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VOL. XXIV NO. 103.
PLAYERS TO
GIVE. DRAMA
Thre-ct Comedy Drama Will
Be Presented Thursday,
, Friday and Saturday.
THE MASQUERADER"
APPEARS THURSDAY
"The Masquerader," a three-act
comedy drama by John Hunter
Booth based on Katherine Cecil
Thurston's novel, will be presented
by the University Players on Thurs
day, Friday and Saturday evenings
and' at a Saturday matinee. , Hart
Jenks will take a dual role in the
production. The dual characterisa
tion affords Mr. Jenks the greatest
opportunity of his entire career on
the stage. Tickets are now on sale
t Ross P. Curtice's music store.
The play illustrates the lives of
mnn who met in the fog and
traded identities and living quar-
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ters. The two men are Jonn v,nn
... nd John Lodcr. Chilcote
comes of a distinguished family.' He
.aithv Influential and has a
prominent part in the councils of his
political party. cany in iiw no u
contracted the drug babit Although
married, this habit leads him to live
apart from his wife, who is not
aware of the curse wnicn is upon
him.
John Loder is a man with great
ambitions which have never had an
opportunity for fulfillment.
He
knows his country and its needs and
ha feels that he can help it. To this
man cornea Chilcote with an offer to
change places and give Loder all
that he has longed for. Loder lis
tens, is tempted, and finally accepts.
The climax of the play is reached
when Loder falls in love with Chil
cote 's wife.
"The Masquerader" is one of the
most fascinating plays of the sea
son. The play has run in New York,
Boston, Chicago and Australia for
months at a time. Guy Bates Post
has toured the United States for
solid years, with the play, playing
the title role.
The cast of the play is as follows:
' John Chilcote, M. P. and John
Loder Hart Jenks. "
Brock Harold Sumption.
Herbert Fraide Dwight Merriam.
Bobby Bleasington-Harold Felton.
Mr. Lakely Darrell Starnes.
Lord Bramfell Sutton Morris.
Doctor Sutton Morris.
Allston Edward Taylor.
Captain Gall try Ray E. Ramsay.
Eve Chilcote Edna Leming.
Lady Lillian Astrupp Mary Ya
kroff. Robbins Mary Johnston,
i Lady Bramfell Frances McChes
ey. Marie Winifred Mayhew.
Ladies Helen Stott, Winifred
Hayhew, Evelyn Norton.
GentlemenJoe Brown, Henry
Ley, Bernard Maxey, Edward Tay
lor. Dog Drefl.
APPOIHTS TBAUS TO
REACH COPPOCK GOAL
Anrilla Johnson Makes Plans
for Raisins; Remaining
Sum for Budget.
Two f olloW-up teams and their
captains were appointed Wednesday
by Arvilla Johnson, chairman of the
Grace Coppocfc committee. These
teams will see all girls who have not
been solicited and raise the remain
ing 270 needed to reach the $1700
foaL
The first committee captained by
Florence Stever, '26, C res ton, Iowa,
is made up of Lorena Coddington,
17, Syracuse, vWiIhelmina Shellak,
27, Lincoln, Winifred Steele, '26,
Lincoln, Freda Lemke, '26, LeMars,
Lv, Alice Sanderson, '26, Lincoln,
Helen Becker, '28, Pappillion, Alice
Cook, '27, Randolph, and Elva Erick
son, 28, Virginia. The second com
mittee has Dorothy Olmstead, '28,
Lincoln as captain. The committee
is composed of: Grace Modlin, '28,
Ulysses, Dorothy Payne, '25, Omaha,
Cyrena Smith '27, Phillipsburg, Kan
sas, Ida Flader, 26, Lincoln, Flor
ence Brinton. '27. Lincoln, Mabel
Utter, 27, Long Island, Kansas, Ade
laide Norseen. '27. Tekamah and
Blanche Sevens, '27, Beaver City.
The follow-up teams will bold a
meeting and luncheon Friday noon at
Blea 8mith Hill, whfen definite plans
ul be made and a report of the
earns work given. The follow-up
campaign will close Wednesday noon
"arch 18.
