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VOL. XVI. NO. 90.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1917.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Daily Nebraskae
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FLING TO TALK TO
MID-WINTER GRADS
"AMERICA AND THE WORLD WAR
COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS
Fifty-five degrees to Be Conferred by
Chancellor Avery Arts and
Science College Has 31
I'rof. Fred M. Fling, head of the
department of European history, will
deliver the address at the annual
mid winter commencement exercises
in the Temple theater next Thursday
night. Ills subject will be "America
and the World War."
Fifty-five degrees and certificates
will be conferred by Chancellor
Avery upon the class of graduates,
according to the recommendation of
the University faculty, made Satur
day. The college of arts and sci
ences as usual has the highest num
ber of graduates. Thirty will receive
the degree of bachelor of arts, and
one the degree ot bachelor of sci
ence. The list ot graduates follows:
GRADUATE COLLEGE
Master of Art
George Gordon Andrews, A. B. 1912,
Union college, European history.
Edith Anna Lathrop, A, B. 1913, ed
ucation. Clyde Samuel Thomas, A. B. 1914,
pharmocology, education.
Alva Wilson, M. D. 1897, Eclectical
medical institute; B. Sc. in agricul
ture 1916; zoology.
Graduate Teachers Diploma
Edith Anna Lathrop.
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
Bachelor of Arts
Ruth Ashby, Agnes rauline Bart
lett, Clarence Ray Blgelow, Elmer
Ojton Blackstone, Mabel Luella
Bridges, Henry Chung, Robert Piatt
Crawford, Duncan Dillon, Florence
Dunn, Ada Laura Elliott, Mary Irene
Goodrich, Susan Emolyn Harman,
Florence Margaret Jenks, Bernice
Celestine Keefe, Darrell Thomas
Lane, Clyde Wm. Lehman, Charles
Elson Lively, Ralph Merton Marrs,
T?o!nd Edison Murphy, Gerhard John
N'aber, Helen Rodney Peck, Louise
Joyce Peck, Marchelle Harnly Pow
er. Ida Kthryn Robrt. Helen
Louise Schwab, Gertrude M. Suess,
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NEXT PLAY IS
UNCONVENTIONAL
'Man Who Married a Dumb Wife"
Captivated Broadway Because It
Disregarded "Stage Laws
The University Players, in present
ing "The Man Who Married a Dumb
Wife,'' are said to be one of the first
to produce the comedy outside of
New York. The play, which will be
put on, with another short comedy,
"King Reue's Daughter," in the Tem
ple theater Wednesday evening, cap
tivated Broadway by Its unconven
tionality. It was made famous by
GrenviHo Barker, who produced it in
utter disregard of all stage conven
tionalities. The University Players, who will
be one of the numbers on the Unlver
8ity Week program again this year,
111 place a group of University
stars in both the comedies. The cast
in "The Man Who Marriaed a Dumb
Wife" will include Cleo Cather-Young,
Maurice Clark, Lad Kubik, Lucile
Becker, Catherine Pierce, Paul Hage
'in. Irwin Clark, J. G. Fowler and
Virgil Sklpton.
Miss Alice Howell, head of the de
partment, will have the Isadlng part
'n "King Reue's Daughter." Other
stars will be C. Nell Brown. Spray
Cardner, DeWitt Foster, Elizabeth
Eraxlm, R. b. Waring, Irwin Clark
nd Lad Kubik.
FIRE TAKES FOE'S
TRANSLATIONS; NO
SERIOUS DAMAGE
French translations, a woolen loung
ing jacket and some other clothing
belonging to Glenheim Foe, '20, Red
Cloud, were destroyed, when fire,
starting from a spark from a chim
ney, broke through the roof of Foe's
room at the city detention home, 746
Rose street, Friday.
Foe and Howard Yost, another unl
verslty student, also from Red Cloud,
who have been assisting in super
vision at the home, were in the build
ing when the fire broke out. It was
stopped by firemen before gaining
headway.
The French translations, Foe thinks,
are to be considered the most unfor
tunate circumstance of the fire.
