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Coeds of 1911 vintage are
shown attacking dandelions that
infested the University grounds.
The building in the background
First NU
By MARY SHELLEDY
Nebraskan Staff Writer
Even before Nebraska became
a state, its citizens were con
cerned with providing higher edu
cation for their children.
In 1855, the territorial legisla
ture passed a resolution providing
for a University at Fontenelle,
sponsored by the Congressional As-
VoL.59, No. 49
Annual Event
or
The Union Dance Committee is
reviving an old traditional event
that has been discontinued for
several years. This is the All Cam
pus Dance which once shared the
spring social spotlight on the level
of an all University affair.
Battle:
Reviewer
Loses To
By ELLIE GUILLIATT
Nebraska! Reviewer
There was a well fought battle
last night on the stage of the Howell
Memorial Theatre stage between
the dramatis personae of "La Bo
beme" and the orchestra. I must
admit, however, that the decision
came out in favor of the some
times shreiking, sometimes re
sounding accompaniment. In those
few tingling moments of quietness
one could hear a voice from the
depths of the stage courageously
wafting its melody toward the au
dience. And when those several
voices, in their turns, emerged
from the tumult, they were quite
pleasing.
Perhaps the most consistent per
formance, both in singing and act
ing, of the evening was that of
John Poutre who portrayed Mar-
cello, the Painter. He displayed a
fine sense of timing and his move
ment upon the stage was full of vi
tality and excitement.
Joseph Feeney, Rodolfo, sang
the poet quite well, but his move
ment seemed to lack direction and
conviction. His anas were sung
mtix a tender lyricism which was
hampered by the thundering mu
sicians in front of him (literally
end figuratively.) The same com
ment must also be applied to Bar
bara Blair's (Mimi) performance.
She sang beautifully when she
Red Cross Board
Members Named
Names of some new Red Cross
board members were not included
in Tuesday's paper because of
space limitations. They follow:
Mary Bradley, a member of the
Union personnel committee, YWCA
and Gamma Phi Beta, is chairman
of the transportation committee.
Kay Kruger was appointed chair
man of the Vets Hospital commit
tee. Miss Kruger is a member of
Coed Counselors and Alpha Omi
cron Pi. Chairman of the water
safety committee is Carol Ander
. son, a member of Coed Counselors
board, president of BABW, mem
ber of Aquaquettes and To woe
Club.
The chairman of the adult activ
iltes committee has not yet been
apjjointed.
'Fanfan'
"Fanfaa, The Tulip," the first
pri-scr.tatioD in the Union Film
Society series, wiA be shown Wed
nesday at 7:30 p.m. la the Capttol
Theater. Season tickets are avail
able for 12.59,
All
Nebraskaa Photo
Coed
is University Hall, first building
constructed for the University,
which was torn down in 1952 to
make room for Ferguson HalL
Building
sociation of the United States.
The building burned in 1865 and
was not replaced.
In 1869, four years after Fon
tenelle's building burned, the state
legislature was told by Governor
David Butler that advantage
should be taken of the federal
government's offer of land grants
to the various states for univer
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
Revived:
To'P
us
Lee Barron and his orchestra
will play for the dance which will
be held in the Union ballittom Fri
day from 9 to 12 p.m. Tickets will
be 75 cents per person and can be
obtained at the door. No advance
sales are being made.
Says Cast
Orchestra
could be beard.
Shirley Halligan, who played
Musetta, displayed a more power
ful soprano voice than Miss Blair's,
and she battled her way beautiful
ly through She combined forces of
the riiorus and orchestra in the
" --.-' act. Of course, she had
t'j. -advantage of standing in a
sin light on the front of the
stage, so ih? audience had a strong
suspicion that she was singing.
In parts of the performance, one
could sense a notable difference be
tween the tempo of the singers and
the tempo of the accompaniment.
This was most apparent in the sec
ond act when the chorus added its
ebullient gusto to the fray.
The set was quite consistent, and
though a shade too dark most of:
the time, it contributed a fine en
vironment io which to enact the!
opera.
