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Sororities to file in Ellen
fraternity entries due by
Complete entries for this year's
intersorority Ivy Day Sing, to be
held on May 6, must be submitted
at Mrs. Westover's office in Ellen
Smith by this noon. Fraternity
entries must be in the hands of
the Kosmet Klub by 5 o'clock, Sat
urday afternoon.
According to Elizabeth Waugh,
chairman of the sorority sing,
each house must submit a com
plete list of all of the girls who
are to participate in the contest
and one dollar to cover judging
expenses, along with the entry.
Intersorority contest rules re
quire: 1. That each girl must be
carrying 12 hours in good
standing this semester.
2. Each sorority is limited to
one song and must not have
sung the same song the preced
ing year.
3. Alumnae cannot take ac
tive part in the singing but may
assist in preparations.
4. The director and the ac
companist must be active in the
sorority and regularly enrolled
in the university.
5. A majority of the sorority
must be represented in the
group, instead of a quartet or
octet.
6. All groups must remain
after their participation for re
Tastes disagree on columns
at athletic field entrance
Mud began to fly between de
partments on the campus when
the colonade entrance to the i.ew
athletic fields began to take shape
recently at the north terminus of
12th Street.
"They're simply awful!" groaned
Miss Kady Burnap Faulkner of
the fine arts department when
queried about the columns, and
when her opinion was conveyed
to one of the university staff
members a few minutes later, he
said: "I suppose everyone's enti
tled to their own opinion; I don't
like Kady's murals, either."
Refler sees practicality
Sergeant Regler, head of the
campus police department, tried to
smooth things over with the sug
gestion that Miss Faulkner paint a
mural on each pillar and satisfy
both groups. "Anyway," he added,
"they will make good bumper
posts to keep drunks from sailing
off the embankment and into the
fields when they come speeding
down 12th street."
. Operating Superintendent Sea
ton threw new light on the matter
when he pointed out that "They've
been around here for ten or twelve
years, and they're worth about
$2,500 apiece (there are 24 col
umns, making the aggregate value
$60,000) so we might as well make
use of them."
The pillars themselves were
donated to the university by the
Burlington Railroad when the old
Burlington depot in Omaha was
razed, and their chief value lies
In the fact that the columns are
monolithic granite (the shafts of
each hand-turned from a Blngle
piece of stone). They were de
signed by Thomas Kimball, dean
of Nebraska architects, when he
was at the height of his career
nearly half a century ago.
Don't hold anything up
Chief fault the campus critics
have found with the columns is
See COLUMNS, Page 2.
Foreign language
orations planned
Students to compete
in French, Spanish
Engineered by Prof. Emile Telle,
a declamatory contest in French
and Spanish will be run off Mon
day afternoon at 4 o'clock in the
phonetics laboratory of U hall,
under the sponsorship of the ro
mance languages department.
Contestants will be classed In
three divisions In both languages,
a class for beginners, for students
taking French 4 or Spanish 54,
and for students in advanced
classes.
Prizes of books will be awarded
to the three winners in each
language.
Smith by noon today,
5 o'clock Saturday
call if asked.
All fraternity entries must be
submitted at the offices of the
Klub in the Union. Special pre
cautions should be taken to see
that all persons participating in
the contest are carrying 12 hours
in good standing this semester.
Other rules governing fraternity
entrance are:
1. No fraternity may use a
number this year which they
presented last year.
2. Not more than 25 men may
be used by any fraternity, In
cluding the director but not the
accompanist.
3. No man may participate
who was pledged by a group
later than Feb. 1, 1939.
4. Contestants will compete in
alphabetical order.
Application blanks for entry
into the contest have been mailed
to all of the houses.
The names of the judges will
be announced soon. Judging will
be made on the basis of general
excellence of the participants' ef
forts rather than technical perfec
tion, although attention will be
paid to appearance, selection of
songs, tone quality of the voices,
balance of the parts, and inter
pretation as shown in style, at
tacks, phrasing, shading, and dic
tion. Bizad group
initiates ten
Noted Chinese speaks
to Beta Gamma Sigma
Declaring that the Chinese have
the ability to simultaneously bring
the Japanese to a point of fi
nancial exhaustion and at the
same time build up a new nation,
free of domination, Ching Ju Ho,
recently director of the Shanghai
Vocational Cuidance bureau, last
night told a group of Business
Administration students that
China would come out of the pres
ent war with more victories than
losses.