Caldwell Will Visit
Sister in Arkansas
Hot Epringa, Arkansas, with bis
tr, Ad Caldwell, who is an in-
'-njctor in South Dakota University.
University of Minnesota Plays
Host to Members of Legislature
In accordance with an old custom,
in late years somewhat neglected,
the University of Minnesota was
host for the first time in four years
to the state legislature. The Minne
sota lawmakers made a trip through
the University Farm campus and
then were the guests of a special
student convocation. That evening
a special banquet was served in
their honor, at which time motion
pictures depicting the development
of the University were shown.
Members of both houses left the
state capitol by auto, and were driv
en through the farm campus and
then to the city campus where they
gathered in a body and marched to
the Armory. Following the convo
cation at which the Lieutenant Gov
nnnenil W WIT If IT
UUUOUn IV 1ALIV Al
ENGINEERS MEETING
mtu- r :.. . r I
.
in Telephone Business Is
to Be Subject.
"The Engineer's Responsibility in
the Telenhnne Rusiness" will 'be the
subject of H. I. Dodson, acting chief
engineer or. tne jsortnwestern ueu
Telephone Company at Omaha, at the
retrular engineering college convoca
tion at 10 o'clock tomorrow in Me
chanical Engineering 206.
Requirements of an engineer in
meeting problems in the telephone
business, and the relationship be
tween the engineer in the University
and the engineer in industry will be
discussed by Mr. Dodson. His exper
ience fits him to explain to engineer
ing students the outlook in the field
of telephony. Telephone companies
annually employ large numbers of
men graduaing in all branches of en
gineering. However, Mr. Dodson is
here not as a company representative
but as a practicing engineer whose
observations and advice will benefit
students of engineering. 1
Mr. Dodson graduated in electrical
engineering from Ohio State Univer
sity in 1907. Even before his grad
uation he had been employed by the
Valley Telephone Company, Leban
on, Ohio, and the Central Union Tel
ephone Company at Indianapolis. He
served with the New York Telephone
Company at Brooklyn and Buffalo,
from 1907 to 1914 when he became
division plant engineer of the New
York Telephone Company, which po
sition he held until he came to the
Northwestern Bell Telephone Com
pany in Omaha in 1920. He is now
acting chief engineer of this concern
during the absence of Mr. R. A.
Gantt, '09, University of Nebraska.
OUAHA PUPILS SEE
UNITDRSITY SIGHTS
Chamber of Commerce Pro
motes Trip for Over 500
Metronoli Students.
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Over 600 Uiina scnooi cnuureu
from Omaha lecn ana une muuuci, p iowi sua nwrai i --
grade school were in Lincoln yester- beginning of this year a junior. She I older generation and to the negli
. i .i. : ika rv,m-l:. ij. pm Mn. Dorothy is I mnce of the students in assuming
aay unuer we -
i rmm.n.. All were to have
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visited the University campus, but be-
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school children were aoie w
Under the direction of Professor
v j .v.:. .AMltAr Milts i
dji mtA their teacher. MISS
v.nirkn th rrade school children
went through the SUdium, the Tem
nle. the Library. Ellen Smith Hall
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Fid tha Museum yesterday morning.
When the Tech boys ana giris ar
rv.H the were directed by Wallace
Thornton, of the Chamber of Com
merce, to the north end ol tne our
lington station to five speeiaUyhar
tered street cars.
With the din of horns, whistles and
cheering, they proceeded to the cap
itol building where they visited the
state legislature. They had dinner
downtown, and in the afternoon went
to the Agricultural College.
"This is the third such trip Omaha
students have made to Lincoln," ex
plained Professor R. L. Snetzer, head
of the sociology department at Tech.
"its practical value being the linking
up of civics and sociology with the
actual institutions of the state."
