Handshaking
the
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VOL XXIII. Na 28
PENN STATE GRANGE
ATTAINS DORM QUOTA
Contributes Sum of Fifteen Hundred Dollars
As Share in Project To Construct
New Building for WoMen
Fifteen hundred dollars, the quota
of the Penn State Grange's contr.
bution for the Grange Memorial
Dornutory for women, was finally at
tamed at an open 'meant of the loc
al lodge Friday night, the results of
the campaign placing the Penn State
oranizatmon as the largest single con
tributor.
This money will be used in the con
struction of the $250,000 dormitory,
$lOO,OOO of uhich is being raised by
the various Granges throughout the
State and the remainder of which wall
be secured by Issuing bonds. Work
on the building will be started as soon
as final reports are received.
"In addition to the money raised
at the last meeting, there are fine
prospects for an additional five hun
dred dollars," Walter C. Gambol, mas
ter of the local chanter stated, yester
day.
President Ralph D. lietzel, Dean
Ralph L. Watts, Mrs John C. Dale,
Mc John C Dale, Mrs. Clara C. Phil
ips, the Penn State Grange and the
reitring and newly elected officers of
the Penn State Grange each gave one
hundred dollars towards the quota.
Many Speakers
Dean Cliailotte E. Bay, Miss Clara
C. Philips, the only woman trustee
of the College, William F. Hill, 'for
mm master of the State Grange and
Miss Ellen Burkholder '2B, president
of the Women's Student Government
Association spoke at the meeting Fri
day night
Women Students To .ltd
Tn conjunction with the drive con
ducted by the local Grange to raise
funds for the project, the Women's
Student Gmernment Association will
launch a similar campaign tomorrow
morning. A. complete canvass of the
women students will lie made to ob
tain contributions.
Saturday afternoon, at a meeting
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THESPIAN CLUB URGES
INTEREST IN CONTEST
Scripts Must Contain Two Sets
While Costumes May Be
Of Varied Nature
Since only a few scripts have been
submitted, officials of the Thespian
club urge that great .interest be taken
in the ono hundred dollar prize play
writing contest which has been
launched among the students
AP material must be an the hands
of Piof. David D. Mason at the Um
ersity club or William M McClem
ents '2B, at the Beta Theta Pi house
by Monday at midnight. Scripts,
however, which ate not completed by
that time may be submitted, when
finished, to compete in next year's
contest for the annual prize of one
bundled dollars.
Conditions Arc Slated
The completed script must have
more than one, but no mole than three
sett Costuming may be historical m
modern, foreign or domestic, while
the script must be types ritten on only
one side of the paper. The number
of characters must be kept within a
reasonable limit The script may con
tain suggestions for musical selections
if the author so desires to include
them
:This contest provides an excellent
opportunity for any one inclined to
inchi a teputation as a playwright
and also earn u substantial amount
of money, announces Blau E. Hen
derson '2B
Extension School Will
Conduct Night Classes
The department of engineeling ex
tension will establigh its twentieth
night school for employees of Indus
hull co:warns in Butler this week.
Installation of this school will mask
a •new record for the College division
an this branch of industrial service,
announces Piefessor John 0. Keller,
head of the department, who declares
that the industrial dame, in Butler
have been wanting Penn State to start
n direct service there for several
months.
Subjects which will be oitcred m
the semi-weekly meetings of the elms
include shop•bluo print reading and
sketching, accounting, shop nutlike
=tics, !business correspondence, in
dustrial oranizablen and elementary
electricity.
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Thespian Music Writers
Will Report Tomorrow
Students uriting music for the
coming Thespian production will
report to the Auditorium with
their music, tomorrow night at 1
eight o'clock.
