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TIIE DAILY NEBRASKAN
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1932
The Daily Nebraskan
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MANAGING. EDITORS
Howard Allaway Jack Erlckson
NEWS EDITORS
Phillip Browned Oliver De Wolf
Laurence Hall Virginia Pollard
Joe Miller Sports Editor
Ruth Schlll .-. womsn's tanor
Katharine Howard Society Editor
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS.
Gerald Bardo Qeorne Dunn William Holmes
Edwin Faulkner Don Larimer Boyd Krewson
George Round Art Kotelka
BUSINESS STAFF
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ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGERS
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Pride and
The Past.
Three score and three years ago on Monday,
David Butler, governor of Nebraska, signed
the slip of Taper which made possible the in
fant institution to be called the University of
Nebraska. Monday, just sixty-three years since
that day, marks the anniversary of a truly
great institution of learning with achievements
to its credit of which any university might
well be proud. On its rolls are men and women
who have succeeded in the eyes of the world.
They are Nebraska people and they are proud
of it. We who are here should be proud, too,
that we belong to the same stock as the true
pioneers of the west.
They were pioneers. They built and they
fought, and they won. They endured hard
ships, both mental and physical, and they
stayed to win. Just two years after the or
ganization of the state they began to look to
the future. They planned for a University of
Nebraska. Their dream is now a reality. In
times like these we are apt to forget that
others have endured hardships before us. Most
of those builders of this country came from a
life of comfort to the rough battle of the west.
They fought to build this country of ours for
us. They went through all the ordeals of pio
neer life and stuck it out until they had won.
There are those now who are crying.
"Enough," and who are giving up the ship.
It should be easy to keep on fighting if mnn
ory would always turn to our forefathers. 1
Tn point of material growth the University
of Nebraska has made amazing strides. From
one lone building, which had to be propped up
a few years after its erection, the plant has
grown to include more than a score of build
ings on the city campus, almost as many on
the agricultural college campus, some at the
medical college in Omaha, and others at va
rious other places in the state. There are now
some 7,000 students on the lists of the institu
tion as compared to twenty at its inception,
and it stands among the high twenty in the
country in point of size.
Size, wealth and physical growth are not t lie
criteria of progress. An institution of learning
is measured by its intellectual achievements.
When the University of Nebraska is weighed
in the balance, on the one side there -will be
her graduates and their accomplishments, and
the achievement of the college in general. On
the other side will be her mistakes, her nar
rowness, her lack of tradition and her lack of
that indefinable something which makes insti
tutions great.
Nebraska can view with pleasure the men
and women who have gone out of her highest
institution of learning into the world to make
their marks. Upon her rolls are famous law
vers, artists, authors, statesmen, educators,
business executives, and people known in every
line. All of them are listed as alumni of the
University of Nebraska.
The credit for the remarkable success of the
institution must go to three deserving units.
The first is the students, the second the fac
ulty, and the third the state. The students
themselves have taken advantage of the money
and material provided by the people of the
state, and of the culture and intellect pro
vided by the faculty, and have struggled, even
as the pioneers, to better their conditions and
to make, as the saying goes, "something of
themselves."
And so on its sixty-third birthday the Uni
versity of Nebraska hp.s cause to be proud. It
can look from out of a bleak present upon a
fighting background and a brilliant future. It
can look upon its past with a certain grim de
light. It can look toward the future to a
roseate dawn. More of its students will suc
ceed, its na'iie will go upward and onward and
always it can be proud of its heritage, the pio
neer, the builder of the state and of the nation.
their benefit the events leading up to the referendum.
For several years the council has contem
plated somo action looking toward the inelu
sion of students on the athletic board. Other
and more pressing problems, however, have
held the council's attention until the present
time. Lust year the entire organization of
extra-currieulur activities was recast in such a
way that the Student Council was made clearly
pre-eminent among the several groups dealing
with student problems. Having effected the
changes necessary to secure the proper co
ordination and relationship among the extra
curricular bodies, the council can now devote
its time to the solution of pressing campus
problems of general interest. In order to check
up on the structure of student activities as
established under the new constitution, the
council delegated certain of its members to at
tend the recent congress of the National Stu
dent Federation of America at Toledo. It was
the opinion of the delegates after a careful
investigation of the. situation in other univer
sities that Nebraska had cause to give thanks
for the relatively high state of development
which its student organizations have attained.
