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THE DAILY NZBRASKAN The DailyjNebraskan StatUx A, LhtMla, Nabraaka OFFICIAL. PUBLICATION o Ik UNIVERSITY Or NEBRASKA U.r Dirctln ( ba StuJaat rustication BaarJ PuhllaHaJ TuaaJav. Wadna.dar. Tauradari Friday and Sunday morning during tha aca- MUo jraar. Inff else, it would bo amusing ond harmless. But its posslblo effect on th mental development of tho fresh man is not fully 'appreciated. How detrimental this effect may bo is for cibly brought homo whon wo seo tho green enp custom for what it is nn clomontary course in tho mob mind. THE IRON SPHINX AGAIN It is. perhaps, not well to flatter tho Iron Sphinx by too much com ment on their deficiencies. Since their Initiation comes this evoning tho temp tation, however, for ono parting shot is irresistibilo. It will probably nlways Edllarlal Olllcaa Unlv.r.lty Hall to. Offlca Hour Aftarnooni with tha axeep. . f n nfnlH. (Jon of Friday and Sunday. DO a BOUfCO 01 amazement to intCIII- No. 12 w cent nersons thnt so useless ana D ... cmntv nn organization is nblo to TaUnhanaa Day. B-8S8I. ring.) Night, B4SS2. Sr:r,.Vr..V. ,h"h. ..p- find, each year, candidates for mem- tlon of Friday and Sunday. bcrship wllO aro willing to go through Telepbonaa Day, B-BOHI, no, i ,ofrrnclIni? brutalities of ts InitlB tha "On. inu 1UCI VHUb UlU oujiiiwun..... ringa.) Night, B-6882. P. A uH.J.rliia matta a. poitolflca In Llncalfl, Nebraaka, undtr act wno nr0 members of the Society are LS?l"Z;iti2nTL:tfvdlllne to staco tho Initiation is a act of Octobar 3. 1017, authorised January L. - . . .... . L- t.... tal conauion 01 younjj men who huvu ally bad work than of freshmen en tering by tho usual examinatioti method. Of all tho hundred fresh- mon who cntorcd without cxamlna tion last year, only two failed at the ond of tho second torm. It is stated that tho plan, undertaken as an ex noriment, has been so successful that it probably will bo ndoptcd perman ently. Indiana Daily Student. $2 year is a.meittr spent n year and aingla Copy, B canta university. EDITORIAL STAFF Hugh B. Cox . . . Edlter Phllln O'llanlon ...-....-.Mann Jullua FrandanVTrTV.'.r-.Nawa Editor Tho 12 Z sity students havo made in Dorla Trott ..... nil. - Ruth schad Ant. Nawa Editor" ges might be taken as a reflection on a half in n state STADIUM PLEDGES poor showing which Univcr keeping NWa Editor I.., nntrmnnto 'nn fhntt afnrMlim TllPf!- .Ant. Nawa Editor UJJ J'-" i- their integrity. However much these BUSINESS STAFF ftJ!!j3Mn mSSS- atutlcnUi may now resent the methods Simpson Morton .H....M.drcuumon Manager I which uscar Minn .....a.a......-.rcuaiiofi muiifir CHANCELLOR AVERY The banquet given Chancellor Avery by tho faculty Saturday eve ninf won nn appropriate recognition of his thirty years of service to the University. Tho fact thatfor eigh teen years of this time, ho has held were used In securing tnoir subscrin ; s. nnd even though tho pledges may not bo strictly legal ob ligations, there remains a moral ob ligation which no honest student can disregard. The man or woman who has not tho courage to live up to his word, al though ho may have given it when Ulin nlnmniir nf fhn fnnthnll season the position of Chancellor, is worthy I, the crl(!3 of Sullool SpIrll.. weru of comment. Tho administrative at their highest, is hardly worthy of head of a state university faces prob-1 ,nc0 ,n nn cducntionnl institution IntMn w i V vanan nnwnlnviKn an Vi n I . . .u...o .uuu. s r where moral and intellectual honesty actcr than thoso encountered in a private institution. That Chancel lor Avery has been ablo to success fully administer the affairs of i)e University for so long a time and still retain tho confidence of his fac ulty, is amplo proof of his adminis trate ability. I should be above reproach. P. J. The College Press IN SIDESHOWS. Every circus has its sideshows. Who would miss seeing the bearded lady, the living skeleton nnd the fat lady, the strong man and the pigmy when they attend the circus? We OUR ELEMENTARY COURSE THE MOB MIND The discussion of class honorary societies brings to mind the green cap ti com8 away more disgust cusKjm wun wnicn a ueaat onu ui ed than amused( but still we go Item is directly concerned, binco it Thero i3 something about the con- is the time ol year when the green ces3jon3 that everyone likes. Just so cap is missing from the campus and we enjoy the sideshows of our Uni wnun mo zeaious sopnomorea uru not versity life; unfortunately we are