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THE DAILY NEBRASKA!! The Daily Nebraskan THE BEST UNIVERSITY NEWSPAPER IN THE WORLD EDITORIAL STAFF George E. Grimes Editor-in-Chief Ivan G. Beede Managing Editor Fern Noble Associate Editor Leonard V. Kline Associate Editor Eva Miller Contributing Editor Dwight P. Thomas Sporting Editor BUSINESS STAFF Walter C. Blunk Business Manager Fred W. Clark Assistant Business Manager Offices: News, Basement, University Hall; Business. Basement, Administration Building. Telephones: News, L-4841; Business, B-2597. Published every day during the college year. Subscription, per semester, $1. Entered at the postofflce at Lincoln. Nebraska, as second class mall matter under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. TIME TO PLAY Welcome to the University the Order of the -Golden Kleecv. Too much striving is there among students for membership in this or that honorary or professional society. Pins of members of these organizations are the fruits of hard work, and are well enough in their way, but how much more fun would it be to belong to this society of girls whose distinctive badge is their pink, mahogany, auburn or just plain red hair if red hair can ever be plain. . We grow top-heavy at times with too much work. The average student Is too seriously inclined. He forgets that some playfulness, some silliness if you will, increases the work efficiency of everyone, if taken in Judicious doses. When his nature demands the' nutrition of relaxation, it is too often given the stones of cheap movies and com mon dances instead of the bread of real forgetfulness of self in play. There should be more organizations like the Order of the Golden Fleece. It will help everyone to be more good-natured, and good nature has an Important part to play in making the college world go round. THE WORK OF THE Y. M. C. A. The reports from Fremont of the recent trip of the University Y. M. C. A. gospel team to that city, furnishes another illustration of the splendid work for service that is being done by the associations of the University. A group of a dozen of the finest young men at Nebraska went to Fremont and made an appeal to the high school boys there for clean living and clean thinking. They sowed the seeds of splendid manhood in a good many boys who may never before have thought seriously of their duty to themselves and their neighbors. The V. M. C. A. is one of the biggest factors in Lincoln in helping make Americans of the alien population. Its night classes in English are teaching the European section hands that Americans are not en tirely indifferent to their welfare here. Through Its boy club and boy scout work in Lincoln, the associa tion its doing an earnest work for Christian living and thinking. This work by the Y. M. C. A. is enough to entitle it to more gen erous criticism from the students than it sometimes gets. The associa tion Is daily becoming a more Influential factor in student life. "PROPER RECOGNITION" Realizing that the University is prone to make heroes of its ath letes and to neglect the members of debating, stock Judging and simi lar teams who work Just as hard and bring Just as much honor to their school In Intercollegiate competition, students are talking very much these days of giving the members of these other teams "proper recognition." Then it is suggested that they be awarded sweaters and letters, just as the athletic team members. The agitation to place all intercollegiate competitive teams on an equal basis as far as recognition Is concerned is right, but it would be a mistake to award these students sweaters and letters. Thosa are distinctively athletic trophirs the country over, and are so recognized. It would not be a kindness to give a debater a sweater; it would force embarrassing explanations as to what kind of athletics he was expert in. And the debaters probably don't want sweaters. Let the members of these teams be honored to the full, but don't make the mistake of giving them athletic trophies. Th appointment of Otto Zumwinkel and Jean Burroughs as the senior and Junior representatives on the charter commission for the student council, places on that committee two students who are ac quainted with the needs of the student body at Nebraska, and who (an be depended upon to serve faithfully. They are good appointments. UNIVERSITY NOTICES Gymnasium Tryouts The first of the gymnasium contests postponed from last month will be held at 4 P. M. Friday. German Dramatic Club The German Dramatic club will hold Its regular meeting at the home of Anna Luckey, 40th Holdrege Btreet on Wednesday evening. Take State Farm car to the end of line and walk two blocks east. Cornhusker Snapshots The Cornhuskei' wauls snapsshots of University Week, Senior