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Friday, Tune 24, 1949 DAILY NEBRASKAM PAGE 3 i nr, Mud,Sweat and Cheers by Rod Riffg The Athletics business office of the university is taking orders for fall ticket sales. Orders for pub lic season tickets and also indi vidual game seats will be ac knowledged as they are received, and the orders filled Sept. 1. Tick ets for individual games must be ordered ten days before the game. Student tickets will go on sale the first Thursday following reg istration and the sales will end the following Saturday. Coach Max Ingram's Bartley high school track men won the biggest percentage of numerals awarded by the university, Coach Ed Weir announced. Junior Hart, James Smith, Don Webb and Bill Frank won the full blue numerals, counting two points each, thus giving Bartley a percentage of .61. The school has an enrollment of 13 male pupils. A total of 170 schools partici pated and there were 475 full blue and 446 half blue awards given. Chuck Cramer of the Cramer Chemical company will handle the classes in the care of injuries at the Nebraska coaching school to be held here Aug. 15 to 18. Lee Webb, secretary of the Nebraska high school Activities association which co-sponsors the school . with the university de partment ot intercollegiate ath letics nla'de the announcement. Webb- (also announced that the registration fee for the course would be five dollars. If the reg istrant wants a room in one of the university dorms, the total cost will be $7.50, which would in clude the registration fee. Iowa State athletes won a to tal of 91 awards during the 1949 spring season. The greatest num ber to any group was 20 to the freshman track squad. Included in the letter winners was Clinton Spangler of Fre mont, who received a baseball manager's letter. The San Jose Spartans may be challenged by the entire 1949 KCA golf field at Iowa State June 27-July 2, but they'll have one loyal booster as they seek to retain their 1948 title. Dr. T. W. MacQuarrie, San Jose president will be on hand to boost the Spartans. Total entries for the match now have reacher 227 men and 58 colleges. Complete entries are ex pected to better 60 schools ami reach nearly 245 golfers. More than 31 full teams have been en tered. For seven of the golfers, the meet will be something of a homecoming. All seven were qualifiers in the 1946 Western junior golf meet held on the same course. They are Roger Kessler and Bob Olson of Michi gan, Charles Lindgren and Jim Love of Northwestern, Ed McElli gott of Oklahoma A & M, Benton Alyea of UCLA, and Gerri Can non of Kenyon college. Cub Clem, new editor of the Daily Nebraskan is hard at work this summer as Sports editor of the Salina Kansas "Journal." UNIOII CALENDAR SATURDAY, JUNE 25 8:30 Juke Box Fling dancing j xo recorded music in the Umon ballroom free to all students, summer school and all-state. TUESDAY, JUNE 28 7:00 Craft Shop. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29 12:00 Sports film, main lounge; 4-6:00 Bridge lessons, Card room, second floor; 7:00 Craft Shop. THURSDAY, JUNE 30 2-5:00 Craft Shop. So You Think Times Have Changed ,Ehl "When I entered the University in 1880, the preparatory school was still in existence and it was no uncommon thing for students to spend six years on the cam pus." Will Owen Jones, who stayed at the University that length of time and eventually became editor of "The Nebraska State Journal," doubtless thought as he wrote the above words that such days of prolonged enrollment went out for good when the Latin school was closed. He reckoned without the enter prising students of the 1940s, how ever. Some of this year's gradu ates first came to the University ten years ago, only to lose much time from their education by war service. Others stayed out to work, or carried lighter schedules because of part-time jobs. Jones would have sympathized with these people. And perhaps he would have also understood the pereniai students those who have been on campus for five or six or seven years, broken probably by war service, but a long time nevertheless. This particular brand of ex-big wheel has become al most as much a part of the school as old U-hall and his eventual de parture probably equally as mo mentous as the destruction of the building. WILL OWEN JONES came to the University, as he himself said, in its "first raw stages." He watched it change until long after 1919, when he wrote the following article for inclusion in the Uni versity's Semi-centennial anni versary book. His picture of undergraduate life in the early eighties, when the total university and prep school enrollment had reached 348, offers an interesting contrast to life some seventy years later. "While it had been in opera tion eight years when 1 arrived, the faculty numbered only seven or eight, and the one red brick building in the center of the prairie-grassed campus was so much too large for the needs of the classes that parts of the third floor and attic were still used as a men's dormitory. My introduc tion to student life was effected at Mrs. Swisher's boarding house just north of the campus, where twelve boys were well cared for at $3.50 and $4 00 a week. This was about the standard cost of good board during the six years. Any number of students cut it in half by boarding in groups or by "batching." (Since these prices prevailed for a number of years its no won der parents fail to understand $65 a month house bills.) AFTER A STUDENT had pro vided for his basic living, had scraped together a lew books, and had turned over his matriculation fee of five dollars, which had to be paid only once (ahem), he did not feel uncomfortable if he had nothing left. Life in the Univer sity was so simple and poverty so common that it seemed a per fectly normal condition. (Looks like the same old world after all.) Social distractions (yes) in the early part of my experience were