The Daily nebraskan
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1920.
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0 Driver.
,vy Day orator: H. P- Graven
,aard, Fred N. Hellner.
Senior Pln:
no you wish to adopt the
ne comhueker Pin for 19207
Do you wish to retain the
former pin?
JUNIOR BALLOT
President: James A. Lucas,
Harold E. McGlasson.
Member of publication board.
Earl Coryell.
Editor-in-chief of the Corn
husker: Jack Landale.
SOPHOMORE BALLOT
President: Gy C. Bowen, G.
8. 8alter.
junlo rmanaomo editor of the
Cornhusker: C H. Ross.
Business manager of the Corn
husker: Hugh Carson.
Member of publication board:
Roy 8. Wythers.
FRESHMAN BALLOT
President: Nell Bates, Wal
lace D. Craig.
Member of publication board:
Richard Reese.
The political scramble has reached
iij climax. The fatea of ten students
and the senior pin Issue will be de
cided before five o'clock this after
loon by the ballots cast at the polls
in room 108, Social Science building.
This 1b the first time that the Armory
has not been the scene of great poli
tical activity at election time.
Keen interest Is displayed in the
fire contested offices, those of the
four presidents and of Ivy Day orator.
Electioneering and pledging of sup
port have marked yesterday and to
day. Friends of the candidates are
jealous in. their support. An atmos
phere of contest pervades the campus.
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BID OF REGENTS
INCREASE SALARIES
OF FACULTY MEMBERS
Definite Steps Will be Taken
Wednesday to Give Profesors
Coveted Raise.
The Board of Regents meet Wednes
iy, February 18, to decide how much
can be devoted to increasing tho
alarles of the faculty. When this Is
known, the chancellor and secretary
ot the board will make adjustments
ii the budget In accordance with the
filing. The amended budget will be
preesnted about the first of March for
action.
Whon the board meets today, the
cMef subject of Interest will be the
question of a general increase of
"laries for the faculty of the Unlver
"J of Nebraska. This problem which
to heed both the faculty and the
tard will be met and a decision one
, wr or another will be made. It la a
rtud question that confronts not only
to faculty and the board but the
indent body as well, for there Is a
hfmger and Btronger tendency for
""lege professors to leave the profes
,loa IBd take a place In the business
rtl With an inadequate teaching
rce and the increasing difficulty in
Procuring competent men of the call
f needed In our university, action
or r against a bigger, greater, and
"fonger University of Nebraska must
m nude.
JHen the decision of the Board of
gents is known the budget for next
U1 be made by Chancellor
kilKi the 8ecretry of the board.
UBtments. according to the ruling.
h,"' and Presented about the
trn March for final action.
GOPHERS WILL ERECT
$385,000 STADIUM
Minneapolis, Minn., Feb. 17. The
University of Minnesota is going to
spend approximately $385,000 on a
new football stadium.
The Btadlum will be modeled on the
a seating capacity between 40,000 and
plan of the Yale bowl, and will have
60,000. The students want it on pres
3nt Northrop field, while some Minne
sota heads want it moved out to the
farm school, away from the campus,
and an inconvenient place.
Instead of the university paying for
't,. the athletic association will sell Ufa
seats to prominent members of the
alumni, to -be sold at any price that
the alumnus cares to pay. To start
with, the Gopher school has about
J100.000 surplus in the treasury.
PROFESSOR HILLER
COMES TO NEBRASKA
Michigan Instructor Will Take
Work in Insurance Mathematics
Formerly Given by Babbitt.
W. J. Hillor, A. B. '15, of the Uni
versity of Michigan, will take the work
'n Mathematical Insurance which was
formerly given by Prof. Albert Bab
bitt. Mr. Miller specialized in Mathe
matical Insurance under James W.
Glover, a consulting actuarist and
professor at the University of Michi
gan. Mr. Hiller came to Lincoln in 1915
as assistant actuary to the Bankers
Life Insurance Company. After eigh
teen months' service with the com
pany, he entered the army and was
commissioned a captain in the artil
lery. He left for overseas almost at
once and was graduated from French
and English artillery schools, being
one of the six Americans graduating
from Hie French school with honors.
In the spring of 1918 he was with the
English forces at Arras and with the
French at Verdun, and St. Mihlel. A
month later he was transferred to the
staff commander of American artillery
In France. In June 1918 Mr. Hiller
returned to the United States for a
period of four months to help in the
organization of American artillery
unts. Shortly after his return to
France he was detailed to the Depart
ment of Mathematics at the American
University at Beaune, Cote D'Or. Up
on his arrival here he was immediately
transferred to Oxford, but before
obeying this latter command was
ordered to return to the United States
for discharge from the army.
Mr. Hiller is a member of the Insti
tute of Acturarles, by examination,
and of the American Statistical Asso
ciation.
CONVOCATION
This morning at 11 o'clock
in Memorial Hall. Kenneth J.
