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'OL. IV, NO. 6
THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1933.
LINCOLN, NEB.
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S.K.21H
FOURTH PARTY SET
FOR FRIDAY NIGHT
AT THE COLISEUM
Seven Piece Orchestra Is
Engaged to Play for
Summer Students.
Students will get a welcome
break in the week's study, Friday
evening, when the fourth all-student
party is held in the coliseum
under direction of the student
executive committee.
Dave Haun's seven-piece orches
tra has been engaged to play for
the affair and there will also be,
as usual, some special entertain
ment features. Admission remains
at 10 cents per person and danc
ing will begin at 8:30 o'clock, last
ing: until 11:30.
The ventilating system in the
coliseum will be in operation and
about 700 persons are expected to
attend.
Last Friday's picnic at Capitol
Beach was well attended, accora
ing to Prof. E. W. Lantz who re
ports that 1.000 scrip books were
given out. More faculty people
than ever before arranged picnics
and many of the men attending
the 'rasslin matches which were
held there that evening.
MORE POSITIONS FILLED
Teachers Bureau Continues
To Place Students in
Schools.
New placements announced by
the bureau of educational service
are as follows:
Fern McVicker, Latin and Eng
lish at Cheney: Edna Vahle, his
tory, Latin and English at Roca;
Lucille McCocky, science at Louis
ville; Ethel Hansen, English and
Latin at Wilbur: Margaret Upson,
junior high school, Wymore; Wil
liam Ossian, coach, Sheloy; Hen
rietta Harks, 3rd and 4th grades
at Underwood, la.
WIMBERLY WILL
ACT AS JUDGE IN
ESSAY CONTEST
Dr. L. C. Wimberly, professor of
English at the University of Ne
braska, has accepted an invitation
to serve as judge-in an essay con
test for Omaha public, parochial
and private grade and high school
teachers.
Essays will be written about the
oil painting, "Panorama of the
World's Fair," and will be entitled
"What the Picture Suggests to
Me." Authors of the eight best es
says will be awarded a trip to the
Century of Progress exposition
now going on in Chicago. Bess
Streeter Aldrich and Howard Er
ickson, Nebraska novelists, will
also serve as judges.
COMPLETING MANUSCRIPT.
Dr. T. M. Raysor, chairman of
the department of English is com
pleting his edition of Coleridge's
"Miscellaneous Criticism" which he
is editing from manuscripts and
other sources.
STUDENT HEALTH.
The student health service is
pharamacy hall is functioning as
usual this summer and is serving
students without charge. Hours
for men are 10 to 12 each day and
hours for women are 1 to 3 daily.
The student infirmary is also open
and students who are seriously ill
may stay there for $1.00 a day
which charge covers board, room,
md medical service.
Regents End Free
Tuition ; Decrease
Student Pay Rates
students applying for scholar
ships or working for the uni
versity are as follows:
1. All assistance will be re
duced 30c per hour. This in
cludes student and hourly help.
2. All scholarships except
"Regents scholarships to fresh
men" have been discontinued.
5. All exemptions from the
payment of fees have been discontinued.
HIGH
SCHOOL
SURVEY
PRESENTED BY KOOS
Warns of DrooDina 'Frills'
From School Curricula at
Present Time.
The results of a national survey
of secondary education in the
United States during which more
than 55Q secondary schools in 41
states and the District of Colum
bia were visited were presented to
a summer quarter audience Mon
day evening by Dr. Leonard V.
Koos, of the University of Chicago
who organized and administered
the investigation. Investigators
traveled more than 200,000 milroad
miles, and in addition distributed
nearly 200,000 questionnaire forms.
50 Percent in Secondary Schools,
The survey shows the number
enrolled in secondary schools now
to be the highest proportion of
those between 14 and 18 years of
age more than 50 percent of any
time in the country's history. The
average number of courses offered
in the schools doubled in a period
of twenty years. It was found that
special classes are provided about
nine times as often for the slow
pupils as for the very bright.
The investigators brought to
light a decided increase in the
popularity of junior colleges. In
1930 nearly 50,000 students were
enrolled in 175 public junior col
leges, and 100,000 in both private
and public junior colleges.
Entrance Requirements Flexible.
