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LINCOLN. NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1923.
STADIUM TODAY AT
EAK FIST GEO
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FIRM IS
GIVEN CONTRACT
FOR STADIUM
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Build Structure for $548,815)
Will
Work Win Stan
at Once.
COLONADES ELIMINATED
Few Changes Made in Plans
Will He Completed in Time
for Football Games
This Fall.
The contract for building the
Xehniska Memorial Stadium was
awarded to the Farsons Conctruc
tion company, Omaha, by the stadium
building committee Tuesday evening.
The contract will be signed Thurs
dav it tne contractor submits an
agreement that meets the approval
of the buildinp committee. The Par
sons' bid was $54S,S49. The total
money available at this time is $440.
IfiS. It will be necessary to tempo
rarily eliminate certain portions of
the stadium until more money is
available. The contract to be sipned
irill be for a sum less than the money
subscribed, accordinp to W. L. Bates,
a memlKT of the Board of Repents
and chairman of the buildinp commit
tee. The agreement will call for con
struction to bepin immediately, and
for the completion of the concrete
and steel work on the west stands
120 days after starting work and for
the completion of the railing and
wooden scats SO clays later. The east
stand will be completed 10 days later
than the west stand. The stadium
will be of reinforced concrete and
steel construction. The seating ca
pacity of the two .-tiands will be about
34.000.
For the pi-esent the colonades en
closing the north and south ends will
be eliminated, as also will the tower
sections of the oast stands. It is
hoped that enough money will be
raised before September 1 to add the
towers to the east stand. The com
mittee did not feel justified in cut
ting down the seating capacity in as
much as that was the basis of the
campaign for funds.
According to Harold F. Holtz, sec
retary of the alumni association, a
great deal of work remains to be done
among alumni outside the state for
the stadium campaign and as yet
Omaha has not completed its drive.
Seven bids were submitted to the
building committee.. A contract was
sinned Wednesdav with the Rolerts
Construction company for the grad-
mg for the stadium.
Members of the building committee
are Regents W. 1 Rates and F.
Judson. alumni members Samuel Roes,
Omaha. Guy E. Reed, Lincoln, and E.
L. Stanclitf. Crete, and ex-officio
members Dean Fred W. Dawson and
Handd F. Holtz.
ELECT OFFICERS HID
LEADERS FOR W.JLJL
Marie Snavely to Head Women's
Athletic Association
Next Year.
lie-uks of the elections of officers
and ;,(.t leaders . '.he Women's
Athletic Association were made yes
terday evening-. The following" offi
cers ;md leaders were elected for next
year:
President Marie Snavely.
Vice-president Mable Dickinson.
Corresponding Secretary Rosalie
Platener.
Recording- Secretary- Sylvia Keene.
Treasurer Irene Barqui.-t.
Soecer leader Elsie Gramlick.
Hotkey leader Elizabeth Arm
strong. Basketball Edith Gramlich.
Dance Drama Bernice Ballance.
CORXHUSKER
Applications for positions on the
staff of the 1924 C'ornhusler will
received until May 8, at the
office of student activities, where
Wanks may be wared. The posi
tions to be filled are: Editor,
Junior managing editor, business
manajer, and assistant business
nana grr.
OMAHA
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CORNERSTONE TO
BELAYED DURING
ROUNHJP WEEK
192.) Roundup Program Filed
with Interesting Events
for Students and
Alumni.
CEREMONY TO UK JUNE 1
Ivv Dav Ceremonies Will Re
'Carried Out First Day
of Annual Reunion
May 31.
With the contract for the building
of the new Nebraska Memorial Sta
dium let, and the program for Ground
Breaking Day scheduled to take place
this morning at 11 o'clock, attention
of students and alumni is now turned
to the next big event in connection
with the Stadium, the laying of the
cornerstone which will take place
with the Stadium, the layingetaoinn
June 1, as a part of a three day pro
gram of fun and reunions of all uni
versity graduates since the first class
left the school fifty years ago.
