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WHAT IS A TRADITION WORTH?
Ivy Day is a University tradition that has become a part of
the student spirit. It is one of the things that helps us to a love
of Nebraska, one of the things out of which that love has grown,
and upon which that love will nourish.
The American people have gone to war because of a tradition,
handed down to the Americans of today by the Americans of '76
and '61. It is a tradition of high ideals, embracing the equality
of the equal right of all men to develop their individualities; to
be free.
The United States is engaged in a war, dedicated to the en
forcement of the principals underlying the great tradition of the
nation. If that tradition had not been founded upon truth and
justice, it would not be worth fighting for.
With the thoughts of all men today turned toward the need of
worthy traditions and the necessity of fighting for them, students
of the Cornhusker school will feel a deeper responsibility toward
this, their Ivy Day tradition. Only the highest of motives should
govern in the selection of the juniors who are honored today, and
they in turn should dedicate themselves to preserving the honor
of the day. For should Ivy Day become attainted by pettiness, it
must cease as a tradition of this University.
UNIVERSITY NOTICES
Deutscher Gesellige Verein
The Deutscher Gesellige Verein w ill
meet Thursday evening. May 3, in
the home of G. O. Cast, 660 South
Twenty-eighth Street. Prof. A.
Schrag will speak on Pennsylvania
Dutch.
OUTLINES DUTIES OF
UNIVERSITY MEN
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gift of sympathy are the merits of
the winner."
This was the keynote of the Ivy
Day oration. "The Responsibilities of
the University Man." given in the
auditorium this morning by E.
Everett Carr, of Beaver City.
The responsibilities of the Univer
sity man can, like Gaul, be divided
into three parts to the University,
to the country, and to humanity, the
speaker said.
Raps Faculty Politics
In his consideration of the duties
toward the University, Carr rapped
faculty disunion and political rings,
which, he said, students could see
but had no power to move. He
pleaded for University spirit which
like fraternity spirit, ran high. He
said that the needs of the University
tended to draw all organizations to
gether and he prophesied the early
return of Cornhusker spirit.
Tb war calls ail students, he
said, to a realization of the responsi
bility of their duty towards our coun
try. He expressed confidence that
every University man would defend
the flag, and work loyally and wisely
for its welfare, whether It be on
the stricken battlefield or in the quiet
heme.
The responsibility or a University
man toward humanity be summed up
as follows: "The state has paid
you to guide humanity through the
storm of selfishness, graft, or war.
and by the Icebergs of Indifference."
He also exhorted them to express
through their lives the great truths
which, when fully appreciated, as
sure the continued advance of the
people of the nation and the attain
ment of a still higher degree of hu
man happiness.
The position of Ivy Day orator is
traditionally decided at the class elec
tions at the beginning of the second
semester. Carr was given this honor
by his classmates by a decisive rote.
He has been prominent In scholar
chip and debet in the University,
winning the Calligham & Co. Law
prize for proficiency in history and
system of common law. He has been
a member of the intercollegiate de
bating team for the past two years,
and is an active member of Acacia,
Delta Sigma Kho, Phi Delta Phi,
and Phi Alpha Tau.
Following is the oration in part:
"A half century ago. the people of
Nebraska in their first legislature
assembled passed an act providing for
institutions of learning. Only fifty
years have passed since the first
step was taken to establish our Uni
versity. The same a-t ihat located
our capitol located this campus whf-re
thousands have and will spend the
four greatest years of their lives.
The legislature at that time fared
the situation, met the problem of the
hour, saw the need of a great democ
racy. It was observant of the moment
to adorn this state and to promote
the best interests of the people.
They improved the opportunity and
made it to tell for time and eternity.
We are here today because th-y
faced responsibility.
"From then to this day the peo
ple of this stare have given to their
posterity, with little price, the bene
fit of the highest education at thir
command. They surround us during
the four years of our University
life with every uplifting influence
to bring out the highest and best
within u. and they ask of us In re
turn nothing but to meet the nes
of the day. What think yon is the
cbif ne-d? Your answer would be
men. men who can assume responsi
Hlities and discharge them, and who
know their du;is and fearlessly per
form them.
