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Vol. 47 No. 87
Stress Value of Teaching
In Current Budget Series
University Growth Since Beginning
Dependent On Increasing Revenues
(Editor's Note: This is the
first of a series of four articles
to be published by the Daily
Nebraskan dealing with the
university's 1947-49 budget,
noy being considered by the
state legislature. Today's article
deals with the broad aspects of
university operation. The Ne
braskan urges students to clip
this series of articles and mail
them to their parents. In this
manner it is hoped that an in
creasing number of persons will
become acquainted with the
university's problems.)
An institution of higher learn
ing, such as the University of
Nebraska, has many functions
which are well to remember in
1 considering the amount of funds
needed for its operation.
Foremost among its functions is
teaching. The university was
established 78 years ago primarily
to provide future generations of
young Nebraska men and women
with the best possible type of
higher education.
From a small liberal arts col
lege, staffed by a handful of
teachers and attended by less than
100 students, the university has
grown to an institution which
provides in addition to a general
liberal arts education, professional
training in agriculture, the sci
ences, business, dentistry, engi
neering, fine aits, journalism, law,
medicine, pharmacy and teaching.
Its faculty numbers over 450, and
its student body has grown to
nearly 10,000. A student may now
choose from over 2,000 courses,
compared with a dozer, subjects
offered at its founding.
This tremendous program of
teaching is accomplished on the
city campus in Lincoln; on the
College of Agriculture campus in
Lincoln; on the College of Medi
cine campus in Omaha; and at
two high schools operated by the
university Teachers College high
school on the Lincoln city campus,
and the School of Agriculture in
Curtis, Neb.
To support these teaching ac-
Mortar Boards
Fete Scholars
At Annual Tea
Honoring coeds with an 85 or
above average for second semester
of last year, the Mortor Boards
will hold their annual scholarship
tea on Sunday, March 9, in Ellen
Smith hall from 3 to 5. p. m.
Awards will be presented to
outstanding senior women and
scholarships of $75 each will be
awarded four women students.
Eligibility.
Women carrying 12 or more
hours a semester are eligible for
the scholarships. Applications,
available at Ellen Smith hall, must
be returned by March 1 to Miss
Marion Priest at Ellen Smith.
Recipients will be. asked to turn
in two reccommendations; one
from a person not connected with
the university, giving the appli
cants' ability and need, and an
other from a professor who knows
of her scholarship and aptitude.
Important Notice
To Veterans
Veterans who have not yet sub
mitted V. A. Form 7-1961, entitled
Estimate of Compensation from
Productive Labor, or V. A. Form
7-1 903, entitled Report of Com
pensation from Productive labor
(whichever one pertains), will
risk suspension of subsistence al
lowance until one of these forms
has been properly executed and
filed with the Veterans Adminis
tration. These forms may be ob
tained In the office of the Con
sultation Board, 101 Mechanic
Arts Hall, and must be filed not
later than March 5, 1947.
Veterans Consultation Board,
J. P. COLBERT, Director.
tivities nearly half of the entire
university budget is expended.
The remaining half of the
budget is spent in four different
ways. About 18 percent is ex
pended for. research. This work is
concerned with increasing man's
knowledge in many fields of in
terest, such as agriculture, indus
try, medicine and business. It is
conducted on the Lincoln cam
puses, the Omaha campus, at three
agricultural experiment substa
tions in Scottsbluff, North Platte
and Valentine, . Neb., and an ex
See BUDGET, Page 2
Phil Levant
Plays Friday
At I-F Ball
Playing for the annual Inter
fraternity Ball Friday night at the
Turnpike will be Phil Levant's
orchestra.
Dancing, i which is scheduled to
begin at 9 p. m., will continue
until midnight. This year, the af-
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SHIRLEY WHITE.
fait will be strictly formal, ac
cording to Mark Hargrave, coun
cil publicity chairman.
Vocalists.
Advertised as a "zippy, bright
and colorful" orchestra, Levant
features the singing - voices of
Shirley White and Maurice Sey
mour.
Tickets for the dance, which is
open to all fraternity men and
their dates, are on sale for $2.40.
Sale of tickets has been limited
to 600 couples.
Alexis Explains
Cosmopolitan
Club Purposes
Dr. J. E. A. Alexis and Miss
Emily Schossburger, a native of
Austria, spoke to nearly 60 young
people on the purposes and im
portance of maintaining Cosmo
politan club, at a tea given by
the club Saturday afternoon in
Union parlors XYZ.
