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AILY NEBRA
Official Student Newspaper of the University of Nebraska
VOL. XXXI NO. 54.
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1931
PRICE FIVE CENTS
HUSKERS WIN IN LA
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JEAN RATHBURN
ELECTED COLONEL
Mortar Board President Presented As Lady of Honor;
Nearly 3,000 Persons Witness Ceremonies ;
Is Twenty-Third Annual Ball.
GENERAL PERSHING ATTENDS OPENING FORMAL
Wartime Commander of American Troops Is Patron of
Evening; Many Notables at Fete; Coliseum
Decorated in Military Motif.
By DICK MORAN.
With military ceremony mid in a setting afforded by the
opening function of the formal season, Miss Jean Rathburn,
Lincoln, was revealed ns honorary colonel of the It. 0. T. C.
unit at the twenty-third annual Military Mall Friday night in
the coliseum. General John J. Pershing and a host of other
nolables attended the affair.
Miss Rathburn, who is presldento-
of Mortar tsoara society ana a
member of Delta Gamma sorority,
was formally presented to an au
dience of more than 2,900 eager
spectators at 10:30, when Cadet
Colonel E. Albert Lucke and offi
cers of the regiment marched the
length of the floor to receive her.
As the notes of a bugle died
away, Miss Rathburn emerged
from a tent In the center of the
stage, which was decorated to rep
resent a military camp, was offi
cially saluted by the Pershing Ri
fles guard of honor, and was pre
sented to Cadet Colonel Lucke.
The colonel and honorary colonel
then passed under the arch of sab
ers formed by the officers and be
gan the grand inarch.
Identity Kept Secret.
Miss Rathburn was elected to
her position by students voting
at large, but identity of the
honorary officer was kept secret
until Friday night. Four girls were
candidates for the office. They are
Gretchen Fee, Sioux City, la., Del
ta Delta Delta; Mary Jane Swett,
Omaha, Kappa Kappa Gamma;
Thelma Hagenberger, Sterling,
Colo., Pi Beta Uhi; and Miss Rath
burn. A crowd of approximately seven
hundred couples and more than fif
teen hundred spectators were pres
ent at the ball, according to the
military department. In addition,
four hundred more checks for
wraps were issued this year than
year. No accurate figures could be
obtained yesterday morning.
Opie Cates and his twelve piece
orchestra, under the management
of the Music Corporation of Amer
ica, played for the occasion. This
group has been featured at a num
ber of prominent social affairs and
university parties and comes to
Lincoln from a recent engagement
in Show Boat at Pittsburgh.
Present Sponsors.
A short time before the presen
tation of the honorary colonel, the
company and battalion sponsors
were presented. The sponsors of
the regiment are: regimental,
Elizabeth Reimers, first battalion
Mary Alice Kelly; second battalion
Mary Elizabeth Long; third bat
talion, Margaret Mackecknie, and
provisional battalion, Kathryn
Aten.
Company sponsors are: A com
pany, Jane Youngson; B company,
Margaret Elliott; C company,
Marjorie Pope; D company, Grace
Nicklas; E company, Ruth Rid
nour; F. company, Bernardine
Sterns, G company, Marjorie Hel-
vey
say
H company, Dorothy Ram
I company, Alice Krapp; K
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FINE ARTS SCHOOL
P
Fourth of Sunday Series to
Feature 'Art for
Children.'
The school of fine arts will pre
sent the fourth of the series of
Sunday afternoon programs at
3.00 o'clock today in Morrill hall
room 202, which will feature Miss
Ella C. Wlttie,, assistant professor
of public school arts, speaking on
"Arts for Children."
Before Miss Wittie was appoint
ed to the school of fine arts fac
ulty, she was an instructor of art
in the Lincoln public schools, con
ducting classes in the grammar
and junior and senior high schools.
In addition to her regular work at
the university, Miss Wittie has
also organized and conducted spe
cial Saturday morning classes in
art for children. Siie will relate
some of her experiences and ob
servations on the Sunday program
and exhibit examples of her work
which has been accomplished.
Teaching Candidates
Must Meet Wednesday
All new candidates for high
school teaching positions next
year are asked to meet with R.
D. Morftlz, director of the de
partment of educational service
Wednesday In room 200, Teach
ers college, 5 o'clock. New can
didates for grade positions are
ft meet at the same time and
place Thursday.
R. D. MORITZ.
PRESENTS
ROGRAM
LIBRARIANS TELL
OF VANDALISM IN
REFERENCE ROOM
Sections Cut From Volumes
Of Two Editions of
Britannica.
