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UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 7, 1916.
NO. 14.
GET TICKETS TODAY FOR
SUMMER SCHOOL PICNIC
Big Outdoor Mixer Comes Off Next
Wednesday
A very Jiva picnic is assured for the
Summer School students by the way
the various committees are working.
The tickets will be on sale by noon to
day. The plan is to have one person
in every class selling tickets. They
may also be obtained at the library
entrance from Monday morning on.
The price will be twenty-five cents
and includes the entrance fee and the
lunch. No one will be admitted with
out a ticket. It is urged that every
one get tickets as early as possible
so that definite estimates of the num
ber attending may be made beforehand.
Chartered cars will leave at various
times in the afternoon to take the
picnickers to the park.
Definite announcement of the various
novel features planned for the after
noon and evening will be made later.
Since time is so short in summer
school. Wednesday afternoon classes
and laboratories cannot be excused
wholesale. Several professors, how
ever, have signified their intention of
dismissing their afternoon classes and
students will be allowed to be excused
from their classes and laboratories
where their work makes it possible.
Show your school spirit by boosting
for the summer school picnic.
Miss Blanche Toland, '14. also a
former normal training student at the
Nebraska School of Business, was in
the city Thursday. Miss Toland has
been in charge of the commercial de
partment of the high school at Water
town. South Dakota, for the past year.
Among the Summer Students
Superintendent Tout of North Platte
Superintendent Wilson Tout of North
Platte, is one of the substantial edu
cators of Nebraska and is credited
with a remarkably long term of service
Jn one community. He is a native of
Nebraska and has received his educa
tion in the state. Mr. Tout went to
North Platte nine years ago as high
school principal. The following year
he waB made superintendent and has
been in the service of the community
ever since. He has made North Platte
cne of the distinctive school systems
of the state. There are under his
direction about sixteen hundred pupils,
almost three hundred of which are in
the high school, six buildings and forty
two teachers. Some features of the
high school are Normal Training, Mili
tary Drill, courses in Commerce and
Telegraphy, a Model Store, six points
in Music fully accredited to the Uni
versity of Nebraska, and a Junior High
School for the housing of which a new
$60,000 building is In process of con
struction. The course is on a purely
elective- basis, no studies being re
quired, which leaves the pupil absolute
freedom in adapting the work to his
Open Air Palladian Meeting Tomorrow
An open air meeting will be held on
the campus Saturday evening near the
Library instead of in Palladian Hall.
A short program beginning at 8 o'clock,
followed by various entertainment fea
tures is planned. The Unions will give
the program the following Saturday
and on the succeeding Saturday the
Kearney Club will be in charge.
PICTURES FROM LIMA
AT CONVOCATION
Persinger Describes Peruvian Capital
in Wednesday Lecture
In the fourth lecture of his South
American series Professor Persinger
described the picturesque capital of
Peru, which he described as his first
love among the cities of South Amer
ica. Some of the most attractive
views were those showing Mount
Columbus in the background, the birds
eye view of the city and the views of
the government buildings.
The absence of store windows for
the display of goods, the prevalence of
carts for conveyance and the unsub
stantial building materials used were
commented on.
Professor Persinger called attention
to the fact that what we term revolu
tions in the South American republics
are in reality only changes in the con
trol of the governmental machinery
by cliques of the upper tenth of the
population.
Romar J. Weyant and Thomas Sckav
land, of the Nebraska School of Busi
ness, have been employed this week in
stenographic work at the Mobilization
Headquarters at the fair grounds.
peculiar needs. Each subject is placed
in a grade. For graduation the candi
date muct present at least seven points
from each of the grades nine, ten and
eleven, and six points from grade
twelve. Not less than four credits or
two full years work is accepted in
Latin, History. German. Methamatics.
Science, English, or Stenography.
Music is standarized by requiring
that instrumental music teachers be
approved by the Board of Education,
on the basis of adequate preparation.
Pupils enroll with these teachers and
take two half hour music lessons per
week during school hours. When
proper reports have been made the
same credit is given for this work as
for other high school work up to a
maximum of six points. Two hours
practice is required daily and no senior
is permitted to register for music.
