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VOL. XXXIV NO. 133.
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1933.
PRICE 5 CENTS.
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SUMMER SCHOOL
TO OPEN JUNE 14
Students May Register in the Coliseum Until Noon,
June 15, for Nine Hours Work in Long Term
Or Sign in the Short Session.
ADMINISTRATION ARRANGES SOCIAL PROGRAM
University Teaching Slaff to Be Augmented by Guest
Instructors From Several American Colleges
And Nebraska High Schools.
Augmented by guest instructors from several American
colleges and outstate high schools, the university teaching staff
will present a comprehensive range of courses at the short and
long summer sessions which open June 14. Registration will be
held at the coliseum until noon of June 15, and classes wil1
s . . .
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In addition to educational activ
ities the administration has plan
ned social and recreational pro
grams, according to the summer
session bulletin available at the
registrar's office. On June 25, 26.
and 27, the annual Educational
Conference on high school curric
ulums will be held.
The all state high school orches
tra chorus, and band course will
be 'offered to public school stu
dents for four weeks beginning
June 17. Parties, picnics, and
competitive sports will be provid
ed. Visiting Instructors Lecture.
Some of the visiting instructors
who will lecture in specialized
courses are Dr. E. N. Anderson,
Chicago University historian; Dr.
Horace B. English, professor of ed
ucational psychology at Ohio
State: Miss Elizabeth Hebcl. so
cial studies authority: George i.
Howcrton, chorus expert from Hi
ram college; Dr. H. H. Linn, busi
ness manager of Muskegon. Mien.,
citv schools; William Norton, di
rector of school music at Flint,
Mich.; Norma V. Scheidemann,
writer on child psychology; Muriel
Sibell. chairman of Colorado Uni
versity fine arts department, and
Dr. Louis A. Wolfanger. nationally
known instructor in economic ge
ography of Columbia University.
Students may select courses
from both the long and short ses
sions, carrying a maximum of nine
hours college work for the long,
and six hours during the short ses
sion. An additional fee of $3 will
be charged students registering
after June 15. and 51 for each ad
ditional week after classes have
begun.
Plan Experimental School.
A laboratory school of the ele
mentary education department will
be held, where newer theories and
practices of the field will be tried
out and evaluated, and possibly
adopted by the public schools of
Nebraska. The school includes a
nursery, reading clinic, rural
school, and four elementary grades.
Demonstration classes will also be
in operation at the teachers col
lege high school. First grade state
and university teachers certificates
will be offered to students in edu
cation courses.
The women's dormitory, Carrie
Belle Raymond hall, will be open
for student occupancy during the
summer session. Breakfast ana
dinner will be included in the rent
al charge, which is $7 per week.
SENIOR COMMITTEE
MEETS THURSDAY TO
IKE CLASS PLANS
Definite Organization Steps
Will Probably Be
Taken.
The senior committee on class
organization will meet Thursday
afternoon at 5 o'clock at the Stu
dent council office in U hall, ac
cording to Don Easterday, class
president
The committee, comoed of
Easterday. Herman Rosenblatt,
Lamoine Bible. Jack Fischer, Vio
let Cross, Wilbur Erickson, and
Marian Smith, expects to consider
plans for further senior activity
through the balance of the year.
Along that line. President EasUr
day staled that they would pos
sibly enlarge the committee mem
bership Ui provide a more com
prehensive coverage of the gradu
ating class. It is intimated that
d finite steps toward class unifica
tion will be outlined at today's
meeting.
LIBRARY POST EXAMS
TO BE GIVES APRIL 27
Freshmen and Sophomore
Students Eligible
For Jobs.
Competitive examinations for
part-time student positions on the
library stiff will be held in the
third floor reserve reading room at
9 o'clock Saturday morning, April
27, according to Librarian Cilbert
Doane.
Only freshmen and sophomores
are eligible for the examinations,
filings having closed April 17.
Thou students who have made ap
plications for student positions dur
ing the current academic year
'm'ist call at the office of the cir
culation librarian and signify their
Intention to take the examination
The positions require thirty hour"
work per week, and salary is $30
per month. Two positions will prob
ably be vacant by Sent. J.
