WEDNESDAY, APKIL 5, 1939
DAILY NEBUASKAN
FIVE
Nebraska chewers consume
9,000 mi les of sample gum
"Jaw-waggors" on the Nebraska
campus nave consumed over s.uuo
miles of sample gum according to
figures compiled by a campus
representative of a chewing gum
company.
If the energy used to chew this
gum could be converted into horno
power, there would be enough
power for everyone in school to
come in an automobile. These cal
culations are based on the normal
number of jaw-wags required to
exhaust the elasticity of each stick
(not counting, of course, the gum
chewer who uses one stick over
a consecutive number of days).
Reaches peak at exams.
During the final examination
week, the peak of gum-chewing i3
usually reached when students
and faculty members combine
mental with oral gymnastics to at
tain deeper concentration. There
are no records available to reveal
any connections between an ardent
gum-chewer and a Phi Beta
Kappa.
Gum appears to get the hardest
wear and tear when used by star
basketball players. Witnesses of
last season's winning games, can
testify that complete relaxation
before tossing for a three throw,
results from taking a deep breath
and a hard chew or two.
But complaints have been
registered against the "jaw-wag-gcrs."
Building and ground work
ers confronted with the nerve
wracking task of removing the
gum from bleachers, have great
difficulty with the "parked" gum.
Ag men file
for contest'
Many to participate
in crop judging meet
Entries in the annual crop judg
ing contest to be held at the ag
college April ir are running high
this year, according to David Mc
Gill of Vv'ii wily and Harold Schu
del of North Loup, co-chairmen of
the contest committee. The con
test is .under the sponsorship of
the Tri-K club, student agronomy
organization.
Entrants will be rated on their
ability to judge eight classes of
grains and reeds, and to identify
(10 samples of grain, grasses, le
gumes and weeds. Results of the
contest will be announced at a
banquet which will be held the
evening of the contest. The con
test will begin in the morning and
continue till noon.
Names of winners and high men
in the conte.'t will be engraved on
plaques which hang in the agron
omy building, and each will be
awarded, according to his placing,
with a gold, silver or bronze medal
by a Lincoln seed company.
puchncll University English
teachers are having their Voices
tested to aid them in making their
lectures more interesting.
usic group plays
Bach's 'Passion'
Nctcd mccsiro's work
given from recordings
"The Passion According to Saint
Matthew," a revelation of death
and passion of the Lord by Jo
hann Bach, was presented under
the co-sponsorship of the Union
ar.d the Sinfonia, honorary music
society Monday at 1 o'clock in
the Union.
In the St. Matthew Tassion the
chorales arc congregational hymns.
The recitatives and certain of
the choruses are dramatic while
the solos are soliloquies. Bach in
his interpretation of the Tasf-ion
combined in his work the genius
of his musical ability with his
knowledge of the dramatic arts.
The complete series of records
of the rassion played was made
by the Boston Symphony orchestra
under the guidence of Conductor
Serge Kousscbitzky with the aid of
the Harvard Glee club and lh.'
Uadcliff Choral society.
Harmony Hour is a weekly mu
sical feature open to nil students
who are interested in the master
pieces of the famous maestros.
There is no charge and is open to
all students and faculty members.
Nearly 200 see
Union sponsored
Sun Valley film
About 200 saw the color movie.
"Sun Valley Skiing" shown yes
terday afternoon in the Union ball
room by Fred P. Thieme, inter
collegiate skating champion and
Sun Valley representative for Un
ion Pacific railroad.
The film showed skating for ex
perts and beginners and scenes of
snow covered Sun Valley and ski
slopes. Thieme, for two years
captain of the University of Wash
ington ski team, was a guide in
Rainer National park before be
coming a . Sun Valley representative.
Dr. Lackey advises revision
of high school curriculum
Pointing out that the weakest
link in American public educa
tion is the high school, Dr. Earl E.
Lackey of the department of
geography of the University of
Nebraska, advocated revising the
secondary school curriculum so
that can better meet educational
requirements of the present day.
"The secondary school curricu
lum shold not be dominated by
the academic training of teachers,
but rather by the nature of the
peristent life situations that high
school students are meeting clay
by day and are likely to meet,"
he said.
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partmcnt of Bacteriology. Two of
them are graduates working on
their Masters degrees.
Peter 11. Mutischeck of Glcn
divc, Montana, received his B. A.
from Montana and is now study
ing methods of testing fat utiliza
tion of organisms.
Robert A. West of Casper,
Wyoming, granted his Ii. S. at
Nebraska, is carrying on research
concerning a synthetic medium
for a group of bacteria (Bac
toroidi'.s). The three undergraduates also
engage in a few duties 'besides
regular class work and assisting.
Joseph E. Snyder of Fairbury is
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of the show, to add color to the
mystery connected with the inci
dental discovery of Aladdin's old
lamp, and the attempts of an
American business man to clean
up Turkey with Throckmorton's
Turkish towels.
Jokes in pile.
