The Dai! ly Nebra
VOL. XV. NO. 37.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1915.
PRICE 5 CENTS.
HUSKERS SPEND
LIVELY JOUR HOURS
FRESHMAN BATTLE SCRUBS AND
VARSITY IN SUCCESSION
FRESHMEN SCORE I9TH DOWN
Second raters and Freshmen Play an
Even Game Varsity Given a
Warming Up Scrubs Get
Their Chance Saturday
M. Stietam acted as supervisor at a
little gathering on the athletic field
yesterday afternoon, from 2 until 6
o'clock, during which time the foi
lowing program was rehearsed:
First the gridiron candidates warm
ed up. This is done by turning
loose a half dozen footballs on the
athletic field and then turning the
players in to try and get control of
them. This took a long hour (60
minutes long, in fact) as the footballs
were very spirited, and since Capt
Dick's presence was necessary to car
rying out the remainder of the pro
gram and he did not get dressed un
til an hour after roll call was over.
As soon as Dick appeared the program
was changed, and a lively hour was
spent in signal practice. This per
formance is not very interesting to
watch, but it Is one essential ingred
ient to any good afternoon's train
ing since signals often come in handy
during a game.
As soon as interest in this form of
amusement began to die down, Stiehm
shooed the varsity regulars off the
field and called upon the Freshmen
to do battle with the scrubs. A fierce
melee ensued, during which one
Freshman got his left eye gouged
and a member of the second team had
two floating ribs sunk, but none were
seriously injured, and each side suc
ceeded in scoring a touchdown. The
Freshmen did some heady work on
the nffftnaive. but they were unable to
withstand successfully the assaults
of Johnny Cook and his mighty fol
lowers. The regulars held down me
sidelines during this performance and
did it so well that the sidelines have
remained in the same position ever
since.
About 5 o'clock,-Stiehm called out
his famous eleven and set them on
to the Freshmen. Chamberlain kick
ed for Corey (who bad absentmind
edly forgotten to put his football togs
on and apeared on the field in citi
zen's clothes. The Freshmen failed
to show the fighting spirit of the
earlier scrimmage and the regulars
soon got it away from them.
Caley took the ball in one hand and
scored a touchdown. The ball was
brought out to the varsity 10-yard line
and the Freshman requested to put it
over, which they did on the nineteenth
down.
As it was now nearly 6 o'clock,
Stiehm called on Mike Seltzer, and
Mike In his humorous way, took the
ball and successfully eluding the
Freshmen, scored another touchdown.
This broke up the meeting; the play
ers swapped headguards, and the au
thor came away.
Stiehm Is saving up his varsity men
for Kansas, and sevarl second team
men are lookins forward to a chance to
fight.it out with Nebraska Wesleyan
next Saturday. '
PROBLEM IN ASTRONOMY
Professor Swezey Is Called Upon to
Answer a Wide Variety of
Questions
Astronomy is a very broad and com
plex science judging from the fact that.
Prof. G. D. Swezey has been called
upon fo answer all sorts of questions
from finding out the dates of peoples
births to determining how to build hog
houses.
It was Professor Swezey who told
io man Vina' nlrl his uiff was hv figur
ing out the date of an eclipse of the
sun, which the relatives remembered
occurred the year of her birth.
Another request received by the
professor folows: "We are figuring
on the use of windows in the roof of
hog houses. In order to know how far
up on the roof to place the windows In
order to throw the rays of light in the
proper places in the pens we would
like to know at what angle from hori
zontal do the rays of thu sun shine at
say 10 o'clock in the morning and at
2 o'clock in the afternoon during the
months of January, February, March,
April and May at latitude forty de
gress. Of course each month would
show a differnt angle and the windows
would be placed to correspond with the
month in which the young pigs are
born."
Professor Swezey does not take
much interest in searching out comets
by staying up all night to scan the
6kles with a telescope and find maybe
once In a nretime someming new.
Even then one would have to hurry
for fear some one else would announce
its discovery first. The professor deals
with more practical problems.
To Remove Old Signs
No longer does one need to shun the
buletin boards. Many have gazed on
these at various times, only to have
their wrath stirred up within them
when they read the announcements of
gome University play already weeks
old, of "smokers" that had become
ancient history, or of receptions long
past. Now an "announcement scaven
ppp" has been appointed. Signs that
have outlived their usefulness will be :
promptly removed. The new positon
is such a delicate one that the name of
the officer is to be kept secret.
