Nebraska Newspapers

    The Daily Nebraskgiini
VOL. XVI. NO. 159.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 1917.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
FRIDAY ISSUE IS
LASTJNEBRASKAN
PAPER WILL CLOSE FIRST YEAR
AS SIX-COLUMN SHEET
(tportorial Work Hat Been Done by
Representative Staff Plans
for Next Fall
With Friday's issue. The Daily Ne
nskan will end its sixteenth year.
mi its first year as a six-column daily.
So ceremony has been arranged for
lie official closing of the volume, and
w special edition will mark the event,
j u planned by the staff to evacuate
Tie Nebraskan office soon after the
torning post-mortem over the Friday
(Jition has been held, and to devote
Jie remainder of the week to prepara
tion for examination.
A History-Making Year
Reviewing the season, it may be
aid that the present volume of The
Sebraskan has had the provilege of
chronicling perhaps the greatest single
jetr in the history of the University,
laternally. it saw the realization of the
(ingle tax and the student council, two
hndmarks which it appears are
destined to make the present college
term a memorable one. Other events
of Importance have been the installa
tion of a new coaching system at Ne
kraska; the temporary tumble of Ne-
bra ska from her football throne; the
I ibolition of the Cornhusker banquet.
1 tad the movement for w ider and more
comprehensive training in journalism.
But the present term as recorded in
1
i the columns of The Nebraskan Is
destined to be remembered as the year
wten Nebraska University, as an in
tepi part of America, took up the
p of battle and entered the fight
fr right and democracy. Indistinct
rablings of the approach of this psy
tiology were also heard in the course
( the year; signs of the awakening
of the University to the greater, broad
er spirit which is the moving power
in the nation today, were seen. Suc
cessful campaigns in the University
for the prison relief fund and for the
French war orphan fund were among
these manifestations.
The University and War
With the entrance of America Into
tie world war began epoch-making
I'niversity history. The opening event
s the immense patriotic parade and
demonstration, in which three thou
nd students, faculty members, re
fat.-, and alumni was roused on that!
Numbering spirit was roused on that,
iT. and as a result of this expression.)
Ttr one thousand students left their !
college work to either permanently or
temporarily serve the government.
Most of the one thousand who left
to!l-ge. who by a special privision.
ere given full credit for the semes-!
5r'g work, went to the farms and into!
tpfial scientific or industrial lines,!
future generations shall remember!
j'iat two hundred Nebraska students)
t ent Into training for active service;
J their country's cause at the reserve!
'".i ers' training camp at Fort Snell-1
This is the largest number, u is
; id. to be jsextt from any university
fa the division,
j Influence on Affairs
; The internal effect of the war upon!
4e University was also as important !
tent of the year. The campaign for;
' Konomy, and for unselfish co-opera-
uon. as manifested in the curtailing
of social events, the abandonment of
oWription dances, the limiting of
rority rushing expenses, and liberal
nations to the Red Cross fund. Is
so a sign of the times.
The Reportorial Staff
The bulk of the work of writing up
the events has fallen upon the
tportorial staff under the direction
f the news branch of the editorial;
raff.
special pares and departments have
kn under the control of reportorial,
M editorial staff members, as fol-
Woman's page. Fern Noble.1
Uloriate editor; farm campus page. i
Ralph TV. Thorpe and Carl Jones; ty
tiety. Katharine Newbranch, and
sports. Dwight P. Thomas. Eva Mil
ler has been contributing editor.
The'reportoria! work for the semes
ter has been done by Richard Cook
Lenora Noble, Forrest Est is, Carolyn
Reed, Roy Bedford. M. J. Keegan, Alan
Brundage, H. J. Murfin. Ruth Beecher,
Kdness Kimball, John C. Wright, and
Ruth Snyder.
Richard Cook has been special
writer, covering the military depart
ment "particularly; I.enora Noble has
had the art department, the depart
ment of physical education, and the
alumni office for her run. Forrest Estis
Lhas covered the department of chenv
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HOW WILL DRAFT
HITATHLETIGS
CORNHUSKERS. WONDERING
WHAT FALL WILL FIND
Not so Many Affected as Generally
Thought Move for Compul
sory Athletics
What state will Nebraska athletics
be in when school opens next fall?
This is a question that is repeatedly
arising among those who are most
closely connected with the athletic de
partment. No absolute statement can be made
as no one can tell what effect the draft
will have on Nebraska's athletes. Only
two men have so far been surely lost
in all the branches of athletics. These
are Captain Nelson of the basketball
team and Ellsworth Moser, center on
the football team. These men have
been accepted at Fort Snelling and
will in all probability not be free to
return to school.
