Bezdek
Rules
Committee
VOL XXIII, No. 27
DEAN WENDT RESIGNS
FROM COLLEGE POST
Chemistry and Physics Head Accepts Position
As Director of Battelle Memorial
Institute, Columbus, Ohio
In view of accepting the position
of director of the neuly, organized
Battelle Memorial Institute, at Col
umbus, Ohio, Dean Gerald L. Wendc,
of the School of Chemistry and Phys
ics has tendered his resignation to the
college The resignation will be acted
upon by the College Board when it
meets in Harrisburg on January the
sixteenth.
The resignation comes as a complete
surprise and rt is only after due con
sideration, said Dean Wendt, that he
Is accepting the the new position of
fered him. The resignation, however,
will not go into effect until June the
thirtieth
Since he became Dean of the School
of Chemistry and Physics here in
September 1924 the School has exper
ienced great forward strides and with
several new features has become one
of high prestige in the country
Remarkable Record
Outstanding in Dean Wendt's accord
at Pcnn State in his bringing here and
directing of the national Institute of
Chemistry held on the campus for four
weeks last July, and his organization
of the division of industrial research,
which is now engaged in a score of
impoi tent research problems and hes
placed the research facilities of tne
Co'lege at the disposal of the indust
ries of the State.
Not only has the staruhng of the
College been raised by the addalon of
tle,o features, but both the student
znstruetton and faculty research .n
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STUDENTS ATTEND
CHRISTIAN. PARLEY
Niebuhr, Eddy,'Johnson, Recent
Chapel Speakers Here,
Address Group
PENN STATE DELEGATES
REVIEW LIVE PROBLEMS
Twenty-eight delegates represented
Penn State at the Tenth Quadien
nml Student Volunteer Convention
held in Detroit, Michigan, front Dec
ember twenty-eighth to January 'first
'Four thousand students reptesenting
all the colleges and 'universities of the
United States and Canada attended
Prominent men in the field of relig
ion spoke at the conference. Among
those mho gave lectures are men who
have appeared before Penn State stu
dents in Chapel. These are Reinhold
Niebuln, pastor of the Bethel Evan
gehml Church of Detroit; Dlordemi
Johnson, President of Howard uni
versity; and Shereood Eddy Itho rs
nov, the social secretary of the Na
tional Y. Ed. C. A
DISCUSS Problems
Problems that perplex Amei Ica and
foreign counties were discussed by
speakers and natives of the countries
concerned China, Japan, Africa, In
dia and Korea all had representatives,
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STAFF WILL ISSUE OLD
MAIN BELL THIS MONTH
Two One-act Plays and Special
Frontispiece To Feature
Premier Number
The first of the two yearly issues
of the Ohl uses Bell, the College ht-
Lrare lrag.i/ino is now in the hands
of the printer and will appear for
distr,bution the middle of this month.
Containing two one-act plays and
a vat Lay of shalt shill., cntical es
says and poetry, the magazine is ex
pected to be well received by the stu
dent body As an added feature, the
book will contain o frontispiece which
is the work of Joe A. Sellout 'SO, a
student in the School of Architecture.
It is a solution of n Beaux Art prob
lem which has connived considerable
commendation.
Copies of this issue will he sent to
the College Board of 'haste.% mho
at present aro studying official col
lege publications. This is the fourth
year of existence for this magazine
which Is spcnsmed by the membeis
of Pi Delta Epsilon, national journal-
Istic fraternity. It is known to con
tam tho best of the literary writings
of the student body and faculty of
Penn State.
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Seniors To Meet Monday
With Mid-year Graduates
Membeis of the senior class
will meet in the Bull Pen Mon
day night at six-thirty o'clock
for the purpose of discussing the
adoption or rejection of the
proposed plan for Alumni dues
All students expecting to be
graduated in February are re
quested to attend since business
concerning them mill be dis
cussed.
