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UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1923.
PRICE 5 CENTS
Bail
MILITARY BAL),
OPENSSEASON
Arrangements Being Com
pleted for First Formal
December 7
HUNDREDS OF OFFICERS
TO TAKE PART IN MARCH
Arrangements are rapidly being
completed to make the thirty-second
nnual Military Ball, the outstanding
jocial event of the season. It will
open the formal season on December
7 as will similar balls in most of the
neighboring schools. Formal invita
tions have been sent to the cadet
colonels and staff officers at every
school in the corps areav
The decoration committee is spar
ing no reasonable expense in its
work. The decorations will be of a
military tone and so will enhance the
beauty and dignity of the ball. The
committee is collecting them from all
over the estate and it has secured
enough to completely decorate the
Auditorium where the function will
be held. The programs have been
selected, also, and a ten piece orches
tra engaged.
To Present Honorary Colonel.
The two main features of the form
al will be the presentation of the hon
orary colonel and the grand march.
Over 100 officers will take part in
the latter event.
Sixty-two guests of honor have
been invited to the ball by the cadet
officers's association. They are as
follows:
The honorary colonel.
Governor and Mrs. Charles W.
Bryan.
Chancellor and Mrs. Samuel Avery.
General and Mrs. George B. Dun
tan. General and Mrs. H. J. Paul.
Dean and Mrs. Philo M. Buck.
Dean and Mrs. Carl C. Engberg.
Dean and Mrs. E. A. Burnett.
Dean and Mrs. J. E. LeRossignol.
Dean and Mrs. L. A. Sherman.
Dean and Mrs. W. A. Seavey.
Dean and Mrs. O. J. Ferguson.
Dean and Mrs. Fred T. Dawson.
Dean and Mrs. R. A. Lyman.
Dean Amanda Heppner.
Major and Mrs. P. B. Peyton.
Major and Mrs. W. F. Morrison.
Major and Mrs. S. D. Erickson.
Mrs. D. M. Butler.
Miss Mae Pershing.
Captain and Mrs J. H. Hagan.
Captain and Mrs. Floyd C. Hard
ing. Captain and Mrs. V. G. Huskea.
Captain and Mrs. Louis Eggers.
Lieutenant and Mrs. Morris H.
Forbes.
Lieutenant and Mrs. Ira A. Hunt.
Lieutenant and Mrs. Max G.
Oliver.
Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Frankforter.
Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Schulte.
Mr. and MrsG. E. Condra.
Mr. M. L. Poteet.
Mr. Hermann Schierloh.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank S. Henline.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Kidwell.
Mr. Burks Harley.
Plans for the decorations have
also been completed and the follow
ing committee has full charge of dec
orating the auditorium:
Majors Turner, chairman, Miller.
Captains Mulligan, Stenger, Lem
m'ng, Woodard, DeFord, Hinkle,
Kasthaek.
Lieutenants Gir.h and Spcrry, as
sistant chairmen; Follmer, Pennery,
Skinner, Sturdevant, Johnston, Kier,
M'lson, McLaughlin, Wolfe, Foss,
Hyatt, Wimble, GGoodard, Wadden,
Vj'hmer, Tillotson, Cameron, Swin
dle, Warren and Schultz.
AH members of this committee will
rePort to the chairman at the audi-
wnum Thursday morning, at 8
o clock.
Commercial Club
Makes Plans For
.Annual Banquet
This year's Commercial Club ban
quet will be held Tuesday, Decem
"11, at the Grand Hotel. The ban
T v U be for Commercial Club
5? nly- A large number of
qu entl are expected at the ban-
. "e committee on speaker's is
nerh Spedal efforts t0 outdo for"
S V (nquets i! this respect Bennett
other iS to be the toastmaster and
facultBPeaker8 Wil1 be Bt&nt
negg men,ber8 and prominent busi-
Alstadt6" f Lincoln- William G.
commit Chairman of the speakers
Faculty Members Are
Staging Soccer Games
a numper oi laculty men are
A 1 m
gathering at five o'clo on Mon
day, Wednesday and Fridays, east of
bocial Science hall to plav soccer
They are developing into experts at
the sport. When the weather becomes
too cold for soccer they plan to take
up basketball, handball, and other
indoor sports until the spring. Jude
ing from present workouts, they will
be able to give any student team in
any of the sports that they have ta
ken up, a good battle by the end of
this year.
