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Thursday, December 14, 1900
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Charles A. Mitchell.
William Card .AnslMunt Nlirlit Kilitnr
Nebraska students extend their
greetings to Nebraska's Grand Old
Man, Jack Best, on the occasion ot
his seventy-seventh birthday. He is
Nebraska's Dad, unique in bis posi
tion. "CRIBBING."
With final exams only a month
away some ambitious students have
already started their crib sheet. These
wil bo nicely rounded out before the
end of the semester and will aid
many a student in making credit.
which would otherwise be lost.
For many years there has been agi
tation against cheating in examina
tions. There have been attempts to
introduce the honor system, these at
tempts which have always failed for
lack of student support. It has al
ways been the attitude of some st'i
dents that the faculty was trying to
put something over on them. This is
a curious attitude. It admits that
many students are making their
hours almost solely by cribbing. H
also smacks of the small boy idea of
school. Those people who favor crib
bing hava the grammar-school feel
ing that school is merely a conflict
between teacher and pupil to see
which can best the other. That is
not a mature idea. It is trite to say
that a person who cheats harms only
himself.
Of course there will always be
cheating as long as public opinion
smiles on it. No faculty in the world
can watch an entire student body. It
is curious that the schools of the ,
middles west have this cribbing habit
while those of the east have not.
Perhaps it is because the older
schools have built up a tradition of
high ideal:-. There anyone who cheats
is a social outcast. Here, the person
who cheats is often apparently the
most admired.
This is a very bad thing lor ail
concerned. It lowers the scholar.-!! i
standing of the school and the moral
tone of the institution and the in
dividual members. It scuds out into
the world a number of individuals
with no idea of hard work or intel
lectual honesty.
1 ,.he coming examinations, .he
udents should reflect a different at-
Mill
,.i,. T!,e i, r.-on who "cribs' should
titi;
be l.K.de to be the exception and to
f,el hU place. Uv.-ry camp" l'
ganizalion should instruct its win
hers in the ethics of classroom hon-
t ltm-l. a pui.iic i.i..u.""
esty.
aYnrt cheating should be built up.
aR:u
Kron tan withstand pu.-uc u
approval and "cribbing '
th're were a strong feeling against
CRITICISM OF CRITICISM
Nel,ra,kan nae pQinls
" U ire a in editorial,
f ;r, e any business, or anything
Any paler. function is al-
,K.rtorm.ng a pubuc g
Ways williuK and glad io
Btructivo -iticism but ev
plres the coiunu &
Uarpin? upon the laiw
ual without offering a remedy. Oth
ers entirely unacquainted with the
work which 'they dare to so brazenly
criticise, slash and tear with pleas
ure but are absolutely incapable of
attaining the level bo willing dispar
aged. The woru u..rsm & fast taking
the tneanimz of telling the faults
of everything, with never a thought
toward for the good poinis or me
fnr tha faults. The word wlb
have to be better understood or It
will eventually lost Its real meaning
People are rather Inclined to saj
that they feel surprised that an
. ood merely because the perfected so
clety calls for better and jnore et
fioinnr work.
Tr waa ever thus and undoubtedly
will Mtntlnue thus. All men think
themselves sadly neglected, but the
complicated society In whicn we me
rie rise to breaches in tne lamuy
branch in taTor ot a unified govern
ment, breaking up the individual ac
complishments more and more.
THE SILVER LINING.
They say that every cloud has Its
silver lining, even though the bright
ness is obscured by seemingly Im
penetrable darkness.
If this is so, the darknes of this
all-encompassing cloud must be deep
est and thelining most silvery to the
.iKli iihials w ho have to travel the
cheerless, vielssitudinous way that
the physically-handicapped must
tread.
It is noteworthy the number of
persons who have obtained recogni
tion in spite of serious handicaps
under which they have had to per
severe, t may be because fate has
been hard on them that they have
been able to grasp the weight of and
therefore to realize more effectively
the opportunities that have drifted
tlieir way.
Success in spite of adverse condi
tions tli.it were faced unhesitatingly,
iletermatedly, hopefully, shows real
bigness of character, and the lining
of the cloud that these brave handi
capped souls have penetrated cannot
it, brighter tl:: n is their deserts.
U-NOTICE
i .V'l iiv. "f iri'iitTal Interest will In
jni!ittl in lliis column lur iwn i-uust-cu-
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Ail Bandmen Notice.
Appear in uniform for f o'clock
iiaiiae Thursday. Pictures ot the
baud will be taken at the Temple,
industrial Club.
.Miss Krma .Appleby, secretary of
the I'nivorsity V. W. C. A. will speak
to the Industrial group at the Grand
hotel, Friday noon.
