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Official Summer Session Newspaper.
vol. 1 no. u
FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 1930.
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA.
ALL-MEN'S PICNIC IS
9
IN PARK AT SEWARD
Program Includes Athletic
Contests, Supper and
Social Hour.
Committees Are Appointed
To Make Arrangements
For Outing.
Plans to revive the annual cus
tom of holding an all-men's pic
nic during summer school were
adopted at a general committee
meeting Wednesday at the office
of E. W. Lantz in Teachers college.
Seward was decided upon as the
Slace for the picnic. Thursday,
uly 9. was set as the date. Cars,
It was agreed, would leave thr.
Teachers college at 4 o'clock in the
afternoon. Athletic contests of
every sort, a picnic supper, and a
social hour at twilight will make
up the program for the outing.
Committees appointed which al
ready have begun work on the pic
nic follow:
Food W. R. Colsom, principal
at Alliance.
Publicity Evan L. Flory. super
intendent at Havelock.
Tickets K. Blze, principal st
Holdrege.
Seward arrangements J. V
Reigier. superintendent at Seward.
General committee M. Bell,
superintendent at Edgar, and
Lowell E. DeVoe, superintendent
at Geneva.
Games-G. W. P.oselius. Hebroa
college.
Social hour and song fest Gleu
Case, supervisor of music in Lin
coln, and O. H. Bimson, assistant
superintendent of Lincoln schools.
Transportation Conrad Jacob
sen, superintendent at York, and
R. B. Carey, principal at Beatrice.
Faculty adviser E. W. Lantz.
teachers college.
Transportation of food Ne
braska Bookmen's association.
Men in the teachers college have
challenged men of all other col
leges in the university to an indoor
baseball game. All who expect to
come are asked to bring athletic
equipment with them.
Faculty's Golf
Tourney Begins;
Prizes Offered
Preliminaries of the summer
golf ournament for the university
instructional staff are getting un
der way. Instructors desiring to
qualify have until July 14 10 ao so.
Qualifications will be on the basis
of medal play. The three best
cards turned in up to July 14 will
determine the handicaps for the
championship flignt.
Play in the championship llight
will be on a handicap basis with
qualifying scores determining the
handicaps. Play will be on a
straight elimination basis with the
eighteen holes determining each
match.
Entries should be made at the
office of R. D. Moritz. director of
the summer session where quali
fying cards are to be turned in
after every qualifying match is
played. Preliminary matches are
to be played on the Antelope
course.
Six prizes aie offered. For low
medal score in qualifying rounds
is given one dozen golf balls. The
holder of the second low card gets
six balls, third low a pair of golf
hose, and high in qualifying scores
three g:olf balls.
Winner of the championship
flight will receive a dozen golf
balls while the runner up will get
a golf sweater. H. D. Gish, direc
tor of athletic, is in charge of the
tournament.
Werkmeister Talks
On German Politics
To acquaint German settlera In
Nebraska with post-war German
politics, Prof. W. IL Werkmeister
of the university's department of
philosophy, spoke on 'Present Day
Political Trends In Germany" at a
German day celebration last week
at Deshler.
PLANNED
FOR
JULY
MOKT ADDRESSES
FARM TEACHERS
70 Vocational Agriculture
Instructors in Attendance
at Annual Dinner.
Dr. Paul Mort, head of the
school of education in teachers'
college at Columbia university was
the main speaker Thursday eve
ning at a dinner of teachers of
vocational agriculture at the Uni
versity club.
Seventy teachers, in Lincoln for
a three-day annual conference
which started Thursday, were in
attendance at the dinner. Besides
Dr. Mort, Everett Hosman, secre
tary of the Nebiaska slate teach
ers association, gave a short ad
dress. C. A. Fulmer, state direc
tor of vocational guidance, acted
as toastmaster.
The teachers of vocational edu
cation meet every year at the agri
cultural college to learn of new
developments and methods in
teaching their subject A series of
talks and discussions today and
tomorrow ends the program.
Robbers9 Cave,
Brick Yards on
Student Tours
Two geography department
tours, the first to be Burnham
brick yards and the second to
Robbers' cave, are in store for
summer school students Saturday
morning and Monday afternoon.
