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VOL. XXXIII. NO. 79. THE INEBRASKAN, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2i 1934. LINCOLN, NEB.
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EXAMINATIONS END
Sigma Delta Chi Mid-Year
Party Plans Complete,
Tickets Now on Sale.
The Mid-Year Frolic, Sigma
Delta Chi's invitation to' Nebraska
students at the end of nine days
of final examinations, to dance to
the music of Myron Lowther and
his fourteen piece Casanova orches
tra in the university coliseum, bids
fair to be one of the social high
spots of the mid-year season.
According to members of Sigma
Delta Chi the advance ticket sale,
which is being handled through
representatives in the organized
houses, indicates a large crowd
Tickets will also be sold at the gate
next Friday night.
Name Chaperons.
Chaperons for the affair will be:
Chancellor and Mrs. E. A. Burnett,
Dean and Mrs. T. J. Thompson,
Dean Amanda Heppner, Mr. and
Mrs. Karl M. Arndt, Mr. and Mrs
J. E. Lawrence, Mr. and Mrs.
Cayle C. Walker, Mr. and Mrs.
N. A. Bengston, Mr. and Mrs. J. K.
Selleck, Mr. R. P. Crawford and
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Barton-
Myron Lowther's orchestra will
come here direct from the Futur
istic Ballroom in Milwaukee, where
be has been under contract at that
most popular of Milwaukee dance
floors. He has been neard over we
Columbia broadcasting system and
has played at the Silver Slipper in
Cleveland, O., and the Ritz-Carlton
in New York City.
Members of Sigma Delta Chi are
enthusiastic over prospects or sue
cess of the "breather" since much
favorable comment has been voiced
by the students following an
nouncement of the frolic.
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CLASSES BY FEB. 3
List 77 Evening Courses;
New Professors Will
Offer Instruction.
New night class students at tht
University of Nebraska must reg
ister from Jan. 29 to Feb. 3, and
semester clauses begin the week of
Feb. 5, it was announced Satur
day. Listing 77 courses open to the
evening registrants, the extension
department is again making; avail
able a large curriculum from which
to select courses.
About twenty classes that met
with such success during the first
semester that they are being re
peated include courses in business
administration, commercial arts,
education, English, fine arts, Ger
man, home economics, mathemat
ics, psychology, physiology, French
and sociology. Work that is to be
continued in a second semester
class can be found in American
history, astronomy, business ad
ministration, commercial arts,
English, fine ails, German and
French .
Offer New Courses.
New courses appear on the
Bchedule, and several professors
who have not before taught night
classes will offer work. R. L.
Cochrane has a new class in Am
erican history, Prof. S. M. Darling
ton will teach office management,
and Prof. O. J. Pfeiffer, a begin
ning course in chemistry. An ad
vanced shorthand class under Miss
-Goering has been added. New ed
ucational courses are limited under
Professors H. C. Koch, A. A. Reed,
W. H. S. Norton, and S. M. Corey.
Prof. F. Dwight Kirsch will in
struct in photography, and Miss
Burry has two additional classes
in ait work, while Prof. H. T. Dec
ker has a course in the history of
music. Other classes not offered
before are business psychology un
der Prof. W. E. Walton: political
science under Mr. Satterfield; and
sociology under Prof. J. N. Rein
hardt. i
CAMPUS
HORIZON
REGISTER
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CHEMISTS WRITE ARTICLES
Research Results Published
In Chemical Journal
For aJnuary.
The Journal of the American
Chemicar society for January car
ried two research articles written
by University of Nebraska profes
sors and graduates. Dr. C. S.
Hamilton, professor of chemistry,
and one of his former graduate
students. Dr. Harold P. Brown who
is now professor of chemistry at
Kansas City university have con
tributed. Their article is named
"Naphthalenearsonic Acids." The
Application of the Bechamp Reac
tion to Alpha-Naphthylamine." In
the same issue appears "Heats of
solutions of Sugars in Water" by
Dr. B. Clifford Hendricks, asso
ciate professor of chemistry and
three of his former graduate stu
dents: Dr. W. H. Steinbach, pro
fessor of chemistry at Kearney
State Normal; Dr. Royce LeRoy,
professor of chemistry at Doane
college; and A. G. Moseley, jr.
J1MM1E JOY SIGNED
TO FURNISH MUSIC
FOR GREEK AFFAIR
Interfraternity Ball Will Be
Held in Coliseum on
February 10.
Jim mi e Joy and his orchestra
has been selected bv the Interfra
ternity ball committee to play for
tne annual party, scneauiea lor
Saturday, Feb. 10, at the univer
sity coliseum, Norman Prucka,
chairman of the committee, an
nounced yesterday. Jimmie Joy
will come here from St. Paul,
Minn., to play for the event.
Tickets for the party, which will
go on sale within the next few
days, will sell for $1.50, including
tax. The permanent decorations
will be used in the coliseum and a
special ornamental orchestra pit
will be constructed lor tne Dan.
