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M idyear degrees go to 190 seniors, graduates Brownell tops Charter Day celebration Alumnus to talk Feb. 1 5 on 'Aid to University'; Dr. Pool in charge This year's Charter Day activi ties, celebrating the 71st birthday of the university,' will center around an address by Herbert Brownell, jr., New York City, 1924 graduate. Brownell will speak in the Coli seum the morning of Charter Day, Thursday, Feb. 15, on "Alumni Aid to the University." He is a member of the law firm of Lnrd-Dav-Lord. He was chair man of the legal department for the New lork wonas air, ana for several years a member of the New York State Assembly. Pool in charge. Dr. R. J. Pool, chairman of the deoartment of botany, la chairman of the senate committee in charge of the Charter Day ac tivities. Chancellor C. S. Boucher will preside at the public program in the coliseum, rrececung me ad dress of Brownell, there will be a concert by the university sym phony orchestra under direction of Dnn A. LentZ. Annual meetine of the trustees of the University Foundation will be held at noon beo. is in me Student Union, with John A gee of Lincoln, first vice-president nresidine-. Business of the founda tion will be discussed, election of officers held and a report on the year's activities given Dy tu. v (See BROWNELL on page 8.) Champe fills Bell vacancy NU graduate becomes anthropology instructor To fill the vacancy created with the semester's leave of absence eranted Dr. E. H. Bell, John L. Champe, well known plains arche ologist and former Lincoln busi nessman, has been appointed i n s t r u ctor in a nthr opology for the second semester. Formerly vice president of the National Assur a n c e corpora tion in Lincoln, Champe has been actively interested in a rchaeology and anthropol ogy for the last ten years. He Journal Star, John l Champ. has completed all residence requirement Tor Ph.D. degree at Columbia unlver sity. Hat graduate work. Receiving his baccaulreate de gree at the university in 1921, he was employed by the National As surance corporation. Later he be came especially interested in an thropology, and took graduate work in this field at the university. During this time Champe was in the field carties of Dr. Bell and T. A. HilC director of field arche oloiry for the Nebraska State His torical society, and other plains states areheologifts. Supervised field survey. Last summer he supervised the field survey at Linwood, Ncbr., project sponsored by Mr. Hill and the Historical society. He was to have Joined the staff of the or Eanization as supervisor of the laboratory and" archeological field work March 1. He has collaborated in the annual reports on plains archeology fponsored by the State Historical society, and contributed a section to Archaeology, hand book published by the university in 1036. Today's DAILY free, but not tomci row's Today's edition of the DAILY is free to all students. Copies may be obtained at the north end of social science or at the finance office in ag hall. After today, students must present their receiots for capers. Sub scriptions may be purchased at the DAILY office for 75 cents ., ......... . ,5 . '-., . I t- i i ft,,- 4 Vol. 39, No. 80. Social school admitted to ASSW Dinner Saturday night celebrates acceptance into accredited group Nebraska's graduate school of social work celebrated their ad mittance to membership in the American Association of Schools of Social Work, Saturday night. The school received this member ship at the annual convention of the society in Washington last week. This now ranks Nebraska as the second Big Six school to be fully accredited by the organization. Be fore being admitted the social school's curriculum, faculty and school budget were examined by the group s executive committee. Dr. Frank Z. Glick, director of the school, explained that mem bership in the association is com parable to the university mem bership in the North Central Asso ciation of colleges and secondary schools. Gives prestige. 'It means that graduates of the Nebraska school of social work may obtain full credit for their work when seeking membership in the American Association of Social Workers." he stated. "This in turn means that Nebraska will hence forth be more attractive to pros pective students seeking profes sional training in the field. Mem bership will also give useful ad vantage of the experience of all other accredited schools, thru the advisory and consulting services of the association. Boucher gives warning. Chancellor C. S. Boucher, by way of warning, pointed out at the dinner that schools of social (See SCHOOL on page 8.) Nine days left to buy annual Over two thousand pix depict student activities Students who plan to buy issues of the 1940 Cornhusker will have only nine more days to make their purchase, Irvin Sherman, business manager of the yearbook, warned yesterday as the Tassels began a final sales drive. All orders for the annual mua be in the hands of the printers and cover makers by Feb. 15 which au tomatically makes this date the deadline for the purchase of the 1940 Cornhusker. The editorial department of the annual have been working full time in recent months on preparation of copy for the 1940 Issue. As a result more than two thousand photo graphs and candid shots of student life have been taken for use in the yearbook. Pictures of seniors, Juniors, fra ternity and sonority members, and organizations were taken by com mercial firms. Members of the Cornhusker's Btaff of photograph ers snapped the scenes showing students at study, engaging in ex tra-curricular activities, attending social events, participating in ath letic contests, and passing thel spare time In pursuit of entertain ment. Moritz meets teaching candidates Thursday at 4 All new candidates for teach ing positions for the school year of 1940-41 will meet with Mr. Moritz, the director of teacher placement on Thursday in so cial science auditorium at 4 n. m. This is not a repetition of the December meeting. Those stu dents having classes at this hour will be excused from attending them. Official Newspaper Of More Than 7,000 Lincoln, Nebraska Tuesday, February 6, 1940 i T .X SL x m - T . Space provided in Union for student lunch bringers A lunch room for students who bring their own lunch to school will be opened today by Union of ficials in room 315 of the Union. The lunch room was approved at the last board of managers meet ing when need for such a project was reported. Altho an attempt was made last year to provide such a service, in De Brovn is second