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IJNCOLN, NEBRASKA, TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 1 1933 j ?
847 GET DEGREES
IN 67TH ANNUAL
COMMENCEMEN
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Dr. Carl Ackcrman Speaks
On "Our American Axis"
to Crowd of 8,000.
Nations of the Americas must
unite in blocking the spread of
propaganda in order that peace
may be preserved, Dr. Carl W.
Ackorman of New York City, dean
of the graduate school of journal
ism at Columbia university, told a
gathering of more than 8,000 per
sons at the university's 67th com
mencement program Sunday morn
ing. Dr. Ackerman cited as the two
major needs of the American na
tions today a new faith and a new
perspective of their relation to the
whole of the western hemisphere.
We need to feel a new surety in
the spirit of unity of the western
hemisphere, he said. We are ac
customed to thinking of the Amer
ican axis as extending only east
and west. We must think of it as
extending north and south, from
Canada to the Argentine.
Education For Peace
In this day of Home-Berlin, London-Paris,
Paris-Moscow axis, our
need is to feel a greater conscious
ness of this American axis, the
educator explained, not as isolat
ing us from Europe, but as a
means toward a truer understand
ing and peaceful relations. Educa
tion must play a major part in
this program, he staled.
Degrees were granted to 847
graduates, the largest group to be
graduated since 1932. All colleges
except medicine and graduate
showed increases.
Honorary degrees were pre
sented to five university alumni.
Doctor of laws degree were given
Dr. John Clark of Cheyenne. Wyo.,
professor of economics at the Uni
versity of Nebraska; Dr. Harry L.
Hollingsworth, Montrose, New
York, professor of psychology at
Barnard college at Columbia uni
versity; Dr. eLta S. Hollingsworth,
professor psychology at Columbia,
and Dr. William Linn Westermann
of Scarsdale, Nc,w York, professor
of ancient history at Columbia; and
A doctor of science degree to John
Torrence Tate, dean of the arts
college at the University of Minne
sota. Dr. Spencer Speaks.
Dr. Robert Nelson Spencer,
bishop of West Missouri, Episcopal
church, delivered the baccalaureate
address to the graduating class
Sunday afternoon in the coliseum.
His subject was "Counsel of the
Heart", and following the address
open house for seniors, their par
ents and friends, faculty and
alumni was held in the Student
union building.
Saturday evening, seniors dined
as the guests of the Student union
management at a banquet and
dance in the union ballroom. Don
Boehm acted as toast master at the
affair, and Elmer Pohrmann, presi
dent of the graduating class, spoke
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Moritz Issues Welcome
As Summer Term Opens
We extend greetings to stu
dents and visiting instructors
attending the 44th Summer
session at the University of
Nebraska.
The Summer session is not
only a continuation of the reg
ular year's work but furnishes
additional opportunities not of
fered during the semestral ses
sions in certain lines of work.
The demonstration school,
speech clinic, educational con
ferences, law enforcement of
ficer's institute, and educational
exhibits are some of the special
features made available to sum
mer school students.
A number of distinguished
visiting instructors will offer
courses in several departments
and special lecturers assist in
many courses.
The long felt need of a Stu
dent union has at last been re
alized and students and faculty
will enjoy the comforts ot an
air conditioned building with its
modern facilities in cafeteria,
dining rooms, lounge, reading
room, game room, and confer
ence hall.
We welcome you most heart
ly and cordially and trust that
our summer will be both
feasant and profitable.
R. D. MORITZ,
Director of Summer Session.
IN CM n
TO
PLANS
FOR RECREATION
Program Includes Dancing,
Sports Tournaments,
Indoor Games.
REG1&RAT I0& MARKS
STUDENTS'FIRST STEP
INTO SUftMER STUDIES
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Classes Starf Thursday Following
Conclusion of Enrollment-.
HUSKER BOYS' STATE
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LID
OR AG CAMPUS
A complete summer recreation
program, with tennis, swimming,
golf, horseshoe, baseball, checkers,
chess, bridge and regular Friday
night dances in the ballroom of the
Student Union, is being planned
by the summer recreation com
mittee, headed bv Kenneth Van
Sant, Student Union director. Com
plete charge of the summer pro
gram has been given to the Stu
dent Union committee.
First dance of the summer has
been scheduled for this Friday
night in the ballroom, with a nomi
nal charge of 10 cents per per
son. Students are urged to fill out
the preference questionnaires,
which may be obtained at the coli
seum or at the Student Union of
fice. Van Sant stated. From these
questionnaires a complete program
i. :i . .1 . i- .
may De compucu, wiin teams
drawn up and drawings made for
tournaments in the various sports.
