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1909 Newsletter Lambda Nu (University of Nebraska)
Abstract:
1909 newsletter of the Lambda Nu chapter at the University of Nebraska. The newsletter is ten pages in length.
Date/Date Range:
00/00/1909
Subjects:
Newsletter
Chapter:
Lambda Nu
University:
University of Nebraska
Era:
1900s
1909 Newsletter Lambda Nu (University of Nebraska)
9
Who's Who and in What
MINIONS OF MUSIC
ATHLETICS—FootbaU—0. M.
There is music and music and
music. There have been times
when the mournful strains of tonsocial criminals have assailed the
DIRECTORY
Send your name, class, chap
ter, and present address to
Dana
B. Van
Dusen, and re
ceive a complete directory of
all Fiji's In the State of Ne
braska. Do this now, as the di
rectory is in the hands of the
printers, and we want you to be
in it. If you are of Dambda
Nu, send it no matter where you
are, as we want your name.
Walcott, varsity guard. Harry
Ewing, varsity guard three
years,—All Western football
team 1909; varsity coach 1910.
Baseball—^Blish—^Buck (may
be?)
ears of those so unfortunate as to
reside in the vicinity of 1232 R
and other times when the "Span
ish Hidalgo" has floated menrily
forth from the Eiji windows to
POLITICS—H. E. Thomas, Jun
ior Prom. Com.; R. P. Thomas,
president, sergeant at arms.
To all to whom our mutual
Sophomore class; M. of C.
IJncle shall see fit to deliver this
Sophomore Hop, chairman of
second Cornhusker Eiji, greetings.
Soph hop com. S. E. Holmes—
If of our own alumni, we hope
treasurer Soph, class. J. B.
that in these columns you will find
Brain, president Junior Laws.
news items of personal interest to
R. K. Ammerman, Ereshman
you and yours, and that if per
hop committee.
GREETINGS
chance through lapse of time, your
interest in old Lambda Nu has
MILITARY-H. W. Coulter-
flagged, details that will revive
Captain Co. "K", M. of C. Offi
and renourish it, and-awaken a de
sire to be kept more closely in
cers Hop. D. B. Van Dusen—
Sergeant Co. "K". Richard
touch with the errant youth who
Paddock, Captain
have assumed the labor of preserv
Eirst batallion. James Ellis,
captain Range Detail
ing the dignity of Phi Gamma
Delta at Nebraska. If of chapters
other than our own, we hope and
desire that we may convey through
the cold print, an idea of the warm
welcome that always awaits the
wandering Fiji at 1232 R street,
Lincoln. If of active chapters in
the various colleges, we can only
hope that the Cornhusker Eiji will
receive to some degree, the appreci
ation and approbation that your
publications have aroused in us,
and that it may be deemed a
worthy link in that chain of chap
ter papers which already has done
so much to make the interests of
Phi Gamma Delta concerted and
concentric wherever the Eiji Lodge
is found.
Adjucent,
SOCIAL —"Spikes"—■ Walcott,
Brian, R. P. Thomas, Amerman, Titus. "Iron Sphinx"—•
Roland Thomas, Harry Ewing,
Dana Van Dusan, Morris Blish.
"Vikings"—Morris Blish.
SCHOLASTIC—Phi Delta Pbi
J. B. Brian; Sigma Delta Chi,
Sam R. Buck; Alpha Chi Sig
ma, H. W. Coulter, Weldon HWarren; Zi Psi Phi, David
Sumner; English Club, Sam R.
Buck; Chem Club, Coulter,
Warren; Press Club, Buck;
Dramatic Club, Coulter, Buck;
German Club, Warren; Senior
Play, Ewing; Clerk Supreme
Court College of Law, Brain.
the dismay of the cooers on neighboing verandas, but that time
is no more. It has passed, we
trust forever into that "ultimate
dim Thule" from which there is
no return, and in its place has
come an organizaetion—for we
may safely call it tliu^y! that
furnishes
constant
amusement
not only to the Knights of The
Polished Eloor, but to all passers-
by, in the cool spring evenings
that are now upon us.
Modest
Terpischore,
grasps
of his trombone all the notes that
ever were put in it.
Erom introduction to coda, it is
all there, violin, clarionet, mando
lins, bull fiddle, trombone and
cornet, not to mention the piano
and for ourselves we are some
tickled with it. Unless death or
^
THE CHAPTER ROLL
FACULTY
H. T. Johnson—"Hennery."
L. E. Hurtz—"Len."
Wm. Kirkpatick.
drouth intervene, it will be heard
at the annual banquet in the Lin-
Daniel Eord.
dell hotel, Saturday, April 30th,
Sam R. Buck.
Harral W. Coulter
H. A. Van Dusen
John B. Brian
Dana B. Van Dusen.
David S- Simms.
and if you don't hear it, it will
not be our fault.
Remember the date, and remem
ber the place, and remember that
it is the biggest night in the year
and that THE EIJI ORCHES
'10
TRA WILL ORCH.
The Party and Banquet
Eor various reasons too compli
cated to be explained in this sheet,
an agreement has been
David Simms—"Cy".Alma, Neb.
