The L. A Are Liberal! VOL. XXII, No. 42 COURTMEN SHOULD TROUNCE BUFFALO TONIGHT; ORANGE LOOMS TOMORROW Varsity Under-dog in Melee with Syracuse—Mike llamas and Vie Hanson IVill Battle For Scoring honors LIONS TURN BACK URSINUS Visiting Red-jerseyed Athletes Take 42-23 Lacing—Good Basketball Lacking Throughout Tilt While the Penn State basketball team, now on its third and final trip of the season, should defeat Buffalo tonight without much difficulty, the Lions will find a different outlook against the mighty Syracuse foe to- Morrow night in the Archbold gym nasium. .Penn State will be the un derdog against the Orange. Last year an undefeated fast-mov ing Syracuse basketball team. riding on the crest of a fifteen game winning streak, romped into the Armory but after it was all over Captain Vic Hansen and his colleagues trekked back to Syracuse the victim of a start ling' upset. Penn State had scored a 37-St victory. Same Orangemen Start Again On the way home, however, this Orange quintet must have plotted all rails of revenge, for when Penn State 'Visited Syracuse later, the Orange avenged themselves with a :16-12. Mu. Syracuse finished the season with a record of twenty-one whis and ere defeat. :The same five men, still upholding the Syracuse cause are awaiting the aiTival Of Penn State tomorrow. The t'v.= Orarv. is that Vic Hanson refused to accept the captaincy a second time and has given way to Charlie Lee, guard. (Continued on last page) RAILWAY ADMINISTRATOR TO LECTURE NEXT. WEEK Elisha Lee, Vice-president of Pennsylvania Lines, Will Speak on "Service" Elishat Lee. vice-president of the Pennsylvania railroad company, will speak to students and faculty mem bers under the auspices of the En gineering department next Friday af ternoon. Ile will tall; in the Audi torium at four-thirty o'clock upon the subject, '"Service—human and Railroad." Mr. Lee was originally scheduled to speak to senior engineering stu dents but because of the wide scope of his topic, and his interest in educa tion it was decided to have the lecture in the Auditorium instead of Old Cha pel. It will be an all-College affair. His long executive experience with the Pennsylvania Railroad enables .11r. I.ec to point out the fundamental 'principles of succesgful service which apply not only in his own industry but. also in other walks of life. Began at Tyrone Graduating front the 3lasaehusetts Institute of Technology, Mr. Lee he ban his career as rodman on the Ty rone division of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Ile was promoted repeat edly, rising to the position of assist ant general manager of the Penn sylvania lines east of Pittsburgh. Front the latter position he rose to general manager. acting vice-presi dent and, during the War, federal manager of the Eastern lines of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Upon the resignation of President Rea and the assumption of the presidency of the railroad by Mr. Atterbury, Mr. Lee was made vice-president. Blue Band Transmits Program from WPSC For the first time singe WPSC has resumed broadcasting, the Blue Banff gave a program under the direction of Bandmaster W. 0. Thompson from the station on Wednesday night. Be cause of the small studio, the band numbered only thirty members. The Program given was alntost identical to the one given Sunday in the Audi torium. l' The college radio station also broad cast the Varsity basketball game with lirsinus Wednesday. The ninth of a series of one minute talks was giv enby Prof. A. It. Espenshade. .. . r . . . :It ' : '- ' - . - -•:-,, i ir, . 3.. ~.......... N . .3... ____. . Legislative Committee Will Visit Penn State With the announcement of the pro posed visit of an investigating com mittee from the Howe of Representa tives, college officials will have the opportunity of presenting to the ieg islature of the Commonwealth, at first lined, the existing conditions at Penn State. This group, representing the Appropriations Committee will ex amine the needs of the institution and will have great influence ns to next apportionment of funds for the Col lege. It i:; expected they will make a thorough study of building accom modations, equipment and prospec tive expansion. Following their Penn State inspection the legislators will visit other colleges throughout the state. GRAPPLERS MEET ITHACAN MATMEN Cornell, 1926 Champion, Boasts Lone Veteran—Season Record Is Clean INJURIES MAY KEEP ACE OUT OF VARSITY LINE-UP Encouraged by the successful re pulsion of a vicious Muldie attack here Saturday, the Nittany grapplers will make a bid for their fifth victory when they meet Cornell at Ithaca to morrow. Though the season records of both teams compare favorably the Ithacans would probably draw the odds in that they have not suffered a single reverse in four starts this year. Three wins and one tie adorn the Cornell slate. The Lions have lost only one meet in five tiffs, that at the hands of lowa out there. Opposition Strong In their opening genie theßed and White: lirttle";lt'E to a 13-13 tie. Columbia . was less fortunate against the powerful Cor nell. grapplers and woe forced to taste defeat by a one-point margin. The tinal count of this meet was 13. 