Nebraska Newspapers

    THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
SUNDAY, JANUARY 12, 1936.
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Daily Nebraskan
Station At Ulneotn, Nabraaka.
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Good
News.
JANUARY 11, 1936, should go down m uni
J voraifv history as a red letter day. Espe
cially should this view be cherished by pres
ent Nebraska students who Saturday saw the
successful culmination of many long months
of planning and effort in olticial approval oy
iinr,1 of TPcents of the student union
building and university used book store proj
tct s
The book store will be established in me
diately so that it will be rendering at least par
tial service to students by the opening of the
second semester. It will be in full operation
by next fall. Details as to management and
policy remain to be worked out but students
may rest assured that they will find a reason
able market for their used texts at the new
store and will be able to purchase those they
need at a fair price.
This will indeed be sweet satisfaction to
all students for there is none to deny that Ne
braska undergraduates have beeii sore op
pressed without relief in this matter for many
years, paying exorbitant prices and receiving
ridiculous returns in used book transactions.
The administration is to be commended for
recognizing this student need and taking
prompt action on it. And to the students who
worked faithfully in behalf of the project, the
campus owes a debt of gratitude.
As to the union building, the situation is
somewhat different. What appeared to be the
greatest obstacle last spring, administrative
approval, has finally been cleared. Since that
time other factors have entered the picture,
bringing new problems, so that much remains
to be done.
Today most of the PWA monies have been
allotted. The union building application will
be a late arrival. There is much criticism of
governmental expenditures. All of which will
contribute to making the matter of securing
PWA assistance difficult.
On the other hand there is still reason to
hope that Nebraska may be favored by the
PWA in its quest for the union building. All
PWA funds are not exhausted. Refusal to ap
prove certain projects as well as abandonment
of others has conserved for the PWA some
money. For instance, the $25U,0(X) Lincoln
school program was to be promoted by the
PWA until rejected by Lincoln citizens. Per
haps this and similar cases may indirectly con
tribute aid to the union building cause.
Another point in Nebraska's favor is the
fact that colleges and universities throughout
the nation are still being aided by the PWA,
numerous applications for const ruction of uni
versity buildings having recently been ap
proved by PWA authorities, according to other
college papers. Therefore we may not be too
late in applying.
Again, the university has not received any
previous PWA funds. In view of the fact
that almost every college and university in
the nation in need of buildings has secured one
or more structures through the medium of the
PWA, this fact should constitute a strong ar
gument in favor of the union building.
Finally, the university is not asking an
outright grant, but is seeking funds on the
basis of 45 percent grant and 55 percent loan.
This should be popular with PWA officials
both in Washington and in Nebraska.
The loan will be payable from the pro
ceeds of a student tax which will not work n
discomfort on any student. The Nebraskan
believes that the regents' action in transfer
ring the former 1 swimming fee from the
medical assessment to the union building fund
will meet with wholehearted student approval.
It is a payment which will pay double divi
dends in advantages offered individual stu-
dents through the union building.
And so tie stage is set for the final thrust
for a student union building at Nebraska. The
student body, the administration, the alumni
association are all behind the campaign. Ne
braska congressmen last spring pledged their
support to the project. John Latenner, state
PWA engineer, promised full co-operation of
his office. That funds could be put to much
better purpose under the present setup in
doubtful. It appears, therefore, that with
many factors in our favor, the fate of the
union building rests upon the initiative and
energy of our student, alumni, and adminis
trative leaders.
There should be 110 turning back now, no
letdown in tbe efforts for success. Rather this
new victory should speed up the campaign
and our efforts should be redoubled. The uni
versity stands on the threshold of achieving
one of its greatest goals, and we. the students,
are gTateful for what has been done. May the
forces which have courageously and untiring
ly guided the union building thus far along
its way, continue their work until the vision
becomes bright reality, symbol of the good
tine coming which shall one day be the Uri
versitj of Nebraska'.
STUDENT PULSE
Brief, concise contributions pertinent to mattera of
atudent life and tha university are welcomed by tnia
department, under the usual restrictions of sound
newspaper prsetlce. which excludee all llbelpue m'
and personal attacks. Lettera must be elgned, but
names will b withheld from publication If so dealred.
Needed: A Course
In Reading.
