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faculty committee completes Its re
port. A committee, appointed by Will
Hays for the producer and by Dr.
Butler for the University, will moke
a final report on the subject
It in posslblo, then, that some time
In the future our movie announce
ments will read something like this:
"The Trice of Love, starring Richard
Ricks, A. 13., E. E., D. D. S and Dol
ly Dimples, R. N., B. F. A., B. L. I.,
and directed by Augustus Angleby,
A. B., D. V. S., A. M., B. S., M. S.,
LL. D., Ph. D."
Outside of the congestion it will
cause in the movlo ads we would be
very glnd to see this new school start
ed. From what we have observed
of the motion picture Industry
little more intellectual influence will
certainly not be amiss.
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A STUDENT LABOR UNION
The Daily Kansan brings forth the
suggestion that students on the cam
pus of the University of Kansas or
ganize against the low wages paid to
the students of that institution.
The situation at Kansas seems to
be a great deal similar to that of
our own campus. The Y. M. C. A.
employment bureau of the Jayhowk
state university has twice as many
applicants as there are available jobs.
Local employers take advantage of
the situation and pay wages so low
as to be scarcely worth-while in
drawing. Students who must work
if they wish to stay in school are not
in a high enough position in campus
affairs to make any noticeable pro
test.
It is the belief of The Daily Kan
san that a student organization com
posed of the ones who are working
their way through college would help
a great deal to obtain a higher scale
of wages and also less hours 01 worK.
It is only through concerted effort
that much results may be obtained.
It seems that studente are as slow
to assert their rights as were the or
dinary classes of labor in the first
place, before they were the highly
organized bodies that they are of the
present day.
A student labor union would
doubtless be a great benefit to the
working students of the campus. The
conditions pictured in The Daily
Kansan are as true in the University
o Nebraska as well as the University
of Kansas. It may be assumed that
the same conditions exist in the ma
jority of the large colleges of the
country. The process of getting the
students organized into an effective
working body will be a long and dif
ficult one, however, and no one but
a real leader working with a concert
ed student body will be able to bring
the change about.
conducted wren some sense
COMING SOON
The announcement of the Inter
fraternity Council meeting this eve
ning contains the statement that pro
bation weeks will be discussed, which
reminds us that the good old custom
of raising hell with the freshmpn is
not to be forgotten.
Last year the council passed a rule
limiting probation to fifty-four hours
and requiring each fraternity to sub
mit to, the . executive committee of
the council an outline of all proba
tion stunts. It is probably to remind
the members of this rule and to ex
plain its operation that the meeting
was called
When
of moderation, probation need not be
looked upon as a great evil. It. may
even do some good to a few fresh
men with an exaggerated sense of
their own importance. It is when it
falls into brutality and an attempt
to humiliate the freshman unduly
that it becomes bad. In many cases
in the past this condition has existed.
The limiting of probation to fifty
four hours will no doubt be enforced,
for it is difficult for a fraternity to
conduct such a proceeding without
some hint leaking out. The effects on
the freshmen are usually quite no
ticeable. But the othtr matter that
of following the approved schedule
will, be harder to enforce. Much will
depend upon the honor of the frater
nity men themselves and the dili
gence with which their officers at
tend to their duty. -la
case the temptation to break
' over becomes great the fraternity
men may remember some of the un
fortunate incidents of the past, when
freshmen were injured. They may
remember also that the rule was
pissed by their own representatives
to lessen criticism of fraternities and
that its enforcement will do much
to raise the fraternities in the esti
reation of their critics.
A FILM SCHOOL
Something new in the L- if Uni
versity education may be offered in
the near future at Columbia Univer
sity, according to a recent issue of
The New SUidert. President Nicho
las Murray Butler has announced
that a faculty committee at Colum
bia is considering the matter of start
ing a film school.
At a 1'jnchoon. of the Motion Pic
t :- iributors of America, Presi
r.t t'ljtJer broached the subject.
' ; - .-?-.' f-st he would make al
- ".:r'fpment as soon as thej
PEDAGOGICAL FLUNKS
(Daily Kansan.)
A flunk is a flunk and Robert
Burns might add "for a' that". But
the flunk is a singular thing that
comes to the student alone while the
instructor, even though he be in
competent to fill tho position which
he occupies, is immune.
Sitting upon a high throne, heaped
up by student advance in desire of
"good will", the University peda
gogue gloriously prescribes long as
signments and administers periodic
doses of ability tests. At the end of
the course this instructor searches
through his book of grades, shuffles
out the superior and failing marks
and through use of a weak imagina
tion decides the status of other stu
dents.
