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'Messiah Puppets
& Witnesses of War
Today's social program on the cam pus,
it fi mi j ;i .N.xi 1 1 lt events ranging from the sublime
to the nt'iii'-riilifiiloiis. is one Ihnt tlie students
cannot nii'i'i'il tu miss. One of three pliases (if
aSuni lay activity has n claim on leisure time.
All three arc worthy of student patroniiKe.
All are five
The I'orlv-tliird annual presentation of the
".Messiah' this ai'iet tioon in the coliseum raises
the curtain on ihe University's social program
for the day, The t radit ional Christmas ora
lorio has been extolled so tnilell, mill deserv
ingly, that words fail to add to the spiritual
iiiijire.ssivciiess ( the school of music's produc
tion. It is a University function that merits
student put rutin ye for the inspiring ami
timely message it offers.
Hardly on the deeper side of Nebraska's
cultural life, but certainly happy escape from
the routine of campus life is the appearance of
Tony Sard's famous puppets. The sophisticate
and the cuic may sneer at Ihe thought of
wntchin" dolls on strings perform, but it only
takes these little people once to soften the
hearts of some of the most hard-boiled people
in the world. Their miniature realism seldom
fails to please, and it is with mingled regret
that audiences are amazed when one of the
puppeteers enter the small stage and spoil the
illusion which the puppets create so realistic
ally. Final event is not an open affair, but one
.which should interest journalism school men
and others interested in eye-witness accounts
'of the Sino-.lannnesc war. Two University
graduates, returned to the States after duty
with the U. !S. consulate service and a press
news bureau, will meet for the first time to
night and exchange views gathered at Nan
king and Shanghai at an "off the record"
smoker. Their remarks will not be for publi
cationespecially those of the American con
sular official hut they will be fact-filled and
significant in Hii'owing some light on the U. S.
stand in the Far East war.
Today is a busy day. There is something
doing all afternoon, something that should ap
peal to all students, and something to which
all students should appeal for leisure time well
spent.
Campus Capers
The kiddishness
dents cropped out
ut some university stu-
croppeu out over this weekeiiu when
I iiioii oflictals discovered to their chagrin that
2"i candy canes, hung on the two Christmas
trees in the lounge, had been '"lifted.''
It isn't the !fJ..ritl that the candy canes
cost. It's the principle of the thing. The
candy canes, like everything; else in the Union,
belongs to all the students of the University,
The .$:! per semester Union fee entitles them
to all rights and privileges, Hut ''swiping"
candy canes off of Christmas trees is not in
cluded in the membership rights.
And off Christmas trees, of all things!
it
Quote
"It all the economists were laid end to
end from Boston as far as they would reach,
it would be wise to leave them in lhat po
sit ion," Hean Herbert K. Hawkes of Columbia
University quotes "a friend."
suzy vanTmythe
"Dartmouth's in Town Again,"
this Christmas vacation and it
doesn't matter where the town is:
the "outdoor, college loyal, hard
drinking Dartmouth men, never
to be confused with the blase,
snobbish, intellectuai Harvard
product," won't be able to escape
the dither and fol-de-rol of the ar
t If Ida lit y of society's brain child
the debutante party.
Don't for one moment think that
these social festivals just happen.
Mama and papa have been plan
ning little Suzy Van Smythe's (or
iginally spelled Schulu) party
ever since the papers told the
great masses that a daughter had
been born to Mr. and Mrs. Regi
nald Q. Van iSniythe. F.ightecn
years as an incubator baby and
hot bouse plant soaking up culture
at Miss Finch's and Miss Porter's,
one night on the auction block at
a party that set papa back S20,
000, a whirl around the cafes, a
summer abroad, several in New
port, briel stops in Florida, and
the stage is set for grabbing off
a nice eligible.
There is no doubt about it, A
dehutante party manages to
bring together the most composite
picture of snobbery at its best that
the democratic nation of America
has ever been able to assemble in
one room.
Requests the Pleasure.
