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UIKJ Vol. 45, No. 33. 500 Students Sing 'Messiah' Sunday Over 500 students will take part In the 50th annual presentation of Handel's Oratorio "The Mes siah" Sunday at 3 p. m. in the university coliseum. The University Choral Union will present the oratorio assisted by the university orchestra with Wilbur Price as director. The choral union is composed of the ago college chorus, Lincoln male chorus, university singers, uni versity chorus I and university Chorus II. in addition to the choruses, a brass quintette and 10 soloists will participate in the "Messiah." The USA Group Holds Party Saturday Nite Featuring such skits as "Little Nell" and "I'm Going Back," the Unaffiliated Student association party will be in full swing in the ag activities building, Saturday evening from 7:30 to 11:00. With many still asking for tick ets, 500 have been sold, according to Jackie Eagleton, U.S.A. treas urer in charge of ticket selling. Dancing, mixers, card games, re freshments and a full hour of skits make up the evening's entertain ment. Specialty Numbers. Unaffiliated organized houses and organizations have submitted specialty numbers for the pro gram. They will be judged by the U.S.A. sponsors, Mr. and Mrs. (See USA GROUP, Fare 8) Churches Announce Weekend Program of Talks, Songfests Songfests and speakers are in cluded in the Lincoln churches' plans for this week end. They have announced their programs as follows: The Lutheran Chapel service of worship will be held at 10:45 Sun day morning in room 315 of the Union. The Rev. H. Erck, uni versity Lutheran pastor, will con duct the service and speak on "As It Was in the Days of Noah." Miss Elaine Otto will accompany the hymns. Sunday at 5 p.m. Dr. Alexis will speak on "Christ mas Customs" at the city campus Lutheran students' association meeting at the Lutheran student center. Ag college Lutheran stu dents will meet to discuss racial problems at 6:30 p.m. at 1200 No. 37th street Tifereth Israel will hold their regular services Friday night Early services will be held at the Episcopalian church at 8:30 and at 11 a.m. Tuesday evening at 7 p. m. the confirmation class will meet. Christmas Story. Rev. Sam Maier will read "The Second Christmas," by John WA?(ffl quintette is composed of Margaret Modlin, Vestley Bethel, Maxine Stone, Leota Sneed and Lee Kjel- son. Soprano soloists are Barbara Olson, Jean Thompson and Fana bel Tripp; altos, Marion Bradden and Helen Laird; tenors, Burl Beam and Jack Buffington; bari tones, Leonard Blinde, Richard Bush and Frederic Teller. Earnest Harrison at the piano and Myron Roberts at the organ (See "MESSIAH," Pace 8) Orchesis Xmas Recital Offers Dance-Drama Highlighting the annual Christ mas dance program given by Orchesis will be the dance-drama, The Juggler of Notre Dame." The program will be presented Wednesday night at 7:30 in Grant Memorial Hall and is open to the public. Orchesis is sponsored by WAA and the physical education department. Dr. Aileene Lockhart is directing the program. Other Numbers Other numbers on the program include interpretation of familiar Christmas carols. The story of "The Juggler of Notre Dame" is taken from an old French folk-legend. According to the legend, in the Cathedral of Notre Dame stands a wooden statue of the Madonna. Every year the gray-robed monks lay their most precious gifts at her. feet, for should anyone lay there the per fect gift she would raise her hand (See ORCHESIS, Pare 3). Haines Holmes, at the Presby terian program at 5:30. Christmas carols will be sung and luncheon will be served at 6:30. Shirley Sabin and John Street are in charge of the worship service. A community Christmas singfest at St. Paul Methodist church will feature music from the university school of music from 8 to 9 p. m. The program is sponsored by the Lincoln Ministerial association and women's division of the chamber of commerce. Mr. David (See CHURCHES, Pare 7) Senior Degrees University seniors who ex pect to graduate in January or May should check their credits and apply for degrees or cer tificates In the Office of Ad missions, Room 7, administra tion buildinr. not later than December 7, according to Dr. G. W. Rosenlof, director of ad missions. Seniors in the college of ag riculture may check credits and apply on the city campus also, Dr. .Rosenlof stated. TIK1E DE! PdJSE-3 TIH3E HOMEE3! SEE A CORNCOB THE NEBRASKAN j3 pttgKgto i V A Courtesy Lincoln Journal. LT. COMDR. BERNIE MASTERSON. Phi U, Omicron NTu Rate Highest In Scholarship Highest ranking groups in last semester's schedule of scholastic averages are three professional so cieties and two cooperative houses The top organizations are, in or der, Phi Upsilon Omicron, Omi cron Nu, Delta Sigma Delta, Wil son hall, and International house Top Greek organizations are, re spectively. Pi Beta Phi, Alpha Chi Omega, Phi Kappa Psi, and Alpha Omicron Pi. Leading unaffialiated houses are Wilson halL Interna tional house, Love Memorial and Howard hall. Class Averages The 'all-university average rat ing, as expressed in the special form used by the Dean of Student