Daily Nebraskan
TVOLXVII, NO. 43.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA. LINCOLN, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9. 1917.
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UNIVERSITY MAKES PLANS FOR ROYAL
RECEPTION OF ANNUAL HOME-COMERS
Full Program Prepared for
Friday and Saturday
ANNUAL CLASS CONTEST
University Players Will Present "The
Piper" at the Temple This Evening
for French Orphan Benefit
All is in readiness to welcome old
"grads" and alumni in Nebraska's
annual Home-coming tomorrow. The
University will again open its doors
th Rfmlents of former years. A
full program has been prepared for
the entertainment or tne visitors uuui
the time of their arrival this after
noon until their departure.
Tonight the University Players will
present "The Piper," at the Temple
theatre. "The riper is a dramatiza
tion of Robert Browning s poem, i ne
Pied Piper of Hamlin," a quaint story
of German peasant life. The cast has
put forth every effort to give a fin
ished production, and Prof. Alice
Howell, who plays the Piper has in
terpreted the character in a most
fascinating way. Carolyn Kimball
takes the part of Veronica, the mother
of the little lame boy, very adeptly.
Myrtis Downing, the leader of the
Hamlin children, and Wentworth
piinr. as Juan, have important parts
which they interpret very artistically.
Olympics Tomorrow Forenoon
Saturday forenoon the annual clash
between the sophomores and the
Ireshmen will take place at the M
street ball park. Both classes nave
been preparing for some time to as
sure themselves of a clean victory
over their opponents in the Olympic
FRESHMEN AND SOPHOMORES
TO MEET IN ANNUAL SCRAP
Stage Set for Olympic Contests
at M Street Park
BOTH CLASSES CONFIDENT
Enthusiasm Shown and Excellent Ma
terial Uncovered Promises One
of Hardest Fought Battles
Final preparations for the freshman
sophomore Olympics have been made
and the best men from each class will
take the field tomorrow morning at
M street ball park at 9.30 o'clock. The
interest that has so far been shown
indicates that one of the largest
crowds on record will watch the an
nual rlass scrap. The committee
wishes to announce for the benefit of
freshmen students that no admission
will be charged.
With but twenty-four hours left be
fore the fray, quite reigns in both
camps. The final try-outs for all
events have been held, and all the
contestants selected. In some in
stances, however, the representative
18 not named, and there are humors
that at least one dark horse will ap
pear before the day is over. So far,
o hostilities have been Btarted, and
ILL8 believed that the Olympics of
' ar to be entirely free from the
undesirable "kid" stuff that has char
acterized such contests held in the
Past.
Yesterday afternoon the sophomore
relay try-outs uncovered some un
usually good material, and a well bal
anced and fast team was selected.
7 members of the team and the
order n whlch they wlu cafty the
ton will probably be as follows:
cMahon E1ierbrock( Kret2ler and
"a" An authentic list of freshman
lay men could not be obtained.
Pushball to Arrive Today
m-l 7 "0'ucu in cnarge or. me
'?8 announce that practically
tie l 8 13 ln readless for the bat
mi v pushball had not arrived last
: lTttl be here today.
tUINRfia hnMA ...... - .
h 01 PeP- The freshmen
nufa8pe(i the real "Pt in an ad-Hhe
ur6'e mannpr onA v i -
amount of pep. The freshmen
irrannwi v . .
rwe manner and the sophomores,
suung against
ermined to humble the first year
contests. Special talent has been dis-
played in the try-outs for the places
on either side, and it is well within
tYia po n ore nf rfar int Im Un ., . t 1
exhibitions will take place on the mat
1 1L. ill i . I
in uib wrestling, noxing ana other
bouts. Possibly the most amusing
feature of the day for the Home-comers
will be the pole-rush. The
Olympics is one of Nebraska's oldest
traditions and alumni are always
stirred by recollections of their early
days in the University, when they see
the first and second year men deco
rated in the fiercest war arrays and
linned up for battle with their class
rivals.
