THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
The Daily Nebraskan
Station A. Lincoln, Nebraska
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UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
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TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR
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' Lee Vance
Arthur Sweet
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Asst. Managing Editor
Asst. Managing Editor
Isabel O'Hallaran
Gerald Griffin
James Rosse
NEWS EDITORS
Dwight McCormack
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Evert Hunt
Oscar Norllng
Lincoln Frost
Dwight McCormack
Robert Lasch
students real body-building athletics which will better
fit students for their long strenuous lives as leaders in
their communities. But The Nebraskan is not blind
to the fact that there are accelerating tendencies in the
present system of top-heavy, gate-receipt athletics
which merit the earnest consideration of all true lovers
of higher education from the college president down
to the newest freshman.
In Other Columns
Tale of A Kiss
Notices
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Florence Swihart
ASSISTANT NEWS EDITORS
Mary Louise Freeman
Gerald Griffin
T. SIMPSON MORTON
Richard F. Vette
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TUESDAY, MARCH 22. 1927
"INCIDENTALLY STUDENT"
"To guarantee that participation in college sport
would be more completely restricted to college stu
dents incidentally playing football, than to perpetuate
a condition wherein at every college there are at least
a few men who are in spirit simply athletes incidentally
attending college," President Ernest Martin Hopkins
of Dartmouth college, according to an Associated Press
dispatch, has proposed a plan of reform in intercol
legiate football which would limit varsity teams to
sophomores and juniors, and would put all coaching in
the hands of undergraduates.
The wire report states further "He (President
Hopkins) said that although ho did not feel the worst
that had been alleged against college football was neces
sarily true, tendencies toward such conditions are more
rapid than,' commonly recognized, and I believe that in
tercollegiate football is in a more hazardous position
than is generally supposed among its friends."
Realizing that it is impossible for any single college
to transform of itself existing evils, President Hopkins
proposes a formal organization, of a limited number of
eastern colleges and universities where the plan might
be tried out. .
President Hopkins, the report explains, was at one
time a graduate manager of Dartmouth athletics. He
is a man who is richly in sympathy with college ath
letics .and not a dreamy purist who would abolish the
whole works. His proposal as a result should have
added weight in university councils.
(To My Ray of Sunshine)
Those lovely lips in Nature's hue,
That smile so sweet, so tempting too,
Poor fluttering youth, -what could I do?
My heart called out with passion true.:
With brutal force" I clasped her tight;
She was so frail, so wondrous light,
Yet she began a fearless fight,
And lo, my eyes turn brownish bright!
In stalked a husky boorish lad:
"Leggo my wife, you collar ad !
Get out" he cursed, "or I'll run mad."
And so I left, more wise than sad.
6. W. S. McGill Daily
Athletes incidentally attending1 college, instead of
collega students incidentally playing football. That's
the big trouble with college athletics today, and it's the
situation President Hopkins hopes to eliminate.
It doesn't take much thought and reflection on
the part of a student who is not altogether asleep to
the world about him, to see that a great many athletes
come to university (to Nebraska among all the others)
for no other reason than to be on the teams, to make
a letter, and to bask in the gladiatorial glory of sta
dium and coliseum.
What is even worse, there are many athletes in
American universities who came not entirely of their
uwu free vouuuii, but weie aula on the idea of a uni
versity career by alumni, and coaches in particular, who
were out to get "material" for the varsity teams. Ne
braska's record in this respect has been fairly clean,
but it is not without blemish either.
It is this prostitution of college education for the
sake of athletics which is slowly but surely arousing
a public reaction which in the end will probably lead
to some sane reform such as the Dartmouth president
is advocating.
All true friends of colleges and universities should
lend an attentive ear to the proposal, and watch with
concern the progress of the experiment if it is ever
tried out.
American colleges and universities are in a well
nigh ridiculous predicament. Posing as institutions
of higher learnng, they have in part degenerated and
become a mere background for the highly organized
business of college athletics. This degeneration may
not be so marked among the average students who are
here to really get an education, but it is quite marked
among those whose interests seem primarily athletic,
and among those whose BUSINESS it is to turn out the
athletes.
If there is a reform it will probably be started
in the East by the same schools which were leaders in
creating this frankenstein intercollegiate monster. Here
in the West we are still in the stadium-building stage
or rather to put it more truly, we are still in the sta
dium and coliseum-paying stages. We've got to keep
on in order to meet the payments.
Our athletics have virtually ceased to be amateur
in nature. They can't any longer be considered purely
amateur athletics when the gate receipts are mortgaged
many years ahead to pay for expensive structures. The
universities have simply got to put oat good teams,
winners if you please, in order to attract enough spec
tators to fill the empty seats, and the empty coffers.
