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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 2, 1918)
THE DAILY NEBR ASK AN THE DAILY NEBRASKAN Official !apcr of the 1'nlverslty i( Nebraska LKONARD W. KLINE Kdltor AllNOM) A. VILKKN...Mn. Kdltor KATIIAK1NK NKWUUANCII.... Aii'l. KJItor (1AYLOHD DAVIS News Kdltor LAl'HKNVK 8I.ATKK...Newi KJItor ADKl.AIPK Kl.AM Society Kdltor WILMA WINTKU.... Feature Kdltor OSWALD ULAl'K Sports Kdltor WILLIAM 'AMi..wmiry ton w threatened with rilAINIV II. I A 1 I 1 hub, oiuR" GLKN II. GARDNER.. Awt. WuWgr. Reportorlal Staff Anna DurtleM Helen M. Howe Sadie 11. Finch Teresa Magulre Kattiertne Urenke Mary F. llerilng Dettle Rldell Karle Coryell Offices I Stmt llasement University Hall IHislness. DaKement Admn. Building Night Offlce, Rlghter Composition Co B6696 and B669T Telephone Newt and Editorial B2SH Business n25,I Night, all Iepartment 116696 Published eTery day during the col leges year except Saturday an, Sun day. 8ubfcrlpMon trie, per seniestr, U Entered at the postofflce at Lincoln, Nebraska, as second-class mall matter under the act ot Congress of March 3, 1879. Newt Editor LAURENCE SLATER For Thia Uaue BE THERE1 Thursday at eleven o'clock, Is the time set for the first football rally ot the year. This statement alone should be enough to assure the pres- attention and the so-called ence of every true Cornhusker In the Armory at that time. Nebraska's at titude toward victory or defeat in the Iowa game will be shown there and this attitude will be the attitude of the team. It the team, gathered on the platform Thursday morning, sees the University Is behind them; ex pects them to fight every minute ot the play and win In spite of the great odds against them, they will then and there resolve to do those things. The least any student can do to help win this year is to be present and use both lungs on T-U-t'ni whenever It is called. Tuesday's practice showed clearly that ff Nebraska, with only four vt erans, Is to defeat Iowa's machine, built around a nucleus of nine heavy weight letter men, she must defeat w ith the spirit of fight and determina tion alone. Such spirit can only come from the rooters in the stands and J rooters In the stands can give the right brand of support only after they have practiced tneir yells and under stand the need for them. Hence, the traditional rally. their places have come great bodies of grim faced men In khaki, severely practicing for the work of war. To find the person or persona r' sponsible for this great change would Indeed be a difficult. If not an Itnpoa elbte tatk. It may be said, however, that government olTlclala and educa ii.w..i l.1frm worked In fullest co operation. With the opening ot the war. the high spirited men of Ideals, found In the colleges, flocked to the colors In such numbers that the Inst!- becoming ladles' seminaries or being forced to suspend all work as In France, Hng land and Canada. Educational heads, seeing such a condition In the Imme diate future, sent a commission to Washington to confer with the govern ment leaders. Previous to the arrival of this mis sion, the government had realised the great need for college-trained men. es pecially those trained In the work of engineering. Sixty per cent of the na tion's fighting force was at that time, and I today, engaged in what may be termed engineering pursuits and the colleges alone were able to furnish the trained men necessary. A plan work ed out by the educatlonat commission and the government heads and elab orated by the federal board for vo cational education, was adopted, and the "militarisation" of the colleges took place In a surprisingly short time. Just what this new move may lead to, is difficult to say but there seems every reason to believe that the change will, to some extent, be perma nent. The least that can be expected Is compulsory University training and military instruction for every man dur ing a certain period of his life. Just how long a period this might be or at. what age it might be given is all a matter for conjecture. Engineering and other scientific and technical sub jects will undoubtedly receive more cultural" subjects, called "snaps by the Etu dents and neglected by them with Im punity, will fall by the way. At first glance it seems paradoxical that we, while fighting Germany, should consider adopting a school system patterened so closely upon that which has been In existence there for many years. In that country, at will probably come to be the case In this country, university Instructors are officers of the government and all men are required to spend a certain period of their life In a military school under government supervision. The system is good; the things taught are wrong We may copy the efficient school sys tem of Germany but we must be sure that American ideals are the guid. e and stays which keep us from danger ous paths. Whatever the outcome may