Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-08
University
Notes

The manuscript on the Economic
Geography of Norway" by Prof
Sci August Bengston of the State
university has been accepted iol
publication by the Department o.
Commerce of the United State:
government.
Prof. S. A. Bengston of the State
university faculty will attend the
meeting of the Association of Ameri-
can Geographers in St. Louis, De
cember 20 to January /, when he
will read paper on the geographic
unity Of Norway.
Miss Clara Wilson of the faculty
in the teachers college at the State
university, has been invited to join
the faculty in the summer school
at Columbia University, where she
has almost completed her work for
the degree of Phi. D.
DR.. Fl. B. Alexander, chairman OF
the department Of philosophy at the
State university, expects to leave
Lincoln December Is to attend the
Leopold Zunz memorial meeting OF
the National Menorah society. He
will read paper OIL Hebrew Con-
tributions to the Americanism of the
Future DR.. Alexander will then
go to Ithaca. N. Y, for the annual
meeting of the American Philoso-
phical society, of which he is presi-
dent this year. The general topic
OF the meeting will be the philoso-
ply of the community. DR.. Alex
ander says that this will be an ex-
traordinary meeting. DR.. Roscoe
Pound former Nebraska university
man, will be guest of honor at the
convention.
w. o. Riddell, an early settler in
Nebraska, is now the owner of 900
acres of fine orchard land in New
York state He has lately written
TO the alumni secretary of the state
university relative to his attendance
upon the institution i'll its first years.
He saw the erection of the first
building. Sixty-one years ago he en-
tered the state in prairie schooner,
the top of which repeatedly caught
fire from the smoke stack of the
Terry boat by which the Missouri
river was crossed near Omaha. He
entered the university in 1874.
Professor A. A. Reed, inspector
of accredited schools for the Uni
versity' of Nebraska, left Lincoln
Friday to attend meeting of the
executive committee of the North
Central association of colleges and
secondary schools to plan for the
March meeting. There are seven
members of the committee, and the
meeting place is Chicago.
George Driver, employment sec
rotary of the University of Nebraska
Y. M. c. A., reports that he has
many calls from university men for
rart-time jobs. Free service is given
by his office to both students and
employers. During November work
was found for 106 men. From Sep
TENDER 10 to December the earn
ings of university men for whom
he found work amounted to
$s,037.l0.
DR.. F. M. Fling of the State uni
versity will address the freshmen
this week on some phases of world
politics. This lecture will be part
of the series arranged for this year
to give setting for their univer-
sity life and studies. The follow
ing lecture will be given by Chan
cellor Avery on a subject of his own
choosing. ....-. S..
Professor Roy Cochran of the
American history department en-
tertained graduate conference Of the
department at his home Wednes-
day. The present situation of the
peace treaty was the general subject
of discussion. Professor M. L. An
derson of Union college, a member
of the conference, reviewed Mil
lard's Democracy and the Eastern
Question. and William NJ. Brigance
discussed Henry Thung's Oriental
Policy in the United States. The
latter author.is 4 graduate of the
State university of Nebraska.
Georgia Tuttle. who was gradu-
ated from the university last spring
and has been pursuing graduate
work this fall, left this past week to
become the instructor in history in
the .Stromburg high school.