MISSIONARY FROM
ARABIA TO VISIT
HERETO DAYS
n,. Harrison to Address Stu
dents Concerning His
Medical Work
in East.
IS NEBRASKAGRADUATE
Proirrani Planned for Visitors
from Abroad to Travel
in America for
Year.
Dr. Paul Harrison, who has been
for the past fourteen years a medical
missionary in Arabia, will be in Lin
coln Tuesday and Wednesday of this
weck, when he will address Univer
sity audiences on subjects of interest
to them, concerning his work in Tur
key ami Arabia.
Dr. Harrison was graduated from
the University of Nebraska in 1905,
and was graduated from Johns Hop
kins four years later. While he is on
furlough, he is a traveling secretary
for the Student Volunteers. He will
be in this country until the summer
of 1924.
While in Lincoln he will address
University students as well as the
people who live in town. His pro
gram for students for the two days
which he will spend in the city is as
follows:
Tuesday, February 20
Student dinner, 12 o'clock, Grand
hotel.
Vespers for the University Y. M.
C. A., J) o'clock, Ellen Smith Hall.
Address to the Student Volunteers,
7 o'clock, Social Science, 105.
Wednesday, February 21
Special convocation, 11 o'clock,
Temple; subject: "The Situation in
the Near East.'
Zoology Seminar, 5 o'clock, Bessey
hall.
Dinner, 6 o'clock, Grand hotel, Pre
Medic students.
Dr. Harrison, who has spent four
teen years in the countries about
vhich hes peaks, is noted for his keen
thinking, and should, according to Roy
Youngman, president of the Student
Volunteers, under whose auspices he
is in this city, be interesting because
of the different viewpoints which he
will be able to present because of his
experience among those people.
This is Dr. Harrison's second fur
lough, each of which followed seven
years' continuous service in foreign
fields. He is well acquainted with con
ditions overseas, and is a speaker of
unusual force, according to the men
who attended the summer conference
of the Y. M. C. A., at which Dr. Har
rison spoke.
Consulting Engineer
to Speak to Students
George E. Martin, consulting en
gineer of the Barrett Company of Chi
cago, is coming to the University next
week at the request of Prof. E. C.
Mickey of the Civil Engineering De
partment, and will deliver four lec
tures to the engineering students.
The schedule of these lectures will
be announced definitely later in the
week. One will probably be given
before the student chapter of the
American Association of Engineers,
and will be of general interest to en
gineering students. The others will
be especially for civil engineering
students, and others interested in
highway construction.
Team Managers for
Class Squads Chosen
I-oi; Shepherd, W. A. A. basketball
leader, has announced the temporary
team managers for the class basket
ball squad. These managers will as
Slst in the choosing of the teams which
dl compete in the annual inter-class
tournament to be held March 3.
Those chosen are as follows: Fresh
"len, Florence Steffes; Sophomore,
Louise Bransted; Junior, Marie Snave
'"; and Senior, Solin Cull.
A Lenten Thought
for Every Day
"Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread"
Back of the loaf is the snowy flour,
And back of the flour is the mill;
And back of the mill is the wheat and
the shower,
And the sun and the Father's will.
Maltbie D. Babcock.
he Daily
Commercial Club to
Initiate Fifty Men
The University Commercial Club
will hold its initiation for the second
semester Wednesday evening at 7:30,
when about fifty men from the Col
lege of Business Administration will
be admitted to membership.
Any man who wishes to be initiated,
and who has not already made ar
range may make application by seeing
Kenneth Cozier, president of the club,
or John Comstock, chairman of the
membership committee, nt once.
AVERY TALK OVER
RADiu HI LEGION
Chancellor Tells ex-Soldiers of
Work That University Is
Doing for Men.
A radio address to the members of
the- American Legion was given Frl
day evening, February lfi, by Chan
cellor Avery, who Is a' member of
the Legion, having nerved as a chem
ist at Washington during the war.
