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INSPECTION TRIP
FOR ENGINEERS
STARTS SOON
Seniors and Juniors to Leave on
Short Jaunt to Look
Over Industrial
Plants.
ITINERARY IS ANNOUNCED
V
Upperclassmen to Visit Chicago,
St. Louis and Denver
on Their Long
Trip.
Engineers' annual inspection trip
begins on March 17 with a trip to Mil
ford and Crete. On March 24, Lincoln
plants will be visited, and on Monday,
March 26, theg roup of junior and
senior engineers leave for Omaha to
stay until Wednesday.
Juniors who will not be able to make
the long journey this year to Chicago,
St. Louis or Denver, should make the
journey this year, Prof. J. G. Mason,
who is chairman of the trip this year,
said yesterday. Short and long trips
are taken on alternate years for the
convenience of students who cannot
afford to go any great distance from
Lincoln. Fifteen dollars a man is the
estimated expense of the trip out
lined for this year.
The itinerary is:
Saturday, March 17
A. M. Milford and Crete trip, by
automobile; Milford & Blue River
Power Co., stations No. 1, 3, 4 and 6;
lunch at Crete. P. M. Crete Mills.
Saturday, March 24
A. M. Capotol, 8:15 to 9:45; Lin
coln Traction Co., 10:00 to 11:00. P.
M. Havelock shops, 1:30 to 3:00; dis
posal plant, 3:45 to 4:45.
Monday, March 26
A. M. Leave for Omaha; Ford as
sembling plant; 10:30 to 12:00. P. M.
Florence water works, 2:00 to 3:00.
Baker Ice Machine Co., 4:00 to 5:00.
Tuesday, March 27
A. M. American Smelter, 8:15 to
10:00; Nebraska Power Co., Omaha &
wuuiiwr' ciuirs oiretjt - Tvmiway h
Union Pacific bridge, 10:00 to 12:00.
P. M. American Car Wheel & Foun
dry Co., Council Bluffs, 1:40 to 3:30;
World Herald building, 4:30 to 5:30.
Wednesday, March 28
A. M. Nebraska Telephone Com
pany building, 8:30 to 11:30. P. M.
Omaha Structural Steel Co., 1:30 to
4:30.
The Kansas City Chamber of Com
merce sent a letter to Professor Mason
outlining all the structures and con
struction projects of engineering in
terest in the city, and similar infor
mation was secured from other points
near Lincoln, before determining the
itinerary.
The senior engineers decided by
unanimous ballot what city will be
the destination of the group of upper
classmen. Every engineer is required
to make an inspection trip before be
ing graduated.
The system of alterate long and
short trips was installed so as not to
work a hardship upon anyone with this
requirement, Professor Mason ex
plained. Since the trip must be taken
luring the last two years of study,
it is possible for a student to take
either the short or long trip, as he
pleases.
Observatory to
Be Open to Give
Views of Moon
The observatory will be open to the
public on Tuesday and Wednesday,
February 26 and 27, from seven to
ten o'clock in the evening, so that the
people may through the high-powered
telescopes, have a view of the moon.
At eight o'clock, Professor G. D.
Sweezey, of the astronomy depart
ment, will give a lecture on "The
Origin of the Moon". The public is
invited to attend, and no admission fee
will be charged.
A Lenten Thought
for Every Day
"When I awake I am still with
Thee." Plasm 138, 18.
Still, still with Thee, when purple
- morning breaketh, "
When the bird waketh and the
shadows flee;
Fairer than the morning, lovelier
than the daylight
Dawns the sweet consciousness, I am
with Thee.
Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Literary Society to
Stage Annual Funfest
The Delian annual funfest will be
held Friday, March 2, the entire pro
gram of which is composed of talent
of the members of the society. "Mr.
What What," a unique gentleman, who
will unfold some of the mysteries of
his craft mind, will be featured in the
entertainment.
A short play entitled, "And the
Light Went Out," will also be given.
Other fentures of the evening will be
a chalk talk and a male quartet. An
orchestra composed of the members
of the Delian society will play between
the acts.
All students of the University are
invited to attend the meeting as guests
of the Delians.
