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Nebraskan Subscribe for The Nebraskan Subscribe for The Nebraskan VOL. XXIII NO. 7 LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1923 PRICE 5 CENTS Freshman Classes Excused Thursday 10 to 12 THE Daily YEARLINGS TO ATTEND FIRST CONVOCATION Nebraska Spirit to Be Instilled by Speeches from Chancel lor and Coach Schulte and Singing of Husker Songs. FROSH MEN AND WOMEN TO MEET IN ARMORY 1500 to Be Seated; Entire First-Year Class From Agri 1 cultural College Will Come in a Body. Freshman! Thursday is the big day! All first year classes that meet at 10 and 11 o'clock Thursday have been excused by the executive dean, and every freshman man and woman is expected to report at the Armory for the 'annual freshman convocation and initiation. The entire first year class from the College of Agriculture will at tend the convocation in a body, and a section in the Armory will be re served for them. Special cars will bring them in to the city campus. Plans are being made to seat more than 1500 first year students for this first big meeting of the year. The men will occupy a section on one side of the room, and a section opposite will be reserved for the women. A varied and lively program has been provided by the committee of Innocents and Mortarboards which has charge of the'Convocation. Ev erything will be brief, and the entire program is designed to instil the real Nebraska spirit in the new students, and to present to them some of the many sides of University life. Chancellor Avery will be the first speaker, following the opening num bers by the band. He will advise the freshman students how to spend their time. The Varsity Quartet, in its first appearance this year, has promised some popular selections as its part of the program, and will lead in the singing of the Cornhusker and the Chant. It is said that the members of the quartet will appear in full concert regalia. Coach H. F. "Indian" Schulte, well known to all high school and college students, will have a place on the program. He will explain to the freshmen what real Nebraska spirit means, and he will tell them some thing of Nebraska's ideals. Two cheer leaders will be active on the program, and will teach the frosh the Nebraska yells. The band will probably play outside the Ar mory at 10 o'clock, to summon the first-year men and women to convo cation. DEAN OF-WOKEN TO ENTERTAIN THURSDAY AH University Women to Ee Introduced to Mrs. Samuel Avery at Reception. Miss, Amanda Heppner, dean of women, will entertain at her annual opening reception for all University girls, women of the faculty, and chaperons of sorority houses and dor mitories from 4 to 6 o'clock Thurs day afternoon at Ellen Smith hdl. The purpose of the reception is to introduce university women to Jilrs. Samuel Avery. Miss Erma Appleby, secretary of the University Y. W. C. VA., Mrs. J- F. Thompson, .hostess of Ellen Smith hall and Miss Helen Cook and Miss Gertrude Streeter, assistartt3 in the office of the dean of women, will be in the receiving line with Miss Heppner and Mrs. Avery. The guests ill be met at the door by Jean Holtz, president of W. S. G. A., and Gce Spacht, president of the Y. W. C. A. The Senior Advisory Board will asr.ist in introducing the .guests in the court, and the W S. G. A. board will deceive in the dining room where re freshments will be served. Y. W. c A. members will act as hostesses n the drawing room. Green caps must be worn by all first year men. ' These caps must be worn at all times whether or not students are upon the University campus. The caps may be discarded af ter Olympics if the freshmen beat the sophomores v in the annual classic. The Iron Sphinx will be in charge of the enforcement of the green cap rr'e and each sopho more man is appointed a commit tee of one to see to the enforce ment of the wearing of the green caps. TICKETS ARE ON SALE TODAY FOR IRISHHEADGEAR Pasteboards Priced at Cost, 75 Cents, Are to Be Exchanged at Magee's, 12th and O, for Top Pieces. EVERY FRESHMAN MUST HAVE CAP BY FRIDAY Iron Sphinx to Devise "Per suaders" for First-year Men Who Do Not Weai Green Caps at' All Times. Sale of tickets entitling the fresh men to green caps begins today. Tickets are sold by all members of the Iron Sphinx for 75 cents. Ma gee's Clothing company, 12th and O, i3 furnishing the caps to the Inno cents at cost. Every freshman is expected to have his Irish headgear by the time he goes to the freshman convocation tomorrow morning. The sale will continue for three days. Enforcement of this widely-known Nebraska tradition has been given over to the Iron Sphinx, honorary fraternity for sophomores. The Iron Sphinx will make a check on all freshmen to see that every one has a cap. it it is iouna mat iresnmen are trying to evade the rule, suitable ''persuaders" will be devised. By Friday morning, September 28, every first year man must sport a green cap. The sale, aitnougn man aged by the Sphinx, is sponsored by the Innocents. The caps must be worn at all times, on or off the cam pus, on Sundays, and on "dates." Each member of the Iron Sphinx is a committee of one to enforce the tradition. Caps will be worn by the yearlings from Wednesday morning until they have , won from the sophomores the privelege of discarding them. Defi nite plans for the Olympics have not yet been made by the Innocents, nor has the date been settled. It has been customary at Nebraska for many years, .that the freshmen should wear the verdant top-pieces. It