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Social Science, Andrew! Hall
and Teacher College.
Official Summer Session Newspaper
UME V,NOT.
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1934.
LINCOLN, NEB.
Conference Qoes Into Second Day
BASEBALL FOR GIRLS
GETTING UNDER WAY
WITH 40 REPORTING
Directors Plan to Make Up
Four Teams; Schedule
Several Tilts.
Girls' baseball practice is getting
rapidly under way, and is making
splendid progress, according to
Miss Estle Anderson, wbo is in
charge of the girls' athletics for the
summer session.
"We surely have some wonder
ful players," said Miss Anderson,
"in fact, some of them are regular
sharks. It certainly is a pleasure
to watch them play."
Baseball practice for women is
being held at 6:30 p. m., every
Monday, Tuesday and Thursday
evening, on the baseball ground
Just east of the Social Science
building.
Definite arrangements have Just
been made so that the girls' field
can be used during the entire sum
mer session. The committee also
wishes to announce that there are
available about one-half dozen new
In-seam balls.
"Of special interest to all would
be women baseball players, is the
fact that Art Jones, a real ball
player, Itis Just returned from his
fishing trip, and will be ready to
help the girls learn the rules of the
game," said Miss Anderson last
Tuesday, when asked about the
progress of the women's games.
Mr. Lantz also stated, "Art
knows baseball rules perfectly.
Therefore, this should be an un
usual opportunity for women
teachers who have to coach high
school girls' athletics.
Forty women are turning out
regularly for practice, but there is
still room for many more. The
directors stated that they are plan
ning to have four teams. Two of
these teams will Just play for gen
eral amusement, instead of com
peting with other teams. Those
wbo are Just learning the game, or
who have not yet tried it, should
make a special effort to get on one
of these practice teams, was the
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STATE EDUCATIONAL CONFER
ENCE, JUNE 28, 29
Thursday, June 28, Morrill HaH Auditorium
SUPT. J. C. MITCHELL, Presiding
9-10 Address, Dr. Wesley
What Changes Must Be Made in the Social Science Curric
ulum on the Elementary School Level."
10- 11 Address, Dr. Helen Macintosh
"Fundamental Methods in Teaching the Social Sciences in
the Elementary School."
11- 12 Address, Dr. Burton
"Supervising the Social Sciences in the Elementary School."
Afternoon. Morrill Hall Auditorium.
2- 3 Address, Dr. Pittman
"The Future of the Small High School and Some Implica
tions of Administration and Supervision Growing out of Eco-'
nomic and Social Changes."
3- 4 Address, Miss Alio Sowers '
"What the Schools Can Do to Make Parent Education More
Helpful to the Schools."
6.30 Conference Dinner, Student Activities Building, Ag college
campus. Chancellor E. A Burnett presiding.
Music.
Panel discussion under direction of C A. Bowers, "Signifi
cant Changes la the Social Science Curricula for the New
Day."
Friday. Jun 23, MerriU HU Avtorwm.
Miss Chloe Baldridge, Presiding
9-10 Address, Miss Alice Sowers
"The Contribution Which Parent Education Makes to School
Education."
10- 11 Address, Dr. P. G. Johnson
"The Natural Sciences and Social Life in Rural Communi
ties." 11- 12 Address, Dr. Pittman
"A Supervisory Program for Rural Schools in Nebraska."
12:15 Luncheon at the T. W, C A.
Miss Eva B. Shuman, presiding.
Afternoon Morrill Hall Auditorium.
Mrs. Alberta BaZ&nce, presiding
2- 3 Address, Miss Alice Cusack
"Influences of the Social Science on the Reading Program of
the Elementary School.'
3- 4 Address, Dr. Pittman
"The Supervisory Program Applied to the Field of Reading."
Graduate Students9
Wives Are Invited to
Dames Club Picnic
Wive tit oTAriufifA students are
being invited to a picnic sponsored
bv the Nebraska Dames club Mon
day evening at 6 o'clock in Van
Dorn park.
According to Mrs. scnmiat,
nresident of the stoud. all who at
tend are asked to bring either
sandwicnes or a covered aisu ana
ten cents.
TTia names eluh. instituted on
the campus last semester, Is an
organization of the wives of grad
uate students at the university.
3 BROADCASTS TO
END COURSE FOR
MUSIC STUDENTS
Three ensemble broadcasts have
been scheduled for students in the
all state high school orchestral
and chorus course, according to an
announcement from the university
school of music These are in ad
dition to the regular solo broad
casts scheduled every Tuesday
night over KFAB thru the uni
versity studio.
The orchestra, which has been
training under William Norton,
will broadcast Friday, June 29, at
6 p. hl, while the chorus under the
direction of George R. Howerton
is scheduled to go on the air at 6
o'clock on Monday night, July 2.