There's the reception line for ex
ample. Fordham's seven blocks of
granite had nothing on the groups
of women who make up the re
ception lines at assembly dances
or deb parties. They stand there
with outstretched hands and
frozen toothpaste smiles, giving a
standard greeting to each unci all
of those who arrive on time. You
to those who are a bit tardy for
they are cut short with a grimace
of displeasure. The same ritual of
the handshake is adhered to after
the dance as each one tells the
hostesses just what a marvelous
dance It was. So standard is the
ceremony, wc know one young
lady, slightly annoyed with the
parliamentary procedure, who
passed down the line shaking each
hand as she murmured "Good
night. My father s a ditch digger."
The only answer she received was
"Yes, it was a nice dance wasn't
it?"
The stag line is a pleasant lot
usually made up of tall slender,
hands-in-pockets. Harvard stereo
types. Conversation on football,
politics, or personal opinions is
taboo while "Were you at Midl
and such a dance last night? No!
Awfully dead affair," holds the
floor. One must never express like
or dislike for a plav or a book. It
heard Chancellor C. S. Boucher might offend someone who dis
discuss "The University in the! agrees but is too polite to say so.
Slate's Development." He charae- One loyal Dartmouth man had the
terized a study of current and ' unforesight to mention that he
probable future development of! came from that institution to the
state Institutions, launched last j stag on bis left. The reply was
week bv the state planning board, i brief but thought provoking. "Oh
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MRS. ALVIN GARD.
Nebraska and to have a much
larger whole enrollment than that
of last year. The meetings of the
home economic section recorded
the largest registration and the
most counties represented.
At the closing meeting of the
home economics section. Mrs. Al-
vin Card of Beaver Crossing, was
re-elected president. Mrs. Gard
has been active in the county farm
bureau, with 4-H clubs and wom
en's project clubs in her county.
Mrs. Clifford Eshelman was cho
sen vice president, and Miss Mil
dred Nelson of Lincoln w as elected
secretary-treasurer.
Co-Op Hall Urged.
At the women's meeting the
group recommended a new home
economics building to meet the
large enrollment demands on the
ag campus. They recognized the
need for more adequate living
quarters for women students,
recommending the construction of
a co-operative hall for women oil
the agricultural campus.
Friday afternoon's attendance
Civil Engineers Meet
Wednesday Evening
Members of the student branch
of the American Society of Civil
Knginecis will hold a joint dinner
meeting Wednesday night in Par
lor C of the Union' with the mem
bers of the Nebraska section of the
society.
Featured at the meeting will be
an address by J. C. Detweiler of
Omaha. The meeting will be held
at 6:30. Edward Deklotz is in
charge of the preliminary ar
rangements for the meeting.
in a standard way for standard
dancers. It is only in recent years
that any step more primitive than
the two step has passed the eagle
eye criticism of the chaperoncs.
Kven an occasional big apple is al
lowed or perhaps one of Arthur
Murray's visiting circuses may en
tertain with a shag while a chubby
member of the floor committee at
tempts to imitate with his chub
bier partner. One assembly dance
even went so far as to attempt a
little group singing of popular
songs while a member of the or
chestra held up placards with the
words written on them. The plan
failed because it was considered
incorrect to raise the voice above
a decency level. No one could hear
the singing so the orchestra gave
up in disgust and played "Slum
ming on Park Avenue."
Not all the debs are walking
around in an artificial shell. There
are those who have their own ideas
and don't mind expressing them;
there are those who can have an
original Interpretation of an old
Idea and explain themselves co
herently, but they aren't the ones
who like their pictures plastered
in the rotogravures as "among
those present at the horse show"
tor maybe eating lamb stew at
Coq d'Or), They go to things be
cause w ell -because it's expected
of them or because they like to
study mob psychology.
Hut Dartmouth insists on being
in town again and even the
starched myth of a delimit ante
party is a change from the stark
realism of a night at the Gaiety
Ballroom. So we'll see you at Suzy
Van Smythe's braw l on the 2(ith.
The Dartmouth.
