The Social Swim VOL XXIII, No. 30 I. F: C. PRESIDENT DESIGNATES MEN FOR COMMITTEES MI National and Local Greek Societies to Participate in Three-day Conference PARLEY WILL COMMENCE WITH PLEDGES' 'METING Informal Discussions Relating to Current Problems Will Be Held at Luncheons - In furtlimance of plans for the thrie-day confeienee of the College fraternities February fifth, sixth and '.eventh, Victor 0. Schinnerer '2B, pres ident of Interfraternity Council, in conjunction uith Lee G. Lehman '2B, president of the Intrainural Council, announced seven committees Thursday night The work of these seven groups van covei every point incidental to the preparation for the confab and the chairman will comprise a general supervisory committee with the 1., C. president at the head of it, and the entire movement. Committee Chairmen Chairmen of the various groups ,fol low. publicity, Wslliam K Jackson '2B; Programs, David R. Pratt '2B; reception, H. Roy Hassel '2B; ban quet, Robert M. McPherson '2B; fi nance, Joseph A. Schiavone '2B, smoker, Edwin A. Booth '2B; muss meetin, George S. Cox '2B; and lun cheon, William B. Deo '2B All national and local fraternities arc es.pectcd to participate in the con ference, the idea for which was orig inated by tho Interfraternity Council several weeks ago The conclave will begin with n pledges meeting Sunday night, February fifth and will term inate with a formal banquet the fol lowing Tuesday night. Purposing to bring together the five chief officialu9( the_different_houseq, the Council will arrange for at least live separate luncheons to be held either Monday or Tuesday of that • (Continued on last page) DEBATING COACH CALLS FOR MORE CANDIDATES Forensic Squad to Meet in Old Chapel Tuesday Evening To Prepare for Season Issuing a final call for all those oho wish to compete lot positions on the debating team to engage in the comprehensive schedule that has been arranged for next semester, Profes sor John 11. nine% debating coach, announces a meeting an Old Chapel tonight at seven-thnty o'clock. The purpose of this meeting is to cletea mine which students are still in the running for the team. A very extensile opting schedule has been completed by James It. Ker shaw '2B, manager of the team. Twenty-one debates have been ar ranged. The debates that the squad will begin preparing for after the meeting will be an engagement with Gauge Washington university here in February and a trip to Philadelphia March first which includes debates (Continued on third page) Inter-unit Basketball League Opens Friday With the opening of the Penn State Cliji enter-unit basketball league scheduled for Friday night at eight o'clock-in the Armory, Garrett C Hummer '2B, inter-unit managel, announces that teams must be present on the floor at the slated time. Failure to report within thirty amnutes of the scheduled time will result in for feiture. The schedule us eis follows for Fri day night: eight o'clock, Unit arc versus Unit One and Unit Two ver sus Unit Seven; eight-thirty o'clock, Unit Twenty-four versus Unit Twen ty-file and Unit Ten versus Unit Fif teen. Rules far the contest state that each unit must pay a fee of one dol lar to the Club manager before play ing. The aggregate fees will be used to purchase medals for the winning team. Playing Condit.lons Gi,en The halves will - be •fifteen minutes In length. Unit Managers should se cure their own :referee. The loss of two games eliminates n team from further participation. Contrary to !former announcements, no Physical Education credit will be sheu for inter.-ml 4 9msl.•etball. oSem!-lilleekly . 4 5..