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Presentation Adds Climax
To Annual Party Given
By Juniors.
1,300 PRESENT AT DANCE
Guest List' Includes Campus
Officials, Governor,
Housemothers.
Miss Arlcne Bors of Wilbcr,
senior in the agriculture col
lege was chosen 1935 prom girl
by a vote taken from 650 cou
ples attending the junior-senior
prom, closing event of the formal
season, which was held in the coli
seum Friday evening.
Miss Bors, stepping thru a
paper silhouette of herself, was
presented with a bouquet of yel
low roses and escorted to the cen
ter of the stage by Jack Pace of
Lincoln, Junior class president.
There she was met by Don Easter
day of Lincoln who led her down
to the dance floor and danced the
first dance with her to the strains
of "There is No Place Like Ne-
Voting closed at 10:15 o'clock.
At 10:30 the stage curtain was
drawn revealing large white sil
houettes against black back
grounds of all the candidates.
Ferns, palms and colored lights
added decorative effects. The pre
sentation was announced at 11:15
by blacking the entire coliseum, by
fan fares, and by gradually in
creasing the spot light behind the
artist's sketch of Miss Bors.
The new prom girl has been
prominent in campus activities.
She is a member of Mortar Board,
president of the Big Sister board,
member of Y. W. C. A. cabinet,
and a former Tassel, Miss Bors is
affiliated with Alpha Chi Omega.
Counting of ballots was done by
members of the committee under
the supervision of former Gov.
Charles Bryan, Mayor Fenton B.
Fleming, Prof. E. W. Lantz, Stu
dent Council faculty advisor. Jack
Fischer, president of Student
Council, and Violet Cross, Mortar
Board president.
. Dancing to the music of Arlie
Simmonds and his fifteen piece col
lege band was resumed immedi
ately after the presentation. The
rhythms of the Chicago musician
and his orchestra were well re
ceived by the dancers.
Chaperoning the prom were
Dean and Mrs. W. W. Burr, Prof,
and Mrs. Gayle C. Walker, and
Prof, and Mrs. E. V. Lantz.
Among the special guests were
Governor and Mrs. Roy Cochran,
Mr. and Mrs. O'Gara, speaker of
the house, Mr. and Mrs. Walter
Jergenson, Dean Amanda Heppner,
Miss Elsie Ford Piper, Mr. and
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Rough Grinding on State's
Largest Lense Ends
After Two Weeks.
Physical research now underway
in Brace Hall laboratory on the
university's observatory equip
ment, will boost Nebraska's as
tronomical rating into first rank,
according to Prof. Carl F. Rust in
structor of physics at the univer
sity. The first of these modernization
projects is the construction of a
photo-electric photometer, which
will use the recently developed
"electric eye" to measure the
brightness and magnitudes of
stars and will be completed near
the close of the school year. Ne
braska will be one of the few
state universities to possess this
equipment. The instrument is be
ing built by Prof. H. H. Marvin,
chairman of the department of
physics, Prof. T. A. Pierce, of the
mathematics department and Mr.
Rust.
Meanwhile, the rough grinding
on the largest mirror ever to be
used in the state has been com
pleted after two weeks labor. At
least another year of the com
bined efforts of the astronomy,
mathematics and physics depart
ments will be necessary, however,
to complete the fine grinding,
polishing and computations before
it can be fitted into the telescope
to replace the four-Inch glass now
used and the photometer attached.
The new magnifier, purchased
Feb. 23 haa a 12 1-2 inch diameter,
is two and one quarter inches
thick and weighs mere than 100
pounds. Its focal length is esti
mated at 100 inchea.
Engineering College
Crads Visit Campus
Recent alumni visitors at the
university college of engineering
have been: William J. Godtel, Cul
bertson. a graduate of agricultural
engineering in 1928: Irwin M.
Member of Kansas City, who was
graduated in mechanical engineer
ins in 1928. and was formerly on
the teaching staff: and Frederick
K. Lange of Washington, D. C-, a
graduate in 1928.
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1935 PROM GIR
ELECTION
RIDAY
SCHOOL'S ASTRONOMY
Russia Turning to Principles
Of State Capitalism Oakes
Soviet Jiussia is doiug a right face mid slowly turning from
its coninuujistie principles to those, of state capitalism, Clarence
Oakes, free lance foreign correspondent declared Friday in an
interview with a Daily Nebraskan reporter. Oakes, who was in
Lincoln addressing the Nebraska Press association convention,
has spent four of the last rive
years in Europe and has just re
turned from a 4000 mile trip thru
central and southern Russia where
he was able to observe in detail,
social, economic, and political de
velopments in the soviet regime.