Mr. Ho was principal speaker
at the initiation dinner of Beta
Gamma Sigma, honorary business
fraternity. Speaking on "Eco
nomic Conditions In China To
day." he listed as Chinese vic
tories resulting from the war:
Greater political unity, govern
mental efficiency, development of
the interior, economic reconstruc
tion, and a new spirit
The new Initiates were: Leslie
Boslaugh, Frances E. Weyer,
Mary E. Clizbe, Marlon C. Bon
ham, Erven E. Boettner, Irene
Sellers, Evelyn M. Carlson. Rich
ard L. White and W. B. Williams.
Have good, old-fashioned profs
gone way of horse and buggy?
For years, people have thought
of professors aa happy, harmless,
dodi' ring old theorists with glass
es and white hair and a kindly
look, but Trentwell Mason White
writing for the current American
Mercury, submits that there are
changing styles in college profes
sors. The 1939 college professor, he
says, is so streamlined you can
scarcely tell him from the vice
president of a steel corporation or
a politician. He pitcures him as a
smooth, well dressed man with a
long expensive cigar in his mouth,
a cocktail in one hand, a new
theory in tho other and a pocketful
of fees.
H. L. Mencken is quoted In the
article as saying, "All the profes
sors I know are millionaires; and,
in addition, most of then) keep
women."
"Our professor ia everywhere,"
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VOL XXXVIII, NO. 131
Hlistory fteacHieirs
today for annual
Too much ale
Omaha jail
Asks for bail
By Chris Peterson.
Wi-d!,(i:iy rvmln. . .Sprrliil to th
DAILY NKIIR.VSHAN fmnt Omahu City
Jil.
Send 25 bucks for bail! I can ex
plain all.
The moths in my false beard and
I came down to the Golden Spike
celebration, this morning. Here I
am and the moths are still sitting
in "Buffalo Bill's Saloon" sipping
short beers.
Yes, I missed classes, but then I
didn't give a darn in the anticipa
tion of bands, parades, street
dances, and old fashioned laasies.
But I have learned.
I started the day off all right.
I liked the opening of the exhibi
tion at the city auditorium. You
know, President Roosevelt pushed
a button on his desk in Washing
ton which opened the dors. That in
itself was different. He only does
for the two or three World Fairs
which occur yearly. The parades
and other exhibitions were good
too. Everybody was in the best of
spirits1.
Tangled in Beard.
It was after lunch that I started
getting in bad. It was the first
damper on my day's activities
when I became lost in a beardly
growth sported by one of the lead
ing contestants. For well onto an
hour, I struggled thru the under
brush and finally emerged in a
north easterly direction. That was
the first scrape.
I spent most of the afternoon
watching a bunch of Indiana do
their war dance on the courthouse
lawn. After comparing it to our
"Jitterbugging" I was fully con
vinced that we should give the
country back to the Indians. I
turned to a big burly soul and
told him so but evidently he didn't
think as I did because he floored
me. I'll swear that during the time
that I was lying there, at least
half the thousands taking, part in
the celebration trod upon me.
I finally got up just in time to
hurry over to Howard St. to wit
ness the preliminary judging of
the beards. I entered but forgot to
yell when a judge plucked a
whisker. Result: I found myself
eliminated in the first round and a
traitor to the cause. I really
See ALE, Page 3.
the article continues. "Even when
we don't see him around, we short
ly discover that he's busy boring
away, termite-like, with a sharp,
new theory. He is at his very
smartest in Washington, where he
got his first chance for national
recognition.
Wilson started it.
"Prof. Wilson of Princeton
started it all. Lots of people
smiled when he began to act rs
president of the United Slates.
Ho encouraged a few brother pro
fessors to join him in his new
project, but was so cautious that
his administration eventually
looked much like anybody else's
Besides forming brain trusts
professors find top-paying jobs in
industry. Few large corporations
are without a full complement of
professors. Laird of Colgate is on
the payrool of the N. W. Ayer
organization. Angell of Yale it at
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Delegate trio
gotoCouncil
conference
Marian Kidd, E. W. Lantz,
Merrill Englund leave
for Northfield today
As representatives from Ne
braska at the National Student
Federation conference, E. W.
Lanz, student council advisor,
Marian Kidd and Merrill Englund
will leave today for Northfield,
Minn., the site of Carleton college,
which is acting host for the con
vention. Nebraska delegates will
remain thru Sunday.
