The Daily Nebrasican
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LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 1920.
DEBATERS OFF
TO IOWA CITY
t: Team Remains in
"STS W for Clash
Clt7 Friday Night.
,THINK-SH0F IS BUSY
V,braslus debating team that locks
horns with the Iowans at Iowa
r .this evening, arguing against the
ion or the League of Nations
tenant wilh the Lodge reservation
Article X. left Wednesday after-
at 30 o'clock. They stayed
lomah over night and left at six
'Hock this morning for the fray.
W expect to reach Iowa City at
m o'clock this afternoon.
vfles Hildreth. '21. W. C. Cull, law
.nd O. A. make, law '21. the
Native team, were escorted to the
. hv the affirmative team and
inn VJ
Prof6S90r Fogg and were cheered as
thcV pulled out. rea . vaiiumr...
alternate, left on the six o'clock
Iowa Team Arrive Today
The Iowa negAtive team will arrive
iB Lincoln this afternoon for a day
,nd a ha" rest before lheir batt,e
Friday evening in the Temple Theater
wi,h Louis Finkelstein, law '22. Cecil
C. Strimple, law '22, and Robert Van
Pelt, law '22.
Nebraska's affirmative team was
pinding away late last night in the
"Think Shop" of the debaters.
Because it has been said that of
lite Nebraska's primary interests
have been in things social and things
athletic in nature, the revival of inter
jtate debating at the Cornhusker
school is an important event The
question that will be discussed Fri
day night is one of universal interest,
particularly in America, and especial
ly in this year when a President of
the United States will be chosen.
For Serious-Minded Students
The debate is, of course, not for
those who would rather attend a
matinee dance than an interesting
lecture. Serious-minded Nebraska
students, who also have time for a
limited amount of social activity, will
find the discussion worth far more
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GET YOUR TICKETS NOW
Don't forget to go to Tucker
and Shean's, the University
Temple, or to see any of the
Green Goblins, Palladians or
Unions before Friday fir your
tickets for the Nebraska-Iowa
debate to be held at the Temple
Theater, Friday evening, April
30. These tickets may be re
served at Tucker and Shean's
and at the University Y. M.
C. A. The price is tMrty-five
cents.
HASKELL INDIANS
OUT AFTER SCALPS
Kansas Aggregation Coming Fri
day for Clashes With Schissler's
Diamond-Hounds.
TEAM ROUNDING INTO SHAPE
lU-U'uVECSlTY DINNER
PUNNED FOR EARLY DAY
Ex-Students from Colleges Thru
out Country Back of Big
Get-Together.
Every man in the city of Lincoln
ho bus been connected with any uni
versity or college at any time is in
vited to attend the All-University
Dinner, which is to be held at the
Commercial Club the evening of
Thursday, May 6. It is expected that
nearly five hundred ex-university stu
dents will gather around the "banquet
board."
The entertainment will be pulsing
with life and Husker cheer leaders
have bw-n asked to furnish part of
the "pep." a vocal quartet and , a
utrlng quartet will furnish music dur
ing the feast. The University Play
ers, under the direction of Prof. H.
Alice Howell will present an accusing
farce.
The tffair will be informal, and the
Parpooe of the dinner is to further
the acquaintance of University men.
group of Lincoln business men w ho
are ex etudents of the University and
have been actively interested in Ne
braska's new problems are behind the
celebration.
H is emphasized by those in charge
01 the affair that all ex-students,
whether graduates or not. of all uni
vrsltie and colleges are urged to be
I'rencnt at this All-University Get
together. Ex -students now residing
'n Lincoln, but formerly of Michigan
University, Northwestern and Illinois,
have organized and letters have been
""it out to their numbers requesting
tlm to be on band May C.
The committee in charge of ar-
'angemt-nts for the dinner is D. W.
Miller, Gene Holland and Sam Waugh
The Haskell Indian baseball team
is coming from the Kansas state Fri
day with the intention of scalping
Coach Schissler's ball tossers. but if
the inside dope is correct there will
probably be a sad disappointment.
Coach Schissler has had his men out
on the M street lot working hard
every afternoon this week and they
are a much different looking bunch of
athletes today than they were when
they ran up against the Oklahoma
schools.
The Oklahoma trip was beneficial to
the Huskers in several ways. It
showed Coach Schissler where the
team's weak spots were during a
crucial stage of the game. It showed
that the pitching staff needs some
bolstering, and it also proved that
for a college team the Cornhuskers
had some heavy hitters in their camp.
Thus far this season the Nebraska
outfit has not had any real favorable
weathi-r for diamond practice. The
pitching staff has been har capped
by the cold spells and as a conse
quence the members are laid up with
stiffness and sore arms. Schissler is
scouting for another heaver and it is
expected that a "dark horse" will
start against the Haskells Friday
afternoon. Doth the infield and the
outfield are due for a shaking up and
the Coach will send a very different
lineup onto the diamond to face the
Redmen than that which worked out
against the men of the Sooner state.
