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The Daily N BR ASK AN - as:s" s 111 i - jsss s PRICE C CGNT3 V0L. XXIV NO. 152. THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 29, 1925. MANY OLD GRADS HERE FOR AMDAL ROUND DP Alumni Return for Reunions and Ivy Pay and Commencement Exercises Full Program of Meetings and Enter tainment Planned for Visitors. ALUMNI REQUESTED TO REGISTER IN TEMPLE The fourth annual Cornhusker alumni Round Up is in full swing. Many former students have returned to the University and are enjoying the program planned for their entertainment on the campus., All alumni are requested to register in the Temple. Alumni and students yesterday celebrated th ,u lty-seventh annual Ivy Day. The features of the morning were the crown ing of the May Queen and the tapping of thirteen hew Innocents. The progam began at 10 o'clock with the procession of girls carrying the. traditional ivy and flower chains. The May Queen, Kathryn Warner, with her attendants, took her place on the throne and received the crown. Eight students of the University competed in a song contest and Herman F. Decker and Harriet Cruise received honorable mention. The class poem was read by Virginia Argenbright. John Kleven, senior class president, planted the ivy, symbolic of the transfer of learning from one generation to the next. The thirteen new Innocents were tapped amid the cheers of the crowd. The Ivy Day oration was given by William Norton of the senior class after the fourth annual interfraternity sing, in the afternoon. The new Mortar Boards were masked amid the cheers of the crowd. A business meeting will be the first item of attention for today when the Alumni Association busi ness will be discussed by the alumni council in the Temple building at 9:30. The alumni will meet in Ellen Smith Hall to discuss the problems incident to .the co-eds of the school. At 10 o'clock the interfraternity baseball finals will be played in the stadium between the Sigma Phi Ep silon and the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternities. At 11:30 the law bar becue will be held at the Lincoln Auto Club park south of the city. The Pan Hellenic board invites all the visiting alumnae and seniors of the sororities to attend a tea at Ellen Smith Hall between 4 and 5 o'clock this afternoon. "Compet" This Afternoon More than eleven hundred khaki clad cadets will take part in the thirty-third annual. "Compet" this afternoon. The regimental 'review will be held on the parade ground north of the Social Science building at 1:15 and the rest of the events will be held in the Memorial Stadi um. The honorary olonel, Dorothy Brown, and the sponsors of the com panies and battalions will lehd a note of color to the occasion. The annunl "shirt tail parado" will take plaec in the evening wita the win ning company heading ths unusual procession. The University Players will pre sent the mysterious love story, "Whispering Wires," at the Or pheum tonight at 8:15. Alumni and their families, faculty members and students, may secure free tickets at the box office. The "All-University Reunion" is set for Saturday. The general head quarters will be located in the east concourse of the stadium which will be ablaze with gala colors and class emblems. C. E. Hinds is officiating in the arrangements and Mrs. . Max Beghtol is general hostess for the day. Many Claw Reunions Special class reunions will begin at 9:30, Saturday morning with a general reunion at the "Midway from 10 to 12. At 12 o'clock the merriment will cease while Mortimer J. Brown of Niagara Falls, N. Y., conducts the memorial services. After the memorial services a parade wif form in front of the east entrance of the stadium on Twelfth street. The procession will move south to R street, then west to Tenth street, and north to the west stand of the stadium where an elaborate luncheon will be presided over by Mrs. F. E. Beaumont and her assist ants, Mrs. Ellery Davis and Mrs. Carl Bumstead. Tables will be plac ed in the west concourse of the sta dium to accommodate 800 people. There will be two tables each 400 feet