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The Daily BR ASK AN I'NIYKRSITY OF XKKRASKA, LINCOLN. MONDAY, DKCKMP.KU !(?. 191S ITvICE KIVi: CF.NTS "vol. XVIII. NO. 57 If i II. MOGULS Missouri VaUey Conference De clues Football Season a Complete Blank Stew-art Returns with Tentative Athletic Schedules Grin nell Admitted ThP cornhusker claim o the Mis souri Valley football pennant didn't KKwnTlo as much as a cap pistol on (l,e Verdun front as the conference officials in session Rt Kansas City, last Friday, decided to call the 1918 season a complete blank. Inasmuch as S A. T. C. control of valley sports knocked eligibility rules and confer ence standards clear out of propor tions. Students who played varsity foot ball the past season, however, will not be denied their full three years of conference competition, but in order to participate in 1919 football they must make their credits during the second semester of the present school year. The valley officials also ruled that players who have been in the service absent from their schools may return in pood standing for competi tion in valley sports. Grinnell Admitted to Conference Grinnell college of Grinnr-ll, Iowa, was granted a berth in the Missouri out the first of last week. Companies and applications from the universities of Oklahoma and St. Louis wore con- sidcred. The faculty representatives , will decide upon their applications i May 31, when the annual track meet I and tennis meet will be held at Ames, Iowa. Basketball and Track Basketball" hostilities . commence January 22, with Drake university, at Des Moines, and continue thru the Nebraska state high school tourna ment and end with two games against the Iowa Aggies on the Husker floor, March 14 and 15. Tire complete slate is: Jan. 23 and 24 Iowa Aggies at j Ames. ! Jan. 25 Drake at Des Moines. Jan. SI and Feb. 1 Drake at Lin coln. Feb. 14 and 15 Missouri at Lin coln. March 5 and 6 Kansas at Law rence. March 7 and 8 Kansas Aggies at Manhatten. March 14 and 15 Iowa Aggies Lincoln. The K. C. A. Cj indoor meet, which Nebraska will participate. at in is booked for February 22, the Drake relay races at Des Moines April 17. the Missouri Valley conference meet at Ames May SI, and the Western ! i conference meet at Chicago, June 7. University Social Life Will Return to Pre- War Status Wiih the demobilization of the Stu dent Army Training Corps and the return "or the university to the pur suits of peace, fraternities will imme diately resume their former footing. Houses which have leen entirely closed or opened to the renter of fl-ooms will be refurbished flor Jhe second semester . campaign. It is too early yet to predict the extent to which the societies can re cover their normal strength in the months that remain- of the present college term. But there will be a long step taken toward the old order of things, without doubt. The ban on social affairs; placed on all class and organization parties which entail useless expense, will lifted to some extent, it is ex pected, since the -world will look upon a normal social reason with favor There are many who doubt, however, that the university will ever return ! C, A i . Stewart Arranges Schedules Dr. Stewart, director ef Cornhuker Athlelles, in conference with other coaches and directors, mapped out the basketball, track and football m hod ul.es for the coming year. Ah ho not approved by (he board of regents and the chancellor as jet, and not unite complete, the football schedule for 1919 la as follows: Oct. 11 Iowa university at Iowa City. Oct. 18 Notre Dame at Lincoln. Nov. S Missouri at Columbia. Nov. IS Kansas at Lincoln. Nov. 27 Syracuse at Lincoln. The Cornhusker head coach has games with Minnesota, Oklahoma, Ames and Northwestern in view, but he is awaiting the sanction of high er university officials before booking them. Dr. Stewart is Inclined to fa vor Missouri teams to '"Rig Ten' en gagements, and the battle with Jumbo Steihm's Indiana Hocsiors for Nov. 8 may not materialize. NAVY AND COMPANY C . TIED FOR TOP PLACE Sailors Drub Company B Stars in Semi-Finals of Army Basket Ball Tourney Demobilization Depletes Company A Lineup and Game For feited to Company C The finals between the Navy and Company C in the inter-company bas ketball tournament, Saturday, were held up on account of the sickness of Captain Bailey of the sailors, and they will be staged this afternoon in the armory. Friday's hostilities were con fined to one game between the Navy and Company B, the sailors trouncing the doughboys, 23 to 5. Gillilan was the champion point get ter of the fray, the navy bird tossing five field goals for his team, which with one free throw-, netted 11 points. Smith, another ex-Omaha star, and Captain Bailey, of the Navy, each looped the ball twice, and Reynolds and Miller succeeded in scoring one goal apiece. Faynter, the ex-Omaha star, ana Monte Munn of last year's state high school champs, didn't show up to ex pectations. Faynter flipped a free throw, but Munn couldn't find the bas ket even once. Cosford scored the two field goals for Company B, which with Paynters free throw, amounted to 5 points. Company A forfeited its game to Company C on account of the players scattering