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VOL. XVI. NO. 70.
' UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 1917.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
ENGINEERING WORK
FOR CITYJ1ECHANICS
UNIVERSITY M. E. DEPT. OFFERS
NIGHT CLASSES
Course Start Tonight and Will Con
tlnue 10 Weeks Nominal Feet
For Registering
The n ichanlcal engineering depart
ment of the University, following a
plan successfully' tried last year, will
offer six courses in night school work,
beginning tonight and-' continuing for
ten weeks. The fee for each course,
payable in advance, is $4, with the
exception of the course in steam pow
er laboratory, which is $5.
Applications shall be made to the
extension department for attendance
at any course, but In the courses la
steam power laboratory and power
plant problems, the applicant will con
sult the instructor concerning his
preparation for the work before finally
being assigned to the subject.
Following is a list of the courses:
Engineering Problems Affecting the
Home
A lecture course by Professor J. D.
Hoffman, planned to give a better
knowledge of the practical problems
involved in residence beating, ventila
tion and sanitation. Course given on
Monday evenings. Subjects: (1)
Ventilation and its relation to health,
(2) quantity and quality at the ven
tilating air, (3) temperature and hu
midity, (4-6) furnace, hot water and
steam heating system, (7) chimneys
and special ventilating appliances, (S)
ater system and fittings, (9) plumb
ing and drainage, and (10) sewage dis
posal. Steam Power Laboratory
An elementary course in steam pow
er plant testing on Monday evenings
by Professor C. L. Dean. The work
in the power laboratory will, as far as
time permits, consist of the following:
Testing different types of engines for
brake horse power and for indicated
horse power, a mechanical efficiency
test, calibration of steam and vacuum
guages, valve setting, testing steam
engines for water rate, testing gas and
oil engines for fuel consumption.
Tbe time given to this work is so
limited that but a small part of the
above can be carried out, and have the
student get a working knowledge of
the tests.
Those who register for this work
must realize that It cannot all be done
in the laboratory, and that a reason
able amount of computing and study
outside the laboratory will be neces
sary to successfully carry on the work
and get the - desired benefit Those
desiring to register for this course
must have the approval of Professor
Dean as to their ability to carry on
the work. Maximum enrollment
twelve.
Power Plant Problems
A series of ten lectures on Tuesday
evenings, by Professor D. O. Elliott,
n vital power plant problems con
nected with questions such as coal and
fuels, heat and combustion, smoke and
moke prevention, the analysis of flue
saa. steam and Its generation, the
ateam engine Indicator, the steam tur
Wne, power plant calculation, the
testing of steam power plants, power
Plant economic. Applicants for this
worse should be employed either as
firemen or engineers on a steam pow
Plant. Minimum, ten students;
maximum, twenty-fire.
Mechanical Drawing
Given on Tuesday i vrgrg by Pro
,e8r A. E. Bunting. A course ar.
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Have Yours
Taken
AT ONCE!
UNIVERSITY PASTORS
TO ATTEND MEETING
OF CHURCH WORKERS
E. A. Worthley and Dean U.
Leland leave. Monday afternoon for
Chicago to attend a conference of
church workers in state universities.
The conference will be held Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday at the Con
gress hotel. During the meetings,
Ucv. Worthley will have charge of a
discussion on "The Minister of the
Local Church and the University."
Dean Leland will also be in charge of
a discussion on "The Attitude of the
Faculty Toward Religion."
50 COMMERCIAL CLUB
MEMBERS FEAST
FIVE PROMINENT SPEAKERS TELL
OF IMPORTANCE OF. WORK
Prof. LeRossignol Reviews Work
Done Since School Was
Established
Five men, prominent respectively in
manufacturing, educational, agricul
tural and legal circles of Nebraska,
comprised the toast-list at the annual
University Commercial club banquet
at the Lincoln hotel Friday evening.
Fifty members of the club were in at
tendance at the banquet, w'hich was
presided over by C. C. Quiggle, head
of the Evans Laundry Co. of Lincoln.
Frank Ringer, commissioner of the
Nebraska Manufacturers' association,
spoke cn the relation of the Univer
sity Commercial club to the state, and
stressed the fact that the training
gained by' members of the club, to
gether with their work in the school
of commerce, fitted them for the many
positions in the commercial clubs
open over the state. He cited in
stances of University of Nebraska
men who were making good as secre
taries of commercial clubs.
Prof. J. E. LeRossignol, head of the
school of commerce, reviewed the his
tory and growth of the school, and
ridiculed the idea of some people out
in the state who believe that such
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Sir Rabindranath Tagore Says
Sir Rabindranath Tagore, the dis
tinguished Hindu poet and philosopher
who will lecture at the Oliver theatre
tonight on "A Message to America,"
has said of our country "you people
over there seem to me to be-all in a
state of continuaf strife. There Is no
place for rest or peace of mind, or
that meditative relief which in our
country we feel to be needed for the
health of our Bplrits." He brings with
him a message that we need, especial
ly at this time of war and strife, a
message that would turn our thoughts
to a quieter life.
