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Vol. 39, No. 127
Lincoln, Nebraska
Sunday, April 14, 1940
Rosenlof to be new registrar
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DAILY ataff photo.
Pawnee folk-lore tells lory t'l1 irnl deluge in the
Republican valley. The Giant who lived there ridiculed the Cod.
The Cods tent deluge tchich drowned the Cianl. If any
I'atcnee doubted the tory of the Cianl and the deluge tchich
drowned them the Medicine Men pointed to the great bones
exposed tthere the tcater cut the hill along the Republican.
There teas the proof of the Cianl. So if any doubter in the
future age denies the story of the Giant who dwelt in Nebraska
in the millions of years of its pre-hiftory the wie men of that
day trill point to Morrill Museum and its galleries. There trill
be the proof.
By Bob Aldrich.
The campus of the University of
Nebraska covers a square block
and is made up of four buildings.
A state larger than all New" Eng
land has set aside a square block
for .education. Every morning
herds of cattle from the struggling
community of Lincoln are driven
across the dusty grounds.
That was the picture that Erwln
Hinckley Barbour, director of the
museum and professor of paleon
tology, saw when he came to Ne
braska from Iowa college in 1891.
Not much to encourage an am
bitious young man who wanted
to devote his life to learning. May
be the university would never
Club will show
'La Fin du Jour'
in Union ballroom
" The French club will present
"The End of a Day" or "La Fin du
Jour" in the Union ballroom
Thursday evening at 7:30.
It is a powerful and moving film
about aged actors. Critics rate it
high. Dealing with a home for
the old and indigent comedians, the
play offers somber and even patho
logical aspects.
This production written by
Charles Spaak, directed by Julien
Duvivier, stars Victor Francen
Louis Jouvet and Michel Simon.
Transportation notables gather on
"Coordination in Transporta
tion" will be the theme of the sec
ond annual transportation confer
ence of the university college of
business administration as it
swings into action Monday in the
Student Union ballroom. Leading
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JOHN D. CLARK.
He will preW ovr oompetltlen
roundtable.
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amount to anything. And there
was very little money to devote to
such academic endeavors as dig
ging up fossil bones, studying the
rocks, soils, and minerals.
"There was not a paved street
in the city," Professor Barbour
says, recalling the Lincoln of that
year. "There wasn't a tree, vine,
or shrub, only a few saplings on
the campus. "O" street was paved
with cedar blocks. The streets
were so muddy they would drive
their teams up on my lawn. Their
wheels sank to the hubs."
Dr. Barbour was one of a group
of young men who came to Ne
braska in the eighties and who
helped make the school famous
through their accomplishments.
There was Charles E. Bessey in
the field of botany, Goodwin D.
Swezey in meterology, H. H.
Nicholson in chemistry, Lawrence
W. Bruner in entomology. Dr.
Barbour is the only survivor of
this noted band.
(See BARBOUR, page 2.)
Library petitions
The petitions for keeping the
library open on Sunday after
noons which have been circu
lated to organized houses and
posted in university buildings
will please be turned in at the
Student Union office on or be
fore Tuesday, April 16. It is re
quested that all students Inter
ested in this proposition will
sign a petition before this time.
transportation executives and pub
lic service commissioners from all
parts of the United States will
appear on the program.
The morning session, "The Field
The Agencies Their Roles,"
starts at 9:00 with Dean J. E. Le
Rossignol presiding. A round table
discussion will be held following
an introduction by Prof. L. C. Sor
rell, chairman, University of Chi
cago. The round table will deal
with the services each transporta
tion agency seems best able to
offer: Hauls long and short.
Rates -truckload, carload, 1-c-L
trainload. Freight high and low
grade, etc. Transit services. Joint
through rates and routing, use of
facilities. Specialized services.
Speakers will be: L. C. Allman,
vice president, Fruchauf Trailer
Co.; Lachlan Macleay, president,
Mississippi Valley association; J.
H. Hays, counsel, Western Asso
ciation of American Railroads;
John A. Kuhn, traffic manager,
Omaha grain exchange; D. L.
Kelley, public service commission
of South Dakota; W. A. Mullady.
vice president, American Trucking
association.
Jeff era to be gueet
The noon luncheon will be a
Thomas fills
Stokes post
as regent
Fred W. Thomas, vice president
of the First National bank of Om
aha, wajs appointed Friday by Gov.
R. L. Cochran to the university
board of regents. Thomas will fill
the position held by the late Dr.
A. C. Stokes until his term expires
in January.
Thomas is a graduate of the
university, and received a bachelor
of arts degree in 1908. He is a
trustee of the University of Ne
braska foundation, and is a trustee
of the Clarkson hospital which
works with the college of medicine
and university hospital in Omaha.
Trust deluxe.
He is also a trustee of Doane
college, the Nebraska Children's
(See THOMAS, page 3.)
12 qualify in
card tourney
Finals of bridge tourney
scheduled for Saturday
Twelve pair of bridge "sharks"
passing through the qualifying
rounds of the Union bridge tour
nament yesterday afternoon and
evening will vie for the university
championship next Saturday at
2 p. m.
To each member of the winning
team will go a years subscription
to any one of Time, Life, Readers
Digest, Madammosselle and the
New Yorker magazines. Each of
j the runners up will receive a ticket
to the Union Birthady ball May 1.
