The Daily Nebraskan
VOL XIII. NO. 6. UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 24, 1913 Price. 5 Cents
WIU DEBATE "LITERACY"
SHOULD IMMIGRANTS UNDERGO A
TEST OF THI8 NATURE BE
FORE ADMI88ION?
PRELIMINARY IN OCTOBER
Open to All Students Books and Arti
cles on Subject Easy to Obtain
from Libraries.
I most before Bchool gets fairly un
do way preparations have begun for
NeL'-afka'a two intercollegiate forensic
TuutrHs uf the -year 1913-H: T-Wa
year Nebraska's representatives in de
bat v.-ill 'jw.'t Minnesota at Lincoln,
and Iowa at Iowa City on the last
Friday evening before the Christmas
recess in the eighth annual contests of
the Central Debating League, when
the league was formed in 1907.
Wisconsin and Illinois, both of whom
Nebraska defeated in 1910 on the
closed-shop question, and again last
year on the question of compulsory
federal chartering of interstate com
merce corporations, also debate the
same evening, Wisconsin meeting Illi
nois at Madison and Minnesota at
Minneapolis, and Illinois debating
Iowa at Urbana.
"Resolved, That immigration into
this country should be further restrict
ed by means of a literacy test," is the
question for discussion. It is gener
ally regarded as a much more Interest
ing question than that of last year.
The preliminary debate open to all
students in the University to select
the members 'usually fifteen) of the
intercollegiate Debate Seminary (Rhet
oric 22) will be held early in October
probably the latter part of next week.
From the members of the seminary
the mernbers of the two teams will be
picked early in November. Iowa chose
its teams in May.
At the preliminary debate the con
testant will choose his side. The or
der of speaking on each side will be
determined by lot. As usual each
speaker will have seven minutes in
which to present his case. The judges
will be m mbTs of the faculty ex
perienced in weighing argument and
informed on the immigration ques
tion. A large col lection of books and arti
cles on th question have been re
served at the University Library, at
the Legislative Reference Library, and
at the Lincoln City Library. Copies of
the list of thit material are posted in
the University Library, University
Hall 20C, the Legislative Reference Li
brary, and the City Library.
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INVALIDS AND QUAKERS
INVADE WAR DEPARTMENT
Terrible State of Decrepitude Indicat
ed By Many Excuses Offered
Lieut. Bowman.
Lieutenant Bowman 1b handling the
usual rush for reprieves, excuses and
other loopholes of the inveterate drill
skipper. A line twenty deep has been
keeping itself in place before the door
of his office since last Thursday and
yet very few permits to omit military
scionco have been granted. Although
in case of thoBe pleading is almost
hopeless, still they hang on like the
proverbial tobacco-habit.
.Some of the most pathetic case of
invalidism ever known to have ex
isted in the university are making
themselves evident among the mnny
Quakers and other war-haters who
make up this line. If indications were
true sixty per cent of the university
whole would be composed of cripples
and peace advocates.
Mandolin Club Starts Work
With Early Tryouts
Compete for Places
Tryouls for positions on the Mando-I
lin Club are to be held next Tuesday'
at 7 o'clock in the music hall of the!
Temple William Kavan, who as sec
retary of the club, has charge of the '
tryouts, announces that the places are
to be tilled only by the keenest com
petition and the seventeen or eighteen
places will be attained entirely on the
basis of merit.
The Mandolin Club, through dili
gent and careful selection, has reached
in late years a position by no means
insignificant in the world of college
activities and its membership Is made
doubly tempting by the one hour's
credit a semeBter to be given those
making the club. Last year the or
ganization, besides giving a successful
home concert, made two trips In con
Junction with the Glee Club through
the western and southern parts of the
state that gave the members an enjoy
able trip and netted them a neat in
come. Two trips will be made this
year, one for a com ert in Omaha and
the other to Denver, and by means of
an early start and constant work the
club expects to make its efforts this
year especially appreciable.
OLD MEN DON SUITS
Freshmen Have Few Weeks' Respite
Before Wearing Uniform.
The military department held its
first real drill last night, when the
second-year men were out in full uni
form and the first-year men were divid
ed into awkward squads. Men were as
signed to the different divisions to
teach tho drill manual. Still a few
positions of this kind are open.
Monday night the second-year men
heard a lecture by Commandant Bow
man, who explained the coming year's
work. More pep and spirit was urged
as a cure for the drudgery of military
Bciency.
