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to any move donlirned to keep them In the better gTcc
of the people.
Only a few probably realize that a bill to abolinh
all fraternities, and sororitiea was only narrowly averted
In the prenent ncuslon of the leginlature. Still fewer
ecm to realise that the time may come when there may
bo an accounting of the whole system, second-year
pledging, probation-week, parties, and all.
The best way to avert a fatal reckoning of this
kind is to meet it beforehand with wine regulation from
within. United action auch as is proposed for a sane
regulation of tha parties is the only practical way.
The fraternities still have a chance to act of their own
free will. If they do so quickly and winely, they will
restore in some measure the public confidence which
they are rapidly losing;. ,
The Campus Pulse
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THURSDAY. MARCH . l!i!7
To Howard Walter Caldwell
His spirit unwenkened by lonpr years of ser
vice, his faith in humanity unshaken by contact
with the many, his courage undaunted in the up
holding of idealism, he stands anion us today as
Nebraskans for thirty years remember him, a
dominant personality, a living: power. Silence and
non-resistnnce are for him stronger defenses than
retaliation, and gentleness and patience more po
tent incentives than force. To this kindly, modest,
devoted man we dedicate this book.
In these words the 1913 Cornhusker was dedicated
to Professor Caldwell, then in his primp, and one of the
greatest teachers of the University.
To students of th present generation Professor
Caldwell was almost unknown. To the students of
other generations for a span of forty years from 1882
when he first became adjunct professor of history, to
1922 when he was retired as head of the department of
American history, Professor Caldwell was the inspiring
and devoted teacher, the learned scholar, and a living
personification of idealism.
One of the last few remaining members of the
"old guard" of Nebraska professors among whom may
be recollected such familiar names as Bessey, Lees,
Dann, Wolfe, Fogg, Brace, and others, Professor Cald
well was one of the most popular instructors this Uni
versity has ever had.
His absolute loyalty and devotion to his chosen
life work permeated his lectures and his every contact
with the students he loved, and inspired them as nothing
else did in their college careers.
Unsung and unheralded while he was with us, and
now inadequately honored after death, Professor Cald
well in the active years of his life was an exemplifica
tion of the successful life of a real professor devoted
first and last to his profession. i
His spirit lives on in the lives of hundreds of men
and women who were fortunate to be his students, and
in the lives of many devoted faculty members who carry
on the torch which he has relinquished.
FOR THE UNIVERSITY
The natural selfishness and immature eagerness
for freedom from control of some of the fraternities
on this campus was again shown at the Student Council
meeting Wednesday afternoon, when fraternity mem
bers succeeded in pushing through a motion to kill the
proposed Student Council petition for restriction of
downtown parties.
The general attitude of some fraternities in this
whole matter can be characterized as simon-pure self
ishness, and absolute disregard of the larger interests
of the whole University.
It is this general selfish attitude of some frater
nities which at some future time may cause the vlti
doing of the whole system.
And the pity of it all is that it is only a small num
bcr of selfishly dominated fraternity men who are able
to influence the great mass who otherwise would be
heartily in sympathy with an move designed to ad
vance the interests of the vhole University, and in
cidentally their own.
Probably no other feature of University life comes
under so much criticism as the social excesses of the
fraternities. It is the one argument which all enemies
of the University can always fall back on. And to a
large extent these critics are right in the basis for their
judgments. The great harm results from the fact that
their judgment, founded as they are on true premises,
are overdrawn and exaggerated. It is in an effort to
counteract somewhat this one drawback to a united
and wholehearted support of the University by the
people of Nebraska that this movement for fewer and
simpler parties was started.
The movement is not a pet crusade of The Daily
Nebraskan, It is a movement which began spontan
eously several weeks ago when the sorority women
first were awakened to the situation and then wisely
decided to limit their parties. It is a movement which
has the backing of a large number of fraternity men
who are sincerely desirous of curbing in some way the
social excesses toward which this campus has been drift
ing in the past few years.
United action and regulation, in the only solution.
The whole problem is so intertwined with the green-
eyed god of social competition that nothing short of
definite regulation will ever bring about the sane and
reasonable state desired.
If those fraternity meji who are loudest in their
wise preachments of personal liberty and other forms
of popular mob appeal, will look about them, and see
their many etruggling brothers who uncomplainingly
are bearing the burden of more and more parties, they
might pause an instant.