Scheduled for Friday at the con
vention is a group conference on
student government and another
on student-faculty relationships
and their importance. The latter
meeting will cover opportunites
for co-operation in education, so
cial, and governmental relations.
A conference on the student and
curriculum are included on the
Saturday program. Also scheduled
for that day is a discussion of
NSFA travel services and an ad
dress by an unknown speaker who
will speak at an all college meet
ing. After the election of officers
an address will be given by the
regional chairman.
Apologists say convo foot
noises old Nebraska custom
Farmers' Fair board
sponsors last rally
Last Farmers' Fair rally of the
year will be" held tonight at 7:15
on the old pageant grounds west
of the dairy building, featuring
"formal" dress and the announce
ment of the winner of the tickets
sales contest.
Formal dress for the men is
overalls, for the girls, cotton
cresses, with Fair bandannas man
datory for all. Prof. Ross "Rudy"
Miller of the animal husbandry
department will speak to the con
gregation, and a German band
made up of Ag students will vie
with the girls sextet for musical
honors.
NBC; Strunk of Princeton tells
Warner Brothers and M-G-M how
to make Shakespeare box office.
Albert Lewin, now a director for
Paramount used to teach English;
and so did Kenneth Collins, who,
after serving Macy's and Gim
bel'a, has retreated to the aca
demic atmosphere of the New
York Times.
Few of us would know how we
feel about things, were it not for
Prof. Gallus sampling our national
feelings. Others run ghost writing
bureaus, metallurgical institutes,
Washington lobbies and do home
work for cigarette companies and
advertising agencies.
Average professor's biography.
"The average college professor
la born into a small town, lower
middle class family. His parents
are non-college, and the family in
come is less than $2000 a year.
See PROFS, Page 4.
THURSDAY, Al'KIL 27, 1939
arrive
meet
Chicago U. historian,
Dr. L. R. Gottschalk,
addresses Friday convo
History teachers of Nebraska
will gather on the university cam
pus today, tomorrow and Satur
day for their twenty-seventh an
nual convention. The program is
being sponsored by the University
and the Lincoln public schools.
Most of the sessions will be held
in the Student Union.
Guest speaker this year is Dr.
Louis R. Gottschalk, chairman of
the department of history of the
University of Chicago, who is one
of the foremost authorities on the
history of the French revolution.
Dr. Gottschalk will also address
a University convocation Friday
morning at 11 in the Temple on
the subject, "French in the Ameri
can Revolution."
The history teachers convention
will begin with an address by the
Chicago educator at Everett junior
high school at 3:45 Thursday aft
ernoon. M. C. Lefler, superinten
dent of Lincoln schools, will pre
side. The annual dinner is seed
uled for Friday evening at 6:15 in
the Student Union. Dr. Gottschalk
will speak on "Causes of Revolu
tions." Breakfast Saturday Morning.
Sessions will continue Saturday
morning with a breakfast meeting
at 8:15 in the union. A noon
luncheon and an address by the
Chicago historian will bring the
convention to a close. The program
See HISTORY, Page 4.
German students applaud a
speaker by the scraping of feet
rather than by the clapping of
hands. Strange? Foreign? On
the contrary that custom is also
100 percent Nehraskan.
Though no one doubts the good
intentions of the student body, the
convocation committee is having
a hard time to tactfully explain
to visiting speakers that the rude
receptions they have received are
really only a peculiar custom
among the students of Nebraska.
Unfortunately, Neihardt faced the
convocation audience last Tues
day morning uninformed, and was
left stunned by the boisterous ap
proval expressed by the steady
scraping and sliding of the feet of
late arrivals.
Continuous din.
The din of approval continued
full pace till the last person came
at 12:45 o'clock, just five minutes
before the speaker finished his
remarks. Immediately however,
almost as if this last person's ar
rival had set off a spark, the
stream of early departers began to
See APOLOGISTS, Page 2
Language grow
to meet' in Omaha
Five NU professors
appear on progrcm
With President Dr. Joseph
Alexis presiding, Itie Nebraska di
vision of the Modern Language as
sociation of America will meet
Saturday in Omaha. In addition
four professors from the romance
language department will appear
on the days program.
Dr. James Wadsworlh will prw
sent an address on "Henri Len
ormand" at the morning sespion,
when Jean Tilche will speak on
"Dante and the Empire." In the
afternoon session Dr. Emile Telle
and Dr. Hilarlo Saenz will col
laborate in presenting a dialogue
called "Lingua Franca."