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TIIE DAILY NEBRASKA The Daily Nebraskan Station A. Lincoln. Nahraaka OrKICIAL PUBLICATION UN1VKKH1TY OF NKHKAfKA Undor direction of tha Blud.nt Publication Board . TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR Fubll.hd Tu..lar. Wln.idy, Tbur.d.r, Friday. nd 8undr Biornlms durlns tha acad.mlo rar. Editorial Offlc UnW.rtlijf H.ll 4. 5und7y. Bu.in... Staff .ft.rnoon. .xc.pt Friday nod Tphon-Mitorl.l .nd Bu.ln... , BS. 0. UtjWmht B88 En.r.d .. .ond-cl... m.tt.r at th. Vf 1917, aumonaea - IS y.nr. SUBSCRIPTION RATE 8ingl. Copy t c.nt. II. 15 a itiuitar WILLIAM I'EJNAR L V.nc. . Arthur Sweet Mor.c. (iomun EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Manain Kditor , Aaat. Man. King Editor Ruth Palmer In.bel O'Hallaran tlcrald firilllil Jam. Hu NEWS EDITORS Dwlght McCormack CONTRIUUTING EDITORS Ev.rt Hunt Aaat'. Managins Editor Oacar Norllng Lincoln Froat Dwight McCormack Hubert Laach ASSISTANT NEWS EDITORS Flor.no. Swih.rt Frm.n T. SIMI'SON MORTON Richard F. V.tte Milton McGr.w William K.ar i imciMVcja MANACER . Aaat. Uu.in.a. Manag.r Circulation Manag.r "L... . Circulation Manag.r WEDNESDAY. MARCH 2. vri' chool, three classes have graduated. In the back part of the i Alumnus is a small-type section wcll-or.-anlaea' according to years of graduation. Here to our enjoy ment we find occasional reference in the '24, '25, and 26 sections, to familiar names of students Wo once k new In a fWyears these sections from '24 to '30 which will routfhly span the group of years in which our friends attended Nebraska, will contain more and more mention of the progress of one-time class associates. A ml t.h other features of the magazine telling about the progress of the University, about the old pro fessors, about tho new professors, and about the new students will be eagerly read where now they are ig nored betause we are right in the thlcK or mings. And it is only 04 days till we are eligible our selves for mention under '27 heading. Notices In Other Columns A SPLENDID EXAMPLE On "the first pg of this issue is printed a copy of a resolution passed Monday night by Acacia fraternity limiting its parties for next year. The fraternity will have only one large downtown party, and only one house party a semester. And what is more the group is plrdg.ng itself to support wholehearted y all general University functions such as the military ball, the pan heller.ic ball, the senior prom, and others. This action is an encouraging sign that fraternities on this campus have more level-headed thrifty judg ment than was indicated two weeks ago by the Inter fraternity Council when that group of representatives allowed itself to be swayed completely by a few ill considered remarks of a campus hero. The resolution, coming voluntarily as it does, simply as an announcement of its own policy for next year, and without any attempt to influence directly the action of others, offers the Interfraternity Council an excellent opportunity next Thursday to reconsider its lack of action two weeks ago. The resolution will also indicate to the faculty committee on student organizations which informally has the- matter under consideration, that fraternity men are really beginning seriously to think about the ex cessive social life toward which this campus is drifting, and that one group at least is sincere and courageous enough in its desire for a sane reform to risk the chance of drifting behind in the mad competition of parties, and stand out boldly on a platform of fewer p Arties. Moral courage of this kind can well be cultivated in college. The Daily Nebraskan takes its hat off to tfie members of Acacia fraternity. The pledge of the Acacians to support the general University functions reveals indirectly one reason why these general parties have not been as successful in recent years as they might have been. The fact of the matter is that students have be come so jaded with their own little private parties that they have been unable to appreciate these larger and more inclusive affairs. As a result these larger parties have in many cases come to be considered as only ano ther party instead of the anticipate-1, social event of the year they are intended to be. If the various groups give only a reasonable num ber of parties a year, and restrict especially their for mals (which in most cases have now become stilted and monotonous affairs) the big general parties of the year will rise in relative importance and again assume their old time prestige and standing. And there is no real reason why parties should not be kept down within reasonable limits. At some schools and the ones of highest social standing, at that, there