Daily Nebraskan
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VOL. XVII, NO. 38.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2. 1917.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
rirKETBALL PRACTICE
NOW IN FIRST STAGES
No Official Call Has Been Is
sued as Yet
THREE PLACES VACANT
Jackson, Ridde.."77pickett the Only
Men of Last Year's Squad
in School
Unofficial varsity and basketball
nractic has gotten a fair start during
the past week. Coach Stewart has
not issued a call for men but a num
ber of candidates have been on the
floor getting their wind back and their
eye focused on the basket.
Cable Jackson, star forward on last
vear's team, has been the only old
S, out so far. Riddell and Pickett
are the only other members of last
year's squad that are in school this
vear So far Herman Schroeder nad
Harold Gerhart are the only members
of last year's freshman team that
have appeared at the practices.
A number of the men who will be
on the varsity when the season opens
are on the football team and will not
have a chance to get at basketball
until early in December. A large
number of last year's high school
stars are in school this year and it
is thought that the first year five will
be able to give the varsity all the
competition it will need to get into
the best of condition when the sea
son opens. .
Schedule Not Arranged
The schedule for the coming win
ter has not been arranged yet. That
part of the basketball season Is al
ways attended to at the annual De-.
cember meeting of the Missouri Val
ley conference. It Is probable, how
ever that the usual number of games
will be put on the program with pos
sible trips to Missouri and Minne-
. I0t0. - - -
There are three places vacant on
the varsity this year with only one
man of experience to fill them. It Is
conceded that Jackson will play for
ward and Riddell will bold a guard's
Job. For the other three positions
there is only Pickett, who Is expected
to develop into a valuable man this
season. There are, however, a num
ber of good men from last year's
freshman team that will probably be
of varsity calibre.
Practice hours at present are un
certain. Tiie floor is not in use as a
rule on Tuesday's and Thursday's at
four o'clock nor on Monday, Wednes
day and Friday at 5 o'clock. These
are the hours when the greatest num
ber of men have been practicing.
GIRLS' SOCCER SEASON
OPENS SATURDAY
Upperclass Teams Meet Lowerclass
On Nebraska Field in First
Battle of Season
The girls' soccer football season will
open next Tuesday morning at 11
o'clock on Nebraska field when the
npperclassmen captained by Blanch
Higgins will battle the lowerclaasmen
captained by Patricia Maloney.
The girls have been holding en
thusiastic practices on the athletic
field for some time and say they will
P'ay the game out there on Tuesday
regardless of the weather. The spirit
wems to be, "be It cold or hot we
care not," and both teams are deter
mined to have the victory.
The game is a combination of
"ockey and Rugby football. It is
Played with a ball smaller than a
basketball which is kicked with the
watep. Last year the games were hot
ly contested and an intense rivalry
pew up between the teams. There
,m enough danger of injury to
M epice to the contests,
i rift0 Eirl on the team will receive
fo Points which will admit her to the
women's Athletic association. Be
"les this each girl on the winning
earn will receive 50 points in addi
tion to her 100.
K- U. Students Practicing
rood Conservation Rules
krge numl,er of the fraternities
"a sororities at the university of
n, jjf 8 are having one or two
bo?.88' wheatIess. and as far as
JJne. sugarless days as a result
,h!r.8vConerrtlon of food campaign
lor St last Tue8lay. Chancel
Peal tn has made a Personal ap
housM , .tudent living in boarding
w advance the movement also.
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CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION
ANNOUNCES EXAMINATIONS
The United States Civil service com
mission announces open competitive
examinations for the positions of
junior engineer; computer, coast and
geodetic survey; computer, nautical
almanac office and naval observatory;
architectural draftsman; Junior archi
tectural draftsman, to be held Novem
ber 21 and 22. The positions pay from
$840 to 2,000' per year. The posi
tions of architectural draftsman and
junior architectural draftsman are
open to women as well as men. The
bulletins sent out by the commission
are posted on the board outside of
Dean Stout's office, in Mechanic Arts
hall, and further information may be
obtained from them.
KYNER ELECTED HEAD
OF KEARNEY CLUB
L. N. Kyner was elected president
of the Kearney club, at a meeting
last Saturday evening. The other of
ficers elected were Edith Lyons, vice
president, and M. G. Richmond, sec
retary and treasurer.. After the busi
ness meeting a short social hour was
enjoyed.
