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UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, MONDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1916.
VOL. XVI. NO. 61.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
CORNHUSKER FEAST
A MERRY BATTLE
NAPKINS FILL AIR AS ENTHUSI
ASM IS DISPLAYED
Honor Done to Cornhuskers 600
Students at Celebration
Dinner
Nearly six hundred enthusiastic,
howling men attended the greatest
Cornhusker banquet that has ever been
held, at tho Linsoln hotel last Friday
night. The true Cornhusker spirit
held absolute sway from beginning to
end, in songs, toasts, cheers and the
inevitable pitched battles.
Early in the evening dinner biscuits
began flying through the air and as
the crowd warmed to its task the bis
cuits gave place to bread and this ih
turn to soaked napkins and soggy
pieces of bread, until finally, just be
fore the last course, the onslaught
looked like a second Verdun.
The cabaret entertainment, provided
by Schembeck's orchestra, an act from
the Orpheum and one from the Lyric,
was highly appreciated by the ban
queters, the appreciation being shown
by the loud and prolonged applause
that followed each number.
Harvey Wat Toastmaster
The toast list, with James Harvey,
captain of the '08 football team, as
toastmaster, was a succession of spirit
producing talks.
Mr. Harvey started the after din
ner speeches by reading a telegram
from the Omaha alumni, In which they
congratulated the Cornhuskers on a
successful year and pledged their sup
port in the years to come.
Before calling upon the first speaker
the toastmaster talked of the athletic
situation at Nebraska and emphasized
the need of a new gymnasium.
Captain Tim Corey, who gave the
first response was visibly embarrassed,
but he managed to stammer his thanks
to the school for supporting the team
even though they lost. He Incidental
ly informed the students that tihe
backfield deserved as much credit as
the line for the work of the season.
Mr. Harvey paid Corey a fine tribute
when he said, following Tim's talk,
that when Nebraska put such men as
Captain Corey at the head of her
teams, she was putting the best men
niade. there.
In Introducing Coach Rutherford
Harvey said: "It has never been my
privilege to see a cleaner, harder,
scrappier player than Rutherford."
For Next Year
Rutherford promised that, with the
men of the school showing the same
kind of spirit they were exhibiting
there, no games would be lost next
year.
C. C. Quiggle, "owner of the clean
est establishment in Lincoln." was the
next speaker. He took the part of
prophet, poet, orator and Jokesmlth,
and in each one he managed to keep
the enthusiasm of bis audience at
fever heat. "Gentlemen, this year. I
believe, we played the game honor
ably and cleanly," said Mr. Quiggle.
following a statement in whlchhe said
that the old adage might be made to
erad, "Once a Cornhusker, always a
Cornhusker."
Mr. Harvey said, in Introducing
Captain-elect Shaw: "Edson Shaw
has played as sturdy, hard, consistent
Tootball as any Nebraska man ever
did."
Shaw pledged himself, and the mem
bers of the team, that would be back
next. year, to give all they have for
Nebraska in 1917.
FRESHMEN LAW HOP
The freshman law hop was held at
Rosewilde Saturday night. About. 100
couples were present The committee
in chargo were Leonard Trestcr. Ted
Lonam and Harold Porterfield. The
dancers were chaperoned by Dr. and
Mrs. Edwin Maxcy. Mr and Mrs. T. J.
Doyle, and Mr. and Mrs. L. II. Tres-ter.
NEW CAPITOL IN
MINDS OF INCOMING
STATE LEGISLATORS
Many of the newly elected legisla
tors have visited the legislative refer
ence bureau recently to look up infor
mation for the drafting of new bills.
The question of a new capitol building
is the main topic and it is expected
that one of the first few bills to be
Introduced will embrace this subject.
The reference bureau will move to
the lupiiul before the convening of
the legislature in order to be more
accessible to members.
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TO MAKE STUDY OF
RELIGIOUS LIFE
Y. W.
C. A. TO MAKE COED
INVESTIGATION
Seeks to Promote Democracy and
Secure More Religious Activities
Among Girls
The University Y. W. C. A. will
make a study of the religious and
social life of the women of the Uni
versity, through two commissions
which will be organized immediately
after the Christmas holidays.
The commissions, each consisting of
from twelve to twenty members, will
give their reports some time the last
of February, when Miss Bertha Conde,
national Y. V. C. A. secretary, will be
in Lincoln. They will make definite
recommendations to such organiza
tions as the Y. W. C. A., Girl's club,
and. the Pan-hellenic association, for
helping University women get Into
closer touch with various organiza
tions and better acquainted with each
other. ' r- !'..