The address which tlio chancellor
delivered over the radio follows:
My Fellow Members In the Amer
ican Legion:
1 believe I am about the only col
lege president in the country who has
the right to address you thus unless
It be the head of some institution or
ganized along military lines. In ten
or fifteen years there will doubtless
be many former service men holding
positions like mine, just as Congress,
state legislatures, and the like will
be full of leglonnairles. Do not think,
however, that I take my military car
eer too seriously. There was no
great personal risk Involved in de
fending Washington during the great
war.
As the student in Caesar once tran
slated the beginning paragraph, "All
Gaul is quartered into three halves,"
I have decided to divide Into three
parts. The first is now a matter of
history and refers to the way the
University treated the faculty and
student soldier and sailor during and
after the war.
When the first call was made for
volunteers to the training camps, the
University announced that any em
ployes applying would be kept on tin
payroll unitl he was transferred to
the government service. Every stu
dent, too, who left, had his credits
adjusted as fairly as was possible un
der the circumstances. The number
of professors, instructors, and srn
dents, that entered these training
camps, was very large. When the
draft- came on, the same courtesies
were shown to everyone. Of course,
this was not much of a problem at
first. The real problem came when
the veterans began to return. Wa
one's old Job held open while he
was away? It was. Were any chairs
permanently filled while people were
absent? There were not. The work
was done by a substitute. Everyone
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A. A. E. TO ELECT
CHAPTER OFFICERS
Positions on Blue Print to Be
Filled at Polls To Discuss
Plans for Engineers'
Week.
Officers of the student chapter of
imonVan Association of En-
.1IH,1"-Ii'
gineers will be elected and the elective
positions on the Blue Print staff will
be filled at a meeting Wednesday, at
7:30 p. m., in M. E. 200. The chair
man of Engineers' Week will be ap
pointed. Emil Lang, patent attorney,
is the speaker.
Opportunity will be given for ask
ing Mr. Lange questions about secur
ing patents. Following a general dis
cussion of plans for Engineers' Week,
refreshments will be served. Special
permission was secured for serving
the eats.
The nominees for officers of A. A.
E. and Blue Print are:
President Sargent, Gray, Young,
Krage. .
Vice-president Rolling, Burleigh,
Ellermeier, Van Brunt
Secretary-treasurer Boucher, Gus
tafson, Meier, Edgerton, Jewell, Mille.
Assitant editor Melpton, Gerber,
Kinsinger.
Assitant circulation manage b.
strom, Barthelomew.
Assistant business manager Ed
gerton, Bertwell.
' LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY, 20, 1923"
FRAT INSIGNIAS
TO BE SETTING
FOR JBIG PARTY
Pins. Crests and Emblems of
Greek Organizations to Be
Used for Decorations
for Formal.
MANY BUY ALLOTMENT
To Re Last Birr Social Event of
Season Kosmet Klub m
Charge of Arrange
ments. I'lns, pennants, and crests of seven
teen social and professional fraterni
ties will form the decoration for the
Pan-Hellenic formal to be given by
the Kosmet Klub for members of
Creek organizations on the Nebraska
campus, Friday niRht at the Auditor
ium. The entire lighting system for
the party will consist of light from
the various pins and crests, and flood
lights on the orchestra. A diffused
lighting system with varied colored
streamers and pennants from the dif
ferent houses will form the setting.
Only those fraternities which will
be fully represented at the formal
are given the privilege of sending in
their pins, crests, and pennants for
decoration. Most of the fraternities
included in the seventeen that have
checked in so far have been allowed
to take more than their quota of tick
ets in order to give the more active
fraternities a chance to send all the
representatives they desire. The list
of those organizations that have
passed the quota mark are:
Acacia.
Alpha Tau Omega.
Alpha Sigma Phi.
Beta Theta Pi.
Delta Chi.
Delta Tau Delta.
Kappa Sigma.
Phi Delta Theta.
Thi Gamma Delta.
Phi Kappa Psi.
Phi Tau EpRllon.
Sigma Chi.
Sigma Nu.
Sigma Phi Eps'ilon. ,
Silver Lynx.
Omega Beta Pi.