The trip to the brick yards will
be in charge of Leland S. Paine.
The excursionists will travel in a
specially chartered bus which will
leave the former museum at 8
a. m. Saturday. Those who expect
to attend should sign on posted
lists in Teachers college or at the
department of geography office.
The brick and tile plant which
is one of the largest in the middle
west is located three miles south
west of Lincoln. Inspection of the
yards will be over so the party will
be back in Lincoln by noon. Bus
fare: 30 cents.
Robbers' cave will be visited
Monday afternoon with busses
leaving Teachers college at 3
o'clock. Professor Paine will also
be in charge of this tour. Expense
includes bus fare and an admis
sion charge at the cave of 25 cents
which will be reduced if the at
tendance is large.
Hide-out of a horse thief ring in
early Nebraska history. Robbers'
cave always has been a place of
interest in this part of the state.
A part of the cavern is of natural
origin but considerable of the soft
sandstone which forms its walls
was dug out by the former bandit
gangs.
Students may sign up for this
trip on teachers college and de
partment of geography bulletin
boards.
63 STUDENTS TAKE
EXCURSION THROUGH
VALLEY OF PLATTE
Sixty-three students travelled
more than ICO miles through the
lower Platte valley and environs
when they went on the department
of geography's special field trip
Saturday.
Thev went east from Lincoln to
Weeping Water, north to Manley
plains and Louisville, south and
west to Springfield, Gretna and
Ashlarvl.
Consid:-iaMe time was spent in
specting the cement plant at Louis
ville where sources of raw mate
rials, fuels and means of market
ing the finished product were stud
ied. How use of land is dependent
on the type of soil was noted in
loesa plain?, drift hi!U, flood
plains, and terraces.
PHI DELTA KAPPAS
HEAR C. RAY GATES
AT SECOND DINNER
C Ray Gates, superintendent of
schools at Grand Island, was the
speaker at the Phi Delta Kappa
meeting a the Y. M. C A. Thurs
day evening. An unusually large
number of summer students at
tended the dinner and meeting ac
cording: to P. G. Johnson, presi
dent of tb honorary educational
fraternity.
Several additional meetings at
which well known school men will
speak are planned for the re
mainder of the summer session.
TRUE CONSULTS MORT
ON EDUCATION TAXES
Teachers Association Trying
To Get Uniform Statute
For All State.
Superintendent J. A. True of
McCook, chairman of the legisla
tive committee of the Nebraska
Teachers association, was in Lin
coln this week consulting with Dr.
Paul Mort, visiting Instructor from
Columbia university, and Governor
A. J. Weaver, on the school tax
problem.
Dr. Mort is in the employ of the
state teachers association which
through its legislative committee,
is seeking to have Nebraska adopt
a scheme of tax revision which will
guarantee equal educational oppor
tunities in all Nebraska schools.
A bill embodying the principles
which Dr. Mort has successfully
put across in New York, Alabama,
Florida and Pennsylvania and
which now are being considered by
Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, Mich
igan. Missouri and Oklahoma in
addition to Nebraska, will be in
troduced at the next legislative
session here.
The idea of the equalized educa
tional opportunity plan is to create
a large state fund from which
local districts may receive aid if
by levying 1.7 mills their schools
are not up to standards which the
state teachers association seeks to
set up. This standard provides a
minimum of $800 per unit of in
struction. 61 CADETS REPORT
TO R. O. T. C. CAMP
21 Advanced Students Fail
To Arrive, Will Not
Get Diplomas.
Twenty-one of the eighty-three
students of the universit yordered
to report to the R. O. T. C. en
campment at Fort Crook for sum
mer training failed to do so and
will be unable to receive their di
plomas from the university until
they spend six weeks at an R. O.
T. C. camp, according to the
nouncement made by the depart
ment of military science. Most of
them are seniors this fall.
The sixty-three men at the camp
from Nebraska are just ending
thier second week. Daytime they
spend in drill and advanced mili
tary tactics. From 7 to 11 o'clock
every evening and all day Sundays
they are not on duty and may
leave the camp.
