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he Daily Nebraskan 75lTxxv. NO. 70. CHOOSE CAST FOR PLAYERS' NEXTCOMEDY To Present "Outward Bound" This Week-Endj Matinee On Saturday MISS HOWELL IN CHARGE Herbert Yenne and Harold Felton Have Good Parts) Entire Cast Wcll-Known The cast for the production of "Outward Bound" which will be pre sented by the University riaycrs Thursday. Friday and Saturday eve ning nid Saturday afternoon has been announced by Miss H. Alice Howell, director of the play. The cast is as follows: Scrubby Harold Sumption. Annrauline Barber. Henry Herbert Yenne. Mr irii Harold W. Felton. Mrs. Cliveden-Banks Helen Cowan. Rev. William Duke Theodore C. Diet'?. Mrs. Midget Martha Baird. Mr. Lingley Ray Ramsay. Rev. Frank Thompson Charles Youngblut. The scene of the play is on board a small ocean liner. During the first act the eight characters discover that they are on a ship but why, when, and how they do not know. Scrubby is the steward of the ship. He acts in the capacity of the cap tain and the crew. He knows more than the other passengers on the ship but he keeps his knowledge to himself. Tom Prior is typical of a youth who has kept himself going with constant stimulants. He is pleasantly communicative and is the first char acter to discover that he is dead. Mrs. Cliveden-Banks representing the organized snobery of the upper class, receives a setback with the en trance of Mrs. Midget, a humble charwoman, who is out of place in these strange surroundings. Mrs. Cliveden-Banks feels that the Rev erend Dukes will bring some mis fortune to the ship. Reverend Dukes, a sincere and earnest clergyman, proves himself a friend to all the passengers in the end. The love theme of the play cen ters around Ann and Henry who are afraid iO be separted one second from the other. They are both very much in love wii.li each other though they are troubled by some sort of a secret which they cannot remember till late in the play. Mr. Lingley thinks of himself con stantly us a big business man. He cannot forget, though he is often reminded of the fact, that he is no longer of Lingley, Limited. THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, ' WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1926. PRICE 5 GENTS. MONTE MUNN TO GIVE SPEECH Will Talk Before League of Women Voters at Meeting Tonight Monte Munn will speak on "The Part the University Student Should Play in Politics," before the Junior League of Women Voters tonight at 7 o'clock in Ellen Smith Hall. Mr. Munn was grndunted from Nebraska College of Law, and has spent one season in the Nebraska legislature. Evelyn Schollak, president of the League, will tell the members some thing of the coming visit of Miss Gertrudo Ely, representative of the nntionul league. Miss Ely. who is n graduate of Bryn Mawr, is traveling nu over the middle west organizing leagues and will pay the Nebraska lengue a vist. The council repre sentatives and all university women interested in the league should at tend this evening's meeting. WANT SKITS FOR ENTERTAINMENT University Night Committee Sends Letter to Organi zation Heads New Field House Nepirs Completion POSTPONE UNIVERSITY PARTY TEAM LEAVES FOR JUDGING CONTEST . Junior Livestock Judging Team Goes To Denver to Enter Collegi ate Competition The University of Nebraska Junior Live.-tnck Judging team leaves to morrow afternoon for Denver, where they will compete in the collegiate judging contest held in connection with the National Western Livestock Show at Denver. The men making up the team are: Ed Crowley, Cambridge; Ross Mil ler, Franklin; Irving McKinley, Pon ca; Frank Recce, Simeon; Clay West cott, Malcolm. Before entering the contest on Saturday, the boys will visit the Col orado Agricultural College at Fort Collins, Colorado, where they will do some practice judging on the herds of livestock maintained at the College. Teams from Colorado,. Wyoming, Kansas, New Mexico, and other west ern state agricultural colleges will compete in the contest. This team will continue their study f judging and make up the Senior Livestock Judging team which .will enter the collegiate contests held this fall and winter at Peoria, Illinois; Kansas City, Missouri; and at the International Livestock Exposition, Chicago, Illinois. JANUARY 31 IS DEADLINE Skits for University Night, Feb ruary 20, have been called for by Clayton' E. Goar, chairman of the University Night committee. In a letter to the presidents of the vari ous University orcanizations Mr Goar set January 31 as the last day on which skits may be turned in. Any student or student organization may submit a skit. The committee which was announ ced Saturday held its first meeting! Monday and made preliminary plans for the presentation of the annual "fun-fest." The acts must appeal to the entire student body and not just to one group of individuals. The skits must include detailed plans of the acts before they will be accepted by the committee. They may be sub mitted to any member of the com mittee. The letter written by Mr. Goar follows in part: "The committee desires that all or ganizations wishing to participate in the production begin at once to pre pare for their part in the program. "The material is no further limited than that it is closely connected with 'the campus, and that it be of gen eral interest to the student bodv. "Curtain acts may be five minutes long. Regular acts may take twelve minutes. The number of members of a cast for an act is indefinite, but must be limited. Properties nec essary will be provided unless they are very expensive. "The committee reserves the right to reject any skits and to alter any which may come to its notice for presentation. It will be glad to an swer any inquiries relative to the productions." ft 1 Jt two .... .ft - ' 1-- 'r.