Phihulelphia ,
"Where the
Catells Blow"
' VOL XXIII, No. 31
FRATERNITIES ASK
DOCTOR CATELL TO
SPEAK AT SMOKER
One-Time Friend of President
Garfield Has Attained
Fame as ()rang
SERVED AS PHILADELPHIA
MUNICIPAL STATISTICIAN
Greek Societies Invite National
Officers Here To Attend
February Conclave
Dr. Edwin J. Catell, noted after
dinner speaker and one-tune friend of
President Garfield, will visit Penn
State to make an address at the all
fraternity smoker Monday night,
February sixth, during the coming
three-day conference of the Greek or
ganizations if his services can be ob
tained for that slate, announces Vic
tor 0. Schmierer '2B, president of the
Interfratersity Council.
Serving as city statistician of Phil
adelphia for thirty years and adsts
m to several mayors during - that
time in addition to his numerous
opeaking engagements Doctor Caton
has won a wide reputation throughout
the eastern United States. Among
the prominent men with whom he
has been intimately connected during
his bin are President Garfield and
Hobert Louis Stevenson.
Spoke Here Before
Doctor eaten made an address at
the Interfiaternity Council smoker
heio a lose months ago. When the
general commit:tre of the conference
met Tuesday night, the members vot
ed unanimously to attempt to obtain
ban as the chief speaker for the ban
quet.
Invitations have been sent to all
officers of the national Inter fraternity
conference to attend the conclave here
February fifth, sixth and seventh
The connnittee,lB also urging an Penn
State chapters .16 invite their nation
al officers.
Shepardeon To Attend
Other prominent men who svill
speak at the confab are William S.
Dye of the English department and
national president of Acacia, Joseph
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PHILADELPHIA MINISTER
WILL ADDRESS CHAPEL
Dr. Ivan M. Rose Plans Sermon
Dealing With Reflected
Reality in Life
"Fully Equipped and Unafraid"
As ill be the topic of the Reverend Ivan
M. Roses address at chapel Sunday
morning in the Auditorium.
Doctor Rose, in a recent letter to
President Ralph D. Iletzel, states,
"Sly 'message will nut am painfully
definite in its direction to students,
but at rely likely will have some evi
dences of the inflected reality of !life
as it is"
Tho Reverend Rose, the minister of
the First Baptist Church of Phila
delphia, was born in Yarmouth coun
ty, Nova Scotia, where he received
his early education. in 1911 he grad
uated from the Acadia university and
for the nest four years he taught
school and preached in the Provinces.
In 1915 die enrolled as a student at
the Rochester Theological seminary
where he graduated lin 1918. Since
that time he has held pastorates at
!Malone, New Yoik, at Rome, New
York, and eighteen months ago he
valise to the First Baptist 'Church,
!Philadelphia
Last yeut at this time the Rever
end Rose visited Penn State to speak
at chapel. On Sunday morning his
speech will he bioadcast by radio sta
tion WPSO.
AG PROFESSORS ATTEND -
FARM PRODUCTS SHOW
Professor; Ft anklm L Bentley,
Mansell F. Grimes, James F. Slug
ley, Peter C. MacKenzie and William
L. Henning, instructors in the ani
mal husbandry department, ale at
tending the annual State Farm Pro-
ducts Show in Hatrisbutg this week.
!Professor Bentley is judging baby
bees. Professor Henning is to give
an Illustrated lactate on sheep hus
bandry in England and Scotland, giv
ing the different methods of manage
ment and breeding of sheep. Doctor
Shigley is acting as chairman of the
committee on communicable diseases
transmitted through milk. Mr. Mac-
Henan! is judging lambs and Mr.
Grimes is judging swine.
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SAMPLE CLASS BLAZERS
ARRIVE FOR INSPECTION
Three almost identical styles of
junior blazers have been received by
the committee in charge and ale on
display at Whitey Musser's The
price and tmie of distribution of the
coats, however, have not been definite
ly determined.
The rthree,button, informal sack
coats are of a steel gray background
with garnet pipings. They have a con
servative appearaozo and• are dis
tinctly up-to-date so every respect
The comnnttee in charge of the blaz
ers has not decided as yet whether
the coats will have a Penn State
shield; the class numeials or a pocket
on their upper loft side.
