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13 soroities enter
Fraternity
entries due
Saturday
Betas, Thetas each
seek third straight
win, permanent prize
Thirteen sororities hnd filed for
tlie annunl Ivy Day Sing classic
ns the filings for the girls closed
Thursday noon. Complete entries
for fraternity competitors must be
made with the Kosmet Klub by the
5 o'clock deadline Saturday.
Topping the twelve- entry record
of last spring by one, all sororities
on the city campus but two have
declared their intention of vicing
for the silver cup trophies.
On the docket for the inter-sorority
sing clash will be Alpha
Chi Omega, Alpha Omicron Pi,
Alphi Phi, Alphi Xi Delta. Chi
Omega. Delta Delta Delta, Delta
Gamma, Gamma Phi Beta, Kappa
Alpha Theta, Kappa Delta, Kappa
Kappa Gumma, Phi Mu, and Pi
lieta Phi.
Wauglt, Clemens in charge.
Elizabeth Waugh, chairman of
the sorority sing, and Virginia
Clemens, president of the A. W. S.
board were in charge of sorority
filings, and will supervise the Ivy
day event.
Of special importance among
the rules governing the men's com
petition, is the scholarship require
ment, restricting participants to
those who aie carrying 12 hours
this semester in good standing.
Inter-fraternity sing rules 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,
including 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
(See SING page 7.)
Kansas students
pull woeful boners
in English exam
LAWRENCE. Kas.. Apr. 26.
Each year at the University of
Kansas students are given an op
portunity to take an examination
in English proficiency. They are
required to pass this examination
before they can be granted a de
gree from the university. As usual
in examinations of this type there
is revealed a surprising amount of
hitherto unknown information:
and unintentional, ludicrous irrors
are made.
The following are some of the
more humorous of the answers:
"A 'blind date' does not diffc
in physical makeup any irore
than any other type of date."
Drivers, hold that wheel!
Advice to drivers, "Don't forget
to use the steering wheel and if
at night, turn on your lights."
"Education is growing, to gi
gantic proportions, and in these
last years it is a stupifying figure
of the children that are in school."
"Perhaps the most important
thing about building a fire, hand
ling a fire, cooking over a fire,
or putting the thing out when
you're through with it, Is the
simple business of using one's
head."
"Washing a dog is a task by
, which one must become familiar
with if he expects to remain a
figure in our social world. For
what his dog looks like, the per
Bon can be judged accordingly.,
The Official Newspaper of More Than 6,000 Students
Dr.Gottschalk
views study
of revolutions
Tells Nebraska history
teachers value of such
research pedagogical
The first meeting of the 27th
annual convention of Nebi aska his
tory teachers was held Thursday
afternoon at the Everett junior
high school. Highlight on the
afternoon's program was an ad
dress by Dr. Louis Gottschalk on
the subject of "Revolutions in His
torical Perspective." M. C. Lefler,
superintendent of Lincoln public
schools, presided at the meeting.
Dr. Gottschalk, who is chairman
of the history department of the
University of Chicago, will address
a university convocation in the
Temple at 11 this morning. His
topic will be "The French in the
American Revolution."
In his afternoon talk Dr. Gott
schalk stated that the merit of
studies of past revolutions is
pedagogical rather than scientific.
Their chief value is that they may,
if carefully prepared, enable the
historian to guess at one of the
maay possible outcomes of any
current or future revolution.
Ag campus edition
to come out Sunday
The next Issue of the DAILY
NEBHASKAN will be a special
ag campus edition put out on
the spot Satrday morning. The
entire staff will pull up stakes,
move out to the Holdrege street
campus and descend en masse
on the office of the Cornhusker
Countryman which is being
made ready for them. Cars will
leave the city campus offices at
10 and at 1.
NU can contest Jayhawk boast
of low Union fees on use basis
Following a report of the opera
tion committee of the Student Un
ion at Lawrence, the KU news bu
reau sent out a publicity release
which purports to show that "stu
dents at the University of Kansas
pay lower fees for the use of their
Union building than do the stu
dents of any other school in the
country."
