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The Daily Nebraskan
LTNCOLN, NEB., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1901.
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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.
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