The Daily Nebraskan
ENGINEERS' NIGHT
TONIGHT, 7 TO 11 P. M.
ENGINEERS' NIGHT
TONIGHT, 7 TO 11 P. M.
VOL. XXV. NO. 140.
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1926.
PRICE 5 CENTS
HOSKERS FACE
STRONG TEAMS
AT MANHATTAN
Triangular Track Meet with
K. U. and Kaggies Is
No Set-Up
AGGIES MOST DANGEROUS
Schulte Taking Every Available Man;
Team" Leaves by Bu This
Afternoon
Coach Schulte, Trainer McLean,
Student Manager Wilson, and twen
. fr-fso Cornhusker track men will
leave by motor bus this afternoon for
Manhattan, Kansas, to engage in
what Schulte expects to be one of
the toughest meets for Nebraska this
year, when they tangle in a triangu
lar meet with Kansas University and
the Kansas Aggiea Friday afternoon.
Coach Bachman of the Kaggies has
gome strong material, running the
Huskers a close second at the Valley
indoor. He told Schulte that he was
going to give him a mighty tough
meet So Schulte is taking every
man that might scrape in a point
Hein's Leg Still Bothering
Bill Hein is still suffering from in
juries to his leg sustained in the mud
at the Drake Relays and will not par
ticipate. This will leave only Locke
to handle the sprints. Locke's work
can be depended upon, but the loss
of Hein cuts into possible extra sprint
points.
The men making the trip are:
Locke, Wyatt, Davenport, Dailey,
Lewis, Roberts, Johnson, Ross,
Searles, Zimmerman, Ed Weir, Reese,
Leffler, Wirsig, Rhodes, Stevens,
Paige, J. Weir, Pospisil, Kriemel
meier, Stiner, and Almy. The team
will leave the gymnasium at 1:45
o'clock this afternoon. Four others,
Ballah, Raish, Mandery, and Molzen,
may make the trip in another car.
The team will return after the tri
angular encounter Friday to help run
off the state high school track and
field finals here Saturday afternoon.
8TDDEHTS 8DRYEY
STRIKE CONDITIONS
Undergraduate from Colleges in
East Co To Passaic Teitile
Strike Area
(Ey New Student News Service)
NEW YORK CITY Students from
Columbia University, Union Theo
lojrical Seminary, Barnard College,
Washington Square College, and the
College of the City of New York, vis
ited the strike area at the Passaic
Mills, New Jersey, this week in an
effort to acquaint themselves with
actual conditions in the industry.
They were Jed by Hillman Bishop of
the Columbia Social Problems Club.
It is probable that a student mass
mi-eting will soon be held on this
subject to be addressed by Norman
Thomas, (jailed last week at Passaic
on a free speech test), Rabbi Wise,
and the students who made the trip.
DANCE DRAM TO BB
PRESBHTBD HAY 26
Creative Dances, Instead of Usaal
Ballet, To Feat-ire Anneal
W. A. A. Program
The date for the Dance Drama to
be presented by the Women's Ath
letic Association has been . set for
the evening of May 26. It will t
presented tutdoors, north of the Ad
ministration Building.
It is to be something different than
even presented previously, as the
cane, are from creative dancing,
and not of the ballet type as bc been
the former custom.
The first part of the drama will
coiuust of comedy dances and solos.
The second part, which will make up
the drama proper, will be the "Cy
cle of the Honrs.'' The dances to be
nv-d are original creations. Miss
Dorothy Simpson, the instructor in
the Department of Physical Educa
tion, who has charge of dancing, is
uprrijfing, and Leora Chapman is
the dancing leader.
Committees hare been appointed to
take charge of the presentation.
Tt7 are: lines, Both Flanders; pro
iwin, Katbrjm Grieg; costumes,
MOdred Wohlord and Haxel Eafford;
publicity, Ershal Freeman and Lu
cille Bauer; and the ticket committee
i composed of Xatbro Kidwell, Es
ther Peterson, and Marjory Easta
hrv,ks. Tickets for the drama are to be
f fty cents, acd may be purchased
from any member of the association.
They win also U on stle at the Car
tee miuie store.
April Issue of Awgwan
To Be Distributed Today
The long over-due April issue
of Awgwan, the "Lucky Number",
will be distributed to all subscrib
ers from the Station A postoffice
today and Friday. Extra copies
are on sale for twenty cents at
the Awgwan office in the base
ment of University Hall.
The magazine contains the usual
departments.