All Organizations.
Officers of all student organizations
call at Student Activities office and
straighten up outstanding bills before
Christmas vacation.
Phi Delta Phi Meeting.
Kappa Sigma House, 6 p. m., Tues
day, December 19.
Americanization.
Girls are needed for Americaniza
tion work under the auspices of tha
limersity V. Y. C. A. See Miss
Appleby at Ellen Smith hall.
DeMolay.
Regular DeMolay meeting, Tuesday
at S. First meeting under the new
administration. Appointments Qf com
mittees wiil be made. Activities for
the winter, plans for the dance, and
the annual "stag" will be made.
81. News-Writing, the Newspaper.
The three members who failed to
.sign ' copy written in classroom uc-
cember 12 will please call at the of
fice at once and do so.
M. M. FOGG.
Green Goblins.
Special meeting of the Green Gob
lins at the Acacia house Thursday at
::!"). Very important.
Commercial Club.
Jlusinoss meeting of the Commercial
club Thursday, 11, Social Science 303.
Girls' Rifie-Shooting.
A new section in rifle-shooting for
girls has been opened sessions o
be held ,at T. o'clock Wednesdays.
Girls not on the waiting list should
see Miss Clark at once.
Home Ec. Club.
Home Economics club business
meeting Thursday in Ellen Smith hall
at 7:15.
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Calendar
Thursday, December 14.
Wesley Guild meeting, 7 p. ra
So-
cial Science 113.
Green Goblin meeting, 7:15 p. m..
Acacia house.
Art students dinner, 6 p. m.. Art
hall.
Friday, December 15.
Phi Omega Pi winter party. Cham
ber of Commerce.
C.ornhusker banquet for all men,
s'o'tish Rite Temple.
Ccrnhusker costume party for nil
ijirls. Armory.
Alpha Fhi formal, the Lincoln.
Saturday, December 16.
Union open meeting, 8:30 p. m.
Alpha Kappa Ps! dance, Sigma Phi
Epsilon house.
Delta Upsilon house dance.
Kearney club Christmas party, Fac
ulty hall.
Kappa Phi-Wesley Guild kid party,
S p. m., East Y. M. C. A. Temple.
Lambda Chi Alpha house dance.
Pi Kappa Phi informal, Lincoln
shire.
Farm House dance, chapter house
Catholic Students Christmas party
Windsor hotel, 8 o'clock.
Pi Kappa Phi dance at Lincoln-
shirt Saturday night.
Lutheran club social meeting, 8: IS,
Y. M. C. A. room. Temple.
La Trentaine, open meeting, Fac
ulty hall.
Homo Ec. party, 3 p. m., Ellen
Smith hall.
Kappa Delta party, Ellen Smith
hall.
Sigma Chi Dinner dance (formal)
the Lincoln.
X. A. E. Dance, K. of C. hall.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon Informal, the
Lincoln.
OFFICIAL REPORT ON INTER
FRATERNITY CONFTRENCE
(Continued from Page 1)
ties to establish more chapters, by
aiding fraternities to get in touch
with locals seeking national affilia
tion, and by organizing certain groups
of locals into new fraternities. The
committee, he said, "has endeavored
to impress the real worth and meril
of the American college fraternity
system and to hold up as a goal the
highest ideals of citizenship and
manhood, for it is felt that the proper
guidance in the period of organiza
tion will ultimately result in a chap
ter creditable to any fraternity."
The Committee on Publicity,
through its chairman, Peter Vischer,
reported that in view of the wide
spread loose talk regarding secret or
ganizations his committee has an op
portunity to do most valuable work
for the cause ot Greek-letter fratern
ities. lie reported that the commitiet
has a threefold aim: to keep fraterni
ties informed on inter-fraternity mat
ters through this bulletin, to keep
the colleges informed, to keep th
general public informed of fraternity
cims and ideals. He pleaded for a
friendlier spirit in the press. He re
quested a closer liason between the
Committee on Publicity and fra'ernity
officers and editors. He asked par
ticularly that a constant flow of
clippings on matters ot inter-fraternity
interest be kept moving in hi?
direction.
D. an A. K. Meckel of Lafayette led
a spirited discussion on "The Move
ment for Economy in Education "
placing the greatest emphasis, how
ever, upon the growing cost of frat
ernity parties. He mentioned Up
value of a faculty financial adviser
for all chapters. President Kenneth
C. M. Sills of Bowtloin also decried
elaborateness and unnecessary ex
pense in the management of fratern
ity affairs.
ljr. Francis W. Shepardson, for in t
State Commissioner of Education in
Illinois and former Dean at Chicagi
made a stirring address in answer to
the charge of lavisliness. Thes charg
es are a result of general expensive
hess throughout colleges and in fact
through all the business world. Col-
lepe men, lie said, are no longer sat
isfied with the things their fathers
were satisfied with, and their fathers
would not haw mem satisfied with
the old order.