Mrs. Fossler III
Prof. Lawrence Fossler was called
home yesterday morning, because of
the serious illness of his wife. Mrs.
Fossler was suddenly taken ill by an
acute attack of appendicitis. She was
taken out to St. Elizabeth's Hospital
immediately, where she underwent an
operation. According to all reports,
Mrs. Fossler is resting easy.
THE PRIZE PQSTER CONTEST
Purpose to Advertise Home-Coming
MlxerMust be Submitted by
the Fifteenth
A prize of five dollars will be given
for the best art poster advertising the
Home Coming Mixer on the evening of
November 20th.
Rules of the contest.
The contestants must be students of
the University.
All posters must be submitted on or
before the 15th of November at Guy
Reed's office.
No posters will be returned to tie
contestants.
The date of the mixer snou.u
designated on the poster.
For further information call A
Krebs or Guy Reed.
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INTER-GLASS TRACK
MEET NEXT FRIDAY
TO SELECT MEN FOR CROSS COUN-
TRY RUN AT LAWRENCE
EVENT AT KANS.-NEBR. GAME
Several Field Events Listed Medals
For the First Three Places Few
Entries so Far for Inter
Class Relay
An inter-class track meet will be
held Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock, at
which five men in the five mile cross
country run will be chosen, if good
enough form is displayed, as the Ne
braska represntatives in the Missouri
Valley cross-country run at Lawrence
Kansas, on the day of the Kansas
Nebraska football game.
The following are the events in the
inter-class meet: One huri red yard
dash, 120 yard hurdle, 1 irAe run, 220
yard dash, mile r.,i, ,i mile dash
220 yard hurdle. i'hr following are
the field event? VAe vault, high
jump, and bro ,mp. There will be
no weight e' It is expected that
those en' ri .g tLs different events,
aside fr : those entering the cross
countr . will enter in at least two
evevio. Gold, silver, and bronze medals
ar to be awarded the winners of first,
second and third places. An inter-class
relay will also be held.
So far the number of entries has
been very small. Not a single entry
has been made in any of the class re
lay teams. Interest seems to center In
the cross country run.
Dean Fordyce, of the department
of education, gave two addresses on
the fundamentals of teaching at the
Polk county teachers' association
meeting at Osceola last Saturday.
A NEW BOOK BY DR. WARD
Social Service Leader Puts Out Work
Entitled "Social Evangelism" .
Price 50 Cents
'"If this is Christianity, then I can
he a Christian,' said the keen young
agnostic Jew after listening to an ex-
nnitnn of the teachings of Jesus in re
latlon to industrial life." Probably
many another man might come to the
cam inclusion if he would read Dr.
Ward's new book "Social Evangelism,"
which just came from the press last
month. Dr. Ward was the speaker
whom the young Jew heard, and the
message that he gives is to be found
in this book. If any students who
heard him at Convocation Tuesday
wish a copy one can be secured in the
lobby of the Temple.
One chapter deals with the defini
tion of the title of the book. The other
flvec hapters are: The Imperauve iu.
a Social Evangel; The Place of the
Xew Times. New wemoua,
The Nature and Contents of the Mes
sage, What About the Results?
price of the book is only fifty cents.
Discuss Water Power
Mr Edgar Howard of Columbus and
e'b." Howell of Omaha, will discuss
"The Development oi
, v,.cvo - in the hall of the Lln-
m.h vi thu evening at 8 o'clock.
All students interested are cordially
invited.
TEACHERS VISIT OMAHA
Lincoln to Send a Delgatlon of 250
Some Classes Dismissed Special
Tra'n From Lincoln
Lincoln will send a delegation of
250 teachers to Omaha today to par
take in the program of the state teach
ers' association. The annual session
commenced yesterday morning. Super
intendent Fred Hunter, principals and
supervisors of the public schools, left
night before last In order to be on
hand for the opening sessions.
A special train this morning will
carry more than 200 teachers from the
public schools of Lincoln, University
Place and Havelock. For the next
two days thousands of school "kids"
will be made happy by a two days'
vacation from studies. A number of
University professors will attend the
sessions, but only in a few instances
will classes be dismissed.'
Omaha is planning to entertain the
visiting schoolma'ams in royal fashion.
That city has entertained the state
teachers' association for two years
and will, of course, make the effort to
land the convention again next year.
Lincoln has one candidate in the field
for the presidency In the person of
Prof. G. V. A. Luckey. R. J. Barr of
Grand Island is at present head of the
association, and E. U. Graff of the
Omaha schools, Is secretary.
