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Vol. 40, No. 146
Seniors plan
Chancellor's
reception
Graduates climax activity
Mith tlancc June 7; alum
association co-sponsors
Ending the year's "activities, sen
iors will climax their university
careers at the annual chancellor's
reception and senior dance in the
Union June 7.
Dans are very indefinite for
the event, according to John Mc
Dermott, president of the Senior
Council which is sponsoring the
affair along with the Alumni as
sociation and the Union.
The chancellor's reception is
schduled to start at 8:30 p. m.
Graduating seniors, their friends
and relatives will have an oppor-
(See RECEPTION, page 2.)
Grads missed pipe courses,
activities, money-borrowing
By Marsa Lee Civin.
Finally after four years of hard
work the eventful day of gradu
ation is close at hand. Some are
sad, while others are gay. We
wondered if they were perfectly
satisfied with what they had ac
complished at college. A few sen
iors were asked, "If you had your
college career to live over again
what would you do differently?
Below are some of the honest,
erstwhile answers.
Avery Forke, who passed the
candy with Dot Askey Monday
night appropriately answered,
"I'd pass the cigars every Monday
night." As an afterthought he
added, "Take more " and better
pipe courses."
Sigma Chi Dale Kreps comes
forth with ,"I think I'd take som-?
business courses and skip a lot oi
science.' I might study a litde
more, but I doubt that."
"Borrow $7,500 and go to North
western," was the answer of Kap
pa Sig Bob Sinkey.
Also in a borrowing mood, Phi
Gam Carl Ollenberger replies "I
would borrow $50,000, go to Vas
6a r and be a football hero."
Beta Ned Bell: "Go steady and
take more chem and zoo." (I don't
get the connection.)
Unaffiliated Warren Jones
thinks he would -take 12 houis
every semester and take soma
snap courses.
Kosmet Klub president Leo
Tassels name
23 members
for next year
Twenty-three coeds were pledged
by the girls' pep organization at
the Tassels picnic hold Monday
afternoon at Irvingdale park.
Songs were sung after a nhort
pledging ceremony.
New Tassels for next year are
as follows: Betty Jean Anderson,
Betty Boncbrlght, Carol Chapman,
Phyllis Cope, Jean Cowden, Jane
Dalthrop, Barbara Fairley, Vir
ginia Ford, Marilyn Fulton, Janet
Hemphill, Marjorie Holmes, Lola
Jean Howell, Lois Klinct, Ray
Langdenbcrg.
Marydccn Lawlor, Anna Mar
garet Limpp, Janice Marshall, Pa
tricia Tenton, Shirley Phelps,
Nancy Raymond, Flo Scott, Doris
Spencer and Norma Watkina,
Meb
Official Newspaper Of More Than 7,000
Lincoln. Nebraska
ZBT downs SAM in debate
finals; wins I-F tournament
Winning a split judges' decision
in the finals of the interfaternity
debate tournament last night, Rob
ert Passer and Yale Gotsdiner of
Zeta Beta Tau became the new
champions of intramural debato.
loosing by one vote to the ZBT's in
the finals were Art Rivin and Har
old Margulies of Sigma Alpha Mu.
Taking the negative side of the
subject, "Resolved: That the English-speaking
nations should make
a formal alliance for their com
mon interest and protection," the
ZBT's centered their argument
about their contention that noth
ing could be gained from an al
liance that could not be had with
out this alliance, and that it miglv
j
force nations into war by causing
a conflict for balance ot power
Rivin and Margulies held, on thj
other hand, that, while aid to
Britain in this war might be car
ried on effectively without an al
liance, that the United States
. inquiring reporter finds
Cooksley says, "I wouldn't let my
studies interfere with my aduca
tion." Mrs. Ed Segrist comes forth
with, "My college career has been
pretty good, and I don't think I
would change anything about it."
With the very able assistance of
Bob McNutt. I finally rounded up
a couple of senior girls after I
(See REPORTER, page .3.)
Joint meeting
will end YM,
YW activities
The last joint meeting of the
YWCA and YMCA this year will
be held at 7:15 tonight in the
YMCA rooms in the Temple. This'
meeting was scheduled because cf
popular demand by the two cab
inets. The discussion will center
around the Christian attitude
toward the present war and the
Christian stand if the United
States is drawn into the war.
ROTC units prepare for compet
Presentation of awards will feature activities
Rebounding from last week's
federal inspection, the Nebraska
ROTC unit will again brush up on
their military science this week in
preparation for their annual com
petition Monday afternoon.
