THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
Olticlal Taper of the
University of Nebraska
WAN G. BEEDE Editor
LEONARD V. KLINE. .. .Mng. Editor
i ERN NOBLE Associate Editor
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When Nebraska meets Michigan
next Saturday afternoon she will be
playing a' game of greater intersec-
tional importance than any she has
undertaken since she last meet the
Wolverines in 1911. The Michigan
contest will not be so decisive in de
ciding Nebraska's national rating as
will the Syracuse game Thanksgiving
day, but there are few who believe
that a team that wins from Michigan
will be defeated by Syracuse. In
other words, the real crisis of the
season comes this week. If Notre
Dame had won from the Cornhusker3
the crisis would naturally have been
passed, but as it is the Wolverines
are the biggest and most-feared obsta
cle in Nebraska's path. Feared though
they are, they will not send any pre
mature cold chills down Cornhusker
backs. Students know that the odds
favor Michigan, but they also know
that victory is far from impossible.
If it were, there would have been a
different policy on the part of the
Nebraska coaches in preparing for
the Michigan game. Nebraska is go
ing on a long and tiring journey to
battle a strange foe on a far-away
field, not just to fight them bravely,
but to fight and to win.
Is Nebraska to have on formal
party after all? It looks that way. At
least the junior class has voted to
hold its annual prom despite the sen
timent against formal parties. The
action of the interfraternity and Pan
Hellenic councils and of the senior
class leaves this formal party the one
bright and shining spot on the social
calendar for the year. The third year
class, at least, will have the pleasure
of dress suits and party gowns. Their
party, if it is given, will have the dis
tinction of being the most expensive
and most talked-of event of the sea
son, and it will allow co-eds who vot
ed to wear last, year's party gowns to
buy new ones for the affair.
The decision of the class, it must
be said in Justice to those present at
the meeting, was taken after a fair
consideration of the question, and the
members undoubtedly thought that
the proposed party would not be out
of place. It seems to have been the
formal aspect of the dance that
formed the irresistible lure which cap
tivated the minds of the juniors and
urged them to cling to an institution
now distinctly frowned upon. At least
the class decided to cut out all the
rest of the extravagant features the
elaborate dinner, the embellishments
and decorations that lend atmosphere
to the old-time prom and to give the
proceeds to war relief.
No particular harm will be done if
the Junior go ahead with their plans
for the prom, but it certainly will not
be in keeping with the policy that
the University has adopted for war
times. It seems really a question of
whether the desire to be economical
Is thoroughly sincere. If it is. why
not eliminate all the extravagant fea
tures out of harmony with the times?
"Why is Christmas so dear to every
heart? Isn't it because of the spirit
of good cheer, of good will, of har
mony, which prevails? Ever since our
ancestors in Old England hauled in
the Yule log to form the center of
jollity every people that observes
the Christmas tradition has looked to
that season as an armistice from the
usual battle of life, a truce during
which men worked together for each
other's sake.
It may not have appealed to you.
but in the old days the strongest link
which bound - Christmas hearts to
gether was the singing of old folk
songs around the evergreen. Man for
got hlB relative station in life, his
prejudices and jealousies and envies,
in the united singing for all humanity.
And so today, wherever it is prac
ticed community singing is still the
great spiritual meeting ground where
unconsciously and informally, per
sonal memories are forgotten in the
hope and enthusiasm for the future of
the whole. That is why there
never a time when you feel better to
ward the world than when you hav
sung whole-heartedly with others such
a song as "The Ties That Bind," and
why, similarly, Nebraskans feel
prouder and happier of their football
team after they have gotten together
to sing "The Scarlet and the Cream
Community 6inging for its own sake
will be tried out at Nebraska for the
first time at Convocation this morn
ing. Songs that were written for no
other . purpose than to bring Corn
huskers closer to one another, an i the
still more worthy songs of our coun
try. will be sung. If students will go
to the sing-fest and enter into the
spirit of the gathering properly, Ne
braska spirit, like the spirit of any
community, will be strengthened and
vitalized.
