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LINCOLN 8, NEBRASKA
Tuesday, February 19, 1946
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Boucher Says School
Equipment Below Par
"The university's investments
in building and equipment for
each student has been the lowest
and our expenditure per student
for instructional purposes has
been below that judged adequate
by accrediting agencies," Chan
cellor C. S. Boucher said Sunday,
and added that this must be cor
rected if the university is to
progress.
"An enormous backlog of post
poned demand for education and
training" faces the university,
which, the Chancellor continued,
is comparable to the present de
mand for housing, household
equipment and automobiles.
New Buildings Essential.
Recalling the swift increase in
enrollment that followed the first
world war, Chancellor Boucher
said:
"If the university is to meet
this present demand of veterans
and the new group of youths who
reach college age each year, it
will be necessary for the leg
islature, just as following World
War I, to appropriate adequate
funds for buildings, for equip
ment, and for staff.
Future in Youth.
"If you look at the investment
in the university and its program
solely from the point of view of
immediate financial returns, you
should remember this: it can be
shown by members of our staff
that' the increase in dollar values
of the production of Nebraska
land due solely to the introduc
tion of new crop varieties de-
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College Adds
64 Students
Sixty-four students were added
to college of engineering classes
in surveying this week when the
university was able to obtain 15
additional instruments, according
to Dean Roy M. Green, head of
the department.
The instruments, which in
cluded 11 transits and four pre
cise heads, were gained through
a surplus property sale at the
Glenn Martin bomber plant in
Omaha. If the equipment had
been unobtainable, Dean Green
said, the students would not have
been able to take the course.
Sinfonia Holds
Harmony Hour
In Union Today
Agenda for the Harmony hour
this afternoon at 4 p. m. in the
Union music room has been listed
by Paul Koenig, who will make
the commentaries.
Sponsored by Phi Mu Alpha
Sinfonia, men's honorary music
fraternity, the hours have re
turned to the campus after a war
time absence.
Hear Russian Composers.
Continuing with the works of
the "Russian Five" composers, the
following pieces will be heard:
"Russian Easter O v e r t u r e,"
Rimsky-Korsakov; "Palovtsienne
Dances" from Prince Igor, Boro
din; and "Pictures At An Exhi
bition," including "Gnomes," "The
Old Castle," "The Hut on Fowl's
Legs," and "The Great Gate at
Kiev."
Unaffiliatetl Women
Apply for AWS
Women students not in or
ganized houses, who wish con
sideration for nomination on
the Associated Women Stu
dents board, should make ap
plication to the board by 5 p. m.
Wednesday, according to Made
leine Holzscherer, president.
Coeds who apply sliould have
a weighted 80 average, with no
incompletes or failures on their
records.
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From The Lincoln Journal.
CHANCELLOR BOUCHER.
veloped in our Agriculture Ex
periment station in the last ten
years has been an amount at
least equal to all the appropria
tions made by the legislature for
the support of the entire univer
sity since the year it was founded.
"Certainly the future of the na
tion and of the state is found in
our youths; the character and
quality of our future depends
upon the education and training
we may provide for the youths to
day, for they are the farmers,
ranchers, business men, indus
trialists, and professional men and
women of tomorrow."
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politicA. fiJeuf, TJtafoJL
Lord Halifax, retiring British
Ambassador to the United States,
who will speak to university stu
dents at a special convocation in
the Union, Thursday at 2 p .m.,
boasts an outstanding political
career.
Edward Frederick Lindley
Wood, better known as Lord Hali
fax, was born April 16, 1881, at
Powderdam Castle, near Exeter,
the seat of his mother's family,
the Earls of Devon. His father
was the second Viscount Halifax.
During his lifetime, he has been
Baron Irwin, Viscount Halifax,
Earl of Halifax, and since 1941,
the British Ambassador to the
United States. He was educated
at Eton and at Christ Church, Ox
ford, and received his Bachelor of
Arts Degree in 1903 and his Mas
ters' in 1906.
War Veteran.
The political career of Lord
S Professors Laud
I As Above
BY JACK CRESSMAN.
University professors, summing
up three weeks experience in
classrooms filled with 2,200 vet
erans, today praised the ex-GI's
as generally above average.
