The D
ly Nebraskae
PRICE FIVE CENTS
VOL. XVI. NO. 155.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, THURSDAY, MAY 24, 1917.
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PRESIDENT INSURES
LIFE OFJTHLETICS
HIS ENDORSEMENT IN PRESS
ABOLISHES DOUBT, IS THOUGHT
Nebraska Authorities Strongly In Fa
vor of System and Will Carry
Out Schedule
(By Dwight P. Thomas.)
"I entirely agree with the conclusion
contained in your letter of May 15. I
would be sincerely sorry to see the
men and boys In our colleges and'
schools give up their athletic -sports
and I hope most sincerely that the nor
mal course of college sports will be
continued as far as possible not only
to afford a diversion to the American
people in the days to come, when we
shall no doubt have our share of men
tal depression, but as a real contribu
tion to the national defense, for our
young men must be made physically
fit In order that later they may take
the place of those who are now of mili
tary age and exhibit the vigor and
alertness which we are proud to be
lieve to be characteristic of our young
men."
This answer of President Wilson's,
10 an inquiry made by a New York
bport writer positively abolishes any
question that may have been in exist
ence regarding the proper attitude to
ward intercollegiate athletics. Fur
ther action on the part of any govern
irg bodies will be unnecessary along
this line.
President Wilson has given as his
first reason for retaining athletics, the
diversion of the American people in
the distressing times that will neces
sarily come with the war. His sec
ond big reason is the more forceful one
of the two, the strengthening of the
young men of the country and the
resultant making of better soldiers.
The authorities at Nebraska have
expressed themselves as being unani
mously in favor of continuing athletics
and it is probable that the schedules
for next year will be carried out as
usual.
NEBRASKANS GET
TYPHOID SERUM
RAINY DAY IN CAMP UTILIZED
FOR FEVER PREPAREDNESS
Fort Snelling, Minn., May 21. Anto
typhoid serum was shot into the arms
of the boys at Fort Snelling yester
day. As a result there were aching
arms and heads, with plenty of dizzi
ness. The needles were busy all the
afternoon. The second innoculation
comes May 29 and the third and final
June 9. There will also be small-pox
vaccination soon.
It rained today, hence there were in
door recitations on tactics and com
manding. Sunday also was chilly.
Many are wearing two shirts today.
By this time the boys are learning
how few civilian clothes they need
here. The uniform Is too comfortable
to drop unless necessary.
Hansen Given Professorship
H C. Hansen, who took his master'
degree in boUny in 1816, has been
elected to a professorship In botany
la the University of CinclnnatL The
bead of the department of botany at
that institution is also a Nebraskan,
Dr. Benedict, '96. who took his degree
m the botany department at Nebraska,
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Red Cross Subscriptions
In University Reach $521
Results of the University Red Cross
campaign conducted Tuesday are ex
ceeding the estimate of the commit
tee. Up to last evening a total of $521
had been reported to Mr. M. G. Wyer,
chairman, and a number of the solici
tors were yet to be heard from.
Many students had been canvassed
by downtown representatives before
student solicitors reached them, but
In spite of this the returns have been
very satisfactory to the committee.
LONG LINE WAITS
FOR GORNHUSKERS
1917 YEARBOOK GETS CORDIAL
RECEPTION WHEN IT APPEARS
Laura MrRnhrti '1ft. and Clara
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Schulte, '18, Get Coupons Good
for Free Copies
A long line which stretched from
the office of student activities around
the campus fence and east toward the
Temple waited at 1 o'clock yesterday
afternoon for the office to open and
the sale of 1917 Cornhuskers begin.
For several hours following there was
no shortening of the line. By 6 o'clock,
most of the first shipment of books
had been distributed. The sale will
begin this morning and continue until
June 1, when order slips will no longer
be good as half payment on the an
nuals. Laura McRoberts, '18, and Clara
Schulte, '18, found coupons in their
Cornhuskers entitling them to a free
copy. As far as is known, the third
coupon is yet to be uncovered.
