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V Dally Nebra VOL. XVI. VN0. 67. UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1916. PRICE FIVE CENTS it Tee skae TRAINS CARRY AWAYJTUDENTS CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS BEGIN AT 6 TODAY Decrease in Class Attendance Showed Numbers of Early Home-Goers Large Special trains ou all the roads lead ing out of Lincoln will help to carry the several thousand University stu dentR who, with bulging suitcases and happy smiles, will start for home to day. The Christmas recess officially begins at 6 o'clock tonight, but the exodus will begin In earnest this after noon, when all those happy mortals not burdened with those nuisances known as afternoon classes, will leave Lincoln for a far fairer country. The noticeable decrease in attend ance at classes yesterday afternoon, caused by those who could not resist the temptation to get an early start home, caused an informal edict to the effect that no excuses would be issued by the executive dean except in rare cases. The report is known to have caused many to postpone their start for home. Trains Crowded Trains, special and attenuated regu lar, were crowded last night, and are doomed to a similar fate all day to day, and this despite the fact that many students have telephoned the city ticket ofllceB for arrangements. This new plan has made accommoda tions on the branch lines much better, but even with this precaution, the rail roads are experiencing difficulty In measuring the quantities of students thronging the stations. School takes up again Wednesday, January 3, two long weeks after the first day of vacation. The anticipation of what these two weeks may hold has made the campus a lively place for several days. Although there are few who are determined enough to think about it, real, serious work in preparation for the final examinations will begin when classes are resumed. CONVOCATION L. W. ROGERS OF NEW YORK TO 8PEAK ON THEOSOPHY Mr. L. W. Rogers, of New York City, national lecturer for the Theosophlcal MK-iety, will speak in Memorial hall thin morning at 11 o'clock on "Thought an a Force." The convocation committee has se cured In Mr. Rogers one of the modern school of American philosophers whose lectures on theosophy and pop ular pisychology have won him wide distinction. IUg lecture this morning is along the line of practical psychol ogy. TEACHER'S WORK IS HIIIE-TEIITHS WASTE Dr. Luckey Declares in Address to Faculty on Subject of Child Study In an address on the subject rf "Child Study," at a professional moet 'ng of the faculty last Friday evening Dr. G. W. A. Luckey declared thai nne-tentbs of the usual teaching of ) the classroom is wasted through a delimion that the child mind is like the adult mind. The members of the Peru Mother's club and of the classes in hlld study were present. Dr. Luckey believes that our teacli '"g Is over-formalized, and most teach 'rs take themselves and their methods too seriously. A better understand ing of the stages in the unfoldment of lle mind and behavior of the child "1 ameliorate our teaching as noth- RELIEF FUND TOTALS $1,400 European War Sufferers Will Get Tidy Sum From University for Christmas A total of $1,413.96 has been reached by the prisoner's relief fund in the University. This includes $1,276.21 in cash, and f 137.75 yet to be collected. The fund has been steadily growing, although it has not gained the impetus expected during the days Just before the Christmas recess, when students are planning to spend two weeks under the warm home roof. The fund will remain open during the recess and also after the resumption of school, and subscriptions will be re ceived at the office of the student activities. EDUCATION DEPT. CHANGES COURSES Three Hour Course In Experimental Education Will be Given Second Semester The course in child study has been changed to the first semester and is tc be followed the second semester by the course in experimental education, according to an announcement of the department of education. This is a revival of the course offered in tlte earlier years of the department with interest and profit to the students, especially those interested in research and constructive scholarship. The course is described as follows: "Experimental education. A critical study of the psycho-educational pro cesses Involved in teaching; of tho methods used and the resulin obtained through child study investigations and educational experimentation; of thi important school surveys and their value. Emphasis is placed on the evolving mind, and the training of students to become accurate observers and original thinkers. Lectures, read ings, experiments, and special reports. Required of graduates majoring in edu cation. Open to all members of the graduate school of education who have college credit in child study and psychology. Three hours attendance. Two burs laboratory. Three hours credit. Second semester, 4 o'clock, Monday, Wednesday, Friday. "Dr. G. W. A. Luckey, head of the department, gives the course." THE DAILY NEBRASKAN AFTER THE HOLIDAYS Today's issue