The Daily Nebraskan
-Unbidden guests are often
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gone."-Shke.Peare.
"Strength of mind U exer
cise, not ret." Pope.
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 1927.
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FEATURES DAY
AT AG COLLEGE
Marshall and
.i nunrJtn
"pre. Farrell of K.S.A.O
Speaker on Program
RUFUS MOORE '27, TALKS
Describes Value of Activities
Hall to Students Before
Farmer' Gathering
Rufm Moore, '27, told Bumbled
farmers In tho mas. mooting of No-
Means to tho
Studont Body
yeHterday af
ternoon in the
college activi
ties building
of the college
of agriculture.
"Ag college
hna more real
college spirit
than any other
collcce of the
Rufu. Moor, '27 univer8ity,
he said. "Thnt spirit has had too
little chance for expression. We all
know what it can do when Farmer's
Fair conies around and student life
points toward that activity. We all
know that the finest result of Farm
ers' Fair has been, the fact that it
gets the college together working as
a unit. The new building extends
that opportunity to cover tho entire
year."
He outlined the proposed athletic
and social program for the agricul
tural college and told of the success
ful parties that had been enjoyed by
the students and faculty of the col
lege, lie made especial mention of
the Farmers' Formal which was held
the first week in December which is
hoped to be made an annual affair.
Farrell Talk on Rural Prosperity
Harriet Cruise Kemmer opened
the program with a group of songs
She was followed by F. D, Farrell,
president of the Kansas State Agri
cultural College at Manhattan. Presi
dent Farrell spoke on "The Real
Basis of Rural Prosperity1," showing
that the American farmer was in
no danger of becoming of the peas
ant type as is being said by some.
The average man of the middle
west handles more land than in other
sections, he pointed out, and because
of this, has more luxuries, more con
veniences, and more liberty than the
farmer of other countries
He also showed that America had
been settled by people who were not
contented with conditions as they
found them in their home country
and that America's progress was the
result of this discontentment as con
trasted with the African savage who
contentedly suns himself in the tropi
cal sun. t
Marshall Outline Need
Hon. Duncan Marshall, Toronto,
former minister of agriculture of
Canada, spoke on time of the needs
of agriculture. Ill said that agri
culture was the basis of all indus
try and proceeded to prove it in a
(Continued on Page Three.)
COACHES START
TRACK INDOORS
Two Hundred Out but Schulte
Calls for Larger Squad.
Heavy Work Starts
With approximately two hundred
fifty men v working out daily on the
indoor track under the stadium,
Coach Henry F. Schulte is anxious to
see the number raised to over four
hundred within the next few days.
Coach Schulte is pinning his hopes
for winning teams this year and next
on the development of a host of new
men.
Intense early season conditioning
work has been started. Middle dis
tance and distance men have been
alternating heavy over-distance work
one night with pace work the next.
Coach Schulte has been having them
walk, jog, and occasionally run a lap
at pace time over a distance of from
four to six miles every other night.
Weir and Rhode Assisting
Weir and Rhodes have been help
ing Coach Schulte drill the hurdlers,
working 'on starts and form. Krause
Fleming and the freshman, Trumble,
have been stepping fifty yard flights
in nice early season form. Hein and
Locke, crack varsity sprinters from
last year, have been limbering up
Preparatory for a season of inde
pendent running. They have also
been assisting in coaching the sprint
ers. "Choppy" Rhodes has been direct
"ig practice o a string of ne7 pole
Vault prospects and broad jumpers.
Work on the javelin is limited to
rk on form but regular work on
the shot put has been started.
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Applications for appointmont
as editor, associute editor, and
buslnoss manngur of Awgwan;
and for appointmont to tho fol
lowing positions on Tho Daily
Nebraskan will bo received by tho
Student Publication Board until
Friday noon, January 7 s
Editorial: editor, contributing
editors, managing editor, assist
ant mannging editors, news edi
tors, assistant news editors.
Business: Business manager, as
sistant business manager, circula
tion managers.
Application blanks may be got
at the office of tho secretary (stu
dent activities office, Coliseum)
and at the office of the School of
Journalism (U104). Applicants
are expected to submit evidonco
as to thoir qualifications for fil
ing tho positions for which they
apply. (Material already on file
need not be duplicated.)
