GIRLS' EDITION
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VOL. XV. NO. 34.
NEBRASKA GIRLS
TRAM ATHLETES
NEBRASKA IS HOLDER OF TWO
- WORLD RECORDS.
GIRLS ARE AWARDED LETTER
Basketball Comes to Life After the
Thanksgiving Vacation Aesthetic
Dancing as a New Form of
Physical Education.
Girls' Track Athletics.
The "woman's sphere'' has broad
ened in universities to include ath
letics along with intellectual activities.
Nebraska has the honor of two world
records in girls track athletics. One
Is in pole-vault, which was -won by
Miss Eva Fisk, '15, of St. Joseph, Mo.,
last spring. She cleared the bar at 6
feet 3 inches, breaking her own record
of the previous year, which was 5 feet
6 inches. The other world record is in
the 40-yard hurdles, won by Miss Flor
ence Simmons, "15, of McCook, who in
1914 made it In 7 1-5 seconds.
The various events included in the
girls' track meet are the 24-yard dash,
50-yard dash, 40-yard hurdles, shot-put,
basketball throw, baseball throw, high
jump, pole-vault, and relay race. The
relay race of last year was won by
the class of 18. The records made in
these events, compared with world rec
ords, are as follows:
25-yard dash Florence Simmons, 3
seconds.
50-yard dash Camilla Koch. 6 3-3
seconds Vassar, 6 1-5.
40-yard hurdle Florence Simmons,
7 1-5 seconds.
Shot-put Blanch Higgins, 29 feet 9
inches Berkeley, 34 feet !"' inches.
High Jump Marie Clark, 4 feet 2
inches Vassar, 4 feet 7 inches.
Baseball throw Mabel Longacre, 163
feet 3 inches Bryn Mawr, 181 feet.
Basketball throw Marie Clark, 77
feet 2 inches Berkeley, 82 feet
inches.
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HUSKERS WIN FROM
THE AMES AGGIES
CHAMBERLAIN STARS ON LONG
END RUNS
THE AGGIES NEARLY SCORE
Iowa Team Comes Within One Yard
of Goal Play Wat Sensational,
but Ames Lacked Neces
sary Punch
The HuBkers grabbed another vic
tory Saturday, when they piled up a
score of 21 to 0 against the Ames Ag
gies. The game was hard fought and
full of sensations, and it was doubt
ful during the first period, when Aid
rich, Ames' right half, went through
the line for seventy pards, to Nebras
ka's 8-yard line, whether the Huskers
would beat or take a beating. The
stonewall held, however, on Nebras
ka's 1-yard line and the Huskers work
ed their way out of danger.
In the second Quarter, the Huskers
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UNIVERSITY OF
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"AIR CASTLES IN SPAIN."
University Women Hope for Material
Realization of Their Dreams.
Visions of a women's building swim
before the eyes of some of the more
ambitious. A two-story building con
taining the office of the Dean of Wo
men, a gymnasium, a rest room, a par
lor, and a kitchen, is a dream to be
realized, it ts hoped, in the near future.
The need of a building is very ap
parent, when one sees the crowded
conditions in Faculty Hall, when the
Girls' Club is having a party. The lit
tle room used for sewing is not
equipped with water or a sink, a lack
of which forces the girls to get water
from downstairs and wash the dishes
in cold water. There is not room for
the equipments of a kitchen in so
small a space, nor for more than two
to work comfortably at a time. Yet,
through all these years, the girls have
lived in hopes and still continue to
build air castles with fine equipment
and plenty of room.
MISS BURNER Y. W. C. A. GUEST
National Student Secretary is Grad.
uate of De Pauw Different En
tertainments Planned
Miss Oolooah Burner, one of the na
tional student secretaries of the Y. W,
C. A., with headquarters in New York,
Is the guest of the University Y. W
C. A. from Saturday until Wednes
day, this week.
Miss Burner, who Is a graduate of
De Pauw university, was a leader in
school activities and Is a real col
lege girl. Her attractive personality
aud democracy have gained for her
the love and admiration of many col
lege girls.
A reception to faculty and students
was held at the Governor's mansion
Saturday evening for Miss Burner.
At 4 o'clock yesterday vesper services
were held at the First Presbyterian
church where Mrs. Walter Lyndon-
Pope and a stringed trio furnished the
music.
Dean Mary Graham will give a tea
in Art hall for Miss Burner at 4
o'clock tomorrow and Y. W. C. A. ves-
ner services will be held in the Tem
ple theatre at 5 o'clock. At 7 o'clock
Wednesday Miss Burner will talk to
the different committee girls. I
NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1915.
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VISION OF THE WOMENS BUILDING.
NOTED WOMEN IN
LITERARY WORK
NEBRASKA'S WOMEN GRADUATES
WHO HAVE DISTINGUISHTD
THEMSELVES.
RHETA CHILD DORR, EDITOR
Willa Sibert Cather, Graduate '95, One
of America's Foremost Novelists
Daughter of Former Chancel
lor Author of Many
Books.
Willa Sibert Cather, '95, is one of
America's foremost novelists and mag
azine writers. Among Miss Cather's
most successful books are "0 Pio
neer," "The Bohemian Girl." and "The
Song of the Lark." For six years she
was managing editor of McClures
Magazine. Her home is at Rea Cloud,
Neb., but she is at present in Colo
rado gathering material for a new
book.
