VOL. XXIII, Na 43 STATE PLAY TOURNEY OPENS FRIDAY NIGHT SIX COLLEGES WILL PRESENT DRAMAS DURING CONTEST-DIRECTORS PLAN CONFERENCE Amateur dramatic clubs will pro side a diversified program when stx college player organizations pa-encl. pate in the third annual convention and tournament of the Pennsylvania Intercollegiate Dramatic society to be (held here Friday and Saturday. Consisting of three shows the first bill of pldys will be presented Friday evening at eight o'clock in the fol lowing order: "A Night at an Inn," liy Lord Dunsany, given by the Green Boom club of Franklin and Marshall college; "Shan," Frank G. Tompkins, enacted by the Cap and Dagger club of Bucknell university and "The Man the Bawler Hat," A. A. Milne, Pro duced by the Dramatic club of Juni ata college. "The Wisdom of Solomon," staged tha Ou 1 and Nightingale club of Gettysburg; "The Robbery," Claire Krummet, performed by the Drevel Institute Dramatic club and "The Val iant," a Ho'worthy Hall play offered by the Penn State Players will make, up the bill for Saturday night. .Prof. Arthur C. Cloetingh, presi dent of the association, has arranged a complete program for the two-day Consent= which will open with a, directors' meeting in the Players' studio, Friday morning at eleven o'clock. The three dramatic clubs 'which stage their productions Friday evening will hold rehearsals in the Auditorium that afternoon. Dinner sill be served at the University club. On Saturday afternoon, the three organizations to offer plays that night will hold rehearsals. A banquet will be held at the Centre Hills country club for all representatives. The first of the series of plays to be produced Saturday night will begin at eight. thirty o'clock. The Penn State Plow, boat to the visiting colleges, are entering "The (Continued on third page) LION FRESHMEN SUBDUE BUCKNELL QUINTET, 60-35 Krumrine, Macomb and Mazcss Divide Scoring Honors in Saturday's Game Showing a decided improvement es et their former performances in hooting and passing, Penn State's yearling courtmen routed the Buck nell plebes and erased last year's de- Seat with n 60-35 score Saturday night heroro the varsity tilt Captain Paul Krumrine and Ma comb were the high point scorers of the contest with ten and nine field goals respectively, Thompson of Bucknell ranked next with fifteen points and was followed closely be lack Mazess who accounted lot twelye tallies Short passes among the Nittany first year men proved so effectlte in the first half that eleven points nere tallied beim e the Len Isburgains could make a come-inch Before the per iod ended - Concls Larry Concecr's charges had piled up an eighteen taunt margin on the Bison cage is From the outset of the second half the consistent playing of the Lion cola, paved the way to victory. Krum me and Marcss Mimed no slump in their nork at the forward posts while ',Macomb maintained his scoring streak AR pivot man. Curtiss and Williams, front all appearances the best pan of guards that Larry , Conmer has produced this season, .performed not ably both on the defense and offense and did much to prevent the Orange and Blue aggiegution Slum in cream ing the cub lead. The Nittany year ling mentor substituted his second team in the last three minutes of play nod berme the finnl gun cracked the an:Mantes added two more points to the Lion tally, making the Anal count 60.35 in the cults' Myer. Ag Researchers Name Dean Watts Chairman Dean Ralph L. Watts., of the School of Agriculture, was appointed chair man of the committee on the Carrel aton of research on the supply of organic matter in the soils of this region at a meeting of the North eastern Association of Agricultural Eveirment station directors held at Cornell university last week. Sacral interesting ancidents of lea recent trip around the world were related by the Dean at a dinner giv en in his honor by the department of vegetable gardening at Cornell uni verzlty. . Se rn it.V/0Pe ! 1,9 Y i i ~,..i.t.-'!1!1: . 7 .