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THE DAILY NEBRASKA N
The Daily Nebraskan
Statiea A, Lincoln, Nebraska
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UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
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EDITORIAL STAFF
Hugh B. Cos Editor
Philip O'Hanlon Managing Editor
Win. Card ...News Editor
Julius Frandsen, Jr. - News Editor
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BACKFIRE.
The report on the behavior of
American undergraduates, Recently
compiled by a group of university
professors, makes this pointed state
ment in regard to the influence alum
ni have on college students:
The domination by the athlet
ic and social elements in the
part which the alumni play in
college affairs is a lowering influence.
This is not the first time that a
conclusion of this kind has been
reached. A short time ago President
Richards of Lehigh University made
a similar charge in even stronger
language. Alexander Meikeljohn,
former president of Amherst College,
is known to hold the same opinion
Because these complaints fre
quently come from administrative of
ficials of colleges and universities
there is one aspect of them which
should not be ignored. The men who
offer the criticisms should remem
ber that they are making charges
which are capable of a forceful back
fire. Their attacks are more than
attacks on the colleges and universi
ties as well. If it is true that the
alumni are primarily interested in
the social and athletic activities of
the undergraduates, it follows that
their education must have been of a
kind which stressed those fields of
activity. Obviously, if a college
really educated its students they
would not, when they become alumni,
lay more emphasis on the playing and
the dancing of the students than on
their thinking and reading.
Such an overwhelming interest in
the superficial aspects of college life
can be the product of nothing but a
superficial education. If its alumni
have that kind of an education the
college cannot, in justice, indict
them. It is upon the institution it
self that the responsibility rests.
A STATEMENT OF POLICY.
A correspondent -writing to the
Student Opinion column declares
that The Daily Nebraskan should
not make itself the mouthpiece of
"malicious criticism." The issue
here raised is one which can best be
met by a statement of the policy
which The Daily Nebraskan follows
5n admitting to its columns letters
tii ini kind to which the writer re
ferred. Granting for the moment that the
writer is correct in his tssumption
that the letter was "malicious," that
fact will hardly suffice as refuta
tion. To say that criticism is mali
cious is merely to attack the motive
and not the criticism itself. Regard
less of the motives which prompted
the criticism it is sound unless it is
possible to point out that it con
tains mistakes in fact and fallacies
in logic. The surest way of refut
ing criticism is not to dam it with
opprobrius terms but to indicate the
unsoundness of ita premises and con
clusions. If the motives of the writer were
to decide whether or not a letter
was to be published it is evident
that it would be almost impossible to
get a valid standard by which all
letters might be judged. One indi
vidual is a poor judge of another's
motives. An attempt to select let
ter on such a basis would probably
result in their selection and rejec
tion by no better standard than the
prejudices' and whims of the editors.
It is better that criticism should
be made in the open, that it should
be published, so that its strength of
weaknesses may be examined. If it
is fallacious the broadside of truth
and logic which its enemies will di
rect against it will be far more ef
fective as refutation than editorial
suppression could ever be.
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS Horse
shoe pitchers are out warming up for
the Inter-organization meet that is
to be beld the first week in May.
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN
The women have gone on record as
being opposed to drinking.
A DEFENSE OF LITERARY
SOCIETIES.
To the Editor:
I cannot understand why Veritas
should state that the literary soci
eties which occupy the third floor of
the Temple Building have no right to
this title. Either he (or she) is mis
informed or he (or she) is wilfully
blackening the name of three of the
oldest and most respectable organiza
tions on this campus.
I, personally, am not a member of
either of these organizations, but I
wish to state that I have attended
their open meetings and been courte
ously and hospitably received, as
doubtlessly Veritas himself would be,
if he (of she) would take the trouble
to investigate his claims.
None of the charges that Veritas
made can be sustained. In the first
place he says that none of the mem
bers of these societies write. Now I
personally know that members of at
least one of them are represented in
the Awgwan, in Nebraska Verse, and
as contributors to Olympian Stuff.
And in reference to the latter, I
would like to state that the only part
of the column that the average in
telligent individual can make any
sense out of is contributed by a mem
ber of one of these societies.
In earlier days, the societies, or
one of them at least, had control of
The Daily Nebraskan, as well as the
Cornhusker Countryman, and though
this is no longer the case, I have
heard it said that alumni of the so
cieties always state that the old tra
ditions are being upheld.
I might also add that members of
these societies are doing distinguish
ed work in The World Forum, the
Big Sister Commission, Debate, Ath
letics, and all sorts of campus activ
ities.
Last year one of these societies put
on a stunt at University Night that
by far outranked anything given
there this year.
It was my privilege to attend a
meeting of these societies about two
years ago when a literary contest was
held. Some of the questions were
very difficult such as identifying pas
sages from Milton and Whittier and
all our noted writers. The prize was
won by a member of the society who
made a grade well up in the seven
ties. The prize, I may say, was a
beautifully bound volume of Long
fellow. Does this show a lack of lit
erary appreciation?
Only last Friday a "poet's pro
gram" was held, in which two of the
members gave readings from the
works of James Whitcomb Riley, ac
companied by beautiful tableaux.
One of the members also read the old
poem, "The House By the Side of the
Road" and the audience showed great
appreciation.
It is also the custom of these soci
eties to put on plays, written and
coached by members. There is no
other organization on this campus
which does so much to foster the
playwright's art.
I make these statements as an out
sider who has nothing to gain by it,
for I understand that the societies
themselves will not stoop to answer
the charges so basely brought against
them. It is my opinion that the
Daily Nebraskan should not make it
self the mouth-piece of such mali
cious criticism.
