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Official Student Newspaper of the. University of Nebraska
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VOL. XXXI II, ISO. 66
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, KDNKSDAY. JAM1AKY I. 19.19
EBRASKAN
Coward Acts
Open Players
1939 Season
Three Excerpts From
'Tonight ot 8:30'
Billed for Jan. 10
Not one play but three one-act
dramas written by Noel Coward
make up the bill of fare to be pre
sented by the University Players
Tuesday, Jan. 10, in carrying their
Nebraskan Views, Reviews
Campus Events of 1938
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Year's Headlines Pass
Into History, Memory
Unlike the rest of the world,
students on the campus of the
University passed the year of 1938
more or less peacefully. However,
the 12 months did not slip by with
out many unusual and usual inci
dents, ocouring. In the following
regimes of campus life during the
year (with time out for vacations)
we will attempt to bring you the
outstanding incidents as they ap
peared in the Rag .
JANUARY Student Union op
ening sot for March 1 A weath
er report in the "Rag" read:
Warmer In Bed. Sam Francis
and Bernie Scherer, former N. U.
grid stars return from ranks of
pro-football. Once again the reg
istration mill begins three day
grind. Rag scoops papers of the
country with printing of diary of
a coed's stomach. Three local
stores suffer credit disasters as
phoney student nips them with
fake identification card. Thirty
two N. Y. A. students spend month
scraping fossil bones in Museum.
Sgt. Regler, campus cop, advises
students to "watch the fellow in
front of the fellow behind you
when driving.'.' Exam schedules
become literature of the moment.
Sarah Louis Meyer, leading Ne
braska columnist, Is felled by in
eligibility scythe, manned by Dean
of Student Affairs. Bruce Camp
bell takes over her column spot
with famous Chips. Awgwan re
veals sex life of the Stork. Many
disillusioned students are a re
sult. First woman editor in 15
years heads Rag staff as Helen
Pascoe takes over editorial du
ties.
FEBRUARY Birdhead, Ponca
Indian chief visits campus. In ex
clusive interview with a Rag re
porter, answers "Uggh" to all
question on European situation.
Groundhog makes annual visit to
campus, and warns students that
spring will be delayed six weeks
A sophomore Apollo in engi
neering colloge makes campus
news when he writes Mary Lane
World Merald sobstress, for ad'
vice on campus love life. Led by
Coach Adams, the wrestling team
downs an intoxicated rival. It all
happened on a train trip home for
the team when they met a drunk
who wanted to fight. Rain soaked
library book tells tale of woe to
student body in Nebraskan article
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Lincoln Journal.
NOEL COWARD.
..hit plays brilliant, biting.
current season over into 1939. This
marks the first attempt by the
players to give a program of one
net plays only and represents sev
eral departures In stage design as
well.
The plays, "Ways and Means,"
"The Astonished Heart" and
"Filmed Oak," are part of a vol
ume of nine one-act plavs under
the title, "Tonight at 8:30," writ
ten by the biilliant and often
brittle British playwright to help
restore the short play to its "right
fu pride."
Technical Difficulties.
Bemoaning the "fall from favor"
of one-act dramas, Mr. Coward
wrote the plays "especially," as an
experiment "to provide a full and
varied evening's entertainment for
theat"r goers," as he himself says
in a preface to the volume. The
"triple bill," one up on the double
feature, is not new but will pro
vide an interesting experience for
rampns playgoer.-
Technical difficulties presented
themselves when it was found that
three stage sets, entirely different,
would be necessary. To facilitate
changing of the stage, and to cut
down on the size of the several
sets, Delford Brunner, stage de
signer, employed "suggestive real
ism," a technique in which the
"flats" of scenery represent only
the walls of the loom or whatever
the setting, with even a hint of a
ceiling.
Teit Performances.
Ret up against a black ryclo-
rama which is nothing more or
less than a big. black backdrop,
and with the scene of action highly
spotlighted in contrast to utter
blackness beyond, the setting calls
upon the audience to use their
imagination to a greater extent
thsn usual.
The bare stage used by the
Mercury theatre in their well
known presentation of "Julius
Caesar" embodies this same Idea
to a greater degree to use as
little scenery as possible.
To test audience reaction, the
players will perform in their triple
bill Thursday at the reform school
and Saturday at the Veterans' hos
pital. In rehearsal since mid-December
under the direction of
Prof. Herbert Yenne, the several
casts show promise of being In
good form by Tuesday.