No, this is not a picture of every
instructor. Nor is it a description of
the majority. But that minority, suf
fering under the strain of a super
iority complex, makes itself felt in
every corner that is penetrated by
student thought. This instructor is
incapable of properly filling his posi
tion. Generally, he is not a teacher
for any reason except his liking for
remuneration and authority.
The student is in a position where
he is even better fitted to judge the
instructor than the instructor is to
judge the student. The student knows
the short-comings of the incapablel
instructor who cannot benefit the
student even by wisely assigned text
readings.
In order to secure a better system
of education the instructor should be
subject to a "flunk". As long as the
incompetent pedagogue is given final
authority he should be subject to
failure in a class in which he may
wreck the life career and ambitions
of students through his own failure.
Regardless of the side of the fence
where it may be applied, a flunk is a
flunk "for a' that."
CONSERVATIVES GASPED
(The Michigan Daily.)
Conservatives gasped at the meet
ing of the Association of American
Colleges in Chicago Friday when
President Clarence Cook Little pro
posed that following a comprehe.is-ive
examination at the end of their soph
omore year, loafers and mediocre
students be given a certificate and
released from further work so as to
provide greater advantages for cap
able students during the remainder
of their fovr years.
President Littb'o proposal, in ac
cord with t.hf policies announced in
his inaugural addresi, is designed to
recognize ability when it is shown,
to provide fciicwageniant for aca
demic intact, and to prevent that
interest from being discouraged by
association with mediocrity. It is only
too evident in the University that the
capable and intelligent have to pur
sue their studies at a pace slow
enough for the mediocre minds under
the traditional ''bugaboo" of being
democratic and tolerant. Any plan
designed to reduce this handicap, at
least for the last two years in col
lege, should meet with the approval
of thinking students.
That all men may be equal before
the law but not in intelligence is
trite but nevertheless true. A policy
with such manifest merits as that of
Professor Little's would result, if
carried out, in making our collegiate
educational machinery vastly more
efficient, effective, and useful to so
ciety. There would be, of course,
many practical difficulties to be
worked out, but it is just a question
of how soon such a change. will take
place, or how quickly the unfit will
be weeded out, of how soon we will
recognize thing? as they actually are
and not what we would like them to
be.
KIRBY PAGE
(The Minnesota Daily.)
Acting under the impulse to re
strain and direct the course of stu
dent thought, the administrative of
fice of the University has at times
found it necessary to hamper the
appearance of speakers on the cam
pus. At times there have been valid
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Thursday, January 20
Physical Education Club
Luncheon Thursday noon, January
20, at Grand Hotel. Sign on Bulletin
board for reservations.
Joint Fraternity Dinner
Delta Sigma Pi-Alpha Kappa Psl
dinner at tho Grand 0:00, Thursday,
January 20.
Theta Sigma Phi
Theta Sigma Phi will meet at El
len Smith Hall at 5 Thursday.
Co-Ed Follies
Dress rehearsal for Co-Ed Follies
will be held Thursday evening, Jan.
20, at 7 o'clock in Temple 805.
Dramatic. Club
Dramatic Club will meet in the
Club Room. Thursday. Jan. 20, at
7 p. m.
Girls Commercial Club
Girls Commercial Club meeting at
Ellen Smith Hall at 5 o'clock Thurs
day,
Pre-Meds
Banquet Thursday evening 6
o'clock at Grand Hotel. Election of
officers and tapping of Theta Nu.
Dr. Bartholomew will give the ad
dress of the evening.
Co-Ed Follies
Dress rehearsal for Co-Ed Follies
will be held Thursday evening, Jan
uary 20, at 7 o'clock in Temple 305.
Silver Serpent
Silver Serpent meeting Thursday
at 7. Important. Will not last long.
Friday, January 21
Gamma Alpha Chi
Gamma Alpha Chi has been invited
to a Lincoln Ad Club luncheon for
Henry W. Stanley at Chamber of
Commerce Friday noon.
Komensky Klub
A program of entertainment will
be given Friday Janp-ry 21, in Tem
ple 204, at 8:15. All Czech students
cordially invited.
the stand which he takes on war. To
vast numbers of the citizens of this
nation the word pacifist, in view of
recent world happenings, has become
intolerable. Mr. Page has added a
reputation for being a progressive
thinker along lines of social prob
lems, and the combination of the two
classifications might lead one to ex
pect an extremely radical address.
But Kirby Page enjoys the distinc
tion of being able to live his beliefs
without attempting to exert undue
pressure on his auditors and readers.
For the last few years Mr. Page
has been one of the speakers at the
Student's Conference, at Lake Gen
eva and each year he hns left an im
pression in the minds of those who
have heard him which has been last
ing. The strength of his logic and
oratory are great enough in combin
ation to evoke an admission for the
man in spite of tho advanced beliefs
for which he stands.
in Chicago the coming Christmas
with the Modern Language Associa
tion, of which Professor Pound was
elected vice-president at the meet
ing in New York.
