Wednesday, March 4, 1942
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Foundation Sponsors
Statewide Essay Conipet
The StuJent Foundation, in the
first action taken since their
founding, voted to sponsor an es
say contest open to high school
seniors throughout the state, with
the winner to receive a cash award
to be applied on tuition in the
university.
Topic of the e.ssay, according to
John Douglass, foundation chair
man, will be "Why I Want to
A 1 1 e nd University in These
Times." Interested high school
students have been asked to see
Douglas for application blanks.
The group also made plans for
entertainment, campus tours, and
registration in the Student Union
lobby of all participants in the
state high school basketball tour
nament, which will be held here
next week.
Movies of campus life, taken by
the alumni office, will be used in
the tour of high schools through-
Kosmet Klub
Scripts Due
Next Week
March 9 Is Deadline
Set for Annual Spring
Show Skits, Music
Deadline for Kosmet Klub
scripts has been set for Monday,
March 9, according to Bert Smith,
business manager. Student writers
must take their scripts for the
annual spring review to the Kos
met Klub office.
The tradition of having an all
male case has been ve3ived and
there will be no parts open to
coeds. The first prize of $40 is
being offered by the Klub for the
best skit submitted and a $10
prize for the best song written
for the srtow.
Potential script writers are
asked to keep in mind the plot
possibilities with the all-male case
climaxed by the famed pony
chorus.
Paul Bogen of the speech de
partment has been appointed di
rector of the show which will be
given April 21 to 24. Walt Bun
din, president of Kosmet Klub,
said yesterday that the profits
will be added to the scholarship
fund which new exceeds $500.
Willkic Opens
Iowa State
War Course
Wendell Willkie opened Iowa
State college's new course on the
war, entitled "The Citizen and the
World Crisis," with a short ad
dress at that school recently. The
course is designed to provide an
understanding of the forces work
ing in the world conflict, and
bears a similarity to Nebraska's
new course, "America and World
War II."
The first lecture of the course,
meeting twice weMfly, was given
by the college president, Dr.
Charles E. Fnley, and concerned,
"The Duties and Opportunities of
the Student as a Citizen."
WAA Schedule
The following iutn-mural bas
ketball schedule has been released
by the W. A. A. office.
Monday, March 2, 6:0-3.
Alpha Chi Omega, team 1 ver
sus Delta Gamma, t"am 3.
Kappa Alpha Thota, versus
Gamma Phi Beta.
Tuesday, March 3, 5:00.
De lta G tnima vei.sus Alpha Phi.
Pi Beta Phi versus Delta Delta
Delta, team 2.
Wedne-d3y, March 4, 5:00.
Alpha C'iii Omega, team 2 versus
Delta Delta, tem 1.
Kappa Kappa Gamma versus
Kap;a Alpiia 'ilie'i, team 3.
Thursday, March 5, 5:00.
Simula Dt!t.. Tut versus Ray
mond Hall.
Alpha Phi. team 1 versus Delta
Gamma, team 2.
Friday, March 6, 5:00.
Alpha Chi Omega, team 3 ver
sus -Kappa AlpWa Tlieti, team 3.
Alpha Xi Dcita versus Wilson
Hall.
Fifty-six students at Cornell
university have received John Mc
Mullen regional and industrial
scholarships with variable stipends
up to $400 a year-
out the state as a feature of the
assembly programs to be given, it
was decided.
Douglass also announced that
there are still district chairman
ships open for several counties.
The district chairmen for coun
ties throughout the state have
been selected by the executive
board but will not be announced
until approved by the Student
Council, Douglas said, and added
that several county chairmanships
are still open. Interested students
should contact Douglas.
Uni Students
May Apply
For Marines
Regulations Now Include
Freshmen; Applications,
Exams Held in U Hall
Any male student of the Uni
versity of Nebraska in good stand
ing, who is unmarried, and will
promise to remain so until he is
commissioned may make applica
tion for the Marine Corps Reserve,
Lt. J. E. Rowland said yesterday
on his second trip to the univer
sity. Until this week freshmen were
excluded from applying, but a
special bulletin from Washington
announced the change and Lt.
Rowland said that the several
freshmen who had approached him
on his previous trip may now make
application in U hall.
