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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 12, 1922)
SUMMER NEBRASKAN ..i.n..u.i nI...Li.i.iir 'I'tinrmlu v ntiil SutUT- tin v of ourh week by the Lulverslty f NfliriiHka. Kntered a ooml I'lnss matter ut tho postofflo In Mns-iiln. Nebrimkn, umliT Act ut C(iiiKrt'88. ! -i an. nviuiiiiiiTV PUHLICATION I niler the Ulwtlon uf th NtuUent I ub- Mention ixtura. Hubwrlptlon rt. flOe tor the .ummer, Single copy, 6c. MANAliKMKNTl Jrk utld Wilbur llernoii Kdllor OF KICK HOIKS: Manarr and Killtor ............. ..-S to Room 206 Unl Hall IN MEMORY With the close of school next week, the Summer Nebraskan will be left in -memory. For the first time at the Uni versity of Nebraska an attempt has been made at a summer paper. What success the venture has had maj r.ever be known by the management. Hut to the students who have followed the paper through the summer, the re sults, whether pleasing or unsatisfac tory, are well known. The manage ment can only hope that it has sue ceeded in giving all that it promised, fn giving as much or more than could reasonably be expected. Handicaps there have been many. Few were the reporters available. Those who contributed did so as a measure of kindness. But most of ihe work has not been asy. Summer sessions are not filled with events as r.re winter courses. What news has been printed has been possible only through the cooperation of the univer sity with the management, through an earnest effort to get all the news available. The management sincerely hopes that its efforts have been worthwhile; that its subscribers have not been dis appointd. It can enly know by the statements of those who have read its paper whether its attempts at pub lishing a good newsy sheet have been succsFful. It hopes that th epaper was ell that was expected: that the Sum mer Nebraskan will live year after ;.ear. Whether it lives or whether it ches will depend much on the success cf the 1922 venture. If it has been successful, the paper will again be pub lished. If it has been unsuccessful, others will take over the work or there will be no paper at all. COLONEL MITCHELL It is with a feeling of deep regret that Nebraska students learn of the retirement of Colonel Americus Mit chell as commandant of the R. O. T. C. U Nebraska and from active service in the U. S. army. Colonel Mitchell has won friends among the Nebraska students in his short stay here. He has been a successful commandant and it is with a feeling as of parting with a close friend that Nebraska stu dents will bid him farewell. THIRTY-THREE DAYS In just thirty three days, university students will fro to that first meeting of their first semester classes. In just thirty-three days, house rules becom? fixed and students will enter upon the .Mart of another thirty-six weeks of work. But two months ago students started on their summer vacation. They had lot of things planned. Now but thirty-three days remain and few of the students will have beea able to complete their planned programs be fore the start of school. It Is hardly with a feeling of regret that school will start. WTiile student welcome vacations, they do not parti cularly like the long summer days with little to do. By the time the va cation period ends they are generally anxious to return to books and studies PUNCTUATION Need of a more thorough course in the ethics of punctuation for students In tho high Bchoola is yearly being felt more and more decidedly by uni versity professors through the themes and manuscripts which the students prepare. Few are those who can use properly the comma, semi colon and colon, all necessary to readable writ Ing. Whether the fault lies with the high schools in taking the matter' of nnnctuation too lightly is a question for speculation. It may be that present clay students Just naturally win not adept their writing to the rules wtilcli they are taught. Wherever the fault lies, it needs correction if college grad uates are to be protected against a reputation of being unable to write a j common senst paragraph, propel ly punctuated. FLAPPERS LIKELY TO BE LONG-LIVED Report Show Low Necked Dressea and High Skirti Have Raised Life Limit THE FALLACY OF GRADES In a recent issue the Topeka Capi tal quoted K, It. Cook, principal of Topeka high school, as saying: 'A teacher should be a director and u"t a bookkeeper. A classroom should be a laboratory and not an aceountirg 100m. Pupils shoijld be expected to take something away from class in stead of bringing something to class" This remark brings up one of t.'io glaring defects in the American edu cational system the slavish adherence to grades, and its attendant weight ot routine paper work for the instructor. Grades are at best a very poor indi cation of the student's real knowledge and ability. It is obviously impossible tor an instructor to guage with math ematical accuracy the knowledge of a student and express the proportion in a per cent. Yet this is what is at tempted. Instead of being enabled to devote himself to real iifspiritual teaching, the instructor is compelled to spend a great deal of his time in keep ing records the work of bookkeeping. One school cannot do away with the prading system until the reform an be made generally. Eventually. hewever, American school should adoot some sort of a system doing away with the present elaborate tangle of grades. Perhaps grades might he abolished entirely let the student take a final in each course, and his vork be classed as "satisfactory" or unsatisfactory," according to tne judgment of the .instructor. Some such plan would be much more equit able than the one now in use. TENUIS TOURNAMENT BACK NEXT YEAR Nebraska Association Votes to Again Use the University Courts for State Meet The Nebraska state tennis tourna ment will be held on the university courts again next year. At a busi ness meeting of the association it was voted that the tournament should again be held at the university. This is the first year that Lincoln has had the state tennis tournament. Completion of the university courts, said to be among the best dirt courts in the country, makes Lincoln the ideal place for the state tourney. More than 100 men entered the tournament this year. A tournament for boys under 18 years of age is being planned for neyt year. This tournament will be beld In conjunction with the regular men's contests. Flappers of today are liable to be long-lived. At least that Is the con elusion to be drawn from the report of the census bureau. According to the Washington bureau, women with short skirts and low necked drosses live longer than do men with their heavy overcoats and .underwear. The average life of man is 55.23 years ps compared with 57.41 for women. The report from Washington fol lows: Washington, August 9. Women with low necked dresses and short skirts live longer than men with their heavy overcoats and underwear, the bureau of census reported itoday. The average life of the men in the country is 55.23 years as compared with 57.41 for women. Despite the wr.ils of reformers against the fast pnd strenuous modern life, the aver age longevity of men in 1920 was 3.75 years greater than in 1910 while the increase of women was 2.75 yeara. The government's figures prove there is something to the old warn ing, that life In the big cities will get jou sooner or later. The uveragj "lease on life", in the principal cltles is 51.55 years for men and 54.77 for women, as compared with a national average in the country of 3.68 years higher for men and 2.64 years more for women. "As to health, there's nothing the matter with Kansas," as people there live longer than in any state, the aver age being 59.73 for men and 60.S0 for women. Wisconsin is second with 5S.77 years for males and 60.70 for rl'emales. Of the nation's city dwellers, Wash Ingtonians live the longest, the aver age life in the capital being 53.6S for men and 59.83 for females. The foregoing figures all apply to whites. Nifroes are shor'.cr lived. rhe nationa' average is 40 14 for males ana -.io iur ioiuim. TEACHERS OF EVERY KIND WANTED NOW P to fill "Calls" from Boards and Superintendents. U OUR SERVICE MADE OUR BUSINESS ! Ask our Members. They KNOW. We can and will locate YOl U NOTHING SUCCEEDS LIKE SUCCESS. 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COURSES ARE OFFERED IN Economics Education History Mathematics and manv more. English Philosophy Do you need any of the above courses! Before leaving Lincoln visit the Extension Division- in Social Science 108 and arrange for work you are interested in. If you are not in Lincoln, address A. A. REED, Director University Extension Division Sta, A, University of Nebraska Lincoln, Nebraska