UNIVERSITY ACTIVE IN
AIDING FRENCH ORPHNS
(Continued from page one)
H. Alice Howell, Mrs. Jessie Beghtol
Lee, Prof. James T. Lees, Dr. D. R. Le
land, Prof. J. E. LeRossignol, Prof.
Marguerite McPhee, Major Samuel M.
Parker, U. S. A., Prof. Laura B. Pfeif
fer, Mr. C. L. Premer, Prof. A. A.
Reed, Prof. C. A. Robblns, Prof. F. W.
Sanford, Dean L. A. Sherman, Prof.
C. W. L. Taylor, Prof. Hutton Web
ster. Mr. Max Westermann, Miss Fran
ces Whaley, Prof. H. H. Wilson.
University societies, clubs and other
organizations that have adopted or
phans are as follow:
Art club. Alpha Chi Omega sorority.
Alpha Phi sorority, Business Woman's
club, Class of 1918, Class of 1920, Delta
Gamma sorority, Dramatic club, Facul
ty Row, Starr street, Interfraternity
council. Romance Languages depart
ment, Sigma Theta Pi, University
Players.
The regular monthly report of Mrs.
Westerman follows:
Previously reported $13,043.30
Additional collections and
pledges 459.76
Total to October 5, 1917. . .$13,503.06
Additional out state adoptions:
Cedar Hill Epworth League, Lin
coln, R. E. Albright, pastor.
Sergeant Nicholas A. Megas, Camp
Cody, Deming, N. M.
Alpha Chi Omega Sorority, Univer
sity of Nebraska.
Margaret Sheldon, Beatrice, Neb.
Mrs. C. P. Fall, Beatrice, Neb.
C. M. Mathewson, Walthill. Neb.
L. A. Spencer, Sabetha, Kans.
William C. Mach, Bruno, Neb.
Fred R. Hanley, Lincoln.
Mrs. O. O. Hager, Lincoln.
Total adoptions to date, 240.
THE COLLEGE WORLD
Grinnell The college enrollment
this year totals the largest in Grin
nell's history. And, unlike the ma
jority of co-educational schools, the
proportion of men Is slightly larger
than formerly.
Kansas The Varsity basketball call
has been issued. The squad is as yet
small, but will be augmented by a
number of men now playing football,
when the gridiron season is over.
Oklahoma "Beat Illinois" rang in
the ears of the departing Sooner
eleven yesterday when they embarked
for the north. The development of a
baffling open-field offense, combined
with the line-bucking of the heavy full
back, is the mainstay of the Oklahoma
hopes.
Ohio "Every instructor and em
ployee of the Ohio State University
owns a Liberty Bond" that's what
the committee in charge of Liberty
Bond sales at the Buckeye institution
hope to say by October 27. It is the
aim of the committee to make Ohio
State stand ahead of all the universi
ties in the country in helping to dis
pose of the bonds.
Columbia Prof. J. McKeen Cattell,
head of the department of psychology;
and Prof. Richard H. Dana of the de
partment of English in Columbia Uni
versity were dismissed last week be
cause of their radical and un-American
views on the war situation. Prof.
Cattell is editor of "School and So
ciety," a well-known educational mag
azine, and of "Scieifce," a periodical
devoted to scientific subjects. Prof.
Dana is the grandson of Henry Wads
worth Longfellow and is noted for his
literary criticisms.
Iowa Lorado Taft. Illiruis '79, de
livered a talk on the Processes of
Sculpture" Wednesday evening which
met with great approval. The repro
duction of an artist'B studio in which
the sculptor and his assistants were
seen actually modeling proved of great
interest. Mr. Taft worked in clay,
plaster, marble and bronze, building
up a bust from life, sculpturing a
mask which showed the changes from
youth to old age, and chopping out
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