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UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1916.
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CHANGES MADE III
FACULTY ROSTER
REGENTS APPROVE MANY NEW
APPOINTMENTS
Or. Whitney Succeed Dr. Powen as
Head of the Zoology
Department
Many new names appear on the uni
versity faculty roll with the new
semester, and returning students will
find that several faces, long familiar,
have gone.
Dr. J. H. Powers, head of the zool
ogy department lnpa?t years has left
and n his place the university has Dr.
David D. Whitney, of Middleton, Conn.
This is the only change made In the
head of a department
Other changes that have taken place
ia the university administrative or
faculty personnel, or additional ap
pointments are given below.
Faculty Change
Floyd Wambeam. agricultural edi
tor to succeed Frank C. Dean, re
signed. R. C. Hibben, instructor In dairy
husbandry to succeed E. A. Markham.
J. J. Thiel. assistant professor of
Germanic languages to succeed A. J.
Wedektng.
Dorothy Mayland. fellow in Ger
manic languages.
Jefferson H. Broady, professor of
law to succeed Walter L. Pope, who
becomes professor of law in the Uni
versity of Montana.
Shirley D. Babbitt, instructor In
rhetoric j
Addle Reynoldson. scholar in Amer
ican history- " - "
Homer B.' Latimer, Instructor In
zoology to succeed "Dr. ArnholL
Aural Scott, instructor la home eco
nomics in agricultural extension.
Lulu Mae Coe, assistant to the dean
of women.
EarU. Beck. Instructor in English
literature.
Minnie F. Watson, instructor in nor
mal training.
Agricultural College
William Rabak, instructor In agri
cultural chemistry.
Louise Meredith, instructor in home
economics.
E. L. Jenkins, instructor in animal
husbandry.
Walter Campbell, instructor in phy
sical education to succeed A. R. Sil
vester. John P. Senning, instructor in Amer
ican history.
Warren Ichler, instructing mechanic
ia charge of machine shop in mechan
ical engineering.
Harold J. Stockman, scholar in
chemistry.
Ruth Curtiss, Sarah Can field, Ma
tilda Peters, instructors in home eco
nomics. New appointments to the college of
medicine faculty at Omaha include Dr.
H. E. Eggers, John T. Meyers, Dr.
James L. Patton, Dr. Robert D.
Sen rock.
KEW COURSE l!i
FORESTRY GIVEN
BYBOTAHY DEPT.
A course on introduction to forestry,
under Prof. R. J. Pool will be offered
by the botany department this sem
ester at 9 o'clock Tuesdays and Thurs
days. It is open to all students.
The course is designed to give ft
general survey of the content and
aims of forestry, to review forestry In
the United States and abroad, study
the tree and the forest, and the pro
fession in general.
The abolition o the forestry col
lege & ysar ago made it advisable, in
the opinion of the botany department.
to offer again the introduction to for
estry as h. general study covering the
forestry fkld. The course was given
in the days before the college of for
TEA FOR TIRED
CO-EDS AT THE
Y. W. C. A. ROOMS
Tired co-eds, or thirsty co-eds, or
just plain co-eds, (and some not so
plain), will be served tea and wafers
at the V. W. C. A. rooms in the Tem
ple during the present week, by the
association girls. This Is a past' cus
tom, continued for several years, and
it has proved immensely popular with
the girls, who find that a hot cup of
tea, and a few moments' relaxation,
help revive drooping and homesick
spirits. Upper class girls will wel
come the freshmen at the association
rooms.
Professor Nicolet a Student
Professor Nicolet of the horticul
tural department, attended summer
school at the Massachusetts agricul
tural college. His courses were main
ly the study of plant materials.
DR, STEWART, COACH
WITH BIG RECORD
Dr. E. J. Stewart, Nebraska's new
all-year coach and director of athletics
is a man with whom everyone, espe
cially new btudents should become ac
quainted. He has a very pleasing per-
sonality s well as ability along ath
letic lines.
Mr. Stewart graduated from Steu
benviile high schol in 1895. He played
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CADET OFFICERS
SERVING WITH
NATIONAL GUARDS
The university military department
begins the year without the services
of three of the highest cadet officers,
Colonel Burnham, the Majors Craig
and Nye serving on the border with
the Nebraska national guards.
