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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 17, 1916)
THE DAILY NEBRASKAN i II MARY8HAW 8TEWART BARNES Reynold and Donefan LA MONT COWBOYS THE CRISPS Florrle Mlllerahlp FLAVILLA Nlcholl Slttert "Kentucky Belles" Dacey and Chase Comedy Novelty La Paloma "You're Nevt" Sellg-Trlbune ..Newt Eye Strain Few things cause more dis comfort, ill health and general Inefficiency among students than eye strain. Let me 'test your eyes today. Examination free. Up-to-date, exact methods. DR. MARTiN Competent Optometrist 1236 O St. 1236 O 8t Opposite Miller & Paine's TRY OUR Luncheonette Service TELLER'S UJrescription lir HARMACY Cor. 16th & O 8ta. Phone B4423 GOTillC THE NEW 2 for 25C COLLAR IT FITS THE CRAVATi j cluctt. rcaaoov co.. inc.. WKITUAN.S GLASSY CANDY MEIER DRUG CO. 13th end O STREETS LCSmithBro. Typewriter Co. BALL BEARING LOHO WEARER New, Rebuilt and RenUlJ 125 Ho. XSth Bt. B2030 SOCIETY Alpha Phi Dinner Alpha Phi gave a dinner party at the chapter house Monday evening for about thirty couples. The dinner was followed by dancing and cards. Mrs. Holland was chaperon. Delta Upsilon Formal The Delta Upsilon formal Monday evening at the Lincoln hotel was at tended by seventy couples. The grand march was led by Earl Young and Lulu Shade, Clarence Speier and Louise Coe. The chaperones were Mr. and Mrs. John B. Wright, Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Harvey, Mr. Searle Davis and Miss Ina Glttings. The out-of-town guests were: Roswell Haskell of Kansas City, Mo.; Kenneth Thomp son of Omaha; Leonard P. Tlnley of Chicago, and Elizabeth Drake of Beatrice. Mr. Fritzler will talk on "The Ger mans in the Russian Colonies" at a meeting of Der Deutsche Gesselige Verein at the home of Anna Luckey, this evening. Clara Svatek, of Oklahoma City, Okla., who attended the university in 1912-13, has. graduated from Norman university and is now teaching Latin in the Dewey, Okla., high school. Prof. Frederick M. Stuff, who was to have addressed the literature sec tion of the Woman's club Thursday afternoon, will be unable to speak be cause of illness. His place will be filled by Prof. Sarka Hrbkova. Alumni Notes Guy C. Kiddoo, '13, Law '14, was awarded the $25 prize for the best slo gan for the city of Omaha. His motto "Grow with Growing Omaha," was a winner out of 1,300 suggestions. The New Humanism 99 Dr. Howard's Commencement Address Completed 3. The New Humanism. The process of humanization was not yet complete. It was not enough that the state should support and di rect education. In return for its en dowment, it was inevitable that effi cient service should be demanded. We are now face to face with the third crisis and the third opportunity. There is an insurgent call for a more inten sive socialization of the content of edu cation in all its grades. This is the challenge of the new humanism which is so much broader and deeper and more intelligent than the old human ism. Its character is due primarily to the vastly increased Btores of knowledge now available. The secrets of the material andthe spiritual worlds are being disclosed with amazing speed. Within a few decades man has discovered himself. He has gained a new understanding of his capacity and therefore of his responsibility. He per ceives that ever in ne wand surprising ways he may control his environment for good or for ill. The problems of poverty,, disease, degeneracy, vice and crime are up to him for solution. The birth-rate, the death-rate, and even the average. span of human life are very largely within his own con trol. He is able to create new varie ties of grans and flowers and fruits and domestic animals. If an eugen ist, he does not despair even of im proving the human breed. Social in stitutions are revealed to him as hu man products. Since states, govern ments, political forms, family consti tutions are made by man, man is re rtnahifl for their duality. It is his duty to change them when required by new knowledge or by new conai t'ons. In a word, the new humanist norrfilvlne how very much man's des tiny lies in his own hands, may not !.;-, PftBv conscience shunt bis own responsibility to the shoulders of the AlmlehtV. Hence, to fulfil that responsibility, an ever growing number of the newly organized sciences have won a place hA durational program. vnn dramatic chapter in the history of cul ture are the last sixty years of strug gle for this recognition. Geology, doi any, biology; agriculture, with its spe cialized branches and allied indus tries; history, economics, household science; sociology and politics, with .u- rn(i sencial services; the new geography and the conservation of the people's natural resources; modern langauges. the aesthetic, and the me chanic arts; commerce, industry and engineering, with its ever multiplying types. , Nov, for a decade the challenge or the new humanism has become im perative. It reaches all ears not stopped by the cobwebs of tradition. It is a summons to social service What a crowd of new human interests are demanding help from us. Reflect on the new courses of study, the new- administrative tasks, the new legisla tion, the new schools, all implying new disciplines and calling for new experts in the world's work. Already we have schools of civics and philan thropy; schools for playground wort ers; schools for nurses, for journal ism, for commerce ; night schools, con tinuation schools, open-air schools, so cial centers, social settlements, and the end is npt yet. Education is bringing all classes and all ages witn in its reach. 