Council Rules Freshmen VOL XXIII, No.A9 DEBATING COACH NAMES TRIO FOR''; EASTERN MEETS Chooses Wallace BreNister' '29, Gilbert Nurick '29 and Seth Burt '2B TEAM OPPOSES BOWDOIN SQUAD TOMORROW NIGHT Orators Encounter Holy Cross College Monday As Final Event of Season Selection of Wallace Brewster '29, Seth L. , Burt '2B, and Gilbert Nunck '2B, as the debating trio to argue with four New England colleges during the forensic tour this week was an nounced by Coach John H. Frieze!! Sunday night. Professor Harold F. Graves of the English department will accompany the group when it leaves tonight "Resolved, that the United States should cease to protect by force of arms, American investments in for eign countries," is the topic, which will be discussed during the week's tout. The same subject has been used by Nittany orators throughout the present season. Debate Wisdom Tomorrow The first team to be encountered will he that of Boa dom College which will take place at Brunswick, Maine, tomorrow night. The Penn State trio will then travel to Boston where they will discuss the proposed question with Boston university Thursday night and with Boston college Fri da3 As the final debate of the season, the trio will oppose the squad of Holy Cross college, Monday night. Fol. losing this event the forensic group .311 disband for the season. An imitation nas received recently by tho b./lastly - orators from the Bos ton college trio inviting the local men to spend this week-end in that city as the guests of the institution Bowdoin and Holy-Cross are ranked among - the most vadely. km:Min-Km England .dehating tumid - because of - (Continued on last page) PROF. GRANT DELIVERS L A. LECTURE TONIGHT Speaker Will Trace History of ' Italian Music As Fourth Number of Series With "Italian Music and Its Ili±vel opment" as his topic, Prof. Richard W. Grant, head of the department of music, will offer the fourth number of a series of lectures presented by the Liberal Arts faculty in the foyer of Schwab auditorium tonight at sev en o'clock. Illustiatmg his lecture by vocal and instrumental selections from Ortho phonic Victrola records. Professor': Grunt Nu ;11 trace the des elopment and history of Italian music front the earliest times down to the prescdt Ile will also attempt to show how the pcninsula nation has played a more prominent part in the progress of Musk in general' than perhaps any other country in the world. Druids, Friars Continue Sale of Dance Tickets Athanco ticket sales indicate an all-College throng for the annual Druid• Friar dance in the Armory Friday night, Herbert II Eschbach 'BO, chairman of the committee, stat ed yesterday The sale began Satur day and will continue for the remain der of the week at Co-op, • Johnny Buck's orchestra will sup ply the music for the first informal dance of the year fi'om nine until twelve o'clock. A diffused lighting ,stem, produced by vari-colored globes strung beneath the ceiling, will pros ide the setting The price of nil omission has been set at one clonal and fifty cents. MIS. COSTER DONATES COLLECTION OF BOOKS An Edward Livingston Coster mern oriel library in railway mechanical engineering has been established in the Carnegie library, according to Prof. Arthur J. Wood, head of the mechanical engineering department. The memorial includes a valuable collection of books and periodicals ' dealing with railways. The original gift towards the establishment of the library came to the College front Mrs. Edward L. Coster as a memorial to her late husband, a prominent en gineer. More than two hundred vol umes have been added to the collec tion since the initial gift was made • (F 7 • (es ckrii IAI e kl • - • -;«?