he Daily Nebraskan
U XXV. NO. 76.
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, NEBRASKA'TIIURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1926.
PRICE 5 CENTS.
VERA BARGER
TO BE GUEST
IN FEBRUARY
Month
uiLL ADDRESS MEMBERS
.cc...or o Cr.c. Coppock Will
Tell of Chinese
Work
yiss Vera Bargc-r, '11, director of
thi' Normal Physical Educational
Lhool at Shanghai, China, will visit
tk. University of Nebraska campus
February 14 and 15. She will be a
p,est of the University Y. W. C. A.
A special vesper service will be
kid for Miss Barger after which a
dinner will he given. All members
of the V. W. C. A., cabinet, staff,
tem cartains, and members of the
Grace Coppock drive and all other
University women who are interested
will be invited to attend the dinner.
Miss Barger will also apeak to a
meeting of the team captains and
members.
When in school Miss Barger served
ts president and vice-president of
the University Y. W. C. A. She also
acted as an assistant in the physical
education department. She Jias spent
four years in China and returned on
a furlough last April.
Miss Barger was the first one to
introduce physical education work
into the curriculum of a number of
Chinese schools.
She also established summer
camps, somewhat on the order of the
v tt". C. A. conferences in the
United States, sponsored play
grounds and health programs.
Miss Barter visited the campus
last May when she spoke to the
World Forum and told them of her
work and the conditions in China.
In speaking of her work to the Forum
she said:
There has been very little done
in China for public health. A sign
found on the gate of a Chinese park
ia Shanghai reads, 'Chinese and
Dop Xot Allowed.' The parks and
pliyptrands in China are solely for
the enjoyment of the foreigners."
IHYITE COLLEGES
TO ENTER RELAYS
tuui Notifies 255 Institutions of
Plant for Fnorth Annual
Athletic Event
LAWRENCE, Kan., Jan. 20. For
nal invitation to 255 universities,
colleges and military academies, ask
fcj them to participate in the fourth
annual Kar sas Relays, April 17, have
just been mailed by the University
of Kansas athletic authorities.
The invitations went to some 15
states, and will bring to Lawrence
eearly 1000 of the best track athletes
of tie country. The day preceding
t09 to 1000 high school athletes of
Kansas will compete in the twenty
second annual Interscholastic track
toeet, and the high school relay teams
asking sufficiently good time will
I asked to enter the Relays the day
following. All high school contest
ants will remain for the Relays, the
rwt i f ;he University.
, The Kar,-a Relays come almost at
ta opening of the outdoor track sea-
preceding the Drake Relays by
tek, and in yant past have drawn
exceptionally fast teams. Last
fear as an unusually favorable
to", and no less than four world's
ords were broken, together with
Poetically all the previous Kansas
kyj records.
Underneath the two extensions
Jt completed on the Kansas Me
morial sUdium, locker and dressing
Twn facilities are being provided,
a all conveniences will be at hand
' tlse veiling teams.
THETA SIGMA PHI
WILL SPOHSER TEA
Meaibc
rt of W.
omen's Journalistic
Or,
titration to be Hostesses
At Weekly Ewent
!eniW of Theta Sigma Phi, hon
orary national society for journal
tiJ be the hostesses at
J weekly tea at Ellea Smith Hall on
o'cE."7 afternoon from 4 to 6
4tM" Lawrence will preside
i He Irving table during the first
and Migg Constance Syford will
T , durin cond hour. The
committee i charge of the
Jtment, i, htcied by Erma El
T tie ot"r members of her
eere: Elice HoIvUhiner,
r ,T U; Nom Carpenter, pro
Kuth Moore and Lillian Rags
p, U,rrnem,t; and Ruth Schad.
WEATHER FORECAST
Thursday: Partly cloudy; not
much change in temperature.
