DAILY NEBRASKAN
Friday, January TO, 194H
UN proposes to
add defense courses
From the office of the dean of the university College of Engineering
comes the announcement that three special courses in subjects, having direct
bearing on national defense work, have been proposed as additions to the
university curriculum.
If sufficient numbers apply for entrance into these studies, the
courses will be taught here next semester. The subjects to be covered
are Drafting and Shop Practice, Materials Inspections and Testing, and
Drafting. Details of the courses are printed in the news story of the plan
on page one of this edition of the DAILY.
Certainly here is an opportunity for scores of young men attending this
university to prepare themselves for not only temporary vocations, but life
time work.
Of the hundreds of students enrolled here who haven't definitely decided
what kind of work they want to follow, here is a chance to stab at other
fields with a relative amount of assurance that there will be a tangible result,
because of the greatly enlarged defense program the nation has embarked
upon.
The patriotic appeal of becoming a cog in the national defense machine
may have something to do with the registration of many persons for these
courses. But aside from that influence, there is opportunity for the solution
of many pei'sonal worries.
' Those who successfully complete the courses to be offered will find
themselves better equipped to face the future, regardless of whatever
other training they have. The opportunity to work, and the chance to
gain experience doing something that will result in many cases from
taking these defense courses, in itself, seems enough an incentive to
insure full registration.
At the same time, the university keeps sfcp with the trend over the
country by doing its bit in aiding the national defense program.
Prom committee meets Monday
As the month of March ncars, the Innocents society, sponsors of the
Junior-Senior prom, are beginning to wonder what the responsibility is their
predecessors left them.
A meeting of the Junior prom committee and of the Innocents prom
committee has been called for Monday. Political squabbling and bickering
have been the sole activities of everybody concerned up to now.
But the prom committee meeting Monday will begin without any
politics. Committee chairmen will be named for the season's closing
formal party and preliminary plans will be laid. This year will see the
earliest planning that any prom has ever had, in the hope that this year's
prom will be the best prom ever staged.
The Innocents' prom committee is composed of the society's treasurer
and two Innocents whose experience on last year's committee should aid the
1941 group do a fine job.
Gradcs-
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work, speech and dramatic art
with from 86 to 87. Lowest
medians, 76 to 77, were found in
romance languages and literature,
mathematics and astronomy, his
tory, electrical and civil engineer
ing, law college and poultry hus
bandry. Courses with highest median
grades, above 90, were in organic
chemistry, dramatic speech inter
pretation, practice teaching in
English, woodworking and interior
finishing, educational psychology,
applied voice, Greek in English,
and rural community organization
and recreation. Marks in the
same courses but under different
instructors varied considerably,
however, as the median of 92 in
educational psychology under one
instructor dropped to 78 in an
other section of the same course.
Frosh English marks low.
Uniformly low median marks
were recorded in five sections of
freshman English composition,
hovering around 64 and 65. Trig
onometry and analytics was an
other stumbling block in many a
student's average as the median
for six sections ranged from 66
to 80. A course in elementary
French had a class median mark
of onlv 64. while 32 percent of the
members recieved failures, condi
tions, incompletes, or dropped in
bad standing.
Prime example of median mark
variances between classes was
course in logic where under one
instructor the median was only 64
and under two others the same
course showed median marks of
78 to 81. In the first instructor's
class, 38 percent of registrants re
ceived failures, conditions, incom
pletes, or dropped in bad stand
ing, while in the other two classes
the record was only 16 and 12 per
cent respectively.
Go vera or-
Bulleiin
I'M DAMES,
I'nivendty Dimn will mfrt at Elton
Smith Friday M 8 p. m. The iroTm
will be on Ihf nubjert "Food and Nfflin,"
Kith Knth Mrnohcr presiding. HorteiM In
Mm. H. J. rhilltp.
BARB DANCE.
Barb Connfll will sponsor a dance to
morrow from 8 to 11 p. m. In the I nl.m
ballroom.
I.ITHKKAN STIDENT ASSOCIATION.
1-nthcrnn Stndcnt anHitlnn will meet
Rnnday from 8:80 to 1 p.m. In parlnm X
nnd V of the I nlon. I'aMor Alvln M. re-
tent rn will be the leader.
DEI .IAN I'MOV.
Dcllaa I'nlon In upon'orlng nn amateur
mtnt at t p. m. today In the Temple.
Everyone I welcome to attend.
rROM COMMITTEE,
from committee will meet Monday at
t p. m. In the DAILY office. All junior
members moat attend the meeting.
CORNHl'KKER.
Member of the Cornhavker ataff thonld
report to the office thin afternooa.
AO YWCA.
Ac YWCA win hold a taffy pall In the
home ee annex today at 7:30 p. m.
HI M .K.I,.
Rabbi MnrrlR Rrrtrer. Iowa City, win
npeak at a Hlllel coffee hour to be beld In
the Union Sunday at 7:S0 p. m.
Coeds attend Ball
as guests of star
Three Nebraska members of
Thcta Sigma Phi, national journal
ism sorority, attended the Inau
gural ball last night as members
of the Martha Scott party.
The girls, Camille Shire, Louise
Malmbcrg and Ann Spieker, were
dressed in "Cheers for Miss Bish
op" costumes rfom the wardrobe
used by Mias Scott in the picture.
Bizad fraternity
pledges five men
Formal pledging of five mem
bers to Alpha Kappa Tsi, profes
sional business administration fra
ternity, was held Wednesday eve
ning in the Union. Those pledged
are: John Dean, Eugene Peery,
Ren Bukacek, Deane Nutzman,
and Howard Becker.
believe that there are no shortcuts
to prosperity or recovery. With
the lesson of the past before us,
we are going to produce finer and
more intelligent young men and
young women. We are going to do
our part in making the United
States a greater nation."
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ing of certain governmental funds
in order to bring about a greater
saving to the state or to the citi
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cannot, of course, cut expenditures
indefinitely."
Concluding his address, the gov
ernor again expressed his opinion
that "we should pay as we go."
"We in Nebraska,' he said, "still
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