AG CAMPUS HOST
10 PREP SCHOOLS
AT JUDGING IE!
Five Hundred to Attend
Contest Thursday
And Friday.
Host to five hundred farming
students from vocational agricul
ture classes in forty-two Nebraska
high schools, the ag campus will
be the scene of the annual state
agricultural judging contest j
Thursday and Friday, according to
Dr. H. E. Bradford, chairman of
the vocational education depart
ment of the university.
Representat ives trom high
schools in the eastern half of the
state will compose the majority of
contestants. Holders of titles
garnered in the western agricul
tural judging competition held re
cently at North Platte will also be
present to gain additional honors.
Opening the two day meet will
be contests in dairy, poultry and
grains. The winner of the public
speaking tourney on the same
day, in which twelve schools are
entered, will represent Nebraska
in national competition next fall.
Including judging of classes of
horses, cattle, sheep and hogs by
forty teams; competition in Bab
cock testing of cream and milk;
and contests in farm mechanics,
Friday's program will climax the
affair firnin eradinc- and PFfiT
grading meets also fall on the clos
ing day.
F
ENTER IVY DAY SING
Groups May Present Entry
Letters at Kosmet
Klub Office.
Entries from fraternities wishing
to compete for possession of the
! silver loving cup. symbol of the
winner of the annual interfratern
ity sing to be held on Ivy day,
May 2, must be -presented at the
Kohmet Klub office this week, an
nounced Tom Davies, president of
the Klub sponsoring the contest.
Judges for the competition have
not as yet been selected, but Davies
plans to announce their names
soon. He stated that trainers of
the participating groups would not
be chosen for judges.
The trophy which signifies su
premacy in interclub singing is
now held by Sigma Phi Epsilon,
victor in the contest last year.
Davies stated that the final deci
sion will be based upon the gen
eral excellence of the performance
and the harmony rather than
technical skill.
RATERNITIES
CONTEST THIS
Little Gods Galley
MAYNARO MILLER. CORNHUSKER BUSINESS MANAGER
By Damon Sanden.
Maynard Miller, business man
ager of the Cornhusker, although
famous among campus publication
offices for bis ability as a cribbage
player, declines to admit his ex
ceptional prowess, and proclaims
that he is only -fourth best-" This
extraordinary young man is prob
ably the most reticent of the cam
pus famous, refusing to be quoted
on practically every question ask
ed him, answering only tiiat he
didn't have anything to say, and
besides, be didn't have time any
way Membership in Corncob. B?ta
Theta Pi. Innocent. Student Coun
cil, Interfraternity council. Alum
ni Board of Control of the Inter
fiv.ternlty Council, and Cornhusk
er business manager are only a
few of bis many and varied ac
complishing b's.
Griping" aoout the tack of stu
dent interest in campus project
and the difficulty in arousing stu
dent enthusiasm were the only
question on which be took a def
inite and vehement stacti. i here
are many things this campus
needs. Outstanding among them
are student interest la proposed
COCHRAN SPEAKS
AT LAST EVENT IN
ENGINEERS' WEEK
Former State Engineer to
Talk at Banquet
May 3.
L W. CHASE TO PRESIDE
Edison, Frankforter Will
Present Awards,
Medals.
Gov. Tvoy L. Cochran has
been scheduled as principal
speaker for the engineers ban
quet Friday evening, May 3,
at the Lincoln hotel ballroom,
it was announced today by Hugh
Schmidt of the engineers week ex
ecutive committee. The banquet is
slated as the concluding event on
the engineers week program.
A university engineering grad
uate and eight years state engi
neer, Governor Cochran will speak
on some topic of general engineer
ing interest, it was indicated.
Toastmaster for the evening is
L. VV. Chase, president of the
Chase Plow company of Lincoln.
He is at present feed administra
tor for the AAA.
Awards Given.
Engineering awards of the past
year will be presented following
the dinner, Schmidt stated. Prof.