•.'' - :•;, • - ' •t , nut tate Student Council Acts On Custom Revisions ; LEGISLATIVE BODY APPOINTS' GROUP TO PROBE GENERAL COLLEGE. RULES BEFORE CHANGE Student Council, consuleting the customs at Penn State to have become antiquated and lacking in their pur pose, has appointed a committee to Investigate the matter preparatory to a general revision of the present disciplinary system Student customs, especially those PROM COMMITTEE PLANS GALA EVENT Weems and Henderson Promise Contrasting Types of - - Dance Music BANDS WILL PLAY FROM NINE UNTIL TWO O'CLOCK Attempting to regale Penn State dance patrons with the most enticing function of the season, the Junior Prom committee has signed too noted recording orchestras and has shown up plans for what it is hoped will be the most tlaborate decorating scheme with which the Armory has ever been adorned, in its arrangements for the annual formal which will take Place Friday, April twenty-seventh. I=l Transporting the dancers to a ..er !table fairyland of join will be Ted Weems with his ten original Victor artists and Fletcher Ifendemon's syn copators The two gioups will take their stand on improvised stages on opposite sides of the Armory, and will combine and alternate to fur nish continuous music from nine until two o'clock A smooth, harmonious type of mu stc kot a -sort seldom heard c , 4 wlll.-be omitted from 'the 'ten pine of the former ensemble aeording to reports of dance lowers who hose luotard the group in action, labile the lett& hand, Henderson's dusky artists, ate noted (Continues on last page) WRESTLING LETTERMEN ELECT WILSON CAPTAIN 125-Pound Intercollegiate Champ And Charley Packard Get Mawr "S" Awards Tcd Wilson. 123-pound Intercolleg iate wrestling champ, was elected cap tam of the 1922 grapplers at a meet ing of the tell sursity lettermen held last week Previous to the meeting, the ath letic association awarded letters to ten of Conch Speqiel's =amen, and to llohmt C Qusglcy, '2B student mana ger of the team during the past sea -1 son. Wilson and Chalky Peanut re ceived major "8" awards. The for : mer nits honored with a straight let ter beflllNe he Is the intercolle :late champion In his class whil, the latter was undefeated at dual meets through out the season The other grappler, echo rce:iveil letterw are Captain Liggett, Boblei, Cl:tamer, Chenonoth, Ilollobaugh, Ersertmann, Erb and Steele Nimrods Place Second To West Virginia Team In Collegiate Matches Penn State's rifle town placed sec ond to the University of West Vir gine ninirods in the sectional intei collegiate meet held on the Carnegie Tech ranges in Pittsburgh Saturday Carnegie Tech, Unnersity of Penn sylvania, University of Pittsburgh and Diexel institute finished in the order named The West Viiginia-Pennavlcania tourney was conducted under the aus pices of the National Me association with competition in three positions, pions, kneeling and standing The Mountaineer team amassed a total of 1.306 points while the Nittany sane totalled 1280. Joseph L. Stearns '3O, nos individ ual high scorer for the Lion ramrods with 270 points. PROF. DUNAWAY SPEAKS Discussing "The Place of the Dic tator in Latin American Life," Pro fessor Wayland F. Dunaway, of the history department. mill address the local branch of the A. A A. S. in the physics lecture room Finlay night at seven dm ty o'clock. . STATE COI I Frx TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 1928 applying to freshmen, originated In Student Council early in the history of the college, and their enforcement has always been delegated to the Stu dent Tribunal During the past four or five years the student legislative body has continually met with the dis= content caused by the existing system of government, but not until this year did they take any definite steps to ward revision. The committee on ievision is com posed of John C. &Meld '2B, chair man, Wheeler Lord '2B, Charles C. Berryhill '2B, Harold Dangerfield '2B, Wallace Liggett '29, Walter Gorman '2B, Carlton Bruce '2B, and William Stone '3O. This group is making a thorough study of the existing rules and will propose changes, amendments perhaps complete abolishment of mirth, ineffective laws Will Change Stunt nght. prevailing sentiment among the members of the student governing body tends toward the supervision of Stunt Night by Certain uppci class so cieties in an effort to make this an nunl affair more effective and impres sive to the yearlings. The event will probably take the form of a pageant instead of an unoiganired affair. At present there arc thirty-nine freshman rules set forth in the plebe bible. Of these many arc held by the student legislatneNly to