are only a few parties in the whole year. If students were here primarily for the country club features of university life, there might be some point to the argument that each group should be al lowed to decide for itself how much it can spend on any number of parties it wants to stage. But these country club features of university life are only incidental. The real purpose of the whole thing is higher education, under capable professors. Students could just as well have got the country club advantages back in the old county seat or in the-neighboring small city, if that were the main purpose of their going to college. Unfortunately there are a number of students here in University who would run wild with these side line affairs if they were allowed to prance about un bridled. They are the ones who are causing the most difficulty in this regard, and it is on account of them, in the main, that regulations are necessary. It is just as sane and consistent for the University to regulate the number of parties a group shall stage, as it is for the University to dictate arbitrarily when parties shall stop and when women student must be back home. . In spite of the desires, real or pretended, of the student to decide all these matters for themselves, the fact remains that the official of the University have a first-mortgage obligation to the mothers and fathpra hack home. It is this obligation which justifies many of the rules and regulations to which students must submit It is an extension of this same obligation which would nmnlptplv iustifv official restriction of parties. The only reason why the faculty and the officials tmv4 nnt taken a hand in the matter is that the prob lem has only gradually begun to assume serious pro- portions. Furthermore, the faculty and the officials are always anxious to have the students settle their nam nrnhlemg first, and to have control from above only in cases of absolute necessity after the students have failed voluntarily to respond. America Evolvini a New Type of Man "In about a thousand years America will produce a new type of man, a brunette with light brown eyes, rii.iv fnr-p. and a well nronortioned head," says Dr. R. Bennett Bean, professor of anatomy at the Univer sity of Virginia. This typical American will be somewhat like the American Indiun in that he will tend toward ranginess, but not Innkiness, and will be athletic in stature. Dr. Bean attributes this gradual change to our intense summers and the brilliancy of the sun, which produce a pigmentation of the skin and cause the hair and eyes to become darker. Brunettes may have their Hay yet in about a thousand years. Sharbottavllle. Va. No Need to ImportDance Partners ' ... mm aw m a" I As Long As We Have I elephone uirts Co-eds here seem to be still holding their own so far as rating fraternity dances on the campus is con cerned. At least they need not have any fears that they will be entirely supplanted by girls from other sources. A survey of representative fraternities reveals the fact that the per cent of foreign (meaning nor.-co-ed) girls attending fraternity dances is comparatively small, being in most cases below 10 per cent. "Why do we choose to bring girls who are not co-eds?" "Well, many times the girls are from back home and it always gets across pretty big with them to come down and visit over the week-end and attend one of our dances." Here, girls, is the gore you've been waiting for gather around and let's talk it over. Several inquiries revealed (the ones interviewed wouldn't want this printed) that B T O's attend fraternity dances. You know the "number please" friends. "And why do you choose these girls as dates for your dances?" "Well, you see sorry, will see you later; have to see a man about a dog down here." Private schools contribute their quota and in some cases ,co-eds from smaller schools nearby are the out side guests. Several fraternities replied that it is very seldom that a girl outside of school attends their dances, but in a few cases the percentage runs up to 15 per cent This survey will no doubt relieve some of those worried minds "She wondered why he never asked her to his dances any more." Ohio State Lantern The swains may tell their lassies all they want, but iust the same, the girl they'll finally marry will be the one they're in love with at the time they can af ford to get married. THE ALUMNUS A 'J.iiversity publication little read and probably still lesa appreciated in a student's life is the Nebraska Alumnns which every month chronicles the doings of Nebraska alumni, and keeps the old story of the Univer sity ever fresh and vivid before the old graduate. In our several years on the campus, our reading of this magazine has been cursory, and sometimes only dutiful in line of business. Much of the news is about .b.'