Saunders, Oxford scholar and
traveller, will speak at a spe
cial convocation on "University
Life in Cairo, Egypt." Mr
Saunders" address will be given
in connection with the C. Steele
Holcombe campaign which be
gins today at noon.
Mr. Saunders is an English
man, born in South Africa, edu
cated at Cambridge, supported
by the American Y. M. C. A. and
is working in India. During the
war, he helped to organize the
work of the Indian army in
France.
NEW CAFETERIA
OPENED MONDAY
Reception to Faculty and Students
Given at Remodeled univer
sity Dining Hall in Temple.
1,000 PERSONS CAN BE
SERVED
S. S. ENGLISH DIES
SUDDENLY ON FRIDAY
S. 3. English, father of Dorothy
English, '21, who is a member of the
Nebraskan staff, died suddenly at his
home in Lincoln Friday evening. Mr.
English was secretary of the Schwartz
Paper Company, whose president
Charles F. Schwartz was graduated
from the university with the class cf
1896.
The new university cafetrla opened
yesterday morning. Heretofore the
cafeteria has been on the first floor of
the Temple building but it has been
moved into the basement of the same
structure.
The entire basement has been re
modeled and redecorated for the use
of the cafeteria, and for rooms for the
use of the faculty. The dining room
Is decorated in cream and white and
is equipped for a double serving line.
The kitchen has been refurnished and
has all modern improvements; includ
ing electric dishwashers, potato peel
ers and ovens. A suite of five rooms
has been set aside for the use of the
faculty men, and consists of a dining
room, a reading room, a game room, a
rest room, and a large hall. A cor
responding suit, has been arranged for
the use of faculty women. Both suites
are decorated in cream, and have bur
lap baseboards.
The rest of the basement has been
converted into a large storeroom
where large quantities of food may be
placed. This will enable the mana
gers to buy the food wholesale.
The old cafeteria was able to serve
only about six hundred peo;ile, but
now with a double line of serv.'ce and
a more efficient check system, it is
estimated that about a thousand can
be served easily. In the old cafettria
service has been given only at meal
time, but now the cafeteria will be
open all day. '
Monday the new cafeteria was
opened for a reception and the stud
ents and faculty were invited by Pro
fessor A. A. Reed to come and inspect
the rooms. Light refreshments were
served. A large number of students
and faculty members were present.
'FIJIS" FIND THAT BEVO
BRINGS ONLY ILL-LUCK
Chicago, Feb. 17. All the hard luck
that happened at the Phi Gamma
Delta fraternity at the University oi
Chicago has been heaped on the mas
cot, Bevo, and the dog is now adver
tised for a new owner.
In the last few weeks two men
have fallen on the ice, resulting In a
broken ankle for one and a broken
shoulder for the other. Another man
kicked his foot through the dining
room window and had his knee cap
servered. Then a freshman fell up
the front steps and sprained his ankle.
Bevo makes the third in a series or
hard luck mascots the "Fijis" havo
had. Last year it was a pole cate and
iehtning struck the house, and the
year before that it was a deodorized
skunk and the whole chapter got
scarlet fever. Who wants Bevo? He's
a good dog otherwise.
DID YOL KNOW THIS?
Far away from the haunts of men,
is a dusty room where the late after
noon sun streams in througli grimy
panes and the cob webs lead an unmo
lested existence. This abode is known
to the janitor as Room 8, U Hall. Al
though no password is required and
there are no secret springs or hidden
recesses, so far few people have been
able to find it unassisted. The seek
er for this mysterious abode must find
his way underneath the west stairs of
U Hall into a tiny, vile-smelling hall
that is blacker than the proverbial
Egypt. He hears the tick-tack of dis
tant typewriters and begins to grope
madly about for the knob of the door
which will admit him into the Inner
sanctum.
He first opens a door and finds him
self looking into a place full of waste
paper bales, and hastily departs. Much
swearing ensues. He discovers an
other door and pulls at the handle
with Joy, but it refuses to yield. More
oaths! With a few more sweeps
through the air, he comes in contact
with a third handle. He Jerks this
with a grim determination and bursts
into the much-sought room with a
crash. He stands there for a moment
and then flees in confusion. The next
time he enters with a show of vast
indifference and finds no one there.
So he takes his time and glances
around. There are several well, they
were once called chairs but now they
stand like drunken men trying to look
respectable. One old pioneer has been
deprived of its back and others are
mutilated. Then there are several
typewriters but then, let us not dwell
uDon these. These typewriters, as
one former part-time dweller hero has
well said, are "notoriously bum' and
make a good subject for discussion
among those present when the wea
ther and those absent have been dis
cussed. The radiator rattles and wa
ter drips down from the radiator In
the room above on to one of the
desks. The whole affair presents a cy
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WRESTLERS WILL
TRY OUT TODAY
Mat Artists to Compete for Posi
tions Before Game With
Omaha, February 23.
