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The Daily Nebraskan
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA OFFICIAL PUBLICATION
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Gaylord Davis Edltor ln-Chlef
Howard Murnn Managing Editor
Jack Landale News Editor
Clarence Haley - Acting News Editor
Ruth Snyder Associate Editor
Oswald Black sPort8 Edltor
Helen Giltner Society Editor
BUSINESS 8TAFP
Glen II. Gardner Business Manager
Hoy Wytliers Assistant Business Manager
REPORTORIAL STAFF
Patricia Maloney Gayle Vincent Grubb Marian Henningcr
Story Harding Sadie Finch Edith Howe
Mary Herzlng Kenneth McCandleBS Genevieve Loeb
Le Rosa Hammond
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INTER-FRATERNITY BASKETBALL.
The inter-fraternity basketball tournament is the latest university
custom to be unearthed from its premature war-grave. Several other
such customs have been brought to life, and others will probably be
renewed by the end of the semester. Such institutions as inter
fraternity basketball, football and baseball, are to be encouraged by
those interested in the democratic development of university fraternity
life.
Rivalary between the different organizations is stimulated, to be
sure, but it is a wholesome and fair rivalry. Clean athletic contests
allow the fraternity members to work off in an upright manner some
of the feeling that they may hold against rival fraternities.
A friendly spirit of emulation between fraternities is fostered,
which brings out the better qualities, both physical and mental, in
all the members.
Through the medium of the inter-fraternity games, the members
of the different fraternities become acquainted with each other. Such
acquqaintanceship dissolves antipathies that may be nursed by one
fraternity against the other. It is true that we cannot judge another
unless we know him, and perhaps if we know the members of rival
fraternities, we will soon come to realize that they are not so different
from our own brothers, and that there are other fraternities besides
our own that have a right to existence.
Charles P. Steinmetz, the hundred-thousand-dollar-a-year consult
ing engineer of the General Electric Company, tells us that men
don't do big things until they grow discontented. He quotes an old
Turkish proverb that the world belongs to the dissatisfied. No truer
word was ever spoken.
There is another fact that ought to be brought out in this con
nection: The big differences between human beings do not lie in
ability and intelligence. People come nearer being equal in brains
than we imagine. The really big variations lie in force and ambition.
One man achieves a "thousand times as much as another not because
he is a thousand times as smart, but because he is a thousand times
more determined.
On no other theory can you explain the sudden rise of the "ordi
nary man." Yet we see it all the time. Look around your neighbor
hood and you will find plenty of cases. The "ordinary man" who be
gins to rise at unprecedented speed does so because he suddenly gets
a vision, develops a desire, sees a goal. Having done this, he begins
to travel at a pace which he has never shown before.
Strange forces give men purpose, and jar them into action. Love,
pride, sorrow, far all sorts of hidden feelings are responsible for the
shaking of men out of ruts and into fields of undreamed-of achieve
ment. More than one big success finds its real origin in the personal
disappointment of some man perhaps over a college education he
couldn't get, or a toy he couldn't afford, or a trip he was not able to
make. Of course some men are "downed" by such emotions, but
others are "made" by them.
Most men have perfectly good boilers in them, and fine equip
ment. But so many never get up steam and go anywhere! They
don't want to go anywhere. They Just stand still waiting for a call
rrom within to "get a move on." The call is likely to come any time.
If your call is late In coming, why not ring up your inner self and
ask him if he can't think of some place he would like to go? It's
a shame to have all that expensive machinery and not use it John
M. Siddall in the American Magazine.
KNOWING PEOPLE.
How many people on the campus do you know well? With how
many others do you enjoy a passing acqquaintance? Do you walk
to and from classes without once saying "Hello" to a fellow-student?
Or, are you kept busy greeting passersby as you hurry along from
one building to another? Are the faces familiar to you those of a
strictly limited group of your own classmates, or do you know
members of the various organizations in the University? Are there
no professors you feel that you know well enough to do more than
distantly nod to outside the classroom?
And why the fusillade of questions? you may ask. They are
prompted by recollection of the views of a friend, a former student,
who used method in cultivating friends and practicing cordiality.
This student had attended college elsewhere for two years before
coming here. After a few months he began checking off names in the
student directory. A semester later he repeated the process. Ques
tioning revealed the information that here was a person who meas
ured the success of his life in the University by the readiness with
which he made friends.
We were struck by the novelty of the idea. Many a time have
we heaM speakers whose experiences and wisdom we respected,
nominate i! T dversity campus as the place where a student forms
the associations which are his alliances for life. We forget a large
per cent of the acquaintances we had In high school and earlier
days, but the friends of our University period are forever cherished.
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