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eDrasKaia
Official Summer Session Newspaper.
vol.. i no.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 1. 1930.
LINCOLN. NEBRASKA.
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KENNEDY
REPLIES
TO
OF
NEBRASKAN EDITOR
Business Manager of Las
Year's Cornhusker
Gives View.
Says Lack of Co-Operation
From Staff Was Cause
Of Deficit.
Lack of proper assistance from
fellow staff members, depressing
times in business generally, and
unfavorable publicity are attri
touted by George L. Kennedy, Om
aha. business manager of the 1930
Cornhusker, University of Ne
braska annual, as causes for the
possible deficit, announced in the
July 25 issue of The Nebraskan
In a letter to the editor of The
Nebraskan, Kennedy asks that the
public be put aright concerning bis
activities while in office and for
that reason The Nebraskan today
reproduces parts of his letter
which pertain to that specific
point.
"I went through a bard year as
business manager," the former
Cornhusker manager writes. "In
the first place I had poor support
from staff. Some of my assistants
had to work outside practically all
the time, while others devoted lit
tle or no time to business.
Selleck Suggests 2,000.
"Times were hard and selling
subscriptions, space and advertis
ing were hard. On top of this,
bad plenty of unfavorable publiicty
through The Nebraskan and the
notorious "Fire and Sword" paper.
"I talked to Mr. Selleck about
selling 2.000 copies. He said that
bad always sold that many and
that there was no reason why we
couldn't do it again. Therefore, I
bad them printed on bis advice and
my own determination to see it
through.
"Fraternities, advertising custo
mers, and organizations owe us
enough at present to amply pay up
the deficit that remains. I have
no fear as to what little we now
owe.
Shares in Plans.
"The paper says that there is
nearly a $400 deficit. I have out
standing bills of nearly twice that
much that I cannot collect. The
only money that the Cornhusker
will fall short of is the money that
is coming to the staff. That is our
own loss for the year.
"I took my assistants into confi
dence. Whatever plans for a suc
cessful annual next year are public
at the present time. I feel that I
am partially responsible for them.
Where we found it hard this year
we always decided how it would be
done next year.
Asks for Leniency.
"Annual production is going
through a revolutionary period.
The apparent failure of "the Corn
husker falls upon my shoulders.
However, it has not failed in that
with the resumption of school this
fail every debt that remains wid
be entirely obliterated.
For this reason. I would lute
you to take a little more lenient
attitude and help us push the an
nual instead of casting unfavorable
opinions on it. I would appreciate
it if you would make public the
facts that I have included in this
letter.
"For a time I saw nothing but
the impending failure, but as time
went on I perceived a faint hope of
pJling everything through.
"That is precisely what has hap
pened and the Cornhusker can
continue unshackled by debt.
-(Signed)
"GEORGE L. KENNEDY,
"Business Manager,
' "1930 Cornhusker."
STUDENTS TO END
SESSION WITH ALL'
EXAMS ON AUG. .7
Final exaxr' cation worries for
ummer seas' l students should be
hort-Ihred. , r wording to word
given out at the Registrar's office.
Thursday, all examinations will be
given on the Last day of school.
Thursday. Aug. 7.
CRITICISM
Moles Turn up
Their Noses at
Dainty Dishes
By ELEANOR PRENTICE.
"Moles even dream stated Mr.
Arlton, former instructor of South
Dakota Wealeyan university and
present assistant to Dr. Irvin II.
Ulake, professor of zoology and
anatomy. In commenting upon his
ravorite subject.
Mr. Arlton has two moles at
present upon which he is experi
menting. Mrs. Mole No. 1 was
found on Salt creek south of Lin
coln, a month ago. Mrs. Mole No.
was discovered tnree weeks ago
near the same place. Mr. Arlton
said that in Nebraska, moles are
most frequently found in black soil
and in dry and wooded places. They
do not like hot and windy weather
and disfavor blue grass or hilltops
for homes as they do in Iowa.
Mr. Arlton Is conducting an ex
periment to test the smelling pow
ers of Mrs. Mole No. 1. He placed
one and one-half inches of soil on
a basement floor of Bessey hall,
raked it smooth and deposited the
mole in it. Wherever she moves
little ridges are left in her wake.
