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he Daily Nebraskan Mf LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAKC1I 1, 1922. PRICE FIVE CENTS XOU XXI. No. 102. IBM TO GIVE A VARIETY SHOW III UUU SOOII Students Asked to Present Acts for Big Program to be Given Early in April. FEATURE STUNTS TO BE BIO ATTRACTION Tryouts for Variety Program to be Held Soon Mus,t Submit Names by March 7. Realizing that Lincoln people rare ly have a chance to see the best of university student talent in action, the university lyceum board has t.n aounced a variety program to be giv en Friday, April 7, at the Orpheum theater in Lincoln. The best talent possible to be obtained from among the student body will be feats: ed in the program. From eight to twelve acts will con stitute tl-e program. Dramatic acts, onect skits, comedy acts, musical acta and feature stunts are especial ly desired by the board. All sugges tions of stunts should be turned la at the student activities office. Any student in the university may try out for a part tn the piograni. Names of students wishing places tn the show together with the type oi act which they would like to take part in must be handed into the sla dent activities office before the eve nine of Tuesday. March 7. Selections of the casts will be made by the end of that week and wort: will continue steadily until the time for the big show rolls around. May Close Night. Friday evening. April 7, tho nigat a which ta big snr-w will ie pre wited. may be clo.'ex" to part"- and ofter attractions at the university. O. f ra'ions ar asked to co-operate tn 'bir by not planning an ewsnia ior thtt evening. rniversity week night, by which llic variety program will be permr-nently horn, is to be an annual event in Lincoln if the fiist show gosa food Lincoln people have long since la mmed the fact that the unlvcffclty sends much of its talent ont tn.o the state while it negleO V: .ntroduce tt;e prcdncts of the "u.-i-.vrsU' to the Wis :: home. Linoln n? re strong for the university .v. will un doubtedly back this variety :.:o?rair to perfection. University week, has leng been an important annual event in the life of the university. Teople throughout the ftate have long felt closely attached ti the Ccrahusker institution ct learning because of the tavorably im pression which the annual spring va cation program brought to tlu-5' t-wp by the university lyceum has made. Bet Lincoln people have not beeii al lowed to see university talent in ac tion and the variety program s pre sentfd for this reason. It come' th? week end following spring vaca;Io as is rather of an extension of UnS--:s;ty week. Very Best Talent Wanted. Only the very best talent in the university is wanted for the variety program. All students who have ability are urged to try out for places in order that the show may become one of the biggest things tb3 city of Lincoln bas ever witnessed in tie line of home talent productions. Stu dents th :!! rot fail to hand fa i.A rames before March 7 or to try out when they are called upon by the board. The program will be a rival cf tlie Shrine, DeMolay and Knights and Co lumbus acts. A large part oi the programs in each of these sbowr a a drawn from among University stu dents and the lyceum board (King a 171 of the university should be able to turn in Use best of these three (Continued On Page Four.l Kosmet K(ub try out continue this evening from 7 to 11 in iwm 301, Teachers College Building. Sign for a five minute tryowt in te Student activities WTtee today. "JSP HUSKER SWIMMERS WIN AMES CONTEST (Special to The Nebraska n.) The Nebraska swimming teat.i de feated the Ames swimmers by a score of 36 to 25 in a dual meet held M Ames yesterday. The Huskers tooK first placo in all but the breast stroke and plunge. First places were award ed to them in the 200-yard and 5300 yard free style, the fancy diving. back stroke, and relay. The Corn huskers who made the trip and par ticipated in the meet were: Capt. Neil Fhillips. Hugh Carson, Glen Pres ton, J. H. Graebing, and Goo. Lind- ley. The' team will reach Lincoln some time today. Mil CDCRVC iilUlttiUl Ul LKlkJ TO FROSHCTODENIS director of School of Fine Arts Addresses Freshmen. "It's pretty, but is it art?' said Eve concerning dam"s artistic at tempts, acording to Rudyard Kipling. Prof. Paul H. Grummann. Director of the University School of Fine arts. answered the question as the speaker of the freshman lectures this week. "There never was and never will be a perfect understanding as to what art is," declared Professor Grummann The idea of beauty changes grad- ally in every living being. For in stance, the plush photograph album once seemed perfectly beautiful to your eyes because it was associated with things that you knew and Iovo4. As time we at by. it did not seem so pretty and finally it was consigned to the furnace as a detestable thins which none but a boob could think anything of. "This shifting of taste," said Pro fessor Grummann. "is