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VOL. XXXVII, NO. 132
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TUESDAY, APKIL 25, 1939
Anas."!. iixsJ
Ljncoin Journal.
John Neihardt . . .
fiiloritz releases NU
summer schedule
Administration clinic, visiting instructors
may bring term enrollment to 2,500
Anticipating an enrollment o 2500. Professor K. 1). Moritz,
announces the opening of summer school on June 8 with a staff
of instructors drawn from universities in all parts of the coun
try. Registration for both long and 1
Bhort sessions will take place in
the university coliseum June 6-7.
Featuring for the first time this
year an administrative clinic,
wherein weekly discussions will
cover national aducational admin
istrative problems, this years
schedule includes several extra
curriculand discussions and con
ferences. Scheduled for June 15, 16, and
17 will be the sixth annual all
state Educational conference, to
which all students are invited.
Addresses and discussion include
"The Improvement of Reading,"
and "Building Better School Li
braries" by Dr. Marion Monroe,
supervisor of Elementary Edu
cation in the Pittsburgh public
schools. Dr. Douglas Waples, Pro
fessor of Researches in Reading
in the University pf Chicago, and
Mr. right . 1'orter, principal
of Omaha Tech high school.
In collaboration with the
speeches will be practical demon
strations and displays of tests
aiming at the improvement of
reading ability.
Clinic topics.
Topics to be discussed by the
administrative clinics are being
submitted by superintendents over
the state. Plans for the opening
See SUMMER, Page 2.
A I E E to select
year's best papers
Staab to read 'Public
Relations in Industry'
Members of the Univrsity of
Nebraska branch of the American
Institute of Electrical Engineers
will select the best and second
best Btudent paper presented be
fore that organization this year,
when they meet tomorrow night
at 7:30 o'clock in room 204 of
Mechanical Engineering.
Speakers at tomorrow's meeting
will be Milton Staab, who will
read a paper on "Public Relations
In Industry." Last announcements
in connection with the open house
exhibit will also, be mado at
tomorrow's meeting.
Cooperative meet
set for tonight
Group continues work
begun six weeks ago
A group of students interested
in studying cooperatives will meet
Wednesdny evening at 7 o'clock in
room 307 of the Union to discuss
possibilities for organizing room
ing and boarding coops on the
campus this fall. A nucleus group
lead by John Steinhaus, Clement
Emerson and Beula Brigham have
boon meeting with C. D. Hayes
during the past six weeks to study
coops.
The successful operation of the
Cornhusker coop which was
launched this year, the stimulus
received from Religion and Life
week, and the efforts of YM and
YW secretaries and interested
students have brought coops to
students attention. Faculty sup
port for the projects la being so
il cited.
lectures this -morain
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Field unit
banquet set
Cornhusker company
dines tomorrow at 6:30
Cornhusker field company, bat
tle training unit, will hold its an
nual banauet Wednesday evening
at 6:30 in parlors ABC of the
Union. Speakers will be col. Will
iam Oury, retiring head of the
military denartmenL and Mai.
John U. Ayotte, company sponsor,
Officers of the unit are aiso en
deavoring to obtain cartoonist Oz
Black for the entertainment.
All ..iciiibers of the company
are eligible to attend. ROTC of
ficers are also invited, but will be
charged the full rate of $1.00, ac
cording to Kermit K. Hansen,
unit commander. Company mem
bers will be admitted for 25 cents.
In charge of arrangements are
Hansen, Martin Oelrich, second in
command: Ritchie Clarke. Robert
Bereuter, George Meier, Thomas
Hicks, platoon leaderes; uwignt
Bonham, and Thomas Luhe, as
sistant leaders.
Hemsworth head
of Pi Tau Sigma
Engineering honorary
elects; initiates seven
Martin Hemsworth, engineering
junior, was elected president of
Pi Tau Sigma, mechanical engi
neering honorary, in the first reg
ular election held since the found
ing of the Nebraska chapter.
