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fxXVII, NO. 59.
H, S. F. A. HEAD
COMES MONDAY
FOR CONVENTION
VMar Student Accompanied
By EngHh Delegate Are
Ready for Meet
WRIGHT ARRIVES TODAY
Louise Pound Will Entertain
Visitor at Luncheon
At Country Club
Miss Marvin Breckinridge, pres
ident of the National Student Fed
eration of America, arrived in Lin
coln yesterday morning: accompanied
by Miss Mae Hermes of the Univer
sity of London, ready for the open
in of the Federation meetings to
be held here Thursday, Friday and
Saturday. Chandler M. Wright, na
tional chairman will arrive this
'morning and final arrangements for
the conference will be made today.
More than two hundred and fifty
delegates have announced their in
tention of attending the conference
meetings. Registration will begin
in Ellen Smith Hall at 9:30 o'clock
Thursday morning.
It Vassar Graduate
Miss Breckinridge is a Vassar stu
dent and has spent the summer tour
ing Europe as a member of the In
ternational student council organiza
tion. Miss Hermes received her
bachelor of arts degree at the Uni
versity of London. She is now trav
eling secretary for the International
Federation of Students with head
quarters at the Institute of Inter
national Education in New York.
Miss Breckinridge, Miss Hermes,
and Mr. Wright will be guests of
Miss Louise Pound this noon at
luncheon at the Country Club. This
evening the local student council
will meet with them for dinner in
EUen Smith Hall.
Motion pictures of the Thursday
morning registration and of the Fri
day morning meetings will be taken.
Guide books, showing a plan of the
campus, the program, the delegates'
names, and the prominent speakers,
are being prepared. ,
1. 11. C. A SELECTS
DETROIT DELEGATES
Student
Seventeen Chosen for Stu
Volunteer Association Meet
In Michigan
Seventeen delegates have been
chosen by the University Y. M. C. A.
to make the trip to the quadrennial
convention of the Student Volunteer
association at Detroit, December 28
to January 1. Several more have
signified their intention to attend.
Registration for students is open un
til December 15.
Those who are planning to go to
Detroit are: Inez Bolin, Hazel Gub
er, Eloise Reefer, Margaret Wiener,
Lana Peeso, Richard B. Smith,
George Gant, Perry Morton, Tadao
Niahikawa, Oral Wittchan, Johannes
Klotsche, Dale Weese, Charles Swan,
Joe Reeves, Anatole Mozer, Wen
dell Groth, and William Miles.
This convention is held every four
years. At the convention planned
for this month, many noted speakers
have been secured to address the
delegates. Many schools in the Miss
ouri Valley district are planning to
end delegates. Those who are in
terested in this convention may ap
ply to C. D. Hayes, secretary of the
University Y. M. C. A. for details
concerning the trip.
Floy Hurlburt Talks on Existence of
Chinese Society
"There are five classes of society
to China," said Floy Hurlburt in a
iio talk, "but the division is not
fcased. upon wealth and poverty but
Pon vocation." Miss Hurlburt is a
Prescntalive of the department of
Wopaphy and her talk was entitled
Glimpses of South China."
'In these classes, scholars stand
8rst," she continued. "Learning has
to" been revered by the Chinese
wopta, and South China has pro
ed some of the finest scholars of
erV0Untry- The 8econd is the farm
More than eighty-five percent of
population i rural, i.nd their
st important crop is rice, but sweet
e, Paut8, wheat and veue-
Th alao rased in quantities.
.. 'bird class nt
th.nl" The boys 8r apprenticed in
tie " an early age have lit
fe opportunity f0r 8tudy, but spend
the f in 0ne Paricular trade.
There ClaM is the merchants.
1, . are ""my wealthy merchants,
to ,i ' ' lttCuer. dry-goods, and cur
jP8 are fascinating.
oliie w , and lowe8t claM 13 the
0 Met? Jthe ruffian the acum
and is a burden to- any
THE
Leads Huskers
Captain Thomas Elliott who will
lead the Nebraska basketball quintet
into action for the initial game of
the season at St. Louis Friday night
when Nebraska meets the Washing
ton Bears.
Saturday night Coach Black will
take his court squad over to Colum
bia for a conference game with the
Missouri Tigers.
BARBODR TALKS AT
SIGOA XI MEETING
Geology Professor Give Discussion
Of Development of World As
It la Today
How the world developed irom a
state of "disorderly disorder" to its
present state of what seems, out
wardly, at least, to be orderly, was
demonstrated by Professor E. H.
