of Princeton. nosed out the Orange and Blue, at Lewis burg last week. The Temple setback brought an end to a new string of six Bison wins. . . The offense of the visitors is built around Seiler, a sophomore. who bas been causing a sensation by his play at the cottet• port. Critics who raw the Duquesne-ltucknell game in Pitts burgh pronounced Seiler as the best center seen in the Steel City district this season. Captain :%Icenalzey will pair oir with lialicki at. forward while Klosterman and Woodring will probably be found at their usual guard berths. Mitch ell. McCormick and Vrable will be ready for relief service. Offensive Inconsistent A seeming overconfidence and an underestimation of the true strength of the Huntingdon passers almost suited disastrously for the Nittany quintet. With six minutes to play the score stood 20-IS favoring the home team. At this points, for the (Continued on last page) COLORED POCKETBOOKS SOPH FORMAL FAVORS February Twenty-sixth Is Last Day On Which Posters Will Re Accepted According to E. J. Lockwood. chair man of the Sophomore llop committee, the leather favors for the dance on March eleventh, will li e in various col ors. As yet there has hero no re sponse to the poster contest recently announced. Blue, white or red vanity-pocket books may be chosen at the door. The rase will contain the usual cosmetics. It coin compartment, a bobbed hair comb and a dame program. The E. .1. Wright company of Philadelphia. has the contract for the gifts. Although the poster contest for this function was announced several weeks ago none have been turned in. l'os tern are to be of three colors, a 0 nouncing the Hop and giving the limes and name of the orchestra. Danny Murphy's Musical Skippers. February twenty-sixth is the last day in which these may be subniitted to Lockwood at the l'hi Delta Theta house. A set of four posters must. be turned in and those being accepted will earn a complimentary ticket for their composers. Thirty-live Candidates Hold Indoor Grid Drill With the assistance of Red Dar raugh. Joe Frail, Don Greenshields and Bud Bergman, lettermen from Last year's football team, !logo Buz dek. Lion coach, in spending three af ternoons a week teaching more than thirty-tire flue candidate•, mostly freshmen, the fundamental principles or the game so that they will be bet ter prepared to begin the advance \York nut fall. . 5 ' ..17: 1\ ' , • ' (Int!'`",, , . ~. . • ~, ..,...., . iir ~..., , • Enrollment, Religious Preferences, Ages, Culled From Registrar's File Registrar W. S. Holtman and his staff have just completed a classifi cation of the first semester students according to age, count•, religion, occupation of father and schools. The total enrollment was 3755. The youngest student in college is .1. I. I fell '3O, fifteen years old. The average age of seniors is approxim ately twenty-one years: junior, twen ty: sophomores, nineteen; and fresh men, eighteen. According, to the religious census, Presbyterian§ head the list with a total of 827. 3lethodists follow close ly with 787. Homan Catholics with .112 and Lutherans with 297. Among the less numerous faiths there is one Greek Catholic, (me Moslem and one VARSITY BASEBALL SQUAD TO INVADE SOUTH AT EASTER Fleming Announces Schedule of Eighteen Gaines Including New Vacation Trip BATTMYMEN WORK OUT REGULARLY IN PAVILION Trio of Catchers Kept Busy By Large Number of Hurlers In Daily Drills For the first time in several years a Southern trip has been arranged for the l'enn State baseball team, accord ing to an announcement by Graduate Manager of Athletics, Neil Fleming, yesterday. A schedule of eighteen games will be played in all. Gaines with Gettysburg. Villanova, Syracuse and Bucknell will he tile outstanding home contests. More than a dozen pitchers .u•e working out three times a week. The 1927 baseball season formally started with practices Monday 11111 i Wednes day afternoons. The diatnond candi dates will round out their first week of training this afternoon. tityborski and Haines, twirlers who received their letters last year are working out regularly. Van Atta ineligible last year. is now ready for duty. Other candidates for the hill (Continued on last page) TRIBUNAL HEARS CASES OF TRANSFER STUDENTS Three Allowed Sophomore Garb And Four To Year l)inks, Group Edicts Seven cases were tried by the Tri •bunal at a special sessiaa held in Room 222 Old Main Tuesday night. N. If. Deg!llio '29, A. C. Ilagy and I:. 