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"VOLUME VI NO. 3.
FK1DAY, JUNE 21, 1935.
LINCOLN, NEK.
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YOUNG
MUSICIANS
HOLD FIRST PARIY
OF SUMMER COURSE
Sports Schedule Is Planned
For All High School
Music Students.
MUSEUM FIELD MEN
ON COLLECTING TRIP
Schultz at Head of Party
Seeking Fossil Bones
In Panhandle.
With high school students now
well organized into their various
groups for study, the young musi
cians will have a breathing spell
at a party Saturday night June 22
at the Pi Phi house where the girl
students have their summer resi
dence. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Kirk-
patrick, Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Hoff. Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Devoe,
and Miss Frances Stowell will
chaperon. George Howerton, direc
tor of the chorus, and William
Norton, director of the orchestra
will be honored guests.
Further provision for recrea
tional activities has been made by
giving the students the privilege
of using the university swimming
pool, tennis courts, and the coli
seum. The students will be enter
tained by the university at a party
at Carrie eBlle Raymond Hall on
July 6, and on June 28 a picnic
will be held at Capitol Beach. A
costume party will be held on the
Fourth of July. Every Monday and
Wednesday evenings the girls, un
der the direction of Miss Bonnie
Spanggaard. in charge of athletics,
are given the opportunity to play
tennis, baseball, or go bicycling.
The boys will play off tourna
ments in tennis and in pingpong
the week of June 24, supervised
by Lowcil Devoe who is directing
the boys recreational program.
Water polo played at the Univer
sity swimming pool is a feature of
the plan, and facilities for indoor
games such as cards, and domi
noes are provided.
During the summer session each
student will be given two lessons a
week in his specialty, either voice
or ; an instrument, in addition to
um group training. The groups are
larger than in any previous year,
the band and orchestra each num
bering more than sixty and the
chorus ninety.
Two final concerts will be pre
sented to the public on the Friday
and a Saturday nights of the last
week of summer schooL At these
performances the groups will ap
pear individually and for a grand
finale will combine into a feature
in which every student will parti
cipate. The courses are given in order
to carry on and develop the splen
( Continued on Page 3.)
Five museum field men left
Wednesday for the Panhandle sec
tion of Nebraska to hunt fossil
bones in that rich collecting re
gion. Heading the party was C.
Bert rand Schultz, and with him
E. L. Blue of Lincoln; Frank Cra
bill of Red Cloud; Thompson
Stout of Lewellyn; and Gordon
Graham, Lincoln.
Each summer a group of men
set out on similar expeditions for
the university museum. Usually
they are students in geology or
men on the museum staff. They
dig specimens to be set up and
mounted during the winter months
and seek out new sites for digging
in other years.
This year the workers will spend
most of their time around the
towns of Bridgeport and Crawford.
After digging the fossil remains,
they will pack them and ship them
back to the museum. In the work
rooms the bones will be made
ready to be exhibited as part of
the collections in Morrill hall.
REGISlBlARS
MARK OF LAST YEAR
Officials Expect Enrollment
Totals to Surpass
Past Years.
Rummer c h o o 1 enrollment
Thursday had mounted to 1,752,
srhu-h waji n radically ud to the
total of last year. Figures for
10 vmtinud to ctow over those
of 1934. and officials were looking
forward to the largest regisiratRj
in several years before the week
is ended.
Registration figures to Thursday
morning:
ITarlw nmllmpnt .... 79 118
Friday and Saturday 1.073 1.210
First week 275 324
Totals l.7 1.752
T jtt summer's total student en-
rniwnf vm 1.767. while the year
before it was 1.859. Thursday the
increase over a year ago had
tn mnre than 300 with indi
cations that the final count will be
over the 2,000 mark.
rr-aHiiat students still bad more
than two days of the week in
which to enroll, ana mo many ui
hm J-l finished administrative
offices expected the usual last
minute rush to nnisu mc
half of the week.
Thesis Tells How Reversible Designs
May Indicate Traits of Personality
Geometric designs and revers
ible figures may be another meth
od of judging social introversion
and extroversion in people. Psy
chologists may have a key to a
personality trait by finding how
many times these trick figures re
verse themselves right before the
eyes.
Everyone his looked at draw
ings of cubai which seem to
change sides while he looks at
them, but Miss Louise Hoff edits
of the University of Nebraska has
been studying this strange phe
nomenon for her doctor's degree
tresis in psychology. She has
usd and devised some interesting
figures to make her tests, and has
found out wue Interesting things
about people.
"I found that those who are ao
rtal introverts are liable to see the
figures change perspective at a
faster rate than those who like to
mix in society. Miss Hoffeditz ex
plained. "It is not exact relation,
but shows a distinct tendency."