ELECT DR. GLAPP
TO HIGH OFFICE
Made President of Intercollegi
ate Wrestling, Gymnastic
and Fencing Assn.
ARRANGES SCHEDULE
FOR HUSKER MATMEN
Dr. R. G. Clapp, professor of phy
sical education, was elected president
of the Western Intercollegiate Gym
nastic, Fencing and Wrestling Asso
ciation at the semi-annual meeting
held at the Auditorium Hotel in Chi
cago last week. Dr. Clapp has been
connected with the University of Ne
braska since 1902 and in that time he
has conducted the men's gymnastic
classes, has been wrestling coach, and
has been very active in the affairs of
the association. At the same meet
ing E. G. Schroeder of Iowa was
elected permanent secretary and pub
licity agent.
Rules to govern the contests for
this winter were chajiged but little.
Teams may enter as many individuals
Dr. R. G. Clapp, who was elected pres
ident of the Western Intercollegi
ate Wrestling and Fencing Associa
tion. in the championship meet as they
think have a chance at the honors. A
few rules meant to clear up the rules
formulated in the past were included
in the activities of the meeting.
Arrange Five Meeti.
While at the meeting, Dr. Clapp
arranged for five wrestling meets.
Altho but two of them are at home,
Dr. Claim stated that such a sched
ule was necessary owing to the two-
year contracts drawn up with tne var
ious institutions. The team will go
to Evanston to meet Northwestern
January 26. It will go to Lawrence
Ffhruarv 9 to meet K. U. Ihe Ames
team is next on the schedule, meeting
the Huskers February 16. Iowa win
be here for the first home meet Feb
ruary 22. Minnesota will be here
March 1. The men entering the
Western Intercollegiate meet will go
to Chicago for the contest March 14
and 15.
Jt is possible that the team may go
to Bloomington to meet the Hoosiers
in the early part of the season. The
schedule is complete with the excep
tion of the npproval of the athletic
board and another home match that
Dr. Clapp hopes to get.
Opportunity in Mat Sport. .
According to Dr. Clapp there is a
great opportunity for men to win a
letter in the mat sport this winter.
But two letter men are back and as
yet the competition is not very strong
for 'the remaining positions. Dr.
Clapp also expressed the wish that
more men would report for wrestling.
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Annual Will Recall Memories
After College Days Are Over
It is a moonlight night. You are
standing alone on the front balcony
of your father's home. There are no
lights and no sounds save the droning
of the insects that fly by night or the
croaking of a frog in the nearby
creek.
Your days at Nebraska are over.
You have received your degree and
you are ready to embark upon your
career. It is a grat line to pass over
and you realize it. You repeat,
"My days at Nebraska are over.
But what a wonderful experience col
lege is."
You review the social events to
yourself. You speak of the serenades,
the formals, the parties, and best of
all, your own romance.
But the bold truth tells you that all
is over, it repeats mat your conege
LEWELLEN TO PITCH
FOR PITTSBURG TEAM
Contracts to Hurl Sphere for
Professional Nine After
June 1.
Verne Lewellen, captain of the
1923 Football team and pitcher on
the baseball for the past two years,
has signed a contract with the Pitts
burgh Pirates to hurl the sphere for
them after June 1, 1923.
By signing with the Pirates, it
does not render Lew ineligible for
University athletics as a case simi
lar to that has been handed down
in a decision of Rudy Ziegenbein,
when he signed with Hastings Cubs
in the Nebraska State league, two
years ago. Lew will pitch onthe
Husker quad during the spring sea
son next year. By hurling on the
Varsity he will be able to get his
twirling wing in good condition and
by the first of June Tie will be hit
ting his stride in good fashion.
Lew's hurling around Lincoln
caused considerable comment, and
attracted the Pirates scout, who out
Letter Gives Vivid Description of
Conditions in German Universities
How great is the need among stu
dents which the European Student
Relief is endeavoring to meet? Are
European students in actual want
of the necessities of life?
The condition of German students
may be seen from the following par
agraphs of a letter written by a
French University woman in Janu
ary 1923:
"In the nine German universities
visited, I saw quite a few students
whom I had known before 1921.
