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CD , Ml i IP kjA HPoic Dai ICIQID A QV 1JLU Official Student Newspaper of the University of Nebraska VOL. XXXVII. NO. 137. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA. THURSDAY. MAY 5. 1938 PRICE FIVE CENTS n to AN A J X V LOVKLY WEATIIEIl WE'KE HAVING Today Is a fine day for the weatherman to go hftle himself in nice, safe bombproof shelter. Jupiter Pluvius has double crossed the campus in the greatst catastrophe of an H20 nature that has occurred since Noah became an Able Seaman. If Jupiter Pluvius was a living mortal or if the weatherman could be logically blamed for this linvy California dew, the odds on their living through the rest of the day. Activity men are cussing, the en " ginccrs are blaspheming even more than usual, the ag campus Is praying that it won't rain some more, fine arts students arc won dering how the deluge will affect their carnival, and faculty mem bers think it's a crime that It had . to rain on a holiday when they had an opportunity to get in a few rounds of golf. Sea-Weed. It it the usual procedure ot people with a philosophical bent, when a cloud bursts at the wrong time, to remark sagely, "Well, 'this sure ought to make the crops grow anyway." One more day like this and the only thing that can possibly be raised around these parts will be sea weed. What the wat ery seeds of heaven are actual ly sowing Is a crop of discon tent, gripes and assorted grum bles. For the past three weeks, able and tradition-loyal horticulturists (university workmen to you) have been carefully spreading, raking and removing fragrant fertilizer, grooming the greensward, nurtur ing adolescent blue grass, and keeping sprinklers going. And now Mother Nature pulls a joker out of her sleeve and lets it rain in great gobs so the grass will be nice and green for the summer school students. The whole affair is quite mad dening. Students go around trying to put as much variety in their curses as possible when curses flow steadily. There is blood in the eye of engineers as they see great possibilities for a lesser crowd. Everybody wants to vent their spleen. Blaspheme grows monot onous and doesn't accomplish enough. Therefore what this uni versity needs is somebody with a door at which all the blame for the rain could be laid. Blame the Parson. There are two possible solu tions. First, and most likely; the preachers in the farm dis tricts with agrarian congrega tions prayed altogether too fer vently for rain. A job's a job, these days, but the least the pulpit pounders could have done would have been to hold off their pleas for rain until June. Perhaps they were up a stump for a sermon, or perhaps they thought It would be a smart political move to pray for rain early. Then they could take credit for the spring rains and insure payment of their pota toes. The second possibility is not very plausible, but still a po.ssi bility. It rained on Easter Sunday and there is an old saying which says that if it rains on Easter it will lain for six successive Sun days. It has done this for two consecutive Sundays. Perhaps something went wrong in the heavenly administration and Jupi ter Pluvius got his dates mixed and made it rain too early in the week. This last paragraph will be devoted to self-defense. Why take such a silly topic as bad weather to columnizc about, you may ask? In the first place, weather is not trivial nor silly. It is always with us and wax here on this globe be fore man. It is alno talked abou more often than anything else. In the second place, the public feeling against rain at the pres- fcnt is so high that It ought to be recognized. Tnc nest reason ior building some column Inches about rain, however, is because just as sure as we write about It, the sun will come out and make this column worthless. Coeds Select Campus Bachelors Whosc Fraternity Pins Are Generally fought Feminine Choicei Parallel in Picking School's Datable Males. By Barbara Rotewater. Spring Is cpen season on fra ternity pins, and the great Jewelry migration from vest to dress has already begun. For the benefit of unattached coeds, tho Dully Nc braskan has consulted ten femi nine socialites for help In sizing up tho available masculine ma terial, and has compllr-d." a list of ome of the men whose pins are most desirable from the romantic standpoint. All of the girls questioned were vftgue ai to the basis for choosing the men they listed, but they agreed that their selections were made with an eye to getting "good all-round" men. According to Margaret McKay, Nebraska Sweetheart, the follow ing; ten men are the most suitable goals for collegiate