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UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1914. JfKlUU b ujnig.
GLASS
ADOPTED IN 1912 BY THE FOUR
CLASSES JOINTLY.
AUSTRALIAN BALLOT USED
Big Event to Take Place One Week
From Today-T-Seyen Articles
Give the Details of the
Election Process.
The following resolution, regarding
class elections was adopted by the
four clases of the University in 1912.
This applies only to regular students
of undergraduate rank. It does' not
apply to Adult Special or Dental stu
dents. "Resolved, That the Presidents ofJ
the four classes, the Ivy Day Orator,
and the Editor-in-Chief, Managing Edi
tor, and Business Manager of the Corn
husker be elected by the Australian
Ballot System as follows:
ARTICLE I.
"There shall be; one general election
by this system the third Tuesday of
each semester, exclusive of Registra
tion week, at which, election tho Pres
idents of the four classes shall be
elected. The Ivy Day Orator, Editor-in-Chief,
Managing Editor and Busi
ness Manager of the Cornhusker shall
be elected at the general election of
th second semester.
ARTICLE H.
"The Registrar shall designate the
place of election. The polls shall be
in charge of three faculty members
appointed by the Registrar. Each can
didate may have a representative at
the polls during the election.
ARTICLE in.
"Each voter shall check the name
of the candidate or candidates for
whom he' wishes to vote on a ballot
furnished him by the election officials
which ballot shall then de deposited
by the election officials In its respec
live box. There shall be a separate
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DEAN 6ESSEY HAS
NEW GINKGO FRUIT
Received the Rare Product From 9t
Louis There is a Small Tree.
by Nebraska Hall.
Dean Bessey has had some fruit of
the Ginkgo tree sent him from the
Botanical Gardens of Missouri at St.
Louis. One of the principal character
istics of the fruit is an odor to which
Hmberger cheese canilot hold a candle.
The tree was one of the most abund
ant in the ancient Geological period
but they have all died off except one
specie grown in China and Japan. The
natives there eat the fruit, although
it would be Impossible to do this had
they a very accuto sense of smell.
The tree grows to seventy or eighty
feet In height and the one inSt Louis
Is two feet in diameter. A small tree
of this type is located near the en
trance of Nebraska Hall. It is not as
yet old enough to produce fruit.
Carlsen to Yale.
Mr. Frank Carlson, '14, was seen on
the campus Friday. He was on his
way t "New Haven, Conn., where he
will enter the Tale School of Religion.
He expects to take a three-year conrse
there. "
STUDENTS GETTING
RIGHT DOWN TO WORK
Library Has Been a Busy Place More
Books Than Usual Given Out
up to Date.
The social activities of the first few.
weeks of university life and the night
ly attractions of the city have in years
heretofore usually proved irresistible
to the larger part of the student body,
and as a result lessons were neglected
for the more pleasant diversions.
But, as tho philosopher says, "The
old order hath changed," (If he didn't
say it he should have) and this year
evidences of industry are more con
vincing and much more numerous than
in other years. Since classes began
the library has been crowded with
students and two or three times as
many books have been checked out
already as there were a year ago. The
periodicals and reference books have
been in almost constant use, and it
would seem that the student body is
early taking advantage of the fine op
portunity offered and with the open
ing pf classes began work in earnest.
FRESHMAN HEAD6EAR
PROBLEM UP AGAIN
Expected That the Innocents Will
j Take the Matter up 8oon Noth
ing Doing Yet.
It has been the custom for years
past to have the Freshmen wear
'green caps. They are not meant to
"be worn as a mark of ridicule but to
get the members of the class acquaint
ed with one another. So far this year
nothing has been done in regard to
this natter but it is presumed that
within: a short time the Innocents
will have it arranged. "When the time
comes each member of the class
should procure one and wear It on tho
campus as a mark" of loyalty to the
University.
Tigers Study Book Football at Night.
The varsity candidates have been
reporting to the gymnasium after sup
per to go over the rule books and to
study the game. They are being thor
oughly drilled in the knowledge of
what It means to get the ball under
all circumstances.
