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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.