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THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, ' WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1925.
PRICE 5 CENTS.
VTXXNO. 62.
CLASSES ROT .
EXCUSED FOR
'THE MESSIAH'
noie Wishing to Go Should
Mate Arrangements
With Instructors
DEAN MAKES STATEMENT
St.dcnt. May Atte-a bit There WiJl
Be No General Dismissal of
The University
Although it has been the custom
in previous years to dismiss classes
in order that the students might at
tend the annual presentation of the
Messiah, by the University Chorus,
Dean Engberg this year stated that
classes will not be dismissed. Stu
dents may attend this year as usual
but there will be no general dismiss
al of the University. Students wish
ing to attend the recital are asked
to arrange with their instructors
previous to the program in order that
they might make up the work missed.
Certain music classes will no doubt
be dismissed to hear the production
of Handel's master-piece but in gen
eral the classes will continue in the
usual routine. Due to the limited
space offered by Memorial Hall the
entire student body could not be ac
commodated, and in order to save
school time and still allow students
to attend the oratorio," ,the above
action was taken.
Should Make Arrangements
Although it is not necessary to ar
range with the professors of the con
flicting classes previous to the re
cital, a pre-arrangement would elim
inate any misunderstanding concern
ing the work missed.
The presentation of the Messiah
oratorio under Mrs. Carrie B. Ray-I
mond, offers an opportunity to the
students of the University and the
people of the state, that -is seldom
equalled in the year. The Univer
sity chorus presenting the musical
has made a excellent showing in the
production of the masterpiece.
UTIHER HAKES
ORGANIC STDD1ES
Professor Of Anatomy Conducts Ex
periments With One Hun
dred Chicken
We live and grow, but how?
Some suppose that the entire
body of a living creature develops
equally fast, and in the same degree.
That such is not the case is made
evident by the studies made by Dr.
Latimer, professor f anatomy in
the University. The experiment
on which he bases his studies was
conducted with one hundred White
Leghorn chickens raised at the Uni
versity of Minnesota. The results
are given in an article entitled "The
Relative Postnatal Growth of the
Systems and Organs of the Chick
en", which appeared in the "Ana
tomical Record" of November, 1925.
The various crgans of the body de
velop at different rates during the
period from the time of hatehrng
to maturity. The development of
the organ has been represented in
the results by its weight reduced tc
a percentage of "weight increase,
from seven times for the central
nervous system to a maximum of 214
times for the paroreas. The growth
of the body in the studies made was
70.3 percent. Twenty parts of the
body showed a percentage increase
of less than the gross body weight.
But three increased more.
The central nervous system and
the eye-balls increased 6.6 times in
the period from' hatching to matur
ity. In the domestic fowl the brain
nd the spinal cord do not develop
equally in this time, for the cord in
creases 19 times and the brain only
four. The feathers, strange though
it may seem, reach a maximum of
feight before maturity.
Four Development Croup
The development Ct the organs in
a chicken falls into four more or
less distinct groups. The larger
number of the organs decline in per
centage weight so that at maturity
it is less than at the time of hatching.
There are others which rise to a
maximum after hatching, but still at
maturity show a smaler percentage.
Two organs, the feathers, and the
pleen maintain a percentage weight
Pester than that had at the time of
Etching. The rest have a maxi
mum weight at maturity.
Comparing the liie-cycle in the
chicken and man, the former shows
an increase in the rapidity of de
velopment, and hum
longer period of mature life. The
cn -ken which comes lower in the or
der of vertebrates, has a shorter
Period of growth.
Weather Forecast
Wednesday: Mostly fair; rising
temperature.
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Rockne on Verge of
Nervous Breakdown
Following Controversy
On the verge of a nervous break
down, Knute Rockne, famous Notre
Dame football coach, returned to
South Bend, Ind., Monday afternoon
from New York where he has been
the center of a controversy caused
when the Columbia University an
nounced that they had signed him up
for a three year contract
This controversy, on top of a re
cently completed season of football
coaching proved to be the last straw
and the famous coach is now plan
ning a long rest- It is said that he
will spend some time on a western
ranch and then will "go to Europe
for several weeks.
