Alumni Spirit Vahishes VOL. XXIII. No. 16 DR. HETZEL APPOINTS GROUP FOR PROBE OF RELIGIOUS SITUATION Committee To Distribute Questionnaire Among Students in Quest of Substitute For Week-day Chapel A committee to investigate the pros-' ent religious situation upon the camp us was appointed recently by Presi dent It D. Detzer. As its first function the committee will distribute a five point question alma among the student body to as certain whether a substitute is want ed foi daily chapel and if so of what nature. If a substitute is not desired, the reasons will be stated upon these sheets Any substitute if adopted will be sailboat the compulsory featuie. To Distribute Questionnaire These five questions will be formu lated by the committee this week and three thousand copies will be printed and will he distributed to the students ithiough fiaternities and the Penn State Club next Tuesdas A number of sheets will also be placed at rar ities points on the campus in order that a copy may be available to ev eryone Three days after distribution the questionnaires will be collected and it is expected that they will be indi cative of the current student opinion concerning religious organization on tho campus. When President Hetzel began his work home last winter he realized that there was faction between the stu dents and faculty oi.er compulsory chapel. Under his leadership week day worship was abolished but he did not expect that it would do away with student iiorslup To ascertain stu dent opinion on the iehmous question NVOB his purpose in appointing this committee. Since the questionnaire sheets will not contain enough space for an ade quate expression of opiniqn, anyone caring to' do so May 'express - their views in letter form and send it to the latex box of this newspaper. REGISTRAR ANNOUNCES SCHOLARSHIP LEADERS J. D. Hartman 'SO, With Mark of 2.95, Heads List of Undergraduates - According to class standing figures coveting last semester published re cently by Registrar W S Holtman, J D Hartman, a sophomore in the course in hotticultute, is the highest tanking Penn State student. During thu second semester of the past year his average was 2 95. A State College gal, Miss Winifred N. Forbes, has the distinction of standing at the head of the senior class with an average of 2.81 and is the only co-ed to stand at the head at any of the three upper classes. The second ranking senior is F. W. Olshefsky; %thud is J. H. Sterner; fourth is G. 13 Schubauer and fifth is Rotan Lie. All have won scholia slops and prizes in the past three years. At the head of the Junior class is John Ruricka whose average is 2.86. Following hint is F. W Warner, D E Thomas ,E. R. Hawkins and B D liolderman. The leading girl in this class is Miss Margaret M. Meteor who stands sixth. Following Huainan in sophomore standin is F Steele, Miss Janette M. Burns, Miss Janice L. Kauffman, and NV A. Haldeman. Miss Tatiana Pro skowiakaff, a native Russian student stands sixth in this class. CORPORATION PRESENTS ELECTRIC REFRIGERATOR TO M. E. DEPARTMENT Fin the purpose of studying the best methods of testing household refrig eration, a Kelvmator machine and con-' fiance, doriated by the Electric Re frigeiation corporation, Detroit, Mich igan, was received at the department of mechanical enginceimg, rt I , llls an nounced by officials last week. The iefugerator has a cut-away section of the compiession and expan sion valor, so that the structure of pa machine may be considered in tabulating the results In addition, the company has sent installing ma terial and .calcium chlondo in order that the evaporator in the cooling compartment may be mounted and connected with tho condensing unit. The machine was exhibited on Alum ni Day in the mechanical engineering laboratory. . _ /"... 4 !?' 4 sr r ~ irtitt ta fifr--7.---,,, 1 \.,,,:,,,,,,,,,,,.7 Juniors Must Call Paul Dohner for Late Photos AR students giaduating in 1029 who desire to be included in the Junior section of this year's La Vie and who have not as yet had their pictures taken, should call Paul Rohner immed iately at the Beta Lambda Sigma House FOUR CLASSES VIE IN HARRIER MEET Race Tomorrow Decides Yearly Supremacy, Runners for Pitt Plebe Grind JUNIORS ARE WINNERS FOR PAST TWO SEASONS Penn State's class moss-country championship will be decided tomorrow afternoon at four.thcrty o'clock on tne three-mile triune when members of the foul classes concrete in the an nual lace. Any Nittany student is elig.ble foe the cue, stresses Coach Cartmell. Thu importance of tomorrow's race is four-fold. In addition to deciding the clans