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, Cftoir to sing at iV. F. World's Fair Group seeks sponsor before making permanent schedule ) The Official Newspaper of More Than VOL. XXXVIII, NO. 100. Convo hears H. J. Haskell tomorrow Kansas City editor compares new deal, old Roman government Henry Joseph Haskell, editor of the Kansas City Star will address students in convocation at 11 o'clock tomorrow in the Temple. A comparison of the economic policies and problems of the sec ond century Roman government with the present day Roosevelt doctrines will constitute the es sential part of the speech, entitled "The New Deal of Old Rome." Becoming interested in this sub ject several years ago, Haskell toured Italy, studying first hand the records of the past. Edits 50,000 Word Volume. Supplementing in this way the material he could gain from text books, he is editing in May a 50, 000 word volume on the similari ties he discovered between the two civilizations. In a letter re ceived by C. S. Forbes of the classics department in charge of making convocation arrange' ments, Haskell declared that sit down strikes originated centuries ago in the Egyptian alabaster fac , tories, that the Romans had . PWAs and relief organizations, and that the financiers symbolized in the person of J. P. Morgan were present at that time under names like Considius. Listed in Who's Who. Contemporary to his study of the parallels between Roman and See HASKELL page 2. 15 seek 'Best Dressed' title Candidates to appear before A.W.S. board Fifteen university women will vie for the title of Nebraska's Best Dressed Girl, to be named by the A. W. S. board at the an nual Coed Follies, March 23, at Temple theater. Candidates, who are to appear before the board at 2:15 today at social sciences auditorium. In clude: Betty Bachman, Alpha Chi Omega; Elizabeth Smith, Alpha Omicron Pi; Pat Prime, Alpha Phi; Martha Long, Alpha Xi Delta; Mary Eva Huffman, Car rie Belle Raymond; Ruth Ste phens, Chi Omega; Marjorie Lind- quist, Delta Delta Delta; Pat Reitz, Delta Gamma; Betty Hill yer, Kappa Alpha Thcta; Dorothy Swoboda, Kappa Delta; Betty Jane Hopewell, Kappa Kappa Gamma; Marjorie Barnett, PI Beta Phi; Mary Jane Haney, Phi Mu: Harriet Byron, Sigma Delta Tau; Betty Lehman, Sigma Kap pa. Basis of Selection. According to Janet Lau, Coed Follies chairman, the Best Dressed Girl will be chosen on the basis of taste, appropriateness of clothes, posture, and general ap pearance, rather than on expen sJveness, and the name 'of the winner will bo kept secret until her presentation at the show. tor the style show wjiich is a part of the Follies, board mem bers will select 40 models to be chosen from those nominated by their respective organizations. Elizabeth Wu.ugh,' board member in charge of. the style show, hns announced that models will be viewed alphabetically according to their organizations. Alpha Chi Omega through Kappa Alpha Theta will appear at 2:30 today in social sciences auditorium, and all otner groups at 3:15. Z 108 Gerry Wallace '39 Prom Girl yiww.v.ww-wwywi;'! 5 V r Gerry Wallace, Lincoln Delta Gamma, was revealed as the 1939 Prom girl at the junior-senior prom Friday night, closing dince of the university formal season. In the presentation ceremony, attention turned from drum beater Gene Krupa and his orchestra, to the coliseum stage where trum peters heralded the annual cere mony. Curtains parted to reveal Miss Wallace standing before a large drum background on which her name was printed. Dressed In a gown of white silk Jersey, Grecian style, and a Roman striped jacket with a hood collar, the newly acclaimed Prom girl Klub picks show cast this week Tryouts for 16 parts set Wednesday, Thursday Kosmet Klub will select the speaking cast for its new spring show, "Alias Aladdin" In tryouts Wednesday and Thursday eve nings at 7:30 o'clock In the Social Science auditorium. The competition for writing the lyrics and song arrangements will close In about two weeks, so that work on the spring production may be begun In earnest. A prize of J10 Is to be given to the writer of the best number, a statement of Bob Gannon, business manager of the club revealed. A total of 16 parts will b? open for tryouts this week varying in type from tho royal Caliph of Baghdad to the construction gang of the Persiarf WPA. Selections will be made by the club members, with Joe Iverson, director of the 1939 production assisting. Qualifications for eligibility are the same as those required for athletic participation. Students must have carried a total of 27 hours during the preceding year, and at least 12 hours the preced ing semester. Selection of members of the pony clwrus among which a novel harem chorus will be featured, will be made sometime the follow ing week. St S St 6,000 Students SUNDAY, MARCH 5, 1939 y f Lincoln Journal was presented with a bouquet of red roses by Grant Thomas, junior class president, and Bill Kovanda senior class president, who then escorted her to the dance floor. Some 700 couples divided their time between dancing and cluster ing around the orchestra dais to watch the perspiring gyrations of Drummerman Krupa, who, wun his crew, did not fail to keep up a steady show of entertainment ranging from a classical arrange ment of a popular song to a rhyth mic tom-tom number in which all the orchestra members joined their leader in a torrid "skin beat ing" ensemble. Grades must be filed by April 18 Failure to check may keep one off honor list No name will be included among the honor students at the annual honors convocation, April 18, if the records contain reports of In completes, conditions or no re portB, an announcement of dean of student affairs, T. J. Thompson, revealed yesterday. Every year a large number of students ranking high in their class, are not given proper recog nition due to the failure of some professor to file credits on made up work. Though such errors are of course accidental, the report of the dean of student affairs an nounced, they can be prevented if each student will take it upon him self to check up on his conditions, seeing that the removal of them is recorded. Grades available now at registrar's office Last semester grades are now available at the registrar's office and at the office of Dean W. W. Burr on the agricultural campus. Presentation of both