1.. Greene '29, nail formerly of Stanton Military Academy, had insufficient reason for excuse from their respective class regulations and were refused permission to advance in dress standing. In two trallSrer tri.as, favorable IieCiAMIS were decreed for I'. 11. Lon genecker, former Juniata student, and 11. G. Whifl•en of Susquehanna. To gether with W. 1,. Tease, who served his yearling period, they will !lon sophomore garb beginning St. Pat rick's day, 3larelt seventeenth. 1•:. 11. Craig. once a student at Shippensburg Normal, having a jun ior standing. will have a taste of all class customs within a short period. Craig. now wearing freshman garb, will assume second-year regulatiols until move-up day when he will take ,iunio• customs. Ile has been grant : et! senior rulings for next year. SII AW ATTEx Ds CONFERENCI Professor .1. B. Show, of the School of 3lines and 3letallurgy, left Satur day night to attend a convention of the American Ceramic society which meets in Detroit all this week. S. L. Reeder Elected Froth Editor-in-chief I S. 1.. Reeder '27. Student I, , Council president, was elected I editor-in-chief of the'Proth at a hoard meeting Wednesday night. R. B. Smith '27 was el- i eeted editor wad 11. G. Kurtz ! '29 was elected to the editorial ! j stair. M. It. Kiefer '2B was I named on the art stair. STATE COLLEGE, PA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1927 Swedenborgian. I.; igh ty-th ree stud ents state no religions preference. The sunimary of the enrollment. by schools is as follows: Engineering, 1172; Liberal Arts, 777; Agriculture, 608; KtMention, .17-I; Chemistry Anti Physics, :121; Mining and Metallurgy, 167. A compu•isoa of occupaticn of ;he father with the course of the :on Learn out the fact that, in most cases, the son is following in his father's footsteps. Of the 410 farmer's eons, 1: 1 .1 are taking agriculture and the rest are scattered out among the rest of the sehaals. Eighth-three of the 168 engineer's sons are enrolled in engineering courses. June Graduates Meet To Discuss Endowment Final action of the senior endow ment plan as arranged by the com mittee headed by G. M. Ilarris will he taken by the senior class Wednes day night whwi the class meets in Old Chapel. E. It. Metzner of Johnstown, dis trict manager of the New York Life Insurance company. will address the members of the June graduating. class and explain to them the outlines of the plan arranged by the company. ESPENSHADE RAPS MODERN EDUCATION Professor Declares One-half Of Students Unfit for Universities Today FAVORS STRICTER TEsTs FOR COLLEGE ENTRANTS Alleging that practicall one-third to one-half of the students now in American universities are unlit for college. Prof. A. 11. Espenshade dis cussed the faults of the present edu cational systems i•.t the first address of the Liberal Arts lecture course on l'uesnay evening in Old Chapel. "The greatest ailing of American colleges today is the scarcity of goad students and gamd teachers," he de clared. "Two fallacies which have greatly increased the number of stu dents in colleges flaring the last thir ty years are first. the opinion of peo ple who believe that social betterment is incredibly increased by a college diploma and second, the belief of some than anyone can learn anything. In reality a college degree is not a casualty insurance agahst. failure. C rowth Proves Hindrance "The rapid growth of the number of students makes it impossible to de velop enough high grade professor:~, while many who are well-'rained are attracted to good paying oemmercial positions and refuse to teach for the salary Offered to college professors." Professor Espenshade also !lipped the methods of trustees in selecting teachers and students. lle referred to Professor Percy Marks book "Which Way Parnassus?" in which the author cites the fact that four (Continued on third page) COMMITTEE ANNOUNCES MILITARY BALL PLANS Silverstein Will Use Tri-Color Decorating Scheme—Dan Gregory to Play With practically all items matured, everything is in readiness for the an nual Military Ball to be held in the Armory on Friday night, February twenty-fifth front nine until two o'clock. Decorations by Silverstein will con sist of red, white and blue drapes hung front the ceiling to the sides, while the walls will be covered in white with a large gilt eagle on either side of the Armory. (;regory to I'lay Den Gregory's Victor recording artists will play for the all-Colle tt e formal. After a successful tour in the Mid-west, Gregory's band has been signed for numerous