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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (May 24, 1917)
IS DAILT WEBRASKAW rrTTiiTvT t iiiiiiiri i i ..fHi.in.if ; PROF. ORUMMANN WRITES Oil LANGUAGE METHODS Hat Article !n My Number of Monat hefte, ' The Teachlno of m,--.-r.. Vocabulary" A Most Attractive Figure A corset is so personal so much a part of one's very self that it should be most thought fully selected and fined by & skillful fitter. Pvedfern Models enhance figure beauty and correct figure defects. You will appreciate the value of a Redfern Corset, and you will like the beauty of form and exquisite dairv tiness of the latest models. $3 up For Sale by MILLER & PAINE Inc. 0 & 13th Streets Keep Carbon Copies of lectures, theses, etc. This can only be done by buying or renting a typewriter. Special rates to students. Phone or call at L C. Smith & Bro. Typewriter Co. LINCOLN, NEBR. U Li u SUMMIT The New Style in Sold by KLINES" Prof. Paul H. Grummann, director of the department of tine arts, has written an article entitled "The Teach ing of Vocabulary" for the Moy num ber of Monatshefte, a monthly devoted to the study of German and Pedagogy. Professor Grummann says: "Some authorities have asserted that the mastering of a small vocabulary Is the proper aim of . an elementary course. It would not be Impossible to work out the sentences of every day intercourse a.id to teach this rather simple vocabulary to the beginner in a comparatively short time. The pupil then would be helpless In all but a very limited range of reading. The child at six has such a know ledge, yet the schools devote eight years to the '' task of teaching It to read the mother tongue. "The difficulty that is found over and over again in second and third vest classes, is that the child has no fund 1 of words to tall back upon when it ' encounters new compounds. It Is not rash to assume that the vocabulary haj not been taught properly, or such : a fund would be available." He defines the child's "active" vo ; rabulary as the small part of the lan guage the child hears daily, which he understands. In referring to the proc ess of learning, he remarks: "The ' iinx-ess of learning them becomes a gradual assimilation of language ma terial from the strange, the subcon scious, the conversant into active con sciousness. That the dirvct method books often ignore the names of every day, ordi nary things which the pupil should Know, or that their introduction is ot'en by chance is, he maintains, a weakness of this method. The teach er is also handicapped by lack of suf ftc";u time to devote to the indi viduals. PROFESSOR FRANKFORTER LECTURES ON ASPHALT TO LINCOLN H. S. CLUB Prof. C. J. Frankforter spoke to the Lincoln high school chemistry club Wednesday evening at the high school auditorium on the subject oP Trinidad Asphalt," including the mining of it. I the colloidal condition of the mineral ! matter in it. The talk was illustrated by moving pictures, the reels being furnished by the courtesy of the Barber Asphalt Co., i of Philadelphia. In the pictures, the movement of mineral matter in the I asphalt is shown as observed und?r , the ultra-microscope. These particles range in size from 1 mu to 100 mu mus ; in diameter. An idea of extreme small ', ness of them can be gained by the fact that 1 mu is equal to one thou- sandth of a millimeter, and 1 mu mu j he equal to one millionth of a milli ' meter. As shown upon the screen, , these particles of matter are magnified over fifty million tiim?s. ENGINEERS WILL CONFER WITH DEFENSE COUNCIL ON WAR CO-OPERATION The society for the promotion of en I gineering education, of which Prof. George Chatburn of the college of en ! gineering is president, has selected ; an educational committee which will I meet with the advisory commission of ! the council of national defense 'early in June. At this meeting, the com mittee will endeavor to secure definite suggestions as to the h?t way in which the society can aid the govern ment in the war. Professor Chatburn has made a complete outline suggesting various ways in which the society may be of aid. not only in engineering problems, but in producing expert engineers for use in the war. as w ell as educating all those under draft age who can be se cured, for engineering work. It ain't the guns or armament. Nor the "funds that they can pay, But the close co-operation That makes them win the day. It ain't the individuals Nor the army as a whole. But the eTerlasting team work Of every bloomin' soul. Rudyard Kipling Anyone in, Drake university who Is interested In chickens of any specie, kind or variety, has a chance to study them now. The Embryology labora tory at Drake is making slides of fowls in their first stages of development Ex. I 1 IS IIP. If II II I 0 SfllloP l liij iyj iyi 0 j 151 IS L n JV IN A 0 s? nnnnnrln a a "-v mm a y nit All subscribers are urged to get their book at once as the same will only be held until six o'clock May 31st. All books that are not called for by that time will have their deposits f orf eited.and will be sold to other parties. Yr jzJ i) kJJ tiu "v m ti it A. o I i 0 fl D m m i a u v CJ ViU LJ 1 Li,,,,! Jog i