For the past two years Rockne
has been obliged to give consider
ation to his health. A year ago he
was ordered by doctors to ease up
on his training work just before he
took the famous "Four Horsemen"
to the Pacific Coast. Last fall he
was obliged to spend several weeks
in the woods after conducting his
schools for coaches.
GIYES FACTS ABOUT
FOOTBALL IN 1925
Denver Clarion Publishes Result of
Survey of the Great Am
erican Sport
Thp Denver Clarion published the
facts about football in the
United States for the season of 1925:
Ten million persons witnessed col
lege games .last year.
dav attendance at
just about Tifteen games was more
than 850,000.
f)n hundred thousand persons
saw the California-Stanford game.
Sevunty-five thousand saw Yale
Army game.
Eighty thousand saw Harvard
Yale game.
Gate receipts of all games were
around $20,000,000.
It costs $75,000 to put a big col
lege team on the field.
One college uses 200 balls in a
season at $10 each.
More than 1,300 employees are
required to handle a crowd in the
Yale bowl at a Harvard-Yale game.
Eiszht Out of Twelve Ohio Students
bay l hat -ineynrew. wn.,.
(The Ohio State Lantern)
Do you dunk?
In other words, are you a "dunk-
erd?"
rhut is. are vou addicted to the
habit of dipping your rolls, toast,
or cake in your coffee?
Socially and medically dunking is
taboo. The "four hundred" claimt
... . rt imnr,
it causes great blots oi con "v
the tablecloth, snd also it is often
the means of smearing the face or
the erring one with coffee. In other
n,.,u it is a crude habit, not to be
endured among the elite.
Eight of the twelve Ohio State
University students, asked if they in
dulged in dunking, repiieu
nantly "Of course nov.
Doctors and nutrition experts
claim this is the cause of so many un
derweight children and dyspepUc
adults. . ,
One student more plainly spoken,
MEETS FOR 1926
ARE ANNOUNCED
Home Schedule Includes Two
. Dual, Valley, and High
School Meets
MAY SCHEDULE ANOTHER
Announcement of the track meets
scheduled so far this season for the
indoor and outdoor meets in the
1926 was made Tuesday afternoon.
Two dual meets, with the Univer
sity of Missouri and Drake grace the
Husker home schedule, along with
the Missouri Valley outdoor meet
and the annual high school meet for
the state athletes. Possibly another
Valley dual meet will yet be sched
uled. Sohulte's tracksters will do all of
their indoor work away from home
this season. With the completion
of the new Field House track fans
will be given an opportunity to 'see
the Scarlet and Cream track men on
the home oval next year. The in
door season opens with the Kansas
City Athletic Club meet at Kansas
City, February 5, and ends with the
Valley indoor meet at Ames, March
12-13. The Illinois relays at Cam
paign, Illionis, is the other early
spring meet, which will be held
February 27.
An effort is being made to sched
ule a coast meet for the spring vaca
tion, but the possibility of this seems
doubtful The outdoor season will
open with the Kansas Relays, April
17. A week following, at Des Moines
will be held the great Drake relay
races. The annual triangular track
meet with Kansas and the Kansas
Aggies will be held at Manhattan
this spring.
The scheduled meet with Drake
University is as yet tentative. An
other Valley team, perhaps Kansas
Aggies, may be scheduled here at
Lincoln this spring, but this has not
as yet been assured.
The complete approved schedule
arranged to date includes:
K. C. A. C, February 5, Kansas
City.
Illinois relays, Februaiy 27, Cam
paign, 111.
Missouri Valley Indoor, March. 12
13, Ames, la.
Kansas relays, April 17, LawTence,
Kan.
