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VOL. XVI. NO. 161.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 1917.
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ALUMNI REUNIONS
JUNEJJ AND 12
SEVENTEEN CLASSES WILL HOLD
CELEBRATIONS IN LINCOLN
Second Day Is General Alumni Day
Contest for Stunt Trophy
in Afternoon
June 11 and 12 of commencement
week will be given over to alumni
and former students. Seventeen
classes so far have made plans for re
unions and celebrations on Monday as
listed below. Tuesday will be the
general alumni day and the program
is patterned after last year's which
was considered one of the most suc
cessful gatherings held.
Monday at 10:30 o'clock the alumni
council will meet at the alumni head
quarters. Each class up to and in
cluding the class of 1S95 Is entitled to
one delegate; each succeeding class
to two delegates. The alumni council
passes on all business that is to come
before the alumni general business
meeting the following day.
Tuesday, June 12, alumni day. all
alumni and their friends will gather
at alumni headquarters on the city
campus. At 11 o'clock they will start
by automobile for a tour of both the
campuses and will reach the Univer
sity farm in time for luncheon at 12:30
o'clock, served in the Pavillion by the
cafeteria of the home economics de
partment Alumni who are planning
to attend are asked to notify the sec
retary as soon as possible.
The general alumni association
meeting will be held at 1:30. At 2
o'clock Dr. Franics S. Philbrlck will
deliver the alumni oration. At 3
o'clock the alumni classes will con
test for the alumni stunt trophy. Verne
Hedge, '03, is chairman of the stunt
committee. The class of 1906, cele
brating their tenth anniversary last
year, put on the winning stunt. "A
Parade of the Second Generation."
They are the first class to have their
name inscribed on the bronze trophy
which bangs permanently in the
alumni office. The evening perform
ance of the pageant will close the
festivities of the day.
On Monday the individual classes
will celebrate as follows:
1887 Will celebrate their thirtieth
anniversary.
1892 Will celebrate their twenty
fifth anniversary. They will be en
tertained at the home of Miss Mary
Hullhorst, 2941 Q street, where they
will meet at 12:30.
1897 Will celebrate their twentieth
anniversary with a banquet at the
Lincoln hotel at 6:30 p. m. Robert
Manley will act as toastmaster.
1898 Will meet at the home of their
president. Miss Lucy Green, at 4:30,
for a family picnic.
1899 Definite arrangements have
not yet been made, but the class is
planning on a reunion.
1900 Will meet at the Commercial
club at 12:30.
1902 Will be entertained by Mr.
and Mrs. H. W. Caldwell and Mr. and
Mrs. A. E. Sheldon, at the home of
Professor Caldwell at 11 a. m.
1905 Will meet for luncheon at the
Lincoln hotel at 12:30 p. m.
1907 Will celebrate their tenth an
niversary with Mrs. Ruth Raymond
Gavin at 1642 R street, at 6:30 p. m.
1908 Will meet at the Commercial
club for luncheon at 1 p. m.
1909 Will meet at the Commercial
club for luncheon at 12:30 p. m.
1910 Definite arrangements not yet
made.
1912 Will celebrate their fifth an
Persons Wishing to Sell 1917 Cornhusker May Leave Same
niversary with a luncheon at the Com
mercial club at 1 p. m.
1913 Will meet at the Commercial
club for luncheon at 12.
1914 Will celebrate with a picnic at
the University farm at 12:30 p. m.
1915 Will meet at the Commercial
club.
1916 Will meet at the Commercial
club.
83 ATHLETES ARE
IN WAR SERVICE
a
FARM AND MOSQUITO FLEET
CALL THE LARGEST NUMBER
The article appearing in yesterday's
-Daily Nebraskan and headed "How
Will Draft Hit Athletics," and stating
that only two men had been lost in all
branches of athletics was misleading
as to the number of athletes who have
actually left school. The two men
named, Nelson and Moser, are the only
two letter men who have been surely
lost that would not have been lost in
normal times by graduation or eligibil
ity rules.
