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THE.TUlTV;'NEBR AS KAN 1 1 -CN0ril6. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1923 ENGINEERS LAY PLANS FOR BIG COLLEGE WEEK C eral Chairman for AH Events. I0 BK APWT24 TO 28 n, nl ivs lo Be Made in Windows DLSP I'arade and Open Night on Thursday Dance on Saturday. Engineer's Week, "the original and greatest college celebration," ac (ordinB to the engineers, conies April !4to 28- H- M- Klcntschy, Seneral firman In charge of the entire fWk's program, has appointed gen jnl chairman for each event, anil ali wnmittees are actively preparing jift. These men are: A. W. Brust, vocation: K. W. Morris, publicity. LG.Foxwell. parade; Richard Krage, peers' XiRht: G. L. Gray, tield ity; J. I'. Wood, banquet, andII. 10. Ederton, 'lance. Starting Tuesday, April 24, with a convocation, the program will run through Wednesday, publicity day; Thursday, parade and open night; Frl jay, field day and banquet, and Sat urday, the dance. Window displays at all down town stores will run throughout the week, kerinning Monday. The best of these uhibits will be shown in Omaha and Beatrice during the preceding week. An honor medal will be presented it the convocation, Tuesday at 11 dock in the Temple, to the sopho- Bore engineer who has the highest icholarship average. A prominent en rineer w ill speak. The Hall of Fame in the Mechanical Engineering build ing is to receive its annual addition the portrait of a famous engineer at the assembly. Sigina Tau, honorary espnec-ring fraternity, presented the Urtrait last year. i pep meeting In the Armory at I o'clock is the opener for publicity ttj, Wednesday. All engineers will wear the badge of their college.. A ipecial Engineers' edition of The Daily Ncbraskan is to be printed, and posters are being prepared for cam pus t'isplay. A program of the we .-k ii to be printed, and mailed out over the state. This program will also be distributed Engineers' Night. A parade with a band and a float from each department starts ftrom tie University at noon, Thursday, for 1 progress through the business sec tion of Lincoln. Radio concerts, chemical displays, electrical phenonema, and exhibits from every department of the college will make up Engineers' Night. All engineering buildings are to be open for inspection. The Armory is to house some of the exhibitions. Field day, all day, comes Friday. Level and slide-rule races, baseball games, boxing and other athletics con stitute the program. Red lemonade, hot dogs, and other appertainences of picnic will be the nourishment of the day. Vaudeville, music, and Interesting speakers will furnbsh the entertain ment at the banquet Friday night at the Chamber of Commerce. The dance at the Rosewilde is fcthedult-d for Saturday, and it is ru mored that some of the radical pro Engiuters want to make It a whistle Pints and gingham-apron affair. Sub-committee chairman and all committee members will be announced soon. The Temple Caftteria will be open dariDg Easter raea'ion according to announcement trom its arrangement to4ay. The Cafeteria will serve three meals a day as usual throughout the recess. A Lenten Thought for Every Day The deeper men go Into life, the flwper Is their conviction that this w is not alL It is an "unfinished srmphony." a day may round out a insets life and a bird or a beast pds no tomorrow. Not so with him ao knog that be is related to God tas felt "the power of an end less life.- M. D. BABCOCK. Ex-Governor to Talk to Commercial Club Ex-Governor McKelvie will speak at a meeting of the University Com mercial club at 11 o'clock in Social Science building, Room 33. Mr. Me Kelvle is now the editor of the "Ne braska Farmer," and can, therefore, speak on his Subject, "Economical Conditions and the Farm," from first hand experience. The committee In charge of the meeting urge that all members be present as this will be the most im portant meeting of the year. PERSHING RIFLES 10 ELECT NEW HERS Honorary Drill Company to Or ganize for Spring with Two Platoons. Election of new members of the Pershing Rifles, honorary cadet drill company, will be held this evening at a meeting of the company in Ne braska hall. According to the reor ganization plan adopted by the Rifles at the last meeting, one platoon of underclassmen will be elected and one platoon will be filled with of ficers. This will mean that at the drills of the company one platoon will be outfitted in the regular olive drab uniform and the other in offic ers' uniforms. The entire organiza tion, however, with the exception of I the regularly elected officers, will drill as privates in the ranks. The Pershing Rifles was established at Nebraska as an honorary drill company in 1S92 when General Per shing was commandant. The organ-!the ization at that time was known as the Varsity Rifles, the name later beng changed to Pershing Rifles in honor of the founder of the honorary com pany. It is the annual custom of the hon orary company to elect a full mem bership of the best-drilled men of the cadet regiment and. after special training, to put on exhibition drills. This custom was neglected during the war, but will be revived in the spring after the new members have been selected. Numerous petitions from the larger universities all over the United States have been received during the last few years asking for the nationaliza tion of the honorary