Faculty Members
Give Recital
Misses Klinker, Morley
Play Piano Wednesday
Miss Marguerite Klinker, mem
ler of the piano faculty, and Miss
Frances Morley, an associate
member of the music faculty, will
present a two piano recital as a
feature of the musical convoca
tion Wednesday at 4 p. m. in
Temple. This Is the second two
piano program to be presented by
(he school of music this semester.
Because of the high itandard of
their former recitals, one of the
large audiences of the season Is
anticipated. The two Lincoln ar
tists will play a program of nine
numbers, including an Interesting
. collection from both the classical
and the modern schools.
Both are graduates of the Uni
versity o' Nebraska school of
music ar ' both have taken work
with some of the leading artists.
Miss Morley Is also an accom
plished flutist. Their program,
open to the public, is as follows:
I. ltlvllla, 1 Julllfl, Cnuidin.
Kri hi and Kukuc, In A minor,
IA-h-Hfcur.
The Fulmntd Fountain. Arnold Pax.
Inc at Mldnhl iHumUi, Daua
fcuiriw.
le, Poulenr-KIJnker.
anationi on a French Kulkiong,
M'ruerlte Klinker.
Trari Op. .1, ftn. 3, Tarantella Op.
17, No. 4, S. RarhmanlnofC.
Dorm Bids
Due Friday
Proposals for General
Contract Let Jan. 6
Bids on the general contract for
the two new dormitory units to be
erected north of Carrie Belle Ray
mond are due Friday at 2 o'clock
according to the dormitory com
mittee. Following the setting in of the
deadline for the accepting of con
tracts, the proposals will be pub
licly opened and read aloud.
The two units will be joined
completely on the first floor and
basement and the rear units will
ne aitacned to the dining room
wing of the present dormitory,
Raymond hall. The second and
third floors of the new units will
be entirely separate.
The front division of the new
structure will house 96 girls and
the rear unit will have rooms for
112. The first floor of each unit
will hold the office of the house di
rector, her living rooms and bed
room suite beside private rooms
for 24 girls. Each will have com
plete equipment In the basement
for study rooms, recreation rooms,
laundry, shampoo and storage
rooms.
The architecture of the new
building will be the same style as
that of Carrie Belle Raymond.
Engineer Group
Honors DeBaufre
N. U. Professor Gains
National Recognition
In recognition of his many re
searches in the field of heat trans
fer. Prof. William L. DeBaufre,
chairman of the department of en
gineering mechanics, has received
notice of his appointment to mem
bership on the committee on pa
pers of the professional division
on heat transfer of the American
Society of Mechanical Kngineers.
Professor DeBaufre has pub
lished a number of papers dealing
with his research. He is also a
member of the sub-committee on
heat transfer by radiation of the
national research council. At the
present time he teaches a course
on flow of fluids and heat which
is based on a significant amount
of information resulting from his
years of research In the field.
Dr. Patterson to Lead
Biblical Oddity Study
Dr. Charles Patterson of the
philosophy department will lead a
series of discussions on the oddi
ties found in the teachings of the
Bible, beginning Sunday evening
a t Westminster Presbyterian
church.
Ths discussions are part of a
fellowship progTam for university
students sponsored by the church,
and will begin each Sunday at 7:30
following a supper and worship
service.
Union Opens
PhotoContest
Cash Prizes Offered
For Best Snapshots
A rash prize photograph con
test enabling enthusiasts to turn
their fun into money will start to
day, according to an announce
ment made yesterday by Mrs.
Ylnger, social director of the
Union. The purpose of the con
test is to obtain illustrations for
a booklet dealing with the Union
and its activities which will be
published in the spring.
Two grand prizes of $7.50 each
will be awarded to the students
submitting the best interior and
the best exterior shots of the
building. Smaller prizes of $2.00
will be awarded to the students
submitting the best pictures of the
ballroom and of each of the rooms
on the first floor. Interior shots
should Illustrate some phase of stu
dent activity.
All pictures submitted will be
judgd on the basis of their
photographic excellence and their
adaptability to use in the book
let. According to the rules of
the contest all prints submitted
must be at least 3 by 5 inches.
The contest will close at noon on
Wednesday, Jan. IS.
All pictures submitted will be
placed on exhibition in the Union.
