Counsel? VOL. XXII, No. 52 PARENTS GRANTED FREE ADMITTANCE TO SPORT EVENTS ON MOTHER'S DAY Student Council Hears l'overo Day Committee Report and Offers Ten Dollars as Award For Costume MERCHANTS GIVE PRIZES Legislators l'et ition Athletic .Association To Restore Major Status of Basketball Free admission to all athletic events will be granted to the mothers and fathers of Penn State students on -Mother's and Father's Days., it %vas announced at the regular meeting of the Student Council, Tuesday night. This COMA 116 a result of action taken by the Athletic 'Association under the recommendation of the Student Council. The Pants Scrap committee report ed that this scrap will take place on friday. April twenty-second. Ar rangements arc being made for the proper supervi.-don of the underclass tilt and the plan to have sophomores take freshmen customs for one day if they lose the l'ushball Scrap was discussed. Poverty Day Prizes Poverty Day will be held on Satur day, April twenty-third, reported G. P. Lippincott '27. chairman of the Poverty Day committee. A prize of ten dollars will be given to the fresh man wearing the best costume. the Council decided. In addition there will be other worth-while prizes do nated by State College merchants.. Drawing up a petition, the Council requested the Athletic Association that basketball be restored to the sta te-, of a major sport. A.reamunenda. lion was made that the Association award major letters to championship minor sports teams except the rifle team. was decided to appoint a com mittee to study the advisability of providing new sign boards and plac ing them in more advantageous pia fC3. Desirbg to establish a new tra dition. it was decided that the out-go ing senior class president select out standing juniors who show signs of being leaders in their senior year to serve together with the new senior president as ushers at commencement exercises. CHEMISTRY PROFESSORS BROADCAST ADDRESSES Dean Wendt's Talk on "Science And Life" Ileads Speeches From Station WI'SC Speaking from station WPSC, mem bers of the School of Chemistry and Physics gave a variety of discussions Wednesday night. The principle talk of the program was given by l)can C. L. IVendt who chose cis his topic "Science and Life." Prof. G. C. Chandler spoke on "Penn State Chemists and Their Jobs" and Prof. W. It. Piehneier discussed "Op portunities for Chemical Engineers." Prof. P. 11. Mack chose as her topic "Getting Yom• Money's Worth when Buying Fabrics" while Prof. A. J. Cur rier told how to "Keep up With Set- "Opportunities for Physicists" was Prof. IV. IL Ilam's subject and Prof. W. G. Duncan spoke on "Measure ments a Physicist Can Make." Or. W. P. Davey completed the program with a talk on "Post Graduate Work in Science." PROMINENT AUTIIORITIES TO GIVE ADDRESSES AT OIL POWER CONVENTION , Several prominent authorities on the petroleum and automobile indus tries will address the Oil Power Con ference to be held here April twenty first to twenty-third. Reports on pro duction and refining of oil, bearing and engine design. lubrication and oil sprays will be presented for discus sion during the three-day assembly. Among the principal speakers. who will present papers on the subject are E.J. Kates, chairman of the National Committee on Oil Power Week; Ashley. State geologist; K. G. Gilson, Research Laboratory, General Electric company, and G. W. Lewis, Director of Research. National Advisory Com mittee for Aeronautics. °Semi-Weekly tg„Nu e irrun# ititt Jrs, 131 Rifle Team To Meet George Washington in Final Match of Yeai Concluding one of its most success ful seasons in years, the Penn State rifle team will engage George Wash ingien university at the Capital city tomorrow afternoon in the final match of the year. Lieut. 11. T. Miller, coach of the sharpshooters, has enrolled eight of his proteges in the Intercollegiate rifle tournament which will be held at the 106th Regiment Armory in New York city and will send Burns, Detwiler. Pritchard, Stearns, Ballot', Stauffer. Fritz and Yeukel to the college shoot. interclass matches, being conducted this week, will decide which under classmen will receive their numerals. PLAYERS PRESENT ONE-ACT DRAMAS TOMORROW NIGHT ,Original Cast Will Take Stage In "The Valiant," Choice for Dramatic Tourney COMEDY AND TRAGEDY DIVIDE EVENING'S BILL "All Gummed Up," "Swan Song" and "Oh. Papa," Included In Play Program Pc-an State Players will present four one-act plays under the super vision of Director A. C. Cloetingh in the Auditorium tmnorrow evening at eight-fifteen o'clock. The first play will lie "The Valiant" which was to have been staged at the Intercollegiate Dramatic contest at Philadelphia. This