i Daily
Official Newtpaper Of More Than
Vol. 39, No. 156
Kosmet Klub initiates
Pro o
By Bob Aldrlch.
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Looking oaek 35 years as .an In-
tructor on the campus, Dr Ru-
zu y w uC u u
college of pharmacy, declares that
.u u...y
w in nis Diy me.
Being director of the student
health service, professor of phy
siology and pharmacology he is
chairman of that department-
Professor Iyn is a good ex-
Ky ta, wrbum by7e
university nas own duui Dy me
men who stayed by it not
those who have gone away."
by
A true Nebraskan, shaggy-
haired Dr. Lyman was born in
Table Rock, nttendpd hie-h hchool
there, and entered the university
preparatory school in 1892. The
academy, as this part of the uni
versity was called, offered a two
year course, "first prep" and
"second prep."
Latin or mechanics.
There were only two alterna
lives ior lorntiuskera in those
uiiys, me classical courses aim in-
dustrlal courses. Dr. Lyman took
me classics ana graduated In 1897.
ne laugni. ai L.mcoin nign senooi
for two years, then took his mas
ters in zoology, specializing in
parasitology.
From 3 to 5 today . . .
Women's residences to hold
open house to students
Carrie Belle and Love halls have
the "Welcome mat" out today.
, , ,
inc university n women s resi-
dence halls are having open house
for all students alumni, and
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Vil 11 .1 uwjuituimy wi visii uie
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according to Dean Helen Hosp.
A complete inspection - of the
buildings has been arranged by the
man, wnicn includes Miss Hor-
tense Allen, food director and
house manager of Raymond Hall; each daily menu provide" a max
Miss Katherine Hendv. Boc'nl di- imum in variety and In a well-bal-rector
of the halls; Mlas Elinor anced diet. Miss Allen, a graduate
McFadden, assistant food director; of the ag college, has more than
Miss Elizabeth Gernes, head resi- 600 approved recipes from which
dent of Love hall; and Miss Jean she may choose. Miss Allen em
Dickinson, ansistant social dlrec- ploys only student help in the serv
to". ice end of the food program. In
No barred doors. the Pst eight years a total of 158
girls and 70 boys have worked one
There'll be no barred doors to- or two hours a day. The girl wait
day. The student rooms where the resses are dormitory residents,
coeds sleep, study, and live; the who by their work in the dining
dining rooms; the new stream- room, are able to defray a good
lined kitchens; the recreation part of their expenses,
rooms; the small kitchenettes for
the girls; even the shampoo rooms We've often thought of girls
will be open to all. especially coeds as being dainty
eaters, munching salads, nibbling
Aside from the inoderness and melba toast and sipping sklmrr.;5
completeness of the buildings and milk to keep that girlish figure,
the appointments, a six-point pro- But the amount of food co'isumed
gram is carried on at halls which by 190 girls during an tverage
involves proper orientation of the month is about 670 gallons of milk,
new students; social education, 385 pounds of butter, 161 quarts
handled by Miss Henry; education- of cream, 42 gallons of ico cream,
al guidance, under Miss Gerness; 490 loaves of bread, 3f0 dozen
supervision in extra-curricular ac- eggs, 2,182 pounds of :neat, and
tivitles; and health and leadership about 140 j)und -at fruit and
training. vegetables.
Lincoln, Neb.
PAII.Y NF.BRA.SKAN staff photo.
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fie weec
"Four men were my Inspiration
in those days," he recalls. "Only
' ,ef Tn(J
were Dr ater dean o thfi
med.cal n Beafl an(J
Df w0' M Grek j
never learned much Greek but I
got much ption from that
man."
After a year teaching in the
school for the blind at Nebraska
Qty, Professor Lyman entered the
f rfj. that m-Al-.l m1.
put out' The 0cmha SCho1
nVor hv fh nnivp-itv
was taken over by the university
in 1902. He taught physiology at
Omaha, came to Nebraska in 1905,
and has been nere since. He has
served under four chancellors.
John J. Pershing was a nrst lieu
tenant in calvary when he came to
81 1,001
Amazing.
He thinks the rapid increase in
registration the most amazing
change in the university. "There
were 500 students when I lame
here," he says. "The second year,
a hard drouth year, there were
1500. You hear people say that
hard times cut down attendance
but the opposite is true. When
they can't get jobs at home, they
come to school,
"The only buildings here then
(See pf of tne Week, page 2.)
