Sunday, October 12, 1941
DAILY NEBRASKAN
UN Completes Elaborate Preparations
For Traditional Homecoming Activities
Reunions, Parties Share
Honors With Grid Battle
Homecoming preparations for
next weekend are stirring the en
tire UN campus. Plans are almost
completed for one of the biggest
and most colorful celebrations of
the tradition's history.
The Nebraska-Indiana football
game Saturday afternoon will be
the major attraction of the cele
bration. Thousands will jam Me
morial stadium for the encounter
between the Cornhuskcrs and the
Hoosieis, two squads whose bat
tles have always produced a thrill
ing game.
Tassels, coed pep group, will
add color to the stadium with the
sale of scarlet and cream balloons.
The balloons are to be released by
the spectators the moment Ne
braska completes their first touch
down. Plan Elaborate Displays
Fraternities and sororities on
the campus are planning their
usual clever and elaborate Home
coming decorations which will be
erected before the respective
houses for the weekend. Friday
evening judges sponsored by the
Innocents, men's senior honorary
society, will tour the houses to
decide the winning entries, award
ing silver cups to the most out
standing decorations.
Great activity of the university
alumni office promises a record
influx of grads, according to Sec
retary Elsworth DuTeau. Special
trains have been scheduled from
Denver, Kansas City, St. Joseph
and possibly from other points to
carry returning alumni to Lincoln.
Saturday night Corn Cobs and
Tassels, student pep clubs, will
stage a public Homecoming dance
in the coliseum. Feature of the
evening will be the election of a
new coed Pep Queen to rule over
campus sports during the year.
Five File for Peo Queen
Candidates for Pep Queen are
Mary Helen Farrar, Kappa Alpha
Theta; Virginia Ford, Kappa Kap
pa Gamma; Janet Hemphill, Pi
Beta Phi; Barbara Jones, Alpha
Phi; and Betty Klingel, Alpha Xi
Delta. Retiring Pep Queen is Jean
Christie, Alpha Phi.
Many big reunion luncheons and
dinners are being arranged by va
rious groups for the weekend. The
N club will bring together present
and former letter men for an an
nual luncheon Saturday noon in
the coliseum before the game.
Innocents alumni also will con
vene Saturday noon at a luncheon
in the Union. Open house and reg
istration for the ex-campus big
guns are scheduled for Saturday
morning. Corn Cobs are planning
a kick-off rally luncheon Friday
noon, and Friday night promises
a big all-out rally keying up en
thusiasm for the game. Barb
groups have arranged open dances
Friday evening and after the game
Saturday in the Union.
National Directors Meet
The University of Nebraska
Alumni association will hold its
annual Homecoming meeting of
the national board of directors
Friday evening. On Saturday eve
ning Chancellor and Mrs. C. S.
Boucher will receive faculty mem
bers at their annual reception in
Carrie Belle Raymond hall.
Palladian literary society alumni
will observe the organization's
70th anniversary at a banquet in
the Union Saturday evening. Judge
C. M. Skiles, Lincoln, will serve
as toastmaster.
Alpha Tau Omega fraternity's
45th year on the campus will be
celebrated by a two-day alumni
round-up program including a
banquet Saturday night at Hotel
Cornhusker and a dance following.
Delta Tau Delta will hold a ban
quet and dance Saturday evening
for alumni at Hotel Lincoln.
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Religion, Life Week on Campus
Prominent Speakers Booked for Affair
Religion and Life week, spon
sored on the university campus by
the council of religious welfare,
will be held Nov. 8 to 13. Theme
of the week is "Faith in a Time of
Crisis."
Various committees chosen from
students and from the council will
be announced later. The purpose
of this religion and life week is
to present to students and faculty
a clearer statement of religious
faith, to strengthen the on-going
campus religious groups and pro
grams, and to further develop co
operative religious work on the
campus.
