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LIMCOLN. NEBRASKA. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 11. 1934.
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INTEREST CENTERS
UPON CHARTER DAY
Orcanizations, Professors
Observe University s rixiy-iillli Anniversary
in Celebration Thursday of This Week.
TESTIMONIAL BANQUET TO HONOR JAMES DALES
Scholarship Lecture Group Meeting Monda), Educa
tional Fraternity Dinner Tuesday and Conference
of Nebraska Colleges Precede Birthday.
Social activities ou the cam
pus are accelerated this week
by the approach of Charter
Day Thursday and its cele
bration. Dinners have been
planned by various organizations
to attract professors and former
jtudents. A university scholarship
lecture group banquet., including
all faculty members on Its guest
list will be held Monday evening.
Feb 12 at 6 p. ni. at the University
club Dean C H. Oldfather of the
college of arts and sciences will
speak on "Rediscovering the Class
ical Civilization. '
Omicron chapter of Phi Delta
Kappa, national education frater
nity, holds its dinner on Tuesday,
evening at the Grand hotel, with
the time set at 6.15 p. m. Dr. H.
C. Koch and Dr. A. R. Congdon,
from the university faculty, will
report on their recent trips to the
Chicago convention of their group.
Concluding Charter Day itself, a
testimonial banquet in honor of
James S. Dales member of the first
graduating class at Nebraska, will
be held at the University club at 7
o'clock Thursday evening. Alumni
ami friends of the university have
b en invited to pay tribute to this
man for his long service at the
j scho;il.
' Miss Fhyllis Bentley, famous
Knglish novelist, author of "Inher
itance" and "A ivlodern Tragedy,"
has been secured to speak on sub
ject of "Literature and Life'" at the
Charter Day gathering in the Coli
seum Thursday morning at 10
o'clock. The famous author has
gained worldwide commendation,
and in the New York Times Book
Review section for Sunday. Feb. 4
received the honor of the main
j story. In that feature her lates
' work "A Modern Tragedy" was re
viewed and discussed.
At the conference of Nebraska
Universities and Colleges heads of
all the colleges in Nebraska will be
represented. Those schools on the
list are Chadron State Teachers
CV.iegv, Concordia Teachers Col
lege. Creighton University. Dana
College. Doane College, Hastings
College. Hebron College, Kearney
State Teachers college, Luther col
Iee. McCook Junior College, Mid
land college. Municipal university
of Omaha, Nebraska Central col
lege. Nebraskan W'esleyan univer
sity, Peru State Teachers college,
Scnttsbluff Junior college. Union
college, University of Nebraska,
Wayne State Teachers college and
York college.
Tuesday evening the Beaux Arts
nail in Morrill hall will inaugurate
th. Fine Arcs' department art
show, which features an exhibition
of paintings which will remain for
public view during the next month.
The termination of the Charter
Week activities is to be the Glee
flub concert Sunday afternoon in
the Coliseum. It represents the
thud of a series of five student tal
ent concerts to be held in the field
house this year.
This year marks the sixtv-fifth
anniversary of the university.
DB. LyWTfWASHINGTON
Represents Association of
Pharmacy Colleges in
Called Meeting.
Dr. R. A. Lyman, dean of the
university college of pharmacy,
eft Thursday evening for Wash
ington, D. c, where he will repre
sent the American Association of
Alleges of Pharmacy at a called
meeting of the American Council
on Education.
In Appreciation for Service to
Science, 'Alumnus' Is Dedication
To Memory of Dr. R. H. Wolcott
In appreciation of Dr. Hubert II. Wolcott for his valuable
services to science and for his splendid record in connection
with the university, the February issue of The Nebraska
Alumnus is a dedication to his memory. The deep regrets of
those who wore associated with him arc reflected in the words
'Dr U G. Worley. F. A. Cornell ando
J. Pool in that publication.
Kiief exerpts from the tributes
Paid Dr. Wolcott by these three
men reveal his character his Irtealft
and interesting incidents of bid
'e. "Professor Wolcott as pri-K-aiily
a t.-acher ami his hlnli.eicnl
scivity was largely devoted to
'"is phase of his profession, espe-
life ly durin8: tue lat'r years of ms
"He excelled in this capacity tor
not only did he pessess a broad
and thoro knowledge of the field
f Zoology a- the ability to ren
der his subject intelligible to his
Pupils, but he was also endowed
ith the rare quality of being able
0 stimulate enthusiasm among
Jtudents for their work.' L. G.
"orley. former student of Dr. Wol
CU stated.
Interest In Nature.