The health program
tinually vital part of
schedule at the hails.
is a con
the daily
Problems
v,itv, j ai ki
lated tne fire operftted on the
theory that the health and mental
fitness of the residents are depend
ent to a great extent on proper
nutrition.
Balanced menu.
Not waffles and pancakes four
times a week, not hjunburcera and
souna and salad rnncifltontlv
m
7 OnCVStiiHonU
26, 1940
eigl
arnsberger
to head group
Wiley elected secretary;
Dobson, Wilkins made
year's honorary members
In recognition of their year's
work eight men were initiated to
membership in Kosmet Klub and
1940-41 officers were elected Fri
day evening.
Chosen to continue the work of
the organization next year were:
John Stuart, Beta Theta Pi; Burt
Smith, Phi Kappa Psi; Walt Run-
din, Sigma Alpha Epsilon; George
McMurtry, Theta Chi; John
Gayer, Alpha Sigma Phi; Hugh
Wilkins, Delta Upsilon; Kenneth
Miller, Sigma Chi; and Ed Cal
houn, Alpha Tau Omega.
Officers for next year are: Loo
Cooksley, president; Carl Harns-
berger, business manager, and El
ton Wiley, secretary.
Honorary members.
Two men, Adna Dobson and
Louis Wilkins were made honor
ary members in recognition of
their dramatic work for the club.
Harold Niemann, Acacia, and
Dick deBrown, Beta Theta Pi,
were elected to full membership
from associato members in the
Klub. They had been associate
members for two years.
Alums to take
oveir campus
at Round Up
Old and young the alums will
come June 8-10, as the university
prepares to welcome back its for
mer graduates for the three day
Round Up celebration.
To be held as part of the activ
ities will be 14 special group re
unions, the largest number in the
history of the alumni get-together,
according to E. F. DuTcau, alumni
secretary. The gatherings will be
in the Union.
First event of the celebration
will be a faculty-alumni luncheon
Saturday, with breakfasts and
class meetings Sunday, Monday
will end the Round Up with com
mencement and university founda
tion programs.
Ciast reunions.
To re-unite are f.he honor classes
of 1890, 1900, 1910. 1929, and 1930,
and the classes of 1915, 1897, 1898
and 1899. Alumni Innocents and
Palladian society will hold dinners
in the Union Saturday evening,
(See ROUND UP, page 2.)
Pharmacy club
honors Barth
The Pharmaceutical club paid
its annual tribute to high scholar
ship at a banquet Friday night at
the Lincoln Country club.
Donald Barth, senior, was
awarded the Lehn and Fink Medal
and his membership in Sigma Xi
was recognized; Margaret Dicker
son, senior, received the Rasdal
av.'ird. Miss Dickerson, Barth,
and Kenneth Millard were recog
nized for high scholarship.
Following the banquet, presided
over by Howard Jensen, was a
spring dance featuring the music
of Lee Williams.
DAILY editorial staff
meets Monday at 5
All those connected wit'i the
editorial side of the DAILY are
required to be present at a staff
meeting Monday at 5 p. m., it
was announced by Edlt Dick
deBrown. Attendance Is compulsory.
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Five grads 4o getS:
hoiraoirairy dlegree
University will honor prominent
alums at coi . ..r.rement program
Five native Nebraskans, all outstanding graduates of the unlver
slty Dr. Fredrick E. Clements, Dr. Gladys H. Dick, Dr. Alvin S.
Johnson, Dr. Joel Stebbins, and Dr. Alexander J. Stoddard will re
ceive honorary doctor of laws degrees at the 69th commencement,
June 10.
Awgwon censor
brings magazine
national renown
Even New Yorkers and others
far, far from the home campus
now know of the Awgwan's sup
posed "lack of propriety."
In a recent edition of the New
York Daily Mirror, a short article
telling of the Awgwan's recent
squirmiah with the Pub board ap
peared on the back of the page
featuring Winchell's column. The
Awgwan staff found themselves
with a considerably altered copy
as a result of a poem dealing with
the experiences of a mosquito and
a hermit, which would not pass
the censors, according to the
Mirror.
High school
music course
quota fills
Westbrook urges prompt
application to summer
band, orchestra institute
High school students are urged
to get their applications in for
the high school music course by
Dr. A. E. Westbrook, director of
the school of fine arts, who says
that the summer quota will soon
be filled.
The course, in which enrollment
must be limited because of the
housing and rehearsal facilities
available, will be held from June
12 to July 3. Nebraska boys and
girls are given an opportunity in
the course to utilize the complete
musical and recreational facilities
of the university.
Staff of eighteen.
