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""""WL"!!!; '"'lX'Srt'i w , rfi , ., Xlbe 2)aih Iflebraekan VOL. XI. NO. 19. UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN FRIDAY OCT. 20, 1911. Price 5 Cents. x v GORNHUSKERS DEPART . AFTERJREAT OVATION LEAVE VIA OMAHA FOR BIG GAME AT MINNEAPOLIS WITH GOPHERS. 2,500 STUDENTS CHEER AT DEPOT Men and Co-Eds Gather in Throngs to Speed Team On Its Way Arrive This Morning. Two thousand five hundred cheering and confident students witnessed the doparturo of the Cornhuskor football warriors for Minneapolis last night. At llvo o'clock the crowd began to gather on the campus to the music of the Unl band, and by 5.15 fully a thousand wero on hand. For a fow momentB cheers and snake dances wero the order of the day, while a big van decorated with a shock of corn was being drawn up to receive the waiting football men. Fed at Hotel. At the Lincoln hotel, the team was given a farewell supper, after which the crowd, now swelled by the ar rival of the cadet regiment a thousand stronf, and hundreds of students picked up enroute, marched to the Burlington station, pulling the team on the Cornhuskor van. Co-Eds There Too. Men and co-edB vied with each other in paying tribute to the departing war riors. It is said to have been the greatest ovation or all the great ova tions tendered to a Nebraska foot ball team. There are some who think, howovor, that it may be surpassed when the team comeB homo Sunday evening. Thq teamw arrived In Minneapolis at 9 o'clock this morning, and will hold light practice on Northrup Field this afternoon. They loft Omaha at 8:45 last night via the Chicago Groat West ern railway, and will return over the same route, arriving hero either Sun day night or Monday morning. NORM'AL GIRLS PICNIC. Plan an Outing at Pen Woods for 8oclal Purposes. Tho girls of the Normal Depart ment of Physical Education, will hold' a WJeno Roast Saturday, at 5 o'clock in the' Pen woods. This roast, which was to have been held last week, but which was post poned, Ib Jot the purpose of getting acquainted. Mis Glttlngs and other faculty members in tho gym depart ment will bo present. Engagement Announced. Tho engagement of Abbio Stewart, 1908, , of, Blair, Neb., to Lyle Mllllkon, ex 19Q4, of Fremont, has been an nounced. Miss Stewart is a member of tho Delta Gamma sorority, while Mr. Milllkon Ib a Delta Tau Delta. WE MUST BEAT MINNESOTA GUPID AT THE GIRL COOKS A safe in which engagement rings may bo kept while their owners mix dough or fudgo, is needed in the homo economics department, according to the future homo makers, who claim that domestic Bcience is the quickest way to matrimony. A movement to induce the legisla ture to provide some sort of secure place for the botrothal sparklers to rest, has been Btarted by the destined queens of the kitchens of certain lucky men. Diamond rings are becoming so numerous among tho girls at the farm that it will soon be uncommon for an advanced student in the department to bo without one. SENIOR H0TT0M0RR0W HEAVY DEMAND FOR ADMI8SION TO FIRST VARSITY DANCE THIS YEAR. Chairman Tom James of tho senior hop to be given at the Lincoln hotel Saturday evening Is in the usual quandary as to who shall and who shall not attend tho dance. It was planned originally to limit tho attendance to 100 couples, but as it is tho first University hop of the year the demand for tickets has al ready very nearly exhausted tho lim ited number. Must Have Cash. "Several fellows have ordered tick ets, but have not yet payed for thorn," said James yesterday. "I have about decided to Bell them to those who aro ready to pay at once, and will do so after Friday afternoon." Tho dance is tho big senior infor mal, and is to be given in the Lincoln hotol ball room. JUNIOR COMMITTEES. President Radcliffe Makes Appoint ments in Third Year Class. Clayton Radcllfle, president of the Junlpr class, has announced the fol lowing committees. Junior Hop Leslie Hydo, chairman; G. R. Mann, O. L. Rein, Verna'Cory oll, Vern Stocking, Stella Butler. Olympics Glen Ruby, Ben Lawler, George Hansen, H. R. Milligan, A. B. Boliah, Bob Hastings, J. Elwell. Debating Board-Jeromo R. Forbes, H. Goldstlne, Harold Prince. IntorclaBS Athletic Board O. W. Miller, S. A. Swanson, Art George. Football Frank Black. Basketball Fred Fielding. The Junior Play, Prom, and Con vocation committee will bo announced at a olaBB