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WORLD WAR I PROTESTS , . . against Germany have been forgotten, but memories
of them still remain on the University campus.
Stone Wishing Well Reminder
Of University's '09 Sneak Day
By Julie Morris
Senior Staff Writer
The old stone wishing well
and its neighboring memori
als on the grassy mall before
Architectural Hall have quite
a story to tell about the Uni
versity and its past.
The well, according to Dr.
Robert Manley, assistant pro
fessor of history, was con
structed of stones brought
back from Milford, Neb. by
the class of 1909.
The class, Manley said, had
been to Milford for a sneak
day and each student had
agreed to return wiUi a stone
from the town which was ex
pected to become a booming
resort center within a few
years.
Iron Fence
At this same time the actu
al campus area was fenced
in with tall sturdy iron pikes
and there was a formal gate
way to the grounds. The fence
was taken down in 1922 and
cow bounds Lincoln's Wyuka
cemetery, Manley related.
At another spot near the
historic well is the grave of
an early faculty member, Dr.
James Lees, professor of the
classics.
Lees, Manley said, used to
take his students on European
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A GIFT FROM THE PAST . . . provides a place for stu
dents to relax between classes during the day and a ro
mantic moonlight rendezvous.
IDC Sets Tentative
Plans For Semester
A tentative semester agen
da for the Interdorm Coordi
nating Committee (IDC) has
been decided, according to
Marv Almy, president.
The IDC is a group of dorm
representatives who are now
functioning as a temporary
interdorm council and will
plan the formation of a
permanent interdorm council
next year.
Jurisdiction of a perma
nent council in connection
with power over the dorms
and rulings will be the con
cern of the March 22 meet
ing. The question of whether
a council should be a federa
tion or confederation will al
so be discussed.
The March 29 meeting will
concern the structure of an
interdorm council. The role
of a council, the delegates,
representation and voting
rights will be discussed.
Qualification of officers will
culture tours in the summer.
"He was typical of the k i n d
of people who came here
and gave their lives to the
University," Manley com
mented. Lees was on the staff
from 1889 until 1926. When he
died his ashes were scattered
on the spot now marked by a
commemorative headstone.
Tree Tribute
A tree in the same area
was planted by the German
Club in 1905 in tribute to a
German writer a'nd poet. The
tree later became the target
of student wartime demon
strations when the United
States declared war on Ger
many in 1917.
Manley said a small fence
erected around the tree and
the plaque placed there were
torn down by angry students
in the throes of an anti-German
demonstration and the
tree was festooned with yel
low paper as a symbol of Ger
man cowardice.
Later in the early 1920's,
Manley related, the adviser
to the club who planted the
tree requested on his death
bed that the plaque and fence
be put up again as a favor to
him. Faculty members made
private contributions for what
the dying man had asked and
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be considered at the April 5
meeting, along with the num
ber of officers, their duties,
eligibility and manner of
nomination.
On April 19 the need for a
budget and whether to have a
separate fund for member
ship fees will be discussed.
The questions of representa
tion in relation to finance, the
qualifications of these repre
sentatives, and student as
sistant eligiblity will be the
concern of the April 26 meet
ing. At the May 3 meeting,
membership and elections
will be discussed. Areas to
be considered include who
votes, when elections should
be held, nomination and cam
paigns. On May 10, the committee
will discuss the means for
ratification of a constitution
and final proposals for next
year will be compiled.
the plaque today carries the
name of Professor Laurence
Fossler, an early faculty
member and German emi
grant who did much for t h e
University.
Early Expansion
Manley commented that he
has been intriqued with the
early dates at which people
were concerned with Univer
sity expansion. As early as
1874, he said, people were
agitating for expansion and
protesting that four square
blocks were too small for the
University.
In the early days of the
school, he said, it was an oc
casion for celebration when
the Legislature approved
money for a new building.
