Dally Nebra.
VOL. XVI. NO. U4.
UNIVERSITY OP NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1917.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
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VARIED PROGRAM
AT GYMJXHIBITION
OVER TWO HUNDRED WILL TAKE
PART IN PERFORMANCE
Dancing Will Follow Proceeds Will
fl0 to Co-ed Athletics Varsity
Gymnasts There
An unusually attractive program has
been prepared for the twelfth annual
gymnastic exhibition, in which over
two hundred men and women will take
part, to be staged on the Armory floor
beginning at 8 o'clock this evening.
The exhibition, which will last until
9:30, will be followed by informal
dancing. The admission fee will be 35
cents including both events. The re
ceipts this year will be devoted en
tirely to girls' athletics.
All numbers on the program are typi
cal examples of the work of the de
partment. The first number, which
includes a dumb-bell drill and gym
nastic games, shows the practical and
hygienic side of the work as well as
the recreative features. The class
apparatus work particularly empha
sizes muscular control.
The gymnastic squad, composed of the
best gymnasts in the University, will
demonstrate the more advanced work.
The four men on the gymnastic team
which will represent the University at
the Western Intercollegiate meet next
week will give an exhibition of the
regular contest figures.
Co-Eds Will Take Part
The women's numbers are especially
attractive. One hundred twenty-five
sophomore girls will give a wand drill.
The dances form probably the most
interesting part of the program. A
Russian dance will be given in cos
tume by the beginning class in aes
thetic dancing, and this will be fol
lowed by a flag dance in costume rep
resenting the feeling of patriotism
which is sweeping the country.
A special feature dance in costume
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BALL TOSSERS AT
VORKjN ARMORY
Wet Weather Does Not Stop Varsity
Baseball Practice Entirely
Some Likely Material
Despite the wet weather baseball
has been going on for the past week
in the Armory. Every day several
pairs of hopefuls have been limbering
up by tossing the balls back and forth
across the gym, much to the discom
fort of those passing by. Arms are
not in the best of shape as yet and
many a wild heave narrowly missed
ome unprotected head, but as yet
no injuries have been reported.
Whether outdoor practice will be
staged on the athletic field throughout
the season or not has not yet been
determined. It is practically certain,
nowever, that the early practice will
be carried on there while later in the
ean arrangements may be made for
Practice bouts with the Lincoln West
ern League team, on the professional
team's grounds.
A great deal of likely looking ma
terial 's appearing from time to time
nd it stems now that Coach Stewart
ould have a large number of men
from which to pick his team. The
Auality of this material, however, will
n'y be known as the season pro
sTesses. Friday
larch 16
CO-EDS TALK ON
WOMEN'S WORK AT
BUSINESS CLUB
Two University girls, Fay Sherwin,
'19, and Helen Saunders, '19, talked to
the Business Women's club of the
University on different types of worn
en's work in the world at the regular
meeting of the club In U 112 yesterday
afternoon at 5 o'clock.
Fay Sherwin read a paper on
"Women in the United Sttaes Civil
Service," in which she showed the
opportunities for activity there, and
Helen Saunders gave some interesting
personal glimpses of women in the
lumber industry.
PLAY SEATS STILL
HELD FOR STUDENTS
STUDENT EXCHANGE TICKETS
NEEDED FOR RESERVATIONS
Ted Metcalfe Returns to Lincoln
New Lighting System to be In
stalled at Temple
Reservations of seats for the junior
play, "Green Stockings," which will be
given at the Temple theatre one week
from tonight, will be closed to all ex
cept those who hold green student
tickets for two more days, Friday
and Saturday of this week, at the Col
lege Book Store. On Monday the
seats will be thrown open to the gen
eral public.
These students have the exchange
tickets to sell: William Schoomacher,
George Grimes, Henry Knudaon. Guy
Moates, Harvey Nelson, Fred Buer
stetta, Wayne Townsend, Alfred Hinze,
Esther Ellinghusen, Ruth Sinclair,
Fred Cotter, G. R. Owen, John Wen
strand, Ivan Beede, M. D. Nolan, Cecil
Laverty, Ellsworth Moser, Fred W.
