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Official Newspaper Of More Than 7,000 Students
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Vol. 40, No. 129
Lincoln, Nebraska
Sunday, April 27, 1941'
Thompson announces four
UN scholarships available
Four general university scholar
ships, for which applications are
now being received, will be award
ed next year according to T. J.
Thompson, dean of student affairs.
Application blanks may be se
cured from Dean Thompson's of
fice in the administration building
and should be returned t that
office by May 6.
A worthy student studying in
the department of chemistry or
geology will receive the George
Borrowman scholarship which will
provide $6.0. It was established
several years ago by Dr. Borrow
man of Chicago, who holds two
degrees from Nebraska and is a
former faculty member.
In memory of the late Edvard
Lang True of Schuyler, a perpet
ual scholarship of $60 will be
awarded to a worthy student reg
istered in any college.
Broady scholarship.
The Jefferson H. Broady schol
arship of $60 will be awarded to a
deserving student in any college.
It was endowed by Dr. and Mrs.
John D. Clark, graduates of the
university, in memory of the late
Judge Broady, prominent Nebras
ka attorney and former member
of the faculty.
To the freshman man or womin
Engineering
college plans
new courses
Curricula to be offered
during summer include
drafting, shop practice
Preliminary proposals for four
new engineering defense training
courses to be offered during the
summer have been submitted to
the U. S. office of education by the
engineering college, Dean O. J.
Ferguson announced.
If authorized the courses will
last from June 2 thru Sept. 6 and
applications for enrollment may
be obtained now from Dean Fer
guson's office.
First proposed course is in draft
ing and shop practice where stu
dents will spend six mornings per
week in the drafting room from
8 to 12 and five afternoons from
1 to 5. This drawing instruction is
planned to develop a technique
which will fit students for jobs in
drafting rooms of manufacturing
industries, while shop practice
would train them aa skilled me
chanics in the production end.
Advanced drafting course.
To follow an evening course now
being given will be an advanced
course in drafting, to which stu
dents may be admitted only if they
have the necessary prerequisite
training. It will meet four even
ings a week from 7 to 10,
A beginners evening course In
drafting, repeating the present
course, is also proposed as a result
of petitions handed to Dean Fer
guson by a group of Lincoln men.
Hours will be the same as for the
advanced class.
The fourth course will give
training in materials inspection
and testing with three evening ses
sions per week of two hours each
supplemented by four hours of lab
oratory work on Saturday after
noons. For government, Industry.
Students would be prepared for
service with the government and
defense industries. Three years of
engineering training including
study of the mechanics of mate
rials or equivalent experience in
industry is required of applicants.
Courses will be free, but tin uni
versity credit will be given. After
completion, students enrolled in the
(See COURSES, page 4.)
who has overcome the greatest
difficulties in completing the first
year of university education is
awarded the Walter J. Nickel per
petual scholarship of $20. It was
established by W. J. Nickel of Chi
cago who graduated in 1916.
For most scholarships, sopho
more standing is required, with
preference normally given in the
order of classes beginning with
seniors. Applicants must have
earned at least 24 hours of credit
during the last two semesters of
university residence with a record
of high grade work. A scholar
ship recipient must carry" at least
12 hours during the semester for
which the award is made.
Cox speaks
at university
convocation
Noted hist orian talks
on 'Pan Americanism
in World Crisis' May 9
Prof. Isaac J. Cox, chairman of
the history department at North
western university, will speak on
"Pan Americanism in the World
Crisis" at a convocation in the
Temple theater May 9 at 11 a. m.
Dr. Cox is being brought to the
campus under the joint sponsor
ship of the university convocations
committee and Economica, faculty
and graduate student club, which
is planning an all-day conference
May 9 to which guests from other
Nebraska schools and colleges
have been invited.
Dr. Cox will discuss "Building
Up Pan Americanism" at an in
formal dinner meeting of the con
ference in the Student Union. From
3 to 5 a general discussion of
"Economic Theory in a World of
Controlled Enterprise" will be on
the conference program which is
being arranged by Prof. E. A. Gil
more, chairman of the economics
department.
Engaged in frontier studies.
A member of the Northwestern
history faculty since 1919, Profes
sor Cox has been actively engaged
on a series of frontier studies cov
ering the early relations between
Spain and the U. S. His books in
clude "Nicaragua and the United
States," "The Early Exploration
of Louisiana," and "The Journeys
of LaSalle and His Companions."
He has contributed to the en
cyclopedias Americana and Brit
tanica and is a member of the
America History association and
a past president of the Mississippi
Valley History association.
Czech refugee,
author speaks
Tuesday at 4
Dr. Oldrich Chyle, refugee from
Czechoslovakia, will speak on
"What Is Happening in Central
Europe?" at 4 p. m. Tuesday, in
the faculty lounge. Dr. Chyle was
in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
when Germany invaded Czechoslo
vakia, and escaped thru the Bal
kans. Dr. Chyle was born in Prague
and graduated there from the fa
mous Charles university, the .first
university in Central Europe. At
graduation he received the Doctor
of Laws. As a student he was ac
tive in political affairs.
He was especially active in the
first parliamentary elections of the
republic in 1919, when he was but
20 years old. After graduation he
entered the diplomatic service,
serving for seven years in the
(See SPEECH, page 4.)
Feud on! Lawyers swipe
engineers9 exhibit combine
ill "W u
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It's no longer quiet on the West
ern Front! In a lightning blow at
about 2 Saturday morning, law
yers struck at the engineers' cam
pus structure and began the tradi
tional law-engineering feud.
