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The N EBRAS LY KAN 5- "Unite for Student Union" Official Student Newspaper of the University of Nebraska VOL. XXXIV NO. 148. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1935 PRICE 5 CENTS. DAI SIGMA XI INDUCTS 66ATWEDNESDAY Dr. Kiesselbach Praises New Crops in Main Address Of Evening. GILBERT GUEST OF HONOR Willard Heads New Group Of Officers; Kesner Vice-President. Agriculture lias born kept a prosperous ami live industry thru the development of new crops, stated Dr. T. A. Kiessel bach, professor of agronomy, to a large audience at the initia tion banquet of the Nebraska chapter of Sigma Xi, national , honorary scientific society, Wed ' nesday evening at the Hotel Corn- husker. Sixty-six recently seieciea initiates were presented with ccr ' tificates by the retiring president, Dr. D. A. Worcester, professor of BANQUET SERVICE educational psychology. , Guest of honor for the evening was Dr. Robert F. Gilder, a for mer member of the university fac 9 ulty. Responses for the new mem bers were given by Edward D. Beachler, Margaret B. Munger and Howard C. Spencer. New officers for the following year, introduced by Dr. Worces ter, are: W. A. Willard, Omaha, president; H. J. Kesner, civil en gineering department, vice presi dent: Emma H. Anderson, biology, secretary; M. G. Gaba, mathe matics, treasurer; ;and M. H. Swenk, entimology, councillor. Dr. R. J. Pool, chairman of the botany department, and Dr. C. W. Acker son, agricultural chemistry, served as marshalls in the initiation cere (Continued on Page 4.) 10 Popular Songs -Accompany Several Modern Dances. In preparation for the dance re cital Friday night, members of Or chesis, girls' dance group, will hold a final t dress rehearsal Thursday night at 7 o'clock, in Grant Me morial hall. The members have planned a number of unusual fea tures for the program. Miss Moore, sponsor, announced. Among the features of the eve ning will be the "Prelude" with which the recital opens. The dance was made up by the girls partici pating, and the music was com posed by them to fit the dance. Vachel Lindsay's "Congo," with Armand Hunter reading, is another attraction. Prof. R. D. Scott, of the English department, gave the group his interpretation of the poem before they started work on it. Several popular songs will fur nish the accompaniments for some of the dances. Among these will be "The Man on the Flying Trap eze," which will form the basis for one of the comical dances. The old favorite. "Blue Danube," will also be heard, as well as the "Vaga bond Song," and the "Song of Bayou." Committees who have done spe cial work In preparing the recital were named by Miss Moore. Busi ness managers are Ruth Andersen and Maxine Munt. In charge of the advertising are George Anna Lehr, Lois Blair, and Dorothy Bol lard. Ruth Hombuckle has charge of the auditorium. Special recogni tion was given to Ncbraskan Wes leyan university for the lighting, and to Miss Bess Steel of the Home Economics department for the cos tumes. Dorothy Bollard took charge of the lighting arrange ment, with Rebecca Koerting in charge of the costumes. Little Gods Galley LOUISE HOSSACK, By Eegina Hunkins. Foremost of Louise Hossack'fl assertations about herself was that she "doesn't like publicity." Per haps this dark haired young lady would much rather remain at home unnoticed than to have her name and life placed before the public through the columns of that nosey news-gatherer the daily paper. But here It Is. For we think there is no one who would be of more Interest to the readers than the girl who served as Maid of Honor for the May Queen at the Ivy Day festivities, and who has made her self known In such a variety of ways during her four years on the campus. As president of Tacl. pep organization. Louise has led the group in their enthusiastic booat.ng for the university ath letes during the part year. She has also served as national prrsi (Continued oa Tag 3.) Bulletin Board Offers News Digest for Indolent Readers By Loraine Campbell. Students anxious to acquire current information without the usual process of eliminating less important events, will be interested in knowing that Professor Corey, freshman adviser in education, posts the week's news on the first floor bulletin board in Teacher's college. The main