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Summer Nebraskan
Tuesday, June 25, 1963
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State Capitol Open
For Guided Tours
By VERL HATCH
The State of Nebraska cor
dially invites you to be its
guest and view one of t h e
world's greatest art treas
ures, the State Capitol tsuua
ing.
Summer students and
teachers are urged to visit
the camtnl which is open not
only on week days, but also
on Saturdays, Sundays an
holidays.
The north door is ope
from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. on
Saturdays and 2 pjn. unui
p.m. on" Sundays.
Guided tours are conducted
starting from the north door
at IS a.m., 11 a.m., 1 p.m.,
2 p.nu, and 3 p.m. on aal
urdavs and 2 p.m., 2:45 p.m.
and 3:30 p.m. on Sundays.
During the week there are
conducted tours at 9 a.m..
It a-m., 11 a.nu, 1 p.m., 2
p.ni-, 3 p.m., and 3:45 p.m.
The observation tower is op
tm from 8: am. until
4:39 p.m.
The tours will take you
through the "Tower on the
Plains," ranked as fourth
among the world's architec
tural masterpieces. A guide
will explain the art and
work.
The legislature is in session
by 9:30 a.m., and anyone
may visit except on rare
occasions. A personal inter
view with the senators may
be arranged for classes,
omimc or nrivate parties by
calling the secretary pool or
by writing directly to a sen
ator. Only rarely are regular
tours taken to the senate
chamber.
The tour begins at the
Borth entrance, and a sculp
tor, "The Coming of the
Pfeaeers", greets you with
the message, "The Salvation
Union Plans
News Forum
The Nebraska Union will
hold its second News Forum
program today at 3:15 in the
lower level auditorium of the
Student Union.
Today's program will be
moderated by R Neale Cop
pie, associate professor of
journalism, in the absence of
Dr. Wffliam E. Hall
, The paneL Dr. Jerry G.
Behringer of the sociology de
partment. Dr. Robert K.
Sakai of the history depart
ment and Dr. E. Bryant Phil
lips, professor of economics,
will answer questions from
the floor and discuss the top
news events of the week.
At the first News Forum
a panel moderated by Dr.
Hail and composed of Neale
Copple, Dr. Behringer and
Dr. Frank E. Sorenson, di
rector of summer sessions,
discussed the news events.
Most of the questions con
cerned the civil rights issue
and how northern cities would
react to the integration errup
tkins in the south.
Assistant Union Program
M a n a ger Robert Patterson
said that although only 15 stu
dents attended last week's
forum be felt as the Summer
progressed there would be
more of an interest in the program.
SUMMER SESSIONS WORSHIP
SUNDAY, 9:30 A.M.
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ness in the Citizen."
Other Capitol features are:
The Indian doors, weighing
750 pounds, caned by Keats
Lorenz of Lincoln, the rotun
da dome with mosaic tiling
with symbols dating back to
322 B.C.: a 3o00 pound chan
delier, the largest in the
world, hanging 80 feet in the
center of the rotunda; and the
ceiling of the Supreme Court
Chamber which contains 8000
separate pieces, all pegged or
glued without nails.
High above the Capitol
stands the "Sower", sowing
the good seeds of noble liv
ing. This bronze figure is 19
feet high, and with its base.
weighs nine tons.
The Capitol itself was first
given life by the Legislature
of 1919, which passed author
ization to build. Bertram Gros-
venor Goodhue was selected
as architect in 1929, and the
building was completed in
1932 at the cost of about $10
billion.
The building was paid for
year by year as it was built
without incurring a bond
debt
The ground was broken in
Apirl, 1922, and the first
wing was occupied by Decem
ber, 1924. The sculpture work
was done by Lee Lawne, in
scriptions and symbols by
Hildreth Meier, murals by
Augustus Vincent Tack, ro
tunda murals by Kenneth Ev
ett. The height is M feet; the
square floor plan is 437 feet.
The first two capitals were
in Omaha, dedicated in 1254
and 1858. The third and
fourth, dedicated in 1869 and
1SS3 were in Lincoln, and the
present building was dedicat
ed in 1932.
Join the people around the
world who visit the Nebras
ka State Capitol every year-
Summer Edition
'Prairie Schooner'
The summer issue of the
Prairie Schooner, the Univer
sity of Nebraska's literary
magazine, has all the marks
of becoming a collector's
item.
