Pharmacy College Edition
he Daily -Neb r ask an
VOL.NXI. NO. 141.
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 1922.
IMiK'E FIVE CENTS
MIHf COLLEGE
11 NEBRASKA UN!
FOURTEEN YEARS
College Has Undergone Many
Changes During Existence
on the Campus
ENTRANCE REQUIREMENTS
SAME AS OTHER COLLEGES
Pharmaceutical Garden Has Been
Point of Interest For Many
Years
The College of Pharmacy of die
University of Nebraska Is closing its
fourteenth ytfir of active work. The
orpiiniation of the School or Phar
macy was authorized by the board of
Repents in 1008, and was at this time
made part of the college of Medicine
in i!U.", the School of Pharmacy was
eieiied into a college by legislative
action. The growth of the institution
WS been very rapid. This has been
made possible because of the high
standing ot me tinvrisuy Ne
braska among teaching institutions.
The College of Pharmacy in demand
ing the same requirements for en
trance as are required by all other
rnlleees of the University. This plac
ed Nebraska in a unique position, and
her leadership has been followed by
practically all state universities west
of the Appalachian mountains,
It is not the Ideal of the adminis
trative officers of the College of
Pharmacy to bring to the university
a great body of students and turn
out on the public a great number of
pcorly trained, so-called professional
men. The ideal is to prepare a small
er group of men more thoroughly,, so
they will be able to undertake the
problems of scientific and professional
pharmacy. The work of the phar
macist requires an exactness which
if demanded of few other professional
men. And the chief problem which
has confronted the University was to
obtain in the College of Pharmacy,
students entering with the ability
equal to that of students entering
other professional lines. This end
has been attained.
When the School of Pharmacy was
organized, the buildings on ihe camp
us were so crowded that suitable
quarters could not be obtained for the
new department of pharmacy, and it
was necessary to house it, as well as
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F.y
TO FIRSTJEAR GROUP
Tells Freshmen Lecture Class of
Latin-America and Possibil
ities There
"In thinking of ,Latin-America," said
Prcf. Jacob Warshaw in his Fresh
man lecture on Latin-America this
week, "one must not consider it only
as it is but also as it will ba in the
nepr future. According to Vicount
Brit e, and all the other authorities on
the subject. South and Central Amer
ica with their as yet undeveloped vast
lands and resources, are the only large
areas still in existence to which the
overpeopled countries of the world
may turn for expansion.
"We in the United States have not
realized the tremendous possibilities
of these lands because up to this time
we have had little actual dealings
with them. Since the World War,
however, our lots have been thrown
more and more together so that it
now behooves every moulder of public
opinion and every business man in
the United States to obtain all the in
formation possible on the subject
"Men in the United States who are
land hungry," declared Professor War
saw, "would do well to go to the
countries of the south." There land
Hay be had at from five to ten dollars
n acre in the very region which is
expected to develop in the near future
some of the greatest industrial cen
ters In the world. European people
are already flocking there and about
one third of the population is foreign
Wn. The trouble with the Ameri
cans is that they want all the modern
conveniences such as pre-digested
heakfast foods- and the latest bath
'ubs. They have no desire to rough
ts did our own pioneers.
Our southern neighbors are not the
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tfARSHAW TALKS
JOHN H. FINEY TO SPEAK
AT WISCONSIN UNIVERSITY
John II. Finey of the New York
Times, who will be at this University
on June 5 to deliver the Baeealaurate
address, has accepted the Invitation
of the University of Wisconsin to de
liver the same address there on Juno
11. Mr. Finley is a well known edu
cator, has been the head of several
universities and colleges and is in
high demand as a graduation speaker.
lie was the president of tho Knox
college from 1S02 to 1800. Then,
after three years as professor of poli
tics In Princeton University, he was
president of the College of the City
of Now York from 190,1 to 1913. He
then became commissioner of educa
tion on New York state and president
of the University of the State of New
York. During 1910-1911 he was Har
vard Exchange lecturer to the Sor
bonne, Paris on the Hyde foundation.
