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IVY DAY EDITION
Ivy Day Ceremonies Reveal New
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DOROTHY WIERICH
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Last vestjjft's of tradition to be found on tlio UN campus,
will appear tomorrow afternoon on the lawn between Admin
istration and U ball as Mortar Boards mask new members of
the senior women's honorary ami identity of the May Queen
and her court is announced at the annual Ivy Day ceremonies.
Cut to a half-day affair to accommodate activated JOT(
members and aircrew men. the events will include the Inter
sorority sinj anil the planting of the ivy by junior and senior
class presidents, Hob McNutt and Bob Fast.
No Tapping, Men's Sing.
Absent will be the colorful Innocents tapping, which was
held early in the year at the Junior-Senior Prom, and the inter-
iraiernuy siii.. dropped because ot lack ot male voices. Jlepre-
scnting the men, however, will be a group of aircrew men who
will participate in group singing.
Program for the afternoon, as released by Dorothy Wierich,
president of Mortar Board, includes a university band concert
at 1 :((. the Ivy Day procession, including 'Innocents, Mortar
Board and the May Queen and her court, at 1:4."), followed by
planting of the ivy.
Dress Informally.
From 2:1." to 3 :'Q sororities will compete for the inter-
sorority sing trophy presented by A AYS. Masking of the Mor
tar Boards will begin at o:'U).
Contrary to precedent, the May Queen and lier court will
be dressed informally in white. This is the first vear that the
court has not been formally attired. The queen and maid of
honor were elected at the spring election.
Included in thr procession will be two freshman attendants,
two sophomore attendants, four junior attendants, two senior
attendants, flower girls, crowir bearers and pages. Last year's
(See CEREMONIES, page 2.)
C'juns) IJrtcoln Journal.
Kuimu. Ilopkin.
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Dslton. Tifilhamnirr. Reckcr. Newman.
Indian Speaker Hits British
Fate of India
In Churchill's
Fists-Yahkub
Butit-h occupation of India has
been unproductive of positive
benefit. for India, it was declared
in a XtAk at the Union Thursday
by Thc,r.,ss Yahkub, lecturer and
author who was born in India.
Yahkuo's attitude toward Brit
ish pc!.cy in India brought a
cha!!- r.pe from th audience even
betoif he had finished s;eaking.
A f.lrt:r discussion was sched
uled if r the afternoon when the
univeifity convocations conmiittee
was ccn i acting a forum for all in
terested in discussing the Indian
que.-tj..r, w;th Yahkub.
Life Span 25 Years.
"We have eaten too long at the
sen-ants' table in our own house,"
Yahl:ub declared. "Our average
life fpan is 25 years; there is a
half a hospital bed for every 1,000
persons. Per capita income is $16
annually and infant mortality is
200 in every 1.000."
Yahkub expressed doubt as to
the fate of India in the post-war
era if Churchill la to ait at the
peace table.
"I am not Interested in villify
fne- Churrhill nr in savin? any
thing which may be interpreted as
nmaering to the war ertort, ne
said. "I feel aa do most Indians
that we must first win the war
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PROF. T. M. RAYSOR.
"This speaker is . . . sabotaging
American thought against the
British ..."
before we can think of the prob
lems of our nations. I am a na
tionalist but not an isolationist.
India Wants Fight Japan Can't.
"India is not apt to fall in with
Japan, for while the democracies
were supplying Japan with scrap
and oil, India imposed a boycott
ncainst Jananese merchandise. In
dia wants to fight Japan but can
not unless the people can te maae
tn tee that thev are fiehtine for
their own homes and freedom as
well."
Yahkub, who haa lived in this
country many years, is the found
er of India House in Boston and
is a graduate of Harvard Univer
sity.
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Vol. 43, No. 61
Friday, April 30, 1943
Ivy Day, Oh, Ivy Day-Those
Times Are Gone Forever!
. . Dam It
BY BILL PALMER
"Ivy Day, oh, Ivy Day,
Tradition long revered,
Happy day or gloomy day,
Day of customs weird."
Repeated - above is the first
stanza of an epic ballad concern
ing, of all things, Ivy Day, lifted
from the column. Eleanor 'n Me.
conducted by Allan Jacobs last
year in the Daily. The poem Jake
thefted from Leonard Boasberg.
no doubtless renowhed poet lau
reate of the ZBT house. We in
turn will steal the epistle to apply
to this Saturday's momentous
ceremonies.
With the Innocents selected in
mid-winter, some of whom were
long since khaki-clad, with the
boys in Love fraternity the only
competitors for the Interfraternity
sing and with the girls taking all
the spotlight and not enjoying it
because there are so few men to
waicn mem in ineir giorv, mis
year's Ivy Day will be a far cry
from those of former years; but
a few remnants of that pageant
yet remain.
We still have a May Queen cere
mony !
(See DARN, page 6.)
Daily Prints
Ivy Day
Form Sheet
For the purpose of informing
its readers about possible se
lections to be made in tomor
row's activity race, the Daily is
printing a form sheet, com
plete with odds, on every en
try in the contest for Mortar
Board.
If Daily readers are con
fused by the form sheet, they
should remember that journal
istic enterprise does not stretch
far enough to allow the Ne
braskan a free hand in such
matters. Any explanations
will be made at the Daily office.
TSueateir Closes
easomi TooDDgBntS:
Overflow attendance is ex-ful at the box-office in the hi-
UN Prof,
Disagree
. . . In For inn
Pro-British and anti-British
sentiments clashed yesterday aft
ernoon when Thomas Yahkub, na
tive Indian lecturer and author,
held an open forum in the Union
following his address in the morn
ing at the Union.
A strong Indian nationalist in
timately acquainted with the inner
politics of this country, Kahkub in
his morning session expressed
such indignation against the Brit
ish program in India as to cause
Prof. T. M. Raysor of the univer
sity English department and a
staunch supporter of the English
to cry "sabotage" from his seat in
the audience.
Claming that "the speaker is
sabotaging American feeling
against Britain," the English pro
fessor brought the morning lec
ture to an climatical adjournment
with his words.
Group Awaits Battle.
The afternoon forum opened
with hushed expectancy as the
group waited for the coming ver
bal battle between the two men.
Yahkub said that the immediate
problem in India is the question of
(See TIFF, page 5.)
pected for the final performance
tonight fo the University Thea
tre's version of Rose Franken's
play "Claudia," according to busi
ness manager, Martha Ann Bengs
ton. When the curtain falls on the
third act of tonight's comedy it
will mark not on' - the close of
this play but the . of the sea
son for the Players. Ticket re
ceipts reveal that this year the
first for Joe Zimmerman as di
rector of university dramatic.",
:ias been one of the most succes.s-
tory of the Theatre.
Large and enthusiastic audi
ences have attended the first two
performances of "Claudia," th
comedy of a girl who grows up
six months after she is married.
Starring in the play are Bob
Black, veteran of Temple produc
tions, who has gone on with the
show despite illness and a high
temperature this week, and Dor
othy James, a freshman, who ha
the lead in her first university
play appearance.
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Members of the cast of "Claudia," University Theater's last pro
duction of the season, appears on Temple stage in the riotous sophis
ticated comedy which ran on Broadway.