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I '' Women Events Ke-Style '43 Ivy Pay Revamped somewhat by a war tailored campus, Ivy Day, consist ing almost entirely this year of all women events, has been com pressed to one afternoon ofcere monies on Saturday, May 1. Depleated memberships in the fraternities caused cancellation of ' the interfratenrity sing, one of the day's major activities and the fea ture event of the morning's fes tivities. Still remaining however, Is the intersority sing, presenta tion of the May Queen, the tradi tional planting of the ivy by the junior and senior class presidents and the masking of the junior ac tivity women by the Mortar Boards. Afternoon Program. At 1:30, the afternoon cere monies will be inungurated with selections by the university band, after which follows the procession of the Innocents, Mortar Boards, and the May Queen with her court. At 3:30, all participating sorori ties will vie for honors in the an nual sing. Completing the events for the day will be the , masking of the new mprtar boards. Two freshman attendants, two sophomores, four juniors, and two senior attendants will comprise this year's court for the queen. All attendant's to the queen were selected on the basis of their lead ership and service to the univer Seniors Give Clock to Uni For Library At a meeting of the senior gift committee called Friday by class president Bob Fast, it was de cided to start collecting funds for the proposed senior gift. Accord ing to the committee, the gift is .o be a clock for the Don L. Love library which will be bought after the war. A suggested two dollar gift is asked of every senior. The money will go into war bonds, to be re deemed after the war. Coordinated with the current United States drive for a 13 bil lion dollar loan from Americans, this senior campus drive will thus serve two purposes: the erection at some date of a permanent class memorial, and in the mean time, helping the country thru the purchase of war bonds, Btated John Jay Douglass, committee man. Times Survey Not Representative Of American History Developments J t Courtesy Lincoln Journal. L. W. LANCASTER. .oo adequate courses. . In One Afternoon sity. They will be dressed Infor mally in white dresses. Plans to include a representa tion from the air crew trainees in the singing festivities still remain in question, . announced Ivy day officials. Honors List Senior Students recognized for superior scholarship. (In the upper 3 percent of the class and also on the honor lists four or more lists.) ; Robert Arnold Alberty Robert Hiram Bowles Nadine Despotovich Roland Edwar Fricke Merle Lester Gould Francis Arthur Haskins Shirley Jean Heldt Lloyd Ronald Jerauld Sylvia Mae Katzman James Lauridsen Robert Lawrence Luebs Robert Lee Marcotte Anthony Francis Nocita Earl Stanley Pederson Philip Liland Saunders Dorothy Ann Weirich Senior students recognized for superior scholarship (the upper 3 percent of the class or on honor lists four or more.): Gerald Eugene Archer Gordon Dale Bell Robert Maynard Bjodstrup (See HONOR LIST, Page 2.) Home Ec Group Organizes Student-Faculty Council ... To Approve Rules Growing of the recent misunder standing about various rulings of the home economics department on Ag campus, a student-faculty council was elected at an ag gen eral election, whose duties will in clude sharing in the government of students by approving all rules applicable to them before they go into effect. Student members of the council include Marion Hunt, Eleanor Crawford, and Melna Mierhenry, seniors; Rachel Ann Lock, Gerry Henderson, and Dorothy Anderson, juniors; Peg Larson, Blanche Reid, and Lana Haskins, sopho mores; and Edith Pumphrey, Mon (Editor's mtAr; A recent surrey een ducled by the New York Times In S eol-k-jcrl and anlvrrslties rrvealed that col lege frcuhmra are sadly larking In a baiilr knowledge of American history. Aa edi torial, reprinted In the Daily Nrbraokan, rtpressed horror at such a lark of under standing; the aews story accompanying the survey was reprinted In the (nngres lonai Record. A NVbraskaa reporter In terviewed members of the faculty la re card to the u.tportanre. of history In the high school and college curriculum and the consequences of the survey. Two of the Interviews are herewith presented. The Daily will conduct a similar survey daring the week.) If students concerned had had an adequate course in American history, their scores would have been much better, in the opinion of Lane W. Lancaster, chairman of the department of political science; with regard to the Times survey on history. Two questions arise, 'according to Lancaster, in connection with the survey.. The first is whether the questions asked were signifi cant; the second is whether the answers were truly representative. Assuming trat the second ques tion may be answered in the af firmative, the professor believes Vol. 43, No. 55 Ketterin: Ktoowairy egiree Sneakiner before one of the larg est honors convocations in recent years, estimated at 2500, Charles F. Kettering, vice-president in charge of research at General Mo tors corporation, simplified the nroblems of scientific research for the ordinary layman. Though his topic was 'Post-war lulucation his speech turned out to be a re view of education