The Cornhuskers will take the field
against the Tigers for the first Valley
game of the season in the afternoon.
The team is Nebraska's greatest pride,
and the former "grads" look forward
to the Home-coming game with inter
est peculiar only to those who have
once experienced the associations
about the campus of their Alma Mater.
After the game the old fraternity
and sorority members will be the
guests at their respective chapter
houses. Others will be entertained
during the dinner hour at various
places about the city.
Parties and Banquets
In the evening several parties, ban
quets and dances will be held at the
hotels and different fraternity houses.
This will complete the reception pro
gram for the visitors.
The alumni office will be turned
over to the former students of the
University during the time of their
stay. The visitors' book will be open
for all members to register and will
aid them to locate fellow graduates
and friends who have returned for
the anniversary.
It is by no means a fore-gone con
clusion this year that the freshmen
will win. The sophomores have some
real material and promise that the
first year men will have the fight of
their lives if they do emerge victori
ous. Both sides are claiming the vic
tory as already theirs, but it is a sig
nificant fact that the leaders are
bending every energy towards turn
ing out their teams, and are concerned
over the slightest details. The gen
eral opinion is that the Olympics this
year will be one of the hardest fought
and most interesting in years. The
contestants themselves are resting to
day in order to be in the best condi
tion possible.
Schedule of Events
The events, the points each will
count, and the order in which they
will be staged follow:
Four-man relay, 440 yards Ten
Wrestling matches, three classes, j
To a fall not exceeding ten minutes
Five points each.
And You Havn't Heard the Last
of the Rhetoric Department's Jug
You may scrub, you may batter that
Jug if you will,
But the scent of hard cider hangs
round it still.
The English club jug has been
found, its keepers have been changed
however.
The following statement has been
'issued by the club:
"The Jug belonging to me ubu
club has been maliciously slandered.
It has not been pawned but is safe
on its shelf in the department of
rhetoric, though It is minus its jaunty
red bow. According to Constance
Rummons, president of the club. It
played a prominent part at the last
meeting of the club at Katharine Ap
person'a last Friday evening.
"You see, we had five Jugs," a prom
inent member of the club explained
wearily when interviewed. You
know that meeting we had up in U
hall last year," (of course the re
porter did) "and we served cider.
i, low h cider and Madeline
Craft, then the president, furnished
Craft, then tne presiucut, -
doughnuts. We had not told very
i- rchat wo were going to
many people what we were going to
serve so not many came.
four small Jugs besides the old his
toric one we use only for ceremonies.
Tug of war, fifteen men to a team
Fifteen points.
Boxing bouts, three classes. Three
one minute bouts Five points each.
Pushball contest Twenty points.
Pole rush Twenty points.
Ralph Sturm is chairman of tha
general committee in rlinriro nt ih
meet- The ne,(' Judges are: wrestling
and boxing, Ed. Shaw, Ted Riddell and
n"KO Otoupalik; relay, Merle Town-
tnr np U'A... m i .
pushball, Dwight Thomas; pole rush',
w .
ivan ueeue.
OHIO STATE CO-EDS FIND
AMUSEMENT IN KNITTING
Y. W. ('. A. knitting parties are the
latest form of amusement at the Ohio
state university. All coeds are in
vited to come and bring their needles
and yarn, and spend the afternoon
working Cor Uncle Sam. Those who
did not know how to knit wore given
free instruction.
IOWA STATE ENCOURAGES
KNITTING IN CLASS ROOMS
Knitting in the class rooms is be
ing encouraged at the Iowa state uni
versity. The instructors feel that
since it is an almost automatic proc
ess the girls can kill two birds with
one stone. They are following the
example of many of the western
schools where class room knitting is
a common sight.
AWGWAN TO GIVE
FREE TRIP TO KANSAS
Co-Eds to Compete in Sub
scription Campagin Next
Week for Lawrence Ticket
The Awgwan, the University hu
morous publication has offered a free
trip to Kansas for the Kansas-Nebraska
game to the co-ed taking the
largest number of subscriptions for
the magazine during the campaign the
first four days of next week. Every
girl who is canvassing will also be
given a year's subscription free of
charge.
