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Vol. 42, No.
Lincoln, Nebraska.
Friday, September 25, 1942
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Frosh Class
1200 Strong
Takes Oath
First Wartime Group
Pledge to Uphold Husker
Creed at Annual Convo
la the shadow of overhanging
war clouds, Nebraska's first war
time class of freshmen filed into
the coliseum yesterday at 4:30 to
take the traditional Cornhusker
oath. Approximately 12 hundred
students, with the same earnest
ness and seriousness of their fel
low countrymen in the armed
services, quietly rose to their feet
at the end of the reading of the
oath by Colonel Frankforter as
an indication of their acceptance
of the pledge.
Interspersed by band music and
singing, short speeches were the
order of the day. Preston Hays,
president of the Innocents society,
acting as master of ceremonies,
bade the freshmen welcome. He
asserted that even in war time
there is a Cornhusker spirit, an
enthusiasm that should be grasped
(See OATH, Page 4.) '
Registration Props 117 From Last Year
With Greater Decrease Expected Later
Decrease Not
As Lame Now
Student Church
Group Starts Fall
Meetings Sunday
Fad programs of the Sunday
Evening club at First-Plymouth
Congregational church will start
at 6:30 o'clock this Sunday eve
ning.
The club is open to all Congre
gational students and their
friends. A special series of four
meetings has been arranged with
Dr. Raymond A. McConnell as the
speaker and leader of discussion
The series is "Four Cornerstones
of Freedom" Knowledge, Know
your world; Acceptance, Accept
your world; Adjustment, Adjust
your life to your world; Commit
ment. Commit yourself to service
Following the Vespers a ten cent
buffet supper will be served and
a social hour held.
Jinx Falkenburg, Movie Actress, Receives
Sweetheart' Title From ATO Pledge Class
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With a friend hr smile on her face, -Jinx i-'alkVnburg of
the fabulous family of the same name accepts a bouquet of
roses from Alpha Tau Omega pledges. ,
Hailing movie actress Jinx Fal-
kenburg as the "ATO pledge
sweetheart," some forty Alpha
Tau Omega youngsters and the
few envious actives who were fore
warned stormed the lobby of Hotel
Cornhusker Wednesday afternoon
to present the surprised Miss Falk
kenburg with a dozen American
Beauty roses and glad tidings.
Visiting Lincoln with a touring
group of such Hollywood notables
as handsome Walter Abel and the
three Ritz brothers, Jimmy, Al.
and Harry, sparkling Jinx is mak
ing her first trip over the coun
try in them movie industry's Sep
tember "buy a war bond" drive, in
conjunction with the nation's war
savings bond boost.
. . Wonderful!'
In a hard-won interview with
the Daily last night, the star, so
surrounded with ATOs. was
radiant at" her election that after
noon by the group of Nebraska
men. Smiling glamourously, she
(See CLASS, Page 2.)
Dean Verna H. Boyles Will Entertain All
University Coeds at Open House Today
In place of the formal afternoon
tea given in other years by the
dean of women, this year in def
erence to the war Mrs. Verna
Boyles, dean of women, will be
hostesses to all university women
at an informal open house today
in Ellen Smith.
Lasting from 3:30 to 5:30 p. m.,
the open house will be an oppor
tunity for new students as well
as upper classmen to become ac
quainted with the dean of women,
her staff, women members of the
faculty, and faculty wives.
Members of Mortar Board and
a group of senior women will as
sist in the drawing and dining
rooms. Introductions to the dean
of women will be made by Janet
Curley, president of AWS. Mrs.
Boyles will then acquaint her
guests with her staff, Mrs. Ada
P. Westover, and Miss Elsie Piper.
Mrs. C. S. Boucher, wife of the
chancellor, will also assist in the
introductions.
Faculty wives at the serving
tables will include Mrs. R. J, Pool,
Mrs. D. A. Worcester, Mrs. G. W.
Rosenlof, Mrs. Allan R. Congdon,
and Mrs. K. M. Arndt. Faculty
Students in Arts College May Minor
In Military Science, Says -Rosenlof
UN has for a long time recog
nized military science and tactics
a a minor when coupled with any
major course of study in the arts
and sciences college, G. W. Rosen
lof, director of admissions declared
yesterday.
His comment came after a Daily
Nebraskan reporter showed him a
clipping from the Daily Minne
sotan indicating that the Univer
sity of Minnesota was offering
courses unusual among colleges
with majors in military and naval
sciences and tactics.
Minnesota, according to the pa
per, recently announced a course
for freshmen with military as the
major with additional emphasis on
chemistry, physics and mathema
tics, in an attempt to better pre
pares students for the armed
forces.
UN Can Adopt This.
To all intent and purpose, Dr.
Rosenlof believes that the same
type of course can be pursued at
the University of Nebraska.
When it was pointed out that de
ferment at the Gopher university
would not be granted to students
in naval or military science until
their junior year, Dr. Rosenlof re
plied that students in the enlisted
reserve corps at UN are granted
deferment in their freshmen
sophomore years.
and
At the completion of their first
two years, if they have pursued
the proper curricula and achieved
high records of scholarship, they
would be eligible for consideration
for advanced military training,
thus being defered and upon grad
uation be commissioned as second
lieutenants.
