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Kiwanis Citizenship Award
Bestowed on Louise Pound
Retired Professor Cited for 50 Years' Service;
Literature Authority Fourth Woman Honored
Dr. LoiJIse Pound, professor
emeritus and national authority
in literature, folklore and lin
guistics, who retired in May of
1945 from the English depart
ment after more than 60 years
service, Friday was awarded the
Lincoln Kiwanis club's "distin
guished citizens" medal at the
club's annual award banquet.
Cited as "scholar, author, edi
tor, folklorist, teacher, and sports
woman," Miss Pound is the fourth
woman to receive the medal in
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LOUISE POUND.
the long history of the annual
award. Carrie Belle Raymond,
Bess Streeter Aldrich and Mrs.
Herbert Brownell, Sr., were the
other women.
Having taught every course In
the English department (some not
now offered). Miss Pound served
under the administration of six
chancellors, Canfield, McLean,
A. W. S.
A. W. S. members who are
authorized to sign special per
missions for women students
are Jackie Gordon, Sigma
Delta Tau; Tibby Curley.
Alpha Chi Omega: Jean Chil
quist, Terrace Hall; Jean
Compton, Pi Beta Phi; Nicki
Nicholson, Delta Delta Delta;
Norma Long, Ag.
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ABOVE ARE PICTURED the workers on the diggings at Cam
bridge from the University of Nebraska. They are, left to right:
Maurice Mendenhall, Yuma, Colorado, Olin Webb, Louisville, Rob
ert Truxell, Genoa, Allen- Graffham, University Museum staff, and
bottom center, Kenneth Harding, Auburn. Truxell is the recipient
oi the William Green Memorial Palenotology scholarship.
Andrews, Avery, Burnett and
Boucher. She joined the Eng
lish department upon her gradua
tion (with Phi Beta Kappa hon
ors) in 1888, first as theme reader
and then as instructor.
Taking her M. A. degree at the
University of Chicago in two sum
mer sessions, she earned her doc
torate magna cum laude at the
University of Heidelberg Ger
many, in two semesters instead
of the seven required for foreign
candidates. In addition to her
three academic degrees, she holds
a diploma in music (piano being
her field), and an honorary doc
tor of letters from Smith Col
lege. Sports Champion
Member, national officer, and
magazine editor for a number of
literature, language, and human
istic societies actually too numer
ous to list, Miss Pound has been
prominent in the regional sports
events, winning every women's
state golfing championship race
but one, of those she' entered
over a period of 15 years. A ten
nis champion, she has also been
an enthusiastic i'igure-skarter and
cyclist.
Accepting the award from
Curry W. Watson, retiring Ki
wanis president, Professor Pound
described the award banquet,
which draws considerable state
wide, as well as local attention,
as "a sort of Rose Bowl event
for Nebraska and for Lincoln."
In an "appreciation" dissertation
which appears on the pages of a
souvenir booklet, Mrs. Effie Leese
Scott declared that Miss Pound
"has left an unmistakable print
on the University and on the
state."
Pioneer in American Literature.
Mrs. Scott cited author H. L.
Mencken's statement that Dr.
Pound's "early work put the
study of American English on its
legs" and that without her pion
eering his own writing "would
have been impossible." Miss
Pound's contemporary, author
Dorothy Canfield Fisher, once
wrote that to her, she is "the prize
exhibit of Lincoln," not only be
cause she is "a first rater," but
also because she "stayed in Lin
coln and became one.
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ei Eleil Discrimination
Balloon Intrigues
Kentucky Farmer
Some people write to strange
radio programs, some answer
strange personal ads, but there is
at least one lone American citizen
who takes a chance on answering
strange balloons that drift his
way. At least that's what Frank
Jacobs, arts and science freshman
and Daily Nebraskan reporter
found out yesterday.
With nothing better to do dur
ing the less exciting first-half of
the later thrilling Nov. 8 Nebras-ka-KU
homecoming game. Jacobs
laboriously wrote his name and
address on one of the hydrogen
filled balloons sold by Corn Cobs
and Tassels, by moistening the
dried, white paint of the inscribed
"N." 'Releasing it at the half, he
thought it might reach, say, Be
atrice. But his supposition was
wrong.
