VOL XXIII, Na 55 Trackmen Enter Penn Relay Carnival Today Fifteen Lion Cindermen Will Compete For Laurels in Eight Contests With Formidable Teams Coach Cartinell's pack of fifteen de lei mined Nittany Lions departed yes terda4 afternoon for the thirty-fourth annual Pennsylvania relay carnival, 3n which more than five hundred col leges and schools will be represented at Franklin Field, Philadelphia, today and tomorrow. Although the Blue and White men tor has taken but a small group of trackmen to the Quaker City races the competition sill be greater this year because of the national interest ntmulated by the approaching Olym pic Games. I=l Penn State will have entries in the quarter-milk, half-mile, sprints, two mile, distance medley and four-mile relay events. Many of the foremost collegiate cinder teams of the country will oppose the Nittany tracksters in each contest. In the quarter-mile college setup race for the championship of Amery co, Penn State will face such teams as Darthmouth, Penn, New York urn veisity, Michigan State, Maryland, Army, Ohio State, Pittsburgh, Chica go, Colgate, Syracuse, Kansas uni versity, Temple and Columbia. Cap tain Dick Bartholomew will start the event in which each man runs 110- yards before handing over the baton to his teammate. Al Bates and Frank Kilmer will follow in the order named while Johnny McCracken will serve as anchor man. The University of Penn sylvania squad has won this event four out of as. years. Fist Ilalf-Mile Relay With Michigan State, last year's lecord winner, Pittsburgh, Ohio State, Syracuse, Kansas, Columbia, Dart mouth, Yale, New York university and Penn State on the entry list, the half-nule relay ,crown.wlll,tbe,_lently contested. For several years Penn State has succeeded in gsimng only second place in the' 880-yard team lace. Dick Bartholomew mill lead the quintet with Al Bates and Johnny McCracken running in the second and third positions respectively. Bill Ear bach will be responsible for the final 220-yard spurt and the recovery of any yardage lost by his cohorts Folwell Scull, Penn's gridiron luminary and star sprint., together with Simpson, of Ohio State, who ran the 100-yard dash in nine and three-fifths seconds uses a wet ttacl,. last Saturday are (Continued on last page) DR. HANSON ADDRESSES CHAPEL SERVICE SUNDAY President of Gettysburg College Will Deliver Sermon nt Religious Exercises Dr. Henry W. Hanson, president of Gettysburg college, will be the speak er at chapel exercises in the Schwab auditorium Sunday morning. - Di. Manson is a graduate of Roan oke college and the Gettysburg Theo logical seminary, Ile studied abroad at the Universities of Berlin, Leip zig and Halle and has been granted the degree of doctor of divinity by Gettysburg theological seminary and the degree of doctor of laws by Buck ner! and Lafayette After being ordained a Lutheran minister in 1004, Dr. Hanson became pastor, in 1006, of St Luke's church at Pittsburgh, and in 1913 he was transferred to the Messiah church at Harrisburg In 1923 he was made president of Gettysburg college, which position he now holds. GLEE CLUB PREPARES MOTHERS' DAY SHOW As a feat= of the Mothers' Day cntertamment, the Glee Club has ar ranged a vaudeville show to be pre. suited Ptiday night, May eleventh, at eight o'clock in Schwab auditorium. Elaborate prepatations are being made and the Vest talent at Penn State will appear to the cast, ac cot ding to Richard W. Grant, direc tor of the Glee Club. A similar show, which met with the approval of a capacity house, was pre sented last year and the committee in charge plans to make the presenta tion this year bettor than ever before. Tickets will go on sale at a date to be announced later at fifty and sev enty-five cents each. The proceeds derived front the entertainment will be used to defray partially the ex penses of the club on its European trip this summer. . . • 7, .1 4, .I " run tafr °?1,.). 