Ring Temple's Beloff VOL XXIII, No. 44 SPORTS CARNIVAL MARKS CLOSE OF INDOOR SEASON Passers Face Unbeaten Pittsburgh Quintet Tomorrow Night PANTHERS ENTER FRAY WITH LINE-UP INTACT Captain Von Nieda, Jacobson and Lungren Will Play Last Game for Lions Penn State's basketball season will reach its climax tomorow night when the Blue and White quintet Mies up Against the unbeaten Pittsburgh team at semen o'clock tomorrow mcning on the Armory floor to make a valiant attempt to aienge the 48-25 defeat sustained earlier in the )car. Tomorrow night's contest mitt mark the end of a long schedule for both fives. The Panther courtmcn have a record of nineteen consecutise vic tories, among which are wins over some of the strongest teams of both the East and West. The most re cent conquests of Coach Carlson's toss er: were those administered to Notre Dame and Washington and Jeffer son The winning streak of the Pitt quintet was seriously endangered Tuesday when the Presidents battled the Panthers to a 33.32 score. The Golden capers have also vanquished Colgate, Carnegie Tech and Comic City sines the tilt with the Lions In the Pitt stadium. Lions lase Won 12, Lost 1 If the Manny dribblers Islay up to their best form, they still gate the Panthers a stilt battle tomorrow. Coach Ilermann's cagemen, although they hate lost Sour of the fourteen games played this year, have display ed excellent basketball en many of the contests. Opposing the Pitt five, Jacobson null leplace George Delp at forward in the starting line-up `of the Blue and White passers, Steseitamas will occupy the other forward past, Lou Reilly will Jump tit - center and Cap (Continued on last page) CONGRESSMAN TO SPEAK AT GRANGE DINNER-DANCE ttopresentatto c John C. Ketcham, Dean Watts, State,. Local Masters To Talk Congressman John C. Ketcham will be the chief speaker when the Penn State Grange convenes for its annual banquet and dance at the Centre Hills country club Msrch twenty-fourth. The Conga...man is a Represents- Inc from Michigan in which state he is influential to Grange circles, being present Past Master of the entire state In addition to this he is the Past Lecturer of the national Grange organization Mr. Ketcham introduced a farm te ller bill into Congress just a few weeks ngo and is also a co-author of the Cap per-Ketcham Bill which increased the funds for agricultural extension work Dean Ralph L Watts of the School of Agriculture, E. B. Dorsett, :Mate of the state Grange and Thome., W. Crittenden '29, president of the local group, are also included among the speakers for the event Follon mg the banquet there will be dancing front ten until twelve o'clock with the music being provided by the Blue and White orchestra Bethlehem Steel Will Present College With Rail Products Exhibit Word was received recently by ofil- CM'S of the civil engineering depart ment that the Bethlehem Steel comp any is now preparing a Permanent exhibit of its rail products which will be presented to the College v.ithin the next few months. The exhibit is to include a number of cross-sections of modern steel rails, tie plates, rail braces, Joint bars, a completely assembled rail joint, coin promise Joints, switch stands, a guard rail model, a guage rod and a com pletely assembled mine switch. Plans hove been made to install this -exhibit in the mechanics laboratory in the basement Of Engineering A miler° it will be used for-instruction in railway engineering courses. PROP. WRIGLEY SPEARS Spealong on 'The Land Utilization Study of Tioga County," Paul L Wrigley of the Agricultural Econ omies Department addressed the WolLsboro Rotary Clod, yeaterclay. .^) I 'tt - (: ‘ ,1 1 / 4 f 1 # I IZI I I 14 Sport Events Listed On Week-end Program ' Boxing 2.00 p. m. Penn State versus Temple Wreatling 400 p m.—Penn State versus Cornell. Basketball 700 p. m —Penn State versus Pittsburgh 8 00 p m.