Wis keen interest in nature is
and Former StutJ
dent Plan to
AS SPRING SHOW
Yenne Wins Annual Kosmet
Play Contest for Third
Year.
CAST OF 41 CHARACTERS
Tryouts for Production Will
Be Held Within Next
Two Weeks.
'The Campus (.'op'' will cop
the stage for Kosmet Klub's
spring show 1his year.
Selection of the in usiciii 1 cum
cdy of that name as the prize
winning entry in the annual con
test was announced yesterday by
Frank Musgrave. president of the
Klub and chairman of the com
mittee in charge oi judging of
entries. The play was written by
Herb Yenne of the dramatics de
partment, author of several Kos
met Klub hits of past years.
Tryouts for the parts in the cast
and choruses will be held within
the next two weeks, Musgrave
stated. The play calls for a cast
of forty-one characters, including
the male and pony choruses. There
are twelve female-speaking parts
and ten in the pony chorus, author
Yenne said.
All Action on Campus.
All of the action in "The Campus
Cop," which is a two-act musical
comedy, takes place on the campus
of Ak-Sar-Ben college, and most
of the characters and events in the
show will be familiar to Nebraska
students, members of the Klub in
dicated. The main character, the campus
top, is a former student and foot
ball player who was expelled from
school for scholastic reasons.
Other characters include gamblers,
campus cakes, fraternity and so
rority alumni, and a number of
students. All of the action of the
play takes place in the lounge of
the new Student Union building on
the afternoon and evening preced
ing the homecoming game with
Kansas university.
RACIAL FRIENDLINESS
Devotionals To Be Led By
Miss Coffee; Wetherly
To Speak.
The theme for the Vespers next
Tuesday will stress inter-racial
friendliness. As an expression of
one of the aims recently set up for
the year, this service will endeavor
to promote a better understanding
of racial differences.
Devotionals will be led by Rob
erta Coffee, former leader of the
International staff and new social
director at the C. W. A. commu
nity center An address will be
given by Rev. Arthur Wetherly on
"What Constitutes Each Race."
shown bv an Incident cited by
Worley. "I recall a stormy day in
late winter when Dr. Wolcott,
spotting an abandoned bird nest in
a plum thicket some 600 feet
across a muddy plowed field from
the road, stopped the car in which
we were riding, and ran the whole
distance to the place, retrieved the
specimen and then ran the entire
distance back so that we in the
car would not be delayed in reach
ing our destination."
Dr. Wolcott was an unusually
energetic man, always busy, able
to keep a pace or two ahead of
men many years his Junior when
hunting specimens called him to
the field. An authority on wild an
imal life of all kinds, he made wi
exceedingly interesting companion
for outdoor study "He was per
fectly at home in the field; he
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KLUB ANNOUNCES
THE CAMPUS COP
f. scon io
LECTURE BEFORE
PHI BETA KAPPA
Customs in Ireland Prior
To Twelfth Century Are
Subject of Talk.
KESNER WILL PRESIDE
Next Meeting of Group to
Be Held Jointly With
Sigma Xi.
Dr. R. U. Scott, professor of
English drama and in charge
of freshman English instruc
tion, will address members of
Nebraska Alpha chapter of Phi
Beta Kappa at the University
club, Tuesday, Feb. 13, at 6:15 p.
m. on the subject "Culture in An
cient Ireland." Dr. Scott will dis
cuss living conditions and customs
in Ireland prior to the twelfth
century.
The meeting will be the society's
last this year with the exception
of 'Is joint spring meeting with
Sigma XI which will be held
sometime during the latter part of
March. New members of both so
cieties will be announced at the
joint spring meeting, the first of
which was inaugurated last year.
Previously, Sigma Xi, honorary
scientific scholastic fraternity, had
announced its members separately
from Phi Beta Kappa, and at a
dif'erent time.
To Hold Initiation.
Preliminary announcement by
the society set Monday, April 30,
as the date for initiation of new
members who will be announced In
March. The initiation ceremonies,
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FOR W JUL LOANS
1 BE FEB. 14
Small Number Applications
Causes Change From
January 26.
Filings for the W. A.
loans will close Feb. 14, ac
cording to members of the com
mittee in charge. The original
deadline was set for Jan. 26.
but due to such a small number of
applications having been received:
the deadline was set up un next
Wednesday.
Two loans of $75 each are being
offered bv the association to junior
and senior women for the second
semester of this school year. This j
is the second time such scholar-
ships have been given, the first of-1
fer having been made last year. I
Not Subject to Interest.
Girls receiing the loan will be
selected on a basis of scholarship,
financial need, personality, and in
terest shown in the W. A. A. Ac
cording to the committee in charge
these loans are not subject to in
terest until one year after the girl
has graduated from the university
when they will be charged 4 per
cent annually.
