N 1905 cadet officers in universities of the United States saw a need for a national military fraternity which would unite officers in their undergraduate military work more satisfactorily and would encourage and foster the best qualities in the military department In that same year Scabbard and Blade was founded at the University of Wisconsin, and was called a national honorary military fraternity.

     In 1920, officers in the department at the University of Nebraska succeeded in establishing C Company of the Third Regiment at Nebraska. Since then the organization has taken the lead in the military department and has worked consistently for the best interests of Nebraska and particularly the military phase of the University.

     C Company sponsors the annual military carnival held in the winter, and helps to entertain visiting officers and inspectors, besides holding dinner dances and other functions that bring cadet officers in closer touch with each other.

OFFICERS

Captain	DONALD F. SAMPSON
First Lieutenant	ROBERT TYNAN
Second Lieutenant	STANLEY REIFF
First Sergeant	VICTOR T. HACKLER

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IGMA TAU, an honorary engineering fraternity, was founded at the University of Nebraska, twenty-one years ago. It has since become a national organization, with nineteen active chapters, playing an important part in the scheme of engineering education. Eligibility for membership in Sigma Tau is based upon character and ability, or rather, upon those attributes which can be classified under the general headings of scholarship, practicality, and socialibility. Scholastic requirements are satisfied when a student has an average above the line which divides the upper third and the lower two-thirds of the junior and senior classes of the engineering college.

     Sigma Tau does not sponsor any of the college activities in its own name, choosing rather to lend its combined support to every worthy activity. It has, however, established a practice of awarding, annually, a gold medal for scholarship, and of presenting a picture of an outstanding engineer to the "Hall of Fame." Further, it has accumulated a student loan fund.

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