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PO ,'? I" J tfA J,W r f v v vsAHaAaavt v .hag suit ft Hri-& w n. 'J 5 Vol) Vm. No. 111. UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1909. Price 5 Cent fOR SUMMER SESSION I c&c&c83ic&c& CROWD HEARD MERCER II IVX' - tw cv ?'?l'?:f!fSW'-",1y"',;'V'L yjv? ' "-Hfy lrmri Mrs-jy-jr ,-, g) V OUT8IDE TALENT ENGAGED FOR i ! 8PECIAL WORK. v i ; MANUEL TRAINING DEPARTMENT NEW COUR8E8 INTRODUCED FOR BOY8 OF STATE. Practical Shop Work and Elementary Agriculture To Be Given a Place In Summer School Curriculum. . The Special Excursions. Professor Grumann, director of tho summer session of tho university, is completing his plans for the 1909 ses sion. 'The school will this yoar ho extended more than ever and several new featuros will bo offered. Among tho Innovations will be a manual training school and elemen tary, Agrlculturo courses for boys of 14 years and up. These courses aro especially designed to give employ ment to boys of the stato who would othci'Wlso be kept In Idleness by tho provisions of the state child labor law which does not allow them to work. Tho shops at the state farm will bo used for the manual training work and a course In stock judging will make up tho agricultural instruction. Outside Talent. Among the outside talent which will be at the summer session ' is Pro fessor Fetor Sandiford of tho teachers' college of Columbia university, Now York City. Professor Sandiford will have charge of tho Temple high school. Ho is an Englishman who has had much experience and he Js an ex port In critic work. Professor Phllo Meivln Buck, head of the EngllBh department of tho Mc Klnloy high school, St. Louis, Mo., will havo charge of tho rhetoric cours es of tho summer school. In addition to two elementary courses ho will offer a seminary for teachers in which such subjects as -debate, tho super vision of school publications and liter ary societies will bo discussed. Professor Hutton Webster will havo two courses In archaeology -with addi tional lectures. A. 8. Harding of the Brookings normal school of South Dakota will assist Professor Caldwell In the Amer ican history department Mr.' Harding is an old Nebraska man and 1b emin ently qualified for his work. In' tho rural school section Superin tendent Mills of Ravenna will offer a course in physiology. Superintendent' Gambia of Plattsmouth will ' have chargo of tho work In book-keeping and Superintendent Watson of, Valentino will '.offer a course in Eng lish grammar Seven 'county superintendents of tho stato will conduct round tablo dis cussions at which various professional topics will be considered. r Educational Excursions. There will this year bo five educa tional excursions. One of these will bo to Omaha to Inspect the llyo stock plants there. Another party will visit the- Lincoln creameries pi get t.; ac-. qualnted with the creamery Industry of the state. A third 'excursion will visit the -'Platte rlvor valley at some 'place in its course across ;tho. state , in search of. geological and r othVr" lntbr- 1 raatlbn. ' Still 'another excursion will1 bq made" to tho state farm for agri cultural inspection, and tho last 'of tho series will be a .trip to the Have Iqck shops." - Following is. a complete list of, tho courses to be offered: ' Agriculture, Anajtomy, BotanyElo ipontaiy sad advanced, "EVENTS OF Chemltsry General and analytical. Education Child study, adoloBcenco, graduate seminary In educational or ganization and administration, prin ciples, and technique of instruction; normal training, nature, study, read ing. English Languogo and Literature Teachers' course Shakespeare, profes sional certificate course, lectures on comparative literature, English gram mar. French Elementary and Bocond year work. Geology and Geography Elemen tary geology, Industrial geography, physical geography, conference course In geography. German Elementary German, sec ond year German, tho modern novel and drama. American History Colonial period, history of American political parties, seQp8Slon Civil Awar and reconstruction.