The Daily Nebra
VOL. XV. NO. 24.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, MONDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1915.
PRICE 5 CENTS.
PLANS OF BESSEY
HALLJESCRIBED
CHANCELLOR AVERY ISSUES A
FORMAL STATEMENT
DR. BESSEY APPROVED SITE
Plan of the Architecture Given In De
tailBuilding to House Zoology
and Botany Will Coat Ap
proximately $200,000
To Any Daily Paper In the State:
So many requests Txave come to me
for an authorized statement in regard
to the first building to be erected on
the extended city campus, that I have
writen the following for release un
der date of October 17th. Further, If
any paper wishes to publish a picture
of the building to accompany the de
scriptive matter, I shall be pleased to
send a photograph of the architect's
Bketch with the understanding, of
course, that the photograph will be
used first in connection with the fol
lowing copy:
BESSEY HALL
v By S. Avery
Dr. Bessey is gone, but he leaves
with us an imperishable memory. We
was the first professor lu the natural
science group to remain long with
the University of Nebraska and to
leave an indelible mark upon it It
Is fitting that the permanent home of
two fundamental natural sciences in
the University should be named In
his honor.
The writer believes that he first sug
gested naming such a building after
Dr. Bessey when he penned for the
aproval page 21 of the blennnial re
port of 1911-12. This report contains
the sentence: "The inadequate and
dangerous building known as Nebras
ka Hall should be removed and. an
adequate building called Bessey Hall
in honor of Dr. Bessey erected to
house the natural sciences." Never
theless when he wrote these words it
was then as now the writer's opinion
that in general no building built at
public expense should be named after
the living. Dr. Bessey was great
enough so that, this exception was
planned, but his lamented death pre
vented the exception bejng made. Let
us now render his memory a special
honor by resolving that hereafter no
building shall be named for anyone
until his life's work is complete. This
is in harmony with the Regents' act
in deciding that hereafter the title
of Head Dean shall not be awarded.
Location of the Euiiding
Some of the soecial friends of Dr
Bessey are disappointed that the
building is not to be located on a more
conspicuous site. To these I would
ay that Dr. Bessey Insisted on only
one thing north light for the use of
iis microscopes. He was, however.
Pleased to have the building located
way from the noise and dust of heavy
traffic. The location as now deter
mined met his critical approvaL The
building will have north windows
'long its main side and will be so
located that no other University build
ing can by any possibility obstruct
tie view.
The Plan of the Building
The building will have three stories
sbove ground. The basement, not to
be used for class room purposes, will
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BESSEY
REQUEST UNIVERSITY BOOKLET
News Is Eagerly Sought Concerning
the University Week
Program
The following Is one of many let
ters received by Mr. Hewitt, inquiring
about "University Week." This let
ter is a fair example of those so far
received and shows something of the
interest created by last year's effort:
Mr. H. G. Hewitt,
Lincoln, Nebr.
' Dear Sir: I am writing you because
I am interested in school work and
at present in the University especial
ly. I would be pleased if you would
send me a copy of your booklet con
taining last year's program of "Uni
versity Week."
I am also requested by the school
board of Minden to make application
for the coming "Week" and get your
requirements for the same.
We have a high school enrollment of
200 pupils,, with from 30 to 40 grad
uates each year. We should be pleas
ed to have a larger per cent of our
graduates attend the University. Our
object is to help the University and to
create more interest in school work
here.
Thanking you in advance, I am,
J. S. CANADAY,
Chairman of School Board.
GEESON TENNIS CHAMPION
Defeats Ellis, the Present State
Champion Match Close and
Well Contested
Geeson, of Seward, defeated Ellis,
of Beaver City, the present state
champion, in the semi-finals pf the
tennis tournament Friday, October 15,
by the following scores: 6-1 in favor
of Geeson, 6-1 in favor or fcms, -o
in favor of Ellis, 6-2 in favor of Gees
on, 7-5 in favor of Gaeson. Art Schmidt
of Madison refereed and Harvey Hess
of Hebron was linesman.