Drake relays, April 23-24, Des
Moines, la. .
Missouri dual, May 1, Lincoln.
Kansas, Kansas Aggie, Nebraska
triangular meet, May 7, Manhattan,
Kan.
State high school meet, May 7-8,
Lincoln.
Drake dual, May 15, (Tentative)
Lincoln.
Missouri Valley outdoor meet, May
21-22, Lincoln.
HOME EC FACULTY, GIYES TEA
Entertain Student in Department at
College of Agriculture
The students in tHe department of
the Home Economics were entertain
ed at a faculty tea on Tuesday af
ternoon in the Home Economics par
lors at the College of Agriculture.
In the receiving line were Miss
Margaret Fedde, chairman of the de
partment of Home Economics, Mist
Beulah Coon and Miss Grace Mor
ton. During the afternoon hours
the guestB joined in singing Christ
mas carols with special solo by Miss
Jane Hinkley and a reading "The
Birds Christmas Carol" by Mrs.
True Colbert. Pine boughs, white
candles and a Christmas tree were
combined in the decorations of thr
parlors and refreshments were also
served during the afternoon.
idmitted, "I used to dip my toast
n my coffee back home, but here at
he fraternity houBe I'd just like to
;ry it and get by with it." (accent on
Jie "try.")
flnp woman replied. "I do, because
ill of my family does. My parent
ire German, and dunking-is an old
German habit, having its origin in
;he hard, little cakes the Germans
bake, whioh can be eaten more eas
ily after being dipped in coffee. I
Another woman confessed she has
weakness for coffee soaked goodies
but Bince it is "not being done" she
eats her cake first and then drinks
her coffee. "It tastes ar good and
looks so much better", she explained.
The fourth truthful person ad
mitted he dipped his crullers in cof
fee, always had, always will, and
doesn't care who knows about it.
All of which goes to show that
as to the habit of dunking, four out
every twelve have it
Warmer Weather For
Today is the Forecast
Warmer and no immediate cold
weather is the forecast today for the
eastern part of Nebraska. Zero tem
perature was reported yesterday in
the western part of the state, The
lowest in Lincoln was 18 degrees on
Monday night. The snow fall in
western Nebraska last Monday was
light, and several towns reported
none at all. More snow fell in the
eastern section than elsewhere, Om
aha reporting the highest with about
ten inches on the ground.
The path of the storm was over
Montana, the Dakotas, Nebraska,
Iowa, and Kansas. A fairly heavy
fall was reported over most of Ne
braska and Iowa, where the snow
was from four to eight inches deep.
The other states reported less snow
than here.
WRESTLERS IN
FIRST ROUND
Teams Representing Nine Fra
ternities Take Part in
Contest
SfcCOND MEET THURSDAY
The first round of the interfrater
nity wrestling meet was held yester
day afternoon. Teams representing
nine fraternities took part in the
meet.
The following are the teams of the
fraternities represented: Tau Kappa
Epsilon, Hudson, Herron, Mallette.
Beta Theta Pi, Abbott
Theta Chi, Weber, Laing, Blessing,
Rummelhart, Pospisil, Karrer, Keller.
Phi Kappa, Carkoshi, Smith, Her
vert Alpha Chi Sigma, Forbes.
Alpha Gamma Rho, Buck, Waldo,
Kendall, Powell, Tunning, King.
Pi Kappa Alpha, Negus, Lee, Kel
log, Baldwin, Treadwell, Randels.
Kappa Sigma, Neff, Kelley, Mol
zen, Krall.
Alpha Theta Chi, Potadle, Town
send, -Moulton.
