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VOL. XIV. NO. 18.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA. LINCOLN, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1914.
PRICE 5 CENTS.
DRAMATIC
S
EIGHT OF THE FORTY-FIVE CAN
DIDATES WON PLACES.
COM PETITI 0 N WAS VERY KEEN
Five Judges Handled This Very Try
ing Case Final Tryouts Will be
Held Next, Thursday
Night.
Foriy-five candidates for admission
to the Dramatic Club appeared in the
tryouts Wednesday evening at the
Temple Theatre. Unusual interest was
shown in the tryoutsnd on the whole
the ability displayed was exceptional,
necessitating very careful considera
tion by the judges in the elimination.
The membership of the club is not
limited but in order that the members
may get a reasonable amount of prac
tice and training the number is usual
ly small.
' Two tryouts are held each year. The
second tryout this year will be held
on next Thursday night and those who
failed this time will have an opportun
ity to try again then. Three girls and
five boys were successful in the Wed
nesday evening tryout. They were:
Ruby Anderson.
Eva McNamara.
Adele Kellenbarger.
J. C. Beard.
DeWitt Foster.
Victor Rerney.
Carlisle Jones.
Spray Gardner.
The judges were: Miss Alice How
ell, Mr. S. S. Davis, Miss Bashie Tully,
Mr. Ralph Northrup, and Mr. Clarence
Clark.
Announcement..
An informal study of the second
Beethoven Symphony will be held in
Art Hall at 5 p. m. Saturday. This
study hour is intended for all who en
joy music but are not professional
musicians or have little opportunity
for becoming intimately acquainted
with such masterpieces of musical art.
It is open to both students and faculty.
BIG CONVOCATION
HELD YESTERDAY
First Beethoven Symphony Rendered
Audience Shows Great
Appreciation.
Memorial Hall was filled yesterday
with students and faculty who came
to her.r the first Beethoven Symphony
rendered by Mrs. Raymond together
with the string quartet Especially
significant wab the large number of
men present. The players expressed
themselves as delighted with the ap
preciation of the audience as evi
denced by their close attention. Ne
braska students are certainly showing
a strong interest in good music. .
The Symphony was light and joyful
throughout and simple enough to be
grasped readily. The lucid and enter
taining description of it on the pro
grams written by Prof. Vance helped
not a little toward understanding the
various movements.
The Andante was especially melodi
ous and graceful. It would certainly
be educative as we 1 as delightful if
each Symphony could be repeated.
One hearing is not enough for those
who really care for music.
Catholic Students' Dance.
Seventy-eight tickets, inclusive of
all complim.entaries, have been vali
dated for the Catholic, Students Club
dance, October 16, 1914. No more
ticket will be validated for this dance.
T. A. WILLIAMS,
Agent of Student Activities.
CHILDS GAVE FINE
ADDRESS AT TEMPLE
Spoke on "Making Life Count" Ex
pects to Leave for Argentina in
Near Future.
Mr. Elmer W. Childs, an old Ne
braskan, spoke in the Music Hall of
the Temple the other evening on the
subject "Making Life Count." Mr.
Childs expects to leave in the near
future for Buenos Ayres, Argentina,
where he will do Y. M. C. A. mission
work.
lie gave a very interesting talk and
impressed upon his listeners the great
opportunities which are to be found
in the foreign fields. He compared
life to a phonograph and our records
to phonograph records which are left
behind for others to hear. He pre
sented a very strong argument for the
entering of mission work by young
men.
After his talk Mr. Ewing, secretary
of the College Y, M. C. A., told of the
different mission classes that are being
organized. Each one was asked to
give his support vto the work and a
number of new students enrolled in
the mission work.
Mr. Childs is now taking graduate
work in the University and will prob
ably be here until he starts south.
CADET OFFICERS TO
HOLDJIG BANQUET
Tonight at the Llndell the Fighters
Will Gather Several Alumni
Present.
Tonight, in the banquet room of the
Lindell hotel, will occur the Cadet
Officers' Association banquet. About
thirty-five active and twenty alumni
officers are expected to be present.
