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N. STORY HARDING. ...Editor-ln-Chlef
JACK AUSTIN...- Managing Editor
JESSIE WATSON Associate Editor
ORVIN GASTON News Editor
GREGG McBRIDE... News Editor
ROY GUSTAFSON... News Editor
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BUSINESS STAFF
GLEN GARDNER ...Business Manager
JAMES FIDDOCK. Asst. Business Mgr
KNOX EURNETT ...Circulation Mg'r
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YOU DON'T REMEMBER THE DAY.
You don't remember the day, of
course. But your father and your
mother le remember when, according
to the Boston Transcript, the college
life o fthe 80's and DO's was "an Idyllic,
haphazard, humorestlc existence, with
out fine imagination, without any fa
miliar Infusion of scholarship, without
articulate religion; a flutter of Intelli
gence flying into trivial play, in order
to drop back, when college days were
over, into the drudgery of affairs."
In a recent editorial in a college
paper it is said that the "good old
college days" as referring to that un
tangible University atmosphere is
fading. Perhaps it is fading. How
ever, it seems that it is giving way to
a new interpretation of the same
thing.
There were no cars then for every
other student; there were no movies
which took up a quiet afternoon of
studying. Instead there was Old
Dobbin and the road shows, which we
Know took up a largo share of the
Ktudent's attention and helped to con
tribute to i he atmosphere of "dear old
college days."
It is only different today because in
terprelation is different. Times have
changed and with them I'nhvrsitv
1:1V lias a different meaning.
I
DAILY N EBR ASK AN'S SEC
OND SEMESTER PLATFORM
1- Clean politics In competitive
campus affairs.
2. More paid readers on the
campus.
3. A wider scope of news.
4. Realization of the new gym
nasium and stadium.
5. Lower prices to University
r.U'r.'ert?.
6. Each student an "unofficial"
staff member of the Daily Ne
braskan. 7. Adoption of the Single Tax
System next fa'l.
STUDENTS INSPECT FACTORY
Vrors. ('. W. Smith and J. T. I'ar
sons of th" Agricultural Engineenn!.-
iartiiiont, accompanied their School
el' Agricultural students i;i farm
n, o tots and farm machinery cn a lour
(,!' inspection, through the Chase and
Tltnsinan Plow company's plan on
v., :-l O street. March 2?..
The method of making the pails
' , ).;,, :; -.M-y v;m C:b-e"V( n
v. til as assembling the parts into the j
liaished machines. PiHy students!
made the trip.
MEDALS THAT ARE USEFUL.
Medals may be essential or non
essential from the standpoint of use
fulness, even though they still ar?
symbolic of victory. In the recent In
door Relay Carnival held at L'rbana,
111., at which threo Nebraska men car
ried off two first places and a third
tally, medals that spell more than
honor were given. These medals ca l
be termed "useful."
An Elgin watch, with an inscription
f victory upon it was one of th'?
first-place medals given at this carni
val. Every time this watch docs th'
owner a service he will think of the
manner in which it was won. Ilo-v
much more sensible are medals that
p, vi'orm a service to the winner til l l
those which dangle uselessly from the
watch chain or act as the fob which
holds the watch in its pocket. Let
the modal be th" watch itself and not
only an accessory to it.
Perhaps pom" day even a substitute
for the hackneyed lovin cup can !
lound. Although it hpeaks honor and
victory, its only use is limited to the
jurisdiction of the mantle, serving a
a splendid receptacle for the accumu
lation of dust and dirt.
L. W FAY NOW ENGAGED
IN PUBLICITY WORK
L. W. Fay, electrical engineering
'IS. is now in the publicity depart
ment of the Century Electric com
pany at St. Ixiuis. He asks to be put
in touch with men interested in sales
engineering in the electric motor
field.
UNI NOTICES
Make-Up Examination.
A make-up examination in economic
history, Economics 31, will be held
on Friday, March 11, at 4:00 p. m.,
Social Science 301. Another make
up examination in Economics 125 will
he given on March 11 at 1 p. m., in
Social Science 302. Examinations will
cover tests and required readings.
ENTERTAINMENT FOR VISITORS.
