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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 6, 1938)
KICHT THE DAILY NESRASSAN, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1958 Life Council Submits Plan Religious Committee to Follow-up Life Week N.U. Program Helps Save 50 Billion Dollars Yearly Reports of the continuation. committee of Religion and Life week, the finance committee and the survey committee were heard and adopted at a recent meet ing of the Religious Welfare council. Appreciation of the uni versity's co-operation in the Re ligion and Life week is to be oar lied to the administration by vote of the council. A committee was appointed to nominate a vice president of the council to take the place left vacant by Dr. H. J. Funis who transferred from Ne braska. The continuation committee's report, presented by the chair man, F.llsworth Steele, recom mended the following points to the council: 1. A united religious meeting, convocation or vesper, every month. 2. University-wide observance of special days. 3. En couragement of the exchange of leadership by youth groups from time to time to better interde nominational understanding. 4. Co-operation and direct action in the field of social service, co-operation with the Barb Union and other groups in investigating and bettering employment and hous ing conditions, and parallel action . with the Barhs in promoting the suggested boarding club in the Student Union, and 5. Establish ment of better publicity system through regular publicity man agers for each group and the . seeking of a special Sunday re ligious column in the Daily Ne braskan. Finance Report. The finance report of the Re ligion and Life week presented by C D. Hayes, showed a sound con dition with a reserve for the next week of particular religious em phasis. The survey committee headed by Rev. Robert Drew, sought further time to complete its study of the religious oppor tunities offered students by the churches. Reassignment of students to the working committees of the coun cil was undertaken and letters from the leaders of Religion and Life week were reported. Rev. R. B. Henry, president of the council, announced that pictures of the council, including student, faculty and religious workers, will be taken in the campus studio. Tuesday, Dec. 6. Reading Skill Valued At 50 Cents an Hour How would you like to help save 50 billion dollars a year? That is just what the univer sity's reading improvement pro gram is doing. It has been esti mated that if every literate Amer ican over 15 years of age who spends two hours a day in read ing could be given effective train ing in the improvement of his reading skill, the saving in time re quired to do the nation's reading, valued at 50c an hour, would be about 50 billion dollars annually. The university program, now in its seventh year, is being ad vanced along three fronts. Fresh men in teachers' college have their reading habits diagnosed and are given instruction to remedy their faults. Just recently, the facilities of the program, under the supervi sion of Dr. D. A. Worcester and Dr. Ralph Bedell, have been made available to anyone in the univer sity. Third phase of the program is a research project to evaluate the results of the project: Double Rate in Few Weeks. Improvement in the rate of read ing by as much as 200 percent has been reported. "We can expect an average of from 25 to 200 percent improvement as the result of ap plying the remedial measures we have developed, reports Dr. nor cester. "Any adult should be able to double his reading rate with a few weeks' proper instruction Bv practice alone, the average per son should be able to increase his rate by at least 25 percent." in- Teachers college froah are given reading; tests to determine their rate of speed, their ability to com prehend the material read, their ability to follow written instruc tions and to outline material. Pho tographs of the movements of the eyes show the conductors of the research tha faults in most stances. Faults Found, Corrected. Once the causes of faulty read ing have been discovered, they are corrected, either by reference to an eye specialist in the case of physical defects, or to a laboratory section if his faults are purely mechanical. Some unusual findings of the re search: Rapid readers not only com prehend better, but retain longer. The average university stu dent reads just half as fast as he could with a little training. The good reader has a good vocabulary, he remembers well, he can spot the key words and sentences and assigns them their relative positions. The good reader is a rapid reader. "Vocalizing" to oneself while reading Is a serious handicap. A person reads two or three times as fast when he does not do it. The reading speed of univer sity students varies from 125 to 650 words per minute. The average individual reads from 200 to 250 words a minute. Fast est reading time ever reported, 1,200 words per minute. johnny