be useless (Continuea on last page) DR. CRANE URGES GENUINE WEDLOCK Slates Points in Conflict With - Judge Lindsey's Viewpoint On 'Marriage Pcohlem . NOTED SPEAKER DECRIES STANDARDIZATION OF LIFE Problems concerning college and manic,' life as well as those relating to national affairs acre discussed by Dr llenry Crane, prominent religious lousier, during his annual three-day series of talks at Penn State Opening with a special convoca tion Saturday morning in the Schwab Auditorium, Doctor Crane cited see mal points to which everyone should adhere during their lives Two of the most important citations madi (Continued on last page) Dr. Russell Warns Against Danger of Life "Drug Wines" With a test particularly approprot-, ate for the approach of the Eastet season, Di. Elbert Russell, professor at biblical literature at Duke univer sity, and international lecturer, ad dressed chapel goers Sunday morn ink "When they crucified Ilan they of feted ibm nine and mhen lie hail tasted of it lie refused to drink," sins the biblical s crsv used by Doctor Russell as the theme for his talk. Through this text the speaker de clared that we can look into the soul of Jesus. In the continuance of his topic, Doe toi Russell mplained that wine map customarily goon to persons about to ha crucified in order to deaden their pain, Jesus refused the wine, coon at the cost of unspeakable agony, rather than allow Ills senses to be deadened Like Jesus, the Indio idual of today confronted with various forms of "drug wines" tint will deaden hum to the pains of We, but which may cause him to lose night of ninny of the finer thoughts The speakei men tioned nnicoties, alcohol and tot's:, co as some of the material Linda 01. "drug wines" of today. He stated, li(MCVCI, that the spiritual "drug wines" often have a soarer effect. upon civilization than the material ones. Of this type, middle class respecta bility., race distinction and commerc ialism have often placed individuals in a stupor out of which they arc un able to see the true meaning of life SKETI3ALL ELECTIONS Manager Benjamin F. Campbell '2O Firet Aithilitanto Russell F. Mollenauer Robert E. Hughes 'OO Poi tel C. McKinnon '3O - Official-...a. es Known Easter Vain Schedule Train accommodations have been presided for the student exodus at the beginning of Baiter vacation, Wed nesday, April fourth, according to recent eammunicapon from an official of the Penneyisania railroad system. The weat-bound train which usual ly passes through Tyrone will be stop ped for the benefit of students at four fifty-nine o'clock that afternoon while an cast-hound train will leave from LewistOwn at five-thirty o'clock, provided_with_citiu coaches • A spe cial train, leaving 4,cmont at SIX o'clock; wit rleach'Sunbury in tone to connect with trains to Harrisburg and Wilkes:Barre, HAZLETON COURT FIVE WINS STATE SCHOLASTIC TM,E Champions of L E : istern Division Defeat Lewistown High - By 35-31 .. Decision WATKINS, STECItER EXCEL FOR VICTORIOUS QUINTET Coal Miners' Accurate Shooting Causes •I.oi ers Downfall In Close Contest Ina closely fought contest, Halle-. taw High School, champion of the eastern division, of the state, non the Pennsylvania Ipterscholastic court title by a 35„31 slictory riser Leais town High, champions of the nest ern portion of Ile Keystone state, at the Armory Saturday afternoon in a game that wfis, not decided until the final minute's of the last quarter. Captain WatlcinP of Tlarleton, out, standing Pliiyer of the tourney here, made the fleet: tally of the fracas by sinking a long t 4 hot—Troln the side of the floor. He his brilliant work thrmigliMitir contest. netting ..stoutrorthr4 TrOlnls'anthtling nith his tearnmate, Streker, for scor ing honors. Rupp, of Lewistown, Was the main cog in the attack of the losers. Hazleton held the upper hand throughout the array and the 31.111 m County team neser sermusly threat ened the coal mmera although they pulled up twice to tie the score, once (Continued on fourth page) COLLEGE PUBLISHES NEW ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE Booklet of Forty, Pages Offers Picturization of College Buildings, Scenes nelimmary announcements for