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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1939
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VOL. XXXVII, NO. 93.
Bernard fells
adventures in
lamasaries
Noted Tibetian explorer
will show color films
in Union Sunday at 4
As the first man ever to live In
the forbidden lamasaries of Tibet,
Theos Bernard, noted lecturer and
explorer, will relate many of the
Interesting experiences he encoun
tered In the far east when he
peaks on "The Penthouse of the
Gods" in the union Daiiroom oun-i
clay at 7 o'clock.
In connection with his lecture,
Bernard will exhibit color films of
the peoples and ancient architec
tural oddities that he saw while
touring church ruled Tibet
Subscribes to Buddhism.
A believer in the philosophical
principles on which modern Budd
hism is based he does not sub
scribe to the faith on the basis
of miraculous happenings or wor
ship of idols. After living among
the Tibetans for a period of six
months, Bernard was convinced
that this plateau country of the
far east was very rich in material
See BERNARD Page 2.
Soprano, cellist'
to offer recital
Awgwan detective issue
reaches new sales peak
Gore, murder, and mystery ap
parently have more appeal to Ne
braska university student than
the wistfulness of Ferdinand, for
poor Ferdinand of the January
Awgwan was left forgotten in the
dust, and February Awgwan sales
hit a new high for this school
Assigns projects
Ji
vear with the Spicy, Breefy,
ra(!v. Mvsterv story edition.
"I think it was our cover," said
Editor Virginia Geister.
Awgwan sales are still going
strong, but the total sales passed
those of the next highest month
last Saturday, according to Leon
ard Friedel, business manager.
Misses Gutxmer, Meek
perform today, at 4
Opening the annual series of
junior and senior recitals from the
School of Music. Jean uuizmer,
soprano, and June Meek, cellist,
will appear In a Joint junior re
cital today at 1 o'clock in the
Temple theater.
Miss Gutzmer is a student with
Maude Fender Gutzmer and Miss
Meek studies with Bettie Za
briskle. Miss Gutzmer and Miss
Meek will be accompanied by
Fleda Graham Ziegenblen and Ma
rlan Percy, respectively. The pro
gram follows:
Dtllbaa. Lit F1IM ea Cattt; Paul
Vkdal, Prlntempa Nouveiu; Ravtl, CiuaU
Capwlalrw; MuHUt, Ah SI lea Fleun.
Mlaa Outxmar.
Valentin!. Sonata la X Major; Orr
ABcro, Sdwrao, LrT, AJIecr VWanea
Mlaa MacK.
VardL Car Noma froaa "RIcoMto:
DitU. I Am Joy; Manning, River Boti
Maanlnc. Tba Fair; Daaaaaara, Spring
Fancy. Vm Outimar.
Moszkowakl, OalUrre; taut, Me4iaMoa
In C; Casella, Tarantella. Mlaa Meek.
Tea honors
coeds with
80 averages
Annual Mortar Board
affair to fete 550
at Ellen Smith Sunday
Climaxing the annual Mortar
Board scholarship tea, which will
be held Sunday at Ellen Smith
between 3:30 and 5 o'clock, mem
bers of the senior women's hon
orary will present awards to the
three senior ems wnom mey nave
elected as most outstanding on the
campus in scholarship, leadership
and service.
Attendine the affair will be 550
university coeds whose scholastic
averages for both semesters of last
year are 80 or above.
Guests will be received at the
door by Miss Elsie Ford Piper,
acting dean of women; Mrs. t. u.
Coleman; Phyllis Chamberlain,
Mortar Board president and offi
cers of the Nebraska chapter of
Mortar Board, Phyllis Chamber
lain, Frances Boldman, Harriet
Cummer, Josephine Rubnitz and
Barbara Rosewater.
Sponsors to pour.
Presiding at the tea tables will
be Miss Margaret Feude, Miss
Leonore Alway, Miss Clementine
Newman, Miss Kate Fields, Miss
H. Alice Howell, Mrs. Chauncey
Boucher, and Mrs. Verna Boyles.
Presentation of awards will be
In charge of Patricia Lahr and
Bonnie Burn. Other committees
are Barbara Rosewater and Helen
Pascoe, publicity; Phyllis Cham
berlain and Betty Clements, tea;
Virginia Fleetwood and Virginia
Nolte. music: Frances Boldman
and Velma Ekwall, decorations;
and Ruthanna Russell, in charge
of general arrangements.
Well drillers
meet at uni
For convention i!
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Eleventh session opens
today in Nebraska hall
with speech by Condra
The Nebraska Well Drillers as
sociation will gather at Nebraska
hall today and tomorrow for their
11th annual convention. The con
vention Is under the sponsorship of
the Conservation and Survey dl
visio of the university.
