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VOL. XVI. NO. 14.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1916.
1 PRICE FIVE CENTS
980 MIXERS MAKE MERRY
AT SATURDAY NIGHT PARTY
EVERY NOOK AND CRANNY OF
ARMORY WAS FILLED
Some Awesome Steps Exhibited by
Dancers Freh from the Country
Byways
Saturday night's mixer, the first ot
the college year of 1916-17, was all
that press agent notices had said it
would be and there had been nothing
modest about the notices Nine hun
dred students filled every nook and
cranny , of the armory and the chapel,
and then filled every nook and cranny
of their own. armories and chapels
' when the refreshment line was
formed.
The football men especially, and es
pecially Joe Caley, were interested
in the food, and made the rounds from
table to bench and back to. table with
all the regularity the watchful waiters
who passed out the food would per
mit. Committeemen,, too, who had
labored hard to make the mixer a suc
cess, scorned not to eat plentifully.
Stunts Were Good
The stunts were good the girl that
whistled and the one that danced
J. F. HANLEY,
CANDIDATE,
ACCEPTS CHANCELLOR'S INVITA
TION TO ADDRESS STUDENTS
Will Be In Temple Theater at 4:30
First of Candidates to Appear
in Lincoln
J. Frank Hanley, candidate of the
prohibition party for president of the
United States, will deliver an address
to the students of the University to
morrow afternoon at 4: SO, in the Tem
ple theater.
Governor Hanley so indicated in a
AG. STUDENTS
ENJOY SMOKER
150 Entertained by Farm House Fra
ternity Friday Night
Freshmen of the agricultural college
were given a warm welcome to the
University Friday night at the Farm
House, when the members of that agri
cultural fraternity, and of the agricul
tural club entertained 150 ag men at
an informal smoker.
Grove Porter, '17, president of the
Agricultural club, welcomed the new
men into the college with a few "well
chosen" words, and urged upon them
the wisdom of joining the Ag club and
lining up with the Ag college activi
ties. Farmer' Fair
Manager Ingersoll of the Farmers'
Fair, invited the men to work hard to
make this year's fair, the second of
the state University, a success. Plans
are already in the making for the fair,
and advance notices give assurance
that it will be much better than last
year's success.
Mr. Anderson of the extension de
partment, gave a talk on "Pep." His
remarks had a punch, and were well
received by the audience.
Short talks were made by Harold
Neff, Melvin Garrett, and Arthur TelL
Good fellowship prevailed throughout
tae evening.
and the failure of Jack Elliott to brinf
around his quartet was easily forgot
ten. The big fun feature of the even
ing the peanut race, and when the keen
and clever co-ed devised the expedient
of putting her gum on the bottom of
her 6lick, and thus waltohg away with
the victory, Ingenuity of womanhood,
or was it just her intuition? scored
again.
The dance was the big thing for
most of the folks there. It is to be
doubted whether more enjoyable danc
ing, taking into consideration the
crowd, was ever staged at the armory.
Some of it was terribly funny, and
awfully ungraceful, though and the
adjectives are chosen advisedly.
Where in the world some of those men
got the grasps, and where the equally
original young ladies learned those
clings, will remain a mystery to be
classed with the age of Ann.
The summer surely has produced
some weird turns and curlecues
among same of the University folks,
to enable them to exhibit such awe
some movements in what is supposed
to be merely a one-step.
Regent E. P. Brown was in the in
terested crowd of onlookers at the
mixer.
PROHIBITION
HERE TUESDAY
telegram to D. G. Gilbert, the chair
man of the state committee of the pro
hibition party. His telegram was
acceptance of the invitation oT Chan
cellor Avery, to address the students.
Telegrams sent by the chancellor to
the other three candidates have not
yet been answered. President Wilson,
however, has wired to the University
Woodrow Wilson club, that he cannot
come to Lincoln when he visits the
state Thursday.
Mr. Hughes, however, is expected in
Lincoln before this month is over, and
it is thought that he will speak to the
students. The plans of Mr. Benson,
the socialist candidate, are not known.
SECOND GENERATION
LEAGUE ELECTS
NEW OFFICERS
The league of the second generation
held its first meeting Thursday even
ing in U-106. The aim of the organiza
tion is to ret together those in college
whose parents attended the University
of Nebraska.
The constitution which was drawn
up last spring was ratified and officers
for the year were elected as follows:
Ralph B. Wagner, president; Louise
Peck, '17, vice-president; J. Dwight
Davis, '19, secretary, and Ralph E. An
derson, treasurer. Charles E. Epper
son, '16, was elected alumni member,
and Dean A. V. P. Stout as the faculty
member of the executive committee.
Plans were made for a big "blow
out" to be held sooirf What the or
ganization needs most is a larger mem
bership. Last year over thirty stu
dents were eligible and with the large
number of freshmen this year there
should be over fifty. Those who are
eligible leave their names at "he reg
istrar's office and come to the ncxJ
meeting.
DANCING DOOMS FOOTBALL
Michigan faces another bad football
season. Out of an enrollment of about
6,000 students, there are about nine
men coming out for practice. The
dance erase is held responsible.
