D
aily Nebraskae
VOL. XVI. NO. 137.
EXPECT FIFTY TO
QUALIFY BY MIGHT
GOVT. FAST GRANTING EN
TRANCE TO FT. SNELLING
Sixteen Student Pm Examinations
Yeiterday Twelve Wednesday
Colonel Burnham to Go
Additions to list of men who have
pasted examinations for the training
cinP:
Frank L. Hixenbaugh, '17, Omaha.
Harold T. Landeryou, '20, Omaha.
Theodore W. Metcalfe, 18, Omaha.
Harold F. Holtz, '17. Burley, Ida.
Archer L. Burnham, '17, Stanton.
William C. Gilbert, '20, Omaha.
Hugh V. Williams, '18, Lincoln.
John G. Butter, '18, Omaha.
W. H. Cousins, '20, Lincoln.
M. B. Nye, '18, Kearney.
Edgar A. l.Markham.
Sergeant Thomas F. Wirth, U. S. A.
Paul K. Williams.
, Hugo B. Block.
Harold A. Price.
Elmer M. Hansen.
It is estimated that by tonight
pearly fifty University men will have
qualified for attendance at ' the of
ficers' training camp at Fort Snell
ing, Minn. Sixteen passed the exami
nations successfully Thursday. Twelve
passed Wednesday. ' The daily list
is expected to grow as the many
applications now in Chicago are acted
upon.
Sergeant Thomas F. Wirth, assist
ant to the commandant, and instruc
tor in the University military de
partment, has qualified to take the
Fort Snelling training. Archer L.
Burnham, colonel of the cadet regi
ment, had previously been accepted
for a commission in the reserve. He
has now qualified for the camp.
Up to Thursday evening, seven
men had been rejected at the phy
sical examination. "Flat feet" and
weakened vision were detrimental to
several. Some have not enough
good teeth. ' .
It takes about four days for an
application to go to the headquar
ters of the central department at
Chicago, and back.
Several of the men who were
examined Thursday went at 7 a. in
to the office of Dr. John G. Davis in
the Burlington .building for the phy
ical examination.
Frank Reavls, ex-17, varsity pole
aulter two years ago, now a stu
dent at Cornell university, has en
listed in the army aviation corps.
He is a son of Congressman. C. F.
Reavis, Falls City.
DELTA GAMMA FIFTH
IN SCHOLARSHIP
Revised Records Make Big Change In
Its Standing Phi Kappa Psl
Climbs One
Prom last place to fifth is the
Jump made by Delta Gamma in the
colarshlp standing for the first
emester of this year after a re
vision of the records, the office of the
executive dean announced yesterday.
Among the fraternities, the new
fi&ures place Phi Kappa Psl tenth
Instead of eleventh. ' The new index
for Delta Gamma is 271.5 in place
235.5; of Phi Kappa Psl 159.8
instead of 158.1.
The report from the dean's office
: "Several of the sororities and
fraternities neglected to include
ome of their members on the
jcholarshlp lists. Due to this fact
there may be several changes made
n the lists published next fall."
ARMORY
RIL 30TH
"EVE BEFORE
IVY DAY"
COMPANY "Q" WILL
PARADE TONIGHT
The annual maneuvers of Company
"Q," which by tradition follow com
petitive drill, will start at 7 o'clock
sharp tonight from the. Armory. The
parade will march up to O street
and there will decide upon its side
excursions. The march will wind
up on the athletic field where a bon
fire and entertainment have been
provided.
FOLK-SONGS HEARD
AT CONVOCATION
PROF. LOUISE POUND LECTURES
ON EARLY PIONEER BALLADS
OF NEBRASKA
Songs that gave glimpses of the Ne
braska of long ago were discussed at
Convocation yesterday morning by
Prof. Louise Pound and sung by Miss
Lenora Burkett. Professor Pound ex
plained that the chief requisites of
folk-songs are that the songs were
learned orally and that they have
lasted a fair period of years.
The ten songs which Miss Burkett
sang were classified by Professor
Pound as "Western Traditional Songs
Proper," "Narratives of Unknown Pro
venience," and "Old-World Importa
tions." As examples of the first class
Miss Burkett sang "Jessie James,"
"Home on the Range," "Jack o' Dia
monds," "Dreary Black Hills," and "0
Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie."