"It is a frequent experience that
during periods of financial dis
tress," added Dr. Koos, "those rea
tures of the school that have last
been added are among the first to
go when resources decline. In such
times these novel features are
dubbed 'fads' and frills, when in
fact they are often more necessary
than the features not assailed
features which are retained be
cause of the hold of traditions long
after they have outlived their use
fulness. We should look carefully
into the proposals to eliminate
these latest developments in the
schools.
Youiif? People Plan to
Meet Here July 10-14
Two prominent young peoples'
leaders, Judge B. H. Paine of the
Nebraska supreme court, and Rev.
R. A. Trowbridge, Methodist pas
tor at Wymore, will take part in
the Older Peoples' conference to be
held at Epworth Lake park in Lin
coln July 10 to 14.
Judge Paine was for several
years teacher of one of the largest
adult Bible classes in the state at
Grand Island. Reverend Trow
bridge has been dean of the mid
winter Epworth League institutes
of southwestern Nebraska for sev
eral years.
University students desiring in
formation about the conference are
asked to write Margaret Wiener,
2322 So. 16th st., Lincoln.
Itariio Educator
T1 eir r 1
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EUGENE J. COLTRANE.
Two round-table conferences
on the subject of education by
radio will be held here next
Tuesday and Wednesday when
Eugene J. Coltrane, representa
tive of the National Committee
on Education by Radio. The con
ferences, to which all students
and faculty members are in
vited, will be held in Room 200
in Teachers college at 2 o'clock
p. m on the respective days.
This will . be Mr. Coltrane's
seventh conference of the sum
mer. .The conference agenda in
cludes the following general
topics: Education and Radio
Broadcasting, A Proposed Plan
for a State Program of Educa
tion by Radio; Radio Broadcast
ing in the United States, Radio
in the Schoolroom, and Radio in
Adult Education.
A former Nebranskan, Tracy
F. Tyler, is secretary to the Na
tional Committee on Education
by Radio which Mr. Coltrane
represents.
ARE IN GOOD SHAPE
Survey Is Made by the
National Education
Association.
That Nebraska's public school
svstem has weathered the depres
sion better than most states is the
gist of a report made by the Na
tional Association after a state-by-state
survey of school conditions.
Althn rural schools in manv
states were forced to close their
doors this year, Nebraska came
thru with a clean slate up to Feb.
28, when the period of the survey
ended.
Virtually no shortening of rural
school terms was reported, but ele
mentary and secondary teachers
took salary cuts averaging 21 and
13 percent respectively in the 34
counties studied.
Reductions in the sizes of ele
mentary staffs averaged 2 percent
this year, while secondary staffs
were aeduced in size 4 percent In
the 34 counties.
Construction Postponed.
Postponement of needed con
struction was reported by 58
schools in the 34 counties while
100 schools showed "Abnormal"
lack of equipment and 97 are de
laying needed repairs. That rec
ord for rural schools is consider
ably better than in most states.
City school conditions were stu
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REPORT
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NEBRASKA
SCHOOLS
Bruno Lecture Schedule
Thursday.
9 a. m. SSA.
Sec. Ed. 142, 346.
Sch. Adm. 245, 256, 351, 354,
369.
10 a. m. SSA:
Soc. 126, 341.
Pol. Sci. 2, 106.
Ec. 12, 103, 267.
Friday.
9 a. m. SS 101:
El. Ed. 12a, 12b, 106, 113
H. & P. 30, 31.
11 a. m. SS 101:
Soc. 215.
Pol. Sci. 1, 109, 276.
Ed. 205, 291.
2 p. m. SSA:
Roundtable lecture.
Open to all.
IS
TO
Cornell Educator Will Talk
On High School Science
Instruction.
High school science teaching
problems will be given analytical
attention by Dr. E. L. Palmer of
Cornell University, who will be on
the campus next Monday and
Tuesday when he will give a spe
cial series of lectures. Dr. P. L
Johnson, supervisor of science in
teachers college, has sent the Ne
braskan the following report on
Dr. Palmer:
"Dr. E. L. Palmer, wno will lec
ture on science teaching in elemen
tary, junior high and senior high
schools, is an outstanding tigure in
the development of science ma
terials and programs in the United
States. Since 1920 he has been
editor of the Cornell Rural School
Leaflet, a quarterly bulletin on nature-study
and science distributed
by the state of New York to rural
teachers and to teachers in com
munities with a population less
than 4500. He is also nature-study
and elementary science editor of
the Nature Magazine and of
School Science and Mathematics.
