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Friday, November 6, 1942 On Draft, Dales Bull Sessions Spice Sorority. Fraternity After-Date Life Or So They Say- DAILY NEBRASKAN TongHair I and I Crew Cuts By Jean Rotton Lots of little items this week concerning local musical happen ings. Dr. Westbrook spent Thurs day afternoon and all of Friday giving demonstrations with chorus groups for various meetings of the Omaha district teachers' conven tion. The chorus was made up of 300 hieh school students from the Omaha district, and performed for a general session of the conven tion as well as for a vocal-choral clinic. A string quartet comprised of Tom Pierson, violin (Lincoln); Virginia Clarke, second violin (Pawnee City); Eveiyn Nerud, viola (Lincoln), and Dieter Kober, cello (Baton Rouge, La.), provided the afternoon entertainment at the Lincoln air base hospital the other day. They spent an hour at the hospital, mingling with the sol diers and playing the following numbers: Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes Old English Air. Spirit of the 18th Century after Martini. Turkey in the Straw Amer ican Folk Tune. Old Black Joe Old Plantation Song. The Mill Raff-Pochon. Some of the alums back for convention and seen around music school: Dick Morris, Reider An dreeson, Nina Armstrong, Hazel Arpke, James Nehez, Constance Cruickshank, Hester Whitemore and Neva Bishop. Faculty recital last week was an E-vent. Especially interesting were the more unusual numbers played. Mr. Ward Moore, trom ' bonist, opened the program with three selections, the second of which was an eye-opener for sure. Written by Hindemuth, it special ized in odd and dissonant har monies at which the audience looked slightly bewildered. The most outstanding thing about his performance was his smooth, mellow, creamy tone. Next on the program was Mr. Herbert Schmidt's very Beetho venesque presentation of Bee thoven's Farewell Sonata. Mr. Don Lentz, flutist, played two numbers well adapted to the qualities of that instrument. The first one, Sonata Undine for flute and piano by Reinecke, was par ticularly lovely, combining good thematic material with virtuoso passages for both the flute and the piano, which was played by Mr. Schmidt. Altho Mr. Lentz's tone was somewhat small and breathy, his ease in handling tech nical sections and his clarity of Interpretation made his perform ance a very enjoyable one. Mr. Schmidt returned for the last group to play works by three modern Russians. The most in- Treludes by Shostakovich ("that man, again"). Using modern, but not offensive, harmonies, the com poser changes abruptly from one mood to another, especially notice able in his shift from a slow, moving, dramatic prelude to a fast, lieht. chattering: one. Mr. Schmidt's performance was ex cellent with its balance of brilliant technioi'P r4 '-'' intorpre- tatio" Explorer . . . (Continued from Page 1.) gulf America in the war, Sir Hu bert in 1941 interviewed royalty and leaders of the vast area which includes Japan, China, Bur ma, French Indo-China, Thailand, Malaya, Singapore, the Philippines, the Dutch East InHies and Aus tralia. He has made aviation history In Alaska, the Arctic, and in the Anartic region on seven expedi tions to these farthest north and farthest south areas. Supplement ing his explorations of the arctic by air, Wilkins has demonstrated the value of the submarine as a means of transportation in an ex cursion to within n mMes of the North P ' - Panama u recently revised its system of university credits to fa cilitate transfer of students to North American universities with out the formality of special examinations. University of Texas food engi neers are working on plans for cooking and drying carrots, ac cording to similar processes fol lowed for Bweet potatoes. Despite cooking dates and gen eral exchange of tid-bits, Dim ses sions are still the spice of campus chatter. In a sit-session lasting from an hour on to two or three, and even four, the talk might run from the abstract to something quite technical, but as a rule hits a happy medium with leanings to a little bit of gore. There are bull sessions concern ing the world events: a most worthy topic of conversation. Sane views and radical outlooks will squire their way in and out, gusts of temper will whip through the room, even a dash of politics. Sorority Chatter. . . Then there is the sorority gab fest which never fails to be held in the room of a lass who wants to study. Just what happens? Ah, that is a question indeed. More than likely it will start out with an abstract subject and gradually work its way over the current event, girls talk about such things, to the subject of dates. Questions and answers float about the room as to who is your date tonight? Have you dated him before? Is he fun? How is his dancing? Are you going to date him again, that is, if he asks you? (Even with this campus almost a girls' school, girls still bay 'no' to some dates. . .Believe it or not, Ripley! They're Not Critical. But never have I heard a girl be down-right critical of a fellow. If he is a thudy-dud she just passes him over. And she doesn't tell every minute of her date with the fellow she likes that is personal. About that time someone mentions food Zowie, like a streak of light ning the clamor of voices yell for someone to order from the drug, or a similar establishment. The coins are collected and while waiting for the order the girls usually try beautifying themselves for the morrow, such as putting up their hair, fixing nails, etc. In the meantime the room is getting more dense with smoke, if that is possible, and they are impatiently waiting for the bell. Sorority ses sions could be discussed indef initely, but let's look in at some fraternity fellows. And In Daytime. If it is in the caytime, the subject would be very indefinite. Probably such as the war, the draft, Mili Sci', and, last but not least, dates. In the evening It would travel from world events to spicy stories and on to dates. In general fraternity bull sessions are in an unclad atmosphere. Coming in from a date there is no doubt as to what is utmost in the fellows' minds and the bull sessions will fall upon the girls of the evening. The gab is some times flattering, and sometimes not.... you boys can understand that. They say she was a keen date or that she was a drip. ; ! li ; - - I i , "" i X: st ' c W ' J 8 . ,;.? v.. s : ;:: is-. " '!;' .:. sT .VS::A';. : :.f X . V v - inrr'iT nm '"" " . Courtesy Lincoln Jnnrnul Mrs. Russell Merrill, who was Miss Elinor Hakanson before her wedding in October, attended Nebraska University. She is a member of Alpha Chi Omega. 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