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9- ttbelDaih) IRebraskan VoLVI. No. I0J. UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, WEDNESDAY, APRIL JO, J907. Price 5 Cents EDITOR ELECTED BOARD OF REGENTS i DI8P08E OF APPROPRIATIONS AND OTHER BU8INE8S. V ARTHUR JORQEN8EN TO HEAD OF CORNHUSKER. BE Juniors Ballot on Two Candidates Final Vote 80 to 52 Editor elect a Tried Man. Yesterday morning the Junior class held a meeting In Memorial Hall for i the purK)90 of electing tho edltor-ln-1 chief of the Cornhusker for the coming year. The meeting was called to order ' very shortly after 11:110 by President j Show, and the minutes of the lust meeting having been read and ap proved, the reports of the finance com mittee and the committee on tho f Junior-Senior reception having been received, the principal business of the , hour wa3 begun. Mr. Show prefaced the election by a short speech declaring that in put ting theee two men, Mr. De Con and Mr. Jorgensen before the class, ho did so after careful consideration and after no little advising with tho fac ulty. Tho two principal requisites , which he felt necessary to the man assuming the position of editor-in-chief, ho said, were the ability to write good English, to bo able to know good copy when he saw it, and executive ability. It really lay within tho province of the president to select tho editor and then haVe his appointment ratified1 by the class, but Mr, Show preferred to shift at least a part of the responsibility from his shoulders to those of the class collectively. slllVBIIIIIIIW(amlllilHR9$r oBmFiltmlTMln Increase In Salaries $29,000 Increase in Non-resident Fee Gradu ate Medical Work. All the members wore present at the mooting of tho Board of Hegonts hold yesterday. In tho morning tho salary list was gone over and Increased about $2!),000 for the blonnlum, making this item about $200,000 a year. In addition to the $50,000 appropriated by the Leg- amount from tho Increase in return Islature which adjourned last week the boaid expects to realise u .lko amount from the Increase In return from the one-mill lovy during the noxt' two years, thus making tho hoped-for Engineering building a possibility with in tho near future. Tho Idoa of establish lag a chair of Slavonic Languago and Literature was abandoned for the pres ent. A resolution was passed requir ing non-resident students to pay a tuition fee of $30 besides tho other STATE 8CHOOL INSPECTOR A. A. REED, Whose watchfulness saved tho University $25,000 last weftS. . o othorjecif fhlcn raiBus $25,000 SAVED For University By 8tate School In spector A. A. Reed. In tho last days of the session of the state legislature State Troasuror Brlen notified the two houses that there was A motion was made that the vote j about $25,000 ' belonging to the Unl- be taken by acclamation, but this was not carried. Then the Laws made themselves hcajd. Mr. Durham speak ing for them asked that before the voto was taken they be allowed to explain their position. This was that hoy would vote only on condition that the. constitution of the present Cornhusker as standing at present be revised. verslty, composod of tho fees collected from students, scholarship funds, and private bequests, which he could not pay to the Regents without appropria tion by the legislature- or the bringing of suit by tho University. This amount accrued before the law went into ef fect, making the State Treasurer, ex officio, treasurer of the University, LIBRARY EXTENSION. They were willing, he declared, to J whicn t hereafter, make appropri yithdraw quietly and in an orderly atIon ov tne legislature of moneys be 'way from the meeting If tho request ; longing to the institution unnecessary, were not granted, but the Laws wished j Tno appropriation of this amount was to base the question of their partlci-; adtied to H. R. 4G0, the general appro- patlon in the election upon this propo- printion bill and as so engrossed the sition. A motion was ra-ado that tho Laws be allowed to enter on these consldera tlpns and the sentiment seemed mov ing toward an action such as the Laws desired, when Mr. Aldon rose and "turned It," He exp'ressed the opinion that the Juniors djd hot want to tnke a hand in the matter at all and thought bill passed both houses with the excep tions already familiar in the case of th cutting down by the senate af ' all appropriations. To save time, how ever, the bill was enrolled by the sen ate committee, and by an error of an enrolling clerk this clause was loft out. At tho moment of its signature by the speaker of tho house the mis Miss Templeton Talks at Convocation on Work in Nebraska. MIbb Charlotte Templeton, secretary of the state library commission, spoke at Convocation yesterday morn ing on "Library Extension Work." She told of a fund provided for the promotion of libraries In Nebraska, and where oven in very small towns n corner of tho drug store or a few shelves in the barber shop may truiy be a library. Thore is also, a system of traveling libraries, many of which nre kept In rural schools. Boxes containing forty or fifty books are sent out wherever aBked for and these are exchanged overy three months. In this special loan collection the borrower has to pay simply the express charges. A correspondence school has been estab lished for librarians, outlining their work In a series of lessons. This gen eral work Is a free, state Institution, limited only by lack of funds. it be3tto allow tho legal men to vote itaie wn8 discovered by Professor A. A. without any stipulation as to the. Corn-! Reed, high school inspector, and was huskor matter. Others brought out (Continued on page 4.) tho point that if a compromise were mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm M Reached it would be by the Publication Board probably 'Whose rulings would make- void any action by the class. Mr. Eaton raised the point as to why the Laws should be bringing up tho question as to their eligibility to vote. Mr. Munn then rose in his usual coy, diffident -way and asked if the Engi neering School might vote. Several other points were brought up also ajiiong which was the suggestion that both candidates express their position wtyh regard to the Cornhusker and the law section of the book. This was. Professor Bengston of the depart ment of Geology and Instructor In the Normal School at Peru, visltod his home there over Sunday. He has just finished a paper on "Mining Activities Along the Lower Platte," which is to be published in the State Journal. 00CO000p005055OOOOOffiO0CCOlSG00C000 APRIL TWELVE 1 required or an Htuuontsw the amount foj-pcoplo from outside the s.tiffirBy' $10. This action does not, However, effect the Law or Medical Schools. Tho Farm is to get $100,000 in now bulhllngs, the amount to go for tho construction of a heating plant, a stock-judging building and stock-feeding plant, and tho completion of tho Women's building. This matter was referred to tho property committee, and they were instructed to secure plans and bids for the consideration of tho board at its meeting in June. One point of great Interest to the students of the Universlty'is'tno'acdo'n taken by the board on tho text-book question. The ammendmont made to the general appropriation bill provid ing that the Regents use the $5,Q00 listed as "books" as a revolving fund in the furnishing of books at cost to students Is the first time' that the board has been authorized to act under tho old law which makes pro vision for this. As a result of such action by the legislators the Regents have Instructed tho Secretary of the University to confer with tho Attornoy- I general of Nebraska as to the exact meaning under the new law of the word "cost" as written in the act, whether this means publishers' price or includes the expense of handling the books, freight and clerk-hire in cluded. E. H. Clark wub made general pur chasing agent of the University. Pro vision was made for graduate work in the School of Medicine. The meeting adjourned about five ocloqk after hav-' ing been at work since nine In tho morning -with only a short intermission at noon. SENIOR PROM (Continued on page 3.) LINCOLN HOTEL NINE O'CLOCK. TICKETS $2.50. 8 J 0OOOOO0OO0OOO O O 000000000OffiO00 Kekklng Cancels Date. A telegram from Professor Kekklng yesterday announced that he could not fulfill his dute at the University of Nebraska, and the date is permanently cancelled, it is requested, that all tickets be returned to the Y. W. C. A. immediately. Edwin., G. Davis is -pledged to tho Alpha Thota tJhl fraternity. i ' r