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THK DAILY NEBKASKAN SUNDAY. FKRKUARY 13, 193 PAGE Til It EE Dorothy Canfield Fisher to Speak earn they could at least loam inguished auth oress returns to Lincoln in the role of principal guest ind speaker at the university's 6!Hh birthday cele b r a t i on. The university will be observing its 6 9th anniver s a r y Tuesday ni 1 ahmiiii, the faculty, dents friends once nnre in a series will lie recalled when the dis- CONFERS HONORARY DEGREE . "21 !!":! LA lJ V I I I join of lir,riliy i nfilirld Mrl. I.lnrln .'oiirTinl. programs which will recall the events of the past ami redodiete the program of the future. Kecause of Mrs. Fisher's recog nized literary attainments the uni versity, through Chancellor Kur nrtt. will confer upon her an hon oinry doctor of letters degree lit the Tuesday morning program in the Coliseum. CONCERT OPENS CELEBRA TION. In bringing the famous author to Lincoln the university will lie host to one of the most widely road American novelists, whose books have been translated into the languages of many countries. Her visit here Tuesdiy is being looked forward to by not only her many friends and childhood play mates, but by the Nebraska pub lic in general who have long ad mired her many writings. The anniversary festivities offi cially get under way Sunday bt 3 o'clock in the coliseum with the annual mid-winter concert of the ROTO symphonic band, under the direction of its conductor, IVn A. Lent?.. This newly organized ensemble will present a brand new p.'igram that will satisfy every j taste. This wiU be the first p p. aranee of the symphonic band this year. This, plus the fact that many alumni have already arrived in Lincoln is enough to insure a ' capacity rowd for the program that afternoon. DISMISS CLASSES TUESDAY, j The second item on the Charter 1 Day Calendar is the basketball game between Nebraska and Iowa State college at the coliseum Mon day evening at 8:00. Charter Day exercises proper will lead off with It':- annual public convocation in the field house Tuesday morning ' lo.l.y Class have lecn dis missed from 10 o'clock till noon that day. I At the mornitifj program Mrs. Vi.hcr will speak on "Pioneering and Kduration" and the I'riiversity if Nebraska symphony orchestra will play "Overture Kuryantbe" by Von Weber. "Tivo Slavonic Dances" in A flat and C major, by Dvorak, and "Phedce" by Mas senet. Tuesday noon the trustees of the I'nivetNity found ition will have a luncheon at the l.'niversit v : dub and at (hat evening will be the charter day dinner ir.i alumni, students and f.icully. Mis Fisher will be the guest of honor. ! STUDENT UNION THEME. While it is to be rerrette.l that the uruveisity'h new student union aetiviti. s building is not computed in time for the rvMiralion this year. Chancellor Huinett and the committee in charge of the chart ei day program hive nevertheless ci r.t lid the getieial theme of the observance around the new p lifiee. Tin- latest r-Miit to tin- i "gents set the dale of its completion some tune in Vim h .lude Ixmiis l.lcht'ii r of Colum bus, a inemrVr of the class of 1'i'M. will be toaJmMster at tie ih n'.er day dinner. The Siiidir t union building; an I Ps seivice to (':- ttuuYiiU will bj Die .-si.bj. . t of j several talks by Kenneth Van Sant, the newly appointed direc i tor; Robert Simmons, jr., repre senting the student body, and John Latsener, jr., of Omaha, the Ne- brnska works progress adminis I trator. Chancellor Burnett will I review the university's progress ' and Dr. Louise Pound of the Kng- lish faculty will introduce Mrs ! Fisher. Governor and Mis. Coch ran have been invited as honor guests at the Tuesday evening 1 dinner. ! At the trustees' meeting Tues day noon new officers will be elected. L. K. Gunderson, finance secret ajy, will announce the num lier of gifts received by the foun dation dining the year, which, hy the way. a mount to many thou sands of dollars. K. P. Hrown is the retiring president. There will be an amendment offered at this time to enlarge the membership of the organization. ! KNEW DROUTH OF 1893. Mrs. Fisher's coming recalls the r . mm "v t' ; . 1.. .... days when her father, James Can field, was appointed chancellor of the univeisity in 1s.SU. An aggres sive individual, with the experienee as a railway superintendent and legal as well as academic train ing, Chancellor Canfield found his resources taxed to the limit during the black days of 1S!3 when dust storms and drouth ravaged the state from one end to the other. In spite of these hardships, the university enrollment under his four years of guidance almost tripled. Dr. Canfield resigned in lM'a to accept the presidency of Ohio State university, but during his four year stay at Nebraska, Mis. Fisher's brother, James A. Canfield. matriculated and gradu ated. Mrs. Fisher, then a girl of 14, was enrolled in the university's preparatory school. She regrets that there is little to re said aliout the four years she spent in Lincoln. In a recent letter she confides that she was always sent back to Vermont as Focn as the hot weather began in June and didn't return until late in September. She writes: I ADMIRED WU LA CATHER. "I had been in school In Paris for a year before my father cam to Nebraska as chancellor. When 1 arrived in Lincoln I think I went into tne seventh or eighth grade of the public schools. From there I registered in the university's pre paratory s. hool, but left Lincoln U fore I was oi l enough to be come a freshman in the institution. What I saw of the university lif ;.t Nebraska tli n was therefore seen as a facu.'t f child S"es it and thru the eyes ot an older brother. Willi Cathep wis in my brother's class 1 enormously admired her and Mi" nas always Very kind to CHINA! FEAR! FAMINE! LANO OF UNREST, OF STARVATION . . ton, 1- sfeli Lincoln Journal. Chancellor E. A. Burnett. me. In the preparatory school Lieutenant Pershing taught alge bra and geometry, and I remember I was in his class.'' Several of the buildings, which in Mrs. Fisher's student days were