To Promote Democraeyy s
"We want to promote democracy.on
the campus," Miss Drake stated Fri
day. "We are not criticising tne pres
ent school spirit Nebraska women are
democratic but we want to make it
easier for them to become more so.
We are going to find out the real
causes for the lacK oi aemocracy,
where it Is lacking, then we will en
deavor to remove these causes." v
The commissions will be appointed
by Miss Drake, Melba Quigley. '17;
Helen Schwab, '17; Ethel Hartley.
17: and Florence Wirt. '17. Each
commission will make out a question-
alrre. and ask the 100 women they
select to answer the questions with
out signing their names to the answers.
"I want the women to consider it an
honor to be put on a commission."
Miss Drake declared. "Only those
who are 'thinking' women, those who
are representative of University spirit,
those big enough to see beneath ex
ternal appearances, will be selected."
COMMERCIAL CLUB
PLANNING BANQUET
Annual Feast Will be Held January
5 at the Lincoln
Hotel
The University Commercial club
will give a banquet at the Lincoln
hotel, Friday evening. January 5, 1917.
This Is to be the big social event
of the Commercial club for this school
year, your of Lincoln's prominent
business men are on the toast list and
the Omaha Commercial club will also
be represented.
Schembeck's orchestra will furnish
the music for the occasion and there
will be an abundance of good smokes.
Last year over seventy-five were
present but with the greatly Increased
cnrollnvs'il at least double that num
ber are expected this year.
Tickets may be obtained from any
of tho officers or from the following
committee: Adams, Adler, Brundage.
Clark, Graham. Jenkins. Kunkel, Per
due, Pcrrlgo, Pike, and Waldorf.
SYRACUSE WANTS TO
PLAY NEBRASKA
EASTERN COLLEGE IS AFTER
TURKEY DAY BATTLE
Notre Dame1 Application Also In and
Athletic Board Favors the
Catholic School
FOUR NEXT SEASON GAMES
October 13 Iowa at Lincoln.
November 10 Missouri at Lincoln.
November 17 Kansas at Lawrence.
November 29 Notre Dame at Lin
coln. Syracuse university of Syracuse, N.
Y., one of tho strong eastern schools,
wants to play Nebraska Thanksg'.ving
day, 1917, In Lincoln.
Prof. Grove E. Barber, chairman of
the Nebraska University athletic
board, said last night that the propo
sition had definitely been made by the
eastern college. He said also that
Notre Dame wanted to come to Lincoln
next Thanksgiving. He Intimated that
Notre Dame would probably get the
game. .
Syracuse's offer appeals to Nebraska
rooters who would like to see the
Cornhuskers buck up against a real
eastern brand of football. The west
was met and beaten at Portland, last
year, when the Oregon Aggies were
humbled, 17 to 7. Notre Dame of
course is a school that has been met
on the friendliest basis for two years,
but the Catholics again would not
prove as interesting on Thanksgiving
as a new eastern foe.
Cornhusker schedule dates nre
pretty much up in the air, however,
and it will probably be two or three
weeks before the atmosphere clears
and the real schedule can be an
nounced. Only two games are definite
ly fixed, Missouri and Kansas, al-
t'.ough a strnog effort is being made
to secure the opening game for Earl
Hawkins' York "college state cham
pions.
MUST WORKER
CORNHUSKER GAME
CHANCELLOR SAYS METROPOLIS
MUST GO TO CONFERENCE
Nebraska University Can do Nothing
Towards Scheduling a Game
Against Valley Rules
In a telephone conversation with Dr.
Irving S. Cutter, dean of the college of
medicine at Omaha, and at present
head of the Omaha alumni. Chancellor
Avery Saturday pointed out the futil
ity of the old grarts up thero trying to
secure a Cornhusker football game
under present .MUsouri valley rules.
Dr. Avery explained that after the
game at Portland had been scheduled,
he personally, as a guaranty that Ne
braska would not ask further' favors,
Introduced and secured the passage at
the conference meeting of a rule abso
lutely prohibiting the scheduling of
games on any other than tho home
field of one of the competing schools.
Having so pledged himself and this
school not to attempt to break over the
rules again, the chancellor said that
if Omaha really wanted a game, Qm
aha should go to the Missouri valley
conference and ask for It. Nebraska
cannot honorably do It.
This explanation of the chancellor's
should end tho Omaha agitation.
PAUL REICHEL TO
SPEAK AT VESPERS
Paul Reichel. of New York City,
travrling secretary of the student
volunteer association, will speak at Y.