Mapping these ridges, Mr. Arlton
will again rake the ground smooth
and later in the day compare notes
on the underground tunnels.
Meanwhile, Mrs. Mole No. Z lies
in a box of soil in an adjoining
room. The box has four compart
ments, the first containing dry soil.
the second damp soil, the third wet
soil and the fourth, that soil deeply
saturated. These compartments are
separated by little board partitions
over which she can easily crawl.
When interviewed, Mrs. Mole No. 2
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MANY FRIENDS PAY
TRIBUTE TO SKOV
Eleven School Pals Go to
Riverdale Wednesday
For Last Rites.
A delegation of eleven persons.
representing the University of Ne
braska, the Daily Nebraskan and
the Lincoln Star, drove to River-
dale in two cars Wednesday to at
tend the funeral services of Elmer
M. Skov, who met his death early
Monday morning en route to Lin
coln from Omaha.
The funeral rites were held
Wednesday at 2 p. m. at the River
dale Methodist church with inter
ment at the Kearney cemetery.
Rev. J. B. Roe. pastor of the de
ceased's home church, was assisted
by Rev. Samuel Reechner, pastor
of a local Methodist church, at
whose home young Skov made his
residence the two years be speni
in Lincoln.
The two automobiles started out
from Lincoln, picking up addit
ional occupants en ro:ite. The one
car piloted by Prof. Gayle C.
Walker, director of the school of
journalism of the University of
Nebraska, started out with Gene
S. Robb. Lincoln, former editor of
The Daily Nebraskan. and Bob
Kelly. Nebraska City, managing
editor of the student newspaper
next semester.
Lester P. Schick. Seward, and
Bill McGaffm. Polk, both members
of the Nebiaskan Ftaff. boarded
the professor's car at their respec
tive places.
In the car rurnisneti oy cnii r.
Sandabl. Lincoln, was Neal S.
Gomjn. Norfolk, who was with
Skov at tha time of the accident;
Frances Holyoke, Omaha; Maurice
ALin. Fairmont, and Constance
Waite. Lincoln. Bill T. McCleery,
Halting, editor of The Daily Ne
braskan for next semester, was
picked up at Hastings.
The young men served as hon
orary pallbearers at the funeral
All were close companions of the
deceased, who was affiliated with
The Nebraskan staff for two
years. This summer he was em
ployed on the news staff of the
Lincoln Star.
Chem Prof Prepares
Scientific Article
Dr. B. C. Hendricks, of the uni
versity chemistry department, is
preparing for publication a paper,
'Mathematics and First Year
Chemistry,' at the request of the
editors of Science Education, na
tional scholastic Journal.
PLACEMENT BUREAU
GETS POSITIONS FOR
204 NEW TEACHERS
Large Number of Graduates
Secure School Jobs,
Report Shows.
Department of Educational
Service Here Locates
Many Others.
Two hundred ana four students
connected with the University dur
mg i-e past year have found posi
tions as teachers for the coming
year through the department of
educational service in the teachers
college. The complete list is pub
lished for the first time today.
Tue percentage of students di
rectly out of university and with
out experience that we have placed
this spring is considerably higher
than usual," declared Prof. R. D,
Moritz, director of the department
In addition to the employment
round this year for those who have
been in school here during the
term just ended, the department
has placed many others. Some of
these are former students and
some are graduates of the Univer
sity of Nebraska. A number of
school transfers also were effected
through the service bureau.
For Nebraskans Only.
The department of educational
service is maintained exclusively
for students. graduates, and
former students at the Univcristy
of Nebraska. No commissions are
charged for its placements. When
ever a Nebraska student, past or
present, wishes to secure a teach
ing position he may take advant
age of the department's service by
paying a 52 registration fee.
Subjects which the person is
qualified to teach, 5 record of de
grees held, hours accredited and
subjects taken, and letters of re
commendation are put on file. This
material is kept permanently.
When a student secures a position,
it is placed on inactive file.
If in the future any previous
registrant wishes another position
his or ner record up to date is
asrain placed in the active file on
payment of the S2 fee.
Names of the 204 people con
nected with the university this
past year who have been placed by
the department follow:
Abbott. Dorothy, t'nivrity City, Mo,
commercial.
