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Vol. 48 No. 108 Crifties !leeinrDinn)edI Eight art works, selected from the 190 pieces now on display at the Nebraska Art Association's 58th annual exhibition, will be announced Sunday at 3 p. m. in Gallery A of Morrill Hall as pur chase recommendations for the Frank M. Hall collection, Dwight Kirsch, director of the univer sity art galleries, said today. Kirsch and Prof. Kady Faulkner will discuss 'the purchases Sunday. Howard Devree, head art critic of the New York Times, and Paul Tarker, director of the new Des Moines Art Center, earlier this week made the final selection from two preliminary lists, one drawn up from votes of the 12 art department and gallery staff members, and the second from a list by members of the Nebraska Art Association board of trus tees. Close Agreement While the guest experts may choose a piece which drew only one vote on the preliminary lists, all of the eight pieces chosen this year appeared on both lists. In an unprecedented occurance, one oil received the unanimous vote of every staff member, and was substantiated by the experts as their choice also. The six paintings, done in a variety of media, and two draw ings were characterized by Kirsch as "colorful, and with an unusaul amount of timely significance." No other group of purchases has been more "thought-provoking," he said. None of the sculpture ex hibited was chosen because of lack of agreement. Although the purchase of the pieces will not be official until approved by the Board of Regents at its meeting, April 3, all recommendations in the past have been accepted, Kirsch commented. Funds for the purchase are pro vided through the bequest of Mr and Mrs. F. M. Hall, who in 1928 brought to the university a col lection of 200 art objects and a fund for annual purchases. Draw ing on the interest of the fund only, the university has pur chased 122 art works since 1930, costing $79,292. Rotatine Invitational System By the terms of the bequest, only pieces certified in writing by two experts as being genuine "works of art" may be purchased. Since 1938 a rotating system of inviting critics has been in ef fect whereby one of the two ex perts from one year returns a second year. Art critic Howard Devree this year serves his sec ond period as guest expert. In the eleven years since 1933, 14 experts have served, Kirsch said. The critics are 'invited to come during the third week of the month-long show so that the art department staff may first view the exhibits in relation to the permanent Hall collection. Each year's new additions are selected for their interrelation to the rest of the collection and not merely for the value of the individual items. As a result, the Hall collection is integrated, as well as com prehensive. The university col lection ranks qualitatively with the best collections in the country, according to Kirsch. Debaters Slated For Final Trip Friday; Seek Title The U. N. debate squad will make its last trip Friday, March 26 when it journeys to Lawrence, Kans., to participate in the Mis souri Valley Speech Conference. The team will be defending its championship record of last year in this meet Two Nebraska teams will debate the issue "Resolved: That the Marshall Plan Should be Adopt ed." Jack Solomon and Ted Soren son will speak for the affirmative while Robert Moodie and Leonard Hammes take the negative. Sorenson will participate in the Individual oratory class as well as in extemporaneous speaking. Solomon wi'I also be entered in the extemporaneous class. LINCOLN 8, NEBRASKA UN's First Paper Occupies A ttic Floor BY LOIS GOBAR. Since UN's founding in 1869, the university publications have gone through many changes be fore becoming "The Rag," "Corn shucks" and "Cornhusker," ac cording to information in Love Library's Acquisitions, Serials and Catalog Departments. About 1871 "The Hesperian Student," U.N.'s first regular pub lication managed entirely by stu dents, was established. Different from our "Rag" today, its edi torial offices occupied an attic floor, and the editors had to help tend the fires to keep the build ing warm. Articles included orig inal serial stories and items on campus activities. Cather Cleans Up. School politics ruled "The Hes perian's" management in 1890, and the careless makeup and proof-reading was a joke among students until Willa Cather be came editor-in-chief and, by maintaining high standards, made the paper tops. "The Nebraskan,' nicknamed "Riley's Rag" after one of its edi tors, was founded about 1894 as a rival to The Hesperian. In 1901 the two publications were merged to form "The Daily Nebraskan," still familiarly known as "The Rag." The university gave it more financial support, and the editor was elected by the student body until selection and censor ship by the publications board was found wiser. Today "The Rag" occupies mod ern offices in the basement of the student union and is rated as one of the best university dailies. Humorous publications began in the early 80's with "The But ton Buster" issued by the Pal ladians. Here's a sample of its typical humor entitled, "Our