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Vol. VIII. No. 6.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1908.
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GAIN MANY MEMBERS
Y. M. C. A. COMMITTEE RECEIVES
A HEARTY WELCOME.
L. W. HILLS IS NEW PRESIDENT
Has Work of Year Well Started and
All Branches of Association
Promise 8uccesssful Year's
Career.
University Y. M. C. A. affairs have
had an auspicious opening and in the
opinion of General Secretary Dor
Kinderin the association promises to
have a very successful year.
To date the university organization
has 431 members, 83 of this number
being new men. The membership com
mittee, under the. chairmanship of Ivan
Baker, is working persistently and
the indications are that the members
will reach the goal for which they are
Btriving. They want 800 members for
the year.
University men are generally re
sponding very well to the solicitations
of the committee. The position of the
Y. M. C. A. In college circles and
the advantages which It offers to uni
versity students are becoming recog
nized by the student bodies of all the
great educational institutions. In this
respect the larger colleges are gener
ally following the footsteps of the
Bmall schools In which the Y. M. C. A.
became a leading factory several years
ago.
Hills Now President.
The presidency of the local organl-
zatlonrleft vacant by the removal of-
Ben Cherrlngton to the position of
athletic coach and debating instructor
of Omaha High School, is being ably
filled by B. "W. Hills, formerly vlc
presldent of the association and chair
man of the membership committee.
Mr. Hills stepped ltno the office by
virtue of the constitution of the asso
ciation. Ho took up the work with
energy immediately upon the opening
of the school year and has since been
directing a vigorous campaign for the
benefit or the various activities of the
association.
During registration week open house
was maintained at the rooms and an
enjoyable time was given all new men
who showed up. The student hand
book, distributed this week, has at
tracted, much favorable mention. - J.
Stewart Elliott Is edltdr-ln-cnlef of the
book and H. R. Ball is business man
ager. The employment" and room bureaus
i have been oi 'considerable assistance
to many students. The association has
assisted io0 men to get rooms and it
has secured' employment for 5G.
Did Good Work.
The state and University delegations
from Nebraska both did excellent work
at the Cascade summer conference in
, , Colorado during the summer. The uni
versity delegation was the second larg
est at the conference. The state dele-
gation c.eaned up everything in ath
letics. In ie track meet it took nearly
as many points as the combined scores
. of the next two highest.
Three representatives of the Ne
braska" university association will go
to Columbus, O., next month to at
, tend a conference of college Bible Btu-dents.-
Over a thousand colege stu
dents arid faculty members will be
present at the meeting.
Tickets Selling Faster.
Student football tickets have; been
selling. faBt the' last two days, but
,, juost.,of' the purchases have been
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among the men of the university.
Few co-eds have bb yet bought tickets
und Manager Eager has Inaugurated
a special campaign to get thcm sup
plied with tickets. He has request
N "ed that it be made plain to the co
edB that a special section will be re
served for women at the y football
"games,
CAPTAIN BORQ A88I8TANT COACH
Former Nebraska Center to Help
"King" Cole.
At a special mooting of the athletic
board yesterday afternoon Charles T.
Borg was elected assistant coach of
the Cornhusker football eleven. Borg'3
election gives "King" Cole two as
sistants, Roy Elliott being the other
one.
Robert Funk was granted the prlv
liege of getting out an official foot
ball program similar to the one issued
laBt year.
SIDNY.rC0LU&L8M.
The Nebraska Center.
STUDENT8HEAR LAUGHLIN TALK
Speaker Attacks Agitators of Bank
Guarantee Law.
J. Lawrence Laughlln, head of the
department of economics of the Uni
versity of Chicago, addressed the Btato
bankers' association yesterday morn
ing and many university students
availed themselves of the privilege of
hearing a presentation of the question
of bank deposit guarantee.
Mr. Laughlln directed the course of
his remarks to prove that the agita
tors of bank guarantee are either ig
norant of their subject or, regardless
of the merits of the question, are seek
ing to galn-the support of the 15,000,00
depositors of iae nation by false argu
ments. He criticised the motives of
men who have urged the adoption of
a bank guarantee law and ridiculed its
effectiveness in the state where it has
been tried. 4
The central argument of Mr. Laugh
lin's address was that the banks of
the country already have a guarantee
fund, consisting of the capital stock,
surplus, and liability of the stockhold
ers. He declares that the stockhold
ers will try to avoid wildcat banking
because of the great risk of enormous
loss to themselves. Under the pres
ent system there is a loss of only one-twenty-sixth
of one per cent; uitiler
the universal guarantee ( system, this
Iosb would be enormously increased
through the operation of wildcat banks
and unscrupulous bankers.
