"Shakespeare was no broker
but he furnished a lot of
stock quotations."
Princeton Tiger
'In the queer men of human
deitiny the determining
factor U Luck."
TXXVI, NO. 46
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18. 1926.
PRICE 5 CENTS
The Daily Nebrask an
Husker Spirit
Fostered In
Early Years
Ideal, of Service Stressed
By Faculty Members
Were Beginnings
rHIEF INFLUENCES
INCLUDE ATHLETICS
Editor' Notet Thi Is
fourth of a ri article
which Mr. Keaer ha written lor
The D''y Nebraska on tha hi
tory, development, aim and
ideal of tho University.
(By Munro Kezer)
In the last article we noted that
the training of a better citizenry and
that service to all the people of the
gtate has been the aim and ideal of
the University of Nebraska. We have
eeen that the University has been
much more than a soulless corpora
tion, that it has been a living, grow
ing organism, imbued with an ideal
istic spirit which has been a vital
factor in the contribution of the Uni
versity to state progress.
It is now time to torn and note
the beginning of this spirit, how it
developed, and the most important
factors in developing and maintain-
Fundamentally, of co-irse, the be
ginning of this spirit m.i be traced
in the courage and forfight of the
state's pioneers who established the
University. Their new-born son, a
higher educational system, might
have been a ne'er-do-well despite
their work. But the University de
veloped a spirit which has led its in
fluence and value beyond the con
ception of its founders.
Faculty Member Areas Spirit
To Nebraska's first chancellor. Dr.
A. R. Benton, and the four other or
iginal members of the faculty, may
be attributed the beginnings of Ne
braska sDirit They encouraged and
fostered scholarly work. They began
the imbuing of the student body with
Weals of service to the state. Through
the opening years of the University,
when the registration was small, the
development of Nebraska's spirit was
lareelv due to the efforts of the fac
ulty. Imbued with the fineW of spirit.
they succeeded in passing much of it
on to their students due to the close
contacts possible with a small stu
dent body. The early graduates were
united in loyalty with the common
aim of showing the advantages of a
university education. Unless they
were successful, the system could
hardlv be called successful.
Such a situation could not long
continue. Growth of the school made
the contacts between faculty and
students more remote and less per
sonal And, likewise, the relationship
of professor to professor and of stu
dent to student changed with grow
ing enrollment. The two groups grew
farther apart and even lacked the
community of interest and spirit
within each group that was attainable
when the University was smaller. Ne
braska's ideals and spirit could no
longer be so readily promulgated by
the faculty.
New Era I a Spirit
It was then that a new era in Uni
versity spirit came into being. The
faculty continued to exert a powerful
and beneficial influence on Nebraska
spirit. But through athletics, the stu
dent body came to have its share in
the development of the spirit of
which Nebraska may be so proud to
day. The value of athletics in develop
ing manly virtues, health and phy
sique, bodily co-ordination, and team
work have often been stressed. But
Nebraska's athletics have had a
greater and more valuable influence
on the state in their contribution to
the development and maintenance of
real Nebraska spirit than comes from
any of these other oft-mentioned ad
vantages. Best Represents Hnsker Spirit
Nebraska's spirit may be summar
ized by reference to her first trainer,
Jack Best, who devoted almost his
entire life to the service of the Uni
versity. The spirit of Nebraska, the
spirit of NofcntElra'ii ofVilptir was and
is the spirit of Jack Best. Jack Best
u but a name to the student body to
day but he should be one of its most
cherished traditions. Mention Jack
Best to any Nebraska man from 1888
to 1823 and he will tell you the story
v.W H1WD, V7i Alt. H1JV -
braska ever knew. Until the athletic
system became too big. Jack Best
trained vmrv fnon via TWirpfUTOted
Nebraska in any athletic syort. Un
til the time of his death in January,
1923. hm ...
relaxed his efforts to put "his boys"
onto the field in the finest of shape.
Jack Best represented a'l tiat is fin-
eSt IT! 7Cfthl.BBV mnlirU- i?w!vnT)4r lfl V-
alty and never ceasing service. If
Nebraska can retain the spirit ol
Jack Best, she need never worry for
her f ntnr.
