Lee's Irish 4ts - N - 14 , —.72filt_7„ - nos;e VOL. XXII, No. 49 LIONS WIN BOXING INTERCOLLEGIATES NITTANY NEGATIVE SPEAKERS DEFEAT BOWDOIN ORATORS IN CLOSE DEBATE "Are College Students Wasting Timer Provides Subject of Open Forum 'nit With Visiting Forensics AUDIENCE CASTS VOTES Surick and Brandt Duo l'resent Convincing Argtiments for Penn State's Side of :Booted Question In an interesting battle of words, interspersed with humor and satire and lacking in formality, the Penn State nejative debating team, unde feated to date, sucees, , fully upheld its side of the question. "Resolved, That the majority of students in our Am erican colleges and universities are mating their time." in the Antltioriun, Saturday night against Bowdoin col lege. The count of the vote cast by the audience showed forty-seven for the negative, thirty-three affirmative. and eighteen undecided out of ninety eight completed ballots. ]lore than one hundred attendants who failed to complete their ballots made up the balance of the largest audience that has attended an open forum debate here this season. The forceful arguments of the Bow doin speakers. Thomas L. Downs, Jr. '27 and Paul A. Palmer '27, gained the favor of the audience, but the ora tory of Gilbert Nuriek '2B and strong te , :tettal by J.. W. Brandt 'lB. turned the trend of opinion toward the irg.t. tire. Defining a college as a place for intellectual training, the affirmative maintained that the auajority of stu dents ore not taking advantage of this opportunity. but are wasting their time in extra-zurricular activities that are crowding out the main purposes of a college education. The good de rived from these activities, they de clared. does not justify the empha sis and time spent on there. Athletics were characterized as a (Continued en second page) FENCERS . PREPARE FOR TOURNAMENT NEXT WEEK 11o1d Eliminations For College Champion—To Schedule Meets in April With the tournament to determine the champion of the College tentative- IV set for next week, the fencing squad is conducting daily workouts in pre paration for the first public. matches. According to present arrangements. eliminations will be held each Tues day, starting April fifth, until the winner is determined. The sixteen sur vivors of over fifty candidates who have tried for positions on the squad will take part in the tournament. This will be the first time a fencing tourney - has been held at Penn State. The matches are to be with foils only, as Prof. Schweitzer has not yet in structed his proteges itt the use of the epee and saber. The winner will be awarded the title of college champion. The first live will compose the Penn State team. With the sanction of the Athletic Association there is a possibility of two , nicety with other colleges' during the latter part of April. A twit frosh scrap will be held in April. The squad will start outdoor practice with the return of favorable weather. Alumnus Will Speak To Student Engineers Explaining.' railway practices in the engineering field, .1. V. Neubert 'PI ) . nil! addresz; au audience of Venn Stab students-in room 200, Engiucer nig 11, Friday afternoon at three thirty o'clock. The lecture, illustrated with lan tern slides, will concern maintemuwe eC way problems and. according to E. D. Walker, of the Department of: Civil Fzigineering, will be generally interesting to all students of engin tering. All those interested are urg ed to attend. Make Alterations In Lion Suit Style Specifications for this year's Boil milts call for a better grade of matre ial and workmanship and a change of style, according to S. It. Robb. chair man of the committee selecting the of ficial senior gorb. Bids from live concerns are now under consideration. As in former years. the suits will be plait white. hut, the lion insignia instead of being merely stamped on will be sewed on the hack of the coat in blue cloth. The overall style of pants has been discarded for the or dinary trouser fashion. The committee expects to receive suit.; about May first. and will dis tribute them through a local clothing store. Announcement of the distrib uting point will be made soon. NINES PLAY FIRST PRACTICE GAMES Remick. Convalescent, Returns From Hospital To Direct Baseball Workouts TILT WITH DICKINSON SET FOR APRIL. NINTH Although still unable to walk be cause of the inflamed condition of the veins in his leg, Coach Hugo Bezdek will supervise the daily games and practice sessions of his Nittany ball .players by means of his automobile. Discharged from the. Bellefonte hospital last Saturday on his own or gent request, Bee