The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, March 19, 1931, Page THREE, Image 3

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    THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
THREE r,"
THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1931.
M SOCIETY
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In thp futnrp. work onds will hp filled with initiation serv-
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ices anl banquets following thcni. Severn! groups have nlrcmly
initintccl their pledges. Delta Delta Delta initiated Friday eve-
Phi Riorum mid Dnltn Tun
Delta held their initiation services. ''
Alpha Delta PI
Initiates seven
Alpha Delta Pi Initialed the fol
lowing girls Friday night: Marian
Bartlett. Marjorle Cass, Nelle Fa
gan, Florence Johnson, Mary
Reynolds, Louise Wallace, and
Grace Wilson. An initiation ban
quet was given in their honor Sat
urday evening and each initiate re
ceived a corsage of violets, the
aorority flower.
Confetti to Feature
A. G. R. Houie Party
More than thirty-five couples
will attend the Alpha Gamma Rho
house party Friday evening. Con
fetti and serpentine will feature
the party for which Bill Larimer's
orchestra will play. Several alumni
plan to return for the affair.
Coach and Mrs. W. W. Knight
and Dr. and Mrs. P. A. Downs will
chaperone the affair.
Farm House Will
Give Spring Party
The spring party of the Farm
House will be held Friday evening
at the Lincoln hotel. About 200
couples will be included in the af
fair and a number of out of town
alumni will be present. Eddie
Jungbluth and his orchestra will
furnish the music.
Chi Omega Choses
Leaders For Year
Virginia Pollard. Nehawka, was
elected president of Chi Omega at
the meeting Monday evening. The
other officers are Virginia Jones,
Omaha, treasurer; Henrietta Ti
arks, McClelland., Ia.. correspond
ing secretary; Bernlce Palmquist,
Concordia. Kas.. freshmen advisor;
Elda Guhl, Lyons, house steward.
Chi Omega has scheduled a house
party for March 28.
Girls go to Kansas City
To Participate in Play
Betty Evans and Ruth Frantz,
members of Alpha Omicron Pi,
will go to Kansa3 City Thursday
with the University Players where
they will participate in the pre
sentation of the "Importance of
Being Earnest," given for the
American Federation of Art. Miss
Evans plays the feminine lead.
Baotists to Give
Fullman Car Fete.
A railroad party will be given
by the university students of the
First Baptist church Friday even
ing at the church. The church
parlors will be decorated to re
semble a Pullman car. More than
fifty persons are expected to at
tend the affair. During the even
ing there will be games at small
tables with conductors and porters
at the service of the guests. The
program will take place in the ob
servation car and refreshments in
the diner. Rates will be fifteen
cents.
Marialice Ley. member of Alpha
Omicron Pi, left Wednesday for
Kansas City where she is acting
as a delegate to the Ameircan Fed
eration of Art convention.
BARBOUR SAYS
NEBRASKA HAS
UNION BUILDING
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unity among student organizations
back," he said. "With the present
lack of centralization this spirit is
dead. If organizations could just
get together again they could
start a unified fight for a new
building and sentiment would
doubtless respond with the advan
tage of it displayed in actuality."
Met With Opposition.
The building of the Temple met
with much abuse .and opposition
from people in the state and even
from certain faculty members and
Lincoln people. "Those who were
most active in the drive had to
fight for the money except where
students were concerned. And
Chancellor Andrews fought for
the student center all the time he
was in office," Dr. Barbour af
firmed. Dr. Barbour, J. E. Miller, Frank
Hall, and Seely Clark composed
the committee that shouldered the
work. Plans for the building were
drawn by Dr. Barbour and ap
proved by the administration be
fore the actual construction plan
ning was begun.
Many Contributed.
Contributions were made by
students, student organizations,
facu!iy and townspeople. The or
ganizations, aororitlea and fra
ternities In particular, were most
generous In contributing money,
some of them giving more than
$3,000 in group pledges.
The present Temple building Is
not as ft was originally planned.
The theater was never meant for
a public theater but for a student
recreation room. The space now
used by the cafeteria was intended
to be split up in small rooms
wherein committees could meet
during the noon hour and have
lunch served to them during the
course of their get-togethers.
$35,000 Was Raised.
The actual amount raised by
the drive approximated $35,000.
