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Tuesday, February 4, 1941
DAILY NEBRASKAN
Interprofessional group
of mis-called
The question of whether it is
safer to help Great Britain now to
stop Hitler's conquest or safer to
allow Germany to conquer Britain
in the hope that in the meantime
PROF. L. VOLD.
the United States may become
better able to fight alone was
raised by Prof. Lawrence Void of
law college speaking before the
Interprofessional Institute Satur
day noon.
The speaker advocated repeal
of the United States mis-called
neutrality legislation" because in
practical effect we are boycotting
Union requests
students to vote
on new records
Students may make their choice
for new lecords for the Union
music room by voting for their
favorites beginning today and con
tinuing thru Feb. 14. New addi
tions are to be made for the Car
negie set each semester and the
Union wants students to state
preferences.
In order to simplify voting, a
list of possible selections is avail
able in the music room. This list
is divided into operas, symphonies,
concertos, ballet music, orchestral
music, songs and organ solos. Each
student may cast only one vote.
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neutrality laws"
the nations which have been at
tacked. If thought advisable there
may be substituted legislation pro
claiming that private citizens
hereafter enter the combat zones
at their own risk but involving
no prohibitions against their so
doing."
Aid to Britain.
Dr. Void stated that air should
be given to Great Britain "to what
ever extent is necessary to secure
victory," but suggested that there
be a time limitation in any legis
lation necessary to make such aid
effective in order to assure that
'the totalitarian system of coer
cive planned economy shall not be
come fastened upon this country."
Speech group
names Laase
as new head
Dr. Leroy T. Laase, acting
chairman of the university depart
ment of speech and dramatic art,
was named president of the Ne
braska Speech association at the
convention held in Omaha last
week end. He is to succeed
Fiances M. Hawk of Hastings
High School.
Newly elected secretary is Sam
Fetters, Kearney High School. Re
elected were Gayle McGce, Ne
braska Wesleyan University, vice
president and Miss Lurlie Lee,
York High School, treasurer.
College representative on ex
ecutive committees is Alma Kresu
Lundman; York College, Harold
Ahrendts, Superior High School,
District 3 and Era Town, Curtis
School of Agriculture, District 5.
are the new district representa
tives. Nu Epsilon Tau, honorary inter-
sorority group at the University ;
of Texas, is promoting a national .
campus knitting campaign to help i
the Red Cross.
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Critic Drew
speaks here
Thursday
Elizabeth Drew, literary critic,
will speak Thursday at 4 p. m. in
the Union, parlors XYZ, on "The
Modern Spirit in Literature."
After taking first class honors
in English language and literature
seh became a lecturer in English
at Cambridge. In private life Miss
Drew is the wife of Brian Downs,
also a lecturer in English at Cam
bridge. Elizabeth Drew is in the
United States at this time to lec
ture and escape the nazi onslaught.
The speaker is authoress of the
books, "Discovering Poetry," "The
Enjoyment of Literature," "Dis
covering Drama," and "Directions
in Modern Poetry," written in col
laboration with J. L. Sweeney.
Miss Louise Pound of the Eng
lish department will introduce
Miss Drew at the lecture which is
sponsored by the Union.
Society reelects Pound
Miss Louise Pound of the Eng
lish department has received no
tice of her reelection as a national
councillor of American Folklore
Society. She is a former president
of the Society.
AAUW hears Pound
Miss Louise Pound of the de
partment of English spoke before
the North Platte branch of the
American Association of Univer
sity Women Saturday, Feb. 1.
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Slips de dope ta de PBK's
on dis ting called slanguage
"Slang was not always thought
a proper subject to occupy the at
tention of a group such as the Phi
Beta Kappas," explained Dr.
Louise Pound as she began to
trace the history of slang in her
speech before the honorary 's
meeting last night.
Seniors elected to the honorary
fraternity last fall were initiated
at the meeting, then President
J. O. Hertzler introduced Miss
Pound, professor of English, ns
the evening's speaker. About 100
people attended the lecture in the
Union.
Fills a need.
"When slang fills a real need
in present language, it is kept,"
said Dr. Pound. Some examples
are pan-out, toe the mark, and
buttinsky. "Awful, howeve r,
means very little now because it
is so overused."
"Certainly 'she gave him the
gate' is more colorful than 'she
withdrew her affections,' " cited
Miss Pound. The U. S. has taken
several words from English slang,
such as 'cheerio' and 'my word.'
England has returned the compli
ment by borrowing 'debunk,' 'hy
brow,' etc., the latest probably be
ing 'jitter.' But much as the Brit
ish like some of our slang, they
dislike calling journalists 'news
hawks' and movie stars 'heart
throbs.' "
Say "yes" 40 ways.
The word "yes." asserted the
speaker, has about thirty or forty
variations. Among them are "Yip,
yap, yup, yez, yaz, 'ea (baby talk),
yowsah (started on Amos and
Andy's program), yeah, okay,
okey-dokey, oksum-dosum, uh
huh, sure, and you betcha."
The young people use more
slang than their elders. "Because
they like to do things to words;
get more vivacity in them." Pres
ent day journalists have added
much "to the slang language.
" 'Whoopee' was used in talking
to animals in the 15th century,
but to Walter Winchell goes the
credit of making it into a noun:
'to make whoopee.' "
Short stuff.
A few years ago slang tended
towards long, mouth-filling words
such as super-splendifferus. but
today we have shorter words.
"Scram" and "beat-it" are in use
instead of the old "skeedoodle."
"There arc over 130 words for
slang terms like 'thingamajig' and
about 400 for 'intoxicated,' "
stated Miss Pound. "Words to
take the place of 'woman' are very
numei-ous: frill, mamma, hot
mamma, femme, skirt, etc."
Because of the long list of words
college boys use to apply to girls,
a woman student once made a list
of names for college men in re
taliation, and in her research sdie
distinguished between sissy-pants,
frilly-pants, fane y-pants, and
panty-waist.
