Plenty in Reserve VOL XXIII, No. 4 ROTARY CLUBS TO HOLD STATE-WIDE CONVENTION HERE Largest Assembly of Kind May Bring One Thousand To State College CONCLAVE TO ACQUAINT, CLUBMEN WITH COLLEGE Mass Meeting, Smoker Included In Program Beginning October Seventh An All-Pennsylvania Rotary Club pilgrimage to. Penn State, expected to be the largest convention of its limit ever held in the state, will take place on Friday and Saturday, Onto. bet seventh and eighth, according to announcement this week by Dr. Ralph D Hettel, president of the college and officials of the State College Ro. tary Club. Pieparat ons are being mado at the college to accommodate more than one thousand Rotarians representing each of the one hundred and fifty clubs in the state The purpose - of the pilgrimage is to get leading bum. ness men of the state acquainted with the state's great public college and to give the visitors a "close-up" of col lege and sudent activities and life Features of the program will in clude attendance at a student football mass meeting and a Rotarian smoker Friday night, a tour of the campus and college buildings Saturday morn ing, and the first state-wide distinct ly Rotary luncheon proceeding a foot ball game between Penn State and Bucknell University. NITTANY CRIDDERS STAR AS COACHES Killinger, Former All-American, Takes Post as Mentor of Rensselaer Eleven WOOD QUITS GETTYSBURG JOINING WESLEYAN STAFF Penn State graduates and former' stars of the Manny gridiron are making names for themselves coach ing collegiate elevens Glenn Killinger, former All-Anter icon quarterback IS the first profes. sional coach at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The Institute is operating with an entirely new football policy Killinger berme graduation was a three-letter man. Entering Penn State in the fall of 1917, he appeared on the gridiron for practice with the freshman eleven. Ile was almost dis couraged when he observed that ev. leiyone out for the team was evidently well above the one-soity pound mark I'lllllOllS QIIIISteII/lICk Filly tinned out to be one of the best quarterbacks the gridiron has ever seen, reaching the apex of his college football career in the fall of WU when the Penn State gridders v,ere champions of the East and con (Continued on third page) Choir of One Hundred Members Will Sing at Sunday Chapel Service With the abolishment of daily cha pel and the wish of the Administra tion that Sunday chapel services be made mole attractive, the department of music is making plans to enlarge and implore the choir. The new en. actable will consist of one hundred men and women. Since in former years those singing at the Sunday chapel service have been e'cuscd from daily chapel sing ing in the choir wall now be made a regular one credit course in the Lib eral Arts school. All those interested in this type of musical training should report in the Auditorium Thursday night at seven o'clock. UNIVERSITY CLUB GREETS NEW FACULTY MEMBERS Providing a change for club mein. hers to meet new faculty recruits, the Univeisity Club will hold to annua' reception tonight Lions eight to ten o'clock. This affnix is always antieipted by members and persons interested in the club and n number of invitations have been issued. The otension WV be formal. P ~, rtln tatr -,;,,,,ii,..;,, -- 5:,,,.-. \,...„,,,,„„..„,,,,., ~L.2_,...„ .., „,,, ss Q. E. Beauge Will Fill 1930 Secretarial-Post The sophomore class, meeting on Thursday night, elected Q E. Beauge secretary to succeed W. B. Leyda who was unable to return to college this semester. Cheer'ceder 11. F. Blnnkenbiller '2B, was ppresent and gave a short talk thanking the sophomores and congrat ulating them on the fine way that they have helped him in handling the fresh men. Plans for stunt night were dis cussed to some extent and a special session of the stunt committee follow ed the class meeting According to present plans, stunt night this year will be a great deal different than any ever before. The full plans of the Committee will be given out at a meeting in the near future. PENN STATE FILLS NEW ROTC QUOTA Captain Nortner Replaces Major Cunningham in Charge of Engineering Unit MANY SENIOR OFFICERS ATTEND SUMMER CAMPS Word has been received from the United States War Department that the enrollment in the student regiment of the Reserve Officers Training Coups at the Pennsylvania State College mould be limited this year to 1891 men in the basic course and 105 men in the advanced course. Lieutenent-Colonel Clenard Mc Laughlin, U. S. A . head of the mili tary department here, said today th there probably would be little difficul ty in meeting the quota, especially