According to Dr. Barbour, Chan
cellor Andrews, who had been a
professor of John D. Rockefeller,
jr., at Brown university, succeeded
in Interesting him in the project to
the extant that he promised to
give two dollars for every one
raised by Cornhuskers. He kept
his promise and the thanks he re
ceived publicly was a strenuous
objection by the Nebraska press
which were opposed to the project.
THOMPSON SPEAKS TO
VESPERS ON TUESDAY
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are here. What are you planning
to ret? Are you simply trying to
have a good time? Or are you
trying to get something through
which you can live a fuller life?
Are you here so that when you
get through with this college edu
cation, you have obtained some
thing by which you can gain and
row in life's activities? Are you
here' so you can gain a back
ground for language, science, lit
erature, or are you here, living
from day to day, not preparing
Social Calendar
Friday.
Alpha Chi Omega spring party
at Cornhusker hotel.
Farm house spring party at Lin
coln hotel.
Soiree Francaise, Ellen Smith
hall, 7:30 p. m.
Alpha Gamma Rho house party.
Baptist students party at the
First Baptist church.
Saturday.
Phi Mu spring party at Corn
husker hotel.
Alpha Sigma Phi house party. '
McLane hall house party.
yourself for what you will have to
face in later life? You should
have something with which you
can occupy your mind afterwards,
so that when you are through
with your college work you can
live and enjoy the better things of
life."
"It Is very Important," con
rliidd Dean Thompson, "that vou
do something to gage your every-
aay activity, xne urne is going iu
pnm u-hn vou will have to de
pend on yourselves for the neces
sary things in lire."
Marie Broad was in charge of
vespers.
ELECTION OF BIG
SISTER OFFICERS
SET FOR TODAY
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and the Home Economics board;
Ardeth Pierce is a member of Tas
sels, Is president of Mu Phi Epsi
lon, national music society, and
has done work at the Y. W. C. A.
Opalle Duhacek is a member of
vesper staff in Ag x. w.; or me
industrial staff on the city cam
pus; of the Home Economics as
sociation, and is a reporter for
Kappa Beta.
Name Two Sorority Nominees.
The two sorority nominees for
senior memberships are: Miiarea
Dole, who is on the industrial staff
of Y. W. C. A., and is affiliated
with Alpha Chi Omega, and Aleen
Neely, who is one of the newly
vice presidents of Y. W. C. A., wa3
director of the vesper choir during
the past semester, and is a mem
ber of Delta Delta Delta.
Four juniors will be elected to
board membership, two of them
sorority girls and two of them
non-sorority. For sorority mem
bers, the nominating committee
has named Gertrude Clarke, a
member of Alpha XI Delta, who is
a present member of the board, a
member of sophomore commission,-physical
education club, and
the conference staff of the Y. W.
C. A.; Margaret Upson, Alpha
Omicron Pi, who is a new member
of A. W. S. board; Katherine War-
rpn Thrift Phi AlnhfL. WhO is a
! member of sophomore commis
sion, vesper choir, and does Y W.
C. A. and big sister work, and Le
dusa Ninger, Phi Mu, who has
done Y. W. work.
Junior Candidates Listed.
Non-sorority candidates for jun
ior membershiDS are: Delores
Deadman, who is a present mem
ber of the board and has done Y.
W. work; Margaret Reedy, who Is
a member of Palladian Literary
society, of the W. A. A. organiza
tion and of physical education
club; Margaret Cheuvront, who is
a member of Tassels, ana kuw
Lutz, who is a member of the Ne
braska in Shanghai staff and a
member of sophomore commission
in Y. W. work.
Onlv two sonhomore members
will be elected to the board. Soror
ity nominees are Dorothy Orr,
Kappa Alpha Theta, who is a
member of the society stau or me
Daily Nebraskan, is publicity
chairman of the League of Women
Voters, and Lucile Reilly, Delta
Gamma, who Is a member of A Ca
pella choir and is a newly elected
member of A. W. S. board.
Non-sorority member will be
chosen between Corinne Clements
and Lois Wentworth.
TEACHERS OF MUSIC
HOLD CHORAL MEET
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Covenant choir, First Lutheran
choir and Epworth M. E. church
rhoir. Those from other towns
were Seward Ladies' chorus, Sew
ard; Grand Island singers, Grand
Island; David City Treble Clef
club, David City; Luther College
slne-ers, Wahoo; Doane College A
Cappella choir, Crete; Doane-
Crete Choral society, ureie; Exe
ter singers, Exeter; Pawnee City
chorus, Pawnee City singers, Nor
folk; Kiwanis Men's chorus, Be
atrice; Cretonians, Crete; and
groups from Willow Island and
Kearney.
