Don't. Rush Me Greek Boy! VOL XXIII, No. 1 Fifty Gridmen Battle For Varsity Positions Newcomers Pressing Regulars Hard in Keen Competition—Bezdek Surprises With Early Scrimmage Tanned by a week of toil under t e sun's hot rays, more than fifty stal wart sons of the gridiron are steadily priming themselves in the struggle to represent Penn State on the foot ball field this season. And since there are eleven veteians determined to safeguard their old posts and four times that number Just as determined to displace them, the spirit of compe tition is becoming all the more keen Competition Keen 'nom all present indications there should be a merry race for almost every position on the team. Coach Hugo Dudek has selected four teams, the first two of which are captained by Johnny Roepke and Cy Lungren, re specitvely On Roepke's eleven, reas onably termed the "first" team, are Lesko and Slamp at ends, Krell and Greenshields at the tackle posts, Dar rough and Hastings at guards and Roger Mahoney at the pivot post. Comprising the backfield are Pin cura, quarterback. Miller and Captain Roepke at the halfback posts and Humus at fullback. With the excep tion of Miller, freshman luminary of last year, all have had varsity exper ience Yearling Stars Return Since Joe Wilson, Marty McAndrews and Whitmore, all yearling pigskin performers of two years ago, have returned after a year of absence, the varsity regulars of last season have been hard pressed to maintain their honors of a year ago The mil stment of Joe Ridgeway and Eddie Craig, mainstays of last year's freshman eleven, has thrown a scare into the camp of the muse experienced ball-toters The - inser tion of Miller, another plebe star line cracker, into the post vacated by alternates Greene and Prichard is an indication of thathreatening in -tiaston- of the less 'experienced men; {George (Mary) Delp and Sam (Continued on fourth page) DAD'S DAY CELEBRATION SET FOR OCTOBER FIRST Football Game With Gettysburg Eleven To Mark Program For Annual Event Announcement that the annual Fathers' Day would be held this fall on Saturday, October first, was made today by Prof. J. 0 Keller, secretary of the Association of Parents of Penn State. Dads' Day at Penn State was start ed in 1920 and led to the organiza tion of the parents' association rn 1922 Each year the occasion is as suming greater importance, and more than a thousand parents are expected for the October fast event. The out standing attraction for the day will be a varsity football game with Cettys bing college, and the annual meeting of the parents' asociation will take place in the morning A student nines meeting and smoker will feature the program. The date for the Fathers' Day will fall appioximately two weeks after the opening of college and allow par ents opportunity to see how their sons end daughters are located for the year in the College. Dean of Men Extends Greeting to Freshmen A It. Warnock. Dean of Men, through the columns of the COL LEGIAN, extends to the Class of 1931 a word of sincere welcome and hearty congratulation Augmenting his good-will greeting, Dean Warnock, with a deep interest in the future of Penn State. cites the new developMents in progress on the campus, which, he states, "will make for a greater Penn State" "The incoming elms marks a new era in the rise and progress of this greater Penn State," he added, "xnd I trust it will take on the burden with a vim and vigor that will emulate the best efforts of its predecessors." MISS CHACE GRANTED SEMESTER'S ABSENCE 11113 S Edith P. Chace, head of the depaitment of home economics, has , been grunted sabbatical leave during the first semester in order to do grad uate nor!, at the Univesltv of Cal ifornia. Mi.s Chace has spent the summer tooling Alaska. 1 !'1855•^. Official Plebe Dinks Go On Sale Saturday All freshmen will purchase "official" clinks at Stark hroth ers haberdashery on College avenue from nine o'clock Satur day morning to ten o'clock in the evening of the same day. This will be the only day on 1 which dmks may be purchased. VARIETY MARKS "Y" COURSE FEATURES Herbert Sprague In "laghtnin' " Opens Y. M. C. A. Sponsored Artist Attractions POPULAR "REVELERS" TO GIVE EVENING 'OF SONG Offering as great a selection of tal ent as ever appeared on the Penn State campus, the Y. M. C A. Is pre paring for an intensive campaign to insure the success of this year's En tertainment course. .