Talk Cornhusker '
The campus buzzed yesterday after
noon with Cornhusker talk. Benches
which have been peculiarly bleak this
spring were occupied by men and co
eds who slowly turned the pages of the
book which Chancellor Avery said in
his foreword would be in years to
come a volume doubly precious to
those who would look at the students
faces through tears. The tranquil
course of classes was also somewhat
interrupted because many minds were
fixed more on the closed book beside
them than the open one before.
Some especially good campus scenes
feature the 1917 yearbook, which stu
dents immediately complimented for
its completeness. The engravings are
for the most part of an unusually high
grade and pictures are clean and clear
cut.
DRAMATIC CLUB AND
UNIVERSITY PLAYERS ADOPT
FRENCH WAR ORPHANS
The University Dramatic club took
the final step yesterday in adopting a
French orphan. His name is Raymond
Rumont and he was born July 4, 1914.
in Paris. Equally enthusiastic over
the adoption of an' orphan were the
University players, who have given
a home to a little girl, Jeaune Fresnau,
three years old, a Pouzauge, France.
MISS DRAKE, '11, GETS
BRYN MAWR FELLOWSHIP
A fellowship in education at Bryn
Mi.wr college, has been awarded to
Nellie Drake of Storm Lake, la. Miss
Drake took her B. A. and M. A. de
grees at the University and was grad
uated In 1911. She has been a pro
fessor in education at Buena Vista col
lege at Storm Lake for the past three
years. She is a sister of Miss Fannie
Drake, general secretary of the Uni
versity Y. W. C. A.
Dean Graham Says Council Will Develop
Responsibility
The student council, if it is adopted
by the students at the election on the
constitution tomorrow, is expected to
develop among the students of the
University of Nebraska, a feeling of
responsibility and ability to manage
their own affairs, in the opinion of the
charter commission which formed the
plan, Miss Mary Graham, dean of wom
en and chairman of the committee,
siid yesterday.
For that reason the plan provides
for only student members, no faculty
person being a member.
"The members of the student coun
cil will be at the age when they can
?oe the problems that come before
them just as the other students see
ihem," Miss Graham said. "The dean
of women, the executive dean, and
other members of the faculty will be
glad to give advice when the council
wishes it. But we want the students
to be able to deliberate freely and
frann'y on student questions.
"The students are given the power
of recommending to the faculty. If
faculty members were present at the
deliberations, their opinion might con
trol the decision, when it is student
government that we are working for."
The plan that is suggested by the
commission for the first year is not
expected to continue in full force and
effect; experience will probably show
the need of changes which can be
made as occasion demands.
"The commission wants to have the
students realize that the student coun
cil is merely a representative group to
crry out the will of the students. Be
cause it will be representative it will
be given power. The commission'
vants it to be a group of students that
the faculty will feel able to trust
always a group that will feel that it
is its business to carry out the will of
the students."
"The commission felt that the stu
dents would take more responsibility
far the persons they choose under the
GENERAL PERSHING
IS NOT COMING
WIRES CHANCELLOR HE CANNOT
FILL ENGAGEMENT
"Circumstances Have So Shaped Them
selves Since Declaration of War"
No Speaker in Sight
General John J. Pershing, former
commandant of University cadets and
designated leader of America's expedi
tionary force to France, wired Chan
rellor Avery yesterday that he would
be unable to come to Lincoln and fill
his engagement as commencement
speaker in June. In his telegram he
said that "circumstances have so
shaped themselves since the declara
tion of war that I shall be unable to
be present at commencement as I
expected."