Others elected to office at the
rreeting, Monday, are: Robert
fechluskcbier, vice president; El
wood Housel, recording secretary;
Don MeixeL corresponding secre
tary; Paul Owen, treasurer; Dan
Semlak, historian.
Present at the election were
members newly Initiated Friday,
April 21. The new initiates are:
J. E. Ludwlckson, instructor in
mechanical engineering; E.
Charles Zeorian, graduate stu
dent; Caius Cad well, Richard
Hitchcock, Francis Paradise, Wal
ter Sinton and Houston Jones, all
mechanical engineering juniors.
Speaker at the initiation ban
quet at the Student Union was
Prof. Giles W. Haney, chairman
of the mechanical engineering de
partment, who spoke on "Engi
neering Ethics."
Ivy Day poem filings
to close Friday at 5
Ivy Day poems must be sub
mitted to Mrs. Westover's office
in Ellen Smith Hall by Filday
at 12 o'clock to be eligible for the
$5 prize offered by Mortar
Board. The poems can be of op
tional length but must deal with
Ivy Day tradition.
Persons submitting poems
must not put their name on the
manuscript, but In an attached
envelope. The Judging commit
tee will be made up of Miss
Marguerite McPhee, Prof. S. B.
Gass, and Dr. U C. Wlmberly,
members of th English department.
NU students lose hopes
of ballet in chem labs
Nebraska chemistry professors j
have shattered the hopes of stu
dents who recently read of a new
method of chemistry teaching.
Newspapers, in an article of seem
ing sincerity, gave visions of new
classes in chemistry instruction in
which chorus girls and scantily
clad dancers played the parts of
antoms and molecules and demon
strated the characteristics of
chemical elements.
Dr. H. G. Deming of the de
partment explained that this was
not a new way to teach chemis
try, but that it was just a form
of entertainment provided for
chemists attending a chemical
convention in Baltimore. He added
that chemists enjoy a little fun as
well as anyone else. The article
was not intended to be taken with
any more seriousness than was
the "chemical ballet."
Would popularize chem lab.
A North American Newspaper
alliance article predicted that
chemistry classes in the future
may become over crowded and
the chem lab the most popular
place on the campus, at least for
the bys. This was to be the re
sult of chorus girls actine tue
parts of elements and demon
strating the characteristics of
chemicals.
350 scientists to meet at Nebraska on 50th
anniversary of campus psychological lab
Midwestern association
will convene May 5, 6
The fiftieth anniversary of the
founding of the university psychol
ogical laboratory will be com
memorated on the University of
Nebraska campus May 5 and 6 by
some 350 scientists meeting at the
14th annual convention of the Mid
western psychological association.
The Midwestern association,
which is the largest regional divi
sion of the national body, has a
membership representing twenty
nine states, the District of Colum
bia and Canada. Dr. J. P. Guilford,
director of the psychological lab
oratory here, is secretary-treas
Officers to select
best basic student
Board will meet May 3
to consider Legion prize
A board of officers, consisting
of Maj. John Horan, Maj. Jesse
P. Green, Maj. William R. Philp
and CapL Chester Hough, have
been appointed to meet on Wed
nesday, May 3, to select the best
basic R. O. T. C. student com
pleting the course during the
school year 1938-1939. The se
lected student will receive a prize
awarded by the American Legion
Auxiliary of Nebraska.
The board will select three stu
dents, In order of their merit,
from the two students per com
pany selected by sophomore in
structors. Another board, made up of Maj.
Russel Barkalow, Maj. Paul Hud
son and Copt. Ralph Cruse, will
meet at some later date to de
termine the best advanced course
student This student will be
awarded a prize by the Daugh
ters of the American Revolution.
The American Chemical society
suggested this manner of teach
ing in order to get at the romance
and beauty of matter, which
teachers have failed to do. A
preview of a chemistry class in
the future was given at a recent
chemical convention in Baltimore.