supremacyrnmeral.giving will be ,governed by individual and team showings The yearling seven which will run against Pitt first yeas men on November twelfth will be ,ho sen from those who shoe well in this engagement and finishing places among varsity nice will halo a dire,t beating on the personell of the squad which scull go to --ew York in three weeks foe the ICIA giind in Van Cos t landt Park. When the class of 1929 entered Penn State in the fall of 1925 Bill Cos, (Continued on second page) GRANGE DRAMATIC CLUB SELECTS THREE PLAYS Will Present One Major And Several One-Act Shows for Coming Year According to its plan of presenting ono major production and front twelve to fifteen one net plays during the entrant season the Penn State Grange Dramatics Club will offer the first playlet within the nC , ci three weeks Tryouts were held last Tuesday night and casts for three one act plays acre selected The club considered playa suitable for the major presen tation hut did not make a selection. If S. Pinto IS, recently selected director for the coming year, states that it is the aim of the' society to have clean dramatic entertainment ready at all times, to help provide programs for Grange meetings and to provide for occasional productronb outside of the organization. Profits from these plays will be put Into the Grange Memorial fund which will help build a new gals' dormitory at Penn State. Grad Golfers Compete In Alumni Tournament N. Fatzingei '2l, with a some of eighty-so, and M H Palm '24, were the winner and iunnei-up iespectivoly of tho blind bogey or lottery match of the Alumni golf toutnament held or tho College course Friday after noon. A special make driving club was presented to Fatringei while "Alike Palm moved a box of golf balls. Doctor Glove]. C Glenn 'OO, won a fountain pen desk-stand as low med . allot with a stole of eighty-two. As high medalist N. C Dale 'lB, played a Laid of 120 and seemed a novel typo cigarette holder. T. 10 Weeks '2O, was awarded a spade mashie for [having shut the greatest numbei of fives and sixes. STATE COLLEGE, PA., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1927 BOOTERS SEVERELY TROUNCE RED AND BLUE BY 7-1 SCORE Soccermen Show Improvement In Goal-Netting Accuracy Since Altoona Tilt PENNSYLVANIA QUAILS BEFORE FAST ATTACK Marshall, Skinnell, Lutz and Harvey Score Points To - Win League Fray Ndtany Looters s.evetely . flounced r major Pennsylvania eleven Satur day to tho tune of 7-1 for the first soin of a 41-victorious day for Penn State Coach Jeffrey's proteges showed cnsiderable improxement since their tilt with Altoona and entered the league fray Saturday with an user powering degree of speed and soccer skill. In contrast to previous weak ness when near the enemy goal, the Lions pioved accuulto and same in netting the ball. arshall fa=t inside sight, led the Blue and White scorers with a net ting record of three goals Slannell at recites formard counted up two points and Harvey and Lutz, both (Continued on third page) LT. MILLER FORMS ' NEW RIFLE LEAGUE Starts Intramural Contests To Stimulate Interest In Marksmanship VARSITY MATCHES RILL - - BEGIN DECEMBER THIRD Pot the purpose of augmenting stu dent Interest in rifle inalsksmanshm, the first infra-moral rifle league mill bo established this year, announces Lt It T Miller of the It 0 T C department The league will consist or six teams, of mh,ch four mill be clan• teams, one a tmo-year Ag team and the fifth mill be composed of mo man students. The rifle range is open from six in the evening until dark for the var sity and uppei-elass candidates It ill be opened on November seventh foi freshman teams and on November txenty•eighth Los the uomen's rifle team The schedule of the College nimi oda is divided into tn.° die isions: the tele graphic matches in which the matches are transacted between the two col leges by telegraph, and the "shoulder to shoulder" matches in which the two teams engage in actual competition on the field The "shoulder to shoal del" matches, with the e‘ception of the traditional clash with the Univer sity of PittsbUrgh has not, as yet, been definitely atranged. IMMEMEM The telegraphic schedule has been decided upon and is as follows: Dee embei thud, Amherst; December tenth, Renschici Polytechnic Insti tute; December seventeenth, open, Januaiy seventh, Rutgers; January fourteenth, open, January twenty-first, Syracuse, January twenty-eighth, Viiginia Polytechnic Institute, Feb (Continued on second page) Woods, liechler and / Schweitzer Will Tajk At A. S. M. E. Meeting Three mores:ma of the Engineering School have been