huntresses: Bud Tsllmsn, Al Moseman, Herb Stoddard, Bob Fuchs, Bud Gather, F.d Sleeves, Bill Buchanan, Herb Glover, Jim Stuart, and Stan GREEKS COMPETE IN SIN CONTESTS FOR LOVING CUPS Nine Fraternities, Twelve Sororities to Enter Annual Events. Nine fraternities will compete in the annual Interfraternitv Sing which will start off the Ivy day festivities today at 9 o'clock. Sponsored by the Kosmet Klub, the sing will be judged by three promi nent musicians of the state who will also make the criticisms for the sorority sing sponsored by the A. W. S. board that will take place at 1 :15 o'clock in the afternoon. Doc Elias. president of the Kos met Klub has asked that all fra ternity men taking part in the sing competition be present at 8:15 in the morning in order to avoid de lay in getting started. As in former years, the groups will sing in alphabetical order, and the best ones will be called back to do their numbers over that the judges may have more time to make their decisions. At the close, the judges will award a loving cup to the song leader of the first place winner and announce the other places. The fraternities singing this morning will be Acacia, Alpha Tau (Continued on Page 4.) AG BOARD SPONSORS Creative Activities Group Plans Special Music, Varied Program. Ag Campus Sing, sponsored by the Creative Avtivities board, will be held at sundown on the pageant ground of the Ag college campus Friday, May 13. The sing first started last year, proved to be a big success, with more than half the Ag students at tending. Many people from the sur rounding neighborhood and stu dents from the city campus were also in attendance. This year four students will lead the singing, ac companled on the piano by Miss Aitinas Tunis, instructor in cnorus Several special numbers will be given by a group of Ag students. Donna Hiatt. mortar board, says of the sing, "It Is one of the finest things we've ever had. It was a success last year and we had a good crowd. This year we expect each and every Ag student to be there. ALL CLASSES DISMISSED FOR IVY DAY FESTIVITIES kg College Holiday Extends Through Remainder Of Week. All classes are dismissed today because of the Ivy day festivities. Students in the college of agri culture will be dismissed from classes on ag campus on Friday and Saturday in addition to Ivy day. Classes In the engineering, law and pharmacy colleges will be dis missed after 11 o'clock on Friday for convocations, field and rccrca- I tion events. I'rc-medic students of sopho more, Junior, or senior standing arc excused from classes on Sat urday to attend pre-medlc activi ties at the college of medicine In Omaha. All other classes will he in regu lar session Friday and Saturday. THEIR PINS SOUGHT. Grant Thomas Ed Stcevcs Bill Williams Dick Paul Bud Tallman Adna Dobson Al Moseman Bob Gannon Thurston Phelps Bob Ramey Brewster, altho the latter two are not In general circulation. Jane Bell of the Kappa Mouse chooses for her list of "bests" Thurston Phelps, Bob Gannon, Adna Dobson, Dick Paul. Clayton Ankeny, Ed Steeves.Grant Thomas Bob Ramey, Elmer Dohrmann, and John Stoddard. Ranking tops with Natalie Reh laender, Delta Gamma "best dressed girl,' are Thurston Phelps, Bill Williams, Don Moss, Bob Led ley, Bob Thornton, Ralph Ludwick, Jo Stephens, Ed Steeves, Grant Thomas, and Adna Dobson. "Looks have little to do with my choice," Natalie declared. (. MfLcnii Dips J' Lincoln Juurnul. .Chancellor in '90s. E Letter Group Issues 800 Bids to Ex-Athletes From Nebraska. The first reunion of all Husker lettermen in any sport down thru sports hiftorv has been scheduled for Saturday night, May 14, at an I "N" club dance in the Student Union building. The Student Union ballroom will be decorated with "N" blankets and other trophies now in the "N" club room in the coliseum. Mem bers of the active chapter will show the visitors about the build ing from about 8 o'clock that eve ning until the dance begins. The dance is closed to the stu dent body but free to the returning lettermen and their wives. Eight hundred bids in the forms of tags have been mailed out and the re cipients will write their names on them and wear them on their lapels that night for identification. More than 800 former Husker (Continued on Page 2.) CLUB DAN HONORS FORMER HUSKERS MAY 1 3 Open House Night Promises Variety, Novelty in Exhibits Ten Buildings to Display Progress of Sciences In University. Demonstrations and exhibits In ten different buildings on the campus will be open to the public tonight from 7:30 to 10:30, as stu dents in the various departments climax the year's work. Plans for one of the most spertacular