The professors admit they are
being "kept on their toes" because
veterans, unlike the average col
lege student, are not reluctant to
ask questions, demand proof, or
inject their personal experiences
into a discussion of classroom
questions.
Stimulate Lively Discussions.
"They have injected a new
spirit into my classes by stimulat
ing lively discussions, and when
they want to know something
they ask intelligent questions
which go right to the core of the
matter," Prof. J. P. Senning of
Group Heads
Attend YW
Convention
Shirley Ann Hinds, city campus
president, and Carol Bridenbaugh,
ag campus president, will be dele
gates to the 17th annual conven
tion of the Y.W.C.A. to be held in
Atlantic City, March 2-8.
Mary Ann Mattoon, vice '. hair
man of the- National Student
Council of the Y.W.C.A.; Mrs. Ray
Rice, advisor for freshman pro
gram; and Mildred Taylor, exec
utive in the student Y.W.C.A. of
fice, will be included in the dele
gation from the university.
Three Thousand Delegates.
Three thousand delegates repre
senting world-wide associations
will constitute the first convention
of the Y.W.C.A.'s since 1940. Bel
gium, Holland, India, China, Mex
ico, Brazil and other foreign coun
tries will tell of their work and
their experiences during the war.
Dr. Harold C. Urey, atom bomb
scientist, will deliver the key
speech at the convention on
"Atomic Energy, for War, for
Peace." Other speakers to be heard
during the week are Dr. Bryn
Hovde, head of the school of so
cial research, New York; Owen
Lattimore, writer on China, who
was consultant for a time to Gen
eralissimo Chiang Kai-shek; Rep
resentative Helen Gahagan Doug
las; and the chairman of the Y.W.
C.A. Industrial Council who is re
turning from a visit to England
and Russia.
Halifax began in 1910 when he
represented a sector of Yorkshire
in Parliament, but was inter
rupted from 1915 to 1917 while
he served with the Yorkshire
Dragoons in World War I. It con
tinued again until 1925 when he
was named Baron Irwin.
During his service in Parlia
ment, the young Britisher served
as undersecretary of the Ministry
of National Service, Parliamen
tary undersecretary for the Col
onies; president of the board of
education, and Minister of Agri
culture and Fisheries. Then, in
1926, he became Viceroy and Governor-General
of India.
Friend of Ghandi.
In his five-year stay in India,
Lord Irwin became a firm friend
of Mahatma Ghandi. He was the
first Viceroy to try to understand
and sympathize with the all-India
national congress.
General
the political science department
said. "They are definitely more
attentive and serious than the
average student," he added.
William Hice, instructor in jour
nalism, reported: "The encourag
ing thing about veterans is that
they seem to know they are here
for a purpose, and know defi
nitely what they want."
Problem of Readjustment.
There is a problem of readjust
ment to college life, however,
which the veterans must over
come themselves. Dean Roy M.
Green of the college of engineer
ing summed it up this way:
"Student veterans have a slight
problem of re-adjustment to over
come before they will fully be
able to settle down to college
study. It's too early to determine
how our second semester vet
erans are doing but those "f last
semester are showing a high level
of accomplishment and are more
ongioneeirs Plauu
Jennie Tourel,
Metro Soprano,
To Sing Here
BY SAM WARREN.
Jennie Tourel, mezzo-soprano,
hailed by critics as "the greatest
recitalist to come up in a decade,"
will sing here Feb. 20, presented
by the Lincoln Symphony Or
chestra association. A!star of the
Paris Opera-Comique until June,
1940, Miss Tourel is a leading so
prano of the Metropolitan Opera.
Of Russian parentage, Jennie
Tourel was brought up in France
and Switzerland. She considers
herself a Russian by background,
and French by education. When
Miss Tourel got out of Paris just
two days ahead of the nazi occu
pation, she left behind her not
only a reputation as a great Car
men and Mignon but also all her
possessions and most of her
money. She came to the United
States in 1941 and proceeded to
start all over again. She didn't
have long to wait, for almost im
mediately after her arrival she
was engaged to sing Carmen and
Mignon in Canada and Cuba, and
to sing in concert and opera in
musical centers thruout this coun
try. First Break.