4. The New Opportunity Is a Chal lenge to a New Responsibility. Clearly the new humanism is reveal ing to us a unique opportunity with a corresponding responsibility. Its challenge demands nothing less than a reconstruction of education from bottom to top so that consciously, more deliberately than now, its aim shall be to train and equip human beings for the actualities of human life. Its crucial test is social serv icer help to men. Is there any course or division of school or college study to which this test should not be ap plied? Will the vocational or the utilitarian motive lower the ideal of pure science? Rather it will raise that ideal. By all means let us have science for its own sake; but is there any true science which is not vital ized by the perception of its poten tiality for the social good? Indeed, this spiritual utilitarianism If I may venture to coin the phrase is produc ing a new and a more intelligent faith in science. Never has the layman been so ready to take the scholar's word for the ultimate social value of abstract or even recondite learning. His faith in the reality of the unseen la beine enlarged. He is more able to take on trust the potential utility of double stars, the canals of Mars, Sanscrit roots, or the fourth dimen sion. Under the new inspiration, the study of antiquity is gaining new meaning, and it is yielding more use ful results than ever before. The rec ords of the past are being re-read in the search for neglected evidence of its actual social life. In particular, the study of the Grecian and Roman civilizations is receiving a novel Im pulse. Historians are re-reading their original sources to good purpose. Rom, recent scholastic events seem to warrant the belief that the study of the classics is about to yield its Suits and Overcoats Between Season Values! Men who believe in 'savings first" will do well to see the Kensington and Kuppenheimer winter garments we're selling this week at de cided re'ductions. Many of the Suits are medium weight and can be worn well into spring. In the face of ad vancing prices they are truly exceptional values when reduced to $14.75 $18.75 $23.75 THESE MILDER DAYS BRING THE FIRST SYMPTOMS OF SPRING FEVER. A GOOD REMEDY FOR IT IS A NEW SPRING HAT. CORRECT STYLES ARE NOW DIS PLAYED IN OUR WINDOWS. STETSON'S, DEPUTY'S AND LEADING EUROPEAN MAKES. SEE THEM. A Store for Men and Boys most precious fruit. The vision of the new humanism is so much keener than that of the old humanism. It may, perhaps, be able to reconstruct the actual common life of Italic, Hel lenic, or even Babylonic humanity. More specifically, what is the re sponsibility which the challenge of the new humanism lays upon higher edu cation?' Is it not the obligation of leadership in social service? Emphat ically, from its very nature, leader ship in utilizing science for the pub lic welfare is the service' demanded of a state university. That the uni versity professor should be an expert leader in applied bacteriology, geol ogy, home economics, engineering, chemistry, botany, and especially in agriculture, is very properly taken for granted. It should, be taken for grant ed in other departments. Essential for the public welfare under present conditions though the fact is not al ways conceded is the university spe cialist's leadership in the wide fields of political science, sociology and eco nomics. In these fields ignorance is vast, vested interests powerful, anti ouated systems tenacious, and danger ous abuses strongly intrenched. To say the very least, the guidance of the impartial expert is as much need ed in framing a law for the minimum wage, the short-hour day, employers' liability, prison reform, a system of banking or of taxation, as it is in stock-breeding, dry farming, or an en gineering projeet. If this be true, is not the university bound to guarantee to the scholar in these departments, as in all deparements, the freest and fullest opportunity to discharge his ob ligation to society? It should encour age, support, and protect him. Is there any sound reason to fear that the public will suffer from freedom of teaching? In fact, Is not the danger precisely the other way? It is no torious that very many teachers in col leges and public schools are without matured opinions on public questions; while some who have opinions are afraid publicly to express them, much more to teach them. The safe ideal is conservative boldness. "Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free." If I understand aright the spirit of the new humanism, it would express the whole ultimate function of the state university in three words: Prep aration for citizenship. For is not every business of life a social welfare service when it is subordinated to the obligation of good citizenship? It fol lows that the university should be keenly aware of its destiny. Every member of the organization adminis trator, teacher, student should con sciously function with this goal clearly in view. The professorial body should be thoroughly socialized. At present, I very much fear that cul tured indifference or even cynicism on the part of some specialists regarding the great moral, social, or other hu manistic ideals and 6trlvlngs of the times is hindering the university in the discharge of its function. Partly You Are Entitled To The Best That is what you get when you enroll in the quality school. Ask the hundreds'of business men who are employing our graduates. If good service counts with you, see us before you enroll. Nebraska School of Business Corner 0 and 14th Sts., Lincoln. College Book Store Facing Campus New and Second Hand Books All Student Supplies Smoke,tStudyrand Play Cheat 'The Den" in ba.cment