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Official Newspaper Of More Than 7,000 Students
Vol. 40 No. 48
Lincoln, Nebraska
Friday, November 29, 1940
Six groups combine in Messiah
School of fine
arts presents
famed oratorio
4 30 voices in chorus, 13
soloists lo sing Handel's
story of Christ Dec. 15
Carrying on tradition of more
than 40 years, the school of fine
arts will present Handel's Messiah
in the coliseum Sunday afternoon,
Dec. 15. This year 450 voices in
Union report shows great
increase in use of activities
Participation in activities offered by the Student Union showed
& substantial increase during the year 1939-40 over the year 1938-39
according to the annual financial report of the Union. Last year's
report shows 739,209 participations in the various activities as com
pared to 678,622 shown the year before, an increase of 60,587. These
tabulations include the summer sessions of both years.
Accounting for much of the increase is the fact that the Union
instituted 16 new activities last year. Added to the program were
private lectures, private shows, foreign movies, travel films, grad
uate coffee hours, request programs, sketch and soap carving classes,
Coed Counselor and Union book reviews, training table, football mov
ies, lunch room, ping pong tournaments, bridge tournaments and a
photography group.
Use of the Com Crib increased from 377,315 in 1938-39 to 414,872
in 1939-40. Attendance at smokers, teas and receptions increased
from 7,312 to 9,156.
Most outstanding increase in any one activity was that of con
(See UNION, page 2.)
All Outs Courtesy of Lincoln Journal and Star.
ROY PETSCH
HARRY HOPP '
HERMAN ROHRIC
UN to close season
with Kansas State
Saturday's tilt will decide
Big Six championship
Less than half a decade ago, there were 13 particular football
aspirants trudging out for practice among various other Nebraska
freshmen gridders to take the beatings handed to them by the
Husker varsity.
And now, today, these same 13
will once again probably for the
last time trod out for practice,
but this instance in a different
light.
Director IvenU to .
Lincoln Journal.
Dean A. E. Westbrook.
chorus and IS soloists will take
part in the performance.
Six choruses will combine for
the program. The University Sing
ers and the University Chorus, led
by Arthur E. Westbrook, the ag
ricultural college chorus, under
Mrs. Altinas Tullis, and the Grieg
Male chorus and University Men'r
glee club under Hermann Decker
will join in the program. The
University Girls glee club com-
pletes the list.
Lentz directs.
Don Lentt will direct the Uni
versity orchestra. Earnest Harri-
(See MESSIAH, page 11.)
Its ag night tonight!
Dance, movies
features of party
It's ag night at the Union to
night, with dancing and other en
tertainment in the Union arranged
exclusively for ag students. Henry
Mattison will play in the ballroom
for dancing from 9 p. m. to 12,
movies will be shown in room 316
from 8:30 to 10:30, and the music
room will be open to all students
who wish to hear selections from
the record collection Tuaved on
the Carnegie music set.
A students should pick up their
free tickets before 5 p. m. today
in ag hall, after which time, they
will be available only at the Union
chfck stand. One person of a
couple must be an ag student and
present an ag identification card
with the ticket for admittance.
A bus will leave the Union at mid
night to take students back to the
ag campus.
Unite three bands at game
in gigantic musical spectacle
The 1940 football season will
close Saturday at Memorial sta
dium with a game which wiil de
cide the Big Six conference cham
pionship and a band spectacle
which promises to be the most
unusual and interesting yet pre
sented this season, according to
university Band Director Don
Lentz.
Saturday's game will bring to
gether over 240 musicians repre
senting the bands of Kansas State,
Nebraska, and the ROTC regi
mental band of Nebraska.
Preceding the game the Nebras
ka varsitj' band and the K-State
band will march onto the field to
gether, mass, and play the "Star
Spangled Banner," under the di
rection of Lyle Downey, director
of the Aggie band.
Patriotic theme.
The program will follow a patri
otic theme thruout, with the var
sity and regimental bands com
bining at half-time for the ma
neuvers. A series of flank movements
wiil precede the formation of a
huge army tank. The march, "U.S.
Field Artillery," will be played
during these maneuvers as the
tank moves down the field with
its revolving tread as two shots
are heard.
