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UttlVEfcSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, WEDNESDAY, MAY 24, 1916. PRICE 5 CENTS. VOL, XV. NO. 155. 1 SAUNDERS MANAGER OF UNIVERSITY WEEK THIS YEAR'S ASSISTANT PRO MOTED BY ASSOCIATION Haggart Association President Clark and Cook Made Junior As sistant Business Managers . R. J. Saunders of Red Cloud was elected business manager of Univer sity Week for 1917, at a meeting of the association yesterday noon. Fred Clark of Stamford was elected first assistant business manager and John B. Cook of Beatrice Becond assistant business manager. Virgil Haggart was elected president of the execu tive board and so becomes, automati cally, president of the University Week association. Saunders was one of the assistant business managers of the Week this past year, and as advance agent, helped make the week a financial suc cess. Clark and Cook, both of the sophomore class, were elected from almost a score of candidates. While no announcement of the plans of the Week for next year can yet be made, it is probable that muct the same plans will followed as have been followed in the past two years. The increased success of the Week last spring over the first year in sures a successful season with a bigger scope of influence In 1917, in) tiie opinion of those active in the Week this year. WELSH-ENGLISH FOLK SONG CONVOCATION Chorus and' Lillian Helms Polley In Last Musical Program of Year A program of Welsh and English folk song, by Lillian Helms Polley, accompanied by Anne Stuart and with the university chorus, will be sung tomorrow at convocation, the last con vocation of the present echool yar. The program will be: Welsh Folk Song "Men of Harlech" .Chorus This song is generally' regarded as the national song of Wales. It refers to the siege of Harlech castle in 1468 by the Earl of Pembroke in the reign of Edward IV. The air is undoubtedly old end pos sesses a distinctly vigorous and mar tial spirit. The tune has been adopt ed in America, where it is known as the "Men of Columbia." "The Hells of Aberdovy" Chorus "Hunting the Hare" Chorus "All Through the Night" Roy Young, with Chorus English Folk Song "Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes" University Chorus "The Happy Stranger" As Sung in Hampshire "Tarry Trowsers" (Dorian Mode).. AfiSung in Essex "Bushed and Briars" (Aeolian Mode) As Sung in Essex "A Bold Toung Farmer'.. As Sung in Essex "Harry the Tailor" ...As Sung in Cambridge "The Willow Song".. ......Version Used by Shakespeare "No, John, No!". As Sung in Somerset Lillian Helms Polley. Anne Stuart, Accompanist "Coma Lassas and Lads" Chorus VOTING BOOTH AT FARM TOMRROW A voting booth will be placed at the state farm' tomorrow to make it easier for the students in the agricul tural college to express their prefer ence on the Student Council, and Sin gle Tax, in the election called by the chancellor for tomorrow. It is hoped that the greater number of the farm students will seize the opportunity to vote on the propositions. BUNS AND WIENIES FOR SHIRT-TAIL PARADE Bonfire . and Fireworks, on Athletic Field After Downtown March "Real buns and honest-to-goodness wienies," topped off by a big fire works exhibition, will be a feature of the annual shirt-tail parade, follow' ing competitive drill tomorrow. Plans have been carefully made to make the parade more exciting than ever before. The procession, headed, according to ancient custom, by the company which wins first place in the compet, will leave the Armory at 7:30. The line of march will include the Or pheum, the Lyric, th Lindell, the Lincoln, and other places, and it said that at some place there will be punch for the soldiers. After the downtown district has been covered tho parodcrs will re turn to the university, going to the athletic field and, with Dick Ruther ford as chief cook, the buns will be passed out and the wienies roasted. The fireworks will cap the climax. AG CLUB ELECT8 PORTER PRESIDENT Other Officers Named Ingersoll Farm ers' Fair Manager, and Mlckel Editor Agriculture. Grove M. Porter of Nebraska City was elected president of the Agricul ture club last night. M. L. Johnson was made vice president ; Daune Wal rath, treasurer; Chester Grau, secre tary, and J. B. Fletcher, sergeant-at-arms. Arthur Ingersoll of Syracuse was elected manager of the Farmers' Fair for 1917, with G. A. Blotz as assistant. Clarence Mlckel will be the next edi tor of Agriculture, and Carl Olson will be associate. One hundred fifty members attended the meeting, the last of this year. Had the war not intervened we might have expected something un usual this year to commemorate the 300th anniversary of Shikespeare's death. But in England, the flowers have been strewn on fresher graves; and it is left to us in a country be yond the "still vexed Bermoothes" to do honor to the poet who in spite of nationality and clime belongs to us as to all that inherit the English speech and English tradition. Shakespeare is a poet But poetry has a connotation for Us quite dif ferent from what it once had. There are many today who regard it as the toy of leisure and luxury,. a thing of long hair and short wits, all right for 5 o'clock teas and literature sections of woman's clubs, but quite foreign to the daily business of getting things done In this world, common sense, I MEETS IN U 106 TONIGHT FACULTY FAVOR STUDENT COUNCIL The following are afew state ments by representative men of the faculty, giving their opinion of the Student Council, which is to be voted upon by all the uni versity students tomorrow at a general election called by the chancellor: "How to realize the full bene fit of university life is not easy to determine. One factor is clear the students should coco-operate and work to keep all standards high. A Student Council of democratic make-up ought to be a great aid in ac complishinhg many of the desir able ends. Unity of advice will yield great results. It will help to get better standards and to see to it that all student prob lemswhich . in the long run means life problems are better organized and more efficiently developed." H. W. Caldwell. "I have a predisposition in fa vor of the Student Council, and think it would be a good thing if the students generally take hold of it. It will serve in a larger way as a moans for ad ministration, reaching the stu dents and accomplishing things through the student