--- Nebraska's new Field House as it looks at the present time. The structure is practically enclosed and with the heating system installed can be used as soon as the front and rear walls are completed. As the picture shows, the columns and brick wall in front are not yet finished. When completed the building will become the home of Ilusker indoor sports and University functions. Unable to Uie Armory January 16 Because of Baiketball Game Because of the Grinnell-Nebraska basketball game to be played Satur day, January lfi, in the Armory, the All-University party scheduled for that evening has been postponed by the committee. The date of the party will be announced soon. The remaining All-University par ties will be held in the Armory, in stead of the Field House, because the workers will be unable to lay the wooden floors until the concrete floor is thoroughly set. The com mittee is working on some new fea tures to help make the Inst parties of the year the best. DEAN POUND IS SPEAKER AT BANQUET "The Pioneer Spirit and Problems of Today" Is Subject the W. E. HARDY PRESIDES SHOW VALUE OF GOOD POSTURE Department of Physical Edu cation Conducts Campaign Toward Health INSTRUCTORS COOPERATE The Department of Physical Edu cation is conducting a good posture campaign this week in the endeavor to show students the importance of posture to health. Posters relating to the subject are posted at the west entrance of the Armory and short talks are being given in each Physi cal Education class throughout the week on the importance of good pos ture and what it means. Good pos ture is especially insisted upon dur ing class hours. Since there are only 1429 students registered in the department, letters have been sent to all the other in- "Rag" is Campus Name For Daily Nebraskan Through Many Years Why is "Rag" the universal cam pus name for the Daily Nebraskan is a question asked not a few times by campus visitors and new students. For, though, dignified as the Nebras kan may strive to be, the nickname persists with a virility scarcely ef fected by twenty-five years of usage in a constantly changing and ever new student body. The explanation, gleaned from TO MEET IOWA FIVE SATURDAY Husker Basketball Team Will Enter Contest with Grin nell Cagesters SOCIETY HOLDS STATE MEETING Present Gifts and Loans to His torical Society at Tues day Session President of Historical Society view Accomplishment! of Past Year Re. ! FIRST GAME IN VALLEY structors asking them to take a fewpaper that the nickname became the inheritance of the paper after "Rag" Riley left school. A suggested justi- alnot ready for occunancv. This will story wTitten ten years ago in The ; be the fourth game for the Ilusker 1 Nebraskan, is that the name "Rag" came into being as the nickname of the first editor-in-chief and founder of The Daily Nebraskan. His name was Frank Riley. He earned the ti tle "Rag" for no reason at all, ex cept as a consequence of his position on a new campus paper. The name stuck to him, and so closely was per sonality entwined with that of the TO HOLD PARADE AT ICE CARNIVAL Offer Prizes for Beautiful, Unique, and Ridiculous Floats at W. A. A. Fun-Fest At the ice carnival to be held Fri day and Saturday nights, sponsored by the Women's Athletic Association, there is to be a float parade. All organizations are invited to enter s float. Prizes will be given for the most beautiful, most unique, and the most ridiculous. The toboggans were initiated on Tuesday afternoon by the outdoor classes in the Physical Education de partments, and others who are inter ested in outdoor or winter sports The ice is not in condition yet, but will be in another day. The ice carnival is the first of its kind on the Nebraska campus. The admission fee will be only twenty- five cents, and there are a number of special and interesting features on the program. minutes from their class hours to tell the students what a good sitting position is, so that every one will be reached. Each woman registered in the de partment nns ueen given a posiure raring iaKen irom ner scnemiucgrapn , munt a tracing. These tracings have been accurately graded and grouped into four classes. A is good, B is fair, C is poor, and D is very poor. The results show that 22 received a rating of A; 507 B; 791, or more than half, C; and 109, D; Of the groups with the best general posture, those majoring in Physical Education came first and the sophomores sec ond. These findings show how much j physical training benefits