lowa Pins Lion Ropes VOL XXIII, No. 41 NITTANY COURTMEN VANQUISH COLGATE, LOSE TO SYRACUSE Take Spectacular Contest From Maroon Passers by 33-32 Score at Hamilton BICKLE AND VON NIEDA STAR IN CLOSE GAME Lion Five Falls Before Orange Floormen, 29-14, in Fray Saturday Night After annexing a dojo and spec tacular game at Colgate by the score of 33 to 32, the Lion basketball team returned to Syracuse to receive a 23-14 defeat at the han'd.s or the Orange quintet Saturday night in u loose and ragged contest. Colgate's quintet led by a narrow margin during most of the first half. Starting like a flash, the Maroon drib blers rolled up a tend of six points before the game was barely under way. The Ilittany tossers soon tied the count and continued to hold their own for the rest of the period and the half ended with the score 20 to 17 in favor of the Maroon. Score Tied Four Times Immediately after /tickle had tal lied from the foul line at the opening of the second half, the Lions made tr.o baskets to tie the score. }Lekle counted from scrimmage for Colgate and Delp retaliated The Blue and White courtmen led for a moment af ter Jacobson, who was substituted for llamas early In the first period, made a field goal, but Bichle overcame the ads antage on the next play with an othei tao-pointer. At this juncture Elegy dribbled flown a clear floor to re-establish the ihfaroon's lead. Jlamas ,who had just re-entered the game,tallied from the foul line, Nagy added too points to Colgate's advantage and Redly tal lied. After llagy",rfuul - shot, Rein), (Contmued on third page) COLLEGIAN CANDIDATES MEET TOMORROW NIGHT Freshman Aspirants to Business Staff of Publication Will Enroll for Training Freshman candidates for the busi ness staff of the Collegian will meet under the direction of Business Man-1 ages, Charles F. Flinn '2B at seem o'clock tomorrow night in Room 322,1 Old Main The advantages and opportunities offered by such training as that of fered ihr the Collegian arc numerous. The publication provides a practical business experience and trains the Ytudent to meet business men in a commercial scanner. By deseloping responsibility, initiative 'and leader ship nt is an asset to the clmracter and career of the aspirant. Association with the Collegian will asnil the candidates with practical preparation such as is not provided fo , an any of the College courses It affords practical training and exper ience for those interested in adver tising particularly. It is hoped that such practical ad ', antagen will not pass unnoticed and that all promising fieshmen will be urged and advised to join the ranks of the candidates, announces Business Manager Flinn. W. S. G. A. To Convene With Student Board For the purpose of determining methods of securing better co-opera tion in the affairs of men and /molten on the campus, n Joint informal meet ing of the Women's Student Govern tnent Association and the Student Board sill be held tomorrow night at the Delta Sigma Phi House. Charles C. Berryhill '2B, president of the Stu dent Board, will lead the discussion. It is hoped by those in charge that this frank, round-table discussion result in a mutual understanding be tee eon tile men end women nr College activities. LOCAL RAILROAD BUILDS SPUR TO NEW CNill SITE Construction in under may for a temporary railroad spur extending from the Bellefonte Central tacks to the site of excavation fat the new gymnasium. The spur will be completed sonic time this week end will be put anto service as soon as feasible. It will provide for the importation of sup plies and will facilitate the completion of the building. . t,Tiii..,...., 1 1 run are ...i; .. fi\*:!4::: •...:...,:.:.:±:v), Thespian Tryouts Will Start Tomorrow Night Tryouts for the cast of the Thespian play will bezu tomor row night. Oand-dates who hobo already registered should consult the Club bulletin hoard in Old Main for the time of these trials. Others wishing to register may report to William E limbk '2B, at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon house or to Dav ad D. Mason