0. J. FEE TALKS 10
HE
Head of Evans Laundry Lec
tures on Engineering Prob
lems in His Work.
"Adjustment," was Mr. O. J. Fee's
subject in speaking to freshman en
gineers at five o'clock Monday in M.
E. 200. Mr. Fee is a graduate of the
College of Engineering of the Univer
sity of Nebraska, was superintendent
of grounds, buildings, and mainte
nance of the University for seven
years, and is now manager of the
Evans Laundry.
"You are here to adjust your ideas
to some preconceived plan that you in
tend to carry out in the future," he
said suddenly. "If you aren't, you
don't belong here."
It's easy to sit and day-dream, Mr.
Fee said, but you don't begin to im
prove until you project your own cre
ative imagination, and do something.
An iceberg is in about the same rela
tive proportions above and below the
surface as a man's mind, he asserted.
The part above is the conscious mind,
and that below, thfe subconscious.
"The adjustment of your conscious
mind or intellect to the problems of
life-is., rour jobherei Mr. Fee said
nointedlv. "I was for seven years the
super intednent of grounds, buildings,
and maintenance here, and it was one
of the keenest problems I ever tsruck.
It was keen because I handled the
cost of heating and lighting and so
on. Another reason was that I had
to handle my fellows. I remember,
during my first year in office, being
rotten-egged by about 300 of you. But
those fellows had to adjust themselves
to my way of thinking. I had the
truth and the right on my side, and
'Truth, crushed to earth, will rise
again.' "
Progress consists of getting one's
feet where the other fellow's head
was, according to Mr. Fee. Formulae
and facts have been worked out, and
they are not questioned. They are
assumed to be true, and work carried
on.
The electrical engineer, the chemical
engineer, and the efficiency engineer
have all been employed by Mr. Fee,
with varying results.
"The efficiency engineer is about as
bad as the starch man whos old me
a three-cent product for eight and
three-quarters," he said suddenly.
"One of them came and tore my
thirty-three year old business to
pieces from the accounting room down
through the coal pile, and when he
was done I was sick and on a vaca
tion. Tt didn't make any difference
to him if the old way was just as good
as his, he changed it. He may not
have improved things much, but he.
changed them."
Water softening, blueing, electric
voltage, friction loss in machinery,
and bleaching agents were problems
encountered by Mr. Fee when he took
over his laundry. He used the know
ledge of an jlectrical engineer, of a
chermcal engineer, and of phychology
in solving them, he said. Problems in
volving everything from pharmacy to
business administration, of the col
leges in the University, can be met in
his business.
"I spent $1,200 and dug a well 180
feet deep trying to get away from city
water of thirty-three points hardness,"
he said. "And it was salty forty
three opints hard. A professor over
at the University had been experi
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All students who desire to work
as scorers, clerks, time-keepers, etc
during the high school basketball
tournament are requested to hand
in their names to H. D. Gish at the
athletic office immediately, stating
their phone number, address, and
time available for duty.
l.wmi.N. NEBRASKA. TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 27, 1923 , --
Student Chronicles
Use of Automobiles About Campus
It is a page out of the history of
the automobile industry in the county
to trace the history of the auto as
related to student life at the Univer
sity. It was only a few years ago
that a car was a thing to be won
dered at and the student who had
one to drive himself was an object
of admiration and envy. Even, a
Bhort time ago one could count on
the fingers of one hand the cars that
were seen parked on the driveways
of the campus. Then came the war
and the advent of prosperity and
luxuries. A boy could earn enough
in a summer" to enable him to keep a
F'rd through the winter. More stu
dents, especially women, succeeded in
Inveigling proud parents into donat
ing cars to the cause of higher edu
cation. It is so much easier to get
around and accomplish things if, one
has a car to drive her from classes.
Today one sees the result of this
movement. Hundreds of cars are
seen parked on the University
grounds. It is safe to say that at
least a third of the students ride to
and from school in cars.
The advent of the automobile age
in college social life was followed by
HEROES" NUMBER OF
AWGWAN OUT SOON
Nebraska's Comic Will Appear
on Campus Wed
nesday. Awgwan will be out Wednesday, ac
cording to announcement made by the
management of the publication. The
February issue is called the "Heroes'
Number," and concentrates its humor
on the great gen and women of all
times.
