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Th Dally Nebra VOL. XV. NO. 118. UNIVERSITY OP NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1916. PRICE 5 CENTS. INSTITUTIONAL WORK 'REQUIRES TRAINING COLLEGE DEGREE NOT NECES SARY, BUT BENEFICIAL Training, Experience and Personality Are the Three Essentials, De clares Miss Nftla Treat "Institutional management is a tech nical work," explained Miss Nola Treat, in her talk on "Qualifications for Institutional Management" at 3 o'clock in Faculty hall yesterday. The three qualifications for institutional management are training, experience and a certain type of personality, ac cording to Miss Treat. A woman must have practical and technical training. "While a degree la not necessary, it gives a certain stamp to your work which is bene ficial." The barest essentials require a year's training. The east has good schools for this purpose. Simmons college in Boston is probably the best known school which has a one- year course. No girl under 25 years of age Is admitted, except in rare cir cumstances. Institutional Cookery A woman could have a course in institutional cookery. She should be able to make the product with com mercial value In the laboratory. Many schools use their laboratories as cafe terias. Miss Treat said. The course in institutional man agement has no books. The work is too new. The principles of organi zation are taken from the technical professions. The girl must learn about equipment. The employers must have proof of her capability. In college they get as much experience as they can; they learn to meet peo ple behind the , counter; they have practical experience as a cashier In checking and In dining room work. The aim in cooking and all practical work is, to get skill, to keep place with the employer. She must have accounting, especially percentage, she must understand overhead expense, house management, must have exper ience In interior decorating, for she is often called upon to furnish a (Continued on page 2) Otoupalik Perfectly at Home Hugo Otoupalik, wrestling team captain, believes in making himself perfectly at home. The thing can sometimes be carried to an extreme, however, as "Ote" demonstrated on the recent Ames trip, when he was the only Nebraskan to win his wres tling match. The wrestlers were homeward bound tasting, nt the fruits of victory, but rather the bitterness of defeat. In order to cheer them up as much as possible, the best Pullman reserva tions were made, and their physical surroundings were of the finest. The men for the most part kept In their places, but Otoupalik felt not In the least depressed." He began to explore the train. On the train was a Pullman contain ing a number of private compartments and state rooms. As the husky wrestler Journeyed from car to car he glanced now and then in the mirrors that he unavoid ably passed, and two or three lnspec- j tlona convinced him that he needed i a little renovating. He determined to wash up a bit at the next toEt, room. ' NEBRASKA SONGS FOR CHICAGO ALUMNI FEAST Charlotte II. Andrus, '92, has writ tcu to the secretary of the Alumni as sociation asking for a collection of Nebraska songs for the annual Ne braska banquet In Chicago April 27. i have two songs of my own that I am going to try out ou the Ne braskans here, ro you see I am will ing to be of some use, if possible," Miss Andrus writes. She suggests col lecting the univesitry songs Into a booklet and giving the music to the orchestra to play during the banquet. She says, "I believe it would make a difference in our enthusiasm if we have some good stirring songs in general use." OMAHA WOMEN HELP CHILDRENFIND SELVES Miss Myrtle, Fitz Roberts Tells of Making Good Citizens of Dis satisfied Youngsters Miss' Myrtle Fitz Roberts, of the Omaha American Collegiate associa tion, told Wednesday how the Omaha branch was formed. The women of Omaha realized how many children dropped out of school between the ages of 14 and 15 years and that these were the ones who, going from bad to worse, made up the dissatisfied citizens. The women tried to find out what was being done in other places, and they studied the situation in the larger Omaha firms. The association was organized with $10 in the treas ury. The first month $7 was spent on telephone; SI on a desk; the board of education paid the office expense. and they ran the rest of the month on the remainder. Many girls and bovs came to the office as a result of the publicity given in the papers, per sonal letters, and series of talks given at the high school. As a result of the activities of the association, many youngsters have been guided in choos ing the work in which they will be most successsful. Carolyn