long. Decker Wins Ivy Day Song Contest The song contest, which immedi ately followed the Crowning of the May Queen yesterday was won by Herman Decker. Harriet Cruise won honorable mention. This is the first time a contest has been held, but in the future it will be an annual part of the Ivy Day festivities. Elsie Neely, Mattha Graul, Grace Rogge, Harold Hollingsworth, Emma Johnson, Francis Bolton, Herman Decker, and Harriet Cruise were the contestants. MAGLEAU TO BE SPEAKER Former Chancellor Here, Now Connected With English Universities. Will Deliver Commencement Address. HOLD BACCALAUREATE SERVICE THIS SUNDAY Laws Hold Annual Barbecue Today Students in the College of Law will hold their annual barbecue to day at 11:30. The affair will take place at the Lincoln Auto Club Park. Tickets are one dollar. The chief event on the program will be a base ball game between Phi Delta Phi and Phi Alpha Delta, professional law fraternities. SENIOR HONOR SOCIETIES SELECT Wll SENIORS WILL HOLD BANQUET Tickets for Dinner at The Lin coln Go On Sale Today Are One Dollar, Pick Winners In Poetry and Essay Contest Helen L. Rummons, '25, was an nounced winner of the 1925 poetry competition and Ruth Moore, '26, winner of the essay contest at a lun cheon given at the University Club Thursday noon for the contestants. Marie C. Mengers' '26, placed second in the poetry contest and lone Gard ner, '25, was awarded second prize. The prize for first place winners was fifty dollars and for second place a prize of twenty-five dollars was given. The poems and essays were first submitted to a local committee of which Prof. J. A. Rice, jr., was chair man. This committee selected ten poems and five essays from which the outside judges selected the win ners. These judges selected three sonnets written by Miss Rummons for first place in the poetry contest and "A Song" by Miss Mengers as the second best. A third place was given to "Immorality" written by Miss Gardner but there was no prize awarded this place. The fifty dollar prize for the best essav went to Miss Moore for her essay "On Epitaphs and Tombstones." The title of second essay, written by Miss Dougan, was "Dickens and the Child-like Mind." All of these es says and poems are contained in this morning's issue of the literary supplement to The Daity Nebraskan. Soil Survey Parties Will Work In State Soil survey parties, sent out by the Conservation and Survey division, Lincoln and Custer w isa rw j . counties throughout the summer. Frank A. Hays will be in charge of the work in Custer county, witn m. H. Leighton and C. H. Hays as as sistants. Workers in Lincoln county will be A. W. Goke, Ernst Nesmith, and R. C. Roberts. BANQUET REPLACES TRADITIONAL PICNIC The senior banquet will be held next Wednesday evening in the main dining room of the Licoln Hotel. Tickets go on sale today at the. Y. M. C. A. office in the Temple and may also be obtained from any mem ber of the Innocents. The tickets will sell for one dollar. The banquet will begin promptly at six o'clock and will last until eight The program will be short, so that students having other engagements for the evening may attend. The committee' hopes that the banquet will become a tradition with the graduating classes. It replaces the former senior picnic which had be come impractical because of the large size of the graduating classes, Tickets for the affair must be pur chased by Tuesday noon. As the dining room at the Lincoln will only accomodate 400, an early demand for the . tickets is anticipated. Wendell Berge, president of the Innocents, will preside at the event as toastmaster. Chancellor Avery and Dean Seavey of the College of Law will give short addresses and Kathryn Warner, president of Mor tar Board, and Mike Hannaford will be the student speakers on the pro gram. The jNeorasKans orcnesira wil furnish" msic for the occasion and Orville Andrews will sing sever' al selections. Governor McMullen, the Chancel lor, the deans of the colleges, and the j heads of the departmnets will be special guests of honor of the graduating class at their banquet. Dr. E. H. Jenkt of First Pres