DAILY NEBRASKAN
New Student Week
Freshmen: Prepare, ..Register
For First Year of Colleae
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The first week of the 1955-56
school year is dedicated to you,
the incoming freshman. This week
New Student Week, fulfills its
purpose of acquainting you with
the University, it's faculty and
students.
Upon arriving at the University,
students are required to go to the
Student Union ballroom to pick up
their information packets. In the
packets will be a schedule of the
week's activities, a name tag and
a Husker Handbook which is a
reference book that touches oi all
phases of campus life. Wheri one
picks up his packet, he will receive
his color. The colors red, blue,
green and brown divide tht stu
dents into different groups. Each
group has the same activities but
at different times.
All new students will follow a
specific schedule that will prepare
them for-their first day of classes.
Included on the agenda are the re
quired tests, examinations, and
orientations.
A general summary of the weeks
happenings could be as follows:
First the student will meet with
his adviser and student leader at
8 a.m., Monday. Advisers are
faculty members who specialize in
the particular fields that students
are interested in pursuing. Stu
dent leaders are upperclassmen
who will serve to assist and help
new students.
This first meeting will be a get
acquainted session at which gen
eral instructions for the week will
be given. Following the meeting,
students will go on a campus tour
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with their student leader serving
as a guide.
Various orientations will be held
discussing the various colleges, ac
tivities, and study-habits. A special
sesion will be held which is con
cerned with the use of the library.
A student health conference will
be held to familiarize students with
the services that are available to
them at the University Student
Health Center.
During the summer, those who
have registered for the University
will receive instruction concern
ing the pre-registration tests that
will be given during the Week.
These exams will be given in he
Coliseum on staggered days. Tests
run from eight until noon and one
until five.
Upon completion of these exams,
freshmen will meet with their ad
visers in order to set up their
class schedule for the fall semester.
Physical, hearing, and speech ex
aminations will either follow or
precede this conference.
Next on the list of activities are
the all-college convocations. At
this time, deans of the various col
leges and certain members of the
faculty will be introduced. Perti
nent information concerning each
college will be presented.
Registration for classes will then
begin. A card will be pulled for
each class to be attended. .This
will be done at the Military Science
building.
All activities so far mentioned
are required of each student enter
ing the University of Nebraska
All special programs which are
held in the evenings and during
the weekend are for the students
recreation, and are, therefore,- not
required.
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NEW STUDENTS prepare for registration in the Coliseum. Faculty
members and upperclass students are always on hand to assist during
the process of signing up for classes.
Without a doubt, the University of
Nebraska is a great midwestern
university. Its history is bound up
with the history of Nebraska itself.
Nebraska Territory was opened to
settmenent in 1854. At the first
eeting of the Territorial legis
lature, held in Omaha, the acting
Territorial Governor, Thomas Cum
ing, urged the Territorial citizens
to give thought to the establish
ment of a university. This was long-
range planning, since there were
less than 3,000 white settlers in the
whole territory at that time.
When Nebraska became a state
in 1867, one of the first acts was
to make provision for a University
of Nebraska. The act providing for
a state university contemplated a
"complete and perfect institution,
embracing a college of ancient and
modern literature, mathematics
and natural science, agriculture,
law, medicine, political science,
civil engineering and mechanics
and a college of fine arts."
The first University structure,
old University Hall, was built in
a cow pasture a few blocks north
oi the new capitel of Lincoln. The
object of the university was "to
promote the general educational
interests and welfare and to quali
fy students to engage in the several
pursuits and employments of so
ciety, and to discharge honorably
and usefully the various duties of
life." The first curriculum was
characterized by an almost inflex
ible course of study and practically
no electives; classics and mathe
matics formed the backbone of the
entire work. History, English,
French or German and text-book
study of science were introduced
to give practical knowledge to prac
tical men.
The first building on the campus
contained 48 rooms on three floors.
This included two gymnasiums, a
museum, a library, offices, college I
societies and classrooms. The first
cost of the building was $152,000,
but the work was done in such an
imperfect manner that the edifice
threatened to crack and crumble to
ruin. A vigorous and expansive ef
fort on the part of Lincoln citizens
averted the catastrophy.
A promLient Nebraskan once said
that "the main fault of the Uni
versity was that it was opened too
early; and its scant patronage and
an inferentially high per capita
cost of students was industriously
ridiculed and denounced. It was
the old University Hall that the
first students of the University be
gan their year. There were five
freshmen, two sophomores, one
junior and 110 "Latin School" pu
pils aged" 10 to 16. The course offer
ings were few and toe faculty
scant. Student activities amounted
to the efforts of a few debating so
cieties. But as the University grew,
it produced a record of teaching
and research that was to attract
Nebraska leaders in many fields.
it happened at nu
Every year there is some stu
dent, who, when the PBK lists
come out, received a severe shock.
One such student under one
such shock could only utter "And
I told all my friends he was stu
pid." Of course there are the students
who complain about the presence
of some "brain" in a class who al
ways gets such high grades that
the instructor car.'t scale the lower
ones. But after the PBK announce
ments the complaints change to
"Gee, he was in my class and was
he ever smart."
A motor vehicle death occurs
every 14 minutes and an accidental
motor vehicle injury takes place
every 23 seconds.
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AS IT WAS ... Eighty-five years ago the University of Nebraska
was little more than a dot on the prairie, but it has grown into a
great network of educational facilities. Expansion, modernization,
and improved equipment are still campus by-words.
