THE NEBRASKAN
I
Vol.. VI. No. 23
f illlY liS WIN
Iown Players Como nml (Jo Leaving
Victory Ilclilml TIipiii
itwas a very exciting game
Connrll IIUtlTr OlrU l'lnycil Wnll Hut Wort)
Cot Tulle lCnotiRli Hcoro 1J to 7
MiilRrtft Ktitcrtalncil tho Crowd
Tin1 Mf-di-gcnred interest In girls'
ljisKit I'ull manifest 'luring tln past
niniitli ' two found culmination, to
m ii mixed metaphor, In the Iowa-No-l.rixKii
imttlo of lust Friday evening.
Tlu xx heels are going: moiv slowly now
iiml tin' s-'irls hiv resting. Tin game
utis mi mnoviitlon for Nebraska mid
tin- We-t. mid the management, rolled
up their sleeves uiid worked like Tro
jnns dating tlu week of preparation,
milking plaiiH and arranging details.
n they feel joyous and well re
warded, for the girls say tluit they had
the fun of their lives Friday night and
ninth' the most of the first chance they
have liml at an athletie event "their
cr imi."
tiiii- croxx-d wiir on hand early, one
whirli taxed the sealing capacity of
the arnmr.x, and whieh represented
Lincoln" fairest and bravest, in the
wax uf culture and prominence. It
x:i noteworthy that a minimum of
I nicrity people were present, hut
i he iiil!u of town folk more than '
tilled their places, and the girls hail i
cvartlx the stamp of audience before
which thc.x could ilay with eclat and
inspiration. The spectators proved
liberal of encouragement and ini
unrtinl applause, even if they didn't
happen t he familiar with all the
niceties of the game and the rules
alxuit fouls; and they xvent. away pro
nouncing the basket ball "more fun
than n comic openi."So it xx'as. not
only for the sjwetators, but for the
plnjcr.
The Inxxa girls came In at .'!:-15 over
the Unci, Island, under the care of
ihcii li.ineronc, and were taken at
once t. the homes of their entertain
trs. 'I hex xx ere located as follows:
Mrs. It. Moore, chaperon, xxith Mrs.
L. C I.'iiliards; Krma and Vera 1mliey,
Mrs. .1 II. McMurtry; Stella l.oyer and
Ajrues pies, Mrs. (i. M. Lanibcrtson;
Kit t ii- Warner and Sadie (!rass, Mrs.
1'. M Hall: Claudia Scott and Grace
llriliii!iii. Mrs. A. S. iinymoml; MuIm'1
"'ml ,v M. ). Vlch.
The .irmory xvas decorated for the
oeeasii.ii xxith scarlet and cream 'mil
color .it xarious societies were con-sjiiciK.H-.
Neatly printed programs
x ere iitrihutcd, bearing the names
f tin- pla.vcrs and netting forth the
onler i play and the rules to be fol
loxxed. Ihe gjune xvas called early, not
nl Imciiusc the spectators wen on
hand ;irlx, but because it was ncces
sun u, ejt through so that time xvould
IM-Ieti iK'fore the lights went out at 11
oVloi ' for the luncheon after the
him i, Everything went off smoothly
and in. if xxas not one wait in the
Whnl,
I'Migram. The patronesses oc-
cujni d -.fiitH reserved for them along
the iioitb side, and the "rooters," de
eidn,; iimt they couldn't see well in
the li.ileuny, ranged theinsclxes op-ponit,-
.inig tlie south side.
Prompt l.v ah the whistle blew for 8
o'cloek i be gaiiie xvas called, and the
H-Iionw-d "Midgets" appeared as a
uruini raisers. They uaine skipping
JojotisU out on the floor of the
nnory like J'rownic or spring lambs
l lined up b follows for their lilli
l'utiuj, conllict:
Forxvards.
Adelloul YVIiitinir (cant.)
Minnie Smith
'".v Griffith 11 nice Wheeler
., Centers.