Russia's right face is coming
about because the present soviet
plan has failed to give the Individ
ual any incentive for work or ad
vancement, Oakes declared.
Whereas the factory workers and
much of the city population are
well off comparatively, the farm
ers and peasant class suffer se
verely from starvation and other
privations. First indications of
slipping of the old communistic
plan are evident in the decisions
to pay factory workers according
to piece work, in granting percent
MISS POLK IS WINNER
OF NAMING CONTEST
Nebraska Woman Receives
Prize from National
Concern.
Winner of a $100 prize and a
new acousticon, or earphone, is
Miss Marguerite Polk, an employe
in the extension department of the
university. She entered the name
"Symphonic" for the hearing ap
paratus of a national concern and
her entry was adjudged the best in
the nationwide contest.
Miss Polk, who said she has
never won a contest like this be
fore, was greatly surprised at the
announcement. Altho the contest
was supposed to have closed in
January, no suitable names had
been' submitted by then, so the
dealine was set ahead and the Ne
braska woman won.
IRANTS Fl
DRESSED GIRL TITLE
A. W. S. Board to Interview
Candidates at Noon
Wednesday.
Candidate for the best dressed
girl on the university campus
have been chosen by the various
sorority houses, according to Lois
Rathburn. co-chairman ot tne styie
show for the Coed Follies.
The girls chosen are: Janet
Matthews, Alpha Chi Omega;
Cathleen Long, Phi Mu: Jean
Tucker, Kappa Delta; Margaret
Higgins, Delta Gamma; Delores
White, Alpha Delta Theta; Muriel
Hook, Alpha Omicron Pi; Helen
McFarland, Gamma Phi Beta;
Patricia Vetter, Delta Zeta; Helen
Elizabeth Lawrence, Delta Delta
Delta; Ruth Sears, Pi Beta Phi;
Betty Andrews, Barb; Jane Cleary,
Kappa Alpha Theta; Carol Em
ory, Alpha Xi Delta; Alice Mae
Livingston. Chi Omega; and Penny
Cosmos. Alpha Phi.
The candidates will appear De-
fore the A. W. S. board Wednes
day noon, March 13, for interview.
The appearance oi me gins win
be observed daily on the campus,
and they will be voted on some
time during the following week,
according to Lois Rathburn.
Presentation Climaxes snow.
The best dressed birl will be
presented as the climax of the
style show of the Coed Follies,
and a novel presentation is prom
ised by the board members in
charge.
Lois Rathburn, general cnair-
man of the skits, says all groups
presenting skits should begin
practicing them immediately.
Violet Cross was appointed to
have charge of the Aipna u
skit; Evelyn Diamond, Barb: Mary
Edith Hendricks. Tri Delt; Marion
Smith. Delta Gamma; Jean Walt,
Kappa; Calista Cooper, Pi Phi;
Sigma Alpha lota; Marjorie Filley,
Sitrma Delta Tau; Mary Yoder
and Elsie Buxman will have charge
of the entire skit review.
Women to Vote Wednesday
On 12 Names Submitted by
Present Board.
Candidates for officers and
memberships in the Big Sister
Board will be announced Tuesday,
March 12. and voting will take
place the following day. at Ellen
Smith halL according to Arlene
Bon. president of the Big Sister
Board.
Six senior, four junior, and two
sophomore women will be elected.
The senior women receiving the
hiirhest number of votes will be
vice president, and the sophomore
polling of tne most vote will be
secretary-treasurer. The board is
made up of an equal number of
sorority and unaffiliated women.
Nominees for tne various posi
tions must have a scholastic av
erage of 80, no outstanding de-
Unquincies, ana musi participate
in extra-curricular activities.
The nominees are chosen by a
committee composed ot senior
board members and Mlsa Lett
Clark and Miss Piper, advisers to
the nominating committee.
BIG SISTER NOMINEES
ANNOUNCED TUESDAY
ages on sales by store managers,
and In the removal of the rule pro
hibiting tips, he fxplained.
The soviet is the only place in
Eprone where strict censorship of
outgoing press cispatches is prac
ticed, according to Oakes who has
been furnishing a number of
American newspapers with special
articles concerninjr conditions in
various European countries. This
censorship is practiced to the end
that only the bright side of tnu
Russian conditions reaches the rest
of the world, he said.