J. K. Selleck, Secretary,
Student Publication Board.
DEBATE TRIALS
ARE POSTPONED
Iowa State Cancels Offer
Discuss Haugen Bill at
State Farm Meet
to
Arrangements for Nebraska's pro
posed debate with Iowa State at
Ames early in February on the ques
tion of farm relief before a state
wide farm gathering have fallen
through. Tryouts have been post
poned a week as a result. Professor
II. Adelbert White, varsity debate
coach, announced yesterday that
Iowa State has notified him that a
place could not be found on the
week's program for the debate.
A debate with Iowa State may be
scheduled at a Inter date although
the matter is now entirely up in the
air. Professor White expressed him
self as quite disappointed as he
thought that the debate had been
definitely determined upon. This
makes the first debate on farm relief
fall on February 18 when Nebraska
faces Kansas State Agricultural Col
lege in a dual debate at Lincoln and
at Manhattan.
Trjrout Popcned
As a result of the change in sche
dule, Professor White has postponed
the tryouts for teams on the Mc-Nary-Haugen
question. The trials
were to have been held Wednesday
afternoon, January 12th. He states
that instead they will be held some
time during the following week. At
that time, two teams for the ques
tion, "Resolved: That the essentials
of the McNary-Haugen bill should be
enacted into Federal Law" will be
selected. To date about twelve men
havo signed up to try out for these
teams. Seventeen participated in
the try-outs for teams on the ques
tion of changing to a parliamentary
form of government. Coach White
is anxious to have a larger number
working for places on the team.
Students wishing to try-out should
notify him at once.
ATHLETIC TICKETS
NEARLY EXCHANGED
80 Per Cent of Football Cards Are
In. Hope There Will Be No
Last Minute Ruth
About 80 per cent of the football
tickets have been exchanged for bas
ketball and wrestling tickets. These
will be exchanged at any time but it
is hoped that few will try to ex
rhanee them just before the game
Friday, because to do so will add un
necessarily to the congestion at ine
doors.
There is a reserved seat for every
basketball ticket given out. A suffi
cient supply of ushers will be there
to seat the crowds easily. The game
will start promptly at 7:30 V. M.
Hendricks Suggests
School Students as to Aoiuty
a rf,V1 entitled "Salvaging the .to think of high-school chemistry
tt:v. oV1 r.hemiStry IU-
superior ins" kjvjiuu. -.
dent" by Professor Bernard Clifford
w,i,;,.ira. University Associate Pro
fessor of Chemistry appeared m the
December number of the "Journal of
Chemical Education", a monthly de
voted to the interests of Chemistry
teachers. Professor Hendricks is a
contributing editor of this magazine.
The article concerned tne group
. . 3 i fhair nhilitv and
ing 01 Stuaenis uyun "-"
achievements and stated that For
the past three years pf the, beginning
chemistry courses, the University
of Nebraska has, by means of tests
or monthly grades, grouped its stu
dents upon the basis of ability and
achievement .This practice has
proved so helpful that for several
months the writer has been trying
HDSKERS MEET
KANSAS AGS IN
SEASON OPENER
Basket Tossers Inaugurate
Conference Season at
Coliseum Tonight
THURSDAY DRILL LIGHT
Coach Black Winds Up Week
With Short Signal Practice
And Free Throw Drill
Tho Missouri Valley cngo season
opens tonight for tho Nebraska Corn
hunkers when they meet the strong
Kansas Aggio aggregation from Man
hattan. Tho Kagglcs are doped as
Valley contenders and Nebraska fans
will be nssured a real battle when the
two teams meet on tho coliseum floor
tonight.
Hend basketball coach Charles
Black has not released the starting
lineup for tonight's game, but the
opening whlHtle will probably find
Captain Clnrk Smaha at one of the
forward posts, with "Jug" Brown or
Oleson his running mate. Tom El
liott or Pago will hold the pivot posi
tion and Phil Gcrelick, Andreson, or
Holm will bo the Hunker guards.
Hold Final Practice
The Nebraska coach sent his cng-
ers through tho final practice last
night with a light practice and limb
ering up. A short signal drill and
tho usual free throw practice was
tho program for the final workout
before the opening game tonight.
