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"FOR THE GLORY run arte
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VOL. 27, No. 2
INITIAL PERIOD OF
- RUSHING SEASON
OPENS TOMORROW
Interfraternity Council To Hold
- Meeting in Sigma Pi House
At, 8 O'clock Tonight'
WILL WARN FRATERNITIES
AGAINST BREAKING CODE
Violators To Forfeit $5O Bond,
All Social Prh lieges for
First Semester
All complaints deallng with imi
tations of the fitted raternity
council rushing code should be filed
with Prof. Sheldon C. Tanner, cc
costly appointed to I. F . C. Board
of Control. Prof. Tanner will sum
auni a meeting of the board soon.
With the opening of College to
morrow morning, the first period in
the 1930 national and local fraternity
rushing season will begin at 11:30
o'clock Interfiaternity Council will
hold a meeting at 8 o'clock tonight
at the Sigma Pi fraternity, where the
rushing code will be discussed and
fraternities .9111 be warned against
infractions of the code
The season will be divided into two
periods, the first ending at 10 o'clock
next Tuesday night The second per
iod will begin at 11 30 o'clock the
following morning and will end at
8 o'clock next Friday evening.
Present Preference Cards
During a date, a fraternity may
give a freshman any information
about the fraternity, but at no time
shall it offer Min a bid, except at the
proper time following the close of the
last period.
Under the new plan of preferential
bidding, all freshmen are requited
to present preference cards at the
office of the Dean of Men next Satur
day afternoon., These, cards will be
sorted out together with the Later
arty bid cards which are to be sent
immediately following the close of the
second period.
As the bids come in, only the one
which corresponds to the freshman's
first preference will be advanced to
the rushee and the remdinder will be
withheld Freshmen will signify the
acceptance of the bid of their choice
by appearing for (linnet next Satur
day evening.
Violatons of the rushing code will
be punished by forfeiture of a 7,50
bond previously posted and the sus
pension of all social privileges for
the first semester of the immediate
year. Names of the offending fra
ternities shall be published in the
COLLEGIAN.
Fraternity bid cards will be dis
tributed from one o'clock until foul
o'clock Friday afternoon at the
Student Union desk in the foyno of
Old Main
DR. MOORE TALKS
•AT FIRST CHAPEL
'God Works For Good in Our Lives
Speaker States in Address
To Freshman Class
"God is working for good in our
lives and we cannot escape him," de
clared Rev. John Milton Moore of
New York City, general secretary of
the Federal Council. of Churches of
Christ in America while addressing
chapel-goers Sunday morning
Dr. Monte expressed the belief that
for this reason we have Just hope of
Immortality. The speaker further
stated that in man's struggle for
character there is hope for a world
brotherhood.
That the full value of life can only
be realized by seeking out Christ's
purpose for the individual is Dr,
Moore's belief. In the opinion of the
speaker the qualities that go to make
excellent characters and develop lead
ers also bring men of all nations
closer.'
"Because God has set eternity in
our heakts and Ave ate made to do
Me will we cannot he content living
ele children of the dust," Dr. 'Moore
continued. "To he happy we must
live as God means that no should,"
he declared in conclusion.
REPAIR ANDY LYTLE CABIN
Renovations and repairs on the
Andy Lytle cabin were completed this
sUalmer by the Y. M. C. A. Mining
of a tad road to the mountain re
treat a Shingletown Gap makes the
cabin readily accessible from the
ampoa.
SeVenty-Fifth Anniversary
Plans Approach Completion;
Schools To Arrange Exhibits
Student Body Will Hold
Parade on Campus
October 24
! As part of the celebration of the
seventy-fifth anniversary of the
founding of Penn State to be held
! October 23, 24, and 25, the sane
!schools of the College will place on
! display in the Armory material ex
hibits of every activity.
A general program, in which lead-,
ers m education, industry, govern- 1
meat, society, and religion will take,
part has been arranged by the com
mittee in charge, headed by Dean
Chailcs N. Stoddart of the Liberal
Arts School.
Various sub-committees on mean
! hem, entertainment, publicity, exhib
its, and program, will take action
during the next three mucks to com
plete plans for the celebration. The
invitations group will issue a list of
invitations to leaders in the State be
fore October 1
Students To Partscipate
On the first day of celebration the
program sill be devoted to education
al interests, with meetings for college
presidents, high school pnnemals, and
men prominent in the educational
field.