Eighty-three athletes have left
school to enter some sort of work to j
help in the war. Training camps, j
farms, navy, coast artillery, aviation j
corps, mosquito fleet and national i
guard have all received some of these
men.
This statement from Dr. Stewart fol
lowed by the list of men lost makes
the athletic situation at Nebraska
quite clear:
"Nebraska has contributed eighty
three (83) athletes from the 1916-17
varsity teams to the war cause, ac
cording to the list of withdrawals sent
out from the registrar's office May 28.
"It is possible that not over half of
these have been accepted for military
service, and that many may be at
nresent employed on farms, survey
equads, food inspection squads, etc.,
but it is a fact that the names of at
least eighty-three of Nebraska's ath
letic field heroes are at present en
rolled on the list of those excused from
the University for government aid. j
"Sixty-seven of these athletes applied, J
thrmieh CaDtain Parker, and other ;
military officials, for commissions in :
the officers' reserve corps, now in
training at Fort Snelling, Minn., and i
many of these are at present at Fort ;
Snelling, preparing for the battlefields
of Europe. Some are on the waiting
list and undoubtedly will get into the
second camp at the conclusion of the
present camp. i
"This does not mean, of course, that
prospects for football, basket ball, ;
baseball and track for next year are (
demoralized completely, but it does
mean that Nebraska has been hit as
hard or harder than many of the ',
schools with which she will compete
and It puts up to the coaching sUff ,
the problem of developing players to
fill the many vacant shoes. !
"Probably half of those on the above
list will return and this will give the
coaches a nucleus around which to
build the teams which will play the
annual schedules. It may alBO be
said that, comparltlvely. Nebraska's J
team should rank well with the teams
of this section in spite of the many
withdrawals.
"The situation at Nebraska simply;
means that every able bodied man in
Bchool next fall should offer himself
on the athletic field, not only to main
tain the standard of Nebraska's past
athletic teams, but the better to pre
pare himself physically for the part
which he will probably be called upon
to play in the great war which Is be
fore us.
"Each duty will be conscientiously
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SUFFRAGIST'S WORK
IN WARJISCOSSED
MRS. BARKLEY AND MISS GARTEN
TALK TO SUFFRAGE CLUB
What suffragists can do in time of
war was discussed by Mrs. W. E.
Barkley, state suffrage president, and
Miss Blanche Gaiten, of Lincoln, at
the meeting of the University Equal
Suffrage club yesterday evening in U
106. Prof. Alice Howell, head of the
department of dramatics, introduced
the speakers.
Mrs. Barkley pointed out that Amer
ica was fighting a war for democracy.
a fundamental principle of suffrage.
A democratic world means that all
women are enfranchised, she said. She
urged suffragists to help in the con
servation of food, in the work of the
Red Cross, and in the various other
ways women can be of service to the
country.
She explained that in order to vote
next fall, the women of Nebraska
must register as citizens before the
election. "We have no party except
the women's party," she said, "and it
is a party which stands for clean meas
ures upheld by clean men."
"The least you can do is to raise
money," Mrs. Barkley said. "That is
one of the easiest things to do in the
world. It is child's play. Unless wom
en register for service for every day
until the war is done they will have
accomplished nothing."
She urged members of the club to
organize in their home communities
and to whatever work the community
needed the most. She., prophesized
that a greater comradeship among
women would come out of the war.
Miss Garten suggested that Univer
sity women get the help of alumnae
in the home communities. "Make
them realize that the college women of
the state are interested in suffrage and
they will help." she said.
.Tegner Election. The Teener so
ciety held its last regular meeting Sat
urday evening in Faculty hall. The
following officers were elected for the
fall semester: President. Helen Sohl
berg; vice-president. C. R. Carlson;
treasurer; Oscar Nelson; secretary.
Ida Berquest; correspondence sec
tarv, Tekla Alexis.