features from newspapers fira arrnncrnH onrh TllPBdAV linderO- - the classification of Fireten. Na-i7 tional and Educational news. To further simplify the process of news absorption for the passerby, Professor Corey has underlined the pivotal statements in the articles in red. This week's educational division reveals that Princeton seniors, in a recent ballot, ranked Noel Cow ard above Shakespeare as a dra matist, by a vote of 135 to 107; McClelland Barclay received 28 votes in the field of painting, to Recipient of Scholarship To Conduct Research in Business. A graduate fellowship in bust ness research worth $250 will be awarded for next year thru the donation of J. E. Miller, president of the Miller & Paine department store of Lincoln, according to an announcement made Wednesday by Dean J. E. LeRossignol of the College of Business Administra tion. According to Dean LeRossignol, the fellowship will be awarded to a graduate of the university who has majored in economics and business organization, and who has a good scholarship record in his undergraduate work. The recipient of the scholarship will conduct an investigation ir.to some problem of Nebraska busi ness, and the result of this inde pendent investigation will consti tute a thesis for a Mister's degree in the graduate college. Besides carrying on the investigation the holder of the Miller fellowship will be able to take courses in the graduate college leading to the Master's degree. Applications for the Miller fel lowship should be made to Prof. T. B.. Robb, chairman of the com mittee on business research, which within the past few years has (Continued on Page 3.) BALL OPENS STUDENT ART DISPLAY MAY 24 Composition Classes Make Murals to Be Sold at Exhibit. Opening the annual student ex hibition of work in the fine arts department will be the annual fine arts ball which will be held Friday evening, May zi. ai p. m. in .Mor rill hall. All attending the affair will come impersonating some present day figure, according to Miss Kady Faulkner, or me line arts department. Tho corridor of Morrill hall will be decorated with tableau showing famous persons in action and quar ter length murals, which are being made by members of the composi tion class and win De aucuonea on at the ball. Th utiiripnt exhibition will con tinue until commencement and will be open to the public after the ball from 8 to 6 daily ana irom on Sunday. Members of the fac ulty will hold open house for par ents, friends, students, members of the faculty, and others at a date to be announced soon after the ball. Riifin Harris is in charge of decorations for the ball. Virginia Larson is arranging the entertain ment and Joan Ridner is in cnarge of ticket sales. Tickets to the af fair are thirty-three cents and may be purchased from students in the department or in me line arts office. MAID OF HONOR. - Coortty Uaooia Jours!. MILLER DONATES $250 AWARD FOR 8IZAD GRADUATE i J .V rt' V r ' " t ; ; " ' i - : - : ' " ' . 'or Rembrandt; Vassar was chosen as the most outstanding women's college; Katherine Cornell ranked as the best actress, Walter Hampden the actor. On the screen Ginger Rogers and Robert Mont gomery were chosen. Anthony Ad verse, the white elephant of liter ature triumphed over such con temporary favorites cs Magnifi cent Obsession, Shadows on the Rock, Tom Sawyer, etc. Muneyori Terashima of Japan was voted the (Continued on Page 4). GAMMA ALPHA CHI TO ELECT SEW OFFICERS Initiation for Two Women Is Scheduled for Saturday. Gamma Alpha Chi, honorary sorority, will elect officers for the coming year at a meeting to be held at 7 o'clock Thursday eve ning in Ellen Smith hall. The group will hold initiation services for two women Saturday evening at the University club, it was announced by Virginia Selleck, president of the club. Helen Ep pler and Eunice Camp will be made members at this time and the cere monies will be preceded by an ini tiation banquet. Pictures of Ivy Day, News Of Classes Featured in New Issue. Dedicated to the class of 1915 and containing news of the annual roundup, pictures and articles of Ivy Day as well as news of the classes and other regular features, the May issue of the Nebraska Alumnus was put into the mails Wednesday. Two pages of the magazine are devoted to pictures of graduates of the class of 1915 which is the honor class