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WORDS.
He had sent her a corsage.
He had rented a Ford.
He had come for her early.
" He had taken her to an expensive
dance.
He had taken her to eat after
wards. And as he stood under the porch
li?ht, did she tell him that she had
had a very pleasant evening? She
did not. She believed that actions
speaks louder than words.
She slammed the door.
First Flea: Where are you going
.o spend the summer?
Second Flea:
bum.
Oh, I'm going on a
Colored Pastor: Brethern, there
was one of you that was out wid
a married woman last Tuesday. Now
I'm not going to tell the name but
I want that man to put a dollar in
the collection box.
And in the box were twleve dollar
bills and a promissory note for fifty
cents.
"Spring cleaning," said Mr. Meek,
'.'might well be called the Battle of
Ma."
SPRING SONG.
Ka-choo! Sniff, sniff Kachoo!
OFFICE HOURS
Every afternoon with the esceptioa af
Friday and Sunday.
EDITORIAL. STAFF.
Paul C Rkhardson
.Editor
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..Manaint Editor
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doria Trott
News Editor
j Editor
. .. Neva Editor
..Assistant Neva Editor
..Assistant Neva Editor
BUSINESS STAFF
Clifford M. Hicks Business Man or
Clarence Eickhoff Asst. Business Manager
Otto Skold Circulation Maaaj-ar
FRATERNITY SCHOLARSHIP.
Once more we turn to that most in
teresting publication that goes out
to the alumni carrying the gospel of
a ' Greater University of Nebraska"
the University Journal, published
monthly by the Alumni Association.
In the April issue, a very interesting
editorial on "Fraternity Scholarship"
appears. It follows:
Before a girl may be initiated into
a sorority at the University of Ne
braska, she must have attained in at
loust twelve hours carried during one
se nester an average of SO per cent.
Men may be initiated into a frater
nity by securing credit in twelve hours
with an averajre of 70 per dent.
It is the generally accepted opinion
that girls are better scholars than
men. Many reasons may be cited
for this condition. Men are less in
clined to take the statements of the
books as they exist, without raising
a question as to their worth than are
girls. Men are more inclined to go
out for student activities, and spend
a large part of their time in pursuits
other than their books. Men, as a
Trie, devote less of their time to an
intensive pursuit of study than do
girls.
It is the general belief of frater
nity men at Nebraska, and of faculty
members conversant with fraternity
affairs, that the scholarship standing
of fraternity men should be raised.
The name fraternity should be in
dicative of good scholarship, a
scholarship above the average of all
University men.
The tendency of fraternities at Ne
braska since 1917 has been to
seriously strive to gain high scholar
ship. Within the last few years, the
general average of fraternity men
has been materially raised- It has
gradually approched to within but
a few points of the average for all
men, and fully half of the frater
nities on the campus show scholar
ship ratings above that general av
erage. From 1921-22 to 1922-23,
the scholarship of fraternity men
rose seven points the first semester
and eight points the second semester.
Not many years ago, the word
fraternity signified poor scholarship.
Y.'ild parties were the general rule
among members of Greek letter or
ganizations. Today that all is
changed. Wild parties are taboo in
tb.2 better fraternities everywhere,
and scholarship is the aim toward
which fraternities, not only at Ne
braska, but nationally, are striving.
Alumni should encourage this at
teirp of fraternity men to raise their
scholarship. Pressure can well be
e.trted upon the active chapter by
its alumni to force the scholarship
average of the active men to rise to
higher levels. Pledges should be
carefully investigated as to scholar
snip ability as well as regards ability
on the football field, the track, and
other worthwhile endeavor. Frater
rity men are meeting the issue of
scholarship squarely, and it can be
predicted that within but a very few
more years the scholarship of the
wearers of Greek letter badges will
have scholarship reports to submit
to their alumni which will reflect
credit upon themselves and upon the
sc'iooL
Be brief and concise. Be con
structive.
Student Opinion.
Editor's Note Because of the
large number of communications that
ar. received for publication in this
column, no letter will be printed
hereafter that contains more than
2C0 words, or approximately one
tjrewritten page, double spaced.
BOYS, YOU ARE LOOKING IN THE
WRONG PLACE!
In answer to "A Fraternity Man's"
question as to what has become of
the appreciative university girl, I
must say that he is looking in the
wrong place.
When a girl iwts what she expects
she forgets to be appreciative and
becomes so accustomed to attention
she takes it as her due rather than as
a compliment or "favor." In saying
this I am speaking for all university
gi -ls. But say, "F. M.," have you
ever tried taking a non-sorority girl
on a date? ' If you haven't, you
should, for I am sure you will find
them appreciative, sensible, often
times without auy "line" whatever.
Non-sorority girls, you know, don't
"get by," else they would be in one
of the sororities where the girls do
get by." No, that isn't what some
of us are here for. Some of us are
here to prepare ourselves for a better
earning capacity and to learn to live
more completely; and some of us are
here merely to have a good time with
the least possible work attached to
the procuring of a degree. But I be
lieve vou men will find Quite a num
ber of us who are serious-minded, j
conscientious, here for a purpose, 1
and appreciative. If you can't find
us among the sorority girls, look
elsewhere among the university girls.