- ' Latin Elementary Latin, Caesar, yirgll,-. Bqman history Roman archae ology. Manual Training Course for teach ers and college students. Open to men and women. Mathematics Algebra, - trigonome try, calendar course 2, 3, or 4. Physical Education for Women; Physics Teachers course, physical measurements. Political Science and Sociology The ages before history. The child hood of man. Psychology General psychology, ed ucational 'psychology, special studies In advanced psychology. ' f Rhetoric Tho teaching of rhetoric and English composition, olemehtary rhetoric. ' Seminary class in compo sition for teachers' of English. Zoology General zoology. ' ; ' HONE8TY. ' Does it pay to misrepresent in business?-' -Some people think- it does. That's why they say "they sell you a "f 6.00 pen for $2.50,'' etc. We do not think It, pays. So, we tell 'you to buy a .$2.60 Swan for 92.60 at the Co-op. Your car tare wouM pay for aloe lunch at The Bostoa' LaBcfc. Why go home?, , ' r pj III "? J J i X WA V- - 111 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 JTrtS bLftCK Eye . Tv1 3lootNl DlMCiOP NAT VALir V I -A-V: THE WEEK AS SEEN BY THE CARTOONIST" ISVAL fIRST ANNUAL TONIGHT ATHLETE8 OF WILL MEET FOUR CLA88E8 IN ARMORY. INFORMAL HOP TO FOLLOW IT Last Dance of Its Kind Scheduled for This Year Will Be Free to - ' All. Who- Attend Contest. the The first annual lnter-class athletic meet will be held in the university armory this evening at ,7:80 o'clock With fifty or sixty athletes taking part The final list of entries was 'sent to the printer last evening by Dr. Clapp. Several Interesting contests aro ex pooled to result in several of tho games. One that will be watched' closely will bo the twonty-fivo yard dash In which Wildnlan Is the cham pion) t sprinter of the varsity track team. , He, was not in the race on charter day" and a comparison of his speed with that of Swanson's was not possible. Wlldman will represent the junlqrs tomorrow. , , , '',-' ' " ,- - High Jump Event. Graham, tho freshman athlete from Doane college, will bo entered In the pole-vault! and high jump and will un doubtedly take first place In the form er event Against Graham In the high jump EfummGl will be, pitted and will probably win ..the "first honors. Hamel will Jump for, the seniors in this event After the meet an informal danco will b'e held In the Memorial hall, to which 'all who attend the meet .will be admitted free, r TJhis will bo the last informal hop of the year and probably will bo attended by a large crowd.. Arrangements have -been made to have the dance started at 10 o'clock whether the games are over by that time or not ' The athletic board at Missouri uni versity has voted to retain the train ing table and it now looks as though SSW.'. go go 9S go go go go go go go tSrUj--. & a tho Missouri valley conforonce will havo to keep the special feeding quar ters provision intact Tho Kansan, tho official paper of the University of Kansas, takes tho following optimistic view of the altuatlon: Missouri Favors It. "The athletic commltte'o of Missouri university decided last Friday 'that Missouri should cast hor vote in tho Missouri valley conference for tho re tention of tho training tablo. At tho last conference meeting in JanuaryJDr.. Hqthorlngton, tho tlgef representative, voted to abolish the tablo.. 