Sneak Day, Pharmacy Week and Engineering Week. Turn them in this week or call Townsend, B-2683. Valentine Hop Financial statement of the Valen tine Hop which was held at the Rose wilde Friday evening, February 9, 1917 is as follows: Total receipts. $125.00. Total expenditures, rental hall $25; refreshments $15; printing tickets NON COMPOS MENTIS Our Dally Thought This would be a wonderful world If we could have everything we want In It. A giant monosour was found one day Dug up and sent to the muBeum We're glad that it was found em bedded in clay For those teeth so large he could use uni. The self-respecting votes-for-women around here ought to object to the uni versity players putting on the play, "The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife." . It might prove so attractive to some of the men that there would only be a future of single-blessedness for a lot of the fair sex. There was a Big hold-up Today. Over one billion People were held up By- The out law's Face was covered with black And though not Very' much was Lost, The victims felt it. Some of them even Appreciated it Tho most of them Never even thought Of it. You ask, who Held them up? Old man Earth, Who d'yu 'spose. This here colyume will naterally shrink as the days grow longer. We work in the dark. The Mystic Fish have given their second dance, this year. They seem to be making a splash in their own litHe pool at least. The days are getting longer The nights are growing short, And I am growing stronger For the so-called sluffing sport. Robin, robin come again If you don't when will we know it's spring? Not by the new hats floating round Nor the new spring suits, I've found. THE DAYS GONE BY Eight Years Ago Today The second annual Sigma Xi lec ture was given by Professor Webster of Clark University. Five Years Ago Today Guy E. Reed, '10, gave up going to Kansas to train for the Olympic team and decided to remain at Nebraska and train as assistant coach. The Yates rifle team set a record in rifle team work and won from Minne- i sota bv a score of 851 to 821. Four Years Ago Today The Daily. Nebraskan held a "Rag" tag day. and programs $9.50; doorkeeper $1.50. Total $76.00. Profit $49.00, to be di vided equally between J. L. Giffen and G. K. Kirsch. managers. Audited Fh 1? 1917 T A WflHamu Acflnfl Student Activities. Twenty-five of the Y. W. C. A. girls and about an equal number of Y. M. C. A. men were planning to attend the an nual Nebraska students' missionary conference at Crete. Agricultural Engineering Seminar The agricultural engineering sem inar will be held at the residence of Prof. L. W, Chase at 1245 North 33 street, this evening at 7:30 o'clock. Comus Club Comus club meeting Wednesday evening. February 14, at the Pi Kappa Phi house at 7:15. Sigma Delta Chi Important meeting of Sigma Delta Chi tonight at 7:30 in the office of student activities. My Platform I believe that the appointive power of any class president should be so exercised that all the imaginary class factions may have representation. I pledge, that if elected, I shall not not give to any group or clique control of the class affairs. Such a platform I believe should appeal to all fair minded Juniors and therefore, I One Year Ago Today The chancellor accepted the invita tion of the Omaha Commercial Club asking that the entire student body visit the metropolis in May. Nebraska cinched the Missouri Val ley championship "when she took the second game from the Kansas Aggies. 2C-25. She defeated them the night before. 21-20. I Ohio State university is to have a new song book, which will appear soon. It is a book equal in size to the Harvard song book, which has been hitherto been considered the best in the country. All drinking songs have been omitted, as it is thought that the spirit of the school is not re flected in these songs. About 2,000 books will be printed as the first edi tion. Ex. feel Justified in asking the support of the members of the Junior class at the coming election for class president. Ralph Anderson. BRIEF BITS OF NLWS Dr. Clapp Refereed. Dr. R. G. Clapp refereed the Ames-Iowa wrestling con test at Ames last Friday night. Miss Baldwin Returns. Miss Doro thy Baldwin, an instructor in the woman's gymnasium who was called home last week by the death of an aunt, has returned to resume her work. "Pension Schoeller" at Columbus. Tlje German Dratic club presented "Pension Schoeller" at Columbus last Friday. This is the third time the play has been given out in the state. Noted Engineer Coming. Dr. Henry Mace Payne, a noted mining engineer, will be the guest of the Sigma Xi, the nonary scientific fraternity, on the 19th of this month. He will discuss engineering problems in Siberia. Miss Coe at Y. W. C. A. Miss Lula Mae Coe, '16, is taking the place of