Yesterday from Benton, Ken
tucky, came a neatly-written let
ter: "Dear Sir. In regard to a
Balloon that I found on my farm
Nov. 10. it landed 5 miles from
Benton Ky still Inflated, would
like to know where it was re
leased. I remain, Curtis Ivey,
Rt. 1."
Ellen Richards
DiiiiicrPlainicd
ForWcdnesday
The annual Home Ec Club din
ner honoring Ellen H. Richards,
national founder of Home Eco
nomics, will be held Wednesday,
Nov. 19 at 6:30, Phyllis Ross, pub
licity director for the group, made
the announcement Saturday.
Priscilla Flagg, president of the
organization, announced that Mrs.
Harold Prince, civic leader from
Grand Island, would be the guest
speaker for the evening. Mrs.
Prince "is a member of the State
Board control which has juris
diction over state institutions. Her
topic will be "Women in World
Citizenship." "She is well quali
fied to speak on this subject by
virtue of her close affiliation with
state administration in past
years," remarked Miss Flagg.
The dinner will be held in the
recently completed banquet room
of the new Foods and Nutrition
building. This will be the first
group to use the modern dining
hall.
Ticket sales for the banquet are
progressing rapidly and a large
attendance is forecasted for the
fete, according to Wilma Elson
and Peggy Kastner, co-chairmen
of arrangements for the program.
Tickets for the banquet are $1
and students desiring to purchase
a plate at the dinner should con
tact any Home Economics Club
member before Monday noon.
rraditionalBull
Filings Open
Closely following a long-established
tradition, this year's Mor
tar Board Ball on Dec. 12 will
find Nebraska coeds giving their
men corsages that run the gamut
from bird-cages to neon 4-igns, Jo
Ackerman, ball chairman, an
nounced Sunday.
Miss Ackerman said that fil
ings for the position of "most eli
gible" bachelor will open Tues
day, Nov. 18. Candidates from any
organized house should present
written application to the ball
chairman in the Cornhusker of
fice or place their letters of in
tention in the Mortar Board box
in the basement of the Union. Fil
ings will end Thursday, Nov. 20,
at 5:00 p. m.
Election for Class.
Prexys Scheduled
Tuesday; 4 File
All campus election for junior
and senior class presidents has
been scheduled for Tuesday, Nov.
18.
Candidates who have filed for
election are Glen Blinde and
Marion ((Tootsie) Campen for
senior class president; and Jerry
Johnston and Peggie Lawrie for
junior class president.
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Mozcr Invites Student Meet
Of Big Seven Universities
Timing and technical detail will play a major role in the presort
attempt to purge the Big Six of racial discrimination, as Harold
Mozer, Student Council president, called a special "student leaders
meeting" of representatives of conference schools to discuss possible
action on the question.
After consulting with Dr. Curtis Elliott, Student Council faculty
Band Entries
For Military
Ball Tour In'
Entries for the Military Ball
slogan contest are pouring into
Nebraska Hall, headquarters for
the University ROTC detachment.
In an interview Saturday morn
ing, Captain Kelly of the military
department said that many entries
are automatically invalid because
they bear no postmark, and also
because many are sent in by in
dividuals and not by couples as
was intended.
Kelly reiterated that couples
must send in the applications. The
letters should not be sent through
the campus mails as they are not
postmarked there.
Clues and Slogans.
Clue 1. The band leader was
born in New England.
Key Slogan 1. Remember the
5th of December.
Clue 2. His band used to be
famous for jive and swing num
bers, but now conforming to the
popular trend, he specializes in
ballads and love songs.
Key Slogan 2. All Nebraska
will be there.
Clue 3. A master trumpeter, he
has been known to hold a note
for over a minute and a half.
Key Slogan 3. The finest in mil
itary affairs.
Clue 4. Many of his recordings
have been on Bluebird records.
Key Slogan 4. It will be the
greatest.
Clue 5. He is especially noted
for his ability to play the trumpet
and trombone interchangeably. He
was once cited by Robert Ripley
as the only man who can play
both instruments in the same cali
bre as the nation's top-flight sin
gle instrument band leaders.
Key Slogan 5. This ball has
everything.