The past week has been spent in
hard workouts for the Husker quin
tet, with long drills on short shots,
which seems to be the Nebraska
coach's chief worry. A lot of at
tention has been given to free
throws. Fifty each from the foul
line has been the average for the
squad each night, followed by the
usual drill on various shots and re
coveries. Angle shots, short shots
and shots from mid-court were all on
the daily program of the week.
Kaggies Defeated Hillyard
Coach Black realizes the strength
of the Kaggie crew and is expecting
a great battle with the Kansas Farm
ers. Dyers, Stradsky and Edwards
are flashy cagers and a combination
that will make competition keen in
the valley this yean Stradsky, cent
er on the Aggie team made the final
basket that beat the Hillyard Nation
al A. A. U. champions at St. Joseph
last week.
The probable line up for the Kan
sas Aggies will be Byers and Discus
at forwards, Stradsky at center and
Mertel and Edwards at guard. Eleven
members of the Purple cage squad
will make the trip to Lincoln and go
from here to Omaha where they meet
the Creighton university five on Jan
8.
"Red" Brown of Kansas City will
handle the game which will start at
7:30.
BOOK LOVERS PLAN
SUNDAY READINGS
Collin and Stepanek Will Read TLi
Week at University Club) Men
Of School Invited
Beginning Sunday afternoon at
4:30 in the main lounge of the Uni
versity Club, 1124 N street, a series
of weekly hours will be held for all
university men who care to come to
gether informally between 4:30 and
6 to chat about books and hear
others read from or talk about books
they have enjoyed.
Mr. F. G. Collins will be the read
er this Sunday. Since his duties at
the Museum will detain him until
after five, Mr. Stepanek will read
some selections from Arabic litera
ture between 4:30 and 5.
The reader the Sunday following
is Mr. Gilbert H. Doane, university
librarian. Professor H. B. Alexander
will read the third Sunday.
Rating High
unuer biiihi
Professor Hendricks says that
teachers felt that the. bright students
should be tomorrow's leaders and
"can we do less than find this future
leader and give him, at least, as
much attention as his slow-moving
class-mate?" He states i Jit the re
peater is an educational liability and
that two high schpols have definite!
shown a reduced number of failures
in courses where sectioning upon a
basis of ability has been used.
"Our future leaders, most of us
would say, should go to college. Yet
surveys show that most of the stu
dents who go to college are "bad or
questionable risks." One investiga
tor says 69 per cent ar-e. Another
(Continued on Pag. Three.)
Bishop McConnell Will
Be Here For Three Days
Through the cooperation of tho
University and the local dera
tion of churches, Bishop McCon
nell will make n throo day visit of
tho University next week. Tues
day, Wudnesday, and Thursday of
next week Bishop McConnell will
speak at a convocation, during
which all classes will probably bo
dismissed, at World Forum, Ves
pers, afternoon discussion groups,
and evening lectures.
The topics which Btohop Mc
Connell will discuss In his scries
of lectures on tho social implica
tions of Christianity will be an
nounced Sunday from tho pulpits
of Lincoln churches.
COMPANY LIS
FIRST IN SHOOT
Winners of Company Compet
In Freshman Range Practice
Are Announced
Colonel F. F. Jcwett, Commandant
of cadets, yesterday published the re
sults of the Freshman Inter-Corn
pany Gallery practice, which wus
carried on throughout the first so
mester and completed December 18,
of last year. Company L won first
place with an average score of 156.6
for each man. Only one man failed
to do his required shooting in Com
pany L. From two to thirteen men
failed to turn in scores in the other
companies, which lowered the com
panics' average scores.
The results follow:
Average score
Place Company of a
possible 200
1st L 156.6
2nd : F 155.7
3rd Hq 149.3
4th B 148.5
5th K 148
6th A 143.6
7th G 141
8th H 140.6
9th C 136
10th D 130.5
11th E 126.2
12th I 124.9
13th j . M 119
These students made the high in
dividual scores in their respective
companies:
Company
Hq
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
K
L
M
Score
195
194
191
199
Clifford Webster
Reuben Krueger
Robert Harnian
Charles Towle
John Lentz
Walter White
Louis Etherton
Frank M. Miller
Ralph Fries
Herman Harpster
Charles Casebeer
Marion Baker
Gordon Eno
197
193
183
199
190
197
189
198
198
Daily Nebraskan
Inquiring Reporter
Every day he ak a question
from different student picked at
random on the campus.
