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UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN. SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 1910.
Price 5 Cents.
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NEBRASKA VICTORIOUS
AT OMAHA CONTEST
8TUPEND0U8 WORK OF TEAM
WITNE88ED BY THRONG
IS
WIN TWO-MILE AND QUARTER
Twenty-one Points Piled up for Corn-
buskers Burke, Anderson, Llnd-
strom, Funkhauser and
Reed Winners.
(Special to the Dally Ncbraakan.)
Twenty.one points were the result
of the wonderful work done by the
Nebraska team at the Omaha Athletic
Contest at Omaha last night. Two
firsts, two seconds, a tie for first and
one third makes up the score piled up
Toi Nebraska against some of the
strongest athletic teams of the middle
west. Anderson took first In the 2
mlle run, Captain Burke took first In
the Invitation quarter, Llndstrom tied
for first In the pole vault, Funkhauser
took second In the shot put, and Reed
took third In the open quarter and
second In the 50-yard dash. Both of
the relay races were lost. One of the
largest crowds ever seen at an athletic
event In the middle west witnessed the
contest.
With tho university cadet band to
support them and about a hundred
members of the track team fought last
night to the last ditch for every point
they made. All around tho course '.ho
cheers of the alumni members of tlio
university and thoBO of tho under-grad-nates
who were In attendance seuiu?-l
to revive tho spirit of tho Nebrasl.a
team and urgo them on to greater ef
fort. Nearly every fraternity in school
yi. , rented i.. ue ::.! in ! t
tastily decorated m their respective
colors. Tho meet was tho occasion of
the reunion of many of tho old aluroi.1
and also many of "tho old athletes who
havo represented tho scariei anu
-4iiT urnnTTi In -the -nasfc-Kathored-togetner-
r . :,. " ;
- m-T s ninniinn in int-?tiL.
Team Leaves.
Tho team which represented tho
university last . evening at this big
.... . i i i.nr. iVin
meet, icit last evening ut i.uu uu mo
Rock Island. Tho team was accom
panied by the cadet band which fur
nished music at intervals during tho
meet and also gave a concert at the
Henshaw Hotel last evening before
tho meet opened. Along with tho team
and tho band a hundred of tho faithful
journeyed to tho metropolis to cheer
tho Cornhuskers on to greater efforts.
Two relay teams wore sent Into tho
meet, one against Drake and the other
against Morningsido" -and Iowa. Two
'-woekB ago at tho Kansas City meet
tho Nebraska men ran away from tho
Drake team and won with ease whllo
on tho previous Friday tho Drako
team defeated tho Cornhuskorso at
Sloux-Clty by a narrow margin.
Tho men on (ho first relay team
-were Captain Burko, Reed, Davis and
McGowan. Tho other relay team waB
.composed of May, Powers, Anderson
and one man from tho other team. In
tho weight events Funkhauser and
Fleming did tho work for tho univer
sity. In tho polo vault Llndstrom was
tho only entry from Nebraska. In the
quarter mllo Nebraska had two strong
mfen. Captain" Burko and Reed. Reed
end Powers wore entered in tho fifty
yard da'en, wbile.Anderson ran the two
' mile and 600 for the varsity.
Graham, Funkhauser and Fleming
Were entered In the high Jump and
Flack and Collier were tho Cornhusk
.er representatives in the hurdle races:
"Thef cadet band was enabled to at
tend the meet through 'the liberality bf
he Omatya "business men who sub-,
Scribed enough money "to pay 'the ex
'penges of the musicians and In this
way 'insured (heir attendance.
BEDNAR A CANDIDATE.
Announces Himself For Position of
Ivy Day Orator.
After being urged by friends for
Bovoral dayB, James E. Bednar gave
out the statement last night that ho
would enter tho race for Ivy Day ora
tor. Mr. Bednar 1b a member of tho Del
ta Chi fraternity also Phi Alpha Tau,
and Delta Sigma Rho, tho honorary
debating fraternities and of tho Union
Literary society. Ho received his A.
B. dbgreo from this university in 1907
and 1b n't present a member of tho
Bonior law class. Ho is also instruc
tor of public speaking hnd debating
at the Lincoln high school-. Ho was
ono of tho teani "which dofcatbd Win
bls in tho Ihter-cOlloglate debate 'last
ybar.
