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V THE DAILY NE BR ASK Ah 1 j ( 1 .;'!'. .; r a-: 7i THE DAILY NEBRASKAN OlReial Paper of the University of Nebraska WAN G. BEEDE Editor LEONARD W. KLINE. . . . Mng. Editor FERN NOBLE Associate Editor - KATHARINE NEWBRANCH , Associate Editor ARNOLD WILKEN.. Associate Editor DWIGHT THOMAS. . .Sporting Editor GEORGE DRIVER. .Business Manager MERRILL VANDERPOOL ., Asst. Bus. Mgr Reportorial Staff Harriet Ashbrook, Eleanore Fogg, Carolyn Reed, Edna Rohrs, Ruth Sny der, Gaylord Davis, R. A. Ellsworth, E. Forrest Estes. J. Landale, George Newton. Offices News Basement University Hall Business, Basement Administration tia Telephones News. L-S41S Business, B- Mechanieal Department, 13-3145 !397 Published every day during the college ar. Subscription price, per semester, SI. Entered at the postofflce at Lincoln. Nebraska, as second-class man matter under the act of Congress of March 3, 1S79. There is in the contemplation of a great life. In the calling to mind of the attributes of a great personality, a solemn inspiration that can only be surpassed by the warm enthusiasm of contact with that life when it is in ruddy bloom. When this morning we lay our books aside and go reverently to the chapel to contemplate the life of Chancellor Andrews it will not be awe, it will not be wonder, that will be highest in our minds. It will be the power of his principles. For his talent we do have awe, for his success we do have wonder, but for the ex ample of his staunch, sturdy fight for truth and right we have the greatest feeling of tribute one man can have for another the common love for man's common heritage of living truly We can none of us ever match in brilliance, in scholarship, in wisdom, this man whom the world has lost, but everyone of us can fight our battle of life with the same ideals of un flinching honesty and championship of truth as did he. All of us are inclined to say "ouch" after reading of the action of the Uni ersity senate in cutting the Christ mas vacation from two weeks to one. The holiday recess, it strikes The Ne- braskan, is a blessed institution a furlough when students after several months of real or fancied work are al lowed to go back to the old home town and get acquainted all around again. It is a sort of "King's Ex" from the toiling, tiresome world when one has the privilege of planning to make others happy and that planning takes lots of tia;e and thought, even for trivial conclusions. One week will mean that we will have to apply syste matic efficiency to this war-time Christmas. It will be a busy Christ mas for all of us busier than normal because we have more things to plan for and more to care for. But, out side of a very natural and very selfish reluctance to give up the old-time habits, we do not object at all to this probably necessary legislation. On the other hand, students are waiting very anxiously the decision of the special senate committee appoint ed to consider dropping Easter recess, and we are wondering Just as anxi ously if the executive dean will find it advisable to strike out any Univer sity holidays on the calendar. Stu dents are inclined to feel that they have Justly earned a rest in the mid dle of the second semester, after a long, unbroken stretch of study. The interpretation of the general senti ment of the senate, too, seems to be against completely dropping the re cess, and students relieve that they will be given some sort of a respite, although it may well be an abbreviat ed on:. The question of working straight through the year without the observa tion of some of the University's tra ditional holidays is, it seems to The Nebraskan. the hardest of all to con template. Every freshman as well as every' senior knows that Nebraska has too few traditions to cut them whole salely even in a time of stre.-s. A day does not make much difference at the end of the year, but a day scheduled on the calendar to be used for the commemoration of our traditions means much to the University com munity. Students would regret to find that it were necessary to resort to that measure In order to make It possible to finish the year's work early in May. But their attitude is in this the same as it was in regard to a corn-husking vacation If it is the only solution to the problem then they welcome the sacrifice. EUROPEAN UNIVERSITIES NOTE. University of Nebraska stu dents learned last fair of the ter rible fat of the soldier in the prison camps of Europe. Winter is coming again: the long, cold months when the eternal monotony of the prison ers' life is the least bearable. The American society for the relief of war prisoners publishes the follow ing strange appeal to remind us that the time has come again for us to help relieve the frightful emptiness in the lives of 6.000.000 soldiers, among whom there will soon be numbered men of America. Some of the greatest universities of Europe are less than a year old. Many of the students have no feet. Scores of others are short a hand or an eysv The faculty cobbles its own shoes and wishes it hadn't lost its tooth brush. Everybody connected with these more