References as well as applica
tions must be in by the deadline.
Blanks may be obtained at the
women's intramural athletic office
and must be turned back in by
Wednesday. Before getting a blank
each girl should have a conference
with Miss Josephine Orr.
Members of the committee ar
ranging for the scholarships are
Alice Geddes, president of the W.
A. A., Maxlne Packwood, Jean
AlderT, Miss Mabel Lee and Miss
Josephine Orr.
AGENTS VISIT CAMPUS
Men Interview Engineering
And Bizad College
Seniors.
Interviewing seniors in the col
lege of business administration,
an I in the college of engineering
on the campus last week were
M. L. Frederick, director of the
school of business training for the
General Electric company at
Schenectady and M. M. Boring, di
rector of the personnel department
for the same company.
Talking to some fifty men on
Wednesday and Thursday, Mr.
Frederick was preparing records
for future use on bizad students
who would be likely candidates for
study and work with the concern.
Mr. Boring In much the same ca
pacity, was interviewing engineer
ing students rrora the mecnanical
and electrical departments. Last
year two men went from the col
lere of business administration.
and three from the engineering col
lege to the General Electric plant.
PRO
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SPEAKS TO PI MU EPSILONl
David G. Brubaker Lectures
Mathematics Honorary
On Determinants.
David G. Brubaker, assistant in
the physics department, addressed
the meeting of Pi Mu Epsilon, hon
orary mathematics organization,
Thursday on the subject of deter
minants. The meeting was held at
7:30 in the Mechanic Arts build
ing. The only business being trans
acted was a vote on whether to
grant the University of Georgia, a
chapter in :he Pi Mu Epsilon. The
Nebraska chapter voted in favor
of this question.
President Richards being ab
sent. Vice President Walla pre
sided. E
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FOR JUDGE DALES
One of First Two Graduates
Of the University Will
Receive L.L.D.
CONFER AWARD FEB. 15
Member of Administrative
Staff for Period of
Nearly 60 Years.
James Swart Dales, one oi
the first two graduates of this I
university and fur nearly sixty :
years associated with "its 'ad-j
tuinistrative staff, will receive
the honory degree of Doctor of .
Laws at the Charter Day Convoca
tion, Thursday, Feb. 15, it was an
nounced Friday noon. Both the
University Senate and the Board
of Regents have unanimously ap
proved this degree, the first honor
ary degree to he given by the Uni
versity in a year and a half. The
long service of Secretary Dales
will also be honored at a banquet
to be held at the University club
at 7 o'clock that evening, to be at
tended by alumni, former students,
members of the faculty and friends
of Secretary Dales.
Judge Dales, as he has been
known for years, was not only a
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GROUP MEETS FRIDAY
Music Committee Working
With Selleck to Get
Good Orchestra.
The Junior-Senior Prom com
mittee met Friday afternoon to
budget expenses and arrange for
music and decoration for the an
nual party. The decorations com
mittee requests students with ideas
for presenting the Prom girl at
the dance to discuss them with
Arlene Bors or Charles Galloway.
The most novel and attractive plan
will bring the author a ten dollar
prize. The plans should be sub
mitted to the managing editors of
the Daily Nebraskan.
The orchestra for the dance has
not yet been chosen but the music
committee working with Mr. Sel
leck is preparing a report on this
portion of the entertainment.
Has
APPROV
HONORARY DEGRE
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- - Courtly Lincoln Journal. ;
- J. S DAI.KS.
American University
Failed?
A candid discussion of an old problem In a no--'
light by two prominent faculty members, beginning
in the Tuesday edition and continuing until Friday,
with suggested remedies and reasons for the down
fall. Here is a series of academic articles well worlh
rending. And starting Tuesday.
STATE COLLEGES
HERE WEDNESDAY
FOR
CONFERENCE
Heads of Nebraska Schools
Meet Here to Discuss
Mutual Problems.
HOLD THREE SESSIONS
Drs. Kelly and Rosenlof Will
Address Assemblage on
Education Problems.
Opening with a welcome ad
dress by Chancellor E. A. Bur
nett the first annual confer
ence of Nebraska colleges and
universities will be held Wed
nesday, Feb. 14, on the univer
sity campus. Presidents and deans
from schools thruout the state will
be here to discus? the edmini
strative and personnel problems of
their institutions.
Dr. Fred J. Kelly, chief of the
division of colleges and profes
sional schools in the United States
office of education at Washington,
and Dr. G. W. Rosenlof. state di
rector of secondary education and
teacher training, have been an
nounced as the principal speakers
on the program.
