Leaders Tell Plebes ry, ill 0 ' ' '''' ' : 9 S .l \ • 1 1 gnu a, r ~,,,„,-.4 2, ,,, ~,,,,,,:), N . VOL. 26, No. 3 COLLEGE LEADERS WILL SPEAK AT 'Y' RECEPTION TONIGHT President Hetzel To Welcome Freshman Class on Front Campus at 7 O'clock GLEE CLUB, BLUE BAND OFFER SPECIAL PROGRAM Officials Install Lodd Speakers As Aid in Carrying Talks To Entire Audience President Ralph D. Helsel with other College officials and student leaders will welcome the class of 1933 at the annual Y M. C. A. le ception to take place on front campus at 7 o'clock tonight. Seated on the platform which has been constructed against the fence surrounding the spot where Old Main once stood roll he President and Mrs. Helsel, Dean of Women Char lotte E. Ray, Dean of Men Arthur R Warnock, Hugo Besdek, thiectot of athletics, and Neil M. Fleming, giad unto manager of athletics J. Theodore Wolfe '3O, president of the Y. H. C A, will introduce the speakers. Mi Bezdek will piesent the captains of the various athletic teams Mattin S McAndrews '3O, president of the Athletic association, den F. Faust '3O, piesident of the W. S. G. A., Josephine T Lees '3O head of the W. A. A, and Elizabeth Mellor '3O, president of the Y W. C. A., are included on the piouam Install Loud Speakers Interspet sing the program of speeches the College Glee club, uncles the direction of Prof Richard W Grant, and the Blue Band, do ected by bandmaster Wilfred 0. Thompson, will present musical selections Cheet leaders still lead the asesmblage singing College songs Amp:ifiets have been Installed so that the speeches and music may be heard by all present. Heretofore men...hod. the - opportuaity - of meeting College leaders petsonally by the receiving line system, but feeling that this was too tedious a process, Y. M C A. officers decided that short speeches of welcome would be mote appropriate. When members of the class of 1931 arrise on the campus, they will be bonded blank colds on which ate to be printed then names, courses and home towns A number will be print ed on each card and freshmen hold mg the same number will gather at spoto designated fat them by placards beating the corresponding numei al Approximately thnty men and ten women students will congregate in each group " Marty" McAndiews, president of Ttibunal, announces that all customs will be off hum the mom ent the freshmen onto, the campus until they leave. Refreshments in the form of punch and small cakes will be served following the speeches TRIBUNAL TO SEEK PLEBE OFFENDERS Governing Body Will Enforce Both Freshman and Sophomore Custom Regulations Lifting the ban of freshmen's me sence in pool rooms, and pm mating plebes to wear woolen caps while skating on the winter sports develop ment pond, the Student Tribunal will enforce all other class customs rigid ly, Martin S McAndrews '3O stated yesterday. "The purpose of forbidding titst year men to be seen in pool looms Is no longer necessary," the Ti Monet president said "Several years ago, the rule was essential to give upper classmen a chance at the tables Non that the indoor recreation rooms have become more plentiful and the sport less popular, the custom is obsolete." Sophomore customs will be sts ct ly enforced, McAndtews continued Underclassmen who do not weal hats and coats will be subject to sentence by the tribunal as well as the fresh men The governing body wishes up perclassmen to report all sophomore violations promptly Sophomores will continue to turn in names of custom breaking plebes. New students who have tales tan dems at other colleges, and other underclassmen who desire to he ex cused from customs, soul present themselves at the foist meeting of tin tribunal in the Versa', Hull lecture loom at 7.30 o'clock Tuesday night. Dr. Gerald Wendt Obtains Indefinite Absence Leave Former Dean To Vacate Position Here on November 1 Di. Charles L Wendt, for five y cars Dean of the School of Chemis try and Physics and for the past year assistant to the President in charge of Institutional Resemch, has been granted an indefinite leave of absence to become effective Novem ber 1 Dr Wendt plans to devote has time to private business interests. The former dean came to Penn State in September 1924 and held that position until July when he started his duties as assistant to the President. During that time he has been responsible for building up the