STUDENT LOAN
FUND EXHAUSTED
Fund Established to Help Students
Through College Is all in Force
Payments Necessary
The student loan fund, which some
fifty students have used to defray
their expenses while In the Univer
sity, Is temporarily exhausted, ac
cording to Prof. George Chatburn,
chairman of the committee In charge
of its administration. This . means
that about $3,000 Is loaned to students
and alumni and a little more than
$1,000 is invested in stocks and bonds.
It will now be necessary for some
of the students, who have graduated,
but whose notes are not yet due, to
pay in some money to the fund before
members of the present undergraduate
body ran borrow any more. Students
are allowed two years in which to pay
back a loan. The demand for the
fund is greater now that it has ever
been.
The fund was created in 1910 by do
nations of $1,000 each from Mr. J. R.
Webster. Omaha; Dr. J. A. L. Wad
dell, Kansas City; and Hon. W. G.
Whitmore, Valley. Later a donation
of $500 was added by Mrs. Ida C.
Carter of New York City, in memory
of her husband, the late A. E. Carter,
a graduate of he engineering college.
Mr. Webster's donation muiT be kept
invested in approved securities until
it has reached a certain erecifled sum;
until that time only one year's in
terest is available for student loans.
Mr. W.addell's and Mr. Whitmore's
donations are preferably for engin
eering students and Mrs. Carter's Is
absolutely for engineering students.
The average loan from the fund is
about $100.
SORENSON GOES
TO WASHINGTON
Called There for Special Meeting of
Emergency Peace Federation
May Ask Referendum
C. A. Sorenson, '13, left Saturday for
Washington as Nebraska's delegate to
the Emergency Peace Federation,
which convenes there today for the
purpose of aiding action in the pres
ent diplomatic crisis.
The league is planning a big demon
stration In Washington today, and will
nrobably send a committee to inter
view the president Sorenson said j
that one thing the federation womu
undoubtedly demand of Congress is
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that, before war be declared, a reier-
endum be granted the people. i
ti, rmArf,"T Peace Federation
was recently organized with Ex-Dean
KMrrhwar of the COIumoia -uwv.
....M..t nH Miss Leila Secor as
secretary. Sorenson received a wire
Tursday requesting his presence m
-..nn-inn Ha has been promin
ently identified with the local wave
of the pacifist movement
"N" CLUB HOLDS
FIRST MEETING
Is Formed at Commercial Club Sat
urday Noon Its Organization
and Purpose
For the promotion of athletics in
the University and the state, to se
cure more respect for the "N," to take
care of the entertainment of visiting
athletic teams, and to supervise state
high school contests in Lincoln, the N
club was formed at the Lincoln Com
mercial club Saturday afternoon.
The club is to be composed of all
men who have won their "N" in some
major form ot Cornhusker athletics.
Guy E. Reed, manager of athletics,
who won his letter in track, presided
at the first meeting. Coach E. J.
Stewart, assistant Coach Dick Ruther
ford, Corey, Shaw, Halligan, Zumwin
kel, Dobson, Otoupalik, Norrls, Doyle,
Drewing, Cameron, Nelson, Riddell,
Moser, Rhodes, Overman, and Wilder
were at the first meeting.
A committee on constitution and by
laws, headed by Ellsworth Moser, was
appointed. It will have a report ready
to submit at the next meeting of the
organization, next Saturday at 12
o'clock at the Commercial club.
A nominating committee of Zum
wlnkel, Corey and Doyle was named
to submit nominations for the first
officers of the club.
The organization will have its social
features, and It is planned at the end
of each athletic season to hold an in
itiation for the men who have won
their letters for the first time.
ALUMNI HEADS
HAVE MEETING
Executive Committee of Alumni Asso
ciation Decides on Closed Co op
eration With University Week
A decision to get in closer touch
with the work being done in Univer
sity Week towns was one of the
things decided" upCn it Z SLf
the executive committee of the alum
ni association at alumni headquarters
Saturday afternoon. Routine work
was disposed of.
The meeting was remarkable in
that not a single member of the com
mittee was absent. Among those
v. ho were present were Frank H.
