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The Daily Nebraskan
VOL XVII. NO. 133.
UNIVERSITY OK NEBRASKA. LINCOLN. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24. 1918.
PRICE FIVEXENTS
iff HUD
ilSKERGIP
t0 Mitch Teams in Annual
Dual Meet Saturday
EDGE AT DRAKE
HAD
..Med Nebraska Relay Teamt at
Event-Local Men Hava
Fait Half Mile Team
Ooranosker track warn will mm
vrclone" cinder artist from
& Saturday, April S7. in Jhir an
a! ooal meet on Nebraska, field.
op points to a victory tor the
La ot their rcoent iuc"
m the Prake relay and the fine
Aoirtng they made two ago
mlnrt Missouri. Nevertheless Ne-
JUa i lut,ir forth vcry unc
j effort, that she possesses toward
tinning? and it is hound to be a nip
a tuck battle from the state. There
son thing however, that is abscr.te
Iripcessary to the welfare ot the
teunl success, and that Is the loyal
mpport of the student body.
Pick of Missouri Valley
With the meet, hut three days away,
Coaet Stewart is bending all bis ef
forts toward whipping bis men In
Ape and selecting those who will
five Ames the hardest fight". This
year's dual bids fair to have some
f the keenest competition ever seen
it a dual meet, as both Ames and
Nebraska have the class ot the Mia
wuri Galley in many events. The
M, mile an dtwo-mile runs ought
to bring forth some thrilling finishes.
Cm!, winner of the two-mile in last
yew's conference meet, will be
Batched against Hawthorne, the cham
pion cross country runner. Kromer
ana Stone seem to have the edge over
the Cornhusker halt milers, since
Kromer stepped the halt at the Mis
souri meet in 2:02, which Is taster
thanGrau has been able to negotiate
the two-mile event.
Odds for Nebraska in Dashes
Although the competition will be
keen in the short dashes and hurdles.
Coach Stewart is optimistic as to the
outcome of these events. The sprints
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OIL PORTRAIT
OF LATE DEAN DAVIS
"Work of Prof. Blanche Grant
How on Exhibition in Art
Gallery
The oil portrait of the late Dean
Ellery Davis of the arts .and science
allege, which was painted by Prof.
Blanche Grant, is on exhibition on the
north wall of the art gallery.
Besides the portrait being a remark
able likeness, the painting of it was
Wite an unusual achievement, since
ft wan done after the death of Doan
"avis and from the combination of
too photographs (one taken ten years
Ko) and Prof. Grant's memory. The
wlor photograph shows Dean Davis
eatod at a table, his arms resting on
a bookcaffe showing behind him.
d in the attitude of thinking deep
y about something and yet being in
dented in the person bis eyes are
ed on. Prof. Grant used this" pose,
Jwed slightly, and changing the
"Sure to show Lis increased age.
WST MEN'S MEETING OF
TEW Tft re man cireniv
w UUUU WUKLlli
j frestyterian Student Guild
. Wl Discontinue for He
i ttaindcr of Year
i K
I th i Scnduy morning will be held
1 J ,Itt8t meeting for the year of the
j Ri,hB fllviKin of the University
Guild of the Tlrst rresby-
J" urch. Dr. Doan L. Leland.
: C 1)0011 loaflinB tbe class, win
e Monday for Gettysburg, ra
nwt? he "'in the summer
ng with tte men Jn tDe 7i r-
al army camp there. For this
"n. tnd because it "was so near
,ena t the school term, it was
mi to discontinue the meetings
-Vs tor rim . remainder of the
'Z', Slnre lbis Is to be the last
. Jhr. it lB ePrecjkT;y tsrged that
,,yone he tLcre at 12:15 o'clock.
disruRRioB will cover a review
,' " work done during the year.
Komcnsky Club to
Have Picnic at Crete
The Komensky club held their regu
lar meeting In Faculty hall, Tom pi .
bhilding, op Saturday evening. April
20. A short, business merlins was
first held. The club has decided to
have a picnic May 4. in Crete at
Horky'a park. Among numbers on the
program was a comedy entitled.