the center of all common activity, are still in use today, including Grant Memorial hall, which was built in 1SS7; old University hall, built in 1S70. which is now reduced to a one story structure; and Ne braska hall, built in '17, There was the pharmacy building built in ISKo, and the library, which came in ISOl, and the astronomy build ing five oars later. AUTHOR OF "BENT TWIG." Mrs. Fisher took her A. B. de gree at Ohio State university dur ing her father's presidency there and later took work for her Ph. D. degree in Romance languages at the Sorbonne in Paris and Colum bia university, receiving her de gree from Columbia in 19o.". in 1907 she mairied John R. Fisher and they went to live on one of the Canfield farms in Vermont where they now reside near the little town of Arlington. F.very reader is more or less fa miliar with the many books that she has written beginning with her first book "Corneille and Racine," followed hv such popular fiction as "Squirrel Cage." "The Lent Twig," '"Understood Betsy." "Her Son's Wife." "The Deepening Stream" an. I her more recent book, "Bon fire." Both Mr. and Mrs. Fisher have been active in civic and educa tional work. During the World war they saw service in France and as the result of their extended sojourn there Mrs. Fisher, upon returning to her Vermont home months later, graphically described those trying days in a book entitled "Home Fires in France." TOP RATING AS CRITIC. As a literary critic she rates at the top Her ability in this field was recognized with her appoint ment to the board of five judges of the Book of the Month club. She has received the honorary degre of doctor of literature from Columbia university. William Col lege, Dartmouth. Middlebury. the University of Vermont, Ohio State university, and now she is return ing to her former home to receive similar honors from the institution which so closely has been associ ated with her family. Mrs. Burnett will be hostess at a luncheon Tuesday at 1 o'clixk at the Cornhusker in honor of Mrs. Fisher. Only a small group will 1- present, made up of persons who have been intimately nc miair'ted with the author or with her father and mother. First Ei Show s'"i'i. . PRESIDES AT BANQUET 'issr Charter Convo Presents Noted Writer Tuesday Former Nelrkan Kcturns to Receive IJ1). Degree As Celebration of lTnivertiity's 69lh Anniversary (;ets Under Way. The days when orothy Oanficl.l"Kislier was a foiuinr slu dent under Lieut. JhIiu J. Vrsliinp and James H. Oanfield, her father, then ehancellor of the University of Nebraska, was ad vising drouth bitten residents of this slate that "f they couldn't Sentence Study Aids Cameraman, Wciland Reveals The picture is the oldest method of recording thought, and strange ly enough the least understood, says Prof. W. F. Weiland of the mechanical engineering depart ment. Simplicity in the picture is as much to be desired as it is in the structure of a sentence, he says; for while the picture must the modifying phrases, they must the modifying phrases they must be present in the proper numbers so as not to complicate and lose the train of thought. "The serious amateur studies page after page of discussions which eulogize pet theories and experiences of photographers," Professor Weiland writes in the Nebraska Blue Print. "There is the film which solves all problems, the filter which makes a peaceful sky look like a thunderstorm, the de veloper that brings out everything and even the correct printing and enlarging naner. But all this is j only technique." I With all t:iis aid. the individual j still has the joh of producing a good picture. The camera may be ; a simple bos costing only a dollar, : says the university engineer, who j is also a recognized photogr apher, or it may be a beautifully finished device with many gadgets and ' worth sever al hundred dollars. The point is the kodak does not make I the picture. It is merely a fine tool in the hands of a' skillful operator. What, then, is a pic ture? I "A picture is just a simple sen I tenee, pleasingly arranged, to ex press an idea." he states. "You wonder thru a gallery when un consciously you are attracted to a picture. It holds your attention; it j does not irritate nor does it tire I a story in simple language, a mas I tei pieee that will last thru the ages." vx... i) H x .. ' V : : : : ? f Lincoln Journal. Judge Lewis Lightner. DR. MIUTZER"NAMED BARB CLUB SPONSOR PHI SIGMA IOTA PLANS Honorary Language Group Takes Action Tuesday Night at 7:30. Phi Sigma Tot a, honorary ro mance languages fraternity, will discuss the installation of the local organization into the national fra ternity of Phi Sigma Iota, when they meet Tuesday evening at 7:30 at the home of Dr. Harry Kurz, im So. ltth. Plans for the initiation into the national society of honorary, fac ulty, alumni and active members are to be made. The Nebraska group petitioned the national or ganization for membership in Jan uary and the request was granted. The nature of the discussion makes it important that all members attend. Council Lays Tentative Plans for Spring Festivities. P.arb Council members at their regular meeting Thursday after noon elected as the new spons r of the Barb organization, Dr. Wal ter Militzer of the chemistry de partment. Dr. Militzer will be 1): organization's first sponsor Hils year. Other business of the couni-il in cludes a unanimous vote to extend a "hearty approval of the actinu I taken by the Student Council of the university in regard to em-om- aging the board of regents to a,-, c.-pt tie proposal of the Lincoln 1 Cathedral choir in becoming at:i liated wilh the university." Plans for a spring party, a nic nic. and a banquet were discuss - 1 and tentative arrangements mad.-. No committees have as yet been appointed. The council also made arrange. , ments to fill the position left va cant by the recent resignation fit Helen Sevt-ra as a member of t!ii council. ICWIS S10NC CECILIA PARKED MICKEY ROONEY 1 mm mm PLUS Comedy N. 'fyy:J I Ayr- Ca'ltkl'? 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