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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.