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DAILY NEBKASKAN
TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 1939
THE TOPIC OF TIME
BY HELEN PASCOE.
The journalistic profession hns come a
long: way since 1 lie days before the Civil War
when the men of a Boston city room strewed
the floor with newsprint to save Ihe girl re
porter's white satin evening gown. Compare
the remarkable travelling feat of the New
York World's Nellie lily of 188!) with 1he dar
ing trip of Ihe New York Journal's Dorothy
Kilgallen of today. Miss lily created a sen
sation 50 years ago by "placing a girdle round
the earth in 72 days, 6 hours, and 11 minutes."
Within recent years Dorothy Kilgallen has
come forth with the accomplishment of circling
the globe in a few days.
Every other profession and field has
made similar advancement within the last
50 years. Even the field of being a scholar
has taken a decided step forward, so that
today 465 students will be honored for their
scholarship at the annual Honor s Convo
cation. Compare this to 70 years ago when
less than 100 students represented the entire
enrollment of the university.
Today such values are attached to the
obtaining of a higher education that the uni
versity with the drawback of a curtailed bud
pet, is finding it hard to provide facilities for
the number of students who seek entrance.
Thus, with the passage of L. li. 140, scholar
ship will he set on an even higher plane, and
a new advancement will be added to the an
nals of the field of scholarship.
Let us take a look at the early university
compared to the one we know today. Historic
U Hall, now celebrating its seventieth year
of life, represented the heart of the new
university in its early years. Set on a stretch
of prairie with only sunflowers and plum
bushes to relieve the barrenness, U Hall pro
vided the center for university life. True,
the present-day campus can hardly be called
"The Campus Beautiful," but it does pre
sent a picture of advancement from its earl
iest appearance.
Should the lOHOers pause and look, over
the earlier days of the university, not one
could realize its humble beginning, Ihe earnest
hopes that those who fostered the educational
movement had, nor the sacrifices that the
many splendid professors and chancellors
were called upon to make, because of desire
that a dream and an ideal should become a
reality.
Thus, not knowing those dreams or de
sires it does us little good to look in retro
spect over the past years except as an in
spiration for dreams and aspirations in the
future.
Spend a few hours in looking backward,
and then utilize many weeks in looking for
ward! A nice philosophical bit and somehow
or other a rather practical one.
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Ten Nights in a Bar Room' with
'Ten Days in the Basement' or at
least producing a mild work enti
tled 'Basements I Have Seen.' It
seems to be a policy common to
nil colleges to house the youngest
department in the oldest building.
The most pathetic housing of all
was at Lincoln, Nebraska.
Escort apologizes for U Hall
"My Theta Sigma Thi escort be
trnn apologizing for the building
blocks away from the campus, and
I was inclined to discount for, after
all, it isn't the structure, it's the
people that count. But when I got
up to the building, I realized she
was right in feeling apologetic. It
seems that the journalism school
there is housed in the first story
of what used to be a higher struc
ture. The building was condemned
several years ago and the top
floors were sliced off, leaving only
the first, which is now covered by
a flat roof. Mr. Frank Lloyd
Wright, or at least the Red Cross
thould come to the rescue.
Theta Sigma Phi--
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and many other novels of con
temporary life; Zona Gale, ex
university regent and author of
"Miss Lulu Belt", "Birth",
"Friendship Village", and other
novels stories, and plays.
Ilonorc Willaic Morrow, novel
ist and short story writer and
authoress; Harriet Monroe,
founder and editor of Toetry;
a Magazine of Verse", who is
also co-editor with Alice Cor
hin Henderson of a book of
rooms, "The New Poetry", and
anthology of 20th century verse.
Other famous members of
Theta Sigma Phi include Sara
Teasdale, poetess; Temple
Bailey, authoress; Dorothy Can
field Fisher, authoress; Anzia
Yerierska, Inez Hayes Irwin,
Sophie Kerr Underwood, Fan
nie Hurst, Kathleen Norries,
Gertrude Atherson, Ruth
Fuckow, Frances Parkinson
Keyes, and Margaret Culkin
Banning.