As a theatrical experience, "La
Boheme," as it was presented last
night, has one sailient virtue. It
was a good old college try.
Friday:
Prsss
Club
To Feature
Discussion
The first meeting of this semes
ter's Rag Press Club will be held
Friday at 12 p.m. in Parlor Y of the
Union, according to Bruce Brug
mann, Nebraskan editor.
Dr. Adam Ereckenridge, Dean
of Faculties, will discuss the first
contribution to the upper Cham
ber, a recent addition to the Ne
braskan editorial page. In the ar
ticle Dr. Breckemidge defined the
purpose and the duties of a uni
versitity. He stated that "a university is a
place where opportunity exists to
explore the world's civilizations . . .
it challenges the intellect, stimu
lates thoughts and provides the en
vironment for reflection. It must
insure that young men and women
understand fully its mission and
why they are a part of it."
The meeting will be open to a
general discussion of editorial pol
icy, Brugmana said.
The Press Club, a carry-over
from last semester, meets every
two weeks. It serves as an oppor
tunity for staff members of The
Nebraskan and Cornhusker as well
as reporters, columnists and mem
bers of the Board of Student Publi
cations to discuss publication policies.
lay Ffi
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AU Progress
Above is an architect's sketch
of the proposed Student Health
building, in contrast to Univer
sity Hall. The building will re
place the temporary buildings
east of the Bancroft Hall. Funds
for construction Nwill be rea
Burns In
sities.
One building was provided for
in the law setting up the univer
sities, but the Regents decided
that a broad program of expan
sion would have to be developed.
The University opened its doors
for the first time Sept. 6, 1871.
The size of the entering class has
been estimated from 20 to 198
ay
on c
The theme of the dance will de
pict various phases of campus life.
Abstract campus scenes will dec
orate the ballroom.
Following this idea all presidents
of campus organizations have been
sent complimentary tickets. Social
and honorary organizations were
excluded as the emphasis is being
placed on student activities.
During the intermissions refresh
ments will be served and several
groups will entertain, including the
Farmhouse Quartet and Gloria
Denton who will sing several se
lections. The All Campus Dance is the
fifth of a series of dances spon
sored by the Union Dance Com
mittee. Previous dances include
the Frosh Hop which opened the
social year, the Homebodies Hop
which took place during migration,
the Mortar Board Turnabout fol
lowing the Military Ball and the
Final Fling which was staged dur
ing the last weekend before final
examinations.
The committee is also sponsor
ing free dance lessons featuring a
professional instructor. These les
sons will be given in- a series of
four sessions starting next week.
Next on the schedule of the Union
Dance Committee is the annual
High School Tourney Dance which
will be held for the visiting high
school students during the State
Basketball Tournament March 9
and 10.
Registration Deadline
Late registrations, adds and
drops and payment of fees will not
be accepted after soon Saturday,
according to Floyd Hoover, Direc
tor of Records and Registrations.
Outside Vorld:
Do,
tlQFS II
y By ARLENE HRBEK
Nebraskan Staff Writer
rresiaem tisennower learned
nouia oe aoie io carry on an active We" in the presidency "for an
other five tc ten years."
Dr. Paul Dudley White and five other physicians consulted at
the White House Tuesday preparatory to giving President Eisenhower
a "more or less final test" on how Eisenhower was standing the bur
dens and strain of his office. "Eisenhower must make his own de
cision" regarding a second term, said Dr. White. "We doctors can only
advise the President medically," he added.
Eisenhower told a news conference last Wednesday that any deci
sion to run again would have to be based upon an honest conviction that
he would be able to handle the job
Navy Launches Salloon
A U.S. Navy weather balloon was radioing weather information
from 30,000 feet over Soviet Siberia Tuesday after "wild and unpredict
able" winds over the Aleutians reversed its course.
The Russians have protested about American weather balloons
over their tetrritory, and the U.S. Air Force suspended launching of
weather balloons from Europe. Since all balloons sent up from Janan
had previously been borne eastward,
Japan.
The Navy reported the big plastic gas bag 40 feet in .diameter
was transmitting "valuable" weather information, but Cmdr. M. Lee
Lewis, in charge of tlie operations, said it was "not what we wanted."
