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I mwmm VOL. I. UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 12, 1916. NO. 4. Summer ScImo FRIDAY'S SESSION CLOSES THE N SCHOOL OF SUPERINT ENDENCE Greater Interest is Shown Than Ever Before Attendance Has Been Large Dr. A. E. Winship, editor of the New England Journal of Education, ad dressed the School of Superintendence, Friday. In the morning Dr. Winship spoke concerning "Measure of Power and Measure of Results." In the after noon the subject ' was, "The Progress of Education in the United States." Dean Fordyce and Professor Reed are highly pleased with the success of this year's School of Superintendence. The school was never better attended by the superintendents and principals. The educational leaders have been highly inspiring. Dr. Riley of Spring field. Mass., impressed himself as an educator thoroughly abreast the times. The work of Dr. Monroe was exceed ingly practical and that of Dr. Win ship was unusually inspirational. AMERICAN STUDENTS DISCUSS INTERNATIONALISM Polity Clubs Hold Conference Cleveland tn Important subjects of America's foreign policy will be discussed by ex perts of national reputation at a con ference on international relations for university students, which will be held at Western Reserve University, Cleve land, Ohio, from June 21 to July 1. The conference will be under the auspices of the Federation of Interna tional Polity Clubs of Boston, with the co-operation of the World Peace Foun dation, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Church Peace Union and Western" Reserve Univer sity. Among the speakers will be Secre tary of War Baker, Frederic C. Howe, commissioner of immigration at "port of New York; Dr. James Brown Scott, secretary Carnegie Endowment for In ternational Peace; Rev. Frederick Lynch, secretary Church Peace Union; Herbert S. Houston, president Associ a'ed Advertising Clubs of America; George W. Kirchwey, warden Sfing Sing prison and president American Peace Society: Senator Heri LaFon taine of Belgium; Prof. Albert Bufh nell Hart, of Harvard University; Prof. Shailer Mathews, of the Univer sity of Chicago; John Barrett, director general of the Pan American Union; Senator Fall, of New Mexico; Prof. William I. Hull, of Swarthmore, and Dr. G. W. Nasmyth, of the World Peace Foundation. Some of the Important subjects of America's foreign policy to be dis cussed are: "Pan Americanism: Its Present Day Meaning." "Mexico and the United tSates," "Can America Re- (Continued on page 2.) OR. WINSHIP SPEAKS TO SCHOOL MEN WHO'S WHO IN THE' SUMMER SCHOOL G. W. A. LUCKEY Dean of the Graduate Education School of G. W. A. Luckey, the first dean of the Graduate Schol of Education of the University of Nebraska, and pres ident of Nebraska Teachers' Associa tion, was born in Decatur, Ind., in 1853. He took his undergraduate work at school superintendence. He was sup erintendent of public schools success ively in Adams county, Ind., Decatur, Ind.,, and Ontario Cal. His college teaching began in 1896, when he was called to Nebraska to organize the new department of Edu cation. He was made head professor of this department in 1906, and in 1914 he was made dean of the new Graduate School of Education. This was the Pi!- f - -V'.V " ' V--' . - J) j-'-'.-r?.-? ' " - " ;- V' Leland Stanford, receiving his degree of A. B. in 1894. During 1894-5 he wa3 fellow in psychology at Clark Univer sity, and in 1900 he received the Ph. D. from Columbia. He has also had two years of study abroad. In 1906-7 on ,a leave of absence from the university he traveled ' through continental Europe, studying the secondary edu cational system, especially that of Ger many. Again in 1912-13 he spent a year studying Education at Goettinger University. first strictly graduate school of educa tion organized in the United States and Nebraska's example in this line has lately been followed by ten or more other universities, among them Chicago, Stanford, and Columbia. Dean Luckey is widely known in national educational circles. He holds membership in the American Academy of Sciences, the American Psychologi cal Association, and the American Anthropological Association. He is chairman of the executive committee PALLADIAN RECEPTION IS SPLENDID SUCCESS SUMMER STUDENTS ARE WELL PLEASED WITH ENTERTAIN MENT IN PAL HALL About One - Hundred Fifty Attend Weekly Meetings Are Planned For the Summer About 150 students came out for the reception given by the Palladian Liter ary Society in their hall, Friday even ing. The spirit of sociability was much in evidence, indicative of more college spirit among the summer school students in the future. The crowd was divided into groups for the writing of an impromptu news paper, each group furnishing a sec tion of the paper and cub reporters of all types of efficiency were developed. A short literary program was given consisting of a piano solo by Gladys Weil, a vocal solo by Roy Young, and a reading by Leon Snyder. After wards light refreshments were served. By a practically unanimous vote of those present it was decided to accept the invitation cf the society to continue the meetings once a week. Plans are already being formed for future meet ings. The first will be given Satur day evening and the program will be furnished by the Palladians who are in summer school. For the following meetings it has been suggested that the i'ormer Peru students furnish one program, and those from Kearney an other. Further programs will be planned later. The organization urges all who were present at the last meeting to boost for an even greater attendance. THE ORDER OF THE COIF ELECTS NEW MEMBERS Dean Luckey's early educational ex- of the Nebraska Child Study Associa- perience was in the line of public (Continued on page 3) GERMAN CLUB ORGANIZES PROF. REED SPEAKS ' AT CONVOCATION I j Four Men From Senior Law Class Elects Into ha Honorary Society Splendid Spirit Shown at First Meeting j German Songs a Feature I Reorganization The German Club held its first meet-! ing of the summer session last 9atur- j day. A heavy rain set in an nour ne- of Grammar Schools Treated Professor Persinger Tomorrow Professor Reed spoke to an enthusS fore the time of the meeting and kept! agUc audience at convocation, Friday. falling the rest of the evening, but an enthusiastic crowd dared the elements Dr. Winship had been advertised to sneak, but. due to his late arrival. and ventured out mid Jightning flashes , ProfeB60r Reed tock fcjs place, fol to attend the meeting. Twenty-three persons wrote their names in the secretary's book, thereby signifying their desire to Join the society. The number is indicative of lowing the demands of the audience. He briefly discussed the organization of the upper grammar grades. The situation in the United States, he said, is different from that in Europe in re- the ability of the organisation to get i gar(j to vocational education. Iri Europe there. J the class distinctions prevalent makes The following were elected officers j vocational education a much simpler for the summer term: President, problem than in our American democ- Tnfipnh Alexis: vice president, Aiexan- racy. der Beyer; secretary, Fred Scbr lever? treasurer, Edna Larson. On the So- Oto K. Perrin. Raymond Smith, James K. Polk, and Gay C. Chambers were elected to the Order of the Coif, from this year's senior law class. Otto Perrin, the highest honor graduate, also received a prize consist ing of an Encyclopedia A of Law and Procedure, valued at $250, given by the American Law Book Company. Mr. Perrin received his A. B. from Ne braska in 1914, at that time being elect ed to both Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi. All the men receiving the Order of the Coif have been on Nebraska's debating teams. The Order of the' Coif is the honor ary scholastic fraternity of the Law College. At he end of each year about one tenth of the senior Law class is elected to membership, -election being based wholly on scholarship. At tomorrow's convocation Prof. C. E. Persinger, of the American History cial Committee were appointed August I department, will give an illustrated -; "T 7j;r"r-J" T lecture on South America. (Continued -on page 2) c " j H. L. Bowlbj-, '05. of Portland. Ore gon, is in the city. Mr. Bowlby has been state highway engineer in Wash ing ton and in Oregon.