returned to his home in State College, but will not he able to leave the house till tomorrow part ly because of restrictions the doctor kas placed rra him anal partly because of the continued trouble with his leg. Practice Games !login Practice games between the first and second tennis will begin this week and continue until the end of the sea son. Batting., pitching and infield workouts- will precede the six inning contests. "Can't really say anything about the way the boys look on the dia mond." said Bea yesterday," but when get out there we'll get everything organized and ready for April ..tinth when we meet Dickinson for our first game." Batteries will he used in rotation for the trial tilts. with Styborski, Page. Van Alta, Haines and Mutts tossing the apple to Harrington and Lesko. The best infield combinatio-i as it appeani now is Harris at first. ltobbelaar at second. Cy Lungren at short and Kent at third. The prob able outfield will be Singley, Delp and Monahan. School of Engineering Arranges for Two-day Industiial Conference In order to acquaint the Penn State engineering students with the selec tion, placement and devdopment of college graduates and the personnel record system for students, an indus trial conference will be held by the School of Engineering for two days, beginning May thirtieth. Discussions will be held on progres 'sive corporations xvldeli employ engi neering graduates, and representatives of industrial and engineering compan ies will give authoritative talks rela tive to the subject. The Engineering Extension con•en- Lion men, is being arranged for Fri day night, May thirteenth, as a finale for their program. Because of the lack of space in Mae Allister Ilull, where the function will be held, only two hundred may attend. I. F. Basketball Teams Will Clash for Cage Title in Final Rounds After a short lay-off caused by the Interscholastic - basketball tournament held here last week, the interfratern ity basketball games will close tonight at eight o'clock in the Armory. Of the six teams remaining in play, Phi Delta Theta will engage Delta Sigma Phi for the first game and the winners of this match will play Tau Kappa Epsilon. The winner of this tilt will meet Delta Upsilon in the semi-finals and the top scorers of the semi final con test will meet the victor of the Phi Kappa Sigma-Alpha Tau Omega fra cas in the last game of the season. STATE COLLEGE, PA., TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1927 INTERSCHOLASTIC TITLE GAINED BY STEELTON QUINT Defeat( Sharon High School in Final Fray by Rallying In Third Quarter NEW CASTLE LOSES TO SHARON IN SEMI-FINALS Orange and Black Extended to Limit in Gaining 27-20 Victory By defeating Sharon high school in the finals of the annual Interscholas tic tournament by the score Steelton earned the title of champion of the I'. I. A. A. on the Armory court Stiturduy afternoon. However, the lighter Sham.' aggre imtion did not fall before their op ponents without a battle. The Or. *nge and Black quintet started with A rush and at the end of the first half ivaLs on the long end of a 12-7 count. in the third quarter, the Blue and White aggregation found itself and seemed to score at will. New Castle Wins First In the opening game of the tourney, New Castle defeated Philipsburg in a contest made close only by the excep tional foul shooting of the latter. The losers were successful in nbeteen of their twenty-four attempts free (Continued on third page) DR. H. H. TWEEDY ADDRESSES CHAPEL Says Fear Causes Us To Flunk Exams, Steal and Even Commit Murder CONDUCTS OPEN FORUM DISCUSSION IN EVENING Selecting as the theme of his text the Bible passage, "Be strong and very courageous for the Lord thy God is with thee and is wherever thou guest," Doctor 11. 11. Tweedy. of Yale Divinity school. showed that fear, a natural emotion, is not a basis for religion. "Fear is one of the great human emotions and only love and anger eon rank with it," he declared. "As such it is a great friend, for fear was meant to warn us of dangerous sit uations, to stab us wide awake, to open our eyes, to mass all our forces aml rush them against our enemy. A savage endowed with fear is splend idly equipped to tight the crouching i beast." But, says Doctor Tweedy, fear many times makes us helpless, causes us to Ilunk exams, steal, show COW:II , i- I tee, and even to commit murder. As example, the speaker told of the frightened mother, who in a fire threw her child out of the window and carried the cradle down stairs safety. "Jesus was never controlled by fear," Dr. Tweedy said. "Ile always rose triumphantly. 