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has echoed the words of some of the nation's noted men, including President Wilson himself, was taken, and four hundred found standing room in the rear of the balcony and main floor. Speeches were made by representatives of the state, the regents, the faculty, and students. Enthusiasm, which had grown with the march, overflowed in the meeting, and references to the part played by the University in the Spanish-American war, to the American flag, and to the part the University would play, brought roars from the crowd. When Captain Sam M. Parker, then commandant of University cadets, who typified the new Cornhusker, arose to speak, he was greeted with an ovation which would have made William Jennings Bryan happy in the free silver days of 1896. The spirit of the America that had put aside the many pursuits of peace to settle the more vital issues fighting for supremacy in the world were expressed by all who spoke. There could now be no neutrality; no mental reservation. "Those who are not for us are against us," Prof. Sarka Hrbkova declared, and the cheers that followed her assertion showed where the University stood. Governor Neville, Regent Miller, Chancellor Avery, Prof. Grove Barber, Dean E. A. Burnett, Prof. F. M. Fling, Dean Davis, Edith Yungblut, Ted Metcalfe, and Robert Waring all affirmed the patriotism of the University and its desire to serve to the utmost in the war.
At the close of the meeting, Albert Bryson, '17, read a resolution, pledging the resources of the University and the services of every man and woman in the assembly to the cause of the war, and the four thousand arose and endorsed it by acclamation.
On October the twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred seventeen, a conference of representatives from all the colleges of Nebraska was held in Omaha to determine what part Nebraska students should take in raising a great national Students' Friendship War Fund of $1,000,000 - the college world's bit in helping to put the Red Triangle and all its benefits within reach of every man bearing arms. Nebraska's goal was set at $25,000, and on November the third at a representative meeting of faculty and students, the University of Nebraska pledged itself to raise $15,000. A chairman and committee were selected, and plans were laid to conduct a personal canvass of the entire University.
The campaign was opened by a mass meeting held in the Armory, Wednesday evening. November the seventh, which was addressed by Arthur J. Bickham, general Y. M. C. A secretary at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station. Considerable enthusiasm was aroused and the next day the personal canvass of students began. For three days twenty-three teams of ten students each worked faithfully, a faculty committee cooperating, but on Saturday night less than $7,000 had been pledged.
The personal canvass had failed and the campaign rested until November the twentieth, when another meeting was held to decide just what to do about the whole program. Every other college in the state and most of them throughout the entire nation had oversubscribed. Was Nebraska University to fall behind? After much discussion it was determined not to accept defeat, but to make one last supreme effort to get the students remaining in the University to measure up in some degree at least to the sacrifices
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