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Vol. 39, No. 139
Prom goes
Faculty dubs
honorarv
s
new sponsor
Petition to committee
on student affairs bears
fruit; Englund suggests
The Innocents society has been
appointed sponsor of the 1911
Junior-Senior Prom, Roger Cun
ningham, president of the society,
revealed yesterday. A letter from
the Faculty Sub-Committee on
Student Organization and Affairs
telling of the appointment was re
ceived by Cunningham about a
week ago, he said.
Upon the suggestion of Innocent
Merrill Englund, the honorary so
ciety had requested that they be
given sponsorship of the Prom in
a petition to the faculty commit
tee, as soon as they learned of
the Student Council's refusal to
continue to sponsor the annual
dunce. The petition of March 7,
Ha id, in part, "Innocents ... en
dorses election of the Prom com
mittee by general student vote .
in accordance with opinion of the
student body in the recent election.
"Being non-partisan . .
"Being a non-partisan body
composed of senior leaders, Inno
cents society is the logical spon
sor of the work. . . . We are pre
pared to assume financial respon
aibility . . . and pledge every as
aistance to the Prom committee in
nnking each year's party a sue
cess.".
Roger Cunningham, president of
the honorary society, told the
DAILY today that he had received
a letter from the Faculty Sub
Committee about a week ago, in
which the committee granted the
Innocents the right to sponsor the
1911 Prom. The letter also told
that the Prom would close the for
(See SPONSOR, page 6.)
Engineers
hear Fletcher
Annual convo ends
festivities Friday at 1 1
The university engineers will
top off their open house festivities
with their annual convocation in
the Temple tomorrow at 11 at
which L. J. Fletcher, assistant
general sales manager for the
Caterpillar Tractor Company, will
address them.
Fletcher is a Nebraska man by
birth born at Chadron but he
was graduated from Iowa State
College in 1915. He has been on the
faculty of the agricultural en
gineering divisions of both Wash
ington State college, and Univer
aity of California: he waa head of
the department at California.
In 1927 he became associated
with the Caterpillar Company, in
charge or agricultural aales. Mr,
Fletcher is past president of the
American society of Agricultural
Engineers, and is prominent in
other engineering societies, such
as. the American Engineering
Council.
Staff to work in U hall
In order to be closer to the
festivities of Ivy Day, the
DAILY NEBRASKAN will pub
lish Its paper from University
hall, room 106 tomorrow. All
staff members and reporters
are urged to be on hand at 9
a. m. when the office opens.
Official Newspaper Of More Than 7,000
Lincoln, Nebraska
into Innocent hands
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Colleges hold open house tonight
Hemsworth,
Scott head
committee
Pair chosen to assume
responsibility of annual
engineering festival
Final selection of Engineers
Week committee has been made
and plans are proceeding rapidly
for the annual open house and en
tertainment May 2, 3, and 4.
Frank Scott
and Martin
Hemsworth arc
general chair
men in charge
of a r r a n g
ments.
Following
custom, there
will be the dem
onstrations, ex
hibits, and en
tertainment in
e n gineering
buildings on the
campus the
evening of May
sutt Joumi ever this year,
according to engineering students,
the exhibits have always been of
special interest to students and
Lincoln people.
Engineering students will meet
(See SCOTT, page 5.)
Annual AWS tea
dance at 4 ends
Ivy Day program
The annual tea dance, sponsored
by the AWS. will be held at 4 this
afternoon. Two hours of 6ance
music furnished by Johnny Cox
and his orchestra is the attraction
held direcMy after the tapping of
the Innocents and Mortar Boards.
For individuals the price of at
tendance is 10 cents per person.
Greek letter houses, however, have
been furnished tickets at three dol
lars each which enable any mem
ber of the purchasing fraternity
to enter.
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Students
Thursday, May 2, 1940
Ivy Day-day of
Collegiate feuding
Approximately two hours
after the engineers and laws
decided to call the whole thing
off and sign a treaty of peace,
an effigy supposedly represent
ing the engineering students
was seen hanging from a win
dow on the third floor of Law
college.
This effrontry, as the engi
neers termed it, was uncalled
for and they have sworn to re
move the effigy at all costs.
But the Laws have a different
idea, they have sworn that no
"lowly" engineer will darken
the doors of their college. To
back up this statement the
Laws plan to keep all doors se
curely locked and heavily
guarded. Within the next two
days they plan to burn the
effigy.
Oh, sing a song
of 42 years 42
long years-no ivy
For 42 years they have been
planting the ivy...
And for 42 years the ivy has
failed to survive...
Since 1898 the species Hedera
helix has been planted with pomp,
circumstance, ceiemony, fanfare,
and huzzahs.
But it ain't never growed.
It has been sung over, orated
over, danced over, played over, and
breathed tenderly upon. People
has sat for hours with the sun
beating hot upon their backs, have
listened to Innumerable speeches,
and witnessed all manner of glor
ification in its name.
But the damn thing always dies.