Barbour, Monday evening, in an il
lustrated lecture on the subject,
"World Dust," at the monthly meet
ing of Sigma Xi, in Morrill hall au
ditorium.
Scientists are constantly digging
to find what connections the various
branches in which they are interest
ed have to the tree of life, accord
ing to Professor Barbour. He
sketched, briefly, the bearing that
the various sciences have upon each
other. The field of geology, he
brought out, is especially dependent
upon chemistry, and he, according to
his own confession, never disputes a
chemist.
The nebular hypothesis, a theory
which explained the formation of our
present system of planets, by saying
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Kirsch Gives Program
Sunday on Fine Arts
In the first of a series of programs
being sponsored by the School of
Fine Arts, Mr. Dwight Kirsch gave
a talk on drawing and painting Sun
day afternoon at Morril hall. Some
program of this kind will be given
Sundays throughout the school year.
Classes Over Radio
community. One of the curses of
China the last few years Las been the
large standing army an unproduc
tive class of people that exist on the
product of other men's labor.
"The attention of the world has
turned, fr the past year and a half,
toward China. Newspapers and mag
azines give discussions of the poli
tical conditions and the military man
euvers. We tieed something to tell us
of the manner of life and customs
of the people.
Few Beggers Found
"There are few beggars though
there is -poverty. The coarsest of
clothing ia used by the poor but it U
always neat and well mended. Dur
ing the hard times they eat only two
meals a day and the food is of poor
quality.
"In this scheme of things there
are two other groups of people, the
field women and the boat people. The
field women are strong, stalwart
women who never had bound feet.
Their hair is combed back smoothly
and coiled around three elver hair
pins that resemble daggers. These
hairpins are a part of every woman's
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UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA,
Miss Breckenridge Explains Purpose
Of Student Federation of America
"The National Student Federation
of America i3 a spontaneous student
organization," stated Miss Marvin
Breckinridge, president of the or
ganization which is holding its con
vention here this week, "organized
by students for the primary purpose
of looking after their business."
Miss Breckinridge explained thai;
all topics pertaining to student af
fairs are of interest to the organiza
tion, and are taken up at their
meetings. She emphasized the im
portance to the organization of stu
dent cooperation. "The N. S. F. A.
is not being engineered," emphatic
ally remarked Miss Breckinridge. "It
is self-supporting, and it is entirely
our own 'show'." ,
Selection of members, a feature of
the Student Federation which is of
ten misunderstood, was explained by
Miss Breckinridge. When a man or
HOOP MEN WORK
ON SHORT PASS
Coach ' Black Omits Active
Scrimmage in MonAay
Court Work-out
MUNN SHOWS UP WELL
Leaving out active scrimmage,
Coach Black's basketeers spent Mon
day afternoon in a spirited drill on
fundamentals.. The short passing
game came in for much attention, as
well as practice in tossing free
throws.
Using a new device which com
bines offensive and defensive drill,
Black had the majority of his men
at work on the third Coliseum court.
Three men are used at the forward
positions and two utilized for guard
ing purposes. Long shots are barred
and the task of the offensive players
is to work the leather oval close to
the basket for short shots.
Trio Woi-k. Well
Glen Munn, "Jug" Brown, and
"Dutch" Witte formed the most ef
ficient trio of forwards. Because of
his height and superior reach, the
elongated football tackle worked in
well with the two shifty forwards,
Brown and Witte. These two per
formers turned in the best work at
the forward positions last Saturday.
Brown accounted for twenty of his
team's total points.
Elmer Holm and George Goehde
provided the best opposition for the
offensive men. Because of. his exper
ience, Holm seems to be the cream
of the Varsity guards, and Goehde,
getting his training at Lincoln high,
shows up nicely at the Bide of Holm.
Team Plays Friday
Black and his squad of approxi
mately thirty players are hard at
work for the fast approaching con
tests. Washington will entertain the
Huskers on the St. Louis court Fri
day, Dec. 16, and the Missouri Tigers
will play host to the Nebraskans the
following evening at Columbia.
Realizing the hard battles facing
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GLUB IS FINANCING
NATIONAL RESEARCH
Physical Education Students Are
Investigating Health Plan
Of High Schools
The Physical Education club of the
University of Nebraska ds financing
a nation-wide research to determine
the kind and amount of physical ex
aminations given to high school girls
in cities with a population of ten to
twenty thousand. . .