H. W. Ewing—"Tub"
Lincoln, Neb.
David Sumner—"Dave"
entered
whereby formal parties are to be
given hereafter by the fraternities
Lincoln, Neb.
W. H. Warren—"Mozart"
Lincoln, Neb.
her filmy draperies closely about having chapters at the University
}ie].
limbs, shuffles a
'11
step or two, just to loosen her of Nebraska, but once in two
joints and glides away into Bliss- years. We have secured the priv 0. M. Walcott—"Pard"
land.
Bacchus seizes his ruddy
wreathed—^notice the "wreathed
brow, and—then he has to pus
the button again. Pan rouses
from his winter nap, combs the
cockle-burrs from 'his hairy legs,
knocks the mud from his cloven
hoof, and the stuff is off foi" am
other go with the time honore
pipes of song and story.
Laying all ribaldry aside
however, it sure is great, brothers
all. "Tony" plays the violin and
leads the orchestra; Brain draws
mellifluous tones from a clarionet,
while Warren titillates the ivor
ies like the Mozart he is. When it
comes to tooting the cornet m
tones more golden than the instru
ment itself, our Hennery doesn t
Valentine, Neb.
ilege of giving one this year, on
cup, swings it thrice about his the usual date, April 29, and it is
L. D. Burdie—"Rough"
Herman, Neb.
the last chance until 1912 that
you will have to test the brand of
female delicacy that the Eiji boys
gather for this festive occasion,
and your last opportunity to min
gle with the TerpiscHorcan Revel
lers at Lambda Nu's big social
function, which once seen, is never
forgotten.
Shine your shoes and take the
moth balls out of your dress coat
pockets, have your ties laundered,
and your gloves cleaned, and take
a little run down to Lincoln, Ne
braska, Eijis all, April 29. We
will do our best, and we want you
11. A. Van Dusen—"Big Van"
Omaha, Neb.
H. W. Coulter—"Tubby"
Canon City, Colo.
H. E. Thomas—"Jim"
Omaha, Neb.
J. B. Brain—"Brainless"
Omaha, Neb.
j. Blish—"Tony,
Dago, etc."
Omaha, Neb.
'12
Sam R- Buck
Sam.
Seattle, Wash-
here.
S. E. Holmes—"Pink"
wait for Bohumir Kryl, or any
And don't forget the BIG
FEED the following evening
J, R. Wood—"Woody"
Liephart has already blown out
April 30.
other long-hair, and Germany
°
Mike,
Omaha, Neb.
Omaha, Neb.
\r\nK. P. Thomas—"Grafter"
Omaha, Neb,
James Ellis—"Cheyenne"
Cheyenne, Wyo.
D. B. Van
Dnsen—"Little
Van"
Omaha, Neb.
'13
several new pieces of furniture. The
Freshmen
presented
us
with
a
"swell" rug and the alumni a very
Active. Pled-i
Pay Crancer—"Doc"
Lincoln, Neb,
In scholarship we are not exactly can
Phi Gamma Delta
27
3:
Phi Kappa Psi
19
6
Beta Theta Pi
20
5
Delta Upsilon ,,e
24
2
Delta Tan Delta
7
2i
5
Alpha Tan Omega
19
Alpha Theta Chi (local) 19
3
3
WHAT THE BUNCH IS DOING.
On Oc tober 9, we wound up our rush
ing season by the annual party at
Walsh Hall, followed by a feed at
The Prat House.
With true Fiji spirit, twenty brothers
visited
us on
the occasion
of'
the Kansas-Nebraska game. On the
night preceding the game we enter
tained the Kansas boys with our an
nual hard times party, which was
voted a success by all.
(That Is, [
r, H, Guilfoil—"Gil"
Hyannis, Neb.
R. Patterson—"Pat"
Omaha, Neb.
addresses wanted
Early In the fall the Thetas enter
tained us royally at a house party.
Following the example of Beta chap
ter we held our mock Initiation on
February 19, when we fittingly tor
tured nine neophytes. The solemn
initiation was held
the
following
Monday.
This year we have greatly increased
Carpenter, Porter H,
Johnson, Charles M,
Wharton, Henry J.
Cramer, D. L.
Qnigley, J-HAnderson, Jesse F,
Thurston, Bernad,
Billings, Earl.
Cunningham, Orval,
Tipling, L. B.
Eaynor, E, V,
We have materially improved the ex
terior appearance of the house by
remaking the lawn and cleaning up
the back yard.
our FUl spirit by holding bi-weekly
"feeds" after frat meeting.
These
"feeds" have been very beneficial and
have been enjoyed by all.
"Tony" holds down "first fiddle" In the
University Orchestra.
Assistant Coach Ewlng
a
great football team for next year.
Professor Johnson is embarrassing the
boys financially by
selling
them
numerous pictures of the house, the
bunch, house parties, etc.
at
married.
POSTMASTER:
"Bad" Loft Is
with
the
Omaha
and
Council Bluffs Street Railawy Com
IF NOT CALLED FOR IN 10 DAYS
PLEASE RETURN TO 1232 R ST.
pany.
LINCOLN, NEB.