Princeton, out of an enrollment of
1,200, has from eighty to ninety men
out all the time. Syracuse has from
Rixtr to sixty-five, while Harvard has
about twenty-five Exchange.
CHORUS WILL
CO-OPERATE IN
COMMUNITY SINGING
Members of the University of Ne
braska chorus expressed their willing
ness to co-opcrat in the community
singing plan which it is proposed to
inaugurate in Lincoln this winter, at
their rehearsal Friday afternoon.
Mrs. Carrie B. Raymond, director of
music, announced that if the chorus
is willing to take part, it probably
will not be asked to appear at more
than two or the programs, which it is
proposed to hold at the city auditorium
on Sunday afternoons. The vote to
co-operate was by acclamation.
COSTS 3 GENTS TO
STUDYOKE HOUR
LINCOLN LIGHTING EXPERT RE
ASSURES STUDENTS
Midnight Ail Comes Cheap Two
Cents of Electricity Will Press
a Suit
Announcement by Paul W. Doerr,
assistant superintendent of the Lin
coln municipal lighting department,
that it now costs less than three cents
an hour to burn one electric light, may
be pleasing news to Nebraska stu
dents who are wont to study until the
wee sma hours.
"On'e light burns only 600 watts an
hour," said Mr. Doerr. "That's only
three-fifths of a kilowatt, the cost of
which may be figured at five cents or
even less."
Pressing Clothes
"Take a student who spends one
evening a week pressing his clothes.
He can use a big electric iron for the
same length of time he uses one elec
tric light studying, at the same cost.
If he presses a suit in half an hour
the current costs him only a cent and
a half. If he burns his clothes by let
ting the electric iron get too hot, there
will be no extra charge for the super
fluous current used.
"Now, if he tried to press cut one
of those freshman caps the amount of
current needed would be so small as to
be negligible. I haven't compiled any
scale as to the exact amount of cur
rent needed to press neckties, bow and
four-in-hand, but will leave that to the
student to ascertain" by experience.
Good bye, call again."
HARNSBERGER, HURT
IN FALL, WILL BE
OUT IN FEW DAYS
Carl W. Harnsberger, who was in
jured Thursday afternoon in a fall
from the south entrance of University
hall, will be able to leave the Lincoln
sanitarium, where he has been con
fined since the accident, in a few daya
An X-ray photograph was taken of
Harnsberger last week. It showed
that no bones had been broken or
fractured in the fall.
In the tumble, however, Harnsberger
had severely injured some important
nerve centers, so that he partially lost
the nse of his legs. He will be able
to be about within a week, and will
suffer no serious effects from the fall,
the physicians say.
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TENNIS TOURNEY
ENTRIES CLOSE
TODAY AT 6 O'CLOCK
The time limit for entering for the
tennis tournament that is soon com
ing off has been extended to 6 p. m.
today. Many more men must be lined
up before drawings for partners will
be made. At present about twenty
have registered, but Managar Reed
wants about sixty entries before he
proceeds with arrangements.
All who have wrists strong enough
to wield a racquet are urged to enter
and show their class.
FORM HUGHES
CLUB TONIGHT
SUPPORTERS OF REPUBLICAN
PARTY ORGANIZE AT TEMPLE
Club to Be Made Up Entirely of Stu
dents and Faculty Members of
the State University
A mass, meeting c ? students who ta
vor Uie republican presidential ticket
will t e held at tho Templte theater at
8 o'clock tonight, for the purpose of
forming a Highes and Fairbanks club
of state University students and fac
ulty. Charles Matson, one of the Leading
figutes in republicai politics in the
t-ta it, will deliver an address, A pcr
n ;n o.l organizann will be effected
i ,;. meeting.
1 . c call for the meeting read as fol
lows: "We, the undersigned students of
Universi1: of Nebraska, and
it inbers of the faculty of the Univer
sity being desirma of forming a
J ladies club to De composed entirely
of the students an faculty of the said
I'm-uisity, hersVv subscribe our
iiaMcs for the pwyr.se of forming said
ciu'.. and agree to become members
cf '.he same."
Among the signers are the follow
ing: M. L. Poteet, John L. Riddell, Spray
Gardner, Ralph Lahr, Roy J. Harney,
Carl Ganz, Byron Rohrbough, J. L.
Caley, E. Everett, Carr, James Gardi
ner, H. F. Holtz, Ted Riddell, Don L.
Yale, Paul A. Dobson, J. L. Giffen, W.
L. Day, R. S. Grant, W. M. Jeffrey,
Harvey Nelson, E. H. Bauman, M. D.
Nolan, V. J. Haggart.
NEBRASKA DRUG
PLANT GARDEN
AMONG THE BEST
N. P. Hansen gave a talk to the stu
dents of the pharmacy college Friday
afternoon at 5 o'clock, on his recent
trip to Atlantic City as a delegate to
the American Pharmaceutical associa
tion. Miss Day told about the drug plants
of the Missouri botanical gardens.
They were formerly Shaw's gardens
and were world famous for their size
and arrangement. At present, how
ever, they are not as large as the Ne
braska garden of drug plants and do
not contain as great a variety.