nights in the history of the university have hren completed, and the en tertaining and educational pro gram which will proceed thruout the evening will prove most inter esting to the spectators. All build ings on the campus are open to the public thruout the program. Military Engineering. The military engineering depart ment is tuking purl in Kngim'ors' Week this year for the first time. Their displays will be on exhibit on the first and second floors of Nebraska hall. Cupt. John W. Cramer Is in charge of the depart ment. Highlights of this display are demonstration by t'apt, How ard Nuercribcrger showing mill. tary and peace time applications of demolition equipment; a display of the weapons with which the corps of engineers are armed, as well as an anti-tank mine; and a A- "Probably DW Moss, Bob Can non, John Hoppe, Ernnk Coufal, Crant Thomas, Paul Hart, or Jim Ivlns would make a good beginning for any girl," Peggy Pii.icoc, Chi O, stated, and added Morris Llpp, Ed i Steeves and Howard Kaplan. "I'm : partial to publication" she ex plained. i Hlta Alger of the PI Beta Phi house thought the best bachelors wero Sain Francis, Puul Wagner, Pick Paul, Clark Faulkner, Jack Ellsworth, George Seeman, Bob Hilsabcck, Mayhard Swart s, Grant Thomas and Lcs Burslk. Virginia Anderson, Thcta beauty queen, took half an hour to think it over before she named Clark Faulkner, George Seeman, Don Jensen, Jim Bnltzer, "the Ludwick boys," Dick, Paul, Grant Thomas, and Jim Vleregg. Prom Girl Elolse Benjamin pro tested "meager knowledge" due to the Kappa Slg pin she was wear ing, but admitted that her list would Include Al Moseman, Clay ton Ankeny, Dick Paul, Tom Davidson, Bob Thornton, Grant Thomss, Jack Gellatly, Bill WU (Contlnuod on THge 2.) nn IE. DIES AT AGE 88 Noted Clergyman-Educator Headed University From 1895-99. Dr. George E. MacLean, chsn eellor of the University from 189.r) to lHflfl, died late Tuesday night in Washington, D. C, at the age ot KX. The noted clergyman-educator made his last visit to the campus here in 1P27, at which time he dedicated Morrill hall. In 1925 he gave the commencement address on the 30th anniversary of his election to the chancellorship. Held Many Degrees. Born in Rockville, Conn., Dr. McLean held degrees from Wil liams. Yale, and the European uni versities of Berlin, Leipzig, Wales, and Oxford. In 1874 he was or dained by the Presbyterian church and served pastorates in New Le banon and Troy, N. Y., before going to the University of Min nesota as professor of English lit erature in 1883. From Nebraska in 1899. Dr. MacLean went to Iowa university where he served as president for two years. In 1913 he became a specialist in higher education for (Continued on Page 4.) IVY DAY University May m. Inter-fraternity 9:00 Sing. 10:15 a. m. Ivy Day Oration by Harold Gurske. 10:45 a. m. Ivy Day Proces sion. 11:00 a. m. Crowning of the May Queen. 11:05 a. m. Reading of the Ivy Day poem, winner to be an nounced at the time of the read ing. 11:10 a. m. Presentation of $150 Mortir Board graduate scholarship. 11:15 a. m. Planting of the brief display of chemical warfare equipment. Morrill hall will have an Inter esting geology exhibit in which many ancient and valuable objects will be displayed. Many relics, ex clusive to the University of Nc- bra.ka museum, will also be open for public inspection. Chemistry Exhibits. The chemistry exhibits will be displayed in the Avery Laboratory Lincoln Financier Attended University 1902-1904; Died Monday. Lust services In tribute to Charles Stuart, Lincoln financier, were held Wednesday afternoon at 3 at the First Plymouth Congrrga- tlonal church. Mr. Stuart, father Lf iom. fit,.t uti.riAnt nt the university, died suddenly Monday at the age of 53. Mr. Stuart attended the univer sity from 1902-1904. He was an alumnus of Phi Delta Theta fra ternity and instrumental in erect- i Ing the new Phi Delta Theta house !at Ifith and R streets. "Charles Stuart's achievements I are stamped Indelibly upon the life of Lincoln and the state of i Nebraska," declared Kev. Raymond Ia. McConnell, who was in charge of the services. "He was essenti ally the builder." Mr. Stuart has nlways shown 'great, Interest In the campus and In the welfare of the university. IVY DAY FESTIVITIES GO ONRAIN OR SHINE In Case of Inclemant Skies Traditional Fete Moves To Coliseum. Ivy day festivities are to be held today rain or shine. If the day is dark and drizzly, fraternities will sing, Mortar Boards will be mask ed and Innocents will be tapped within the walls of the coliseum. Otherwise the May Queen's court snd ihe Ivy day activities will be on the square In front of Univer