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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 19, 1941)
Friday, September 19, 1941 DAILY NEBRASKAN 1300 Eager Freshmen At Coliseum Convo Take Cornhusker Oath With resoundine enthusiasm that shook the rafters of the build ing approximately 1,300 members of the class of '45 repeated the Cornhusker oath yesterday after noon in the coliseum to begin their university career as Nebraskans. Colonel C. J. Frankforter ad ministered the oath, traditional at the freshmen convocation for al most 20 years, and stated that it held a particularly fine meaning in this "grand and awful time" when real morale is so necessary. Acting as master of ceremonies, Burton Thiol, Innocents president, Student Pilots Daily Erred on Class Time Excuse it please, but the pilot training course doesn't ex pect students to attend classes all night, 10 p. m. and 1 a. m., as was reported in the Daily Nebraskan Wednesday. The story should have read "With flying periods arranged at the students' convenience, ground school classes will meet at 10 a. m. and 1 p .m. Also mistaken in the same story was the registration fee for the secondary course. It is $34. not $25. introduced speakers. Flavia Ann Tharp, president of Mortar Board, spoke briefly, after which Mrs. Verna G. Boyles, new dean of women, and T. J. Thompson, dean of student affairs, were intro duced. Lifetime Affiliation. Chancellor Boucher told the new Cornhuskers that theirs is a life time affiliation with the Univer sity of Nebraska family. The people of the state expect univer sity students to be the finest ex amples of men and women, he said. "Marvelous opportunities await you here," the chancellor contin ued, "and I firmly believe that the key to success' lies in your proper organization of time." Coach Extends Invitation. Adolph Lewandowski, assistant football and basketball coach, in vited the students to use the uni versity's excellent athletic facilities. Under the direction of Ward Moore, the freshman band played several selections, arul freshmen students were led in their first united yells by varsity cheer lead ers headed by Max Whittaker, new yell king. The Innocents society, Mortar Boards, Tassels, and Corn Cobs all cooperated to present the fresh men convocation. Farm Products Aid in Modern Improvements Maybe coeds won't have to worry about dented fenders in your dad's car if the latest infor mation on plastics is true. And if it is, you can thank scientists in universities, Including Nebraska, all over the nation. Recently Henry Ford introduced a new plastic boay ana renaers for a motor car. Made from such farm products and by-products as cotton, wheat, corn, soybeans and flax, the plastic bodies and rend ers are said to absorb a blow ten times as heavv as ordinary bodies can stand without denting. Along the same lines of research with farm products in order to make more uses for material that was formerly wasted, scientists may have discovered something in the way of a new paint for traffic markings. The U. S. regional soybean lab oratory In Illinois indicated that there may be a new market made for soybeans produced in Ne braska sinc3 this new paint con sists mainly of soybean oil. Much work is being done with soybeans on the Nebraska ag campus. Phi Gamma Delta Holds Picnic nl Pioneers Park Phi Gamma Delta held a picnic at Pioneer Park last night. The picnic was a get acquainted party for actives and pledges. Willi Plant A136 . . . Agronomists See Relief From Crop Disease in State Dr. H. M. Tysdal, associate1 agronomist in the department of forage crops and diseases in the United States department of agriculture recently found, after many years of extensive experi ments with alfalfa, what seems to be a remedy for the disease which has infested alfalfa fields for years. Key to the remedy is a plant, highly resistant to the deadly disease, known as bacterial wilt. The variety, produced by Dr. Tysdal and other university agronomists, has been labeled A136. Today about 25 farmers throughout the state have 150 acres of A136 under seed pro duction. From now on production is expected to increase much faster and soon this wilt-resistant alfalfa will be on a commercial scale, ag officials predict. Farmers, expert breeders and commercial breeders first agitated for experiments against the disease, demanded and got an ex tensive program of research along this line. After the combating plant was found by the university, farmers throughout the state who were members of the crop growers association cooperated with the USDA in attempting to put pro duction on a commercial scale. Before a hybred strain like A136 to a SWEATER GIRL: Switch to the new ELONGATED CARDIGAN t:'-' Vn t The hip-length While Experimentation Continues can be discovered, research workers must carry on tests which the average person cannot understand. Such things as self fertility, combining ability and progenitorship must all be taken into consideration. And even after months of sitting in an alfalfa field tranafering pollen from one alfalfa flower to another, there is still more work to do. Even today, Dr. Tysdal and hia co-workers are striving for some thing better than strain A136. Their work is being watched closely by Nebraska and other middle-western farmers. First Lincoln Church Has Anniversary Seventy-five years ago, in 1866, First Plymouth Congregational church, the first organized church in Lincoln, was founded. Today the membership of First-Plymouth has grown to a total of over 600 and is housed in a half-million dollar structure designed by Mag onigle. The new Encyclopedia Brittanica has devoted a picture to this outstanding piece of eccle siastical architecture. The church is especially proud of its 48 bell Carillon on which programs are given Wednesday evenings and Sunday mornings. Always interested in the stu dent, this year the First-Ply mouth Congregational Church of fers a program of particular ap peal. Dr. Raymond A. McConnell, the pastor, has based his sermons of this fall on Professor Hocking's outline of the significance of Je sus' teaching today. The eleven o'clock Sunday services are to be broadcast over KFAB. The Sunday evening club for students is a featuje of the pro gram planned by Mrs. Margaret M. Anderson, the director of young people's work. In addition to the above pro grams, there is a class of univer sity students in the Sunday School taught by R. W. Smitn, Lincoln attorney. The Carillon Choir is alo open to students by arrangement with Dr. Westbrook, BRIGHT colors! LIGHT colors! Color-MATCIIED! 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