Tearing down an entanglement
of barbed-wire that surrounded the
40 inch modern, streamlined com
bine, on exhibit south of Pharmacy
hall as a part of the Engineer's
Week activities, running from May
1 to 3, lawyers pushed the 3,000
pound machine to the front door
of the law building. Engineers
saw theif machine Saturday morn-
I-M debates
enter round 4
SAM meets undefeated
ZDT's Tuesday night
Fate of two of the university's
intramural debate teams may be
decided Tuesday night wehn
Sigma Alpha Mu meets Zeta Beta
Tau in the fourth round of the
Interfraternity debate tournament.
If the defeated Zeta Beta Tau
team is victor, they will meet un
defeated Delta Upsilon in the
finals. If Sigma Alpha Mu tri
umphs, competition will continue
until only one team remains.
Yale Gotsdiner and Robert
Passer of Zeta Eeta Tau holds the
best record of the three teams.
The ZBT's have been victorious
in all three preceding debates.
Delta Upsilon is also undefeated,
but has debated only once, winning
from Sigma Alpha Mu. Their
other two matches were won by
default. Robert Chambers and Bud
Johnson represent this team.
Sigma Alpha Mu is the only one
of the three teams which has been
defeated. Altho losing to the DU's,
they were victorious over Alpha
Tau Omega. Zeta Beta Tau and
Sigma Alpha Mu have not yet met
in competition.
Questton for debate is, "Re
solved: That the United States
should enter the war rather than
see the defeat of the British em
pire." Art Rivin and Harold Mar
gulies wil defend the negative side
against Zeta Beta Tau debate
team Tuesday night.
Beauty queen candidates
pictures now on display
Pictures of the 12 Cornhuiker
beauty queen candidates for
1941, six of whom will be pre
sented at ' the Student Union
birthday party Wednesday
night in the coliseum, are now
on display In the window of
Townsend's studio.
&iat" .5,1
ing covered with white wash and
manure that the lawyers had add
ed as finishing touches.
Engineers said yesterday that
they were glad the lawyers had
gone into action, for now the fun
would really start. Altho the en
gineers promise they'll get re
venge, all say that the job was
well-done, even for the lawyers.
The engineers' counter-attack
isn't expected until Monday since
action by insurance men is being
awaited before the engineers start
the fireworks. The combine was
insured.
There wasn't much visible dam
age on the combine. However,
onlookers yesterday afternoon said
that it would bo about a $50 job to
fix the machine since the entire
mechanism will have to be cleaned.
Everything has been put in the
hands of the insurance company.
About 100 lawyers took part in
the raid, according to Dan Maixel,
engineering leader who said they
must have had a hard time with
the barbed-wire.
Engineers were divided into two
camps yesterday on whataction
Howard talks
at Y meeting
Legislator to discuss
1941 session Tuesday
Senator R. M. Howard, speaker
of the state legislature, will discuss
the "Highlights of the 1941 Ses
sion"' before a YMCA sponsored
open meeting Tuesday night at 7
in the Y rooms of the Temple.
Howard's address will be a review
of the legislature s vork this year.
The meeting, Henry Marvin,
chairmen of the YM meetings com
mittee, said, is open to any who
care to attend, particularly univer
sity men or women. "Law stu
dents and social science students
are especially invited," Marvin de
clared. Senator Howard is serving for
his fourth term in the unicameral.
He is a member of the appropria
tions committee, and chairman of
the sub-committee on appropria
tions for educational institutions.
He represents ten counties, more
than any other senator, owns over
7,000 acres of grazing lands in Mc
Pherson and Arthur counties him
self. This is the second cf a series of
open meetings sponsored by the
Y. Former Congressman Henry C.
Luckey discussed the international
situation at the first. Other promi
nent r ?l:c.3 wU a.V"Jjr m future
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to take. One faction was for im
mediate war-fare with old-time
fighting, while another group was
planning some new strategy.
Prof. E. W. Brackett, head of
the agricultural engineering de
partment that made plans for the
combine loaned by the McCormick
Deering company to the univer
sity, said that nothing would be
done about moving the combine
until word was received from ths
insurance company.
Boucher tells
Georgia group
of progress
MILLEDGEVTLLE, Ga. More
significant experiments and im
provements in undergraduate uni
versity education have come in
the last 10 or 20 years than in
the entire previous history of
American colleges and universi
ties, declared Chancellor C. S.
Boucher in an address Saturday
at the 50th anniversary celebra
tion of Georgia State college for
women.
Such progress has come as a
result of serious study by univer
sity and college faculties of de
fects and shortcomings in their
programs, he said.
Stating that the present educa
tional emphasis "is on substance
rather than forms," Dr. Boucher
said that "the time has arrived
when, as far as educational
achievement is concerned, a de
gree from one institution means
much more than a degree from
another institution. Tho this is
not as yet widely known to the
public, it is rapidly becoming
known in ever widening circles.
Vestals of Lamp
lo initiate 17
today in Union
Vestals of the Lamp will initiate
17 ew members this afternoon at
5, in the Union, and will elect new
officers, Jean Carnahan, president,
announced yesterday.
Following the initiation a recep
tion for the members will be held
at the home of Miss Lydia Wag
ner at 1980 Ryons.
To be initiated are: Jean Cow
den, Alice McCampbell, Shirley
Heldt, Nancy Raymond, Laurel
Morrison, Jean Hazen, Maiy Lou
ise Babst, Virginia Mutz, Carolyn
Held, Barbara Ernesti, Marjorie
Johnston, Marjorie Bruning, Betty
Klingel, Jean Kerl, Ann Kinder,
June Acherrnan and Helen Kelley,