•;',,---.::;- -P.,.. !85517, , • Fraternities To Sign For Summer Session The 1928 Summer Session will need about twenty-three frater nity houses for women students. Fraternities interested in this matter are asked to register houses at the office of the Dean of Women on Thursday and Fri day of this week. Any regulations concerning management may be obtained at the office of the Dean of Women. The manager need not be elect ed before the house registers DARCY MAY DIRECT THESPIAN OFFERING Club Managers Seek Services of Prominent Director of Collegia'.te Shows VETERAN OF STAGE HAS COACHED HERE BEFORE Maurice Darcy, New York theatri cal producer who has staged the Thespian shows for the last four years, is again being sought by the Club as coach this year. Darcy r a true son of the theater having played everything from ;po go" parts as a baby to trouping and grand opera. He was cast as the orig inal "Doctor" an the premier of the famous stage play, "The Bat," took important parts in many Dillingham productions at the Globe Theater in New York and headed the work of staging "Orange Blossoms." Ten years ago Darcy began pro ducing in collaboration with Ned Way burn but during the last two }cars ha has been on his own. In the last tyvo years he has produced mole than thirty civic and collegiate shows. Coached "Napoleon Passes" In conjunction with Bobby Gonnely, Darcy pi oduced this year's leading collegiate musical comedy production, .Napoleon Passes," winch comcsifrom Princeton university. This show has been adjudged by authorities to be <nil of the best in recent years in col lege circles Not only acting as coach to the •chows which he produces, Darcy adds many new dances and hits of dia- logue to them. To him is given the credit of tleve , oping the Charleston for the Ned Wayburn Studios He is ;proficient in rewriting the muse and lyrics of il show and acts sometimes as a professional .rewrite man. Many of the 'musical comedies now playing in New York hear the stamp of his work. Unique Dance Coach Wherever 'Maurice Darcy goes, he mimes with him a black brief case contaming, so he Maims to the credu lous, that nhich is worth a million dol lars. Whether or not it is north that sum is doubtful, but the contents (Continued on last page) GLEE CLUB TO ENTER INTERCOLLEGIATE SING Entering the second annual Penn sylvania Intercollegiate Glee Club Contest the local songsters cull en gage clubs from Carnegie Tech, Uni versity of Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Ju nista and Bucknell in Carnegie Mu sic flail, 'Pittsburgh on February twenty-fourth. .The directing of the contest - will be in the hands of a committee of alumni of the conveting colleges headed by Homer Johnston, preident of the Penn State Club of Pittsburgh. Gertrude Ederle Grabs Military Ball Invite Proffered by Local Collegiate This is an age of specialization and champion., teyond all others tire ex pected to keep within their assigned hounds. Gertiudo ElJeri°, hoaevei, has a oiled of her own m legard to such matters and Friday night varied her extended vaudeville tour with diver lament entirely new to her. She went dancing on collegiate surround- Ins. Greeted at the door of her dressing room shortly Wore her performance 'at the Richlieu theater, Bellefonte, on Friday afternoon by three un abashed Penn State students, the pop olar Channel victor was not kept long in doubt as to the reason for the coll. "Hello, Trudy," smiled one young man, 'we just conic over to invite you to the big dance at the College tonight." "That'll he great!" exclaimed Moo Edell° and jorthwitb her manager, A. J. Clarke, self-styled as an Intel national theatrical anarttger &tam England, won infonue4 of 'line plans. STATE COLLEGE, PA., TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1928 SENIORS OUTPOINT JUNIORS TO EARN CLASS MAT TITLE Keen Competition and Closely Contested Bouts Mark Annual Tourney LAST PLACES FALL TO UNDERCLASS MATMEN Pachard, Eisenman, Wilson and Steele Display Superior Wrestling Tactics Keen competition and bout after bout of closely contested grappling tactics held the outcome of the Inter class wrestling scrap, Saturday, in shifting balance until the final mm ales of the meet ashen the seniors scored a one-point win user the jun iors and took the meet, 10-15. The two lower classes proved ill storied contendcnts for College grap pling honors and although consider able endurance and fight was display ed, a noticeable lack of experience on the mats handicapped the underclass efforts and kept the sophomores to a meage'r score of si points while the aeshmen failed to secure any Indic- Anal bouts counting toward the final score. Probably the most sensational en counter of the day