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Official Newspaper Of More Than 7,000 Students
Vol. 39, No. 99
Lincoln, Nebraska
Sunday, March 3, 1940
Faculty club,
Prom Girl of 1940
AAUWaward
scholarships
By Bob Aldrich.
Bull sessions, often favored
these days by educators as a
streamlined method to whet the
student mind, are in disfavor with
Karl Matthews Amdt, associate
proiessor 01 economics.
"They
ey are all right as a supple-
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as a substitution," he comments.
"It is a mistake to encourage stu
dents to discuss subjects without
also encouraging them to acquaint
themselves with the facts. To be
effective, discussion must be the
discussion of intelligent people."
No rash statement.
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subjects currently bothering our
better minds, Professor Arndt is not
the kind to make rash statements.
Having been overheated, if not
burned, once or twice before bv
over-enthusiastic gentlemen of the
press, he looks upon reports with
a faintly suspicious eye.
"My own classrooms are pretty
well monopolized by the teacher,"
he says. Since from 60 to 100 stu
dents are in my required classes it
is a little difficult to engage in
free discussion. Maybe I'm old
fashioned, but my idea is that
learning involves hard work and
the habit of acquainting ourselves
with the facts. I have always con
demned what I call the barbershop
approach no preliminary infor
mation. Such methods are all too
common and the University
shouldn't encourage them."
Learn by prosaic work.
"We must learn by more prosaic
work, by learning the facts or the
methods of getting them. There
are too many bull sessions now."
Arndt's quiet, subtly humorous
manner of speech and the quick
ness and sageness of his ideas are
familiar to bizad students and
others who venture into "ec"
classes. He has dark hair and
eyes and a very black mustache.
Popular as a chaperon, he has
shaken your hand innumerable
times at campus parties while you
strained to hctr above the din of
the orchestra.
Born in Evanston, 111., he mi-
Today, Iowa artist . . .
Presents illustrated lecture
on regional art in ballroom
Art and the artist should become
more understandable to laymen
when Grant Wood, celebrated Iowa
painter and lecturer, givs his il
lustrated address on regional art
at 3 p. m. today in the Student
Union ballroom, according to F.
Dwight Kirsch, chairman of the
University art department.
The program is sponsored by the
convocation committee and the
Union management. Members of
the Nebraska Art association, the
public and University groups will
join in hearing Mr. Wood, who will
show slides of some of his most
famous canvasses.
Coffee hour following.
Following the lecture, Delta Phi
Delta, honorary fine arts society,
will sponsor a coffee hour in the
union in honor of the speaker. In
vitations have been issued to mem
bers of the faculty of the depart
ment of art and the board of trus
tees of the art association.
Grant Wood, most famous of the
group of regional artists who have
devoted themselves to the paint
ing of the American scene, is a
pioneer in the movement to enrich .
the cultural Boi of this country by j Age' U 193$, has displayed his
establishing local center's of pro- ''Death on the Highway" In a re
duction in art He la at present cent annual exhibition.
DAILY staff photo by Georgt Royal.
grated in a few months "with the
cooperation of his family" to South
Ppsadena, Calif. He attended
Notre Dame, then studied theology
at the University of Loubin in
Belgium, which distinguished it
self by being bombed in 1914. For-
le9tBhood he returned to teach a
'ear at Creighton, another year at
Euffalo. came to Nebraska in
1926.
One of the few social science
professors without either M. A. or
Ph. D.. he was given a Liu. ts.
from Notre Dame. Having been
given his fill of Greek and Latin
in hloh crVirn1 h t-ahpllrf rfVOt ed
mrnSeif to English literature.
How will the U. S. get out of
depression ?
'We were in the depression back
in the twenties but didn't know
it," he says. "As I told the New
York Sun financial eauor a iew
weeks ago, we confused monetary
(See ARNDT, page 2.)
'Well, what about
it?' grads clamor
around Condra ,
What about Nebraska's oil well ?
This was the first question shot
at Dr. G. E. Condra as he stepped
into the Cosmos club at Washing
ton, D. C, recently to address the
group's annual Charter Day ob
servance. The director of the con
servation and survey division was
in the nation's capital to preside
at the annual meetings of the
American Association of State
Geologists, and while there ap
peared on the Washington charter
day program.
Pop question.
"No sooner had I entered the
room than they began asking
about the discovery of oil in Ne
braska," Dr. Condra said. "They
had all heard much about it, and
everyone there wanted to hear
more about the progress of the
drilling."
resident artist at the University of
Wisconsin.
The Nebraska Art association
purchased his "Arnold Comes of
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Lincoln Journal and Star.
GRANT WOOD,
his canvasses shine today.
Women to recognize
three '41 graduates by
$50 grants at convo
Awarding of a number of Uni
versity women's scholarships has
been announced by the Faculty
Women's club and the Lincoln
branch of the American Associa
tion of University Women. Win
ners of the awards will be made
known by the two organizations at
the Honors Convocation, in the
Coliseum Tuesday, April 23.
