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VOL. XVI. NO. 50.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1916.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
WAR PRISON- FUND
PLEDGES MADE
SUBJECT PRESENTED AT GROUP
MEETINGS MONDAY
Firt Subscription from General Stu
dent Body Received for Relief
of War 8ufferers
First subscriptions for tho relief of
the prisoners la the prison camps of
tho warring European, nations were
received last night, when the matter
was presented to different organized
groups of students.
A report on the contributions and
pledges made will be published in to
morrow's Dally Nebraskan.
The purpose of the committee in
charge of securing subscriptions for
the fund is to get the matter before
every student some time during the
week. Whenever an organized body
of students can be found, the thing
will be explained to them. Complete
understanding of the project is neces
sary before the students realize the
difference between this and the ordi
nary kinds of solicitation.
A Student Movement
The thing is first of all a student
movement. After W. H. Tinker had
spoken last Wednesday to fifty of the
most representative students in the
University, representing every group
he asked whether they thought the
matter could be put across. They de
cided it should be.
The executive committee was then
selected, and it has started work. The
members feel deeply that this is an
extraordinary opportunity for the stu
dents to display a little of the real
milk of human kindness.
The gift is not a charity gift. It is
a donation made for sympathy with
those men who are slowly having the
lives crushed out by very inertia, and
yet whom are the ones who, at the
close of the war, must be expected to
bring Europe and Europe's civilization
back to the place it was when the con
flict broke out, and help it advance
further along natural and progressive
lines.
Few can measure this sympathy by
a gift of anything less than something
that hurts to give, something that is
a real sacrifice to the giver.
MORE FALL TRACK
EVENTS TODAY
Second Miniature Mest to Be Run Off
This Afternoon at 4:15
The remaining events of the fall
track tryouts not yet decided will be
run oft this afternoon, Wednesday and
Thursday, in three meets commenc
ing at 4:1 sharp on each day, ac
cording to the announcement made
by Captain Overman yesterday.
Today the mile, high hurdles and
220 dash are scheduled. The high
jump, broad Jump and pole vault and
low hurdles will be staged tomorrow,
and the relay Thursday.
Gold, sliver and bronze medals will
be given by the athletic department to
tryou winners. Interest in the tryouts,
which indicate somewhat Nebraska's
chances next spring, has increased
with the showing made by entries in
the two mile, half-mile, quarter-mi'.e
and one-hundred-yard dash a wesk
ago. The response to the call for
track material this fall has been en
couraging to the coaches, but as In
past years there will be several
places on the team which should be
fortified. One of the best means of
discovering the weaknesses, as well
as the strength, of the prospective
team is in the fall meets.
XI Psl Phi have been entertaining
Dr. Beatty. St. Joseph; Dr. Nicholson,
Red Cloud; Dr. Klein. Weeping Wat
er; Dr. Neville. Hildreth, and Dr.
Brookman, Guide Rock.
NEW COUNTY
ATTORNEY8 WRITE
FOR INSTRUCTIONS
Dean Hastings, of the law college,
has received two letters from Nebras
ka graduates since their election for
county attorneys recently.
Robert Simmons, of Scotts Bluff,
wrote that he was the only republi
can elected in the county and he re
ceived a majority of over 200.
Ben II. Burrltt of Ainsworth, elect
ed attorney for Holt county, requested
the Dean to give him some informa
tion about his new Job and his duties.
SENIOR FOOTBALL
PRACTICE TODAY
Old Luminaries Turn Out to Win
Another Championship
Candidates for the senioi football
team will meet In front of the Armory
at 11 o'clock today for the first prac
tice, preparatory to the annual inter
class games. Coaches and captains of
the class teams are urging the neces
sity for the presence of all the old
stars at the first practice of the sea
son, so that the old machine can be
early got into running order.
"Ed" Hugg, "Dick" Baliman, G. O.
Cast, Ralph Lahr, and some of the
other luminaries of last year's Junior
team, will be on deck to loosen up
Joints and accustom themselves to
the pigskin. A good turnout of ma
terial is expected.