'Fear not: he (Continual on second page) Will Stage Vaudeville Show on Mother's Day The Players, Thespians. Glee Club and individuals will contribute to the all-collego vaudeville show which will be given at seven o'cock on Mother's Day in the Auditorium. More defi nite arrangements for dance skits and musical numbers are being nmde by the following committee: Chairman G. M. Harris '27. C. B. Lane '2B, 11. A. Fisher '27, and B. B. Donaldson '27. REGISTRAR WILL ISSUE STUDENT GRADES TODAY Grades for the first'semester may be obtained at the Registrar's office to day, it has been announced. "W e will try to send .the grades to the students' parents before the Eas ter vacation," said W. S. Hoffman, Registrar, "but because of the great amount of clerical work involved, we may be unable to send them - out at that time." Plebes Elect Holmes . To Class Presidency With a majority of more than one hundred votes over his nearest com petitor, A. M. Holmes ':10 was elect ed president of the freshman class a: a meeting in the Bull Pen Thursday evening. W. A. Slone with ninety votes. ro• ceived the vice-presideney. The first - - year Inca selected R. 11. Tice as se i•etary and (l. Cott, Jr.. as treas urer. These men will take office im mediately. STUDENTS RECEIVE NEW PRESIDENT AT OFFICIAL MEETING Reception Marked by Renewed Spirit as Undergraduates Gr . eet College Head PLEDGES CO-OPERATION, GOOD WILL TO STUDENTS Commends Penn State Code and • Defines New Education As Open-mindedness Displaying an enthused spirit that has not shown itself on Penn Slate's campus for weeks, more than two thousand students, assembling at Co. op corner under the leadership of the cheerleaders and the hand. marched to the A tultorium to participate in a giant mass meeting purposed to gree:. the sew College president, Dr. It. D. Hetzel officially, and sponsored by , he Student Council. After seVeral coll,ge songs and medleys were; Aing IlY'the. gathering and the band offered a few selection, S. L. Reeder '27, president of the Stu dent Council, introduced Dr. Iletzel who, fluke surprised and unprepared, delivered an address of confidence to the undergraduates. When the president had expressed his appreciation for the student inter est shown by the number of invita tions he regretted he was forced tn refuse because of more pressing mat• tors. he began to deliver his message. "I am conscious of a large respon (Continued on third page) DRUIDS-FRIARS TO HOLD ANNUAL DANCE FRIDAY Women Students Granted Extra Social Function—Novelly Numbers Arranged Using a unique arrangement of red and green lights and :several spot lights, the Druids and the Feints will hold their annual dance in the Armory Friday evening. Several novelty num bers including .an exhibition of the Black Bottom by I'. J. Farley '25, will be presented. As customary at All-College dances, women students may attend withaut haying this affair subtracted from the allotted number of social functions. PerrniSFloll has bec.t granted by the Student Council for freshmen to .at tend. • Johnny Buck In Play Johnny Buck's orchestra has been engaged fur the dance and will give program of special musical num bers. Dancing, will be from eight to twelve o'clock. Tickets at oae duller and fifty cents are on sale at the Mu sic Room, Graham's, and the Fashion Shop. or may be procured front mem . hers of either campus society. More than two hundred and fifty tickets have been sold and it is ex pected that more than three hundred and fifty couples will attend the 1117.1 All-College function of the year. Pattee Addresses Ohio Undergraduate Body On a recent trip to Ohio, Dr. Fred Lewis Pattee, head of the English de partment, lectured at. Alliance before the Mount Union college student body on "The Mission of Christian Col leges to the World." Journeying to Akron the next day, Dr..Pattee, who is a well-known au thority on American literature, spoke to the students of Akron university on Mark Twain and to the members of the faculty on the subject of cur rent literature. PROM BOOTHS GO ON SALE AT GO-OP TUESDAY EVENING Fraternities May Choose From More Than Fifty Spaces For Annual Dance COMMITITE SENDS OUT INVITATIONS 'l'o PATRONS 'rickets Will Not Be Sold Until April Twenty-second—May Have Drive Opened Included in the decorating schera., for the Junior Prom to he held April twenty-ninth. will be a total of more than fifty fraternity booths which will go on sale at Co-op Tuesday ev ening at seven o'clock at a cost of twelve dollars. These booths will be decked with fresh smilax upon an ivory -tinted