1 Thespian Artist } t. John D. Von Moda '29 HONORARY SOCIETY AWARDS CHARTER Pi Gamma Mu, Social Sciences Fraternity, Installs Chapter Here INSTRUCTORS NOMINATE - ---,S'II3)ENIS-IVR-ELECTION Pt Gamma Mu, national social sci• ences scholastic fraternity, iccently granted a charter to a Penn State group interested in such work and Dean William A Hamilton of William and Mary college will install the chap ter in the near future, according to an announcement made yesterday by Prof. Sheldon C. Tanner, of the econ omics department This organization is a composite honor society serving the departments of economics, sociology, political sci ence, history, commerce, law, educa tion, psychology and philosophy, and is expected to promote interest in each study group. Students with high scholai ship Inn ards are eligible for election to Pi Gamma Mu and ale nominated for (Continued on last page) Froth Greets Fair Promenaders With Borden-ized Issue Ohre Bolden, sweet and demure, gazes pensively from the attractive "Benno-ed" cover of Fruit's Junior Prom issue, the piomised "Bigger and Better Number," placed on sale at the campus bars today. The a idely proclaimed teproduclion of Holly mood's Celluloid Queen, a study in four colors by Art Editor Bei nard Hibler '29, intioduces Froth's first seventy-page issue in typical Galleys limo. fashion. Foaming Jocose front pretty Olive to Arrow's athlete. The Foolish Gen tlemen display a lam compilation of student banter. The first major offer ing is entitled "A Leaf Flom a Nat ural History Text," wherein the fun stets reveal an unusual species of feminice genus, aptly christened "Prom-Trotter " Comical Confidants Possibly because of a gloater titgt in their source of information, the whimsical edit°, mildly reprimand their campus contempoiaues by the confident caption, "Those Dancing," which heads the list of house dunces. (Continued on last page) l • Senior Class To Elect Honor Men Wednesday Important senior clams meet ing Wednesday night at eight thirty o'clock. Sensor honor men will be selected at this time. STATE COLLEGE, PA., FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1928 BATSMEN ENGAGE STRONG VILLANOVA TEAM TOMORROW Main Line Combination Boasts ViCtories Over Princeton And Cornell Clubs LIONS HOPE TO AVENGE LAST SEASON'S DEFEAT Roepke, Haines or Van Atta May Hurl Against Visitors in Annual Encounter Villanova's powerful array of dia mond performers, conquerors of Princeton, Cornell and other highly touted collegiate ball clubs, will at tempt to check the Lions' winning streak of five games when the Main Liners engage the Nittany batsmen Saturday afternoon on Ncw Beavet field at two-thirty o'clock. Boasting a run-scoring offense and impenetrable defense, the s tsi tors arc confident of repeating last year's vic tory over Coach Bezdek's proteges. The invading nine aided by excellent pitching, has defeated many of its opponents this year, losing only to the strong Fordham combination. limo Strong Pitcher , The Villanova tossers possess a star right-handed flinger in the person of George Hanzik. The latter proved his mettle in an encounter against Penn A C. last Saturday, when he shut out the former college stars, al lowing them but one hit and fanning the This was a remarkable feat considering that luminaries like Krcuz, Sulli,ian, Carter and Caldwell performed for the Pommes - Barns, lead-off man and star in (Continued on last page) JOURNALISM CLUB ANNOUNCES PRIZES Phi Mu Sigma Grants Tondoliar Martls to W. C. Taylor '3O, H. E. Hoffman '29 JUDGES COMMEND STORY ENTITLED "I AM A PEST' "I Am a Pest," ssntten by Herman E Hoffman '2O, received the first award in the feature and short story division of the literary contest spon sored by Phi Mu Sigma, honorary journalistic frateinity Adjudgen the outstanding uniting of the compe tition, Hoffman's story tells of the trials and tribulations of a house lo-house canvasser. Second prize was awarded to John S Bettolette '3O, who wrote a di,- eiccoon of the ammultutal situation entitled "Bunkum and the Agneul. tural Problem." t IEM15!:;1 In the technical article class, Wit ham C. Taylot, Jr. '3O, and Frank S. Williams '29, acre the recipients of prizes. "Testing the Power of an Automobile Engine," lin itten by Tay lot, amt first place and "Ptopottion ing, Mixing, and Placing Concrete," (Continued on /ass page) IWho's Dancing I Tonight Junior Front (Armory) Tomorrow ?sight Acacia Alpha Chi Sigma Alpha Gamma Rho Alpha Phi Sigma Alpha Sigma Phi—Lambda CM Alpha Beta Sigma Rho Beta Theta Pt—Sigma Nu Chi Phi Chi Upsilon Delta Sigma Chi Delta Sigma Phi Delta Theta Sigma (Closed) Delta Upsilon—Sigma Chi Kappa Delta Rho—PM Kappa Phi Kappa Sigma Omega Delta Epsilon Omega Epsilon Phi Epsilon Pi (Closed) Phi Kappa Nu Phi Kappa Psi PM Kappa