the student's activity card and his picture are mandatory be fore the cards will be given out. It is desired that they be called for at this time, although they will be held until May 1, by which time entries will have been made on the pass books. i 1 Clayton arranges five engagements during conferences with fair, radio, hotel officials Five engagements at the New York World's Fair have been entatively scheduled for the Lincoln Cathedral choir pending the securing of a sponsor, the day afternoon. Counselors elect officers Tuesday Misses Faith Medlar, Fern Steuteville vie for president's post The 1939-40 Coed Counselor board will be chosen Tuesday when university women go to the polls in Ellen Smith and Home Ec halls for the annual election. Candidates for the presidency of the freshman advisory board are Faith Medlar and Fern Steuteville. Nominees for the two senior un affiliated positions are June Bier- bower, Elaine Deyke, Charlotte Peckham and Melva Kime. Marion Kidd, Maxine Lake, Mary Sher burne and Emmie Marie Schutt loffel ar the candidates for the two affiliated senior memberships on the board. Junior Candidates. Running for the two junior barb positions are Jane DeLatour, vic toria Ekblad, Arlene Kellenbargcr and Ruth Ann Sheldon. Candidates for the two sorority positions are Mary Bullock, Ruth Clark, Lucille Cox and Jane Pratt. Nominated for the one narb sophomore place are Charmian Bloom and Ruth Grosvenor. Can didates for the one affiliated soph omore place are Natalie Burns and Ruth McMillan. The Coed Counselor board is made up evenly of affiliated and unaffiliated women. However, ali women are entitled to vote for both sorority and unaffiliated candidates. Outgoing president of the Coeu Counselor board is Virginia Fleet wood. Retiring senior members are Virginia Nolte, Marjorie Churchill, Bonnie Burns. Phyllis Chamberlain and Elizabeth Smith. String group plays at 3:30 Tickets for program available at Union Famed interpreters of chamber music and especially of Beethoven the Gordon string quartet will ap pear in the Union ballroom today at 3:30 o'clock. Proceeds of the concert, which is sponsored jointly by Sigma Alpha Iota and Delta Omicron musical sororities, are to be used for a musical scholarship fund. The quartet is widely considered one of the finest ensembles of Its kind, having been acclaimed by New York critics since its found ins: in 1921. Lincoln audieces received the ensemble with great enthusiasm when it played here early In the fall. Sunday's program will consist of selected chamber music, and tickets are available at the Union office. Museum presents films, music at 3 Bonaphone made of fossil bones to be used Films of fossil mining, crating, and shipping, and bonaphone mu sic will feature a program the Unl wrslty museum is offering this afternoon nt 3 o'clock In Morrill hall auditorium. The pictures show the work of the 193S museum expedition In color. C. Bertram! Schultz will (lis cuss the highlights of the films which were taken in sections of South Dakota, Wyoming, New Mexico, Texas and in western and northwestern Nebraska. Henry Reidcr will play num bers on a bonaphone made from set an bones of an extinct rhino ceros, estimated to be about ten million years old.' choir offices announced batuv- The announcement came as the result of the visit of William Clay ton, choir representative, to New York. Clayton returned last lues day from his conferences with fair, radio and hotel officials. According to directors of the World's Fair, the Lincoln organi zation has been delegated the offi cial representatives of the "Plains Region," and will sing one pro gram, representing Nebraska and the middlewest, in the regional building on the fair grounds. Three twilight vespers in the Tem ple of Religion have also been ar ranged. Dates sfill tentative. Altho all dates are tentative un til the choral group can secure a sponsor, a 30 minute concert has also been scheduled to precede an address by Secretary of State Cor dell Hull in the fair grounds au See CATHEDRAL CHOIR page 2. Club offers coed awards Faculty women to give scholarships to seniors The Faculty Women's club will present three scholarships to out standing coeds of the class of 1940, it was announced yesterday. The scholarships will be granted in recognition of meritorious efforts in school life, as well as for scho lastic attainments and will include first award of 575, second $50, and third, $25. Any girl attending the univer sity who has sufficient hours to graduate in June 1940, or at the end of the summer session of 1910, will be eligible for one of the scholarships providing she is wholly or partly self-supporting and has an average scholarship record of not less than 85. Recommendations needed. Candidates may secure applica tion blanks at the offices of the Registrar or Dean of Women. Three letters of recommendation, two of which shall be from mem bers of the university faculty, must be presented by each appli cant. Applicants will meet with the scholarship committee for per sonal interviews in Ellen Smith hall between 1:00 and 4:00 o'clock on Wednesday and Thursday, March 22 and 23. The awards will be announced at the Honors Convocation on Tuesday, April 18. Mines1 band to ptay here Famous colored swing orchestra contracted by Union for March 10 Earl "Father" Hines, famous colored king of the ivories and hid orchestra will play in the Union ballroom Friday, March 10. Hines comes directly from the Grand Terrace cafe in Chicago where his orchestra broadcasts nightly over the NBC network. Considered one or lae belter awing pianists, Hines does prac tically all of the orchestra arian;; Ir.ff for his band. Aside from being an able musician, Hines, as a com poser, is credited with such hits as "You Can Depend on Me," "Rock 'n Rye," "Thinking of Me Thinking of You," and "Take it Easy." Gene Krupa, who played Friday at the Junior-Senior prom, when asked who he thought were the best bands in the country, named Hines and his colored musicians .is one of the best orchestras of Iho present swing stage. St. Paul choir sings today; Tcmpel directs Members of the St. Paul choir, which is Uircctcd by William G. Tempel, will present a concert of sacred music in the Beatrice Meth odist c'.nirch today at 3:30 o'clock. The choir of 55 is composed of uni versity students.