—Preshmen 'term Pitts burgh freshmen. Hardy Cornell Team Will Encounter Wrestlers COACH SPEIDEL SHIFTS LINE-UP FOR ITHACANS A sterling stems of thoroughly ex perienced Cornell wrestlers will step out on the Armory mats, tomorrow afternoon at four o'clock, to fate Coach Charlie Spodel's partially renovated grappling team With a strong aggregation and formidable representatives in each class, the New Yorkers bolrra season of successes °vol. Columbia, Lehigh, Pennsylvania and Syracuse and may he espected to contribute their share in what promises to be one of the keenest mat contests witnessed in the Armory this sea:. The Blue and While mentor has kept his charges competing closely Los the privilege of entering their final dual meet of the season In de tail. the' line-up which Coach Speidel will enter against Cornell is uncer tain, for he is considering either Roltabaugh or Crarmier,for the light heavy berth and Rog 31ahoneyfor the unlimited class In 'addition, the Lion mentor may put flubler into the 185-pound tilt instead of Red Cheno eth and cthei Captain Liggett or Ted Wilson will tussle in the special . weight sett°. Ell!!!1=121!!:El!!!! In chat ;rises promise to be one at the closest frays of the meet, the Nittany hantamueight, Dory titeele n ill encounter Johetson. Both dimin utite grappling artists hate the record of securing a fall over (lamm, Penn sylvania's 115-pounder. The lighter at Cornell's llolsman twins nilrlind himself against either (Continued on last page) Famous 'Y' Leader To Conduct Series Of Lectures Here Dr. Henry Crane, nationally known religious leader and prominent Bleat ogtan, will conduct a three-day ser tes of lectures here under the aus pices of the Y. M. C. A. beginning March txenty-fifth. Ile is the neph ew of Dr. Frank Crane, noted news paper syndicate writer. The speaker is a graduate of Woo. leyan unwermty and of the School of Theology of Boston university. Lat er the degree of Doctor of Divinity aas conferred upon hun by De Pauw university of Greencastle, Indiana. Reinhold Nauhr, Arthur Rugh and Henry I' Van Dusen, all noted Y. C. A.' workers, rave cspre,sed their approbation of the selection of Dr. Crane as the speaker for the lecture series to "V" officials here PENN STATE TO RECEIVE TELEPHONE SWITCHBOARD Through the donation of the Bell Telephone company of Pennsyhaniu, Penn State In now in possession of a completely equipped demonstration telephone switchboard formerly used in the Harrisburg training school. Tuesday three trucks delnered the equipment which is non• in the process of erection. Charles E Gorier professor of telephone engineering who opened negotutions with the com pany for the equipment, is in charge of the assembling,. The switchboard will be placed in Engineering D whoa anyone mterestml may NW% It. PLAN FRESMAAN WEEK Plana for the 1928 Freshman Week were thsc.sed at a meeting of the Freshman Week Committee in the President's office on Wednesday. Freshman Week will he held tins I ear September fourteenth to erght eenth. STATE COLLF-rIF:PA., FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1928 Boxers Wind up Dual Meets With Temple Tomorrow ROBB OR STRUBLE MAY BOX IN 175-POUND CLASS Bela', Student-Coach of Owls, To Fight Captain Wolff In Middleweight Tilt In their last dual meet of the season, the Penn State mittmen will oppose the Temple university boxing team tomorrow afternoon in the Armory nng in what promises to be ono of the most exciting contests of the sea son. Although the Philadelphians have not engaged in much competi tion this year, they boast of an ex perienced string of battlers Coached by Dave Beloit; a student, Temple defeated Western Maryland and Foidhum. Deloff boxes in the middleweight class and his coming bout with Captain Alhe Wolff has aroused much comment The Owl mentor, well known in boxing circles in the Quaker city, holds the Middle- At'antic amateur championship in ad dition to ycveral other Philadelphia titles. The Nittany captain will hone to be at las belt to stop the hard-Sat ing battler from Temple. As yet Coach Leo Mooch is still undecided as to who will