byterian Church of Omaha Will Deliver Sermon Her bert Gray on Program. Commencement exercises for the class of 1925 will be held next Sat urday, June 6, at 10 o'clock at St, Paul's M. E. church. George Ed win MacLean, former chancellor of the University of Nebraska, will be the speaker and the musical pro gram will be given by Mr. Walter Wheatley and another local musician. Baccalaureate services will be held Sunday afternoon at four, in the 'Armory. Dr. E. H. Jenks, pas tor of the First Presbyterian church of Omaha, will deliver the sermon, ART EXHIBIT IS EXTEHDED HOLD ANNUAL COMPET TODAY Program for Competitive Drill of R. O. . T. C. Regiment Starts at 1 O'Clock. REGULAR AND RESERVE OFFICERS ARE JUDGES MEMBERS - i tin Thirteen Men and Thirteen Women are Honored wnen Mem bers of Innocents and Black Masque of Mortar Board Choose Successors On Ivy Day. LANG WILL BE NEW PRESIDENT OF INNOCENTS Delta First In Interfrat Sing Ivy Day Delta Tau Delta fraternity won the large silver loving cup for the second time when they placed first in the fourth annual interfraternity sing, sponsored by the Kosmet Klub, vesterdav afternoon. The Acacias received honorable mention. The eight fraternities who entered the contest, in the order they sang, were; Acacia, Alpha Tau Omega, Beta Theta Pi, Delta Tau Delta, Phi Gamma Delta, PL Kappa Alpha, Pi Phi. and Siema Nu. Each fraternity sang two selections. The three judges who picked the winners were Professors Paul H. Grummann, Carl F. Steckelberg, and Parvin Witte. Four points were considered in the decision: ensemble, diction, selection, and general pre' sentatTon. Dietrich Dierks and James Mar shall, members of the Kosmet Klub, were in charge of the sing. MIDWAY WILL OPEH SATURDAY HORNING Alumni Will Gather for Re unions in East Stand of Memorial Stadium The' annual competitive drill of the R. O. T. C. regiment will be held today on the drill field and at the stadium. The regimental review will be held on the drill field at 1:15 o'clock and the other events will be held afterwards at the stadium. The judges who have been select ed are members of the regular, army and of the organized reserves. - Colo nel Czar C. Johnson will be in charge of the judging of company inspec tion. Major Jesse G. Faes will be in charge of company manual of arms, Lieut Col. C. J. Frankforter will supervise company close order drill and individual compet ,and Captain Kiger M. Still will head the judges of platoon close order drill. A possible total of 600 points can be made by the winning company according to the system of scoring used. A possible 100 points will be awarded in each of the following events: company inspection, com pany manual of arms, company drill, platoon drill, individual compet, and the field problem conducted several weeks ago. The last thirteen men to be eliminated in the individual com pet will be awarded twenty-five points and the last five will receive additional points according to the or der in which they finish. Schedule of compet events is Regimental Review. Company Inspection. Company Manual of Arms. Company Close-Order Drill. PlatoBnTlose-Order Drill. Individual Compet. Pershing Rifles Drill. Presentation of Sponsors. Decoration of Winners (By Spon sors.) Farewell Address by Major Enck son. Retreat. Reeimental. (Line of Battalions in Line of Close Col umns.) Amirl the amtlause and shouts, of hundreds of assembled students and alumni, thirteen men and thirteen women, mem bers of next year's senior class, yesterday received the honor which is regarded by many as .tnecnignesi oi a acuwi when as part of the twenty-seventh annual Ivy Day exercises, the members of thelnnocents, senior men's honorary society, and the members of the tflack Masque cnapier oi mortar iu, senior women's honorary society, selected their successors. The Innocents tapped their new members after the crowning of the May Queen in the morning because three of their num ber Crites, Gleason and Buffett left shortly after noon for the annual Missouri Valley track and field meet at Norman, Okla New members of Motar Board were masked in the af ternoon, following