Competition is becoming keener. I.'s an economic
competition in large part too. That's why we have
everywhere more and more all-year-round coaching
and practice. That's the only way to compete with
other schools which are doing the same thing in order to
win more games,, attract more crowds, and pay for
their piers and tiers of concrete.
In this competition and the exaggerated glory
jpven to the participants we find the root of most of the
excesses of "athletes incidentally attending college"
a condition which the head of one of the country's most
famous private schools is proposing to remedy.
Courtesy to Dance Chaperones
Some persons say a dance can not be held without
chaperons. Others say a dance is a failure if you do
have chaperons. Officially the first conclusion is right.
The second one depends on the individual, or perhaps
two individuals. Recognizing the fact that chaperons
are a requisite of each social function, it is expected
of students to pay some respect to those who make pos
sible these affairs.
Sitting in an out-of-the-way place three hours is
no pleasure to these persons. Playing bridge all eve
ning becomes irksome. Occasional chats with dancers
at least would adl variety to the evening. Seldom do
students make it a rule to greet the chaperons. They
apparently are not aware of the governing body's pres
ence. Frequent visits and dance trades snould become
the rule, not the exception.
Making chaperons enjoy the evening contributes
to the success of any dance. It eliminates the last-
minute worry of telephone calls to assure the dance
Indiana Daily Student
The College Bred Cop
Something seems to have happened to the college
bred cop. According to a laconic dispatch from Evans-
ton, 111., where he was on trial, he has been fired for
incompetence. Thus an interesting experiment in col
lege vocational training is subjected to the handicap of
an alumni failure at its very inception.
Just what were the shortcomings of Evanston's
young chief of police one is left to surmise. The dis
patch doesn't tell anything except that he failed to
make good. It would be interesting to know whether
it was the young man who failed or his method.,' So
far as practical results are concerned, of course, the
two are inseparable. Still it is possible that the scienti
fic method in the hands of a more skillful director
might have worked out, or the young man with a prac
tical instead of a theoretical training might have de
livered the goods.
At any rate Evanston apparently will have to go
back to a chief who knows nothing about police prob
lems except what he has gained through directing traf
fic, pinching drunks, catching thieves and locating
cleverly concealed stills.
World-Herald
A Dead SuMicr, or a Healthy Husband
'Way back at the beginning of time, so far as the
university is concerned, an Iowa State Legislature
provided for higher education at public expense with
the proviso that military training and home economics
would ever be a part of the curriculum.
True to the visions of its forefathers, the univer
sity continues to offer military training not only of
fers it. but insists that the freshmen and sophomores
accept it. it is a tribute to the men that they take the
uncomfortable dress and long walks without a murmur.
They see it, apparently, to be their duty.
Home economics, also, is offered by the university.
It is optional, however, with the result that the aver
age co-ed takes the time for make-up and dancing prac
tice rather than for instruction in home-making. She
finds it to be more, practical in procuring a husband
she thinks she does, that is, because she gets more dates.
The truth of the matter is that college men still
dust off the same measuring sticks grar.dfsthcr used
when it comes to selecting a wife. While they may date
the make-up and the active feet, when it comes to tak
ing a mate they do not select a dancing partner.
The standards set up long ago still exist; good" look
ing, good natured, and a good cook. In these days of
the can-opener the accent has come to be placed on
the "cook", especially a week or so after the knot has
been tied. Men of Iowa do not object to military train
ing; most of them had rather become a healthy well
nourished husband than any kind of soldier, living or
dead.
Daily Iowan
It is a condition which has risen up so slowly, and
has been so much the product of exaggerated and, may
we say, misijiterpretejl and misled school loyalty, that
a great many people are not fully alive A.6 it.
In fact thr nua sriwri belief in SC2! tjtisrtsrs
that everything can be criticised and talked about
except the sacred boll of. college athletics.
Why this should be the one most touchy question
on the campuses of scor es of universities, it is dif
f ficult to explain. Probst y it oas become so because
its defenders have been i ut), aler in rushing to arms
whenever a word of criticism has been uttered.
And yet, there are few people who wilj refuse to
admit that there have been, and that there are gross
abuses to the college athletic system. At a neighboring j
wmern. college, tor instance, it is common knowledge
that the football team for several yean has been noth
ing but r hired group of athletes incidentally attending
college. Another university jucfc recently has embarked
on a campaign of "getting the men". All university
trams tti-fi not composed that way entirely, biit too big
X!Tv:t? "t of then ore,
Tve Pally Nebraskan does not condemn college
i". ..' s .is such. Nay The Nebraskan is heartily in
f vf r t,t more e?d mere thirties for more and more
Exchange Studentships
The idea of "exchange studentshipg," conducted
on the principle of "exchange professorships," has
been advocated somewhat, as a means of broadening
the vision of the usual provincial college student The
plan in practice would consist of having certain stu
dents transfer their campus affiliation for two or three
months of the year for the purpose of absorbing the
outlook and organization beyond the borders of their
own particular little field.