Dreary Prairie Laments
Two selections from the second
class were sung, "Mary o' the Wild
Moor," and "Johnny Sands." Three
of these imported from the old-world
were given, "The Constant Farmer's
Son," "Georgie," and "Johnny Ran
dall."
"Bury Me Not on the Prairie," is
an adaptation of the older "Bury Me
Not in the Deep, Deep Sea," Profes
sor Pound said. The words and
melody are exceptionally dreary and
mournful, as the following lines will
show:
Oh! bury me not on the lone prairie,
These words came softly but mourn
fully
From the pale lipe of a youth who lay
On the cold damp ground at the close
of day.
Oh! bury me not on the lone prairie,
Where the wild coyotes will howl o'er
me,
Where no light breaks in, o'er a lone
dark trail,
And no sunbeams shine on a lone
prairie."
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RAIN INTERFERES
WITH FIELD DAY FUN
AFTERNOON GAMES OF EN
GINEERS CALLED OFF
BAD WEATHER
Most of the events scheduled for en
gineer's field day were called off be
cause of the rain, but the faculty
of the college refused to be de
prived of their sport so they
played horse shoes. The "Civils"
beat the "M. E.'s" and the "Ags" won
from the "Electrlcals" in the faculty
events and the student "Civils" beat
the "Electrlcals."
In the morning games of baseball
the electrical engineers won from the
civil engineers and the "M. E.'s"
barely nosed out the "Ags." The
afternoon games were called off and
bowling at the Y. M. C. A. was sub
stituted, In which the mechaaical en-
UMSOE
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1917.
STUDENTS LEAVE
IN LARGE NUMBERS
172 HOLD WITHDRAWN UP TO 5
O'CLOCK YESTERDAY
Go Because of War Emergency
Largely to the Farm Daily
Number on Increase
One hundred and seventy-two stu
dents had withdrawn from the Uni
versity up to yesterday at 5 o'clock,
the registrar's office reported. Of
this number, the majority left to
work on the farm, while many will
go to the officers' reserve training
camp at Fort Snelling, and others
will enter the industrial army or
go directly into the military service.
Up to this week there were few
withdrawals, but the need of labor
on the farm and the approach of the
training camp has been responsible
for a great increase and yesterday
alone there were almost one hundred,
rfhose who are in close touch with
the situation say that they expect
the daily number to grow steadily
and that there will probably be a
total of five hundred who have gone
by May 8.
Withdrawals Granted
Following is a list of the men who
have withdrawn from the University
on account of war emergency:
Alfred L. Adams It. G. Bridehbaugh
H. F. Adklns Kenneth E. Burke
Kverett J. Althouse Archer Ij. Burnham
Irviriff D. AuKUStlne Albert W. Busboom
Max J. Baehr P. R Campbell. Jr.
Milo E. Beck Frank 10. Campbell
J. Krnest Bell L. K. Chamberlain
Ahram bl. tfennett V. K. Christopher
Francis D. Bigelow Bayard T. Clark
John Blaney Fred W. Clark
Orant Kloodfrood Owen Nye Clark
P.. Arlington Bloti Paul A. Cochran
Herachel E. Bowers Kdward K. Cooley
Norman T. Bourke Horace Crandall
James W. Boyd J. O. Crlswell
Carl H. Brehm Cyril P. Donegan
(Continued on page 3)
BANQUET TO END
ENGINEERS' WEEK
ALUMNI ARE AMONG THOSE
PLANNING TO ATTEND WIND
UP OF CELEBRATION
Engineers' week will be brought to
a close Saturday night with a banquet
at the Lincoln hotel.
R. E. Campbell, E. E. '10, efficiency
expert for Miller & Palne's, will be
the toastmaster in place of R. B.
Howell, who is unable to attend. Oth
ers on the toast list will be W. H.
Sawyer, '94, vice president of the
Clark & Co. Managing Corporation, of
Columbus, Ohio; F. A. Wirt, professor
of agricultural engineering at the
Kansas State agricultural college, and
Lieut. Col. James F. Mclndoe of the
engineering corps at Kansas City. L.
W. Weaver, Jr., a senior in civil en
gineering, will speak for the student
body. The engineers' orchestra will
provide entertainment.
E. M. Kadlecek, chairman of the
banquet committee, yesterday sent out
over two hundred invitations to alumni
of the engineering college. Many of
these are expected to attend.