Clark, Beachey Musselman, Max Mil
ler, Vivienne Holland, DeWitt Foster,
Catherine Pierce, Carlyle Jones, Caro
lyn Kimball, E. F. Moore, and J. B.
Worley. They may also be obtained
at the College Book Store.
Better Than a Dance
That the class play will be welcome
relief from the eternal dance has been
the opinion a number of the co-eds,
as well as the "fussers," as expressed
to a Nebraskan repprter. "Green
FORM UNDERGRADUATE
ASSISTANTS' CLUB
Ten Charter Members Effect Prelimin
ary Organization Charles
Glasser is President
An undergraduate assistants' club
with the proposed purpose of promot
ing the general knowledge of the mem
bers by discussion, was formed at a
preliminary meeting in the Y. W. C. A.
rooms of the Temple, at 7 o'clock last
evening. Charles Glasser, temporary
chairman, was unanimously made
president of the club.
Membership was limited, by prelim
inary articles drawn up last evening,
to undergraduate students in the Uni
versity, who are acting as assistants
in any deparement. A committee to
draw up a constitution was appointed
by President Glasser, comprising
Everett Carr. as chairman. Harriet
Anderson, and Ivan Beede.
' Following are the ten charter mem
bers and the names of their depart
ments: Charles Glasser, '17, Brad-
sbaw, applied mechanics; Harriet An-
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MAMMOTH GUARDS
FOSSIL EXHIBIT
Largest and Most Perfect Elephant
Head in Country Towers Over
Prehistoric Remains
The largest and most perfect fossil
elephant head in America, Elephas
columbl, now guards the entrance to
the prehistoric animal exhibits on the
first floor of the University museum,
the museum force yesterday removing
the scaffolding and timbers used In
mounting.
The skull alone we'.ghs more than a
quarter of a ton, and in life had a
face length greater than the full
height of an average man. When
the thirteen-foot ivory tusks are added
it gives the spcimen larger dimensions
than an average living room.
The huge mammoth of Franklin
county lived at a comparatively late
age in elephant evolution, having been
dead only about 25,000 years. It is for
this reason that the artistic curves
appear in its two long tusks which
are lacking in weapons of Mastodon
Americanus, Nebraska's remarkable
specimen of an earlier race.
The new specimen is probably the
most "showy" of its kind in the world
and no doubt will be one of the chief
centers of attraction to museum visi
tors in the future.
Stockings" is Just a delightful comedy
pure fun.
Ted Metcalfe, the leading man for
the play, returned to Lincoln yester
day, recovered almost entirely from
his attack of illness. Metcalfe took
part in the rehearsal of the play last
night.
Superintendent of Construction
Chowins, after a conference with the
play manager, agreed to install a new
and up-to-date lighting system for the
play. Miss Alice Howell, the coach,
and Lad Kutik, the stage manager,
outlined the improvements that will
be needed, and the new wiring and
lighting system will be installed early
next week.
FACULTY TO ENTERTAIN
STUDENTS AT MID
SEMESTERS NEXT WEEK
The semi-annual entertainment of
the University faculty for the students
is scheduled to take place progres
sively, beginning almost any time now,
and lasting until the bells toll the
knell of parting day one week from
this afternoon.
Invitations have been issued to stu
dents in all classes except those who
were treated to surprise parties dur-
UNUSUAL AUDIENCE
HEARS FLUTE RECITAL
Rex E. Fair Gives Novel Program at
Convocation in Temple Yester
day Morning
A novel Convocation was enjoyed by
an unusually large' audience yesterday
morning, when Rex Elton Fair, in
structor at the University school of
music, gave a flute recital, in Temple
theatre, at 11 o'clock. Ernest Harrison
accompanied Mr. Fair on the piano.
