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Vol. VU. No,,J5i. . . UNIVERSITY QF NEBRASKA, LJINCOLN, FRIDAY, MAY 2. 1908.
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MINNESOTA TODAY
ANNUAU TRACK MEET WITH THE
QOPHER8 AT FAIR GROUNDS.
Nebraska Doped to Win First Class
Meet Assured if the Weather
Is Favorable.
Minnesota ys Nebraska
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FRIDAY JtAY 29TH.
TRACK MEET
Fair Grounds
2:30
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The annual track meet between
Minnesota and Nebraska Is scheduled
to take place at the Fair Grounds
this afternoon at two-thirty o'clock.
For the past week the weather has
been the worst possible for track work
and it was not known until the last
moment whether or not Minnesota
'Would send a team.
It was demonstrated at Kansas City
last week that the Cornhuskers were
not a team of mud horses and it was
felt that if wet weather prevailed the
meet might, as. well be postponed.
Yesterday noon Manager Eager tele
graphed Dr. Williams, the Minnesota
coach, that the weather was threaten
ing and asked if he desired the meet
, to be postponed. . No reply waB re
ceived until late in the evening, when
word came that the team was on its
way to Lincoln. All that remains to
be done now is to pray for good
weather.
The track at the Fair Grounds Was
drying up' fast under the influence of
yesterday's sun and Dr. Clapp predicts
that with good weather today the
track will be in first rate condition by
the time the meet begins. Both street
car lines will run cars to the grounds
and a large attendance is expected.
The Nebraska team haB had little
opportunity to Improve its condition
this last week, but with the exception
of Bauniair and Hughes, the men are
in very good condition. These men
are both suffering from strained ten
dons and neither one is expected to do
very much in the meet.
Little can be learned of the condi
tion of the Minnesota team. Iowa de
feated the Gophers decisively two
weeks ago,but owing to the climate
the Minnesota athletes are unable to
get In the best of shape as early in the
season as the teams farther south.
Consequently .too much significance is
not placed on the outcome of that
meet and the Gophers are expected
to give a good account of themselves
today. '
. Dr, Clapp has entered the following
men for this afternoon, but no moro
than 'three may start ' in any one
event :.T
, 100 Yard- Dash Wildman and
Hughes.
"220 Yard Dash Wildman, Hughes
and McDonald.
440 Yard Dash Burke, Mueller and
Bentley.
"Half Mile Run Davis, Alden, Muel
ler' and Behtley.
One"Mile Run Davis, Alden and
' Williams.- - -" -
Two Mile, Run Davis, ; Alden, Wil
Hams ahdBauman. ' ; .
120' Yard Hurdle's McDonald Tand
Rathbone.: '" .. i , , .. ,
220 Yard Hurdles McDonald, Rath
bone and Burke. r
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TENNI8 TODAY.
W. J. BRYAN PRIZE.
Nebraska Meets J ay hawkers In Tennis
at Country Club.
The Nebraska tennis team will meet
the representatives from Kansas Uni
versity at the Country Club this, after
noon at two o'clock. The University
tournaments in BingleB and doubles
which have been going on here for
about two weeks have been concluded
and the winners make up the team
which will meet Kansas.
In the doubles Richey and Flower
won in the finals from Young and
Racely. In the singles the final round
haB not been played, but as two men
will play in singles against Kansas,
this will not be necessary until after
the Jayhawker series. Sam Slaughter
and H. D. Young have qualified for the
finals and will be the men who will
play against the Kansas representa
tives in the singles. The Kansas team
consists of four men.
According to the present plans
there will be four matches played,
two matches in singles and two In
doubles. In both the singles and
doubles the Nebraska representatives
will be the winners and runners-up of
the University tournament. In other
words, Rlchey-and Flower and Young
and Racely will each play a match in
doubles and Young and Slaughter will
each play one in singles. The team
winning the majority of these matches
will then win the series. The doubles
will be played this afternoon and the
singles tomorrow morning.
Both Young and Slaughter have
been attended with extreme good for
tune in reaching the finals. Young
had two matches defaulted to him.
Yesterday Slaughter defeated Mills
6-2, 6-3, putting him in the semi-finals.
Then Post defaulted to Slaughter,
which let him into the finals.
Debate Notice.
There will be" one or two meetings
of the debating squad, which was re
cently chosen, next week. The ilrao
will be announced later.
Joseph Swensbn went to Creston,
Nebraska this morning,' where he is
to deliver the commencement address
this evening.
Professor Wallace of the English
Literature department will leave next
Tuesday for another trip to England,
where he will spend his summer in
the English archives studying the life
and works of Shakespeare.