Questions "What is the easiest sub
ject you -ever took at the Univer.
sity?"
Place asked: East of University
Hall.
Julius Frandsen, A. S., '27.
"English 123."
Angela Fangman, T., '27.
"Freshman Lecture."
Max Neumann, A. S., 27.
"Military Science."
Margaret Dunlap, T., '27
"English Literature."
Charles Asmus, A. S., '29.
"I have not found the easy one
yet."
Edith A. Grau, '29s
"That's a hard question, but I
think English 3 was the easiest."
Tom Varney, A. S., '27.
"All Engineering and Law sub
jects are easy."
Paul Koeller, Bus. Ad. '29.
"None of them were easy but I
think English I was not as difficult
as the rest."
Blodweyn Owens, T., '27.
"Salesmanship 121."
Whitney Borland, M. E., '27.
"Chorus was by far the easiest."
Pearl Axe, T., '29.
"All the English Courses."
Discussion Group of
Arts College to Meet
The discussion group of the Arts
and Scier.cci College will meet, for
the purpose of organization, in El
len Smith Hall, Saturday morning,
January 8, at 10 o'clock. The meet
ing is restricted only to those stu
dents in the Arts and Sciences Col
lege who are really interested in the
discussion, and all of those inter
ested are strongly urged to attend
and bring any one else whom they
think may be interested. Attendance
at this meeting may mean the success
or failure of this study group.
INTERFRAT CAGE
TOURNEY STARTS
AT10T0M0RR0W
Twelve Games Will Be Run
Off During Day's Play on
Two Coliseum Courts
VERY LARGE ENTRY LIST
Thirty-four Fraternities Enter
Teams. New System
Being Tried Out
The intcrfratcrnity basketball
tournament will begin Saturday mor
ning at 10 o'clock in tho Coliseum
with thirty-four teams entered. Two
games will bo played at once, on
the Varsity and freshman courts.
Halves will be fifteen minutes long
and alternated.
Phi Delta Theta will meet Sigma
Phi Epsilon in tho beginning gamo
on Cout 1 (Varsity court) and Kap
pa Psi and Delta Tau Delta will in
itiate piny on Court 2 (freshman
court).
The other Saturday games are:
Delta Sigma Lambda vs. Zcta Beta
Tau, League 2, 10:30, Court 1.
Pi Kappa Alpha vs. Kappa Rho
Sigma, League 4, 10:30, Court 2.
Phi Kappa Psi vs. Farm House,
League 5, 1 o'clock, Court 1.
Kappa Sigma vs. Phi Kappa,
League 3, 1 o'clock, Court 2.
Sigma Nu vs. ?Sigma Alpha Epsi
lon, League 6, 1:30, Court 1.
Theta Chi vs. Sigma Chi, League
4, 1:30, Court 2.
Alpha Gamma Rho vs. Delta Theta
Phi, League 1, 3 o'clock, Court 1.
Acacia vs. Delta Upsilon, League
5, 3 o'clock, Court 2.
Beta Theta Pi vs. Phi Gamma Del
ta, League 2, 3:30, Court 1.
Phi Sigma Kappa vs. Xi Psi Phi,
League 6, 3:30, Court 2.
Herb Gish, acting director of ath
letics, stated that the contests would
be speeded up as much as possible
and run off when scheduled. Enough
time will be 'allotted to practice be
fore each half that the teams will
not go into the games cold, but it
will be limited, as it is likely to drag
out the games.
Both last year's chan pion, Phi
Sigma Kappa, and the runner-up,
Delta Upsilon, will make their first
appearances Saturday. The Phi Sigs
are scheduled to meet Xi Psi Phi at
3:30 o'clock and the D. U.'s will
tangle with Acacia at 3 o'clock.
