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The Official Newspaper of More Than 6.000 Students
VOL. XXXVIII, NO. 143.
Filings due
today at 5
for election
Spring vote for barb,
ag, publications boards,
Council set for Tuesday
With but one day left to file for
positions on the new Student Coun
cil, the three campus parties are
represented by only 25 names on a
ticket of 26, Marion Kidd, counsel
or in charge of elections discloses.
She urged that parties and inde
pendent groups check to see that
their candidates announce their
intentions of running before 5
o'clock this "afternoon.
Ordinarily, and especially with
the smoldering interest in this
spring's election, three candidates
ought to be on the ticket for each
position. City campus politicians
publication board candidates, and
those filing for barb council should
register at Selleck's office in the
coliseum, and those intending to
run on the ag campus slate for ag
executive board, Coll-Agri-Fun
board and Farmers Fair board
should file at the office of Dean
W. W. Burr in ag hall.
Election Tuesday.
Balloting will take place in the
Student Union and Ag Hall next
Tuesday, following the Monday
(See ELECTION page 3.)
R.O.T.C. parade
to be held Friday
Preparations proceed
for annual inspection
The last R.O.T.C. parade of this
semester will be held Friday In
preparation for the annual inspec
tion, which will take place May
17-20.
The first call will be at 4 :50 and
assembly will be sounded at 5
o'clock. The battalion adujtant'a
call will be followed by the regi
mental adjutant's call. The band
will form west of Andrews facing
north and the Junior battalion,
south of the tennis courts, facing
west in a position of close columns.
Miss Ruth Odell completes
biography of Helen Jackson
The first full length biography
of Helen Hunt Jackson hag just
been written by Miss Ruth Odell,
assistant professor in Nebraska's
English department. Since its in
troduction, the book has received
extremely favorable comment from
all critics.
Originally written for her doc
tor's dissertation, it took Miss
Odell nine years to compile the
material and prepare the manu
script, which has been slightly re
vised for printing. Approximately
one-third of the book Is made up
of notes, bibliography and indices.
Had wished no biography.
Before her death in 1885, Mrs.
Jackson requested that no biog
raphy of her should be written. It
was Dr. Louise round who sug
gested the subject to Miss Odell,
because she found so many con
flicting statements about the au
thoress when she was preparing
an account of Mrs. Jackson for the
Dictionary cf American Biography
several years ago.
Material for the book was gath
ered all over the United States.
The Jones library at Amherst and
the Huntington library at San
Marino, California, however, con
tained the mobt Information. Much
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Editorial
That Bus Line
Mr. E. U. Heiny, General Manager,
Lincoln Traction Company.
Dear Mr. Heiny:
Are you a bluffer? Have all your enthusiasm ami all your
pledges of support been a smooth camouflage to a plan to
quiet these barking students? Are you in reality opposed to
the reduction in bus fares which you endorsed as feasible not
a month ago?
Mr. Heiny, it has been only a few short weeks since you
were hailed as a friend of the students. The Student Council
was overcome with pleasure ami surprise to find a man in
the Traction company who presented himself as a believer in
their cause. It was more than they ever dreamed could hap
pen, to have the man against whom they had expected to fight
to the last drop of their blood, meet them with ready smile
and extended hand. And more,
displayed acquicsence to their proposal.
Certainly, Mr. Heiny, a man of your position couldn't
have spoken empty words that belied a hidden progTam a
program of soothful stalling, a program that would hush the
campaign until the school session closed and the project was
forgotten. But of course you couldn't have carried such
thoughts, could you? Because you know and we know,
Mr. Heiny, that this is one program which won't be discarded
as soon as the school year is over. -
Did you ever attend the ag college, Mr. Heiny? Did you
ever attend any university which had two separate campuses'?
If you haven't, you can't know the hardship of traveling back
and forth once, twice, and even three times a day. Did you
ever have to work your way thru college, or even earn that
insignificant part of your spending money which might pro
vide your means of transportation? If you haven't you can't
know the difficulties of earning an "insignificant" $12 a month,
or the double hardship of making innumerable trips between
campuses when each of those trips represents such a high per
centage of each of your hours of hard work.