The men coming out of the for
mation at the sound of the shot3
form a huge KS. At the other
side of the field the regimental
band forms another KS., at the
(See BAND, page 3.)
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Lincoln Journal.
Don A. Lentz.
Cornlmsker
opens new
photo contest
To give free yearbooks
to presidents of Greeks
viih 100 by Dec. 4
"Sorority and fraternity presi
dents have a second opportunity
to win a 1941 Cornhusker," said
Avery Forke,
business m a n-
ager of the
yearbook, yes
terday. A free
yearbook will
be given to the
p r e s i d e nt of
each Greek so
ciety which has
100 percent of
its m e m b e rs'
pictures taken
by Wednesday,
Dec. 4.
P rei,i ously
sororities and
fraternities had Lincoln Journal,
been divided in- am-? rrkr.
to groups for several contests last
ing two weeks each.
Here are the percentages up to
date:
Fratrroltloi.
Pl.l KP! Pai W-
Sinma Nu 10(1
Beta SiRma Pl 100
ZKa Beta Tau HR"
Alpha Tau Otncfa H
Farm house Ht
Phi Gamma rx-lta 71
Kappa Sterna 70S
BiKtna Chi 70
Delta t'Pfillon B8
Sicma Alpha Kiwi Ion 6K
Sicma Ph. Rpnilon 60
Alpha Gamma Rho f"
Beta Theta P 5fi
Alpha S.Knia Phi f4
HiKma Alpha Vu 0i
Phi Delta Theta 32
(See ANNUAL, page 11.)
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For these 13 are now seniors on
the Cornhusker varsity and they
will play their last game in Scar
let moleskins Saturday afternoon
in Memorial stadium when they go
forth to battle the Kansas State
Wildcats.
Title in sight.
This game me?ns quite a bit
more to the Huskers other than
just being their final game. If
they win, it also means the return
of the Big Six championship to
Nebraska since it last left way
back in 1937 when these 13 were
sophomores.
In addition the Comhuskers will
be out there on the Memorial sod,
Saturday, with an attempt to bet
ter their standing among the na
tional football teams.
Already in the upper ten, the
Huskers have cast their glances
on sights farther up the scale
towards the top and the prestige
enclosed in that select class.
K -State growling.
But there stands a problem in
the road of these 13 and their
junior and sophomore under
studies. From down Manhattan.
Kas., way, there come a team of
vicious Wildcats with their claws
bared ready to upset any and all
plans the Huskers have concealed
back in their collective minds.
The record of wins and losses
for the Kansas Aggies shows only
two victories and eix defeats. But
don't let those figures fool you.
Even in triumph and setback this
year, the K-Staters have scored
73 points on their side of the
ledger.
Scoring like that shows that the
(See SENIORS, page 11.)
Rally committee says
no pep fest this week
There will be no rally previ
ous to the Kansas State game
due to inclement weather.
Gerry Spahn, rally commit
tee chairman, announced fur
ther that dismissal of classes
Friday to i'y during
the day
Despite legal snog . . .
Parking plans near realit)
rians for some form of campus ers be given student drivers which
parking regulation are progressing will enable them to park any-
despite legal difficulties encoun
tered concerning enforcement, if
regulatory action is taken by the
university.
The Innocents, who are spon
soring the innovation, are confi
dent that definite action will be
taken soon after the first of the
year to alleviate parking conges
tion on the campus.
Sticker proposal
Present plans, according to Bob
Aden, Innocentius, are that stick-
K-Slalc rooters,
hand come here
The Kansas State band plus
about 250 rooters will accom
pany the K-Aggie gridders
when they come to Lincoln.
"If the weather is favorable,
we expect a crowd of approxi
mately 24,000 persons at Satur
day's game," said John K. Sel
leck, business manager of the
athletic department.
where on the campus. Cars with
out such stickers will be given
tickets except those parked in the
area to be set aside for university
visitors and faculty.
L. F. Seaton, university operat
ing superintendent, in cooperation
with the Innocents society is in
vestigating the methods adopted
on other campus to prevent non
student parking on university
property.
Aden explained that if the pres
ent proposal does not alleviate
campus parking other plans will
be attempted until definite im
provement is shown.