V. ( y. X t ! i ; (VwuwL cmcL dbouL up EBRA SKAN Sui nit Louise Merer Our World Abounds On Every Hand. We are ever struck by the in congruities of Greek initiation cer emonies. The rituals all patterned after the Ancient Order of Ma sonry are solemn, idealistic, clas sical. Elaborate paraphenalia and robing, lofty language and sym bolic services all conspire for vast dignity and impressiveness. Yet even for a few short hours our modern generation can't cast aside their irreverent realism. "During waits in the ceremonies, modern maidens squat tailor-wise on the floor, flowing robes pulled up over bare knees, nursing ach ing arches, yearning for nicotina tion. Homely phrases supplant al legorical solemnity, and curses are uttered over the vagaries of the unfamiliar garb. This utter down-to-earthness we do not decry: indeed we feel that the illusionlessncss is as healthy as love of onions. But we had a bit of trouble convincing the practical-minded telephone company that a nasty loud buzz was bad for a hushed initiatory expectancy. We may never lose our work-a-day world. c The 'Philosophical Bent. Naturally we expected some thing quite special from the in ner sanctum of Dr. Bouwsma, one of the less clay-footed cam pus idols. We veritably snooped for trade secrets and indications of genius while we were wait ing to meet him for the first - time, under the auspices of Dotty Fulton. We found both: A much be-pidgeon holed desk and a wall calendar as of No vember, 1936. Look Candid Please! Something really must be done about Bert Hartzell. He's as omni present as the atmosphere. On the campus, about town, in mob scene of tete-a-tete there's Bert with at least one of his three cameras. If he doesn't catch you in a wild eyed pose of your own doing, he'll go to great lengths to contrive one for you. And, as vain human ity loves to have its pitcher took, even in inauspicious moments, his collection of candid shots must i comprise the biggest blackmail ' threat of the campus. Menace to j mankind Hartzell. j A Pretty Picture. Cecil Beaton, expensive society photographer and portrait painter, believes that a face must have punctuation marks to make it rnl Bp TI iy , i V fi really interesting. In the maga- i zine section of the Sunday Jour- j Twenty-three student representa nal and Star Mr. Beaton sets forth ; tives from the university Y. W. his premises as they are exempli-;c. A. and Y. M. C. A. cabinets fied in some of his favorite sub- 'attended the Student Christian (Continued on Page 3.1 tracted 120 students from 10 Ne braska institutions, who partici- Professor Emeritus to Tell pate1 in ""p disrussions during 'Sfory of Ten Digits' This Evening. Dr. A. L. Candy, instructor emeritus, will be the principal speaker at a meeting cf Pi Mu Kpsilon. national mathematics hon orary, in social science auditorium Tuesday. March 16. at 7:30. The ii.s?iifljion group on "Personal Re organization will honor Dr. Candy, Hgion:" Mildred Green on admin who celebrated his 80th birthday : tetrative technique for YM-YW of anniversary last Friday. The meet- f icem: and Uowena Swenson on ing is an open one. 'social relationships. C. D. Hayes Dr. Candy's subjert. will be th : wa jn charge of a Kponsor's group. "Story of the Ten Digits." Mart- j Others attending were: L'niver li:g with the Khind Papyrus, which gjty yji: Dan Williams. Bob Bo nus an fHtimate age cf f rom ' lan.j, Klmer Horstman. Alvin Nel M200 to P..WI years, and develop-: ar(1 w&rren Km-rson: Ag Jng the historical outline of our i campus YM: Wesley Dunn. Car methods of calculation. Lantern ;ro, Gary NVil Dawes. Kalph Kr ho slides and illu-trations will ac- DaVrell Bauder : Y. W. C. A. company his lecture. Muriel White, Bernelia Hinthorn. A hoi1 but very urgent buid- Kianor Ki he. Evelvn Taylor. Mo res meeting in orial hrience au- wc.)a Sw(.nBO Mai'v Beth Hitth ditorium will le called at i :1S and ; Katperine Kilmer. Pauline mi active men.oer or J'l .mu r.p-, gijon are rejueiiej u aucn'i All university Atudentw are in vited by the organization to attend the lecture. A knowledge of mathe matics is not nerdeil to understand nd enjoy Dr. Candy's talk. Ri;lit-I. IIohtIii .Muir !npIru'loi'r Forrest L. Bucht 1, nationally known band and orchestra director nf Chicago, and George K. Hower Yon. director of music at Hiram college, will lead the inKtructional staff of the summer all-state high school music course aa recently an nounced by Howard Kirkpatrick, director of the school of muxic. This Nebraska All-State Music "camp." which was Initiated by Director Kirkpatrick five years ago. will have, in addition to IU uest conductors, almost the en i ;re personnel of Uie music depart ment on its list of instructors. Mu-ie Group Announce m.ar;.,n f Tlir. AlrM ; Three new members were pledged by the Phi Mu Alpha chap- er of Rinfonia. professional music , fr.temi, r. Thursday afternoon fol- . in...4r m iiinfhArm in fn f namner , t Commere, The men PljCl ,Tu Wilbur cie.1 .ml Thonia McMania. ' or VOL. XXXVI ISO. 107. STATE ENGINEERS TO HOLD ROUNDUP CONVENTION HERE Nebraska Students Invited To Attend Sessions On Saturday. University engineering students are invited to attend any or all of the sessions of the seventh annual roundup of the Nebraska Engi neering society which is to be held at the Lincoln hotel on Saturday, March 20. No registration fee will be required of any students. "Licensing of Engineers." and "Transportation" will be the chief topic of the meeting for which the engineers' clubs of Lincoln, Omaha, and Grand Island are co-operating. Heading the list of speakers will be Col. Willnrd T. Chevalier, vice president and publishing director of the civil engineering publica tions of the McGraw-Hill company. Colbert Society Secretary. Prof. J. P. Colbert of the en gineering mechanics department is secretary of the society, and Dean O. J. Ferguson is among the di rectors. Prof. Colbert has been named chairman of the finance committee also. On the program will be Prof. Jiles W. Haney, chairman of the mechanical engineering depart- , ment. who is scheduled to show I some motion pictures, and Coach "Biff" Jones who will speak. The complete program follows: Movlnar pictures: Prof Jilcs Haney. AiMress of welcome: Mayor Bry-. Hecponse: Lee Nelson, water anl light roinmlnoioner. Hasting?. Prefidcnt s and 5eretar ' rci-orti; Knuin.er registration American KnKin eerins council: Prof. J. S. Podd. Iowa State eollece. president, national council of atate boards of ercineerinic examiners. Report of nominating committee, and electloi of officers. Luncheon. proving ptctnres: Prof. Jie Haney. Talk by Coach 'Biff Jor.es. "Truif Donation" by J. W. Wheeler. Burlington engln?er of hlhay negotia tions. S:.10 r. m. dinner, Glen A Walker, toast master. Address: (Governor Cochran. Addres.': Col. W. T. Chevalier. SEND 23 DELEGATES 10 STATECQNCLAVE ! j . . . , CamDUS Cabinet Members Take Part in Hastings Training Meeting. j Training conference held at Has tings college last Friday to Sun- ! day. The conference is held each ! i spring to tfive instruction to newly i elected officets and cabinets of! YM and YW organizations on the various university and college campuses in isenrasKa. The Hastincs conference at- line inree uays ana nerj auurrs.ws 'by T. Y. Wu. Chinese Christian leader. Leon Thompson, secretary of the Lincoln Peace Council, and ; Charles Hulac, YM field repre sentative and former Nebraska "Y" secretary. j Those from this campus whd ap ;peared.on the conference program i included Ward Bauder leading a Walter. Mildred Nah. Mildred Gr-en. and Betty Hrrnung. Now Try Asking Yourself, 'How Sophisticated Am I?' In nigh school he was called "cgotintical." in college they call him "Joo College." and in this month's wsue of the Scnbner mag azine he is branded an being "ho phinticated." That person who is experienced in vast artificialities of life, who is worldly-wise, then, is sophisticated today. How "so phisticated'' or "Joe College-like" are you? Kupposc the fact that you were a bashful girl dancing with a ljashful boy when you suddenly discovered that your slip would come off if you did not fix it at once. A highly perplexing ques tion, and a question which "tumpted" the majority of Ne braska canipusites, Scribner' maeazine DoinU out that the so- pm - ucaieu P uue only one