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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 17, 1947)
PAGE 4 THE DAILY NEBRASKAN Wednesday, December. 17, 1947j Straight Stuff By Hue Lilly and Susie Reed Up and coming musician on the campus is Walt Davis. Knowing that practice makes perfect. Mae stro Davis puts in many hours with his horn. Or is it Walt's horn that takes up so much of his time and makes him so beet red around the mouth? Where do Kappa pledge Mary Ryons and Beta Bill Siboldt spend their Tuesday, afternoons? Mary'; room-mate Jan Graves also takes off the same day to entertain eli gible bachelor Nome Anderson, Christmas Candy. When the word got around that Santa was paying an early visit to little Robert LeRoy Cochrane last bunday, Bobs little friends hurried over to place their or ders. Christmas joy was bubbling over out Cochrane way as the kiddies saw the surprise Santa had for them in his pack. And Santa was also on hand in a red union suit for the Alpha Xi Xmas party. After entertaining the delighted kiddies there, the red-nosed little fellow called his roly-poly reindeer and went back to the D. U. house. But Wheeler couldn't wait till tinsel time to give his Christmas gift to Kappa pledge Pris Knud sen and Tuesday night he pre sented her with a sparkling Sig Alph pin. Several of Bud s broth ers are holding back with their pins to hang them on Christmas trees later. Recovery. The Alpha Xi's enjoyed a candy cane passing Monday night when Jeanne Ann McLaughlin an nounced that she was one again in possession of Herb Frandsen's pin. It seems that Jeanne Ann was feeling poetic ealier in the day and composed a poem appro priate for a candy passing. She could hardly be expected to let such talent go to waste, and when she saw Herb at her four o'clock, she recovered the pin. Herb wore old clothes over to the Sig Alph house that night, but his brothers not having recuperated from the week-end were walking around with their eyes closed, and were unaware of what had taken place. Tears were in order for Sig Chi John Anderson when his pin was returned last week. But Cas anova Anderson was not one to be stuck with his pin, and within 24 hours he had hung it again on the same sweater. Theta Xi's and their dates en joyed their anual Christmas din ner at their house last Saturday. After dinner the party migrated to the Cornhusker for the annual Theta Xi Christmas formal. I to- Cosmo Club. Cosmopolitan Club meeting on Wednesday at 7 p. m., in Parlor A, Union. The following material for stor ies must be in by January 9th if it is to be used in the Cornhusker. GIFT WRAP Large aunt, to choose from Ribbons, tags, seals, enclosures. Goldenrod Stationery Store 215 North 14th Street CHRISTMAS HINTS From lloijall Beautiful Gifts to Gladden the Heart on Xmas Morning! Diamond Watches $39.75 up Telechron Radios $31.95 Kreisler Costume Jewelry $5.95 up Dresser Sets $32.50 Eversharp pens $3.95 up Elfin watches $35.00 up Westclox clocks $3.25 up Community and 1847 Rogers Bros. Silverware $49.50 up City Symphony Opens Season With Beethoven9 s 6 Pastoral9 BY SAM WARREN. In its first appearance of the season, the Lincoln Symphony Or chestra under its new director, Rudolph Fellner, provided its au dience of students and townspeo ple with a musical evening that had its ups and downs, to say the least, ranging as it did from Bee thovens delightful and pictorial "Pastoral'; symphony to all man ner of Vienese, Slavonic and Lat in danme rhytms. Pupil of the eminent conductor Felix Weingartner. Fellner proved himself remarkably capable un der the limitations afforded by the 60-piece orchestra (whose high standing reputation as a semi professional orchestra, he said on Monday, had reached him in Chi cago prior to his engagement as its conductor). Apparently well acquainted with the requirements of the various compositions, Fell ner sought straight-forward in terpretations from his players, one-third of whom, incidentally, are university personnel. Despite disappointingly unen- thusiastic rounds of applause it received, the Beethoven symph ony which formed the first por tion of the concert was the choice offering of the program. Particu larly