REGISTRAR AGAIN TO
HEAD PUBLICATIONS
Florence McGahey Will Have Charge
Of All Publications Since
Peterson Regsignation
Florence McGahey, University
Registrar, will again have charge of
the University Publications as a re
sult of the resignation of Wilbur
Peterson. He has left his position of
University Publisher to go to Des
Moines with the Associated Pres3.
This work with the University bul
letins has been in the department of
the Registrar before Mr. Peterson
was assigned it at the beginning of
this semester. It will now revert to
its original department unless some
other disposition may be made of it
in the future.
Article in Cornhusker Countryman
Discusses Origin
Fads! You have one or more,
though you may not admit it. Yet,
whence do they come? What causes
them? What kinds are there? An
article by Delia Caster and a com
mittee of the Home Ec club tells the
story in the January issue of the
Cornhusker Countryman:
The fad originates in the surprise
or interest excited by novelty. Char
leston dancing, slickers, vegetarian
ism, new words and phrases, etc., al
ways attract those restless folks who
are continually running hither and
thither after something new. This
creates a swirl which rapidly sucks
into its vortex the soft-headed and
weak-minded and at last, grown big
ger, involves even the more sane.
The treat mass of men have al
ways had their lives ruled by usage
and tradition. Not for them did nov
elties chase each other across the
surface of society. The common folks
left to the upper ten thousand the
wild scurry after the' ruling fancy
follv of the hovr. In their mat
ins', their child-rearing, their money
getting, their notions of right and
dutv. they ran antiquately in the
ruts deeply grooved out by genera
tions of men. But a century or so
ago it was found that this habit of
back-look, opposed to need reforms,
the brutish ignorance, the gross tu
Diditv. the rhinocerous-hide bigotry,
of the unenlightened masses. Accord
ingly, the idea of tho humanitarian
awakening that accompanied the
May Be Chancellor
General John J. Pershing
John J. Pershing, who come to tho
University of Nebraska in 1891 as
Commandant of Cadets, has been
talked of as the next Chancellor of
the University, according to recent
newspaper dispatches.
EXPERTS TREAT
FARM SUBJECTS
Meetings of Nebraska Organiz
ed' Agriculture Continue;
Dr. Hedger Speaks
Dr. Caroline Hedger, member of
the staff of the Elizabeth McCormick
Memorial Foundation of Chicago
snoke before the Home Economics
Section yesterday morning as part of
the meetings of Nebraska Organized
Agriculture.
Dr. Hedger has spent many years
as a physician studying child welfare
and educational work with mothers.
Her topic of "The Problem of the
Adolescent" was full of helpful sug
gestions for the farm women present.
The morning session of the dairy
men was devoted to a consideration
of boys' and girls' club work. Carl
R. Gray, president of the Nebraska
Dairy Development Society presided.
After the meeting several university
students who received Union Pacific
Scholarships from their club work
were introduced to Mr. Gray. He
told them that they were in no way
obligated to the Union Pacific as
they had earned their right to the
scholarship.
Discuss "Combines
Combined harvesting and thresh
ing was the topic of the morning ses
sion of the farm equipment associa
tion. C. D. Kinsman, a formet agri
cultural engineer of the University
of Nebraska told of the disadvanta
ges and advantages of this method
of harvesting wheat and other grain
crops.
Mr. Kinsman is working with the
United States Department of Agri'
culture studying this work and thor
oughly explained the possibilities of
the "combine" to those present.
The annual meeting of the Ne
braska Poultry Association was held
with Mrs. J. J. Donahue telling of
her impressions of the Burlington
Special which toured the state last
sorine. Other topics discussed were
"Quality Eggs for Quality Markets"
by J. A.. Lothrop of Crete; and
(Continued on page three)
and iypesot tads
French revolution, was to life, the
common folk, the 3rd estate, from
the slough of custom to the plane of
choice nnd self direction. And for a
hundred years the effort has been to
explode superstition, to diffuse know
ledge, to spread light, to free man
from the spell of the past and turn
his gaze forward.
The attempt succeeded. The era of
absedftantism is forever past. Except
where rural conservatism holds sway,
mob mind in the milder forms of fad
and craze begins to agitate the great
deeps of society.
