Friday, November 10, 1944
THE NEBRASKAN
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There's No Place Like Home,
Or, Cottoning to Cotton
BY BARBARA KIECIIEL. standing in the lobby and watch
ing the people come dripping out,
syes red, noses likewise, was
enough to envelope everybody in
a dark and somber mood. They'd
no more than gotten seated before
the tears started tricking down
their cheeks. Total strangers sob
bed convulsively on each other's
shoulders, and even a rough and
West Pointy looking colonel
leaned over and asked, in a shak
ing voice, if he could borrow a
handkerchief. The picture was
marvelouc: everyone loved it so
they nearly flooded the place. And
it was like home. Excent for
Joseph Cotton . . . Home was
never like that!
Yes, homesickness is a terrible
malady. Why, even that charm
ing little social bug down the hall
would go home this weekend
if it wasn't that mother had
warned her not to darken the
door again, after that "down" in
phys ed.
"Downs" . . . Election night . . .
Joseph Cotton . . . zoo guests
What a week! Some days one
just can't win, any way they look
at it. Who said that college days
are the happiest, most carefree
days of life? That ought to be
settled with the gentleman per
sonally. Fancy allowing people
to dash around the country
spreading propaganada like that!
Fall's a funny time of year,
anyway. Summer vacation is just
long enough to get used to Moth
er's touching parental "looking
after" and bong! it's September
again. Nine more months of
packing the laundry and remem
bering to buy soap and tooth
paste not to mention kleenex and
aspirin.
It has been said that families
aren't really appreciated until
they're miles away, and durned
if it isn't true! At this point even
hearing the kid brother sing his
favorite song, "Your Feet's Too
Eig would sound good.
It all started when the orches
tra suddenly swung into "White
Christmas" the other night. No
matter how nauseating it becomes
before the heralded day finally
arrives, the season s first perform
ance of it always leaves a lump in
one's throat. A Christmas tree,
packages that have to appear
mystifying, even if they have al
ready been inspected from the
top shelf of the guest room closet
they all sort of leap to mind
. . . Well, okay so it is rushing
the season!
Everyone Weeps.
And "Since You Went Away"
didn't help any, either. Just
Ar Coeds Hold
Annual Dinner
Next Thursday
Ellen H. Richards, founder of
modern home economics, will be
honored at an annual dinner
sponsored by the home economics
council on Thursday, Nov. 16, at
6:15 in the Union ballroom.
The dinner is on the 102nd
anniversary of home economics
and is open to all home ec stu
dents. The university is one of
the few colleges in the United
States which honor Ellen H. Rich
ards with a dinner.
Miss Tehlma Estervez, an ex
change student from Uruguary
Who is now attending college at
Ames, Iowa, will be the guest
Speaker.
Tickets for the dinner will be
on sale today in the home eco
nomires building or can be ob
tained from members of the home
economics council. lick els are
65 cents.
Scientists have created an in
duction electron accelerator that
whirls electrons at almost five
times the speed of light. This is
a million-volt accelerator. Its use
still is being explored, but it is
expected to open vast new fields
of electronic progress.
Women Wear
Suits, Anything
Warm to Game
With a game coming up tomor
row and victory almost within
our grasp oh, we hope what to
wear looms foremost in every co
ed's mind. All indications point
to blankets as the most popular
single garment with suits running
a close second.
The best possible outfit in which
to watch the Huskers blow over
the Cyclones, would perhaps, be
a three-piece suit, goorl n wai m,
and a bright plaid blanket draped
squaw fashion over the fair,
fragile shoulders of our campus
cuties.
The brave ones who sit thru the
game with cold but chic elegance
in pumps, are things of beauty
but the most popular attire will
be moccasons or saddles (some
times new) and warm wool socks.
Plenty of the good old school
spirit and pep can't be had with
cold ears and even colder fingers.
S. naturally, a very important
piece of attire mustn t be forgot
ten. The head scarf, and witn it,
matching mittens (practically a
prerequisite for all sharp coeds!)
Ribbed, colorful mufflers will be
much in evidence too, along with
dain white neck scarves. With
all this heat how can Nebraska
help but conquer?
Nine Colleges
Send Students
To SCM Meet
Ninety-two students represent
ing nine Nebraska colleges will
conclude the Student Christian
Movement conference on ag cam
pus Sunday morning.
Mary Ann Mattoon of UN and
Dick MacCannon of York are co
chairmen of the conference which
closed this morning after three
days of religious discussion and
fellowship. Conference hosts are
the ag YW and YM, whose respec
tive presidents are Peggy Larson
and Rob Cornell.
Following the initial get-togeth
er Friday night, the students
heard Benjamin F. Schwartz, Ne
braska Weslevan chancellor, dis
cuss "Training for the Campus
and Beyond Saturday morning.
Workshop sessions and discussion
groups were held in the afternoon.
Hilda Benson, World Student
Service Fund traveling secretary,
spoke at the evening banquet at
Epworth church. "Experiences in
a Relocation Center" were related
by a Nisei and a white, both from
Doane.
Representatives, who were from
Doane, Hastings, Kearney, Mid
land, Peru, Wayne, York, Ne
braska Wesleyan and UN met in
Ag Hall and ate in the cafeteria.
Women lived in the nutrition
building and the seed laboratory
housed the men.
Industrialists estimate that
1,500,000 stores in the United
States need relighting. New type,
flexible fixtures adapted to spe
cialized needs will be available
after the war.
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LOST Identification bracelet. Lee Rejl
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LOST Partially knitted white sweater
and yarn, somewhere in Social Science
hall. Call Fanchon Jones. 2-7564.
X-raying of airplane propeller
blades by electronic control, to
find defects, speeds up inspection
time 300 percent.
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