R.O.T.C. READY
FOR INSPECTION
War Department Officers To
Review Work of Nebraska
Regiment Friday
FOR BLUE STAR RATING
With the parade yesterday evening
finishing touches were pvt on the
University R. O. T. C. regiment's
preparation for he government in
spection tomorrow, which v.iil deter
mine or not whether Nebraska will
receive the Blue Star distinguished
rating for the third successive year.
All members of Companies E and
G are excused frim their morning
classes Friday to report at the mi!i
tary department. lhi;y will be in
spected to determine the efficiency
of the theoretical instruction b'.'ing
given in the basic course. All ad
vanced course men will also be ex
cused in the morning for the inspec
tion of the work in these courses.
In the afternoon, the entire
regiment will asemble on thi? parade
field for inspection on the practical
instruction received this year. This
will be the last severe test for the
whole unit until "compet", May 2S.
Basis of Award
The Blue Star rating is awarded
on the following basis: 2 for sup
port by the institution, .ne Univer
sity authorities; 20 for support by
the student body: 28 for efficiency
in theoretical instruction; and 32 .
for efficiency in practical instruc
tion. Nebraska was one of six out of
twenty-seven colleges inspected in
the Third Army area last year which
won the distinguished rating. The
Third Army Area includes all the
schools west . of the Mississippi.
Announcement of this year's distin
guished rating winners will probably
be made about the first of July.
The war department inspectors
for this area visit twenty-seven
schools. Their tour of inspection
was begun March 19, and will last
until May 27. This extended itin
erary means that every school must
have its inspection when the inspect
ing officers can get there. This week
the inspectors visit three schools,
Kansas State Agricultural College,
Missouri, and the University of Ne
braska. CONCERT SUNDAY BY
STRIHQ ORCHESTRA
Ueirer.itr Orchestra Will-Play im
Art Gallery; Address on
Exhibit Follows
The University of Nebraska strng
orchestra will give a concert Sunday
afternoon at 4 o'clock in the Univer
sity Art Gallery- The orchestra is
under the direction of Paul W.
Thomas. The concert will be follow
ed at 5 o'clock by an informal lec
ture on the art exhibit
The following numbers will be
given:
Grieg Spring and In der Heimath
Vivaldi Allegro from Concerto in
A Minor.
Each Air from Suite in D Major.
Bach Prelude No. 20 in A Minor.
Wagner Lohengrin Vorspk-1.
Gillett Passe-Pied.
Vivaldi Adagio from G Minor
Concerto.
Grainger Mock Morris.
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ba, at a monument for Engineers Week. This is th latest type of high
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Above are the committee chairmen of Nebraska's Eleventh Annual Engineers' Week.
These students have charge and are responsible for the entire proceedings and arrange
ments. .
They are, top row left to right: Paul Soderberg. chemical engineers; Ted Johnson,
poster and window displays; Mark Fair, program; Lester Shields, convocation; John Un
thank, architectural engineers; Eldred Morton, banquet. Bottom row, left to right: Alfred
Butler, civil engineers; Edward Richardson, confections; Stanley Reiff, general chairman;
Homer Scott, secretary and treasurer; Fred Hunt, pep meeting; Emerson Mead, publicity.
Other chairmen who are not in the picture: Gilbert Fish, open house; Don Hannon,
parade; William Godtel, agricultural engineers; Rud Smith, mechanical engineers; Ernest
Pollard, electrical engineers; Walter Schmeeckle, geology.
ENGINEERS'
CONVOCATION
Sigma Tau Scholarship Medal
Will Be Awarded by
Chancellor Avery
ADDRESS BY O. J. FEE
AH engineering classes will be
dismissed and engineering stu
dents will be excused from other
:lasses for the Engineers' Convo
cation at 11 o'clock this morning.
A special Engineers' Convocation
will be held at the Temple Theater
at 11 o clock today. All engineers i
will be excused from conflicting clas
ses. Lester Shields, Lincoln, presi
dent of Sigma Tau is in charge.
Chancellor Avery will present the
Sigma Tau scholarship medal, given
each year to the engineering fresh
man making the highest grades. Pro
fessor C. E. Mickey, chairman of the
civil engineering department, will
present his scholarship award to the
engineering student who has raised
his scholastic average the most dur
ing the previous semester. The prize
is generally an engineering hand
book. Sigma Tan Donates Picture
Lester Shields will present a pic
ture for the Hall of Fame in the
Mechanical Engineering building.
