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Official Student Newspaper of the University of Nebraska
VOL. XXX VII, NO. 138"
LINCOLN. NERI5ASK . FRIDAY. MAY 6. 1938
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Senior
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Ag Collegians Stage Annual Fair Tomorrow
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Honoraries
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ONE HAND . . .
Dear Mom:
I guess I might as well write
you a letter today so that this
extra day of vacation won't be en
tirely wasted. Today is relaxation
day for us engineers, the clay when
we can turn playboys. We had a
very successful open house last
night. 1 was up kind of late, tho,
so when I went to bed 1 got to
sleep as easy as rolling off a log
arithm. I spent an unusual hour,
last night, however, with my room
mate. He's a fine arts student.
That is, he is in the college of fine
arts, but he isn't a bad guy at that.
X7a11 rrtf tn QY'O'llinfr Wfrr thr
a-- respective merits of the different
colleges and couian i sctiic anj
thing so we made an agrceemnt.
He was going to let met guide him
thru the engineer's open house for
an hour and then he was to show
me around the fine arts carnival
they had last night in Morrill hall
Well, I couldn't do much with
him in an hour except hit the high
spots and explain some of the most
spectacular and colorful phenom
ena in the ag, chem, electrical,
civil, and mechanical engineering
exhibits. I'm not sure but I don't
think he understood much of what
I tried to tell him. I think he be
lieves that the law of gravity is a
law providing for solemnity and
seriousness.
But I guess he had just ns much
trouble with me at the fine art
carnival as I had with him. Hon
est, the things they do over there
are positively mystifying. And lots
of it is illogical. There was a paint
ing of a bridge, for instance, in one
of those drawings that didn't look
strong enough to hold the Individ-1
ual weights of Snow W hite and the
Seven Dwarfs. Then there were
portraits and landscapes. I can't
understand why anyone who tries
to paint people and landscapes
u'h.n a rrrrA r.lwit fin ! n V-, fin CTrif
more detail and caicn ueciing ex-
pressiveness in a fraction of the
time it takes to paint and with
much more accuracy. The creative
Instinct. I guess. I can just about
understand that, but it's still a
mystery why other people are in
terested in such things. Then there
is this surrealism and cubism. No
body actually understands what
such pictures mean but the crea
tor, but nobody wants to let on
they don't understand it. The art
ists who do it say us art ai me ;
height of creative imagination so
everybody else thinks it art. j
I'll take the engineers over the
artists any day of the week. At ;
least they do something for man
kind that is constructive while the ;
artsists mount the pedestals of j
eenius and let the rest of tse worm ,
pay for th"ir creations and their
own wlcshy upkeep.
Yours truly.
BOB.
Dear Mom:
While I'm tryi" R convince
mvself that it would be the best
Circus, Parades
Feature Carnival
STUDENTS
SWAY
Equestrian Circus Includes
Nine Acts; Sorority
Girls Ride.
SATURDAY'S FAIR PRO
GRAM. 9:00 a. m. Beginning of
Hospitality Day for visiting
high school girls.
9:00 a. m. Exhibits in base
ment of Student Activities
building open to public.
10:00 a. m. Parade from city
campus down town, and out to
Ag campus by noon, led by
university band.
12:45 p. m. Man on the
street in front of Ag hall.
1 :00 p. m. Concessions and
midway open.
1:15 p. m. Outdoor show on
pageant grounds with Goddess
of Agriculture presiding.
2:15 p. m. Equestrian circus
on grounds back of Activities
building.
4:30 p. m. Kampus Kapers,
indoor show, in Activities build
ing. 4:30 p. m. Kollegiate Kafe
opens in Ag cafeteria.
7:00 p. m. Second showing
of Kampus Kapers.
7:30 p. m. Boxing and wres
tling show at open arena.
9:00 p. m. Art Randall and
his orchestra in Activities building.
BETA'S, IHEIA'S
AGAIN TAKE SING
SILVER TROPHIES
Hansen, Jane Eldridge Lead
Victors; D. U., Alphi Phi
Place Second.
TO uRRIN TUCKER
TONIGHT IN DIN
Noted Dance Organization
Features 20 Players,
3 Vocalists.
Stan Brewster Heads Innocents,
Miss Chamberlain Mortar Boards
Misses Boldman, Cummer,; I Hey lond a" a Hip US Activities
Kuonitz, Kosewater
New Officers.
TAPPED
MASKED
Biggest and most gala event on
the agricultural campus of the
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BY OFFERING SIFE
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for AAA Commercial j
Laboratory. i
Repeating last year's perform
ance, Beta Theta Pi and Kappa
Alpha Thcta were awarded the
silver loving cups yesterday for
placing first in the annual Ivy
day interfratcrnity and intersoroi
ity sings. Delta Upsilon and Al
pha Phi again placed second.