1'OKa Hess. Xettie Henry
nice llrondy Jennie Pcntzer (cnpL)
liuurds.
Ldith Schwartz. Mabel Dempster
il'diel Krfoid Anna McCrosky
They xxere xery fairly divided and
'" traine was close,, for the "Midgets"
I'1".' ith Hj)lrit, though they may not
M much .-is t size. Miss Anno Harr,
wiuie ,, j,or fmtf JlH tjltfy KCOOtcd about
"'' am hopped against her on every
w,''. as their game grexx in excitement,
ru-i d, jj, ri.feree und umpire, and
w projH'rli lenient txvard these
"''Iglings about fouls. The Midgeta
I'latwl as liard aud fust UH ever they
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1898.
could for twenty minutes, running
about like caged mice newly let loose,
and mingling some pretty passing and
hklllful throwing with bird-like shouts
of eselteinent. at critical points. Vo
official score was kept of their linings,
but at the end of the "half" Captain
Pentzer's team was several points in
the lead. They were heartily applaud
ed, for they are great favorites, and
one of their renowned matches nexer
fulls to win them compliments.
Then began the first half of the eon
test of the evening. The girls from
loxva made their entrance through the
east door garbed in pretty suits of
gray, short-skirted, and trimmed with
scarlet braid. .From the west door en
tered the stalwart athlets making up
the Nebraska team garbed in bloomer
suits of navy blue, decorated xxith an
"N" of white felt, in the front. The
two teams met in the mlddk of the
hall, aud as they shook hands before
the "line-up," xxere greeted xvilh a
diapason of cheers.
Those who served as officials xxere:
W. K. Andreson, referee; Miss .Mac
Dill (Council muffs). Miss Anne llarr,
umpires; Miss (irace llardiuan (Coun
cil Hind's), time-keeper; Miss Daisy
llonneli, score-keeper. Miss linnlmaii
in the young lady xvho dislocated her
arm in a practice match tu the Council
niuffs armory, and will have to stay
out of her favorite game for ,sonie
time. She is noxv acting as business
manager for the "L. I. F." team.
The Council llluffs girls formed a
better, because more experienced,
team than Omaha V. V. C. A. team,
xxith whom it xvas originally an
nounced that a match would be played.
Probably they xxere The best team
from a reasonably near locality xxith
xvhoin a match could have lccu ar
ranged. The Nebraska girls had the
advantage, though, in height and
strength and garb, a greater advantage
than had been looked for. All the
gidis jn41iu.iidt.leam are athletes, tall.
strong girls xxith long reach, all e.-
eept the team's little forxx-ard, llertha
DuTeil.xvhoin her associates call the
'"baby" of the team, and she makes up
for her lack of size by Iier unusual
strength and activity. The Council
iluus girls had not the height of
Misses Kennedy, Jteach or Welch, nor
the all round athletic skill of Harriet
Cooke, and they averaged less in age
as xx ell as stature. Their youth xvas
not necessarily a disadvantage, but
their lack of height was, and this
joined to their style of passing, prob
ably went far tovxard losing them the
game. It xxas noticed that they used
overhand passing exclusixely, Which,
against a taller team, proves calamit
ous. The Nebraska girls used bo"Hi
styles, high and low passing. At; was
predicted, the loxva girls xxere sxviff,
being used to men's rules. They got
the ball out of their hano's xxith su
perior quickness and showed good
coaching in this aud other n'spects,
Especially in guarding the Nebraska
girls showed a tendency to hold the
sphere long before tiiroxving and
fouled often, with the exception of the
day before the match, when they were
advifed by a player from the men's
team. They have had no coaching ex
cept from Miss. Harr, the director,
hardly even from their captain, who,
being the newest player, at basket ball
in the team, was herself in need of
coaching and increased familiarity
with the rules. The Council Hluffs
team played a steady, hard and plucky
game. They were beaten because they
ran up against teller aud more ath
letic girls, not beeause they couldn't
play good imsket ball. That they had
fair treatment is shown by the iium-
ibor of fouls culled eighteen against
Nebraska as compared to six agalpst
loxva. The field deportment of all the
iila vers was noticeably good. All
seemed to enjoy themselves thorough
ly and were good-tempered aud friend
ly. There xvas not a dispute or a pro
test of any kind during the xvhole
evening. v
The players were:
Council Hluffs. U; of X.
