The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, June 14, 1938, Image 1

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TO STUDENT
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PROF. E. F. SCHRAMM
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Dr. II. G. Clapp Appointed
To Olympic Committee
Dr. R. G. Clapp, chairman of
the department of physical educa
tion for men, has been appointed a
member of the American Olympic
committee for this year and wilk
attend the meeting of the group
in New York City June 26. The
committee of which he is a mem
ber has charge of all matters hav
ing to do with the United States'
participation in the Olympic
games which will be held in Tokyo
in 1910.
HORSE SHOE PLAYING
INAUGURA
TES UNION'S
PROGRAM
OF SPORTS
Hour Dance Set Wednesday
from 5-6, Admission
Free to All.
Horseshoe playing started yes
terday as the first recreational
sport in the Student Union pro
gram for the summer. Equipment
may be checked out daily at 6:30
p. m. at the Union check stand
and courts have been laid out on
the lot east of the building. A
tournament is planned to start
about June 21.
An hour dance in the ballroom to
Capehart recordings is scheduled
between 5 and 6 o'clock Wednes
day. Admission will be free and
dates are unnecessary, according
to Miss Marion Steele, Union social
director.
Movies Thursday.
Thursday evening at 8 o clock,
sound movies will be shown in the
ballroom, and Friday evening an
other dance will be held. The or
chestra for the latter affair will be
announced later. Saturday after
noon, students may attend another
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C. B. SCHULTZ HEADS
Three Museum Parties Go
To Western Nebraska
For Summer.
Three Nebraska museum parties
are in the field this year in west
ern Nebraska, excavating for mu
seum specimens, particularly the
remaining bones of the giant
camel, part of which have already
been obtained. C. Bertrand Scbultz,
assistant director of the museum,
left Saturday with those members
of the parties who were not al
ready in the field. In addition to
students, a large number of WPA
workers will assist.
Groups already in the field In
clude the party under Grayson
Meade, which has been located for
several weeks in the vicinity of
Hemingford. Frank Dudek of
Clarkson recently joined this
group. Thompson Stout, Lewellen;
Emery Elue, Lincoln, and Jack
Graham of York will be in charge
of parties this year. Included in
Stout's group are Robert Glover,
Bennet; Krvin Brier, Dc Witt; and
Guy Johnson and Loren Toohey,
both of Hemingford. TbJa party
will work along the headwaters of
the Niobrara and will make Hem
ingford their camp site.
To Survey Drainages.
Blue's party will survey the
drainages of White creek and Hat
creek in the vicinities of Crawford
and Harrison. Members of this
party include: Harry Gunderson,
Lincoln; John Mercer, Orleans;
Lloyd Tanner, Mascot; James
Crosbie, Lincoln, and John Adams
of Curtis. Graham, assisted by
Donald Chaloupka of Bridgeport,
will study the pleistocene terraces
near Broadwater and Bridgeport
along the North Platte valley.
Schultz's headquarters will be at
Bridgeport, and he will direct all
parties from there. Funds for car
rying on the summer work nave
come as usual from the contribu
tions of the late Charles Morrill
and Chi Ids Frick of the American
Museum of Natural History.
EXCAVATION
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GEOGRAPHY MEET
Professor Will Represent
State at Congress,
July 18 to 28.
Dr. Willem Van Ryon, assis
tant professor of geography, sailed
Saturday for Amsterdam, Holland,
where he will give two addresses
at the 15th international geograph
ical congress, July 18 to 2S. He
has been certified by Governor
Cochran as Nebraska's official
representative at this world con
ference. Dr. Van Royen will speak before
the physiography section meetings
on "Post Glacial Topographic and
Climatic Changes in the Central
Plains Region." He will also read
a paper at the economic geography
conference discussing some of the
relationships between soils, cli
mate, and crop yields in the Amer
ican middlewest.
To Go to Denmark.
While in Europe, Dr. Van Royen
will also represent the state and
university at the second interna
tional congress of anthropological
and ethnological sciences in Den
mark Aug. 1 to 6. He and Mrs.
Van Royen will travel quite ex
tensively abroad, particularly thru
the Balkan countries. They plan
to visit the leading educational
centers as well as such geograph
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LEAVE FOR SOUTHWEST
Party to Visit New Mexico,
Colorado, Wyoming,
South Dakota.
Ten students of advanced re.
ology, accompanied by Dr. "E. F.
benramm, chairman of the depart
ment, left Monday for a six weeks'
field trio thru Colorado. New Mex
ico, Arizona, Utah, Wyoming and
&ouin uakota, where they will
study various rock formations and
mineral and coal deposits.
Those composing the party in
clude: Wilmer Shir, Lee Cornelius,
Paul Fuenning, Everett Lowry,
Carl Alexis. Ted Kubick. William
Hendy, Robert Gutru, Frank John
son ana John (jroth. These stu
dnets will receive six hours of uni
versity credit for their work on
the trip. They will go by bus and
win camp in various places along
the route.