The entire student body 11 , 111 take
part either in a pal ade or bold a mass
meeting in Recreation Hall on Fm
day, October i 4. The program also
includes a luncheon for the official
guests The following d”, Alumni
Day, will be sot aside for entertain
ing graduates.
A series of conferences, to be
known as the 75th Anniversary eon
!foresees will be held throughout the
academic year, the nature of each to
be determined by the sponsoring
school. The fast of this seizes is the
Conservation Congress, sponsored by
the School of Education, to take place
October 10 and 11.
The School of Nmeial Industries
will hold an oil and gas conference
under the direction of Prof. Ches.
leigh A Bonne, hand of the depart
ment of geology, during the weekend
of the Anniversary celebration.
Dean Edward Steidle of the School
will welcome the visiting oil and gas
industrialists to the College Follow
ing his address, discussions will be
held in oil and gas sands. Petroleum
WOMEN'S NATIONAL
WILL MOVE HERE
Alpha Omicron l'i to Establish
National Headquarters in
Town October 1
Moving its national office to a more
central location, Alpha Omicron Pi,
vaimen's social fratetnity, uill es
tablish its headquarters heir Ortobet
1, in Room 3 of the new office build
ing at Allen stied, and Beaver ave
nue.
Mrs. Arthur K Anderson, prone
nent among Pan Hellenic women in
State College, and gland secretary of
the fiaternity, will shore the office
with Miss Alice Culinane, registrar,
and Mrs Edward Nichols, assistant
registrar. Mrs Nichols has been
statistician in the office of the Col
lege segsstrar during the past year.
Alpha Omicron Pi, founded at
Barnard College in 1897, will install
its fortieth active chaptei this week
end at Toronto University. Since
1925 the central office has been lo
cated at Bloomfield, New Jeisey The
Penn State gymp, Epsilon Alpha
chapter, Inas admitted m April, 1929.
DAIRY JUDGING TEAMS
COMPETE IN EXPOSITION
tnurtnts To Appratse Cattle,
Products of Eastern States
The Penn State daisy cattle judg
ing team and daisy products judging
team ale in competition ,Ith eastern
university and college teams at the
annual Eastern States Exposition
held nt Spimgfield, Alms, from Sun
day to Saturday.
The dan y cattle judging team corn
posPd of Henry E. Bechtel '3l, James
D. Bohn '3l, Harty J 'Poorbaugh '3l,
and Clayton C. Sharpe '3l left Thurs
day under the direction of Piof. Adam
L. Beam of the dairy husbandry , de
partment. .
STATE COLLEGE, PA., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1930
HEADS Commune° In Charge of
Anon ersary
leaders from various parts of the
state will expose the different
standards of mining oil.
Alumni Day morning will be de
voted to a study of the economics of
transportation and distribution of
Pennsylvania crude oil Methods of
advertising the abundant natural re
source will be explained in detail by
leading producers,
PLAYERS TO GIVE
LAST YEAR'S SHOW
Will Reenact 'Meanest Man' on
October 11 as First Play
Of 1930-31 Season
Opening their 1930-31 season with
a revival of last season's commence
ment show, Penn State Players will
present "The Me,..ncst Man in the
Wcald,"—George M Cohan's 'head
way comedy success, in Schwab
Auditorium on "Dad's Day," October
11.
With the exceptidn of the tole of
Cailton Childs ninth has not yet been
re-assigued, the same cast aluth pre
sented the oeneedy last splint• will
again enact the story of the sentimen
tal lawyer who determines to be the
"Meanest man in the world" Ralph
Radcliffe '3l will for the second tune
portray the past of Richard Clarke,
the struggling lawyer, and will be
supported b 1 Phyllis Beidlor
the feminine lead
John J. Rutherford '32 "New"
Steens, Clashes college chum, James
F. Abel '3l as Fied Loggia, the boy's
uncle, Reginald R 'Kenton '32 as
Michael °Thiess, a small town cob
bler, and John L Casson '32 and Miss
Ann L. Miksch '33 as Claske's under
paid employees, all retain their roles
of last season's performance
Neil 0. Campbell '3l, Miss Shirley
Thorpe '39, Jesse M McKnight Jr. '3l,
Miss Ruth Niebel '33, and John J.
Voin hes '33, all in their ougsnal
pasts, complete the cast The play
will again be under the direction of
Prof David D Mason, associate di
rector of the Pla3ers.
Two Upperclassmen Will Weather
Winter in House Built on Wheels
"A house built upon wheels," tc
paraphiase the biblical quotation, win
serve as the residence of two Penn
State students while Imbuing then
studies at the College during the coin
ing year.