CHAMBERLAIN MAY
VISIT PENN STATE
Miation Club Invites Atlantic
Conqueror to Land Here
For Aero Lecture
DISTANCE-RECORD HOLDER
BRINGS TWO AIRPLANES
Clarence D. Mambo].lain will visit
State College the latter part of next
week under the auspices of the nea-
Il Aviation Club if the mem
bers succeed in obtaining the thou
sand dollar guarantee required by the
aviator.
The noted aviator, in his nation
wide tour, will visit Hanisburg, Al
toona, and Johnstown next week, key
ing the date of his visit here in doubt
Chamberlain will give an address
in the Schwab auditonum concerning
his flights and the lack of good fly
ing fields in United States. An ad
mission will be charged to obtain the
necessary guarantee and if a deficit
remains club members are attempting
to have the Kswams and Rotary clubs
and the American Legion meet it.
will- travel -with a onc•passen
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PLEBE CAGERS TO MEET
LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL FIVE
Conover Will Start Tentative
- Quintet—State College
Changes Lineup
Larry Conover's ycatling court
proteges will have a real test of abil
ity v, hen they meet the strong State
College high school team in the open
ing game of the season an the Armory
tomorrow night after the Varsity con
test
State College high has played set
en games and won five of them, hat
ing lost one to the alumni and one
Leo istown high school. Latry de
aler. that .1 his men do not play
better .basketball than they have been
playing recently, they 'will have a
hard time on minning Saturday's tilt,
although the Red and White dub
blers are much lighter than the fresh
men.
Tentaitite Team To Start
Coach Conover expects to start the
•quad that has been maeticing as the
tentative that team against the town
boys. Ed Brownlee who has shown
up fairly well in the last few prac
tices will occupy the middle floor post.
Dicdrick and Edwards, whose impass
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Foot-Worn and Weather-Beaten Track
Fostered Many Collegiate Champions
Time-a orn and neatlier-beaten,
bearing service scars comparable to
those of a veteran warrior of many
bloody battlefields, scars implanted
upon its surface by the spites of
countless dying Sect, the old board
track has given way to progress and
a new and linger ellipse now arises
to take its place
Built about the tone that the Unit
ed States enteica the World Wax, in
an entirely flat form without the
sloping curves of the present-day
tack, Penn State's fast track exist
ed until the advent of Coach Nate
Cartmell In 1923.
Then the days of the second track,
the one winch has Just been removed,
began. It was not, howevo, a totally
new structure for all of the lumber of
the first was used in its construction.
It can be said therefore that the sen
a of the old track has existed since
about 1917
Track Champions
Although the track itself has pass
ed away, mernoms of the noted track
men who have spiked It still Imger
in srorklou From Gamuenndler to
STATE COLLEGE, PA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1928
WPSC BROADCASTS MAT
ENCOUNTER TOMORROW
Penn State's opening wrestling
meet of the season - will be broadcast
' Saturday afternoon front the Armory,
It was announced by Donald 31. Cies,.
well, director of WPSC, yesterday.
Broadcasting still begin at one-fifty
o'clock with a preliminary talk by
Larry Conover, who broadcasted last
year's athletic events, at an alternate.
On Tueeday night 'Martha June
Gobrecht '3O, will play several selec
dions on the piano, and later in the
evening Ebon M. Peek '2B, a membei
of the varsity quartet, is ill tender
romp vocal solos. Several organ
,- eloetions are scheduled for Wednes
day night, but no personel has yet
been completed for the evening's en
tertainment.
ANDY LYTLE PASSES
INTO GREAT BEYOND
College Mourns as "Eighty Year
Old Freshman" Receives
Final Tributes
SUCCUMBED TO BRONCHIAL
ATTACK MONDAY EVENING
Andy Lytle is dead.
Penn States perennial freshman
seas buried yesterday morning in the
Branch cemetery, little more than a
tilde from the farmhouse ...here lie
lined until about ten years ago
The burial seas preceded by funeial
melees at Ins Pugh street tendence
with the Res Dr Samuel Martin
art the Rev. Donald Carruthers of
the Presbyterian church officiating.