is one of the strongest plays ever written, it is said, and deals with a nua who has been condemned to death for commit ting a crime. lie tries to conceal his identity from his family and the trag edy is marked by striking pathos. Used repeatedly as a vaudeville sketch, a lively farce will be the sec ond of the productions. It is con cf!rned with a man who receives a tel egram stating, that he is a father of tWins. "All Gummed Up," another farce written by Ilarry WigAtatT Gib- Ile will be the third presentation. The final and concluding play will (Continued on second page) Class Pants Scrap Is Preparation For Plebe. Poverty Day Following a meeting of the Student Council un Tuesday evening, an notmcement was made by C. IL Berg man '27. chairman of the class scraps committee, that the Pants Scrap will In, lucid on April twenty-second at four-thirty o'clock. The last Pants Scrap was held two years ago and was the most success ful scrap of the year. Its revival this year is expected to afford the fresh men sufficient opportunity for obtain ing appropriate clothes for the pov erty ceremonies the following day. All sophomores and freshmen are com pelled to take part. The tentative date for the annual Pushball Scrap was announced as \lap• tenth. It is to take place on the New Beaver practice field. Greek Quints To Clash For Basketball Title In a fiercely contested game l'hi Delta Theta defeated Tau Kappa Ep silon thirteen to ten Tuesday night in the Armory andw on the opportunity to meet Delta Upsilon - it the semi finals of the interfraternity basketball contest, last night. The winner of the Delta Upsilon- Phi Delta Theta fracas will meet Phi Kappa Sigma in the near future in the finals, contesting them for the championship. IVALKER PREPARES FOR FOUR-DAY CONFERENCE OF ENGINEERS IN JULY Prof. E. I). Walker of the depart ment of civil engineering is completing plans for the conference of biologists, chemists, sewage and water workers and other engineers which is to be held here next July under the auspic es of the engineering department. A four day program is being arranged. STATE COLLEGE, PA., FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1927 LACROSSE MENTOR DRILLS SEVENTY IN FUNDAMENTALS Coach Ernie Paul Holds Dail) Practice in Stick Work and Goal Tossing WELKER TUTORS FIRST AND SECOND-YEAR MEN Thirteen Veterans Report For Varsity—Underclassmen Train for Scrap With a squad of seventy, the largest number that has ever turned out to seek positions on a lacrosse team at Penn State, holding intensive prte flees daily on Old Beaver field de spite reverse weather conditions. Coach Ernie Paul is shaping a com bination of stickmen that promises to be the most powerful that has ever represented the College. The newly-appointed Pt-an State mentor has been conducting practice sessions for the past weeks, drilling everyone, veteran as well as beginner in the fundamentals of the game and requiring the entire squad to start at the beginning and learn things from the handling of a stick to the tossing of goals. As the season proceeds and the team develops he will tutor his proteges in the liner points of offen sive and defensive tactics. Coach Paul, with a thoiight for the future. is desirous of having a worthy (Continued on last page) HONESS PUBLISHES BOOK ON CRYSTALS Mineralogy Head Writes First English Text on Subject After : Long Fduk.. PROVIDES METHOD FOR DECIDING STRUCTURES In the publication of a book on the nature, origin and interpretation of each figure of crystals applied to minerological study, Dr. A. P. lioness, head of the Mining School's Depart ment of Minerology, has made a defi nite and valuable contribution to sci ence, according to authorities. This is the only text on the subject writ ten in English. Dr. lioness, by means of a live-year study has found that by applying sol vents to minerals and crystals that they develop etchings of varied char acteristics, and since such crystals are comparable to atomic structures the results are considered of high im portance to minerologists, chemists, crytitalographers, X-ray analysts and others. It is said that his report is the most concise ever made 00 the subject and provides a ready method for determi nation of the structure and nature of minerals and crystals. I'lll 31U SIG3IA ELECTIONS Prof. C. W. Betaie .1. B. Boyer '2B .1. F.. Bressler '2B W. 11. Brittingham '2B It. M. Cobden '2B F. Evans '29 F. I. Pethiek Jr. '2B L. E. Goodenough '2B W. C. Gambol '2B 1•:. A. Eazinierski '2B .1. 1). Saute• '2B A. I•:. Tepper '2B .1. T. Vandenburg .1 r. '2B 11. 