the interfraternity sing and the Ivy Day oration, which was delivered by William Norton. Following are the new members oi me organizations Display of Work of Art Club Members Will Open All Next Week. The Art Club exhibition which was to close this week has been extended another week until June 6. Work of all the students in the Art Club is on display including all types of drawing, painting, and crafts work. Errold G. Bahl has perhaps the most varied collection. His work which is now being shown includes charcoal drawing, water colors, ar chitectual designs, pen-and-ink sket ches and compositions, as well as portraits in oil. UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO Courses in meat packing are being offered in the School of Administra tion and Commerce. Text of Ivy Day Oration Following is the full text of the Ivy Day oration by William Norton, Law 25, Polk, on "Our University: Its Danger Signs:" , We are gathered here to observe an established tradition, Ivy Day. This tradition was started by the planting of an n upon the Univer sity campus by members of the i class, of 1898. With the planting of that the tradition tnai and iw arose After the luncheon the alumni I ... 4 fiiline- every student - aiuB r . will pass through the ramps and nse ajnmnng with a feeling of love ana the west stand of the stadium a a place for a general business meeting. The speakers platform is built on a line with the ramps and the audience can sit in the shade of the balcony Chancellor Avery will giv his annu al report and the business transacted by the alumni council Friday morn ing will be brought up for ratifica tion and approval. To Present Due Drain The Women's Athletic Association will offer a dance drama in the sta dium Saturday afternoon. Valkyrie, senior women's honorary organisa tion, is sponsoring a student circus In the armory from 2:30 to fi:S0, with many features in addition to the side shows, roulette wheels, and daniing. .rition for his alma mater, ine first ivy day was exclusively a sen ior affair, but in each succeeding year changes were made that tended x it more and more an an- tts-.-j- Am tintil 1908 when It w ... . - - . j jiflv designed as a uay be observed by the entire student body. . .. T, nnrnoae Oi US lounaer. foster and instill 1n the University a better class and University spirit. h. we have here a day of honor to the outgoing and incoming sen iors; we hear hew the class Poem; ' .. ; f the May we witness w """" , -Queen, a very beautiful and ple ,.nt ceremony, which bestows the highest honor that can come to a University woman, as a tribute of womanhood and leadership, and then beauty and expression are added to 11 thia bv the May pole dance. Naturally amid all this spienaor . . i j a. irA land we leei inciinea w ymo " our University, to give to her all credit which is beyond a doubt due this great institution. Therefore, at first thought it may seem rather out of nlace to say anything ol an aa wtiire at this time. However, when we analyse the primary pur pose of Ivy Day we find that such remarks are entirely mum nroner. That primary purpose was to bring about a better and stronger, class and University spirit, ana www can better do that than criticism oi a constructive nature. Regardless of a person's love for ,! lm mater and pride in the school of his choice he cannot fail to recognize defects and shortcom ings when they exist. For instance, one outstanding detriment in our University today is the apparent ex istence of a ste system. .By that T mean there is a classification of .tudents with the result that stu dents are not placed on an equal foot ing and are not given equal oppor tunities. True enough yon will find (Continued on Page Eight) The Midway which will open Sat urday morning in the Stadium will be a feature of Roundup Week. Placards to mark the headquarters for each of the fifty-two classes will be hung in the interior of the east stand which will also be decorated with American flags and the Valley banners. The entrances on the east side of the stadium are to be desig nated for the various reunion groups. A memorial