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W.VS ,Ef$'"i3r i,-rnfr: - f N V ? I M VokVI. No. 74. UJvpERSITY.OE NEBASjKA, .LINCOLN, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 907. Price 5. Cents. TT m liSTAff COMPLETE jocoopoooffiooop c. o oob6o6ooffiooo WESTERN DEBATES v.jLiivirfN jnvjju- . T - . rc.ts.muHi x . w iv -,4' "' J":'' '''' ' '" ''lr,''' v T a teEto IFlebr aekan , 1 . ". It r "' ! " r- " ' .. i " i t 4 . '. V ft ft v I i: u v- jf ;'- ' 1 . (iff p I; BOARD PICK8 NEW MEN FOR THE f NEBRSKANr t ' . 'M Yoder to Be Business Manager E. ;sHotL.and Long for Editors Strong 4.' - 7!' " ' - - rw" " - ' ; ' ' A"t the meeting -ofthe Student Pub lication Board yeBterday afternoon Byron E. Yoder was elected business 'manager' of .The Daily Nebraskan for (the coming semester to succeed W. E. Standeveri. Mr. Yoder has been clrcu lation manager of the "rag" during the past semester and has shown business ability which insures a continuance of The Nebraskan under its present sound business direction, j; ' Clyde Elliott was elected managing editor to succeed S.M. Rinaker, re signed. Mr. Elliott has been exchange editor of The Nebraskan and Is thor oly familiar with the requirements of live college journalism, A3 E. Long, the new editor-elect, is an "excellent amateur journalist, who lias been doing repertorlal work on The Nebraskan during the past semes ter, The rest of the staff Is as follows '. . Associate Editors'. Convocation. . . ,.M1bs Laura Rhoades. Athletics .' H. W. Craig Departments '-..?...,,.. Sidnoy G. EvanB Reporters. Athletics;;... Ernest H. Johnson -News ..... ;-. .; . . . . . . . . S. P. Dobbs' Engineering, . ..-.-. .... .A. G. Schrelbor Law. ....... k . . ..L. A. , Gregory The. readers of The" Nebraskan may feel assured that under this competent management Ule "rag'.' will bo" newsier 'than ever and astrong fa'ctbr for' the boat in student affairs., CEILINGFALLS. Law Students In Union Hall Have Fortunate Escape. : A few minutes before ;10, o'clock yes terday "morning; during the Infbrmls- slpri between, the 9 o'clock and 10 o'clock classes; three or four square yards of plastering from the center , of , the, celling In Union Hall fell", covering with debris the chairs that a few mo ments before had been occupied by members ot tije Freshman law class.. ' During;, xegttatlpn ijours the room Is ., filled with law students and ordinarily, 'leven during Intermissions, there are -a number of people in the. .room, but vhen the accident occurred practical . ly all thpsludents r$ero' out of the jroom getting examination papers that were being distributed lri the law . , library. As a result, of this fortunate combinaton' of circumstances no one. was fnjuYed. The djimago was due to an old defect '1& theinlMtefiriB,. 3 Plas terers were pnt $ wdrk'festerday A ffirireBBntatlveiintho legislature at Michigan wilf Introduce bill thla week which will 'aeek-tolncrease' the- revenues of the University oir'a- basis of pjie-hairmlll, instead Pfa 'quarter j-ThMfJalverBlty . of Michigan how re .Olives iboilt' y30,00b'a year,-and un-; , der the proposed bill It would secure' over $800,000. s ...JUNIOR . U. ! ir .. "f r- . 8 Tjckete $2.50; At Door $3. , 06CO&bOi06&00 O $ O DR. BE8SEY RETURNS. Brings Back Large and Valuable Col lection From Florida. fir. C,E. Bessoy returned late Mon day night from Mlama, Florida, whore he haB spent the past two wcekB visit ing his son and making botanical col lections from the rich fields of trop ical vegetation. A lecturo on "The Forest Condi tions of Florida" will 'bo given shortly by Dr. Bessey for all those who are, interested In Forestry and Botany In. general. This lecturo promises to be of great interest, as tho professor con fesses that he found whole forests In this tropical region In which, he was unable to recognize a single plant species. Dr. Bessey will take charge of, his classes immediately, and will have a unique collection of southern plant specimens to show them. .The large collection lie has made is one of the most valuable acquisitions that has been made in any department of the University for years. M AY AMALGAMATE. Sophomore Academics and Freshman Laws Discuss Union. A joint meeting of committee from the Sophomore Academics, and .the Freshman Laws was held yesterday morning for. the purpose of discussing the amalgamation of the two classes thruout the remainder of their Uni versity careers. Arguments on both, sides were presented, but no decision was reached. In regard to the course tho joint committee favors. The 'matter Mil be brought up for decision tomorrow at the meeting of the Sophomore class, when Ihe two committees' '-will present the argu ments, 'pro and con, which, they have worked out. A full attendance' of the class Is desired that the matter may bo. thoroughly threshed put. Prof. Greve E. Barber gave an illus trated lecture1 at St Paul's ''Methodist church Monday evening to a very large audience. His subject was "Ruins of Bompell and; Herculaneum." 