Tickets for the banquet must be se
cured before Friday evening from any
of the following committee: E. M.
Kadlecek, chairman; C. E. Glasser,
H. L. HubbeL P. Smith, C. W. France,
and R. W. Carpenter.
gineers and electrical engineers won
from the "C. E.'s" and "Ags."
None of the final events were played
off but enough enthusiasm was dis
played in the preliminaries to warrant
a post-season game between the
faculty horse-shoe tossers. A definite
date for this match has not been set.
PROFITS GO TOWARD RAISING A FRENCH BABY
LITTLE CHANGE IN
IVYJJAY PLANS
FEW ALTERATIONS CAUSED BY
ADVANCING HOLIDAY
Campus WiJI Be Used for Both
Morning and Afternoon
Program
The fact that Ivy day will be next
Tuesday, instead of May 16, as first
scheduled, will alter the plans of
the committee but little, it has been
announced. Practically the only
change is that all of the festivities
will be held on the campus, instead
of taking the afternoon program to
Capital Beach.
The special features which will
come in addition to the traditional
events will all be carried out prac
tically without exception. Special
dances and a baseball game between
the varsity and an amateur team on
Nebraska field are included in these
Dance in Armory
Instead of holding, an open-air
dance, the spring cotillion will be
given in the armory during most of
the afternoon.
The customary events of the morn
ing will all be observed as usual.
Then will come the crowning of the
May Queen, the Ivy day oration, the
planting of the Ivy by the junior
and senior class presidents, and the
reading of the senior poem.
In the afternoon will come the
tapping of the Innocents and Black
Masques, who will this year be
chosen on the campus as they were
when the tradition was first started.
The baseball game is scheduled to
to take place before the tapping, and
dancing in the Armory will come
both before and after.
NO OMAHA DAY,
DEANANNOUNCES
HOLLIDAY OFFICIALLY DROPPED
FOR THIS YEAR OMAHA
PLANS ONE FOR 1918
The definite announcement that
there would be no Omaha day this
year was made yesterday by Execu
tive Dean Engberg. The cause is
assigned mainly to the fact that
the war is drawing a very large
number of students from the Univer
sity. The dean said that practically all
of the agricultural students were
leaving and a constantly increasing
number were leaving from colleges
on the city campus every day. The
national drawing and manual train
ing convention which meets here
May 3 and 4, would also keep
a large number of students away
from Omaha, he said.
The Omaha commercial club tried
very hard until the last moment to
have the holiday, and E. V. Parrish,
secretary, said that the metropolis
intended to plan a big day for the
students next year if the war is
over by that time.
Groups May Go
Dean Engberg said that if certain
groups, such as art, commerce or
journalism, still wanted to go and
there were enough left for a trip
tbey would be allowed to go as be
fore, but that the University would
not be closed.
Willa Spier Modisltte of Alliance,
Helen Quinn, '18, of Aurora, and
Charlotte Bedwell, ex-'18, of Omaha,
will be visitors t.t the Kappa Alpha
Theta house Saturday.
CLASS
BABCOCK WILL RUN
LANDER, WYO., PAPER
Fred Babcock, ex-'16, political re
porter and editor on a Lincoln news
paper, will leave this week for Lander,
Wyo., to take charge of the editorial
department of one of the dally news
papers there.
Babcock was one of the reporters
who followed the work of the 1917
legislature. While in the University
he was active in student affairs and
a member of The Daily Nebraskan
staff. He is a member of Alpha Sigma
Phi and Sigma Delta Chi.
TRACK MEN LEAVE
FOR AMES TODAY
FIFTEEN MEN WILL MAKE UP
SQUAD NO POLE VAULTER
WILL BE SENT
Fifteen men carrying with them
Nebraska's track hopes will leave
foe Ames this afternoon to take on
the Iowa Agriculturalists tomorrow
afternoon. The men making the trip
and the events in which they will
take part are as follows: 100
Owen and Werner; 220 Owen and
Werner; 440 Owen and Fuchs;
half-mile relay Owen, Werner, Fin
ney, last man to'be chosen; mile
relay Owen, Fuchs, Grau and a
fourth to be picked; 880 Overman,
Grau; mile Overman; two-mile
Graf; low hurdles Flint and Finney;
high jump Flint and Werner; broad
jump Flint and Werner; shot Shaw
and Reese; discus Reese and An
drews. Four men will be added to this
list, two to the relay teams and the
other to be used in case of an emer
gency. They will be picked from
the following: Stevens, Henry,
Townsend, Bryans, Strum and Jack
son. Chances are Slim
Nebraska's chances for holding the
veteran Ames aggregation to a close
score are receding farther as the
time for the meet approaches and
the bad weather continues to hold
out. No matter how nearly an ideal
day tomorrow may be, the biggest
part of the damage has been done
in the lack of decent weather the
past week.