recently established universities of Europe is uniformly dirty, ragged and lousy. The fiag-and-drum department of war has a great deal of the dramatic to recommend it; the prison camp lacks several points of being thrilling. The deadly monotony of it drives a man mad. Authentic reports state that ten per cent to twenty per cent of all prisoners of war are insane. To save their minds, classes are or ganized in everything from Sanscrit to insect powder. And university pro fessors are to be had, in abundance. prepared to teach anything within the range of human interest. In each of the European prison camps, social workers are now main tained to organize and promote such studies, recreations, games and sports as may save the mind of many a young fellow headed toward melancholia. A man who has lost his foot is in a bad way, but he may make a crutch. Cp to this time, nobody has thought out the problem of an artificial brain. It is expected that the increased number of social workers to be added to these camps, this winter, will save many a life. Last year, it will be remembered. the college students of America con tributed more than $200,000 to what was known as the "Students' Friend ship War Fund." Dr. John R. Mott, upon his recent return from a tour of the European prison camps, states that hundreds if not thousands of lives were saved, last winter, by this means. It is asserted that, in many cases, a ten dollar bill would have bought all the necessities to keep a prisoner alive to buy a sick man food suitable for an invalid, or an overcoat for some anaemic fellow with Insufficient clothes. By the way, had you noticed the inferior grade of Worcestershire sauce we're getting lately? Takes a triple dose of the stuff to make a steak taste like anything at all. Wonder what's the matter? The war prisoner that's what ails everything. The thought of him takes our ap petite. ' He haunts us he does with his ean, unshaven" jaw. And his sunken eyes. And loose teeth. PP GRENADES Our Daily Poem Little drops on water Little drops on land Make the aviator Join the Heavenly band Essay on Autumn Now that we are having lots of autumn these days; we feel sufficient ly inspired to write the following es say. Autumn is our shortest season. Just as soon as autumn comes, autumn leaves. REWARD A reward of SO cents in Mexican money will be paid to anyone finding and returning to the Rag office one joke that has been lost or stolen from this column. We wouldn't care but it was the only joke we had for this week. If you should see the joke run ning around loose, the following in structions ."ill assist you in catching it. Instructions If you should see a joke that you wish to catch, observe the following: Take a piece of cheese and tack it securely on a waterfall. The joke likes cheese and makes a big swoop at it, and of course gets mixed up with the waterfall and gets its feet wet. It makes the joke just awful mad to get his feet wet and so he hunts around for a nice piece of gress to dry them on. The minute the joke lights on the grass you rush at him and tie his tail In a bow knot. This is not difficult, as a joke is nothing but a short funny tale. When the joke finds his tail is tied in a bow knot, he always ducks his head under his body to see who is following him, and in doing this he gets his head caught in the bow knot and chokes himself to death. This is why most jokes are dead ones. Once a big molice pan Met a bittle lum Sitting on a sturb cone Chewing gubber rum "Howdy," said the molice pan Won't you simme gome," "Tixy on your nin type" Said the bittle lum. Exchange Editorials CONVOCATION The musical program which was postponed from last Thursday morn ing on account of the equal suffrage Convocation, will be given next Thursday at 11 o'clock in Art hall. The Eiche string trio of Lincoln will give the program. Jessie Wilkins will play the violin. Lillian Eiche. the ce!!o and La Rue Moore the piano. Following is the program: Trio op. 52 Rubenstein. Andante. Scherzo. Allegro. Military Department Wants Addresses of Soldiers There are a number of men en titled to commutation of rations for the second semester 1916-17 whom the military department is unable to lo cate. Lieutenant Allen, assistant com mandant, has requested that anyone knowing the correct address of any of the men communicate with him at once. Last spring most of these men were among the number who left the Uni versity to Join the army, navy or some department of one, and it has been impossible so far for them to be lo cated. They were all officers in the cadet regiment last year, and as the University of Nebraska is a members of the reserve officers' training corps, they, having signed the contract with the government, are entitled to the commutation of rations. As most of them were well known around the school, it is hoped that the department, of military science will be able to locate them within a 6hort time. Grant Bloodgood E. B. Douglas W. G. Gilbert Ira D. Beynon John L. Champa Charles RMmer Jay B. Worley. McKinley F. Clark. WHY LOITER? One of the lessons that upperclass men always learn but seldom put in to practice is