Weather Conditions
Colder weather has extended
southward over the Missouri val
ley and the southern Plains to
Oklahoma and northern Texas,
and eastward to the upper Mis
sissippi valley and the northern
Great Lakes. Temperatures are
below zero in portions of South
Dakota, Minnesota, and most of
western Canada. Snow has fallen
in the Dakotas and Minnesota, and
there are six inches on the ground
at St. Paul and Minneapolis this
morning. There has also been
snow in Colorado, western Kan
sas, and sleet in Oklahoma. Fair
and warm weather prevails in the
eastern half of the country.
THOMAS A. BLAIR,
Meteorologist.
OCCDPATION OF
U HALL BEGINS
Classes in Journalism and Lan
guage Will Be Held in
Old Building
ROOMS ARE RHPAPERED
Occupation of University Hall
building, in which classes will be held
next semester, begins today. The of
fices and classrooms are being put
in readiness for classes on February
1.
Two new offices have been added
to the main floor plan. Prof. M. M.
Fogg, director of the School of Jour
nalism, will resume his office quar-
trs there. A new Journalism read-;
ing room has been completed with
necessary classrooms.
Prof. Clara Conklin, chairman of
the Modern Language department,
will have one large office with ac
commodations for more language in
structors. The remaining classrooms
will be used for language instruction.
The basement plan will be identi
cal to that used before the building
was condemned and torn down. Both'
the Cornhusker and The Daily Ne
brasktan will resume their former
quarters.
All rooms in the new structure
have been repaired and repapered,
after the confiscation of the two up
per stories. The building, first on
the enmpus, now presents a different
sight from when it had the familiar
tower and bell for which it will be
remembered.
"Wood Preservation"
Talk Is Illustrated
Members in the class in railroad
construction have been making vari
ous reports on subjects connected
with their work. The latest lecture
was one on "Wood Preservation,"
and was the first to be illustrated
with slides, which were obtained
from Barrett Company, Chicago.
The report was prepared by M. J.
Miller, a senior student in engineer
ing. It was shown that the use of
preservative materials lengthens the
life of railroad ties about three
times.
Engineering Society To Meet
The Nebraska Engineering Society
will hold a business meeting at 10
o'clock, Friday morning, January 22,
in Mechanical Engineering building,
room 208.
Oklahoma President Gives Criticism
of Student Life in State Institutions
President Eradford Knapp of Ok
lahoma A. and M. College forsees a
time when institutions operated on
state funds will not have to deal with
dullards and students too lazy to
make the most cf an education.
That is, in effect, what he told Ag
gie students in a chapel address on
college morals and scholarship, w hich
he said was occasioned by the ap
proach of mid-year examinations.
Student morals, often assailed,
r not as bad as one would suppose
and students are far from being re
sponsible for them as they now ex
it, he said- He cited the case in
which the student council of Illinois
university, before the Illinois-Michigan
game last fall issued a manifesto
urging that visitors to Champaign
and Urbana abstain from drinking
because of the reflection their action
would cast npon the university and
the city in which it is located.
"The press is picturing the ex
tremes of college students to the
public, and persons not connected
with colleges and universities are
getting the wrong impre. xn, the
president proceeded. "I resented a
newspaper story recently about Ok
lahoma's prize club girl at the In
ternational Club congress who was
contrasted as wearing a n.gn
long-girted dress, while grls of this
PLAN TO HOLD
ICE CARNIVAL
ON WEEK-END
Rink Is Open to All University
Men and Women for Small
Admission Fee
TO GIVE SEVERAL PRIZES
Those in Charge Hope that All Or
ganisation Will Enter Float
In Parade
The ice carnival sponsored by
the W omen's Athletic Association
will be held Friday and Saturday,
January 22, and 23, if the weather
permits.The hours will be from seven
to ten-thirty, and Saturday the pro
gram will start about 8:15 o'clock,
just after the basketball game.
The admission fee will be twenty-
five cents.
The rink was flooded this week,
and is ready for use. It is open to
all University men and women for
skating this afternoon and evening
for the admission fee of ten cents.
The toboggans are ready for use, and
any V. A. A. member may take one
out, and all may use them.
It is hoped that all fraternities,
sororities, and campus oranizations
will enter a' float in the ic float pa
rade, and a prize will be given to the
most beautiful, most ridiculous, and
most unique float The rink will be
lighted. with bright lir.t', ord there
will be special features.