Nebraska was fortunate in her
early leaders. She was not lacking
in the health v imcHi-in desire to
win. But from the start, Nebraskans
A. A. U. Officials Approve
Husker Relay Team Record
The record of 1 minute, 20.0
seconds set by the Nebraska relay
team at the Kansas relays last
spring was approved by the Na
tional A. A. U. officials in their
convention yesterday at Balti
more, according to announce
ments made by Fete Wendell, sec
retary of the midwest branch of
the athletic group.
The record-breaking team was
composed of William Ilein, Rob
ert Davenport, Roland Locke, and
Frank Dailey. Their competition
included the best sprinters from
Michigan, Iowa, Illinois, and tha
Valley schools.
COLONEL ROSIORS
ARE UNFOUNDED
Identity ' a Mystery Until
Military Ball Held
On December 3
All rumors concerning the identity
of the 1926-27 Honorary Colonal
are unfounded claims Colonel F. F.
Jewett, commandant of the Nebraska
R. O. T. C regiment. The first pub
lic ai.nounccment of the Honorary
Colonel elected by popular student
vote early this fall will be made at
the formal presentation at the eight
eenth annual Military Ball, Decem
ber S.
Campus comment has it that each
of the candidates has been elected to
the honorary position. The four can
didates on the fall ballot included
Bernice Trimble, Elice Holovtchiner,
Marie Bowden and Blossom Hilton
and none of these candidates has
been notified of her selection to date.
Some have predicted that the winner
has been fitted in her distinctive uni
form and cape but the truth of the
matter is that a local tailor has been
secured to measure the new Colonel
early next week. The winner will be
known to herself within the next
three days.
The Honorary Colonel with the
Cadet Colonel will lead the grand
march which is to be a feature of
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LAST RALLY OF
YEAR IS FRIDAY
Torchlight Parade to Follow Meet
ing; Coach Bear To Be
Principal Speaker
All the fight of Huskerdom will
be brought to its highest level at the
New York-Washington rally to be
held tomorrow night in the old Ar
mory. This gathering will be follow
ed by the torchlight parade, the big
gest event of its kind in the school
year.
Since this pep-session is the last ol
the football season and is being held
before the two largest games, every
effort is being made to secure a
large attendance and a good pro
gram. Coach E. E. Bearg will be the
chief speaker, and eleven men who
will play their last game on a Nebras
ka gridiron wall say a lew woras.
This meeting is shortened in order
that the torchlight parade may get
under way.
Th narad will be formed in front
of the Social Science building with
the University Band, the Corn Cobs,
and the Tassels acting as-we van
guard. The lighted throng will then
march to the Hotel Cornhusker to
greet the New Yorkers in true west
ern fashion. Every member ol we
vim tine- team will be introduced and
Coach Meehan will make a short talk.
This is the first visit of the Eastern
ers to the middle west, so every
Husker should do his utmost to make
them feel welcome.
Torches may be secured from any
Green Goblin or from the Corn Cobs
at the rally for twenty-tive cents.
These torches burn for ten minutes
with a bright red glare. j
Press to Use Many Special Wires
In Reporting New York Grid Game
,in will be m
.Newspaper urcn ,
Lincoln Saturday to "cover the
story of we loowau gi"
the New York University and Ne-
. T Pamtwr.
braska football teams, .
ton,' manager of the Western Un.on
7vlACTTh company in Lincoln pre
dicted Wednesday.
Requests lor special '"'"
play-by-play reports to newspaper?
t i v.. he has seen
nave inrcu
during the entire time of his connc-
tion with the Lincoln o" -
. - V.Iai an i1
Western Union, Mr. rem-
. v vtt Dame games
INOv even t.e a. v
have created so much interest among
newspapers," be said. "It must indi
cate that New York rates high among
the newspapers of the east this
ye&T . Tinner
FORUM HEARS
RICE ATTACK
FRATERNITIES
Creek Organizations Fail To
Advance University Pur
pose, Says Speaker
DISCUSSION FOLLOWS
Instructor Decries Methods
Of Selection and Social
Inequalities
Attacking the standardization of
fraternity members, the social in
equalities of the fraternity system,
the method of selecting members,
and the failure of fraternities to ac
vance the fundamental purpose of
the University, Professor J. A. Rice
of the classics department addressed
the World Forum yesterday noon at
the Grand Hotel on the negative side
of the discussion of the fraternity
system.