Yes, you have given the sorority
girls everything they have wanted
ard small thanks you get for it.
Now where do the rest of us come
i?.? Have you ever stopped to think
that we like a good elate, enjoy a '
gocJ dance, yes, and can appreciate
a walk once in a while? We do like
a good time and Jcnow how to show
oi:r appreciativeness and we don t
ex;ect a big car or even a Rent-a-.
Ford. All we expect is courtesy, re
spect, and gallantry.
Find out for yourself and see if we
cen t carry on an intelligent con
versation without handing out a
"line." The song we sing isn't "I
love the dear old silver in your
pocket-books." We dress within our
rieans and we don't have many
clothes, but we look as best we can
under the circumstances.
Dcn't feel you are doing a girl a
favor by taking her to a show or
dnce. That is bad for you and
makes your present a wrong attitude
toward her. Be glad you are able to
show someone a good time and be
appreciative yourself if a girl shows
you a good time. So many of you
a o too sarcastic
Perhaps the unappreciativeness of
sorority girls has made you cynical.
but don't forget that there are some
g.rls who are still sweet, unsoured
by criticism and cynicism and they
con't enjoy ironical remarks. Smile
and the world smiles with you, there
fore show your appreciation and the
girls will show theirs.
NON-SORORITY GIRL.
To the Editor:
Now that the first flare of ex
citement is over, I should like a
friendly discussion of "F. M.'s" let
ter. Of course, my first comment
was "Why should we cry over one
sweetie?", but having another side
and and being bothered once in a
while with that process called think
ing, I believe the subject of that
letter is worth an open-minded dis
cussion. First of all, did "F. M." realize
that his letter brands the Sorority
girl of U. throughout the coun
try as frivolous and unappreciative?
I feel sure that all Fraternity men of
the University would not desire that
one of their number should cause
this, yet that wCl be the result of
The Daily Nebraskan reaches alumni
and exchanges far and wide. We
will hear echoes of this criticism f
N. U. girls from unexpected sources.
It seems to me that the one man has
expressed ideas that are not upheld
by the majority of Nebraska men.
That must b true or else N. U.
would not have its thousands of men
with the number increasing each
year. They would not attend a
school that did not have co-eds of
the best character and with the repu
tation of being "good fellows." So
I do not believe that many men will
uphold those ideas expressed so ex
plosively in the letter from "F. M."
Perhaps some good may come from
these discussions; for instance, no
doubt the girls will be more care
ful in expressing thanks, etc. May
I suggest some of the points which
I have heard criticised in a sorority
house? There is the subject of
"line." After a date a girl is asked
if she enjoyed the evening. The an
swer is often something like this:
"Oh, yes, but I get so tired of that
continual line." Who started "lines"
anyhow?
Who calls for late dates? I have
heard men ask for evening dates
within an hour, and, thank goodness,
I have heard them squelched when
there was no excuse for not hav
ing called earlier.
Anothr thing that is discussed
among the girls is that fellows do
not tip their hats when speaking
to them. It is not uncommon to hear
a girl say, "Well, he certainly didn't
break his arm speaking to me," If
you have your arms full of books and
dangle a portfolio besides ,we do not
expect this doffing, otherwise it cer
tainly seems that you might so hon
or us. However, if tipping of hats
went out of style with courtesying,
we should be glad to be enlightened
on the subject and then we can laugh
at the old foggies who do persist in
doing that act. We are for prog
ress! To please "F. M." we should cram
on such subjects as trig, ethics, etc.,
before dating. It is not enough that
we have been in classes all day, we
must discuss such things while dat
ing! The girl who dates such men
must be ready to talk about the
latest chemical discovery, she must
be sure to skip the sport page of the
newspaper for that gives only mate
rial for animated discussion of af
fairs of the passing moment. How
unladylike it would be ta consider
such subjects. All work and no play,
well, I suspect that "F. M." is not the
brightest boy on the campus.
"I BID."
FIFTY-FIFTY.
T the Editor:
For the last two days I have been
reading with interest letters in the
Nebraskan about co-eds at the Uni
versity. The fraternity man seems
to thick that the sorority girls as a
rule are unappreciative lot, and the
tenor of the sorority girl's letter
would seem to indicate and empha
size that girls are doing the boys a
great favor when they go out on
dates with them. As to the merits of
the question I can not say much. The
fact remains, however, that the boys
pay the piper when the fun of the
evening is over. Whether that is
because they enjoy the evening more
than the girls and should pay, or
w nether it is merely a survival of the
good days when women were superior
to men, and men were their humble
servants and devoted admirers, I do
not know. In these days when the
Wimen are so "progressive" and fast
becoming the equals of men it is high
time that some "progressive" women
inaugurates the custom of footing
the bill for the evening or at least
going fifty-fifty. Then indeed they
could say they are men's equal, and
there would be some point to insist
ing that they are doing the men a
favor by excepting an invitation, as
the matter is it is a one-sided pro
position entirely.