TO THE EDITOR:
A student very recently made the state
ment in the presence of several other students
and a number of teachers that he never read
magazine articles and other material of a gen
eral informative nature. This statement has
been made by other students in a boastful way
on various occasions, and is an item worthy of
notice and comment, inasmuch as it comes to
educated people from those who are beginning
the practice of education and preparation for
its use.
Reading is accepted as the mark of the
educated and cultured man or woman, the
test being in the character of the material
which is read as well as in the amount which
is consumed. Reading does not necessarily
hamper or exclude thought, but furnishes food
for it. if the render be a nerson who wishes to
hnild nn thought habits. Under present world
conditions, no man can take his place properly
as an educated being and ignore the material
which is noured into his hands as material of
information concerning the happenings
throuchout the entire civilized and uncivil
ized world, ana even in me umminuiicu uiu
verse.
To boast of a non-reading habit is to ad
vertise a future ignorance of all important
world factors, and a cultivation of an inabil
itv tn nnrtieinate in them. A man or woman
who is trnininir himself at a university should
not boast of his learning to avoid one ot tne
greatest factors in modern education, but
should be constantly training himself in the
art of choosing that which is best in his read
ing, for this is a phase of education which will
continue throughout life, if a proper direction
1) riven it while in college. And one need not
live lone to learn that education is not all
school books. The wise student is that one
who early learns to choose his reading well,
and to do much of it, properly mixed with a
large percentage of thought, accessory and
original.
A man who refuses to keep thoroughly in
touch with the best of modern reading, as well
pr the old classics, is on a Tar with him who
refuses fresh meat and fresh vegetables and
fresh fruit, but endeavors to thrive upon the
stale crumbs of conversation and thought
which he may pick up by the wayside.
Every college should have a required
course for all students, directing the current
reading matter toward a keen choice of in
formative material, and related thinking as
well as original thinking upon current affairs.
J. li. J.
Says Robert Hutchins, Chicago univer
sity's president: "In universities wnicn per
mit students to study and talk as they please
I see no evidence of increasing; Redness. The
way to make students Red is to suppress them.
This policy has never failed to have this ef-
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feet. The vigorous ana lnieiiigeni imam re
sents the suggestion that he is not capable of
considering anything more important than fra
ternities and football. Most of the college
Reds I have heard about have been produced
bv the frightened and hysterical regulations of
the colleges. They are not Reds at all. They
are in revolt against being treated like chil
dren."
Credit
For Typing.
TO THE EDITOR:
There are well over 200 students regis
tered in the school of journalism this year.
Every one of these 200 students will, at. one
time'durinL' their professional training, be ex
pected to display at least a working knowl
edge of typing.
It. is absurd to visualize a student ot jour
nalism who cannot operate a typewriter. The
swift output of copy can he obtained in no
other wav and the reporter who has no knowl
edge of typewriting will certainly find him
self at a disadvantage when he is attempting
to meet a deadline.
It is. then, to be assumed that typing abil
ity should be a primary requisite of any stu
dent embarking upon a journalism course.
True as this assumption may be, the fact re
mains that students engaging in such study
are given no incentive to improve the rudi
mentary skill which they may have acquired
in high school, or to take beginning typing.
Students entering the school who are unable
to type at all. 5 in mediately register for a typ
ing course, lieing, however, in the college of
arts and ttciences, such a pilgrimage into an
other college for work is apparently not rec
ommended, and as punishment for the trans
gression, the student is deprived of his laboriously-sought
t)-ping credits, under the excuse
that extra-college credits cannot be applied on
a journalism certificate or even upon a bach
elor of arts degree.
Tbe situation exists, therefore, which is
indicative of an unbreachable gap between the
school of journalism and the commercial arts
department. Now, would-be reporters who are
striving first for their certificate in journal
ism, and who count typing speed and accuracy
as one of their most valued, most essential
possessions in their careers, take university
courses in it, and sacrifice their credits merely
because they are not included in. the arts and
science curriculum. The fact that typing is a
skill supplementary to the study and practice
of journalism is not considered.
When & journalism student begins, near
graduation time, to review his credits, it is
most disheartening to realise that because of
ten hours necessarily wasted in the acquisition
of a knowledge of typing, an extra summer
session must intervene before graduation, or
that an intensive concentration of hours in the
last semester will be necessary. J. W.