Mrs. Rheta Child Dorr, who is a
well known magazine contributor, for
merly lived in Lincoln and studied art
under Sarah Wool Moore at the uni
versity. She was the first woman ed
itor of the New York Evening Post,
and held this position for four years.
Later she became interested in work
ing women and lived for two years in
a tenement In the East Side of New
York City. A large number of her
articles deal with the problems of wo
men In industry. She is also the au
thor of the book "What Eight Million
Women Want," which has had a re
markable sale.
' Dorothy Canfleld Fisher, daughter
of former Chancellor Canfleld, la an
other well known writer who was once
a student at Nebraska University. Her
chief books are "Mothers and Chil
dren." "A Montessori Mother." "Cor-
neille and Racine in England," "Eng
lish Rhetoric and Composition,
"What Shall We Do Now?" "Gunhild."
"The Squirrel Cage." "Hlllsboro Peo
ple," and she has written some hun
dred short stories for magazines.
Ethel Syford graduated from the
University of Nebraska in 1903, and
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GIRLS' CLUB IS GROWING
Organization Made Six Years Ago
Two-fold Aim and Purpose.
The University Girls: Club was or
ganized about six years ago by a few
loyal and broad-minded girls, who
saw. the need of a more democratic
SDirit among the University girls.
The aim of the club is two-fold. The
first purpose is to establish a loan
fund for the use of girls who are
working their way through school,
and for use in case a girl is ill and
unable to pay hospital or doctors' bills.
The membership dues of the club are
fifty cents a year, and twenty-five
cents of this sum is placed in the per
manent loan fund. This loan fund is
always In use, and although no note
has ever been taken, the money has
always been promptly returned.
Tho second aim of the club is to
offer an opportunity for friendly,
helpful fellowship among all the girls
of the University; to develop a feel
ing of responsibility and a higher re
gard for liberty and order, and to be
a medium by which the social stand
ard of the University may be made
and kept high.
Each succeeding year, since its or
ganization, the club has increased in
membership and spirit, until In this
present year we have an organization
of which every loyal Nebraska girl
has reason to be proud. The active
membership for this year has not been
calculated, but Judging from the re
sults of Girls' Club "Tag Day," the
number of members this year will sur
pass any thus far In the history of
Nebraska.
The club gives several parties each
year, to get the girls In closer touch
with each other. This year, two suc
cessful parties have already been
given. The first event was a recep
tion for freshman girls. The second
was the football luncheon before the
Notre Dame game. The largo number
of . girls, who were present at these
two parties acted as an Incentive to
the leaders of the club, under whose
able supervision the club is bound to
grow and prosper, and develop among
the girls at Nebraska a spirit of unity,
loyalty, and good fellowship.
The English club will meet at the
home of Prof. H. B. Alexander, 1835
Ryons street, next Saturday. The
election of officers will be held at
this meeting.
PRICE 5 CENTS.
WOMEN'S CONVEN
TION HERE IN MAY
MADE UP OF WOMEN'S ORGANIZA
TIONS OF MISSOURI VALLEY.
ORNELL A SPECIAL MEMBER
Convention to Discuss Matters Perti
nent to University Life of Women
Miss Edna Froyd Is Presi
dent of the Convention.
The convention of the Middle West
ern Intercollegiate Association for
Women's Self-Government, to be held
here May 4 to 6 is the grand event of
the entire year. The association is
made up of women's organizations of
the colleges in the Mississippi valley
which give an A.B. or an 6.B. degree.
The Nebraska order of this association
is the Girls' Club.
At these conventions such questions
are discussed as the advisability of the
point system and the honor system;
rules regulating rooming and boarding
houses, and mid-week dates; and plans
for women's buildings. It may be
seen that there are a large number of
problems to be solved by the girls, and
it is the purpose of these conventions
to discuss them for mutual help and .
suggestion.
The universities to be represented
here are Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, Illi
nois, Michigan, Minnesota, Kansas,
Washington, Northwestern, and Grin-
nell. By special dispensation Cornell
University was also admitted on ac
count of the similarity of her Interests
to those of the schools of the middle
west.
Edna Froyd. '16, is president of the
association for the year 1915-16 by the
law that the president of the local or
ganization where the conference Is to
be held shall be the president of tho
conference.
It is hoped that the membership of
the Girls' Club will be large this year
to insure a successful convention in
the spring.
Y.W.G.A, INTERESTS
ANDACTIVITIES
MEMBERS ORGANIZE EIGHT-WEEK
CLUBS IN SUMMER
NATIONAL SECRETARY HERE
Interest Shown In Routine as Well as
Campaign Work Organized As
sistance Given to Freshmen
at Registration Week
While attention in the Y. Wv C. A.
is centered Just now in the visit of
Miss Oolooah Burner and Miss Adella
Dodge to the University of Nebraska,
no catalogue of girls' activities would
be complete without some mention of
the enthusiasm and interest In the
best side of college life of more than
400 girls who belong to the Y. W.
r. A. The visit of our national and
field secretary simply gives an oppor
tunity for expression in words of the
real vitality of the association, which
through most of the year expresses
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