Christmas
. The Daily Nebraskan
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA OmCIAL PUBLICATION
EDITORIAL STAFF
Katharine N branch Editor-in-Chief
Gaylord lavls Managing Editor
Helen Howe Associate Editor
Howard Murfln New Kd,lor
Jack Landale MI,or
Oswald Black Sporta Editor
Held Giltner Society Editor
Robert L. Cook Military Editor
BUSINESS STAFF
Glen II. Gardner r Business Manager
Roy Wythers Acting Assistant Business Manager
REPORTORIAL STAFF
Marian Henningcr Gayle Vincent Grubb Sadie Finch
Rhe Nelson Jen Machamer Emil J. Konicek
ratricia Maloney Betty Riddell Kathertne Brenke
Viola Kleinfce Leonard Cowley Mary Herting
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mail matter under the Act of Congress of March S, 1879.
THE FORMAL PARTY
As the mid-winter season approaches, and the men are moving
back into fraternity houses from barracks, we begin to feel our for
mer interests creep back and take hold of us. We, who are students
of the university, are young enough to want to throw off the depress
ing influence the war has had on us. The middle west did not bear
the brunt of the war. Our experience was not severe enough to be
lasting, and because of our youth we are wanting to forget, and
there is something within us that clamors for things "as they used
to be." We want to be rid of the inconveniences and restraints we
endured before the war was over.
Because our school life is already being restored in part to its
former status, we look ahead and want to make it more and more
like it was. The question arises now as to whether we shall revert
to our previous manner of conducting school affairs, and go right
on with them as we left them, or shall we let our university customs
and traditions lie inactive for a little longer while, until the world
becomes more firmly settled, and our convictions are a little stronger.
Last year, the university gave up university formals as a matter
of course, Just as its men gave tnemseives, ana me stuaents gave
their money, and their pleasures, and their energies, to the winning
of the war. Now we know that the war isovcr. We know, too, that
all the suffering that was of necessity attendant on the war is not
over. In fact, it will likely be a generation in this country, and
several generations in France, before the sting and anguish of the
war is obliterated. It will probably never be forgotten.
We, as students, realize that our part in the war is not yet over.
There will be Red Cross and Liberty Loan drives, there will be sacri
fices from us to help feed the people and restore the countries of the
nations abroad who have been most keenly hurt. We will have more
calls upon our pocket books and we will need to go on making what
sacrifices we can to help.
Is it not possible to do that and more if need be, without making
martyrs of ourselves and allowing our school life and our university
traditions to suffer?
Formal parties, such as we had been accustomed to have, are,
as we all know, an indulgence of personal vanity. In normal times,
under the rules laid down by Pan-Hellenic and Interfraternity Coun
cil, such an indulgence is not unseemly. With the return of other
customs and institutions, the formal does not seem to be too radical
a step down from our war-time policy. There is so little difference
between the big parties'" which were sanctioned by the fraternities
and sororities that it all simmers down to the name, formal. To some,
so soon after the war, the word is formidable and too lavish to be
tolerated.
If the students, under whose jurisdiction the matter of formal
parties stands, decide to bave them they must accompany the deci
sion with the balance of mind and moderation to interpret tbe privilege
in a sane light. The time is not now, nor ever was, to spend absurd
amounts of money on this form of college pleasure.
"Moderation in all things," as taught by the Greeks, is appli
cable ,and with that in mind, let us look ahead and make of our college
what we want it to be in the future, and not a mourning memory of
the past.
FRATS TO RETURN
. TO FORMER LIFE
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We feature these chocolates. Nut and fruit centers as well
as creams. In artistic padded boxes in mottled parchment
effects. Some are rainbow hues. Double ribbon bows.
Three sizes: .8 ounnce, 50c; 16 ounce, 1.25; 40 ounce, 2.50.
Assorted Milk Chocolates A
cream topped box mlth choc
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ribbons and letters
in gold. Price
1.00
Salad Cherries in Milk Choc
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monogramed and imprinted
with cherries. Red ribbon
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LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
ill tx.k. AMBAma rkMt ra K iont-
ran Claar and Lieut. George Has
lam. Kappa Sigma will have Lawrence
Bonigan from Camp Taylor, and
George Mover from Camp Funston,
back in school They bave kept the
bouse open during the year and will
soon keep table as in the days before
the S. A. T. C.
lelta Chi will move from its down
town club rooms to a new bouse the
first of January, and mill welcome
hack Fred B. Walrath and Harlan
icaitin from Omaha, Clarence Taleott
and Verne Jenkins from Camp Tay
lor, and Royal Schoen from Camp
Grant.
