On the Playground VOL XXIII. No. 38 ORANGE LOOMS AS STRONG OPPONENT FOR LION MATMEN Captain Liggett Resumes Berth While Chenoweth, Wilson Vie As Lightweights DON STEELE ENCOUNTERS OKUN, HILLMEN'S LEADER 'Syracuse Boasts Victory From Pennsylvania—Fell Before Lehigh and Cornell A stalwart Syracuse team, well versed in the arts and maneuvers of the mat, will provide a fitting recep tion for the thrice victorious Nittany wrestlers when they engage in what promiws to be a series of hard-fought tussles tomorrow at Syracuse. Composing the Orange grappling aggregation are two intercollegiate champions, Captain Charlie Mtn, ban tamweight, and Patterson, who achiev ed fame in the heavyweight berth, as well as three other veterans, Tucker, Novak and Cordasco. In their pre , lOUs meets this season, the Hillmen defeated Pennsylvania's matmen by a, demi, e score, but were unable to withstand either Lehigh or Cornell Liggett Resumes Post Practically the Caine Lion matinee who primed so successful against La fayette last Saturday well make the New York trip. Captain Wally Lig gett null resume his place in the ape cialweight division, while either Ted Wilson or Red Chenometh will step out on the mats for the 135-pound setto. During the past week, in fact game early in the season, Wilson and Chen oweth hate been splitting honors quite tvenly in the lightweight class ohm mations. Both emerged Lem their Maroon tilts with credit and at now remains a toss-up as to of tho 335-pounders will find himself facing Novak in tomorrow's bout. Steele Meets Oltunj ^ , Don Steele, who has 'acquitted him , self satisfactorily in the season's pre vious engagements, will sear the Jersey for Penn State in the bantam weight class He will be snatched ith Okun, • previously' mentioned Orange captain and smiler of last 3e,ii's intercollegiate laurels In the nest bout, Wally Liggett will tilt (Continued on last page) EDUCATIONALISTS PLAN TO ATTEND CONFERENCE Faculty Members Will Travel To Boston for National Teachers' Parley A number or College faculty mem bers arc planning to attend the na tional conference of educationalists eponsored by the national Department, of Superintendents to he held in Bos ton dining the lout week of thin month. Among those who lull travel to the New Englund city are Dr Churl, C. Peters, director of educational re acareh; Pahnei C Weaser, Carroll D. Champlin, Benjamin Daily and Alvie I, Ithoton, of the School of Educa tion; and Harry G. Parkinson and Clarence S. Anderson, of the agricul• tare education department. Doctor Peters and Professor And erson will present papers to certain grout* during the conclave. Doctor Peters me in address the National So ciety of College Teachers of Educa tion on the subject of "Educational Sociology." This gathering of educationalists as an annual event and is usually attend ed by twenty thousand or more people who are in some way interested in the teaching of education. Candidates for Varsity Battery Places Start Daily Baseball Drills Daily pre season wet touts for base ball battery candidates begun Mon day and will continue until warmer weather permits outdoor drills. Coach Hugo Bertlek Is well pleased with the prospects and hopes to ;have the bat teries in shape for the general call of diamond aspirants early nest month. • From 'last year's Varsity nine, Van Atta and Hums, pitchers, and Ltoke, catcher, are working out each after. noon In the Stock Pavilion. Of last yeas's freshman squad, Lockard and Fry, pitchers, and Batdorf, catcher, me trying for Varsity berths Other aspirants Include Mart, Musser and Campbell, pitchers, and 'Bullish, catch, . 0; ,.,1, 4,. run. r % .,,,,,3,,. .„.