The program follows.
Am Waldesbach. Paul Wetzger.
Serenade Ruase, W. Popp.
Orange Blossoms, concert valse, A.
Brooke.
Concerto aperto.
Andante ma mon troppo.
Allegro.
GORNHUSKER FAST
TAKING SHAPE
Sample Border Design Received by
Management Yesterday Cam
paign Announced Monday
The Cornhusker staff got a definite
idea of what the inside pages of the
book will look like yesterday when the
samples of the border design were re
ceived from the Jahn & Oilier engrav
ing company. The divisions sheets, a
confessed work of art, have already
passed the board of censorship estab
lished by the management, and proof
of cuts and reading matter is con
stantly being received.
The "board of censorship" experi
enced some difficulty in selecting the
border designs, and the accepted ones,
which came yesterday, were chosen
only after several had been rejected.
And the Jahn & Oilier company has a
reputation of putting out exceptional
stuff for college annuals, keeping a
special artist whose only business it
is to design book borders. The stand
ard set by the staff in this regard is a
fair sample of the care and selection
with which the whole book is being
constructed.
Sales Campaign Announced Monday
DeWitt Foster, business manager,
has not divulged any of his plans for
the sales campaign in which it is
hoped to sell 2,000 Cornh'uskers, four
hundred more than were sold last
year, but full particulars will be an
nounced Monday. Although the char
acter of the campaign is not known,
it is expected to be more thorough and
intensive than in previous years.
The editorial end of the book Is
practically completed, with only the
finishing touches now being added un
der the direction of Charles M. Frey,
editor-in-chief, Albert J. Covert, senior
managing editor, and Wayne Town
sent, junior managing editor. Every
piece of "copy" which goes into the
annual has passed a rigorous test of
quality, so that the aim of a repre
sentative book may not be spoiled by
a book not representatively written.
ing the last day or two. For the most
part the time will be spent in rather
serious discussion. 9o far as is known,
all of the hosts will be present, and
practically all of the guest-list is ex
pected. The appearance of the stu
dents in general will be informal and
uninformed.
This entertainment ig probably the
last to be enjoyed by a number of Uni
versity students, who are said to be
planning an indefinite visit at home
beginning with Spring recess.
SHAKESPEARE AT
SPECIAL CONVOCATION
John E. Kellerd, Eminent Actor, Will
Give Series of Readings in Temple
This Morning at 11 O'Clock
An unusual treat will be offered
students without 11 o'clock classes
this morning In the Temple theatre In
the form of Teadlngs from Shakes
peare by John E. Kellerd, eminent
actor, who is in Lincoln filling a the
atrical engagement.
Mr. Kellerd has won constantly in
creasing fame on the stage by his in
terpretation of Shakespeare, and has
met an enthusiastic welcome In both
America and England. William Winter
declared him to be "the greatest actor
of today." The opportunity of hear
ing him in Shakespearian readings is
one not often offered the University
public.
g 9:30 po
REP. NORTON TALKS ON
NEW CONSTITUTION
TO PHI DELTA PHI
Representative J. N. Norton, who
has a bill in the state senate asking
for a constitutional convention for Ne
braska, spoke to Phi Delta Phi. legal
fraternity, on "The Need of a Consti
tutional Convention" at the regular
meeting or the fraternity at the Sigma
Alpha Epailon house last evening.
The speaker described the bill now
before the house and discussed it in
detail, showing the need of a new state
constitution. He pointed out that,
were a convention called, it would be
five or six years at least before the
new constitution would go into effect.
ISSUES WARNING
ON IMMUNIZING
DEAN LYMAN SAYS IT GIVES
"FALSE SENSE OF SECURITY"
"So-called Vaccine" for Scarlet Fever
Only in Experimental Stage, He
Says Urges Care
Declaring that innoculation against
scarlet fever is only in the experi
mental stage, and that it gives students
a "false sense of security" because it
has not yet been proven to protect a
person against the fever, Dean R. A.
