THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
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FRIDAY. APRIL 29. 1927.
DOOM OF THE ARTS COLLEGE
The doom of arts and sciences colleges is forecast
by Dean Herman G. James of the Nebraska college of
arts and sciences if a report of his address before
the Oklahoma chapter of Thi Beta Kappa in the Okla
homa Daily is true. The account is reprinted in Other
Columns.
Junior colleges and specialization in the profes
sional colleges are the two main reasons given by Dean
James for this prediction of doom.
Now the words of educators of the rank of Dean
James always carry great weight with students, profes
sors and others interested in higher education, but we
can hardly escape a feeling in this case, with all due
respect fop Dean James, that the prediction of doom
for the arts college is quite unwarranted and somewhat
alarmist in nature.
Concerning the first reason, the rise of junior col
leges, nothing very definite can yet be said. The col
leges are still in the embryo stage and their long-time
effect on the senior college has not yet been observed
enough to warrant definite conclusions. The predic
tions at best are the results of a priori reasoning. In
this regard, then, we prefer to withhold judgment con
cerning the doom of the arts college.
But concerning Dean James statement that the
professional colleges are encroaching more and more
on the arts college, and restricting the amount of lib
eral arts work taken by their students, a great doubt
creeps into our mind.
Instead of the professional colleges eliminating
liberal arts work from their preparatory requirements,
there is a growing movement in the professional col
leges for more and more pre-professional arts and
science training. Colleges of law, for instance, follow
ing the lead of the great eastern law colleges, are more
and more requiring three years of pre-law, some four
years. Two years of pie-law is an almost universal re
quirement where formerly only one year or none was
requLed.
In college of dentistry circles, for instance, there
is a movement for revision of the curriculum to permit
of more arts and science work. Our own college of
pharmacy only recently announced more preparatory
requirements. Engineering colleges, though only a few
now have pre-engineering arts and sciences require
ments, are coming to realize more and more the broad
ening benefits of liberal education. The time may come
when even they will require two and three years of
liberal preparation.
The drift toward more and more liberal prepara
tory requirements for entrance to the professional col
leges is proceeding at a greater and greater rate from
year to year, as the country becomes filled up more
and more with professionally educated men and wom
en. The fields are becoming so crowded that the pro-1
feftsiona through their various associations and societies
out of sheer, self-protection as well as out of a desire'
to improve the quality of Iheir new recruits, are in
sisting on more and more liberal education in prepar
ation for their professional careers.
These formal moves toward more and more, arts
and sciences preparation are only the result of a more
fundamental movement the feeling of thousands of
graduates of the professional colleges that they missed
out on a great deal when they confined themselves to
narrcw professional courses, and their own desire that
those who follow in tbetr footsteps shall not make the
same mistakes. We have talked with many professional
graduates, engineers, lawyers, doctors, who express this
feeling.
If Dean James were only a little better acquainted
with the students of his own college and those in fellow
professional colleges he could not fail to see that there
are Just hundreds of earnest men and women who are
trying to make up for all the narrowing deficiences
of the professional colleges. He would probably know
about the engineering student, for instance, who under
the present curriculum is not permitted to take much
liberal work, but who inquires of professors and stu
dent pastors concerning the best books he should buy
for his student library for outside reading to supple
ment and counteract the narrow training in his college.
He would know about the many students who have
transferred at tome time or other from the profes
sional colleges of engineering, journalism, business ad
ministration so that they might enjoy the more liberal
education and the greater culture of the arts college
No, the colleges of the arts and sciences are hardly
doomed. As this country enters more and more an era
of prosperity and leisure, the age of the arts and
sciences will only barely be ushered in. Instead of
doom, we predict colleges of arts are heading at some
future time toward their golden age in American edu
cation. They may change. They may adapt themselves
to new and changed conditions, but at heart the arts
colleges will continue ever greater and ever more
glorious as time adds more and more to their already
great stores of truths and culture.
BATTLE OF AUTOS AT MICHIGAN
The president of the University of Michigan and
the Michigan Daily, student paper, arp having c
sprightly little controversy over student automobiles.