12. The Ithacans improved rapidly and (Continued on last page) Goode Invents Acid Meter To Be Used In Paper Industry Demonstrating a new continuous, automatic acid-meter, Dean, G. L. Wendt, of • the School of Chemistry and Physics, appeared before the Technical Association of Pulp and Paper industries in New York last week. Ile also spoke at the Asso ciation's banquet at the Iltdel Com modore on "Cooperation between Un iversities and Industries." The device. which was perfeeted and patented by K. H. Goode, of the client istry department, does away with the necessity of taking samples from large vats and allowing them to cool in order to test the acidity of the con tents. The new meter is• run by el ectricty and automatically dials the amount of acid in any solution, thus saving more than a half hour Cot each test. Air. Goode 's invention will be used in the paper industry for the auto matic control of water softening and to maintain proper conditions in the bleachers and beaters. It will be dis tributed through the division of in dustrial research of which Dean Wendt is director. YE MODERN TERPSICHOREANS HAVE 'CAUSE FOR REJOICING Complain not ye proteges of the wild god' Jazz and trippers .of the light fantastic but gaze upon the I rules for dancing as they were in the I gay nineties. They are taken from "Decorum," a treatise on ettiquette. 1. Dance with grace and modest• ; t>; refrain-from great leaps and ridiculous jumps, which , would attract the attention of all toward you. 2. Never hazard taking part in a quadrille, unless you know how to dance tolerably; for if you! are a novice, An' but little skill-; ed, you would . bring disorder! into the midst of pleasure. 3. In giving the hand for ladies chain or any other figures,; those dancing should wear a smile, and accompany it with a I slight inclination of the head,: in the manner of a salutation. -1. Ladies who dance much should be very careful not to boast be• I STATE COLLEGE, PA., FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1927 INITIAL SHIPMENT OF FAVORS ARRIVE FOR SOPH FORMAL Six Hundred Colored Leather Pocket books Received Here Yesterday DANNY MURPHY SCORES IHT AT MICHIGAN PROM Lockwood Places Additional Order for One Hundred And Fifty Favors That every Soph llop guest may be assured a favor, an emergency order of one hundred and fifty leath er pocketbooks has been placed with the E. J. Wright compn•.ty in addition to the six hundred which were receiv ed yesterday, it was announced by E. J. LoCkwood, chairman of the dance committee. Murphy's Shippers Score Danny Murphy and his Musical Skippers, the Hop orchestra, scored a tremendous hit at the Junior Pram held at the University of Michigan last week. according to reports from Ann Arbor. WC of the three musical groups engaged, the versatility and "pep" of Murphy's musicians com pletely won for them the admiriation of the Michigan prom-goers. At the present time the Skippers tare fulfilling an engagement at the Hotel Wolverine in Detroit following directly hi the Wake of Jean Gold- (Continued on third page) JUNIORS SELECT OFFICIAL BLAZER Committee Chooses English-eut "kit With Orange Braid TO BEGIN MEASUREMENTS TOMORROW AT STARK'S Selecting an English-cut jacket or solid black, trimmed with orange braid, the Junior Blazer committee has just chosen the ollieial 1928 class blazer for the coming year. The price will be eight dollars. Measurements will be taken today, tomorrow and Monday at Stark Bro thers store on College avenue, and on 3larch the eighth and ninth at Mont gomery's.- Each Junior will be re quired to deposit two dollars whet his measurements are taken. The committee decided to change from the blaze• to the English style jacket this year. The coats will be tailored from English cloth. Indiv idual deliveries will be made the last week in April and the first week in 'May. The new jackets will make their first appearance on the campus about the mdidle of May on Move-up Day. Finals in I. F. Boxing To Be Fought Tuesday Delta Sigma Phi fought Theta Kappa Phi while the Alpha Sigma Phi boxers encountered the Phi Del ta Theta ringmen last nikht to decide the finalists of the hterfraternity boxing eliminations. The two win ning teams will clash Tuesday in the final setto for the championship among the fraternities. fore those who (lance but little or not at all of the great nom .her of dances for which they are engaged in advance. 