Mr. Heiny, did anv one ever give you a present for which
you had pined and longed for years? And then when your
heart was just about to burst with joy and pride, did someone
come along and put that gift on a shelf just barely out of your
reach, just high enough on that
every day and hear its mechanics operating and yet, there it
stood day after day, just out of your reach? That, Mr. Heiny,
is not simply a sentimental picture. That whole episode occurs
on this campus every day of the week. Only to make it doubly
heart rending, those students
present, the Union building
benefits.
No, you can rest assured that this is one project which
((See EDITORIALLY SPEAKING, page 2.)
additional information was also
found in Colorado.
Difficult to get material.
The Nebraska writer's first dif
ficulty in writing the book was
getting the consent of the Hunt
and Jackson families to give up
what material they had in connec
tion with Mrs. Jackson. In view of
the request made by the novelist,
the relatives were reluctant to do
this.
"I had a lot of good fun doing
the work," Miss Odell said, "and I
ran across many skeletons in the
closets." Much of the most Inter
esting material was libelous, she
added, and could not be printed.
Her publishers, the D. Apple ton
Century company of New York,
made a few deletions which they
thought might be construed to be
defamatory.
Championed Indians.
Helen Hunt Jackson's biogra
pher believes that her restlessness
and sudden enthusiasms caused
her to champion the cause of the
Indians as she did in Ramona and
A Century of Dishonor. That Mrs.
Jackson stubbornly denied author
ship of many stories may be at
tributed. Miss Odell believes, to the
natural reticency of 10th century
women.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1939
to meet them with words that
shelf so that you could see it
themselves are paying for that
and still they cannot enjoy its
YW plans annual
May breakfast
Coeds to honor mothers
Sunday morning, 8:15
The annual May day morning
breakfast of the Y. W. C. A. will
be held next Sunday morning at
8:15 in the Union building. Every
university woman is invited to
come and bring her mother or a
friend. Tickets for the breakfast
are 35c, and are on Bale at all
organized houses and at the Y. W.
C. A. office in Ellen Smith hall.
A program of toasts to mothers
and daughters is planned, and a
vocal trio composed of Jane Allen,
Florence Moll and Gail Ferguson
will sing. Those who have served
on the Y staff or committees dur
ing the past year will be given
recognition for their work.
All those who plan to attend the
function must make reservations
by Saturday, May 13.
Civil engineers to see
movies of Boulder Dam
Showing of a sound movie deal
lng with Boulder Dam and a pic
ture made at the summer survey
lng camp will be the feature of n
meeting of the student chapter of
the American Society of Civil En
gineers to be h-dd tori,ht at 7:30
in room 315 of the Uuon,
Arthur Jcnness
rejoins faculty
Psychology professor
returns from Harvard
Returning to the university this
fall after an absence of two years
will be Dr. Arthur F. Jenness,
professor of abnormal and ele-
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Lincoln Journal
mentary psychology and social be
havior.
Dr. Jenness has been teaching
in Harvard university the last two
years, and has been accorded a
number of honors for his work in
psychology. Elected to membership
as a fellow in the American Asso
ciation of Applied Psychologists,
Jenness was also appointed by the
Society for the Psychological
Study of Social Issues to mem
bership in a research committee
on peace and war.
Upon his return to Nebraska,
Dr. Jenness will also resume his
duties as special adviser to fresh
men in the college of arts and
sciences. He has also been an in
structor at Radcliffe college.
Sigma Delta Chis
elect Harms head
Name Anderson, Stuart
Garst to other offices
Fred Harms, school of journal
ism junior, was elected president
for next year of Sigma Delta Chi,
professional journalism fraternity,
at a chapter meeting in the Union
yesterday noon. Harms is a past
news editor of the Daily Nebras
kan and is a reporter for The
Journal at present.
