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Courti'ay of Lincoln Journal.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Croon announce the engagement and approach
in? marriage of their daughter, Rosclyn, to Carl II. Frcborn of Lin
coln. The wedding will take place at Fremont June 27 at the
First Presbyterian church. IJoth Miss Green and Mr. Frcborn at
tend the University of Nebraska.
Students Perish From Sheer
Exhaustion After Final Week
BY BARBARA KIECIIEL.
V-E D;iy minus the confetti and
paper hats, term papers, spring
elections, heros home from battle,
picnics what a disconcerting
prelude to finals.
But that part is too painful.
Even thinking about the night
marish six days of pigtails and
bleary eyes is somehow nauseat
ing. It's always been a mystery
to us why people, bright enough
in most other respects, are so
eager to leave their quiet little
homes in the sand hills or what
have you where life is simple
and there are no A.W.S. rules,
for the complex and degenerate
lot of a college pack their brand
new luggage (carefully splattered
with Yale stickers, just for
atmosphere) and descend upon
the campus as potential B.T.O.s,
just what is in store for them.
Never, in their parents' remini
scenccs about their college days,
did they mention the cruel and
heartless faculty, the grueling
hours slumped over a desk lit
tered with textbooks and 12 foot
stacks of notes, and futile plight
of the lowly pledge trying to
grind out an average.
According tot hem, it was a
hilarious series of merry esca
pades, like taking the hinges off
doors and gleefully watching from
a closet keyhole while their room
mates reach for the door knobs
and fracture their skulls. Oh,
perhaps, in 25 years we too shall
have forgotten the bitter phases,
and entertain our respective (not
to be confused with "respect
able") offspring with nostaglic
tales of the gay side the memor
able Dandelion Dance, the bull
sessions steaming with "good"
conversation.
Explanation?
And then again, college stu
dents may simply be gluttons for
self-punishment, advocators of
the theory that "self-sacrifice is
good for the soul." There must
le some explanation! But enough
for such moralizing. . .
At any rate "'days are hurry
ing by." Only two days remain
to catch up on 390 pages of his
tory that somehow never got
read, and finish up the term paper
on the Love Life of a Parame
cium. If you're lucky, and take
enough sleeping pills, you may be
able to ward off the whole thing.
Arsenic works, too, but sleeping
pills are rapidly gaining favor
among the sophisticated set.
Reject the Easy Way.
Still, regardless of how pleasant
It sounds, every earnest scholar
must reject this easy, cowardly
way out. Arsenic, compared to
"Les Miserables," a pretty mild
stuff, anyway, and sleeping pills
are only for the weak. Far bet
ter to perish from sheer exhaus
tion, after a vow to "absorb the
germinal-selection theory if it
kills you." What if it does? At
least your classmates, gazing upon
your furrowed brow for the last
time, will pause reverently for
three-fourths of a second to pay
tribute to "one who tried.
But for those who don't take is
so seriously, there's always one
consolation. You d be surprised
how much more thoroughly you
learn one course in three years,
than one. And a thing worth
doing. . . !
Council Votes . . .
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board. She is also a member of
Phi Upsilon Omicron and Omicron
Nu.
Vice-President.
Roberta Collins, junior, attend
ant to the May Queen, is vice
president succeeding Jo Martz.
Miss Collins is also active in
Delta Phi Delta, Tassels and War
Council.
Secretary is Helen Vennum, ac
tive in Phi Chi Theta, who suc
ceeds Gloria Mardis. Stuart
Goldberg, assistant business man
ager of the Awgwan and a War
Council member, succeeds Blanche
Reid as treasurer.
Chairman of the judiciary
committee is Mary Jo Gish, who
was elected to fill Gene Dixon's
position. The new president an
nounced that the council would
hold a meeting this week to elect
committees.
BY BET KING.
This is our swan song our last
column. Think you can take it
just before exam week and in
your weakened condition?
First of all, best we apologize
to Alpha Chi Lilla Latham, (line
way to end a semester). Seems
we pinned her to the wrong folia
The right man is Lt. Jack Higgins
ATO, NOT Jack 1 login. Sorry
Lilla.
Bill Gayer, ATO, had his speech
111 class laughing with his "in
spiral ional" talk on the right pro
codure to be observed at picnics
lie must have been having trouble
with the brothers recently.
Tri Dolts Tie Knot.
Tri Delts Fanchon Jones and
Jan Horn have decided to tie the
knot firmly this summer with
George Bosnia, Zip, and Dean
Messman, Sig Ep, respectively
Another Tri Delt, Mary Kay Bo
gan, has been seeing entirely too
much of Phi Gam President liar
old Jacobson to be termed
"purely platonic." That combina
tion will bear watching.
One of those strange coinci
dents befell Alpha Xi Jean Mar-
cnant tne otner clay, bnc was
walking down the street, thinking
about nothing in particular when
whom should she see but old
home-town buddy Lt. Don Gus
tafson. They've been spending
every night talking over old times
A couple of Sig Chis have the
right idea on how to celebrate
their dates' birthdays. Lee Kjelson
and Marv Bowhay helped DG's
Phil Sorenson and Mary Esther
Dunkin celebrate that special day
with dinner at the University
Club Thursday night. A third
Sigma Chi, Sterling Scaton, took
Call Quigley out to dinner the
same night just "because he
wanted a steak."
Piking Saturday Night.
Saturday night will find Unl
versity students at the Tike for
one last good time before exams
ATO George Wright will be there
with fiancee Dorothy Gillan. Fiji
Tom Cornish and Sarah Murry,
Kappa, intend to celebrate the
completion of classes along with
Theta Gretchen Smith and Jim
Meyers at least, they were going
at the last report from the ticker
tape. Sig Chi Jim Yanney escorts
Helen Abdnor, Big Jim's cousin,
while Jim himself takes Theta
Nancy King. Alpha Chi Lilla La
tham is going to leave Beta Larry
Stoner pleasant memories of the
old campus when he leaves for
the Navy next week.
Don't study too hard for exams
as did Marilyn Adler, SpT, or you
too will end up behind dark
glasses.
TOWNSEND PHOTO STUDIO.
Teacher Reveals
Coinage of Word
Nazi
in
1872
CINCINNATI, Ohio. (ACP). If
you think that highly distasteful
word "nazi is of recent coinage,
you are far on the beam.
Dr. Edwin II. Zeydel, College
of Liberal Arts professor of Ger
man, University of Cincinnati, and
discoverer of literary oddities and
novelties, brings to light the fact
that the word was first used more
than 70 years ago, when the arch-
nazi, Hitler, was undreamed of.
Dr. Zeydel's findings are reported
in the current American Associa
tion of Teachers of German quar
terly.
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