The Pan-Hellenic formal will prac
tically close the formal season on the
Nebraska campus. All of the final
touches of the closing of a successful
season will be observed at the frolic
of the Greeks at the Auditorium this
week.
Before you leap into the air, inspect
your glider wings with care. Aesop
Fable.
Professors Tell What They Would
Be if They Had Another Choice
"What would you be if you weren't
a professor?" This was the question
addressed to as many members of the
University faculty as the Inquiring
Reporter could find.
The replies were astounding. Who
could have imagined that it was the
secret ambition of one so sedate as
Professor Frye to be a sailor, wear a
blue suit with belled trousers, and
dance the hornpipe? Or that, if Pro
fessor Fling were not teaching under
classmen historical method, he might
be eclipsing Barrymores run of 191
successive performances as Hamlet?
The answers were as follows:
Professor Rice, of the Department
of Ancient Languages, replied: "Well,
If I had to work, I'd like to be a
literary man. Or I wouldn't mind be
ing a judge on a bench. But I'd
really like to le subsidized receive
an Income of about $10,000 a year
and have nothing to do. That would
suit me down to the ground."
Hartley B. Alexander, If he were
not a professor of philosophy, would
be a journalist. "I was' an editor
before I was a professor, and I prob
ably should have stuck to it." -
Professor Warshal also would like
to be a journalist, although he doesn't
feel as if he would be satisfied as a
common reporter. He would want to
write editorials or feature stories.
Ftof. R. S. Roots would like to be
an editorial writer, although he is
rather . versatile and would just as
soon be a lawyer or a practical poli
tician. Fred Morrow Fling declared: "I
have wanted, both as a boy and as a
young man, to be an actor. I believe
acting could be made a very fine
thing."
Nebra
Girls' Tourney Starts
Second Round Today
The second round of the girls' bas
ketball color tournament will be held
this noon in the Armory. The first
round was played last Saturday, elim
inating seven teams. The winning
teams will compete this noon, and the
semi-finals will be held Thursday noon
and the finals Friday noon.
Those who will play today are.
Red, S. Surber v. Gray, K. McDon
ald; Dark Green drew a bye; Orange,
E. Armstrong, v. Old Rose, A. lange-
man: Light Blue, B. Gramlich v.
Brown, M. Dickenson.
PIANO TROTS FOR
K01EHLUB OPEN
Upperclassman Wanted to Play
for the "Yellow Lantern"
Contest at Art Hall.
Tryouts for pianist of the Kosmet
Klub show for this Spring will be con
ducted in Art hall on Monday eve
ning, February 26. Beginning at
seven-thirty, candidates will be given
five ininui.es on which to display their
talent on the piano and at the end of
the evening, judges will pick the pian
ist for this year.
No one but Sophomores, Juniors and
Seniors will be considered for the po
sition, according to the announcement
of the Kosmet Klub committee. Try-
outs will be conducted on a purely
merit basis with judges competent to
select the pianist who will be best
qualified to handle the playing for
the show. The time taht can be put
in and general interest in the show
will be factors in the selection of the
successful candidate.
Those people interested in the try
outs may sign up in the Daily Ne
braskan office any afternoon this
week. The list has been put in the
hands of the managing editor. Each
contestant is given a specified time to
appear at the Ait hall.
The pianist is one of the most im
portant factors in the success of the
annual Kosmet Klub production. Last
year Mrs. Ruth Kadel Seacrest played
for the Klub. This year the produc
tion of the "Yellow Lantern" by C. L.
Coombs will offer many clever musi
cal numbers for the pianist work.
FRESHMAN GIRL MAKES SPARE
MONEY BY TRANSLATING
AND TEACHING HEBREW
Among the thousand and one ways
employed by students to work their
way through college, perhaps none
is more unique than that of Miss
Rachel Savage, A-l, who- is capitaliz
ing her ability to translate and teach
Hebrew.