engage ments in the east. A booth sale will be held on Tues day evening, from seven to nine o'clo:k in the Musci Room. The price of the booths is roar dollars. The admis sion price per couple is live dollars. Programs which will be given are white with a gold military seal in the center and Penn State printed above the seal and "Military Ball" engrav ed below. College Departments Survey Farin Machines 'l•hc Farm Products Shoe• commit tee, meeting in Ilarishurg Monday night, elected officers 1•or the coming year and decided to petition the State legislature that it create a special (21/111111ISSi011 to have charge of the an nual shoe•. Ilell of the College agricul tural extension department was elect ed secretary of the committee and It. G. Bressler. formerly vice-dean of the t-chool of Agriculture, was elected u•c:tsurer. GLEE CLUB SINGS IN FIRST STATE CONTEST TONIGHT Five Pennsylvania Colleges To Compete at Pittsburgh in Carnegie Hall %%INNING SOCIETY WILL ENTER NATIONAL FINALS Penn Slate Songsters To Present Altoona Concert at Junior High School There Competing with live other Pennsyl vania colleges, for the honor of rep resemting the State it! the national in tercollegiate glee club contest, the Penn State Glee Club will take part in the first State eliminations tonight in Carnegie Ilall, Pittsburgh. Leaving State College this morning the Nittany gleemen will stop for several hours in Altoona, where they will present a program before the junior high school pupils of that city. After bei.ng entertained at lunch they will proceed to Pittsburgh. Accord ing to the rules of , :he contest they will sing three tiOng: one chosen by themselves, another,.the prize song selected , by the and entit led "The Lotus Flower" and the thint one of their College songs. lirsl Slate Oattest This will he the first time :melt a contest has been held in Pennsylvan ia, Penn State having automatically represented the State in the past. without having previously been the winner of a preliminary contest. This year Pitt, Carnegie Tech, Juniata, Bucknell wad Washington and Jeffer son will vie with Penn State for the honor of entering the finals. The winner of tonight's contest in addition to being Pennsylvania's rep resentative in the national comir!ti lion, will receive a silver cup. The object of the contest is to stimulate an interest in good music in the col leges and universities of Petrasylvan- CHIEF YOUGEL ORDERS HEALTH EXAMINATIONS Rooming and Fraternity !louse Help Required to Take • Physical Tests Because of the discovery or sickness among help in a rooming house, all persons serving the public in this town will lie requested by the local Health department to pass a health examination. Even though fraternities do not come directly under this ruling Of rie er A. I•:. Yougel has requested cooper ation by h:n•i'.tg 0 health examination of all house servants. Chief Yougel also warned fraterni ties that the disposal of garbage in vacant - lots must be stopped on pen alty of tine. Devises Novel Plan for Letter-writing Course With the object of giving a thor ough training in busi•aess correspond ence through the mail, the plan for a correspondence course in busineis English has been devised by Prof. M. M. Harris ofth e English depart ment. The course includes a study of the principals or writing business letters and a review of the essentistls of Eng lish grammar, rhetoric ruin C01111)1)- Sitioll. IWho's Dancing Friday Collegian-Froth (Beta Theta Pi) (Closed) Saturday Alpha Gamma Rho Chi Upsilon Pi Kappa Alpha LION BOXING TEAM WILL CLASH WITH NAVY TOMORROW leger Returns to Ring After Long Layoff—Middies Hold Seven Year Record GRAZIER AND WOl.ll , TO FIGHT IN OLD wEicirrs Collins, Weintraub. florney and Cerin E'xpeeted To Extend Lions at Annapolis With the best chance of breaking Navy's seven year streak of boxing victories, since the days of !tags Ma dera and Ilap Frank. the Penn State boxing team leaves this morning at nine-thirty o'clock for Annapolis. The match with the Middies tomor row will be the most important dual meet of the intercollegiate season, in asmuch as both 'institutions have shared championship honors since the collegiate boxing tournament was es tablished and both apparently have as strong teams as ever. l'enn State's line-tip wil be decided only at the ringside. If the bouts run true to pre-match speculations Coach Houck will use Mahon in the (Continued on last page) PAINTING EXHIBITS TO CONTINUE HERE College Will Secure Additional NVorks If Present Show Proves Successful REYNOLDS' MASTERPIECE INCLUDED IN COLLECTION "If the present exhibition of paint ings in [loom 28.1 Old Main prove a success. the College expects- to repeat it at regular intervals, declared Prof. C. L. Harris, acting head of the de pau•tineut or Architecture yesterday. Professor Harris was instrumental-in la!ellring this collection of master pieces from the Metropolitan Museum or Art, NOW York city. From Penn State the exhibit will travel to other colleges, and after a circuit. to California, will be returned to New York. 