Unlike most correspondents and
tourists, Oakes was permitted to
travel through Russia alone. Most
tourists, Oakes explained, visit
Russia under the auspices of the
rjvernment tourist bureau and see
oonly the bright side of the Russian
pliture. Likewise newspaper cor
respondents are as a rule closely
guarded, and Oakes, although os
tensibly permitted to do as he
pleased on his trip, was followed
by the Russian secret police,
OGPU, most of the time.
Oakes relates one story of a se
cret agent who posed as a doctor
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COLLEGES EXIST
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Dean of Minnesota College
Addresses Educational
Conclave Friday.
Declaring that universities are
tending more to operate for the
intelligent groups than for those
of average and below average in
telligence. Dr. J. B. Johnson, dean
of the college of arts and sciences
at the University of Minnesota,
told representatives at the second
annual educational conference here
Friday that a general college with
generalized courses should be in
stalled in our universities for the
student of average ability.
"Our universities today are em
phasizing scholarship and research
to a degree which is beyond the
intellectual comprehension of the
average student." Dr. Johnson
stated. "What is needed is a gen
eral college which would meet the
needs of the individual with aver
age or below average intelligence.
General courses should be pre
sented to give a liberal and inter
pretative application on economic,
social and technical subjects which
would enable appliance in a vital
situation."
The speaker stated that the gen
eralized courses are of two types.
The first, for freshmen and sopho
mores, is to carry information and
an introduction into the various
fields of activity, and methods of
thought The latter type purports
to give a survey of the general
courses that Integrates knowledge
in some two or more fields that are
in the higher level, being open to
juniors and seniors. As a result,
the student would be introduced
and interested in a certain field.
The educational conference was
attended by over fifty representa
tives of sixteen Nebraska colleges
and univrsities. Following Dr.
Johnson's address in the afternoon,
the representatives attended a
6:30 dinner at Cairie Belle Ray
mond hall with Chancellor E. A.
Burnett as toastmaster. Dean F. E.
Henzlik of the teacher's college,
presided at the afternoon session.
University Graduates
Receive Teaching Jobs
University graduates with new
teaching positions, as reported to
the department of educational ser
vice, are Marian Stamp of North
Platte, who will teach at Ceresco;
and Hazel Meier of Lincoln, who
has been at Pleasanton and will go
to Superior.
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cerota from three famous operas will be presented by Chicago grand opera at the coliseum Tuesday evening Th
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31 AG STUDENTS
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Jobs Waiting for Men Who
Complete Two Year of
Study This Week.
PLAN BANQUET THURSDAY
Training Period Offers
Months Concentrated
Agriculture Work.
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This week thirty-one more
aspiring farmers will leave the
University of Nebraska to help
operate farms in the state. For
eight months out of the last
two years they have been studying
the larm operator's short course
at the college of agriculture. Now
they will not need to worry about
finding work because their jobs
are waiting for them.
These "Farm Ops," as they are
called on the university campus,
are a group of young farmers who
felt unable to attend the full four
year course in agriculture because
they were needed on the farm for
fall and spring work. Wanting an
education, they have spent four
months each year for two years
making a concentrated study of
practical agricultural subjects.
"It is this caliber of men who
will become the farm leaders of
the future," says Dr. T. H. Good
ding, supervisor of the short
courses. "If there is going to be
a new deal in agriculture, these
young men are going to have a
hand in shuffling the cards."
Banquet Planned.
They will meet Thursday eve
ning, March 14, for a graduation
banquet at the ag college cafeteria,
confident of possessing a training
that will help their farms and their
communities.
"I have satisfied myself and be
lieve I can convince others that it
requires knowledge and intelli
gence to operate a farm success
fully," one of the young farmers
said. "A farm is not just a place
for folks to live who are not in
telligent enough to make a living
in a city."
More than two-thirds of the men
plan to work on the home farm,
many of them in partnership with
their fathers until they begin
farming for themselves. Three of
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STATE PRESS
Newspaper Workers Meet in
Lincoln to Discuss
Problems.
Discusing present problems of
newspapers and publishers, about
360 Nebraska editors, publishers,
and newspaper workers met at the
Lincoln hotel Thursday, Friday
and Saturday for the sixty-second
annual convention of the Nebraska
Press association. Lyman P. Cass,
Ravenna editor, was elected presi
dent of the association Friday, and
W. H. Plourd, Fullerton, vice-president
Prominent speakers in the field
of journalism and other endeavors
addressed the convention, and
Governor Cochran spoke at the
annual banquet Thursday night.
Chester Burr, editor of the Aurora
Republican-Register, was awarded
the William H. Smith trophy for
the best editorial appearing in Ne
braska country weeklies in 1934.