Only in one phase of its extra-curricular struc
ture did the University of Nebraska seem to
be less well off than the most representative
colleges and universities of the nation. This
phase was the student participation in the de
termination of athletic policy. Jt was the ob
servation of the Nebraska delegation at, the
N. S. F. A. congress that nearly all of the uni
versities situated comparable to our own insti
tution permitted a greater expression of stu
dent will in the determination of athletic pol
icy, than here at .Nebraska. A canvass ot
eighteen Pacific coast colleges revealed that it
was the prevailing practice among those insti
tutions to include two students upon their
boards of control.
UeJieving that such representation is uesir-
able and will contribute to continued welfare
f athletics at Nebraska the delegates recom
mended to the council that it conduct an in
vestigation into the feasibility and expediency
of securing seats for two students with full
powers of action on the university Athletic
Hoard of Control. The council saw fit to act
upon the recommendation. Tuesday's referen
duin is being taken in order to satisfy the
council as to the sympathy of the student body
for the project in hand. If the council's plan
has the sanction and popular support of the
students, the council will prepare a definite
proposal for presentation to the Board of Keg-
ents. It is not the intention of the council to
rush headlong into unplanned action. Kather
the council will give its careful consideration
to the perfection of a plan of student repre
sentation which is compatible with local con
ditions and which will insure the student body
some voice in athletic matters without impair
ing the efficient administration of these affairs.
The council submits its proposal to the body
politic of the university confident that its
stand will receive approval. The council urges
upon the advisability of this project from sev
eral points of view. It is patent that the stu
dents are those ehieflv concerned with anv ath-
etic program. Intra-mural and inter-collegiate
athletics are admitted!' carried on for the
benefit of the students. "Why should not the
students be allowed some voice in the conduct
of ihese aihletics as long as such voice is com
patible with efficient administration of athletic
affairs?
The council realizes that the final responsi
bility for the financial well being of the ath
letic association must rest upon the shoulders
of the eajiable gentlemen who are now in
charge. However, it is our contention that such
responsibility and student representation on
the board are not irreconcilable. It is our sin
cere belief that student representation would
contribute much in greater student interest in
support of athletics. Such student representa
tion would do much to tie the student body
closer 1o athletics and the university. Although
Nebraska is as free as any school in the coun
try j'r.mi the taint of professionalism in its ath
letics, the university would give impressive
evidence of its open and above board policy
by adding undergraduate representatives to its
Board of Control. Quite naturally such under
graduates would be in a more advantageous!
position than their senior colleagues to secure
an accurate expression of student sentiment on
athletic, problems. These expressions of opin
ion might well be brought to the board's atten
tion, we feel.
For these reasous and others, the council
submits to the students that realization of the
project in hand would make a substantial re
turn to both the student body and the athlelic
board in increased good will and a more nearly
complete attainment of those ends for which
athletics were instituted.
EDWIN FAULKNKK.
President of the Student Council.
All HF RCERS ARE
Selection to Be Made From
Nominees in the Annual
Spring Election.
CLUBS TO CHOOSE BOARD
To THE
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EDITOR :
II. li. think "someone is going
MORNING MAIL
Of, By and For.
TO THE EDITOR:
I Next Tuesday the students of the university
will be called upon to express their opinion of
ine of the projects which their Student Cou
Til has undertaken as one of its central objec
tives for the year. I refer to the referendum
vote to be taken on the council's proposal to
include student representatives on the univer
sity's Athletic Board of Control Inasmuch as
"the students are to be called upon to ballot
upon this proposal, permit me to sketch for
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be the 'campus darling 'whether lie wants to
or not." Mercy, mercy, is some liltle campus
sweetness going to be abused 1 And are all
the little girlies going to get busy and get him
in their sweet clutches, and revel in the charm
of his superb presence? Oh deah, oh deah me!
