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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. Deede Managing Editor Fern Noble Associate Editor Leonard W. 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-4S41; Business, B-2597. Tublished every day during the college year. Subscription, per semester, fl. Entered at the postofflce at Lincoln, Nebraska, as second class mail matter under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. VOTING YOUR CONVICTIONS The University, above all else, should be a training for useful citizenship. No more important duty exists for the citizen than to intelligently cast his vote. A test of the student's grasp of the meaning of his University is the way in which he casts his vote at the school elections. This semester in particular is one in which Independent thinking should be done by the student voters. The coming spring months will mark the celebration of Nebraska's semi-centennial, with Lincoln, as the capital, the center of the celebration, and with the University, on its Ivy Day, and for its part in the great pageant to be given in June, set aside for especial attention. The students must elect tomorrow, then, those whom they fe?l will best represent them next spring. The Ivy Day orator must be a man of ability as a thinker, skill as a talker. The class presidents should be persons of force of character enough, and personality enough to favorably impress the people who will visit Lincoln and the University then; and President Wilson, it is hoped, will be one of them. TAKE THE CORNHUSKER OUT OF POLITICS The filings of candidates for places on the Cornhusker staff have closed, and for the two most important positions, editor-in-chief and business manager, but one person has filed. Two have filed for the place of junior managing editor. Positions on the Cornhusker staff require persons of peculiar and marked ability. It is absurd to think that they can be selected by the whim of class politics. These positions have no place, and have never had a place, in the realm of politics in the University, a realm that is governed largely by cliques and rings, where offices are often bought and sold by promises of plums, an annual melange of personality, intrigue and folly. The Cornhusker positions should be taken out of politics. The student publication board should take over the selection of men and women for the staff of the University annual, as it now selects the men and women for the staff of The Daily Nebraskan. It will be generally admitted cn the campus, that the Cornhuskers of the past few years have been almost barren of interest beyond the personal pleasure the subscriber may have in seeing his own picture and his own name in print. The book has lacked originality; it has been common campus opinion, strongly supported by circumstantial evidence, that the staff has been more anxious to make money than to put out a worthy book. It is no reflection on the present Cornhusker staff, or the candidates for places on that of next year, that this condition exists. It is a fault of the political system governing the Cornhusker. A man elected to office as a result of the activities of a ring must dole out appointments to the members of that ring, whether or not they are the most worthy. The present candidates for places on the Cornhusker staff will probably be able to put out a book up to the usual standard, and per haps better than any before. In a school of 5,000 students, however, the most important positions on publications should not be filled by default. It has been demonstrated that under the present system, many people really worth while will not try for the place. If the student publication board Ehould announce that it would hereafter select the members of the staff of the Cornhusker, after a thorough combing of the field for available candidates, student senti ment would support the board. And the Cornhusker would probably be a better annual. If the board does not do it at once, out of deference for the candi dates who have worked so hard, then let the board make this announce ment for the selection of future staffs. The dinner of the Order of the Golden Fleece was the brilliant suc cess that it was expected to be. The red heads occupy the limelight today. After the election tomorrow the "soreheads" will probably be prominent for a few days. Although the basketball team came home somewhat battered, re member it is still our team, with a hard season ahead. We are proud of its fighting spirit, even in defeat. BRIEF BITS OF NEWS Kearney Club Meeting. The Kear ney club met with Mary Kirk at 3123 Kleckner court Saturday evening. A general social time was enjoyed. Speak at Hartwell. Prof. W. W. Burr, head of the department of agronomy, spoke at Hartwell Satur day evening to the farmers and busi ness men of that vicinity. Admitted to Bar. H. H. Ellis and Victor Spirk, who were graduated from the college of law February 15, were admitted to the bar by the supreme court, Friday morning. Is Night School Instructor. Bertha Shanek. a