Lee man Accepts Pest
Ex-Omaha Mayor, Charles W. Leernan, is the new Democratic
member of the Board of Control.
Leeman, 62, accepted Gov. Anderson's appointment as third mem
ber of the Board of Control. He succeeds William Hulsizer who resigned
because of ill health.
The other two members of the
was required by law to be a Democrat. The appointment is for thq
rest of Hiwaer' six-year term, which began last July.
Report
lized out of the tuition increae
of $10, effective next fall. No
construction date has been an
nounced, but University officials
stated that construction will
start "in the near future. The
tuition increase was approved
1865 . . .
students.
The first campus was four
blocks square and sat in the mid
dle of raw fields. University
grounds were used for cow pas
ture as well as student ramblings
uncoin at mat time was still a
muddy village of 1000. The city
used well water . and worried
about the Indians in the western
Wednesday, February 15, 1956
Nelson:
Three Rabbis
Set To Speak
At M Week
By CYXTHIA ZSCHAU
Church Editor
Three names have been added
to the list of speakers to take part
in Religious Emphasis Week,
March 4 to 8, according to John
Nelson, chairman. They are Rabbi
Myer Kripke, Rabbi Sidney Brooks
and Rabbi Harold Stern.
Speakers previously announced
are Dr. L. H. Cragg, W. Clark EU
zey, Dr. Louis Evans, Rev. Gilbert
Graham, Rev. Allen Hackett, Dr.
Emerson Shuck and Dr. Herrkk
Young. Dr. R. H. Edwin Espey
who was scheduled to appear will
not be able to attend, Nelson ex
plained.
Rabbi Kripke was graduated
from New York University in 1933,
magna cum laude and Lolds a de
gree of Master of Arts from
Columbia University.
Rabbi of Beth El Synagogue m
Omaha, he serves as auxiliary
chaplin of the Strategic Air Com
mand. Rabbi Kripke is also in
structor of Bible at the University
of Omaha.
Also of Omaha, Rabbi Brooks is
rabbi of Temple Israel and profes
sor of comparative religions at the
University of Omaha. He will speak
on lamily life and religion, a sub
ject in which he has taken a par
ticular interest.
Rabbi Stern will participate in a
seminar on basic Jewish beliefs
on Ag campus. He is Rabbi of Tife-
reth Israel Synagogue m Lincoln
and is also the Hillel advisor.
Speakers will participate in con
vocations, discussion groups in or
ganized houses, dormitories and
classrooms and faculty and student
seminars during the week.
courage She
from his physicians Tuesday he
efficiently.
the program was continued from
board are Republicans, so the third
at the January Board of Regents
meeting. Of the (10 increase,
$4.50 has been allocated for the
Student Health building; the
remainder and other funds will
be used for the addition to the
Union.
osth
part of the state.
University students were some
what wild in the early days also
they painted the roof of U Hall
bright red, rattled skeletons during
convocations, filled the campus
well with oil and slid down ban
nisters regularly.
Pharmacy Hall was added
to
the campus in 1885: Nebraska
Hall, Grant Memorial and th
first power plant were built
in
1887. Will Owen James, a student
in the 80's, reminisced that "it was
raw and exciting ... an unfin
ished institution in an unfinished
community. There was not a side
walk within 200 miles and the
automobile had not yet been
dreamed of."
University freshmen in the 70'
and 80's had little choice of cur-
: ? m m
nciua. inree major iieias were
the classics, sciences and selected
studies.
rresnmen men as now regis
tered ior required courses ge
ometry, Latin, Greek, English, bot
any and Greek history. Surveying,
chemistry or history, Greek, Lat
in and English made up the sopho
more schedule.
Juniors studied Latin, physics
Greek tragedy and literature, as
tronomy and Roman literature
they could elect Latin, Greek
German or English literature.
Seniors took the equivalent of
20 or more hours of 200-level cours
es: intellectual philosophy, moral
philosophy, logic, geology, history
ot philosophy, history of civili
zation, cons titu tonal law and po
litical economy. If they felt bored
they could elect Latin, Greek,
NU Alumni
To Observe
Birfhdate
Alumni clubs all over the country
are holding meetings this month
in observance of Charter Day.
