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VOL. XV. NO. 80.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, MONDAY, JANUARY 31, 1916.
PRICE 5 CENTS.
HARKS0I1 RESIGNS
AS MANAGER
GIVES "UNPLEASANT CIRCUM
STANCES" AS REASON
Publication Board Meets Today to Act
on Resignation Harkaon Will
Hold Office Until Hit Suc
cessor Is Appointed
U S. Harkson, business manager
f The Daily Nebraskan last semester,
T.d reappointed by the publication
board for the second term, has re
signed, the resignation to take effect
.a T Aft his successor can be
US OW
rhftsen. Harkson's action Is a com
plete surprise to the new and old
stAffs of the paper.
"Unpleasant circumstances which
liiive come up" and new rulings gov
erning the business management are
the reasons Harkson gives for his
resignation, in a letter to the publi
cation board. It Is understood that
be feels that the board Tuas made it
impossible for the business manager
to earn enough from the paper to make
his time worth while.
The publication board will meet
Monday noon to consider the reslgna
tion. Meanwhile Harkson will continue
to act as business manager.
The letter of resignation is given
below:
"January 28, 1916.
"To The Publication Board:
"I wish to tender my resignation as
business manager of The Daily Ne
braskan. Due to unpleasant circum
stances which have come up, and to
the new rulings regarding the man
agement of The Daily Nebraskan, I
would find little pleasure in holding
this position during the second se
mester.
"I will act as business manager as
longas the board thinks it necessary
to work a new man into the position
"Very respectfully,
(Signed) "U. S. HARKSON"
SORORITIES PLEDGE 22
Second Semester Rushing Yields Small
Crop of Co-Eds for Greek
Letter Societies
The sororities announced twenty
pledges to membership Saturday noon.
following a rushing season of three
days. The sororities and list of new
members follow:
Acboth Margaret Lewis, Omaha;
Gertrude Kepler, Anselmo.
Alpha Chi Omega Not pledging.
Alpha Delta Pi Gretta Cooler,
Sheridan, Wyo.
Alpha Omicron Po Frances Gan
noa, Lincoln.
Alpha Phi Genevieve Loeb, Lorene
Graham, Lincoln.
Alpha Delta Pi Amy Koupal. Lin
coln; Louise McCullough. St Ed
wards; Alma Seim, Hartington.
Chi Omega Bess Sherman, River
ton, la.; Leona McLean, University
Race; Helen Edgecomb, Geneva.
Delta Delta Delta Not pledging.
Delta Gamma Not pledging.
Delta Zeta Helen Hewett Alliance.
Gamma Phi Beta Bertha Bates,
Lodge Pole; Margaret McPhee, LIn-i
coin. . -
Kappa Alpha Tbeta Ottila Schur
man, Fremont
. Kappa Kappa Gamma Laura Mc
fcoberts. Mound City, Mo.; Elizabeth
Gould, Ruth Anderson, Omaha; Marion
Kail, Lincoln.
PI Beta Phi Lillian Gnam, Carron.
a.; Angelette Barnes, Holdrege,
Glee Club Selections
Twenty-eight men have been se
lected for the University Glee club, as
a result of the tryouts of last week.
These men will probably be placed on
the extension week program. Their
names follow:
First tenors Overman, Wallace
Mackey, Loepp, WInstrom, Brenker,
Morris, William Mackey.
Second tenors Leslie Ellis, Kline,
Ackerman, Gessen, Young, Nesbit,
Wrestling.
First bass Allen, Anderson, Vander
pool, Loder, Penney, Aldrich, Wlltse.
Second bass Starboard, Hardin,
Krause, Powers, Byron, Baer, Cook,
Colbert,
Commercial Club Elects
The following officers for the Unl
versity Commercial club were elected
January 20:
A. J. Althouse, president.
J. D. Stevens, vice president
E. F. Walker, secretary.
C. E. Hinds, treasurer.
SCOTT GALLS FOR TRACK MEN
Training for Indoor Meets to Com
mence at Once Reed and
Raceley Coaches
Captain Scott of the track team has
issued his first call for candidates, re
questing all men interested to meet
in U 102 Thursday at 11 o'clock. In
door work will commence at once, as
Guy Reed has promised that the new
runnning track will be finished this
week.