the year 1928-29 at Penn State arc con tained in a new pictorial bulletin ,lneh made ihs appearance last, ,cek. Mo.t of the forty ling, of the bool, let, are devote.' to the imam/aim of camp, hinlilings and scene,. of Moti on. activities. A [calor° of the 11h:exalts] an nouncement, which is the first of its kind pulite-hod by the College, is a section des pled to ...uggentidn. , Tor the ...baton of the proper college'' roarer by the prospective student All of the thirty-nine currtcuLt'offer ed b 3 the ,even schools of the College are outlined Belies mg that these Points soil] be helpful to high school seniors in their selection of courses in any college. Registrar Wilbam S Hoffman to .end mg copies of the booklet to the chief high schools of Penn..4lvanin. HARBINGERS OF SPRING REVIVE SPIRITS OF WEARY COLLEGIANS A robin lilts his happy melody from; a high-thus pcuh, there conies the I soft to acting of a distant bluebird rejoicing in his northern environment once more, collegians tlfscaid their unnctessai:. topcoats, March twenty first has conic and gone and balmy Spring has descended upon the Penn State campus These arc the days, so it is report ed, that newspapers and magartnes are deluged with an asalanche of the faults nod mistakes of aspiring po ets, for some groat man has also stat ed that in the spring time a young sum's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love, or some such a statement to that effect. It is the current opinion that many a Penn State nian will, during the days of the next month, feel within him the belief that he is ..n embryo Bi pant, Longfellow or Thoreau Totirgiatt. GLEE CLUB PLANS INTERESTING TOUR OF FOREIGN LANDS Songsters Will Visit England, France, Belgium, Holland On Summer Trip PREPARE FOR TWO-WEEKS STAY IN GREAT BRITAIN Group May Present Concerts in Amsterdam, London, Paris And Brussels • England, France, Belgium and 'Tol land v. dl provide a sai iety of Inter ests for the members of the Glee Club who will embark from New York, in July, for a forty-nine day tour of Europe. Two wceLs will be spent in motor ing through England and Scotland, viewing the quaint historic towns apd villages In Tintagel the travel ers will see an ancient stronghold on the Cornish coast, rich in the legend of King Arthur. Salisbury•, the best example of an English provincial city, will be the headquarters of the group while in that region This city has the finest cathedral in Great Britain as well as several beautiful gardens At Winchester near Southampton the songsters will view the old capital of the Norman kings, which includes the longest cathedral in the country, presentim, in its many styles of ary chltecture a record of the deselopment of the English Gothic pe. Here will also be found the remains of the palace of William the Conqueror and (Continued on fourth page) —o-- THESPIANS SELECT LYRICS FOR SHOW Club Will Enact Initial Shoaing Of Play in Bellefonte GROUP CHOOSES FEMALE, • MALE CHORUS MEMHERS Lyrics appropriate for the ten number dance program are being per fected at the nightly iehearsals of the Thespians, who soul stage the first shoming of "Honestly Your," on their annual Easton road tour at the Richelieu theatie in Bellefonte April ninth. Written by student., of the College, the entire group of approsimately to else ries has e an underlying theme of "I Lose You" running throughout the.s emus numbers All are appropriate for and go along n ith certain of the intimate dunce num hers ahich the male and female chor uses hare been practicing undet the tutelage of Al White Jr, noted dance instructor of Philadelphia. Yariely of Lyrics Fur the greater pal t of the lyrics the names are suggestive of the dance 111111111ri s w hush the) accompany. One, entitled "That Wonderful Came of (Continued on last page) DR. iirirzEi. ADDRESSES TWO GROUPS THIS WEEK President Ralph 1) Petrel oil vn- It Harrisburg and York thr4 a eel( At Harrisburg he plans to address alum ni at their annual dinner meeting Wednesday ec ening. On Thursday Dixtei 'retro' a dl glee the ronitnem e omit inhitess to the Y. M C. A. night class at York, vOlere non k is sum med by the Penn State engineering estennion