outstanding were the indi vidual solo passages within the general framework, with oboe an swering flue, and clarinet reply ing to French horn. Altho the nuances were for from finely drawn, the shading intent was generally well balanced, and the prevailing moods of cheerful ness, tranquility, rustic gaiety and content were adequately con veyed. Mr. Fellner's seating ar rangement, placing first and sec ond violins on either side of his podium with the cellos in the mid dle, may have helped achieve the tonal balance of strings. The thing to get excited over about the Beethoven work is the mere fact that it was attempted all. The sheer musical worth of a first-rate symphonic composi tion (however compromisingly played) is preferably to a finished performance of the musically mediocre fare that symphony pa trons have put up with in recent years. To Conductor Fellner and the symphony board (which chooses the numbers to be played), ten bravissimos for encouragement. Most ably-handled of the re maining four compositions with Saint-Saens' fanciful graveyard merry-maker, "Danse Macabre," whose subtelties and eerie tonali ties (with skeletal xylaphone ef fects and all) revealed the or chestra's capabilities. Responsible for the thunderous applause which Johann Strauss's "Die Fle dermaus" overture received was its zest and lilting fervor. A similar nationalistic bravado was clearly evident in Dvorak's trio of Slavonic dances which pro- 'Commerce Group Hears FBI Agent . James L. Dalton, special agent in charge of the Omaha oifice of the FBI, gave an interesting account of the varied functions of the agency in war and peace at a dinner meeting of Delta Sigma Pi, professional commerce fraternity, Monday night in the Union. The speaker said that his office periodically accepts applications from those interested in special agent training. The basic re quirements are that the man hold a college degree (the former law degree requirement has been re laxed), be between the ages of 25 and 40, and be in sound phys ical condition. Stressing that the bureau's work involved not only investigat ing violations and apprehending violators of federal laws but the protection of each citizen's civil rights and liberties. Dalton re viewed the details of a number of prominent cases, chief among these being the apprehension of eight nazi saboteurs who landed from a submarine on the east coast during the war . with the intent of disrupting operations in war plants. vided the triangle player a hey day he surely will not forget. Contemporary Darius Milhaud's "Le Bal Martiniquais," with its use of jazz and South American idiom, was unfortunately too much for this orchestra to handle, though the addition of current musical thought was welcome. This Week In The Union 12:00 4:00 5:00 5:30 6:00 7:00 8:00 12:00 4 :O0 5:00 7:00 7:30 7:45 5.00 6:00 Union T3iirhiay, Dec. TTT Phi Alpha Delta, Parlor Christian Fellowship, Koom 31$ ' Student Council, Koom 316 Phi Chi Theta. Koom 313 Dental Faculty, Parlor B Department of Puhlic Welfare, Par lora XYZ Alpna Kappa Psl, Room 313 Hinma Eta Chi, Room 316 HiMperia, Parlor Cosmopolitan Club. Parlor A Dami'a Bridge Class. Faculty Lounfr Architect Wives. Room 315 Thursday, Dec. 18. Sinfonia, Parlor X Variety Matinee, Ballroom F.ntineerinK Exec. Board, Room 316 Union Employees' Christmas Party Union Closed to Puhlic Gamma Delta, Room 315 Christian Science, Room 31 Intervarsity Piano, Room 313 Spanish Club, Room 316 Friday, Dec. 19. Hlllel. Parlors XY Chinese Group, Parlors BC Saturday, Dee. 20. closes to re-open January S, 1948. Freshmen Criticize Instruction A report from the senior high college relations conferences in dicates that instruction was one of the important topics discussed. Freshmen had criticized college profs who teach introductory courses and "frighten the lone some, homesick, bewildered stu dent by threatening to fail a cer tain number in the class and tell ing him to take it or leave it." Other criticisms include failing to synchronize lecture notes with lab, no orientation regarding ob jectives of the course, and giv ing mid-term and final exams ex clusively as a basis for grading. 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