Assisting with the summer pro
gram will be Miss Lee of the
physical education department and
her staff of assistants
254 Youth from 150 Towns
Study Applied Civics
Here Next Week.
Two hundred and fifty-four boys.
high school juniors from all over
the state, will move into Lincoln
Saturday to set up to the Com-
husker Boys' state on the college
of agriculture campus. They will
remain there for a week to learn
of the privileges, rights and re
sponsibilities of American citizenship.
Following their arrival, the boys
will be divided into cities and coun
ties, governed according to the
laws and procedure of Nebraska.
The cities of this mythical 49th
state will elect their own officials
from the governor on down. There
will be a unicameral legislature.
city councils, county boards of
supervisors, courts, and all the
other necessary legislative, execu
tive and judicial bodies.
All of the boys have been se
lected for their personality, mental
and physical stadnards. enthusiasm
and co-operative spirit hy some
group in the 16 Otowns from which
they come, all under the general
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UNIVERSITY
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I Prof, R. D. Moritz.
VISlfflEAlERS
PROMISE TO ENRICH
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Dr. E. E. Iaekey Urges
Now Tjpc Geography
In (Itirrrnt Magazine
A tvne of geoeranhv "that is
dynamic in relation to the prob
lems of the day" is urged by Dr
K. K. Lackey, associate professor
of geogiaphq, in an article by him
appearing in School and Society
Bcl'cving that the old geography
will not satisfy because "it does
not strike deeply into the problems
that grin the minds of frontier
thinkers of education," Dr, Lackey
suggests that geography be taught,
not as an independent subject, but
as a social science linked with
other fields.
' Instead of proposing physical
political, or industrial geography
of the United Stated" he asks
"why not offer a geographic back
ground of American life and prob
lems?"
F. B. I., Sheriff's Association
Cooperate in Program
Week of June 13.
Faculty Additions Include
Professors of Nine
Universities.
Nebraska's summer session fac
ulty this year will include 27 vis-j
I iting educators, each a specialist,
In cooperation with the Federal in ms fidli whose work is ex-!
Bureau of Investigation and the I , , , , , . , . .
Nebraska State Sheriff' associa- t(J supplement and enrich
tion. the University will conduct jibe summer curriculum. In addi
a short Police Institute during the, tion to superintendents and super
week of June 13 to 17 inclusive. vjs,.s from various cities through-
A number of outside speakers of I ..... , .
note have been secured to appear "" thc nU- professors from nine
on the program as well as local universities have been secured,
talent. Several University profes-1 From Columbia university come
sore win conuiRT leciures hmuiT, t,,i; t -., .....u r,mfot,.r t
Registration for the summer
session gels under way this after
noon in the coliseum and will con
tinue thru Wednesday when more
than 2,000 students are expected
to enroll. Students may register
today from 1 to 5 o'clock, and
tomorrow from 8 to 12, and 2 to 5.
Classes will meet in regular ses
sion on Thursday, Friday and Sat
urday of this week, according to
an announcement by Prof. R. D.
Moritz. director of the summer
term. Classes will be held on Sat
urday for this first week only, and
after that they will meet regularly
five days a week, Monday through
Friday.
Schedule Changes.
Several changes are noted in the
schedule for this Saturday. Voc.
Educ. 110 will meet at 10 a. m.
instead of 9 a. m. Geography 163
will meet at 11 a. m. instead of
1 p. m. Miss Maude Rousseau will
take the classes scheduled for Miss
Baker. Mr. Fink will teach Phys
iology l and 108 instead of Dr.
Lyman, and Dr. Lyman will teach
Physiology 10 and 110 in place of
Dr. Schrick. Mrs. Kilgore will take
tht classes scheduled for Miss
Carbin, ,and Henry Zwiebel will
conduct the classes scheduled for
Merle Stoneman.
Instructors are asked to ob
serve the following regulation:
exhibits, sales talks, and displays
of materials are not permitted in
any classroom during the summer
session except upon written per
mission of the Director of the
Summer Session.
As in the past, the University
is offering both a long course and
a short course this summer. The
program of courses has been ex
panded to meet the constantly
changing needs of summer school
students. Major emphasis is placed
on the long session, of course.
which closes August r
session closes Jul" 15.
demonstrations for the course
which is open to all police officers
of the state without charge. The
program has been so arranged as
to be of value to everyone regard
less of whether he attends for a
day or the entire week.
