THE DAILY NEBRA S KAN
The Daily Nebraskan
Static A. Lincoln. Nebraska .
OrriCTAL PUBLICATION
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
Cader direction of ta. Stnd.nt Pnhhcatioa Board
T W KNT Y-S1XTH YEAR
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Managing bailor
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A . - W Ait
Isabel O'Hallaran
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NEWS EDITORS
D wight McCornaek
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Florence Swihart
Erert Hunt
ASSISTANT NEWS EDITORS
Mary Louiae Freemaa
Oacar Norllnc
Lincoln Frost. Jr.
Dwight McCormmck
Robert Laach
Gerald Griffin
T. SIMPSON MORTON
Richard F. Vette
Milton McGrew
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BUSINESS MANAGER
Asst. Business Manager
Circulation Manager
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TUESDAY. MAY S. 1927.
THE HUMAN ELEMENT
Our neighbor across the muddy Missouri, Iowa
State College, is much wrought up these days over
a campaign to change the name of the college to uni
versity, and to raise the title and dignity of the five
main divisions of the college from the present prosaic
designation of division to the more exalted academic
title of college.
With the change in name will be consummated
the transformation of the original technical school into
a full-fledged university with all its characteristics
college of arts and sciences and all. And what is more,
will start all over again with renewed vigor he rivalry
with the original state university at Iowa City. Iowa
is blessed with two universities, and cursed with dupli
cation of departments and colleges, and an intense
rivalry for funds as well as students between these
two creatures of the state.
The early founders of our state foresaw all these
difficulties and fought all attempts to scatteT the edu
cational resources of the state among two or more
rival institutions of higher education. To their credit
is owed in great part the success of our one great
state university.
The original purpose underlying establishment of
liberal universities on the one hand and technological
institutions on the other seemed plausible enough. But
it reckoned without the eternal human elements of am
bition and expediency. Gradually, almost imperceptibly
th technological institutions added liberal courses.
Equally gradually and imperceptibly, the liberal uni
versities added technical courses. Today in most states
where the dual state university system is operative we
find with few exceptions two universities with the
same kind of colleges, departments and all, more bitter
rivals than any two competing private universities, be
cause they are both dependant on the same paymaster.
. Ambition and expediency we give as the two main
reasons for this change of the two originally distinct
institutions. Ambition, because the leaders of the sub
ordinated technical schools were never content with
their lower lot, and ever plotted and schemed to raise
the standards and dignity of their schools. Expediency,
because with the increase of students at both centers
and the demands of students for courses not offered,
new departments were added which had not originally
been contemplated when the separate schools with sep
arate functions were so nicely created by the state,
simply because it was easier to do that than to tell the
students to transfer to the other schools where the
courses were already offered.
The founders of our state were wise in refusing
to set up such a dual system of higher education. But
without being aware of it we have created a system
which has all the seeds of such a situation within it,
and which is Hearing the budding stage more danger
ously every year. It is none other than the system of
state normals or teachers colleges.
Starting originally many years ago as normal
schools for training of teachers for public schools, the
state teachers colleges have been expanding more and
more. Two or three years ago they were given the au
thority to grant the A. B. degree in education. At the
last legislature they requested authority to institute
two-year arts and science courses which of course would
in short time be expanded to the full four years with
another degree granting power added to the list Es
tablishment of other departments would follow in time,
and Nebraska would be blessed with several competing
state colleges and universities. Happily the state legis
lature decided for the time being at least to confine
the teachers colleges to their original purposes. The
time may come, though, when the colleges will be given
wider, powers and bigger faculties. Then a vigorous
campaign to give them more dignified names will fol
low and the transformation will be complete.
The absence of a lambkin or prospective lambkin
on the engineer's week committee probably accounts
for the lack of pile-driver tapping devices on the cam
pus lawn. A big airship filled with hot air is probably
quite as efficient
MORE PICKING OF CHANCELLORS
The Israelites wanted a king. So. finally they got
one. And when they gnt him they soon wished they
hadn't
That is the experience of many a college and uni
versity which has had silent and efficient administra
tors, but which Las become dissatisfied with such hum
ble heads, and has longed for the Headline attracting
performers at other institutions.
