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The Daily Nebraskan
UKIVHWITY OF NEBRASKA OFFICIAL PUBLICATION
EDITORIAL STAFF
Marian Hennlnger - Editor
Laarenoe Bl Slater ....-Managing Editor
Carolyn. Rood ..Associate Editor
rorrMt Mm..i Nw Editor
SadU Flnck - Society gditor
Orrln B. Oaston...... .. SporU Alitor
BUSINESS STAFF
Roy Wythers , ; Business Manager
Fred Boklng. .Assistant Business Manager
Baal Coryell ; .Circulation Manager
BnCer&4 at the postofflce at Liacoln, Nebraska, at second-class
malt aaatter mnder the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
OUR HOLIDAY WISH
We wish that we knew a different way to say "a merry Christ
mas and a happy new year," and yet say as much. Repetition tends
to dull the efficiency of a statement. A remark heard many times
becomes commonplace and loses Its meaning to the hearer. And yet
can the flame idea be stated otherwise in as few words? Does that
simply holiday greeting leave anything unsaid? What more can we
wish a friend than that his Christmas be a merry one and that the
new year coming be a happy one?
He who la happy can wish for nothing else he possesses the
sum total of human longing and desire. And he who is not happy,
though he be a Croesus, is a pitiable object truly. The statements
Just made1 are trite; they have been said a hundred times in a hun
dred different ways. But the facts remain. And a deal of trouble
would be saved if these facts were more widely appreciated.
My the students and the faculty of the university, then, to whom
we extend this greeting, deem it, not prosaic, but the very best that
can be offered, when we say that The Daily Nebraskan wishes to you
all a merry Christmas and a happy New year.
NEBRASKA PAYS TRIBUTE TO HER SON
The University of Nebraska is happy to extend a most cordial
welcome to her distinguished alumnus, General John J. Pershing.
To claim General Pershing as an alumnus is a distinction any uni
versity may well covet. Nebraska is proud that thut honor belongs
to her. And she counts it a privilege to be given an opportunity to
pay tribute to her son, the man who led America's forces to victory
in the world's greatest war. A man whose name will go down in
history with the most famous, a man on whom the eyes of the world
have been centered for the last two years and more, a man for whom
millions of prayers have been offered and countless tears have been
shed, a man who has helped shape the destiny of nations, this man is,
at his first opportunity, slipping from the acclamations of the multi
tude and returning to his home to be with his own at the Christinas
season.
The university has many reminders of her renowned former
student. The Pershing Kiiles, an organization now in existence, was
named in honor 01 its founder, who. in 1893, organized a select com
pany of cadets for special work. His purpose in organizing it was
to have a superior company in the proficiency of drill which could
' not be attained through the regular hours. The tirst Nebraska reg
iment waa organized, with Pershing at its head, at a dinner which
he gave for five of his friends. When they laughingly predicted that
he should become the greatest general in the world, they little
I dreamed that their prophecy would become an actuality.
Prominent Lincoln men who were classmates of Pershing are
enthusiastic in their praise of him. He took the military department,
which then had been run in a rather haphazard manner, and made
it into a well-organized institution. It was he who put compulsory
drill in the curriculum. He is remembered as displaying a persistent
demand for Btrict discipline. Never much of a talker, he kept his
men under control on the drill field with his eye. He studied law
at the university, and was also an instructor in mathematics. In his
classroom he maintained his military discipline. Kveryono was alert
and there was no foolishness.
It la with great pleasure that the university is planning to share
in the homecoming festivities being arranged in honor of the cele
brated Nebraskan, and with open arms will welcome him home.
A SUGGESTION FOR THOSE NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS
A prayer which is out of the ordinary, a prayer which grips your
attention and makes you think, a prayer which is offered to you as a
costly gift would be, with the hope that it may be of service to you,
Is this which written by a college man.
But first, a word as to the author. He is Max Ehrmann, novelist
and playwright, graduate of Dc Paw University. It has had a very
wide circulation. It has been translated Into almost every language.
It haa been inserted into the Congressional Record at Washington.
It haa been set to music. Copies were stolen from the walls of the
Indiana Building at the St. Louis Exposition; it has been found on
the bodies of suicides, the last solace of condemned criminals, the
dally lesson of millions of schools children, the cherished possession
alike of the Fifth avenue millionaires and the Bowery poor of many
great cities. Thousands of persons who never go inside a church
read and love It. It is the prayer universal because work is Its creed
and lore its religion.