represent the Lions in three of the bouts. Filegai, recuperating from •his recent infec tion, has not reached `his top-notch form and It is possible that Eby will again see action in the flyweight di, (Continued on last page) VICTOR ARTISTS TO PLAY PROM MUSIC Fletcher .Henderson —Will Simply Syncopation—Ted Weems' Group May Sign THREE JUNIORS RECEIVE CONTRACT FOR POSTERS .31usical shams from Victor record ing artists umll ,pervade the Armory uhen Fletcher Henderson and ha, hand, together with one other orches tra, probably Ted Weems and his famous musicians, provide syncopa tion for the annual Junior Promen ade Friday evening, April tuenty seventh, Although Harm E. Pfeifer '2O. chairman of the Prom committee, has been• negotiating math Ted 'Weems' booking agent, he has not 'yet Te noned any mord concerning the con tracts. There will, box ever, the de finite TOM of the orchestra by the first part of the meek Favor and program contracts irtse not yet been awarded, but the sub- committees hose announced that there will be a condonation of the too into ono attractive article. The Armory min ho decorated in a manner alto. gether different from pros ious occas ions so that the orchestras .may be placed at either extremity of the Three Juniors base been awarded a contract to make the posters for the uppereltiss fonnal, while one largo feature adscrtisement mill be dis played at some prominent portion of the Campus. Tickets for the annual spring dance mill sell for sewn dol lars. Dr. Edgar F. Romig To Speak Sunday Rev. Edgar F Romig, of the Clinidle Collegiate church, Nev. York city has been selected to VV., the Sunday morning sermon to the chapel-goers This is Dr. Romig's difth appear ance at Penn State, his lest Ins too years ago when he gave the and-year commencement sermon. At other °e nemas ho has been the chapel speak er. Registrar Willmar S Hoffman, Bee creed Eliot D Parkhill, last Sun day's chapel speaker and per. Rome were all anomated A, hen they taught at Beirut untversay from 1912 to 191 G. High honor stns paid to the coin. ing speaker last summer uhen he Ists chosen as the chaplain of the Queens Church in Holland. Each summer one In eacher front the Unit ed States is chosen to tuke charge of the church and this honor seas ac corded hum last year. The church of uhich he now has charge Is the oldest Protestant church 01 North America. Dr. Ritenour Receives Shipment of Vaccine Planning to innoculate all candidates for R. 0. T. C before summer camp open., Dr. Joseph P. Ritenour, College Physician has received a consignment of Para-typhoid and Typhoid Vaccine, and since the War Deportment has pros ided more than is necessary for this purpose, he announces that any person uho so desires sydl be gases a vaccination. Three doses of the !raceme is ad ministered at weekly (intervals and once established Wimp never been determined just how Imig the immun ization lasts, Doctor Ritenour states, but it is advisable to 114 c it repeated at file -Dear intervals. GLEE CLUB LOVES FOR SONG CONTEST IN NEW YORK CITY Sint,rers Gnc Lebanon Concert En Route to Gotham for National Touiney NATION-WIDE MEET WILL BEGIN TOMORROW NIGHT Fifteen Colleges To Compete in Intercollegiate Tilt at • Carnegie Hall WU. en route to Now York nhere thee will compete in the tnelfth an nual Intercollegiate Cleo Club con ies, the Penn State glecmen present ed a concert in Lehanon, last night under the auspices of the local Clang° The proceeds gnthrecd from the entertainment will ho used toward the grins fund for the erection of a girls' dormitory nt Penn State. The annual national , song conteit will he conducted tomorrow night in Cal negui hall, New Ydrk, at eight fifteen, o'clock.