W. C. A. vespers tomorrow evening.
ALL KINDS OF FOLKS
AT THE GIRLS PARTY
700
CO-EDS MAKE COSTUMI
PARTY SUCCESSFUL
Organizations Put on Successful
Take-off of Modern
Foibles
Red-cross nurses, old maids, police
men, Hawalians, darkies, "bums,"
gypsies, nurse-maids and "others,"
over seven hundred girls, attended the
most successful annual girls' Corn
husker party, in the Armory, Friday
' evening.
Strangs fantastic creatures glided
here and there, and the air was snap
ping with fun and hilarity. "Self-expression"
was a feature of the even
ing. "A Day in Turkey" (Blue Beard in
pantomime), a touching tragedy of the
deepest dye was presented by Pi Beta
Phi.
Delta Delta Delta represented
"Maids of 1620;" The Highland fling
was danced In true Scottish style by
Alpha Chi Omega. Germany, "with
song and dance" was represented by
Alpha Omlcron Pi. Alpha Delta Pi
members were Dutch girls, while Chi
Omega had a "box party."
A "Male" Quartet
Among others there was a handsome
male quartet by Delta Gamma, a style
show by Kappa Kappa Kamma, the
"American Rag" by Gamma Phi Beta,
the six greatest moments in a girl's
life by Alpha Phi, and a Hawaiian
ukeleie number by Kappa Alpha
Theta.
The "Flower of Yeddo" was a clever
sketch by the Dramatic club, and "Toy
land" by the Union literary society,
won much applause.
A real football game, between Ne
braska and Notre Dame, ending In a
score of 40 to 0 in Nebraska's favor,
ended the program. Yard by yard the
teams fought, and with the referee and
her whistle, with Coach Stewart and
Jack Best on the side lines, not to
mention the cheer leader and "Ya
Bo!," the game lacked nono of the
"usual Nebraska pep."
Refreshments were served after the
program and the rest of the evening
was spent in dancing.
DEBATING TEAMS
READHOR FRAY
NEBRASKA EXPECTS TO SCORE A
DOUBLE VICTORY WEDNESDAY
Kansas Plots to Continue Success of
the Year Began With Football
Victory
The last real scrinimago practice
for the two Nebraska debating teams
before the annual debate with the Uni
versity of Kansas, to be held in Law
rence and In Lincoln Wednesday, was
held in the Seminar room, U. 107, Sat
urday morning, afternoon, and even
ing. Light signal drills will be held
today and tomorrow, at which time
Head Coach M. M. Fogg will add the
last touches to the negative defense
against submarines and give the af
firmative reception committee some
parting pointers.
The negative team, composed of R.
B. Waring, law '17, Geneva; E. E. Carr,
law '17, Beaver City; and C. Ivan
Wlnslow, '18, Beaver City, will leave
for Lawrence at 7 o'clock tomorrow
morning over the Union Pacific. They
will bold a short workout in Fraser
hall Wednesday morning.
The desire to make good on the first
opportunity to get revenge on the Jay
hawkers assures an unprecedented at
tendance at the debate In the Temple
theatre, Wednesday evening. The
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HENRY C. MABIE OF
BOSTON TO SPEAK
AT CONVOCATION TUESDAY
Mr. H. C. Mable, who held a position
for 'many years which gave him an
Intimate acquaintance with foreign
conditions, will speak at convocation
Tuesday. Ho completed a two years'
tour of Europe and the Orient just
prior to the outbreak of the war. For
tho paet ten years he hns been a
speaker upon topics of International
Interest, and hns gained a wide repu
tation through his addresses to uni
versity students. Mr. Mabio's sub
ject Tuesday will be: "The Collegian
in World-Relations."
WINTER SHORT COURSE
FARM NEXT MONTH
DATES FIXED FOR CLOSE-UP
AGRICULTURAL STUDY
Variety of
Courses Offered Many
Professors on the
Farm
The annual winter short course in
agriculture at the state farm will be
held January 2 to February 13, 1917,
and men and women, young and old
are expected to enroll for and attend
from all over Nebraska. Courses to
be offered are:
Agricultural engineering Farm me
chanics.
Animal husbandry Beef cattle judg
ing, horse judging, swine judging, care,
feeding and management of live stock.
Animal pathology Diseases of farm
animals, contagious diseases.
Dairying.
Entomology.
Farm management.
Field crops.
Horticulture Fruit growing, vegeta
ble growing, forestry, ornamentating
the home grounds.
Plant physiology an dpathology.
