Trackmen Submerge Orange VOL XXIII, No. 62 COUNCIL ANNOUNCES CONVOCATION PLANS FOR NEXT SEMESTER STUDENTS RECOMMEND SERVICE EACH WEEK-WILL SUBMIT IDEA TO COLLEGE AUTHORITIES Realizing the benefit to be derived Item well-known speakers and feel ing the need for frequent gatherings of the student body tinoughout the acadenneyear, the committee on stud ent convocations, recently appointed by Student Council, recommended that a weekly convocation be held each Wednesday morning at eleven o'clock, beginning with the opening of Col lege in September. This report was presented at the Council meeting on Wednesday evening and was approved by the governing body. Question of Attendance Dining the discussion Dr. Henry Ci aim ,who spoke here recently, was cited as an example of the type of loan who should be obtained to fill the office of speaker at the weekly gatherings The committee behmes that with an authority like Doctor Ciane delivering the address the ques tion of attendance would be solved and the student body would flock to the Auditimmm for the convocation. In addition to•the drawing power of impoi ted speakers, the prominence which the event would be given on the College piogram and the necessity for such a gathering to replace daily chapel services, are factors which, it is thought, would result in well-at tained and inspirational programs Financial Problem Rises To finance the proposed movement a mum of fifty cents will be added to the incidental fee charged each stud-' ent at the time of registration. This will give the project a working capit al of between fifteen hundred and two thousand dollars which, it is behoved, will pay for the attraction. As a means of increasing this sum, Student Council believes that, if ne cessary, the College may be willing to contribute five hundreds to further the successful operation of the convocation plan The inter-class budget could also aid the project, if necessary. A committee hum Student Council will manage the weekly convocations tluoughout the year. This group, (Continued on last page) COLONEL McLAUGHLIN TO LEAVE PENN STATE Commandant Will Transfer to Forty-Third Division of National Guard After four years of continuous ser vice, Colonel Clenurd McLaughlin, commandant of the Penn State branch of the It. 0. T C , wtll,be transferied to the forty-third division of the Na trona! Guard at the close of this sem ester, it was announced by the mill tiny depai talent yesterday. Dining his four year term at Penn State Colonel McLaughlin has under taken to alter several items of the solitary depaitment and to improve upon others. Me undertook the re cision of the cadet officers uniforms and was instiumental in having the numbers of cadet officers and regular army officers doubled The formation of two organized regiments, one of infantry and ,one of engineers, was los innovation, as was the forming of a second band for the engineers. Graduation Ceremonies Climax Special Courses. Of Extension Schools Commencement exercises ended the 1027-28 school year for the blanch behools of the department of engin eet ing extension last month at Allen town, Reading and Saunter,. Clos ing exercises lot the other three branch schools, Wilkes-Barre, Erie and Williamsport, were held during the previous month The last year has been one of the most successful eves experienced in this division of engineering extension activities, according to E. N. Mon tague, supervisor of branch schools for this department. The werl. dur ing the past year by these schools shows a high quality of work of emir and instruction given as well as the maintenance of a high student per foi mance, according to his repoit. Sixty-three students were given dip lomas at these three schools for the completion of the three-year course while three hundred and forty-six wale granted certificates for the com pletion of special offered by the department. 4;:iii.c,',. • .:.1..A.: -.2::,,,,-.: ,;(..,,,,, INTRA-MURAL BODY ADOPTS NEW CODE FOR OPEN RUSHING Announces System To Become Effecthe at Opening of Next College Term DEFERS PLEDGING UNTIL AFTER FRESHMAN WEEK Method Contains Clauses for Broken Pledges—Differs Frotn I. F. C. Law Believing that local fraternities benefit more from unrestricted pledg ing than from the closed system re cently adopted by Inteifiatermty Council, the Intra-Mural Councifrati fied an open rushing code at its meet ing Thursday night. The new logo llamas call become effective with the opening of College in September At the request of College officials the governing body instituted a sec tion into the code, whereby the open ing date of rushing will be deferred Stour the beginning of Freshman Week until the folios mg Saturday at eleven-thirty o'clock. This regulation is in harmony with a similar side of the I. F C. code. Pledge Breaking A further clause of the new code