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The Daily Nebraskan
VOL XUI. NO. 60 UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1913
Price 5 Cent9
READY FORJHE DEBATE
MINNESOTA TEAM HERE PRE
PARED TO MAKE A GOOD
SHOWING TONIGHT.
SEAT SALE A LITTLE SHORT
Immigration Question Up For Consid
eration at 8 O'clock Iowa Re
j suit Announced at Phi Alpha
Tau Banquet.
The Minnesota, team which crosses
blades with the Nebraska trio tonight
in the Intercollegiate debate arrived in
Lincoln yesterday afternoon. They
went Immediately to the Lincoln hotel,
expressed themselves as favorably im
pressed with the Nebraska climate,
and are awaiting the issue In the Tem
ple theater tonight.
Donald L. Pomeroy, Harvey Hos
hour, and Dean Campbell are the Min
neBOtans who make up the team. They
are accompanied by Mr. H. B. Giflason,
coach of the intercollegiate teams of
the university. This morning they will
be the guests of Professor Fogg on
the campus.
In the interval before the debate the
selling of tickets is being carried on
by an extemporaneous committee of
students. Tickets are also on sale at
the Temple and at Harry Porter's. Re
ports have not been received indicating
the probable number of Wesleyan and
other off -campus visitors to the debate.
The seat sale has not, however, been
as rushing' as It should.
The debate will commence at eight
o'clock, following a concert by the
band, and presided over by Chancellor
Avery The question reads, "Resolved,
that Immigration Into the United
StateB should be further restricted by
means of literacy test. Homer G.
Hewitt will open the argument for
Nebraska and the affirmative. D. L.
Pomeroy will answer for Minnesota
and the negative. Following Hewitt
will be Reed B. Dawson and Harold A.
Prince. The other men of the Minne
sota team, Harvey Hoshour and Dean
Campbell, will follow Pomeroy.
Prof. F. H Herriott (Drake), Prof.
I. H Loos (Iowa), and Prof. Kr A.
Wilcox (Iowa), are to be the judges.
Their decision will be made, accord
ing to the rules of the Central Debat
ing League, immediately after the fin
ish of the debate, so that there will
be no delay awaiting the result.
The result of the Iowa-Nebraska de
bate is to be announced by telegram
to Professor Fogg at the Phi Alpha
Tau banquet which follows the Min
nesota debate. Chancellor Avery, sev
eral members of the faculty, the Judges
of the Minnesota debate, and the mem
bers of the Minnesota team are to be
guests of honor at this banquet.
Miss Elsie Warnock, A. B., '08, A. M.,
'11, has been made Instructor In Eng
lish at Palmera college, Lordsburg,
Cal.
Buy Your Debate Tickets Now
SPHARO STYX SHOW WORKS
NIGHT AND DAY FOR JAN. 17
First Rehearsal of All Acts Together
Will Come Soon.
Spharo Styx met last night and
transacted business In regard to their
big annual Minstrel Show January 17
ReportB were made which indicated
that one of the year'H best shows will
be given at that time.
Rehearsals have been going merrily
on this last week without cessation.
The first big all-together rehearsal will
be held the last part of next week or
imiu.edlately following the Christmas
vacation.
The cast will number a fow over
sixty and contains a large number of
the best dramatic talent In the Uni
versity. Some new material, very prom
ising, will also be introduced to stu
dent audlepces.
Basketball Floor in
Constant Use All
The Time Nowadays
While the basketball squad is now
practicing only a few hours a week the!
lloor is by no means unoccupied at
other times. The freshman squad, the
frat teams and the track and wrestling
squads have conspired to keep the
schedule full at practically all hours
of the day. Guy Reed's track men are
putting in a good deal of their spare
time getting ready for the spring
meets. The wrestlers will start active
work the first of the year, and the
freshmen began their dally practices
this week. The fraternity basket
shooters, In the meantime, are sand
wiching In their time whenever they
can find the gym unoccupied.
Reynolds Acts at Coach.
As Dr. Clapp is still absent from
work on account of illness, and as
Coach Stiehm is busy with the regular
squad, the work of coaching the fresh
men has been turned over to C. C.
Reynolds. Mr. Reynolds announced
the following practice schedule yes
terday: Monday and Friday 7:30 p. in.
Wednesday 8 p. in.
Tuesday 3:45 p. in.
Saturday 2:30 p. m.
ORCHID SENT UNIVERSITY
FROM PHILIPPINES IN BLOOM
An orchid from the Philippines, Pha
laenopsls schillerlanna, Is in bloom In
the tropical Bectlon of the greenhouse.
It is of a pale rose color and Is grow
ing upon a pile of native bark. The
plant was sent to the Botany depart
ment two years ago by J. L. Harrison,
a former student at Nebraska.
