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UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1913
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-"8PHARO 8TYXr" NEW VAUDE
VILLE CLUB, ANNOUNCES
THAT FOUR BE8T ACT8
GET PRIZE8.
SHOW GIVEN NEXT FALL
John T. Prince Will Assist Club
Staging Production Competent
Judges Will Examine
Candidates.
'The announcement that prizes will
.be given by "Spharo Styjc" for the
best four vaudeville stunts offered by
various groups of students as part or
Its first show next fall, caused much
.discussion among the student body
yesterday. Fifty, thirty-five, twenty
five and ten dollars, respectively will
go to the authors who will be expected
to take part In their own acts.
Competition will be held before a
roup of judges selected by the club
and will be oh the points of "go,"
ease and speed In presentation and the
general Impression given. The judges
will bo absolutely Impartial as they are
to be selected from members of the
faculty and club by John T. Prince,
-who will assist the club In staging the
production.
The remainder of the show will be
written and worked up by the club
members with a competition open to
the school for places on the cast. The
whole promises to be something new
and heretofore unseen by the Univer
sity of Nebraska, although such pro
ductions are presented at almost every
other school of like size, both in the
east and west.
Spharo Styx also announces the
pledging of John Brannigan of Bea
trice. Vikings Amble Through
Elaborate Dance and
Initiate New Members
The Vikings, the Junior Inter-fraternity
society, held their annual initia
tion last Thursday afternoon and an
elaborate dance at Fraternity hall in
the evening. Twelve men went through
the tortures with success and the eve
ning was joyous in the extreme as a
result. The new members are: Lyle
B. Klugery, Glenn Miller, Sigma Nu;
Norris Tym, Phi Gamma Delta; Har
old Temple, Kappa Sigma; Thomas
Neighbors, Joe Forman, Alpha. Tau
Omega; Harry Delametre, Phi Delta
Theta; Harold Grimm, Sigma Alpha
Epsilon; Phil Southwick, Phi Kappa
Psi; Don Ahrens, Michael Finley, Delta
Upsllon; Clyde Barton, Beta Theta PI.
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GOOD BYE UNTIL NEXT
YEAR. -k
THE "RAG" CEASES PUBLI- if
CATION TODAY.' . , . -fr
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YE "RAG'8" LA8T QUERY.
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IS
In Immemorlam.
We seek to know, and knowing seek;
We seek, we know, and every sense
Is trembling with the great intense,
And vibrating to what we speak.
We ask too much, we seek too oft;
We know enough and should know
more ;
And yet we skim through Fancy's
lore,
And look to earth and not aloft.
O Sea, whose ancient ripples lie
On red-ribbed sands where seaweeds
shone;
O Moon, whose golden sickles gone,
O voices all, like you I die. C. B.
Many Comhuskers
Are Sold, Although
Shipment is Delayed
In spite of the uncertainty of the
time of arrival of the Cornhusker,
some thousand of the books were de
livered to expectant customers yes
terday and the full number ordered
are expected to be dispensed with to
day. The copies were delivered dur
ing the morning hours from tables set
at the west of the Temple and during
the afternoon hours from the inside
of the Temple hall. Thought having
notice of the arrival of the books only
by word of mouth, the throngs of stu
dents crowded around the point of dis
tribution and kept. Business Manager
Kavan in a state of busy turmoil dur
ing the greater part of the day.
Three hundred more copies of th,e
Cornhusker were ordered this year
than last, the -number this year being
1,700. Of this number the University
itself takes three hundred for distribu
tion among the high schools of the
state. With the. exception of a tiun-
I dred extras, the remaindeVn.of the num-
ber are those ordered In accordance
with previous, deposits.
Benefit Musicale by
Miss Chapman Should
IBe Well Attended
The Temple theatre offers an attrac
tion of unusual worth this evening.
The Junior-Senior benefit mUBlcale
given by MIsb Florence Chapman Is
on the card. Miss Chapman is to pre
sent a program varied and of more
real worth than anything that the uni
versity of Lincoln public has had the
opportunity of enjoying In many
months.