Questionnaires designed to cover
this field of information completely
were sent out by the committee. Be
side the actual phases covered in the
exaiiiihalion iUelf, the questionnaire
proposes to reveal interesting side
lights of the follow-up work of the
procedure. Among the replies already
received the general trend through
out the country seems tc be to place
emphasis upon ear, eye, nose, and
throat examinations. Posture is also
being stressed.
These results are being compiled
by a committee composed of Lucile
Bauer, Helen Schlytern, Blossom
Benz, Aileen Isaacson, ,La Dica
iFitch, and Helen Nesladek. The exact
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December Awgwan
Goes on Sale Today
Awgwan's "Scientific" number,
the December issue of Nebraska's
monthly humor magazine, will go
on sale today, Hal F. Childs, busi
ness manager, announced Monday
afternoon.
Block subscriptions will be de
livered this afternoon. Othef. sub
scribers may get their copies jit
Long's Book store.
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1927.
woman enters a university he auto
matically becomes a member of its
student body. The majority of col
leges today have student organiza
tions which they call "student coun
cils," and when a student council be
comes a member of the National Stu
dent Federation of America, all of
the members of the student body in
that college are connected with the
N. S. F. A. That organization is now
affiliated with an International Con
federation of the same nature.
Miss Marvin Breckinridge, Presi
dent of the National Student Federa
tion of the United States of America,
is a graduate of Vassar College. She
expressed her appreciation of the
manner in which she was being en
tertained in Lincoln, and is anxious
to meet as many student representa
tives as possible at the convention
which starts Thursday.
Perry Names
Presnell For
All-American
More honors are bestowed upon
Glenn Presnell, Nebraska's A1I-
American halfback. This time it
comes from Lawrence Perry, one of
the country's foremost sport writers.
Perry picked Presnell for a halfback
position on his first All-American
eleven.
In the Sunday Omaha World-Herald
Perry says, "Presnell of Nebras
ka is perhaps the greatest running
back the writer ever saw; and
Grange is not excluded from this
statement. Some teams stopped the
famous 'Red' Grange flat; no team
ever stopped Presnell.
"Elusive in the open field, superb
off tackle, and a line smasher as
well, he stands among the fine backs
of all time. Presnell's record this
season was 181 yards a game;
Grange's best season saw him gain
157 1-2 yards per game. And as
Grange had his Britton, so Presnell
had his "Blue" Howell, one of the
finest interferers the game has ever
seen, and a superb ball carrier as
well."
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MATH CLOB HAS INITIATION
Thirty Students Participate' in
Unique Ciphering Contest
Thirty students were initiated into
the Math club Thursday night by
means of a ciphering contest. The
new members showed a proficiency
at algebra, but a deficiency at arith
metic. The meeting was opened with a
talk by Merrill Flood on "A Machine
for Solving N-th Degree Equations."
Refreshments of doughnuts and cider
were served after the talk.
The following students were elec
ted to membership: Margaret Black,
T. V. Bohner, Alice Bromwell, Ber
nice Elliot, H. J. Geddes, Edna Hinz
da, P. F. Hoyt, Margaret Jensen,
Myra Jensen, E. F. Landquist, W. B.
Robinson, R. A. Vanderlippe, and
H. W. Zipp.
Commercial Club Is
To Hear Bedell Talk
Mr. Dwight Bedell will speak at
the University Men's Commercial
club dinner Wednesday evening. Mr.
Bedell is secretary of the Junior
Lincoln Chamber of Commerce. A
program of special music is also be
ing arranged".
The dinner will be served in the
dining room of the Hotel Nebraskan.
All men students in the College of
Business Administration are invited
and urged to attend. Tickets are now
on sale by the club.
First Delegates Arrive
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Mhss Mae Hermes (left) and Miss Marvin Breckenridge (right), dole
gates to the National Student Federation of America which rueets on the
Nebraska campud this week-end, who arrived yesterday. Miss Ere"kenridge,
of Vassar college, is president of the Federation and Miss Hermes comes
as a representative of the University of Iondon.
Dr. Aitken Will Speak
At Vespers This Week
Dr. Walter Aitken of the St.
Paul M. E. church will be the
speaker at the weekly Vespers
service to be held Tuesday eve
ning at 5 o'clock in Ellen Smith
Hall.
Evelyn Bauer will lead the
meeting.
EXCAVATION IS
NEARLY READY
Construction Work on New
Dental Building Will
Start at Once
ROKAHR BID IS ACCEPTED
Excavation for Andrews Hall on
the campus, south of the new Morrill
hall, has been nearly completed and
construction will be started immed
iately, 'L. F. Seaton, university pur
chasing agent, announced Monday.