NEW CLUB WILL
TAKE DEFINITE
Everybody Expected to Attend
Meetings and Elect Delegate
For Club
"AMBASSADOR CLUB"-IS
TITLE FOR ORGANIZATION
Students Urged to Boost Univer
sity at Home and Do Away
With Knockers
Beginning with the noon hour today,
12 to 1 o'clock, and at the same hour
Thursday and Friday of this week,
the polls will be open at different
places on the campus for "The Am
bassador" Club" election. The object
of this club, to make the university to
loom up bigger in the home town, has
been given briefly in former issues of
the Rag. The polls, where the stu
dents 'from different Nebraska towns,
will assemble to pick their delegate
to this club has appeared in the Sun
day and Monday issue of the Nebrask
an. Every' loyal Nebraskan should go
to the polls and see to it that his or
her town has a representative in this
new organization.
"The Ambassador' Club" will truly
be an all state representative organi
zation. One student from every town
in the state will make a center organi
zation that will be a valuable asset to
the school, according to members of
the faculty who have been approached
on the subject. The students upon
returning to their home town will get
into connection with the commercial
clubs and other organizations and thus
work into the homes of the citizens.
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COURSE OFFERED Ifl
Course Primarily Intended to Fit
the Pharmacist to Better As
sist the Physicians
rtr Albert Schneider gave the first
course in pharmaceutical science this
year. The course is primarily intend
ed to qualify the pharmacist so that
he may give better assistance to phy
sicians and to health officers in tnei.
efforts to control disease and so safe
guard the public health. The course
consists of lecturers, recitations and
assigned reading, and is supplemen
tary to pharmaceutical microbiologj,
and is given during the fourth year
In the College of Pharmacy. Requir
ed general courses in sanitary, science
are given in nearly all of the leaning
universities.
Dr. Schneider has given much at
tention to sanitary science and was
offered the position of Health Officer
of Berkeley. California, but decided
to come to the University of Nebraska
fnstead. In order that he might dis
cuss more fully the actual operation
of tho health machinery of a large
city, he spent all of last summer's va
cation studying the laboratory and
field methods of the Chicago Health
department, thoroughly acquainting
himself with every division of the
work. He has recently devised a ven
titatine system for Pullman cars and
other passenger cars, by means of
which dust free, Tiltered air is miro
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Tonight Will Be Feature Event
0 Year For Pharmacy Students
When all of uj have visited the
great engineering laboratories and
gnztd wonderingly at their monstrous
machinery and puzzled over the "why
and ho w" of the thing; when wo have
amazingly seen the- impossible ac
cctnplished and praised the art of the
engineer, then we turn our attention
to the intricacies of the agriculturist.
We marvel at the beauteous things
that they grow from nothing at all;
we delight in seeing tho new and in
re-seeing the old; we gasp at their
rt.ugh riding and we enjoy their car
nivals and their playtimes. Then
when the curtain has been drawn
and it is nil too early to go to bed,
wo come back once more to be mys
tified and enthralled by the old fash
ioned art, and there is something
very beautiful in that old fashioned
ness, that old magic that grasped us
when we nil were children that art
of the colored bottle. Once again,
like little children, wo stand before
the pharmacist, in all his glory and
watch him pour wondrous things into
a bottle. That then will be our mis
sion to see the pharmacist engaged
in his arts, to pry over his shoulder
and share secrets with him.