Mr. Laughlln further urged that it
is impossible to provide a guarantee
.fund large enough to insure immediate
return of deposits. This, would entail
the withdrawal from business of so
large an amount of money as would
seriously interfere with the nation's
trade. The b'ost that could be hoped
for would be ultimate return and this
is sufficiently guaranteed under the
present arrangement, in the opinion
of the speaker,
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Coy Burnett and. Roy Meeker, law
ox 1910, nre not in school this year
.on account of business affairs.
Pies like, mother tried to make.
Baked -fresh every day by an expert
woman pie baker at The Boston Lunch.
WILL BE HARD f Kill I
NEBRA8KA TO MEET WORTHY
ENEMY IN DEBATE.
SCHEDULE OF DEBATES FINISHED
Squad Will Be Completed In About a
Week and Teams Will Be Chosen
In a Month Active Work To
Begin 8oon.
Among those interested In Ne
braska debating, there Is a scrong feel
ing that this year Nebraska will havo
to meet foes worthy of her boBt efforts.
Nebraska will meet in debate, the
Universities of Illinois and Wisconsin.
Nebraska hag met each of tneso
schools in Joint debate but once before
and was beaten by both of them,
though only by a narrow margin, it
is felt that it is now up to Nobraska
to Wi.e out the former disgrace.
Tne University of Illinois is a school
having a thousand moro students than
are available at the University of No
braska, while Wisconsin claims an en
rollment of about Beven hundred more.
The University of Illinois nas always
been strong in debating, and the Uni
versity of Wisconsin has been holding
her famous society debates for nearly
forty years. The university of Wis
consin nas already chosen her speak
ers, and thus, while she may not be
able to develop the question quite as
thoroughly as Nebraska, her speakers
will possibly appear moro pollBhed and
make a better appearance on the plat
form. Schedule of Debates.
r Trotessor Fogg, "Secretary of "thVDe-
bating League, announces that tho de
bates of tho league will bo held as fol
lows: Iowa City WlsconBin-Iowa.
Urbana Minesota-IUinois.
Madison Nebraska-Wisconsin.
Minneapolis Iowa-Minnesota.
Lincoln Illinois-Nebraska.
Judges to Be Chosen.
Judges for the Nebraska-Illinois de
bato will bo chosen from Iowa. Judges
for the Nebraska-Wisconsin debate
wll bo chosen irom Illinois and Minne
sota. The plan by vhlch the judges
are chosen Is as follows: A list of
twenty-four judges are submitted for
every debate to tho entertaining uni
versity, within a week after receiving
tho list, the visiting university sends
to the entertaining university a list of
six Judges cnosen from the twenty-four
names submitted." The entertaining
university sends to the visiting univer
sity a list of twelve names also chosen
from tho twenty-four. Each of the two
universities then arranges its oppon
ents list in the order of its choice,
challenging those whom it has good
reasons tor rejecting. The secretary
of the debating board of tho entertain
ing university then invites the two
names at the top' of the list of twelve
and one name from tne top of the
list of six.
The selection of the remaining six
members of the debating squad will be
chosen in about a week. If the plans
of Professor 'ogg are carried out' tho
two teams will be chosen about the
last of October.
t The squad chosen last spring uas as
yet had no meting this fall., It is likely
that the first meeting will be called
for next Monday.
. Dr. 8now Dies.
Dr. Francis H; Snow, iormer chan
celdr of the University of Kansas,
died of neart failure at Delaflefd, Wis
consin on Sunday, September 20, 1908;
Dr. Snow had been connected with, the
University of Kansas "tor forty years,
and from 1890 to 1901 was the head of
that Institution. As a scientist, ho
was known L.e world over; his Inves
tigations in scientific matters being
especially valuable to the .farmers of
the west. It was he who discovered
a method of Innoculatlntf chinch bugs
with a disease which greatly lessened
the ravages of that great destroyer of
farm cereals. Kansan.
TAFT-8HERMAN CIAJB TONIGHT.
Special 8peiker For Meeting In Uni
versity Temple.
Tho Tnft-Shorman club of tho uni
versity will hold a meeting In Music
hall at tho Tomplo tonight, boglnnlng
promptly at 8 o'clock. T. F. A. Wil
liams, Martin Dlnory, and E. P. Brown
will speak. TIiobo men are university
alumni. Thoy aro fluent spoakers and
are said to bo ublo to entertain and
instruct democrats as well as repub
licans along political lines.
NEBRA8KA CAPTAItf.
James Harvey Right End.
NOTE8 OF FORMER 8TUDENT8.
Items of Interest From American His
tory Department.
Roy G. Cochran, A. M 1908, is
teaching American history In tho Kear
ney high school.