Among the changing patterns
used for the experiments was a
drawing which resembled a rab
bit's head with the cars extending
backward. An 'observer would
soon see the figure reverse itself
to make a duck's head, and the
ears of the rabbit became the bill
of tue duck.
Another figure Miss Hoffeditz
used was the drawing of a black
goblet which changed to become
the border for two faces, and re
versed back and forth as a person
watched. Many geometrical draw
ings were included, such as cubes
and box-like affairs. Some of them
had a side of solid black which
changed from side to side as it
was watched.
Miss Hoffeditz investigated 15 of
these objects of reversible perspec
tive. She describes the changing
figures as "these in which spatial
relations appear now to form one
pattern, and again to form another
pattern, while the physical stimu
lus remains constant.
She observed the reactions of 24
different people to her test draw
ings. Each looked at the figures
under controlled conditions and re
ported changes. These were re
corded as to bow often and how
long each phase of pattern was
present to the eyes. Studying all
the figures she found the lowest
number of changes for any per
son to be 3 a minute, while one
subject saw 178 changes a minute
with an ordinary cube. This per
son saw the cube change so rapidly
that at times It appeared to whirl.
These rates of fluctuation Miss
Hoffeditz found to be fairly con
( Continued on Page 4).
COL. OURY TO RETAIN
R. 0. T. C.
NEXT YEAR
UNIVERSITY
POSITION
Commandant Receives One of
Seven Assignments for
Retired Officers.
Col. William H. Oury will again
be in charge of the reserve officers
training corps at the university
next year it was learned this week.
Secretary of War Dern announced
that altho Colonel Oury will reach
the retirement age in September,
he will, upon retirement, be placed
on active duty here.
Previous to this year, out live
retired officers were assigned to
active duty, but the war depart
ment appropriation bill passed by
congress this spring raised the
number to seven. Colonel Oury
received one of the two extra as
signments.
Colonel Oury is htmseit a gradu
ate of Nebraska, having received
his A. B. in 1887. He also was
a letter-man, earning his varsity
N in football. He was subsequently
graduated from the army war col
lege in Washington. D. C. and
later received the distinguished
service medal and silver star cita
tion. Coming to the university as com
mandant of the R. O. T. C. in 1930.
Colonel Oury has maintained the
hieh standard set by his prede
cessors by earning a rating of "ex
cellent" for the Nebraska unit at
its annual inspections. Nebraska
has had a continuous rating or ex
cellent" since 1923.
The Nebraska unit is the largest
infantry R. O. T. C. group in the
Seventh Corps area.
AG INSTRUCTORS OPEN
ANNUAL STATE MEET
Teachers Hear Talks and
Elect Officers for
Next Year.
Vocational agricultural instruc
tors of Nebraska opened their an
nual state conference this morning
at the college of agriculture.
Seventy of the seventy-six teach
ers were present for the addresses
and election of new district chair
men for next year.
Dr. T. H. Gooding of the college
of agriculture took the place of
Dean W. W. Burr to tell of serv
ices which the college gives w
vocational agriculture teachers. L.
r rimont. state supervisor of
agricultural education, summarized
the state stuay ana surrey nui
bv Nebraska teachers
concerning the educational needs
of out of school farm boys.
Three times as many farm boys
are out of school as are in be
tween the ages of fourteen and
twenty-five. Mr. Clements said.
He pointed out the plan of the
Nebraska group to give short
courses in the high school in vo
cational agriculture. About 22 of
these courses were in operation
this year.
Dr. J. J. Dippold of the depart
ment of vocational education at
the University of Missouri dis
cussed "Simplifying the Teaching
of Business of Farming." He be
lieves that recognition must be
given by teachers to the conflict
ing economic forces, and adjust
ment to these. Farm boys, be in
dicated, no longer live in isolated
communities and should be able
to look critically at theories and
ideas.
"We must teach them the sim
ple basis of farming." he said,
"that the quantity of production
times the prices received minus the
cost of production equals the
profit. We do not want leaders to
come in and grab us by the ears
to lead us out; we want to have
the leaders within our communi
ties." Dr. Dippold and Dr. H. E. Brad
( Continued on Page 4.)
To Retain Post
1 .
Courtesy Lincoln JoarnaL
Col. W. H. Oury.
Who will be placed on active
duty in charge of the university
R. O. T. C. next year, despite the
fact that he will reach the retire
ment age in September. The an
nouncement was made this week
by Secretary of War Dern.
JUNE ALUMNUS GIVES
ACTIVITIES
SUMMARY
Final Issue of Magazine
Has Round-up Week
As Theme.