JUSTICE, i
MONTESREY MAKES A
SUGGESTION.
To the Editor:
I suggest that the "literary" soci
ety mentioned in the letter of Jus
tice hold an investigation to deter
mine the identity of the member who
writes for Olympian Stuff. These so
cieties, as they are now composed,
can hardly acknowledge a person
who actually writes.
CLAIRE MONTESREY.
he offers the following' conclusions:
1. "The character of the under
graduate as determined by his life
before entering college will have
much to do with his subsequent col
lege life. If he looks upon college
as being a release from restraint,
the inner control is largely lacking,
2. "That the possession 01 an
automobile by a college undergrad
uate is a sowing to the winds by the
parents who present it.
8. "The curricula of the univer
sities are in a serious condition. We
find a willingness on the part of the
student to merely get grades, to 'get
by,' and to cheat if need be,
4. "Fraternities may be helpful
to students sometimes, but are only
too often the open door for neglect
of studies and a moral slipping
downward.
5. "That the custom of humiliat
ing freshman lowers the morale of
our educational systems. It is es
pecially bad that this custom should
be in the hands of the sophomore
class.
6. ."That the domination by the
athletic and social elements of the
alumni in the part which the alumni
plays in college affairs is another
lowering influence."
The natural reaction to this is pro
test, but read it again, and remem
ber that the conclusions came neith
er from the press nor the pulpit.
They are based on what purports to
be sound speculation and investiga
tion by those who teach us. Daily
Californian.
tion. Reporting for the committee ally accepted. A committee of law
students presented a petition pro-
testing against the acceptance of his
resignation because of the unusual
ability and popularity. "Although
Dr. Pound has been a member of
our faculty only two years he is
counted as one of the most popular
professors that the university has
ever had," The Daily Nebraskan
records.
This afternoon at three o'oclock,
the Varsity will play the first of a
three-game series of baseball wwith
a team representing the City of Lin
coln. The strength of the city club
is not known but the games promise
to provide stiff competition for the
Varsity and ieal entertainment for
the fans.
Nebraska will start the following
line-up: Bender, Morse, Cook, Fen-
Ion, Gaddiss, Rine, Carroll, Reddick,
and McLaughlin.
The girl's basketball team return
ed Sunday morning from a trip to
Missouri University where they de
feated the girl's team of that insti
tution by a close score in a well play
ed game.
The girl's team here has made a
good record in the past nine years
and an effort will be made to bring
the girl's team of the University of
Missouri to Lincoln next year for a
return game.
The first clash between the Mili
tary Science department of the Uni
versity and the Athletic department
occurred yesterday when the sold
iers, with fixed bayonets, drove the
ball players off the athletic field
during the course of a game between
the University and Cotner Univer
sity. The trouble occurred when the
teams remained on the field after
the time fixed when the soldiers
should start drilling.
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
Chapel cuts must all be made up.
Chapel probation is considered as im
portant as scholarship probation.
PRINCETON Ninety per cent of
the students took part in some form
of athletics last year. Thirty two
athletic squads report activities.
Notices
W. S. G. A.
There will be a W. S. G. A. Coun
cil meeting Thursday at 7 o'clock in
Ellen Smith Hall.
Christian Science Society.
The Christian Science will meet
Thursday evening at 7:30 in Faculty
Hall in the Temple.
Af College Mixer.
Ag College Mixer, Friday, March
6, at the Horse Barn on the Ag
campus. tveryDoay is welcome.
Seniors in Teachers College.
Dean Sealock requests that all
members of the senior class in Teach-
The College Press
WE ARE THE TARGET.
The colleges have certainly been
taking a beating. There is no other
class of American citizen which has
faced the criticism thrust at the men
and women now engaged in pursuit
of higher education.
Others have taken it before. The
papers, the pulpit, the magazines
have flung their mud at the flapper.
The business man has quailed before
attacks equally as malignant. The
politician has not been immune from
it. Even "young America" has
been frowned at. Just now the col
legian is the target. The nation is in
an uproar for fear that the "cream
if its citizenry is going to the dogs."
"But why this apprehension?" the
students ask.
Prof. Charles E. Rugh of the de
partment of education has, in con
junction with other prominent edu
cators of the West, recently com
pleted a sweeping investigation on
the "Present Behavior of the Uni
He has some interesting light to shed
upon the present collegiate situa-
Twenty Years Ago
Delegates to the Pan-Hellenic
dance committee met to elect officers
for the annual dance, but the pro
ceedings were deadlocked by an alter
cation over the vote of Phi Rho Sig
na, medical fraternity, and Sigma
Omicron Beta with a chapter at Chi
cago and two alumni at Michigan.
Those opposed to the medics sought
to nullify their vote on the conten
tion that the society had never been
voted in. On the other side, the
vote of Sigma Omicron Beta was
opposed on the grounds that the
organization had never taken any
active part in university affairs. The
meeting split, both factions electing
Pan-Hel dance officers, and both
formulating plans for a dance.
"The university has been serious
ly handicapped for lack of funds to
maintain the institution and has in
the last few years lost several of its
most valuable members of the fac
ulty because of the low salaries paid
them," a writer comments on the
appropriation of $250,000 for sal
aries at the university. This appro
priation represented an increase of
$50,000 over that of the preceding
year.
At a meetigg of the board of
regents, Dr. Pound's resignation as
Dean of the Law College was fin-
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Lutherans
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Dramatic Club.
The Dramatic club initiation will be
held Thursday at 6 o'clock in the
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Freshmen Football Man.
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