panel upon which will be the Greek letters of the organization occupying it and bordered with a frame of birch branches. In conjunction with this will be a change i location of the cloak roam which formerly has been in the rear of the Armory. This year coats will he checked in one of the wings aulja mat to the main entrance to the build ing, in order to be more convenient to Prcm-goers. (Continued on second page) PLAYERS TO OFFER ONE-ACT COMEDIES Original ,C a st Will Take Stage In "The Valiant." Choice For Dramatic Tourney FOUR PLAYS GIVEN IN PROGRAM APRIL NINTH Wtih the cast which was to give the play in the Pennsylvania intercolleg iate dramatic contest, the Penn State Players will present "The Valiant" as the premier of their set of four one-act plays April ninth in the Aud itorium. announced A. C. Cloetingll,l director of dramatics, yesterday. Though carefully coached and ready to render "The Valiant'' at the time of the Pennsylvania dramatic association tournament the perform ance could not take place because of the showing of the same comedy by professional companies at that Lime. "The Yellow Triangle" was substitut ed for the original play mid was used in the competition. Included in the original cast which will enact "The Valiant" are Jackson Wheatley '29. Nelson Zimmerman '27. Mabel Reed '2B, Ben Ricker '2B and IClyde Minster '2B. Four other short plays will be given by the Players on the same program. Anton Cheekov's "Swan Song," in which Nelson Zimmerman will pia' the leading role, and two lams, "All Gummed Up" and "Oh, Papa" will Ito presented. VARSITY WRESTLERS TO PRACTICE FOR NEXT YEAR Coach Spiedel Will 1101(1 Daily Workouts in Preparation For 1928 Campaign Candid:o.es for next year's varsity wrestling squad will be called out im mediately after the sophomore-fresh man wrestling scrap, according to Coach Charles Spiedel. want more than one man in each class to depend on," said the wrestling mentor, "so that the result of the In tercollegiates will not be repeated. The Penn State team was hampered by injuries, and we had no substitutes to fill in the weak spots." Coach Spiedel's plan is to have three men of equal ability in each class. In case of kijury to any wrestler, a good substi lute will be available. Freshmen will be eligible toe the varsity tryouts this year. It is ex pected that, at least three of the fresh man group will make the varsity squad. Wrestling practice, continuing until warm weather arrives, will be started early next season in order to allow the team a sufficient time to get into shape. aiti 4, Penn State Conquers Navy To Take Crown 1927 CHAMPIONS I 115-pound class—Collins. Navy. jl2.i-pound class Weintraub, Navy. • 1:15-1).;;m1 class—Cordascii, Sy- I encase. I 115-pound class—Cearin. Navy. i hill-pound class Wolff, Penn ! I State. _ 175• pound class—ltendiek, Penn State. I Unlimited Class S. llamas, State. FRATERNITIES WILL BROADCAST SINGING Signatory Groups To Put Own Songs on Air From WPSC Tomorrow Night LOVING CUP DONATED AS COMPETITION PRIZE Experimenting a new form of com petition, ten fraternities will send ropresentative groups of singers to broadcast as part of the fraternity night program at WI'SC tomorrow night at eight o'clock. A handlome trophy, a silver loving cup donated by four State College radio dealer:. will be awarded to the. winners. Preceri• ing the songfest, Dean Warnock will deliver a short talk (Ira fraternities. The songsters from each fraternity' entered are alloted ten minutes in to sing three selections. ineltelL which. . ' • ing fraternity songs. The groups will sing in the order of their Crater- nity's invitation accept.•ance. The first ten fraternities responding were chosen to compete. These fraterni ties in their scheduled order are Phi Sigma Kappa, Signet Chi, Tau Kappa Epsilon, Phi Della Theta. Beta Theta Pi. Alpha Tau Omega, Tau Upsilon Omega, Delta Sigma Phi, Pi Kappa Alpha, Phi kappa Tan. The inter est shown thus far has been keen, anti it is hoped that this eceat will even ! tually become a tradition. The performances will he judged by a committee of three, Director of Music It. W. Grant, F. G. 'Williams of the mathematics department and It. E. Denider. professor of Greek. (Continued on third page) FOUR VETERANS REPORT FOR NITTANY GOLF TEAM Promising Material Practicing Daily on Links—Seven Matches Arranged Practicing daily for the coining sea son on the fairways the Lion golf team headed by Captain 11. A. Cannon, hopes to expeiience a successful year on the links. Veterans returning from last year re Captain Cannon '27, K. E. Ifewitt '2B, and (I. A. Eutver '2B. Promising sophomore candidates for the varsity foursome are 11. V. Fritchman, .1. M. Bunting, N. J. Sick cis and .1. 