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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
The Daily Nebraskan
Station A, Lincoln, Nebraska
OFFICIAL? PUBLICATION
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
Under direction of the 6tudent Publication Board
TWENTY-SEVENTH YEAR
Published Tuesduy. Wednesday. Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
mornings during; the academic year.
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Lee Vance
Oscar Norling
Ruth Palmer
Editor-in-Chief
Managing Editor
Asst. Managing Editor
ABSt. managing j&u.iw.
Dorothy Nott
Florence Swihart
Dean Hammond
Gerald lriinn SrpnrfnH9
Edward G. Dickson
Munro Kexer ASSISTANT NEWS EDTIORS
Paul F. Nelson .
james i. iw"
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Kenneth Anderson Maurice Spats
Munro Keier otho K- De Vilbiss
Betty Thornton Joyce Ayres
Mary Louise Freeman Florence Seward
Richard F. Vette
Milton McGrew
William H. Kearns
J. Marshall Pitser .
Business Manager
"Asst. Business Manager
.... Circulation Manager
Circulation Manager
A STEP FORWARD
A new sport schedule for the University of Ne
braska is the startling news announced rather suddenly
and without warning from the Athletic Department
late yesterday afternoon. After this year, the Missouri
Valley Conference is extinct. Which is as it should be.
Plans for the new conference show it to be far
superior to the old one; in fac the best thing which
could have happened for the schools concerned in this
radical change.
Under the plans for next year, -Grinnell, Drake,
Oklahoma Aggies, and Washington University wiU not
appear as contenders for the Missouri Valley champion
ship. No name, however, has been selected for the
colleges in the new conference, the details of which
appear on page 1 of this paper.
The whole affair has been announced very diplo
matically. Six schools: Nebraska, Kansas, Kansas Ag
gies, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Iowa State announce
their withdrawal from the old conference after this
year, along with their intention of forming a new com
bination. Absolute authority has been given for the
publication of this statement, as the announcement of
a,p), srhool to enter into the agreement has been mads
after the proper recognition of the authorities in
charge.
Three reasons for the change have been announ
ced: First, that tfm present conference is loo large. Ten
schools are unable to play each other, while under the
new system this is remedied. This meanB that no tan
gles, such as the Oklahoma Aggie championship of last
year, will result.
Second, that the difficulty of arranging satisfac
tory schedules is eliminated. In the past, a school the
size of Nebraska did not draw a large crowd for its
smaller games, which cut down on gate receipts con
siderably. And then, there was seldom any question
shout the outcome of such games.
Third, the old round-robin method took the ath
letes away from classes too much. Athletes during bas
ketball season would be gone half a week at a time to
play several teams. This injured their scnoiasuc recoras
more than was justifiable.
A model athletic conference is the result of the
-ew system. No other major group of athletic teams
in the country has a complete round-robin schedule
such as this "no name" conference proposes. In the
Big Ten, four years elapse before each team has met
each member of the combination. Questions of leader
ship cannot be undisputably settled in that fashion.
Herbert Gish, acting director of athletics, has been
appointed temporary chairman of the new conference.
This is probably in recognition of his work in perfect
ing the system'as it has been largely through his ef
forts that such a conference exists.
Perhaps this abrupt end of the Missouri Valley
Conference will not meet with the approval of some
of its other members. From every standpoint, however,
the new system presents advantages over the old one,
and the University of Nebraska is proud to be one of
the instigators of such a plan.
THE STUDENT DRAMATISTS
"Alias the Deacon" "Lilliom", "Old English",
"The Devil and the Cheese", "Tommie", "Two Girls
Wanted", "Hamlet" and "Kip Van Winkle" may be a
conglamoration of mere words to most of us, but they
nresent. authoratitative advice says, some of New
York's big "stage hits". And these are the plays to be
presented by the University Players, a group of striv
ing dramatists selected from the dramatic department,
with special preference given to experienced seniors.