states that. no _freshman, who has broken a pledge may have any rela tions whatsoever with another frat ernity during a period of two months. That no person shall call upon a pros pective pledge when he is the guest of another house, completes the list of rules embodied in the system In formulating the code, the com mittee in charge i cached the conclus ion that, in a delayed system of pledg ing complications are sure to result from freshman rooming contracts, that by open rushing much confusion can be eliminated froth the first two weeks of actual classes and that ex perience has moved the inadequacy of delayed rushing, both in the Col lege and at similar institutions. In contrast to the Intra-Mural code, the system as adopted by the nation (Continua: on last page) College "Y" Enters Eaglesmere Parley To afford college students an op poi tunity foe a careful study of moral and teligious pioblems, the foueth an nual joint student conference for men and women, with delegates front Mid dle-Atlantic colleges and umveisitieu, will open June twelfth for a nine-day program at Eaglesmete on the Lake of Eagles, reputed to be one of the most beautiful spots in Pennsylvania The meeting is sponsored by the Y. M. C. A. of Ametica Although Penn State has always been represented by a large gioup of students, William J. Kiltchen, sec retary of the College "Y", expects to send an even larger delegation to this year's conference. The visiting delegates will have an opportunity to take part in all summer sports, Mr. Kitchen stated. FINE ARTS FRATERNITY TO SPONSOR EXHIBITION Pi Gamma Alpha, honorary line arts fraternity, will sponsor an exhibition of student work in the Art Museum in Old Main throughout next week. The canvasses will Include charcoal sketches, watertolois and pen and ink work. Results of the annual elections, lipid lust week show that Robert 112.,Cem.• null '2O was named ',lenient, Richard W. Rhoda '2O was selected semetaly while Harold E. Crawford '29 wits chosen treasurer of the society. FRIARS ELECTIONS James C Boyle 'Bl Robert L. Curtiss '3l William C. Honda'3l Meyer L. Kaplan '3l Jack H. Mazess '3l Muriel C. McCombs '3l John Nichol '3l Sol S. Saltzman '3l Charles H. Williams Jr. '3l STATE COLLEGE, PA., TUESDAY, MAY 22, 1928 Student Council Meets In Liberal Arts Tonight Student Council will meet in Room 14 Liberal Aits building to night at six-thirty o'clock Newly elected members will be installed at this time. LACROSSEMEN ROUT DRUMLIN'S A. C., 9-0 Impotent Syracuse Team Yields To Nittany Attack—Belfield , Suffers Broken Nose COACH PAUL PERFECTS OFFENSIVE FOR ARMY Coach Ernie Paul's lacrosse team staged a field day at the expense of Drumlin's A C. on New Beater field Saturday afternoon, routing the Syra cuse invaders by a 9-0 count. With the first win of the season clinched, the Nittany mentor experimented with o(fensice combinations the latter part of the gains in an effort to smooth out the Lion attack foi the impending Ai my fray. Ma) Lose Be!field On the eve of its most important engagement of the present campaign, Coach Paul's is dye may lose the see..- ~ ices of Captain Johnny Belfield, who sustained a Waken nose in the open ing period of the combat. Whether or not the injury mill keep the Lion leader and Olympic prospect out of Saturday's battle with the strong West Point stickmen was uncei rain last night Displaying more power on the of fense than It has in any other game this season, the Nittany team opened festivities auspiciously when Captain Bellield registered a masker before twenty-three seconds of the fist pet mod had elapsed This score was fol lowed shortly by Dick Reinhold's counter in front of the net. By conceited team play that baffled the visitors, the Lion latrossemon passed the ball from one end of the fiddle the Mho until Ted Torok and Ken Kamci broke through for suc cessive scores near the close of -the first session. The Syracuse defense tightened at this point and held•Coai.li (Continued on third Paget OLF TEAM OVERCOMES LOCK HAVEN OPPONENTS Score 14-4 Victory Over Clinton County Lmksmen, Playing In Continual Rain Exhibiting a better bland of golf than in any previous encounter this season, the Penn State golf train scored a decisive van over the golfers of the Clinton County country club when the two trains clashed on the Leek Haven links Saturday afternoon Captain Bunting, Earl Hewitt and Vernon Filtehman, of the Lion team, tied for the low medal score of the matches, each shooting a 78 over the rain-soaked course. Panaceion and Leonaid, also of the College team, followed with totals of 79 strokes for the eighteen holes. In the first match, Bunting and He witt gamed three points from Fred cricks and Rothfuss of the Lock Hav en team while the Nittany combrna lion of Panaceton and Frachinan gar nered two and one-half points in the