Members of the committee in
charge of arrangements are Nor
man Prucka, chairman; Leslie
Rood, Lloyd Anfiu, Richard Moran,
Harry Salter and Clarence Pat
terson. IIECIS DEBATE WORK
WITH MEW SEMESTER
Engage Morningside on
Jan. 29; Schedule
Future Dates.
rvhatft activity for the second
semester will begin immediately
following the openmg or tne secona
term with an argument against
MnrninpKide college on Jan. 29 on
the proposi'jon. Resolved: That the
powers oi tne presiaeni ci toe
United States should be enlarged
as a permanent polity. This en
gagement will be followed on the
first of February with a meeting
with Iowa State college on the
same topic.
Other tentative oates nave Deen
scheduled for Jan. 29 with Drake
university and Feb. 28 with Den
ver which have not been definitely
arranged yet. rveorasKa arguers
nn thi affirmative against Morn
ingside will be Irving Hill and Eu
gene Pester. Nebraska s negative
team of Charles Steadman and
Jack Pace will meet Iowa State.
Daily Nebraskan to
Discontinue Digest
The last edition of the Col
legiate Digest makes it appear
ance today. Because of an in
ability to secure advertising
copy acceptable for publication,
its discontinuance is necessary.
Perhaps, in the future if more
suitable copy can be secured,
we may again be permitted to
distribute this weekly feature
section.
Bernard Jennings,
Business Manager.
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JENNINGS
ELECTED TO DAILY
New Managing Editors Are
Burton Marvin and
Violet Cross.
Bruce Nicoll, Casper, Wyo., was
named editor of the Daily Nebras
kan and Bernard Jennings, Lin
coln, was renamed to the post of
business manager by the pubhea
tion board Monday afternoon.
These two men, both seniors, will
head the business and editorial
staffs of the paper during the sec
ond semester of this school year.
The new editor was managing edi
tor of the Nebraskan during the
past semester, and Jennings served
as business manager during the
first semester.
New managing editors of the
publication are Violet Cross, Fre
mont, hold-over from the first se
mester position of managing edi
tor, and Burton Marvin, Lincoln,
news -editor during the first
semester.
Appointed as news editors were
Jack Fischer, Valentine, hold-over
from the first half of the year;
Fred Nickles, Syracuse; and La-
moine Bible, Monroe. The latter
was news editor during the second
semester last year.
No changes were made in the
business staff by the appointing
board. With Jennings as the head
of the staff, George Holyoke,
Omana; Richard Schmidt. Lincoln;
and Wilbur Erickson, Newman
Grove, were renamed to the posts
of assistant business managers.
The Awgwan staff also re
mains intact Rosalie Lamme,
Walsenburg Colo., continues in the
role of editor; and Carlyle Soren
son, Omaha, continues as business
manager. Managing editors are
Alice Beekman, Blair, and Bob
Pierce, Lincoln.
INTERCLUB DELEGATES
Date of Mixed Party With
Barb Girls Set for
Friday, Feb. 23.
The Barb Inter-Club Council
will meet Monday evening at 7:30
in the Palladian Literary Society
rooms on the third floor of the
Temple to discuss plans for a pro
posed party sponsored by the
men's and women's barb councils.
Announcements of completed plans
for the Inter-Club basketball tour
nament will be made.
The tentative date for the mixed
party, first of its kind to be held
on this campus, has been set for
Februarv 23. it was announced
yesterday, by Wilbur Erickson,
president of the Council. Plans for
the party include dancing and table
games. Announcement of the place
where it is to be held will be made
after Monday's meeting.
BAPTISTS TO HOLD PARTY
Miss Niell Is in Charge of
Games; Musical Program
Will Be Offered.
There will a post-examination
party at the Baptist student bouse,
1440 Q at., Saturday evening at
8 o'clock.
Miss Jeanie Niell has charge of
the games and the Second Baptist
church has charge of the refresh
ments. There will be a short musi
cal program in addition to the
games. An admission cnarge wiu
cents will be charged to those at
tending this party.
Sunday evening Dr. Herman Liu,
president of the College of Shang
hai, Shanghai, China, will epeak at
the First Baptist church at 7:45
p. m. The church choir will sing
as a part of te program. Dr. Liu
was here with Stanley Jones a
short time ago.
NEBRASKAN
POT
WILL CONVENE MONDAY
SIX GET TEACHING POSTS
Former University Students
Named to Positions in
Various Towns.
Six Nebraska high school teach
ing appointments of former Uni
versity students were reported
during the week to the department
of educational service. Virginia
Gleason whose home is at Ran
dolph will teach English and
mathematics at Hartington. Sylvia
Kotouc of Humboldt goes to
Gretna where she will be an in
structor in English and home eco
nomics. Joining the Gresham
faculty, Sarah Richmond of Utica
will teach English and music.
Esther Scott goes from Lincoln
where her home is located to Gib
bon as teacher of commercial arts.
To instruct in home economics,
Helen Wilcox of Clay Center goes
to the Deuel county high school at
Chappell. William Young of Lin
coln has been made principal of
the school at Odell.