On the staff will be 18 artists.
Dr. Westbrook will direct the
choral groups and Emanuel Wish
now and Ward Moore of the music
faculty will be in charge of work
in orchestra and band respectively.
Each student will participate in
two of the three musical organiza
tions a? well as in classes in ap
preciation and theory and two
private lessons a week in applied
music.
Mr. Howard Van Sickle of Lin
coln, now a member of the Pana,
111., high school faculty, will take
charge of the recreational pro-
(See MUSIC, page 2.)
johnny get your gun .. .
U ni legions to strut their stuff
at ROTC compet Wednesday
That something subtle about a
MnHi.-r that is "fine, fine, fine,"
will be on display Wednesday af
ternoon when the ROTC legions of
Colonel Charles A. Thuis will close
their military activities for the
year with the annual compet.
For civilians, who enjoy watch
ing the precision and snap of well
trained military units, the pomp
and ceremony of unit competition,
the annual compel is tops in enter
tainment. Begins at 1 :30.
Contests will begin at 1:30 on
the three malls south of the Coli
seum. All contests will be over
in Hm for iht final naruria vir
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and presentation of individual
awards to be presented on the new
intramural field north of the field
bouse.
Infantry drill and competition,
manual of arms, company inspec-
Uon and first aid contests will be
held on the first mall directly
south of the Coliseum. The ex-
treme south mall will be given over
to field artillery demonstrations,
and the center maU win be the
Dr. Clements received hia
bachelor's degree from the univer
sity in 1894, his master's In 1896,
and his Ph.D., in 1898. In 1894,
he joined the Instructional staff,
and when he left in 1907 to be
come chairman of the botany de
partment at Minnesota, he had
reached the position of professor
of plant physiology. In 1917 Dr.
Clements left Minnesota in 1917
and joined the Carnegie Institute
staff. Today he is head of the eco
logical research department of tha
Institute in Washington, D. C.
Medical contribution.
Dr. Dick was awarded her
bachelor's degree from Nebraska
in 1900, and her M. D. from Johns
Hopkins in 1907. Mrs. Dick was
awarded the Cameron prize in
1933 in recognition of her and her
husband's work In discovering the
causative agent for scarlet fever.
This discovery is regarded by au
thorities as one of the outstanding
contributions to medical science in
the past 20 years.
Dr. Johnson was graduated
from the university in 1897, and
received his masters in '98. Co
lumbia granted him his Ph.D. iii
1902. Dr. Johnson has been on the
faculties of several universities
Nebraska, Bryn Mawr, Columbia.
Texas. Chicago. Stanford, and
Cornell. From 1917 to 1923 Dr.
Johnson was editor of The New
Republic.
Astronomer Stebbins.
Dr. Stebbins, Nebraska's class of
'99, received his Ph.D. from the
University of California in 1903.
He taught at the University of Illi
nois until 1922 and served as di
rector of the observatory there.
Dr. Stebbins, recipient of several
(See HONORARY, page 4.)
Applications due
for Miller awards
Students must apply for one of
the two $750 Donald W. M'll:r
scholarships not later than Sat
urday, June 1, according to Dr.
Harold W. Stoke, de ai of the
graduate college.
All students encept fiviihin n
are eligible for the awards. Ap
plications should be filed w'tli
their respective deans, who v Ml
each recommend two students to
the scholarship committee.
The committee consists of Dr.
Stoke, chairman; Dr. T. J. Thomp
son; and Dean Helen M. Hosp.
This group will submit its com
mendations to the Chancellor and
the regents, who will mako the :"i
nal choices.
The arts and sciences list ckmed
Saturday noon.
scene of headquarters, informa
tion, press, snd refreshment tents.
Colonel Thuis and his staff have
arranged for a special reviewing
stand for faculty, administrators,
and guests. A special public ad
dress system to provide sp"'.atois
with full informstlon on t' pro-
ceedings has been arranged
Of spec'-'l interest in the en
gineer and infantry drill will be
the company and pin toon i,muv
ers. Other highlights will be bat
tery inspection and dismounted
drill, battery commander detail,
best gun squad competition, and
a contest in first aid, and individ
ual and group competition in the
. .
manual or arms.
A large number of individual
prizes will be awarded among
them the Pershing medal by Miss
May Pershing to a Pershing Rifle
member; the Hearst trophy and
medal to members of the univer-
sity rifle team, a cash award to an
advanced course student, awarded
by the Daughters of the American
Revolution; another cash award to
a basic student, to be given by the
American Legion auxiliary.