The difference in the'r appearance
gave me a distjnet shock. I remem
today.
career is finished. What have you to
bring back the memories. Of course
you think of the 1924 Cornhusker im
mediately. You switch on the lights.
You eagerly open the book and you
are back in college again.
You turn the pages rapidly and re
peat the- names of your friends. You
pause as you pass your favorite so
rority and you look for severnl min
utes at the picture of your fraternity.
You review the football season and
then you turn to the student life sec
tion for a last broad smile before
closing the precious volume and going
to bed.
You feel refreshed and happy.
Your college career is recorded for
you in an elaborately bound book. It
is the 1924 Cornhusker. Buy one
and gave him the once over. Lew
has a wonderful curveball and with
some expert coaching he will no
doubt make some of the boys in big
show wonder how it hooks so quick.
FRESHMEN ASKED TO
MAKE PAYMENTS NOW
Deferred Payments on Stadium
Pledges Should Be Made
in Law 106.
Freshmen who made pledges in
the recent Freshmen Stadium Cam
paign, and who deferred their first
payment to December 1st, can pay
their first installment now, in Law
Building, Room 106.
For the convenience of Freshmen,
statements have been issued and
sent to each one. Payments can be
made through the mails by enclosing
their money in the addressed eneve
lopes. It is the duty of every freshman
who subscribed for the stadium to
make their payments on time. All
upperclassmen have been making
their payments and it is up to the
underclassmen to make good their
contracts.
ber one girl with whom I had lived
two days in Berlin, eighteen months
ago. 1 could hardly believe she was
the same and I drew back as if her
ghost had risen before my eyes. She
has not been ill, she Is not ill; but
she is hungry.
In almost every university I have
seen heartrending cases of suffer
ing bravely borne. When one thinks
how much food a little foreign
money will buy, one certainly wishes
for the power to ir e friends in
oher countries see tnose sunken
cheeks and grey complexions. If
people only knew!"
Coach Dawson Goes to
Colorado on Vacation
Fred T. Dawson, head mentor of
the Husker football machine, has
left .for Whitewater, Colo., to enjoy
a much needed rest. The elngth of his
stay is not certain. He may return
in a few days and he may stay a
month.
Coach Dawson was taken ill be
fore the football season had elapsed
and it was necessary for him to re
main in bed under medical car for
several days. He came on the field
and directed the line of play in the
final game of the schedule against
the Kansas Aggies and his cold be
came worse.
GIRLS WILL MEET
AT ELEVEN TODAY
Mrs. H. H. Wheeler to Address
Women on Ideals of
Voters' League.
SPECIAL CONVOCATION
FOR PROPOSED CLUB
Mrs. H. H. Wheeler of Lincoln will
tell of the ideals of the league of
woman voters at the meeting for all
girls to be held Tuesday morning at
the convocation hour in the Temple
theater. Dr. Laura B. Pf eiffer will
tell of her ecquaintance with Mrs.
Carrie Chapman Catt, who is to speak
in Lincoln under the auspices of the
women voters' organization Decem
ber 5, and will present the idea of an
organization of university women af
filiated with the league.
Chancellor Samuel Avery will give
his opinion of such an organization,
and will address the girls on civic re---onsibilities
of women, especially
&cudents. Miss Margaret Hager will
preside at the meeting.
Committee to Report.
The report of a nominating com
mittee appointed from the committw
of twenty-four senior girls who first
discussed the project with Dr. Tfeif
fer. Dr. Winifred Hyde, and Mrs.
Carl Newlon, president of the Lincoln
league of women voters, will be made,
and officers elected. Julia Sheldon,
as chairman of the constitution com
mittee, will present the draft of the
tentative constitution.
It is the hope of the girls to form
a student league of women voters,
patterned on those of other universi
ties through the middle west and the
south, which can serve to teach the
girls of their responsibilities since
the enfranchisement of women, and
to bring the girls of the institution
into a more democratic fellowship.
Mrs. Catt, who speaks at St. Paul
church Wednesday evening on "Peace
or War What Shall We Do About
It?" will install the chapter, provid
ing it is possible to complete its or
ganization at the Tuesday meeting.
Members lof Silver Serpent will act
as ushers for the meeting, and will
pass out the membership cards at the
close of the meeting. A section for
University of Nebraska girls has been
reserved at the meeting where Mrs.
Catt will speak.