The cosmopolitan education which would rpm1t
might belikened to that broadening influence which is
supposed to result from traveling. It is questionable
as io wnetner such a system could be worked out ef
fectively in any great number of cases, without consid
erable detriment to the -student's progress in an organ
ized university course. Any exchange period of less
than a year would necessitate an abrupt re-adjustment
naraiy comparable to the situation in an exchange of
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meinoas reauy-maae to the new environment, is on the
receiving end of the experiment and must conform to
the new situation. '
The advantages of such diverse points of view,
and such broadening contacts, are well worked out in
graduate schools, where students are allowed to pur
sue ineir particular study under he best instruction
available.
Unfortunately the present connotation with the
campus "wanderer" is not such as would encourage
the average student to change schools frequently. The
difficulties of transferring credits and meeting gradua
tion requirements, added to the scholastic illfame which
may "attach to constant transfers, rather deters such
experiments.
It seems doubtful whether sr.y organized attempt
to foster exchange studentships will be successful with
out some special provisions for caring for such technical
difficulties and for faculty recommendation ef stndent.a
suited for the experiment. For the thoughtful student
who desires to broaden his own educational vision, the
plan offers n idea for voluntary and individual ap
plication. The Daily DHnl
TUESDAY, MARCH 22
Tassels
Meeting; Tuesday at 7 o'clock at Ellen
Smith Hall. ,
Alpha Kappa Psl
Meeting Tuenda March 22 at the Com
mercial Club Room at 7 p. m.
Theta Si (ma Phi
-Theta Sitrma Phi will meet in S3 218 at
6 o'clock, Tuesday, March 22.
Taasels
Rehearsal Tueeday at soven o'clock at the
Temple building; in room 204. Bring- paper
and pencil. -
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23
Tassel i
Rehearsal Wednesday from 5 to 6 at the
lempie Dulldinir room 204.
THURSDAY, MARCH 24
Taaaal
Rehearsal Thursday from 5 to 6 at the
lempie buildir.it room 204.
FRIDAY, MARCH 25
" Union
Union will hold its Annus! Girl's meet
ing, Friday, March 26, at 8:30, at which
time the Union girls will be hostesses to
the Union ' boys and to guests. Everyone
is cordially invited.
MONDAY, MARCH 28
Mechanical Engineers
Meet in Monday, March 28.
GILLIAN SPEAKS
AT CONVOCATION
(Continued from Page One.)
chagrin. But the harm that he had
done1 could not be killed.
'He threw China into chaos and
into the hands of these various
armies. There is no- one who knows
how absurd it is to call China a re
public than China herself and this
is why they are disturbed and this is
what they are fighting about. So
China is still waiting for her Wash
ington."
"China has a remarkable school
system but all the money has been
stolen and so this school system is
not working now. There is a re
markable railway system but this too
is not working because the bandits
have taken all the money from them.
But there is just one brilliant ex
ception to these military leaders. In
the papers you hear about the "so
called" christian leader. There is
no reason for the term "so-called"
because he will allow no looting or
thieving in his groups of soldiers
which is unusual for a Chinese gen
eral to do.
Sun Yat Sen Movements
"Sun Yat Sen felt that China
should become a republic and
brought about a revolution in 1905,
but he was betrayed by his friends
who went into the revolution hoping
to get something for themselves.
Then the people of China stretched
out their hands to America and
Great Britian, but what could we do
for such a small number of a revolu
tionary partv. Whatever America
would do would be on the wrong side
because she has grown to be such a
big and important nation."
Some sort of birth control meas
ures are also needed in China but
they will not listen U this Wau&e
they would say that you are trying
to (decrease their population that
much quicker and that America
might come over there twenty-five
or fifty years quicker.
The Chinese custom service is a
wonderful thing because it is con
trolled by foreigners. The postal ser
vice is also remarkable for this name
reason, and it would be very unfor
tunate for China to disrupt this ser
vice. China is. bound by the great
family system and so would do any
thing for the family. But with a
foreigner ar "boss," the family can
not interfere with business.
Sun Yat Sen in his third great
book says that the great need of
China today is for n large amount of
foreign capital and foreigners to take
care of this. Most of the students of
China oly read the first book and
then stop but the third book is a
very important one and should have
as important a place as any of the
others.
"I believe that Sun Yat Sen and
this southern government will do a
great' good and creat? a new day for
China."
Professor Taylor, an old friend of
Rev, Oilman, introduced the speak
er of the morning.
Just before the address Professor
Taylor announced that next Sunday
at the Temple there would be a dis
cussion group on "China". This has
grown out of the Pan-Pacific con
ference held here recently.