Woodland, 'QO, president, Omaha;
James Harvey, '09, York; Leonard
Flansburg, '04, Lincoln, and Francis
C. Gere, '98. Lincoln.
"Tim" Corey, Ex-Husker Captain
Will Leave School This Week
"Tim" Corey, captain, of the 1916
Cornhuskers, for three years tackle on
the Nebraska eleven, and prominent
MEDICS WILL BE
TRAINED FOR WAR
Military Medical. Work to be a Re
quired Subject in College of
Medicine at Omaha
Military medical work will heref
after be one of the required subjects
at the college of medicine at Omaha,
according to announcement made by
Dean I. S. Cutter..
Dr. Cutter attended a meeting of
the American Association of Medical
colleges at Chicago a few days ago
as the Nebraska university represen
tative. The question of war surgery
was discussed, and a national move
ment was started to make this a re
quired subject. .
This association adopted a resolu
tion asking the war department to
admit into the medical reserve corps
without examination all students who
graduated from colleges where spe
cial medical military courses are
taught under the supervision of the
government.
Dr. J. M. Banister, a retired officer
of the medical reserve, has been giv
ing seniors of the medical college a
special military course for the past
two months. The medical college
students have organized a volunteer
medical corps for service in case of
war.
GIANT M0N0S0UR
GIVEN MUSEUM
Prehistoric Reptile from Nebraska's
Deep Sea Era, Presented by J.
E. Brown of Verdigris
The skull of the first monosour,
found in Nebraska, a forty-foot rep-tike-like
creature of a prehistoric age
when our state formed part of a great
ocean bed;, discovered imbedded in
shale rock along Verdigris river, Knox
county, Nebraska, was placed on ex
hibition on the first floor of the mus
eum Friday. It is a gift to the society
&SjTi .J. E. Brown of Veidigiiii.
The jaws'of',the"Tff?Mea arnra
are almost three feet long with a bet
of thirty sharp interlocking teeth on
either sire. With its huge dis
tensible jaw it could easily have
swallowed a mere man without using
its teeth. Its bony eye sockets once
held owl like eyes almost as large as
a human head.
The monster lived in the deep sea
in the Cretaceous age. Estimates
as to the exact date by scientists
varies from 18,000,000 to 25,000,000
years ago.
also in track athletics, wi'l leave
school this week to sell sporting goods
in the state of Nebraska for the Ash
land Manufacturing company and the
Thomas Wilson company of Chicago.
Corey will have Nebraska as his ter
ritory for the sale of some of the
, most widely known brands of sport
'ing and athletic goods in the country.
He expects to make Lincoln his head
quarters. For the first three months
he will devote his time exclusively to
'Nebraska, after that he may go Into
other states.
j With the departure of Corey Ne
jbraska loses one of her best athletes
and one of her most popular students.
i Corey was known as a leader who al
ways stood for clean play on the foot
ball gridiron. He won his letter in
track as a weight man, throwing the
hammer being his forte, although he
is good in the shot put and diaens;
Corey came to Nebraska from
Green Bay, Wis. He is a member of
Sigma Aipha Epfailon..
MERCHANTS SHORT
COURSE BEGINS
THIS AFTERNOON
Today is the first day of the mer
chants' short course to be given under
the joint auspices of the School of
Commerce and the Federation of Ne
braska Retailers at the Lindell hotel
during the first four days of this week.
Following is the program for today:
W. C. Crooks, vice president feder
ation presiding.
1:30 P. M. "Present day tenden
cies in merchandising," Arthur E.
Swanson, director of evening
courses. Northwestern University
school of commerce, Chicago.
3:30 P. M. "Advertising plans for
the retailer in the small town."
Emerson E. Smith, advertising
manager, Spier & Simon, Lincoln.
Discussion.
HEARS FROM THE
Captain Parker Receives Word From
General Thanking Him for Offer
ing Volunteer Regiment
Captain S. M. Parker, commandant
of cadets, who, with Prof. J. N.
Bridgman, is at the head of the or
ganization of a volunteer regiment
of field artillery from University stu
dents, alumni, and faculty, received
word Saturday from H. P. McCain,
adjutant general, thanking him for
the offer of service, and assuring
him that the regiment would be con
sidered if need should arise for its
use.
Enlistment in the regiment is pro
gressing in a way which is satisfying
to Captain Parker, he says. Students
who would seriously consider" serv
ing in the regiment leave their names
with him; they do not sign for serv
ice and are not bound to any agree
ment The letter from the adjutant gen
eral follows:
"War Dept., The Adjutant Gen
eral's Office, Washington, Feb. 7,
1917.