Chancellor Avery Endordes
The Fort Snelling Banquet
One of the first subscriber, yesterday to the fund for the ban
quet to be fliven Cornhu.ker so.dier. at Fort Sne.ling wa. Chancellor
Avery- He said: "You can quote me a. saying .f. a m.ghty fine
"'"'student and faculty subscriber, yesterday expressed the follow-
II be the one chance student, wil. have to do .omething to
keep the .pirit of Nebra.ka Univer.ity clo.e to the heart, of the
country'. "d wl" Th'"
Iw.yrom the bu.ine.. of learning how to jab a man w.th a
br'onet. Some of the men who have done much for Nebra.ka are a
Fort Sne.l.ng. and everyone who i. proud of their J,r
alma mater here have a chance to .how the.r apprecat.on both of
tZ service and of the greater .ervice they are now diligently prepar
ina to render their country.
Tab.e. wil. be placed in Un.ver.ity hall and the L.brary today
where .ubscription. to the fund may be left. The c.mpa.gn ha.
Teen arranged in .hort order, and .tudent. who are not PP'"d
by one of the men authorized to collect the money may leave the.n
"bit" at the Y. M. C. A. de.k in the Temple or at The Da.ly
Nebra.ka n office. ...
Several organization, contributed to the fund ye.terday .n add,-
tion to individual .ubcription.. Faculty member, and alumn, were
also prominent among the giver
CHANCELLOR CALLS
FOR LOYAL NATION
GIVES ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT
ADDRESS AT BROOKINGS, S. D.
Says United Support of People and not
Criticism Needed to
Win War
Brookings. S. D., May 30. The pres
ent war will be won largely by the
loyalty and self sacrifice of the people.
asserted Dr. Samuel Avery, chancellor
of the University of Nebraska in his
commencement address before state
college Tuesday. Dr. Avery described
the tendency of some people to be
impatient with the mistakes of the
government, with their inconveniences
and provations all of which are
bound to occur.
We, the average people, cannot help
win this war, he said, "by criticising
the president, or opposing the kind of
taxes, or insisting upon our accus
tomed pleasures, or opposing the draft
or saying we will send no men to
France. Neither will the war be won
by talking about the blessings of
peace, which we all admit and are
willing to fight for. Nor will the war
be won by talking about the folly of
war. The war will be won by the
utmost devotion to the ideals of the
country, by supporting the national
government, and by enthusiastically
devoting to the services of the coun
try all that is dearest to us. Only by
such devotion can the world be made,
to use President Wilson's words: 'A
safe place for democracy.'"
Not a Flabby People
Chancellor Avery denied the Ger
j man assertion that we are a flabby
people. "Of our hundred million peo
ple," he said, "the proportion of strong
imen to the whole population is prob
ably greater than in any other nation
With the enormous wealth of the na
tion there has not come to any very
great extent the softness and idleness
such as has at times characterized
other nations. Never, in the history
of the world, has there been in a single
nation such a combination of wealth
and virility. In factories, in commerce,
in agriculture, in money, in education,
and in men, America enjoys the su
preme position of any of the nations
of the world.
"Finally when the struggle is over,
triumph as we believe for the cause
we think to be right, there should be
no revenge in the si it of our na
tion when we sit with the allies at
the peace conference. I sincerely hope
that after the close of the war we may
be the best friend to Germany, a Ger
many purged forever from the spirit
of Bismarck, the spirit of Blut and
Eisen."
CAMP TRAINING
EFFICIENT
HOLCOMBE TELLS OF Y. M. C. A.
WORK AT FORT SNELLING
Training is going rapidly forward in
the Fort Snelling camp, the cadets are
doing as much there in two weeks as
some of the men do in the drill here
in a year, according to Steele Hol-
combe, '18, who returned this week
from Minnesota after nearly two
weeks' work in the caup as state war
work secretary from Nebraska. The
men are kept busy all of the time, he
says, but the schedule is so arranged
that they do not get tired of the work.
The V. M. C. A. in the camp is fully
organized at present and is trying to
help the men in any way possible. The
work in the camp is in charge of six
secretaries appointed by the interna
tional Y. M. C. A. committee. There
is a general secretary at the head and
then a local secretary under him. Un
der the local secretary is a religious
secretary, a recreation secretary, a
business secretary and a program sec
retary. Holcombe is working at the different
colleges over the state this week mak
ing the final arrangements for their
delegations to the Estes park confer
ence. The Nebraska delegation will
leave Thursday, June 7, and will ar
rive at the park Friday.