for this year's roundup to be held June 9 and 10. An ar ticle accompanying the pictures announces plans for the occasion and gives news of the class mem bers. James Cox writes a character sketch of Professor Gass entitled "A Scholar Indeed," and the mag azine contains the complete text of the Ivy Day oration as delivered by Marvin Schmidt. Pictures showing the Ivy Day activities appear and include pho tographs Of the May queen and her attendants. Newly masked Mortar Board members are pictured with last year's group and newly tapped Innocents are shown with outgoing members of the organization. Kap pa Alpha Theta and Sigma Phi Epsilon, winners of the sing con tests, are also pictured. Gilbert Doane makes recom mendations of books on "The Li brarian's Page," a regular feature of the publication. Other usual features which the magazine con tains are "Campus News," "Class Notes," and "With Other Grads." EDUCATION CLASS TO PRESENT LAI SKITS Members of Classic Club Invited to Program Thursday. Last of a series of programs presented by members of the Ed ucation 121 class, will be three short Latin plays to be given Thursday, May 16, at 7:30 in the Temple, room 306. Members of the university Classics club, and any students Interested, are invited to attend, stated Dr. Gustave O. Fuchs, sponsor of the club. "Perseus and Andrcmeda," "Mother Goose," and "Ludus," are the name of the plays in which the following twelve students will take part: Ruth Emlg. Irene Remmers. Lois Pierson, Bemice Redder, Phil Coleman, Eleanor Nelson, Joan Bicknell. Marcella Surhon, Elea nor Pabst, Florence Forney, Cracellyn Huber, and Ethel Kruitz- fleld. The nlays have been coached by Lola Pierson, Ethel Krultzfleld, and Irene Remmers. Irene Hent zen. president of the club, has ar ranged special music to be pre sented between plays. All candidates for offices on tha Farmers Fair board must flit a petition bearing the sig natures of twenty members of the stsociation in the dean's of ties st least two days before th election and the names will bt posted on the bulletin board the Monday before the election, which is to be h eld Tuesday, May 21, from 8 to 5 In the dean's office. 1915 GRADUATES RECEIVE HONORS INIYALINUS ADMINISTRATION TO CONSIDER NEW BOOKSTORE PLAN Shurtleff, Hill to Appear Before Regents for Committee. DRIVE TO CLOSE FRIDAY Plan Combines Outstanding Features of Those at Other Schools. Fate of the proposed second baud book exchange will be in the hands of the administration today when the student council bookstore committee places a petition for the consideration of tentative plans for the project be fore the administration to be taken up at the next meeting of the board of regents. Announcement that the petition for the plan was ready for con sideration by the regents was made by Virginia Selleck, chairman of the committee, after the group had held several meetings for the pur poses of revising and making cor rections in the original plan pre sented to the group last week. The plan in its present form combines wliat are believed by the committee to be the best features of plans now in operation in other universities over the country. It asks for an exchange modeled after the regent's bookstore and pro vides for eventual consolidation with it. A definite percentage is to be subtracted from the original price of each book in order to cover salaries and overhead costs. Shurtleff, Hill Appointed. Don Shurtleff and Irving Hill have been appointed to appear be fore the board of regent's at their next meeting and they expect to have a few minutes in which to explain the petition asking for an exchange. Lorraine Hitchcock, who has been corresponding with other col leges on ways to dispose of out of date texts, is compiling the an swers she has received and will present her report at the next meeting of the committee. A ma jority of toe colleges contracted ex pressed a desire for some sort of a national organization whereby uni (Continued on Page 3.) T GO ON SALE TODAY Unaffiliated Girls Are Invited to Dinner Sunday Night. All Tickets for the Barb activity recognition supper to be held Sun dav nieht will be on sale Thurs day from 1:30 to 5 o'clock at Ellen Smith hall and on the Ag cam pus, Evelyn Diamond, in charge of the arrangements, announced. She requested that all tickets De pur chased before