r Tuesday, March 19, 1929 NITTANY TRIO WILL SPEAK OVER WCAU Forensic 'ream Opposes Temple , University Debaters On Friday Afternoon ORATORS TO MAKE THEIR ' FIRST RADIO APPEARANCE Speaking over WCAU, Philadelphia broadcasting station, Penn State's orators will take part in their first ;: radio debate when they oppose the for conic trio of the Conwell Foundation z.,,,af Temple university at 2.30 o'clock Friday afternoon. The question to be discussed will .be, "Resolved, That the United States Should Enter the League of Notions" Penn State will defend the proposi tion. The decision for this debate will be given by the radio audience The team, composed of Albert J Gores '29, Jack R. Richards '3O, and David Kirsh '3l, will defend the same proposition on the following night in Philadelphia against Lincoln uni versity. VAII Debate Rutgers In the final home match of the sea son, Rutgers university will oppose Penn State on the jury question in Schwab auditorium at 800 o'clock Pliday night. The Nittany team is composed of Robert IV. Haley '29, Kenneth 'Hood '3O, and Lawrence N. Keller '3l. An open forum discussion will he held after the debate, which is to be decided by an audience vote. • Northwestern university, member of the Big Ten Western Debating league, will engage the Lion forensic trio in an extension debate to be held in Altoona Tuesday under the auspices of the Altoona high school On Auld 19, Penn State will meet Daly Cross in another extension de bate on the jury question. The Nit bony debaters will oppose the reso lution "That the Present Jury System Should be Abolished." The speakers will meet in Bellefonte. PENN STATE SETS NEW MARK IN REGISTRATION Official's Report Shows Record Enrollment of 21,087 For 1928-1929 A new record for the largest num ber of resident and extension students enrolled at the College in a single year has been established for the College year 1928-1929, according to a report just released by William Hoffman, College registrar. The report shows that 21,087 students se emed college instruction during 1928- 1929 as compared with 20,099 last year Student enrollment in four year resident courses leading to a bach elor degree numbered 3837. This rep resents an increase of almost 200 over last year. The total for resident in struction including graduate students, Summer Session students, and two year and winter course students, was 0700. • A new record enrollment of 2774 was established for the Summer See moo of 1928 This is the largest num mer session enrollment figure for any college on the State. ..Pour year comse enrollments by schools for the present college yeas are Agriculture, 565; Chennstsy and Physics, 368; Education, 624, Engin eering, 1184; 'taboret Arts, 873, and Alines rand ,Itfetallui gy, 189. , This ty four:stuilents 'are listed' as on pro bation: - • RECEIVE AG POSITIONS Prof. Arthur E. Cook '22, and Mr. Charles W Wild, Carnegie Tech alumnus, were recently appointed to the School of Agriculture faculty. Professor Cook will instruct in flori culture, while Mr. Wild is serving as an assistant to the landscape mein torture staff. Try Our * $ * ' •e f SODA FOUNTAIN Y 4: ..,. x and :=.• ~ i . HOME MADE : I . 4.• 3:. 'SANDWICHES n 4:. ~. i Y * y X • I . 4:1 : RAY D. GILLILAND :: ..,,.. x, :!. DRUGGIST i• e 3:: State College Hotel Block :: FRATERNITIES CLASH FOR BOXING TROPHY TONIGHT The Interfraternity boxing tourna ment will come to an end tonight, when Alpha Chi Rho and Pi Kappa Alpha fight for the possession of the coveted cup. Both teams have won the light to the finals by their vic tories over Phi Kappa Sigma and Theta Kappa Phi, respectively, in the semi-finals last week. SCIENCE ACADEMY WILL HOLD CONVENTION HERE State Organization To Meet In Schwab Auditorium Next Friday, Saturday Meeting here foi the first time, the Pennsylvania Academy of Science will hold its fifth annual Spring con clave in Schwab auditorium nest Fri day and Saturday. Di. Frank D. Kern, dean of the graduate school and president of the Academy, will preside at all meetings, and will be assisted by Drs. H. W. Thurston and J. P. Kelly. The pm pose of the convention is to discuss questions of scientific interest. Thirty rout papers on botany, zoology, ge ology, physics, and chemistry will be cad. The group is made up of members of college, normal school, and high school faculties, in addlion to indund , uals interested in scientific work in Pennsylvania. The Academy will give a dinner for the delegates at the University club 6.90 o'clock