THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
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tatioa A. Lineola. Nebraska
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partly because Dr. Meiklejohn spoke
in Lincoln not long; ago.
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WHY WORK?
Once in a while you will hear "a
college student say, "Why work in
college? The fellows who work the
hardest in college don't get any place
when they get out and those who loaf
in college become the big men later."
Many others who do not say that
seem to think it, judging from their
actions.
This idea that success in college
bears but a slight relation to success
after college has become quite a
popular one with persons all over the
country, not only college students,
but others as well.
Educators have recently been pro
ducing figures to disprove this
theory. One of the most interesting
studies of it comes from England,
from Edgar Shuster of the Galton
eugenics laboratory in London. fis
study concerns the graduates of the
Oxford University law college.
During the last fifty years, of all
the men who have been graduated in
law from Oxford University with
less than first class honors, not a
single man has become a Cabinet
member.
Of the ninety-two first class men,
four have been called to seats in the
Cabinet.
Besides these four Cabinet mem
bers, forty-two other men out of the
ninety-two first class honor men hava
achieved eminence in the political
counsel of the British Empire.
Of the 271 who took fourth clas?
honors, not a single man has achiev
ed national distinction in law or in
statesmanship.
Two hundred and twenty-six of
these fourth class honor men have
remained in the common ranks of
the unsung and unhonored.
Of the men who took second class
honors, thirty-three per cent have
become distinguished, but not one of
them has achieved the highest rank
in public life.
Of the third class honor men,
twenty-two per cent have achieved
moderate distinction.
Of the fourth class honor men,
onfy twenty per cent have achieved
moderate distinction.
Of those who barely pulled through
only sixteen per cent have been heard
from in public affairs.
To put it in another way, of the
634 men who have been graduated
in law from Oxford during the fifty
year period studied by Mr. Shuster,
nearly one half of the first class
honor men have become distinguished
leaders in the life of England and her
empire.
It is possible that students at Ox
ford are more serious about their
studies than those in this country,
and it is also possible that those in
the law colleges are more likely to
try as h&rd in college as out. We
believe, however, that the same re
sults could be found in most Ameri
can colleges. It would be very in
teresting if such a study were made
at Nebraska.
Three vears Ago
The new members to be initiated
into Nitrogen Chapter of Iota Sigma
Pi, honorary chemical sorority were:
Anne Davey, Nelle Laymon, Lucile
Bliss, Dora Burnell, Julia Jacoby.
Charles Sperry was appointed edi
tor of the Kornhusker Kadet, the pep
sheet put out by the Military depart
ment twice a month and issued to all
cadets in the regiment.
Chancellor S. Avery attended the
inauguration of President Brooks at
Missouri University.
Donald Conklin was injured during
Olympic tryouts. His ankle was brok
en and badly dislocated.
Notices
College Press
A NEW COURSE
An experiment which will be
watched with interest by the college
world, is the establishment of an ex
perimental college at the University
of Wisconsin a new and advanced
idea in higher education. Dr. Alexan
der Meiklejohn, a newly appointed
member of the University of Wiscon
sin faculty, and lately of the Am
herst College faculty, is the origin
ator.
The course calls for a study of the
subjects which have exerted in
fluences on the civilizations of the
past. Greek civilization will be the
basis of the freshman year's curricu
lorn, while the civilization of the
nineteenth century will be studied as
the basis of the sophomore course,
This plan of study gives the student
a real objective in planning bis stu
dies for the year, and students will
b) helped by their advisors in secur
ing those courses which will throw
the most light on th civilization be
lag studied.
This new idea has already been
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mvyrowa oj me university oi Wis
consin faculty and the board of re
gents. Dr. Meiklejohn, wjo it is inti
mated will be ra charge of the new
project, hopes to secure closer con
tact between students and faculty.
Lincoln people, as well as the Uni
virr.I!y faculty members and stu
C m.IS, -wiil be interested In watching
V -3 devtiopraer.t of tHe plan, partly
c' 9 to IL fact that it is a deviation
i i': t. -J coHeg-e course, and
Malrinf Fords From Rolls-Royces
In assuming an autocratic attitude
toward freshmen, upperclassmen are
laughably inconsistent, for at the
very time that they are setting up
over new students a paternalistic re
gime that reminds one of Russia un
der the Czars, they themselves in a
hundred different ways are ostenta
tious and passionately proclaiming
the revolt of youth, and demanding
freedom from the domination of
father, mother, teacher, or any of the
conventional restraints that the hoary
wisdom of the past has laid down for
the guidance of youth.
You understand, of course, that,
being an old professor, I am so used
to college boys that I do not get ex
cited over their larks. If some wag
in a fraternity commands a freshman
to rise at five o'clock in the morn
ing, and perch himself on the back
fence and crow like the bird of dawn,
if the freshman is willing to do it, I
do not propose to get the least bit
excited.
Neither do I object to the rule that
assigns to freshmen such jobs as
cleaning out the ashes in the cellar.