second match from R. S. Quigley and ,Armstrong of the opposing team. Playing in the thud encounter of the afternoon, the Lion team, Day and Longenecker, won from Keller and H. Quigley gaining two and one-half points Schwein and Alderson repented this xictory for Penn State by annexing three counts from O'Reilly and Low rey. The lone victory scored by the Lock Haven team was made by Griffin and Furst from Parks and Leonard and Jackson, of the College team, conquered 11. E. Frederalcs and Rich in the final match garnering three more points for the Lions The scoring in these matches was different from the customary intereol. legiate counting. College Band Parades With Knights Templar After giving a concert in Lebanon last night, the College Blue Band pro teeded to Reading to lead the paiade of the Pennsylvania Knights Templar there today. In response to requests Am the Templars, the band will oiler a spe cial conceit this evening at five o'clock. Because of approaching final examinations, the proposed tour was cut abort, Bandmaster Wilfred 13. Thompson announced. BATSMEN CONQUER PRINCETON; BOW TO HOLY CROSS TEAM Amass Fourteen Sure Blows As Itoephe Shuts Out Tigers In 13-0 Encounter DELP HITS HOME RUN AGAINST N.tiSAU NINE New England Combination Halts Lion Winning Streak in Abbreviated Tilt After anne ❑og victories over the Pennsylvania and Piulbeton baseball teams, the Nrttany batsmen completed their second invasion of eastern col lege diamonds by bowing to a power ful Holy Cross nine, 6-4 In a five-inn ing contest Saturday at Fitton field, Worcester, Massachusetts Penn State's 13.0 win over Princeton Thurs day had raised the Lions' winning streak to ten games. Coach Jack Barry's cress of slug gers, fresh from An victory over Ford ham, garnered six runs off Van Atta's delivery before rain halted the game in the fifth inning The lanky south paw allomed only thue safe hits but five costly errors by Ills teammates prm ed his undoing. At the same tone the well-oiled Holy Cioss machine was playing heady baseball behind the effective pitching of its stet twn lei, Dobbens, lie was nicked for foe, safe singles by the Lion batters but, his nudes sup ported him faultlessly, with the re sult that Coach Besdek's combination could sane but tao runs These mai Leis woe made by Dobbelaar and (Continued on last page) FIVE FRATERNITIES ENTER SONG MEET Rules Require Each Quartet To Present Two Selections In Annual Contest COMPETE TONIGHT FOR ENGRAVED LOVING CUP With an engraved oilier loving cup as the price, five college fraternities will compete in the second annual , Indio singing contest in the Schwab auditorium tonight at six-thirty c'elocl. The competition is being sponsored by the public information department • Five Creek-letter houses had sig nified then intention of entering the contest yesteiday but officials in charge state that last-minute entries will be accepted The fraternities who will be represented are Alpha ! Chi Rho, Beta Theta Pr, Delta Up silon, Sigma Chi and Tau Kappa Ep silon Entrance Requirements Each group be coon ed to sing two selections, one to be the fraternity song and the other an additional frat ernity song or one ,°presentative of an) Arne lean college other than (Continued on second page) Beirut Head Talks - Of Eastern Youth At Sunday Chapel "The Awakening of Youth in the Near East," All, the subject of the speech presented by Bayard Dodge, president of the Amoican University 01 Beirut, at the Chapel services in Schwab ma'am min Sunday. Greece, Bulgaria, Palestine, Tur— key, and the other nations of the Le vant, are awakening from their medi eval lethargy and are enthusiastically adopting the reforms and innovations or Western emlilation, President Dodge explained "The college student," he said, "is being looked upon as the lender of the movement Ile r calves it is up to him alone to introduce the new cation It is her v. that these coun tries are depending on the United States for aid in establishing colleges and °nivel sities to develop leaders American educators are drafted to head the schools and to establish sys tems similar to those used in our own institutions" LION'S PAW ELECTIONS LOUlb 11, Bell, Jt. '29 , Richard A. Ceudet '29 Donn D. Cieenshileils '2O Steven V. Hamm '29 Harty E. Pfeifer '29 Louts D. Beilley '2O William S. Turner '29 Tottrigiatt. :--- ICommittee Distributes 1 1928 Programs Tonight Commencement programs and invitations will be distributed at Co-op tonight and tomoroa night from seven until nine o'clock Receipts must be pre- I sented when these are issued. PREXY ANNOUNCES GRADUATION PLANS Sports, Concerts, Thespians, and Players Complete Five- Day Observance' REVEREND KERR TO GIVE BACCALAUREATE SERMON Complete plans for Penn State's myty-eighth annual Commencement Week were announced in a program issued front the office of President