.'j'rrrinui with which we are already well acquainted, t!-.e features do not seem to appeal. ''ill lately, when we turned the calendar and founfl .'s in the last hundred days of school, the home and shortly after came upon the latest num ' r f the Alumnus, a new feeling of appreciation for f " publication swept over us. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2 Alpha Kappa Pal Meetlna- W.dne.day. March t. Comm.r cial Club Room, 7 p. m. P.rhln Rid.. . . P.r.hlne Rlfl. banquet tonight at alx o'clock at th. Grand Hotel. four dla. tinguiahed gu.aU and apeakcra. Wear regular baalc eoura. uniform, with I .rahlng Rlfl. Cord. Trie, of th. dinn.r i. fifty cent. Lutheran. The 1-uther.n Ulbl. League will meet for Hlble atudy at T P. m. Wedneailay in Tempi. 202. Rev. Alfred Saeger of Mal colm will areak on: Jonathan the friend. A. I. E. E. . , American Inatitut. of Electrical Engineer. (A. I. E. E. will have regular meeting Wedneaday at T:0. Everyone invited. A S. A. E. Regular meeting Wedneaday at 7:15 in A. E. 111. Student Council Regular bi-monthly meeting of the Stu dent Council. Wedne.day March 2, in Tempi. 204. lota Sigma PI . Iota Sigma Pi meeting Wed. March 2nd 7:00 p. m. at Chemiatry Hall. THURSDAY, MARCH 3 Dramatic Club Dramatic Club will meet Thuraday March S at 7 p. m.. In th. Dramatic Club room. Silver Serpent Silver Serpent meeting and Initiation will he held in Kllen Smith Hall at erven o'clock Thuraday evening. All member, ar. re queated: to be preaent. Corn-Con. There will be a meeting of Corn-Cob. Thuraday night in the Temple at 7 aharp. Very important that all member, b. there. rroahman Council On account of probation week there will he no Kreahman Council meeting thia week. Meet next Thuraday 7 p. m. at Tempi.. Girl. Commercial Club Luncheon at Chamber of Commerce Thur. day noon. Everyone out. Pilgrim'. Stud.nt Cabinet The Pilgrim'. Stude it Cabinet will meet Thuraday evening, at 7:30 at lnl g Street. r KID AY, MARCH 4 , Palladian. Open meeting Friday at 8:30. Program by Palladt.n Alumni. MISCELLANEOUS Notice to Engineer. All department, are retiueittcd to aelect their departmental chairman fur engineera week. Sigma Delta Chi Picture, at Camnu. atudio Monday. March 7, at 12c00 noon. Membera only. Pedagogy When a pugalist, battered, wobbly, defeated, can no longer stand up and trade punches with his oppon ent, he prays for the bell and stalls. When a basketball team nnoa itself ahead by a couple of points with only a few seconds to play it stalls. When a professor has talked too fast and ex hausted his stock of lecture notes, and still the bell hasn't rung he stalls. Some "profs" are so good at it that their class scarcely realizes that they are no longer saying much of anything. Others visibly betray their consternation as they arrive at the end of the last card, with five minutes still to go. But they are all game to the last. To dismiss the class and allow their harried disciples time for a few extra drags on a cigarette would be most unpedagogical. So they stagger on, rehashing previous remarks, im provising like a member of the Wisconsin players who has forgotten his lines. The class folds up notebooks, wriggles into fur coats, hauls out compacts to inspect noses for signs of shininess, studies watches hopefully No one is listen ing, and the "prof" knows it, but his reputation for in exhaustibility of wisdom is at stake. Many of the more enlightened members of the Wisconsin faculty realize i is only an act of charity to dismiss the class and have it over with. They can make it up on some other occasion when they have more to say. Any seeker after wisdom who has been kept listen ing in his 9 o'clock class in Bascom until he has just one and one-half minutes in which to make his 10 o'clock in Ag hall, realizes how well they can make it up on some other occasion. The Daily Cardinal Four Years Ago One hundred fifty De Molays and their mothers ttnqueted together at the Scottish Rite Temple. Ronald Button, master councilor and univer sity student was toastmastr. The speakers were Dr. Eiche, official ad visor and Seth Taylor, the first mas ter councilor of Lincoln chapter and a Nebraska graduate. A series of lectures on "Evolution on the Light of Modern Religious Thought" was given by Dean Charles Fordyce at St Paul Methodist church. Kirby Page, industrial secretary of the Y. M. C. A., author of a number of books on the subject of world peace, spoke at the Grand Hotel on the subject "War from the Christian Viewpoint." Katherine Kreig '26, was elected captain of the Girl's Rifle Team at a meeting of the girls