The Daily Nebraskan
VOL XIII. NO. 49 UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1913
Price, 5 Cents
SENIOR APPOINTMENTS OUT
PRESIDENT GRIFFEN ANNOUNCES
COMMITTEEMEN FOR HIS
ADMINISTRATION.
WITNESS IN MURDER TRIAL
RYAN NOT SERIOUSLY HURT! LAST GAME OF SEASON
Engineering Student Will Probably
Retain Sight of Eye After Acci
dent In Foundry.
WILL BE MOST 8PECTACULAR
GAME EVER PLAYED IN
THE WEST.
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HOP, PROM AND PLAY IMPORTANT
Class Will Float bonds to Clear Itself
of Indebtedness Old Debt Must
Be Met Before Further
Events.
The appointment of committeemen
for the different affairs of the senior
class, together with the election ol
the class treasurer and the senior ed
itor of the Cornhusker, set the ball
rolling for senior activities for this
and part of next semester. A hop,
play, and prom are listed as the prin
cipal class events, conditional upon
the raising of funds to pay off the
class debt.
The committee on collecting funds
for payment of the class debt was put
under the chairmanship of Charles
Epperson, with the following commit
teemen as assistants: Fred Dawson,
Raymond Shirey, Mildred Butler and
Elizabeth Scott. The appointments of
the finance and events committees are
made on the condition that the class
debt is met. Active work toward so
licitation of funds among the mem
bers of the class has already begun.
One-dollar bonds are to be floated,
payment and interest on the invest
ment to be given if the class events
are financially successful.
The following resolution in regard
to the issuance of complimentary tick
ets was adopted:
"Complmentary tickets to senior
class affairs shall be given only to
the members of the committee having
charge of the particular affair and to
the president of the class, and to the
chaperones. One to each of the above
named."
The other committee appointments,
together with the officers elected by
the class, are as follows:
Senior Hop Committee: Chas. II.
Epperson, chairman; G. Gordon Reck,
master of ceremonies.
Senior Play Committee: Guy Kid-
doo, chairman and business manager;
Don Aureus, dramatic manager.
Senior I'romonade Committee: Fred
Keith, chairman; C. G. Perry, master
of ceremonies.
Pin Committee: Louise Northrup,
chairman.
Invitations Committee: Elizabeth
Hyde, chairman.
Cap and Gown Committee: Mildred
Butler, chairman.
Picnic Committee: L. Charlesworth,
chairman.
Class Treasurer (elected) : Donald
L. Wood.
Senior Managing Editor of the Corn
husker (elected): Charles H. Epperson.
University Student Star Witness In
Trial of Negro Accused of
Wilmeth Murder.
John Cutright, Jr., a prominent stu
dent of tlie university, jumped into
still greater prominence this week
when he began to grant interviews
with the Lincoln papers concerning
the mysterious deatli of one George
Wilmeth.
John was walking along O street
late last Saturday night when he saw
a negro walk up to Wilmeth and plant
him one on the jaw. Wilmeth toppled
over and breathed his last. The negro
walked calmly away. Cutright fol
lowed him a block or so and then
returned to the scene of the tragedy
The police a-ked Cutright and a dra
imiii, the sole witnesses of the affray,
to accompany them to the station. The
description Cutright gave of the Col
ored gentleman enabled the police to
catch the fugitive after a two days
hunt. Cutright will be the star wit
nes for the state when the case
comes up for trial.
John says he hates so much pub
licity, but he admits that lie feels more
comfortable than If he were in the
shoes of either Wilmeth or the negro.
C. W. Ryan, the student engineer
who was struck in the eye by a piece
of red hot metal while using the steam
hammer in the foundry, Is Improving
appreciably Although his eye is still
badly swollen his condition Is not as
serious as was originally feared. Ryan
has not been able to try his eyesight
on account of the swelling, but the
doctor does not believe any permanent
affliction will result
CORNHUSKERS IN SHAPE
Nebraska Confident of Victory Be
lieve They Can Stop the Speedy
lowan End Runs.
GIRLS' CLUB PLAN FOR
BIG FEED DECEMBER 5
Will Have Costume Party Night of
Men's Banquet Boost for
Woman's Building.
Mandolin Club Will
Receive Credits for
One Semester's Work
At a meeting of the music commit
tee last Wednesday the arrangements
of last year with regard to the Man
dolin club were renewed. Fifty dol
lars was voted for the services of an
Instructor and for music. Also it was
decided to give university credit as
before to the players.
Nothing definite lias been decided
concerning the trlpB of the season.
Tho Mandolin club will give its usual
local concert. It also desires to give a
concert in Omaha in connection with
the Glee club, but the latter thinks
it unwise from an economical point
of view to permit such a union. In
case the Glee club definitely refuses its
sister club a joint concert, the Man
dolin club has determined to go to
Omaha and give a concert itself.
