Thursday, May 2, 1940
THE DAILY NEBRASKA
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Cornhusker reveals beauty queens at dance
Ag expects
Fair history's
biggest crowd
Parade opens festival
I ot 10:30 Saturday
with horses, 16 floats
Ag college will have Its day Sat
urday when the 24th annual Farm
ers' Fair gets underway. Planning
for one of the biggest crowds in
fair history, ag collegians are
boasting that Saturday's program
will be the best ever presented. A
long parade, a Horse Show and
Rodeo, and numerous exhibits are
included in the day's activities
with the presentation of the God
dess of Agriculture crowning the
events.
Beginning the ceremonies at
10:30 Saturday morning will be a
general pep parade starting at the
Lincoln police station and march
ing thru the downtown area and
back to the ag campus. Sixteen
floats, a large number of ag men
on horseback, and as many farm
erettes as care to take part will
join the parade.
25 years progress.
Carrying thru the theme, "Twenty-five
Years of Progress on Ag
Campus," floats will be entered by
numerous ag clubs. Tri-K will fea
ture a wheat carnival motif; Block
and Bridle numerous animals; ag
Engineering tractors; home ec, a
graphic picture of home ec from
1920 to taday; 4-H Club, 'The 4-H
Club Builds Better Homes." Hor
ticulture's theme is still a secret
but their apple tree scheme won
first prize last year. ROTC artil
lery will bring along its guns and
boxing and wrestling is expected
to have a ringful of fighters
punching each other. A band will
be included.
Gwendolyn Jack, Goddess of
Agriculture will be surrounded by
her attendants in a private float.
Miss Jack will be presented in the
early afternoon. From then on she
will be ruler of the fair. After her
ascent to the throne in a blaze of
royal pageantry, the home eco
nomics girls will pay homage to
her in the form of a style show.
Thome of the show will be a dairy
motif in which her Royal High
ness will recall events of her col
lege career.
Wild steers, bronchos, and wild
roosters will headline the bill at
the horse show and roedo in the
afternoon.
The wild steer riding contest is
advertised as a thrilling feature.
Calf -roping and western stock
saddle riding by man and girl
teams will also top the program.
Plaques will be awarded the win
ners by the Chamber of . Com
merce. "If you can catch him. you can
have him" is the rule in the rooster-catching'
contest featured in
the Rodeo.
Two performances of the fair's
circus, newly Inaugurated with
this year's fair, will take place at
3:45 and 6:45 p. m. The Rolling
Rockets, the Tumultous Tumblers
and other acts will be spotlighted
and clowns, bareback riders, rope
walkers, and all the familiar cir
cus acts are included in the show.
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Barb-Liberal coalition enters campus
political picture to 7gang up7 May 23
Campus politics took on a new
light after the Barb Union meet
ing Tuesday evening, when the
Barb leaders voted to form a
coalition with the Liberal party.
Through this combination, the two
parties will split the positions
upon the Student Council and
Publications Board elections this
spring. Barb-Liberal is the new
name which will be used by the
coalition.
A ratio of 7:6 will be used in
splitting the offices, with the Lib
erals having the seven candidates.
According to latest negotiations
Barbs will place on the ballot one
man for each of the following:
University president plants
ivy in '98 initiating tradition
Day in ec. iy i 900's marked by address of faculty
member; only seniors were excused from classes
By Donald Bower. the middle or last part of May in
Forty-two years ago, the class early yers, for this time of
of '98 gathered around its presi- tne year "marks the end of cheer
dent and applauded as he planted ,e8 nd U beginning of
me nrsi ivy, imitating me iraai- " ". """"6
tion of Ivy Day which we are cele- Paler l the 1902 ceremony,
brating today. "Senior sneak day" was the
Ivy Day In the early 1900's was forerunner to the formal celebra
marked by an address by a mem- tion of Ivy Day. when seniors took
ber of the faculty and the plant- advantage of the spring weather
ing of the Ivy. The first ivy to go to Electric park on a picnic,
planted, the location of which was Dr- H. Uosa Hill was the first
known, was in 1901. The ivy was speaker to designate clearly the
planted west of the south entrance purpose of the ivy planting, said
to Chemistry hall. For the re- that 'v'the planting of the ivy is a
malnder of the program gifts custom that I hope will be adhered
were gtvfn to seniors. Mirrors to. 'or it will eventually be the
weer donated in 1902, for the man means of beautifying our brown
and woman being "excelled in brick walls."
beauty,,; a harp to the one gifted Add May pole,
in musical ability; and a shaving For' yearg a trowe, WM
mug for some other reason. handed down to the junior class
Only seniors excused. president for the purpose of plant-
The ceremonies lasted from S mg the Ivy. Addod to the program
until 5 o'clock for many years, in 1903 was a May pole dance
and seniors only were excused given by the senior girls. By 1904
from classes. Ivy Day was held (See HISTORY, page 6.)
Arts and Science, Engineering,
Agriculture, Pharmacy. Graduate
and senior-at-large. With a two-to-one
ratio Liberals will nominate
junior and senior candidates, while
the Barbs will place sophomore
men on the ballot.
Ed McDonald, Blaine Sloan and
Hoppert, Carr
win Clinton
ticket contest
Margaret Hoppert and John
Carr, jr.. were announced yester
day as the two winners in the
Union Larry Clinton song contest
by picking the most popular song
played on the nickelodeon last
week, and by guessing within one
the number of times the song was
played. Each received a free ticket
to the Larry Clinton dance.