CHICAGO WILL NOT PLAY
HUSKERS
C. STEELE HOLCOMBE
From Dean W. G. Hastings
"Mr. Steele Holcombe was a suc
cessful student of law, remarkably so
for one who had so many side inter
ests. However, much he was distract
ed by student activities, he none the
less always maintained a high place
in his law classes during the one year
which he spent in the law school. He
was a tower of strength in maintain-
inc the honor and straightforward
sincerity of the work of that year."
From Dean Carl C. Engberg
"Mr. Steele Holcombe, one of our
graduates, who has Just gone to Egypt
us a missionary among the Moham
medan students, deserves the whole
hearted support of the men of this
university. I trust that every man
in the institution will feel that he has
a Dersonal duty and responsibility In
the good work which Mr. Holcombe
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Try-outs for positions on the uni
versity wrestling team which will
compete with Omaha at Omaha,
February 23, will be held this after
noon from four to six o'clock In the
chapel. The try-outs are open to all
university men, freshmen Included,
who are interested in wrestling.
Freshmen are eligible for the try-outs
but only upper-classmen will be chosen
for the team that will go to Omaha.
There are to be six classes, the 125,
135, 145, 158 175 and heavyweight.
One pound weight will be allowed in
the 125, 135 and 145 pound classes
and two pounds In the 158 and 175
pound classes. Contestants may be
weighed in any time after eleven
o'clock this morning at the gymna
sium. The try-outs will be continued
tomorrow afternoon at the same hours
if they are not finished today. All
contests will be under the W. I- G. A.
rules. The winner in each class will
have the right to wear the wrestling
emblem, N. W. T.
According to a letter received by
Dr. Clapp yesterday, Chicago will not
be able to send Its wrestling team to
Nebraska this spring. Negotiations
are now under way to secure another
Big Ten team for March 6, the last
day of the high school basketball
tournament.
Nebraska wrestlers have been work
ing out all through the winter in
preparation for the coming matches.
A number of men in each class have
shown up as promising material. The
list of wrestlers, according to classes
is as follows:
125" pound class: Troendly, Vo
tapka, Estes and Byrne.
135 pound class: Salter, Long,
Cushman, Kunge, Paulson and Power.
145 pound class: Wortz, Schreiber,
Isaacson, Detwiler and Bates.
158 pound class: Brock, Farmer,
Gillilan, Lambert, E. M. Sanstedt, A.
E. Sanstedt, I F. Smith, Splckler,
Thomas and Troutman.
175 pound class: Perry, Plckwell,
M. R. Smith and Dobson.
Heavyweight class: Hoyt, Dale,
Munn and Pucelik.
HOLCOMBE CAUPAI6H " V
IS LAUNCHED TODAY
Solicitors Will Canvass University
Men for Goal of $1,500 to
Support Worker in Egypt.
Today noon marks the opening of
the campaign to support the work of
C. Steele Holcombe among the stud
ents of Cairo. Egypt. Mr. Holcombe
after being graduated from the univer
sity in 1917 and then serving the col
leges of Nebraska as state secretary
of the Y. M. C. A., together with his
wife took up the work among the Mo
hammaden students at Cairo, Egypt,
The campaign is conducted under
the auspices of the University Y. M.
C. A. The goal is set at $1,500 and
it is the aim to have the total pledged
by Thursday night. One hundred work
ers will canvass the men. The c&a-
vassers, consisting of ten captains
with teams of nine helpers will meet
Tuesday noon at the City Y. M. C. A.
Red room for luncheon. Kenneth J.
Saunders, recently returned from
Egypt will speak and the campaign
will be launched. The luncheon will
begin promptly at twelve o'clock and
close ten minutes before one o'clock.
The following twelve reasons have
been submitted to illustrate why uni
versity men should support C. Steele
Holcombe In his work in Cairo, Egypt:
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ART GALLERY WILL
OPEN FOR STUDENTS
TUESDAY AT SEVEN
Interesting Group of Pictures by
Famous Painters Now on
Exhibition.
In order to accommodate students
who wish to attend the art exhibit, it
has been decided to open the Art Gal
lery Tuesday evening at seven o'clock
instead of eight. If the attendance
Justifies the new ruling it will continue
to be opened at seven o'clock.
The name of the central picture
which occupies space on the north
wall is "Sunlight and Joy" by Edward
Dufner, of New York City. Mr. Duf
ner was born in Buffalo in 1872. He
was a pupil of Whistler, Laurens in
Paris, and also studied in Madrid. He
won many prizes including honorable
mention at the Paris Salon and a
bronze medal at the Panama Exposi
tion at Buffalo. In addition to the
large picture mentioned previously he
is represented by two other can
vasses. One of the most interesting groups
of painters in America is the Taos
group, the members of which are de
picting the life ot New Mexico and
Arizona. One of the most Important
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MUSIC AT VESPERS
Vespers this week will be held in
Woman's Hall, at the UBual hour, five
o'clock Tuesday. A special musical
program Is being planned and it is
hoped that a large number of girls will
be present.
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