Forty-eight contestants entered
the tourney yesterday afternoon.
Those who will move to the final
brackets are: Tom Grimes, Norris
Swan; Bill Lenyman, Art Mason;
Marjorie Bauer, Mary Jane Hend
ricks; Casey Campbell, Jean
Hurtz; Ernest Wintraub, George
Frischer; Eleanor Lutz, Jean
Woods; Ray Essman, Henry Dam
kroger; Leonard Jacobson, War
ren Romans; James Babb, Ray
Crancer; Ruth Sobel, Sylvia Nel
son; Leonard Muskin, Bill Goetz;
Barbara Manning and Bob Han
sen. High scores in the afternoon
were taken by the Grimes-Swan
team, with the Lenyman-Mason
pairing second, and the Muskin
Goetz combination topped the eve
ning scores with Manning and
Hansen second.
chamber of commerce public af
fairs meeting with W. L. Taylor
of the Connecticut public service
commission speaking. W. M. Jef
fers. president of the Union Pa
cific railroad, will be a guest.
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ourn! and Star.
J. B. EASTMAN.
He leade evening diecuecion.
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Journal and Star.
G. W. ROSENLOF.
The new registrar.
Cornhusker
Coop nabs
barb award
Variety show draws
over 300; Polladian
group places second
Before a crowd of 300 the Corn
husker Coop club was awarded
first prize for its skit, "Ye Old '
Antique Shoppe," and the Pallad
ians were given second for their
"Dracula at Sunnybrook Farm,"
at the Barb variety show Friday
evening.
The prize winning skit by Bob
Kubicek won for the Coop club
the $10 prize. Animated skits
were auctionecd off to the spec
tators. A Mexican troubador with
a guitar sang in one skit, another
skit had a jitter-bug and during
his scene a "girl member" of the
audience who was bidding for him
got up and danced with him. The
other skit was a Hula dancer with
a grass skirt and during the dance
the loss of the skirt caused a hasty
exit.
Dracula proves popularity.
"Dracula of Sunnybrook Farm"
won second prize of $5 for the
(See BARB, page 3.)
Appearing in Varsity
An editorial by Richard de
Brown, editor of the DAILY Ne.
bratkan appears in the current
Issue of Varsity, a new magazine
called the "college news maga
zine." Opening at 2 p. m., the after
noon session will consider "Prob
lem of Coordination and Compe
tition." Introduction will be made
by John D. Clark, chairman, for
mer counsel, Standard Oil of
Indiana.
Other speakers
"Coordination Discussion of
Principles and Practices Required"
is the topic for the afternoon
round table. Sub-topics are: Place
of competition in transport field.
Equality of competition (subsidy,
private, contract, and common
carriers). Rate control, principles
and practice. Unified regulation,
state and federal jurisdiction.
Again featuring "big" names in
the transportation field the list
of speakers for the afternoon ses
sion . includes: J. B. Eastman,
chairman, interstate commerce
commission; C. E. Childe, Missouri
River Waterway association; Rob
ert Henry, assistant to president,
Association of American Rail
roads; John V. Lawerence, general
manager, American Trucking as
sociation; P. H. Porter, counsel,
railway commission of Wisconsin;
Cyril Thompson, assistant to the
president, United Airlines.
Chancellor C. S. Boucher will
Board action
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scholarships
Dr. George W. Rosenlof, profes
sor of secondary education, was
appointed university registrar, uni
versity examiner, and director of
admissions by order of the board
of regents, which met in Lincoln,
yesterday.
The appointment, which will be
come effective June 1, was made
to facilitate the development of a
coordinated prog tarn in admis
sions, in relations with high
schools and colleges, and in studies
involving the records of students
in this and other institutions.
Florence I McGahey, registrar
since 1917. will remain in the reg
istrars onice as assistant regis
trar. Dr. A. A. Reed, who has been
director of the extension depart
ment and university examiner, will
remain the head of the extension
division, but will transfer his
duties as examiner to Dr. Rosen
lof. Secretary of NCA.
Prominent in education for his
contributions to instructional and
administrative procedures. Dr.
Rosenlof, was recently elected sec
retary of the North Central Asso
ciation of Colleges and Secondary
Schools. For several years he hns
been the asociation's secretary for
the commission of secondary edu
cation. Rosenlof is a native Nebraskan.
Receiving his elementary and high
school education at York, he got
his bachelor's degree from Has
tings college in 1916. his master's
degree from here in 1922, and hts
(See REGENTS, page 2.)
Van Es will speak
to Sigma Xi's
at April meeting
Dr. Leunis Van Es, chairman of
the department of animal patho
logy and hygiene at the university
will address the April meeting of
Sigma Xi on "Environment and
Disease" Monday evening at 7:30
in room 202 of the Animal Pa
thology building on the agricul
tural campus. The public is in
vited. In his address. Dr. Van Es will
discuss fundamental differences
pertaining to the relation of en
vironment and disease of man and
animals, either living in the wild
state or under conditions imposed
by domestication.
campus
preside at an evening dinner be
ing held in the Cornhusker hotel.
J. B. Eastman of Washington,
D. C, chairman of the interstate
commerce commission, will speak
on "The Transportation Future."
Journal and Blt.
PROF. L. C. SORRELL.
He ohairmana morning session.