selected by the Am wean Society of Mechanical Engin eera to present papers nt its annual meeting in New Yolk City, December fifth to eighth Professor A J Wood, dean of the Mechanical engineer mg department, Professor F. C. Ilechler, of the en gineering extension department, and assistant professor P II Schweitzer also of the engineering extension de partment were the three men chosen. "Effect of Pipe Lengths on Orfiee Coefficients" will be the subject of Ptofessor Wood's paper entitle Protes ter Hechler Hill talk on "How Shall Heat Transmission m Walls be Meag an ed?", and Professor Schweitzer will give a progress report from the oil and gas power division. Numerous other papers will be presented by not ed engineers upon subjects of general • interest. Women Students Get Own "Old*ain Bell" Material -Collectors Too women students have been ap pointed by B Al' Atkinson '2B, editor, to collect contributions to the Old Main Bell from the women students They are Miss Sate Hartz '2B, and Miss Katharine Holbrook '2B • Blunt stories, poetry, criticism and all other material of a literary nature in requested for the . , magazine, which in published semi—annually by Pi Del ta. Epsilon, national, honorary iourn alutic fraternity. .` Members of theraculty and men fist issue of the publication should students having contributions for the submit them to It.tbf. Atkinson '213, Chi Lanai..la Zeta; house or J N Miller '2B, at the Phi Kappa Sigma houso before November tuelfth. COMMITTEE WILL STUDY RELATIONS OF STUDENT BODY Champlin Heads Qrganization To Bind Faculty: Closer to Undergradutes I'REPARES PROGRAM OF CONSTRUCTIVE ACTIVITY President Hetzel Encourages The Work and Advdcates Ideals To Guide Members For the purpose of securing clover connection between 'the instructor and the pupil, an organwatron has recently been oformesl to foster fac ulty—student relatiCutalups, it ,was an nounced by Prof. cilol. Champlin. of the hehool,-of"EthiMit.n.'yesteidaY. Last year, a group of thirty-five members of the faculty interested in seeming a better relationship between the student body and the teaching staff met at the University Club with Piof. A C Bonnie, of the &hoot of Mines as chairman, and President (Continued on third page) Extension Courses Become Popular in . Iron and Steel Mills Lon and steel foundries and tolling mills of Pennsylvania within the past few nooks have taken mole then usual interest in cruises offered for then employees by the engineering extension department of the College, Professor J 0 Keller in charge of the division, declaim! today. Interest in the extension amylce on the past of these industries is yen toted now in a series of home study comics offered at cost of handling in three new courses offered recently by the department They cover the piactical heat tieatment of steel, met allurgy for the steel foundrymen and metallurgy foi the gray iron foundty man From all Pmt, of Pennsylvania are coming appluntions for enrollment in these courses offering proof that the ce semen to tecommending plans for mdustiial employee instiuction is each year becoming better knoun to the indubti moo TULENKO '2B, SUBMITS PRIZE-WINNING DISPLAY AT ANNUAL HORT SHOW An outstanding fentute of the an nual Alumni Day horticultural shoe, ails a landscape display illustrating a planting design for home grounds which was selected by a competitv.e c‘amination held in the junior and senior lantiscape architecture classes P Q Tulenko submitted the winning design. The horticulture division of the shoe, included u complete display of chrysanthemums, el:in:Woes and lOSC, The distinctive display of fliiweis was entered by Ralph Pass more f . West Chester, Pa. Another attractive exhibit cans dis played by S S. Pennock Iron: Phila delphia and included an array of cut flowers. Outstanding in the vegetable and fruit division of the Show was an ex hibit by G. S. Watts 'lB, son of Dean Watts of the School of Agtleultine, which illustrated a display on his toadside marhet at BeHanoi!, Pa. Totirgiatt. L. A. DEANS MEET HERE THURSDAY IN THREE-DAY PARLEY Will Attack Administrative and Curricular Difficulties At Convention PROGRAM CONSISTS OF INFORMAL CONFERENCES 7o Entertain Delegates With A Dinner Friday at Centre Hills Country Club' To tonsidel administrative and cur ricular problems, the dean., of liberal ails schools in land grant colleges of northeastern United States will commie here for a thice-day parley this neck-end. The delegates will make the Centre Hills Country club their headquarters - This convention will be the first general meeting of liberal aits deans of