with candidates for the advantod course, upperclassmen who me anx ious to qualify for reserve officer's commissions upon graduation. Sliest of the present senior officers attended nnlitary camps that'summer as ir part of their training. The basic quota is larger than that of last year. Replacing Major C. H. Cunningham Captain S. E. Nortner has been rip ' pointed senior engineering officer and instructor for the advanced R. 0. T. C engineering course. Captain Nortner, oho is a grad uate of the Unisersity of Minnesota avas previously stationed in St Louis on liver harbor duty. Major Cue ninham has been transferred to the Langley field aviation school to study the field officers' course in aviation. GLEE CLUB WILL HOLD TENOR TRIALS TONIGHT Songsters Increase Membership To Sixty—Arrange Trips To Seseral Cities Hoping even to surpass last year's successful season, the Penn State Glee Club is completing its organization for the coming season Mole than one hundred applied for positions in! halftone and bass sections at the try out last week. Tonight at seven o'c'ock in the Auditoilum, trials will be held for tenors. The tomer mem bership of fifty will be increased to sixty this }ear announces Director Grant Membership in the Glee Club is op en to all members of the student body Trials consist of at test far the quail ty of the voice and ability to read music The group chosen will sing with the Club for one month allot Which a second trial will be held to determine membeiship for the yeas The songsters µill make several trips this year. Their itinerary will include Bloomsburg, Annville, Ty. lone, Dußois, Oil City, Coatesville Pittsburgh and possibly New York. Dahle Takes Course in Iceless Refrigeration Prof. C. D. Dubin, head of dairy manufacturing work at Penn Slate is in New York this week, taking a special course in the construction and mince of =less refrigeration cubi t ets. These cabinets ate being used 'n Increasing numbers foi the puipose of holding lee-cream at the desued temperature without the use of any ice. The college creamery, wt.^•h lust year, manufactured 20,460 gallons of I ice cream and ices, and also made' 21,034 gallons of ice cream mix is placing a considerable number of ice. i less cabinets among the dealers whu handle the College cream in commun. , atiei, in the vicinity of State College STATE COLLEGE, PA.. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1927 TRACKMEN DRILL DAILY PREPARING FOR FIRST MEET Harriers Must Report Every Saturday for Trials on New Beaver Field TWO TEAMS WILL BE CHOSEN FROM SQUAD Bill Cox Acts As Pace-maker For Nittany Flyers—Slim Haskins Steps Fast Drilling for the first meet of the season, scheduled with Syracuse. on October twenty-second, varsity candi• antes for the cross country team must take part in the tryouts every Satur day afternoon after the football games, states Nate Cartmell, coach of' , the Nittany tracksters Freshman asintants will also re.' port at the same time for try-outs for the 1931 hart grout , . Squad Is Ditided When relati‘e values of the differ ent team members have become more settled, it is Nate's intention to di vide the squad into two parts, the Blues and the Whites, and let them race against each other Captain Bill Cox will lead one division but who will head the other section is not let known Cox, Haskins, Oesteiling, HeUric], (Continued on lust page) DEAN R. L. SACKETT REVIEWS COURSE Initial Engineering Graduate Got Degree in 1884-1885 Marked First M.E.- Matriculate- ' ARCHITECTURE MAKES MANY RAPID STRIDES A survey made during the past summer by Dean R L Sackett reveals that the fit st student to graduate from Penn State in engineering was John F Healy He was enrolled in the cwp engmeming course and graduated in 1881. In the follov, ing year D. C Jack son, now piofessot of engineering at tho Massachusetts Institute of Tech nology graduated from the same course. @MEI It seas not until 1889 that a student was graduated in the mechanical en gineering course John P Jackson, a brother of D C Jackson and for mer dean of engineering at Penn State with H. D Miles, president of the Buf falo Foundry Machine company, were both graduated in that }em. In electlical engineering S. Ileibert Brown, a manufacturer of Ashville, N C, was the first student to grad uate. Donald F. Purdy, now with the Standard Oil company, Whiting, Indi (Continued on third page) College Golf Tourney Planned For This Fall Providing tao trophies, one for the winner and one for the medalist, an all-college golf tournament is being planned for the Autumn months. Ono of the trophies will he present ed to the winnei of the tournament and the