"Captain Samuel M. Parker, In
fantry, Lincoln, Nebraska.
"Dear Sir:
"I am directed by the secretary
of war to acknowledge the receipt
of your communication of recent
.date and to thank you for your gen
erous oTST of servlce- Your com'
munlcatlon has been preserved for
reference should need arise."
"Respectfully yours,
(Signed) "H. P. McCAIN.
"The Adjutant General."
MISS POUND ON
NEBRASKA SONGS
Authority on Folk Lore Will Give Re
sults of Special Study of
Traditional Songs
Dr. Louise Pound, professor of Eng
lish literature, will speak on "Tradi
tional Songs in Nebraska," presenting
some typical examples, tomorrow
morning at Convocation.
MisB Pound has written extensively
on this subject One of her papers
was read before the Modern Language
association which met a couple of
months ago at Chicago, and has
evoked favorable conn en t
The community theory of the ori
gin of folk song has been successfully
attacked by Miss Pound, who believes
that individual authors are responsible
for this type of poetry.
Harvy Hess, '16, Instructor In the
department of rhetoric of the Univer
sity of Colorado, has been seriously
111 in the University hospital at Boul
der. He is on the road to recovery.
TIGERS TRAMPLE
ON HUSKER HOPES
NEBRASKA'S CHANCES FOR VAL
LEY TITLE GEY SEVERE BLOW
Missouri, in First Visit in Years,
Takes Both Games From
Nebraska Five
Nebraska's hopes for a championship
in the Missouri valley race were
given almost a fatal setback last Fri
day and Saturday nights, when the
Missouri Tigers, in their first visit to
Lincoln in many moons, won both
games of the series.
Friday's battle was probably the
most thrilling ever staged in the Uni
versity Armory. The two teams strug
gled on even terms for forty min
utes, the final gunshot showing a tie
with' 14 points apiece. In the extra
five minutes of play Missouri caged
two baskets to the Huskers' one,
and carried away the bacon.
Captain Fred Williams of Missouri
played two of the finest games ever
seen on the local floor. Harvey Nel
son held him in the first half of the
game, but for the rest of the strug-
gle he was easily the peer of all the
men on the floor, throwing field
goals with the easy abandon that is
proof of the skilful artist.
The crowd of rooters that Jammed
tne Armory both nights were with
the Huskers to the end, but the ab
sence of cheer leaders made it hard
for them to do effective work for
their team. Nebraska showed pow
erful fighting qualities, and in the
first game her offense and defense
were both good. The second fray
showed a weakness that had not been
suspected, but which may have been
merely a reaction from the night be
fore. Summary, first game:
Nebraska 16 Missouri 18
Nelson c WTilliams (C)
Flothow rf Vogt
H. Campbell (C) ..If Campbell
Wertz rg Viner
Riddell If Slusher
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LINCOLN JOINS
DRAMATIC LEAGUE
University Faculty and Students Take
ive Part In Movement for
AC
Better &SSO!.
A Lincoln branch ot e fafional
Drama league was organized at the
Lincoln Commercial club Saturday
afternoon, with many University peo
ple taking an active part in the or
ganization. The league, of which Dr.
H. B. Lowry was elected president,
has for its purpose the awakening of
interest in the better forms of the
drama in Lincoln, and the bringing
to this city of the best examples of
dramatic art.
The first organization to come will
be the famous Portmanteau players,
who will appear here February 21 for
afternoon and evening performances of
several plays which have been called
the best dramatic offerings of the
season by the New York critics.
The organization of the Lincoln
Drama league followed a luncheon at
the Commercial club. Dr. H. B. Alex
ander was in charge of the organiza
tion meeting, and was elected vice
president of the Lincoln branch. Prof.
Alice Howell, Prof. S. B. Gass, Prof.
Louise round. Dean L. A. Sherman
of the faculty and Maurice Clark, Nell
Brown and Leon H. Snyder of the stu
dents and alumni were active in the
organization.
Miss Howell talked at the Satur
day meeting, as did Professor Alex
ander, Frank P. Zehrung of tie Oliver
theater, Miss Blanche Garten, Frank
H. Woods and C. C. Quiggle.
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