'The change In attitude was brought about by student sentiment and tho solid Btand of 'M' men for special training. "At tho January conference meeting it, was decided to abolish.' tho table if in a period of sixty ""days ono-thlrdof tho conference schools did jnot. protest the action. Kansas and Nebraska'at once protested and it was hoped that Ames, would change her vote. Pew considered that there was any chanco that .Missouri would stand right about faco and stand with Kansas and Ne braska. i , . - "Tho action of Missouri .'insures training tables in the conference next year, Iowa is against the idea be-' ca'uso the Chicago conference rules debar, the table from the Hawkey school; Washington, Drake and Amos plead that they cannot afford to main tain special training quarters for foot bailsmen." THE. BLACK j. MA8QUE8 ELECT Prominent Girls From Junior Class Chosen to t Honorary Seelety. Last 'evening the names of tho girls of tho junior class who 'have been elected to membership in ' Black Masque were announced by that or ganization, The list contains the names of many prominent sorority girls as well as some who have no sorority affiliations. The list' Is as follows: Leona Baker, Blether Bailey, Zoe Cheaoweth, Mary Cook, Mae Dloa, Hazel Hanna, Mildred Holland, Jean nette Lawrence, Bertha Neal, Caroline .Osborne, Bthel Perkins, Margaret Wheeler, Ina Willlasu. PROMINENT NEW YORKER-A D DRESSES PACKED TEMPLE.' EDUCATED MEN IN THE SLIMS INTERESTING FACTS REGARDING NEW YORK MI88ION8. Nephew of President Arthur Telle How Two to Three Per Cent, V,J Sing Sing Prisoners Are College Graduates. Tho downstairs soatJng capacity of tho Tomplo was taxed to tho utmost last, ovonlng to accommodate the crowd of studonta gathorod to hear E. O. Morcor of Now York, nophpw of Prosldont Arthur, who is horo under tho auspices of tho Y. M. C. A. Tho speakor was introduced by Dr. Condra, who, in a brlof speech, made a plea to tho audlonco for open-minded attontlon. Brlofly roforrlng to Mr. Mer cor'a roxporlcnco on tho "Bowery'' in. many capacities, ho spoko of him as a man who 'had, after reaching. the bottom, mado good. bottom, mado good. Ho pointed .out that this, howover, is not a necossary or. dosirablo requisite in the making good process, but that it gave tho speakor of tho ovonlng tho authority of ono who spoaks from tho experience of a university man and one who has fallen: After a solo by Donald Plumb. Mr. Morcor began to speak and was greet? od by applause With hur opening words he carried his audience J with him, by the tolling of a humorous .story. - . - . . - ..- J. - Mr. Morcor introduced, his, sub ject roforrlng to tho place which, bo said, they all knew oft had hoard of tho Bowry. '.vHe? spoke of the change which has come over It In the last forty or. fifty years through tho rescue mis sions, bbcjarriejhijr.ers.backv 16 Iho beginning of this period, to the' days of the threejeent whiskey, '.'which. would "make a Japk-rabblt spItMh bull-dog's faco,!' j ( Vjp The Macauley Mlsslon.4ta The use of slang expressions was, a. fharaninftaHn rt HC Miial1a1.l vMBiiv.ytluuv ut ,. rnoivoi D. BDeevuf and It gavo a forceful sotting to the Incidents jand, Hfcuof whlch,-:he spokefi "Southeast of tho bowry," he said, "there is what is known as the Cherry Hill section, 'where there was at that tlmq an average of one murder a day." Ho'thenrelatedthe story of two lead; ors in crime of this place; how they would rob yossols, tor this section la'jr on the water front; how a missionary Was robbed of all he had while trying to reform the section, and the crime laid at the door of one1 of the leaders Jerry Macauley. He told how Jerry' went to prison, how his pardner, Al Gardiner, became converted and, com ing to tho prison to speak to the men, converts the skeptical Jerry. Jerry k then converted the men hear him while marching in lock step, and these in turn corvert the others, until the . whole prison had become converted. He went on to tell how this resulted In hymn' singing at. 'night, which' caused the neighbors, to complain to the governor who, coming down to in- v.estigate, is In turn converted to an active Christian and effects the relase of Jerry, who then founded the Macau ley Mission. Throaghoat the relatkW of this incident Mr. Mercer plead for practical, active Christianity, not the p reaching of , platitudes. .' : , Many Collefe Graaluatee., - In speaking of Water Street Mission' Mf. Mercer made r the1 statement .that (Coktinaed on pate 1) - 4 ! l I') Ll i 4 ' J.'tl tf ;a . . f .S s.V j a nt?h :? ' hV.Cjt.jitAyWv.-' ri&li:J&r4iA'&M'i$$&