After the contest all of the pic
tures will become the property of
the Union. No contestant may win
more than $9.50.
The booklet which Is to be dis
tributed to freshmen and prospec
tive students will deal with the
history, services, functions, poli
cies, and social life of the Union.
Internotionol Relations
Club to Meet Thursday
Thursday's meeting of the In
temational Relations club will fea
ture a discussion of the recent
Lima conference, following the
usual 6 o'clock supper in the
Grand hotel.
An invitation to attend the eve
ning meeting has lieen extended to
undcrraduutes by members of the
organization who feel that the
students in the university are not
taking enough interest in inter
national affairs and want to wel
come them Into the group.
Those wishing to attend the dis
cussion are not required to be
pi'esent at the supper, but may
come about 6:30 o'clock. Fred
Evans is chairman for the meeting.
Negro Youth
Plan Series
Of Forums
Atlanta Sociologist
To Lecture at First
Session February 18
Dr. W. K. B. DuBois, noted Ne
gro author and lecturer, will de
liver a lecture in Lincoln, Feb. 15,
under the auspices of the Lincoln
Young People's Forum, local Ne
gro youth organization. Dr. Du
Bois, who is head of the Depart
ment of Sociology at Atlanta tint
verslly, will speak on "Democ
racy,"
Dr. DuBois is the first of a num
ber of nationally known speakers
to be brought to Lincoln by the
Young People's Forum.
The Forum was organized in
September of 1937 by a group of
stuuenis from the different col
leges, universities, and high
schools as well as laymen of the
three Negro churches in Lincoln
The purpose of the organization is
to provide means whereby there
can be clearer interpretation and
better insight into the trends of
contemporary thought and the
shifting standards of ethics and
educational . problems.
To Offer Scholarships.
Another primary aim of the or
ganization is to create a scholar
ship fund for the sole purpose of
aiding Negro students in their ef
fort to educate themselves in the
universities and colleges through
out Nebraska by providing schol
arships. The group Is sponsored
by the Newman Methodist Episco
pal church and has as its advisor
Mr. G. B, Evans, chairman of the
board of trustees of the Newman
church.
The talk by Dr. DuBois will be
given at 8:15. Feb. 15, at the St.
Paul Methodist Episcopal church.
Admission will be 50 cents and
tickets are available at the Alumni
and Union offices.
Unicameral Faces Two
Recommendations Vital
To Nebraska U's Status
White Gives
Debate Plans
Collective Action For
Democracies Is Subject
Debate plans for the second
semester were announced this
week by Prof. H. A. White, debate
coach. Subject will be, "Resolved,
that collective action on the part
of world democracies is necessary
to guarantee their survival." Stu
dents are eligible to try out for the
team who have the rank of sopho
more or above.
Tentative plans call for trips to
Colorado and Chicago sometime
during early spring. The Univer
sity of South Dakota and several
Kansas schools are already sche
duled on this second-semester pro
gram to discuss the above ques
tion.
On Jan. 11 the University team
will take the affirmative side in
a contest with the University of
California, while in February Ne
braska and Hastings college de
baters will stage several debates
In various communities.
Creighton meets Nebraska Feb.
16 in Omaha, one of the programs
arranged at the request of the
Omaha Association of Credit Men.
The debate will center around the
question, Resolved, that the
United States should cease giving
money to stimulate business.
Orchesis to Rehearse
Tonight at Seven
Orchesis will hold its regular
business meeting this evening at
7 o'clock in the dance studio. All
members including the new mem
bers must be present.
Legislators to Consider
Ten Year Construction
Plan, University Budget
Faced by two recommendations
vital to the university, the second
session of Nebraska's unicameral
got under way at noon yesterday.
First of these is a ten year state
building program calling for the
expenditure of approximately
$460,000 a year presented by the
state planning board headed' by
A. C. Tllley.
Ninth on the 35-project list of
needed repairs, replacements, new
additions, and new buildings at va
rious state institutions, is the uni
versity library. As proposed, the
structure would cost $800,000.
Propose Budget Increase.
A $275,000 building at the uni
versity medical college in Omaha
Is listed twelfth. In 13th place is
a $600,000 engineering building on
the Lincoln campus.
Ranking above university proj
ects arc expenditure-proposals pro
viding for equipment, remodeling,
replacements and repairs for eight
other state institutions.