Feature of the competition will
be the presentation of awards to
the outstanding individuals and
organizations in the ROTC bri
gade. From 1:20 p. m. on, assorted
drills and tests will determine win
ners of awards.
Sixteen individual awards will
be presented at the parade, which
will climax the day's activities.
Prizes to the best company, pla
toon, battery and gun squad will
also be given.
Most important Ward of the
day will be the Pershing medal,
donated by Gen. John J. Pershing
to the outstanding man in the
brigade. Miss May Pershing will
make the presentation.
Mrs. Robe rt Armstrong will pre
sent the Daughters of the Ameri
can Revolution award to the best
advanced student, and Mrs. John
Bosch of the American Legion
auxiliary will present the prize to
RASKffl
Students
Wednesday, May 21, 1941
could take no active part in the
formation of a post-war treaty of
peace, unless she was in actual
alliance with the triumphant pow
ers. Gotsdiner compared the pro
posed alliance to a three legged
stool. "There must be a need for
the alliance, a plan to satisfy that
need, and benefits to be derived
(See DEBATE, page 4.)
Speech department gives
American Day
A demonstration by the univer-
sity speech department of how ra-
dio broadcasting works, will be
one of the highlights of "I-Am-An-American"
day to be cele
brated in Lincoln tonight with a
program under the direction of
Dean O. J. Ferguson at Everett
Junior high school.
Held in honor of youths who
have reached 21 years of age be
tween May 18 and May 21 and for
recently naturalized citizens, the
program will be headed by talks
on "What coming of age means to
me," by Forrest Behm and Mary
Ellen Osborn.
Following Behm and Miss Os
born, there will be short speeches
by A. A. Rosborough, Kendrick
The weather
The weatherman forecasts cool
weather for Lincoln today, with
increasing temperatures for to
morrow. The skies will clear to
day, and the sun will continue to
shine tomorrow. In the west, light
frosts are predicted.
Students must
file for grades
Students who wish to get
their grades for the second se
mester when school is out
should leave a stamped, self
addressed envelope in the regis
trar's office, G. W. Rosenlof
announced yesterday. Grades
will be sent to all those leav
ing stamped, self-addressed en
velopes. Others will be recorded
in the credit books and will be
available in the fall.
the best basic course student.
Top artillery honor is the Field
Artillery association medal do
nated by the United States Field
Artillery association to the out
standing artillery student. Chan-
Cornhuskcrs
to be given
at banquet
The first copies of the 1941
Cornhusker will be issued to the
staff members at their annual
banquet Friday evening at 6:S0
in the State Room of the Corn
husker hotel. The rest of the stu
dent body can secure their year
books Saturday at the Cornhusker
office.
t
Tfie banquet, which honors un
paid staff members, will be at
tended by approximately 50. Rob
ert Aden, editor, will be master of
ceremonies, and speeches will bo
given by Bob Aden, editor, and
Avery Forke, business manager.
Forty companies vie
for contract awards
Receiving bids from nearly 40 companies, university officials took
the next step nearer the new $S00,000 library when base and alternate
bids on construction contracts for the new building were opened at an
open meeting Tuesday afternoon in the administration building.
Out of state bidders were abovo Nebraska concerns in six out of
eight items. There were no bids
from within the state on one item.
"Construction of the new cam
pus addition will begin as soon as
bids are awarded and builders and
contractors get their materials on
the spot," said L. F. Seaton, oper
ating superintendent, who received
the bids.
The library, bequeathed to the
university by Don L. Love, the
late Lincoln philanthropist, will be
erected before the fall of 1942, ac
cording to the contracts on which
the bids were taken.
The building will be erected be
tween 12th and 13th on the mall
north of R street. The board of
(See LIBRARY, page 2.)
program
Ott, Lee Chapman, Thomas Bar-
ton, Galan Saylor and Mrs. J. O.
Schol, speaking respectively for
business, industry, labor, church,
school and home.
Judge F. W. Messmore will de
liver a "Charge to Citizens." The
citizenship committee of the Lin
coln chamber of commerce is
sponsoring the affair, with Morris
N. Adams and Grace McCaslin,
chairmen for the event.
Hanna admits
his resolution
fill worded
Conceding that it was "ill-worded,"
Senator Hanna yesterday
withdrew his resolution to put the
legislature on record as "unalter
ably opposed" to the petition of
186 faculty members advocating
"all aid to Britain not necessarily
short of war."