service will be con ducted at 12 o'clock, at which the service flag hung above the main east entrance will be unrolled. A ten-minute memorial address will be given from the steps by Mr. Morti mer J. Brown, Niagara Falls, N. Y., a member of the class of 190B. After the service the guests will takp lunch at the west stana wnere tables will be arranged for eight hundred. An invitation has been extended to the faculty to meet the alumni on the Midway and to take lunch there. No special section is being provided for the faculty either at the Midway or at lunch, so they may have en op portunity to mingle with all of the alumni. The eeneral annual- meeting to be held at the west stand will be fol lowed by the dane drama given by women in the physical education .IBM. The alumni tennis tourna ment and the student circus pro. moted by Valkyrie both begin at 2:30. The alumni mixer will be the last event of the .day. 8EIB0LD HEADS FARMERS' FAIR College of Agriculture "Elects Manager and Board for Next Annual Fair. INNOCENTS Robert L. Lang (President) Donald Sampson, (Vice-President) Hugh B. Co (Secretary) Leo Black (Treasurer) Ed Weir (Sergeant-at Arm) Otto Skold Ciena CurtU Kenneth Neff Marion Woodward RolUnd Locke Clayton Goar John Rhode Nathaniel Foot At the annual election held Tues day, May 28, Dan Seibold, '26, Papil lion, was elected managrer of the 1926 Farmers' Fair Board, and Wen dell Swanson, '26, Stromsberg, an Walter Tolman, '26, Lincoln, were chosen as the other two members of the board. The Home Ecs will have Louis Jackman, Lincoln, '26, as recording secretary. Betty Bosserman, '26, Su perior, and Erma Collins, '26, Lin coln on the board. Officers of the Ag Club, also cho sen at the election were: Orlando Bare, '26, Clearwater, president; Lawrence C. Jones, '27, Liberty, vice-president; Joe Kuska, '26, Milii gan, secretary; Melvin Lewis, '26, Petersburg, member of Publication Board. ."" "Think Shop" Alumni Attend Annual Reunion The third annual reunion of mem bers of the University's Intercollegi ate-Debate Seminary (the "Think Shop") , organized twenty-four years ago, which has 163 alumni, was held under the auspices of Delta Sigma PW intercolleeiate debate frater nity, Thursday noon at the Lincoln Hotel, with Prof. M. M. Fogg, the organizer of the seminary in 1901, and Chancellor Avery as guests. Reminiscent "speeches" were made by Judge Mason Wheeler '06, Lincoln; Byron E. Yoder, '08, Lin coln; T. J. Swan, '13, Melbeta; An ton Jensen, '20, the University; Rob ert Van Pelt, Law '22, Lincoln; Har old Hinkle, '23, Lincoln. Wendell Berge, '25, presided. Chancellor Avery spoke on what the Seminary training has stood for academically. Professor Fogg emphasized the intellectual-honesty obligation first to get straight the fact or facts upon which reasoning rests a foundation stone, he declared, of not only the debate seminary training but also of the journalism instruction in which he is also now engaged. ELECT OFFICERS FOR NEXT YEAR Palladian Literary Socitey Holds Business Meeting Monday Evening. Election of officers was held at the business meeting of Palladian Monday evening, with the following officers to serve next year: Presi dentLois Jackman, '26; Vice-president, Dale DeFord, '26; Recording Rprretarv Mary Rothermal, '26; Corresponding secretary Elizabeth Jones, '26; Critic William Meier, '27; Reporter Lawrence Smith, '27; Historian Ernest Dain, 27; Historian Vetura Cave, '27; Hall Committee Lawrence Jones, '28 and I Mary Elizabeth Dolan, '28. Round Up Program Former Unl Radio Operator Married Professor O. E. Edbon, depart ment of electrical engineering, and Mrs. Edison were ?n Central City yesterday to attend the wedding of Frank J. Moles, former operator of University Broadcasting Station WFAV, and Miss Wolcott. Mr. and Mrs. Moles will join Har old J. Schrader, ex '23, electrical engineering, at Omaha soon, and the three will drive to Shenectady, New York, where both Mr. Moles and Mr. Schrader are employed by the General Electric Company. 10:00 A. 11:80 A, 1:00 P. 4-5 P. the Temple alumnae Ellen FRIDAY, MAY, 29. Alumni are requested to visit headquarters Building.) 