The results of - the various bouts
were as follows: Kellog won from1
Herron in the 115 pound class in
5:15. Karrer won his match from
Kelley in 4:40. In the 125 pound
class Weber won from King by a fall
in 52 seconds. Among the
pounders Buck won from Mollet and
Smith won from Townsend. . In the
145 pound class Baldwin won from
Kendall by a fall. Potadle ip the
same class won from Laing. In the
158 pound class Powell was defeated
by Lee, while Mounten won from
Reller. In the 175 class Crawl de
feated Negus and Jackson won from
Forbes by a coin flip. In the heavy
weight class Molzen won from Tun
ing, while Randels won from Pospisil
by a falL
All men who are to wrestle to
morrow must weigh in between 11
o'clock and 4 o'clock today. The
wrestling tomorrow will finish the
semi-finals and repare for the finals
to be run off Thursday at 4 o'clock.
AVERY ASKS FOR
SMALL MEMORIAL
Chancellor Believes That Bronze Re
plica Should be Erected on Site
of U Hall
Writing in the December issue of
The Nebraska Alumnus, Chancellor
S. Avery again sets forth his ideas
about a bronze replica of old Uni
versity Hall being erected on the site
of the building which is now being
wrecked :
"Without a dissenting voice, all
familiar with the situation realized
that U Hall had become a menace to
the lives of students and faculty, and
that the process of disintegration had
gone so far that the building was un
lafe if used for minor purposes only.
A few of those who especially re
prret its passing have wondered if it
could not in some way be strength
ened internally and externally, even
at the expense of a large sum of
money. Our building experts re
port this plan as not feasible. A
somewhat larger group of the alum
ni would like to see it reproduced as
La sound permanent structure accord
ing to the original plans, but with
different specifications. They point
out that this work could be done so
that the eye viewing the campus
from a little -distance would note
no change. i . , 9
"My own feeling is, as I expressed
it in the October Alumnus that a
small, unobtrusive memorial should
be erected on the site of U Hall.
When we heve thus made a fitting
tribute to the historic past, let us
proceed to build a new University
Hall on an appropriate site in the
new campus. Let us plan a hall
worthy of the great University of
today, to replace old U Hall which
in nrimitive times visualized the
dreams of the founders."
VACATION WILL
BEGIN SATURDAY
Christmas Recess Starts This
This Year at Noon on
December 19
TWO WEEKS ARE GIVEN
Christmas vacation will start a
noon Saturday. A full two weeks
recess is in store for students as a
result of the lucky arrangement of
the calendar this year, which makes
both Christmas day and New Years
fall on succeeding week-ends.
"No excuses for lengthening of
vacation period can possibly be
granted," declared Executive Dean
Engberg yesterday. A faculty rul
ing forbids such excuses and stu
dents . will find it useless to try to
coax an extra day or two from the
Dean. School will start again at
8:00 o'clock the first Monday of the
New Year on January 4, 1926.
The last issue of The Daily Ne
braskan before vacation will come
out Friday morning and the first
one after vacation will be distribut
ed Wednesday morning, January 6.
Members of the editorial staff are
asked to report Tuesday afternoon
for work.
Registration for econd semester
classes will start, as soon as the
return to school, according to the
calendar in the general catalogue of
the University. This is for resident
students only, the registration for1
new students would come on Janu
ary 29.
Most of the social organizations
of the campus are planning special
Christmas entertainments just be
fore the start of the vacation.
HO MAIL DELIVERY
ON CHRISTMAS DAY
Announcement Made by Postmaster
General That No Officials Will
Work on Holiday
Approval has greeted the recent
announcement of the Postmaster
General that there will be no mail
deliveries on Christmas Day.
Almost without exception the
American public has agreed with the
inherent justice of the ruling which
gives to the army of postal em
ployees some of the holiday privi
leges enjoyed by others, but so long
denied them.
Of course the ruling applies only
to the coming Christmas, being in the
nature of an experiment, the suc
cess or failure of which will deter
mine the procedure next year.