was the 145-pound contest between Eiseman and Erb zlosely matched contenders for the ,arsity berth. Although each showed fatigue from recent tilts in the pre niminarms, they enteled the bout with way speed and grappled through the alloted ten minutes to an vane period in which Eisenman succeeded in throwing his opponent and adding five points to the )union scone. Steele started the finals off Sot the Juniors by securing a fall in see dn minutes, forty , seconds from Ely, sophomore contestant for honors in the 115-poundalass. Wilson, also a Junto's, folloued pith a time advan tage of almost seven minutes over Pollock nho fought Sol the salmis (Continued on last page) DR. H. M. BATTENHOUSE WRITES BIBLE TEXTBOOK Annoulnm Coming Release of "The Bible Unlocked" by Century Company Public announcement of "The Bible Unlocked," an enlat god volume on Biblical history and the books of the Bible by Prof. Henry Ai Battenhouse of the department of Biblical Litera ture and Religion, was made by its publishers The Century Company, of Nose York City, last meek. The book will go to press the latter part of this mouth. and be issued for public sale on February , fifteenth Publication of the five hundred and fifty page volume, which is dedicated to the memory of Professor Batten house's mother, will be completed in time to permit its use in Biblical Lit erature 2 for the second semester classes of the author Dis mic) s Thu first division of the la.ok deals with Biblical geography and archae ology and tells how the Mble was giv en to humanity while divisions too to five, inclusive, trace the events of Bib lical hi toffy throughout its four great (Continued on last page) All previous arrangeinents wire tast aside and after introducing her two girl companions, Ethel and 'Marion Baker of .(:%ilifotina,._ Gertrude dis missed the three motors for her at tention and proceeded to dress tot her appearance on the stage. Suddenly oho stuck 'her head from behind the partly closed door and called to the retreating hacks, "Don't get any pub licity going, I - aon't have it If there's anything I hate, It's publicity." As the clock in Old iMain tower stand( to:141111W Gertrude Ederle ac companied by her two diving assis tants entered the bedecked Armory with the escorts and Manager Clarke trailing hohind . 118 rear guard. Whitey Kaufman and his band was holding tho undivided attention of some foul hundred couples Gradually a buss spread around the dance flair. "There's Gertrude Ederlel" "My, but isn't she small!" "Yeah, but she's got a greater chest expansion than Jack Dempsey, think of that."' A (Continued on third page) Registrar' Announces Plan of gegistration Scheduling by all 'undergraduates must undergo supervision and ap prosal of respectwe frailty advisors and the registering udl take place in the Armory on the second, third and 'fourth of February, announces Registrar Wllhrim'...S Hoffman. The Registrar again states that a fine of flue dollars soil be made Los ' late registering or failure to attend first classes after registration Ex ceptions will be made only because of unasmdable circumstances. Scheduling hooks are in the hands of the ',miter and will he out before the registration period A charge of ten cents will be made for them. MIIRACHAN WINS ORATORY CONTEST "Campus Paths," Discussion of Education and Life, Is Text of Winner EMT AND TWENTY-FIVE DOLLAR PRIZES AWARDED John C McKirachnn and Jack It Richards wore judged best of the mg contestants in the final, of the annual sophomore e..temporancou, speaking contests held in the Schwab Auditorium Saturday night. "Campus Paths" was McKnachan's mule: aLbject which lie discussed the value of a life of service to humanity, pointing out tint education leads to life aryl that Campus Paths led to the possibility of service in the world He received the first prize of fift4 dollars in gold offered by the College Richaids was awarded the second prize of twenty &liars in gold of fered by the Forensic Council for his speech "That Chicago!" His speech was given in a much lightm vein than the winner's, poking fun at Chicago and at Mayor William H Thompson. Ho gave reasons ft 4' , ..'hiertgo's