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The Daily Nebraskan
VOL. XV.
NO. 129.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1916.
PRICE 5 CENTS.
COE, GIRLS'
CLUB PRESIDENT
THREE HUNDRED AND TEN MEM
BERS CAST VOTES
Marion Kastle, Jean Burroughs and
Elinor Bennett Other Officers v
for Corning Year
GIRLS' CLUB BOARD
....... r.n ..President
I. kvuiaf --
, Marlon Kastle Vice President
jean Burroughs occrcwr
Elinor Bennett Treasurer
Doris Scroggin, Ethel Stone, Flor
ence Wirt, Kate Helzer, Blanche
o,n,(all. Edith Youngblut, Lois Har-
I day, Dorothy Pettis, Bernlce Reed.
Louise Coe, of Nebraska City, was
elected president of the Girl's club
for 1916-17, at the election concluded
yesterday afternoon. She succeeds
Edna Froyd, of Wakefield. Three
hundred and ten girls cast their bal
lots. Miss Coo is a junior In the
arts and sciences college.
Tho other results of the election are
indicated above. Marion Kastle, 17, Is
the vice president of the club; Jean
Burroughs, '18, secretary, and Elinor
Bennett, '19, treasurer.
According to the constitution of the
club, tho board shall consist of five
seniors, four juniors and four fresh
men, Including the officers, who shall j
be a president and vice president from
the senior class, a secretary from
the junior class, and a treasurer from
the sophomore class. The officers and
board are selected the preceding year,
by ballot of members only.
Nominations for places were made
last week. The unsuccessful candi
dates were Bertha Drlftmeier, Ethel
Stone, and Geneva Seegar, juniors;
Dorothy Adamson, Catherine Dodge
and Winifred Moran, sophomores and
Helen Kendall, Helen Minor and Fern
Simmons, freshmen.
With the election of next year's of
ficers out of tho way, the girls will
commence at once to plan for the an
nual convention of the Middle-western
Collegiate Association for Wom
en's Self-Govemment. which meets
here in May, and of which Edna
Froyd of this university Is president.
NEBR. "OUTLAWS" TO
PLAY WESLEYAN
Will Stage Baseball Game on the
Methodist Campus
The Nebraska "Outlaws," a team of
university baseball sharks headed by
Ed Hugg, will play Wcsleyan unlver-
this afternoon on the Methodist
campus. Crawford and Klepsor will
be the battery for the "Outlaws," .who
expect to take the Coyotes to a clean
tog. The rest of the team will be
Hueg, captain, McMillen, Harney, Hai
nan, Tully, Zumwinkel, Gibbons and
Angel.
The "Outlaws" have scheduled
8nes with Sioux City and Lincoln
ol the Western league, to be played
waie timo during the nextweek, be
fore thu curtain goes up on the league
chedule.
Luncheon for Mrs. Lee
The physical education normal girls
S6 a luncheon yesterday noon in
the lecture room of the women's gym
nasium in honor of Mrs. Charles
-8 Lee, formerly Miss Jessie Begh
H instructor In the physical educa-
CIVIL SERVICE
Tho United States civil service
commission reports examinations on
May 17 to fill the following vacancies:
Assistant in tho ofllco of informa
tion (male) salary ranging from $1,500
to $2,000 per annum.
Position in the office of markets
and rural organization, Department of
Agriculture, Washington, D. C. Sal
ary ranging from $1,000 to $1,400 per
annum.
Assistant pathologist in citrus fruit
investigations (male), Bureau of
Plant Industry. Washington, D. C.
Salary, $1,800 per anuum.
SOPHS MAKE MILRAE
JUDKINSVICE-PRES.
Girls Turn Out in Force to Elect
Their Candidate
Milrao Judkins, of Upland, was
elected vice president of the sopho
more class, at a stormy meeting yes
terday noon in Law 201. She suc
ceeds William Schoonamacher, who
has left school.
When- President Beachoy Mussel
man called tho meeting to order, It
was evident at once that moro girls
were present than at any previous
meeting of the class this year, 'inat
they, came to elect their candidate
wan evident when an attempt was
made to close the nominations after
rnri Graff and Homer Rush had been
nominated. Rush and Graff gallant
ly advised their supporters to vote
for tho woman. There had been out
one other girl officer Louise Stoll,
sergeant-at-arms, until Miss JiuiKins
was elected.
Tho nresident announced that the
sophomore hop would be given May
9, at one of the local summer resorts.
Loa Howard will spend the week
end in Omaha.
A son was born to Mr. and Mrs.
Yale B. Huffman Monday. Mrs. Huff
man was formerly Martha Gline, of
Kappa Alpha Theta. Mr. Huffman is
a member of Delta Upsilon.
AGRICULTURE SCHOOL
COMMENCEMENT
Junior Reception Monday Exercises
Thursday, with Carl Vrooman
the Speaker
Commencement week for the school
of agriculture at the university farm
begins Monday, when the juniors will
hold a reception for the seniors in
Agricultural hall. The fourteenth an
nual commencement exercises will bo
held Thursday evening at 8 o'clock in
the Temple theatre, when Carl Schurz
Vrooman, assistant secretary of the
United States department of agricul
ture, will deliver the address.
Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock the
senior class day program will bo
given on the farm campus. On the
next day the annual competitive drill
of the school of agriculture cadets
will be held, commencing at 2:30 p. m.
Tho graduating class this year is
the largest in the history of the
nfonv rnnntles of Nebraska,
eciiuui.
and tho neighboring states of Iowa
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PHI CELTS SEND GIFTS
TO WARJROTHERS
CARTON OF TOBACCO GOES TO
GERMAN PRISON CAMPS
Members of the Fraternity from
Canadian Chapter Fall Into
Enemy's Hands
The Nebraska university chapter of
Phi Delta Theta will send a carton
of smoking tobacco to tho Englishmen
in the German war prisons who are
members of tho fraternity. This ac
tion is taken in conjunction with the
other chapters of Phi Delt, the local
society being allowed to decide what
shall be sent.
Phi Delta Theta has a number of
chapters in Canada. When the call
for volunteers came, many of their
members responded, and were sent
to the battlefields of Europe. There
by the fortuhes of war, some of them
fell into the hands of their enemies,
and were sent to the prison camps
While the prisoners of modern war
fare are treated with much greater
consideration than in our own civil
war times, yet prison life at best is
devoid of the comforts dear to a
man's heart. So the national organ
ization of the Plii Delts sent a call
to tho chapters throughout the coun
try to come to the aid of their
brethren. The response has been
generous.
The Nebraska men thought that
they could send nothing that would
better anneal to the lonesome brothers
than some pounds of good old tobacco
So the carton will soon be on its way,
going first to the American consul at
a German port of entry, and thence
to the prison camps.
GALEY CONFIDENT
WILL MAKE MONEY
Ready for Curtain on Junior Play-
Marguerite Kauffman Collects
Clothes
J. Lorin Caley. business manager of
tim iunior play, "The Man of the
Hour," can view the rising of the cur
tnin with calm confidence. The au
vnnpft sale of tickets has been so good
that Calo yis assured the play will
hn successful from the business point
of view. Caley's novel advertising
has succeeded in arousing keen Inter
ot in the performance.
Marcuerite Kauffman, chairman of
the play committee, has at last suc
ceeded in getting hold of a cutaway
pnnt. She has been on a loud hunt
fnr costumes for tho men in the play.
One of them wears a complete change
in each act, and there are four acts.
nrAss rehearsal at the Oliver last
night was satisfactory both to coach
and committee. The curtain rises ai
8:15 o'clock.
DR. HARRISON SPEAKS
BEFORE PRE-MEDICS
Dr. Paul W. Harrison, the famous
medical missionary from Arabia, ad
dressed about sixty medical students
last night at the Alpha Sigma Phi
house.
He chose as his subject, "The Three
Great Medical Opportunities." These
three fields are China, India and
Arabia. China has absolutely no med
ical profession at the present time.
The founding of such a profession
will be a wonderful accomyllshment.
WORKIZER-PERSHING
COMPET TODAY
The competitive drill between the
Pershing and Workizcr rifles, which
was to have been hold yesterday at
4 o'clock, was postponed on account
of the weather until 4 o'clock this
afternoon. Both companies are work
ing hard to secure the decision. Tho
Pershing rifles have been drilling
after supper several times during the
past two weeks in addition to their
regular drill. Neither have their op
ponents allowed the grass to grow un
der their feet.
224 GIRLS ADDED TO
CLUBJflEMBERSHIP
SUCCESSFUL MEMBERSHIP CAM
PAIGN CLOSED THURSDAY
Bertha Driftmeier Was Captain of
the Winning Side Florence
Wirt of the Losers
There are 224 new members of the
Girl's club as a result of the member
ship campaign which ended yesterday
afternoon. The campaign was con
ducted as a contest between two
sides, Bertha Dritfmeler as the cap
tain of the reds and Florence Wirt as
captain of the whites. Tho red side
registered 133 members, and the
whites, 91.
The following are tho new members
of the Girl's club:
Jeann'ette Adams, Dorothy Adam
son, Clara Altken, Margaret Altken,
Jeannette Alden, Dagmar Anderson,
Dorothy Anderson, Harriet Anderson,
Harrietto Anderson, Margaret Ander
son, Nellie Anderson, Rosebud Ander
son, Florence Angle, Susie Antrim,
Marie Apian, Ethel Arnold, Marie Ax
tel, Helen Ayres.