FINAL TOUCHES FOR
HALLOWE'EN PARTY
A Playlet, Special Dancing,
Comedy Acts, Community
Ringing on Program
All is in readiness for the second
All-University party in the Armory
tomorrow night. The program com
mittee has put its stamp of approval
upon the entertainment, the refresh
ment committee has announced that
the pumpkin pies and Jugs of cider
are being made, and the reception
committee says it will see that
everyone has an opportunity to get ac
quainted. The program will be duplicated in
both Armory and Memorial hall. The
play will be short and full of action.
There will be some time given to the
singing of i University and national
songs. There will be something for
everybody to do, whether they dance
or not.
The program:
"A Nite With Mephisto."
1. A playlet "The King of Heck
abaloo." 2. A Hallowe'en Dance.
3. Fifteen Minutes With Mephisto
Himself.
4. A "Racy" Time.
Various games appropriate to the
season. .
5. General community singing led
by the chorus.
Rousing cheers led by our own
cheer leaders.
The committees in charge are:
Finance Walter Blunk.
Advertising George Driver, Evelyn
Caldwell, Fern Noble.
Entertainment Ruth Shlveley,
Everett Garrison.
Refreshment Harry Reed, Vesta
M&WG.
Decoration Kate Helzer, Roger
Jeffries.
Reception Helen' Loftman, Jean
Nelson.
Dance J. G. Fowler.
Nebraska Honors
With the flag floating at half mast
over U ball, the University commu
nity is reverently turning its thoughts
towards the life work of Chancellor
Emeritus Andrews, who after many
years of suffering is now at rest.
Prof. W. F. Dann, who as an Ohio
boy walked many miles across the
country to Granville to advise with
President Andrews as to whether he
should get a college education, and
who knew him intimatley during his
college days, has been selected as the
most appropriate representative of the
University of Nebraska to be present
at the interment of Dr. Andrews in
the (old cemetery on the Denison
campus where the builders of that
university have been laid to rest.
Immediately after receiving a tele
gram from Dr. Andrews' secretary.
Miss Phelps. Chancellor Avery sent
the following telegram: v
"Entire University Joins with me in
expressing heartfelt sympathy to Mrs.
Andrews and Guy. We are planning
to send an old time friend to repre
sent Nebraska at funeral and to hold
memorial exercises here at the same
time. Please wire me day and hour
as soon as determined."
In reply the following telegram has
just been received from Dr. Andrews
son:
CLASSES PLAN FOR
COMING OLYMPICS
Freshmen and Sophomores
Square Away for Battle
COMMITTEES ANNOUNCED
Juniors and Seniors in Charge Will
Meet This Evening at
7 O'Clock
After resting quietly in the back
of the heads of some four hundred
freshmen and about half that num
ber of sophomores the Idea of an im
pending clash has now become upper
most in their minds and both classes
are busy at work getting ready for
the annual Olympics on the morning
of Saturday, November 10.
The freshmen have taken the jump
on the sophomores and have called
the first class meeting. They will
get together this morning in U 103
at 11:50 o'clock to get a line on the
material at hand for entry into the
events of competition. They plan to
hold the first tryouts Monday eve
ning. The sophomores will meet early
next week.
No High School Play
Both classes have tacitly agreed
that there will be no resorting this
year to ,small-boy tactics in settling
the rivalry between the two classes.
Such petty play as kidnapping class
presidents and stirring up bad feel
ing which should not normally exist
has been frowned upon by both fresh
man and sophomore leaders, who
show a disposition to let the Olympics,
which were designed for that special
purpose, settle the question of fresh
man rights.
There will be two committees of
juniors in charge, and they will be un
der the direction of a senior commit
tee comprising Ralph Sturm, Ted Rid
dell, Edson Shaw, Dwight Thomas,
MerU Townsend, IvanBeede,- Wayne
Townsend and John Cook.
The junior class committee, ap
pointed by the president, is composed
of Merril Vanderpool, chairman;
Harold Wilder, Ralph Thorpe, Lewis
Taylor and V. Graham.
The following men will make up
another committee to work in con
Junction with the one appointed by
the class president. Mike Finney,
Jean Nelson, Cable Jackson, Leonard
Kline, Walter Blunk, Alfred
Paul Dobson and Roscoe Rhodes. The
two committees will meet together
this evening at 7 o'clock in The Daily
Nebraskan office.
