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BY GEORGE ABBOTT.
A red flag hung outside the of
fice of Band Director Don Lentz
early Saturday morning. To the
average passerby it held no sig
nificance, but to the 125 members
of the varsity band and "those in
the know," it mean that the ath
letic board had decided in Friday
night's meeting to send the band
to Pasadena on New Year's day.
According to present plans, as
revealed by E. A. Gillaspie, man
ager of the band, and tour direc
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1,500 see presentation of bachelors
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Six eligible bachelors were presented to a crowd of over 1,500 peo
ple Friday night at the Mortar Board party. The six eligible bachelors
chosen by popular vote this fall, from left to right, were: Bus Knight,
Jack Stewart, Bob Burruss, John Mason, Bob Sandberg and Dick
Gellatly.
As the girls and their dates danced to Ace Brigode and his Vir
ginians, a spotlight played over the crowd and picked out each bache-
Cooperative movement leaps
ahead as new houses planned
Leaders sanction idea
Plans for the establishment of
new cooperative houses for men
took a definite leap forward at a
conference between -members of
the Student Council housing com
mittee and the presidents and rep
resentatives of the existing co-ops
Saturday sfternoon.
In the meeting, information and
Uni French club
to show movie
6La M&rseiHaise'
The University French club will
present the first of a series of
French talking motion pictures in
the Union ballroom Tuesday, when
"La Marseillaise" will be given
three showings at 4, 7, and 8:30
p. m. Tickets may be purchased
by the public alngly or for the
aeries of three pictures.
"La Marseillaise" is a story of
the French revolution with Jean
Renoir in the leading role. Other
movies to be shown thi3 year are
"Life and Loves of Beethoven" on
March 27 and "Les Perles De La
Couronne" on Feb. 25.
tor, a special train made up of six
cars will carry the band to the
coast. The families of the band
members and friends who have
the train. Three sleepers, a diner,
reservations will also travel on
baggage car and one club car will
form the band train.
Chancellor happy.
Commenting on the band's trip,
Chancellor C. S. Boucher said: "I
am delighted that the athletic
board saw its way clear to send
the band. It will represent the
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advantages of co-op systems to
both students and housemothers
were pooled. Plans were laid for
arousing interest, starting organi
zation, and establishing contacts
between the groups involved. Facts
and figures were presented by Bob
Howard and Nels Nordland, presi
dent and treasurer of Pioneer Co
op; Delbert Christensen. president
of Cornhusker Co-op; Canis Rich
mond, president of ACBC; and El
lis Ruby, representative of Bald
win Club.
Pioneer Co-op was revealed as a
financial success, independent
after being established only 13
weeks. Through a $5 entrance
cost and a weekly rate of (5 for
board and room along with work
by the 30 members, the group has
been able to furnish the house
mother room, board and $18 per
week; to buy 50 worth of furni
ture, and to put a large number of
repairs oft the house.
The separate class.
Being both a boarding and
rooming co-op. Pioneer is in a
class by itself. The other three
are similar in that they are board-
(See CO-OP, page 2.)
state and the university admir
ably." The chancellor, his wife
and daughter, Jane, will leave Lin
coln Dec. 21 to join the team in
Phoenix the 23rd. For the re
mainder of the time they will stay
with the team, traveling on to the
coast aboard the team special.
In connection with the trip Don
Lentz stated that the band would
take part in the Tournament of
Roses parade which precedes the
game. The maneuvers which the
band will present at the game will
follow a New Year's theme and
will include the bell formation that
was so well received at the Ne
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lor. Marg Krause named the ones spotted and two attendants brought
them to the platform. There Miss Krause presented each with a date
book.
Pictured with Nebraska's most eligible bachelors are Ruth Trum
bly and Norma Clark, Lincoln high school girls, who escorted the
bachelors to ths stage after they were picked out by the spotlight.
Coeds bar no
holds in attempt
to get wraps
"Calling all cars, calling all cars
. . .mob riot in the coliseum!"
That might have been sent over
police radios last night as a fight
ing, . pushing, screaming mob of
furious females, shoved, elbowed,
scratched and bit their way for
over an hour to the checkstands in
the coliseum basement after Ace
Brigode and his Virginians brought
the annual Mortar Board party to
a . close.
It seems the management
provided only one clerk at each
check stand and when several hun
dred women sought coats and hats
while their boy-friends stood by
chuckling, the result. was chaos.
