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Nebraskan
VARSITY WINS
15 TO 4 FROM
YEARLING FIVE
Basketeers Show Improvement
In Game With First
Year Men
REVERSED FORM SHOWN
All Scoring Achievements
Credit After First
Minutes of Play
to
Displaying a marked improvement
in their passing game, the Varsity
basketeers defeated the yearling
quintet 15 to 4 in a fifteen minute
scrimmage Tuesday afternoon. The
Husker cagesters showed a complete
reversal of form from their Monday
night performance and after the
first few minutes had all the scoring
achievements to their credit.
Playing "Jug" Brown, "Dutch"
Witte, forwards; Tom Elliott, cen
ter; Elmer Holm, "Lew" Lewandow
ski at ihe guard positions, Coach
Charley Black found a smooth func
tioning team which swept the fresh
ma nopposition aside. The yearling
lineup was changed frequently but
Glen Milhollin, guard ; John Kimball,
center; Sell, Fremont product, for
ward, played the fifteen minute tua
tle for the youngsters.
Accurate passing and a notable
increase in the tossing of baskets
characterized the Varsity workout.
Lewandowski and Holm, who has
been bothered by a knee injury which
is healing slowly, showed to advan
tage in working the ball down the
court to Brown, Elliott, or Witte.
"Jug" by the way is developing a
smooth follow in 6hot which is war
ranted to pile up some points in com
ing Valley games.
Mar Follow Missourians
At the beginning of yesterday's
practice, a short drill on stalling and
man to man guarding was put on by
the Blackmen. Evidently the Hus
kers plan to follow the example of
the Missouri game by doing all their
scoring early and then resting
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on
DR. WILLIAMS IS
FORUU SPEAKER
Sociologist Will Discuss "Compan
ionate Marriage" Before
Luncheon Croup
Today at noon, the World Forum
will convene at the Grand hotel with
the speaker, Dr. Hattie Plum Wil
liams, instructor in the sociology de
partment, giving a talk on the sub
ject "Companionate Marriage". Re
alizing that Dr. Williams Is well
veret-d on subjects concerning sociol
ogy, the committee in charge of
speakers asked her to talk to the
World Forum on this popular sub
ject of controversy.
Tickets today will sell for thirty
five cents each. Those In charge re
port that the tickets are being sold
rapi!!y and there are only a few
left to be accommodated. The ad
dress by Doctor Williams will be
over by 12:50 in order to enable
those who have 1:00 o'clock classes
to leave. A round table discussion,
open to all, will follow the tali by
Doctor Williams.
Eecently she gave an address up
on the subject of "Companionate
Marriage" over the radio station of
the University during the radio hour.
According to Doctor Williams she
will talk to the World Forum on the
subject of "Companionate Mar
riage" from the point of view of a
sociologist.
Flowers May Be For the Fair Bat It's
"Sweets" for Council if Cupid Shoots
"One box of candy for every per
fect score" is the latest decree to
Cupid in regard to his random shots
among campus personages during
1928. So decided the Student Coun
cil in a recent meeting when after
convention duties lagged, honorary
uucuMion became dull a self-appointed
committee acting on behalf
of the student goup presented a pe
tition to the Council which passed
Quite unanimously witthout the usu-
two hour discussions. '
Flowers may b for the fair but
l sweets for the Student Council
where engagements are concerned.
Students will be watching with In
wt Cupid and the Council in
iew of the now high cost of candy
ngagements for council members
wlth the decree passed reading:
WHEREAS the, Student Council
or the University of Nebraska is a
"nified body whoso effective work-
dependent upon the whole
oUed cooperation of all and tho
wLneM of each each' and
'"HRSAS certain nusmHnr nt
Famous Soprano Sings Here
Rosa Raisa, world-famed dramatic soprano who will 'sing the leading
role in the opera "II Trovatore" to be presented at the University Coliseum,
March 29, by the Chicago Civic Opera Company.