'the showing here ends Thursday. Notable among, the paintings show ing here are "Elizabeth Reynolds," done by the famous English portrait painter, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and a Dutch "Snow Scene" painted by tiall Beerstraaten sometime heron! 1660. Sir Joshua Reynolds and his por traits are well-known to most art pa trons. Born in I72:1 at Plymtan Karl, ne:u• Plymouth. England, he was ap prenticed to Thomas 1111(1MM in Lon don, about 1710. Alter serving this apprenticeship the noted painter trav eled in Italy. Upon his return to London, he im mediately' began his career, achieving the honor of being knighted by the Crown and be'i•ag elected as the lirst President of the Royal Academy of Art at the time of its foundation in 1769. One of his best know works is "The Age of Innocence." CARTMELUS CHARGES SWEEP MILE FEATURE Cox, Fouracre and Stewart Gain First Three Places for Perfect Score Coach Nate Cartmlel's four crack milers. Cox, Fotnacre; Stewart and Ilellfrich. won the special invitation college mile team race last Monday evening at the New York Athletic Club games in New York city. The N ittany fliers had. a perfect score, l'aishing one, two and three. Because of the inconvenience of running a four mile relay race, this new event was added and invitations were sent to Vale, Princeton, Commu afia, Pennsylvania and Penn State. Cox. Fournere and Stewart took first three place in the order named while Payne of Penn and Smith of Vale came in fourth and fifth respectively, followed by Oliver Ilelltrich of Penn State. Cox's time was .1:30. The team scores were, Penn State 6, Penn 22, Columbia 2f; and Vale 27. Princeton withdrew its team. In the special Baxter mile race Cox liniithed fourth to Lloyd Hahn, )1 Boston, and in the Fluenneye 500 Al Ileitrrich w•as nosed out by John Gib son of Fordliam university, an. Niebuhr To Give Lecture Series Beginning Sunday Will Discuss Materialism As Opposed To God In Talks—Lincoln U. Songsters To Accompany Speaker Sunday Afternoon , Concert Postponed This ts week's Sunday afternoon , t i o n r e u e t r u l , ha e s e. T been i postponed eert will be on Stin ‘ ilit; e . x l t, e ‘ b .o r s t: - - ;ley twenty-seventh. when tit • band will tmtertain. LIONS TO ENGAGE CRIMSON MATMEN Vacancies Shoe• in Middleweight . And Welter Berths—Junior Varsity Men Called AUFENDERFER AND ERB MAY BREAK INTO LINE-UP Since the ideal team which Coach Stdedcl might put into action is threatened by certain external inda ences, it may he that an unfamiliar Penn State aggregation will face the Crimson grapplers in a Cambridge setting tomorrow. Change in Line-up Forced Captain Kaiser will of course lead the Lions through the Harvard gates and Wally Liggett, veteran 125- pounder, will follow. lien Long will hold his conventional light-weight berth. With the question of the 145- pound representative, however. the difficulty arises. Ace may he prevent ed from the occupancy of his regular post by injuries Wail in' this . event . the Nittany mentor will be forced to take at comparatively inexperienced wrest ler to Harvard. Erb, a promising junior varsity matt. will probably be chosen to 1111 the vacancy. Again the welter-weight dinicully which lint came into existcace when (Continued on last page) Initial Round of 1. F. Basketball Nears End IVth the playing of two interfra-I temnity basketball games last night,: the first round of the Greek court el-I .mination has practically ended. There l remains but a single postponed game to be played between the Sigma Tau; Phi and Sigma l'i. Two teams were eliminated last night when the pa Delta Rho played the Alpha Gam-; ma Phi and Sigma Nu met. Alpha Tau Omega. A. 11. %Ville, manager of the tour nament announced that. the schedule of games for the second round of time elimination will be posted in the Co-op store on Saturday and will be pub lished in Tuesday's issue of the Col , legion. Twenty-six teams