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February 29
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VOL, XV. NO. 94.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, FRIDAY, FEBBUARY 18, 1916.
PRICE 5 CENTS.
CHANCELLOR URGES
GIRLSVATIILETICS
ADDRESSES RALLY AT ARMORY
YESTERDAY FOR TOURNAMENT
Several Girl Leader Speak of Coming
Meet on Saturday Night
for Class Championship
A girls' basketball rally was . held
in the Armory at convocation Thurs
day. After a few announcements, by
Professor Grummann, Louise Brown
ell, president of the Black Masques,
took the chair.
Chancellor Avery, who was the first
speaker, said: "It is time women
should give particular attention to the
particular place physical education
should take. If women want other
things, they must express themselves
in a frank dignified way." The four
things women need most in the uni
versity are a social center, dorma'tor
ies, closer connection with the girls
at the Farm in the Home Economics
department, and most of all, better
athletic facilities. The American
woman surpasses that of all other
countries in poise and equilibrium,
but she is inferior in health. Chan
cellor Avery said that he would like
to see the sentiment for more athlet
ics develop, and he brought before
everyone to help the future genera
tions, if it cannot be accomplished
for the present.
' Edna Froyd, president of the Girls'
club, told of the necessity of cheer
ing and the dependence of the girl
players upon this form of support as
much as the men. She urged each
girl to help make her team confident.
Dorothy Ellsworth sang two Bongs,
and Miss Ina Gittings, head of the
rhysical Education department, told
the girls of the record of the varsity
team, since the organization of girls'
basketball twelve years ago. She
said that the life of any sport is in
the competition. The competition of
the class teams has been keen. Bas
ketball is not free but organized play
with competition. Miss Gittings urged
the audience to support the team and
the university Saturday night, and
said that through the co-operation and
interest of the girls, the possibility
of varsity athletics might be re
newed. Dorothy English gave a whistling
solo, and the captains of the different
teams each expressed their confidence
in the victory of their team.
First Robin Visits Campus
Caroling forth the tidings of spring
and the mating season, the first robin
of the year visited the university
campus yesterday. Miss Frances
Pierce espied the red-breasted warbler
In a tree just south of the main en
trance to University hall.
The robin chirruped around the uni
versity awhile, and then flew off to
ward the farm campus. He may have
been a bit premature, and may have
difficulty finding the more deadly fe
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UNI. NIGHT STUNTS
ARE SELECTED
Committee Headed by Chittick Ap
proves Ten Sketches
The University Night committee,
headed by Martin Chittick, has accept
ed ten "stunts" for the program to be
given at the Oliver theatre March 4.
In selecting the "stunts" the commit
tee considered the number of people
taking part, the tin of the sketch,
its originality, and whether or not it
required a stage setting.
These organizations will be repre
sented: Agriculture club, Sigma Del
ta Chi, Glee club, rhysical Education
girls, Palladian and Union societies,
Cadet band, Phi Delta Phi, Wrestling
team, Pre-medics and Engineers.
While the committee is still open to
conviction, it has practically decided
that, no attempt will be made to give
a matinee performance, but that all
energies will be bent toward making
the evening performance a success.
All suggestiveness will be barred from
the program.
WHITTEH TO HELP
REDUCE NOISE
COMMERCIAL CLUB SECRETARY
DENIES DEAL WITH ENGINE CO.
Thinks Sreet Car Traffic Can
Reduced by a Change in
Car Schedules
Be
W. S. Whitten, secretary of the Lin
coln Comercial club, has denied that
the club had ever appointed a com
mittee to negotiate a trade between
the city and the Rumeley people, as
Mayor Bryan stated when recently in
terviewed, but said that the engine
people had succeeded in getting track
ings at Ninth and R streets, in a talk
with a Nebraskan reporter yesterday,
"I don't know where the mayor
got that idea, unles it was because
I had personally seen him about the
matter," said Mr. Whitten.
The Nebraskan was invited to send
a representative to put the proposi
Hon ip to the club at the board meet
ing this noon. In regard to the worthi
ness of The Nebraskan's campaign
for VesB noise, Mr. mitten gave the
assurance that the Commercial club
always had been good friends of the
university, and stood ready to do what
it could do to further Nebraska's in
terests. He was a little skeptical at
first as to the heritage offered the
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male of his species, but the warm
days of the present week would seem
-"to insure her early coming.
When the story of the bird's arrival
had been noised around,' some of the
students began to plan some early
spring hikes, and mention of Easter
hats was heard in other quarters.
One student lamented the approaching
sack of sassafras' bark for tea that he
knew his mother would send, as she
always remembered his spring tonic
and Insisted upon his taking it
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THE PLAY'S THE
THING TONIGHT
KOSMET KLUB PRESENTS AN
NUAL PLAY AT OLIVER
Dress Rehearsal Held Last Night All
Ready for Performance
Seats Selling Fast
"The play's the thing" for the uni
versity tonight, for the Kosmet Klub
play, "The Knight of the Nymphs,"
is ready to be presented. Weeks of
rehearsal, under the enthusiastic
coaching of Prof. R. . Scott, the shed
ding of not a few tears by some of
the girls connected with the play, the
conquering of disappointments and the
overcoming of vexations, have resulted
in the rounding out of a play that has
been declared to be the best in con
ception and realization ever attempted
by the Klub.
From the box office at the Oliver
comes the word that the seat sale is
brisk. Yesterday the tickets were
taken off reservation that had not been
paid for, throwing open to the public
a number of good places.
