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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 9, 1938)
TIIK HAII.Y M URVSKW. FRIPW. Wi I.MBI K 0. 1M - ' v j'j-- V". djJbhMhj Spmldna. To the Ladies, Bless 'Em h .ittrncls music lovers from far out- The Nc'ui'iiskft coeds who are socially in clined have been nicking their hniins--with n fiendish plee flkin 1o the modieviil alchemists in happy anticipation of havinc the say-so fit tonight's traditional Mortar Hoard party. They will enjoy to the utmost subject ini: their escorts to all the humiliation and discomfort -Ures their feininine thinking apparatuses can devise. Theirs will he the Ruidine voice to night as usual, but minus the subtle cjiiiiou flafre of coed indirection. The men enjoy a lot of satisfaction tonight also. For all the inconveniences they must en dure in dating, the coeds will be repaid in an exasperated manner. The men will yet quite a self-satisfyins chuckle out of makiiijr the coeds check their coats, tic their shoe-laces, carry unnecessary belonyiiiys, provide 1he smokes, and, in short, foot the bill. The coeds may moan in dismay when they call for their dates, wait an hour while the men poke aloni; in Retting: dressed and &ro through with hu miliating acts, but they love it I This vice versa dating once a year is a pood thinp for any campus. It breaks the monotony of the socially prescribed boy-takes-pirl scheme of things. It takes some of the stuffiness out of the stuffed-shirt season. It debunks, to just ihe right extent, the for mality of the formal season. The Annual 'Messiah' There is nearly as much tradition wrapped Up in the University School of Music's annual ''Messiah" performance as there is in the uni versity football team. Football draws larirer Saturday crowds, but the "Messiah" does right, well for itself in "packin' 'em in" for Handel's famous oratorio. Sunday's presentation of the "Messiah" will be the 4ord consecutive I'hrisl mas ora torio. Forty times, the "Messiah" has been produced. Twice, during the two score and odd years the "Elijah" has been presented. The personnel of Sunday's inspiring ora torio includes nearly 250 university students. A Metropolitan opera singer leads the cast as guest artist to add a touch of greatness to a student activity that the years have failed to mar. Being an annual affair has furthered the "Messiah" into the state's biuticst musical treat w state. Students and university patrons can thank the late Carrie Holle Kayiuond for inaugurat ing the Christmas oratorio as a beautiful out let for spiritual devotion. Since the founding, Ihe oratorio has grown to imp-cssive splendor in a mass choir, stage scenes and special light ing effects, all based on 1he Christinas theme. William (!. Tempel choral director of 1hc school of music, will wield the director's baton for the second year this Sunday. Last year, neariy 7 thousand music lovers' jammed' the coliseum, a record attendance that' is likely to be eclipsed this week. Mr. Tempel has taken over the work handled so capablv I'or years by Howard Kirkpalrick, director of the school of music. Student interest, in recent years, has failed to amount to much, largely ' because of the false assumption that the ' "Messiah" is a school of music function alone that .Iocs not concern the rest of the university. The ".Messiah" is the university's greatest 'musical production and most certainly worthy of stu dent attendance. The appreciation is bound to follow. Fraternities Versus Dorms 'Hooping' It Up The curtain raises tomorrow night on 'Ne braska s 1!):1S-:10 basketball season with South Dakota as the first opponent the Brouoemcn will play host In on the llusker court. Before the Christmas recess. Bradley Tech, Minnesota and Wyoming will come In' Lincoln for hoop contests. The cagers will spend their holiday vacation in California, meeting such bang-up learns as California l FCLA and Stanford The second hall' of the court season will be devoted to Big Six conference games. Nebraska lost a nip-and-tuck finale game to Kansas last spring, the win necessary for Kansas to retain the Big Six court champion ship. Four of the last year regulars are tone but the replacement problem appears to be fairly well in hand, thanks lo sophomores who were real prep hoop artists. Their