WORKOUT TUESDAY STILL
DISCOURAGES THE BOOSTERS
New Material Seems Unable to Get On
Its Feet and Learn the Game
Speedily.
Work on the field Tuesday still was
a little off color, although a great Im
provement on the past wook. Tack
ling, scrlmmago. line-bucking tho
whole practice lacked pep. Men who
last j ear seemed to be embryo stars
are refusing to put themselves whole
heartedly Into the game, veterans have
not regained old form.
roaOUeq SMenm and Dudley are do
Ing their best to make some sort of a
team from this unlikely looking ag
gregation, but can not be said to be
very hopeful.
Old I'lumnl who h-ive watched th"
Cornhuskers practice ror six or seven
years back say that never had the
team been in such bad shape so near a
big game
The Omaha alumni club's assump
tion that eastern coaching would do
what Stiehm's hitherto unexcelled
brand can not, seems to be based on
fale grounds. The coaching Is good,
but It has nothing to work on
Three weeks off comes the Gopher
game with Washburn a week from
Saturday. Can Nebraska enter th ;Be
contests with a team having an even
( nance of victory? That is what Corn
husker gridiron supporters are seek
ing to find out.
HASKELL FILLS VACANCY
ON ATHLETIC BOARD
Captain of Basketball Team Takes
Place of Stryker.
Rosswell Haskell was yesterday se
lected to fill the vacancy in the ath
letic board made by the departure of
Hird Stryker, who was last year elect
ed to tin- position in the regular ath
letic board elections, and who leaves
Nebraska this year to take a law
course at the University of Chicago.
Haskell is captain of the basketball
team for the current year and his se
lection on the board makes him doubly
prominent in athletic circles.
Y. N :HOLDS:STIRRING MEETING
President Bonnell Tells of Ambitions
of Association First of Regular
Vesper Services.
The Young Women's Christian Asso
ciation held the first of its weekly ves
per services in the association rooms
Tuesday at 5 o'clock. MIbb Bonnell
spoke on the purpose of association.
Some of the senior girls spoke upon
what the association means in the
college girl's life, and emphasized es
pecially the spiritual uplift and the
fine personal friends-hips which come
from the girls' work together In the
association.
The second of these vesper services
will be held Tuesday, September 30.
NOW ON HOME STRETCH
CHANCELLOR AVERY BELIEVE8
PERMANENT PROSPERITY WILL
FOLLOW INITIATIVE VOTE.
LOCATION SECONDARY QUESTION
Essential Thing for University is a Set
tled Policy of Development
Last of Many Crises.
That the present crisis In tho Uni
versity affairs, represented by the
question of location, will bo (passed
-over in safety an othor crises lu thu
past, Is the opinion of Chancellor
Avery. This waB tho message set
forth in his addresB before convoca
tion yesterday morning, and it held
out more than one ray of hope for
those worrying over the future of tho
institution.
Chnncellor Avery began his address
on crises in University history by trac
ing the course and flnnl result of some
of the old movements which have
been directed against and for removal.
He spoke also of different crises in
development and growth, through
which the University had passed, but
in the main IiIb argument ran over the
course of the last and probably tho
greatest crisis, that of the final de
cision of the people in 1914 as to
whether all University buildings shall
be located on the Farm campuB or two
campuseB shall be maintained, both to
be developed.
This Is a subject dear to the Chan
cellor's heart, for he has worked on
the proposition for several years now,
and has made its solution a close
study. In fact, during the summer he
was interested in directing to some
extent the securing of 26,000 signers
to the initiative petition, believing that
the final settlement of the question by
the people will bring permanent pros
perity to the institution. It is no
longer a question of which campus
Is preferable, but only one of settle
ment, for development will follow the
permanent adoption of either plan as
a working basis.
"If campus extension prevails," he
said, "we shall ultimately have two
admirable plants situated in much the
same way as those occupied by the
University of Minnesota, where except
for the agricultural activitloB located
three miles out of town, the colleges
are grouped in the city of Minneapolis.
If the other view prevails we shall
have at about three miles from the
heart of the city a s-plendid, united
plant, comparable with the University
of Ohio at Columbus; or a little less
closely comparable with the university
plant at Madison. These colleges are
each fulfilling the hopes of their foun
ders and are agreeable to the people.
At both students find opportunities for
self-Bupport. For my ipart I would be
exceedingly well pleased to see the
University of Nebraska housed as are
Minnesota or Ohio. Hence, it seems
to mo that every true, loyal, and dis
interested friend connected with the
development of either campus can
look at the coming struggle with com-
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