The University came about as a
piece of paper. This "instrument
of writing" was named a charter
from the Latin word "chartula
thus Febr. 15, the day this
charter was put into effect, be
came known as Charter Day.
Many tunes through the years
this occasion was not celebrated,
but in 1923 it was revived. This
came about when the alumni of
Lincoln sponsored a radio broad
cast and clubs in other cities held
Charter Day meetings.
Club meeting this year will be
observing the eighty-seventh ani
versary of the Charter Day of the
University.
In Nebraska, the Omaha alumni
club will celebrate the birthday
Feb. 23 at the Fontenelle Hotel,
with Football Coach Pete Elliott
as speaker, James Pittenger, Ne
braska alumni secretary reported
Committee members for the event
are Fred Gland, Mrs. C. S. Hassel
balch, and John Savage, all of
Omaha.
Chancellor Clifford Hardin will
be the main speaker at charter-
day programs in March at Kansas
City and Cleveland, Ohio. Bill Or-
wig, director of intercollegiate ath
letics, will speak Feb. 24 at the
Denver Alumni Club program.
Earlier this month, Clifford
Hicks, Professor of Business Ad
ministration spoke to the Roches
ter, N. Y, and Schenectady N. Y.,
clubs.
Other cities planning to hold
Cbarter-day programs are: Indian
apolis, and Cleveland, Ohio, Feb.
15; Houston, Tex., Feb. 17; Los
Angeles and Washington, D.C.,
Feb. 18; and Seattle, Wash., Feb.
29.
Plans for Charter Day obser
vances are in the tentative stages
for alumni clubs at Ames, la.,
Long Beach, Calif., San Diego,
Calif., San Francisco, Chicago,
Evansville, Ind., Detroit, Buffalo,
N.Y., and New York City.
Testing Service
Receives Honors
The Nebraska Irac-tor Testing
Code has been adopted by the So
ciety of Automotive Engineers and
the American Society of Agricul
tural Engineers.
Other achievements announced
by L. W. Hurlbut, chairman of the
Department of Agricultural Engi
neering, include the University's
rating as a world leader in the
agricultural cngmeerirsj; field.
Class Of 1885
University Hall provides a
background for the medical stu
dents of the class of 1885. Two
Colleges, The College of Litera
ture and the Industrial College,
French, German, soology, phys
ical science and aesthetics.
Agriculture problems at the end
of the century made students hard
to come by for the fledgling Uni
versitythe story is told that one
student applying for entrance to
the preparatory school was asked
just one question: "Can you
read?" The student answered yes
and was passed immediately.
'Dandelion Da:
Gtadluaie
Id -Time
By ARLENE HRBEK
Nebraskan Staff Writer
The change in the University
campus from a few buildings and
raw prairie in 1869 to the 39 build
ings and well-planned landscape
shows the progress of education.
But, education is not all build
ings and books, it includes pranks,
fads and customs.
Typical pranks of students don't
originate with each new genera
tion. This is proved by an ex
cerpt from a report given by Al
len Benton (Chancellor of the
University from 1871-1876.) In a re
port addressed to the Board of
Regents he said "Hauling a can
non from the state capitol to the
campus, oiling the well, painting
the roof of U. Hall, rattling the
skeletons in the museum, enticing
donkeys to the third floor, and the
common practice of sliding down
the banister" weTe among the
pranks pulled in the "quiet days
of the University."
A popular campus activity.
which would be the forerunner of
Ivy Day, was "All University Dan
delion Day." The students busily
dug the dandelions which infested
the lawns of the campus and en
joyed doing it.
"When I went to school, the girls
walked and they liked it," recalls
R. E. Dale of Lincoln. Dale at
tended college in 1S98-99. He added, '
"No one had a car in those days
so everyone walked or hired a
hack, but most people who hired a
hack were considered snobbish." '
Constitution Presented:
Jr. IFC Meeting Draws
21 Pledges To Organize
The newly organized Jr. IFC
held its first meeting yesterday.
