he Daily Nebraskan
VOL. XVII, NO. 10G.
HUSKER TOSSERS
WHIP BULLDOGS
Cop Both Contests, 32 to 10
and 21 to 14
GAMES
CAME' EASY
Draka Unable to Work Effectlvely
Schellenbero, Jackson and
Spear Star ,
Nebraska (32; 21); Drake (10; 14).
niidnes have come and the
Bulldogs have gone but Nebraska re
mains unbitten. Doc's bunch of ball
tossers Just naturally climbed all over
the frame of the Drake bunch last Fri
day and Saturday, administering about
the biggest black eye that she has
given to any team so far this year.
Both games were ours from the start
and only once In the course of the
series were the visitors in the long
end of the running. Schellenberg.
Spear and. Jackson showed up as a
trio of sharks and furnished a brand
of basketball that is hard to beat any
where. And Just to show the Dogs
what a Husker team thought of them,
We Played the la'st half of each game
largely with a substitute team and
still were able to gain on them. The
Drake bunch showed plenty of fight
but for Borne reason or other they
could not hit the basket and had to de
pend for their scores largely on free
throws. One reason for this Ineffici
ency was probably the fact that the
cnord Hawley. was not
with them but whatever the reason the
defeat remains Just the same.
The First Game
The first game was one of these
games that grow better as it grows
older, but this fact did not seem to
impair Nebraska's scoring ability, for
the first half ended 16-5 while the
final score was Just doubled that,
3210. One of the features of the
game was the scoring of Jackson and
Shelly. Each ran up six goals and
Captain Jackson slipped in a couple of
free throws' by way of good measure,
this making these two lights register
a total of 26 of the Huskers 32 counts.
The summary of the game is:
Nebraska Pos. Drake
Jackson (c) rf....... Ebelheizer
Shellenberg If. - Higgins
Hubka c Payseur
Spear .......... .rg Merboth
Thomas lg Cheverton
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AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL
COMMENCEMENT APRIL 5
Sixty-Seven Seniors Will Re
ceive Diplomas Three Weeks
Earlier Than Usual
The school oFagficuiture will close
three weeks earlier this spring than
UHual. Commencement exercises will
be held Friday. April 5, at the Temple
Theatre. One week was gained by
shortening the Christmas vacation and
the other two weeks will be cut from
the regular schedule. This will enable
the boyB to work on the farm during
the spring. - -
The senior class this year has The
same number of students as a year
ago. Sixty-seven will receive diplo
mas, forty-three being boys and twenty-four
girls. Last year there were
forty-one boys and twenty-six girls In
the class. This is considered a good
record with the shortage of student's
in nearly all University departments.
Two of the seniors, Floyd Warren
and Lewis Harrington, have enlisted
in the army and will be in service
this spring. Seventeen of the girls in
the class have been taking the teach
ers' training course preparing for work
in the rural and village schools.
V. P nrnwn. president of the board
of regents, will deliver the address at
the commencement exercises.
Phi Beta Kappa Elections
Will Be Announced Soon
EWHnni in pm Beta Kappa from
the class 1918 will be announced at
the last Convocation prior to tne
Rpring vacation. Yesterday was the
laet Hv in vnlh flnaJ entries could
be made, according to a notice issued
sometime ago. Only those grades
which have been properly recorded
with the registrar will be considered
when determining ttie eligibility of
members.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA. LINCOLN. TUESDAY, MARCH 5. 1918.
PLANS COMPLETED FOR
BIG SUMMER SESSION
Will Attempt to Supply Needs
Caused by War
OFFERS 13 HOURS' CREDIT
Regular Course Extended and Special
Studies Offered Will Last
Twelve Weeks
rians for a big summer session to
fit the needs of the present school
crisis have bnen completed and are
announced In the February issue of
the University Journal.
This session is organized to serve
the needs of the teachers of the state
as well as to offer opportunity for
students to economize their time. The
increase in attendance over the past
years has Justified an enlargement of
the work and much increase In acad
emic and professional courses.
To Give Extra Credit
The first thing of interest is that
an eight weeks' course will be given,
followed by four weeks of continued
work. Extra credit- will be given for
this four weeks' additional course,
making the total amount of credit now
obtainable thirteen hour?. Previous
to this year, the maximum has been
nine hours, but to allow students to
obtain certificates- and required
courses, it has been deemed advisable
to grant additional credit in certain
courses, namely: Home economics,
manual training. French, Spanish and
mathematics. By intensive study and
Increased recitations students will ac
complish as much and receive the
same credit as if they were carrying
moro subjects for a longer term. This
is arranged in order to increase the
supply of teachers in vocational lines.