. Nebraska for many years has had a chancellor
Trho has preferred the path, of quiet laboi and results
to the more glamorous paths of platform and press
agented effort And we have always had people who
longed for a man who would come out and declare
himself on matters of the moment, who would get his
name in the headlines, and who would make stirring
Fpeechesi and thrilling promises.
We are at present in chancellor-picking season,
and we find the same sentiments voiced again, only
more boldly and loudly, and possibly more effectively
since there is a chance of satisfying them.
So while we are about it, let's not so into it blind
ly. Is it after all necessary for the efficient operation
of a university that the executive hea l declare himself
and take sides on matters which are uot particularly in
lire ot duty? It may be nice to have the president of
the school agree with our thoughts,' and it nay be
vqu-iuy ui.m to iicvq tiic president disrcc &nd to dis
pute With him when he does, but just what relation has
that witn the executive functions of the office? If we
nre buc h l;"y-livered beings that we have to get a chan-
''or to voice our opinions for us, or if we are such
rt-road creatures that we wanfc- entertainment
i y li e chancellor (as Michigan is doing with
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yidual overhauling of every one of us, students, faculty
and all.
The fact of the matter is that a talking chancel
lor or president of a college or university soon finds
himself in such a situation that he either has to stop
talking and start doing or he has to resign and niiit
There are a thousand and one different ways in - 'hich
every executive makes enemies and stirs up animosi
ties, without stirring up wholesale trouble by broad
sides of the moment from platform or in interview.
The real work of an executive is often times ren
dered impossible of achievement if he has aroused bad
feeling by ill-considered public declarations. We havs
in mind one middle-western executive wh) is making
himself the butt of student jokes as a result of bis pub
lic stand on a certain question. He has kindled the rpsrk
of student opposition, and the chances are that his in
fluence from now on will be undermined.
The real executive is the one who knows what he
is about Goes about it without any bluster and pub
licity. And after he has done it, sits back humbly and
modestly with never a whisper to claim credit If pos
sible he lets subordinates and others take all the credit
He stands in the back ground, the directing mind.
Notices
The editor has been told many times in the last
few weeks how foolish he is. However, he has lots of
company now that both the boys and girls are wearing
knickers..
- TUESDAY, MAY 3
iueta, &igma rw
Theta Sis-ma Phi will meet at the Alpha
O house Tuesday, -May S. at Jo clock.
Iron Sphinx
Important meeting- of Iron Sphinx thla
evening to be held at the Phi Kappa Pal
house at 7:16 o'clock. Plana (or initiation
to be discussed. . -
WEDNESDAY, MAY 4
XI Delta
XI Delta meeting Wednesday noon at
Ellen Smith Hall.
1 ai ft ) Hat
The Lutheran Bible League will meet for
reo-ular Bible study at 7 p. m. weanesaay
in Temple tot. "
THURSDAY, MAY 5
PI Lambda Theta
Meeting ta postponed until Thursday,
May 6, in T. C. 110 at 7 p. m.
Pot. kins- Rifle
Pershing: Rifle drill Thursday evening at
5 o'clock at regular place. Dress In lull uni
form.
SATURDAY, MAY 7
Kama Phi
Kappa Phi. Methodist Girl'a Sorority, will
entertain Mathers at a Mother's Day Tea
at Ellen Smith Hall Saturday afternoon.
May 7, 1:30 to 6
The Campus Pulse
Letters
ha prsated In all
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are eerdlally wslaas
subject eauy ts tJao
la this JiaaiUissat. and
a annual praeMaa of
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WORTH WATCHING
The University of Nebraska college of medicine
at Omaha has announced a change in curriculum lib
eralizing the last two years of the course. The changes
in effect make the last two years correspond to graduate
research work, with each student choosing the par
ticular fields in which he is most interested. Then to
synthesize the four years of medical work, and the
previous years of basic science work, a comprehensiva
examination on the entire college career is required for
graduation.
The advantages of the new system are quite evi
dent The advanced students will be given an oppor
tunity to display their initiative in fields of their choice.
They will be given more real opportunity of standing
on their own feet (as they will ultimately have to do
entirely when they open practice), studying, investi
gating and practicing without the ever prodding pres
ence of an instructor. And yet there is provision at the
same time for enough supervision to insure high grade
work.
