DAILY NEBRASKAN
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Thursday, December 18, 1941
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Hoping to Finish College
UJV Students Ready, Willing
For Active Military Service
. . Home Defense Duty
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Sunday Journal and Star.
There's 126 pounds shown in thi3 picture, left, Betty Mallat takes care of 105 pounds of the total, caused trouble.
Frosli Week
Had Begining
At Acadia U
HAMILTON, N. Y. (ACP).
Freshman orientation week, now
popular in many colleges through
out the country, had its beginning
22 years ago at Acadia university,
Wolfville, Nova Scotia.
George Marton Cutten, president
of Colgate university, then head of
Acadia university, said the plan
was developed when former sol
diers opposed the institution's
"funny little restrictions." Cutten
explained that the freshman class
was made up mostly of returned
soldiers who had their own ideas
of personal freedom.
The freshmen were assembled at
a private camp near the Acadia
campus. After three days, Cutten
said, the men understood college
regulations and never afterward
The rest is the weight of the iron meteorite from Morrill hall. It's one of the largest specimens there. At The freshman orientation plan
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top right are the jet black specimens of an exploding meteorite, recovered soon after coming to eartn in - Vit SUt where
Sioux county in 1933 wnen natives tnougiu iney naa gone imu an wiuuum, w.- n is uged bv most colleees
found later and have lost the glaze which formed on the meteor when it burned its way tnru atmospuere.
Stars that are so romantic when
they are hanging with a blue sky
as a background aren't so glam
orous after they fall, but the col
lection of "shooting stars" scien
tists call them 'meteor fragments
on display at Morrill are consid
ered "quite worthwhile" by ex
perts. Anybody who has spent any
time looking at Nebraska skys
has seen falling stars, bodies of
all sizes from specks to large mas
ses traveling thru outer space at
speeds as high as 10 to 50 miles
an hour.
When one of the meteorites
plunges thru the atmosphere, there
is engendered a heat ( so intense
that it burns off the film of the
"star," causing it to explode, and
most small meteors are usually
burned up before they strike the
earth.
It is the larger ones which are
Daily Conducts
Training Class
For Solicitors
Filings for advertising solicitors
for next semester on the Daily
Nebraskan may now be made in
the business office until school
closes for Christmas vacation, Ben
Novicoff, advertising manager of
the Nebraskan announced today
Novicoff will conduct a class to
train solicitors for next semester,
and those attending the class will
be paid the usual commission on
advertising they obtain.
"This is an unusual opportunity
for solicitors," said Novicoff.
"There are many good accounts
kft open and besides the usual
commission the high salesman
each month will be paid a bonus.'
"This is a good way to tarn
spending money and at the same
time train for a position on the
staff of the Nebraskan." he added
Loyola Museum
Has Wax Image
Of Maxmillau
NEW OKLKANS, La. (ACPt.
In the Bobet library museum on
the campus of Loyola of the south,
is a small, wax image of Maxi
milian, ill-fated emperor of
Mexico.
The image was modeled from
the wax of the altar candles in the
church in Mexico where the body
of Maximilian was thrown after he
was killed.
It was done at the risk of the
sculptor's life, but he escaped
from Mexico and brought the im
age of the emperor to New Or
leans, where it was given to
Loyola.
With the image in a glass case,
is a clot of the blood of the emperor.
not wholly consumed but which
are often lodged deep in the earth
or in pools of water that museum
officials have been able to secure
for the collection.
As a matter of fact, Nebraska
ranks among the top four states
in the number of falls which have
been recorded. Thirty meteorites
have been reported found in the
state, and the UN collection in
cludes 20.
Nineteen have been found dur
ing the last ten years. This large
number is probably due to in
creased interest in the celestial
bodies because of numerous art
icles and radio programs accord
ing to Morrill hall officials.
Only a Portion Valuable.
Each year a score of specimens
thought to be meteorites are sent
to the museum and the geology
department for identification, and
many more are studied on the liela.
Altho about one percent prove to
be actual meteorites, the museum
staff is glad to receive reports
of possible "fallen stars.
Dr. C. Bertrand Schultz, mu
seum director, once drove thru a
blizzard on a single lane highway
to investigate a reported meteorite
He found even more than he had
anticipated bringing back for the
collection a 21'i pound iron mete
orite.
One meteor that burst over
southwestern Sioux county, shook
the region so much that everybody
thought there had been an earth
quake. The meteor produced noise
which was heard and smoke that
was seen from over 200 miles
away.
Many specimens in the univcr
sity exhibit were obtained thru the
contribution of the late Charles
Morrill, and Dr. E. H. Barbour,
now director emeritus, collected
and purchased several valuable
meteorites in the pioneer days of
the museum.
