Sunday, November 19, 1944
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The subscription drive for
known literary magazine, is now
sales are being handled by Theta Sigma Phi, national honorary
journalism fraternity sorority, and
Pictured above are Prof. L.
Schooner, and Miss Emily Schossberger, business manager. Stand
ing behind the two, left to right, are: Ruth Korb subscription head,
and Jo Martz, president of Theta Sigma Phi. For details, see story
below.
Digest Reprints Schooner
Story in November Issue
Nebraska students accustomed
to reading the Reader's Digest
will again find a Prairie Schooner
story reprinted when the next
Digest appears on the stands
Nov. 24. Miss Emily Schossber
ger, university editor, announced
yesterday that final confirmation
of the publishing date has just
arrived from New York.
The story is Nathan Cohen's
"The Bear Facts of Duluth," hu
morous treatment of the well
known fact that bears always
come to Duluth when it gets cold
The amazement of strangers, the
dilemma of- a cub reporter who
finds one bear getting breakfast
in the coffee shop of the town's
best hotel, the confusion, laugh
ter and excitement are all caught
in uonen s story.
Third Cohen Story.
Cohen's story is the third story
In two years that the Reader's
War Council . . .
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$2 and $1. Slogans should be
turned in to the Nebraskan office
during the next two weeks.
The on the beam committee of
the war council will conduct a war
bond drive during which they will
distribute pledge blanks at the
organized houses. When the blanks
are turned in at a city bank for
a bond, the campus will receive
credit for selling the bond. Bond
posters have been distributed to
all the houses and victory speak
ers will make the rounds next
week.
Plan Auction
A feature of the drive will be a
"Chance of a Lifetime" auction
held in the Union ballroom at
which time students and faculty
memDers win offer their services
for a period of time, to the high
est bidder in war bonds or stamps.
Leslie Jean Glotfelty, Janet Mason
and Beth Montgomery are" in
charge of the event, arrangements
lor which will be announced in
Wednesday's Nebraskan.
Organized houses are also being
encouraged to sell war stamps at
hour dances and dinners, Miss
Hill stated.
Tentative plans have been made
for a dance and war bond raffle
to be held in the Union ballroom
Dec. 9.
The campus drive is to be co
ordinated with the one for the
faculty under the direction of Dr.
Melzer, chairman of the faculty
drive. I
WELCOME
CliniS' GOOD EATS
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the Prairie Schooner, nationally
in full swing. Campus and city
the Tassels.
C. Wimberly, editor of the Prairie
Digest has reprinted from The
Prairie Schooner. When asked if
The Schooner would continue its
policy of accepting all reprint of
fers of national magazines, Miss
Schossberger replied, "Reprints
of this nature, besides being ad
vantageous to the authors, also
help the reputation of The Prai
ne Schooner. The Schooner has
always been ranked as one of the
ten best literary magazines in the
country. More national reprints
will help to bring The Schooner
into the public eye, and thus as
sure its cultural contribution to
the name of the University
Nebraska."
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Morrill Displays
Extinct Skeleton
Of Giant Beaver
One of the most interesting dis
plays at the university state mu
seum in Morrill hall is the skele
ton of a giant beaver, eight times
as great in bulk as the beaver
of today.
ine giant beaver is not an
ancestor of the modern beaver.
but is a type which branched off
the direct ancestral line. and.
probably because it could not
adapt itself to environmental
changes, became extinct about
25,000 years ago.
Since beavers originated here
in Nebraska, remains cf even the
earliest forms are found in vari
ous parts of the state. Beavers
have not been aquatic animals
during all of geologic time, and
at one time they lived in "towns"
simnar 10 tnose or the prairie
dogs of today. One display at
Morrill hall consists of the casts
of the burrows of an early ter
restrial beaver, which was about
the size of a barn rat. These
casts, eight to ten feet tall, were
termed devil's corkscrews be
:ause of their spiral shape.
The giant beaver skeleton is on
display in the north corridor of
the main floor of Morrill hall,
and the devil's corkscrew, in the
camel gallery on the same floor.
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UN Alumni
Hear
Speech
By Boucher
Speaking on "The War and
Postwar University," Chancellor
C. S. Boucher told Omaha alumni
at the annual fall meeting Thurs
day night at the Omaha chamber
of commerce what the university
has accomplished during the war
years and outlined the budget
needed for the next biennium.
Stating that no other university
of its size has a war record more
impressive than Nebraska's, the
chancellor discussed the wartime
activities of the university, citing
definite examples of the univer
sity's wartime services.
The university, in co-operation
with federal agencies, has trained
4,369 men and women under the
program of engineering, science
and management defense training
courses, stated the chancellor
Many of these now hold respon
sible positions in war industries
Of the 450 students who took ci
vilian pilot training at the uni
versity, many have gone into the
air forces.
Grant Commissions.
Since 1930, commissions have
been granted to 1,719 officers
from the university ROTC unit
Boucher revealed. The majority
of these reserve officers immedi
ately went into active service. A
partial record of graduates and
former students shows that to
date 2,184 have become commis
sioned officers in the armed
forces.
Speaking of the army special
ized training program, Boucher
said that at one time during 1943-
44, this program reached a peak
load of nearly 3,000 trainees. As
of Nov. 1, 1944, the university
has had 13,769 trainees in this
program, including small dental
and medical units of the navy
collegiate- training program. Pro
viding instruction, housing and
messing for .this number of tram
ees taxed the university's staff
and physical facilities.
