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UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, MONDAY, MAY 28. 1917.
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NEBRASKA TAKES
SECOND AT AMES
MISSOURI WINS BY 23 POINTS
AMES IS THIRD
Only One-Half Point Separates
Nebraska and Ames Cold
Hurts Huskers
CONFERENCE MEET RESULTS
Missouri 57.
Nebraska 34'2.
Ames 34.
Grinnell 18.
Kansas 12'2.
Drake 6.
Simpson 1.
Ames, la., May 26 Nebraska Uni
versity took second place In the Mis
souri valley conference track meet,
which the University of Missouri won
with a total of 57 points. Nebraska's
lead over Ames was but one-half of a
point. The cold, damp weather and slow
track are conceded to have hurt Ne
braska's chances.
Reese in the ehot put and Graff in
the two mile were the only Nebraska
men to take firsts. Reese put the shot
29 feet, i inches. Graff's race in
the mile was one of the features of the
meet. The little Husker runner kept
a shoulder ahead of Husted, Ames, for
the last quarter of a mile and spurted
to the tape with a narrow lead. Daft,
of Simpson, winner of the race la3t
year, fell exhausted at the end of the
second lap.
Simpson's Last Appearance
Robert Simpson, of Missouri, in his
last Missouri valley meet, was the
individual star of the day, with 194
points. Hoyt, of Grinnell, was second.
Simpson put up a wonderful exhibition,
with first in the two hurdles, first In
the broad jump, second in the hundred.
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COLLEGIANS FIRST
AMERICAN FIGHTERS
FORM INITIAL DETACHMENT TO
CARRY FLAG IN FRANCE
Eastern Undergraduates Forsake Am
bulance Corps for Active Duty
at the Front
American college men were the first
to tarry the American flag to the bat
tle front In France. They were form
erly In the ambulance corp, but since
'be outbreak of war between the
United States and Germany, have been
drilling In preparation for active fight
ing. The first American combatant corps
8tarted to the front May 24, according
to a newspaper dispatch from French
headquarters, under the leadership
of Captain E. I. Tinkham and Lieuten
ant Scully of Princeton University.
Cornell undergraduates chiefly made
up the first detachment for field serv
ice which left the headquarters for
the Aisne battlefield. The stars and
tripeg were raised when the detach
ment started its march to the front.
The fmn were armed with carbines
and drove American five-ton motor
cars.
Other Sections Drilling
There are other sections of Amer
ican college men drilling, for active
service, having forsaken and ambu
lance corps. Andover, Dartmouth,
Harvard, John Hopkins, Yale, Chicago,
nd Williams, all have undergraduates
in France who will be among the first
to battle for the nation as distinct
American organizations. Lieutenant
raly. captain of the 1910 Yale football
team was among those who were drill
ing companies of college men, with
bom we Interspersed other Amer
icans who were previously engaged In
mbulance work.
EVELYN CALDWELL IS
ELECTED PRESIDENT
OF PALLADIAN SOCIETY
Evelyn Caldwell, '18, of Lincoln was
elected president of Palladian literary
society for the first term of the com
ing year at the last regular meeting
of the society Friday evening. Paul
Connor, '18, was chosen vice-president;
Jay Buchta, '18, treasurer;
Rachel Sutherland, '18, secretary;
Verna Buchta. '20, corresponding sec
retary; Theda Waterman, '20. program
stftretary, and Charles Longhorn, '20,
historian.
The annual senior program was
given at this meeting. The society
will Tiold a picnic at Epworth park
next Friday evening.
A F HAL MESSAGE TO
STUDENTS ON WAR
ITS RELATION TO UNIVERSITY
SUBJECT AT CONVOCATION
Four Faculty Men Will Tell Students
What Is Expcted of
Nebraska
At the last Tuesday Convocation of
the year, in Memorial hall at 11 o'clock
tomorrow morning, three faculty men
will speak on the war and its relation
to the University. The three speeches
will form a parting message to under
graduates before they leave for home.
Dean O. V. P. Stout of the, college
of engineering, Dean Charles Fordyce
of the teachers college. Dean E. A.