No Freshmen Lost
Practically all the members of this
year's football team will be back that
would have been back in normal times.
None have been lost from the fresh
man squad. Practically all these men
have gone to farm 3 out in the state
Basketball and track men as a rulejFrir, ..etiine two weeks ago. has been
are working on farms or are still In
school.
The selective conscription will not
affect the various teams as much as
might be expected. Many of the mem
bers of these teams are under the age
for registering and so will not be af-
fected by the first draft.
There will be no thought at Ne -
braska of discontinuing any of th
sports. Such action would be In direct
opposition to te stand taken by the;
president on the proposition of college j
athletics.
The Kansas coach has made the
proposition that athletics be made com
pulsory. His idea sounds very prac- J
tical at this time when reports are .
coming from the training camps of the
inability of a great many of the men i
to stand the rigorous training to which
they are being put.
Will Lecture at Chicago
Prof. F. D. Barker of the departm
nn.rmr t n at Kaa 1 n I f rl t " Ori O !
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series of lectures on animal parasites
i
this summer
Lofaro iho c-rartnare
school of the college of medicine of
the Uaiversity of Illinois at Chicago.
Wants Assistant The department
of zoology has received a call for two
assistants in the biological laboratory
of the California state board of health
located in the department of zoology
of the University of California. The
incumbent will devote half time to
routine and research work for the state
board and will have half time free for
graduate study. Applicants must have
had thoroigh training in zoology and
special preparation in protozoology
and parasitology. Students who are
qualified and interested should consult
Prof. F. D. Barker at once.
Two hundred and sixty agricultural
students of old Penn. have gone
"back to the farm" to serve their
creor Z f,U ierm work" I
- ti in tit ror pu m '
UNIVERSITY PLANS PARTY FOR
NEBRASKA P.1EN AT FT, SNELLING
Will Give Banquet at Minneapolis Saturday Evening and Send
Big Box of Candy to Arrive at Camp
Sunday Morning.
MONEY TO BE RAISED THURSDAY
Nebraska students and alumni at Fort Snelling. some of whom it
has been predicted those who remain behind will never see again,
are to be remembered by the University before the closing of the
term. A farewell banquet is planned for them at the Hotel Radisson.
Minneapolis, Saturday evening, and the Girls' club and Y. W. C. A.
wili send a big box of candy Friday which will reach the men in
camp Sunday morning.
The banquet will be given the Corn
husker soldiers by the undergraduates
of the University, it is planned. Min
neapolis alumni will have charge of it
at that end. University men are to
be sponsors for the banquet, and they
will have charge of securing the
money. About $300 is needed, which
must be raised by Friday noon, so
that it may be telegraphed to Min-,
neapolis. Tomorrow tables w ill be
placed in University hall and in the
library for receiving contributions and
a list of men to whom money may be
given will be published.
The men at Fort Snelling will in
reality be given a Nebraska party, for
on the morning following the banquet
in Minneapolis, the big box of candy
will arrive in camp. In it will be
enough boxes of home-made candy to
assure that the two hundred soldiers
are all supplied. All student candy-
makers are asked to bring a box full
of their best to the Y. W. C. A. rooms,
Temple. Friday morning, and place it
! REED GOES BACK
TO FT. SNELLING
Symptoms of Heart Trouble Not Found : xorman B. Curtice, '19, Lincoln, will
on Second Examination and He Is leave Sunday for New York city, sail
AcceDted as Recruit I ing from there for France to drive an
Word has been received that Mer -
lri v 14 wh,- returned from
j accepted in the officers' reserve train-
j ing camp. Reed left a position as an
' as?istant in the botany department of
i c0iumbia university to report at the
camp and wa3 toid that he had heart
troub!e and could not be accepted. H
returned to Lincoln and was examined
j b. fiv physicians here who could dis-
)cover no such svmptoms. so he re-,
',,, .,,; the camp and was
V "3 - -
pass,j Saturday afternoon,
Ref.,i was assign! to Company S.
of wbih Verne Austin is a member,
Seniors Observe An
as strict
S'rift t-iannn.". as well
secrecy, marked senior sneak day.
which, it might b- well to say, as
I i , I - . - -
One hundred co-ds chose to enjoy
Welded that a
lne P'cnic. nl '
. . i .a ! r, cntr from an
QOZen uieu uun - r-
economic point of vie
to carry par
cels, row boats, ana u- uauim v -ners.
