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Pledge class
smallest since
depression
lreeks gel do ifwer
than last year; 96 less
than fall of 1935
With their rush week completed
and 252 men pledged, fraternity
men on the University campus are
wondering today what the fate of
their houses will be during the
next few years. Figures released
from the Interfraternity Council
yesterday show a steady decline In
the number of men pledging each
year since J 935.
The semi-official count revealed
the following figures:
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348 men pledged in 1935
324 men pledged in 1936
348 men pledged in 1937
334 men pledged in 1938
298 men pledged in 1939
252 men reported pledged in 1940
With fewer men pledged this
year than at any other time since
the depression in the early thirties,
the houses have yet to suffer
losses through the conscription
bill, a measure which will take the
older men, the leaders, from or
ganized houses.
To top fraternity woes are fig
urea from U. S. statisticians which
show that the number of students
eligible for higher schooling in the
United States reached its peak in
.1939. In shot, the number of
students in schools over the coun
try will begin to decline this year.
How steady that decline will be
(See PLEDGE, page 5.)
Library gets
overhauling;
safei
is now
Move periodical room,
order department and
fix third floor sag
In a general switch of locations
of the various departments of the
library, and a strengthening of the
structure of the building, the peri
odical room and the order depart
ment have been ihoved from the
third to the ground floor, while
the third floor has been made sta
ble by pillars extending from the
ground floor and holding up the
second story ceiling. The pillars
were necessitated because of a sag
in the ceiling of the second story,
and were further made imperative
by the transferring of the Nebras
ka Historical Society Library with
its heavy collection of books to the
third floor.
Technical department. centralized.
The transfer of the periodical
rooi and order department to the
around floor centralizes all the
technical departments on that
floor, as the catalogue department
has already been located there. It
alH facilitates the handling of
books and magazines taken out
for binding.
The documents room has been
transplanted to the old periodical
room, 310. The new location of the
periodical department is room 109
The historical society library can
now be found in room 306, while
the order department occupies
room 104.
Actor will have their
chance tonight as Uni
Theater opens tryouts
All students dramatically In
clined will have an opportunity
to try out for University Thea
ter this evening at 7:30 In room
20t of the Temple theater, ac
cording to Armand Hunter, In
structor In speech and dramatic
art.
TryouU for the first play and
for the studio theatre will be
held at this time. Although
freshmen are urged to com
pete for University Players,
Hunter stated that no fresh
men are eligible to try out for
the flraj, play. ,
DULY
2 408
Vol. 40 No. 2
TNE pays NU cleaning bill;
sidewalk painting taboo
"They'd better behave
selves this year!"
them-
Thus spoke Dean Thompson,
speaking of Theta Nu Epsilon, na
tional secret society, more widely
known as the TNE's, late yester
day afternoon.
"Yes," said the Dean, "the
TNE's paid to have their paint-
Helen Hosp
to entertain
at tea today
Jean Simmons, AWS
prexy, introduces dean,
staff to new women
Women students will be enter
tained by Helen Hosp, dean of
women, and members of her staff
this afternoon from 3:30 to 5:30
in Ellen Smith Hall. Purpose of
the affair is to acquaint women
students, especially freshmen and
new students with Miss Hosp.
Jean Simmons, president of
AWS, will introduce university
women to Miss Hosp; Klsie Ford
Piper, assistant dean of women;
Mrs. Ada Westover. assistant to
Dean Hosp; Katherine Hendy, pj
cial director of Carrie Belle Itay
mond hall, and Esther Ostlund,
YWCA secretary.
Mortar Boards assist.
Assisting will be members of
Mortar Board, women's senior
honorary society, including Pa
tricia Sternberg, Margaret
Krause, Jane Shaw, Marian Mil
ler, Hortense Cassady, Jeannette
Swenson, Ann Hustead, Ruth
Clark, Betty Jo Smith. Also as
sisting will be Maurine Malster,
Margaret Galbraith, Dorothy Jean
Bryan, Marcia Beckman and Dor
othy White.
At the serving table will be Mrs.
C. S. Boucher, Mrs. E. A. Burnett,
Miss Margaret Fedde, and Miss
Mable Lee from 3:30 to 4:30.
From 4:30 to 5:30 will be Mrs.
M. H. Swenk, Miss Mamie Merl
dith, Miss Katherine Faulkner,
and Mrs. Lawrence Pike.