Sigma (Centre Hills Countty Club) Pht Kuppa Tau Ph: Lambda Theta Phi Sigma Delta Pht Sigma Kappa—Theta Clu Pt Kappa Alpha Sigma Alpha Epsilon Sigma Delta Sigma Phi Epsilon—Theta Xi Sigma Tau Phi Theta Kappa PM Triangle Weight Debars Wolff From Olympic Trials Because of excess' poundage, Alhe Wolff, Lion boxing captain, was ex cluded from the finals of the Olympic boxing tryouts at Boston Monday Ante tipped the scales at 161 1-2 pounds, gust one pound over the limit When he resumed training, Wolff weighed 179 pounds. After a hard grind, he left for New York whole ho made a loot attempt to take off the excess poundage Arriving at Boston, Alhe was three pounds over, and the committee gave him thirty minutes to make weight. He succeeded in loving only two, and was disqualified. Wolff then wanted to compete in the 176 pound class but the reducing process had left hint so weakened that his handless refused to allow him to com pete. Next yew Ante will box in the heavyweight class, with Strut,le as a possible entrant in the 160 pound division. • I. F. C. APPROVES RUSHING SYSTEM FOR NEXT TERM Legislative Body Unanimously Passes Code Requiring New -Methods WILL SUBMIT PROPOSED RULES TO FRATERNITIES Nen Regulations Will Involve Use Of Sealed Bids and Open Procedure A new rushing code, including seal ed bids and other innovations imam mously approved by the Interfrater nit! Colima Wednesday night, has been submitted for final appioval to all fraternities that are members of the gmernment body. The pro posed legislation Nvillggalinto effect next fall Et favoriblikreEdivild by sh Greek-letter houses. Exorpts from rushing and pledg ing methods of other colleges through out the United States have born used by the committee during the past year to draw up the revised frater nity laws A new system must he codified this year by the Council and in the went that the proposed chang es fail to inert with approval, another means will receive prompt consider ation. Special Time For St:slung In its piesent form the .nev, code states that no rushing shall take place until elevcn-thirty o'clock in the morn ing of the Saturday following the opening of Freshman Week. Rushing shall be considered the (Continued on last page) GOLF TEAM TO OPPOSE - CENTRE HILL LINKSMEN Three Nittanv Veterans of Last Season Will Compete in Match Tomorrow Penn State's golf team will play its initial match 01 the season when it encounter; the strong Centre Hills Country club team Saturday aftet noon on the College course. Each of the teams will be composed of twenty men Captain James F. Bunting '29. Earl E Hewitt '2B, and Harry V. Fritchman '29, veterans of last year's team, will lie cell= to hold down Once of the positrons for the Lions. Witham II Day '29, and Witham C. Branible '29, who also took parts in several of the meets last year, will he available for berths. while Robert H. Jackson '3O, Tutina S. Pannaerion '9O, and' Robert D Leonard '9O, will probably be among the other men to receive an oppor tunity to contend for the Penn State team. Donn Warned, Dr William Glenn, Claude Arkens, Dr. Joseph P. Ititenour and Ray II Smith are among those who will compete on the Country Club team. Lion Schedule The Lion golf., will meet Lafay alto ut Easton May fourth and on the following day will encounter the Dartmouth team at Philadelphia. The George Washington linkmen will Journey to State College to meet the Blue and White May twelfth and the Clintn County Country club will be encountered the ne‘t Saturday at Lock Haven. The Willitimpoit Country club will provide the opposition Muy twen ty-sixth. The season will close when the Nittany goiters icpair to New York city to contend in the Interco'. legintes June twenty-lifth and twenty sixth. Tattrgiatt. THESPIANS ENACT SHOW FOR PENN STATE AUDIENCE Dramatic Society Will Present Play Tomorrow Evening at Seven O'clock PHILADELPHIA CRITICS PRAISE WORK OF CLUB Choruses Mingle Dancing With Offerings of Original and Enticing Song Hits Lauded byPhiladelphia and Pitts burgh critics as being one of the best collegiate shows in years, "Honestly Yours," the 1928 Thespian produc- I icon, will be offered for the approval of Junior Prom patrons in the Schwab auditorium tomorrow night promptly at seven o'clock Several new and clever dance num bers, which were introduced to the dub by Al 11 bite Jr., Philadelphia