Need Men With Initiative
"The need of the hour then i full
blooded mn wiih initiative: men
who realize that life is an on rush
ing, dynamic thing to be freshly
reported by each beholder: men who
are individual both in the quest it
felf and in the thing sought.. Imita
tion is a poor thing either in art
or In life. We must cut out the
monkey work. It is ours to create
new masterpieces. With due respect
to the precedents of the past, the
present and future responsibilities
are in our hands.
"Like all Gaul, our responsibility
may be divided into three parts to
our University, to our country and
to humanity. Newr was there a
time when so much responsibility
rested upon the student as today.
We are facing new era. Th tide
of democracy is drifting back to the
place it held in the early days of
our institutiox Golden days wre
those when the students and faculty
met together in one of the demo
cratic literary societies. The tide
reached its height when the students
and faculty knew each other, when
all stood as a unit for the loyal sup
port of the University. But the tide
drifted back. The literary society
could no longer form a home for
students and faculty. Tire secret
fraternities came in to fill the ned
But here was the trouble they
couldn't all get together tfaer larked
i nnlon. The spirit felL What now is
the condition? There is disunion in
the faculty. Let some real instruc
tor do something great for the edu
cation of the people of Nebraska and
today you have a political ring not
to boost this man, not to give him
the praise, but to check his influ
ence, to hold him down. We as stu
dents see these political rings but
we cannot move them. There are
other stones as heavy as these which
as yet have not been moved. Why?
Because of disunion oi tne siuaent
body. What is the reason the dra
matic students call for an audience,
but their call is unheeded? What
is the reason the debaters call for
support, but battle alone? What is
the reason the athletes call for real
spirit but their call is in vain? Hear
the answer. The student has no
voice in the affairs of the Univer
sity why support them? That is
why we lack University spirit while
fraternity spirit runs high. Belong
to a fraternity or sorority and you
are part of It. Belong to a Univer
sity and you a stranger within its
walls. We talk democracy and yet
we refuse it to the University stu
dent. Can we have Nebraska spirit
under these conditions? We want it,
will we pay the price for it? It
travels only on the tide of democracy.
Let us rejoice that the ebbing tide
carrying the Cornhusker spirit is re
turning. Before long, we hope, the
Cornhusker spirit will again reach
its height. Student union, student
council, honor system, all are but in
dications of the incoming tide. Hurry
the day when we will not be gov
erned by a self perpetuating secret
fraternity; but we shall worship at
the shrine of a student council.
Hurry the day when Nebraska shall
not tolerate her political rings but
shall give honor to her worthy red
blooded instructors. Hurry the day
when students will no longer tolerate
petty grafting and cribbing but shall
prefer to burn out incense at the
altar of student honor. Hurry the
day when each is to play his part,
when all are to have a voice in the
affairs of this University state. With
this day will come greater duties
and responsibilities. Assume these
responsibility or these new condi
tions will fail.
"We seniors are in the twilight of
our University life. In a few days
our college course shall have ended,
for some it has ended. But we are
getting deeper into the duties of a
great democracy our country. The
needs of our University fade away
for the country calls in defense of
an ideal. When we think of the
duty to our country, all minds turn
to the great crisis we are now facing.
For nearly three years we have kept
free from the great world war. but
we will no longer. As President
Wilson puts it, "we will not choose
the path of submission and suffer the
most secred rights of our people to
be ignored or violated." This was
a golden moment for those upon
whom we placed the responsibility.
They made no mistake. The war
had to come. We will stand by the
president and our representatives
who declared it. The time has come
when every loyal American must
stand by the untainted emblem of
liberty and dvmocracy. All the sacri
fices made by our sires in the years
of struggle and development, all the
blood that was shed by them was
spilled in vain if we do not advance
i the liberty for which they fought.