ALEXIS FOURNIER'S
PICTURES SHOWN in
ART GALLERY
An exhibition of pictures by Alexis
Fournier will be given in the art gal
lery this week. Mr. Fournier was
born in St. Paul and was a pupil of
aureus, Constant, Harpignies and the
.lul'an academy in Paris. He is a
member of S. W. A.; Minneapolis
A. Lg.; Paris' A. A. A., and art direc
tor of the Roycroft shops. The
awards he has received are: Gold and
silver medals of the Minnesota Indus
trial society, and the second Hen-
gerer prize, Buffalo, 1911. His work
includes "Clearing After a Storm,"
Vanderbilt university, Nashville,
Tenn.: "The Haunts and Homes of
the Harbizon Masters," twenty illus
trations. He has been represented in the
Minneapolis club, St. Paul library. De
troit art museum. Pennsylvania his
torical society, Congressional library
print r'opartment.
CONVOCATION
A Shakespeare Tercentenary pro
gram will be given by the Phi Beta
Kappa society of the University ai me
convocation hour on Tuesday, in
Memorial hall. All the numbers will
be short, and the whole program Is
expected to occupy but the usual
Deriod allowed for convocation. Stu
dents and others who are interested
are invited to attend. Tho following
is the program:
"Shakespeare In England," Prof. S. B.
Gass.
"Shakespeare in Germany," Prof. A.
D. Schrag.
Shakespearean Songs.
"It Was a Lover and His Lass," from
"As You Like It," Barratt.
"Who Is Sylvia?" from "Two Gentle
men of Verona." Schubert.
"Hary, Hark, The Lark," from "Cym
belline." Schubert.
"Shakespeare in America," Prof. L. A.
Sherman.
"The Significance of Shakespeare,"
Prof. P. H. Frye.
Tjiot vear members of the society
gave a well-attended convocation pro
gram on the work in Shakespearean
discovery of Prof. Charles WHIIam
Wallace, a member of the society.
Phi Delta Chi entertained A. R. Ir
win. Beemer, and S. W. Scbaufelber-
ger, Omaha, during the week end.
OFFICERS' TRAINING
CORPSJIAY WAIT
WAR DEPARTMENT INSISTS ON
NO EXCUSES
Chancellor Avery Finds Requirements
Stricter Than University Cares
to Make
Nebraska University may not be
designated as one of the institutions
to get a reserve officers training
corpH, for some time, because of the
Insistence of the war department that
no students for any cause be excused
from the military drill.
Chancellor Avery, who. returned
from Washington, D. C, Sunday,
brought this word back with him. He
had talked with Brigadier General
Scott of the war department on the
proposition. The chancellor a few
weeks ago made application for a
branch of the reserve oflicers' training
corps for Nebraska University, and
for the college of agriculture, under
the provisions of the new national de
fense act.
In his application, the chancellor
stated that at Nebraska University
drill was compulsory except for those
excused by the board of regents, with
the expectation that this system
would be continued under the new
plan.
Not Accept Excuses
The government would not excuse
men from drill for religious scruples,
as the University does, nor would it
permit outside work, that is enabling
the student to go through the Univer
sity, be accepted as an excuse. The
chancellor feels that these are vulld
excuses.
Chancellor Avery said yesterday,
however, that he felt confident the
war department would not Insist abso
lutely on Its requirements and he
hopes that the University's application
for a branch of the reserve officers'
corps will be granted soon.
Amherst
' Students will hereafter be classi
fied according to ability, and not ac
cording to the amount of work doie,
in physical education. Three years
are required in all. Ex.
Every member of the sophomore
class at McGill university has been
fined $1 for recent destruction of
property brought about in a show of
class spirit last Saturday. Ex.
Princeton university is facing the
danger of quarantine against an in
fantile paralysis scourge, following
the death of a freshman, the son of
one of the faculty. Ex.
Oklahoma
The first number of the Magazine
under the new management is at last
off the press. It contains twenty-four
pages of reading matter, with over
a score of illustrations Ex.
Recent Reports Regarding
Prison Fund Campaigns
University of Iowa. A most diffi
cult field to cover. Presentations was
made to each graduate department and
later (after conference with the Inter
fraternity Council), to each fraternity
and sorority, where collections were
taken. One girl gave $10 which rep
resented material for an evening gown
which she was to make. She later
tore up her card and made It $15. One
girl gave up buying a winter muff.
$1,800 pledged.
Peddie Institute. A relatively small
school with few very wealthy students,
$1,000.
University of Georgia. Fifty mem
bers of the Friendship Committee gave
$500; $300 more has been pledged by
other students.