Cirls, girls, just see what we have done. We
have picked a college Joe to fall for. The boys
have picked 1'ieir sweetheart and now we are
picking ours! How terrible! Oh, ge whiz!
Oh! Oh! OoodncNs! Goodness! So like mere
high school creatures! Jt does not appear right
even on leap year to give the man a break.
They just can't be popular without breaking
their own poor little hearts. Girls, our man
nish leap-year hearts must respond in tender
compassion to our distressed friends. And so,
gush, gush, we do sympathize. It mut be ter
rible strain!
THE DANCING GIRL FRIEND
And now it becomes known that the Mortar
Boards have had their popularity plan and
kept it secret since early fall. Will wonders
never cease! .
Nominees for the offices of pres
ldent, vice president, and member
at-large of the University of Ne
braska Alumni association who
were named recently by the asso
ciation's nominating committee
are Ned C. Abbott, '96, Nebraska
City, and Luther .E. Mumford, '99,
Lincoln, for president; Sara T,
Muir. Lincoln, and Mrs. (Otis Has-
silerl G.. M. Tunison, '08, Omaha,
for vice president: and Robert O.
Reddish. '11, Alliance, and Floyd
E. Wright. '22. Scottsbluff, for
mcmber-at-large.
Election as president and vice
president of the association, re
ports the Nebraska Alumnus,
magazine, In the February issue,
is for a one year term, while the
member-at-large of the executive
committee is - elected for a three
year period. Robert D. Flory, '14,
Albion, is the retiring member-at-larec.
The annual election will be
held In the spring. Other nomlna
tions. which include the nominees
for the board of directors, will be
selected by the alumni clubs at
their charter day meetings.
Abbott Former Vice President.
Mr. Abbott, who has been super
intendent for the Nebraska School
for the Blind at Nebraska City for
thirty-one years, has previously
served the Alumni association as
vice president and a member of
the board of directors. He is now
on the board of directors for the
national organization for instruc
tors for the blind.
Mr. Mumford has served as
member-at-large of the executive
committee. He has been associated
with Ginn and Company, pub
Ushers, for twenty-five years, and
is active in Lincoln civic clubs as
well as the alumni association of
the university.
Miss Muir has been head of the
department of English in Lincoln
high school since 1916 and has
taken an active part in many ed
ucational organizations. Besides
the many other offices Miss Muir
has held in various societies, she
is a member of the board of
trustees of the Lincoln Teachers
association, to which she was
elected after serving as president
of the organization in 1929.
Mrs. Tuniton Was Director.
Mrs. Tunison has also been a
teacher, first at Wahoo, and then
at Pawnee City, her former home.
In 1930 he was elected as a mem
ber of the association's board of
directors from the second district
Mr. Tunison is an Omaha lawyer.
Since his graduation from the
university in 1911. Mr. Reddish
has been engaged in the practice
of law at Alliance. He is actively
engaged in Alliance civic affairs
and has taken an active part in
local alumni affairs.
Mr. Wright, also an attorney,
resides in Scottsbluff, where he is
a member of several local civic
organizations and is president of
the Scottsbluff Rotary club. In
1925 be was elected from the sixth
district as a member of the alumni
association's board of directors.
News item reports that some one threw a
bowl of soup at a Chicago man and broke his
leg. It seems the soup there is differ?nt than
the type we get at the Moon.
Next number of Awgwan is gripe number.
A lot of students gripe at all the numbers.
SPECTATORS MAY
WITNESS KOSMET
KLUB TRYOUTS
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same rhythm as Jingle Bens dui
Is a different tune,'' Devereaux
added.
Every male student in the unl-
-ersitT who is eligible with the
dean's office may try out for the
show. The scholastic ruling gov
erning the participation in extra
curricular activities is mat me
student must have made twelve
hours the preceeding semester and
twenty-seven hours in the two pre
ceeding semesters.
Tryouts for character parts wm
be conducted by having the as
pirant read lines from the play
manuscript. The production calls
for an all-male cast of twenty-six,
Herbert Yenne, author of the show
is to be the director.