Pharmacy night occurs but once a
year. This year it occurs Wednesday
night. Then it will be the pleasure
of all to hie themselves down to old
Pharmacy Hall and take a look at
the modern pharmacist engaged In all
his arts. Bright colored lights will
lead and show the way to the hive
of the apothecaries. The old tower
cf the building is said to be very re
splendent with imps and these only
come forth on this annual occasion
to mix their brews and concoct their
love potions. The old god of pharma
cy, Aesculapious, himself, is said to
lurk around the college on a night
like this, so that all may go well for
a well-spent evening. And now let
us look into the great book of the
record carrier and see what has been
prepared for us to gaze and whisper
over. t
First of all there will be favors for
all as they enter the building, favors
that only good and true pharmacists
could prepare. Tooth pastes and pow
ders, hair tonics and lotions, massage
and vanishing creams, perfumes and
Chancellor Avery
On Formation Of
The formation of a boosters' club in
the University is timely. We are in
the period of the dull gray morning
after war enthusiasm of yesterday.
Cynicism has replaced to some extent
enthusiasm and the knocker finds in
the present a golden opportunity.
Thus we are confronted by knockers
outside of the University family and
unfortunately by some within whom
those without find to be unconscious
allies. It is a condition under which
opponents of higher education can eas
ily attack some part of our work find
ing their ammunition among those em
ployed in some other part. Hence
there is an unusual opportunity for
playing the old game of trying to pro
mote discord among those who should
stand together for a common cause.
Let me be a little more specific. Oc
casionally those In one college speak
slightingly of the work in another
college. A student fcnee spoke to m?
about the "poor misguided youths"
who were wasting their time in such
and such studies. Another student
referred in equally disparaging terms
to the group to which the first student
belonged. Had the students caught
thes ideas from their professors? 1
hope not, but I do know that a number
of years ago a professor not now in
the institution told a student who was
trying to register for a much desired
subject, "My dear boy, you had better
put in your time looking in the depart
ment store windows."
I have observed the transition from
the time when the study of chemistry-
was mentioned in faculty meeting as
"dishwashing" through the period
when agricultural colleges were in
eastern college circks referred to as
duneies" to the present period when
similar expression are directed toward
some of our more recent activities
but why mention disagreebale things?
Some of the exponents of the newer
lines have not been lamb-like and have
sneered in an equally narrow spirit at
the things which the centuries have
approved.
One can get some arausement in In
what not will be there to be dis
pensed to every visitor. Then all lab
oratories are to be groomed and pol
ished and nil will be running. The
large galenical laboratory will be
used to Bhow the preparations-of the
official standards. Here will be
shown the making of pills, liniments,
emulsions, solutions, trochees, infu
sions, mixtures and concoctions of all
sorts.
The basement will contain the de
partments of Physiology and Pharma
cology. Here will be shown the stand
ardization of drugs by pharmacalog-
leal methods. The contractions of
nerve muscle preparatiens will be re
corded on the myrograph and the dif
fcru.ccs due to drug action will be
shown. Physiology assistants will
show various pharmacological expert
ments upon specimens.
The laboratory on the east side of
the basement will be a scene of inter
est to all. Sluuents will be engaged
in the actual work of filling prescrip
lions and all tricks of the work will
be explained. . In this same room pow
er machinery will be running and the
isitors will hays the opportunitp of
so-Mag how drugs are electrically sift
ed, ground, and powdered. Here also
a super-tablet machine will be run
ning and turning out many kinds of
tablets.
Besides the large galenical labor
atory en the first floor, there will also
be the dispensary open for inspection.
Then the side laboratory which is the
assay laboratory, will be in readiness
for the crowds and students will show
the assaying methods for determining
purity of drugs. Also there will be
actual analysis of fake patent medi
cines and the like.
The second locr of the building
contains the home nursing rooms
which will be arranged for display.
' A series of freak and interesting
chemical experiments of the type bor
dering on the magical has been ar
ranged likewise. Then the Pharma
cognosy rooms will show the micro
scopical examination of drugs and
foods, for the purpose of determining
purity and adulteration.
