Nebraska Newspapers

    he Daily Neb r ask an
VOL XXI. XO. 131.
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 19:
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KET SCHEDULED
fraternity Championship in the
Track Will be Decided in
Big Meet
FINAL DRAKE RELAYS
TRYOUT AT SAME TIME
Fast Races are Expected to Fea
ture the Varsity Tryout For
Drake Meet
Thj interfratenityi trrack meet
and the final varsity tryouts for the
Drake Relays will be held Saturday
afternoon on Nebraska field. An un
usual amount of interest is being
manifseted in the carnical of cinder
path athletes Saturday, and the meet
lift Saturday, which surpassed all
firmr home meets from every stand
point.' '"'ill doubtlessly be eclipsed.
The plans lor the affair call for
three M-parate competitions in every
evert. Inter-fraternity, varsity and
BOTire or numeral competitions will
s; W conducted. Thus those not
rnrticipating In the inter-fraternity
t the varsiiy races will be given an
opportunity to compete.
Varsity Outlook
The outlook for the rarsity team
jf constantly growing brighter. The
squad cf athletes has been steadily
incTKii-inz. New men are repcrting
ei-err uight and are showing up well.
C;ach Schulie declares the perfcr
Eisnce? in several this year events
wEl tetter the marks made by any
psst track team at the Husker insti
tution. Tie varsity mile run Saturday
jr rinses to be a feature of the pro
gram. Six stellar millers will cora
jxr in this event. Allen. Coats. Fis
cher. Nichols. Slemmons and Card
Bfr, the fastest sestet of mile run
trs that Nebraska has ever pos
sessed, will contend for places on the
Entier four-mile teem. Allen, Oma
valley indoor, while Cardner captured
firft honors in the half mile ran at
the same tnwt. Coats won the 1Q(
ji. handicap race at the Kansas City
Aty-tic Club indoor meet, the other
niL-TS in the mile are comers and
will run a strong race.
Tli'-garter-mile dash Saturday will
also 1 a hotly contested race. Ken
s-tii Hawkins, winner of tie quarter
at i''" Valley indoor, heads the list
if cu'-rter-milers. A number of other
fiiM class dash men. including Ted
fir. it h. "Red Lay torn, Davidson, Be-j
rti.-T-3 i,rjd McCarthy, wai run in the
garter.
Th- H ushers working cut in the
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RHtHN
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FOR SATURDAY
Gifts of Classes Gone-by Have
In yesu-i gone by. the University
of Nebraska ha.s ben the recipient
tf rj umber of gifts from the gradu
atjrg classes. Manny of these gifts
iiive juijerefticg stories attached to
li-ta which mark them as trea.fur-i
itui.h to be cherished in the beans
rf Nebraska stndents. few of whom
ttn5C3-i)c5ousljr make note of bee
awry present!.
All of the gifts wbkh tare been
riu to the University by its grada
fcUi will be fond reminder! to these
olt rrads of their eventful years at
tie University when they return the
Irst week In June to be present at
tie big Cornhnsker Romnd-cp. They
will recall witli a warm beart the
1-ttle interesting straggles which they
e?.t tiuvBgh while in th Com-lui-r
Institution and these gifts will
b" the rnesmi of further Increasing
Heir Interest and love for Nebraska.
Usivenpit students boa!4 realiie
tiis and fhould look on these rh't
traditional properly of the tiniver
2ty whkb. It tlgtly raluei
Probably the roost interesting of
3 these gifts is the big boulder
iVn stands between the library and
bls' ration building. Rarely
tkuurht of by students as a rock with
stirring history, the boulder ta
5x.tEse?7 Interesting past
a Wanted "Indian Roc-"
'"ay back in M2 when a group (A
-Trlty of Xebraska itndects were
Vmisg to receive their f nal papers
HANDFUL OF NEW CAPITOL
GROUND NOW IN MUSEUM
A specimen was secured and pre
sented to the University of Nebraska
Museum, which seemed commonplace
at the moment but will undoubtedly
be viewed with great interest fifty to
a hundred years hence. While Mar
shall Joffre was officially engaged in
breaking the ground for the new cap
ital, Saturday, April 15, Mr. Gracin
C. Garner secured a handful of the
first ground turned by the plow. A
similar specimen now possessed by
Mr. Garner's father obtained at the
Battle of Gettysburg, is now sought
by various Museums as a curio of
great interest. Mr. Garners donation
to the University Museum will have a
like interest at some time.
