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m fR NEW
STADIUM BEGAN
OVERYEAR AGO
r Aieti Was Bon by Huge
C Ma.. Meeting at City Audi
Em Which Wa. Attended
by Whole School.
n Jn all the Drives Were
QCrubcribed and Money
For Stadium Was Raised in
four Months.
One year and four days ago, there
.it a huge massmeeting of 4000 stu
Ifflts in t city auditorium. There
Ire many speeches from the big
In around the University, but they
Jere all on one subject the drive
for the new stadium. ,
The stadium drive was started
October 16, 1922, with a campaign
among the students to raise $90,000,
00 By the end of the week, the
students had pledged $102,750.
At no time except during the war
Ws there ever so much excitement
around the University. "Every Col
lege Over the Top," was the cry.
Another statement which was very
popular at the time was "Whatever
Nebraska starts out to do, she does."
There was an old time rivalry
among the colleges to see which one
could go the most over its quota in
the drive. The air wa3 ful of the
drive, no one could talk or think of
anything else.
This was the spirit in which the
drive was started. After the stu
dent drive came the faculty drive,
the drive on Lincoln business men,
and the big drive on the alumni.
The faculty drive went over as the
student campaign had done with
flying colors.
The appeal was then made to the
Lincoln people and they responded
wonderfully. Lincoln went way over
its quota and helped swell the total.
After the other three drives, it
was left for the alumni to do the
greater bulk ef the work and raise
the total up to the $430,000.00 mark.
This was done in a most systematic
way.
There was a chairman in each
county appointed to . see that his
county went "over the top" in the
big drive. This organization was per
fected so well that 80 of the
county chairmen had reported their
quota in full before ten days had
elapsed.
When the alumni drive was over,
the total had reached $460,000 or
$30,000 more than the amount which
had been set as necessary.
One of the main appeals during
the entire campaign was that of loy
alty to those who had sacrificed their
Jives in the great struggle. The stad
ium was erected as a monument to
them, and this was the keynote of
many of the speeches made on the
subject
It took but four months to sub
scribe the total $460,000, and the
actual work was commenced in the
middle of December. At that time
the alumni association promised to
have sufficient seating capacity for
the first home game.
Last week the Nebraska team
Played Oklahoma in the new field
and there was more seating capacity
tban was necessary for that game.
Guest: I wish I had come here a
week ago.
Hotel Proprietress: Ah! You are
flattering to my establishment.
Guest: What I mean is that I
would have preferred to eat this
then instead of now.
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fitting
memorial
The wonderful new
STADIUM
will be an inspiration
to the courageous
of coming generations
t h e
o a
The final purpose
toward which
we strive
To master obstacles; to pioneer, not follow;
to advance constantly in the right direction;
to stand for things worth while; to do all
things well better if possible than have
ever been done before; to be an essential
factor in a community
an aim worthy of an
individual, a team or a
store such as
Part of the fun of HOMECOMING is being able to
shop in your favorite store, which has assembled
exceptional stocks.
Delicious suppers served
S to S;30 P. M.fifth floor
. inrr,
i -rase
to
Freshman: "I don't know what to
do with my week-end."
Sophomore: "Put a hat on it."
WELCOME
to Lincoln and to the
NEW STADIUM
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