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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
SOCIETY
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APRIL 18, 18, 20, 21, T"
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SOCIAL CALENDAR
April 21:
Engineers' Night.
Senior Hop Lindcll hotel.
Christian Science Society, party
Faculty hall.
Sigma Phi Epsilon, dance Lincoln
hotel.
Silver Lynx House dance.
April 22:
Delta Zeta, formal Lincoln hotel.
Engineers' vanquet Lincoln hotel.
Comus Club, dance Music hall.
Delta Chi House dance.
Alpha Omicron Pi House dance.
April 28:
Phi Gamma Delta, formal Lincoln
hotel.
Farm House, dance Music hall.
Freshman Hop-Rosewilde.
April 29:
Gamma Phi Beta, formal Lincoln
hotel.
Alpha Omicron Pi, banquet Lin
coln, hotel.
Phi Gamma Delta, banquet Lincoln
hotel.
Farm House, banquet Lincoln ho
tel. Union Society, picnic.
Mrs. Minnie T. England, instructor
in political economy, entertained the
university Business Woman's club
Wednesday evening at dinner. Fif
teen girls were present. Mrs. Eng
land read several selections from
James Whitcomb Riley, and her 7-
year-old son, Donald, played the violin
for the visitors.
Members of Sigma Delta Chi were
entertained at th8 home of Prof. M.
I M. Fogg Thursday evening. Carl H
j Getz, vice president of the fraternity,
was guest of honor.
George B. Bush, traveling secretary
of Delta Chi fraternity, is a guest at
the fraternity house. Mr. Bush is an
attorney in Riverside, Cal.
Dr. H. B. Alexander is in St. Louis,
where he will read a paper before
the Western Philosophic association.
THE ENGINEER
AND PREPAREDNESS
"Fat men who do not believe in pre
paredness will continue to overeat.
Pneumonia like war always avoids
those who are not prepared." Kansas
City Star.
If a large number of recitations at
the University of Nebraska may be
taken as a guide, the belief in the
necessity of preparedness has only a
small following in the student body.
The confidence in the efficacy of the
bluff being so well established, I shall
not attempt to convince either the
student or the public at large of the
necessity of preparedness, but merely
pont out to those who will have to
bear the burden In that day when the
bluff Is called, some of the things that
the engineer will be called upon lo do.
It Is again a question if a student
body whose main desire is the side
stepping of hard work will appreciate
to any extent service with the en
gineering corps of an active army.
Casper Whitney says: "Men go to war
to flKht. To fight means to work all
day, to march all night, to sleep on
the d&mp ground, to go hungry, and
those who do not have a stomach for
that sort of thing had better stay at
home."
This prescription, with a triple al
lowance of work, all comes to the en
gineers. For Instance, if you can
picture to yourself a small group of
men cutting, and lashing bamboo poles
into a half finished floating bridge with ;
troops and the lighter ??hlcles already ;
passing over it, and when It is fairly
substantial see these men still soaked
to the skin, under a blazing eun, fight
ing their way through the dust past
columns of men on the march, ambu
lances, supply wagons and what not,
Economy k'tfk''?
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on may
have said
can-flere.
A R m S TT R O N
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to be at the head of the' line ready to
bridge the next stream, you will have
a pretty fair idea of some of the work
of the engineering corps in the early
days of the campaign in the Philip
pines. In this connection the standard
United States army pontoon bridges
are wonderfully efficient, yet in the
earlier Philippine campaigns when the
crossing of streams was almost a daily
occurrence, there were whole regi
ments which never saw a pontoon. As
an example of what was done, how
ever, the troops crossed the Marilao
river at dusk one evening on a partly
dismantled railroad bridge and at 9:30
o'clock the next morning supply trains
were crossing on a bridge of boats
and bamboo gathered along the banks.
To bring home the importance of
rapid bridge work and to show that
one can not rely entirely on make
shifts, allow me to quote Major P. S. ;
Bond in the Engineering Record of
March 18, 1916. j
"On Jan. 26, 1814, Napoleon writes V
'If I had had ten pontoons, I should
have captured 10,000 wagons, beaten
Prince Schartsenburg in detail, annlhi- j
lated his army and closed the war; I
but for want of proper means I could
not cross the Seine.'
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"Writing to the adjutant general
under date of May 18, 184G, General
Zachary Taylor says: 'My very limited
means for crossing rivers prevented a
complete prosecution of the victory of
the 9th (Palo Alto). A pontoon train,
the necessity of which I exhibited to
the department last year, would have
enabled the army to cross on the even
ing of the battle, taken this city, with
all the artillery and stores of the
enemy, and a great number of prison
ersin short to destroy entirely the
Mexican army.'"
In addition to the things already
mentioned the duties of the military
engineer are limited only by his abil
ity, both mental and physical. In
general, however, with an active army
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