If those same men would pause a while and think
of the hundreds of others oh this campus who cannot
afford such displays of pretended social superiority,
they might think again before they advocate such un
restricted flaunting of their own financial ability (which
is often the product of the sweat and sacrifice of moth
ers and fathers back home.)
If those same fraternity men would lift them
selves for a moment out of the bog of their own child
ish selfishness, they might see the harm, they are doing
the University as a whole, when by social splurges
unknown back home on the farm and in the small towns,
they encourage the popular opinion that University is
nothing but a four-year country club vacation.
In short, the whole question is one which transcends
i' c bounds of selfish individual group desires, and de-
united action for the sake of the University as
io, and if the members were only able to see it,
t-fl fnu, for the sake of the fraternities themselves,
h" fraternity men were only a little bit more alive
i ct that the existence of their system is d
- n the good will of the people of the state,
3 rt ypcr.d more graciously and more willingly
MORE FRIENDS
An alumnus reminiscensing, starting with a dis
cussion of the more or less admittedly undemocratic
condition of the present student body of the University,
reviewed some of the features of th student life of
two decades ago. One of the chief characteristics seems
to have been that the range of acquaintances of the
average student which was considerably wider than
that of the present.
Probably the University of then had defects that
the present docs not have, yet in this respect the school
of today seems to be below the par set at an earlier
time.
With the greater number of students thnt now
call the University of Nebraska their school, the extent
of individual friendships can naturally not be en'.ircly
To th editor of The Daily Ne
braskan; As has been recently poin
ted out In The Daily Nebraskan In a
front-page article and a rather
lengthy editorial one Nebraska frat
ernity has limited its parties to one
downtown nartv a vei r and one
house party a aemester. To some stu
dents this action does not seem so
unusual as t,he Daily NVbraskan
would have it appear. If the Nebras
kan will inquire of fraternities on
the Nebraska campus concerning the
number of parties held during the
past year we believe it will find a
goodly number of them have limited
their downtown parties to one and
their house parties to perhaps two
or three a year; and in some cases
the figures will be found b'ss.
As has been brought out in argu
ments advanced by our well-known
"representative body," the Student
Council, the idea of cutiing down
parties given by individual organiza
tions is to eliminate needless expense
nnivnruul in ni-nnn Yif if ia nnatiihlj thnr. thi, FlmiKor
of friends thnt the average man or woman has could be incurred th Undents and to pro
ir,,.r.,,Un,i mi.Uruhiv Th. i. oven . mnv nhrni..! mote a more democratic atmosphere
on the campus today for more parties of all-University
nature, and the restricting of private fraternity parties
But suppose that the restriction of fraternity
parties becomes a reality, and the all-University parties
do come into thi position desired for them. Will the
matter be complete there, and will the students have
reached the idyllic state of perfect campus democracy?
If the matter were that simple it could be attained
arbitrarily, by a mere ruling of the authorities.
Let us refer again to the words of the alumnus.
In his opinion one of the most important things thr.c
contributed to the wider spread of friendship was the
trading of dances at the large parties. Trading a dance
in those days did not mean exchanging one, or perhaps
two or three, with your best friend or your roommate,
or the couple who accompanied you to the party.
New acquaintances, in plentiful numbers, among both
men and women, were made at the parties. Parties
were parties in the true sense of the word, and not the
restricted interpretation put upon them now by most
party goers.
The tendency towards large parties for the entire
University received the hearty approval of the gradu
ate. More friends found while in the University means
more friends seen in after-life, was his opinion.
In Other Columns
The most damning comment on a football team,
which we have heard made, is, "They play football with
the same spirit that they play golf."
Columbia Spectator
In 1924 the United States sold twelve million dol
lars worth of musical instruments in foreign lands.
No wonder we. have so many enemies.
The Daily Texan
A Word for Our Youth
The modern college student is actually a better
man than his father was at the same age, says Dean
Mendell of Yale. Talk of modern youth's wildness and
wickedness to the contrary notwithstanding, college
halls have a more wholesome atmosphere than in the
good old days.
Remember, when youth comes in for its panning,
that the messes which the world has gone through in
the last decade or two were the work of the older gen
eration. If modern youth chooses to adopt different
guiding stars for his conduct than his forebears did
can we blame him?