It seems that the university some time ago enacted reg
ulations governing use of student cars, that these reg
ulations are not being enforced, and that the president
is campaigning to have them enforced, and the Daily
is campaigning to have them abolished,
The heat of the argument was reached Sunday
when the president criticised the "pueriie" editorial of
the Daily, and Tuesday when the Daily replied in de
fense of the "puerile" editorial.
Following failure of the students to enforce the
regulations, the, president of the University, it seems,
was in favor of temporary prohibition of all student
automobiles. The Michigan Daily editors in conference
with the president succeeded in obtaining an armis
tice. The prohibition of automobiles will be withheld
for the time being, and students will be given one
more chance to show their fairness by the regulations.
So much for the sketchy outline of the fight. The
most important feature about it all was the fact that
the president of a great university was openly op
posed in matters of university policy concerning stu
dent life by the editors of the students, and that he
came out like a man in open combat, permitted the
student paper full freedom of expression, and let his
own theories and plans be tested out in the heat of
controversy and exchange of opinion.
Now this paper is all in favor of any regulations
of students that may be necessary for the best inter
ests of the students and university, but it doesalso be
lieve that these regulations are not holies of holies,
and that if they are sound in principle they will stand
the gaff of any amount of student criticism. The more
the better.
Notices
FRIDAY, APRIL 29
Ail Cseeh students and their friends are
cordially invited to an entertainment wnicn
win be given at the Temple. zu.
Catholic Student Club
The Catholic Students Club will have a
Hard Time Dartv at the Cathedral base
ment, Friday April 29. Dress accordingly
PalladUn I It.r.rv Society
Palladian informal initiation at W. T.
Page's 442 West fth St., College View.
SATURDAY, APRIL 30
Lutlmran Club
The Lutheran Club of the University will
hold a hike Saturday afternoon, April 80.
Members are asked to meet at 6:80 in
Temple Room 101. The destination is Bel
mont Park about two miles out on No.
14th St. All desiring further information
telephone Otto Gross, L-6267.
THURSDAY, MAY S
Pi Lambda Theta
Meeting is postponed until Thursday,
May 6, in T. C. 810 at 7 p. m.
THE DEADLINE
Sometime between 6 o'clock this morning and 6
o'clock this evening a condemned man at the state
penitentiary a few miles south of the campus will be
strapped to a chair, the current will be shot through
his body, and his earthly existence will come to an end
Hi? honra are numbered. His doom is certain. Yet
t.o kasi certain ia the ultimate doom of every one of
us remaining free creatures. We think we are free and
yet we are not. There is an hour of death for every
one ol us but we don't know that hour. The sentence
has r.ot been announced. And in our ignorance of that
lour rests the secret of our aspirations, our hopes, our
c, torts, and all our labors.
The future for every one of us is humanly limit
1:ks. There is no announced deadline beyond which we
1 row we can not live. We all live in the hope of un
t Uirty. And in that uncertainty our mind is freed
X 1 worry and morbid anxiety. We work, we play,
In Other Columns
Arts and Science Colleges And
Phi Beta Kappa Are Both Doomed
Both Institutions Are on Road to Extinction and
Oblivion, Doctor James Believes
"The American arts and sciences college is on the
road to extinction and oblivion, and like the dodo, the
institution of Phi Beta Kappa is similarly doomed,"
Dr. Herman G. James, dean of the college of arts and
sciences of the University of Nebraska, told members
and initiates at the annual banquet of Phi Beta Kappa
Monday evening in the First Baptist Church.
Doctor James was the principal speaker at the
banquet and initiation held for 27 University of Okla
homa students, two faculty members and two alumni.
"Faced by Enemies"
The American arts and sciences college is faced
by a number of enemies, including the modern pro
fessional school and the junior college, which in time
will put an end to both the liberal arts college and the
liberally educated student, Doctor James believes.