Many courses are arranged especially
for teachers because so many Women
must come from departmental work
tr, administrative position to take the
rnon's nlaces. Much stress will be
laid on the functions of principalship.
firadnates of normal schools ana
high schools are urged to continue
their work through the summer ses
jnn both in nrofcssional and educa
tional lines. Graduate students are to
be given work for their master of arts
rWrpp and are reminded that compe
tition will force teachers to further
preparation or loss of rank and re
duced salary. -
Offer Special Work
CnoMnl work is offered in home
economics and manual training be
cause unless experienced teachers
make preparation through summer
courses for this work, it will be im
possible to supply the demand and
many schools will have to abandon
this work temporarily.
The sudden dropping of German
from the schools has seriously af-
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Whousand Huskers Make Merry at Year's Biggest Fun Fest
.,l.i ..,...-11.. hoi Tinon an OVC nine of
W Hat UBUttliJ lino w. -
Jolly vaudeville resolved itself into a
i w.t,ts.v ond pvervone from the
ia omniiq society lion
and the campus vamp to the prominent
. i M nraro frVP.n
members oi wie imuhj t
healthy Jolts at the eighth annual Uni
versity Night held at the city audl-
inot cohiniav pvenlnsr. when
from 1,800 io 2,000 students and faculty
members completely nueu tne muni
cipal barn and rocked it on its founda
tions. The Engineers, the Laws, the
Dramatic club and Fowler and Brown
all fired a volly of good-natured shots
at the dean of women and the dance
rulir.K. Amanda's "six-inch rule" be
came a by-word by the end of the per
formance and when Evening Shun was
handed out at the door it was found
to be full of the dance Hope.
The program was cleverly gotten
up and it was well received by the
audience. From the introductory num
bers by the University band till the
issuance ot the Shun, the program
rrew better, stunt by stunt until the
climax ot merriment was reached in
Sore the Bar." a mock trial by the
laws The last number, 'Before
Taps." was a beautiful musical num
ber by the military department pic
turing a squad of Sammies after a
hard day- of fighting, lounging about
their camp fire singing of home and
their loved ones.
Yenne Sprlnfls Surprise
Herbert Yenne. the heroine of the
tnnt: conned the Individual
honors. Dressed up fit to MI.. J
swell society dame he was tried on
he charge of breach of prom s
When he mentioned a stroll !n the
moonlit rark and a dance on the lawn.
HUSKERS
SHOW IIP
KANSAS AT MEET
Tip Over Crack Jayhawk Relay
Team Plans
WIN
MANY HONORS
Make Prospects Brlflht for Winning
Squad in Missouri
Valley Race
Adding insult to injury and injury
to insult and then a few more insults
to several more injuries the Corn
husker relay team broke the Kansas
camel's back with the final Btraw last
Saturday night when it walked away
from the Jayhawk quartet at the Kan
sas City 'Athletic club indoor track
meet and finished more than thirty
yards to the good.
As in the case of football and bas
ketball this vear the Jayhawks count
ed their chickens before they were
hatched and then a team of naughty
Cornhusker boys came along ana
tipped over the incubator. Coach
Hamilton, who refused to shake hands
with Coach Stewart following the re
cent basketball games had boosted of
what he was going to do to the Corn
huskers. and if the truth was known
most persons at the meet expected
him to do it.
First Defeat for Kansas
Never in the history of the Kan
sas City meet has a Kansas University
relav team been defeated on this floor
rpflnnerl the crowd, "and surely this
green bunch of Nebraskans can't do
it." Kansas saved all her expert run
rers lust for this one race, keeping
tham nil nut of the sDecial races. Ne
braska had had entered all her men
in the special 440, but withdrew all
hut nno before time for the race.
On the first quarter Townsend took
n lead of five yards. Yort. second
man added a yard or two. Grau left
his man ten or twelve yards farther
to the rear and then McMahon, run
nine as anchor man added about fif
teen more yards to the Jayhawker's
ritserace. In sDite of the fact that
the Kansas runners appeared to have
lead in their feet the CornhusKers
worked hard enough to run the race
faster than any other team of the eve
ning, there being several relay races
in addition to the Kansas-Nebraska
battle
Not content with their honors in the
a( the Cornhuskers proceeded to lay
in several other places in other events,
competing against several of tne suars
rf the country. Dale, a Jiusky rresn
man wnn first nlace in the. twelve
pound shot witha heave of fifty fCct,
thi-po inches. This with his eight-foot
handicap was over four feet better
than his nearest competitor.
