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The announcement in the daily
press last week that Prof. Philo M.
Buck, Jr., will leave the Univer
sity of Nebraska faculty to accept
a place at the University of Wiscon
sin, is reprotted both by the friends
of Professor Buck and the friends
of the University. He was a schol
ar and a gentleman, and h's rnany
excellent qualities won both the
liking and the admiration of his
students.
The loss will be keenly felt by
those students who were carrying or
who planned to take work in the de
partment of comparative literature.
Professor Buck was an authortiy in
his field, the author of some excel!
ent books on the subject, and the
tvne of man who inspires love of
literature in others. Attendance at
his classes was as enjoyable as it was
profitable.
Friends of the University will re
gret the loss of such a man at this
time especially. Coming as the an
nouncement did, on the heels of news
that Professor Gray and Dean Seav
ey will leave next year, it may well
cause some apprehension. The Uni
versity's faculty has compared favor
ably with that of similar institu
tions in the past, and the same high
quality must be maintained.
All thinking students will agree
that it is better to hear a good in
structor lecture in a poor classroom,
than to hear a poor instructor lec
ture in a nice room. The former
has been the case throughout a large
part of the University's history.
Students rejoice in the erection
of the splendid new buildings, but
they hope that the regents will also
be able to pay salaries sufficient to
attract and retain competent men to
occupy the attractive office suites
being provided.
The announcement that Arthur
Jorgenson, University Y. M. C. A.
secretary, will leave next fall, is an
other bit of news which many have
received with regret. Mr. Jorgen
son stands head and shoulders above
the average run of Y. M. C. A. work
ers, and is a man whose personal
integrity, intelligence, and courage
command the highest respect.
The Y. M. C. A., under Mr. Jor
genson'g direction, has been one of
the most valuable and stimulating
organizations on the campus. It ha
upheld the right of free speech with
such vigor and courage as would
have made the founders of the Am
erican democracy burst, with pride.
It has promoted thought and dis
cussion on subjects which demand
and deserve generous amounts of
both.
It is easy for an organization to
gain a prominent position in the er
rand-boy activities of undergradu
ates, but extremely difficult for any
society to win recognition and lead
ership in the intellectual interests of
students. The Y. M. C. A. has not
only won such recognition, hut has
also led student thought on from top
ic to topic, month after month, witn
confidence and courage. Mr. Jor
genson is one of the few workers on
the University campus concerned
with student welfare who recognizes
the fact that the University is not
a kindergarten attended only by
five-year-olda.
The Nebraskan is glad, however,
that Mr. Jorgenson will return to
Japan, and carry the ideals that are
supposed to be those of America to
another land. During our few
years of observation, we have seen
no missionary worker who possessed
such excellent qualities and com
manded such admiration as does
"Jorgy." He is one of the few
pTeachers, who can practice what he
preaches. And he will carry to Ja
pan a spirit which neither guns nor
insolent diplomats can possibly con
vey. But what of the local Y. M. C. A.
branch? Judgment shonld be with
held until a successor has been chos
en and his plans announced. But
The Daily Nebraskan fears that the
organization wU drop back to a
place of unimportancejn student life.
I-radrrs pnch as ?he organization had
hm h"-r! llie psst two years are
t n V'.-d i- find. Unless the direct-
vt-.-v fcrtsnate, the Y.
VI. WHAT IS WRONG?
The first five articles in this
series have been an attempt
to define the purpose of the' arts
college, to suggest a curriculum for
it, and to point out means and de
vices by which such a purpose might
be obtained and such a curriculum
administered. That was a big job,
and it is not to be expected that an
undergraduate's "ideal" college
would be perfect, especially when the
ideal was set up only as a standard
by which criticisms of present con
ditions might be made. Now this
criticism consists in: (1) Implications
that the college fails wherever it
does not measure up to the standard,
and (2) the specific mention of de
fects and elaboration upon them
that will occupy the next three on
four articles.
The first criticism of the college
is that it lacks a definite and ade
quate statement of purpose that it
is without a consciousness of a par
ticular job. This lack of purpose
causes students to become purpose
less, they trust blindly thnt the col
lege is giving them a "cultural" or
liberal education. They take their
courses as such, not realizing the ne
cessity for making their courses ele
ments in a unified whole. Instruct
ors make courses ends in themselves,
not factors contributory to an arts
course defined as unity. If the col
lege had a clear and definite pur
pose and made students and faculty
aware of it, the college would never
have graduated, if indeed it would
ever have admitted, such a well-intentioned,
but certainly mis-educated,
individual as Emmett Maun whose
conception of a college as a place
devoted to teaching the technique of
getting a living is to be contrasted
with the legitimate purpose as we
have tried to formulate it and as
possessing a unique position in the
University of a democratic ' state.
If aimless students are to be kept
out of its courses, if its students are
to know what they are about, and if
teachers are to work to a definite
end, the arts college must have
a clearly formulated statement of
purpose.