Coach Makes Statement
"Some of the ball fans of the school
have the wrong impression concern
ing the Oklahoma trip. They believe
that Nebraska did not play good ball
and that we haven't a first class col
lege club," said Coach Schissler yes
terday afternoon, "but they have not
been following the work of the men
closely or they would know differ
ently."
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First Row Strimple, Van Pelt, Finkelstein, Durisch.
Second Row Campbell, Cull, Hildreth, Drake.
Following is a short biography of j
the forensic work of each Cornhusker
debater:
Affirmative Team
I,ouis B. Finkelstein. Law '22, of
Lincoln, was a member of the class
of 1917 at the Lincoln High School.
He was one of the organizers of the
Forum, and he was a member of the
school's debating teams in the High
School Debating League and against
Omaha in 1918.
Cecil Clarence Strimple, Baker Uni
versity Academy, '13, Law '22. of
Omaha, was a member of the Baker
University Academy debating team
against Ottawa University in 1912
and Kansas Wesleyan University in
1913. He was with ihe Medical Corps,
A. E. F., (American Red Cross Hospi
tal 114 and Base Hospital No. 1).
Robert Van Pelt, '20, Law 22, of
Stockville, was graduated from the
Franklin Academy in 1914. taking
second scholarship honors and repre
senting the school in inter-scholastic
debating in 1913 and 1914. He at
tended Doane College two years
where he was a member of the de
bating team two years. He was
recommended for appointment as
Rhodes Scholar from Nebraska. was
one of the final five candidates from
whom two were selected. He is a
member of Silver Lynx, Pi Kappa
Delta and Phi Delta Phi.
Siephen A. Durisch. Law '21. of Lin
coln, was graduated in 1916 from the
Fairbury High School which he rep
resented in the Nebraska High School
Debating League. He also was on
the Peru State Normal School team
in 1917. He is a member of Phi Al
pha Delta, law fraternity.
Negative Team
Miles Hildreth. 21. of Lincoln,
graduate of the Lincoln High School
in 1917, was a member of the school's
team in the Nebraska High School
Debating League in 1916. He is a
member of Acacia. He was sergeant,
354 M. T. Co., Camp Kearney, Cal.
William Clinton Cull, Law '20, of
Oakland, graduate of the Oakland
High School in 1913, was a member of
the Freshman debating team and of
the Sophomore team which won the
inter-class championship of the Uni
versity in 1915. He is a member of
the Palladian Literary Society and of
Phi Alpha Delta and Phi Alpha Tau.
He was in the military service from
May 14, 1917. to September 13. 1919;
was commissioned second lieutenant
in September. 1918, and was with
Company I, 36th Infantry, M. G. Co.,
3rd Infantry'. Hdqr. Co.. 151st Depot
Brigade, and 55th Co.. 151st Depot
Brigade. ,
Oscar A. Drake, Law '21. of Kear
ney, is a graduate of the Humphrey
High School, class of 1914 with second
scholarship rank. He represented
that school in debate. He was a
member of the Kearney Normal
School debating team in 1917 and
1918. He was admitted to the bar on
examination by the Supreme Court
Bar Commission in 1918. He was
sergeant in the Student Army Train
ing Corps at Kearney. His fraternal
affiliations are with Sigma Nu and
Phi Alpha Delta.
Fred Clarence Campbell, '22. of Lin
coln, graduate of the Lincoln High
School in 1918, represented his school
in its debating team in 1917 and in
1918 and took first place in the W. C.
T. U. contest in speaking. He was
commissioned second lieutenant at
the Central Officers' Training Camp.
Camp Grant. January. 1919.
ATHLETES LEAVE
FOR PENN MEET
Husker Stars Accompany Schulte
to Take Fart in American
Classic at Quaker City.
FOREMOST TEAMS ENTERED
Even Professors Would Rather Say
"Book-Hound" Than "Book-worm
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New campus words have been
springing up lately in the language of
University students. These words are
either hyphenated or written as two
distinct words. The reason for this
is because the originator of these new
expressions is not sure himself how
thev are spelled. These words are
brand new; they have not been coined
long. And. perhaps, the University ol
Nebraska has been responsible for
their appearance, their nurture while
ihev were yet young, and their spon
taneous and unbelievable growth.
These words are now on the lips
of every campus luminary. Profes
sors even refer to students who spena
every hour out ' of the twenty-four
over a musty book as "book-bounas
rather than the conventional, and ex
ceedingly hackneyed and prosaic
book-worm." "Book-worm" has al
most become a bromide now. Its suc
cessor is far more emphatic and full
of meaning.