5. Ladies should avoid talking too much; it will occasion remarks. It has also a bad appearance to whisper continually in the ear of your partner. G. In inviting a lady to dance with with you, the words, "Will you honor me with your hand for a quadrille?" ore more used now than "Will you give me the pleasure 'of dancing with you?" 7. A lady cannot refuse the hvi lotion of a gentleman to dance, unless she has already accepted that of another for she would be guilty of an incivility which - might occasion trouble; she would, moreover, seem to show Contempt for hint WllOl7l she re fused. Yeai Verily! . Complain not! Bezdek in Bellefonte Hospital, ROeuperating After Rfcent Illness Complications arising, from a mild ease of influenzavn•as the cause 01 Coach lingo Bezdek being taken to the Centre County Hospital, liejle fuate, on Saturday. lie underwent a minor operation which was perform ed by 1)1.. Locke. ,"liez" had pre viously been confined to his home un Bum rowes street. The Lion coach has vermeil sever al floral gifts, amtam which was a large bouquet of dowers from the members of the athletic teams who are now staying at Varsity Ilall. On Tuesday, the entire stair of Penn State athletic com:hes visited him. Their stay, lmwever was short, as the hospital authorititq,allowed them but live minutes. It is expected hotyever, that soon he will he able to return to State Col lege. NITTANY RINGMEN ENGAGE SYRACUSE Examinations Pr'event Mahoney From Making Trip—May Groom Livermore ORANGEMEN HAVE GREAT CHANCE TO UPSET LIONS When Penn State's boxers squalv oil' against Syracuse at the Salt City tomorrow it will Bern radicallyehang ed line-up that will attempt to halt the IliMoen, according to Coach Leo Houck yesterday. M . .ahoney will be unable to make tlo. trip because of three special examinations on Satur day and this situatin g , coupled With the fact that the Orangemen have their strongest mitt team in history ready for the fray,--"Places the Nittany warriors in a quandq.y. . ; C dick in the 1 , 15-pound division and in this ease will move Captain Crazier and _Wolff to the IGO mid 175 -pound classes. respectively. The shift will mean that Livermore, in his return to the ring. will have to fare LeVoti in the unlimited weight. Curry, a sophomore, is another heavy possibil ity. Still another change may occur if Johnn}• Byron, hard hitting bantam- (Continued on last page) TWO HUNDRED ATTEND FIRST THESPIAN TRIALS Candidates Tested for Vocal and Dancing Ability—Outlook Reported Promising Nearly two hundred student aspir ants, seeking positions at the l'enn State Thespians, attended the initial tryouts in the Auditorium Wednesday night. Classified according to weight and height, the resultant groups were tested for vocal ability, general and facial appearance. All of the tests were made in private. Darcy .trrives Spun Men of intermediate height were tested for (lancing ability, but the regular time for such tryouts is set for a later date. According to M. 11. Janavitz, business manager of the Thespians, the outlook for the coming season is promising and much of the material biaLs well for the season. Ile announced further that all tryouts will be conducted fairly and that members of last year's personnel will be judged on present and not past performances. .Maurice Darcy . . formerly with Ned Wayburn and for three years director of the Thespians, is expected to or- rice at State College on March first to conduct the first rehearsal. Club officials m ad members of .he managerial staff are suPerrising the work in the absence of their director. The following are the Thespian club officers: M. 11. Janavitz '27, business manager; .1. 