Because the aims of the college
are not clear, the curriculum is cha
oticit leads to nothing definite.
Students have no common, central
body of knowledge, they do not know
any one field thoroughly, and they do
not have to have developed disciplined
minds. Some subjects are required,
to be sure, but so many choices are
permitted, that the free elective sys
tem would be little worse. True,
also, a major and minor are required,
but they represent only an agglom
eration of separate courses taken in
the same department. Courses taken
in this way do not represent a
thorough study in one field, for they
are not correlated or unified by or
ganization of subject matter, require
ment or sequence, or specified out
side reading. Free election, with a
required major or field for special
ization, in the last two years, would
work after two years' background
preparation in a carefully organized
junior college; but to students whose
immaturity and lack of adequate
previous training have not fitted
them to select wisely or to appreci
ate the meaning of a liberal educa
tion, the'present plan, virtually free
election checked loosely by major
and minor requirements, is too free.
It results in the chaos out of which
come students who are awarded de
grees and granted the title "educated
person" merely for accumulating
125 credits, representing forty-odd
courses oi all descriptions. Decid
edly this is not a college education!
The college does not know its
job, its curriculum is poorly organ
ized, it recognizes all of its subjects
as of equal value for an Artium Bac
calaureus the possessor of a lib
eral education. Students who desire
to have and ought to have a liberal
education wander purposeless and un
aided through courses of the college.
High schools should "orient" stn.
dents, tell them the functions of the
several coleges in the university. But
they do not. There will be a great
amount of wasted humanity and
misdirected effort until the college
finds and states its purpose and then
fulfills it by a well-administered
curriculum.
posed to be found on a campus in
greater quantities than elswhere.
Since human nature is so very di
versified this state of affairs is not
at all to be wondered at, but it should
be remembered that one function of
a university should be to introduce
its students and through them the
public at large to other viewpoints.
Thus many should be taught that
learning to live is as productive of en
joyment and general well-being as
learning to make a living, and others
should be brought to realize that he
who has a wide variety of interest
may get infinitely more out of life
than he who knows but one thing, and
that thing well. Some need to learn
that the whole of man's universe is
not built upon the laws of any one
science, and not a few should know
that the future of the human race
does not depend entirely upon its
ability to properly display itself
among the "best families."
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M. C. A. will soon become as un
important in undergraduate life as
the average student pastor.
The Ohio State Lantern tells the
same story of factory representatives
with desirable propositions that was
related in this newspaper last week.
Says the Lantern:
"These recruiting agents are wise.
They know the students who will be
most apt to swallow their promises
at a gulp. They go after the fresh
men. A business-like voice tens
the flattered but bewildered fresh
man to meet the speaker at a certain
place and time if he wants to be let
in on a profitable proposition
"And-so the poor freshman is
pressed into service and after a hard,
disillusioning summer of ringing
doorbells, he returns to college a
sadder, wiser student, or more rarely
a 'born salesman.' Freshmen beware!
Stop, look, think it over!"
WE SECOND
THE MOTION!
HIGHER EDUCATION
(Oregon Daily Emerald.)
One of the most fruitful sources
of trouble between exponents of the
higher education and the public is a
lack of common understanding as to
just what a higher education should
be, what it should do to the individual
exposed to it, and how it should be
administered. Among faculty mem
bers a wide divergence of opinion
may be found, as anyone may ascer
tain by interviewing a half dozen or
so professors, say of philosophy, psy
chology, business administration, law,
biology and the fine arts. They may
agree that a well-rounded education
is to be desired, but they will dis
agree as to the method of rounding.
What one considers a balanced ration
another will find fault with, for the
chemist and the psychologist view
matters from a different angle, the
philosopher is apt to disagree with
both of them, while the artist may
find all three a bore and to be con
sidered secondarily if at all.
And then there is the public. The
average man, sends his son to school
that he may be fitted to earn a bet-
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majority of entering students harbor
this same ideal. Of course there is
the fond mother who sends her
daughter to the university for what
she may acquire of culture, by an
nexing those attributes known as "ac
complishments," and by associating
Wednesday, May 5
9:30 to 9:55 a. m. Weather re
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port and announcements.
10:30 to 11:00 a. m. Headings
by Arvella Hanson, of the Dramatic
Art Department.
"Chemistry of the Laundry," by
Professor R. C. Abbott of the Depart
ment of Chemistry, College of Agri
culture. 1:15 to 1:30 p. m. "History, A
Live Subject," by Blanche Lyman,
Instructor in History, University Ex
tension Division.
Musical numbers by Eva Bute, Flutist.
8:00 to 3:30 p. m. The twelfth
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Plains of Uz An interpretation of
the Book of Job," by Dr. F. A. Stuff,
of the Department of English (Professional).
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Husbandry," by Professor F. E. Mus
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