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Victor T. Hackler Managing Editor
NKWS EDITORS
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Julius Frnndscn, jr. Arthur .Sweet
Millicent llinn Lee Vance
ASSISTANT NEWS EDITORS
Herbert D. Kelly Neola Skala
Freil R. Zimmer
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
William Cejnar Victor T. Haokler
Kenneth W. Cook Edward Morrow
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LESS COACHING
Missouri Valley officials nre to
consider Walter Eckersall's supercs
tion that football coaches remain in
the stands while games are bcinp
played. The plan has been consider
ed for some time, but it has never
been tried extensively. In only one
case, that in a game between Baker
and William-Jewell, has the idea
been put into effect. Then the coach
of the losing team declared that
the idea was a failure; while the
coach of winning team endorsed it
enthusiastically. With such a result
little informaion can be gained.
To force the coaches to remain in
the stands seems to be a sensible in
novation. The air of professional
ism that has been invading football
more and more would be counter
acted to some extent if the players,
rather than the coaches, were res
ponsible for the conduct of the game.
The captain, who would probably
be in charge of the team, could use
his own initiative in running the
team and he could make his own
substitutions.
Nowadays it is a common sight,
when a team is in a critical position,
to see a substitute go into the game,
He is left in only a play or two and
is obviously sent in to carry instruc
tions from the coach. In the K. U.
Nebraska game last year Kansas used
seven or" eight men at left halfback.
Most of these men were hardly in the
game long enough to got mussed up :
they were sent in to tell the quarter
back what to do.
In such procedure, the game is not
so much of a battle of skill and wits
between the players, as a battle of
wits between the coaches. Football
loses its zest as an amateur game and
becomes to some extent a thinking
contest between two men hired fop
that purpose.
The arguments advanced by those
who oppose the idea are based almost
solely on this: if the plan is used the
team's chance to win will be lessen
ed. That ia true, perhaps; but each
team should be equally handicapped.
Furthermore, the contest is not solely
a mntter of who wins, but a sport to
develop strength and initiative in the
players.
One objection advanced is that thQ
coach should be present if players
are injured, to take them from the
game or care for them after they are
out. Surely the captain, who directs
the team, should be beter able to tell
when a man is injured than the coach
on the sidelines; and all teams have
trainers and doctors to care for thq
injured off the field.
The plan offers no real drawback,
we think. It has the genuine advan
tage of lessening the efficient, pro
fessional aspect, and allowing the
players to use and develop their own
initiative.
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In a set of rules for public speak
ing which was recently drawn up by
an instructor at a college of agricul
ture, will be found this valuable bit
of advice: "Do not talk of something
your audience hag never heard of be
fore." It is a wise maxim, and a rule that
might profitably be applied to writ
ing, teaching, and acting. Follow
this simple little rule and your ap
plause is guaranteed. If you believe
otherwise, just ask yourself if it was
n't the oldest joke which brought the
most laughs at the last vaudeville
show you saw, if it isn't the professoi
who merely says things you already
know whom you most enjoy hearing,
and if the editorials which put you on
the back for petty little prejudices
already existing aren't the most eas
ily digested.
Fortunately speakers, editors, and
teachers sometimes make mistakes,
sometimes become contemptuous of
applause, or work while they have
headaches, and formerly unmention
ed ideas slip out. Of course, if an
idea gets away unnoticed no harm is
done. If one becomes very conspi
cuous, on the other hand, someone
incorporates it in a new organization
in order that there may be plenty of
mourners when it dies.
JUNIOR COLEGES
Continued interest in the idea of
establishing junior colleges through
out the state may be indicative of
the trend of future development in
our state educational system, i.han
cellor Avery, Dean James of the Col
lege of Arts and Sciences, and Pro
fessor Reed of the University Exten
sion Division, will attend a confer
ence at Grand Island this week where
representatives of McCook, Fnirbury,
and Scottsbluff will discuss plans for
two-year colleges.
At McCook the board of education
has already made arrangements to
open a junior college next fall in the
city's new Y. M. C. A. building. Edu
cational leaders at Fairbury are plan
ning a separate building to house
such an institution. And although
no action has been taken at Scotts
bluff the proposal is receiving seri
ous consideration.
