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VOI . XXXVIII, NO. 107.
WEDNESDAY, MAKCII 15, 193
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Misses Lau,
Clemans vie
for president
Polls open from 8 to 5
in Ellen Smith, Home
Ec; Coeds to (ill 12 posts
Coeds will ballot today between
8 and 5 o'clock in Ellen Smith and
Home Ec hall for the officers and
members of the A. W. S. board,
official governing body of univer
sity women.
Candidates for the president's
post of the Associated Women
Students are Virginia Clemans
and Janet Lau. Miss Clemans is a
member of Pi Beta Phi, a member
of the present A. W. S. board, a
member .of Prom committee, and
Tassels. Miss Lau is a Delta Gam
ma, member of the present A. W,
S. board, chairman of this year's
Coed Follies, and a member of
Student council.
Twelve posts to be filled. .
Other posts on the board to be
filled are four senior memberships,
See PRESIDENT page 2.
Ag men plan
spring pm
ty
Goddess to rule annual
social event March 25
rians are under way for the
- annual ag spring party, the major
social event on the ag campus,
which is scheduled for March 25.
Featuring the affair will be the
presentation of the Goddess of ag
griculture who will reign that
night and also during the festivi
ties of farmer's fair.
The Goddess is selected from the
senior class by women in the col
lege of agriculture, and her pre
sentation to the college is planned
by a committee of the Home Eco
nomics association. Ople Hedlund
and Carol Briggs are co-chairmen
of this year's presentation.
Co-managers of the party are
Will Pitncr and Iris Johnson.
Roeer Cunningham nd Ruthanna
Russel head the decorations com
mittee, Rhoda Chesley and Paul
Fidler are in charge of chaperones
and publicity, Milton Gustafson
and Ruth Bauder are on the or
chest ra committee, and Ann
t Gersib and George Gooding are in
charge of ticket sales.
Admission price is 75 cents per
couple in advace, or 80 cents Pt
the door. Tickets will go on nale
next Monday.
AICE holds smoker
The student chapter of the Am
erican Institute of Chemical En
gineer! will attend a smoker to
night in the Union at 7:30. The
student chapter picture for the
Nebraska Bluo Print will be taken
at 10 o'clock following the smoker
fTovainch' good
Reviewer takes last dig
at Players' 'swan song'
By Ed Wittenberg.
This is our last opportunity to
take a sly dig at the Players. For
this week, they sing their seasonal
wan ong In "Tovarlch." They
may put on a poHt-acasonal pro
gram, but that doesn't really
count.
We suppose It la In order to re
view first Impressions of "Tova
rlch," since, as any alert "rag"
reader will know, that play opened
8et
BDOC title,
$75 prize pull
26 entries
Coed judges watch all
entres; to tell result
in spring fashion edition
Twenty-six men had filed as
candidates In the B. D. O. C. con
test, sponsored jointly by Harvey
Bros, and the DAILY NEBRAS
KAN, following expiration of the
deadline at midnight Monday.
Entrants in the competition for
best-dressed man on the campus
include Howard Kettelhut, Merle
H. Peterson. Don Moss, Kermit
Hansen, Dick deBrown, Leon Dav
is, Dow Wilson, Jerome Prokop,
Ellsworth Stohlman, Avery Forke,
Joe Stephens, Jim Evinger, Jim
Stuart, Bill Andreson, Hugh Eis
enhart. William F. Kralik, Jack
Fate, Max Horn, Clinton Banks,
Howard Kaplan, Leo Wachter,
Donald Jonas, Lyle Neff. Al Little,
William Utermohlen and Max Mil
ler.
Judges eye candidates.
Candidates met for their first
scrutiny by the coed judges last
nieht in the Union faculty lounge,
in crder that "all of the members
of the committee might become
acquainted with them. Officiating
in the competition are Marian
Kidd, June Bierbower, Jeanne
Newell, Barbara Meyer, Patricia
Lahr. Velma Ekwall and janet
See BDOC page 3.
Humorist-poet Gillilan
heartily endorses Gillilan
AHImi KtrlrklaiU filllllan. wb ad
drrtnm a I nton laugh fmIoii nrxt Han
day, Ik heartllr rndnrwd bjr Kditar
(inrot, Mike Kelly mt I be IVnn Atlilelle
club mat frti 1 .ark In f Umalia aa one
STRICKLAND GILLILAN.
if lite top hnmnrWU l Ike enlry.
mi one iiHirU Mm :dmll at dor
hrtlrklu ld tilllllaii. The following preaa
relrote arrived al I be atli mt IHe
In Temple last night. We are re
luctant ( If you'll pardon that ever
lasting "we") to sing what is our
swan song too, as a reviewer,
without some mention of the past
Flayers' season as a whole. How
ever, that can come later.
We break time honored custom
and shrink from naming any one
person 'star" of "Tovarlch." All
the leads did capably to make the
play good entertainment.
Alexander again plays Russian.
Robert Alexander seems to have
been finally typed as ft Rueslan.
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Orchestra, Singers to give
spring concert
Lentz, Tempel to direct
in outstanding program
Presenting the University of
Nebraska Symphony orchestra and
the University singers in a dis-
Lincoln Journal.
W. G. TEMPEL.
tinctive program, Don A. Lentz
and William G. Tempel will wield
their respective batons at the
coliseum Sunday, March 26, at
See ORCHESTRA page 2.
UAII.V NEBRASKA yesterday:
Nrwa Ktory of Htrlrkland (illlllHM.
By Ktrirkland Cllllan.
Born at usual age. Showed early
signs of being allergic to work
and gloom, having had an over
dose of both on a poor batch of
land In the basement of Ohio.