The first order from the secretary of
war, that college etudents would be
allowed to return to their schools, has
been recalled, and none may return,
pending investigation of the effect
their discharge mignt have upon the
organization of the border guard
Chancellor Avery has received from
Senator Norris, however, ft letter in
which the senator declares that be
will do his best to secure the passage
of a bill through congress, granting
furloughs to college guardsmen. If
such a bill passes, the university offi
cers would soon return.
Among the other students and for
mer students on the border with the
Nebraska guards are James Allison,
Russel Philip, Adrian Brian, Jack
Bo wen, Keith Grant and Dick Lyman.
AT THE AG. COLLEGE
The cafeteria of the borne economics
department expected to move to the
boiler bouse In the agricultural engi
neering building, but on account of the
mt f the war on the prices of
'building material the agricultural en-
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gioeering building will not do ouui
'and the cafeteria will be forced to
'serve meal at its old stand in the
home economics building.
FARM HOUSE HIGH
111 SCHOLARSHIP
MEN'S ORGANIZATION LEADS ALL
SECRET SOCIETIES
Both Fraternities and Sororities Show
Improvement In General
Average
Farm House, a fraternity composed
of men taking agricultural courses,
carried off the secret society scholar
ship honors last semester, with an
index of So0.5, high above the frater
nities, and outranking even the high
est sorority. .This grade indicates an
average grade of over SO per cent of
all the men in the organization.
Delta Ganivna captured first place
among the sororities, with an index
of 293.6. Second place was won by
Alphi Chi Omega with 2S9.7, and third
by Kappa Alpha Theta with 2S3.4.
There was a general improvement in
sorority scholarship during the second
semester of last year.
Acacia was second in the list of
men's societies, with 244.8, and Bush-
nell Guild was third with 224.3. Alpha
Theta Chi, local, was fourth with
203.1. leading the fraternities in the
interfraternity council last semester.
The Hainer Cup
The Hainer scholarship cup will
again be held by the Phi Kappa Psi
fraternity during the coming year, be
cause of the rules of its presentation
made by the donor, E. J. Hainer of
Lincoln. The cup is to be awarded to
the national Greek letter fraternity in
the interfraternity council, having the
highest general average during the
year. Phi Kappa Psi, with a general
average of 186.9 was first among those
fraternities ooming under the rules.
The fraternities showed a better
scholarship standmg on "the whole, the
lowest mark being higher than the
lowest grade of the previous year.
Executive Dean Engberg. who com
piled the scholarship statistics, had no
comment to make upon them yester
day, saying merely that he had not
had time to study over them.
DEATH OF DOROTHY ELLSWORTH
Dorothy Ellsworth, a prominent
senior girl, took her own life late this
summer by drinking acid, the day
after her fiance, Shirley Fossler, for
mer university student and assistant
city editor of the Lincoln Journal and
News, had died.
Miss Ellsworth was on of the most
able of the senior girls. She had
tVen mart In several university plays.
had a" leading role In the pageant of j
1916. was active In Girls' club and
Y. W. C. A. work, a Black Masque,
and a member of the Delta Gamma
sorority.
, In Charge of Food Study
Miss Leila Corbin cf the home eco
nomics department, has been trans
ferred from the high school to the
university. Miss Corbin will have
charge of the courses offered In food
study.
University Girls Take First
Prizes in State Fair Exhibits
Ye scorners of the value of higher
education for women, ye criers
against culture in favor of cooking,
against textbooks in favor of tatting,
against courses of instruction in favor
of canning and crocheting if such ye
be have been put to rout, utterly
flabbergasted as it were, by the feats
of the university girls who competed
with the good old-fashioned house
wives (and Heaven bless them) at the
recent state fair.
In onen competition with the best
cooks, the most expert needleworkers
among the fair sex in the state. Miss
Anna Lackey. Miss Cornelia Critten
den, Miss Helen Burns, and Mis Flor
ence Schoenleber, captured first prem
STATE EDITORS TO
ADDRESS STUDENTS
PRACTICAL NEWSPAPER MEN BE
BEFORE U. OF N. JOURNALISTS
Professor .Fogg . Announces .New
Feature for News Writing and
Editing Courses
Nebraska editors are to co-operate
with Frof. M. M. Fogg this year in
the university's instruction in prep
aration for journalism. A series of
addresses by newspaper men of the
state will be given during the year
especiallv for the students in the
courses in news writing and news
paper editing. These addresses will
supplement the classroom instruction
in various stages of city and country
journalism writing, editing, editorial
policies, etc.