Kansas students pay $1.93 a
year as their contribution to the
support of their $275,000 Union
while Nebraska collegians dig
down for $6 each year to help
maintain their Union, built at a
cost of $460,000. On the face of it.
the KU assessment is much lower
but use, value and other matters
must be considered before con
cluding that Kansans get more for
their money than do Nebraskans,
or any other students, for that
matter.
The greater part of this differ
ence in assessments is explained
by the fact that over half of the
$6 Nebraskans pay goes to clear
up the $200,000 mortgage on their
Union, now about $18,000. Jay
hawk students have paid no share
of the construction of their build
ing as the result of a grant from
a beneficent legislature.
KU serves 209,560 meals.
To show that Kansans not only
pay less but also get their Uhion
dollar's worth, their efficient n$ws
bureau goes on to state that "dur
ing the school year 1937-38, 11,73,
persons attended meetings, fonmis
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Ivy Sing
Fair rally
draws crowd
of over 600
Advance ticket sale
deadline extended
to next Wednesday
Announcing the extension of the
Farmers Fair advance ticket sales
drive until the pre-fair dance next
Wednesday evening an ag campus
rally opened with a burst of en
thusiasm on the pageant field last
night.
With a cheering, boisterous
crowd of over 600 students clad
in overalls and cotton dresses as
sembled for the pep meeting, Ross
Miller, coach of the ag meat judg
ing team delivered a charge and
enthusiastic explanation of the ac
tivities planned for the annual
Farmers Fair week end. May 6.
Yellow bandanas, inscribed across
the corner with "Farmers Fair,
'39" were released to the assem
bled students.
With the spirit aroused in the
student body by the costumed as
sembly, the speeches, and the an
nouncement of the dance and fair
activities for the week, it is hoped
that ticket sales will boom. Ruth
Wallace, home economics sopho
more, heads the sales campaign
thus far.
Noon today is Ivy Day
poem contest deadline
Deadline for entry in the Ivy
Day poem contest is at noon
today. All entries must be typed
and double spaced with the
name of the author not on the
manuscript. Name and address
should accompany the poem in
a sealed envelope.
and dances at the Union; 53.280
used the lounges and reading
rooms; 209,560 meals were served;
and 23,809 persona were present
at teas, dinners and luncheons dur
ing the year."
Corresponding figures for Ne
braska's Student Union, which will
not complete its first year of op
eration until May 4, loom large in
comparison with these statistics of
Kansas' building, which has over
ten years of experience behind it.
Nebraska feeds over 416,000.
Instead of a mere 11,743 per
sons, 117,947 attended meetings,
dances, lectures and concerts in
the Nebraska Union from May 4,
1938 to April 23, 1939. In the cat
ering department, 416,093 meals
were served in the regular dining
room and 25,451 persons were
present at teas, dinners and lunch
eons during the same period as
compared to Kansas figures of
209,560 and 23,809.
In the Kansas Union, 40 stu
dents were regularly employed
last year and 115 persons were
used for part time work. Inter
preting the term "regularly em
ployed on a regular schedule, not
necessarily full time, Director
Kenneth Van Sant said about 100
students came under this classifi
cation in Nebraska's building.
About 50 more work on a part
time basis, assuming that "part
time" means those who are called
in at irregular times for special
jobs dances, etc.
In addition, 20 non-students put
350 scientists join
in 0 lab anniversary
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Lincoln Jmininl
Dr. W. E. Walton.
Le Rossignol
to go on tour
To talk in Lawrence,
Kansas, Nebraska City
Dr. J. E. LeRossignol of the
bizad college, goes on tour next
week with an address before the
annual meeting of the Association
of Credit Bureaus of Nebraska at
Nebraska City May 1, followed by
a convocation address May 4 on
the annual School of Business day
program at Kansas university.
Discussing various phases of the
National Labor Relations Act, Le
Rossignoll as an honorary mem
ber of the Lincoln Association of
(See TOUR page 5.)
in a full week's work at the N TI
Union. And furthermore, there is
the entire corps of janitors, paid
bv the university and not tht Un
ion, who must be reckoned in any
enumeration of union workers
The total is over 175 employes vs
Kanas' 155.
