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Library Plays
Important Part
In University
Student Body Chance
For Both Investigation
And Recreation
HRRARIAN SELECTS AND
11 PURCHASES ALL BOOKS
Editor. NoteThis i. the four.
t,.nth of f rtlcU
which Mr. Keer has written for
Ths Daily Nebraskan on tho do
Iopment, ideals, and adminis
tr.tion of the University.
( By Munro Kezer )
In this article we shall begin the
transition from a discussion of the
administrative offices of the Univcr
aity to the service departments of
the University. Today wo shall look
at the library, how it is operated,
what It contains, what it needs, and
ita position in the University.
The librarian is an lnaepenaent aa
ministrative officer of the University,
responsible directly to the Chancellor
just as are those we have considered
in the last group of articles. At the
aame time, the library is one of the
principal service agencies of the Uni
versity, furnishing the student body
as it does with necessary material
for investigations and with recrea
tional opportunities.
The librarian is appointed by the
Chancellor and the Board of Regents
and has charge of the administration
of the library. He selects and ap
points his staff and administers the
funds set aside for the library. Be
sides the necessary appropriations,
the library is partially supported by
the students of the University. The
matriculation fee of five dollars paid
by each student on entrance into any
college of the University goes toward
the maintenance of the library,
Staff of Thirty-fivo
The librarian has a staff of about
thirty-five at present, of whom some
are only part-time student help. This
number includes assistants in the de
partmental libraries which are scat'
tered over the campus due to th lack
of room in the main library building,
There are seven such libraries be
sides five departmental libraries con
ducted without assistants by the de
partments concerned. The librarian
acts as an advisor to the medical li
brary at Omaha. .Its funds are not on
his budget except that the periodi
cals for the medical library are pur
chased from the general library fund.
The main library is divided into
four departments; circulation, refer
ence, classification and cataloging,
and order departments. All are un
der the charge of persons trained in
their field, each of whom is respon
sible directly to the librarian. The
duties of the departments are self
evident from their titles.
One of the most important duties
of the librarian is the selection and
purchase of books for the library. In
his book selection he is guided both
by his own knowledge and by recom
mendations of members of the fac
ulty. Although the librarian is not
bound to buy books requested by the
faculty, he rarely refuses unless it
seems a very unreasonable request.
Books are selected also by the aid of
book reviews, publishers' announce
ments, and second-hand book dealers'
catalogs.
Agencies in Cities
For the purchase of books the li
brary has agencies in Lincoln, Chi
cago, New York, London, Edinburgh,
The Hague, Paris, Leipsig, and Ber
lin. There are professional book
agents in those places with a number
of clients of whom the University of
Nebraska is one. They save the Uni
versity considerable time and trouble
J well as expense in the long run.
The London agent, for instance,
takes care of subscriptions to period
icals in England for the University
of Nebraska library, buys any sets
for which the University has standing
orders when such sets come on the
Market When the list of English
books that the library wishes to pur
chase has been compiled, the librar
ian merely sends it to the London
agent and he secures the books. Thus,
the University library has to deal
th but one agent instead of trying
w secure desired works from each
individual publisher or book house.
Order from Publishers
The University library also orders
flirectly from the publishers' rep
resentatives who come here each fall
title
ana author, thn lihrnrinn
a . t viiu aiux en imu
wi many of the books that will be
needed. The library gets many books
exchange for University of Ne
waska publications. Thus, the "Uni
jwaity Studies" published here are
"changed with similar works of
.T diversities. Exchange relation
oiPs are maintained with about 250
diversities.
,?-tther 80urce books ia its to
C "orary- The University- of Ne-
aska brary receives perhaps 2 or
hundred books a year as gifts, a
"Utively small number. Other uni
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TICKET SALE
ENDS TODAY
Fraternity Sale Over; Greeks
Asked to Close Tables
Friday Evening
ENTERTAINERS ENGAGED
The ticket sale for the annual
Cornhuaker banquet will close this
evening for the fraternities and the
tickets will be checked in.
