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UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1909.
Price 5 Cent.
centennial of two great
Men celebrated today.
PROGRAMS IN HONOR Of BOTH
UNIVERSITY WILL FITTINGLY
CELEBRATE ANNIVERSARY.
Exercises Commemorating Lincoln
To Be Held in 8t. Paul's Church
With Darwin Memorial in
Nebraska1 Hall.
Today marks the one hundredth
aniversary of the birth of Abraham
Lincoln and Charles Darwin, the one
America's great patriot and martyr,
the other a pioneer Investigator of
naturo and Bclonce. The works of
both men will bo fittingly commem
orated toy the university with pro
grams this evening.
The centennial of the birth of Ab
raham Lincoln will bo marked with
a series of addresses at St Paul's
church in which the city and uni
versity will unite. Judge Leo Estelle
of Omaha will be the principal
speaker. Professor Caldwell, State
Senator B. P. Brown and Governor
Shallenbergor will also have places
on the program.
The Darwin centennial will be of
ficially celebrated by the Botanical
Seminar In Nebraska Hall 110. A
series of talks on the life and works
of the great English scientist will be
given by university men.
Lincoln Anniversary. ,
Never before in the history of the
nation has. the anniversary of the
birth of Lincoln been so celebrated as
this year. The centennial Is bolng
made the occasion of innumerable re
views, discussions, and eulogies of
the martyred president's Hfo and
deeds extending over the entire coun
try. Everywhere Lincoln and the
principles lor which ho stood are be
ing made the subject of writers and
speakers. Sentiments strikingly fine
in their appreciation of the man and
his work have been offered and will
continue to be offered until the day
Is over.
Especially are the universities of
the country offering homage to u
man whom they all recognize to be
one of the greatest of all Americans.
Throughout, the nation the disciples
of higher education are showering
praise and commendation upon the
man who himself never know the
touch of college training. Lincoln
was not a college man, and yet in
his success in .remaining steadfast-. to
principle, university men everywhere
recognize those qualities which it is
the highest duty of the college to
inspire. It is on this account that
the life of Lincoln is today being hold
beforo thousands of American col
lege students with phrases, of eulogy
and praise.
Darwin Great Scientist.
While in America the Lincoln cen
tennial is far overshadowing that of
Darwin, the opposite is the case in
other nations. In England and on the
Continent the anniversary of the
birth of the groat English scientist
is being given a remembrance juat
as great in degree as that which
moots the Lincoln anniversary in the
United States.
Darwin, born on the eaiho day as
Lincoln, "achieved his gres,t triumph
before Lincoln reached his supremo
pqwer.f In' February of 1859 his work
on the -''Origin of Species" was made
public,' this month thus bommetnorat
ing. the fiftieth anniversary of the
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Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this
continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the prop
osition that all men are crdated free and oqunl. Now we are engaged
In a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so con
ceived and so dedicated, can long endure. Wo are met on a groat
battlefield of that war. We have come to dedlcato a portion of that
field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that
that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and- proper that we
should do this. But in a larger sense wo' can not dedicate, we can not
consecrate, we can not hallow, this ground. The brave men, living and
dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our power to
add. or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what wo
say here, but it can never forget what they did hero. . It is for us, the
living, rathqr to be dedicated here to the unfinished work "which they
who fought ;hero have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us
to be hero dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from
these honored dead we take increased devotion to that 'cause for which
they gave the' laBt full measure of devotion; that we here highly resolve
that these dead shall .not have died in vain, that this nation, under God,
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publication jot his greatest work as
well as his own birth. -By the dis-
coveries and theories of Darwin the
theory of evolution as maintained by
present-day scientists was establish
ed. This, however, was not his only
work His investigations in all lines
of natural science yielded fruitful, re
turns. Tho Botanical Sonjinary, which, has
taken charge o the Darwin celebra
tion In the university, has invited
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members of other allied departments
to ,be present at the -program tonight.
The program is Itself arranged to
represent . all departments with
which Darwin wbb connected. It fol
lows in detail:
Pro-Darwinian EvolutionMr. Pool.
Darwin as a ZoologistProf. Ward.
Darwin and "thet Geological ''Record
Prof, Barbour. , .
Darwin's Contributions to Botany
Prof, Bessey. (
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LINCOLN AND DARWIN I "&3 STRIKES AGAIN
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TAKES 8ECOND GAME FROM
CORNHU8KER8 26 TO IB.
TWO CONTE8T8 BETWEEN AMES
AND DRAKE MAY 8ETTLE IT. "
Nebraska Five Has Played Its
8chedule of Eight Games and
Will Have Title If Iowa Ag-
glea Win Once,
Tho basket-ball flvo of Drako col
logo took tho second gamo from thf
Nebraska, baakot-ball tosuers ut Doa
Moines yoBtcrday by a scoro of 26
to 1G and provonted tho pupils of
Dr. Clapp from clinching tho title
to tho championship .of tho northern
Kection of tho Missouri valloy league.
Tho Des MoInoB school at tho same
Urr.r that It took tho cornhuskors Into
camp put itself in tho 'way of possi
bly getting tho northern honors.
Ah tho teams now stand in this
dlvluion of tho conforonco Amos is
out of tho raco, whllo Drako and No-
bnska each has a chance of winning
( Ut AmCB llflS lllnvnrl nlv frnmnn -
which number if has won two and
i-.rt four, bolng a non-factor in got
ting Uio title for itself but an im
portant factor in deciding the ques-
tion Jclweon the other two schools.
Played All Its Games.
Nebraska has played Its olhr
schodulod games and has a record
of flvo won and three lost. Drako
has played six of Its games, and has
lost throe and won throo et thm
It still has two games to play with
Amos, ono of thoso being schoduled
for Dos Moines and tho other, for
Amos. If it loses olthnr nf K
games it Will be OUt Of tho rar.n and
Nobruska will tako possession of tho
northqrn "championship title. '' . 4
, Tho gamo 'yesterday was .marked
by poor team work on tho part of
the corntiuskors. Captain ' Walsh
Played tho poorest gamo of thd "soi
son, tossing but tbred field oaiH.
Ho also mado three foul goals.
Wood and Ingorsoll did the star
work for Nebraska. The latter n
stationed at guard In place of Perry.
wooa phowod up well in the team,
work and tossed two field goals
Perry was. substituted? for'Pdtrar
shok at center during tho last -few
minutes of tho second half. Schmidt
took tho place of Wood 'In the final
ifew minutes of. the last session. '
Tho small floor was ajraln a hi
handicap to, tho cornhuskors. Then'
team, work, though, was bettor than
on the previous evening, and with.
'fair 'success in . tossing goals., th'ey
woma have won thj contest.
wuior, piaymg at confer, was aeain
the star for Drake tossing five field
goals. Taylor and Cave also showed
up well for tho Tjes Moines team.?'
, ' Won Only One Game. .'"'v
The Nebraska team left Dm
Moines last plght and will arrive. In
Darwin's ContrlbuUons to wki ZZZZL T. 1 . arre'In
nutk, .. -uiwm luig moraine over the Bur.
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Or bartv left Tvfnn1n a -vreuxU o ..-
Several athletes at the Leland terdav nn a rin w i-... .
Stanford university hye given a slU Karnes. t Out f , -
ver box valued at $100 to Dr. Angell, only one game, that yn, Z'
Qhalrman of the faculty committee,pn Amos. Tuesday afternoon Mlnnewta
w.v- w.wuUtt ww wor won two games. Two ame werr
tost to each Minnesota and Drak$.
ine next contests wHI be played iar
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and served not witk Mtetow brown I L1ncola neit week on Friday4 aid
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