The list of events that will comprise
the contests this fall will be pub
lished Monday. There will be more
stress placed upon individual com
petition than ii usually the case be
cause of the preponderance of fresh
men. The pushball, which is one of the
big attractions at the Olympic con
tests, will probably be numbered
among the events, but this rests with
the two clasjses. -The expense of
shipping the ball from Des Moines to
Lincoln and the rental for the use of
it mount up to an item of some size,
and if the freshmen and sophomores
Former Chancellor Andrew's Memory
"Funeral services for my father. Dr.
E. Benjamin Andrews, will be held
at the Baptist church, Granville, O.,
at 2 o'clock Tuesday, November 6.
Interment to follow in Denison me
morial cemetery.
Memorial Exercises Tuesday
Arrangements are being made for
a special memorial Convocation to be
held if possible at the time of the
funeral at Granville. Chancellor
Avery, a representative of the faculty,
a representative of the alumni, and
a representative of the Baptist church
in which Dr. Andrews was a promi
nent leader, will probably give short
addresses. Mrs. Raymond will be in
charge of the music.
The University is glad that it took
occasion to honor Chancellor An
drews during his long and tedious
sickness. Some years ago the pre
sent chancellor proposed a tablet in
his honor to be placed in the Temple
building. The idea met with univer
sal approval, but it seemed inappro
priate to ask the taxpayers of the
state to pay the expense, and it was
felt that a canvass even for small sub
scritions would be distasteful to Dr.
Andrews. At the suggestion of Pro
fessor Grummann, however, the class
of 1915 gladly adopted the plan of
prefer to eliminate it from the pro
gram the pushball will be dropped.
LARGE ADDITION MADE
TO BOTANY HERBARIUM
The University department of
botany has Just received a large ship
ment of specimens sent from China
by a student in the University at Can
ton. The collection, which contains
1,000 specimens of flowering plants
found in China, will be placed on ex
hibition in the University Herbarium
at Bessy hall.' Three hundred thou
sand specimens are already collected
and with the receipt of this shipment,
the Herbarium will contain specimens
of plants from every part of the
civilized world.
Harden Lathe Centers
Three mechanical engineering stu
dents worked all Wednesday night
case hardening the lathe centers in
the machine shops. The lathe cen
ters had become soft, and it was a
ten-hour job to case harden them.
In order that the shops might not
have to be closed for a day, the
students did the work after the shops
had closed Wednesday.
EQUAL SUFFRAGE LEAGUE
PLEDGES AID IH WAR
Adopts Resolutions at Meeting
at Convocation Yesterday
Chancellor Avery Speaks
Denouncing as un-American and un
patriotic the picketing of the White
House and of congress by members of
the woman's party, and urging its
members to offer unqualifiedly their
services to the United States, the
University of Nebraska Equal Suf
frage league met at 11 o'clock yester
day morning in the Armory. Chan
cellor Avery was among the speakers.
Lincoln women, Mrs. A. E. Shel
don, representing the state federation
of clubs, Mrs. W. E. Barkley, repre
pentin? -the. state suffrage- association,
Prof. Sarka Hrbkova, the women's
division of the state league of de
fense, and Dr. Laura Pfeiffer, spoke
of the subject of military suffrage and
approved the action of the league.
Prof. Alice Howell of the department
of dramatics, presided.
Resolutions Adopted
The resolutions as presented by
Professor Hrbkova, chairman of the
resolutions committee, and as ac
cepted by the league, follow:
Whereas, We universally recognise
that this is a time of severe stress
in which the weightiest problems con
front our chief executive, President
Woodrow Wilson, and the congress of
the United States, and
Whereas, Members of the woman's
party have persisted in heckling 'he
president publicly and obstructing
worthy activities,
Be it therefore, Resolved that it is
the sense of this'mass meeting of the
University of Nebraska College Equal
Suffrage league which is a branch of
the national suffrage association, that
it emphatically disapproves of the
picketing by members of the woman's
party of the White House and of con
gress and denounces as un-American
(Continued on page 2)
erecting It as their class gift. Pro
fessor Grummann and Professor Bar
bour acted with Chancellor Avery as
a committee in securing an appro
priate tablet. The last letter received
at the chancellor's office from Dr. An
drews showed his appreciation of this
act, and is now given for the first
time to the public:
"Interlachen, Fla., Sept. 5, 1916.