body." O. V. P. Stout. "I am in favor of student self government." F. M. Fling. "From what I have seen of student life, I favor the partici pation of students in govern ment." Charles Fordyce. "I am very much in favor of the proposal to establish a Stu dent Council. Such a body could take care of such ques tions as the Single Tax and Student Union. Student affairs should be more united. Stu dents should take a more ac tive interest in university af fairs. The Student Council is the best method of securing" these ends. At least, it has so proven in other schools where It has been tried." J. E. LeRosslgnol. Shakespeare Tercentenary (By P. M. Buck, Jr.) and businw?" It Is interesting to com pare with this view the poet and poetry, the one held by the contem poraries of Shakespeare, Milton and Goethe. In the days of Elizabeth and James I nearly every prominent man tried his hand at poetry the re sults were even startling at times and even professional poets, like Spenser and Shakespeare, were also men of business and affairs. Later Milton was an associate of Oliver Cromwell; and later still Goethe was a Gehelmrath and scientist. Poetry was a serious, very serious,' thing before this, sophisticated twentieth century. And these poets have a serious im plication for all ages.. Today, I am afraid we should have to look long for a contemporary author or a con temporary book that any considerable ' The League of the Second Genera tion will meet in U 106 at 7 o'clock tonight, for a short organize tion meet ing." All of those who names have been published in The Nebraskan as eligible to membership, and any oth ers eligible, are asked to be present. The membership in the league is open to any who have. one or both parents who attended the university. METCALFE WILL BE EDITOR AWGWAN Elected Last Night by Sigma Delta Chi, Which Has Taken Over the Paper Ted Metcalfe was elected editor-in-chief of the Awgwan, the university funny paper, for next year, and Virgil Haggart was elected business mana. ger, at a meeting of Sigma Delta Chi, last evening. The fraternity, honor ary journalism, has taken over the Awgwan, and it will be published by members of Sigma Delta Chi here after. Metcalfe has had a good deal of experience in publications, both uni versity and ' metropolitan. Haggart has been editor-in-chief of the Aw gwan during the past year. J NOTICE The following students have been appointed a committee to manage the Student Council election. Each member will please report at The Daily Ne braskan office for plans as to the method of work during the day: Ted Metcalfe Leslie V. Meek Al Bryson Steele Holcomb Doris Slater Jean Burroughs Edna Froyd M. Schlesinger Mary Haller Willard Folsom Glenn Everts E. Harnsberger C. M. Frey Kenneth Craig Louise Coe Walter Hager A. J. Covert August Krebs E. J. Althouse Robert Waring Clara Dodds Lucy Jeffords Marie Rowley Florence Bishop Lucile Leyda Edith Youngblut DeWitt Foster Mildred Peery Paul Flothow Lewis Townsend J. H. Frasier number of well informed people would be willing to sacrifice for the Panama canal or wireless telegraphy. But it is possible to put Shakespeare's "Hamlet" side by side with Drake's "Voyage Around the World" or the "Defeat of the Spanish Armada" or the "Colonization of America," and to question seriously which had the greater significance to the world. There would be not a few who would gladly forego the material gains of any economic or political conquest for the intellectual gain of Shakespeare's tragedy. , Shakespeare's poetical labors have become a very important part of our Intellectual tradition, so much so that no course of study is considered com plete without the Inclusion of his bet ter known plays; and many a nation " (Continued on page 2) JUDGE SUTTON AT CONVOCATION ADVOCATES REFORM FARMS FOR LESSER CRIMINALS Decalres Service to Humanity the Noblest Work in Life Work Brings Its Own Rewards A. L. Sutton of Omaha, republican candidate for governor, spoke at con vocation . Tuesday morning on the need for new methods and new insti tutions in connection with reform work in this state. He advocated a reformatory farm for men who are in the penitentiary for minor offenses, especially the young men. Another plan he proposed is to have some sort of a corrective farm for each congres sional district. These would be worked by the men who had been put in Jail for small offenses, and would remove them from an unhealthy atmosphere to a useful, active life In the country. To the young men he gave a mes sage, telling them that service to hu manity is the noblest work in life. He scoffed at the Idea that only the wealthy young men could succeed; the young man who is accustomed to work for what he gets will have this ability developed by his working dur ing the college years, and his success . will be the more worthy for having won it by his own efforts. NEW UNIVERSITY CATALOGJUBLISHED NET GAIN OF 286 IN ENROLL MENT IN COLLEGES Men Number 2,142 and Women 1,499 Total Enrollment of 4,826 The forty-sixth annual catalog of the university has just been issued by Registrar Greer, coming off the press earlier this year than ever before. The book contains the complete rec ord of the university for the year Just closed, as well as announcements for the year 1916-17. Because of the paper famine re sulting from the European war, two kinds of paper stock had to be used in printing the book. Copies will be distributed free on request of the reg- s. istrar. The summary of ptudents in the colleges shows a total registration of 3,641, of whom 2,142 are men and 1,499 are women. The women are in the majority In the graduate col loge, the graduate school of educa tion, the college of arts and sciences, the school of fine arts and the teach ers' college. The men are vastly in the majority in the college of law and the college of medicine, while no women at all were registered in the college of engineering or the college of pharmacy. Two hundred and sev enty men and as many women were registered in the agricultural college. The total enrollment of the univer sity in all schools and colleges and In, the department of university ex tension was 4,826. Last year the total enrollment was but 4,589. Last year the enrollment of students In the col leges alone was 3,355, showing a net t gain of 286 for this year. Ralph Canady, '16, of Mlnden, nas been spending a few days in Lincoln. i , 4 ,1 nn Extra Copies ay 26th Friday -zJ Kl,' L3