„, „,,...,, ~:_.:!,„5,.. Committee Compiles Bond Issue Statistics College Faculty Plans Distribution of Data on Eight-Million Dollar ' State Project Here Compilation of statistics and data relating to the eight-million dollar bond issue for the College building program upon which the Pennsylvania public will vote nest November, is progressing rapidly, announces Dr Charles. C. Peters, chairman of the committee for gathering and distrib uting this information. This committee, composed chiefly of members of the College faculty, has collected material and informa tion from which it has produced a number of graphs and charts showing how far Penn State is behind other NOTED SPORTSMEN WILL TALK AT "S" BANQUET IN MARCH Bill Roper, Princeton Grid Coach, Agrees To Attend Dinner Of Star Athletes PROPOSE TO STIMULATE INTEREST IN PENN STATE Glee Club and Varsity Quartet Will Offer Entertainment At Annual Event For the purpose of stimulating in terest in the College by giving vis itors an inside view of college life and activrtic.s, .Penn State will hold its brat annual "S" banquet m Hall, March twenty-fourth. Lettornicri, in i l iern'of the Vatsty ''club, class presidents and outstand ing high school athletes of Pennsyl yams will attend the function. The committee, composed of six senior clan members with Harold Hastings as chairman, has arranged a seised program fo: tie tntertaimnent of those w•ho attend Secure Prominent Speakers Prominent sportsmen have been se cured as smilers for the affair, which in the first of ala Lind aver alitenvided by the College. Bill Roper, noted football coach at Princeton univer.. cit.), has consented to address the group. In addition, possibilities are high that Lawson Robertson, veteran hack mentor of the Univers..ty of Pennsylvania, and Grantland Race, (Continued on last page) Fraternity Courtmen Resume Eliminations Re 'ming, the mterfraternity bas ketball tourney, Alpha Tau Omega defeated Sigma Phi Epmlon, Delta Tau Delta dust to Delta Up ,dun, Theta Kappa Ph, vanomshcil Alpha Gamma Rho and Delta Pt defeated Tau Sigma Plu in Tuesday night's contests. Not Tucoday thM e be am names, announces the managet Ile nano declared that all teams scheduled to play at a certain time must report at that time or I'm felt the contest. Fraternities Loose "Goats" As Annual Greek Hell Week Hostilities Advance That four-legged of th e animal world yilime head is the butt in many yo'tcs and 'Much annually displays its potential energy especial ly among the hapless plebes at tins time of the year has begun its pil grimage about the College. The rav ages of this mammal, which is none othei than the common goat, haw long been heralded before the frater nity freshmen, producing a feeling of anxiety as to the outcome of all that mysterious. Several sets of 3 earlings are al read3 in the throes of Hell Week and aro earnestly praying for the tor ture to cud, hut the psychology of the thing makes the days drag Into months and sears Life to these lurk lees humans seems useless and unen durable, and the only inspiration aluch urges them ensued is the thought of wearing the Greek badge if they survive the ordeal. Indeed the freshman class seams to change entirely. Its members go shout with lips tightly closed, tipping their hats to the upper dustmen from STATE COLLEGE, PA:, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1928 land-grant institutions in building :lc velopments. It is planned to use these graphs within a few months to place the lack of building funds here before the int ers of the State through the medium of newspapers and magazines in an extensive information 'campaign. The group has found that Penn State stands far below similar colleges [facilities for education. I One graph shows that since 1916 Michigan h. appropriated $17,720,922 for the building program of its state educational institution, and that tee dye other states average $7,292,820 bile the Keystone state has set aside but $01,500 during that time. lIM=Zi!MIZIE College records show that since 1905 there has been an increase of students heir of 516 per cent, using the enrollment figures of that year as a basis During the same time there has been an increase of only 120 per cent in the value of the buildings. Doctor Peters states that the Com mittee has found that in 1900 the en rollment here was 283 students and that the value of the College buildings was $790,000 Last year there ssrte 13,907 students enrolled and the build ings nerd evaluated at $2,797,041. These figures show very clearly, he believes, that the growth of the musts (Continued on last