Throughout the building will be dis
plays of crude drugs and their prepa-
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Expresses Views
New Campus Club
formally visiting other college cam
puses and talking with the students at
their boarding houses and the pro
fessors at their clubs. Frequently
when one asks a student Ids opinion
of a very profound and learned pro
fessor he will say, "He is dry as dust
he would drive you to drink." Anoth
er less profound but exceedingly vital
and human is roasted by his col
leagues in the faculty club as a "hot
air artists," and the cne who has an
enthusiastic following of students is
called a "demagogue." I have heard
the president of an institution who
happened to be the best platform ora
icr in the educational world designat
ed as a "bag of wind." I have heard
the director of an experiment station
who was perhaps the most able, con
ciliatory and effective administrator In
the country referred to as a "man of
butter." All of this may be mildly en
tertaining when outside of one's own
bailiwick, but does not the spirit that
prompts these things represent ac
ademic criticism gone to seed? Have
not some of us as students and in
structors failed to catch the spirit of
the business men in Rotary, Kiwanis,
Lions, Pathfinders and the like who
seek to develop in the commnity a
spirit of cooperation rather than of
antagonism? Cannot all in the Uni
versity, even though we have widely
different points of view, cultivate
something of the spirit of these boost
er organizations? I believe this can
be done without violating the tradi
tional glory of the University as a
place for free thouyht and free expres
sion. The knocker has no monopoly
on the use of ridicule and satire. He
himself can be made the victim of
shafts as pointed as his own. The
organization of a club whose, prime ob
ject is promoting the University's in
terest! in all its parts, both on the
campus ana In the 6tate, will do much
to sustain tlx University's continued
progress and prosperity during a time
of difficult social and economic read
justment Signed,
S. AVERT.
DRUG PLANT GARDEN
ON LOCAL CAMPUS
Located right on our own campus
Is a drug plant garden, operated by
tho ccllego of Pharmacy. Tills one
of the few worth-while gardens of Its
kind in the country and it is used ex
clusively for teaching ami i xperitnen-
tal purposes. About 2? species of
the more important drug plants are
now being cultivated in the garden
and about twenty-five more in the
greenhouse, the latter Icing of the
tropical varitie8. The results obtained
prove that such important medicinal
drugs as Digitalis, Straninionlum,, and
Belladonna can suece;s;ul!v he grown
in Nebraska and will yield a high per
centage of physiological active prin
ciples. The garden offers opportuni
ties for study and investigation which
are not duplicated in any place where
the climatic conditions are like those
Of Nebraska.
L
HELO FOR BEET
WITH KANSAS
Strong Team Will Leave Fcr In
vasion of Jayhawker
Land
MEET TO BE HELD
SATURDAY MORNING
Cornhuskers to Meet Ames and
Kansas in Dual Meet
Next-
Final tryouts for the Huskcr track
team which will compete in a dual
track meet with aKnsas University
S:it"day at I.a'wu.cf were held lait
nignt on the athV.i.: fifld. Light
workouts will be 1th today and tomorrow-,
before th- tern, starts in t.--Kansas
invasion of Friday.
Herbert Gish, "Red" Layton, I. K.
Lukens and Gibbs competed in the
110 low hurdle tryout race. Gish won
first, and Lukens came in a close sec
ond. In the 120 yard high hurdles
race, "iHerU" Giah avgailt captured
first place, w.ith Layton taking sec
ond. The Husker hurdles will have
stiff competition at the Kansas meet,
having to iuu against E. R. Bradley,
capu.ii: of the Jayhawk Uam and an
Olympic star.
Tryouts v. vc also held to select the
third half n.j'ier to go to the Kansas
nij. t Bowrwn won first place, Hig
;ins second lienors, and Peterson took
third place.
The Kansas rneft will be held Sat
urday r.ioi.i'i.g at Lawrence because
they will have a state track 'meet,
very similar to our own state meet,
in the aiternoon. Following the Kan
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TREIR SUCCESSORS
Eleven Members of Junior Law
Class For Senior Society
Friday "Morning
The eleven members of the Junior
Law Class elected to the Squires,
Senior law society, to carry on the
work in that organization next year,
will be publicly announced at the
weekly general lecture period Friday
morning at 11 o'clock in Room 191,
Law hall. One honorary member,
from the Law College faculty, will
also be chosen at this time.