Aden. Dean. Gannon. superintendent.
A hern. Loreila. Nebraska City. Junior
hitfh school mathematics.
AWnch. Mary Waverly, second and
third grades.
Alexander. Theodore. Red Cloud, Smith
Hughes agriculture.
Altstadt, S. W.. Harvard, superintendent
of music
Ames. Mercedes. HavelocK. .ngnsn ana
dramatics.
Anderson. Franklin. Wahoo. science.
Anderson. Jlarsaret. Stromsb'in;. music
Antes. Wesley, Palisaae. ar!c lifjre.
Arnup, I-aura. Humboldt, music.
Avery'. Zoia. Huliett. Wyoming, borne
economics. Kngiish and biology.
Bmrd. Ka. Ord. bom eonom cs.
Bunks. Mabel, Ciant. nuitii-.'n tlics.
Ba-reit. Kiva, David City, lim fcrxi sec
ond grades.
Bi'cheider. Ruth. Garrison. English and
Latin.
Baxter. Mary, Whiting, lova, second
grade.
Benjamin. Mina. Filley. home economics.
Bennett. Margaret, Cra.rii, third
grade and music
Berkman. c:rene. Osrikasti. Knglish,
Latin and physical edjcatioa.
(Continued on Page 3.
Innocents Bursar
Asks for Bids on
' Frosh Green Lids
Local merchants wishing to
put in bids on freshman green
caps are asked by Leroy Jack,
treasurer of the Innocents, se
nior honorary which has charge
of the sales, to get In touch
with him before Tuesday, Aug.
5, st the Nebraskan office.
It will not be necessary, ac
cording to Jack, to submit the
bids before that time, but the
retailers are requested only to
signify their intentions of so do
ing. The contract for same will
be let shortly before school op
ens, the treasurer announced.
The wearing of green caps by
incoming freshmen in the fall is
one of the oldest traditions oa
the University of Nebraska
campus. Contrary to former
practices, the Innocents society
will retail the caps to the year
lings at cost, Jack stated.
Feature Writer
Notes Lack ' of
Summer Caking
BY JACK ERICKSON.
"She ain't what she used to be.
referring this time, not to the pro
verbial old gray dobbin, but to the
summer campus of the University
or Nebraska.
Naturally, the campus at the
University of Nebraska seems a
bit different during the summer
session than it does during the
regular school year. If It didn't
then modern civilization would be
open to the confession that it Is
stereotyped and that the actions
and habits of its people have be'
come standardized.
Nebraska summer session stu
dents, many of whom spent their
undergraduate days at other
schools, and others who have had
a rather prolonged interim, per
haps wonder as to the differences
in the appearances and oaily pro
cedures of the campus in the sum
mer and during the regular school
year.
The steps of Social Sciences
present one of the most striking
contrasts between the summer and
winter sessions. During the nine
months' term they are thronged
with "collegiate cakes" between
class periods, who frequent the
portals of that building and chance
to gossip with cronies, or perhaps
encounter some young maiden of
their acquaintance and invite her
to guzzle a "coke."
As it appears now, those steps
are frequented only by aa occa
sional lounger, or a huddled group
of scholars who seek the shade
of its pillars as a relief from the
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W1MBERLY FAMILY
SHATTERS OLD IDEA
All
Sons But One Follow
In Dad's Clerical
Footsteps.
The old adage to the effect that
the sons of ministers are always
black sheep, certainly does not ap
ply in the case of Rev. C. P. v.
Wimberly and his family of six
boys, one of whom is Dr. Lowry
Wimberly, professor of English
on thi3 campus.
All six of them entered the pul
pit at the beginuing of their career
and five of fh-m are still there,
while Dr. L. C. Wimberly has since
joined the renks of the professors.
Pev. C. P. W. Wimberly, the
father of this unusual group of
boys who refused to live up to the
tradition that preachers' son3 must
provide food for scandalmongers,
has recently retired from the Pres
byterian pulpit in Michigan after
a life of ministry which began with
position as circuit rider in Onio,
and has since carried him to Lou
isiana, .NebrasKa, Missouri, lowa
South Dakota and Michigan.
All Are Writers.
Another striking fact about this
family is that all of the boys, with
the exception of one, are promi
nent writers.