The title of his editorial was "A
Letter to the Oldest Subscriber."
A. F. Buechler, Grand Island,
was given the R. D. Flory award
of the state department of the
American Legion for the Legion
editorial considered the most out
standing and most constructive.
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Scene from Puccini s Opera 'Tosca.'
1935 PROM GIRL.
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Courteny Lincoln Journal.
ARLENE BORS.
Miss Bors of Wilber was select
ed as 1935 Prom Girl by a vote
taken from those attending the
Junior-Senior Prom, closing event
of the formal season, held in the
coliseum Friday night.
TO PLAY FOR 1935
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Workers Begin Three Weeks
Ticket Sales Drive
Wednesday.
Eddie Jungbluth and the Beck
Jungbluth orchestra were signed
Saturday to play for the 1935 Kos
met Klub spring show presenta
tion, "Kiss Columbo," according to
Hank Kosman, Klub business man
ager. Pony chorus and singing re
hearsals with the orchestra will
begin March 26. one week before
the show will appear at the Tem
ple theater.
"Jungbluth has furnished music
for Kosmet Klub musical comedies
for the past four years, and his
band is well suited to accompany
such productions," Kosmet de
clared. "We are sure that the
Beck-Jungbluth combination will
make an even bigger hit with
Huskcr audiences," he added.
First chorus practices were held
last week in the teachers college
auditorium under the direction of
Dr. Ralph Ireland. Actors cast for
speaking parts have been practic
ing at the Temple under the super
vision of Joe Iverson, and next re
hearsals for each group will be
held Monday night.
Jungbluth will begin work im
mediately in preparing orchestra
tions of the melodies selected In
the recent Klub contest, in order
to have them ready for the first
rehearsal, Kosman announced. One
of the spring production's new
songs, "Midsummer Night's
Dream," by Marjorie Souders, was
introduced to the student body by
Duncan Sowles singing with Arlie
Simmonds and his band at the
Junior-Senior prom.
Ticket sales will begin Wednes
day, according to Kosman, when
the admission slips will be issued
to Kosmet Klub workers for a
three weeks' sales campaign. All
seats will be reserved, but reserva
tions cannot be made until one
week before the show.
CHEMICAL ENGINEERS
CLUB MEETS MONDAY
American Society of Chemical
Engineers will gather for a special
meeting Monday afternoon at four
o'clock in 101 of the chemistry
building, according to announce
ment by Howard Cain, president of
the organization.
Special business will be consid
ered, he stated.
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GROUP OF ARTISTS
APPEARS TUESDAY
Gala Performance Features Excerpts from Three Great
Operas "Tannliauser," "Tosca," and "Faust" in
Addition to Production "Gold Standard."
ISAAC VAN GROVE, LEO
Cast for Lincoln Show Includes Renowned Maria
Jeritza, Edith Mason, Coe Glade, Giuseppe Ben
tonelli, Carlo Morelli, and Myron Duncan.
Direct from the Civic opera house in Chicago the famous
Chicago Grand Opera company comes to Lincoln this week for
ils fifth season on the University of Nebraska campus. The cele
brated operatic organization will appear at the coliseum Tues
day night in a gala performance featuring excerpts from three
: Oereat operas "T a n n h a u s er,"
Lyman Announces
Record Month for
Student Infirmary
After the busiest month since
the student infirmary was opened
In 1929, University of Nebraska
doctors released most of the school
patients last week. February re
ports from the health office
showed that students had spent
249 hospital days in the infirmary.
Dr. R. A. Lyman, director of the
service, said that the record month
resulted from cases of measles and
severe colds. Only a few students
were still 111 last week.
Student visits at the health of
fice on the downtown campus
reached a total of 2,103. Some 765
treatments were given to men; and
375 to women. At the college of
agriculture 108 student visits were
recorded.
University doctors made eighty
one house calls, and the dispensary
filled 309 prescriptions for stu
dents. The health office gave 267
inoculations for typhoid during
February. Examinations of new
students numbered 86, and 141
swimming examinations were
made. Other students examined
included eighteen for FERA work,
twenty-three for advanced drill,
and thirty-nine employes.
ISSHEL
National Officer of Women's
. Organization Lectures
Here March 14.
