Official Newspaper Of More Than 7,000 Students
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Vol. 40 No. 3
Lincoln, Nebraska
September 20, 1940
Hosp greets
600 at tea
Thursday
AWS president, dean's
staff in line; Musical
HororilicH furnish music
About 600 women students at
tended the tea given yesterday aft-
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Hosp and her staff in Ellen Smith
hall.
Purpose of the tea was to intro
duce women students, particularly
freshmen and new students, to the
dean of women.
Jean Simmons, president of As
sociated Women Students, intro
duced those attending the tea to
Miss Hosp and other in the re
ceiving line: Miss lsie Ford Piper,
assistant dean; Mrs. Ada West
over, assistant to Miss Hosp; Miss
Katherine Hendy, social director
at Raymond hall, and Miss Esther
Ostlund, Y.W.C.A. general secre
tary. Musicians
Members of Sigma Alpha Iota,
Delta Omicron and Mu Phi Ep
trilon furnished music throughout
the tea. They were Lois Baker,
vocal soloist; Marian Percy, Ruth
Fox and Helen Eversman, piano
ists; Hazel Fricke, violinist, and
arriett Meyer, cellist.
At the serviner tables were Mrs.
C. S. Boucher. Mrs. E. A. Burnett,
Miss Margaret Fedde, Miss Mable
Lee, Mrs. M. H. Swenk, Miss Ma
mie Meridith. Miss Katherine
Faulkner and Mrs. Lawrence Pike.
Counselors
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Board members of Co-ed Coun-J
aelors will meet sunaay ai t.jv
p. m. in Ellen Smith hall to give
out names ot- "little sisters"
freshmen women, Mary Bullock,
president, announced Thursday.
By Wednesday "big sisters" for
all the freshmen women will have
been chosen.
Each of the 12 board members
has 15 counselors to whom she
gives the names. Any freshman
woman who does not have a big
Bister by Wednesday should phone
Mary Bullock, the president said.
In two weeks Co-ed Counselor
charm school and hobby groups
will have their meetings, Miss Bul
lock stated.
Frosh to take
UUltl til UV.ll
convocation
Taking the Cornhusker oath will
be the highlight of the second
convocation, September 25. The
meeting, to held at 11:00 a. m.
in the coliseum, will be directed
by Innocents and Mortar Board
honor societies.
President Bob Aden of Inno
cents, master of ceremonies, will
introduce Pat Sternberg, Mortaij
Board president, who will speak on
the university's activities program.
Dean of Women Helen Hosp, Dean
T. J. Thompson, Chancellor C. S.
Boucher, Coach "Biff" Jones and
Associate Chemistry Professor
Clarence Frankforter will be in
troduced. Ralph Worden, cheer leader, will
lead freshmen in songs and cheers.
The varsity band will play and
the pep clubs, Tassels and Corn
obs, will sit in uniform in a re-
rvefl section.
The weather
Partly cloudy and coolei In this
portion of Nebraska Friday. High
est temperature in Lincoln Thurs
day, 93.
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Courtesy Unco In Journal and Star.
Pictured above are students reaching for the DAILY NEBRAS KAN yesterday morning at the
"rag stand" in the corridor of Social Science hall. Publication of The Daily is a sure sign that
school has really begun for the paper carries all campus news from classroom doings to society.
Uni Theatre to
with hilarious
University theater will open the
'40-41 theatrical season with a
fast-moving comedy, "See My
Lawyer" fashioned after "What a
Life." Opening on Broadway last
fall, the play, written by Richard
Maybaum and Harry Clorke, had
a successful year'3 run.
Directed by George Abbot, Mr.
Armand Hunter, instructor in dra
matics and director of Unlverstly
theater productions, says "it's a
typical Abbot production in that
comedy is the keynote and hilar
ity the outstanding factor."
In the words of Mr. Hunter:
"The play is a fast-moving farce
comedy about three young grad
uates of lnw college who hang
out their shinglei and hope for
business to come their way."
Fortunately for the law firm,
one of the members Is fianced to
a girl whose father feeds the law
firm by virtue of his delicatessen.
Firm prospers.
The firm prospered nicely con
sidering the fact that not one sin
gle client had appeared in the of
fices. But soon the going gets
pugh until one day a rich eccen
tric playboy walks into tne of
fices and requests them to be his
lawyers exclusively for the unbe
lievable sum of $25,000 a year.
From then on business is good.
The playboy has habits of kid
naping chorus girls, spending
weekends in morgues, wrestling
with sales girls, tying milk wagons
to fireplugs and many more in
teresting stunts. '
The University Players now
known as the University -Theater
have shown their versatility in
play production during the fifteen
years that they have been present
ing stage shows on the campus.
Each season the director's en
deavor to live up to the adage that
"variety la the spice of life" and
sprinkle a light comedy or two
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season
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in -with the season's heavier drama.