The prayer was rescued from the waste-basket where he had
tossed it, by a maid. Mr. Ehrmann was seriously ill when he wrote
it. The prayer follows:
"Let me do my work each day; and if the darkened hours of
despair overcome me, mayI not forget the strength that comforted
ma In the desolution of other times. May I still remember the bright
hours that found me walking over the silent hills of my childhood, or
dreaming on the margin of the quiet river, when light glowed within
me and I promised my God to have courage amid the tempests of the
changing years. Spare me from bitterness and from the sharp pas
sions of unguarded moments. May I not forget that poverty and
riches are of the spirit. Though the world know me not, may my
thoughts and actions be such as shall keep me friendly with myself.
Lift my eyes from the earth and let me not forget the uses of the
stars. Forbid that 1 should Judge others lest I condemn myself. Let
me follow the clamor of the world but walk calmly In my path. Give
mo a few friends who will love me for what I am; and keep ever
burning before my vagrant steps the kindly light of hope. And
thoagh age and infirmity overtake me, and I come not within the
sight of the castle if my dreams teach me still to be thankful for life,
and for time's olden memories that a'e good and sweet; and may the
evening's twllght find me gentle still."
Friday, December 19
Freshman Law Hop, Lincoln Hotel.
Alpha Tau Omega, house party.
Farm House House dance.
Saturday, December 20th
Phi Delta Theta house party.
UKI NOTICES
PERSONALS
Professor A. R, Congdon, will leave
Saturday for Onawa, Iowa, where he
will spend the ChrlsLnas vacation.
Nell Ryan, of Omaha, will leave to
day for her home in Omaha, afte
spending this week as a guest at the
Achoth house.
Ruth King, '21, Is 111 at the Delta
Cnmma house.
Dewey Hoy, '23, Is 111 with pneu
monia at the Lincoln sanitarium.
Marie McKee, of Aurora, is a guest
of her sister Blanche McKee at the
Alpha Phi house.
Dr. Eurhart of the Teachers' college
will spend a week during the holi
days in Butte, Montana, rvneie sue
will conduct an institute for the coun
ty superintendents of Montana.
Marguerite Marshall, '17, of Omaha,
who for the last few days has been
a guest at the Kappa Theta house
left yesterday for California, where
she will spend the rest of the winter.
Doris Bates, '22, who has been ill
with tonsilitis, at the Gamma Phi
Beta house, left today for her home-
in Lodgepole.
Ruth Taylor of Omaha is a guest of
Dr. L. B. Pfetffer of the European
HiBtory Department. Miss Taylor was
a Red Cross nurse for thirten months,
at Fort Des Moines and later at the
Red Cross hospital at Denver, Colo.
Rebecca Smith of Paducah. Ken
tucky, is a guest of Dorothy English,
'22.
XI Delta
The Xl Delta are requested to have
their pictures taken at Townsend's be
fore Friday, December 19.
Ninety-nine tickets Including all
compllmenUrles, have been validated
for the Freshman Law Hop to be held
at the Lincoln Hotel, Dec. 19, 1919.
No more tickets will be validated for
this dance.
HAS COLLECTED 3,000 PIPES
Syracuse, N. Y. How'd you like to
be able to smoke a different pipe
every day for eight years?
A Syracusan, owner of the world's
largest exhibit of pipes, could, but
dosen't, for the Syracusan is a non
smoker, and a woman to boot. She is
Mrs. Card Foster, widow of a well
known central New York physician,
who has completed cataloguing her
unique collection, started by her hus
band and finished by her since his
death.
The collection now numbers 3,000
and Includes pipes from every country
under the soun. Among the rare specl
ments is a beautifully carved meer
schaum with an exquisitely shaped
hand holding the bowl of the pipe .the
carving ofthe lace at the wrist being
perfect in detail. A meerschaum skull
pipe and a clgaret holder representing
"Led a and the Swan," from Saalsburg
nlso are reckoned as priceless.
OKLAHOMA PROFESSOR
FREEZES BOILING WATER
Norman, Okla., Dec. 16 Water will
boil and freeze at the same time.