of the team in Nebraska Hall. W. A. A. TO ELECT OFFICERS TONIGHT (Continued from Page One.) managed the basketball season that is just closed and is Secretary of the Physical Education Club. She is a Junior in school. Grace Modlin, '28, Ulysses, has been a very efficient secretary of the W. A. A. Executive Board and for the general association this past year. The committee selected her as one of the nominees for the incom ing treasurer. Hazel Olds, '28, Lin coln, is the harassed Concession Man ager. She has charge of the candy sales at the football games, the bas ket ball tournament and the W. A. A. store. Marie Hermanek, W. A. A. presi dent or Kathro Kidwell, W. A. A. treasurer, will be voted as a delegate to the National W. A. A. Convention at Ithaca, N. Y. JOE HUNT TALKS AT VESPERS TUESDAY (Continued from Page One.), off letting out a slow ooie of brains. In this moment the dead German dis appeared and reappeared as the vis ion of Christ lying there before him. Suddenly the words "Inasmuch you do it unto others you have done it unto me" came to his lips. rTom then on "Woodbine Willie" knew the meaning of the cross. Since the Lenten season is ap proaching a new system of medita tion has been introduced In to the service to allow tho girls to more deeply feel the spiritual side of life. Miss Appleby, Secretary of the University Y. W. C. A. introduced the candidates in the Y. W. C. A. election and named the qualifications nf tho voters. Only girls who have signed a Y. W. C. A. pledge card sometime in the course of their school career are able to vote. Girls who nave contributed money to the Y. W. C. A. fund and have not signed a membership card are not entitled to vote. The music of the evening was a violin solo by Miss Helen Williams. The meeting was led by Miss Helen Eastman. EDUCATION MOVIES TO.BE DISTRIBUTED Kan.a. Unireriity to Hava Chart Of Film.j Portray American Hi.torical Events Lawrence, Kans., March 1. The department of visual instruction of th extension division at the Univer sity of Kansas has obtained a series of photoplays Chronicles of Amer ica which have been issued by the Yale University Press, and is making arrangements to distribute the mo tion nictures in schools throughput Kansas and the western part of Mis souri. They are to be ready for use after March 10 and are in addition to the large number of slides and films that the department now distributes. These nhotoolays re-create events of outstanding importance in Amer ican history from the voyage of Col umbus to the close of the Civil War. They were produced under the direct supervision of a Board of Editors ap Dointed by the Yale University com mittee on publications. The care with which the films are edited by the board insures their accuracy, accord ing to Elsworth Dent, secretary of the department of visual instruction at K. U. Many schools in the country are in cluding visual work as part of the reeular instruction, according to Mr. Dent. The rental for these films has been greatly reduced in the past year, said Mr. Dent, so that it is now pos sible for schools to show the photo plays at a very low cost. The Eternal Text Complaints are often made by students that the cost of textbooks is a severe drain on their financial resources. They assert that the books are usually ex pensive and that a large number must be bought in the course of the year. ' We have no fault to find with textbooks. They are needed and if a student desires to take courses, he ought to be willing .to obtain the books that supplement the class. But we do have objections to buying books, es pecially when they cost four or five dollars, which are scarcely opened all quarter and in which no assignments are made. Once in a while, we have purchased such texts which are useless and which represent a needless expense. This is most often the case when the text is one of selections, or contracts. We have objections to extracts to begin with, and when they form a so-called text which is of no value, we question the motives of the professor in requiring a class to purchase the vol ume. Such cases are, of course, the exception, but they are by no means rare. There is no student who has not at one time or another during his college years bought texts which did not benefit him and which were an expense that was needless. Necmary books, those that are a supplement and adjunct of the course, should naturally be obtained by every person in the class, but those which are superfluous c.i;ht not to be required by the professor. We feel that we have a r'ht to object to the un necessary text We have purchased two such this quarter, costing six dollars in all, and we had far better uses for the money than spending