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Lincoln 8, Nebraska
Friday, February 23, 1945
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Laase Opens
Debate Meet
To Students
For the benefit of peace confer
ence delegates, discussion groups
on ".The Peace Settlement" at the
UN Senior Varsity Debate and
Discussion Conference Feb. 23 and
24 will be opened to all students
wishing to attend, according to L.
T. Laase, chairman of the speech
department.
Topic .of first round set for Fri
day at 1 is "What should be the
goals and what are the problems
that must be faced in forming the
peace?" A second round will be
held at 4 when the subject will
" be "What should the United Na
tions do with the defeated coun
tries?" The third round at 6:30
will discuss "What should the
United Nations do about world or
ganization for the maintenance of
peace?" Location of discussion
groups will be posted on the sec
ond floor of Temple.
Debate Five Rounds.
Other events in the conference
program will be five rounds of
debate, on "Compulsory arbitra
tion of labor disputes," extempore
speaking, victory oratory," and
radio newscasting.
The conference will culminate
in a parliamentary session Satur
day at 2:45 when resolutions on
the peace settlement, drafted dur-
(See LAASE OPENS, pare 4)
Fresco Painter
Exhibits Craft
At Morrill Hall
Edgar Britton, instructor in
painting, design and carving at
the Colorado Springs fine art cen
ter will demonstrate fresco mural
painting in Gallery B, second
floor of Morrill Hall on Tues
day, Feb. 27 at 2 p. m. He will
use an actual mural panel and go
thru the final steps in laying the
last coat of plaster and painting
on it as it is done in making fresco
murals.
Paints Government Murals.
Britton is rated as one of the
best Jiving fresco painters thru
his experience in doing govern
ment murals, according to art
critics. He has executed murals
for post offices in Iowa and Illi
nois, for the Department of In
terior Buildjng in Washington,
D. C. and in schools in Chicago.
Britton was born in Kearney.
Neb. He studied under Grant
Wood in Cedar Rapids, la., as well
as Albert Bloch and Karl Mattern
at the University of Kansas and
Edgar Miller in the Chicago Art
Institute.
Nebraskan, Cornhubker
Staff Pix Scheduled
All persons who were staff
members of The Nebraskan or
the Cornhusker either this se
mester or last will have their
pictures taken for the Corn
busker in The Nebraskan office
Friday. Cornhusker staff pic
tures will be taken at 2:3
p. m.; Nebraskan pictures at 4
p. m.
War Show StMte Toeight
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Four can-can dancers go thru their routine for war show sneak
preview. They are, left to right: Darlene Tracy, Mary Allen, Jean
Leinberger and Jackie Tobin. The show is sponsored by War
Council and will run Friday and Saturday nights and Sunday after
noon in the Union Ballroom.
Student Paper Celebrates 74th
Year As UN Campus Publication
BY SHIRLEY JENKINS.
Writh the inspiring, though
slightly puzzling Latin motto.
"Qui non proficit, deficit," the
Monthly Hesperian Student, fore
runner of the Nebraskan, ap
peared on the university campus
in 1871.
In the 74 years since that first
issue, the campus paper has be
come, in turn. The Daily Nebras
kan, and now The Nebraskan.
Reigning first as a monthly, then
as a daily and at present as a
tri-weekly publication. The Ne
braskan has given students the
campus news through war and
peace, drought and flood, and de
pression and prosperity.
Dales First Editor.
The Hesperian Student was
published by the Palladian Soci
ety with J. S. Dales, one of the
two 'members of the university's
first graduating class, as the first
editor. Stories appeared in The
Hesperian Student with small
headlines, often only one line
Perry W. Branch
Announces New
Scholarship Fund
Establishment of the Field's In
corporated, Wasserman Student
Loan or Scholarship Fund at the
university, was announced today
by Perry W. Branch, secretary of
the University Foundation. The
donors are Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell
Wasserman of Grand Island.
A sum of $1,000 has been set
up for the benefit of students at
tending the university. These
loans are available to students
registered in any school or college
of the university, provided they
have previously graduated from
a high school of Hall, Adams,
Hamilton, Merrick, Nance, How
ard, Valley, Greeley, Buffalo,
Sherman and Custer counties.
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headlines. Occasionally, stories
just began without a headline.
Noticeable Style Changes.
Changes in style, as well as
title alterations, are noticeable in
the past 74 years. In looking over
the early copies of the paper
which are buried in the vaults of
the university library, phrases
such as: "When we look up at
the evening sky there. arc stars
so dim that the eye cannot dis
cern them," seem to fill the pages
of the Hesperian Student. Long
articles on the status of educa
tion atid treatises on life in the
abstract were the "lead" stories
74 years ago.