other to the low-scorer of the meet Evelyone including Freshmen ale eligible Anyone interested in competing should sign up at the cad dy house at once. Freshmen Frown and Co-eds Bawl, for Stunt Night Mob Will Skip Mac Hall Planning a warm reception for the Class of '3l, the Stunt Night commit tee has completed anangements for the ceremonies to he held on the drill field in the nevi future. Chocolate bais will be the admission fee for this stupendous aggregation of poten tialities. The ICCOIN ing line hill stint at sew en o'clock without the usual ringing of the Old Main Bell, this not being a sanctioned occasion. For the first time in history the line will not pass in ieview before Mae Hall.. Tomato Massacre All sophomores who do not carry paddles will be disqualified before the main events. Fotomcet members of the freshman class will engage in a Collegian, Calls For Sophomore Reporters A final opportunity will be given all sophomores wishing to compete fog' positions on the editorial staff of the COL LEGIAN to report report to night at eight o'clock in room 314 Old Main: It is understood that all those reporting at this tune will re- ROOTERS STRESS ACCURATE PASSE Nittany Soccer-Men Scrimmage Daily Under Jeffries on Old Beaver Field SERRY LEAVES GRIDIRON AND STRENGTHENS SQUAD Accurate passing with particular attention to passes from the backs to the forward lino to being stressed by Coach Bill Jeffries in the daily scrim ' mages of the soccer-men on Old Beav er field. Two well matched teams are going through their paces with every man striving his best 'to win a place on tho Nittany eleven. With the open ing game against Altoona more than two weeks off, almost anything may happen as regards lineup, which as yet is not oven tentative. RerkY Returns This week the booters gain a val uable asset in the form of ferry, two footed kicker. Sorry, who has been working out on New Beaver under! Bez's tutelage, decided to return to the scene of his former success. lie bingo the_ total or lettermen up to seven. Bernie Jacobson ,a veteran of last year's team, after recovering from an infected arm returns to the turf this week. Ho is expected to stiffen the already keen competition for the out side .Chetry.at Fallback With Chetry still holding down the sight fullback post, though tempor arily disabled last week by a strained tendon, two sophomores, Allen and Cornell are working hard for the left corresponding position. As far as the halfback positions are concerned, there seems to be much rivalry Repine and Strimlen, both lettermen, have three underclassmen, Edgerton, Jones and Reed to contend (Continued on thud page) POULTRY CLUB SECURES ARRAY OF SHOW PRIZES Annual Exhibition Will Be Held Three Days Next blonth In Stock Pavilion An attractive array of pries has been gathered for the wining exhibi tors at the fifth annual Pennsylvania State Standen' Production Poultry Show, V. hICh will be held here from October twenty-seventh to tuentN. ninth inclusive, R. R. Murphy '29, secretary of the show, has announced. Loving cups wrtl be presented for the best display of birds, all Yin iamb competing, foe the best displays of, individual breed, for the best dis play in the lima' and gals' class, for the county having the highest number of points in the show and for the hest official egg-laying contest hen with a record of two hundred eggs or more Entries must be made before Oc tober thnteenth and shipped before October twenty-fourth. The show room, in charge of G. IL Shnw '27, will be ready to receive the exhibits on October twenty-fifth. The show which I Is sponsored by the Penn State Poultry Club will be open to entries from all residents of Pennsylvania. tomato massacre. In ease this fiu:t is fresh or gives out, flour will be dis tributed to the needy ones. Comae. talon in climbing greased poles will be held at the end of a short gauntlet All available the hose has been mis laid since the Pajama Paiade, but efforts will be made to have a good time for all. The lumber supply is doubtful but it is expected that the earnest plebes will rise to the occa sion The distinguishing mock will be kept ocelot, according to Eschbach chairman of the Committee, but all those without it 'will be turned in to the Tribunal. If the first sophomoie class meeting is any indication of the spirit, the Class of '3l should be well entertained. Tatirgiatt. GRANGE TO LEAD COLLEGE PARLEY Fourteen Colleges To Attend National Conference At Cleveland, Ohio LOCAL LODGE WILL GIVE PLAYS FOR DORM FUND iThe Penn State Grange will pl ty a major part in the Nat.onal Confer• once of college and university granges in Cleveland, Ohio, November