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FRIDAY. FEBRUARY IS. 1U27
"There is indication of a desirable reform
in the decision of the sororities of the University
of Nebraska .tc curtail their social activities, and
to lessen the emphasis on the social life of the
students. If this reform is undertaken in good
faith it will go far to regain the good will of the
Nebraska public toward the state university."
Editorial in The Kearney Hub.
Note in the above quotation the significent end
sentence "If this reform is undertaken in good faith
it will go far to regain the good will of the Nebraska
public toward the state university."
It probably comes as a distinct shock to many loyal
friends of the University to hear that the University
has lost the "good will of the Nebraska public." To
read further by implication that this loss may be due in
great part to the excessive social life of the students,
is probably a still greater shock, especially to the stu
dents who are held responsible.
That this reflection on the state's confidence in
the University is not the opinion of one isolated paper
in the state was indicated by an editorial this week of
somewhat similar tone in one of the Lincoln papers.
The wide-spread feeling among many people that Uni
versity is a "four-year loaf" is well-known, and in
some cases is probably not without foundation.
We are faced with a problem which transcends
any individual selfish desires for social display "as the
members themselves see fit for their pocketbooks."
The Pan-Hellenic association last week met the
situation squarely. The women sensibly decided it was
time to stop. They voted to have only one downtown
party a year.
The Interfratemity Council had a similar chance
yesterday. Instead of following the "splendid pre
cedent" of the Pan-Hellenic association, the Council did
nothing, except resolve not to do anything at the pres
ent time.
No explanation for this action is given. The fact
of the matter is, however, that the Council allowed
itself to be deluded by the eloquent argument that
each group ought to be allowed to decide for itself how
much it can afford to spend on social affairs, and
therefore to decide for itself the number of downtown
parties its members want to stage.
The reasoning sounds mighty nice at first hearing,
but on reflection is found to be a mighty close relative
to other forms of popular mob appeal.
By the same line of reasoning it might be argued
that each group (since its members are supposed to be
composed of intelligent enough beings) should be al
lowed to decide for itself how many hours its pledges
must make in order to be initiated, at what time of
night parties shall end, or even how many hours its
members must make in order to remain in university.
The weakness of the argument lies principally in
its disregard of the public interest.
It would be all right for each group to decide for
itself how many parties it wants to stage, if the groups
were isolated and the excesses of one did not reflect
on all of them and in addition on the good name and
good will of the institution which mothers them all. j
It would also be proper for each group to decide
for itself in matters that pertain primarily to its own
private interests, and have no bearing on others. But
here is a problem that is intertwined inextricably in
competition with others and competition of the worst
sort social climbing and jealous guarding of supposed
heights already reached. j
It is this phase of the problem that makes prac-,
tically necessary united action instead of anarchy.
Every one knows that the number of parties a
group, will stage is not determined in the main by the
particular natural desires of the members for a party.1
There is ever present that element of keeping up with
the others, possibly, keeping ahead of the others. It
is this spur of competition which has resulted in more
and more parties. And it is the presence of this ele
ment that makes mandatory some form of control.
No haranguing arguments on the beauty of each
group deciding for itself, can divorce from the case
these factors which make united action not only justi
fiable but unavoidable.
No mention has been made of the universally ad
mitted fact that a large number of parties is an ex
cessive strain on the financial resources of most stu
dents, nor of the fact that excessive social life is oc
cupying the attention of the students to too large a de
gree. The Interfraternity Council simply disregarded
all the hard facts of the case and went off at a tangent
out of loyalty to a theoretical and impractical theory of
personal liberty.
Fortunately the Interfraternity Council did not
say the last word. There is still a possibility, and a
strong one, that the Student Council will go ahead with
its original intention of presenting a petition to the
faculty committee on student organization for official
restriction of downtown parties. If that is done the
faculty committee will no doubt study the problem
thoroughly and act for the best interests of the Uni
versity. ,
The Awgwan promises to be full of local features,
tagging many campus characters. If this keens un once
a month where will good old University Night come in
with only one chance a year?