on the alert for non-conformists, it I apt t,0 spend so much time in them is possible to appronch the subject that we miss the real show. That of this custom with less prejudice and js not at all impossible. The entering heat than it might bo possible to do freshman is introduced to rows and in the autumn. rows of gay tents. Some are painted The plan of requiring every fresh- blue and gold with attractive football man man to wear a green cap was and baseball designs drawn in bold started in 1907, is now sponsored by I relief, others are decorated with tho Innocents, enforced by tho Iron bright pictures of magazines and Sphinx, and glorified every fall in newspapers. Tents and more tents, tho "Freshman Initiation" held for some big and gay, others small and the new students. It has como to insignificant, stretch along the new be not only accepted by the students comer's path while some big burly but regarded as valuable as well. We senior calls out, "Right this way. aro told that it makes for that vague ladies and gents you get your mon- and illusive thing called "class spir- ey's worth.' it" Of course it is all very interesting But those who tell us these things and the freshman stops to enjoy the do not fully appreciate all of the con- fun. What else would one expect? notations of the ereen can idea. It There is one danger to spoil his fun. has, an analysis will show, a rather he stops too long, he might forget FOOD FOR FANATICS. Again tho jingoes havo been re buked. Preliminary reports of tho survey of. race relations on tho Pnclf ic coast, mado jointly by twelvo uni versitics, constitute n sovero rebuke to thoso who havo been inflaming hatred against Oriental immigrants. Although tho findings of this study, mado at a cost of $00,000, d not recommend further admittance of Orientals, no peril is seen from thoso already here. Chinese and Ja panose residents in this country can not multiply rapidly, for thero is only one Chincso woman to six men, and onlv three Japanese women to six men. In Washington the survey staff found that for thirty years tho Japa ncso had constituted only one per cent of tho population. "Wo were told thnt tho Japanese were unassi milnblc," said the chairman. "Wo found them the most assimilable of our aliens of nny color. Wo found them fighting against handienps to raise their standnrds of living to tho American level." Tho smuggling of Jnpnneso nnd Chinese immigrants into the United States from Mexico is more than off set by the return of others to their hnmclnnd. The Japanese thrive on land that white men have abandoned They do work the whites are unwill ing to attempt. They are an econom ic asset to the country. Let them stay. Tho Daily Northwestern. significant bearing on the purpose of tho University especially if that pur pose is taken to be the teaching of students to think. In the very language with which its defenders justify tho green cap cus tom we find a clue to this signifi cance. They tell us that the green cap has for its purpose tho creation of a class spirit, a class consciousness. Its immediate end is to make all of the freshmen look alike; its ultimate purpose is to make them act nlike and think alike, The freshmen come to the University with different backgrounds and with different ideas. The green cap s intended. t reduce them to a cohihion denominator, to make them all alike, not only in the matter of headgear, but in their thought as well. To the degree to which it suc ceeds in this purpose it. is an effec tive means of stimulating and accent- of their college work, follow a system nnW ornnn ennnptnuanPRs. the reverse of which is used in most There can be but one result from Eastern schools, where the unfit are such stimulation and accentuation, determined in advance by admission rm, iamai in w. Mr.n. tests. The relative merits of each tity Jn the group. Not only does system have been arSued for 80me he dress as his fellows do, he acts as the show that goes on in the one great scholastic tent, and the diffi culty is that not until he is a senior and the show is over will he realize that he has missed the best part of the circus. The sideshows are all nec essary, for who wants to go to a cir- cuis-where there are none, but neither should we miss the one show we came to see. The only way to strike a happy medium is to pick carefully the sideshows of our University life we most desire so that we will have enough time left to enjoy the real thing. The Daily