TO INVESTIGATE MATTER
Mr. Doane Declares Attempt
Will Be Made to Find
Miscreant.
Theft of sections from volumes
of two editions of the Britannica
encyclopedia from the reference
room in ine main UDrary was re
ported by Librarian Gilbert Doane
Friday morning.
The articles on lawn tennis have
been cut from both the eleventh
and fourteenth editions of the en
cvcloDedia. he said. The loss was
discovered Friday morning when
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Senior Honorary Plans
Sunday Afternoon
Affair.
for
The active chapter of Mortar
Board, senior women's honorary
organization at the university or
MehmsWa. has issued invitations
for a tea to be held at Ellen Smith
hall between 3 and 5 o'clock Sun
day. Guests will include all sopho
more and -junior women on the
campus who have a scholastic av
erage above oo percent wua no
delinquencies on their records.
Pnima. notted noinsettlas. ever
green garlands and holly wreaths
will add a resuve air 10 me living
room and court of Ellen Smith
hall.
The guests will be received by
Mrs. F. D. Coleman, national pres
ident of Mortar Board; Miss
Amanda H. Heppner, dean of
women at the university, and Jean
Rathburn, president of the active
chapter.
Music throughout the afternoon
will be furnished by Sigma Alpha
Iota, musical sorority at the Unl
vrsitv of Nebraska. Active mem
bers of Mortar Board will preside
in the living room, iney are urei
chen Fee, Julia Simanek, Evelyn
Krotz, Bereniece Hoffman, Gwen
dolyn Hager, Evelyn Simpson,
Aleen Neely, julienne ueeiKen,
Evelyn West, Dorothy Weaver, and
Mildred Glsh.
The holiday note will be carried
out in the dining room where holly,
poinsettias, and tall red tapers will
adorn the tea table. Miss Elsie
Ford Piper, sponsor of Mortar
Board, and Miss Mable Lee, hon
orary member of the organization,
will pour during the first hour.
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FIRST STARFISH
FOUND IN STATE
SENTJTO MUSEUM
The first starfish recorded as
discovered in Nebraska have been
recently consigned to the museum.
They were found in lime rock near
Bennet, by Keither L. Rathburn
and Marion Graetz, students of the
university, while on ft geologic
field trip supervised by Dr. E. D.
MrlTuon nrnfpflBnp nf ffpnlncv. "
Authorities state that sea urch
ins and orinoids are commonly
found in Nebraska but as far as
can be learned, astroids have not
been previously discovered. This is
regarded as an Important faunal
record for the state.
MORTAR
HONOR
SOfflMN
GROUPS
UNIVERSITY GETS
A $5,000 GRANT
THRU FOUNDATION
Carnegie Fund Will Be Used
to Develop High School
Study Work.
WILL AID IN RESEARCH
Work to be Carried on Thru
University Extension
Division.
A Carnegie grant of $5,000 to
be used in experimental and de
velopment work in high school cor
respondence study has just been
received by the University of Ne
braska, according to an announce
ment made Saturday by Chancel
lor E. A. Burnett.
The grant, for a two year period,
was made jointly by the Carnegie
foundation for the advancement of
teaching and the Carnegie corpor
ation fcf New York. Three thous
and dollars has been received for
use during the year 1931-32 and
$2,000 will be forwarded for work
next year.
The granting of this money will
make it possible to continue re
search into supervised correspon
dence study, the money being
granted "for support of experi
mental and development work at
the University of Nebraska in the
U3e of correspondence study to
supplement the restricted curricu
lum of small rural high schools."'
It will also make it possible for the
smaller high schools of the state
to offer courses that they had
previously been unable to offer due
to excessive costs or lack of quali
fied teachers, according to Chan
cellor Burnett.
Work Started In 1929.
First local work in this field was
started early in 1929 when Dr. K.
O. Broady, professor of school ad
ministration, and Prof. A. A. Reed,
director of the university extension
division, discovered the possibility
of a relationship ' between the ex
tension division and the high
schools of the state.
Negotiations with Carnegie cor
poration were started about a year
and a half ago by Dr. W. E. Sea
lock, then dean of the Eeachers
college. Study of the field was con
tinued under the direction of Dr.
Broady and last year eight schools
conducted such correspondence
c o u r ses. Thirty-four Nebraska
high schools have made arrange
ments for such work to be offered
this year.
Method Described.
The correspondents work on ma
terial prepared by the university is
conducted during school hours un
der the supervision of a teacher
who collects the papers. He for
wards them to the university ex
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WILL DECORATE HALL
Hanging of Green to Take
Place Following
Dinner.