. Mr. Schultc sprung this questfon on
tho field: If a team defending Its goal
attempts to punt when the kicker fa
back of the goal line and the punted
ball strikes a player of the defensive
team and bounds back behind the line,
would it be a safety or a touchback
If a defending player fell upon it?
Then comes the question In many
cases of the Impetus of the ball from
the offensive or. defensive team.
What would It be If the opponents got
the ball?
There is one thing certain, the
Tigers are being taught to get the ball.
It will be remembered by many sport
followers the special work of White
of Princeton a few years ago. White
had hen trained to always watch a
chance to get the ball. In fact, that
was one of his special dutiesto watch
for fumble regardless of where he
wa or the ball was. It went down In
Eastern football history as one of the
memorable runs when he had snapped
nn a. fumble in the opponents' back-
fleld and raced to the goal, winning
the game. Dally Mtseourlan.
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WILL BE HELD IN LAW AUDI
TORIUM THURSDAY EVENING.
SCHOLARSHIP IS MAIN ISSUE
List of Speakers is Being Arranged
New Pledges to) be Given Point
ers In Regard to School
Work.
The Inter-Fraternity Council Is pre
paring to raise the scholarship stand
ard among the Greeks. Thursday even
ing all the Greeks and pledges will
meet in the Law auditorium for a
rally to boost the scholarship of fra
ternities. The new pledges will there
get an insight Into their fraternity re
lations and the value of Big Scholar
ship for the fraternities.
The council will have their regular
meetings the first of every month. At
these meetings each fraternity will be
Indorsed for its high scholarship or
put on the carpet for slutting. Abso
lutely no stuffing will be permitted.
Right from the start all Greeks will
'organize and in a business-like way
handle all delinquencies.
The fraternities realize that this
problem Is their problem, not the Uni
versity's. By checking and tallying
with Registrar Greer, the work of
sluffers will be caught before they are
put xlown on the books as delinquent.
The council will conduct the meeting
and arrange a program of fiery speak
ers. Convocation
Present aspects of the
European War.
'Professoz Fling
Memorial Hall, 11 A.M.
'ANNOUNCEMENT,
i have just found that, in making
up the scholarship records, one of the
Phi Kappa Psl pledges was not in
cluded. He was not on the registrar's
books as he had not paid his fees. His
record ought, however, to be included.
This still gives the Phi Kappa Psi
fraternity the first place for the sec
ond semester, but gives tho Acacia
fraternity the first place for the whole
year by a slight margin.
CARL C. ENGBERG.
FRAT PLEDGES NOT
OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED
ProfeMor luck Will Have the Praper
List Published in This Paper
Wednesday.
The list of fraternity pledges that
appeared in the papers last evening is
.not authentic Inasmuch as It was not
given out by Prof. Buck, chairman of
the inter-fraternity council. Wednes
day's Issue of the Daily Nebraskan
will give the official list of' men to
gether with the fraternity to which
they have been pledged.
IKTER-FRA
MEETING
ATHLETES' CLAS8R00M
GREATLY IMPROVED
New Locker System Installed In Gym
nasiumMore Sanitary System
Than the Old.
iA needed h "rovemerit has been
made in the , i nasium by the dis
posal of all ot the wooden lockers and
the partition that formerly divided the
room.
The steel lockers have been in
stalled and an order issued that here
after only one person will be per
mitted to use each locker. Besides be.
ing unsanitary, the order-was issued to
eliminate the loss of property and con
fusion which resulted under the former
system.
For the benefit of those who use tho
lockers it has been requested that no
one shall allow old shoes and unusued
clothing to be kept in the lockers.
Dr. Sinclair, professor of "Vertebrate
Palaeontology in Princeton University,
Visited the collections of the State
Museum during the last week in
August.
FRESHMAN CLASSES
STARTEO AT LAST
"Jack" Lyons Formally Announces
. Himself as Candidate For Fresh
, man Class President.
"Jack" Lyons has announced him
self as candidate for Freshman presi
dent. There have been all kinds of
reports about "Dame Rumor" but this
time there can be no mistake, the
'Freshman class have at last got busy.