Second of the recommendations
is that of University Chancellor
C. S. Boucher and the board of
regents providing for an increase
of $344,663 in the school's budget
for the coming two years.
Fear for Uni Status.
Fearing for the national status
of the university, the chancellor
and the regents based their re
quest upon the needs for:
1. Additional instructors
needed to reduce the number ot
classes in which enrollments are
too large for effective teaching,
and to meet the demands for
broader offerings in some fields.
2. Small salary increases to
some of the best faculty mem
bers. 3. Funds for readjustments in
some departments, necessary to
improve the quality of instruc
tion. 4. Laboratory and classroom
equipment and books for the
university library.
5. Funds with which to pay
necessarily increased cost of
heating, light, and janitor service.
6. Staff increases and the
providing of additional facilities
required for ths nursing, social
work, and music schools.
7. Coordination of adminis
trative departments so that they
can function with a greater effi
ciency and effectiveness.
8. A bureau of instructional
research which will subject the
entire educational program to
a job-analysis comparable to
that employed by commercial
and industrial firms for the at
tainment of efficiency and econ
omy. Of the present status of the
school, the regents had this to say:
"During the Inst three bienniums.
our actual standing and our rela
tive standing have been lowered
among leading universities.
Regents State Reasons.
"This has been due to the lark
of merely adequate, not luxurious,
housing for several important
parts of our program: lo the lark
of necessary equipment; to the
lack of library reference hooks; to
the lack of sufficient instructional
staffs in some colleges; to the loss
of Fome of our best faculty mem
bers to institutions able to pay
higher salaries and offer facilities
for teaching and research; and to
our inability to attract faculty
members of distinction equal to
those lost, or men for new posi
tions equal in caliber to those who
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CHANCELLOR C. S. BOUCHER
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DR. C. H. OLDFATHER.
....announces committees.
. W. Wallace
to Visit N. U.
Engineers Plan Fete
for Chicago Expert
L. W, Wallace, director of the
division of engineering and re
s.Mch of Crane company, Chicago,
and vice president of the Amer
ican Association Mechanical Engi
neers, will be on the campus Jan.
IS to meet members of the faculty
and students, and to address the
group that evening in Mechanical
engineering 206. Wallace is also
senior councilor for the Student
branch of the A. S. M. E. for
rep ion six.
Prof. N. H. Barnard of the me
chanical engineering faculty, who
is in rharce of arrangements, an
nounced that a dinner for Wal
lace and officers of the Nebraska
association will be held in the Un
ion preceding the evening address.
Engineers from over the state and
others interested are invited to
hear Wallace speak.
The Chicago engineer has had
a v,ilc range of experience both
as a teacher and as a practicing
engineer. He was on Hie faculty
for a time at Purdue university
won for th? university its place of ""d later was director of the en-
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Legislators Take Seats at Unicameral Opening
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The 1939 version of Nebraska's
second unicameral legislature set
tled to Its seat ten minutes after
noon Tuesday ready to sit tight
and ride thru what is predicted
will be a stormy, yet short, 53rd
session.
Several hours later, th presum
ably non-partisan body, yet report
edly composed of a majority of re
publicans, choss Senator W. H.
Dlers of Greeham, a democrat, for
Its speaker, Dlers' opponents, both
republicans, were Dr. A. I Miller
of Kimball and Edwin Schultz of
Elgin.
Smoke, both political and tobac
so, began filling: the legislative
chambers early Tuesday morning
as a horde of Job hunters and the
truck drivers Invaded the ten mil
lion dollar capltol building to
make their wants known. Persons
aspiring; to any legislative political
plum from Serjeant at arms to
page boy were on hand to do their
bit of private lobbying before con
vention time occurred.
Truck strikers from Omaha and
Lincoln and carrying various
signs and placards marched around
the capjtol lot, thru the halls, and
up 1 oorrldors asking that the
anti- dieting law be repealed. In
another luxurious, quiet room, far
away from ) drone of the legis
lative opening, the Nebraska su
preme court was holding hearings
on the constitutionality of the
law.
The newness of unicameralism
somewhat dulled, the session
lacked the spark of promptnoss
and forethought as Lieut. Gov.
Nate Parsons pounded the gavel
for assembly.
Behind the expensive marble pil
lars sat John P. Sinning, political
science professor and one of the
fathers of the one house system,
chatting quietly with Charles War
ner, defeated gubernatorial candi
date and speaker ot the first uni
cameral assembly two years ago.