Rev. Ware Wimberly. who grad- ;
UaLcU HUM .iciji aja iu
now a Presbyterian minister at
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Greenfield, la. He has an article.
A Parson Looks at Prohibition,
in the current Scribners magazine.
Rev. Merritt Wimberly, a Con
gregational minister, in Michigan,
has an article, "A Gallery of Theo
logues," in the current American
Mercury.
Rev. Alexander Wimberly, the
oldest and most conservative of the
clan, is a Presbyterian minister in
Guthrie, la., where he spends his
spare time writing articles for re
ligious magazines and papers, not
ably, the Presbyterian Advance.
Professor Gave up. ,
Rev. Arthur Wimberly, another
of the brothers who once at
tended Nebraska, is pastor of the
Chrisian church in Lexington, Mo.
Rev. Hal V. Wimberly, a Pres
byterian pastor in South Lyons,
Mich., attended the University of
Nebraska for a year or two. He
does a little writing on the side,
in keeping with the custom fol
lowed by the majority of his
brothers,
Dr. I C. Wimberly, a faculty
member of the English depart
ment here, editor of the Prairie
Schooner who recently wrote a
(Continued on Page 3.)
LAST MIXER WILL
BE HELD T
IGHT
AT ONI ARMORY
Sentiment on Organized
Social Program to
Be Sounded.
Raise in Fees May. Be
Suggested, Professor
Says.
Further Ideas on the recrea
tional program started this year
by the University of Nebraska
summer session faculty will be
sounded out from among the stu
dent, body itself tonight when the
last all-student mixer of the sea
son will be held at the Armory.
Prof. E. W. Lantz, chairman of
the faculty committee on student
entertainment for the 1930 sum
mer term, stated, in making the
announcement, that an attempt
will be made to find out for cer
tain what should be done and how
it should be done next summer.
That a suggestion might be
made for adding on a few cents to
the registration fee to cover all
recreational and social activities
was also indicated by the profes
sor. However, this will be en
tirely left to the students to de
cide, he intimated.
Mr. Lantz is still desirous that
students turn irr written answers
to the questions which he has pro
pounded n regard to the proposed
recreational schedule. Here are
the questions, which were also
published in the last issue of The
Nebraskan:
"What should we do for your
social and recreational enjoy
ment during the summer ses
sion? "What activities should we
sponsor?
"How often should each of
these activities be encouraged?
"What time of day and week
should each of the activities be
staged?"
All plans are now complete and
everything is in readiness for the
final number on the summer ses
sion society program, which is to
take place tonight in the Armory,
beginning at 8:30 o'clock. Games
and stunts will start the evening
followed by dancing.
An orchestra has been hired for
the occasion and ref ?shrr2nts will
be served. A few surprises may
greet the attendants, too. accord
ing to the faculty committee.
"It is hoped that this will be the
largest affair of the summer,"
Lantz declared. "We have had
wonderful success with the parties
so far and would like to see the
last one top them all with attend
ance and with entertainment."
The usual 10-cent admission
price will be charged, he said.
FIELD PAKTY GETS
AGED WOOD SLABS
Prof. E. F. Schramm, who has
returned from the six weeks field
trip to famous mines of the mid
western states on which he bad
tUt.n
about twenty students.
broueht beautiful specimens of
petrified wood from Adamana,
Ariz.
They have been added to those
in the basement display case in
which Is found the enormous slab
of fir tree, 525 years old.
MUSEUM CURATOR
GOES TO CHICAGO
Miss Marjory Shanafelt, state
museum curator, left Tuesday for
Chicago by auto, accompanied by
Mrs. D. Hazelrigg, private secre
tary for Prof. E. F. Schramm,
Miss Clara Slade, Lincoln school
psychologist, and Mrs. Myron
Noble, where they will prospect
for stuffed animal, and other
specimen purchases at the Field
Museum.
EXPLORERS BEGIN
RIVER TRACINGS
E. E. Btackman, curator for the
Nebraska historical society, and
Howard Miller, Elmcreek, will
leave today for Fullerton. The
two men expect to go on an ex
ploring trip to determine the gen
eral route taken by the Indiana
from the Loup river to the Elk
horn river.
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