SOPH HOP BAND
PROVES POPULAR
Successful Holiday Engagement
In Washington Arouses
Local Interest
WILL PROVIDE PROGRAM
OF NOVELTY NUMBERS
A successful Christmas-meek en
gagement of "Red Nichols and His
Five Pennies" at the May flower Ho
tel in Waehington has added interest
to their prospective appearance here
at the Sophomore Hop on Friday, Feb
ruary tenth.
The Nichols aggregation mill be pre
sented as a special feature along pith
the "Charleston Chasers," each of
which is a part of Don Voorhees' Vic
tor, Columbia and Brunswick record
ing orchestra. The composite orches
tra Will be under the. peisonal leader
ship df Dow Voorhees, cello is from ,
New York City
Pros ide Nos elites
While these combined organizations
really form but one orchestra, the
smaller bands playing individually will
provide a program of varieties and
novelties The combined orchestra
numbers thirteen men.
The decoration contract for the un
deielass function has as yet been with
held, according to Sydney H. Lewis '3O,
char man of the committee, but wan
the return of the various members
from the holiday vacation, action :s
expected sery soon
The admission fee has been set at
MC dollars. Dancing will continue
from nun until Ws o'clock in the
mei Wing.
Dr. John Cornelius
To Speak of India
At Chapel Sunday
Dt John J. Cornelius, a native of
India and formerly professor of phil
osophy at Lucknow university at
Lucknow, India, till bring to Penn
State a better understanding of his
native country when he speaks at the
chapel services Sunday mot sing
"Ghandi and His .illessage to the
West" will be the subject upon which
Doctor Coinelius will talk. Ghandi,
is an Indian whose philosophy, woik
as an evangelist and championship of
the rights of the common people of
the Asiatic country a few years ago,
has attracted w oild-w ide attention.
Doctor Cornelius was educated in
the United States, receiving degrees
from Ohio Wesleyan, Boston, Harvard
and Columbia universities. For sev
eral mils he taught philosophy at
Lucknow unit crsity, located at Luck
now, India.
Prominent In World AlTairs
' As a member of the American Sem
inal to Europe in 1926, along with
Shernood Eddy, as a member of the
Institute of International Politics held
at Geneva, Switzerland, aml as a dele
gate 'tom India to the nineteenth
World Conference at Helsingols, Fin
land in.thc same year, Doctor Cor
nelius has earned a prominent pofi-
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TAU BETA PI ELECTIONS
William W. Bennett '2B
Carlton F. Bryant '2B
John F Dunn '2B
Frank M. Gager '2B
Walter J. Gorman '2B
John N. Hall '2B
Ralph G. Kennedy '2B
Vernet C. Kauffman '2B
2rlartm H MaeDowell '2B
K Reed '2B
Withal C. Bodyeomb, Jr., '29
Paul V. Rice '29
Frank W. Warner, Jr., '29
STATE COLLEGE, PA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1928
Farm Heads To Meet
Here For Instruction
Farm operators and managers of
Pennsylvania 'charitable, penal, and
educational institutions will gather
he: from Monday to Friday for the
second annual Institutional Farmers'
Week
The School of Agriculture and the
State Department of Public Welfare
are co-operating in giving instruction
al courses Poultry, potatoes, vege
tables, drum crops, swine, dairy, farm
management, and insect and disease
c:mtrzl are the lines of work in which
the institutional fain.ers have -re
quested instruction.
FAMOUS PIANIST
TO GIVE RECITAL
THURSDAY NIGHT
Miss Margaret Hamilton \WI
Provide Fourth Number
Of "Y" Program
HAILED BY CRITICS AS
PRODIGY AT AGE OF SIX
Won Walter Naumberg Musical
Prize a New York City
Recitals in 1927
Constituting the fourth umber of
the "Y" Entertainment Course, Mar
garet Hamilton, nationally known
pianist, null ,present a concert in the
Auditorium next Thursday night at
eight o'clock
Hailed in childhood as a prodigy,
Miss Hamilton was the recipient of
many prizes for her song and piano
composition When only SIS years of
age Some of the most learned mu
lsicians and pianists are numbered
among her directors At the age of
seven a well known nenspaper writer
and muateateritie said of her: "Genius
is one of the most uncanny things .n
the world. When one finds it del el
oped to a stealing degree in a child'
of tender years it is not a matter of
individual interest, but of general in
terest Such is the case of Margaret
Hamilton."