state institutions ever held Dean Prench, of the University of Nev. Hampshire, Dean Dutton, of the University of Delaware, Dean Mar:in, of Rutgers Umeisity, and Dean Tallafeno, of the Univeisitv of :Mary land, will be welcomed by Dean C. W Stoddat t for toe opening session Thursday Informal Conferences the plogiam ndl consist chiefly of informal moining and afternoon con- Serenees at uhich many phases of (Continued on second page) YEARLING CRIBBERS WHIP BELLEFONTE Score of 21-0 Is Penn State's ' Margin of Triumph Over Academy Eleven FORWARD PASSES MARK STRONG NITTANY ATTACK Entering the game considered an underdog as a result of the Kiski de feat. the Penn State freshman eleven took a surprise sictory from Bellefonte academy. 21-0, for the first win over the visitors since 1021 when athletic iclation.. between the t‘No institutions were closed until 1920 Within the living, ~aying, shout ing hollow-square of humanity that enclosed the field, eleien plebe mai rim s took revenge for last tent's 274 defeat by a beeildering attack of (Continued on second page) President Hetzel, Dean Chambers Will Attend Education Conference esident R D Iletzel and Dean IV. G Chambers of the School of Educa tion together with several other fac ulty niembei% Will attend the annual Educational .Confei cute to he held in tho House of Repiesentatives at Hur -1 isburg on Wedne.,clay, Thursday and Friday. This meeting held once a year usu ally in November is for a discussion of state educational policies. Its mem . beiship is composed of representa tives of all normal schools and educa tional institutions in Pennsylvania as welt as educational napes intendents of towr and county districts Governor John S Fisher, Doctor J. II Keith, State ,upelintendent of pub lic instruction, Franklin Spencet Ed munds of the House of Representa tives and Superintendent MeAndiews et thu Chicago schools will address the gatheling in the intei Cots of edu cation. J. W. BRANDT MAKES NEW LA VIE APPOINTMENTS Now Lit Vie appointments and changes have been made by J . W. Brandt '29, editor-an-chief of the pub lication. At thur Foote, who was fp, merly photographic edam, and A J Care, ate now assistant editors while tho now photographic editor and his assistants ate Paul Dohncr and W. II Hiding tespethvely. E. L. Flynn is in charge of music and &mattes with W. Bleat handling the publitattlons. L. AV Batton will act as College edi tor and V. L Johnston and Cast Yost mu the newly appointed futtermly editots. ROEPKE SCINTILLATES IN 40-6 ROUT OF LAFAYETTE Nine Intercepted Passes Aid Alert Lions in Squelching Maroon—Defensive Play Of Mahoney Outstanding ICollegian Candidates To Report Tomorrow Night Frehman candidates for the editorial staff of the COLLEC TIAN is ill report to Room 25 Lib ern, Arts at eight o'clock to- I motrov, night. Y. M. C. A. LAUNCHES ANNUAL CAMPAIGN FOR FINANCIAL AID Budget of Yearly Expenditures Exceeds Six Thousand Dollar Mark PROVIDES SALARY FOR FRESHMAN SECRETARY Includes Funds for Andy Lytle Cabin Imprm ements and Nen Automobile To satisfy the present financial need: of the organization, the Y Ji C A. launched its annual campaign fo: fund. among the students of Penn State yesterday. Mine than six thou set .as the goal of tho den e. One thousand dollars mill be needed to completely finish and furnish the interim' of the Andy Lytle inemotial cabin Is hich Is managed by the "Y" rot the use of all students upon ap plication at the Hut Last year it tho scene of fifty-live parties leo csenting to enty-fhe of the most (Continued on second page) Lazaron Considers Doubt Way-Station On Road to Truth In his fifth addiess to a Penn State chapel audience, Rabbi Mows S Lazaron, of the Balttmote Holum, congregation, on Sunday morning spoke of the 'function of doubt in re ligion "Doubt," declined Rabbi La7aton, "1. not so much cemented ,ith a man's beliefs, 'but with the telatam v /itch a man's belief, beat to those Os hs contemporaries " Ile said that doubt was therefore moiety a station along the way, the teal giowth of the mind depending , on conviction and belief Illustrations weie gnen of how doubt has broadened oui religion and acted as a stepping-stone to a dottrel understanding. "Do not feat doubt, but do not let doubt be the end of testing plate," was the ads ice of his closing hold, In an open twain, held in the Audi torium on Sunday m.ening, Rabbi LaLition spoke on the topic of scio'iee and religion. "Thole is no conflict,'" he declared, "beta eon science and re ligion when the hater is legaided simply as a Due and abiding faith in a supreme God, and not as the teachings