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February 29
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Cornhusker Day
February 29
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Cornhusker Day
VOL. XV. NO. 99.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1916.
PRICE 5 CENTS.
HODGDON AND REG UTS
TO CONFER MONDAY
FINAL APPROVAL EXPECTED FOR
FARM BUILDING
May Authorize Plana for a Social
Science Hall on the City
Campua
Charles Hodgdon of Chicago, mem
ber of the firm of Coolldge & Hodg
don, university architects, Is expect
ed in Lincoln Monday to confer with
thn board of regents over the plans
for the social science building to be
placed on the city campus at Twelfth
and R streets.
Mr. Hodgdon will have tentative
plans and proposals for, the new
building, and should these meet with
the approval of the regents, he will
be authorized to go ahead with the
drawings. The social science build
ing will be the third for the city
campus, and work upon it should
start before the year is ended.
. It is probable, also, that the re
gents will authorize the advertisement
for bids on the agricultural engineer
ing building for the farm. Plans for
this structure were received at the
construction office early in the week,
and with a few minor alterations,
will be accepted. The agricultural
engineering building will complete the
quadrangle of newer buildings on the
state farm campus.
"THE MAIJ OF THE
HOUR" JUNIOR PLAY
Without a doubt the present junior
VlaQ3 iO V1LU x uiuMwv
stars than any of its brother or sis
ter predecessors. With this point in
view, Business Manager Caley an
nounces the pinnacle of theatrical suc
cess at the Oliver on April 14:
"The Man of the Hoyr."
After a careful investigation the
general committee has decided on the
selection of "The Man of the Hour"
as food for the stars. This play ap
peared in Lincoln four years ago and
has a reputation which is bound to
attract. Miss Howell has been en
gaged to coach the performance and
regular rehearsals have commenced.
Prominent People to Take Part
Although the cast has not been def
'inltely chosen it is certain, that such
celebrities as Maurice Clark, Jack
Elliott, Don Marcellus, Spray Gard
ner, Sid Hoadley, Ralph Lahr, How
ard Wilson, Joe Flaherty and others
will have prominent parts. The play
has a scarcity of star roles for wom
en. It is rumored at present that the
leading part will be taken by Miss
Louise Scavland.
Meisinger's Music is Soft .
But
C. LeRoy Meisinger, known to uni
versity fame a,s the brilliant composer
of much of this year's Kosmet music,
and who conducted the orchestra
during the play, is able to compose
soft love ballads, but his cranium ex
hibits none of the same characteris
tic, according to his own statements.
The baseball expression, -sona
bone," occurs to us as the one Meis
inger would apply to his dome. Where
fore? Read what he said In public
speaking class yesterday morning.
He was expanding on the theme of
HARDY ADDRESSES
COMMERCIAL CLUB
W. E. Hardy, of the Hardy Furni
ture company, addressed the Univer
sity Commercial club Thursday after
noon in U 102.
"There Is no other criterion of the
success of a business than its finan
cial success; yet money is not by any
means the only thing in life," was
one of Mr. Hardy's remarks. "The
hardest thing to find in the young
men. of today is the ability and the
determination to attend to details and
not get sick of their jobs. The easiest
way to make money in business today
is to buy for cash and to sell on
long-time credit."
The club will meet at the Lincoln
Commercal club rooms next Wednes
day evening for a smoker. -
SOUTH AMERICA THE
NEXT SEMINAR TOPIC
PROFESSOR PERSINGER TO LEC
TURE TUESDAY NIGHT
World Outlook . Seminar Holds the
Second of a Series of
Meetings
The World Outlook Seminar, to
which everyone is invited, will hold a
meeting on South America at 7:15 p.
m. Tuesday, February 29, in the Y.
M. C. A. rooms. Professor Persinger
will deliver a one-hour illustrated lec
ture on the most interesting things
he saw and the several things about
which he learned while journeying
through the southern continent.
The second pan-American congress
has not been out of session longer
than two months, consequently the
subject of pan-Americanism is fresh
in the students' minds. It is becoming
more certain year by year that the
two continents are being welded to
gether by mutual interests - and by
their mutual consent. The vast coun-
iry to the-south and east of us, be
cause of its resources wihch are be
coming recognized in a large way by
our capital, looms up as a neighbor
worthy of no little respect, a neighbor
whose friendship should be cultivated
for the Rood of both of us.
