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
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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,
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