Miss Hamilton has had the distinc
tion of winning the prize of a New
York rectial last }ear, offered by the
Walter W. Naumberg Musical Found
ation, as yyellasbeingehosento appear
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VARSITY QUARTET PLANS
TO SING IN HARRISBURG
Dean Watts, Governor Fisher
Will Address Meeting
At Capital City
Popular selections li. the Varsity
quartet will open the music and song
festivities of the State Farm Products
show at Has risburg, Tuesday evening,
January seventeenth. Riehatd W.
Grant, dm eater of music, mill lead the
MUSICILMS.
Dean Ralph L Watts, of the School
of Agricultuie, will be one of the trio
of speakers to address the state-wide
gathering. Governor John S Fisher
and C. G. Jordan, 'metal} , of the
State Department of Agile.ltuie, are
the other speakers.
Dean Watts is scheduled to oddness
the Young Flannels' meeting, Wednes
day evening, January eighteenth and
will also make the speech of presen
tation when the Hrestei cup isaward
ed. This prize is given by the State
Horticultural Asociation of Pennsyl
vania to the exhibitor scoring the
highest number of points in the apple
show It Is culled the Gabriel Mester
cup in honor of a former president of
the association who is considered one
of the most active and outstanding
horticulturists in the history of the
State.
Leading Colleges Send
Delegates to Regional
Fraternity Convention
Representatives from three leading
institutions attended a regional eon
ventibn held here by the local chapter
of Phi Lambda Theta from December
twenty-eighth to unity- first inclusive.
The visiting delegates were Dom Rea
ms State univetsity, Rockwell naive,
sity and IVilliamsbuig college.
This ns the first time that a similar
convention has been held here by that
fraternity. Next yew at will be held
at Bucknell university.
Among those attending were J. Clif•
ford Jenkins, of Edgewood, national
preaident of the Maternity and Ken
neth PI. Knowle, national secretary,
BEZDEK TO ATTEND
RULES PARLEY AS
FOOTBALL COACH
REPRESENTATIVE
Association Also Honors Lion
Mentor by Election as Vice
President—Takes Active
Part at Convention
EOCENE IS DELEGATE
Regulations Body, Composed of
Twelve Men, Mal , Restore
1923 Rules and Abolish
Lateral P.3ss 'Play
To Hugo Bezdek, Penn State's vet
eran football mentor, came an honor
properly recognized by every coach in
America, when he was elected last
week as one of the three representa
tives of the American Association of
Football Coaches to deliberate with
the national rules committee which
will probably meet some time this
month
The Association also tendered
Coach Beodek the position of vice
president Dm ing the Convention he
served on the nominating and stabili,
mg committees and succeeded in the
straightening out of several poignant
situations.
Coaches Renick, Runts! Rockne, of
Notre Dame and Bill Spalding, of the
southern branch of the University of
California are the three men elected
as repiesentatives by the associat,on
of coaches at the convention held
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WRESTLERS TRAIN
FOR CLASS TILTS
Plenitude - MatiFlissiireS
Much Keen Rivalry for
Varsity Honors
INTERCLASS ELIMINATION
AIDS SELECTION OF TEAM
Interclass tilts loom before the
wealih of wrestling material work
ing out nightly under the direction
of Coach Charlie Speidcl and
foreshadow to some extent the
cho.ce of the Lion mat aggregation
for the Alfred university encounter
here on January twenty-first
By the end of not week the con
testants will be listed and the All-
College tournament under way. Suc
cessive eliminations will single out
class champions and, carried a step
further, will determine the winning
man or each weight.