The four-year examination at the end of the
college career will eliminate at one stroke an all too
common tendency among college students to get by the
course in hand. If a student realizes that he must stand
an examination on all his courses at the end of four
years, he is going to try to master thoroughly the prin
ciples of all of them rather than merely to learn enough
to get by for the time being. In addition there will be
the benefit of a four-year review prior to graduation.
The best of students may intend to review all their
work in this manner, but none of them ever does with
out a prodding incentive.
This innovation may well be watched by deans
and professors of colleges here in Lincoln for possible
profitable application to problems existing here.
The open season for high school graduates and
graduates-to-be is in full swing. In September the
"catch" will be bagged and shipped to Lincoln to con
tinue the paymenU on mortgage-burdened new houses.
Aside from blasted ambitions wouldn't it be tough
to have the 6-7 little lamb ration changed t 7-6. We'd
nave to call e m the "Slippery Six" and
instead of the "Slippery Seven" and the
"Oily Seven'
"Oily Six."
Back
in our childhood davs a ;
was long trousers. Nowadays the little kids wear long
trousers, and the big ones (at least the lizards around
a college campus) wear short pants.
Considering 11 o'clock as the deadline hour June 4
when the deans drone out the list of sheepskin award
there are just 32 more college days for '27 seniors.
The glider out at farmer's fair would have been
many times more popular if it had been equipped with
double-seaters instead of single seaters.
STEBBIHS WILL
PAY WARRANTS
(Continued from Pr.ge One )
treasury; However the shortage will
be increased again during the year.
Salary Warrants Are Issued
None of the members of the legis
lature are to be paid under the sec
ond call. The state senators and rep
resentatives received cash in full for
the warrants issued them, except
those which were given them during
January before the Woodmen of the
World announced that it would take
them at par. The W. O. W. and
other purchasers at par will have to
wait until their turn comes and be
content with four percent interest
Salary warrants for April have
t been issued to state employees
who will have to discount them 1
percent at the bank, as the W. O. W.
withdrew their offer a few days ago
and are no longer accepting them at
face value.
RALLY DINNER HELD
BY BIZAD STUDENTS
(Continued from Page One,)
The evening attractions will be
held at the Lindell Party House
starting at 8 o'clock with five acts
of vaudeville. Both the men and
women's Commercial Clubs will pre
sent acts and a skit is being prepared
by the Delta Sigs and Alpha Eappa
Psis. This will be followed by two
professional acts. The dance will
open at 9:15 o'clock.
Intercollegiate football is consid
ered more brutal than bull fights in
Spain.
In Other Columns
An Athletic Worm Tarns
Pedantic professors and disgruntled students are
not alone in their denunciations of th pr-sent system
of gigantic, semi-professional athletics which is choking
American institutions o fhigher learning. Jefferson D.
Burrus, Jr., captain of the University of Wisconsin
crew, for three years a star end on the Badger football
team, vice president of the Wisconsin Union, and re
cently elected Rhodes scholar from Wisconsin, in a
thirty-page pamphlet issued through the Union board,
points out the defects of the present intercollegiate
system.
In brief, Burrus maintains that athletics are too
intense for a few, that the majority of students have
no opportunity for athletic competition, that varsity
athletes are too much in the limelight that cut-throat
competition is forced on coaches, and that students
and faculty have too little control of athletics.
Universities must eliminate the "win or die" spirit;
they must declare their independence from the public.
If the public must have its football, it must maintain
its professional teams. Universities are growing sick
of playing the part of entertainers to the sport-lovers
of the country.
-Colorado Silver and Gold,
rassins;. Whims
At the Ohio State university, it is estimated by
the Ohio State Lantern that at least one out of six
coeds at" the university is there "to get a man as well as
an education." The survey was based on the number
of girls wearing fraternity p-ns.
It is no doubt so, that in some cases coeds attend
college solely to find a "catch," but because such a con
dition exists should the conclusion be drawn from ths
number of (raterniy pins worn by coeds?
At one time it was believed that because a coed
wore a fraternity pin she was necessarily engaged to
the man; but that opinion lost its weight and today is
no longer given any consideration.
That a girl should want to wear her boy friend's
fraternity pin really means very little to be interpreted
seriously.
Girls like to collect things. Such things as frat
ernity pins are always "so cute" and come in the same
category as suck pins and Handkerchiefs, which are
"good keeping" for a month or two.