PUftllS TO PRESENT
i PROGRAM
"The Neighbors" to be Given at
Thursday Assembly An
nounce Winners
Presentation of the play "The
Neighbors" by the University Pljyers
and announcements of the students
winning the honor of Alpha Rho Tau
will be the program for the convoca
tion at 11 o'clock Thursday morning.
The play, a one-act comedy by Zona
Gales, wri'er of the prize winning
play last year, -Miss Lulu Belt," will
ni2 for forty minutes after which the
students wincing the fine arts schol
arship hencis will be announced.
Alpha Rho Tau corresponds to Phi
Bea Kappa as an honorary organiza
tion. Students in the college of fine
arts are n't eligible to the P. B. K.
honors and Alpha Rho Tau rakes that
place. The same quaiifjeaniens are
put on the honor as is rut on "Phi
Beta Kappa. Any student in the fine
arts college cr in the arts snd sciene
college, holding a major in any of
the fine arts, music, dramatics or
painting, is eligible to Alph2 Rho Tai
horwrs-
The cast for the play "The Neigh
bors' follows:
Miss Abel Louise Cook
Miss Moran Myrtle Carpenter
Miss Tret Vera Carter
Grandma - Irma McGowan
Ezra Charles Adams
Inez Katherine MaJchelt
Peter Kenneth Met calf
Miss Ellsworth - Helen Wiggins
Syracuse University The members
and graduates of the History depart
ment have a bag May Day celebra
tion. The original celebration was
called Book Day. when e-ach year's
history classes and alumni presented
books to the reference library.
G0NV0CATI01
Before and After Coming to
las a reward for for year of bard
effort, the officers and members ot
that class decided it would be fine to
leave a memory of their attendance
at Nebraska. A committee of which
James Boyd MacDooald then of
North Platte and n.tw of Omaha, wa
chairman, searched long and earn
estly for a suitable gift to leave with
their alma mater. D-an C. C. Eng
berg and Professor Louise Pound
were members of this class.
Just about this time Professor Bar
boar was working to secure a large
bolder from near Hartington. Nebr,
for Iowa College. XegotiUxms were
practkaHy completed whereby the
Iywa school was to acquire the rock
'fbe stone bad been deposited at
Hartington In the glacial movements
of centuries ag. In the movement it
had becejme fattened out. Every kind
of inscription appeared on the rock.
B-ut before Iowa defniU-ly acquired
the right to lie boulder. MaeDonaJd
and bis committee got busy and In
Caenced Professor Barbour to get Ne
braska rights on the rock. So ac
cordingly the boulder was imported
from Hartington and placed In the
w)t where It stands today, a symbol
of Indian war days, of early Nebras
ka LUtory. "4 containing a world
of secrets of infinite Talne if H could
only be revealed, fads which bare
never bn unearthed by living roan,
ft w known then as "Indian Rock"
Today the rock stand cm the Ne-,
ELECTION OE OFFICERS
FOR W. S. 6. JL TODAY
Girls of Various Classes Will Vote
in Library From 9 Until
5 O'clock
The annual W. S. G. A. election of
officers will take place at the polls
in the Library from 9 to 5 tomorrow.
The senior members of the board,
Betty Scribner, Ruth Fickes, Ruth
Lindsay and Mary Sheldon, will be in
charge of the polls. Only active mem
bers, those who have paid their dues,
will be eligible to vote.
Betty Riddell, nominee from the
sophomore class, has withdrawn her
name fro mthe list and has been re
placed by Beatrice Baud, who re
ceived the next highest number of
votes.
The complete list of nominees ' as
they will be voted upon are:
Juniors: Betty Kennedy, Margaret
Stid-erthy. Muriel Allen,, Florence
Price, from which nest year's presi
dent must be elected; other juniors
are Ruth Kadel, Adelheit Dettman.
Elizabeth Montgomery and Mildred
Hullinger. The junior receiving the
second highest number of votes will
become vice president, the three nest
highest will serve as board members.