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PLAYERS CLOSE 1927
SEASONTHIS WEEK
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plots ever written, and centers
around the narrow Jew, Shylock, who
demands that Antonio forfeit a pound
of flesh in payment of a bond he is
unable to meet The cruelty and hate
of Shylock, the brilliance of Portia
in defending Antonio in the great
court scene, is probably the most
famous single episode in dramatic
literature.
The remaining cast follows:
Duke of Venice Ernie Lundgren
Prince of Morocco Cecil Schmitt
Salanio . Thad Cone
Salario Werner Mall
Gratiano Jack Rank
Lorenzo Paul Pence
TubfJ Carol Dubry
Launcelot Gobbo Paul Miller
Old Cobbo Elwood Eamay
Leonardo .-...Alfred Poska
Balthasar Howard Cottle
Stephano.....:... Ruth Barton
Nerissa .....Helen Aach
Jessica Eloise McAhan
Matinees will be given Friday and
Saturday at 2:30 as usual, and tick
ets may be purchased at the Ross
P. Curtice store. This will be the last
chance to see the Players this season,
and "The Merchant of Venice"'- is
well worth attending, not only from
the point of the play itself, but also
to have the opportunity to contrast
this last and greatest of performan
ces with the preceding ones, in stage
arrangements and lighting.
One Nebraska Co-Ed is Learning
How to Repair Farm Machinerv
When any repairs are needed on
automobile motors or on other mot
ors on her farm home near Cozad,
Nebr., Miss Isabel Lawless, junior in
Teachers College of the University of
Nebraska, is going to know how to
make them. She is the only woman
registered for the course in farm
motors at the College of Agriculture
this semester.
Mis3 Lawless goes into the labora
tory determined to get all possible
information out of her work. Putting
on a pair of coveralls she experiments
with the motors side by side with the
men i.i the class. Because the man
with whoin she was working in the
laboratory ist week wanted to. do
all the work for her she asked the
instructor that some one else be al
lowed to work with her on the ex
periment. Her request was granted.
She is not afraid of oil or grease on
the motors and takes them apart and
puts them together skillfully.
Besides the course in motors Miss
Lawless is taking a course in wood
work at the College of Agriculture.
With sixteen other young women she
makes useful pieces of furniture for
the home. Cedar chests, kitchen uten
sils, sewing cabinets, end tables, and
pedestals are among the articles they
are making in the laboratory.
According to A. A. Baer, wood
work instructor, .the young women
are just as proficient in mechanical
work as men if they are given the
same opportunities. 5
"We are not trying to make mech
anics, of the young women," Mr.
Baer said, "but rather to make them
efficient in the homes they will have
in the future. To be able to use a
hammer, saw, or chisel effertiw.i
one thing that a housekeeper IS"
be able to do. We want
pend on themselves." as
In a course in household phyBic,
the young women are taueht
of household appliances,
which are the electric washing J,
chine, mangle, refrigerator, L
number, of kinds of lighting gJz. 8
Here again . emphasis is pVced?
makinc the, i.. . ea n
uomA
one to handle the machines.
and also to n,l v, "pers
the non thefarmisnotthL!
Waukesha, Wis., March 21
When -dynamite caps to be used""i
clearing a golf course exploded, Mil
Loden, seventeen, captain of tfc
Menominee Falls basketball team W
his right hand. lost
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Talks of eating at the
Buckwheat Cakes
A native of Pennsylvania,
who for many years has lived in
Nebraska, eats breakfast (and
most of his other meals, too) at
the Central Cafe.
Notwithstanding hiB mafiy
years in Nebraska, he has not
forgotten the delicious flavor
of Buckwheat Cakes, properly
baked and with plenty of Mead
ow Gold Butter and swimming
in a sea of yrup.
So regular is this man in his
breakfasting, that upon seeing
him seated at the first counter,
the waiter in charge gives an
order to the chef: "Buckwheat
Cakes must be well."' This
translated into the language of
laymen, means that the cakes
must be baked to a beautiful
brown and must not be too
thick.
The starch of buckwheat
flour is firmer than that of
wheat and requires a longer
time for the action of yeast to
make a batter from which pala
table Buckwheat Cakes can be
baked. And the Central Cafe
chef, knowing this, stirs up his
batter long enough in advance
of breakfast so that the cakes
baked from it are fully the
equal of those baked by Pennsy
vania housewives.
No need to look
your age
Those famous aids to facial youth, prepared
and used by Dorothy Gray, New York's most
famous beauty expert, are now at our Toilet
Goods Department. Also directions for home
treatment. Ways to end a double chin, to
round out sharp contours on face, to erase
lines around eyes and mouth. You can look
years younger. Call for free Dorothy Gray
Book of Home Treatments.
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pin. Purses books or money
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recovery is by advertising
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convenience. So make use of it.
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