of any individual sect or demonnottion " This blond definition of religion he spoke of as ",pelting the wot d with a capital R" A gen eral discussion in which the micad er answered many questions followed. Sawmill Week Draws Five Hundred Visitors More than five hundred people in ! Wrested in the operation and equip ment of portable sawmills attended the fourth annual Sass trill Week at tho College on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. For• three days there since demonstrations and lectures bo mod ern lumbering and snood products methods and processes. Lumbermen and dealers from Pennsylvania and nearby states shinned great interest im the entue program The event sins staged by the department of forestry and fur in machinery of the School of Agriculture. "When Johnny Comes Marching PRICE FIVE CENTS Old mails teturning to their Alma 3latei to patticipate in the Alumni Homecoming ceiernonies marvelled at the pouei and fitness of Hugo Bez dek's latest gridnon ensemble as it tan amuck on Neu Beaver held Sat nitlal, afternoon and compiled its h•ghest single game total of points in crushing Lafayette in a 40-6 defeat. Reminiscences of the Lion's hall con ;dais Lotus ned us Roephe, Lungron and Ciaig emulated the gridiron holeos of former days by pooling their ellot to in amassing the same number of points the Penn State football team scored to rout the 3luroon foe in their pie}ious encounter in 1916 Hun dreds of old students nits doubtless lecallcd the setto of ele} en years ago, 'int then encouraging }ells echoing across a New Bea}ei held }Ode a new team, as if in response to an old ass, reproduced the forty points of the 1416 Ira} to accord the College gue•ts a pleasant suipri.e and erect a foundation for then celebiation. Revoke Thrills Spectators Throughout the game a second harry Wtkon, in the person of Cap tain Johnny Roepke, thrilled the spectators mill a sensational exhibi t on of voi,atile football playing The blon.l !cadet, uho ian the ends, though the line and open held Myth equal ability, donated tuent-seven , °int, to the L oI cause before he was uithdiaun in fast, of Joe )filler, ms understudy. In addition, Roepke uas ynl•utble both for tossing long no carat° pa•,es and for snaring them in scintillating fashion Although Ft, punts MOlO not as long-distanced as usual, hu performance against La fayette ISIS effective enough to war ant 1.11-Amer`can - consideratiim " - Second on], to the stellar Nittuny halfback use Cy Lungren, chose field .tiategy, together with his clever ball 0.111,y ing and "lb ing" catches, figured [nommen:ly in the sister," of his tcammatc. Allie war, featuring at off-tackle and shoit cod tanning and at healing Tong passes straight to a human taigets together uith Stele 'Luna, mien man of the backs, whose litmus line lunges brought mote than one lust down. motheil to almost per t": coordination uith Lungten and Roepke to form a smooth-working back - held combination. Dangerfield and Eddie Ciaig, midget members of the "ropy" backtield, mho score large (Continued on last page) ENGINEERING EXTENSION TO OPEN NEW CLASSES Department Will G;ve Credits I'm Curriculum Taken at Danville "Y" SI ith the opening of evening elarsea at the Danville Y. 111 C A. on No ‘coubin seventh, the engineering ex tcn,ion depai foment pill •ntlante a new blanch in then om ganuntion ne,ord ing W. 1) D Henry of that depart -1 n ent 101.1 n subjects mill be offered and cm Ulnae: Lansing indu,tiial axed lib will be gianted by the College up on completion of any subject. The nem Luiriculum Milos from the pres ent system used in the night schools os the esten•aon, depaitment in that it will not be Intel-related or based main p graded piogiam. By 1028, fine in \ schools of this 'tspo will be nodes may for the pur pose of bt inging courses of instruction tc the people of the ,State. Able pro fe,in, mill bane (-lunge of the class e mluch Suit affoid the people living in tomes m bele these engineering coun,es are held an opportunity to obtain , an higher education along in dustlial lines I'LATT JUDGES BIRDS AT ' ANNUAL POULTRY SHOW As an added Alumni Homecoming atti action, the 'leanly depaitment held it., hfth annual poultry show Thuisdar, Puday and Saturday in the Stock Pao. Ilion. C S Platt '23, pro fessor of poultry husbandry at Rut -5010 unnerblt\, plated the winners Four handled and tatty-eight buds competed, one handled and six of which received pun,. A mhite Leg horn cachet el, awned by the Home stead Poultry Falai, was fudged the I , ezt individual in the shun.
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