"Tnte"
Matters
la
attending Harvard
Law School, where
honor to
Harvard
he
is bringing
us by his position on the
Glee
Club.
A. 0. Paneonst Is
practicing law in
Floyd Van Vnllu is in the mercantile
business at Herman, Nebr.
Pred Sunnders is with the Bankers'
ler & Paine, in Lincoln.
NEWS ITEMS OP AUXJMNI.
B. E. Hiirtz is manager of the Indepen
dent Telephone Co. In Nebraska.
Wm. PnmlUon Is with the
p. J. Hurtz Is travelling for the West
ern Paint & Glass Co. His territory
Diek Paddock has received presiden
tial appointments to West Point
to
Seattle,
Verne Havens Is general manager of
tiie Street Hallway and Interurban
lines in Mexico City.
jjj,. Adnms
is
practicing
in
Lin
coln.
C. C. McWilllnnis Is with the American
Locomotive Works at
N.
Schnectady,
Y.
c. L. Wcldron, '06, is practicing law
in Omaha, Nebr. His address is 707
New York Life Building, Omaha;
Nebr.
A. J. Pence, '10, is in the hardware !
business at Madison, Neb.
joUn BurUett is cashier of a bank at
Riissell Burkett is in the drug business
at Auburn, Ills.
John Simros, '09, is attending Rush
Medical School at Chicago.
J. D, Johnson, '09, is with the Denver
'oas & Electric Co.
Walter Hopewell is practicing law in
Tekamah, Nebr.
Dick Honston is in the lumber business
at Tekamah, Nebr.
Jack Whitcford is mechanical engineer
In Guilford, Mo.
W, H. Cheek, '12, is with the Burling
"Herm" Bocken, '09, is completing his
Nebraska
Paper & Bag Co., of Lincoln.
and Annapolis. He passed the West
Point examination with high honors
and has already taken up his work
there.
Tunnies Jolinson is in the mercantile
business in Holdrege, Nebr.
Llciit. M. C. Slinllenbergcr is stationed
at Fort Crook, Nebr.
WHlnrd P. Ivlmbnll is office manager
of the University School of Music, at
CnrnIfU0k?r
Lincoln.
Robert DeCon has
left
for
Seattle,
Wash., where he expects to locate.
Wilbur Rneely
Is
county
surveyor,
with headquarters at Ponder, Nebr.'
O. G. Perry is with a surveying party
at Shoshone, Wyo.
EnrI Wilson is with the Nebraska State
Journal at Lincoln.
Pred Thomas is with the Corn
Ex
change Bank of Omaha.
, Grant Cnaghey is reporting for the
Stockman's Journal of South Omaha,
Nebr.
James McGcachln in is the mercantile
business in Orleans, Nebr.
William McGeacbln is with the White
Electrical Co., in the Philippines.
Geor.gc KImball is general manager of
the Matoon Gas & Coke Co., at Matoon, Ills.
"Jim" Whitney is in the banking busi
••'"J
■ .jr
"Hash" DnvenpOrt, '12, is in the mer
chandise business at Valentine,
PUBLISHED
Nebr.
H. M. Pronty is in the drug business
■welcome visits and on the afternoon
of January 4, gave us a "matinee"
„ c Stanley is in the offices of the
BY
LAMBDA NU
chapter of phi QAMMADELEST. OCT. IB, 1898.
at Boseville, Ills.
Cleveland Seating Co. in Chicago.
*
ness at Scandia, Kans.
medical course in Omaha.
"Pritz" Albertson has paid us several
dance.
engineer
He was recently
Life Insurance Co. at Lincoln.
ton railroad in Omaha.
promises
Grand Island, Nebr.
Edwin Steckley manages the dress
goods department of the firm of Mil
Bridgeport, Nebr.
at least by the hosts.)
William LefHer is city
South Omaha, Nebr.
fraternity.
extends from Lincoln
ful dance at the Happy Hollow Club
In Omaha, September 10, 1909.
:!lyde Liephart—"Dutch"
Lincoln, Neb,
were able to initiate a larger pro
Wash.
John Bushnell—"Bush"
Lincoln, Neb,
PLEDGES
der the scholarship restrictions we
3
19
Lincoln, Neb.
Holdrege, Neb.
the average of Nebraska Greeks. Un
3
Lamda Nu started her activities early
this year by giving a very success
Liscombe Titus—"Liz"
didates for P. B. K's, but are above
portion of Freshman than any other
P, K, Ammerman—"Pocky"
St, Joseph, Mo,
J, V, Harpham—"Caesar"
handsome oak table.
ges I
Paul Kogers—"Pounder"
Phi Delta Theta, ,,.,,,.16
Pagan, Neb, Sigma Chi
20
Tom Pogers—"Long Tom"
Kappa Sigma
20
Pagan, Neb, Sigma Alpha Epsilon. ,19
F, E, Long—"Buffalo"
Sigma Nu
23
Buffalo, Wyo,
The appearance of our house has been
greatly improved by the addition of
NEBRASKA GREEKS
McVey
Printing Co.,
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1909 newsletter of the Lambda Nu chapter at the University of Nebraska. The newsletter is ten pages in length.