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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.:,
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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"
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"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.
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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STAMFORD PASTOR
TO SPEAK SUNDAY
Dr George Stmrt Wlll Talk on
Ungnan Uni% ersll3 1t Cl•npel
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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.