O. E. Edison of the electrical en
gineering department will present
the Sigma lau iresnman scnoiar
ship medal to John T. Parker;
Prof. C. J. Frankforter of the
chemistry department will present
the O. J. Field award to Edward
L. Beachler. and the chemistry en-
gineering scholarship key to Ray
Hickok.
Winners of the following awards
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IVY DAYlKlM
SOCIAL PLANNED BY
YI, Y.W. STAFES
Affafr to Be HelrTori" Lawn
North of Library
Building.'
On the eve of Ivy day, anticipat
ing the historic atmosphere that
will pervade the campus the follow"
ing day, students, faculty members,
and alumni of the university will
participate in an old fashioned ice
cream social on the lawn north of
library hall. The novel affair will
begin at 8 o'clock. May 1. with an
orchestra playing old fashioned
tunes, and Japanese lanterns light
ing the grounds.
Ice cream and cake will be sold
at special stands, and the affair
will resemble ,as far as possible, a
typical ice cream social, members
of the social staffs of the Y. W.
and Y. M.. sponsoring the festivity,
announced.
Committees working on the ar
rangements were announced as fol
lows: Dscorations: Nora DoCory.
Mary White, Manuel Brown; re
freshments: Iris Knox. Dorothy
Beers, Dorcas Orawford, Hazel
Baier. and Lillian Seibold, orches
tra: Eleamor Bell; and guards:
Lillette Jacques.
TASKSTERETTES TO
INSTALL NEtt HEAD
New Officers of Tanksterettes,
women's swim club, will be in
stalled at a ceremony at 7:30
Thursday in the coliseum, accord
ing to Beth Taylor, president of
the organization.
Beth Phillips will be installed as
president for the coming semester,
FVlu-ina McConchie will take the
office of vice president, and Fern
KOCni Will Serve as secieinry.
Dorothy Orcutt is the new treas
urer, and Martha Jackson will be
installed as reporter.
Courtesy PJobrt-Mtrdra.
project which would prove bene-
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they bad enough backing to be put
into effect. I refer to such things
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JOHNSON NAMED OS
EDUCATIONAL GROUP
Professor Appointed as
Member National
Committee.
Prof. P. G. Johnson, supervisor
of science In teachers college, was
recently appointed to serve on the
national committee to guide the
development of the American bci
ence Teachers association. The
committee will prepare and pre
sent definite plans for the associa
tion which was formed last semes
ter. The next meeting of the group
will be held in St. Louis in Decem
ber. Mr. Johnson has also been asked
to present a paper and lead dis
cussions at the July meetings of
the department of science instruc
tion of the National Education as
sociation. The themes for these
meetings will be "A Continuous
Program in Natural Science for
the elementary and secondary
schools."
BLUE PRINT WILL
State High School Students
To Receive Engineers'
Publication.
Featuring an article by W. Ber
nard Robinson, E. E. '30, on "Find
ing Oil With a Seismograph." the
Nebraska Blue Print will be issued
to engineering students, Friday,
April 26, those in charge announc
ed. The April number of the stu
dent engineering publication, which
is to be sent to all high scnoois in
the state, also contains the pro
gram arrangements for engineers
week next month.
Robinson, an oil prospector, re
lates the field operations in locat
ing oil by use of an instrument
called the seismograph. After a
dynamite charge has been set off
around 50 to 100 feet below the
ground's surface, he explains, the
instrument picks up the sound
waves from which can be deter
mined where oil is likely to be
found. Conditions affecting the
location of oil in the different lo
calities is also told.
The April Blue Print goes to
the high schools of the state and
presents to high school students
the complete program for engin
eers' Week.'relating of the different
exhibits and the weeks activities.
The cover design, drawn by the
architectural department, is the
outline of a zephyr train placed
before the plans of the state cap
itol building.
BRACKEII FOR POST
.S.
Official Recommends Diers
As Alternate for
Position.
Elmer Brackctt, engineering sen
ior, was recommended by Chancel
lor E. A. Burnett Wednesday for
the position of probationary second
lieutenant of the United States ma
rine corps. Richard A. Dier. senior
in the teachers college was recom
mended as an alternate in case
Brackctt does not meet the require
ments. Brackett. who is the son of Prof.
