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February 29
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Corohusker Day
February 29
Is
Cornhusker Day
VOL. XV. NO. 96.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1916.
PRICE 5 CENTS.
HOT YET TIME FOR
SCHOLARSHIP HONORS
FACULTY AGAINST PROPOSED
PLAN; 42 TO 16
Recognition for Excellence In Ad
vanced Work Mutt Await
Better Plan
By a vote of 42 to -16. the univer
sity faculty Saturday voted down the
proposed system of student honors,
that would have given credit for ex
cellent scholarship at the end of the
student's sophomore and senior years
in the university.
The committee, headed hy Profes
sor LeRossignol, that has been work
ing on a plan for honoring good schol
arship among the students by some
other than Phi Beta Kappa honors,
reported a plan a few weeks ago.
This scheme called for giving special
distinction to sophomores who had
completed their school work with an
average of more than 85 per cent, and
to seniors who had made an average
of 85 per cent in advanced courses.
The committee made no recommenda
tions as to what should be considered
"advanced courses."
The question has been before the
faculty for discussion at a number of
meetings, and a part of the plan was
adopted at one time. When the final
test came last Saturday, however, the
majority were against the proposal.
The committee, appointed by Dean
Davis of the arts and sciences col
lege, has been dismissed. No hint
has ben given out as to whether the
question will be dropped for all time,
or whether an attempt will be made
to install some other systf:m by
which good scholarship may be given
the recognition to which it would
seem entitled.
CONVOCATION
Mendelssohn's overtures to "Fin
gal's Cave" and "Midsummer Night's
Dream" will be played at convocation
this morning, under the direction of
Mrs. Carrie B. Raymond, at the organ.
The other players will be: - Edward
J. Walt, first violin; Ernest Harrison,
second violin; William T. Quick, viola,
and Miss Lillian Eiche, 'cello.
This convocation will mark the first
appearance of Mr. Harrison, who
takes Mrs. Molzer's place.
FORDYCE AT OMAHA
Dean Charles Fordyce of the Teach
ers' college gave his illustrated lec
ture, "Watch Him Grow," before the
Omaha Y. M. fc. A- Sunday afternoon.
A large audience beard him.
CLIPPED!
A Juggling, acrobatic or bicycle act
is something all of us despise. Aw
gwan believes that there is not a per
son on the campus who can truthfully
say that he is in love with an acro
batic act, or likes a Juggling exhibi
tion. Not one. Should we be forced
to pay our good money to see a big
overgrown Hercules hold up his whole
family and walk off with them? Just
because some overgrown kid has
learned to throw three balls into the
air without them bumping each other
should he be called an actor? Is it
worth money to see some ruf-neck
ride a bicycle backwards while the
orchestra plays some tin-pan music?
And the tight rope walker, does he
earn his dough? Sometimes he gets
careless and you see him run on
the rope, we admit this; but is it
worth money. This circus stuff in
vaudeville is entirely out of place, and
should be replaced by something
worth while.
Nebraska Awgwan, February 15,
1916.
Juggling acts and acrobatic acts are
as useless as a front porch in the
winter time. Is there anybody in this
community who can truthfully say:
"I like an acrobatic act." Or: "I
like a Juggling act?" No! There
cannot be! The most difficult acro
batic stunt in the world is hellish
dull. In fact, the majority of us
meaning you and me would be glad
if it were impossible. If an indi
vidual has grown to be twenty-one
and all he has learned in that time is
to throw three or four or five balls
in the air so that they don't bump
into each other, he should be asham
ed of himself. He should not try to
impress us with his degeneracy and
niaks us pay for it. We would rather
take a look at a capable rags man or
listen to a good harmonica performer.
And as to that overgrown kid who
thinks he is cute because he can
walk a tight rope or stand on his
nose or hold up a fat family on his
biceps Why should we pay rea!
money-to see him? We all have broth
ers or cousins similarly afflicted. They
are enough to worry about.
Beauty Number Illinois Siren, page
23, No. 4, December, 1915.
Plagiarism: To use without due credit the ideas, expressions, or production
of another Webster.
OFFERS PRIZE TO
THEjRESHMEN
Cornhusker Free t- Freshman for Ten
Good Reasons
The business management of the
1916 Cornhusker offers to give, free
of charge, one copy of the 191C Corn
husker to the freshman who submits
the ten best reasons why a freshman
should buy a Cornhusker.
This contest is open to all fresh
men, and the rules are simple. Either
mail to the business manager of the
Cornhusker, Station A, or leave in the
office in the basement of the Adminis
tration building, what you consider to
be the best ten reasons why a fresh
man should buy a Cornhusker, and
sign your name.
This contest will close Saturday,
February 26. and the winner will be
announced on "Cornhusker Day," Feb
ruary 29.
E. J. Krause, C. E. '13, Is In the gro
cery business in Albright, rsenr.
