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LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1939
NeBraska prepares for Ao A. U.
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Orfield chairmans Bar
Association survey
Prof. Lester B. Orfield of the
University of Nebraska college
of law has been appointed chair
man of a survey to be made by the
Junior bar section of the Ameri
can Bar Association of the eco
nomic status on the lawyers in Ne
braska. Professor and Mrs. Orfield will
go to San Francisco to attend
meetings of the American Bar As
sociation and to visit the exposi
tion about the middle of July.
Library adds 13 new
books during past week
The following 13 books are
among the new arrivals purchased
for the university library shelves
during the past week:
Night lUder, by Robrrt P. Warrtn.
Altxtrt !liilln. Maker of Tnlvrrwa,
f Half 0. arhdljui.
Our American Mnvlr? ky Joba T,
Howard.
Stralfhl and Crooked Thlnklnr, y
Robert H. Thoabwii.
Uround Under Our Feet, An Aatoblog
taphy, by Klchard T, Ely.
Wind Without Kaln, Herbert Kraute.
Revolt la the Art", by Oliver M.
Bayler.
Hoot ( Roland, by Merrntm Sner
arood. ftraamaaa-Helnk, by Mary I-wtnn.
Marianne la India, by IMtm Keneht
wanver. Westward Aerots Nebraska, by
Thomas H. Rnenee.
Feaee I, Wherp the Temneata Blew,
by Valentin, retrovk-h Kalaev.
Woman on Honebark, by William K.
Barrett.
Dr. Burt receives 21
Philippines bulletins
Dr. J. B. Burt, chairman of the
department of pharmacy, received
21 bulletins reporting all the re
search sponsored by the national
research council of the Philippines
since July, 1934.
The printed material, which will
be placed in the pharmacy library,
was sent to the university by Dr.
Patrocinio Valenzuela, executive
secretary-treasurer of Philippine
research council. Dr. Burt and Dr.
Valenzuela were students at the
University of Wisconsin.
Grad of '24 returns
v to aid agronomists
George Barth, a member of the
class of 1924, who is with the
bureau of chemistry and soils at
Orlando, Fla., has been working
with members of the department
of agronomy for several days.
Earth is interested in soil fertility
investigations with citrus fruits,
and is here consulting research
specialists on the work done at
Nebraska.
Former NU astronomer
visits several days
Carl Hunt, who was university
astronomer from 1935 to 1937,
wis in Lincoln for several dayj
visiting members of mathematics
and physics department starts. He
has been working for his Ph.D.
degree at the University of Chi
cago the last two years, and has
been stationed at Yeikcs obser
vatory. Assistantship taken
Clifford Hcyne of Wisner. who
received his bachelor's degree this
June, has accepted an assistanshi )
at Purdue university, where he
will work next year on several ex
periments in corn breeding.
A.A.U. ticket prices
The following is a list of
ticket prices for the national
A. A. U. track and field meet
scheduled for Nebraska's Me
morial stadium, July 3 and 4:
Reserved ticket, both days $2.20
Reserved section, Monday,
July 3 (west stadium).. 1.10
Reserved section, Tuesday,
July 4 (west stadium)... 1.65
General admission, Mon
day, July 3, (east sta
dium 75
General admission, Tues
day, July 4, (east sta
dium) 1,10
Children's tickets in re
served section (west sta
dium) under 12 years
when accompanied by
parents, each day 50
Knothole section, under 16,
each day 25
Home state plays host again as
nation's top-notch track and field
men compete July 3-4 in stadium
The nation's sport spotlight turna on Nebraska university's Me
morial stadium next week, when the 1939 national A. A. U. track and
field championships will be decided on the Husker cinders Monday and
Tuesday, July 3 and 4.
National track and field stars from every section of the country,
1936 Olympic stars, champions from all the major meets of 1939, crack
teams from the east and west coasts and from the middlewest, as well
as Nebraska's own prides, and other Big Six champions will compete
for champions' laurels.
Fourth time as host.
Lincoln's fourth time as host to the most important national cinder
meet of the year promises to eclipse its previous host-to-cbampionship
role.
The junior championship meet will be a twilight affair, scheduled
to begin Monday at 4 p. m. and end about 6:45. The junior champion
ships will include all athletes who have not won national titles in major
competition, men fighting for their place among track notables.
