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2 fcdJj&hiaL QommmL SuIkJtm, Engineers boast By Dean 0. J. Ferguson, ('olleRe of Engineering. Kd. With the, following article, The Daily in trtdes a series of discussions written by dean ond departmental heads on the aims of their par ticular divisions, and on the. limitations with which they must deal. Dean Ferguson's article is a con densatum of one he wrote for the University of A'e I rank a ccs. The Collope of EnpineeriliR of the- Universitj of Nebraska has no ilosire to bo "big," but it does sot it.s minl to the job of being excellent. To the tiu.k of loitiR souml and commendable work we de vote our energies. That we have met with no small measure of jfueooss in this endeavor is evidenced by the work of our alumni, hither and you. 1 find them carrying on successfully in the creative research which is the foundation of industrial progress. They administer the processes of organization in manufacture and in operation. They counsel builders and advise in con M met ion projects. They design, build, supply and operate. They thrive on service. Another testimony of our effectiveness is our Admittance to the accredited schools of the coun trythe Engineer's Council for Professional De- quality, lack quantity in program velopment, made up of representatives of seven professional societies in the various fields of engi neering, in education, and in registration. A committee of five members visited our cam pus for careful inspection of our facilities, our courses, our laboratories, our resources and our methods. Curricula were accredited by them in ag ricultural engineering, civil engineering, electrical engineering and mechanical engineering. Our lack of special equipment and staff in chemical engineering however were definite enough to militate against us there, A prime criticism recorded against us had to do with the buildings in which we must operate. Even there, mechanical engineering and agricul tural engineering were complimented. But archi tecture, electrical engineering and engineering mechanics in particular were classified as poorly housed. Lack of equipment and laboratory facili ties lay against chemical engineering and civil en gineering, tho our materials laboratories received high commendation in both their equipment and their work. It is evident that the substantial standing of our own staff is recognized in the professions of en gineering and architecture. The faculty arc active in their respective technical societies, as well as in the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Edu cation and the Association of Land Grant Colleges and Universities. A limited amount of research is practicable, in which current attention, is being given to lubrica tion, rural electrification, thermal properties of gases and hydrologic studies. Funds for research equipment however are light, and teaching loads are heavy. The details of our future, especially in respect to their quantitative measure will be dependent upon Nebraska crops, but we can promise our alumni that the quality of our work will be main tained at a commendable level, and that our effort will be constant to raise that level. College of Engineering enrolment this year ' is about 3 percent higher than last year at this time. Under present circumstances however, we are trying to limit our freshmen and near fresh men to a total of 300 men. This condition must continue, at least until there is provision, for hand ling larger numbers of men than we can now ac commodate in our restricted space. But our pres ent worries are mostly concerned with the prob lems of maintenance of facilities and studied ad vancement of competancy. Besscy- (Oontinued from pap 1.) many years ago in 1884, when Dr. Bessey first began to teach at Nebraska. He used some 200 species which had already been gathered as his foundation, and at the time of his death in 1915 had built the colection up to in clude thousands of varieties. After that the Herbarium was stored in the basement of Bessey hall for almost 30 years, where It remained practicaly unused until students began to sort and remount the plants about 1935. During the past 28 years Prof. Fitzpatrick has had charge of the llerzarium and of its "unearth ing." Six students helped him the first semester of the work. Soon thrive more were added, and the number increased until it reached the height of 82 in 1937. This semester, however, there are only 2) student at work on the project. Due to neglect, the old Her barium had become very dirty, and it was necessary for the students to clean up the speci mens before they could be filed in the new collection. They also had to poison many of the plants to keep bugs from destroying them. To date the collection numbers 376572 species from all over the United States except Nebraska and 41.538 In the state. Together with the plants still uncatalofrucd, rrofessor Kitrpatrick expects it ALL MAKES OF TYPEWRITERS FOR SALE OR RENT KEBR. TYPEWRITER CO. 130 N. ttM t1S7 to reach at least half a million without adding any new types. The collection is housed in 60 new moth-proof, dirt-proof cabinets and as many old ones in the Her barium on the third floor of Bessey hall. Students are now working to label, mount and file the plants on hand and those coming in from all over the country. Nebraska's Herbarium is ap proximately the fifth largest in the United States, an important fact, considering its short pe riod of existence and the little amount of money spent to col lect it. The Smithsonian insti tute has the largest U. S, collec tion; and the Kew gardens in England have the largest in the world. They have been collecting for several hundred years. Probably the oldest specimen in the Bessey group is a fern col lected in J 838 in North Carolina over a hundred years ago. Donations and collections by the department have been main ly responsible for the univer sity's large Herbarium, tho a few private collections have been purchased thru the years. Biggest use of the Herbarium is in determining the types of new plants found by comparing them to correctly mounted and labeled examples. The Daily Nebraska n PttKllKTII VKAft. KohtrripO" lUir ur tl.M Prr mini IT or fl.M lor ihr follrcr Irar. SI.& UJtr4 loaactr ra, I I -. fcaM-n tmm4-rtm nollrt immIoIIW Mi nnt, Marr 1, I Hi J m4 m mwhiI rMr r l 4rttM-T X. III?. Aathortx tiry Irmlvr M. iUTt I PMtarr rwar tnr tm Mrrtl IIM Beneath the V I Golden Dome tsMKWttj by Art Rivin A University of Texas student pays his way by acting as a com bination nut-candy, life insurance and tombstone salesman. The University of Illinois school of journalism has added & course in radio broadcasting. Governor Griswold said speed was essential. So yesterday morn ing the legislature buckled down and passed by unanimous vote the bill providing for a Nebraska ad visory defense commission. The act, L.B. 232, will make it possible to expediate construction of the $10,000,000 assembly plant near Omaha. The chief executive is empowered to appoint the com missions members who will serve without pay. Their duties include cooperation with the U. S. and other state defense commissions and direction of state and local government ageencies for defeense developmenL The commission will also supervise and direct surveys concerning anything in the state which bears directly or indirectly on national defense and will rec ommend to the governor the ap propriate action to be taken. No longer will the state house image grace Nebraska's license plates. Beginning next year, ac cording to a senate resolution, simple dots or dashes will re place the state house picture. 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