BOUTS MARK DAILY
BOXING SCRIMMAGE
Coach Houck Is Satisfied With
Showing of Entire Squad
In Preliminary Work
CAPTAIN WOLFF AIDS IN
INSTRUCTING ASPIRANTS
The dull thud of leather against
flesh, heard in the Armory for the,
fleet tune Friday, will now resound
daily, for Coach Leo Ifouck's proteges
have donned the gloves in preparation
for their opening engagement Since
the ring has not yet been erected, the
boxing squad is staging its bouts on
tempot ary mats
•
With five member, of last year's
varsity and an abundance of promis
ing material on hand, Coach Houck
will stiffen the rigor of the training
routine this week by prescribing
plenty of boxing and roadwork Al
ready the Lion mentor has expressed
his satisfaction at the showing of the
ringmen us their first bouts.
Christopher Extends Mahon
Pitted against the veteran Mahon
in the fifteen pound class Saturday,
Christopher, 1030 boxer outpunched
his opponent vnth a nasty right hook.
Only the cleverness and experience
of the regular saved hem from humil
iation at the hands of the nudge[
Christopher will make a serious tad
for the varsity berth
Although in the pink of condition,
Kolikoski has not shown his midsea.
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PROF. DENGLER TO GIVE
LIBERAL ARTS LECTURE
"A Study of Italy" Is Theme of
Presentation by Faculty
Speaker Tuesday
"A Std ay of Italy" is the title of
this year's series of Tice lectures
sponsored by the School of Libels'
Arts, the first of which will be pre
sentee. by Prof. Robert E. Dengler in
Oil Chapel, Tuesday evening Febru
ary fourteenth.
Instead of presenting lectures on
different subjects as has been the cus
tom .formerly, the series will consist
of leated talks on one topic Italy
will furnish the material' for the
group and the speakers will discuss
various phases from several stipd
points. -
Tho committee has arranged the
following, pior,nam for the year: Feb
ruary fourteenth, Prof Robert E.
Dangler, professor of Greek; Febiu
ary twenty-eighth, Prof. Joseph W.
Foss, professor of Spanish; March
thirteenth, Prof John H. Frieze%
coach of the debating squad; March
twenty-seventh, Prof. Richard W.
Grant, director of music; April sev
enteenth, Prof. Jacob Tenger, pro
fessor of political science.
MANDOLIN CLUB BEGINS
TO PREPARE PROGRAMS
FOR WINTER CONCERTS
Preparatory to a smiles of concerts
for its and-vinnter performances, the
Mandolin Club is working to Perfect
the necessary programs, announces
Paul Q. Tulenko '27, protident
After a preliminary recital here in
the near future, the club expects to
tour various points in Pennsylvania
and neighboring states The Hunting
don Reformatory and .Rockiliew Peni
tentiary will be visited and the in
mates entertained with a concert.
The prodeeds of the tour will be added
to the Grange Memorial Fund.
,Saveral string dombinations have
been perfected by the club this year.
A special, sextet, a hanjo quartet and
a banjo soloist constitute a few of
these.
STATE COLLEGE, PA.; TUESDAY,,JANUARY 10, 1928
BEZDEK VISITS CHICAGO
FOR LEG EXAMINATION
Conch Hugo Scotch, director of
athleties, left State College Wednes
day mght for Chicago, where he has
entered a hospital for examination by
specialists
A xecurrence of the leg anfeetson
Witch kept the Nattany reach con
fined to bed the greater part of last
sprang seemed probable and he, as a
preventatrvo measure, decided to con
sult a s,peciabst.
BUILDING PROGRAM
PROGRESSES WITH
NEW STRUCTURES
Comptroller Issues Contracts
For New Infirmary and
Recreation Center
SKATING RINK WILL BE
COMPLETE IN FEBRUARY
Workmen Will Finish Dairy
Barn Annex and Board Track
Within Short Time
Penn State's building program is
rapidly gaining headway with the
'suites sports park, an addition to the
dairy, bard and a thoaid running track
already under construction and con
tracts for the infirmaly and recre
ation buildings definitely anarded
Work on the skinter _torts project
has been started and it has been an
nounced that the deselopment will be
completed for skating in February.