ROSA RAISA TO
APPEAR HERE
Foremost Dramatic Soprano
Sings at Coliseum in Opera
In Late March
TICKETS SELLING FAST
Rosa Raisa, whom Chicago and
New York have acclaimed as one of
the foremost dramatic sopranos, will
sing in Lincoln in "II Trovatore" with
the Chicago Opera company, March
29. Tickets for the opera have been
eagerly grabbed up by University
students, according to Hazel Sutton,
Mortarboard treasurer, in charge of
campus sales.
A thousand dollars worth of caah
tickets has been sold at the Athletic
office and at the Ross P. Curtice Co.
Miss Sutton stated that she was quite
certain that every sorority on the
campus, and a good share of the
fraternities would buy blocks of tick
ets at the twenty-five per cent re
duction. Futeen sororities and sev
eral fraternities have already done
so. Blocks may be reserved by calling
Miss Sutton at L-5801, and single
tickets may be bought at Long's
Book Store and Ellen Smith HalL
Rosa Raisa, who will sing the stel
lar dramatic Foprano role in the fa
mous Italian opera, has lea a mo
crammed full of thrilling episodes
Forced to flee from her home In
Russian Poland at the age of four-
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Many Are Vaccinated
For Small Pox; No
New Cases Reported
The number of students securing
small pox vaccinations is steadily in
creasing, according to Information
from the student health department.
More than twenty-five students were
vaccinated Monday, and thirty-three
Tuesday, making a total of about
sixty.
Acting Chancellor Burnett Is of
fering this opportunity for student
to receive small pox vaccinations In
order to take precaution against the
disease. No cases of small pox were
reported yesterday. t
the Council either have or may take
anrh atena as mitrht prove Inimical
to this closeknit understanding, and
WHEREAS it is necessary to
counteract such actions by satisfac
tory retributive action to the Coun
cil by the aforementioned members,
T? it hrrebv resolved:
That any persons members of the
student council who become engaged
to any persons whatsoever shall as
an indication of their sincere desire
to work effectively with the Coun
cil, furnish said Council with a box
of candy, this action being retroac
tive and post facto lest members who
have already reached such state fail
to furnish satisfactory evidence of
their continued whole-souled interest
in said Council, and
Be It further resolved:
That in case of such an extremity
as two members of said Council be-.nimo-ed
to each other, that
as proper retribution for such action,
that each shall supply '"""
members of said Council with a box
a? candy.
Players Commended
During Performance
"To think that my father is the
absentminded professor," was the
exclamation of Miss K a t h r y n
Grumman Friday, referring to her
father, Prof. Paul H. Grummann.
Professor Grummann had been
assisting and criticizing during
the practices for the University
Players production, "The Black
Flamingo". Friday afternoon he
entered the Temple, unaware that
a public performance was in prog
ress. After watching the play
for a few moments, he walked to
the front and loudly informed the
players, "The was much better
than you did last night, people."
CALHOUN SPEAKS AT
VESPER SERVICES
Presbyterian Pastor Discusses
"Moral Discrimination,
Courage, Ballast"
Dr. Paul Calhoun of the First
Presbyterian church talked on "Mor
al Discrimination, Courage and Bal
last" at the regular Verspers service
held yesterday afternoon in Ellen
Smith Hall. Marjorie Sturdevant led.
"We are told over and over again
that never before have people been
so interested in Jesus as they are
at the present time," Dr. Calhoun
began. "They are not interested in
our creeds or our theories but they
are interested in Jesus' words and
the things he did."
"Jesus chose young men for his
disciples because of the life, the go,
the courage, the dauntlessness, self
abandonment and uncalculating dis
positions which youth displays," the
speaker went on, end he cited Col
Lindbergh as an example of a young
man who did ot calculate the dan
gers that lay In the path to his "glor
ious achievement."