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the court demanded an exhibition of
his dancing. He arose and with scan
dalous boldness gave a chorus girl
dance. The audience held Its nreatn
At cmMi immodesty on the part of a
University co-ed but the tension was
relieved when his chum rusnea in au
mitMnir that Yenne had won the wager
th; t he could fool the whole court on
being a gtrl. The young lady tnen re
moved her wig and the secret was out.
Fowler and Betty Brown,
who made such a hit in their vaudeville
act last year brought down the house
again and claimed a big share of ap
plause. Their "Ginger Comedy" was
clever indeed and they got off some
good sells on members of the faculty.
The band concert was the first num
ber on the bill, consisting of an
Egyptian ballet by Luiglr.l; waltz
"Espana," by Waldtensel. and "Uni
Ode," by the director, Cornell.
Clever Melodrama Makes Hit
Next came "Where are Those Pa
pers?" written by Eleanor Fogg and
presented by the University players.
The hero had obtained the papers
which were to determine the fate of
the nation. He was persuaded to dis
close their hiding place to his sweet
heart and in so doinf? a theif got away
with them. There was a man who
claimed to be the father of the hero,
and there was also a vampire named
Theda Bera who floured in the plot.
The play ended with the complete loss
of the papers which were so valuable.
Modern medical science was grue
somely portrayed by the Tre-Medics
in which they found the patient had
a crooked honest nepe and a lot of
Junk In his brain. The scene was en
livened by one of the patients cut
SENIOR CO-EDS WIN
CLASS CHAMPIONSHIP
Beat Juniors 13-10 in Basket
ball Tournament Finals
GAMES WELL PLAYED
First-Year Girls' Second Team Takes
Hlflh Honors In Its
Field
rr.. .nnlnr team WOt the School
championship by defeating the Juniors
hy a score or s t " Y"
i i Kaoirotbnil tournament held
llliri-v innr. -
Saturday morning in the Armory, i .
.,i pfimft OI tne Ittbieni.
best played that Nebraska girls ever
took part in.
The winning team wnu
the same personelle through the three
. A TYlQMO
consecutive years n naa im;w
the best record of any class team that
has ever played University co-ed bas
ketball. For three successive
it has won the class tournaments and
the skill it has developed would enable
it to compete with any co ca imbnec
ball team in the country.
Seniors Worked Togetner
i).,n,iiv pvaw senior on the first
otarroii and It was the close co
operation of every player that won
iv. ,t, a ar fni Riiccess of the team.
mo ninviw...
t.-. norm pan deserves credit tor
making twenty-eight points, the largest
maiia hv ftllV one K" uu"r
ho entire tournament. Camilla Koch
tiio-hPRt numDer, iwemj
one noints. Beatrice Dierks followed
with fourteen points.
a. 1 T t J- 1 AdH rw
Of the Juniors, upai uiui iw
!,, nrtPfn noints in goal throw-
Ing while Bess Chaney did some very
Patricia Maloney and
Betty Brown starred for the sopno-
vtorinHn Barstow and
morea, aim
Tt-i niA iiasorvA considerable credit
neieii uuiu
for the freshmen second team vic
tory over the senior second wam.
t v.n fimt round the seniors won
from the sophomores by a score of .26
t i . Vi froan -
men 19 to 9. A match was also stagea
LO O. ttliu .w- J " -
between the second teams m wmu.
the Juniors were defeated by the
seniors by 10 to 9, and the freshmen
piled up twenty-flve points agamai.
sophomores' two. me u.
in the fresmen's second team defeat
ing the seniors' second team 12 to 8.
Co-Ed Basketball Successful
Co-ed basketball has never before
had the vim, vigor and extraordinary
competition that it had this year.
There has not been as much skill dis
played in this activity in the history
of the school preceding this year as
was evidenced in the three very suc
cessful tournaments, the ihter-sorority,
the Rainbow and the Inter-class.
The tournament was staged under
the auspices of the Women's Athletic
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ting up so that the nurses had to sit
on him. l
Enflineers Stage "Over There
tv. a fiinirpr Tomedv came next and
Hnpers' stunt, "Over
twa" a v. M. C. A. reading room
in France was shown at' the time The
Daily Nebraskan arrived. After digest
ing all the news in the Rag the boys
grouped about the piano ana renaeieu
some close harmony.
nHHnaiitv." nresented by the Dra
matic club, and written by Glen Foe,
was n. verv clever act. Foe gave lm
TTarrv Lauder in "Fou
the Noo" dressed in kilts and bare
tr,AA, ut,a wlih the characteristic
"hies" throughout. Genevieve Addle-
man gave a beautiful Egyptian dance
.v,ih hoi-pd artistic training. Her
dance resolved Itself into a take-off
on Dean Heppner's new rulings.
