The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, February 10, 1920, Image 6

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    -after class-
slip over to our
SODA FOUNTAIN
Our Ice Creams, Drinks,
and Candies are Delicious.
We Serve The Best.
Golle
p ountain
Facing Campus
TO LECTURE ON
ASTRONOMY AT
TEMPLE FRIDAY
(Continued from Page One.)
reduced the variation between succes
sive shots that a given number of
shells will fall into one-eighth the
area formerly covered by their dis
persion." In the field of astronomy Professor
Moulton is the author of several well
known books and of numerous articles
in scientific journals.
The public is cordially invited to
hear this lecture, which will be illus
trated Ly long-exposure photograpns
taken with the world's largest tele
scopes. There will be no charge for
admission.
ly grace the Husker schedule. South
Dakota and Iowa will also probably be
met and if the Misouri Valley boyco-.t
is removed soon enough, a ?ame may
be arranged with the Kansas Jay
hawkers. At any rate, a good stiff
schedule will face the Husker diamond
jitists.
STUDENTS CHOSEN
FOR INCOME TAX
SERVICE IN STATE
TO HOLD MATINEE DANCE
FOR EDUCATIONAL FUND
(Continued from Page One.)
need of funds for the building of dormi
tories and increases in salary. Smith
College students and alumnae all over
the country are rallying to the sup
port of their alma mater. The goal
set for the fund is $4,000,000 of which
sum Nebraska alumnae will contri
bute $25,000. Members of the Smith
College club in Onvaha will come to
Lincoln to attend the matinee dance
given here.
Several university students are
former Smith College students and are
managing a good part of this affair.
Miss Dorothy Pierce has charge of
the posters and Miss Eleanor Fogg In
nianaging the publicity work.
MAY ORGANIZE
BASEBALL TEAM
(Continued from Page One)
oping a very creditable team. As soon
as the game is officially assured, the
athletic department will at once start
the task of scheduling games. The
University of California nine is mak
ing an extended trip throughout the
east this year, playing Syracuse, Pitts
burg, Yale, and Princeton, as well as
several leading middle-western schools.
The California authorities have wired
the Nebraska department asking for a
game with the Cornhuskers and a
Nebraska-California game will probib-
(Continued from Page One.)
Clarence E. Hinds, who has charge
of the course in money and banking,
is a graduate of the college of busi
ness administration and is employed
by the First National Banu. On the
resignation of Mrs. Minnie 1". England,
he was chosen to take charge of this
class and this is an example of the
practical work which has been taken
up in this class.
Although there Is a very liberal com
pensation allowed for this work the
main purpose in sending these men
out over the state is that the income
service is a very practical application
of the work of last semester.
PROFESSOR BRUNER
TO TAKE VACATION
. (Continued from page 1)
activities, by the time he was in his
early 'teens he had gathered together
a number of interesting speciments.
One day his mother hired an asistant
to help her clean house and during
the absence of young Burner, the lady
cleaned his room, cleaned it and did
a most complete cleaning. Every
speclman in his entire lot was thrown
into the scrap heap and destroyed en
tirely. Speciments which he has never
bee nable to replace were thrown away
as worthless. The misconception of
values had cost him dearly but un
daunted he .patiently began the re
organization of bis collection. That
is the secret of his success, intense
interest In his subject and perserver
ence. (Professor Bruner has been honored
by the university and placed on half
time. Not only is he recognized here
but specialists in his chosen profes
sion in every land bow to 'Bruner of
Lincoln' as 'the man' when an exceed
ingly hard proposition is in need of
solution.
FACULTY AND ALUMNI
NOTES
Dean J. E. LeRossignol of the col
lege of business administration has a
review of the book entitled, "Ger
many's New War Against America,"
written by A. Michell Palmer, attor
ney general o fthe United States, in a
recent issue of the Review which is
published in New York City. The re
view traces clearly Mr. Palmer's pre
sentation of the part Germany is now
trying to play in the industrial world.
Prof. Rufus Bentley of philosophy
and educational psychology In the
University of Nebraska has resigned
his position in the university and will
return to his ranch in Callforna. The
courses which he has been offering
will be dropped for this semester.
Doctor Alexander, chairman of the de
partment, announces that he hopes to
secure some one to take them next
summer and next fall.