organization to go under the name of Pershing Rifles and with the mother company at Ne braska. The organization has in the past looked with disfavor upon ex pansion because of the tradition winch ha3 so firmly attached the Pershing name to the University of Nebraska. This year with more than twenty queries as to the possibility of making the organization national, a commit tee has been appointed to investigate v, nnnaihiiitv nf iia t ionalizaion. A 1 conference with the founder. General Pershing, or at least his consent will be required before the local company will consider expansion to otner schools. Major E. Grant Lantz, of the cadet regiment is Captain of the Rifles this year. Barker to Speak at Zoological Meeting The monthly open meeting of the Zoological Seminar will be held in Room 110 of Nebraska hall. Wednes day afternoon. March 21. at 5 o'clock. Dr. F. D. Barker, of the Department of Zoology, will present a two-reel movine Dicture showing the life cycle of a parasitic worm which is found in pigs and man. The meeting is open to all students. i -.tt tp-A of controversy has arisen recently at the University of Oregon between different members the peology department over a cuno which they possess. It is a stone which resembdes a petrified human loot auu ,.t ih naleontolosrists there are convinced that it is a natural curios ity a freak of errosion, wnicn was utilized by the Indians in making moccasin,. The others abhor the idea of the Indians being cobblers. W e do not think it strange that the Indian should have understood how to cobble, though, because in Caesar's time, long before anything was known of In dians. Shakespeare tells us that Ma rullus accosted a commoner on a street in Rome, king what trade he was; and the commoner answered. A trade, sir. that, I hope. I may use with a safe conscience which is, m deed. r. a mender of bad soles. -Notre Dame Scholastic Slippery, Sloppery, Slushy Street Plays Havoc With the Co-eds' Feet Slush! But there are two varieties of this extremely interesting substance: when it is used in the figurative sense it has an entirely different connotation than when it is used literally. j In the latter of these circumstances, it is unalterably linked up with the sort of weather which we are exper iencing these March days. The snow, melted into the mere semblance of its pristine whiteness, lies in pools on the streef . where it is as much as one's life is worth to try to cross the puddles. Galoshes and rubber boots of Rus sian inspiration vie with one another to set the styles for the co-eds, while the Eds with their frankly overshoed feet are on the minority, first hon ors being copped by the less wise. PRESBYTERIANS Fi FCT POGUE NEWPRES1DENT Students Club Chooses Officers for Ensuing Year at Ban quet Dr. Joshi Speaks. The Pan-Presbyterian club, an or ganization of all students of that de nomination in the University, at its banquet Saurday evening at the Grand hotel elected the following officers for the coming year: president, Welch Pogue; vice president, John Kellogg. and secretary-treasurer, John Allison. Dr. S. L. Joshi addressed meeting. The senate, or governing body ol the club, includes the officers and the following representatives: Edith Olds, Betty Lyman, and Doris Trott. The Rev. Dean R. Leland, studeut pastor, is an ex-offisio member of the council. Arrangements are now being made for the banquet to be given on April 19. w'.ien E. J. Weekes, head of the Union Middle School of Canton, China, will speak. The purpose of the club is to de velop acquaintance among the stu dents and faculty members and to secure interesting speakers from time to time to address the group. Notre Dame Paper Summary Harcourt, Brace and Company, pub lishers of Sinclair Lewis' "Main Street" and "Babbit," promise new editions of Lewis' earlier novels, "Our Mr. Wrenn." "Trail of the Hawk," and "The Job." Wiiter Bynner, through the Poetry Society of America, offers one hun dred dollars for the best poem, or group of poems, not exceeding 200 lines, by an undergraduate of any American college or university. Previ ous publication does not dissqualify. Not more than two hundred lines may be submitted by any one person. Poetry submitted for the contest shoufd be sent, before May 1, to Alice Corbin, Box 144. Santa Fe. New Mex ico. The judges will be Witter Byn ner, Alice Corbin and Carl Sandburg. A new series of books, somewhai like that of the Modern Library, to be called the Borzoi Bocket Books, bear ing the Knopf imprint, has just been announced. The first wriiings include "Hunger" and "Growth of the Soil" by Knut Hamsun, "London River "'by II. M. Tomlinson, "Caesar or Nothing" by Poe Baroja. and others. "The Letters of Franklin K. Lane" may be enjoyed just as the letters of an interesting man. Stripped of their political significance, tbey reveal that Lane possessed the ability to write letters that were vigorous and enter taining, that he understood the thing that used to be called the art of letter-writing, now not labelled at all be couse it so rarely exists. Lane con ceived the letter as an easy, long distance conversation. The letters in this book never lose their informality no matter to whom addressed. Ou-j might tritely say that a man is best revealed in the letters that he writes, and we think that would be true of Lane. There is in everything that he wrote to his friends and his associates