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TIIUHSDAY, JULY 16, 1936
LINCOLN, NEB.
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Mens Annual Steak
Fry, Set For July 23,
Attracts Attention
Tickets for Affair on Sale?;
Till Wednesday at 5 in
Teachers College.
Campus attention among men
sports enthusiasts is centered on
the annual men's steak fry, which
will be held Thursday, July 23 at
Pioneers park. The highlight of
recreational activities during the
summer session, this event is ex
pected to attract a large crowd.
Tickets to the affair will be on
sale up to 5 o'clock Wednesday
evening, July 22 on the first floor
of Teachers' college. Tickets must
be purchased before that time,
Prof. E. W. Lantz, director of
summer session recreational activ
ities, emphasized, since provisions
will only be made for those who
buy tickets in advance, and those
who wait until Thursday afternoon
cannot be accommodated.
Program Planned.
Games and a program are being'
planned as entertainment at the
steak fry, and the city recreational
department will have charge of
presenting several numbers.
The steak fry here has been
modeled after the annual steak
fry held at Columbia university
under the auspices of the Teachers
college. Last year over 200 men
attended the event here.
Dance Friday.
Continuing the regular recrea
tional and social program, another
all-University party will be held in
the coliseum Friday evening. A
novelty, in the form of ladies
dances, will be tried at the next
party, according to Mr. Lantz,
who is acting on a suggestion sent
to him by a university student.
Progress is being made in the
all-University golf tournament.
Pairings have been made and have
been posted on the bulletin board
in Teachers college.
TENNIS TOURNAMENT
TO START NEXT WEEK
Harrison Announces Plans
For All-Summer School
Competition.
Tennis enthusiasts on the uni
versity campus are showing un
usual interest in the all summer
school tennis tournament, which
will begin next week, according to
Bob Harrison, in charge of tennis
instruction during the summer
session. Those who have registered
for the tennis classes must regis
ter again if they wish to play in
the tournament.
The tournament will be' divided
into five divisions: Men's singles,
women's singles, men's doubles,
women's doubles and mixed dou
bles. All students and faculty
members wishing to play should
leave their names, the divisions in
which they wish to enter, and
their partners at the office of Prof.
E. W. Lantz, 322 teachers' college
building, by Monday.
Many Entries Last Year.
"There was a large entry list
last year in the tournament," ac
cording to Mr. Harrison, "but we
are expecting an even larger num
ber this year in all the divisions."
Prizes will be awarded to the
champions in each division. The
Bessey hall tennis courts, where
the games are played, will be in
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STUDIO THEATEK TO
STAGE ENGLISH PLAY
"Gammer Gurton's Needle," the
old English classic, will be pre
sented by members of the Studio
Theater, under the direction of
Herbert Yenne, next week. The
public will be invited to attend the
performance.
Members of the University Play
ers presented a three-act comedy
in the Temp'e theater last iii&.it.
TEACHING FRATEKNITY
HOLDS INITIATION
17 Men Taken Into
Group Membership
At Tuesday Picnic
About 75 members of Phi Delta
Kappa, professional teaching fra
ternity, attended the annual picnic
and initiation at the Shrine Coun
try club at 4 o'clock Tuesday eve
ning, July 14, at which time 1?
men attending the summer session
were initiated.
Games, under the direction of
Dr. Warren Bailer, of the Teach
ers college, preceded the lunch.
The initiation ceremony, in charge
of W. A. Rosene, vice president of
the group, Dr. A. A. Reed, O. H.
Bimson, and Dr. W. H. Morton,
followed.
Those who were initiated are
as follows: Walter K. Beggs, Wil
liam B. Bogar, Thomas E. Cain,
Ralph Dailard, Louis S. Gibb, Paul
D. Haynie, Lee Knolle, Clarence
Kilker, H. I. Lytle, G. Nichols,
Leonard L. Pate, Raymond Polster,
Greeley D. Price, Lloyd A. Shep
ard. Merle A. Stoneman, Perry I.
Preston, Laurence Wilson.
HIGH SCHOOL MUSIC
E
Many Parents Attend Final
Concerts Presented
By Students.
The fourth annual all-state high
school course in band, orchestra,
and chorus, sponsored by the Uni
versity of Nebraska School of Mu
sic was declared the most success
ful in its history by members of
the staff and by the many fathers
and mothers who drove to Lincoln
Thursday and Friday evenings for
the closing concerts presented by
students enrolled in summer
classes. The total registration
showed a distinct gain over that
of a year ago while the musical
training of the 126 high school
students was superior to that
demonstrated in past years.