• In co-operation with the Y. M C. A , the department of music has solv ed in selecting a variety of sell-known artists. Opening October twenty fourth, the course will present a wide range of entertainment features throughout the year. "Lightiun"' The first number will be the play, "Lightnin'," with Herbert Sprague and his compa'ny of seven accomplish— ed actors Herbert Sprague will 'play the popular role of Lightnin' Bill Jones. The production "Lightnin' " comes from a record run on Broadway at the Gaiety theatre. Recording Artists Leading the popular numbers are the Revelers, Victor recording artists, who will entertain with song selec tions. At the present time these mu sicians are touring Europe and being heralded as headliners. They will present a well balanced program on November twefth. (Continued on second page) LION ROOTERS FACE HARD SEASON SCHEDULE Cherry Leads Eight Returning Lettermen Who Provide Backbone of Team With the anticipated return of eight lettermen, varsity players and !Itemising members of last year's freshman team. Coach Jeffries will swing the soccer-men into action this meek with preliminary practices and workouts An unusually stiff schedule faces the Nlttany booters this year, a tas sel with Altoona on October fifteenth opening the season. This will be fol lowed by encounters with Toronto, La fayette, Navy and Syracuse Last year, it will lie recalled, the Lions were accorded highest place among the teams of the Intercollegiate Foot ball Association of Ammica. Captain J L Cherry is evpected to resume the right fullback position, the corresponding left position being vacant through the graduation of G P Lippincott, last year's captain Marshall, who proved a stellar hoot er, is looked to regain his berth as in side left. Semich, who played at the goal, and Repine, one of I.t yeai's half backs, will provide more veteran ma terial for the Nittany Looters Griff en and leloMemel ale also retaining letter:nen. Sorry who played en tne left wing position is practicing on the gridiron. EIGHTY BAND MEMBERS NEEDED TO MEET QUOTA Requiring eighty new men to swel. its ranks, Bandmaster Thompson wd get the Penn State band off to a early start this year Two hundred old playeis will as broad° at the band loom next Thurs day night for the flist practice of tli. season. Freshman candidates foi the band will :neat at the same place th. following Thursday. ' STATE COLLEGE, Ps - ., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1927 NEW RECREATION BUILDING SOON TO BECOME REALITY AS WORK BEGINS Construction of Infirmary Will Be Next Step on Extensive Program—Plans Include Modern Equipment RE-DECORATE AUDITORIUM Buildings Now Under Way Will Provide More Office Space After Which Work Will Begin on Old Main With the clearing of a portion of the woodlot wet of Varsity Hall, work on the new recreation center is now under way Of this structure only the main port is to be built at this time and the two units dor lockers and swim sing pool will be erected when ad dit,onal funds are available This large indoor stadium will hold thirty-live hundred people on the permanent seats of a balcony which will stretch around three sides of the building. Bleachers erected be ',ow the balcony will provide for thee thousand more persons, and chairs and benches placed on the remaining floor space will bring the capacity of the building up to eight thousand. With all designs submitted and up prmed it is honed that the infirmary (Continued on second page) ATHLETIC CONTROL BOARD CONVENES New Group Abolishes Athletic Scholarships and Passes No-scouting Plan : .:." MAKES APPROPRIATION FOR ATHLETIC EDUCATION Abolishment of all athletic scholar ships and abandonment of the scout ing of other football teams were the most notable accomplishments of the new Boat d of Athletic Control at their August meeting in Varsity Hall. The elimination of the athletic a welds seas the sequel to the action of the Alumni Advisory committee ahich last yeas teak action to reduce the number of scholarships for the 1927-2$ season to fifty-five Thom to whom scholaishms have been of fered or who have held scholarships aie eligible for conceals of those scholarships until they have graduat ed. Scout mg Abolished Following the 'bond of sportsman ship in Eastetn athletic circles, the Committee decided first to send no scouts into the camps of all those colleges which azieed to send none here Upon the suggestion of Hugo &via, Director of Athletics, it vies decided that Penn State would send no scouts regardless of the views or actions of opposing coaches. A third action authorized Bezdek and Neil Fleming, graduate manager, (Continued on third page) Faculty Eligibles Feel Fatal Sting Of Cupid's Dart While some students have been whiling away their vacation with hard labor and mid-summer romances, Cup id has not neglected the faculty