As no department of life is safe
from the invasion of novelty, we
have all kinds of fads; philosophic
fads, like pessimism, anarchism; lit
erary fads like the Impressionists
and Decadents; religious fads, like
spiritualism or theosophy; hygienic
fads, like water cure or breakfast
foods; medical fads, like ymph, or
tuberculin; personal fads like pet
lizards or face enamel. Each order
of fads has a clientele of its own.
Most fads relate to the superficial
ornamental, accessory, gem - gam
phases of liTe, such as lanterns on
cars, Charleston dancing, hog calling
contests, phrases such as "cake eat
er" or "dumb Dora."
The life of a fad is short They
rarely last more than one year and
usually not more than six months.
Some fads survive the whirl-pool of
fashion and are added to progress.
(Continued on Page Four.)
REGENTS TAKE
NO ACTION ON
CHANCELLORSHIP
Governing Board Adjourns
Without Filling Vacancy
in Chancellor's Office
SHERMAN FILLS POSITION
Ranking Dean of the Univer
sity Will Continue to Serve
as Acting Chancellor
No action was taken In regard to
tho election of an Acting Chancellor
to serve for the balance of the pres
ent year by the Board of Regents
in their first regular session of 1927
held yesterday afternoon. The next
meeting will bo held on January 15.
In the meantime, Ranking Dean
Sherman will servo in tho capacity of
Acting Chancellor.
According to an arrangement
made lust spring when Dean Sher
man was appointed Ranking Dean,
ho was to axKume the duties in the
absence of the chancellor. Since that
time he has taken charge on various
occasions when tho chancellor was
called from the University. Dean
Sherman came to Nebraska in 1882,
and was chairman of the department
of English and dean of the gradu
ate college when he was appointed
to Ranking Dean lust spring. Ho re
signed from his position as dean of
the graduate college in order to ac
cept his new duties.
Warner Elected President
Regent Wm. P. Warner of Dakota
City was elected president of the
Board yesterday, and Regent Harry
D. Landis of Seward, was eleond
vice-president The resignations of
Charles W. Taylor, director of teach
er training and principal of the
Teachers College high school; H. A.
Nedom, instructor in geology; and
Wilbur C. Peterson, general editor
of campus publications, were accept
ed. Much discussion is being made
concerning the man who will be se-.
lected as the next chancellor. The
man most talked of for the position
is Dean Roscoe ' Pound of Harvard
Law college, native Nebraskan. Bit
late veports state that Dean Pound
would not consider such an offer.
. Pershing a Possibility
Another person who is being sug
gested by many is Gen. John J.
Pershing. While his attitude towards
such a proposal is not known, he
would be free to cont r such an
offer as he has concluded his work
as arbiter of the Tacna-Arica dis
pute. It is known that his name was
in the minds of several prominent
alumni some time ago when it was
thought that Chancellor Avery's re
tirement was imminent. Those who
urge his appointment point out the
fact that he is a native of the middle
west, a graduate of the University,
and that he was an educator during
his early career.
Another who is being considered is
Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn, former
president of Amherst, and now pro
fessor of philosophy of the Univer
sity of Wisconsin. He is one of the
foremost educators in the United
States, especially famous for his
liberalism which forced his retire
ment from Amherst.
REGISTRATIONS
HIT 2000 MARK
Students Move More Rapidly
To Complete Signing Up for
Second Semester
With one day left for registration
all colleges reported a decided in
crease in the day's registration. A
little over two thousand students had
registered in a check up Thursday
evening. An accurate report could
not be made because several colleges
had not made a complete check up.
AH students must be registered to
morrow. The College of Business Adminis
tration reported 200 students regist
ered on Thursday making a total re
gistered in this college of about 425.
The College of Engineering re
ports 102 students registering to-day
with a total for the four days of
about 400.
The Law College stated that they
would all be registered by Friday
night, having a total now of 122.
The Teachers College registered
about 275 to-day, now has a total
of 307.
In the Dental College all the stu
dents have been in to see (.bout re
gistration but the office has filed
about 80 or 90.
The Fine Arts College has a total
of 400 registered.
Florida U Bans Secret Papers
Students at the University of
Florida who flood the campui with
secret papers will be expelled from
school.