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TUB DAILY NKHRASKAN
The t)aily Nebraskan
UNIVERSITY or NEBRASKA OFFICIAL PUBLICATION
EDITORIAL 8TAFF
Howard Murfin Managing Editor
Marian Hennlnger ,....! Associate Editor
LeRoss Hamond New Editor
Helen Howe Contributing Editor
Sadie Klnch , Society Editor
BUSINESS STAFF
Roy Wythers Buslnes Manager
Earl Coryell Circulation Manager
Fred Bosklng Asslbtant Business Manager
Offices : News, Basement, University Hall; Business, Basement,
Administration Building.
Telephones: News and Editorial, B-2816; Business, B-2597.
Night, all Departments, B-4204.
Publlbhed every day except Saturday and Sunday during the col
lege year. Subscription, per semester, 1.
Entered at the postofllce at Lincoln, Nebraska, as second-class
mail matter under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
TO FRESHMEN
The University Is glad to welcome those of you who enter its
gates for the first time today. It recognizes in you, who will be
freshmen, the nucleus of a student body to whom will be entrusted
all the traditions, all the ideals that older students have learned to
cherish. It has faith in you although it does not know you all yet.
You are here, many of you, to make your first start toward a
higher education. You have chosen the University of Nebraska. And
the University, Its Btudent body and Its faculty, is going to help you
toward that end.
Do not think that the iron fence, the homely brick buildings und
hurried students will always seem the same to you. They are here,
it Is true, but they serve only as an outer covering to the true heart
of the University. Within that iron fence, within those homely build
ings and with those same hurried students, you will find an experience
which associations and memories will tinge with mellowed brightness.
We cannot define what the school is and what it means. We
might tell you of higher learning, of degrees, of campus spirit and of
student honors, but it would mean little to you. You can only under
stand by entering unreservedly into its life, by becoming a part of it.
And this, the University looks for you to do.
FACING A H,ARD SEASON
That the Cornhuskers face the toughest football schedule in their
history, in fact what critics term the hardest in the country, is the
opinion of all who are in touch with university athletics. Beginning
the season with a game at Iowa City where stiff opposition will be
encountered, jumping In quick succession to the Minnesota Gophers
and Notre Dame, followed by games with other leading teams, Ne
braska looks' forward to a season which will tax its utmost strength.
The schedule has been drafted and me must meet it. Coach
Schulte, new head coach of the Cornhuskers, is on the ground and is al
ready whipping his men into shape to meet the gruelling contests
ahead. He has expressed himself highly satisfied with Nebraska's
football material. He expects to finish the season with a commend
able series of victories. The players, likewise, are confident of suc
cess. They realize the difficulties and without underestimating the
opposition they must tackle, are determined that Nebraska's football
standard will not be lowered. With the withdrawal of Nebraska from
the Missouri Valley conference, the university has' a chance to make
an even greater name for itself and members of the team realize
the responsibility that is theirs.
There was never a time when the student body had a better
opportunity to prove its worth as a factor in building up the school
by boosting for the team. There, perhaps, will never be another time
when such possibilities for standing squarely behind Nebraska ath
letics will be thrown open to students. A revival of the "old-time"
Nebraska pep, that is so much talked about but so little manifested,
is needed. lij&j
Plans are under way at the present time to develop Cornhusker
spirit to its' highest pitch. The football team needs it. We all need
it! And within the next few weeks, when the process of a great
team and a greater university is in the making, do not stand back
in a single Instance where there is chance that you may help.
JUST THE TWIST OF A WORD
. Sometimes young people ask the editors of newspapers how to
learn to write editorials. The editors do not often give out this in
formation. Sometimes the editors themselves' do not know how to
write editorials; and when they do, or think they do, they do not
know how they learned.
They declare a writer of editorials must have definite informa
tion; must be able to think straight, and must have a point in view,
which Is all true. But they generally omit another necessity, perhaps
the greatest necessity he must know how to phrase.