This picture is of a prominent engin
eer and is given annually by the Sig
ma Tau fraternity.
O. J. Fee of the , Evans Laundry
will give a short talk on engineering.
Fee is a graduate of the University
of Nebraska and although he did not
receive an engineering degree he
took most of his work in that col-
jlcge. Plans for open house. Engin
eers Night, this evening, will also be
discussed.
A parade was
noon advertising
held Wednesday
Engineers' Night.
Each department of the College of
Engineering and also the Geology de
partment, were represented with a
characteristic display of the work
done in the various departments.
Displays ia Store Windows
Many business houses in the city
have exhibit from the .various de
partments in their window. A model
of the "Cathedral of Learning" be
ing erected at the University of Pitta-
burgh has been placed in position
south of Pharmacy flail. The model
will be lighted up at night.
Saturday is "field day," and acti
vities will be transferred to Antelope
Park. Trucks will leave Mechanic
Arts building during the morning. At
9 o'clock the freshmen and sopho
mores clash in their annual baseball
game. The juniors and senior play
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Week Committee Chairman
DAILY NEBRASKAN AND
CORNHUSKER APPLICATIONS
Applications for the following
positions will be received until
Thursday noon, May 13:
1927 Cornhusker Editor, jun
ior managing editor, business man
ager, assistant business managers.
The Daily Nebraskan (first
quarter, 1926-27) Editor, con
tributing editors, managing editor,
news editors,, assitant news edi
tors, business manager, assistant
business manager, circulation
managers.
Awgwan (first semester, 1926
27) Editor, associate editor, con
tributing editor, business mana
ger. Applications may be got at the
office of the chairman of the
Board and of Secretary J. K. Sel
leck. M. M. FOGG,
Chairman, Student Publication
Board.
MUSEUM WORK
FORUM SUBJECT
Curator Collins Discusses Place
Of Museum in Providing
Liberal Education
LAST MEETING OF FORUM
"The museum, when installed in
the new Morrill Hall, should greatly
aid students and the general public
in securing liberal education, lib
eral education, not a liberal educa
tion," declared F. G. Collins, cura
tor of fhe University museum, in his
address at the World Forum in the
Grand Hotel yesterday noon. This
was the last meeting of the Forum
for this year.
Mr. Collins stated that it was an
open secret that faculty and students
I had been discussing this year the
courses, of the Arts and Science col
lege. "But so far," he said, "never
a word have I heard concerning the
value of the mflseum in providing
liberal education."
. Mr. Collins then pointed out that
in the museums are the relics of by
gone days, which indicate changes
of passing ages. "It is sad to say
that this country of universities is
strewn with derelict museums. Some
enthusiastic professor starts the mu
seum and it flourishes until his death
or removal to another school. The
University of Nebraska museum is
destined to survive its infancy and
render a great service to the West."
Tribute To Morrill
The success and importance of the
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WEATHER FORECAST
Thursday: Partly cloudy and
somewhat unsettled; cooler.
Woatkor Coaditioos
Low pressure in the Mountain
region is centered over Wyoming,
and warm weather has resulted
throughout the Missouri and up
per Mississippi valleys, the Great
Plains and the Mountain states
with increasing cloudiness in the
Southwest and showers in Arizona
and New Mexico and the Texas
Panhandle. Bain has fallen in all
states west of the Rocky Moun
tains and in the western Canadian
provinces. High preure and
clear, moderately cool weather
prevail from the Ohio and lower
Mississippi valleys eastward to the
Atlantic coast.
THOMA3 A. BLAIR
Meteorologist.
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EIGHTY TEAMS
IN HIGH MEET
Nearly 400 Men To Compete
In Track Championships
Friday and Saturday
EIGHTEEN IN GROUP III
j Team entries for the annual Ne
braska high school track and field
meet to he held in the stadium Friday
and Saturday afternoons, now total
; eighty, with the men entered running
close to 400.
The latest entries include Colum
bus in Group III, Callaway, Central
City, Seward, and Teachers' College
High in Group II, and Stamford,
Ulysses, and Valley in Group I.
Forty are entered in Group I, includ
ing teams from Fairfield and Tilden,
first and second place winners last
year. Cambridge, winner of the
Group II championship last year, is
doped as a likely repeater over the
other twenty teams entered.
Grand Island Looks Best
Eighteen Group III teams are enter
ed, with Grand Island, last year's
victors, doped to repeat, although j
only after a stiff battle in the face
of tlje best competition ever offered
in a Nebraska high school meet.