Delegations from the senior class and
the student body attended the ser
vices and presented final tributes in
final deference to the man whose
name has become a tradition with
the student generations.
Eighty Years Old
Andy, as he has always been known
on the campus, celebrated Ins eighti
eth birthday on the twenty-eighth of
Septombe. On that night loyal stu
dents invaded the domicile of their
aged hero, never suspecting it was
the last time they would pay homage
to slay-haired Andy. In response to
the motion, Andy, unsuspecting as
his audience, declared In a low and
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College Chemists
Bring Judgment
On Food Spoilers
Located on the summit of Ag
far above tho rest of the town, the
icultu ral Experiment station
serves a double purpose for the com
mon:ls and the State both as a
mord:her forecoatci and as a food us
amlet.
Reports are sent at ten o'clock °v
et). morning from the United States'
Weathee bateau to the local weathei
man who immediately Sornards the
news to the public by a system of
signal flags flown from the tower of
the dilupenment station. These re
ports which never prophesy climatic
conditions for mote titan tno days in
advance are built upon infonmation
given 'by ,govOirnment observers sta
tioned .thioughout the country.
As one of six laboratories employed
lby the State Pine Food bateau the
Espeiiment station aide the Common-
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Bill Cox about ten Penn State inter
collegiate track champions have
trained upon it
Back in 1918 Gansuemuller brought
to the Nittany valley one of the first
championships ovai uon by a Penn
State man in the intelcollegiatas lie
won first place in the hundied-yard
dash outdo°s and has been the only
Blue and White spa Intel to attain
such an honor to date
Not Nl,O find Lamy Shields, one of
the best distance men that Penn State
has ever Produced, winning the mile
in 1920 and again in 1922. About the
same time Blondy Romig and Harold
Harlon were playing havoc with the
Indoor records In the intereollegiates
Little Harold won the hall-male, and
the sixty-yard high hurdles in 1922.
Allan Heinrich von the half-nulc
in 1923 and the quarter an 1924 while
his eeiunmate, .Schuyler Enck, took
the nule in 1923 and Crip Moore took
the hurdles crown an 1924,
This, of course, brings the chron
ology down to tho time s-lien Bill Cox,
Al Bates, Dick Bartholomew and Ted
Mathias made lilbtory—the pratent
NITTANY MATMEN
OPEN SEASON WITH
ALFRED TOMORROW
Untried but Sturdy Wrestling
Combination •To Oppose ,
New York Team
PENN STATE'S' STRENGTH
LIES IN LOW-WEIGHT MEN
Liggett and Packard Provide
.Only Veteran Material
On Nei; Septet
An untried but stnrdy Penn State
wrestling team trill 'assemble on the
Armor} Mats - When two Lions eneol.lll
- Alfred unneisity fin the open
m;, meet of the sewn tomorrow af
ternoon at to,thirty o'Clock.
The engagement marks a manual
of grappling relations \rah the New
York irmtitutlon, thelast meet, avlnch
took place toe years; ago, having re
milted in a 26-5 triumph for the Nit
tany Valley aggregailon Tomorrow,
honorer, Alfred can be expected to
preside adequate cOmpetition in all
a the seven weights
Since the Interclass scrap on Sat
uiday, Coach Speidel , has been pan
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HOP COMMITTEE
SELECTS FAVORS
Nature of Souvenirs , Picked for
Sophomore Ftinetion Is
Not Alum{laced
ALTCONA FIRAT.QFFERS
LATEST DECORATING BID
-With the ordertne4.f,d.mre favors
from , the A E. Wri4ht 'company of
Philadelphia, pi epatatiens for the
Sophomore flop, February tenth, are
rapidly nearing completion. No an
nouncement has been made, however,
concerning the nature of the selection
which the committee made.
The placing of the decorating con
tract has been delayed because of an
additional bid which has recently been
received from the Annie Decorating,
company of Altoona It is certain
that a final decision on the matter
rill be made before the end of this
week, accoiding to Sydney 11. Lewis
'3O, chairman of the committee.