Patience, Frcshic
Caps Expected
Early Next W eek
Questions, question, ques
tions, concerning freshman
cap are flooding the Union of
fices, but no answer to those
questions has been available up
to this time. Bend an ear,
freshman, and the mystery will
unfold.
The stock of freshman caps
has been exhausted, but will be
replenished, it is expected, by
the first of next week. An an
nouncement will appear in the
Daily Nebraskan when the caps
arrive. Cards may be secured
from the office of the Daily
(Nebraskan and purchase of
caps made at Ben Simons.
members who will be present are
Miss Margaret Fedde, Miss Mabel
Lee, and Miss Lillian Brehm.
Help in Drawing Rooms.
Miss Mary Lockett, Miss Sallv
Wilson, Miss Laura Asninwall
Miss Luvicy Hill, and Miss M. W
Johnson will also be helping in the
drawing rooms. Sidney Ann Card
ner, president of Panhellenic coun
cil, is in charge of the serving
tables.
Music will be furnished thruout
the afternoon by the two music
sororities Sigma Alpha Iota, who
will play from 3:30 until 4:30, and
Delta Omicron, who will entertain
the last hour.
Decorations in
diningrooms will
and leaves.
the court and
be fall flowers
As Anticipated
Registration at the university
during the three day scheduled pe
riod showed a decrease of less
than 11 percent from a year ago,
administrative officials reported
yesterday.
A further drop not expected to
reach the 20 percent decrease uni
versity heads had anticipated is
expected to come from late and
graduate college enrollment.
"Enrollments," according to Dr.
G. W. Rosenlof, director of ad
missions, "are at the moment much
better than had been expected.
Comparable figures for this year
and last would seem to indicate
that the decrease will not be quite
so great as had been anticipated."
Over 4,300 Total.
Figures at present, he pointed
out, are well over the 4,300 total,
exclusive of those registered in
the medical college and the school
of nursing.
Altho comparable figures arc
not yet available, he said, it is
presumed that graduate enroll-
(See ANTICIPATED, Page 4.)
Few Cornhusker
Fans Journey
To Iowa Game
Lack of money, desire and
transportation will cause a large
decrease in the number of Corn
husker fans who will follow their
team to Iowa City for the Iowa
State-Nebraska football game to
morrow, according to pre-game
ticket sales here.
John K. Selleck, director of the
athletic department, said yester
day, "Of the 600 tickets sent hero
to be sold to Cornhusker fans, I
have already returned 580 to Iowa
City and have sold 12. Lack of
transportation due to priorities
and the lessened desire to go to
the eastern most part of Iowa
have decreased the Nebraska attendance."
It is true, Rosenlof points out
that we do not have a reserve offi
cers naval training division pa this
campus as Minnesota so fortu
nately possesses, but we do have
three divisions of the ROTC, in
cluding infantry, artillery and en
gineering. Any student at Nebraska can
elect to pursue a curricula in this
institution altogether comparable
to that provided at West Point so
far as the academic subject mat
ter is concerned and so far as the
basic and advanced r.'litary sci
ence training are concerned within
the three divisions noted.
The military science department
at UN has been recognized as
among the very best of the de
partments In the land grant col
leges of the United States.
It is probably not known, stated
Mr. Rosenlof, that Nebraska has
for the last several years furnished
more than its quota of naval and
marine officers for commissions
in the armed forces and that in
spite of the fact that the univer
sity maintain only the army
ROTC unit.
Price Raised . .
Student Activity Tickets
Sell at $5.50, Include Tax
. . . Drawing Tuesday
Student activity tickets which
go on sale Monday and Tuesday
morning of next week are priced
ut (5.50 a book, not $5 as was
originally announced, it was re
vealed yesterday by John K. Sel
leck, business manager of ath
letics. This new price was raised to
include the new federal tax. The
holder of an activity ticket is en
titled to a reserved seat at foot
ball games, admission to basket
ball games, track meets and other
intercollegiate sports.
Drawing of seats to UN foot
ball games will take place at 12:30
Tuesday noon in Selleck's office,
and Bob Schlater, editor of the
Daily Nebraskan, will conduct the
drawing. One member of each
group of students, two persons or
more, should be present at the
drawing.
Reservations for seats must be
turned in before Tuesday roon.
Students or group who wish to
reserve seats may do so by pre
senting money and identification
cards at Selleck s office. Receipts
will be given to them and they
may obtain the activity books
Wednesday.
If there are any left over stu
dents or groups failing to place
reservations before the drawing
Tuesday they may purchase them
latr. but no student may purchase
more than one ticket.
Kosmel Klul) Meets
In Union Tuesday
men's honorary
will hold a
Kosmet Klub,
dramatic fraternity,
meeting Tuesday, Sept. 29, at 4:3ft
at the Kosmet Klub office in the
Union. This announcement came
today from Max Laughlin, presw
dent of the Klub.
The meeting will be held to dis
cuss organization for the coming;
year and plans will be mad far.
revision of the officer.
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