This is the first annual dinner that
has ever been given the first of the
year by the association. It is given
as a recognition meeting for the new
officers. The Officers will receive
their commissions from the Univer
sity through Chancellor Avery.
The association was organized two
years ago, and they expect to do big
things this year, and several social
affairs are now being planned. The
object of the association is to Instil
the spirit of fellowship in the officers
and to keep the alumni in touch with
the pre? ..' work.
Membership in the association is
open to any ex-officers among the
alumni and the present active officers.
The present officers of the associa
tion are: President, Dean O. V. P.
Stout; vice president, I E. Hurtz;
secretary-treasurer, A. H. Dinsmore.
The board of directors consists of the
president, secretary-treasurer, Lieu
tenant Parker, H. F. Kramer and W.
K. Fowler.
The speakers at the banquet will be
as follows:
Toastmaster, Dean O. V. P. Stout
Chancellor AVery.
C. J. Lord, colonel two years ago.
Kirk Fowler, present colonel.
Samuel Parker, the present com
mandant L. C. Oberlies.
A JUBILATION PARTY
SECOND BIG EVENT HELD IN THE
ARMORY BY GIRLS.
WILL WEAR MANY COSTUMES
Miss Mayhew Will Appear in Typical
Chinese Attire Refreshments to
be Served Free in
Armory.
This is the last day of the mission
ary campaign, which is being carried
on by the Y. W. C. A. and the close oi.
the campaign will be celebrated to
night with a "Jubilation Costume
Party" in the armory.
Every university girl is invited and
requested to appear in costume. The
party is not a Chinese party and cos
tumes of all descriptions will be in evi
dence. Miss Mayiiew has promised to
appear in the typical Chinese costume
such as she wore when at work in
China. She will give a short talk tell
ing of some of her experiences while
in China. Miss Dodge and Miss Blanch
ard are, planning to be present and
have agreed to "dress for the occa
sion." A band composed of faculty and
graduate students is now being trained
and will tonight make their first ap
pearance in the musical world. Re-
freshments will be served and a pro
gram of unique and original stunts will
be given. The physical education de
partment will be represented by a
number of girls in special costume.
The last of the pledges for the sup
port of the missionary in China will
be taken this afternoon. The amount
raised during the campaign will be an
nounced tonight. No admission will be
charged.
UNI BAND PLEASES
OMAHA AUDIENCES
Plays at Aksarben Wednesday Night
Return Last Night Except the
Lucky Ones.
The University of Nebraska was
sobly represented at the- big Aksar
ben carnival held in Omaha this week.
It is estimated that at least three
hundred students attended the show
on different days of the week. All
classes were represented from the un
suspecting frosh to the dignified sen
for. Wednesday was the really big
day on account of the electrical parade.
However, it rained Wednesday night
and sort of dampened the ardor of
many. Those who were lucky enough
to drax; a bid to the ball or have ten
dollars to buy a bid will stay over un
til Saturday. Everyone reports a fine
time.
AWGWAH WILL BE GOT
. MONDAY MORNING
Many New Features and Generally
Good Watch for the Fraterni
ties Want Ads.
The second issue of the Awgwan
will be out on Monday. This Issue
will contain many new features that
have heretofore been omitted. The
name given to this number, HOME
SICK, is very appropriate for this
time of the year. Another Epecial fea
ture 's the page of want ads concern
ing fraternities. All in all this is the
bicgest and best number that has been
printed in recent years.
Announcement.
Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Sawyer will en
tertain the students who attend All
Souls church and their friends at their
home on Saturday at No. 5 Floral
Park, 6n Seventeenth and F streets.
No formal Invitations have been is
sued.
JIM GARDINER HELD :
ATN1LICE STATION
Captured Last Night at the Oliver
Released This Morning After
Severe Lecture.
Jimmy Gardiner, Phi Psi freshman
who fell into the hands of the Lincoln
police force the other night, fell out
again the next morning when he was
dismissed without being brought to
trial. The arrest was made by a spe
cial officer stationed in the gallery of
the theater to watch the behavior of
the university students. The officer
declared that Gardiner was dangling
a cord over the railing to the annoy
ance of the theatregoers seated below.
He was given a severe talking to by
Chief of Police Malone and released.