The band will broadcast Thursday,
July 5, at 2:30 p. m.
"While the chorus is not yet
quite in shape, by Monday night it
should have achieved a finish and
balance that will be remarkable,"
declared Mr. Howerton in speaking
of the chorus' broadcast. "In addi
tion to serving as a goal toward
which to work, thus stimulating
activity on the part of the stu
dents, these broadcasts wil lreaxh
their home towns and stimulate an
interest in the work there," he
stated.
The boys and girls here for the
second annual course were paid
high tribute when Mr. Howerton
asserted that "their promptness
and regularity of attendance, and
their continued effort, despite high
temperatures, is worthy of note."
Derby Day at the University of
California includes every thing
from dances to baseball games.
PANEL DISCUSSION
TO FEATURE DINNER
SCHEDULED TONiGHT
Chancellor E. A. Burnett to
Preside; C. A. Bowers
Is Leader.
The All State Educational Con
ference dinner will be held this
evening, at 6:30 p. m., in the Stu
dent Activities Building, uu the
ag college campus. All men and
women students of the university
summer session are invited to at
tend. This is one of tlie outstanding
events on the program of the edu
cational conference that is being
held in Lincoln this week, accord
ing to Summer Session director.
The program is said to be one
of an unusual nature. The main
feature of the evening's entertain
ment, which will be presided over
by Chancellor E. A. Burnett, will
be a panel discussion led by Mr.
Charles A. Bowers, Secretary of
the Nebraska State Teachers As
sociation. Visiting instructors and
several leading educators are ex
pected to take part in the discus
sion. Special music will also be
a part of the entertainment.
According to the director of the
summer session, this will be an ex
ceedingly good opportunity for the
university students to get in touch
with the latest trends in the field
of education.
Tickets for the dinner may be
purchased on the first floor of
Teachers College tortay.
The following people will assist
with the ticket sale:
8:00 to 9:00 a. m. Howard Me
Eachen, Herman Weigel, E. C
Stimbert.
9:00 to 10:00 a. m. Lowell S.
DeVoe, Van Miller.
10:00 to 11:00 a. m. Art Jones.
11:00 to 12:00 a. m. Ruth Lutz,
F. O. Mslntyre, M. S. Busch.
1:00 to 2:00 p. m. C N. Ander
son, Francis L Rezek, Gold i a
Bauer.
2:00 to 3:00 p. m. Paul Chiles,
John Hansen.
3:00 to 4:00 p. m. W. E.
Thompson.
4:00 to 5.-00 p. m. Helen Hous
ton. E. G. Lightbody.
THIRD SUMMER
SESSION PARTY
BOOKED FRIDAY
Another summer sesison mixer
will be held in the university coli
seum Friday night, starting at
8:30 p. rru, the recreation commit
tee announced Wednesday.
Dave Haun and his ten piece or
chestra, who played for the two
previous mixers, has been secured
for Friday's affair. Entertainment
for intermission has also been
secured, Wendell Dodd, member of
the recreation committee in charge
of mixers, stated Wednesday.
Friday's mixer will be the third
held since the opening cf the sum
mer session. The admission price
will remain at ten cent pen person,
it was announced.
The recreation committee ex
pressed much satisfaction with
last Friday's record breaking
crowd of some 700 summer session
tudents, and felt that thl year's
mixer program is one of the most
successful ince their inception ev
eral years ago.
As was the case last Friday, the
hostess system win be used again
this week. Briefly, the system Is
the selection of committee mem
bers to act as hostesses at the
mixers. They are designated by red
ribbons and attempt to make it
easier for students to meet one an
other at the dance.
In addition to the Friday night
dances, the recreation is planning
a series of picnics for summer
school students. The dates and
other details of these affairs are
to be announced in a later Issue
nt ttie Ndraikan.
Lutheran Students
To Picnic Friday
At Van Dorn Park-
All Lutheran students are being
invited to a picnic scheduled Fri
day evening at Van Dorn Park.
Facilities for games and a lunch
will be provided by a student com
mittee. Rev. and Mrs. Henry Erck and
Rev. and Mrs. R. E. Rangeler will
be chaperons. The group will as
semble at the Temple at 5:300 and
those with cars are asked to bring
them to assist with the transporta
tion. Students of all synods are
invited.
EXTENSION NEWS
SENDS GREETINGS
TO ALL STUDENTS
Greetings from the university
extension bureau to summer ses
sion students, notices of additional
courses offered by that depart
ment, and a complete list of new
publications of special interest to
teachers characterized the new is
sue of the university extension
news bulletin released late last
week.
The publication announced that
it was possible for university sum
mer session students to earn extra
credit hours towards certification
by taking work through supervised
correspondence courses. A wide
field of study, included In nearly
two hundred courses, in high
school work were being offered.