Kimball, '18, went to Wy- more last week to judge a declama tory contest. So he entered a place with a little mirror and a dressing table, a little bit sweller than some of the others, but not less attractive for that reason. Nearby an old gentleman and his wife were enjoying a friendly game of cards. Otoupalik went to the dressing table, unnoticed by the other occu pants of the room, washed his hands, smoothed his hair, mentally powdered his nose, and picked up a comb. He ran it through his locks again, placed 'the comb -tenderly but absent mindedly In his pocket, and started to leave the car. Now It happened that one of the other wrestlers had missed the cap tain of the team and started out to find him. He was horrified to discov er him In the private apartment, and watched his actions with breathless awe at the nerve of the man. When "Ote" picked up the como and so nonchalantly put it In his pocket, the other Cornhusker objected, and firm ly Insisted that the comb be replaced. Then they departed, their unconscious hosts unaware of the visit I CHAUTAUQUA WORK IS NOT ALL GRIND MRS. BOILE.AU SAYS THERE IS PLAY TO BE FOUND 1HERE Culture Means Knowing "Something About Everything and Every thing About Something" "I believe that a person, to be real ly cultured and worth " while, must know everything about something and something about everything," quoted Mrs. Maude Kendall Boileau, in her talk on "The Call of the Lyceum and the Chautauqua to Talented Young Women of Today," at the vocational conference at Faculty hall yesterday forenoon. She said a woman whom she met on the train, a woman who had been all over the world, told her this and that she had always remembered it. Mrs. Boileau first told how Chautau qua circuits originated and what re markable advancement they have made during the past few years. The first lyceum was established by James Redpath in 1868. In 1915 the number had fcrown to 35,000 chautauquas, com prising 60,000 sessions, which were at tended by over 8,000,000 people at an expenditure of over $5,000,000. Chau tauqua influences reach over 20,000,000 people annually and are "one of the greatest factors in educational and (Continued on page 3) SOCIAL SERVICE IN ALL FIELDS OF WORK MRS. T. F. A. WILLIAMS TALKS AT GIRLS' CONFERENCE Real Settlement Work Done in the Homes of the Poorer Districts . "Xhe way to get into touch with the people who need your help is to live among them," Mrs. T, Fr A. 'Will iams said yesterday afternoon, in speaking of social service work. She asserted that a friend in Chicago was right who said: "To see real settle ment work what you want to visit is not Hull House, but a little home down in the Polish district." Mrs. Williams spoke briefly of the history of settlment work, which originated at Oxford university when a few students attempted to help some of the poorer people of London. Jane Addams was one of the first Americans to take up the work, which is now growing rapidly. Mrs. Williams said social service consisted of either settlement work or organized charity, the latter being particularly suitable for rural com munities. She stated that although settlement work was handled by the schools here in Lincoln, there was a good opportunity to do work in Oma ha and a still greater opportunity far ther east The salary of a head work er, Mrs. Williams said, ranges from $1,500 to $3,500 a year. The assist ants receive from $1,000 to $2,000 a year. A fellowship may be secured through a school of philanthropy. She stated that there was a great need of organized activities In Ne braska, although much good can be done through' the h6me. In conclu sion she said:. "There is no field of work Into which you may go where can keep out of social service work; unless you keep your eyes shuL i WOMAN PHYSICIAN MUST LOVE HUMANITY Some of the requisites of a woman physician are common sense, moder ate brain power, iact, patience and love, of humanity, said Dr. Laura Brown yesterday afternoon. A woman should not go into the profession for the remuneration which she receives, but for the love of the people. It is hard for a woman at first because of the prejudice but women are on the same plane with the men and receive the same pay. The women in the pro fession while in school aie better stu dents than the men; they are more methodical, and they know more when they get through, because they are more conscientious. Dr. Brown as serted. GUESS IDENTITY OF CORNHUSKER GIRLS Lincoln Merchants Offer Prizes to Students Five prizes will be given at the end of next week by four business men down town to the university students who can pick out the eight girls that were elected recently to the Corn husker girls' page out of twenty pic