page) FAMOUS QUARTET TO GIVE CONCERT Flonzaley Group Will Present ,-.Seventlt.kluraber of.t`Y". Course in March ARTISTS VISIT FOREIGN NATIONS FOR RECITAL After twenty-three years, during which it has given more than twenty fise hundred concerts throughout Europe and America, the Floneuley Quartet, proclanntil artists of cham ber music, will make its last appear ance at Penn State in the Schwab auditorium Saturday evening, March third, for the seventh number of the "Y" Entertainment course Unit, ersally heralded in the press as the foremost organization or itz keel now berme the public, Lhe four members of the stung quartet are coming heir for the last time. Fel lowing next year's tour which wilt celebrate its twenty-11th anniLersary, the Quartet will disband Three Original Pla3ers Unique in the history of the Qua , let is the fact that three of the pi :gum' player, are still with the or ganization Adolfo Both, first violin. Alfred Alfred Pochon, second violin, and Nan WArthambeau, cellist, hose worked together continually since the Quail : let was founded in 190'; by Id J do Coppet, Nos York Wilke, and lover of chamber muste. 11l health, con tracted during nos• ,ern ice, compelled Ugo Ara, in iginal viola playm, to re sign Nicholas Muldavan replaced Ara in 1025 (Continued on page five) their fraternity houses and in gen eral appeal to be fearful of some im pending doom Alarm clocks are done away with at this period and the would-be Meeks, impersonating TOPS tors, proclaim loudly from the house tops the early bouts of the morning. Wearers of the verdant pate-coves mg staring from a lofty perch among the branches et a tree, warbling like a bird and making the custontaiy noises of dogs and cuts are a com mon sight during inibmtion week Piofcssors are continually tieing pestered to place their signatures on eggs which the pledges are requested to carry with them at all times. After a general exchange of clothes these lads present a sorry sight US they plod to and from classes. When the founders of the frater nities first assembled to iformulate plans for initiation of future mem bers they were, not thinking, pitmarily of the fun which the administration of the mama would provide. Their platoon was rto atm:lsis upon the pledges those panciples v.hieli could not be instilled otherwise. Council Contymplates Construction of Walk ' Construction of a 4,alk or retaining wall between Varsity Ball and Watts Ilnll was discussed .by the Student Council at its meeting Tuesday clon ing. Walter .1. German '2B was ap pointed to consult Roy I. Webber, Su perintendent of Grounds and Build ings, about the plan.'," The Council decided that ill, old minute books should be placed in the Cal nogie Library. Wheeler Lord, Jr '2B was named to make arrangement., with the librarian 'Registrar Wil liam S. Hoffman 1,111 be present. nt the next meeting of, the Council to explain the honor point'system CHAPEL SPEAKER WILL DISCOURSE ON STUDENT LIFE Arthur Rugh Selet "What's On The Student's find?" As Topic of Sermon TOOK PROIVIINENT PART IN UNDERGRADUATE LIFE Will Address Lutheran Banquet And Hold Open Forum Sunday Night Having selected "What's on the Student's Mind" as the subject of his talk, Mr. Arthur Rush, of New York city, Kill address the student body at Sunday morning chapel en the Auditorium l Mr. Rugh as a graduate of Penn sylvanw State Normal School, has a B A degree from Wittenberg college, and an ill A. degree from Oberlin Ile seaS president of his class &lung his fresmnn and senior years, and president of the student Y. M C A during has sophomofe and sen.ol years. -- 'Prominent In4latuhkaless In athletics Mr Rugh was active, having been pitcher and captain of the varsity baseball team and center on the basketball team. He sills also a member of the college glee club In 1900 illy. Rugh scent to Chian to serve as ktudent .ccretary for the M C. A's of China. This poi.