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- . .' -.".'' ' ' 4':, tr " 1 The Daily Nebraskan m VOL. 1, .tO.',4!S. LINCOLN, NKB., TIMONDAY, MCII. 4, 1902. TH Rtt F, OTONTS t - - .'-.? . X k' I t V CLUB PRESENTS PLAY The Students of Dramatic Art En tertain Their Friends -A Very Creditable Performance Rendered. Tin Dramatic Club entertained a large audience on Saturday evening at the old cliaoel, with the presenta tion or two plays entitled. "A 1'alr of Lunatics." and "Betsey Maker. " Itetween the two plays William .Ferine filled in the time with a coro net solo. Miss Doanc and Mr. l'tak present ed the firot and the characters in the second were acted by Misses Edith Whittier ana Helen Rcddington, and Messrs Paul Andreson and Robert Harrison. The formei was a short sketch played in a spirited manner and eliciting considerable applause. The latter was longer and more com plicated, with a plot which failed to stand out as clearly as might In.' de sired. The theme involved an ex position of a married man whom I let sey had charmed into paying special attention to her in order 10 obtain a promise which had been made to l.er ny the brother ot I he urifoi tunate gentleman's wile. Z In the course or the play the wife Mrs. Mauser discovers wnat her husband has been doing and threatens to leave him. Explanations follow and the perplexing problems are finally settled. The stage was well equipped and represented a parlor, being enclosed with curtain and drapery. Other es sential features of a stage were made use of as much as possible. Those presenting the play, and the other interested parties received the con gratulations of their friends for the successful manner in which the plays were presented. THE LIRRARY. The- following was recently sub mitted in one of the courses in En glish: They have devastated the alcoves In the library -swept them clean of table and chair. Now only towering ranges of cold, starirg books greet the eye, when one ventures into the once happy precincts. It is a shame certainly. Where tlio festive "frat" girl once Held sway and the tall youth "joshca" In half-smothered whispers, a cold silence rolgns. They havo made a desert and.call it peace. The hours may wing their drowsyVlight, tho days may anso ana runutheir destined course and fade into, the silouco of the past; -iillUuiXYMthJjeauty and ttic unspeakable tenderness" of tho days that are gone will never return. Where youth and gaity once reigned, the haughty librarian now stalks, lollowed by ghostly echoes, as though tho very walls cry out against their enlorced solitude. Tho usurping books staro blindly, stolidly secure in their possession. Desolation is complete. We cannot say that It Is for the best. Youth and nature cry out against t he' sacrellgious silence which dwells in these halls once dedicated to merriment. And yet and yet. who knows, thou all-seeing librarian, but that thon art, in the right'' Rut that the library is for study David City is experiencing an athletic revival for which ('. II. Ilinman, ex-'():i. principal of the high school, is largely responsible. The high school girls and boys both play football, basket bah, and will have baseball and tennis In alditlon the town young ladies have nasketball teams. Two picked teams Irom the high school girls played a match game Friday night, resulting In a scoie of II tod. The playing, how ever, was much nearer equal than the score would show Among the best players were Misses Styskal and Walker, guarci and forward of the winners, and Mis; Ayres and iSenni son. forward and center on the losing team. The noys' teams have had little practice, but show good lorm and promise improvement. Their success is largely due to Mr. Hln man's elTorts. It would tie well for the athletic interests of the unlver isty and the state ifMr. Ilinman's example were more generally followed. LETTER FROM PARIS (I. E. Matson who was elected last summer to an asslstantslup in the department of geology, Cornell Uni versity, is now engaged upon the determination, of the behavior of iron in clay and is making physical tests (jf the fusibility arid shrinkage of clays. A new thermo-electric pyrometer registering up to :i000 degrees of heat has just been procur ed for the work and Mr. Matson offers to test the ciays of Nebraska or which there is an extunsivo col lection in the stato museum, secured ny Messrs Moore. Fisher. Woodruff, Condrn, Matson and other1.