SUMMER SCHOOL NEBRASKAN
SUMMER SCHOOL HEBRASKAN
Editor and Manager. . . . A. R. Swenson
Associate Editor C llay Gates
Reportorial Staff
V. W. Wilson Leonard VV. Troestcr
K. W. Smith Bdsar Boshult
J. H. Moseley J. E. ,Morgan
Alberta Ackley Florence Dunn
Office of Student Activities, Basement
Administration. Hall, Phone B2597
Published tri weekly, on Mondays,
Wednesdays, and Fridays during the
Summer Session, by the Student Publi
cation Board.
SONNETS OF A PESSIMIST
With Friday's issue. The Nebraskan
plans to begin a department for the
students of the Teachers' College
High School. With its attendance of
nearly one hundred and fifty, this
school brings the total Summer School
attendance near the one thousand
mark. This is far larger than any
previous year and shows the rapid
growth of Nebraska university.
Attendance at convocation so far
this summer has not been nearly as
large as it should be. It seems
strange that students should deliber
ately pass up opportunities for cul
ture through lectures and entertain
ments arranged for them by the uni
versity, free of charge, when during
the rest of the year they would glad
ly pay for entertainments and lec
tures which cannot compare with
these in value.
The lecture of Dr. Howard, last
Monday, on "The New Humanism"
was fairly well attended, but it should
have been heard by every student of
the summer session, especially by
those in the teaching profession. The
same is true of the lecture on Brazil
by Professor Persinger.
The university and the city of Lin
coln offer many opportunities for cu1
ture besides the regular curriculum
work. 'The latter should, of course,
come first, but the student who 6huts
himself off from all other interests
is missing a vital part of his educa
tion. If we are to have convocation
at all, at least a majority should at
tend. If the voluntary system fails
to secure this, why not make attend
ance compulsory?
The quadrennial political spectacle
is being staged once more for the
American people. If the teachers of
Nebraska are in reality, as they should
he, the leaders in political as well
as other lines of thought, they should
take advantage of their presence at
the university to widen their political
knowledge by study and interchange
of opinions. One serious political
fault from which the student seems
less free than he should be is the
lack of open-mindedness. Too many
adopt the expressed doctrines of a cer
tain political organization and modify
the new facts which inay come un
der their observance to suit their doc
trine, rather than modify their doc
trine to suit the fact.
It would be beneficial in securing
a sane discussion of the political is
sues of the day if student political
clubs were formed by the democrats
and by the republicans in the sum
mer session to say nothing of the
followers past and present of the in
domitable colonel.
I. Of Poetry-with-a-Purpote
When I consider how much time it
takes,
And how much patience, effort, force
of will
Are spent on verse and meter, indif
ferent, good or ill,
And badly turned, and how much
nain it makes
The friendly reader, who, in blind
confusion, till v
He strike a stumbling block in punc
tuation kind.
Goes reading on, intent to catch the
sense
That has been hidden by the poet's
cunning mind
Somewhere in wordy forests, on pre
tense Of decorative gardening, I am ap
palled. Why not assert the fact in statement
bold,
In ordinary prose, with cause and con
sequence? For with this sad example here, con
sider what is worse
Than some once living thought, em
blamed in verse?
II. Of the Study of Shakespeare
Intent on understanding ell he
meant,
They chose one book of all the Jew
eled store
He left us, finely wrought of silver
dreams
And golden human passions, melted,
blent
Within the furnace of his mind to
that rich ore
Of poetry, whose secret none but him
has found.
They bought them vari-colored inks
and reams
Of notebook paper, all whose space
they filled
With curious plots of lines and fig
ures round,
Presenting impulse and effect and
t style ;
The climax and catastrophe to build.
They delved in first editions, critics'
works, the while
The play passed by, in solemn pag
eantry arrayed,
And they planned out the stage on
which it played.
CONVOCATION
Tomorrow: Lecture by Professor
Pugsley, of the Agricultural Exten
sion department, on "School Garden
ing."
Friday: Lecture by Professor Dann
on paintings of the Art association
in the Art gallery.
CHADDLRDON TO LEAD
THE TENNIS CLUB
This is the year in which everybody
is arranging to have a photograph
made on their birthday; a record
which you, perhaps, have neglected.
Let Townsend serve you. Studio, 26
So. 11th St. St
J. A. Chadderdon, of Oxford, was
chosen president of the Summer
School Tennis association at the meet
ing Monday afternoon in the student
activities office. Mr. hadderdon will
have charge of organizing the tennis
tournament that is planned for the
summer.
It was decided that only Summer
School students and faculty men were
to be admitted to the club and to the
use of the courts.
Two nets bought by the club and
left on the courts have been stolen.
Miss Jean Burroughs, '17, of the
Daily Nebraskan staff last semester, is
temporarily society editor for the Lin
coln Daily Star.
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9
Summer comfort comes from, not only having enough
shirts, but having the ones you like to wear.
A GREAT SHOWING OF THE KIND YOU LIKE
Wash Silk, $3.85; Silk Crepe de Chine, $5.00;
Heavy Silk, $5.85.
Flowered Jap Crepe very new, $2.00
Patterns from the sublime to the ridiculous
ICool
Cloth
Suits
LOOK COOL
ARE COOL
Have all the style of the
heavier wool suit, but
what a difference on a
hot day in your bodily
comfort.
$7.50
136
$9.00
$10.00
GENUINE PALM
BEACH SUITS $5.00
The University School of Music
ESTABLISHED 1894
SPECIAL SUMMER TERM rtms until July 22nd
Instruction in al Ithe principal branches of music. Students
of any advancement may register now.
Special attention give nto the needs of University summer
students. .
Ask for information
WILLARD KIMBALL, Director. .
llth&RSts. Opposite the Campus