collegiate ability remains to be tested. Emphasizing brains over brawn, basketball at Nebraska is fast becoming the most popular winter diversion. Record attendances attest to the local interest in agility, split-second thinking, speed and daring. Football can look to its laurels. Basketball is the up and coming sport. Fraternities in colleges and uni versities have come In for lot of criticism In the past. While some of this Invective bears a marked resemblance to "sour grapes," there is a great deal of justice behind it. An organization Is supposed to he a help to the student. If not, there is little justification for the existence of that organization. Most fraternities point with pride to the achievements of some tal ented member of the lodge ami says, "That's what Tiippa Nu Keg does for a man." Hut we wonder sometimes, if these champions of the advantages of college social organization would swell up with pride if we continued the analysis thniniit the entire roster. True a fraternity, liUe any association of human be ings, must have some "dead heads," but on the whole should not the members of these organ izations make ruperior records. Scholastic Comparisons. I,est anyone labor under the delusion that our organized men arc the intellectual superiors on the rumpus, we quote from the official averages of the grades for the second semester of the 1037 3s school year. The all-university average was 1.4!)il"; that of Ihe unorganized men, 1.4513. and the fraternity average skidded down to 1, .Willi. Scholastieally, at least, the organizations would appear to he considerably below the average for all students. If and when an adequate dormi tory system Is provided here at Indiana university, fraternities will have to oiler something more than a boarding house or a per petual house party. With comfort able living quarters, adequate counseling by trained advisers and a well planned social program offered by the dormitories at a much more reasonable rate, what has the fraternity left to entice new students to join the brother hood? Those organizations which take a long range view of the situation will start "cleaninc bouse" now. Those content with ARCADE RENT CARS FORDS and CHEVROLET Phone 1647 1011 N 8t. REXT-CA1IS Good, clean n1 available st all hour. Rste reasonable. Conven ient JepMMNn Ain ,va . QAE- . 10 yelra in business. MOTOR OUT COMPANY 1120 P St B6819 A Heater In Evpr Tar for Christmas Gifts A few acclaimed by the nation's readers. FICTION My Son. Mv Son! Howard Sprinir f 3.50 The yearling. Marjorle Kmnan Rawlings 2.50 And Tell of Time. Laura Krey S.75 The Mortal Stnrm. Phvllis Bottom 2.V) The Citadel. A. .1. Cronin.. 1.39 A. Hall Co. Joseph C. Lincoln 2.50 Reherra. Daphne Tin Manner 2.75 All This and Heaven Too. Rachel Field 2.30 NON-FICTION WUh Malice Toward Some. Marxaret Halsey J3.00 The Horse and -Bnefy Doctor. Arthur E. Hemler 2.75 The Importance of Living. Lin Ytitang 8.00 Fannv Kemhle Margaret Armstrong .... J.00 I'm a Stranger Here My self. Ogden Nash 2.00 Sailor on Horseback. Irving Stone 3 00 My America. Louis Adamtr 3.73 How to Win Friends and Influenca People. re Carnegie 2.00 Lincoln Book Store J. H. Willi! 132 So. 12 ! TUNISIA SITUATION (Continued from Pnge 1.) ' empire which now troubles the j ghost of Caesar? Tunisia, often I called merely Tunis after its capi i tal city with a quarter of a million inhabitants, is the land of ancient Carthajre and its heroic Hannibal, onre the scourge of Rome. Nice, and Its companion province, Sa j voy, is the original home of the House of Savoy from which comes, 1 the king of Italy. Corsica is the , home of Napoleon Bonaparte and I a former possession of Genoa's. ; Control 'of Mediterranean. '"Very Important Is the bearing of Tunisia on the control of the Mediterranean," declared Profes sor Hill. "Being opposite the Ital ian peninsula its possession by Italy would give her much greater strength in the Mediterranean, which as Mussolini has said, is vital to Italy. This would be a challenge to Great Britain whose strength in the Mediterranean is great on account of her holding of Gibraltar, Aden, Malta, as well as her influence in Fgypt." "If we are right in assuming Union Decks Its Halls With Holly, T rees, Mistletoe Christmas has come to the Stu dent Union I On each side of