of the College In fact, two prominent mem bers have fallen victim to his trusty shuts. Those who have embarked up on the stormy seas of matrimony are Dr. 0 If Boucke. head of the de partment of economics and sociology, and "Dutch" Ilermann, freshman football coach and assistant professor of history and physics On the tv.enty-second ofly Doc tor Boucke was married to Miss Ruth Young at Tunkhannock. The bride is the slaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Young of Tunkhannock Doctor Boucke and his wife have left for Europe where, it is said, he will pur sue special studies in economics. The couple will return at the beginning of the second semester. "Dutch" Hermann's wedding was a more secret event He was mar ried to ,Miss Berta Virginia Coombs in Chicago on the twenty-fifth of August They will be at home in State College aft., Thursday. A doptiNew Schedule Of Recitation Hours Partially ,as n result of the aboli tion of daily chapel and coming di rectly from 4 a. desire on the part of the College; to afford the students more time an the afternoon for re creational aOtivitv, a new schedule of recitation hours will be inaugurated with the opening of the semester on Wednesday.. I The principle of the new plan is that recitation hours will be moved forward twenty minutes This means that the morrung warning bell will ring at seven -fifty o'clock and the first hour will start promptly at eight o'clock. ReCitation periods will be of the stone length as previously, fifty minutes . Morning classes will start on the hour. The lunch period will begin at eleven-fifty o'clock and end at one-ten o'clock, the 'warning bell ringing at one o'clock. All afternoon classes will begin at ten minutes past the. hour. The afternoon session will end at five o'clock. RUSHING TO BEGIN AT NOON SATURDAY Approved Code Delays Pledging Until Twelve O'clock Wednesday COUNCIL PREPARES TO PUNISH ALL OFFENDERS With the influx of more than one thousand freshmen. Penn State fra ternities are preparing for the an nual rushing season This year rushing will be conducted entirely in accordance with the code approved last spring li'v both the Interfratein ity council and the Intramural co•.n ml. The main provision of the new code is the system of deferred rushing and pledging. The code follows: e ‘fie a l lith !S l' a e lrd ia a c y e l following the opening day.of Fresh. : man Week, and no pledging shall be- gin until noon on the Wednesday following that Saturday "By no rushing is meant that no freshman shall be taken on any fret ernity premises, or shall be enter tained by any fraternity member, such a. being accompanied to movies, lunches at' hotels and restaurants, out-of—town parties and the like "B. Na freshman shall be permit ted to room in the house, nor stay over-night in the house, of a frater nity that is a member of the Coun cil from the period beginning the opening of Freshman Week, and end ing twelve noon on the Wedesdly that pledging is allowed to take place. "C. Nn member of a fraternity shall entertain a freshman after elev en o'clock in the night, or entertain a freshman at breakfast "It shall be consider.' an infraction of inter -fraternity courtesy for a fraternity to call upon a freshman while he is a guest at another fratet n itY." ENGINEERING UNIT WILL BE BUILT ON CAMPUS Structure Planned Is To Cover Gaping Ruin Seen Inside Main Entrance The gaping hole lust inside the main entrance to the campus is to be occupied through the erection of a new three hundred thousand dollar first unit of a main engineering ad ministration building. When completed the main unit will have to be used temporarily and in part as a general college administra tion building while Old Main is being reconstructed as a part of the big building program, Cream colored brick with suitable rtone trim is to be used in the new structure The first floor is to contain n student club room, library and eigh teen offices and two draughting rooms. The second floor will contain nine class rooms, a large lecture room and offices. An exhibition room, several offices and six to eight draughting rooms of the department of architec ture will- be contained on the third floor. Equipment is to be the most modern available. CALHOUN ENTERS YALE Carl Calhoun, Frrshmnn Secretnr.V, loaves for Yale Divinity aches! on September twenty-second to take up v.ork for theministry. hlr Calhoun will stay at Penn State until this time to help arrange the activities of i the Class of nineteen thirty-one. Tatirgiatt. PREXY HETZEL GREETS MORE THOUSAND NEW YEARLINGS COLLEGE TRUSTEES DISCONTINUE DAILY CHAPEL EXERCISES Retain Compulsory