Forxvards.
Rtellu Hoyer Bertha DiiTcil
Kittle Warner Helen Welch
Centers.
Vera l.inkcy IouIho round
Mabel Cook "Harriet Cooke
'CI minis.
A,rn,.K Knies Marie Ueacli
Continued on page four.
Kill BE DECIDED TONIGHT
Oratorical Contest Tnkfa Plni-o In Jho
Chapel This Ktcnlng
ONLY THREE WlbL CONTEST
McMra, iWelrr, Dpnnloon itiid Tucker Will
Strive for Foretmle Honor Telyn
Uimrtot Will l'urnlnh tho Miule
One of the xery fexv rent great exeats
of the college, year i'oiuch off to-night
In the chapel, x here (jie annual ora
torical contest of thu University or
.Nebraska takes place. 1
The otliecrs of the association have
been doing their utnuirit to ensure the
most successful eonteJt ever held in
the. rniversity. ,
They huxc arranged a program
which should attract the largest
crowd that has gatherejl in the, ehupel
this year.
rnfortunately two OX the contest
ants, Mr. Cake anil Miss Cough, have
left school, leaving buti the'threc rep
resentatives of the literary societies
to contest for the placj.
Tin friends of the tltfee Contestants
are all confident thatljheir favorite
will win. tyi
Since our last issue the Scnter T.eh
nier and' Qiiu'iutuucc TimtcKt'. of the
I'liion society lias tilRe'n place, and
Mr. Meier came out victorious.
The shoxxing that Mr. Meier there
made has filled his supporters with
confidence that he will do lionor to
his society and to himself.
Those xx ho heard his oration pro
nounce it an extremely line effort,
both as to manuscript, and delixery.
Mr. Dcunison's past record speaks
for itself. Last year lie won second
this year he was llrst place in the
preliminary debates. On the strength
of this showing his Del inn friends arc
very hopeful. - "" T'
Mr. Tucker, although new in such
circles, has already proved his proxx'ets
by winning the Chase and Wheeler
contest of the l'nlliidian society.
The winner of this contest has been
successful in the last txx'o rniversity
eonle.sts. so the 1'alladianK think that
a n'conl of three straight xvill be es
tablished. Ju addition to the orations sonic ex
ceptionally fine music will be fur
furnished. Following is the program:
Mandolin solo
Oration The Evolution of Gov
ernment J. D. Dennison
M usie Telyn Quartet
Oration The Principles Fought
for by Our Ancestors.. O.W.Meier
Vocal Solo The Flight of Ages..
Grace 15. lleynolds
Oration The Coming Statesman..
H. It. Tucker
M usie Telyn Quartet
The Mass Meeting
The mass meeting Wednesday morn
ing in the Interest of oratory brought
out a good number of students, espe
cially on the boys side of the ehael.
After the devotional exercises Chan
cellor MacLean announced the mass
meeting and put if into the hands-of
the students. Mr.( Dennison immedi
ately placed tin chancellor in noinina
The motion xvas seconded by Mr.
linger and unanimously curried.
The. chancellor spoke f the nexv
fashion in vogue in Eastern colleges
and borrowed from Oxford of calling
such mass meetings. voniocuUonH, but'
under any name, when for such a pur
pose, they must be, successful. He
Ioke of the object of Uie meeting,
that of encouraging the study and
practice of oratory and said that so
long as persuasion leads men to noble
actions, oratory will flourish. He in
troduced Mr. L. It. Exvai't as u- repre
sentative of the student body.