VESPER CHOIR WILL SING
Invitations to the members of
all the major women's boards have
been issued for the annual Hang-ing-of-the-Greens
dinner Wednes
day evening in Ellen Smith hall.
Marjorie Petersen is in charge of
arrangements for the affair.
The guests include members of
the A. W. S- board, W. A. A., Big
Sister board, Y. W. C. A. cabinet,
Mortar Board. League of Women
Voters, and the women members of
the Student Council.
During dinner the Vesper choir
under the direction of Dorothy
Jensen will sing Christmas carols.
After dinner those present will Join
in decorating Ellen Smith hall with
evergreen garands and holly
wreaths.
Aleen Neely is in charge of in
vitations and program. Margaret
Buol is responsible for the dinner
arrangements, while the musical
entertainment is being taken care
of by Dorothy Jensen.
HIGH SOPHOMORE HONORED
Second Year Engineer With
High Average Given
Slide Rule.
Victor Chab, sophomore in the
civil engineering college, was pre
sented with the slide rule given
annually to the student in that col
lege who made the highest schol
astic average in his freshman
year.
Chab, who comes from Wilbur,
was given the rule at the special
meeting of the American Society
of Civil Engineers Wednesday eve
ning. It has been presented at
the engineers banquet in the
spring on previous years, but was
awarded in the fall this year and
will be hereafter, according to of
ficers of the society.
Honorary Colonel
I -rile ,
Courtesy of The Journal.
JEAN RATHBURN. (
Who was presented as' honorary
colonel of the R. O. T. C. at the
Military ball Friday evening at
the coliseum. Miss Rathburn is
president of Mortar Board, and
heads the local chapter of Delta
Gamma.
FRESHMAN DEBATE
FORL
Cup Will Be Awarded First
Year Student Who Wins
Forensic Contest
The annual freshman debate
competition for the E. H. Long
tronhv will be held Wednesday
evening, at 8 p. m., in room 126,
Andrews hail, rne cup is given
annually to the freshman who, in
th nninion of the iudes. presents
the best constructive and rebuttal
argument.
"Resolved, that radical changes
ohnnlH h( mart( in the curriculum
and administration of the courses
in American colleges and univer
sities," the the subject upon which
each freshman who competes will
prepare himself. Both sides of the
question must be prepared by each
contestant. Tuesday's Daily Ne
braskan will announce which side
each contestant will take.
Each speaker is to have eight
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John K. Selleck
Meets War Buddy
At Charity Game
DENVER, Dec. 5. After four
teen years two wartime 'buddies'
John K. Selleck, business manager
of athletics at the University of
Nebraska, and C. H. (Sparks) Al
ford, graduate manager of athle
tics at Colorado Aggies were to
gether again for the first time
since the World war.
The two met unexpectedly while
attending to last-minute arrange
ments for the charity game in
Denver, Saturday. Neither knew
that the other had taken up ath
letic work since their separation
over a decade ago and the reunion
was a distinct surprise to both.
While together the two recount
ed their days at Camp Funston in
1917 when they bunked next to
each other at tre third officers
training camp. At that time they
were both just out of college.
At Saturday's gume they
sat with their teams on opposite
sides of the field.
CAMPUS CALENDAR
Monday, Dec. 7.
Big Sister board meeting in El'
ten Smith hall at 12 o'clock.
Tuesday, Dec. 8.
Pi Lambda Theta, 7:30, home of
Minnie Schlichting, K01 So. 11th.
ALL-TIME RECORD
SET IN FOOTBALL
ATTENDANCE HERE
Season's Total of 146,450
Fans Breaks Record
Set in 1928.
RECEIPTS TAKE DROP
Lower Priced Tickets Cause
Financial Returns
To Sag.
Football still reigns as king at
Nebraska.
A new all time record was set
during the 1931 season when 146,
450 fans watched the Cornhuskers
in action. This figure broke the
previous record set in 1928 when
the Huskers played before 120,000
and is an Increase of almost 30,000
over the 1930 attendance.
The Cornhuskers bad good at
tendance at every game both at
home and away with the exception
of the tilt at Missouri when only
5,859 turned out to watch one of
the most thrilling contests of the
season.
The fieure set will increase ma
terially when the crowd which at
tended the charity game between
the Huskers and Colorado Aggies
at Denver is added to the total and
should push the mark past 160,000.
Altho Nebraska's crowds were
larger this year than ever before,
the financial returns for the season
will not be as great as they were
for 1930, it is estimated oy jonn
K. Selleck, business manager of
athletics. Lower returns are aue
to the low priced general admis
sion ticket sale which was inaugu
rated this year. Crowds were also
increased by the introduction of a
senior knothole group with a low
admission price.