"Which Is the Right One.- The fol
lowing members took part: S. Nike
K. Posptsil. F. Horky. J. Sukovoty. C.
Swoboda, K. Vogeltanr The ret of
the evening was spent In music and
games.
PERFECTS SYSTEM OF
MAKING POTATO FLOUR
Professor Cooper ot the horticul
tural department has perfected a sys
tem of making potato flour. The pota
toes are cleaned (but not pared),
sliced about one-eighth of an inch
thick, boiled In water for about 10
minutes, dried, ground, and bolted.
This makes a splendid flour of good
color and quality, which can be used
as a substitute for wheat flour. The
process has possibilities for the west
ern Nebraska potato district.
UNIVERSITY TO HAVE
NEW TENNIS COURTS
Agitation Over Student Play
ground Finally Settled
CONTRACT ALREADY LET
Gradinfl Will Probably Be Com
menced Today Whole Area Near
Chemistry Hall to Be Improved
The Vniversity will soon have six
new tennis courts. The tennis sit
uation which has been in agitation
tor over a month is now settled and
everything has been done toward
actually having six new tennis courts
except the work.
The finance committee of the board
of regents has passed upon that part
.t v Vnflifot act-tne- for this work
I 1' L (IH. , J n I - v . ... -"fc
! and the superintendent of grounds
and buildings let the contract Tor
gradinig immediately. He expects
the contractor to start work today.
The firm to do the grading is the
same one that excavated for all the
npw- buildines so it is expected that
' the work will be done promptly.
The fence of the athletic field will
not be moved east as originally, sug
gested to include the tennis courts.
The whole area around the new
chemistry building will be -graded
and cleaned np and enough land
scape improvement made to make
it look like a Toal part of the campus.
While it is hardly possible that
the six courts will be worked into
shape and the clap and backstops
provided for in time to be of much
use this school year it will be a fine
improvement to the arpearance of
the campus and will be very useful
to the summer school students and
Ihe regular students next fall.
UNIVERSITY RETURNS IN
LIBERTY LOAN ARE LOW
Former Campaigns Have De
pleted Student Funds
$3,000 Subscribed For
Returns at the end of the l.mve
sity drive for the last Liberty loan
shows that the total amount sub-
. - thr. SR.nOO. which
indicates that very few students are
wearing a Third Liberty Loan , r
ton; and that roost of the sorority
fraternities and rooming bouses are
not displaying honor flags.
Nebraska students led all Un.ver
sities in the Red Triangle campaign
and over-subscribed its Second Lib
rrtv Loan quota, which explains why
the students were unable to subserve
heavily at this time. The campaign
was carried on by the Kosmct Klub
Infi because of the financial c.ircun
dents lave been placed, the cam
SSS was not expected to produce
targe returns, nor did they push the
S itltion work in that dlr action to
any great extent. However, the .00
the Kosmet Klub. made it a 7'olnt to
see alTthe students and they were
on the opportunity to buy joL
The studcts lack of finances was the
Tnain cause of Nebraska University
S? ng to over-subscribe I CW'ta.
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FULLQFFEATURES
Patriotic Pageant High Light
of Day's Events
WILL REVEAL SECRETS
May Queen, Senior Poet, Future
Black Masque and Innocents to Be
Disclosed Randall Senior Orator
Two weeks before the portals of
Nebraska I'nlvcMty fwinp shut tlie
the summer, the fa'a event of the
spring, the annual Ivy Day festivities
1 will be held on the city campus in
ihe morning and at Capital Kcach on
the afiernoon of May 11. The pa
triotic pageant, the crowning of the
May Queen and tapping of the Black
Masques and Innocents are to be
the hiph light s of the day's pro
gram. Morning Program
The Ivy Day oration, the reading
of the senior poem and planting the
ivy together wit hthe pageant and
crowning the May Queen mill make
up the morning program. Everett
Randall, of Gibbon, Neb., was elected
last February to give the oration.
Who will be crowned May Queen
and who will read the senior poem
is kept secret until those events
come off.