Burnett Welcomes Group.
After the welcoming address by
Chancellor Burnett the morning
session, with Dean F. E. Henzlik
presiding, will get under way with
a conference and round table dis
cussion. Some of the questions for
discussions, suggested by heads of
the respective schools, are "Aims
and Significant Phases of Higher
Education," including the philos
ophy of education, and "Educa
tional Institutions."
At the close of the opening ses
sion the Lincoln chamber of com
merce will be host to the visiting
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FRATERNITY BALL
ATTRACTS CROWD
OF 450 COUPLES
Second Major Party of Year
Features Music of
Jimmie Joy.
A crowd, estimated at between
450 and 500 couples danced to the
favorite songs of Nebraska fra
ternities in the university coliseum
Saturday evening.
Music for the ball, the second of
the three major social functions on
the campus was furnished by
Jimmy Joy and his orchestra, who
have been playing at the Hotel
Lowry in Minneapolis and Friday
night played for the Junior-Senior
Prom at Creighton university.
Featured on the program was a
group of fraternity songs, especi
ally arranged for the engagement
here.
In addition to the permanent
decorations, placards bearing the
Greek letters of each fraternity
with a brief characterization of
each were hung on the walls of the
ballroom.
Chaperons for the affair were
Chancellor and Mrs. E. A. Burnett,
Dean and Mrs. T. J. Thompson,
Dean Amanda Heppner, Col. and
Mrs. W. H. Oury, Mr. and Mrs. F.
E. Korsmeyer. Miss Mae Pershing
and Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Eager.
Housemothers of all fraternities
were entertained as guest of honor.
GIVES COLLINS PORTRAIT
Wife of Deceased Curator
Of Museum Presents
Large Picture.
Mrs. F. G. Collins has recently
presented the university museum
in Morrill hall with a large por
trait photograph of the late F. G.
Collins, who was until his death
assistant curator of the museum.
The picture will hang in the office
so long occupied by Mr. Collins,
room 107. Afterward It will hang
in one of the galleries of the build
ing with portraits of other bene
factors of the museum.
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CWA STUDENT AID
HERE IS GRANTED
Approval liy Haynes of University's Petition for Funds
To lurni-.li Employment for Undergraduates
Will Give Work to lot at Nebraska.
APPLICANTS MAY FILE
Faculty Committee Expects to Have List of Jobs Ready
First of the Week; Authorities List Federal
Requirements for Receiving Help.
BEST AG COLLEGE
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Nearly
All Students Will
Be Represented in
Coll-Agri-Fun.
PERFORMANCE IS FRIDAY
James Matzder Will Be the
Master of Ceremonies
For Varieties.
Three prizes will be awarded
jthe winning acts of the Agri
j cultural College's anr.uai fun
i show, Col-Agri-Fun. and ac
cording to 1 ho sponsors it-
promises to be a close contest.
The students of the college are all
well represented in the array of
skits on the program. Mildred
Tickler is the sponsor of an old
fashioned melodrama entitled
"Curses Foiled Again" and the
Farm House skit harks back to
"Ye Olde School Days." "Walka
thon Marathon" by the Hirsch
Brothers organization and the
"Radio Racket" by the Agricul
tural College ooarding club will
lend a -modern air to the--program..
The Farm Operatives who won
first prize last year come back
with ai. act which they declare bet
ter than last year's. Alpha Gamma
Rho, National C.L.M.P., Ag Col
l:ge chorus. and Ag College
Cafeteria boarding club will also
be represented in the show.
James Matzder has been selected
as master of ceremonies for the
variety show and will introduce
the acts and curtain skits at the
performance Friday evening, Feb.
16 at 8 o'clock at the Activities
building on the Ag campus. The
prizes of fifteen, ten and five dol
lars will be awarded the winners
immediately following the show.
In an effort to keep the program
running smoothly and to sustain
interest in each act, they have all
been limited to ten minutes in
length. The dress rehearsal will
is believed that the program will j
be held Wednesday evening ana it
run about one and a half nours
when the practice is finished.
Wesley Dunn will stage manage
the vaudeville show and James
Warner will take care of the busi
ness end. The committee in charge
with Bill Waldo as chairman is:
Mildred Tickler, Catherine Agnew,
Elmer Heyne. Philip Henderson,
and Helen Steffensmeyer.
MANY iGMlOR UNION
Approximately 150 Students
Will deceive Credit
This Semester.
Approximately one hundred and
fifty students have registered for
Choral Union according to How
ard Kirkpatrick of the University
school of music.
Choral Union offers one hour
credit for two mixed chorus re
hearsals a week. It is one of the
oldest institutions on the campus,
being thirty-eight years old.