A few of the teams will arrive in!
Lincoln today and the rest will be;
in early tomorrow for the opening
of the meet with preliminaries in
both track and field events Friday
afternoon. Preliminaries will begin
Friday at 2 o'clock with the 120-yard
high hurdles. The other track pre-
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liminaries 10 oe run rriuay are nic j
100-yard dash, 220-yard dash, 4 40-j
yard run, 220-yard low hurdles, and j
possibly the 880-yard run. The con
testants will be eliminated down to
eight contenders in each track event
for the finals Saturday.
Preliminaries will be held in all the
field events, with the five best men
in each group in each event going
into the finals Saturday.
Railroads Crant Special Rates
Admiftsion to the preliminaries will
be twenty-five cents and to the finals
seventy-five cents.
Special railroad rates are being
given all teams coming in for the
meet and the Lincoln and Lindcl!
Hotels are also offering special rates
for the accommodation of the high
school teams.
Medals will be awarded for first,
second, and third place in each group
in each event. A special Event
Championship medal will also be
awarded for the best mark in each
event, regardless of the group in
which the mark is made. Special
trophies will be awarded to the teams
placing first in each group and ban
ners to those placing second and
third. Similar awards will be made
in the relays.
First Exhibition Comparable To
Engineers9 Night Given in 1895
Engineers' Week at the University
of Nebraska is of comparttively re
cent origin, although some of the
events comprising its celebration
date back many years.
Engineers' Night is perhaps the
oldest of alL The first exhibition
of which there is any authentic re
cord was held in 1895 in what is now
the Electrical Engineering labora
tory. It was originated by Brue
Benedict. In those early days the
celebration was held on the evening
of Charter Day, February 15. The
'mid-year graduating exercises and
other features took up tha early part
of the day, and the Annual Electri
cal Show was given by the engineers
las the climax of the evening.
May Breakfast Tickets
On Sale at Book Store
Tickets for the May Morning
Breakfast, which will be held Sat
urday morning at 8:30 o'clock,
are on sale at the College Book
Store and at the various sorority
houses. Tickets are thirty-five
cents and both men and women
are invited to attend.
A feature of the program will
be the inter-sorority sing, a cup
being awarded to the sorority
winning first place.
STATE DEBATE
OPENS TONIGHT
Thirteen District Champion
High School Teams in
Annual Tournament
SIX CONTESTS TONIGHT
The nineteenth state debate of the
Nebraska High School Debating
League thirteen schools in twelve
debates start Thursday evening,
May 6, at 7:45 sharp. The district
championship school, each represent
ed by three speakers, will battle for
state honors on the proposition "That
the Members of the President's Cab
inet should have the right to the floor
of Congress."
Sides and pairings for the Thurs
day evening contests six simultan
eous debates were decided by lot-
drawing in the office of the presi
dent, Prof. M. M. Fogg, director of
the School of Journalism; and the
programs for the succeeding debates
will be determined by lot-drawing
immediately after each round.
The Pairings
The program for Thursday eve
ning is as follows, the schools named
first maintaining the' affirmative:
Holdrege-Norfolk, Social Science
107.
North Patte-Bayard, Social Science
101.
Hastings-Beatrice, Social Science
Auditorium.
Hebron Academy-Brock, Law 101.
Aurora-Cathedral High, Lincoln,
Memorial Hall.
Geneva-Hartington, Law 201.
Omaha Technical drew a bye.
Contestants Arrive Early
Delegations from contesting
schools began to arrive in Lincoln
Wednesday afternoon. The Beatrice,
Hartington, Hebron Academy, and
Norfolk delegations will make their
headquarters the Lincoln Hotel. The
Beatrice team will be accompanied
by L. F. Chard; the Hartington dele
gation by Dean F. McSloy; the He
bron Academy team by Clara L. j
Leum ; and the Norfolk team by How
ard McBurney. The Brock and
North Platte delegations will be at
the Lindcll Hotel, the Brock team ac
companied by F. J. Hirsch and Supt.
M. A. Sams, and the North Platte
team by Frances Edwards. The Has
tings delegation, accompanied by
Bruce P. Caywood, will be at the Y.
M. C. A.
The judges for the debates are for
mer members of Nebraska debating
teams and members of the Univer
sity faculty.
Silver Serpent Tea
Friday Afternoon
Silver Serpent, society of junior
women, will entertain at a musical
tea at Ellen Smith Hall Friday from
four to six o'clock. All sophomore
women are especially invited.
