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friday, October 20, 1978
NEBRASKAN
1920s
Editorial
3AILY
FRESHMEN
DON CAPS
"Wearirf of the Green"
to be Popular with
First-Year Men
No Dating At Games
1922-There was a notice in Friday's
Nebraskan which read as follows: "Men
cannot bring girls to football games and
sit in girls' section. Engberg-Scott."
This statement was not authorized by
Professor Scott or Dean Engberg and is
retracted at this time. The editor was out
of the city at the time the notice was
printed and has been unable to date to
learn who was responsible for the unau
thorized statement.
However, it has been the desire and
recommendation of the coaches at Ne
braska in the past, that there be no dating
among University students at the football
games. This year the students are again
greatly in accord with having two student
rooting sections, one for the men and the
other for the women, and the students
are going to enforce the tradition.
So, although Professor Scott and Dean
Engberg did not authorize the notice, we
do not believe it would be wise for any
student to attempt to bring his girl to the
Notre Dame game Saturday. More than
this we are convinced that every student
is in accord with the slogan, "No dating
at football games," and there is no need
for further agitation.
COEDS GUSH
AT SORORITY
RUSH PARTY
Pledges Get Educated
In Sorority Rush
Etiquette
1923 -Typical Episode Illustrates How
The New Girl Is Educated to Ways of
Doing, and Is Made a Sorority Neophyte.
Scene I
Setting: Any sorority house.
Time: 4:45
Scene II
Ruth: Hurry up and get dressed. Don't
you know they'll be here in a few
minutes?
Mary: What if they are? I hate to kiss
and gush around girls anyhow.
Ruth: Do you think that's the right
attitude? You know how lucky we were
to get those girls. Patsy would have gone
Blank Blank Blank for sure, if it wasn't
that her cousin was a Blah Blah Blah.
Mary: I'm ready now, let's go down.
Scene III
On the front steps of the Sorority
House. Several girls arrive in taxies and
rush up to their new abode.
Smack
Smack Smack
Smack Smack Smack Smack
Smack Smack Smack Smack
Smack Smack Smack Smack
Smack Smack Smack Smack
Smack Smack Smack Smack Smack
Scene IV
Mary to Patsy the Pledge:
Here, let me pin these ribbons on you
dear. I have been waiting just for you
honey. What a darling dress, dear.
Darling, did you know you were going to
room with me. I'm so thrilled. We both
take Journalism so we'll get on fine.
We're the same size, too. so well trade
dresses. I know youU be happy now that
you've made up your mind to be a Blank
Blank Blank, etc etc. etc. etc. etc. etc.
1927-First-year men will again wear
the traditional green caps which identify
the Freshmen on the University campus
until the annual Olympic struggle late in
the fall. The Innocents Society announces
that over 775 emerald headgears have
been ordered and Freshmen men must
purchase them before the end of the
week. They may be procured as the stu
dents receive their credentials in the line
to Room 110, University Hall, or at the
College Book Store. Sam Brownell has
charge of the disposal of the caps.
Only during the war did Nebraska
postpone this custom of asking its male
beginners to don green caps. Because the
Freshmen class, through its advantage of
numbers, usually overpowers the Sopho
more class in the Olympics in November,
the first-year men at that time earn the
right to throw away their light green
coverings.
The University wants to make the
Freshmen see that "wearing of the green"
is not a penalty prescribed for them to
"mark" them on the campus, or to brand
them as symbolic of the color of the caps.
On the contrary, the purpose of the
custom is to act as the medium whereby
acquaintances may be the direct result.
The green caps serve to line up forces
for the big class struggle which absorbs
the attention of the school shortly before
Thanksgiving recess. If the Sophomores
are victorious in these Olympics, the first
year men must continue to wear the caps
in snow and cold. If the Freshmen win
the fight they are allowed to cast the caps
to the winds.
All caps must be disposed of by Satur
day, according to those who have charge
of the sale. Authorities do not wish to
carry them after registration week.