department Co-cds ate not immune to the changing atmosphere elthilr and it Is altogethel probable that many a soft 1 heart will C 01111,040 hymns and Juggle words into this position and that in ' an effort to satisfy the mottleal re quirements of cease, the waste paper receptacle mill be cc Cr filled Rings of all 417 es and shapes lime already been marked off upon bare spots of the ground and the small lads are once more resorting to that joyous occupation of boyhood—play ing marbles. Many treasured collec tions will be lost and others inci eased during these days The Nittany batsmen, emilermen, follow ens of the Indian sport, tennis players as well as tine gridders are again practicing for future games. Spring has come to the Penn State napes. That's why. Lion Mile - Relay Team Wins Cleveland Event Penn State's crack one-mile rata/ team composed of Otrenhauser, Knr huh, Oasis and McCracken soon firat place at the annual indoor track meet sponsored by the Athletic Club of Cleteland, Ohio. Detroit unnorsity came in second, Ohio State university third and Michigan fourth. An the initial suit of the Nittan., tracksters to the Clneland meet Catch Carmen entered h.s one-milers in only the one e‘ent Thu, is the first time that the College .ithle•n. ossearition 11,19 anon recd the request ! from alumni of the Dutkeye city to enter the board track event. MRS. SWIFT WILL BEGIN TALKS HERE Noted Expert on Social Hygiene Offers Student Lecture Tornorron Night SPEAKER IS GRADUATE OF JOHNS HOPKINS COLLEGE A, a result of the growing convic tion ninon:. educators that on factor in life in more misunderitotel than that of weal hygiene, th, College Y M. C A Iris inrtc,l Mrs Edith Hale Su It, well known mcd,rnl 00-1 man and espert on se, greitions, In! address mon and n omen student i 101 the Sehmah auditorium Weilnestiay I Ind Thursday night, Mrs Swift will speak to the girl, at vs-thirty o'clock Wednesday es .1 ening in 01,1 Chapel and again on Thurs . day afternoon at four o'clod, I Sho will nedre,, the nun at eight' o'clock Wednesday night in the Awl !Whim There will he an opportun ity to arrange pen sotml molt rimee,l with Doctor So oft. by calling at they "Y" Ilut nr at Dean Ray'. office Con-1 femme hours will he announced 1 Doctor So ift is a gi ado tte of Ittol-1 Ankle college and of John: Hook its medical college. She his a recerd of fifteen Seats practice in the irethi-il Jtrof,sion, besides h ing traselled IFFCTugliotit - the' c'Olintrj lecturing to the students of moor of the largat colleges and univeraitic. i on her usual topic, "The Ttelat.on, Ile -Ito eon \ton and omen." Mi. So if has been chosen to lecture on 11 r =ante subject at many impoitant gathering, throughout the United Stater and other countries. COLLEGE AWARDS NINE LETTERS TO MIT TEAM Tno indnidual Champions Get Vat , ity "S"—Wolff Wins Second Tribut Nine members of the Nittany hos ing tenet mere .ioaided letters Satur day by the Athletic Asiomation eel ognntlon of their uorl, during the past season and Wolff minim re cletted captain for the coming year. Too Individual I hampions were gn en the salsa) "S" ,bile the othero repentsl the hosing team lotion. Cap tain Alla Wolff N. 14 'minded his second consmuLtse maim letter fm Inc second lOU-pound intercollegiate ehatapionship ,htle Pike, sins also gisen 4ClOtlti vmsdv ''S" for sin ning the talc in the 121-pound dnis mn lie ,on the 145-pound slush ain 192 I. in I,l,taining the inteieolleguite title% Captain Wolff and File:pie, by mime of their thannisonshipe, have been ad,aneed into the final round of the Olt rope to vaLe In lie held in Boston, April twenty-third amt tai Cu th Bo MIK It .1111 lettO , tere gal to 'Mahon, K 111001,1.1. ItohL, Itortirh, Struble, itteAndret, and Humus. the Olen hho entered the ring in dunl meet • during the season Thoinos .1 Co Actin "2K. student ininnager, v, also voted a letter. BELL TELEPHONE FIRM DONATES E. E. APPARATUS See 01.11 new pieces of %Skill/till° ap paratus has been added to the clue wal engineering deem tment's lab oratoi les within the last week through the bones olenee of the Bell Telephone Company of Pennsyhanin Once of the addition is a numbei 2.2-A-1 telephone