The 1026 banquet is the annual
tribute to the football team and at
that time the identity of the cap
tain of the 1927 football team will
be made public.
Curtis Is Toastmaster
The committee in charge plans to
make this year's banquet a good one.
John Curtis will act as toastmaster.
The speakers list includes Goverr.cr
Adam McMullen, Mr. Omenson of
Omaha, Chancellor Avery, Coaches
Bearg and Rhodes, and Lonnie Stin-
er. They have arranged for enter
tainment by Harriet Cruise Kemmer,
Ed Ellingston and Gale Grubb.
It is customary for fraternity
houses to close their tables for this
affair, which will take place Friday,
December 10 at the Scottish Rite
temple.
GAMMA ALPHA GHI
WILL ENTERTAIN
Honorary Advertising Sorority Plans
For Social Friday at Alpha
Delta Pi House
Gamma Alpha Chi, honorary ad
vertising sorority, will entertain all
women interested in advertising on
Friday from 4:30 to 6 o'clock at the
Alpha Delta Pi house, 501 So. 12
Street Kate Goldstein, president of
the organization, will head the re
ceiving line. Others who will receive
are: Ruth Godfrey, Mary Louise
Freeman, Gladys Brinton ar.d Ruth
Shaad. The sorority colors, gold and
brown, will be used in the decora
tion. Selected When Juniors
The purpose of this professional
advertising sorority is to honor those
women who show special ability in
advertising, and to promote the
broader interests and higher ideals of
advertising as a profession for wom
en. The memDers are eiectea irom
the junior and senior classes of wom
en who expect to take up this work
after graduation from the University,
or, in very exceptional cases, sopho
mores may be admitted.
Gamma Alpha Chi was founded
February 9, 1920, at the University
of Missouri, with eighteen charter
members. There are now five active
chapters of the organization located
in universities and senior colleges
of the United States. Alpha chapter
is located at Missouri, Beta at Texas,
Upsilon at Washington, Delta at Il
linois and Epsilon at Nebraska.
Do Field Work
Thirty-five students of the Univer
sity of Wisconsin Library school did
field work in 44 Wisconsin city li
braries last spring.
Student Delegates
Council meeting at Ann Arbor
Editor's Notej Glen Buck, presi
dent of the Nebraska Student Coun-
t
cil, and Ruth Palmer, a memoer,
were the Nebraska delegates at the
International Student Council con
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vention lasc ween ai nn
is the first of'a series of articles
which they will write for The Daily
Nebraskan.
The Bccond annual convention of
the National Students' Federation of
America at Ann Arbor last week was
considered by many delegates to De
the most representative gathering of
colleges and universities ever as
sembled. Delegates were present
from the largfestnd most prominent
institutions of the country, and dis
cussed problems of mutual interest
with the delegates from small col
leges having enrollments of only two
or three hundred.
Th irmi-orRv of delegates were
nresidents of student councils or held
similar offices in other equally prom
inent campus organizations, ah
phases of college r.nd university ac
tivity were represented in the con
vention by students from an f"
of the country.
Phi Beta KaDDa keys were worn
by a good number of the delegates
at this gathering. On the other hand,
it was not uncommon to find a foot
ball captain or a student manager of
athletics in any of the discussion
groups. Editors of student pubhea-
tions were often heara temns
problems to delegates who heia sim
ilar offices in' colleges m an
different part of the country. The re
sult was a general exenange
along almost every line or siuuenv
thought.
Next year, the University oi -
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, NEBRASKA,
NEBRASKA MILITARY
MEN RECEIVE HONOR
Names Appear in War Department
Bulletini Among 132 from
20 Colleges Listed
In an official war department bul
letin Issued recently at Washington,
iour University of Nebraska grad
uates of the R. O. T. C. unit, are
listed as honor graduates of a dis
tinguished college. The men were
selected as Nebraska's allotment of
4 per cent of its senior R. O. T. C.
classes for the honor.