9:30 A. M. Alumni Council Meeting Temple Building. Ainmno Mbonv F.IIpti Emith Hall. M. Interfraternity Baseball Finals Startium. M. Law Barbecue, Lincoln Auto Club ara. M. 83rd Annual competitive vnu awtwu. .. M. Pan Hellenic Tea lor an aororny 8:15 P. M. uSvewity' Players in "Whispering Wires" the Orpheum Theatre. SATURDAY, MAY 30. (Registration at Alumni Headquarters.) 9:80 A.- M. Special Class Reunions w.vUFast Entrance 10:00-12:00 General Reunion at the "Mid-Way' Cast entrance of Stadium. 12:00-12:45 "Memorial Day Ceremony Stadium. 12:15 P. M. Call for Lunch West Entrance of Stadium. 1-00 P. M. General Alumni Meeting. 130 P. M. W. A. A. Dance Drama. T, . . 2:30 P. M. Alumni Tennis Tournament University courts. 2:30-5:30 Student Circus Armory. 8:30 P. M. Old Time Mixer till the orchestra quits Armory. , MORTAR BOARDS Genevieve Clark (President) Dorothy Carr Mary Doremni Mary Ellen Edgerton Ida Mae Flader Eleanor Fletemench Marguerite Fortell Marial Flynn Elsie Gramlich Doris Trott Eloise Mc Monies Rath Wells Frances McChesney The new officers of the Innocents selected by the retiring men, were tapped in the following order: presi dent, vice-president, secretary, treas urer, and sergeant-at-arms. The re maining eight men were not tapped in the order in which they were chosen. The first woman to be masked by the Mortar Boards takes the office of president next year and the other officers will be elected after the initiation of the new members. Sketches of Innocents The following are brief sketches of the now Innocents: Robert Lang, Wymore, is in the College of Business Administration. He is a member of Beta Theta Pi, Pi Epsilon Pi, Vikings, Iron . Sphinx, Commercial Club, Ad Club. He was assistant business manager of the B.zad. He has been on the Corn husker staff for three years; local advertising manager and the business man ager. Donald Sampson, Central City, is in the Law College. He is a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon,' Phi Alpha Delta, Vikings, and Scabbard and Biade. He is editor of next, year's Cornhusker. He also helped edit the 'N' Book. He was class vice-president and is a second lieutenant in the R. O. T. C. Leo Black, Grand Island, is in the College of Arts and Sciences. He plays basket ball on the Varsity team. He is a member of Kappa Sigma, Vikings, Green Goblins, and the Pub lication Board. He has been presi dent of the Iron Sphinx and the student council. Ed Weir, Superior, is in the Col lege of Agriculture. He belongs to Acacia, Vikings, 'N Club, and was president of the Iron Sphinx. He has played football for two years, was captain of the 1924 team and is captain-elect for 1925. He was an Ail American tackle in 1924 and has been active in track for two years. Otto Skold, Lincoln, is in the Col !rge of Business Administration. He is a member of Alpha Sigma Phi, Delta Sigma Pi, Vikings, Commer cial Club. He has been active on the DaDily Nebraskan staff for two years and will be business manager next year. He is a captain in vne R. O. T. C. Hugh Cox, Lincoln, is editor of The Daily Nebraskan and in the Col lege of Arts and Sciences. He is a member of Delta Upsilon, Sigma Delta Chi, Delta Sigma Rho, Centur ions, and is a Varsity debater. He was on the University Night commit tee. He served on the uornnusiter staff and was managing editor of The Daily Nebraskan last semester. Glenn Curtis, Saguache, Colo., is in the College of Business Admin istration. He a member ot Aipna Tau Omega, Vikings, Iron Sphinx, Pi Epsilon Pi president, Kosmet Klub, and Commercial Club. He is on the Cornhusker staff this year as circulation manager. He is a first lieutenant in the R. O. T. C. Kenneth Neff, IScottsbluff, is in the College of Bnine Administra tion. He is a member of Delta Tau Delta, Green Goblins, Commercial Club. He has served on the Cornhus ker staff for three years, assistant circulation manager last year and foreign adveitising manager this year. Marion Woodward, Snenandoan, Iowa, is in the College of Business Administration. He is a member of Phi Kappa Psi, Alpha Kappa TbL (Continued on Page Seven)