that it pays to get Into the habit of attending classes at once, and to dip into their studies at the start. The habit of sliding over classes and cutting recitations during these days is due to several causes. The tolerant attitude of instructors, the difficulty in purchasing text books, the weather, and the very ease In slip ping up" are all reasons that make for this habit. But Indolence now means a serious reckoning for the future the best proof of this is actu al illustration. And everyone who has seen the library about a week before finals, and who knows the "cramming" that ends only with the wee sma' hours, knows too that the actual ex ample is more than imagination. Those students with a real purpose in attending the university will be gin work at once. It is as inexcusable to cut classes during this time of the semester as it is to loaf before the quarter-mile post has been reached in a mile run. It pays to get one's scholastic licks in early. Were this fully realized blue-slips would fall much in popularity. "There once was a grasshopper and an ant " Minnesota Daily. ANNUAL ALUMNI BANQUET AT OMAHA THURSDAY ACCORDING TO PRECEDENT The hen that cackles loudest may not lay the largest eggs; The mule that kicks the hardest may not have the toughest legs; The tree that is the tallest may not bear the sweetest fruit; And the girl .who Is the fairest may not wear the smallest boot. The man whose brow is highest may not always know the most; The hero who Is bravest may not make the loudest boast; The arm that is the strongest may not have the farthest reach. And the man who talks the loncest may not have the finest speech. The rose that is the reddest may not have the sweetest scent; The man whose strut is proudest may not be the most prominent; The woman who has jewels that she measures by the pack May not have the slimmest fingers or the most delightful neck. The man who works the hardest msy . draw the highest pay; The one with deepest knowledge may not have the most to say; But the man who is the most modest gets the last seat In the rear, And the one mho blows his bugle is the one whom people hear. Selected. The annual alumni luncheon of the University of Nebraska will be held Thursday noon at 12 o'clock at the Rome Hotel in Omaha. The lunch eon will be in connection with the Nebraska State Teachers' associa tion which is holding meetings there the last thre days of this week. Ir. E. M. Pollard, '93, who is president of the 'general association, will act as toastmaster. The themes of the various talks on the program will be based on "loyalty." . Chan cellor Avery will address the associ ation on the subject of "Loyalty of the University in War Times." Mr. Pollard will talk on the loyalty of the alumni of the state to the Uni versity. Mr .W. H. Brokaw, county superintendent of schools of Seward county, which is one of the best organized local clubs of the state, will tell of what that club has done. Mr. Edward Huwalt, . principal of South Side High School in Omaha, will talk on the cooperation of the alumni of the University who are in school work In the state, in helping to organize local University of Ne braska clubs in their counties. The above list of speakers is in complete and others will be arranged for later in the week. make but no Olcott, Kansas Coach, to Teach Naval Recruits Herman Olcott, the Jayhawker coach, has accepted the position of director of athletics at the Great Lakes Naval Training station at Chi cago, and is awaiting orders from the naval department. Although regret ting to leave his team in the middle of the season, he says he feels it is his patriotic duty to do so. Many feel that his absence win great difference in the tPa, Olcott himself says that hp i.'.. fears for. them. No successor ha k" appointed as yet but the freshman coach will probably -charge of the squad. 6 Wesllesley Women Pledge Moderation During War Nearly one thousand women of Wei lesley college have pledged them selves to a course of self discipline consisting of the following regula tions: No candy, ice creas or other edibles between meals; no high heeled shoes or extravagant clothes; eight hours' work, eight hours' sleep, and eight hours' recreation daily. "Recre ation" is to consist of Red Cross, first aid, navy unit league, or social well are work. ENGINEERS TO GIVE HUSK ER ENGINEERS IN FRANCE A MERRY CHRISTMAS. The Engineering society has placed a ,box on the door of the tool room in Mechanical Engineering building in which contributions by engineering students will be placed to raise money to send Christmas presents to former Nebraska engineering students who are now in France. This box will be in place until November 12, when it will be opened and the presents purchased so as to be ready to mall not later than November 13. A list of Nebraska engineers in France will be posted and anyone who knows of some one whose name is not there is asked to leave the name with Dean O. V. P. Sout. Any one wishing to send a Christmas let ter to the boys please leave it with Dean Stout, so that all letters may be sent together. 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