"Jack" Is a Lincoln man, a graduate
'of Temple High where he played foot
ball two years, and a pledge of the Phi
'Gamma Delta fraternity. He will have
a good pull with all Lincoln Freshmen
and with the general student body as
he Is already, taking part in Freshman
work, being fullback on the Freshman
football team.
Camp Columbia.
Started about twenty-five years ago
as a small Camp where the engineer
ing students could get a bit of prac
tical surveying, Camp Columbia has
grown to be one of the largest of the
University's offshoots with a dozen, or
more buildings and equipment for one
hundred and eighty or more students.
The work at Camp has been, and
probably will continue to be, princi
pally field work In surveying and geo
desy but it has recently been placed
under the administration of the Sum
mer Session and Its scope will be wid
ened and other courses offered. All
first year engineering students spend
five weeks at tho Camp and Civil and
Mining engineers come back for more
advanced work later on.
The student who comes to the Camp
has to work even harder than at the
"U" but he gets a lot of valuable ex
perience, valuable to the man who
will take up engineering but equally
valuable to any man who will have to
handle men and "do things," and most
of all he gets that pull together spirit,
sometimes called esprit de corps,
without which no constructive work
requiring the labor cmore than one
man can be made successful. Columbia-Spectator.
HOWARD IS INJURED
THE TEAM PUT THROUGH A GOOD
SCRIMMAGE AT THE FARM.
TEAM MISSES ITS SUPPER
The Jinx is Again in Evidence arid
Howard May Be Out of the
Washburn -Game on Sat
urday as Result.
By H. I. Kyle.
The evening shadows lengthened,
faded slowly, and at last merged Into
the general gloaming. The, calm, sober
silence of the autumn night was
broken (but not seriously) by a soft,
far-away sound that might have been
the hoot of an owl, the toot of a trolley-car,
or the coo of a co-ed; then! all
was still again. Quietude, which Is a
very still, soundless, and standard
variety of silence, prevailed o'er the
city, permeated the campus, and perco
lated, at times, even into the secluded
recesses of the locker room, where the
faithful-Jack Best, and his corps of
skilled assistants wnlted anxiously,
aye, impatiently, the return of the'
gridiron squad, which had "taken its
riotous departure, for the Farm In the
golden glow of the early afternoon.
"Where can they be," muttered the
loyal old trainer, with the accent on
the "be," and then he repeated the
question with the accent on the
"where." The Big Ben In the corner
rounded the pole and settled down on
the home stretch) toward seven bells,
"Lost" groaned the lonely old guardian
of the Cornhusker hopes, and rung his
hands with a towel (or vice versa).
But no! The keen ear of the 'trainer
has caught a sound which it proceeds
'to digest with much satisfaction. An
other little sound seeps In, and then a
continuous trickle of noises which
grows, and swells, and expands, and
takes form; 'tis the rumble of many
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FRAT HOUSE ENTERED
THE OTHER EVENING
Sigma Phi Epsllon, Boys Were Almost
The Victims This Time Seems
to be Fashion.
Last Saturday night the little boys
who live under the roof of the Sigma
Phi Epsilon fraternity house were
given a big scare. According to the
most coherent reports which are to bo
obtained it seems that bold, bad rob
bers w.ere prowling anou't. The first
man was in the dorm and sawing
wood when all at once a noise was
heard up the back stairs. Then tho
fireworks started for one man still
stared at the roof and thought of tho
fair damsel whom he had just escorted
homo from the dance. A South Omahan
hit tho floor in one bound and hollered
fire. That was all there was to it as
far as Mr. Burglar was concerned for
a double barreled shotgun, a tennis
racket, an Indian club, a hockey club,
and a fire shovel charged down the
stairs. There were plain signs of a
forced entry but Inasmuch as nothing
was missing the boys decided wisely
not to extend their searcn to the out
doors. Greeks are warned to seal the
house tight and make 'the Frosh ,
habitue of Bullard's carry a key.
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