The epring water will be diverted
from its present channel to a new one
and, a dam will be built to form the
skating rink. In order that surface
senior from the town will not drain
sn, a ditch is to be constructed around
the dam to catch the run-off water.
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DR.CORNELIUS DESCRIBESI
EAST-WEST RELATIONSHIP
Chapel Speaker Deplores Lack
'Of Close Understanding
- . . - Between Races
"The East and the Writ have conic
together, in point of sew of politics,
trade and commerce, but they have
yet to reach a insect understanding
between the people," declared Dr
John 3. Cornelius, a native of India
and a disciple of Ghandi, in Ins chap
el talk, Sunday
Doctor Cornelius continued by stat
ing that no matter where man settles,
ho meets certain problems and that
the methods which he adopts to solve
then problems will characterize his
civilization By contrasting America
with the Orient, he showed the direct
bearing that the geographical and
climatic conditions cf countries have
upon their development and °Asian
sion Americans are considered to be
hustlers uhile most of the eastern
countries are thought to be sluggish,
ho continued
Chandi, asserted Doctor Cornelius,
desires that all western omprovements
which are not necessities be excluded
from the Orient. When these 'now
things are bropght into the country
and the people become accustomed to
them, there is created a Avant for snore
luxuries, ulna will ultimately cause
great discontent. He As firm nn his
belief that the East should retain its
customs and utilities 'without interfe,
once from outriders
In conclusion, Doctor Cornelius
averred that while we preach good
will in our churches we do not prac
tice it, but instead advocate hatred of
faces. Back of all this he finds the
ideas of commercialism and expansion
which aro uppermost in the minds of
the world powers. The time has come
when nations must have better under
standing of each other, he declared.
Dr. Hetzel Entertains
Senior Honorary Group
President Ralph D. Hetzel entei
tamed the Snort's Pane Society, sensor
honorary organization, at an informal
dinner Fsiday night at the Centre
Hills country club for the puspose of
becoming hates acquainted with the
members of the society
Urging that the students put forth
every effort to help the passing of
the bill, Dr. Hotzel told of the am
porta= of the eight million dollar
bond issue which will be voted on
next Novembei. He also explained
the budding program in detail.
BASKETBALLL TEAM
BOWS TO ORANGE
IN CLOSE CONTEST
Nittany Passers Stage Rally
In Final Period But Fail
To Pass Inn Lead
TO ENCOUNTER LEBANON
VALLEY FIVE TOMORROW
Lion Reserves Halt Syracuse
Scoring in First Half of
Saturday's Game
Aftei staging a ibulliant but futile
rally in the claa.ng minutes of play,
Penn State's basketball team tasted
its first defeat of the season Saturday
night at the hands of an experienced
Syracuse quintet by the nairon mar
gin of 26 to 27. The Lion courtment
will play their third game uhen they
meet Lebanon Valley at seven o'clock
tomorrow night en the Armory.
The Orange floe lept into the lead
early in the hrst half and maintained
its advantage until the final shot.
Only twice did the Lions show flashes
of powei and threaten to coon the
seoic. In the firsepermi the second
team, mluch Coach Hermann rushed
en to replace the ineffective first
stn ng combination, brought the count
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SPEIDEL 'CONTINUES
MAT ELIMINATIONS
Freshman Candidates for Class
Wrestling Berths Engage
Tonight-in Armory •
INTERCLASS ~,ORAPPLERS
TO COIIIFF, 4 PE SATURDAY
Wre , tling el iranations in prepara
tion for the interela,s tournament
Saturday afternoon are taking place
the, week in the Armory under the
direction of Coach Charlie Speidel
Last n.ght the candidates for the
,- ophomore grappling team met in the
Armory at six-thnty o'clock and en
gaged in successive brief bouts. A
laigo number of freshmen are ex
pected to report for the competition
tonight which will be held at six
thirty o'clock also. In case time does
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SCARAB SOCIETY WILL
EXHIBIT COLLECTION OF
ARCHITECTURAL WORKS
Works of of t executed by members
of Scarab, national architectural fiat
emit), 'will be exhibited today and to
moriow in the Fine Arts Museum on
the second floor of Old Main
From thu collection of paintings in
tins exhibit several will be selected to
topresent Penn State in the natonal
Scarab sketch exhibit The judges il!
be Flamm., James B Hclme, An
drew W Case.und Harold E. Dickson.