The match could not have been
closer. Every point of the match
wac closely contested. In the first
set Geeson had everything his own
way. But In the second set Ellis
seemed to have found his pace and
defeated Geeson as easily as Geeson
had defeated him In the first set In
the third set both of the contestants
seemed to have struck their pace, but
Ellis won after a long, bard scrap.
Geeson came back bard In the fourth
set and took it easily. Now the crit
ical set had come. Both men worked
hard. Nearly every game went to
deuce. .
Finally the set went to deuce and
both men fought naraer uiu
Then Geeson won the advantage iu
games and the last game of the match
was on. This game soon went to
a Civpml times uecBuu -
advantage, but each time Ellis would
win the next point and hring me
to deuce again. But soon Godson
,..! his opponent to the back
nf the court and a brilliant drive won.
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HALL The New Botanical and Zoollgical Building.
STUDENTS ANSWER
SUNDAY'S CALL
LARGE UNIVERSITY GATHERING
HEARS HIM SPEAK
LARGE CROWD SHAKE HANDS
Speaker Introduced by Guy C. Cham
bersBilly Talks Fifty Jrtinutes,
Holding Audience Spellbound
Songs Prove Popular
It took only an hour and a half for
Billy Sunday, assisted by Choirister
Rodeheaver.to get students to "hit
the trail" by the hundreds when the
renowned evangelist addressed the
faculty and students at a special meet
ing at the St. Paul church Friday
morning.
The climax came when Sunday, aft
er an address lasting about fifty min
utes, invited the students to "hit the
trail." At first there was no response.
Undaunted, the evangelist issued a
second invitation and a few students
avaned slowly down the middle aisle.
A few more arose. "Come on, you
Varsity Team. Come on," shouted
Sundav. Instantly a human wave
surged forward, sweeping onward with
an Irrestible rush, overflowing tne
aisles. Sunday was shaking wun doiu
his hands but was unable to grasp
every hand. With only a few mo
ments to spare he dashed into tne
rotor's study, changed his garb,
Jumped into an automobile and in a
few moments was on his way DacK w
Omaha.
When clases were excuesd at 8:35
o'clock the entire student body with
a. large iacuuy reyieocuw"""
for the St Paul church. The doors
nMth crowds. The
were muvuvu " - - ---chursh
was filled in a few moments,
reminding one of foofcall rallies, par
ticularly wHen the thrills of U-U-U-N-I
swept over the assembly. Billy bun
dav was ereeted In regular rally fash
inn. Rome time was spent in sing
ing "Brighten the Corner" and "Ne
braska." Guy C. Chambers, president
of th Innocents, then Introduced the
speaker.
The evangelist told of his exper
nr with students at different uni
versitfes. He told them from the start
that he came to talk religion and
T,thtti else. Men have given of their
very life blood in securing modern
nvpnJncea. but "let us also iae
time" to study the great truths of the
.i..i -rm-M T.ir is not a tmng
of the present alone, but more so of
the future. We are wrapt up so in
the present that we are liable to for
get the future. We must learn to ap
preciate this reality of life'.
Post-mortems were held on Billy
Sunday in various classes during the
remainder of the day. Comments of
all kinds were heard. Some regarded
the climax more as a friendly hand
shaking affair than anything else.
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NEW GEARS EXPLAINED
Professor Adendorf Gives Synopsls-
A Set of Bevel and Ellpti
cal Gears
The following is a synopsis of an
explanation of the new gears presented
to the Machine Shop Laboratory. It
was given by Prof. Adendorf.
The Belgram Machine Works have
presented the Machine Shop with a
quadruple set of meshed bevel gears
and a set of eliptical gears, both of
which are without "backlash." The
gears may be seen at the Machine
Laboratory.
The Belgram company have de
signed and built a machine by means
of which a theoretically true motion
gear can be made, as well as one
without "backlash." Heretofore this
has been impossible.
For many years it has been consid
ered an engineering impossibility to
generate the teeth of four bevel gears
of four different sizes, so that three
of the gears, working on a horizontal
axis, would work free on the large
bevel gear, rotating on a vertical
axis.