Robs Bates went to his home at
Springfield Wednesday evening and.
gave an address before the. high
SIGMA XI ELECTS
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THE HONORARY 8CIENTIFIC FRA
TERNITY MEMBER8" CH08EN.
Representatives From Facult, Gradu
ate 8chool and 8enior Class
Requirements Are High.
H. C. Robertson, '09, Awarded Prize
for Essay on Government.
Mr. H. C. Robertson, '09, has been
awarded the annual Bryan Prize for
the best essay on the subject: "Dogb
the Commission System in Municipal
Government Harmonize" With the
Spirit of American Institutions?" The
three judges were unanimous in their
decision in favor of Mr. Robertson.
The judges were Mr. Albert Watklns of
Lincoln, p. constitutional lawyer;
Prof. E. F. Piper of the department
of English Literature at Iowa Univer
sity, and Prof. Isador Loeb of the de
partment of Political Science at Mis
souri University. There were but
two essays submitted this year.
The Bryan Prize is awarded annual
ly for an essay on some subject on
government. It consists of the income
of two hundred and fifty dollars for
one year. If no essays are submitted
or If the judges so wish, they need
not make the. award and the interest
that so accrues is added to the princi
pal. No award was made last year,
so the principal is now moro than
two hundred and fifty dollars. The
fund was contributed by the Hon. W.
J. Bryan.
EQUAL SUFFRAGE.
The Last Meeting of the Year Was
Well Attended.
The College Girls Equal Suffrage
Club held Its last meeting of the year
with Miss Constanco-Syford and Miss
Viola Barnes at the home of the lat
ter, 1632 L. Despite the hard rain
of the evening the 'meeting was well
attended and (successful. Consider
able amusement was afforded after the
real program by the appearance of
several ante-bellum suffragists, a few
militant suffragetteis from England,
the noted Di. Mary Walker and others.
MIsa Tabitha Primr.ose of Strlngtown,
made the hit of the evening with a
speech she had once given in Boston.
In the main, the meeting took th
form of a travesty onp the popular tra
dition concerning equal suffrage gath
erings and speakers, and proved very,
entertaining.
The neve pins of the club arrived in
'time for this last meeting and were
distributed.
The new members of Sigma XI, the
honorary scientific fraternity analo
gous to Phi Beta Kappa, were an
nounced yesterday. They- are as fol
lows: From the Faculty. Georgo Borrow
man, chemiBtry; W. O. Brenke, math
ematics. Graduates students. George R. La
Rue, zoology; Roy V. Pepperberg, ge
ology; Venus Pool, agricultural 'bot
any; E. F. Schramm, geology; Leva
B. Walker, botany; Ivan B. Wallln;
zoology; Fred Wolf, botany.
Seniors W. N. Anderson, zoology;
C. F. Charlton, physiology; V. L. Chris
ler, physlcB; Ethel Field, botany; Rob
ert E. Guthrie, mechanical engineer
ing; A. S.. Harrington, electrical en
gineering; Jay Hlgglns, forestry; Ber
tha Holllster, zoology; I.A.Klessel
bach, agriculture; Charles E. Mick
ey, applied mechanics; O. J. Shaw,
electrical engineering; George L. Sul
livan, mechanical engineering; fl. A.
S wen son, zoology.
For undergraduates the require
ment for election is the recommenda
tion of the head of one of the scientific
departments on the basis of some
original work and promise of future
advancement along lines of scientific
investigation. Graduate students who
receive the honor are elected only on
the basis of -a prepared thesis on
some scientific topic." Faculty mem
bers are elected for distinguished
work along any chosen scientific line.
Sigma XI is a much coveted honor,
both because of the numbor ot-stu-dents
represented in the various
sciences and the fact that the honor
is conferred only on the basis of
actual work accomplished.
The University of: New Mexico has
a strong basket-ball team this year,
composed of girls.
Pies like mother tried to. make.
Baked fresh tsrice a, day by an expert
woman pie .baker, at The ,, Boston
Lunch. ' ' ' ,
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MEN'8 MA88 MEETING.
To 8tart Movement for County Option.
June 1st.
A mass meeting of all University. .
men will be held next Sunday, June',
1st, in the Temple Theater to perfect
an organization for the support of
county option. , '
There has been much talk about the)
campus of late to the effect that Uni
versity men ought to take a stand on
this question and Sunday's .meeting, is .
to provide a definite plan of action." i
.Prof. G. E. Howatd and Mr. C, d$j
Flansburg will speak and these ad-i
dresses dlono should bring every man
out oh Sunday afternoon. t
The aim of the organization will be ,
to have every candidate ror the iegisj '
lature in the coming fall election state
his position on county . option before. (
election. This, will giye ;every votar .
in the state an opportunity to select
a county option candidate. A ,
It is planned to have University; ,
men use their influence with county
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