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Faculty to Help Plan
Citizenship Program
Sever! people connected with the
University will take part on a "CiU-
senship" program to be given oy we
Lincoln Chamber of Commerce Sat
urday noon. The program is for
the benefit of a new class I peopie
who have applied for naturalisation
f number given
every year. Professor Roy E. Coch
ran is Chairman of the State Teach
ers Research Committee on Citizen-
i . A- rftixen-IAlDliA
r. Research Committee n iUsen
..hip and i. connected "ff
'yet been completed
mK i w f'5-"h
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, NEBRASKA,
ernor and Speaker of the house made
addresses, there was an informal re
ception so that the students might
have an opportunity to discuss the
various phases of the University and
campus life.
The visit of the legislators was in
tended to effect a valuable relation
ship between the law-making body of
the state and the state University.
At first it had been planned to
have the legislature spend a whole
iihtu it.tu ic5ui.v.i. u, . -
day visiting the campus, attending
classes, inspecting buildings, educa-
tional facilities, and "rub elbows"
with members of the faculty and the James will arrive in Lincoln tonight
student body throughout the day. fron! his home in Austin, Texas, and
The press of work at the capitol will stay at the home of Dean Ros
made this plan impractical so that borough of the School of Music,
only the latter part of the afternoon Mr. James was born in Philadel
was used for the visit to the campus, phia. He attended college at North
Hot Water Scalds
r.K-miatrv AsJtant
Edmund Slattery. Chadron, an as
sistant in the chemistry department.
scalded himself badly Wednesday
Ififtnrnonn whiln
afternoon while working with an ex
periment in the chemistry laboratory.
He was taken to the Lincoln Sani
tarium where it was found that his
hums were not serious but he will
he unahle to return to school for a
week or ten days.
W. A. A. OFFICERS
ARE NOMINATED
All Officers and Sports Lead
ers Are Named for An
nual Election.
ELEANOR FLATEMERSCH
IS NOMINEE FOR HEAD
Nominations for officers of the
Women's Athletic Association and for
managers of soccer, hockey, and bas
ketball were made by the nominating
committee and approved by the or
ganization Tuesday night Eleanor
Flatemersch, '26, Milford, was unani
mously chosen the presidential nom
inee without an opposing candidate.
Last year Eleanor was' chosen vice
president and when Dorothy Supple,
the president-elect, did not return to
school, she assumed the responsibili
ties of that office. To show its ap
preciation for her work, the Associa
tion voted to make her nomination
unanimous.
Miss Flatemersch is a junior in the
Arts and Science college and is a
member of Alpha Xi Delta. Recent
ly she was elected to represent the
Women's Athletic Association at the
middle-west sectional conference of
the Athletic Conference of American
College Women to be held at Urban,
Illinois, April 3 and 4. She is also a
member of Vestals and Silver Ser
pents.
Ehra McFerrin, '26, Modale, Iowa,
and Dorothy Hoy, '26, Lincoln, are
the nominees for vice-president. Both
girls are new members of the Assoc l-
lation this year. Elga was a member
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oi we w. a. a. a uiuu wu.t.
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I. momhor of Alnha Omicron PL She
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entered her first W. A. A. acuviuesi
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The nominees for secretary are
rfceipley, '27, Fremont, and
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Ershal tree man, -zo, Lancoin. uaurmi
. i c: . v-.nna anil Til
lis a mcuiuci v uikum fr-
pelta and was elected to accompany j
. n,,m,r.h a the second I
A.lont of the Women's Athletic As-lof
sociation at the conference at ur- pons or tmna, inoia, wnrany, tug
v. TTh.i i. a member of the Y.I land and various other countries
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W. C. A. finance staff. She has been I
active in athletics for two years.
Two Omaha women who are jun-
iors in the University were nominat-
ed for the position of treasurer. They
u.-i,! Wniiifnrl and Alice
us -
Pfeiffer. Mildred came to Nebraska
this year from Wisconsin. She is s
member of the Alpha Gamma Delta
-.f that University. Alice came from
the University of Omaha last year,
She is a member of Chi Omega and is I
vrv; ani aVatfnv thin I
manager ""'e 1
Leone McFerrin, '27, Modale, lowaiara boib o -
.j TT.rmanek. are mnnlne I
for hockey managers. Leone is a
member of Phi Mu and Mane oi
TheU Phi Alpha.