Ralph D. Iletzel yesterday. The cere mony gill open Juno eighth and close aft), the graduation exercises Juno twelfth. According to the Plans undergradu ate nap, ittes will comprise the greater Part of the program the first two days, while alumni and parents of graduates may attend the formal aca demic tributes in honor of the out going class the last three days I=l Opening the five day obscriance will be a concert in the Schwab audi torium by the various College mus 'cal organizations Friday night, June eighth, at eight o'clock Later in the evening, as well as on the following night, the fiaterniites will hold their annual spring house dances. Two sports matches are scheduled for Saturday afternoon, a golf tourna ment on the College course at one o'clock and a lacrosse engagement with the Onondaga Indians at two thirty o'clock on Nen Beaver field. The Penn State Thespians will pre sent the final showing of "Honestly Yours" _at sm. en o'clock_in the eve ning. The Baccalaureate service will take place Sunday morning at ten-thirty o'clock with the Reverend Bugle Thomson Kerr, pastor of the Shady side Presbyterian church in Pitts buigh, delivering the sermon, The outgoing student group will meet in (Continued on third page) COURTMEN TIE BUCRNELL. IN TENNIS CONTEST HERE Nittany Racquet Wielders Win Both Doubles Matches In 3-3 Deadlock . Winning both doubles matches, the College tennis team shoued an nn provement over last week's pla)ing against Carnegie Tech by holding the imatling Bucknell courtment to a 3-3 deadlock in the matches played on the Varsity courts Saturday. The Nittany team, as a whole, cw hibited a much better brand of ten nis than the Beelinelhans, althougn : the playing of both teams was rather dou The matches %ere held up for a short period because of the rain and the sect condition of the courts affected the play of both teams in the final games. Butler and Metzner were the out standing tasquet wielders of the Lion aggregation Butler played good ten nis in disposing of Ballentine, of the Bisons, in WI, sets, 0-2, 6-1 Metz ner extended De Filap°, of the Lexis bulls team, to three sets, playing well in the flint two sets but weakening in the third set and losing by 34, 8-6, 6-0 scores. Captain Barr and Butler required three sets to win twin the Bison team of Flost and Bal!entitle in the first doubles match, finishing with a count of 0.6, 6-4, 8.6 The Lion duo, Shus. tot and Alettnei polished off Ross and Do Pilitpo, of Bucknell, in the second doubles contest by scores of 6.3, 6-4 In the second singles match, Cap tain Barr succumbed to the attack of Frost by the decisive count of 6-1, 6-0 In the final singles clash, George Shustot lost to Ross 2.6, 6-1, 6.3. DEAN WENDT ADDRESSES PRE-MEDICAL STUDENTS Dean Gerald L. Wendt, of the School of Chemistry and Physics, discussed theories of human body chemistry, and Edward Lyon, Jr. '29, was named president for the coming year at It gathering of the Pre•Mcdtcal society Wednesday night. Complete results of the annual el ! miaow; show that John E. Duns '3O was chosen vice-president and Miss Rosalie Chylack '3l as secretary while William I'. McKnight was selected treasurer, _ College Journalists Meet Here Next Year Association Elects Louis H. Bell, Jr. '29, President, William S. Turner '29, Secretary-Treasurer PENN STATE TRACK TEAM VANQUISHES ORANGE CINDERMEN Secures 86 2-3 to 48 1-3 Score Against Syracuse, Saturday, In Archbold Stadium BATES. BARBUTI RANK AS HIGH SCORERS OF MEET Cox Sets New Mile Record for Hill Track—Lions Prepare For Intercollegiates Penn State's back and field repre sentatives garnered their thud con secutise dual meet victory of the sea son when they triumphed over Coach Tom Kenne's Syracuse cindermen, 86 2-3 to 48 1-3, in Archbold Stadium Saturday afternoon amid a heavy downpour of ram Coach Cartmell's proteges secured nine fasts, eleven seconds and five third places to clinch the contest. Al Bates, Intercollegiate broad-jump title holder ,was high point scorer of the meet with eleven and one-third points while Ray Barbuti, Orange leader, Wan second with eleven counts. Bill Cox lowered Syracuse's record for the sole race by 4 4-5 seconds, finishing one foot ahead of George Offenhauser. Hooligan, of the Or angemen, placed third. The Hillmen's old mark for the mile run, as 4 •nin utes, 26 seconds, established by Lou Watson in 1921. According to Coach Keane, Hill's time will not be bettered for a long ',Jule at the Ness York m stitution Captain Ray Barbuti, of Syracuse, covered hunself with glory in his lest track appearance on the home cinders He mend the quarter-mile distance in the fast time of 50 seconds, cross ing the line sevcial yards ahead of his teammate, St Clair, and forcing Bill Karbach into third place. The husky Orange captain lead Dick Bar tholomew by three yards in the 