WELCOME RALPH D. HETZEL Weather Today Intermitten rain and cooler. V0L.,24N0. 13 Students Ready To View Houses Fraternities Decorate On Student Union Theme Winner 'of the ITC's annual lawn display contest which fea tures a student union theme this year will 6e announced at the Penn StateiMichigan State game tOmprrow afternoon. The house asking first prize will 'he awarded a trophy, while a se cend place house will also be selected. The entries will be judg ed 50 per cent on '...artisitc: ability an 50 per cent 'on Originality in treatment of Abe . ..theme. . .. • Tudgirig;_plt"tle , '26.1,41,01iie5..ew5. tering the contest 'will • begin •to .morrow 'Morning' at,' 10 . o'clock. The - judging 'committee will .con sist of Wayne Weaver,-president of the alunmi association,.Dsniel De.. .Marino, assistant - dean of men, and Professor Marion Ross of 'the art department2'The . judging was -originally scheduled • for Friday night, but was changed-'since Weaver could hot be present •et . addition• to the..:fraternitiei, it has been . reported • that 'every 'sorority with a house is preparing -a' student union display. evidence of student inter est, in a Student Union will im -preSs visiting alumni, it is hoped; -and will encourage them to contri_ ,bute - generously when the ZUnihn .camPaign is :held Saturday's game with Michi gan will be broadcast over WMAJ and the Atlantic Net- Work beginning at 1:45. 10,000 Expected ~.To.Pack:Staditirti lions, 'Spartans . Meet Tomorrow The largest orewd.- to witness a home game since 1'9'215 will f urn a .colorful. setting for ti Penn State-Michigan State fourth grid meeting when the Spartans invade New Beaver Field gab p.m. tcmorrow. With every seat already sold, the crowd is expected to exceed 29,00, poss'bly tying the records set inrl923 and 1925 when, Navy snd Notre Dame played at State College. Standing room tickets at $1:20 will go oat sale .at lo a.m. tomaraw. The lixtes . open at noon. Marking the first time in recent years that a visiting football team has come 'to State College on the IBeliki!:onte Ctari"nal spur, the Spartans arrive by special . train today to work cut at New Beaver Bring Band The ;Michigan State football squad, ,crdas-ocktnrry team, and . 80- ; Weice mi9rchinig; barlll left East a.onti;n;Aed on :page' . four) It is good to restore such fine old traditions as alumni home- coming to their peace-time place in the academic year. We welcome you with the warmth reserved for old friends This year you find us at the beginning of an era of physical expansion made necessary by an unequaled growth in oui service to the Commonwealth. Our student enrollment is now past the ten-thousand mark; our research people are hard at work on a variety of Pennsylvania's postwar problems; and our extension staff is carrying the resources of the College to • ' ' '4; 4. .- •A n ourg a :Cl', Contest - _ " I ‘ 4 " 7 7Y , AWomen' s News- Robert St. J'ohn "Itt.n --/ --- - . Alumni News - FRIDAY SVIORNIING, OCTOBER 18, 1946-4 STATE COLLEGE, PENNA Masseth Out; Brown To Run • Marshall Brown has replaced William Masseth as Nittany-In dependent candidate for Senior class vice-president, Jack Brani gan, All-College Elections chair man announced last night. Masseth, who had won over Brown in a show, of power last Sunday night at the Nittany-In dependent final nominations meet ing, was fOrced to resign from the race when it was disclosed that he did not have the required "one" All-College average. Originally both men were put up by the clique nomination com mittee at the preliminary nomina tion meeting with the understand ing that the one, that could show the .rnost support. would be the cliqtke candidate.- •. - • • .Brown, whop liar"ls66' "SerVini as All-College and .Senior class campaigh manager:fOr. the clique, Was named by the Elections com mittee to' fill :the vacancy in the slate since he was the clique's second choice for the slot. -• Student- politicos ' are entering the • crucial period. •Of their elec tioneering this Week-erid as they prepare for the opening of the polls ,at the • Armory Tuesday morning. . • • The Armory polls will be open to student voters from 9. aim. to 5 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday as (Continued on • page six) Today's the Day Fees • for the . first semester 'of 1946-1947 will be collected in Recreation Hall,' •from 9 O'clock ..to 4 o'clock continu ously, today. Room and ,board for resi dents of Pollock Circle will not be collected until next week. HO // E 'lt Ain't the Same,' The Alumni Lament Returning alumni to the cam pus always find many changes have taken place since the year they were graduated. - There are new professors,' new buildings, and many strange faces. This year's homecoming will offer all these differences plus a lamer mass of students than any alum nus has ever seen on the campus in previous years. The student enrollment of 10,.. 