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Vol. XII. No. 81
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 5, 1913
Price 5 Cents
ENGINEERS HOLD RECEPTION
NEXT SATURDAY EVENING
BASEBALL ONCE MORE , THIRD DEGREE examinations
MYSTERY IS NOW OUT
SOURCE OF WORRY IS OVER
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Entire Plant to be Open for Inspection
With Classes and Laboratory in
Operation Many Visitors
Expected.
Saturday night of thin week the en
glneeiB will keep open house. Tho
laboratories will be open from 7:30 to
10:00 p. in. and the shop men will
onlertain their friends and all who
are Interested In the college, by ex
hibiting their daily' haunts.
The engineers are making prepara
tions to entertain a large number. Over
300 in Invitations have been sent out.
Everyone Interested Is Invited, but
special invitations have been extend
ed members of the Legislature, the
Lincoln Commercial club and high
achool studenlb. It is expected, also,
that Saturday night will see many vis
itors from neighboring towns and out
in the state on the campus. Posters,
announcing engineers' night, in the
form of blue prints appear in the shop
windows on O street and cross Btreets.
In addition to these several blue
print b, 2 ft by 3 ft. in size, have been
printed, which are really works of
art. Each one includes four views of
the laboratories and emblems of the
Engineering Society, the A. I. E. E.
and the A. S. M. E. in colors. These
classy posters are the result of much
painstaking elfort on the part of tho
committee.
The laboratories which will be open
Saturday evening include all the de
partments in the Mechanical Engi
neering building, the electrical engi
neering laboratory and the labora
tories on the iirst floor of Mechanic
Arts hall. These Include tho strength
of materials cement testing and tho
newly equipped road materials labora
tories. Each machine, engine or lathe will
be in charge of a student with one or
more assistants who will be ready to
answer all questions. Tho officers of
the Engineering Society and other
Juniors and seniors will act as guides.
The committee in charge of arrange
ments Is: P. S. Toney, chairman; L..
P. Arms, G. A. Walker, M. C. Evans,
A. Leubs, II. E. Schank, F. A. Somers,
It. 1 Lyman.
CORDUROYS RECEIVED
Men of Engineering Department Sooni
to Appear in Regalia of Their
Profession.
The first consignment of the engi
neers' trousers has been received and
tho shopmen are scheduled to make
their initial appearance in their dis
tinctive garb Thursday. Tho second
ehlpment will bo here in time for them
to bo worn on engineers' night. There
Is a rumor that, In tho near future,
flannel shirts and slouch hats will bo
added to the regalia to complete lta
''realism."
GREAT INTEREST BEING AROUSED
BY ANNOUNCEMENT OF PLANS
FOR NATIONAL SPORT.
KANSAS COMES NORTH TO PLAY
Trips to Be Made to Kansas Aggies
on South and Iowa City, Grin
ned and Des Moines
to East.
Since the announcement of tho ex
tensive schedule which Coach Stlehm
obtained for his baseball team next
spring, a great deal of praise has been
heard over the campus in regard to
this revival of a once very popular
sport at Nebraska. The game with
the University of Kansas has espe
cially pleased Cornhusker fans for a
battle royal is very probable on that
occasion.
Instead of being limited in his se
lection of gamcH to a few applicants a
great many were turned down by rea-1
i
son of the trips being too long and con-
llicting dates. Missouri is after a game
and though still being considered,
Stlehm thinks that it would take too
long for this trip south and probably
will decide against it. However, the
nine will go as far east as Des Moines
where it will meet Highland Park col
lege, Grinnell, Iowa to play Grinnel
college and Iowa City where tho
Hawkeyes' lair will be Invaded with
tho bat. Ames will be met the next
two days. The three eastern schools
will be played on one trip Including
tho 20, 21, 22, 23 24 of May with per
haps a day's layover at Des Moines.
This coming spring is to be decisive
year in baseball for the scarlet and
the cream. If material for a strong
team shows up then preparations will
be made for a bettor schedule tho next
season but if no Interest is aroused
and there are not fast candidates
enough for the team to give Interest
to the games, this will be baseball's
death knell. The enthusiasm displayed
this year for baseball counts doubly
for it makes this a good year and it
will save the sport from a final abol
ishment. There are Innumerable Bharks
with a ball and mitt wander
ing over tho campus and nothing
stands In tho way of an extremely faBt
aggregation being sent over to give
tho Iowa Colleges a drubbing which
will be long remembered. Interclasa
and inter-fraternity baseball has al
ways brought out a number of men
who showed ability to play good ball
and their Interest Is the hope which
has caused Stlehm and Manager Rood
to devote so much time during tho past
few weeka to filling up tho schedule.