Failing to obtain work in June,
James B. McKelvey '3l and Ralph R.
Cianmer '3_ used the summer months
to build n portable home in which
they will live this winter The saving
in Loom lent will nearly equal' the
savings which they mould have ac
cumulated had they obtained work
Stinting with an old trailer chassis,
the two students nlunned and built
their college borne in six weeks Snc
and a half by twelve feet, "the house
built upon wheels" contains all the
essentials and ninny of the control is
of larger minters. From the isdm
with the aelial built between ceiling
and soot to the folding locking chair
no detail was overlooked that would
make fur u cheerful home.
Rumors Set I. ,F. Ball
At Fall Houseparty
The date of the pimposed Inter
frateinity Ball rest between the
three following datei: the Friday
night of llouseparty , week-end, the
week-end meeeeding,Christmas va
cation, oi the imil-t'emestel Sara
tion, nccording to rimers spread
ing around the campus
No action has liden taken on
these dotes, however, and it is be
lieved that none ssiltlie taken nn
after the close of, rushing sea
son. Frank Diedrich; president of
the Greek council, ad yet has not
made any statement - regarding the
affair.
TRIBUNAL WARNS
INCOMING CLASS
Will Employ Policy, of Strict
Customs Enforcement in
Backing Neiv Code
Strict enforcement of customs was
the warning note sounded to the un
derclassmen by John Zorella '3l, Stu
dent Tribunal head, I.tit night
With batmen from the various
campus societies acting as a vigilance
committee the tribunal expects to
handle the matter of customs enforce
ment in an efficient manner. Mem
bers of Parmi Nous, Skull and Bones,
and Blue Key societies will be includ
ed m tne vigilantes
"Since the customs hate been e
vised and are now as the student
body wants them we feel that our
policy of rigid enforcement will meet
with success," declared the Tribunal
president, "And the student court is
designed to eliminate all unfairness
and hazing dining trial of the custom
breaker "
Offendeis v ill be reported to bat
men ph° in turn will act as mese
eating attorneys, while a Tribunal
member Pill defend the underclass
man at the trail. Tury duty will be
limited to members of the senior
class, four on live seders being chosen
for duty at each mating of the
Tribunal
In accord with tla'i 'et. , 'system,
haircuts will be green in ',mate and
not on Co-op corner as in years past
The Tribunal plans to hold two meet
ings a month, The first regular elect
ing will be held next Wednesday when
the cnses of special and transferred
students will be tried before the stu
dent count
WENDT, SMITH PUBLISH
`MATTER AND ENERGY'
Authors To Release 2-Volume Test
For ChemNtr) Students
"Matte, and Energy," a text-book
in chemistry and physic, by Gould
Wendt, foimm Dcan of the School of
Chemi.tly and Phvc,cs, and Ptof Os
car F Snuth, assist:art dean, has been
published toe choose this MI by P
Blakiston's Son and Company.
The test of this book, planned as
an entirely new introduction to its
subject, has born employed rot sev
eral years at Penn State in a physical
chemistry course for students taking
only one year of chemistry. In pub-
Composed of too toluenes, the man
ual establishes in it: fist division the
true nature of matter and energy,
and in the second section proceeds to
an niteipretation of everyday life in
the light of these basic facts
While the youths planned the stitic
twill details to withstand the strains
and tacking of moving, Josephine
Creamer, a former co-ed, completed
the Interior dacorations. With ink
queen and cream tot the background
she used a rusty orange and bright
yellow in hangingr and trim to glue
saucy touch which carried out the
slant of adventute
Upon Ito completion at midnight
Saturday night, the little home Nuts
hitched to nn old finver, and a half
houi ham was on the toad to State
College, covering the 156 miles ham
Mom.:ton befole seven o'clock that
mowing.
College author ales gave the stu
dents peinussion to park for the win
ter in a mood lot an the non th end
of the campus whets they cleared
out the weeds, plated the house on a
senti-pennianent foundation, built a
front notch, and ate ready for classes
to begin tcruonow.
Tatirgiatt.