The matter of economy of distance
was also foueh' won by the con
servatives, and the gradua'es sneaked,
not to Milford. nor to Crete, but to
Capital Beach. "
Once on the scene, however, and
with the economic picnic all outlined,
the one hundred co-eds and fifteen men
let Joy be unrestrained. They rode
the chute-the-hutes. the frris wheel,
and glided in row boats across the
waters of the lake. It Is t be pre
sumed that the brave fifteen did not
take an unimportant part in those pro
ceeding; one might conjecture, and
with good foundation, that they
greased the rollers of the hut?-the-chutes.
adJled the capacity-loaded
barks gallantly around the expanse
rater and accommodated a long
u i v
line of waiting coeds on the dancing
in the big box. It has been suggested
that each box be tied with scarlet and
cream ribbon and that none of them
contains the name of the sender, since
it is to be not an individual, but a
University gift.
In order that there be no confusion,
the co-ed and men's organizations in
charge have asked that the fact be
brought out that the banquet is not
! solely given bythe men, nor the box
of candy by the women. They form to
gether one big gift from the institu
tion and men and women may contrib
ute both to the banquet and to the
caady box.
The plan to give a banquet for Ne
braskans is the result of a general feel
ing among the students, growing
keener as the time came for the scat
tering of w hat is left of the University
j body for the summer vacation, that
J Nebraska should express in some way
j her appreciation of her sons who have
j given up their college careers for the
business of war.
CURTICE WILL LEAVE
FOR FRANCE SUNDAY
I
! ambulance behind the western front.
i Curtice returned from Chicago last
week, where arrangements were made
for him to enter this branch of the
service. He will be attached to the
foreign legion of the French army.
at least until the American expedi-
tionary force arrives,
In college. Curtice has been active
in sophomore class affairs, and was
recently elected president of the Kos-
met Klub. He is the seventh member
of the Klub to enter active service.
He had four years of military training
here and was major of the second bat-j
talion in 1914.
Economic Sneak Day
floor, each one impatient for her turn.
And at lunch-time. Coeds who wt-re
there report a perfectly delightful
time. "We just separated into groups,
you know, and ate box-lunches we
brought with us." Would it be illogical
to presume that at the center of each
of these groups some John Riddell or!
Anton Jensen sat, entertiining the
charmed cirrle which surrounded
him? And after luncheon came a big
ball game. It is rumored, although the
rumor has not yet gained official flavor,
that the fifteen were drafted as um
pires, cheer-leaders, and chasers down
of wild throws, and that the chief
figures in the bleachers were Chan
cellor and Mrs. Avery and Dean Gra
ham. But the best part about this eco
nomic sneak day is yet to be told.
When the picnic was planned, mem
bers of the class went to Chancellor
Avery, who is usually the host at the
agair, and told him that, in view of
the campaign for economy and the
emergencies of the time, the class had
decided to pay the expenses of the holi
day Itseif. Chancellor Avery accepted
the suggestion and he plans to give the
mcney to the French war orphan fund
instead.
LINCOLN HIGH CLASS
OF 1913 WILL HOLD
REUNION TONIGHT
The class of 1913. Lincoln high
school, will hold its annual reunion
this evening at the home of Anna
Luckey, '17, Fortieth and Holdrege
streets. The party will also take the
form of a farewell reception for Su
perintendent F. M. Hunter, '05. Besides
short talks by members of the class
and Superintendent' Hunter, the fol
lowing program has been arranged:
Piano solo Leroy Meisinger, 'IT.
Aesthetic dances Lillian Wirt. 'IT.
Music Harold Morgan, '17.
Reading Leila Putney.
UNIVERSITY AND
ITS PART IN WAR
THREE FACULTY MEN OUTLINE
ITS RELATION TO INSTITUTION
Advocate Completion of College
Course, Help in Food Conservation
and Technical Training
The war and its relation to the Uni
versity was discussed by Dean O. V.
P. Stout, head of the college of engi
neering, Dean E. A. Burnett, of the
agricultural college, and Dean Charles
Fordyce. head of the teachers' college,
at Convocation yesterday morning at
11 o'clock in Memorial hall.
Dean Stout pointed out that the de
mand for technically trained men has
been greatly increased by the war.
Military men need engineering train
ing, he said.
In agriculture, transportation and
distribution as well as in military
work, this training is of great impor
tance. Dean Stout emphasized. The
highway campaign begun by the
United States government just before
war wa3 declared should be carried
out, he said.
College Training Essential
"If our young men leave school be
fore they graduate." he concluded,
"they go into service with less prepa
ration than they need for their work."