of The Dally Nebfas kan is the last for this year. Publica tion of the paper will befesumed the day after the Christmas recess ends. The first paper after the holidays will be Issued on Thursday, January 4. DEAN ENGBERG ENTFRTAINED MEMBERS OF TEGNER SOCIETY Fifty members of the Tegner society met at Dean Engberg's last Friday evening for the regular monthly meet ing. The evening was spent In playing games and singing Swedish songs. Eleven new members were taken Into the society. All students interested in the Swed ish language are Invited to the next meeting of the society, the second Sat urday in January: The place wilt be announced later. Mrs. John Bland, Willow Heckart, ex-'16, of Hill City, 9. D., la visiting In Lincoln. Mrs. Bland is a member of Alpha Phi. ing else can. It was a mountain of vision of education that Dr. Luckey gave his hearer, with an exceedingly stimulating conclusion. ur Gbvtstmas WLteh if a a r 4 OR ITS .QSdiditf wishes a very MERRY CHRISTMAS and a NEW YEAR full of happiness & good fortune. GHEM. FRATERNITY HABITATION Seven New Members of Alpha Chi Sigma Faculty Men on Program The Nebraska chapter of Alpha Chi Sigma, the professional chemical fra ternity, held its semi-annual initiation and banquet on last Saturday after noon and evening. The initiation was held in the basement of the Temple and the banquet in the Chinese room at the Lincoln. Twenty-six men were present at tho bamjuet, among them T. J. Lehmer of Omaha, chemist with the Cudahy Pack ing company. The men Initiated were as follows: JT. P. Magnuson, 9. B. Arenson, W. H. Eller, C. S. Stone, E. L. Gutberlet, D. B. Mapes, and C. H. Grau. The Toast List The toast list under the heading, rolloide,'' with Dr. F. W. Cpson as loastmaster, wa as follows: "Surface Energy," Prof. George Bor rowman. "Colloidal Swelling," S. B. Arenson. "Degree of Dispersion," A. W. Tnger soil. "Protective Action," William Rabak. "The State of the Phases," Dr. Ben ton Dales. "Hydration Capacity," Warren Eller. "Electrical Migration," Marschelle Power. "Molecular DltiperKlons," Chancellor Avery. CO-EDS GIVE CHRISTMAS GIFTS TO LINCOLN POOR Next Saturday the poor of Lincoln will be remembered by the various girls' organizations. The Silver Ser- win distribute basnets g(m-u .. i,a tiroeeer'3 of their tag day and XI Delta Iwll bake up baskets of Christmas goodies from the pro ceeds of the Girls' Cornhusker party. The baskets will be dlstriDUieo. town girls. Sarah Ladd. ex-'17. who Is attending Wellesley, will return this week to itpend the holidays In Lincoln. SUBSCRIBERS The Daily Nebraskan 9 GOSPEL TEAM TO GO TOJECUMSEH NEBRASKA AND WLSLEYAN MEN TO CONDUCT SERVICES Five From Each University Secre tary Graham of Wesleyan In Charge of the Team Five Nebraska University men, in co-operation with as many more from Wesleyan, will form a gospel team to conduct union meetings at Tecumseh, December 27 to 30. Four churches are behind the movement in Tecumseh. The five Nebraska men who will serve on tho team are these: Steele Holcombe, president of the University Y. M. C. A. and major of the third battalion of cadets. Will Urbach, member of the Y. M. C. A. cabinet and of the D. G. V. Leonard KHney intercollegiate de bater, and one of the cadet band. Earl Starboard, member of the glee club. Walter Judd. member of the cadet band. Wesleyan Men The Wesleyan men who will work wlih the Nebraska men are: Max Gentry, member of the foot ball team and V. M. C. A. cabinet. Leonard Hughes, football , captain and basketball player. Victor Kelser, Intercollegiate de bater. Blake Spencer, intercollegiate de bater. Clarence George, member of the glee club and Y. M. C. A. cabinet. Burdette Graham, secretary of the Wesleyan Y. M. C. A. will be in charge of the gospel team. He is a graduato of Southwestern college, Texas, and when there was all-Southwestern quar terback .and still holds the 100 yard record of 9 45 seconds. ATter the Christmas vacation the Y. M. C. A. will put gospel teams In a number of towns out In the state. Students or others who would like to secure teams for their home towns are asked to notify II. C. Bigglestone, University Y. M. C. A. secretary or Verne Austin, chairman of the gospel team committee, at the city Y. M. C. A. NELSON PRESIDENT KANSAS CLUB r- Thirty Students, Fcrmer Hawkeyes, Organize Invite Other Kansas Folks to Next Meeting Clyde Nelson of Summerfield, Kas., was elected president of the Kansas club at an organization meeting of thirty Jayhawkers last week. Other officers are William Simpson, Sabetha, Kas., vice president; Verine Powers, Kensington, Kas., secretary; Ray Scott, Watervllle, Kas., treasurer; Charles Copeland, Beleville, Kas., ser-geant-at-arms. The charter members drew up a con stitution. Membership of the club will be open to all students and faculty people in the University who are grad uates of accredited colleges in Kan sas. The attendance at the next meeting is expected to be double that at the last one. Tho next meeting will be January 4, at the Pi Kappa Phi house. FEATURE FILMS FOR ENGINEERS J. M. O'Connor Gave Illustrated Lecture Yesterday " Afternoon