Mr. Exvart told sonni funny stories
us a si arter. und" then spoke of the
need of co-operation by the whole
rniversity whiclriwuntetl its 'best men
to represent it at the state oratorical
meeting. When n, HtUe, over n year
from to-day the interstate meeting oc
curs at which fifteen. 'wates will le
represented Nebraska should be able
to do hcrhelf justice there.
T. F. A. Williams was Introduced H
a gentleman who comprised the whole
alumni body. Mr. WllJIums did not
understand on which count I'rofi'ssor
Fossler, who was present, wuk ruled
out, whether from the alumni body or
the rankH of gentlemen. The speaker
said oratory xvns culled dead, but this
xvas refuted when any crisis came.
Some man always came forward at
such a time xxho held the masses in
the palm of his hand and moved them
at his will simply by means of his
power of cliKpienee. The title of ora
tor is won when the people do as he
bids them, .not by any opinion they
may express as to his ability. Cour
age, sympathy and conscience arc es
sentials.
The university supported by the
state Oxves roiuething to it and an
obligation rests on men to get. out
for contests, to train all the powers
they have in this direction, lie said
he might be talking heresy, but he
considered oratory as subsidiary to
debate, for whieh It xvas a training.
Dr. Fling, xxho followed him, spoke
on "Oratory and Debating." He re
marked on the fact that the faculty
had three representatives aud the
students aud alumni only two. He
didn't knoxv xxhether it. xvas beeause
there was more oratorical timber in
the faculty or because the students
xxho arranged the program xvent on
the principle of uuntity against qual
ity. He had attended some oratorical
contests, he said, and he thought more
training xvas necessary to give stage
presence and control. No matter how
good the thought is. a ragged delivery
spoils it all. Even genius needs to get
technique and this is xvhat the asso
ciation should gixe to students, lteg
ular training will seem machine xxork
at first. bit at last the impulse xvill
come of itself.
Dr. Hill followed on Oratory in
Eastern Colleges." He said he could
not speak from personal exjierience as
an orator, having never written or de
Hxercd an oration, and he believed he
xvas sandwiched in as a set-off.
Dr. Hill differed sumexvhat from
some of the other sitcakcrs. He
thoughtWomtory hn'uWu.ajtxJSv fJp&J1
independent of the training it gave. msn 'ecide7ni.at Hie bouru'orcTiTtor
:iepciticnt or tin training it gn
He knew that in Cornell it stood on
its oxvn legs. The Cornell-Pennsylvania
is the only debate that brings out
an audience, and that is due to col
lege spirit, but the oratoricais always
draw ciowds and make money. He
could not speak of Hnrxard and Yale,
but in Wisconsin so great xvas the in
tercsT in thescxen normal schools that
each fciiool had forf.x or fifty men in.
training for each contest. While it
xxas narroxved doxxn to one for the
contest betxvecn the seven schools in
the state, it kept up the interest
thrcugh the year.
He did not think it was strange that
teachers should train for orators.
They needed it to present their work.
A teacher should be a compound of
logic, psychology and oratory. Hi
also had obsejx-ed that the preparation
lien was not sufficient, lly good work
the association could be put on a bet
ter basis. In Wisconsin the faculty
voted txvo prizes to til? association's
one.
Dr. Ward sjwikc on the "Higness of
the I'nlt." He had tn'u'ii part in onl.x
one oratorical contest and receixvd no
prize, as there xvas no booby pri.c
given. He instanced how often laxx
yers aud ministers failed becaiiHe thc.x
xxere not able to convey the message
thc.x hud in a forceful way. It de
pended not only on poxxvr of expres
sion, but on logic oi' thought. He
spoke of what Louis Agassi, had done
for science because he had the poxxci
of eloquence, lly his traxels and his
speeches lux had aroused an interest
all over the. country in the natural
sciences. He had secured from a re
luctant legislature the grant of &2fi,
000 for a museum and the people call
it still by his name.
The chancellor advised the boys to
look over at the faithful girls who at
tended the meeting aud see that each
of them got to the contest Friday
night.