Poultry husbandry.
Soils.
Registration Fee $4
The fee is $4, payable upon regis
tration and all persons attending must
be 15 years of age or more. The
course is especially designed for busy
farmers who can spare only a few
weeks of the year away from their
work.
All students of the winter course
will be permitted to attend the meet
ings of the State Horticultural and
Agricultural societies, Dairymen's as
sociation, Breeder's , association and
Farmers' institutes, to be held Jan
uary 15 to 20 at the farm.
The bulletin announcing the course
states that the following members of
the University faculty will conduct
classes during the course: Assistant
Professor Baer, Mr. Runnalls, Profes
sors Gramlich, Warner, Tier, Jenkins,
Gain, Frandsen, Woodward, Mr. Thor
son, Mr. Maxwell, Professors Bruner,
Filley, Assistant Professor Kelm, Mr.
Stewart, Professor Howard, Associate
Professor Hoods, Assistant Professor
Nicolet, Professor Wilcox, Assistant
Professor Dickson, Assistant Profes
sor Young, Mr. Ward.
Further Information concerning the
course may be obtained by addressing
the principal of the School of Agricul
ture, University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
SKATING RINK ON
NEBRASKA FIELD
Football Grid Mjy be Flooded for Ice
Enthusiasts During Christmas
Recess
The football field may again be
flooded for a skating rink this winter,
according to an announcement from
the athletic board. The board is con
sidering the project, and It Is probable
that the experiment of last year will
be repeated.
VARSITY BASEBALL
TO BE PLAYED AGAIN
ELIGIBILITY CERTIFICATE RULE
CHANGED BY CONFERENCE
Missouri Appears on Nebraska's Foot
ball Schedule Other Notes of
Conference
Nebraska's re-entrance into the in
tercollegiate baseball field is fore
casted in the action of the Missouri
valley authorities in removing certain
objectionable restrictions on eligibil
ity, according to Manager of Athletics
Guy E. Reed, who returned Saturday
from the meeting of managers and
coaches at Manhattan, Kas., held joint
ly with the meeting of the conference
representatives.
Nebraska has refused to play con
ference baseball since 1911, because
competing schools were required to
certify the non-professional standing
of the men under conditions by which
Nebraska might be forced to so certify
when she was morally certain that
some of the men were professionals.
The rules will probably be so changed
that the responsibility for eligibility
will rest with the school, but in a
different way. It does not mean that
professionals will play, and Nebraska
will use every effort to get men who
are strictly "amateurs.
A tentative baseball schedule was
arranged that will give the Cornhusk
ers sixteen games of baseball, and that
will bring the Ames Aggies, Missouri,
and Kansas Aggies to Lincoln.
Football With Missouri
A football game was definitely
scheduled with the Missouri univer
sity eleven, to be played in Lincoln
November 10, next year. It has been
some time since Nebraska and Mis
souri have played football, the last
game being in 1912, when Nebraska
won, 7 to 6. Missouri this year tied
Ames and defeated Kansas, and had
one of the strongest valley teams.
The other football game definitely
scheduled was that with Kansas, which
will be played at Lawrence, November
17. The Kansas Aggies, because of
their strong showing this year, though
they were entitled to a game later in
the season, and even asked for the
Thanksgiving encounter, but this, of
course, was refused by the Husker
representatives, and dates with the
Manhattan team are yet to be ar
ranged. Neither could Nebraska and
Ames agree upon a date, but this may
be settled later.
Basketball schedules for the coming
year were made. Nebraska's authori
ties had been Instructed to ask for an
increase of the schedule from eighteen
to twenty games, but this was refused
by the conference. In view of the
fact, however, that Nebraska was
forced to play most of Its conference
games abroad, special permission, for
this year only, was given to this team
to play twenty games.
Basketball Schedule
The dates fixed for the Nebraska
schedule are as follows:
January 19, 20 Kansas Aggies at
Lincoln (probably).
February 1, 2 Ames Aggies at Lin
coln. February 9, 10 Missouri at Lincoln.
February 14, 15 Kansas Aggies at
Manhattan.
February 16, '17 Kansas at Law
rence. February 2P 23 Ames Aggies at
Ames.
February 24 Drake at Des Moines.
March 3 Drake at Lincoln.
Not only was the basketball
schedule drafted,-but the dates for
the Missouri valley track meets were
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An ice rink of the football field
represents a maximum of efficiency;
keeping the Jield working winter and
summer. Tho skating proved popular
enough last year to warrant the board
in going to the expense of flooding the
field.