Freshmen Give
YWCA Vespers
Christmas Services
To Be Held Tuesday
The weekly Y. W. C. A. Vespers
will be held nt the University
Episcopal church, Tuesday, Dec.
IS, at ."i o'clock. This meeting is
the annual Christmas gathering
and Is in the charge of the Fresh
man Cabinet of the X. W. O. A.
under the leadership of Muriel
White, president
A special program Is to be given
In observance of the Christ ma
season. The program Is in chargo
of Phyllis Curtis, Katherine Houf
er, aiid Mary Ellen McKce. After
the singing of the Christmas carol.
"Hark the Herald Angels Sing,"
by the Vesper Choir, the Christ
mas story will be read from the
Book of Luke, Chapter 2, verses
1-2(1. by Marian Cramer.
The choir will then sing "Joy
to the World," featuring Jane Al
len as solotst, and Evelyn Paeper
is to present a Christmas reading.
After the next number by the.
choir. "Ch Little Town of Bethle
hem," Father McMillan will give
the address on the "Significance,
of Christmas." The meeting will
close with a prayer, and soft
organ music will be played as the
audience leaves the church.
Much time and effort have been
spent on this program and It is
expected to be very worthwhile.
Marian Cramer Is In charge of
the singing, Lois Billesbach In
charge of securing the church and
the speaker for the afternoon, and
Huth Romberg is in charge of publicity.
Yenne to Discuss
English With A.I.C.E.
Prof. Herbert Yenne, of the
speech department, will speak on
"The Engineer and English" Wed
nesday night ut 7:30 before the
members of the student branch of
the American Institute of Chemi
rat Engineers when that group
holds a meeting in room 102 01
the Avery Laboratory.
A University of Minnesota sur
vey Indicates that college gradu
ates may expect to be earning be
tween J2.000 and $3,000 annually
eight years after commencement
Storage and warehousing is
new course being offered In the
University of Texas school of busi
ness administration.
YWCA Contributions
Must Be Paid Now
Josephine Rubnttz, finance
chairman, urges all girls who
made pledges for contributions
or memberships to the univer
sity Y. W. C. A. during the fall
finance drive to pay them with
out delay in the Y.W. office in
Ellen Smith.
QolkqiaijL Jbwicio.
GIRLS DEFEND
(Continued from Page l.t
and men feuded with women about
who should wear them.
Peter Stuyvesant, Governor of
New Amsterdam, had a fancy
wooden leg decorated with silver
bands. He had a handsome pair
of breeches uhuh were slashed
and fastened at the knee with a
handsome scarf ornamented with
rosettes.
The Easter parade on Broadway
back in 1695 was not gav just be
cause of the women but because
of their escorts. Read the descrip
tion of Bayard, Colonel of the Mi
litia. "He wears a rinnanum col
oured cloth coat with skirt reach
ing quite to the knee embroidered
four or five inches deep with sil
ver lace, and lined with sky-blue
silk. His hat of black felt, hps a
wide flapping brim and Ui adorned
with a band of gold lace."
Washington State college
dents earn $240,910 during
nine month college year.
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Only One-Half Finish
Nearly half the boys and girls j
who registered in the nation's col-1
leges and universities this fall will
fail to receive their diplomas and
degrees four years from now, a
study just released by Dean Ever-
I ett W. Lord, noted Boston uni
versity educator, reveals. His ar
ticle entitled "Student Persistence
in American Colleges" appears in
the November number of theDiary,
official magazine of Alpha Kappa
Psi, International commerce fra
ternity, for which the study was
made.
Reduced to barest arithmetical
essentials, Dean Lord's report
shows that of 214.000 freshmen
who registered in 241 of the na
tion's colleges, 99.644 failed to
graduate within their four year
period of collegiate work.
Partially at fault for this ap
palling student mortality are the
colleges, Dean Lord's survey
states, since 5.000 of the "de
tached" freshmen who registered
In 241 of the colleges graced so
poorly that It is apparent that
they should never have been ad
mitted to college in the first place.