11. Stewart '27, treasur er; W. G. Ament '27, secretary; Prof. D. D. Mason.,graduate manager. On the managerial staff are: J. V. Ing ham '27, production manages; h. W. Fisher '2B, stage manager; J. N. Stewart '27, costume manager; G. 1. - I Felten '2B. personnel manager: W. Fisher '2B, music director; and C. M. Graff '2P, make-up man and assist ant costumer. ------- Who's Dancing Saturday unior Girls (Women's Building) Delta Kappa :Sigma APPROPRIATION OF OVER FOUR MILLION ASKED BY COLLEGE House Bill Includes One-fourth For Buildings—Total Insufficient MAJOR PART OF FUNDS . GOES FOR MAINTENANCE Amount Asked Is Approximately One-half That Needed For Improvement In a special message to the alumni of Penn State, through the medium of the Penn State A lama! News, President Ralph D. Iletzel asked for the cooperation of the graduates in sponeoring the Senate Bill introduce,) to the state legislature by Senator Henry B. Scott, on February twenty 4.hird, appropriating 84434,500 to the Pennsylvania State College for the biennium 1027-2”. The bill as presented by Senator• Scott calls for $1.053,500 for agricul tural work, $1.000,000 for buildings and 02,181.000 for general mainten ance expenses. This amount, it. will be remembered, is bS in) means the entire amount thm is needed to satisfy the present he (Continued on third page) MANDOLIN CLUB TO PRESENT CONCERT Will (live Semi-classical Music Program in First public Appearance Sunday . G I.:* - .! V.Y.)AOCA w.,•, FROM WPSC IN EVENING • In its first public appearance this year the Penn State Mandolin Club will present a program of semi-elass kat music as the third concert. of the Winter Series Sunday afternoon at Three-thirty o'clock in the Auditor ium. Unlike last year's program of 1101M lar numbers the music will be of a more advanced nature. The Club is being direetd by S. 11. Torehia '2?. Torchin (lives Solos The first two numbers, "Gloriana," overture by Weidt and "Beautiful Rainbow," waltz by Odell will be • played by the entire organization. 'They will be followed by S. 11. Tor- (Continued on last page) LIBERAL ARTS SCHOOL REVISES GRADES RULE Will Drop Students Who Fail In Six or More Credits Under New• Policy After examine., the eTatles of last semester. the School of Liberal Arts has adopted a -.lew policy of dropping students who fail in sin credits or more. Dean C. A: Stoddart announc es that the fifty per cent rule has been abandmied so that undesirable stu dents may be eliminated during their freshman or sophomore years instead of having them fail during their last two years. A study of tin transfers to the Lib eral Arts school through the proba tion section indicates that fifty-seven per cent of these students have been succe sfulin graduating and that on ly twenty-live per cent have been dropped for 'poor scholarship. Fifty Freshmen Get Haircuts, Signs And Birdcages---Five Hundred Reported Dealing with lifty eases of fre4- 1111111 negligence, the Student Tribun al was hard-put to find adequate pun ishment to cover the multitude of yearling sins disclosed Wednesday night. Signs, bird cages and hair cuts were distributed with unreserved philanthropy. A- total of live hun dred names have been turned in to the council for being absent from the cheer and song practice alone. . Reward Number One A quartet composed of D. C. Allen. W. 1.. Allison, 11. R. Alexander and extemporaneous-music leader G. R. Anderson dill a "Sweet Adeline" with a freshman song. The Tribunal wax ed appreciative and gave the boys the am' Lion-Runners Leave for Indoor Intercoilegicites Cartmell Enters Twen Events—Cox, I May Win I' Chapel Speaker 7 ,. ..: 7 ; 31 f. %him:: Myers PLEBE FIVE MEETS ORANGE TOMORROW Conover Undecided on Personnel Of Freshman Quintet for Syracuse Contest ONONDAGANS IMPRESSIVE IN PREVIOUS ENCOUNTERS In an elfort to re - smite:it.: winning stride. the freshman basketball train will line up against the Syracuse plebes in the Armory at two o'clock will be the . Only athletic event at home . this week-cad. Conch Conover is having trouble de riding upon a starting line-up for the Lion rubs. Leyda, stellar center, has Owen on the sidelines with a heavy cold while Eddie Lee has been absent front the guard post because of an injury to his knee. If ueither of the plebes are in condition. Ridgway and (Continued on last page) CHURCH SECRETARY WILL ADDRESS CHAPEL SUNDAY Mr. James Meyers To Conduct Open Forum Meeting 10 Auditorium :Mr. James Myers, industrial sec retary of the Federated Council of Churches in America and well know-a authority on labor and industrial condition's. will speak at chapel Sun day. Ile will also speak in the Audi torium in the evening. Being perimnnel director of the Dutchess 11leathery. Wappingers Falls, New York, from 1918 until 1925 Mr. Myers has had insight into human nature and economic problems. Ile was in charge of labor relations. employee representation, protit-shar ing. recreation, hiring, promotion and discharge of employees. Itrawi•.tg from Ids envied experi ences in industrial and religious 311% 31ye•s has also written a book called "Representative Govern ment in Industry." An open