- Pourick •glee cluhs from schools throughout the country u ill compel, with the College song stele Singing three song ,, , each group nvill give one -which it has chosen, one selected d; the oommit tee. and the song of its alma mater. The Lion glee club drain seventh, first and thirteenth places in the singing of the re..pcctive numbers Other colleges and universities par ticipating in the songfest are Con necticut Wesleyan, last sear's 'lim n., Dartmouth, New York univer sity, Ohio Slate, Columbia, North uestern, Furman, Princeton, Syra cuse, Ambert, Lafayette, Yale, Mis souri and Fordham PROF. FRIZZELL TO READ ITALIAN DIALECT VERSES Will Recite From Tom Dab's Poems im, Third Number Of L. A. Lectures A., the third presentation of the Liberal Arts lecture counse center ing about Italy, Prof. John 11. Fru zell of the department of English sill! rend selections in Italian dialect Jaen Item the poems of Tom Daly nt smelt-fifteen o'clock Tuesday night in the Old Chapel. During his hour of entertainment Professor Filmll will recite passages flow Carmine, Madrigal], McAroni Ballads and Camoni and Songs of Wedlock ell aork.s of Daly. The sale 0 1' this poet's books hate numbered men met thu thousands. Profe,or saell has gam smeral ouch ;eail lap in the Italian dialect end smokers Ind dinners and by Ins mastery of the quaint spas li, intensely interest ed and amused his audiences. Tons Daly, the author of the dia lect ♦en ve, 'ens 'horn ai Philadelphia in 1871, and 'has been 0 Joutnalist in the Qu iker city most. of his life. Taelte year, ago he published his first solunte of poetry, and with each new hook his original quality 0.1 a poet of the Cesonopolitan city lino rceencel wider recognition. FW - 11 — o's — San — cin — gi Frida, Senior Dell (Armory) Slat:ran) Tau Signal Phi Sigmu Alpha Epsilon Della Pi Phi Gamma Delta Pill Lambda Theta --Alpha Cba {Sigma Theta Up•alon Oine'43 and Alpha Gamma Rho at 'Flea Upsilon Omega Home Totirgiatt. SIX ORGANIZATIONS TO PARTICIPATE IN DRAMATIC CONTEST Bucknell. Juniata, Franklin and Marshall Stage Plays at Tournament Tonight PROGRAM OPENS WITH MEETING OF DIRECTORS Fire Losses Present Villanosa, Last Year's Winner, From Entering Competition Si♦ college organizations will com pete in the third annual convention and tournament of the Pennsylvania Intercollegiate Dramatic association to be held here today and toinorrov. Organized three Tears ago through the efforts of Prof Arthur C. Clue tmgh, the association has providca an agency through which Pennayl tame colleges can cschange dram atic productions. The Club has alio encouraged higher standards of dram atic appreciation. The program, ao planned by Pro frs.zoi Cloetingh 'till open with a uirectois' meeting in the Players' stun k. at Oc.en o'clock this morning. The dramatic clubs -mil then hate luncheon at the Uni‘enity club In thi afternoon, the three organiration , which stage their productions tonight, will hold ichearsaLs at the Auditor ium. Dinner will be semed at the Unit ersity club. The firot hill of plays to he staged at eight o'clock tonight .a ill conoot of "a Night at an Inn," Franklin and Marshall college; "Shorn," Bucknell (Continued on third page) LION LACROSSEMEN HOLD INITIAL DRILL CapLtin Re!field, Cromie, Torok, And Kiefer Remain from Last Year's Squad TEAM HAS SEVEN TILTS ON SEASON'S SCHEDULE Light drilLs and limbering-up ex. cremes marked the activities of the Penn State lacrossemen when Coach Ernie Paul held the fust practice be, :ion of the seneon, Wednesday and, se=terday afternoons The first sae city game is scheduled for April nine teenth when the Lion stak - men op pose Syracuse. Although but four former varsity men, Torok, Kiefer, Cronne and Cap tain Beheld, are back on the squad or approvniattly seseedY4i,o Mon who base been reporting for prac tice on Old Berner field, the mentor 1.. hopeful of producing a champion ship team from the aggiegation To date, men games hose been scheduled for the coming season, two' away and fete Att home, hut the dates of April twenty-eighth and May nineteenth are still open and will premhlv ho filled later. Following, the opening scrap with I Sy encase April nineteenth, the fol lowers of the Indian sport will en gage Cornell here April twenty-first. Other opponents to be