SCHEDULE NEXT PLAY
TO BEGIN ON FEB. 5
Will Present 'Dangerous
Corner Involving a
Mystery Plot.
The .University Players will pre
sent "Dangerous Cornor," a so
phisticated mystery, by J. B.
Piestly, Feb. 5 to 10, in the Temple
theater. Harold Sumption, of the
university dramatics department,
wDl direct the play.
All of the scenes of the produc
tion which appeared twice on
Broadway with the original cast
headed by Stanley Riges and Keith
Johnson, are laid in the living
room of the Chatfield home on the
Hudson. The plot centers around
the solving of a killing without the
aid of the police or story-book de
tectives. Veronica Villnave, and Harold
Sumption appear in the lead roles
of the production.
The cast is as follows:
Maude Mockridge, Jane Mc
Laughlin. Olwen Peel, Sylvia Schaefer.
Frieda Chatfield, Veronica Vill
nave. Betty Whitehouse, Virgene Mc
Bride. Charles Stanton, Melvin Fielder.
Gordon Whitehouse, Armand
Hunter.
Robert Chatfield, Harold Sump
tion.
HUP CHAPTER MEETS
TO DISCUSS LIBRARY
Doane Speaks at Faculty
Dinner Monday Might
At Grand Hotel.
The Nebraska chapter of the
American Association of Univers
ity Professors met at a dinner at
the Grand hotel Monday night to
discuss the proposition of a new li
brary on the university campus.
Gilbert II. Doane, bead librarian,
talked on the subject: "Organiza
tion and Aims of the University
Library."
Other speakers on the program
were Prof. Lancaster, Dr. Pool,
and Dr. Guilford, who gave brief.
informal talks on the subject of
the university library and gave
opinions on the subject of the eve
ning. Faculty Interest Aroused.
The meeting was held to arouse
faculty interest and sentiment on
the subject of the proposed new li
brary on the campus so that the
members of the faculty could act
at once in case erection of a new
building became imminent.
Mr. Doane was invited to address
the next meeting of the group on
the subject of organization of the
library in a rw Wilding.
UNIVERSITY
PLAYERS
DR. WOLCOTT
PASSES
AWAY TUESDAY NIGHT;
WAS HERE SINCE 1895
Zoology Chairman Dies After
Lingering Illness of
Several Months.
Dr. Robert H. Wolcott, chairman
of the zoology department at the
university ana member of the fac
ulty since 1895, died in Lincoln
shortly before 6 p. m. Tuesday lol
lowing an illness of several
months.
At the time of his death Dr. Wol
cott was acting chairman of the
department of bacteriology and pa
thology. He had guided the growth
of the zoology department from a
few scattered classes in Nebraska
and Mechanical Arts halls to its
present place in Bessey hall.
Dr. Wolcott came to this univer
sity in 1895 as an assistant in the
zoology department. In 19L'5 he
was made professor of anatomy
and head professor and dean of the
college of medicine in 1909. Dr.
Wolcott chose Omaha for the per
manent location of the medical col
lege, but elected to remain in Lin
coln with supervision of zoology.
He was made head professor of
zoology and dean of the junior
medical college in Lincoln.
He was- author of numerous
books and articles the most prom
inent being "Birds in Nebraska."
He was affiliated with Sigma Xi.
American Association for the Ad
vancement of Science, American
Microscopical union, and other
honorary and professional socie
ties. Funeral services will be lild at
his home Thursday at 4 p. m.
CLOSElClARSrllP
FILINGS ON FRIDAY
W. A. A. Offers Financial
Aid to Junior and
Senor Women.
Filings will close Friday for two
scholarships for the second semes
ter given for the second time by
the Women's Athletic association
to junior and senior women selec
ted on the basis of scholarship, fi
nancial need, personality and in
terest in the W. A. A.
List Regulations.
The loans will not draw interest
until one year after the girl has
graduated from university when
they will be charged 4 percent in
terest a year, according to the
committee arranging for the schol
arship. The committee is made up
of Alice Geddes, president of the
W. A. A., Maxine Packwood. Jean
Alden, Miss Mabel Lee. Klaine
Fontein and Miss Josephine Orr.
Secure Application Blanks.
The application blanks can be
secured at the women's intramural
office after the applicants have
had a conference with Miss Jose
phine Orr. The names of the girls
receiving the loans will not be an
nounced. ....
Johnson Slated for Talk
At Tuesday (invocation
Ralph Johnson, student lecturer
and exchange of the University of
Hawaii, will address a 'special stu
dent convocation in the Y. M. C. A.
rooms at Temple theater Tuesday
morning at 11 o clock.
Mr. Johnson will vpeak at the
ag college Y. W. C. A. vespers at
Tuesday noon.
The speaker for the convocation
has travelled extensively through
out the Orient and Mediter ranean
countries
JoIjmmhi Will Speak
At Whjiers JSext Week
Rev. Paul Johnston of West
minster church of Lincoln, will
address V -spers at 5 o'clock Tu s
day La Ellen Srr.itb LaiL