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Vol. XII. No. 99
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 1913
Price 5 Cents
ALPHA CHI HOUSE BURNS
OVERHEATED FURNACE PIPE
CAUSE CONSIDERABLE STIR
AMONG MUSICAL CO-ED8.
I ifB IMMI
MUCH ENTHUSIASM OVER DOCTOR WALTER KENDALL
MISS BURNER'S VISIT , JEWETT SUCCUMBS TO ILLNESS
Week Full of Teas, Luncheon, Meet- Has Been Librarian for Seven Years
MILLER RESCUES PARTY DRESSES
Wrlghtt Kay and Company JeWeler
Comes to Aid of Girls Stranded
in Top Story but Two
Are Singed.
Saturday afternoon about 2:30 the
Alpha Chi Omega house wna serious
ly damaged by a fire reaulting from
an overheated furnace conduit. The
blaze originated near the Btalrcase
and a. number of girls who were on
the second story at the time experi
enced difficulty in escaping, but the
prompt work of several volunteer fire
men prevented the injury of an of
the girls
At the time the conflagration was
discovered a fraternity jeweler, rep
resenting Wiight, Kay and Company
cf Detroit, who had Isited the house
mgt
-Vesper Service Tonight
-Big Meeting of Week.
tarliei in the day was across the
street He huriied to the rescue of i of the state Universities
Miss Durnor, national secretary of
the Y. VV. C. A , who is to preside at
the various meetings of association
week, is now on the campus. She
corner directly from the University
of Minnesota, where similar meetings
were held. The exchanges from Min
nesota are full of enthusiasm over
Miss Burner and her work.
The girls of the Y W. (' A cabl
net met with her Monday noon
This afternoon she will be pres
ent at a tea given by Miss Ensign in
her honor This is In Art Hall, from
5 to 5
The big meeting of the week is the
Vesper service this evening. This is
an affair for all University girls. Even
if the opportunity was not given to
every co-ed to place her name on the
list in Library Hall, she is eordiall
invited to come, notwithstanding
Miss Burner visits onl the largest
It is there
the girls, getting a ladder from a j fore the part of the girls of Nebraska
nearby house and liberating those to take their place with other unlver-
who had taken retuge on the porch
roof. Several oung women might
have been seiiousl hurt but tor his
warnings not to jump as he was get
ting a ladder
However, in spite of all the warn
ings given, Grace Holman and Leona
Combs, attempted to come down the
burning stair case and suffered tho
tAe loss or eye-lashes and considerable
hair. Outside of these minor injuries
o one was hurt during the fire.
The girls out, an attempt was made
to save ever thing perishable m the
place. With the loss of a leg, the
piano was taken through the front
window to the Pi Phi house next door,
rurniture was pulled out and the
neighbors enriched with many dona
tions ot this kind
At the iisk ot his life, CJlenn II Mil
ler a sophomore in the College of
Medicine dashed up the blazing stair
way .ind throwing a number of party
gowns togethei on a bed spread, car
lied them ( ut ot the house to safety
The daugei ot the undertaking was
im i eased 1 the tact that it was not
attempted till late m the piogiess ol
the liie
Chi Omega leoeived the entile chap
tei lc-r the aiteinoun and kepi them
win in and well-led until the town sis
teis could render succor to the in
flicted. Mrs Billmyer, the chaperone,
remained with them until Monday af
ternoon, when she went to the home
of a Lincoln friend.
Alpha Chi Omega will be without
a home tor but a short time, as the
girls will not wait for the old house
to be repaired. No definite plans
have been made as yet hut it is prob
able that they will bo installed in
their new dwelling before tho end of
the week.
sides in welcoming hei
"DIE JOURNALISTEN" THIS WEEK
MORE JOBS GIVEN OUT
Much Interest Being Shown by Lin
coln People Walt's Archestra
To Furnish Music.
Tickets tor the German club play,
"Die Journalisten," to be given March
7, In the Temple theater, ure now sell
ing rapidly Germans in Lincoln as
well as the Unlversit students, are
Intel ested m the phi Tho manager
of the Freie Presse has bought fifty
tickets and piesented them to the peo
ple who work in his office
The characters selected are partic
ularly well luted for their parts The
entile cast is now lehearsing dail,
and putting on the finishing touches
"Die Join nalisten" is lemarkable tor
the number of lines which its leading
chuiaeteis must memorize. Two out
of the twent thiee characters, "Adel
heil," plaved bv Pauline Kohn, and
"Oberst." by Le Mar Stanle, each
have over live hundred lines, while
'Bol." bv Edward Huwaldt, has more
than eight hundred.
Walt's oichestia has been secured
toi tile evening
Tickets are on sale at the Temple
bo office and at Porter's
Notice.
Members of the Cornhusker staff
meet in the Cornhusker office between
11 and 1145 this morning
Holds Degrees From Harvard
and Brown Traveled Much.