seven teenth, eighteenth and nineteenth W. C. Gumbel '27, head of the Nit tany Grangbrs and tuiginator of the idea of holding suck a convention, has been put in charge of arrangements for the convention. At least fourteen college and university Granges are expected to send delegates. The convention will take up the matter of education, paying particu lar attention to rural social condi tions It ndl take steps to further the Grange idea and to not dills', more Granges at the various seats of learn ing throughout the country Memorial Dormitory The Penn State Giange has achicv ed prominence in Mange caries in the State and mer the nation. One (Contmued on last page) H. L. HENNING TELLS OF EUROPEAN TOUR Shropshire, Rainbowllet Flocks Arc Noted by Professor In Foreign Study BRITISH SHEEP INDUSTRY YIELDS ECONOMIC STUDY William 1,. Henning. of the animal husbandy department of the College,. who returned last Wednesday from a three months tour of inspection alto observation of the sheep industry in the British Isles, made in part co-op-I Oration with the U S department of Agimulture and sanou.s breeders as-I ,oe , ations, ‘eiv kindly submitted the following account Accompanied by Prof C S. Plumb, prof emeritus of the Olno State Um vomit}, the} set sail for England, in May, landing at Lnerpool, from where they commenced their study of the' (Continued on last page) PHYSICS DEPARTMENT TO GET NEW MACHINE SHOP Modern Laboratory Equipment, Mostly Donated Will Cost Only $l,OOO In keeping so ith the pi count no provements of the College the ph}s•cs department is lia‘ing modern ins chine shop installed in the basement of the physics building in order tint scientific Instiuments may be both manufactured and repaired A can orderable amount of inachinmy was given to the College by huge conning Work on the building of the shop which occupies about one-thud of the basement space of the building war started about August fifteenth and now the work is practically complct. ed. All of the machines have been placed on a cement floor shah , be.. ing To make loom tot the shop it wit= necessary to combine live rooms in the physics depaitnient and one In the ehemistay This means IC.+s space tot storage llowetel, the shop se to piece to be a big money saver for in it practically any instrument used in the department can be repaired. Included in the list of machines as twenty-four inch lathe, a six-inch engine lathe, nulling I:inch:no, a shap er, n dull pros, a feign and an, :I and a one hundred ten cubit cur: eat ino for and generator bunk, complete nab storage blittelies nail switch boatili The total cost of nil nuidunm and wink done old:nit:11v would amount .to soc thousand dollars but with the numerous gifts it is costing the Col legs only about ono thousand clonal,. Junior Candidates For Cheering Squad Report Junior Landulates foe the chew ing squad will report at the Atmoiy tomorrow night at sev en o'clock. Thole is one t acancy In the group of Junior clicet leadeth which will he !tiled. Reserves, in 13-7 Defeat, Outplay Varsity learn Fatigued First Team Fails to Register First Down Until Third Period—Dangerfield, Miller Score Touchdowns Scores for Scrubs PETERS CONDUCTS TEACHING TESTS Eliminates Outside Preparation And Adopts Conference Method in Trial ANOTHER PSYCHOLOGY - CLASS WILL BE CHECKED Attempting to verify a theory that i students benefit more from a study and confeience peiiod than from the ordinary Ja-s recitation Prof. C. C Peters. recently appointed director of Educational seseinch, is conducting tests in two sections of elementary psychology ,Piofessoi Peters plans to have the class do all the work necessary for the course during a two hour study conference period, eliminating outside preparation Tho leading will be done with the 'student guided by a sheet of mimeo graphed questions for self-recitation and by personal discussion with the instructm. All of the books to be u-cd in the comae base been gather ed into the loom on the first floor of Old Main where the class meets In addition to the study pen sods the group (Continued on last page) Extension School Offers Catalogue Outlining mole than one hundred and lift> courses, the hist catalogue of the Deportment of Engine:Amu estenbion ha, been piepaied and now ready for distiibution This catahigue conies as a result of the lanai expansion of the depatt nient. Six blanch schools are now being condutted at various parts of the state, as well as a number of to opeiatae schools and neatly forty in dusts al groups located in as many titles I he comics debeilbeil ranged f torn so, elemental% glade school subjects to those for whiLli actual college clod