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Join the bucket brigade . . rfk IailyI BMSKAHT 0icia Newspaper 0 More 7ian 7,000 Students - Vol. 40 No. 89 Lincoln, Nebraska Wednesday, February 26, 19411 Nelson, convo speaker today, explains services of WSSF trss PuVtirto put V:Ke -iV Filings open for 1941 Prom Girl Tickets now on sale; door election approved by Jr.-Sr. committee Filings for the 1941 Prom Girl to be presented at the annual Junior-Senior dance, March 7, open at noon today and close Tuesday noon. All junior and senior women who are scholastically eligible, may file in John K. Sellcck's office in the coliseum. Tickets for the dance, at which "The Count of Swing," Count Ba sle, will play, are on sale in the Union check stand, in Selleck's of fice, Magees, and Uni. Drug. Jun ior men, Innocents and members of the Prom committee are also handling ticket sales. Blaine Sloan has announced that tickets are also on sale in the barb office. Norman Harris, business manager of the Prom committee, suggests that all junior men check out tickets at Selleck's office. Prom girl will be elected by bal lots cast at the door the night of the Prom, according to a commit tee decision, and will be presented at the dance. Members of the Stu dent Council will count the ballots. Committee begins Follies skit judging tonight First tryouts for the Coed Fol lies, to be held March 27 will take place tonight when nine groups present their skits before a judg ing committee composed of the AWS board members and two dra matic art seniors, Dorothy Ward and Virginia Thede. The try-out schedule for today is as follows: !:: fiuuM ru l4a. 1:U: All CM Omrca. 1:M: Alpha Omkm tt. l:t: M Brta I'M. I: Hnrtrt HaM. Hlfirrt Kappa. S:M: Kappa lHia. :4: Alpha XI IrMa. :M: Boaa Baataa Halt. For tomorrow: Kappa Alpha Tfcrta. Alpha FM. :: PM Ma. :: CM Onw-ra. 1 :Ofl: Kappa Kappa Gamma. 1:1: Mrma Itrita Taa. 7:841: Ida Urlta Irtta. !:: Drtta Gamma. TtwM Clah. :!: Bark lalcrfcoaw CaaacU. Daily staff, Pub board hold luncheon in Union Members of the paid staff of the DAILY and the Publications Board will meet in the Union at noon today for a luncheon meet ing. The group will meet in parlor Z. By itaff cartoonist, Brtty Ana Roberts Team how to doctrine of the Did you make the grade last semester? If not, maybe it's be cause you can't read. "How absurd," you say. "We learned to do that while in elemen tary school. We wouldn't be in the university if we couldn't read." These statements are true with reservations. Everyone in the uni j2 versity is able to read, but vary greatly in their ability to so. The junior division has dis covered that approximately 12 per cent of the freshman in the univer sity are handicapped by their in ability to read well, and that half of them have ppor study habits. Some have 4th grade ability. This is a revelation in itself, but the division also learned that there are a few freshmen who read no better, in some respects than does th fnnrtn pranp minila nr a in year old child. Many read no bet- Art instructor revives students with 4 o'clock tea Because she feels students need a bit of reviving at 4 o'clock, Miss Kady Faulkner of the art depart- ment serves ta And cookies once ------- --- A- u.i t i i QQ nulllllllilUUilVU, uiiu V- cI i iC OCtUICUi a week to her students working prof. T. T. Bullock, chairman of from 1 to 5:45 p. m. To the student who submits the tne service Question asked the chairman of best reference question of the the service by student applicants The tea is very informal and week, the Union will give a book. Tho the placement service for most frequently is, "What do students are usually shown works This will be a regular feature of business students has gotten very executives demand in prospective of famous arista, textiles, or wall- the booknook broadcast which will little publicity, its work is highly employees?" Prof. Bullock nn paper exhibits during the serving, be a weekly program. important because without it stu- swers that it all depends upon the . executive. High grades are never Hendricks B. C. Hendricks, of the chemis try department, has gone into the fine points of this examination business and he has achieved re sults. His objectives are: 1. To test the ability of the student in applying principles; 2. To test the ability of the student to interpret data. The first of these two objectives seeks to determine the student's thinking skill rather than material which he has memorized in connec tion with the course. In order that the devices will be effective, how ever, situations must be used which have not been thoroughly discussed in class or in the text books, for such questions require that the students merely memorize the explanations previously pre sented. . . In connection with his work, Mr. Hendricks is conducting a nation wide survey by collecting student's examination papers and studying them In order to compare their an swers. As yet, however, the sur By Alan Jacobs. In an interview with Claud Nel son yesterday, the national direc tor of the World Student Service fund stated that he is convinced that if the students know all the facts about students in war-torn nations the $100,000 goal set by the WSSF will be reached. As a YMCA representative in Italy for two and. one-half years, Nelson is familiar with the prob lem of students in warring na tions, and as national director of the WSSF knows the need for student contributions. Exposes facts. "What I am trying to do in traveling all