dance mentor and coach of the pro duction, as well as the appropriate and snappy music accompanying the numbers, should prom& an enjoy able two hours and a half of dive' tis sunent for the first Penn State audi ence to witness this year's presenta tion Magic Enters Thcmc According to the theme of the play, it seems there is a certain island upon which a magic spell has been cast by wundeling genii who have ordained that all persons treading this land shall be honest with each other and unwittingly reveal all per• sonal secrets for the benefit of their companions This supernatural force adds much to the interest of the (Continued on last page) PENN STATE PLANS FOR MOTHERS' DAY Faculty and Student OfficiatS To Speak at Conclave of Parents' Association COLLEGE GROUPS OFFER PROGRAMS MAY TWELFTH An extensive program has been pre pared for the entertainment of Penn State's guests the week-end of Na tional Mothers' Day, May eleventh to thirteenth, Donald M. Cresswell, pub licity director, announced yesterday. The department of music and the Glee Club will furnish vaudeville and music in the Schwab auditorium at eight-fifteen o'clock Pnday evening, May, eleventh. President. Ralph D. lletzel, Dean Arthur R. Warnock, Dean Charlotte E Ray, Ellen Burk holder '2B. and Charles C. Berryhill '2B, will address a meeting of the Penn State Parents' Association, presided over by Mrs IA Elizabeth Olewme, vice-president, at ten-thirty o'clock Saturday morning. Ma) Day Exercises Spot is sill compose the entertain ment for the afternoon and in the evening the Women's May Day exer cises and-the Penn State Players 'sill entertain Dr Frazer Metzger, dean of men at Rutgers unisersity, sill be the Chapel speaker Sunday morning. His topic will probably be on "Moth er." MILITARY SOCIETY SENDS DELEGATE TO CONCLAVE Acting as Penn State's delegate to the sixteenth national convention of the national society of the Scabbard and Blade, honorary military frater nity, Leo J. Reilly '2B, is attending the conclave at the Ohio State uni veisity Among the nationally known members scheduled to address the convention are Maioi General Charles P Summerall, staff chief. U. S A.. and Governor A. Victor Donahey, of Ohio. Attending this convention are op piemmately too hundred junior and senior cadet officers Dorn forty stales. The College chapter with thirty active members, is known as the If Com pany of the first regiment. A. A. Nominations Close j Tomorrow Afternoon i All applicants for the offices theof pt l d l e e t n i e t a A n s il s 0 csieactr eonta ry o mustf submit their names to the A. A. office by Wednesday after noon at four-tit ty o'clock. PROM REVELERS AWAIT HOUR OF ANNUAL DANCE Weems' Victor Recording Musicians and Henderson's Jazz Artists Will Provide Music Tonight Prom Chairman Harry E. Pfeifer '29 DR. WENDT RESIGNS OHIO DIRECTORSHIP Dean of Chemistry and Physics School Here Relinquishes Newly Formed Post ATTRIBUTES ACTION TO POLICY D:SAGREEMEIsiT Dean Gerald L Wendt, head of the School of Chemistry and Physics, an• rounced formally at a meeting of Sigma , Pi 'Sigma -Wmlnesday'ilight that he hod resigned from his pro posed post as director of tho Batten° Memorial of Columbus, Ohio Dean Wendt accepted the Battelle position in January and at that time submitted Ins resignation to the Col -1 loge Board of Trustees Although , the trustees accepted his tesignation, which goes into effect June thirtieth,' they have made no further appoint-I ment It is the hope of Dean Wendt that he 1;111 be reinstated to the of- I five which he now holds. The board will meet here May eighteenth to consider the matter Item,on For Resignation Doctor Wendt frankly esplained his reason for resigning the institute post as a mutual disagreement be tsseen the contracting parties The trustees of the Memorial were not in agreement with the policies and (Continued on second page) Former Luminary Accepts Post as Athletic Director As a result of a meeting held re cently by the Exetutive Committee of Susquehanna univei say, IYilham W Ultory '22, one of the best all-around athletes user developed here, has been chosen as a member of the faculty, in which capacity he will also coach football, basketball and baseball While a student at Penn State, he was a member of the varsity football team for three years and a member of the varsity baseball team