repu tation for crime, stressing the fact that the city is young as cities are considered I=l Others who spoke are. Robert P. Campbell on "The Meanest Habit in the World," Harry M. Tinhorn on "A World at Peacd;" Reba M. Hen drickson on "The Teach.ng of Evo lution;" and Manuel Andujur Si, on (Continued on last page) Co-op To Take Program And Invitation Orders Orders toi programs and In- %actions for the mid-year com mencement exercises will he taken this afternoon, from one to five o'clock at the Athletic Store Those not able to place or (leis at this tune should call John Ferguson, Omega Epsilon, between nine and twelve o'clock tonight. "America Will Not Fail To Prosper," Rev. Giles Believes "I am an optimist &cause I hold that there are great tjuzig, in store for the, nation of ours," declared Rev erend W. Warren Giles, pastor of the First Reformed Church, East Orange, New Jersey, in his Chapel talk Sun tl,*. "A native, such as the United Statl. Is today with an interest in education which ha, increased live fold within the la,t few year, and whose foundation lies in a constitu tion framed by some of the greatest minds in Amman history, cannot fail to pi roper," was his further opinion. Itevotend Giles continued this op timistic discourse on Amerimi by stat ing that more than twenty-,even mil lion families in this country own their own homes, about forty-seven pet cent of which are electrically equip ped. Because of the great thirst for education over omen hundred thou sand men and women aro now on col lege Ile stated, however, that only (Continued on third page) PL IYER ELECTIONS Josiah L Merrill '2B Clyde H. Minster '2B Norman 11 Schade '2B Hurry F. Schwartz '2B William I' Stunmel '2B Robert S Pritchard '29 Miss C 110111111: W. Davies '2O Miss Eleanor E. Dutton, '3O Cuy W. Knight '3O Miss Olive Osterhout '3O Milton G. Young '3O ITIZARY 2 COPIES * PRESIDENT HETZEL BEGINS TWO-WEEK SPEAKING TOUR To Address Five Major Groups in Harrisburg—Lunches With Governor Fisher ATTENDS ANNUAL BOARD OF TRUSTEES MEETING Will Speak Tonight M Opening Convocation of Annual Farm Products Show Tao busy weeks during aloch he will make the major addresses are ahead of President Ralph D. Hetzel. Ile armed home Saturday evening from a tiip to Pittsburgh Inhere ne addre•.eed a record gather mg of Muni ni Friday night and continued on to Ilarnsburg Sunday. Goternor John S. Fisher entertained. the entire board of College trustees at the executive mansion in Darr.- burg Yesterday for luncheon, and the annual meeting of the board was held there immediately aftemards It aas, said that only ioutine business mat ' tei s, mostly relating to the college building program, acre considered at ,the trustee meeting. The executive, committee of the board met Yc.tcrd LY morning Opens Farm Slum Tonight Tonight Piesalent Hare] speaks at the opening convocation at the annual State Farm Product, Show in Hai uhere the Penn State var sity quartet will help entertain and Professor Grant still lead assembly singing Tomorrow he speaks at the . State Dairymens' Association banquet and attends a conference of railroad executives relative to policy in the operation of demonstration trains Another speaking engagement during the Faint Shots Is at the Master Far mers' banquet On January twenty-fourth the Piesident will attend a meeting of the board of directors of the State Cham ber of Commerce, and on the following day will attend the annual meeting of this state-wide inganiration On the (Continued on last page) COACH CONOVER SELECTS TEMPORARY FROSH TEAM Brownlee, Reynolds, Krumrine, Diedrich. Edwards Compose Tentative Plebe Quintet. Coach Larry CORM], f cshman basketball mentor, anticipating a close struggle with State College high school in the opening.game of bhe sea sor Saturday night assembled a ten tative plebe varsity quintet after in [easy,' practice on Thursday. Lai ry considers the present first team as only a temporary one subject to change at any time that better nia tenni is discovered Thu group now practicing as the first team has at center Ed Brownlee, lanky }calling football luminary.. Reynolds and Kiumrine ale working well together