Students should attend the Univer
sity while they have the chance. Dean
Burnett urged. "The present war
emergency may be long continud.
If war is to terminate quickly, the
average student can best serve his
country by going into the fields of
production." This was the reason,
he explained, thet the University au
thorities have been so willing to ex
cuse students to go into this line of
work.
The work of the college of agricul
ture has been greatly increased along
supervisory lines especially, by the
war. Dean Burnett said. "We have
been called upon for laborers, for su
pervisors so that the work will be
made as economical as possible. Nat
urally technically trained men are
most efficient, yet one who is just
graduating from any profession is not
qualified to go out and supervise a
large industry."
Thinks Food Situation Better
A great deal can be done along the
line of the conservation of the avail
able food supply and the stoppage of
waste incident to the ordinarymethod
of living, he pointed out. He was con
fident that the food situation would
improve. The potato, spring wheat
and corn acreage is far above normal
this year, he said, due to the scarcity
of food products and the high prices
they command.
That the teaching profession was
not protected by law as were most
vocations was pointed out by Dean
Fordyce. "The farms and shops are
better fortified than the schools. Men
will not be drafted from these, but
;hi strong men of our schools are al!
subject to draft. And we dre not
neglect our schools. England has
made a fatal mistake there."
Women Have Men's Work
Women will be obliged to take the
administrative positions formerly held
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DEAN POUND SPEAKER
AT COMMENCEMENT
DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS WILL
REPLACE GENERAL PERSHING
Wires Acceptance to Chancellor Avery
Yesterday Is Member of
Class of 1888
Dean Roscoe Pound. '8S. head of the
Harvard law school, yesterday wired
Chancellor Avery that he would ac
cept the invitation to deliver the com
mencement address to the class of
1917. taking the place of Maj. Gen.
John J. Pershing, who is unable, be
cause of the exegencies of war. to leave
Washington. Wednesday, June 13, is
commencement day.
Dean Pound, w ho is a brother of Dr.
Louise Pound of the department of
English literature, is one of Nebraska's
most prominent alumni. Graduating
in 1888, he has grown to enjoy, since
that time, an international reputation
in two widely differentiated lines of
learning, law and botany. He was
associate professor and later dean ot
the University college of law, leaving
Nebraska in 1907 to become professor
of law at Northwestern university. He
was head of the University of Chicago
law school in 1910; Storey professor of
law at Harvard in 1911, and head of
the Harvard law school in 1916. He
occupies today probably the most in
fluential academic position of any stu
dent of law in America.
A Popular Dean
While at Nebraska Dean Pound
exerted a germane influence over un
dergraduate activities which still is
felt, a fact that makes his choice as
commencement speaker a happy one.
Dean Pound, although almost phenom
enal in his own powers, was, even as
dean of the law school, a great friend
and favorite with underclassmen; he
was an interested critic of student pub
lications from a student point of view
as well as reviewer of the most in
tricate system of law.
He entered the University of Ne
braska at the age of 12. As a college
boy he devoted most of his time to
rumination among the classics, until
he was discovered by the late Dean
Bessey, who turned his fertile mind
into the field of botany. He received
his masters degree in botany in 1SS9.
Representing his botanical accomplish
ments, "The Phytogeography of Ne
braska," published in 1903. written in
collaboration with F. E. Clements, '94.
is one of Dan Pound's contributions,
one which firmly established him both
in America and abroad as a scientist.
Recognition of his original research
was made by Dr. Otto Kuutze, well
known German scientist, when he
named a lichen he had discovered.
Roscopoundia. The a.socie libre de
1'acadeniie Internationale de geogra
phic bctanique ulso honored this Ne
braskan by membership in its exclu
sive circle.
Stars Work at Law
At nineteen years of ago. Dean
Pound turned from the active study
of botany to preparation for his life
work, the study, practise, and teach
ing of law. He spent but one year
under academic guidance, however,
anl that at the Harvard law school.
With this equipment. Pound came back
to Lincoln, was examined and ad
mitted to the bar, and started the prac
tice of law with his father and the
study of jurisprudence during his
spare time.
He became associate professor of
law in the University at thirty one, in
the year 1&01, the opening of his
career as teacher of law, and immedi
ately turned his attention to the re
organization of the system of teaching
law then In vogue at Nebraska. It
was through him that the present
"case system" of teaching wai intro
duced, and the practice courts, which
are recognized as one of the most
valuable things a senior law gets dur
ing his four years, were set up. Two
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