It is in these events that most of the Big Six stars will compete.
Ed Weir's Big Six champions will be vying for unofficial team honors
in the junior meet.
The senior championships will be Lincoln's biggest Independence
day entertainment. The opening ceremonies are slated at 2 p. m. with
the first track and field events at 2:30. The meet is expected to close
around 5:30 that afternoon.
Nebraska's cheering will be loudest when the bearers of the Scar
let and Cream flash down the tracks with the gun and land in the
dirt at the end of the broadjump and pole vault runways.
(See A. A. U. on Page 3.)
Elected . . .
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Journal.
FARL PLATT.
NU man honored
by world group
Piatt named internat'l
organizing secretary
Karl T. Piatt, assistant direc
tor of the University of Nebraska
extension division in charge of
supervised correspondence study,
has been named organizing secre
tary of the second international
conference on correspondence edu
cation which will be held at the
University of Nebraska in October
1940.
Dr. K. O. Broady of the depart
ment of school administration is
president of the conference and is
a member of the executive com
mittee which appointed Tlatt. The
University Teachers college pro
fessor is chiefly concerned with
the research connected with super
vised correspondence education.
Leaders in the field of corre
spondence education frcm all parts
of the world will attend the Lin
coln convention. Norway. South
America, New Zealand, Australia
and Canada will send represent
atives and it is probable that dele
pates will come from countries in
South Africa.
Grad fills post with
U. S. greens association
John W. Bcngtson, who gradu
ated with a degree In agriculture
in 1937, and now is associated
with the United States golf greens
association, Washington, D. C,
visited at the college of agricul
ture recently. He has been tour
ing the middlewest consulting var
ious, golf grcel keepers, .
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DEAN O. J. FERGUSON.
Ferguson heads
engineers' society
NU dean wins post
at Pennsylvania meet
Dean O. J. Ferguson of the Uni
versity of Nebraska college of en
gineering was elected president of
the Society for the Promotion of
Engineering Education, at the
Wednesday night session of the so
ciety's national convention, held
last week at Pennsylvania State
college.
The clean has been a member of
the organization for 30 years and
was vice president in 1923-24. He
presented two papers at the an
nual convention last year, which
was held at the agricultural and
mechanical college of Texas. Sev
eral weeks ago he attended a
meeting in Pittsburgh of the so
ciety's committee on English.
Dr. George R. Chatburn, pro
fessor emeritus of applied mechan
ics, was president of the national
society in 1916-17.
Professor J. W. Haney, chair
man of the department of mechan
ical engineering, was also at Penn
sylvania State college where he
presided at the meetings of the
mechanical engineering section.
Library hours
The university library wiil
remain open the following
hours during the summer ses
sion recess:
Saturday, July 18 a. m. to
noon.
Sunday, July 2 Closed all
day.
Monday, July 38 a. m .to 5
p. m.
Tuesday, July 4 Closed all
day.
Summer students '
begin mid-session
recess tomorrow
More than 2,300 summer ses
sion students and about 200 fac
ulty members will lay aside books
and studies to concentrate on va
cationing, for tomorrow, at 5 p. m.
officially, the summer session re
cess begins, extending thru until
7 a. m. next Wednesday morning.
Highlight of the intermission in
Lincoln will be the 1939 A.A.U.
track and field championships in
Memorial stadium July 3 and 4,
Independence day celebrations
will find Nebraska summer stu
dents scattered over the middle
west, altho a few plan to remain
in Lincoln.
The Student Union building will
be open every day of the recess
and the library part of the time.
Field parties discover
fossils; predict best
summer work ever
Discovery of important fosdils
in several areas where university
museum field parties have begun
their summer work caused C. Bert-
rand Schultz, in charge of the
digging, to report Wednesday that
"from all advance indications this
will be the museum's best sum
mer." Mr. E. H. Barbour, director of
the musuem, and Schultz' assist
ant director, announced that in
addition to finding larger giant
camel bones the party at Oshkosh
have excavated bones of a giant
dog-like animal. Another discov
ery is the skeleton of a Miocone
horse, an animal about three feet
high which lived 1012 million
years ago.