New Material Promising
The half hundred giappleta con
tending for siusity berths arc dis
playing a spirit of competition which
proves vastly encouraging to the Nit
tany mentor Already the twenty-
Sin and forty-five pound classes are
seen to be well fortified with grap
plers of varsity caliber In all
weights, men trained by spring and
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Freshmen To Report for I
Collegian Assignments
neshman candidates for the
editorial staff of THE COL
LEGIAN mill lepott hereafter
on Wednesday and Sunday eu
mugs at THE COLLEGIAN of
fice for assignments.
Local Locomotive, Heeding Vacation
Call, Bolts For Co-op Attractions
Getting a tillStant idea that it would
like to see a large portion of the
world in exchange for its long period
of active and satisfactory sermee, the
locomotive of the well-known Belle
fonte Central radioed bolted suddenly
last Friday moining, hopped off the
track and started out on its own hook,
to see State College much to the con
sternation of the engineer, firemen and
president of the company.
It was directly south of the Engin
eel ing buildings that this thoughtful
engine decided upon the plan of di
gressing flop, its usual path. How
ever, after successfully departing from
the confining steel rails, the rough
traveling evidently jolted another idea
into its steel skull, foi after bumping
along for seveitel yards it balked and
refused to go in any direction what-
SO-OVet.
Totirgiait.
Penn Dean Will Talk
To Engineers Friday
Dean Warren P. Laird, head of the
School of Fine Arts of the University
of Pennsylvania will lecture to engin
eering students in Old Chapel next
Fiiday afternoon .Has subject be
"The Master Builder" and his address
will be of interest and value not only
to students in architectural enginem
mg but to all of the College. The de
partment of aulutecture Ix ill enter
tain Dean Laird at dinner and he 1,111
speak to the students of that depart,
meet in the csenlng
• AUFMAN PROVIDES
MUSIC AT ANNUAL
MILITARY FUNCTION
Ticket Sale Will Begin Tuesday
Night. Lasting From Seven
Until Nine O'clock
DECORATING BID GOES
TO ELCO ORGANIZATION
Intermingling of National and
College Colors Provides
Patriotic Effect
Dancing to the strains of music
fin nished by Whitey Kaufman's Vistor
'read ding orchestra in an armory
adorned with pas tiotic colors, Penn
State mill open its major social season
next Friday night mah the annual
Military Ball
I Tickets for the dent will be on sale
ITuesday evening from seven until nine
o'clock at Stark Brothers and mill sell
for four dollars Part of the draw
ings ,rid sale of fraternity booths
were completed y esterday and will be
continued today at five dollars a booth
at Co-op.
Leather-bound programs bearing
;the insignia have been chosen by the
tommittee as the la‘ors for this
dance. These novelties me being
supplied by the E A. Wright company
of Philadelphia.
Intermingle Colors
The contract for decorating the
Armory for the occasion has been
awaided tot he Elcoc ompany cf Wil
liamsport. The color scheme pill
consist of an intermingling of national
and College colors.
Suspended from the ceiling will be
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RIFLE TEAM WINS FOUR
TELEGRAPHIC MATCHE'
Will Start Fne-game Schedule
Of Shoulder-to-shoulder
Meets in March
Already mrth four consecutne arc
tones behind them, the Penn State
ramrods are making a clean smeep of
the telegraphic matches started last
month. Rensselaer Polytechnic Insti
tute, Fordham university and Am
herst and Wlllrams colleges are the
four im,titutions that hese fallen be
fore the Nittany - riflemen.