Indiana University. After the mat
ter was presented to the cabinets, and
before any subscriptions had been
asked for, one of the boys now work
CHRISTMAS PARTY
FORJNIVERSITY
CHRISTMAS TREE AND CAROL8
DECEMBER 16
Christian Associations and Mixer
Committee Behind the Affair
Preliminary Plans Laid
Nebraska University will have a
Christmas party with a Christmas
tree and everything Saturday night,
December 16, in the Armory.
Plans are very indefinite the lirst
meeting of the committee was held
last night but it is probable that
there will be Christmas music, carols,
songs, University music, by the whole
student body, and by special student
organizations like the Glee club and
chorus that are supposed to know
how to sing.
The mixer, and it will be such, will
not be a, dancing party. After the
Christmas celebration is ended, danc
ing will begin in the Armory, prob
ably about 10 o'clock, but dancing will
not be the by-feature of the enter
tainment. The mixer committee plans to keep
things moving from the beginning of
the Yule-tide festival until its end.
A dull minute will not be found in
the whole evening.
The program is under the auspices
of the Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W. C. A.
and the University mixer committee.
Those in direct charge of the Christ
mas party and planning for ii are
Mary Haller, Helen Humpe, Eva Mil
ler, Lawrence Finney. Steele Hol-
combe and Cabel Jackson. .
At least one co-ed at the Univer
sity of Wisconsin is a firm believer
in preparedness, for in a long list of
freshmen and sophomores registered
to take military drill at the state in
stitution has been found the name of
Miss Fay Morgan of Madison. Ex.
Student Revolt at Toledo
Hall' of the 100 students in the law
college of Toledo university have re
volted because their choice for dean
was not chosen. Students who de
cline to accept the new dean say they
will endeavor to start an institution
of their own. Ex.
Five fraternities and sororities lit
Wisconsin have adopted the co-operative
buying system, in which one of
of the commissaries does the purchase
ing for all the houses combined.
Ex.
Among the more than six hundred
courses offered at Columbia univer
sity this season, are dancing, boxing,
drainage and dairy work. Ex.
The nightshirt parade at Kansas
following the first football victory has
been in existence so'long that it is
now considered a tradition of the
institution. Ex.
ing his way through came up and
asked for a pledge card and wrote a
pledge of $20. Forty-two men and
women, the back-bone of the two asso
ciations, gave $216 to start the cam
paign. Plans are progressing for a
personal canvass and for a collection
at the big football game.
Wesleyan University, (Conn.)
Three days after the successful cam
paign for $6,000, from the 500 students
the campaign was put on for a foreig.i
budget Last year $300 was secured
for this purpose. Word has Just been
received as follows: "I am glad enough
to hear from you again and to be able
to report that the subscriptions to. the
West China fund are already at least
twice as large as they have ever been
been during any previous year."
Gxlnnell College. $1,600 given In
twelve hours after a public statement
by Professor Steiner.
JOE C. FLAHERTY
STATE PRESIDENT
OF CATHOLIC CLUBS
Joe C. Fluherty and Bernard Bau
man have returned from the national
convention of Catholic Student asso
ciation held at Kearney, Neb., Friday
and Saturday.
The delegates spoke at chapel at the
state normal, as did Rev. John M.
Burke, editor of the Catholic World
and the Catholic Student.
Mr. Flaherty, president of the local
club, was chosen president of national
association for the coming year.
UNIVERSITY QUARTET
TOJE CHOSEN
Tryouts at Temple Theater Tonight
Trips to Be Made
An official University quartet to ac
company the football team and band
to Iowa and probably to make the
towns on the University week circuit
with the band this winter, will be
chosen in the Temple theater at 7:15
tonight by a committee composed of
Professor Cornell, Guy Reed and H. I.
Klrkpatrlck.
Every man in school possessing a
voice agreeable to harmony is eligible
for a place on the quartet. Beside its
appearance at the Iowa and Notre
Dame games and with the University
Week shows, the quartet will repre
sent the University whenever occa
sion arises. Nebraska has lacked an
official quartet this year, and the va
cancy will be filled tonight.
NATIONAL CONTEST
OF PROHIBITION ASS'N
AT LEXINGTON, KY.
On December 28 at Lexington, Ky.,
as the opening event of the National
Student Prohibition convention will
be held the National Public Speaking
Contest o'f the I. P. A. This contest
will be the culmination of two years
of local, state and interstate contests
throughout the colleges of the United
States. Four great interstate sections
will each send two speakers its win
ner of 1915 and its winner of 1916.
