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Vol. 45, No. 52
LINCOLN 8, NEBRASKA
Friday, February 15, 1946
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University Observes 76th
Anniversary At Luncheon
Observing the 76th anniversary of the university, the Board
of Trustees will meet for a luncheon at the Union today, Chancellor
C. S. Boucher announced.
Today marks the university's second postwar celebration of
Charter Day in one century. On Feb. 15, 1919, the university hon
ored its World war I dead. Twenty-six years later the university
remembers its war casualties of World war "II.
Charter Day was set aside by the university and its alumni
in honor of the passage of definite legislation by the state legisla
ture on Feb. 15, 1869, for the establishment of the state university.
University Hall.
Since the dedication of University hall on Sept. 23, 1869, the
university has grown to 33 buildings on 75 acres with a college of
agriculture, an agronomy farm, a school of agriculture at Curtis,
a fruit farm and an agricultural experiment farm. In 1909, the uni
versity was the 18th university chosen for membership in the asso
ciation of American universities.
In former years convocations were held to observe Charter
Day. Noted speakers addressed the students and faculty, and skits
depicting early university life were given.
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Seventy-seven years have made many changes in faculty and
administration but old alums can still remember the days when
The Daily Nebraskan was the Hesperian, when Ellen Smith was
the registrar from 1877 to 1902, and when, in 1925, Nebraska was
on the winning end of a 17-0 score in the Notre-Dame game.
Typical Coed
Candidates
Meet Sunday
Candidates for Typical Ne
braska Coed will appear Sunday
at 2:30 p. m. at the experimental
theater in Temple, according to
Midge Holtzscherer, A.W.S. presi
dent. The coeds are to appear in the
clothes they wore last Sunday un
less otherwise informed by the
Follies committee.
Final Selection Not Yet Made.
Final selection for TNC has not
(See CANDIDATES, page 2.)
Saint Valentine Theme Predominates
In Weekend Student Church Activities
Five church crouns are clan-
ring parties, most of them with a
St. Valentine's day theme, for
this weekend.
Gamma Delta, Lutheran student
organization, under the direction
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uosmet ulub Prepares
2 For Strategic Return
BY KITTY KOSMET.
In hibernation since their March
1942, performance, the Kosmct
Klub this week began making ex
tensive preparations for a come
back this spring.
Approximately eight new mem
bers will be selected next week
from the men on the campus by
the old Kosmet members who have
returned to the campus. The new
honorary members will be chosen
on a basis of leadership, scholar
ship and general ability, according
to Dick Folda, president.
Hilarious Spring.
Students who witnessed the hi
larious spring performance of 42
still chuckle, when they remem
ber the "Pott Shots'" show in
which Max Whiltaker as Millie,
the Mata Hari Type campus
Perry Branch
Announces
Student Fund
The Mary Ellen Brown Scholar
ship and Fellowship fund has been
established for undergraduate and
graduate students in the depart
ment of home economics, Perry
W. Branch, director of the Uni
versity Foundation, announced
Thursday.
The Nebraska council of home
demonstration, clubs created the
fund in honor of Mary Ellen
Brown, state demonstration leader
of the Agriculture Extension serv-
(See FUND, page 2.)
of the Rev. Henry Erck, is invit
ing Lutheran students and their
friends to a party at the Y.M.C..A.
club room, Temple building, Sat
urday evening at 8:30.
Christian students of the uni-
o
oomph girl, had the audience in
the aisles and the Pony Chorus
will go down in U.N. history as
one of the most riotous shows ever
presented.
Instead of the annual spring
show that the Kosmet Klub usual
ly presents, the revived group will
offer a series of skits this year
and revert to their normal sched
ule next fall. The Klub also plans
to introduce a Nebraska Sweet
heart at the show, to be presented
some time in April.
Besides the two annual shows
the Klub presented each year, they
also sponsored the inter-fraternity
Ivy Day sing and offered a schol
arship fund.
Prof. E. F. Schramm, advisor to
the group before" the war, assumes
his former duties and John Cook
has been elected busines manager.
Eligible Bachelors Escort Six
Finalists at Valentine Ceremony
Houses Vie
For Honors
In Carnival
Nineteen organized houses will
compete for top honors in the an
nual Penny Carnival to be held
Saturday in Grant Memorial
gymnasium from 2 to 4 p. m.
A committee composed of Joy
Hill, Sally White and Phyllis Sor-
ensen are in charge of the Carn
ival, which is under the sponsor
ship of the Coed Counselors.
Tickets for the event may be
purchased from any Coed Coun
selor, in the Union today or at
the door of the gymnasium Sat
urday. Tickets sell for 20 cents
and are punched at each booth
during the carnival. They will also
be used as ballot;; in the voting.
The winning booth will be de
termined by both student voting
and faculty judging, and a trophy
presented to the best entry, while
booths placing second and third
will receive honorable mention.
The ballots will be counted at 3
p. m. and the results of the vot
ing will be announced at 4 p. m.
Delta Delta Delta has won first
place for the past two years, with
Alpha Omicron Pi placing second.
Coed Follies
Houses participating in Coed
Follies should submit their
lighting: plans no later than
Saturday to Tibby Curly at the
Alpha Chi Omega house, ac
cording to Mitdge Holtzscherer.
versity will have a party Friday
night at the First Christian
church, and Catholic students are
invited to attend a dance at the
city CYO hall, also Friday eve
ning. A party will be given for Pres
byterian students, at the Presby
terian student house at 8 p. m.