In an announcement, the so
ciety explained that it was old
fashioned to teach chemistry as
they did when they still believed
atoms were cold and hard. We
know, today, that atoms are very
much alive and are capable of
making any dancer jealous.
N. U. prof, denies floor show.
Time magazine gave the same
story but with an explanation.
" some Maryland chemists (the
Maryland section of the Am.
Chem. society) stuck their collec
tive neck out. To entertain fel
low chemists, meeting in Balti
more, they staged a show the like
of which no chemist has ever
seen a 'chemical ballet.' "
Dr. C. S. Hamilton, of Nebraska
university, who attended the con
vention, also denied that the teach
ing of chemistry had been revolu
tionized and turned into magnifi
cent floor show. He, too, explained
ttiat i colorful ballet was pre
sented for the benefit of the visit
ing chemists.
urer of the association and a mem
ber of the executive council.
Lab fifth oldest in U. S.
The anniversary is one of the
reasons the association is meeting
in Lincoln this spring. The labora
tory here, founded by Dr. Harry
Kirke Wolfe, is the fifth oldest in
the United States. Nebraska was
the first institution of higher
learning to offer courses in experi
mental psychology to undergrad
uates. Many graduates of the depart
ment, a number of whom came
either directly or indirectly under
the influence of Dr. Wolfe, have
distinguished themselves highly.
Nebraska has provided three pres
idents of the American psycholog
ical association. Only one other in-
Writes article . . .
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Lincoln Journal.
Dr. W. H. Werkmeister, assis
tant professor of philosophy, has
an article entitled "The Natural
Languages as Cultural Indices"
published In the current Issue of
Philosophy of Science. He also
has two book reviews In Ethici.
Poet laureate
to address 5
convoatll
Famed writer to read
from epic cycle of west;
son to provide music
Reading poetry from his epic
cycle of the west, John G. Nie
hardt, Nebraska's poet laureate,
will appear before a university
convocation this morning at 11
o'clock in the Temple.
Appearing on the same program
with him will be his son, Sigurd,
a pianist, who will provide a mus
ical background for several of the
readings.
Neihardt, who's fame as Ne
braska's foremost poet is wide
spread, wrote the "Song of Three
Friends" which was judged the
most notable volume of poetry
published in 1919. He was then
appointed poet laureate of Nebras
ka by an act of the legislature in
1921; became professor of poetry
on the university faculty in 1923,
and earlier had been awarded a
doctor of literature degree.
Traveling in open boat.
To familiarise himself with the
territory which was to form the
background of his epic, he traveled
thru the country in an open boat,
See NEIHARDT, Page 2.
Dr. Wolfe founded NU
department, fifth oldest
stitution has furnished more than
this number.
Development of the university
laboratory and its program of re
search will be recalled at the as
sociation's annual dinner program
Friday evening, May 5, in the Stu
dent Union. Dr. A. G. Bills of the
University of Cincinnati will be
toastmaster and will introduce
Dean J. E. LcRossignol of the col
lege of business administration,
who will welcome the delegates.
Dean LeRossignol was a student
under the famous Dr. Wilhelm
Wundt of the University of Lcip-
See BALLET, Page 2.
Church director
to visit ccrnpus
Presbyterian college
leader comes Thursday
Max Adams, national director of
university work in the Presby
terian church, will be in Lincoln
Thursday evening for a dinner
open to all Presbyterian students
at 6 o'clock in Union parlors X
and Y.
Adams will meet with the uni
versity pastors and Y. M. C. A,
and Y. W. C. A. secretaries Thurs
day afternoon. Reservations for
the dinner may be made until
Wednesday with R. R. Henry,
Presbyterian student pastor.
Worcester plans trip
As regional representat ive of the
American Association of Univer
sity Professors, Dr. A. D. Wor
cester, secretary of the Nebraska
chapter, will visit the chapters at
Wayne State Teachers college, the
University of South Dakota and
a regional meeting at the North
ern Normal and Industrial School
at Abredeen, S. D., May 11 to 13.