The twenty-one who did not re
port are:
Kmenr W. Adams Lawrence C. Peter
Hmrv G. Armatu son
William R. Brooks Bare T. Resler
Donald A. Carlson Lyle E. Shook
Kenneth F. Cone John G. Siehert
Llovd E. Corp Elbert H. Smith
Gordon M. Kno Roy E. Sleinheider
Leonard A. HartnettJohn F. Vandyke
William S. Orton G. Walter Vogt
Joseph L. Hoffman Roy A .Welh
Clifford W. Jensen Charlie J. Wertman
Official Bulletin
EVK.N'TS.
FRIDAY All-Fumnr.cr Session mixer.
8:30 p. nv. Grant Memorial hall. Dancing
and fiamn for all students.
FF.1DAY Lutheran picnic, -ar leave
Temple at 5:30 p. m.
FRIDAY Met hod lit lawn reception,
164S G street, 8 to 10 p. m.
SATURDAY Burn ham Brick yard tour.
Bussei" leave Former Museum at 8 a. m.
SUNDAY- German music hour, 4 p. m .
second floor, Andrews hall.
MONDAY Robbers' cave student tour.
Busses leave Teachers coHene at 3 p. m.
sil l DENT HEALTH Kr.R l E.
Notice to all students:
When you reentered in the university
vou paid a medical fee of one dollar. For
this you are entitled to the following medi
cal service free of coi.t to you:
1. Anv medical service rendered you
in the office of the department of stu
dent health In room 208. Pharmacy
hall.
i. In case ot sickness fn yoir room,
one call by a regular university phy
sician. The payment of this dollar fee also en
titles you to medical service, nursing care
and board for SI a day In the iniversity
Infirmary at 1310 R street, until you are
well. This is less than board and rooJa
costs you when well.
Medical supplies are furnished you at
cost at the pharmaceutical dispensary,
room 105, Pharmacy hall.
When you are not well but able to be on
the campus, see a doctor In toom 208,
Pharmacy halL When sick tn your room
call one of the following numbers and one
of the university doctors wtU be. seat to
,e Is-Btudent health. Pharmacy halU
20 Director, student health, Phat-
nXwUniymtr Infirmary, 1310 R
tF3934 Dr. R. A. Lyman, director,
department of student beltJV
The university wants you to be well. It
wanu you to use the agencies provided tor
that purpose.
Very sincerely.
RUFUS A. LTM AN,
Director. Student Health.
INSPECTION TOUR
ENDS THIS WEEK
Meteorologist Will Return
From Survey Trip of
West Nebraska.
H. G. Carter of the United
States weather bureau on the uni
versity campus Is expected to re
turn to Lincoln by the end of the
week from a three weeks inspec
tion tour of cliraatlcal stations lo
cated through the western part of
the state.
These stations are equipped by
the weather bureau here and are
operated by persons interested
enough to offer their services.
Their work is to observe the in
struments and to report accurately
weather conditions in their respec
tive localities.
Mr. Carter's trip is to inspect
these stations and to determine if
they are being operated correctly.
Equipment is being examined for
possible inaccuracies.
Such an inspection trip is taken
annually by the weather bureau
but four or five years are required
to visit all of the stations in the
state.
Sullen Mother
Bat 'Madame X9
To Zoologists
"Madame X" made her debut
into society Tuesday afternoon
when she was introduced to the
zoology department by Dr. E. F.
Powell.
"Madame X" is a mother bat.
She has no ancestral background
known to the criticizing public nor.
like other of her sex, does she re
veal her exact age.
In her wire cage in Bessey hall
she hangs, head downward, her
eyes gazing defiance at human
observers, whom she seems to
blame for the murder of her baby
whose body lies limp on the floor
of the cage.
Occasionally she emits a sharp,
viciou.s snap causing any onlookers
about her home in civilization to
draw back quickly.
"Madame X" was first brought
to public attention when a group
of boys in the vicinity of Twenty
ninth and Apple streets caught her
and her newborn baby, then alive.
The boys placed mother and infant
bats in a fruit jar and called the
department of zoology. By the
time Dr. Powell arrived, the baby
was dead.
In the zoology laborataty with
preserved and mounted bats
around her "Madame X" awaits
her fate. Dr. Powell says he will
probably display her to students
for a few days and then free her.