On the other side of the floor sat
H. A. Ftter, who is contesting the
Lincoln Journal,
election of John Adams of the
Fifth district. Near the rear of the
room sat Harry Swanson. secre
tary of state, whose signature on a
list of certified elected members
was later needed and held the Ig
Islatre to inactivity for 45 minutes.
Rev. M. V. Oggel of Westmin
ister Presbyterian church opened
with a prayer asking that "our
chosen representatives vote their
convictions not the emotions of
the unthinking mob.''
Dr. Boucher Appoints
Four Sub-Committee
Heads in Uni Research
Dean of Student Affairs T. J.
Thompson, Physics Department
Chairman H. H, Marvin, Dr. J. P.
Guilford of the phsychology de
partnient, and Dr. D. A. Wor
fester, chairman of the depart
ment of educational psychology
and measurements, were recently
named sub-committee chairmen in
charge of specific university re
sea reh projects.
Appointed by Chancellor C. C,
Boucher in compliance with the
plans laid down by the university
committee on instructional policies
and practices, their names were
announced by Dr. C. H. Oldfather,
dean of the college of arts and
sciences and chairman of the
policies commission,
Boucher Backs Plan.
Tlie sub-committees which the
four will head are; Curriculum,
university division, student guid
ance, and instruction.
The subjects which these com
mittees will study have already
been the object of research by the
individual colleges. In his initial
address before the faculty, Chan
cellor Boucher emphasized the
need for a permanent committee
which would guide research In the
field of instructional policies and
practices. The current program of
research Is the result of the ap
pointment of such a committee.
Study Division System,
Heretofore, student guidance
has been performed more or less
by the various colleges. The sub
committee on guidance, headed
by Dr. Guilford, will study this
problem with an eye to co-ordinating
the entire guidance and per
sonnel setup with specific em
phasis on pre-university counsel.
Included will be an analysis of the
university's entrance testing pro
gram. It will be the duty of Dr. Wor
cester's committee on instruction
to study present teaching methods.
This group will strive to evaluate
procedures in use, investigate the
efficiency of the present grading
system, and study the relative
sizes of various classes.
Of most immediate interest Is
the project of university division,
now in the hands of Dr. Marvin's
committee. This group will In
vestigate the practicability of a
one year lower division system
similar to that now in use at Yale
and Ohio universities.
Improves Frosh Instruction.
Such a lower division plan keeps
all freshmen together during their
first year of university work. In
this way, it eases their introduc
tion to college and facilitates the
transition from high school to
university. Such a plan also im
proves the instruction of first year
students and facilitates vocational
advice.
Such a plan need not imply any
changes in the present first year
curriculum of the various colleges.
Freshmen would pursue essentially
the same courses of study, altho
they would be kept as a unit and
not be considered as belonging to
engineering, pharmary, or arts
college as they now are. All fresh
men would be given aptitude tests
from time to time. To determine
whether or not they are qualified
to enter the professional colleges.
Aptitude Tests.
Only those students whose tests
showed favorable aptitudes and
whose scholastic averages were
sufficiently high would be advised
to enter the various colleges with
the beginning of the second year.
In this way, students would be In
a better position to find out in
their first year, not their third,
whether or not they can hope U
be successful in a particular pro
fession. Among the other projects to be
considered by Dean Oldfather's
committee are ways to accelerate
and improve the teaching of su
perior students, the overlapping
and duplication of courses, the
problem of making classes
smaller, and the number of
courses now offered by the vari
ous departments.
Union Bookplate
Designs Due Soon
Award of $5 Goes
To Winning Entry
With only three days remaining
before the deadline in the Union
bookplate contest, all contestants
are urged to turn In their entries
as soon as possible in order to fa
cilitate judging. The winning do
sign is to be used to identify tne
books belonging to the Union
browsing room.
A prise of $5 worth of books Is
being offered to the successful de
signer. All students are eligible
to compete. Only requirement In
the contest Is that all plates In
clude these phrases or their
equivalent; "Student Union Li
brary. University of Nebraska,
donated by J. C. Seaccjit."
Deadline for the contest ha
been set for Friday by the Union
library committee. The winning
bookplate will be placed in the
front of all of the books purchased
for the "Book Nook" with the
$1,000 donated to the Union by
Mr. Seaerest for the purpose ef
buying books.