A Virginia University lexicographer
has Just invented another definition
of monocle. He says a monocle 1b a
pane of glass worn In one eye In order
that Its wearer may not see at one
time any more than ho Is able to
understand. Exchange.
Caldwell Speaks to Credit Men.
Professor Caldwell returned yester
day from KansaB City where he made
a speech before the Credit Men's con
vention. A large crowd heard his ad
dress and the professor reports an
enthusiastic bunch of hearers. He was
a guest of the club while In the city
and was shown the atFractlve pointB
of the metropolis from an automobile.
Last night he attended a banquet of
the association.
At Peking, China, Is the oldest uni
versity In the world. It Is called the
"School for the Sons of tho Empire."
Its antiquity Is very great, and a
granite register consisting of stone
columnB, 320 In all, contains the
names of sixty thousand graduates.
Exchange.
The Girl's council composed of rep
resentatlves from the Union Palladian,
Y. W. C. A., Silver Serpent, each so
rority, and every rooming house where
four or more university girls live, met
at the Temple Thursday evening to
discuss matters of importance to uni
versity girls and to have a social
good time.
After the big feed Miss Graham and
members of the advisory board, Mrs
Avery. Miss Hebeck, Miss Conklin and
Miss Glttings gave short talks display
ing co-operative and progressive spirit.
which were enthusiastically responded
to by the girls.
Definite plans were made to Increase
the membership of the Girl's club. The
club now has a membership of five
hundred, which is tho largest In Its
history, but the girls are of the opinion
Mint a still larger per cent of uni
versity girls should belong to the
organization.
Indefinite plans for a new woman's
building were discussed and many
suggestions made. Necessary features
as suggested were, a large swimming
pool, girl's athletic field, Indoor tennis
court, tea, study, rest, and social club
rooms.
A costume party, which will be the
first all-university girl's social affair of
the year, was planned for the same
evening as the Cornhusker banquet.
The girls are confident that they will
have the best co-ed university party
ever given, and say that the men will
have to hustle If their banquet is the
larger of the two aflairs held on that
evening.
The whole council of about sixty
five members and a special committee
composed of Florence Hill, Ruth Brow
nell, and Mildred .Perry are In charge
of arrangements.
The council unanimously decided to
advocate simplicity among all uni
versity girls and In order to carry out
the spirit at onoe the girl's party will
be a 10-cent admission affair.
A prize of $1,000,000 has been of
fered In St. Petersburg for the hest
biography of Czar Alexander I.
(by II V. HARLAN.)
Spectacular and fast will bo the foot
ball game this afternoon between Ne
braska, the Champions of tho Missouri
Valle Conference, and Iowa. It will
undoubtedly be the best exposition of
the modern football game that has
ever been shown in the entire country.
The eastern teams do not feature
the fast, open style of playing. Rather,
their main dependence Is on the old
style. Uy a strange paradox they were
the first to start the agitation for a
faster and more open Htylo of play
and then when tho rules were changed
making such play a possibility, they
are the last to take it up.
Hence, it can be safely said that
today's game will in all probability be
the fastest ever Been in the country.
Yet the fact must be born in mind
that no team In the country can make
good with the open work alone unless
they can play the essential straight
football when in a pinch.
Nebraska's Superiority.
Here it Is that the Cornliuskers ex
cell the Hawkeys. Here Is the whole
proposition In a nut shell. Iowa Is
basing all their hopes of victory on
fast end runs and open field work of
two men, Dick and Grosse. That's all
they have. The Iowa team Is much too
light to play straight football success
fully and if these two men are laid out
Iowa will be In the air.
On the other hand Nebraska un
doubtedly has one of the strongest
straight football teams In the west as
well as being unexcelled In fast, open
field play. The CornluiBkers have won
every game by the good, old fashioned
game of straight football. While the
Minnesota game was won by forward
passes properly speaking, still it was
Nebraska's straight football that made
those forward passes possible.
Tho proposition resolves itself
thusly. Tho Cornhuakers are ac
quainted with the Iowa formations.
Iowa cannot defeat them by springing
new and strange plays. The Corn
buskers are pretty well versed In
breaking up those spread formations.
If then the Cornhuakers live up to the
advance dope and succeed In smash
ing the strange Iowa formations they
will have the Hawkeyes at their mercy
for as noted above, Iowa has com
paratively little except their spread
formations. With these plays broken
up Nebraska can whip Iowa In straight
football.
No team on earth can come to Lin
coln with a record of making some
lop-sided scores on weak teams and
scare the Cornhuakers Into losing the
game. Every man on the Champion
Cornhusker team Is going into the
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