In all between 2V0O0 and 30.000
students are dropped from college
for scholastic deficiencies or fail
ures. The tragedy which befalls
these students, writes Dean Ird.
is not sufficiently appreciated by
colleges or society. These student
are. in effect, blacklisted by all
other colleges and, to a certain ex
tent, by business. They have been
definitely labeled as "failures" and
are likely to bear the stigma of
their shortcomings for years. Tills
is an awful price to pay for the
first year failure.
Surprising is it to note that the
academic mortality is the highest
among freshmen, lowest among
juniors and higher the senior year.
We tend to disagree with Dr.
Lord's statement saying that a
I freshman is Just as likely to fail
in a large institution as in 1 smaii
one. Personally we think that a
freshman has a much better
chance to break into college work
in a small school. The freshman
receives that personal attention in
a small school that he does not at
a larger arhool. In a school of this
size students may be around for a
couple years before the professors
know his name. There are profes
sors in this college that have a
atudent In their class for one se-
mester and cannot tell you his
name without looking at the rou
book.
That is not the case In a small
school. We are especially refer
ring to our state Junior colleges. A
howl arises that grades are much
! more easily made at junior colleges
than they are here. That 1 only
true In some Instance. Junior
college transfers at this school
have a definite place. They are
good average students. They re
ceived their first two years of
training in Junior colleges.
Fully 29 pejeent of freshmen
and 25 percent of upper class stu
dents drop out of college for fi
nancial reasons, despite the mil
lions of dollars available in most
colleges for scholarships, loans and
jobs. Even the National Youth
Administration's great aid does
not change this percentage, al
though prior to the NYA, with
drawals for" reasons of financial
difficulties were unquestionably
more numerous than they are now.
Daily O'Collegian.
as one of the most important and
far leaching steps in the entire
history of the state.
The chancellor asserted that the
University of Neluaska is one of
only 17 state universities main
taining sufficiently high standards
of graduate study and research to
retain membership in the Associa
tion of American universities. He
pointed out that the state and the
university have a joint responsi
bility to continue this quality of
work.
Dartmouth" (in a tone like
"Oh Gertrude Stein") I'm down
town with my father." A dealer in
insurance, no doubt.
Of Your Company.
As for the dancing itself, it is
run off like clockwork with one
orchestra playing standard music
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A Stanford university professor
has proved that members of the
caching profession can make more
than a living wage. Dr. Ellwood
P. . Cubberly, fornier dean of the
school of education at the farm,
saved enough "pin" money to erect
the new J535.0OO Education build
ing which was dedicated at Stan
ford last week. The funds were
derived from royalties on 118
books, receipts from lectures and
expert consultation services, divi
dends and interest.
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Wanted: Help for Fatigue.
Four men with type four blood,
approximately 24 years of age.
and each weighing 140 pounds are
wanted by a graduate psychology
student at the University of Okla
homa to sssit in solving the mys
teries of fatigue. The Oklahoman
will go 72 hours without sleep,
during which time he will exer
cise, ride a bicycle, and lift
weights. His assistants, men of
approximately the same height,
weight, and physical and mental
condition will undergo identical
tests, although they will not go
without sleep.
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Dean Coins Definition.
John J. Landsbury, dean of the
school of music at the University
of Oregon, defines a turnip as a
sweet potato disappointed In love,
a a a
Whew!
But Just the same, claims one
of the members of the Anglo-Irish
college debate team touring the
United States: "American stu
dents are much more serious than
are English students."
What do you think?
Harry Seagren Tops
Pershing Drill-Down
Harry Seagren carried off top
honors in this week's drill-down,
a competition in manual nf arms
within the Pershing P.ifles basic
unit. Second and third places
were taken by Gordon Johnston
and Jack Rohtbaugh, respectively.
Harlem N. Cooper and his
brother, Olho, both of whom grad
uated in agricultural engineering
in 1932. have designed and super
vised the construction of a new
type of potato cellar which has
attracted nationwide attention.
Prof. E. E. Bracken, chairman
of the department of agricultural
engineering, attended the recent
executive meetings at Chicago of
the American Society of Agricul
tural Engineers, of which organi
zation he is a vice president.
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