forum, of the type sponsor ed by Rabbi Lazaron and Dr. Tweedy, will be held at six-thirty &clock Sun day evening when Mr. Myers will an swer questions on industrial labor conditions, labor sharing management and projects for managerships. signs, "Yes, I Missed Cheer Practice," "Did You Miss Cheer Practice?" :ran "Cheer Practice or This." Ander son was excused. The prize case of the evening' turn ed out to be Michel Eruswick, who had declared that he would shoot the man who turned him in the next time. This turned out to be but an idle threat. Ile promised to be good hereafter. It was his third appear ance before the Tribunal, and as a It, he will receive two pieces of ;t, a haircut and a sign with "I am a Hain Sandwich" enhancing . the cardboard. In iauing this decree, President Pritchard remarked that (Continued on second page) Nat's On I The - Right Track I PRICE FIVE CENTS ty-one Men in Eight and Mathias rst Honors Twenty-one Penn State runners will make a strong bid for the I. C. 1.. A. championship tomorrow night in New York city. Representatives of more than twenty colleges and uni versities will compete with the Nit tany track team in the annual meet. Harvard. wanner of last year's championship, is favored to win the map again but Yale, Princetwa and Penn State will be represented lay teams that threaten to upset this pre diction. The Lion's best chances rest on the distance runs but Cartmell's runners will be opposed by sonic of the best men in collegiate ranks. Captain Stewart and Oliver IleUlrich, entered in the mile, will line up against-Cap tain Haggerty of Harvard, Welles of Princeton. Sansone of Colby and Had ton of New York university. Hag gerty, whmer of the outdoor mile for the last two years ran a beautiful race in the triangle meet with Cor nell anti Dartmouth recently and is considered a favorite in this event to morrow night. Cox Meets Old Rivals In the two mile run.. Cox, cross country champion, with Fouracre :col Reis, will carry Penn State colors against a brilliant field. Loucks', of Syracuse. and 3lacauley Smith, of Vale, loom as the Nittany most dangerous rivals while Henson. Cot , I ell, and Payne, Pennsylvtmia are al. co entered in this race. Eggers, Lerch and Castello in the seventy-yard hurdles • mill oppose Wells of Dartmouth. Franks, of Penn sylvania. Ballantyne, of (Inward, arid several others who have' turned in good times this season. BartholomeW' :mil Kilmer are entered in Vie sprints while Bates and Mathias will comner, Ms the' The thirty-ties pound shot event is whither of Nate's best bets for Ide who placed well last year has consist catly averaged around the fifty foot mark. Reed is also expected to score. (Continued on last page) RITENOUR WILL DELIVER SECOND L. A. LECTURE College Physician To Speak on "Some illedical Facts And Fallacies" "Sonic Medical Facts and Falla cies" will be the subject of address when Dr. .1. P. Ititenour, College phy sician, otters the second lecture of the sevelteenth Liberal Arts series in Old Chapel Tuesday night at sev en o'clock. Doctor Ititenour will set forth in popular terms sonic of the medical theories and beliefs which are regard ed as true by many in spite of the fact that they have been discarded by medical authorities. Ilis speech will • include also facts that, once consid ered impossible and absurd, have now been proven by trial mul experimenta tion. Is Nittany Graduate 1)1.. Ititenour is a graduate of the Penn State class of 1901. lie was graduated from the medical school of the University of Pennsylvania in 1906 and served his internship at the Allegheny gcteral hospital in Pittsburgh. For the next ten years. the Penn State medical authority served as a practitioner at Union town, as staff member of the Uniontown hospital and as surgeon for the Pennsylvania and the Balti more and Ohio railroads. After an absence of sixteen years, Ititenour returned to Penn State to organize and supervise the present. College Health service. Three I. F. Mat Bouts Scheduled for Tonight With the second round of the In terfraternity wrestling tournament nearly completed, three bouts will as staged tonight at eight o'clock. The Phi Delta Theta matinen will encounter the Alpha Phi Sigma team. At the saute time the Phi Kappa Sig ma wrestlers will meet Oniemi Ma Rho. The third bout has not yet been announced but will be deteruthed be the results of this week's eliminations_ Last week Phi Delta Theta blanked Sigma Phi Sigma, -A-0; Alpha Phi Sigma downed Sigma Phi Epsilon, GM; and Alpha Gamma Rho wun from Delta Kappa Sigma H.S.
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