When the money for Archi
tectural Hall, then a library,
was appropriated, students
marched on the capitol build
ing and through the streets of
Lincoln and then built bon
fires in celebration.
Another small memorial on
the campus is a boulder found
at Hartington, Nebr. which
has definite MerglypMc writ
ings in its surface, Manley
said.
The boulder, he said, was
discovered by the Univer
sity's first professor of natural
science who brought it back
to the campus and had it
placed on the mall in the
1880's.
Agriculture
On the East campus, Man
ley said, there is also a well
constructed memorial for the
first principal of Nebraska's
agricultural high school,
which preceded the establish
ment of the College of Agri
culture. Boys and girls from across
the state, Manley said, came
to live in Lincoln and attend
the high school in the early
1900's. The establishment of
the school, he said was a
"turning point in agricultural
education" in the state.
Dormitories were not buDt
on the campus until the 1920's
Manley commented. He said
that it was so difficult to ob
tain money from the Legisla
ture that University officials
took the attitude that build
ings and equipment were
more important than dormi
tories. Students lived in
boarding houses or other
places in Lincoln, a fact
which made the Lincolnites
happy because of the finan
cial profit.
Dormitories eventu
ally were constructed, he
said, because a group of so
rority alumna were attempt
ing to have the methods of
rushing changed. They felt
the rushing was dirty and
wanted dormitories construct
ed so that a system of de
layed rushing could be es
tablished, Manley said.
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Comprehensive plans for
campus development are not
new, Manley said. In 1920 a
comprehensive plan for phys
ical expansion was developed.
Among other things, it called
for 12th street through i h e
campus area to be a street of
columns.
It was for lihis purpose that
the famed columns near the
athletic practice field were
brought in, he 6aid. Most of
the items in the plan never
took shape, Manley said, be
cause of lack of funds.
Two More Will
Attend Yll Meet
Two additional University
delegates will be attending
the state Young Republican
convention in Beatrice this
weekend. The students are
Mary Wenke and Dick Weerts.
The student's names were
omitted in an earlier list of
the delegates.
WEEK EV
CAMPUS
AWS Tuesday unanimously
passed a motion establishing
a senior key system, but re
jected by a vote of 7-11 an
amendment allowing women
over 21 who were not seniors
to participate in the system.
Because of lack of student
interest in filling out the faculty-evaluation
questionnaires,
the ASUN Faculty Evaluation
Book will probably not come
out this year, according to
Ladd Lonnquist, ASUN Fac
ulty Evaluation Book chair
man. The National Selective Ser
vice has announced that col
lege qualification tests will be
given May 14 and 21 and June
3. However, State Selective
Service Director Gen. Guy N.
Henninger said his office has
not yet received word from
national headquarters on the
tests.
Topping Kansas State Wed
nesday with a score of 79-69,
enables Nebraska to remain
in a two way tie for first
place with Kansas in the Big
Eight basketball tournament.
Both clubs now own identical
11-1 records.
CITY
The Lincoln Council of
Churches has authorized a
study of the liquor-by-the-
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drink issue. The Council's
executive committee and De
partment of Christian Social
Betterment will join "know-
ledgeable persons" for a joint
meeting to gather informa
tion, Council president Dr. A.
L. Slaikeu said Wednesday.
STATE
State Senator Cecil I. Craft
was found dead Tuesday af
ternoon in Lincoln. Dr. E. A.
Rogers, State Health Direc
tor, said the senator died in
his sleep of a heart attack.
The senator had won election
to a four-year term in the re
cent staggered switch from
two-year to four-year terms
for legislators and had nearly
three years remaining to
serve. He represented the
Forty-fifth Legislative D i s
trict made up of Lincoln
County.
NATION
An unmanned spacecraft
bearing the pennant of the
Soviet Union crashed onto the
mysterious surface of the
planet Venus Tuesday, the
Soviet Union announced. An
apparent malfunction of the
communications link preven
ted Soviet scientists from re
ceiving telemetric data about
the cloud-enveloped planet be
fore impact.