played at home lire Swarthmore, Play twelfth, the Philadelphia lacrosse club, June ...and and the Onondaga Indians, June ninth. The first gum away will he with the Mt. Mashington club at Baltimore May fifth, and the other with Army at West Point, May twen ty-sixth (Continued on third page) Memorial Library Receives Donations The Erhard Liyingston Coster Li- brary rn rn lime,. mechanical engin eering of Penn State started in Itg by Mrs. Eduard L. Coster in mem ory of her huslyand, 51r. Enwaird I. Corder cf liatonaly, Nee York has recent,' approsimatcly one hundred hooks since the initial donation Oser one hundred and twenty Not- Imam, both Amin:on and foreign, re. lilting to railway mechanical engin eering and Including in complete set of the proceedings of the American Rai' may Mechanic's association were included in the frost gift. Since that limo a fund has been cleated for the purpose of maintain ing the library and acquiring new boots. With this money, periodicals pertaining to railway mechanical en gineering mill be bought and a com plete Ale of the proceedings of the principal rade* , mechanical orgam- Tationn mill be maintained Senior Ball Provides Social Gaiety Tonight Armory Throng Will Dance to Strains Of Dewey Bergman's Webster Hall Recording Band ISenior Ball Committee Announces Ticket Sale To relic', po , ,ible congestion I at the entiance to the Armory tonight, tieteLs for the Senior Ball may be procured today at Stark Brothers store The pnoe / of odow.s.ion is fine dollars BLUE BAND WILL PRESENT CONCERT Military Organization To GIA c Recital At Third Number In Winter Series TRUMPETISTS' OFFERING MARKS VARIED PROGRAM ta the third of the nod-minter bar:- dq concert.;, the Co'lcge mul,lacv bind, under the direction of Wilfred' 0 Thonip , an, bandinacter, mdl nre • ent a program, it bob mill include amoral special ariangenunts One of the feature, of the recital null lie thu pi e,ntation of "Miser ere from Veldt's "II Trmatere" by the Blue .fland trumpet choir, con :ming of ten tiumpetists, mbo mill be accompanied on the organ th.) [Jocelyn W Picture '2B The entue proginm mill consist of , as parts as follow,: first, Mar., "Penn State 110," Thomp , on, ,second, "Unlinished Symphony," Shubert, third, "Psyche;' Pahat, arranged and !conducted by William E. Iliery '2O, fourth, "Serenade," Shubert and "Narce.se=." Nom, fifth, "Traiee ' rel." .Schuman and ".Miscrere," Verdi, and sixth, Potpourii from the "Vag i• I.nd King," brunt Tho nest concert of the Sunday at terncon nide, mill the presented by the Mandolin club under the direction of P.oil Q Tulenko '2B, on March eighteenth Vitamin 'E' Expert Investigates Work Of Research Staff Cro,irg the continent on a tour of the nutrition lalwatoriei, of the United State', Dr Harbert, M. Stan 4, head of the department of anatomy of the Unn.msits of California, risit -2d the institute of animal nutrition here last week. Ilr Sans non con,iderable prest ige through hts n ork in the titamm held Ile is the dis, overer of the principle of nutrition known as sita nun U littentls the announcement CIIIMC from hi% laboi Mori that he has queeeeded m I=i:dating oitamin 1 , , still another of the group Ilan %Jolt here no, primarh to 11, 'pert the institute of anon 0 nutrition Milloll he highly commended Ile also cape gloat. Interest on the Nlt.l. nun reseal (11 . nork, tondo. ted l.t thin department of agricultural and bop. lo;pud thtmista;,. CLASS Or 1918 TO HOLD TENTH ANNUAL REUNION A meeting of the Tenth Annual Re moon tommdtee of the Class of Ittis v. ill be held in the Alumni Office to morrow ri ening after the basketb,ll; game. 