be It is certain that American universities are being permanently made over by the war and that they will never return to the time-worn and inefficient meth ods. While the boys at the front are giving their all for the cause, the uni versities at home w ill "carry on." AN HISTORIC DAY Tuesday, October 1, 1918, will be a day memorable in the history ot col leges and universities of the United States. Over 150,000 students In 500 colleges will, on that day, liavo taken the oath of allegiance to their country and their flag and entered up on a system of training, partially mili tary and partially academic, but all under strict government supervision The induction ceremonies, held simul taneously over the entire country, w ill have officially marked the recognition of universities as essential to the w el fare of the nation and their products as leaders of men and doers of great deeds. In the one year that has passed it is afe to say that colleges have been changed more than in any quarter cen tury of tbeir existence. As out of the civil war grew the Morrill act, pro viding for government land-grant col leges which would give training in mil itary science, bo, out of the Great War, has come the decision of the President and the Secretary of War that colleges should "shoulder arms" in their class rooms as well as on the drill round. Accordingly, the installation of stu dent training corps in the various col leges has seen the passing of the old life as it was formerly lived on the University campus and the entrance of a more serious lire purposing to bring he greatest good in the short est time. With the erection of mili tary barracks and tent-camps on tbe campus; and the evolution of the ath letic fields into training fields, has passed the freshman, with his gauiy cap, and the sophomore, with his ex hibitions of the latest t.-tylt ind is STEWART STATIONED AT ALABAMA TRAINIGCAMP. Ex-Cornhusker Director is Coach ing Soldiers at Home Pend ing Orders to Italy Dr. E. J. Stewart, director ot ath letics at the University of Nebraska, who was given a leave cf absence to engage in army athletic training in Italy, was held up at New York as be w as about to sail for overseas service, and has been planted down at Camp McClellan, Alabama, to train the sol diers at that big artillery school until his difficulties have been straightened out. The government fixed an age limit for overseas duty after Coach Stewart had left Lincoln and until the complication of affa'rs has been untangled, the doctor mill tot see the shores of Italy. j In a letter to "a Lincoln friend he writes in part: ! "We have a great camp down here.' That's my consolation and I am al-l ready organziir.g it for a big football j schedule between companies, bat tal-j ions, regiments and brigades. Fifty j thousand men are here and 2.VO0 ; more are cxroing, whicn means thatj this Is some camp. Four million dol-; lars will be spent on new barracks. Harvard Star Ofi His Team ! l have Wendell, formerly of Har-j rard, as te of the regimental wtv!t!c ! football team, with others from Ohio state, Indiana and Wisconsin. Work and more work Is the slogan and, believe me, I am getting my share. The boya are getting the real Intensive stuff. "We expect to have a strong camp football team and I will coach It, We will play other camp teams In this southeastern section and. If .we should prove to be the best, may look farther west for a game. I shall watch for scores from the west quite anxiously as long as I am here to get them. i have word from the New York office of the Y. M. C. A. that pass ports and all other arrangements have been made for me to go as soon as the government settles the age-limit question. All Y. M. C. A. men under thirty-six years have been returned to the U. S. by the war authorities, pending this settlement. With best wishes to you and all Lincoln friends, I am, "Sincerely, "E. J. STEWART." Dancing at Antelope Park every night, except Sundays. 24-9 WANTED Man to sell shoes on Saturdays. Fred Schmidt & Brso., 917-21 "O." 10 4 fi This notice is paid for by the Firt Congregational Church not for profit but just to lot University poo plo know that they are more than welcome at its Borvicca. Dr. John Andrew Holmes, who has made a specialty of preaching to State University students and professors during a period of ten years, has charge of the service at 10:30 every Sunday morn ing. fl At 12 three student classes, one for student girls, led by Mrs. E. L. Hintnan, one for both men and women, led by Dr. Hinman, and one for men led by Mr. Will Owen Jones, editor of the State Journal, all present rare opportunities. fl At 6 the Young People's Society give a fellowship luncheon and at 7 its regular meeting is held, which is attended prin cipally by students, Sometimes also there is an evening service at 8, as occasion requires, Come to everything. 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