Miss Helen Morton, executive
secretary of the National Student
council of the National Y. W. C. A.,
will be in Lincoln Wednesday and
Thursday as a guest of the uni
versity Y. W. C. A. and will speak
at a luncheon meeting Thursday,
March 14. at 12 o'clock at the city
Y. W. C. A.
Miss Morton, who comes here
after a visit in Europe last sum
mer at which she attended a meet
ing in Switzerland of the World's
Student Christian Federation and
after a tour of some of the 368
student Y. W. C. A. organizations
in this country, will speak on the
subject "Trends in the Student
Movement in the United States."
Special guests at this luncheon
will be members of the boards of
the Lincoln Y. W. C. A., advisory
boards of the Y. M. and Y. W. C. A.
of the university, and members of
the Council of Religious Welfare.
All former members of the uni
versity Y. W. C. A. may make res-ei-vations
for the luncheon at the
citv Y. W. desk or at the univer-
l sity Y. W. office.
All women in the university now
active in the Y. W. C. A. are in
vited to attend a special meeting
at 5 o'clock Thursday afternoon at
Ellen Smith hall at which Miss
Morton will speak. '
Wednesday evening Miss Morton
wil be guest of honor at a dinner
wnich is being given by the ad
visory board for the cabinet of the
Y. W. C. A. at th? home of Mrs. C.
Petrus Peterson.
The scene above
Jer.tr. won
TO SPEAK ON TRENDS
KOPP DIRECT OPERA
"Tosca" ana "Faust." in aaaiuon
the ballet will present its ultra
modern production "Gold Stand
ard." Never in the history of the Chi
cago company's visit to Lincoln
has that organization presented
such a program. Bringing forth
all leading artists of the company
in roles that have made them fa
mous, the cast for the Lincoln per
formance will include Maria
Jeritza, renowned singers; EUitn
Mason, lyric soprano diva with the
Chicago company; Coe Glade,
beautiful young contralto; Giu
seppe Bentonelli, popular young
tenor; Carlo Morelli, famous
Chilean baritone: Myron Duncan,
American dramatic tenor who
made his mark in Europe under
the name of Mario Dura, and many
others.
Two to Conduct Performance.
The opera performance here will
be under the direction of the com
pany's two leading conductors,
Isaac Van Grove and Leo Kopp.
They will conduct the great or
chestra and direct the ensemble
work of the fine choruses in pre
senting opera just as it is given in
the palatial home theater in Chi
cago. Mr. Kopp, in addition, will
conduct theorchetra for the mod
ern ballet "Gold Standard" which
features the well-known Ruth
Page and her corps of dancers.
The coliseum Tuesday night will
be transformed into a great the
ater for the visit of the opera
stars. Workmen Saturday started
the task of constructing an ele
vated floor. Early Tuesday an
army of stagehands will start
moving in the carloads of scenery
and stage props necessary for the
successful performance of the
thrilling acts from the three op
eras. The company travels by special
train and carries complete stage
equipment from an expensive front
curtain to a portable electric con
trol board which enables Tech
nical Director Harry Beatty to
produce sensational and colorful
lighting effects and thus make the
production a work of beauty and
splendor.
Popular Excerpts Given.
The program to be presented at
the coliseum includes excerpts
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Master of Science Group
Records Greatest
Advance.
Registration in the graduate col
lege at the University of Nebraska
for the second semester has in
creased more than nine percent
over that of a year ago, according
to figures released Saturday.
Those enrolled for advanced study
numbered 424. with 265 men and
159 women taking work.
Heaviest advance in enrollment
is shown amor.g the group study
ing for the degree of master of
science where forty-seven are reg
istered. This semester's records
show seventy-seven taking work
toward the degree of doctor of phi
losophy, and 147 seeking the mas
ter of arts degree. Degrees of mas
ter of architecture and advanced
civil engineering each have two
candidates, and one is studying
for an advanced electrical engi
neering degree.
Department registrations show
the largest numbers to be enrolled
in chemistry with thirty-seven, and
botany and history with twenty
one candidates each. In school ad
ministration sixteen seek advanced
degrees; and thirteen are studying
for degrees tn secondary education
and English.
Burnett Urges Large
Attendance at Opera
"Seldom do students and fac
ulty in Lincoln have the oppor
tunity to hear Grand Opera as
It is produced in Chicago and
New York. But on next Tues
day evening the Chicago Grand
Opera company wiil be hejiii t
our own coliseum on the cam
pus. Outstanding parts of three
famous operas will be given, as
suring variety and Interest to
the program.
"General admission tickets
for students and faculty are be
ing sold at f 1 each, with ether
eats at $2 and f 3 each. I hope
that as many of our student!
and faculty as possible will be
able to avail therr.aelvea of the
opportunity."
