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TO UNION
ROOM 20
Vol. 69, No. 117
Lincoln, Nebraska
Thursday, June 20, 1940
Comifereinices center educ&friwal
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I JUL li) 1910
spotlight
200 hear
of juvenile
delinquency
Bennett, Chute, Dobbs
show Nebraska short in
parole administration
Nearly 200 registered persona
heard problems of help for delin
quent children discussed and de
bated at the Juvenile Delinquency
conference held Monday and Tues
day under the sponsorship of the
Simmer Session, Director R. D.
Moritz and Dr. A. M. Reinhardt
collaborating.
Outstanding figures who ap
pealed on the program included
James V. Bennett of Washington.
D. C, director of the bureau of
prisons of the department of jus
tice, who spoke Monday noon on
"The Federal Government's Pro
gram for the Prevention and
Treatment of Delinquency;"
Charles L. Chute, New York City,
executive secretary of the Na
tional Probation Association who
spoke on 'National Trends in the
Development of Juvenile Courts,
Probation and Parole" and "Re
building Citizenship. Thru Proba
tion and Parole;" Professor Har
rison C. Dobbs of the Chicago
Graduate School of Social Service
Administration; and Dr. Harold B.
Hanson of St. Paul, Minn., regional
consultant in psychiatry of the
federal children's bureau.
Probation.
At the closing session Tuesday
night Chute told listeners that Ne
braska has not kept up with other
states in obtaining good results in
administration of probation and
parole. The probation system here,
he noted, receives no assistance
from the state government, and
there are only two full-time pro
bation officers in the state.
Harry Becker, director of child
welfare in the department of
assistance and child welfare of the
state board of control told the
conference that the county child
welfare services designed to care
for delinquent as well as non-
(See DELINQUENCY, Page 3.)
Darlington draws
attention to help
for crippled child
Special assistance to crippled
children is demanded by the demo
cratic principle of equal educa
tional opportunity, says Meredith
W. Darlington of the university
extension division. "Hence the
university's new elementary sup
ervised correspondence courses, de
signed especially for handicapped
youth, both crippled and isolated."
Co-author of an article in the
Phi Delta Knppan with Ruth K.
Wendell, director of the crippled
children's division of the Arizona
state department of social secur
ity. Darlington has recently called
the attention of nil state secretar
ies of crippled children's societies
to the University's special work
with handicapped young people.
"If society is to help the phys
ically handicapped child to help
himself, then it is obvious that
the educational needs are (1) more
effort to accommodate these child
ren In the regular classroom; (2)
more special classes and schools In
suitable localities; (3t more visit
ing teachers; and (4) the develop
ment of an econmically feasible
instructional technique for those
who live in small towns or in the
open country miles from the mod
ern educational conveniences."
Attention teachers!
The attention of teachers and
superintendents is called to the
unusual book exhibit displayed
In the Student Union Ballroom.
Teachers should avail them
selves of the opportunity to
study the latest publications.
R. D. MORITZ,
Director of Summer Session.
University . . .
Museum field parties leave
for summer expeditions
University museum field parties
left last week for summer expedi
tions to more than five areas in
western Nebraska. C. Bertrand
Schultz, assistant museum direc
tor, who is in charge of all field
Mixed chorus
to broadcast,
give concert
High school music camp
students show intensive
training in recitals
Arrangements have been made
for a special broadcast Sunday
afternoon, June 23, by a mixed
chorus group of 56 Nebraska high
school gir ls and boys now enrolled
in the all-state music course spon
sored by the school of fine arts.
The broadcast will be heard from
1 to 1:30 over KFAB and will pre
cede a concert by the same group
at 3:00 in the Union.
Seventy students are enrolled in
the music course which opened
June 12 and will run three weeks
until July 2. Purpose of the coui3e,
accor ding to Dr. Arthur E. Wesc
brook, director of the school of
fine arts, is to increase the state's
capacity for good music by giving
these boys and girls a few weeks
of intensive training which they
can turn to profit in their respec
tive communities when they re
turn. South Dakota, Wyoming,
Kansas, Missouri and Wisconsin
are represented in the enrollment
as well as 37 different Nebraska
towns. Boys live at the Delta Tau
Delta fraternity house and girls
at the Pi Beta Phi sorority house.
All meals are taken in the Union.