The word "hound" originally meant
a large dog. The word "hound" on
the University of Nebraska campus is
rarely ever used alone. Dogs are
referred to as dogs at this University,
but when a hyphen is stuck in be
tween the "hound" and something
else, the University student knows
immediately what is meant.
The first "hound" that appeared on
the campus was the "lunch-hound."
Since he or rather she appeared
co-eds have been ordering coca colas
in large quantities instead of the
large thirty-five-cent "home styles."
Then followed the "rail-hound," a
worthless being who leans on the rail
ing in front of University Hall and
passes dark remarks about those fleet
ing before his deadened vision.
The latest "hounds" have included
"car-hounds." "book -hounds. 'ball-
hounds," "Piller-hounds," "tea-hounds,"
"formal-hounds," and "pill-ho tnds."
Pretty soon there will be a kennel full
of them, and "pound" will also be
come an important and useful word.
But the line is drawn when a very
young Freshmen co-ed is heard speak
ing of the "Bevo-hound." There is
no such animal.
Coach Henry F. Schulte and his
team of track athletes left for Phila
delphia last evening for the Penn
meet, the American classic, Friday
and Saturday. This trip is not only
being made in attempt to stick Ne
braska's "N" in the Hall of Fame
among the great schools of the coun
try but also as a "schooling" trip for
the men. It will afford the men an
opportunity to compete with the
greatest athletes America has known
and show them how they stand in
comparison with these stars.
The American Olympic Committee
is depending upon the colleges
throughout the country to develop and
furnish sixty to seventy per cent of
the men who will make the trip to
Antwerp on the American team The
foremost college athletes of the coun
try are entered in the Penn meet and
each will go into his event with the
determinartion of doing his best be
fore the eyes of the critics who will
pick the American team. The men
who place in the events at Philadel
phia Friday and Saturday will be given'
due consideration by this committee
and if a Nebraskan places be will
stand a good chance of making the
Ail-American team. America is short
of good three milers and a first class
Pentathlon man and Coach Schulte
has been requested by the American
committee to send at least one man
lor each of these events. Graf is
entered in the three mile and will be
pitted against a Britisher who claims
to be the champ of the British Isles.
Dale is entered in the Pentathlon and
s expected to make a good showing.
Wright and Dale in First Events
Wright and Dale will be the first
men to carry Nebraska's colors onto
the Penn field. Friday afternoon
Wright will run the quarter mile low
hurdles and Dale will compete in the
Pentathlon. Saturday the remainder
of the team is due to show its
colors. Wright and Finney will run
he high hurdles, the mile relay
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PERSHIKG RIFLES
ARE REORGANIZED
Honorary Cadet Company Elects
Officers and Prepares to Make
Ready for Compet Day.
DRILL EACH THURSDAY
The Pershing Rifles have reorgan
ized. Last night about forly mem
bers of the honorary cadet company
met in Ihe chapel and elected officers.
decided on the time for drill and
slailed off the newly constructed
company with a brisk thirty-minute
drill.
Burks Harley. Cadet-Colonel, was
cboren captain of the Rifles. Donald
Parrv. Cadet Lieutenant-Colonel, was
elected First Lieutenant: G. S. Salter,
Cadet Captain. Second Lieutenant;
Lowell DeVoe. Cadet Major. First
Sergeant; Leonard Cowley. Cadet
Lieutenant. Right Guide and R. A.
Ogier, Cadet Lieutenant Left Guide.
The Rifles is an honorary company
open to picked men from the entire
cadet regiment. It is a tradition in
the military life of the University.
Each year the best drilled man in the
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REVISED STUDY COURSES
ADOPTED FOR ENGINEERS
Committee Sanctions New Plan
Whereby Students May Take
Work in Other Colleges.
The Engineering faculty has ap
proved the revised course of study
for Engineering students as arranged
by the Course of Study Committee
and has submitted it to the Board of
Regents for action. The new plan of
6tudy provides for the remodeling of
the mechanical engineering shop
courses upon a factory basis. All En
gineers will be required to take the
course in Principles of Economics and
the course in Accounting. A new in
troductory course is provided in Elec
trical Engineering in order to give the
second semester Sophomores work in
alternating current and direct cur
rent study. By this method work will
start one semester earlier than Tinder
the present system. An option will
be given to first year Civil Engineers
to take construction methods instead
of shop work. The committee recom
mended the outlining of a fifth, yeai
work in Engineering which would re
quire twenty hours work in the Col
lege of Business Administration, eight
hours in the College of Engineering
and four hours' elective work. This
work, with any four year engineering
course, would confer the degrees of
Bachelor of Sciences and Commercial
Engineering.
The Course of Study Committee is
composed or Professor Chatburn.
chairman; Dean Stout and the chair
man of the various departments of
he Engineering College.
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