Rutgers unnersrty is the opponent
for the match this meek According
to Ideutenant Siomard T Miller,
coach of the tenni, the telegraphic
matches will continue without break
until April in addition to the shoul
der-to-shoulder matches, the schedule
of ',Ouch he announced yesterday
Addalonal Encounterb
Five shoulder-to-shoulder compe
titions make up the schedule, with
Match third still on open dote. The
season opens north Lehigh university
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The original aim of the huge mon
ster, acceding to spectators, was to
reach the smooth sailing afforded by
West College avenue and perhaps
after meandering around State Col
lege to start for Tyrone or even Belle
fonte along a route different from the
one to which it is accustomed
Officials of the company all state
that a broken rail or a closed see itch
was the cause of the incident, or acci
dent as they termed , it, hut a con
sonus of opinions gleaned Stain se,
ersd Penn State students }could seem
to Indicate that the locomotive was
tired of hosing its movements so con
fined.
Nevertheless it seas forced to rot
, get all such thoughts for by lute after-
I noon it had been led hack upon the
track and once more leas pulling con
tentedly toward Bellefonte.
Lion Passers Defeat
Maryland Five, 49-20
Coach Hermann Prepares Varsity Squad
To Oppose Powerful Syracuse
Team Tomorrow Night
•
Military Ball Booths
To Go On Sale Tonight . 1
naternity booths fot the Mil-
,
itary Ball still be on sale to ,
Co-op from scion to eight °Mock I
tonight. Approximately foity
booths at fne donuts each will
be ready foi disposal An ad
tame veket sale at foot dollars
a couple, soil be held at Stash
Biotheis' and Co-op on Tuesday i
and Wednesday
WPSC WINS RICHT
TO EXTEND TIME
lo Transmit One•flour Evening
Program on Tuesday and
Wednesday Nights
LEADERS IN AGRICULTURE
TO BROADCAST TUESDAY
Having rbtained permission ham
tho Federal Radio Commission to
broadcast until amen-thirty o'clock
at night, the College radio station is
now ready to put on regular programs
esery Tuesday and Wednesday night
from six-thirty to seven-thirty o'clock
The new schedule sins to have started
this week but minor difficulties Intel-
Lured, and WPSC opens the now year
Sunday morning w ith the chapel ser
vices_Srom tho aad.tornim, Since th . e .
Radio Commission limits the College
broadcast time, it will be imrass able
to resume the popular basketball
aroadcasts this year Games do not
start until seven o'clock in the scent
mg, and are seldom completed until
eight-fifteen o'clock, an hour too late
to come within the time limits al
lowed by the commission Howevei,
all afteinoon boxing and wiestling
contests will be broadcast as usual
In these events the State station at
Haim , big, WBAK with stitch the
College stator shales time, has circl
ed to dispense with seine of its broad
casting time to allow WPSC to put
tl.em on the all
Arrange reatures
The liatrithurg station broadcasts
each Monday and Thursday esening,
from six-thu ty to se% en-thirty o'clock,
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0
Dean of Education
Starts World Tour
On S. S. "Resolute"
Sailing holm Nen Vorl , at aid
night, Dean Will Grant Cham
bets of the School of Education, to
gether tutu Mrs Chambers, sill be
gin a tout of the uoild that will last
mole than foul months The Dean is
enjoying an absence of stn months
from his duties here
They udl timel on the ship "Reso
lute" of the Hambuig- knierican Line,
Much is nuking its annual noise of
the world 'thirty countues and
sixty-three Cities 1%111 he visited and
the distance cos eied mill total thirty
seven housand miles.
Prtictically all the places or chief
interest about the globe ail] be visit
ed. Among the countries included in
the intinciary are Algol m, France,
Italy, Greece, Palestine, Egypt, India,
Ceylon, China and Japan
EIGHTY MEN REGISTER
FOR SHORT COURSE IN
GENERAL AGRICULTURE
More than eighty men, representa
, lite of cooly section of the Slate, and
also one man from Europe registered
for the eight-weeks agriculture course
which opened yesterday
Charles A Mem who tinmigrated
flout Switzerland six months ago anti
who gimluated front an agi collate
school there, is among those who reg
istered fur the course. W Wayne
Ileffner who attended Is «inter spoil
course here in 1917 has returned this
yeas bringing his son with hint.