ORPHEUM DRUG STORE
OPEN TILL MIDNIGHT
A Good Ptaea for Soda Fountain Refreshments after the Theatre and
after tho Rosewtyde Danco
CARSON HILDRETH, 95 and "Se
mester, but at least twenty -five will j
be back for tbe second semester. Lieu-1
tenants Wayne Munn, Fay Pollock, i
and Forrest Larson mill more than j
likely register in school in February.
SENIOR -PINS
Fraternity d
Sorority
Cuttt
Monograms and
Letters
Class and Society Emblems
HALLETT
Uni. Jeweler
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Ensiprn Herman Thompson is also ex
pected 10 re-turn to the university.
Alpha Tan Omepa, who bave kept
ofen since September, will start its
table after the holidays. Several mem
Tews, who have been at camps are
tnriiing for school, among them Elmer
Schellenberg and Frank Patty from
Camp Grant; Frank Biezer from
Camp Taylor; Hubert McCoy from
Camp McArthnr. Tex,
Delia Tan Delta has perhaps the
largest number of men living, in tbe
chapter house, there being twenty-one
men there now. Since ahe disbanding
of the S. A. T. C the men have re
moved to the house, and some of tbe
members have retarned from other
camps. Lester Kher mho has been
stationed at Camp Hancock, and
Bryan Stromer of the naval aviation
unit at Key West, have been visiting
tbe chapter for a week.
The Delta Upsilon house is once
i more open, and with the beginning of
tbe second semester, several old men
Houses to Open After Holidays
Phi Delta Tbeta will occupy their
house at 02 South Sertenteenth
shortly after the holidays. Former
members who will re-enter the univer
sity next semester are Leonard Kline,
Harvey Haines from Camp McArthur,
Claude Peters and Stewart McDonald
from Camp Taylor, Donald Meekin in
tbe naval aviation at Minneapolis.
Donald Lyle and Harry Caldwell at
Camp Grant will not return to school
until iihey have received their com
missions. Sigma Alpha Epsilon, who kept
their house open for a part of the ,
time and later closed it op and took ,
club rooms 2own town, mill reojen j
and 'start table immediately after tbe
holidays. Chester Gran and Lawrence
Xoyes from Camp Taylor and William
Leer from Camp Grant, have returned
to Lincoln and mil be In school oeyt
semester. La-wrence Shaw and Doug
las Thornton from the naval training
station at Seattle. Wash, and Halsey
Nojes from Camp Fremont, mill be
registered in school for the second
semester.
Sigma Phi Epsilon have kept their
house open since school started and
have melcomed the boys back from
the barrack, as mell as some from
the camps. Emil Lnekey has already
returned to school, and several of the
boys from other camps are expected
back mithin the month-
No m&tterwhatyou say
"SAY IT WITH FLOWERS"
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LINCOLN
NEBRASKA
1th ST.
THE ENGINEER
Who comes with koh-i-noor sharpened
keen.
With profile long, and sober mein.
With transit leveL book and tape.
And glittering axe to swat the stake?
THE ENGINEER.
Who raves and snorts like one Insane, Who deals mith figures quite profuse.
And tell you solid rock Is loose.
That hard-pan is no more than loam.
While gram bo lighter than ea-foaffl?
THE ENGINEER.
Jumps In the air and daws his mane.
Whenever he sees a scTaper take
A whack at his most cberiaed stake!
THE EXGIXEEIL
Who swears that bell charge an even
ten
For stakes destroyed by mules or men.
While on all fours he tries in rain.
To find tbe cherished stakes 'again?
THE ENGINEER.
Who saws the air with maddened
rage.
And tarns with hate the trured page.
And then mith patience out of joint.
Ties In another reference point?
THE ENGINEER.
Who calls it your unrivalled gall.
Whene'er job kick for overhaul.
And gives your spine a frigid chilL
Whene'er you apricg an extra bill?
THE ENCINEER.
Who. after aJi. commands our praise.
In spite of bis peculiar way.
While others harvest all the gain.
That springs from hi prolific brain -.
THE ENGINEER.
Frederic Trent Thomas
Her Uttla Plan
-I free you a good deal oaB5
Flubdub."
"Tes. aatie."
I hope you are not going to c
ry a spendthrift.'
-Ob, do. I don't think TU n
him. But It's nioe goitg around 1
one.' Louisville Courier JournaL