Among them, the News stated,
may be found several courses that
may be of value to high school ex
exutives and administrators in
adapting a curriculum to the needs
of the individual pupils.
Included in the list of publica
tions of interest to those in the
teaching profession include: Vol
ume six of the Educational Re
search Record containing a num
ber of master's thesis, on educa
tional subjects, articles by mem
bers of the Teachers college fac
ulty and others. Others " included
"A Handbook for School Custodi
ans." It was prepared by Prof.
Knute O. Broady, Supt- C. J. Ire
land of Elkhorn, and Supt. E. Lyle
Miller of Doniphan.
Paddling of freshmen has been
entirely abolished by the student
body at Missouri
Students Must Be Made Conscious of
World in Which They Live-Wesley
Making students conscious of
the world in which they live bv
adopting realistic methods of
teaching, was the plea voiced by
Dr. Edgar Wesley, University of
j&innesota protessor, before sou
Nebraska school teachers at the
afternoon session of the State Ed
ucational conference being held at
Morrill hall on the university cam
pus the rest of this week.
"Vested interests of many kinds
maintain lobbies, promote slogans,
and build up public demand for
their objectives," Dr. Wesley
stated." These forces, good and
bad, operate our government. To
Ignore them is naive; to neglect
them is foolish."
In history, dries, economics,
and sociology the influences of the
new deal bare been so great that
school teachers must revise their
teaching methods in keeping with
the times. It is only in this manner
that the public schools will be atte
to perform its obligation of train
ing young men and women for fu
ture leadership in our society, ac
cording to Dr. Wesley.
"Government is a process of
change," said Dr. Wesley, "add the
past few years has brought tre
mendous changes in our system of
government. Teachers must face
the facts clearly, and present them
realistically if students are to be
come fully aware of the world
about them."
Earlier Dr. Wesley bad outlined
the general principles and ultimate
objective to be gained from revis
ing, and bringing up to date the
curriculum of our public school
systems.
Dr. Weslev'a address was fol
PROGRAM IS BUILT
AROUND
PROBLEMS
OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
Dinner Scheduled Thursday
Night on Ag College
Campus.
With approximately three Ne
braska school administrators and
teachers on hand, the educational
conference sponsored by the uni
versity goes into its second day
this morning.
Essentially the conclave has
been planned for those interested
in the methods of teaching in both
elementary and high school grades.
Current problems of education in
cluding those of school finance,
improvement of instruction, cur
riculum adjustment, social and
economic problems of the new
deal, and tie rural school and its
problems are under consideration.
The entire program has been
built around the social sciences
and present trends in society. Also
to be touched upon are special
methods of class room teaching
and supervision and selection of
subject matter.
The Thursday morning session,
over which Superintendent J. C
Mitchell of McCook will preside,
will be addressed by Dr. Marvin
S. Pittman at 9 o'clock on "What
Changes Must Be Made in the So
cial Science Curriculum on the
Elementary School Level. At 10
o'clock Miss Helen Macintosh will
speak on "Fundamental Methods
in Teaching the Social Sciences in
the Elementary School."
This morning's session will be
concluded by Doctor Burton's ad
dress on "Supervising the Social
Sciences in the Elementary
School."
The afternoon session, with Su
perintendent M. C. Lefler of Lin
coln presiding, will be opened at
2 o'clock by Doctor Pittman's ad
dress on "The Future of the Small
High School and Some Implica
tions of Administration and Super
vision Growing Out of Economic
and Social Changes." Miss Alice
Sowers will close the session with
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lowed by a round table discussion
led by Dr. J. E. Sellers, professor
of history at the university.
The part of social sciences in the
new deal was the substance cf an
address given by Dr. Wesley dur
ing the opening morning session.
Pointing out that the new deal
has profoundly affected the place
of social sciences in school cur
riculums. Dr. Wesley went on to
say that public schools will have
an important part to play in the
eventual realization of the present
trend in government.
Tn many ways the most signifi
cant trend in recent years is the
growing recognition that we have
reached the end of the era of ram
pant individualism," stated Dr.
Wesley. "Individualism is closing
out, and in its place a new era of
eonectivism is emerging."
"The social trends which I have
treated in this summary fashion."
explained Dr. Wesley. Indicate
the necessity of converted and col
lective action. The number of
trends might be expanded indefi
nitely, but practically all of them
would point ia the same general
direction."
"It is not a question of individu
alism versus collectivism but a
problem of what kind of collectiv
ism we shall have," he stated. "To
continue to teach a selfish individu
alism is not only to counsel disas
ter for ourselves, but to disrupt the
lives of those who must in the fu
ture live in a highly integrated
world." Dr. Wesley concluded b
stating that teachers must discard
the scientific mantle which has
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