Outside of the girl's mania to collect souvenirs.
mere is proDaoiy no 'desire to wear a fratemitv nin
But all of this raises a question. Should fraternity
men De allowed to let their lady friend wear the or
ganization pin? We think not. If the practice is to con
tinue, first thing a fellow won't know whether he be
longs to a fraternity or a sorority.
The fraternity pin was made for the fraternity
man; it is he sign of his order, and not his raster's.
Let fraternities provide sister pins if the coeds insist
on wearing the Greek symbol of their college knight's
chapter. , '
KarQieUe Tribune.
A HANDY PLACE
to get your mag., candies,
toilet articles, stationery
and school supplies.
Walter Johnson's
Sugar Bowl
8-1319
1552 "O" St.
The Handy Place
To Buy
SUPPLIES
Graves Printing
Company
Three doors south of Uni.
Temple
Talks of eating at the
An A La Carte Dinner
Perhaps you do not care for
the vegetables included with the
three-division plate 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 Pie a la mode (or with
Ce jl you preier) and Coffee
or Milk.
That
$1.40.
will "set you baak"
(Ta ha eamfcina4)
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Thm Athlatlc Board"
Just recently a new member of the
Athletic Board of Control of our Uni
versity was appointed. Oije member
having resigned to tak a position erst
of the city, a downtown attorney was
selected to fill the vacancy. Al
though he is a former Nebraska stu
dent and athlete, little attention was
paid the announcement by the stu
dent body.
Why should there be any interest
displayed by the students in such an
orcaniiation that is of no importance
to it? Why couldn't the appointment
have been in the form of a student or
several students? It seems peculiar
that such an organisation which han
les all athletic matters and problems
of the university should not have a
student representative.
Every one of the eight members of
the Board is a member of the faculty
or a downtown business man! Not a
student is found on this executive
council. ' Matters which concern stu
dents, and students alone, in athlet
ics, are settled by faculty men and
alumni of the school. Not even the
captains of the athletic teams or ihe
president of the "N" club is included
in the organization.
At Minnesota there are three stu
dent members of the Athletic Coun
cil. At Wisconsin there is student
representation. At Kansas captains
of major sports teams are included in
the athletic advisory council. OtheT
schools, almost in whole, have stu
dent representation. How about Nebraska?
Direction of all intercollegiate
sports and intra-mural activities in
the university comes within the scope
of the Athletic Boards activities. All
athletic elections are carried on with
out the help of students; managers
are appointed by athletic officials;
financial affairs in regard to sports
are handled without the opinion of
student members.
Last fall the Athletic Board, or
officials in charge, forbade the Corn
cobs to put on stunts between halves
at football games. They limited the
activity of that pep unit to the sell
ing of programs. The stunts were
sadly missed. Their other activities
are minor. . They had nothing to say
in regard to the matter, and students
were not consulted abont the action.
A student on the Athletic Board
could have had something to say
about it, perhaps could have taken
charge of the arrangement of stunts
that would be satisfactory or would
not reflect the spirit of the university
as did the criticised stunt at the
Notre Dame game.
Athletics in the university are for
the students. They are the only
participants. Students are the inter
ested spectators at the games and
followers of the team. The faculty
has little or no interest in sports;
downtown business men have only
business interest in them. It seems
to some of us that there should be
some student representation on the
Athletic Board of Control, the offi
cial organisation and director of Ne
braska athletics. They should help
direct themselves, not be just direc
ted. J.
A 60-year-old student of Emory
University, who flunked an English
quiz, is suing the university for his
matriculation. If this case is legal,
our legislators had better come back
and prepare for a few more appropriations.
TEHNIS SQUAD
DEFEATS AMES
(Continued from Page One )
- Tennis fans will see a fast meet
next Friday afternoon when the
Husker team pairs with GrinneU
, -e,.,, Bcenna ranking i
nior player in the United States in"
1925, will play with the Grinne
team and will no doubt give tennis
enthusiasts plenty to talk about
According to the dope, Grinnell has
the Adtrn nn ftia ivj . . .
.uajr match but
Cnncb Raai(v V n -
a am 0l consistent
players that will give some real com.
I petition.
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afternoon date.
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STORE NEWS
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The Progress Sale to celebrate
Lincoln's building and expansion
program and to emphasize Lincoln
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