it on books of read ings and selections which were neither of value nor assistance in the work of the course. Professors often complain th.t students are lax in the matter of obtaining texts. But there is something to be said on the part of the students against professors who ask them to buy books that are not needed or used. No Small Feet in Oklahoma Dainty feet are not much in evi dence in the track squad of the Uni versity of Oklah6ma. Measurements reveal the average size of shoes to be 11 1-2 or 12. Today at Rector's 25c Minced Ham Toatette Pumpkin Pie with Whipped Cream Any 5c drink Hardy Smith BARBER SHOP Clean towel u.ed en each e tenar. CHAIRS 116 No. 13th Street L af The New Heavyweight Champion from Coast to Coast THIS new Winterweight Oxford is a recognized Champion in the Heavyweight Class. It has Speed, Strength and Style for any kind of foot work in all kinds of Weather. TV.z t'rper leather is Tan Norwegian Calfskin with heavy harness stitching. A soft, broad toe ai. '. 1: ass eyelets. The bottom has full double soles, a double deck storm welt, and solid leather heeL Th JVetr "RKSCV Fit tint Service uaorf txclutirely m REGAL HSHOES The Regal Direct University Service On Display By Mr. "Cush" Stryker N PHI DELTA THETA HOUSE TT- Water Polo Is New Creation At Iowa State Ames, Iowa, March 1. Special Al though introduced only two months ago, water polo is becoming recog nized as a sport at Iowa State. The Iowa State water polo team, coached by Frank Kerekes, an alternate on the Olympic team of 1920, is begin ning to shcAV excellent individual technique and teamwork". Coach Ker ekes captained the water polo team of the College of the City of New York in 1917. At present there are no schools in the Missouri Valley with a recognized water polo team. Water nolo resembles football in that touchdowns are made, and tack les in the form of old fashioned duckings, along with end runs and forward passes, are used. The Iowa State squad will make itf first nublic appearance when picked teams will slay as an added attrac tion for the Grinnell-Iowa State swimming meet. v HUGE TRANSFORMER IN IOWA LABORATORY 100,000-Volt Apparatus Will be In stalled for Experiments in Smoke Elimination Ames, Iowa, March 1 Special: A new electrical transformer of 100,-000-volts capacity is being installed in the electrical engineering research laboratories of Iowa State College for smoke eliminative studies. The transformer, while having a capacity of 100,000 volts, will be operated at only 40,000 for the ex periments now underway with the Cottrell precipitator, an invention or iginally perfected to collect the par ticles of metals going up the chim ney and to eliminate the poisonous smoke particles coming from ore smelters. The apparatus, however, has been found to be adapted to the elimina tion of the smoke nuisance. The work at Iowa State College will be undertaken to determine an efficient and economical method of using th invention for the precinlintu. .! smoke, as previous work has nrnv. lu, uuv muicaiea that the cost was too high. Tho transformer will also be used for other electrical engineering re. search and advanced graduate work In electrical engineering. Chorus Will Sing For Matinee Musical Club The University chorus, under the direction the direction of Mrs. Car. rie B. Raymond, will present Wolf! Ferrari's arrangement of Dante's no! ted poem, "The New Life," before the Matinee Musical club of Lincoln March 21. Later a performance wi be given for students. ROBB AND DARLINGTON JUDGE SCHOOL DEBATE Prof. T. Bruce Robb and Mr. G M. Darlinorton of the college of bus! iness administration went to Tecum seh Friday afternoon to judge a high school debate. The Hauck Studio Skoagland Photographer 1216 "O" B-2991 Drive-It-Yourself Atl New Ford & Cryslers We Deliver Real lnav"anee National Motor Car Co. 1918 O St. B2125 JIGGERS There Is a Difference in Punch One Is True Fruit Punch The Other is Just Punch and an Imitation at That. Don't Be Misled. Buy Idyl Hour Punch and Play Safe We have built our business on Quality and Square Treatment THE IDYL HOUR 136 No. 12th B-1694 iw "n3hw. an m a - .mm m iiii 7? SAK Not a chance of that lead-like, loggy feeling even during early Spring if you make a daily habit of Shredded Wheat. That's one reason why this prince of whole wheat cereals graces the training tables of so many colleges and schools. fUno) Carefully separated, com pletely cleaned, perfectly shredded, and thoroughly cooked whole wheat grains that's all there is to 111 9 Except its convenient biscuit form, its taste inviting crispness,. its Nature given, refreshing, tonic' benefits. 1 1 t' V-,re years and more that we have been in Th. Minneaota Daily I