A GREATER AG COLLEGE,
The Ag campus World Forum, started only a short
urn ago, is attracting considerable interest among the
students of that college. The attendance for the first
four weeks has averaged over fifty each time. This
compares favorably with the attendance at the Forum
on the main campus. In proportion to the size of the
student groups served by the two forums the interest
in the Ag Forum is several times as great as on the
main campus.
Credit for thi Is probably due in large part to
? f a-iont Chr :& associations which are sponsor
K '"is worth whiie activity.
l ut PtiU greater credit is probably Hue the increas
ed esprit do corps permeating the college of agriculture.
As a result of a combination of causes, construc
tion of new buildings Including a fine gymnasium f.nd
activities building, and establishment of more liberal
courses, the college is filled this year with an enthusias
tic student body athrob with optimistic outlook for the
future.
To all who have the best interest of the Univer
sity and the whole state at heart, this increased inter
est in the college is gratifying indeed. The college
of agriculture has a faculty which as a group is one
of the most capable in the University, and compares
favorably with that of any other agricultural college
in the country. It is probably encouraging to thin
faculty to know that the public as represented by the
students is taking a genuine interest in its work.
The interest displayed by these students in the
World Forum, and other worthwhile broadening ac
tivities is an indication that the state will not lack good
agricultural leaders in the future.
Notices
ScottsblurT wanted to make a city park out of
some University land. The Hous committee killed the
bill.
That enterprising western town must have for
gotten the old adage "it isn't the original cost, it's
the upkeep." Most cities would rather donate their
own land for state parks and save on the annual up
keep.
From the size and number of Farmers' Fair com
mittees it seems that almost every man and woman en
rolled in the college of agriculture is going to get a
free pass.
Those law students who want their grades aren't
the only ones on the campus who have to wait.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18
Tea for Girls of .'lnees Administration
The wives of the la.nlty of the College
of Husiness Administration will give a tea
for all the girls of the colle from four
to six o'clock on Friday afternoon in Ellen
Smith Hall. A program will be w'ven at
four-thirty.
Union Literary Society
Open meeting of the Union Literary Socie
ty Friday. February 18. Union Hall, Temple
Building. The topics for discussion will
follow out the general idea of "Patriotic
Week "
Baptist Students Dinner
The Baptist FtuHonts club has planned
dinner at the First Baptist church Friday
vening-t :15. Dr. Allyn K. Foster, stu
dent secretary of the Baptist Board of
Education, will be guest and speaker. All
Baptist atudenta and their friends are in
vited. Palladian Literary Society
Everyone is invited to the open meeting,
Friday evening, at H :80. The program will
be given by the Bis-Ad itiidenta.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19
Chess Club
Open meeting of Chess Club. Saturday
at 1 :S0 Y. M. C. A. room, Temple. Every
body invited. '
Lutheran Student Club
Lutheran Student Club party Faculty
Hall, Temple. Saturday evening. Feb. II),
8 :80 n. m. Rev. C. P. Harry. Norristown
Ta., speaker. Musical numbers. Refresh,
ments served by committee. Miss Alice
Soker in charge.
MISCELLANEOUS
Frat Picture
All Frats wanting group photos should
make reservatlona at Campus Studio by next
week to get rates of 14.00. After March I
ratea will be $6.00 per group.
P. E. O.
All r. E. O. students are requested to
meet Tuesday, Feb. 22, at 4 p. m. in Social
Science Hall,
In Other Columns
Statistical Hope
A little statistical hope to the co-eds: the home
economics department of Iowa State College has found
that 85 per cent of all home economics graduates are
married within five years after graduation.
The Columbia Missourian
"For Reference Only"
We read in the Daily Cardinal of the University
of Wisconsin that a man has been expelled from col
lge for taking a reserve book from the reading room of
the library. Through this some of our own selfish stu
dents who insist on borrowing reserve books should see
the serious nature of their offense.
The judgment meted out by the University of Wis
consin authorities for the infraction of this "for refer
ence use only" rule is not unjustifyable. Recognition
of other people's rights and property is essential to a
college trained man and the lesson taught by this case
of expulsion should impress itself upon each individual.
We hope that no similar action will be necessary at
Penn State but a precedent has been set.