posture OFFICERS ARE ELECTED The presentation of special gifts and loans to the historical society land a business meeting including j the. election of officers constituted the morning program at the forty- 'ninth annual convention of the Ne braska State Historical society, in Lincoln Tuesday. Oficers were reelected for the ensuing year. N. C. Abbott of Ne braska City was chosen to fill the place on the executive board made vacant by the death of Dr. Lowry. The officers of the organization are: president, W. E. Hardy, Lincoln; five, three pre-season games having:111 v'ce-presiicnt, Kev. Michael A. been played. Shine; Plattsmouth; second vice- president, James t. Hanson, Fre ihiont; treasurer, Don L. Love, Lin icoln; elective members, Samuel C. j Bassett, Gibbon; John F. Cordeal, Lincoln ; The Cornhusker basketball team will open its 1926 Missouri Valley schedule Saturday night with Grin nell. The game will be played in the Armory as the new Field House is Crinnell will open its Valley sea son Thursday night when the team representing the Iowa school plays it. - r- t , . .pi , ,, '. "... , . ... 'IMcCook; Novia Z. Snell, " tr a ... i ". John W. Robbins, Omaha, the Kansas Aggies at Manhattan. , . . . The Zimmerman-Remsburg stone These two games will give Coach n , , u t . I age collection of southeast Nebraska ul-bij; a cmince io size up tne strength of the Pioneers. PUBLISH SUMMER SESSION BUDGET Professors From Other Colleges Will Offer Courses in Various Subjects was presented by E. E. Blackman, curator of the Historical snciotv mii- Coach Bearg has been busy this . seUm. The private collection, gath- WPok Hnvplnninf mmrrls fnr tio TTno ! .1 j. 1 . 1 , 1 fioation of its continued popularity ker fiv, T'herVi, a great Soto! T?" JZtZ of guard material out for the team , George Pemsburg, now of California this year and he has been forced to and Mark E. Zimmerman of Whit j change Brown from guard to for-; Cloud, Kansas, has just recently hpon wara. iwson is noiuing (town the purchased by the society. It consists other regular guard position and ; cf specimens of stone age work, chip these two men work together in nice 1 ped flints, stone axes, pottery, and fashion. Milenz is being groomed "ceremonial stones numbering' alto ifor a guard position and one big gether about 10,000 spec:mens. unrig in nis lavor is tnnt ne is last j The late Dr. J. A. Williams col on his feet and a h-rd man to get ''lection of photographs was present around. GcreMch of Omaha, a do--Led by Mrs. Dacmar Williams, his jpendal le guard, will be ready for ac- j widow. She explained that Dr. Wil tion the second semester. Cass of jliams; who spent the greater part of j Ravenna is another player being his youth on the boats with his I coached for a guard position. ( father, took great interest in the I'resnell, who has been playing steamboats and the collection of some at guard, will probably be used these pictures was one of his great Dr. J. O. Hertzler, of the depart-, mostly at forward. 'Besides Pres- cst pleasures. Many of the pictures ment of sociology, will speak on the i1"'11' Black, Anderson, Sprague and 'were taken by him personally while subject "What is Progress?" at theiBcorkIe' have been triod nt guard, , leveeing at the foot of Douglas uul uiey nave snown up Detter at-llLel' u" l"e wissoun river. forward. The probable opening lineup for the Grinnell game is Elli- is given . in the story of ten years ago which concludes that just as a fat man is often called "Slim", so i -" VI rt(-iMri tittrt nrtns IIKx sisu.iw u tiling ('ii(tl W1U ' X?l 1 1. 1 1 J tiT t im'ui at ivan Lie uuui'u nag. DR. HERTZLER WILL DISCUSS PROGRESS: World Forum Will Hold First Series at Luncheon Today At Grand Hotel of, Vesper Choir Members Hold Monthly Dinner ne members of the Ve sper Choir "t'd their monthly dinner and busi Jje.?', meeting in Ellen Smith Hall on luesday evening at 6 o'clock. The dinner was ir. cha-ge of Con- "-e fctevens and the members "- committee inch Ve"-"a Sykes, Marjory rvainerine of LaVerne Bone Dean. A shnrf nrn. Pam after the dinner was presented ? Georgia Sitzer who gave a piano - aims rarrar wno gave a foup of readings. WEATHER FORECAST Wednesday: Fair and colder. Weather Conditions Very rapid changes in pressure and temperature occurred during the past 24 hours. A cold wave with below zero tempera. -us oc curred in eastern Iowa, northern Illinois, and southern Wisconsin, while temperatures rose rapidly and are now much above normal in the upper Missouri valley and Manitoba. It remained moderate ly cold in eastern Nebraska but warmed rapidly during the night in northwestern Nebraska. It is clear and cold in the southern Flains region. There was no pre cipitation of importance except in the lower Lake region. THOMAS A. BLAIR, Meteorologist. The Board of Regents has given out the budget for the summer ses sion which allows for more courses and teachers than ever before. Among professors from other col leges who will offer courses next summer are ur. ueorge u. oiraycr, who will teach School Administra tion; Dr. N. L. Engelhardt, who will also teach School Administration ; and Dr. William H. Kilpatrick, from