Many of the parents drove many
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COURS
COMPLETED
DECLARED
SUCCESS
Schools Should Give Broad
Students should be presented
with facts concerning all present
day political practices and led to
draw their own conclusions. This
seems to be the concensus of
opinion of a group of educators
who were questioned recently by
the Nebraskan regarding the
schools' part in attempting to set
up a new social order.
A broad understanding will dis
pel controversy and prejudice con
cerning religion and politics, the
group of administrators believes.
Condemning teacher oaths as
superficial, they believe that
teachers should not be denied the
right by an oath to refrain from
teaching truth as they see it. If
this were done, they say, the
teachers' hands would be tied and
society would be lost.
Must Face Controversies.
Supt. Earle Wiltse cl York
believes that it is impossible to
conduct a functioning school in
modern society without facing
controversial issues.
"Unless students are allowed to
face such problems in school where
both sides of an issue can be pre
sented fairly, they will become the
prey of propagandists and selfish
pressure groups", he declared.
"Our schools are not so much
concerned with what people think,
as that they think. What bclLcx
Two Students Give
Junior Piano, Voice
Recital Wednesday
Stella Linhart, pianist, and Alice
Fletcher, soprano, will collaborate
inpresenting their junior recital
Thursday afternoon in the Temple
theater at 4 o'clock. Miss Linhart
is a student with Earnest Harrison
and Miss Fletcher studies with
Howard Kirkpatrick.
The program will include Schu
mann's "Whims" and "Polonaise,"
presented by Miss Linhart; "My
Heart Ever Faithful" by Bach; "In
a Boat" by Grieg; and "Die Lotus
Blume" by Schumann, presented
by Miss Fletcher.
In a second group of selections
presented by Miss Linhart will be
"The Fountain of the Acqua Pa
olo" by Griffes and "Nocturne" by
Respighi. Miss Fletcher will sing
"Who is Sylvia" by Schubert; "II
Racio" by Arditie; "Now Sleeps
the Crimson Petal" by Quilter;
and "The Fields O'Nallyclare" by
Turner-Maley.
Closing the program, Miss Lin
hart will play "Moonshine" and
"The Eagle" by MacDowell. Miss
Reba Jones will be accompanist.
COLLINS LEADS LAST
GE
'Field Work' Subject of
Conference Thursday
Afternoon.
Ray E. Collins of Waco will lead
a discussion on "Field Work" at
the last of a series of geography
conferences to be held Thursday
afternoon in room 105 of Former
Museum building. The conferen
ces have been held for the benefit
of administrators, superintendents
and teachers of geography in the
public schools.
Topics to be discussed at the
last conference are: "Prepara
tion," "Observations in the field
(rural)," "Observations in the
(urban)," and "The teachers per
sonal observations as they func
tion in the class room."
Dr. Patterson Occupies
Congregational Pulpit
Dr. Charles H. Patterson, of the
University philosophy department,
is occupying the pulpit at Vine
Congregational church the first
three Sunday mornings in July.
Subjects for next Sunday will
be "The Stewardship of the Truth,"
On Sunday, July 5, Dr. Patterson
spoke on "The Light That Never
Goes Out," and on July 12, on
"The Master Suirits of This Dark
World."
can we do to develop thinking
than to stimulate a fair discussion
of the unsolved issues of the day?"
he asks.
Students should have access to
a library where the very best
authorities on political subjects
can be read. So believes Frank
Alder, head of the Pierce schools.
"They should be led to use the
best scientific methods in determ
ining their own stand on issues;
that is, making no decisions until
all evidence is in and weighed,"
Alder asserted.
Every school should be a func
tioning democracy and people of
the community should understand
it as such, in his opinion. We lean
over backward to give democracy
a chance, but if democracy has
faults they should not be hidden
from students. It is the citizen of
tomorrow, he believes, whose busi
ness it will be to correct these
faults.
ducation Not Static.
"Life is not static, so educa
tion cannot be", said Miss Eliza
beth Rainey, elementary super
visor of the Omaha schools. "Our
aim in the social studies is to de
velop understanding as stated in
the yearbook of the department of
superindence of the N. E. A. for
January. By improving the indi
vidual we improve the wiioic oi
OGRAPHY
MEETING
Francis, Amen Leave
With American Team
For Berlin Olympiad
Courtesy ol The Lincoln Journal.