WILL BROADCAST
MUSICAL PROGRAM
Music Instructors Arrange Special
Charter Day Radio Concert for
February 1 6
An announcement of a special
Charter day program was made to
day in addition to the program sched
uled for February 15. It will be a
special musical program to be given
Tuesday, February 16, under the di
rection of the musical instructors of
the University School of Music. This
concert will be broadcast from Sta
tion KFAB beginning at 8:45 Tues
day evening.
The Charter day program, sched
uled to commemorate the signing of
the charter by Governor Butler,
founding the University of Nebras
ka, will be given Monday. The mu
sical will be made into a complete
program the following night.
The University School of Music
faculty taking part in the arrange
ment of the program are: Mrs. Will
iam Owen Jones, piano; Laura S.
Smith, piano; Walter Wheatly, tenor
P. Witte, tenor; Howard Kirkpatrick
C. Frederick Eteckelberg, violin;
August Molzer, violin. These solo
musicians will be assisted by the Uni
versity string orchestra consisting of
Lillian Eiche, August Molzer, Ed
ward Walt, and Paul Witte.
Soccer Tourney Will
Continue Next Week
The soccer tournament will be
played the remainder cf this week
and the first of next week, weather
nermittine. All women out for soc
cer should watch the W. A. A. bulle
tin board for important announce
ments, and the line-up for teams
chosen.
college were garbed in dresses of
low necks and short skirts. The
"jellybean" and "flapper" are not
typical college students, but extremes
being pictured to outsiders."
Activities Broadening
A student who strikes a medium
neither a bookworm nor one entire
'y engrossed in college activities
:s the one whom the president be-lievc-s
will attain greatest success in
life, he said, passing on in his dis
cu sion, to take up scholarships and
activities.
Mental laziness is not to be en
dured, he said, but "How can stu
HnU ntudv?" he asked."When I war
ir. college, we had fraternity meet
ings only once a month and Saturday
;,rht ma study night. We had
dances but once a week. Now there
nften two dances a week, and
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights
are "open."
Enrollment too Small
Figures based on the size of the
freshman class would indicate that
a nH M. should graduate 40 stu
dents eat'; year; in reality it gradu
ates 250, he said.
This condition, however, is but
typical of what other institutions are
doing.
The president has spent much time
in the study of the cost of education
and government recently, he said.
Thermometer Drops to
Eight Degrees above
Zero Early Wednesday
Yesterday was the coldest day of
1926 in Lincoln, according to statis
tics given out from the office of
Thomas A. Blair, meteorologist at
the University of Nebraska. The
thermometer reached a point of eight
degrees above zero shortly after mid
night. The high point for the day was
seventeen degrees above zero, record
ed at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon,
with a half-inch of snow up until that
time.
A temperature of six degrees be
low was recorded December 27 which
was the low point this winter and
also the lowest recorded in Lincoln
during 1925.
The drop in temperature during
the last two days has again frozen
over the skating rink east of Social
Science building and yesterday after
noon saw a group of skaters on the
pond. The rink was frozen over
once before this year, but thawed
before it could be used.
HOSKERS HOLD
TRYOUTS TODAY
Track and Field Men Will
Compete in Second Time
Trials This Afternoon
FRIDAY RECORDS GOOD
Husker track and field men will
compete this afternoon in the second
time tryouts of the season. Coach
Henry F. Schulte will have an oppor
tunity to see what improvement has
taken place in the array of candid
ates since the first trials held last
Friday. The first heat will be the
50-yard dash, at 4 o'clock, followed
at ten minute intervals by the other
events.
Freshmen and novices will run in
the same heats with the varsity mem
bers and candidates. Time made by
them will be applied on spring track
numeral records.
Good records for the first time
trials in the season were made last
Friday. Consistent early season
practice on the part of a great num
ber of the varsity candidates and
veterans made the advance showing
so auspicious.