Attendance Feature for Sunday Services FIRST HOUR CLASSES TO BEGIN AT EIGHT O'CLOCK Administration Considers Plans For Stimulating Interest In Religious Activity Daily chapel has been suspended by the College Board of Trustees as an advisable step in the rapid progress of the College. President Iletrel has been asked by the trustees to under take the duty of formulating plans in other nays to continue the tea ditional policy of the College to offer religious instruction to the student body. Hon ever, the Sunday chapel services are to be continued as hei etofore. and will retain the compulsory attendance featui c The abandonment of dnilv morning chapel services has brought about a (Continued on sixth page) FRESHMAN ELEVEN ORGANIZES TODAY Dickinson Seminary Will Provide , First Yearling Football Encounter Here CLASH WITH WYOMING ON OCTOBER FIFTEENTH With a short meeting this after noon the Penn State freshman foot ball team mill start the 1927 season All candidates for backfield and line positions are called out. Playing their first game of a six-en counter season NI, Ith Dickinson Semin ary on October first the plebes should bane ample time to get into shape for the contest WNoming Sem:rimy, tra ditional rivals of Nat.', first year men, is billed next and will clash with the freshmen heir October fifteenth. = l ,l Kiski will tangle with the B'ne and White at, Saltsburg on the twenty second of the month and will be fol lowed by an engagement with Belle fonte Academy forces one week Inter in the Lion's own lair SNraeuse freshmen pioride opposition for the November ninth encounter while Pitts- Lurgh plebes wind un the cubs sea con November twelfth in the Smoky City Large Squad EApected Of the large number of freshmen n pccted to tepott fat the initial moil, (Continued on third page) Doctor Luccock To Be Chapel Speaker The Rev fI E Lutcock, contribut ing eddm to the "CM lotion Advocates" and educational secretary of the Meth odist Board of For ergn Missions, yid! deliver the chapel sermon Sunday morning at eleven o'clock. Doctor I.uccock spoke here by spec ml request Sunday, May eighth, na tional Mothers' Day and will be re membered by those who heard him ther as delivering a particularly In sprratronal and appropriate sermon Born in Pittsburgh, the reverend Lamedls matriculated at Northwest ern unrverszty - Cr oar which lie received his A. B degree. Continuing Inh stud ies he gained his B D degree at Union Theological seminary and his M. A degree at Columbia Ullll ersity From 1910 to 1912 he served as pastor at Wirdsm; Connecticut, after which he spent two ,ears as an instructor at the Hartford Theolourcal seminary He next served as pastor of St Andrew's church, Ness Haven, Connecticut. Doctor Luccock is particularly well known through Ins work on the Meth odist Board of Foreign Missions, will as contributing edam to the en Advocates.'.' lie has written a num ber of books, among which are "Fares Please!" "Five-Minute Shop-Talks" and "Studies In the Parables of Jesus." Assembly in Audito Of Third Annua Activities at PREXY Doctor Ralph Dorn Hazel COLLEGE ADVANCES MEMORIAL FUNDS Artificial Lake for Skating Is First Project in Work On Winter Park CONTRACTORS TO SUBMIT DAM CONSTRUCTION BIDS Work is dlreadv und_r may for . skatnig lale, the 'first feature of Penn State's Memorial Arbor elm iihich mill be located at the east end 'of State College beside tle Stale lrglimay It is intended that the lake will be completed in time for ek lung this winter In addition to the suns given by the class of '27, the College has advan.ed the funds pledged by the Once tippet classes now °moiled and has begun preparation fen the actual consti ac tion of two artificial lakes Boling, hate been made at the ste of the proposed diem With plans and spec ifications completed, it is e‘pe.ted that bids on the mecum of the dun call be ieceived tin; ueel. Use Old Mill-Itace atcr for the tan noola, one of mind, will be at a slightly higher ele ,ation than the other, will be sup plied float Thompson's vpring which is tom nrd the western end of the nat nal depiession stietching helms tha State highwai. Instead of the NS itei flowing directly through the lakes and ova the main dam it m.ll follow the course of an abandoned Ise Through gates along thus mill-lace water will be admitted to the I ike, This piocedine. be having stall mato Ein the lakes, mill facilitate fir" az, Toboggan Stales The darn will be located in line watt the old fails, n well-known landmalk along the highway and scull be 'lnc fast step in the co,td act on of a as n , ter spits path Later it to Intend-it to add toboggan and ski slates