Louis II. Gray, associate professor
in the Department of Philosophy
when asked what he'd like to do if
he weren't teaching, replied with
characteristic brevity: "Diplomatic
service." Mr. Patterson, also of the
Philosophy Department, would like
to be a Chautauqua lecturer.
R. E. Cockran, professor of history,
would be "what I was before I took
up teaching a business man." Pro
fessor Stuff of the Department of Eng
lish also at one time considere en
tering business especially the Insur
ance business. Even now he regrets
that he did not found the Bankers'
Life Insurance Co. Professor Stuff
likes to organize things down to the
last unit and to get as much from
his material as it's possible to squeeze
out. He expresses this inclination in
his school work by making the stu
dent's "a." p." come as close as pos
sible to his "i. p."
Miss McPhee, of the English De
partment, would like "to be a bell
ringer. Not a ringer of the kind of
bells they have in University, but a
bell-ringer in an old English cathed
ral. I would also be willing to be a
caretaker, and dust off the splendid
old pews and cushions. I love the
atmosphere of such a place."
F. D. Barker, profesor of zoology,
as an alternative to teaching, would
want to be a practising physician.
Since childhood, he has had the am
bition to fc a jfdoqtof. Professor
Guernsey Jones of the History De
partment also would like to be a
doctor, because "I Just love fussing
around sick people try to make
them comfortable."
Professor Deming of the Chemistry
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POLLS OPEN TODAY FOR ELECTION
OF OFFICERS FORSEGOND SEMESTER
Ivy Day Orator, Class Presidents and Student Members of Publi
cation Board to Be Chosen Four Candidates
Seek Rostrum for May Day
Festival.
VOTING BOOTHS ON CITY AND AC. COLLEGE CAMPUSES
All Ag Men and All Girls Who Have Tuesday Classes Out There
Must Vote in Dean Burnett's Office
One Candidate Has
Withdrawn.
SWEZEY LECTURES TO
MEN ENGINEERS
Tells the Nature of Astronomy
and the Galactic Cluster
That Makes Universe.
Prof. G. D. Swoezey of the Depr.rt
mcnt of Astronomy lectured to fresh- '
man engineers on the field of astron-
omy Monday at five o'clock in M. E. j
206. j
The universe consists of a galactic i
cluster of stars shaped like a watch, 4
which we see as the Milky Way, and
of outlying bodies of stars known as
globular clusters and spiral nebulae,
Professor Swezey explained.
"Light, that travels around the
earth seven times while the clock
clicks once, travels for thirty or forty
thousand years on its journey from
what is probably the nearest of the
globular clusters," Professor Sweezy
calmly said. "It is probably that the
spiral nebulae are dust swarms sur
rounding some very bright star, but
a much more startling theory is that
they are clusters so far away that the
separate stars cannot be distin
guished." "Astronomy is the oldest, and, I
think, the grandest," Prof. Swezey
said when introduced. "The ancients
looked upon the heavenly bodies as
giving some indication of the destiny
of human kind. 1 say it is the grand
est because all the measures in as
tronomy are on a stupendous scale.
The earth itself is quite a stupendous
affair. Mountains a few miles high
that you may have climbed yourselves
would be correctly represented on an
ordinary globe by a thin f'lr.i of var
nish. "A steel cable 3,000 miles in diam
eter would be required to stt;nd the
strain of the sun's attraction for the
earth," he said, "and yet the attrac
tions of the stars for one another are
negligible because of the immense
distance separating them."
"An astronomer spends more hours
looking through a microscope than
through a telescope," was one of Pro
fessor Swezey's most startling state
ment. "Most of the work is now done
by the more expeditious method of
photographing and then measuring at
one's leisure. By such means craters
less than a mile across can be meas
ured on the moon, our nearest neigh
bor, partly because of its nearness,
and partly because it is devoid of at
mosphere. "The solar system is near the center
of the galactic cluster, we know, for
the Milky Way appears to be almost
the same density all the way around
the earth.