is not a senseless hazing plan, as might appear to the first year men, but there are a number of cogent reasons why it was started, accord ing to members of the Innocents. It is essential that the yearlings become acquainted with each other, for they will be Jhrown together all durine their stay at Nebraska.' Friendship, promoted by the wearing of the green, makes it possible to (Continued on Page 4) This is the University of Nebraska men promoted by the Military - platoon instructor at the camp. Co-ed Solicitors are Gentle 'but Sometimes Suspicious "You got your Nebraskan yet?" "Yup!" "Where's your tag?" "Lost it." "Hard luck you better get an other one. Where's your receipt?" suspiciously. (Hesitation) "You haven't bought one, and you know it." "Well, I have, too, but the re ceipt's at home in my top-coat." "Whati were you wearing your top-coat for yesterday? It was warm, and it wasn't raining either. What's your name? Will you pay by check?" The transactoin is complete. Some co-eds are like that, but not many. The maid of -manner gentle and re tiring who has developed in the be lief that nice girls do not speak to strange men is no better than i loafer on the job. Yesterday morn ing one such, asked how many Ne- braskans she had sold, replied in lachrymose r.ccents: "One. In three hours. I nearly fainted when I sold it." Another co-ed was temporarily in capacitated by the following retort DAILY NEBRASKAN STAFF MEMBERS ARE ASSIGNED Feature Editor, Sports Editor, and Assistant Editorial Writers Chosen. OVER 70 ATTEND MEETING Plans for Semester Completed at Gathering of News Writers. A meeting of the staff of the Daily Nebraskan was held Tuesday evening in the Nebraskan office in the basement of University, hall to complete the plans for the paper and to make permanent assignments for the semester. New members of the staff were given instructions in the fundamentals of Nebraskan work by Editor Emmett Maun, who made a short talk. Seventy members of the staff attended the meeting. Announcement was made at the meeting of the appointment of Rich ard Elster as feature editor. He will be in charge of the Nebraskan feature department, which is ex pected to have interesting feature stories on all campus activities. John Hollingsworth was appointed sports editor, and will cover the ac tivities of Nebraska's "Fighting Cornhuskers" from day to day for the Nebraskan readers. Helen I. Peterson and Hugh Cox have been chosen as assistant editorial writers. The following is a complete list of the students who will report for the Nebraskan during, the coming semester: Esther Philleo, Leila Stahl, Reva Rosseter, Vida McMillan, Charles Warren, Frances Ure, Margaret Munger, Mary Walton, Willie Rog ers, Virginia Vorhes, Marx Koehnke, Yeshwantrao Bhosale, Judd Croker, Richard Johnson, Lillian Ragsdale, Doris Trott, Kenneth Cook, William Card, Douglass Orr, Barbara Wig- ( (Continued on Page 4) - Tr r. Tl v; r, v- V Z) .. T". U -1 S: 4' t T ' TV rv " "T: t;- ?; w. ; 45 - . . - ' . T "i - - - platoon which took the advanced course at the Fort Snelling R. O. T. C. camp this summer. Most of ihe Department yesterday, were members of the Nebraska platoon at Fort Snelling. Captain Hagan was the "No, I haven't subscribed, but my wife did, yesterday, so we're taking the Rag and The Ladies' Home Jour nal both, now." But the number of tags increases hourly, nevertheless, for the en couragemen of earnest solicitors. TODAY IS BUSIEST OF CAMPAIGN FOR DAILY NEBRASKAN Forty Co-eds to Be on the Cam pus to Tag Students Who Have Been Missed on First Two Days of Drive. OVER 1000 SUBSCRIBERS SECURED IN TWO DAYS Careful Check Will Be Made to Prevent Anyone Picking Free Copies, Says Business Manager Hicks. JNebraskan subscription lists are booming, and have already reached a mark well over one thousand, but they have not boomed enough, the sales staff believes, and Clifford Hicks, business manager of the pub lication, plans to make Wednesday, the last day of the drive, the busiest of all. Forty co-eds have been on the campus both on Monday and on Tuesday, but all are to tag at the same, time Wednesday, and few of the students who walk the campus are expected to be left without a Ne braskan pennant. "Some . students, especially upper classmen, expect to pick up free cop ies of the paper," Mr. Hicks states. "We intend to stop that. A careful check at the postoffice distributing booth is to be made Wednesday, and none but those holding receipts will have a chance." At the present rate, the subscrip tions will be equal in number to last year and over the year before, but the management had hoped to make a big advance this term, according to the business manager. To those who expect to get anything other than mathematics and dead lan guages out of the curiculum, he ex plains, the Nebraskan, official pub lication of all student activities, in cluding sports, will be almost a ne cessity. In it are carried features and articles which no other daily paper, with its difierent interests, can be expected to print, and it is thru these articles that such a stu dent body as this one is able to meet on common ground. Unlike many dailies, the Nebras kan has not increased its rates. Two dollars a year and a dollar and a quarter a semester remains the price, though the paper has been enlarged. By subscribing for the yearf students save iiity cents. Practically every sorority and fra ternity member flies the white pen nant. These organizations which are not 100 per cent are excepted