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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
Wednesday, December 1Q, 1933
Campus News
Iii Brief
Traditional "Messiah"
Enjoys Lengthy History
t'OSMOl'OLITAN-CLl B.
There will be no regular meet
ing of the Cosmopolitan Club
Wednesday, December 12. The
party for Friday has also been
called off.
CHAT 'N NIBBLE.
A Chat 'n Nibble hour for all
unaffiliated .women will be given
by the Junior Panhcllenic Thurs
day afternoon from 4:45 to 6:00
at tho Alpha Xi Delta house. All
unaffiliated coeds are invited to
this informal get-to.7,etho
FRATERNITY PICTl'RE.
All members of fraternities
whose pictures will not run in the
re.iular fraternity section of the
1!M3 C'ornhu.sker due to lack of
spare, may have their pictures
taken lor the class section during
the daytime, Delphi ne Avers,
business manager, said Tuesday.
Day Institute
Sponsored by
Gmd School
Psychosomatic diseases were
the subject of the Saturday
morning and afternoon sessions
of the special institute conducted
by Miss Helen Ross of Chicago
under the sponsorship of the
Graduate School of Social Work.
University of Nebraska, which
v as held at the Student Union
building and attended by per
sons engaged in social work in
four states, Iowa, Missouri,
Kansas and Nebraska. The lec
tures, technical in character,
dealt in great detail with the
various aspects of those diseases
in which the mind is affected by
purely body ailments. Determin
ing the relationship between
such diseas.es and the state of
the mind is important to the
case worker intent upon aiding
an individual in his efforts to
hchi himself.
The afternoon session con
cluded the two day institute.
Miss Ross, in charge of instruc
tion is a former visiting lec
turer at the university and is
from the Institute psychoanaly
sis, Chicago.
A dinner commemorating the
tenth anniversary of the found
ing of the Graduate School for
Social Work was held Saturday
evening, which was attended by
institute personnel, alumni and
students of the school. Dr.
Ernest F. Witte, first director of
the school, made the principal
address.
Big Six Teams
Show Promise
The seven-member Big Six
conference Tuesday held a .900
average for its first ten basketball
games, with one of the members
yet to show.
The Kansas University Jay
hawks are scheduled to open their
campaign against Emporia State
at Emporia, Kas., Saturday night.
Two of the Big Sixers, Colordo
ana iowa Mate, scored wins Mon
day night, but the Nebraska Lnrn.
huskers were topped by Purdue,
du-od, on a last minute rally by
the invading Big Nine members.
Colorado bounced Colorado
A. & M., 60-40, at Fort Collins.
The Iowa State Cyclones won
their first start for their new
Coach Chick Sutherland, 43 to 29,
over Simpson (la.) College. Iowa
State Forward Ray Wehde found
the range for 12 points.
The next activity by a league
team will match the Missouri Ti
gers and Washington University of
St. Louis at Columbia Wednesday
Con
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scientists, and educational lead
ers in the country.
"Reuben Gustavson. the great
uju-cnemisi wno is also chancel
lor of the University of Nebraska,
presented the view of the scien
tific group (which includes him
self) on the subject of grants-in-aid
ata the Mexico City confer
ence, Minon Eisenhower, presi
dent of Kansas State university,
told the campus newspaper last
weeK.
Chancellor Gustavson served
on several important committees
at the international conference,
which delegates from 38 countries
The annual presetation of Han
del's famed oratorio, "The Mes
siah," which will be presented
Sunday at 3 p. m. in the coliseum,
is a Christmas-time tradition at
the University that began in the
early 1909's, outgrowing several
campus buildings in its more than
40-year performance history. The
oratorio, itself more than 200 hun
dred years old, has been directed
by four conductors during that
time.
"The Messiah" was first organ
ized for performance by Mrs. Car
rie Belle Raymond who in 1907
became director of what was then
the music conservatory, not yet a
department of the university, and
for whom Raymond Hall was
named, when the women's dormi
tory was erected. Since there was
no official university orchestra at
that time, the first orchestra to
accompany the "Messiah" chorus
was composed of musicians from
over the city of Lincoln.
Shifting Locale.
The oratorio was first performed
in the old Library Hall (now Ar
chitectural Hall) under Mrs. Ray
mond's direction, but as the pre
sentation became an established
annual event and the audience,
chorus and orchestra grew in size
with an expanding university, it
was necessary to hold the per
formances in larger buildings.
Mrs. Raymond continued to con
duct "The Messiah" until 1927
when Prof. Howard KirkDatriek
became acting director of vocal
ensembles, serving until 1939 when
Dr. Arthur Westbrook became di
rector of the School of Fine Arts
and head of the school of music.
During his tenure, Kirkpatrick
conducted all Derformanees of thp
popular oratorio, using Former
Museum as locale for the nrodnc-
tion. By the time Westbrook came
to the university, "The Messiah"
had moved to the Coliseum to ac
commodate the annual audience
that crowded to hear it. In 1946
Prof. David Foltz was guest con
ductor. For a period of years students
were selected to sing the solos in
the "Messiah." Recently, however,
professional soloists have been
chosen.
Popularity Told.
The popularity of the "Messiah"
has been accounted for by Miss
1 v 1 " v J 1 1U1QM1 Ul
Theory, "because of its beauty
and rp i fim ic onmnfinnAnni)
uuu upjivji laiLiitaa
both in music and intext, and also
because of its appealling associa
tion with the Christmas season.
Dr. Westbrook, who will con
duct Sunday, expressed his fond
ness, particularly, for the four so
prano recitatives from Luke:
"There were shepherds," "And lo!
the angel of the Lord," "And the
angel said unto them." "And sud
denly there was with the angel;"
and for the two choruses "His
Yoke is easy, and His Burden is
light," and "Surely He hath borne
our griefs."
INTERVIEW CANDIDATES.
Student couocH applicants
candidates must appear before the
council Wednesday a S p.m. in
room 316 of th Union.
One representative is needed
for each of the following positions:
Junior woman from Artj & Scien
ces, Junior man from Dental, aod
woman from Graduate coHege.
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