Columbia University. Dr. Alexan der Lindsey, of the University of Oxford, England, is expected. He will teach philosophy and lecture on contemporary British thought. The summer session of the Uni versity of Nebraska has grown very greatly since it beginning in 1892, when there were only seventy-eight students. In 1921, the enrollment, was 1,589, and in 1925, it was 3,247 in increase of 105 per cent in four years. It held ninth place last sum mer, surpassing the enrollment of such colleges as Cornell, Harvard, Il linois and Michigan. World Forum luncheon and discus sion at the Grand Hotel at noon to day. All students who bought tic-1 kets before today will be admitted ' first. The discussion strom, center, and Brown and Law- Lson, guards. is the first of oi Iln-kr.r xtnnlr nnlr a An,.AnA series on the general subject of upward with the rletW r,Hn,lo,l t subject will be Creiirhton in Omaha Inst. SntnrH,r night. The team played Wisconsin Constructs Largest Hockey Rink Although hockey is a comparative ly young sport at the University of Wisconsin, the Badgers have just completed construction of a varsity rink that is reputed to be the largest in the country. It measures 110 by 250 feet The rink used last year was barely two-third the size of the new rink. Kay Iverson, Badger hockey coach, has also had two small rinks con structed adjacent to the varsity field. One of the smaller enclosures will he "acd by the freshman teanf and the other vill be used by a squad of young wo'nen. The length and width of the varsity rink will permit the vonstruction of bleachers sufficient to seat more than 2,000 persons. "Progress." The dealt with from many different an gles, rroi. n. u. Doming, of the and the three sophomores on the department of chemistry, will be the ; fjr(..t five played star roles. Lawson speaker next week. The title of his j W!1S a whirlwind at guard and Brown discussion has not been announced. his running mate, looked mighty The committee in charge of the good. Elliott, the other youngster, Forum reminds students that they ! was the high point man of the IIus are urged to stay after the lur jheon ; ker team and looks like a comer, and take part in the general dis- If the Huskers play the brand of cussion. The speaker will be glad ball Saturday night that they played to discuss questions which students ' against Creighton they should be re raise. turned from the game winners Number Carried Out to 707 Decimal Places in Mechanical Arts Building David P. Abbott of Omaha told the story of the Spanish sword of Coronudo of Villasur. He stated that he came in to possession of the relic sometime in August or Septem ber, 1887, when he resided at Mc Cook. The gentleman from whom he obtained it claimed that it was fine bull . found at a place thirty-five miles northwest of McCook. The relic was badly rusted and the edges full of nicks. A kind of etching extended from the point two thirds the dis tance to the handle. When Mr. Abbott obtained pos session of the sword by exchanging it for a polished buffalo horn, he says, "Being anxious for the sword to look bright J took it to the Bur lington round house and foolishly ground nwny the rust, nicks arid remnants of the etching. I had the handle made solid by pouring melted leak in it, and later had the blade mickled." "The history of a pioneer move- third floor of the M. A. A number carried out to 707tory. Whereever records are found decimal places is part of the mural 'about the measurement of land decorations put up last fall on the! there is generally found an attempt- building ,ed approximation of this value Pi which is indispensible in calculating areas bound by circles. The earliest mention of the value Pi is found in the Bible in I Kings vii, 2.1; and II Chronicles iv, 2, where in the coputation of a circle, the approximation 3 is used. In 1700 B. C. the Egyptians worked out. the value 3.1604 for use in measur ing land in the flat Nile' Valley. Of all early attempts the most accurate was by the Chinese in the fifth century of our era. They fig ured it out to be 3.1415926, which is accurate enough for all practical purposes, indeed more accurate than is ordinarily used. The most distinguished mathema ticians from ancient times to modern days tried to obtain accurate values for Pi. The history of the symbol includes suchnames as Archimeded, Hippocrates, Ptolemy, Leonardo Pi sano, Newton, Leibnitz, Fermat, Wal- where the mathematics department is located. ver fifty-two feet of narrow paper were required to show the figures. The number is carried to so many places that there are no names in the English language by which the numerical value can be called. The best that can be done is to write it down, and look at it, and then say it is carried out to 707 places. Here it is in partial form. Try and name In millions or billions: 3.14159226535897323 In every day language the num oer is called Pi, and is written in the arithmetical form 3 1-7 or 3.1416. It is one of the motet important quantities in science and engineer ing, one of the most interesting in Mathematics, because it represents the ratio between the circumference of