The greatest Husker strength
still seems to be in the short dis
tances where there is a wealth of ma
terial both from the varsity and the
freshmen of last year. The middle
distances and run3 also have a gal
lery of first class aspirants.
The indoor track was the scene of
the usual mid-week practice runs
yesterday and Tuesday. The men
worked out to be in condition for the
trials, but did not compete in any
races, saving their strength for
Coach Shulte's stop watch this after
noon.
Kriemelmeyer was heaving the
shot at forty fet and over yester
day afternoon, without trying much.
Last Friday he put the shot 42 feet
and 2 inches. Joe Weir was working
out with the shot for a while.
A schedule for the events which
will be followed in the preliminary
varsity and numeral tryouts this
spring was posted on the board
Fifty yard dash at 4 o'clock; one
mile run, 4:10; 50 yard high hurdles
4:20; 440-yard dash, 4:30; two-mile
run, 4:40; 50-yard low hurdles, 4:50:
half-mile run, 5:00. The shot puf
and the broad jump will start at
4:00. Pole vault and high jump at
4:20.
JAYHAWKS MEET
OKLAHOMA FIYE
Kansas Is Victor ia Eleren out of
Twelve Basketball Games in
Six Years
LAWRENCE, Kan., Jan. 20.
Twelve times in the last six years
the University of Kansas basketball
team has met the University of Okla
homa, and eleven t'mes K. U. has
been victorious. That other game,
however, is one long to be remem
bered, for it was the only confer
ence defeat of the 1924 season, and
broke a record of almost two years
without a conference defeat for the
Jayhawkers. The Oklahoma five
comes to K. U. Thursday night for
the third game on the K. U. scv..Jule.
Previous scores:
K. U. Okla.
1920 - 33 28
42 26
1921 33 30
37. 32
1922 41 24
- 42 28
1923 27 21
- 42 18
1924 21 19i
20 26
1925 - 23 20
1 34 20
Total pts - 395 292!
Games won 11 1 j
DEWING GIVES
TALK BEFORE
WORLD FORUM
Urges Students to Catch the
Spirit that Is Molder of
World Today
SCIENCE AIDS PROGRESS
Speaker Says Most Scientific Courses
Fail to Show the Proper Sci
entific Spirit
"Try to catch the scientific snirit"
Prof. H. G. Deming unred those in
attendance at the World Forum in
the Grand Hotel yesterday noon. "I
am sorry that most scientific courses
fail to ehow the scientific snirit.
But try to get it someway, some
where. It is the thing that molds
the world today."
In discussing the subject of "Sci
ence and Progress," Professor Dem
ing stated that he should divide his
subject into three divisions, science,
progress and the ways in which sci
ence aids progress.
"Science," said Professor Deming.
"can best be defined by what it is
not. Science is not skill. I may be
very skillful in driving an automo-
j bile. I may be able to shift the
(gears without grinding, may be able
to handle the car before all the red
and green lights. But that is not
science. Science is knowledge. But
it is a knowledge of a very special
kind.
"The dictionary says it is 'formu-
jlated and systematized knowledge.'
It is difficult to disagree with the
dictionary but knowledge does not
need to be formulated and sysema
tized to be science. In fact, system
atization is likely to set up artificial
barriers where none really exists.
For instance, the systematization of
knowledge sets up barriers between
physics and chemistry when thev are
really very closely related and their
dividing point hard to determine.
"Science is peculiar in three res
pects. It attempts to disentangle
influences which produce certain
phenomena. In its entanglement, it
comes in course of time, to certain
far reaching principles called scien
tific laws. The more important of
our scientific laws are universal in
their application. The laws of gravi
tation, evolution and many others are
equally applicable in various ways
and all tend for greater reverences
as they give a fuller appreciation
of the process of Nature.
'In the third place, science is able
to make use of its discoveries to ex-
end given phenomena to phenomena
somewhat related. It furnishes the
gift of prophecy for future events.
Last week you had progress de
fined for j'ou by what it is not.
Progress is not change. It is not the
accumulation of material resources.