- Lion required linn to. travel through out the country, meeting with the ever-increasing generations of stu dents. I.) oderstatul, Youth All of his cu.periemes he finds use ful in dealing until the undergradu ates. Because of his relations ninth college faculties, he is able to unde, stand the widening breach betueen the olden and 3 uunger generation 111, onto e life has been one sell suited to equip huh for dealing with the sub ject on sthich he will speak. Upon his anneal hen. on Satin due, Mr. Rout still lunch tenth the 111e111- ben, of the "Y" Lalnalet at the Andy Lytle Cabin That inening Inc no (Continued on last page) Farming Claims Ag School Graduates That twenty-nine pet cent of the , graduates of the School of Agriculture at Penn State are engaged in actual fat ming practice ~as revealed ves terility by Dean It L Watt, in info, nmtion supplied to the United States Department of Agriculture In tins respect Penn State is in ad ounce of the average of agricultural schools and nineteen other State col lege, and uniceisitaes in the United States, where the group following "dirt farming" is 27.8 per cent of tho total of graduates Dean Watts declines this to be a healthy condition, particularly since, ninsi of the local college agricultural giaduatcs so engaged are located in Pennsylcania lurid communities Ile says that no other type of work has drawn so many agricultural college graduates. despite the prevalent op inion among the uninformed that fuse such men return to active farm life. , Nine new research projects are to have the attention of scientists at the csperiment station during the coming year, when the secrets of plant and animal life end the mysteries of chem istry and coils will be probed for the benefit of better Pennsylvania agu culture. , 1 Who's Dancing 1 Frida) Scabbard and Blade (Centre 11111 s County Club) Saturday Delta Sigma Chi Toltrgiatt. NATIONAL SCHOOL OF RECREATION TO SEND AGENT HERE Maurice Willoaa Will Explain Playground Direction As Possible Vocation TO ADDRESS STUDENTS MONDAY AND TUESDAY Will Offer Course To Aspirants Who Excel in Athletics And Scholarship Poi the purpose of e‘plaining re. cication leader:lap a,, an unclowded field for college graduates, Mr. Maur co Wows of the Playground and Recreation association of Amer ica will visit Penn State on Monday and Tuesday. 'Me Wi11..., represents the Nation al Recreation School conducted by the Association in New York city, which offers a one -meal course to about fifty college men and women chasm lot the r qualities of lender chip and athletic and scholastic abil ity. Poch of Colleges The forty-four students in this • r eat' class were picked Stoat tw•o bundled applicants in the graduat ing classes of leading colleges last June A few of the colleges contribut ing these students are• Columbia, Vas-nt, Ohio Wesleyan, Nom thy. cetera and the Universities of Nebraska, 1 Miami, Michigan, Alabama, Indiana, I Pennsylvania and Illinois. The thirty-four mernbeis of the pieces, class, last year's, are at wort, in public recreation departments and community houses ithroughout the country. Oh.. Emplo) 3lan) Seen hundred an 1 ninety oitto now errp'oy 2,905 paid iccteation workers the year round, according to 1920 s'atiatics, and the number is steadily -,ncrea.,4ng, Playg,rounit and It, emotion As - cuation of Amer]. open ed iLs school tomtits° of the demand upon its peronnel department for a high type of recreation leader and (Continued on last page) WPSC WILL BROADCAST LIBERAL ARTS PROGRAM Station Ahht, Dean Stoddart To Announce Numbers for Vocal Concert Con aqing mainly of a 1111,1,11 con cert ,to be Pero ideal hem the Andi torium and a number of Nilo, t. talk, mom the studio, a proxram vpon,ored by lhn. School of lateral Ai ts Hill be giArn ion Weilnenlit3 evening at six durt3 o'Llixls as the featuie of this of Station WPM: Induikil in the mu...cal pi ograin xnh Son leeital by the Glee Club and olos Lv indnidual member.. Charle, Steddart, Dean of the School, svihl o (Alai go of announung the num ber., On Tueztl,l3 =l4, Prof. F. Grnues, of the depat talent of ani mal hu , band, 3, will speak on "Lesson, Taught to the Ton Utter" Ile will he Cullom ed by Ptof 11 el man C. Knurl 41°1, if the &pail:nog of poultry hos bando., sc to c Icicle scull be "Grow Ifeulthy Cocks" Patel clay the boxing match - with NI. I T. and the wrintl.ng bouts ulth lama State College will he throadeJst ftum the Armory THESPIAN ASPIRANTS FORSAKE AVERSIONS TO CALISTHENICS "On your backs' Extend legs into um! Motion the pedalling bicycle! Ready! Start! 