,r j. .,n-.-. V .' ' ' ."I v "T -, ,v,"topjt;wi .- ...,-.,. . . . V k.v r ,.-. J ... ..1 W ( "V , ?4pjA5:4oii.ir. i y j; ya 5jftT , ., t-.,tjr . rt i'r)'tfc IflPllilfillBlsfrlit nr-mti-iMtrini'MMrri'iiri-i- 'rr - -r--rii i i i '-ir iV - h ' i.'i ' ' V " '' ' ", "'", V '"r., , , .,. ., ...Jj t ' ' BVol. VIII. No. 115. UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 1909. Prioe 5 Cent. '' litwiiiiMttlii - 1.' it.-. : ' 1 ube 1Datl IRebtaefean TO UNIVERSITY OMAHA PHY8ICIAN8 MAKE GEN EROUS OFFER. TO PUT UP AT LEAST $50,000 MONEY TO BE USED FOR ORTHO- PEDIC HOBPITAL. h,. . . Valuable Adjunct to Medical College Depends on Legislative Appro priation to Purchase Build Ing 8ite in Omaha. ' That certain Omaha physicians are ready to finance- the erection In Om . aha of an orthopedic hospital to bo come an adjunct of the University of Nebraska medical collego was tho an nouncement made yesterday by Sen ator Ransom of tho state legislature. Tho gift will amount to at least $50, .000 and It will bo mado available Whenever tho state shall devoto $15, 000 to the purchase of a suitable site for the Institution. ' The announcement of tho gift was vniade by the Omaha senator In tho bourse of a hearing of the senate .'committee on appropriations. Sen jator Ransom startled the members ikf the committee with his declaration 'hat an appropriation of $15,000 would fsocure a donation of at least .$50,000 to the university. The donors of the gift are Omaha men, presumably phy sicians, and their names are unknown. Tho provisions of tho bequest are that the stato furnish $15,000 towards a suitable site and that the physicians will then furnish the additional money necessary for tho purchase of tho ground and for tho erection of a mod ern orthopedic hospital, complete in every way. Will Be Valuable. ' The senate committee was naturally attracted by the Omaha proposition. - The need""of"anortliopedlc"hospltal In Omaha has been folt for somo time and the chance to secure a thoroughly up-to-dato -Institution is recognized as being a valuable opportunity. At present tho state orthopedic hospital Is located in Lincoln and is not ac cesible either to medical students of the university nor to the cases so fre quently discovered among tho poor of the metropolis. In caso the provisions of the donors should bo- mot by tho state and tho new hospital should be built, Omaha and Nebraska will have a thoroughly modern placo for tho treatment of deformities of all natures and par ticularly of tho llmbg, Especially vlll there be facilities for the treatment of deformities inherent "In tho child since birth.' Aside from this humanitarian' value tho hospital will bo a most valuable adjunct to tho clinical facilities of tho university medical - school. Tlio last two years of the medical course aro now. taken by the students' in Omaha In order that they may fiavo tho ad vantage of the hospitals of the city, and thq, additional facilities would bo Indeed appreciated. Tho standing of Nebraska among tho medical schools b"f the country, which Is already high, could nPt but bo increased consider f ably but such an addition, Donation a Surprise, t The announcement of tho donation wtttia compleo surprIsof to all saver a fow on tho inside. Senator Ransom t .-made his statement in tho course of a hearing' rolatlvo to certain appro priations for state institutions, Ho de clares, ithat tho proposition Is abso lutely sound and that the Omaha men, are prepared to back up1 their agree ment "with nil tho coin 'necessary ,to fin given tlio atatc the right kind of an institution. The story of the donation spread rapidly about tho city and was respon sible for a number of exaggerated and unfounded rumors. Ono story had a fund of several hundred 'thousand dol lars given to the state Institution for tho purpose of making- general im provements in tho way of new build ings on tho city campus and a further enlargement of tho curriculum. Ono of the less sensational, but still coh- Bldornbly enlarged Btorles, found Us way Into tho columns of nn afternoon sheet nnd theroby gained considerable credence among city reader This story related that $100,000 was to