13. Walton '2B Old Photos Show Class Scraps Were Playful Battles of Blood and Honor The good old days, they are gone i was blown, and thus was official no -and forgotten: i tice given that the Flag Scrap was .In the window of the Photo Shop I on. In 1916 the freshmen won. it there are pictures taken of the class was a rare distinction. I scraps of 1916. When the old boys Most noteworthy among the other comp back they sometimes tell u;' eliminators of the race's unfit was the stories that are pretty hard to believe, Cider Scrap when the two underclass but we yes them along and pretend to , es met to do royal battle for the hon swallow it all, even though we don't.l or of their class. But there are pictures to prove it all The principal idea was to place now. I hands, as many as possible, on a good One shows a group of the then old - cider keg. Hundreds engaged in younger generation in the throes of a these affrays of honor and blood was class brawl. I.t is the Flag Scrap, the nothing if not red. A man lost his one which was the roughest(' though I breath. fell, a fellow classmate—or not the roughest of them all. The anybody—grabbed his collar,—if idea was for the freshmen to plant had one by that time,—or his hair— a flagpole somewhere around in the if he had any of that left, and pulled neighboring mountains and elevate hint out of the way. Then he was their banner to the top. When every- heft to die in . peace• or recover and thing was set, and if the sophomores 'jump into the light again. . hadn't discovered At, the lire whistle Ho hum. Undefeated Debaters Engage Penn Tonight In an effort to retain their unde feated record for — the season, Penn State's affirmative debaters contest the University of Pennsylvania foren sic group of the question, "Is the present tendency to emphasize the practical in American higher educa tion to be deplored?" tonight in Phil adelphia. The undefeated Nittany trio that will take the boards are, N. R. Adams '2B, .1. %V. Brandt '29 and Gilbert Na del; '2B. PENN STATE SONGS TO BE PLAYED BY JUNIOR PROM BAND Goldketle Requests "Victory" And "Nittany Lion" for Special Nunibers TWELVE-PIECE BAND lIAS ONLY TWO NEW MEMBERS Bids for Checking Concession Must Be Sent to Hess Before Tdesday In requesting. "Victory" and the "Nittany Lion" for, specialty num hers, Jean Goldkette made an early glut in preparation, for his second succmsive appearance here as a Jun ior Prom orchestra. lle will play in collaboration with Jan Garber April Twenty-ninth. Whitey Kaufman, whose syncopa tion featured this year's , Military Ball, has been quoted es saying that "Goldkette's band is the best orches tra h the country today anal will re tain its Popularity for several sea sun.;.' Two New Alen Of the twelve men in • the group, there are traly bwo,who'were not here on Jean's last appearance. -Bix lied erbach, whose trumpeting is accom panied by a bit of composing which includes songs of such popularity as "Copenhagen," and Frankie !from- Jiner, reputed to be the best saxo phone player today, are the latest ad ditions to the hand. Other critics have acclaimed this orchestra, which has run in the Grey stone Ballroom in Detroit for two (Continued on last' page) SENIOR CIVIL ENGINEERS BEGIN INSPECTION TOUR Six•day Trip Includes Visits to Altoona and Pittsburgh Industrial Plants Forty-eight seniors of the depart ment of civil eng,ineering left State College IVednesday morning for Al toona on the first lap of their six-clay inspection trip. The hydro-electric plant of Penn . Central Light and Power company at Warrior Ridge was inspected that af ternoon, the group then continuing to Altoona. Yesterday the yards of the Pennsylvania Railroad at Altoona awl ithe city sewage treatment plants and garbage iwinerator were studied. Today the Pennsylvania Railroad laboratories and the development work of the Baker Estates will be vis ited, the group then leaving for Pitts burgh. With an inspection of the Monition plant' and pumping plants of Pitts burgh and a brief examination of the I,Pierty TunnelS tomorrow, this week's I program will be complete. THESPIANS WILL TAKE ORCHESTRA ON SPRING TOUR Tentative Personnel Selected For Violins, Drums, Piano and Saxophones TO STAGE "GIRL WANTED" DURING PROM WEEK-END Musical Numbers Orchestrated By l'rofessional Concern To Improve Show Candidates for the orchestra which is to accompany the Thespians on their road tour after Easter vacation, held their first tryout in the Auditor um Wednesday night under the•di rection of L. W. Fisher '2B. Twenty aspirants attended the trial. • The road trip of the Thespians will include Bellefonte, Wilkes-Bat4e, Philadelphia, Altoona, Pittsburgh and Greensburg. The Thespians will display their musical comedy, "Girl Wanted," on the night of the Junior Prom and as this comes at the end of the road