THE DAILY NEBRASKA N
The Daily Nebraskan
Station A. Lincoln, Nebraska
OFFICIAL PUBLICATION
f tho
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
Under Direction of tho Student PufauVation
Board
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EDITORIAL
William Bertwell .....
Hugh B. Co
Wm. Card
Victor Hachler
Philip O'Hanlon
Alice Thuman
Volta W. Torrey
Margaret Long
Isabel O'Halloran
STAFF
. Editor
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News Editor
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BUSINESS STAFF
Clarence Elckholf Business Manager
Otto Skold Asst. Bus. Manager
Simpson Morton Circulation Meager
Raymond Swallow Circulation Manager
FRESHMAN INITIATION.
More than two thousand men and
women are registered in the Univer
sity this year for the first time.
They are uninformed of Nebraska
traditions and customs, and to bring
the knowledge of these things to the
new students the annual freshman
initiation is planned for Tuesday
morning from 10 to 12 o'clock.
This initiation will be of inestima
ble value to freshmen because it is
to be their only opportunity to learn
the traditions of the University from
a comprehensive presentation.
University authorities have dis
missed all freshmen from classes for
the occasion. This is proof enough
that, with their long experience, they
believe that the new student will fall
into his work with less wasted effort
if he first becomes acquainted with
student life catches the Cornhusker
spirit
"Dead" is not a word that can be
applied to this two-hour initiation.
For the benefit of freshmen who
may be fearful there is no "rough
house" about it "Ceremony" is a
more fitting word, though there will
be nd extraordinary solemnity Tues
day morning.
The opening address of Chancellor
Avery and short speeches by coaches
of athletics and men and women par
ticularly interested in the social side
of the student's life will lead up to
the taking of the Cornhusker oath
a pledge of allegiance to the institu
tion and an avowal of purpose to up
hold its ideals and carry forward
"Nebraska spirit"
Nebraska songs and yells will be
gone over carefully so that the
freshmen may know them and be
able to add to the volume of cheer
ing at the nearing football rallies
and games.
Motion pictures of the ceremony
will be taken and sent out over the
state to show that the University is
worthy of the financial and moral
support given it by the citizens of
the state.
This wide advertisement of the
ceremonies in itself constitutes a
reason why freshmen should not fail
to be present Tuesday morning in
the Armory. It is their first chance
to show that they intend to be true
Cornhuskers their first opportunity
to help forward the cause of higher
education available to everyone.
Tha value of attendance at the in
itiation is unquestioned. Freshmen
am irlven the official welcome of the
Chancellor, are told what goals they
ara exnected to work toward as stu
dents at Nebraska, take the oath that
binds them Into Cornhusker spirit
through learning the songs and yells
of the University.
No one can plead that he was kept
away from the ceremony by classes.
No one can say notice or the initia
tion was not riven sufficient prom
inence. The only reason that any
freshman can give for not coming
will be that he has no interest in the
University or in his fellow students
that he has como to college merely
because he was sent, or because he
wants to study nothing but books.
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CHANGES.
Many changes have already been
made in The Daily Nebraskan and
more will be made. The most radical
change is the increase in size from
i columns to seven. A seven col
umn paper was issued once before,
but in the second semester of the
academic vear a dearth of news ma
terial and advertising support, and
absence of a large staff forced a re
turn to six columns.
The erowth of the University and
the enlarged interests of the students
offer a field that is expected to pro
vide news matter for the seven col
umns.
Local merchants have come to re
alize that one of their biggest sourc
ps of revenue is from the pocket-
books of the students, who buy their
food and clothing in the city, and
they are entering into more active
competition to secure the student
trade. The result is increased adver
tising support for the student daily,
and assurance of financial success
of the larger paper.
The staff is to be recruited from
the student body at large, and from
tha School of Journalism students.
Effective training of men and wom
en to write news in the professional
manner should do much toward im
proving the manner in which "stor
ies" are handled.
Naws from other Missouri Valley
schools will aDDear in the columns of
The Dailv Nebraskan, and news from
the University will in turn be sent
Valley institutions for publication,
through the medium of the recently
organized press association.
With the appointment by the de
partment of athletics of a competent
professional newspaper man to han
dle its publicity, and securing of a
sports editor for city dailies as sports
editor of the Nebraskan, the work of
recording the actiivities of Cornhusk
er athletes will be lightened and the
contents of the sports page improved.
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Malcolm G. Wyer, former Univer
sity librarian, in a letter to the facul
ty, recently pointed out the serious
problem the library is facing: there
is not sufficient space in the read
ing room to shelve the reserve books,
nor sufficient desk facilities for the
reserve and loan assistants to charge
books to students; and that it is im
possible to secure additional space.
