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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (March 25, 1914)
u. tMyy T V ' 7" fcsj SK &BqFjmwW'jmf& IvUiTV' f , t. T" '' ,J f r " iTt $ ? J ? j T4V' - - T'J- v S ' j ebraskanX Senior Prom Saturday VOL. XIII. NO. 112 UNIVERSITY Ofr NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1914. Price 6 Cents SB Thebaily N ''- - . i, THAWING OUT SPRING FOOTBALL SEVENTEEN GRIDIRON CANDI ' .DATES OUT ON FIR8T CALL. . I' I," ti .V STIEHM STARTS PRACTICE blttle-Pep-Shown-by-Old-Men Team Is Without a Captain The Pros pects for a Veteran Team 4' Are Not Gqod. The captninloss CornhuBkers went through the first Bpring football prac tice Monday evening. The men turn ing out were: Sorter, quarterback on last year's freshman team and alU -stati-hJghfichool quarter In 1012 1 Solzer, halfback on freshman team last fall; Baton, quarterback on 1912 freshman team; Baleman, ox-captain of Omaha High School; Corey, star tackle on frcBhman team; Chamber lain, speedy halfback of last' fall's freshmen; Ly;man, ex-South Omaha lineman; Amack, fullback on fresh--man team; Wilson, lialfback andend on. freshman team; Claar, Halbcr sloben, Henley, Moates, Sherry and Hicks. Among tho now men are Otoupallk from David City, Vldal and Henley, and-all three show excep tional promise. H is the custom of the modem cqaching system to always think and talk tho sports. The modern coach has spring football practice in order that he may make plans for tho fall; that ho may build plays around who ho figures are to be the great cogs in his fall machine. - This is the regular practice of .East ern schools. Harvard, Yale and Princeton each spring prepare for the JjaitlcBjnJIombeii. Anyone who Is a lover of the greatest of college games realizes that the turning out of a winning team requtrespfclimin ary training. "Jumbo" Stlohm real izes this and so has started the third spring football practice to bo con ducted at Nebraska. Ho knows that tho fqw weokj in the fall before tho arrival of the. great games are not -sufficient time "for Tecrults tpnnastor a" sport with so many angles and - (Continued on pogo 2U YOUNG GEOLOGISTS OUT WITH PROF. SCHRAMM 'ColdWeather Gives 8tudents Taste of Real- Life Tents- Afforded, the Shelter., Tho class in geology which- mado tire trip to Weeping Water did not let tho weather man hinder them in the -work-they-set-out-to-aceompllshr The students -who madoHhe-trIp-wlth-T?ro' lessor Schramm experienced such weather as they might buck up against any day when they are out in the field doing practical work.. The class camped out during the whblo week, sleeping in tents banked up with snow to make them as warm as possible. Topographic and Ecological maps "were made of tho surrounding terrl- : tory. Some vqry good mapB were mado, especially those of tho quarry near Weeping Water. The members of tho class, including tho professor, bad their, own maps colored with a r beautiful tan by the reflection of the sun's rayri, ,f rom tho snow.' I : jmM- .niill'iSS::;;;::; tlir (CwxrtcfcLJ TICKETS FOR UNIVERSITY NIGHT ARE OUT TODAY Committee Has Meeting and Gets Pro gram Practically Outlined Out- look for Joy Night Bright. Tickets for University Night, which is to be staged Friday at the Oliver, may bo obtained this morning at 10 ''o'clock at the Temple. Tho commit tee will be on hand from 10 until 2 in tho afternoon, giving out tho exchange tickets to all-students, and tho word has gono out that there will be but one tlbkoT "given to a person" ob-sS-luto-ly. Tho capacity of the Oliver wll bo overtaxo'd by tho crowd which throiiEslvOTsttyNight,TradtickotB- must be accounted for. These exchange tickets will bo hon ored for reserved seats at tho Oliver box office. Tho ten-cent fee will be collected at tho Oliver not at tho Temple. The committee in chargo of the Joy night mot yosferdaynoon atthe Tem ple and lined up the stunts' which aro to go en the program. The complete and final program, however, is not to bo announced until the last day. Sev eral changes mr.y possibly be mado1 Tnianiiencommltto7rfcolBnhatr1trlBnooHnctlons-T)ailyHllint early to announce the llno-up. "It will bo a collection of, laughs, said ono of the members of the com mittee after the meeting, "of tho stu dents, by tho students,' and for the students. And as the faculty do, so will they bo done by. Wait till Friday night." Oberlln! Investigation has followed Ihe charges that tho fraternities are oclst lng sub-rosa a Oberlln, whore Greek societies aro tabooed. IJ, is claimed that such organizations have failed to dlsband.when ordered, to do bo by the college authorities and that they still Initiate new men. Purdue Exponent. NEBRASKA FORESTEWoFF TO HALtfEY RESERVE Government Asks for Nebraska Men Number Has Dropped Because of Inconvenience. Four Foresters made tho trip to Halsey Jast week to do some nursery studying. Tho National Forest Re servo of Nebraska is located at this place. Each year the supervisor of this resorvek makes a request of the Forest department of the University for men to help In doing tho spring planting. Tho students have tho record of doing tho best work on this Tosorve -and f ot-thls -reason tho gov ernment has made, a special request jthat as many men as possible be