Directed by Kermit Hansen, the
Beta's sang a medley of two
songs, "Tramp, Tramp," and the
"Beta Marseilles." The title of the
Delta Upsilon's song was "Lift
We Our Song" directed by Bob
Adkins.
"Theta Lips" was Theta's win
ning song. The group was led by
Jane Eldridge. Alpha. Phi, di
rected by Jean Hughessang their
sweetheart song. Alpha Chi Ome
ga and Pi Beta Phi placed third
and fourth respectively.
Judges of the sing were Mrs.
Rolla Van Kirk. of Lincoln, Miss
Estclle Kcihnof of Union college,
and G. E. Heilman of Lincoln.
Irene Sellers, senior member of A.
W. S. board, was chairman of the i Senior's
arrair.
The Ivy day sing is sponsored
each year by the A. V. S. board
and Kosmet Klub.
Orrin Tucker's distinctive dance
rhythms will fill the ballroom of
the Student Union tonight as stu
dents on the campus get their
first taste of the Student Union
program that the big name band
will inaugurate.
Tucker, whose type of music
has been wholly his own since it
suddenly brought him to national
fame during the Chicago World
Fair, features dance rhythms that
are subdued and sophisticated and
melodies that are suggestive of torian
moonlight and romance. The dash
of color is added to his orchestra
by an array of popular singers in
cluding the Bailey sisters and
Bonnie Baker.
Versatile Orrin,
The band leader is the most ver
satile member of the group. A
composer, vocalist, and director he
also has the knowledge of every
instrument in his 20 piece band
and the ability to compose musical
arrangements. Altho he does not
boast of many published songs, a
number of his selections are
among those in the repertoire of
MAY COURT PROCLAIMS
MISS HINTHORN IVY POET
Marking Thyllis Chamberlain,
of Lincoln, the new president of
Mortar Board, Maxine Durand, re
tiring president, Initiated the Ivy j
day ceremony yesterday afternoon J
which paid tribute to 13 junior
women for three years of leader
ship and service to the student
body of Nebraska.
Other new members of the
Black Masque chapter of Mortar
Board are Frances Boldman, vice
president; Harriet Cummer, sec
retary; Josephine Rubnitz, treas
urer; Barbara Rosewater, his-
and Virginia Nolte, Bon
nie Burn, Ruthanna Russel, Pa
tricia Lahr. Betty Clements. Vir
ginia Fleetwood, Vclma Ekwall
and Helen Pascoe.
Miss Chamberlain is the daugh
ter of Mrs. Anna B. Chamberlain,
of Lincoln, and a student in the
college of agriculture. She is a
member of the Farmers Fair
board, the Coed Counselor board,
the junior-senior prom committee,
the Home Economics associations
board. Phi Upsilon Omicron, Tas
sels, P.. O. T. C. sponsor, and a
member of the Y. W. C. A.
Masked by Eloise Benjamin of
Lincoln, the past vice president,
Frances Boldman is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. James Boldman
of Holdrege, and a member of
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STANLEY BREWSTER.
PHYLLIS CHAMBERLAIN.
YWCA MEMBERS HOLD
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Musical Program Features
Meeting in Student
Union Sunday.
An offer of a suitable iilt at the
college of agriculture for one of
thing for me to study. I guess 1 11 jlhe follr new regional rcsearch of
There"a not much to write about ' laboratories was made in a resolu-; mor." will be entertained at
except a little experience 1 had lion passed by the University of , breakfast by their Y. W. C. A.
last night with my roommate. He's , Nebraska board of regents Wed-1 daughters, the "flowers of spring"
one of these self-suffificent t ng-1 ncsday. These latoratoiies are to Sunday morning in the newly
u-hn i alwava muttering ,i now t nmmereial uses for an- i opened Student Lmon building
about how tough his college is and ri, ultural products.
scoffing or disregarding any wea Following is the resolution:
of the New Agricultural Adjust- ioncd garden atmosphere for the A Prize of goesto the writer
mcnt Act of 1938. four Regional program of music and a reciprocal of the winning poem.
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that can t be put into a formula
Not ar bad guy, thougn. He ana i
are always knocking the other's
college and praising our own so
last night we decided to give each
other a sample of our respective
fields.
irst, he took me through the en
gineer's open house. I saw glars
labyrinths of test tubes, Jumbls
of pipes and wheels, maelstroms of
turbines, and a hodge-podge of
solids liquids, and gases. The me
chanical rodcrliness and Just so
newi of everything was enough to
make a fellows imagination run
for cover. Bob showed me a lie de
tector which he was especially en
thusiastic about.
"What is the use of It V I asked
him. And he said to discover when
somebody wa lying.
"Naturallv.- I said. "But Isn't it
.more important In find out why
pt-ople lie, wnai u io
character, or what type is apt to
lie?"