E. E. Brackett of the department
of agricultural engineering, is Ca
det Lieutenant Colonel of the R. O.
T. C. and a member of Sigma Phi
Epsilon fraternity.
Dier is the son of H. A. Dier of
Lincoln. He is a member of Theta
Chi, Sigma Delta Chi, Corncobs,
the Rifle club, and a Cadet Major
in the R. O. T. C. Recommenda
tions were directed to Major Gen
eral John H. Russell, Commandant
at Washington.
HOUSE APPROVES BILL
T
Owens Resolution to Abolish
Uni Regents Passed
Wednesday.
Approval of a Joint resolution
for the submission of a constitu
tional amendment to abolish the
university board of regent was
given Thursday by the Nebraska
house of representative by a vote
of 64 to 24. The bill, house roll No.
386 bv Claire Owens, was passed
after a third reading.
The resolution provides lor a Ne
braska state board of education to
manage the affairs of the univer
itv the four state normal schools.
school for the deaf, and school for
the blind. Lancaster county dele
gates and university supporter
united in an attack aeainst the
bill, charging that it waa more ex
pensive than the present plan.
The new board would consist of
nln members eleteed from dis
tricts to serve two. four, and six
year terms. To valiuat the meas
ure, the senate must pass it, the
governor sign it and voters ratify
it at the next staU lection
APRIL NUMBER OF
BE ISSUED FRIDAY
UNION
TO
MEETING TONIGHT
Student Support Petitions
To Be Circulated in
Organizations.
ATTENDANCE STRESSED
Fischer Urges Everyone to
Back Campaign for
Building.
The second meeting of the
Student union "committee of
100" will be held tonight at
Social Sciences auditorium at
7:30 when the second step in
the drive for student enlistment of
the project will be taken. Petitions
have been prepared and will be
given to the members of this com
mittee for circulation in their pros
pective organizations.
It has been decided by the coun
cil that the petition plan of gain
ing the support of the entire stu
dent body will be more valuable,
as evidence of interest, than a spe
cial balloting at the com'ng spring
election.
Jack Fischer, chairman of the
committee, stressed the importance
of attendance. "It is vital that the
campaign continue full force and
never be permitted to die for a
moment. Members of this publicity
committee are the leaders and ex
ecutive of all the undergraduate
organizations and are the ones
upon whom the entire project is
dependent.
"If they will come tonight and
show by their presence their will
ingness to keep the campaign
moving along, there is absolutely
no reason why Nebraska should
not have a student union building
next year," Fischer declared.
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REPORTS ON IRK OF
. UU
Beth TayTor-Teatures Meet
With Discussion of
New Cabin.
Reports on the past years work
in W. A. A. will be given by twelve
council members, when the old and
newly elected council meets Thurs
day noon at 12 in the new W. A. A.
room in Grant Meorial hall.
Beth Taylor, chairman of the
cabin committee, will give the fea
ture report on the progress of the
new W. A. A. cabin being built
eight miles east of the campus.
Plans are being made for it's open
ing next month.
Other members of the organiza
tion who will give reports are:
Jean Brownlee, retiring president,
Haleene Haxthausen, Doris Riis
ness, Maxir.e Packwod, Doris
Weaver, Jean Palmer, Eleanor
Neale, Alice Beekman, Sara Louise
Myer, and Faith Arnold.
Plans for the golf club, being
sponsored by W. A. A., will be dis
cussed. Madeline Munt, student in
charge of the project, will reveal
developments to date, assisted by
Miss Marjorie Eastabrook. faculty
member advising the group.
GEOLOGICAL GROUP
TO MEET SATURDAY
Sigma Gamma Epsilon, honor
ary geological fraternity, will meet
for a banquet Saturday evening,
April 27, at the University club.
Speakers on the program will be
Dr. E. H. Barbour. Dr. Alvin L.
Lugn. and Prof. E. F. Schramm.
About fifty are expected to at
tend, according to Jay Jorgcnsen,
who is making arrangements for
the affair.