-,,‘,.. ,. • . , . .._ . Senior Ball Committee Holds Booth Drawings Fraternity booth drawings for the Senior Ball will be held 'to night at seven o'clock at Co-op. Reservations will sell for seven dollars each. Ticket sales will continue for the remainder of the week at Stark's every day and at Co-op and Stark's each evening from seven to nine o'clock. The price of admission will be five dollars. JUNIORS SECURE BAND FOR PROM Fletcher Henderson's Recording Artists To Furnish Music For Annual Affair MAY GET TED WERNIS AS SECOND ORCHESTRA Fletcher Henderson and his orches tra, prominent Victor recording art , ists, and famed in musical circles as one of the country's "Peppiest" bands, have been secured to furnish the jazz strains for the Junior Prom, in the Armory Friday evening, April twen , tY-sesenth In addition to Henderson and his troubadors, Harry E. Pfeifer '2O, chairman of the committee in charge, has announced that negotiations are being bade to secure Ted Weems and }his orchestra as a second band for The annual class function.' - Contracts have been sent to Mr. Weems' book ing agent but as let no definite reply has been received. It is certain hom es cr, that positive moss of Ted's con sent 1%111 be recessed within the neat week.. Contracts for favors, programs and decorations base not been awarded However, the sub-committees fn chargé have made it known that the favors and programs ss ill be combined and that the Armory will be decorated in a manner altogether different front previous affairs It is planned to have the building so decorated that two orchestras will be placed at either of its ends. Instead of having the usual poster competition, as in other years, a con tract has been awarded to three Jun iors who will make the illustrations in three colors A feature poster from three to four times the regulation size will be hung in a prominent place on the campus. Subscription price for the annual affair has been Oct at sesen dollars Quilt of Honor To Exhibit Many "John Henry's" of Donors Official titles eon amount to naught when yearlings, second-year students, upperclaymnen and faculty members alike produce one thin dime or more to huno then names embroidered on a huge "Grange Quilt" The home economics committee of the local Grange has inaugurated the unique "zhemo to collect proceeds for the Grange Memorial dormitory fund. Fraternities and campus cottages have been divided into groups of five, led by a captain and four assistants. Tho committee in charge is: Margaret Garet, chairman; Jane I. Creasy '2O, Dorothy D Ashley '29, and Mrs Ralph P Thu quilt, which is seventy-two by eighty !inches, will be on display at one of the down-town stones dining the latter part of Vie semeser. It will be nucVoned off and the returns will be added to the aleniorml funds BUCKNELL, PENN STATE CHAPTERS OF A. L E. E. WILL MEET TOMORROW Presentation of several phases of electrical engineering will feature the program of the joint meeting of the student branch of the American in stitute of electrical engineers of Buck nell university and Penn State to be held in Roam 200 Engineering D, tomorrow night at seven o'clock. Dean Robert L. Sackett, of the School ef Eng, neering, will officially welcome the guests to Penn State. Serum electrical engineering students from both colleges will discuss the results of electrical teavareh. ' STATE COLLEGE, PA., TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 1928 KNOCKOUTS MARK LIONS' WIN OVER QUAKER RINGMEN Blue and While &Amu Defeat Pennsyll anin, 5-2—Score Fourth Triumph PHILADELPHIANS FORFEIT 125-POUND BOUT TO EBY Mahon, Wolff, McAndrews Dent Rhals by Widehlargin To Get Decisions Penn Stato's boners salted their fourth ♦xdory of the season Satur -435, vinen they defeated the I.lm teraity of Penns,yhania ringmen 5- at Philadelrlhia. Three knockouts, too of which acme accredited to the Lion fistmen featured the meet. Knockouts in the bantamueight division are not frequent occurences, yet Frantic Mahon, Penn State's stellar 115-pounder aceomple,hed that teat ohen lie chipped of Penns)lvania. The Red and Blue hones witch the same build as 3lahon, nosed it gamely with the NAG - a} mittmen Sor too round,, absorbing tolling body and face Woos in the second period A technical knockout Los .Mahon was inevitable in the third session when the Penn State bantam pounded his opponent at