Celebrate Culinary Freedom
"Celebrating th culinary independ
ence of man," eight healthy mascu
line undergraduates gathered around
a heavily burdened table at Benja
min C. Hopewell's home, 1219 K
street, last Saturday evening, and
consumed the bnrden, cooked and
served by DeWItt Foster and Hope-
welL
Roast turkey, with the proverbial
oozing gravy, mashed potatoes, fluffy
shrimp salad, and angel food cake
were among the leading features of
the cooks' theme. The fowl was done
to a turn, the shrimp salad most delec
table, the coffee Just the right shade,
the string beans and corn tasted as
If they never had seen the inside of a
can, and the cigars that concluded the
program were of the finest Havana.
Foster learned the art as "cul" for
the wild cowboys on a western Ne
braska ranch. Where Hopewell
learned the science of the kitchen was
not stated, but the guests are willing
to vouch for his proficiency.
SKATING RINK IS NO MORE
The skating rink is no more. The
ice has vanished and the five-yard
lines are once more visible. Around
the edge of the field is a circle of
water held in by the dam of snow
which encircled the rink, and has not
yet entirely vanished. Yesterday aft
ernoon, however, men were busy cut
ting through this dam so that the
water around the edges might be
drained off.
WILL PRESENT
KOREA TONIGHT
First Program of World Outlook Semi
nar by Korean Students
This program will be given at
the first meeting of the World
Outlook Seminar tonight:
"The Political Life of Korea,"
Henry Chung.
"The Social, Domestic, Cul
tural and Religious Life," C. H.
Park.
"Korea's Industrial Progress,"
Y. P. Chung.
"Missionary Work In Korea
and the Place of Christianity in
the Development of the Coun
try," K. C. Chang.
The World Outlook Seminar at 7:15
sharp tonight will begin its first meet
ing In the Y. M. C. A. room of the
Temple building. Several students and
members of the faculty have express
ed their Intentions of taking advan
tage of this presentation of Koeran
life, for the committee has been for
tunate enough to secure the native
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HUSKERS AWAY
ONJIRST TRIP
Will Play Drake and Ames at the
Indoor Game
The Cornhusker basketball squad
leaves over the Rock Island at 4:10
this afternoon for Des Moines, where
it will play a two-game series with the
Drake Bulldogs. Friday and Saturday
nights Nebraska will clash with Ames
on the Ames floor. These four games
will complete the regular basketball
schedule and it is probable that no
further games will be played. The
men making the trip are Captain
Hugg, Rutherford, Theisen, Campbell,
Hartman, Shields, J. Gardiner, Nel
son, C. Gardiner and Riddell.
The Nebraska quintet should take
all four games according to the dope
and end the season with a clean rec
ord in the Missouri Valley conference
series. If Missouri wins her four
games from the Kansas Aggies and
the Jayhawkers the title will be open
to question.
START EXGAVAVING
FOR NEW BUILDING
STEAM SHOVEL BEGINS WORK ON
CHEMISTRY HALL
Bessey Building Basement Completed
and the Concrete Forms
Set Up
Excavation work is now in progress
on the new Chemistry building, to be
located on the northwest corner of
Twelfth and T streets.
Yesterday morning the corner pre
sented a busy scene. A small army
of horses were dragging a great steam
shovel into position ; people were mov
ing; a house was being moved away,
and another torn down.
By afternoon the steam shovel had
been set up, and the excavation work
commenced, while students, laymen,
and an occasional professor stood
about watching its great Iron teeth
bite into the soil and .deposit it in
wagons which kept up an endless pro
cession about it.
The Chemistry buildiug will be a
three-story structure, and will cost
$200,000.
Excavation on the Bessey building,
on U street, has been completed, and
the forms for the concrete basement
walls set up. The contractor is wait
ing the arrival of the steel which wili
be used to support the chutes for con
veying the concrete, and has suspend
ed work.
VROOMAN TO SPEAK
AT COMMENCEMENT
Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Has
Accepted Invitation for April 20
Carl Vrooman, assistant secretary
of agriculture, will be the orator for
the school of agriculture commence
ment, to be held April 20. This an
nouncement was made by Chancellor
Avery yesterday morning, on receipt
of an acceptance from Mr. Vrooman of
the invitation to speak.
Mr. Vrooman is a recognized author
ity on agricultural subjects, and a
speaker and writer of note. He has
served the department of agriculture
with marked distinction, and has been
mentioned as the successor to Secre
tary Houston, should the latter be
made secretary of war. Mr. Vrooman's
subject has not yet been announced.
Holland Had to Be Informal
There are really good excuses for
coming to a banquet at which you
are toastmaster attired in a simple
business suit, Yale C. Holland, 11, of
Omaha, w ho presided at the Sigma Chi
hanauet Saturday evening, will tell
you. Not long before time to take the
train for Lincoln. Holland learned that
the rooming house at which he stays
had been "lifted" by the dishwasher,
and his brand-new dress suit had
been stolen.
' For a while he wavered between
two alternatives defy convention and
wear his business clothes, or stand
firmly upon his dignity and scorn all
raiment but the "proper." He made
up his mind, after some frantic delib
eration, to see the thing through,
dress suit or no. In consequence, he
was on hand at the banquet and han
dled the toastmaster job in a way
which more than made up for any
thing he might have lacked In sar
torial equipment.
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