Penn State Collegian
Licensing the Reporter
Just how the licensing of newspaper reporters, as
advocated by a former editor of "The Century" for the
improvement of the newspapers, will make theim "dig
nified public servants" and eradicate the weaknesses of
present day journalism is difficult if not altogether im
possible to comprehend.
We don't know. Perhaps Mr. Johnson never work
ed ten hours a day in a musty, dusty police station,
spent half the night running down a story only to have
it rejected by a hardboiled city editor, never stepped
up to the cashier's window on Saturday night to receive
his twelve, fifteen, or eighteen dollars. If he has it
is hard to see why he wants to add one more handicap
and burden to those of a class of men who receive less
pay for more work than any other group in the business
world.
Licensing reporters won't improve journalism. To
put the reporter in the same class with taxi drivers and
cigarette dealers will simply reduce the ranks of the
capable. It's queer that editors have so seldom tried
paying their reporters salaries commensurate with
ability as a means of improving their newspaper.
The Michigan Daily
Arise and Crab
"Bill Nye, the humorist, once predicted the inven
tion of a thinking machine. With the aid of this wonderful-machine,
he said, "two men with good brains could
do the thinking for 60,000,000 people and feel perfectly
fresh and rested the next day. Take four men, we will
say, two to do the day thinking and two' more to go on
deck at night, and see how much time the rest of the
world would have to go fishing."
Gangs of college men and women evidently take
it for granted that the thinking machine is an ac
complished fact. Their heads are jammed full of
stereotyped, standardized ideas and beliefs. Their re
action to a given thing is a foregone conclusion. They
are so "sot" in thir ways that little short of T, N. T.
could jar them out of their lethargy.
They live in a world which changeth not and they
don t give a dern if it never does. A new idea has as
much chance with them as a bootlegger at a W. C. T.
U. meeting. Compared with their brains, adamant is
sponge cake and the Rock of Gibraltar a toy balloon. .
Wake up and wipe the cobwebs from your eyes.
Find out whether or not this old world is being run to
suit you. And if it isn't, then exercise your God-given
right to crab.
True enough, one man's spasmodic crabbing gets
him nowhere. But if he keeps at it long enough and
is right ten per cent of the time, there'll be a long
luneral procession when he checks out.
The University Daily Kansan
The New Slang
Our English cousins are not to be outdone in the
matter of slang. American supremacy in the opinion of
seemingly inane yet apt expressions is tottering, and a
flood of delicious terms flutter to us across the Atlantic.
rrl 1 1 ; ...
ne -.iiKusnman swings into action irom a new
angle. He has discovered that the Anglo-Saxon tongue
is fraught with simple monosyllabic words, which, when
used in a flippant manner, may send the assembled oc
cupants of a drawing room into esctacies of lauchter,
Nor does he confine his source to the Anglo-Saxon;
words of a Norman ancestry may be used with a like
bomb-shell effect.
As may be expected, this trend is being capitalized
by the men of letters who have vision. Wodehouse may
be classified as the leading exponent of the new art,
ior ms stones are a veritable mine of typical Enc-Iish
slang. Writers of movie subtitles have hearkened to
the lure of the new speech and garnish their product
with the sprigs of humor a la Anglaise. The patois of
tne English schools becomes the vehicle of wit for the
Island Empire, parallelling the r.uccess of collegiate
numor in this country.
We shudder to think of the consequences, should
the genial Prince of Wales land upon our shores again.
His last invasion left behind a. surfeit of turned-down
hat brims; perhaps his next visit will find the men
from the great open spaces greeting one another wit!.,
"Hello, old fruit," and bidding each other farwell by
saying, "Well toodlc-oo, 4old thing." Our civilization
begins to rock upon its foundation,
The Minnesota Daily
Two Years Ago
A national charter was granted to
Delta Lambda, formerly local frat
ernity, by Delta Sigma Lambda, na
tional organization, whose member
ship is confined to members of the
Order of DeMolay. The local chapter
had fifteen charter members and wf
approved by the University authorities.