Philosophy Presented
"Jesus said 'Be courageous enough
to stand alone'. It is so easy to follow
the crowd, but we get the most out
of life when we paddle our own
canoes. Get your mind centered on
your own responsibility and then let
nothing Interfere with yoar fulfill
ment of that responsibility. This is
moral courage," the speaker de
clared.
"Look' at a tree's fruit if you
would knew its value," said Jesus.
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JUNIOR RECITAL IS GIVEN
Florence Phillips Present Program
At Tuesday Convocation
Florence Phillips, student in voice
and piano, gave her junior recital
yesterday morning In the Temple
theater at 11 o'clock at the Univer
sity Convocation program. Miss
Phillips studies voice under Alma
Wagner and piano under Marguerite
Kllenkcr. Her program included
compositions by various well known
composers.
The selections giftn were as fol
lows: "Oh Rest in. the Lord,5' from
Elijah, by Mendelsohn; selections
from "French Suites," by Back; "Die
Lotus Blume," by Schumann; "Ele-
gie," by Massanet; "The Nightengale
of Lincoln Inn," by Oliver; Melodie"
by Rachmaninoff; "By Smouldering
Embers" by LlaeDowell; "Flower
Rain" by Spross; "Danny Boy," by
Weatherby; "The Picture," by Cur-
ran, and "The Wind" by Schneider.
KAPPA SIG WINS
THIRD GAME IN
CLASS A FINALS
Leaders Smother Sig Alphs
Under 33 to S Score;
Alpha Sig In Second
OTHER TEAMS COMPETE
Sig Eps Win 7 Point Victory
Over Delts; Fast Playing
Features
Featuring fast play with one
sided scores in two' of the three
Class "A" games played last night,
the Sig Eps won a 7 point victory
over the Delts, winning 22 to 15;
Alpha Sigs walked on the Phi Sigs
27 to 12, and the league-leading
Kappa Sigs almost Smothered the
Sig Alphs under a 33 to 5 score.
The Kappa Sigs are now leading the
other five teams in the league with
three wins to their credit and no
losses.
The first game of the evening,
Delta Tau Delta versus Sigma Phi
Epsilon, was marked with close ploy
and many spectatular shots. In the
first quarter the' teams battled on
Won Lost Pet.
Kappa Sigma 3 0 1.000
Alpha Sigma Phi .... 2 1 .666
Sigma Phi Epsilon ....2 1 .666
Phi Sigma Kappa 1 2 .333
Sigma Alpha Epsilon 1 2 .333
Delta Tau Delta .... 0 3 .000
even terms with the Sig Eps holding
a slight advantage in the scoring
column. The second quarter was like
the first with both teams fighting
hard and the guarding was close
During the third and fourth quar
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PRAIRIE SCHOONER
COMES OUT MONDAY
Winter Issue of Magazine Features
The White Radiance' and
'Cousin Lother'
John G. Neihardt, J. D. Hicks, and
J. E. LeRossignol headline the list of
contributors to the winter number of
the Prairie Schooner, University of
Nebraska's quarterly literary maga
zine, which will be issued Monday.
Neihardt, author of an epic cycle
of Indian poetry, including the
Song of Three Friends, The Song of
Hugh Glass, and Songs of the In
dian Wars, furnishes the feature es
says of the month, "The White Ra
diance" Neihardt has contributed
to the Prairie Schooner previously,
Dean J. E. LeRossignol offers a
short story "Cousin Lother" which
will appear with others of his stories
in book form this spring. Dean Le
Rossignol is known to Nebraska fic
tion followers through a collection of
Canadian short stories published sev
eral years ago. An essay, "Our
Pioneer Heritage" is the contribu
tion of Prof. J. D. Hicks of the his
tory department of the University.
Illustrations Appear
Illustrations appear in the Prairie
School for the first time with the
winter number. Two instructors in
the art department, Dwight Kirsch
and B. A. Benson have furnished
the medium for the change in the
magazine's policy. Dwight Kirsch
contributes a drawing and B. A.
Benson, an etching.