Until then her sharp claws firmly
grip her prison bars and she con
tinues, to' spit and hiss her con
tempt at mankind."
BUILDING ACTIVITY
IS LIGHT THIS YEAR
AROUND UNIVERSITY
Painting the three university
dormitories for women, renovating
and redecorating a few campus
buildings, testing the new power
plant and building a cottage at the
North Platte experimental station
constitute the summer construction
program at the University of Ne
braska, according to L. F. Seaton,
operating superintendent.
Workmen are completing the re
novation of Bessey hall started
last summer. Painting on the
dormitories will begin soon. 'The
new heating and power plant
which will supply both the univer
sity and the state capitol will be
tested around Aug. 1.
Contract for building a S6.OO0
cottage at the agricultural experi
mental station at North Platte has
been let to a North Platte contrac
tor. Work will begin shortly.
WERNER BETTER BUT
NOT EXPECTED BACK
AT SUMMER SCHOOL
Dr. O. H. Werner, suffering
from a nervous breakdown, is con
siderably improved, according to
attending physicians, but it is
doubtful if he will be able to re
turn to teach in the summer ses
sion. Meanwhile his classes are being
taught by Prof. W. P. Hierony
mus, former president of Hebron
college; Everett Hosman, secre
tary of the Nebraska Educational
association, and Dean Sealock of
the teachers college.
DANCING AND
GAMES
ARE ON PROGRAM AT
FREE Mie TONIGHT
Second Entertainment Will
Be Held at Grant Hall at
8:30 O'clock.
E.W.Lantr, Herb Gish, Misj
Easterbook, Miss Ash,
On Committee.
Tonight at 8:30 o'clock a pro
gram of dancing and games will
open the second All-Summer
School mixer of the season at
Grant Memorial hall. Men and
women are invited to attend.
There is no admission charge.
Special get-acquainted stunts
have been planned by Miss
Frances Ash, recreational director
of Lincoln who is in charge of the
entertainment. Circle dances and
square dances will also be used to
create an informal atmosphere at
the mixer.
Ft. D. Moritz. director of the
summer session, believes that the
mixers can do much to get stu
dents acquainted with each other
and to provide recreation as well.
If the mixer idea takes well with
the students he is eager to pro
mote other recreational activities,
athletic tournaments for. both men
and women, and picnics, he de
clared. The mixer tonight at Grant hall
is under the direction of a faculty
committee appointed by Mr. Mo
ritz. It is composed of Herb
Gish. E. W. Lantz, Miss Marjoria
Easterbrook and Miss Frances H.
Ash. ex-officio.
The first mixer was held a week
ago Thursday night but because it
received little publicity and was
announced in only a few classes
the attendance was scant. Mis
understanding as to whether both
men and women were invited re
sulted in the crowd being made up
practically entirely of women stu
dents. The mixer Friday is for
everyone, Miss Ash declares.
On the size of the crowd and
the spirit evinced by the students
depends the future of summer
school mixers, tried for the first
time this year.
Working Coeds
Secure Jobs in
Lincoln Homes
In domestic employment the
greatest number ot university girls
find a way to finance their college
education, according to Miss May
Gund, secretary of the university's
employment bureau for the young1
women.
Clerks, secretaries and wait
resses are also in demand. The
employment bureau has placed
many coeds in such positions but
domestic service leads the list,
Miss Gund says
It is much more difficult to find
places for girls during the summer
session than in winter, however,
due to many Lincoln people going
on vacations, Miss Gund pointed
out.
"There is a growing apprecia
tion for university students
whether they be clerks, office
workers or domestic servants." de
clared Miss Gund. "They are prov
ing to be superior workers."
The modern young woman to
day. Miss Gund said, may be em
ployed in useful work and yet be
admired. In awarding scholarships
the girl who is making her own
way an-i has equally high grades
gets added prestige, according to
the employment secretary.
More than 750 girls secured em
ployment of one sort and another
last year through the bureau. Miss
Gund said. The bureau Is located
In Ellen Smith hall.
Dr. Patterson Fills
Westminster Pulpit
Dr. C H. Patterson of the de
partment of philosophy is pdeacb
ing this summer at the Westmin
ster Presbyterian church during
the absence of its pastor, Rent
Paul C Johnston.
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