Profressor Rice dealt with the fra
ternity system as it exists on the
campus today. He denied the exis
tence of vice in the fraternity system
but with sparkling sarcasm advanced
charge after charge against the exist
ing system. The favorable discussion
for the fraternity system was pre
sented at the Forum a week ago by
Professor Rosborough of the Univer
sity School of Music. Both Professor
Rice and Professor Rosborough took
part in a lively discussion that fol
lowed the luncheon.
Speak in Role of Critic
Professor Rice declared that he
was speaking in the role of a critic
rather than as a reformer. He ad
mitted that he didn't know whether
some features could be changed.
"That will be for you to decide", he
remarked.
Professor Rice first attacked the
political activities of fraternities on
the campus. "But," he noted, "now
that class offices are no longer
honors, their scope in politics is
necessarily limited." In discussing
the choosing of members of Inno
cents he commented, "It does seem
strange that all of the Innocents this
year should be fraternity men. We
are to supper that the most signi
ficant men in last year's junior class
were in fraternities and that no bar
barian was worth honoring."
"That fraternities monopolize the
social life of the University goes
without saying," declared Mr. Rice
in starting his criticism of frater
nities from the social standpoint. "A
barbarian is nothing socially, and
only rarely is he invited to share
the social position of the fraternity
man. Not that there is equality
within the class; far from it. The
line of fraternity and non-fraternity
is drawn everywhere, and it is this
social cleavage that is responsible
for the hard thoughts that the bar
barians sometimes express."
Professor Rice turned from a criti
cism of the social distinctions to a
severe indictment of fraternity rush
ing practices. Professor Rice ad
mitted that wealth was not a pre
requisite of fraternity membership.
He added "You know as well as I
do that a Packard is good for at
least five bids." J
The choosing of members on the
basis of kinship to alumni etc., was
next condemned by Professor Rice.
He likewise satirized the selection of
fraternity members on the basis of
their high school athletic record
which he says "is usually as far as
they can be said to have made any re
cord in high school."
"And what shall we say of the
lounge lizards, the roadster boys, the
cake-eaters?" asked Professor Rice.
"They are so correctly dressed as to
remind me of tailors' dummies, and
the iliness of their manners makes
one suspect that they have so far
eluded their destiny, which was, to
be head waiters. They are taken
in, I am told, because they 'rate' good
'dates', the 'dates' being young ladies
of eighteen vith the social sophistica
tion of forty-five.
Not Beit in Scholarship
"The lip-service that is paid by
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are sendine special correspondents
with Meehan's team, Pemberton said.
Amour these are the New York Times,
the New York Herald-Tribune, and
the New York Daily Nero. No less
than a half dozen of the New York
papers, as well as the Waldorf-Astoria
HoteL the New York Athletic
Clnh. and the United Press office m
New York, have contracted for play-
by-play reports of the game.
Kansas City and Chicago papers
also are demanding the complete ser
vice, Pemberton said. He declared
that the Western Union would have
to run wires into the press stand to
handle the traffic There already are
eight direct wires out of the stand,
but perhaps a half dosen extra ones
will be put in especially for the New
Cornhuskers,
Frank Briante
Frank Briante, fullback and cap
tain, is one of the four dangerous
backfield men who will oppose Ne
braska next Saturday at Lincoln
when Chick Meehan brings his
New York U team to the Corn
husker camp.
Members of Faculty
Speak at Exhibition
Talks on Arts and Crafts are being
given this week by the members of
the University faculty at the Ex
hibition of the Lincoln Artist's Guild.
Prof. Bess Steele will speak Wednes
day on "Jewelry"; Prof. Grace Mor
ton, Thursday on "Costume Design";
Prof. Edna Benson, Friday on "Tex
tiles in Interior Decoration." These
talks will be given at 4 o'clock each
afternoon of the exhibition.
DANCE TICKET
SALE IS LARGE
Many Arrangements Made For
Benefit Affair To Be
Held in Coliseum
A big ten piece jazz band, an
eighteen-man check stand, extra re
freshments donated by Lincoln busi
ness firms, special entertainment be
tween dances and a special policeman
to help direct car parking are only
a few of the many arrangements be
ing made to make the R. O. T. C
band benefit dance next Saturday
night, the biggest and best party of
the year.