Marvelous? Perhaps, hut it's true.
A whole class under Dr. Homer L.
Dodge, professor of physics, heard it
was to be done Tuesday, smiled and
waited to let somebody else nibble at
the joke then saw it with their own
eyes.
It's all only a problem of how liquid
air is made and illustrating how re
frigerating plants work. Dr. Dodgy
says. Ana nere is now u i uuue.
The water is placed In a dish under
a bell par and pump Is connected to
remove the air. Water boils at a
lower temperature on Pike's Peak than
at sea level because the pressure is
less. The lower the pressure, the low
er the boiling point. The pump lowers
the pressure in the bell to such an ex
tent that the water, even though at
the temperature at which it comes
from the hydrant, just has to boil.
6o the water boiled.
The pump removes all the air except
a hundred thousandth part. This how
ever, still leaves millions of molecules
of air in every cubic inch.. These are
too few to keep the water from boiling.
Now to bring water to boll by reduc
ing the pressure, heat must be intro
duced. In this case it comes from the
water itself.
Since the water does not evaporate,
it gets colder until It finally freezes.
So the water froze-
The water on top becomes ice while
the water underneath continues to boil
away merrily much as It did in the
Mother Goose story. The bubbles of
boiling water rises to the surface, plow
their way through the forming ice,
and freeze!
A demonstration will be held later In
the week when it will be shown that
what In a bottle will boll when Ice
water is poured over it.
Oh, tell me how long,
Will I have to wait
Can't I get up now,
Or must I
Stay In the house, miss all this
month's quizzes, flunk out in classes,
lose this semester's credit, and inci
dentally get out of buyin' her a pres
ent this year with a true plea of
financial bankruptcy,
Oh, boy, but it's a g-r-r rand and
glorious feelin'. Oklahoma Daily.
The
Lincoln Hotel
Special ' Table D' Hote
Sunday Dinner
Served from 12 to 26 to 8 P. M.
$1.25 PER COVER
Music During Evening
Meal Hours
DANCE SATURDAYNIGHT
ROSEWILDE
Beck's Syncopated Symphony
WANT ADS
JOB FOR PRINTER Any number
hours work for University student with
experience in printing trade. Call
B4204 after 7 P. M.
LOST: Heavy silver ring with
military crest. Name E. T. Kelly en
graved inside. Return to Student
Activities office for i-eward. 67-2t.
FOUND: Check. Call L6469 or ask
for Janitor in Art Hall. Unl of Nebr.
A REWARD offered for the return
of a cameo pin. Leave at Students
Activities office. 58t3
Do You Follow Reason
or
Are You a Patron of Tradition?
Know Ye We Serve Better
est ECONOMY "ho
CLEANERS, PRESSERS & DYERS
DEVILISH GOOD CLEANERS
ORPHEUM DRUG STORE
OPEN TILL MIDNIGHT
A Good Place for Soda Fountain Refreshments after the Theatre and
after the Rotewilde Dance. ..Try the Luncheonette
CARSON HILDRETH, '95 and 9
FAMOUS SAYINGS
"I'm tough," said the steak as Its
consumer ruined three molars in the
mastication process.
"I Aint Got Nobody, Much," hum
med the little 85-pound woman as she
bent over the wash board making a
living for her 200-pound man. '
"I'm hard boiled," said the egg after
the active chick Inside had made six
for freedom.
"I'm high-toned," said the soprano
as she soared around three stories
above K-sharp.
"I'm A Jazz Baby," said the man rls
ing from a red-hot stove In actions
more clear than words.
"Im lost!" gasped the lady with
the light skirt, as she swayed In mid
air with one foot Just before and the
rtber just as she attempted boarding
a street car.
"I put the H in itch." said the tramp
as he Indulged In anothpr scratch."
make it JEWELRY
this Christmas!
Jewelry cypresses in tangible form the wishes of those who give
it and is a lasting reminder tcith both intrinsic and sentimental
value. Gifts of Jewelry, if porperly chosen, are ahniys in good
taste.
KINGS HEADS
WOMEN'S WHIST WATGUES
X EC K LACKS
CUFF BUTTONS
MEN'S POCKET WATCHES
It A It PINS
Everything you expeet to find in a high-grade jewelry store.
Lincoln
Nebraska
Oklahoma Daily.
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