Doctor alter Kendall Jewett, A. B.
Biown. M D Harvard, for seven years
unlversit librarian, passed away at
his home, 16'M B street, last evening
alter an Illness of several nionthB.
t his bedside during his last Ill
ness were his wife, Mrs Edith Jewott
and his nearest relative, Doctor Ban
croft of Boston, a cousin Ho leaves
no children and was an orphan with
out brothei s or sisters
Doctor Jewett was a very well edu
cated man, spending four eara at the
New York Library school after ob
taining his lirst two academic de
grees. He traveled on the continent
extensivel while In school and has
visited Europe once since he has been
connected with the University of Ne
braska His broad mind and likable
disposition made him a tavorlte among
the student body.
Tlicugh but forty-lour at his death,
the present giowth ol the university
librarv will stand lor inauv years as
a monument of his faithful etlorts in
its interests Less than a ear ago
tin hundred thousand mark was
reached, an achievement long anti
cipated bv older membeis ol the fa
( nil
r'uixi.il arrangements will be .in
noiiiK i (1 later
A. M. A. RAISES REQUIREMENTS
JUNIOR-SOPHOMORE CLASSES AN
NOUNCE COMMITTEES AND
OTHER APPOINTMENTS? ""
JUNIORS MEEnODAY AT 11:30
Minor Officers Will Be Elected and
Report of Prom Cobbittee
Given 8ophomores Elect
Thursday.
A series of pre-nuptlal parties are
being given by the Chi Omega's in
honor of Cozette McManlgell, whose
marriage to Earl Brannon takes place
March 19.
Medical College Requirements and
Hospital Facilities Raised Ne
braska Above New Ruling.
Dean It II Wolcott iepiesented the
Unlversit College of Medicine at the
im cling ot the American Medical as
social ion, held in Chicago last week.
The most important mattei taken up
by tin association having to do with
medical colleges was the raising of
entrain e lequn ements and the In
'Kiising ol college and hospital equip
.milt The new requirements do not
allec t Nebiaska, however, since ihe
pit si lit I equu einents he e are above
the in w ruling The laboiatoi v equip
Hunts are also above lequhemeuts
and in the ase ol the ieqiund college
inaintaineru e ol a hospital, steps are
being taken wheieby loimal contracts
ma be made with hospitals ol Oma
ha, with which the college of medi
cine is ahead affiliated This ar
rangement will satisfy the hospital
ruling and Nebraska will be placed
in the A plus class.
A bill before the legislature at the
present time will, If passed, provide
an appropriation for a hospital to he
erected, probably on the Xollege cam
pus at 42 and Dewey avenue in Omaha.
Tho list of political appointments
for tho second semester becomes com
plete with tho announcements of tho
political plum crops In the Junior
and Bophomore classes as given In
tho following lists made out by Presi
dent Harvey Hobb of their third year
men and President Earl Jackson of
the Sophomores.
A meeting of tho Juniors for tho
election of officers and a report on
the Prom has been called by Mr. Hess,
to meet this morning at 11:30 o'clock
in Memorial hall, while a similar meet
ing will be held for the Sophomores
on next Thursday Some difficulty
has been c xperienced In completing
the lists of appointments because of
scholastic ineligibility, but the lists as
given below are complete with one or
two possible exceptions:
Junior appoint merits
Hop Arthur Alljn, chairman, Ha
loid Pier. John Cutright, Gladys. Bunt,
Rnchael Kellog, L L Lynch
The master ol ceiemonies will be
announced later
Iv Da L V Char lesworth, chair
man, Robert Davis, Hugh Agor, Freda
Stuff, Hugh Raymond, Evelyn Dobbs,
Dorothy Harpharn
Athletics Uosvvell Haswell, chair
man, C VV Beck, A C Llndstrum.
Sophomore appointments:
Hop Earl O. Hawkins, chairman;
W. H Bauinan, master of ceremonies;
Phil Southwlck, George Spooner, Itus
sel Swilt, Marie Robertson, Emma
Neal.
Ivy Day Paul Martin, chairman; R.
II Bochens, Russel Isreal, Grace
Reavin, Ruth Stonecipher.
Athletics Otto Zumwinkel, chair
man, Lewis Meier, Ra.v mond West
ov c r
Public-it James Allison
Inl rc-lass Basketball Ed Pettis
THE ROADS THEY TRAVEL
Rhodes Scholars Follow Various Lines
cf Work Three Hundred Scholars
Finish Farming in Six Years.
The Rhodes scholarship association
has issued a statement showing tho
different lines of work embraced by
the Rhodes scholars, after leaving Ox
ford. The number of students In each
calling 1b as follows: Education, 123;
Law, 84; Civil Service, 25; Religious
Work, 20, Medicine, 15; Business, 14;
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