still Kob. Comes Back Although Kolalces). failed to send his opponent down 3oi the count, he ;feral' punched Brodsky to pieces Lot three rounds The Qul.ker .box cr resorted, to left labs but IColakes (Continued on third page) TRACKMEN PLACE SEVENTH IN MEET Bill Cox Defends Mile Indoor Title As Al Bates Wins Broad• Jump Event FRESHMEN TAKE HONORS IN MEDLEY RELAY RACE Four recouls wore shattered at the set oath annual Intercollegiate A. A. A. A. indoor championships held in New York Saturday in which Penn Stato's entncs earned smenth place mith elm en points. The Lion score was seven points les.s than that of last year in the same meet. Cornell won the moot with twenty one points, Georgetown mas a close second with twenty and a half, while Yale ranked third v-Ith nineteen and a half Bastard, winner of the meet for Imo years., reecho,' fourteen point. while New York ants ersity and Dart mouth gained thirteen and clew en mid I a half counts respecthely. Penn, Princeton, Syracuse, Columbia, Brown and Italy Crass were behind Penn State in point score Bill Cox Triumphs Rill Cox, Penn State's greatest hope in the intercolleglates, defended Ins title succes,fully in the one-mile ment ‘ but on account of his recent illness anti not able to enter the two mile ince Cos had hoped to win both the mile and the two-mde rune, a feat which Ime noer been actompli4h (Continued on second page) MENTORS WILL CONDUCT ATHLETIC COURSES HERE To Provide Football and Track Instruction for Coaches In Summer School Announcement of the engagement of Herb McCracken, Lafayette foot ball coach and Nate J Cartmell, track and cross countay coach here, to con duct coaching course, and of the ap pointment of Dr. Leon Rosenthal, (anions French author, to act as vet ittng professor to the French Insti tute, during the coining summei ses 'ion was made by College officials yesterday McCracken's cuoree in football coaching v. ill begin July third and continue through the following three mocks. Then Cartmell will open 1111 count, for track couches The session will also be conducted for three necks. Frouli Institute Professor Doctor Itonenthal, nho his gained wide iccognition in France us an author and educator, mill address tho Institute of French Education each Wednesday evening mhile it is in session, giving the students intimate glimpse , ' of Fiona history and cus tom, Lion Trackmen=Elect Bartholomew Captain Richard 11. Bartholomew TR, will captain the Penn State track team Sot the coming season. i Bartholomew, a sprinter, has competed in the dash es in intercollegiate meets for the past two )'cars Ile has taken part in sacral indoor meets 4./us - winter and 19 counted on as,one of the main stays of the Lion squad in the sprints this spring. NITTANY .MATMEN VANQUISH MIDDIES Four Time Awards and Single Fall Decide Tilt, 17-8, in Favor of Lions NAVY GRAPPLERS DEFEAT STEELE AND CIIENOWETH Ono fall and four tine awards put the Penn State wrestlers at the top of a decisive 17-8 score and left Navl with meager two ' bouts to her credit in the classic 'mat struggle, Saturday at Annapolis. The Mid dies points were secured when then Captain, the lithe Adiford, pinned Steele to the canvass Air a fall and Wee's succeeded. in maintaining a very brief tune athantage oscr Chen oweth. Foremost among the surprises of the meet was the welters eight bout in whidh Ei.enman outgeneraled the more fallored Bannister and held him for a time adsantage of Imo minutes and ten seconds. Bannister, the strong man of the Annapolis combi nation, displayed speed and skill, but etas not mars enough for the Nit tang 145-pounder. Ted Wilson mho stepped out on the mats for Liggett, kept out of the meet I by an internal injury, vies aide to I shoo superiority over the Nary 125. rounder, Lincoln during the major part of his bout. Continuously the perslstent...Xittany spar dilweight at-, tempted to gain a fall, but the de- I femora tactics of Lincoln made his opponent content with a time advan tage of four minutes, fifty-three see- I onds. ll= Packard chalked up the points to the credit of Coach Charlie Speidel's team v. hen he threw the Nary middle- IN eight contender, Epps in six