The following incomplete list of
speakers others will be announced
later was announced yesterday:
A. L. Bixby, The Nebraska State
Journal.
John Cutright, editor of The Lincoln
Daily Star.
Harry T. Bobbins, editor of The
Lincoln Evening News.
Ross Hammond, editor of The Fre
mont Tribune.
Edgar Howard, editor of The Colum
bus Telegram.
Norris A. Huse, ex-'04. editor of The
Norfolk Daily News.
Will Owen Jones, '86, managing edi
tor of The Nebraska State Journal.
James E. Lawrence, law, '11, city
editor of The Lincoln Daily Star.
T. C. McCu'lough. managing editor
of The Omaha Bee.
Richrrd L. Metcalfe, editor of The
Omaha-Nebraskan. formerly editor of
Theh Commoner.
E. P. Purcell. editor and proprietor
of The Custer County Chief. Broken
Bow.
Victor Rosewater, editor of The
Omaha Bee. former regent of the uni
versity. W. E. Watson, managing editor of
The World Herald, Omaha.
HONOR E. BENJAMIN ANDREWS
To honor former Chancellor E. Ben
jamin Andrews, through whose
efforts funds were secured for build
ing the Temple, a bronze tablet was
placed in the lobby of the building last
week, the gift of the class of 1915.
The tablet bears a suitable inscrip
tion to Chancellor Andrews.
The former chancellor has written
to Chancellor Avery, expressing his
appreciation of the honor done him,
and his gratitude to the students who
have kept him in memory. In Par
ticular did he thank the members of
the class of 1915, the chancellor and
Professor Grummann for the part
they had in securing the tablet
Clothing Study Course
Miss Ruth Curtis, daughter of Dean
Curtis of the University of Iowa, will
have charge of the courses In cloth
ing study In the home economics de
partment this year.
iums at the state fair exhibits, forcing
many more experienced women to
look vainly to their laurels.
Miss Luckey won the most honors,
taking first in canning of halved pears,
first In canning of white currants, sec
ond in canning of whole cherries and
third in canning of tomatoes.
Miss Crittenden was awarded first
place In crocheting lace on a linen
towel, and second in cross-stitching ft
bride set
Miss Schoenleber was given first
place in handsewlng ft corset cover,
ano first In canning blackberries.
Miss Burns wen second In crochet
ing ft bag.
And they have all been active in uni
versity life and studies.
WORK IN MUSIC TO
BE ACCREDITED BY
THE UNIVERSITY
Courses leading to the degree of
bachelor of science In music will be
offered by the schol of fine arts this
year, by arrangement with accredited,
instructors in music in the city.
The announcement that work in mu
sic would be accepted for university
credits was made early this summer
by Prof. P. H. Grummann, head of the
school of fine arts, who has had the
plan In mind since he took his posi
tion. The new plan will enable uni
versity girls who are specializing in
music to take university work and
earn a college degree.
The work done in music must be
approved by the university, and there
are certain requirements that must
be met Rabbi Singer of Lincoln is
added to the university faculty as in
structor in the theory and history of
music, with the addition of the new
work to the curriculum.
H. G. BIGCLESTONE
NEWJfJil. SECY
After a year of association work un
der entire student control, the Y. M.
C. A. again has a general secretary,
in the person this year of Harry C.
Bigglestone. graduate of the Univer
sity of Iowa and the University of Chi
cago, and assistant secretary of the
Chicago university Y. M. C. A. last
year.
Mr. Bigglestone was recommended
to the Y. M. C. A. board as the best
in a field of ten possible secretaries.
He is thoroughly alive to the prob
lems of the college man, deeply sym
pathetic with the spirit of the Y. M.
C. A- and a man who itt orc gains
the confidence of the student.
The Y. M. C. A. begins the year un
der the most favorable auspices in
recent years, as the debt was com
pletely paid off during the summer.
The local association has this year
determined to pay all of its own ex
penses without recourse to the Inter
national Y. M. C. A. board, if possible.