SAM FRANCIS.
TEACHING HEADS LIST
SUMMER STUDENTS'
1,055 Instructors Enrolled
Now for Study in
University.
Teaching heads the list of occu
pations of students enrolled in the
summer session, according to a
classification compiled by R. D.
Moritz, director of the summer
session, with 1,055 students regis
tered in this field during the
school year. The classification
reveals that 550 students are reg
istered in colleges or universities
during the school year.
According to the report 198 stu
dents are unemployed at the pres
ent time, 40 now taking work at
the university have clerking jobs,
33 are doing office work, and 97
are listed as doing miscellaneous
work. In the latter group all oc
cupations reported by less than
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Understanding
society. If children grow up form
ing broadminded tolerant views,
adult society will become tolerant
and broadminded," Miss Rainey
pointed out.
Miss Mary Kelty, visiting in
structor and nationally known au
thority in the field of social
studies, declared that two things
must be considered in order to de
cide whether or not the school
should take the lead in attempting
to set up a new social order:
First, that the schools are sup
ported and set up by means of
perpetuating the kind of society
that sets them up and secondly,
that the school itself is only a
part of society.
Schools Reflect Though.
Believing that the schools should
reflect the best thinking of all
time, Miss Kelty continued: "We
must find out what the problem
is then the solution must be pro
posed by the people and then
examined by the schools. The pro
cess," she asserted, "would begin
in the elementary schools and be
carried on thru the secondary
schools. Whether the process
should start before school age is
another phase of the question.
Concerning the social studies
curriculum, she said that it has
been accepted readily in the le
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WINTER OCCUPATIONS
Nebraska Fullback Places
Second in Shot Put
Event Finals.
"Smilin' Sam" Francis, the bur
ley Nebraska fullback, and Paul
Amen, prominent sophomore star
at the University last year, sailed
Wednesday on the O ipic ship,
the Manhattan, to compete in the
Berlin Olympic games.
Placing second in the shot finals
at the final United States track
and field tryouts Sunday afternoon
at Randall's Island stadium in New
York, the Husker shot putter was
assured a trip to Germany. At the
same time, Lloyd Carwell, the
other husker entry, suffering from
a pulled muscle, was able to take
only one jump. Cardwell injured
the muscle at the national A. A,
U. games last week.
On Baseball Squad.
Amen was named as a member
of the baseball squad of the United
States after tryouts Monday. He
won letters in football, basketball,
and baseball as a Husker last year,
and for the past few years he has
been outstanding in the city base
ball league as a first baseman.
The Olympic squad of 20 players,
of which he is a member, will give
baseball "demonstrations" at the
Olympic games. They were chosen
as a result of a series of tryouts
at Baltimore.
In the 16 pound shot put event
in which Francis placed, Jack Tor
rance of Baton Rouge, La., placed
first with a record of 51 feet, 6 .
and 3-8 inches. Francis, whose
record Sunday was 50 feet, 4
inches, has in the past bettered the
record with which Torrance won
the shot event.
Because the Olympic team is
composed of the first three place
winners in each event, Francis
was made a member of the team
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MISS MUNGER GIVES
Student With Herbert Yenne
Presents Three Plays
In Temple Tonight.
Miss LaVern Munger, student in
the speech department at the uni
versity, will present a dramatic
recital at 7:30 Thursday evening
in the Temple building.
Miss Munger, a student with
Herbert Yenne. will present three
short plays. In the first two she
will take the parts of the three
characters, as well as in the third
play, "Wife of Pontius Pilate" by
Agnes Turnbull. The scene of the
last play is laid in Pilates palace
in Jerusalem.
Assisting the speech student
will be Robert Carr, vocal soloist,
who will sing "The Open Road" by
Stickle and "Until' by Sanderson,
accompanied by Delores Wersch
ky. POLLAKD LEAVES POST
AT MEDICAL SCHOOL
Dr. Sage Named New
Head of Department
At Nebraska School
Dr. Earl C. Sage was named
professor and chairman of the de
partment of obstetrics and gyne
cology at the University medical
college in Omaha, following the
resignation of Dr. C W Pollard.
Dr. Pollard, who has been on the
staff since 1904 was given an
emeritus status. Dr. Sage has been
an assistant professor in the de
partment since 1931.
Dr. Willis H. Taylor, connected
with the University since 3909,
was promoted to professor of cluv
ital obstetrics and gynaecology. .
DRAMATIC
PROGRAM