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VOL. XXXII NO. 59.
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, SUNDAY, DECEMBER II, 1932.
PRICE 5 CENTS.
RHODES
COMMITTEE
NAMES COWLING AND
WEHN FOR NEBRASKA
Two From Each State Will
Compete for Award in
Des Moines.
John H. Wehn, of Bridgeport,
and John W. Dowling, of Madison,
Nebraska, were selected by the
state committee Saturday as the
representatives of Nebraska to
compete in the district Rhodes
scholarship eliminations which will
be held in Des Moines Monday.
John H. Wehn, junior law stu
dent at the University of Nebras
ka, graduated from the arts and
science college of this university
in 1931. He is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. John William Wehn, of
Bridgeport, Nebraska, where his
father is A banker. Before coming
to Nebraska university he had at
tended Chadron 'Normal for two
years. Mr. Wehn is a member of
Phi Sigma Kappa social fraternity,
and also is affiliated with Phi
Delta Phi professional law fraternity-
Dowling in Wisconsin.
John W. Dowling, the other rep
resentative from Nebraska, is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. William Dowl
ing of Madison, Nebraska. He is
a graduate of the University of
Wisconsin. At present he is
in the graduate school as a fellow,
teaching Greek and Latin in that
university, and states that he will
continue his instructing thruout
the second semester.
Twelve men, two from each
state in this district, will appear
before the district committee Mon
day from whom four will be
chosen as th recipients of the
scholarships to Oxford in England.
Wehn and Dowling, from -Nebraska
will be among the dozen to ap
pear before that committee and go
to Des Moines immediately to ap
pear before the district committee.
State Committee.
The state committee n selection
was composed of five members: J.
E. Miller of Lincoln, chairman; H.
A Gunderson, Fremont, secretary;
Paul Good, Lincoln; Robert B.
Lasch. Omaha; and Ralph T. Wil
son. Omaha. Mr. Wilson was m
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nineIndIIance
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Christmas Theme Used
All-University Fete
Decorations.
for
A crowd of about nine hundred
couples attended the AU-Univer-sitv
party held In the Coliseum
Saturday night. The orchestra
plaving for the affair was the
Dixie Cotton Pickers, a colored
band led by Eli Rice, who is known
as the country's greatest colored
tenor. ,
The affair was the annual
Christmas party among the group
of University parties held during
the year and the decorations car
ried out the seasonal effect. On
the stage a fireplace thirty-five
feet tall and sixty-five feet in
width, served as the orchestra
shell.
Floor, decorations consisted of
two hundred streamers attached
to the sides of the building and
converging to a giant star, ten
feet across, suspended above the
crowd over the center of the floor.
Streamers were alternating red
and green in color, the star tinsel.
In keeping with the general color
effect members of the band were
garbed in green jackets.
The crowd was the largest pres
ent at any of the University par
tics during the last few years, the
orchestra proving to be as great a
gate attraction in Lincoln as it ha3
at othe? places in its itinerary
thru the middlewest.
Chaperones at the party were
Mr. and Mrs. W. a Harper. CapL
and Mrs. E. H. Connor, and Maj.
and Mr?. C. A. Bishop.
TEACHERS TOHOLD DINNER
Universitj Professors Will
Meet at University
Club Monday.
The Nebraska chapter of the
American Association of Univer
sity professors will hold a dinner
meeting Monday, Dec. 1, at the
University club. The program will
consist of a discussion of the ques
tion "Should Professional Courses
in Education be Required of Col
lege and University Teachers?"
The affirmative side will be led by
Prof. D. A. Worcester, professor of
educational psychology and the
negative discussion will be led by
Prof. J. L. Sellers, professor of
history.
GAIETY PREVAILS
AS
F
AT COSTUME FETE
Misses Howell, Johnston,
Walker and Pollard
Given Prizes.
Gaily arrayed girls frolicked at
the annual girls' Cornhusker cos
tume party Friday evening in
Grant Memorial hall. Costumes
were striking, varied- and original.
Award for the funniest costume
went to Virginia Howell, who por
trayed the character of Charlie
Chaplin with genuine impersona
tion. The prize for the cleverest
costume was given to Faye Johns
ton and Jean Walker who, garbed
completely in black pasteboard
and cloth, represented the tele
phone transmitter and receiver.
Leona Pollard, in a white lace
dress of the gay nineties, wore the
prettiest costume. Prizes were
black and silver compacts.
Other clever costumes not men
tioned by the judges were those
worn by Julia Hall and Margaret
Carpenter, who dressed as
Stephen's "Mr. Hyde" and "Satan."
Judges were Kady B. Faulkner.
Dr. Elizabeth Williamson and
Pauline Gallatly.
A. W. S. board sponsors the
yearly affair.
The Women's Athletic associa-
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HOME EC ASSOCIATION
SPONSORS MILK DRIVE
Club to Canvass Students
For Needy Lincoln
Families9 Aid.