a note of sincerity, of firm purpose and of loyalty to high ideals that were a part of the man. Lane was an un selfish public servant daring all the years of his public life. Countless peop'e have been asking but more aesthetic youths who leap like kangaroos from one island to an other in the comparative dryness of the mudy streets. The track men who are in train ing for standing broad Jump should find the weather a valuable aid. How much easier it is to Jump if the in ducement of obstacles be offered to add to the Intensity of the sporting instinct. In the other sense of the moist word, there is the old quotation to be considered, for the thoughts or youth and especially of college youth is always the same, yea, never-changing as the laws of the Medes and the Persians, and in the knowledge of humn nature we find the echo and re-echo of the same old refrain: "In the Spring a young man's fancy Lightly turns to thoughts of Love." HOLD ANNUAL PASSION SERVICES AT VESPERS Choir Gives Musical Program- -Emily Ross Reads Story of the Passion. The annual passion service of the Lenten season was held at the week ly Vesper service of the University Y. W. C. A. Tuesday at 5 o'clock at Ellen Smith hall. The Vesper Choir gave a musical program under the direction of Amy Martin. The service was opened by the white-robed choir girls who formed a processional, singing as they entered. Emily Ross read the story of the Passion. Special parts were carried by Mary Doremus and Esther Garrett in a duet, and Josephine Bishop in a solo. During the silent prayer and the choir selections, a lighted cross glowed above the room. The audience passed out between two rows of sing ing choir girls at the close of the service. A spring festival and Maypole lance is to be held at the University of Oklahoma and the proceeds turned over to the Stadium-Stud'cnt Union fund. Compiles of Literary Works where the Church stands on Coueism. The article, "Coueism and Catholic ism," in the March Catholic World, is not dogmatic or final, but it is a Catholic enterpretation of Coue and his opinions. The passing of Alice Meyell is still fresh in the minds of the English world. In America prob ably no one would be listened to more eagerly than Agnes Repplier when Miss.Meynell is the subject of an essay such a sthat in the March World. "The Bard of Broadway" is the study and criticism of the meth ods of the recent Shakespearean dramas. The time will never come, we suppose, when even college men will throw away their Cosmopolitan to read the Catholic World. Still, every month the World contains half a dozen articles that any well-read Catholic ought to see. A .isitor to our quarters last week fondled with considerable delight the Modern Library edition of Francis Thompson's poems, a book whose ex istence he was unaware of. Finally we took ft away from him and then before he left searched his pockets to be sure he wasn't carrying it out with him. We supposed almost everyone was familiar with this edition of Thompson. Apparently not. For the benefit of the uninitiate, we urge an immediate visit to the book store for the purpose of ordering one or more copies. The expenditure, ninety-five cents; the dividend, boars and hours of poetic enjoyment. The Chicago literary world is be ginning to take itself seriously. The Chicago Literary Times, a bi-month!7, will make its debut the first week in March. . . . "Youth and the Bright Medusa," that excellent collection of Willa Cather's short stories, is being reprinted. To those unfamiliar with the book, we particularly recommend the story, "Coming, Aphrodite." Simultaneous with the visit of Hi la Ire Belloc to America is the publica tion of "On," bis latest book of essays. Belloc will be in the middle west to visit Chicago, Detroit, and other cities in the next ten days. Earhardt Honored by Educational Society Dr. LIda B. Earhardt. professor of elementary education, received of ficial notice of her election to the vice-presidency of the National So ciety of the Study of Education, to which office she was elected at the convention held at Cleveland, Ohio, this month. Guy M. Whipple, of the Univeisity of Michigan, is president of the or ganization, which, according to Miss Earhardt, is one of the foremost edu cational societies in America. CONFERENCE TO BE HELO AT VVESLEYAN Classes to Be Conducted in Y. W. C. A. All Schools in State to Send Renresentatives. The first Saturday and Sunday after vacation, April 7-8, the Cabinet Train ing Conference will bo held at Wes- leyan University. Classes are con ducted for all the various branches of Y. W. C. A. work and there the cabinet members are trained for their work next year. Miss Mildred Inskeep. member of the Administrative Board of the Rocky Mountain Region division of the Y. W. C. A. will speak. Miss Elizabeth McClanahan and Miss Els peth Rattle will also address the meeting. The latter will help the Advisory Board members. All of the schools in the state ex cept Chadron will send repsentatives of the cabinets elected for next year to be trained. These schools include Wayne, Peru, Kearney, Doane, Hast ings, Omaha, Midland, Central Col lege, York. Grand Island, Cotner, Wesleyan, and the University of Ne braska. Representatives of the var ious schools will be entertained by members of the Cabinet of the Uni versity of Nebraska Association. Bengston Addresses Sigma Gamma Epsilon