Fav orite:" Shr'i a tall. llm girl n Id out ban or rarl Bui mrbrd la brrommlng apparel. Khc raa give yoa aokaace a withering Klance A aour mm a vinegar barrel. A clever humor paper eatured cartoon about 1899-1901 and in Vacation! Thousands of students will toss their books aside and their troubles to the winds his after noon at 5 p. m. when Easter vacation of facially begins. The extended Easter weekend will last through Tuesday, March 30. Students will resume classes at 8 a. m., Wednesday, March 31. Easter Observed in Christian Lands as Period of Hope, Peace BY SUSIE REED. Spring vacation will begin Fri day, March 26, at 8:00 a. m. and will end Wednesday, March 31, at 8:00 a. m. For the past few days the classified section of The Daily Nebraskan has contained ads of students who are looking for rides to their home towns where they will spend Easter. Easter is the annual festival observed throughout Christendom in commemoration of the resur rection of Jesus Christ. The name Easter," like the names of the days of the week, is a survival of old Teutonic mythology. Ac cording to Bede, it is derived :rom "Eostre," or "Ostara," the anglo Saxon goddess of spring. The month corresponding to our April, called "Eostur-monath," was ded icated to this goddess. No Early Easter. There is -no indication of the observance of the Easter festival in the New Testament or in writ ings of the apostolir fathers. The sanctity of special times was an idea absent from the minds of the first Christians, who con tinued to observe the Jewish Thursday, March 25, 1948 1912 "The Awgwan" was estab lished to give campus artists and cartoonists a chance to show off their talents. It died last year at the old age of 35 and was re placed by "Cornshucks," now ed ited by Joan Fankhauser. The the next issue will show how oui ideas of humor have changed in that period of time. Donkeys and Year Book. "The Sombrero," the first an nual, appeared in 1884. Its third volume in 1894 featured a pic ture showing a donkey as an hon orary staff member. The quaint little animal that the French teacher usually rode to school ap parently had become a "big wheel." In 1907 the annual became "The Cornhusker," a combination of the junior annual and senior class books. Literary stories and jokes in the annual have been largely replaced by pictures and activity stories. Editor Joan Ackerman's 1948 Cornhusker will be a far cry from the first annual pub lished 68 years ago. 40(rClub Hold Frolic April 1st "400" and one nights in "400" and one ways rolled into at the "400" club. Thursday evening, April 1, Teachers' College "400" club will enjoy a one night stand of dancing and frolic in the Stu dent Union ballroom. And any thing goes the week after vaca tion! Two hours of relaxing fun will be available to all students for 35 cents. Stage acts will inter sperse dancing, presided over by a jester from ye courts of Teach ers' College. On hand to aid in aura of All Fools' Day will be entertainers from Teachers' College, all the way from male crooners to tap dancing. Music for dancing will be provided by a combo. Feature of the evening is a bar complete with singing wait ers and lots of suds. Every de tail promises to add to the "post vacation" gayety and all kinds of surprises are in store for those attending. Why not break the lull of "post vacation blues"? Don't be the biggest fool of all on April 1 and miss the fun. Drop in at the "400" club from 7 to J. The Teachers' College welcome mat will be waiting. festivals, though in the new spirit as commemorations of events which those festivals had fore shadowed. Thus the Passover, with the new conception of Christ added to it as the true Paschal lamb and the first fruits from the dead, continued to be ob served .and became the Christian Easter. Although the observance of Easter was the practice of the Christian church, at a very early period, for a long tme there have been serious differences as to the day for its observance. The date is fixed in accordance with tables prepared by Clavius for Pope Gregory XIII, when he reformed the calendar on Feb. 24, 1582, and is an attempt to reconcile the solar with the lunar year. These tables have occasionally produced strange results. In 1923. the full moon of the heavens fell on the Sunday given by the tables for the celebration of Easter, and the Resurrection, going by the real moon, was being celebrated be fore the crucifixion. Special Date Fixed. Many proposals have been Engineers Working To Stimulate More Campus Activities Exec. Board Proposes Two New Amendments In an effort to stimulate greater interest by Engineer ing students in campus activities, the Engineering Execu tive board has adopted two new amendments. 1. A five cent "tax" will be levied upon all members of engineering societies each semester to provide an in come for the Exec. Board. 