The Hesperian Student has
eiven wav to The Daily Nebras
kan, the stories on life have given
way to tomorrow's news today,
and the Latin motto has given
way to the unwritten and un
sDoken. "The rjaDer must eet out."
but The Nebraskan goes on and
on.
Williams Names
Monday, Tuesday
For Play Try outs
Tryouts for Shakespeare's "The
Taming of the Shrew," the next
university play will be held Mon
day from 4 to 6, 7 to 10 and
Tuesday from 4 to 6 in room 201
of the Temple according to Dal
las S. Williams, director cf the
university theater. All univer
sity students are eligible to tryout.
"The Taming of the Shrew" is
the comical tale of Petruchio's ef
forts to tame his wife Katherine.
Using modern costumes and
stylized scenery, the University
theater production will be pre
sented March 22. 23 and 24. The
original terminology of Shake
speare is to be retained.
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War Show Begins
Run at 8 Tonight
The all-student war benefit
show of the year, "Til Johnny
Comes Marching Home," opens to
night for a three day run in the
Union ballroom when the cur
tain goes up at 8 p. m. on a 53
member cast in a variety of
musical and comedy acts.
Backed by the War Council to
raise funds to support campus
war drives and projects during
Ruth B. Rhode
Speaks at First
Peace Session
Ruth Bryan Owen Rhde,
daughter of William Jennings
Bryan and former university stu
dent, will be the -chief speaker, at
the first plenary session of the
experimental peace conference at
7 p. m. Monday, March 5, in the
coliseum.
Mrs. Rhode was born in Ne
braska and travelled often with
her .father, a republican senator
from Nebraska, to Washington
where she attended sessions of
Congress. Later Mrs. Rhode at
tended the university until her
first marriage.
Is First Woman Minister.
Appointed the first woman min
ister from the United States by
President Roosevelt in 1933, Mrs.
Rhode lived in Denmark as a min
ister until her marriage. After
their marriage, she and her hus-
(See RUTH B. RHODE, page 3)
Freshmen Coeds
Apply for Mortar
Board Awards
Mortar Board announced Thurs
day that application may now be
made for the four honor scholar
ship awards presented annually to
freshmen coeds who plan to regis
ter as sophomores next year.
Each scholarship is worth $75
and half the amount will be pre
sented each semester providing
that qualifications for the honor
scholarship awards are fulfilled.
These include an average of at
least 85 for both semesters and
unusual ability m some specific
field.
The coed must not be delinquent
in any subject at the time of ap
plication and must have carried
at least twelve hours both semes
ters of her freshman year.
Application blanks may be ob
tained at Dean Boyles' office and
must be returned by February 28.
The four awards will be presented
at the Scholarship tea held March
4.
Idcnt Pictures
Students whose Identification
pictures were taken during sec
ond semester registration pe
riod should call for them at
Administration B-7. It is neces
sary to present ident card when
railing- for pictures, according:
to the office of admissions.
the coming year, the produc
tion is entirely a student product,
written, directed and staged by
students.
Opens In Canteen.
The first act opens in an army
canteen and introduces Russeil
Leger, Jim Yanney and Nat Goodwin-,
three G. I.'s, and Arlis Swan
son, the girl back home, around
whom the continuity of the show
revolves. The four acts take the
three GI's Johnny, Hypy and
Brooklyn f. om the United States
to an Italian town, a Parisian
Caberet, and a South Pacific is
land. According to Lucy Ann Hape
man, student director, the show
offers a wealth of surprisingly
professional student talent. Three
original songs, a faculty act and
a pony chorus featuring well
known men students in grass
skirts have been especially well
received during final rehearsals.
Knotty pine background paneling
adorned by clever signs provides
atmosphere for the canteen scenes
and a gay backdrop of can-can
girls and champagne glasses
(See WAR SHOW, pag:e 3)
Bryan Displays
Films of 'Chile'
Next Thursday
Julien Bryan, free-lance cam
eraman, will present his latest
documentary film of "Chile
Thursday, March 1, at 3:00 in the
Union ballroom.
Among the first Americans to
film the social experiment of the
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JULIEN BRYAN.
. . . presents film lecture Thurs
day. Union of the Soviet Socialist Re
public, Bryan, in 1939, scooped the
world with the only pictures o(
Warsaw under terrific nazi bom
bardment. In 1940, 1941 and again in 1943.
Bryan made camera expeditions
to South America to obtain the
latest documentary film studies of
Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colom
bia, Venezuela, Peru, Bolivia, Ura
guay and Paraguay. Discovering
(See BRYAN DISPLAYS, pare 3)
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