at the University club before tomorrow night JOURNALISM GROUP SPONSORS CONTEST Phi Mu Sigma, Honorary Society, Plans College Writing Competition ORGANIZATION TO AWARD TWENTY DOLLARS IN GOLD Purposing to stimulate interest Ai the journalistic movement and aid in its development at Penn State, Phi Mu Sigma, local honorary journalistic fraternity, announced a writing con test yesterday. open to everyone in the College except members of the sponsoring organization. • Competitive manuscripts will be divided into two classes, the choice of the type being left to the decision of the person entering the contest. In the first class will be placed all technical writings and in the second, feature stories and short story articles. @MEM Four prizes arc offered, two in each department of the contest. In each class there will be a first prize of ten dollars In gold and a second of half that amount. John T. Vandenburg, Jr. '2B, to whom all manuscripts must be submit ted before April first at the Alpha Gamma Rho house, announces that each article must be at least fifteen hundred a ords.in length, and be type written. He "also states that" there must be at least three entries in each department before a prize will be awarded Each manuscript must bear the name and address of the entrant as well as the class in - Much he is corm petmg, and only one composition snap be submitted by an individual. Dr. Witham S Dyc,lvan W. Deese and Edward B. Rohrbeek will judge the entries. Personality Molds Student Attitude, Avers Dr. Barbour "A college is made either better or some by each individual student The personality of each one affects the morale of the institution us a uhole." These statements were made by Dr. Clarence A. Barbour, president of Roche:Act. Theological Seminary, ashen he spoke at the chapel services Sun day morning,. Citing the case of :Michael rupin, outstanding American scientist and one-time Serbian peasant, uho en reading the biographies of Abraham Lincoln and George Washington, us, so completely gripped by their hies that his whole hfc-courso seas chang e ad, Doctor Barbour pointed out to those attending how the overa helm mg, radiating personalities of sonic men and N, omen can cart such an in fluence on society that the trend of many laves is altered. Engineering Extension Opens Four Branches Four new branch schools of the department of cngineermg extension uert opened in western Pennsylvania this month. The new schools arc in cluded so the list of special classes under the direction of Ednin N. Mon tague, instructor in engineering ex tension, and are located at Scott&le, Butler, Sharon and Beaver Falls. Six-Week Ag Students Arrange for Banquet Short course students of the School of Agriculture will hold m banquet tomorrow night as a hiremell gather ing to those who nill complete their stone on Friday. Forty-four of the forty-seven students regularly en tolled mill be present, together isith twenty-seven members of the faculty who are muted guests E. G. lisle, one of the short course students, will act as toastnnuiter. The speakers of the evening will be Dean Ralph L Watts of the School of Agriculture and Deputy-secretary of Agriculture, Raymond G. Bressler. STATE COLLEGE, PA.. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1928 GLEE CLUB WINS FIRST HONORS IN ANNUAL CONTEST Victory Marks Second Triumph For Songsters in State Collegiate Trials COMPETES IN NATIONAL CONCERTS NEXT MONTH Gains Permanent Possession of Prize Award Offered by "Pittsburgh Press" Thr College songsters carried off first honors in the Ztate Intercolleg iate Cleo Clnb contents held in Car negie Hall, Pittslyurg,li, Friday night. The singers, hating won the contest last year, gain permanent pa-session of - the prize cup offered by the Pitts burgh Press and nill compete in the National Intercollegiate Glee Club contest The national con petition will be held in New York next Saturday night. Fifteen champion collegiate glee clubs will enter the trials While enrouto to New York for the contest, the Penn State songsters have ar ranged to ,present concerts in Leban on and Coatesville. Fiye Pennsylvania colleges, includ ing Carnegie Tech and Bucknell scare representeil in the trials held at Pittsburgh Each entrant sang three rings, among which nas included the prize song, "Broken Melody" by Sib elius Haney Gaul, musical critic and e (Continued on third page) SENIORS ANNOUNCE BALL DECORATIONS Vari-Colored Lights Will Flood Transformed Armory for - Annual Formal Dance" UPPERCLASSMEN INVITE FRESHMEN, SOPHOMORES With vari-colored globes hung be neath a black and white ceiling and Ma floodlights casting multi-colored rays upon tho evening finery of Senior Ball guests, the setting dor the annual upperclass formal dance in a transformed Armory nest 'Friday n.ght will approach kaleidoscopic pro gortion.s Mick and white stripes, rich thirty inches square, will corer the ceiling in a checkerboard design, and •mill ho arr. inged in double arches A para llel lighting scheme, enhanced by smil e% will enrich the canopied effect. Drapes of Cold Cloth Cold cloth drapes suspended front the dou'de arches will extend to the side wslls, uhfch ,ill he cot Bred with :miller gold cloth Blue and white drapes will he super-impased on the gold background in the shape of large fans on the walls Fraternity booths, (Continued on third page) ORCHESTRA PRESENTS FIRST WINTER RECITAL Glee Club Wall Continue Series Next Sunday Afternoon In Auditorium Presenting the first megrim of the fourteenth annual ,cries of winter concert, the College orchestra, under Gm direction of Bandmaster Wilfred 0. Thompson, offered six musical num bers of a isms-classical nature In the Auditorium Sunday afternoon. Selections droni "Fete Aralm" by Berge and "rests al Dance" lir De hbes were the opening numbers on the program, while in the third num ber Edmund L Hound 'al, presented a solo on the TIM imbn tricorn Herbert's "Orion' Melody." In the three clos ing selections, music by Wagner, Wuldteufel and Eilenberg mere fea tared. In the next concert of the series, I en Sunday, the College Glee Club, un der the direction Of Prof. Richard W. Grant, will present a %rimed program, consisting mainly of selections that the organization will sing at the Inter collegiate Glee Club contest which mill be held in New York thin following Saturday. The College band mill gh c the third program on Sunday, March eleventh and on successive Sundays the Man dolin Club, the Girls' Glee Club, and two campus musical fraternities, Phi Mu Alpha and Kappa Gamma Psi will furnish musical concerts, all of which will be broadcast by the Col lege radio station. Cheinieal Group To Honar Memory of Doctor; Evan Pugh That Penn State owes its serf ecistence.a.si a Unit grant college to the personal efforts of her tint pres ident, Dr. Elan Pugh, will be but one of the many interesting features to lie brought out by Dr. Erwin W. Runkle, college historian, in his ad dress nt the Pugh 'Centenary celebra tion to be held - tomorrow night at eight o'clock in the Chemistry amid theatre. It will also tic established that this thirty-one-year old president of the old "Farmers' High, School," through his experiments in England, proved the contention that plants have abili ty to manufacturO nitrogen, thereby gaining for himself-uorld wide recog nition The meeting nal I.ie an ob servance of the one hundredth anni versary of the birth of Di. Pugh, February 29, 1828. It is being held under the auspices of the Central Pennrylsamu branih of the American Chemical society, of which Protestor Raymond A. Dutcher is president. PROF. Firi LECTU TONIGHT of Italy in is Talks 1 To Discuss Second of In r" IS SPEAKER "DIALECT TOPIC In the sec , :ries of lec tures goon . of the fac ulty of tho Liberal Arts, Prof. Joseph W. Fuse, of the romance language departm nt, discuss "Some Aspects of Whim Literature" at amen-fifteen o'cl ek tonight in Old Chapel. Professoi Foss; kill consider the tine° main phasesi of the literature 'of Italy, namely., the religious trend, the romantic zpic iteltllthe development of the short- - story. Stress will be placed on the medieval and Renal,. ranee periods, although seine consid eration will be given to the tater nineteenth century and contemporary imtings. The 'cantos making up the annual cones, nponsmcd by the Liberal Arts School, all deal pith the general sub ject of "Italy." Polley.