The representatives of this unit
are Earnest C. Hodder, Stanley G,
Rciff, Paul C. Van Valkenburgh, and
Lloyd R. Wagner. They are among
132 men from about twenty colleges
maintaining distinguished senior
units of R. O. T. C. during the year
of 1925-20.
PHOTOGRAPHER
WANTS PRINTS
Upperclassmen Should Make
Picture Selection by
Today at Latest
, Upperclassmen who have had their
pictures taken but who have not re
turned their prints with their selec
tion for the class section of the 1927
Cornhusker, should do so today, if
possible. The pictures are being
mounted on panels and it is impera
tive that a selection be made. Those
who have not specified the picture
they desire in the yearbook by this
evening, will have to be content with
the selection as made by the photo
grapher. All junior and senior panels will
be made up this week and will be
sent to the engraver at Minneapolis.
The layout of the class sections is
different this year, two panels being
used on a page instead of the cus
tomary one, and a tint background
will also feature the division.
Space 7 Annual
Organizations that desire space in
the 1927 book should signify their
desire at the Cornhusker office with
in the next two weeks. Immediately
after the first of the year pictures
or organizations will be taken and
the work of assembling the six hun
dred page book will commence. Ten
tative plans must be drawn up then
so it is necessary that all organiza
tion space be known by that time.
AMES LOSES BUT FOUR
MEN FROM GRID SQUAD
Ames, Iowa, Dec. 2. Special:
Only four regulars from this year's
Cyclone eleven will be lost to the
1927 Iowa State football team by
graduation. Captain Bud Coe, one of
the outstanding ends of the valley
conference this season, his running
mate, Ernie Anderson, Cyclone right
end, Thomas, veteran right guard of
three campaigns and Ole Anderson,
205-pound left guard, have played
their last game. Toom, former Simp
son guard who has been used at cen
ter, and Bob Fisher, alternate half
back, are also through. The Cyclone
regular backfield will remain intact
for next year's campaign.
Describe
braska will have the opportunity of
entertaining the annual convention
of this large organization. The Ne
braska delegates feel fortunate that
they were able to bring this meeting
of national and even- international
importance to Lincoln. The location
of the next convention should also
be a real lesson in geography for the
students in eastern schools, where
Chicago is considered the western
extremity of our civilization.
For three days in the first week of
December in 1927 University of Ne
braska students will be able to show
their hospitality to representative
students from three hundred or four
hundred colleges and universities of
America. Many eastern colleges know
little of this state University in the
so called "far west".
That Nebraska spirit has a real
spirit of hospitality was shown by
the attitude of delegates at the Ann
Arbor convention from such schools
as New York University and the Uni-:
versity of Washington who have had
athletic relations with us in the past
season.
Delegates from many of the older
institutions in the extreme East had
heard little of the University of Ne
braska and appeared to be very cur
icus io learn what kind of a conven
tion would be offered.
-Other schools bidding for the con
vention were Leland Stanford, the
University of Iowa, Ohio State Uni
versity, Mount Holyoke College, and
Cornell University. The University of
Nebraska was selected by a majority
of sixty-four in general vote of
the entire convention.
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Cecil Schmitt, '28, Madison, who
of "Teddy" in the Kosmet Klub production, "The Dream Pirate", to be
presented at the Orpheum theater next
Schmitt has had previous dramatic experience at the University and
had originally been cast for another part in the musical comedy. Herbert
Yenne, the author, was first selected for the lead. He is now directing
the production.
DEBATE TRYODTS
ARE NEXT WEEK
Freshman-Sophomore Aspirants to
Start December 14 Varsity
Report December 16
Opening debate tryouts for the
year will be held next week. Tryouts
for the freshman-sophomore debate
teams will be held Tuesday, Decem
ber 14. Tryouts for the Varsity teams
for the question of parliamentary
government will be held Thursday,
December 10, unless changed by fur
ther announcements.
