Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-10-12
SCHOOL AND COLLEGE WORK
Activities of the University Of Ne
braska Continue Interesting,
WHAT THE Y. M. c. A. is DOING
Has Employment and Lodgings
Bureaus and Looks After stu
dents without Charge
Educational Notes.

Educational Notes.
The University Young Mems Christian
association employment bureau has is
sued a statement OF the work accom-
plished during the first month Of the ,
school year. The bureau. with its office |
in the lobby of the Temple building, Sc
cures jobs for students who are making !
at least a part Of their way through the ,
university. keeps list of rooming houses !
and in other ways helps the men stu
dents. No fee is charged when Jobs are |
secured, but the bureau Is maintained by /
the Young Mems Christian association
for the unrestricted use OF the students. |
Fifty cadet commissions were presented !
to the officers of the regiment at the
banquet Of the Cadet Officers association
Friday evening The event was the occa-
sion OF the first annual reception of the
new officers into the club by the old
officers, the officers association being
organized last year. The principal work
of the association will be to keep the
officers who graduate in touch with the
department and to keep up the interest
OF the older alumni in the work being
carried on by their successors in the regi-
ment. An office will be opened this week,
room 500 Armory, where the records will
be kept, and where military publications
will be kept on hand for the men inter
ested An address list of the alumni,
dating back to the first year OF the de
partment. is being compiled by A. II.
Dinsmore, captain and secretary OF the
association. Letters recently received
from DR.. F. F. Tucker and Dean Roscoe
Pound indicate that the alumni are in
terested in the association. DR.. Tucker
was a % graduate, captain OF Company
A, at present a missionary in Pehchow,
Shantung. China. Dean Pound was also
in Company A, and is at present dean OF
the Harvard Law college
An informal study Of the second Bee
thoven Symphony was held in Art hall
Saturday evening, in connection with the
series of symphony concerts which are
| being held at the Thursday conversations.
Quite a number who are interested in
the symphonies were present. Prof.
Damn played over parts of the SYM
phony, explaining and calling attention
! to the theme which runs throughout the
! work.
In the engineering college the new
classes in machine shop work are being
supplied several weeks early with ma
terial for casting This work does not
usually begin until December, but this
year the first work will start this week.
The October nu;nDer OF the Midwest
Quarterly was out Saturday, the first
number of this year. The leading arti-
cles of the number are as follows: "Pla-
to's Political Ideas" by Prof. p. H.
Frye; "Mylett" by George NJ, Gould of
New York city: Theories of Cosmic Evo-
luton" by Prof. G. d. Swezey; "Lyonel
Johnson" by Prof. whipple OF Princeton
university; Charles Pierce OF Johns
Hopkins" by Dean f. w. Davis; DUAL
tiles of Browning" by Harry T. Becker
of New York city; Literature and the
New Anti-Intellectualfsm," by Prof.
Philo M Buck, jr.
DIR. II. X. Wolfe OF the psychology de-
partment attended the city teachers in.
stitute at Hastings on Thursday, Friday
and Saturday. Speaking before the high
school teachers, he talked on the condi.
tons of the Hastings High school, Rs
he had found them during his visit. Later
he addressed the entire body of teachers
on The Application of Psychology tc
Education"
Saturday afternoon a meeting OF the
internationally council was held at tn,
call of Prof. p NJ. Buck chairman of III,
council, to discuss the matter of secur.
ing an interfraternity secretary. TIL,
duties Of the office would be to lool
after the membership of the different fra
ternittes and to do the buying for all o
them on cooperative basis. This move
ment was started last spring, but at 81
late a date that no decision was reached
before the summer vacation. At thi
meeting it was decided to create such al
office and to receive applications at once
The salary will be paid by the fraternI
ties and the office will require possibl,
five hours daily. Students who under
stand buying and can handle the bust
ness end of the proposition are eligible
but the office will not necessarily b
limited to student. Applications shout
be sent to Prof. P. NJ. Buck, and tn
election will be held soon.
Prof. f. II. Frye and Prof. s. B, Gas,
both Of the rhetoric department, are ex
| pected to arrive in Lincoln the latter par
| OF the week They have been in Europ
| since the outbreak OF the war.
| A meeting OF the Phillips Brooks club
| composed OF the student pastors and tn
| Young Mems Christian association sec
/ rotary, will probably be held this week
1 Sigma Delta Chi, honorary journalist
/ fraternity, will hold an initiation an
/ banquet Saturday evening, October II.