When the high school students
are not busy with classes, they
participate in a varied recreation
program directed by Howard Van
Sickle of Pena, III. Softball, swim
ming, tennis, golf, ping-pong, ana
movies are offered, and piencis
have been planned for two Satur
days, June 22 and 29.
Louise Pound . . .
Declares James Joyce most
noted for new word forms
Gertrude Shin is not the most
conspicuous experimenter in the
use of new word forms; it is not
even an American, but an Irish
i.ifin, James Joyce, says Miiw
I. oul.se Pound of department of
1'nglish. "Joyce is a distinctive
figure in fiction writing today,"
alio points'Oiit, "and has done the
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work, will make Bridgeport his
headquarters for part of the sum
mer. Stationed at Hemingford will
be Thompson M. Stout of the
geology department.
New quarries will be opened by
the university groups, supported
by WPA contingents, in the vicini
ties of Bayard and Bridgeport, in
addition to working the fossil sites
around Broadwater, Hemingford,
Joe Johnson will be in charge
Marsland, and Hay Springs.
Johnson in charge
Joe Johnson will be in charge
of the group at Broadwater. Les
ter Ringenberg and a force of
WPA workers will make up the
party which will be mainly inter
ested in recovering fossil remains
of the giant camel, saber-toothed
t'ger, giant beaver, mastodont and
many other extinct animals of
the early ice age some one mil
lion years ago.
William Horney will direct the
Hemingford expedition, assisted by
Loren Toohey, Paul Burkholder,
and a WPA force. The Heming
ford fossil beds are noted for their
abundance of rhinoceros, oreodent
and camel.
Marsland works
Harry Tourtelot has been named
in charge of the Marsland exca
vations for this year. He will be
assisted by Guy Johnson and
Harold Patterson. Excellent skele
tons of ancient deer as well as
camels and rhinoceros have come
from this area. Both the Mars
land and Hemingford quarries
were formed more than ten mil
lion years ago.
At Hay Springs will be E. L.
Blue, Howard Lorenz, Richard
Cast, and Lloyd Tanner. Consider
able remains of the giant mam-
I moth, ground sloth and peccary
I have been recovered from this
fossil area which dates to the
middle ice age of about 500,000
years ago.
E. E. Brier will be in charge of
th Bridgeport project. Assisting
in mining the rhinoceros bones
ore Robert Glover and Donald Mc
Carthy. The Bridgeport fields
were discovered in 1932 and have
been worked for four summers.
most novel thing with the handl
ing of words."
"The writing of present day
msayists often seems to approxi
mate the forms and rhythms of
talk," Miss Pound says, in a lan
guage study recently published by
Hie Louisiana State University
Press. "Are we to ascribe the
change to the pitch of contem
porary life? Are its rapid tempo,
excitement, and jarring, raucous
noises reflected In our present day
writing?"
Out of date
"The old repose Is as out of
date as strolling and musiig. It
has given way to the staccato and
emphatic; it is nervous, not re
laxed. Slower movement and in
tricate expression have been
speeded up Into prose that jerks,
int- faster rhythms that fit the
puce of modern life. In poetry too
the assault on the reader is often
violent."
The ideal of our professional
humorists of the radio and films is
to evolve something striking, ac
cording to the University linguist.
Audacities thrive; verbal license is
unbridled.
"And whether one likes It or
not, one cannot now minimize the
influence of Hollywood," she
states. "Films are made there
and California pronunciation
looms larger now than the pro
nunciation of Boston, once so admired."
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Firpo's fiddler ....
Russian Trio
plays in Union
Monday at 8
Noted pianist, violinist,
Cellist Bolognini to give
chamber music program
Nina Mesirow-Minchin, pianist;
David Moll, violinist, and Ennio
Bolognini, violin-cellist, compris
ing the Russian Trio, make their
initial appearance on this cam
pus in concert Monday evening at
8 in the Union ballroom. The Trio
is one of the outstanding Chamber
Music organizations in this coun
try. Ennio Bolognini, the violin-
cellist, has had an unusual career.
He came to the United States
from the Argentine as the spar
ring mate of Firpo, the world
heavyweight championship con
tender. When Firpo lost, Bolognini
played his cello in vaudeville, was
heard by Toscanini, and became
his soio cellist. He later joined the
Philadelphia Symphony under Sto-
(See RUSSIAN TRIO, Page 2.)