The national exhibit will be shown at
twelve of the leading colleges where
these are chapters of the Scarab.
Tho majority of the drawings will
be en European subjects, Pennsyl
vania and New England landscapes,
and a few portraits All of the work
will be done in pencil, crayon, or
water-colors.
Does Evelyn's Lost Love Note Mean
That Albert Is Careless or Untrue?
A pocket -wont love letter, addtcsa
ed to "My dear Albert," which mystet
musly appeared on the Old Mam bulle
tin board Friday morning, would seem
to indicate that even Penn State boys
are not always true to the "girl back
home." The commumcation was dated
August twenty-eighth and its worn
appearance indicated that probably
Albert had earned it next to his heart
since that time.
Evelyn was the girl's name and she
amoral tones alluded to Punssu
tax ney, a metropolis near Indiana,
Pennsylvania. Her various referen
ces to the boss, sr hat he was doing and
why, and the undecipherable post
set pt written in shorthand, indicated
the broken-hearted girl's occupation.
"You =alone,' in your previous
letter about taking 'necking' lessons
from So," wrote Evelyn. "Well, little
boy, let me tell you this much, that
if you try it you can finish it, for I
am not used to running second trick
to any fellow"
No doubt Albert's education Is com-
Tottrgiatt.
EIGHTY-FOUR SENIORS TO
GRADUATE AT MID-YEAR
E ghty-four seniors will graduate
on February seventh and constitute
one of the largest mid-year commence
ments in several years, according to
announcement made yesterday by Reg-
I stra: William S. Hoffman.
The coming graduation exercises
will be the second for th•s academic
yea:, the first having been held at
the close of the summer session. The
mid-year class will be made up of
candidates from the Schools of Agri
culture, Chemistry and Bhysics, Edu
cation, Engineering, Liberal Arts, and
Mines and Metallurgy, and there will
be several to remise advanced degrees
front the Graduate Sch.]
SKATING RINK MAY
BE AVAILABLE FOR
USE IN FEBRUARY
Workmen Continue Preliminary
Excavations With Steam
Shovels, Air Drills
THOMPSON'S SPRING WILL
SUPPLY WATER FOR DAM
Lake To Cover Atea of Four
Acres, Averaging Five Feet
In Depth Throughout
Foui acres of ice for skating will
be Nallablo to Penn State students
by the latter part of February, if the
weather perm.ts, declares William F
Harper, supenntendent of the Berke
bile Brothers Construction Company,
cf Johnstown, whom an charge of
work on the College u inter sports
park, south of State College
Lost neck. and the early part of
this week. urrkmen acre engaged it
digging the diversion creek, using
steam shovels and air drills in soak
ing the excavation.' After-the-pre
liminary work is completed, actual
cork on the dam scull bo begun
His ert Spring Water
During the time in mhich the walls
of the dam are being built, the ~pning
wate,, which will be ,the :ounce of
(Min the lake, will he flown onto the
former mill-race and mull not in any
may interfeic with the progress of
construction
When the nails and Lase of the dam
have been completed, the calves nt the
mouth of the dam Will turn the water
from the diveineon into the lake itaelf
and after it is filled, the water will
he iee erted to the side creek leaving
a body of center, easily frozen
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Museum of Mining
Receives Turquoise
Specimens as Gift
Through the favor of .Mr II I
Smith, l‘lio completed graduate uoilt
in-the School of Mines and Metalimp
1897, the mining mueum has re
newed samples of turquoise me from
the Lcs Cerr 'O3 mines in New .Mmi
no and tines stone hammers used by
pre-Columbian Indians foi quarry
tri~ the mineral
This gift comm ises the fourth set
of mining e‘hibits that Mr. Smith
has donated to the College, the other
mit i 7 to having come fiont the Mich
igan carper mines and front old Ro
man mines in Bosnia, Czechoslovakia.
