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UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1916.
NO. 6.
DR. AVERY DESCRIBES
HEW BESSEY HALL
BUILDING FOR DEPARTMENTS OF
BOTANY AND ZOOLOGY
Named in Honor of Late Dr. Bessey,
Who Attained a World-wide
Reputation a Botanist
THE UNIVERSITY THAT IS TO BE
SCHOOL GARDENS GIVEN
BOOST BYJROF. PU8SLEY
ILLUSTRATED LECTURE GIVEN
AT CONVOCATION
(Reprinted from The Daily Nebras
kao f October IS, 1915.)
"Dr. Bessey was the first professor
in the natural science group to re
main long with the University of Ne
braska and to leave an indelible
mark noon it. It Is fitting that the
permanent home of two fundamental
natural sciences in me uuiversuy
should be- named in his honor.
The writer believes that he first
suggested naming such a building
after Dr. Bessey, when he penned, for
approval, page 21 of the biennial re-
nort of 1911-12. This report contains
' the sentence: 'The inadequate and
dangerous building known as Nebras
ka hall should be removed and an
adequate building called Bessey hall,
in honor of Dr. Bessey, erected to
house. the natural sciences. Never
theless when he wrote these words, it
was then, as now, the writer's opin
ion that, in general, no building built
at public expense should be named
after the IlTing. Dr. Bessey was
great enough so that this exception
was planned, but his lamented death
prevented the exception being made.
Let is now render hla memory a spe?
ciai honor py resolving that hereafter
no building shall be named for any
one until his life's work is complete.
This is to harmony with the regents
act fa deciding that hereafter the
ikii a Am1 dean - shall not be
awarded.
"gome of the special friends of Dr.
Resfey are disappointed that the
building is not to be located in a
more conspicuous site. To these, I
would say that Dr. Bessey insisted
on only one thing north light for the
ufr of his microscopes. He was, how
ever, pleased to have the building lo
cated away from the noise and dust
of heavy traffic. The location as
now" determined met his critical ap
provaL The building will have north
windows along its main side and will
be so located that no other university
building can by any possibility ob
struct the view.
"The bunding will have three stor
ies above ground. The basement not
to be used for class room purposes,
will be utilized for lockers, toilet
rooms, store rooms, constant temper
ature rooms and other features of
modern laboratory of natural science.
"The entire space of the building
will be divided almost equally be
tween the departments of Botany and
Zoology. Commodious offices and a
number of special rooms for the use
and comfort of the occupants will
he provided. The building will be
235 feet long and 76 feet wide in Its
widest part. The center of the bulld
fcg, faring south, will open upon
tbe spar reserved for greenhouses.
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Lincoln and Other Nebraska Towns
Are Taking Lead in This Phase
of Agriculture
THE BESSEY HALL
CHANCELLOR AVERY IS
ON WAYTO NEW YORK
Auto Trip Through East Will Furnish
Vacation Returns in August
Chancellor and Mrs. Avery are
making an auto tour of the east, ac
companied by Dean Cutter, of the
Medical college at Omaha, and hi
wife. The destination of the trip is
New York, but various places will be
visited, among them Niagara Falls.
Chancellor Avery will probably re
turn about August 1.
URGE ENROLLMENT AT
TEACHERS' COLLEGE H. S.
PREVIOUS RECORDS OF ATTEND
ANCE SMASHED
PROF. STUFF WILL ADDRESS
PALLADIAN MEETING
The second Palladian meeting of
the summer will be held Saturday
evening at 8:15 o'clock. A miscel
laneous program by active and alum
ni members of the society is being
planned.
Professor Stuff, of the English Lit
erature department, will give an ad
dress on "The Genius of Browning."
A social program will follow the lit
erary numbers.
Lincoln High School Furnishes
Large wumuer v7 the
Students
PROFESSOR DANN GIVES
LECTURE ON ART EXHIBIT
Professor Dann, of the School of
Fine Arts, lectured at convocation to
day in the Art gallery on the collec
tions of paintings in the commence
ment exhibit.
The exhibits will be changed every
few weeks during the summer, so
that summer students will find it well
worth their while to visit the gallery.
