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-".... v.: WV o The Daily Nebraskan LTNCOLN, NEB., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1901. rv THREE CENTS " ''"' --".- a K fcSil fjtffy I VOL. I NO. 55 A SUCCESSFUL SEASON Coach Booth Says the Closing Foot ball Season was a Success in Evory Way -Plea for Cloan Athletics. The football Reason Just closed was reviewed by Coach Booth yesterday in a brief address at the convocation. The Coach was greeted by a round of applause that attested his popularity .among the students. Nebraska, he said has just passed through her most successful season on the gridiron. The season may safely be votca .successful because Ne braska has established herself among the football teams of the west. He declared that while the University had not. bron officially recoirniy.cn by the members of the big nine It has established it.self well In the estima tion i.f the colleges composing it. Financially the season has been a very successful one. The board started without money aim besides the many improvements whic.i have been mane now has a surplus lclt over. The season has also been sucessl'ul In that no distressing accidents have occur red to mar it. Men have turned out well to practice and to help support the team. The best feature of the easm. said the Coach, was the en thusiasm developed among the stu dents of the University. This has been the result of developcment and now that it lias been developed, It should bo fosterod. It is Cho thing the University needs. Speaking of U" aspects for next voir the C . ey were excel lent The ciirt.iues lor a good team arc unusually good. Practically ah tho men who are eligible will bo back for work next rail. Tho Coach also lurried his attention tj fo'ibtah as a sport. lie declared that It owed its popularity among tno people to tho fact that it was a clean game. It is not liko the race track. R. is as yet frco from tho traces of professionalism. Coach Booth urged that tho present stand ard be maintained, lie was opposed, he said, to giving the players any Dart of tne gatoreceiots or any money re ward for their work. This course would tear down tho sport ana nut It on a level with tho race tnik. "Tho minute you reward athletic skill, you take aw.,y all that makes it worth while." prise nf the graduate club which Is meeting with much favor. It Is isriucd at Intervals by tho club and is the medium through which the best work of graduato students is placed beforo tho public. OPPOSE WOMEN'n ATHLETICS. The authorities of Michigan do not believe In intercollegiate athlcticH for women. The following Is tho expression ol Dr. Moshor of that in stitution: We do not favor Intercollegiate con tests for women they are no good wnatever. 1. We do not believe in them be cause they are injurious physically, particularly tho nervous strain inci dent to then). 2. The notoriety obtained from contests is not desirable for women it harms them rather thin otherwise. .'1. It takes too much time Irom the regular systematic development of the women. 4. When every cllort is centered in producing a winning team, those who see o hope ol making the team drop out. The major portion of the effort is directed towards developing those few women and the otheis are neglected. SOME UNIVERSITY PUBLICA TIONS. Two University publications aro being sont out from the library. One is a paper bv Dr. Chas Fordyco, on 'The Cladocora of Nob-aska" being his thesis for his doctors degree. One hundred and fifty copies of this wont are being sent to speclalsts over tho country. Some additional copies of number two of tho gradu ate bulletins are also being distribut ed. Last spring about throo hundred copies were mailed to colleges and libraries both In this country and abroad. Sometnlng near half that number aro now being sent to special ists in tno subjects treated of In the number. It contains three articles bv candidates for tho masters degree. "Coined Compounds in Gothic," by John L. Kind. "Cojunctions in Livy." by C. B. Jeffords and "The Political Philosophy of Thomas Paine," by Clark E. Perslneer. The graduate nulletin is an enter- "HONE LIBRARY." A COMPLETE COLLECTION OK SKELETONS OF ANIMALS KNOWN TO SCIENCE. The Wistar Institute or tho Uni versity of Pennsylvania is now in possession of a "Hone Library," which Is said to bo the only one of Its kind In oxistnnce. The bones which make up this pe culiar library Include the skeletons of almost every animal knawn to sci ence. Dr. Payne, who Is at the head of tho Wistar Institute, has adopted an entirely new method or ilissi Tying anei arranging these bones. Instead of mounting the completo SKeleton. as is commonly done, the skeleton Is disarticulated and tho bones are cat alogued ana placed in separate travs. following the order of cataloguing tho nooks in tho University Library. H v tills means it is mado possible to study ovorv bono in Its proper class. The collection Is so completo that the evolution of any particular ani mal can bo studied through mauy generations. In tho same wav It Is possible to ijraco out tho relationship 'f some allied animal. Dr. Payne and his assistants are continually adding to tho bono collec tion. Ono of tho latest additions is that of the skeletons of three Euro pean apes, said to be tho onlv ones in America. Tho apes were natives of Southern Spain, having been taken thoro from Algiers at a very carry chjto. Thoy havo baon carefully pro tected by tho Spanish government, and for this reason none of thorn haveevcr found their way to atjy American Museum. THE NEW COMMANDANT Has Rocord both as Soldior and Edu cator Soryod as an Officer in Cuba Dato of Arrival Not Yet Known. Though tho Information which has been received by the University au thorities regard'ng Captain