"My Dear Chancellor Avery:
"I am in receipt of your highly
valued letter' of the first, telling of
the commemorative bronze to be
placed in the Temple by the class of
1915, and enclosing a fac-simile.
"Please accept my hearty thanks for
letter and enclosure and for your large
part in conceiving the plan for such
a memorial, initiating the movement
and seeing it through. If, and when,
you have opportunity, will you kindly
convey to the class and to Professor
Grummann assurances of my fullest
gratitude for their co-operation? You
and they have united to honor me in
a way peculiarly gratifying. Aside
from all personal feeling, I am greatly
pleased with the tablet its beautiful
simplicity and its concise phraseology.
"With best wishes ever for your
self and for the University.
"Yours,
"E. BENJAMIN ANDREWS."
STUDENTS TO HOLD BIG
MASS MEETING SUNDAY
Will Meet in Armory to Discuss
War Service Plans
REV. L D. YOUNG TO SPEAK
Student Patriotic League to Direct
Student Aid In Red Cross, Y. M. C. A.
War Work and Soldiers Christmas
A Student Patriotic league mass
meeting of all students Interested in
the aiding of American soldiers at the
front and in other ways brins the war
to a successful conclusion will be
held Sunday afternoon in Memorial
hall at 4 o'clock. The Students' Pa
triotic league was organize! a short
time ago to supplement th work of
the faculty league and to give the
students and organization through
which they could ronder the greatest
atf in war work Through the league
students will w vk in bacKing all war
measures on the campus
Rev. L. D. Young to Speak
Dr. L. D. Young, oastor of the First
Presbyterian church, will sperk at the
meeting on the work which the league
can do and tho opportunities for stu
dent service for the soldiers Com
munity singing wi'l be led by II. H
Reimund, graduate student of Ihe
school o f music. Copl-'s of the songs
will be distributed. One or two other
musical numbers have been planned.
A constitution will be proposed.
The meeting Sunday was called by
John Riddell, president of the league,
for the purpose of perfecting plnas of
action for the numerous tasks which
students face in the war work. The
league will aid in the Red Cross work
and in the raising of the $15,000 for '
the Y. M. C. A. war work fund. An
other of the biggest tasks at present
is that of co-operating with the faculty
in arranging to send Christmas pack
ages to all Nebraska soldiers at the
front. These packages must be
mailed by November 15 if they are
to reach the men by Christmas.
Students have shown throughout
the year their willingness and deter
mination to help in patriotic works
and it is believed with some form of
organization as their pariotic league
for concentrating efforts results will
be increased. Meetings are being
planned for each week to plan for the
work that is to be done.
Gymnasium Lockers
All men who are using gymnasium
lockers and who have not yet paid
for them see Dr. Clapp about them
by 6 o'clock Friday, as otherwise
locks will be cut at that time.
CO-EDS TO HAVE FIRST
SWIM THURSDAY NIGHT
Nearly One Hundred Registered for
Classes at High School
Pools
University women will begin swim
ming classes Thursday night, Novem
ber 7th. A large enough number have
enrolled to permit the engagement of
the pools at the Lincoln city high
schools and the regular class sched
ules to be arranged. About one hun
dred have purchased tickets to date,
but more will register as the classes
begin on their regular work.
Last year some one hundred and
fifty women purchased tickets and the
course was very successful. Some
excellent swimmers and divers were
developed from the large list of mer
maids which were enrolled.
A change has taken place in the in
structors staff, Miss Marion Young re
placing Miss Gish of last year as direc
tor of women's athletics.
The class schedules announced by
the department are: Thursday nights
7:30 o'clock to 9:30 o'clock and Sat
urday mornings from 9:30 o'clock to
11:30 o'clock.
The price of the tickets will be
$1.50 and entitles the holder to fif
teen swims. All women interested in
these classes may obtain any desired
Information from Miss Young at her
office In the Armory.
Phi Delta hi Meeting
Phi Delta PhL professional and legal
fraternity met last night at the Kappa
Sigma house. After a short business
meeting a mock trial furnished the
entertainment. Refreshments were
served.