found mostly in the Friday meet ings of the literary societies: in an occasional play at the old Cen tennial Opera House and in a per fect orgy of church attendance on Sunday (yes, yes). I can name student after student who went to two preaching services, two Sunday schools, a YMCA session and the Red Ribbon club every COME ON More fun! The weather is just right for that new sun tan!! SWIM ...i. the cool salt RIDE on the many fun PLAY the Beach! B18 HKRV1CE FROM 1TH "O" r Sunday, from September to June. "The young people of the little city were bubbling over with so cial gaiety all the time, but aside from ,the small "town set," the students had no time for frivolity. We indeed were a serious bunch of youngsters. We studied mathe matics, the classics, history, and a little science, and then read solid magazine articles for relaxation. I remember that I cut my first debating teeth over an article by a British writer who undertook to show that morality has no scientific basis ... (a topic of never-ending debate). "ATHLETICS HAD not ap peared on the campus in the early eighties. The only all-university interest was the college paper, "The Hesperian Student," which was the center of many a brilliant contest. (All-together j now, Rah! Rah! Rah!) Outside of that, we devoted our time to our studies, to any outside work that we may have had, and to the in terests of the literary societies, that with an intensity of concen tration that I am sure would make a present-day professor's eyes stand out in amazement. We were everlastingly discussing questions like the tariff, the Nicaraguan canal and the immortality of the soul . . . (jolly.) "The elective system had not been established In 1880. One could not hop from course to course or from lass to class. (To think that they missed the joys of Drop-and-Add.) As a freshman, I recited at 9 o'clock every morn ing except Saturday in mathe matics, at 10 in history and at 11 in languages. (Shades of summer school.) No afternoon classes were scheduled. (Well, we can all dream.) With three hours of reci tation, we were expected to give six hours in preparation. That meant nine hours of steady work every day for five days each week. Usually the studying was done at specified hours . . . (Wanta bet that 11-1 a.m. was not included in the specifications?) "TWO OR THREE fraternities were finally established, leading See "HISTORY," Page 4. All-Stale The All-state chorus concert, open to the public without charge, will feature an hour's program, including such num bers as: "Blow, Gabriel Blow," "Comin' Round the Mountain," and "All the Things You Are." Soloists will be Joe Feeney, j son of Mr. and Mrs. John P. Feeney of Grand Island, and ! Miss Stella Marie Woodlee, j daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. M. ' Woodlee, sr., of Alliance. troubles Which is better: Jail or trou ble with the little woman? Zan Ray Kennedy, 24 years old of Alliance, Ohio, chose jail in a Common Pleas Court. He had pleaded guilty to driving a car without the owner's consent i and was up on a probation hear ing. 1 J J.U U .i u VJ 1 ' lie iuiu uitr iuuii jic udu utrtrn having a "little trouble" with his wife and would prefer jail to probation. Judge Paul G. Weber obliged. The sentence: One to 20 years in the OhioReformatory. OU pool! rides! 7 IUDSI "7 yjjl k wanna see- how x State's School Children Will Learn Thrift Good old fashioned American thrift will get a lot more empasis in Nebraska's public schools start ing next fall. Plans for a program to teach school children the virtue of reg ular savings plans were completed at a three-day conference of 75 Nebraska school administrators which ended Wednesday. The conference was sponsored by the University and the Office of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction. THE CONFERENCE was di rected by Floyd A. Miller and LeRoy Ortgiesen of the State Superintendent's Office. Mr. Ort giesen said that thrift program will be incorporated in existing courses. For instance, he said, mathematics teachers will include problems in returns from invest ments and social studies teacher will describe how investment makes government and private enterprise possible. In addition, posters and facilities will be pro vided to enable students to prac tice thrift by buying government savings stamps or starting savings PRACTICE GOLF ENJOY FROM SUNRISE TO MIDNIGHT SMITTY'S GOLF PARK 2401 North 27th St. I' H GREEN STAMP JUBILEE Look Cool and Bewitching! SEED BEAD NECKLACES St ossecr rrtcxrS...? " Dent College Gets Cancer Grant The University of Nebraska College of Dentistry has received a $5,000 grant from the National Advisory Cancer Council of the U. S. Public Health Service. Dr. Donald T. Waggener, chair man of the oral pathology depart ment in the dental college, said the grant is part of the U. S. Pub lic Health Service currently being given universities and colleges to support a program of cancer edu cation and research. The grant to Nebraska will be used for a two fold program, Dr. Waggener said, of teaching and research designed to aid dental students in the diagnosis and care of cancer of the mouth and ad jacent areas. accounts in .local banks. Nebraska's thrift education plan won the unstinted praise of Dr. Jarvis M. Morse, director of the school savings program of the U. S. Treasury Department who was a conference speaker. Said he: "I was very impressed with the workmanlike manner in which Nebraskas educators are approaching the school saving program. Other states could profit by Nebraska's plan of mak ing thrift and investment a part of the teaching program." Terfect for summer wear. The flattering complement for summer clothinf ... pastels and black as well as Cold and silver finishes. us tax MATCHING EAR RINGS Colors to match necklaces. RENT A NEW CAR from ANNEX GARAGE for aU Summer Activities us tax 1M N. ftth St. T. t-lMI GOLD'S . . .Street FUr l -