bo given Instead of $50,000, and In other ways made a story that was worthy of a scarohead. TO DANCE EIGHT-HAND REEL Scottish Sword Dance at the Gym Exhibition Tonight. The Irish folk dance, or eight handed reel, which Is to be put on by the girls under ' tho direction of Miss Towno. is expected to prove one of the best features of the gymnasium oxhlhltlon to be held in tho Artinory tonight. It is nn Irish peasant dance which, to quote, a trite expression, "Is as old as 4hc hills" in tho land of the shamrock.' In that country it 1b cus tomary, on a Sunday afternoon, for the young folks to meet, about threo o'clock, nt tho cross-roads and danco away the hours till sunset. This i-s ono of the favorite dances on these occasions and was taught to Miss Towno Avhlle visiting at Klllarney last summer. Klllarney is famous throughout Ireland for Its dancing, and as tho "elght-lumd reel" was con sidered tho best dance for the lads and lassies across tho water, It ought to prPve Interesting nt least to the students of Nebraska. Another dance, which will be put on by Miss Hattio Rollings, is tho Scot tish sword dance. This is a dance, of historic times in Scotland and is "per formed over crossed swords. It takes the nicest of stepping to prevent touching the swords. The Unlvers!ftyBniid will Yufrnlsh music for the oxhlhltlon. In the contest for tho uhivorsity parallel bar championship, D. Mitchell poems to bo in tho best form for first place, while that of second will bo closely contested by Sneedy, Tnb.-sca, Frum, Hammond and Morehouse. Other Interesting stunts will be tho class work, on pieces of apparatus, of which there will bo seven different pieces going at tho sumo time, and .will include practically all 'kinds of heavy work. Tho class in boxing will givo a series of bouts, together .with an exhibition at tno cioso by the trojners, Jack Best and I. P. Hewitt. LITERATI PLAY BA8KET-BALL Palladians arid Unions Are to Meet on Armory Floor. A basket-ball game botweon the Pnlladlan and Union Literary socie ties' will bo played In the University Armory, Saturday night. This ..is the first game of the kind played at Ne braska for several years and marks the renewed activity of these socle- .tlcB in university affairs. In f former years tnis corneal was an annual ai fair and. used to be .considered quite an ovet. Of, late tho, literary so cieties have confined thomselves . to purely literary and,soclal affairs and thlB-1 return to athletic contests is re ceived by the members yrith consid erable' Interest. " 7'' ' ' Both societies tyjll hold thoif regu lar meetings, on Friday evening and, after Saturday's contest tho Palls dians wljl njeo.t 'in their hall for tne election of officers and other special "stunts." ' In order to meet expenses for "the gdmoa charge of fifteen cents will be nia'd'o ' at, tho door; The con- I test Is open to tho, public. ; START WITH VICTORY CORNHUBKER8 TRIM WE8LEYAN BY 3 TO 1 8CORE. "KING" COtf ACCEPTS POSITION Coach of Nebraska Football Team for Two Years Will Return to Take Charge of 8quad Next Fall. Coach "Billy" Fox b bunch of corn husker baseball artists put ono on tho Wosleyan twlrlers at University Plnco yesterday In tho opening game of tho season by taking the long end of a 3 to 1 scoro in a seven inning contest. Tho variety or ball put up by the cornhnskers was a Burpr,iso to them selves as well as to tho handful of their supporters who witnessed tho initial meeting with the Methodists. It was rathor classy and gives prom ise of the production of a strong nlno for tho Scarlet and Cream. Pitcher Fnrthing, who occupied tho lab for the Methodists, had all kinds of signs hung pn the Fox trlbo and, but for a neat little single in tho sec ond round when tho cornhuskors had two mon on bases, he might have kept the scoring even. As it wore ho hurled the ball with a speed and n curve that enabled him to strike out thirteen of the Nebraska players. Tries Two Pitchers. Coach Fox allowed Mathers and Olmstead to do the twirling for his pupils. Tho former did well until the last of tho fifth inning when ho gavo signs of weakening and allowed two singles. In the sixth 'Olmstead took