'The college authorities who are
criticizing fraternities are not playing
fair." said Dr. Shepardson. "They
talk snobbishness and lavishness and
then turn around and encourage huge
outlays 'for the glory of the institu
tion.' Vast stadiums costing upwards
of half a million dollars or so arc
just as objectionable from a strictly
scholastic point of iew as are silver
favors at house parties.
"The time has come wlion fratern
ities ought to answer charges against
them with a list of the important and
valuable constructive works they do.
Some criticism is fctill fair but it
melts into insignificance in the face
cf the constructive work accom
plished." The discussion on scholarship,
which took up a larye part ot the
morning session and in which most of
the educators present took part, was
led by J. T. Caldwell, Scholarship
Commissioner of Kappa Sigma. The
fraternity that fails to keep all iti
men in college fails of its purpose
he said. Good scholarship should be
the result of fraternity effort rather
than the basis lor the existence of
the lraternity. The use of fraternity
endowment funds by some fraterni
ties, he said, is evidence of the alti
tude of fraternities toward tcholir
ship. "Fraternities are being churg-d
with encouraging their members to
pick easy courses,'' he said. It cannot
be true, he insisted, in the general
run. Too many students have to fol
low a prescribed course ot study to
icceive their degrees. While the col
lege is primarily responsible for
scholarship, he said, this responsibil
ity has been shifted by some colleges
to the fraternities.
Mr. Caldwell recommended a uni
form scholarship blank and explained
its working in some detail, to be
printed in full in the conf. rejice min
ales to be published later. From hi.'
reports he learned that .freshmen,
sophomores, and pledges are respons
ible for poor scholarship due to the
"weeding out" process. Refusal to In
itiate a pledge until he has showed
that be can pass his work and the
"Big Iirother" system were recom
mended. One ot the features of the confer
ence was an eloquent address by Dr.
William II. P- Faunce, president of
Drown and in a way the "father" of i
the conference. He told of tbr grovth
cf the conference from an infonnai
meeting he called year3 ago in Chi
cago and ejr;icssed the hope that th j
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conference pow grown Into a power
ful oi panli.-ulon has become not n
flttpt r fraternity but a clearing house
where fraternities may solve their
mutual dificulties.
"The immense growth ot our col
leges and universities today makes
the grouping of our students vastly
more Important than ever before,"
he said. "The sudden expansion in
numbers ,wil mean a degradation of
inspiration and a depreciation of life
unless the groupings of those stu
dents are emphasized and developed
as never before. It is impossible for
a freshman to(love 2,000 men at once.
It is like trying to be affectionate with
the -Atlantic Ocean. A man cannot
love all humanity unless he can love
a few speciments jOf humanity first.
And if we are going to back any
groupings whatever why not avail
ourselves ot the historic groupings
that have existed for a hundred years
here in our American colleges?
"At Drown tTils year we gave all
our freshmen a psychology test be
f:'ie they entered college. Six weeks
later, after pledging, we discovered
that 56 per cent of those pledged
were in the lowest two-fifths of the
class judged by the intelligence
tests. Yet in the college at large this
year fraternity men stood higher
than the non-fraternity jnen. When
you put those two things together,
you try to believe the conclusion that
fraternities take in inferior intelli
gence and turn out superior scholars
But we ought no tto take In inferior
intelligence. We ought to demand In
telligence at the very gate of our
fraternities.
"I think that a fraternity is helpful
must live not only for itself but as
well for some cause worth struggling
and working and fighting for. Psy
choanalysis has its dangers. A man
who is always watching his wealth
and his blood pressure and his heart
heats is not in a condition of health.
I hope our fraternities are not always
dissecting themselves but are finding
some task in the life of the college
and in the life of America that is
worth while. If ever' fraternity said:
"We stand for the things that need
doing in this university, clean sport,
honest work n the classroom and in
the laboratory, for the enforcement
of law, for simplicity, simple life,
honest simple pleasure, and against
extravagance and self-indulgence," if
every fraternity would co-operate
with the faculty, then it would find
itself.
"Let me beg ot you ot mature years
not to lose track of the undergrade
ate life of your own chapter. If you
w ould keep your ideal, if you would
keep young in spirit, if you would
keep lrom hardening of the arteries
and lurdening of the heart, keep iu
touch with the undergraduate life o;
i he American college."