minutes, fifty-three seconds The outcome col (Continued on last page) AGRICULTURE FRATERNITY INSTALLS CHAPTER HERE Beta Chapter of Delta Theta Sigma Supplants Local Alpha Gamma Phi Another fraternity xas addoil to the lml of nationaLs at Penn State ,lien Delta Theta Sign 1, national agricul ture ;fraternity. ...tailed it% Beta chapter here, supplanting the chap ter of Alpha Gamma Phi, local ag riculture fraternity The installing °Meer ups Sterling P. Wmgard, national treasurer of Delta Theta Sigma and alumni mem ber of the former Alpha Gamma Phi fraternity Delta Theta Sigma sus horn once as an honorary agricultur al Irate, nor but changed into Gamma Sigma Delta, the present honorm, here. Alpha Gamma Phi mas formed here in 1022 and at present has thlrtA members. Delta Theta Sigma has three chantins, one at Ohio State Unt‘emtv, one at It isconhin untser 'al and one here HEALTH SERVICE GIVES AID TO NATIONAL GROUP Co-operating with the National Tu berculosis a,ociation, the College Health Sernce 14 olsserving the week set 41 1 ,1110 tin the national organiza tion for its camp non to acquaint the nubile ulth the dangers of tubercu losis. Pastels hate been placed tin oughout the torn end n pamphlet, Mating the symptoms of tuberculosis, has been en notated. DEAN WATTS CONFERS WITH U. S. SCIENTIST Acting an chairman of the coin.' mitten on correlation of rixsenrch on supply of organic matter in the soils of this region, Dean Ralph L. Watts, of the School of Agriculture, went to Washington, D. C , last meek to con fer with Doctor Woods, &lector of re.search in the United States De partment of Agriculture. A program s‘hieli the Dcpaitment of Agdcul tore mill co-open ate with experiment stations in carping out various sci entific projects was definitely planned. Tottrgiatt. SENIORS COMPLETE PLANS FOR ANNUAL UPPERCLASS DANCE Student Tribunal Girt% Unbent To Public Imitation of Underclassmen FRATERNITIES TO DRAW FOR BOOTHS AT CO-OP Canopy Will Lead l'atronv to Checking Room Located On Second Floor Soft strains of medal) produced ii Dewey Bergman and hio Webster Hall orchestra of l'ittithuir,T,h en thrall Senior Ball frolickers in a beau tified Armory, scene of the annual up perelass formal dance, Prick) night from nine until toe o'clock. the ad saner oak of tickets, tishch began t-sterday, indicates a representatise all-college throng With Vie consent of the Student Tribunal, the senior elms extended e public invitation to underclassmen hi attend his pear's affair. This is the first time in the history of the Senior function that freshmen and sophomores have been accorded such recognition. Rooth Dean ings Tonight Dias, ing: for fraternity booth re •enations rtt b. held at Co-op to night at se, en o'clock. There resor t ations u ill sell for sewn dollar. each The ticket tale started yester day and toll continue for the remain- (Continued on last page) HIGGINS MAY SIGN TO ASSIST BEZDEK Executive Committee Will Meet -March Sixteenth to Vote On Appointment LED 1919 CHAMPIONSHIP PENN STATE GRID TEAM "Bob" 'lmam% captain and All- American end on Penn States d'oot ball team in 1919 has been approved by the Board of Athletic Control for the poation of assistant - professor of tphysi.l eduegtion and asmstant to Coach Hugo liezdel, in football The former Lion star is non coach ing at Wa.hinr,ton uniNersity. Hie appointment will he decided by the EsecutisoCommlttee of the Board of Trustees at their meeting here on Friday March sixteenth. Well Knoun on Gridiron Coach Remick attempted two lour, ago to sign up Higgins for a coach ing positon but ens unsuccessful be cau,o the former Niltany luminary's contract with the St Lou, institu tion hail not espned If the proposed contract is awarded by the Xsccutine Committee Iliggmi will come to Penn State tics sprirg to assr.t. in the foot- ball mactices. I3e.alts being a needier of Walter Camp's eleven in 1119 Bob um .11 decided factor in the Lion nie.l lop' finer Pitt in the some near. In one of the fee games ninth the ran- . tilem in which Pcnn State emerged the tonne, 11,invins made po,ble the meter} by tatelung a fore and pass limn behind the goal for the first touchdown of the friy. After leaning Penn