Early Political Poll Returns
Results of the student political poll recently conduct
ed by the Daily Nebraskan, according to cary counts still
being compiled are as follows:
Yes No
AAA ' "78 48b'
TVA ' 564 445
CCC 871 4:12
FIIA 6-r4 400
HOLC 713 345
RF0 453 435
SKC! 345
Holding Company Regulation 815 246
NRA 327 60S
WPA 567 486
PWA HI" 322
Social Security Act , 381 466
Wagnor Labor Act 425 503
Ouffev Coal Act Iflfi 734
Pavmeut of Bonus 264 7!7
Townseml Nan 26!l 826
Military Preparedness 741 477
Presidential Choice.
Roosevelt 450
Landon 152
Hoover 145
Horah 67
Norris 26
Knox 16
It is difficult to refrain from weeping at
the passing from the social calendar of ths
short-lived Mid-Tear frolic. It was one of
those rare events at which no yueen cf some
thing was presented.
German Press Attempting
To Stir Reader's Interest
An indication that the German press is undergoing a change
is revealed by Dr. V. Royce West, former Lincoln man and
graduate of the university in 1927, now a visiting professor at
the University of Heidelberg, Germany. In a letter to Prof.
Gayle C. Walker, director of the school of journalism, Dr. West
gives a few of his own observa- Q
tions on the first seminar held by
the editor of the chief party paper
for the state of Baden. He writes:
"The young German editor dis
cussed the aims of the party press,
declaring that for the most part
this young group of papers should
take over tbe functions of the
press of the past, stressing the
up-to-the-minute type of news
story. The press is to continue as
an organ for building political
opinion, altho the old discords of
the many former party organs are
dropped. The newspapers are also
to continue as a means of enter
tainment, bringing information
from many varied sources.
Stir News Interest.
"Above all," according to Dr.
West, "the new German press will
attempt to stir the reader's inter
est in news because he is a part
of what is going on in the world,
to keep his interest in the course
of the nation awake and to avoid
sensation for the sake of greater
profit The paper should not
necessarily bring all the important
speeches word for word, but should
show the reader that every news
item has its place and meaning to
the people." -
Dr. West takes note that tne
German press is to have a differ
ent sort of freedom, a freedom
within the one direction of the
government. Thru this, he says,
the party press will gain in au
thority, for the reader will know
from what point of view all ma
terial is presented to him. He says
that the sale of foreign newspapers
has dropped a great deal as the
German papers have gained in au
thority for accuracy in their re
ports. Trust Prettes.
The Lincoln man quotes the
young- Geman editor the latter
brought his seminar address to a
close: "Your first problem of con
science is to stand on the side of
the absolute trusteeship of the
press, in spite of certain division
press chiefs, who, out of personal
grounds, attempt to forward their
own interests."
Dr. West, who was a former
editor of the Nebraska Alumnus
as well as editor of several campus
publications, later taught journal
ism -at Omaha Municipal univer
sity. He recently gave several lec
tures on Mark Twain, the one at
Heidelberg attracting an audience
of more than 150. There was con
siderable interest in the address,
he says, and the German papers,
for the most part, gave accurate
and liberal coverage.
Y. W. ANNOUNCES
GROUP OF SEVEN
OFFICE SEEKERS
(Continued from Page 1).
at least a second semester sopho
more standing.
Jane Keefer, candidate for presi
dency, is a Lincoln girl, junior in
the college of arts and sciences.
Her activities include active par
ticipation in freshmen commission
and freshman cabinet; world
forum staff, membership staff,
program and office staff. In 1934
she won first prize in the finance
drive, was appointed to head the
international staff and Prairie
Schooner drive. She is a member
of Student Council, was sophomore
attendant to the May Queen, and
is a coed counselor. She is a mem
ber of the following honoraries:
Alpha Lambda Delta, freshman
women's honorary; Vestals of the
Lamp, Arn and Science honorary
and president of Chi Delta Phi,
honorary women's literary society.
She ha attended the Estes Y. W.
C. A. conference for two years, and
in 1935 attended the joint Y. M.
Y. W. meeting at Hastings.
Miss Swenton Junior.
Also running for president is
Rowena Swenson, from Oakland,
Neb., Junior in the college of arts
and sciences. Among the activities
in which she has participated are:
Freshman commission and cabinet.
vesper choir, conference stair,
sophomore commission, social
staff, appointed soclsl action staff
chairman in 1035, Estes cooper
ative group, member of the region
al relnterpretatlon of religion com
mission, 1936 co-chairman of the
Estes conference, vice president of
coed counselers. She is a member
of the Estes cooperative group,
member of the regional reinterpre
tation of religion commission, and
1936 co-chairman of the Estes con
ference. She is vice president of
Coed Counselors, is a Tassel, mem
ber of the Barb A. W. S. league,
and Palladlan literary society. She
also attended the Estes conference
for two years and the 1935 Kear
ney meetings.
