DAILY NEBRASKAN
Tuesday, January 13, 1942
Sweets and cigars again, and
at the Pi Phi house where pins
are thick... This time it culmi
nates the whirlwind romance of
Jean Porter and Phi Delt Phil
Reed, who's leaving school next
semester for a job in the south if
the army doesn't get him first...
The wedding's in March... Two of
the other silo smoothies called
to the colors are Joe Ryan and
Bill Fox... Kappa Barbie Graf
pulled down a sparkler from the
man at home, Jimmy Low... and
Alpha Phi Marian Patton did the
tame job on ATO Harold Larmon
...'s been a productive week-end
...The way we figure, Beta John
McCarthy and Theta Dorothy
Theissen should steady it if they
aren't already. . .The inevitable
Art Lincoln, Delt, had a different
woman in the Crib today: Pi Phi
red-head Belle Cochran...
To the Creighton military ball
in Omaha Friday night will go
Phalanx Francis Cox and Walt
Stewart with Gamma Phi Meda
Albricht and Margie Crandall...
Plus Alpha Sig Hobart Dewey and
Pauline Holbrook. . .The orchids
and atmosphere at the DU formal
Saturday night led to two pin
hangings: Dean Yates and Pi P
Charlotte Smith and Jack McPha.
and DO G?y Gimple.
AGR R. Donald Steele's waiting
for Pi Phi Janet Haggert who's
coming back to school second se
mester... At the Theta Xi house,
DickNelson and Ken Burton hung
their pins on Nclda Sanncr and
Jane Fox... Sigma Chi Harry
Morohead's playfng all those sad
recordings in the grill now since
he glimpsed Gamma Phi Nancy
Coe coking with fraternity brother
Art Mason, and they still predict
a steady or Harry and femme
within two weeks!. . .All's well
that prints well. . .
AIErTHolds
Officer Election
Tomorrow Night
Regular meeting of the Amer
ican Institute of Electrical En
gineers will be held tomorrow in
Brace lab. room 202 at 7:30 d. m.
Herbert Gaba, electrical engineer
ing senior, will speak on "Auto
matic Telephone Switching." Of
ficers tor ihe second semester will
be elected at the meeting.
New Exhibition
Opens at Morrill
An exhibition of oil paintings
water colors, lithographs, and
drawings by twenty Omaha artists
will open in Gallery A of Morrill
Jan. 28.
The exhibition has been selected
with the co-operation of the staff
of Joslyn Memorial in Omaha, and
much of the work included was
on display at Joslyn in the six
states exhibition during Decern
ber. Other items were selected at
the studios of the various artists
by Prof. Dwight Kirsch, director
of the university galleries.
School of Fine Arts
Presents
OPERA
"Cavalleria
Rusticana"
Febr. 4 & 6
Tickets 50c
Tax 5c
Total 55c
Tickets on Sale at School of
music Office.
(Advanced Sale Only)
Staged and Produced in
Grand Opera Style
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No Corsages; Red
Cross Gets $46.42
Corsages were tabu at the dorm
formal last Friday night and in
stead the fellows were asked to
give to the Red Cross. Miss Esther
Ostlund, dorm director, announces
that a total of $40.42 was col
lected. Department
Of Phys Ed
Adds Courses
New classes offered bv the
Women's Physical Education de
partment next semester include a
course in physical fitness and an
other one in square dancing.
The physical fitness is scheduled
to be taught on Monday and Wed
nesday from 4 to 5:30 p. m. and
on Tuesday and Thursday at the
same time.
Three sections of square danc-ns-
will be at Mondav and Wed
nesday from 4 to 5:30 p. m., on
Tuesday and Thursday from 9 to
10:30 a. m., and on Tuesday ana
Thursday from 2 to 3:30 p. m.
Uni Orchestra
Heads Sunday
Union Slate
The school of fine arts will pre
sent a concert by the University
Symphony orchestra Sunday after
noon, Jan. 18, in the Union ball
room.
With Emanuel Wishnow con
ducting, the orchestra will play
the "Overture to Libuse" by Sme
tana. the "Symphony in C minor.
No. 5" by Beethoven, "Rhumba"
by McDonald, "Pop Goes the
Weasel" by Cailliet and the "Jubi
lee Overture" by vonWeber.
Miss Kinscella
Speaks in Seattle
Miss Hazel Gertrude Kinscella,
well-known Lincoln musician and
professor of music in absentia,
left last week for the University
of Washington in Seattle where
she will deliver a series of lectures
on American music during the
winter quarter.
While on the west coast, Miss
Kinscella is also to speak before
two music conventions as well as
a number of college and univer
sity convocations at Pasadena,
Reedley. and San Francisco,
Calif., and Portland, Ore.
The Lincoln musician is the au
thor of a piano class method of
teaching which is internationally
known as well as several books
in the public school music field.
She recently returned from the
east where she has been doing re
search work on a book she is
preparing.
Innocents Meet
Tonight at Nine
There will be a meeting of the
Innocents Society tonight at 9
p. m. All members are requested
to attend.
ASMi: Holds Regular
Meeting Wednesday
American society of mechanical
engineers wil hold a regular meet
ing Wednesday in ME room 206 at
7:30 p. m. A film will be shown
dealing with the bearing analysis
and lubrication. Also there will
be an election of officers for the
second semester.
STARTS TOMORROW!
Together They're Djrnamltel -n
American
Unique Defense Measures
They
From women pistol sharp-shoot
ers at Purdue to ski-troops at Wis
consin, the universities of the na
tion are "Remembering Pearl Har
bor." New defense courses, prepa
ration against sabotage and air
attack, and speeded-up study pro
grams characterize the "all-out
attitude of the country's schools
troni coast to coast.