Let us abandon the editor, whom nobody cares' about anyway,
and consider the poet, who, as most people admit, and some people
believe, is at the apex of the pyramid of literature.
As a matter of fact the poet very seldom has anything new to
say. He is almost always unscientific and inaccurate in his informa
tion consider, for instance, the philosophy of Wadsworth or Shelley.
He exaggerates' like the prospectus of a summer hotel. But he can
phrase. By virtue of that ability, he is a poet.
The power to phrase resides chiefly in three things the ability
to see things figuratively, the ability to combine word-sounds melod
iously, and the ability to be concise. High and blue and march and
talk are most commonplace words; but when William Vaughan Moody
wrote "In the high blue afternoon, with the marching sun and the
talking sea," he described unforgettably.
Mire people, perhaps, remember Grant for unconditional sur
render" than for any act of his eight years'" presidency.
"I do not say," wrote a great American politician of his oppon
ent, "that he does not mean well: I say he means well feebly." And
the phrase damned. What makes Francis Scott Key's orotund poem
our national anthem? Two phrases, and two only "the land of the
free and the home of the brave" which by the way has only one
word of as much as five letters and. still more inescapably, "the star
spangled banner." Substitute any other words and see what happens
to the song.
Nobody can be taught to phrase. But nobody can write or
speak effectively who cannot phrase. Q. E. D. Chicago Herald-Examiner.
The student who enters the University becomes part of a social
order of being wherein he no longer lives unto himself alone. His
reputation and character are now interwoven with that school which
Is' to be his alma matter, more loved and cherished with every pass
ing day and year. As we start out upon the fine broadway of the
school year of 1919-1920 it is fitting that we hold fast thif. thought
and that we let it keep us from every act and utterance that might
bring reproach upon the University we are privileged to attenu.
PERSONALS
Dorothy Lynn ex 20, Helen Din i
Grand Inland, Mary Husted '19, Helen
Quinn '18, of Aurora, Louise Coe,'17
of Nebraska City, Mrs. Leonard
Trester, nee Mary Steele ex'18, and
Mrs. Ted Metcalfe, nee Helen Hous
ton 18. of Omaha, are guests at the
K-Upa Alpha Theta House.
Among the guests at the Delta Tau
Delta house this week are: Ted Beli
18, former Nebraska basket ball cap
tain, of Beatrice, Dale Mllllken, 'IB,
Ralph Ronn '15, John Carroll '15, of
Fremont, and Paul Best, ex'20 of
Omaha.
Mable Sterne '15 of Grand Island
and Julia Miller ex'18 of Beatrice
are spending a few days at the Delta
Gamma house.
Douglas Thornton, ex'20, of GerLng,
is a visitor at the Sigma Alpha Ep
silon, house.
Silas Bryan. '15 of Boston, and
Wardner Scott, ex'16, of Salt LakS
City, are guests at the Phi Kappa Psi
house.
Elmer Linquist, '06 of Waterloo,
Heinle Moehnert, '14 of Omaha,
Russell Pierce, ex'15, George Eddy,
ex'15, and William Buss, ex'15 of
Fremont are visiting at the Phi Delta
Theta house.
Dnn Cunt J Active Among
University Students in
the Long Summer Months
The Y. M. C. A. rooms in the Tem
ple are open all day and all evening,
and the organization desires to serve
the new students as satisfactorily as
it has done in the past.
FOR SALE Keufel & Esser drafting
instruments complete with board
and T square,' price reasonable.
Call B1896. 3
Many From School Circle Fall
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Before ine wxiea o
Little God.
Cost of Diamonds Soar High
Prices Fail to Check i
His Toll.
The popular Idea that spring Is the
season of brides and that June sees
the end of weddings until the vernal
period of the next year, has been well
nigh exploded this' summer. For Dan
Cupid has apparently been as busy
during the long summer months as
In the so-called months of roBes and
brides. Hot weather has been nothing
In his young life. The high price of
djamonds and platinum we ' Mng rings
has not stopped him, to say nothing
of such prosaic things as meat, eggs,
rent, and rugs. And here Is a word
for those who may be heslatatlng be
cause of the things mentioned above,
all those who have tried It say two
can live as cheaply as one. Further
more, they have the figures to prove It.