As made up to dato the plans are
for the team to play as follows:
April 18 Kansas Aggies at Man
hattan. (Continued on Page Three)
Suffering Laws Endure a 8panish In
quisition Last Week on Stiff
Backed Camp Chairs, all
but Boiled in Oil.
The thick unnatural calm that hung
over the campus last week was not
due to registration, as many supposed,
nor yt to (he suspense of listening for
Mr. Wilson to announce his cabinet,
bin to the fact that the "laws" wero
uudei going their semester examina
tions. This archaic form of torture
was abolished through the University
last ear with the exception of the
College of Uiw. It was believed that
harsher methods were necessury in
that department and the "Inquisition"
was therefore retained.
The examinations this year were
very successful owing to the unusual
accommodations, and a large crop of
"lame ducks" is confidently predicted.
The Ireshman and junior classes
launched the new law building by
breaking a bottle of ink over Its floor
and then giving it a pretty general
baptism of the same liquid. The two
elass r. were neatly arraigned in alter-1
iiating rows, and after being carefully
searched, were given a series of brain
ticklers on obstruse legal propositions!
calculated to deceive the shifter and
left to work out their own salvation
At, the Instructors desired all guesses
to be bona fide, all communication
was cut off, friends were ruthlessly
separated, and refreshments (for the
memory) were strictly forbidden.
Numerous lynx-eyed proctors occu
pied commanding positions and noted
Int Tactions of the rules. The work
men in the unfinished parts of the
build building also entered into the
spirit of the thing with a relish and
made the welkin fairly ring with their
sturdy shouts and blows. Their
unusual activity was the Inspiration
of a comment by Professor Itobblnfl.
The senior class took its examina
tion under less ideal conditions, per
haps, having to use a room in Univer
sity Hall where the creaking of the
stairs and the noises from the French
department became quite annoying at
times. Various good people have been
horrified when snatches of the for
bidden song would come floating over
the transom in tho midst of a recita
tion, but could they have seen the
poor "lawb" reclining on their soft
bound cushlonB and knotting their
foreheads in vain efforts to wring an
Idea from tho bony Interior, their
hearts must surely have Boftoned. Nay,
envy not the "laws," for verily, oven
thoy have their reward.
The university public Is warned not
to stand around In any halls UBed by
law students as stampedes to the bul
letin boards are of hourly occurence,
and to bo In the way on such occasion
is as good as an undertaker's certifi
cate. The annual for tho University of
Indiana has already gone to press.
LONG AWAITED COMIC UNIVER
SITY MAGAZINE ANNOUNCES
IT8ELF.
FIRST ISSUE TO BE FEB. 17TH
Chandler Trimble, Editor, Ralph
Northrup Managing Editor and
R. T. Clark Business Manager
to Be In Charge.
Tho University Is soon to have a
semi-monthly publication resembling
those famous paporB of tho eastern
schools, the "Cornell Widow," "Har
vard Ijimpoon" and tho like. It pur
ports to bo a llvo reflector of univer
sity 'itmosphero, brim full of clever
material, artistic Illustrations and keen
carloons.
The first issue will appear on tho
17th of this month, and the papor will
appear every other Monday following
(hat date. It will be about the samo
shape as the average magazine and
will contain 24 pages and cover.
The editors want it distinctly under
stood that this is to be an all school
publication, and that articles, pictures
and ntorles are solicited from every
one r gardless of Mass or college,
lioxes will be provided In convenient
places for t.quibs and jokes.
"Nebraska Is capable of competing
with other Institutions In this line as
v II as in any other," said one of tho
editors, "and nothing so advertises a
school as a paper In which the literary
and artistic ability of its students is
demonstrated. We are In no way en
tering Into competition with the No
braskan, but are entering a field hith
erto unoccupied. Clean wit, articles
whittled to the point, and the best lit
erary material we can obtain, togeth
er with printing as typographically ar
tistic as we can make It ought to in
sure success."
A large staff is now busily engaged
fn working over material for the first
fssue and the editors are on a still
hunt for more local geniuses.
The Instigators of tho project ore:
Chandler Trimble, editor.
Halph Northrup, managing editor.
It. V. Clark, business manager.
FORESTRY LECTURES PREVAIL
Fred P. McGovern of Colorado
8prlngs Will Speak on City
Beautlflcatlon.
Special lectures for the foresters
have been arranged for February 6,
when Fred P. McKorou, city forester
of Colorado Spring, will talk on city
beautlflcatlon. These lectures should
bo of special Interest to citizens work
ing for a more beautiful Lincoln for
tho lecture will bo city beautlflcatlon
by tho use of trees. All tho lectures
will be given In room 2 of Nebraska
Hall.
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