The building will be finished by Au
gust 20, 1928, according to the terms
of the contract.
The basic bid of $185,585 of
Ernest Rokahr and Sons for the gen
eral construction of the building has
been accepted. The bid accepted
was the lowest offered, the next bes
ing that of the W. J. Assenmacher
Co., at $189,000. The matter came
before the Board of Regents Satur
day when all but these two bidders
out of thirteen were eliminated, the
final award being deferred until af
ter study of some of the optional
features of the bids.
Total Cost Higher
The total cost of the structure is
expected to reach $300,000. The
Rokahr bid does not include the cost
of plumbing, heating equipment,
electrical wiring, ventilation, nor the
Ct-t of excavation already com
pleted. The building will be similar
to Morrill hall, towards the rear of
which it will back. It will he of red
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STEPANEK WILL BE
SPEAKER AT FORUM
Professor Will Discuss Soviet Russia
Wednesday; Visited Country
Last Summer
Prof. Orin Stepanek, instructor in
the department of English and asso
ciate professor of Slavonic lan
guages, will address the World For
um luncheon Wednesday noon on the
subject of Soviet Russia. Professor
Stepanek spent this summer in Rus
sia studying the conditions there and
the Russian government.
World Forum meets every Wed
nesday at 12 o'clock and ends at
12:50 o'clock in time for students
to make 1 o'clock classes. The
luncheons are served for twenty-five
rents each. Tickets are sold at the
Temple, in the Social Science hall
and at the Grand hotel.
MYSTIC FISH SPONSOR DINNER
Armory Will Be Scene of Freshman
Get-Together This Evening
There will be a dinner Tuesday
evening at 6 o'clock for the fresh
man girls in the old Armory. The
meeting is sponsored by the Mystic
Fish and is for the purpose of bring
ing the freshman girls together.
Music during the dinner will be
furnished by Miss Charlotte Feichs
at the niano. accompanied by Miss
Maude Weaver playing the violin.
Other numbers will be arranged
later. Tickets are on sale by mem
bers of the Mystic Fish or may be
procured at the door.
Rhodes Scholar
r
ir
Robert N. Lasch, University of
Nebraska senior, who was announced
vesterday as the next Nebraska
Rhodes scholar. Mr. Lasch will en
ter Oxford in the fall of 1928.
DEBATE TRIALS
ARE NEXT WEEK
Huskers Schedule Contests
With Kansas Aggies and
Missouri Teams
FIFTEEN SIGN ALREADY
Tryouts for varsity debate on the
question: "This house deplores the
tendency of the government to inter
fere in the rights of individuals" will
be held December 19 at 3:30 o'clock
in room 106 U Hall, stated Professor
H. A. White, debate coach, yester
day.
Nebraska's affirmative will meet
the negative) team of Kansas Aggies
at Beatrice on February 15. On the
following night the negative team
will meet the Kansas Aggie affirma
tive team in a debate which will be
broadcast by radio.
Missouri Is Second Opponent
The second debate is scheduled
with Missouri University for Febru
ary 21. Nebraska's affirmative
team will meet the Missouri negative
team here and the negative team will
meet Missouri at Columbia on the
same evening.
At present about fifteen men are
signed up for the tryouts, about half
of whom are former varsity debat
ers. Professor White will draw lots
to determine order of speakers and
sides to be taken. The list will be
posted on the debate bulletin board
in U Hall Friday afternoon, allow
ing candidates three days for prep
aration for sides.
Christmas Spirit Is To
Be Featured at Girls'
Fete Tomorrow Night
An old-fashioned Santa Claus with
a Christmas tree and grab bag will
be features of the Girl's Commercial
club hard times party which will be
given Wednesday from 6i46 to 8
o'clock in Ellen Smith Hall. Each
girl is asked to bring a ten cent
gift and an admission fee of fifteen
cents will be charged at the door.
The decorations and the menu
will combine the Christmas spirit
with the hard times element while
the program will consist of readings
by Clarona Sweney, a piano solo by
Laura Arump, and a vocal solo by
Marjorie Byllsbye. There will also
be music for dancing.
Bernice Welch is general chair
man of the party and the other mem
bers of the committee are Mary Ball,
Bernice Trimble, Mildred Olson,
Helen Brennan and Agatha Danekes.
PHYS ED CLUB WILL MEET
Genevieve Crroll It to Report On
Work at Minnesota
The Physical Education club will
meet Wednesday, December 14, in
room iui ol the Armory. The
meeting will start promptly at 7
o'clock and adjourn early enough in
order to not interfere with Orchesis
practice.