The attitude of these cities in in
viting representatives of the Univer
sity of Nebraska to attend their con
ference is worthy of commendation.
If established, these colleges will be
partly dependent upon the state uni
versity, and the University will also
be affected to a considerable degree
by their activity. Even though such
schools are established by only a few
cities, arrangements for the transfer
of credits will be needed; and if the
system should be adopted through
out the entire state, it would allevi
ate many of the sine problems that
are now so pressing, and perhaps
create new ones of an entirely dif
ferent nature.
Under existing conditions, the Uni
versity's first and most urgent need
is for sufficient floor space. If the
University should become more of a
graduate school and place for spe
cialized training, attended only by
students who bid already completed
two years of college work, its prob
lems would require less attention
from building contractors and more
from educators, scholars, and lead
ers in all branches of learning.
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THE CASE FOR THE DEFENSE
College papers across the line are
becoming greatly involved in a dis
cussion of the teaching methods em
ployed in the Universities. It has
as our universities .have cannot be as
ship is dead, that lectures and pro
fessors go on grinding out informa
tion in tabloid doses of one hour size,
which the student must swallow
whole, only to rush at once to an
other room and another lecturer
where he will receive another dose
o fthe same size. He is expected to
be for one hour intensely interested
in Greek literature, the next in prov
ing that the two sides of a triangle
are greater than the third side, and
in the third hour he must turn all
his energies towards finding a solu
tion for the economic problems of the
world. The idea is evidently that
the student should spend the whole
three hours on one subject, or possi
bly that he should have only one
hour of lectures per day.
Though we are not blind to the de
fects of our present educational
methods, and they nre not few, it
cannot be denied that its successes
are many. The lenders in almost
every field of endeavour arc univer
sity trained men, and any system
that can turn out as many great men
as our universities have cannot be as
bad as its detractors would have us
believe.. The 'spoon-feeding' lec
ture system, as it has been called,
may not be approved by all, but until
some better me:ns of instruction has
been devised it should not be scrap
ped. Listening to an hour's lecture
from a professor and taking dowr
notes on it are not inconsistent with
the statement that the "sole excuse
for the existence ofa University is to
train men and women to think out
their problems for themselves." One
cannot think out a question without
something to think about nor solve
a problem until the problem has been
presented. There is no better way
yet devised of presenting the funda
mentals of the case than by a lec
ture. There are so many hooks on
any suo.iect ana so many oi tnem oi
little or no worth that if left to him
self the student would become hope
lessly lost in a very short time.
There is no reason to suppose that
the student, if he can be designated
as such, who does not road and hon
estly study under the system as we
have it today, would do so to any
greater extent under any other sys
tem of instruction. Far too many
students at a University come for the
mere outward symbol that they have
put in four years at college, or be
cause it is an agreeable means of
passing the time. No system to be
devised would ever make either of
these types work.
It is charged that most professors
are more interested in foisting their
own theories on their pupils than in
presenting an impartial survey. One
graduate boasts of passing with high
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DAILY NEBRA3KAM
honors though knowing little of the
work supposed to have been studied.
He passed by knowing the weakness
of each individual professor and pan
dering to it. Examinations are sev
erely criticised as not tending to
show the student's knowledge of the
subject but rather his knowledge of
the examiner. In this respect the
case of the Kansas student, Floyd
Simonton, who recently caused a fu
ror by refusing to accept a Phi Beta
Kappa key is cited. Simonton char
acterizes examinations as "a false
criterion of scholarship danger
ous foundation for intellectual ideal
ism and achievement."
A student cannot become a "grad
A" man without "wasting much ofi
his energy on forms and husks which
are inevitable in courses which are
taught, not to individuals but to
classes of SO, 90, 100, and 150." It's
a beautiful dream, that of giving in
dividual instruction to each student,
but hardly practical in these days of
universal poverty on the part of the
Colleges. McGill University.
Ten Years Ago
The inter-fraternity bowling con
test was planned to be held at the Y.
M. C. A. for an entire week. Each
team was to withstand the entire ex
pense. For some time the Alumni of the.