Fremont Tribune
Iting of fratenity parties will boost
attendance at Varsity dances; and
we think, from the arguments ad
vanced previously that this is the
real cause for limiting parties. Even
during the past few months when
there have been downtown parties
and Varsity fiances on the same night
the public dance places were always
well filled. It seems that Varsity par
ties need to have something injected
into them that will attract students
and we do not believe that the limit
ing of fraternity parties will even ar
tificially Inject this flavor which
seems to be so much lacking.
In a school as largo at this, Varsity
parties cannot be run on a purely
democratic plane. We admit that
there is a place for them, but as long
as there is more than one fraternity
in Lincoln, fraternity men will seek
company of their like, and they evi
dently do not see fit to seek this
companionship at Varsity dances. Is
Three Years Ago
Gelbert Lovell, church secretary,
who returned from China, spoke on
"Agriculture Conditions in China."
The Speaker was introduced by Taul
MeCaffree, secretary of the Univer
sity Y. M. C. X. Mr. Lovell was a
member of the church teams visiting
here and has spent fourteen years
in educational work in eastern China.
He stated that the average Chinese
farm contains only six or seven acres
and that only fifteen per cent of the
land is developed. China is primarily
on an agricultural basis, with indus
tries Just beginning. In interior Chi
na the main resources are eoal, tung
sten, antimony, and silver. Rice and
preserved eggs are tha thief exports.
rrof. C. W. Smith of the College
of Agriculture spoke on the subject,
"Work," to freshmen engineering
students at orientation in Mechanical
Engineering building. "I learned that
labor was the first step in the road
of knowledge. It is the foundation of
all knowledge," was quoted by Pro
fessor Smith from a statement of
Secretary of Labor Davis. Prof.
Smith described the rise in business
of several men who had learned the
In the Big Ten and the Missouri V.t
ley.
A talo of Old Japan was prefc.nlM
by the University chorus at the Arm
ory. The chorus contained three hZ'
dred voices. n
mote mis democracy nrnonic mrm-
Mast Mindi
Still they grow! Incomplete figures of this year's
registration shows the great universities breaking all
records for enrollment. Colifornia's two branches have
17,101 full-time students; Columbia, Illinois and Min
nesota also top the 10,000 mark. Including part-time
and summer students, Columbia has 30,526, California,
24,756, New York University 20,504, and the College of
the City of New York, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Michi
gan, Illinois, Chicago, Ohio State, Harvard, Boston, and
Northwestern cii more than 10,000.
Colossal figures ; Never before in history has the na
tion shown suc'.i a passion for education; never before
have such multitudes had the opportunity for education.
But are we sure we really know in what education con
sists? Do the mass universities produce men who think,
or just mass minds?
The Nation
Pedigreed Oytters
We learn with interest that there will be a Pedi
greed Oyster Show at the McAlpin Hotel in New York
next week. Think of eating a pedigreed oyster! Our
imagination conjures up a scene of an oyster, decorated
with a becoming blue bow and served on a golden
platter, being brought in by a fair waiter who says with
a sob, as he places the oyster in front of its executioner:
"Eat Minnie tenderly, sir. She's won the blue ribbon
for her class in every show she entered. Thoroughbred
through and through, sir, and her forbears rfre her."
Imagine seeing "Pedigreed Oysters" among the
items on the menu! Surely no one can dispute the
fact that we are more fastidious than the ancients with
all their peacock's tongues and snow in summer. In
the future, Blue Points will undoubtedly give way to
Blue Bloods.
Bryn Mawr College Newa
College Bred and College Fed
There are a good many pungent remarks and in
teresting thoughts in the speech delivered by Dr. V. E.
Levine at South High Thursday. College students, he
says, are divided into two types, college fed and col
lege bred. The first is the individual who is ambitious,
who eats from the granaries of the intellectual store
house, drinks from tins fountain of culture, and em
ploys the social contacts of college life for dessert. The
second, the College bred man is mentally lazy, enjoying
a four year loaf. He manages to get along with one
book, and not his own. It is his father' check book.
And with his characteristic aptness for summing up the
case, Dr. Levine concluded by saying, "The former uses
the college the institution for a service station, and the
latter for a parking place."
There are two things that strike one when reading
the speech. One is that it is undoubtedly true. It is
so true that one has only to look around to find verifica
tion. They are on every hand, the examples of the
second type of student. And the second great thought
that comes to one is this: How fortunate it is that the
second kind of student is some one else, and one one
self. And this thought, of course is perfectly legitimate
and perfectly permissible to every one who hears the
speech.