Winifred Back, Vivian Bahr, Olive
Bailess, Amy Baker, Esther Baker,
Cecil Baldwin, Georgia Baldwin, Mil
dred Barney, Bertha Bates, Leah Baw
ker, Bessie Bayley, Helen Beach, Ma
beth Beach, Genevieve Bechter, Myr
tle Beckman, Grace (Lois) Bee, Mar
guerite Beesley, Elinor Bennett,
Grace Bennett, Mabel Bentley, Lillian
Berry, Elizabeth Boehr, Avis Bone,
Freda Bossemeyer, Frances Botkln,
Anna Brandt, Eugenia Brennen, Luclle
Brock, Marian Brown, Louise Brown
ell, Anna Brundage, Myra Buntz,
Edith Burgess, Hazel Burnes, Blanche
Busk, Katherlne Busse, Carey Butler,
Helen Buttery, Anna Byrne.
k Evolvn Caldwell, Frances Caldwell,
Mary Camp, Esther Campbell, Juan
ita Campbell, Golda Cannady, Lor
raine Carter, Dorothy Cams, Pearl
Castile, Ethel Chace, Mildred Chapin,
Vircinia Chapin, Dorothy Cheney, Bar
bara Churchill, Hazel Clark, Lctta
Clark. Doris Clarke, Mabel Clayton,
Mae Clayton. Marjorie Cobb, Irma
Coe, Louise Coe, Edna Coffee. Sarah
Cole. Edla Collins, Miss Conklln,
Hazel Cook. Inez Cook, Gretta Cooley,
Helen Cornell, Gladys Corrick, Lenora
Corrick, Alma Craven. Charlotte Crue,
Margaret Crue, Lena Cummings, Clara
C.nrlev. Helen Curtice, Marie CusacK
Gladys Dana, Dorothy Davies, Helen
Davison, Harriett Day, Dorothy Dean,
Faith Dedrick, Clarissa Delano, Irene
DeMaranville. Isabel Derby, Doris
Deyo. Amy Dickinson, Hester Dickin
son, Lillian Dickman, Beatrice Dierks,
Ruth Diller. Hair Dixon, Theodora
Dodds, Kathryn Dodge. Gladys Dom
inv. Helen Doty, Bertha Doyle. Fan
nie Drake. Gwendolyn Drayton, Ber
tha Drlftmeier. Leila Drollinger, Flor-
TRI-DELT AND ACACIA
LEADJN STUDIES
THETA AND BUSHNELL GUILD
FOLLOW CLOSELY
Sororities Improve In Scl -Marship,
While Fraternities Go Down
Pledges Hurt Men
Delta Delta Delta holds first place
in scholarship among the sororities,
and Acacia among the fraternities for
the first semester of 1915-16, accord
ing to the standings announced this
morning by Executive Dean Carl Eng
berg. The Trl-Delts are followed
closely by Kappa Alpha Theta and
Delta Gamma; Acacia by Bushnell
Guild and Farm House. The index
number for the leading sorority is
277.S, for the lowest, 185.2. The lead
ing fraternity has an index of 257.2;
the lowest, 77.2.
Sororities Improve
The index number Is found by aver
aging the total number of hours with
a figure obtained by giving certain
points for grades of above passing,
and deducting for grades below pass
ing. The average for the sororities
Is 249.9, as compared with 238.1 for
the first semester last year. This
very substantial Increase In scholar
ship among the girls, which indicates
an average iu excess of the average
for the non-sorority university women,
is not unexpected, as the sororities
have displayed an earnestness in
study the past year that has never
been excelled.
The fraternities, on the other hand,
have shown a decrease in scholastic
work. The average of 147.7 is ap
parently higher than the average of
143.8 for the same semester last year,
but this increase is due to the fact
fn.nf form Wnnsn and Bushnell
Guild, t'7Q of the leading oragnlza-
ll.Uti -
tlons in scholarship, are averaged
with tho fraternities this semester,
but were not In 1914-15. Had they
been included, tho fraternities would
be three points lower this year.
Tho most notable gain in scholar
ship has been made by the Sigma Chi
fraternity. From last place In 1914
15, with an average far below the
others, the Sigma Chis have climbed
to eleventh place, sixth among the
national fraternities in tho interfra
ternity council.
The Greek Letter Frats
Pi Kappa Phi, organized last fall,
and with a comparatively small mem
bership, is first among tho national
organizations. Phi Kappa Psi, pres
ent holder of the Hainer scholarship
cup for national Greek letter organi
zations, is again at the head of those
societies which aro eligible for the
cup this year, although its average
has fallen.
The comparatively poor showing
made by the men's societies can bo
traced directly to their fresbmen..
pledges, This year, 54.8 per cent of
tho pledges were delinquent, as com
pared to 4G.2 per cent last year.
The complete report will bo found
in another column of this Issue of
The Dally Nebraskan.
once Dunn, Bertha Dusatko, Betty
Dysart.
Aileen Eberman, Helen Edgecombe,
Hella Eigenbroadt, Ada Elliott, Ura
Ellison. Dorothy Ellsworth, Dorothy
English, Louise Enochs, Elizabeth
Erazlm, Luclle Erazlm, Winifred
Ruth Farnham, Dorothy Feary,
Jeannette Finney. Irene Fleck, Laura
M
"u department.
and Kansas, are represent.
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