He has held prominent offices or
contributed in other major ways to
organizations such aa, The Amen
can Nature Study Society, The De
partment of Science Instruction of
the National Education Associa
tion. The National Council of
Supervisors of Elementary Science,
and The National Association for
Research in Science Teaching.
"Dr. Palmer has conducted two
major surveys of nature study and
elementary science in the United
States. These surveys are re
ported in the two volumes of The
Nature Almanac published by The
(Continued on Page 4).
RETURNS FROM CHICAGO.
Thomas A. Blair, chief of the
weather bureau here, has returned
from Chicago where he presented
a paper, "Weather Types and
Pressure Anomalies," before the
summer meeting of the American
Association for the Advancement
of Science.
ADD TO COLLECTION.
Three pieces of pottery have
been added this year to the perm
anent collection of the school of
fine arts. The students whose
work was selected were Lillian
Ibsen, , Eunice Mauer, and Alice
May Stoner.
AT MISSOURI.
Dr. E. S. Fullbrook, professor of
marketing, is teaching in the cur
rent summer session at the Uni
versity of Missouri. He will vaca
tion in New York state at the end
of his term.
PALMER
SERIES
BEGIN
MONDAY
BRUNO TALK SERIES
ON SOCIAL PROBLEMS
IS TO BEGIN TODAY
Special Lecturer
Renowned for
Activities.
Widely
His
At 9 o'clock this morning Prof,
frank J. Bruno of Wasnington
Jniversity in St. Louis begins a
our-day series of special lectures
on the campus. He will deal gen
erally with topics covering social
work. Among his accomplishments
are the following:
President of the National Con
ference of Social Work; professor
of applied sociology and director of
training for social work, Washing
ton University; general agent for
the Associated Charities of Colo
rado Springs, 1907-11; superin
tendent of the New York Charity
Organization Society, 1911-14;
General Socretary of the Min
neapolis Family Welfare Associa
tion. 1914-25.
A graduate of Williams College
in 1899 where he received his
A. B. degree, Profesor Bruno
secured his S. T. B. at Yale Uni
versity in 1902. During the war
he acted as director of civilian re
lief, Northern Division ot the
American Red Cross, and served
later on the staff of the depart
ment of sociology of the University
of Minnesota from 1919122. H
was president of the American As
sociation of Social Workers, 1926
1930. DIGGING IN CEDAR COUNTY
Dr. Bell and Student Group
Are Working Near
St. Helena.
An archeological field party
headed by Dr. Earl H. Bell of the
department of sociology, is at St.
Helena, Neb., a two-months period
of exploration and study.
The party will be working in a
historically documented Omaha
site which was abandoned by the
tribe of Omahans about 1650. The
site is located in Cedar county near
the Niobrara river.
"I believe this summer may be
the key season and that we may
find a number of important dis
coveries," said Dr. Bell. "All our
activit ywill not be directed toward
this one site but we will be work
ing in the vicinity of St. Helena
most of the two-months period."
Other members of the party,
which is sponsored by the univer
sity, will be Bernard Refshauge,
Stuart Neitzel, Harold Dahms,
Vilas Sheldon, Ed Wolfenbarger,
and Dr. G. H. Gilmore of Murrary.
ACCEPTS APPOINTMENT.
Dr. C. H. Oldfather, dean of the
college of arts and sciences, has
accepted an appointment as mem
hr of the commission on institu
tions of higher education of tho
North Central Association ot col
leges and Secondary Schools, ac-
rnrdinir to a letter written bv him
to the Nebraskan from Boulder,
Colo., where he is giving summer
school courses. He will succeed
Dean Effinger of the University of
Michigan.
LIBISAISY IIOUKS.
Main library and social sciences
library are keeping the following
hours during the summer session:
Eight to ten each day except
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
Kieht to six on Friday and Satur
day and two to six on Sunda