Burnett of the college of agriculture,
are the three who will speak to the
students. They will summarize the
relation of the University the war both
as it affects their special lines of work
and as it 'affects the instution as a
whole.
This will be the last gathering of
the students at Convocation, w ith the
exception of the musical program
Thursday morning, for the present
semester. The Convocation committee
has arranged the four speeches to
present in an authoritative manner the
problem which has become the most
vital of students' interests. It is ex
pected that no one who can will miss
the Convocation.
Yale Students to Erie
The Aerial Coast Patrol No. 2, com
posed of Yale students, has been or
dered by the government to do duty
on Lake Erie. The men will be en
rolled as individuals, and not as a
unit of the naval station. Ex.
MEN TAKE TURNS
AT PLAYING OFFICER
FT. SNELLING PLANS MARCH IN
DECORATION DAY PARADE
Fort Snelling, Minn., May 24. It
u nlanned to give every man in the
training camp at Fort Snelling prac-
tiP In acting: as captain, lieutenant.
sergeant and corporal on various days
during his three months in military ex
perience at the Minnesota post. The
men become non-commlssionea aua
commissioned officers in their com
pany in alphabetical order, for in
stance, the men having "A" names are
captains first, then returning to the
ranks while others come up. Later
they will be corporals, sergeants, lieu
tenants. The men in camp will be given In
struction in swimming if they desire
it. Swimming places abound near the
post and water recreation promises to
be a big thing as soon as warmer
weathf arrives.
Recitations are still maintained and
the evening study periods are found
very convenient.
The men may march in the Decora
tion Day parade In St. Paul. All are
drilling with rifles, bayonets and car
tridge belts now. Great stress is laid
on aiming and firing instruction.
Seven Points On Draft Registration
1. There is only one day for registration, June 5, 1917.
2. Every male resident of the United States who has reached
his 21st and has not reached his. 31st birthday must register on the
day set, June 5, 1917. The only exceptions are officers and enlisted
men of the regular army, the navy, the marine corps, and the
national guard and naval militia while in the service of the United
States, antf officers in the officers' reserve corps and enlisted men in
the enlisted reserve corps while in active service.
3. Rgistration is distinct from Draft. No matter what just
claim you have for exemption, you must register.
4. Registration is a public duty. For those not responsive to
the sense of this duty, the penalty of imprisonment, not fine, is
provided in the Draft Act.
5. Those who through sickness shall be unable to register
should cause a representative to apply to the county or city clerk
for a copy of the registration card. The clerk will give instructions
as to how this card should he filled out. The card should then be
mailed by the sick person, or delivered by his agent, to the registrar
of his voting precinct. The sick person will enclose a self
addressed stamped envelope for the return to him of his registra
tion certificate.
6. Any person who expects to be absent from his voting pre
cinct on Registration Day should apply as' soon as practicable for a
registration card to the county clerk of the county where he may
be stopping, or if he is in a city of over 30,000, to the city clerk.
The clerk will record the answers on the card and turn it over to
the absentee. The absentee should mail this card to the registrar
of his home voting precinct so that it will reach that official by
Registration Day. A self-addressed stamped envelope should be
enclosed with the card to insure the return to the absentee of a
registration certificate.
7. Registration booths will be open from 7 a. m. to 9 p. m. on
Registration Day, June 5, 1917.
$500 ANONYMOUS
.GIFT TO FUND
FRENCH
WAR
NOW
ORPHAN
$7,164
TOTAL
Nebraska City Sends $500 Sororities
Boost Campaign -Reach
Public Schools
An anonymous donation of $500 to
the French orphan fund, received by
Max Westerman. treasurer. Thursday,
increased the total amount donated to
May 24 to $7.1ti4.L'5. The anonymous
money was sent to Mr. Westerman
through the wife of a professor.
This $500 w ith $11 additional will keep
seven children for a period of two
years.