MANY NEW STUDENTS
EXPECTED AT DAKOTA
Several Required Freshman Courses
Will be Repeated For Those
Starting at Mid-Year
Vermillion, S. D., Jan. 19.A con
siderable enrollment of new students
is expected at the opening of the
socond semester, January 31, at the
University of South Dakota, E. S.
Sparks, dean of the college of arts
and sciences, announced today.
For the benefit of those who were
unable to begin college work last
The fact that such a man is to ap- fall but now find it possible, a num-
Saturday, January 22
Arts College Discussion Group
The Arts college discussion group
will meet Saturday morning at 10
o'clock at the Temple theater. All
students interested in criticism and
discussion of the Arts college are
invited to attend.
Palladian Literary Society
Open meeting, Saturday, January
22, at 8:30 p. m. A cordial invita
tion is extended to the public.
Miscellaneous
Nebraska Engineering Society
The date for the Cornhusker pic
ture is postponed until Thursday,
Feb. 1 at 12 o'clock.
"N Girls"
Cornhusker pictures wearing N's
must be taken within two weeks.
Townsend studio.
W. A. A. Board
Make appointment immediately for
Cornhusker picture if necessary 1
pear on the campus does not mean
that his address is to be radical in
nature. Many students will recall the
incident of last year when a speaker
was denied the privilege of appear
ing before the students on the cam
pus. When he appeared in anoiner
part of the city it was found that his
message was far from a radical fal
lacy, but Instead, an instructive and
interesting discussion of problems of
the day.
It is commendable that the admin
istration extends the privilege to Mr.
Page instead of barring him because
he is more advanced in his ideas than
the present world of experience
would completely justify.
Two Years Ago
objections to the man or to his mes
sage, and the Tesult of an official
edict denying to him the privileges
generally granted to an orator has
usually resulted in the creation of
another martyr.
On the twentieth day of the pre
sent month, Kirby Page, author, or
ator, and student, is to appear at the
convocation hour in the Young Men's
Christian Association building. His
topic for the hour has not been an
nounced but it will lie in the line of
his work among the churches which
he will vinit during his brief stay
in Minneapolis.
Mr. Page is prominent because of
Little stories about the
Introductory
In our series of advertise
ments, "Little Stories about the
Central Cafe", just completed,
we have told something regard
ing the policy of Manager Har
ris, his insistence on cleanliness
in all things, high quality of the
food, courteous Bervice, and
moderate prices.
That his policy is good, is
best evidenced by the success
which he has achieved. For a
good many months the Cafe,
although not of very large seat
ing capacity, has served, night
and day, rather more than one
person every minute of time
during the period.. Last Octo
ber the figures were one person
served every 59 seconds.
Something over four years
ago ur and a third years
the building housingsthe Central
Hotel and Cafe was remodeled
and a terrazzo floor laid. Dur
ing the period from the comple
tion of the remodelling to the
end of December, 1926, two
and a half million persons have
been served. Or rather, that
many services have been render
ed in the period.
His aim to secure quantity
pro iuction and keep his plant
and enuinmpnt onprntinir an
nearly full capacity as possible,
has enabled Manager-Harris to'
make his prices moderate in
fact, very much lower than
similar service could be secured
if the Cafe were running at less
than 50 per cent of its capacity.
This is a commonplace in other
lines of business, but few have
considered it in connection with
hotel and crfe service.
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(Ta t caatlutaad) .
Phi Delta Kappa, honorary educa
tional fraternity, met at a dinner at
the Grand Hotel. The following week
was said to mark the distribution of
the third issue of the Phi Delta Kap
pa news letter, by Mr. R, W. Rosen
lof, instructor in history and princi
ples of education. Mr. Rosenlof was
the historian and editor of the news
letter.
Prof. Louise Pound of the depart
ment of Engish was notified of her
election to the presidency of the
American Folk-Lore Society at its
annual meeting in Washington. The
society was to hold a double meeting
ber of the required freshman courses
of the first semester will be repeated,
Dean Sparks stated. The beginning
work in general chemistry and fresh
man English will be available under
tho special arrangements Just made.
The student may complete the second
half of these courses in the summer
session or by correspondence, mak
ing it possible for him to come to
the university next fall with all of
his freshman requirements filled ex
cept that of foreign language.
There are many other courses open
to freshmen at the beginning of the
second semester with which to fill out
his schedule. Beginning courses in
trigonometry and algebra will be
given as well as courses in hygiene,
fine arts, journalism, history, home
economics, and Bible. For students
who have had some college training,
courses will be found open in nearly
every department
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