The Postmaster General was en
abled to take the course he did as a
result of the success of early mail
ing campaigns conducted in past
years through the press and the. mov
ies and over the radio, which had the
effect of moving the peak of holi
day mailing back far enough to jus
tify the experiment
Officials of the Department who
are watching the experiment close
ly have the utmost confidence that
it will go through without hitch and
that Christmas Day of the future
will be a day of rest for the postman
and the postal clerk.
To accomplibh this purpose and
it is believed a laudable one the
American public must mail holiday
tokens and greetings in time for
delivery at least before the close of
business, December 24.
Wreckers Finish Work of Tearing
Down Upper Stories of "U" Hall
Wrecking of the upper stories of
University Hall was completed yes
terday when the last cartloads of
brick and mortar were dropped down
the chutes. The work now going
on on top of the remaining stump
of a building is construction of a
yhort brick wall around the top. A
layer of cement will be poured over
the brick wall, and a tar coating ap
plied to the wooden roof.
When the wreckage inside the
board fence is removed, and the dust
and debris cleared out of the rooms,
the remnant of old University Hall
will again be ready for service.
The first floor and the basement will
be used for classes for at least two
years until funds are appropriated
by the legislature for another build
ing to take its place.
Old brick from the building are
being used ior the short wall A
four-inch layer of concrete will be
set on top. The new edge of wall
will appear lighter than the old wall
underneath becauge Universicy Hail
was once painted red, and the bricks
being used for the short wall are
unpainted as they were taken from
the interior of the walls.
Walls Worse Further Down
The farther down the wrecking
proceeded the worse became the con
dition of the walls removed, on ac
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Frank Hays Is Newly
Elected Head of 1926
Cross Country Team
Frank E. Hays was elected to cap
tain the 1926 cross country squad,
according to an announcement made
by the athletic department Tuesday.
The votes were taken at the last
meeting of the N Club and were not
opened until yesterday.
Hays is a two-year man in cross
country having been a member of tae
team the past two seasons. He is
also a letter man in track, running
the mile and two mile. He has been
an outstanding man in the distance
runs this fall, finishing well up in
line jcau in ui ui iue laces ui tuc
season.
He is a junior in the Arts and Sci-
'ence College, coming to Nebraska
University from Lander, w yommg.
He is a member of the Delta Upsilon
fraternity.
HOLD CHRISTMAS
VESPER SERVICE
Traditional Ceremony on Campus Is
Given Tuesday at dlen Smith
Hall
A Christmas Vesper service, a
i traditional service on the campus of
j the University of Nebraska vas held
j at 5 o'clock Tuesday evening in
Ellen Smith Hall with Elizabeth
Tracy as leader. A Christmas read
ing "The Other Wise Man" was given
by Martha Farrar.
The Vesper choir under the lead
ership of Ruth Ann Coddington pre
sented a group of special Christmas
music. "At Midnight" was sung by
an octptte including, Betty Coleman
Beth Paffenrath, Joy Schaefer., Ade
laide Cash, IJeatta Krause, Helen
Cowan, Katherine Dean and Mary
Elizabeth Ball. Betty Coleman gave
a Christmas koIo "The Song the
Angelo's Sang" bu Stults.
count of the greater weight that the
bric ks had to bear. Many of the
walls were made with inadequate j
layir;; of binding bricks between the
layers. In many parts the wall con
sisted of four sections of bricks go
ing straight up in the air with no
binding bricks between them for
long intervals. Buckling of the
walls which was discovered in several
places by the architects when the
building was condemned, was the re
sult of this faulty construction.
Samples of the sandstone used in
the original foundation which had to
be removed when 5t began to crum
ble away, were removed from the
stone arches over windows, and from
the corner ledges where they had
been covered over with cement. The
stone is dark and appears very much
like hard pressed dirt mixed with a
lot of sand. It crumbles easy with
slight pressure of the fingers.