at forward while Died i and Ddwalds have shonm excel lent form at the defensive povLs. With the exception of Krum.ne thin team is compered of plebe football men Second Team Strung On the second stung squad which by gning the temporary varsity a close race Macoinb will occupy the middle flour position with Curtis and (Continual on last page) Varsity Hall Romeo In Beauty Con That Mac hall or Woman's Build ing should conduit a beauty show is peis.ble and altogether fitting., but that the inmates of Varsity Hall should take upon themsolses the problem of choosing a representative Apollo, in fact a Penn State Adonis, le preposterous and unbecoming, was the statement of the Varsity Hall jan itor concerning the rumor which is traversing the campus that a spec tacular show was staged last week at the College budding Such is the sad state of affairs re cently brought about by the afore mentioned exhibition, when as report bath it, John D. Pineura '2B, (does the "D" stand for Darling') was ad judged tho posre.or of "IT" to an greater degree than any one on the campus and Joseph W. Krell '29, he of the classy ties and oxford grey coat, woo given runner-up honors. Following a strategic battle for highest donors, in which no casual ties are listed at the infirmary, it is sand that the Pht Sig bon pulled a Lion Courtmen. To Meet Undefeated Juniata Five Basketball Team Los To Penn Quinte By Score 1 i ! Cap. Conan 51easurements i i Will Be Taken Saturday Final measurements for caps and goons for February com- 1 menzement will be taken at I Montgomery', Saturday from 1 i ono to five in the afternoon A I dollar deposit is required untli ! Vie or her All students having I I mea:mrements taken after this I inset pay .for telegram to com- i pans 1 COLLEGIAN ENTERS EDITORIAL CONTEST Journalistic Society Will 01Ter Cash Awards to Staffs Of College Papers FAMOUS JOURNALISTS WILL JUDGE WINNERS Ann aineement of ten c.ult prizes foe the be,t published in college journals throughout the Unto! Statt-R during the academic yeas 1927-1928 seas made yestruday by Henry C Doyle, dean of men, George Washington university, Wash ington, D. C, and grand vice-presi dent of Pi Delta Epsilon, national honorary polonium fraternity ,pon . ming the contest The Collegian will enter 41, five best ed tonal:, of the year in the contest, actor ding to Editor-In-chief {Wheeler Lord Is Too Groups Compete The competition has been divided into two groups, one open to all col lege journals and staffs and the other open to mink.. of Pi Delta Epsilon on the stalls of college Journals in in titutoon where the fraternity has an aetne elmptei Fi‘e prices of fifty, thirty-fhe, tmenty-file, fifteen and ten dollars set) be aunt ded to the win ners in each group. Judges for the contest are Ira E. Bennett, editor, Washington Post, Claude G Bowers, editor, New• York Evening World; Louis Ludlow, foi mei president, National Piess Club, Washington coirepondent, Oliver P Newman, Washington journalist; and Frederic William Wile, Washington oorrespondent and authet. The purpa•e of the contest m to (Continued on last page) Cosmopolitan Club To Conduct Open Meeting With the expres., pun pose of mole effectively revealing It, true north, the Co , mopolitan Club nill begin a ton le, of spun meetings n hen it con venee at the home of Di Lying L Foster Thursday night at seven thinty o'clock As principal speaker Di Fostm will mat out the steady progress of the organization in such a mannel that, it no hoped, a clearer under ,landing of its value viii appear in tin minds of, especially, all visitors, ho are cordially incited to attend . Vie For Honors est, Reports Declare Cast one on the Judges when they od the reviehing bland ne.umg spat..., thereby putting Roe 'tithonti> and Donn Greenshields out of the running, the diminutive Pin breast ing the tape, it It inner in the first an nual "Pononalily" Content for Vig orous Males. Posubilities that a May King con test will complete the stannous sched ale for the Roaring Lions, it is said ale for the Social Lions, was express ed by Larry Coons or, freshman bas ketball coach, uhich it is reported ii as preceded by a confab with Hal