Miss Kile.
Caroline Kile, Lincoln candidate
for rice president, is a Junior In
the college of arts and sciences.
Her activities Include: freshman
commission and cabinet, social or
der staff, project staff, freshman
finance dr.ve captain, membership
Starr, program and office staff,
sophomore commission and in 1935
appointed chairman of the Vesper
staff. She is a freshman cabinet
sponsor. freshman commission
leader, and a coed counselor.
The other nominee for vice pres
ident la Frances Ecudder. from
Sumner, Nebraska, a Junior in the
coUege of business administration.
She was a member ot the fresh
man commissions, vesper choir.
vesper staff, girl reserve staff.
freshman commission leader and
winner of second prise in the 1935
finance drive. BUt received hon
orable mention in the Prairie
Schooner drive. Also in 1935 she
was a delegate to the twelfth
quadrennial student volunteer con
vention at Indianapolis. Indiana.
She was junior executive in last
year's finance drive and is a coed
counselor.
Sophmores for Secretary.
Two sophomore girls are run
ning for Y. W. secretary, Wini
fred Nelson and Maxine Durand.
Miss Durand is from Morill, Ne
braska and a student in arts and
science college. Her activities in
clude: freshman cabinet, interna
tional staff, program and office
staff, vesper choir, international
relation staff. She is a coed coun
selor, and Sigma Alpha Iota, hon
orary musical sorority. In 1935
she was a captain in the finance
drive and winner of first prize.
worked on the Prairie Schooner
drive, international staff. Estes co
operative member, and on the con
ference staff.
Miss Nelson was active in fresh
men commissions and cabinet, in
ternational staff, vesper staff,
handcraft interest group and as
sistant to the chairman on the
Prairie Schooner drive, is president
of Alpha Lambda Delta, and is a
coed counselor.
Miss OePutron Uncontested.
Barbara DePutron, present Y.
W. treasurer Is the only candidate
for the 1936 post. She is from
Lincoln, and is a junior in the col
lege of business administration.
Her activities include; freshman
commission and cabinet, sopho
more commission, vesper staff,
treasurer of the Y. W. C. A. and
on the cabinet of that organiza
tion, secretary of A. W. S. board.
Coed Counselor board and mem
ber of Phi Chi Theta, honorary
Bizad sorority.
Ruth Schobert and Alice Sou
kup, both juniors in the college of
agriculture are nominees for pres
ident of the Y. W. on Ag campus.
Miss Schobert is from Springfield.
Nebraska and has the following
activities to her credit: freshman
commission, home economics asso
ciation, Alpha Lambda Delta, uni
versity 4-H club, ag poster staff,
and ag cabinet member for two
semesters.
Miss Souk up, a Lincoln girl, has
these activities: freshman com
mission, sophomore commission,
project staff, ag cabinet, finance
staff, a Tassel and Coed Counselor.
ETCHINGS BY BYXBE ON
EXHIBITIONJN MORRILL
Omaha Artist Shows Work in
Kansas City Midwestern
Display.
Fine arts department ot the uni
versity offers an exhibition of Ly
man Byxbe's etchings which will
be on display in gallery A of Mor
rill hall unUl Jan. 20. Byxbe, an
Omaha artist, has shown nis etch
ings at the mldwestern exhibit at
Kansas City where be received
honorable mention, at Washington,
D. V. under the auspices of the
Chicago Society of Etchers, at the
Four Nightly club of New York
City and at Newport. R. I.
He also exhibited bis work at
the international print makers ex
hibit at Los Angeles, just closed
a two months' showing at Joslyn
Memorial and was recently elected
to membership in the Chicago So
ciety of Etcher.
BIZAD
SCHOLARS
TO GET AWARDS
AT
CONVOCATION
R. E. Campbell Scheduled
For Speech on Retail
Merchandising.
Honors for high ranking Bizad
students and an address by R. E.
Campbell, Lincoln business and
civic leader, will be made before
the convocation to be held Tues
day morning at 11 o'clock in So
cial Science auditorium.
It is expected that a large group,
composed mainly of Bizad stu
dents, will hear Mr. Campbell, who
will speak on the general subject
of recent developments of retail
merchandising.