He could have told me that it is
first necessary to find out when
people lie before the other things
can be brought to light, but he
never thought of that. I didn't
think he would.
These engineer are always lord
ing It over everybody ayns"
that they are the men who turn the
wheel of civilization and furnish
the rert of us with physical neces
sities and comforts while we con
tribute nothing for the good of
society. Just the same, I notice
that when as soon as a man either
lurceeds or falls tn providing him
self with living essential, he turns
to art and Its Ideas and ideals for
sanctuary, thought stimulation or
reassurance of the worth of living
worldly life.
I guess It takes all kinds of peo
ple to make a pleasant place to
live, htough.
Yours truly.
Jim.
! ballroom, beginning at 8:15.
Decorated with flowers, the ball
room will take on an old tasn-
Composition Wins
Approval of Judges,
Five Dollars.
La Vcta Hinthorn, senior in the
college of arts and sciences, was t
revealed as 1938 Ivy Day Poet fol-1
lowing the presentation of the May ;
Queen yesterday morning. Miss I
... Hinthorn's home ,
fs at Parsons. , aw
las. ceiure en
tering Nebraska
last year she at
tended junior col-1
lege at Parsons, j
She is a student
in the school of i
journalism.
Selection of the ;
Ivy Day Poet
was madfcRfter i
consideration of j
poems submitted !
to a committee j
composed of Miss .
Louise Pound
Miss Margaret
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Philip Southwick Assumes
Vice-Presidency, Benn
New Secretary.
I Thirteen crimson-gowned fig
i ures, tired of their four Ion; years
j of work to attain membership into
i the highest men's senior honorary
on the Nebraska campus, turned
over the priceless keys of their
secret archives to 13 enthusiastic
juniors ready to carry on the work
as the traditional tapping of Inno
cents ended the gala Ivy Day fes
tivities yesterday afternoon.
Set under bright skies favoring
hundreds of candid photographers,
in warming spring air, on the green
grass just north of the administra
tion building whose offices will re
cord the ultimate success of these
13 new men, a drama that brought
tears of enthusiasm to the eyes of
many parents and students was
written with expectancy and em
barrassment heading the acta.
25-Foot Runs.
Having been ridden roughly to
the ground with the aid ot a 20
foot run on the part of the crim
soned tapper, each new member
took his place in the organization
which fosters campus traditions
and rules in the word of activity
men. Desirous of breaking some
precedent, members of the old so
ciety proceded to reverse order of
tapping. New officers were tapped
last.
Tapped as president for the 35th
society of Innocents was Stanley
Brewster of Lincoln. A member
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College Senior Cites
Statistical Analysis
of Crime.
pointed out in
Iji i lllnlhorn.
Linciln Journal.
McPhce and Dr. L. C. Wimbcrty.
Martha 31 orrow Chosen May Queen
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Gaiety, pomp and glamour of the j
what ruffled yesterday as Harold
Gurske. orator for the occasion.
his address that
crime is run
ning rampant
and making
America the
"b 1 i ndspot" of
the world.
After citing
material gain;
made bv this
country, the Ivy
Day orator
startled the
crowd with the
statement that
there are over
3,500,000 crim
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engaged at I t -A I
work in this:J.
Harold (iarkr.
j Lincoln Journnl.
country. Accentuating the mean
! ing of this appalling number, i
j Gurske said, "To the casual ob- 1
j server this ghastly figure may pass j
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PHI MOiSlLECTS 1
EDISON NEW PRESIDENT '
Honorary Music Fraternity I
Chooses Officers at I
Meeting. j
Members of Thl Mil Alpha Sin-
lonia, national nonorary musical
fraternity, elected officers for the
ensuing year at a recent meeting.
Newly chosen supreme council
man is Richard White. Edward
Edison will serve as president of
me musical group. Jack Elson
was elected vice president, Her
bert Cecil will fill the position of
secretary, and the treasurer for
next year is Guy flcott. Rlcl.ard
Moro was chosen htxtorian of the
organization and Robert Alexan
der will act as warden.
New pledges selected by the
group are Donald Anderson and
Phil Anderson.
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: Annual Affair Scheduled
' at New Student Union
Tonight at 6:30.
Gov. n. L. Cochran will speak
; on "Engineering A Growing Pro
I fcssion ' to the various depart
1 ments of the engineering college
at the annual Engineers banquet
I tonicht at :30 - ...
in the new Stu- -' !
, dent Union
building. "i.
t,o v e r n o r
Coehian, w h o
was graduated
from the Uni
versity of N
biaska and lat
er became chief
state engineer,
will be intro
duced by Prof
.1. P. Colbert of
the Engineer
ing college,
i The banquet
to;is t m a st e i
, will be Prof. L. A. Bingham, of
i the electrical engineering depart
ment. Oz Elnck. feature illustra
; tor for the Lincoln Journal, will
j present his c h.ilk talk for enter
tainment. ; The annual er.cincer's joke mag-
azine, entitled the "Sledge," will
be distributed at the banquet.