IT:=I
Thu combined Don Vorhees record
ni& orchestra, which has been en
gaged to provide the necessary see
copatlon for Die underclass formal
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Dr. Dutcher Heads
Vitamine Experts
'llia task of naming two new vita
mins that ale now known to com
p.o what was 'formerly knon,n as
"VJtanun Ims been entrusted to
a committee of internationally known
teal and health scientist, beaded by
Prof. Raymond A Dutehm, hell
Imoun vitnmin .diecuthst and head
of , the &pal tmcnt of agriculttnal and
biological chemistry at Penn State
This committee on vitamin tech
nology is composed of member° of the
Amen can Society of Biological ,Chem
ists, mid the gioup wall base the co
operation of the Bntash society of
the same name in the solution of this
and similar problems confronting , hie.
logical chemists
Oil ca mombeis of the American
committee arc Di. 11. C Sherman,
Columbia uni,eisity, On. P. A. Le
ven°, of the Rockefeller Institute of
Aledical Research; Dr. Hurry Steen
bock, Uni‘ernity of Wisconsin and Dr.
Atherton Scala, of the Dwain of
Public Health and Hygiene, Wash
ington, D C.
Professor Dutcher is known espec
ially for his researches here in the
vitamin content of milk us it is af
fected by heat and daily lotions
Cap, Gown Measurements
Will Be Taken Tomorrow
Final mensal ements for cups
and goons for February com
mencement will be taken ut
Montgomery's float one to five
o'clock tomorrow afternoon. A
dollar deposit is required with
each order. All studerts having
measurements taken after this
must pay for telegiams to the
company.
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Totirgiatt.
Players Revive Grecian
Drama Tomorrow Night
Presenting n gripping modernized
version of Sophorlea' immortal Grec
,ian tragedy, the Penn State Players
Iwill stage "Oedipus Be d 'ls the Aud-
Ytorium tomorrow night at eight
twenty o'clock
All preparations for the eighth an
ni‘msary dramatic production of the
Players have been completed The
seemly has been eieeted and the east
has keen lehearsing eery evening
this week in the completed set. El-
'mood W. Bailey TS, the Player,' elec
timian, has worked out novel light
ing effects that will do much to en
hance the performance The soft
shades and the classic lines of the
costumes will give the feminine am
us an added grace and charm.
The organisation is making Soph
ocles' masterpiece the mast artistic
and outstanding of their productions
this year Director Arthur C Coes
tingh, professor of dramatics and lit
mature, has substituted a chorus of
fourteen young maidens for the group
of Theban elders characteristic of
Sophocles' time. The methods of the
classic theater are being followed as
'closely as possible in order to produce
a co'orful play of dramatic intensity.
Age-aiding to Dnector Clootingh,
the cast as caught the spirit of the
Grangers And Liberal
Artists Debate Worth
Of Agriculture School
“That the School of Agriculture
should he thrown out of the' college
cuirmula” was the subject of a hum
orous debate between a trio of agri
cultuie ' Students and three liberal
attests at the Grange meeting Tues
day night. The decision was a draw.
Tom W Crittenden '29, muter of
the tonal Grange, appointed Harry A
tan, Own 11 men of the whicat‘on
al department, Dorothy M. Ashley
'29, chairman of the home economics
divistu, and George Baker '29, and
John P Shrauder '3O, chairmen of
the social and ritualistic departments,
respectively Plans mere also made
tor a Grange banquet March twenty-
Worth
THESPIAN CONTESTANTS
DISPLAY WRITING SKILL
Manuscripts Reseal Students'
Ideals For Clean-cut
Life at College
That a nealth of play wilting
is present in the utudent body is
manife,ted in the success of the an
nual Thespian I, , ay nraing contest
a Inch closed last bunday.
gieatest number of mantt
cripto since the inaugui awn of ,this
centes,t nos submitted to the Club
this year, several of them being turn
ed in eftes the el,sing of the contest
The lattei ones, aeon though melt
g ble to be used this yea!, will be
placed in nest year's contest. The
mann tmps submitted n ere lead to
the Thespian Club by the Contest
committee, of Much David D. Mason
is chairman, and were innediatc , y
forwas led to Maurice Dan ey, the
pree.pecla‘e coach of this yew's I hes
plan shun, fin Ins consideration.
