THE DAILY NEBEA8SAH
The Daily Nebraskan
THE BEST UNIVERSITY NEWSPAPER IN THE WORLD
EDITORIAL 8TAFF
George E. Grimes Editor-in-Chief
Ivan G. Beede Managing Editor
Fern Noble Associate Editor
Leonard W. Kline Associate Editor
Eva Miller Contributing Editor
Dwight P. Thomas Sporting Editor
BUSINESS 8TAFF
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.
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semester, $1.
Entered at the postofflce at Lincoln, Nebraska, as second class
mail matter under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
THE MEANING OF THE TOURNAMENT
The University Is witnessing the greatest basketball tournament
In the world, the greatest athleUc assemblage of its kind in the United
States. One hundred twenty schools are here to compete for the cham
pionship in three different divisions.
The trophy cup for which the teams are fighting is one of the least
of the things for which the tournament stands. If it were all-important,
then the other teams would get but little benefit from the play.
The basketball tourney stands for clean and honest striving to
excell for good sportsmanship and right living, for friendly rivalry.
It represents the Invitation of the University to the young men of the
state. Because of these things It has a deep significance.
Because of these things, the tournament Is great and good. Right
habits and clean living are bound to tell in an exhibition of this sort.
The tournament is an object lesson to young men to take care of their
bodies. Good health is one of the best foundations for a good and
successful life.
Few better tests of the real manhood of a person can be found
than whether he can go into a keen competition and emerge, either
winner or loBer, as the friend of his opponent Inasmuch as the tour
ney teaches good sportsmanship, good winning and graceful losing, it
is doing a fine thing.
The University extends a sincere wish that the high school
students who are in Lincoln this week may come here for four years.
It will be good for the University and will be good for them. They
should not forget that the University makes the tournament possible
because it wants to get acquainted with the people of the state.
PLANNING FOR IVY DAY
The announcement of the senior class appointments, with the
important committees for Ivy Day, is a reminder that this greatest of
all University holidays is but two months away.
Ivy Day, in many respects, is the one beautiful Nebraska Univer
sity tradition that must be kept alive and fostered. The planting of
the ivy, the, senior class oration and poem, the crowning of the May
queen and the May Pole dance, the tapping of the Innocents and Black
Masques and the festivities in connection, make the day one of the
most enjoyable the University students can have.
The committees will have a proper sense of their responsibility
and will make this Ivy Day, in the year of Nebraska's great statehood
celebration, a worthy University festival.
FORUM
The Junior Play
To the Editor of The Daily Nebras
kan: Remembering the struggles of
of the junior class last year, raising
the guaranty for the class play, in
putting on a successful ticket sale,
and afterwards in trying to decide
whether or not the manager should
be given compensation, it was with a
feeling of relief that I read that the
Junior class of this year had decided
to do tbe sensible thing, and put on
the class play at the Temple theatre.
The class need feel no disgrace at
giving the play in a playhouse built
for Just such a thing. It would, on
the other band, be open to shame if
It had decided that only a down town
theatre was worthy of a University per
formance. What sadder comment upon
the spirit of a class could be made,
than to say that it spurns its own
theatre for the added glamour of put
ting on a play where real actors and
actresses have held forth, and for no
other reason?
Miss Alice Howell has been so suc
cessful with her. plays at the Temple
theatre this year, that one cannot
doubt that she will have an equal
success in putting on the junior play
at that place. I am one who shall
look forward to seeing "Green Stock
ings," with all the more zest because
it will be the first junior class play
that will be from every point of Tiew,
truly a Junior class and a University
of Nebraska production.
Were It not that I would be accused
of the serious crime of "lese majeste"
all kinds of failings in class spirit, I
would suggest that the senior class
follow this very noble example of the
Juniors and put on their play, too,
at the Temple theatre. This, I know,
will not be done. But it will not be
long, let us hope, before University
students will not only be content but
will be proud to use the equipment
offered them by the University itself
for their class affairs, instead of go
ing to the business district of Lincoln.
A. SENIOR.
UNIVERSITY NOTICES
Commercial Club
The regular weekly meeting of the
University Commercial club yesterday
was postponed on account of the bas
ketball tournament
Palladian Literary Society
Palladian Literary society will hold
an open meeting this evening in Pal
ladian hall. Temple. Miss Ethel Dunn,
chatauqua entertainer, will give a pro
gram. Visitors welcome.