Samuel A. Smoke, the newly chosen com mandant, Is very meagre it Is such as to inspire confidence in him both as a man ano a soldier. lie comes very highly recommended In every way. Captain Smoke is a graduate ol West Point and has rounded out his career there by several years ol ser vice In the army. While he is a re tired ollicer it is nob on account ol age as he is but thirty-eight years old. He was rot! rod because ol a and tho mori an who play his position best is tho man who gots ttio place, whether ho has ployed ono yoar or. three. It ought to bo tho same In debating. in Cuba in 18i)). At the time of his retirement ho was chier quarter master ol the department of Santa Clara. Registiatlon Tor Interstate debates will close soon ana all wlsnlng to try for a place must comply beforo tho allotcd time expires. It Is to be hoped, howevor. that students wlh excrclso judgment In this matter arrfl not take up time unless they aro qualified sulllclently to stand some chance in the contest. This prelimi nary debate Is not a practice class but a placo whom trained men shw their abilities. Tho place to do the practicing Is in the classes in argu mentation. In prerious years the preliminaries have been mane extremely tlrcsomo to the wearied judges and absolutely sunstroke sustained while at his post fWiMiuut Interest to oho student body because of the many contestants who were without tho"ghost or a show." Expenenco has shown the roily or tho previous course and thoro Is no He does not oome to tho University rca"on whatever for a repetition wuen a net o common senso in regis tration might prevont It. without oxpenoeo as he has engaged In school work belore. Ho is also said to be well equiped by naturo for the worK he has beo-i chosen to do. fly naturo he is congenial and affl able and very pleasing In his manner. In a recent communication he said that lio should prefer Nebraska and the University of Nebraska in par ticular to any other place In the United States. Captain Smoke is a resident of Missouri and is well known at Colum bia. Ills charcator and aollitv are vouched for In toims of highest re spect by the University authorities there. Ho Is married and has two young children. It is not yet known when he will take charge of tho battalion. Proressor n. . Ward has accepted an invitation to address tho Daven port Academy of Sciences at Daven port, Iowa. His subject will be "Tho Degenerates of Animal Sool otv" and tho lecture will be delivered January 11. Professor II. L. Ott of Chicago visited tho University recently In tho Interests of a stercoptlnou and microscope firm. The Nebraskan is in receipt of an unsigned communication recommend ing that those debaters who have non tested on Interstate debates in past yearsbe allowed to go on this year's debate without tho formality of participation in tho preliminary contest. It Is urged in support of this plan that most of last year's de baters have declined to enter the preliminary contest with because of a lack of time. After citing Individ ual Instances of men who will not enter for the reason given the writer proceeds: ' 'Now it stands to reason that these men are stronger than last year. Why not lot experience count for some thing in debates as In athletics and give the old men who stood highest in rank a position among the debat ers without participation In the pre liminary?" " The Nehraskan has serious doubts as to tho advisability or tho course recommended in tho communication. If the contestants. have no time for tho preliminary contest they will hardly havo time for tho proper prep aration of tho debate itself. Those contests aro as much University affairs as football or baseball ano thorough preparation ought to bo tho price of, a placo in thorn. As tho writer suggests experience ought to count for the same in dubates as in athletics, but no more. Where is tho player who holds his position this year because he held a similar ono last year? Tho teams are lined up THE ZOOLOGICAL CLUB. Will moot at 8 did. Tuesday ovon in.c December :i, In the Zoological Library. The subjoct lor tho evening Is Studios on tho Malaria. THE PROGRAM. U. H. Hansom, The IITo history of the Organism by Laho; Gladys Henry, The interpretation of tho forms by Lankester & Ross; Henry D. vVard, Some American and Italian contributions to tho solution uf the problem of protection. Visitors aro cordlaily welcome to the meetings of the club. IN TRAVELING SCHOLARSHIP ARCHITECTURE. The managing committee of the Stewarnson Memorial Scholarship in -Architecture, which entitles the holder to tho value or $1,000 In Euro pean travel, announces that prelimi nary examinations will be held at tho University of Pennsylvania on January 8, 0 and 10, 1902. Graduates of recognized schools of architecture aro exempt fiom tho preliminaries. Candidates must bo under HO years of age, and must have studied or prac ticed architecture in Pennsylvania for at least ono year prior to January 8, 1902. Final examinations will b upon tho subject of a "Boys' School in tho Country, ' and tho successful candidato will sail for Europe beforo March 30 next. Tho munaging com mittee is composed of Professor War ren P. Laird. Walter Copo, Frank Miles Day, Wilson Eyre and J. G. Rosengarten. Professor Bessoy has Just sont away his paper on "Tho Forests and Forest trees of Nebraska" to bo published by tho bureau of Forestry work at Washington, D. u. Tho actlclo will bo profusely Illustrate by cuts made from photographs by Mr. Cornell, the University photographer. Edward A. Bessoy. '00, writes from Plttsfiold, Mass., whore he has been for the past three years that thoy are Loving fine sleighing and thufc the ground has boon covered with snow for the past two weeks. 5) a n -v .- tr' " tt tWv. . . . ..