Few schools in the smaller cities of
Nebraska have so perfectly adapted
their work to the needs of the com
munity as has North Platte and few
have been so fortunate as to have had
the direction of their aducational in
terests under the continuous super
vision of so capable a man as Superln
tendent Tout for almost a decade.
CONVOCATIONS NEXT WEEK
Monday, July 10 Paramount Mov
ing Picture Film on South America.
Tuesday, July 11 Professor Per
singer, illustrated lecture on "Peruvian
Highlands" and "Montana."
Wednesday, July. 12 Dean Fordyce,
"Educational Measurements."
Thursday, July 13 Professor Cald
well, illustrated lecture on "American
History."
Friday, July 14 Professor Conklin,
"July 14, the French Independence
Day." ,
THE BALKAN
SITUATION DISCUSSED
Dr. Jones Continues Discusssion of
This Topic at Convocation
Yesterday
Dr. Jones continued his discussion of
I the "Balkan Situation," at the convo
cation on Thursday morning. He sum
marized his remarks of last week rela-
five to the interests of the various
European powers in the Balkans, the
relations of the Mohammedans and
Christians, and the relations of the
Balkan states themselves. He showed
how this portion of Europe was bound
up with the aims of practically all of
the powers of Europe, why Turkey
could not be driven from Europe with
out creating an uprising of the Mo
hammedan peoples under the English
and French. He rehearsed the causes
of the first and second Balkan wars,
and showed how one thing led to an
other, until the declaration of war by
Austria against Serbia, which started
the present Pan-European war. Stu
dents of the summer school who are
not attending the convocations are
missing many rare treats. Frequently
these talks clear up some obscure point
that bears directly upon the work of
teachers, and since so large a portion
of the summer school enrollment be
long to this class, it ought not to be
necessary to urge a large attendance.
SEMI-FINALS NEXT IN
TENNIS TOURNAMENT
The consolation tennis tournament
for those eliminated in the first round
is now under way. The defeated heroes
are picking up heart after their first
downfall and are brandishing their
racquets in anticipation of retrieving
their lost fortunes. The line-up is as
follows:
Miller vs. Campbell.
Adams vs. Morgan.
Chadderton vs. Warren.
Johnson vb. Bye.
Carey vs. Long.
Lewis vs. Stout.
Pace vs. Hosford.
Traut vs. Williams.
In the original tournament the line
up is complete for the third round.
One man. Chris Nelson, has already
reached the semi-finals by defeating
Gustafson. The rest of the winners
of the second round are lined up as
follows:
H. F. Holtz vs. D. B. Dow.
. G. E. Reed vs. Lottie Savage.
Norwal Pearce vs. Chas. E. Kellogg.
BIG6LEST0NE NEW
Y. H. CJ. SECRETARY
BOARD OF DIRECTORS DECIDE TO
HAVE FULL-TIME MAN
Has Bejn With Chicago University
Association Takts Up Work Here
in September
Mr. H. C. Bigglestone of Sioux City,
has been elected secretary of the Uni
versity of Nebraska Y. M. C. A. for the
coming year. The new secretary comes
to Nebraska fresh from his experience
in the University oT Chicago Associa
tion where he was in charge of the so-
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H. C. BIGGLESTONE
New Secretary of University Y. M. C. A.
called Extension Department which is
concerned with settlement work among
Chicago's great foreign-born popula
tion. He is very highly recommended
by the secretary of the Chicago Uni
versity Association.
Mr. Bigglestone received his A. B.
from Morningside College in 1914. Dur
ing the past year he has been doing
graduate work in Sociology in the Uni
versity of Chicago, and in the T. M.
C. A. college of that city, besides work
ing in the University Association.
The place of general secretary at the
Nebraska University Asoociation was
left vacant last fall when former Sec
retary R. L. Ewing resigned to take
charge of the Y. M. C .A. work in the
English prison camps during the war.
During hte past year the work of gen
eral secretary was divided between
President Glenn Everts and Vice Pres
ident Stanhope Pier of the Association.
Gladys Weil, '15, has resumed her
work in the general science laboratory
in the Temple. She has been in Om
aha the past week and a half on ac
count of the illness of her mother.
Mrs. Weil's condition is now much
better. Louise Brownell, '16. has been
filling Miss Weil's place during her
absence.
Harry Fudge, ex-'16, who has been
in Lincoln for the pats week, left
Thursday for Kansas.
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