Tegner Society
Tegner Society will hold its regu
lar meeting Saturday evening in Pal
ladian Hall, at 8:16.
Student Volunteers
Mrs. E. A. Rayner, of University
Place, will speak to the Student Vol
unteers, at 2 o'clock Sunday, March
11, Y. W. C. A. room, Temple. Mrs.
Rayner will speak of her experiences
as a missionary in the Philippine Is
lands. This meeting is open to all
students.
THE DAYS GONE BY
Eight Years Ago Today
t William Fox, captain of the Lincoln
Western League baseball team, ar
rived to take charge of the Cornhus
ker varsity squad.
Five Years Ago Today
' The University cafeteria was for
mally opened with accommodations
for seventy persons.
Omaha hieh school won the inter-
scholastic basketball tourney, with
South Omaha, University Place and
Beatrice finishing next in order.
Four Years Ago Today
Nebraska cinched the Missouri Val
ley basketball championship by win
ning the second game of the post-season
series with Kansas by a score of
18 to 16.
Football Captain Must Fade Away
The day of the field football captain
for the University of Oregon teams
is over, if Coach Hugo Bezdek is to
have his way. According to the czar
of the Oregon gridiron a football star
elected to tho position of captain does
not amount to much after he is elect
ed. The new plan Coach Bezdek has
in mind Is to make the election of ar
captaln purely honorary. The field
generalship for each game would be
wholly in the bands of some man of
the team appointed at the eleventh
hour by the cosch. This man's duties
as a field general would cease with
the game. Ex.
The third annual basketball tourna
ment of state high schools opened
with the dope favoring University
Place, Omaha, Auburn, Fremont, Nor
folk, Fairbury or Central City.
TODAY'S PROGRAM
THIRD ROUNDCLASS A
All Games in the Armory
Lincoln vs. University Place, 9 a. m,
Crete vs. Geneva, Armory 9:15.
Harvard vs. Columbus, 10.
Omaha vs. Fremont, 10:15.
SEMI-FINALS CLASS B
Ail Games In the Auditorium
Clearwater vs. WTest Point, 7:30
p. m.
Swanton vs. Hardy, 7:45.
Two Years Ago Today
The first round of the fifth annual
high school basketball t ournament
was played oft with Friend, Elmwood,
Shelton, Seward, Arlington, Hampton,
Osceola, West Point, Bethany, Hart
ington and Hebron carrying off the
honors.
One Year Ago Today
The high school basketball cham
pionship race was drawing to a close,
with Omaha, Beatrice, Lincoln and
Crete scheduled to fight it out for the
first division honors.
The Husker wrestling team was pre
paring to grapple with the Iowa mat
artists.
Captin Hugg, Rutherford and James
Gardiner were placed on the Missouri
Valley honor roll of the Daily Nebraskan.
BRIEF BITS OF NEWS
Last of Combined Courses. -The
last of twenty-two combined men's and
women's short courses is being held
this week at Osmond. Professors
Warner and Wood will have charge of
the men's work and Miss Rokahr and
Miss Scott are the women's instruc
tors. The short courses have been
largely attended throughout
To Address Ad Club. D. F. Cole,
of the department of political econ
omy, will talk before the Lincoln Ad
club at its monthly dinner and busi
ness meeting in the Lincoln hotel Mon
day evening, March 12.
Spoke to Phi Alpha Delta. J. S.
Baehr, clerk of the district court,
talked to the members of the Phi
Alpha Delta law fraternity Wednes
day night on "Legal Papers and How
to Get Your Case Into the Courts."
Will Coach Plays Lillian Wirt,
Florence Maryott and Ethel Hartley
left yesterday for various towns in
the state to coach high school stu
dents for the state dramatic contest
soon to be held. Miss Wirt went to
Madison, Miss Maryott to Coleridge
and Miss Hartley to Battle Creek.
Call for Teachers. The teachers'
bureau has recently had many calls
for manual-training and science teach
ers, and have not enough teachers to
supply this demand. Any desiring
such positions are urged to apply as
soon as possible. Very few men have
applied for positions and as there are
more will be needed to fill the posi
tions for next year. They are asked
to apply soon.