unconscious and is done by shifting one's environ ment or viewpoint, by means of trav eling vr look is V picture. Yet M-ae men who are widest travelers know the least, and although they have traveled over ha't the world, it ras done most of the time through reading a novel so that they have obtained no new view point. Profesor Grummann went on to say that this fact that seeing is not a mere mechanical operation but a mental one hase been known for ovei one hundred years, yet the method? now in use at the public schools are indirect variance with this theory. Children are given glasses to cor reot their eyesight but they are given teachers who do not know how to so: straight themselves. In these prac tical days, art and music are the last thins that are receiving any atten tion, while the so-called practical "R's" are taught without giving chil dren any training in seeing or heorin? their way about the norld in nhich they live. "Snobbishness" declared Professor Grummann "is the worst enemy of art. One form of this is fouid in the teacher who insists that her pu pils see beauty in thines which are called beautiful by authorities. The good Ltle girl who does as she is told is commended while some other pu pil who stands up for bis right is corrected and thus he imbibes a nate ofr the arts which never leaves him. "Art" as defined by Professor Grum mann. is nothing more or less than an expression of the emotions ia pic tures, music, literature or the crafts. The artist who despise craftMnen is a cad himself, and no really great artist ever lived who was not as proud of his efforts in craftsmanship as he was in his masterpiece. Artistic homes are not the ones with picture and statuary, necessarily, but the ones in which the common things are or derly, harmonic and clean. UNI PROFESSORS AID IN INITIATION Prof. Theodore T. Bullock, of the faculty of the college of business ad ministration, addressed the chamber cf commerce at Pierce, Nebr, recenti. Prof. Bullock spoke on the topic, "It Europe Pays Her Debt." His address was the first of a series of such meet ings planned by the chamber during the year. "ADAM AMD KOSMET HIS FDR ANNUAL PLAY i All Students Eligible to Seek Po sitions in Cast of Big Mu sical Comedy. MANY TRY FOR PLACES IN SHOW ON TUESDAY Applicants Asked to Sign for Time in the Student Avtivities Office. Tryouts for the Kosmet Klub 192? musical show, which were begun last evening on the first floor of teacheis' college building, will be contiuusd this evening. Students will probably not be given ,the full five minutes to give their songs, readings or dances on account of the fact that so many have signed for Wednesday evening. The tryouts will be held from 7 la 11 in the same room as last night before the committee from Kosmet Klub. Students wishing to try out are asked to sign up at the student activities office during the day. The list of five minute periods for this evening was almost exhausted Tues day and therefore the play commit tee has announced that students will be be given an apportunity to try out altho not signed up. This reason for this change is that many of the peo ple do not use the allotted five min utes and others can be heard between times. Indication are that the judges will be busy during the entire four hours. Several fraternities and sororities have signed for a certain time as a group and more than one of the mem bers appear at a time. The response to the call for persons to be in the choruses and to take the principal parts in the production is very tu" ing to the Klub members who are watching the tryouts. The musical comedy which is to l? given at the Orpheum theater on Maj 1, has about fifteen good speaking parts which do not require a great deal of memorizing, so the committee members feel that the play is especi ally well adapted to giving many men and cc-eds a chance to show their dra matic ability. Competition for tVe mens' parts was not as keen as for the co-ed parts last night and te judges say that a good ch?n-e trr several more men is left open. A piano and accompanies! haco beea provided by the club for thos3 who wish to use them in their tryouts The piex.es to be used during tl-e try outs are to be selected by 'J. indi vidual and are not furnished by the committee. In the Tuesday evening tryouts. the applicants sang popular songs, or clever readings and some of the co-eds gave little dances. BASKbTBALL TOURNEY TO BE BIGGEST EVER Two Hundred and Thirty Teams Send in Papers for Entry in World's Largest Cortest. Two hundred and thirty odd teims have sent In applications for entrance in. the state basketball tournament for Nebraska high schools to be beld in Uneoln March 9, 10 and 11. The Nebraska contest of high basket teams will be the largest ever held in the world. The teams entering the tournament will probably be divided into fifteen classes of sixteen teams each. Every gymnasium in the city will be used daring the contests. The athletic de partment of the university