Friday night. A smoker sponsored by the Penn State Science club, will follow at 9 o'clock. Engineering Magazine Elects 1929-30 Staff Election of the staff of the Penn Stole Engineer for 10204030 resulted in the choice of Eugene A. Reichard 180, as editor-in-chief and Frederick R. Lilly '3O, as business manager. Raymond L Laus '3O, was elected assistant editor, while Claude R. Engle '3O and Samuel C Daily '3O, weio selected as associate editors. To complete the business staff, Ed ward A. Weymouth '3O, teemed the enculation managership, and Alfred S Briggs and Raymond R. Hoffman '3O, were chosen as foreign and local advertising managers, respectively. Remy E Markle Jr. '3O, will be head of the art staff, while Lewis L Raymer '3O, was elected to the hon orary boaid of the publication. Women's Rifle Team ' Makes Record Score ' The Girls' Rifle team fired the high est score on record, which was 492 points, during last week's match against Oklahoma university. The winner, however, is not determined as the reports from Oklahoma have not come through as yet. Gertrude Toewe '29 again added a pea feet score to the list of three that have already keen shot. Th other scores were Jeannette Ritter '3O and Muriel Bowman '32, 99, and Josephine Lees '3O and Annette Kryder '3O, 98. This week the 'teen, shoots two matches, one against George Wash ington University, last year's champ ions; and the other against the Um veisitw of- Cincinnati. PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS * 5 . 5: 4. ..1: ~, 4. ..e. NEW EASTER SILKS - t 5: ARE HERE ::: 4. 1: x .t. .1. ' EGOLFS 4. ~.. .:_:..........:......:..:..............;_.....„4.......„...:........:....„...............4. - ..„. 't TREAT YOUR FRIENDS, WHO ARE VISITING t 1 . 4. THE INTERCOLLEGIATES, TO THE BEST 1: ~.*: 't• X at I: t 1 FENWAY A TEA ROOM t 1 I "In Penn State It's the Fenway" .t. X A •:-:-:-:-:-:-:-44-:-:44-:-H-:-:-.1-t-1.4-4.44.:4+.:44-:-:-:-:..:..:-:-:÷:±:÷:44-t-t-t-I-x• 1 Phone 376 DRIVE IT YOURSELF 'CLEMSON BROS. 116 McAllister Street ilt 711 H.4++++++++t.+4“l-14.1.44{÷:-:•:i: NATIONAL GROUPS WILL MEET HERE Heads of 16 Organizations and Societies Select College For Conventions SCIENTISTS' CONFERENCE NEXT WEEK HEADS LIST Sixteen organizations and societies, including several prominent national groups, will hold conventions or meet ings on the campus this year. This will be the largest number of conven tions or meetings ever held at Penn State in a single year, and will Ining thousands of visitors to the College. The number of national organiza tions that have selected Penn State their convention site has shown a large increase in the past few years. Foi the second consecutive time State College has been selected as the meeting place for the National Oil and Gas Power conference which will be held here this year from June 21 to 27. The American Society of Rehm crating Engineers will also meet hole from June 19 to 22. A convention of the Pennsylvania Academy of Science will be held at the College this month from the 29th to the 31st. Other meetings scheduled to he held here are the Fourteenth Annual Engineering Extension con vention, May 16 and 10; Industrial Conference of the School of Engin e. mg, May 17 and 18; Young Club Leaders, June 17 to 22, Young Farm ers' Week, June 18 to 20. Farmers' Day, June 20 to 21; Young Peoples Branch of the W. C. T. U., June 24 to 29; State Confer ence of School Superintendents, As sistant Superintendents, and Super- I vigil% Principals, August 8 to 10; Grange Lecturers, August 12 to 11. Students To Hold Pep Rally Thursday Night (Continued from Prat page) The committee will inspect the Huntingdon Reformatory on Wednes day. They will leave Penn State Fri day morning for Rockview Pentiten- Wiry. Two years ago a similar visit was made by members of the same com mittee. A mass meeting was held at that time similar to the one which will be held here Thursday night. Members of the gionp will confei with President Meted after the con clusion of the mass meeting. 