TALK ON VELA8QUE.
Miss Hayden Will Tell of Spanish Ar
tist Today.
At tho meeting of tho Portfolio Club
in the studio this afternoon Mis Hay
den will speak on tho work of Vol-
usque. She -will tell of tho lifo and
work of tho Spanish ' artist and will
show tho club a number of copies
after his work which sho mado whllo
In Spain. Tho meeting will ho called
at 2:30 p. m. Ab the talk is expected
to tako up tho greater part of tho
afternoon no model has been secured
for this meeting of tho club. All tho
members of tho club aro at liberty to
bring their friends.
Y. M. C. A. YEAR BEGIN8.
Committee Chairmen Appointed and
Newly Elected Officers Installed.
Tho business yoar of tho student
Young Men's Christian Association be
gins today and tho nowly elected of
ficers assume charge of tho associa
tion affairs. The following aro the
mon who bogln their terms of ofllco
today: President, Ray B. Rico; vice-
president, Jack Templo; treasurer,
Ralph WeaVerllng; recording secre-
iary, An xiuwor. ituhiuuih xucu iuiq
morning- mado public -tho appoint-
ments for cabinet positions. Tho fol
lowing committeo chairmen, together
with the officers, will make up tho ex
ecutive cabinet:
R. IC Andrews, missionary.
Herbert Ford, rellglouB' meetings.
Harry R. Ball, publications.
Merle V. Arnold, Biblo study. '
Howard W. Plasters, deputation.
A. M. Haro, employment
Harry L. White, rooms.
Enoch W. Nelson, finance.
Will Forbes, membership.
Dandall F. Curtlss, social.
A. S. Carlson, advertising.
B. M. Oherrlngton, new student
work.
Tho cabinet members will roeol;
early next week to choose committee
men and mako out tho poilcieB for tho
work of tho yoar. About a hundred
Btrong mon will bo In demand to fill
committeo places. Tho officers are all
enthusiastic over tho outlook tor a
wider, more 'definite work :taan ihaa
ever been done in tho past.
JUNIOR COMMITTEE.
Those Who Will Be In Charge of the
Music at Tuesday's Convocation.
President Hahno of the Junior class
yesterday announced thb committee
which Wll 'havo charge oTr tHe tb'uBio
at cosVtfca'tlon during April. Last
month the seniors wer6 in ;chaxge asd
next month tho sophomores will fur
nish the entertainment Tko commit
teb Is to furnish a flvemlnuto musloal
number at each Tuesday 'convocation,
'The comnilttee is as follows': . rj
Plasters, chairman; lc. r6steVhaW,
Florence DftVls and Esther Bftttltt
Your car 'fare wou'ld pay 'fok; nice
lunch at the Boston launch. Wfcj o
SOPHOMORE CLASS IS
COMPLETELY ORGANIZED
DIVIDED INTO QROUP8 OF TWEN
TY IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER.
LEADER APPOINTED FOR EACH GROUP
Both Men and Women Have Been Ap
pointed as Captains An Inno
vation In University Class
Organization.
Tho division of tho sophomoro class
Into groups has boon comploted. Ono
of tho provisions contained in tho
constitution adopted by tho sopho
moro class last fall was to tho effect
that tho class was to bo divided into
groups of twenty and a captain ap
pointed for each group. Tho constitu
tional committee believed that In this
way the class could be better organ
ized and that a spirit of harmony
could be promoted among Its mem
bers. William Gladatono McGowan was
put In charge of this work and he has
been busily at work for the past two
woekB. Ho secured a list of tho
sophomores from tho registrar and di
vided tho class Into groups of twen
ty In alphabetical order. When all
tho names had been listed, thero were
twenty-two groups.
Somo groups contained more girls
and somo contained more boys. In or
der to fairly divide tho honors be
tween them, representatives were se
lected from both tho boys and girls
and appointed as leaders. Girls wore
appointed as leaders of thoso groups
which contained a larger number of
girls than boys and boys were appoint
ed as leaders of thoso groups which
contained more boys than girls.
Captains Appointed.