has charge of the contests and the "X" men do a great deal of the work. Teams from every prt of the state will come to Lincoln for the big event Some 2,000 cagest?r will compete for first honors in the several divi sions. Leading teams fn the class A division are Lincoln. Omaha CCom merce, Omaha Central. Crelgbton and 111 Lantern Lecture Classes Are Real Easy Until The Next Exam "Breathes there a stud-Mi' with" of course we all breathe with our iungs, but have you ever breathed the enchanted air of a lantern lec ture class? If, by chance, you havo never had the opportunity of taking a peaceful nap in the dark of a lan terned class you have, missed part of your lif a-, yea verily. If students only knew that the morrow would biin this restful class they could burn more of the early morning oil than their usual custom but sad faU, these classes are only pleasant sur prises. The symbols of a lantern-lecture class are darkenwl' Windows (and stuffy atmosphere conducive to the charms of Morpheus. The lullaby with which your infantile mind is put to such a sound, sleep that you know not time or place, Is the croohing voice of the instructor as he goes over the explanation of countless slides. You snap out of your would be lantern joy-ride as the machine gives a final protesting squeak end the few wakeful toss up the 6Lade6 and throw up the windows and let in the bright sunshine and cold air for which spring is the symbol. If this happv dream could only keep on forever! Alas at the very next meeting of the class when you ate counting faithfully on a repetition of the "napping class" the instructor comes In with a bale of paper sud a mischieveous look, and hurls at yo even as the thunderbolt drops from the sky, a wicked exam on the pre vious lecture. Tour mind refuses to work, being a union mind, and even with the utmost racking it cannot give up its secrets which you think it might have absorbed whils you slept You berate your mind, call it GLEE CLUB IS LATEST GftMPUS ORGANiZATIOH Group cf Men Launch Plan for a Male Glee Club at the University. FVeCing that the proper sort of singing and the singing of the prop -r type of songs at the University of Nebraska will do more than aKnost any other th"-x to meld a loyal stu dent body, a movement haa btx-u started by a group of students anil Harold F. Holts .secretary of the alumni association, to perfect a male giee club. The new musical organiz a.!on is not to be in competition with IK' chorus. Tlie gUe club will be a means o: stimulating singing on the univers ity campus. Membership will be se cured as in all other lines of studen activity, with the same amount o: credit going to those who gain en trance as goes to thof-e who get inic ihe University Players, on the de bate team or any other school or ganization. Judges will pass n all students trying out for membership in the club. Membership in the glee club is to be limited. An attempt will be made to make the club reflect credit on Nbraska through the programs which it will give, and the members it will have, and so be truly representative of Nebraska Nebraska has long needed a glee club, not so much for the organization itself as for the things which a glee club can accomplish for the univers ity- Lack of singing at Nebraska Is a common discussion at meetings ot Ne braska alumnL The former students, having left the school, feel very deer !y the lack of ability to sing Nebraska songs. They were never taught the songs when they were in school and they feel the bad result now. All freshmen coming into the uni versity should be taught at least a half dozen university songs as one of the first requirements. If every freshman would learn university songs, within a short time every stu dent would know a substantial num ber of songs and the university would increase its "pep" through the in creased singing mhich would result Wahoo. lazy and tricky whilo you cast your wistful eyes around to see if any ire could have a better mind and have heard the lecture. It is useless, your fellow-sufferers have the same blank look and bo while you loiter througii the hour praying for the iuspli ntica that doesn't come, your tricVy mind is going through mental cnlest.'teuica and has already packed your trunk and wired your folks. Beware thoae "napping classes," they are only a blind to a ticket home and a mean welcome from your parents. FRESHiYAN GLASS ELECTS OFFICERS Committees for Second Semester Are Appointed at Class Meeting. Election of the minor freshmen of ficers was held yesterday at a class meeting in the social scienct audi torium. Committees for the coming semester were announced and plaas disclussed for home-coming week. The officers elected were: Vice president, Ronald Button, sec retary, Gertrude Broadwell, treasurer, Marcia Fallmer; sergeant-at-aitus. J. R. Johnson. This class meeting was the lirgesi held this semester partly due to the system of advertising put through by President Wendell Berge. The meet ing was announced