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Saturday
VOL. XIII. NO. 112
UNIVERSITY Ofr NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1914.
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THAWING OUT
SPRING FOOTBALL
SEVENTEEN GRIDIRON CANDI
' .DATES OUT ON FIR8T CALL.
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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
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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.'
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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
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ALL PICTURES SENT TO ENGRAV
ERSPROOFS BACK.
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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, "
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