C. A. Sjogren, instructor in mechan
ics at the state university, has made
a trip to the east this past week to se
lect machine tools for the mechanical
engineering department, which the
war department Is selling to educa
tional institutions at 15 per cent of
their cost. Wednesday Professor Sjo
gren was in Cleveland, Ohio, and lut
er her went to Chicago and Detroit.
lope valley, the creation of additional
parks, and the publication of an up
to date map of the city of Lincoln.
Professor Albert Babbitt of the de
partment of mathematics has ten
dered his resignation to take place at
once. He has accepted the position
of secretary and actuary with the La
mar Life Insurance company of Jack
son. Mississippi. Professor Babbitt
came to the state university in Sep
tember 1916 from the university of
Minnesota. He is an asociate of the
American institute of actuaries (by
examination), a charter member of
the mathematical association of Amer
ica and a member of the American
statistical association and of the Phi
Kappa Phi.
News of the following alumni was
received this week at the alumni
headquarters on the city campus of
the state university:
Vesta Gray, '93. is teaching for the
sixth year at Santa Rosa, California,
where she is head of the chemistry
department both of the high school
and the junior college and is known
as one of the ablest educators on the
Pacific coast.
Shirley Dare Babbitt, Instructor in
the English department at the state
university, has resigned. His place is
filled with Paul Pendleton, A. B., of
Dennison, Ohio. Mr. Pendleton has
had some experience In the army.
Dean O .V. P. Stout, Arthur G.
Behrig and V. L Holllster of the en
gineering college have Ljen selected
as members of the city planning com
mittee. Professor Gehrig is secretary
of the commitee. The committee will
take up as Its principle activities such
propositions as planning new boule
vards, i civic center, a union station,
removal of the Rock Island from Ante-
Etta Gray Jones, '95, and her hus
tyand. E. O. Jones, law '96. have lived
continuously for twenty years at
Sioux Falls, S. D.. where Mr. Jones
has a lucrative law practice. Mrs.
Jones is active in history and political
science study. They have one child,
Enos Gray Jones, who Is a sophomore
In the University of Wisconsin. Mr.
Jones' law partner is B. C. Matthews
who graduated from the law school
of the university of Nebraska in '96.
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Woodward
(nee Lillian Cole, '07) have moved to
Chicago where Mr. Woodward will b?
metallurgical chemist at Rock Island
Arsenal.
Wayne F. Dickson who formerly
lived at Plattsmouth, and attended
the university of Nebraska about '08
or '09, died January 27 in Omaha. He
was a member of Sigma Chi and left
a wife and small daughter.
Hazel Davey who attended the Uni
versity of Nebraska. '04 to '06, is em
ployed in a bank at Plattsmouth.
Rex Leberman, '09, and Gerald
Franch, '10, state university, formerly
of Fremont, own and operate a quar
ter section in Yellowstone county,
Montana, with postofflce at PineTiew.
They also do some work as civil
engineers.
F. A. Snocker, '17. is principal and
teacher of mathematics in the Chase
county high school at Imperial.
Marie Robertson Westover, '15. I
deputy clerk of the district court at
Sioux Falls, S. D. She is also guard
Ian of a group of camp fire girls. Her
husband. Dr. R. P. Westover, B. Sc.,
'16. medical college. '18. university of
Nebraska, has built up a large practice.
Mr. and Mrs. Jay Brown (nee Claire
Dovey. '07)) now reside at 1561 War
ren Road. Lakewood, a suburb o
Cleveland. Ohio.
Mrs. A. D. Schrag. nee Harriet
Graves. '12, state university, writes
the alumni office from Davenport. Ne
braska, where Doctor Schrag is presi
dent of a bank. Formerly Dr. Schrag
was a member of the faculty at the
university. They now have a baby
boy In addition to their little daughter
Gretchen.
Harry White, "07, state university
Is In charge of foreign work T. M. C.
A. with headquarters at the central
association in Chicago. He and his
wife expect to return to India.
Ben Cherrington, '11, is internation
al secretary in the student depart
ment for the Rocky mountain district
Y. M. C. A.
Mrs. Robert Bowden, nee Lela Jean
Olmstead, '15, Is living at Edgernont.
S. D.
Mrs. Pauline Ohman. of Vttecr. Ne
braska, called at the headquarters of
the ' University of Nebraska aMmnl
Saturday to confer with the secretary
relative to starting a local associa
tion of alumni In Stanton county.