Twelve female impersonations
will be called for in the play. Two
choruses will be used in the stag
ing of the show. A female chorus
of ten and a male chorus of ten
will have speaking lines as well as
dance routines.
Costumes and make up will be
used in the tryouts in order to
judge the respective merits of the
applicants better. It is imperative
that all who intend to try out
make the arrangements that are
necessary for the character that
they wish to portray as each as
pirant must provide his own music
for me singing ana me uanemg.
MAY IS ANNIVERSARY
MONTH FOR TEACHERS
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mance languages; A. L. Candy,
professor of mathematics; Carrie
A. Barbour, assistant professor of
paleontology; W. G. Langwortby
Taylor, prolessor of economics;
Louise Pound, professor of Eng
lish; G. R. Chatburn, professor of
applied mathematics; G. D. Swe
zey, professor of astronomy, and
Amanda H. Heppner, dean of
women, will all have been at the
university more than thirty-five
years.
Those who will have been mem
bers of the faculty thirty years are
K. H. Wolcott, professor of zool
ogy; E. L. Hinman, professor of
philosophy, and P. H. Frye, pro
fessor of English.
Flora 3ullock of the English de
partment; L. E. Aylesworth, pro
fessor of political science; H.
Alice Howell, associate professor
in elocution, and Samuel Avery,
professor of chemistry and chan
cellor emeritus; R. G. Clapp, pro
fessor of physical education; T. A.
Stuff, professor of English, and
W. A. Wlllard, professor of anat
omy, will have seen twenty-nine
years of service in May.
May will mark the end of twenty-eight
years of work here for
L, B. Pfelffer, associate professor
in European history; J. -J. Led
with, associate professor of law.
and H. Wlnnett Orr, instructor in
clinical surgery.
Chancellor E. A.Burnett Sketches
Early, Middle and Recent Periods
Of Campus in Charter Day Article
Kdltor'n note i The following artlelx unpear In the February lunii of the Ne
braska Alumnim. Although It It addmttd to uluinnl It It such an enllahtnliiR nor
vey of InlK-rslly of Nrlral hlatory and pmu-nte nri-da (hat the Nebratkun hm
obtained H-rniliinlou ot the Alumjius to preernl II herewith.
There is a tradition that on Charter day each alumnus should
pause to recall what the university has meanl to him or to her
in the years since graduation what it has meant in life associa
tions, m business capacity, and in public relations. In accord
ance with this custom many groups will gather in homes or pub
lie places on Charter day to renew old acquaintances, to sing
college songs, and to rresnen tneiri
memories of almost forgotten
days. This should be a day of
cheer, of fellowship and of good
will. The university has brought
something into our lives that can
not be effaced by adversity or by
disappointment, nor indeed, thank
God, by success or arriuence.
Reviews Early Days.
But for the moment let us think
of the old university as it was in
the earlv davs. again as It has
grown to be in 1932, and still again
as it mav become after another
generation of achievement.
In the days wnen me university
was young and the physical plant
was small, we were Diessea wun a
sturdy and ambitious type of stu
dent. The sacrmces or mat ums
were too great to attract the in
dolent and the slothful. Problems in
education were comparatively
almnlfl in those davs. There was
but little specialization and wnall
equipment for scientific courses.
The personal relations of the
teacher and the student were most
intimate and the inspiring student
could lead the ambitious student
to sustained periods of high endeavor.
The Droof of the efficiency or
education in this period of the uni
versity lies in the success of the
men and women it produced,
strong, virile, self reliant, individu
alistic. Giants of the earth and
many of lesser but sturdy mould
have come from this period. They
embraced the opportunity of their
dav to develop the potential re
sources of a new country. They ac
cumulated wealth by thrift and in
dustry. Cities, towns and country
side grew rapidly during these
years. All honor to the university
of that day and the stimulus that
it gave to noble endeavor.
Middle Period Cited.
Then there was the middle pe
riod of university history. In the
opening years of the new century
the enrollment had very greatly In
creased. We were building a large
university measured by the stan
dards of that time, 2.200 students
in the year 1900, and 4.000 In the
vmr 1910. New colleges were or
ganized to care for more special
ized types of education. It was a
period when old and new types of
education were thrown into the
mpitint not and exposed to the
acid test of utility.