The Awgwan is one of the livest
college publications in the United
States and practically every other
humorous magazine including Judge
and Life clip from its columns week
ly. It contains humorous descriptions
of every phase of campus life, take
offs on well known students and
faculty and a complete joke section.
Awgwan cartoons are a feature in
themselves.
The eight remaining issues of the
Awgwan may be obtained for 75 cents
if the subscriptions are given in next
week. Single copies of back issues or
for single copies as they are pub
lished are sold for 15 cents each.
The big 32-page Home-coming is
sue will be out tomorrow and will be
sold at the game and on the campus.
It will be one of the most complete
numbers of the year and contains spe
cial cartoons, jokes and feature stories
on an topics oi uiuc.0.y
University interest.
We poured the cider from the small
Jugs into the big jug, men nuu
glasses." There was quite a lot left,
he added reminiscently.
"Searle Davis kept the Jugs under
his desk, though," he added quickly,
noting the suspicious glance of the
reporter. "I didn't even taste it again.
I caught a friend of his who used to
be registrar drinking the cider one
day So we wouldn't let him keep it
any longer. And that was why we
had to sell all except the big jug
that was empty anyhow."
"Did it always have 'that jaunty
red bow?' " the reporter was curious.
"No, that ribbon belonged to Made
fine Craft. She used to wear it around
her hear. It is gone now, but we
can easily find it. Just by its color
of course." in irritation. "All we have
to do is to watch everyone who wears
a red ribbon or tie."
"What was the ribbon for? Oh, it
was all a Joke. When Nebraska went
dry we put some water in the Jug and
wanted to see if the color would be
transmitted. And now. yes. Dr.
Pound has it. She's a member of the
Woman's Military Party, and has
some things in ber desk to take care
of it with."
HUSKERS TO MEET MISSOURI TIGERS
IN FIRST VALLEY GAME OF SEASON
Team in Stiff Scrimmage as
Final Workout
INJURIES CRIPPLE LINE
Wilder Only Veteran of First Defense,
Dobson, Cook, Schellenberg and
McMahon Probable Backfield Men
Working with artificial light and
using a ghost ball, the varsity finished
its hard work in preparing for the
Missourians last night. In spite of
the risk of more injuries, coach
Stewart sent his men against the
scrubs in a hard workout until long
after dark.
Shaw, Kositzky, Riddell and Hubka
were absent from the scrimmage,
while Rhodes was only in for a short
time. Dobson took part in most or.
the fray and got through in good
enough shape to assure his playing
in Saturday's game. Otoupalik was
in his first scrimmage for three weeks,
but had to favor his injured leg.
When the varsity lopes on the field
Saturday afternoon it will probably
have the most speed and the least
experience in the lineup of any Corn
husker team in history. In the line
there will be one man that has been
on the team prior to this year, while
in the backfield there will be two.
Wilder at right guard will be the only
veteran in the line. In the back
field Dobson and Cook will probably
start the game, although Coach
Stewart would not name definitely the
men who would be in the lineup at
the beginning.
Kellogg and Anthes
At the ends, the coach is planning
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
GIVES $20,000 FOR Y. M. C. A.
A benefit vaudeville performance
will be given at the University of
Illinois by the men's dramatic organ
ization and all profits will go toward
the $20,000 which the university has
pledged as its quota of the $35,000,
000 Y. M. C. A. fund. AH men are
aligible and try-outs will be conducted
by a committee in charge.
N. H. Williams Speaks
Before Marketing Class
About fifty-five students in the
school of commerce attende dthe very
interesting talk given yesterday morn
ing by Mr. N. H. Williams, sales man
ager of the Cushman Motor Works,
before Mr. Cole's class in Marketing.
Mr. Williams discussed the every day
problems that the manufacturer must
solve in the marketing of his goods.