I Tickets may be secured from
i John Kr!. r. Tom Anderson,
i Harold Augustin and Louis HcnVe
' at 75 cents a place.
iovrrnr Cochran.
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EWMA CLUB
HOLDS BREAKFAST
IN UNION SUNDAY
The University Newman club is
sponsoring as its last activity of
the year, a May breakfast In the
Rtudtnt Union Sunday. May 7. The
breakfast will be served at 11
o'clock In the main dining room on
the first floor.
Reservation! for the breakfast
may be made by railing Jameis
Kelly. Bob Sullivan, Bill McManua,
or Jozeta Hclfrtck. The deadline
for reserving place la May 6.
Regal in filmy tullo and white
lace. Martha Morrow of Merna.
Neb., was crowned queen of the
May ai the high point in yester
day'a traditional Ivy da festivi
ties. Miss Morrow, who la senior
in Teachers college, is a member
of Mortar Board, president and
past secretary of Tassels, vice
president of the Associated
Women Students Board, member
of Coed Counselors, Y. W. C. A.
staff. Alpha Lambda Delta, HI
Lambd Theta, and Tanksterettes.
Miss Morrow's maid of honor was
Jane Barbour of Scottsbluff.
Advancing down the diagonal
walk to the flower covered
throne. Miss Morrow was applaud
ed by more than 3.000 spectators
gathered to watch the coronation.
The royal procession was flanked
on either aide by the Ivy and Daisy
chains, and was led by pages and
attendants from the various
classes.
Mortar Boards Attend.
The Ivy chain, carried by white
clad senior women, was led by
Elizabeth Ediaon; Frances Mar
shall, of Delta Gamma; Ruth Ra-
ana
nalAj. Wnnrttt Unnnfl flflmmA
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sunning junior women ntmtn mr i
dalsv chain, made up of a fresn
Lnoin Journal
each organized women- house.
Daisy leaders were Eva Jane Sin
clair, Alpha Phi; Marjorie Schick.
Kappa Delta; Irene Sellers, Alpha
XI Delta; and Elizabeth Smith, Al
pha Omicron PI.
Leading the royal profession,
the active chapter of Mortar
Board, masked and black gowned,
was followed by two pages dressed
In white satin page costumes with
plumed hats. The pages were
Marlon Hoppcrt, Alpha Chi
Omega; and Pauline Walters.
Attendants from the various
"or
the freshman class, Marian Miller,
man, aophomore and Junior from I iCopUaucd on Page 4.)
REGISTRATION TO START
MAY 9, DEADLINE MAY 13
Students who art now en
rolled In the university will be
gin registration for the next
semester May 9. The deadline
for registration without addi
tional charge It 5 p. m., May
13. Studentt should consult
their advisors in regard to their
schedulet before they register.
Altho registration will be com
pleted thlt spring, feet will not
be paid until midsummer.
New entrants to the univer
sity will register after Freth
man day next fall, after their
advltort have been assigned to
them.
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Howard fcaptaa.
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Harold Bra.
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V u . i 1 f . . 1 1 presiilent dug the aol
h S A . t ,J I 1 1 the Ivy. and the Jun
Z 1 f I f.- I completed the task. .
II A J 'rii t'E IU----.-J ! interfratcrnity and
. fc LatAiI' iJ rint .iaii. ii'im rw. sing. In ita stead
K, low, l.u.rin J-nirn.1. 1 Glee dub quartet
Vastly Different
Was Life, Ivy Day
Away Back in '12
Delving into the rafics of Ne-
braskans of yesteryears, we tound
a description of the first Ivy day
I in the days of long skirts and
tight wains. The 1U12 edition of
the Nebraskan did not display the
enthusiasm for Ivy day that does
the 1938 publication. There was
a ilngle H inch column.
The afternoon festivities of
years ago took place on the state
farm campus, where an Interclass
track meet was held. A baseball
game followed the announcement
of the Innocents st 4:30.
No all university dance cli
maxed the day't festivities in 1912.
Instead there was a band concert
and a two act play stage! by the
Dramatic club.
Senior Gift.
Tradition said that the seniors
must present a gift to tha univer
sity, and in 1912 the seniors pre
sented a large brass clock to be'
placed above two little windows on
the dormer projection on the east
roof of the library. It wat sup
posedly to help all lazy laggardi
arrive at class on time.
The article described procedure
which we recognize as traditions
of our Ivy day. Then, as now,
I morning events took plsct Just
IV : ln senior
toil and placed
lor president
Ther wat no
intersororlty
tiff in lis steaa inrre wni
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