tures that will be placed in Harry Porter's window tomorrow. Beginning Monday, each student will be given a numbered slip upon which to he or she may write the names of the eight girls that, in his or her opinion, were elected to the girls' page. These will be put in a box and kept there until Saturday of next week, hen the winners will be announced and the prizes awarded. As a first prize, A. C. Townsend will give a portrait which can be finished in any way that the winner desires. Walt, the music man, will give a $5 ukele, with a couple of selections of the latest "rags." Tucker & Shean, jewelers, will give either a pair of gold cuff .buttons or a bracelet C H. Frey, the florist will contribute two dozen American Beauty roses. Harry Porter will give a Waterman's fountain pen. In case that there are more than five cerrect guessers the prizes will be given to the first five that guessed correctly. The Student Should Know- UNIVERSITY TEMPLE The university Temple was built in 1906 and 1907 at a cost of $101,000, which includes the complete fitting up of the structure. The building was built by a donation from John D. Itockefellow, who was a close friend of Chancellor Andrews, who obtained $66,000 from him. The remainder of Uie fund was contributed by the uni versity faculty, who gave very liber ally; the Y. M. C. A, the Y. W. C. A, some citizens of the city and some women's clubs. Prior to the building of the Tem ple, social events were conducted In the upper stories of University hall. Acordlngly when Chancellor Andrews put the condition to young Mr. Rocke fellow. he made the promise to con tribute his share for the building, which was to Include rest music, the drama, Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. rooms, a kitchen and a theatre. Vc-ry serious objections were raised by certain citizens over the accept ance of Mr. Rockefellow's liberal. gift They Insisted the money was LIRRARY OFFERS CULTURAL FIELD BUT NOT A PLACE FOR THE AMBITIOUS WOMAN Miss Home Tells of Advantages and Disadvantages of Being a Woman Librarian "Young people often drift in'o some line of work by chance, without any definite aim or preparation to secure success," affirmed Miss Lulu A. Home of the Lincoln public library at the vocational conference yesterday morn ing, in her talk on "Public Library Work." She emphasized the fact that some people are suited for one thing and some for another, but that in choosing vocations, a person's talents and limitations must be taken into account "The American library," declared Miss Home, "is an essentially mod ern institution. Although it opens a promising field to well educated wom en, it is absolutely) closed to the woman with only a grade school edu cation." There are no idle hours and the woman who goes into the work with the idea of "little to do" and short hours is very, likely to be dis appointed. She pointed out that the delicate woman, the woman who may like books but who is not a student and the woman who has ambitions to rise high in the world have no place in the library. Salary Moderate "For a girl who can be content with regular work, a moderate salary and a position that can never be lower ing," Miss Home declares "the work is IdeaL" It offers a chance for Intel lectual advancement by throwing one continually with books and intellec tual peole. Contrary to teaching and many other vocations, cares are thrown aside at the end of the day. The first library course was estab lished at Columbia university In 1887. Since then courses have been install ed In the leading colleges, and li brary schools have come Into exist ence. In a talk with Miss Home after ward, she told of the many humorous experiences she has had. Not long (Continued on page 4) I "tainted." ana aitnougn eastern I i ii. i V .imitn, il.in t innc western Institutions should not accept such money. So strong were ihe.r objections that they came near de feating the undertaking. A building committee consisting of Frank Hall, J. E. Miller, E. H. Clark and E. H. Barbour was appointed to have plans drawn up and to hav charge of the erection of the buiMing. Plans were drawn by John Latenser, of Omaha, and the contract let t-- Louis Jensen, of Lincoln. The overcrowded condition on the campus compelled the chancellor and the board of regents to change some of the rooms of the Temple from their original purpose to class room usage. But these will eventually revert back to their original purpose and it will become strictly a students' Temple. Two years after the completion of the building the contractor brought suit for certain bills. For some three years the matter has been in court A decision was handed down in Feb ruary, 1916, In favor of the commit tee.