The 1924 Roundup program is filled
with things of interest to students,
although the week is especially de
signed to satisfy the whims and de
sires of thousands of returning grad
uates and ex-students. Ivy Day cere
monies and tapping of the Innocents
and the Mortarboards are scheduled
for May 31, the first day of the Round
up, while the laying of the comer
stone of the Stadium, and fraternity,
sorority, and other campus organiza
tion banquets are on the card for Fri
day, June 1. On Saturday, the last
day of the funfest, comes the Kansas
Nebraska baseball game, closing the
season for the Cornhuskers diamond
artists. On Sunday the baccalaureate
sermon by Rev. Herbert Gray of
Scotland and a sacred concert will
be given, while on Monday the com
mencement exercises with an address
bv the Rev. Timothy Stone of Chi
cago is the principal feature.
The 1!23 Roundup is the second at
tempt to hold class reunions on a large
scale. The first annual Roundup was
held in the spring of If 22 with more
than 1.000 alumni and former stu
dents in attendance. This year, the
fiftieth anniversary of the graduation
of the first class from the University,
it is expected that a far larger num
Ur of former students will attend the
reunions, according to committees in
charge.
A new plan for the Roundup, which
will be followed permanently, is being
trie.! this vear. This calls for special
programs for all of the five year
classes, 1ST3. 18s3, 13, etc.. to
1003 The usual feature of having
the twenty-year class, this year the
class of 1103, have charge of the re
unions is still being followed and
from that class the chairman, Mr. U
J Fee of Lincoln, and the alumni
orator, as yet not chosen, are selected.
The opening day of the Roundup
Mav 31, will be filled with the regis
tration of returning students of the
University --nd with the Traditional
Iw - 'xercises of wnicn me
Dance and crowning of the May Queen
scheduled for 10 a.m., and the Inno
cent and Mortarboard ceremonies at
71 m, are a part. All the events
will be held on the city campus. In
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NOTICE.
All "N" men yf" mett m fro,,t
of the Armory at 10:50 this morn
ing, wearing sweaters, to take part
in ground breaking exercises and
members of the Women's Athletic
Association will meet at the west
end of the Armory at the" same
time.
FOR COMING YEAR
Annual Dinner Dance Will Be
Held at Lincoln Hotel Fri
day for New Members.
The new members of The Vikings,
junior men's honorary society, wore
initiated at a meeting held Tuesday
evening at the Sigma Nu house. Plans
were completed for the formal dinner
dance for the old and the new mem
bers to be held Friday evening at the
Lincoln Hotel.
The men initiated are:
Acacia Harold Edgerton. Aurora.
Alpha Gamma Rho Hugh Mc
Laughlin, Donithan.
Alpha Sigma Phi Willard Usher,
Lincoln.
Alpha Tau Omega Charles M.
Cox, York.
Alpha Theta Chi J. C. Peterson,
Geneva.
Beta Theta Pi Arthur Whiteworth,
Lincoln.
Delta Chi Edward Kubat, Lincoln.
Delta Tau Delta Monroe Glea.-on,
Omaha.
Delta Upsilon A. L. Barrett, Fre
mont. Farm House John W. Ross, Gib
bon. Kappa Sigma Clarence Fickotr,
Fremont.
Lambda Chi Alpha Forest Brown,
Atwood.
Phi Delta Theta Marion Stanley,
Aurora.
Phi Gamma Delta Arthur Latta,
Tekahamah.
Phi Kappa P.-i Giles Henkle, Lin
coln. Pi Kappa Phi Charles F. Adams,
Lincoln.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon Melvin Col
lins, Wakefield.
Sigma Chi Carl J. Springer, Fre
mont. Sigma Nu W. T. Morrissey, Chad
ion. Sigma Phi Epsilon Philip Lewis,
Sutton.
Silver Lynx Menit Benson, Shel
don. Iowa.
Miss Hcppner Will
Attend Convention
Miss Amanda Heppner, dean of
women, will leave this afternoon for
Columbus, Ohio, to attend the na
tional convention of Altrusa Club to
which she is a delegate. Miss Hep
pner will be gone about a week. Miss
Helen Cook, her assistant, will have
charge of the work at her office at
Ellen Smith Hall.
The local chapter of Altrusa has
been organized about a year. The
purpose of the club corresponds to
that of the Rotary Club. It sponsors
the interest of young girls. Its mem
bership includes representatives of va
rious occupations, and an attempt is
made to avoid duplication of professions.