FRESH MAN SCHOLARSHIP
LOW AT UNI. OF ILLINOIS
The low scholarship which is pre
valent among the fraternity freshmen
of the University of Illinois is due
says Dean T. A. Clark to the lack of
upperclassmen to supervise them. The
scholarship of all other students is
practically the same as it was this
time last year. It may also be due
partly to the fact that the standard
has been raised. Previously if a stu
dent passed less than nine hours he
was put on probation. The number
has now been raised to eleven.
To Give Dance Profits
To Y. M. C. A. War Fund
The junior law class has decided
to turn over all proceeds of their
dance to the Y. M. C. A. students'
war work fund. The dance is to be
given Saturday, December 8, at the
Rosewilde. Tickets are $1.25 and
May be purchased from any Junior
law student. The dance is in charge
of H. R. Anderson and Wallie Spear.
Ruth Shafer Heads Freshmen
Girls' Honorary Society
Ruth Shafer was elected president of
Mystic Fish, freshmen girls' honorary
society, at a meeting yesterday. Other
officers elected for this year were
Helen Boylan, vice president; Doris
HoBtetter, secretary-treasurer, and
Ruth Begley, reporter.
to use Kellogg and Anthes, two new
men, who have all the requisites for
good end men but experience. The
coach expressed some fear that as
these two men are inexperienced they
may have trouble in stopping Vlner
the Tiger safety man who has already
attained a reputation as an open field
runner. At the tackles will be Hubka
and Munn or DuTeau, all new men
this year. The coach is not fearing
the Missourians in these positions as
much as in some others as all these
men have had more or less valuable
experience in the early games of the
season. At guards will be Wilder and
L. Shaw, Young, Munn or DuTeau, all
of whom have played that position in
practice bouts during the season. Bill
Day will hold down his regular job at
center. Whether or not the few old
heads on the team can make up for
the lack of experience of the young
sters is a problem that can only be
solved when the game is played.
Missouri Claims Hard Luck
Missouri claims all kinds of hard
luck and declares that nothing better
than a substitute can be used against
the Cornhuskers. Coach Stewart,
however, is not deceived by the tales
of woe from the Show-me state and
prime his men for this game as much
as for any other game on the sched
ule. The Tigers are reputed to have
a fast and fairly heavy backfield that
has not been intact in any of the
games so far this seson. It is though,
however, tht in spite of many bear
stories from Columbia that the Mis
souri backfield will be composed of
four veteran speedsters in Saturday's
game.
Schellenberg and McMahon, the
Cornhusker pair who have been man
(Continued on page two)
FINAL DRIVE TODAY IN
RED TRIANGLE CAMPAIGN
One Hundred Eighty-One
Pledges Average $15.24
FIRST TEAM HEADS LIST
Student Canvassers to Make Final
Effort Today to Place Nebraska
in Rank of Other Schools
The first day of the students Red
Triangle campaign ended with one
hundred and eighty pledges, which
amounted to $2743. This amount
shows an average of $15.24 per
pledge. There remains $12,257 to be
raised, in order for Nebraska to meet
her apportionment.
The entire student body has been
indexed and alloted to the captains
and their teams, so that everyone
will be reached, and a definite report
turned in. As it was pointed out to
the students at the meeting Wednes
day night it is the duty of each man
and woman on the campus to con
tribute to this patriotic fund to help
Nebraska do her part in relieving the
war prisoners in the camps. The
executive committee is putting forth,
every possible effort to raise the
promised quota, and heads the list so
(Continued on page three)
LEAVES OF ABSENCE
FOR CORN HUSKING
All students of the Univer
sity who can render a service to
the country and to the farmers
of the state by helping gather
the corn crop are urgently re
quested to secure a leave of ab
sence for this purpose. On
your return to the University
special coaches will be assigned
to you without cost and every
opportunity afforded for making
up back work. This Is a pa
triotic duty at a time when
there should be no selfishness
on the part of any of our people.
Consult Dean Engberg in re
gard to details. Do not drop
your studies until you know
exactly where you are to be
employed. Dean Engberg will
assist you in securing employ
ment. S. AVERY.