The Home Economics associa
tion is sponsoring a milk drive to
begin next Monday, Dec. 11. Each
member of the association will be
asked to contribute 5 cents or 10
cents to a nest egg fund which
they will attempt to increase ma
terially between now and Christ
mas by canvassing among the Ag
ricultural college students.
"Even pennies will be wel
comed," declared Emma Feith, so
cial chairman of the organization.
The fund is to be used to buy
milk for needy families in Lin
coln, especially for those with
small children. Milk is to be the
Christmas present of the associa
tion to the needy of Lincoln.
ENTERTAIN SORORITY HEADS
Miss Bernice " Miller Will
Lead Discission of
Needy Contacts.
Miss Bernice Miller, Y. W. C. A.
secretary, will entertain the presi
dents of all the sororities on the
campus at a supper Tuesday eve
ning to meet Miss Melanie Caines,
director of the Lincoln Social Wel
fare society, and Miss Catherine
Dunn, of the sociology department
of the university.
After the supper, which will be
held in Ellen Smith ball at 6:00,
there will be a discussion of how
to make contacts with needy fam
ilies. Representatives from How
ard and Raymond halls will also be
present. Martha Hershey. chair
man of the industrial staff of the
Y. W. C. A., will assist Miss
Miller.
COEDS
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Honorary Captain
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Members of the 1932 football
team named Chris Mathis their
honorary captain at the annual
University club banquet Thurs
day night. He is the first Ne
braska captain to be selected,
either before or after the sea
son, since 1929.
Ernest Quigley, football offi
cial, was the featured speaker
on the banquet program. In his
speech he lauded the efforts of
the team during the past season
and Lawrence Ely and Steve
Hokuf for their national recog
nition. He also paid tribute to
Coach Bible Vmd his assistants.
DR. SETH NICHOLSON
WILL SPEAK FRIDAY
Noted Astronomer From Mt.
Wilson Observatory to
Talk Twice.
"Charting the Universe" will be
the subject on which Dr. Seth B.
Nicholson, astroonmer from the
Mount Wilson observatory, Pasa
dena, Calif., will speak when he
addresses the third in the series of
all-university convocations Friday
morning, Dec. 16, at 11 o'clock in
the Temple theater.
Dr. Nicholson will also be the
speaker at a meeting of Sigma Xi,
honorary scientific fraternity, at 8
o'clock Friday evening in Morrill
ball's downstairs auditorium. Here
his topic will be "Measuring the
Heat from the Stars." Both the
morning and evening meeting are
open to all individuals who are in
terested in the subjects. No ad
mission is charged.
The speaker, who is an astron
omer of note, has received world
wide recognition in that field for
the discovery of the ninth satellite
of the planet Jupiter. This fall he
was in charge of the Mt. Wilson
observatory eclipse expedition to
New England. Affiliated with the
Carnegie Institute at Washington,
D. C, his special interest has been
eclipses, the measurement of heat
of the stars and planets, observa
tions regarding the orbits of plan
etary bodies, terrestrial magnet
ism, and sun spots and their re
lation to weather. At the Mt.
Wilson observatory he is in charge
of the solar and lunar department.
Kirsch Writes Article
For American Annual
F. Dwight Kirsch, chairman of
the school of fine arts administra
tion committee, is the author of
an article entitled "Composition in
Photography,' which has been
published fn the American Annual
of Photography for 1933. Kirsch's
article is illustrated with several
of his own drawings.
Moritz Sets Date for
Teacher Registration
S: -dents desiring teaching
positions for the year 1933-34
may register with the De
partment of Educational Ser
vice as designated below:
Names beginning
A-1, Tuesday, December 13,
8 to 4.
J-R, Wednesday, December
14, 8 to 4.
S-Z, Thursday, December
15, 8 to 4.
Those who have been pre
viously registered with the
department should not re-
register until after the open
ing of the second semester. ,
R. O. MORITZ.
VESPERS PRESENT SPEAKER
Miss Ruth Easterday Will
Read Christmas Poems
At Program.
Miss Ruth Easterday, director
of religious education at Westmin
sted Presbyterian church, will be
the special speaker at vespers this
Tuesday. She will read several
Christmas poems. Miss Easterday
has brought from Europe a Christ
mas "creche," a manger scene, one
of those which are used in families
or in churches during the holidays,
and this will be on display at that
time.
Members of the choir have
planned special music, in harmony
with the Christmas theme. Muriel
Moffitt, chairman of the program
and office staff, will preside.
TUITION
Incomplete Figures Indicate
That Most Applications
Appear Late.
An incomplete check Saturday
afternoon showed that approxi
mately 220 applications for tuition
scholarships had been received by
the four departments from which
a count could be obtained. Most of
these applications came in ut the
last minute, interest having lagged
up until Friday and Saturday.
While an accurate count had not
been made in the Teachers college
it was estimated that between seventy-five
and eighty persons had
made application for the awards.