President Hetzel Will Address
College Convocation Tomorrow;
Student Enrollment Nears 4400
1199 Freshmen Register
Before Saturday
Deadline
ATTENDANCE INCREASE
MAY EXCEED 200 MARK
Engineering School Leads With
363 Entrants-124 Co-eds
Elect Education
Predictions that more than 4400
students will have entered Penn State
when registration closes tonight were
sowed by Registrar William S Hoff
man as the first rush of upperelass
enrollment began yesterday
The increase in student attendance
will total approxiMately 200 Based
on Incomplete records of students who
left College before the end of last
year, approximate estimates for up
perelass registration list 840 seniors,
1000 juniors, and 1100 sophomores
to return this fall Special students :
and graduate students eilt boost the
total
'At the close of freshman registra
tion Saturday, 1199 new students had
molted Of this number 1029 were
men, while women entering totalled
170 The figures include fifty-tsio
probable entrants at Mont Alto
School of Forestry •
Engineering School Leads
Leading in emollinent by schools,
the School of Engineering claimed
363 of the beginners, with an increase
of thirty-two over last year's fresh
man engineeling group, although
this number did not equal the high
total of 1928, uhen 404 enrolled. The
Class of 1933 contained 331 engineers.
Next in ranking, as to percentage
of neu-comers this yew is the Lib
eral Arts School, in which 230 new
students have enrolled to date A
decrease 'ot thirty from last year's
260 entrants failed to affect the
school standing,
With 179 students entening its
courses so far, the School of Chem
istry has displaced the Agriculture
School in third milking Closely fol.
tossing in fouith place is the Educa
tion school, ii th 172 applicants list
ed An ineicase of twenty Chemistry
and Physics beginners over the for
m. mint. of 107 was . mole than
equalled by an inciease of fifty-eight
in Education. The 1929 group in Ed
ucation numbered 114
Fifth in standing, the School of
Agriculture had enrolled 159 students
nt the close of registiation Saturday.
Thlt this figure N40111(1 pi °bah]; be
boosted was indicated by the fact that
172 men and women had signified
then intention of entering agiicul
total courses Beginneis in the
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PHI MU DELTA ACCEPTS
OMEGA DELTA EPSILON
Nattonal Social Fraternit To Troll
Installation in October
Ehi Mu Delta, national social fra
ternity, accepted the petition of
Omega Delta Epsilon, local frater
nity, at a meeting of the executhe
board in June. The local groan,
founded lime in 1022, will be installed
in Oda.
Founded in 1518 at Anihmst, Mas
sachusetts. Phi Mu Delta has 1S chap
ters and is an outgi on th of the Na
tional Federation of Commons Club,
with foul chapters located at tin
state universities of New Hampshii
Vermont, Connecticut, and Union
College
In addition, the fraternity has
chapters at the University of Califor
nia, Michigan, Illinois, Maine. Ohio
State, Ohio Northern, Not thwestei n,
Boston and Susquehanna. There are
also chapters at Massachusetts Insti
tute of Technology, Rhode I s l an d
State College, Rensselaei Polytechnic
CHEMISTS ATTEND CONCLAVE
Dean Flank C Whitmore, of the
School of Chemistry and Physics,
with other members of the school, at
tended the annual convention of tho
American Society in Cinunnati last
week. Prof. Grover C Chandler,
head of the chemistry department,
and L, Raymond nuke, director of
the chemical laboratoi les, also attend•
ed tho conclave.
1 SREAKS At College Comocation
Tomorrow
LIBRARIAN ACCEPTS
FEDERAL POSITION
Miss Vaught Obtains Leave of
Absence—Gladys Cranmer
Will Fill Vacancy
Announcement that Miss Sabra W.
Vought, College libiarian, had been
named librarian and director of li
brary service for the Federal Office
of the Interior was followed late last
week by the appointment of Miss
Gladys It Clanser, present asrstant,
as acting W.:man
Miss - Vaught has been granted a
year's leave of absence from her du
ties at the Cainegie library heie
During that time Miss Crammer will
be in charge of the College...librarY
In her new position Miss Vought
will seise as head of one of the nix
maim divisions in the education of
fice The iesponsibility for publica
tion of statistics on libraries, and di
rectories of libranans, ti ill rest with
her.
As the Golerninent's contact agent
sigh officers of the American Lituary
associgtion, Miss Vought «dl cooper
ate siith that organ.gation in publish
ing technical bulletins on ltbratics.
