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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (May 2, 1933)
KOUu ' ' - . . . ,. , . . j m - - 1 ... . ..u:!i:uiiiiaKW!;-!l-Sa v -, . -j Daily iNebraSKan station A. Lincoln. NeDratk OFFICIAL STUDENT PUBLICATION UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA Entereo at second cu nutter l the pcstcMc r Lincoln. NeDrska under ct of congress Marcn i 'ST and at socoai rai ot postage provided fc n tKKon HOJ. ct ot OctcDer W7 MiheniM January 20 '922 Pt-o.isnfd Tuesday Wednesday. TMur cay. Friday and Sunday mornings S'nole Ccov a cents during trie academic year. T HI RTV. SECOND YEAR V2 rM, tl 25 a semester 3 a year ma d I.7T semester mailed SiBSCR.PTION RATE UiiMr d'lection ot tn Student Tub cation Beard ECitonal On ice university Mail . Business Oilce University Mall -Ttiepnor.es Day. B6E91; Niont. Bfeffl! or BUU I Journal I ask for Neoras lutn edtor. EDITORIAL STAFF Ed tr-m-Clel Pnil Brv.neJI MANAGING EDITORS Dick Msran Lvnn Leonard NEWS EDITORS Gecx-oe Murpny Laocne Btie Violet Cress exports Editor. Burton Marvin Scety Editor Carolyn Van Anda ' Wcnun t Editor Miroaret Tr-ieie BUSINESS STAFF Business Manaoe.. Clvalrner Grahvn ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGERS Bernard Jennings Geonje Hdyotre Frank Musgrav To Provide Relief From Tite Academic Diet. THINK back over the toe you have attended the university and try to recall how many really fin speakers you have beard at cEivocatioo.s. See if you can re member ever attending a convoca tion or extracurricular meeting of any kind at the university where you have had tbe opportunity of seeing or bearing a distinguished lecturer or a noted unusual musi cian, or swing a truly outstanding artistic production of any kind. Whether you are a freshman or j a senior the answer is about the ! same; you can recall few if any unusual opportunities you have had along these lines. The fault lie with no on. The university is and always has been unable to us any money for such ""extras." This year for example, the convo cation fund has expended some thing hie $55 for providing sj -takers. Glancing through the college pa pers of other institutions, it is amazing to a Nebraska student to notice that Walter Lippman ad o! jessed a cn vocation at a certain college or that Will Duiant Jec tured before an audience of uni versity students somewhere else, 4 that some famous musician had been scheduled for a free concert pjen to all university . students at some other snstitutiom. The reason why other schools have these op portunities for students lies in tbe si.cple fact that they have money to ufe an providing- tbem. A CONVOCATION fund cf suf- fk-ient proportion tc provide for- twinging to the Nebraska cam pus eminent speakers or artists, could be built ea.ch year by adding t.o tbe activity tax tbe negligible amount of ten or twenty cents a year. A fund cf approximately a-l.jOOA might thus be made avail able for use in .securing individ uals to come to this campus who w--uld be of real interest to the student body. Vith this in mind., several stia-C'-'Dls. not connected with tbe stu de:jt ocnmc.il, have proposed that a f-fcll item be included in the stu cer.t activity tax plan to provide Jf.u such a fund. The same pro-p.'-.al., introduced by Meredith Nel ha suggests that the student Jcuiii commission as ncui- organ ised, s-bwuld beocme a part of the Seu Mantodon A anted After E. II. Barbour In the new TnnAErbph entitled 'Ne w Remains cf Trilopbodont Telrabelodont Mas tcdons" by Childs Frick cf the American Mu eojm of Natural History, a ew rratodon is named Serbelodon Earbouiensis after Dr. E. H. Bar Icur. A distinct group cf new ele pjiants has been named McrriHia it recognition cf tbe late Charles K. Morrill and the work he did in r ringing together a large probos cjoean coUectkai. faculty convocations ctMummcTc . lhelp in selecting programs. in this manner uic aiuuru would be assured of having pro grams arranged which would be of interest to them, rather than more or less dry academic discus sions. Certainly if the students provide the wherewithal, they should have the controlling voice in the selection of the programs. FURTHER than this, it is sug gested that the university au thorities arrange that no classes be scheduled on Tuesdays and Thurs days at 11 o'clock, leaving these periods open ech week for the scheduling of convocations. Every student and faculty member would thus be free to attend without skipping or dismissing classes. The feasibility of this plan is attested by the fact that until the last few years the university regularly ad