thing. fcrnoarrafiino momni. Would you stop on the dance floor snd let the slip-fall Would you clutch desperately at your Tin iinii run irom ine iioor; Would you genfly maneuver your . rreort toward the pottr.j pnlms. would you blushingly ask your Official aiiii Floor. Weak C7 iviiaKe oti'iirasKn iiuau :v : ,V. .. .. ' --oil i w.lllf , rii.i.1. n.,i ,., limjiaiimmm mm if f : : l - ' . pf Thess two photographs, taken In Nebraska hall, offer mathematical evidence of the alarming deteriora tion of the building. In the left pic ture, a straight-edged timber about 18 feet long was laid along me AT5P.M.MARCH17 Mortar Board Tells Houses Of Plans for May Festivities. First information on Mortar Board plans for Ivy Day festivities which will hold the spotlight on May 6 were released Monday in letters to all organized women's groups on the campus. Asking co-operation and support of the various groups, the letters explained that candidates for at tendants to the 1937 May Queen must be filrtMhUJkVeJ(tover's desk in Ellen Smith hall by 5 I o'clock on Wednesday afternoon, I March 17. The announcement in- eluded information that each group may file two nominees from each of the four classes, and one page from any class, provided that the candidates have a weighted aver age of 80. In the same announcement made. Jean Walt, Mortar Board president and chairman of Ivy Day activities revealed that the senior (Continued on Page 4.) NOMINATIONS CLOSE VAN ROYEN INVITED TO ATTEND SYMPOSIUM . vance sale win De miriy-iive cenis Geography PrOfeSSOr bOeSjfor men and fifteen cents for To Philadelphia for Early Man Talk. i Dr. Wm. Van Boyen of the ge j ography department has received a special invitation to lane pan. m the symposium on Kaiiy Man which will be hold this week, March 17-20, at Philadelphia. This symposium will be international in character, and there will be in attendance leading students of physiography and anthropology from .several European countries and South Africa, as well as from Canada and the United States. Dr. Van P.oyen, who received the invitation in recognition of his work in the fields of physiography and anthropology in Nebraska dui ing the pat two or three years, left Lincoln Sunday evening. He expects to confer with specialists I connected witn museums ai van- ington and New York before his I return. boy friend to hold you more tight- , Iy? From fifty individuals, con- , sidcred to be above the "average run of Americans and accustomed to thinking independently." the majority answered well how would you answer? If you had a wife with a glib, sharp-tongue that was always , makt lite wretched, would you do the polite or the sophisticated. Your are on a mountain cliff'a edge with your wife, a spiteful hel- ' lion who makes life wretched tor ; everyone, what would you do? You might remark on th beauty of the acene beneath you. You could push her firmly arid purely j over the edge of the cliff. You ; could make another futile attempt ' to be pleasant, or you could let j the "dear wife slip "accidentally, ul on,v onc nrr.hlm Fmh Lucre th, far, of I'J h 'i " - - iwwn ! the right th.ng. how woul the good or Id you act (Continued on I'ngt 4.) I Student Newspaper LINCOLN, NEBRASKA. TUESDAY. MARCH 16. 1937. floor in the department of conser vation and survey offices. The sag where the ruler is placed reads 11-4 inches. In the right picture, Sergeant Nels Nelson is measuring the sway YOUTII A I? RESTED FOK KOBBEKY AT MAPLE TOURNEY Caught in the act of pilfering articles from cars parked near the coliseum during the basketball tournament, Lester Horner, 18. was arrested by campus police of- ' ficers Thursday evening. March 11, -about 10:00. Questioning of Horner revealed the fact that he had been arrested recently on a similar charge in Salt Lake City. At present he is living with his step-father in West Lincoln. The case has been referred to the county attorney for further investigation. Owners of the stolen property may retrieve it by identification of the articles at the office of campus police, Social Science annex. SPONSORS COSTUME Party Opens Preparation for Annual May Festivity On Campus. Ag