Visitors at State Farm
Fiftv farmers from Papillion Inter
ested in the (Agricultural Extension
School which will be held at that point
the week beginning December a,
visited the University Farm. The
visitors were given a special dinner at
Home Economics Hall at 11:30 o'clock.
Following this they were taken to the
Plant Industry Building where talks
were made by Dean E. A. Burnett,
Professor Alice Loomls of the Home
Economics" Department; Harry E.
Bradford, principal of the School of
Agriculture, and Miss Huldah Peter
son, state leader in charge of boys'
and girls' clubs. Following these talks
live stock was exhibited and talks
were made by Professors H. J. Gram
lich and J. H. Frandsen.
Publish a History of Schools
A paper by C. M. Anderson, profes
sor of History and Economics at the
Kearney State Normal, on "Local and
Nebraska History in Nebraska Public
Schools," has been published in pam
phlet form by the Legislative Refer
ence Bureau as a part of the Nebraska
History and Political Science Series.
The pamphlet will tfe distributed to
all history teachers at the State Teach
ers' Association this week.
ARCHITECTURAL ENGINEERS
An
Organization is Affected Dean
Stout Makes a Few
Remarks
The Architectural Engineers met in
M. A. 206, Tuesday evening, November
2, to form an Architectural Engineers'
society. The enrollment numbers nine
teen with good prospects for more.
The meeting was addressed by Dean
Stout, Professor Slaymaker and Pro
fessor Chatburn, in which they pointed
out the fine opportunity for the men as
a society.
E. D. Starboard was elected tem
rarv rhairman and the time set for
the next meeting. Monday evening,
vnvpmhpr Rth. for the election of offl-
cers and the submitting of the consti
tution by the committee.
FOLK SONGS FOR
CONVOCATION TODAY
MRS, RAYMOND PLANS A SERIES
FOR MUSICAL CONVOCATIONS
SC0TISH PROGRAM IS FIRST
"Scots Wha Hae Wi' Wallace Bled"
and Other Songs of Equal Re
nown to be Rendered Pro
gram in Detail Below
The first of a series of Folk Song
programs will be held today at Convo
cation. These series have been ar
ranged by the Music Committee and
are under the direction of Mrs. Carrie
B. Raymond. Typical songs from the
lyric treasuries of many peoples, repre
senting the musical gift of all the great
races, will be chosen to form these
nroerams: and effort will be made to
arrange them in such a manner as
best to show the gradations in style,
tho spries will therefore, form a course
of instruction in musical history, offer
ing a very unusual opportunity 10
students interested in this phase of
culture. To enhance the value of the.
course, there will be distributed each,
time printed synopses, briefly charac
terizing the musical genius of the peo
ple from whose Folk Songs the pro
gram is chosen. An essay by Dr. H.
B. Alexander on the relation of Folk
Song to music and poetry is offered
as a general introduction to the course.
The following gives an idea of the
Folk Songs of Scotland:
"Scotland," says Louis Elson, "has
ever been the leader in characteristic
folk-music; the national character of
Scottish music Is so pronounced, yet
so versatile, that it has exerted a
greater influence upon composers than
the popular music of any country.
fo this. It
is very ancient and takes us back, in
some of its numbers, to the most primi
tive scale forms; if ever we are to
comprehend how the old Greek music
could charm so powerfully even with
out the aid of harmony, it will be by
a study of the old Scottish music,
which may come nearer to the old Hel
lenic style than is suspected. The
Scottish folk-song is more closely in
terwoven with national history than
that of any other nation. It has the aid
of a remarkably tender and expressive
poetry. It is a music that sounds
every note in the gamut of human
emotion from deepest gloom to wildest
merriment, from mournful dirge to
rollicking Strathspey. It is not won
derful, therfore, that the composers
of many different nationalities have
come under its spell, that the folk
music of Scotland has exerted the
greatest influence upon the classical
school."
The richness of Scotish folk-song is
in part due to its biform character.
It comprises the Gaelic music or me
Highlands, akin to the Erse, and the
melodies of the Lowlanders, more
Anglian 1 quality, though still quite as
individual as are the broad vowels and
hard consonants of the Scottish d'a
lect The Lowlanders have borrowed
much from the Gaels; the latter noth
ing from the Lowlands; so that the
genral tone of Scottish music is Celtic.
At its source lie the ancient and the
ecclesiastical modes, the Aeolian be
ing a favorite mode for Lowland melo-
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