The significant in plays have been given by these
Players for eleven years and they have been successful,
on the whole. Whether this twelfth season will be an
other link in enriching the dramatic repute of our
school remains to be seen. Plays were weighed, tested
and changed interminably before this final list was
stamped with approval. Broadway's offerings were
scanned with a critical eye.
The special matinee for students is being continued
this year. For thirty-four and three-eights cents a
.performance even the skepticals should give the eight
plays a trial view. The Temple Theater seats 620.
Whether the five performances of the eight plays to be
given will be enjoyed (let us hope) by a full house de
pends largely upon the student backing.
"It's fun being in a play", a student, was heard
to remark. It may be fun (although all plays are not
overflowing with humor and love-making), but it is
fun tempered with hard work, along with its mental
tax. One must give even the devil his due, let alone
a group plovrtng ahead rehearsing night in and night
out.
No contention is being flavored with superlatives
that aoh performance vrll be perfection itself. This
perfection, our college education has taught us, does
not eiiist. These Players will do their best or they
wi:l not be doinj; at all in the final performances. If
t i University Players show themselves deserving, we
i-!;uu'J back them with the old fotball spirit and benefit
not oi;!y the dramatic department but also the School
of :':" Ar which is foreign to greet many of even
t ; r I '.r colleges. . '
i words of the critics on the Lincoln papers
r ,;-ry v -: '.t:
To q'iote the Lincoln State Journal of last Decem
I r 1 : "The Temple Theater was crowded as usual
: . ' - a i litnce appeared to be delighted with the
: ri ture of the presentation."
1.. t, (' 3 Lincoln Daily Star of February 11: "It's
a most finished production that Miss Howell's players
are giving again Friday and Saturday evenings, and
even the high standing of her amateur performers is
topped by "Craig's Wife."
The wife of one of our esteemed Deans wrote
the business manager of the Players: "Please reserve
the same two seats for next year's course We have
never enjoyed the plays more than this winter Fine."
The ticket campaign starts Monday morning. How
will the student sale turn out?
A NO. 1
One hesitates to say anything about football in
the editorial column. It is so easy for others to speak
of a "bonfire editor" in that over-bearing, supercilious
manner affected by the disinterested. And then every
body is talking football anyway.
But football is part of college life. Whatever ob
jections may be lodged against it, it holds a charjj, a
thrill, which keeps some fifty students working two or
three hours a day and draws spectators by the thous
ands for a game. Even the varsity-freshmen game yes
terday drew an interested crowd.
Most interesting was the apparently early season
development of Nebraska's famous spirit Since the
University has grown so large, there has been a ten
dency for spirit to develop slowly, not attaining any
geat degree of power until the end of the season.
Yesterday, the crowd showed, by its size and pep,
that it was genuinely interested. Significant, indeed,
was the driving power the varsity showed. Nebraska has
a tough schedule ahead. But she has a wealth of ma
terial. Yesterday the team had all the scrap, the vim,
the co-ordinated punch, that makes the difference be
tween a close game and a clean-cut victory.
It is a characteristic that gives football its zest.
It was the spirit, that if continued, will enable Husker
fans to point with satisfaction to the score-board at
the end of the season.
Notices
Although our own illustrous Instructor Jensen
was dropped from the University of Nebraska faculty
last June 3, the news did not wander into the papers
until this week-end. Several cub reporters missed a good
story for the state papers when the action was taken
over three months ago. But now the news is somewhat
stale. Especially when Mr. Jensen is in Europe.
Take notice, anti-militarists and over-zealous
friends of Mr. Jensen, that this is not intended to be
the beginning of another military discussion. It is
merely a statement of fact and criticism of faulty
newspaper reporting.
SPECTATOR
It being Bad Form in our day to issue one's own pamph
let (consider what occurred when a Mr. Jensen last year
came out in Print), I have been fortunate enough to secure
Space in the Editorial Columns of this Publication, for the
results of my Observations as a Spectator. I must thank the
Editor for allowing me to remain anonymous, which is with
out doubt an Advantage, although it is not unanimously ap
proved among Men.