RURAL LIFE CONFERENCES
CREATE GREAT INTEREST
The sessions of the Rural Life con
ference at the State Farm are being
well attended. Rural ministers and
grange officers from all over the state
are attending the session?, which last
for ten days. Already the attend
ance has reached the fifty mark.
Yesterday. Mr. Morris and Profes
sor Filley addressed the delegates.
The people in attendance are show
ing great interest in the experimental
plants at She Farm.
The summer Bession of the Teach
ers' College High School has the
largest enrollment in Its history.
There are enrolled for credit alone,
107 pupils; for reviews alone, 53; for
both credit and reviews, 9. faeven
teen clases daily in credit subjects
are given and eighteen In review.
The Lincoln high school is furnish
ing 60 of the 169 enrolled. The fol
lowing is the organization of the
school :
Assignment of Work for Summer Ses
sion of 191S
Credit Subjects
Principal in Charge Chas. W. Tay
lor.
English HI. V. VIII Letta May
Clark.
English V Ellamary C. Thomas.
Latm I, II, III Ethel K. Hummel.
German I. III. Ill Sarah A. Ryan.
Algebra II, III. Geometry II Cora
B. Hill.
American History. Survey Course
William B. Ireland.
Modern History Blanche Eads.
Civics Frank L. McXoun. !
School Management Paul W. Lantz PROFESSOR SKINNER
MARRIED IN CANADA
Review Work without Credit ,
Reading. Grammar. History. Civics ; SkmneTt bead of the
D. S. Domer. j Phy8lc8 department of the university.
Arithmetic. Geography-Emmanuel wag married ye8terdajr Crystabel
D. Lundak. ; Ditchburn, of Rosseau, Canada. The
Penmanship. Drawing. Physiology, I marnage took place at the home of
Bookkeeping-Douglas F. Dickerson. . tfce and p, and Mrg.
Algebra. Geometry-Wesley L. Dm skInneP remafn ,n Cana(U rntIl
ten- i fail, return!ng to Nebraska In Septem-
English Composition, Agriculture,;
Botany. Physics-Russel M. Kidd. i profpg80r Sklnner an alnmnu8 of
Orthography. Mental Arithmetic- ; Kebraska tlDlTer8ltTf havlng received
John A. True. h,a A B m ,g3 and hJg A M ,n 86
j He has been head of the Physics de
Notwithstanding the greater restnc-! partment gInce thd death of Brace
tions and regulations placed upon the about flvJ yearg a&Q
graduate students, the Graduate I
School of Education shows an in-!
crease over last summer's attend- The students of the Geology depart-
to- t in i ment will leave tomorrow for a trio
it n wh.tfield '17 is employed by! classes under Dean Luckey. sixty are through the Black Hills. Professor
H. B. Whitfield. 17, is empioyeo. oy CTadnate work 1 Schramm will conduct he party,
the Des Moines Telephone company, engaged in graduate wors.
Professor Pugsley gave an interest
ing and instructive talk on school and
home gardens at the Thursday con
vocation period. By the aid of the
projection lantern, he was able to
give those assembled very concrete
ideas of the results obtained from
the home gardening projects in Lin
coln, as they have been carried on
under the direction of special super
visors. Professor Pugsley mentioned
that Lincoln was one of the first
cities of the central west to under
take the school garden experiment
and that it has the distinction of hav
ing the first, if not the only, chil
dren's market in the world. Last sum
mer, this market was held on only
one day of the week, but during the
present summer it is aimed to con
duct it two or three times a week.
The market will be at Fourteenth and
N stree: i.
It has been only within Jthe last
fifteen years that school and home,
gardens have been known in any part
of the United States whatever, the
idea having been adopted froni Eu
rope. To show the rapid growth pf
the movement, it is only necessary
to say that, spreading from the At
lantic seaboard westward, it has chal
lenged Nebraska to the extent that
twenty-six school systems of the state
have arranged for the work for the
summer. .. . , .
These children's gardens find their
sanction, as Professor Pugsley point
ed out, in the fact that they furnish
a means for profitable employment
and education of the children, and
through the children, their parents,
frequently; that they promote' the
health of the children by. furnishing
them more and better food, and that
thy utilize and beautify vacant lots
that might otherwise grow up . to
weeds.
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