000 this semester, is the largest in the history. of the College. This total practitally doubles the 1945 fall semester of 5779, and more than triples the 1926 enrollment of of 3885. 7000 of the students regiStered are on campus with 2969 fresh men and i 1696 other students located at 22 State Teachers Col leges and four undergraduate cen_ ters throughout the state. In 1921, 25 years ago, the students on cam pus numbered 3033,' just a few more than this year's freshman class, none of whom are on cam-; pus. By the same contrast, the trail_ or camp at Windcrest.F.nd the Pol lock Circle Dorms, situated on what was farm land less than two years ago, accommodate 1160 students, this group being larger than the entire student enroll ment of 1063 in 1907A908. The College enrollment has in creased over past years at about the rate of 1500 students every. ten years but the fall semester of 1946 has broken all precedence and if this pace continued, there would . proibably be 20,000 students on hand. to greet the alumni in 1955. • ALUMNI constantly growing groups in every part of the State But despite this expansion in size and service, the basic spirit and traditions of Penn State remain as they were in your day. I hope that our genuine pleasure in greeting you. will compensate for any of the current shortages you en- counter, and that this homecoming will be truly a memorable one for you Dance, Rally, Game Highlight Weekend 'Cwens Hold Dungaree 'Drag in Recreation Hall, Collegian Sponsors Pre-Kickoff Demonstration A dance in Recreation Hall, a pcp rally at the Lion Shrine, and a football game v.it New Beaver Field will highlight Homecomdng Weekend today and tomorrow. The dance, Dungaree Drag, is sponsored by Owens, women's sophomore honorary, and will be a jeans and plaid shirt affair from 9 to 12 tonight, with the Campus OWls providing the music. Weekend Events BZEINM PEP RALLY, Lion's , Shrine near Recreation Hall, 7:3o"o'clock. OWENS' DUNGAREE Drag; Recreation Hal'l, 9 to 12 _o'clock. STUDENT UNION Decoration displays, fraternity and. sorority houses, all. weekend. PHYSICtAL EDUCATION geq to-gether WSGA roam, • White 110:30 a.m. - Tomorrow SOCCER game, - behind: .east Stands of stadium. 1:30 o'clock. FOOTBALL game, New Beaver Field, 2 o'clock. CROSS COUNTRY team leaves between halves of football game. SANDWICHES and coffee will be served in Recreation Hall for alumnae - before and after the game. NITTANY CO-OP , SOCIETY tea, 224 E Nittany avenue, entire afternoon. . Sunday CHAPEL, Dr. Charles C. Noble Chapel, 11 a. m. R. D. Hetzel. President In This Issue FIVE CENTS A COPY Features of the dance 'will be a cake - walk immediately before in termission,- and entertainment im mediately after by the Three, Stooges, ;Pfleeger, Mitchell,' and 1116IiAt. Tickets at $1.50 a couple are On sale at Student Union, and n - lay also be purchased at Rec Hall tonight Cake Walk Tickets Members of Owens will sell tickets-for the cake walk at the dance. bet Ween 9 and 10 o'clock,: and' at a signal from the chair man, only those who hold cake walk, tickets will be allowed to dance the next dance. A spot on the floor will have been previous ly :Clrasen, and when the orchestra stops playing at some point in the song, the couple standing on the secret spot, or nearest to it, will be awarded a cake. The Drag is a girl - ask - boy dance, Miss Henry stressed, and coeds may make, or purchase at the local florists' vegetable cor sages for their dates. Owens will be identified at the dance by halts with red Cwen em blems. The chairman wishes to announce that due to an error in printing the date on the tickets is October 28. The dance, how ever, is tonight, October 18. (Continued on page seven) Army Honors Col. Chastaine Colonel Ben-Hur Chastain, Professor of Military Science and Tactics at the College, will be awarded The Legion of Merit and Silver Star at a cerernz,:ly and re view 11 o'clock tomorrow morn ing on the ROTC drill field op posite Mineral Industries. Major General William F. Sham of "We Are Expendable" fame who will present the decorations was Colonel Chastaine's Com manding General and Comman der in Chief of the Visayan-Min danao force which was responsible for the area embracing all of the Philippine Islands lying South of Luzon. ".. Guests of honor will include Ralph D. Hetzel, Colonel R. Fenton and Major Anderson of the Harrisburg Recruiting Dis trict, and Captain William T. Mc- Garry and Commander Charles M. Holcombe of the Naval De nartment at the CoLiege. The Blue Band will participate in the re view. Colonel Chastaine, veteran of two world wars wias charged with ('Co•ntinued on page si x ) - P. G - P. 3 - P. 2
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