2. A Publicity Chairman will be elected along with the Two on Faculty Help Rewrite 'Britannica Jr.' Two university faculty mem bers are among the 400 con tributors to the new Britannica Junior, a reference work for boys and girls published by the En cyclopedia Britannica. Mary Evelyn Guthrie, assistant professor in the textiles and clothing division, wrote articles on knitting, spinning and weaving, textiles, thread and thread mak ing, and Rufus Henry Moore, as sistant professor of horticulture, prepared articles on kapok, sweet gum, tupelo and similar subjects. The material appears in the M" printing of the reference work, which has been expanded from 12 to 15 volumes a nd reset in a type face chosen by children for its legibility. ( The new Britannica Junior is a two-color printing job thruout, and contains 5,600 illustrations and 5,950 pages. A 550-page Ready Reference index volume with 70,000 text references is in corporated in the set. Students Offer Twelfth Night Over KFOR Tradition will be broken Thurs day evening when the university radio program, Authors of the Ages, presents its first dramati zation of a Shakesseare play. Humorous scenes from "Twelfth Night" will be broadcast at 9:30 p. m. on KFOR. Another prece dent will be shattered when for the first time a studio audience will be allowed to view the pro duction. All interested in watching the dramatization should be in Studio B in the basement of the Temple by 9:15 p. m. Authors of the Ages gives adap tations of famous authors. The "Twelfth Night" cast in cludes Gay Marr, Gladys Jackson, Rex Coslor, Bob Jones, Margaret Ann Huff, and Paul Schupbach. made for the fixing of Easter. As a result of the League of Nations Committee of 1923, the Easter Act was passed in Eng land in August, 1928, fixing Easter day, conditionally upon in ternational acceptance, as the first Sunday after the second Satur day in ApriL Four periods are connected with the observance of Easter: (1) the preparatory fast of 40 days of Lent, (2) the 15 days, beginning with the Sunday before and end ing with the Sunday after Easter, during which the ceremonies of Holy Week and services of the Octave of Easter were observed, (3) the Octave of Easter, dur ing which the newly baptized wore their white garments, which they laid aside on the Sunday after Easter, and (4) Eastertide proper, or the paschal season be ginning at Easter and lasting till Whit Sunday. The liturgical color for Easter is everywhere white, as a sign of joy, light, and purity. Chufches and altars are adorned with the best ornaments possessed in this wurld-v.ide observance of Easter. omer omcers. He will appoint a minimum of two assistants to serve as a liaison between the several engineering societies and The Daily Nebraskan for engi neering news. Must Be Approved These amendments will not go into effect until they are ratified by the engineering societies and approved by the Student Council. At the same meeting, the Exec. Board recommended to the Stu dent Council that a special voting booth be placed in Mechanic Arts building for the use of engineer ing students at the time of the spring election to further stimu late the interest of engineering students in campus elections. Ac cording to Carl Leanard, presi dent of the Exec. Board, this in terest has been notably lacking in recent years. Urge Referendum A second recommendation to the Council urged that a refer endum ballot be submitted to all engineering students to read as follows: "Are you in favor of a one dollar yearly subscription fee to the Nebraskan Blue Print for all engineering students?" If this recommendation is accepted and student opinion favorable, it is suggested that some arrange ment may be made whereby the subscriptions to the Blue Print, the engineering magazine, may be taken at regular registration time for all engineering students. This increased circulation, ac cording to the board, will greatly benefit both the magazine and the subscribers. It will permit an expansion of the publication which will enable it to broaden its interests and produce a better magazine, which, in turn, will serve to stimulate greater unity among engineering students in different departments. When general subscription has been adopted at other universi ties, the magazine has been greatly expanded and improved and has become widely recog nized as a valuable contribution to engineering education. By special arrangement with Continued Page 3 Funds Granted For Soluble Drug Research Dr. Harald G. O. Hoick of the Department . of Physiology and Pharmacology has recently been granted funds by the Research Council of the university to sup port a cooperative study of acute toxicity of soluble drugs. White mice will be used for the experi ment. The plan involves a compara tive study of certain products for the purpose of evaluating the toxicity of newer compounds in terms of another which has been in use for some time. The first two groups of drugs to be tested will be Pentobarbital sodium as compared with Pheno barbital sodium; and Pyriben zamine as compared to Benda dryl. The project will also in clude the comparison of one of the newer Analgesics Methadon with Demeral. One of the objectives is to ar rive at a better understanding of the relative toxicities of the new products and the other is to determine the methods used for assay will give comparable re sults in different laboratories.