Eight men for the two teams and
alternatives Will probably be selected
for the varsity squad for the parlia
mentary government question. The
teams for the debates on the McNary
Haugen farm relief plan will be se
lected by tryouts shortly after the
Christmas holidays.
A debate with Iowa State has been
tentatively scheduled as an additional
debate on the McNary-Haugen ques
tion. It is to be held at Ames as part
of the farm week program when far
mers gather there from all over the
state. This debate is dependent on
enough interest being aroused to
make it possible to get a team in
shape by that time. Students desiring
to try out for the team to debate
Iowa State should report immediately
to Prof. H. Adalbert White at his of
fice in the law building.
Numeral Meet Will Be
Held in Stadium Today
A numeral track meet will be held
under the Stadium this afternoon,
starting at 4 o'clock. All events
will be held except the discus throw
and the javeline throw.
The track was oiled last week and
the managers have been working on
it ever since. It is in the best shape
it has been this season.
Coach Schulte is anxious to have
all track candidates out as this will
be either the last or the next to the
last meet for fall numerai points.
Niblack Elected Head
Of Oklahoma Harriers
Norman, Dec. 6. (Special) Les
lie Niblack, rangy Sooner cross coun
try runner from Shawnee, was elec
ted captain of the 1927 University of
Oklahoma Harrier squad at a meet
ing of the lettermen following the
dose of the season.
Rogers Visits Here
Clarence F. Rogers, C. E., '24, jun
ior highway engineer with the Rural
Public Roads bureau, U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture, was a visitor in
the engineering department . last
week. At present he is located in
Texas.
Bents Visits Engineering- College
Chester R." Bentz, civil engineer-
injT. si. now reaiueii engjueci, iu
the Iowa state highway commission
at Winterset, la., was a visitor at col
lege of engineering last week.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1926.
will take the leading feminine role
Monday afternoon and evening.
Last Varsity Party of
Year Will Be Saturday
The fourth Varsity Party of a
series of ten to be given this
school year will be held in the Col
iseum Saturday evening, Decem
ber 11. This is the last All-University
party that will be given before
the Christmas recess begins.
Special entertainment has been
secured for the intermission. Joyce
Ayres and his Cheerleaders will
present a new program of dance
melodies.
South Dakota Alumni
Protest Cut in Funds
Vermillion, S. D., Dec. 6 Alumni
of the University of South Dakota,
living in all parts of the state, are
aroused over the proposed cut of 16
per cent in the funds available for
general maintenance of the state
educational institutions, according
to Garrett Breckenridge, alumni
secretary. The alumni secretary has
received letters from many alumni
who are anxious to fight the propos
ed cuts, which would give the state
educational institutions a set-back
from which they could not recover
for many years.
Objections to the taking of the
cigarette tax receipts from the edu
cational building fund is also being
voiced by many alumni nd friends
of the University. The alumni feel
that this fund is the only money
available to take care of the pressing
needs for buildings at the state in
stitutions, and that the creation of
the fund was the first step ever taken
by South Dakota to provide for the
growing needs of its institutions.
All-Male Cast of Fifty Features
Kosmet Show at
"The Dream Pirate," the thirteenth
annual musical comedy production of
the Kosmet Klub, honorary dramatic
organization of the University, will
be presented in Lincoln at the Or
pheum theater on December 13. An
all-male cast, of fifty University stu
dents, including several football stars
and clever female impersonators, is
in the production, which is an original
musical show written by Herbert
Yenne of the dramatic department of
the University.
The play will first be presented in
Lincoln on December 13, after which
it will make a tour of eight Nebraska
towns, during the week of December
19 to 25.. The towns and dates are:
Nebraska City, December 17; Beat
rice, December 18; Hastings, Decem
ber 20; Grand Island, December 21;
Columbus, December 22; Norfolk,
December 23; Fremont, December
24; and Omaha, December 25.