Mr. Campbell is himself a for
mer university student, graduating
from the engineering college in
1910. While in school he was
prominent in school activities, was
on the varsity track team, was an
Innocent, took part in class ath
letics, and was a member of the
Y. M. C. A. and Alpha Tau Omega
fraternity.
Following his graduation he was
with the General Electric com
pany, and has since become con
nected with Miller & Paine, of
which he is vice president and gen
eral manager.
Ta-st president of the Lincoln
chamber of commerce, he has
served for several years on the
national council of the chamber of
commerce, which is the governing
body, and is now an advisor on the
city planning board. Until a few
days ago Mr. Campbell was the
chairman of the board of directors
of the Omaha branch of the Fed
eral Reserve bank.
Preceding his address the honors
to Bizad students will be an
nounced, which will include the
William Gold keys, Phi Chi Theta
scholastic key, membership to
Beta Gamma Sigma, honorary
Bizad scholastic fraternity, the
Alpha Kappa P.i scholastic awards
and the ranking 10 percent of
each class in the Bizad college last
year.
A
ROUND
AND
BOUT
With
Sarah Louisa Meyer
HS.C.L
NEW OFFICERS JAN
.14
Blum, IMewmeyer Run for
Engineers' Group
Presidency.
New officers to the American
Society of Civil Engineers will be
announced Tuesday. Jan. 14, when
members of the society will have
nnmniptpd votine for the nomi
nees, according to Lee Lichten
berg, president. The election has
been in progress the past few days
and will be completed by 5 p. m.
Monday. Jan. 13.
Installation of the new officers
will be made at the society's
monthly meeting Wednesday eve
ning, Jan. 14, in room 12 of the
A. M. building.
Candidates for the offices are.
President, Walter P. Blum and
Lowell Newnieycr: vice president,
Richard R. Dennis: secretary
treasurer, Jlonis L. Andersen and
Elmer L. Clau.sscn.
Retiring officers are Lee Licn
tenberg, piesident: Merrill Muel
ler, vice piesident: Frank Wil
liams, secretary-treasurer, and
Carlos Olmstead, Ma.on Butcher,
Nathan Mandell, Stanley Haight
and Franklin Meier on the execu
tive board.
Acceptability rating sheets are
the hardy perennials in this year's
world Leap Year or no Leap
Year. In the days of my tender
youth the Awgwan had a most im
pertinent one, adjectivlsing reign
ing campus belles. Last year the
Annapolis boys Log-ed their cor
ing carefully done up in Nautical
terms such as were slightly un
nrlntable. And nnw mv nnntv
Junior-in-high-school kid slater is
fiuompiiing,
With A. T. O. Johnnie Camp
bell's young aister, "Casey," Betz
has mercilessly scrutinised a
group of twenty-five lads as to
elusive qualities "F," "T," "A,"
"D," "M," "Tt," and "P." What
the lettera signify she refused to
tell me because so many of the
boys had collegiate connections.
Among them were the small fry
related to Leah Carlsen, Bob
Marts, Joe Roth, Vera Wekesser,
Babs DePutron, Bob Joyce and
Mary Janet McGeachin.
Queried as to tha evuntual utili
zation of the listing which ranges
from a 22 high to a 0V4 low
the youngest of the Meyers flicked
out "To keen nn tn Hat ' Whlh
would pasa for a reason even In
university circles mey tell me.
We hate to have things discov
ered for us, and so since Christ
mas we have been pointedly avoid
ing notice of the fathar'a Inurf
chortle's over, "The Woolcott
Reader." But at last our fondness
for the Town Crier prevailed and
we turned thru his fat anthology
to the well-fingered pages of the
mirthful provocations. Which, of
all thinqs. COmDrised Anthnnv
Hope's "The Dolly Dialogues."
Thru the oblivion of a nri7on
years these gay, whimsical bits of
banter have passed with not a
sparkle tarnished. Minus the sting
vi a ramer or siessinger, or the
eternal epigramizing of a Faulk
l er, the dialogues have a thoroly
acceptable delicate humor. Despite
ourself we giggled gleefully.
A scoop on the merchandising
Weldon Kees.