Special Agents Speak.
Special Agents L. V. Boardman
and I. E. Nitsehke for the F. B. I.
at Washington. D. C. will discuss
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COED PLAYS LAW STUDENT.
MOTHER ROLES EQUALLY WELL
Mrs. Pauline Von Branden
fcls Receives LL. B. De
gree at Exercises.
Raising two sturdy young sons
is one thing and earning a law
degree is another. But Mrs. Paul
ine von Brandenfels, who received
her LL.B. degree at commencement
exercises yesterday morning, has
combined the two jobs and shown
herself very able at bolh.
It all began when she came to
the University in the winter of
1932. Here she met Carl von Bran
denfels who was seeking a law
degree. In April, 1934, the two
were married, ami the next fall
Mrs. Brandenfels decided to try
her own luck in the law college
alongside her husband
Studies progressed very well,
interrupted in August, 1935, by the
not at all unimportant event of the
birth of young Martin. Meanwhile,
Mr. Brandenfels got a new Job, a
much bigger one that demanded so
much time that he felt it necessary
to drop out of school. By now, his
wife had a degree in business ad
ministration (earned with an aver
age of over 901, and she decided
that she would carry on in law
alone - at least for a time.
She stayed out of school the first
semester of 1936, and in November
of that year, another young fellow
was born named Frederick. Illness
the second semester made it neces
sary for her to make up six weeks
of law school work, but she came
through with a higher average
than before. This spring she won
the Nathan Burkan competition on
copyright law after entering her
essay with other seniors, and she
received a prize of $100.
Mrs. Brandenfels explains that
she went to classes in the morning,
took care of her children and her
home in the afternoon, and studied
at night when her husband was at
work. Now she plans to continue
her dual role as home-maker and
lawyer. But if she finds that
practicing law takes too much of
her time away from her family,
she ava that her home comes
first!
education in the teachers college,
and Harry Green, instructor in art
and handicraft in the Lincoln
schools. Those from other out-state
colleges and universities include:
Dr. Ernest Anderson, professor of
chemistry from the University of
Arizona; Dr. Kenneth Bjork, pro
fessor of history at St. Olaf col
lege; Dr. Edwin J. Foscue, asso
ciate professor of geography,
Southern Methodist university.
J. Russell Crow, instructor in
English and education at the Uni
versity of Tulsa: Dr. Clyde Hill,
professor of secondary education
and chairman of the department
of education at Yale university;
Dr. John H. Mueller, professor of
sociology at the University of In
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The short
South
Iowa Trees
e leaves From
Worm Infextation
AMES. Mav IS. Thousands of
trees in southern Iowa are being
defoliated by the most serious out
break of canker worms in recent
years, H. D. Tate, extension Fen-
ice entomologist at Iowa State
college, said today.
Hundreds of apple orchards
which were not i?gularly sprayed
this spring have been completely
stripped of their leaves, l ale said
In Oskaloosa. where the worms
arc attacking the elm trees, from
GO to 75 percent of the foliage is
already cone.
While the outbreak is confined
largely to the southern half of the
state." and particularly to the
southeastern area, similar out
breaks may develop soon in north
ern Iowa, Tate said, altho they
will probably be less severe.
BLATZ TO ADDRESS
EDUCATORS
MEETING
Quintuplets' Psychologist to
Come to University
June 22-25.
Dr. VV. K. Blatz, ps hologlst for
the Dionne quintuplets is an
nounced as one of the speakers
at the university's educational con
ference which opens in Lincoln,
June 22. Dr. Blatz is from St.
George's school for child study at
Toronto, Canada.
The conference is designed to
supply answers to questions raised
by educators who must deal with
all types of children. Nebraska
educators have been asked hy Dr.
D. A. Worcester to send their
questions in for discussion at
roundtable forums. Subject of the
three day session, which will Ix
held in the Stu.lt nt Union build
ing, will be1 "The Integrated
Child."
Other speakeis at the confer
ence will include Dr. H. L. Cas
well, professor of education at Co
lumbia university; Dr. Clyde M.
Hill, chairman of the department
of education, Yale; Harry P.ecker,
director of the Nebraska child wel
fare department; Dr. Ruth Lever
ton of the home economics depart
ment; Dr. R. F. Ritchie, psychi
atrist for the board of control:
Dr. K. V. Hancock of Lincoln, and
Dr. Krnest Horn, professor of edu
cation at the University of Iowa.