Five hundred eleven dollars was re
ceived Saturday from Nebraska City,
where Prof. F. M. Fling of the depart
ment of European history spoke for
the orphan fund May 11. Two of the
urinnHnna frnm there were for two
years and five of them were for one
(Continued on page 3)
Editorials For
Editor's Note Tke following is the
first of a series of editorials by emi
nent citizens to be furnished through
a committee appointed by the national
conference of college newspapers. The
editorials will appear simultaneously
in all college newspapers in the coun
try. By Alexander Meikeljohn,
President of Amherst College
The members of this college know
how I have hated the threat of the
coming of this war, , how 1 have
shunned every act. every word, which
would seem to invite it. But it is here.
Those whom we have chosen to make
decision for us on such issues have
declared that for the sake of our com
mon principle and our common life
we must fight. What is to be our
answer?
For you and for me the question is
very simple. I am ready to go wher
ever I am called. Aud if I am not di
rected what to do, I shall look about to
eee what I can do. and will try to do it,
whatever the cost And I know that
every one of you will do the same. I
' trust that no man in this college will
rush heedlessly into a place which
LIST OF THINGS
NEEDED IN WAR
INTERCOLLEGIATE INTELLIGENCE
BUREAU CLASSIFIES POSITIONS
Aviators Badly Needed, Despite
Re-
port That This Branch of
Service Is Filled
Prof. C. J. Frankforter of the chem
istry department, adjutant for the in
tercollegiate intelligence bureau at Ne
braska University, received a commu
nication from the headquarters at
Washington Friday giving a list of
urgent government needs at the pres
ent time. They include:
Mechanicians, qualified as instru
ment makers by four years' apprentice
ship and two years' experience, wanted
in the bureau of standards at salary of
$1,000 to $1,400 a year.
Five textile experts for service at
Pacific coast stations. Qualifications:
(a) Two years training in a textile
school, or (b) three years' experience
(Continued on page 3)
College Students
another man can fill betted than he.
But I am sure that no one among you
will cringe or shrink in the face of the
duty he sees before him.
I advise you that you find, each one
of you. something to do something
worth doing and that you do it. As
students we have two loyalties, the ab
stract loyalty to principles to truth,
goodness, freedom, beauty, youth,
gladness and also the- concrete loy
alties to the institutions of which we
are members to the family, the
church, the school, the state, the hum
ankind. And as students we hold our
selves forever free to criticise and to
understand the Institutions In terms of
the principles. That right we will
never relinquish. But this does not
mean that we have lost our loyalty to
the institution. It means that we are
trying to serve It by making it Intelli
gent. Every man among us loves his
nome, bis school, his fellowmen. And
when the crisis comes, he will fight for
them if need be, fight not with blind
fury and passion, not with hatred and
bitterness, but as one who Is driven
to the last desperate way of trying to
do the human worli that must be done.
GENEVIEVE LOWREY
WILL GO TO CHINA
AS Y. W. C. A'. WORKER
Genevieve Lowrey, '15, Is one of the
36 secretaries secured by Grace Cop-
pock, '05, to help in the Y. V. C. A.
work in China, and will go to the
Orient next November, it was an
nounced Saturday. Miss Lowrey was
very active in the University, especial
ly in Girls' club work. She was a
member of Black Masque.
SWEATERS CAUSE
SENIORS TROUBLE
MAY NOT GET DIPLOMAS IF $100
GOES UNPAID
Is Claimed Sweaters Were Voted Foot
ball Champions at an Unau
thorized Meeting
The senior class, with its funds now
barely out of the hole, faces a deficit
if it must pay for the sweaters of the
members of the class football team.
A class meeting w ill probably be called
during the coming week to act upon
the emergency.
Girl members of the class, who paid
for their own costumes in the Ivy Day
festivties, now face the possibility of
having to contribute to an assessment
to pay for the sweaters of the menj
who represented the class in football.
The sweaters have been delivered and
are be,ing worn by the members of the
eleven.