A continuous musical program
will be the feature of the afternoon
and special dancing numbers will be
given. Feme Maddox is chairman
of the committee in charge. Other
members are: Wilma Searson, Blanch
Stevens, and nelcn Cochrane.
Maseam Open Engineers' Night
Members of the geology depart
ment will take charge of the direction
of visitors through the museum,
which will be open during Engineers'
Night, Thursday.
As the other departments in the
College of Enginering grew, other
features were added and the name
was changed to Engineers' Night.
The place of exhibit was also changed
and for several years the exhibition
was given in the Armory. Whether
or not Engineers' Night was put on
during the period from 1903 to 1913
is not definitely known, but it is
very probcble tht some kind f a
celebration was given during these
years.
In 1903 the first annual En
gineers' Banquet was held. It has
now become a traditional part of En
gineers' Week.
Engineers' Week as it is known to-
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ENGINEERS ALL
SET FOR OPEN
HOUSE TONIGHT
Thousands Expected To Fill
Buildings on Annual
Engineers' Night
ALL LABORATORIES OPEN
Experiments of All Sorts Will Be
Demonstrated by Students in
Various Departments
Tonight, from 7 until 11 o'clock,
all engineering buildings will be open
for inspection by studi-nts from other
colleges and the general public. En
gineering students will be working in
the various laboratories, operatinir
the various machines, and demon
strating some of the more interestinff
and spectacular experiments. Over
bix thousand people attended this
event, Engineers' Night, last year.
In the Chemistrv buildine- the lab
oratories will be open, demonstrat
ing many mysterious chemical phen
omena. Methods of smelting iron,
gold, silver, and other metals will be
shown. Electric furnaces, heat meas
uring devices, and other apparatus
used in chemical work will be on ex
hibit. In the main lecture room
welding by means of thermite will be
shown. The heat generated by this
process will be demonstrated by al
lowing some of the mixture to fall
on a half-inch steel plate, which it
will immediately burn through.
Engines In Operation
Equipment in all the laboratories
in the Mechanical Enjrineeriner build
ing will be in operation. Every ma
chine in the power laboratory, from
the small four horsepower recipro
cating steam engine purchased over
forty years ago to the big Corliss and
the complete refrigerating plant, will
be in operation. Various types of
internal combustion encrines will be
going and methods of running tests
on them will be shown by students
in charge.
In the machine shop the methods
and equipment used in cutting, plane-
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SCHRAMI DIGS OUT
VALDABLE FOSSILS
Professor of Geology Returns From
Louisville With Sereral
New Specimens
E. F. Schramm, nrofessor of ceo.
logy, who drove to Louisville and
Meadow Monday to dig out fossils
exposed in a gravel nit near Meadow.
returned Tuesday with a number of
valuable fossil specimens which will
be added to the Morrill geological
collections.
The best specimen secured was the
skull of the fossil bison, bison occi
dentals. The horns of an ordinary
bison measure approximately two
feet from tip to tip. The horns of
this fossil measure at least half again
as large. This is an important ad
dition to the large collection of fos
sil bison already possessed by the mu
seum.
The remainder of the specimens
obtained from the same nit consisted
of two tusks of mamouths, one with
tip finely preserved, the other with
pulp cavity preserved; the skull of a
fosxil beaver which seems to be a new
species; and a perfect jaw of an ex
tremely narrow skulled fossil horse.
This latter specimen, which was with
out a blemish, disnlaved the law nt
a colt shedding its deciduous teeth,
with new teeth erupting.
W.A.A. ELECTIONS
ARE P08TPOI1BD
Selection of New Sport Leaden To
Be Made Friday Data of
Annual Banquet Set
Elections of the new W. A. A.
board members, to have been made
at the general meeting Wednesday
evening, were postponed until Fri
day, when they will be held in the
Armory. Father Peterson was nom
inated for rifle marksmanship lead
er, otherwise the nominations stand
as previously announced.
The annual W. A. A. banquet is
to be held May 28, at the Garden
Room, Lincoln HoteL This is to be
the last meeting of the year, and all
honors, including the "N" and num
erals, will be awarded.
The tennis tournament will begin
May 8, for all women who have com
pleted the necessary five rractlcs.
The Women's Athletic Association
is to have charge of the concessions
st the state hijrh cshool track meet
Saturday, May 8, and also at the
track meets tc be held My 12, and
May 15.