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UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 1916.
NO. 22.
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DEGREES TO BE
CONFERRED FRIDAY
Almost 103 Graduates Dr. A. E. Win
ship the Commencement
Speaker
About 100 Summer School students
will receive degrees at the commence
ment exercises Friday evening at
Memorial Hall. This is a record class
for summer school and is also unusual
in the large number of graduate stu
dents, almost forty receiving advanced
degrees.
Dr. A. E. Wlnshlp, the great educa
tional writer from' the east, the editor
of the Journal of Education, will be
the Commencement speaker. His sub
ject will be "Education Must Educate."
The following is the commencement
program:
1. "Romane" Wienlawski
Prof. Aug. Molzer. Violin
Mr. Karl Melcer, Accamponist
Invocation
Rev. Fletcher L. Wharton
3. Music:
a. "Viennese Popular Song". . .
. ; Kriesler
b. "Rondino" . .Beethoven-Kriesler
4. Commencement Address. "Edu
cation Must Educate"
Dr. A. E. Winship
5. Presentation of Class
. Conferring of Degrees
.Acting Chancellor L. A. Sherman
LA8T ISSUE OF NEBRASKAN
TODAY
There will be no issue of the Ne
braskan Friday on account of examina
tions coming on that day and Thurs
day. John Stibal has gone to Dutch
Guiana, where he is in charge of the
local branch of an engineering firm.
Among the Summer Students
SUPERINTENDENT J. T. ANDERSON
OF ASHLAND
Superintendent Anderson is a native
of Nebraska, having been born In
Phelps county. His higher education
covers work la the Kearney Normal, in
Nebraska Wesleyan University, and
in the University of ..Nebraska. His
experience is unusually rich and
varied and is made the more valuable
from the fact that Mr. Anderson has
worked bis own way through from the
leg1nning. It includes service as
teacher In the rural schools, one term
as ounty superintendent of Harlan
county, and successively the superin
tendeneiea at Ragan, Calloway. Alma
and Ashland.- Mr. Anderson was also
manager and instructor in the Alma
Junior Normal for three years and
served one term as president of the
Southwest Teachers' Association.
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TEACHER'S BUREAU FILLS
GREAT NUMBER OF PLACES
Professor Reed, director of the Uni
versity Teachers' Bureau announced
that since October, 1915, 744 applica
tions for positions have been received
by the bureau. All but a few of the
applicants are already placed In posi
tions. SEVERAL TOWNS AFTER
UNIVERSITY WEEK
Southwestern Group Making Strong
Effort to Secure It
University Week for 1917 will not go
begging for towns on its circuit Al
ready a group of towns In Southwest
ern Nebraska are organizing to secure
the program for next spring. In the
group are Oxford. McCook, Beaver
City, Hcldrege. Minden and Cam
bridge. , v
Superintendent Chadderdon of Ox
ford is enthusiastic in his plans for
securing the Week. The Southwestern
Nebraska Teachers' Association, of
which Mr. Chadderdon is president,
will probably meet in Holdrege about
the same time and Mr. Chadderdon
hopes to have one of the numbers on
the Week program given at Holdrege
while the Association is in session.
AMERICAN PETITIONS SAVE
BOHEMIAN TEACHER
Miss Alice Masaryk. daughter of
Prof. Thomas Masaryk. chancellor of
the University of Prague, has been
saved from execution by the Austrian
government on the charge of treason
by the petitions of thousands of Amer
icans according to a letter which Miss
Hrbek received yesterday from Dr.
Anne Burnett, of Chicago.
Miss Masaryk had been teaching in
the University of Prague and had been
accused of trying to further Bohemias
While In charge of the Alma school
he Introduced Domestic Science. Man
ual Training, and Music and estab
lished the school aa an agricultural
high school under the Shumway Act
Since going to Ashland be has intro
duced summer garden work in. the
schools and has gotten Ashland into
the list of the Shumway schools.
The Ashland schools enroll about
six hundred pupils and employ six
teen teachers. Ashland has the dis
tinction of having been at various
limes under the direction of such men
as Superintendent Hunter. President
j w. Crabtree. Chancellor Fulmer.
and other men who have since won for
themselves places of high rank in the
educational world. Superintendent
Anderson has a big opportunity and Is
realizing on that opportunity with bis
usual vigor and thoroughness.
for file
Independence. She had prevkSusly
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was American Ind had been active in
pettlement work in Chicago, In close
contact with Jane Addams.
