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VOL. XVI. VN0. 67.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1916.
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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.
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.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.
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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."