University of Nebraska contributed
to a fund known as the Bessey Me
morial Fund, (in honor of Professor
Charles Bessey. The proceeds of the
fund were to be used by Mrs. Bessey
to aid and encourage worthy students
in botany.
Professor A. L. Hamlin of Colum
bia University, gave an illustrated
lecture on "Art and Architecture."
He dwelt particularly with the rela
tionship between architecture and
culture.
The Y. M. C. A. celebrated its
fifteenth birthday. It was one of
the associations that set aside Febru
ary as a Jubilee Month during
which many events of interest were
scheduled.
Twenty Years Ago
Throe prizes, one of $10, a second
of $75 ,and a third of $50, were es
tablished by Honorable John Barrett,
United States Minister to Columbia
to be awarded to the authors of the
best papers on a given number of
subjects. The object was to promote
the study of history, peoples, politics,
resources and possibilities of sister
republics.
The weather bureau had moved
from the location where they had
been for twelve years and were to be
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found at the west end of the upper
floor of Brace Hall.
The celebratron of the University
Charter Day was planned to be more
elaborate than ever. The day in
creased in importance in the past
years, and plans were in the hands
of Dr. Clapp of the Athletic Board.
The management of the University
Summer Session joined with the oth
er universities and colleges of the
state in a union Bummer session to
be hold in Lincoln. This made possi
ble a more unique and comprehensive
program.
On The Air
University Studio
over KFAB (340.7)
broadcasting
Wednesday, Feb. 10
9:30 to 9:55 a. m. Weather re
port by Prof. T. A. Blair. Road re
port and Announcements.
10:30 to 11:00 a. m. "Spring
Tonics," by Miss Matilda Peters,
Head of the Foods and Nutrition Di
vision, Department of Home Econom
ics. 1:15 to 1:30 p. m. Musical con
vocation. The entire program will be
given by Miss Halcyon Hooker, Pi
anist. 3:00 to 3:30 p. m. The first of a
series of interpretations of the Book
of Job, by Dr. F. A. Stuff, Chairman
of the Department of English. This
is a combined radio-correspondence
course.
8:05 to 8:30 p. m. "The Out of
Doors in February," by M. II. Swenk,
Associate Professor of Horticulture.
"The Cow-Testing Association
Bookkeeping for Cows," by Ray F.
Morgan, Assistant Professor of Dairy
Husbandry.
Notices
Iron Sphinx
Iron Sphinx pictures will be taken
February 10 at 12:15, Campus studio.
We Test Eyes
With scientific exactness which leaves
nothing to guess.
Our special studies in optometry entitle
us to your trust and confidence.
Satisfaction is guaranteed.
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Freshman Bible Clasa
The Freshman Bible Class will not
meet this Thursday night.
All Students registered in the De
partment of Educational Service, see
that there is a copy of the schedule
of your classes on file in the office.
Math. Club
There will be a Social Meeting of
the Math. Club in Faculty Hall at the
Temple, Thursday, February 11, at
7:00 o'clock.
Engineers
Important meeting of the Chemical
Engineers, Thursday at ,7:30, in
Chemistry Hall 102.
Delian Literary Society
A Valentine Kid Party will be giv
en by the Delian Literary Society,
Friday, February 12, at 8:30 in Fa
culty Hall.
Komentky CIub
A business meeting of the Komen
sky Club, Thursday, February 10, at
7:00.
' Commercial Club
Commercial Club picture will be
taken Friday, February 12, at 12:30
at Campus studio.
Commercial Club meeting, Thurs
day, at 11:00 at Commercial Club
Rooms.
Corn Cobs
Corn Cob meeting, Thursday at
7:00 at the Temple. All members
must be present for University Night
rehearsal.
Delta Omicron
Monthly business meeting of Delta
Omicron, Thursday, at 7:15, at Ellen
Smith Hall.
Kappa Phi
Kappa Phi meeting at Ellen Smith
Hall, Thursday evening, February
11. A musical program to be given.
All Methodist girls invited.
Theta Sigma Phi
Important meeting of Theta Sigma
rhi Wednesday, at 5:00 in Ellen
Smith Hall.
Military Training in Russia
The Soviet government as Moscow
has ordered that compulsory military
training be given in all Russian col
leges as a means for the develop
ment of national defense.
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