SUMMER
RECREATION
PROGRAM WILL OPEN
!E TONIGHT
WITH
DAN
Coliseum Scene o? Student
Party; Sports Schedule
Is Outlined.
With graduation and round-up
week activities as its central
theme, the June issues of the Ne
braska Alumnus, official publica
tion of the Alumni Association,
was placed in the mails Wednes
day. The issue is the last for the
1934-35 school year according to
Violet Cross, editor of the maga
zine. Summarizing the year's activi
ties of the Alumni Association and i
charting the course for future
alumni organization and work, it
ports of the association's officers
occupy an important position in
the June edition.
Feature articles of the month is
The President' Report, 'by John
Agee, retiring president of the as
sociation, who points out the func
tions and value to a university of
an active alumni association.
Mr. Agee calls attention to the
fact that some 25,000 Nebraska
graduates as well as many thou
sands of former students who did
not receive degrees, today live in
Nebraska, and emphasizes the
manner in which these people as
individuals rry aid the association
and thru it, the university.
Charging that drastic cuts in fi
nances for the university by the
legislature could be remedied by
active alumni interest and support
of the school. Mr. Agee calls on all
former students to rH'y behind the
association and insure adequate
provision for future needs of the
university.
An optimistic note In alumni or
ganization is struck in tb Secre
( Continued on Page 3).
Nebraskan Receives
Degree at Hawaii U.
J. Warren Ewing, Dal ton, Ne
braska, and former student at the
University of Nebraska, received
the bachelor of arts degree from
the University of Hawaii at the
annual commencemenlt June 4.
Ewing pursued a course of
study at the Honolulu institution
including biology as his major
subject and English and chemistry
as minora He has aitended the
Universities of Nebraska and Colo
rado as well as the Nebraska col
lege of medicine.
The University of Hawaii, from
which Ewing received bis degree,
is the youngest and farthest west
of the American landgrant univer
sities. It Is becoming noted for
studies in interracial and interna
tional affairs. Its summer session
was recently termed by Edwin R.
Embree, president of the Rosen
maid Fund, "one of the most ex
citing courses in American education."
A party to be held Friday night,
June 21, in the coliseum will be the
first step in getting underway the
recreational program planned for
summer school students by a stu
dent committee under the faculty
direction of Professor E. W. Lantz.
Organization of baseball teams
for men and for women will start
Monday, June 24 at 7 o'clock. The
women will meet east of Social
Science and will be coached and di
rected by Gertrude Leavitt. The
men will organize on the field
south of Teachers college undei the
supervision of Luther L. Patterson,
of Bradshaw. Nebraska. Games
will be played every Monday, Tues
day, Wednesday and Thursday eve
nings, beginning next week. Ac
cording to Dr. Lantz the teams
were full all of the time last sum
mer. The women's teams played
Lincoln department store teanw,
and also took trips to Wilbur, Elk
creek. and several other towns
where they competed with the lo
cal women's teams.
Golf and horseshoe playing are
also included in the plan. The list
for golf filing will be posted later
in Social Science and Teachers
college bulletin boards. Horseshoes
will be played south of Teachers
college on Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday even
ings. Dave Haun and his orchestra
will play for the first dance Fri
day evening. There are new loud
speakers giving audible music to
all parts of the floor, and also a
fan system which will insure the
(Continued on Page 4.)
SUMMER HOUSE RULES
RELEASED THIS WEEK
Regulations Apply to All
Women Attending
University.
Rules governing the thirty or
ganized residences for women stu
dents at the university summer
school sessions were released this
week by the office of the dean at
women. The rules are essentially
th same as those used in the
winter session and apply to all
university women.
Reports must be turned n
weekly to the office of the dean of
women, it was announced, and
house mothers are in charge of
seeing that these reports are
made.
A copy of the regulations fol
lows: L The residence of men and
women in the same lodging
house is not approved and is no:
permitted unless the circum
stances are unusual. In his cafe
permission must be granted by
the dean of women.
2. A lady, housing women stu
dents, is expected to provide for
their use until 11 o'clock. Sun
day, Monday. Tuesday. Wednes
day, and Thursday evening and
until 12 Friday and Saturday
evening, a reception room on
the first floor, properly lighted.
(Continued on Page 3).
Bengtson to Imlrtict in
Columbia Summer Term
Dr. Nels A. Bengtson of th
geography department left Tues
day for New York City, where he
will again offer courses in eco
nomic geography in the school of
business at Columbia university
during the summer session, July
8 to Au. 16. This is the seventh
consecutive year that Dr. Bengt
son has been a visiting instructor
there.