No effort is being spared by the
various committees in charge to keep
the party moving at a sixty-mil e-an-
hour clip during the entire evening.
According to Don Campbell, chair
man of the ticket sales committee
tickets are moving rapidly. Every
man in the band is selling tickets.
Monroe Stephens, who has charge
of the refreshments promises that no
guest at the party will go away With
a thirst, reparations to serve we
guests with refreshments are being
carried on on a wholesale scale. The
orchestra will appear in some new
and novel interpretations of popular
dance music and will be placed so
that it can be heard in every corner
of the Coliseum.
Gigantic Check Stand Planned
The dance floor will be in the best
of condition in order to accomodate
what is expected to be the largest
crowd ever in attendance at a uni
versity social function. A gigantic
check stand in charge" of eighteen
men will take care of the guests'
wraps, and a special policeman will
be in front of the Coliseum early in
order that the people attending the
party will be able to park cars con
veniently. The visiting football team of the
University of New York will be spe
cial guests at the party. Unusual and
attractive decorations are being
planned.
The band, in full uniform, will
play at 9:50 o'clock and 10:50 this
morning at the west entrance to So
cial Science building. Band men will
be present to sell tickets to all who
have not bought them yet.
Awgwans Distributed
At Campus Postof fice
Some confusion has arisen among
the subscribers of the Awgwan as
to distribution. Those who subscrib
ed for the Awgwan may secure the
November number by calling for it
at Station A. This has been chosen
as the most effective and convenient
method of distribution.
Kirbu Page Will Be
Convocation Speaker
Mr. Kirby Page, noted writer
and New York lecturer, will speak
at a convocation sponsored Ny the
University Y. W. C. A. at 11
o'clock in the Teuiple Theater. At
noon he will address the Knife
and Fork club. Mr. Page will speak
Thursday night, at the Methodist
student banquet, from 6 until 8
o'clock in the Grand Hotel His
subject will be "The Meaning of
the Cross". The Methodist Council
invites all students and faculty
members. Tickets can be reserved
by phoning B-8117.
Opponents
J
Bob Dunn
Bob Dunn, former tackle, is play
ing center on Chick Meehan's New
York U team which will play Ne
braska Saturday at Lincoln.
SCHOLARSHIP
GROUP MEETS
Petitions for Re-Instatement
Are To Be Considered
Beginning Today
The Committee on Scholarship
will meet on Thursday, Friday and
Saturday of this week and possibly
next Monday to hear petitions for
reinstatement of those who were
dropped at the middle of this semes
ter for scholastic reasons. Reinstate
ment will, however, be granted only
in exceptional cases.
"Such factors as the seriousness of
the student, interest shown in his
work, earnestness, and factors such
as illness which 'may have held him
back are considered by this com
mittee," said Dean Chatburn. "No
tices of conditions, delinquencies,
and drops will be sent out from
this office as quickly as our office
force can go over the reports."
A student, who has been dropped
from a college of this or any other
University may not register again in
this University without permission of
both the Committee on Scholarship
and the dean of the college which he
wishes to enter. This rule also holds
true for delniquents in other univer
sities.
In addition to those who were
dropped because of low grades were
those who had accumulated twelve
hours of unremoved conditions or
failures in any one College.
Number Not Increased
As far as can be ascertained at
present the number of delinquents
has not increased with the change in
the rule rating those delinquent who
were down in twofifths or more of
their hours instead of one-half as for
merly.
Those students who were delin
quent' in two or more subjects total
ing at least one-third but less than
two-fifths of his hours of registration
were placed on probation as were
those whose grades were less than
seventy percent in one-half or more
of their hours.
Fraternities and sororities have de
prived their pledges and lower class
men, who are down in their hours, Jf
their privileges until their grades
are raised. Upper classmen delin
quent are allowed but one night out
a week.