The candidates for soccer are Dor-
n.L o a OiUmi. TTHnnU
and Madge Zorbaugh, '27, Lincoln, banished from bis country and his
Dorothy is a Gamma Phi Beta pledge ministry because of heretic tenden
and came to Nebraska from Illinois cies at the age of twenty-nine; Mar
last September. Madge has been ac- tin Luther, one of the instigators of
I the rreat reformation, who withdrew
vear and has been a member of ser'jfrom and defied Roman control when
year . .lu -,v:.k v;. A-
ml championship teams.
Nominees for basketball are Helen
Lohmeier, '28, Sutton, and Margaret
Hymer, '25, Lincoln. Margaret is a
veil a net, ovw uwuimcw
jp honor
j a"K.n which will play Saturday
, vminii.
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JAMES WILL
SPEAK HERE
"The Federal System -of Bra
zil" Is Subject for Friday
Lecture.
TEXAS PROFESSOR TO
TALK AT CONVOCATION
Herman G. James, Professor
of
t A. Ik. TTnllf.Mifll t
viovvrnmciib l wiv win, doit
Texas, will speak at the University
convocation. Friday at 11 o'clock on
xhe Federal System of Brazil." Mr.
western in 1903 and the University
of Illinois in 1906, where he got his
Master's degree. He went to Har
vard law school in 1906 and '07 and
the University of Chicago in 1901),
where he received his Ph. D. degree.
Mr. James finished school at Colum
bia University in New York and the
University of Berlin in 1912.
He was admitted to the , bar in
1909. In 1910 he was a private sec
retary with the American Delegation
to the Fourth Pan-American confer
ence in Buenos Aires and to the Cen
tenary of Chilean Independence at
Santiago.
Dr. James was made a member of
the faculty of the. University of Tex
as, where he is now Professor of
Government. He was connected witn
the Carnegie Institution at Washing
ton in 1922 and 23 to study Brazil
ian governments.
He is a member of Phi Ka'ppa Psi,
Phi Delta Phi, Order of the Coif and
Phi Beta Kappa.
Mr. James has written several
books on American government, gov
ernment in Latin America and on the
Constitutional System in Brazil, on
which he is going to speak tomorrow.
He is the editor of the Municiple Re
search series of bulletins issued by
the University of Texas.
HIGH SPEAKS
AT FORUD
Mission Secretary Says Ameri
can Youth Should Give
Ideals a Chance.
TALKS ON "THE REVOLT
OF YOUTH" AT FORUM
"The youth of America should ask
that their ideals be given a chance in
order that those men who died in
France shall not have died in vain,"
declared Stanley High, secretary of
the Board of Foreign Missions of the
Methodist church, in speaking on
The Revolt of Youth" at the World
Forum Luncheon Wednesday at the
Grand HoteL
The lack of an onranixed youth
movement in America at present, al
though various organisations recog
nise the loose existence of such sen
timent toward the movement among
:f.llifif vntitha nnr thA war. la.
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responsibility for world affairs. But
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cuiuiiucrui iiumun v. .Vm..w w
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toward organization oi sucn a move-
ImnTit tf
A short nresenUtion of the extent,
nature, and accomplishments of the
various organized youth movements
the world was given, organiza-
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were named. The greatest work of
the English movennnt was said to be
the support and election of Ramsay
McDonald, who was not listened to,
was not read, was stoned and derided
before the younger generation, re
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fusing to follow tne ieaa oi weir
fathers, took his cause into their
hands, made it their own and brought
about one of the most worthy accom-
plishment of that nation.
ine activities oi a iew oi w w
notable vountr men of history were
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selves in capame manner. Aieun-
oer the Great, conqueror of the
woria at we atr oi .wtnij-mm,
Alexander Hamilton, wno aeveiopea
we American oenaing ayawm at wo
laM of thirty-one: Rosrer Williams,
nurvi - wno,
trina was apreid through England by
Oxford students; Jesus Christ enter
ing the ministry when thirty and
finishing at thirty-three, were among
case of youth, and the! raccom
'plishment. nsmed.
tLontinuea oi
(Continued on Page Three.)