Company D Feed
Keeping right in line with several of
the other companies, Company 1) xxill
give an informal feed at the Alpha
Tau Omega house, Fourteenth and M
streets, next Tuesday evening. The
boys xxill assemble there at tho Imi
tation of l apt. Morrison, xvho xvill dis
cuss xxith them ways and means of
cupluriuf,' -' c"t' ' 14 competitive
drill.
Price 5 Cents.
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THE SOMBRERO
Class or 1H00 Decides to Hiivc a Junior
Annual Next Year
EDITORS OF ANNUAL ELECTED
F. II . Wooillnml und It. O. lloprr Hro Kitlt-
om-ln-Clilof, Collott nml Vim Viillu
tor lluslnms MiuingcrA
The members of the Sophomore class
held a meeting in the chapel last Fri
day afternoon to elect editors-in-chief,
business managers and a board of ed
itors of the Sombrero, which publica
tion that class intends to Issue nest
year. The political fight for the places
of honor on the Sombrero has been
one of the most bitter in the- historv
of the class, and for a month past.
caucuses haxe been held and the mem
bers of the class have got. out. und hus
tled for their favorite candidates.
So xx hen the class assembled in the
chapel it. xvas with feelings of sup
pressed excitement. No factions xxere
present und each xx-as confident of vic
tory. After disposing of some minor mat
ters of business it xvas unanimously
decided that the class publish the
Junior Annual next year, otherwise
knoxxn ns the Sombrero. Then came
the first fight as to how many editors-in-chief
and business managers there
Khnuld be. One part of tho class
members argued for three cditons-in-ehicf
and the same uumlcr of busi
ness managers. The opposing faction
favored txvo instead of thm. Mr.
Pearse moved that there be txx-o edit
ors-in-chief. This motion wns amend
ed to elect three editors-in-chief. The
amendment was lost and the original
motion carried. A motion to elect but
two
business managers met- with no
consist of twelve members of the class.
Nominations for editors-in-chief xxvre
then in order. F. H.a Woodland, It. C.
Itoper aud i. W. Kline xxere put in
nomination. When the Tiallots were
counted the vote stood: Woodland 01,
Itoper .17, and Kline 48. Messrs. Wood
bind and Itoper were declared elected.
For the position of business man
agers. Co let t, VanValin, Woodruff
and Licbmann wen nominated. Col
lett and VnnVnlin xxere the successful
candidates.
Txventy-four nominations xxvre made
to fill the Jtisitlons of associate editor.
The folloxx'iiig txvelxv xxvre elected:
Misses Henry, McCunc, Alderman.
Packard, Mackin. Hess, Messrs. Imler,
Chambers, Adams, ISenedict, Iteedcr.
West.
As soon as the meeting adjourned
candidates at the head of the ticket
had to submit to being tossed ly their
enthusiast ie supporters.
Company F Feed
At. the invitation of Captain W. H.
Xoyes the members of company F met
at the. Tau Delta Omicron house at
2-114 I' street last Tuesday evening,
in order to more thoroughly unite the
Company a civil organization was per
fected. II. 11. Xoyes xx'as elected pres
ident and C. K. Cooper secretary. The
boys indulged in a tug of war just by
way of getting up their muscles for a
similar contest with conipany K,
which wil fake place in the near fu
ture. All of the officers, non-commissioned
ofllcers and some of the privates
made short speeches tending to
arouse company spirit. Major White
increased the enthusiasm bj- offering
a prize, of S10 to be spent in celebrate
ing by one of the companies in the
second batalliou, in ease it won. .the
cup in the comjietitive drill.
The cudeus employed the remainder
of the time in playing various games,
after which delightful refreshments
were served. .
. i .
Company F Hop Tonight, in:
The first annual company F hop'will
be. given tonight at Courier hall, 1132
N" street. This is the first hop given
litis year by tiny of the companies of
tho regiment. The committee on ar
rangement consists of Brown, Cie
lund. Clark, Adumo and Atwood.