The first ' issue under the
new editor, Bernke Slote,
professor of English, contains
a hitherto unknown article by
the late Welsh poet. Dylan
Thomas, and another by
Man Sandoz, a portion of her
memoirs which she is now
writing.
The Thomas piece vat ac
tually published ia a Welsh
newspaper when the famous
writer planned and announced
a review column during the
years be wrote for the Swan
sea and West Wales Guardi
an, but vfckk never material
ized. Miss Slote said the unlisted
and uncollected article pro
vides a rare insight into the
author's lively personality at
the time it was written in
1936. It was made available
to Miss Slote by William
White, a well-known critic
and authority on Thomas.
The Sandoz article, "Out
post in New York," appears
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YWCA History
Covers 79 Years
As the University of Ne
braska draws closer to its
centennial year, one group
stands out as having now
been organized for 79 of thoe-
years the student YWCA,
A recently-published history
of the first 75 years of the
YWCA by Mrs. Roy Green
(Norma Kidd, '15) carries the
story of these years from
the time the organization was
first noted in the weekly stu
dent newspaper. The Hesper
ian. The forerunner of the
Daily Nebraskan stated on
Oct. 1, 1884:
"Young ladies of the Uni
versity have organized a
Young Women's Christian As
sociation thereby accomplish
ing two good acts. They in
crease the efficiency of the
cause on the school and abol
ish at least one of the Uni
versity Slates. Let the good
work go on."
In the early years prayer
groups, bible and mission
studv classes made up a
large part of the YW pro
gram. The young women of
that day worked for "wom
en's rights" and several
planned for careers assuming
this meant foregoing mar
riage. By the end of the first 75
years, reports Mrs. Green,
"the organization was made
up of a group of short-haired
self-confident young women,
more accustomed to trousers
than to skirts. They were com
pletely at home in the world
of the vacuum tube, the tran
sistor and jet propulsion . . .
They would rather plan a dis
cussion group or a political
caucus than a prayer meet
ing. The franchise was tak
en for granted . .."
Membership has varied
from 32 in 1892 to nearly
1,000 in 1922. Mrs. Green re
lates: "Projects have varied
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NEBRASKA AUTHORESS Marl Sandoz article, "Out
post in New York", will appear in print for the first time
ia the "Prairie Schooner."
in print for the first time with
the Schooner.
The Nebraska authoress.
weO known for such works
as "Out Jules," the biogra
phy of ber bomesteading fa
ther in the Sandhills, and
The Cattlemen," a sweep
ing story of the cattle indus-
try and the early men who j
made it from the Rio Grande
throughout the Great Plains,
deals with her first experi
ences ia New York City.
Speech Seminar
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dents in speech therapy ' As-
nEar lor graduate siu-
sistance for Special Educa-
tion," will be open to the pub
lic at 3 p.m. today at the Ne
braska Union.
William C. Geer, executive
secretary for the Council for
Exceptional Children, will
speak at the meeting.
The seminar is part of the
Fourth Annual Conference on1
Exceptional Children, which!
will begin at 9 a.m. tomorrow
at the Nebraska Union Auditorium.
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from the days o fthe Settle
ment House when YWCA
members taught the English
language and American ways
to newly-arrived immigrants,
to later teaching of those who
were working for their citi
zenship papers, through the
long-sustained interest in the
women of China and the Stu
dent Friendship Fund offered
to both friend and foe. In the
1920's and 1930's a mock
League of Nations, the Stu
dents in industry projects,
the efforts toward better in
terracial relations and better
coonditions for women in fac
tories. The middle 1940's the
Peace Conference and UNES
CO meetings which welded
the whole campus into one
project and sent students
scurrying to the library to
seek information on their
special corner of the world.
Early in the 1950's the inetr
racial efforts were empha
sized again in "testing teams"
rather like the "sit-ins" of
the South at a later date.
Largely due to the persistent
action of the YWCA for over
30 years, all University hous
ing was de-segregated in
1950."
"A fitting climax to these
projects offering aid and
searching for understanding
came in the Hungarian proj
ect just as the Association
was rounding out its first 7o
years. Five young Hugarian
refugee were brought to the
University as students."
