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VOL. XIII. NO. 147
UNIVERSITY OP NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1914.
Price 5 Gents
7VUININE;FOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA T THE OLIVER, MVY :2!5
FESTIVAL HISTORY.
TWO PROGRAMS IN THE OLIVER
THEATER MONDAY MAY 25.
CHORUS OF TWO HUNDRED.
Introductory Program at Temple Satur
day Night Board of Regents
Appointed a Committee to ,
Arrange Festival.
The First May Festival over given
under the direct auspices of the Uni
versity will open Saturday night, May
23, with the opera "II Trovatore," in
concert form at the Temple.
- On Monday, the 2bth, the Allnnea'y
olis Symphony Orchestra, under the
direction of Emll Oberhoffer, will give
two complete programs in the Oliver
theater.
The May Festival is the outgrowth
of a plan formulated by a group of in
terested people when the Orchestra
appeared here last year. At tho sug
gestion of Professor Grummann and
-Mrs, Raymond. Chancellor Avery
Important Notes On the May Festival
1. "II Trovatore" in concert form Saturday evening,
May 23, Temple Theatre. Admission to holders
of special tickets, 25c; all others, 50c.
2. Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Monday, May
25. Matinee, 2:30; evening, 8:15. Prices, $1.50 to
50c. Student tickets on sale Friday at $1.50 for
both: ; :
placed tho matter of securing the
same organization for this year before
the Board of Regents. Tho Board took
kindly to the idea and officially ap
pointed Chancellor Avery, Regent Al
len and Professor Grummann as a
Committee to makO nrmngomoptn,
Through the Instrumentality of Mrs.
Raymond the Orchestra was engaged
for a series of two concerts. The con-
tract calls-foT ircomploto orchestra
and four soloists which will be supple
mented by the University Chorus of
two hundred voices.
The Orchestra is now on its annual
spring tour, during which they are
billed to play ninety-six concerts in
fifty-four different lownB, ranging from
;WinnliegT-Cflnndn, r Cninmbla. Mo.r
and from Kalamazoo, Mich., to Lin-"
coin. Tho Orchestra has always been
popular with the musical people of
Lincoln and the requests for seats In
dicate that the Oliver will bo sold out
several days in advance of the date for
tho concerts.
3- Students buying tickets excused from classes Mon
day afternoon, May 25th. A list will be turned
in to the Executive Dean.
4. The closing of . the library, art galleries, museums,
laboratories and offices has been authorized by
the Chancellor.
5. Student tickets bought Friday exchanged for re
served seats, Tuesday, the 19th,
PETE DAY MEET
HIGH SCHOOL 8TUDENT8 FROM
ENTIRE 8TATE TO COMPETE.
GOPHER MEET SAME DAT
Large Crowd Expected Out -for Double
Event Manager Reed a Trifle
Anxious 8eason Tickets
Taken at the Gate.
6. Groups of ten or more students may arrange tor
seats together without standing in line at the box
Coach Reed is wearing a long faco,
caused by worrying about the coming
of the Minnesota Gophers. Tho Go
phers aro to meet tho Huskers on
Nebraska Field Saturday afternoon.
.it in rumored that thnv aro coming
down to Lincoln with the avowant pur
pose of avenging that 7 to FfootoTfll
racoro of last November and those two
basket-ball drubbings of February.
Tho Gophers aro showing real class
this spring. On Saturday, May 2nd,
they gave tho Iowa Hawkoyes a trim
mlng on their own field. The Minne
sota men aro an exceptionally heavy
track team and should the field tyo
muddy it would groatly-increase-their
chances. Track followers are picking
Coach Reed's men as favorites in tho
dashes and giving Minnesota the ad
vantage in the long distances. Tho
strength of tho Gopher relay team is
unknown, but it is expected to moas
uro up witn former" MlIMUHOlu. relay -teams.
In the field events and hurdles
Nebraska has a slight ' advantage,
office. See Mr. Corneli in-Regi&trars-office-Er-U
day or Saturday of this week.
7- Requests for reserved seats at the general admis
sion rate may be filed with Mr. Cornell until
Safcurefayel
may be reserved at the Oliver.
8. The two Symphony concerts will have different
programs. ' f
Minnesota has no onewlKTUomparw
"favorably with -Mr, Seven Myers.
Seven is showing up as one of the
sensations of tho Valley. The big boy
from York, who Is so tall that ho has
to sit down to reach his pockets, has
been performing In phenominal shape.
In tho weight events Seven will be
-assisted by Gllnton-CupidRosst3Kho
wag-ablo-tn-anii6-ft gfliiplfl-nf-tccomjy
over Ames last Saturday.
Captain Doodle and Herb Reese will
enter the broad Jump and expect to
place. Myers should score in the high
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Fete Day Meet SATURDAY
Neb. v. Minn. Meet W,l:30 p.m.
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