WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1939
DAILY NEBRASKAN
THREE
Alumni hood
talks tonight
at barb dinner
Unaffiliated students
to honor activity coeds
at annual banquet
Ellsworth DuTeau, new univer
sity alumni secretary, will be the
guest speaker at the annual all
barb banquet to be held tonight at
6:15 in Union Parlors XYZ. Robert
Simmons will act as toastmaster.
Harriet Lewis, Victoria Ekblad,
George Gostas and Erie Constable
will speak regarding barb activi
ties during the year 1938-39. A fea
ture of the affair will be the pres
enation of awards to the highest
ranking barb activity women. Wal
ter Militzer, sponsor of the barb
groups, will be at the dinner.
Tickets to the banquet are 40
cents a plate and may be secured
by phoning or calling in person at
the barb office,
A. S. M. E. to hear motor
works engineer tonight
Members of the student branch
of the American Society of Me
chanical Engineers will hear Mr.
Hugh Sherwood, chief engineer of
the Cushman Motor Works, to
night at 7 30 o'clock when he
speaks before their meeting on the
"Origin and Engineering Prob
lems of the Cushman Motor
Works."
Following Sherwood's address,
IiOuis C. Lundstrom, graduate me
chanical engineer, will speak on
the "Thermal Properties of Air."
Both speakers are graduates of
the university. The meeting will
be held in room 206 of mechanical
engineering hall.
Hendricks - -
Student Council to name
new Union board today,
complete election plans
Members of the 1938-39 Student
Council will meet for the last time
this afternoon at 5 o'clock for the
purpose of making final prepara
tions for next Tuesday's spring
election and to elect new student
members of the Union board for
next year.
Seven students will be elected to
the board, including two sopho
mores, three juniors and two sen
iors. Of these, there must be at
least two women, one ag student
and three unaffiliated students.
Ad contest meets
deadline ct noon
NEBRASKAN, local
firms sponsor tourney
With the deadline set lor noon
today, students planning to enter
the "You Write It Ad Contest"
sponsored by the Daily Nebiaskan
and several local firms, have only
until 12 o'clock to file their en
tries in the contest.
Entries may be filed in Prof.
Blood's office, room 307-A social
sciences, or in the "Rag" office.
Entries postmarked before noon
today will be accepted.
The six firms co-operating in
the sponsorship of the contest have
offered prizes including such items
as: A dollar in trade at the Grill;
a copy of "Mein Kamnf"; six thea
ter tickets, riding breeches; a
Laura Lane slip; and two pairs of
Art craft hosiery.
In addition to the regular prizes,
a free Cornhusker will be given to
the student writing the greatest
number of prize winning ads, and
a novel hosiery mending kit will
be given to each girl entering the
contest.
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negative. Perhaps, it could also
be valuable in the giving of ex
aminations. Since R5 percent of the
teachers did re-use questions, they
must consider experience gleaned
from it to be of value.
Edited questions.
Questions, by repeated use,
way be evaluated for degree of
difficulty and for the validity of
their measure of pupil success.
That is, examination questions
may be edited much as text books
may be improved by revision. If
certain questions give reliable evi
dence of student understanding
and achievement, then these ques
tions, like a thermometer, may
profitably be used more than once
for measurements.
One sort of experience which
the trial of exams may give has
to do with the type of questions
which are most satisfactory in
measuring student achievement.
Short answer forms have been set
up which distinguish between the
achievement of students of differ
ing abilities in chemistry with as
great precision as do essay ex
ams. After starting a collection af
questions, one of the authors de
cided it would be helpful if a
sure of the student's success rees
each question could be ascer n s a 8
and recorded. A form was d man's
upon which to record thia e attst
It is merely a means for qgistrar,
getting a scatter chart fo.,mv(rI
grades on the answers for all 24. 86
dents who answered the rj he
question. Its purpose is to mg, and
median grade and U "t ",r percent
tlon of the degree to whlcnJM,8 while
how the gradation in r
of the students. ?rcent sup-
Over 1,000 Questio. and 16.89
Over a thousand questio)ieir own
been charted and filed tJ1
These files have three uBhc TnoH
makeup exama it allow1, w'n
teacher to select question0
about the aame degree of fc .
culty as that of the regular r-,a bl
The second use is in the cot
tlon of exama for small . '
no aa to safely assume aj Q fS
distribution of their ?
this way the test font qq
group will closely match
for a large group. A th
la for short class room tes,JUPoer
eliminates the danger of lowi r3er
standards to fit the atttalnrn'OCC
of the slow groups. n-
Startlng last year, a second
characteristic of questions, their
validity, was noted. That is, it
was noted if the question could
distinguish with certainty betwwn
the poor and the better students.
Questions that do hot do this may
now quickly be disregarded.
Requests have come to expand
this magazine of evaluated ques
, tlons and make thorn available for
the teachers in other Institutions.
This can be accomplished by the
co-operation of teachers in many
schools.
Pool, Broody, Henzlik
to give graduation talks
Members of the faculty who will
give commencement addresses this
year include Dr. R. J. PooL chair
man of the department of botany,
who will address the senior class of
Syracuse high school May 18; Dr.
K. O. Broady of the department of
school administration, who will
give commencement addresses at
Fairmont, May 16; Newman Grove
May 17, Overton, May 18, Burwell,
May 19, and Cairo, May 26; and
Dean F. E. Henzlik of teachers
college, at Sheldon, la., May 31;
and at Wayne State Teachers col
lege June 1.
Election - -
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night pep wars and rallies by the
contesting factions.