" the cover design for the February
edition was drawn by "Oz" Black, a
former student of the University. It
shows a boy reading about the rider
of the calico pony, who, in doublet
and hose and plumes, rides to the
rescue of the "lady fair."
The next edition of the publication
will be called the "Sweet Mamma"
number, and will be written and edited
by University girls, under the direc
tion of Carolyn Airy, Associate editor
of the Awgwan.
Dean W. E. Sealock of Teahcersv
College is in Cleveland, Ohio, attend
ing the sectional meeting of the Na
tional Educational Association in ses
sion from February 25 to March 1.
While in Cleveland, Dean Sealock will
confer with educational leaders of
teachers colleges relative to the lat
est developments and tendencies in
educational progress.
Two new members of the Board of
Regents of tht University of Wiscon
sin were appointed last week by Gov
ernor J. J. Blaine, to succeed board
members whose terms expire this
month.
Miss Zona Gale, Portage, noted au
thor and graduate of the university,
was appointed one of the two regents
for the state at large succeeding Mrs.
Florence G. Buckstaff, Oshkosh. Dur
ing the last year, she has served as1
president of the State Free Library
commission.
Passing of Probation Week Offers
Occasion to Recount Freak Stunts
Probation Week has come and gone,
leaving behind worn-out, aching,
bleary-eyed freshmen. For paddles
did flourish, actives did tyranize, and
fertile brains worked overtime to de
vise a means of torture and humilia
tion. For instance, there was the pledge
who spent all Saturday afternoon
helping ladies on the streetcars at
Thirteenth and O. A thoughtful,
courteous lad, many an old lady
thought and there is, no doubt, many
an indignant young lady pronounced
him "fresh" and refused his gallant
offer. Then, straw hats were seen on
the campus and the snowbirds won
dered if "spring had come." Pedes
trians gazed In alarm at fair co-eds
industriously pacing off ten steps in
one side of the walk the zigzagging
across to the other side and counting
off ten more.
.. Students passing a certain frat
house on South Twelfth were amused
the Increased
the introduction of many interesting
changes in the life and psychology
of the student. A new outlook on
i ito and a new social standard was
produced. Distance was measured
in miles instead of blocks. And a
drive to Omaha for a dance was a
common occurence. A car parked out
in front of Social Science was an
ideal place to loaf. Owners coming
from classes found cars filled with
cigarette ashes and chewing gum.
Students perpetually skipped classes
and spent the afternoon Joyriding.
This wa3 all in that hectic period
that characterized the two years im
mediately following the war. Edu
cators everywhere cursed the auto
and said it had resulted in the fail
ure of our education system and our
moral standards.
Rut today all is different. Cars
stand for hours parked around the
campus rarely used except for going
to and from school. The rise of the
price of gasoline, the failure of the
profiteer, and the descent of the ef
ficient Engberg system of checking
up, caused the return .of the normal
and the stable. Truly the old order
changes and human life is a thin?
of perpetual cycles.
If. W. C. A. 10 ELECT
0FFICERS1S WEEK
All Girls Belonging to Organiza
tions Will Be Allowed
to Vote.
The Y. W. C. A. election will be
held in the librai-y Wednesday and
Thursday of this week. The polls
will be open from 9 a. m. until 6 p. m.
each day. All members of the or
ganization are allowed a vote.
The nominating commtftee which
is composed of three girls from the
c-binet and three from the school at
large has nominated the following
girls:
President Grace Spacht, Gertrude
Tonson.
Vice president M. Wellman, Ruth
Small.
Secretary Helen Guthrie, Agnes
Kessler.
Treasurer Marian Mandigan, Edith
Olds.
Under-gradur.te Field Worker May
Creekpaum, Kstherine Warner.
Iowa State Hit
by Flu Epidemic
A veritable campus-wide attack of
influenza, colds, sore throats and
sick headaches has come over Iowa
State. A report from the college
hospital shows that it is filled to
overflowing and that none but the
more serious cases are being kept
there. Practically every organized
house on the campus has a sick ward
and one house is reported as having
ten men in bed.