Social Organization
Is Discussion Topic
"The Effect of the Social Organi
zation on the University" will be the
topic under consideration at the joint
discussion group meeting held for
the first time Thursday at 5 o'clock
in Faculty Hall, Temple, and led by
Dorothy Tomas,
Coaches and Athletes Endorse
Sending Band to Seattle Game
Do vou believe that a part of the
R. O. T. C. band should be sent to
the Washington game at Seattle
Thanksgiving Day? The band has
been nushine a campaign for funds
to finance such a proposition and ac
cording to Robert V. Hoagland the
campus will be canvassed before the
end of the week, in an effort to raise
the necessary wherewithal.
A new idea, that of sponsoring a
bent5t dance instead of the former
tag days, has been taken up as a
means of supporting the band on this
trip. Menibrs of the band promise
the biggest party and the best party
ever held at Nebraska. The canvass
of the campus will consist of a cam
paign of ticket selling in order to
insure a large crowd and to arouse
interest in thifc undertaking.
That the movement is a fine thing
and should be backed by every stu
dent on the University of Nebraska
campus, is evident from the ideas of
officials and students wno realize the
wnrt of a band to a team on the
grid ire n, and especially when the
team is away from home. A3 tboe
Ag College Convocation
To be Held This Morning
There will be a Convocation of
the Agricultural College students
in the Assembly Room of Agricul
ture Hall at 11 o'clock, Thurs
day, November 18. Plans for the
new Farmer's Fair will be dis
cussed. Since all classes will be
excused, new students are urged
to attend, as this Convocation will
offer an opportunity to learn
about Farmer's Fair.
HAZING WILL
BE SUPRESSED
Olympic Committee Request
Fraternity Support
Thi Week-End
All hazing in connection with the
annual Olympics contest Saturday
will be suppressed, according to the
Olympics committee. Fraternities
are asked to prevent any of their
pledges or members from taking part
in any hazing activities.
When the Olympics were started,
it was agreed by all students that no
hazinir would be practiced. Occa
sionally the agreement is forgotten
and small groups violate the spirit of
the Olympics. The Olympics com
mittee is making every effort to
make the contest a struggle between
classes, rather than between various
unregulated groups. Hazing tends
to promote ill-feeling between the
classes.
A penalty of forfeiting the Olym
pics will be enforced upon either of
the classes found violating the rules
against hazing.
Begin at 9 O'clock
Stanley Reiff, chairman of the
Olympics committee, announced that
the battle will start promptly at 9
o'clock Saturday forenoon. The
wresting and boxing events will be
held directly in front of the west
tand of the stadium. The relay will
be held on the track. The mass
events will take place on the practice
field at the south end of the Stadium.
The order of the events is: 135 lb.
wresting; 145 lb. wrestling; 158 lb.
wrtstlitig; 135 lb. boxing; 145 lb.
boxing; 158 lb. boxing; 440 yd. re
lay; Tug-of-War; Bull-Pen ; Push
Ball; Pole Rush.
Five points will be given to the
class having the largest number of
women at the contest and the best
cheering. The values of the various
events total one hundred points.
$1700 IS PLEDGED
TO Y.W.C.A. FDHD
Follow-up Team of Twenty Member
Organized, with Haze! Satton
A Chairman
Seventeen hundred of the eighteen
hundred-dollar goal has been pledged
toward the support of the Y.W. C. A.
in the final report of the Finance
Drive made Wednesday evening by
Eloise MacAhan, chairman of the
drive. A follow-up team of twenty
members with Hazel Sutton as chair
man has been organized. This group
of workers will interview all girls
who were not seen during the drive.
The results of the follow-up commit
tee will be announced before Thanks
giving vacation.
The winning team in the Finance
Drive was entertained by the mem
bers of the Y. W. C A. cabinet at
dinner, Wednesday evening at Ellen
Smith Hall. Twenty-eight members
attended with Andrew T. Roy as
guest of honor. A short discussion
after the dinner was led by Mary
Kinney.
who were interviewed on the sub
ject praised the idea and highly re
commended the backing of it by the
student body.
Following are the statements of
several of the prominent coaches and
athletes and their personal endorse
ments of the campaign.
Coach Schulte: The band has al
ways been behind everything for
their school and has given its tvme
unselfishly for the good of all. The
band should, by all means, be sent to
Seattle. It would keep up the spirits
of t1 e team and show them that the
itnc it body is behind them in send-
ig ieir representative, the band.