- in con junction witli the state geological survey. An order was read last night at drill calling tho attention or the cadets arid especially the olllcers to the fact that in drill on t lie public streets there Is more or less oppor tunity given to frighten horses. It was requested that caution be ob served sothat nothing serious in the shape of a run-a-way should be occasioned. Plans are now being rapidly for mulated by the Y. M. C. A. looking to tho visit which John S. Moore, last-ycarls secretary, will makojihis coming Z Sunday. A special large meeting on Sunday is in contempla tion. Something new In the way or special music Is already a sure thing. W. G. Dungan, '00, Civil- Engineer was In Lincoln and vlsitea the University. Schuylor Miller Writes of His Trip on tho Continent-Paris Moro Active ThanLondon-The London Fog. Schuyler Miller, Instructor in Eng lish last year, writes to friends In the University from Paris, telling or his experiences, with Harry Shedd as his companion. 'both In England and Fiance. ' Mr. Miller ridicules the Londoners for their extreme slowness, as he calls it. ''London is a poor place to live," he says. ' The fog is ho thick that when you go to church you have to sit on the front seat to see the preacher." Ho told or tilling up tho microscopic fireplace In his room, put ting on his over coat and trying to keep warm. lie has round that Paris is quite different Trorn London. All Is lire and activity, and especially on the streets at night. The French people on the whole take lire very easy and always seem to be ready for amusement. The Frenchmen, as a rule are not partic ularly well dressed, but seem to relin quish that feature or lire, to the la dies who do it f ii It justice Mr. Miller enlarges somewhat lengthily on the t'ials and troubles he and Mr. Shedd have been experien cing from not knowing the language. They have round themselves more or less rusty on their French, and havo considerable dicniulty In making their wants known. At the present time the two gentlemen arc in Florence. C 1 1 A P E L ANNOIJNCEM E N TS. This morn'ng a special musical pro gram will be rendered. Wednesday, Miss Routon will tanc upjn "Food." Thursday, Professor Nicholson will speak upon the proposed mining school. Friday,' Professor Fossler will dis cuss Prince Henry's visit. In one of the public schools of Oma ha, a few days ago, a teacher in lis tening to tho recitation of a class in physical geography asked the ques tion: "What are the five primary oc cupations or man?" The authorized answer is some thing like this: Agriculture, lishlng and hunting, mining, herding, lum bor; but tho small bey replied: "Keepin' a store, working for the Burlington, and belli' a police man." Omaha World-Herald. The following you g ladles or Omaha havo bcei. In the city since Friday being entertained by rriends and sisters In Kappa Alpha Thcta. Misses .Jessie Towue, Anne Peterson, Nolle Randall, Nell Carey and Edith Patterson. Tho young ladles came aown primarily to see tho bnskot ban contests in which Omaha was represented. V. C. Uatie, '02. lias received an appointment as government weigher and will assist in tuo quadrennial mail weighing on which tho railroad contracts will be based for the next four years. He left yesterday' and expects to be absent about Isx weeks. Will Holt, who has been visiting bis Phi Psl brothers ror tho past three woeks, lert Saturday evening for his home in Forsyth, Mont., where he is engaged In the hotel business. Ficd Deweeso has been elected as tho delegato to represent Nebraska Alpha, or Phi Kappa Psl at the national convention. The conven tion will be held in Pittsburg. Perm., about the middle ot April. ProresMir Calvin or tho University or Iowa, while a guent or the Uni versity or Nenraska as a lecturer ror Sigma XI society, left some twenty livo or his best lantern slides on glacial geology as a girt to tho de partment of geology In the Univer sity of Nebraska. The photographs or the Morrill geological expeditions and or tho stato geological survey are being ar ranged and mounted. Tho set t,o date will make nine large volumes. J. Rebma-in, M)H, brought down from the pine woods a few days ago a lino lot of "bracket fungi" for the department of botany. The class in general botauy Is now taking up tho work of "paratllne Im bedding" preparatory to the use of the microtomes Tor sectioning and permanent mounting. A new and suspicious looking disease or seedling cherry trees has been submitted to Mr. O'Gara for determination. The specimens were received by a Nebraska treo-growor In a lot imported from France. The oak tablet carved by Miss Harbour and Mrs. Fisher has been finished off ana fixed up in place over tho key board of tho Alumni organ. It bears tho inscription In old En glish letters, "Girt of Alumni and Friends, Chartordav February 15, 1902. TDE WEATHER. Forecast for Lincoln and vicinity: Tuesday threatening, probably snow Hurries, colder. Weather report for 24 hours, ending 7 pm. Monday. 1'liglieBt tcmperature-42 degrees, occurring at 4:1. pm. Lowest temperature, 27 degrees, occurring at 7: 15 am. Mean temperature, 34 degrees, which is 4 degrees above the normal. GEO. A. LOVELAND, Section Director. ''! l il I HI ! ,; ;j SI i 5 ,1 A ;! V3 n , m rth i. M i f .t