Dr. G. E. Condra, dean and di
rector of the division, will open
the convention with an address on
"Water for Power and Irrigation
in Nebraska." Dr. A. U Lugn,
DEAN C. H.
Lincoln Journal.
OLDFATHER.
Prom girl
filings close
tomorrow
Reed wins presentation
Dean announces duties
to committees chosen
from Arts faculty
Personnel of the subcommittees
of the committee of instructional
policies and practices, organized
last fall to make a study of pro
posed educational changes, was an
nounced yesterday thru Dean C. H.
Oldfathcr, chairman.
In do-operation with the mother
committee, several groups have
been working for some weeks on
topics relating to student guid
ance, instruction, curriculum and
university division. Studies are
taking form of investigation into
the program and procedure m
other institutions thruout the coun
try and suggestions of advised
changes in instruction on this
campus.
Committees Long Time Projects.
These committees are not in
tended to bring about any revolu
tionary action but are long time
undertakings to effect a gradual
Improvement In the educational
program, a bulletin from Dr. Old-
father s office declared. Any sug
gestion involving more than one
school or college on the campus
must be brought before the uni
versity senate for approval. Minor
changes or criticisms of any par
ticular branch of the Institution
will be referred to the appropriate
person In that department.
Committees comprising the cen
tral committee are dealing with
the major branches of study. Un-
See COMMITTEES Page 2.
With one candidate filed for
Prom girl, two days remain for
i K a i ft enlrfi nfo Trt nntor tflAlT
professor of geology will speak on nftmes -n J K offke in
tne promem oi grounu water rcBu- coliseum. Prom filings close
riCCU wins piwtmuiiuii w
contest with New York Noted CNtlC
world's fair theme m .
lectures here
lation in the state; Fror. J. J.
Frankforter, associate professor of
chemistry, will talk on "What Is
Water?" H. C. Mortlock of the
soil conservation service will speak
on "The Water Facilities Program
in Nebraska,"
Gov. R. L. Cochran and Chan-
Helen Read studies
school's art collection
In Lincoln to study the univer-
at 5 o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
Polls will be open from 8 to 5
o'clock next Tuesday for a general
campus election in which the Prom sity's nationally recognized art
girl will be chosen. Ballots will collection, Mrs. Helen Read, noted
be cast in the lower hall of the are critic, will lecture twice on the
Union, and in Ae hall. campus today.
Raloh Reed, Junior, was an- "American" Art" will be the sub-
cellor C. S. Boucher will be guests nounced yesterday as winner of Ject of a discussion to be presented
of tne association at a Danquei the competition for Prom girl pre- by Mrs. Read at 3 o clock in uai
this evening at 6:30 In the Lin-1 sentation plan following a spe-1 lery A of Morrill. Open to the pub-
coin hotel. R. C. Moore, state meeting o fthe nrom commit- lie is a meeting to be held tonight
geologist of Kansas will be the Ueei The winning scheme, which I at 8 o'clock In Gallery A, when the
feature speaker of the evening. wm reward Reed with $10, is critic will be given an Illustrated
A program including addresses planned on the most up-to-the- lecture on the art project of the
by O. J. Scherer of the Conser
vation and Survey division, Prof.
E. E. Brackett, chairman of the
department of agricultural en
gineering and E. C. Reed, also of
that division, will complete tne
convention Friday.
Behind world events
-Bcv Finkle
DEMOCRACY. DECENCY, AND FREE SPEECH
This column, in full cognizance of its human tendency to err, ac
cuses Miss Dorothy Thompson, anti-fascist publicist, of being guilty
of gross indecency and misconduct thru her admitted acts at a meet
ing of the German-American anna neia Monday last at aiacuson
Square Garden.
There were some 25,000 peo
ple In audience at the meeting,
1,700 police protecting the con
clave from the actior.i of nearly
100,000 massed euttide the Gar
den, some of whom were deter
mined to picket the assembly.
Miss Thompson, once evicted as
a press correspondent from Ger
many, continually harassed me ana
cast gibes at speakers at the Bund
meeting. She was once ejected, andj
was rescued by Mr. Hcywood
Broun, who is admittedly no friend
of, Miss Thompson's tho shaiijit,
hnr anti-nazl beliefs. Mr. Broun,
after conducting Mins' Thompson
back into the meeting, seated her
at the press table, from which she
cast still more irlbe.i, and was
Haved from bodily eviction only
thru the actions of the New York
metropolitan police.
The Associated Press quotes
Mist Thompson as follows: "This
meeting has evidently nothing
to do with free speech" and "It
Is not the rule of assembly in
this country that a person In the
audience must applaud every
thing." Miss Thompson Inter
rupted speeches In progress with
her repeated cries of "Bunk,"
"Nonsense," and a series of loud
boos. Her actions, the said, were
undertaken to tet freedom of
speech at such meetings.