Most popular of the Larry Clin
ton recordings was "In a Tersian
Market," played 109 times in the
last week. Miss Hoppert guessed
110, Carr, 108.
Second in the popularity contest
was the song "Johnson Rag" mak
ing a rapid recovery from a slow
start and ending the race at 103.
The tickets were awarded by
Bob and Ray Treinen.
Idaho U invites 2
NU profs to teach
Two Nebraska professors Dr.
John Matzen, of the school ad
ministration department, and Don
A. Lentz, of the music school fac
ulty have been invited to teach
again at the summer session of
the University of Idaho at Mos
cow. Dr. Matzen has already taught
at three summer sessions at Idaho.
The main part of his work is in
the graduate school for school ad
ministrators; he will also teach
school organization and manage-men.
George Gostas are In charge of
the conduct of election prepara
tions from the Barb side. Grant
Reed will continue as head of the
Liberals.
Several years ago the two fac
tions united under the title of Yel
low Jackets so that the combina
tion is not entirely an innovation.
The present coalition will be in
effect for one year only. Further
co-operation between the two or
ganizations is not mandatory. The
compromise will not effect the
women's positions in any way as
women do not file under any party
name, but are considered as inde
pendent candidates in the election.
Four frosh
on editors list
of NU beauty
Fuller, Crawford, Park,
Shurtleff, Berner, Imig
chosen as most beautiful
By Pawl E. Svoboda.
At the Student Union second an
niversary dance the evening of
May 1 six coeds, four of them
freshmen, were presented by th
1940 Cornhusker as the most rep
resentative of Nebraska's feminin
ity. Misses Maxine Fuller, Eleanor
Crawford, Eleanor Berner, Kath
ryn Park, Holly Shurtleff, and
Maisie Imig were declared to be
the six most beautiful girls on the
Nebraska campus.
Desiring to break away from the
selection of beauty queens by pro
fessional artists and connoisseurs,
the university yearbook this year
chose five editors of the other
yearbooks in the Big Six to select
the queens.
Picked from 36.
The six girls were selected from
a group of 36 who were nominated
and sponsored by various social
organizations on the campus.
From Kansas Gty, Missouri,
Miss Fuller recently moved to
Omaha. She is a member of PI
Beta Phi sorority and is a member
of the University Y.W.C.A. fresh
man cabinet.
Also from Omaha is Eleanor
Berner, business administration
junior who was an officer in her
sorority, Alpha Phi, and is now
a member of the Panhellenic Coun
cil and the Panhellenic board.
Freshman, freshman.
Kathryn Park, freshman, makes
her home in Lincoln and is a mem
ber of Alpha Chi Omega.
Eleanor Crawford, freshman at
the college ot agriculture, lives in
Lincoln. Her activities include
Home Economics Association an4
the University Y.W.C.A.
Maisie Imig, business adminis
tration freshman, resides in Seward.
An Alpha Phi. Miss Holly Shurt
leff is a sophomore in teachers
college. She lives in Lincoln.
Judges of the 1940 beauty queens
were Al Ma kins. Kansas State
College; Charles Roberts. Univer
sity of Oklahoma; Jack Williams,
Iowa State College; Runnel Harris,
University of Missouri; Richard
McCann. University of Kansas. Ni
information as to identity or meas
urements was given to the judges,
and all personal history was
omitted. The six candidates receiv
ing the most votes were selected
as the Cornhusker queens. All the
editors declared the selection waj
a difficult one.
Greek groups have warbled
for years-with ups and downs
Kappa Alpha Thera, Delta Upsilon out to defend
1939 laurels; Delts held cup 5 successive times
Today is the day when the fra- session of it. Since 1924 three cups
ternities and the sororities dust have been used, and the fourth has
off their tonsils and fill the skies already been nicked twice by the
with melody. Yes, the Greek Husk- Beta's and once by the DU's.
ers and Huskerettes will vie for New cup needed
the silver cups, with Kappa Alpha . . . .
. , , . . A new trophy has been ordered
TheU resting on their laurels of for this year sorority sing, be-
the past three years, and Delta cause Kappa Alpha Theta carried
Upsilon with one notch on the fra- the old one home for the third suc-
tcrnity cup from last year . cessive time last year. Up until
In Ifc. - , ,, . . . ,t last year, none of the girls' or-
t i raVCrnlty bracket' ganizations had taken the prise
Tau Theta has won the trophy into permanent possession, Altho
five successive times, from 1924 Kappa Alpha Theta had hit the
thru 1928, but since that Ume the toP five scattered times, in 192G
hnvm' vni... itau.n-f k -ki- and 27. afrain In 1930. and also in
boy. voices haven t been able to 34 and 5 th didnt t ,t for
reach the top rank. Beta Theta Pt keeps" until last year,
hit pay-dirt three times, from 1930 When the cup wasn't adorning
thru '32, and then came back In the Kappa Alpha Theta's mantle,
'37 and '38 to trap the trophy the other sororities had it for short
again. Sigma Phi Epsilon copped yearly periods. Delta Zeta had It
the cup in '34, '35, and "30, but in 1928-29, but aside from these
like the DTD's they havent been two successive years, and two sep-
heard from since. When a f rater- arated triumphs by Gamma Fhi
nity wins the cup three times, Beta in 1924 and In 1932, ech
they are awarded permanent pos- sorority has won It only once.