This is the first year the Kosmet
Klub has attempted an extensive trip
with its production. In the past a
showing in Omaha was the only out-of-town
performance. Since the pro
duction has become art important
event in the University's theatrical
Oldfather Speaks Today
On Travels in Holy Land
Prof. C. II. Oldfather of the de
partment of history, will speak at
Vespers Tuesday evening on "The
Holy Land." He will tell of his
own experiences during recent
travels through that country.
, Mips Catherine Beekman will be
-the leader of the service and Grace
Rogge will give a vocal solo.
PLAYERS PRESENT
MOLNAR'S "SWAN
n
December Production Is a Three
Act Comedy! First Showing
Will Be December 9
The December production of the
University Players will be "The
Swan", a three-act comedy presented
in the Temple Theater this week-end.
The play, written by Frank Molnar,
will be offered for the first time
Thursday evening, December D, and
will be continued afternoons and eve
nings through Saturday evening.
"The Swan" is declared one of the
finest plays on the modern stage. It
ran a full season in New York and
made a pronounced appeal to all
theater goers.
Love Story
Although it tells a most interest
ing love story "The Swan" is savored
witu humor. It is the type of play
that could have been written only in
Europe, where the institution of roy
alty may be a cause of bitterness but
never of jest. In the infatuation of
the romantic young tutor, Nicholas
Agi, for the Princess Alexandria, is
found the theme of the play. It is
the story of a lover in the low ranks
winning the affections of a princess.
After he wins the princess he yields
to the inevitable force of circum
stance. Mr. Kirsch, the stage manager, is
incorporating some of his novel ideas
in the settings for the play, creating
striking effects with draperies.
In the cast of "The Swan", the
third play presented by the Temple
Stock ComRany, H. Ailice Howell
plays the part of the Princess, Rose
Cecil the part of George, Nanc
Forsman the part of Arsene. Frances
McChesney plays the lead as Princess
Alexandria, with Harold Sumption ap
Hyacinth, Harold Felton as Prince
Albert, Werner Mall a' Caesar, Thad
Cone Howard Cottle, Esther Zinneck-
er and Ruth Schrank complete the
cast.
University of Chicago
Receives Endowment
The University of Chicago has re
ceived from Mr. George Herbert
Jones, director of the Inland Steel
Company, a gift of $415,000 for
the equipment and endowment of
chemistry. Plans are already being
formed by the University for the con
struction of the George Herbert
Jones chemical research laboratory
which is to be the first unit of new
laboratories devoted to fundamental
investigations in chemistry and its
relation to medicine and industry.
Additional units will be added as
funds are contributed.
Because it provides maintenance
for one of the basic sciences upon
which the new $20,000,000 medical
program of the University has been
erected, University officials regard
the gift as extremely important both
to the Midway institution and to the
city of Chicago as a medical center.
Modern chemistry bringing new and
essential discoveries in the form of
drugs, serums and the like, demands
a new and efficient type of labora
tory, they say.
Orpheum Monday
calendar, the Klub has decided to
present its prize-winning show in sev
eral towns in the state.
"The Dream Pirate" was selected
as the most suitable musical comedy
among those wmcn were presentca
to the Klub for a decision. In the past
the plays received for the judging
were not as numerous as they are
now, and consequently there was not
as much chance for proper selection
as there has been of late years. The
history of the Kosmdt production
from the time the Klub was organized
in 1911 shows the rapid strides which
have been made, with "The Dream
Pirate" representing the result of
these years of development.
During the winter of 1911 several
members of the class of 1912 con
ceived the idea of presenting a junior
play. A committee was appointed by
the junior president, W. L. Bates of
Kimball, a Regent of the University
of Nebraska until 1924. when he re
signed. The result was the play, "A
Message from Mars," which was pro
duced at the Oliver theater (now the
Liberti) March 18, 191 J, under the
direction of Prof. R. D. Scott of the
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"Life without a friend is
like death without a
witness."