To each student the university
meant that portion of the institu
tion that he saw and toucnea in
his particular college group. Some
thing had been lost of college unity
and spirit that has not quite been
recovered. Yet looKing oaca irom
our present vantage point we see
men and women or mis penoa wnu
have become stalwarts in business,
leaders in our new industries or in
the development of the resources
of our state. Their success justifies
our confidence in the dynamic
power of education to vitalize life.
Recent Times Sketched.
In the most recent period of uni
ersity history we have continued
to grow in numbers from a uuie
less than 7,000 in 1920 to 11,724 In
1931. This vear we are leenne a
temporary loss of students due to
inancial depression, dui me recen-
b on in numbers win oe oi unci
duration and we shall continue to
increase in numbers as good times
return. Last year the Bchool of
music was added to the list of
schools and colleges.
In this period of expansion we
have enlarged the city campus
from its original ten acre tra t to
ifty-seven acres witn iweniy-
four major buildings devoted 10
academic and professional instruc-
ion. Our entire physical plant is
now invenionea at u,tji,wv.
Our teaching staif of various
grades has reached 346 persons,
with a total number In the univer
sity employ of 795. Last year we
ssued 1,302 diplomas representing
various academic degrees. our
maximum daily attendance was
6,500.
Unify Student Interest
Efforts to unify the interests of
the student body so that tbey may
more thoroughly appreciate their
obligations to the state in provid
ing rare educational opportunities
have been partially successful. The
list of commendable achievements
shewn at our scholarship convoca
tion is evidence of the interest of
our student body In scholarly pur
suits. Scholarship has not de
clined. We still have teachers of
superior training with high Inspi
rational qualities, teachers whose
highest recompense lies in the
stimulation of their students to
strenuous endeavor. As formerly,
our superior students are rapidly
absorbed into the industries or pro
fessions when they are available,
and we await with confidence me
verdict of the years to prove their
qualities of leadership.
The "old grad" Is bound to find
many changes when he returns.
Some of the old landmarks are
gone. The center of Interest Is
changing from the original cam
pus site west of Twelfth street to
the area surrounding the Memo
rial hall and the new quadrangle
Just developed between Twelfth
and Fourteenth streets. Our new
buildings, when erected, will fill
up vacant sites surrounding these
two open spaces, giving us a more
finished campus, one that will de
light the eye and be useful and
convenient. As this section of the
campus is completed we shall ex
pand eastward to Sixteenth street
according to the plan.
In considering what the univer
sity will be a generation from now
one must forecast the demands
that will be made by Industry and
by society for new types of educa
tion. The students of today will be
dominant In the life of the nation
twenty or thirty years later. The
education they are receiving now
should prepare tbem to meet these
new times. What changes will take
place in sgriculttire affecting the
welfare of the rural classes? What
new discoveries in engineering af
fecting our modes of transporta
tion ? Are we really to have steel
with ten times its present tensile
sirengtn aaa "bricks which float"
as we are promised? Will modern
buildings be insulated against the
noise; will we have telivision?
Will medical research contribute
new discoveries to banish disease
and promote human happiness?
All these questions assures us that
education will change and that
some of the changes will be the re
sult of long and patient research in
which the modern university must
play a leading part.
Urges Alumni Contact.
I can well understand the feel
ing of strangeness that comes over
the "old grad" upon returning to
the campus after a lapse of years.
The remedy is to come oftener and
renew acquaintance with some old
teacher. Keep your connection with
the alumni secretary. Plan to do
something for the university. The
changes make for a more efficient
university. Those of recent years
will meet with your hearty ap
proval. They are constructive and
far-reaching.
Morrill Hall added a wonderful
museum to supplement the work in
geology and paleontology, alsu
galleries and classrooms and place
for the school of fine arts. An
drews hall gathered the work in
English and Germanic languages.
A modern heating and power plant
gave us a graduate laboratory as
well as dependable light and heat.
