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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (April 3, 1942)
Sunday, April 3, 1942' 7, ho Will Carry the Ivy?' Tho No Farmers Fair ... Rain Continues Traditional Habit of Causing Disorder . . . It's a Tradition r r DAILY NEBRASKAN r ft 1 Outstanding women of the university entation of the May Queen and her court. carried the daisy and ivy chains which preceded the pres- Cotirtt-sy Sunday Journal and Star. Phys Ed Association Holds Convention Here Nebraska State Physical Edu cation association will hold its an nual convention at the university Friday evening and Saturday. Miss Elizabeth Burchenal, in ternationally known teacher of folk dancing, will conduct a dance institute at the opening meeting Friday evening in Grant Memorial hall. Director of the folk arts cen ter in New York city, she is the author of numerous books on folk dancing. Supt. M. C. Lefler of the Lin coln public schools and Superin tendent Corning of Omaha public schools will speak briefly before the Friday dance institute. A May morning breakfast will be held Saturday morning at the Student Union. James Morrison, president of the central district of the American Association for Health, Physical Education and Recreation, will preside, and the group will hold its annual busi ness meeting and hear reports of the district and national conven tions. Following the breakfast the second session of the dance insti tute will be held in the Union ballroom. A discussion of the physical fitness movements will be hejd in the parlors X and Y. In the afternoon a workshop group on physical fitness will meet, and from 4 to 5 the university depart ment of physical education for for women will give a tea at the Union in honor of Miss Burchenal. Miss Dorothy Zimmerman of the university faculty is presi dent of the state association. Kulnins Speaks X At Annual Law College Dinner Barton H. Kuhuns, secretary of the National Conference Commis sion on Uniform State Laws and prominent Omaha attorney, ad dressed the students and faculty of the law college, Thursday night at the college's annual award ban quet at the Cornhusker hotel. Dean Foster presented to out standing seniors graduate awards and scholarships. Kenneth Miller, president of the senior law class, presided over the meeting. Fol lowing tradition the class will and prophecy were read. Kuhuns spoke on "The Jun ior Bar Association." Barton Ku huns is one of the outstanding members of the Junior Bar association. Army Federal Ends Bruce Griff ing, Iowa State col lege graduate student, has been awarded a Roosevelt fellowship for further study at the University of San Marcos, Lima, Peru. Inspection Col. Briggs to Withhold Final Rating for Unit Until Area Ends Review Friday brought to a close the inspection of the brigade ROTC cadets, and although prospects for anomer superior rating appear good, the final decision will not be known for some weeks yet. The rating of the uhit now rests in the ROTC headquarters, where Col. Briggs, 7th corps area ROTC officer, will withhold the decision until all senior ROTC units in this corps area have been in spected. It was felt by the mili tary department that official word of the rating would reach them within the next two weeks. In spection of the unit went off as per schedule Friday, with em phasis on the drill command and leadership of the companies on the drill field. With the inspection completed, the military staff turned toward making final plans for the an nual compet, to be held Thursday, May 14th. The compet, in which all regiments participate, is the climax of the work and events of the military department and concludes its activities for the year. By Dale Wolff. Farmer's Fair was abolished, but the news evidently didn't gef to the weather man. Yesterday, was the traditional day for the annual ag college cele bration and it rained. Rain on the first Saturday in May has beeiv more of a tradition in the past than the celebration itself. The general consensus was that the ion was shattered to bits yesterday as UN students found as they ruining Farmer's Fair. This opin rain came for the sole purpose 0 dents are the memories"" of their trude-ed to shelter to watch the others cursed, rain. For days the by that sometimes blessed, and at Last year's experiences are nc$ previous days work being ruined board members and other students had taxed their already overbui dened minds for ideas on enter tainment. At last the crucial day arrived the rodeo, archeries, booths (roof less, of course) had all been pre pared and altho ag college is notecU for iits successful experimenting, it didn't take long for the average person to decide that it wasn't exs. actly the best of sport to shoot ar rows at balloons while raindrops were falling from the sky aS though they didn't have a care in the world, except getting you wet. Perhaps this was one of the de ciding factors when Farmers' Fair" was being considered by the ag exec, board. Oh well, come what may, in 1943, most students money- will be placed on the weather man and rain for the first Saturday in May. j' WarMayBring Co-education To Rockford ROCKFORD, 111... (ACP). The war may bring a measure of co education to Rockford college, one of the oldest liberal arts institu tions for women in the country, if present plans for a pre-engineer-ing course to be given next fall materialize. In collaboration with the Illinois Institute of Technology and local industrial organizations, Rockford plans to offer engineering courses on the freshman and sophomore level. Men taking part in this pro gram would complete their train ing at the Illinois Institute after approximately two years of class work on the Rockford campus, with Rockford faculty members teaching special classes for the engineers. The co-operative plan or team system, which provides for one man to work in industry while an other attends classes for a semes ter, will probably be introduced at the college for these prospective engineers. Under such a plan five . years . of continuous . work and study are needed to complete the Work required for the B.S. degree in engineering. A new milk dispenser has been set up alongside the coca-cola ma chine at Gogebic Junior college, Ironwood, Mich. 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