Attendance in many of the classes
has been cut to 60 per cent of the
legistration and several classes have
not met because of the few students
who have imported.
"None of the cases are alarmingly
serious but they will all bear watch
ing," Dr. J. F. Edwards, college phy
sician said. Iowa State Student.
by' three khaki-clad cadets, armed
with broomsticks, guarding the front
walks with strict military precision,
getting off the walk and presenting
arms when passed by interested spec
tators. No one could resist listening
to the fiery speech of an orator
perched on a stump in the front yard
who soon gathered quite an audience.
Traffic halted before a house on
South Fournteenth to watch nine co
eds practice their mode of entrance,
namely, to go to a north window and
bray three times, bark three times at
another window, crow three times be
fore the door, then wallow in back
wards like a bear. Who wouldn't be
late to dinner for this?
But now all the misery is over and
the actives are revelling in spotless
rooms and freshly-pressd clothes;
while the newly-initiated ones catch
up on much needed sleep and plan
what they'll do when the next bunch
"goes through."
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Volunteers Secretary
Will Lecture at
Vesper Services
Miss Marjorie Sanford, of New
York City, will speak at the regular
Y. W. C. A. Vesper Service this after
noon at 5 o'clock. Miss Sanford is
the secretary of the National Student
Volunteers and will speak of the work
of the -.Y. W. C. A. in China. The
speech is the beginning A the Grace
Coppock campaign. Barbara W iggen
hrn will lead the service.
Miss Sanford will give interviews
to cirls interested in the work of
Student Volunteers on Wednesday.
Arrangements for such interviews c. n
he made with Mi-s Appleby at Lllen
Smith Hall.
TRYOUT FOR DEBATERS
TO RE HELD TUESDAY
Nebraska Representatives in
Argument to Be
Chosen.
The preliminary debate for the se
lection of Nebraska's representatives
in the 1023 intercollegiate debates in
April with the University of Iowa at
Lincoln, and the University of South
Dakota at Vermillion will he held
Tuesday afternoon, February 127, be
ginning at 3 o'clock. The tryonts are
open to the University public.
The question discussed will be that
for the intercollegiate debates: "Re
solved, That the United States Should
Enter the League of Nations." The
contestants will speak on the side they
prefer.
Ten minutes will be allowed each
contestant to present direct argument
and argument in rebuttal. The first
speaker on the affirmative (decided by
lot-drawing) will have eight minutes
and then will be given two minutes for
rebuttal at the end of the program.
The board of judges, not all of
"Whom "hafl-'been announced Monday
afternoon, will include Prof. G. N.
Foster, Law '11, J. D. (Chicago) '14,
of the College of Law, who represent
ed Nebraska against Iowa in 1909 and
against Illinois in 1910 and who was
on the University of Chicago's ttam
against Northwestern in 1!U2; and
Clifford L. Rein, '13, Law '15, J. D. '21,
attorney at Lincoln, who was on the
Nebraska teams that met Illinois in
1910 and Minnesota in 19.11.
The program will last over two
hours.
MARTIN TO LECTURE
ON USES OF GOIIL MR
Chicago Representative to Tell
of Application of Materials
in Road Problems.
Lectures on the application of coal
tar materials to modern road prob
lems have been scheduled for this
week by Prof. C. E. Mickey of the
Department of Civil Engineering. Mr.
George E. Martin of the Barrett Com
pany of Chicago is the lecturer. These
talks will not be so technical that
other than engineering students can
not profit by attendance, the Barrett
company promises.
Sixty-three students and faculty
members attended the first lecture
given Monday at eleven o'clock in M.
A. 106 on "Chemistry the Manuac
ture and Control Testing of Refined
Tars." Mr. Martin told of the origin
of tars, of the derivatives obtained
from them, of the laboratory' work in
the production of uniform products,
and Of the tests employed. Lantern
slides were used to illustrate.
The schedule for the rest of the
week is:
"Construction of Pavements with
Refined Tar." Tuesday at one o'clock
in M. A. 106 .
"Wood Preservation" Wednesday at
7:30 o'clock in M. E. 206, before the
student chapter of American Associa
tion of Engineers.