They are as follows:
Eastern: Bernard C. Clausen, Col
gate university, N. Y., and DeLoyd F.
Wood, Ohio Wesleyan university,
Ohio. Central: Joshua B. Lee, Uni
versity of Oklahoma, Okla., and Har
old R. Husted, Sioux Falls college,
S. D. Southern: Earl W. Foster,
Georgetown college, Ky., and a 1916
winner to be determined at the South
ern Interstate Contest, Spartausburg,
S. C. Western: Eugene U. Blalock,
University of Southern California, and
M. C. Smithson, McMinnville, college,
Oregon.
CHANCELLOR AVERY
RETURNS FROM TRIP
TO WASHINGTON, D. C.
Chancellor Avery returned Sunday
from his trip to Washington, D. C,
where he attended, as the delegate
from this University, the national as
sociation of state universities and the
association of agricultural colleges
and experiment stations.
A severe attack of laryngitis pre
vented his using his voice very much.
He did say that he had enjoyed the
trip very much. On his return trip
Chancellor Avery attended a banquet
of University alumni at St. Louis, Mo.
MISS DRAKE LEAVES
FOR EASTERN TRIP
Miss Fanny Drake, Y. W. C. A. sec
retary and women's adviser, will leave
this afternoon for Cleveland, O. Miss
Drake is the Nebraska representa
tive at the meeting of the National
Y. W. C. A. and Y. M. C. A. commis
sion to make recommendations and
study the various problems, involved
in relig.oas work in the universities
of the country.
NEW FORMATIONS
IN VARSIH PRACTICE
ELLSWORTH MOSER OUT FOR
REST OF YEAR
Shoulder Muscles Torn Ted Riddell
in Hospital Rutherford Back
From Scouting
The practice for the Cornhuskers
Monday consisted of signal practice,
using new formations. A short scrim
mage against the scrubs had surpris
ing results in that after the varsity
got started they gained about as they
pleased even though Rutherford and
Owen Frank were both playing on
the scrubs.
It was learned yesterday that Ells
worth Moser, first string center, will
be out of the game the rest of the sea
son with a bad shoulder. The muscles
were torn loose in the Kansas game
and will not be healed before Thanks
giving. Riddell in Sanitarium
Ted Riddell, who played Saturday's
game against a physician's advice, is
in the sanitarium at preseut, but will
probably be in form in a day or two.
The rest of the men are in fair
shape and ready to give everything
they have to the winning of the two
remaining games.
Halllgan and Rutherford, who saw
Iowa and Notre Dame play last Sat
urday, came back with their heads
full of foreign plays, which the
scrubs will use in practice.
BUSINESS WOMAN'S
CLUB AT LUNCHEON
The University Business Woman's
club held Its annual luncheon Satur
day at 12:30 at the Windsor hotel.
The room was decorated with scarlet
and cream roses.
Mrs. T. F. A. Williams, associate
professor of sociology, spoke on the
"Need of Vocational Training" for
Women of Today." Mrs. Minnie Eng
land, associate professor of econom
ics, discussed vocational training in
relation to domestic science for girls.
Irma Coe, '16, and Harriet Ander
son, '16, of St. Paul, were the guests
of honor.
HOME ECONOMICS
ANNUAL STAFF
Geneva Chesley, Editor; May Young
son, Business Manager "of New
Year Book
The staff for the Home Economics
Annual has been announced by May
Youngson, president of the Home Eco
nomics club, and if as follows:
Editor-in-Chief, Geneva Chesley, '19.
Business Manager, May Youngson,
17.
Advertising Manager, Louise
Enochs, '19.
Staff Artists, Fern Bentz, 'IS, and
Mildred Weiss, '17.
Organizations, Geneva Seegar, '17.
Staff Photographer, Valentine Min
ford, '18.
Assistants, Lucy Jeffords, '17, Kate
Helzer, '18.
Joke Section, Bertha Bates, 18.
A meeting of the staff will be held
Thursday evening at 7:15 In the Y.
W. C. A. rooms in the Temple.
Washington
The congestion in the corridors
of Douny hall between the classes has
caused, the establishment of traffic
rules. Some of the profs will act
as traffic officers. Ex.
The four faces of the library clock
in the main hall at Cornell tell dif
ferent times, so that students com
ing from opposite parts of the cam
pus enter classes at regular Inter
vals, depending what "the clock"
says. Ex.
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