At the table in the dining room
assisting in serving will be Fran
ces Keefer, Arlene Mann, Mar
jorie Johnston, Sylvia Katsman,
Dorothy Weirich. Beulah Beam,
Lucile Laird and Stella Bucken
dahl. Also assisting will be Mary Bul
lock, Mary Kerrigan, Jane Pratt,
Jane Bird, Marian Stone, Dorothy
Askey, Jean Carnahan, Harriet
Talbot, Jane Reeder, and Ellajo
Marshall.
Music will be furnished by
members of Sigma Alpha Iota,
Delta Omicron, Mu Phi Epsilon,
under the direction of Janet Reg
nler, Lois Baker, and Hazel May
Ogle.
Daily outstate
circulation triples
over last year
Outstate subscriptions to the
DAILY have tripled over last year,
making the largest total subscrip
tion in the paper's history, accord
ing to Ed Segrist, Nebraskan
business manager.
Segrist said that a special ef
fort was being made this year to
put the DAILY in the hands of
students' pat ents that they might
keep in touch with campus activi
ties. Subscription rates are $1.50 per
year when picked up at the stand
in the hall of social sciences and
12.50 per year by mail. Subscrip
tions may be ient in by either cash
,or check,
perm RTUTs 1mdi yeaur
Official Newspaper Of More Than7,000 Students
v.
Lincoln, Nebraska
jobs of last semester removed."
Following the w i d e-spread
painting of the TNE insignia a
skull and cross-bones on campus
buildings, sidewalks, and frater
nity and sorority houses last
spring, the Dean's office issued an
ultimatum that the secret society
must raise approximately $400 to
pay for the removal of their paint
ings. If, according to the resolu
tion, the society did not secure
the money, every member of the
local chapter was to be suspended
from the university. The TNE's
deposited the money with Dean
Thompson and the removal of the
insignia was contracted.
Officials must approve.
The incident of last spring re
sulted in the approval and adop
tion, on June 8, by the Regents of
the following recommendation of
the Committee on Student and So
cial Organization regarding the
painting of signs and insignia on
university premises: ". . . that all
advertising, signs, emblems, and
insignia produced with any ma
terials on university property and
sidewalks adjacent thereto to be
discontinued, except such an
nouncements on blackboards in
chalk as are approved .by the op
erating superintendent."
When asked what the adminis
tration's attitude toward the TNE
organization would be this year,
Dean Thompson replied that he
could not make any statement.
"They'd just better behave," he
repeated.
Dean stresses
precaution in use
of new ident cards
Value of the new student identi
fication cards in procuring special
advantages and privileges for the
student was stressed yesterday by
Dean of Student Affairs T. J.
Thompson as he called student at
tention to precaution in use of the
cards.
Seven departments In the uni
versity may require the card to
be shown at any time: the athletic
department, finance office, libra
ries, registrars office, Student
Council and its agencies, student
health department, and the Union
Freshmen generally place
okay on Junior Division
Faced with the problem of show
ing their superior intelligence to
the upper classmen without asking
foolish questions, as only freshmen
can ask, 1700 of the new "stu
dents" were introduced to college
lift by a new experimental infor
mation bureau, better known as
the Junior Division.
Although the freshmen are
sometimes unable to realize the
added advantage of this new de
partment, they have enthustically
presented their opinions.
Bill Reise, arts and sciences.
"You get to know yourself bet
ter because they know what you
can accomplish. It helps fresh
men get to be acquainted with
each other."
Galen Broken, arts and sciences.
"Close contact with the faculty
in a school this large helps to let
the kids know the teachers and to
feel free to consult them."
Jane Johnson, teachers.
"My advisor didn't turn up. She
was four hours late. It wasn't very
efficient."
U John Meredith, arts and sciences
"It Is good to have close contact
with advisors for it gives one ideas
on. what subjects to take In pre'
EBRASKAN
September 19, 1940
DaiIyxlo continue
news bulletin
service iirUnion
Keeping students and, faculty in
formed on the fast-moving events
of the European war, the NE
BRASKAN starts its news bulletin
today in the Union lobby.
Three times daily -8 a. m.noon,
and 5:30 p. m., members of the
staff will post the latest news
flashes. Accompanying these war
bulletins will be maps showing the
area of conflict.
The news bulletins were begUn
last semester and so much inter
est was shown in them that Editor-in-Chief
Norman Harris de
cided to continue them this year.
Love bequests
Uni $25,000
for loan fund
- Lincoln philanthropist
turns over large part
of estate to university
Probate of the will of Don L.
Love, former mayor of Lincoln
who died last Thursday, revealed
a bequest of 25 thousand dollars
to the university for student loan
funds. The will also provided for
a similar bequest to the University
of Iowa. Residue of the estate will
then go to Nebraska university.