The idea's not as crazy as it may seem.
Anytime we take a jet up, there are almost
always leftover seats.
So it occurred to us that we might be able
to fill a few of them, if we gave the young
people a break on the fare, and a chance to
see the country.
The American Youth Plan
We call the idea the American Youth Plari,
and what it means is this:
American will pay half the jet coach fare
for anybody 12 through 21.
It's that simple.
All you have to do is prove your age (a birth
certificate or any other legal document will do)
and buy a $3 identification card.
We date and stamp the card, and this en
titles you to a half -fare ticket at any American
Airlines counter.
The only catch is that you might have to
wait before you get aboard; the fare is on a
standby basis.
"Standby" simply means that the pas
sengers with reservations and the servicemen
get on before you do.
Then the plane's yours.
The American Youth Plan is good year
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M
other Courage 9
Cast Now Rehearsing
Technical rehearsals have
begun for "Mother Courage",
the first play during the sec
ond semester of the Univer
sity Theatre's repertory sea
son. "Mother Courage" opens
March 11 and 12 and will be
subsequently presented
March 25 and 26, April 29 and
30, and May 13 and 14.
Richard Maulsby, Univer
sity Theatre publicity direc
tor, describes "Mother Cour
age" as a musical chronicle
of the 30 Years War. The
story centers around a small
time war profiteer, Mother
Courage, who undergoes all
the experiences it should take
her to detest war.
But she continues to live off
war, blindly moving on with
her wagon full of war mer
chandise. For the production, the
Theatre has purchased a re
volving stage to aid in por
traying Mother Courage's
travels.
The University's production
is a translation by Eric Bent
ley of Bertolt Brecht's play,
originally published in 1939.
The play was originally
named "Mother Courage and
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Her Children" but has been
shortened to "Mother Cour
age." Brecht had intended the
play, Maulsby said, to por
tray Mother Courage as a
person who does profit from
war and not as an indomi
nantable spirit who rises
above the death of all her
children.
However, even when the
play was directed by Brecht
in Germany with his wife as
Mother Courage, the audience
left with a feeling of sympa
thy for Mother Courage.
Brech himself is probably
best known for his "Three
Penny Opera." presented at
the University Theatre in
1962.
The cast, headed by Mar
cene Sweetser as Mother
Courage, also includes her
children protrayed by Jan
Healey, Ric Marsh, and Mike
Karel. Other cast members
include John Guinty and Dean
Tschetter
The cast has been rehears
ing since the semester break.
Maulsby noted that the re
hearsal was probably about
two weeks longer than usual
round except for a few days before and after
the Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas
rushes.
If you ian't think of any places you'd like
to go offhand, you might see a travel agent
for a few suggestions.
We can't add anything else
Other than it's a marvelous opporttmity
to just take off.
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( Do not send proof of age it is not needed
until you have your ID validated.)
In addition to your ID card, well also send
you a free copy of AA's Go Go American
with $50 worth of discount coupons.
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.Color of eyes.
due to the music in the show.
Terry Boyes, musical di
rector for the show, said the
music in "Mother Courage"
was more difficult than in the
recently completed opera,
"Carmen."
Dr. Dallas Williams, pro-'
fessor of speech and dramatic
art, will direct the show. Wil-.
liams has returned from Eng
land where he was studying,
under a Woods Fellowship.
He said that England is ex-'
periencing a Brecht revival in ,
the dramatic arts and that he
saw numerous Brecht produc-.
tions while there.
Charles Howard, assistant
professor in speech and dra
matic art, is the technical di
rector for "Mother Courage."
Considered one of the great
est contemporary playwrites,
Brecht lived in the U n i t e d
States during World War II
and was a continuous foe of
the Nazis. After the war, he
returned to East Germany,
and was very active with the
Berlin Ensemble, a theatre.,
in East Berlin.
Brecht became a Commu-
nist during the later part of
his life. He died in 1956.
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