GARRETT JOINS DEBATING
TEAM AT IOWA CITY
Will See Nebraska's Platform Team
Defend Honors In Hawk
eye's Den.
Ralph Garrett went to Iowa City
yesterday at 1 o'clock to take charge of
the Nebraska debating team now in
that city. Results of the debate there
will he telegraphed to the Lincoln
hotel where a banquet for the Nebraska-Minnesota
debaters will be
ghen by the Phi Alpha Tail's. The
Minnesota team is accompanied by
Mr. H R. Glslason, Instructor In rheto
ric In the University of Minnesota
Professor Fredrick Green of the Law
University of Illinois has ben chosen
as the third judge in the Iowa Ne
braska debate
NEW CAMPUS WOMEN'S BUILDING
Conference With Architects New
Building an Ideal College Home
for the Girls.
Miss Mary Graham, adviser to wo
men, leaves for Chicago Monday to
consult with architects there In regard
to the women's building for the new
campus. Miss Grahnm will offer to the
architects suggestions of her own and
of university girls. These suggestions
will be used by the architects, as far
as is possible, In making the plans,
and will go to make the building Just
what the girls want It. The girls will
thereby have a personal Interest In
the building and will be enthusiastic
and more anxious to see It a com
leted thing. Miss Graham hopeB to
get a building five times the size of
Memorial Hall which will be built and
furnished for the comfort of the uni
versity girl as her Ideal college home.
Miss Graham will be in Chicago
from Monday till Friday, when she will
go to her home In Dayton, Ohio, for
the holidays.
PHI DELTA PHI INITIATES
Legal Fraternity Takes in Fifteen New
Members Followed by Banquet
at Lincoln.
Phi Delta Phi, the legal fraternity,
initiated fifteen men last night. The
initiation was followed by a banquet
at the Lincoln hotel. The following
men were taken In:
Varro E. Tayler, Harry H. Ellis.
Boyard F. Giiffln, Shelley P. White,
Wilson S. Debell, L. O. Chatt, Arthur
C. Schmidt. H. C. De Lamatre, Paul
F. Good, Clinton B. Underwood, P.
Craig Spencer, John W. Miller, Ed
ward J. Shoemaker, Robert G. Sim
mons, George A. Munn.
Helen Holloway, Mlunetonka, Minn.,
Is visiting at the Pi Betta Phi house
this week.
WRESTLERS ARE ACTIVE
OAGANIZE ATHLETIC CLUB YES
TERDAY WITH MUCH IN
TEREST SHOWN.
WILL HAVE SPECIAL COACH
Discussion as to Man for the Position
Ruby and Dalley
Candidates.
University wrestling stock took a
dec ided boom yesterday when sixteen
men gathered In Dr. Clapp's office and
urgaulzed the Wrestling club for the
-tason of 11)14. While only two of
kist enr's team were out, the looks
of the new material was so promising
that the promoters were free to pre
dict that Nebraska will come back
and that the loBt urt Is sure to be re
vlvod. If everything goes right t.hlB will bo
a bannor yeur In university wrestling.
For the firBt time In six years the west
ern intercolleglute gymnastic associa
tion will hold Its annual meeting In
Lincoln. This meet, which Is to be
held on March 28, will bring together
the best Indoor athletes from the four
teen biggest universities In the mid
west. One month soonor or the lat
ter purt of February -the Iowa wres
tling team will come to Lincoln for
the annual contest.
At yesterday's meeting Secretary
Carl Ganz was elected president and
Merle Wude was chosen secretary.
Ganz and Fred Gunther are the two
experienced men who have returned to
the fold. The fprmor was last year's
featherweight champion, while the lat
ter was prominent In the lightweight
class. For the three other weights
the team members will bo chosen from
among the new men.
The question of a coach Is Just now
jippermost In the minds of the mat
artists. In his selection Dr. Clapp will
probably bo guided by the preference
shown by the club. Two names, those
of Owen Dalley and Glen Ruby, have
been prominently mentioned. Objec
tion to Dalley has been raised because
some of the tactics used In profes
sional wrestling are not permitted by
the western Intercollegiate association.
While the club members concede that
Dalley Is a clean professional wres
tler, some of them feel that the po
sition should be given to Ruby because
of the fact that his Intercollegiate ex
perience has given him a personal In
terest In amateur wrestling and a close
(Continued on Pago 3.)
Harvard Is after two million dollars
for a new gymnasium. The first actual
contribution was made recently, when
the undergraduates turned in the twen
ty-five thousand they had promised.
Gifts from wealthy Harvard alumni
are expected, and as soon as sufficient
capital Is collected the work of draw
ing up plans will be begun.