J. G. M. Lewis, who has been a
teacher of American history at tho
Grand Island college for four years
Is ono of tho now fellows In the de
partment of American history. Mr.
Lewis will work for a Ph. D.
W. L. Schupert, WlBcon, 1908, will bo
a fellow In American history at this In
stitution while ho works on his A. M.
"degree.
A. J. Ludden, 1905, who has been
teaching at Fremont and Wahoo since
graduation, has returned to the univer
sity to work for an A. M. in American
history. He will act as a follow while
here.
Miss Amy Maylind, South Dakota.
Stato College, 1908, has received .an
honorary scholarship in tho depart
ment of American history. She will
work for an A. M.
Botany Notes.
Some of the advanced students of
tne department of botany are organiz
ing a party to go to the Omaha region
on the third of October. The purpose
of this trip will be to collect plants for
the university herbarium, and to make
some vegetational studies, along the
Missouri river bluffs and the Cut-off
lakes.
The class In Botany l, in two sec
tions, now has a total of 244 enrolled,
which makes it the record class In that
subject for this time of the year. At
the Friday morning recitation of one
division 200, people attempted to crowd
into a room which would hold only
150.
Miss Ingram, is engaged in arrang
ing and cataloging the botanical li
brary, so as to make it more available
for the use of students. A
A new and strange lichen resembling
matted brown hair has been received
by tho department from Oregon. Dr.
Walker is spending considerable time
trying to identify it but has been
unsuccessful up to tho present. The
lichen grows on the pine trees of the
Pacific slope ,1s no parasite, but takes
Its nourishment entirely from the air.
NORMALS COME TODAY
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8TIFF SIGNAL PRACTICE HELD
YE8TERDAY AFTERNOON.
PERU LOOKS EASY TO NEBRASKA
Bentley Returns and May Play To
dayMen Are In Good Shape
, and Anxious to Make
Fine Showing.
Tho probable line-up:
Nebraska peru,
Ilarvoy (Capt.)...r. o .....Holms
Chaloupka r. t Lincoln
Hnrto..., h g zino
Collins c Swonson
L'wlnK 1. g McReynolds
Frun 1. t Golwlck
Kroger, Johnson.. 1. o Medley
Hathbone, Bentley. q Ronfro
Kroger, Arnold . . r. h. .Jh Modloy
HoHzer 1. h.f7 Stowart
BIrkner f ....Ray
For tho last tlmo until Just heforo
the gamo this aftornoon, Coqch Colo
lined up his pupIlB for a vigorous sig
nal practice last ovonlng. All tho
men wero In tip-top shape and not
withstanding tho earlinesB of tho sea
son tho 'Varsity lBoxpected to put up
u clauBy exhibition of tho gamo to
day. Captain Harvey has recovered en
tirely from tho slight turn which ho
envo his knee early In the weok and
he la now as fit as ever and ready tr
set an example today which will bo k
to,Qdqno. to. follow-all -season,-
Before lining up tho squads for Blg
nal piactico tho coach had all tho
men got together and, lining up two
U amp. opposing each other., h gavo
them a half hour lecture on tho fine
points of play; both offensive and de
fensive, illustrating hhj remarks by
actual performance of Oils theories.
He showed the lino men Innumerable
tricks by means of which they could
bowl over, gob through, under or
around their, opponents, and how thoy -
could prevont their opponents from
bowling them over, or getting through,
under or around them. Tho coach
gavo tho line melr particular instruc
tion in tho methods of breaking un
and BtopplngpTayflpnd it is safe to
predict that, Jf they remember a half
of what he told thorn. Pa win "hava
a hard tlmo ta make her distance to--
day.
Instructions for Backs.
The backs were given final lnstruo
tlontf In defensive work, especially as'
to tho method of play against the use
of the forward pass, after which the
squad was put through a half hour of
sllff Blgnal practice. Several men. In
cluding Beltzer, BIrkner, Captain
Harvoy, Chaloupka and Frum, wero
Bet to practicing kicking off. Of these
BIrkner and Harvey seemed to do tho
better work, getting greater height
and distance than any of tho others.
It is" probable that this department
will bo taken care of by these two
men for today at least. '
Neither Collins nor Johnson was
out at practice last evening and El
liott, of last year's freshman team,
toofccarotof thecenter position, whilo
Kroger appeared at left end with Ar
nold at right half.
Both Elliott .'and Arnold will prob
ably 'be given a chance in todya,'a
game and they will be closely watched
by a great many enthusiasts who are
anxious to 'know how the "new men '
will conduct themselves In fast com
j.any. All of the "faithful ones" know
what to expect from the seasoned
men, but they do not know what the
team would be if some of the old
timers were laid out Consequently ,
Ihey are anxious that the scrubs
should make good and they pin their
hopes upon them. ,
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