In time Dr. Barbour plans to
present these to the university on
the principle that rare objects
found in Nebraska should not go
to adorn the cabinets of eastern
museums but should be preserved
within the state for the edilica
tion and instruction of its citizens
Ag Yule Program
Features Organ
Music, Carols
Organ music, candle-light, and
carols highlighted the annual
Christmas program which were
held last night at ag campus for
students, faculty, and the general
public. Excerpts from the Mes
siah were sung by the ag chorus.
Sponsored by the ag executive
board, the program was one of
the biggest of the year on ag cam
pus. Committee chairman for the
affair were Gwen Row, program;
Mary June Buck, decorations; and
Charles Marcy, publicity.
YW, YM Students
Attend National
Student Assembly
Pcnn State Prof
Advises Methods
For Stuttering
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (ACP)
The most practical way to handle
a child who stutters, a Pennsyl
vanla State college instructor in
clinical speech advises, is to let
him stutter.
Eugene T. McDonald said the
best thing to do if the child stut
ters is not to call attention to the
defect, let him speak slowly and
never ask him to repeat.
"As soon as a child becomes
aware of the fact that his parents
are concerned about his stuttering,
he attempts to control it and his
fear brings on more stuttering,'
McDonald said.
He added no single cure-all for
stuttering has been discovered
Improvement may be effected, he
declared, by distracting attention,
constant suggestion, reading syl
lable by syllable or making the
patient conscious of the move
ments necessary to produce
sounds.
Several members of the YW
and YM are planning to attend
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Student Christian associations Dec. UriieiU to iive 1 aper
27 to Jan. 3 at Miami university
at Oxford, Ohio.
Miss Mary Lockett, YW secre
tary on this campus, C. D. Hays,
YM secretary, Frances Keefer,
YW president, Helen Kelley, and
Bob Peterson will attend as repre
sentatives of this university. Alex
Roth of Wesleyan will make the
trip with the group.
Prominent speakers who will
address the meeting are T. Z. Koo,
secretary of the World Student
Christian Federation in China,
Malcolm S. McLean, president of
Hampton Institute; and Homer
Brown, member of the Pennsyl
vania legislature.
Students interested in attending
the convention should see C. D.
Hays in the YMCA rooms in Tem
ple or Mis3 Mary Lockett in Ellen
Smith. Expenses of the trip will
include round trip in a private
car, $10; registration and pro-
era in fee. $10; board and room,
$1G.
Iu Chicago This Month
Prof. Lester B. Orfield of the
college of law will deliver a paper
on "Appellate Procedure in Equity
Cases" and serve as chairman of
the equity round table council of
the Association of American Law
Schools meeting in Chicago this
month.
A general survey of the univer
sity students revealed that all ar
whole heartedly willing to do their
part in home defense and active
military duty. Everyone ques
tioned made the statement that
they would answer any call issued
to them immediately with no reser
vations. The plurality of the stu
dents hoped and wanted to finish
their education before doing active
duty but all earnestly wanted to
do home defense work if the im
mediate need arose.
John Anderson, junior, expressed
the desire to finish his education,
but if called to active duty would
want to enter the radio branch of
the air corps since radio is his
hobby. He felt he would be of
greater service in tlrs branch of
the service than in any other.
"Can't Knit."
Simon Shellberg, jr., sophomore,
stated, "I'll wait to be drafted, but
the army will get me in the end.
I'm very willing to do home de
fense work, but I can't knit."
Another student willing to do
home defense work, but who would
rather finish his education before
doing active military duty, is
Richard Hagelberger, senior. He is
interested in the intelligence
branch of the army.
Already Decided.
Don Hilgert, junior, answered
the inquiring reporter's questions
in one statement, "I've already
made my decision. I've enlisted in
the air corps and will leave on
March 7."
Scott Merrell, freshman, plans
to complete his education as much
as he can while waiting to be
drafted. Merrell stated, "I don't
see any rush for me to go into
the army, although the army will
be my choice because I have al
ways liked it."
The electrical branch of the
navy would be John Loeber's
choice of service when drafted,
Loeber, a junior, wants to finish
his college education but, at the
same time, do all home defense
work possible without hindering
his school work.
Girls Willing Too.
Every girl questioned was eager
to do her share in home defense
work if the need arose.
Flora HecX, a pre-med sopho
more, would want to do anything
in the medical line, and if it were
impossible to continue her pre
medic course, she would take a
short technician course for imme
diate service.
JoAnn Macoy, junior, and Jean
Carnahan, senior, both would be
interested in hospital or ambulance
corps work. Ruth Brickell, com
mercial arts junior, would apply
for defense work in an office
where her commercial training
could be put to the best use. As
was the case with all the other
students questioned, these three
girls hope to finish their educa
tions before called to any full-time
defense duty.
Of 20 members of the first board
of regents of the University of
Michigan, created in 1837, only
seven held cHege degrees.
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! Wishes All
Students and Faculty !
I a Very Merry
Christmas
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