meeting to bo held noxt week. F M DIAMONDS This wook ono of tho popular girls who would liavo graduated noxt Juno, has fallen victim to Cupid's dart and left school. But her frlonds say sho knows how to koop Iioubo, even though sho will have no shcopskin to show for hor Unlvorslty work. A member of laBt year's graduating claBS who specialized in domestic sci ence, is also expected to becomo a bride. Tho engagement has not yet been announced, but it is oxpected soon by friends of tho young woman. Somo of the household artB girls teach thoir chosen subject after grad uating, but It Is a mattor of record that none of them ever becomo old maids. FUNCTIONS THE LIMITED ARRANGEMENTS BEING MADE TO FAVOR ALL-UNIVERSITY AFFAIR8. A committee composed of represen tative students of the upper classes, has been called together by tho Uni versity senate committee on social affairs, to arrange tho dates for such student enterprises and functions us are deemed worthy the undivided sup port of tho student body. Dates will bo fixed for those events, and tho authorities will not allow tho scheduling of any other events that might interfere with tho University project. The final calendar of those ovents will bo mado up on Thursday, Octo ber 26, and all requests for dates should be in the hands of Miss Alico Ensign before that time. Thereafter only such dates ob re main open will be available, accord ing to tho ruling of the committeo. GEOGRAPHY TRIP TO LOUISVILLE. Dr. Condra and His Assistants to Con duct Field Excursion. The Held classes in Geography will go to Louisville tho last of tho present week. .The classes will bo led by Dr. Condra, tho head of the department. Miss Meres and Miss Griffith will havo charge of the women of tho expedi tion. Never havo tho field classes been so large or so enthusiastic over tho work. Miss Meres ahs been professor in Economic Geology at Peru Normal. She is now finishing her University work at Nebraska after taking courses at Harvard, Chicago and Cornell. Af ter all, there IB-no place like Nebras ka, tho greatest school in the country. NEBRASKA HOLDS RALLY FOR COJJNHUSKER TEAM MEMORIAL HALL PACKED WITH LOYAL 8UPPORTER8. CONFIDENCE NARKS THE MEETING Coach 8tlehm, Fred Hunter, Captain Shonka and Others Make Stir ring Speeches on Game. Enthusiasm breaking all bounds and spreading from Memorial hall to all corners of tho campus marked tho first" football rally of tho season at Nebras ka, Thursday morning. Coach Stlehm and his CornhuskorB wore present at tho rally and woro given tho heartiest of choors and not a man of tho team but what felt that tho wholo school was with him in spirit if not in porBon, in his battlo with tho Minnesota olovon. Memorial "hall was Jammed to its farthost walls with loyal supporters of the scarlet and croam, and thoy cheered unremittingly tho speakers, tho team, tho coaches, and tho band, when that organization stopped play ing a;id allowed the rooters to get in their work. Spirit Was High. The meeting was a striking example of tho high pitch of enthusiasm to which the spirits of tho Nebraska sup porters havo arlson in tho past wooks and tho confldenco they fool in de feating their ancient onomios, tho Minnesota Gophers. Not only woro there hundreds of male throats yoll Ing for tho Missouri Valloy champions, but soveral hundred of tho co-ed foot ball rootors of tho school wero pros ent to Join In tho yells. At tho closo of tho meeting they sang "Tho Corn huskor." In answer to repeated calls from tho students, Coach Stlehm, Coach Rathbone, and the team followed Cap tiarf Shonka in a march to, tho plat form, where thoy wero welcomed by lengthy cheers. Stlehm Speaks. Coach Ewald O. Stlehm and Fred Huntor, one of tho mombera of tho famous 1902 team that atrlmmed tho Gophers, mado the speeches of tho day, although Captain Shonka, Coach Rathbono, Owen Frank, Dr. Maxey and Elliott all mado short talks on the coming game, expressing their faith in the power of the Cbrnhusker.s. Searle Holmes, of the senior class, was master of tho day's ceremonies. "We are on tho ovo of a great bat tle," Bpoko Coach Stlehm. "The eye's of tho country are fixed on tho game scheduled between these two greatest colleges of tho Middle West. Nebras ka haB speed, strength, and. tho loyal ty of her students, and although wo will miss your cheers, in tile hearts of tho players there Hob a dotormlna- (Continued on Pago 3) i. j t 2zl