The meeting was called by Bob
Schuyler, IFC's chairman of the
Jr. IFC committee.
The Jr. IFC is made up of rep
resentatives from the pledge
classes of the 24 fraternities at the
University. Twenty-one of them
were present at this first meeting
The purpose of the Jr. IFC, as
put forth in the preamble to the
Tri-Delt:
Application
For Awards
Mow Open
Kappa , chapter of Delta Delta
Delta is offering two scholarships
to University women.
The awards are based on
scholarship, financial need and
possible future contribution to the
community. Applicants need not
be affiliated with a camnus sv
rority. A faculty member. Asso
ciate Dean For Women Marjorie
Johnston and a Tri-Delt alumnus
committee will select the winners.
Application may be obtained in
the office of the Associate Dean
For Women, Ellen Smith Hall and
on Ag campus in Use Home Eco
nomics office. The blanks will be
vailable Monday and must be re
turned by March 5 to the office
where they were obtained.
The committee is interested in
an outline of the applicant's edu
cational and vocational aims In life
and an explanation of the appli
cent's financial plans, including
parents' participation to Echicve
these aim.'
were in existance at the time.
The University's physical plant
consisted of only one building,
University Hall.
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Dr. Louise Pound, pioneer Ne
braska writer, said in a later de
scription of the University, "Tha
pioneer plainsmen of Nebraska
were not content to be absorbed
only in the activities of the pres
ent . . . we tend to picture them
as leading humble and routina
lives and we forget that they wera
a special breed of men, especial
ly rich in ambitions and ideals.''
HqsgIIs
Pranks
The only disadvantage of walk
ing in those days was that all the
girls had to be in by 11 p.m., with
no excuses for late minutes. There
were no established residence halls
on the campus and many girls
stayed at the Grand Hotel or in
private homes. The homes were
quite a distance from campus and
the walk home often turned into a
race.
The troubles of registration wera
unknown in the school's early days.
Miss Ellen Smith, registrar, who
also served as a "sort of Dean of
Women," handled all registrations,
and after paying a $5 registration
fee, a stodent was ready to be
gin his college career.
Although most of the men had
part-time jobs while they were
going to school, the girls did not
work. A girl who dared accept a
position would be ostracized be
cause it simply was not done. If
it was found that a girl had a job,
she was "looked down upon," he
said.
L. C. Wimberly, editor of
the Prairie Schooner, observes that
the University is more democratic
than it was 25 years ago. This is
proved by the increase in class dis
cussion. "The students are better
informed about life in general and
are active in discussing ideas,"
he continued.
Dances sponsored by the Uni
versity or local businessmen were
the big social occasion in the early
1900's. The attendance was very
good and they were held in the
top story of the old library.
constitution, is to "promote school
spirit, to encourage participation
in . . . general activities ... to cre
ate better understanding among all
fraternities."
Bill Campbell, president of the
IFC, told the representatives that
Jr. IPCs are rather a new idea
around the campuses of the na
tion. He also stated that, "it is tip to
the Jr. IFC to guide itself and set
its own pattern of action."
The constitution was then pre
sented by Schuyler and was dis
cussed. It was copied from one
drawn up at the University of
Washington for their Jr. IFC.
Faculty Art
Exhibition Mow
In Progress
The annual Faculty Exhibition
of the University Art Department
opened Monday in the fourth floor
auditorium at Miller and Paine,
It will be on display through Satur
day.
It includes paintings. eraDhic.
scupture, water colors and draw
ings. Exhibiting members of the
department are Peter Worth, Man
fred Keiler LeRoy Burket, Freda
Spaulding, Rudy Pozzati, Gail
Butt, Thomas Sheffield and Da
vid Seyler.
Following the exhibition, a se
lection of works by, the faculty
will be sent to the Henry GaUery
at the University of V.ashfaf torn
to be shown Airing Match. This
is part of an exchange wlach t ..I
bring an exhibition of the work
of the University cf Washington
art faculty io the University Art
Galleries laMr in the ?ac;a.
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