Sigma Lambda, professional art
sorority elected five students to mem
FAIR EXHIBITS WILL
BE MORE EXTENSIVE
(Continued from Page One.)
Hill. Oaorge Kennedy, 6tanley Teterson,
Winfield Rodman.
Rural Economics
Ramnel Lingo, chairman; Roy Herman,
Gates Miller, John Kosse.
Soils
Edward Tyner, chairman; Howard Mc
Lean, Walter Meyer. George Srhmid.
Vocational Education
Herttild Mi lien, chairman; Kermit EricV
son, Claude Roe, Adolph Hilpcrt.
Child Car
Lulu Bangh, chairman; Blanche Baraila,
Gertrude tllegg, Hsiel Banning, Virginia
Corbet t, Dorothy Fairchild, Mary Runnals,
Esther Tritsch.
Clothing
Dorothy Norrls, chairman; Harriet Bur-
kett, Florence Counce, Grace Pimne, Ella
Donaldson. Chavlotte Hansen. Alice Hol-
brook, Minnie Johnson. Betty Joe Gremes,
Margaret Richert, Margaret Saunders,
Esther Thompson, Margaret Trohaugh,
Edith Westbrook, Zeta l'aterson. Beryl Mc-
Clure.
Design
Dorotbv ' TTeldt. chairman : Piv Burt.
Aiidry Fishburn, Rose Runge, Belle Robert
son, r.thel Shields, Ruth Shannon, Clara
Schaettger, Evelyn Sienner.
Food and Dietetics
Tessle Agan, chairman; Minnie FiBher,
Rosa Knape, Helen Hildehrand, Marie Luebs
Helen McKee, Neva Mattison, Ruth Major,
Agnes Richling, Margaret Osborne, Mar
guerite Stockton.
Home Furnishing
Marion Overholt. chairman; Doris Brad
dock, May Baird, Alice DeWitt, Lois Davies
Helen Duff. Ethel Wells.
Institutional Management
Mildred King, chairman; Thora Tlaen,
Delia Center. Vronna Drummdnd, Alice
Klein, Dorothy Mercer, Martha Nesladek,
Lucille Fadilleford, Gladya Renfro, Sarah
Spealman, Mary Schaaf. ,
Te tiles
Gladya Alcorn, chairman: Julia Allan,
Lucille Bedell, Marjorie Brinton, Marjnrie
Baily, Crace Bass, Orma Denny, Bernire
Devore, Fern Graham, Andrea Johnston,
Alma Schlictlng. Eva Stotts, Marjorie
Thompson, Dorothy Weathers.
NEBRASKA CAGE
TEAM TO CLASH
WITH SOONERS
(Continued from Tage One.)
who has been playing at the pivot
position has been shifted to th for
ward post as the running mate of
Clark Smaha. Elliott has been a re
serve center all season but his ability
to hit the basket in the last two
games has caught the ?ye of the
coaching staff and he will probably
start at that position tonight. He
will replace "Jug" Brown who is still
nursing an injured knee that has
been bothering him all season.
The game tonight decides whether
the Nebraska team will stay in the
conference baslcetball race. Oklaho
ma has been beaten once by the Bus
kers away from home.
The All-University Council of ln.
Univers.ty of Minnesota ha, jUst ,
ed down a proposal to limit the Jo.
of all university social function, L
$5. One of the reasons for thi,
tion was that the larger crowds
would attend cheaper function, cou
not be cared for. oul4
Three Years Ago
Hobb Turner was elected president
of the Ag Club at second semester
election. It resulted in a tie of three
men for vice-presidency. Thomas
Koantz, Glen Springfield, and J. Hep-
perly. Clyde Walker was elected sec
retary of the farm fair board. Jo
seph Clubertson was elected secre
tary of the club. Carl Rosenquist won
the treasurer's office.
The University Y. M. C. A. and
Y. W. C. A. sponsored a six week?
series of discussion groups on three
major world problems. The idea
came from the Convention of Stu
dent Volunteers at Indianapolis and
from the suggestions of interested
students.