State Higgins pixy cd profe,ional football with the Cotton Bulldog, for a short. time. lie then accepted the position of gridiron mentor at West Viiginin We,leynn I,llelll Ile IClTlalrled for . Feneral sea son.. At pie..ent he is head football co ten at Uashington univrsity, St LIMN, M.s.auri Dr. Foster Will Sail Next Week for Tour Of Foreign Countries Colobtatmg los s.thltatical half 3enr lease from the Colletre, Dr. Ir. sing L. Foster, of the romance lan guage department of the School of Lhm al Alta, together nail WI,. Foote, sslll sail horn Nen Yolk on March fourteenth on the steamer "Franco" ton an e,tended tour of Europe. The whimsy purpose of the trip is to enable Doctor Foster to wake II complete :annoy of the elementar schools of Fiance and 'Spain, investi gating the methods used in teaching the modern languages in these coun tries. The Doctor contemplates spend ing six weeks at the Unit crusty of Parrs, one month at the Musersity of Madrid and probably a short lec ture course at o‘ford haul in the summer. Glee Club To Compete In Nation-Wide Contest Nittany and Lafayette Singers Will Represent Pennsylvania in Song Tourney at New York Saturday Night 1931 Collegian Bu.siness Men Will Meet Tonight Freshmen who were unable to attend the first mcettrg of Coftcwou busies. .toff candi dates last 'took may report to the Colfripmr office tonight at eight o'clock. Those uho re potted last ureic are also cs.- meted to attend. • LION FIVE DEFEATS BISON TEAM, 36-34 Nittan3 Quintet Rallies in Fin.L Perini To Take Exciting Pray Saturday CAPTAIN SEILER STARS FOR IRICKNEI.I, PASSERS After trailing the Itue knell quin,t by a narro, matgm dar'ag the larg er part of Saturday night's game, Penn State's basketball team raptur ed the lead in the closing niumtes of play and he'd the alhantage ant I the final shut proclaimed the Vac and White coultmen victorious The fray with the Br-nn mils without doubt the most thril'ing played on the Armory . floor thi, gea• son Close guarding, bullet-like mg and veetactilar , hots that kept the crov.d in a continual state of ex citement, marked the contest from be ginning to end._ The score ',nut ted seven times doling the amt. , Bucknell Surprises Coining to State College with a record that contained no outstanding xictone , , the Bisons surpnsed Conch Heiman's foe putting up strong., opposition than any other train the Liens hate met on the home row , this year Captain Seiler far oul •hone hi, teammates, scoring sixte,n point, for the Ni-itors and prolong luni;elf thc best center has play ed against the Penn State floormen. During the earlier part of the game the Blue and White eagemen seeintd .1 hit sluggish The -.ubst.tution of Baron and JaLoh , on into the tilt dur ing the ln•t ten minutes injected spir , it into the team and with Jacobson', thrte long shots from the sale, Nam the contest for tae Nittany file Steic llamas played a brilliant of leonine game for the Lions and lat hy] chosen point, to take second place in the scoring honors llamas Opens Scoring At the op..ning of the gene, Mini,' cut , liot. and foul ga , e the Lions .i three-point h•.el until ten , host to-se, (Continued on third page) "BeContent," Says Reverend Parkhill comp..iot: thr l oopei attitude of neon thiouglinut life with tin it of "the tines of the held," quoting front tint Sermon inn the Mount, th, tin's trend F;ltot. It r.trhhal, In.i.,tor of the Cecil bland Pre , bste tam Chun eh of Lot lfanen, chapel ssienktr :sunday, snot student, to be ,11.1,11011 Ullll t 1113111,01, r, and to he tuntent ssith life "Do sour hit and go 011 uLLh life." mas wino I,l*note of Ills set min the visiting pastor 4001111[11 the ne-e , my of getting . 