Affairs office, is 2.512. Average for all coeds is 2.604, for men 2.251. Affiliated coeds average is 2.693 as compared to 2.0515 for affiliated men. Unaffiliated men had an average of 2.381 and un affiliated coeds earned a rating of 2.535. Ratings of the organizations are (See PHI U, Page 8) Executive Board Plans Christmas Program for Ag Plans for the annual ag college Christmas program, to be held December 19, are now being made by the Ag Executive Board. The tentative plans include mu sic to be furnished by the Ag College chorus, under the direc tion of Mrs. Altina Tullis. The complete plans, however, will in clude special Christmas music and a speaker. The program, it is an nounced, is opn to the public as well as to the students. Heading the committees for the program are the general co-chairmen, Geraldine Gowen and Wil bur Bluhm; program, Julia Crom; decorations, John Cromer, and publicity, Margaret Alma. 'Bernie' Masterson Starts Training: Job in January Lt. Com. Bernard "Bernie" Masterson will coach the Husker football team for the next five years according to an announce ment from the chairman of the Corn Cobs Sell "Prairie Schooners" Responsibility for this years subscription drive for the "Prairie Schooner," widely known literary magazine of the University of Nebraska, will be entrusted to the Corn Cobs, revived men's pep organization. Instituted three years ago to acquaint students with the quar terly, the annual drive will em phasize the little known fact of the unusually high regard in which the magazine is held by critics, literary analysts and writers' agents in the east and on the west coast. Selections frbm "Schooner." During the past year, selections from the "Prairie Schooner" have appeared in' Readers' Digest, Sci ence Digest, Digest and Review, and even in the Sunflower, spirit ualist journal. This year again a story from the .quarterly is included in Best Short Stories, annual collection of the best stories to appear in American magazines. The title of the piece is "A Ship to Tarshish" by William Zuckerman. Two books by old "Prairie Schooner" writers have reached best-seller lists this year. They are: I Ask You Ladies and Gentlemen," by Leon Surmelian, and "The Happy Time," by Robert Fontaine. Next Class Schedule Applies Two-Fifths Rule to Freshmen Freshman may plan on bavins Saturday classes and labs, and on having two-fifths of their classes in the afternoons andor on Tuesday, Thursday and Sat urday, as of second semester this year, according to the recent statement issued by G. W. Rosen lof, Director of Admissions. This rule applied to students at the university prior to the war, but was revoked during the. war years due to the relatively small enrollment on the campus. Rosen lof stated that the two-fifths rule had been put back in force, for IT'S NOT TOO LATE! Students can still buy Stu dent Directories for fifty cents at the Union, bookstores, or Ag Finance Office, according to Margaret Neumann, president of Student Foundation. Friday, December 7, 1945 Board of Intercollegiate Athletics, Dr. ti. u. scon. The appointment, made with the approval of the Board of Regents, begins in January. Masterson will be in charge of spring football practice and will announce his complete staff prior to spring drills. UN Graduate. A graduate of the university, Masterson was an athletic star thru high school, college and after graduation. When he finished Lin coln high in 1930, he had earned 10 athletic letters three in foot ball, two in basketball, two in (See COACH, Page 7) Wage, Labor Forum Vote Ends in Tie BY GEORGE T. SIIESTAK Taking sharp issue with each other, members of the first All University Forum presented last night both the favorable and un favorable sides of the question, "Are Labor's Demands For Wage Increases Justified?" Opening the discussion for the affirmative, Prof. Richard Bourne of the economics department brought out the fact that indus try was well able to absorb a 30 percent wage increase without a raise in price ceilings. Depression, Socialism. Prof. Curtis Elliott of the eco nomics department, speaking for the negative, stated that a blanket wage increase would re sult in one of two things, depres sion because of the bankruptcy (See WAGE, LABOR, Page 4) freshman, so that more equitable use of the physical plant of the university might be made. Ex ceptions to the rule will be made to students with outside employ ment, with university permission. For the past several years, most classes have been scheduled on Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings or early afternoons, with practically no classes being held on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sat urdays. This schedule worked fairly well during the days of small enrollment, but with the increased registration at the uni versity this year, the concentra tion of classes on Monday, Wed nesday and Friday mornings has made it difficult for students to get in the classes they wished to register for, and it has also tended toward only partial utilization of the physical plant of the uni versity. (See CLASS SCHEDULE, Page 8) I; $ .i t i I