"The professional schools of law and medicine
have contributed the largest share to the initial de
cline of the arts college. They have decided that a lib
eral education in the original arts and sciences sense
cannot be made a prerequisite to entrance upon the
more technical professional curriculum. In doing this,
these schools have eliminated from the ranks of pros
pective bachelors of arts and presumptive candidates
for Phi Beta Kappa, two of the very groups which so
ciety cun least afford to have lacking in the essentials
of a liberal education," he stated.
The professional colleges have not only cut two
years off of the original liberal arts education required
for an entrance into such schools, but they have also
largely professionalized the two remaining years of
arts and sliences left to the student, Dortor James
asserted.
"The great majority of prospective lawyers, doc
tors and dentists are, under the present system, lost
to the possibilities of a liberal art.) education and
availably for Phi Beta Kappa.
Disdain Useless Subjects
"With their overemphasis on technical proficiency
and frank disdain for useless subjects and those who
pursue them, the engineering students, like the student
in law and medicine, contribute to the development of
the prevalent inferiority complex under which the
true arts college student is likely to labor.
"In the privately endowed insitution, the profes
sional schools have not entirely crowded the arts col
lege off the scene. But this is not true in the state uni
versities. The typical American university of the future
is certain to be the state university, just as the typical
secondary school of today is the public high school,"
Doctor James believes.
Disaater for College
"Aside from venturing the suggestion that tech
nical training built upon graduation from high school
is vocational rather than professional, and I simply
want to point out that the multiplication of these sep
arate colleges with their special degrees and their
claims to special fitness for directing post-high school
activities cannot but end disastrously for the arts
college."
The establishment of junior colleges, now going on
rapidly, can only mean the extinction of Phi Beta
Kappa, in the belief of Doctor James.
"I, for one, cannot believe that the world has less
need than heretofore of the educated man merely be
cause it is getting more and more highly trained tech
nicians. The ideal of the arts college is needed more,
not less, since the tremendous rush of students to our
universities has made the possession of a university
degree almost meaningless.
"By your conduct, your ideals, and your achieve
ments, you can make the world regret the loss of the
atmosphere and the institutions in which you were
developed, so that the college of arts and Phi Beta
Kappa may not disappear, if disappear they must, un
wept and unsung."
Oklahoma Dally.
A Deferred Problem
Referring to the year's leave of absence granted
Professor H. B. Alexander by the state university board
of regen.8 a university alumnus asks for light. He
writes :
"A Lincoln dispatch to your paper says that
Dr. Alexander had asked to bo made a dean as
tho pike of his remaining with the University.
I do not so understand it What was the source
of your information and what are the facts?"
The Lincoln dispatch was incorrect and mislead
ing. Dr. Alexander asked for no change in title or
salary. He did aak, in the words of his telegram to The
World-Harald correcting the erroneous news report,
university "reorganization in the interest of certain
faculty rights." The regents, being unwilling to con
sider the problem of reorganization until after the
election of a new chancellor, granted Dr. Alexander's
application for a year's leeve of absence. The granting
of this leave, it is understood, was satisfactory to Dr.
Alexander and his friends.
The W.rld Hwaid.
Social Calender
Friday, April 29.
Alpha Delta Pi, house dance." v
Delta Delta Delta, Sprii.g Party,
Rosewilde,
5LarmeT8Fair.
f " Palladian informal initiation.
Saturday, April 30.
Pi Beta Phi Banquet, Chapter
House.
Phi Sigma Kappa, House Dance.
Phi Kappa Psi, House Dance.
Alpha Chi Sigma, Spring Party,
Lincoln.
School of Fine Arts Carnival,
Morrill Hall.
"Highland Bill" To
Be On Exhibition
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rade. Some of these "cows have rec
ords for milk and butterfat produc
tion and are considered as among the
best dairy cattle in the state of Ne
braska. Several of the best Belgian and
Percheron horses of the College of
Agriculture are also to be on display
in the exhibit.
At 3:15 in the afternoon the live
stock will be paraded on the quad
rangle. The parade will end in front
of the Agricultural Engineering
building and will be held there for
speakers who will explain the size
and extent of the livestock depart
ments of the College of Agriculture.