May Not Get Diplomas
The possibility that members of the
class will not be given their diplomas
until the bill, amounting to more than
a hundred dollars, is paid, is another
interesting angle to the muddled sit
uation. The trouble came about because the
sweaters were voted to the members
of the team at a meeting that was not
called by the class presMent, and that
was mainly attended by the football
men. Publicity in The Daily Ne
braskan was given the first meeting
called for the purpose of discussing
the matter of awarding the sweaters.
but that meeting was adjourned, by
the few students present, to the fol
lowing day, when the sweaters were
awarded without many of the mem
bers of the class knowing about the
matter.
The senior team won the football
championship of the University. The
sweaters that were bought by the ath-
(Continued nage 4)
2 SPECIAL COURSES
IN SUMMER SESSION
I ASSOCIATION FOR CONCILIATION
OFFERS STUDIES
The American association for inter
national conciliation, one of the sub
divisions of the Carnegie Peace founda
tion, has renewed its arrangement of
last year, and two special courses have
been added to the summer session,
South American affairs by Prof C. E.
Persinger of the department of Ameri
can history and a study of internation
al relations by John P. Senning, also of
the American history department.
In Mr. Senning's course will be in
cluded a review of nineteenth centruy
diplomacy, with reference to the
origin of the present war. Five reci
tations a week will be required with
fifteen hours of preparation. Three
hours' credit is given. Recitation is
at 8:30 daily. In his course on South
American affairs, Professor Persinger
will give a brief study of its history,
the relation of Its republics with one
another and with the outside world,
and a more detailed study of present
day South American Institutions. Fif
teen hours preparation will be required
for the five recitations a week. Three
hours credits is given.
STUDENT COUNCIL
PLAN ADOPTED
LIGHT VOTE CAST, ALMOST UNAN
IMOUS FOR CONSTITUTION
Faculty Senate Ratifies Plan Saturday
Morning Election of Members
Early in Fall '
By a student vote of 216 to 17 Fri
day, and approval of the University
senate Saturday morning, the student
council became the approved form of
government for student life at Ne
braska University. The election of tho
first student council will be held dur
ing the first three weeks of the first
semester next fall.
The vote on the constitution sub
mitted by the charter commission was
very light, totalling but 262. Two bal
lots were invalidated. The vote was
practically unanimous, however, and
only twenty-nine of those voting
scratched their ticket to vote on the
articles of the constitution, submitted
separately.
Even among those who scratched the
ballot, every article carried except the
third, providing for a junior and senior
membership, 18 voting against this to
6 for it. Because of the 216 votes in
favor of the plan as a whole, however,
the student council will take form un
der the exact provisions submitted to
the student body by the commission.
The votes that were split were as
follows:
The Split Votes
Article 1. The name, Student Coun
cil of the University of Nebraska. For,
25; against, 0.
Article 11. Giving the student coun
cil control over extra-curricular activi
ties. For, 18; against, 6.
Article 111. Providing for a council
of six junior men, four junior women,
one graduate student, four senior men,
four senior women, and two non-voting
sophomores. For, 8; against, 18.
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CO-EDS WHO CAN'T
DO FARMING, KNIT
UNIVERSITY WOMEN DETER
MINED TO HELP
Farmers' Wives Don't Want Them
Bandage-Making Also to Keep
Co-Eds Busy
Finding that Nebraska farmers'
wives do not want them to help on the
farm. University co-eds have made up
their minds to knit instead. Those
who have not learned this accomplish
ment, and who do not expect to right
now, will turn their attention to some
other form of service. They are all
determined, however, to help in seme
manner this summer.
The department of home economics
has reported that those who volun
teered to work on the farms without
pay have turned their energies to
knitting. Recently the department
sent up "housewives," consisting of
needle and thread, and other necessary
articles, to the Nebraska men at Fort
Snelling. These and others will devote
the rest of their spare time until the
term is out and through the summer to
knHtlng mufflers and "bracelets" for
soldiers.
Make Bandages Too
The making of bandages is also ex
pected to be the summer's work of
many co-eds, who have learned from
the Red Cross campaign of the "ban
dage famine" on the western war front.
The stories reaching America that sol
diers in the first line trenches were
using newspapers, at the risk of blood
poisoning, to stop wounds whica If
allowed to flow would be fatal, because
bandages could not be supplied, are
said to be responsible for the bandage
campaign.