Sir Rabindranath was born of one
of the oldest, most distinguished fam
ilies of Bengal. India. His father,
Devendranath Tagore, was also a
philosopher and leader of the liberal
movement
Tagore attended school in the prov
ince of Bengal and when he wrote his
first novel at the" age of nineteen, he
was already famous. Plays written
when he was but little older, are still
played In Calcutta. Between his
twenty-fifth year to his thirty-fifth he
had a great sorrow and at this time
wrote some of the most beautiful love
poetry in onr language. Since then
his art has grown deeper. It became
religious and philosophical; ail the as
CORN
FACULTY FROLIC IN
MID-WINTER PICNIC
Professors Exhorted to Bring Lunches
Program in Music Hall
After Feast
Tbe annual mid-winter faculty pic
nic will be held at the University
Temple, Wednesday, January 10, at
6:30 p. m. All members of the faculty
and their wives are invited to . be
present and bring a basket lunch.
Those bringing lunches are requested
to bring cups, tumblers, plates, forks
and spoons. Potatoes, coffee and tee
cream will be served to all present.
For the young people or any others
who find it inconvenient to prepare
lunches the University cafeteria will
prepare box lunches at thirty cents
per box.
The following Is the box luncheon
menu:
Choice of fried chicken or baked
ham.
Lettuce and pimento sandwiches.
Nut bread sandwiches.
Fruit gelatine salad with whipped
cream.
' Olives, pickles.
Cake.
All orders for lunches mu6t bo tele
phoned to the student activities office,
before 6 o'clock, Tuesday.
Imediately after supper a program
will be given up stairs in Music hall.
CHORUS TO SING AT
TAGORE LECTURE
Both 5 and 7 O'Clock Rehearsals Will
be Held at Oliver
Theatre
The University chorus, under the
direction of Mrs. Carrie B. Raymond,
will sing several selections from "The
Messiah," at the Oliver theatre tonight
in connection with the appearance of
Sir Rabindranath Tagore, Hindu poet
and philosopher, who will speak on
"The Cult of Nationalism."
The announcement has been made
that members of the chorus will go
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lilt lAHUtrt ur V-VJVllI unui
pirations of mankind are in his hymns.
At the age of forty, his work in life
became broader and with his voyages
to England and America his work be
JUNIOR AND SENIOR
Off TCTTftr
WINTER WORK FOR
TRACK ATHLETES
DR.
STEWART INAUGURATES
CROSSCOUNTRY JOGS
Schedule of Indoor and Outdoor Meets
is Arranged Room for More
Men
For the first lime in a number of
years Nebraska track athletics will
have the advantage of winter training.
Dr. Stewart has taken the squad of
cinder path athletes in hand and will
see that a dally program of cross
country jogging is carried out by all
tho men.
Dr. Stewart spoke to about forty
five men, who are Interested in track
work, at a meeting last Thursday. He
emphasized the value of winter work,
using as examples of what may be
accomplished by all year training,
some of the great athletes of the
east and the coast.
Equipment for outdoor work has
been given to about fifty men, among
them many freshmen.
A Good Schedule
A very atractive schedule has been
arranged for the track athletes this
year, including an indoor meet with
Kansas Aggies, an indoor meet at the
K. C. A. C, and out door meets with
Ames, Kansas, Kansas Aggies, Minne
sota. In addition to these dual meets,
representatives will be sent to the
Missouri valley conference meet, to
tbe western conference meet and to
the Drake relay meet.
Track has been far below the stand
ard of other sports at Nebraska for
several years, but It is hoped that
with the attention of one man direct
ed only to the track athletes the sport
will win back the place It once held
at the institution.
Men are wanted for every place, and
especially for the sprints, the dis
tances, the weights, the Jumps and the
hurdles.
to the Oliver theatre instead of Art
hall for both the 5 o'clock and 7
o'clock rehearsals. Those who come
at 7 will remain for the program. The
stage door will be open' to members of
the chorus, who are requested to be
prompt at both rehearsals.
America Is Too Full Of Strife
ih, uWLunwirnu
came more generally known.
An Open Air School
In 1904 Tagore established an open
air school at Bolpur for the incorrigi
PIC
H. L. WHITE, M1, GAVE
TALK TO ELECTRICAL
ENGINEERING SENIORS
H. L. White. '11. gave a short talk
to the senior electrical engineers Fri
day afternoon in M. 210, on his work
in the department of safety of Henry
L. Dohorty and company of New York
city.
This" company promotes power
plants throughout the country and has
provided an excelent training school
for a number of Nebraska men. Their
work is mostly in promoting the com
panies and but little in the way of
manufacturing.