There will be many old Nebraska
grads from the entire west at the
game who will need and enjoy the
presence of the band-"
"Doc" McLean: "L there is any
way to send the band to Seattle I'm
behind it 100 per cent. I think the
student body is indebted to the band
very much and should consider it a
good chance to sbow their apprecia
tion for the work of the band in the
(Continued on Fa? Three.)
AVERY CHOSEN
PRESIDENT OF
ASSOCIATION
Chancellor Head National
Organization of State
Institution
SERVES FOR ONE YEAR
Nebraska Administrator i
Among Oldest in Point
Of Service
Washington, D. C Nov. 16 Chan
cellor Avery of the University of Ne
braska is the president for the conr
ing year of the National Association
of State Universities. He was elect
ed to the position yesterday at the
closing meeting of the association
here. He succeeds John Clinton Fut
ratl, president of the University of
Arkansas, as president.
The National Association of State
Universities was organized in 1895 to'
provide a clearing house for the work
of administrators of state-surportesl
educational institutions. Forty-nine
institutions, including those of the
territories and representing all of
the state universities of the countiy
are members.
While in Washington, Chancellor
Avery is also attending the Associa
tion of Land Grant Colleges, which
will start a three day meeting today.
This association is composed of in
stitutions which accepted govern
mental aid under the provisions of
the Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862.
Dean E. A. Burnett of the University
of Nebraska college of agriculture is
the present president of the land
grant association.
Among Oldest Presidents
Chancellor Avery of the University
of Nebraska, who yesterday was
elected president of the National As
sociation of State Universities, is one
of two or three oldest presidents of
educational institutions in the United
Slates in point of service. He was
made chancellor of the University
of Nebraska in 1909, and will have
served in that capacity nineteen
years when his resignation, submitted
to the board of regents a year ago
last fpring, takes effect September
1, 1928, not counting one year he
served as acting chancellor.
In 1924-25 and 1915-16 Chancellor
Avery was a member of the execu
tive committee of the association.
He served as president of the As
sociation of American Universities
in 1922. In 1904-05, E. Benjamin
Andrews, then Chancellor of the Uni
versity of Nebraska, served as presi
dent of (he association of State Uni
versities. Graduate of Dean
Chancellor Avery was graduated
from Doane College, Crete with an
A B. degree in 1887. He received
his Bachelor of Science degree from
the University of Nebraska in 1892
and his Master of Arts degree in
1894, two years later receiving his
Doctor of Philosophy degree from
Heidelberg University. Honorary
degrees have been conferred upon
him by Doane College and by the
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Daily Nebraskan
Inquiring Reporter
Today's Qnestiont W!t is yonr
opinion of the Olympics?
Place aslced: In the Memorial
Stadiam.
Vantiae James, '30, Nebraska City.
"I think that the classes have
grown too large and now the Olym
pics are a thing of the past But let's
try and make it snappy this year.
Henry KicMiff, '30, Washington,
Kansas.
"I think the Olympics should be
preserved, and fostered. It is one of
the outstanding traditions of Ne
braska University."
Ralph Waldo Pray, '30. Lovp City.
"They should be continued only
enlarged with more individual event
and less mob."
Harry Miller, 30, Norfolk.
"The Olympics show the proper
school spirit.
A. C Wadleigh, 30, Omaha.
"I think the Olympics are a fine
thing, also it gives the freshmen an
opportunity to even the count with
the ophomores. It also promotes
class spirit."
C R. Kirkpatrick, '30, Omaha.
Tin strong for the Olympics, it
develops class spirit, and gives the
freshmen a chance to get rid cf the
green caps."
AmH Wolfe, '30, Wahoo.
"I think they are alright, because
they create c-a. rh-it-"
F. M. LanlWg, TO, VUnolpb.
There isn't a whole lot in the
Olympic. First because the classes
are too large, and the only reason
the freshmen turn out is to see the
green caps go up ia smcke."
F. V. Manila, '29, Plains..
1 think it is a good thing, tecaue
it keep the c!ks spirit at -ft Vrh
pitch in both classes.
were trained in the finest lo&ais of
(Continued on Page Three.)
York game.
Several cl tne r '