Emily Post would faint too.
Several women fainted. One had
Vr dress half torn off. Many
forma Is were torn,-shoes stepped
on, hats crushed.
The checkstand catastrophe had
one good feature anyway: it pro
vided a marvelous excuse for
women coming in after the 1 a. m.
deadline to their sorority and
boarding houses. Housemothers
thought they were hearing a new
(See WRAPS, page 2.)
braska home games this years.
Intensive practice of the maneu
vers to be used at Pasadena will
be held during the coming week,
according to Lentz.
The Nebraska band itinerary to
Pasadena will be the third time in
11 years that the band represent
ing the opposing team has ap
peared in the Rose Bowl. The last
time this occurred was in 1936
when Southern Methodist jour
neyed to the bowl with its bands.
The band special will follow the
same route as the other bowl spe
cials, traveling the southern route.
HBMSHAN
Ag honorary
chooses 16
new members
Alpha Zela fetes men
on basis of leadership,
scholarship, character
Honoring agriculture majors in
the upper two-fifths of their class,
Alpha Zeta, agriculture national
fraternity, elected 10 men into
their ranks Thursday evening.
Men receiving the honor this
year are: Fred Patterson, John
Hanway, Don Baird, Oscar Tegt
meier, Weston Pielstick. Warren
Cabelman, Dwight Cherry, Harold
Bacon, Lemoyne Johnson, Glenn
Walsh, Robert Lamb, Dale Theo
bald, Alan Mulliken, Gene Mun
dorff, and Dale Weibel.
To be eligible for the honor, men
must be majors in ag, must have
completed at least one and one
half academic years, must rank in
the upper two-f'fths of their class,
and must have demonstrated quali
ties of leadership and character.
Election requires the unanimous
approval of the advisory council
and of faculty members of the society.
The train will leave Lincoln Dec.
24 at 8 a. m., traveling to Kansas
City, then continuing due south to
El Paso, where the band member
will take a one hour auto trip to
Juarez, Mexico. The train will
also stop for two hours in Phoenix,
to watch the Huskers in training.
The Nebraska delegation is on
schedule to arrive in los Angeles
early Monday morning the 27th,
and will probably be housed in the
New Rosslyn hotel during the stay
in Los Angeles. Seats were set
aside some time ago in the bowl
in the event that the Nebraska
band did make the trip.
Sunday, December 15, 1940
R3essiaIi
Music groups
give oratorio
at 3 today
More thur. 400 students will
combine in presenting the 45th an
nual performance of the Christ
mas Messiah, featuring 13 soloists,
400 voices in chorus and a 40-piece
orchestra, at 3 p. m. today.
University Singers and chorus,
the Grieg male chorus and men's
glee club, the ag college glee club
and the girls' glee club will form
the chorus of the presentation
under the direction of Dr. Arthur
E. Westbtook, director of the
school of fine arts, who is in
charge of the production. The
orchestra will be under the direc
tion of Don Lentz.
Will amplify voices.
In an effort to better the acous
tics of the coliseum for Messiah
soloists, Edward Edison has
planned a system which will am
plify voices of singers. This can
not be done by the regular public
address system, but has to be done
(See MESSIAH, page 2.)
Ag Christmas
show features
music, festivity
Ag college chorus, men's
quartet, instrumental trio
are included in program
Ag college will show its Yule
tide spirit when the annual ag
Christmas program is presented
tomorrow in the student activities
building. The program includes
vocal numbers by the ag college
chorus and men's quartet, an in
strumental trio, music by an elec
tric organ, and community sing
ing. Mother Pelton of Farm House
fraternity will give a reading, fol
lowed by a group of musical solos.
(See PARTY;, page 2.)
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i.auicdrai cnoir
places tree in
capitol today
The Lincoln Cathedral choir, di
rected by John Rosborough, will
participate in the ceremony plac
ing a Christmas tree in the capitol
this afternoon at 3. Being spon
sored by the chamber of coin
men, the mu.sicale will be aired
over KFAB.
A shift in the schedule moved
the program from 5 o'aJock to 3
making it now conflict with the
Messiah presentation in the coli
seum. Regretting the clash the
dual program will have, the choir
emphasized yesterday that the en
gagement was originally accepted
for 5 o'clock, and that the change
of time was beyond its control