to their homes as soon as they received their discharges, Fri day morning. Dick Neumann, the Co lumbus star, was the only member to stick it out, while the rest of his com w.t it for home. This leaves the Navy and Company C tied with . a (Continued on page 4) , -,s complicated calendar of etiava gant affairs which the war has taught it well to do without. Formal parties will again come into favor of course. Swallow-tails and tuxedos and all the other things that go with them will again occupy tne occasional attention or university men. It i-as been practically two years since public opinion has permitted any in dulgence in these accoutrements which hard-hearted fathers term "vanities." The svstem of fraternity and soror ity formals was working toward reas onableness when the war took the matter into its own hands and closed dow-n upon the mentirely. The ten dency toward etxtravangances .s thought by many to have outgrown itseir, to belong to a former period m college history. This reversion-sunned ty the .wakened conscience brought by the fraxkness otmj . mold conservative pol- icy. IMG I COMPLETION IRE Naval and Headquarters Com panies Only Remaining Troops at the Present Time Sailors Not to Get Uniforms Soldiers Allowed to Keep Their Suits 1 j Nebraska's Student Army Training j Crops practically ended It existence yesterday, when Companies "V and "K" from the state farm were dis banded, leaving only the S. N. T. C. and the headquarters company still in barracks here. The two remaining companies must be out of barracks before IVcember 21, at which date the local military unit Is to be abol ished. The work ot discharging the men was completed in less than a week after It was begun. Section B went Valley conference by the officials. "A" and "B" were disbanded Friday, and Companies "C" and "D" Saturday. Army Men to Keep Suits Information from Washington, Sat urday, stated that all army men hav ing uniforms at the time of discharge would be allowed to retain them, if they wished to do so. This action on the part of the government is very welcome to the former members of the local S. A. T. C. because of the fact that their uniforms were just re cently issued to them. The naval men are now awaiting orders from the Great I-kes that wul retire them to inactive duty. Orders received Saturday at naval headquar ters stated that the clothes requisi tions signed by the men about a month ago were being returned and that uniforms would not be issued to the men. Clothes bags that were re ceived about a week ago will las re turned. Navy Out by Saturday The orders were to the effect that the local unit would be disbanded be fore December 21. All necessary ex aminations have been given to the men and all other work can be com pleted in a flay after orders are re ceived. The mess ball will be continued for the rest of the week with accomoda tions to feed two hundred men. It is assured that the Social Science bar racks will be kept open to accomo date the naval men. It is probable that the mess hall will be remodeled as soon as all the men are out. Work p: FLANDERS NOW Answer to Lieut Col. McCrae) We have kept faith, ye Flanders dead. " Sleep well beneath those pop pies red. That marked your place, The torch your dying hands did throw, We've held it high before the foe. And answered bitter blow lor blow. In Flander's fields. And where your heroes' blood was spilled. The guns are now forever stilled. And silent grown. There is no moaning Of the slain. There is no cry tortured pain. And blood will never flow again In Flankers felds. Forever holy in our sight. Shall be those crosses gleam ing white. That guard your sleep. Test you in peace, the task is done. The fight you left us we bave And ' Feace on Earth" has Just begun In Flanders now. Fdna Jaoues in Calgary Herald 0 II ins ! will also be rcMum d c u the interior - of the Soc ial Soloieo hall soon. It Is expected that reserve officers stationed here will be retired as soon as their duties here are finished . Sick h'en Kept Men in hospitals here will be re tained In the service until they are fully recovered from their ailments. The local medical department will probably bo abandoned hero and the men moved ot bate hospitals as soon ns they are able to do so. The work of seeding in all equip ment will necessitate the quarter master department being retained for some time yet. War Aims for Farm Students. The war aims lecture divisions which have been meeting, at the Farm campus have been transferred to the down town campus and will at the same hours in basement of the Pharmacy building, north entrance NUMBER OF INFLUENZA CASES SOMEWHAT LESS Disbanding of S. A. T. C, Improves Conditions in University School Not Closed With reports from out over the state varying widely as to the influ enza epidemic, the situation in Lin coln seems to have improved some what in the last few days. The num ber of cases now being handled in lo cal army hospitals is gradually de creasing largely because of the fact that most of the men are now of the service. The cases anions Ihe eo-cd mem bers of the student body are also Somewhat tfSS in r.mlT hmiw week. Xo fatalities have been re ported in the last two days. With the