Lyman of the college of pharmacy
yesterday issued a statement regard
ing the tendency of students who have
been innoculated to think that they
have escaped from the epidemic.
The statement follows:
"Inasmuch as the innoculation with
the so-called scarlet fever vaccine may
give the student a false sense of
security which would be inclined to
permit his being careless in exposing
himself, it is thought wise to issue
this statement. The scarlet fever In
noculation is only an experiment and
students should take the same care in
avoiding contact with patients affected
with scarlet fever as if they had not
been innoculated.
"Furthermore any person who has
already acquired scarlet fever is not
helped by such innoculation.
"This statement is issued in order
that students may observe every pre
caution to prevent further spread of
scarlet fever."
SUFFRAGISTS AT
CONVOCATION
In Charge of Special Program Follow
ing Regular Convocation Next
Tuesday
University co-eds working for suf
frage and co-operating with the suf
frage school which will be held In
Lincoln Monday, Tuesday, and Wed
nesday of next week, will have charge
of a special convocation at which the
cause will be upheld, in the Armory at
11:30 o'clock Tuesday, following the
regular program.
The program will be announced In
full Monday; it will include one of
the nationally-known suffrage lectur
ers who are conducting the "short
course" next week, and it is probable
that the cadet band will be there.
Men who are for suffrage, or who by
affiliation favor the amendment, or
who are rabidly against it, are espe
cially invited by the University league
to be present at the Convocation and
hear the arguments.
IB,
ANNOUNCE UNI.
WEEKJTINERARY
SUPERIOR FIRST ON SCHEDULE,
HOLDREGE LAST
All But Glee Club Will Spend Sunday
Out-State Program Takes
Twelve Days
Superior will be the first and Hold
rege the last town to be visited by the
University week program this year,
according to the complete itinerary
given out by the management yester
day. The cadet band will give its first
entertainment there Friday, March 30,
and then will make Red Cloud, Oxford,
Cambridge, McCook and Holdrege in
the order named. The band will be
followed by the play, "Alias Jimmie
Valentine," the glee club, the road
show and the faculty lecture by Prof.
E. F. Schramm of the department of
geology.
The schedule extends over a period
of twelve days, opening with the band
program at Superior on Friday even
ing, April 30, and closing with the
faculty lecture at Holdrege, Tuesday,
April 10. The first 9unday of the trip
will be spent by the band at Red Cloud
and by the play cast at Superior. The
second Sunday of the trip will be spent
by the road show at McCook and by
the faculty lecturer at Cambridge. The
glee club is the only number which
does not spend Sunday out-state.
Towns Making Preparations
Plans for the trip are being rapidly
completed and this year's University
week promises to be one of the most
successful that has been given. A
great deal of interest is being shown
by the towns which are to be visited
and there is keen competition among
them to provide the best houses for
the programs and the best time for the
University entertainers. Those in
charge at Cambridge write that it is
going to furnish the biggest audience
of any town on the trip and McCook
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GRAPLERS WORK
FOR WESTERN MEET
Nebraska Stands Good Chance of Win
ning Wrestling Honors at Iowa
City, March 23-24
The varsity wrestling squad is work
ing daily with the idea in mind of
carrying off at least a large share of
the honors in the Western Intercol
legiate meet that is to be held at Iowa
City, March 23 and 24.
No prophecy has yet been made by
Coach Dick Rutherford as to how he
expects his men to line up with th
rest of the teams in the west It Is
known, however, that with a little luck
the Nebraskans have a fine chance of
carrying off the first honors.
All the men are in fine shape at
present. Barnes, who was under the
coach's instructions for only two days
before the Ames match. Is developing
rapidly. His chief trouble now is to
keep from going over the 125 pound
limit too far to come back to It for
the matches.
With an army officer as instructor,
Yale undergraduates have formed the
first successful college aerial unit.
Two hydro-aeroplanes are at the dis
posal of the students and rapid ad
vances are being made. Ex.
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