and genet al r eci cational bulldings The at Calml lakes will mob ally be made adaptable for swimming later CARTMELL ISSUES CALL FOR YEARLING HARRIERS Cox, liaskins, Offenhouser end lielffrich arc Varsity Men Returning Aspirants for Penn State eke i s country s are exouted to 10113 , to Coach Nate Cal tmell on New Bess - er Field Fi eshmen hat rims NN meet at the track this utter noon and win say candidates are to come out won after school still ts Encountering Pitt and Svi tense this ycin , the Lion moss country lean• will hone sufficient testing he- Cote engaging in the Intettallegc tun which stun won by the Blue and White last Neal. Captain Bill Co,. inter allcgntc two-mile champion, and Slim Haskins, hho was unable to compete last veal because of a tom lizunent, hill he the mainstays of the hill and dale, this season One Thousand Strong Freshman Week PRICE FIVE CENTS THAN ONE THIS MORNING ium Marks Opening Freshman Week , Penn State Mole than one thousand freshmen Lill assemble in the Auditorium at eight o'clock tins morning for the opening eseicise, of Penn State's thud Fieshman Week program. The comocation will ones with a chapel senice, aft. which Piesident Ralph D tinted' ‘‘ill welcome the newcomers Ruh the e.cent'on of a lightened ,chedale, Freshman Week acti‘itiei m.ll be pricticall, the same as in plc, loss }eels They are primarily des gned to aeon:tint the incoming freshmen mith Penn State and myth the conditions under Much they mill mock for four teats Included in the schedule ale as'enrbhes, school meet ing, lectures, classes, mass meetings and m,cellaneous activities. At hears specified for the several flours into which the chiss has been disided, iegistiation will take place today and tomonow in the Armory. Registiar 1V S Hoffman will explain the pioceduie of regmtmition at u meeting of the class, in the Auditor ium Ptcsident 1101741 who plans to talk to each of the four classes this fall, will speak fitst to the freshmen at this morning's assembly. At this as sembly the nett corners will receive an explanation of the Freshman Week program and ditections concerning' then 'nth, Waal schedule:, Following the meeting, the class will adjourn tp the Chemistly Amphitheatre where a psycho'ogical test will be green. Thereafter, with the exception of the 7,10.1 meetings, each of the twenty-one gIOUPs will follow Its in dividual schedule At four-thirty o'clock each afternoon the freshmen will assorifile for organized sport, nien students teriorting at the Armory rdd women students at the Stunt, House. Each corning, except Satur day and Sandal, mass meetings will be held in the Auditorium E‘enntg Mass Meetings The., mass meetings will present to the nencomers different phases of Penn State life Tonight a combined step aid cheer nisetice «ill be held undci the direct.on of Dilector of Masa., It W. Giant and the cheer leadeis The Y SI C A. will con- (Continued on fourth page) DOCTOR McFARLAND TO! SUCCEED E. A. HOLBROOK li ototer Head of Mining School Now Directs Engineering At Pittsburgh rn Dais P. McFailand, for seven ,e 1. head of the department of met &lain in the School of Mines and Metalluigx, his been named acting de in of the school. according to an nouncement hi Pre.dent Ralph sf 3. net7el Ile is taking . os er the duties of Elam A llulbrool dean of the for the past bee }eats, riho op September first became dean of the combined schools of mines and en gineeiing at the University of Pitts buigh Doctm Menuland is known to the Rim Id of science as a co-worker in the discocely that helium gas, now used in the inflation of airships, was really not so iale as always lies been thought While doing iesearch work at the Uniceisqc of Kansas some cal, ago with Prof 1I P Cady, they made the hilt study of the on. commie° of helium in natural gas and showed this c uluable element, pre ciously supposed to he quite Rare, to be an almost constant component ,kif all natural gases. This work was of great i,ilue during the wmid war it the development of some°s of hel ium far u.e in balloons and airships. Professor Ridenour .. Fills English Post Prof C. 0 Ridenour. who has been on .1 leave of absence duting the last Lein,. taunted this ,eniestei to till the sac ino. in the English depart ment faculty caused by the ..resigna t on of Prot, A L. Cal tel. Plofes , ol Cutter has accepted a position at the Untrelalte of Texas as head of the English department. Ridenour took graduate work at Columba, tints tesltv to•t year, having lece,ed he, Bachelor of Arts degree at Oh a untuepotv and his Master of Alto &glee at Pent State.
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