J. M. O'Connor, representative of the Standard Sanitary Manufacturing com pany, presented a five reel feature film made by that company, to 150 en gineering students at 5 o'clock yester day afternoon in Mechanical Engineer ing building, room 206. The films, which were complete in every detail, portrayed the story of the manufacture of sanitary fixtures from the time the Iron was smelted to the ultimate use of the finished product. This feature film will be run twice tomorrow evening at the Strand the atre to accommodate those who have not seen it. Admission will be free to the public. Two hours will be given, at 7 and 9 o'clock. DR. STUFF SPOKE TO MENORAH SOCIETY Organization of Jewish Siudents Met Sunday Evening Will Give Prize for Essays Prof. F. A. Stuff of the department of English literature addressed the meeting of the Menorah society In the Jewish temple. Twelfth and D streets, Sunday evening, on "The Book of Job." This is the first meeting of the year for the society, which was organized a year abo by Rabbi Jacob Singer, pro fessor of the history and theory of music. The membership consists of students interested in the study and advancement of Jewish culture and ideals. Funds are being accumulated by the society for prizes to be given to tho students writing the best essays on Jewish history, literature, and culture during the year. WHAT D0E8 A MAN EXPECT OF A GIRL? Drake Co-eds 8pend Time In Dis cussion of Absorbing Topic at Y. W. C. A. "What a Man Expects of a Girl," was the Interesting subject of a dis cussion at a Y. W. C. A. meeting at Drake university last week. Dean Griffith held that Drake gtrla do more for the school than the girls of other institutions and that they let the men Catharine Aj-person spent the week end In Aurora. BUSY YEAR AHEAD OF THEUNIVERSITY MEETING OF LEGISLATURE OF GREAT IMPORTANCE One Mew Regent Into Office Students Will Face Political Problems Basketball Soon The students returning to school after the Christmas recess, will find the New Year bringing much of inter est and importance to the University. Perhaps most important of all is the meeting of the state legislature, which will convene shortly after the first of January with a new governor direct ing state affairs Keith Neville ot North Platte. The legisalture will have much of importance to consider concerning the State University. First of all will be the budget for the next two years, which will be pre pared by the regents and submitted to the legislature for approval. New Building Plana The building plans will also be con sidered by the legislature, and it is possible that additional appropriations will be asked for. Funds apportioned for the new University buildings have proved inadequate because of the rapid advance in prices of building ma terial with the war. The regents may also be asked to pass upon the advisability of a gym nasium and a woman's dormitory. An active organization of Lincoln and Omaha alumnae have declared that they are going to try to convince the legislature that a dormitory for fresh men girls should be built at once, to relieve the already congested rooming conditions. The movement for a bigger and bet ter gymnasium for the men and women has taken definite form with in the past few years, and the men students at the Cornhusker banquet pledged themselves to help. The handicap that both the men's and women's athletics have suffered from because of inadequate gym facilities is well known to all of the students. The state press association has passed a resolution urging upon the ! board of regents and the legislature j the advisability of a college of Jour- 'nnllam Memhnrn of the leeiulature have pledged themselves to introduce a bill looking toward that end, if the regents do not take some action on the matter. One New Regent One new member of the board of regents, and one old one, re-elected, will go into office the first of the year. The new one is Harry Landis; the old one Dr. P. L. Hall. In athletics the University faces the opening of the varsity basketball season, probably with a northern trip. Fraternity basketball and bowling tournaments will be run off soon after the recess. The second semester of school, pre ceded by the final examinations, will come shortly after the students return. The student body will probably be asked to pass upon the proposition of a student council, and class elections will come in about a month after classes again are started. Mrs. Edward Palmer, formerly Adalbroth Dolman, ex-'15, is visiting Sarah Outcalt, ex-'16. Mrs. Palmer, who is a member of PI Beta Phi, lives in Kansas City. feel that they are interested in things all the,tlme. "A man expocts a girl to be herself, to bo genuine," Bald another mascu line speaker. "So many girls think they have to be butterflies and give a man the wrong impression when they are really senalblo girls. A man likes a girl to oo intelllenL 9o many are so lopsided in their education they have nothing in common with a man. A girl should also have a certain re serve or dignity and It is essential that she be on time and keep engagements."