700 ATTENDED MIXER
Military Department Gives Success
ful Evening's Entertainment
- Rain No Drawback
Over 700 students and faculty mem
bers, undaunted by the rainy evening
and ready to mix with a vengeance, at
tended the first Military Mixer of the
year, Friday night, in the Armory.
First on the program came the band
concert, by the Cadet band, then fol
lowed the military pictures. Dur
ing the movies the crowd hummed,
whistled and sang Billy Sunday's spe
cial song, "Brighten the Corner Where
You Are."
Dancing was the third feature of the
program. The music was furnished
by Scott's orchestra and the new floor
was filled to the limit with whirling
figures from the time the music start
ed until the night watch called a
halt.
A short Intermission at 11 o'clock
for "mess" was announced by the of
ficial bugler.
SILVER SERPENTS INITIATE
Meet at the Y. W. C. A. Saturday
Picnic at the Farm Prevented
by the Weather
The Silver Serpents met in the Y.
W. C. A. rooms early Saturday morn
ing to initiate the members not in
structed "in the principles of the so
ciety last spring and those elected to
take places of Sara Weston and Mabel
Sanders. Louise Coe, Doris Scrog
gins, Lula Shade and Ethel Kittinger
were the ones admitted. The weath
er prevented the picnic at the Farm
as was planned, but the picnic break
fast was spread la front of the fire
place In the association rooms. Fur
ther plans for the decorations for
the Notre Dame game were discussed.
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WASHBURN EASY
FOR THE HUSKERS
SCRUBS REPLACE VARSITY DUR
ING LAST HALF
WASHBURN PLAY DEFENSIVE
Visistors' Forward Passes Are Easily
Broken Up by the Cornhuskers
Scrubs Score on the
Ichabods
Driving the desperate Ichabods re
lentlessly before them, the Huskers
plowed their way through for seven
touchdowns In the third encounter of
the season last Saturday. After run
ning up a score of 20 points in the
first quarter, the regular men drop
ped out of the Nebraska line one by
one and allowed the scrubs to wres
tle with the visitors over the pigskin.
This had the effect of controlling
the score, but it still mounted up for
Nebraska too swiftly to satisfy the
Husker manager, so at the beginning
of the last half the regulars were
taken out and the scrubs to the oneth
power were allowed to rub shoulders
with the Ichabods.
It was thought that this act might
prove fatal to the linkers, when the
visitors by a series of forward passes,
carried the ball down to Nebraska's
daneer zone, but the Husker stone
wall came Into play and the ball was
hfild on their three-yard line. L,uue
chance was given in the game with
wnahhurn to ludKe of the HusKers
prospects in the coming battle with
Notre Dame.
The Ichabods were thoroughly out
classed, and It Is impossible to say
whether the Huskers will be able to
open a hole In the line of the Hoosier
team. ,
In the few minutes in which the
Varsity team played, they showed
more speed and snap than they have
rpreviously shown.
Troctor did sensational work at
right half and he will probably be
given an early chance to wool the
Catholic giants over next Saturday.
Caley showed a high class assort
ment of snap and punch but was early
removed because he got fresh and
tried run past the whole Washburn
team.
"Spider" Kelley was given a chance
to drive the team during the last quar
ter, and he proved that his lack of
avoirdupois was the only thing which
stood between him and a Varsity po
The lineup at the beginning of the
game was:
Nebraska , Washburn
Chamberlain le Billings
It Logan
Shields lg L,n8
Moser t c R'ce
Abbott rg Dehn
Shaw rt Stewart
Riddell re Dalley
Claye qb Deals (c)
Rutherford (c lh McCosh
Proctor rh Champney
Doyle fb Mulrhead
Officials Referee, Reilley, K. C. A.
C.; umpire, Luke, ex-Doane; head
linesman, Kearns, ex-Bellevue. Touch
downs Rutherford, Caley, Chamber
lain, Doyle. Rasmussen, Gardner, Selt
zer. Goals Corey, 3; Porter, 1.
Final score: Nebraska, 47; Wash
burn, 0.
the set and the match. I