Other qualifications are that he
belong to no other military or
ganization, including army or
navy TIOTC; furnish written con
sent of parents or guardian if a
minor; and be working for a de
gree in arts, science or engineer
ing. The final physical examination
will be given in U hall March 17
and since students applying now
would not have time to complete
their applications those students
can take their physical exams in
Des Moines, la., any time until
April 15 at the Marine Recruiting
station.
Men who sign for this branch
of the service will not be called to
duty until they have graduated
unless it is absolutely necessary.
In case the exigencies of the serv
ice necessitate their being called
to active duty before graduation
they will be given at least six
months' notice.
After graduation the men will
go through a three months' train
ing period. While serving on ac
tive duty as a private first class,
during this initial three months'
period, they will be paid at the
rate of $36 per month. In addi
tion transportation to the training
center, food, clothing, and medi
cal and dental care will be sup
plied. Members of the Marine Corps
Reserve obligate themselves to
serve with the Marine Corps in
time of war, and students who
make application are under obli
gation to enter the service as soon
as called after graduation.
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Texas Coed Gels
Degree for Sake
Of Husband
Zoie Otlom Newsome of Texas
is co-ed, commuter and housewife.
Flie married a lawyer who has
two degrees, so she decided, "I
onpc lit to have at least one degree."
To get it, a bachelor of aits de
gree with a major in English, she
is commuting 174 miles by tram
and automobile daily to study at
Texas Technological college, Lub
bock. Mrs. Newsome figures that
when .she gets that decree she will
have traveled 50,130 miles.
At 4:50 a. m. Monday through
Saturday, Mrs. Newsome arises at
her home in Snyder, Texaa. At 9
a. m. she enters her first class
room. The train back to Snyder leaves
at 4:10 p. m. and arrives at 6:10.
She rushes right home to fix
dinner.
The nearly four hours a day
spet on the train solves her study
problem.
Showing that art has a definite part in de
fense is Tom McClure of Pawnee City, who re
ceived a bachelor of fine arts degree with dis
tinction from the university n June, 1941.
Last fall McClure went to Washington State
college at Pullman, Washington, where he held a
teaching fellowship in the art department. Recently,
however, he decided he would like to do work more
directly connected with war preparation.
He became a "sketch artist" at the Boeing air
craft plant at Seattle when he drew a rapid per
spective sketch from a plane fitting presented to
him.
Great value is placed upon this new application
of art training because it has been found that work
men greatly speed up production when their blue
prints and work drawings are visualized for them
by sketches.
McClure in a letter to one of his classmates
describes his work:
Sunday Journal and Star.
"We do very detailed perspective drawings
from blueprints and from the actual objects if they
have any built. The drawings are of large units of.
the airplanes. Then each unit is broken down, and
all the parts of it are drawn until finally you get
down to very small parts which are put together in
different shops. Each part has a number. On our
drawings we have to label each part, indicate every
rivet and number it.
"The drawings are sent back to Ihe shops and
shown to the workers to help them understand the
blueprints. A procedure is printed with each draw
ing explaining every step in the construction of
that particular piece. The work is very interesting
because we get passes over the entire plant and
get to see the planes in eevry stage."
The accompanying photograph shows the
murals that Tom McClure painted in the Student
Union Music room.
Dr. Wise Surveys
New Air Courses
Dr. H. E. Wise, supervisor of
science in teachers college, is con
ducting an investigation of the
out-state high schools to determine
the present status of aeronautics
courses which have been intro
duced during the past two years.
Questionnaires have been sent to
the school superintendents which
are to be filled out and returned.
The results .of the study will be
used in guiding the pre-service
training of science teachers.
The University Library has just
completed checking its holdings
against the Short-Title Catalogue,
which is a list of all books printed
in England, Scotland and Ireland
and of all English books printed
abroad between 1475 and 1640. It
lists approximately 2G.000 items.
The University of Nebraska Li
brary owns 62 of the books listed
in the Short -Title Catalogue. This
is considered a surprisingly good
(See EX LIBRIS, page 6.)
Weaver Assigned
To Active Duty
Robert J. Weaver, who received
his BA in 193? and his MSc in
1940, has an article in a recent
issue of "Plant Physiology." For
merly an assistant in the univer
sity plant ecology department and
more recently a graduate student
at the University of Chicago,
Weaver has been called to active
duty as a reserve officer at Fort
Robinson. He is the son of Prof.
J. E. Weaver.
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