Nebraska chapter alumnae. -
The Nebraska chapter of
Theta Sigma Phi, Lambda, also
has its share of famous mem
bers. Well known are Mari
Sandoz, author of "Old Jules"
and "Slogum House"; Bess
Streeter Aldrich, author of "A
White Bird Flying" and Lan
tern in Her Hand"; Mignon
Good Eberhart, Dorothy Tho
mas, Louise Pound, Mamie
Meredith, and Kenetha Thomas.
Theta Sigma Phi is also one
of the few honoraries which
boasts of owning a house,
their's being in Chicago, where
the convention will be held this
summer on the Northwestern
campus at Evanston.
Kosmct Klub men have a show on
their hands. A show that deserves
a full house.
Radio program
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Don A. Lentz, the university band
will provide the music for the 45
minute program.
Lloyd Harris to direct.
Everett Mitchell, nationally
known farm radio commentator on
the Farm and Home Hour who was
originally sceduled to be here, will
be unable to come. Lloyd Harris
assistant manager of the NBC pro
duction department, will direct the
program.
Technical and announcing pan
of the broadcast will be handled
for NBC by WOW which will carry
the program and feed it to the
network.
First from Nebraska.
This is the first time that such
a program has originated on the
Nebraska campus, altho a series
of programs from land-grant col
leges or universities nave Deen
featured on the National Farm and
Home Hour.
University students will be al
lowed to watch the broadcast.
However, they will not be allowed
to leave while the program is on
t! e air. Announcement of the time
the doors will close just prior to
the opening of the program is ex
pected to be made Wednesday
morning.
Kosmct Klub
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est is supplied by Bob Elliot.
towel salesman, who shows him
self a smooth sender in his duets
with Minnick. Also good were
Verne Geissinger as the Caliph's
secretary and Howard Linch im
personating President Roosevelt,
There's no doubt of it. Those
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Twenty-five percent of the Holy
tjross couege indent bony are
studying Greek in the oroginal.
Gardner wins
Griswold cup
Junior entrant tops
field in ag contests
Unprecedented victors were
crowded last Saturday in two stu
dent judging contests at the col
lege of agriculture. One of the
contests, the crops judging, set a
new all time record for student
entrance.
Charles Gardner rose from the
junior division yesterday to the
high position in the entire com
petition and garnered the oris
wold cup trophy, a feat only once
equaled since the initiatory meet
nine years ago.
Ople Hedlund in the home eco
nomics meat judging contest gath
ered a first place in the judging
division with a first in the lamb
class, second in pork, second in
beef and fifth in the identification
of cuts.
Rasmussen high frosh.
The freshman plaque will bear
the name of Ross Rasmussen,
Blair, who placed first in that
division and ninth in the entire
contest.
Others placing in the entire
crops contest, are: Gus Hokanson,
Genoa, third; Willis Skrdla, De
witt, fourth; Milo Tesar, Tobias,
fifth; Gene Numdorff, Clay Cen
ter, sixth; Jean Lambert, Ewing,
seventh; Will Pitner, Stratton,
eighth; Rasmussen, ninth; and
Harold Fleming, Lexington, tenth
Hokanson placed second in the
senior division; Skrlda, third;
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Tessar, fourth; and Lambert,
fifth. In the junior division Mun-
dorff was second; Marvin Kruse,
Lorctto, third; Lyle Roberts, Te
cumseh, fourth; John Beckwith,
Lorctto, fifth. Second honors in
the freshman division went to
John B. Trumble, Lincoln; with
Merritt Plantz, Litchfield, placing
third; Dale Weibel, DeWitt, fourth
and Richard Schrader, Neligh,
fifth.
Third place in the home eco
nomics meats judging contest
went to Marian Wilson, Valley;
Other rankings were, Leah
Schlichtman, Edgar, fourth; and
Ester Horsh, Lincoln, fifth.
Miss Fater was first in identi
fication and third in judging. Sec
ond place in judging went to
Sylvia Socholl, Exeter. Miss Wil
son was second in identification
and second in judging lamb cuts.
Miss Schlichtman proved the best
judge of beef and ranked third in
meat identification. Top honors in
judging pork went to Catherine
Titterington, Lincoln.
Los Angeles City college has a
course to train peace officers.
Acrobatic tumbling went on the
air for the first time when Univer
sity of Southern California gym
nasts performed for a television
broadcast.
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