students will don ccstumes for a "Masquerade Ball" at the student activities building Friday night. The affair is sponsored by the Farmer's Fair board to stim ulate interest in preparation for the Fair. Admission prices during the ad- j women, uoor saic or ucxeis win advance the price to forty cents for men and twenty for women. Students from the downtown campus arc invited to attend the party and although fancy dress is preferable, it is not mandatory, j The party will assume a "Mardi Gras" atmosphere with serpentine and confetti. Eddie Jungbluth's orchestra will play. Farmer's Fair Board members who are sponsoring the affair are: Clyde White, manager, Elsie Bux rnan. Darrell Bauder, Elinor Mc Faddcn, Frank Svoboda anil Kay- niona Hilton, senior members. Earl Heady, Marjorie Francis. Melvin ' Beennan, Donna Hiatt. Earl lied-1 lund and Pauline Walter', junior ! memoers will also assist in mak-ltii ing arrangements for the party. A. VI .. (.jii(liIali Balloting for the election of A. W. S. president and officer for the 1937-38 term will take place from 9 to 5 o'clock on Wednesday, March 17. Poll will be open in Ellen Smith hall and the ag Home Economic build ing. All university women will be eligible to vot upon presen tation of their identification cards. The list of candidates is as follows: PRESIDENT Jane Barbour Betty Cherny SENIOR MEMBERS Dorothy Becher Maxine Durand Martha Jackson Katherine Kilbuck Rosalyn Lashinsky Martha Morrow Clarissa Wicks Kathryn Winquist JUNIOR MEMBERS Marjorie Crabill Velma Ekwall Maxine Federle Lois Giles Patricia Jensen Helen Jascoe Phyllis Robinson Irene Sellars SOPHOMORE MEMBERS Helen Danner Marie Eggers Mary Jane Hendricks Marian Kaths Janet Lau Patricia Pope Betty Waugh Prlscllla Wicks of the University Dollars t a Mazard of one of the supporting pillars in the military science offices. From a six foot height, the plumb line the fa::it white line in the photo shows that the post leans out 1 3-4 inches (See editorial on page 2). SPORT FRIDAY Society Plans Program Games, Dancing for Students. of Continuing a practice inaugu rated on this campus last year, the W. A. A. is again sponsoring a Sport Night for both men and women students, this Friday eve ning, March 19. All students are urged to attend this night of mixed sport activity. A varied program for the affair has been planned which will in clude dancing, volley ball, deck tennis, and shuffleboard . "We are urgently inviting every one to attend," requests Jeanne Palmer, retiring president of W. A. A., "as we feel that a continuance of mixed activities on this campus will definitely broaden the stu dents' life." The party will be held in Grant Memorial at 7:30. Refreshments will be served at the close of the evening's entertainment. Pauline Bowen, activities chairman of the W. A. A., is in charge of general arrangements. FIVE iMOil IN DEBATE TOURNEY Kappa Sig, SAM, Delta Theta Phi, PAD to Argue in Second Round. Sigma Alpha Mu will uphold the affirmative against Kappa Sigma, and Phi Alpha Delta will debate pro against Delta Theta Phi at 7 o'clock Thursday evening March IS, for second round honors of the fraternity section in the annual Delta Sigma Kho debate contest. Sigma Nu drew a bye. Both de bates will be held in the fraternity hoiif- of the group taking the affirmative side of the ouehtion. With competition and interest growing keener, observers have i-en unable to make any predic- iis about the outcome of the contest. In the first round, of the two debates held, decisions were split. Kappa Sigma won the affirmative over Zeta Beta Tau, whili on the sam evening PUl Continued on Page 4.1 'Senator's Husband' Good Corned v, But Laeks Polish By Oliver Howard. Playing before a scanty but hopefully appreciative audience, the Player rather stumbled through their opening performance of the final piay of the current season last night at the Temple. .Stumbled because most of them either had not had time, or had not taken trouble to learn their lilies or the business. The play ileelf is not bad. but it sadly is in ! need of another week' rehearsal. Mis Bannister Stars. The cast Is heuvily reinforced with member of