Home Schedule Falters.
The 1931 home schedule did not
attract as many as expected, due
probably to the fact that the Husk
ers played all intersections! games
away from home, Th9 North
western game at Evanston drew
40,000 or over a fourth as many as
all the rest of the games. The next
largest crowd was at Pittsburgh
when 23,000 attended. The figures
for these two big games are esti
mated. In spite of the decrease finan
cially the athletic office plans to
continue the low price general ad
mission ticket. This did not draw
as well this year as expected, only
1.500 to 3,000 attending each game.
The senior knothole group raised
the age limit and admitted high
school students for the sum of 25
cents. The annountement of this
plan was received with enthusiasm
by students of high school age and
the turnout was greater than that
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Tha North -
FOR COSTUME FETE
Stunts, Dancing and Games
Feature Cornhusker
Annual Party.
A.W.S. BOARD IN CHARGE
Plans are being completed for
the annual girls' Cornhusker cos
tume party Friday from 7 to 9
o'clock in the armory. About 800
are expected to attend.
A grand march will be followed
by skits, games, and dancing, for
which an orchestra led by Helen
Hampton will play. The Tassels
will present a 'pet skit"; the Delta
Gamma trio will sing; Julienne
Dcetken, Omaha, and Charlotte
Goodale, Sidney, Gamma Phi Beta
will dance, and the Kappa Kappa
Gammas will give a dance which
they presented at the Kosmet Klub
show. Dorothy Weaver, Falls City,
Pi Beta Phi, will be mistress of
ceremonies. Refreshments will be
served and favors will be given to
the guests.
Miss Mabel Lee, Miss Clara
Rausch, Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson,
and Miss Lulu Runge, will deter
mine which costumes merit the
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PREPARES OIL REPORTS
P. A. Hayes, of U. S. Soils
Bureau, Is Resident
On Campus.
F. A. Hayes, of the U. S. bureau
of chemistry and soils, will be sta
tioned at the university during the
winter preparing reports on the
soil surveys which have been com
pleted in Dundy and Sherman
counties.
Soil surveys were completed,
during the year, in Dundy and
Sherman counties; most of Valley
county was finished and a consid
erable part of Holt county was
completed. This work is carried
on through co-operation between
the soil department of the conser
vation and survey division and the
U. S. bureau of chemistry and
soil, at Washington.
DEFEAT AGGIES
BY 20-7 TALLY
Nebraska Scores Three Times in Final Quarter After
Colorado Leads Three Periods; 18,000 Fans
See Comeback in Denver Stadium.
BKOWN GOES OVER ON
Paul and Sauer Also Score; Cornhuskers Are Balked
By Aggie Offensive Majority of Game 'Red'
White Shines for Opposition Team.
By HOWARD ALLAWAY.
DENVER. (Special to the Daily Ncbraskan). After failing
to find themselves for three periods, Nebraska's Cornhuskers
rallied late in the afternoon to score throe successive touch
downs in the fourth quarter and defeat 1 he Colorado Aggies
20 to 7 in a fast hard fought game played for charity before
15,000 people in the Denver stadium here .Saturday.
o Lewie Brown, diminutive quar
COMMITTEE PICKS
F
Campus Aspirants Are Not
Selected by Rhodes
Examiners.
GO TO DISTRICT MEET
Stewart of Nebr. Wesleyan,
Heusner of Swarthmore
Represent State.
Kermit G. Stewart of Eagle, a
senior at Nebraska Wesleyan uni
versity and Price Heusner, of
jJorftr - a - sefiior - at Swarthmore col
lege, Swarthmore, Fenn., were
chosen Saturday by the Nebraska
committee of selection from thir
teen aplicants as candidates from
the state of Nebraska for Rhodes
scholarships.
Stewart and Heusner will go to
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COLL-AGRI-FUN FETE
FEB. 12
George Burton, Chairman
Of Event, Calls for
Program of Skits.
Plans for Coll-agri-fun, annual
mid-winter fun frolic by students
of the agricultural college, are
now under way, according to
Glenn Burton, chairman of the
committee in charge. The commit
tee to have charge of the event
has been selected, and the date
has been set as Feb. 12. A call
has been issued for original skits
and curtain acts.'
The committee is composed of
Glenn Burton, chairman; Vera M.
Bang, secretary; Albert Ebers, Ja
son Webster, Evelyn Krotz and
Clarice Hads.