With two feet on a desk and two
feet on a typewriter stand, with
one author at a typewriter and
the other leaning back in the
swivel chair in the Kosmet Klub
office, surrounded by a varied pile
of paper including everything from
laundry slips to s:;.eh paper,
upon which jokes and ideas have
been jotted down in phone jooths,
class looms or at coking tables,
the authors spent evei.mg after
evening in contemplation.
Nothing is worse, Campbell de
clined, than to read one's own copy
four or five times to find errors,
when you know every joke and
situation that is coming up, pages
ahead. Nevertheless, all such work
is part of the organization of a
successful show.
"Ideas are only the first, and
perhaps the easiest step," the co
authors decided. "After the brief
outline of the several acts has been
completed, details must be filled
in and the conversation must be
adapted to the characteristics of
each speaker. To understand the
personalities of our characters
thoroughly before we attempt to
make them speak," the writers
add, "we wrote short peisonality
sketches of each, picturing them in
all the ways in which they might
be affected in a given state of af
fairs. Lines are toughest.
Declaring that lines are the most
difficult thing to play-writing,
Campbell explained that depending
upon the circumstance the jokes
were adapted to the lines or the
lines to the jokes. Comedy arises
not only out of the speeches which
in many cases are witty, and out of
circumstance which becomes very
involved In a three man chase all
over the Orient, but also out of the
actions and original speeches of a
very clever cast, Campbell and
Steeves continued.
Stating that the cast this year
will add an added humor and
punch to the show, the authors
concluded with a review cf the fine
material In this year's cast, headed
by Duke Deger, Ray Brown, Jim
Minnick and Bob Elliott.
an arts and science senior, lie is
aiding an instructor in studying
the action of sulfanilamide on cer
tain bacteria in cultures.
Frcde B. Strandskov, arts and
science senior from Marquette,
aids in analyzing city water each
day and 'tests water in the uni
versity swimming pool.
George A. Young of Baton
Rouge, La., arts and science senior,
cares for the- stock cultures and
bacteria that the department uses.
Frolik, Alexander
talk o farm group
Professors eddress
gathering at Hove!l
Talks by two ag college instruc
tors brought a crowd of 50 Colfax
county farmers to Howell, Ncbr.,
Monday night. The meeting was
rpoiifiorcd by the Howell commu
nity club and the county farmers.
1'rof. M. A. Alexander talked on
sheep raising, and told the gather
ing that farm flocks of 30 to 40
sheep are usually much more suc
cesful than smaller bands. He
commented that sheep are as easy
to handle as any other type of live
stock. Talking on hybrid corn, Elvin
Frolik, assistant extension agro
nomist at the college, pointed out
that tests conducted the past six
years at Nebraska agriculture ex
perimental stations indicated 20
percent better yields for hybrid
corn than ordinary varieties.
Miller speaks to ag group
at pre-Edster breakfast
Dr. TVrrvi Miliar snnkc tn n I
mixed group from the ag Y. M.
C. A. and Y. W. C. A. Sunday
morning at 6:15 in the student
activities building on the Hold
redge campus at a pre-Easter
breakfast.
cational Journal, Dr. Lackey
charged that the high school cur
riculum is static; that it has been
patterned from the college pro
gram; and that high school teach
ers are indoctrincd in the special
ists' point of view in relation to
subject matter. They have too
often become oblivious to the fact
that human knowledge after all is
a unity. Increasing compartmen
talization may not be so satis
factory for purposes of teaching
as it is for the promotion of re
search at college levels.
"The high school curriculum is
too highly compartmentalized," he
stated. "College enhance require
ments have frozen the curriculum
into a rigid pattern, and the divi
sion of subject matter has tended
to place emphasis on the past,
rather than keeping the curricu
lum liquid by training children in
the fine art of discovering and at
tacking critical situations in pies
cnt day social living."
Phi Mu cagers fccw
The Western Nebraska team de
feated the Phi Mu"n in the only
intramural ba.-ketball game yes
terday. Sigma Kappa will meet the Wil
son Hall team and Alpha Phi will
play the Independent team, todav.
Ballroom dancing begins
again after vacation
Ballroom dancing classes will
begin again after spring vacation
on the city campus. A series of
six lessons will be given for 50
cents.
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Counselor filings go
well in spite of rain
Coed Counselor filings were re
ported encouraging in the face of
rainy weather when a number of
names were recorded yesterday
afternoon. All girls who are in
terested in becoming counsellors
are urged to file with Mrs. West-
over in Ellen Smith by Thursday,
when filings are scheduled to
close.
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ARTHUR HILL
Co-chairman of the Student
Union Council committee on th.-inter-campus
bus chive is Ait
Hill, Sigma Alpha Mu, bbad
junior from Lincoln. His inter
est in thir.g-j "business-like''
won him a Wdliam Cold
scholarship key and the position
of an assistant business man
ager on THE DAILY NEBUAS
KAN. Art's interest in debate
gave him vice-presidency of
Delta Sigma PJio. Corn Cob
rally committee winds up Art's
activities and gives him a top
position in his class. . .the same
kind of 'top position" your
friends will give you when you
suggest going to the
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