Chancellor Avery did not have any
idea yesterday who might be secured
to replace General Pershing as com
mencement speaker. It has been sug
gested that there would be no dif
ficulty, however, in securing an able
man to give the address because of
the distinguished governors who would
be in Lincoln at the time as guests at
the semi-centennial celebration of Ne
braska. General Pershing, with ex President
Theodore Roosevelt, are the two dis
tinguished men who were listed as
speakers on the semi-centennial program.
plan as it has been suggested. The
colK ges will want their representative
1o be a good one. College pride will
take care of that. The senior mem
bers, nominated by the senior class,
will be elected at large by all of the
ttudents and this will, eliminate
cliques."
Some of its Duties
"One of the first duties of the stu
dent council next year will be to take
the responsibility of the single tax.
The council has always been followed
in other schools by the introduction of
a student honor system, and this may
be expected at Nebraska. It will also
have the task of seeing that student
activities besides atretics are given
proper recognition It will have to
regulate the class hops. It is con
sidered desirable for the classes to
operate under constitutions instead of
under the present formless system,
and the council will have that in
charge. It will co-operate with the j
st- dent activities office in securing (
permanent records of student affairs."
The commission decided against hav
ing any members given places on the
council by virtue of the office they
may hold with some organization, be
cause, if such a thing as ex-offlcio
membership were introduced, there
would be too many organizations that
would have a right to demand a rep
resentative. The council it was though
would be more efficient, if not so large.
Miss Graham explained the pro
vision of the plan for the selection of
a chairman and vice-chairman of the
council, one of whom will be a girl, so
that separate meetings of the men's
and women's portions of the council
will be possible. Much of the work
cf the student council is expected to
be done by subcommittees. The stu
dents can readily conceive of certain
matters on which it would be better
n have the girls, or the men, act
aione, and this is provided for by the
two heads of the council.
NINE HUSKERS WILL
MAKEAMES TRIP
NEBRASKA WILL SEND SMALL
SQUAD TO VALLEY MEET
Men Leave This Afternoon Some
Preliminaries Come Tomorrow and
Other Races Saturday
Nebraska will be represented at the
annual Missouri valley conference
track meet Saturday at Ames by nine
men. This will probably be about one
half the number entered by Anias and
Missouri.
Coach Stewart, Jack Best and the
nine men will leave this afternoon at
1:30 and arrive in Ames tomorrow
morning. The preliminaries in the
quarter mile and the dashes will be
run off in the afternoon. All other
races will be on Saturday.
Squirt Owen has practically recov
ered from the injury received last Fri
day, but has suffered some from lack
of workouts. With two hard races com
ing within a day of each other he will
have hard work winning, but despite
this handicap he is feared by all the
other 440 men in the valley.
All the other men are In good shape
and may spring several upsets In the
dope before the sun sets Saturday.
The men who will make the trip are:
Captain Overman, Owen. Werner,
Reese, Graf, Grau, Bryans, Fuchs and
Riddell.
SPECIAL ELECTION
STUDENT COUNCIL
CONSTITUTION
Notice is hereby given that a
special election is called for the
adoption of the constitution for
the student council Friday May
25, In Memorial hall, west en
trance. Polls will be open from
9 to 12 and 2 to 5. All students
are eligible to vote.
FLORENCE I. M'GAHEY.
Acting Registrar.
PHARMIC FACULTIES
OFFER SCHOOL HELP
WAR DEPARTMENT MAY ACCEPT
SERVICE, WRITES DEAN LYMAN
The American conference of phar
maceutical faculties decided at the an
nual meeting, which was held a short
time ago, to offer the services of the
schools belonging to the conference to
the government in auy manner that
they might be of use. The letter sent
by Dean R. A. Lyman of the college
of pharmacy, president of the confer
f nee, to President Wilson May 1, reads
as follows:
"The executive committee of the
American conference of pharmaceu
tical faculties, representing forty-
three leading colleges of pharmacy of
the United States, has authorized me
to inform you that the services of the
schools belonging to this conference
are at your command. This organiza
tion wishes to render to the country
any and every possible service. Some
of the special services which these
schools can render are suggested be
low.
1. The manufacture of pharmaceu
tical preparations, official or non-of
ficial, in such quantities as the gov
ernment needs.
