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U Urn Vol. 45, No. 88 LINCOLN 8, NEBRASKA Tuesday, April 16, 1946 U '&0 BW(gS) V rcadiweifl'e C iieoe Celebrates Todcay Fiftieth anniversary of the uni versity graduate college, first of its kind to be organized in this country, will be celebrated today. Normal peace time enrollment of the college is 700, but this year, because of the war, it is a little over 400. There are more than 150 faculty members in the graduate college, and graduate in struction is offered in almost every subject in the university. Since April 16, 1896, 6,324 ad vanced degrees have been con ferred on students by the school which began with an enrollment of 50 students and a small faculty. The college was organized to enlarge the work of the regular undergraduate colleges and de partments by providing facilities for students possessing bachelors' degrees to specialize, carry on re Independents May Register For Election During the week of April 12 to 19 anyone who desires may file as an Independent candidate at the Student Activities office in the coliseum for the spring elec tions scheduled April 23. Ivy Day orator and new repre sentatives on the Student Council and publications board will be voted for at the polls in the Union basement, which will be open from 9 until 6. Article IV In the Student Council consti tution Article IV states: "No vote shall be solicited at the polls or in the building in which election is being held during election day. No money shall be spent in be half of any candidate. No printed, mimeographed, typed, or other wise published material in behalf of any candidate shall be per mitted, except the impartial an nouncements of the candidates ap pearing in the press. Any candi date violating these rules either in person or through his support ers shall thereby become inelig ible." House Visiting Program Opens Holy Week Thirty-eight organized houses are expected to participate in a house visitation program spon sored by the Religious Welfare council during Holy week. Reli gious leaders will go to dinner at houses and lead after-dinner dis cussions interpreting the signi ficance of Holy week. The Reverends Donald Dickson and Robert Drew will hold serv ices Wednesday and Friday morn ings respectively, at the Univer sity Episcopal church from 7:15 to 7:45. At the same hour Tues day, the Reverend Arthur Miller will speak at the Presbyterian Student house and Thursday the Reverend Samuel Maier will be in charge of communion services. Offering from the Good Friday fast, to be hold at noon in the Methodist Student house, will go toward; scholarships for refugee students. search, and obtain advanced de grees. It has been headed by seven deans since its inception: August H. Edgren, 1896-1900; Lucius A. Sherman, 1901-1926; Herman G. James, 1926-1928; F. W. Upsorr, 1929-1940; Harold W. Stoke, 1939 1940; C. S. Hamilton (acting dean), 1940-1941; and Dean Rob ert W. Goss since 1941. Early prominent alumni of the graduate college include: Roscoe Pound, who received his doctor's degree in 1897; Dr. George E. Condra in 1903, present dean of the conservation and survey di vision; and Nels A. Bengston in 1908, present dean of the uni versity's junior division. Later prominent alumni include: H. M. Satterfield, 1934, now director of research for TVA; James A. Cu neo, editor of "Impetu," Buenos Aires newspaper; and Earl N. Bressman, director of the Inter American Institute of Agricultural Science in Costa Rica. Olson Decides Speech Contest Entry Deadline Entries for the intramural ex temporaneous speaking contest which will open April 22 will be accepted as late as Thursday, April 18, according to Donald Ol son, director of university debate. All unaffiliated students who plan to enter the event should contact Olson in room 203 at the Temple by Thursday. Each or ganized house may be represented by two people and individuals may compete for the individual prize. .Members of Delta Sigma Rho and debate squads are in eligible and all other participants must be carrying 12 hours with passing grades in the current se mester. Current , national and interna tional events will be the general subject of the extemporaneous speakers. Sliestak Reveals Dentistry Beavers, Hints at Mayhem BY GEO. T. SIIESTAK. Back in the good old days be fore the advent of such spoil sport organizations as the OPA and the SPCA, any red-blooded, high-spirited, ambitious young man could easily make a name for himself in the persuasion parlor of the local noble or king. With rack, wheel and thumbscrew they had a ripping good time. Now all is changed. Torture is banished and even tromping is illegal except when done to pickets or "dirty, revolutionary reds." But to those in the know, there is a place where a good time can be had by all without the inter ference of the law. When the University of Nebraska was founded, two eminent Europeans were imported at great expense to found the College of Dentistry. They worked hard and long to fill their students with the funda mental philosophy of Dentistry. Shiners. They did a good job. The names of Professors Tcrquemada and Marquis de Sade will forever shine .in Nebraska history. Let us follow a typical trem bling victim into the Chamber of Horrors As our hero enters the place of tourture, we note i .-. ...... - -. V ! ft k ' '-; w I f w ALVIN S. JOHNSON. Third Party Lists Aims For Council With its constitution subject to approval of the Student Council at a special meeting tonight, the organizational group of the new University party has submitted the aims and purposes of the or ganization, according to Margar et Neumann, temporary chairman. The purpose of the party is to select and actively support the candidates best qualified for of fice, whether they be members of the Student party, the Union party or be independent filings. The candidates' qualifications will be judged on personal experience, whole rather than to specific in terest of the candidates. To hold office, the candidates' university record should show fairness and allegiance to the university as a whole rather than to specific-in terest groups, Miss Neumann said. The party further intends to work for the defeat of any can didates who are committed to the support of any program which would promote the interests of any special group or