0 COW TESTING WORK IN PENNSYLVANIA EXPANDS Cow testing association low!: in Pennsylvania has expanded 250 per cent since 1924, Mr I. 0. Sidelmann of the dairy extension service said yes terday. In the year 8224 cows were tested, while last year the number was 20,212. Dosing the past five years the av erage nulls production per cow in the associations has increased from 7300 pounds in 1924 to 7770 pounds last yew. SPRING IS HERE *4: . X •: t• Get Those -, , Lawn-Mowers Sharpened 1: l• , •t• , at •1•• 4 : X ;T . , X ~ . C SHILLING 4 ' : • ' - IQB'/ 2 Alien Street ;I: X S."ZE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN COLLEGE - A: A. AWARDS 11 BASKETBALL LETTERS Ten members and the student man ager of Penn State', 1928-29 basket ball team were awarded major letters by the Athletic Association yestenlay. Six of those receiving the stiaight "S" are seniors whose services will be lost to the Nittany quintet through graduation Captain Lou Reilly, Dick Reinhold, Jack Mazess, Steve llamas, Skip Stahley, Jack Browne, Art Koch, Joe Wilson, Paul Krumrine, Bernie Jac obson, and Manager Benjamin F Campbell were the men who teemed letters. Reilly, Reinhold, llamas Browne, Koch, and Jacobson aill be absent from next year's Lion court squad. STATE GEOLOGIST WILL GIVE LECTURE SERIES Dr. Charles H. Ashley To Speak Here April 22, May 13 And Next Fall Dr. Charles IL Ashley, State ge ologist, will serve as piofessotial lec turer an geology bele, beginning with the subject "Practical Application of Geology in Industry" Api d 22 Doctor Ashley will dollyet his sec ! oria address May 13. Ills subject on ' that date will be "Geological Explan ation of Pennsylvania" In addition, he will deliver a series at lectures ne‘t fall, the dates tot which base not yet been arranged After each lecture he will meet advanced stu dents and faculty membeis of the geology department for a short dis mission. The lecturer will also seise as a member of two advlsory boards for the School of Alines and Metallurgy The advisory groups, in natural gas am , petroleum, have been formed to assist the College in working out var ious problems of the department so that it may better serve the oil and gas industries of the State The State Geology Department is coop erating with Penn State in geological research work. AG PROFESSORS ATTEND CONFERENCE AT ITHACA Profs. Sheldon W. Fletcher, An drew A Borland, and Ernest L Ne on of the School of Apiculture, at tended a meeting of delegates from leading Eastern institutions at Coi ner! university Saturday. The con clave was held for discussing mgani cation plans for an agricultural mis sion and foundation. -- The foundation is to support farm ing missionary work id foreign lands It is an extension of the week "Daddy" Groff has been carrying on in China with College support. A well known golf pro recently returned from Chesterfields were blended to supply just that n vacation in Glasgow, his home town, relates " body" which so many "mild" cigarettes lack. a current golf magazine. "Well," he was asked, For inaddition'to that desirable blandness there "howdid the boys treat you back home?" "Verra is a distinct "edge" to its smooth, mellow flavor reluctantly!" said he. Well might some smokers R hich is just what the smoke appetite craves. likewise reply if asked about their agarette,we Mild—yes; just that mildness which everyone imagine. Mild, of course (most cigarettes are, wants—but something more,something plus today), but "verra reluctant" when it comes to character! The character that makes Chester. delivering taste and body and character. fields par for cigarettes. They sail& CI -- 1 E ATE I Ell) MILD enough for anybody—and yet..THEY SATISFY FORMER RUSSIAN ACE SEEKS DEGREES IN GRADUATE SCHOOL Just like any other Penn State stu dent, Theodore Victor Letonotl, a forme, Russian Count and holder of six. decorations for hiavery against the Germans and Russian Commun ists, races along the campus paths and listens to his instructors every clay. Ile a ill roma his master's de gree next }ear. On the after noon of September 2•"„ DK Ted crashed to the ground in his plane back of the Austrian front, a Boche bullet wound in his arm mat,. mg it impossible for him to control the machine In another light some time later, he watched helplessly as his brother went down in a mass of flames Ted U. sAteen years old at the tone Ir 1914, as the spoils of human wa.faie titre slowly kindling into a flame that was to throw the entire nark' into chaos, the LetonolT family was living serenely in a palatial home neat Petrograd. Pout young men, the father, and a girl, just blossom ing into beautiful young womanhood, composed the household. "But they are all dead now," Ted said , oftly, "all except me" He limed hi^ head, momentarily inter , uptirt, hi^ nuitative to pay mute tiibute to the deal ones he will see no mote. The walls of his loom said nothing Dalliacss reigned outside, and silence within Brothers Killed "One Mother was killed in avia tion," he continued, electing the