When her American friends heard
of her threatened execution petitions
were started asking the Austrian em
bassy. at Washington to intercede with
the home government. Miss Hrbek
who was personally acquainted with
Miss 'Masaryk, secured signatures at
the University of Nebraska and she
is very happy to hear that the Amer
ican petitions have been listened to
at least far enough to grant Miss
Masaryk a trial. " '
PHI DELTA KAPPA
HOLD INITIATION
Large Class Initiated Last Night at
Lincoln Hotel
The Phi Delta Kappa, the honorary
educational fraternity, held a banquet
and initiation last evening at the Lin
coln hotel, at which time a class of
Cfteen was admitted into the mysteries
of the society. The following were the
initiates:
Prin. C. A. Anderson, formerly of
Alliance high school.
Supt. C. A. Bowers, of Cowles.
Prin. R. B. Carey, of Falrbury.
Prin. N. V. Franklin, of Lyons.
Supt C. Ray Gates, of West Point
Supt A. L. HI1L of Beaver Crossing.
Supt D. R. Kuns. of Humboldt
Supt W. B. Ireland, of Fullerton.
Supt. E. D. Lundak, of Pierce.
Supt H. E. Parminter, of Elm wood.
Supt L. N. Pearce, of Cozad.
Supt. A. H. Staley, of Superior.
H. H. Theissen. of West Point
Supt Wilson Tout of North Platte.
Prof. J. G. Wilson, of Peru State
Normal School.
The Nebraska chapter into which
these men were initiated includes the
following school men:
Dean Chas. Fordyce of the Univer
sity of Nebraska.
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EDUCATIONAL MEASURE
MENTS DEVELOPING
Dean Fordyce Discusses Topic at
Convocation
Dean Fordyce of the Teachers' Col
lege discussed "Educational Measure
ments" at Convocation Monday.
A satisfactory method of the stand
ardization of tests of the pupil's ability
has been sought by educators for a
long time, said Dean Fordyce. We are
Just beginning to institute objective
Ftandards as aids to the teacher's
judgment and as a preventive of Its
fluctuation.
The lecture was illustrated by a
chart showing the application of stand
ardized tducational measurements to
penmanship.
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PLANS FOR UNIVERSITY
EXHIBIT AT STATE FAIR
One of the Main Features of the Fair
Dr. Condra in Charge
The University of Nebraska will
have its usual prominent part In the
Nebraska State Fair to be held this
fall September 4-8.
The University exhibits occupy the
four wings of the Horticultural build
ing in the central part of the Fair
Grounds just east of the main street.
In the south wing will be Dr. Condra's
Conservation pictures, in the east and
west wings the exhibits of the various
Colleges, In the north wing the ex
hibits of those departments of the
Uuiyersity which come directly in con
tact with the people, such as the Ex
tension departments.
The University exhibits have been
housed In these buildings for two
years. They comprise one of the chief
exhibits of the Fair and are of great
value in showing to the people what
the University accomplishes.
The Fair this year has some special
entertainment features. On Monday,
September 2, will be the auto races, on
the remaining days the horse races.
Ruth Law. the famous aviatrlx. will fly
every day and every evening during
the fair, having illumination attach
ments to her plane at night so as to
make picturesque her looping the loop.
ECUADOR AND THE CANAL IN
PICTURES AT CONVOCATION
Professor Periinger Gives Last of His
Lectures on South America
The pictures on Ecuador and the
Canal, illustrating Professor Persing
er's lectures on South America, were
the last of the series shown at con
vocation this summer.
The ocean voyage from Lima to
Guayaquil the chief seaport of Ecua
dor, the scenes of the port and views
from the Panama canal occupied yes
terday's lecture.
A particularly beautiful picture of
a tropical sunset concluded the morn
ing's lecture.
The series of lectures has been high
ly appreciated . by those Summer
School students who have been wise
enough to attend convocations. It has
brought a clearer and more definite
conception of the significance of our
Latin-American neighbor states.
Chas. H. Epperson. Law '16. was
married last Saturday lo Miss Beulah
Louis McCaw of Clay Center. Mr.
Epperson will practice law at Clay
Center.
Beulah. Richard and Harold Rhoden
and mother expect to leave August 2
for Pine. Colo., where they will spend
the remainder of the summer in the
mountains.
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