When I consider how Literary Activity, seems to
have degenerated within the last two Years, I bethink
me that perhaps the Campus is intellectually dead, a
thesis often heard but one wheih I hesitate to believe.
My melancholy in this respect is occasioned, I confess,
by my recent Inspection of the files of the Daily Ne
braskan for the collegiate Year 1924-25. There I found
in concrete form the Indications of an intellectual
activity on the Campus, viz., the column bearing the
name, Olympian Stuff, written by one Claire Montes
rey. Ah, but Claire Montesrey is dead. It has always
seemed to me one of the greatest mishaps that could
befall the Campus, the death of Claire Montesrey. His
was a spirit of Nobility and Grand Egoism, and be
stormed his way over and about the Campus until he
met the one Obstacle he could not surmount. He was
discharged from the Daily Nebraskan. Poor Ckire
Montesrey is dead, and with him died that immortal
set of Contributors to his Column, those contributors
who so nobly upheld the Tradition that Literary Activ
ity should go on; with Claire Montesrey died Celia
and Pod, Ra, Theodosia, Boswell, J. A. J., Don Juan,
and Satyranus. What chords of memory strike those
names!
Doubtless there live but few today who can call
to memory Montesrey and his companions. For the reBt,
I refer them to the files of the Daily Nebraskan for
1924-25, where they will find the writings of him, who
Clothed as the. best of London fops,
The tall and handsome, dashing Montesrey,
Trots past, on his way to lunch.
(Montesrey insisted that his name be prounounced
Mopps.)
But perhaps it is unwise to weep too profoundly
for tho Death of Montesrey. The Rumor is about the
Campus that the Monocle Club, an organization of
strange or eccentric poets, is to return once more. 1
have heard it said in Taverns and in Moons that a Fel
low named Gaffney, who has been honored President
of the Monocle Club since time beyond the Memory
of man, has ordered his Forces about him for a revival
of his Organization. It has fallen to the lot of another
Spectator to discourse upon the various Manners of
Clubs and Societies, and therefore I content myself
with expounding the short but interesting History of
the Monocle Club, for if I should attempt to describe
all the Societies on the Campus I should write indeed
a very bad paper.
The Club was founded during the Golden Age of
Montesrey of which I treated above. The Records and
the Surviving Members do not divulge that Montesrey
himself was a member, but a Fellow named Card,
known as a Wild Young Radical, and another Man
called Gaffney, who was known as a st"l Wilder Young
Radical, were the principal Organizers. Mr. Gaffney
is the only surviving member.
During the First Stages of the Monocle Club
Messrs Gaffney and Card were careful to wear mon
ocles, and it will beTemembered that on one occasion
the Club gave a Dinner at the Hotel Lincoln, to which
eachjnember attended with a monocle and cane. Now
it happened that the Club was using the columns of
the Daily Nebraskan to announce its many meetings,
Dinners, and Social Affairs. The Dean believed this
should cease, and when Mr. Card remonstrated that
other organizations such as Churches, not recognized
as Student Activities, used the Daily Nebraskan for
announcements, the Dean replied: "That is another
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macier ana we win speax no more aDout it.
But in due Time the Club presented its petition
for recognition as a Student Activity, and after the
passage of some Days Mr. Card was informed by the
Dean of Women that the Committee on Student Affairs
had rejected the Club as a Useless Society. It was
always Mr. Card's habit to remonstrate, and therefore
re observed that the Monocle Club was surely as useful
as certain other organizations on the campus, which
he named. "That," said the Dean, "is another matter
and we will speak no more about it."
This, then is the History of the Monocle Club.
I shall be interested in observing the new attempts of
the Club to be officially recognized, and I commend it
to eveTy Alert Student, that he too follow the Queer
Actions of this Queer Organization.
Sophomore Manager
All aoDhomores wishing to act as foot
ball manaflrera this season should report at
the stadium as soon as possible. Senior an
junior managers will be there to meet tnose
who turn out.