to become so in the near future. The daily football workouts on the new Stadium field are attract ing many spectators. Cars were parked several deep along theJ main entrance to the field. Attention! All solicitors for The Daily Ne braskan are to check in all books in 'their possession after today at noon. All arm bands are to be returned also at that time. Check in at University hall or in the Daily Nebraskan office. Chancellor to , Deliver Address at Nebraska City Chancellor Samuel Avery will de liver an address at Nebraska City Thursday afternoon, following the presentation to the state of Arbor Lodge, former home of J. Sterling Morton. Jay Morton will make the pre sentation of the park and Governor Charles W. Bryan the address of ac ceptance. Others who will speak are J. S Kroh, president of the Nebraska Press association, and W. F. Moran, mayor of Nebraska CCity. ALL-UNIVERSITY PARTY TO BE HELD SATURDAY Floor to Be Roped Off for Dancing; A Program and Refreshments Planned.. One of the big events of the open ing week will be the All-University party to be held at the Armory at 8:15 Saturday evening, September 29. It will be given under the direc tion of the All-University party com mittee and is the first of six parties to be given this school year. Circulars will be sent this week to all fraternities, sororities and dormi tories, pointing out the advantages which students will derive from these parties in the way of getting better acquainted. For this reason all stu dents are urged to attend, freshmen in particular. Students will be greeted by a re ception line which will include mem bers of the reception committee. A pleasing entertainment has been planned, including dancing. For the convenience of the dancers the floor will be roped off so that they will not be crowded. There will be artis tic decorations to make the affair festive. Refreshments will be served thruout the evening, bringing the party to a close at 11:30. The opening party last year was an unqualified succe33 and those in charge have every assurance of a highly satisfactory All-University mixer this year. Everyone is urged to reserve Saturday evening for this opportunity of becoming acquainted with the less serious side of Univer sity life. Beg Your Pardon! In a headline on a story concern ing the Rhodes Scholarship, it was stated that the registration closed Wednesday of this week instead of Wednesday of next week, October 3, as is correct. The Daily Nebraskan subscription campaign is progressing with a great measure of success. The drive closes today. Such drives should not be necessary when every student is in the position to estimate the import ance of the official college paper. , CADET OFFICERS APPOINTED FOR YEAU923-24 Monroe Gleason Made Lieu tenant Colonel; Hunter, Mil ler and Turner Assigned as Majors. ROBERT F. CRAIG IS COLONEL OF REGIMENT Captains and First Lieutenants Named; Assignments Made by the Chancellor Upon Rec ommendations of Erickson. Robert F. Craig is to be colonel and Monroe D. Gleason lieutenant colonel of the R. O. T. C. regiment for the school year 1923-24, accord ing to an order issued yesterday by Major Erickson, professor of military science and tactics in the Univer sity. The appointments were made by the chancellor on the recommen dation of Major Erickson. To be eligible for appointment the student must have successfully car ried twelve hours work his last se mester in school and must have at tended on summer R. O. T. C. camp. The first lieutenants, cap tains and majors must have taken the advanced course in military science and tactics one year. All cadet officers not included in this order continue in the same grade as last year. The appoint ments of second lieutenants will be made in about ten days. ' A complete list of the appoint ments follows: To be cadet colonel Robert F. Craig. To be cadet lieutenant colonel Monroe D. Gleason. To be cadet majors Howard J. Hunter. James R. Miller. Hobb R. Turner. To be cadet captains Earl K. Learning. Herbert W. Rathsack. Earl C. Rohrbaugh. Ernest A. Mulligan. Alexander McKie, jr. G. H. Latelle DeFord. Rollo M. VanPelt. Addison Sutton. John D. Westermann. Charles H. Spencer. Marion L. Woodward. Dietrich H. M. Dirks. Charles M. Horth. " Alfred O. Stenger. Giles C. Henkle. Thad H. Livringhouse. Blanchard R. Anderson. (Continued on Page 4) CHURCHES TO GIVE RECEPTIONS FRIDAY Annual Entertainments for University Students Planned ., for September 28. ' The annual receptions given by the churches of Lincoln to all stu dents, especially University students, will be Friday, September 28. Spe cial programs of music, games, and refreshments are planned by nearly all of the city churches. In past years student receptions have S-'t well attended and the night for them is officially closed to dances. The hour has been set by most churches at 7:30 or 8 o'clock. Of the Methodist churches, St. Paul's at 12th and M; Grace at 27th and R; Trinity at 16th and A; Em manuel at 15th and U; Epworth at 30th and Dudley; and Elm Park at 29th and Randolph, are pla .ing programs for Friday evening. The First and Vine CoCngrega tional churches expect to entntain with young people's programs, and refreshments. The First Christian church Invite3 all students to attend a similar r tertainment scheduled for 8 o'clock Friday. The three Presbyterian chu-ches, the First church at 13th and 31; the Second church at 26th and Q; and the Westminster at 23rd nd Gar field, also plan to hold receptions at 7:30 and 8 o'clock.