At one time it was being consid
ered as standard building material,
and there are many buildings
throughout the state made of the
same stone. Two of them are situ
ated at Louisville. Tbe stone was
too. soft to hold up the weight of a
heavy building such as University
Hall was, and was one of the main
reasons for the early defects in the
buildings' the soft brick being tbe
other weak part
STARRELS WILL
TALK TODAY AT
WORLD FORUM
Rabbi Starrels of Jewish Re
Form Church Will Speak
On "Universalism"
PLAN DISCUSSION GROUP
Students Who Hare Not Bought
Tickets May Buy Them at Door
For Thirty-five Cents
Rabbi S. Starrels of the Reform
Jewish church of Lincoln will be the
speaker at the weekly luncheon and
discussion of the World Forum which
will be held at the Grand Hotel at
noon today.
"Universalism" is the subject
which Rabbi Starrels will present It
is expected that he will take a very
different point of view on this ques
tion than that generally considered.
Rabbi Starrels, who came to Lin
coln only two years ago, has been a
favorite with student groups in the
University and has spoken many
times at various sorts of student
meetings.
Change Subject of Address
"The Cruxification of Christ Con- .
sidered from the Jewish Point of
View" was to have been the subject
of Rabbi Starrels address, but it
was decided at the last minute to
defer this discussion until a later
date.
Leaders of the Forum are plan
ning to conduct a general discussion
after the luncheon and address. It
is expected that more than the usual
number of students will remain after
the address, because the subject is
one which should provide a fruitful
field for discussion.
Students who have not bought
tickets to the luncheon before today
may attend by paying cash at the
door. However, the price will be
thirty-five cents instead of the cus
tomary twenty-five ' cents for a
ticket.
The committee asks that students
take their places in the dining room
at the Grand Hptel as soon as is pos
sible at noon, so that Rabbi Starrels
will have plenty of time to present
his discussion.
Rabbi Starrels presented a survey
of the Jewish religion before the
Forum last year as one of a series
of discussion of the various religions
of the world. At that time over one
hundred and fifty students heard
him. More than that number will
probably be on hand today.
Race jproblems, particularly the
negro problem in the United States,
were discussed at the Forum last
week by Miss Juliette Derricotte,
colored secretary of the national Y.
W. C. A.
The meeting of the Forum today
will be the last before the holidays.
PERSHING RIFLES TO
INITIATE 32 PLEDGES
Initiation Will Take Place Wednes
day Night at 7 O'clock in
Nebraska Hall
Initiation of the pledges of
Pershing Rifles will be held Wednes
day night at 7 o'clock in Nebraska
Hall.
The following are those to be ini
tiated: Donald Aylsworth, 28, Lincoln.
Paul Bolen, '28, Ulysses.
James Campbell, '28, Oakley, Kan.
RamHey Chapman, 29, Omaha.
Ja nes Cox, '29, York.
Addison Davis, '28, Larido, Tex.
Russell Doty, '29, Omaha.
Charhfs Dox, 29, Omaha.
Dana Eastman, '29, MitcbelL
Robert Eddy, '29, Lincoln.
Donald Feaster, 27, York.
Gnorgf. Gillespie, '29, Omaha.
George Gesman, 29, Omaha.
Donald Harding, 29, Lincoln.
Ivan Harrison, 28, Scottsblnff.
Camille Horacek, 29, Omaha.
Robert House, '29, North Platte
George Hrdlicka, 28, Omaha.
Vern Laing, '28, Alliance.
John McKnight, '29, Auburn.
Paul Mitchell '29, Omaha.
Harold Oehlering, 28, FJmwood.
Allan Eeiff, '29, Omaha.
Donald Sara nelson, 28, Oceola.
John Sharpe, '29, 'Omaha.
Donald Striker, 28, Sheridan,
Wjro.
- William Thomas, 29, Omaha.
Ho Trively, '28, Randolph, la.
John Trout, 29, Omaha.
Louis Turner, '28, Casper, Wyo.
Alan Williams, 28. Omaha.
LeRoy Zust, '29, Omaha.
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CHRISTMAS
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