Hustings, which is a possible contender for the throne. Hal has re peatedly said that he does not choo.4e to run, according to Varsity 'Hall sewing circle gossip, but it is lumor ed that the genial Larry has his doubts about Hal's sincesity. If this project succeeds, Mate Hall officials me said to have declared that attempts will be made to make the May Day event a combined affair and a manor sport at Penn State. Oedipus Wrecks The Play PRICE FIVE CENTS s Hard-fought Battle Saturday Night f 23 to 21 Penn Staten ba.skethall team, af tei losing a hard-fought contest, to the Penn fi.e by a 23-21 onset at the Palestra Saturday night, Is proper . ing to meet the undefeated Juniata quintet at seven o'clock tomorrow night in the Armory With fine lettermen back from last year, Juniata has a strong team this season ant can be expected to extend the Nittany pa.sseis sn tornorro - a's game In their list of victories, the Indian., include Ty rune Y 31 C A, l'enn Central and Albright college. They liana abo defeated Lebanon Vpl- Icy by comfortable margins Indians Hone I etcren Pine Gone!, Siersennes courtmen till probubly stait the game 'oath Cap tain Weller and hasenhait, forwards, ltntmgm, center, and Douglas and M,chael, guards. Heck Weller, Duce sport man, is playing his fourth year vt sarsity basketball and as captain in, the second consecutive year Bill Lasenhart anal Bulldog Holsinger, konliomores, ate beginning their sec ' mut %cal on the first-string quintet Real Douglas has had one y cal of yar d, court espelienee, w.hile Michaels 1a the only nencomer in the dine-up LI, season The Juniata court mentor lias able übstituto material in George Beery. 13einard Andrei, and Art Steele. guards. and John Beery, center LaA year's tilt ended with the score 29 to 19 in fmoi of the Lion,, but the Hun t•ngdon dribbler, kept the sumo nearly oven until the last ant nrnutes of play. Thu Penn flow men gained a lead over the Nittany pa.,ers early in the IN half of Saturday's flay and onaintaino I it throughout the game Ai the end of the initial period the Blue and White hope.; mere some what dampened m ith the score 14 to 7 ,favor of Coach MeNichol's The Penn State eourtmen .caged comeback in the second half and man sgel to cut dean the Red and Blue lead until they mere - frustrated in the cloung minutes by Penn's successful fleeting tactic, Coorge Delp, substituted for Dern ten minutes after the opening wh stle boosted the Lion count xith (Continued on lost page) Nurse Joins Staff Of Health Service ,Plepalatoly to placing - thuflew: Health Sena, to a posrtzon to en- Its ',due to the student utth the completion of the new In firmer} by ne,t Septen bee, a highly expertenced gladuate llurs Alter M. Chubb, It. N ,'hue been added to the stall, accol ding to announce n en. Miss Chubb ens graduated from Limo Medico Clitruignal llomital Train ing School for Muses at Philadel phia, cla,s of 1910 in addition to a cast menenee in pi ivate naming. :ho spent hoe Sears m.ith the Penn •llvamn Stab D2l.ll.ment of Health .19 a noise .peciali , t and for the past Lie yeas she has been instructor of nu., and aisistant directres, of nurses of the Uniontown llogintal Training Sol out fur Nurses, at Un.on toun, Penmylvanin GLEE CLUB TO PRESENT ENTERTAINMENT NUMBER Varsity Male Quartet To Appear On Musical Program of Diverse Nature After meeting with no the !lent road (tip the Penn Mate Glee Club is ill furnish the entertainment I for the fourth number of the "Y" tea Waimea Course Friday esening, !January twenty—eventh. This will be the initial appearance the* year at home. The program promisor to con tain selections of a high musical rat mg. Itlircet, never before attempted will be possible with the large group of sixty-live nude members. The Vai.ity Male Quartet, Thus Helene Lachenmeyer, pianist, Miss Ada Romig '2B, soprano, and Miss .Murtha Gobrecht 'JO, and Edmund L. Mabel '3l, in a marimba and xylo phone duet will also appear on the program. Besides the more serious typo of muck several humorous novel ties will be intioduccd 'Seats for this peiformanco are now available at the "Y" hut.
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