Californian. COLLEGE ENTRANCE STANDARDS. State universities and Western col leges which admit students without entrance examinations, and then eliminate the undesirable on the basis time. In this connection, it is interesting to observe that Harvard is adopting a modification of the Eastern system that approches the Western plan. For the- rinttf. two vrn.q students whose U benefitted by this group discipline Les have been in the highest sev bat any one who knows the Amen- th of thfllr cw rlurinpr their inn- they do, and, in the end, he thinks as they do. There may be persons who would ior and senior high school years have been admitted without examination. ThlST'plan, on trialjfor men at Har vard, is in force Jor jgirls at Rad cliffe. It throws the emphasis upon the student's high school record, can' undergraduate knows that he ia not one of them. In him the group spirit Is developed so far that accent action of it is not only unnecessary ' hot actually deplorable. The American-student is no rank individualist in the matter ef thought He believes -where modern educators believe it wfcal tie cheer-leader tells him about should be, rather than upon the too aehool spirit and he is prepared to freqtffcntly artificial result of en- km. . . a .. a i I. r ' . .a tan .a proieseors woro ior anyuung. trance examinations, c93ft might examine the ideas pre The vexed question of accrediting wtpd to him for possible fallacies is high schools is largely avoided under a tlaOtafnt irfcki Merely occurs to him. this experiment since graduates of He is perfectly at home at the foot- the required standing are admitted BII rally mhtnu a cheerleader, work- from any high school. If, however, iag macte wik Bol psyckolofry, sue- such students fail, the schools which eseU in prWwW a sert of organiz- Uiey represent are ''black-listed'' for 4 listeria. a year, during which time no student It is tUa spirit wMeli Um green therefrom may enter by this system, m ulll'ples It it iroakal tfcat In The student thus bears the honor of nfonitaY wMsb Ja smppoeed to his school on his shoulders. nsjea Its sMssate.to Watkaav km vie-1 Results the first year show that a Vaafa 4Wfaav iMjij m(fc tin 111 hi I Tirj percentage of students enter 4Hmkm.Bm. Itttt creen eaalln under this special arrangement Mitja n still be marerr a Mt f have done exceptionally good work in ue itoi mai Mifc.latKi a smaller percentage exception Notices All notieei for thu column mutt be written out and handed in at the ditorial office, U Hall 10, by 4:00 the afternoon previout to their pub lication Topography 193 Walker will not meet his clas- his laboratory sessions this Mr. ses or week. The classes will complete reading The Art and Practice of Typogra phy," on reserve at the University Library, and will continue reading the textbook, "Printing for School and Shop." Lutheran Club Lutheran Club business meeting, Wednesday evening in Social Science Union Business meeting of the Union literary society, Tuesday, at 7 o'clock. Freshman Comuitaion Thero will be a meeting of the Freshman Commission in the Temple cafeteria Tuesday at 6 o'clock, TaneU Meeting of the Tassels Tuesday at 7:15 in Ellen Smith Hall. Episcopal Students. The Rt Rev. George A. Beecher, Bishop of tho Episcopal Church, of Western Nebraska will conduct tho 11 o'clock service of the University Lplscopal Church noxt Sunday. Silver Serpent Oliver serpents will hold a very important meeting at noon today at Ellen Smith Hall. Every member is requested to be present Iron Sphinx Initiation of now members at cave Tuesday evening at 0 o'cclock, Farmers Fair Rally Committee chairman will report tho work of their committees and good speakers will, bo secured. The rally will be held Tuesday at Ag Hallat 7:16. Phi Lambda Upsilon Regular meeting of Phi Lambda Upsilon will bo held Thursday, April 23, in Chemistry Hall 102 at 7:00. Sophomores It is not too lato to file for Sopho more baseball manager If you call at tho Athletic offico at once. JJaPaaajaWasSaWWaWaWS It's Economical! The first cost is practically the last. With proper care it will last for along time,much longer than ordinary pow dcr cases. One case is all you need the same case for any loose powder you wish to use. No waste powder every bit is used. No more powder cakes to drop and break. Buy Yours Today! Price $1.50. Comes filled with Flcur Sauvage (wlldflowcr) Pou drc, a fragrant French powder, in -our favorite shade. 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