Union Society.
The Union Society will hold 'the
second open meeting of the year Sat
urday evening at 8:15 in their rooms
on the third floor of the Temple. The
following program will be given:
Vocal solo : Mr. Barnes
Reading .'...Ethel Westberg
Pantomine Vacation Occupations
Union Boys
Violin solo Harvey Kinney
Everybody invited.
REVIEW OF THE
JUROPEAN WAR
Teacher of the Lincoln Schools Gives
Account of Her Experiences in
War Territory.
At the Graduate Seminar of the de
partment of political science and
sociology meeting, Tuesday evening,
Miss Mary Tremain of the Lincoln
High School gave a very interesting
and detailed talk of her experiences
in crossing France and England on
her way home this summer. Miss
Tremain was in Europe at the decla
ration of war. She had a very good
opportunity to study the conditions in
Europe, especially in France and Eng
land. She related that while in Paris,
the usual gathering place of the fes
tive minds of the world, the streets
were deserted, and the usually pic
tured gay Frenchman went around
very seriously and calmly. She Baid:
"The French are not Bhowing any of
the excitability credited to them. In
fact, France is at present the most
serious country in Europe, as her
whole being and welfare depend upon
the outcome of this gigantic struggle
now going on in Europe.
"In aristocratic England the condi
tions are also very changed," said
Miss Tremain. "The well-to-do people
in England, especially the noble
class, are doing everything in their
power to lighten the awful burden
of war. The nobles as well as the
wealthy class are putting advertise
ments in the daily payers to the
effect that they have a house or pal
ace that may be used as a hospital.
As a whole, France a.id England are
preparing to make the stand of their
history in this present conflict
PR GE
FEAR OF DROWNING CAUSES TEAM
TO CUT SCRIMMAGE SHORT.
COYOTES HIT TOWN TODAY
Every Indication Points Toward a
Mighty Struggle When the
Cornhuskers Clash With
the Coyotes.
By H. I. Kyle.
"We are going into a game, Satur
day," said Coach Stiehm this morning,
"in which we have everything to lose
and nothing to gain." We are going
against a team of veterans that will
match our team in weight, that has
been practicing since the middle of
August, and that has been pointed
toward this game since the season be
gan. We will have to oppos them
with a line-up that has been shot to
pieces by injuries and shifts. But if
the men will get that dogged, deter
mined fighting spirit, that enabled
them to compass the seeming impossi
ble so many times last year, then there
will still be ample ground for hope.
A short scrimmage was indulged In,
to the tune "a life on the ocean wave,"
yesterday, but a fear that someone
would be drowned soon induced a halt
in the marine maneuvers. We hesi
tate to chronicle the fact that when
ever a man was tackled yesterday,
nothing but the buoyancy of the ball
kept him from going completely under.
After a very little of this hydro-fighting,
during which neither side was
able to rock the boat to any great ex
tent, the squad adjourned to the gym
where the ball-passing phase of the
game was joyfully taken up.
The rangy old pack from the north
land will probably hit town sometime
today. If you see one, scratch his
back and make him feel at home. He
is our guest till Saturday night and
though he may shatter our fair record
before he goes, we must bear in mind
that such is his way and that we in
vited him to try that very stunt or he
wouldn't be here.
REGENTS EXPRESS
THEIRSEHTIMENTS
Endorses President's Neutrality Posi
tion Action Due to Maher's
Letter.
With no desire to curtail academic
freedom, the university board of
regents asked Chancellor Avery to
make a public statement giving their
opinion of President Wilson's neutral
ity proclamation, at their meeting
Tuesday evening. They were person
ally very much in sympathy with the
president's proclamation, and ex
pressed their desire that internal
peace and good will, not only at the
university but throughout the state,
might be maintained.
The statement was made after con
sideration of a letter written them by
Colonel John G. Maher, published in
the public press October 5, in which
he protested very strongly against a
speech made by Prof. Kd M. Fling
of the European History Department
at chapel September 29. He enclosed
a synopsis of the speech and said that
Prof. Fling had not only violated the
neutrality proclamation, but had
6trongly urged the students to take
sides.