a circle and its diameter, and en ters into countless formulas and problems. f The search for the value of Pi began with the first records of his- (Continued on Page Four.) (Continued on Page Two) MAY USE Y. Iff. READING ROOM Association Invites Public To Take Advantage of Magazine Files The Y. M. C. A. reading room in the Temple building has recently listed among its magazine files a number of the best magazines and newspapers in the country. Al though there seems to be a current idea that the room is closed to those not belonging to the Y. M. C. A. the public is invited to use this room as a reading room and study. Recently the New York Times has been put on file for public use daily. Among the magazines open to public use are the folowing: Atlantic Monthly; Review of Reviews; the Nation; New Republic; Time; Liter ary Digest; Saturday Evening Post; The Christian Century; System; The International , Student; Association of Men; and the Intercollegian. Th?re is also a British publication, The Manchester Cuardian. Declaring that what is held up as inherent lawlessness today is but an outcropping of the pioneer spirit of individual independence, Dean Ros eoe Pound of the Harvard Law Col lege, last night addressed the Ne braska State Historical Society and the Native Sons and Daughters of Nebraska at their point banquet in the Lincoln Hotel on the subject, "The Pioneer Spirit and the Prob lems of Today." The gathering was the first joint banquet of the two societies, Presi dent W. E. Hardy of the Historical Society presiding. Dean Pound's ad dress was preceeded by President Hardy's review of the society's ac complishments during the year, Gov ernor McMullcn's greeting to the' two organizations, and a short talk by Dr. M. E. Vance, president of the Native Sons and Daughters. "I suppose when a professor ap pears in public, he is expected," sta ted Dean Pound, "to appear in one of three roles; the role of a heretic, of a pedant, or of an amiable moron. It is very likely that steady thorough going study will make him oppose what is orthodox in the common thinking of the mass. So he is like ly to appear a heretic. "He is very apt to talk in unusut words of many syllables, to speak in"' a language with which the common person is rather unfamiliar. So he is likely to appear a pedant. But in dodging the charges of heresy and pedantry, it will be much easier for him to appear as an amiable moron." With the broad whimsical smile which characterized the most of Dean Pound's utterances he stated that "in the role of a pedant I have prepared a manuscript which I will turn over to the president of the so ciety. But in the role of an amiable moron I will try to gjvc the grist ot it in some edif icationarv and nrniri. iseuous remarks. "There has been a great deal of discussion lately as to what Ameri canism is," he stated. "It is new worldliness." Dean Pound then illustrated this challenging remark with a story of Einstein in America. Einstein he said was puzzled over signs "two-minute lunch." He did not believe it was possible that any man should try to eat a lunch in two minutes in our present civilized state.. Walking along the streets of one of our big cities, he found n sign announcing "one-minute lunch." In the scientific spirit of investigation, he pulled out his watch and timed a man and he saw that he went into a restaurant and out for his lunch in less than one minute. Just then a newsboy same up with the daily pa per containing Einstein's picture. Recognizing the man, he boldly and confidently approached, thrust out his hand and said "Shake hands, Re lativity." Einstein knew then he was in a new world," Dr. Pound said. "What he saw in essence is the spirit of the pioneer. "What a poineer is, is described lope, Dickens, and many others. But we know him. All of us have lived with him. The characteristics of his that we have ohserved moreover are the same things that the European sees which makes him realize that this is a different country. "The poineer was independent. He was self-reliant. He had to be. There were no other agencies to look after him. Either he did things himself or they were not done. He, was compelled to be self-sufficient, to lead an independent life. "The pioneer was versatile. He had to be equal to every emergency. From the nature of things he was forced to be an all-around man. 'Again he was restless. He was physically restless, mentally rest less. He was always in search of better lands, of better natural re sources. He always hunted for the greater opportunities. At the same time he was always wasteful of na tural resources. "Agriculture was extensive, not intensive. Mining was carried on in an extremely wasteful manner, ex tracting only ores which yielded a rich return. His development of gas and oil resources was very wasteful. The word 'conservation' was not in his vocabulary. Development was his aim, not conservation. It is only a crowded order of society which had made us think of conservation. "He had no use for form. He felt that pomp and display detracted from military efficiency. If you want to see the true American tra- (Cor.tinued on Fae Tljce.)