Only incidentally I would suggest
that it would be a good thing for the
seniors to put on their overalls and
keep the freshmen company, and
show them what an artistic finish four
years of classical culture enables a
man to give to such a job. And this
on the principle that he that is great
est among yon is to be least of all.
But some one says, these freshmen
are so foolish and conceited that they
need some rough handling to make
men of them. Or in other words, you
say they need military discipline.
Professor Dewey says that education
ists disagree on almost every point,
but there is one matter on which all
educationists are at one they agree
that of all kinds of discipline, mili
tary discipline is the most effective.
Freshmen are certainly not helped
by being browbeaten and standard
ized by mechanical pressure. On the
contrary, they need to te encouraged
to express their individuality. Many
of our freshmen are the only ones in
the senior class of the little high
school that came to college. The
teacher noticed in them a certain
uniqueness. The elements were so
mixed in them that he felt instinc
tively that if they developed after
their own individual manner a per
sonality of distinction would result.
And so they have come here
dreaming that they would find free
and normal expression for the ideal
istic impulses that are surging up
within them. But they have fallen in
to the hands of upperclassmen who
Teachers
The Department of Educational
Service desires to meet all those in
tending to teach the year of 1927'
1928.
Graduates completing the Univer
sity course and receiving their de
grees are requested to meet at Teach
ers College, December 2 at 5 p. m.
All students who will receive their
elementary certificates at the close
of the school year are requested to
meet at Teachers College room 200,
5:00 o'clock Friday, December 3.
Military Ball
All seniors in the advanced Mili
tary Science course will practice the
grand march for the Military Ball
Friday afternoon at 5 o'clock at
which time sabers will be issued for
the evening ceremony. All officers.
intending to take part in the march
must be present at this saber drill
rehearsal. No sponsors or escorts
need be present.
Jewish Students
Jewish University students are cor
dially invited to a dance at The
Temple at 20th and South Street Sat
urday at 8:30 p. m.
Lutheran Student Club
Lutheran Student Club meeting
Saturday, Dec. 4, 8 p. m. Faculty
Hall, Room 202, Temple. Excellent
program, induction oi members, pie
social. All girls are asked to bring
pies. All Lutheran students urged to
attend.
Home Economics Club
Display of Japanese Seamen prints
in the H. E. building. They are for
sale from Dec. 10-17. Proceeds go to
the club.
Junior-Senior Prom Committee
Meeting at Ellen Smith Hall, 5 p.
m. Friday.
Basketball Managers
All men who wish to try out as
Sophomore Basketball managers
should report at the Coliseum any
afternoon at 3:30 o'clock.
Three Stores
Give Supplies
To University
are so busily engaged in standardiz
ing them that if the process goes on
they will become such factory-made
products that if they lose one of their
parts they will have no need to wor
ry they can replace it at the garage.
There are men in the present sen
ior class whom God Almighty de
signed to be unique and striking per
sonalities. You were built on the plan
of a Rolls-Royce, but unfortunately
the committee on pledging men in
your group did not understand the
mechanism of anything above a Ford,
and the respects in which you differ
from the Ford model of your group
struck them as unfortunate eccen
tricities that needed to be taken out
of you. And so they began the mel
ancholy task of making over a Rolls
Royce into a Ford. They have not
made a good Ford out of you, but
there is reason to fear that they have
forever ruined the Rolls-Royce.
Sometimes you have regretful mom
ents when you think back on your
sensitiveness and idealism as a fresh
man. Sometimes you remember wist
fully those glorious dreams which you
brought to college, and there is a
secret resentment at the way you
were mishandled. But alas! the dam
age inflicted upon you is so deep as
to make it difficult for you ever to
get back to your old self.
ROLLIN H. WALKER,
in "The Collegian."
The University of Wisconsin has
an exhibit of sixteen Madison artists.
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date from purchase records and is
checked once a year with another in
ventory under the direction of the
operating superintendent.
All materials ordered by the pur
chasing department are sent to a cen
tral receiving department. Their ar
rival is checked there and each article
is checked every time its location Is
transferred so that the University
has a record of its presence as an aid
in locating lost purchases. Depart
mental orders are filled after the ar
rival and checking of the goods at
the central receiving department.
A tremendous saving is considered
to have been effected by the consoli
dation of University purchasing into
one department. It removes friction
with the state auditor's office, letting
all University purchasing be handled
through one official instead of
through each department. Most im
portant of all is the greater pur
chasing power when vested in one
official. Buying in quantity makes
possible a most important saving.
The quantity of University pur
chasing is rarely realized. The pur
chasing department of the Univer
sity of Nebraska, among other things,
buys a carload of acid each year,
costing from five to six thousand dol
lars. It generally buys a carload of
chemical glassware also, costing ten
or twelve thousand dollars. About ten
thousand tons of coal are used an
nually, costing around five dollars a
ton. If all these supplies were pur
chased in small quantities, the pur
chase price would be amazingly large.