The fraternities and oth'-r organiza
tions at the University of Nebraska
deserve much credit for the way in
which they are providing for the en
tertainment of. ,the basketball wn
from all parts of Nebraska who will
travo Ito Lincoln this week for th
largest tourney ever attempted at thi.,
school. The doors of fraternit
houses have been thrown open to re
ceive these men. Each fraternity lias
agreed to house an ntire I "am, in
eluding the coach.
Many of Nebraska's most represen
tative men are in charge of the enter
tainment of the visitors and the man
agement of the details of each game.
With thirteen classes of eight teams
each entered in this gigantic tourna
ment, a good idea of its magnitude
can be deduced.
It Is important that the best enter
tainment available be given to the
visitors because it will encourage
them to consider Nebraska first when
they are thinking in terms of college
days ahead. We should make each
visitor feel that Nebraska University
Is, after all ,tho aim of his educational
achievements and only a continuation
at his work a natural step in his
scholastic carer.
Big and Littie Sisters.
I!ig and Little Sisters will have a
dinner at Ellen Smith Hall, Thursday,
at six o'clock. Tickets at fifty cents
apiece must be purchased not later
than Tuesday evening.
Tickets will be on sale by the
church group sellers for the Commit
tee of Two Hundred banquet to be
given Friday night, March IS. All
Midents desiring tickets should secure
them through Ihese sellers.
American Association of Engineers.
P'ts ness T"r':ntr Wednesday, Mar.
f. M. E. 20B. Nomination of officers
for next year. Excerpt from paper
by C. F. Archer. F. II. C, chief en-.-infer
for the Trans-Siberian Railway
f'lnipnny. on "Advantages of Civil
Engineering as a Profession." Come
prepared to tell why you are not
taking the civil engineers' course.
Cadet Officers, Attention.
All cadet officers must have their
individual pictures taken for the Corn
busker by Saturday, March 12. Pic
tures will bo taken at Townsenl's.
Officers must wear uniforms and caps
in these pictures.
The Big and Little Sisters are to
have a six o'clock dinner a week from
today, March the tenth, at Ellen Smith
Hall. All the girls of the University
are invited to attend. The tickets go
on sale today at the gynasium. Any
one wishink to sell may secure tickets
at Ellen Smith Hall. The price of the
dinner Is fifty cents per plate and the
tickets must be purchased before
Wednesday of next week.
You Are Invited
We extend to the University
of Nebraska Co-eds an invitation
to take advantage of the STYLE
SERVICE our Millinery depart
ment maintains in offering for
your inspection an exclusive line
of hats -up-to-the-minute in de
sign and distinction.
"A Hat for Every Personality,"
M
ayer Bros. Co.
-Eli Shire, Pres.-
-:'.'r vj'"'
- What Is Air Pressure
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THE air is composed of molecu'cs. They constantly
bombard you from all sides. A thousand taps by a ,
thousand knuckles will ck;:-;c barn door. The taps
as a whole constitute a push. So the constant bombardment
of the air molecules constitutes a pus 1. At sea -It vel the air
molecules push agsinst every square inch of you with a
total pressure of nearly fifteen pounds.
Pressure, then, is merely a matter of bombarding mole
cules. When you boil water you make its molecules fly off.
The watr molecules collide with the air molecules. It takes
a higher temperature to boil water at ssa-level than on Pike's
Peak. Why? Because there are more bombarding molecules
at sca-level more pressure.
Take away all the air pressure and you have a perfect
vacuum. A perfect vacuum has never been created. In the
bt vacuum obtainable there are still over two billion mole
cule of air per cubic centimeter, or about as many as there
are people on the whole earth.
Heat a substance in a vacuum and you may discover
properties not revealed under ordinary pressure. A new
field for scientific exploration is opened.
Into this field the Research Laboratories of the General
Electric Company have penetrated. Thus one of the chem
ists in the Research Laboratories studied the disintegration
of heated metals in highly exhausted bulbs. WTiat happened
to the glowing filament of a lamp, for example? The glass
blackened. But why? He discovered that the metal dis
tilled in the vacuum depositing on the glass.
This was research in pure science research in what
may be called the chemistry and physics of high vacua. It
was undertaken to answer a question. It ended in. the dis
covery of a method of filling lamp bulbs with an inert gas
under pressure so that the filament would not evaporate so
readily. Thus the efficient gas-filled lamp of today grew out
of a purely scientific inquiry.
So, unforeseen, practical benefits often result when
research is broadly applied.
GeneralElectno
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