International
Students Day
This Monday
Monday, Nov. 17, will be ob
served by students throughout the
world as International Students'
Day in solemn commemoration of
the massacre of 156 students and
deportation of 1,200 students to
concentration camps inside Ger
many by the nazis in a purge in
1939 of Charles University in
Prague.
Since Nov. 17, 1939, this date
has become a living symbol of in
ternational student fellowship.
At many of the colleges and
universities in this country and
abroad, this day will be devoted
to the cultivating of international
appreciation and will be marked
by many cultural programs of an
international nature. The greatest
celebration will be held in Prague,
where student delegates from al
most every nation will pay tribute
to those students who died for the
cause of freedom.
Thanksgiving Vacation
Dr. G. W. Rosenlof, Regis
trar and Director of Admissions,
and Chairman of the Calendar
Committee has just announced
that the University Senate, at
its meeting on October 28. 1947,
approved a motion that provid
ed for the Thanksgiving holiday
to begin at five o'clock on Wed
nesday evening, November 26
By this action all night classes
and any classes scheduled for
five o'clock and thereafter will
be cancelled. The Thanksgiving
vacation concludes at eight
o'clock on the Morning of De
cember L
advisor, Mozer telegraphed the
student council presidents of Iowa
State College. Kansas State Col
lege, the University of Colorado,
the University of Kansas, the Uni
versity of Missouri, and the Uni
versity of Oklahoma inviting them
to a meeting on Nov. 29-30 in
Lincoln "to discuss Big Six racial
discrimination." The message re
quested the presence of delegates
from the Student Council, varsity
letter club, and student newspa
per. Student Leaders to Decide.
The purpose of the proposed
conference is to give the students
an opportunity to -work out the
controversial issue before the fac
ulty representatives of the Mis
souri Valley Athletic association,
the formal name of the Big Six,
on the week-end of Dec. 12-14.
If this can be done, it is assumed
that the conclusions reached at the
student leader conference will be
accepted as an equitable solution.
According to present plans for
the conference being sponsored
by the Student Council, the or
ganization of the meeting will fol
low the exact procedure set forth
in the Rules of Regulations as
established by the conference,
which provides that each school
will be entitled to one vote. It is
Mozer's idea that at the student
meeting each delegation shall cast
one vote.
There are, however, certain
very important technicalities that
will play a very important part in
each of the meetings. Article 1,
Sect. 2 of the rules provides that
included among the members of
the association will be the "Uni
versity of Colorado (as of Decem
ber 1, 1947)". This fact will make
a great deal of difference in tha
voting if Sect. 7, legislation, un
der the same organizational articla
remains the same, for it provides,
in part, "a. Six members shall
contitute a quorum for the trans
action of business at any meeting,
b. Five affirmative votes are ne
cessary to enact legislation."
Possible Rule Change
Because the University of Colo
rado will become a member of the
See BIG 6, Page 2.
Faculty Quartet
Plays In Final
Recital Today
The final concert in a series of
four faculty recitals will present '
the Faculty String Quartet today
at 4 p. m. in the Union ballroom
in performances of Smetena's
programmatic string quartet sub
titled "From My Life," and of a
string suite by Waldo Warner.
Members of the ensemble are
Emanuel Wishnow, first violin;
Mrs. Joan Koupal, second violin;
Mr. James Price, viola, and Miss
Carol Puckett, cello. The quartet
will appear again in concert this
spring.
The Smetana quartet, unusual
in that it tells a definite story, is
based upon attitudes and events
in the composer's own life, treat
ing successively his youthful love
for music, his early manhood
when he begins to compose, his
love for his wife, and ,his mature
period of nationalistic composi
tion, a period which eventually
sees his deafness. Its performance
today is its first in Lincoln.
Although Waldo Warner's
"Suite in the Olden Style" is cast
in a classic form, it adds modern
technique and orchestration. War
ner, former violoist of the Lon
don String quartet replaced by
William Primrose, is a well
known English composer.
The complete program:
Quartet in E minor (Aim Melnem lhcn
Bcdricu Bnielana
Allegro vivo appassionato
AlleKro moderator a la Polk
Largo eoBtcnuto
Vtvu.ee
Suite In the Olden Style Op. tl
H. Waldo Warner
Prelude (Fugnetta)
Saraliande
Bouree and Chorale
Introduction and Glpue