Genevieve Carroll has studied the
plan of freshman work carried on
by the University of Minnesota and
will report the high lights to the
group. Aileen Isaacson is also on
the evening's program. Her topic
is "Publications Sponsored by Other
Physical Education Clubs."
Schlytern Is Chairman
Helen Schlytern, chairman of the
program committee, has kept in
mind professional problems which
the members of the club will be
likely to meet.
Miss Fedde, head of the depart
ment of home economics of the Uni
versity has accepted the invitation
of the club to appear at the luncheon
Monday, December 19. She will
point out the common problems of
physical education and home econm
PRICE 5 CENTS
LASGH IS GIVEN
SCHOLARSHIP TO
ATTEND OXFORD
University Senior Is Chosen
By Rhodes Committee to ,
Represent State
THIRTY-TWO ARE CHOSEN
Winner Was One of Five Men
Recommended by Husker
Faculty Group
Robert N. Lasch, senior in the Col
lege of Arts and Sciences, was
named as Rhodes scholar for Ne
braska, along with thirty-two other
representatives of other states se
lected from the entire country. Mr.
Lasch was one of five candidates
from the University of Nebraska.
He was born in Lincoln, 'moving
with his parents to Kansas City and
graduated from Central high school
there. He will receive his degree
from the University of Nebraska
next summer. He is majoring in
philosophy and English. Mr. Lasch
is a member of the editorial board of
the Prairie Schooner, a contributing
editor of the Daily Nebraskan, and
is in charge of the University news
service. Mr. Lasch ia a member of
Delta Upsilon and Sigma Delta Chi,
professional journalistic fraternity.
Leaves Nest September
Mr. Lasch will leave for England
next September. The scholarship is
for three years with a yearly allow
ance of 400 pounds which is nearly
$2,000.00. As the school year at
Oxford consists of only three eight
week terms, Rhodes scholars spend
extensive vacations in Europe.
Nebraska has fourteen Rhodes
scholars back from Oxford. Five
are now teaching in universities, five
are lawyers, two are ministers, one
is a newspaper man and one has
died.
A change in method of selecting
Rhodes scholars has been suggested
by former Rhodes scholars, accord
ing to President Frank Aydelotte of
Swarthmore College. Dr. Aydelotte
is American secretary to the Rhodes
trustees.
Plan District Selection
The provisions for the new system
would include a grouping of the
country into eight districts of six
states each. The state committee
would then select one or two candi-.
dates, yearly, to appear before the
regional committee for the four ap
pointments from that district.
For the thirty-two scholarships
497 candidates were previously se
lected and approved by their respec
tive colleges and universities.
The complete list of Rhodes schol
ars from Nebraska with their col
leges, follows:
1904, R. H. Coon, Grand Island;
1905, A. H. Marsh, Nebraska; 1907,
Sam Rinaker, Nebraska; 1908, J. E.
Smith, Cotner; 1910, W. F. Raney,
Hastings; 1911, Horace English, Ne
braska; 1913, W. F. Crossland, Wes
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GIRLS BASKETBALL
BEGINS JANUARY 5
W. A. A. Games Will Not Interfere
With Intrst-Mural Contests)
May Play ia Both
"Basket ball season begins Jan
uary 5, the Thursday after Christ
mas," decreed Sue Hall at W. A. A.
Board meeting last night. W. A. A.
basket ball will not interfere with
the intra-mural program of basket
ball being fostered by the physical
education department It is quite pos
sible that women who are interested
in one or the other will attempt to
perfect their game by additional
practices in either organization.
W. A. A. practices will be held on
Monday, Wednesday and Friday at
five o'clock and on Tuesday and
Thursday at four o'clock. Girls who
wish to earn membership in the As
sociation should make the most, of
the opportunity to sign up early for
this sport, Miss Hall stated.
Miss Wagne.- Will Coach
Those to whom ' basket ball is
either new or forgotten will have the
privilege of special coaching undr
Miss M. M. Wagner. Advanced play
ers or physical education majors will
not be included in this group.
Medical cxaminatluu Is required of
each girl before she may start the
practice season. Er. Philbrick will
gladly examine any girl free of
charge. Certificates of examination
by the family physician are abo ac
cepted. The blank forms to be filled
and signed by the doctor may be pro
cured at the W. A. A. office.
It has been the custom in previous
years to keep training rules during;
the entire season. This rrle has been
amended to require thi.t training
rules be kept the week prec$ng end
the week during tlw basket .Wtt tvv,
nament.