remain in the race. SACKETT PARTICIPATES IN RAILROAD DISCUSSION The New York Railroad club bus invited Dean R. L. Sackett of the en gineering 5e11...A to take part in a dis cussion of the subject, "Training 1.1-1- derstudie.; for Olden! Positions in Railway Service." Dean Sackett left last night for New York city and •till have a conference with several men on college business this afternoon and in the evening will address the rail road club. 3IID-YEAIt PI DEL'I'A EPSILON ELECTIONS IL M. Gibbs '27 W. W. Jacobs '27 31. Atkinson '2B C. F. Flinn '2B 1.. S. liertaler '2B W. Lord, .I r. '2B G. G. Mc ElVain '2B J., N. Miller '2B 0. S. I'ride '2B PI DELTA EPSILON WILL Nom) EASTER ELECTIONS Following. the ejection ninestu dents to l'i Delta Epsilon Wednesday, the laraorary journalistic fraternity announced that the usual spring el ections will be held after the Easter holidays. The February pledging set a precedent in the chapter's his tory, there being only a single elec tion previously. A Nicbuhr-h• Tete a 'fete PRICE FIVE CENTS In conjunction with the lecture series the Reverend Iteinholt Niebuhr will deliver beginning Sunday. the Lincoln university quintet. which ac companied lir. Gilkey last year. will offer a variety of religious and popu lar songs Sunday. Monday and TIL.s day evenings in the Auditorium, -ev en-thirty o'clock the first night and at seven the following nights. The Rev. Niebuhr, choosing "The Student in the Church" for his topic, wit deliver his tirst !Mum before a union meeting of all local churches in the Auditorium Sunday night at seven-thirty o'clock. His following addresses concerning materialism as opposed to God will be given Monday aul Tuesday nights and are alioo scheduled for the Auditorium at sev en o'clock. The Rev. Niebuhr is not only an able speaker hut is also a writer, hav ing contributed to the C7rj$11(11( Cen turi and the World Tomorrow. The renowned religious advocate has had years of experience in ad dressing- college gatheritags and is a (Continued on third page) ARTIST IMPRESSES IN LOCAL CONCERT Zimbalist Includes Serious and Lighter Numbers in Two Part Program NOTED ‘rIOI.INIST DRAWS MANY 'l'o AUDITORIUM Errem Zimblaist, heralded as one of the world's greatest violinists, won his way into the heart of r,-.1 enthus iastic IllldieHee of more than twelve hundred music lovers in his Penn State debut Wednesday evening in the Auditorium. Playing a program of seven num bers as no other artist but %Arubalist. can. the rcaowned musician made a decided impression with his faultless technique and superb torte quality. His graciousness in responding to en cores won hint much favor with his audience. %huhulist's program was divided into two parts, the first group con sisting of serious cn u uhcra. Ile be gan his recital with a prelude and al legro by the old Italian master. Pug nani and followed with the most ser ious selection of the evening. a con certo in G minor by Ilubay. The second group was of a lighter cesa and included Nocturne by Chop; Wilbehnj. Valse by Chopin-Spahling, Persian Song by Glinka-Zimldist, Molly on the Shore (Irish Reel) by Grainger and Gypsy Airs by Sara sate. BUCKNELL PLEBES FACE FRESHMAN COURT TEAM Strong Orange and Mud Squad Will Encounter Conover's Charges Tomorrow A strong. Burknoll freshman ;was hethall team will furnish the opposi tion for the Lion plebes on their nest appearance on the Armory floor to morrow evening following the varsity contest with the Bisons. Comparative scores give the I'enn State yearlings a slight advantage. the Orange and Blue five eking, out a 27-25 win over Scranton Lackawan na Business college whereas Coach Conover's charges were on the hing end of a 35-18 count. The Ilucknell team will he Thomas 1411(1 Smith. forwards; liammire, cra ter; and Wadsworth, Phillip and Ben nett guards. Apparently. Phillip is the Bison's mo:it dangerous man, In leg high scorer of Coach Plant's ag gregation. Smith, too, is reputed to hitee a good eye for the basket. With four consecutive wins to their credit, the Blue and White yearlings will start with the same line-up ms was used against the Scranton quint last week. Captain Staley will at rummy one forward berth with Din woodie as his running mate. At guard Lee will mod: olr with Anselmo or Balmer while Leyda will retain the pivot post. Due to time lack of a representative team, the Ilellefante Academy author ities called off the game scheduled for Wednesday evening.
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