Summer field work is being car
ried on this year with the corps
ration of the Works Progress Ad
ministration, and through funds
provided by private donations. Be
fore the class of the work, appro
priately 40 WPA workers will
be assisting at the various sites
Placement bureau gets
scout position request
The University placement
bureau has received a com
munication from the chief ex
ecutive of the Boy Scouts of
America requesting the serv
ices of a man competent to as
sume an executive position with
the Boy Scouts of America.
Any one interested in and
qualified for such a position,
call at the office of the place
ment bureau, Teachers college
305, for further information. . .
Ferdinand, Oswald, Fizzwater
are just guinea pigs, rahbits-bul
unsung heroes in march of science
Unsung and undecorated, but
heroes, nevertheless, are the thous
ands of rabbits and guinea pigs
that give their services to man
kind each year. These animals
have had a great part in the march
of science. For this reason we tell
you about the little animals that
live in Bessey Hall.
Living in privacy, they are kept
in thtir cages behind a locked
door. No one is permitted to dis
turb them. They love Joe, their
caretaker, and look to him for
their every need. Joe has named
the white rabbits and the black
and white guinea pigs.
Ferdinand lies quietly in his cor
ner. He was so named because of
an outburst of activity when he
attempted to whip every one
around him. The other rabbits
quickly subdued him, and he has
remained a pacifist since then.
Josephine was "Joe."
Josephine was formerly called
Joe. This name was changed to
the present one tho because a
mistake was made when she was
Solons hike
pharmacists1
requirements
Four years college work
now needed to obtain
license in Nebraska
With the passing of L. B. 104 at
the closing sessions of the state
legislature, a bill which changes
the educational requirements for a
pharmacist's license in Nebraska,
College of Pharmacy administra
ters at the University of Nebras
ka are beginning to wonder how
they are going to take care of the
increased enrolment in the upper
classes which will result from the
legislation. Only about 20 percent
of the freshmen class have regu
larly been graduated by the col
lege, since the old law allowed
students to secure a license after
one year of college training.
Effective January 1942.
The new bill, which becomes ef
fective Jan. 1, 1942, requires that
the applicant for a license must be
a graduate from a four year
course of a recognized school or
college of pharmacy. In addition
he must serve a minimum of one
year of apprenticeship under a
registered pharmacist.
According to Dr. J. B. Burt,
chairman of the department of
pharmacy, no state has any higher
qualifications than those pre
scribed by the unicameral. Four
states still have lower standards.
Old system alternatives.
Under the old system, several
alternatives were provided. A li
cense could be granted to an in
dividual who had a minimum of
one year of schooling, plus three
years of experience; or three years
of schooling and one year of ex
perience, or a license could be is
sued a graduate of a four year
course in pharmacy and who had
completed six months of appren
ticeship. The bill also requires that every
member of the Nebraska board of
examiners in pharmacy must be a
graduate of a recognized school
or college of pharmacy. The act
was sponsored by the legislative
committee of the Nebraska Phar
maceutical association: H. G. Lee,
chairman, Omaha; M. E. Rasdal,
Ogallala; Fred Creutz, Wausa; C.
M. Glen, Auburn; H. H. Roberts.
Fremont, who is president of the
association; E. W. Hincker, North
Platte; and Guy Butler, Lincoln.
Melvin D. Gulley of Lincoln, re
tiring president of the association,
was also active in sponsoring the
measure.
first named.
Oswald has a genuine rabbit
name. We arc puzzled because of
the lack of a Peter rabbit. How
ever, there is Oscar, Fizzwater,
and Willie. Fizzwater is just an
ordinary rabbit who is the victim
of somebody's whim for the name.
Penelope was named after a Greek
god or goddess or something.
Maude and the four littU
Maudies are guinea pigs. So is
Gertrude. She, too. is the proud
mother of two little guinea pig
gies. Clarence is a favorite of the
janitor.
Rabbits are very affectionate
and soon become very fond of
people according to Joe.
Cured with orange juice.
Once when they were suffering
from an illness, Joe nursed them
back to health on orange juice.
Just in case you may have heard
a rumor as did one freshman,
guinea pigs eyes will not fall out
if you pick them up by their tails.
The truth is that they do rot have
enough tail by which to pick them
up,