Many Join Reervs Corps
More than 1.C00 students have
Joined tho Harvard Reserve Officers'
Training Corps, and are devoting nine
hours of .heir ime a week to drills
and lectin e under Captain Constant
Cordler and other army officers de
tailed at Cambridge by the War De
partment In addition to those en
rolled in the training corps, nearly a
hundred students have Joined the
aviation corps with airplane work In
the summer, and according to a cen
sus made by the Harvard Crimson, a
university daily paper, 257 members
of the university not in the training
corps are either in the Massachusetts
National Guard or the State Naval
FOURTH ROUND CLASS C
All Games in the Chapel
Minden vs. DeWitt, 9 a. m.
Lexington vs. Diller, 9:15.
Wolbach vs. Salem, 10:15.
Alexandria vs. Pauillion, 10:15.
The semi finals of Class A and Class
C will be played Friday evening at the
auditorium. The semi-finals of Class
B will be played Saturday morning at
the auditorium.
College Papers Criticized
Some smug eastern newspaper has
taken upon Itself the task of berating
the college newspapers of the coun
try. The Reed College Quest reprints
the editorial, but from its kindness of
heart does not divulge the name of
the newspaper that displayed the
criticism.
"We realize that behind each of
these typographically erring sheets
there Btands a group of extremely
serious men, men who lower their
grades and lose their meals and sleep
over these very neglected issues," the
critic says in way of comment and
then asks himself what are the re
sults. Of course he is able to answer
his own query or he would not have
asked, and he goes on glibly: "A lit
tle practice which a week's work on a
country daily" would equal; a little
fame among associates whose appro
bation is not worth 10 cents at best;
a paper which a very few papers read
and fewer appreciate, and besides this
a vast deal of unpaid labor, of trying
eye strain, of expense in time and
money."
All of which is very clever, and
quite untrue. College newspapers are
on the whole better edited, better
written and of a neater appearance
than the small town daily, which
boasts the same circulation. As for
the poor grades, over-strained eyes,
loss of sleep and neglected meals,
these are only the result of an ill-balanced
schedule and are the exception
rather than the rule. Of course, his
statement that a week's experience on
a small daily would yield one as much
as three "years" on a college publi
cation is ridiculous on the face of it.
College newspapers are no longer
an experiment They are a real agent
in the unifying of the conglomerate
forces that make up the American
University; they serve to instill col
lege spirit in the incoming genera
tions; they are an advertisement of
the college they represent They are
here to stay, despite the protests of
this self-satisfied eastern journal. Ex.
$1,800 Average Wags of Harvard
Professors
Eighteen hundred dollars represents
the average yearly salary for the en
tire teaching force of Harvard Uni
versity for 1917; $5,600 is the highest
salary paid a professor. The total
budget for the teaching corps for the
csrrent year is $800,000, the largest in
the history of the Institution. Ex.
By the will of Mrs. Jessie Reed
Barr, Washington University receives
$100,000 for the establishing of fel
lowships and scholarships for the
benefit of women. Ex.
Meal tickets $5.50 for $4.50. Newbert
Cafe, 137 No. 12th St
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Basketball
Teams
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Wright Cafe
Is the Right
place to Eat
129 No. 11th St.
SHOES for Young Men
"Snappy"
Style
'Comfy'
Fit
We offer you two models at
this price. One a black calf and
the other a dark tan calf. Both
models have white "TextanM soles
genuine Goodyear welt sewed.
Priced
$4.50
Men's Shoes Main Floor.
TITTfl
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Programs and Menu
Covers to show you.
GRAVE
244 No. 11th
LINCOLN
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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.. Phone B-1316.
CODNELL PHOTO SUPPLY CO.
DEVELOPING, FINISHING AND ENLARGING
W color enlargement In Non-Fading Oil Colors at reasonable prices.
Films for all Cameras. 248 No. 11th St
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Telephone B2S11
lit North 11th St
Gleaners, Pressors, Dyars
Tor the "Work and Servioe that
Pleases." Call BI311. The
quipped Dry Cleaning Plant ka Us
West One ay service If needed.
Reasonable Price, good work, prompt
Mrrle. Repairs to men's (amenta
arefolly made.
Register for your zaiudo work at
THE UNIVESITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC
Twenty-Third Year Just commencing
llany teachers in all branches of music to choose from.
Drama-tie Art Aesthetic Dancing
Ask for information -
WILLAED KIMBALL, Director
11th and Cts. . Opposite the Campos