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r7Ae Nebraskan
Wishes You
a Merry
Christmas
VOLUME XXXV NO.
Student Demand Requires
Continuation of
Poll.
Student demand was responsi
ble for the continuation of the
Daily Nebraskan student poll thru
Friday, stated Jack Fischer, edi
tor of the Nebraskan. The entire
supply of over 2,000 ballots was
completely distributed by Thurs
day night. Approximately 4,000
ballots will be used by the end of
the poll Friday evening.
Ballots will be colletced by the
Nebraskan Friday afternoon. If
they are not called for, instructors
are requested to send them in thru
the. campus mail or call the Ne
braskan office. Final computations
will not be ready for publication
until after Christmas vacation due
to extension of the poll.
Unofficial returns, computed by
various instructors in political sci
ence classes, indicated a plurality
for President Franklin D. Roose
velt as preference for the next
chief executive, with Senator
Borah, Governor London, and ex
President Hoover furnishing clos
est competition.
According to the rules of the
poll, students are requested to vote
only once, observance depending
upon the individual' personal
honor. A special check Is placed
on the ballot for faculty members
who are voting.
This is the first straw vote to
be conducted on any American
university campus this year con
cerning the next national election.
Issues listed in the questionnaire
Include the AAA, TV A, CCC
Townsend pension, FHA, HOLC,
the veteran's bonus, RFC, SEC,
Guffey Coal Act, military prepar
edness, PWA, Social Security act,
Wagner labor act, and the regula
tion of holding companies.
FISCHER, LEVIN WIN
BEST STORY AWARDS
Theta Sigma Phi Honors
Head of Journalism
School.
Jack Fischer, Nebraskan editor,
and Arnold Levin, news editor and
sports writer, were awarded Sigma
Delta Chi trophies for the best
news and feature stories appear
ing in the Daily Nebraskan the
past semester, at the Theta Sigma
Phi "surprise" banquet last night
at the University club. ,
"Surprise" of the evening was
a large birthday cake honoring
Prof. Gayle C. Walker, director of
the school of journalism. Sharing
honors at the banquet was Mari
Sandoz, Atlantic Monthly novel
contest winner, and alumnae mem
ber of Theta Sigma Phi. women's
Journalism fraternity which spon
sored the banquet
No Trite Travelogue.
Guest speaker was Bernard Jen
nings, former Nebraskan business
manager, who took the fifty listen
ers on his recently completed seven
months adventure around the
globe by "vagabonding thru the
back streets of the world." Dis
playing a Chinese devil dancers'
mask and Japanese posters to il
lustrate the address, he related in
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N CLUB INITIATES 20
ATHLETES AT MEET
Chamber s Supervises Rites
Of Wednesday's
Ceremony.
Twenty Nebraska athletes were
admitted to N club membership
Wednesday evening, Fred Cham
bers, supervising the "paddling"
rites of the initiation.
Included on the list were a dozen
football athletes: Andrews, Pat
terson and Pankonln, track; Hopt,
tennis; Reynolds, gymnast; Camp
bell and Stevens, rifle team, and
Mohr. senior football manager. The
list of initiates:
Cari Hopt, Beayer City: Wltoon An
drew., Punca; ltor Pankonln, Loul
y'.He: John Howll. Omaha : Fred MattB
Jon.' Sutton ; K.nn.th MeOtnnl. Ord;
Lowell English, Lincoln; Robert MehrinK,
SrTnd Ulaid: 'jack Bill.. Oa-ha: Elmer
Dohrmana, Staplehurst; Fred Shlrey, Lt
rob, Pa.; Gu Peter., Lexington ; Jjclc
Mohr, Coleridge: Theodore Doyle, Curtl.,
Jack Dodd, Gothenburg; John Richardson,
Uncoln; Bob Beiuwn, Pender; Ed Reyn
old., Lincoln; Jay Campbell and J. Btey-
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Cathedral Choir Carries Christmas
Greetings From Nebraska Eastward
Carrying to various metropolitan
centers throughout the east a
Christmas greeting from Nebraska
by means of "a communion of
song which soars above the
struggle on the earth," the Great
Cathedral choir members, most of
whom are undergraduates at the
university, will leave Saturday
morning for a tour which includes
in its itinerary cathedrals, and
concert halls in Evanston, Wash
ington, New York, and Pittsburgh.
Invited by President Roosevelt,
the choir will participate in the
ceremonies of lighting the Na
tional Community Christmas Tree
at the twilight hour on Christmas
Eve in Washington. Arrangements
for this concert, which according
to John M. Rosborough, director
of the choir, will be one of ths
most impressive occasions of the
entire journey, were made by
Walter Anderson, the choir's east
ern manager, at the group's na
tional headquarters at the Waldorf
Astoria hotel.
Broadcast In Chicago.
Among other places at which
the choir will present concerts is
St. Luke's Pro-Cathedral in Evans
ton on Sunday, Dec. 22. At this
time, a memorial vespers will be
sung in honor of former Dean
Peter C Lutkin. Arrangements
Nebras
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1935.
The Student Pulse Beats Collectively
HORACE THURSDAY
Professor Tells of Poet's
Life at Bimilienary
Celebration.
An audience of 600 filled the
auditorium of the Temple Thurs
day morning when Gordon J.