Collegiate Theme
The students' liking for clean cut
college life and actitities uas shown
?* the submitted plays, foi without
an taception all of them were of col
legiate character, apitikling with
humor and instilled uith an atones
phei eof campus life One plot unit
ten along the lines of a detective
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INTERERATERNITY CAGERS
COMMENCE TOURNAMENT
When the initial games of the In
ter-fiaternity basketball tournament
were played hut night in the Armoiy,
foul of the pal tiemating Seams sonic
eliminated.
Eight quintets mill play each Tue , -
day and Thursday night of eves y week
according to the 'schedule of guinea
placed in the window at Co-op, an
nounce, Vernon Fi itchman '29, man
ager of the competition
The flist too contests of each ev
ening soul begin at eight o'clock and
tho following too at nine o'clotli
Fifteen minutes will be allotted for
the holies.
Frstichman announces further that
it is important fm the tennis to ploy
at the tune misigned in order to aiind
conflicts •that would ensue from di,
re,gaitllng the planned order.
pla}, and each has .trrven to pcifect
himself m Ins appointed role. Be
nutstennut tho intucatics of clas.sic
dancing, the chorus promises to gite
a pleasing note to the production.
Copy Old Creek Stage
Being divided into 'two leech eon
! rested by several steps, the stage cot.-
' le :ponds to the ancient (heck niacin
Thr, principals so 11 appear on the up-
Lm level an,! enact their coles. The
ci eras, dancing interpretisely with
iythm and grace rem.un.s on the tow
el lend for practically , the cutire stag
of the play.-
"Oedipus Rex" is concerned with a
great Vague uhich is devastating the
land of the Thebes Oedipus, king of
the Thebes, curses the peison respon
vVe for the divine , rath seen in the
Finet. From a Messenger Oedipus
learns that he hintulf has slain hes
lather .end had children by h. own
mrther,the beautiful Queen, Jocasta
When the truth becomes known Jo
casta slats beisel.f and Ocilipu.s
strikes out his eyes
Ricker Ai; Oedipus
Benjamin F. nickel '2B, as Oedipim,
king of the Thebes, and Miss Margaret
F. Simon '2B, as Queen Jocaste, will
, play the leading roles. They will be
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HOUCK CONDITIONS
BOXING CANDIDATES
Entire Squad Dons Gloves After
Week of Roadnork—Rounds
Last Three Minutes
STEVE BENDICK HURTS
SHOULDER IN PRACTICE
"Condition and work coupled with
tko 'or the do.
termining factors in making the
tenet" declared Coach Leo Houck
yesterday' in commentmg on the can
d date, for the varsity boxing team.
"Eveiy man, tegardless of pronoun
ring espetmnce, will hate an equal
chance to wm a first-stung place,
provided ho works and keeps in strict
twining," continued the Lion mentor
Plenty of Mork
The boxing routine of the past
nett, has borne out Leo's statements.
Mies a neck of nothing hut heavy
roadwork and calisthenics the entire
quail has again donned the gloNes,
this tube for full thiec minute rounds
Speed, that dement of the sport that
Houck inse,ts uron, has shown itself
in all the bouts this week.
Particularly among the heasier men
has the meek of conditioning been
noticeable Mac Andrews, Struble and
Custer have sounded into leghtin4
shape and tioin num , urtil the open
ing meet nest Sate day this trio will
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Prof. Kaulfuss Returns
From Builders' Parley
The Anmi it.,,, Road Betide.' eon
, caner held at Cleveland, Ohio, last
work disclosed a NarlaY of ultra-
MO n ten-.ti uction equipment and a
strong desire, evectally on the pal t
Or the delegate:, from Centa al and
South Amor., to use .uchlnachinery
in budding a Pan-Atneratan thorough.
fore, accoi ding to Prof Julius E.
ICaulfuss who has returned to hta du
ties in the Engineering school
Soon the tune mill come, say., Pio
fessor Kaulfuss, me hen a concrete
highway can bo laid front start to
finish by one complex machine that
will prepare the road-bed, pour the
concrete, clean up debt, and men
erect signs and guard rads.
ALUMNI HOLD MEETINGS
Penn State alumni of this state
and vicinity held meetings Saturday
and Monday nights at Uniontown,
Youngstonn, Ohio, and New Castle.