S"j l.cmores: Margaret Hager, Jean
Holtz. Eleano- Dunlap. Margaret Wat
tles. J.'eHie Dye. Ruj Miller s.nd
Beatrice Baird. The highest sopho
more will serve as secretary to nest
year's board. .nd the nest three high
est as members of the board.
DEAN OF IOWA STATE
m DC nT'pnuu
Prcmicent Engineer Will Address
Nebraska Students on Thurs
day, April 27th
The Engineers half been fortunaite
in securing Dean Anson Marston of
Iowa State College as speaker for
convocation. Thursday, 11 a. ra.. April
TTth. His subject will be "A General
Discussion of Engineering Education."
De&n Anson Marston has been Dean
of the Engineering Department of the
fow State College since 1HM. During
the wtr he was given leave of ab
sence from th college and was com
missioned a Major commanding the
1st Batallion Iowa Engineers. July 5,
1S17. Later he was promoted to Col
on'. I, commanding lWth Engineers.
An an engineer be is of national
reputation. He Is chairman of the
Iowa State Highway Commission; a
member of the National Research
Council: American Society of Civil
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braika campus, the marks of the In
dian symbol almot unreadable, but
a solemn reminder of the old gradu
ates of a quarter century ago and
of the Nebraska history of long be
fore that.
Barbour Designed Fountain
Another historic emblem of by gone
Undent is the fountain which stands
a little north and east of the boulder.
Designed by Professor Barbour, the
fountain tands as a reminder of
the students who finished their
courses at Nebraska In the year
While probably not containing as
much aparent interest as the boulder
the rocks contained In the fountain
may bare seen as much interesting
events of Nebraska's past as the
boulder can claim. Erelted with
ioua quartrite glacier boulders, the
fountain l a simple affair costing a
scant Wt. But while It Is timple,
it Is symbolic and very clever of de
sign. Lacking the usual finery of
many modern fountains which are
de!gned by experts In architecture,
the fountain never grows tired to the
eye of Cornhuikers. Its rough finish
is pleasing and there is not the dis
satisfaction la this reminder of the
das of 1S'7 that is felt for many
of the finer fountains found about
Lincoln.
The next gift, of which an interest
ing record Las been unearthed, is the
fun dial which sandi between the
boulder and the fountain. Simple of j
OCAiN
PHARMACY
COIllTTEEb
inn
START PLANS ON WEEK
Annual "Pharmacy Week"
Begin on May 2 Many
New Novelties Planned
to
"To prove that limes have changed"
will be the aim of the students ot the
College of Pharmacy in their annual
Pharmacy Week this year. We have
all read about the ancient alchemist
who reigned in some dark mysterious
bole and tried to make gold from lead
when he was not occupied in his real
profession as the apothecary. One of
bis favorite sidelines it is rumored,
was to furnish tickets to eternity via
the poison route.
Committees are active making ar
rangements for one of the best cele
brations of its kinds ever staged at
Nebraska. Acording to present plans
the festivities wiJl begin Tuesday.
May 2, with a pharmacy convocation.
Wednesday night will be "Pharmacy
Night" at which time the door3 of
the College will be thrown open to
everybody and the inner workings
of the profession revealed. All of
the machinery of the college will be
running rnd every form of prepara
tion in which a drug is administered
will be shown in the process of manu
facture. Thursday the college will
take part of the day off and have
picnic. It has not been definitely de
cided yet where the picnic will be
held but at present Crete seems most
probable. Friday night the banqutt
will furnish a grand and fitting cli
max for the week.
HUSKER VARSITY NINE
TRIMS THE YEARLINGS
Practice Game Features Workout
Prepartory tc Return Clash
With Coyotes
The Varsity and freshmsn baseball
squads staged a bard workout at
Kock Island Part yesterday after
noon. The Husker Varsity nine
drtibled the frosh in a fast practice
battle.
Cofcch Frank is potting the Husker
diamond scuad JhroMgh o series of
practices in preparation for the game
with Wfcsan next Saturday. Re
ports from the Coyote camp say the
Methodists will invid the Husker
caii Saturday with a lighting aggre
gation determined to grab the long
tni cf the score. Coach Frank ex
pects the Methodists to put cp a
n.iicli harder fight than they did in
the last game.