Schultz, Stout attend
mammalogists meet
C. Bertrand Schultz, assistant
director of the museum, and
Thompson M. Stout of the depart
ment of geology will read a joint
paper June 26 at the annual meet
ings of the American Society of
Mammalogists at Denver. The
Nebraska scientists will discus
the environment of the animals
whose remains are being exca
vated from the quarries near
Broadwater. From Denver Schultz
anl Stout will leave for fossil
hunting near Bridgeport, Craw
ford and Hemingford.
SPECIAL EVENTS
SCHEDULE
Administrative and teaching
clinics and special events spon
sored by the Summer Session
continue for the ' next two
weeks as follows:
June 25 Clinic: "What pro
gram should public education
adopt concerning the Overall
Tax Limitation proposal?" Led
by E. B. Schmidt, Union Parlor
X, 1:30-3:15. Clinic: "What is
the responsibility of the class
room teacher for tax revision?"
Archer L. Burnham, Union
Parlor Y, 1:30-3:15.
June 27 Institute on Profes
sional Relations, Kathryn
Heath, executive secretary,
National Association of Deans
of Women; Student Union,
1:30-9:00.
July 2 Clinic: "What prin
ciples should govern the seleo
tion and placement of teach
ers?" R. D. Moritz, director,
Summer Session; Union 315,
1:30-3:15
July 8 Clinic: "To what ex
tent i3 democratic school ad
ministration desirable and pos
sible?" I. J. Montgomery, visit
ing Instructor In education
psychology; Union 315, 1:30-3:15.
Laymen talk
of education
tomorrow
Conference brings lay
citizens, school people
together for discussion
Bring the state's representative
laymen and school people together
the layman's conference on Educa
tion will be held in the Union to
morrow. Questions to be discussed
are. "What is right and wrone
with the Nebraska public school
program," and "How shall we sup
port our public schools?"
Purpose of the conference is es
pecially to provide opportunity for
lay citizens to discuss freely what
they believe to be the weaknesses
and shortcomings as well as strong
features of the Nebraska public
school program.
Open to public.
The morning and afternoon ses
sions are open to the public and
will be devoted to round table dis
cussions. The evening program
will provide for a brief summary
and evaluation of opinions given in
the morning and afternoon ses
sions and discussions of publij
school support and taxation.
Morning Session: S:lt0-l I :S0 a. m.
Ballroom, Student Union building
Presiding: Mr. Allen P. Burkhard.
Norfolk, Neb.
Purposet of the Conferenee Chancellor
C. S. Boucher.
Round Table.
(Each speaker to be allowed 15 minutes.)
What is RlBht and Wrong with the Ne
braska Public School Program.
As seen by a member of the:
1. Nebraska Federation of Women a
(See LAYMEN, Page 2.)
Cabeen receives
$2,000 grant
for French work
Dr. David C. Cabeen, visiting
professor of romance languages
has recently received a $4,000
grant from the Carnegie Corpora
tion of New York to complete his
critical bibliography of French lit
era ture.
Dr. Cabeen plans to select the
best editions of the works of each
important author and the most
valuable books about him and
have them evaluated by scholars
who are experts in their field. The
first volume, that on the 18th cen
tury, is in process of completion,
and contains the criticisms of
twenty-six collaborators. Volumes
ort the 17th, 19th and 16 centuries
will follow in this order.
Children's speech
classes started
Children's classes In speech and
educational dramatics which meet
on Monday, Wednesday and Fri
day from 9 to 11 in the Temple
are being organized for the sum
mer session through the university
extension division and the speech
department.
The classes are for children
from 5 to 16 years of age, and
the work offered includes creative
dramatics, choral reading, formal
plays, and voice training. Miss
I.ucile Cypreansen and Mrs. Alta
Reade are the instructors.
Teachers attending summer
school who are Interested in the
v,ork may visit the classes pro-
iding they come at the beginning
of the hour and remain throughout
the class period.
The Union hints
Y The Union management ha3
today a favor to ask, or a con
venience to suggest, depending
on how you look at it. The re
quest: That lunchers in grill,
cafeteria and faculty dining
room come earlier, around
11:30, or later in the noon hour
to help relieve the congestion
between 12 and 1:00. The con
venience: Escape standing in
line time on end.