1-2-34- Such ate the commands that issue ficnt the ,Selynali auditoi ium every Tuesday and Thursday evenings Without further invertigation the casual passerby nould conclude that eithm a mutt course in Physical Ed. ucation is being given, or that one of State'e athletic teams has forsaken Col 'McLaughlin's sanctum y for big ger and better training quarters. Rut if one he inquisitive and de-1 rules to invuitagate, he svould had up on the stage of the Auditormin, prone upon then backs and imitating In an inverted position the fa%oute pastmie ad the "guy nineties,' a ;poop of sev ent} -five male members of the stu dent body. The mate* , has been solvent! It in the semi-netkly norkout of the Thespian dancing class lion, which the mist for this yeal'e show mill he selected. Nittany Courtmen Face Ursinus Five Tomorrow Record of Collegeville Quintet Shows Losses To Pennsylvania, Temple, Wins Over Haverford and Susquehanna Postmaster Announces Sunday Mail Schedule Sunday mail beLneen Tyrola a ant State College cull begin !. Ft bruary to ea) -,ixth, an -1 flounced the po,tmastei. Mail will arrive Irvin Tyrone a at nine-thirty o'clock and will be collected and taken from hese 1 to the came place at five-forty- - 1 lion o'clock in the afternoon. - Tots is the same schedule fols a lowed cloying neck days 1 The lobby of the poctollice 'sill be left open throvhout the ! 1 day for the conuenience of the I hoc holder, , but no ninelons of ! the office mill he open. Although the camel, will not deliver reg ulai mail throughout the tone, a tney mill see that special deli.- ci. htters reach their dest.n ation 1 SENIORS CONTRACT FOR DANCE FAVORS Committee Selects Imitation White Leather Pi ograms With Special Design SPORTS CARNIVAL WILL MARS BUSY WEEK-END Pr,tiam-fasors of imitation white I leatl e. truth a specially designed coat-m-arms have been ordered from the 1E: A Wright company of Phil adelyhir the annual Senior Ball ato ordered from the concLrn for the uppeiclass (minal dance which will be held in an a lorned Arnoiy Friday night, March ninth The design endic,sed on the Loner of the prog,im-firms is the RDI k rf Reed lice on, spccial lopiesenta ti‘u of the E A It rigl.; coniisim II bear the title, "benior Ball of 1428" A pent,' Vrped in genu ine ivory mill be attached to each facet In) a sills cord of the clan I,loLk and gold Contents of Program Each intizi ant tnlt ancluth., damn tc the ceder of dance division, 1.1 of the ',litmus and palrone,es, cla ol,Leri and d tncc :Annan titc and numlan Of p npri for auttnp.ylo. end long, In conjunaton mith thi, announte mem, John Ituontll, L11.111.111..1, mad° publn. the do ettor, of the ,ul,- (Continntd on page Ine) Orators Meet George Washington Debaters the Nittany negatite loam tutul be inactive this tt cel,-end the MN mat, e debate, 'mill engage the George IVashington university tr o .0 tile Autlitot um (einem ow night at eight t'eleel, ha question it ill as in all of the 0 .nttr debates Lai, "Itc.alscd, that the United States ,liculd I to protect by forte of nuns, Amer lean private inn tArnents in Rumen Inds" I According to Coach John II F1177e11, the team menthe,, will not 11. e pckcd unti , tonight or Milieu., Tha rigentib Limning these dancing "hopefuls" arc being put through un cles the tutelage of "Sot" Kennedy '23. would cauqe mane of the athletic tc,nr to blush uith shame. It is difficult to Lame that a dancing choi - us could be developed from a group of so tar sod sines, shapes and Conn , Brawny men of football build laboi beside these of the non-llerculean type, each putt,ng Col Lb his hest of- Cost to obtain a emoted .position the coming shows. Clad in swe.tt•ehiits, football Jet - •et s swim's .trouseis and other odd bits of clothing borrowed font irat i entity brothers, the class Lolls through I %al Mut exercise to loosen mus cles, take off weight, and whatnot. "Leant stage dancing easily an fifteen