NO MORE
FUNDS FOR
STADIUM
1923 -The stadium could be used
today if it were necessary," declared
Harold F. Holtz, secretary of the alumni
association, Thursday morning. "Tho the
association is down to its last three hund
red dollars, and all work will have to be
stopped unless money is raised, there are
now more seats than were ever utilized in
the old grandstands, and the field can be
used by the players at any time."
Once two weeks behind the schedule,
the construction companies worked
nights by the light of big arc lamps, so
that no more progress than has now been
made was ever expected. Labor wfll go on
as usual, and will probably not cease until
April or May in 1924.
A new drive for money may start
within a few weeks, according to the de
cision of the executive committee at a
session f be held Friday, said Mr. Hotz.
On September 1 the financial report
shows that $3,793.89 was available for
sub-contracts. Most of that has now been
used in letting the drainage contract for
the field, so that but a few dollars are on
hand for upkeep and incidental expenditures.
BALLOTS
CAST ON
TREATY
Colleges from East to
West Vote on
Referendum
1923 -"No referendum on prohibition
such as held in some eastern schools can
be taken in this university," said Chancel
lor Avery last night.
"Inasmuch as the Regents, who con
stitute supreme authority under the state
constitution and laws, have decided that
the internal policy of the University
answers question number three in the af
firmative -that is, it favors more rigorous
enforcement of the prohibition amend
ment and the Volstead Act to make pro
hibition an actuality.
"Furthermore, the Regents have
recently specifically directed the execu
tive officers of the University to cooper
ate with the federal, state and city law
enforcement officers, and with the moral
forces of the city, in vigorous enforce
ment of the prohibition amendment and
the Volstead Act in so far as the Univer
sity is concerned.
"Though it is my belief that a referen
dum on number three would be over
whelmingly in the affirmative, the
University cannot with propriety permit a
referendum to be taken involving a sub
ject on which its own governing board has
spoken definitely and authoritatively,"
he added.
Aside from the Regents' recent action,
he pointed out that all good citizens must
in law enforcement. A conscious determ
ination either to evade or to wink at the
evasion of any law places one in the po
sition of a conspirator to overthrow the
law. To raise the question propounded in
question Number three is as preposterous
as it would be to suggest for debate
whether we shall enforce the speed laws
or the law against larceny.
"It is possible that some other schools
have permitted a referendum among their
students as to whether or not they favor
upholding the Constitution of the United
States and the enforcement of law. Such
a proposal, however, in the University of
Nebraska is preposterous," he concluded.
NO VOTE
TAKEN ON
PROHIBITION
Chancellor Avery Tells
Why Such Vote
Is Absurd
1920 Eight of twenty middle wes
tern colleges, in the League of Nations
and Treaty referendum, voted in favor
of any compromise which would make
possible immediate ratification, and nine
were in favor of ratification without
reservations or amendment, according to
incomplete returns compiled today.
Three favored ratification with the res
ervation proposed by Senator Lodge and
voted in favor of a separate peace.
Votes taken at nine colleges and uni
versities on the Pacific coast showed a
plurality in favor of ratification with
reservations calculated to retain for the
United States board control of its ac
tivities under the league of nations
covenant.
The schools in the middle west that
voted for a compromise were Univer
sities of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan,
Denver University, St. Louis University,
Washington University, St. Ignatius
College and Case School of Applied
Science.
The following were in favor of ratifi
cation without reservations or amend
ments: University of Nebraska, University
of Colorado, University of Kentucky,
Transylvania, Georgetown College,
Center College, Drury College, Denison
University and Northwestern University.
These voted for the treaty with the
Lodge reservations Ohio State University,
Detroit University, Michigan College of
Mines.
Western reserve was for a separate
peace.
In New England there was a decided
preference for the compromise proposi
tion which was shared generally by the
eastern colleges. In the middle west the
early returns showed a preference for the
same proposition, while the votes were
quite evenly distributed between ratifi
cation with the Lodge reservations for
second place.
The intercollegiate treaty referendum
committee received telegraphic returns
here from all the colleges and complete
results were expected to be announced
before midnight tonight.