Learned "Now I Lay Me Down to
Sleep," at his mother's knee, and
a lot of other things over his
father's. Has clung to it all.
Devoutly but not oppressedly
See CULLILAN page 5.
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Three weeks for museum
heads to judge age of jaw
If the University of Nebraska
State Museum is to establish the
age of the human jaw found In
the bottom of a Tri-County canal
several weeks ago, a survey party
must study the geology of the
area Immediately. Museum offi
cials were notified th.t the canals
will be full of water within a few
weeks,- precluding forever the op
portunity of examining the ter
race levels and of determining the
age of the cultural horizon In
entertainment says critic
Here, he has the leading role of
Prince Kikall vltch tlcff.
He overcomes the handicap of the
name, but we think him a better
butler than Russian he plays
both parts at once In "Tovarlch."
While there weve women In the
play, too, the best performances
seemed to have been turned In by
the males. Or is that Just mascu
line ego? Anyway, Verne Gelssln
gcr as a crusty French banker,
without an accent, thank God! did
right well In tickling the collec
tive funnybone of the audience,
llollls French turned in one ct
March 26
Ag to go Irish
as ball opens
gala week end
Junior Ak-Sar-Ben
stock show draws 90;
Novel events abound
Opening the annual junior Ak-
Sar-Ben week end. a gala Irish
ball will be held Friday night at
9 o'clock in the Student Activities
building on the ag campus. Satur
day mornig and afternoon will be
devoted to livestock showmanship,
mock cow milkings, and exhibi
tions of skill in agricultural fields.
Since the ball will be held on
St. Patrick's day, the theme will
be the Shamrock, and the ball
See AK-SAR-BEN page 5.
Lancaster goes to
N. Y. Thursday
Professor to confer
over research grants
Dr. L. W. Lancaster, professor
of political science, leaves by train
Thursday to attend the annual
meeting of the grants-in-aid com
mittee of the Social Science Re
search council in New York City,
March 18 and 19. '
Each year the national council
provides grants of money to stu
dents thruout the country to en
able them to continue research
problems in the fields of social
science. Only those who are out
of school, in many cases with
Ph. D. degrees, are eligible for. the
award.
About 105 applications have
been filed with the committee for
consideration at the meeting next
Saturday. Among the local awards
in recent years have been grants
to Dr. R. A. Winnacker, assistant
professor of history, and Dr. J. P
Guilford of the psychology depart
ment. which the human remains were
found.
C. Bertrand Schultz, assistant
director of the Museum, is select
ing a party for the trip now, which
will be financed by the Charles
11. Morrill fund.
Skull Fragments Found Also,
Rchultz, Frank Bell and Henry
Relder. prenarators. returned re
cuntly from Brady with additional
See JAWBONE page 3.
the best feminine performances.
At first, we kept seeing her as the
energetic cook in "Night Must
Fall" but her luscio as evening
gown and smartly "upped" blonde
hairdo soon dispelled that illusion,
and she seemed the "grande dame"
she portrayed.
Poellot kisses platonlcally.
Doris Poellot had some kind of
accent, but It wasn't Russian, at
least not the Russian we imagine
the Grand Duchess no and so
would speak. She also bobbed her
,hcad quite disturbingly. She was
Budget cut
would force
drastic moves
If allotment remains
constant loss of status
would continue slowly
By Chris Petersen.
If the University of Nebraska's
1939-41 budget is cut below the
1937-39 appropriation of $3,740,
940, the board of regents may find
themselves forced to limit the
numer of students in the univer
sity to 5,000 or less, along with
other drastic changes.
Chancellor C. S. Boucher and
the board of regents, appearing
before the legislature appropria
tions committee, yesterday after
noon, presented three University
of Nebraska alternate budget sug
gestions, for consideration by the
committee. Parts of the plan men
tioned above were included in one
of these three suggestions.
In detail, the plan presents the
See ENROLLMENT page 3.
Awgwan sale
begins today
Issue victimizes 'Hell
Week' for its expose
Bearing out its slogan, "Some
thing exposed every month,", the
Hell week issue of the Awgwan
goes on sale this morning, laying
bare the naked truths about Ne
braska university probation week.
A startling expose of 'hell week,'
"health week,' or whatever you
prefer, of the medieval tortur?s,
the secrets of which have been
handed down from active to pledge
for centuries all come out in the
March issue of the humor maga
zine. Aid Greek filing system,
In -addition, the Awgwan staff
has concocted some original tech
niques, . the. use- of whioh -they
grant to any Greek group without
charge. To facilitate filing of
these, the Awgwan will come out
in two sizes this month, the regu
lar 9" x 12" size and the 12" x 9"
size which is guaranteed to fit any
12" x 9" fraternity file.
"Hell, Week?" is the title of an
exclusive article in the Awgwan
by Marge Krause, which deals
wth Hell Week from the faculty
viowtoint. "Aw Hell," by Betty
Roach sympathizes with a dying
pledge.
Use mysterious article.
Printed with a post office pen
See AWGWAN page C.
Le Ccrcle to observe 1 50th
anniversary of revolution
Jean Tilche of the French de
partment and Robert Sandberg
will collaborate in presenting "The
150lh Anniversary of the French
Revolution" at the meeting of Le
Cercle Francais at 7:30 tonight In
Union parlors A and B. The eve
ning's program also includes
French music and refreshments.
Involved in quite a bit of kissing
however, mostly platonic, and thai
is enough to balance the rest. Th
audience learned from her how i
Russian apologizes, which aloni
is worth the price of admission.
Jack Blttner has shown that h
can always be depended upon foi
a "real" performance and convinc
ingly plays the part of a scion ol
the Idle rich. His love making ti
the Grand Duchess la convincing
and the fencing scene In which hi
See TOVARICH page 2.