for room 101 in the social science buili::ij. but that large room proved too small ar-d the class moved to the social science tu- ditorium. Mr. Harold Holtz, secretary of tlie Nebraska alumni association, spoke at some length on the alumni week and its purposes. This is the largest class meeting that I have attended for some time," said Mr. Holti. "The senior, sopho more and junior meetings were muc'a smaller. It shows a fine interest to see such a turnout and speak3 will for the future of ti:e class, as records say that the classes which tu:n out best in the first place are the ones which show the most spirit in the end. "The alumni organization and tae student body have for some time stood aloof from each other and acted as though there was no bond bctwei-n the two groups. There is one thing that never changes about tho univer sity, and that is the fact that tax payers pay the bills. "There are 43.000 or so alumnse" Mr. Holtz continued, "a'nd yel on"y 960 of these pnid their dues last year. If all these thousands were lt reetly interested in the univei s.'ty. men wot:ld be sent to the legislature who would give appropriations wi.h cut being begired for them. The sta. dent body has failed in i's task cf selling itself and the university to tl.e tax-payers of Nebraska. "Last June." said Mr. Holtz. "tl.e alumni .-ssociation talked over tn. situation and decided that the only remedy would be- to do as is done at many Institutions, and that is to have one general homeomine week li st ead of about fifty naTI ones ss is the present custom here. Most of the organizations have consented and It Is pow your duty to make It a su! cess and sell the university to taxpayers." Plans for the next year's Olympics were discussed briefly and It was dc cided to have the athTetic committee begin work now to help beat the freshmen of next year. The committees appointed wcrr as follows: Publicity: Maurice Wing, chair man; Wfiifred Mayhew. Charles Adams, Isabel .Evans, Elmer Gustaf son. Social Pauline Gellatly. cha'rman; Irvin Jetter. Kathleen Raugh, Leo Ford. Madonna Authier, Clarence Eickoff. Dolores Bosse, Harold Egcr- ton. Alumnae week Amrette Pa-dec chairman; VeYrne Moynaham, Carlot ta Cheyney, James Cooper. Lillian (Continued On Page Four.) VA? 9 BULLDOGS 11 GAGE CONTEST FROM HUSKERS Drake Basketeers Victors by a 29 to 15 Score at Coliseum Tuesday. NEBRASKA TO CLOSE SEASON ON FRIDAY Kansas Aggies to Meet Huskers Here for the Last Home Game. The CornhusKer basket tosseis, un able to locate the basket, Tell befoie the onslaught of the D'-aVe quintet, 29 to 13 in a slow game at the coli seum last night. The Nebraska five was outclassed by the speedy Bulldog cagers. Payseuer and Boeltor of the Bulldogs divided the scoring. honos, Payseur getting 11 points and Boelter ten. Soon after the opening whistle sounded the Bulldogs went into the lead and were never headed. During the first half the Husker flippers played a loose guarding game as:d the Bulldogs rolled up a totall of seven teen points largely through the efcrts of Boelter, the Bulldog guard, who caged four baskets during the first period. Nebraska had only been abla to garner nine points, the result ct field goals by Carmen and Warren snd a free throw by Riddlestfrger. The score at the end cf tlie first pe riod was: Drake, 17; Nebraska, 9. The second half was but a repetW tion cf the first. Every Bulldog get a basket during this period and the Drake score was boosted to 29. The Nebraska cagers seemed at a loss to hit the hoop. ?.nd missed many easy shots. Cafmen and Warren plaed the best game for the Nebraska ca?e art ists, each tossing three field joals. A crowd of three hundred Nebraska students watched the game. Neliaska will close the home cage sersr.n Fri day nicht when they will meet the Kansas Agsie quintet on the coliseum floor. Drake ft pf tf pt Payseur. f 3 5 1 0 11 Wilhelm. f 1 0 0 1 2 Smith, c 2 0 0 3 4 Divine, g - 1 0 0 0 2 Bcelter. g 5 0 0 0 10 Totals 12 5 1 1 29 Nebraska Smith, f rarmen, f Warren, c Riddlesbergcr, g Russell, g Kohl, g - Tipton, f Spear, f e ft pf tf pt 0 0 2 5 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 G 0 Totals 1 4 6 15 Reftree Quisley. St. Mary's; Time keeper Johnson; ; scorer Buffett. CO-ED COMMERCIAL CLUB MEETS TODAY Mrs. A. Klein, manager cf the" Schmoller & Mueller Piano Cc . will conduct a "Music Hour" at the Wo man's Commercial club meeting. Wed nesday at 5 o'clock. S. S. 107. Mrs. Klein will be ass.sted by Miss Mar garet Perry, and will have an Emer son accompano sent up for th? meet ing. This instrument reproduces the human voice almost perfectly and Is something entirely new in the musc line. Mrs. Klein has had much experience in the music business and is a very interesting speaker. Tlie meeting is open to university girls of all cal.eges. Any man in school whe hat had pole-vaulting experience or who would I'ke to pole-vault, re port to me at 4:30 in the arm ory this afternoon. HENRY F. SCHULTE. THDRS. FRI. -AMD SAT.-