the fireplace a ten foot tree decorated In the good old fashioned way, complete to the candy canes, has sprung. Holly wreathes surround the windows and wood paneling of the doors. The Rrill conies in for its share of Chirslmas spirit wilh a large silver tree adorned in blue lights. A double octet will sing carols from 1 to 2 o'clock in the lounge beginnng next Tuesday and con tinuing for the remainder of the week. Mistletoe has been ordered for the niore romantically inclined and will be spread around immediately upon its arrival. Band Honorary Holds Smoker Dwight Bonhom, Bill Lyman Talk to Group Gamma Lambda, honorary band fraternity, held an all band smoker Wednesday evening in the Union. Hill Lyman, president of the or ganization, and Dwight Bonhnm spoke to the group. The program for the evening included a flute duet by Don Lent., band director, and Don llartman, and the showing of col ored motion pictures of the band in action this fall, Daily Nebraskan ttntrrM m wronrt-rliiM mailer mi the rMinficc In Lincoln, rVi-hrmka, nnrtrr art ttf ronirvM, Mnrrh M, 1X79, nnd M Mortal rut of pontage provMr4 tnr In ftrt1nn II OR, nrt nf (Montr S, mil, mithorlrH Jttntinry 20, 11'2. Ag Complimented At Union Dance Johnny Cox to. Ploy On Saturday Night The orchestra of Johnny Cox has been engaged to preside over the special guest night of the Union when all ag college students will be guests. Saturday night has been set aside for the party and dancing wilV begin at 8 o'clock, The ag dance scheduled to take place in the ajj activities building Saturday evening has been can celled so that all ag students may attend the Union dance. Tickets to the dance will be distributed by the American Society of Agri cultural Kngineers. City campus students and town people will be charged 2ft cents to attend the dance, .lohnny Cox and his hand are popular in Lin coln, having played here often. by" will find the going very tougn when the competition become stiffer. Indiana Daily Student. W.A.A. Holds Bowling Practice Saturday V. A. A. howling party, which is open to any university coed, will be held this Saturday at the Lin coln Bowling Alleys. Twelve alleys will be at the disposal of the girls for one hour and six for the next. Pauline Bnwen is in cht.ge of this Women's Athletic -.ssociation play party. Those Rirls ,.o arrive at 1 o'clock will be allowed to bowl for one whole hour. After that first just getting come first served. This afternoon's fun is free to every girl on tnc university campus. Tassels Check in Party Tickets at Union Today Tassels will meet this noon at the Union to check in tickets and money for the Mortar Board party. Virginia Nolte states that it is imperative, that every member report. Roll will be taken. St. Paul Groups Schedule Party Student Classes Hold Yuletide Fete Friday SJRG'S PUPPETS Gifts Thai ore really acceptable PERFUME Fleurs de Rorhelle bv Carron $8.00 COMPACT SETS $1.50 to $10.00 TOILET SETS PERFUME - POWDER etc. $5.00 $7.50 PIPES Kavvfnodie $3.50 $4.00 $5.00 Newest Designs at Uni Drug (Continued from Tage 1.) interested in these lands? Ts It only Ihe glory of the old Roman i mis a school of puppetcering there. Miss Shsnafelt who is widely known fur her own puppetcering ability culls puppetcering " a de lipMfnl f.irni nf rxnression Mini The university Sunday school .h;h rsln ,in thines T couldn't class and Kpworth League of St. ( nh(rwjs(, .. xithoncrh for many raid s Methodwt church will noin i oc,vp it js R profession, for her a Christmas party Friday evening jt , jhny at Ihe . hurch. Helen Kighmy. Del- j Televi,ion Boost, p hert Chnstenson and Kills Dann , rr are in charge of the program. The j She is looking forward to na- partv begins at R o'clock and all ' tionwide television when, she he- ! university Methodists are welcome, heves, puppets win come into their own. in expianauon, sne pointed out that companies can easily present television plays with the tiny figures which take up so little space with all their equip ment in contrast to flesh and blood actors. Defining some of the terms of her fascinating hobby, she said that any figure manipulated in any way Is a puppet. Marionettes are puppets operated by strings, the type which Tony Sarg uses. Then there are shadow puppets, rod puppets, hand puppets and in numerable