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SPONSOR
SECOND
'Caking' Turns Out lo Be Just
An Old 18th Century Custom
Coffee-houses of the ISth century form an interesting paral
lel to the prevalent all-university activity of "caking."
Perusing. the history of these fascinating institutions, the
reader finds that the coffee-houses were the duelling grounds
for the chief thinkers and wits of the age. Hy spending three-
pence one might una mmseii ino
very good company. In fact, one
account relates that many of the
customers began the day with
breakfast, in dressing gown and
slippers, at one of the nearby
chocolate houses.
Johnson in his "Study of Eng
land," Volume I, remarks that
universal liberty of speech uttered
amid clouds of tobacco smoke with
equal vehemence whether against
government and church, or against
enemies, had long been the wonder
of foreigners."
History tells us that in ue cor-
fee-houses, stimulated by an audi
ence, masterpieces naa ineir
genesis, many of which were
never written disappearing with
the recollections oi the men who
listened.
Tisnbs. in his "Clubs and Cub
Life in London." recalls: "Conver-
satlon has a mysterious power of
awakening thought: commonplaces
SPRING ELECTIONS
TO BE HELD MAY 1 4
Student Council Sets Date at Wednesday Meeting:
Candidates May File From May 1 to 10;
36 Major Offices at Stake.
DOUBLE PETITION FOR UNION, BOOKSTOKK
Members He-Elected to Council Include Young,
Hill, R. Fischer; Women Are Selleck,
Hitchcock, Bushee, Moomaw.
Spring elections to fill thirty-six major campus offices
will be held Tuesday, May 14, according to a decision of the
student council, which met Wednesday afternoon in University
hall. Filings for the posts will open May 1 and close at 5 o'clock
on Friday afternoon, May 0, Council President Jack Fischer
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Students Give 12 Prominent
Nebraskans Luncheon
Saturday.
Twelve prominent Nebraska
men and women, members of the
Farmer's Fair advisory board, will
be entertained Saturday, April 27
by the student executive commit
tee of the junior and senior fair
board at a luncheon to be held at
the home economics cafeteria.
Meniuers of the advisory board
this year are Governor and Mrs.
Ft. L. Cochran: Everett T. Winter,
secretary of the Nebraska Farm
Bureau Federation: Percy Reed,
secretary of the state fair; Marion
J. Cushing, Ord legislator; C. Y.
Thompson, West Point regent;
Sarah T. Muir, Lincoln high in
structor: Howard Kirkpatrick,
school of music instructor; A. E.
Sheldon. State Historical Society
secretary; Claudia Moore, chair
man women's physical education
department; Miss Nellie G. Benson,
chairman of the Board of Control;
Dwight Kirsch, fine arts instruc
tor. Special reports on the progress
of fair preparations will be given
by student board members at the
conclusion of the luncheon. The
purpose of the luncheon as outlined
by sponsors is to secure ideas of
the advisory board in making the
fair a success.
SIGMA DELIA CHI 10
INDUCT SIX PLEDGES
AT
Pipal, Swenson, Parr, Cass,
Ryan, Shearon Become
Members.
Six pledges of Sigma Delta Chi,
professional journalistic fraternity,
will be Initiated into active mem
bership Friday afternoon at 5
o'clock at --he Lincoln Y. M. C. A.
Following the initiation a banquet
honoring the new members will be
held in the east club room of the
same building.
The six who will be initiated are:
George Pipal. Humboldt; Gifford
Swenson, Bertrand; Grant Parr,
Minden; Lewis Cass, Ravenna; Ir
win Ryan, Lincoln; and Don Shear
cn, Lincoln.
Announcement concerning the
speaker and p rogram for the ban
quet will be made in the Friday
Daily Nebraskan. Serving as mem
bers of the committee In charge of
the proceedings are Eugene Dalby,
Henry Bostrom. Burton Marvin,
and Hoyt Barneby.
and trifles appear in a new light.
and fresh notions are continually
struck off like sparks. The man
who has formed bis mind by social
intercourse is more versatile than
he whose intellect has grown by
reading, and he has learned to
speak in short, simple sentences
because the ear cannot, like the
eye, follow long periods.