Many of our engineering students
are planning to enter that land as
their field of endeavor; several of our
number will no. doubt be engaged
there in commercial enterprises; in
those republics the followers of the
medical and other scientific profes
sions can find excellent opportunities
for a life's work, and certainly the
person desiring to follow social serv
ice and missionary callings will find
unlimited openings. South America,
then, is -a land which is worthy of
study.
Oh! His Dome
the alleged rowdyism at the Kosmet
play, and the fact that some of the
gallery gods playfully threw small
coins and even harder and heavier
articles upon the stage, so great was
their appreciation of the actors.
Meisinger declared: "A marble was
thrown with such force that it might
have ruined a violin had it struck it
It would surely have dented a brass
Instrument; and. had it hit me in the
head, it might have glanced off and
injured someone In the audience."
We repeat, some pate!
JUNIOR CLASS PLUMS
FALL TO UJCKY ONES
President Holtz Announces Second
Semester Committees
At the conclusion of the junior
class meeting yesterday, Harold Holtz,
class president, announced the com
mittee appointments for the second
semester.
No appointments were announced
for the Ivy Day committee. This is
a joint senior-junior committee, and
the announcement will not be made
until President Scott of the senior
class has made his selections.
The committees:
Junior-Senior Breakfast
Paul. Babson, chairman; Ethel Kit
tinger, Doris Scroggin, M. F. Clark.
Athletic
Otto Zumwinkle, chairman; Walter
Raecke, W. L. Garretson.
Hop
Melvin Garret, chairman; John El
liott, Spray Gardner, Carrie Moodie,
Harry Gayer, Everett Carr, Lulu
Shade, Adolph Blunk.
DRY BANQUET IN GEORGIA
The Georgia laws have voted to
make their annual banquet a strictly
"dry" affair.
Y.W.G. A. TO LUNCH
AND ELECT OFFICERS
The annual Y. W. C. A.-luncheon,
with the election of officers for the
next year, will be held tomorrow at
12:30 o'clock at the.Lindell hotel.
The toast list includes: Jeanette
Finney, '16, toastmistress, Francis
Bollard, '19, Eva Miller, '18, Marian
Kastle, 17, Doris Slater, '16, Edna
Froyd, '17, Miss Dora Kidd, '12 of
Beatrice, Mrs. Herbert Brownell and
Dr. Elizabeth Hyde.
The steady sale of tickets yester
day predicts one of the most success
ful luncheons in the history of the
Y. W. C. A. at Nebraska. Tickets
will be on sale today, for sixty cents,
in the corridor of the library and in
Miss Fannie Drake's office in the
Temple.
PAN-HEL MEET AND
DANCESATURDAY
Greeks Will Fight for Athletic and
Terpelchorean Honors
The annual Pan-Hellenic track meet
and dance will be held in the armory
Saturday. February 26. The entries
were filed Thursday and the different
fraternities will be well represented
The special feature of the meet will
be a shoe hunt. Two freshmen from
each faternity will try to uphold the
honor of their "bunch" by finding a
nair of shoes in a pile of discarded
foot-pieces and puttingthem on. The
first ones through win. Beyond a
doubt this will show a marvelous
amount of skill and ingenuity, that
fraternity freshmen alone are capable
of.
Dancine will begin at 9:00 o'clock
fiharn. -Refreshments will be served
and everyone who has athletic or
social, ambitions is assured a good
time.
"BUY AND LEAVE IT" FOR
BELGIANS, NEXT WEEK
Clothing and supplies will be put on
sale Thursday, Friday and Saturday
of next week by the merchants of
Lincoln, under the supervision of the
Commission for Relief in Belgium,
with headquarters at 71 Broadway,
New York. The goods, when bought,
will be tagged and left on the coun
ters, to be packed for transporta
tion. There are three million destitute
people in Belgium who depend wholly
upon the charity of the people in the
United States; their homes are gone,
fields devastated and no hope of in
dependent relief for a year. The peo
ple of Lincoln will be given a good
opportunity, March 2, 3 and 4 to do
their share in this charitable work.