Last year, Jack Bittner, now
appearing with an eastern dra
matic company, scored a hit as
Henry Aldrich in the high school
play "What a Life." As the blun
dering but hopeful Henry, helped
the audience recapture memories
of their own school days. .
Johnny Cox plays
for Union dance
The first dance of the current
school year will be held in the
Union bal'room tonight from 9 to
12. Johnny Cox will play. Admis
sion is but one thin dime per per
son. All students are cautioned to
make certain that they have their
Ideal cards with them, for unless
they are able to show them they
will not be admitted.
Boys' dress regulations for this
year are to be more stringent than
heretofore. Shirt sleeves are per
missable If they are rolled down,
and if a tie is worn. Rolled-up
sleeves will not be tolerated. A
neat sports shirt will be allowed
if a coat is worn over it. Those
"little jersey numbers" of the U.
of N. variety are ostracized from
the list of what to wear at Union
dances. The most acceptable com
bination is the standard shlrt-tle-coat
outfit.
Last free edition
Today's edition of the DAILY
is the last that will be issued
free of charge to students and
faculty. Subscription rate for
one year It $1.50 or five cents
a copy and may still be ob
tained at the stand in Sosh or
at the DAILY office in the
Union.
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YM reports 350
"N" books sold
Reporting a sale of 350 'N' books
to entering freshmen and upper
classmen, YMCA officials today
hoped that the total would be
raised 75 to 100 by late registrants
who received N-book cards at the
Coliseum.
Sales on the ag campus look
promising, according to C. D.
Hayes, general secretary of the
YMCA, but have not yet reached
the city campus total because of a
late start.
The "N" book contains all in
formation pertinent to campus ac
tivities, describes the location of
campus buildings, and serves as a
general director of places and
people.
The play is the
frosh as studio
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which thry tell (if thrlr rKivrlrnrv In
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tlvltlm. By A Freshman Reporter.
I walked upstairs to the second
floor of the Temple Theater and
found myself In a mass of laugh
ing, talking, shouting students. I
ducked self-conciously back into a
corner for I didn't know a sou1.
You see I'm a freshman reporter
and I was assigned to cover the
tryouts for the first play of the
year.
As I went inside the door a
beautiful girl handed me an appli
cation blank used for all embryo
actors. I started to tell her that I
was a reporter not an actor but
she hurried off. By the time she
came back I had decided there was
no harm in keeping it, and a few
minutes later I had filled it out
and handed it in.
X heard about 50 girls and 20
Late registrant
must pay fee
for tardiness
(Masses open Thursday
with student enrollment
on campus of 5,316
"The university wishes to deal
fairly with all students, and hns
no desire to charge students a
late fee if, through no fault of
their own, they were unable to
complete their registration in the
time designated," Dr. G. W. Ro
senlof, registrar, announced today.
A late fee of three dollars, as
stated in all university catalogs
and bulletins, will be charged stu
dents who did not finish their reg
istration in the three days speci
fied for registering. According to
Dr. Rosftnlof, this fee will be
charged all freshmen who did not
report for freshman examinations
last week and also advance stu
dents who failed to register last
spring or to pay their fees before
Sept. 4. Late registration stu
dents will find the assignment
committee today jn the west
half of Grant Memorial hall.
Lenient if possible.
"However," said Rosenlof, "if
it is clearly in evidence that the
student failed to complete his reg
istration on time because of some
failure on the part of the admin
istration in caring for his needs,
such as errors in registration or
advising, we will be lenient."
Classes opened Thursday morn
ing with an enrollment of 5,316,
not including the registration of
medical and nursing students in
Omaha.
Freshman cap
tradition
holds its own1
Tradition is tradition.
And scores of red capped fresh
men are already appearing on all
parts of the campus.
Like the tradition in the mili
tary schools where first year men
must serve a period of plebeship,
and like the semester servitude in
fraternal organizations for new
men, the University of Nebraska
has maintained the red cap cus
tom, to set the freshmen class
apart for a similar period of
pledgeship.
Wear until homecoming.
The caps are to be worn until
the Homecoming game, when the
freshmen class will vie with the
sophomores in a mass tug of war.
If victorious, the caps are dis
carded. If the freshmen should
lose they are required to wear the
caps until the first frost.
For those who were unable to
purchase a cap while registering,
and particularly for those who
See CAPS on page 3.
thing decides
dram a begins
men reading from scripts as Direc
tor Armand Hunter and Stage
Manager Dclford Brummer listen
ed. They read everything from
Shakespearian tragedy to some
thing about "The fan dance cornea
on after the blackout."
Then Mr. Hunter talked to tha
freshman (there were a couple of
other brave beginners and exp'ain
ed to us that the frosh were not
eligible for parts in the major pro
ductions but that we could work
backstage and have parts in studio
plays. That threw a wet blanket
on some ideas I'd been getting.
But for the upperclassmen there
will be tryouts again tonight. A!
call sheet will be posted Monday
with a double cast in all major
parts.
I believe I'll go in for those
studio plays because I was pretty
good in the Podunk High annual
senior play.