it is given. In the class of 1931 tuentt •seven students took cones pondence Louise, in solid geometry tc satisfy entrance tenon ements College Ayrshire Sets New Production Mark Prof. A A. Borland, head of the dolt) husbandry department, an nounces that a tenth'', champion Aytalme teem d in the 305 day clot, Ims been made by Su Robert', Ito mama Bell, owned by the College Completing her year as a Janie, fout-yeat old, tills Ayr slute chi, pion produced 11,711 pounds of milk. and 072.12 puonds of butter fat Be. cause of the record she won the French cup, duphcating het honors of 102.1, when she produced mote nulkl and butterfat than any other two-veat old cow that veal. Su Robert's Re mans Bell was presented to the Col.. 'ego by the INlawnu. Hume'. Faint at. Elizabethtown. For Stunt Night—What Price Glory? PRICE FIVE CENTS Clore fatigued than conditioned by the strenouou3 scrimmage ses sions that base occupied a prom inent place on Coach Hugo Bezdek , i practice schedule for the past two weeks, Ante Woffe's tentative saisity football eleven enco inter. ed unexpected difficulties in van (pushing Cv Lungren's inspired scrub combination, 13-7, in a prolonged bat tle on Neu Beata field Saturday af ternoon Each of the fast team touchdowns Caine as a direct result of forward insses, one intercepted by Joe Miller, :opt:ow:re halfback, who rig-nagged seventy yards fat the first tally, and the other tosseJ fun Meaty-five yards by Pau,ta and juggled by the same 61411er fur the final counter late In the last quarter. Rocpke kicked the extra point for the frost touchdonn but faded on the second boot Dangerfield Scores That always evident substitute threat loomed immensely in the asc end quarter and materialized ashen Lungren kicked lot thnty-four yards and MucAndrems, second team center Item mod a fumbled ball Danger told w9•o repl•tccd Ridgeway after the first quartet gained eight yards on a lateral pass, Harrington shot all right tackle tot a first dean and Mager acquned fourteen mole yards after sealing a formatd pass from Hor t ngton. After an exchange of punts, considerably advantageous to the scrub eleven, finger squirmed through the tole tot three yards after a sours of shoot play and aerial pass ga.ns by Langton, Harrington and Eddie CI aig Danger field htmselt sailed the ball sari the bar for the extra point And the outloel, uns gloomy for Wolfe's wears- men when Lungren's forces, at hrst weak and unorganized foPowed their fist incentive with a cigar that added dine to their offense (Continued on last page) CHAPEL SPEAKER FLAYS MODERN LEGAL METHODS Wealth of Industry Is Unfairly Divided, Says Rev. Burns Nit tany Graduate Cit ng the ctme of Sacco and Van zetti as an es.ample of unfair legal I...elute, the Resetend G. G Burns a Penn State graduate, delivered a scathing condemnation of the present legal ,ind industtial system function. mg thloughout the nation, in the sec. end Sunday set vice of the year. The Resetend Bums telated how fcarnet Judge Gamy, when nue...toned concerning a use to ttages for the employ cos in his factories, made the statement that the United States Steel company was no philanthropic oiganization The speaker contended that a cot potation with this attitude toward the citizens of the nation Itoekn in disco contradiction to the code of Chum ethics A sett' gra‘e situation is impend ing tlitOUgbOnt the nation alien such an attitude is ...tined by the milli, ml potters, the speaker stated The ouneis and moutives of the bilge coipoiationa ieeei‘e fabulous solar ten Mule the uoiker, are disregarded and allotted to struggle along on star ,ation singes. Such a situation is to be deplored and cony effort possible should be made lit the present gener ation to ninth towards its solution Chemistry Professors Return After Leave To offset the loss of four faculty members of the School of Chemmtry and Phsa.s, too associate professors oho score on lea,e, of absence return to resume then dutie. D S Gadder a...tont ptofoosor of Chemist! v, and J S Cat ev, qnsta pc tot an phs sacs, lease fot Massachu setts Institute of Technology to work on Doctor of Philosophy degrees, whale W. J. Su cones, a,shtant paofossoa of chenustrv, who earned his Ph. D. de g, cc last en, has been ga anted a one-yeaa estenslon of his leave (VI II White, associate professor of phymvs, oho was visiting professor at Williams college, and L. R. Parks, associate pi ofes.or of chenustay, who earned his Ph I) degree at Comell university last year, have both tau.- ed to take up then old posts hole Note,. Pailcn has been appointed curator of the chemical laboratories.
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