He urged instructors to modify their
work in order to reduce the amount
of required supplementary reading
to a minimum. The library has
about the same amount of space as
when it was built twenty-nine years
ago.
The College Press
THE CASE FOR FOOTBALL:
Formal opening of the football
season in the Missouri Valley Con
ference yesterday again brings to the
front the question of whether or not
the sport is justifiable.
To those who look upon football
as a mere game, a contest to see
which team is the stronger and bet
ter trained, a game in which strength
and trickery predominate to tnose
who look upon football in this light,
it must seem unjustifiable.
Football as it is played in the col
leores and universities of today is far
different from this conception. It is
a real man's game a game whicn
Hevfilona real sportsmanship, not
only in the eleven men who play on
the team but in everyone who wit
nesses and really understands the
sport.
Strength and skill are requisites,
of course, but above this is the ne
cessity of the individual bending his
averv effort for the welfare of the
group and working for an ideal. That
lesson is taught most emphatically on
the gridiron, and in a way that nev
er can be forgotten.
When a football team starts down
the field with every man on that
team doing his best to force a way
through the opponent s line, the reel
ing that it can be done is felt by ev
ery understanding spectator. The
power of the will is realized.
The lessons taught by football can
be gained in no other way, and in
addition to this, football is a clean,
wholesome form of entertainment
and recreation, well adapted for re
lieving the tension of every-day life.
Columbia Missourian.
THE BASIS.
When intelligent, respected men
as well as the English professor in
The Flastic Age" say to college stu
dents "If you are the cream, God
pity the skimmed milk," we some
times question our acknowledged
position in the upper strata and won
der whether or not we still possess
the old-time virtues of students in
an age less plastic if not altogether
unyielding.
In the days of crinoline and hoop
skirts perhaps, even at the time
when automobiles were making their
debuts, virtues were as much a part
of external culture as French and
piano. Virtues, some times mere
names, were forever being aired and
flaunted before a satisfied and ap
proving world.
Now, however, we see not "bet
ter than thou" students who assure
us that they are truthful, honest, and
modest, but students whose virtues
are reflected to constructive thought
and conduct Virtues have become
a means not an end.
Are the old-time virtues disappear
ing? Yes, but they are disappearing
onlv from the surface, going to a
basic and fundamental position un
derlying the vital life of the college
student
A plastic age? Yes, but no longer
do we have the unyielding student
mind, outwardly virtuous because
virtue was fashionable. Instead, that
clastic, notential factor, student
thought, is being molded by virtues
as fundamental and sure as the un
dying traditions on which the Uni
versity itself is founded. Okla
homa Daily. ,
COLONIANS
"100 per cent for the People"
RAY LINDEMANN-Sax
MORELL DORAN-Banjo, Violin
MIKE RYAN-Sax
DR. A. H. SCHMIDT-Drums
MILTON WIELAND-Trumpet
STANLEY CAPPS-Piano
HOBERT BLACKLEDGE-Trombone
DR. R. E. STURDEVANT-Sousaphone
Now is the Time for the Colonian's Pep to
Come to the Aid of Your Party.
OPEN FOR A LIMITED NUMBER OF WEEK-END
ENGAGEMENTS
HOBERT L. BLACKLEDGE, Mgr.
114A II ST.
L-9402 or B-2193
Professors Attend
Chemistry Meeting
Prof. T. J. Thompson and Prof. C.
S. Hamilton of the chemistry depart
ment attended the national meeting
of the American Chemical Society at
Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.,
September 8 to 13. Prof. Thompson
read a paper on "Preparation of
Several Hydantoins." He visited his
old home in Rochester and other
points in western New York.
The Home Economics department
rocantlv nublished a "Who's Who in
Home Economics in Nebraska." Of
the 381 graduates of the department
since 1910, 143 are home-makers,
138 hiarh school teachers, 16 college
teachers, 14 are at home, 12 are di
etitians in hosnitals. 10 are cafeteria
directors, 9 are in the extension serv
ice, 7 are in commercial work, 9 are
student! working for higher degrees,
6 are deceased, 5 are secretaries of
the Y. W. C. A. or are .in Red Cross
work, 3 are home demonstration
loadors, 3 are nurses, 2 are mission
aries, 1 is an interior decorator, 1
is a personnel worker in Chicago, 1 is
in journalistic work, and the address
es of 4 are unknown.