'I he meeting has been called he Spencer 31 Free, of Greensburg, •ecretare of the class, for the purpo-e of discuwan of definite Plan , con cerning the for Ilitoming 'IS ',union The committee COIMISt4 of Nt dhani R. Ctotn, 'Money, Parke 11. Lutr., Eph rata, Walt, l 4 Barnatd, Ilarrndng, Robert, K Cochrane, l'itt.bui nil, Wit ham II Coninll, Wham It Young, George Foulkrod and Donald Cress , ell, all of State College nEi.r.k siGm.k 1.1 ELCCTIONS 11.11pli BJ.I-field '26 Blair E ltenderbon '26 Paul I) Kline '2B Earl 1). Blair '29 Gilbel t. S. Gruber '29 Jacob 11. Reiff '29 Landih L. Kato% '29 John IL Sto enbon '29 Nelbon F. Wicker '29 Jame. T. Wolfe WI Dewey Dance, Seniors? PRICE FIVE CENTS Amid a galaxy of colored adorn ments enhanced li.) glimmering, rats from floodlight., and ceiling light., .avaying couples will throng the mir ror-like floor of the Armory tonight to met in the annual gayety of the Senior Bnll Smooth, rythmical mu sic by Dear; Bergman and he, Wth qtet lfull orchc,tr t, will Oct this tempo for the moray-maker, from nine until too o'clock rol the fat time in ite lin , lue), the formal affair., omit.mitra, t All-Coh• leg • assem•hlage Pr...ions to the , sea: the ,functien had betn ti strietlt nnnei cht t. dance Ik vratory of the Sihcreta•m non pony of Willte,-Barre Levan to tram lorin the ,NICIOII4 La shc6§all court into r Neritable ratallroun ve.sterdav CI I - and College co , or. 1%01 predom inate in the •etttng plans while o canopy from the cmn•puo wall. core tha entaance to the dance floor Itoit If lfogatt, thotromr of the forme contour ter, 7 queato tho ',allies to phutaril booth fur mint r tit Mt Al moil/ before rill,- I' to'clttrk thza morn./ art/ to re tool,' I befotr o'rlock tumor low MO, I? 011 Among the patrons and patroness s Atho are e‘pet.ted to attend to night's affair are President and 31, Ralph 1) Ileteel; Ple,ident of the Do tttil of Truster•; Ilmard W Dcan of Mon and 11,.. Arthur R Wirnoek, Dean of Women Chalk/tie It Dean and Alm Charles W Stoddart; Dean and Mrs. Robert I. Sackett, Dean and Mrti Ralph I. att=, Dean and Mt,. Gerald 1. Wendt; Mr and Mrs. Rego Be7glek; D... and Mr, Joseph P. Ritenour; Registrar aril Mr.,. Witham S Hoff man, Alumni Seerettti v and Mrs N Sulkan and Graduate Man ge. and Men FRESHMAN COURT TEAM TO OPPOSE PITTSBURGH Lions ;11 eel Former Commeror3 In Final Came of Season Tomorrou Night Using the ,ime combination that pt o‘ eil Jevsll ou, to the Duck nen quintet !tot meek the Pion State freshman hasteth lli thins will a lash Wall the Unit ratty of Pitt-sbuigh plebe in the last gaino of the session at eight o'clock tomor row• night in the :moor) after tit. laisitv tilt Coach Larne Cono‘or has risen Ina men .5 "II cottons es orkout fat the con test in which the Nittany 'yearlings are eager to emerge the ',inners be , au.° o f the defeat mina they recent rd at the hands of the Smoky City Inds elrher in the ,e.,on mith the Varsity Weilne,da), night And 1 short wa kuut last night 4 ompleted the priparation lot the fm...t floor, G . 11111.1111 Paul Killumn, and Jai the senatile cult forward,, mill assume the form aid pu .d noun Macomb, the lank) curter who wish K1'111111111( 1 was mime or the oulAanding player, in Ills Ulange and Slur can• leg will again try his ability At the nnddle•tloor port. Chuck IVilltane land Quite:, the ...moot li-morking combination that Conch Call (P1C1 lids last net entiv unearthed au 11 - tart am tin Into at the guard herth.,. Baker and Kr mitt, rrnn r and guard re,pliti,eh Pitt lb, Pitt first ) cat nu ii ,taried in the 50-19 so•lnry oter Washington and JelTei bt•t med. nth caging el, field goals, 'I he s.nm • G11111( 1 was niarlail by the -.pet tacular pnssulg or Cullen, forward, Bala r, enter, and -Jacob,, guard Atilt., forested, Jai oho and Baker vtsul the• PILL > t:.11 . 1111;: 4 from defeat at the mur Cal ins!le 1111111/1. 1 ., and Bala r and .1,1, ohs led the `cOrllg to t wit e. of the U 1111.1. 1 ,11, lad.. Ila storm n t the ind of the tilt ma, 27-25 rich Pitt, the victor, FRATERNITY WRESTLERS COMPETE IN FINAL MELT In the final round of the intro-fra ternity wrestling. touinainent, Sigma Phi Epsilon will oppose Tuu Eupp4. Epsilon Tuesday night at be% no o'clock. The ,enh-ltnal., staged last Tut., day iesulted m Sigma Phi lipbilon defeating Kappa Delta Rho and Tao Knppn Epsilon °s creaming Alpha Gamma Rho