in its practical application. Chancellor C. S. Boucher intro duced the speaker and conferred the honorary degree of Doctor of Engineering Research upon the famous inventor and executive, often termed as the "self-made scientist." Improve Education for Post-War. Dr. Kettering said, "It will all be over some da and students will come back to college. Now, ica Alberty, and Madeline Holtz scherer, freshmen. Choose Faculty Members. At the first meeting of the stu dent council, faculty members' of the committee were chosen. They include Dr. Ruth Staples, Miss Florence C. Smith, Miss Margaret Fedde, and Miss Bess Steele. At this meeting Eleanor Crawford was elected student chairman and Blanche Reid, secretary. The fac ulty members will choose their own co-chairman. First meeting of the group to discuss student and faculty prob lems will be held Thursday, April 22, at 4 p. m. in the home eco nomics seminar room. that the questions asked were, on a whole, fair. Symbolizes Modern Trend. "While it is a harder way to go about it," he said, "I suspect it is more reasonable to believe that the neglect of history is only symtomatic of a tendency to which parents, teachers, social studies entremists and teachers colleges have felt compelled to yield. "If, as it has been asserted, his tory has been brushed aside in favor of the "social studies," I should suppose that its neglcst has been due to the belief that the past is somehow irrelevant to a generation bent upon being 'prac tical,' "progressive' and 'up to date. Some of us are convinced that those who ignore the past are neither practical nor progressive nor up to date, but the schools and experts have quite under standably given the majority what it thought it wanted." Dean F. E. Henzlik of teachers college asserted that the ques Lincoln Nebraska Dveira while formal education is tempo rarily broken up, we should study our problems and improve the pieces so that when we put edu cation back together it will go back in a different shape and the whole system will benefit from the experience. The things that will happen after the war will be things that you want to happen if you wish for them fervently enough. Education and intelligence can function under any conditions, and sometimes the best test of whether one has a good education comes when he must face adverse condi tions. Out of our universities come of our leaders then, he added. Fundamentals Are Important If you have a basic knowledge of the field which you are study (See CONVO, Page 2.) YIVS-YW Plan War Program In order to discuss and formu late plans for the coming year on wartime colleee campuses, four representatives from the universi ty YWCA met jointly with YMCA members at a district conference last Saturday in Omaha. Representing the city YW were Jane Dalthorpe, president and Barbara Townsend, city regional representative. Representing ag were Dorothy Anderson, ag presi dent and LaVaughn Nelson, ag regional representative. Mary Lockett, general YW secretary also attended the meeting. Member of Regional Council. Barbara Townsend was elected co-chairman of the district confer ence for next vear which auto matically makes her a member of the regional council. tions asked were too often those which tested the memory of spe cific dates rather than understand ing of the important issues and (See SURVEY, Page 4.) F. E. HENZLIK. ,..the questions were unfair. Wednesday, April 21, 1943 Hear Mrs. Whitaker Talk Today AVVS vocational committee has brought to the campus to answer the questions of women contem plating entering the nursing field, Mrs. Judith Whitaker, state di rector of student nurse recruit ment, to speak at the vocational meeting this afternoon at 5 p. m. Mrs. Whitaker will discuss thoroughly the openings in the MRS. JUDITH WHITAKER. nursing field at the present time, and will clear up any questions concerning future utilization of such training. She will illustrate her talk with a 20 minute movie, "Registered Nurse Serving All Mankind," the story of two nurs ing students. Appointments may be made with Mrs. Ada S. Westover, in the dean of womens office for inter views with Mrs. Whitaker. Inter views will be given this afternoon from 1 to 4:30, and all day Thurs day. War Council Sponsors Old Clothes Drive Under the auspices of the stu dent war council, the British War Relief society is appealing for win ter clothes to send to England. The drive began yesterday and will continue thruout the week, ending Friday. Saturday trucks will collect from the houses, dorms, Union, etc., where boxes have been placed for the clothing. They will be taken down town where they will be cleaned, mend ed and repaired from whence they will be taken to the British War Relief offices and sent to head quarters for shipment overseas to the Britans who are so badly in need of warm clothing. Mary Lou Holtz who Is in charge of the drive announced that any sort of old clothing no matter how worn could be used. Union Heps lo Jive With Regular Matinee Dance Today at 5 A Juke box matinee dance will be held in the Union ball room from 5 to 6 p. m., accord ing to Pat Lahr. Union social director. There la no admission charge except that there be enough nickels to give the Juke box. 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