THE DAILY NBBB A8KAH
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March 3, 1879.
THE NEBRASKAN'S POLICY
The Daily Nebraskan enters upon its ninth year under
University ownership today with unusual opportunities for
accomplishing things. Every member of the staff has
Wad previous experience on the paper, and with the in
crease in size which affords a more thorough and ex
tensive review of school activities the paper should make
an unprecedented record.
Though The Daily Nebraskan will instigate no particu
lar policy of reform, the best interests of the University
will always be kept in the foreground and there will be
bo hesitancy to take a firm stand on any issue which will
vitally affect the University and University students.
The fact that the scholarship average of the fraterni
ties and sororities shows marked increase. is another indi
cation that the Greek letter organizations are making an
attempt to improve at every opportunity.
The requirements for the honorary scholastic fraternity.
Phi Beta Kappa, have been lessened. Latin and Greek are
not necessary for eligibility, as heretofore. This will
increase both the number of candidates and the decisive
scolastlc average.
By the decision of the school of fine arts to give uni
versity credit for work in music a long-felt need was
realized. The desire for a combined musical and scolastic
education has taken many students out of the state until
this year, and as a result, the new opportunity for this
combined course will obviously increase the University
enrollment.
terested in politics and government
may find such a study of more Inter
est than a general line of work.
Students interested In agriculture
or engineering should note that Pro
fessor Persingor gives his special
course on public bands policy this
semester. Although this course Is
given for the general university stu
dent, its subject matter has special
Interest and value to those In the two
lines of work Just mentioned.
Chancellor and Mrs. Avery, with
Dr. I. S. Cutter, dean of the modical
college and family, toured from Lin
coln to BoBton, Mass., and return last
summer, the chancellor and the dean
taking turns at the wheel. In the
course of the trip Chancellor Avery
found time to visit a score of colleges,
and to study them with especial refer
ence to getting Ideas for use here at
Nebraska. The National Educational
association meeting in New York City,
and other educational gatherings were
also visited during the summer.
FARM HOUSE HIGH
III SCHOLARSHIP
MEN'S ORGANIZATION tEADS ALU
SECRET SOCIETIES
Both Fraternities and Sororities Show
Improvement In General
Average
GREEK LETTER SCHOLARSHIP
FIRST SEMESTER
1915-16
8ECOND SEMESTER
1915-16
index CFD Index CFD
Me 157.7 13.2 180.1 ICS
Fraternity Men 147.7 13,2 164.6 11.7
Non-Fraternity Men 162.4 13.1 188.5 9.6
Women 245.1 5.0 861.6 3.0
Sorority Women '249.9 3.9 262.0 2.2
Non-Sorority Women 242.9 5.7 260.S 3.6
FRATERNITIES
Rank
Acacia 1
Bustnell Guild 2
Farm House 3
Pi Kappa Phi 4
Alpha Theta Chi 5
Phi Kappa Psi 6
Phi Gamma Delta 7
Alpha Tau Omega, .... 8
8ilver Lynx 9
Alpha Sigma Phi 10
Sigma Chi 11
Delta Tau Delta 12
DeJta Upsilon 13
Sigma Phi Epsllon 14
Beta Theta Pi 15
Kappa Sigma 16
Delta Chi 17
Sigma Nu 18
Sigma Alpha Epsilon. ... 19
Phi Delta Theta 20
Delta Delta Delta 1
Kappa Alpha Theta 2
Delta Gamma 3
Alpha Phi
PI Beta Phi 5
Delta Zeta 6
Alpha Delta PI 7
Kappa Kappa Gamma. . . 8
Gamma Phi Beta 9
Achoth 10
Alpha Chi Omega. 11
Alpha Xi Delta 12
Alpha Omicron Pi 13
Chi 0ega H
Index
257.2
251.2
243.3
213.4
204.4
191.5
179.5
160.8
156.6
145.7
137.9
137.0
121.4
113.3
99.5
98.3
97.9
90.9
82.6
77.2
C.F.D.
2.7
3.7
2.5
4.1
8.8
7.8
9.5
11.0
18.0
11.5
11.5
10.5
18.9
14.4
19.5
18.1
19.
23.0
25.2
22.5
SORORITIES
277.8
271.4
271.3
262.9
259.3
258.4
257.5
248.7
244.9
239.7
238.7
223.4
213.2
185.2
1.3
3.4
2.3
3.6
2.1
.7
2.6
4.6
7.9
2.7
3.0
9.1
6.2
7.7
Rank
2
3
1
9
4
8
10
6
7
13
11
12
5
17
18
20
13
19
16
15
10
3
1
14
9
4
5
11
12
13
2
8
7
6
Index
244.8
224.3
300.5
168.1
203.1
182.4
153.7
193.8
191.0
131.5
148.7
146.0
198.4
114.2
111.5
92.6
146.0
105.9
127.0
131.1
248.6
283.4
293.6
230.8
253.5
27R.2
27C.2
248.5
248.0
237.2
289.7
259.5
268.5
2C9.2
C.F.D
6.6
7.8
.9
13.2
8.3
6.2
14.4
6.4
8.9
14.2
13.4
7.1
3.5
17.6
17.2
21.3
16.9
19.3
18.8
16.2
5.0
1.5
.0
1.9
2.8
1.2
2.4
2.7
4.0
1.1
.0
4.4
2.1
.4
Students who wish to include in
their schedule courses that deal more
or less directly with the history and
literature of Christianity are referred
by the secretaries of the Christian as
soclatlons 'nnd the university pastors
to the following:
Biblical Literature, T. and Th. 4
p. m., Phil. 7, Dr. H. B. Alexander.
