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The Official Newspaper of More Than 6,000 Students
VOL. XXXVIII, NO. 137
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TUESDAY, MAY 2, 1939
College Days fill
tfai
wi:i.
Beauty ball
to reveal
NU Queens
Cornhusker adopts new
method to announce six
Carroll-picked charmers
Pulchritude, row on row,
Ml meet the eye at Nebras
ka's first Beauty Queen ball
Wednesday evening in the
Union ballroom as all 32 candi
dates for Cornhusker Beauty
Due to the over-zealousness
of Cornhusker enthusiasts,
Earl Carrbll was advertised as
actually visiting Lincoln in or
der to select the 1939 Corn
busker Beauty Queen at the
ball. It Is true that Mr. Car
roll is selecting the queens, knit
nly from his theater-restaurant
in sunrty California.
Queens gather t hear which
six were adjudged by Karl
Carroll to be the most beautiful.
The Beauty Queen hall, first of
it kind, will herald the traditional
pagentry of Iry Day, and is, it
self, planned to become a feature
of campus tradition according: to
the members erf the Cornhusker
staff, sponsor.
Nebraska has her Honorary
Colonel, her Ag Sweetheart, her
(See BEAUTY, Page 2.)
Dr. Miller praises
Ruskin before P.B.K.
Speaker at formal initiation ceremony finds
truth, memory, obedience good rules of life
"The seven lamps of architecture, especially the lamps of truth,
memory, anil obedience, as suggested by Kuskin, should be used as
the rules of life," Dr. Kdraund K. Miller told newly elected members
of Phi Beta Kappa last evening. Approximately 150 people witnessed
the formal initiation ceremony f r -
HIT nun nmi c. m iiwiiwimi, in j-,
in the Union.
History of Ruskin.
Dr. Miller was the principal
ikri . ,,rLaji;r:1;!near noose
it i r.i.n it tin ,iwiii n i viii ouiijrj i. ,
"Suggestions From Kuskin." Ht :
Parted wit brief history of
Kuskin, who first came into prom
inence in lSf.O when he warned the
people of the world that the then
prevalent theory that free com
petition in production and distri
bution would lead to natloji.il
wealth was false and would m.ike
for poverty and depression.
inougn re was nooieo or
cheered." Dr. Miller commented,
nis neauuiiii iiierary siyie sivuvef
as clearlv as a cube of sunl'-erit
Piano solo.
Also included on the program
was a piano solo by Mary Virginia
Tookey. The initiation ceremony
was conducted by President James
Wadsworth and Professors Hertz
ler and Hicka with the assistance
of Mrs. A. VV. Williams and Miss
Margaret Cannell.
Ivy, Daisy chains
meet today for practice
All members of the Ivy. and
Daisy chains for the Ivy Day
festival will meet at 5 o'clock
today and Wednesday in the
Temple for practice.
s week with
Til IHS.
Campusites
guess at Ivy
Day secrets
Identity of Queen, sing
winners, Mortar Boards,
Innocents cause tension
Ivy Day and its traditions,
which will take place Thursday,
hold the campus at a high pitch
of tension and excitement this
week while three questions keep
students wildly guessing who will
be the May Queen, who will be
the next Innocents ana Mortar
Boards, and who will win the in
ter-fraternity and inter-sorority
sing contests.
Advance preparations for the
annual event promise that this
year's Ivy Day will be the most
Impressive and colorful one in the
history of the university. The
preparations were well under way
yesterday as workman began con
struction of the dais north of the
administration building.
A checkup on the condition of
the sod in the immediate vicinity
revealed that it was in excellent
shape for flying Innocents and
aoramblinr Mortar Boards, who
will be tapped and masked during
tha annual university holiday.
Weatherman a viMain.
The weather man, however
proved to be the villain of the day
as he predicted scattered shower.?
for Thursday but redeemed himself
by also predicting warmer weath
er. The ceremonies, steeped in uni-
(See SECRETS, Page 3.)