Three senior scholarships of
fifty dollars each will be given by
the Faculty Women s ciuo. i ne :
scholarships are not loans, but
gifts of money, granted in recog
nition of meritorious efforts in
school life, as well as for scho
lastic attainment
Any girl attending the Univer
sity who has sufficient hours to
graduate in June, 1941, or at the
end of the summer session of 1941,
La Eligible for one of these scholar
ships if she is wholly, or partially
self-supporting. She must have
an average scholarship of not less
than 85 percent.
Application blanks
Candidates may secure applica
tion blanks at the offices of the
registrar, Miss Fedde, or dean of
women. Each candidate must mail
her application to Mrs. Karl M.
Arndt. 1435 L Street, Lincoln, Ne
braska, on, or before, March 20.
Before sending applications to the
scholarship committee, candidates
are requested to give the regis
trar's office written permission to
send their grades to the scholar
(See SCHOLARSHIPS, page 4.)
Klub will hold
chorus tryouts
Show managers call
for chorines, songs
Legs swing and male "fe
male" umph. Three popular things
this week as any week as Kosmet
Klub calls all eligible males with
well rounded calves for parts in
the Russian Ballet and Fanny ski
choruses in this year's production,
"Ski Stealers," slated for April 8
to 15.
Five original songs.
Five songs have already been
submitted, and others are expected
before the song contest closes. A
prize of ten dollars will go to the
writer of the most successful num
ber, lyric included, and five dollars
will go to the second best Song
writers wishing information
around which to base their submissions,-
and for knowledge as to
the type of music still needed
should get in touch with Leadley,
Grant Thomas or Rroy Proffilt
immediately, Armand Hunter and
Bob Leadley declared.
Theta Sigma Phi
journalism honorary
initiates five members
Nebraska chapter of Theta
Sigma Phi, national honorary
journalism fraternity for women,
initiated one faculty member and
four students yesterday morning
in the Union. The initiation was
followed by a luncheon for active
members and alumnae.
Miss Ruth Odell, assistant pro
fessor in the English department,
Louise Benson, Peggy Cowan,
Rowena Beadle Deweese, and Mary
Kerrigan, students, are the new
initiates. Barbara Meyer, presi
dent, and Mrs. Philip Schmelkin,
alumna adviser, were in charge.
The weather
Fair Sunday and first part of
the week, no more rain till Wed
nesday or Thursday.
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Union Book Nook
adds three new
'books-of-month'
New additions to the Union
Book Nook this month are "Mod
ern American Painting," "The
Trees," and "Native Son." The
books are from the Book-of-the-Month
club, to which the Union
now subscribes.
"Modern American Painting,"
edited by Peyton Boswell, Jr., has
89 illustrations in color selected
from Life magazine's series on
contemporary American artists.
With the illustrations, biographies
of each of the artists and co.n
ments on the paintings are in
cluded. There are three prints of
paintings by Grant Wood, and
over half of the artists included
have paintings on exhibit now at
the Nebraska Art association in
Morrill hall.
Next Sunday Lentz . . .
Will conduct NU symphony
orchestra's winter concert
A mixed program of classics
and better known numbers of later
years will be presented by the
University symphony orchestra in
Lincoln Journal and 8lar.
DON A. LENTZ.
always conducting.
ita annual winter concert next
Sunday afternoon. March 10, in
the Union ballroom.
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Sunday Journal an4 Star.
Sparkling Yvonne Cost ell
stepped out of a huge violin oa
the stage of the Coliseum at 10:15
last night to reign over the 1940
edition of the Junior-Senior Prom.
A junior and member of Chi
Omega. Prom Girl 1940 starred re
cently in the University Players
production of "The Gentle People."
Joe Venuti, whom Prom-goers
received favorably as "swing king
of the violin," assisted in the pre
sentation by drawing his bow
across the strings of the violin,
whereupon out stepped Yvonne.
She was escorted from the
stage by Adna Dobson and Forrest
Behm, presidents of the senior and
junior class, and danced her first
dance with Footballer Bchm. The
presentation was broadcast over
KFOR.
Winner of the ten dollar priz
contest for presentation plans was
Betty Newman, Delta Gamma,
freshman.
Don A. Lent will conduct th
ensemble in its public concert,
sponsored by the Student Union.
Feature of the program will b
the appearance of Eman id Wish
now of the violin faculty, well
known Lincoln artist, as guest
soloist. He has chosen to play the
universally favorite Beethoven
"Concerto In D Major for Violin.
Opening number by Cluck.
The program will open witL the
"Overture to Iphigenia en Aulis"
by Gluck. This number is from
one of his operas which has been
scored for the modern orchestra.
To lend variation to the pro
gram, Mr. Lentz has chosen the
ballet music from Schubert's
"Rosamunde."
Another highlight of the concei t
is Tschaikowsky's overture-fan-tasie
"Romeo and Juliet," written
when the great composer was 29,
and today considered an example
of his finest work.
Also included on next Sunday's
program ia the dramatic and
stirring prelude and love death
from Wagner's "Tristan ad
Isolde."
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