The program Is certain to be
most enjoyable and should attract lot
itself, and in addition to that it de
mands the' attention and support of all
the student body in that it- is an unsel
fish and unrequleted effort to help the
two upper classes out of real financial
difficulties. Miss Chapman's ofller is
an unusual one and it should be re
sponded to with eagerness and should
be given very hearty support. The
expenses 'for the affair are very light
and a large audience will net big
money for the two indebted classes.
The evening may be warm, but the
audience enjoyed the Dramatic club
play Thursday with comfort, and there
is little chance that it will be much
warmer". Remember that the admis
sion will be 25 cents and that there
are no reserved seats.
Professor Grumann
Will Lecture on
Senior Class Play
Not a small feature of the Senior
Play which is to be given at the Oliyer
next Thursday night, is the prepara
tions that are b?ing made for It on the
campus. The plajing of "PIUarB of
Society" has aroused quite a bit of in
etrest in the works of the famous
Norwegian, Honrlk Ibsen, and every
effort is being made to make the per
formance mean as much as possible
to the University public.
Next Tuesday's convocation will be
devoted exclusively to the Senior play.
Professor Grumann, director of the
School of Fine Arts, will deliver a
lecture on the early development of
the author, with speclal(?&rence to
his writing of "Pillars ofJ'Ssociety'
Professor Grumann is a student of the
modern drama, and ho is especially
familiar with the life and -work of
Ibsen who ranks as 'the-pioneer in the
"new movement." In addition to thfs
Professor Grumann Is "putting his
classes through .jthe play, and is mak
ing a translation which he expects to
publish at some future date.
The famous "rabble scene" in. the
last act, where the whole populace
turns out to do homage teethe "pillar
of society," making one of the most
effective scenes in the play;, will, be
presented by two of MjsV. Howell's
classes.'Un elocution, The students
have teen working on this attire 'at
special rehearsals anjl' it has been
made a part,of the semesters twork
MEMORIAL DAY OBSERVED
CAMPU8 PRE8ENT8 BARE APPEAR.
ANCE ON NATIONAL HOLIDAY
CEREMONIE8 ATTENDED.
SEMESTER ALMOST OVER
Everybody Preparing to Leave Univer
sity for 8ummer Work or Pleas
ure Examinations Are
Impending.
Yesterday the campus was bare.
Tho University presented fewer signs
of life betwoen the hot hours of 2
and G p. m. than at any time during
tho whole year. A few students at
tended the various formal celebrations
of Memorial day. Others took advan
tage of the extra day with tho folks in
near-by towns. Some wore playing
gaily at the Beach. While many others
especially law students, hunted tho
coolest room they could find in the
house, lighted their longest stemmed
pipe, pulled down their cram sheet and
their "Hornbook," and began tho long
woary cram for next week's ordeal of
exammlnations.
The univorsity, observed all who saw
it yesterday, does not die all at once.
Long before the twelfth of May It 'be
gins to fade away. Spring Bluffing,
preponderance of empty seats, wo
were reminded, began this season with
the first hot day. Maytlme was rich
in holidays, When the cream of insti
tution activities would as likely be
found under the trees of some park as
beneath the campus shades. Finally
there comes that awful silence as If
beforo a storm. Short classes are
held during the cool hours of the day
for review, and the University awaits
with batod breath tho outcome of tho
final rush for enough credits to go
out honorably.
Despite the how-d'ye-do made about
the abolition of .examinations a few
years ago, the tests will proceed in
all departments this year with all their
pristine vigor. The professional col
leges, belonging to' various college as
sociations, are required to tax the. in
tellects of their students as heavily as
ever. In the arts and science college,
the discretion -left with .the prdfessors
will in most Instances bo exercised in
behalf? of those "short quizzes" about
what they'Jl - be nobody knows any
more than he, did about the long ones.
So there we are.' Tense social ac-
tivitles swallow our sleepless nights. ',"
Holiday formalities consume our wak
ing hours. Impending examinations '
overburden our1 Jaded minds with a
deathless anxiety -.Our summer's Job,
lifeVmost "Immediate ideal-comblnes fr '"
with absolute bankruptcy to blast our
hopes of extending further this hand
to. iqouth cpfleglata exls"tenc,e7 While,
student minds' w.ent through these eyo
lutidns oryesterday, the" Campus was
dead.
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