Engineering hall when built will
afford a modern electrical engin
eering laboratory. The new Uni
versity hall when built will house
modern languages and depart
ments now homeless. Many other
projects lie in the offing awaiting
opportunity.
Times Changing.
In this process of change the
alumni of the university must be
its strong supporters because of
their more intimate understanding
of its purposes and its work. We
are now proposing a university
foundation that will provide new
contacts between the university
and its almunl, contacts by which
the needs of the institution will be
presented more adequately before
the public. This foundation will so
licit the personal Interest of many
who have never given university
problems their special attention.
Life has been too much a pro
cess of getting and too little one
of giving. Somehow if our loyal
alumni can retain their interest in
the young life at the university,
they will find new incentives tying
them to their alma mater and will
receive new compensations in life
thru this Interest.
What the university will he a
generation hence depends upon the
support that it receives at the
hands of the state and of its more
devoted alumni and the guiding
hand that maps out its policies.
The opportunities to stimulate
young men and women to high en
deavor and to forceful effective
lines are limitless.
The university sends you its
cordial greetings. May Charter day
bring you memories of your col
lege years.
EIGHT CHANCELLORS
SERVE NEBRASKA U
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here from the University of
Kansas at Lawrence, and served
this school until 1895 when he
went to an eastern college as li
brarian. George E. MacLean became the
fifth chancellor. He had formerly
been at the University of Min
nesota. He stayed here until 1899
when he returned to Minnesota for
a short time, then took a position
In Europe.
E. Benjamin Andrews followed
Chancellor MacLean. He was best
known for his work as president
of Brown university, although im
mediately before coming here he
bad been acting as superintend
ent of the Chicago school system.
He acted as chancellor until 1900
when he retired.
Samuel Avery, present Chancel
lor Emeritus, was appointed to
follow Andrews. Previous to his
appointment aa chancellor he had
been professor of chemistry on
this campus. Chancellor Avery
held the office for nineteen years
when he retired to do research
work In chemistry, In which he Is
now engaged at his laboratories
in chemistry hall.
E. A. Burnett, present chancel
lor, followed Avery, and became
me eighth man to hold that posi
tion during the sixty-three years
of the university's existence.
Chancellor Burnett waa formerly
professor of animal husbandry st
the University of Nebraska, and
waa later made dean of Agricul
ture college and manager of the
United States Agricultural experi
ment station. It was from this
position that he came to be me
present chancellor of this school.
PLAYERS' SHOW HELD
OVER FOR TWO DAYS
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coin and the surrounding territory
if statistics may be taken aa a
crlteron.
"Two years ago, however, we
played "Hamlet," and the normal
run was far inadequate to meet
the demands of would-be patrons.
In ten performances, we played to
five thousand people; such a per
centage In a city the size of Lin
coln Is remarkable evidence of the
sense of literary appreciation ap
parently Inherent In the personal
ities of the theater-going populace
of this vicinity."
Wednesday the Players will pre
sent an afternoon and evening
performance of "Othello" at the
Community Playhouse In Omaha.
According to H. G. Shedd, business
manager of the Community Play
house, tickets are selling 'rspldly.
and it is evident that rspaclty
crowds will witness the two per
formances.
BIG SISTER HHD TO TALK
Evelyn West Will Describe
Board'i Work Tuesday
for Frosh A.W.S.
Evelyn West, president of the
Big Sister board, will speak to the
freshman A. W. S. group Tuesday,
afternoon on the subject of the
organization and work of the Big
Sister board. The meeting will be
held in Ellen Smith hall at
o'clock.
It has also been announced that
Mildred Glah will speak Monday,'
Feb. 22, about the W. A. A., and
that on March 1, Miss Harriet
Towne, a member of the Lincoln,
board of education will speak
about education as a vocational
field.
GRADUATE OF CLASS OF
78, HENRY H. WILSON,
REMINISCES ON EARLY
DAY OF FLEDGLING
HUSKER SCHOOL.
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day high school were offered at
the university besides the regular
four years college course.
U Hall Only Building.
"Old University hall was the
only building," he continued. "It
had four floors, the top floor being
principally a doimitory for boys
while the other floors contained
classrooms and administration of
fices. The chapel was located in
the north wing on the first floor.