As a campus beautifier it is a
complete flop. They might as well
plant sunflowers. Its only earthly
use is as an excuse for a holiday.
Botanlcally speaking, Hedera helix
always lays an egg. Imagine if
they'd planted 42 trees instead.
After 42 years it'a mighty discouraging...
Innocents, Mortar Boards to tap, mask members;
Greeks to sing; pharmacy, engineers open houses
By Mary Kerrigan.
Amid pomp and ceremony today the new May Queen will be pre
sented with her attendants, the Innocents will tap, the Mortar Boards
will mask, the fraternities and sororities will sing, the senior and jun
ior presidents will plant the ivy, and the Ivy Day poem and oration
will be given.
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Pharmacists
open college
for festivities
Students convert rooms,
laboratories into display
exhibits for open house
Pharmacy night, another of the
Ivy Day attractions and one of the
regular "college days" activities,
will find the doors of Pharmacy
hall thrown wide open to the cam
pus and general populace tonight
from 7 to 10:30 p. m.
The student pharmacists will
put their activities and processes
on exhibition,' show in a general
way the work of the school of
pharmacy, and attempt to explain
it to their visitors.
The laboratories and rooms of
the building have been converted
into a huge phamracy exhibit.
Everywhere there are test tubes,
flasks, bottles, and scientific ap
paratus. Divided into seven groups, the
(See PHARMACY, page 5.)
Thcta Nu taps
nine pre-medics
-on the shoulder
Theta Nu, honorary pre-med
fraternity, went against the cus
tom of the week to have events
spectacular and dramatic, and
tapped their new members in a
quiet fashion at a banquet in the
Union last night. Persona chosen
into the society were approached
from behind and touched on the
shoulder; then their names were
read.
Admittance to the society de
pends on high scholarship, and,
usually, sophomore standing.
Those tapped were James Mon
sour, Robert Herpelsheimer. Al
bert Jessen, George McMurtry,
Bill Heinricks, and Elliot Chappel.
Also chosen, from Wesleyan.
were: Elmer Artist, Tom Parkin,
, and Jack Groesser.
For the 42nd consecutive year
the campus pauses for its tradi
tional Ivy Day activities. Growing
out of a "seniors' sneak day," the
celebration was formalized in 1898
and has continued to be an annual
event. Today, the senior campus
honoraries announce their new
members, picked from the leaders
of the campus, and students wax
sentimental about their school.
All on the green north of Adminis
tration building.
Interfraternity sing
First on the program of the day
is the Interfraternity sing. Nine
groups are entered in the contest,
Schedule.
Interfraternity sing.
Ivy day oration.
Reading of Ivy day poem.
Planting of Ivy.
Recessional of
May Queen.
Intersorority sing.
Mortar Board masking.
Innocents' tapping.
AWS tea dance (Student
Union).
-10:30 Pharmacy and
engineers open house.
the winner of which received a cup
from the Kosmet Klub. Last year's
winner was Delta Upsilon.
The nine fraternities entered
are: Acacia. Alpha Tau Omega.
Beta Theta Pi, Delta Upsilon, Phi
Gamma Delta, Sigma Alpha Ep-
silon, Sigma Chi, Sigma u ana
Sigma Phi Epsilon.
Judging will be made on the
basis of general excellence of the
participants' efforts rather than
on technical perfection. iJoinis 10
be considered are: appearance, se
lection of song, tone quality of the
voices, balancing of parts, and in
terpretation as shown by style, at
tack and diction.
Ivy Day oration
Bryce Smith, elected on the Pro
gressive ticket by men of the cam
pus two weeks ago, will deliver the
Ivy Day oration. Smith is a senior
in law college and a member of
Delta Theta Phi, law fraternity.
Other candidates for the post
were Lyle Gill, Barb candidate,
and Gail Olsen, write-in candidate
of the Liberal party. Both are law
seniors.
Queen presentation
Presentation of the May Queen
nnd her attendants will take place
at 11:15. The processional to the
throne win mciuae two ouisianu
ing senior women, four juniors,
two sophomores, and two fresh
man as attendants. They were
chosen by the Mortar Boards and
their identity as well as Uiat oi
the queen has been kept secret.
Election of the May Queen by
all university women took place a
month ago. Candidates were Vir
ginia Clemans, Priscilla Wicks,
June Bierbower, Faith Medlar and
Maxine Lake.
Senior women will carry the ivy
chain and underclass women
chosen by their respective groups
will carry the daisy chain, in the
processional.
Ivy Day poem
Winner of the Ivy Day poem
contest will be announced. At that
time, the poem will be read by its
writer. Eligible for the contest,
which carries with it a $5 prize,
were all university women. The
poem will have an Ivy Day theme,
stressing the traditions and sig
nificance of the day.
Planting the ivy
Winding up the festivities of the
morning will be the planting of
this year's ivy vine. Adna Dobson,
senior class president, and Forrest
Behm, junior president, will take
part in this traditional ceremony.
Of the 42 ivy vines planted in the
(See TODAY, page 8.)