NAMES COMMITTEE ON
JOURNALISM STUDY
CHANCELLOR APPOINTS FACULTY
TO PLAN FOR EXTENSION
Dean Davis of the Arts and Sciences
College is Chairman Other
Members
Dean Ellery W. Davis of the college
of arts and sciences, Prof. S. B. Gass,
Prof. M. M. Fogg, Prof. H. B. Alex
ander, and Prof. J. E. LeRossignol
were appointed a committee for ex
tending and correlating the work in
Journalism at the University, by Chan
cellor Avery, Saturday.
The appointments were announced
at a meeting of the faculty senate. The
senate, at the preceding meeting dur
ing the Christmas holidays, had in
Etructed the chancellor to appoint
such a committee, after a report of
another committee, adverse to estab
lishing colleges of journalism and
commerce, had been adopted.
The committee may be able to report
on the plans for extending tho Jour
nalism studies in sufficient time to
have the results of its investigations
incorporated into the curriculum dur
ing the second semester.
The Work at Present
At present tbe work in journalism
Pt the University consists in three
classes, one in newswriting, another
in news editing, and a third in edi
torial writing. SO great has become
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ble and poor children under the age
of eleven years. This school is the
nearest thing to his heart and he is
now lecturing in America to obtain
money for it, He also gave the
$40,000 he received in the Nobel prize
for poetry In 1913 towards his school
fund.
Sir Rabindranath'8 name is a house
hold word in Bengal among the rich
and poor alike. The age in which he
lives has been called "The Age of Ra
bindranath," showing his great popu
larity and esteem in which he is held.
He has a rare combination of saintly
and active personality; a type which
east an J west alike may reverence and
accept as ideal. We have no similar
figure in the west.
Some of Tagore's best known works
are: "OitanJlal," on which he won the
Nobel prize; "The Gardner." a book of
poems; "Crescent Moon," children's
poems; and "Sadhana, or the Realiza
tion of Life," a philosophical composi
tion on life. His stories and books
are better known than his dramas.
Tonight will be a rare opportunity
to hear a man so honored as a speak
er in his own land that people not
only stand in halls and meeting placed
to hear him, but they crowd outside
waiting to hear the sound of his voice.
TIMES
BASKETBALL TEAM
WINS FROM COTNER
SEASON OPENED WITH EASY VIC
TORY BY SCORE OF 42 TO 10
Huskers Show Surprising Strength
Captain Campbell and Flothow
Scored Most Goals
The Nebraska basketball team unofficially-
opened the season last Fri
day night when they took the Cotner
five to a cleaning by the Bcore of 42
to 10, in a practice game.
Although pitted against an admit
tedly weak team, the Cornhiiskers
showed a surprising amount of real
basketball for so early in the season.
Their passing was clean and their
shooting was accurate.
Captain Campbell and Flothow
starred for the Nebraskans, although
Wertz and Collins at guards did fine
work.
The Cotner Ave started out strong
and held the Cornhuskers almost even
for about half of the first half. How
ever, Flothow suddenly took sick or
something like that and rolled four
baskets in quick order. This left the
suburbanites hopelessly in therear,
but in order to be perfectly safe Camp
bell increased his total for the half
to three and Nelson added two more.
Parminter in Game
While the Nebraskans were making
a large majority of the points it was
up to Parminter of the visitors to pro
duce the thrills. He collected two
field goals of the most sensational
type, while his teammate Brltt added
one, making the total for the half,
three.
Neither side succeeded in getting
any free throws during the first half
although several chances were of
fered. At the beginning of the second half
the Nebraska varsity started the scor
ing without delay. After about five
minutes of play a general substitution
was made in the Cornhusker line-up.
Collins replaced Wertz, Flynn re
placed Nelson and Jackson went in for
Flothow.
The new combination was almost as
effective as the old and it was but a
matter of guessing how large the score
would be.
A Four Days' Trip
The varsity will leave on a four
days' trip either this afternoon or to
morrow morning. If a game can be
scheduled with the Brandeis team of
Omaha the start will be made this
afternoon and that game will be
played tonight. If that game is not on
the bill the first game will be with
"Simpson college of Indlanola la. Games
with Grlnnell college and St. Joseph's
college of Dubuque will follow.
All the men are In fine shape and
the trip is expected to result in a
clean sweep for the Cornhuskers If
everything goes all right with the
team.
Nebraska Cotner
Campbell rf Thomas
Flothow t If Strain
Nelson c Gardner
Wertz rg Britt
Gardiner lg Parminter
Substitutes Jackson for Flothow;
Collins for Gardner; Flynn for Nel
son; Gardiner for Wertz; Murphy for
Britt
Field goals Campbell 6, Flothow 6,
Collins 3, Wertz 2, Nelson 2, Jackson
1, Parminter 2, and Britt 1.
Free goals Campbell 2, Strain 4.
Referee Rutherford.
Ethel Lindsey has been elected to
teach English and history in the CoQk
high school.
Townsend Is
At Your
COMMAND
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