NU lawyers
Kansas City attorney
addresses convocation
Naming and outlining what he
t il en i'iI to as the three most im
portant features oi law tml pro
cceduie, Inxhram D. Hook, Kan
sas Ciiv Attornev and President
i 0f tH, Missouri Bar association
addressed an all law college con-
; vocation vesterd.iv mornine at 11
o'clock.
Hoik, a graduate of the Uni
versity of Chicago, pointed to the
impaneling of a jury, the lawyer's
introductory speech to the jury,
and the "art" of cross examina
tion as vital spots of legal pro
ceeding. The selection of the wrong juror
may cause a lawyer to lose a case,
and a man to lose his freedom, he
said. A freak example in his own
experience was a cane where a
lawyer was trying to demonstrate
to a jury that a certain object
Could not be seen from a given
point. "It would take a cockeyed
man to see that," said the lawyer.
He did not notice until later the
cockeyed man in the jury box.
Till CIS.
Rubinoff co.
to entertain
record crowd
Advance ticket sales
indicate 5,000 will
hear Ivy Day concert
Indications from the advance
ticket sale for the Rubinoff show,
to be presented in the coliseum at
8 o'clock, Ivy day evening, May
4, show that a crowd of approxi
mately four to five thousand per
sons will gather to hear the noted
violinist play.
Appearing with Rubinoff on his
concert presentation of modern
music will be the famous radio
and stage piano duo of Fray and
Braggtotti. The violinist a" offer
ings as well as those of the piano
duo will vary from a Bach fugue
or Debussy nocturne to one of
Gershwtn s compositions and a
Goodman arrangement of swing
music.
Good seats left.
Good seats are still available,
according to Mrs. Vera Yinger,
Union social director, who is Aid
ing in the management of the
concert. The box office at the colt
seum will open at 6 o'clock the
evening of the performance for
those who wish to purchase tick
eta. Tickets may also be purchased
(See RUBINOFF, Page 4.)
NU delegates
report action
of Federation
Kidd, Englund, Lantz
tell of ideas expressed
on student government
After swapping ideas on current
campus government, politics and
faculty student relationships over
the week end with other Student
Councilors from 15 colleges in
four states, Marian Kidd, Merrill
Englund and Student Council ad
viser K. W. Lantr returned Sun
day night from Northfield, Minn.
They had been the guests of Carle
ton college there for the meeting
of the West Cental division of
the National Student Council Fed
eration. Faculty domination deplored.
Discussion of college curriculum
planning showed that the major
ity of delegates felt that stiidents
I should have a voice in the .selection
I of subjects for the curriculum,
i The present system of faculty
domination of the planning w as re
proached. Another generally accepted idea
tWown to the top by the discus
sion was a closer association ot
students and faculty. The idea
was expressed that collegians
should drop the "apple polishing"
attitude toward students who talk
to their instructors, and that more
informal conferences b" held.
Campus politics supported.
Politics in campus elections
were upheld. Student Councilors
argued that college bein; a place
to prepare one for living, condi
tions of living should be repro
duced as closely as possible in
college.
The federation encompasses
schools in Iowa, Nebraska, Kan
sas and Minnesota. Representa
tives to the meeting were enter
tained with musical programs,
trips about the campus and a
dance.
calendar
big
Till US.
Open house
exhibits enter
final stages
Engineering, pharmacy
college preparations
promise night of action
Final preparations, now un
derway, for the animal open
house exhibits .staged each
spring by the college of phar
macy and the college of engi
neering indicate that the two
exhibits will be the finest and
most interesting in the history
of either college. Both open
houses will be held Thursday eve
ning. Exhibits varying from a work
ing model of a steam locomotive to
the only working model of a frac
tionating tower in existence will
be featured at the engineer's x
hibit. Banana to pound nail.