sity hall. Ml EX-CHANCELLOR Ivy Day Turns Spotlight On New Mortar Boards, May Queen, Innocents Fraternities and Sororities To Seek Sing Trophy At 9, 1:15. Identity of Nebraska's 1937 May Queen will be revealed this morn ing at 11 o'clock. Amid the tradi tional pomp and ceremony that will be one of the many Ivy Day climaxes, a senior woman elected by women students of the junior and senior classes more than a month ago will ascend to the dias to be crowned sovereign of the cv?ntful day. Down the white walk, bordered on each side by the Ivy and Daisy chains, the royal party will pro ceed to the throne where the Maid of Honor will crown the queen. Mortar Boards March. The event will open when the black-robed and masked members of Mortar Board march to the foot of the throne and form a line on both sides of the walk. Then the Ivy chain and Daisy chain will march around the triangle before the throne, singing the traditional Ivy and Daisy (Continued on Page 3.) PROGRAM. of Nebraska 5, 1938. ivy by Stanley Brewster and Elmer Dohrmann, presidents of the junior and senior classes re spectively. Followed by reces sion of May Queen's court. 1:15 p. m. Inter-fraternity Sing. 2:30 p .m. Masking of Mor tar Boards. 3:30 p. m. Tapping of Inno cents. 4:30 p. m. Tea dance at the Student Union. 7:00 p. m. Open house, dem onstrations and exhibits in ten different buildings on the campus. building. Many interesting and novel demonstrations will be per formed, such as electroplating, se lective dyeing, water purification and ryon manufacture. The engineers from the Agrioul- tural Fchool will have their dis in the Highway Testing play laboratory. Methods used in mod ern highway testing will be fully demonstrated and explained The Brace laboratory will house the exhibits of the electrical engi - neers. The new Hammond organ will be exhibited and its opera- tion shown. It will also be possible for the spectators to see the spectators to see their voices in color and in waves, demonstrations of sound amplifica tion, light beam transmission and neon lamp experiments will be performed. University hall will have an in teresting organ display which should be novel and entertaining. Mechanical Engineers. Tho mechanical engineers will perform their experiments In the Mechanical Engineering building. Highlights of these experiments are n liquid sir demonstration and a V-8 automobile engine In action, with its "innards" visible to the public. Student architects will have an (Continued on Page 3.1 SIGMA DELTA CHI ELECTS MORRISJLJPP FRESIDENT Steeves, Englund, DeBrown To Fill Other Offices Of Organization. Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalism fraternity, held its an nuiil election Wednesday, following a luncheon nt the Capitol hotel. Morris Llpp was elected president; Kd Sleeves, vice :....... ,.. i lll E n g 1 u n d, secretary; and Dick de Brown, treusurer. Lurry Hull of the Assocluted Press audited the society's books and rec ords of the past year -and pro nounced them "In excellent shape." Hall pointed out the activities that Lincoln .Tnurnat Mflrm 1,1pp. the fraternity might undertake next year and complimented the chapter on the work done. He stresses Gridiron Dinners ss the major rsinpus activity sponsored by the club. s- - - . OUTGOING PRESIDENTS. jp jj Z---v 4 ' Lincoln Journal. Mittln Dilrnnd, Lincoln Journal. Ilf.lt Wndham. IvyJDay By Warren ( . l.eK Ivy Day, ly ! ! Hnnur In Hie Queen of Mny. I Honor In the mHlflen inlr, Daisy chilli with dnlle rure. i)rl! Drip! Ivv lnv. Ivy liny I llo v the Mirlnr hourrtu illil prn ! How the Innocent nld cure! Bui the nenther could he wurie. Drip: llrlp! Ivy liny. Ivy Duy! Let u ding our winir fco cay, KIcmlltiK voiced guile divine, "Whn hnll heur the Ivy vlne?" llrlp: Drip! Ivy Hny, Ivy lluyl See the rolorful urruy. The lavender chiffon tnBy yet Become n hrlnklMK violet Drip: llrlp! Ivy Dny, Ivy II u- Honor tn the month nf Mny. Whiit mutter If the crowd In M'nnt, 'Tin n nerlect day to plant! llrlp! llrlp! E Broadcasts Slated at 1Q:35, 1:15,3:30 to Feature Day's Activities. Broadcasts of Ivy day cere monies, will be carried today over radio stations KFOR. Lincoln, and KOIL, Council Bluffs. The pro gram starting at 10:35 will bring to the listeners a description of the Ivy and daisy chain processions and the presentation of the May Queen. Emanating from the green on the nld campus between the Ad ministration building and Univer sity hall, the program also will carry the reading of the Ivy day poem and presentation of the Mor tar Board scholarship award. Winding up the morning activities, will be a description of the tradi tional planting of the Ivy by Stan- , Rrrv..Btnr ,nrl Rimer Dohrman. 