the supper, and in vited all barb girls, whether active In barb organizations or not, w attend. Aletha Forrell will be in charge of the ticket sale on the Ag cam pus, with Maxine Grossman man aging the sale on the city campus. The supper has been planned in order to give recognition to all girls who have gained ten or more activity points during the year. An activity point is given for every three hours of work on some extra curricular project. Special recog nition will be given to those girls who have earned more than ten points, and those who have more than thirty-five will form an activity committee for the coming year. Miss Miner ouet. A special guest at the supper, which is to be hpld Sunday night at 5 o'clock, at the home of Prof. O. K. Edison, 3248 T street, will be Miss Bernice Miller. Y. W. ex ecutive. Miss Miller will make a speech greeting the girls. Evelyn Diamond will also speak, outlining the barb activity program for next year. Altho the program has not been completed it was announced that it would contain several mu sical numbers. Ag Students to File For Post by May 16 Filings for the thirteen posts in the agricultural college must be made in the dean's office not later than 5 o'clock Thursday, May 16, according to Burr Ross, chairman of the Ag executive board. The election will be held Tuesday, May 21, In the dean's office, when voting will be held from 8 until 5 o'clock. Following Is the list of po sitions: Ag Executive Board Posts. Twn men to bs elected by ag college men. One man to bs elected at large. One woman to bs elected at large. Senior Fair Board. Three men. Three women. Col-Agr-Fun Committee. (First semester Juniors) Two men. One woman. BANQUE Logic Class Concocts Yarns; Physicists Declare 6No Base' By Ed Murray. Concocting a scries of tall tales on the border line between superstitious fantasy and debatable fact, members of Professor Bousma's 11 o'clock logic class engaged in a prolific discussion of what people think and why during the Wednesday session, May 15. The "what people think" part disclosed some yarns. worth recounting, but little empha-o sis was placed on the why, After running fts course thru a motley array of old superstitions such as the black cat, horseshoe, rabbit's foot, ladder, the number 13, three on a match, and others, the tale telling focused on an espe cially productive source of yarns, namely the effect of vibrations. Tho whole thing began when somebody recalled that soldier's break step before starting to cross a bridge. It seems that the steady impact of the cadenced step of a GATES WILL ADDRESS PHI TAV THETA GROUP Methodist Fraternity to Hold Annual Dinner May 17. Phi Tau Theta, Methodist social fraternity, will hold its annual banquet at 6:30 o'clock Friday eve ning. May 17, at the Emanuel church, 15th and U street, it was announced Wednesday by officers of the group. Speaker for the eve ning will be W. Edgar Gates, Lin coln business man. Committee for arrangements in cludes Orville Hutchinson, Marvin Edmison, Max McCamley, Floyd Roher, Dick Becker, and John Liming. 95 regisTerTor extension meet 23 States Represented at Twentieth Annual Convention. More than ninety-five delegates registered Wednesday for the twentieth annual convention -of the National University Extension Di vision association, which is being held this week at the Lincoln hotel. Twenty-three states are repre sented, the Wsconsin delegation being the largest in attendance. Three delegates from New York City, four from Oregon, and one from Hawaii represent the great est distances traveled. One of the most interesting fea tures of the convention is an ex hibit prepared by members of the staff of the University of Ne braska extension division. It con sists of a large chronological chart representing the activities of the university extension division since its beginning in 1909. Supplemen tary smaller charts and graphs show the growth and principal landmarks of each extension proj ect. Motion pictures are being run continuously thruout the day for the visitors' entertainment. Under the supervision of the University of Nebraska publicity department, the pictures show outstanding cam pus activities and places and things of interest about the univer sity. In addition to the general ses sions and round tables conducted Wednesday, a tea at Morrill hall