= Profcs.or FO.. ' s talk tonight, the nest lecture will be given on 'March thirteenth by Prof. John 11. Pratell, of the de partment of English, whose topic will be "Dialect Readings." - Varsity Men Drill For Soccer Posts On Olympic Team Four members of this scars ...- say soccer team are drill ng under the direction of Coach Bill Jeffrey in preparat on tot the Olympic tryouts to lie held in Philadelphia on Sat order. The trouts are preliminary to the :election of an intercollegiate soccer team to iepre-cat the United States at the Olympic Games which mill he held in Anstcrdrim, Holland this summer. In response to a written invita tion from Mi. P. II White, secretary. of the Olympic Soccer ii,ociation, asking him to enter the four best players of the season in the trials, Coach Jeffrey has chosen Diel. Mar shall '2O, Sam Allen '3O, Bin Lutz '3O and Bob, Edgerton '3O Marshall captain-elect of the 1928 team played at the inside left post during the past scwon, while Bill Lutz 1,. Otto- toned at the outside left Position ' , Amnion played center halfback and Allen left halfback. These hoiden, ale not, going through pro-sea-on uctivities of museleq, kicking, passing end dribbling. State Agriculturists Will Address Grange Gathering Next Month p 0pp0 ,,,, g t o Rtiniulate inteiest among the students, the Penn State Grange mill hold Ito annual banquet at the Centre Hills Country club at SIN. o'clock Saturday evening, IMarch to enty-fourth. President Ralph D. Detrel, Dean Ralph L. Watts, State Master of the .Grange, E. B. Dorkett, Deputy-Sec retary of Agriculture, Raymond G. .Bressler and State Lectmm• of the Grange, Howard Emmen will lbe the principal speakers of the occasion. The subscription price of one dollar and seventy-Svc cents includes the dinner, dance and transportation to and nom the club. Totirgiatt. BOXERS OVERCOME M. I. T. STALWARTS IN EXCITING MEET New Englanders Lose, 6-I—Two Knockouts Mark Routs In Armory Ring CAPTAIN WOLFF GIVES EXHIBITION WITH FLYNN hlcAndren-s Defeats O'Malley in Heavy neight Battle to Get Decision Penn State's boson downed the lassachmetts Institute of Technol ogy unttmcn, 6-1, Saturday night, a meet that was filled with action from beginmng W end In spite of the one-suled ,core, the Tcch boxer:, put up strong fights uluch called for extra round, m tuo bouts. Rattle of the IfeaNterr The battle of the bestir., between Captain "Toots" O'Malley and !Marti McAndrews proved to be the most e‘citing bout of the owning. Both bosons were of tho same build and employed the same style of fighting while neither lacked punching pon er O'Malley r 'wiled the first round with a rush and peppered McAndrews with rights and chased Marty to his fasonto place on the ropes. But es cry tune o'3lalley charged the Lion heavy ho ran into one of Marty's lefts which acre enough to stop the 'lf M T man's rushes O'Malley got the first round, but McAndrews came back in the last (Continued on last page) lOWA WRESTLERS WIN FROM LIONS Westerners Display Strength and Skill in Taking Fne - Individual'Contests - PACKARD, HOLLOBAUGH OBTAIN NITTANY POINTS lona States Intih and as ell-con d ticned string of grapplers display ed a .superior brand of wrestling such as is seldom seen on the Armory. mats, Saturday, ashen they handed the Penn State at restlers their first de feat of the season, 19-8. Packard and Hollobaugh secured the only victories for the Nittany team, the former winning over Blair, formidable lonan, in a triple-period bout The too noddle, eight wrest lers neat through the alloted ten min utes without either being able to dem on.trate superiority. It mos only in the second evtia period that Packard mas able to show his supremacy by maintaining his offensive hold and gaining a tone advantage of one m te, "tm envy-set en seconds. Hollobaugh had his