The dinner of fraternity cditois,
held after the conference, brought
forth an animated discussion as to
liie propi r function of a fraternity
magazine. Is it for the alumni or th
underpraduntes, is it to present news
o:i what one editor termed "Only
Si-.;t'' or articles of serious import,!
,s it to lecord past history or pic-j
tun- iiieseiit-day life? Perhaps a
coiiijm lituui between fraternity edit
ors, to end in the pinning of a blue
ribbon on the "best" fraternity maga
zine all things considered by a com
mittee of editors at the next editors'
diunc- a year hence might help give
an answer.
The educators present took a vital
part in its discussion. Among them
were President William H- P- Faunce
et Drown. President Kenneth C. W.
Sills of Dowdoin, Dean C. H. Mclcher
cf Kentucky, Dean William C. Ham
liionci of Cornell, Dean A. K. Heckel
of Lafayette, Dean E. E. Nicholson ol
Minnesota, Dean A. W. Tarbell of Car
negie Tech. Dean John J. Luck of
Virginia, Dean C. O. Guenther of
Sicvcns, and Principal Howard De
ment of Hill School.
Ne w officers of the Inter fraterui'y
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Conference were elected as follows:
Chairman John J. Kuhn, Delta Ch!,
Cornell, '98.
Vice-chairman Willis O. Robb,
Deta Theta Pi. Ohio Wesleyan, '79.
Treasurer Dr. Walter H. Conley,
Phi Sigma Kappa, Union, '9L
Secretary A. Bruco RielaskI, Delta
Tail Delta, George Washington, '04.
Educational Adviser Dr. Thomas
Arkle Clark, Dean of Men at Univer
sity ot Illinois, '90.
Executive Committee Class of
HCl. Don K. Mmy, Sigma Alpha Ep
silon, Cornell, '97; Robert G. Mead,
Kappa Alpha, Northern, Williams,
Harold Kiegelman, Zeta Beta
Tau, Cornell, '14; F. H. Nymeyer,
.eia I 'si, Illinois, '11; Henry H.
Johnston, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Wil
liams, '03; L. L Moore, Sigma Ti,
Temple, 'OL
Exchanges.
"Can people think better now than
tilery could ages ago?"
Most of us would answer, "Yes,"
without stopping to consider that
they might be wrong, but Professot
W. O. Lynch, ot the history depart
ment, declares there Is room for
grave doubt on the question. Trains
automobiles, airplanes and all mero
ly natural, industrial developments.
They can in no way be taken as ab
solute proof that the mental powers
of the races have developed In the
least since the beginning of history,
he holds. i
The great men of today have bu'lt
their success on the foundations laid
by men just as great in the ages
past; so there is no basis for the
theory of a great development In the
thinking powers of man, Professor
Lynch reasons.
There Is also a question, according
to Professor Lynch, whether or n"t
our ethical and moral standards are
higher than ther were in the mid
die ages and earlier. Indiana Daily
Student.
The first of a series of classes for
students of subnormal weight will bi
held today at 4 o'clock under the di
rection of Dr. J. W. Rowler. Cards
giving the details regarding the
course have been mailed to each ol
the l.'O men who will be resuired to
attend these classes.
Dr. Bowler will devote the first fw
classes to elementary Instruction and
advice as to proper diet, both groii:)
and individual instruction being giv
en. Students will be excused from
other recreational activities during
the period of their attendance at
these classes. As the men attain nor
mal weight they will be permitted to
eWt their own recreational activity
once moro.
Last year 143 men attended th"?
classes and at the end of two months
the average gain per man was nice
pounds The Dartmouth.
FULL. LLTNGTH SKIRT LAUGHS.
Yes. there is a material difference
between a long and a short skirt
ranging all the way from an inch Ic
yard. The fashion decree demanding
the long skirts will put the woman
to the test. If she a slave to fash
ion? Was the short skirt a resist
of the era of woman's rights coming
into being? Or, was the shortening
of skirts only one of fashion's dic
tates to be obeyed by woman without
eiustion? If woman does not unani
mously endorse and wear long skir's
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will it mark the freedom of fashion?
In other words, will woman become
Individualistic in fashions and rele
gate so-called stylo to the historic
past? Perhaps a solution of th
skirt problem would be to make
skirts of elastic material so that they
ArKp ' , j,
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If putting some gold paint
on weeds
gets them in the florist's shop
I think I'll get myself
a Kuppenheimer Suit
and step out in society!"
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and in stylo and contracted when
shorts skirts are the vogue. Laughs
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"Topics of the Day" Films which are
always long on laughs iu theatres
everywhere.
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