NATIONAL OFFICIAL TO
VISIT PHI BETA KAPPA
Honorary Scholarship Fratern
ity to Be Addressed Today
by Reverend Vorhees
The Reverend Mr. Oscar M. Voor
hees, O.D. national secretary of Phi
Beta Kappa, honorary scholarship
fraternity, will be the guest of the
University of Nebraska chapter
today. Dr. Voorhees is making a
tour of inspection of the chapters in
tie north central states. He will
adlress the Nebraska chapter and
its alumni this afternoon at 4 o'clock
in Social Science Building 107.
His visit will coincide with the
147th anniversary of the founding
of the organization. It is the oldest
of the Greek-letter college societies,
and is in fact the progenitor of the
entire college .fraternity system. It
was organized December 5, 1776, at
the College of William and Mry at
Williamsburg, Virginia.
Phi Beta Kappa began to reach
out when it was little over two years
eld. It has increased until there pre
over one bundred chapters in the
leading colleges and universities of
the United States. Nearly fifty
years ago women were admitted to
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BEGIN DRIVE TO
SELL YEARBOOKS
Four Sororities Are Tied in
Race for Subscriptions
to Cornhusker.
WINNER TO BE GIVEN
FREE COPY OF BOOK
Four sororities are leading in the
race for Cornhusker subscriptions at"
the end of the first day of the cam
paign. The leading organizations are
Alpha Phi, Alpha Theta, Delta Delta
Delta and Kappa Kappa Gamma. Last
year the contest was won by the Kap
pas. The contest will close Friday
noon and the business staff have set
3,500 copies of the annual as a goal.
The sorority that turns in the most
subscriptions will receive a special
copy of the book with their name let
tered in gold on the outside and a
gold leaf inside telling why they were
given the book. Both those taking
first and second place will be given
an annual.
This year, though the book has
been enlarged to nine by twelve size
and there will be more pages than
previously, the price remains the
same $4.50 a copy. A two and a
half dollar payment will entitle a stu
dent to a tag showing that he has
subscribed to the book and also to a
ballot for voting for the representa
tive Nebraskans. The additional pay
ments will not need to be made until
next spring when the book is put out.
The editors of the 1924 Cornhusk
er are asking the students to notice
that this week is the time set aside
for all subscriptions to be made.
They point out that a successful an
nual complete in every detail cannot
be published without a large sub
scription list.
There will be no beauty section
this year but a representative section
will be in the book as was last year.
Only seniors are eligible for this sec
tion and when voting students should
keep in mind that only typical Ne
braskans should be voted for. Schol
arship and what the individual has
done for the school should be con
sidered. Booths for voting are found
in the College Book store, University
hall, Social Science building, and in
the Agriculture College cafeteria.
Every organization on the campus
that goes 100 per cent this week will
be given a copy of the annual for
their library, which will have its name
in gold on the front.
The six high individual salesmen
when the results were figured last
night are: Jo Schramek, Glen Curtis,
Zella Roope, Mary Wighton, Margaret
Long, Frank Wirsig.
All chairmen are urged to remem
ber to check in each night of the r&m
paign in order that the standings of
the various sororities may be checked
up and their final rating given.
STUDENTS MUST CEASE
CREATING OVERDRAFTS
State Law Provides Penalty for
Writing Check on Insuf
ficient Funds.
Students of the University who
persist in the practice of overdraw
ing their accounts in tiie bank break
the law of the state of Nebraska
every time they write a. check with
innufficient funds to meet pnympnt,
a law which provides a severe pen
alty. University students nave of late
taken advantage of the practice of
the school authorities in dealing
leniently with all cases of "bad"
checks, and all departments of the
University as well as Lincoln busi
ness men have been the victims of
numerous cases of checks written
on accounts bearing insufficient
funds to meet payment.
University authorities are near
the end of their string in the matter
of granting leniency to students who
persist in writing bad checks. Par
ticularly has ,the Nebraska Memor
ial association been th victim of
these bad checks. Unless the prac
tise stops, the University authori
ties will have to start some action to
stop it.
The Agricultural Engineering So
ciety will m:et Tuesday evening 4it
7:30 in the Agricultural Engineering
ball. Prof. E. E. Bracett and others
who were in attendance at the an
nual meeting in Chicago will gve re
ports of this meeting