Sweet is the day when a na
tive son returns to his haunts of
old in triumph. Such waa the oc
casion when Henry Kelpe told
his former speech classmates all
aobut trouping with the great
Still wearing his Sigma Nu rec
ognition pin and untrammeled bv
false modesty, Kelpie told of fel
low players who are now work
ing in such vehicles as "Victoria
Regina," "The Taming of the
Shrew," and 'The Old Maid."
Which this hammy Thespian
feel about as much at home In the
world of the drama as that re
ceipt for tomato soup looked in the
journalism lab. And the receipt
sounded good, too.
A.I.E.E. HEAD NAMES
CAMPUS HEADS
SOLIDLY BEHIND
REGENTS' ACTION
(Continued from Page l.
paramount role in the social re
habilitation of Nebraska school
life."
Irving Hill, piesident of the stu
dent council and one of the strong
est champions of the union and
bookstore drive, stated. "All of us
who are sincerely interested in
both the student union and book
store projects are happy that they
are now close to realization.
Even though I and my class will
not be able to benefit from cither
of the projects, all of us are going
to continue the work unselfishly
for their reetvn. Kor the service
and happiness of campus life in
the future we are going to push
the campaign harder now than
ever before. Success i now i
near that the rough spots will
come and be met much easier."
Virginia Selleck. managing ed
itor of the Daily Nebraskan and a
member of the student union com
mittee, said "The regents' move is
the biggest thing that the univer
sity authorities since I have been
in school. Now that the adminis
tration has expressed its consent
it is the duty of every member of
tbe student body to get behind tbe
movement and help for the erec
tion of a new center of student ac
tivity." GK.WUATE WRITES OS
IAGETIC ALLOYS'
Article by Cunlaf El men
Appear in Electrical
Magazine.
Dr. Gustaf W. Elmen who re
ceived hi bachelor of science de
gree here In 1902 and his A. M.
degree two years later, and who
was granted an honorary degree
by this university in 1932. is the
author of an article entitled "Mag
netic Alloys of Iron. Nickel and
Cobalt" which appeared in the De
cember issue of Electrical Engi
neering. Elmen is a magnetic
materials expert with the Eell
Telephone laboratories and is the
Inventor of several useful mag
netic alloys, according to Dean O.
J. Ferguson of the college of engineering.
Engineers to Hear Address
On Sutherland Project
"At Meeting Jan. 15.
Election of officers to the
American Institute of Electrical
Engineers will be held Wednesday
evening. Jan. 15. at a society meet
ing in EE 104. according to Ernest
Guenzel, president. An illustrated
lecture on "The Sutherland Proi
ecf by Weldon McCormlck, EE
'38, will be presented following the
election.
Nominees for the new offices as
selected by society's nominating
committee are: Chairman. K. V.
Kratochvil and R. L. Haynes: vice
chairman. J. W. McCormick and
M. E. Thomas; secretary-treasurer,
M. E. Thomas and Tjaden. Re
tiring officers ar Frnet r:iioni
chairman; L. S. Marshall, secrt-tary-treasurer;
W. O. Oeltjen. vice
president, and E. F. Paroulelt.
Blue Print department editor.
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honorary degrees have been given
for several years, this is the first
time the special course has been
listed under Its own heading
among arts and science subjects.
Purpose of the awards Is to reward
unusually high academic attain
ment and to encourage In the stu
dent a significant correlation In
the selection of his studies and an
answering correlation in the mas
tery of them.
Special Award Requirements.
Students in the arts and sciences
college who are candidates for the
special awards are required to take
a final examination in their senior
year, submit samples of their writ
ten work done during their last
two years, and may choose to pur
sue a planned course of reading
outside of class room assignments
for which they may receive not to
exceed four hours' credit. The
may however, chose to present a
thesis for a like amount of credit.
College of agriculture students,
pharmacy and those enrolled in
teachers college are eligible for
distinction degrees according to
I heir scholastic attainments and
their ability as demonstrated by a
final written examination, thesis
or some other type of written
work. Law students work for a
cum laude degree, their mark of
distinction, while students in the
college of business administration
and the engineering groups ar
awarded similar honors as the re
sult of high scholastic ratings.
NEBRASKAN WINS
FRATERNITY POST
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Harry B. Cohen, university
graduate and former member of
Sigma Alpha Uu, social fraternity,
was appointed to tbe Octagon, ex
ecutive council of the fraternity
at its annual national convention
in St Louis.
Mr. Cohen was graduated front
the university In 1$2T. He wo
Phi Beta Kappa key. At present
he is practicing law In Omaha.