Miss Drake at the Y. W. C- A. during the latter's temporary absence. She may be consulted on any matters in which Miss Drake was interested. Road Show Tryouts Tryouts for the University road show, one of the numbers to make up the University week program, will be held in Music hall of the Temple tomorrow evening at 7:30. Six numbers are to ne chosen to complete tho list. Profesor Caldwell Lectured. Prof. II. W. Caldwell of the department of American history returned yesterday morning from Ashland, where he de livered an illustrated lecture on Abra ham Lincoln to the members of the First Congregational church Sunday. Novotny President. B. J. "Novotmy. '17, was elected president of the Ko mensky club at their meeting Satur day evening. Emma Pospistl, '19, was made secretary and C. V. Svoboda, '18, treasurer. Several, new members were initiated and a short program was given. Now Have Bench Moulding. Bench moulding in place of the former method of floor moulding has been made possible in the foundry of the mechanical engineering department bv the addition of a number of new foundry benches recently completed in the wood working laboratory. Will Have Representative. The annual meeting of the Western Inter collegiate Wrestling and Fencing As sociation will be held this year at the University of Iowa March 23 and 24. Representatives from Nebraska and Ames and possibly from Missouri and Kansas will go from the Missouri Val ley Association. Alpha Kappa Psi Luncheon. Alpha Kappa Psi. commercial fraternity gave a noon luncheon at the commer cial club yesterday in honor of Arthur E. Swanson, director of evening courses at Northwestern university school of commerce, Chicago, who is in the city as one of the speakers at the merchants short course being held at the Lindell hotel. THE COLLEGE WORLD Drake. Students have started a movement to build a printing press in central Africa as a memorial to Francis E. Battson, who was drowned last May in at attempt to rescue his companions when their boat capl'zed. Battson was a Junior in the college of liberal arts and a minister in charge of the Christian church at Stuart, la. Texas. Compulsory courses in eco nomics or government have been suggested by the chairman of the economics department at the Univer sity of Texas. He said that women should take an interest in public affairs and take work which .will make them capable of serving the public. Harvard. There is no "athletic heart," according to Dr. Roger I. Lee of Harvard university. He alleged that he proved this fact with the Harvard oarsmen by means of new instruments devised to take graphic records. Cardiac irregularities are not due to physical exercise, but to Increased nervous sensibility. They are frequently found In other people and are not peculiar to athletic per sons. The chief yell leader at the Uni versity of Washington is called the "yell king," and his three assistants are called "yell dukes." On the last tryouts there were sixteen candidates for the dukeshlps, and the ex-king made them a speech on the "gentle art" of leading a gang in yells. (Also In prayers in some instances.) The women students of the Univer sity of Ohio have opened a campaign state-wide In its scope, for the pur- nose of bringing - UJJUIJ the legislature to make ad appropria tlon of $250,000 for a new woman's union. They have distributed a pamphlet of "A Thousand and One Reasons" why Ohio State needs a new woman's union, and why the leglsla ture should appropriate money for It. Here we are with what you have not yet secured See us this week THE UNIVERSITY BOOK STORE 340 N. 11th St. NEW SHIPMENT OF WHITE SHOES BECKMAN BROS., 1107 0 ORPHEUM DRUG STORE OPEN TILL MIDNIGHT Drugs, Fountain, Luncheonette Candies ' IT IS A PLEASURE H To work with the big, happy, efficient N. S. U. family. Ask .; i any of our students. Our graduates always secure good posi- M I tions. No long tiresome delays if you secure your training here. B N Enter Monday, February 19. If 1 Nebraska School of Business 14 (Approved by the State Department of Public Instruction.) M T. A. BLAKESLEE, President H. F. CARSON, Secretary H fes Corner O and 14th Sts., Lincoln, Nebr. El THE Telephone B2311 Gleaners, Pressors, Dysrs Tor the "Work and Service that Pleases." Call B2311. The Best quipped Dry Cleaning Plant la the West. One day service if needed. Reasonable Prices, good work, prompt service. Repairs to men's garments 333 North 12th St. carefully made. He used a pebble In his day, to keep his mouth moist WE use VRIGLEY5 gives us a wholesome, antiseptic, refreshing confection to take the place of the cave man's pebble. We help teeth, breath, appetite, digestion and deliciously soothe mouth and throat with this welcome sweetmeat. 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