which would (See PLATFORM, page 4.) that the rack has been replaced by the chair, the boot by the drill, and the thumbscrew by the chisel and saw. "lhls tooth twinges once or twice a week," meekly states the patient. "But it doesn't hurt now." "Nonsense," cries the dent stu dent with a diabolical laugh. "Your whole lower jaw will have to be removed." Shot? Quickly the hapless soul is trussed up and hurled into the waiting chair. His bicuspids are battered out with a hammer. His wisdom teeth are removed with a cross-cut saw. His molars are dynamited loose, and for good measure his tonsils are torn out by the roots. ( After dashing a bucket of cold water on the now unconscious character, the entire advanced dentistry class hurls him into the outer hall, where he creeps pain fully away. Perhaps you think that this is an extreme case. You say lightly that perhaps "the dentist was off his feed that morning" or "he is having trouble with his mother-in-law." Let me tell you that this poor soul was fortunate lie escaped with his life. Native RJebraskan To Deliver Address Over 400 students will be given recognition for high scholastic achievement at the annual Honors Day convoca tion today in the coliseum. The convocation will begin at 10:15. All classes and laboratories will be dismissed at 10 a. m., and all univer Rev. Cavalier Leads Religious Forumin Union "Morality vs Dogma in the Atomic Age" will be the subject of the forum to be conducted by the Rev. Jesse R. Cavalier, author of "Church-Labor Relations" in parlors XYZ of the Student Union Thursday at 2 p. m. Rev. Cavalier was graduated from Syracuse university where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and later was ordained a Methodist minister at Union Theo logical seminary. From 1941 to 1945, he served as a staff specialist in religion and labor in the Presbyterian Labor Temple and from 1944-1945 he was national chairman of the Young Peoples Socialist league. He is the chairman of the labor committee of the United Christian Youth movement and is an execu tive member of both the post war world council and the New York league for industrial democracy. Innocent Society To Hold Alumni Reunion May 25 Alumni of the university's In nocents, senior men's honorary, will hold their annual reunion May 25, J. Stewart Elliott, Beat rice, who is president of the Alumni Innocents association, re ported Saturday. The affair is held In conjunc tion with the annual Alumni Association Round Up, May 25-27. Bob McNutt, former Nebraska football player, is chairman of the committee in charge of the re union, Mr. Elliott announced. Jack Stewart and Fred Metheny, a Husker grid squad member, are also committee members. The society, inactive on the campus during the war years, will resume its activities next fall. Members expect a sufficient num ber of former members to be en rolled in schools next year. Delegates Attend Student Union Board Meeting The Association of College Un ions convened last week in Min neapolis. Delegates of the Student Union board attending from Ne braska were Patricia Lahr, Janice Campbell, Nancy Carey, Elizabeth Curley and Mildred Engstrom, who is president of the Union board. The Minnesota convention rep resented 50 colleges with Student Unions, and 15 other schools plan ning to build Unions. Mildred Engstrom participated in the panel discussion "Relations of Student Union Programs to Campus Pro grams," and Patricia Lahr headed the panel discussing "Manage ment Problems." Student Council An important Student Coun cil meeting will be held at 5 p. m. Tuesday, April 16, in the Council office, it was an nounced by Edith Pumphrey, president'. ; sity offices closed until 12 noon. Alvin Saunders Johnson, prom inent education, author and editor and recent director of the New School of Social Research in New York City, will deliver the ad dress. Born in Homer, Neb., and grad uated from the university with an AB degree in 1897, Johnson re ceived his MA here the following year and his Ph. D at Columbia in 1902. The university conferred an honorary LLD. degree upon him at commencement exercises in 1940. In addition to 'teaching at Ne braska from 1906 to 1908, he has been on the faculties of Texas, Chicago, Stanford and Cornell. He became editor of the New Repub lic in 1917 and director of the New School of Social Research in 1923. Included in Johnson's many books are: "The Professor and the Petticoat", "Deliver us from Dogma", "Spring Storm", "The Public Library" and "A People's University." All students in the upper ten percent of their classes scholastic ally will be honored at the con vocation. Special recognition will be given seniors who are in the Upper three percent of their class or who have been on the honors lists during their career at the university. Awards Made. Over 100 students will receive prizes and awards for high scholarship; many will be named to honorary college and depart mental organizations. The faculty-student committee in charge of the only all-campus ceremony dedicated to recognition of high scholarship includes: Prof. Linus Burr Smith, chairman; Professors Irvin H. Blake, H. C. Filley, Cliff S. Hamilton, Dwight Kirsch, W. J. Loeffel, W. H. S. Morton, Clifford M. Hicks and Mabel Lee; Dean T. J. Thompson; and students Edith Pumphrey, Lowell Anderson and Helen Vennum. Veterans May Request Leave Money-Colbert Veterans who want to take ad vantage of their SO day leave with pay must file their requests for accumulated leave time and cor responding subsistence with the Veterans Administration, accord ing to J. P. Colbprt.. chairman of the university Veterans Consulta tion board. Thirty days leave' with a sub sistence allowance of $G5, if with out dependent, or $90 with de pendent, is granted all veterans by the G. I. Bill of Rights. The Veterans Administration has given the following ruling on the matter: Leave Accumulation. Leave accumlates at the rate of 2 V4 days per month for veterans atending university. Regular uni versity Thanksgiving, Christmas and spring vacations, weekends, legal holidays and other regular university holidays do not count against the 30 daySMeave. A vet eran may take his accumulated leave time during the summer months pnd receive subsistence pay during that time. Si u: i r ; ft -. 1 1 r) Si ; h f.' kt (t Si ! i- hi I) rv- t t- s I.