Coll-ajrri-fun Is a dramatic pre
sentation of skits. All participants
must be registered in the college
of agriculture. The purpose of
this annual agricultural affair is
to "create Interest in the more
aesthetic aspects of life and to
provide a means of relief to the
'work-a-day' grind of scholastic
endeavor," according to Burton.
Twelve to fifteen sets have been
called for by the committee in ad
dition to several short curtain
skits.
All individuals and groups who
wish to enter the competitive pre
sentations with $50 at stake as the
reward for the winning act are
asked to make a brief outline of
their acts, their approximate
length, and all materials needed
Such information must be dropped
in the Coll-agri-fun box in the
Cornhusker Countryman office in
Ag hall before Dec. 16.
PROF. AYLSWORTH
ADDRESSES GIRLS
COMMERCIAL CLUB
Prof. L. E. Aylsworth, profes
sor of political science, spoke be
fore a meeting of the girls com
mercial club at the chamber of
commerce Thursday noon.
On Friday, Professor Aylsworth
gave the first of a series of lec
tures to the civics department of
the Woman's club of Lincoln. The
series of twelve lectures will be
given by instructors in the depart
ment of political science. Ayls
worth's topic was "Who Are and
Should be Citizens and Voters."
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CANDIDATES
OR OXFORD TEST
82 YARD RUN AS CLIMAX
terback, was again the sensation
of the game when he grabbed Ras
mussen's punt on the Nebraska 18
yard line in the fourth quarter and
raced eighty-two yards behind al
most perfect interference for the
third Husker marker, Koster kick
ed the point. The game was al
ready out of fire when Brown
made his run.
All during the first half and for
most of the third quarter the
Huskers were decisively outplayed
by the Colorado champions. A red
headed boy by the name of White
provided the punch of the Aggie
offensive, advancing the ball re
peatedly thru the line and around
the ends, and throwing long flat
passes for longer gains.
Returns Kick.
The lone Aggie touchdown came
in the first quarter when White re-
tuned Kreizinger s quick kick to
the Aggie 41-yard line, line plays
failed, White passed to Morris for
twenty-six yards, McDonald
passed to Morris for twenty-three
more and White carried the ball
over from the 7-yard line In two
successive line drives with the aid
of a five yard offside penalty
against the Huskers.
.The . Biblemen were, unable Jo
score until the last quarter. Then
the Huskers hit the stride they
hadn't found since the Iowa State
game. Paul scored the first toucn-
down on the fourth play in the
quarter after a pass, Sauer to
Petz, had put the ball on the Ag
gie 3-yard line and both be and
Sauer had failed to make it thru
the line. Paul circled the end and
crossed the goal standing up, on
the next play Koster's palcekick
was short.
Sauer crossed for the second
marker only a few moments later.
Kasmussen fumhied tor the Ag
gies on their 26-yard line ana
Nesmith recovered for Nebraska.
Paul made five yards thru left
tackle. Staab, small but speedy
substitute halfback, was sent in
and went nine yards around the
other end. Sauer went to the
2-yard line and Staab dodged thru
for a little over a yard. Sauer
went over thru the line for the re
maining two feet. Koster's place
ment was good.
Brown s eighty-two yard run a
few moments later ended the
Husker scoring for the afternoon,
but as the gun ended the game the
Nebraska substitutes, sent in after
the third touchdown with Sauer
carrying the ball down the field in
the strongest powerhouse offense
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GRADUATE TO SPEAK
James C. Wilson Will Tell
Of Travels at Morrill .
Hall Today.
James C. Wilson, who was grad
uated from the University of Ne
braska in 1922, will speak on the
Nebraska state museum program
Sunday afternoon at 4:15, on the
travel topic, "Across Africa."
The program will be presented in
the downstairs auditorium of Mor
rill hall.
The lecture, which Mr. Wilson
will base on personal experiences,
will be illustrated with an unusual
set of slides and an exhibit of na
tive African works of art, accord
ing to Miss Marjorie Shanafelt,
who is directing the program.
"Mr. Wilson has travelled forty
five hundred miles of jungle foot
paths and desert caravan trails,
and speaks with real appreciation
of native Africa," stated Miss
Shanafelt
On the juvenile program at 2:30,
the children will be told "The
Story of Briar Sose," by Miss Mar
jorie Shanafelt, and will view an
educational film, "School Pals." .
Candidates for Degrees ,
Must Apply by Friday
Candidates for degrees In
January or June who have not
made application for them
should do so at the office of the
Registrar, Room 9, by Friday,
Dec. 11. The office will be open
daily from 8 a. m. to 3 p. m.
FLORENCE I. M'GAHEY,
Registrar...