The new members of Black Masque
and Innocents made public at the
close of the afternoon prcgram are
also kept as a surprise even to the
members themselves. A big vaude
ville program given by the three
lower classes of the school will fol
low a conceit by the University
band as an opening number to the
afternoon frolics at the Beach at 2
o'clock. Tollo'"ing this show in the
Casino theatre, the tension which has
een aroused over the Innocents and
Black Masque will be relieved and
ihe honors bestowed. The new mem
bers of these honorary societies
which are all juniors are the ones
which will make up those organiza
tions as seniors next year.
Next comes a sumptuous picnic
supper in the Japanese tea garden
and then the day will come to a
close with dancing in the pavilion.
Any one intendinig to have con
cessions at the Beach should apply
immediately to Dwight P. Thomas,
head of the Ivy Day arrangements.
DR. HENRY CRAMER TO
SPEAK TO PHARMACISTS
Prominent American Botanist
Will Be Principal Talker
for Pharmacy Week
Dr. Henry Cramer, president of
the American Conference of Phar
macy Faculties, who will be the
puest of the college of T.harmacy
during Tharmacy Week, will address
the Sigma Xi and Phi Beta Kappa
societies on "Kultur Versus Culture."
He will also be principal speaker at
the pharmacy banquet and will de
liver two other addresses "Drug
Plant Culture," and "The Future of
Pharmacy," while be is in the city.
Dr. Cramer is a man of interna
tional reputation in bis special line,
pharmaceutical botany, and has done
more to .flevelope this phase, of work
than any other English speaking
man. As an author and research
worker he is k-nown everywhere.
CONVOCATION
Convocation Thursday morning will
be a i-rogram by the baud It will
be given -..in Memorial Hall.
Announce Judges for
Annua! Drill 'Compel'
The judges fo it be annual com7eti
live drill were announced Tuesday.
The military department has been
very fortunate in securing Capt. J. L.
Allison of the 40th Infantry. T S.
Army, stationed at Ft. Riley, Kan., to
fert as one of the judges; Sergeant
AH.m. assistant commandant, and
Colonel Jeffrey acting as the otbet
two.
GERMANY WILL
RETAIN BELGIUM?
Such Is Her Intention if Suc
cessful OPPRESSOR OF NATIONS
Landed Aristocracy Favors Holding
of All Gains, Says W. L. Wester
mann at Tuesday Convocation
"IVmocrAcy will win." said Trot.
W, 1 Wesierman of Wisconsin Uni
versity at Convocation yesterday
morning. H espoke on "Making the
World Safe for Democracy"
"A World Safe for Democracy," Is
the fifihting slogan of the people of
Jrhe United States and- England. If
we had made a failure of our ex
periment in democracy, which we
have not, we would still f.ght tor it
because It Is one ot our highest
ideals. It Is a -vital question for us.
"Democracy is Indeed in great dan
ger," said Professor Wcstermann.
We have everything to do with this
war. The man who doesn't know
I what we are fighting for and en
dorse it in his heart is not and
Continued on page four.)
SENIOR -AGS" MAY GO
ON INACTIVE LIST
May Complete Course in
School if in Reserve Corps of
Quartermaster Department
Some time ago information was
received from Provost Marfhall Gen
eral Crowder to the effect that a
student in the upper third of the
senior class in the college of agricul
ture might enlist in the reserve
corps of the quartermaster's depart
ment and thereafter, upon presenta
tion by the registrant to his local
hoard of a certificate of such enlist
ment, be placed in Class 5 on the
ground that be is in the military
service of the United States.
A question arose as to the status
of such student after graduation.
Information received from the war
department upon this point is to the
exert that "when enlisted as provided
by these regulations, the student's
name will be placed on the "'inac
tive list" of the quartermastter's en
listted reserve corps and he will be
allowed to remain on this inactive
list to enable him to complete his
w-ork in the institution. Upon the
completion of such course he will
be given his option of being called
into active servloe under the terms
of his enlistment or being immediate
ly discharged and taking bis place
again among those subject to serv
ice under the draft."
The University year is so nearly
closed that this enlistment order
will be of little value to seniors In
the college of agriculture this year
unless they wish to secure enlist
ment in the quartermaster's depart
ment and use this means of getting
into active service in this depart
ment. Students who will be in the
senior class next year and who wish
to take advantage of this order
should make application at the open
ing of the college year or immedi
ate'lv prior to that date.