the faculty of the j speech department, but their per formance was not at au superior to that of the student player. The one blight spot of the whole play was Marjorie Bannister' presentation of Bertha Madden, a congressman's wife To her we give credit where credit I due. She Htole the show and by a large margin gave the outstanding per fomance. Th- play written bv Fred nallwrd. a lorn I iK.y who has 1 made g.KMl as a playwright., and I presented a a "pre Broadway") of Nebraska Shifting of Frosli Courses to Affect One-Third of Class New Cadet Officers' CI1 11 1 to Klect Heads Officers for the newly organ ized infantry cadet officers' club will be elected at a meet ing in Nebraska hall at 7:30 this evening. Bill Crittenden, chairman of the publicity committee, urged that all who planned to be members should make a special effort to attend the important meeting. Bruce Campbell Awarded Prize for Best Story In Competition. Following the precedent of chronicling the events of the hour thru the lens of the candid camera established by "Life," "Look," and other such publications, the March edition of the Awgwan will go on sale Wednesday with three full pages of campus camera shots. The new magazine breaks all rec ords in camera contributions and in advertising as well, editor Hol lister announced. Bruce Campbell was awarded the prize for writing the best short, short story with his contribution entitled "'Card' Gets a Haircut," which appears in the current issue of the humor publication. "Dr. Fu Manchu Invades Ellen Smith Hall" completes the short story contribu tions. Eva Jane Sinclair appears as a new contributor to the magazine with her article entitled "Joe Col lege Takes a Beating," in which several of the campus coeds voice their opinions on the college Joes. As. a feature of the fashion page, seven campus women voice their personal sentiments on styles and modes of the time. In addition to the unusual use of photographs in the new Awgwan, thirteen cartoons adorn the pages of the publication. The usual Gore and joke sections come forth with the latest of news and scandal in the campus social whirl, to make the issue one of the brightest of j the year, Hollister asserted. SURYEYOKS FIND FRAGRANT MALL HARD TO HANDLE The see-all probe-all press got stuck yesterday stuck between freshmen surveyors standing in freshly spread "fruit of the land." on the mall between Bessey and Sosh. Seeing that it would take some time to dig into Sosh, a few in quiries were made to find out just what was going on and why. The poor freshmen thought they had signed for a "fresh air" course this semester. Little did they antici pate the surroundings in which they are now working. "We are beginning to realize that the fresh air isn't so 'fresh'." say these com ing suiTeyors. But they will con tinue to work in these surround ings as long as this "fruit" is doing its part towards beautifying the mall. Their word to you is to either wear high hhocs or detour. Under the direction of I. A. Trively, the surveyors are learning to u.se their Philadelphia Bods that's those sticks you are dodging this wi-k. They can make them tall or -short according to the height of the person they ate try jrjg to hit. In a few days they will oukin at vou through tele- ' scope affairs. Are you basliful ? performance, maybe even a World Premeire. W note in parsing that i haracterizing th.: thing a "pre Broadway" performance, is a bit presiimptious, and reserve judgment until we e notice id its opening in the Times. The comedy is titled "The Sen ator's Husband," and the title role is played by Charles Roger, who tried hard to do two things to remember his linen and to imitate Kdwurd Fvtiett Morton. He was not consistent in either. He de signed the net.", and liele too cie-dit In due. We lire happy to give It. Did Their Bit. Senator Smythe portrayed by Margaret Carpenter, looked severe throughout two and a half acts, and then rmnLe.1 in the third. Doa Buell, lately ot Maim;, was Boone Jackson, the husband of a con grcHswoman. Arthur Ball, a the senator fon looked cherubic. I Polly Gellatly as Babe Fuller,) wno ,n ln" " revealeo , Mrs. Bradford