0QCW0 if In Si&al Convocation r.i, 1' V', . - JJalter Bradley "wtt fr ' V - - 'ITTrlCj ?00CHp0OO0O0)K) PROM... ' FORMAL. 000$00000000Oe MEMBERSHIP CAMPAIGN. Y. W. C. A. To use Class Rivalry to Gain Members. The membership committeo of tho Y. W. C. A. has Instituted a campaign to secure new members. Tho plan of campaign -is tho stirring up of an in tense rivalry between the members of the committee along tho lines of their Unlvorslty classes. Tho following class leaders havo been appointed to keep the campaign Moving: Freshmen, Miss. McVoy; Sophomores, Edith Wilson; Juniors,. Evelyn Moore; Seniors, Mildred Post. It is expected that returns from the campaign will begin to como In at once and that tho membership of the Association will bo materially In creased within tho next thirty days It is desired to start out tho new se mester with renewed actiflty In every line of the Association work and the membership committee is merely taking the lead. senior politics: lrst Rumors of Presidential Asplra- . tlons Afloat. Tho first indications o the tunTthat second .semester politics will take In tho Senior class have been evident for the last few days in tjie buttbnholiug that has been visible at odd times on and off the. campus. At least two presidential possibilities are 'generally known and there Is a prospect for still further candidates ' before the first clasB meeting of tho next .semester 1b r.nllnd. . ' rr ' ' . ' . The two candidates who 'havo an nounced - that they wlllrun. for the presidency' areT. A. Brown and W. C. -1 - - j t ' 1 vt Ramsey. Both are well known In the class and have numerous and ener getic friends. Mr. Ramsey Is a Senior Law and is a member of Phi. Kappa Psl fraternity, -while Mr. Brown Is a Senior Academic and a member of Alpha Theta Chi fraternity,! The Ihlrd term, of the School of Music begins next Monday. Registra tion now In'progress. indicates a larger attendance than ever, Thursday Morning JV W-': '.;' O0j000 p)fO05'00O60 BIG DEBATING CONTE8T8 IN" THE WE8T LA8T WEEK. Triangular League Holds First bates Michigan sand North- Do- western Are Winners. " x: Activity In wostorn debating blroles opened last week with dpublb header contests by tho Universities ..of" Chi cago, Michigan nnd Northwestern. Theso schools compoBo tho Triangular Debating League which was organized last spring, The contests were hold FrJday night, each university being represented by two teams, Michigan . debated Chi cago at Ann Arbor and Northwestern at EvaiiBton. Chicago contested with Northwestern In the Windy CCy. Both . of the Michigan teams won their de- bates; tho Chicago teams 'lost both of their contests and Northwestern won one debate and IPst the- other. All decisions wore unanimous. Tho question debated by tho Trian gular teams Is: "Resolved, That u progressive Inheritance tatf should be lovled by tho Federal Government, constitutionality conceded." Each school debated on both sides of tho question, as Nebraska will do on tho municipal ownership question In the coming contests with Illinois and Wis-' cousin. ' A 1 In outline tho winning argument presented by 'Michigan's afllrniatlvo team declares: That no natural right to Inheritance exists; that, rather; In heritance is a privilege extended by , and under the control of dhe govern moht; that Swollen fortunes are. a menace to tho national welfare, and an equitable distribution can only be ';, secured thru, a - progressive inheri tance tax. '' '"-,' Chicago's - argument lii tne nega tive declared :JrThat federal) gpyern- , t, men'i has no need of revenue fronl . such a tax; that; the states need' full use of the right to leyylnheritance taxes In order, to remedy local 'abuses, and, furthermore .that the federal tax. Is an unwarranted, encroachment up on the rights of states. - , , The Maroon debaters orithenega- . ,' tlvo side argued that abuses exist In tho present tariff schedules; that,' a revision of these duties would mean a v loss to the federal government In, rev enue, and that an easy way to. 'meet, thlB Increase would .be by .levying the Norhwestern's argument for the . negative said that there was no, need .' for a federal Inheritance tax, but that the states had every need of the tax; that the federal government had other means of raising revenue; that the, question , pf Improving the tariff by eliminating the fpur obnoxious duties was not under discussion, but that tji'o Inheritance tax .must be considered as levied under existing conditions. . i, ' Mr. fcwobodarto tptalc. . ' 'J '; Mr. A. R." wobpda, iflli.JpU. o the Engineering Society. tenlhtni Mi 311 on'ThejEnineerjacp; engineering students are Invited to be.-, present. ; " " . ''?" ' 1 A ' ' f'; ' "' !., ".'.i,'? . '- iK 1 ll A 1 . '"-. r- f.v l M ,:M . 4' . fl fe ' i , ' . $- ' - i -J . v .r Tr l Wi' ' VI . . . wi y : ? 'tr-M A r vjc ? si Hi , V, . ,-w r ) x -.v". t7. , . i X ", - V!. m i -