"Wood Preservation," Thursday at
one o'clock in M. A. 106. This lec
ture is repeated especially for the
C. E. 2 class.
"Maintenance of Highways," Friday
at eleven o'clock in M. A. 102.
Trof. M. I. Evinger, of the Depart
ment of Civil Engineering, will be in
Grand Island Thursday and in Kear
ney Friday to discuss the problems of
city planning with the city planning
committees of their respective Cham
ber of Commerce. Grand Island is es
pecially interested in outlining a ron
ing ordinance.
Y. W. 0, A. TO
STMT ItlORlAL
HD AT VESPERS
Goal of Sixteen Hundred Dollars
for Nebraska Money to
Further Recreational
Work.
CAPTAINS HEAD DRIVE
University Graduate in Charge
of Work in Orient Cap
tains to Meet at
Luncheon.
The Y. W. C. A. campaign for the
raising of the Grace Coppock Memor
ial fund with its goal of $1,600 starts
this afternoon at Vespers. Sixteen
captains have been appointed to take
charge of he personal solicitation of
every girl in the University. Teams
will meet Wednesday. Thursday, and
Friday noons for luncheon and re
ports on the drive. The campaign is
for the purpose of supporting era
Barger and her recreational project
f: Chinese girls and women.
Vera Barger is a praduate of the
University of Nebraska. While a
student here she was very active in
the Y. W. C. A. and also the physical
education department. Afte.-v her
graduation, she was physical director
in the Y. W. C. A. at Tacoma. Wash
ington and from there she was sent
to serve at Youngstown, Ohio, in the
same capacity. Her work there was
largely among industrial girls. During
the war, Miss Barger was sent to
Camp Funston and helped to organ
izo the Y. W. C. A. work there having
special charge of the recreational
branch and provided public recrea
tion for both the soldiers and towns
people. After the war Miss Bargev
was assistant in the physical depart
ment of the central Y. W. C. A. office
in New York. From there she was
sent to China where she is backing
the project to provide recreation and
physical education for the industrial
girls and women of China.
HUSKER HUT SQUAD
WILL BEET BADGERS
Nebraska Wrestlers Leave Fri
day to Mix with Min
nesota. Husker grapplers will travel to Min
neapolis to meet the Minnesota Uni
versity wrestlers next Friday even
ing. The Minnesota squad lost to
Ames 31 to 0 last Saturday.
With the exception of the 135-pound
class, no changes in the Nebraska
line-up are possible. Inman defeated
Isaacson in the tryouts for the K. U.
meet, but Inman has a bad boil on his
knee. Unless he tries out tonight,
Isaacson will represent the Cornhusk
ers in the lightweight division.
The Ames team had little trouble
in disposing of the Minnesota aggre
gation, winning give falls, and two
decisions. Captain Brown, of the
Gophers, gave the most trouble to
Ames. He lost by a decision, after
Shepherd gained an advantage of 5:55
in two extra periods.
Leahy, 125 pounder, was the 'only
other Gopher who was able to stave
off a fall. He lost to Loucks by a
10:05 advantage. Loucks had a sore
h:nd, however, and he raved it as
much as possible.
Babcock, 115 pound class Minnesota
man, fell before the onsloughts of
Diskerson in 6:22. Dickerson went
behind his man in the first few sec
onds of the gray, and obtained a fall
with a body chancery.
Captain Bowen, Ames welter, had
Halvorson looking at the rafters in
6:42. This fall was also by a body
chancery.
Catancaro, Minnesota light-heavy,
felt the canvas scrape against his
shoulders in 2:40. The fall came after
Smith got a wristlock and half-nelson.
Greer, Ames heavy, won over Clapp
of Minnesota in 2:20. R. G. Clapp,
Nebraska wrestling and fencing coach,
refereed.
Ames won most easily in the classes
that lost to Nebraska. This should:
indicate that Husker grapplers have
the best chances in the heavy classes.
They may have to fight prttty hard in
the lighter divisions. The Minnesota
squad has good material, but it lacks
experience, according to Dr. Clapp.
They have had three meets this sea
son, and have lost them all. They were
the victims of Iowa, Wisconsin and
Ames.
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