gain of hri listeners once more. "Another ova:, lolled in the cavalry The third —well, even today he is among the miscire„ although I am ceitain that if he lined v,e would have met before they" Ile spoke with a slight foreign ac. cent Although knowing little of the English language heroic coining to Amessca he now speaks the tongue fluently "This third blather, the oldest of the thsee, wins an offices in the Navy. Ile. like my fathes and sister, was doubtless a xsctim of the cruelty of the Communists I Implied both in Paris and London foe lone but these %sat. no trace" Throughout his life Ted's father, Count Letonoff, was a friend of the peasant.: tilling the soil of the sur rounding countryside To hint they came when in trouble, almays sure of r friendly welcome. "When the horrors of the revolu tion deseendal upon Russia"' the young man went on, "and the drunken •:-:--:--:-:-:. ..i: MRS. EVA B. ROAN :i. Optometrist All kmds of frames 522 E. College Avenue .." •1»:-.:-:..:..:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:.4..:-:-:-:-:-:-1•44 , l' -, Mild, Peasants nate destroying property and pillaging evelywhete, they did not forget my father's forma kind ness The last time that I %kited home the fact that my hale was not touched, although situated in the midst of ruin, sti tick me as signifi cant. "But the good luck did not last A senseless mob, crazed by vodka, wrecked my home, killing my father land sister. My mother had died be fore the war " Ted fumbled for a moment in the I drawer of his study table Then he mithdiem a snapshot of a young girl, beautiful and smiling in the happiness I of youth. "This is the only picture I hose of ant of imy funnily," he whispered. He sighed as he said it "I hail others but they mole stolen from me in' Constantinople. It is my sister at about the age of eighteen "Her death hunt me more than any of the others Just as soon as the resolution bloke out, she obtained a 1 bottle of poison and started wearing I at on a string around her neck. It I man enough to cause instant death. I hope she went that way, lather than i by the brutality of tne Communists "1 he said year ninety When the World War began, the young Lotonoff was attending the Military Academy at Moscow He had previously graduated from the Cadet Corps at Petrograd "Although I eras only siNteen years old," he said, "I felt that I just hail I to go. I applied for a commission in the aviation corps and my request eras , granted. I became a second lieuten- ' ant in the aviation unit accompany- I int, the 7th Russian Army. He eras wounded over the Austrian front September 2.1, 1010, remained I an the hospital until the following January, and then returned to h s for men post with the rank of flirt lieutenant. He continued to Ily until :-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:÷:-:.+4÷:»x»:-:-:-:÷:-:-:-1-:-:-: STATE COLLEGE BAKERY i Private Fraternity Banquets i Are Becoming Popular at THE BANQUET ROOM es; but there's no-: IMES the atmy sins disorganized by t Communists in December, 1917. Flom that time until May, 191 he seised as a lirst lieutenant in tl White Army of South Russia. I war. sounded twice during this tim Ile sins one of the in !tonal inembe of the stoup of 250 Dom shich tl White army piece After 'dinning to aviation, a ca. tainey was be , ,tosed upon him Th in Match, 1929, he became opmatis adjutant to Genet al Slascholf, a lea( et of the White at my. Slasehofr, ish. `energies army was disbanded, threw h to the Red cause. Just 1. icently he seas assassinated. When the White :Luny sits demo) ilized Letonoff sent to Constantinopl front there to Cm many, Austria, Se Ina, and finally Bulgaria, siheie !abated for some time. AS this tin he had been filled with the demie teach America. Flom Constantinopl he came to America In Felnum, 1924, he entered Penn State. Why did I choose Penn State• h answered. "I did not do so mysel but a friend whom I met in Philade phis advised ine to conic here hecaus at the high rating of the depart= M. biological chemistiy." A picture of Ted in his unirm m the Petrograd Cadet Corps, and an :atlas depicting him went ins his Mit 'ltaly Academy unifinin, gazed dow I upon the two talking thole in Ted' loom. The visitor replaced a tip o a inopellm, souvenr of the an lath on the study table and sallied slowl to the door. "Good night," Ted lonized. "Co. again " STATLER'S : CLEANING & DYEING PRESSING . : Delivered die Cgrner vor I LICaTT • Wt. TODACCO CO.
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