"Oh Potato Face", another story
by Marie Macumber, winner of
honorable mention in Harper's inter-
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Mickey Will Attend
Engineers Meeting
Prof. C. E. Mickey of the depart
ment of civil engineering, will at
tend the annual meeting of the
American Society of Civil Engineers
to be held in New York City, Jan
uary 18 to 20 inclusive. Professor
Mickey is now In Washington D. C,
serving as an advisor for the House
committee on drouth and flood con
trol. Right Turns Prohibited
Drivers Facing Red Light
No right turns may made by
drivers fad .g the red light, ac
cording to Chief of Police John
stone. He says that the habit is
becoming too noticeable, and un
less it is stopped at once the vio
lators will be arrested and fined.
The traffia rule will be of in
terest to students operating cars.
Chief of Police Johnstone said
that an item was published in one
of the papers some time ago which
said that an ordinance had been
proposed to permit drivers to turn
agninpt the red light Such an
ordinance, however, was never
passed. '
FOLLIES SKITS
DDE SATDRDAY
Associated Women Students Board
Urge Orgair.z itions to Com
pete for .Prizes
The deadline for all Co-Ed Filiies
skits is Saturday, January 21, ac
cording to Laura M. Raines, com
mittee chairman. The Associated
Wonitns Student Beard sent letters
to all organizations Monday urging
them to compete for the prizes.
The letter reals as follows:
"The Co-Ed Follies are coming
Friday night, February 17, w the
date. It is a good opportunity for
University girls to show what talent
they have. It is aho an opportunity
to win some money for your orgai-
ization, fraternity, or for yourself.
As you know, the Co-Ed Follies
are sponsored by the Associated Wc
men Studencs iJoard. os program
is given at the Temple Theater bo
ginning at 7:00 and letting cut at
5:00 in time frr dates. The first
prize is $15 and the second is $10.
The judges of the best skit will be
from the University faculty. Any
organization of women may present
a skit a literary society, a dormi
tory, an honorary, a school organiza
tion, a fraternity, or. if any three
girls in school wish to work up a
skit, that will be acceptable.
Get your group together and make
a rough sketch of the ide-i wliih you
wish to put over. The skits must be
only ten minutes long, so it isn c
necessary to bav-3 a complicated plot
Bring or miil your brief sketch of
the plan so it will ges to mat az 15-15
"S" St., by Saturday evening, Jan
uary 21st. From five to seen skits
will be selected and the groups
whose skits have been accepted will
be informed shortly afterwards.
That will give you over two weeks
to work on the skits after final ex
ams are over.
Sincerely yours,
Laura Margaret Raines,
Committee Chairman.
Track Men Get
Sunshine From
Electric Lamp
Artificial sunshine is the "latest'
for Nebraska's track and field can
didates working out daily under the
east stadium. A quartz lamp, dis
tributing a purple light, has been in
stalled in Coach Schulte's room.
Building up of the red corpuscles
increasing the amount of hemoglodin
in the blood, building up of resis
tance, and the. general development
of greater vitality are the chief aims
of the new lamp according to "Doc"
McLean, varsity trainer.
Several men Monday were given a
good "sunburn" when they stayed
under the lamp too long. Tuesday,
however, no encouragement was
needed to get the men out from un
der the lamp after being exposed for
about forty-five seconds when the
timer gave tho word.
The ray of the light is somewhat
similar to an x-ray and is claimed to
give similar effects to sunshine.
Similar almps have been installed
as track equipment at several East
ern institutions and a few Middle
Western schools. Nebraska is the
first Missouri Valley s;hool to put
in such a light.
BLOOD ADDRESSES CLUB
Bizad Instrutor Speaks to Optimists
At Noon Meeting
Prof. F. C. Blood of the College
of Business Administration, address
ed the Optimist Club Tuesday noon
at the Lindell on "The Literati and
the Olympians." He defined the
Literati" as the people who have
learned through experiences in life
and the Olympians as boys, calling
them the only true gods of today.