It is conscious change toward a defi
nite goal. In considering science's
contribution to projrress we may say
that our changes toward ideals must
be in harmony with the law found
in science and must be in harmony
with the spirit of science.
Science is concerned not alone
with the materialistic eains but with
every phase of human endeavor.
Science shows that me may harmon
ize our efforts to agree with natura1
lavs. Its contribution is its contri
bution to the theory of life.
"Science can deliver the world
from its old-age ignorance, from its
dbgmas and superstitions. Science
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Professor of Ethnology Denounces
American Collegiate Organization
Dr. Charles Mongomery Kennedy,
professor of ethnology at Lanefield
College, in a recent lecture before an
audience of scientific men in New
York, Hayed the American colk-g ate
organization in the strongest terms,
declaring that the educational system
in this country is being prostituted to
the establishment of a class of cul
tured morons.
Dr. Kennedy is considered one of
the leading ethnologists of the repub
lic. He is the author of "Culture the
Curse," a study of development;
"The History of the Mind," "The
Outlines of Ethnology," and seven
other books. He holds the degrees
of Ph. D.; M. A.; LL.D; Ltt. D., and
M. S.
Dr. Kennedy charged that the
American university is a hot-bed of
indolence and superficiality. "The
lazy, the trivial, the vicious, and the
perverse find in our institutions a
paradise where they indulge to the
fullest their mania for 'jazz," 'speed,'
and so on," declared the doctor.
Colleges Country Clubs
He continued: "Our typical college
is used today as a country club for
the idle rich and the rich dumb. It
sponsors and urges on every kind of
activity except those which it is sup
posed to be the home of culture, ac
tually its standards are the mone
WILL GO TO CALIFORNIA
Dean LeRossignol Will Teach in Los
Angeles Summer Session
J. E. LeRossignol, dean of the Col
lege of Business Administration, will
tench courses in Principles of Eco
nomics and Labor Economics during
the summer session of the University
of California, Los Angeles, Califor
nia, the preliminary announcement
of the summer session of that univer
sity states.
The courses to be taught by Dean
LeRossignol begin June 20 and end
August 7.
PICK TEAM FOR
MISSOURI MEET
Blore and Buck Win in Wrest
ling Finals Held Wednes
day Afternoon
JANUARY 30 IS DATE SET
With completion of the 115 and
125 pound class finals for Nebraska
wrestling team Wednesday after
noon, the team has been picked that
will represent the Huskers in their
dual meet with Missouri January 30.
Blore, veteran letter man, won the
right to represent the Scarlet and
Cream in the 115 pound class when
he won over Jones with an advan
tage in 8 minutes and 10 seconds.
Buck won the 125 pound class by
throwing Weber with a half nelson
and a body lock in 9 minutes and 49
seconds.
The matches were held under the
national intercollegiate rulings with
the wrestlers going ten minutes to
decision. The 108 pound class will
not be wrestled in the conference this
year.
The men to represent Nebraska in
the first dual meet and the class in
which they wrestle are:
rsiore r llo
Buck ...125
Kellogg 135
Skinner 145
Highley, (C) 155
Branigan 158
Tunning .....Heavyweight
WOMEN'S RIFLE MEET
WILL START TUESDAY
Team That Will Fire Three Matches
To Be Chosen From Winners
of Tournament
The women's rifle tournament be
gins Tuesday, January 26, and con
tinues throughout the week. The
first week in February the team will
be chosen which will fire with three
Universities, Maine, Hawaii and Ne
vada. Any back practices that women
may have,' may be made up between
the hours nine and five the remain
der of this week. All women must
turn in three targets each time they
shoot.
The class averages have changed,
and the number of women have de
creased in some cases. The fresh
men have eighteen out, and an aver
age of forty-five. The sophomores
have eleven out, with an average of
forty-seven. The juniors have eight
women out, with the average of for
ty-five. The seniors have but two
women out, and the average is forty
seven. tary standards of the vulgar, the
debased and the plebian.
'Education, which in the former
time was supposed to raise to its
hfgh level the worthy and leave below
those who could not make the grade,
has become a commodity: it is on
sale like any other product of labor,
and is available to any ass who has
the price to send him through four
years of idleness.