11. Ludes. Proposed Golf Schedule Arranging a tentative golf schedule. Manager K. E. Clungeon '27, has for mulated the following plane for the team. The Centre Hall country club team mill be played at Centre Hall on April twenty-third and a return match will be held on the Penn State links on the thirtieth. Antioch college, of Ohio, will he met here on May sixth. The golf team will drive against. Clin ton country club at Lock Haven the next day, and Williamsport the fol lowing Saturday. Lafayette and Syracuse will be the opponents for the stick-wielders on the twenty-first and the twenty eighth. National golf intercoflegiates will be run MT in Garden City, Long Island, from June twenty-fifth to July second. Outlook Bright With tin excellent course and plenty of material. Captain Cannon hopes to have one of the best teams in the East this yeti•. Penn State has one of the few eighteen hole golf links• in the country; and there n•ill be enough coon, for many candidates to prac- Ilow'd in Debating? PRICE FIVE CENTS Wolff, Bendiek, llamas Capture Titles in 22-20 Triumph M. I. SPOILS MIDDIES' CHANCES IN PINAI7IIOI.IT The impossible happened at Syra cuse Satanlay. Fur with not a sintriti man or its first four boxers annexi..tiz r. title Penn State literally took the Intercollegiate championship cup out. of Navy'.; hands and won the nm:t. exciting boxing tourney ever sta3vl by a margin of one Doha. Flynn Deckles Championship . But it is not alone the conquests of the Blue and White which decided the issue. The= story of the tout is a story of battles staged -a the ring and.out of it. It is to Fynn. the M. I. T. middleweight, that Nit tany supporters must give thanks. To Flynn oust be given the honor of deciding the championships. All but second place in the Inn-pound bout Lail been decided. Navy had Rick etts, fresh and eager, ready to do bat tle. Flynn had already fought three bard rounds in the aftermxm with Wolff. A victory for Navy would have given it a 23-22 victory. Flynn had seemingly acceded to a lowest to default. The trophy ap parently was to be Navy's perman ently. It was already in the ring. But Flynn (I'd not default. In the locker room Coach Leo Houck snots':. and Flynn listened. This while the spectators in the Archbold gymna sium were waiting impatiently for Referee McCracken to award the cup Flynn Fights It was an interesting hit of byplay that everyone save a few near the seine missed. "Are you Irish?" de manded-Levi. And taking the other's red stain for an answer, barked out. "Then FIGHT!" Flynn fought. Flynn fought with such' fury that (Continued on last page) ESSAY CONTEST STAGED BY WILSON FOUNDATION English Department Sponsors Writing of Articles by • Nittany Students Offering two twenty-live thousawi dollar prizes to the man and WOlll.lll hubmitting winning essays MI the aubject "What Woodrow WIIM.n Means to Me", the Woodrow Wilson Foundation announues a contest open to American men and women between the ages of twenty and thirty-live. The College department of English is co-operating with the Foundation in securing the interest of Penn State students in the subject. The object of the contest is to emphasize the character and ideals of Woodrow Wilson. The standards. ideals and principles of the 'man will be stressed rather than his actual political and historical accomplishments. Essays submitted will be judges fin• expression of ideas. Literary skill will receive only secondary considera 7 lion. Articles s h ould not exceed twenty five hundred words in len7th and should he sent to the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. 17 East Forty-sccon street, New York city before Octo her first of this year. Student; de siring specific information about toe contest should write to the Vomitla don or inquire of Prof. A. 11. Espen shade at the English ollice. Personnel of Three Committees Selected The Student Council at its last, meeting appointed the following Com mittees: for Poverty Day, It. A. Mc- Quade, chairman, 11. S. Ruck. K. R. Weston, W. E. Pritchard, G. R. Lip pincott, .1. C. Redfield, I'. P. !less, C. A. Yost. To report on the possibility of making basket-ball a major sport, V. 0. Schinnerer, chairman, C. R. Berg.- man. It. B. Donaldson, W. C. Body comb. For re:LlT:in:ring the College Dances now held in the Spring and Winter, A. C. Alloway. chairman, .1. G. llese. \V. A. Baer, P. P. Hess, E. .1. Lock ood.
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