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.
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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
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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. . .
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John D. Von Moda '29
HONORARY SOCIETY
AWARDS CHARTER
Pi Gamma Mu, Social Sciences
Fraternity, Installs
Chapter Here
INSTRUCTORS NOMINATE
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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,"
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.