SHOW SKITS
RECEIVE
AWARDS
No Leap Year, Full Moon, As Rare
Coincidence Leagues Calendar and
Lunar Authorities Against Women
In league against the women
during February are both the
calendar and the lunar author
ities. From the calendar they
(rain no extra day for the ex
cuse of lean year, and from the
moon they shall get only quarters.
No full moon is scheduled for the
month of February, 1934. accord
ing to O. C. Collins, university
astronomy instructor, whose work
makes moon watching part of his
profession
Such a phenomeuon rarely oc
curs through the years, and is now
an accident rather than any spe
cial arrangement for the benefit of
depression-stricken males. Mr.
Collins explains that from full
moon to full moon is 29 1-2 day3,
and it is merely a coincidence that
that period straddles the month of
February which is forced to limit
itself this year to 28 dawns.
Planets Move Around.
Neighboring planets to the earth
have been doin some rather in
teresting things, declares Mr. Col
lins, and he belives most of their
actions may be seen by persons
WITH DEAN THOMPSON
Official approval for univer
sity authorities to proceed with
their plans to aid university
students here thru part-time
work provided by federal funds
was granted Friday by Rowland
Haynes, federal relief administra
tor for the state of Nebraska. Em
ployment for some 454 students at
Nebraska at an average salary of
$15 a month is expected as a re
sult of the action.
University authorities have been
receiving student application for
part time work since the first of
the week in anticipation of federal
approval of the scheme to provide
funds to aid needy students
throughout the nation. A special
faculty committee spent Friday
and Saturday checking eligibility
of the many students whose appli
cations for employment had been
filed during the week. No official
count of the number of applicants
was available Saturday night.
List Requirements.
Three major requirements con
cerning individuals who desire to
receive aid through the plan, as
set forth by federal ruling are:
1. The student's financial status
must be such that his attendance
at college would be impossible
without this aid.
2. The student shall be of good
character and shall be judged by
the usual methods of determining
ability that are used by the -par-'
ticular college.
3. The student shall possess
such ability as to give assurance
that he will do high grade work In
college.
A second faculty committee will
be entrusted with the work of ap
proving work projects which will
employ students in various ca
pacities. A dnflntrt ration officials
voiced their belief that the com
mittee's work might be completed
within one or two days and that
students might actually be at
work by the middle of next week.
Action Immediate.
Action on the university appli
cation for aid was almost immedi
ate. Thursday Chancellor Burnett
filed a formal application for fed
eral aid for part-time jobs for stu
dents here to the extent of $27,240,
with State Relief Administrator
W. H. Smith and approval was
granted Friday. The university's
application was made in accord
ance with regulations specified by
Harry L. Hopkins, national CWA
administrator, under which all in
stitutions of collegiate or univer
sity character which are non
profit making concerns, may file
for part-time jobs for college stu-
dents on the basis of their full-
time enrolment as of Oct. 15, 1933.
Jobs to the extent of 10 percent
of the enrolment as of that date
may be granted. Full time stu
dents, university officials said, are
those carrying twelve or more
hours of college work. Exclusive
of the medical college in Omaha,
full-time enrolment at Nebraska
Oct. 15 was listed at 4.543 by uni
versity authorities.
25 Percent New Students.
No less than 25 percent of the
students receiving aid must be
those who were not regularly en
rolled in some college in January
of this year. Seventy-five percent
of the students receiving work
under the grant, may be those who
were in attendance last semester.
Jobs will be allocated between boys
and girls in the university in pro
portion to the enrolment of each.
In addition to the foregoing regu
lations, university officials de
clared their Intentions of dividing
the jobs, so far as possible, among
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with binoculars or telescopes.
Venus has appeared as a bright
star in the southwest sky in the
evenings for two months, and
reached its brightest on Dec. SI.
Since then it has passed between
the sun and earth and for a few
days will be seen in the morning
sky. It is in inferior conjunction
with the sun on Feb. 4.
Jupiter can now be seen in the
east, according to the astronomy
instructor, at about 11:30, just
above the horizon. To earth-bound
observers, it has appeared to b
moving eaht, seemed stationary on
the seventh of the month, and will
now apparently move west. This
appears to be the case because th
earth travels at a faster rate, and
so has overtken and passed Jupiter
in the orbit around the sun.
Mr. Collins teaches university
classes in general astronomy, and
this semester instructs a night
class which meets on Tuclay eve
nings at 7:30. This course, ex
plains Mr. Collins, is arranged to
suit the amateur observer and con
cerns less theoretical matter than
a study of the stars themselves,
and their actions.