chemistry school to its present high standing among American colleges Outstanding in Dr. Wendt's record at Penn State was his bringing to the College and duecting of the national Institute of Chemistry. This insti- tute was held on the campus for fon ueeks in July, 1927. Would Nut Lease Penn State He also organized the College di vision of industrial research, which now engaged in a score of mix,- tent research problems This de partment placed the research facili ties of the College at the disposal at A. A. TO DISTRIBUTE CARDS NEXT WEEK Students Will Receive Improved Season Ticket Bearing Own Photographs - Student's athletic tmkets will be distributed horn the Treasurer's of fice on the first floor of the old Beta Their Pi fraternity house from Wed nesday until Saturday of next week, Neil DI Fleming, graduate manager of athletics, announced yesterday.:, . . Students will 'naive their' pages upon presentation of matriculation ands Instead of the passbook cos tuming numbered tickets, a single cardboaid pass trill be distritited. The student's photograph will be placed on the pass while spaces are matted lot five athletic contests N.heie reserved seats are required. "Improved System Adopted" Bucknell and Lafayette football gii,er ale two of the contests noted,. %slide possibly one of the football con test and two winter events will be pros Wed foi on the passes The card hearth will be used the entree yeas, but Null be stamped at the outset of the second semester "The new system is a progressive step and one that has been adopted in other tolleges," Graduato Man , ager Fleming states Be believes it will eliminate the confusion and un tidiness present when seats viere as tsigned in Rumor years Celluloid holders may be distilbuted with the tickets if present plans %limb' out, athletic officials reveal They also announLe thnt the same seating ,aliangement as last ycul mob- I ably be made in the New Beaver I stands DR. HETZEL GREETS 3000 PEOPLE AT CONVOCATION Urging the student body to re spond to the challenge which has come with The new budding program and increased appropriations, Prost dent Ralph D Hetsel addressed an audience of more than 3000 people at convocation in Recreation Hall Wednesday morning "The commonwealth, indeed, the whole nation Is watching Penn State with sympathy, yet, at the same time with a entreat attitude," President Retool told his audience "New • buildings and new equipment has been placed at cur disposal" • "The state has awakened to out needs and p, watching foe out ',cac tus!, A new era is battle us, and if the College is to fulfill the ttust placed in it, the student body must answer the challenge," the ptestdent added. ENGLISH HEAD RETURNS Mason Long, nuthm of "A College Gtrimpal," elm completing a peat et graduate wolls, at Yale university has retutned to continue his work brie. Di William S. Dye, head of the depot Latent of English litet atm e, announced y °stet day. Mr IC. C Viola graduate of Cornell university, is a new Inembm of this department. STATE COLLEGE, PA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1929 FORMER Chemistry Dean Obtains Indefinite Lease of Abpence. r„.„.„,,..„:„. ~,....x.,...),..,... ~. , D. Lewis F. Pitcher, noted archi-1 tect and !Gimlet vice-de in of the School of Fine Arts at the Ilmver sit} of Pennsylvania, has been ap pointed head of the depiirtinent of d architecture and professor of aichi teetural design at Penn State, Dean Robert L Sackett of the Engineering school announced yesterday Di Pitches has had wida,Apelience architectural design red public nichitecture He designed Sing Sing prison, Cornell university drill hall, and armours in New York Cite, Al bany, and Rochester, N b , while lie served as consulting archivict during the constiuction of the covithouse in, New Yotk City and the Ins dar misoni of Porto Rico He leases too position as architect of the city of Camden, N 7, to co-ne to Penn State. At Camden he had choice of a large program of cal planning and beautification, which, included win lc on the comillOUSC, Ca, hall. police headquarters and other elated sti uctures. Sersed in Graduate School Following his graduation from Culumblr univern , ty, Dr Filcher se-1 cured the degree of doctor of lays! Official opening of the Mont Alto, and letters at the Univei sit} of Colo-1 blanch of the new Pennsylvania State