Introduction to Philosophy, Phil. 80
M; W. F., 11 a. m., Dr. Hlnman.
Comparative Literature in English
Eng. Lit. 7, T. and Th., 5 p. m., Dr
Stuff.
John P. Sennlng, the new instructor
in American history, has taken four
years of graduate work, a year each in
Illinois and Chicago and two years at
Yale, where he passed his examination
for the doctor's degree in June, 1916.
He has specialized along the lines of
the courses in Institutional and Const!
tutional history, which he is to give
this year. Mr. Senning has had three
years of experience in college teach
ing, and will be glad to consult with
students looking to law or institutional
work in regard to their future lines of
study.
Prof. M. M. Fogg accompanied the
five-day excursion in August, of the
Nebraska State Press association,
composed of 150 editors. A special
train took the party to Grand Island,
Crawford, Chadron, Alliance. Bridge
port, Baird, Gering, Scottsbluff, North
Platte and Kearney. Professor Fogg
addressed the association at Scotts
bluff on "Education for Efficiency and
College Training for Journalism." The
address was published In full in The
Lincoln Daily Star In the issue of
August 20. He then went for his va-
caton in Colorado, which consisted of
fishing and mountain climbing.
FOOTBALL PRACTICE
TO START TODAY
(Continued from page 1
BRIEF BITS OF NLWS
Unions business meeting in the hall,
Friday evening, 8 o'clock 6harp.
The Komensky club, an organization
of Bohemian students, has undertaken
U greet all entering Bohemian stu
dents and lelp them In their registration.
Harold It Prince, '13, law, '15, uni
versity debator for three years, who
la practicing law with his father, W.
H., . Prince at Grand Island, was as
saulted .September 6 at Stiver Creek
tj Harm Shank, a saloon keeper.
whom his father has assisted in prose
cuting and who served a term in the
penitentiary. Mr. Prince's father was
knocked unconscious and his son by
feigning unconsciousness when beat
en with fists and a chair saved him
self from severe injury.
T. Jean Hargravea, 12, Harvard
law, '15, lawyer at Rochester, N. Y.,
is on the Mexican border with the
New York national guard b. He was a
member of the varsity debating team
against Minnesota in 1910.
Professor Caldwell is going to give
a new course on political and party
life and history. Those esptclally in-
a hard one, and he will go slow be
fore making wild claims.
The coming of the new coach will
mark something of a change in the
style of tutoring the players and play
ing the game. Dr. Stewart believes
the open game is the winning game,
and that will largely be the offensive
of the Cornhuskers, in all probability.
The most easily discernible difference
to the rooters in the stands will be
the absence of a quarterback playing
behind the center to receive the ball.
Stewart uses four backfield men, none
of them acting strictly as the quarter
back. The plays built from this for
mation are said to require the highest
speed from all of the men, and a
fierce charge, all of the time.
The Schedule
The scheulde for this year is given
below :
October 7, Druke university at Lin
coln. October 14. Kansas Aggies at Lin
coln. October LI, Oregon Aggies at Port
land. October 28, Wesleyan at Lincola
November 4, Ames Aggies at Lin
coln. November 18, Kansas university at
Lincoln.
November 30, Notre Dame at Lin
coln. All but two of the games are played
on the home field, r-.a' uig the schedule
one of the most a.active from the
Nebraska Student's point of view.
Every game except the Wesleyan con
test, counts as a major game, and par
tic'tIon in them will be considered
in awarding the "N't" at the close of
the season.
Farm House, a fraternity composed
of men taking agricultural courses,
carried off the secret society scholar
ship honors last semester, with an
Index of 3o0.5, high above the frater
nities, and outranking even the high
est sorority. This grade indicates an
average grade of over 80 per cPnt of
all the men in the organization.
Delta Gamma captured first place
among the sororities, with an index
of 293.6. Second place was won by
Alphl Chi Omega with 289.7, and third
by Kappa Alpha Theta with 283.4.
There was a general improvement in
sorority scholarship during the second
semeHtor 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
interfraternlty council last semester.
The Halner 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 interfraternlty council, having the
highest general average during the
year. Thl Kappa Psi, with a general
average of 186.9 was first among those
fraternities coming under the rules.
The fraternities showed a better
scholarship standing 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.
H, G. B1GGLEST0NE
NEW Y. M. SEC'Y
After a year of association work un
der entire student controls 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 at once 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.
Herbert Bushnell, '15, has accepted
a position as secretary of the com
mercial club at Alliance.
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