220- yard dash and gained a thud position in the javelin throw. Lions Sweep 880 and Two-Mile The Nanny ts,o-mile and half-mile contingents made clean seeps of (Continued on third page) Chambers Becomes 111 at Kobe, Japan Sti when ill while on his tour of the world, Dr Will C Chambers, dean of the School of Education, is .1 patient in the International hospital at Kobe, Japan. In the early part of April, the Dean, along with tcveial othei members of the pm ty, was taken ill with ptomaine I poisoning. Berme he bad fully re coveled, he contiaeted typhoid form and had to be relented to the hospital at Kobe. Dean and Ms Chambeas were scheduled to soturn flora their tour the latter past of this month but now they may be delayed a few Vl eehs Prof. Shibli Publishes Mathematics Textbook Prof Jabir Shibli of the depart ment of mathematics announced that his book "Plane and Spherical Tug onoinetry" has been accepted for pub lication by Cann and company of Boston and will soon be printed in regular book form A mimeographed edition has been used at the College foi throe years. Professor Shrblr states that he 07005 much to the cooperation and encour ngement extended by ceitain mem bers of the faculty. Prof. Teresa Cohen prepared the answer list to the problems, while Registrar Hoffman drew the saunas ligui es. DRUIDS ELECTIONS George B. Collins 'Bl Stanley B. Dietrich 'Bl End S. Edwards '3l John C French 'Bl Wallace \V Fullerton 'BL Paul Krum] me '3l William D. Musser '3l Paul E Rakers '3l Calvin W. Shawley '3l John Zorella '3l . 1A Rush For The Local PRICE FIVE CENTS Undergraduate journalists from colleges located in the eastern portion of the country soul assemble in State College, next spring, for the annual convention of the Eastern Intercol legiate New sp ape, association, ac cording to a decision made Saturday by representatt, es of that body, meet ing at Brown Unnersity, Providence, Rhode Island Penn State's imitation to the As sociation to meet here next year vats gladly accepted, in view of the oigan ization's policy of broadening its scope and including colleges more widely disti ibuted throughout the eastern area. Former conventions have been held in the New England district because the A,sociation's membership is largely centralized in that section Bell Elected President In keeping with the organization's aim to extend its influence snore gen erally about the eastern area, Louis H Bell, Jr. '29, editor of the Collegian, was elected to the presidency of the Association for the coming year. Will iam S Tamer '29, business manager of the Collegian received the position of secretary-treasurer fin the same period Outstanding among the accomplish ments of the convention, which took place Friday and Saturday in Provi• dence, was the decision of delegates from the ten colleges and universities assembled, to condemn the feAturin4 of unsavory details of undergraduate life by the press, as conducive to mis interpretation of the collegiate situ ation by the sending public. To Adru%t General Relations The Association considered in de tail the relations between the college newspaper and the students, faculty, administration and alumni Recom mendation were mode whereby these relationshipv could be made more co operaty. e and satisfactory. It was (Continued on last page) STUDENTS PREPARE FOR ANNUAL MAY HOP FRIDAY Penn State Club Plans Unusual Decorations—Student Band Will Provide Music iFtting decorations will bedeck the Armory when dance-lovers gather there niday night foi the annual May Hop sponsored by the Penn State Club Dancing will begin at nine and continue until one Alcal Decimation plans fm the all-College event call fm the placing of sti earn ers along the sides of the building. %%huh, in addition to a system of spot lights, should produce an ideal atmos phere lot dancing 'Tampa., Dols" To Play To furnish the syncopation for the dance, a student oichestin, the "Cam pus 0,Is" have been rhnsen This group has enjoyed a full schedule thioughout the piesent year and the music makers ale said to lie well liked Tickets, v.hich are paced at two dol lars, will lie on sale at Whitey Muss er's all this week Tickets may also be procured nom any member of the Penn State Club and it is urged that of eiyone get them front one of these sources in ordm to eliminate conges tion at. the dem of the Armory the night of the :aim Claude S. Bipan 'JO, secietary of the organization, announces that everyone making posters advertising the event should give the signs to loin before tonight in oiler to obtain the coniplimentniy tickets offeied to the winneis of the contest. Today— The Bullosopher Discusses— Non-fraternity Social Life The Weather Greeting Editorials The Overburdened College President Correcting an Impression The Attitude of the Graduate
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