The university agricultural ex
periment station and the agricul
tural extension service have made
important contributions to many
phases of the problem of food
supply in wartime, according to
the chancellor. Secret war re
search projects, of which even
the chancellor knows little, are
being carried out by specially re
cruited scientists in the univer
sity s scientific laboratories. The
chairman of the department of
chemistry is a regional supervisor
or similar research assignments
in other universities in a large
geographical area.
Maintain Program.
Despite the loss of staff mem
bers, as 151 instructional and ad
ministrative staff members have
been given leaves of absence to
enter the armed forces or serve
in research war agencies, the uni
versity program has been con
tinued and maintained at a high
level of effectiveness, according
to Boucher. With the exception
of the law college, which was
temporarily suspended because of
loss of both students and staff,
all colleges and departments are
in operation.
Speaking of the budget for
the next two years, Chancellor
Boucher said: "We believe that
we have our house in order and
have reached the limit of im
provement in performance and in
services that can be rendered
with current resources. All ad
ministrative officers realize the
value of the dollar and appreciate
their responsibility to administer
the use of public funds entrusted
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University Sends Out Bulletins;
Acquaints State With Campus
Bulletins designed to better ac
quaint the people of Nebraska
with their state university are
now being issued. They will con
tain details of the work done in
its many colleges, divisions and
departments.
Now being mailed to alumni
and friends over the state, the
first six bulletins of the series
cover a wide range of subjects
to us as efficiently as is necessary
for success in a privately operated
business.
The chancellor foresees the
largest enrollment in the univer
sity's history after the war.
UN Alumnus
Reviews GI
Rights Bill
Included in the November issue
of the Nebraska Alumnus maga
zine, several important items were
devoted to the discussion of Ne
braska's plan for returning veter
ans. Many letters have been re
ceived from service men and their
parents in regard to the educa
tional program and the G. I. Bill
of Rights. The university and its
Alumni association are formulat
ing many plans to encourage these
service men to resume their edu
cation at the University of Ne
braska, as provided for in this Bill
of Rights for returning veterans
Board Meets.
The national board of the Uni
versity Alumni association held its
annual Homecoming meeting in
the Student Union Oct. 28. One
of the plans which was approved
and authorized by the board, was
the G. I. Bill of Rights. Under this
plan the association will send to
the 2,500 men who were taken
from the campus into the service,
and the thousands of high school
students who were taken into the
service shortly before or after
their graduation, certificates
showing their eligibility for the
continuance of their education un
der the G. I. Bill of Rights. At
tractive booklets will be sent out
to these men inviting them to re
sume their education at the uni
versity. and will include a digest
of the educational features in the
Bill of Rights.
An interesting item was in
cluded in this issue regarding Ne
braska's responsibility to return
ing service men. The University
of Nebraska Forum of the air
has devoted three weekly broad
casts to the returning service men.
The broadcasts were entitled
"What Nebraska Agencies are
Prepared to Help the Returning
Veteran?" What Program Has the
University of Nebraska for Re
turning Veterans?' and "What
Can Agriculture, Business, and
Industry in Nebraska Otter the
Returning Veteran?"
Loive Discusses
Greece's Future
Discussing the future of Greece
and his personal experiences
there, Dr. Clarence Lowe, chair
man of the classical department,
will speak at the third of the step
lively series sponsored by AWS
and held in the Union parlors
XYZ each Wednesday at 5 p. m.
Tom Sorenson, Lincoln radio
announcer, will give a 15 minute
summary of the news of the last
week.
The first of the bulletins, "Be
yond the Duration," deals with
the immediate need for planning
Cb take care of the record en
hollment expected after the war.
It emphasizes the heightened ef
ficiency, enlarged plant and in
creased faculty that will be
needed by a rapidly increased
student body.
Contributions Listed.
The second and third of the
series present the contributions
to the state of the Colleges of
Engineering and Business Ad
ministration, respectively. In the
engineering bulletin, it is pointed
out that 40 percent of the '2,500
graduates and students of the
College of Engineering are now
active in business and engineer
ing enterprises in the state.
The expanded need for social
workers in the postwar era is
related by the Graduate School
of Social Work in the fourth of
the series, "To Bind up the Na
tion's Wound." The last two pub
lications have both been pre
pared by the University Founda
tion. Activities of the foundation
in promoting the welfare of the
university are reported in one,
and in the other, the problem of
financing a large educational in
stitution is presented by T. B.
Strain, foundation president.
Book Notes
Among the new books received
in the University Library Alcove
are Northwest of the World by
Olaf Swenson and By Sea and By
Land by Lt. Earl Burton, USNR.
Those who like adventure
stories in an Arctic setting will
have their fill in Northwest of the
World. Mr. Swenson, a Michigan
man, took his first trip north at
the beginning of the 20th century.
He succeeded well with the na
tives there both as a trader and
as a friend because he worked
on the principle that fair trading
brought confidence as well as
success.
He has told here exciting stories
about the strange customs of the
people, of the animals there, and
of the Arctic weather. When the
famous explorer Stefansson was
lost in the Arctic, Swenson was
one of the searching party. He
has written not only an adventure
story but also has presented a
picture of the northern seas, the
frozen tundra, and the friendly
Inhabitants.
Lieutenant Burton, who left the
Washington office of Time to join
the navy in 1941, has written in
By Sea and By Land the story of
our amphibious forces, the story
that lies behind our invasions. He
has written an account of the
men army and navy officers and
enlisted men, ship designers and
builders, and many others work
ing together. The book provides
a readable background account of
the problems and procedure of
invasion whether by land or sea
and covers a comparatively new
field in war literature.
More than 64,000 tons of critical
metals are saved annually in the
United States by restrictions on
the manufacture of caskets.
In 1800, there were only 1,000
bison in the United States and it
was feared the animal would be
come extinct.
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