He pointed out Plato's definition of
education as developing existing
principles rather than developing
new ones.
In speaking on the boy problem,
Professor Blood said it wasn't fair
to drag the Olympians down from
a world to which they could never
return, but It was man's job to make
them happier where they were, and
to develop the principles they al
ready had.
Lutherans Will Meet
On Friday Evening
The Luthern Club will hold an im
portant meeting Friday evening, Jan
uary 20, at 8 o'clock, in Temple 204.
There will be election of officers for
next semester and a short business
meeting;. Prof. (Oscar ,'W. Sjogren
will speak on "Luthern work on our
campus and in other universities.
Following this a social hour will be
held. Everyone interested is invited
to attend.
Board Will Consider
Staff Applicants Today
Applicants for positions on The
Daily Nebraskan and Awgwan are
requested to be available Wed
nesday afternoon at 4 o'clock for
the meeting of the Student Pub
lication Board in U105.
Members of the Student Publi
cation Board may examine ma
terial submitted by applicants
Wednesday in the office of the
School of Journalism
John K. Selleck, Secretary
Student Publication Board.
LOCKE IS STILL
TRAINING HERE
'Doc' McLean Says Sprinter Is
In Good Condition in Spite
Of Long Lay-off
'GIF LEAVES NEXT WEEK
Roland Locke, working out on the
Husker indoor track before going
East, is in splendid shape consider
ing his long lay-off "Doc" McLean,
varsity trainer, declared Tuesday
afternoon.
The trainer stated that Locke is
not in shape for competition but with
his muscles responding the way they
are, that he should be able to get
into good running shape in about
two weeks. Locke's muscles were not
flabbly as might have been expected
with his absence from the track for
several months. "Doc" McLean re
ported that the former Husker sprint
er's muscles were solid and had great
elasticity.
That Locke is in the best shape
he has ever been in when out of
training was the trainer's opinion.
The North Platte flash has been tak
ing it easy to date, running no com
petition. He has been limbering up
daily on the stadium indoor track,
running under wraps all the time.
The "Gipper" plans to leave for
New York City the first , of the week
with more than a week's practice
under the direction of Coach Henry
F. Rchult and Father O'Connor. He
will go to work there in a law firm.
He expects to have time to continue
his training, planning to get in shape
to compete in the eastern indoor
meets preparatory to Olympic trials
next spring.
CARNIVAL TO BE
BELD FEBRUARY 3
Athletes Stare First Husker Intra-
Mural Carnival in
Coliseum
The first Husker Intramural Car
nival will be held in the Coliseum on
the evening of February 3. The
party is being sponsored by the "N"
Club and the Athletic department of
the University.
According to present plans ath
letic events will be run off from 7 :00
o'clock till 10:00, and the rest of the
evening will be devoted to dancing.
The program will be well varied with
a number of features which are ab
solutely new to the University.
Seven members of the Varsity and
Freshmen track squad will run a
number of events on a specially erec
ted track in the Coliseum. Thirteen
relay teams from the R. O. T. C.
companies will also run at the car
nival. The teams are being selected
in the inter-fraternity track and field
meet, and they will be managed by
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Ancient Cuneiform
Possession of
By Leon Larimer
"Hello. Is this the office of the
Daily Babylonian? This is Prof.
John D. Caveman, 100 Sttone House
Avenue. I failed to get my copy of
th epaper last night. What are you
going to do about it?"
"We're very sorry about that, Pro
fessor Caveman. If we can get an
extra copy baked today we'll try to
get your paper on the first camel
delivery possible."
All of which is merely an illustra
tion of M v worries of a newspaper
editor 4000 years ago. The tele
phone, of course, is thrown i for
good measure.
Imagine having to bake all of your
love letters in an oven and then pay
ing a camel driver an atrocious price
to deliver them for you I But that
is precisely what they did before
some enterprising individual Invent
ed other means of writing. An ex
cellent example of ancient cuneiform
vriting on clay is in the possession of
the University Library. This tablet,
discovered in tho ruins of a temple
in Bismya, babylonia, by Edjar J.