Tho following 1b a list of tho cap
tains that have been appointed:
Carl B. Anderson, T. G. Andrews, R.
A. Brownell, Mildred Bovins, Cecllo E.
Cobb, L. K. Cotterman, C. L. Fisher,
Benjamin F. Frelden, Ruth Hallor,
John F. Jones, TDvelyn Johnson, Hans
W. Kokjer, Grace Lyford, William L.
Lotton, Kathryn Mockett, William H.
Noelting, Walter R. Power, John Sol
leek, Mabel Sullivan, Morton Stein-
hart, Ruth Tlbbets, and L. A. Welch.
In selecting these captains Presi
dent Hawley endeavored to appoint
representative sophomores. ThoBO
who would tako an actlvo Interest in
class affairs.
To Aid In Olympics.
It Is thought that this now system
of organization will aid tho sopho
mores in tho Olympics that aro to bo
held ono week from today. Each lead
er will see that every member of his
or her company turns out and take?
an interest in tho affair. In this way
every member of the class will bo no
tified. This innovation in the way of- class
organization will bo closely observed
by the members of .the. other blafesea
and if it proves successful it may bo
adopted by the other classes. The
sophomores expect that It will aid in
promoting all class functions. It will
aid in tho selling of. tickets for all
dances and be a means of inducing the
member's of the class to attend clatia
soclalB, etc.
Other Sophomore Affairs.
There will bo a sophomore class
meeting Tuesday evening . at' seVen
o'clock in Memorial hall. At this
meeting the Olympics will be discus
sed and the sophomore planB of bat
tie decided upon. Sophomoro songs
will Q sung, sophomoro yells w
yelled and each sophomore, will
will be sung, sophomoro yells will be
wear
" customary -red ribbon
Another innovation will be Intro
duced by the second syear class this
spring, It will be In the nature of a
picnic dance at Capitol Beach. If the
present -plans are carried out, tho
whole class will adjourn to tho popular
summer resort in West Lincoln Bomo
warm afternoon in tho latter part of
Mny. Tiroy wiinm lake b'smm lunches
with them and suppor will bo served
in picnic stylo. Tho dancing pavilion
will bo leased and dancing will bo In
dulged in during tho ovoning. Thoso
members of tho class who profor boat
ing will spond tho ovoning In aquatic
pursuits.
IVY DAY ON MAY 11.
Meeting of Committee Yesterday De
cided Date.
May 11 has been sot as tho day for'
Ivy Day. This was tho decision of
tho committee which mot yesterday
afternoon. No detailed plans have
been drawn up as yet for. tho program,
but It Js believed that it will bo sim
ilar to that of last year. Tho day sot
apart for theso oxercisoB last year was
May 5th.
TAKE A VACATION TRIP.
Class In Field Geology 8pends Three
Days on Platte River.
The class in field geology, course 21,
spent thrco days during vacation on
a trip to tho Platto rivor. Thero woro
twenty-seven in tho party, which was
in charge of Professor Bengston. Be
ginning at tho mill dam south of Ash
land, tho class walked to South Bond,
whero camp was made during tho
three days. The geological formations
were studied along the way. Side
trips wero mado to tho Murpihy and
Natlonnl stone quarries, tho Wpod
worth, Lyman and Ritchlo sand
dredgeB at Louisville, and to several
sand pits and gravel pits. Ritchie
Brothers' sand pump was also studied,
Som& time was spent at the Avery
Prossed Brick company's clay pit-ang
a' special study was mado of 'tho wells
In tho neighborhood. A class In ge
ology 22, in charge of Mr. Schramm
accompanied tho party and practiced
making topographic maps.
8TUDY LATIN WITH 8LIDE8.
Collection of Slides for Use In High
8chools of Wisconsin.
For high school students of Latin a
traveling lantern with a collection of
slides to Illustrate lectures on tho life
of early Greece and Rome has just
ben started on a tour of tho high
schools of tho Eta to by tho Latin
Teachers' Association of Wisconsin
and the extension division of the state
university.