Universities Buy Together
There is a further purchasing con
solidation which is effective in mak
ing University purchasing cheaper.
The purchasing agents of a number
of the larger universities of the coun
try have organized what is known a
The Educational Buyers Association
L. F. Seaton, operating superinten
dent of the University of Nebraska,
is at present, president of this asso
ciation. It makes possible eve.i larger
scale purchasing and greater reduc
tions in price.
Aside from the purchasing and
stores functions of the operating su
perintendent, he is responsible for
the operation of the physical plant of
the University. He has charge of the
maintenance and upkeep of buildings,
supervision of janitors, electricians,
plumbers, etc. The University print
ing department in the west stadium
is under the direction of the operat
ing superintendent. All of the Uni
versity printing is done there.
Likewise, the operating superin
tendent has charge of the three heat
ing and power plants; on the city
campus, the College of Agriculture
campus, and the College of Medicine
campus at Omaha. Close touch is kept
on all of these. All the fuel is weighed.
and a continual check is made of the
efficiency of the plants. All campus
upkeep, lawns, shrubbery, sidewalk
cleaning, etc., is also handled by the
perating superintendent. He is re
sponsible for the general physical
maintenance of the University, re
sponsible to the Chancellor and the
Board of Regents.
We see then that the operating
superintendent is a distinctlybusiness
executive of the University. He ren
ders a continuous and efficient ser
vice to the University and through it
to the people of the state by his di
rection of the maintenance of the
physical plant of the University and
his supervision over University pur
chasing and the system of University
stores.
This is the season when everyone
is thinking of how they can best re
member friends and loved ones at
home. There is nothing that will be
more appreciated than a Townsend
Photograph. They possess character
and style that are representatives of
the better things in photography. Ar-
range for your sitting now. Adv.
The Golden Candlestick
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Moderate Prices
7:30-7:30
Little stories about the
Historical and Ideal
We mentioned in Instalment
No. 3 that Manager Harris took
over the management of the
Central Cafe some eight years
ago, having a partner at first
but later on he bought out the
partner in order to have a free
hand on developing and testing
his ideas ' of how a cafe and
restaurant should he managed.
He was by no means unac
quainted with the task before
him, for he had had cafe and
hotel experience before coming
to the CantraJ Hotel.
If Mr. Harris has a hobby
we might almost say an obses
sion it is cleanliness. No Old
Dutch Cleanser was ever so
bitter an enemy of dirt as he.
And his eyes are both micro
scopic and telescopic in detect
ing it.
So his first commandment in
the decalogue of cafe and hotel
management is: "Thou shalt not
tolerate dirt at any iime, any
where.". This is the keystone- of the
arch, the headstone, of the cor
ner, of his success in bringing
the Central Cafa to its present
pre-eminent position.
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GENTLEMEN
GATHER
Whenever there are men who
recognize and appreciate the sub
tleties of style in attire you will
find a singular preference for ap
parel that bears the insigna of this
store. To know confidently and
sublimely that your manner of
dress is authoritively correct
creates a satisfaction you deserve
to enjoy.
PETERSON & BASS
The Arrow Pictures Corporation
a New York organization which had
retained Red Grange as an actor to
appear in future pictures with a fee
of $300,000 has filed a petition of
bankruptcy.
Studies Oregon Campus
Albert D. Taylor, nationally known
as landscape architect, recently
began a comprehensive study of the
campus of the Oregon State Agri
cultural College. His study will in
clude a view of the future expansion
of the campus and recommendations
for a suitable location for a new
memorial building. Mr. Taylor is a
member of Alpha Sigma O.
The faculty at the University 0f
Chicago has barred over-night foot,
ball trips for the students.
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Minister
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Mercy Human and Divine
5:30 P. M.
Open House For Young People
' A warm fellowship A high grade program Refreshments
Begin the new year right affiliation Sunday, Jan. 9th
It's Not Too Late
We still have time to
shave, shampoo, massage
and cut your hair.
Mogul Barbers
127 No. 12 St.
Get Your
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Dad won't need mistletoe
to give daughter a kiss
if she selects his gift
at MAGEE'S
Man
power
The laboratories and
shops of industry are the
sources of many of the
enduring attainments of
our times. In the Gen
eral Electric organiza
tion is an army of 75,000
persona, co-operating to
make electricity do more
and better work for
humanity.
A series of Q-B adver
tisements showing what
electricity is doing in
many fields will be sent
on request. Ask for book
let CEK-18.
Four millions of the best man-powerof Europe
perished in the Napoleonic conquests. Military con
quest is non-creative, vhile industry is always
creative."" ' -
In the last tKTyearV onTAmeriranmariufarturer--the
General Electric Company has created machines
having a man-power forty times as great as that of
all the lives lost in the Napoleonic wars.
In the years to come, when the college men and women
of today are at the helm of industry and of the home,
it will be realized more and more that rmn energy
is too valuable to be wasted where electricity can do
the work better at lower cost. "
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