1 presidents 0f the junior and senior i classes BeKinninp Bt 1:15, KFOR will 'J nf the ln,ersororitv I R. . ,llmmBrv broadcast of the activities of the day and announce ments and interviews of next year's Innocents and Mortar Boards will be carried by KFOR and KOIL at 3:30. The broadcasts have been ar ranged by Bob Wndhams, and will be announced by Jack Hansstn, station manager at KFAB. Srniors May I'lircluie Invilations Till Mav 12 Graduating seniors have until May 12 to purchase announce ments at either Long's or Coop book stores, according to Elmer Dohrmann, senior class president. Thatsil, Whatsit Spookulate On Dear, Departed Ivy Plants Ghostly Conversation Occurs Within Lonely Realm Of Campus. IVY DAZE Act I. SCENE Somewhere in t h e lonely realm between Administra tion building and U hull, burial place of nil good ivy day plants. It Is the morning of Ivy Day. The Gho.it of our Dear Departed Ivy Plant Number 24 and The Ghost of our Dear Departed Ivy Plant Number 17 lire conversing together in solemn monotones. G.I.P 17 It's a weary world, Ghost of our Dear Departed Ivy Plant Number 24. G.I.P. 24 Yes, Ghost of out Dear Departed Ivy Plant Number 17, and there are weary people In It. G.I.P. 17-Specially the Inno cents, cents, Whatsit, who've been campaigning for members from Uieir houses. G.I.P. 24 -Yes. Thatsit, especi ally the Innocents. G.I.r. 17 It's been a long time Senior Honoraries Reveal Mew Members Today At 2:30, 3:30. Perpetuating its oldest and most venerable student tradition, the senior honoraries will an nounce their succeeding members this afternoon in the annual ivy ceremony. Mortar board, women's honor ary, will reveal its membership at 2:30 o'clock with the traditional masking pomp. The present cap and gowned coeds will comb the crowd for the new candidates, which when found will be adorned with the significant "blaque masque. Maxine Duiand heads the outgoing organization, which is comprised of the 13 senior coeds, outstanding in the field of extracurricular activities. At promptly 3:30 o'clock the men's group, known as the Inno cents society, will pounce upon their prospective candidates in a form of informal initiation known as "tapping." The hooded organi zation traditionally picks in the vicinity of 13 men for member ship, though it is not limited to this number. Robert Wadhams is president of the retiring Satans. L IW DAY TAG DANCE I Beck-Jungbluth Orchestra To Play for Matinee Hop in Union. An all university tea dance held in the newly opened Student Union building will climax the afternoon events of Ivy Day. The A. W. S. board wil sponsor the dance, which will be held from 4:30 to 6:30 with music by the Beck-Jungbluth orchestra. There will be cut danc ing and a stag line at this first student organization sponsored party. Students wearing "N" tags shall be admitted free; others will be charged an admission of 10 cents. The "N" tags represent the finan cial backing of each fraternity, so rority, and organized group on tne campus which subscribed S3 for the affair. The Ivy Day (lance will become a traditional event if its success is assured, and with the Student Union building as an added attrac tion, the dance this year will be a main event. RUTH SiBLEY FIVES CELLO RECITAL F0RC0NV0CATI0N Music Student Under Eettie Zabriskie Features Concert Works. Featured at the senior recital of the twenty-ninth musical convo cation Wednesday afternoon at the Temple building Was Ruth Sibley, cellist, student with Bettie Za briskle. She was accompanied at th" piano by Mildred Gerpen. The afternoon Trogram was as follows: M"nrM'i"ii'!n (V.nrertn In D Mnlor, Atleprn, l.nrithettn, AlleKrti Rnpnru. S"niM In minor f'T "Ho nl ninn, lnt-Snlnft, Lent l rlme, Lent nner, untme. imnedo-ra.e'l". Inlermeiro from "fiiynieM," Norturne, C ihri minor, Caprlerlo. since we were mortal ivy plants, Whatsit. G.I.P. 24-Yes, Thatsit. it doesn't seem that two years hsve passed since they burled me here to the Infernal chant of "Who Will plant the Ivy" and threw clods on top of me. It wub a dirty dig, Tbutsit. G.I.P. 17 Whatsit! G.I.P. 24 Yes, Thatsit? G.I.P. 17 Who are all thone people hanging around our dig gings? G.I.P. 24 They're spectators, Thatsit. G.I.P. 17 Spectators? Do you mean thoso who look on or be hold, as Wlmberley would say? G.I.P. 24 Yes, Thatsit, as Wlm berley would sny. G.I.P. 17 Then what are they going to look on or behold, Whats it? G.I.P. 24 The masking of the Mortar hoard and the tapping of the Innocents. It's a ghoullng task, Thatsit. G.I.P. 17 Oh! I wish we were spectstnrs, Whatsit. . .Instesd of (Continued on Page 4) (' 1