Don Anderson was named vice
president, John Stuart, treasurer,
and Dale Garst, secretary.
Harms, as president, was named
the official delegate to the national
convention to be held on the west
coast next fall. Tne convention
which will last from Aug. 31 to
Sept. 5, will be held in Los Ang
eles, San Francisco and Palo Alto
on successive days.
Bob Dreibus was elected alter
nate in the event Harms can not
attend.
Dr. Hendricks
paper on new
Dr. B. Clifofrd Hendricks of
Nebraska's chemistry department,
in collaboration with B. H. Han
dorf of Park college, Missouri, has
recently prepared a paper entitled
"New Examinations From Old" in
which he explains aims and pur
poses employed in a newtype of
exams.
These examinations are design
ed to give a dependable indication
of student understanding and
achievement. Based upon expe
rience and carefully tabulated re
sults gained from other exams,
they are chosen scientifically and
not haphazardly as is the custom
many places.
Examination service.
Believing it would be of advan
tage to instructors and students
alike, Dr. Hendricks is attempting
to interest instructors in other col
leges and universities in co-operating
to establish , an examination
No sections closed yet,
but Congdon advises
students not to delay
With less than 300 students reg
istered by last night, the assign
ment committee reports the small
est registration in years. Since a
$3 penalty will be assessed for late
registration on all students not
registered by Saturday noon, A. R.
Congdon, chairman of the com
mittee, fears the confusion of a
last minute rush.
Though no sections are as yet
closed, the assignment committee
chairman feels that by noon today
it will be impossible for students
to register for several classes. If
for any reason a registrant needs
to be in a specific section, he
should register for it immediately.
Summer registration.
Those failing to plan their
schedules this week must wait till
September, at which time all fees
will be paid. Summer registration
will take place June 5 and 6.
Following the nlan practiced in
former years, all students are re
quired to carry two-fifths of thoir
hours in the afternoons, on Satur
days or in Tuesday, Thursday and
Saturday sections. Any failing to
meet this requirement must have
their registration blanks signed by
the chairman of the assignment
committee who will be found in
room 4 Nebraska hall during the
week.
See adviser.
"To register," Condon explained,
the student must check out his
pass book at the registrars' of
fice, plan his schedule, and have
it signed by his adviser and the
dean of his college. This slip will
then be left at the dean's office."
Burr mourns
Gray's death
Late president of U. P.
promoted agriculture
Officials of the college of agri
culture today mourned the death
of Carl Gray, retired Union Pacific
president. He was active for many
years in promoting a better agri
culture for Nebraska.
Dean W. W. Burr said: 'The
news of the death of Carl R. Gray
comes as a shock to us. During his
many years as president of the
Union Pacific, he was a frequent
visitor at the agricultural college.
Thru him were established the
Union Pacific scholarships that
have meant so much to Nebraska
boys and girls.
"Mr. Gray had a sincere interest
in the welfare of agriculture. The
Nebraska Dairy Development so
ciety was established largely thru
his efforts and for a number of
years received his personal atten
tion. Mr. Gray had many fripnds
at the college of agriculture who
will greatly miss his happy smiles
and friendly counsel. He was one
of the finest men it has been my
privilege to know."
prepares
type exams
service. By means of this rervice
the teacheis would exchange tests
and problems whose values had
been tested. Such a procedure
would stimulate more thought end
care in the preparation of ques
tions by a given teacher even tho
he might adopt another's ques
tions for his own use. Often only
slight alterations would be neces
sary on questions for their reuse.
In the article, Dr. Hendricks
and Dr. Handorf explain that
many instructors, 35 percent of
those questioned, do not believe In
the re-u3c of examination ques
tions. It appears that tradit'on
has set many teachers against
the use of a question for a sec
ond time. This tradition, however,
needs a critical examination be
fore it Is accepted or rejected.
Experience is usually considered
valuable, even tho the results ars
, (8eo HENDRICKS, page 3.)