Positions on the Council with the
exception of the senior men at
large will be chosen by the vote of
the college that the candidate rep
resents. Each elector will have the
onnortunitv to vote for the men
from his college and the publica
tions board position open to his
class. Barbs will vote separately
for the barb council.
Electing the governing body of
the ag campus, the ag executive
ll ay iccipj. ag campus bar
books on dancing
Boucher loan fund
approaches $500
Chancellor contributes
Honor's Day money
Chancellor Boucher's student
loan fund is expected to approxi
mate $500 by the end of the month.
The honorarium from his Honor's
Day address today at Iowa State
Teachers' college, Cedar Falls, will
be contributed to the fund, as well
as the honoraria from previous ad
dresses. The Boucher fund, which will be
pooled with other student loan
funds, is to be used for short term
periods, and will be handled by
the office of the Dean of Student
Affairs, and distributed through
the Finance offices.
Chem fraternity elects
Kenneth Banks head
Kenneth Banks, graduate stu
dent in the department of chem
istry, was named president of Phi
Lambda Upsilon at a meeting of
the gToup held last week. Other
officers elected by the chemistry
fraternity were as follows: Vice
president, Chris Keim of Lincoln,
secretary, William Utermohlen of
Kansas City, Kas.; treasurer
Lawrence Transue of Summer-
field, Kas.; alumni secretary,
George Arnold of Hot Springs,
S. D., and aergeant-at-arms, Os
car Johnson of Nutwood, O.
Dr. Cliff Hamilton and Dr. R.
W. Washburn, members of the
chemistry department faculty.
were made associate members at
the meeting. The group decided to
noia us spring picnic May 13.
British expccfwcr-Flory
Rhodes scholar writes
Isles look for U.S. aid
Describing the tension and in
terest throbbing through England
with each word of the German
Fuhrer, Harry Flory, Nebraska's
Rhodes scholar, studying at Ox
ford university this year, explained
in a letter to Prof. C. H. Patterson
that the English people are count
ing upon American support in case
of a crisis.
Though he sees the English
youth willing to fight and sacri
fice all for the honor and prestiage
of the British empire, Flory finds
the attitude prevalent that Hitler's
policies are as much America's
business as they are England's.
English firm against Hitler.
"England," the Rhodesman con
tends, "will stand firm against
further German agression, the at
tftude of the people being that
there will be war within the next
12 months."
That those he has contacted be
lieve Mussolini is a harmless
monstrosity, powerless without
Hitler's support, Flory thought
astonishing, suggesting that the
antagonism of the Italian crown
prince and Italian people to II
Duce's policies has been the cause
of much of this feeling.
Compares Oxford, U. S. colleges
Comparing the English and
American educational systems
Flory calls the tutor system some
what "one-sided." He explained
that dispite the advantages gained
by private conversation with
learned men, the English plan de
prives students of the chance to
profit by each others viewpoints.
"A revised seminar arrangement,
he concluded, "should perhaps be
made more general."
Flory, recently returned from a
mid them vacation, has just en
rolled for his next school period.
The English set-up offers more
terms during the year inter
spercd with short vacations in
place of a long summer holiday
such as that in the American
schools.
Bizad graduates
to hold reunion .
Celebrates 20th year
at June 4 'Roundup'
Holding its annual reunion
breakfast in affiliation with the.
Cornhusker Alumni Roundup cele
brations, June 4, the Bizad college
will celebrate the 20th anniversary
of its founding.
J. E. LeRossignol, having pre
sided over the affairs of the col
lege for many years, will try to
develop a genial fellowship among
those coming back for this anni
versary affair.
Notification is being mailed to
over 1,783 alumni by the dean
himself along with formal invita
tions by R. V. Koupal, class of
'16 and secretary of the old Shrine
at Lincoln.
Heading the committee on ar
rangements is assistant profes
sor of economics, C. D. Spangler,
with George M. Darlington and
A. G. Wilson assisting.
OTHER'S DAY
May 14 J
Purchase also includes
biographies of kings
Two volumes on dancing are in
cluded in the selected list of new
books purchased by the university
library during the last week in
April. Biographies of King Ed-,
ward Vm and Wilhelm H are als
on the list, which is as follows
Hky Hooka; the BUIohloirrRihy of Jnh
Kanr.
Mrlvllbi III tltr Huuth Hcm, by Charlm
R. AnitrrMin.
In lirrainii HKln lUpiiillllllm, by
DrliiMira HrhwurtB.
rrrmmlw, rollrrlrd nnrnm of Hura Pound.
A HlHlnry of K.imiiw, hy Hnirl I'lrrnn.
My ulu Mark Twain, by Cyril
(ll'IIWIID.
Anwrlran lan"ln, by John J. Martin.
Th Kalwr and Kiitfllah Halation, by
Edward K. Hrninn,
Kin t'.dward VIII, by Hrrtor Rnlllho.
"Hm" Tworrt, by Ilriila T. l.ynrb.
A mil on lltorary rUlrlam, by Jmm
T. Karrrll.
World Hlntory of Uw laMW, by Curt
Marhn.
Art Nnw, by Hrrbrrt E. Rwd.
Th Indi'imiarnt Arab, by Mr Hiibrrt
Young.
II In lMtrt Than Ya Think, by Mm
Irnwr.
Hyrla, by 1-ronard J. HIHn.
Ilod'a l.lltlr Art, hv Kmkliw Caldwrll.
h (Irrrn, by lloitilnlro TnnulnmiMll.
The I'mlratMiit ninadn, by Buy A. Hill-limlon.
It Can H Ilnmt, hy lamra H. Maurrr.
rtiUr llurkhrbii and III" twioloicy, by
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