University of Nebraska Lincoln - Cornhusker Yearbook (Lincoln, NE)

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Nebraska ' s $800,000. library in the early stages of construction Donald L. Love a ONCE A CORNHUSKER, Keccnl addition to the women ' s dormitory unit. Love Hall, first opened for use two years ago, houses some 100 girlg. Forty-seven home economics majors live in s campus ' Love Co-op, doing all cooking and housekeeping llicmselves.

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A STATE Center of the United States, stronghold of the nation, thriving jVebraska this year celebrates 75 vears of statehood. Since 1867 the farmers and merchants of the Cornhusker state have struggled to keep business, and the business of education, moving forward. With each war and depression have come lowered appropriations from the state legislature. Salaries have been slashed, working funds drasticallv reduced. Surviving these educational purges has been the state university. Comprising 20 different college, schools and divisions, the University of Nebraska has always ranked near the top among the institutions of higher learning. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, second semester enrolment in the Universitv dropped 12% below that of the previous year; a special com- mittee moved to eliminate spring vacation and advance commencement to Mav 25. Faced with rapidly mounting changes the University and its followers remain confident that its educational stand- ards will not be shattered and its ultimate value in a democracy fighting to live, not forgotten. ar-time on the Nebraska campus. Students trudge to 8 o clocks in Soc with the sleepy satisfaction of helping their country. Student Defense Council, organized by a war-conscious Student Council, collected books for soldiers, sponsored benefit show.

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s logan of the Nebraska Alumni Association, Once a Cornhusker always a Cornhusker would seem to indicate that all Nebraska graduates are of the sort that remember their alma mater not only when football season rolls around, but also when the spring building period begins, during times of depression and shortage of funds. Of recent years there has arisen in the minds of Huskers a new conception of just what it means to be a graduate of the University of Nebraska, a conception founded in the cool hardness of bricks, mortar and steel, and labor of scores of men. And yet the guiding hand drawing forth this new conception has not been a Nebraska graduate, but one of our neighbors to the east . . . Donald L. Love; not a Cornhusker in the strict sense of the word, but a Cornhusker in spirit. A man who caught a glimpse of the untold possibilities of the University, saw it as a campus of great beauty, a school proud to bear the name of University of Nebraska . It remained for this man, an lowan by birth and education, to be the one to give to Nebraska and its state university the means of constructing buildings which it had long wanted and needed. In 1939 Don Love gave, in memory of his wife Julia, the necessary funds for the building of a women ' s dormitory unit. It was opened in the fall of 1940, named Julia Love Hall. Closely following came the death of Cornhusker Don Love. In his will he be- queathed to the University of Nebraska money for the building of a women ' s cooperative dormitory on Ag campus; most of that required for construction of a much needed library. Love Co-op is now in use; furnishings were contributed bv various campus organizations. The new library is rising daily. Through rain and snow workmen have hammered and riveted away. By the fall of 1942 Don Love ' s magnificent work will stand completed in its full glory. Each day undergraduates will saunter by, on that long trek from sorority row to Soc. They will see the memory of a great Cornhusker perpetuated in a tangible monument of stone and steel. And perhaps they too will be inspired with the ultimate in Husker spirit . . . hats off when the band plays the Scarlet and Cream , a memory of college not forgotten, but remembered in blueprints and the sharp clang of a man digging the foundations for a new building. ALWAYS A CORNHUSKER Digging for the .Sl60,000. Foods and iSulrilions liuilding was begun late in 1941. Plans are that it be opened next fall. W hen completed the new field house will contain various athletic offices and will close off the north end of Memorial Stadium.