Dress rehearsal of the piece was
held last night at tlie Oliver.the first
rehearsal of the orchestrated music
taking place the night before. A per
fect dress rehearsal would mean a
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MAURICE CLARK
Composer of the Kosmet Klub Play
poor performance, so stars and com
posers and players were glad last
night that there were still a few rough
spots. These were few and far be
tween, however.
C. LeRoy Meisinger, Jean Bur
roughs, Paul Raver, musical compos
er's, and Maurice Clark, who wrote the
book.are non-comittal as to the prob
able success of the piece. Those who
have watched the work of Jacl El
liott, Gertrude Munger, Sid A. Hoad-
ley, Robert Reasoner, Ellswortn
Moser. Ray Doyle, and who have seen
the dancing in the second act, have
said that "The Knight of the Nymphs"
will more than "get across."
"The Huskers to Coast." Head
line.
No objections, but there are loyal
Kansans who hope that when the
Huskers meet the Jayhawker football
team next fall, they will find some
"hard 6ledding." Daily Kansan.
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"AWGWAN" BANS
8UGGESTIVENESS
Staff Announces that Jokes Will Be
Clean Hereafter
The staff of the Awgwan has an
nounced that no more suggestiveness
will appear iu the columns of the
magazine. This determination was
reached at a meeting of the staff
early this week. Criticisms by a
number of the university people that
the- humor of the Awgwan was at
times more slap-stick than keen, re
sulted in the new ideal being
adopted.
The "show number" of the paper
has been promised for today. The
humor of this issue will be minus the
vulgarity that has been approached
in some former issues.
WORLD OUTLOOK CLUB
WILL DISCUSS KOREA
FIRST MEETING Of5 THE NEW
SEMINAR TUESDAY
Korean Students on Program To
Explain Political and Social
Life of Peninsula
A World Outlook Seminar, composed
of student and faculty men interested
in the present world situation, will
meet for the first time Tuesday eve
ning at 7:15 in the Faculty room of
the Temple. The first meeting will
be devoted to Korea, and the subjects
will be presented by Korean students
of the university only.
As evidenced in the present world
war, space and time are being anni
hilated. The world is rapidly shrink
ing under the steel hands of the rail
road, the antennae of the wireless and
the speed of ocean liners. Important
and interesting facts about compara
tively unknown countries will be fea
tured. The ordinary farmer in Nebras
ka does not realize that the corn yield
of Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay av
erages 70 bushels to the acre, that
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Pre-Medics Rough on Cats
Cats are in great demand just at
present. The second year medics are
sutdying comparative anatomy this
semester, and each student will be
required to dissect one cat before the
end of the semester. Just now each
of the students is after his cat,
and woe to that unfortunate tabby
who crosses his path. The terri
tory adjacent to the campus has been
thoroughly canvassed, and has yielded
a fair number of the feline species,
tut there are many to be gathered
yet, and the search is being extended
to more fertile fields.
A party of medics chartered an au
tomobile a few evenings ago and made
a trip to the outskirts of the town,
returning with several plump mousers.
One of them, however, had to be re
turned; for the fond owner cawea
un one of the marauders and tod
him that the cat they captured in his
Lack yard had better be returned, or
KOSMET PLAY
OLIVER THEATRE
'AG CLUB WANTS
HONOR SYSTEM
PROPOSES INSTALLATION FIRST
IN AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE
Professor Bengston Discusses Virginia
Plan Before Club, Which Met
Last Night
A demand for the Installation of the
"honor system" in the tsate university
was made by the agriculture club
which met at the Temple last night.
It is proposed by the club that the
system be installed first in the Agri
cultural college, with the ultimate
purpose of extending it to all of the
colleges. .
Prof. N. A. Bengston of the
geography department, was the princi
pal speaker of the evening. He spoke
for the department that has used the
honor system for a number of years
past, and he heartily endorsed it, de
claring, however, that the movement
for it must come from the 6tudent
body.
Professor Bengston told of the work
ings of the system at the University
of Virginia at Charlottesville. There
it has been in operation since 1842,
and in all of that time, but twenty
students have been found who have
betrayed the system.
Oscar Sjogren, who sent out ninety
letters of inquiry on behalf of the
club, stated that he received answers
from 70 cshools, twenty-five of whom
have the honor system. In all but
two of these, the system came as a
result of student agitation, and the
enforcement is in the hands of the
students.
Other business conducted by the
club was to fix the date of the annual
banquet as March 17; to award a 1916
Cornhusker to the one who originates
the best Ag club yell; to hold a dance
at Rosewilde March 10, tickets for
which can be purchased from Paul
Stewart, M. L. Johnson, Robert Ganz,
and Arthur Tell; and to plan for a
mass meeting February 24, with the
Home Economics club girls.
;he sheriff would be paying somebody
a visit. The cat was returned.
Another adventurous student en
gaged in a race with a fine tabby,
which ended at the Roberts' dairy.
This was tabby's home, and the es
tablishment couldn't be persuaded to
puvender its cat even in the nara of
science. Another student was success
ful in his pursuit of a cat, and pat it
in an old lime sack he had for the oc
cc:ion. He had to go through the
ciiy tc- get to his home. As long as
he was on the more unfrequented
streets, pussy was as still as could
be, but when he reached O street,
the unfortunate set up a great howling
and caterwauling, with the result
that the embarrassed medic found the
nearest alley and disappeared therein.
Miss Tarsons, of the Zoology de
partment, saj's that several of the un
fortunates are now being pickled in
the laboratory, preparatory to their be
ing dissected.
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