term Daily chief Board names Hill business head, picks three news editors Dick de Brown was named sec ond semester editor of the Daily Nebraskan at a meeting of the publications board Wednesday, Journal and Star, artkw MIU. Dick e Browm. Jan. 24. Arthur Hill was re-named business manager. De Brown, who has been man aging editor for two semesters, succeeds Harold Niemann. He la a member of the Innocents society, Sigma Delta Chi. Kosmet Klub, the lnterfraternity Council and Beta Thcta Pi. Norman Harris and Clyde Martz were appointed managing editors. The three new news edi tors are: Mary Kerrigan, Morton Margolin and f aul Svoboda. Chris Petersen and Lucile Thomas are hold-over chtors. June Bierbower was re-appointed sports editor. The entire business staff was re-elected. Besides Hill as business manager, Edward Segrist and Eurton Thiel will remain as assist ant business managers. Tryoufs for Daily radio jobs today Announcing tryouts for the radio edition of the DAILY NE BRASKAN will ba held today at 5 p. m. in KFOR In the Lincoln Hotel. Any university student Inter ested is invited to participate. It is suggested that they bring some form of reading material suitable for the tryouts. An nouncing positions open are news, sports, society and special . features. ... , .la." " ) ftmm m a u a .J lni d-f.m IftLnimri itmr tiut mawiauM Students terest in the Droiect waned due to lack of sernce. The new room will offer the services which the former room did not, such as: checking morning classes, service of water with lunches and the sales of milk. coffee, soup, and-dederts to handl ers at cc-,t. Color scheme of the room Is brightened by the red and blue checkered table cloths covering the tables. The room will contain both tables seating four and sixteen stu dents. Capacity of the room is ap proximately one hundred. A chef will be provided by the Union to look after the needs of students. The room will be open from Monday thru Friday from 7:30 a. m. for checking lunches, and from 11 a. m. to 1:15 p. m. for eating lunches. Chef service will be provided only from 11 a. m. to 1 p. m. Both men and women are In vited to use the room. While the room is open to all students who bring their lunch, no luncher need buy any food to use the room. Mystic to read coed fortunes LUH I !.-! A i lunywuuu ubiruiuyer tu appear on Lincoln stage One representative from each sorority and organized barb worn en s group will have their fortunes read free of charee next Friday by Norvell, famous Hollywood astrologer, thru the courtesy of the DAILY and the Lincoln Theater. In addition each representative will receive a free ticket to the picture "I Take This Woman" playing at the Lincoln Theater, ad mitting them to one of the four stage appearances which the world famous astrologer makes daily beginning next Thursday at this theater. Norvell gained much publicity with his prediction that Hitler will meet a tragic fate during the cur rent year. Other predictions by the astrologer foresee France and Eng land victorious in the present con- iiict, American neutrality and a definitely Republican year In 1940. Joan Crawford's divorcing Fran chot Tone, Janet Gaynor's mar riage, the rise of Hedy Lamarr, President Roosevelt's re-election in 1930, and Clark Gable's divorce from his first mate are some of the events correctly predicted by Stars in "1 Take This Woman' are Hedy Lamarr and Spencer iracy. Diers leads Shrine band Theodore C. Diers, of the school of music was appointed director of the Scsostris Shrine band at a re cent meeting of the Shrine musi cians. All students Interested In re porting for the DAILY this semester are asked to sign up today. Many good reporting po sitions are open, and first-comers will get their preference of beats. Temporary assignments will be given out Saturday. if:5::,: 'is d a of all times 20 master's degrees beats last year's 14; award 2 certificates One hundred and ninety degrees and two certificates in social work were granted to graduating sen iors and graduate students by the university at midyear. This is the largest number of degrees the uni versity has ever awarded at the close of the first semester, and i3 eleven more than were granted a year ago. The total this year Includes twenty masters' degrees as com pared with fourteen granted at the 1938-39 midyear, and seven doctor of philosophy degrees as against four a year ago. Winter graduates will participate in the June com mencement exercises. Two In teachers high. Two members of the teachers college high school faculty are re cipients of Ph. D. degrees. Miss Mary L. Mielenz is supervisor of English in the school, and Frank E. Sorenson is supervisor of social sciences. Both majored in sec ondary education, Miss Mielenz making a study of the background factors in freshman English, and Sorenson writing his dissertation on "A Technique of Selectiner. Evaluating and Organizing In structional Materials for a Course in Modern Problems for the Sen ior High School." Ira M. Gish, associate professor eaucation at Madison College, Tenn- and John J- Van Den Bnnk- who has been a graduate assistant at the university from 1937-39, also received their doctor's degrees (See DEGREES on page 2.) Dr. Stokes dies Jan. 24 Chancellor pays tribute to memory of regent Dr. A. C. Stokes, member of the board of regents and of the American Medical association. died Jan. 24 of a heart ailment. Commenting on the regent's death, Chancellor C. S. Boucher said, "The state has suffered an irreparable loss and the university has lost one of its most interested and constructive servants. For many years, Dr. Stokes has given unsparingly of his time, energy and talents to the promotion of the welfare of the university and particularly the college of medi cine, his cine. His charm of personality, his delightful sense of humor and his sense of humor and his ability will be sorely immense missed." Dr. Stokes received a B. S. de gree from Iowa state college in 1892 and graduated from the Ne braska school of medicine in 1899. He also took post graduate work in New York and Germany. Ag college grads get posts in south Karl Manke and Paul Fldler, ag college students, will soon join the staffs of two southern col leges. Manke will be a member of the experiment staff at Texas A. 8c M., and Fldler has accepted an as sistantship in the animal hus bandry department at Oklahoma A. & M. Both men have been prominent In their work on tho agricultural campus. Only Nine Days left to buy your 1940 CORNHUSKER No sale after. Vcb. 15th See a Tassel today or come to CORNHUSKER OFFICE Highest tOtfll