trip the players should put on a highly polished performance, according to Maurice Darcy, coach. Tentative ',emotion of the orchestra will be W. F. Stimmel and C: 1,. Lang, first violin. A. .1. Turtzo and Walter Carpenter, second violin, E. 11. Smith, flute, Paul Rice, saxophone, A. P. Clark, drums, J. A. Buck, banjo, L. (Continued on last page) WPSC TO PROVIDE APRIL RADIO CARD Kappa Gamma Psi, Church Choir College Orchestra and Farm Talks Listed POST-EASTER CONCERT ON APRIL TWENTY-FIFTH Outlining the radio attraetions to he broadcast during the month of April front the College station WPSC, D. M. Cresswell. Department of Pub lic Information, announces the follow ing program: Preceding the concert of the Girls' Glee Club, Professors C. 0. Cromer. WU. Knutsen and M. T. Lewis of tha School of Agriculture spoke on farm am! garden subjects i‘londay night. Faculty members from the Chemistry and Physics department gave talks on various subjects Wednesday evening. Among the cards offered for the month will be a continuance of the farm and garden talks by Professors 11. C. Knandel and K. I. Wilde of the School of Agriculture and a concert by the State College Methodist church choir. Kappa Gamma Psi, honorary musi cal fraternity, will broadvast the first post-Easter program from WPSC on April twenty-fifth. Dr. .1. E. Knott and Professors 'l'. B. Charles nail E. N. Fagan will be included and will further the talk.; on farm 11111 i garden topics. The broadcasting of music supplied by the College Orchestra on April twenty-seventh will end the month's schedule. Seniors Will Receive Lion Suits May First In awarding the contract for senior Lion Suits to the Altoona Overall com pany, the committee will have the suits available for distribution about May first, according to C. It. Berg man '27 chairman. The suits, which will be plain white, will have a lion's head of blue cloth sewed on the back of the coat. Meas urements for the senior garb will be taken at Stark's Saturday morning and will continue till Easter vacation. It is necessdry, according to Berg man, that as many seniors ds pos sible take this opportunity to insure prompt delivery for Move-up Day. The price remains at two dollars :Ltd twenty-live cents a suit. I'ENN STATE CLUB PICKS GORMAN FOR PRESIDENCY Following the recent elections the Penn State Club announces its offic ers for the coming year. President will be W. J. German '2B; vice-president, E. G. Dreibelbis '2O; secretary, H. R. Sherrard '2O; treas urer. J. M. Harnish '29; athletic direc tor. G. C. Hummer '2B and social sec retary, W. I. Fielder '2O. 2 tler: 4' Dickinson Opposes Lion Batters Here Tomorrow Five Veterans, Page, .Lungren, Harris, Kent And. Harrington, Expected To Break Into Line-Up Saturday Y. M. C. A. ELECTIONS President L. L. Grin '2S Vice-President H. L. Kinsel Second Vice-President A.. 1. Gams '2tl Secretary L. W. Barton '29 Treasurer W. S. Seibert '29 HERE LECTURES ON GOTHIC DESIGN Describes Cathedral as Highest Architectural Expression Of Medieval l'eriod ILLUSTRATES ADDRESS WITH LANTERN SLIDES Tracing the evolution of Gothic ar chitecture from medieval genius, whiCh he states, ",was tremendously affeCted by Latin culture and the Christian faith," Prof. J. 11. Helm of the architectural design depart ment, delivered the fourth lecture of the Liberal Arts series in 01(1 Chapel Tuesday night. Professor !feline, in his talk on "Gothic Cathedrals and their Build ers" declared that new materials. new modes of construction, new social hab its and new methods of thinking and living influenced the style of Gothic construction. =•' After depicting the cathedral as the highest expression of the age, the speaker used lantern slides to de scribe the outstanding ecclesiastical buildings of the AI iddle Ages, particu larly the Cathedral of Chartres. lie concluded his address with a brief review of the features and in novations of Gothic architecture and the contributing factors to its struc tural distinction. It was announced that the final lceure of the Liberal Arts series will be held on April twenty-sixth. GRANGE WILL GIVE PLAY TO ADVANCE DORM FUND Cast. To ('resent "I'oor Father" Comedy, in Auditorium On May Fourth For the advancement of it:4 me morial dormitory fund, the Penn State Grange will present the comedy play. "Poor Father" in the Auditorium on the night of Nay fourth. Aiming the import.