Idaho Co-eds Split Dinner Checks
With Male Escorts
According to reports thai are cir
culating from the University of Idaho
campus, the co-eds of that institution
are now practicing "dutch treats"
when out on dates. The women that
are found on the campus are seem
ingly very much in favor of the above
financial arrangement, and are quite
willing to bear a part of the expense
of an evening out. The plan that
has been tried out before on othei
campuses and has failed is proving
to be a success at Idaho.
National Student Union to be Formed
in Canada
A national Union of Canadian stu
dents may be formed, similar to the
National Union of England and
Wales, the "Confederation Interna
tionale des Etudiantes" of Europe
and -the National Federation of
America. Representatives of eleven
Canadian colleges and universities
met in Montreal during the Christ
mas vacation to decide whether the
project is feasible. If ten of them
resolve to form a union it will be
done.
Action to be Taken to Deprive
Cool id of Gvard
An action will be instituted in Fed
eral Court to deprive John Coolidge
of his personal bodyguirl vat Am
herst College, Raymond Cannon, at
torney, announced yesterday.
FREE!
5 LESSONS
WITH EVERY NEW
ICING
Band Instrument
purchased during
February
Sole agents
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1210 O St. (In Cancer.)
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Many like our lie breakfasts. Coffee, cream, sweet rolls or 2
fresh doughnuts or ana of each. ..Rudga St Guenzel Co. Cafeteria
Opens at 7 A. M. You do your own choosing
"Favors
for your Formal"
Many items in Gold, Sil
ver, Leather -with your
crest applied
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Rollins College, Florida, has abol
ished the lecture system.
Talks of eating at the
Five1 of the Central Cafe's
Combination Breakfasts have
been explained in former ad
vertisements; and we now take
up Combination Breakfast No. 6
which gives you Milk Toast with
Prunes, Figs or Apple Sauce;
and Coffee or Milk at a cost of
25 cents.
Combination Breakfast No. 7
allows your choice of Preserves
or Jelly with three slices of
. Toast and Coffee or Milk.
Combination Breakfast No. 8
gives you your choice of
Prunes, Apple Sauce, or Figs;
and choice of Corn Flakes, Post
Toastics, Grapenuts, Shredded
Wheat, etc. served with Half
and Half; and the customary
Coffee or Milk.
Breakfast a la Carte gives
you some 39 items to choose
from in the way of cakes, cer
eals, toast, preserves, fruits and
drink. Wheat, Corn or Buck
wheat Cakes, with plenty of
Butter and Syrup, . 15 cents
Coffee or Milk 6 cents addi
tional. The various (nationally ad
vertised cereals Toasted Corn
Flakes, Grape Nuts, Shredded
Wheat, Post Toasties, Post's
Bran and the Mke, 15 cents
served with milk or 20 cents
with Cream.
Dry or Buttered Toast, 10
cents. Milk Toast 20 cents.
Cream Toast 35 cents. French
Toast 30 cents. Bowl of Milk
with - Bread or Crackers, 1 5
. cents. Bowl of Half and Half
with Bread or Crackers; 25
cents. Bowl of Pure Cream with
Bread or Crackers 35 cents.
Sweet or Cinnamon Rolls (2)
10 cents or with Butter 15
cents. Three doughnuts 10
cents. Two Doughnuts with
Butter 1 0 cents.
"Watch For and Patronize the Green Coaches"
O. L. & B. GREEN COACH SERVICE
Leave University Place, 25th tc Warren
A. M. 6:22, 6:37, 6.52, 7:07, 7:22, 7:37, 7:52, 8:07, 8:22, 8:37.
P. M. 4:22, 4:52, 5:07, 5:22, 5:37,-5:52, 6:07, 6:22, 6:37.
Leave Lincoln, 12th N
A. M. 6:45, 7:00, 7:15, 7:30, 7:45, 8:00, 8:15-, 8:30, 8:45.
P. M. 4:45, 5:00, 5:15, 5:30, 5:45, 6:00, 6:15, 6:30, 6:45.
At ether times departure is ea hour and half hour. Last through frean
Lincoln 11:22 P. M. Last through from Unl Place 11:00 P. M.
Sunday Service starts 1 hour later and discontinues 1 hour earlier
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