Manger and "Lfty" Wiliarcs were
on the mound nwrt of the t5m in
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Interesting Histories
design as is the fwuntasn, the dial
has bad an iciere-stlrjg life in its
brief stay at Nebraska.
The gift committee of the class of
Vj'j'J worked long and bard on a suit
able remembrance to leave the uni
versity. Finally It was decided a sun
dial would be appropriate. So some
students commenced to ask astron
omy professors about the construction
of such a piece. Professor Swezc-y
was appealed to but no mention made
that a gift was being contemplated
ferenc-e were given to the sun dial
for the University. San dial reference
were given to these students and
after a careful study of the construc
tion and nature of dials, an order for
an Instrument was made oaL Within
a few weeks time, the dial arrived
and was set np.
Lo and behold, the dial registered
nearly a half hour off time. Super
intendent of Grounds Field was ap
pealed to and be In tarn questioned
Professor Swezey In regard to the
fault An investigation followed and
Professor Swerey discovered that the
dial bad been made for a location
with an entirely different elevation of
the sun than at Lincoln. So be de
signed very carefully a dial for Lin
coln and a new stone was cut. The
dial now regaters within a very few
minutes of the correct time and is a
fair example of anciect time pieces.
When the tan dial was first put up.
It wis quite an attraction, nothing of
the sort baring been seen in Lincoln
PERSHING COLLECTION
ON EXHIBITION TODAY
The Pershing fcollectin, consist
ing of several hundred examples of
Philippine weapons, was placed on
exhibition yesterday. This collection
has no equal in any museum. Owing
to the large number of implements, it
proved necessary tocrowd t!u-m, but
they are so arranged that spears,
heading swords, landtaka and the like
may be seen. The coats of mail, hel
mets and landtaka are displayed on
the wall of the case. Some of the
swords and spears are s-j.-penled
from the ceiling, whiie the most re
markable individual examples of
swords and spears are laid where
they can bo Inspected wi-.h greater
ease.
RACQUET
WILLJLAY TODAY
Four Single Matches Will be Held
at Three O'clock With
City Team
The Cornhusker tennis team will
open the season this afternoon when
they will meet the Lincoln ci'y rac
quet wielders in four single matches
at three o'clock on the University ci
Nebraska tennis courts. T;.e Nebras
ka lineup for the op-nnz matches
of the dual meet wirh the Lincoln net
stars will be as follows: Rcb-rt Rus
sell, Minor SkallVrg. B:yc- Craw
ford, and Conrado Limjooo. The Lin
coln team will be selected from a
large squad of stellar performers in
the net game.
The Husker net players have been
practicing daily for several weeks
and are in fine condition for the daal
meet. All the men on thv University
team are experienced players of no
mean ability, and cn be counted up
on to play an excellent brand of ten
nis. The meet with the city players will
be followed by a number of home
meets, including ia!er-o!se, n?er
fraternity, an-! inter-class meets. The
big event of the season for the rac
quet wielders will be the Missouri
Valley conference meet at Lawrence.
Kansas, in May.
Chicago University Harold Lewi?
has been named captain of the Chi
cago University football team nest
fall. He will succeed Milton Romney
capta'n--IecL, who was recently tie
clared ineligible. Roirtney's case was
peculiar, in that be was too intelli
gent rather than the opposite. 11
tcok enough work in three years to
ccme within one point of gradxaticn.
Were he to stay in e:hoel he w&:i!d
have to graduate In Jir:e.
Nebraska
before. Consequently, small chillren
'took It upon themselves to investigate
I Into the matter. As a rest.lt the
ujeiai on l-e u waft -'
pried off and has bad to be replaced
At the present time, the instrument
is in good working order.
The large clock, which Has already
seen its best days, was placed on the
library building by members of the
class of 1912. The clock, which Is
run by electricity, has a different re
gulating system than the other clocks
on the campus and consequently It
has been out of order most of the
time since It was installed. It now
lacks both of the bands and demaint
on the library only as a reminder of
the class of 1312.
Iran Fence for Cows
Wbs'le not a class gift, the Iron
fence has one of the most Interesting
histories of any ancient reminders
of the University of long ago.