made. He became instructoi in the; Forest School, Ruined by merging the; department of architecture at Uni- State forest school at Mont Alto and seesity of Pennsyhania but left this I that here, took place yesterday. More i position to accept the profcssorship than fifty freshmen who have enrolled, o f nit at Y asm ' c°ll° g e ' for• thy four-Near forestry' course 0f.,1 He Ais64eflie.ii , olMall.,7l4: , _tdi'lle , bred by the College started then ' coast artillery, and the state of New classes there, together with a b out York while he has acted in an advis twenty students in the two-yea Amy capacity to the national govern course ine;i; on new misons and veterans' the industries of the state. In the fall of 1927 Dean Wendt was offered the position as director of Batelle Memorial Institute for Scientific and Industrial Resenich at Columbus, Ohio. Since the project (Continued on fourth page) MONT ALTO HOLDS OFFICIAL OPENING President's Assistant. Director - Ferguson Address State Forestry Students That the students hole are an ac• hosPitals He was consulting archi tual part of the Penn State student ; tea on the New Yolk and New Jet body was a point stressed by Edward , be 3, vehicular tunnel and conducted K Hibshman, assistant to the Preen- -- dent, who made the opening oddness I (Continued on fifth page ) The foul-yeas students me a part of I the leant! Penn State freshman elats[ SCHOOL OF MINES of fins yen and entitled to all nu, lieges a 4 members of the 1033 Class: REPORTS INCREASE of rho mother mstatutton Prof. Ferguson Presides Next fall they move here to take , Dean Steidle Reveals Growth of the iemaining three yews of then' Metallurg,), Ceramics, and course, Ms Hibshman said Ile Gas, Oil Courses .stressed the advantages of the met ger plan and declared the faculty at , Mont Alto to be a peep of rely cap-, Applications for ndmissian to the El==l Prof John A Ferguson, Los mane 'creased one hundied percent thi, yens lead of the foiestin , school and yen, Dean Eduaid W Steidle stated non director of the merged schools yesteiday presided at the opening esikeises The; Dean Steidle said that this notable enrollment of freshmen and longer , inelease was probably due to the ef at Mont Alto is about the same as Costs of the department during the the usual attendance of students in past year to adense high school stud all classes before the mergei ,ents of the oppoitunities awaiting. them in the mineral industries field. WPSC WILL DISCONTINUE Enrollment the "ram"' depart ment shows more than one hundred BROADCASTING FOOTBALL percent increase and that to metal lurgy is neatly as high. Courses in mining, geology, and gas and oil pin- Because of the limited ladies of the ductmn also show marked increase .r College Moadcasting station IVPSC, iegistration football games will not be In oaileas. "One of the outstanding features of Ploy-by-play this yens as in lot nim the enrollment in the School of Mines yea., College °potators announced is the remarkable increase in the late yesterday quality of the ficshmen who com- Autholities have complained else pose the school," the Dean stated. that the broadcasting of the gi dii on , "About half of the fieshmen, uho fray , : lessens attendance at the games, compose the hugest group to entet veil it is hoped that with the discon-I this school in one year, lank in the tinunnee of the play-by-play account upper two-fifths of their high school attendance at the contests still be in, class, and mole than three-fourths piosed are in the impel thiee-fifths " SPECIALIST RESIGNS TO HAVERFORD STUDENTS DO ACCEPT CORNELL POST , PECULIAR SUMMER WORK After six years as deny extensions Driving a file truck, winking in specialist at the College, Stanley J Ithe sound depattment of a motion I Bio.nell has resigned in accept n ttan studio, and taaveling as a Dalt similar position on the staff of the of a Quaket peace mason sere only': Nen Yolk State College of Agucul-' r few of the sixty il•ffelent °tenni, tut° at Coinell univeislty. .tions occupying the attention of My- Gi aduating hem Michigan Stets fold undeiginduates last summer, college in 1916, Brownell spent five a sari ey conducted at that institu yen, at that institution as assistard t ine rerei d a professot of dairying Rom two yeas The canvass levelled the fact thnt hn was an extension wo rk, in klich- moio spent