hered to that policy. In brief, then, this is the explan ation for the item to be included on the ballot next week for a con vocation fund. Tbe student coun cil committee believes that stu dents should have the option of de termining whether they would like the chance to attend several con vocations programs of real merit or not At tbe rate of ten or twen ty cents a year, the Nebraskan feels that nothing could be ot greater advantage to the student body. We trust this item will re ceive the unanimous approval of the student body. Only a Fete Croitded Weeks of School Left. INTERRUPTIONS in the regular routine cf class attendance and school work are on the program for the remaining few weeks of the school year. Beginning this week with the traditional Ivy Day ceremonies. students will find themselves not only swamped with the additional work cf rounding out the semester's scholastic pro gram, but with a variety of extra curricular and social activities. There are those who look with disapproval on these outside diver sions which tend to occupy tbe time of many students to the ex clusion of class wor k. In part, per haps, this disapproval is merited in tbe cases of individuals who en tirely forget tbe necessity for keeping their noses to tbe grind stone. But life itself, and student life no less, is more than just a routine of duties. Perhaps Americans tend to insert too many of these extra activities in their daily lives so that they become exertions in stead of pleasures- But on the whole, these extra function add a little spice to life and divert atten tion from the tasks rnhk-b without flavoring become tiresome. VY day is one of these flavoring devices for student life. Tbe 1 Nebraskan feels that Ivy Day and jail tbe rest of tbe things that go I with dt are what gives identity and I tisditk! to this luniverKiy. They iare feaures cf tbe year which ! really mean something to most : students. I The memories of these enjoyable events may be inomeuhat sullied., however, when stacked up along 1 side a few incomplete and flunks ; a a result of chronic neglect of school work induced by too much time sjent in enjoying the beau , ties of spring and participating in ' too many of spring college activi i ties. Enough said. GEOGRAPHY GltOLP .MAKES EXTENSIVE INSPECTION TKIP A group cf about one hundred students under the direction of Dr. N. A. Bengston and Esther J. Anderson of tbe geography de partment made an extensive trip Saturday that took them to Eagle, Weeping Water. Louisville and A.shland. Land farms, land utilization and geographic teatures cf that part cf the state were studied by the rtodents. THE STUDEHT PULSE i,lr Voir Thr mrlfc .. ..I, 4.. .imImi fttaicia ffrrrd I. .he rrKr 4- """rTT' 'j! v,v;; -rii .ik H.i. 1.1 J-rtr, .f rr.ll, rtk.kilr r--li wi Ike artlll la krk l '"' Mr Tkrr rprri. 7""" are krlplal ctrrmiiie Ike ll - or lara Ikr TO THE EDITOR: I have been interested in the question whether to vote for the activities tax or not I would like to ask a question about the plan. Couldn't it be arranged so that such things as the symphony con certs and the civic music concerts could be on the ticket? These, of course, are not regular university activities but they draw a great many university students. These students are not usually the same ones that go to all the football games, basketball games, etc. Perhaps it would be possible to offer the students their choice of events. Personally I do not think that the Awgwan is worth (to me. at least, and I do not think I am alone) what I would have to pay for it even under the tax plan. If I could eliminate this item by choosing something which seems more worthwhile to me it would help much to make the tax favor able to me. I realize that giving the student choice of events would consider ably complicate tbe working out of the tax plan but I think it would pay in the long run. I am inclined to think that there will be quite a little opposition from stu dents who are working and have only a limited time to spend in recreation and a limited amount of money to spend for that recrea tion. Itlany of those students would prefer the concerts which take less time and are more to their taste. If the matter of choice in the tax plan is at all feasible it seems to me that the students should have a chance to discuss it and hear the merits or demerit of the case, H. M. J. DEVICE ENABLES TRANS MISSION OF MUSIC THRU ETHER ON LIGHT WAVES ((Continued from Page 1 1. known as "narrow casting," en ables the transmission of sound over light waves to be effected. The process is performed by shoot ing a ray of light from the curb