graduate student who is specializing in the Slavonic depart ment, is one of the instructors in the Lincoln night school corps of teach ers. Alumni Meeting. A meeting of the directors of the Alumni association has been called by the president, Frank H. Woodland, 00, on March 10, at Alumni headquarters. Plans are to be dis cussed for Alumni day of Commence ment week. Math Club Meeting. The regular monthly meeting of the Mathematical club was held last Thursday evening. W. F. Joachim, special president of the club gave an interesting talk on the history of logarithms and the various methods of their computation. Gives Lecture at Aurora. Prof. H. W. Caldwell of the American history department, delivered his illustrated lecture on the "Life of Abraham Lin coln," at Aurora, Friday evening. The lecture was secured by the Y. M. C. A. of Aurora for the county high school students. To Employ Geologists. Glen Ruby, '16, assistant to the chief geologist for the Empire Oil and Gas Co., Bares ville, Okla., was here Saturday to en gage students for geological work. The company which Ruby represents em ploys over one hundred geologists. Will Appoint Secretary. The Epis copal church of the United States will appoint secretaries to work among the student bodies of the larger uni versities of the country, according to Rev. C. R. Tyner, pastor of St. Luke's church, Lincoln, who returned re cently from the couference of univer sity pastors. Married Folks Meet. The regular meeting of the Married Folks club of the University was held Saturday eve ning at C. L. Culler's, 1735 R street. Forty benedicts were present and Fpent the evening in playing checkers, dominoes and other strictly domestic games. Mrs. H. J. O'Neil sang a solo. No refreshments were served, for one of the purposes of the club is to prove the proposition that University people can have a good time at par ties without the conventional luncheon. THE DAYS GONE BY Meal tickets $5.50 for $4.50. Newbert i Cafe, 137 No. 12th St UNIVERSITY NOTICES Alpha Kappa Psi The Alpha Kappa Psi Cornhusker picture will be taken at Townsend's Tuesday morning at 11:45. Kearney Club Picture The Cornhusker picture of the Kear ney club will be taken at Townsend's Tuesday noon at 12 o'clock sharp. Field Service Regulations Field service regulations can be TEACHERS WANTED For every Department of School work. Boards will soon commence to elect teachers for next year. REGISTER NOW, and Bet in on the first vacan cies. Write today for Blanns. Only 3'. 2 per cent Com. Payable Nov. 1st. Territory: Iowa, Wis., Minn., Neo., Dakotat and the West. Don't delay. Teachers' Employment Bureau. E. i. Heuer, Manager, 228-230 C. R. S. Bank, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. tf. bought at the Regents' book store for twenty-five cents apiece. The Uni versity gets these booklets from the government at cost and as there is no postage to pay, the students can get them at the cost price. Minnesota. "Dad" Elliott, the Y. M. C. A. expert, is in Minnesota to con fer with the University Y. M. C. A. on the matter of greater expansion of that organization's sphere of endeavor. Ex. Texas. Spring baseball practice has begun at the University of Texas. Ex. ORPHEUM SHOE REPAIR CO. When You Want Your Shoes Cleaned and Repaired Call at the ORPHEUM SHINING PARLOR 211 North 12th Street We Make It a Specialty of Cleaning and Renewing all Fancy Shoes Work Called For and Delivered. Phore B-1316. Classified Advertising Wanted Howard's Syllabus on the family. Will pay full price. Call L-54S9 Private tutoring in economics. F. C. Winship. 1804 S St. 92-3-4 5-6 Are you conditioned in rhetoric? Let Winship help you remove it. Ad dress Box 11C2, Station "A." 92 3-4-5-6 JUST A FEW DAYS MORE HALLETT DISCOUNT CALE Uni Jeweler FOUNTAIN PENS 10 TO 50 PER CENT OFF Estab. 1S71 1143 O Seven Years Ago Today The formation of a Glee club, after it had been discontinued several years, appeared to be a certainty. Co-eds organized the Nebraska club of the Equal Suffrage League, with Miss Alice McCulloh, as president. Five Years Ago Today The cast was chosen for the annual German Dramatic club play, "Minna von Barnnelm." Four Years Ago Today Nebraska's team proved too much for Drake in the second half and the Cornhuskers won, 21 to 4. One Year Ago Today The Wesleyan quintet defeated the Cornhuskers for the second time in the season, this time by a score of 23 to 19. The rifle team of the Nebraska squad lost to the team from the Uni versity of Michigan in its fourth match of the year. Coming at Convocation Feb. 20. John Haines Holmes of the Church of the Messiah, New York city. Feb. 22. Beethoven Fifth Sympho ny. String quartet and organ. Feb. 27. Rev. S. Mills Hayes, of Lincoln. (Tuesday Convocations during March will be given over to the great epic poems of history.) March 6. Dean L. A. Sherman, "Hindu Epics." March 13. Prof. W. F. Dann, Homer." ? f'y ' V.- When ycu buy a shoe you have it f.ncd arid you tal e it because it looks well ar.d feels comfortable. 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