But her real break came when
Arturo Toscanini engaged her for
her debut with the New York
Philharmonic in 1942. Unani
mously acclaimed at this perform
ance as a "great artist," she ap
peared twice in rapid succession
with the Boston Symphony under
Serge Koussevitsky and with the
NBC Symphony under Leopold
Stokowski. Her singing with three
top orchestras and conductors in
one brief season was virtually
without precedent, especially for a
relatively little known artist. It
was no wonder, then, that when
Miss Tourel gave her first recital
at Town Hall in 1943, the hall
was packed to standing room and
filled with an expectant atmos
phere. Reviews the next morning
proved original praise of her to
be well-founded. Typical of the
critics was outspoken Virgil
Thompson of the Herald Tribune,
who announced her "unequalled
among living singers."
With such whole-hearted rec
ommendations from critics and
concert audiences alike, Miss
Tourel comes to Lincoln for a re
cital that promises to be one of
the highlights of the current sea
son. For Her program Wednesday,
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Veterans
Average :
alert and earnest than the aver
age student."
Should Not Carry Heavy Schedule
Prof. Thomas H. Gooding of the
agronomy department at the ag
riculture college said "some vet
erans are taking more courses
than they can handle so soon after
battle experience. We encourage
them to drop a course which is
too difficult and take it up later
on when they have acquired the
study habit."
Prof. Karl Arndt of the econo
mics department said the maturity
and wide experience of veterans
had enabled them, in many in
stances, to translate classroom
studies into terms of personal ex
perience. "We used to be able to lecture
for an hour without interruption
but no more. The veterans want
the answers and we are trying to
supply them. It's a stimulating ex
perience," Mr. Arndt said. .
The Engineering executive
board has announced the resto
ration of full engineering college
activities on the campus with
plans already underway for
"Engineers' Week," to be held in
late April.
A general meeting of all engi
neers has been called by Lowell
Anderson, chairman of the execu
tive board, to be held Wednesday
evening at 7:00 in the Union ball
room, with the purpose of ac
quainting new members of the
college with the past program
and laying tentative plans for this
year's "Engineers' Week."
Five Reports.
Each of the five active societies
will present a report on the cur
rent availability of materials for
the construction of displays and
exhibits. Refreshments will con
clude the meeting after unaffili
ated engineers are assigned to the
proper student society.
A banquet and also a ball, open
to the entire university, will cli
max the social events of "Engi
neers' Week." Other highlights
will be an open house for the
general public as well as univer
sity students; a special convoca
tion, and an athletic field day,
featuring competition between the
student societies and the faculty.
Election.
Ai all -engineers' election to
select the chairman and vice
chairman of the "Engineers'
Week" committee will be held
March 7 after the executive board
has prepared a slate of candidates
from nominees submitted by the
various societies. The executive
board will continue tentative
planning until the committee is
organized.
Speaking of the restoration of
"Engineers' Week," Dean Roy M.
Green, head of the department,
stated: "I am highly pleased that
the upper class engineering stu
dents have considered this an
advisable thing to do this spring.
The program in the past has been
worked out almost entirely by
the students and this practice will
continue."
National Music
Dealer Publishes
University Song
"Hail Varsity," the university
song written about five years ago
by two alumni for the use of the
school, has been published by
Carl Fischer, Inc., a national mu
sic dealer, it was announced Mon
day by Dr. Arthur Westbrook of
the school of music.
W. Joyce Ayres, '30, who now
lives in Lincoln, and Wilbur
Chenoweth, '18, of Los Angeles,
wrote the song.
Omicron Nu Plans
Panel Discussion
A panel discussion entitled
"Professional Appearance and At
titude" will be presented for sen
ior girls of the home economics
department at the Omicron Nu
honorary meeting at 4 p. m. Tues
day. The meeting will be held in
room 307 of the home economics
building. Faculty members lead
ing the discussion will be Miss
Florence Smith, Miss Margaret
Fedde, Miss Mary Guthrie, and
Miss Florence Corbin. Moderator
for the panel will be Midge Holtz-scherer.
VETERANS' CLUB.
Men and women interested
in forming a veterans' club are
urged by Jack Halliburton, or
ganizer to meet in Parlor Y
Tuesday night at 7 p. m. Aims
and purposes of the club will
be discussed at that time.
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