"The general agriculture course ap
pears to be II little more popular this
year than formerly, for the majority
of the applicants registered in that
cow se," declares Prof. Austin L. Put
sick, chanmart of the Short Course.
IS PSC
Gets the
Air Again
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Aftei ‘ann.liching We.tern Mary
land, by a 49 to 20 score in the opening
j game of the season Wednesday night,
the Nittany basketball team is pre
paling to face strong opposition in
the tilt usth Sy lacuse at seven o'clock
tomorrow night in the Armory.
The Olungemen hoe a decided ad
,antage over the Lion courtmen nn
that they hose already played and
non Pie game.' Before the Chri4t
inns saeation Hobart, Alfred and Ro
chester fell before their speedy ntlack
and the Univei.ity of Toronto and
Queens college quintets neon defeated
dining the holidays,
S)racuse Ha% Stars
IThe Syracuse fine ‘9,111 probably hie
up against the Blue and White quintet
!with Willie Walvey and Johnny Har
wood at foruaid., Captain Bill Eisen
mann at center, and Manny Rosen and
Stan Rielitmy er at guaids. Richt
myer, Eisenmann and Walkov, who
played on the combination that de
feated Penn State last year, 21 to 18,
divided the honors in the three open
ing games, each leading the individual
~coring in one contest Harwood, a
regular on last year's Orange fresh
man team, is reputed to be the fastest
man on the squad and good at drib
hhng aml shcotirg Rosen saw ser
s ice last season as first-string
substitute
The same Lion combination th...t
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PLAYERS PREPARE'
FOR GREEK DRAMA
Lengthy Period of Elimination
And Training Produces
Competent Cast
RICKER TO PLAY LEAD
IN FINAL APPEARANCE
Work is being esumed by the Penn
State Placers in preparation for
their annual anniversai y show, "Oed
ipus Rev." ,11 eh Audi he presented
January twenty-first in the Auditor
ium I:%my effoit is being made to
make the the lbannei event of the
yea., states Piof. Arthur C. Clue
tlungh, dilectoi of the oiganiration.
The cast, including the best actors
of the College, has been chosen after
n long polio! of Onunittion and in
tensive training. Benjamin F. Sicker
'2B, 1.1,110 distinguished himself last
teal in a number of pelts, mending
the isle of the messenger in "Medea,'
the outstanding play of last season,
will enact the pelt of Oedipus.
Dancing Chorus
Iratgaiet F Simon '2B, mill
pia', the part of the queen, n..hile the
chorus oill be composed of fourteen
girls who have mastered the intric.mies
o. classic dancing.
Neu costumes hose been purchased,
the women's appal°, having been de
signed lby 31• es Sala P Hartz '2B it
is classic in style, creating an at
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SIX FINALISTS COMPETE'
IN ORATORICAL CONTEST
Cash Prizes Will Be Awarded
To Winners of First and
Second Honors
Si , entrants in the Sophomore Ex
tempoiancoui Speaking Contest mill
compete col oiatolical honors next
Satin day night in the Auditorium.
,Prizes of fifty and to enty-five dol.
leis, awarded to m inners of first and
•mn nil lionou, will iba given through
tho efforts of the Foiensie Council.
Dean Chailvi Stoddart, of the
Lama! /kik School will preside, while
thin judges, mho have not yet been
cho,cn, will be selected froni the Ifac
ult}.
Those who burvmd the early ehm
'nations arc Jack Hu:bards, Paul
Campbell, Manuel Andapu, John C.
MeKirachan, flatly If Tinkcnn and
11,1: , , Reba 31. Ilendrsekt-on.
The final contest was postponed
from the yi c-vacation period, In order
that the enti ants might have more
tune in shah to study the art and
Itechnlquo of public speaking, an
nounced couch John H. Frizzell.