Woman was at one time the su
perior of man, but she is fast be
coming his equal. The suffrage, in
stead of raising the general standard
of politics, has merely succeeded in
lowering womankind to the level of
men, and the influx of women into
the professions, business and other
vocations, formerly man's undisputed
domain, has also had its bad ef feet.
The modern women, far from im
proving with the times and being pro
gressive, is simply casting off the
charm and halo of sweetness that
M.irounded the woman of old and
taking on some of the lower char
acteristics of man whose equl she
now strives to be after being his un
questioned superior for centuries
past.
Yours for the old fashioned girl,
W. C.
STUDENT FRIENDSHIP DRIVE
MORE IMPORTANT THAN
RENT-A-FORDS.
To the Editor:
We would like to call your atten
tion to the strange situation which
has been found among the students
in reference to. the Student Friend
ship drive.
An idle observer at on-s of the
several tables where gifts, were re
ceived noticed the peculiar fact that
women contributors far out-num
bered tha men. What reason can
there be for this state of affairs?
There are a great many more men
than women on the campus, and
therefore the percentages of gifts
should be equal at least
We seem to bear some self-satis
fied young man making the remark,
Of course! Father supplies the
money that these girls have to give
away."
But this young man very likely
is not entirely self-supporting and he
too probably draws on dad when need
arises. If the statistics are consuu-
d we find that a. large proportion
of the young women are engaged in
earning their own living or have
earned the money before coming to
school. And yet, they seem to feel
the responsibility of giving to worthy
causes. What's the matter with the
men? By the way, any frat
ernity man who finds his coffers
filled with money which he dislikes to
sp?nd on unappreciative university
girls, will please drop it into the
Student Friendship Fund to swell the
men's account.
Z. Z.
Q. Q.
V. V.
Notices.
Normal Training Club.
Normal Training club will hold a J
luncheon at (he Lincoln hotel Satur-
day. Call B2496 for. tickets.
Lutheran Clnb.
Business meeting Thursday at
7 o'clock in Social- Science 113.
Sigma Delta Chi. j
Meeting scheduled for Thursday at
5:45 p. m. at the Grand hotel will
be postponed until the same day next ;
week, unless additional notice is
given.
Gamut Clnb. I
Robbers cave Thursday. Meet at
the Teachers College at 6 o'clock.
Bring your own spoons.
Vikin.
Viking meeting will be held Thurs
day at 7:30 at the Sigma Phi Ep-
silon house.
Christian Science Society. j
Meeting in the Faculty hall Thurs- j
rfav oroninir jit 7-30 All nrpciin t '
and past students and faculty mem
bers are invited.
Alpha Kappa Psi
Alpha Kappa Psi will hold a ban
quet Thursday at 6:00 p. m., at
the Grand hotel.
Kearney Clnb
Kearney club will hold a picnic
Friday, April 18. Meet at 10th and
0 at 5:30.
Pallaxlinn
Palladian will hold initiation Fri
day evening. The meeting will be
closed.
Omaha Clnb
Omaha club dinner at the Y. M.
C. A. at 6 o'clock, Thursday.
c?n e .
dunr jcrpcai j
Silver Serpent will meet at 7:1j
tonight in Ellen Smith halL
Oiku a.b
Oikia club will hold election of
officers at 6:00 p. m., Thursday, 213
Home Economics building.
Disc as si on Croup v
All men interested in discussing
campus and world problems meet in
S. S. 105, Monday, April 21, at 8:00
p. m.
.Senior Girls
The American Association of Uni
versity Women will entertain the Se
nior girls at the home of the Misses
Gere, 2811 So. 24th St., at 3 p. m.,
Saturday.
Tlrere will be automobiles at Ellen
Smith Hall shortly before 3 o'clock
for those who wish to be taken to the
Gere home.
Calendar
SatsrcLay
Caniuia Phi Beta spring party,
Lincoln hotel.
Sigma Xu spring party, Knights of
Columbus halL
Alpha Theta Chi spring party,
Scottish Rite temple.
Alpha Chi Sigma party, Ellen
Smith halL
Phi Gamma Delta house dance.
For Easter
Why not have your bathrobe cleaned in addition to your
dresses and suite.
We guarantee our work. Call ua now if you desire
work for Easter.
Varsity Cleaners
B3677
"A Trial Will Convince"
Roy Wythers, Mgr.
-Announcing
New Arrivals in
the Furnishings Sec
tion-at Farquhar's
English Foulard Ties
75c to 2.50
These English Foulards in bats
and four-in-hands are by far the
most popular ties for spring. A lot
of new patterns have just come in.
"Jack" Caps
3.50
Tlje "Jack" is a small-top, typical
college cap for. spring. Its been in
great demand, but a new express
shipment has added a lot of fine
patterns to our stock.
Collar-Attached Shirts
$2
Whites, blues, stripes the colors
most in demand are here now at a
popular price. Low collars of
course and the quality guaran
teed by Farquhar's.
Silk Sport Belts
$1 and $1.50
You'll want a silk belt for wear
with your new suit. They're mighty
smart; mighty good looking.
Pull-over Sweaters; new light wool
hose; good looking snap brim hats.
Make your selecion mw.
FARQUHAKS
NF.BRASKAS LEADING OOLLBCE CLOTHIERS