Miss Lois Kroehler accompanied
on the piano a Hawaiian dance
in costume by Patsy Takemodo,
and a vocal solo by Estelita Sol
danha. Soldanha, a Portuguese,
sang in Spanish. Miss Kroehler
also played for dancing after the
tea. ' ,
The next meeting of the club
will further explain its purposes
to develop understanding and
to discourage prejudices and in
tolerance between American and
foreign cultures." Margarethe
Schioler, secretary, said.
Anyone interested in the activi
ties of Cosmopolitan club is urged
by Miss Schioler to attend the
business meeting Saturday after
noon at 4.
LINCOLN 8, NEBRASKA
Green Cites
Engineering
Necessities
Extreme Antiquity
Of Buildings Told
If the University of Nebraska
college of engineering is to keep
abreast of national standards of
training young men for the engi
neering profession, its buildings
and equipment must be "brought
up to date," Dean Roy M. oreen
engineering head, declared Mon
day night.
Speaking before the Lincoln
Engineering Club at the YWCA,
Dean Green pointed out that the
Engineering college is housed
DrinciDallv in four buildings
Mechanic Arts Hall (built in
1897), the Electrical engineering
"Barn" (built in 1893), Richards
Laboratory (built in 1908) and a
portion of Bancroft bchool (pur
chased by the university in 1940.)
Increased Enrollment.
In 1909 the college had a total
enrollment of 435 students and
59,000 square feet of laboratory
space, or 136 square feet per stu
dent. At present we have nearly
1,600 students which has presented
us with such an intolerable over
crowding condition that tempor
ary army barracks are being built
to adequately Instruct our stu
dents," Dean Green said.
"With the increase of techno
logical development which inevit
ably follows a war, we anticipate
however that by 1952 our enroll
ment will have declined only to
1,200 students. Permanent build
ings must be constructed to pro
vide enough space unless we wish
to be utterly reckless with the
future of our state and its ciu
zenry."
Dean Green said construction of
an Electrical Engineering build
ing, and a Hydraulics laboratory
would serve two purposes vital to
Nebraska: (1) Provide sufficient
laboratory space per student to
improve the quality and efficiency
of the instructional program; and
(2) provide space for equipment
in both electrical engineering and
hydraulics, both vital to the state s
power and water development
program.
Both buildings, Dean Green
said, are included in the univer
sity's long range building program
which would be made possible by
the passage of the Mueller bill,
now before the legislature. Funds
from the Mueller bill's proposed
mill levy would also provide the
university with funds to meet its
many other pressing needs.
Block & Bridle
Applications
Close Mar. 1
Deadline for submitting appli
cations for membership in the
Block and Bridle club has been
set for Saturday, March 1, ac
cording to Willard Visek, club
president Application blanks can
be obtained in Room 201, Animal
Husbandry HalL
Students who are interested in
animal husbandry and have com
pleted two semesters with an av
erage of 75 are eligible for mem
bership. Applicants are, expected
to assist in presenting the Junior
Ak-Sar-Ben ball . and livestock
show.
Elock and Bridle annually spon
sors an honors banquet for an
outstanding livestock man of Ne
braska, student judging contest
and the junior and 6enior live
stock judging teams.
INTERFRATERNITY
COUNCIL.
There will be a meeting- of
the Interfraternlty Council at
5:00 on Tuesday, February 25
In Parlor Z of the Student
Union. All members should be
prepared to submit a report on
Interfraternity Ball ticket
sales.
Bod Franklin, Secretary.
Dm Onion ToniCn1!!
AWS 'All Women' Show
Will Introduce 1947 TNC
BY JEANNE KERRIGAN.
The "no men allowed" rule will be rigidly enforced
when the curtain goes up on the annual AWS sponsored
Coed Follies show featuring the TNC presentation in the
Union ballroom at 7:00 sharp tonight.
Following the skits, curtain acts and style revue, will
be the introduction of the Typical Nebraska Coed which
will climax the evening's program. The TNC has been
selected by a faculty committee from the group of 20
coeds who are to model in the revue.