The little god has taken a heavy
toll among university students. The
first marriage of the summer was that
of Vivlenne Holland and Capt. Brian
O'Brien, which took place the day aft
er the closing of school. The mar
riage of Helen Larsen of St. Paul to
Harry Rinderspacher, of Hastings,
took place in June. Marguerite Mulvl
hill of Lincoln, was married to Lieut.
Edgar Westerfieldt, also of Lincoln,
In the early part of July.
The marriage of Marguerite Chit
tenden to Merton Lad wig was an
event of August 30.
Perhaps the most unusual of the
AugUBt weddings was that which took
place In Rangoon. Burmah, when Mil
dred Pope became the bride of Prof.
Carrell Whltuah, Instructor In the
Baptist College at that place.
Other August weddings Include
those of Charlotte Boggs', of Lincoln
and Gordon Vaulx. Seneca Yule, of
Lnlcoln, and Marian Hansen, of Oma
ha, and Catherine Benner, of Lincoln
and Frank Barnett, of McCook.
Although September has hardly
more than half gone by the number
of benedicts and blushing brides is
still Increasing. Among them may be
mentioned Mary Eastham of Lincoln
and John Wenstrand, formerly of
Wahoo, Nebr., but now of Red Oak.
Ia., Mildred Holland, of Falls City, and
Earl Kline, of Nebraska City, Eliza
beth Crawford, of Omaha, and Ward
ner Scott, formerly of Lincoln, now of
Salt Lake City, Utah, and Mildred
Whitehead, or Mitchell, Nebr)., and
Harold Roscoe Anderson, of Valentine,
Nebr.
The list is not complete, but at
least, we believe the statements made
In the first paragraph have been
proved. And we could tell of some
which will take place in the near fu
ture, If we would. We are thinking
just now of four young people, three
of whom were graduated from the uni
versity only last spring. But, rather
than spoil the secret, we will not say
another word Just now.
UNI NOTICES
Partus for Girls
At elRht o'clock, on Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday evenings of this
week, parties will be held In the Art
Hall of the library building, for all
girls, especially freshman glrla, of
the university. The W. S. O. A. and
senior advisory board will have
charge of the first party, the Y. W. C.
A., the Becond, and the W. A. A., the
third.
NEBRASKAN REPORTERS
Those desiring positions on the
reportoiial staff of the Dally Nebras
kan may see the managing editor at
the news office In the basement of
University Hall any afternoon after
three o'clock.
NO SMOKING RULE
The Superintendent of grounds and
buildings of the university announces
that the rule prohibiting snioklns on
the campus and in the buildings will
be strictly enforced this year. This
ruling was suspended last year when
the S. A. T- C. men were encamped
at the university.
STAFF APPLICATIONS
The student publication board an
nounces that It will receive applica
tions for the positions of editor-in-chief
and news editor of the Dally
Nebraskan. Applications must be
filed not later that noon, Saturday, at
student activities office.
GOOD dance music. Call Bljzek,
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WE WON'T attempt a detailed de
scription of the clothes we've gathered
here for this yearly event as well try
to describe each individual flower in a
bed of blooming gladioli. Your own
eyes both wide open are the only
avenues thru which you can grasp an
idea of what we have ready to show
you. Fabrics soft to the feel, gathered
from the looms that weave only the
best. Colors rare and beautiful soft
tones that Jack Frost knows how to
paint into Fall Foliage colors that
blend with your likings as the instru
ments of an orchestra blend together
in harmony colors and fabrics that
are to be had only in
Society Brand Clothes
$45,
$50,
$55,
$60,
and
Other Fine Suits in Waist Seam
with Extra Belt at $30, $35, $40 and $45
The Big Overcoat Sale
Now in Progress.
Save $10, $20 or $30 by buying now.
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ELI SHIRE, President
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