Prof. Clara 0. Wilson, department
of kindergarten primary education,
and Dr. Charles Fordyce, professor
f aHueational measurements and re
search, will be the principal speakers
at the Dodge County Teachers insti
tute, Saturday, September 27.
Prof. Grace Morton of the clothing
division of the home economics de
partment and Prof. Beulah Coon of
the home economics department have
haan oranted leave of absence to
study at Columbia University the
first semester.
While motoring in Pennsylvania
this summer, Dr. H. B. Latimer visit
ed Dr. E. B. Russell, formerly in the
department of political science at
Nebraska and now professor of his
tory at Westminster College, New
Wilmington, Pa. Westminster Col
lege is one of the eastern institutions
with a restricted enrollment. The
older buildings are ivy-covered and
the campus is shaded by great elms.
Miss Muriel Smith, a graduate of
Hantinirs College and a graduate
student at the University of Nebras
ka and Columbia University, is
working in the extension service as
home-management specialist. "
Bennett S. Martin, '25. Bigelow,
Mo., was the delegate of the Nebras
ka chapter of Delta Sigma Pi, hon
orary business fraternity, to the na
tional convention at New York City
last week.
Notices
Student Council.
The Student Council will meet in
the basement room in the southwest
corner of the Administration build
ing Monday at 4 o'clock.
Band.
University Band members report
for Freshman rally at 9:50 Tuesday
morning at the east door to the Ar.
mory.
HERBERT QUICK.
Miss Jessie Watson, '22 (School
of Journalism), editor and part own
er of the Kitsap American, Bremer
ton, Wash., is visiting in Lincoln.
Miss Watson, who was formerly on
the staff of the Lincoln Daily Star,
went to Washington a year ago. She
entered the University from Wayne
High School.
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LEAVE YOOa POCKET BOOKS
AT HOME Ih TAKING MINE. I
Elect Your Friends by Voting for Them
IN OUR BIG
.Popularity Lontes'
NOW IN PROGRESS
Every college student in Lincoln has a chance for a Free trip to the big
Dame-Nebraska Football game to be played at South Bend, Indiana.
Notre
15 GIRL STUDENTS
will be selected by your votes,
ment in the store.
15 BOY STUDENTS
Here's the plan which includes every depart-
We have Inaugurated a POPULARITY CONTEST to
determine the fifteen MOST POPULAR GIRLS and
the fifteen MOST POPULAR BOYS in the State Uni
versity, State Farm, Wesleyan, Cotner and Union Col
leges. With each dollar purchase. In any department of our
store, between now and November 12, 1924, we ara
oing to give 10 votes. These can be ct for any
university student, either boy or stirl. These votes
will ie counted nightly and the standings published
in our regular advertisements. The highest fifteen
girls and the highest fifteen boya will be my guests.
A special Pullman has been chartered and is In readi
ness for the trip that these thirty will remember al
ways. Every expense from the time of leaving Lin
coln until our return will be paid by this institution.
Railroad fare, Pullman, meals, ad mi lion to the game
at South Bend. Indiana, and a big banquet while
there are all included. The Dean of Women of the
university will act as chaperone on the trip.
Get busy enlist your friends to cast their votes for you.
THEY'RE ELECTED BY UNANIMOUS CHOICE
Clothes You Prefer
HERE'S a store that has a platform of its ownl Its planks are quality, service and
value a combination that wins the popular vote election years as well as off years.
Especially has this been true this season when we instituted a campaign for greater
values. The response has been noteworthy with all parties unanimous in their de
cision that ours is the Store of their choice.
And in the race for popularity, our Suits, Topcoats and Overcoats have been chosen
without a contest, particularly those we feature at
Featured
Furnishings
SWEATERS
The College Sweater ia tha alip over
sweater, from $4-S0 to $7.00. Checks,
stripes and plain colors. Sea them.
BOW TIES
Bow Tie We ara the headquarters
for the newest things ia Bat Bow
Ties. 75c and $1.00.
SHIRTS
Collar attached Broadcloth Shirts.
Plain colors with tha Frat collar, at
$1.78. S far $5.
VESTS
Sweater Vests for fall wear. Some
thing new and cay. only $5.00.
PAJAMAS
Men's fine Pajamas, Fsultlfss make.
2.00, 3.00 and Up
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Other fine Suits and Top Coats $20, $25 and $30.
THE CELEBRATED
Knit Tex Top Coats
Featured
at
30
Guaranteed
for 3 Years.
Society Brand Suits in new fall weaves and patterns.
$40 -$45 -$50 -$55
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ELI SHIRE, President
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