THURSDAY, MARCH 12. 1925.
Tournament
Claaa A (Coliseum) '
Omaha Tech. vs. Hastings, 8:40 p.
Huntley vs. Norfolk, 4 p. m.
Kimball vs. West Point, 5 p. m.
Nebraska City vs. Crete, 6:20 p.
m.
m.
Clarkson vs. Randolph, 7:40 p. m.
Creighton vs. Beatrice, 8 p. m.
Holdrege vs. Lincoln, 9 p. m.
Ravenna Vs. Osceola, 9:20 p. m.
Claaa B (ColUeum)
Big Springs vs. ' Hebron Academy,
9 a. m. v
St Paul vs. Chadron Prep, 9:20 a. m.
St Edward vs. Bye
Mead vs. Mitchell, 10:40 a. m.
Wayne vs. Chappell, 1 p. m.
Alma vs. Bye, 2:20 p. m.
David City vs. BassetC 2:40 p. m.
Clata C (Armory)
Henderson vs. Reynolds, 3:40 p. m.
College View vs. De Witte, 4 p. m.
Dannebrog vs. Verdon, 5 p. m.
Indianola vs. Waco, 5:20 p. m.
Syracuse vs. Blue Hill, 7:40 p. m.
Farnam vs. Chester, 8 p. m.
Waterbury vs. Ashland, 9 p. m.
Arnold vs. Bye
Prof. Hicks to Speak
At Freshman Lecture
Freshmen lecture next week will
be given by J. D. Hicks, professor of
American History. He will talk on
The Spirit of American History."
The following week Professor Wini
fred Hyde will lecture on "Psychol
ogy and Life."
WRESTLERS
MEET HERE
Several Injured Men May
Handicap Nebraska in
Valley Clashes.
NEBRASKA PLANS BEST
MEET OF KIND IN WEST
"The biggest thing in the wrest
ling line for a long time" is the way
Dr. Clapp describes the Missouri Val
ley Wrestling meet that opens in the
Armory Friday. "The meet at Ne
braska .this year will be bigger and
better than the "Western Intercolle
giate meet because it will be a team
as well as an individual competition.
The Missouri Valley wrestling com.
petition held at Ames last year was
one of ' the best that I have ever
seen and I belive that I am safe in
predicting an even' better meet at
Nebraska this year. There will be
some wonderfully good matches all
the way through."
Nebraska will be handicapped in
this meet because all but one of the
old men will be out on account of
injuries. Blore, in the 115-pound
class, is in the hospital being treated
for an infection. Skinner, captain,
will probably be unable to compete
on account of an injured rib. It
may be possible that both Blore and
Skinner will be in shape for the Wes
tern Intercollegiate meet Highley,
175 pounds, will be the only man
to crawl through the ropes to repre
sent Nebraska Friday and Saturday
who has not been out of at least one
meet this season.
The probable lineup:
Jones, 108 pounds; Hudson, 115
pounds; Mincer 125 pounds; Luff,
135 pounds; Brannigan, 1455 pounds
Lundy, 158 pounds; Highley, 176
pounds; Molzen, heavyweight
Since this is a Missouri Valley
Conference affair student tickets
will not admit the holder to the
matches. Season tickets for all the
matches may be purchased at the
Student Activities office for one
dollar. Single admission will be fifty
cents for the preliminaries and semi
finals, and seventy-five cents for the
finals. The finals will include both
the first and third-place matches.
Some fifty co-eds recently donned
masculine garb at Ohio State, when
they attended a prom. Another or
iginal part of the progwu was
"Broom" dance in which each dancer
threw down a broom that he carried
when he wished to change partners.
Old Campus Bell
To Be Restored
The old campus bell that woke the I mayor, the bell was loaned by the
students, called them to meals .nd'sori"" of the school to the city.
classes and rang the curfew when
the day's work was done in the old
days of Stephens College is soon to
be restored in the place where it
originally hung.