NEW AG. PROFESSORS
Two new professors will be in the
dairy husbandry department this
year. F. M. Colcord, a graduate of the
University of Illinois will take the
place left by Mr. North. R. C. Hibbon,
a graduate of Ames, will have charge
of the courses In dairy manufacturing.
COLLEGE ALUMNAE
OFFERS SCHOLARSHIP
TO UNDERCLASS GIRL
The Nebraska branch of the asso
ciation of collegiate alumnae is offer
ing a scholarship of $100 to a Univer
sity of Nebraska girt. Fifty dollars of
the scholarship will be paid the first
semester, the remainder the second
semester.
The following are a few of the re
quirements: 1. The applicant shall be preferably
a girl entering her sophomore or Jun
ior year at the university this falL
2. At least twelve hours of univer
sity work must be carried each sem
ester. 3. The applicant' scholarship
must be of ft high quality.
It would facilitate the work of the
committee if each applicant would
state In her application, her major
and minor subjects, also the profes
sors under whom she ha taken the
most work. Application should be
sent by September 14, 1916. to any of
the following: Mis Sarah Mulr, 1801
South Seventeenth stree Mis Gene
vieve Lowry, 930 South Fifteenth
street, or Mis Mary Graham, admin
istration ball. University of Nebraska.
Further information concerning the re
quirements for the scholarship may be
had from Miss Graham.
Florence Bishop, 18, returned Sun
day from Long Beach, CaL. where she
ha been with., her parent for the
past two month.
MAKE PROGRESS Oil
IIEWJUILDINGS
DAIRY HUSBANDRY BUILDING
COMPLETE BY NOVEMBER 1
Mill Work Will be Late on Betsey
Hall and Chemistry
Building
Work on the three new buildings,
Dairy Husbandry hall, Bessey hall aad
Chemistry building, was delayed by
strikes and lack of sufficient laborers
during the summer, but in spite of
that the progress has been satisfac
tory. The Dairy Husbandry building on
the farm campus is practically com
pleted, and will . be ready for class
room and laboratory use November 1.
It will then contain the best of the
modern apparatus for teaching the
dairy industry, and from the stand
point of efficiency be without an equal
the country over.
Bessey Building
The superstructure of the Bessey
building is also about done, and all
of the building work will be finished,
in the opinion of Superintendent of
Construction Chowins, within thirty
days. There is considerable doubt
that the building may be used this
school year, as the mills will not prom
ise to begin filling orders for equip
ment until February 1.
The contractor on the Chemistry
building has not been able lately to
get enough bricklayers to speed up
the work, only ten working on the
building in the past few weeks. No
contracts for new buildings were
awarded during the summer on ac
count of the continued high cost of
structural steel. Bids were again re
ceived on the agricultural engineering
building, but the contract could not
be let.
Change Building Plans
That the regents will be forced to
substitute reinforced concrete for
structural steel, if the building pro
gram is to be carried on as originally
planned, is becoming the general
belief. Architect Hodgson of Chicago
is drawing .all of the tentative plan
for proposed buildings now with con
crete specified instead "of steeL The
J agricultural engineering building on
' the farm, and the social science bulld
I ing on the city campus will probably
be built with this basic material.
Wheu the new Bessey building is
completed so that Nebraska hall may
be vacated, the plan is to raze the
latter building and use much of the
material from It for the teachers' col
lege high school building on the city
campus. The new teachers' college
building will then be semi-fireproof.
The added space gained in the Tem
ple building by the removal of the
teachers' college will be used for an
enlarged university cafeteria.
PHI BETTA KAPPA
DROP GREEK AND
MATHAS REQUISITES
No longer will aspirants to Phi Beta
Kappa scholarship honors be com
pelled to Uke Greek or Lt!n to quali
fy for membership In the scholarship
fraternity at Nebraska university. By
vote of the Nebraska Alpha chapter
early this summer, the ancient lan
guage and mathematics requirement
was removed, and all student who
become eligible for the A. B. degree
will also be eligible for the P. B. K.
key.
Excellence In scholarship will of
course gulda" the society In making
the elections, end ft student to be
elected to the Nebraska, university
chapter must have completed at least
sixty-four hours in this school.
estry was established.
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