Smjihc ha I the ,ther bad habit (Continued on Tage 3.) i MARCH AM FEATURES LARGE CAMERA Ell CENTS o Each Department to Select Between Alternatives Of Proposal. At least one-third of the entiie 1938 freshman class will be affected by the University's sen ate's proposal to shift recitation periods of certain first year classes to afternoons and Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday mornings. Dr. A. R. Congdon, chairman of the assignment committee, est imated yesterday. Forty-two courses probably representing over 100 sections are the number which will be changed when the new ruling goes into effect next September. This num ber will be composed largely of subjects in the English, mathe matics, foreign languages, and political sciences departments. Departments Select Change. Whether the classes as changed will be instructed on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday mornings or in the afternoons of the three more popular days of the week, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, is now left to the respective de partments to decide. A choice must be made between the two suggestions. Those classes that will be affected arc those which meet at present for recitation three times a week on the restricted mornings and are freshmen classes with a number below 100. Two hour subjects and those which meet for recitation either more or less than three times a week do not come under the pro visions of this ruling. This al6o automatically excludes those classes that meet twice for recita tion and a third time for labora tory work. No Extensive Shift. "We are not making a whole sale shift in the instruction pro gram of the freshman class," Dean F. E. Henzlik. chairman of the committee proposing the plan, pointed out. "This change will not affect all first year students. We are not forcing any students or departments to have Saturday classes. "We are. merely trying to achieve a better utilization of the classrooms and buildings that we have. By making this change we will be able to offer certain 1 1. d in the mornings that horu'. ! were impossible to arrange V o hope for a more widespread ami less congested use of facilities." According to Dean Henzlik'.? statistics on the first semester, ol the 31,523 students enrolled in all (Continued on Page 3.1 A.W.S. BOARD TO VIEW SKITS IN COED FOLLIES Committee Will Time Acts, Discuss Properties Wednesday Night. Seven skits which will appear in the 1937 Coed Follies will be viewed by a committee of A. W. S. Board members on Wednesday eve ning, March 17. in order that con structive criticism and skit in structions may be given. Headed by Maxine Durand, lxard members and the acts which they will direct are as follows: Miss Durand. Alpha Chi Omega; Jane Barbour, Alpha Xi Delta, Barbara DePutron, Alpha Phi; Marjorie Crabill. Kappa Alpha Theta: Vce Louise Marshall, Ray mond Hall: Ardis Graybiel, Rosa Bouton Hall; and Martha Morrow. Sigma Delta Tan. In viewing the skits on Wednes day evening the committee will time the acts and obtain Informa tion concerning properties am! lighting effects which will be ne cessary for production in the follies on April S. ;a.mi;ia cli ij means slide talk ton hi i it l'iril of SeriVi. Scheduled In Effort lo Improve Development. Twenty-four slides i"ji;iei tun? the fundamentals and the element of picture making will be slio n ! at the combined meeting of th" ! regular division and the niini;t nr. ! section of the Lincoln Camera club tonight at M o clock in roo"i '. Morrill hall. Untitled "Mow to See Pictures" this collection ut Kline 'M designed to lower the- mortality rate of photographers' negatives. Thin is the first of a series of about 15 prepared lectures on Vill i, on subject in the field of photog raphy. Future selections will ho Influenced by relictions of the au dience. Student Interested in th'j meeting are cordially Invited to attend. The VI eather. Prof. T. A. Blair assured con. tinuance for a time at least, of the balmy weather of yester day, by forecasting fair weather for today with lowly rising temperature. Cloudlnes was cheduled for the western part of the state. PRICE 5 t..v V-'