It is today as it was some
80 years ago "The most
important thing is the last
ing impression made on in
dividual girls, the clearer
thinking, the deeper spiritual
stability, the more intense de
votion to service, which is
multipled as each life so im
pressed touches other live."
Features
Miss Sandoz begins the
chapter in a fashion that all
Nebraskans will understand:
"The first thing I hung on
my wall in Greenwich Village
was my cowboy hat. It had
been a cheap one in the first
place and now it was old and
burn-stained from the time it
helped save me and my
horse from a prairie fire.
years ago, but hanging it
teemed a sort of commitment
to stay in New York tor a
few months, and a reminder,
in moments of anger and dis-
I meet uifh th facf that Ihcre
jas anomer
other ppie.
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f ber slice of New York life
which included even thing
from watching a shooting to
comforting a woman from
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For Supplementary Reading
Library Prepares Summer
Staff members of Love
Memorial Library have pre
pared a list of books for
supplementary summer
reading. The list is divided
into three parts: humanities
social studies, and science
and technology.
Reviews of the books will
be included in each edition
of the Summer Nebraskan.
HUMANITIES READING
ROOM
Masefield, John, The Blue"
bells o fother Verse.. This
new poetry collection of
England's poet laureate is
sure to please the reader
who delights in well-turned
phrases and the imagery
produced by a judiciously
chosen word. There is no
unifying theme in this selec
tion, but many subjects are
represented. A brief dia
logue in blank verse be
tween Sir Francis Drake
and an old ship's fiddler,
Christmas Eve, a cricket
game, pieces concerned with
history, and mood poems of
description are all included.
Brester, Dorothy, Virginia
Wolf. Virginia Woolf com
bines biography, criticism,
complete chronology of her
works, and a selected bibli
ography of books and ar
ticles about her. This is an
excellent source book for
the beginning researcher, or
else can provide interesting
reading for the casual read
he who wants to learn a bit
more about this stimulating
figure in American lit
erature. Braidwood, Robert J. Ar
cheologists and What They
Do. This brief, but excellent
survey of the field is writ
ten by an author who is
well versed in archeology,
and at present is a profes
sor at the University of Chi
cago. His area of specialty
is the Near East, but the
books gives a well-rounded
picture of archeology. Prob
ably this book would appeal
only to the curious and ca
sual interests and as such
provides a fascinating view
of the work involved, digs
professional preparat i o n,
preservations and special
problems involved.
Badura Skoda. Eva and
Paul. Interpreting Mozart
the Keyboard. This rather
technical work, translated
by Leo Black, -would be in
valuable source material to
the serious student of mu
sic. The main purpose of
the book is to study Mo-"
zart's style of presentation
of his music as can be de
termined from his original
scores and contemporary
sources. Not limited only to
the piano, the book also dis
cusses the style invived in
Mozart's other instrumental
music, vocal and conduct
ing aspects.
Sandoz
the Old World whose crying
reminded ber of ber own
mother. She shares with you
ber search for an apartment
in Greenwich Village among
the Italians and Germans, the
search of the draft board for
an elusive tenant, and an os
teopathic physician in a low
er floor who was treating
such diverse patients as Mar
lene Dietrich, Countess Tols
toy and Eleanor Roosevelt,
Editor Slote said the arti
cle is "some of Man Sandoz
at ber best."
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Kerr, Walter. The Decline
of Pleasure. Walter Kerr,
noted drama critic, here
presents a protest on the
contemporary age and the
changing modes of pleasure.
Children who once read
Robinson Crusoe for thrills,
now voluntarily choose to
study load maps. This is an
indication to the author of
the impossibility to the
modern American of
finding pleasure in things of
true worth, i.e. good music,
beautiful scenery, fine
paintings, etc. Unless there
is material value to be
gained, the author feels that
today's man suffers guilt
complexes when doing some
thing which would appear
to have no value to his job
or standard of living. A
very provocative books, it
is one that most readers
would enjoy, whether or'
not they agree with Mr.
Kerr's thesis.
Fadiman, Clifton, ed. Fan
tasia Mathematica. This is
not a book for the mathe
matician; rather it is de
lightful reading for the
non-mathematician who will
be amused and surprised by
the well-chosen collection of
puzzles, stories, fables and
poems which alf deal with
aspects of m a t h e matics.