Crelghton Crelghtonian
in this University.
Democracy has been defined as
government by public opinion. Is it
democracy to try and force frater
nities, by means of any outside or
ganization to change what they, the
fraternities, consider the correct so
cial attitude, when the fraternities
themselves have signified their wishes
through the interfraternity council
on which each fraternity has its rep
resentative? The Student council
does not have jurisdiction over opin
ion in Greek organizations. It is made
up of representatives of colleges and
classes, and bears no semblance of
representation from fraternities.
What right has an organization com
posed of nearly half women to try
and influence the policies of organi
zations composed of men?
It is not playing fair with frater
nities that do not have the advan
tages of a new home to limit their
number of downtown parties. If they
cannot have social functions in suit
able places they are at a decided
disadvantage; and equality is surely
what we want Their parties may be
their mainstay in making a good so
cial appearance. The fraternity is ad
mittedly a social organization and a
broadminded individual, whether he
be a student or a Nebraska farmer,
should admit that it has its place
here. This University is not a harbor
for grinds it is a public institution
and the social side of life has its
place here as well as the purely academic.
When the argument appears that
there are parties every week-end dur
ing the year it must be remembered
that Nebraska is a big place and that
there are 37 fraternities on this cam
pus and nearly the same number of
sororities. A large total number of
parties does not necessarily mean a
large number for each organization
Limiting the number of parties
does not cut down total expense nec
essarily. If a fraternity is limited to
one party a year, the outcome wil'
be a more expensive parties. The so
called race for soci! prominence (r
thing which we believe does not
exist) would not be a race for MORE
parties, but would be a race for
MORE EXPENSIVE parties. Perhaps
it is remembered that even during
the last few weeks several Nebraska
fraternities have brought out-of-town
orchestras for their partie.i Do you
think that limiting the number of
parties will stop thu- expense? We do
not.
IVe are not real surs that the 'im-
selves at a downtown party given by
one of their members as to mingle
among themselves on the Varsity
dance floor?
If all students were forced to go
to Varsity dances, as the Student
council seems to th'.rk the limiting of
parties will do, we would not find
them mingling as a unit. We would
still find the same cliques associating
with their own members. This is not
demo?:acy In the broadest sense of
the word, but how can we eliminate
it when there exist different social
planes. We do not mean by this dif
ferent social levels. All students are
primarily equal. We mean different
types, such as fraternity men, non-
fraternity men and the outside ele
ment, which persists in seeping into
Varsity dances.
Nebraska fraternities have indi
cated their opinion as to social func
tions by an almost unanimous votf
at a recent meeting of their most
representative body, the Interfrater
nity council. Why not let their de
cision stand and be broadminded
enough to see their viewpoint. If de
mocracy is government by represen
tative opinion it seems that we are
already democratic. It is surely not
a democratic move to force a ruling
upon a body contrary to the wishes
of the body.
E. M. M.
A. R. S.
of work and education. He brought
out a fact that it is not necessary to
go away from home to be successful.
Four Years Ago
SOCIETIES PLAN
FOR TOURNAMENT
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of freshman class into the University
and other phases of university ljf.
Songs and yells led by cheer leaden'
Short talks by Ed Weir, "Choppy!;
Rhodes, "Gipp" Locke and CoaVhe,
Bsearg and Black. '
Note: The State Capitol is on .
day. Guides will be there to show you
through the building. All tearrt wfli
find a visit to Nebraska's new Capitol
building of a most Interesting as well
as educational nature.
That the classics do not form the
greater part of the reading of th
faculty at the University of M;nne.
sota is Indicated by a report in the
Minnesota Daily, which says that
detective stories are the most pop.
ular among the instructors of that
institution. The Saturday Evening
Post and even seed catalogs are also
popular according to the daily
stories.
Gamma Lambda, national honorary
band fraternity initiated fourteen
members of the University band into
the society. The initiation was held
in the band rooms of the Temple
building.
Orvin B. Gaston, editor of the
1923 Awgwan and editor of last
year's Daily Ncbraskan was elected
president of Sigma Delta Chi, men's
professional journalistic fraternity at
a meeting held in the Cornhusker of
fice.
The Nebrask! track team left on
the Burlington for Urbana, Illinois,
where it competed in the Illinois re
lays against the leading track teams
No Keys for Co-Ed.
A new ruling at Ohio Sute pro
hibits the use of keys by co-eds re
siding in supervised houses.
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