NEFF AND HARNSBERGER
WIN OFFICES BY DEFAULT
ONLY ONE CANDIDATE IN 2D AND
4TH YEAR CLASSES
Sturm and Tully File for Jnniors, and
Four Men After Freshman
Plum
Harold G. Neff of Omaha will be
the senior class president, and Carl
W. Harnsberger of Ashland will have
the same position in the sophomore
class, as a result of the lack of ambi
tion among second and fourth year
students, or lack of incentive to file
for the offices. These two were the
only ones to enter the race for the
presidency of their class, before the
time for filings closed at 5 p. m. last
Friday.
The interest in tomorrow's election
consequently is centered mainly on
the junior class fight between Ralph
Sturm of Lincoln, and Lloyd Tully of
Alliance. Keen class politicians who
have been on the inside ot several po
litical scraps in the past few years,
say that the alignment in this one is
so mixed up that they cannot venture
a prediction on the outcome.
Sturm was a member last year of the
student publication board, winning his
RENEW THE SALE OF
BAND DANCE TICKETS
BAND PRACTICES NEW MUSIC FOR
PARTY OF OCTOBER 13
Fraternities Buy Blocks of Tickets
Co-eds May Have
Chance
The ticket-selling campaign for the
benefit dance to be given by the Uni
versity band October IS, by which
funds axe to be raised to help send
the organization to Portland with the
football team, will be conducted with
redoubled vigor during the coming
week.
The band is practicing faithfully on
new dance music, and it is certain
that the dancers who go to the big
ball at the Lincoln auditorium will
keep time to the best dfence music of
the University year. When the one
steppers think of a fifty-piece band
playing rag time and that band the
best University band of the United
States they can't help but begin a
DR. WALLACE, AUTHORITY
ON SHAKESPEARE, TO
TOUR UNITED STATES
Dr. Charles W. Wallace, formerly ,
nrwfnaenr nt F!npHf:h literature at the i
University, who has been -doing re
search work since 1909 in the public
records office at London, studying
Shakespearean records, will tour the
United States lecturing on his dis
coveries under the auspices of the
Pond chautauqua company. Dr. Wal
lace has contributed much to the
knowledge of Shakespeare. He has
discovered many records, photographs,
old manuscripts and the like which
were buried among other documents In
the Public Records office which were
not known to exist. A year ago he
was said to have discovered over 100
documents concerning Shakespeare
and the number is probably much
larger by now.
Would Abolish Athletics
The executive committee of the ath- j
letie association of the University ot i
Nevada is considering the abolition of
all athletcts for one year, due to the
lack of financial support by the under
graduate. Exchange,
place in the class ejection by one or
two votes over Rawson White, He
has gone in for University track ath
letics, and has been interested in class
politics. He has a goodly representa
tion of both fraternity and non-fraternity
support.
In Class Politics
Tully has been prominent in class
politics in .his first two years and
served on his class Olympics commit
tee. He too, seems to have a host of
supporters who are well split up be
tween the Greeks and the non-Greeks.
The outcome of the junior race will
probably depend on the strength of the
co-ed vote cast for one or the other
of the two candidates. Just where '
this will fall is a matter of grave un
certainty, and neither candidate is let
ting any grass grow under his feet
while his opponent makes the rounds
of the sorority houses, or does campus
bench work.
The freshman class race promises to
be interesting because of the size of
the field, four first year men getting
under the wire at the last moment.
Donald F. Gallagher, Joseph B. Riley,
Clarence F. Rundquist and Farley
Young are the candidates.
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little preliminary syncopated move
ment. Fraternities Buy
Five or six of the fraternities have
already taken blocks of twenty-live
tickets each, and before the dance
comes off, every Greek letter organiza
tion is expected to have bought at
least that many tickets for the party.
There will be absolutely no free list
at this dance, and politicians and com
mittee chairmen who have been able
to "fruit" in on parties ot the past,
when everyone else has pail, will be
watched closely for this party to see
whether their University spirit can
utand the real test. If they are absent
woe betide them.
Harry Porter's, the College Book
Store, and every member of the foot
ball team and of the band, fraternity
men, non-fraternity men, and Inno
cents are selling the tickets for the
dance. The mark that the ticket sell
ers are trying to reach is 2,000, and It
is hinted that if the University mea.
do not take np that number, the co-eds
this being leap year, will ge given
an opportunity to buy.
ALUMNI FLUNKED
FRIDAY'S GAME
Varsity Took on the Freahmen and
Beat Them, Six Touchdowns
to None
What promised to be an exciting
game between the old stars ot former
days and the varsity did not material
ize Friday because of the failure of
the alumni team to show up. The
varsity walked away from the scrubs,
making six touchdowns against none
for the second team.
The regular team made a big Im
provement during the week's workout
and looked more like a real football
machine. They gained consistently
through the line and also showedc up
well at the open game. A few new
plays were uncorked which netted
them good gains.
Forward Passes
Forward passes were used ften, but
not with excellent success. The kick
ing was only fair on account of the
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