was the chief entertainment fea ture of the day. Nearly fifty (Continued on Page 3). MERSlEClCIL POWER TO FILL SEATS Amendment on Vacancies Adopted by 1,000 Majority. Nrhra,ka's student electorate voted the student council the right to fill its own vacancies by a thousand vote majority at the gen eral spring elections Tuesday, ac cording to a checkup made Wed nesday by the election board. Tabulations were i,Z4t ror, iso against, and 51 not voting. irrnrdmr to the amendment. which will be affixed to the coun cil constitution, the council will elect members for vacancies of the same sex from the same class, col Wp and In the case of men. politi cal faction. The previous system made no provision ior lining posi tions left vacant bv women, and ett to nolltical factions the power to fill vacancies in tbelr repre sentations. FISCHER MAM El) HEAD OF SIGMA DELTA CHI E. Dally to Serve Second Term as Secretary Of Group. .lark tfarhr was elected presi dent of Sigma eDlta Chi. men's professional journalism fraternity, at a luncheon meeting held Wed nesday noon in the V. M. C. A. club rooms. Carlisle Myers was i named vice presmeni ior me co-n-j Ing year, and Eufrcne Dalby re flected secretary. By virtue of his office. Sherman" Cosgrove r.il! con Itinue the next semester as treas-luxer. HERE THIS WEEK marching army sets the bridge into vibration and finally breaks it. Ac cording to Prof. H. H. Marvin of the physics department the first and probably the only occasion when a bridge actually gave way was during the Crimean War at a bridge near Manchester. The idea of breaking bridges by transmitting to them the vibration al energy of some other body gained considerable ground or ft least interest, when some one else (Continued on Page 4.) Com Cobs Agree to Aid in Big Six Track Rally Friday. Full support was pledged the University of Nebraska rally com mittee in the proposed plans for a pre-Big Six track and field cham pionships torch-parade rally by the Corn Cobs, men's pep organization, at the first meeting of that body under its new officers Wednesday night. Irving Hill, past president of the group and member of the rally committee from the Innocents so ciety, spoke briefly on the need for co-operation with the "N" club and Tassels in the coming rally and the necessity of making good in the last big rally of the year. The Corn Cobs will assume lead ership with the "N" club and Tas sels, and will furnish torches for the demonstration. The rally groups will meet in front of Temple Theater Friday at 7 p. m., and will parade down so rority row to the stadium. From there the group will march to the Lincoln hotel to geet visiting ath letes here for tbe conference track meet. Coach Henry F. "Indian" Schul te of the Cornhuskers will make the principal address and will in troduce the various track celebri ties. SEVEN POSTS REMAIN Activities Office Receives Filings for Council Until Friday. Filings for seven open positions on the barb council are being re ceived in the student activities of fice until 5 p. m. Friday of this week in preparation for the annual barb elections, to be held Tuesday, May 21. The council posts to be filled are one member at large, two seniors, two juniors and two sophomores. The group has been reduced from eighteen to twelve members, with five officers held over from the present organization. All unaffiliated students are eligible for membership to the council, if they meet the eligibility rules governing elections.. These are that the applicant must fulfill the credit hour requirement cf his respective class, nd must meet the regular rulings concerning stu dent activities. Praising the work of the council in the management of barb activi ties, including varsity parties, dur ing the past year. Wilbur Erick son, retiring chairman of the board, urged students interested In the furtherance of barb activi ties to file for posts. Holdover members of the group are John Stover. James Marvin. Alvin Kleeb. Doris Weaver, and Bill Newcomer. This group was voted to serve another term by the present council. MEN'S PEP GROUP PLEDGES SUPPORT TO TORCH-PARADE 'W e're Weak From Tackle lo Tackle' Declares D. X. Bible By Arnold Levin. li ..,-. v HiM lfnne.1 haek in his chair, clasned hands com placently folded over a slightly twinkling despite a rude interruption into ins conieinpiauon