E. A. BURNETT,
Dean of the College of Agriculture.
P. B. K. INITIATION
WILL BE HELD FRIDAY
Ceremony to Be Followed hy
Banqnet at Lincoln
Ectel
The Phi Beta Kappa initiation and
lianquet will be held at the Lincoln
hotel on Friday evening at G o'clock:.
The program of the evening will in
clude "The Story of Phi Beta Kappa"
by Miss Catherine Apperson., and the
following toasts:
"The Old-Fashioned Scholar" W.G.
Hastings.
"Lions I Have Known" Charles W.
Wallace.
"Blue -Stockings end Others"
Olivia round.
"'Qui Trans M.are Currant" Arthur
Henry March.
Mr. March was graduated from Ne
braska in lPOf. and proceeded as
Rhodes scholar to Oxford where be
spent the next three yeara. He is
now rector of St. Paul's Episcopal
church in Omaba.
SIM T
IE
STATIDHEO HERE
Agreement to That Effect Maj
Be Reached Today
TO CARE FOR 700 MEN
Six Month Training Period Will Com
mence May 1S Will U Both
Farm and City Campuses
It Is now almost certain that 700
regularly enlisted and drafted men
will be stationed at the campus May
15 to take up technical inlens!v
training in engineering and military
mechanics.
While all the details of the plan for
caring for and Instructing these sol
diers have not been fully worked out
Capt. Andrew Knight, representative
of the war department, committee on
education and special training, felt
yesterday evening that definite ar
rangements would be reached today.
Captain Knight and Dean O. J. Fer
guson of the engineering college 5pent
nearly all day yesterday inspecting
the conditions at the farm campus
as to the facilities for Instruction and
Quarters for the men. Authority to
act definitely tn the matter wihont
waiting for advices from Washington
has been given to Captain Knight and
when he leaves, probably this evening,
the whole matter will have been set
tled, one way or the other.
Will Use Both Campuses
The S50 soldiers who are to receive
training on the farm campus, as In
automobiles, cement work, forgjng,
wood work, and other military me
chanics will be boused in the Judging
pavillion, the orper part ot the new
horse barn, where the gymnasium is
now, and in tbe machine shed. They
will be fed in the cafeteria la the
Home Economics building. This din
ing room will serve the soldiers from
11:30 till 12:20 and the civilian stu
dents after 12.20.
The 250 soldiers who will receive
instruction on the city campus win be
quartered in Nebraska ball and pro
visions are being made for the present
occupants of this building to find
temporary locations elsewhere. The
Temple cafeteria will furnish food tor
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MRS. JESSIE B. LEE
TO BE GIVES HEARIXG
Will Present Her Side of Case
Before Board of Regents
Today
Mrs. Jessie B. Lee, who recently
resigned from her position as in
structor in the physical education
department will be given a bearing
at an investigation by the executive
committee of the regents this after
noon. At the request of 00 signers to a
petition asking that Mrs. Lee's resig
nation be rejected and that condi
tions in Ihe physical education de
partment lie investigated the execu
tive committee held a meeting for
that purpose last week. Dr. R. G.
Clapp, bead of the department who
requested Mrs. Lee's resignation,
was present but Mrs. Lee was out of
town and unable to be there.
Mrs. Lee idesired to be beard at
the investigation so this meeting
this afternoon is but a eontin nance
of the original investigation.
Organization Presidents
Must See Dean of Women
Dean Herpner requestB tie presi
dents of the follcaiig organizations
to 'call immediately at hex office and
sign cards giving her information con
cerning them. This is very necessary
as a record bas to be kept of these
honorary fraternities:
Alpha Kappa Psi
Xi Psi Phi
lid Delta Kappa
Sigma Tan
Sigma Kappa Zeta
Order of the Coif
Phi Alpha Delta
Alpha Omega Alpha
No Sigma Nu
Nn Sigma TbJ
Phi Chi
Phi n.bo Sigma
Delta Sigma Hho
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