PRICE 5 CENTS
KOSMET SHOW
TICKETS SELL
AT FAST RATE
Good Seats for Evening: and
Afternoon Performances
Still Available
QUARTET WILL MAKE TRIP
Goes to Omaha Wednesday to
Sing Before Civic Clubs
And High Schools
Ticket sales for "The Dream Pi
rate," 1926 Kosmet Klub show which
will be presented at the Orpheum
theater next Monday evening, start
ed off with a rush yesterday morn
ing when about seventy-five were in
line.
Sales kept up with a long line for
several hours. The sale for the eve
ning performance was heavy, but
plenty of scats are still available.
Reservations are at the Orpheum
box office.
"This is the finest response we
have ever had," Robert F. Craig,
Kosmet president, declared. "We
always expect tickets for Kosmet
shows to be in demand, but more
interest seems manifest in the show
this year than ever before. I think
that we will have the house sold out
for both performances before the
show is presented.
Dress Rehearsal
The cast of fifty men was put
through a long dress rehearsal Mon
day cning and seemed almost ready
to go on the stage. Costumes for
the two choruses are being complet- '
ed and the "chorus girls," dressed in
fluffy costumes, worked on their
dances. The dancing, under the di
rectidn of Ralph Ireland, who recent
ly returned from an engagement
dancing in "Sunny" with Marilyn
Miller on Broadway, promises to be
exceptionally good.
A book of songs from "The Dream
Pirate" is now being printed, con
taining songs from the show that are
expected to be hits. Songs were
written by Lamar Burling, Betty
Clapper, Lowell A. Miller and Har
riett Cruise Kemmer. The members
of the club are so confident that the
music is far beyond that of most
productions, that they are investing
heavily in the song books.
A twenty-four page souvenir pro
gram, containing information about
the Klub and the play, is also' being
prepared.
Quartet on Trip
The Kosmet quartet, made up of
Kenneth Cook '27, Randolph, Paul
Morrow, '29, Fremont, Wallace
Benta '28, Stromsburg, and Carl
Olson '27, Lincoln, will go to Omaha
Wednesday to entertain at a number
of gatherings, and give Omahans a
sample of the show that will be pre
sented there December 25, under the
auspices of the Junior Chamber of
Commerce. Judd Crocker, '27, and
George Gregory '30, a blackface
"tango team," and Al Ernst '29 and
Charles Dox '29, a specialty dancing
team, will also go on the trip. They
will entertain at the high schools,
civic clubs and at a joint dinner of
the junior and senior Chambers of
Commerce, which about 1,000 will
attend. The Kosmet quartet will
also sing over WOAW Wednesday
evening. Arrangements are being
made here to have the quartet sing
over KFAB. Other radio stations
have asked for the quartet's services.
Declines Offers
The Klub has been forced to de
cline offers to play in more towns
where substantial guarantees were
offered because the booking is al
ready arranged and could not be al
tered or extended. An offer for a
week's run, at a large Omaha theater
was likewise turned down.
For the Lincoln performance the
Klub has secured Conway Beaver's
Orpheum theater orchestra, which
will be augmented to eighteen pieces
for both the afternoon and evening
performances. On the road it will
carry its own jazz band, made up of
a selection from some of the orches
tras now playing for dances in Lin
coln. Dr. Hagerman To Tell
Of Mexican Situation
"The Mexican Situation" is the
subject of a lecture to be delivered
by Dr. Roberto Hagerman during the
regular convocation period next
Thursday morning in the Temple
theater. ,
Every ptudent is urged to take ad
vantage of this splendid opportunity
of hearing this nationally known
authority on Mexican affairs.
Ifarold Zipp Promoted
To Cadet Captain Rank
The ni ue St Harold W. Zipp
was omitted from the list of pro
motions -of the military depart
ment that was published last Sun
day. Zipp was promoted to the
rank of cadet captain.