The choral master class we di
rected by Dr. John Finley Wil
liamson. He is one of the best
known choral directors In the
country. He Is director of the
Westminster Choral school at
Ithaca, New York.
Floyd Robbins, pianist, and the
university orchestra under the di
rection of Carl Steckelberg accom
panied the chorus.
The Choral festlvil closed the
Nebraska Music Teacners' associ
ation which began Sunday after
noon when the members attended
the concert given by the Lincoln
Symphony orchestra.
In place of classes in physical
education, undergraduates at Bar
nard college, New York, who a:e
in poor physical condition because
of fatigue, ars being required to
take courses in "rest and relaxa
tion." Full credit is riven students
in this course, who are being
taught how to sleep.
Over $3,000 has been earned by
students working at football
games on Princeton's schedule this
season, according to an announce
ment by the student employment
bureau of Princeton.
MILESTONES
March 19, 1901.
A party from the University of
Wyoming visited the campus for
the purpose or looKing over me
city campus and the university
farm.
A rold medal was offered to the
athlete making the largest num
ber of points in the contest to be
held In the Armory. Competition
was keen among the school s ail
round athletes.
1911.
The engineers held a rousing
rally to breed enthusiasm in the
department Three professors were
engaged to speak on the three
great periods In the life of an en
gineer. "Dear Old Dad" was permanent
ly protected from graft by a state
ment sent out under the supervi
sion of the registrar's office. It
informed each parent of the exact
amount of fees paid by the student
for the semester. The preyailing
impression was that not infre
quently the amounts of fees were
exaggerated by students in order
to, defray such sundry expenses as
formals, Orpheum tickets, smok
ers, etc. Which may not have been
so far wrong after all.
1921.
Burglars entered the Phi Kappa
house between the hours of 12 and
1 and made away with numerous
articles of jewelry and several
overcoats. Two days later police
reported that the overcoats had
been recovered, but no trace had
been found of the jewelry or the
thieves.
Fifty men from the Agricultural
engineering classes went to Omaha
to attend the automobile show.
The day was spent at the Ford as
sembly plant, where the students
collected information which the
department hoped to tabulate and
hand back to them.
1926.
Ninety men connected with the
Husker football team attended a
gridiron dinner given for them at
the University club. A playlet
which pointed out the Importance
of maintaining a reasonably high
scholastic average was presented
by members of the team and the
coaches.
The Pan-Hellenic ball closed the
formal season. "Grecian Extrava
ganza" and the slogan "Some
thing new and different every
minute" was carried out in full.
ALABAMA UNION HAS
NEWEST AND MOST
MODERN BUILDING.
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student government rooms, glee
club room, Blackfrlars (drama
tics) room, and the Union director.
There are also separate club
rooms for the faculty and gradu
ate students on the third floor.
The various religious denomina
tions maintain headquarters on
this same floor.
Is Beautifully Decorated.
The Union has opened the eyes
of people who have been accus
tomed to seeing student centers as
bare as possible, with seats and
tables but with no attention paid
to the artistic perfection of the
whole. The interior is tastefully
and beautifully furnished. No set
scheme has been followed and
every piece of furniture has been
chosen with such care that it fits
into the general plan admirably.
The colorful draperies and cover
ings for chairs and sofas, the well
chosen pictures that adorn the
walls, the rugs and other fittings
create an air of beauty as well as
of comfort. There is room for all
who care to come and sit and read
or study or write or merely lounge.
President George H. Denny
made the following reference to
the Alabama Union and the pur
pose for which it stands:
"For what does the Alabama
Union, built by the almni and
friends of the university, stand?
"It stands, and must forever
stand, for the good, the beautiful
and the true; for the building of
character and personality; for the
development, not merely of a
small segment, but of the entire
circumference, of one's possibili
ties. "Our prayer is that thousands of
young lives, on the journey to the
sunset, may find this place to be
the very door of hope and the
very gate of heaven."
FROM KNUTE ROCKNE
Coach Declares Athletics
Needed to Provide
Emotion Outlet.
BERKELEY, Cal. Slamming
American college alumni, defend
ing university athletic competition
and complimenting Coach Bill In
gram, Knute Kockne, famous foot
ball mentor of Notre Dame, spoke
recently to several thousand stud
ents of the University of Califor
nia Coach Bill Ingram was widely
complimented by Rockne.