ANNOUNCED
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ATHLETICS HAVE
GOOD PROSPECTS
FOB COMING YEAR
Winning Teams in All Branches
of Sport Predicted Will
Have to Develop
Gridsters.
OKLAHOMA HERE FIRST
Dedication Day Will Be Novem
ber 20 When the Jayhawk
ers Journey to
Lincoln.
The dedication of the Memorial
Stadium next fall is expected to mark
new and greater achievements by the
Coiiiliusker athletic teams. The pros
pects for winning teams in all
branches of sports have never been
so bright in the history of the Corn
husker institution as they are for
1923-24. With the new Memorial
Stadium furnishing a constant inspi
ration to those striving to gain the
right to represent the Scarlet and
Cream in the various sports, Nebras
ka should emblazon in 1923-24 many
greater accomplishments upon her
athletic escutcheon.
With the greatest schedule ever at
tempted by a Cornhusker football
team before him. Head Coach rred
T. Daw.-on of football is expected to
do new wonders in the development
of the 1923 gridiron team. The
"fightin" Cornhuskers" will inaugurate
the 1923 season on October G, when
they meet the Illinois team at Urbana
for the first time that Nebraska has
played Coach Zuppke's eleven since
1903.
The Oklahoma moleskin warriors '
will be Nebraska's first gridiron foe
at home next fall. The Huskers will
battle the Sooners on October 13.
The dedication of the Memorial
Stadium and Homecoming Day fall
on the date of the annual classic
with the Kansas Jayhawkers, Nebras
ka's traditional gridiron enemies. This
great day of celebration and rejoic
ing in the Scarlet and Cream camp
comes on October 21, when Nebraska
spirit will be supreme.
Following the Kansas game, the
Huskers will journey to Missouri to
battle the Tiger pigskin eleven. This
game will be more or less of a prep
aration for the Notre Dame classic
two weeks later on November 10.
With all loyal Cornhuskers the Notre
Dame-Nebraska battle for supremacy
on the gridiron is the final test of
both the "fighting Cornhusker" eleven
and "fighting Cornhusker" spirit, for
it is at this time that the Nebraska
student body rises up to a man and
supports the Scarlet and Cream with
all his heart and soul. The playing
of this game in the new stadium
should attract such a crowd as has
never before attended a Cornhusker
football game.
The Husker football team will
journey to Iowa State at Ames No
vember 17. As an aftermath to the
enthusiasm aroused the week before,
a special train will probably take hun
dreds of Cornhusker students to the
Ames contest.
Again November 24 Cornhusker
supporters will have another oppor
tunity to se their team compete
against one of the best football aggre
gations in the country when Nebras
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FORMAL PROGRAM WILL BE CARRIED
GOT THIS MORNING ON STADIUM SITE
Kntirc Student Doily Expected to Attend All Classes Will He
Dismissed Recent John It. Webster of Omaha,
Will lie the Principal Speaker
on the Program.
CHANCELLOR SAMUEL AVERY WILL DIRECT PLOW
University "N" Club and Women's Athletic Association Will Have
Chaise of Ceremony Large Delegation of Alumni
from Omaha and Other Cities Ex
oected for Exercises.
GROUND BREAKING DAY PROGRAM.
-Selections bv University Cadet Band.
-Introduction of Hon. John R. Webster, president of
Board of Regents by Guy C. Chambers of Alumni
Association.
Speech by Regent Webster.
-(round Breaking Ceremony with Chancellor Avery,
University "N" Club and Women's Athletic Associa
tion taking part.
-Singing ot Chant and Cornhusker by entire student
body.
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STAFF ELECTIONS FOR
Applications for Offices Will Be
Received at Activities Of
fice Until 3Iay 8.
Applications for the positions of
editor, business manager, junior man
aging editor and assistant business
manager of the 1924 Cornhusker will
be received by the Publication Board
until five o'clock Tuesday, May 8. Ap
plication blanks may be secured from
and should be returned to the Student
Activities Office.
The board of editors of the 1921
yearbook will be the first to be ap
pointed by the Publication Board.
Until this year the editor, business
manaeer and junior managing editor
have been elected by the student body
and the assistant business manager
appointed by the business manager.
The present Publication Board is
made up of Professor M. M. Fogg,
acting chairman; Prof. S. B. Gass,
Prof. H. E. Bradford. Prof. M. G.