BABSON IS CAUGHT
THINKING FOR ONCE
DIVULGES - SECRETS OF THE
CORNHUSKER FINANCES
Will Announce the Selling Plan
for the Leap Vear
Annual
While getting news near the south
west corner of the Administration
building, a Nebraskan reporter spied
the figure of Business Manager Bab-
J son, of the Cornhusker, sitting at his
desk, apparently thinking. "This must
be looked into," thought the reporter,
and forthwith he went down and ac
costed the business manager.
"Why all this seeming thought and
deliberation?"
And strangely enough our friend of
the Cornhusker was prone to talk. "If
this book is a success, we have got
to sell 1,600 copies, and 1,600 copies
is quite a bunch."
"But," returned the reporter, "you
have a good book, haven't you, and
you have made some cuts in prices
that have saved the students from 50
cents to $2 apiece in one way and
another."
At this the business manager's eyes
fairly gleamed. "Have we got a good
book! We are putting out the best
Cornhusker ever, better pictures, bet
ter engraving, better printing, better
art work, better binding, better every
thing. And have we made some cuts
in prices? Well, I should say we
have; over $700, and that is why we
have got to sell those 1,600 books.
"If the student body will take an
interest in the proposition, and push,
the 1,600 will be aold, and if they
don't, the Cornhusker is all out of
luck."
At this point, the advice of the re
porter forthcame "Have faith. You
are giving the students the kind of
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Banana Tree Blossoms
in University Greenhouse
The bis banana plant in the uni
versity greenhouse has flowered. The
flowers are a pale yellow in color and
the young" bananas on the stalks are
a dark green and about six inches
long. The spike of flowers has de
veloped until it is top heavy and
bent over. The la -ge green bracts
are beginning to roll back and a dozen
or more infant bananas are exposed
beneath each one.
The main tree of the banana, which
is relatec ? the Iris family, remains
BOSSES DOMINATE
JUNIOR ELECTION
LACK OF SPIRIT SHOWN IN THE
CHOICE OF MINOR OFFICERS
All of the Favored Candidates Were
Unopposed Caley Reports
on Class Play
JUNIOR MINOR OFFICERS
Louise Coe. . . . . . . Vice President
Hester Dickinson Secretary
John Riddell Treasurer
In a meeting devoid of enthusiasm,
because the controlling "ring" had al
ready ordained who should be elected,
the junior class met yesterday at noon
and made the above selections for
minor officers. All elections were
unanimous, no one venturing to nomi
nate against the choice of the bosses.
President Holtz called the meeting
to order and appointed Arthur Hare
secretary pro-tem. His duties were
the reverse of onerous, were mostly
"ornery" in fact. The lack of spirit
is further evidenced by the fact that
no sergeant-at-arms was elected.
Loren Caley, business manager of
the junior play, gave a report in which
he urged the co-operation of all the
class forthe success of the play.
DR. ANTONIO CARLOS
DA SILVA A VISITOR
Dr. Antonio Carlos Simoens da Sil-.
va, of Rio Janeiro, Brazil, visited the
Nebraska Historical society yesterd-
day. He is a delegate from South
America to the International Congress
of Americanists and to the pan-Amer
ican Scientific congress, both of which
were held in Washington last Decem
ber. After these conventions, Dr. Sim
oens da Silva spent ten days at the
national museumat Washington, D. C,
and nine days at the Peabody mu
seum at Harvard university. He then
visited Wisconsin, Minnesota and fi
nally Omaha, where he was entertain
ed by R. F. Gilder. He is now on
his way to San Francisco anl will re
turn home via New Orleans ind Flor
ida. While Dr. Simoens da Silva was be
ing shown around the Nebraska His
torical society's museum he expressed
his ardent desire to visit an Indian
reservation and see how the Indians
live. So a trip has beeu arranged
to the Winnebago reservation with
Melvin R. Gilmore, curator of the mu
seum, as a guide. The party wil leave
at the end of this week.
under ground and each year sends
up fresh shoots upon which the
bunches of fruit develop. Last year
the shoot was larger than the one of
this year, standing about ten feet in
height with huge leaves of corre
sponding proportions. Last' year the
bananas were ripe about the middle
of July, but this year the indications
are they will ripen much later.
There is also a fair specimen of
pineapple in the greenhouse that is
maturing slowly.