Friday. Evening's entertainment
will include dancing, singing,
stunts and refreshments.
Methodists will have their reg
ular "Friendly Friday" party at
8 p. m. Friday, at the Methodist
student house, with Betty Douglas
and Alice Allen conducting folk
games, and Dace Baylan telling
about her life in Alaska. Refresh
ments will be served.
Regular LSA Meeting.
Lutheran chapel service will be
held Sunday morning at 10:45 in
room 315 of the Union, with the
Rev. Erck conducting the service.
His sermon will be "The First
Sacrifice." Elaine Putensen will
be accompanist for the hymns.
The regular LSA meeting, di
rected by the Rev. Alvin Peter
son, will be held at five p. m.
Sunday evening in the basement
of the Baptist student house.
Christian Youth Fellowship will
meet at the First Christian church
Sunday at 5p. m. During the
meeting, an Old Testament study
(See CHURCH, page 2.)
Marcile Schmid. Barbara
Jean Bogan, Colleen Kahoa and Betty Gompert stepped thru
a large red heart and, as they were escorted across the stage
by the eligible bachelors, were introduced by Margaret Neu
mann, Student Foundation president, as the six 1946 beauty
queens.
At a tea dance yesterday afternoon in the Union ball
room, the Student Foundation broke tradition established by
the Cornhusker to keep the beauty queens' identities secret
until the publication of the year book in the spring.
Prof. Marvin
Speaks Tuesday
At Sigma Xi
Dr. Henry H. Marvin, chairman
of the university department of
physics, will speak on "Atomic
Energy" at the Sigma Xi meeting
to be held at 7:30 p. m. Tuesday
in the auditorium of Morrill hall.
Dr. Marvin, professor of theo
retical physics, will discuss the
release of energy by atoms when
they are bombarded by sub
atomic particles. He will point out
the technical difficulties to be
overcome before atomic energy
can be put to general use.
Students have been invited to
attend this lecture, which is open
to the public.
Winners of 'Time9
Contest Named
By Union Director
Winners of the TIME current
affairs test, Jean Matteson and
Herman Mestl, will be awarded
$5.00 each in books of their own
choice, according to Pat Lahr,
Union director.
In the test, sponsored by the
Union, Miss Matteson placed first
with a 92 out of a possible 105,
and Mr. Mestl, a veteran student,
was second with a score of 90.
Consistent readers of TIME mag
azine and NEWSWEEK, Miss
Matteson is a junior in Teachers
college and Mr. Mestl has just
registered on the campus.
Lowest score made on the test
was 44 points, with TIME readeis
averaging 84. The average score
made by college students is 35.
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DONALD LENTZ
. . Under whose direction the
Sunday concert will be presented.
Blackburn. Bettv Jpan Tfta.
Miss Schmid was escorted by
Lowefl Anderson, Miss Blackburn
by Bill Swanson, Miss Latta by
Jim Pettis, Miss Bogan by Don
Chapin, Miss Kahoa by Johnny
Bell and Miss Gompert by Chick
Story, substituting for eligible
bachelor Don Barry, who is on a
basketball trip.
A crowd of approximately 900
crowded the Union ballroom to
watch the four brunette and two
blonde beauty queens parade
across the stage, down the steps
and the length of the ballroom.
The Student Foundation spon
sored the tea dance, decorated the
ballroom and furnished brownies
and punch.
David Rubinoff selected 12
coeds to vie for final honors at a
preliminary judging in November.
Pictures of the 12 were submit
ted to Harry Conover, head of the
Conover modeling agency, who
made the final selections.
Extension Division Gives
Book Review Friday
The university Extension Di
vision book review will be held at
the Don L. Love Memorial library
on the campus Friday at 9:30 a. m.
Miss Emily Schossberger, edi
tor of. the university press, will
discuss "My Indian Family" by
Hilda Wernher, and Mrs. Norma
Kidd Green of the Extension Di
vision will review "Voiceless In
dia" by Gertrude Emerson.
YWCA Tea
A YWCA tea will be held
tomorrow afternoon from 4 to
5:15 at Lllcn Smith hall. All
coeds are invited to attend,
according to Virginia Demel,
social chairman.
The university ROTC Sym
phonic band, under the direction
of Mr. Donald Lentz, will be pre
sented in a concert Sunday aft
ernoon at 3 p. m. in the university
coliseum.
The soloists will be Fhyllis
Fischer on the marimba and Mar
garet Modlin on the cornet. The
director of military training ac
tivities is Col. James P. Murphy.
Glinka's "Overture" from "Russ
ian and Ludmilla" will begin the
program, and works by Lizst,
Gould and other composers will
be included.
Present "The Legend."
"The Legend," by Paul Creston,
a contemporary American com
poser, will be presented with Miss
Modlin as soloist. "The Legend"
is one of the few concert num
bers originally written for band,
and is rich with harmony, melodic
material and exciting rhythmic
designs.
Miss Fischer will assist on sev
eral selections, including The
Slavonic Dane in A Flat," by
Dvorak and "Two Armenian
Dances," by Khachaturian,