Prof. N. A. Bengston, of the De partment of Geology and Geography, addressed the last open meeting of Sigma Gamma Epsilon honorary and professional geological fraternity, on the economic and social conditions resultant from the scientific prospect and discovery -f A11 depart ments of the school were present. Iron Sohinx Formal to Be Held April 7 Iron Sphinx formal to be held April 7 at the Chamber of Commerce is another pre-war custom revived. All active members, initiates for next year, and all Iron Sphinx alumni are Invited. Alumni may secure tickets for $1.50 from active members. Good music has been secured and the committee in charge promises a party that will eclipse in style, at tendance, and refreshments all for mals of the year. The Iron Sphinx formals of the years past have been considered the best and present mem bers 6ay this will keep up the record. A double contest as to the most beautiful co-ed and the co-ed to be Junior Prom Queen was held at In diana University. The most beautiful girl was chosen merely from her photograph, and the Queen by a col lege vote. The administrative council of Ore gon Agricultural College issued the following statement: "Publication of names of students found guilty of cheating in school work will here after be included as part of the pen alties imposed in all cases where such recommendation Is made by the com mittee to promote honesty in acad emic work." A radio apparatus has been (in stalled at the Palace hotel to broad cast the alumni banquet of the Uni versity of California. Many people who are unable to reach Berkeley will have smaller banquets in their own town and "listen in" on the radio. The annual celebration of the En gineers of Utah University in honor of St. Patrick's Day was the biggest event given at Utah for some time. The program began with an initiation into the Knights of St. - Patrick and and continued throughout the day. ending with a dance in the evening. NEW MEMBERS OF PHI BETA KAPPA TO BE ANNOUNCED Nebraska Chapter Will Give Out List of Students at rine Arts Convocation March 22. FOSSLER IS PRESIDENT Those Who Have Fulfilled Re quirements of Arts and Science College Are Eligible. Nebraska Alpha chapter of Phi Beta Kappa will announce new members at the Fine Arts convocation Thurs day, March 22, at 11 o'clock in the Temple theatre. The University or chestra will play for the program. The Daily Nebrnsknn. containing the names of those elected to membership, is to be withheld from circulation until noon Thursday. The active membership of the chapter meets this noon to elect the new members. Students of all colleges who have fulfilled the group requirements of the College of Arts and Sciences are eligible to election. From one-tenth to one-sixth of each year's graduating classes those who have the highest scholarship averages are customarily elected. At each meeting for elec tion of new members, the chapter al ways considers the graduates of the two preceding commencements that at the end of the summer session. and that in January as well as those who are to be graduated in June, Pro fessor Congdon, secretary of the or ganization, said yesterday. Founded at William's and Mary's College in 1776, Phi Beta Kappa is the oldest national Greek letter frat 'rnity in the United States. Alpha .if Nebraska, the only chapter in the state, was installed in 1S96. Graduate students and faculty mem bers who are actively connected with the University make up the active chapter, with the addition of the newly-elected seniors of each year. Officers of Alpha chapter are: Professor Laurence Fossler, professor of Modern Languages, president; Mr. Allan Ray Congdon, associate profes sor of the Pedagogy of Mathematics, secretary; Miss Adeline Reynoldson, assistant professor of History, treas urer. Miss Waterman Will Address Bizad Girls Miss Gladys Waterman, of the ad vertising department of the H. Her polsheimer dry goods store of Lin coln, will address the members of the Girls' Commercial club at their regular monthtly dinner which will be held Wednesday, March 21. at 5:30 at Ellen Smith hall. The dinner will be preceded by the mid-year initiation of the club, which will be held at the same place at 5 o'clock. A unique contest was held in con nection with the Denver Auto show to determine the most popular co-ed auto driver at Denver University. Eight prizes are offered to the win ners. "What a piece of work is man!" Just glance at these following sta tistics and you'll see why. During the first 50 years of his life, an av. erage man spends 6,000 days in sweet slumber, engages 6,500 days in hard toil and spends 4,000 day? in search of pleasure. Investigation shows that after eat ing for 1,500 days, he devotes 500 days to sickness and no wonder he eats about 17,000 pounds of break or a string of loaves that would cover about three miles of ground. Then take into consideration the twenty head of cattle and 4.600 pounds of vegetables, eggs, fish and other items. This he washes down with over 7.000 gallons of liquid, including wat er, tea, coffe, milk and occasionally wine or beer. Shakespeare was right. The Thursday issue'of The Daily Nebraskan will not be delivered until noon, because of the Phi Beta Kappa list of new members which will be included in the edition. The announcement of the honor ary organization will be made at the clc of the 11 o'clock convo cation Thursday.