"I know Bill well," he said. "I've
beaten blm a couple of times but
the gams has always been close
and I probably won because of a
superior reserve strength. I hop
you like him as well as we do back
east.
"He is one of the best, a prince
of the blood. I'm sure you stud
ents will like him, your parents
and faculty will like him but not
the alumni. That's impossible. To
Christian Science Organization at the University of Nebraska
Cordially Invites You to Attend a
FREE LECTURE
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
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PAUL .CTARK SEELEY, C. S. B.
of Portland, Oregon
Member of the Board of Lectureship of Th Mother Church, The First
Church of Christ, Scientist, la Boston. Mas.
SOCIAL SCIENCE AUDITORIUM
t o'clock. Sunday Afternoon. March 23. 1981.
Cn.i".u.LVuM.',i.'i.'.iiu.u.in'ji.uBam
Arts and Sciences College Is
Sorely in Need of Instructors
And Building Says Dean Hicks
Krtllor'f note Thta li tna ninth of s,
ssrles dtvoUrt to tht llf(rnt univer
sity department!. The articles will
tell or possibilities and needs of tlx 1-
K ailments, with something of their
Istory.
BY LEONARD L. CASTLE.
With a larger teaching load
than all the other colleges of the
university campus combined, the
arts and sciences college Is greatly
in need of more instructors and a
new building, according to Deon
John D. Hicks, dean of the college.
This college does more teaching
than all the other colleges com
bined. The English department of the
arts and sciences college is par
ticularly deficient in the number
of Instructors on the staff. This Is
only one of the many departments
of the college, however, that needs
more Instructors. Dean Hicks
feels that most of the classes are
entirely too large for the students
to get full benefit .from the
courses.
Wants Smaller Classes.
He desires smaller classes in all
the departments so the students
may receive more individual at
tention and also so the system of
reading and grading papers may
be changed. Dean Hicks feels
that the reading of papers by stu
dents is not a good plan and says
that if more instructors were
added and smaller classes made
the reading could be done by the
instructors themselves. With
smaller classes the instructors
would also be able to devote more
time to private conferences with
the students.
According to Dean Hicks there
isn't a college on the campus that
is as remotely bad off as the col
lege of arts and sciences. In
cluded in the college are two de
partments which, combined, carry
a larger teaching load than any
college in the university with the
exception of the arts college it
self. These departments are the
mathematics department and the
romance language department.
The math department has one
floor in the old mechanical arts
building for its work while the
language department occupies one
floor of ola university hall. Both
of these buildings are very old and
the facilities are exceedingly bad.
Hopes for New Building.
Dean Hicks has hopes that the
the alumni I might say that what
we coaches want is a fair deal
not assistance."
Need Emotional Outlet.
Speaking of the place athletics
should have In the university cur
riculum, Rockne said he believed
that academic training should be
the foundation of a student's edu
cation but that also he must have
an emotional outlet
"Athletic competition gives phy
sical benefits, wholesome recrea
tion, builds character and teaches
the participant team play and co
operation. This is just as import
ant as academic training.
Athletes Carry a Responsibility.
"The student that represents his
university on the athletic field
carries a responsibility he will do
well to remember. The faculty and
coaches have the right to say these
representatives shall not do any
thing to harm their own physical
condition, the reputation of the
university or benefit they derive
from their studies. The student
should be willing to live up to this
responsibility in return for the
training and honor he is being
given."
In closing, Rockne wished the
student body, its new coach, and
its football team "victory over
Stanford at least a fair share of
the time."
World Goes on Facts.
Stout, introduced as "a minist
er's son who had not gone alto
gether wrong," pointed out that
today the world is proceeding on
facts rather than opinions. He
showed the great effect of the life
and habits of the people brought
about by new inventions and ideas.
"The world is looking to institu
tions of learning such as this," he
continued, "for the men to bring
about more important develop
ments in the age to come. I'm
sure it will not be disappointed."
Physically, Coeds
Today Outdo Girls
Half Century Ago
Physically, coeds of today are
it much better condition thar the
j iiis of fifty years ago, acrorning
to Dr. E. E. Jacobs, president of
Ashland college in Ashland, O
Dr. Jacobs, who has studied for
the last fifteen years the physical
measurements of about 6,000 fresh
man girls whose ages are from
eighteen to nineteen, says the
height, weight, lung capacity, and
chest rirth have all increased.