"The building was constructed
on a sandstone foundation and this
began to give way in 1877. A local
architect was consulted and he im
mediately condemned the struc
ture, stating that It should bo
razed. However, an outside archi
tect, consulted later, declared all
that waa needed was a new foun
dation, so the building was jacked
up and a new foundation put in."
Total enrollment at the time Mr.
Wilson entered waa 100 students,
only 12 of whom were "college
students," th remaining 88 being
in the preparatory school. He com
pleted the six years course in five,
graduating June 12, 1878.
College Fees Small'.
"I spent only $10 for my educa
tion at the University of Nebras
ka," Mr. Wilson said. "Of that
amount, $5 went for matriculation
my first year and 5 for my de
gree, then called the bachelor of
philosophy. In those days univer
sity officials were so glad to get
students they didn't charge any
tuition.
"The educational scheme was
different then, too. Only a few
high schools existed in Nebraska.
The two. year preparatory course
was the usual form of precollegc
preparation.
"All work done by students was
confined to textbooks. All we did
was to read our texts and recite
on the lessons; the professors did
the few laboratory experiments
then in vogue as well as other out
side supplementary work."
Mr. Wilson, now the dean of
Lincoln lawyers after, fifty-one
years continuous service, was
never inside of a law school until
he became professor of evidence
in September. 1889. at the Central
law school, a private institution.
"Later," he added, "the univer
sity absorbed me faculty and stu
dents of the Central school and I
remained in the same capacity un
til 1919. My son, Ralph, then took
over instruction and is still teach
ing, thus making forty-three years
of coatinuous instruction of evi
dence in the Wilson family."
Pershing Early Pupil.
Among his early pupils was Gen.
John J. Pershing, then command
ant of the university battalion.
"Pershing must not have been
a poor student or I would remem
ber more about him," the former
professor said. "He must have
been just the ordinary student"
Mr. Wilson began bis law
preparation May 2, 1880, when he
was taken into the office of a Lin
coln law firm at "the magnificent
salary of $12.50 a month." He waa
admitted to the bar, Feb. 2, 1881.
"I believe I would be afraid to
retire," he remarked. "I expect
to stay with the work until my
health gives out; that will be the
only thing to stop me. Anyone
can remain in the work if he keeps
bis mouth shut and saws wood."
Though opposed to military
training when it was inaugurated
at the university his senior year,
the veteran lawyer has now "bad
a change of heart" He is now
absolutely opposed to false pa
cificm. The pledging of the coun
try's youth, he said, not to take
up arms is not likely to promote
peace. It would be foolish to be
unprepared for emergencies, he
added.
Mr. Wilson has compiled a book
of speeches given on various occa
sions and on various topics. He
has included in this volume six
different occasions when be ap
peared before university gather
ings. They were;
His own graduation, 1878; ar
guments In the impeachment of a
chancellor, July 18, 1888, for
which be was later "endowed"
with a gold watch by the faculty;
"The Reign of Law," before the
alumni association, June 10, 1890;
"The Inauguration of a Chancel
lor," Charter day, Feb. 15, 1896;
midwinter commencement address,
"Ideals of Higher Education,"
Feb. 15, 1905; arguments in the
trial of thirteen professors for se
dition, June 12, 1918.
The university has granted him
four degrees, bachelor of philoso
phy, 1878; master of arts, 1880;
master of law, 1895, and doctor of
laws, 1929.
UNIVERSITY WILL
OBSERVE SIXTY
THIRD FOUNDING
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mony when the university first
opened. He aaid:
"Today we open wide the doors
of the university to the state of
Nebraska as a token of perpetual,
organ lzed, systematized war
against ignorance, bigotry, intoler
ance and vice in every form among
the people of this state and tb
youth who In a few years will be
come its legislators. Its judges,
and Its governors."
As predicted by Mr. Morton the
university has turned out just
such citizens. Among me govern
ors graduated from the University
of Nebraska are Adam McMullen,
George L. Sheldon and Arthur J.
, Weaver.