Three indoor meets have been sched
uled.the first to be held February 28,
In Kansas City. A picked squad will
also be taken to St Louis, and a third
trip will be made to the annual in
door meet at Omaha. George Raceley
and Guy Reed, both experienced track
men, will do the coaching.
Prospects for a good team are splen
did. In addition to Captain Scott the
following old men will be available:
Irwin, Wiley, Owen, Shaw, Lieben
dorfer, Spahn and Garrison. There Is
also a wealth of new material.
LEAP YEAR CO-EOS
SHOULD READ THIS
Phil Watkins and Etmer Wilmeth
Qualifying for Matrimony
University girls will be interested
in the culinary achievements of Phil
Watkins and Elmer Wilmeth, who
loom up as possible leap year catches.
Watkins' parents are sojourning in the
east leaving their son in sole posses
sion of the home and kitchen attached
thereto.
TTT-tviTj" triorf to subsist on board
ing bouse food for several days, but It
aia not Drove highly satisfying. He
determined to do his own cooking,
and, bearing In mind the maxim that
two can lite more cheaply than one,
he selected Wilmeth as his victim and
invited him to come out and help
manipulate the stove.
The experiment was a succeb.
hotb students have displayed unusual
-vm,r in the culinary art Luscious
porterhouses, and well-browned chops,
with side dishes of potatoes, corn,
peas and other canned edibles, have
been set upon the table and con
sumed by their creators. Both ap
pear as hapry and as well as for-
CARRIED COAL TO
HEAT "U" HALL
John Green, Students' Friend, Longest
In University Employ
John Green, the oldest employe of
the university in point of service, used
to carry coal to twenty-seven stoves
in University hall, to keep the rooms
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Courtesy Lincoln Star.
JOHN GREEN
warm for class work. Back in the
days before modern heating, John
rarely failed to have the building at
a temperature suitable for recitations.
The kindly old man, known by sight
if not by name to all of the students,
can relate incidents of by-gone days
Watkins tried to subsist on board
husker. The students' friend he al
ways has been and always will be.
Sigma Delta Chi Pledges
Sigma Delta Chi, honorary journal
istic fraternity, has announced the fol
lowing pledges:
Max Baehr, '18, St. Paul.
Ivan G. Beede, '18, David City.
George Grimes, '18, Omaha.
Virgil J. Haggart. '17, St. Paul.
Alfred A. Look, '18, Lincoln.
Wayne Townsend, '18, Cook.
John Wenstrand, '18, Wahoo.
PEACE DELEGATE RETURNS
Noble and Hixenbaugh Reach Native
Land The War Continues
Will Noble and Walter Hixenbaugh,
university delegates on the Henry
tv.H nonr-A mission, have landed In
TTnitAd States and will be in Lin
coln by the end of the present week.
A wire sent by NODJe to ma parent v
Omaha from Newfoundland said that
the return trip had been a stormy
one.
RAth Voble and Hixenbaugh are vis
iting in the east before returning to
the university. The former intends to
namnouth college, where he
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was a freshman student Harvard and
Chicago; and the latter win visu
friends in New York for a few days.
Business Women Organize
The Business Women's club of the
university was organised last week In
the school of commerce. Active mem
bership is limited to women In the
school, but associate membership Is
open to all women In the university.
The following officers were elected:
President Miss Harriette Anderson.
Vice president, 'Miss Viola Weath-
erill.
Secretary and treasurer, Miss Vera
Fleck.
The first regular meeting will be
held in the Unievrsity Hall, room 102,
at 5 o'clock Thursday. Mrs. Minnie
England will give a talk on the object
of the club. At each meeting some
business woman in the cit ywill talk
to the girls on the various vocations
open to women.
Professor H. W. Caldwell has written
an article entitled "The West in Amer
ican History," which will appear In the
April issue of the History Teachers'
Magazine.
"AG" CLUB BOOST ATHLETICS
Selects Board to Arrange Inter
Departmental Contests in Sports
Inter-departmental athletics in the
university was given a boost last
Thursday, when the Agriculture club
elected an athletic board to encourage
athletics in the "Ag" college, and to
arrange for contests with other col
leges in various lines of sport.