Lo and behold, the dial registered
Back In the days when E. B. Can
field was chancellor of the University
of Nebraska, Lincoln was a little vil
lage. People in the town, as a side
Issue to their daily routine, kept cows
snd these four-hoofed domestic beasts
often made use of the university cam
pus is a grazfng ground. Chancellor
Canfield and a few other of the Unl
versfty notables did not exactly like
tbfs and tbey plotted to hare a fence
put up.
Af'er a long period of hard work in
securing the funds, the iron fence
HANDICAP
I
FOR NEXT WEEK
Tournament Will Be Under Di
rection of Dr. Clapp and
Coach Troendley
MEET WILL BE OPEN
TO ALL UNI WRESTLERS
Large Number Have Already
Signfied Intentions of En
tering Contests
A handicap wrestling meet, with
the entry list open to all ih grapples
in the University will be conducted,
beginning at four o'clock next Tues
day afternfKn. April 25rli. All entries
f-r this handicap meet will be ac
certod at room G 2-H cf the Armory
before 10 o'clock of the diy of the
meet. AH classes of wresMers except
the heavyweights must weigh in be
tween 1- rnd 1 o'clock of that day.
TVe handicap meet is another tour
r.amect originating ia the desire to
develop a goid supply of grapplers
for the 1J-22-23 wrestling squad. All
.r.for:::: t:n of the subject of wrest
ling v be furnished by Dr. Clapp
"-r Assistant Wrestling Coach Troen
dly 'pon inquiry.
The w-iest'.c-rs will be allowed the
us"al devK-tkn cf two rounds in their
weight : nd the handicap will be af
fix '1 alter the weighing in. The meet
is fpen to all comers regardless of
whether ih-y have previously com-pe'f-d
in varsity matches or not.
Ia this handicap meet it is she ob
ject cf the management to handicap
men of the better class so that the
matches wi':l be fair thronghonf. The
handicap will vary from match to
match and may be in the nature of
eatising the better man to throw his
opponent in a given time. These han
dicaps will vary according to the men
in the contest and the matches will
all be set on a race even plane than
in the p-ast contests.
University of California The State
Agricultural Education commission
left last Wednesday on a visit to
ten colleges to compare the organiza
tion, efixprrient. and methods of in
struction ia these icstfttttlcn.. They
will Vslt Oregon Azriciiltara! Col
lege, Montana Ag College. Mir.nesoM
State Ag College, wiscc-nsir) State Ag
College. Iowa State Ag c'i.'Z". Uni
versity of niinals, Parl-e University,
Agricultural College of Ontario at
Gssetph. Ontario. Crr.e'4 Ualver sity
asd Amherst College.
University
h:cn r.(. sarTCBJiGS u.e j.ut
of tie (tarrip-iii was erected i-nd the
!-as weie fo.led. The fence cow
rii.vi. its ong.L-1 valti as a block
U,r ttro lirug cows gone, ts a monu
rr.ejjt Vj the University's early Lis
u:y. a rerr.ir. !'-r of he tr.'ditions ot
the Utiivej-r.it , r:.ar;y cf which bava
l'ng f.n'c been pl;ce.rj to one sld
by te cnrtshjr.g gerjeri.tSor.s of stu
dents. T3-s few are r.ct the or.l interest
ing features on the earrpt:s. The Un
der tree, which stands jt north of
the big stone bench, a gift of the class
of 1&05. which has seen many bun
dreds of students trying frantic ally to
absorb assignments from s'errn pro
ferssors, has had a dramatic Ifie. Af
ter a number cf unsuccessful afempts
the rrt-o, which Is of German origin.
was finally induced to grow an cam
pus soil, we-hn the German club of
Lfncoln planted the tree on May 9,
I'ih'i. as a celebration honor on the
hundredth anniversary cf the death
cf Schiller, famous German poet A
program appropriate to the occasion
was given and a plate telling of the
event placed by the tree.
When the United States and Ger
many were at war and the University
was a camp for the Sv A. T. C. and
the S. X. T. C, some stud'nts got the
notion that the tree should be de
stroyed because of Its German origin.
Fast and Intelligent talking was neo-
sary before peace was restored an4
the tree allowed to remain undis
turbed.
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