the slub and permitted none to bingle out a safe drive He exhibited a slight wlldness that will have to -be conquered beforo he can become the real goods in tho box. "Pip" Cooke, whom the wnga at tho staid old Institution liked to connect with "peek-a-boo" plays, proved IiIb worth. Ho hold down tho center gard ner and in his only chance, which was a difficult ono, mndo more than good, running a long distance nnd putting tho safoty mlt on thro ball with tho art of a veteran. Tho cornhuskors lined up as fol lows: Catcher, Carrol; pitchor, Math ers and Olmstead; first, Sturtzeneg gor; second, Grcensllt; short, Mot cairo; third, Beltzor;,loft fleldMatt son; center, Cooke; right 'flold, Clark. Scoro by Innings: ' Nebraska 0, 2 0 0 0 0..1, .3 Wosleyan .,.:.....; .0 10 0 00 .01 Cole to Come, Back. "King" Cole will conch tho corn huslcor football team next fall. Ho wired h)s acceptance from Ann Arbor, Mich., Wednesday evoning. Colo was an applicant for tho athletic director ship at Michigan to succeed Charles Balrd, resigned, but tho position was given to another man by tho Wolver ine board of regents' at a meeting held in Ann Arbor on Wednesday. "King" hold off on replying vto tho offer of tho Nebraska board, until h6;wns certain that he would not bo given tho Michi gan job. ' . l Next season will bo "king" Colo's third nt Nebraska. 'During tho niat two years ho has put out two excel lent football machines. Ho took hold of the Nebraska gridiron In tho fall of 1907, aftor a preceding year of woeful work by tjie cornhuskors, find produced an eleven that won tho; champlohshlp of tho .Missouri yalley, defeating 'both Ames and Kansas, and holding tho strqrig gopher eleven to a score of 8 to 0, the points p'f thq Minnesota men being mado on two goals frpm field kicked by the mighty too of ono Ooorgo Capron, who 1b now in the professional baseball ranks. Molded Good Eleven. Lnst fall Colo molded another lirll limit bunch of gridiron warriors that lost tho Missouri valley titlo by bow ing in defeat to tho Jayhawkors from Lnwronco, Kan. Minnesota last fall was tied, and Ames nnd Iowa wor'o benton. "King" Colo romnlnB with tho corn huskors nt tho samo salary that was paid him last fall, namely $1,800. His .selection by the nthletJlc ' hoard Js popular with tho students at tho state school, for thoy bollovo that tho pret ty coach is tho goods bo far as pro ducing a winning aggregation of foot ball nion is concomed. Ho will bo welcomed bnck to Nebraska next fall, and will havo tho spirit of tho ontiro studont body backing him in the great endeavor to put out a team that will win games from Minnosotn Kansas and Ames. To Defoat Kansas. Conch Colo's big aim noxt fall will bo to dovelop a team that will clean tho slato with tho Jayhawkors. Tho defeat at tho hands of that bunch last fall was a great surpriso, coming nfter both AmoB and Iowa had boon dofeatcd and Minnesota had boon tlod. "King" believes ho hnB tho material horo at Nebraska io boat tho Jayhawk ors and will point his machlno for winning tho game with that eleven for November 0. An advantage tho cornhuskors will havo again this com ing season will bo In playing on their homo grounds. ' Tho gamo, according to a two-yoar contract with KanBns, Bhould havo gone to Lawrence next fall as the gamo last season was played in Lincoln. The Jayhawkor manngoiuont has two or three big homo games for noxt fall, though, and requested that tho Nebraska gamo bo played in this city. TRACK WORK TO COMMENCE Preliminaries Are to Be Held on the First of May. There Ib to be a meeting of nil can didates and persons interested in track work noxt Tuesday at 11:30 in MonibrlqT hall. Short- tnikswlll bo given by Dnlo. McDonald, captain of the team"; Dr. Clapp, and others, in which the inch will bo glvon nn idea of the pluns for tho coming season and what Is cxpoctcd of them intho lino of work: On tho following day, March 31, regular work will begin. While the long distance men havo been stretch ing themBolveB on long runs nsl tho weather would permit, yet nothing In the line of strict, training has been done as yet. On Wednesday, howover, tho regular grind will begin for al) tho