the vacation "studying" :gun, then in 1923 he took charge of than in env ethei way, although a feu work in the Keystone state Bt ownell a d mi tt e d that loafing an, then main Imo been minim ns a speaker nt occupation. Others did newsparei National and venous state tau y work, taliveled Noah encases, tented meettnw, and has been a fieltiont bode., and sensed as council°rs nt contsibutot to farm and dart papers camps. OFFICIALS SELECT PENN VICE-DEAN AS ARCHITECTS' HEAD Dean of Engineers R. L. Sackett. Announces Appointment Of L. F. Helier NEW I'ROFESSOR DESIGNS NEW YORK STATE PRISON Leaves Position in Ciunclen, N.J., To Assume Duties at I'cnn State School of Mules and Metallurgy In Tottrgiatt. Untried Lion Eleven Will Open Season Against Strong Niagara Football Aggregation Tomorrow Lions Who Will See Action Tomorrow j: EVANS -114 4.F 17.4:14 a E:=2=l COLLEGE OBTAINS 6 MUSIC'ARTISTS Russian Choir To Open Series In Schaub Auditorium November 1 - Presenting a College-sponsored Art ist ' Course for the first time to a Peer State audience, the entertain ment committee, headed by Dflectoi of Music Richaid W. Giant, has con-1 parted for six outstanding musical, numbers to appear here this winter The Russian S t Chou will open the course on November 1, fol lowed by the NOV York Stung Quin tet, with Grace Leslie, contralto, on November 20 Ethel Fox, soptimo, and Allan Jones, tenor, nil] nppeal rr ar opera tecital on December 5 Offerings by Albeit Spalding, viol mist, will compose the fourth num let of the Louise on January 30 Dr. Signiuril Spaeth, musical lecturer, 1,111 conduct the entettamment Feb -1 turnA 13 Llwt once Tibbett, touted i has done of the 'Mob opolitan Opera Company, will close the course March J 1 College officials hate named a glom, of campus, leaders to take charge of , the Artist,' course The committee,' made up of ten men selected from the faculty nod student, body, will lie called the "Boor of Advisors" ' Director of Music Giant heads the group Three faculty member, chos en h 1 the do ram, and the College' comptr oiler makes up the faculty por tion or the Board. Ma l colm hek put, ',lO, pi coldest of the inter ;ft atm ritt cotocil, F. Dunce Bald, in ,30, piczclent of Student Council, Jam, II Coogan '3O, editor-in-core: dot the cocciziut , ,, the prescient of Phi Mu Alpha and the president of l Kapp- Psi completes the Board Folio, ins a visit by a coalse ad vet twei toon, tickets will Le placed on soli+ the tltql,wiei's office The ticket sa , e piebald/ will lie held cn- IN, the neck of October 13. 'Y' DISCUSSION GROUPS TO BEGIN OCTOBER 13 A ili‘ision of the fioshotan class into dibcus,ion gumbo will take place in Schaal, auditoiniin at 2 :10 o'clocl, Sundat rfteinoon, Octal). Li "V' official., have decided to wait until at let i nailing heroic beginning this wall, The class will be die alea into a number of groups andel the betide, ship of an %marl el:m.lllin, and alio the tit st .i,enthlv each g oup wdl meet sepauitcly. Matto s of genet al Intel est to the menthol s of the ness eta, Hill be discussed at the meet ings, E',l=M;l ORATORS TO MEET NEW ZEALAND TRIO Prof. Frizzell Will Issue Call For Team Candidates Opening the 1929 debating season, Penn State's forensic team will inner a team representing the University or New Zealand in a feature debate earl/ in November. A call for can didates so ill be issued in about two weeks, Prof, John 11 Frinell coach of the team, announced yesterday The topit. to he debated ii th the .N . LN, Zealand team oil! lie cithen "Be sohed, That Tim! by Jury be Abol ished" on "The Emergence of Woman Loin the Home To to be Deplored,' Pim Fi gyell and assi,tant Piof Joseph F O'Brien ale planning to take the Icon on an e‘tendcd v ester n tiip to the Pacifi, coast sometime be tween semesters Thin) Debate, Planned The forensic squ id will be pi epare 1 to de - sate dung the season upon the folloming questions "Faun Relief," "Disailt antages of Model n Athol. Using," "League of Nitt,ns," and "Coinpulso, Automobile Insurance" Prof Fnuell has an ianged tile sched ule fot the season so that the debating squad xdl engage in one debate a month at home and one feature de bate n qemestei Tarty debates ale planned tot the corning }cm The insults of lak year show that the Nittan, teams Ivor foul debates, lost vs and en gaged in no•dcuvion :amt. Prof. 7ut-ell believes this Cal ' S mate, to be ,eiv good and is °soma% hopeful lot Ins fleslunan pio,petts DEAN WATTS STRESSES FARMING OPPORTUNITY "Oppoitunit‘ lot athainenicnt to the held of scientific agimulttne tv gteutei today than it has noel bent in the past," said Rein Ralph L Watts, head of the School of Aztictil tore in an mteon.mv 3,e.teado, "Plactitnlls . 