Mr. Sinclair Lewis, author and
husband of the brilliant though
sometimes Irascible Miss Thomp
son, expressed himself as being
"extremely proud" of her actions
at the Bund meeting.
While we condemn the pur
pose for which the Bund was
, and It now organized, and while
.we agree' with Mitt Thompson's
1 feelinga towardt the organiza
tion, we most heartily disap
prove of the methods by which
the vented her displeasure.
The accepted rules of conduct,
in any democratic nation, are that
a person attending any assembly,
whether in accord or . discord with
what ur transpires, will make
no attempt to prevent the exercise
of that freedom usually accorded
to the scheduled speakers. This
rule, Miss Thompson violated.
Any person attending any meet
Ing, with prior knowledge of what
See EVENTS Page 2.
minute theme on the American
scene the New York World's Fair.
Sternberg to play
for barb dance
Saturday parry tops
independent social year
"Sternie Sternberg" will bring
his 11 piece novelty orchestra to
the Union this Saturday to play
for the Barb Winter party, major
frolic of the year for the inde
pendents. A banquet for members
af the Barb Council, Barb Union
and Barb A. W. S. will precede
the dance which is scheduled for
o'clock.
Chancellor and Mrs. Boucher,
Prof, and Mrs. Karl Arndt, Prof.
and Mrs. Forrest Blood, and Prof.
Walter Militzer, Barb sponsor will
chaperon the group. Harriet Lewis
of the Barb Council Is directing
the arrangements for the dance
and the banquet with the assist
ance of Erie Constable and George
Gostes.
Bids for the dance may be ob
tained by Barbs from members of
the Barb Council, Barb Union or
Barb A. W. S. or from the Barb
office which is room 307 of the
Union. Formal attire is . optional
for the men.
Dr. Fell man discusses
Munich pact for Lions
Dr. David Fellman, of the po
litical science department, will re
view the Munich pact and specu
late on possible developments to
day at the noon meeting of the
Lions club.
United States treasury.
The recipient of a Carnegie
grant, Mrs. Read is making a tour
of the country studying the murals
and sculpture which the fine arts
department of the treasury haa
placed in federal buildings. Her
addresses here, sponsored by the
department of fine arts, follow a
series recently given at the Chi
cago Art Institute. From Lincoln
she will leave for the west coast.
Gregory finds NU freshmen
psychologically superior
Union board discusses
movie projector tonight
The Union board will meet
tonight at 730 for their regular
meeting. Plant for the purchase
of projector for the regular pre
tentation of motion picturet In
the Union will be ditcutsed.
The board will alto examine the
current report of the Union's
financial standing, which hat
recently been completed.
Survey shows students
able to adapt selves
Contrary to the general opinion
on the campus, results of psychol
ogical tests given to all freshmen
in the college of arts and science,
show Nebraska students equal and
in some cases surpass college
students in the east and west In
emotional and home adaption.
Favorable emotional ratings
show that adapted students are
better prepared to mix with other
people and find a place fr them
selves in the world. In adlitlon to
the findings from .hese ttsts, W.
S. Gregory, freshmen advisor, de
clares that figures can be found
to show that '.lis campus stands
up equal to ull eastern schools In
thoir intelligence quotients.
These tests given each year to
all freshmen lecture entrants are
a basis for suggestions and assist
ance to those students who can't
seem to get along with their col
lege work. To make the tests
successful and serve the arpoae
for which they are Intended, stu
dents must come in for ndvice.
"It is significant" Gregory de
clared, "that most of the 250 stu
dents with whom I have talked
bat semester, have no funda
mental emotional defeats." Study
problems were the basis of the ma
jority of visits.
Most of the students of the
school who are having trouble
with their studies and are being
dropped from the school resist any
conference with a faculty member.
In Mr. Gregory's opinion, these
students feel that the act of in
terviewing a professor makes
them an oddity."
Remedy Minor Problems.
At the figures signify, this is
not the case. In most cases it is
only the minor problems, such as
any student may have, that the
department is trying to remedy.
The work is hindered, and needed
consultation which might make it
possible for the student to make
long delayed, due to this prevail
ing attitude among tho students.
The test which was used to find
the emotional standing of the
freshmen is being revised and ex
tended this semester by Mr. Greg
ory. To get the average rating
among various groups in the
school, Gregory is arranging to
have the co-operation of a num
ber of professors, In having the
examination given to a large
cross section of the student body.
Results of this trial examination
will give the department a better
standard for measuring the capac
ity of the Interviewed In particular
lines of work. Gregory hopes that
these teats can be made out some
time this month.