0,412. from Um etnnos and strain of info and of anold• ing corn') on or motel 1111 things "The nn orld of today I, too restless for propel ins mg Jesus found the sn oi 111 itatless and so it still is," he curried Dr, Parkhill ripte , sed Inns opinion that the vet hl needs a stiong belief in Cod. a feeling that the Aloughts hail :mantled life as it is and that no can Lett a,suied by that fact. He clninwd that sola.faction is obtained through a deep considelation of lite. ALUMNUS WILL ADDRESS DAIRY HUSBANDRY CLUB Nonnan S. Grubb 'lB, of the Port land Cement company, ntll nddre• the D u ty Science club Frulay ought ir loom 281 Daug• Building. Mr Grubbs 1,11 e • plain the regulation, of the content sponsored by the Port land Cement Coaporation, 1n 101101 a number of cash prizes ate being of fered for the bent cssa,ts on "The Re lation of Concrete on Penusylt anal Dairy Farms to Clean Milk Produ, non.' Bostrt; Wipe. OR Penn PRICE FIVE CENTS 1 Penn State', Cleo Club, champion college organization of central awl ue.tern l'ennsylsania, will compete otto fourteen nth, uctional cham pions in the tselfth annual Interco]. legiate (See Club Conti st to lie bald Saturday night in Carnegie Hall, New lock City The songsters sill kayo !here Thur‘illy morning. for Lebanon to giu a concert that night Thes t ill sine at Colt( soille Friday night Thirty Natant• singers. under the ;code, step of Nelson 11. Coto-alt gni Lafayette% gleemen, eastern title holders, still represent the Net ,tonn state in the national competition Dm Linn Glee Club won peincinent. pO,- set-on of the priri cup of the western Penney harm eont.•t held m pitt N . burgh le, than ton oeels ago obit,. tho Lafayette rein esentatices won ihm eastern tdillar coattst held in Foistdn recently There I, a poi,:bility that the na tional (oat .t in Carnegie /fall Sal l/NW night tit he hi hp ono ,1 the Mtge Non York radio stataari laiganung at eight-lifturn &dock Other college, and uno ei sales e'- Fable for the tituhr enigma art Connectit.ui, Weilenan, ,nner, near, Dartmouth, Ynle, Princeton, Co'undita, Foidhain, Nei York um sevaty and the ia tenors from Nett England, Ohio, Mi,soun Calley, thi nail-n cot and the southern 05,06 a lion contests, Each contesting group out sing three songs, namelY, one übsch chosen, one =elected by the committee nod the song of it, alma looter To those oho plan to "listen in" it ntll be of interest to knoo that the Lion clot drc, oct enth, first and thirteentn place- m the singing of the respect ne numbers Thee lob will be a.‘oaed In Lebanoa Ind In Coatesollle by 11,, Ada Ronng '2B, .soprano, 311, Martha Gobrocht, '3O, rommboa, and Itoln, t, Thra.hcr 'II, magnaan SIGMA EPSILON CHANGES TO NATIONAL FRATERNITY Dean Sackett Accepbs Honorary Membership IQ Itecentl3 ' in , ialled Chapter ganinal .14 Sigma Lptilon, the Penn State en.uneering nit) foi many in-tailed a-, a chill ten of the I mangle national profe,..- lonia enginecrung fr tit runty at an in• st illation banquet held at Var,d; 11,11. Saturday night the no, ly iu s,talltd chapter I. the lira m the L;aot ansi checanno Line fourteenth chapter of the national order Fu laded by a glen', n.l engonePr. at tht Unmet sity of Illinois to 1:107. the 'triangle fraternity e‘panded tin Middle Rest until non It It the large , : prole atonal engine Cr frater nal group on the mold Ikon Ileimert L Sutkett, of the tit runt of E0z.,...r.4.7, on ganmed Sing nia Eivalon 010 tn ego lin 1, an honor in 'Mangle nu n& r of I . ls r due un en oils and tcp:othel , alt 1 . 1 Harold A. I.Nerett and lint Chart, IV. Ilem,e u 1 tiottated .it an honor ar, n niher of the Penn Matt milled al t hauler ISof tl thur I'o,oll. of tine lloginec f lug ',hoot -u.n, 111111nicd necinlitr of the !KA, I> thantental gioup -------0 - College Broadcasting Station Changes Time For Week-day Nights If all the to eat or Ft let Itadm the lounthasting hour of hot segulat Tu,dat nnl Weilne,rla, c•. ening ride ',logien. from the Caul• lege 4.1t.0n, WP;;C.m ill be nthaneell um .as-thills I 'clock to Oct cn o'clock twginning tonight. ltroatha,ting of loud athletic con te,t, will Blow for the sea-on nest Saws deo altos noon a hen doses iption ot the hosing meet girth Temple and restling 11th Cornell }sell be , ent through the local microphone Lat.• m March the annulil int,,Lholastc ha,kethall championghip game:, 'till 15e thionikazt CHAMBERS ON CRUISE Dean Will Canal, Chambtrh of dn. School of Education, mho 1. now mus ing a trip mound the eV orld with his wife on the S S Ilebolute, has 1.0111- pleted A Lolic to punts no the Medael racoon son and has bailed for India and the Far East.
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