2. The misroscopical and chemical
examination of the purchases of crude
drugs, for the purpose of identifica
tion, and the detection of adultera
tions. 3. The physiological and chemical
standardization of medical products.
4. The manufacture of mecicinal
synthetics.
5. The chemical, microscopical, and
bacteriological examination of food
stuffs. 6. The supplying of crude medici
nal plants, such as digitalis belladonna,
which are now on hand, or are now
growing in our plant gardens. The
latter will be available this fall.
7. The growing of crude drugs upon
a larger scale than is now attempted,
and the supplying of information or
of trained men to those who wish to
engage in the cultivation of medici
nal plants.
"Respectfully yours,
"(Signed) RUFUS A. LYMAN.
President of American Conference of
Pharmaceutical Faculties."
(Continued on page 3)
CONVOCATION
A musical program will be given by
the University string trio at Convo
cation this morning at 11 o'clock In
Art halL Miss Jessie Wilkins will
play the violin. Miss Lillian Eiche the
cello, and Miss LaRue Moore Shire
the piano.
The program:
Minuet Hayden
Romance Glinka
Minuet Beethoven
Adagio from Op. II Beethoven
Finale from Op. I. No. 1... Beethoven
KANSAS WILL SEND
FIVE MEN TO AMES
SPROULL, GRUT2MACHER, RICE,
RODKEY, O'LEARY ENTRIES
Captain Rodkey Predicts That Ne
braska Will Be Missouri's Strongest
Competition
Lawrence, Kas., May 22. Kansas
will probably send five men to the Mis
souri valley conference meet at Ames
Saturday. The Kansas track men who
are most likely to be entered in the
meet are Sproull, Grutzmacher, Rice,
Rodkey, and O'Leary. Grutzmacher
and Rice are almost sure first place
winners in the broad jump and high
jump, while Pproull, Rodkey, and
O'Leary will make strong bids for
first places in the mile, half mile, and
quarter.
Grutzmacher, the diminutive flier,
said he was going to try for the val
ley record in the broad jump which is
23 feet 5 inches. He made 23 feet 3-4
inches in the Nebraska meet last Fri
day. Sproull Going Good
Sproull has been going good in the
mile lately and will likely make Dun
can of Missouri, who nosed out ahead
of him here May 12, run a much
faster mile to win again. He ran the
mile in the Nebraska meet three
seconds faster than Duncan ran the
mile here.
Captain Rodkey said he was going
to "put up a terrible scrap" for the
half mile in the Ames meet and that
is only another way of saying that
Kansas is going to add five points in
that event. O'Leary is almost sure
to place in the quarter mile.
Captain Rodkey predicts that Kan
sas will take about twenty points with
Missouri the strongest bidder for the
championship with about thirty-five
or forty points. Nebraska will be the
Tiger's strongest opposition. Kansas,
Missouri, Nebraska, Ames, and Drake
are the valley schools that will enter
the meet.
HARD WORK STARTS
ON 1917 PAGEANT
An Oxen-Hauled Prairie Schooner and
Grasshopper Chorus are
Two Features
The cast for this year's pageant,
the masque of the admission of Ne
braska into the Union, has been
chosen, and the practices are well un
der way. Lincoln high school stu
dents have been put in the first act,
and business men and University stu
dents have the second act.
Professor R. D. Scott, who is direct
ing the rehearsals promises several
musical features. There will be a
chorus of grasshoppers, made up of
twenty-five small boys, who were
chosen from the loyal and enthusias
tic crowd which is always to be found
on the football field.
Miss Charlotte Whedon is training
fifteen high school and University
girls to do ballet dances.
Prof. Scott expects to have a team
of oxen and an old prairie schooner
In the pioneer chorus. In which fifty
University girls are taking part.
Solomon Dudlebuf D. Vizeman
Wonders If the International Corre
spondence school will now offer a
mail course on "How to Be An Army
Officer?"
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