Faculty Also To Blame
The Lanefield College savant blam
ed the present condition of the edu
cational system equally on faculty
and students. "The undergradu
ates," said Dr. Kennedy, "were at
one time considered the cream of the
world. Today the student body of an
American college is composed of an
aggregation of morons, of idle and
unprofitable wastrels which would
be unwelcome to any group of thr
lowest among the, criminal or degen
erate. "The faculties of our colleges are
as much to blame as their decadent
students. They encourage and urge
on their students in their time-wasting
occupations when they should be
putting forth their utmost to turn
this generation from its ways and
preserve unspoiled the traditions of
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UNIVERSITY
NIGHT TO BE
FEBRUARY 27
Date of Annual Event Changed
From February 20 by
Committee
SKITS WILL BE JUDGED
Completed Acts May be Presented
To Committee at Meeting
On January 25
The date for University Night,
previously set for February 20, has
been changed to February 27, be
cause of a conflict with a University
Pluyers' production. This will also
provide more time to make the nec
essary preparations. The deadline
for turning in skits, January 31, has
not been changed, according to Clay
ton E. Goar, chairman of the Uni
versity Night committee.
Any skits that have been complet
ed can be presented at the next meet
ing of the University Night Commit
tee January 25. All organizations
planning on submitting acts are
urged to have them ready for presen
tation at this next meeting.
The acts which appear on the pro
gram must appeal to the whole stu
dent body rather than one group of;
individuals who may write something
for their own amusement. All de
tails must be included in the skits
when presented to the committee for
judgment. Plans may be given to
the president or any member of the
committee.
Five acts of twelve minutes each
will be-ccepted, and three short cur
tain acts. One skit was completed and
read at the last meeting of the com
mittee, and various organizations are
at present working on their offer
ings. Profits will be given to the
local Y. M. C. A.
"The committee reserves the right
to make any necessary alterations in
the skits and to reject any that in
their estimation should not be pre
sented," announced Mr. Goar. "It
will be glad to answer any inquiries
relative to the productions."
One performance will be given on
University Night this year, at the
Orpheum. Last year, two perform
ances were held at the Orpheum and
the Temple, skits going from one the
ater to the other. It is believed that
the crowd can be accomodated in'
the one building this spring.
Students intending to present skits
that have not presented them to the
committee are requested to get them
ready before the last minute. There
is always a last minute rush, and af
ter the skits are accepted it is nec
essary to get them in readiness in a
comparatively short time.
CHANGE CURRICULA
IN MANY COLLEGES
Undergraduates of Many Institutions
Interested in Innovations
in Classroom Work
(New Student News Service)
Here and there classroom chances
are either being made or merely talk
ed about in the colleges and universi
ties. The following items of in for
mation concerning such educational
nnovations are broadcast for the
benefit of those interested in curri-
cular changes. "
HARVARD All seniors in college
who are in good standing have been
granted unlimited cuts by the fac
ulty. This regulation, which goes
into effect after the mid-year exams.
is in accord with Harvard's program
of a gradual extension of freedom.
Hitherto this privilege has only been
accorded a "dean's list" of excep
tional students.
The Harvard Crimson hones the
rule will work successfully enough
to warrant its further extension to
the junior and sophomore classes,
adding that, "it3 application to the
freshmen will probably never be
either practicable or desirable, as it
would add materially to the isr.gers
of transition between secondary
school and college."
BOWDIX An undergraduate
committee is cooperating with a fa
culty and an alumni committee in
examining Bowdin's educational sys
tem with view to over-hauling it.
Questionnaire have been sent to the,
students by this commiuee.
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO
The problem of the lecture system
and mass education in large classes
has been discussed in editorials in
the Silver and Gold and in the cor
respondence columns of the paper.
Ihe undergraduate paper deplore
the tendency to ask of the student
nothing but a knowledge of facts.
It Is quite possible for an instruc
tor to inspire his student with his
lectures. But too often is he only
dealing out information that is mem
orized but not understood. Why
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