to a mirror- which reflects the light back to a tube similar to that used in the radio, technically known as a ""photo electric celL which transmit tbe beam cf light into electrical sensation which in turn create sound, speech or music Used as a practical illustration of the device music has been thrown through space for thirty mile on a ray of light success fully. Based upon a similar principle, that of throwing beam of light up on a photo electric cell, automatic traffic regulation ha been per fected. The cell connected to red and g7een lights, is automatically controlled by the passage of some object thru the beam cf light. Tbe deiractiou causes the cell to flash red or green, a tbe object reiaain in the path cf the light. This device ha been used as a means of traffic control in many big eastern cities, where numerous cross roads intersect arterial streets. A beam cf light thrust across the lightly traveled streets automatically stops traffic on the arterial thoroughfare and gives the automobile time to cross the intr- Many other device of interest to the casual observer may be round on the company's (display windows, including various electrical devxes now in use in radio and telephone, and charts indicating the range of tiound and bearing cf the himan ear a compared with the pbcto electrical celL . . .... ..u. mr j m w n. m . m jj College Gives Address Dr. W. H. Morton, principal of the teacher college. aJre,ed the young people's group cf the FSr4 Christian church. Surxlay evening on the subject cf "Youth and Reii-gkjo." and iU luie """" ,r"" ! Am" itery lar Kf tornvwM l Ike JJ""- I " i-a i. Im- mr4 Im llrrln Discovery Indicates Primitive Man Roamed Nebraska 30,000 Years Ago Primitive man may have roamed in Nebraska some 30,000 years ago. possibly during the last of the Pleistocene ice age, according to Dr. Earl H. Bell and Dr. William Van Royen, instructors in the de partment of anthropology and geo graphy, respectively. Proof for their statement was re cently uncovered when a number of artifacts were discovered near Dalton, in the panhandle of Ne braska. An artifact is any instrument or tool that is made by man. The im plements in this case were made of flint, and show marked signs of chipping, indicating that they were the work of early men. The find showed definite secondary chip ping, and was ot the classification that is generally called a snubnose or thumbnail scraper. It was prob ably used to scrape the skins of prehistoric Nebraska animals. Robert Cape, farmer living near Dalton, reported to Dr. BeU that his daughter, Gladys, bad found what he believed to be a flint arti fact in a cemented sand cliff some eight feet below the present sur face on tbe bank of Greenwood creek. Mr. Cape and Frank Den ton, a graduate student in palen tology at the university who was asked to investigate it, removed the artifact in a block of matrix, and sent it to the university au thorities for investigation. Mr. Denton was certain it showed signs of "great antiquity." After Dr. Bell bad examined the flint implement thoroly, a party was made up to visit the source of u recovery, including Dr. Bell and Dr. Van Royen, CoL G. L. Waters of Lincoln, and three geologists. The place of discovery is in a creek bank, some twenty feet deep, which is divided into three distinct layers. The lower layer about ten feet in thickness is composed most ly of stratified gravels, and an in tercalation of finer sandy mate rial, along with Rocky Mountain pebbles. Tbe second layer is about six College Association High School's Revision of Accreditment Standards Is View Of Group. " . Acting m the recommendation of A. A. Reed in his president's address to the North Central As sociation of Colleges and Secon dary Schools at Chicago recently the organization adopted a plan authorizing the commission on secondary education to begin a scientific study of tbe entire prob- lem of the relation of the high school to the college, with the rjT r.3 -t ririfiiftn r.f " . , r V. , -. iinational scholastic honorary standard of accreditmenL This J J change would shift the emphasis University Club. Moa- from quarti live standards that Jdayevening-. have thus far prevailed universal- I Irof- Winona M. Perry gave the IT to some tvpe of qualitative welcoming address to the new isJ standards. Itiates, and Hubert A- Arnold, who Such a plan would remove the hlta lhe highest average of the tn emphasi from the machinery of j comicg members, gave the re instruction to tbe results of in- f ponse, Mr. Henry H. Wilson de struction according to Mr. Reed, luvered the main ddres of the There will be a general