She sill otganige and control the
binding and cataloguing of survey re
ports to he issu- , 1 to colleges of edu
cation Mei new duties cho call for
achninearation of a technical library
of 125,000 solemes
Miss Fought had been connected
with the library nt the University of
Tennes.,ee, the Ohio library commis
sion, Allegheny college libiary, pub
lic hbi anos nt Ithaca, N Y, and the
New Yolk State libiary before taking
a position at Penn State
EXTENSION ENGINEERS
WILL OPEN 5 BRANCHES
Department Offers 3-Year Courses
In llech.ics. Aeronautics
Branch schools operated by the
College in its ptogiam of spreading
the adoantages of higher education
to all pal to or the State will be open
ed in Allentown, Rise, Reading,
Scianten, and Wilkes-Barre within
the nest two week.;
Three-year row ses in acronautlcal,
industrnil, nrechan•cal, mining, and
textile err; neerrng are to be offered
by the deportment of engineering ex
te.r.un I•t these ~hools Classes are
DR. LIONESS STUDIES STATE
OIL SANDS DLRINC SUMMER
Dr. Arthur P. Honess of the de
partment of geology and oil and gas
production, was engaged during the
summer months in malting a detailed
microscopic study of Pennsylvania oil
sands with a view of determining the
elationshlp which might exist be
tween porosity and the permeability
of the sands us revealed from a study
of thin sections
This study is being made in =-
Junction scith Prof Clark F. Binh of
the petroleum ieseatch department in
the School of Mineral Industrica. Dr.
ESTABLISHED
1904
PRICE 5 CENTS
Exercises To Start in
Recreation Hall
At 10:30
FIRST SEMESTER BEGINS
WITH 1 O'CLOCK CLASSES
Invocation by College Chaplain
Opens Service—Blue Band
Prepares Program
Assembling for the annual College
opening convocation in Recreation
Hall, approxlmately 5000 students and
faculty members will wetness the ad.
tent of Penn State's seventy-fifth
teal as an institution of learning at
10 30 o'clock tomorran moi rung
President Ralph D Hazel swill ad
dress returning upperclassmen and
the incoming freshmen during the
College assembly. Arrangements
have been made for a musical program
01 college songs, under the direction
of Prof Richard W. Grant, direct.
of MIMIC, and Bandmaster Wilfred 0.
Thompson.
Present plans ind.t.ite that the Blue
Band, directed by Bandmaster Thomp
son, will assist in leading the student
body with musical accompaniment
during the hinging. The2beer-leaders
will appear for the BIT tune this
year before the entire College at tha
exercises
Plan Brief Ceremony
Prof. John H. Fraxell, acting Col
lege chaplain, will deliver the invoca
tion The President's address is
planned as the most important post
of the program. Tiaditional singMg
of the Alma Mater will conclude the
exercises.
The assembly tomorrow is arranged
as a brief ceremony formally begin
ning the first semester. It will be
Ishortcr than the program undertaken
!in 1920. The Convocation IS one of a
I few times during the year when Penn
State assembles as an academic body.
! Freshmen mill occupy the north
gallery in the hall during the ever-
uses, while sophomores will take seats
in the south balcom. Uppeiclasmmn
, will be seated on the main floor A
section on the main floor will be re
! set ved for the use of faculty mein
: hers.
" Notices pertaining to the opening
of the 1930-1931 college year will be
read at the meeting First semester
classes will begin uL 1.10 tomorrow
afternoon
COLLEGE HOSPITAL
INCREASES STAFF
Dr. Dlettrich nal Assist Ititcnour—
Thspensary Treats 11,000
E=El
Di Chalice Diettrieh has been
named assistant to Di Joseph P
Ritenout head of the College Hen lbh
set‘u.e. Miss Boratha Build and Miss
Catherine Ilartswiek were also ridded
to the stair.
Dr. Deittrieh recently held a posi
tion in the department of education
in Indiana Ile resigned from this
position to come to Penn State The
Misses Budd and Hartsnah wrll
serve throughout the year as nurses
at the College Hospital.
During the Past year the dispens
ary department of the hospital treat
ed 14.000 eases Narying linen removal
of splinters to treatment for dherders
of the net sous syltein. Three han
dled and fifty-sir Store eared for tim
ing the college year, the average Dino
spent there being three and one-third
days
The cispensary has been tetently
,orated in the basement of Old Main
providing a centrally located sconce
for the student body.
STATION WPSC TO BEGIN
BROADCASTING THIS WEEK
Daily broadcasting of weather re
pelts, news and am multural Alas
by the College will be resumed this
week .3, et the college radio station,
WPSC. The station goes on the air
daily at noon except Saturday nn I
Sunday, operating on 1230 }Weenies
In addition to the daily programs,
the College will also continue as Sun
day broadcast of chapel services and
football games.