Facilities of both Unions are
comparable in quantity if not qual
ity. Says the K. U. News Bureau.
"The Union at Lawrence houses a
fountain; billiard and ping pong
rooms; campus publication offi
ces; book exchange; cafeteria;
private dininfr rooms! lohhios nn.1
lounges; ball room and meeting
rooms.
The Nebraska Union boasts a
grill and ir untain; ping pong and
game room; campus publication
offices; browsing library; cafe
teria; private dining rooms, a spa
cious main lounee and several
smaller ones; ball room; meeting
rooms and offices.
Nebraskans get full value.
How the K .U. huildinir com
pares with Nebraska's in furnish
ings, comfort, activity program,
and other 8uch items, this writer
docs not know, but it seems a safe
guess that a new $460,000 build
ing and $6 assessments would
guarantee superiority in such
things ove:1 an old $225,000 build
ing and $1.93 assessments.
Howsoever that may be, Ne
braskans can still feel that they
get full v&Iua from their Union
dollar no mat'ier what economics
nay be practiced by their neigh-
oor ana tsig six rival, Kansas U.
FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 1939
Walton plans program
for 14th annual session
of Midwestern group
At the 14th annual convention
of the Midwestern Psychological
association to be held here May 5
and 6, appioximately 350 r.cien-
usis or tne united States will join
on the camnus with Nebraskans
in commemoration of the 50th r.n-
niversary of the foundation of the
university psychology laboratory
by Dr. Harry Kirke Wolfe.
Twenty-nine states, from Massa
chusetts to California, the Dis
trict of Columbia, and Canada are
represented in the membership of
the association. The university has
provided three presidents of the
organization and at present Dr.
J. P. Guilford director of the lab
oratory at the university is secretary-treasurer
of the association
and a member of the executive
council.
N. U. lab 5th oldest in U. S.
The anniversary is one of the
reasons the Midwestern associa
tion, which is the largest regional
division of the national body, is
meeting in Lincoln this spring.
The laboratory situated here is the
fifth oldest in existence in the
United States. At Nebraska the
initiatory step in offering courses
in experimental psychology to un
dergraduates was taken.
Among the groups of well
known scientists produced at Ne
braska, none have brought greater
distinction to the university than
its psychologists who have proved
themselves to be leaders in the
field. A few of the more notable
scientists from Nebraska are
Madison Bentley, who is connected
with the library of congress; two
Columbia educators, Leta S. and
Harry L. Hollingworth; Frederick
H. Lund of Temple universitp;
Walter B. Pillbury, a past presi
dent of the American Psychologi
cal association; Arthur Jersild and
John Warden, both of Columbia
university; and Dr. Winifred Hyde,
an instructor under Dr. Wolfe, who
(See PSYCHOLOGISTS page 5.)
Engineer-lawyer
feud may break
out again tonight
Feudin' may break out at the
Engineer's ball in the Union ball
room tonight, 'cause the engineers
air a-askin' fer it. They're a
hangin' out the ole green derby in
front of the law stewdents, which
is like a-hangin' a red flag in
front of Uncle Hiram's ole red
bull.
The green derby has been the
symbol of rivalry between lawyers
and engineers since a decade ago,
when it first came into the pos
session of the latter. It has been
entrusted to the keeping of Dean
Ferguson, but periodically it is
flaunted to tempt lawyers who
want to test their strength with
the engmeers.
Originally, the engineers
wrested from the lawyers a brown
derby, but a subsequent lawsuit
brought in the model courtroom
in law college returned it to the
lawyers, who presented the losers
with a derby of green, the engine
ering color. t tempts to regain
the green liat have been success
ful only in causing hostilities.
But an engineering spokesman
said that "it'll be out in plain sight
tonight. Let the lawyers get it
if they think they're men enough."
When he was asked what precau
tions they would take to prevent
seizure of the hat, he smiled and
said:
"We aren't saying much except,
'The Derby Hangs High'!"