Our flag is to hold its meaning. Our
glory is to retain its purity. Every
patriot of today will defend that
standard. The stars and stripes are
to remain untainted.
"But these violent crises in the
lives of nations usually produce their
remedies, as they should. They
graps the attention and stir the con
sciences of men, and usually evolve
leaders and measures to meet such
needs. But these great crises are by
no means the only ones of impor
tance. The quiet turning point is
reached and passed often with slight
attention and wholly without strug
gle. Today are people are like a hive
of bees full of agitation. They are
ready to sting. Public sensitiveness
is calling into blossom questions of
the most vital bearing upon the fu
ture. "While the storm is passing, the
cry go-s up on every hand for men
to lead the people in the upward
march of civilization. The call Is
for men endowed with wisdom. Men
who can express for the people the
vaguely conceived policies they wish
to pursue in solving these great prob
lems. "At these times of unrest, when
new and important issues are aris
ing, when old convictions are being
questioned, men of learning, men who
know the history of the past should
be mon active in the guidance of
public opinion. No University should
trim its sails in times like these.
Clay hardens by immobility, men's
minds by standing pat. What can
be done, what must be done to make
true and uninterrupted progress in
that those members of the democracy
to whom opportunity has brought in
struction in the dynamics of law and
self-government, shall so lead and
direct the methods of development
as to respond to the noblest impulses,
the highest purposes, the most prac
tical idealism of this great law-making
multitude. Then the growth of
the law shall receive from the best,
and not from the worst forces of the
community.
"But as students of an American
University we hare a third great re
which the University provides should
take on the dignity of social worth.
We hear the cry of distress from
every clime and from every class of
people. We cannot bide from these
dark facta of life. Life is not a mat
ter of listening to murmuring brooks
and wooing ferns. Life is a stately
bearer of sorrow, a ngnier oi duiucb
and a lifter of burdens. Most of us
are blessed in knowing about, a
mother's love, a father's counsel. We
know the sacrifice, the devotion. But
there are thousands of homes which
are not happy. They are poverty
stricken. They are hungry. They
ara over- worked. The father sleeps
on the gutter. Child labor still lays
its tired head to sleep. Society holds
the mlsdoer down, forbids her ever
again to climb. Of what use is the
University? Why are the people
taxed? We fail to meet our re
sponsibilities if we close our ears
to the cries of humanity. We are
on the sea of life. We are respon
sible for the guiding of the ship. You
may cross the Atlantic once, per
chance twice, without facing a storm;
but you can't spend your life there
and escape it. Neither can you es
cape the stormo of life. And, too,
every submarine of selfishness and
vice has been sent forth on its
errands of contamination and destruc
tion. The .Telmsman who has been
paid to give his passengers safe pas
sage never shrinks his duty. The
state has paid you to guide hu
manity through the storm of selfish
ness graft or war and . by the ice
bergs of indifference. You must not
shirk your duty.
"Give us men who will face re
sponsibility; the University needs
them; the country needs them; hu
manity needs them. That responsi
bility is exactly proportioned to each
man's capacity to his education, to
his experience in life, to his ability,
to lead. Friends, you have drawn the
lucky land. Be careful how you play
it. Our University spirit, the prog
ress of our country, the welfare of
humanity, depend upon the game you
play. The fussy clothing, the myster
ious hand-grip, the scars of social
vaccination will be of no assistance.
Intellectual development, character,
courage, and the heaven-born gift of
sympathiny are the merits of the
winner.
"When the University closes its
doors upon us and we pass out upon
the threshold of active life, let us
raise our standards to loftier heights
and face our responsibilities.
"The Ivy planted by the class of
'17 will battle against the heat of
summer, defend itself against the
cold of winter, but will ever climb
upward reaching out for new crevices
in the crumbling walls of this insti
tution; so may we battle against
the new conditions, defend ourselves
against the forces of evil, but ever
climb upward, reaching out to meet
the responsibilities which we as Uni
versity students owe to our Alma
Mater, to our country, and t humanity."
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