i letters piled high on the desk, and stated in that commnnding souhern drawl which can be equally genial or metallic on the fnnthall f eld: V "This may sound funny, but Ne braska is going to tie weak from tackle to tackle next year." The Husker football mentor took an extra hitch back in the chair: "You know, we've always been noted for strong lines, from tackle to tackle especially, but next year we're going to be short on re serves. Our ends and backs are strong, stronger than they have been for some time, but the tac kles "a worried frown displaced the pleasing consideration of tall, rangy flankmen and a squadron of hard-plunging, fleet-footed ball csrrirs as he contemplated sn un seeable picture on the further wall one in which, presumably, Ccar- WILSON REVEALS PROPOSED PLANS Fischer Calls All Union, Bookstore Petitions In By Friday. OVER 2,000 ENROLLED Ballroom, Lounges, Study Rooms Included in New Structure. Architect's plans for the now student union building were revealed Wednesday w h e n members of the Student Coun cil executive committee met with Arthur Wilson, consulting architect, to complete a formal ap plication for PWA funds for the new structure. Immediately following the con ference, Jack Fischer, Council president, announced that all peti tions for the union and book ex change will be due at the Nebras kan office by 5 o'clock Friday aft ernoon. Fischer urged members of the "committee of 100" now circu lating the requests to complete those they now have, and deposit them in a ballot box which will be in the editorial rooms of the news paper office. A complete checkup of the signature campaign, which has already enrolled over 2,000 signers, will be made, and a report will be prepared for the Board of Regents. Browsing Rooms on First Floor. According to the designer's specifications to be contained in the application, the ground floor will contain a university book store; a cafeteria and luncn room accomodating 150 at one time; (Continued on Page 4.) TASSELS ENTERTAIN NEW PLEDGES AT BOX LI Affair in Ellen Smith Hall Supplants Picnic; 29 Members Honored. Tassels, girls' pep organization will entertain its twenty-nine new pledges at a box luncheon in Ellen Smith hall at 5:30 todav which will supplant the picnic, planned previous to me rain, n. was an nounced Wednesday, by Elizabeth Shearer, president 01 me group. The girls chosen to be next year's tassels, will be formally pledged at this time. Rose Stein berg has charge of pledge ribbons, and Theodora Lohrman of the food. Special guests will be spon sors, Polly Gellatly and Julian Deitkin. and Ann Bunting, a past president. New pledges wno were nouui-u Monday of their recent appoint ment by receiving the traditional red and white Tasscis bids are: Thcora Nye, Alpha Chi Omega; Regina Hunkins and Betty Cberny, Alpha Xi Delta; Katherine Win nuint and Rosalie Motl. Chi Om- ga: Mildred Holland, Delta Delta Delta. Jean Doty and Louise Ma?ce of Lincoln,, Delta Gamma; Doris Eastman and Jean Stone. DMia Zetn; Theresa Stava, Gamma Phi Bea; Betty Magee, Kappa Alph Theta; George Anna Lehr and Alie Soukup, Kappa Delta. Mary Ann Rosencrans. Pi Beta Phi; Esther Stein and Muriel Krasne, Sigma Delta Tau; Esth-r Ladenburg, Theta Phi Alpha; Lou ise Picking, Sigma Kappa; Vir ginia Hall, Phi Omega Pi; Martha Morrow, Raymond Hall. Grctchcn Budd. Wilson Hall: Genevieve Bennett, Donn. Hlatt, Iva Miller. Marjorie Francis, all from the Agriculture college; and Elizabeth Edison, Jean Marvin, Katherine Cahill, and Ardis Gray biel. all unaffiliated students. Ruth Nelson was in charge of sending the bids to the new pledges. The picnic will take the place of the regular Tuesday meet ing this week, Miss Shearer stated. protruding midriff, blue eye:i lot clad CTisters whirled and shoved against Minnesota, or Kan sas State, or perhaps Pittsburgh. "And you know," continued the genial little roan who has created football history at Nebraska and a big stir in football affairs on the national horizon, "we'ra playing one of the toughest, if not abso lutely the toughest schedule that a Nebraska team has ever under taken. "There's Minnesota you know what the Gophers did last year they're got a fine group of men. fine coach, and pro5pects for an other one of those sttsm-rollers. And Chicago, with Jay Berwanger tConUnued on Pag M . . FOR NEW mm