Friday, June 26, 1942
SUMMER RAG.
The Summer Rag
Tfce Summer Rag U pobllshed weekly
Mrk Friday aad lvi wj free to all
tlaarat and faculty members ef the lnl
veraily of Nebraska. The publication has
the anthort ration of Prof. R. D. Moriti,
director of the summer school.
STAFF.
Ivdltor Marjorie May
Boslaeas Manager Betty Dlxoa
Music Staff . . .
Guest writers during the past
two weeks for the Summer
Rag have helped the regular
staff cover the all-state high
school music course. These
writers are:
Lorraine Woita, editor in chief
Susan Chambers, Pi Phi
house editor.
Bonnie Compton, Alpha Chi
house editor.
Norman Leger, Phi Gam
house editor.
These high school students
have contributed to the "Dream
and Variations" and "Summer
Sleuthing" columns. Other mu
sic students have aided them
in securing the news.
The Mermaid Tavern.
It was a mawkish maudlin mid
night and thin blue snakes of
smoke twined lazily in the hazy
flow. The lights of the room
winked and lettered like the eyes
f a Singapore woman. Shadows
blotted out the walls, moved sin
uously across the ceiling. From
the narrow circle of our booth
came the merry clink of glass and
our voices, laughing, jeering,
fought the shadows of the room.
Then we heard a woman sing
ing as no woman sang before.
Sweetly her voice rose, warm and
thrilling, like the sunrise on the
ocean. Then as soon, it sank and
whispered like the motion of a
wave. Now it stirred us. now it
Foothed us and at last hused to
ting no more.
So thye sent me forth to
stumble out that voice.
There in a twilight corner I
found her. Her eyes were green
like the sea, and her hair was
a golden flame. Her lips were
cf the reddest coral and her cheeks
were soft as rain. She was a mer
maid: Her voice was tender as
he spoke to me. "Will thou bear
me company, kid?" "No," I said
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Plans Call for Library s
Completion by Next Fall
Mms
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Keeping closely to schedule, the
new Love Memorial library is fast
nearing completion as plans call
for its finish by late summer. And
fall students will be able to use
the $800,000 structure by the time
classes start in September.
Evacuation for the building
began a little over a year ago,
on June 2, 1941, and already the
building is dominating the sec
tion of the new campus, around
13th and S streets. The south
side of the structure which faces
downtown still presents an un
finished appearance because it
is necessary to finish the
pouring of the bookstacks before
the stone exterior can go in
place. This work will soon be
and went back to the booth. The
others were waiting.
"Well?" they asked and sighed.
"She was just a lonesome
woman." I replied. "You look,"
they choked with laughter, "like
a man who has seen a mermaid."
The words slid out ere I was
aware.
We stole thought the trembling
shadows. Smoke eddied in ghostly
currents about the lamps. Lake
wraiths of moths. We peered into
the dimmest, furthest booth and
there she was! "You take the
tail," they told me. We took her on
our shoulders and carried her
! away, and dropped off the bridge
into the swirling black water be
j low. When we came back, the
waiter asked us where we had
been. We told him. ' Maybe." he
whispered, and his eyes grew
I round and dewy like two melon
bals. "Miybe it wasn't a mermaid
at all!"
We thought this funny, and we
felt relieved. "Oh it wasn't a mer
maid, it wasn't a mermaid, it
wasn't a mermaid at alL" "Wait,"
I cried, and skin on the back of
my neck grew tingly, and the
Eat in the Air-Cooled Comfort of the
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Just South of
Free Variety Show
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over, however, and a white stone
facing will be erected.
But the main entrance, facing
north, is well on its way to com
pletion, and gives an imposing air
to the central campus. When stu
dents enter this door next fall
they will find a student lounge, re
serve reading room, and an audi
torium seating 300 on the first
floor.
On the second floor is the
main delivery desk, a social stu
dies reading room, and a brows
ing room. The documents room
is found on the third floor, and
the reading rooms there are for
sience and technology and edu
cation. The fourth floor will pro
vile seminar and private study
Students Secure
Part-time Work
Student employment serv
ices on the campus announced
yesterday that a few part time
jobs for cash wages and a few
for board are open.
Women students should see
Mrs. Westover in Ellen Smith
hall, and men should call at
the employment bureau, room
8, administration building.
light and shadows spun and
' swirled like sailors in a siren's
i mocking dance. "What," I cried,
j And the others grew silent and
j still. "What the hell did we throw
; in the river?"
With 13 stations scattered thru-
out the state carrying the pro
gram, the University of Wiscon
sin band is in its fifth year of
broadcasting concert music.
Alpha Tau Omega fraternity re
cently celebrated the 7&th an-
the Temple
Poul Curtiss, Magician
and
Cory Grant and Claude Rains
in
'The Last Outpost''
8 p. m. Sun., June 28
Student Union Ballroom
Courtesy Sunday Journal and Star.
rooms, while the newspaper
stock room will go to the base
ment. Houses 750,000 Books.
Served by an elevator, eight
levels of bookstacks will house
750,000 volumes, which will pro
vide for future additions to the
university's collection, but at the
opening only about 250.000 will be
moved into the library.
Total floor space in the li
brary, including book stacks, is
some 3'i acres. The library
staff is hoping to get thru the
immense job of moving from the
old Library Hall into the Love
Memorial library before classes
begin in the fall.
Susie Hoogasian, sophomore at
Wayne university, has recorded
150 tales and -ther bits of folk
lore belonging o Armenia's past.
The civilian pilot training pro
gram at Iowa State college has
been granted another unit of ten
men for primary aviation training.
A recent survey reveals there
are 14 honorary and recognition
sororities in the United States.
Flying is now a required course
at the U. S. militarv aeademv.
West Point.
A University of Oregon "ath
letic honor roll" shows omre than
100 former Webfoot athletes now
in the armed service of their
countrv.
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Air Courses
Have Limited
Space Open
The University of Nebraska
still has limited space for appli
cants for pilot training courses
in ceitain fields, officials said
Thursday. Principal among these
is the advanced (secondary) train
ing for army, open to those men
who have had the primary course,
but are ineligible to go directly
into army aviation cadet train
ing. The opportunities for such
trainees lie in several fields, such
as transport service, basic instruc
tors, flexible gunnery, etc.
There are openings in the ad
vanced course also for navy re
servists who have had elementary
training and wish to continue
their flight training (either V-l,
or V-5 enlistees).
This secondary course will be a
full time program extending ever
a period of 8 weeks, and covering
240 hours of ground school and
40 hours of flying.
Two Programs.
For the beginners, there are two
programs, a full time, eight
weeks session, and a part-time,
16 weeks session. The former is
open to both army and navy men.
The latter is for navy enlistees
only.
There are no fees attached. The
government pays the institution
for conducting the course.
The university is seeking more
applications for these classes,
which will begin about July 1.
These should be filed in person
for, if prompt, by mail) with
Dean O. J. Ferguson, co-ordina-tor.
Mechanical Engineering build
ing. Room 203, University of Ne
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