At Louisiana State university,
Baton Rouge, La., a system of air
raid protection has been set up:
wardens have been appointed and
sirens installed. Even Kansas
State of Manhattan, Kansas, in the
heart of the midwest, has formu
Place for Everyone
In Student Defense
Student
Defense Volunteer
Xante
Address Phone
Check Any Interests
Promotional Drives Fist Aid Classes
First Aid Instructor Knitting
Knitting Instructor Promotional Kntertaiiunent.
Newsletter and Correspondence to Hoys in Service
Other Work
Please Leave at Union Office
"There's a place for everyone"
that's the slogan which the UN
national defense committee has
adopted in their drive to complete
a file of volunteer defense work
ers. Students are urged to fill out
the volunteers blank printed above
ao that actual work can begin.
UN Livestock
Judging Team
Takes Honors
The Nebraska junior livestock
judging team swept away all op
position to place first at the Den
ver livestock show over the week
end. The team placed above all
the nine schools that competed.
Oklahoma ranked second to Ne
braska and New Mexico was third.
Team members were Harold
Hansen, Keith King, Don Roth,
Ronald Jerauld and Harold Stev
ens. Professor M. A. Alexander
was the coach.
The Nebraska team was first in
judging cattle, hogs and sheep.
They ranked third on judging
horses.
Further honors were won for
Nebraska as Don Roth was the
best individual in the entire show.
He placed first on sheep judging
and stood up well in all other
classes. Harold Hansen was first
in all breeding class judging.
Society Sends
Aid to England
The British War Relief Society
will send a shipment of supplies
to England, Feb. 1. All women
who have completed their knitting
projects are requested to hand
them in as soon as possible.
Profs Attend Historical
Association Convention
Attending the convention of the
American Historical association in
Chicago Dec. 29 to 31 were Dr.
C. H. Oldfather, dean of the Col
lege of Arts and Sciences "and
chairman of the history depart
ment, Prof. J. L. Sellers and Prof,
Harold Vedeler of the history de
partment, and Prof. M. S. Ginp,
burg of the classics faculty. Dr.
Ginsburg participated in a discus
sion of a paper on slavery in the
ancient world.
Colleges
Remember Pearl
lated a plan by which ROTC de
tails will police the campus at
night to ward off any possible
sabotage. Under the original
scheme 25 officers and six men
were to comprise a detail. A late
edition of the K-State paper re
ports, however, that the plan has
been abandoned and one of an In
creased night watchman force sub
stituted for it.
Dartmouth Speeds Up.
The administration at Dart
mouth is polling the students as
to the advisability of a year round
course. And at Princeton a sys
tem ha3 already been instituted by
Needed are instructors in first aid
and knitting, reporters and editors
of the monthly newsletter to serv
ice men, staffs for promotions
drives and as sponsors tor benefit
shows and workers.
Fill out the blank and take it to
the Union office. "There is a place
for everyone."
Miss Leverlon Attends
National Health Meeting
Miss Ruth Leverton of the
home economics department at
tended a meeting of chairmen of
state nutrition committees in Chi
cago Jan. 10 and 11. The meeting
was called by M. L. Wilson, of
the office of defense health and
welfare service in Washington.
On Jan. 12 Professor Leverton
represented the Nebraska expe
riment station at a meeting of the
central region of experiment sta
tions in Chicago where co-oper
auve research defense purposes
will be discussed.
Buy Your
. SoimtasEseir
MOTS
Final Deadline for
Book Sales Is
Jam.,
See a Corncob
Establish
Harbor
which two types' of schedules lire
offered students. They may take
either the accelerated type by
which their studies are intensified
and they receive their degrees ear
lier; or they may enrol under the
normal, peace-time type. About
70 percent will probably partici
pate in the war program.
At Indiana and a number of
other schools the med school cur
riculum has been shortened to a
three year period. Some universi
ties are increasing their med
school quota. Indiana is also
eliminating summer and winter
vacations lor future doctors.
Purdue Welding.
Purdue university is offering a
12 weeks welding course for
women and a 10 week first aid
course in their regular curriculum.
UCLA, Stanford, USC and the
other Pacific Coast schools, in
real danger, have placed them
selves on a complete war time
footing. At the University of Cali-.
fornia ,Los Angeles, 5,000 students
have offered their services as Vol
unteer defense workers.
Some universities plan full year
programs with students doing de
fense work part time. Everywhere
enrollment is dropping as men
leave for the army or defense jobs.
At UCLA a decrease of 1,000 men
is expected next semester.
Yet in spite of the defense whirl,
university authorities" everywhere
plan for the future a future
planned and conducted wisely by
college-trained men and women.
Religious Leader
Speaks at Mass
Meeting Today
Miss Jennie Doidge will speak
at a mass meeting for all ag stu
dents this afternoon at 4 p. m. in
Home Economics room 307. The
meeting is sponsored by ag XWCA
and YMCA.
Miss Doidge is on the faculty
at Danforth Foundation. She has
been speaking on ag campus dur
ing the past week and her address,
"Our Future Is Now," is the last
one she will give at this univer
sity. Honorary Math
Society Meets
Hazel Zink, secretary, will speak
or, "Women in Mathematics" at
the meeting of Pi Mu Epsilon,
math honorary, tonight in MA 308
at 7:30. A short business meeting;
will follow. All who are inter
ested are invited to attend.
A survey indicates that 66 per
cent of co-eds wear anklets.
or Tassel Soon.
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