fur--nIsbd"by-ihoForestrdopartmontr-In former years ten to twenty men made tho trip, but because of tho difficulty In maklng'up the school work missed during their absence tho number has dropped down to Its present number. The fraternities at Minnesota have adopted a "system 'of sbclalHsupervI sion," whoso business it Is to .co-operate with the different Greek organiza tions In the procuring of chaporones. It Is a "gentleman's agreement" to In- sure proper chaperonage of social HAWKINS WILL LEAD HUSKERS NEXT YEAR Guard for Two Years on Winning TeamsFormerly, a Wis consin Man. Earl Hawkins will load the Husker basket tossers next yoar. "Hawk" has been a member of tho basketball team for the last two years'," playing at guard. Hawkins hails from Oshkosh, Wisconsin, and is a junior in the Col lege of Engineering, SENIOR PROM TICKETS . . NEARLY SOLD OUT Finances 8ettled Committee Work- lng Day and Nlght.on.the Preparations. At Bix o'clock last night only five tickets to the Senior Prom-' woro yet to bo sold whon all of tho number Issuod would be disposed of. A num ber of reservations havo not yet boon taken up and these will bo placed on sale at ono o'clock today, unless they aro called for before that time, ac cordlne to CKairman Kolth. """These are tickets which were sot asiden't jhfl roquofuX QJLprospoctlye purchasers to he taken up yesterday, but an ox tonslon was granted until noon today, af,tor which they will no longer be bold. . Little difficulty has boon on countered by the committee in selling the-ninety tickets and they Shave- ceased to worry jover the finances of tho "prom, turning their attention to" preparing for tho function.,. -Those who will attend have been cautioned that the grand march will begin at "8 o'clock sharp and not later. This Is necessitated by a demand for X3mil3afIaSncaIIffiania3b that a schedule of tho dances has boon made whloh must bo strictly com plied with. "Oval" Jones, of musical famo, is to be present .with a nine pleco orchestra, and will render all the latest pieces that are adapted to tho newer dances. Outside of this none of tho plans havo been disclosed. Michigan. Dxjrry new, tno scene or many a hard-fought athletic contest r.t the University of Michigan, is undergoing a transformation which will eventu ally change the wooden stands of the athletic field into a' magnificent stad; ium similar to thosfc in the east. Pur due Exponent,' - . GORNHUSKER MAY I " ALL PICTURES SENT TO ENGRAV ERSPROOFS BACK. -- ' msfr '- - "- -- j ORDERS TAKEN APRIL l-AND 2 jScnlorPJcture Arrangement New Football Featured Color Work Is Better Than Ever--No More Pictures Accepted by Staff, That tho 1914 Cornhusker will be ready for distribution on May flrst Is now an established fact, for all pic tures havo gono to the engravers and proofs of ntany aro in tho editor's oHloo. Tho reason for tho smooth, sailing this yoar Is duo to thp fact that practically all pictures woro paid" for boforo bolng Bont to tho engraver, and this afforded discounts on stock and presswork which in previous years was impossible. Orders for only thlrtcon hundred Cornhuskors bound in full seal black cowhide will be taken on the campus for two days, sale commencing one week from today, April first and sec ond. BbBldes thp thlrtcon hundred standard books, seventy-five do luxe books, tho flrst over presented to the students of Nebraska, will bo sold as a matter of Introduction. No cloth bound books will bo on salo this year because of tho slow sale of that qual- lty last yoar. Many of the two dollar books were turned in for leather bound 1913.Cornhuskers. The stand ard leather-bound edition, will be sold for $2.50, although the-cost of printing it is $3.00. The do lujte book" will be sold at $3.50, which fa greatly under tho cost of-prlntlng. The Badger, the year book of the University of Wis- consln, sells fpr $5,00 in the do luxe binding. Advertising, which has been very heavy this year,, makes it pod slblo for tho management to get a most excellent book out for this rea sonable price. "No more 'class' has over been shown in any school annua) In the country than will bo In this year's Cornljuskerp' is the way Business Manager Swift expresses it An en- (Continued on page.2). THE RIBBON IH THEIR HAIR CONVEY MESSAGES "A Characteristic qfttre WomerrTof Greenlandr" Says Mr. Vrlght t Convocation.,. A largo number of the students and faculty enjoyed the illustrated lecture on "Greenland," by Frederick B, HglTTTfiit"". convocation yftKterflggr Howovor, considering how interesting and Instructive It was, thdre should have been a much larger attendance, Mr. Wrlgbt told df the Inhabitants of Greenland, thoir manners, customs' and, occupation They do not like tho name Esqulma that we give them .so call themselves "The Peopje," Ono rather interesting point that he Uj$ilked about was tho , dress of the women, ruey an wear rjuuons in their "hair. These convey character lstlo meanings. Tho' single woman must wear-' pnk, whll? a -marrledr woman wears blue. Tho widow a'l-waya- wears black ribbon and one who desires to, be awjdow ijof longer Shay wear a black and white ribbon, t, " '"V J 42 .'1 m v a k I' . fur "I l-i rf, Hi f' .. A' -kNj v.J ; 1--1 Jf Ji -A n) if at the Temple Today! 1 J . 'n .. s . ' a Uni Nififht Tickets BBBB iBH BBM IIH