The cattle exhibit will be housed
in a tent on the east side of the quad
rangle of the College of Agriculture
Lewis9
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For that classy fountain
service that fine foun
tain menu Try our fresh
limes and fruit sundaes.
And don't miss seeing our
Mother's Day box candy
display The finest in the
city, manufactured in our
own Lincoln plant.
Talks of eating at the
An A La Carte Dinner
Perhaps you do not care for
the vegetables included with the
three-division p l.a t e dinners
served at the Central Cafe and
would prefer to order every
thing a la carte.
That is probably the better
way for those who know exactly
what they want, "and want
what they want when they want
it."
Nevertheless, the plate din
ners, "ready to serve", are pre
pared under the Chef's direc
tions with care and contain us
ually very harmonious combina
tions. But we will assume that you
are a steady-eater.
.Let us order a T-Bone Steak
with Onions, French Fried or
Shoestring Potatoes, Cold Slaw,
Apple Tie a la mode (or with
cheese if you prefer) and Coffee
or Milk.
That
$1.40.
will "set you back"
(To be oewtiaued)
1323 P
and north of the Plant Industry
building. The cattle will be displayed
there for the most of the afternoon.
After being removed from the exhibit
tent they will be placed in their re
spective barns. The barns will be
kept open for inspection bo that any
body that does not get to see the cat
tle on the Fair grounds can see them
at the barns.
UNIVERSITY BAND TO
HEAD FAIR PARADE
(Continued from Page One.)
the Original Nebraskans, to the time
of the completion of our geat state
capitol, shown in the last float, Ne
braska's Triumph, will be reviewed.
1. Indian Scene.
2. Spanish Explorers.
3. Lewis and Clark.
n 4. Pony Express.
5. Prairie Schooner.
G. Soddy.
7. Grasshopper Invasion.
8. Building of the Railroad.
r 9. Nebraska's Admission to the
Union. '
10. Country Doctor.
11. The Great Commoner.
12. Ag College Float.
13. Goddess of Agriculture.
14. Nebraska's Triumph.
PLAY WILL OPEN
FINE ARTS WEEK
"They Blue Boy," "Dance of the
Nymphs," "The Glove with the Man,"
"Mona 'Liza," and "The Lone Wolf,"
will be among some of the pictures
that will be sacrificed to the art
connisseurs of Lincoln.
Henry Cox and Martin Bush, vio
linist and pianist, will take part in
the last program of "Fine Arts
Week." They will give the third of
a series of five Beethoven concerts
which are being given under the di
rection of Henry Cox. The program
will be as follows:
Sonata in D Major, Opus 12, Num
ber 1, for piano and violin; Allegro
con brio; Theme with Variations:
Rondo.
Sonata in A Major, Opus 12, Num
ber 2 for piano and violin; Allgero
vivade; Andante, piu tosta Allege
to; Allegro piacevole.
Sonata in A .Major, Opus 24 for
piano nd violin;; Allegro; Adagio
molto espressivo; ScherzoAllegro
molto; Rondo Allegro ma non trop.
po.
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house and the baby, while the mother
leaves the home to earn the money
to support the family.
Famous paintings and statues will
be auctioned off by Ray Ramsey.
The students of the art department
have been busily getting these arti
cles ready for the sale. "Baby
Stewart," "Aurora," "Spring Fever,"
"An Original Portrait of the Artist,"
Just Released
New Victor Orthophonic Records
POPULAR SONGS
Frank Crumit
My Lady, with piano t
Sunny Disposish, with piano
Jane Green
You "Went Away Too Far
I'm Gcnna Meet My Sweetie Now
DANCE RECORDS
What Makes My Baby Cry Fox Trot
It Takes a Good Woman Fox Trot
Record No. 20507 Five Harmonias
The Desert Sing Waltz
Huquette Waltz
Record No. 20512 Nat Shilkrets Orch.
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1120 'O' St.
Phone B-6725
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