aspirants for track honors, nnd, with few exceptions, will bo con tinued throughout the season The preliminaries aro to bo held On the first of May, after which Nebras ka meets Mornlngside at Sioux City on tho eighth. Tho second meet will bo, with Minnesota at Minneapolis on. the ,15th, and the following week Wo meot Kansas in .Lincoln. Tho 29th will bo sot (iBldo as a dny of rest to got In tHm for tho Missouri Valley mee,t as Des Moines on the fifth or June. ( This Is 'a hard schedule, lii fact, harder than any tho4 tenm has had In recont' years. The freshmen are oxpocted to turn put at .tho meeting Tuesday, as two nieets w.lll be held during the season for. their benoflt. Bosldes this, thoy are eligible, for the preliminaries and the Ivy Day contest, In the practice courts, of the col lego 6t law the following cases will como up for argument Saturday morn ing, March 27: Supreme CourtCarl burg'Y. Fetchor, oh motion tp Juris diction of the court. District Court X.nlnger v, Bates, on motion to make for definite and certain; McDougal v. Foster, pn. motion for new trlaj. PLAN UNIQUE TEED JOINT BANQUET OF Y. Mi Y. W, ASSOCIATIONS. AND FIRST Of SORT EVER GIVEN TO BE SATURDAY EVENING 'IN ST. PAUL'S CHURCH. Girls and Boys Will Unite in Enjoying Feast, Followed by a ,8trorig;. Toast List and Much Good Cheer. Saturday ovonlng at 6:30 tho Y. M. and the Y. W. O. A. will give thq first Joint banqtiot over hold by those asso ciations In this university. Both girls and boys will participate In disposing of the menu and tho toast list follow ing -will roproBont both associations. Tho Joint hnnqiiot ldoa Is new Uit Nebraska nnd hns boon tried nt very few colleges ho far. It is a. combina tion or tho two organizations In h hi'ntinor not yet nttomptcd nnd Is a plan which will undoubtedly gain fa vor from tho very novelty of its In ception. For mnny yssara past ,tho "foods" of tho Y. M. C. A. havo boon memorable events but tho girls havo liad nothing to compare with thorn. This year it wns decided that, In koop- . Ing with the general plan of combin ing tho work of tho two soclotlos wherovor possible, It would bo well tp Invito tho girls into ono of tho ban quots. Better Than Usual. Tho ldoa haying gained fayor with both boys and girls, details' wor'o plnnned. It was deomod necessary to havo' a more elaborate spread $than heretofore If tho ovent was4 to bb$Vhat It should. To that ond arrangements hnvo been mado with the, St. pXuTs Ladles' society for nn excellent ritanti, rated in tho 50-cent clnss. Tho ladies will proparo and sorvo the, Buppor,' nnd-itr-Is-announced-thafc"thoyintend to spare no offort to mako the first of tho series of events a complotojsuc cess.. ? Following , tlio banquet proper there will bo a toast list of exceptional ex cellence. The toasts will bo brief,' and to tho point and all -of the guests will bo represented. Two of-the. list will be given by , members of tho Y. M. C. A. and two by- girls enrolled In tlTo Y. W. C. A. A fifth will lip by an alumnus of tho university and! tho last will bo by a member of tho, faculty. . ,. Come as Like. ;' ' ' The committee In charge of the event wjsh it distinctly understood that there nedd bo no hesitancy on tho part of olther girls' or fellows In coming unaccompan'-ed. It is expect ed that there will hq-a large majority of girls unaccompanied, although pair ing off win bo nllowed. Similarly It Is thought quite likely that a number of tho masculine element will , como In droves. Tho thing that the asso ciations, desire most of all is to see n. good sized typical crowd present. In order that the hew departure may; bo glvon an auspicious start and that tho way may be laid for further entertain ments of like character. The supper -wilUbe served promptly at 0:30 in the parlors oV. St. Paul's church at Twelfth and M streets. Tickets may be secured at tho Y. M. or Y. "W. rooms for fifty cents per, INTER-CL'ASS DEBATE NOTICE. Tlfo Inter-claBs dohatlng committees will meet in TJ IOC this afternoon at 1 o'clock, Important business will bo discussed. ' ' the 'best 'oyster utew li ;tM Wtjr Is thai served at "The Bostea Lua'afc. , Try 'It . '.' ..-- ' -i fl il ." "o