The new members of Mortar Board masked during the afternoon ceremony are Genevieve Clark, Stamford, president; Ruth Wells, Lake View, Iowa; Marial Flynn, Ulysses; Mary Ellen Edgerton, Aurora; Eleanor Flatemersch, Milford; Ida May Flader, Lincoln; Frances McChesney, Omaha; Dorothy Carr, Scottsbluff; Mary Doremus, Aurora; Doris Trott, Lincoln; Marguerite Forsell, Omaha; Eloise McMonies, Lyons; Elsie Gramlich, Fort Crook, and Dr. Elda B. Walker, Lincoln, honorary.
No classes were held on Friday and student affairs vied with alumni doings for popularity. At 9:30 o'clock the alumni council met at the Temple Building to take up various items of business. The reports given at the council meeting by the various officers and committees are given elsewhere in this issue in full.
At the same hour a meeting for the alumnae was held at Ellen Smith hall, presided over by Mrs. Martha Cline Huffman of Broken Bow, vice-president of the alumni association during the past year and newly-elected president for the coming year. The attendance was small but those present seemed much interested in the discussion. Dean Amanda H. Heppner spoke about conditions in the University during the past year and Mrs. Alice Towne Deweese urged the women to help in forming alumni clubs over the state so that there would be an organization for the alumni association to appeal to when a contact is needed. Following the talks there was a general discussion of the needs of undergraduate girls, especially those in dormitories, and the need of the active interest of the alumnae in the problem of University girls. The women expressed themselves as being anxious to get in touch with more women graduates and as being desirous of continuing the alumnae meeting as part of the Round-Up program, especially if it could be included in alumni day.
The Sigma Phi Epsilon baseball team won the interfraternity baseball championship on Friday by defeating the Sigma Alpha Epsilon squad by a score of 12 to 8.
Law seniors, alumni, faculty members and judges -150 strong - joined in the annual law barbecue Friday noon at Lincoln Auto Club park and consumed a giant meal. A baseball game, horseshoe pitching and free-for-alls occupied the afternoon hours and a new feature of the day was the appearance of Volume 1, No. 1 of the "Nebraska Law Bull" in which professors and students alike were the brunt of humorous witticisms.
The weary hours of drill and the chafing
under stern command during the days preceding "compet" when
trudging feet were snapped into line and commands memorized
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like clockwork were forgotten Friday afternoon when the entire military department of the University appeared in the thirty-third competitive drill. Cheering crowds greeted each company as it tried for honors and the pretty ceremonies in which the sponsors and honorary colonel took part added to the gayety of the occasion, Company K, commanded by Cadet Captain Harold S. Gish of Lincoln, won first place in company close order drill and W. H. Cronk of Omaha, a member of Company B, was individual honor winner. Second place among the companies was won by Company G, commanded by Cadet Captain Glen A. Dunkle of Lincoln.
At the 4 o'clock hour members of the newly-formed Lincoln Pan-Hellenic Association entertained at a delightful tea at Ellen Smith hall for the seniors and alumnae of all sororities. More than three hundred women called during the receiving hours and were greeted by Mrs. E. C. Ames, president of the association; Miss Marguerite McPhee, past chairman of the Pan Hellenic board; Mrs. R. N. Westover, new chairman of the board, and Miss Amanda H. Heppner, dean of women, who formed the receiving line. A profusion of peonies made attractive decoration and a program of music was presented by Miss Nina York, violinist, accompanied by Miss Marjorie Little; Miss Helen Cook, pianist, and Lenore Burkett Van Kirk, soloist, accompanied by Miss Hilda Chowins. The committee in charge included Mrs. Katherine Wills Coleman as chairman, Miss Harriett Bardwell and Miss Marie McGerr.
Banquets, dinners and luncheons, breakfasts, smokers and general open house were included in the Round-Up schedule for the fraternities and other organizations on the campus, each of which had special plans for the entertainment of its alumni. These affairs were mostly arranged on Friday and Saturday evenings but others were scattered through the three-day program and formed pleasant variety with the more strenuous activities on the campus.
One of the most popular events on the Round-Up program was the presentation of "Whispering Wires" at the Orpheum Friday evening by the University Players. It is a thrilling mystery play with many tense dramatic moments relieved by clever humor and a romance love story which was especially well done by the Players, who had presented it as part of their 1924-25 season of plays. The theatre was packed and the audience seemed most appreciative. The University Orchestra played during the performance.
All-University reunion day - that was the slogan for Saturday of the Round-Up and it was indeed just that. It was then that most of the eight hundred alumni who had come to Lincoln from all over the country joined with scores of Lincoln alumni in happy hours of talkfests and greetings. Headquarters were arranged in the east concourse of the Stadium