This old bell has many historic
associations. It was hung over the
old frame chapel built in 1856. When
the chapel was raised to make room
for the newer buildings no provision
was made for the disposal of the belL
Consequently it was placed on the
campus for a number of years. .
In 19 IT, at the request of the
Games Today
Class D (Armory)
Creston vs. Exeter, 9 a. l ).
Benson vs. Bye,
Belvidere vs. Bye.
Diller vs. Talmage, 10:40 a. m.
Plainview vs. Broadwater 1 p. m.
Beaver Crossing vs. Bclden, 1:20 p.
m.
Wausa vs. Battle Creek, 2:20 p. m.
Arlington vs. A ins Worth, 2:40 p. m.
. Cla.t E (Y. M. C. A.)
Grafton, vs. Honey Creek, 1 :20 p. m.
Ekley Consolidated vs. Fullerton,
1:40 p. m.
Eddyville vs. Bye
Herman vs. Pilger, 3 p. m.
Marquette vs. Culbertson, 4 p. m.
Grenwood vs. Daykin, 4:20 p. m.
Stockham vs. Cortland, 5:20 p. m.
Coleridge vs. Bladen, 5:40 p. m.
Cltu F (Y. M. C. A.)
Ong vs. Thedford, 8 a. m.
Shubert vs. Bye
Wiggle Creek vs Westerville, 9:20 a.
m.
Hallam vs. Bye.
Milligan vs. Long Pine, 10:40 a. m.
Wood Lake vs. Hickman, 11 a. m.
Danbury vs. Cedar Blufs, 12 a. m.
ROY WALL PUPILS
TO GIVE CONCERT
Varied Musical fro gram Will
Be Offered at Curtice
Hall.
Students of Roy Wall of the Uni
versity School of Music will be heaid
at Curtice Hall this evening.
Following is the program:
Mozart In diesen Heilgien Hal-
len, from "The Magic Flute;" Lawr
ence McAlister.
Brahm's Cradle Song; Georgia
Sitzer.
Purcell Passing By; Old English,
17th century; William Newens.
Mozart Deh vieni, non tardar,
from "The Marriage of Figaro;" Ver
na Lawritson.
Purcell I Attempt from Love's
Sickness to Fly; Old English, 17th
century; Raymond Lewis.
French Folk Song, arranged by
Scott; Josephine Bowlby.
Gounod All Hail Thou Dwelling
Pure and Lowly, from "Faust;" Wy-
att Hunter.
Dvorak Songs My Mother Taught
Me; Frances Larson.
Puccini Ohe gelida manina, from
"La Boheme;" Myers Totman.
Puccini Vissi D'Arte, from "Tos-
ca;" Dorothy Bowlby.
Stuart The Bandolero; Jean Bad
er. Leoni Birth of Morn; Helen Phil
lips. German Rolling Down to Rio;
John Culver.
Milligan April, My April; Eliza
beth McPherson.
Verna Lawritson at the piano.
WILL DESCRIBE COSTUMES
De Parencia To Lector nnder A-
of A. A. U. W.
Senora de Parencia, one of the
most formost young women on Spain,
will be at Lincoln high school March
23 under the auspices of the Ameri
can Association, of University Wo
men, Lincoln bureau.
Senora De Parencia will talk on
Spanish Regional Costumes and cus
toms. She will be assisted in the lec
ture by University women, who will
wear the costumes being brought into
the United States by the Senora.
She is coming to America highly
recommended and under the auspi
ces of a New York company.
Cochran Lectures to
Lincoln Women's Club
Professor Roy E. Cochran gave the
first of two lectures on "Modern
American Social Traits" before the
history section of the Lincoln Wo
men's Club at the Temple theater
Monday afternoon. The concluding
lecture will be given next week. Pro
fessor Cochran has been lecturing
this section of the club gor several
years.
Acquired in J856
to Stephens College
hall where it serves -s a lire beu.
However, for the past two years a
movement to remount the bell has
been in progress among the alumnae
of the college. It is planned to bring
the old bell back to. Stephens Col
lege and have it placed in another
building also built in 1856. Thus
the old relic will be associated with
historic surroundings . where it will
symbolise the traditions of the Ste-
thn'a nast. It it intended that the
ringing' of the bell will open all
alumnae meetings.