Some ideas presented are
by noted authorities In the
field, others by good auth
ors with an exciting tale to
tell. Authors included are
lewis Carroll, H. G. Wells,
Willy Ley, Christoph
er Morely and Hobert Hein
lein. SCIENCE READING ROOM
Mason, B. J., Clouds,
Rain and Rainmaking. A
concise, up-to-date account
of recent researches on the
formation of clouds and the
development inside them of
rain, snow, hail and light
ning for the reader who
does not require a detailed
treatment but wishes to
know ipoi's about cloud phy
sics than easy be gleaned
from popular articles.
Hewlett, Richard and An
derson, Oscar, The New
World 1939-1946. Sponsored
by the U.S. AEC, this is
volume one of the official
history of the Atomic En
ergy Commission and cov
ers the period up to the
dropping of the first bomb.
It is a well written ,ac
count by professional his
torians who knew some
thing about science and
technology.
Born, Max, Physics and
Politics. A collection of four
lectures by a Nobel prize
winner on modern physics,
the concept of reality, the
limits to our image of the
universe, and nuclear war
politics, clearly and simply
written.
Thomson, S i r George,
The inspiration of Science.
A 1937 Nobel prize winner
explains the kind of way in
which "pure" scientists
think, from Ptolemy to Ein
stein. Struve. Otto, The Uni
verse. The second series of
Karl Taylor Compton Lec
tures in Astronomy cover
ing the solar system, the
stars, the galaxies, radio as
tronomy, binary stars and
variables, and man nd the
universe, in an attractive,
well illustrated book.
SOCIAL STUDIES
READING ROOM
D. F. Fleming. The Ori-.
gins of the Cold War and
Fred J. Cook, The Warfare
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Far from being pacifists
in the ordinary sense of
the word, Professor Flem
ing and Mr. Cook both ar
gue that we, as Americans,
have failed to achieve a
balance of power through
the most atrocious of bung
ling. Cook, in an appeal to
empathy, and Fleming, in
a detailed study of Russian
foreign policy, contend that
we have misread Russian
tinuously since the end of
World War II; the Soviets
have been, assert these
two authors, far more will
ing and with far great
er reason to seek peace
than have we.
Cook goes beyond this
point in tones reminiscent
of C. Wright Mills to ex
plore the chummy relation
ships among the Military,
such manufacturers of war
material as General Dyna
mics and Boeing, the U.S.
economy as a whole, and
the mass media. With con
vincing statistics and pub
lic utterances of the great,
Cook points out the vested
interests which these
groups have in the main
tenance of a war economy
in America and the meth
ods they have used to frus
trate lessening of tensions.
In an especially frighten
ing chapter on home-grown
Fascists, Cook quotes some
of their wilder calls for
war. Perhaps works such
as those of Fleming and
Cook can have some
healthy counter-influence in
these times, when as Cook
says, 'the voice of the
cuckoo, well-financed and
promoted, was resounding
through the land.'
Robert Ardrey, African
Genesis, and Carleton S.
Coon, The Origin of Races.
Dr. Coon has performed
a Herculean task in collect
ing, correlating and inter
preting data pertaining to
human evolution from
many sources. The result is
a technical but generally
readable survey with the
controversial thesis that
man evolved from a lower
form not once but five
times, independently in dif
ferent localities.
The more popularly writ
ten African Genesis also
has a startling thesis
that man is still an ani
mal, the product of his ev
olution, and that some of
our most cherished social
institutions are responses to
our animal instincts. Ard
ry pessimisticslly points out
the animal bases for na
tionalism, private property
and war; his general feel
ing is that conflict is ine
radicable. A playwright by
profession, he writes com
etently on evolution b u t
presents his materials dra
matically and occasionally
in purple prose.
Neville Williams, Captair
Outrageous. This is a good
historical narrative of some
of the boldest men of all
time. The author has limit
ed the book to the true pi
rates and brignds, not the
commissioned privateers.
Geoffrey Bibby, Four
Thousand Years Ago. The
age of Hamurabi, Moses,
Tutankamon, Agamemnon,
Theseus, the Argonauts, the
Hittites and Stonehenge was
ws a jumbled and exciting
age of migration, creation
and war. The author of The
.Testimony of the Spade is
well qualified to synthesize
the mass of material into
panorama of the world of
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