The Squires was organized in the
spring of 1921, composed of twelve
members with one honorary member.
This year, it was decided to limit the
membership to eleven men each year.
Scholarship and Law College acti
ities are the basis for election to
membership in this society. No mem
ber of the Junior Law class is eligible
if
he does not have an average of
per cent or more for his first one
and one-half years of law work. Se
lections of the 1922-3 Squires were
from among those who had met this
scholastic requirement and who, on
the other hand, had participated in
outstanding way in Law College
activities.
Officers for this year's Squires are
as follows: Doane F. Kiechel, Chief
Justice; N. Story Harding, Justice;
William Dudley, Clerk; Eugene Dorn
baugh Treasurer.
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SQUIRES
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HIS 10
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Mass Meetings cf Various Col
leges to be Held to Nom
inate Candidates
PLACE OF MEETINGS
ANNOUNCED LATER
Present Student Council Members
to Preside at All
Meetings
Nominations for candidacy to the
Student Council for next year will be
made at mass meetings scheduled for
'It von o'cleck Thursday morning for
all colleges with the exception of the
Ct.llege of Business Administration,
whose mass meeting will be held at
7.;0 Thursday night.
The mass meeting ttill be held at
7:"0 Thursday night.
The mass meetings in which the
1!V".' Student Council members are
t; he nominated are to be presided
over by ihe present Student Council
'ei'ivsciitativos from the various col
leges.
Candidates for the Student Council
to be eligible for election shall be.
members of the specific school or
college and class as determined by
the regular University rulings in such
ca.es, "and shall have a scholastic av
erage of at least seventy-five per cent
for the preceding semester.
The rooms in which the mass meet
ings wil be held are to be announced
h. the Thursday issue of the Daily
Nebraskan.
Colleges Represented
The Student Council is composed
cf twenty members sixteen of whom
aie to be elected Thursday May 11
f-.oni those nominated Thursday May
4. Onesophomore man is eleceted
from each of the following co'.leges:
Arts and Science, Engineering, Law,
Pharmacy, Dentistry and Business
Administration: one sophomore wom
an from each of the following col
leges: Agriculture, Arts and Science,
Fine Arts and Teachers' College; four
juniors, two men and two women,
from the Junior Class at large; one
man or woman from the Graduate Col
lege; and four juniors new members
cf the organziation will be elected by
the present Council to be' active next
PHARMACY COLLEGE IS
STRONG IN ATHLETICS
Pharmacists Have Football, Bask
et Ball and Track Teams
This Year
This year for the first time since
the war, the College of Pharmacy has
taken an active part in Inter-collegiate
athletics. Last fall the football team
of the Pharmacists ticA for first place
when they whipped the Farmers by a
score of 13 to 0. The team was cap
tained by William Simpson, president
of the Pharmaceutical Society and
general chairman of Pharmacy week.
Teams were also entered in the
Basket ball tournament and the track
meets. They went to the finals in the
basket ball games and were put out
by the laws. The showing at the
track meets was not so good for they
had not been able to practice due to
the nearing of Pharmacy week and
the great preparations they were mak
ing. The College is now beginning to
make active plans for the coming
baseball seasons and plans are being
made to put a team into the field.
Prospects this year are said to be
unusually bright and the candidates
are looking eagerly forward to con
tests with the other college. To date
there has been no call issued yet, the
pill-rollers time, having been fully oc
cupied with the efforts of Pharmacy
week. Rumor has it though, that the
college is boasting of a young battery
from the freshman, class that is Just
about the cream of the school. At
any rte the ctllege is waiting patient
ly when they can lock horns with the
bizads or some other willing group.
Beautiful new designs In Crane's
stationery just received. An excellent
graduation gift. George Bros., 1213
N St. adv.w.f.s.
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