over the nation speaking to student convocations and discussing with faculty groups," said Nelson "is to ex- (See INTERVIEW, page 2.) read ivelV is junior division ter than a sixth grade pupil, and still more read about as well as the average eighth grade student. Now if you "conditioned" that course in poll scl, or if your grade was lower than you should like for it to be, perhaps it wasn't such a bad course, and perhaps the pro fessor is even a pretty nice fellow. It may be that you can't read! Union sponsors book broadcast First regularly scheduled broad cast to originate in the Union will take place Friday at 4:15 p. m. with Frank Egen of the university library discussing books and au- thors. The program will be heard over KFOR a llmited audlence wiU &llowel to watch the pro- Passes may be obtained any time before Friday at the Union office and the doors of the booknook will be closed at 4:10 p. m. No one will be admitted after that time. On the program with Egen will be Jon Pruden who will act as announcer. A mimeographed bibli ography of the books mentioned on the broadcast may be obtained at the Tin inn nffirn studies exam system vey is not far enough along to rcauiw. opening 10 ueicrmine I rum me DR. B. C HENDRICKS. . conducts survey, Capitol Personalities Is V' d i I j -y.-.v.-.y. ,.;::: . ;.;.;...,: Lincoln Journal. SWAN CARLSON. ... is Swedish immigrant. Typical of the hardy class of Swedish immigrants who came to this country to find greater oppor tunity is Senator Swan Carlson. For 48 years he has farmed in Nebraska and is representing Phelps, Gosper and Dawson coun ties for the fourth time. Senator Carlson is a member of teams during the coming week, as the appropriations committee. He they debate with the University is also on the sub-committee which of Kansas,' Pasadena college, and deals with the board of control. Creighton university on the sub ject, "Resolved, that the United Introduced early in the session, States should form a permanent the senator's L.B. 7 still awaits union with all nations of the committee action. It is this bill western hemisphere." which he designates as the most important of the six he has pro- The affirmative team, George posed. Under the present law, the Blackstone and Ewald Wornsholz, bridges over irrigation canals are wil1 debate with KU today before maintained by the counties in a luncheon at the Lincoln Cham- which those canals are situated, r of Commerce. People should not pay. It is Senator Carlson's conten- t,on u,at so many people get no (See CARLSON, page 2.) Placement service finds jobs for many Bizad graduates It gets jobs for students! That dents could not be able to make is the all important task of the many of the important contacts placement service of the College answers of the students how hard the question is and whether the question helped the teacher to as certain the better students from the poorer ones, is yet another phase' of the work done by Mr. Hendricks. He says that a ques tion often appears very good and yet it may not be dependable be- caui it is answered best by poorer Jack r. Jack Taylor) students and poorest by better stu- Mell Renard, and Rcrtwct May dents. - field. Mr. Hendricks finds that the Upperclassmen are: Robert grades which the students get from Peterson, James Shelley, Gene year to year are fairly uniform and that the difficulty of the examina tions for the students does not dif fer greatly. The Cooperative Test Service as an aid to teachers is also an activ ity in which Mr. Hendricks. is in terested. He suggests that the leacner wno is interested in the use of the service inspect its of- ferings of questions and choose only those items for inclusion in his examination which are in har- mony with his objectives. Explaining the function of the World Student Service fund drive now being conducted in satisfying the needs of students in war-torn nations of the world, Claud Nelson, national director of the fund on leave from his post as general sec retary of the YMCA in Rome, will speak at two convocations today: the first in the Union ballroom at 11 o'clock; the second in the Dairy Industries building on ag campus at 4 p. m. With Nebraska's quota set at $500 out of the national goal of $100,000, the drive and convocation is being arranged with an exten sive follow-up drive planned, ac cording to Cal Rollins and Marie Anderson co-chairman. All houses canvassed. Monday and Tuesday nights drive workers canvassed every or . ganized house appealing fSr co (See CONVO, page 4.) Debaters meet KU, Pasadena, Creighton Varsity team affirms question of U. S. union with western nations Three intercollegiate meetings will occupy the varsitv debate Debate against Pasadena. The negative team will debate against the Pasadena team to- (See DEBATES, page 2.) that must be made before joba discounted, but neither are they always demanded unless the job la (See GRADUATES, page 4.) Dairy club elects ! 34 new members Eight freshmen and 26 upper classman have been elected to membership in the Varsity Dairy club. The freshmen are: Samuel Ellis, DnnaM Troon TMVioiM Smith Renard, Everett Loman, Donald McCright, Orville Jones. C. Rich ard Johnson, Dale Landgren and Robert McClarkin. William Freisan, Carl Bucken dahl, William Hartnell, George Weedman, Harold Hansen, Donald Egly, Garland Campbell, " Harlan Qualset, Kenneth Mann, Warren Hutchinson, Harold Stevens. John Moseman, Duane Lowenstein, Harry Abboy, Ralph M. Johnson. Hugh Zimmerman and John Mecham.