Scabbard and Blade
Scabbard and Blade meeting will be held
at 7:30 Tuesday evening September 27 in
Nebraska Hall 205. All members be present.
Cosmooolitan Club
The first meeting of the Cosmopolitan
Cluo of the University will be held Sunday,
Sept. 26, 202 Temple Building, from 8 un
til 8 p. m. All members of last year come
prepared to pay $2.00 per semester dues.
Prospective members, or those who are in
terested and think they would like to Join
the club, are also invited.
SIX VALLEY TEAMS
FORM CONFERENCE
(Continued from Page 1)
chairman, Dean W. G. Manley of
Missouri secretary.
With the formation of this league
athletic officials think it will be the
model athletic conference of the
country. Each team will be able to
meet conference teams at least once
a year and there will be no long trips
with two or three) games on a trip.
The Missouri Valley conference
was founded as an athletic confer
ence when representatives from the
schools of Iowa, Kansas, Missouri,
Nebraska, and Washington Univer
sity met at Kansas City on January
12, 1907. At a later meeting which.
was held on February 16, 1907,
Washington, Iowa, Kansas and Mis
souri entered the conference and as
Nebraska did not attend the meeting
it did not enter until at a later date.
Later Iowa University withdrew and
entered the Big Ten and in 1919 Ne
braska withdrew for a year and then
reentered again until the present
time.
The custom of buying and selling
slaves is still practised in Abyssinia
where hundreds of human beings are
sold on the block.
Temple Cafeteria
Now Open
Operated by the Univer
sity for your convenience.
Temple Building
Corner 12 & R.
HERPOLSHEIMER'S
TEA ROOM
Featuring
35c
One of our many noonday lunch
eons Served Daily 11 to 7:00.
Stuffed Breast of Vaal, Celery
Dressing.
Boiled Brisket of Beef, Vegetable
Sauce.
Yankee Pot Roast, Sweet Po
tatoes. Whipped Potatoes, Creamed
Succotash
Tea, Coffee, Milk or Butter Milk
Complete Fountain Service
Meals Sandwiches
Entire change of menu each day.
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Ten or twenty years
hence, for a
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Judging Team
7b Compete for
Western Honors
The Dairy Judging team left yes
terday morning for Waterloo, Iowa,
to compete for western honors in the
Dairy Cattle Congress which is to be
held September 26 to October 2.
There will be about, fifteen schools
from the middle west represented.
The team has been working contin
ually since school started to whip
themselves into shape for the contest
which is held so early in the year.
Members of this year's team are:
Harold Fulscher, Holyoke, Colo.;
Austin Goth, Red Cloud; Glenn Hed
lund, Chappell; and Elvin Frolik, De
Witt. The team will stopover at
Ames, la., for a brief workout at
the Agricultural College there before
going on to Waterloo.
In October the team will compete
in the National Dairy Show at Mem
phis, Tennessee. Teamsfrom twenty-eio-ht
or thirty schools from over the
United States will compete in this
contest.
Margenau Visit Campus
Henry Margenau, who was granted
a master's degree in the department
of nhvsics here, visited the campus
this week before leaving for 'Yale
University, where he will study under
a scholarship. x
f shall 1 do
with
that
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CLEANERS AND EVERS
Lincoln's Iiu?f Store Cor. lUh and O St.. "The Best For Less"
In A Stirring Monday Sale
I VI
Special .Purchase
Sale Group of .
Fashionable Fall
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Prices!
Cleanup Lots of
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All Greatly
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Stirring special purchases
combined with cleanup reduc
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bring you fall smartest Pumps
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In the special pur
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styles four choice
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100 pairs of plain
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in dressy styles of
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black calf leathers,
with medium or
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Added to these lots
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short lots from our
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including 100 pairs
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OF
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Has Appointed
SPEIER'S
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of the
1927 Freshmen Green Caps
take pardonable pride in making this announcement. We
feel that it is a pronounced indication of the increasing
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cure Apparel correctly fashioned according to the precise demands of
college men and women. '
We want you to remember, that Speier's is constantly striving to make
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