Frank A. Patterson, attorney for
the estate, said that at this time
no estimate of the amount of the
residue of the estate could be
made.
The 77 year old philanthropist's
most recent bequest to the uni
versity was a gift of $45,000 on
July 24 to be used in the con
struction of a cooperative resi
dence hall for women on the cam
pus of the agricultural college.
The sum of $55,000 was given to
the university in 1938 for the erec
tion of Julia L. Love hall, a wom
en's residence on the campus
which is being used.
The second of the two women's
halls will be completed on the
campus of the agricultural college
early in 1941. The new building,
to be known as Love Memorial
hall, will have two stories and a
basement, a brick construction,
measuring 106x38 feet facing on
Holdrege street west of the Agri
cultural hall near the arboretum.
paring for your course. I probably
would have jumped into some
thing. Under this system you're
an individual, not a name or num
ber." Lou Werar, engineering.
"It helps new kids, never here
before, to find their way around."
Leonard Luttbey, arts and sciences
"It gives more individual atten
tion. P. S.: I met a honey on one
of my tours and I like blonds."
Howard Shlrhey, engineering.
"My brother started once. I
started now. I have gotten the
best start."
Ed Langdon, arts and sciences.
"It's too slow four and one
half hours for one interview."
Heather Frazer, phys. ed.
"Although it is quite confusing
now, all great things were confus
ing when they started, and like all
great things it will iron out."
Marion Alberts, pre. med.
"It makes me feel more at
home." (A man of few words.)
Paul Fleming, engineering.
"It savea time, I learn two
months' worth of experience in
two days,"
Enrollment
falls behind
1939 figure
Appointment plan brings
steadier flow; prevents
hunching of registrants
The first day of classes opened
today after a three-day registra
tion period, during which 675 stu
dents registered Monday and 809
Tuesday. The registrations this
week plus the students who reg
istered last May brought the total
1. Junior Division students
cannot complete registration
until all pre-registration guid
ance examinations have been
taken.
2. The following schedule of
make-up examinations at the
Temple Theater Auditorium will
apply:
Thursday, Sept. 19 9 a.m.,
psychological and English ex
aminations; 2 p.m., reading and
mathematics examinations.
..Friday, Sept. 20 9 a.m., psy
chological and English examina
tions; 2 p.m., reading and
mathematics examinations.
registration to 3,684 students com
pared with 4,536 at this same time
last year. The total enrollment
Tuesday evening was 4,493; while
last year at the end of the second
day of registration the total was
5,605. Wednesday's total was not
axailable from the registrar's of
fice at the time the DAILY went
(See ENROLLMENT, page .i.)
Counselors
usher frosh
in coliseum
Mary itiillock directs
group of girls helping
new students register
Coed Counselors are the girH
who help the new women students
feel at home. Initiated this year
under the direction of Mary Bul
lock, 1940-41 president, the Coun
selors usher and assist anyone who
is registering. Ninety girls are
helping at the Junior Division in
the coliseum from 8 a. m. to 5
p. m., by ushering and assisting
the professors.
Wednesday evening a party was
given by the Counselors in Ellen
Smith Hall where Dean Hosp,
Miss Elsie Piper and Miss Lett
Clark were introduced. Dean Hosp
welcomed the new girls to the
campus and the president intro
duced Board members. Six hun
dred girls attended.
162 Coed Counselors
There are 150 Coed Counselors
on the campus beside the board
of 12. These girls were chosen
by the active board from the
group who filed last spring. Half
the membership is affiliated and
half are unaffiliated. The board,
composed of six seniors, four jun
iors and two sophomore women,
was elected by the women of the
campus.
This week
getting in
Coed Counselors are
touch with all new
women on th
a campus in an effort
to further
campus life
acquaint them with
All Coed Counselors
are ready to
advice to all
give information and
who need it.
Executive board consists of
Mary Bullock, president; Frances
Keefer, vice president; and Jean,
Powell, secretary-treasurer.
Freshman may purchase
'11 caps in Daily office
Editor-in-Chief Norman Har
ris declared today that, "All
freshmen who could not get
their caps in the registration
line will be able to get them
in the DAILY office during the
period ending on Sept. 28."
This service Is for those that
were not In the financial posi
tion to acquire this hair-decoration,
and those that did not
think the head-wear worth Its.
price. If, by chance, someone
changed his mind, he will be
presented with a red cap hav
ing the numbers 44 In white In
front.
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