•nt characters of the east of the play are Tompkins, the politician, played by .1. C. Steele '27, Clifford Tompkins, the psycho-anal yst, portrayed by Forrest. Steele '3O, and Miss La runty, the actress. per sonified by Lois Itemley '2B. It. I•:. Smith 9 28, as Caldwell the detective, and Wallace Stout!' '3O, as Dumme ll, the absent-minded person. also have important roles. The play is an amateur presenta tion of an overambitious politcian. stem wife, an actress, an absent minded man who forgets whether or not he is married, a colored servant who does not adhere strictly to the truth and a young couple who are in leee. According to the play directors• it is a laugh-evoking comedy full of genuine entertainment from begin :ling to end. STUDENTS OF POULTRY HUSBANDRY MAKE VISIT TO MINGOVILLE FARMS Visiting the largest chicken hatch ery in Pennsylvania, seventeen poultry husbandry students inspected the grounds and buildings of the Hecht poultry farm at Mingoville Thursday afternoon. March thirty-first. Methods of incubation operation and brooding equipment were explain ed to the students by Prof. T. B. Charles and Mr. E. W. Callenbach of the Poultry Husbandry department. Practical comments were added by the employees of the farm, who also con ducted the students over the extensive brooder range where ten thousand chickens are being reared by means of artificial brooders. Play To Beat the Dickins•sun! PRICE FIVE CENTS Deterred by cold and rainy weather and without the direct aid of their coach, the Penn State ball team will open its 1737 season with Dickinson college tomorrow afternoon at three thirty o'clock on New Beaver din. moml. No official starting line-up has been announced for the Lions, but it is probable that Captain Lefty Page and Bus Harrington will take care of the battery positions. Heinie Harris is the choice for the first sack and with Dobbetear at second. Lungren at short and Kent at third in' the infield should provide an air-tight combina tion. Outfield posts arc touch in question, but Mile Wolff, George Delp and Gene Singley appear to be the likely candidates because of thAr ability to bat. The opening line-up for Dickinson will be either Shank of Mentzner in the pitcher's box, O'Shansky or Mid dleton as backstop. Cook on second. Cohen playing the short field, Fox at the hot corner and Ryder on the hi tial sack. In the outfield will be three of the following men: Bowes. McConnell. Lumley or Everhardt. The team's hitting strength lies mainly in Ryder, Everhardt and Cook. it is said, al though the other ball,hawks have been showing up well in practice. Bez Attends Practice Making his first visit of the sea son to the practice field Wednesday afternoon; Coach Bezdek was non committal in regard to his views on the capability. of the team and the prospects of the opening game. How ever, he believed that the ."boys need brushing up. This weather has been terrible to play ball in, and they need a lot of practice." BatterY.:Work=tiut has 'been Contin ce,l'in the Stock 'Pavilion throughout the rainy weather and the infielder; have to get into condition. Warm air and comparatively dry ground permit ted a tire-inniag fray between first and second nines Wednesday. Al though the preliminary stick-wield ing has been weak, the batters got alf some clean bits when the game start. Dobbelaar continues to favor his sick Mil and laingrim has developed a sore shoulder that is being nursed (Continued on last page) RIFLE TEAM RECEIVES CHAMPIONSHIP TROPHY Nittany Nimrods, Leaders of Third Corps Area, Get Award Monday Penn State riflemen, winners of the Third It. 0. T. C. Corps Area shooting competition, will be presented with the medals and cup which they won in the recent contest during drill per iod Monday afternoon. Blue and white bars will also be given to the mendlers of Company F which took first honors h the drilling in the It. 0. T. C. Field Day last spring. All juniors who were in the winning company last year are expected to be out to receive the award and may ap pear in civilian clothes, announces the Military department. The unit will fall in with last year's officers in charge and in the old formation. College To Construct Storehouse on Campus Plans for a new supply building have taken definite shape and there will be a call for construction bids soon, ac cording to It. 1. Webber, superintend ent of grounds and buildings. The building, which will be of brick and trimmed with stone, will he a large one story affair about ,rte hundred and . fifty by two hundred and fifty nine feet. The site of the proposed storehouse will be between the Phi Delta Theta fraternity house and the railroad. It is not definitely known when the building will be constructed. Present plans call for a supply house which t be used as a general storehouse and also as a repair shop. ~..._________ i Who's Dancing Saturday Lambda Chi Alpha (closed.) La Camaraderie (Alpha Chi Sigma) Club }lisp:lna-Americo (Alpha Phi Sigma.)
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