The resolution was smothered
under general senatorial disap
proval. Senator Harry Gantz, Al
liance, who spoke against the pro
posal on the first day that it was
introduced, repeated his sentiments
yesterday. Declaring that the pro
fessors signed the memorial as
private citizens Gantz warned that
"restricting the expression of a
private citizen's opinion is one of
Hitler's tricks."
C. Petrus Peterson, Lincoln
senator, suggested that the legisla
ture might do better to attend to
its assigned business and forget
about such resolutions.
cellor C. S. Boucher will present
the medal.
Basic awards.
Among the other important in
dividual honors to be presented
are best basic engineer award,
rifle marksmanship winners, indi
vidual competition medals and sev
eral rifle team awards.
The best basic students in each
unit will receive awards and the
best first year advanced cadets in
the infantry and field artillery will
also compete for honors.
The malls will be the scene of
most of the competition between
organizations. Entries in company
competition are C, D, E, H, K and
L of the infantry, A and D of the
engineers. Results will be based on
both military precision and neat
ness of clothing and appearance.
Medals will go to the first three
places.
Platoons from infantry com
panies A, B, F, G, I and M and.
engineer companies B and C are
entered in the platoon drill. Mayor
Richard O. Johnson of Lincoln will
(See COMPET, page S-X
Mortar Board
fund for dorm
totals $750
Mortar Boards have collected
$750 of their fund to help furnish
Love Memorial Hall, Betty Jo
Smith, chairman in charge of the
collection, announced yesterday.
Organizations who contributed
thus far are:
Home ec graduates, $100; Mor
tar Board alumni, $100; Coed
Counselor Board, $100; Tassels,
$100; Home Ec Association, $50;
Kappa Alpha Theta sorority, $100;
AWS, $50; Mortar Board, this
year, $50; and Mortar Board next
year, $50.
Most of this money will be used
for rugs and carpets for Love Me
morial, Miss Smith explained,
There was a little money in the
building fund to furnish the rooms,
but not enough to make them com
fortable. Without the Mortar
Board's collection the floors of ts
rooms and even the hallways
would be bare cement.
Mrs. Howard,
oldest alumna,
dies at home
Mrs. Alice Frost Howard, the
university's oldest living alumna
and first woman graduate and
widow of Dr. George Elliott How
ard, university faculty member for
many years, died at her home in
Lincoln Tuesday.
A resident of Lincoln 74 years,
Mrs. Howard held a bachelor of
philosophy degree. Her marriage
to Dr. Howard, a member of the
class, professor of political sci
ence and sociology at the univer
sity for more than 20 years, took
place in Lincoln Jan. 1, 1880. She
was born in Corning, N. Y., and
came to Lincoln in 1868.
Dr. Howard, author of many
books on economic and sociological
subjects, was assisted by his wife,
who did a large part of the detail
work. Mrs. Howard did extensive
rsearch, checked references, se
cured data, took dictation of en
tire volumes in longhand, and
through his long career was his
closest collaborator.
Music program
featuring solois
heard by 200
Six student soloists gave a fin
account of their musical ability
when they performed at the uni
versity symphony orchestra pro
gram in the Union last night uin
der the direction of Don Lentz.
The students, selected by mem
bers of the music department fac
ulty, were Hazel Fricke, violinist;
Betty Joe Koehler, pianist; Alfred
Blinde, baritone; Don Hartman,
flutist; Catherine Tunison, so
prano; and Harriet Meyer, cellist.
Each one received applause
from the audience of approximate
ly 200. Following is the program;
Oonprrfo In E Major, Rarh. Allegro.
Minn Hard 1'rlcke, Ylolinlxt.
( oneerto In C Minor, Hcet Iwiven. Al
leirrn con brio.
MInk Ri'tty in Koehler, 1'lnnlnt Zora
hayda, SvrndHon.
The Orrlientra.
Sonic to the Evening Star Tannhaiier,
Wagner,
Mr. Hon Hartman, TlutlHt.
1'lace, I'aee, nilo Iio I Morxa de
Peilllio, Yerill.
Mihh Catherine Tnnlsnn, flnprann.
hymphonlc arlatlonH, Boellmann,
Tliiel postpones
Council meeting
Due to conflicting meetings
of other organizations, the Stu
dent Council will not meet to
night, Burton Thiel, president,
announced ye6terday. There will
not be another meeting this
year. '