He advances the opinion that
the causes for the increase in
vigor is probably due to the fol
lowing facts, college girls are
coming from a different stratum
of society than formerly; previ
ous Improved high school training
in physical education may have
had its effects; general health con
ditions of all homes are better
than formerly; it may be also that
the general physical vigor of this
part of the population is Improv
ing; or it may be that the vigorous
and robust girls are setting out for
college rather than the weaker
ones, for modern college life a?'
peals more and more to the vigor
ous girl,
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college may get a new building
sometime in the future. A new
building to house the two over
crowded departments mentioned
and also to have offices for in
structors Is needed very much.
Another Important need of the
ml lege is adequate library space.
The arts college library now has
about 234,000 volumes but more
than half of theso are In storage
and are of no use whatsoever to
students. It is extremely difficult
to add new books to the library
because when new books are
bought old ones must be taken out
and stored. Dean Hicks feels that
the college will never be able to
accomplish the work it should be
doing without necessary library
space.
Besides the large number of its
own students that it is instructing
the arts college is also taking care
of from 30 to 50 percent of the
students enrolled in most of the
other colleges of the university.
Most students, regardless of the
college in which they are enrolled,
take some classes in the arts col
lege and this extra load Increases
the already heavy burden of the
college. The arts college now has
an enrollment of 2,090 and is the
largest In the university. The sec
ond largest, the teachers college,
has an enrollment of 1,626.
Dean Hicks has been connected
with Nebraska since 1923 when he
came to the university as a pro
fessor of history. He was made
dean of the arts and sciences col
lege in 1929. He was granted a
leave of absence for a semester a
few days ago to answer an invi
tation to give courses In American
history at Harvard university. He
will replace a regular member of
the department on leave in Europe.
Was First College.
The arts college was the first
college of the university, the uni
versity first opening its doors in
1871 as a college or arts ana sci
ences. The college does not at
tempt to prepare its students for
specific professions but has as its
end the acquaintance of those en
tering its courses with the spirit
and content of liberal learning.
The college is directed to the de
velopment of the student's mental
powers and they aim to give him
his bearings in the universe of
nature and in the world of men.
Motion Picture Directors
Plan Scenario About
College Life.
BERKLEY, Cal. Hollywood Is
about to invade the University of
California campus.
Plans for the taking of a mo
tion picture of college life on this
campus have been completed, it
was learned yesterday.
The scenario will be written by
some campus student, revised by
Hollywood scenario writers, and
lie gtep in t elep!in ntsakiiaj
starts In a mniliei'i'y Msls.
The cord
Japan to get the kind of silk that reliable telephone service
than $2,000,000 annually for this one item . . . It's a huge
Electric carries. In it go pins. In it go locomotives.
nothing bought at random, nothing bought without investigation of world-wide sources
of supply. When quantities ere so great many factors must be carefully considered.
. -. Purchasing for entir BeM le,ePhone Svetem caU" for imaBm'
tion, too for muids unshackled by any such considerations as "what we used to do".
Western Elect
Manufacturers. ..Purchasers.. .Distributors
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filmed here under the direction of
Morton Schwartz '32.
The project has the unofficial
approval of the A. S. U. C. dra
matics council, and students ac
tive In campus dramatics will en
act the roles of the film, which
will be silent.
It is planned that the picture
will be shown on the campus and
may be used by the deputation
committee for entertainment on
its high school tours.
Another film may be taken a
picture travelogue of noted and
popular points about the campus
which would accompany the
comedy when being shown.
The only element of uncertainty
in this project is the scenario, for
which writers on the campus are
asked to compete.
The specifications for the scen
ario are: for a silent picture, with
much action and few titles; con
tinuous action; preferably a com
edy; of campus and college life;
forty minutes in length.
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Iowa State Attempts
To Place Graduates
AMES, Iowa. To help in plac
The
Long Crepe
Frock
Printed or Plain
always receives an open
bid to spring parties.
Very short sleeves,
no sleeves at all, are
hidden beneath these modish jackets in
the long crepe frock which is always to
be found in attendance at spring parties.
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on your telephone requires
cover. For this and other uses, Western
s. But in
HIS TO Jn
ing students In jobs after gradua
tlon, Mrs. Louise J. Peet, assodaOs
professor in household equipment
at Iowa State college, la visiting
various firms in the east which
aro Interested in employ Ug grad
uates in institutional equipment."
She is also Interested in getting;
more equipment for use in tha
labofatores In the home economics
division here.
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