committee evening, speaking on The World of control consisting of tbe twenty j Court and It Eleven Year t -hainnv An rirtJv r m- I Work, in w hich be discussed nv mittee was appointed constisting J tif CI F. fjnrr,,n-r rS Ih I"r,iv-r- I sity cf Michigan; J. T. Giles, state department of public instruction, Minnesota; C. G. F. Fransen, Uni versity cf Indiana; M R. Owen, state department of puttie instruc tion. Arkansas; and A. A. Reed. University of Nebraska. This study will parallel the in vestigation which have been in i process for two years in tbe field of higher education, but it has peculiar difficulties because cf tbe large cumber of schools in volved. There are t-ar ly .000 choo3 that will be directly af fected, and the outcome will have an indirect influence upon all high tboo3. It will probably re quire five years a a minimum time. No study in recent years ha greater : "fusibilities cf benefit to education than doe this unrier taking. Graduate of Vnivert'iiv l re-ak iJf-fore NkiHv J Hiss Alice Cusak. supervisor Washington to seek relief Ve!1--of kindergarten and prinary in 1 tion. in answer to a call sett Kansas City, Mo., and a graduate ' by the Association of Unemploytd of the university, is in Lincoln this 1 College AlurxxL Conference a weekend to tpeak before tbe ; Chiihood Education xietv. Sfce ; spoke at the lunchecn meeting of! the crgaiiiiaticn at Ea-rtricJge on Saturday. 'he is natViaily known ' a .thorily in the primary field aiid ' . j ... y I an author of note. for the creeks to cut down to their present levels, by approximately twenty feet below the terrace e:ge. If these implement were wa.sh.ed in they may be older. The age of the artifact is at ' least 6.000 years, and may even date back to tbe -Pleistoncene which would make them in the neighborhood of 30,000 years old. '.Vhile either may be the case, it u the policy of Drs. Van Royen and Bell to accept the first date in preference to the second, until n caa be definitely proved that the earlier date is correct It is made up of fine very sandy material, partially cemented together. The first artifact u found in this second strata just be neath the old soil line. It measures one and three-eights inches by seven-eighths of an inch by thiee eighths of an inch, and is of tbe usual plano-convex form. Several others were uncovered by tbe searchers, these varying in Wtigth up to three and one-half inches. AH were made by chipping large flint flakes from the implement, and all were one-sided, although some showed sign of having been sharpened from the flat side. A few specimens were found in the lower strata, about ten feet above the water level, these being much cruder and irregular in the workmanship than the other finds and are much older. They were shaped by the percussion method, and then retouched by carelesn pressure flaking. With the rather limited amount f detailed geologic and physio, graphic work that has been doc so far in that part of Nebraska it is as yet difficult, if not altogether impossible to form a definite idea a to tbe probable age of these various strata, and therefore of the implements, according to Dr. BelL If the implements were dropped where they were found, the time elapsed must account for the period involved in the building up of at least the topmost ten feet of the terrace, plus the period required Will Study Relation to College HOSORARY LMTIATES THIRTY-FIVE SEMOIIS Annual Affair Is Held At University Club Monday Right. Thirty-five seniors were initiat ed and Prof. Joseph EL A. Alexis was presented a an honorary member at tbe annual initiatica exercises and banquet of the Nt- braska chanter of Phi Beta Kal i. I ..... tematiorjal situation coming te- lore ixie oouru Following i the lit of new ini tiate: Alia'. tttai4 G.; Arwid. Hmx' a; BU. Mjikf L . Cm.. 1.; fcnfctJunwtiMJ?. tttmvtt C. : biwJl rtuup C; CmmxM. Y; C ; Oi. J tsm B.: "ini:K'e, Kurrj F. Jr . : -i, Krwd H ; Lmv. K.t H : t" KUrtiuwt L : Enaa. CaJr; Kjjs wrt ti.; KH, Htttry L : jra F - Kwfj4. Man. Pliu. If.: J-.'iB- sue-!. Jihuuxk j.: kmk'.. M : Liua. iiei- M.; Wjjt, Aran M.z ttvrm. Fntx. it.; JvtMB. iltmanm K. : "'' Rm-jjh f; iKai Loan; SwAt.. A.; O ttrm. LMmimjtx J.; CCumaaM J? K ; Ontiora.. J ; ajcnai !.-( A..; Hmutf, HJVrt M . : Km. t..c" It-: jr,. tjia. TUtfjK. ejjw ; !U TO SEEK RELIEF Delegations of Unemployed Graduates Flan Trek to Washington. We alumni from all over tbe couTitrr vetfterdav beean a t W Mfceduled for torlay and tor&or' in tbe Nation' CanitoL A group of Harvard gTa" will cocfer with Prdddent RfC" vlt, himself a Harvard gradJ: . Several hundred iobles i are expected to attend. J