PROFESSOR BENTLEY
WILL GIVE 3 COURSES
IN SUMMER SESSION
Prof. It C. Bentley. A.B. '94, A. M.
'96. of Leland Stanford university will
give three courses during me sum
mer session at Nebraska.
For two years after graduation Pro
fessor Bentley was chief laboratory
assistant and instructor in philosophy.
He has had much experience as high
school principal in Nebraska and Cali
fornia. He attended Columbia uni
versity for one year. Clark university
one year, and then became dean of
Clark college at Worcester. Mass. Pro
fessor Bentley has been professor of
secondary education at Stanford for
the past six years.
EXTENSION DEPARTMENT
WILL TEACH NEBRASKA
WOMEN CANNING METHODS
A large number of Nebraska wom
en and girls will be taught canning
this summer in special canning schools
to be conducted by the agricultural
eitension service of the University in
all parts of the state. Twenty-seven
towns have already completed plans to
hold canning schools.
Attendance at these schools will be
limited to men and women who pledge
themselves to teach others how to
can. They will probably be used In
teaching groups of women or girls in
their own localities. Garden super
visors and representative, of women',
clubs, aid societies, and other organiza
tions will be permitted to attend.
Addreea on Draft Day
Prof. Sarka Hrbkova will give a pa
triot "c address at Weston June 5. regi
stration day.
at Student Activities Office.
SENIORS ADOPT
A CONSTITUTION
PERMANENT ARTICLES FOR ALL
GRADUATING CLASSES
Record Book Containing Minute, of
Present Class Will Be Left for
Succeeding One.
A permanent constitution and rec
ord book, affording outline for the or
ganization of all senior classes of the
future, was adopted at the last busi
ness meeting of the class of 1917 yes
terday morning in Law 101. In the
record book will be placed the minutes
of this year's senior class, and it will
be left for the present junior class.
The committee appointed by Presi
dent Kauffman to draw up the consti
tution adopted yesterday was headed
by Melba Quigley. Cecil Baldwin,
Mabeth Beach, Elizabeth Osgood, and
Martha Winter were the other mem
bers. Surplus to Red Cross
All of the money left in the class
treasury after its affairs are wound
up will go to the Red Cross fund, the
members decided.
The last meeting of the class of
1917 as an undergraduate body will be
held either Monday or Tuesday of next
week for the election of alumni of
ficers. Members of the class have been
asked to leave their addresses at the
alumni office before their departure
for home.
Following is the permanent consti
tution of University of Nebraska
senior classes:
' SENIOR CLASS CONSTITUTION
' Article I Organization
Section 1. The president shall call
a meeting of the class the first Tues
day after election in each semester of
each year.
Article II Officer.
Section 1. Election The following
officers shall be elected by ballot at
the first meeting in each semester:
vice-president, secretary, treasurer
and an executive board (two n
bers).
Sec.2. tties It shall be the duty
of the vice-president to preside in the
absence of the president.
The duties of the secretary shall be
the customary duties of that officer.
It shall be the duty of the treasurer
to account for all funds of the class
even though the same are handled by
the chairmen of special committees.
He shall deposit all funds In the stu
dent activities office and make a fi
nancial report at each regular meeting
of the class.
The executive board shall consist
of the two members, elected by the
class, and the president. It shall be
their duty to appoint all class com
mittees and act on all matters semir
ing Immediate action. Sucn action
must be reported and approved at the
next regular meeting of the class.
Article 111. Meeting
Section 1. Time There shall be
one regular meeting each month at
the time and place designated by the
executive board.
Special meetings shall be called by
the executive board or by the written
request of at least twenty-five mem
ber, of the class.
Notice of all meetings, regular and
special, must be posted on the Univer
sity bulletin board and published in
The Daily Nebraskan for at least three
days prior to the meeting.
Sec. 2. Quorum Thirty member.?
of the class shall constitute a quorum.
Sec. 3. Conduct of Business All
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