The Law stunt and the Military de
nartmenfs number concluded the pro
cram und then The Evening Shun was
distributed at the doop. "Newspaper
Stuff," scheduled for the last stunt, by
Theta Sigma Thi. was not given.
Thcta Sigma Thi, the Journalistic
down for the closing num
ber, but the girls were too busy edit
ing their Whiskbroom to work up a
stunt. Their part was to have been
"VowRnaner stuff." and It was a great
disappointment to the crowd to miss
it. The Whiskbroom is expected io
be extra good for this extra prepara
Hr.n
ThA Y M C. A. committee in charge
ct th "Nieht" are Wm. F. Urbach,
chairman; George Driver. G. L. Stone.
Harold Long. Ray Cowen. Florence
niohnn Ruth Hutton and Theda
Waterman.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
ENTRY LIST FOR
lUiltliT 122
Annual High School Meet to Be
Biggest Ever Held
STARTS TOMORROW
Elaborate Plans Being Made for En
tertainment of Visitors Will
Use Four Floors
a total of 122 Nebraska high schools
had filed for the big basketball tourna
ment which starts tomorrow morning
at 9 o'clock, when the entries closed
last Saturday night. This entry list
exceeds last year's entries by tmrteen
and the present prospects are that the
tournament this year will far eclipse
any affair of the kind that has ever
been staged before. The high school
boys who come from all parts of the
state will begin to arrive iuuirv
order that they may be here for the
start of the affair in the morning. The
"N" club, composed ot au varsity id
ter men. and the Lincoln Commercial
club are making elaborate plans for
the entertainment oi tne wuumuu u.
more young fellows who will be the
guests of the University and several
special events nave Deen uriuBcU.
Coach E. J. Stewart, who has charge
of affairs in general, spent a good part
of his time Sunday in making the final
classification of the teams and arrang
ing the drawings for the first day's
play. The new ruling of the Nebraska
High School Athletic association,
which does not allow any one team to
play more than one game per day baa
made the final classification a rather
difficult matter this yea. Where in
previous years there have been but
four classes in the tournament, this
year the teams have been divided into
eight divisions. In some ways thia
will make far better games as the men
will not be so worn out for the finals
and it will assist In making the games
more evenly matched.
Special Features for Visitors
o,.oi onarioi fAatiires of entertain-
ijtiiwoi "P1''"'
ment have been planned for the vlsit
i tstomci rtn Tburndav the games
lug icoiuo. n OA
have been suspended from 12 to 2:80
. .. i. 4kn
so that the visitors may meet w
Capitol and have their pictures taken
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CHANGE QUESTION FOR
INTER-CLASS DEBATERS
Orators Will Discuss Govern-
ment Ownership of Railroads
Junior Team Strong-
The frpshmen will give forensic bat
tle to the sophomores in the first round
of the tenth annual interclass debates
on March 13. On the following eve
ning the Juniors are matched against'
v.a RPniors. '"'he question first de
cided upon was amended at the last
meeting of the committee, me new
question to be discussed Is. "Resolved
that the United States should own and
operate the railroads." This is a sub
ject of unusual interest, because of
America's recent plunge into the fields
of government ownership.
A veteran Junior team appears at
present to be the class of the field.
ThA frsbmen have a strong trio of
debaters and are determined to avenge
the seVeral defeats, which the sopuo
mores have handed them In various
school activities.
This year the teams are working
diligently in their debating "Think
Shops." arid closely contested debates
are assured. A large crowd is desired,
for the best orators receive little in
spiration from empty seats. Every
student w-ho is interested In the suc
cess of hi3 class, should be out In
force to boost his team to victory.
Dramatic Club Tryouts
Will Be Held Next Week
Dramatic club tryouts will be held
Monday evening, March 11. in the
Temple Theatre at 7 o'cldek. All
wishing to tryont are asked to go to
room 106 University hall Wednesday
from 12:20 to S o'clock. Thursday at
11 o'clock or to call E. Brown, L-740A
to arrange for the time for the tryouts.
or to get advice concerning selections.
The club hopes that many people
will tryout at this time and urges
anyone interested to come.
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