0 1 oto V, I o gi adt.sted fi om tne Porn State School of 17,11- cultui , in the prat fee ca, hole been plated in pionns . m.". Position' , heroic they i eceised the', diplomas,' ho stated The Dean Lento,. I that the held luau., is e‘ten,‘ e nd sal . led, while some find peat i etui ns in p.actical fat noon c hose a kno,ledge of scLentifie methas has pi Inen o fitable DR. SWEENEY RESIGNS Dr William Sweenes, who ie• signed this minium as due. toi of thi. division of industrial iese.nch in ilk School of Chemistiy 11111 i Physics, h. accepted a position with the Stondaid Pd Development empm.ition 01 Baton Rouge, PRICE 5 CENTS New York Combination Holds Conference Championship 9 VETERANS TO START ON I'ENN STATE TEAM French, Diedrich, Livezey, and Lasich Compose Nittany Backfield Threat ppposirg a Neteian Niagara inr voisit) cleuen. Coach Hugo Be&lek's potent Lion ginliton machine will open Penn State's forty-thud football season on Ness Bearer field at c tomolio, afternoon Tlnice 'lntimrs of the New Yolk state small college confeience cham pionship, the Cabinet City aggrega tior will oilm strong resistance to the attempts of the Blue and White allay to tnas" a winning stole The New Yolk ins.titaition has been undefenttil it conference games tinting the Oleo sear- of the league's exister..e. NN ith but too members of the team ine•pei some I ir varsity football com petition, Coach Butlel; still send a ,cteian Porn State team against the N•againns Lasich at the full back post and Hippo ClBald at guard nil! be the neueomeis in Satuidat's cncounte. Penn State Line-up The fi• st stung eleven has been displaying, poll CI both on the offensise and on the defensive dining tccent se• immages and Budek hopes to pre sent one of the %neediest and most powerful teams which has represented Penn State for smeral y cats in to- MOITOW'S flay 11111se Kaplan and End Edwaids will hold dchin the end posts rot the Nittany team Both wingmen ate in fire shape and hose been displaying mid-season Loin, in recent benmmag es Ralph Thelet and Toots Rana"lnn ails Iceelvc the tackle :1511C1 , 111Coly I n , the opening scrap with Gillaid and lohnns %atella at the wand poet. Malt, Mc-Am:leas ash start at the (Continued on third page) STAMFORD PASTOR TO SPEAK SUNDAY Dr George Stmrt Wlll Talk on Ungnan Uni% ersll3 1t Cl•npel IMMII=2I Dr Ceorge Stewrit, pastor of the First Pi esbytemin chinch of Stam foul, Conn, is di address the strident hod' at chapel eICICI,O, in Schmid, Auditorium Sunda;, morning lle will speak about the limit . at Lignan unneisity, Penn States miasma m China Di, Steuart is the authm 01 many books dealing with teligmus subject,. Ilw work "The Histot v of Religion. Education in Connecticut to the Mid dle of the Nineteenth Century" wan the John Addison mire offer ed lit Yale unto osity. Some of is other books one "Ask me a Bible Question," "God and Pam, and "The Practice of Fliendship" Dining the Wolk! \Val, Stem :tit sorted as .1 captain in the Antony 'lle icc.ved the depict , of Doctor of Philosophy at Yale and is a membec Hof the Royal Gongs aphical society. After Auto ei the meeting will Re tai net noel to Bruce Bahluill, pie a 'dent of the semen class and newly ' appointed menitel of the committee 'on the mission to China, who will !speak on the Chinese project MI, Ruth Nickel, whin has spent most of ,her ble in Clone, and °Chet speakela also cull add, ess the student body. PRESIDENT R. I). lIETZEL I ATTENDS JOINT MEETING As a menthol of the executive Colo mittee of the Ante, an Land GI alt College association, Pi esident !Isiah ID Detect attended a joint confoi coca lat ith members of the Forte; at Farm maid in Washington cal ly this A‘eels The college group repteconted the aga icultanal inst.; action, n °scald, nod extension son vice of the United States They al e m position to zee excellent ie.sistame to the Fann Board in its pi oblenis of An ei e hef, Pr esulent Hazel said open lab teturn yesterday.
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