cox to PLAYsheldon Euloqizes Johnny Cox and his orchestra LOWTGnCG BriMC! have been engaged to play for the "Piston Swing," a dance given by the members of the student branch ot the American Society of Agri cultural Engineers next Saturday niht in the Activities building on the Ag campus. Admission to the affair will -be 31 cents for men and 21 cents for women. ES-TO-BE (Continued from Pago 5 1 by the athletic department at the University of Nebraska. Scores of interstate games show that Ne braska prep football occupies a high position similar to that en joyed by the Cornhuskers in the collegiate pigskin world. Hats off to the Nebraska high school stars of today they're the Cornhusker rtazzlers of tomorrow. A peace council to co-ordinate the peace activities of all existing campus organizations has been or ganized at New Jersey college for women. Snipes Returns From Shanghai Former News Editor Of 'Rag' Visits Campus Johnston Snipes, former news editor of the Daily Nebmskan, who graduated in 1936 and took a job as United Press night editor and photographer in war-torn Shanghai, returned to his home in Lincoln Saturday. In self-styled "hibernation" dur ing his leave, Snipes is quietly va cationing at the home of his par ents. Dr. and Mrs. J. J. Snipes. He spent Monday in Omaha with officials of the United Press and Pioneer Entomologist Honored at Ag Session The late Professor Lawrence Bruner, pioneer entomologist at yie University, was yesterday re ferred to as the "state's first great naturalist" as he was honored on the Hall of Agricultural Achieve ment at Organized Agriculture. A. E. Sheldon, superintendent of the Nebraska Historical Society, presented the paper eulogizing the educator. Each year some Nebraskan making outstanding contributions to the state's basic industry ag riculture -is so honored. Professor Bruner's portrait will be hung in the Hall of Agricultural Achieve ment on the agricultural college campus later. The honored man originally came from Pennsylvania. He lived for many years in West Point. He entered the University of Nebras ka in its earliest years, acting as assistant to Prof. Samuel Aughey, will return to Lincoln WednesdayJ who was then head professor of i i . . . ii .. : , i :-. when he plans to visit the campus Snipes, a member of Sigma Al pha Epsilon, has been in heavy demand since his return to Lin coln by friends who want him to tell the "inside lowdown" on the Sino-Japanese war. Western Thrillers Mysteries Appear on Studio Program Theater Group to Give Four Skits Wednesday Ranging from a rip-snorting drama to a mystery comedy, four plays make up the program of the Studio theater group Wednesday evening at 7 o'clock in Temple 2(11. This performance is possibly the last one before final exam week and the next to last appear ance of the group before tryouts are held for next semester's se ries of short, experimental plays Wednesdav's offering includes "Cul-DeSac," "Across the Border," "The Bond Between" and 'dory Oorge." In contrast to last month's program when a majority of the actors w re from the all university tryout group, only two of the students in these plays are not taking courses in the speech department.. Russlers vs. Ranchers. Across the Border" is the hor -opera focused on a Htruggle be tween rustlers and ranchers in Texas. The cast of three include Hollis French as Mrs. Hopper, Robert Ijendley as Ed and Irwin Roeser as Frank. Virginia Nolle is student director, "Cul-De-Sac" involves a female dope fiend who tries to get the guardianship of her young daugh ter. Virginia Thede plays the part of Mrs. Morne, Jean Morgan is Dr. Eleanore Barry and Rowena Beadle is O'Brien. Student director is Claudine Burt. "The Bond Between" is an inter esting study of a conflict between mother and daughter. In the cast are Rilla Mae Nevin, Mrs. Hale-don- Rita Alger, Joan; Lucille Marker, Miss Bnggs, and Doris Poellot, Mrs. Carson. LaRue Sor rell is director. Elizabethan Ghost 'Appears. "Gory George" furnishes the comedy of the program with an Elizabethan ghost and his head less wife.. In the cast are Jon Prudcn as George; Pamclla Wal lace, Anna; Calvin Rollins, Dobbs; and M.-.ry Kline, Dulcy. Claudine Burt is student director. To avoid payment of royalties, Studio theater productions are not open to the public. Speech students are admitted free. The next series ft plays to be presented includes "Five Minutes From the Station," "5T Ghost of JeriT Bindler" and "Midnight Cull." all sciences at the University. From 1889 to 1895 he was in structor of entomology and from 1895 until 1923 he was professor of entomology. The honored man was an im portant figure in entomology cir cles not only in Nebraska but throughout the world. In 1895 he was called by the Argentine gov ernment to study the grasshopper control problem there. Between the years 1880 and 1888 he was a field worker for the Smithson ian Institute at Washington. 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