Wyer and three student members:
Joe Noh, senior; Norman Cramb,
junior; and Raymond Tottenhoff,
sophomore.
According to a ruling made by the
Publication Board late in January, the
profit from the Cornhusker shall be
divided as follows:
1. The first ?100 shall go to the
Student Publication Board Fund.
2. The next ?."00 shall be divided
equally between the editor and the
business manager.
3. Any remaining profits shall be
divided on the following ba.-is, the
maximum from this sum to the editor
and the business manager being ?2."j0
each and to the managing editor ami
the assistant business manager being
one hundred and fifty dollars each:
(a) The editor shall receive thirty
per cent.
(b) The business manager shall
receive thirty per cent.
(c) The managing editor shall re
ceive twenty per cent.
(d) The assistant business man
ager shall receive twenty per cent.
(e) Any profit still remaining shall
go to the Student Publication Board
Fund.
Hold Tryouts for
Varsity Golf Team
at Country Club
Final tryouts for. the University
Golf team will be held starting Fri
day of this week. Anyone caring to
try out should hand in his name at
the athletic office in the Armory.
Each man will play four rounds and
the three l.-t cards out of the four
will be used in selecting the team.
The tryouts vill be held on the
Country Club course all day Friday,
Saturday morning and all day Mon
day. The rules for the tryouts are
tnat no man will keep his own score
and the scorer will keep and sign the
respective cards.
Fraternity brothers will not be al
lowed to play together and each man
is to register with his partner at the
athletic office before going out to
play. Further information concerning
the tryouts may be had at the athletic
office.
24 CORNHUSKER SOON
The first step in the erection of the
new Stadium will take place this
morning at eleven o'clock when the
formal exercises of breaking the
ground will be held. All eleven o'clock
classes will be dismissed and the en
tire student body is expected to take
part as it is a large per cent of their
money that is erecting this structure.
There has been some grading work
going on at present time but that is
for the railroad track that is to be
built from the Missouri tracks for
the hauling of the material for the
Stadium. With the grading contract
and building contract both in the
hands of the contractors, work will
start immediately.
The program has been fully out
lined and is expected to take up the
greater part of an hour. The Uni
versity Cadet band will meet at the
Temple building and march from
there to the scene of the ground
breaking. "N" Gab and Women's
Athletic Association will meet at the
east and west ends of the Armory,
respectively, and will march to the
athletic field.
Following a few selections by the
band, Guy C. Chambers of the Alumni
Association will introduce Regent
John R. Webster of Omaha, president
of the board of regents, who will be
the principal speaker on the program.
The formal exercises of the breaking
of the ground will follow Mr. Web
ber's speech.
The University "N" Club and
Women's Athletic Association will
form a large "N" with an open space
down the center of the cros.-bar,
through which Chancellor Avery will
direct the plow. It is thought by the
committee in charge that this will be
one of the most unique' ceremonies
ever cerried out in the United States or
any place else. The studei.i 1 ody will
sing the "chant" and "Cornhu.-ker"
as a suitable closing of the occasion.
Kveivone who has contributed to
the Stadium fund in any way will be
represented on the program. Regent
John R. Webster is repreenting the
state at large and Chancellor Avery
the faculty of the University. Guy
C. Chambers of the Alumni Associa
tion wiil be the repre.-entative of all
the alumni who have sub.-criled so
loya'ly and the "X" Club ar.d W. A. A.
wi!i represent the student body as a
whole'.
The ground breaking ceremony will
be the last fini.1 formal ceremony to
j be held in connection with the erecting
! of the Stadium until Round-up Week
when the laying of the cornerstone
will take place. The dedication cere
mony next fall will be the next event
following the laying of the corner
stone. Delegates Leave for
National Convention
at Columbus, Ohio
Jean Holtz and Margaret Stid
worthy, incoming and retiring presi
dents of W. S. G. A., will leave Mon
day afternoon for Columbus, Ohio,
where they will attend the national
convention of W. S. G. A. They ex
pect to be gone about a week. Session
will be hel 1 May 2, 3, 4 and 5.
The program outlined for the con
vention includes a discussion of W. S.
G. A. rules, vocational guidance, big
and little sister movements, co-oper-jt.ion
with other organizations, and
organization among Catholic students.