No one will be sent to represent
the Cornhuskers in the pole vault.
In picking up somewhat in the other
branches of track Nebraska has lost
all the pole vaulters of which she
was once so proud. Two years ago
and for three years before that Ne
braska was conceded first p'ice and
generally second as well in the pole
vault in all her meets.
JUNIOR HOP PROFITS
TO FRENCH ORPHAN
Dance Will Be Given in Armory
Monday Night Before Ivy Day
The proceeds of the junior hop,
which has been scheduled for next
Monday night, the evening preceding
Ivy day, will go to the support
of eleven-year-old Renee Garrlgues,
of 133 rue Vercingetorix, Paris, the
committee has announced. The dance
will be held in the Armory.
The class did not want to give
up the dance, but decided to make
it so far as possible confonn with
the spirit of the present time. There
fore there will be another purpose
behind the dance other than that of
swelling the class treasury.
One hundred and fifty tickets at
one dollar have bocn validated for
the dance. Merl C. Townsend is
chairman of the hop committee.
HOP
PRICE FIVE C iSNTS
EYEUIXElToir
"PfiMDCTH TnnAY
muni
MANEUVERS OF CADETS WILL
HAVE NEW SIGNIFICANCE
Many of Those Who Drill TMs After
noon Will go to Training Camp
Next Week
The war and impending departure
of many of the cadets for the Fort
Snelling training camp attach unusual
interest to the annual competitive
drill slated for this afternoon from
1:30 to 5 o'clock on Nebraska field.
Preparations for the drill have gone
steadily forward despite the rain of
Thursday which prevented company
work.
Captain R. E. Firth, retired; Captain
Albert R. Dillingham, and Captain
William B. Wallace are to judge the
maneuvers. These three officers are
working in Nebraska examining candi
dates for admission to the Fort Snell
ing camp.
Chief interest is centered in the
company competition for the Omaha
cup. Then there will be two prizes
offered in individual drill.
A target rifle, the gift of Major Hal
sey E. Yates, formerly commandant
here, will be presented to First Ser
geant L. A. Wilson of the rifle team
who made the highest average score
in the intercollegiate rifle gallery com
petitions. Major Yates is now mili
tary attache at Bucharest, Roumania.
Music by the" cadet band will open
the program. Then the companies
will take the field one by one. More
music will follow. Four selected pri
vates from each company will then
enter the individual competitive drill.
Another musical number will follow.
Presentation of the sabers to the cap
tains by sponsors comes next.
The first sergeants will take com
mand of their companies and march
the regiment in review before the offi
cers who will stand in line with
Colonel Burnham and the sponsors.
The sponsors are.
Regimental Lila A. Drollinger.
Band Helen Saunders.
A company Gladys Enyart.
B company Alice Wessel.
C company Vina Kohler.
D company Margaret Buckhart.
E company Susie Scott.
F company Anna Luckey.
G company Milrae Judkins.
H company Octavia Beck.
I company Winifred Williams.
Roster of officers:
Commandant Samuel M. Parker,
raptaln of infantry. United States
Army.
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WOMAN'S A. A. DECIDES
SENIOR POINT QUESTION
The University of Nebraska women's
athletic association met at 11 o'clock
yesterday morning in the lecture room
of the gymnasium and decided that
the initiation fee for future members
is to be fifty cents, the money to go
into the general fund. Prof. Ina Git
tings, director of the women's gym
nasium, spoke on "Standardizing
Track Events."
There was a discussion as to what
awards should be given the class of
17, and the number of points neces
sary to receive an award. The final
decision was left to the executive
board. The association also voted
that all questions of appeal by request
must be signed by twenty members
and given to the board. It was de
cided that a quorum must be present
to hold a meeting. More contestants
for the track meet are needed the
coaches say.
PRICE
ONE DOLLAR
M. C. TOWNSEND
CHAIRMAN