A working model of the Colum
bus hydroelectric plant will be the
feature of the, civil engineering ex
hibit. Mechanical engineers will
use a banana to pound a nail into
a board, and the military engineers
will feature an exhibit of model
military bridges.
"A Design for Modern Living"
is the theme of the exhibit to be
staged by the architectural en
gineers. Focal point of the ex
hibit is to be a model of a truly
(See EXHIBITS, Page 3.)
Alumni prepare annual
'Roundup' celebration
Association mails out
Classes of '89, 99, '19
Preparations for Commencement time's annual Alumni Roundup.
June 3-5, expected to be the largest get-together of grads in the
history of the university, began fully yesterday with the issuance of
invitations to alumni groups scattered from coast to coast.
Journalists
hear Grimes
Sigma Delta Chi dinner
follows initiation today
George Grimes, associate editor
of the Omaha World-Herald and
Nebraska cx-18, will address mem
bers of Sigma Delta Chi. profes
sional journalism fraternity, and
members of the university school
of journalism at a dinner to be held
at the Union this evening follow
ing initiation of new members into
the fraternity.
Carroll Chouinard, university
editor and publicity head, wil poin
Sigma Delta Chi as a professional
member, while student members
to be taken into the fraternity at
initiation ceremonies thU after
noon include Norman Harris, Don
Anderson, Ed Wittenberg, Dale
Garst, and Joe Heiser.
Following the initiation at 5:30
in the Union, the banquet will be
held at 6:30. Open to all members
of the school of journalism, the af
fair will celebrate the 30th year of
Sigma Delta Chi. Reservations at
75 cents per plate should be made
at the Union office by this noon.
times
I HI., SAT.
Six scientific
organizations
convene here
Nebraska Academy
of Sciences to open
49th conclave Friday
The campus is preparing to
play Host to a large aggrega
tion of scientists from Nebras
ka and adjoining states Fri
day and Saturday when six
scientific organizations hold
their conventions simultaneous.
ly with the 49th annual
conclave of the Nebraska Acad
emy of Sciences.
Organizations which will meet
here include the Mathematical As
sociation of America, the Nebras
ka Council of Mathematics Teach
ers, the Nebraska Council of
Geography Teachers, the Nebras
ka Science Teachers association,
the Midwestern Psychology asso
ciation, and the Missouri Valley
branch of the Society of Ameri
can Bacteriologists.
Boucher to welcome.
Sessions of the Academy of
Sciences will commence at 8:30
Friday morning in Morrill hall
where registration and sectional
meetings will be held until 11
o'clock. At that time Chancel
lor Boucher will welcome the via
ithig scientific men, and Dr. G. E.
Condra of the eo-ervation of tut -(See
SCIENTISTS, Page 2.
15,000 announcements;
have special reunion
More than 15,000 bulletins head-
ed by the slogan. "Once a Corn
husker, Always a Cornhusker,"
were mailed to Nebraska grads
throughout the nation.
Honoring the classes of 1SSP,
1899 and 1919 who are celebrating
their fifty, forty and twenty year
anniversaries in Lincoln at that
time, the three day activities will
include banquets by these honor
classes, the twentieth annual re
union breakfast .of the P.izad col
lege, and addresses by Chancellor
C. S. Boucher and Secretary E. F.
DuTeau.
Mail over 15,000 notices.
In addition to the notification of
all members of the reunion classes,
announcements were sent to 4,000
alumni club officers and active
alumni throughout the country.
4,500 to Lincoln alumni, 2.238 to
Omaha alumni, 5,000 to over forty
other towns and cities in Nebraska
and several hundred to faculty
members and fraternities.
Invitations were mailed out to
1,783 graduates of the college of
business administration to attend
the reunion breakfast of that col
lege at the Student Union build
ing, Sunday morning, June 5.
Beginning its celebrations at a
special table at the Friday night
supper, the class of 1899 will carry
on its activities under the direc
tion of Miss Edna Bullock, of the
(See ALUMNI, Page 2.)