plete by this tune and that is why he
posted the lose note from his old
sweetheart in a spot so conspicuous
as the Old Main-bulletin board, to be
gazed at by the curious between reci
tation periods.
Evelyn continued by telling how
anxiously her chum Helene seas awa•t
ing a letter from Albert's friend
"Bill," and also what a monderful
tune they both bad had at a dance
with then other "frills."
"When do you and 'Bill' expect to
arrive in Pturcsutiewney?" queried
Evelyn to conclusion. "When you
come, go to Hclene's first us usutl.
Then I won't get into any mixups at
home oi elsewhere, for as you know
I hose a kid sistet and what she sees
and hears, she tells"
It has been suggested that Albert
night post another note telling
whether she is still waiting. Penn
State is curious to know.
"What a bulletin board this is get
ting to be!" ejaculated a student as
he slowly tinned whey.
Noted Pianist Will Give
Concert Thursday Night
Miss Margaret Hamilton, Hailed As
Prodigy at Age of Six, To Play
Selections from Classics
`Y' Concert Pianist
FACULTY RECEIVING
LINE TO FORM AT
MILITARY FUNCTION
President and Mrs. Mize] Will
Aid in Welcoming Patrons
To on Friday
BOOTHS, TICKETS GO ON
SALE TODAY AT STARK'S
Fraternity Furniture Must. Be
In Armory by Afternoon
Prior to Formal
Inaugurating a new feature fur so
c tl funct.ons at Penn State, the com
mittee in charge of the 3lshtasp Ball
has formulated a plan uheieliv the
leading faculty member, of the Col
leg, and thus wives, will compose a
line at the entrance of the Al nary
Friday night to receive all guests at
tending the affair
the receiving line r. ill consist of
President ana Ralph D. Ref.],
Dean and Mis Ralph L. Watt:, Dean
Chailotto it Rat', Dean and Mi. Ar
thur It Warnock, and Colonel and
Ms, Clenard McLaughlin They tuft
maintain a single file and gteet each
mar and roman as he ca she enters
the building
Buath and locket sales fot this first
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D. E. ALLEGAR '25 SPEAKS
TO AGRICULTURE GROUP
Returns From British Honduras
And Tells of Experience
In Banana Groning
Rctuimng if. State College, after
lising in British Houdin.is for the
past three years as assistant agticul
taint advisol on one of the huge
snort: plantabons, MI Daniel E.
Allegar '25, :woke to vat mus classes
in the department of agriculture
tcenoiracs lime dialing this past week,
Relating his esperiences to the stu
dents at the leanest of on of Ms fol.
mei piofeosms, Mr John L If Mc-
Cord, Mt Allegor very deftly pre
sented some of the unique phases of
huge scale fruit laising, especialb on
ielatior to banana grooving, as ma
iled out in that section of South
Ameina by the United Fruit Com
pany
, :11: Allegal stated in his talk that
many of the natises of the flondut
as ale at least one thousand years be.
I gad the modein Carmel of the Unit
ed States an =Cho is of production,
ears of crops and phases of marketing
and distubuting their incidents lle
also stated that the foliage was SO
luxuriant that roaduals, if left un
foi a petiod of six months,
completely lost from sight and
incidentally that he did not sec
bite woman for the first bus a eeks
after he had entered the liondulas.