Mr. Edward N. Sullivan, alumni
secietaiy, was present at these meet
and Mr Eduard K I Hibshman,
assistant Ito the President, visited the
New Castle conclave.
IWho's Dancing 1
Football Dance (cloced)
Theta Chi
Phi Kappa Sigma
Saturday
Kappa Delta Rho
Tau PM Delta
Sigma Pi
Theta Xi
A Favored
Social
Function
PRICE FIVE CENTS
BASKETBALL TEAM
ENGAGES BULLETS
TOMORROW' NIGHT
Nsttany Quintet Routh Juniata
Courtmen by 53-18 Score
In Wednesday's Till
COACH HERAMNN'S NEW
LINE-UP SHOWS POWER
Single Defeat By Temple Mars
Record of Inexperienced
Gettysburg I. he
The improved Nttlany basketball
team will follow its rout of Juniata's
coin intro by a 53.18 store, tsith the
Ootty•,burg encounter at men oclwk
itomorrov. night in the Armory
If the Lion p.mers display the
Lone shown against the Indians, they
- bould have laCe difficulty defeat
',; the Cetty,burg five The Bullet
prowesq is not to be under-rated, hou
even, since they hate last only the
opening game, the tilt with lemple
a: Philadelphia Since the first en
countei Coach Dteam's nommen hale
um flora American univeisity, Dick.
urea, Susquehanna and Franklin and
Marshall.
Getty sburr Is Inesperiuncrd
The Gettysburg. quintet , lacking
in experience with four sophomore,
or the sarsity combination. Captain
Fut. HaPer, the only ‘etman, and
Duke Clamor will start at foluariLi.
Pluto at eentei, and Bo McMillan and
E Idle Gut an at guards. The Orange
and Blue couch has =Pahl. rescue
=Until in Cockley, Challenger and
Clingei.
M!2E3
Ul' George Delp and Dick Reinhold
at forsaids prosed superior in the
mid-neck game to any other combi
nation tried this season. The Net
tany quintet functioned as a snooth
uorking pn , t -for the first time the
year and theme sees little to criticise in
e.ther team work or shooting during
the initial period The Lion court
mentor will start the same players to
morrow night against the Bullet.
Tho Blue and White cagemen IMM-
O Wednesday nig'at's tilt with a bril
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FORENSIC GROUP LAUDS
SOPHOMORE SPEECHES
Plans To Itenio‘e lamilations
On Present Entrance
Rewurements
Vonang a hearty approval of thi.
`"lophoonne Extemporancou,
Socalon, tontest as to quality or
psyche, and maim:Aosta: reception
L. those attending, the Forensic Coun
cil, arrived wt ~to ernl mitten tant de
-I.,tont ceneetning . , the contest at the
meeting. Tue-dap night to Old Chapel.
'l here had beat iln-etty.lem a, to
cc hethei of not abob,h lice tuenty
ti‘e dollar pivu obieli is prorated by
tic Council The 1,13 de-
LI led reedit, 0 tic,
I.olalllllo the olTetance or the7FaThd
t 'rice Counul also 0 La pto_ti 1111,1111111011,13
ount on tecord tc
appto,inz a :Arid limitation of
entrants in the contest At pre.,ent
t 1.3 sophoincies lice the f-ehail of
Cnenu.tay and Physks are barrel
limn participating due to the fact,
that they , are talang no English sub
jects In their second year. To permit
these student.., and others laintlarle
boated, to enter the .nopetitton, thu
Furen'cc Council I, planning eon
._trueti, action
The question of %Oahe, /l separale
gels' ointolical contest would be
mole Advantage.. and oleic fair to
all concerned, Wll4 SING dincnvrd et
this electing. The Council favored
continuance of the present Joint con
test
MANDOLIN CLUB TO GIVE
NOVEL WINTER CONCERT
Preparations foi the annual mid
ainter concert to be given about the
middle of Felnuary are being made
by the Penn State Mandolin club The
orchestra of the club is arranging
program containing many novel fea
tures whicli will be picsented by the
new stung and banjo wants, and by
numinous soloists.
In addition to this, plans are and"•
wily for a trip to the Huntingdon Re
formatory and to the State Peniten
tiary at Rockview. The trip will be
sponsored by the Penn State Grange
and will be taken some time in March.