Sunday, Novtm!er 26, 1939
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Factffgondlimig bureau affects st udeoifis? faculty
'Messiah7
oratorio set
for Dec. 17
Seven students solo
in annual Yuletide song
fest; Westbrook directs
Annual presentation of Handel's
"Messiah" by the university's com
bined musical groups will be held
in the coliseum Sunday afternoon,
December 17, with seven students
taking the solo parts.
Director of the school of fine
arts Dr. Arthur E. Westbrook will
preside as conductor of the Christ
mas oratorio, to be sung by the
400 voices of the university choral
union. The symphony orchestra as
well as other musical units will
participate.
Soloists are Nina Armstrong of
Emerson, contralto; Louise Sta
pleton, Lincoln, soprano; Martha
McGee, Columbus, soprano; Dale
Ganz, Alvo, and Glen Clark, Elgin,
baritone; and Nate Holman, jr..
and Jack Donovan of Lincoln,
tenor.
The ranks of the choral union
will be augmented for "The Mes
siah" program by the university
chorus, which is under the direc
tion of Dr. Westbrook; the college
of agriculture chorus, Mrs. Altinas
Tullis, director; the university
singers, W. O. Tempel, director;
the Grieg Male chorus, Hermann
T. Decker, director; and the adult
campus chorus, also under super
vision of the fine arts head.
Don A. Lentz will conduct the
eymphony orchestra In rendition
of the oratorio accompaniments,
and Ward Moore, assistant pro
fessor of brass instruments, will
have charge of a brass quartet
consisting of Robert Buddenfcerg
of Gothenburg, and Robert Krejcl,
Schuyler, cornets; Edward Edison,
Lincoln, French horn; and Herbert
Cecil of St. Paul, trombone.
Debate teams
announced
Season begins after
Christmas vacation
Assigning of teams for the de
bate try-outs, which will be held
Doc. 6 are: Affirmative, Ben Novi
coff, Jack Stewart, Blaine Sloan,
Otto Woerncr, Howard Besslre;
negative, Harold Turkcl, Gilbert
Hueftle, C. Loyd Shubert, Edwin
Carraher.
The assigned topic for the de
bate is: Resolved, that the United
States should follow a policy of
strict economic and military isola
tion toward all nations outside the
Western Hemisphere engaged in
armed International or civil con
flict. The debate season starts Imme
diately after Christmas. The first
debate will probably be with the
University of California, In Lin
coln. In the try-outs to be held Wed
nesday, Dec. 6 in Andrews, room
126, at 7:30. Men who enter their
names In the try-outs now will be
assigned to one side or the other
in the older that their names are
received. Each man is allowed S
minutes for his speech. In this
" time he is to present both con
structive and rebuttal arguments
in any manner he may choose.
Judging will be on the basis of
both material and speaking.
Botanist names new cup
fungi after NU woman
Dr. Fred J. Seaver of the New
York Botanical Garden has named
a new cup fungi after Dr. Leva
B. Walker of the department of
botany, who discovered the plants
growing in a pan of soil on which
she was testing the growth of
other organisms. Dr. Walker, her
self an expert on fungi, believed
the small plants were different
from any she had found, so sent
them to be identified by Dr. Sea
Ver. In a recent issue of Mycologia,
the New York scientist writes: "I
have received from Dr. Walker
a beautiful specimen which is un
questionably a Boudiera. While
the general characters leave no
question as to Its generic identity,
its specific characters differ great
ly from the other two described
species." The previously Identified
fungi attain a diameter of five
eights mm., and were dark brown
In color, while Dr. Walker's plants
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DAILY NEBRASKAN staff photo.
Instructional research body
studies university practices
Guilford, Cox administer tests to students,
conduct statistical surveys for uni faculty
By Edwin Wittenberg.
Amid the headlines announcing incoming freshmen and new stu
the administration charges that
followed the appointment of Dr. C.
S. Boucher as chancellor last year,
the establishment of one additional
bureau on the campus in February
passed almost unnoticed.
News columns took little heed
when, at the instigation of the new
chancellor, the university senate
on Feb. 1, 1939, voted into exist
ance the Bureau of Instructional
Research with Dr. J. P. Guilford,
professor of psychology, given a
new task as bureau director.
To obtain a full time research
expert, the administration went to
the University of Georgia for
Henry M. Cox, assistant director,
who already had attained a repu
tation in the field of educational
research.
Affects every student
Since Feb. 1, the bureau, tucked
away in an obscure corner of the
basement (room B3) of the admin
istration building, has in some
way affected every student and
every faculty member on the cam
pus. Originally established to make
statistical studies for faculty mem
bers, and to establish a factual
basis for educational policies the
bureau has been given the addl-
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dents.
In spite of its far reaching ac
tivities, the bureau does not en
courage publicity. That fact was
made quite clear to a DAILY re
porter when Dr. Guilford ruefully
complained, "I must have been out
of my mind when I agreed to this
interview." And Mr. Cox was cau
tion personified in explaining the
Salvemini, foe of Fascism,
to speak on campus Dec. 5
Italian historian was smuggled out of Italy by his
students, has taken up crusade for democracy
Dr. Gaetano Salvemini, "most One semester of the year, Sal
effective critic of Fascism outside vemini is professor of Italian
Italy," will address two campus flvtton at Harvard, lectures at
irroiinq TiiMrt'.v rw wo the social research school in New
groups Tuesday, Dec. 5. He will York, and has been a visiting pro
discuss "Will Mussolini Reman fessor at Yale and Stanford.
Neutral?" before a convocation at Dr. Salvemini has written many
11 In the Temple, and "What is widely-read books and articles. His
Democracy?" at a Union forum. latest book is "Under the Axe of
Dr. Salvemini was for many Fascism." Others are "The Fascist
years professor of Italian history Dictatorship in Italy," and "Mus
at the University of Florence. In solinl-Diplomat." His articles have
the post-war period he served as been widely published in Foreign
a member of the Chamber of Affairs, The New Republic and
Deputies. After the rise of the The Nation.
Mussolini regime he refused to With the noted Italian exile
take the compulsory teachers' democracy is a crusading cause!
oath. He was smuggled out of He regards it as the best and most
Italy by his students, and went to workable system of government
England, later coming to America, and speaks of it with great fervor.
activities of the bureau.
Extensive testing program.
The bureau's testing program
alone is many-sided. No student
will forget the psychojogical exams
he took on entering the univer
sity with such puzzling and con
fusing questions as: "If a cow
gives milk, put an x in the circle;
but If sows give birth to calves,
put an x In the triangle." These
and other entrance examinations
asked for by different schools and
colleges of the university are pre
pared and given by the bureau.
Also this year, the bureau has
given individual tests on vocational
aptitudes and interests to a num
ber of students who have been sent
there by advisors. It has been dis
covered, said Dr. Guilford, that dis
satisfaction with school or par
ticular courses of study is caused
in many cases by poor study
habits.
Expects demand for more tests.
Dr. Guilford predicts that under
the new junior division plan re
cently set up, there will be a de
mand for additional general testa
for incoming students to aid fac
ulty members in placing their ad
visees in the correct colleges and
courses. Possible general exam
ination subjects mentioned by the
bureau director were vocational in
terest, general mathematics and
reading ability.
The bureau is by no means sat
isfied with merely giving the ex
aminations, but is constantly
checking up on their accuracy to
find out whether a particular test
can be relied on to perform the
intended function of predicting
success or failure of students in
particular subjects. Because of
this, pointed out Dr. Guilford, the
future will see better and better
tests being used.
Accuracy of the exams can be
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