PRICE 5 CENTS
HIGH SCHOOL
MEET OPENS
Play First-round Games Today
at .Coliseum, Armory,
and Y. M. C. A.
NINETY TEAMS COME TO
FIFTEENTH TOURNAMENT
N'ebracka'8 fifteenth annual high
school basketball tournament begins
today. Nearly ninety teams, the
class of the sixteen districts, will per
form in first-round games today on
the coliseum, Armory, and city Y.
M. C. A. floors.
Play in the six classes begins ear
ly this morning and will continue un-.
til Saturday night when the winners
in all classes will have been decided.
Second-round contests will be played
Friday morning, afternoon and eve
ning and semi-final games will bo
played in the evening. Finals will
come Saturday afternoon and eve
ning. Only eighty-eight teams will play
in the tournament Last year there
were 256. The district tournament
plan was inaugurated this year and
the winners and runners-up in the
three classes in each of the sixteen
districts of the state, were eligible to
compete in the state tourney. The
ninety-six teams were reclassified -last
week by the board of control of
the high school athletic association.
Although the number of teams
competing this year is as large as in
former years, interest in the tourney
is keen and large crowds are expect
ed to attend the games. Officials
have made all necessary arrange
ments to care for fans.
Eight of the teams to compete
have withdrawn. These teams are
Maxwell, Minatare, Alliance, Kear
ney, St Jfatricks oi wortn rune,
Bartley, and Norfolk. Teams with
whom these schools were paired will
be credited wit hvictories by default
in their first round contests.
A last minute shift in classification
of teams was made when Kimball
was shifted to Class A by the board
of control of the high school athletic
association. Mitchell, which had
been in Class A, was lowered to
Class B. No other changes were
made in classifications.
Although only about twenty teams
had registered at the athletic office
in the Armory tsst evening . many ..
players were to be seen about the
campus and downtown and it is ex
pected tha most of the teams will reg
ister early this morning. There will
be a few late arrivals who will come
just in time for late afternoon and
evening contests.
Play in class A begins on the coli
seum floor at 2:20 o'clock this af
ternoon when Omaha Tech meets
Hastings, and will continue until late
tonight Class B contests will be
held on the coliseum floor from 9
o'clock with class D games. Class C
games will be played later on tho
Armory floor.
The schedule for the contests at
the City Y. M. C A. has been shoved
ahead an hour and contests will be
gin at 8 o'clock when Class F games
begin.
The team from Big Springs high
school, in the extreme western part
of the state, was the first to arrive
for the tourney. The westerners are
the champions of district twelve.
A committee of twenty students of
the University Y. M. C. A. met in
coming trains yesterday and served
as guides for the visitors. They will
continue their work this morning.
Each team is being allowed to
make their own reservations this
year. Most of them are staying at
hotels. Very few are being cared for
at fraternity houses.
Herb Gish, acting director of ath
letics of the University of Nebraska,
and his corps of assistants were busy
all day yesterday making final prep
aration for the tourney. The colise
um has been put in shape for the big
games of the tourney, the Class A
and Class B contests.
The Lincoln Traction company will
run Special cars to the coliseum at
the state fair grounds. Cars will
leave from near the Chamber of
Commerce building at Eleventh and
O Streets.
University athletes will serve as
officials for all games in the tour
nament Both an umpire and a ref
eree will be used for all games. Stu
dents will also act as timekeepers and
scorers.
Various organizations of the Uni
versity and the city are planning en
tertainment for the visiting teams. A
special rate of twenty-five cents has'
been made for the high school ath
letes for the Missouri Valley wrest
ling meet which will share space in
the Armory with the tournament on
Friday and Saturday. Coach Schult
has arranged some track performanc
es for the high school lad and they
are invited to watch varsity football
practices.
Although basketball dope is oee, of
tfc most uncertain ouanttk-a exit
ing, Lincoln and Cmaba Tech tntT
1 fCor.tinoed on Fs.re Thr.)