"Moreover, one assumes a for
mal almost impersonal air, and
must borrow turns and phrases
from daily parlance to give an
audience touch to his theories."
These exesrpta might very well
apply to some of the current
scenes In nearby "hangouts."
In discussing the possibilities of
bigger and better "cakes," how
ever, one student remarked.
"Whatever you do. don't you dar
attack my dally bridge game in
the ." It's my only mental
stimulation in the day's routine."
COMMITTEE
NTERTAINS FOR
ADVISORY BOARD
!S.
o announced.
Eight holdover members ' were
elected at the meeting, including
Virginia Selleck, Irving Hill, Dick
Fischer, Burr Ross, Lee Young,
Lorraine Hitchcock, Elizabeth
Bushee, and Elizabeth Moomaw.
This was the first council election
at which eight were chosen, the
number having been doubled dur
ing reorganization last year.
Plans for a double petition, to
include student lequests for the
student book exchange and union
building, were disclosed by Vhginia,
Selleck in reporting for the two
committees. Members of the com
mittee have been enlisting faculty
support during the past week.
Discuss Publicity.
Following a preliminary report
of the publicity committee, sending
cuts to a national collegiate roto
gravure digest was discussed as a
method to promote wider interest
In the Nebraska campus. Chairman
of the organizations committee
revealed that constitutions of sev
eral campus groups were being in
vestigated, in an effort to abolish
or revise clubs with no specific pur
pose or worth.
Positions to be filled at the
spring elections are thirty-three
Student Council memberships and
three publications board vacancies.
One sophomore, junior, and senior
student will be chosen for the
board.
Offices Listed.
Men students to be elected to
the council include two from each
of arts and sciences and engineer
ing colleges, and one from each of
pharmacy, agriculture, teachers,
dentistry, business administration,
and law colleges.
Three women will be chosen
from each of arts and sciences and
teachers college, one from business
administration and the college of
agriculture, and two members-at-large.
For senior-at-large, two men
and two women, will also be elected
due to the reorganization plan ef
fected last year. One man will be
selected from the graduate body.
General university eligibility
rules will apply to the election,
Fischer stated. Men may file at the
Student Activities office on faction
plates or as independent candi
dates, while women must run on
independent tickets.
TAU KAPPA EPSILON
INTRAMURAL MEET
Debate Tournament Closes
After Final Match
Tuesday.
Tau Kappa Epsilon's debate
team came out victorious by a 2
to 1 decision of the judges in the
final debate of the intramural
tournament held Tuesday evening,
April 16. at 7:30 against the Sigma
Chis at the latter's house.
The winning team, upholding the
negative of the proposition, Re
solved: "That the Federal and
State Governments of the United
States Should Co-operate In Pro
viding Some Adequate Plan of Un
employment Insurance for All
Those Under Sixty years of Age."
was composed of William Hicks
and Leonard Kruoger. The affirma
tive Sigma Chi duo was made up
of Frank Landis and Lchan Tunks.
Judges for the debate were Her
bert Kaplan, Carlos Schaper, and
Leo McMahon. The TKE's were
presented with the Delta Sigma
Rho trophy, a silver gavel, and
they will retain it until next year
when it will be presented to the
victors in that tournament.
USIVERSITY Y.W. C. i.
EXHIBITS TIll'RSD 4 Y
Peace Theme of Display
In Cornhusker Hotel
Ballroom.
Work of the university Y. W. C
A. wUl be represented in a booth
at the exhibit of Lincoln social
agencies, sponsored by the Junior
Chamber of Commerce. The ex
hibit will be held in the Cornhusk
er ballroom. Thursday evening.
The Y. W. booth will represent
the office of the Y. W. at Ellra
Smith halL In the office will be
found an exhibit of peace heroes,
and a display of the flags of th3
54 members of the Lea rue of Na
tions, representing the lnternatioo
1 prrt of th orcranimtinn. At
tendants st the booth will serve as
university hostesses, and there will
be a display of Cornhuskera,
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