minutes a day"'fmmahcs good mho, Cluing material, but many members of the class are of a tlitreiont oplinon telatiec to this matter. Bears Enter Lion Cage PRICE FIVE CENTS t The Blue and White tourlanen will encounter the thsinus college quintet at sosen o'clock tumoirow night in the Minoly before they travel north ward next week to meet Colgate and the powerful Syracuse dribbler,. Undr.nniyell by the teverse at the hands of the Panthers Saturday, the Penn State basketball team will ap pear on the floor with an unchanged line-up Dick Reinhold and George Delp will take the forward posts, Lou Redb., center, and Captain Whitey Von Nicela and Cy Lurgren guard, Record Unimposing The showing of the Colleges tile five in past, games is not especially notable with four defeats and five saltines to its credit The Bears were defeated tame by the Temple university pass e en and lont to Pennsylvania by a 20 'to 20 score The Bucknell fluormen have also vanque•heri the Ursinus ,quintet. The Beals have won Iron, I Sy..ii thniore, Hay. ford, Muhlemberg • ;Susquehanna and Osteopathy. The Urranus quintet is unique .n that it boasts too captains, Heagley land Burley. The starting line-up will probably include the two leaders at Ifens aids, Young at center, and New cowl and Bill Moyer at guards. l'Schick, hones or, may replace Young it centei Young is the 'coring lum -I.naly of the Collegeville cagemen, I having lead he, team-mates in esery i ge Die to date. Newcomer and IMoyet lare both veterans from last year's team, the %soil< of Newcomer being the more noteworthy Moyer made a name foi himself in football last fall and scat rated as one of the best 'mall college gum terbacks in the East. Re verse materiel includes Strife, guard, J. Francis and Wiedensaal, forwards. Play Colgate, Syracuse Coach Hermann's courtmen will male the tell to Ilanulton, N. 'V, to oppose the Colgate dribblers on Thurs day night This is the - fust time the Maroon quaitet has appeared on the Penn State , hedule and they promum to idle] ,utr opposition the Colgate passers welt, defeated early in the season by the strung N. Y U. loop men, but asengcd this leverse in the return gin.; his handing the New Yank Cit., quintet a 50-20 drubbing. The Pantiles eagemen won from the (Continued on last page) FRESHMAN CAGERS WILL OPPOSE ST. FRANCIS FIVE Conover Scrimmages Yearlings In Preparation for Tilt Tomorron Night Coach L,rrry Conover's freshman our town null have another test, of abibtV when they meet the strong St liranc, "Prep" to,cers at nix ri't I •cit Saturday night in the Armory hefin e the sariaty tilt Foa e tu,ilay night Larry has put men thiough furl,,-fire nunutes of strenuous 'u inmrnge during earn pr aalle The squad bar begun to Arne a great deal of light, since the Putt burgh and Carnegie contests and the plebe naintor is hopeful of stem ming the tan titan WI,. lad M.i/e.s urn Paul Icrunirune, as cluck.] captain of the year ling team before the Pitt fray, mud 'tart at the for, and pasts Macomb cull enter the game as Lipman, re placing Ifastlitu n "Utz" Diedrick and Cheek Wlll.ll, 1.11 protect the loop from the St. Francis thrums. Ed Reynold, has bten &dared in .:ln:Mk betaule of lot, scholastic standing and has bean dropped front the squad Dick Smith, Ix ho received leg injuries at the beginning of the stases, and Miller, products of the local high selmal .ne again on the quad Gang Fancy, the fast Belle , Conte high school luminary, utll not • be ni shape foP any more babbethail this season because of his injured foot. Dr. Champlin Explains Sociological Relations In Education Yearbook Treating of it certain ph,tse of St.,- elology, At Cation 1) Champlin oC tho School of Education iliac contrib uted a section of the fiat yearbook of the National .Sialety for the Study of Educational Sociology, whalt 1 , 411 00010 from the press about March first. Doctor Champlin's subject drab wdh socio , ogy in relation to effect ire learning and teaching, lie is r co nuthot of at inonogiaph Iccently publ,licil which is entitled, "First Steps in Curriculum Building."
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