Twenty-two scholarships will be
awarded in the Arts and Sciences
college, which received eighty ap
plications; twelve in the Engineer
ing college, where fifty applica
tions were received; and three in
the school of journalism which re
ceived fifteen applications. No
figures could be obtained from the
other colleges.
The committee in charge of the
scholarships will meet shortly be
fore the holidays to make the
awards. A total of one hundred
scholarships, the same number as
last year, will be given.
STUDENT PROGRAM TO
FEATURE INDIA TALK
Dr. Gahrielson Will Shotc
Pictures and Number
Of Specimens.
Dr. Winnie M. Gabrielson, who
has spent more than ten years in
India, will be the speaker on the
Nebraska State Museum's pro
gram in Morrill hall auditorium
Sunday afternoon at 4:15 o'clock,
when she will talk on "India" and
show pictures of the life and cus
toms there. She will also have with
her a number of specimens of East
Indian art which she has col
lected. On the children's program at
2:30, the film. "The Conquest of
Antarctica" will be shown. This
film, comprising three reels, dram
atizes the events of the Byrd ex
pedition to the south pole.
HIRERS RECEIVE MEDALS
J. F. Deklotz, H. P. Letton
Are High Score Men in
Intramurals.
J. F. Deklotz, Lincoln, and H. P.
Letton, Lincoln, were high score
men in the intramural matches
fired last week at the rifle range
in the basement of Andrews Hall.
Deklotz was the high scorer of the
veterans who tested their skill.
Gold medals will be awarded the
winners.
The winning team in the
matches was captained by Roscoe
Kroger, R. O. T. C colonel. The
matches were fired under the rules
of the National Rifle association,
and Sgt. C F. McGimsey super-1
visea ine iinng.
The varsity rifle squad will be
picked from the men competing in
these matches.
SEEK
UR
COLLEGES
CHECK-UP
BLS
COMMITTEE
GRANTS
TO
CLOSEJFBRUARY 11
Student Council Relations
Group Allows Petition
by Unanimous Vote.
By unanimous vote the Barb Re
lations committee of the Student
council voted Friday afternoon to
grant the request of the Barb
council for a closed night on Feb.
11, according to Jack Erickson,
chairman. The committee was em
powered to pass on this question
by vote of the Student council at
its session on Wednesday. Other
members of the committee on barb
relations are: Anne Bunting,
Mario Smith, Jane Axtell, Marion
Scott, and Warren DeBus.
The purpose of the party was
set forth in a petition presented to
the Student council by the Barb
council as follows:
To the Student Council:
We, the members of the Barb
council, do hereby petition for the
night of Saturday, Feb. 11, 1933,
to be closed, by action of the Stu
dent council to all university
functions in favor of an All-University
party to be held on that
date.
In presenting this petition we
wish to assure the council that the
purpose is to use one of the best
possible orchestras .... and to turn
over to the fund for permanent
decorations all profits occurring
from this as well as subsequent
parties of the year, all in an ef
fort to make at least one affair of
a truly all university nature at the
most nominal price feasible.
Present at the committee meet-
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T
Rudolph Seidl and Orchestra
Will Present Second
Program Sunday.
The Lincoln Symphony orches
tra, under direction of Rudolph
Seidl, will appear in concert Sun
day afternoon, Dec. 11, at the
Stuart theater at 3 o'clock. This
is the season's second concert.
The orchestra, with a personnel
of approximately eighty members,
includes many University of Ne
braska students on its roster, and
will open the program with the
Prelude to "Hansel and Gretel," by
Humperdinck. Three movements
from Hayden's London Symphony,
adagio-allegro, andante, and alle
gro spiritosa, will be followed by
the presentation of Wagner's
"Liebestod" from Tristan and Is
olde. Jeanette Vreeland, soprano guest
artist of New York City, will be
heard in a suite of three numbers,
"Tell Me, Oh Blue Blue Sky,"
Vittorio Giannini; "Sing a Song of
Sixpence," Herbert Hughes, and
"111 Chance the Romaika," Edna
Rosalind Park. Miss Vreeland will
be accompanied by Earnest Harri
son, University School of Music
piano instructor.
The orchestra concludes the aft
ernoon's presentations with Tschai
kowsky's "Capriccio Italien."
Miss Vreeland has appeared with
the Boston Symphony orchestra,
the New York Mendelssohn club,
Philadelphia Orpheus club, and the
New York, the Cleveland and the
Detroit Symphony orchestras.
AT THE STUDIO
Monday.
1st Battalion Staff 12:00
2nd Battalion Staff 12:05
Regimental Staff 12:10
Tuesday.
Phi Delta Phi 12:00
Pershing Rifles 12:05
Wednesday.
Barb Interclub Council 12:00
Palladian Literary Society - .12:05
Thursday.
Alpha Zeta 12:00 .
BARBS
REQUEST
SYMPHONY
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