Study Along Republican River.
After a study of the geological
formations along the Republican
river of southern Nebraska, the
party will go to Denver for a short
time, studying the formations of
the Rocky mountain front range.
They will then go south to Trini
dad, where they will study coal de
posits. In eastern and northeast
ern New Mexico studies will be
made of coal and potash deposits.
Following a trip south to Carls
bad cavern, the party will turn
west to Arizona, where they will
visit a petrified forest, a meteor
crater, the Grand Canyon aira a
number of copper mines. Crossing
the Colorado river north, they will
go to Zion National park in south
ern Utah. Studies will be made of
formations all along the Wasatch
mountain range in Utah. Turning
north thru Utah, the group will
then examine various coal and oil
shall deposits, and visit refineries
at various points.
Entering South Dakota, they will
go to the Homestake mines In the
northern portion of the Black
Hills, one of the largest groups of
gold mines in the world. They
will study formations near Rapid
City and Hot Springs, turn east to
the Big Bad Lands, and from there
go south across Nebraska and
back to Lincoln.
STUDENTS
Lo?.t, Found Moves
To Teachers ColIfNjJ'
The lost and found depart
ment for the summer session
has been moved to the office of
Director Moritz, 305 Teachers
College, and reports of articles
misplaced or found should be
reported there. The list to date
consists only of a green rain
cape, which may be redeemed
upon identification.
Registration Books lose
Thursday, Deadline
for Graduation.
Summer enrollment promises to
reach a new high in 1938 as regis
tration figures up to Monday
morning showed a total of 2,005
students. This is far ahead of last
year when total summer registra
tion amounted to only 2,01712
more students than at the present
time with registration for this year
not due to close until Thursday,
the deadline for graduates.
Total enrollment in the univer
sity during the past year has been
officially announced as 11,743. This
is nearly an all-time record, being
surpassed only by the 11.848 figure
of 192(3-27 and the 11.875 figure of
19Z7-2S. Enrollment of 1936-37
reached 11.525. All of these fig
ures include summer session, ex
tension, first and second semester
collegiate registrations, short
courses, and secondary registra
tions. Increases were reported last
year in the following colleges and
schools: Agriculture, business ad
ministration, engineering. law.
journalism and nursing.
Dr. Hendricks Writes
For Current Magazine
Dr. B. Clifford Hendricks of the
department of chemistry recently
published another article on ex
aminations m The Journal of
Chemical Education.
Tests shouid be used as a tool
to measure progress, the article
explains, not merely to provide a
graae upon which to base promo
tion and graduation. Students are
really growing pupils, and tests
snow us whether or not there
really is growth and how much.
ENROLLMENT CLIMBS
TO POSSIBLE RECORD
TOPS 210
MONDAY
G-Men Demonstrate Prowess
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G-men from Washington will demonstrate the firing of tracer
bullets from machine guns tomorrow night before the university's
first Institute for peace officers. In charge of the demonstration
will be L E. Nitschke of the FBI. Dr. James Reinhardt, sociology,
has arranged the institute program with the co-operation of W. C,
Condit, editor of the Nebraska Sheriff, and Prof. R. D. Moritz,
director of the summer saulon. Programs will continue thru Friday.
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SEASON TO OPEN
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Revival of Winter Success,
'Penny Wise Offers
Original Cast.
Not to be outdone by New Eng
land's "straw hat" theater season.
the university speech department
inaugurates its 1938 summer the
ater with the Dresentation of
"Penny Wise," three act comedy,
inursaay evening at the Temple.
Produced last winter by the Uni
versity Plavers. "Pennv Wise" won
the enthusiastic approval of the
campus in us week s run. Most of
the original cast will be featured in
Thursday's revival including Betty
Widener as Penny, John Gaeth as
Gordon, her husband, Don Boehm
as wise-cracking brother Jeff,
Ruth Van Slyke as Tina, Helen
Rice as Martha, Waldomar Muel
ler as Mr. Dunn, and Betty Row
land as Katherine.
The light humor of "Penny
Wise" makes it especially suitable
for summer theater fare. Pennv is
the sweet little wife whom every
one loves, even the ex-mistresses
of her husband. When a new fem
inine menace appears to threaten
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DR. PFEILER WILL LEAVE
FOR EUROPE TOMORROW
German Professor to Obtain
First-Hand Information
Of Affairs Abroad.
D. W. K. Pfeiler, associate prof
essor of Germanic languages, will
leave tomorrow for New York,
to sail from there for an extended
trip through central Europe. He
will visit Germany and Czecho
slovakia, and perhaps go to
Vienna, Austria, and Budapest, in
Hungary.
Dr. Pfeiler states that the pur
pose of his trip will be to obtain
a first-hand information on the
political and economic situation in
these countries, and to continue
work in his special field of re
search, which is a study of the
World War in literature. In this
connection he will visit libraries
of the various countries and hold
interviews with writers who treat
the War as a theme of leterature.
He will return around Sept. 1.
THURSDAY
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