repenter. This as semblage of apparatus will enable the department to make extensive measurements on telephone and trans mission lines. A cathode ray oseillograph witli the necessary synchronizing and timing equipment is the other now poscssion This device provides for the measur ing of eta lent attenuation, voltage attenuation, or distoition on telephone lines Ratters I flit For 1 South 1 PRICE FIVE CENTS NICITANY BATSMEN OPPOSE SOUTHERN NINES NEXT WEEK Virginia Uniiersity May Cancel First Tilt—Lions Face Duke Tuesday BASEBALL SQUAD MEETS SIX TEAMS DURING TOLIR flatten Holds Daily Drills in Preparation for Annual Conditioning Trip The Nittany baseball season mill open nest neck when Coach Beodek's sryuad smings into action against sec southern colleges on its annual spring training tour throughout the south The Lions mill lease here smite time this meek-end, the exact day has leg not set been announced. For the rust tilt of the mason Monday, the Unisemity of Virginia Is originally ,ihedulerl, but the stu dent manager and Coach Berdek are in iecmpt of a communication to the tffeet that because of unforseen diffi culties the Viiginians ma, be unable to play the game Negotiations art non undci sues to arrange a contest nith Duke imiveisity for Monday if Virgime cancels Encounters Duke 1 uesda) If no game es played Monday the hi st tilt of the season will he with Out" unicei sity Tuevlay nt Raleigh, Noi th Carolina Thursday the Re, deloanc . will encounter the baseball et • of Elon college, last y ear's champ um• of Noah Cat °him Fm ther opposition dui ing the southern tout will be furnished to the Blue and White aggregation hr Wake l'oi est college on WedneuLly, lis Randolph Macon college Friday and by Gem gams n university Sat urday Callon mg the lotto tilt the Nittant assemblage still return to St Ile College for the initial home game with Juniata, April twelfth Battery men has e been working (Continued on fourth page) DR. FLETCHER RECEIVES RESEARCH DIRECTORSHIP Paesident Helsel Announces New "Auxicußural Post After Alumna] of Board Appointment of Dl Stre Cl,Oll NV. letchei ns wt.-dean and director of research in the s-pool of Agriculture) hos been applo‘tal by the board of trustee., announces President Ralph LI Revel Doctor Fletcher coil. hoot :Ace, continue ire head of the depart ment of hortaculture Graduated from the Mossachip.ei is ' aultural College m ISIS, the nem- SCoII.IIIII Ibreatot ncreryul his M. S degree Gam CO melt ton‘ersity in 18'1Q and toe Ph. D dep . ( r floor the oame 10,10.1110 m leo Cello la . co. After erring at Washington Slate College for ti e r years, Cornell for 0 3.11, ti !Outran Slat. College for three o can, and .rt the Virginia ngn tultut id experiment ittatton for Years. he settee cded the pre.ent Dean Italint I, Watts as head of the do par Intl 01 or 1.1 to teener in Valli 'through his r flit len I troth he r , o o n gained the t AN m or 010 entity tethered Doctor I lytt Jur t, t trognmed a. Ilte authority in strastl"•rrte. in Amara a Po salt aultllshing num erous 1111 1 1(4111S ha bat ,rillen "Straw hos ts log," Grow am," anti "Soil," iln wort., ns secretary '1 the Stole II arta altural Sudety, in fluetu•d arow.r, Al over the stalk, unl lo ought knot tnto ctatt.art v ail 111111, UMW:. fit ~...1111.1t14111 Fencers Compete for Prizes in Tournament In ,t competit , on for inlet, offered be Coach Sch,titm, the fencers are engaging in then initial tournament. The indnidual champion udl be chos en nt the conclusion of the final dini mations winch will be fand today and Thin sday, and nest Tuesday Inunethately oiler the Easter Tr ees,: the inter-class competition will commence, the uinnei being chosen after a series of matches. CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS LIBRARY RECEIVES GIII! A gift truer George Vilhnm bai gent, formerly Abbate,' with the Molybdenum Corporation of America. has been reLeived by the library of the School of Chenubtry and Physti.s. 'rho gift comprises a set of scien tific and technical papers of the Bu reau of Standards and some pamph lets and publications on numerals and mineral resources.
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