H. H. Foster,
Former Law
Dean, Dies
Henry Hubbard Foster, dean
emeritus of the college of law and
sometime acting chancellor of the
university, died Saturday at his
home. Dean Foster, who was 70,
had retired in 1946, and was suc
ceeded by Frederick K. BeuteL
TVan Foster's services extend
nvpr a neriod of 26 vears. He
came to the university as profes
sor in the law college in 1920.
and was made dean in 1926. He
helped to establish the Nebraska
T.nw Bulletin in 1920. and was for
many years legal adviser to the
board of regents. He was re
sponsible for drafting the incor
nnmtinn nrtirles for the Univer
sity Foundation, the University of
Nebraska dormitories, tne stu
dent Union, and the athletic de
partment. During the final illness of the
late Chancellor E. A. Burnett,
Dean" Foster served as acting
chancellor.
-Vva had a lrt nf fun." the
Dean said in 1945. at the occa
sion of his 25th anniversary at the
university. The secret of his en
joyment, he said, was his method
of teaching, which encouraged
student discussion and formula
tion of opinions in his students
thru spirited classroom debate
with a minimum of guidance from
the teacher.
"The best Drofess'ors are those
who say the least," he believed.
His former students recall Dean
Foster's passion for illustrating his
lectures eraDhicallv. In one in-
cl.nnrc there was a Dicture on the
classroom blackboard showing a
series of tombstones bearing in
scriptions relating to old English
laws which the dean wished his
See FOSTER DIES, Pace 2
Crosby to Discuss State
Role in Politics of World
Lieutenant Governor Robert B.
Crosby will speak on the topic of
A Nebraska Approach to World
Government" at 3 p. m. Thursday
In the Union ballroom. The uni
versity convocation Is being spon
sored by the university's chapter
of Student Federalists.
Crosbv. released from the navy
last March after two years of
service, was a member oi the urn
legislature and a speaker in the
1943 and the 1944 special session.
Lieutenant Governor Crosby
won state-wide acclaim when he
recently spoke before a meeting of
the Young Republicans for the
views he expressed concerning
representative government.
Nationalism an Obstacle.
He believes that the chief ob
stacle to the achievement of world
government is nationalism and
that the United States should
make the gcal of world govern
Tuesday, February 25, 1947
Attempts to Enter.
Of course, the usual number of
men will try (unsuccessfully) to
gain admittance to this "women
only" show. In past years enter
prising males have gone so far as
to don wigs, dresses, hats, heels
and hose for the occasion. In fact
several men have been observed
of late creeping away from coed
organized houses with packages of
women's wearing apparel tucked
stealthily under an arm. Because
of this, the guard at the door
has been doubled and everyone
entering will be checked and re
checked. Skits.
Skits and curtain acts will be
presented in alternating order on
the program. Skits selected for
participation are Alpha Phi, "As
You Like It," directed by Grace
Swanson; Alpha Omicron Pi,
"AWS," Mary Dye; Sigma Delta
Tau, "This Is For Keeps," Annette
Jacobs; Kappa Alpha Theta,
"Coed Calendar," Phee Mort
lock; Alpha Chi Omega, "South
land," Marylou Wiedman.
Curtain acts named are: Gamma
Phi Beta, "Love Story of Hiawa
tha," directed by Barbara Row
land; Sigma Kappa, "Me and My
Shadow," Marietta Parchins; Del
ta Delta Delta, "China Blues,"
Kathleen Nicholson; and Pi Beta
Phi, "I'll Buy That Dram," Be
Smith.
Winners.
Following the skits and curtain
acts, Jean Compton, Follies chair
man, will announce the two winn
ners and award the cups.
Next on "the entertainment
schedule will be the style revue
moderated by "Dame Fashion,"
See FOLLIES TONITE, Fate 2
It Says Here . .
LINCOLN, Neb.,' Feb. 24
Item For Persons Looking: For
Signs of Spring- on a Cold Feb
ruary Day: The University of Ne
braska Mortar Board Society,
senior women's honorary group,
has asked candidates to file for
May Queen.
ment the core of our foreign pol
icy. Advocating that the United
States should begin to work
toward a new constitutional con
vention under Article 109 of the
United Nations charter, Crosby
believes that world government
can best be achieved by ultimate
ly converting the United Nation
into a Federal World Government.
He has frequently expressed his
support of the goal of world gov
ernment publicly.
An outstanding feature ff
Crosby's talk will be the question
period at the end that will provide
students with an opportunity to
ask him any questions that they
might have concerning his talk.
The Student Federalists art
planning a series of monthly con
vocations with popular and well
known speakers, of which Cros
by's talk is the first, according to
Milton Field, program director lot
the organization.
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