BLUE KEY ELECTIONS
Marry E. Pfeifel '29
Hamel N. Mathias '29
Another
Good
Skate
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Combining, brilliant technical slog
with a delightful personality, Miss
3laigaret Hamilton, pianist, one of
theartists of the National Music
League of Ness Yolk, mill entertain
in the Auditorium, Thursday night at
eight o'clock, as the fourth number of
the "Y" Entertainment Course
'Piaised by e n tice from all parts of
the country, Miss Hamilton has estab
lished an enviable reputation as an
outstanding pianist At the age of
seven =he sins hailed as a prodigy.
Charles Wakefield Cadman said of
her then, "Genius is one of the most
uncanny things en the world. When
one finds it dee eloped to a startling
aegree m a child of tender tears it is
not a matter of individual interest,
but of geneial interest. Such is the
case nith Margaret Hamden."
Appears at Carnegie Hall
Besides winning the Walter W.
Naumberg Musical Foundation prize
at a Ness York recital last scar, Miss
Hamilton vas chosen to arnear with
the Ness York Philhai monic Orchestra
under Willem Mengelberg's direction
at Cainegie Hall, Ncss Yolk
Lauded b> Critics
The Ness Yolk AIIIN icon recently
said of Miss Hamilton, 'She has a
fa , cinating form of interpretation,
sash, color and spontaneity," "there
is ceitainly a young pianist smith a
future, , ince she rot only ex - ploit, a
brilltant technic, but also displays an
unusual , ease of tone color and phras
ing nuance," is the some of a critic in
th, Cleveland Press
Mtns Hamilton will play selection.,
from Bach-Saint-Suens, Schumann,
Chopin, Rachmaninolf and Debussy,
us mall as other noted composer.
"Danse" and "Is:min Waltz" from
Delibec-Dohnanyi are expected to gain
popular favor, as well as "Nocturne,
C Major," and "Etude, C Minor" from
Chopin
CHAMBERS SEES RECORD
SIMMER SCHOOL CLASS
Nineteenth Session Will Offer
'Three Hundred Courses
To Large Group
Just before departing Friday on his
abbatical leave fin a siN. months
tom of the world, Dean Will G
Chan - I'mi,, of tie School of Educa
tion, made formal announcement of
tl o 1928 Summer Session The Session
v. , 11 open on July tlurd and close
As.gust tenth.
Zhu sill be the ninetecnth Summer
Sescicn to be held at the College and
all cady there are Indication, that the
lecold enrollment of 2709 students
lasi summer out be exceeded this
yea:. Befoie his departure, Dean
Cham&ls comp , cted the engagement
of a large glom, of educate, front
othe. colleges and univernties,
e‘pletsed the opinion that l'enn
Statn's tcputat on for nn e \ceedingly
strong suirmei faculty ,ould more
than be upheld this ,vent
In addition to conducting the usual
nationrlly knosn Institutes of Eng
lish. Finch and Music Education,
Wane are being completed for special
Courses in dramatics for tht,se who
direct high school or community pla;„..,
pageants and enteitalnments The
usual nature study camps sill be held
in the Seven Mountain d billet and
°the, features, both new and old, are
designe I to be of service to the pub
lic tchool teacher seeking collegiate
Blanch sermons will be conducted
awe at Altoona and Erie. More than
three hunched specific coals°, are to
on armed in the Summer Session.
Dean Watts To Speak
At Harrisburg Show
Dean Ralph I, Watts, of the
Sohoul of Agriculture, us scheduled
to .peak three limes at the State
Farm nolucts Show in Harrisburg
next week
Ile will appeal on the program of
the opening convocation Tuesday ev
ening with Cormier Frher and C.
C Jordan, secretary of the State De
partment of Agricultme On IVednes
day night he Null speak at the young
farmers' meeting and will make the
speech of presentation when the Mes
ter cup is warded. This prize is given
by the 'State Farm Show Commission
to the mslithitor scoring the lig,thest
number of points in the apple ex
htbm.