Four students, one from each class,
were chosen for the board, as follows:
Ray Williams, freshmen; James Gar
diner, sophomore; Grove Porter, jun
ior; Fred Taylor, senior. Two faculty
members from the farm campus, and
one member from the city campus fac
ulty, will complete the board. The
faculty members will be named this
week.
The election of president resulted in
the choice of Paul Stewart over George
Newswanger by two votes. The other
officers will be: Leo McShane, vice
president; Noel Rhodes, secretary; G.
A. Blotz, treasurer.
LAST WEEK FOR
INDIVIDUAL PICTURES
JUNIORS AND SENIORS HAVE BUT
SHORT TIME LEFT
No Individual Pictures Accepted After
Next Saturday Cornhusker Man
ager Lays Down the Law
This week closes the open season
for iunior and senior Cornhusker pic
tures, and there are a few whose pic
tures have not come in. There is still
enough time left for every one to
have his sitting before the closing
date. February 5. and it Is to be bnPi
that by the end of the week, the pic
tures of all the Juniors and i-eniors
will be In.
ThA imnortance of these pictures
can hardly be overestimated either
from the standpoint of the book or of
the IndividuaL Every student is
proud of his or her class and desires
to be permanently identified wun mai
Ton vears from now, when
mental remembrances of names and
faces begin to grow a little dim, tne
student will depend on his old 1916
Cornhusker to bring back those names
hro to his mind. He will want
all his classmates pictures In his book
and they will want his picture in
theirs.
JOIIJIIE BENDER
DEUIESJISLOYALTY
DISCLAIMS RESPONSIBILITY FOR
BARRING CHAMBERLIN
Former Cornhusker Gridiron Star
Answers Article in Nebraskan
for January 20 Tells Love
fer Alma Mater
Johnnie Bender, former Cornhusker
gridiron star, and now coach of the
Kansas agricultural college teams, in
dignantly denies that he is responsible
for the loss of Guy Chamberlin to the
1916 football team, as intimated in an
article in The Daily Nebraskan for
January 20. Bender claims that he
was only interested in securing Cham
berlin as his assistant coach, if pos
sible, and the reflections that have
been cast upon him he feels are un
warranted. The letter is printed below:
"Manhattan, Kan, Jan. 26, 1914.
"The Daily Nebraskan,
"Lincoln, Nebr.
"My Dear Sir:
"I am somewhat chagrined and dis
appointed at your article of January
20. Johnnie Bender did not make a
protest to your athletic board, nor did
he ever intend to make a protest on
Mr. Guy Chamberlin. The protesting
does not lie within my authority. I
will go further and state that our
school did not make a protest or file
any information whatsoever with your
board. I take It your board acted en
tirely upon rumors and, as a board.
saw fit to declare Mr. Chamberlin in
eligible. It is hardly likely that I
would 6end al etter to Chamberlin to
see if he was ina position to act
as my assistant and then turn a pot of
tar on him. I wrote to him, asking
about his athletic experience, as the
rumors here in our school and over
the state were that he would grad
uate; I also got his athletic record
from Wesleyan, In order to present his
qualifications to our board for consid
eration In case he was free to accept
a position here. I am very sorry that
my attitude in this matter has been
misunderstood and that also much has
been said without a basis of fact or
the production of any correspondence
on which to base the assertion that
I protested Mr. Chamberlin. Nebras
ka Wesleyan Is rather conveniently
situated to Lincoln, and Mr. Cbamber
lin's eligibility could have been
looked up before he was declared an
eligible candidate for the captaincy
election. I was not, and have not
been, interested in the matter other
than to try to secure his services as
assistant coach here, as I realized
that a player of his wonderful ability
would be a drawing card to any
ftrhnol. I would hate to think that
the University of Nebraska Is going
to treat all of her players with the
same reflection that has been cast at
me. I am Nebraska born and raised
and love my Alma Mater probably
more than a good many former grad
uates, inasmuch as I was so closely
connected with her Interests for so
lone a time. It seems that I am being
made the 'goaf of an affair which
could have been handled In the right
way and as a matter of course, some
time ago. The Nebraska ooaro ure
Mr. Chamberlin out on their own Init
iative and not by the protest of Ben
der or any one from our achooL
"Very truly yours,
(Signed) "JOHN R. BENDER."