for three years, being captain in his senior yeas- For thee yenta he was also a member of the varsity track team and for two years a member of the saisity basketball squad. Following graduation Ms Tillery Joined the St. Louis Amerman League baseball team and has also played in the Three I League and the Ness York-Pennsylvania League. Mr. Till ery continued his college football ex perience by playing professional foot ball in the National League as a mum bet of the Dayton Triangles SCABBARD AND BLADE ELECTIONS Paul S Hagan '29 Joseph H. Huhn '29 Henry W Jones '29 Richard S. Mackey '29 Harry P. Milohum '29 William J. Murphy '29 Robert K. Norton '29 Lewis L Rayrner '29 Edward M. Roeder '29 Edgar P Sudil '29 John K. Shaffer '2l Charles H. Sheerer '29 Henry R. Shorraid '29 Joseph L. Stearns '29 PRICE FIVE CENTS Penn State students ale preparing once mole to revel in an annual col lege dance. With Junior Prom only a few hours away, the undergraduate body is eager for the time to arrne when Ted Weems and Fletcher Hen• derson, masters of jazz, strike up mu sic for the final formal affair this year. Hundreds of the fairer sex, from all parts of the state, are in vading the town in anticipation of this unusual event fraternity booth furniture must be placed in the Arnim y cot later than tea-thurly °Woe/. 'hug morning It must be re moval on Saturday The syncopators of the evening are sell-known and rated with the best dance bands in the country. Weems, and his ten original Victor recording artists, ins ariably score a success with their smooth presentations No introduction is needed either, for Hen derson and his dusky artists, who never fail to make a hit with their hot music By request from both orchestras, Penn State songs have been sent to them They v,lll play their oun ea chestrations of these numbers and offer them as a main part of the con cert program Thespian Artists Perform George W Shuster and Ralph G. Kennedy, Thespian performers, have agreed to entertain Prom patrons du, ing the intermissions It is expected that they will present some of the steps from this year's show, "Honestly Yours " As favors for the Junior formal, the committee will distribute six hun dred paxgranis. Thesis novellios have leaves of olute moire bound oath a mer of blue leather. The list of dances as arranged an unique manner, never before used at a college dance here The committee requests that all who may not receive these tokens because of an insufficient number, should leave their names at the desk with a man stationed there for the purpose. A uniquely decorated Armory will (Continued on second page) CONSTRUCTION WORK ON GYM SHOWS PROGRESS Comptroller Believes Erection of Engineering Buildmg Will Commence Soan Wolk on the new Recreation Centel s progressing standing to schedule nd should be finvihed by the first of •eptembei, College Comptroller Ray Smith announced yesterday. Plans for the new engineering building are rapidly being completed by the architects and, if no unexpect ed difficulties raise, the building should be under consti action in two month% E‘cac.ition for the Infirmary has been finished and building %coil< will begin as soon as matetials arrive. This building, accoi ding to Mr Smith, will bo completed before the work on the Recreation Center is brought to r close. 1=!I The new sheep barns and setermary barn etc now being built Of the other buildings planned for the fu ture, nothing definite has been done. as they ale still in the process of design. Remodeling of Old Main, so far as is known now, will start next uintei, providing the new buildings arc completed. Classes will be con ducted in these buildings while im provements are being made in the in tenor of Old Main. College Awards Fifty Honor Society Medals Of the fifty honor society medals awaided yesterday for high scholar ship, the ,omen of the College re ceived twenty and the men thirty Set enteen flateinity and thirteen non fraternity men made tip the total number of men who were recipient. of medals. According to Arthur ft Warnock, dean of men, tins fact cont. pletely kills the idea that frateinities butt scholarship Tho medals me awarded annually by the honor society tamed of the College to sophomores and freshmen of the previous year who have obtain ed averages of 2.5 or better.
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