S. A. T. C. men mustered out of the service and living apart it is more than likely that the epi demic will 1-e greatly improved in a week or two. In all probability it will lake at least two weeks to empty the army hospital of influenda patients. There are only a few serious cases among the S. A. T. C men now. but none of these are likely to prove fatal in the next few days. The university will not be closed at present according to school officials, although there is a possibility of the state ban being put on again next week. If the state board of health should consider the situation serious enough to warrant the closing of all public meetings and the like, school will not be opened for a week or two after Christmas vacation. Tests are being made in Boston to find out whether the influenza is a contagious or not, and reports thus far seem to indicate that "'flu" germs clo not carry the disease. If these tests continue to act as they have any ban on public meetings would be proven useless. Former S. A. T. C. In the 1 was on the way back to my frater nity house, having visited a friend on the opposite side of town. The atmos phere was biting, and I drew the big collar cf mv issu-ed overcoat far up and over my ears. My hat was pulled low, and held fast by its chin strap. With my hai;ds thrust deep in the roomy, cozily lined pockets. I trudged along,, thoughtlessly unconscious of a surrounding world. The street in which I walked was dimly lighted by a cold diffusion of grayish incandescency, streaming from the tower atop old University hall, and seemingly increasing the frigidity a thonsand-fold. I glanced across the way at the un completed Social Science structure. The tall, white frontal columns ap peared as silent sentinels arranged al rigid attention. A tickling in one of my nostrils prompted a loud sneeze. Bending cbo upon echo to the white -villirs u -Bt?oTij bv JJ forth. DOUGHBOYS IE UNTIL LJTE HOUR T.xps Postponed for Cornhusker Party 1,000 Attend First Get Together of the Season In the good old days before the war, they called them mixers,' these All University parties, and if that expres sive title were not in executive disre pute, it could be well applied to the first gettogethre party of the year, given under the auspices of the War Camp Community Service, In the Ar mory. Saturday evening. The affair was designed as a special sendoff to those S. A. T. C. men who are leaving perhaps permanently uni versity surroundings. It was planned In order that they might see the "civil side" of the campus, to know the uni versity family when it was not trying wit!, all its might to be sternly mili Itary. It succeeded in its purposes ! very well. I Almost l.OoO soldiers, co-eds, and j sailor boys were there to make the j most of the program planned by the j Innocents society under the direction of Wilson Bryans. Shembecks "'Jazz" orchestra plad the current syncopa- I tion and the dance went on and on. ! It is said that the sailors even forgot j that they were without those cher i 5 shed uniforms. ; When things were almost at their ! height, Walter Blunk, president ot the j Innocents, announced that those mili ' tary powers that be haej postponed i .!. -mil 11: SO oYkxk. Th-fun b. I gan in earnest from that moment. The barracks across from the Armory were ; empty and echoed hollowly the sounds of merriment. In the course of a short intermis ! sion an impromptu quartet. Herman ; Sohroeder, Faul Dobson, S. E. Kiser, 'and Cable Jackson, practiced before I the assembled thousand, to the delight ! of the thousand. There repertoire was ! unlimited and included such recent gems as "De Cornfield" and "Ragtime Cow boy." Refreshments were served j about 10;SO o'clock. The attendance was iarger than ex 1 pected. Members of the committee : expressed themselves as well pleased ' with th party. - It was. their belief ' that army men who have seen little of the university in smiles, will go ! borne with a clearer conception of I college life than they might have tak !en with them had they marched ; straight from barracks homeward. It was the "last date' for more than 'l one S. A. T. C. man and there seemed i at times to be a tendency to dance i dreamily, as though there were not i live hundred other couples aroundj On j the whole, however, the crowd mixed ' well, and the numerous circle dances I -were enthusiastically encored. Man Alone Deserted Barracks unmercifully among them. The effect was astounding; I drew my chin deep er into the seclusion of my upturned collar. nd shivered. I hesitated and turned to look at the building more closely. After a moment or two of argumentative thot, I crossed the roughly paved passage way, and ambled toward the entrance Only a few days before, at the same hour, I had passed the same spot, and had been halted by an in quisitive sentry. Xo one stopped me uoit seemed so strange so utterly queer, to be entering the barracks un impeded. I reached the door and laid my hand on the cold latch lever. It yielded, and swung open with a thousand screeches frightfully penetrating. I sinned inside and closed it. Feeling alorg the right-hand wall, I found the door to my former quar ters standing wide, and swinging ir- Continued on page 2)