Banks, well ;-nown American arche
ologist, was obtained by the library
six or seven years ago.
KLUB ASKS FOR
ORIGINAL PLAN
IN DECORATING
New Ideas for Setting forlnter
Fraternity Ball to Be
Given Prizes '
TICKETS ARE OFFERED
Two Passes to Be Given Stu
dents Submitting Plans
Used for Affair
ny student having an original
plan for decorations that may bo
used for the Interfraternity Ball,
scheduled for February 4, in the
Scottish Rite temple, is requested to
turn it in to Austin Sturdevant at
the Delta Tau Delta fraternity house
before next Friday evening.
Kosmet Klub, sponsoring the ball,
offers two free tickets to the stud
ents submitting plans that are used.
There is no limit to the number of
ideas that may be featured in the
decorations, so that more than one
student may be presented with two
of the three dollar tickets. A profes
sional interior decorator will have
charge of the decorations, but Kos
met Klub is calling for ideas so that
they may make the affair as elabor
ate as possible.
Members of the Kosmet Klub are
working out a decorative theme that
will be kept secret until the Ball.
Ticket sale for the event is going
well, more than half of the 300 tick
ets having been sold at 9 o'clock last
evening. They are being sold by rep
resentatives at each fraternity house,
but will be turned in when the lim
ited number have been 6old. The
Kosmet Klub has set a limit to the
number because more than 300 cou
ples would be too many for the Scot
tish Rite Temple.
The College Club orchestra of
Omaha, augmented by "Red" Krause
and Gayle Grubb will furnish the
music and entertainment for the
ball. Arrangements have been made
for the presentation every thirty
minutes during the evening of short
acts by talent of the University, and
Omaha and Lincoln theaters.
FAIR EXEGDTIVES
ARE GUESTS HERB
Ag Board and Ccunty Representa
tives Entertain -d at Dinner at
Ag Campus Monday
Fair executives representatives of
the county fairs of Nebraska and the
state board of agriculture who were
present in Lincoln at the meeting of
thte Nebraska Association of Fair
Managers Monday were guests of the
University of Nebraska that evening
at a dinner served at the College of
Agriculture.
Acting Chancellor Burnett was
toastmaster, Regent Landis gave the
official welcome and George Jack
son, secretary of the state board of
agriculture, gave the response. Num
erous men in the audience gave brief
speeches. Among them were Sena
tors Reed, Banning, Purcell and Mil
ler, Regent Long, fomrer Regents
Warner and Seymour, H. J. Mc
Laughlin, Charles Graf, Dean Sea-
lock, Dean LeRossignol and Dean
James.
Dean Burnett said that although
the university building program has
included the erection of nearly half
its present plant in the last twelve
years, it has hardly kept pace with
the increase in enrollment.
Writing Is in
university Library
Tho tablet is believed to have been
a temple record of some sort. It
has about the same dimensions as a
soda cracker, and is perhaps an inch
in thickness. Both sides are covered
with cuneiform wiiting. The tablet
is estimated to have been written
about 2000, B. C.
Cuneifotm writing is thought to
have originattd with the pre-Semitic
inhabitants of Mesopotamia, at least
0000 years ago. whence it spread
widely, remaining in use until the
third century, B. C.
"Babylonian tablets were made of
damp clay," said Mr. Gilbert Doan,
University Librarian. "The charac
ters were Inscribed with a wedge
shaped instrument and the tablet
was then baked until hard. When
an envelope was desired, a thin piece
of clay was "Trapped around the tab
let and baked. When one wished to
open a letter, he merely cracked the
envelope with a hammer, and there
it was."
Although clay tab?" hni tbifr d
vantages, it mt huve isetn !" -r
hard on mailmen in ancient T . ' ; 1
onia, when the first o! V r. , "i
rolled around 1
i