Tho collection of slides, which aro
planned to mako tho work in Latin
and ancient history moro real to tho
high school pupils, Includes material
for lectures on "The Ruins of Ancient
Rome' and "A Day With tho Ro
mans." It is planned to add slides
for lectures on "Caesar's Army," "A
Journey to tho Battlefields of tho Gal
lic Wars," "The Wanderings of Aen
eas," and similar subjects.
High school teachers of tho state,
tho university extension division and
tho Latin and history departments of
tho university, together contributed
tho funds for the lantern and slides,
which are Bent free to schools request
ing them. The principals or Latin
teachers will give the lectures, tho
outlines for which are prepared by
Prof. G. C. Fisko of the Latin depart,
ment of the university, who originated
the plan.
The Waukesha high school Is the
first to take advantage of this oppor
tunity to supplement class Instruction
with the illustrated lectures and the
traveling library which accompanies
the lantern.
, Dr. FHna t Tripoli
Cards have been received by some
of tho faculty from Dr. Fling, sent
from Tripoli. He Is now presumably
at Rome, from where ho intends to
go to Naples and Capri and, other
'.citle on the 'continent F
GAIN IN SCHOLARSHIP .
SHOWN! STATISTICS
REGISTRAR REPORT INTEREST
INQ FIGURES.
HAS INVESTIGATED COMMENCEMENT
Shows Change In Commencement Dttfc
In old Records Mid-Winter Com .
mencemente and Sum
mer Graduations.
Registrar Harrison kair prepared
some interesting statistics with re
gard to this year's deilnqueuclon m
the university. Last year the uverog'e
delinquency of the fraternity members
in tho university was 16 per cent This
year It 1b but 11 per cont, a gain of
four per cont. Tho delinquency of
tho wholo university for the preceding
years has averaged 11 per cent It 16
how 0 per cent In reality ft is some
lower than ovon this. This is duo t
the fact that tho average for tho p-o-coding
years was based on tho schol
arship of both mon and women, whllo
this year only the non-fraternity men
were a vo raged with tho fraternity peo
ple. This leaves tho women student
out and as, they are generally con-nu-ered
the better students they would
no doubt lower tho per cent
Commencement Dates.
As a result of somo questions on the
day commencement has been hold In
the past, Roglstrar Harrison has gono
back through old catalogues and re
gents' records and dug pp tho follow
lng history. No dates could be found
as ,to commencement day in some of
tho earlier years. No record of tho
matter seems to have Veen' kept Of
courso for two or three years after
tho university's establishment In 1877
no students wero graduated. In 1877
commencement took place" on Thurs
day. Two yoars later this was changed
to. Wednesday as it was thought it
might bo better to' "have It earlier in
tho week. But this was wnrso then
beforo, and in 1890 it was cbaugp'd
back to Thursday, whero it has been
since. This year will be tho thirty
ninth annual graduation.
Thero havo been fourtot-n mid-win-ter
commencement!). The first was
during the winter of 1806-97. . Thero
havo been sovonty-flvo graduated at
the end of the first semester.
Tho first summer school graduation
was held Friday, July 26, 1907. There
way no rogular commencement exor
cises held, tho graduates merely call
ing at tho chancellor's ofllco and re
ceiving their diplomas. Now, howovar,
regular exercises aro held each year.
NEW8PAPER 8TUDENT8.
Form Cubs' Club at Unlvrslty of Wis- .
consln.
Tho freshmen and sophomores In .
the course in Journalism at' the Uni
versity of Wisconsin have formed a
"Cuba"' Club with a charter member- -ship
of 30, for the purpceo of bringing,
together the underclassmen preparing
for newspaper wofk.
The officers of the new club are:
president, C. W. Horner, El Paso, III.;
vice-president, C. C. Wells, Froeport,
111.; secretary, R. E. Coleman, Grand
Rapids, Mich.; treasurer, H.M. Watts,
Milwaukee, Wlq. , .
, This Is. the fifth, organization of stu -dents
interested in Journalism at the
university. The young wemen main
tain the Woman's Press Club; the stu
dents In tho courses In agricultural
writing have the Hoard Press Club;
and there is the general University
Press Club, in addition to Delta Alpha,-,
a professional Journalistic fraternity'
recently established. -
The Tau Beta. PI at Michigan -agricultural
cbljege Initiated eo, bmo
last Saturday " " i.,