The sun is a small-sized star. Sir
ius, the nearest bright star, is thirty
times as brilliant, intrinsically, as the
sun, and the brightest star in Orion
is 2,000 times more brilliant, intrinsi
cally, than the sun. The nearest star
and it happens to be a double star
is four light years away the dis
tance that light will travel in four
years. The earth, and the other three
inner planets in the solar system have
a common density of between five and
six, but the four outer planets, much
larger, have very small densities. So
it seems that they are probably large
affairs enveloped in gas or moisture
clouds. This would account for their
small density.
"Comets are not mysterious wand
erers through space. They have as
definite paths as the planets. Once
they have visited the system and there
orbits determined the time of their
return can be predicted. It is prob
able that there are comets with such
large orbits that they have not vis
ited the solar system since records
have been kept. The comet's tail is
not a trail left behind it. It is a re
gion of very small particles repelled
by the sun. On its road to the sun
the tail follows the head, but on its
return journey the tail precedes the
head."
Ivy Day Orator
Dewey Burnham
Orvin B. Gaston
Cecil C. Strimple
Senior President
Tudor Gainlner
Guy Hyatt
Senior Member Publication Board
Norman Cramb
Jack Whitten
Junior President
Deitrich Dierks
Carl J. Peterson
Junior Member Publication
Roland Eastabrooks
Charles F. Sperry
Sophomore President
Fcrest Brown
Sophomore Member Publication
Board
Leo Black
Freshman President
John Wclpton
Ivy Day orator, presidents of the
three classes, and members of the
Publication Board from each of the
three lower classes will be elected at
the class elections today.
The polls will be located in the
electrical shop north of University
hall, on the city campus, and in "the
office of Dean Burnett on the campus
of the College of Agriculture. Men
of the "Ag" College must vote in the
office of the Dean, and all girls who
have Tuesday classes on the campus
cut there must vote there also, ac
cording to notice from Ross Perrin,
chairman of the Student Council elec
tion committee. An accurate check
has been made by this committee on
those girls who have classes on the
outlying campus.
There is no competition for the
positions of sophomore member of the
Publication Board, or for the presi
dents of the two lowest classes, for
which the candidates are respectively
Leo Black, Forest Brown, and John
Welpton.
For Ivy Day orator, for which sen
ior men only are eligible, four can
didates are in the field. Cecil C.
Strimple, who was elected from six
nominees by the members of the
senior Law class, is a member of
Phi Alpha Delta, and was on the Var
sity debating team in 1920. He is
a member ef Delta Sicrma Rho, hon
our debating fraternity.
Orvin B. Gaston, also a candidate
for Ivy Day. orator, is a member ot
Pi Kappa Phi, and Sigma Delta Chi,
n;.R been editor of The Daily Nebras
kan. and the Student Directory.
is row editor of Awgwan.
Byron Genoways, who v.ar. running
for the same position has withdrawn.
Dewey Burham, the fourth candi
late for the oratorship, is a senior
'n the College of Arts and Sciences.
The two candidates for the presi
i ncy of the senior class for the sec
olio semester are Guy Hyatt, a mem
.ier of Alpha Kappa Psi and the Stu
tent Council, who has served on the
editorial staff of "The Bizad," and
Tudor Gairdner, a member of Sigma
Vu, Vikings, Iron Sphynx, Pershing
Rifles, and the Inter-fraternity Coun
cil. He was vice president of the
class for the first semester.
Dietrich Dierks, a member of the
Glee club, who also sings in the Uni
versity Quartette, is applying for the
presidency of the junior class against
Carl J. Peterson, a member of Pi
Kappa Phi, who has played center on
the football team for two years.
Norman Cramb, who is serving ap
pointively on the Publication Board
this year, and Jack Whitten, a mem
ber of Beta Theta Pi and Phi Delta
Fhi, are the tw-o candidates for sen
ior member of the Publication Board
for next year.
Forest Brown, candidate for the
presidency of the sophomre class, has
a clear field.
Willard Usher, who applied for jun
ior member of the Publication Board,
has withdrawn from the race, accord
ing to the members of the Student
Council.
Charles F. Sperry and Roland Esta
brooks are the other candidates for
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