others. When Sarg first appeared in Lincoln, Miss Shanafelt had only one puppet. She really started five or six years after that and at the present has about 65 figures. "Now I'm forever tangled in their strings," she smilingly said. that the demonstrations in Italy, were planned, what was the mo tive?" asked Professor Hill. "To me it seems likely that the tsaging of the display was simply a diplo matic 'feeler' an effort to sound out the situation and find the re action in France, England and per haps Germany. Doubtless it was suggested in part by the internal disorders of France, and the pres ent willingness of the British gov ernment to compromise. It is not. unlikely that Italy is anxious lo make an issue while Chamberlain is still in power, for there have been rumors recently of a general election in England." Bargaining Power. The international relations ex pert explained that a second mo tive might be present in recreating these visions of the old Roman em pire. The modern Caesar may he seeking greater bargaining power in the Franco-Italian negotiations. "Personally I do not lean to this 1 under the interpretation. In a dictatorship ! Toiirtelot . it is not good politics to arouse 1 ,lroTnnr,7Jiri popular ambitions and emotions MflfTRl HAMP unless the government ran find "mLOMIU l,rt,m some way to satisfy them. A die- ! (Continued from Page .) tator cannot appear weak to his tops on a certain instrument. He people he must do things that are says that you can always find at daring and spectacular. He can't least half a dozen musicians who afford to retreat on an issue. This are tops in their special field, was what made it necessary for j The tune that is requested more Chamberlain at Munich to do i than any other by Hamp's dance nearly all ot the conceding. It is this fact, that a die later cannot i back down, that looks most dis turbing in the Italian Tunisian af fair, i "An encouraging sign can be found in the fact that Europe is displaying considerable genius for settling crises. Modern diplomacy ' is resourceful. While the condition i is disturbing I believe that some sort of diplomatic formula will be found to avoid an open rupture. Spanish Club Prepares Play Students, Faculty Give 'El Bigote Rubio' "El Rigote Rubio" or "The Blonde Mustache," a drama show ing the comical trials and tribula tions of a Spanish married couple, will be presented by students and faculty of the Spanish department at the meeting of El Club Espag nole lo be held next Wednesday evening at 7:30 in Morrill 210. The heroine who, jealous of her husband, meddles in everyone's af fairs, will be portrayed by Kath erine Pia'7.a. Louise Wiike and .Ion Aston also have important parts in the cast of six characters. Kurt her entertainment for the meeting will consist of group sing ing of Spanish Christmas rarols. direction of Harrv The I'niversity of California's atom smashing cyclotron weighs 85 tons. Treating Him Right . . arc 24 Phi Mus who arc showing 1hoir Mortar BnaH tlates how it's lonc when they tii'ko n man out for the evening . . . by reserving a private dining room in ihe lintel Capital for dining anil dancing at 12 . . , vvith deco rations, favors, food, and all the f i in 's. it promises to be "quite 1ho stuff" . . . ami what's more, the boys will be right on hand to have their pictures 1aken when the Comhusker photograph er comes around . . . wo can't tell you everybody who will he ihere hut here's n "part list" . . . l.illiaii Wil liamson and Don Olson, Chi Phi; Ulndys Trnik and Pill Kortliing. Kappa Sig; Dotty McCartney ami Kodgo Yif- inaiu. Sigma Nu ; '"Woody" Campbell and Orval llagcr, Ucta: Dolores Pngue and Hill Horn, A TO ; Marian OL son and Dean Kadavy, Chi Phi; ".Tody" Marshall and Pat McFadden; Mary Jane Hanry and Howard Weibel ; Kay Lindblad. nnd flrorpo Meier, Acacia ; Dorothy .lean Kvans and Bud Rapp, P1KA : Lois Crawford and Leonard Peltier, Sigma Chi; Kay Donovan and Hay Carlson, Phi Sig . . . Don't miss be ing there . . . Ilicrp'll be lots to sec, what with photog raphers and original eor saecs...SLT,YOi; ATTHK CAPITAL TON1TK! HOTEL CAPITAL '0 1 3 followers is "Mv Reverie." Other songs come and go but "My Rev ie" has held the front frow po sition for the last two months. 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