Laing, Ph. D., Litt. D., and profes
sor of Latin at the University of
Chicago spoke at the third convo
cation of the year on the subject of
"Horace and the Culture of To
day," in commemoration of the
2,000 anniversary of the birth of
the Latin poet Horace.
Opening his address with an ac
count of the life of this famed poet,
Mr. Laing explained that early in
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have also been made for a radio
broadcast over station WGN in
Chicago on Sunday afternoon from
2 to 2:30 o'clock.
In Pittsburgh, the choir will
sing at the Carnegie Institute on
Saturday, Dec. 28. The singers w.il
make their debue in New York
City with a concert in Carnegie
Hall, the most famous music hall
in lha snrlH nn Fridav. Dec. 27.
This will be the only concert at
which tickets will he sola, ran oi
tha nrncwrtd will be elven to the
Will Rogers Memorial fund.
While in the nation's largest city,
the group will also sing a short
vmwt rvice at the Cathedral of
St. John the Divine, according to
tentative plans. This cathedral,
nrhirh hnji onlv recentlv been
erected, is considered the most
beautiful in the United states.
To Make Pictures.
Tentative plans have also been
made for many other appearances
in New York and the group will
aim rr.nkn several Dhonoeraph
recordings and movie shorts for
reproduction during tne easier
season during their stay. Plans
hiv hopn md( for a dinner to be
given in their honor Friday night
before the concert Dy me xxew
York Chapter of the university
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Lyman Writes No
Answer Question
For Dry Campaign
Responding to a national organt
zation's request for a statement to
be used in a campaign against ai
cohol. Dean Rufus A. Lyman, di
rector of the student health depart
ment has composed a slogan en
titled, "The Question Without An
Answer." It reads as follows:
"Man differs from all other ani
mals in his higher spiritual and in
tellectual development.
"He possesses judgment, reason,
self-control and a sense of what
is proper and decent. These quali
ties have become man's heritage
thru millions of years of self-control,
sacrifice and education.
Alcohol, even in minute quanti
ties, actintr as it does, first upon
the most highly organized cells of
the human brain, destroys all these
spiritual qualities and reduces man
to the animal level.
"What good reason then is there
for a man to drink alcohol and re
duce himself to the level of the
animal?
"This is the question for which
there is no answer."
The above statement of Dr. Ly
man, pharmacy college dean, is to
be used on a postcard in a nation
wide educational campaign against
alcohol.
SUPPLY OF TEXTS BY
'General Chemistry' Now in
Fourth Edition Has
Second Printing.
With the first printing of the
fourth edition of "General Chem
istry." by Dr. H. G. Deming, pro
fessor of chemistry, exhausted in
a few weeks' time, publishers
have found it necessary to order a
second large printing. This from
an article in the December issue
of the Wiley bulletin stating:
"No less than ninety-four col
leges and universities In the
United States and other countries
have adopted the fourth edition of
"Deming" as a text. Among those
on the list are Smith college, Iowa
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And While
You're Still Here,
a Happy
New Year
LINCOLN, NEB.
PROM PRESENTATION
15 Dollar Prize for Best
Idea of Revealing
Prom Girl.
In order to give students time
to work on it over Christmas va
cation, the 1936 Junior-Senior
Prom committee is today opening
the contest for the presentation of
Prom girl. The committee is offer
ing a prize of $15 for the best idea
submitted before Feb. 7, when the
contest closes.
"We are starting the contest
early," stated Marylu Petersen,
one of the chairmen of the com
mittee, "so that we will have a
month in which to work up the
accepted plans for the presenta
tion." People submitting plans are
asked to enumerate the approxi
mate cost of materials which
would be used in the suggested
presentation.
The entire committee for the
1936 Prom will meet for the first
time this afternoon at 5 o'clock,
in the Student Council room. Al
tho previous plans had been
made to hold the first meeting
after vacation, the Prom co
chairmen, Miss Petersen and Bill
Marsh, have decided to set the
group to work on tentative sug
gestions which will be made at to
day's meeting.
BETSY ALLEN RECEIVES
Campaign for Subscriptions
To Literary Magazine
Ends Thursday.
Prairie Schooner drive, an at
tempt by the Y. W. international
staff to Increase the local circula
tion of Nebraska's internationally
recognized literary magazine, of
ficially ended Thursday when the
final check-ups were made. Of the
100 workers on the campaign,
Betsy Allen was high point girl,
selling twenty-five subscriptions,
and June Day took second obtain
ing seven orders.
"We are pleased with the result,
and feel that considering the time
of year, the workers did well,"
stated Jane Keefer, chairman of
the drive.
The winning teams of the drive,
were headed by Betsy Allen and
Maxine Durand, while the six
girls who succeeded In selling five
subscriptions,' the goal of every
worker, are: Genevieve Hoff,
Eleanor Greusel, Georgia Gould,
Jewell Urbanch," Winifred Nelson
and Frances Scudder.
A prize of $5 was given Betsy
Allen, and one of $2 to June Day,
as a reward for being high point
girls of the drive.
VOCATIONAL GROUP
TRAINS PHYSICALLY
DISABLED PERSONS
The university's vocational edu
cation division has trained 650
physically disabled dependents for
180 different vocations, Director C
A. Fulmer told those attending the
Y. W. C. A. social service luncheon
Thursday noon. These people are
the sole support of 2,000 others at
present, he stated, and have about
$600,000 a year income, $925 per
trainee. -
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