opponent, the short hut heavy. Ruggles, down al ma-4 before the tout had gotten nell under may Ruggles suddenly threw himself off goal d, nos on his back and pinned dotal by the Lion light homy with a one arm m mg. the (Continued on third page) DOCTOR CRANE TO TALK HERE ON RELIGIOUS LIFE "Y' Sponsors Three-Day Series of Lectures by Nephen of S3ndicate Writer Corium: from an e•tonded tour among the colleges and urns ere, in_ of On, country, Dr nen*. Crane, nephen of Dr Pranl, Crane, the plonunent editornd m ritet uOl ar riot, hero Mauch tmentv-fifth to con duct a three-day series of reltglou, lecture, nluch will be held under the ate,plees cf the College Y. M. C Doctor Crane 1, well known throughout the count,. and n noted , one of the foremmt contempormy leaders of the religious lift of the mesent-day youth. Ile n n graduate of Wesleyan Unnersity, .3liddletown, Connecticut and also of the School of Theology of Boston Unit enuty The de:7,1.0t Doctor of Dninityl.rns con ferees! upon hint In De Paulo Umter sill Indiana. Since 1921 110 has been travelling throughout the country, lecturing at different colleges Included among the colleges where he has conducted religious meetings, are Ohio Wesley an unnersitv, University of Mine., De Paum university, Unnemity of Southern Culiforniu, Kentucky Wes ley an college, Burin (unite and Bald win-Wallace college. Thespians Consider Show Title, "Ain't It the Truth?" GROUP WILL USE DR. DYE'S VERSION OF OLD OPERETTA AS THEME FOR ROAD PRODUCTION 1931 COLLEGIAN Business Aspirants Meet Tonight I Frr , ...tunan candid-Ik, for the Invinenn st.tifT of the Collet/tan report to Itoom :122 Old Mon tonight at sT en o'cloch. FAMOUS QUARTET IS "Y" ATTRACTION Flonztloy Four To Gibe Concert Ito Seoenlh Offenng on Saturday Night GROUP IMS ENTERTAINED IN EUROPE AND AMERICA Tho Fictvalev Quattet, truNersall) famoni in the realm of ehamlßi-mua gne a concert .1, Oa seienth ntnrom of tho Y.ll. C. A. Entertain ment Cour, in the Auditorium. Sat urcla,, night at eight-fifteen o'clock Founded in 1903 tin Mr I 3 do Coppet, Nev. York danker and Inter of chambei music, the :arm:: e 1. ., tot has piece mole than twenty-fie hundred concerns throughout Europe and Annum Fe' , cluing next 3ear's tem, ohich lull celchrato the musi cian.' toent3-fifth :mar:ors:try, the Quaitet v.lll disband Unique in the history of the gust.- to' in the fact that three of the or nal players ale still with the oi ganivation. Adolfo Betti, first 10- Inn, Alfred Pochen, iiecond violin ,and Ix an d'Archantheau, cellist, hate been with the Quartet since ate - lira con cert 111-health contracted during the World War forced Felician d'Ar chambeau to relinquish the bola desk to Nicholas 31ohlaNan m 1P2.5 Critics Laud Irtists A San Francisco MIK rccentis wrote tit the artists, "1 he stiing quartet in its perfection is shat the Flormaley Quartet reprwents" Fol toeing the Quartet's engagement in Town Hall, Ness York City, last No. o ember the Ness York Tones music revicect said, "The playing of the musician, had all its old lavishing braut. of tone, esqinsite refinement of phrir , c and shimmering play of colct " FRESHMAN TOSSERS WIN CLASS CAGE SCRAP, 49-22 lirumrine, Ilteptrs and Curtiss Star As Yearlmes Rout Sophomore QUintet. Cook Lart y Conover', eerwttrlc cauit charges, through the sten.o pin>mti of Meyer., Kr u inn ne and Guru, , handed an inexperienced sophomorn gmnttt .a 111.22 defeat in the annu il class hasheC.,lll scrap Sat nnlay after noon At the out,et of the conte.t. the •erptr.euores took the lead The fresh men, Ileum et, ktimulated by the short punt of their ads ersai ten, retaliated by tossing a string of field goals uheh os cream , their opponents' ma rim Ind pl teed the cull, at the helm dm the remainder of the gamin. Tit tints held throng. and nine fouls gase the lir-t star men a eons enient lead and markt.' the peak of their •conng °di, till, than fur this s nen At Inif tone the cub, led 23-12, nlnlo in the ensuing penal thet outscored the 111'10 euniangent, three to one. Sophomores Lad Loll) l'a,sing and s hooting .1.11101,1: the rphoinores i v.w, ragged hewn, of the continual r.uhstitutam of nen ma toual It Alas only doling .1 death let-don n on the part of the l i.lt eag er +, that the ,second \ ear men Isere able to tally eight double-deckers and eight - penalty tosses Captain At kinson led the waling list in the 1930 camp and 1,0, high point scorer of the centevt orth trio {kid 1.0:,CY and elm free throw to Irk credit BOXERS ENTER FINALS Phi Sigma Kappa will ineet the a omen el the semt•finvb tomorrow night in the Armory Tot the inter ft atm oily be ing title. This team de feated Delta Sigma Pin in the Oah Lout last week. Theta Kappa Phi encountered Phi Delta Theta on the teini-finul, lust night. Statc•Grants L Song Tale PRICE FIVE CENTS Selection of "Ain't IL the Truth:" as a tentatLie title for the cunning road shoe and a volt here :isindirt by Al White Tr, noted Philadelphia dance men!Ln, in ordor to make and limits:no initial phn, for the widy,- mark resent Thespian article,, This yeses offeiing will be a mod. iern ierinon of a IV S Gilbert ennui. iopeitt The script which the will non u ns pi open Or. William S 1)1n of tho English department, hot lia.s been sand cannon hat by Prof. 11}as n 1 D. Maion, sorting in volume , Liiis alth Mote. I=l The turiostty of Wife to) kW, what her lot hand's count ,home looks like, an (Mate mhose presence lie has 'kepd htlden from her for eight en years, coupled mitts complicated ar I humorous catustioit, mluch fol low the character., in their %got pry solo Cho play with its. test Starting off the real action of tilt production the mire recpsoas the Inc,- hand to take her to this home al though sho 11,, horn smain.sl that the ground_ and building, are en ehan•ed and force all miss-nus tent ing unites their influence to tell the Utah, the m hole truth and nothing lon the truth Pr end husband readilt consent, in it , this because he is in 14...5.,11/11 of charm, around ttluch the mhole ploy hinges and mloch enables hint ocercono, the e.-t Ite% enchantment. While Makes Special I,lhit On a .petn.ll visit here Sunday Mr \Vitae met •one of the The•ptnn .lanceri and hail a chance to alien them in action Ito evpreykd hnn -elf no eels well pleated enalt both the plat and the dancing pre.pects Ile will temp, caliv next week to beg.n intensi,e tehentsaLs for the show. PLAYERS REHEARSE FOR CONTEST HERE Six Colleges To Enter Plays in Intercollegiate Show Cmnpetition COACHES CONFAB, I , TUDAY MORNING, OPENS AFFAIR Vier prtnenting "1 he Gat and the Canal " on Sato day night, tho Penn State Ploy et r me relic Iming for "1 hr• ahem" in preparation for their present ition of the one-act play in the third ann..' lntereolhciato Dramatic contest, ninth trill he held here nest Fridar and S ituid That moth intereq .till Iw• m feet at the content the, year, is evi denced by the large non'or or e., Lrn, :lc colleges o i'l be reprocent ed, im lionatn, 11 anMin and .Mar ,lml, and Penn State EIMEMEM Ito 0 ntu-t lull opt sill, A dires torl meeting in the Player ,' FrolaN molting At din en o'clock '1 he al tel noon: of Finlay and ;nattit day aill lie Inert as relit mat pet sod. In the kiting ',loads 'three produc tions will ha staged each night will prattler "Stain', "Weknine Sli roger", Di tow', "1 to 11ohla is"': Juniata, "1 he 51,111 in the No, lei Franklin and Mash 111, "In the 7une" sold PC.IIII State, "Thu Valiant." Reserve Fund Aids Milling Students Flour milling students of the (of lige and of the Kama, Agritultural and Ilechan.c %Its college mill bene fit from a trust fund from mluth they nmy Lorton money for then educa tion mithout interest thaiges The fund has as a nucleus a dona tion of flu cc thousand dollar:, front Eugene Kane, head miller of the Na tional «inipan3 of Toledo, Ohio The interc.-t mill be intuit imillieble 10 deserting Audents rho nulling COUI,L, at the tiro insti tutions, according to the plan of the tiu,tees of the fund. in addition, • tudent, mill hove oppottunity for trot It in any of the company's mills and for permanent positions after gleduation ashen such one avail able.