Rev. Robert Drew, Methodist
student pastor, will be general
chairman for the conference. Oth
er leaders for the week will be:
Rev. DeWitt C. Baldwin, student
secretary, board of missions and
church extension of the Method
ist church; director of the Chris
tian mission service fellowship,
Hamil Advises
Journalists
On Courses
Harold Hamil is the director of
a school who recommends students
not to take courses in his school
or at least, not right away. Hamil,
director of the school of journal-
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ism, yesterday advised students to
do a great deal of groundwork in
other departments before getting
into actual journalism classes.
More specifically he pointed out,
"The first thing you must do is
learn to write. Learn to write
themes that your instructor will
read aloud to the English class and
letters home that your mother will
t arry around to read to the neigh
bors. Do that and you will le the
answer to your journalism teach
er's prayer- and ,omed;iy you may
surprise nome editor by coming in
from your first assignment with
a story that won't require so much
dressing up, but that you actually
will be able to ('Mil your own.
1 1 1 mil urged tli.it serious hludy
Im? given to all Niihjerts, comint-iil-
ing, jih' tmidcin is nuking us
much progress In his first two
years at the university us he would
if his only lntere.it was in the sub
jects that come under the heading
of 'journalism'."
Ar YMCA Begins
paign
New York city, and Dr. Hiel D.
Bollinger, secretary in department
of student work of the Methodist
church.
New England, Hollywood.
Dr. Allan A. Hunter, minister
of Mt. Hollywood Congregational
church; Dr. Hilda Ives, president
of the New England town and
country church commission; Wil
lard "Johnson, regionai director of
the national conference of Chris
tians and Jews; Dr. Walter Ma
lone, vice president of the Presby
terian theological seminary, and
Carroll Moon, secretary of the
Rocky mountain region of the stu
dent Christian movement.
Dr. John Oliver Nelson, direc
tor of the department of student
relations, the Presbyterian board
of Christian education; Father
John O'Brien, professor of religion
at Notre Dame university; Dr. Al
bert W. Palmer, president of the
Chicago theological seminary, and
'UN Gracl Returns
To Michigan Job
Arnold Mason, who was gradu
ated from the college of pharmacy
in 1939 and who received an as
sistantship in the department of
physiology at the University of
Michigan last year, has been re
appointed for the current year and
has just returned to Ann Arbor.
The single book shelves to be
installed in the Love Memorial
library if placed in a straight line
would extend 20 miles.
Miss Evelyn Vonlloerrmann, sec
retary, Rocky mountain region of
the student Christian movement;
Dr. Edgar M. Wahlberg, minister
of the Grace church and commu
nity center in Denver, Colo.; Dr.
Gould Wickey, executive secretary
of the board of education of the
United Brethren church in Amer
ica; and Dr. Hachiro Yuasa, a na
tive Japanese of the Congrega
tional mission board. Two lead
ers are to be added, one of whom
is a Jewish leader of national
prominence.
The program for the week will
include several convocations or
mass meetings, class room appear
ances, commission groups, faculty
luncheons, house dinner meetings
and personal counseling.
Admissions Office
Completes Study
Of New Students
Admissions department of the
university has made a study of the
215 students who entered the
school from various other univer
sities and colleges thruout Nebras
ka, in 1939-40.
Of these, 75 students are from
the four teachers' colleges, 75 are
from the denominational schools,
and 65 are from other four year
and two year colleges.
Other statistics show that 39
were graduated, and 48 are regis
tered in the university at the pres
ent time. One hundred twenty
eight have neither been graduated
from this school, nor are they reg
istered here at the present time.
Annual Cam
The annual campaign for finan
cial assistance of the ag YMCA
will begin Monday. All ag men
will be solicited by canvassers be
tween Oct. 13-17.
The canvassers will be divided
into teams, headed by LeMoyne
Johnson, chairman of the drive.
A luncheon for the team captina
and assistants will be held in 306
heme ec building, Monday noon.
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