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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.
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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
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