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2 THE DAILY NEBRASKAN The Daily Nebraskan 8tatioo A. Lincoln, Nebraska OFFICIAL PUBLICATION UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA Under direction of the Student Publication Board . TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR Published Tueaday, Wednesday, Thursday. Friday, and Sunday mornings during tba academio year. Editorial Office University Hall 4. Buaineaa Office U Hall. Room No. 4. ,A Office Houre Editorial Staff. 1 S :00 to :00 except Friday and Sunday. Buaineaa SUIT; afternoona except Friday ano T.lcphonel'dUorial and Buaineaa: B8891. No. 142. Night B688I Entered a. second-class matter at the PtoBie. In Line1"; Nebraska, under act of Congrese. March 8. 1879. and at special rate of provided fo? in .ection UOS. act of October . MIT. authorised January 20, 1822. II a year. SUBSCRIPTION RATE Single Copy a eenU 81.26 a aemeater WILLIAM CEJNAR Lee Vance Arthur Sweet Horace W. Gomon Rath Palmer Isabel CHallaran Ueraid Orithn James Roase "news EDITORS Dwlght McCormack CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Evert Hunt EDITOR-IN-CHIEF . t lU.ln , jnanaama Ant. Managing Editor Aaat. Managing Editor Oecar Norling Lincoln Frost, Jr. Dwight McCormack KODeri ijmc ASSISTANT NEWS EDITORS Gr.ffjB Florence Swih.rt FreemBn T, SIKTSON MORTON Richard F. Vette Milton MeGrew William Kearna BUSINESS MANAGER Asat. Buaineaa Manager Circulation Manager Circulation Manager FRIDAY. MAY 6. 1927. THE BIG FIGHT More excitement than ever last night. The airship was Anally wrecked almost to shreds. The engineer, en gaged in a thrilling hunt for lawyers, stampeded through the homes of the two legal fraternities, got a couple of lawyers and ducked them in the pharmacy pond. After the excitement was all over, the firemen came out in two trucks, and squirted water all over the neighborhood with particular wet aim against a crowd of sorority girls. Several hundred spectators enjoyed watching the shower of bad eggs at the start of the fight, and had even more fun dodging the fire men's hoze barrage, and laughing at those who got wet. The papers this morning, of course, will be filled with man naraeraphs describing the raiding of the " n,U.'y.rl I n. house, the calling out of police reserves vi w...u coln has none), the heroic action of the firemen (who poured water on the spectators half an hour after the engineers and lawyers had declared an armistice) and generally about the 'jig mob scene which was mostly people in automobiles and on porches of neighboring houses. . Exaggerated as these accounts may all be, ana apologetic as we may try to be for exhuberant spirits of college boys in the midst of tense collegiate rivalry, the feeling is inescapable that raiding of homes and wrecking of doors and furniture is carrying things a trifle too far. Of course the airship was wrecked too, and the laws didn't have any convenient exhibit of their , own for the engineers to pounce on, and besides the damages to the houses were only incidental to "getting the laws," but the whole idea of a near-mob scene at night with all the harranguing and rowdyism incidental to it, is somewhat out of gear with collegiate dignity, what little of it there is among students at play. The entire scene from the initial harranguing of the engineers over the body of their ruined dirigible to the dragging out of laws from the P. A. D. house on Sixteenth street was too vividly similar to a real mob scene we viewed many years ago in Omaha when a negro was lynched and a million dollars of damage was done the court house, to be at all complimentary to college students. We're not condemning the students concerned ( harshly. They are hardly responsible individually be cause all of them, laws as well as engineers, became temporary victims of mob spirit. Neither are we going to apologise for them to any great extent. But there is one lesson which all should learn from the experience. And that is that the mob spirit is a dangerous spirit to kindle. The truth of the statement that even a crowd of ministers and priests could be stirred to riotous mob excesses was quite well demon strated. College student, coming from better families f th atate. and under the refining influences of col lege life, it seems are no less exempt from this herd instinct once it is stirred into action. Fortunately nothing serious resulted. A couple of lawyers were ducked. The damage to the house will soon be repaired at the expense of a few dollars each to the students. And the feud between the two student bodies will continue, as ever, possibly a bit more bitter, assuredly not sweetened a bit. THE ATHLETIC BOARD In the last few days two letters have appeared in the Campus Pulse concerning student representation on the Athletic Board. Surprisingly enough they have failed to stir, up the least amount of student interest Perhaps campus attention has been focused on the engineer-law feud. Perhaps there is a real lack of interest among the students. The letters in the main have pointed out the pre sent absence of student representation on the Athletic Board, the desirability of such representation, and the precedent for such representation at other universities. Athletics, at least college athletics, it does .seem are of paramount interest to the students, rather than outsiders, and most assuredly are 100 percent for their benefit. The alumni, the downtown crowd, and others who pay to see the games have an interest to be sure, but it is subordinated to that of the student who furnish the players and above all the collegiate atmos phere and the "spirit". - It j.eem strange that students, at least those par ticularly interested in the sports, the athletes, should not have some voice in the board of directors which controls the destinies of all their sports. The explanation of course is that the board is re quired to pass on so many important matters, bonds, salaries, and so on, that students would only be a nuisance. A precedent for such exclusion of students is furnished in the management of faculty and aca demic affair where students are never represented. There is a point to the argument that students are not cr.Iy superfluous on such a governing board, but in capable of serving on it. And yet the two fields, the academic and the ath letic, are so different in their nature that the same rea son for exclusion of students in government of aca demic matters does not hold in the case of athletic .matters. In the first place, academic matters are the main and primary concern of all students That is the real serious business of all of them, or at leat is supposed to be. Ar such it u essential that iU control' be in the hands of experienced men, and besides it would be a queer situation in which pupil would help master de cide on matters of polioy and so on, without even a mastery of the elements concerned. ; But athletics is a different matter. Athletics is not the priffic Interest of atudeiits. It is a necondary matter, a spare-time hobby, something to pass the time away.-It I- J tuJtiit euoii, and an amateur affair at that if we f r;;et for the moment the presence of the pro-fv-rsiunal coaches and trainers. AlMcucs originally was under control of the atn. ' - nu themselves. Only as the games played besran to Ui6ci iurtre crowds and as the financial stakes involved bT:ai, to re-iuin olu'er heads, did alumni and faculty control step in. And it wasn't until the big stadium building era that students completely lost representa tion. . ' The presence of complexflnancial problems is the only real reason advanced for exclusion of students on the board. If no other more worthwhile reason can be xound, it is h sad admission that athletics Ii.8 become pretty much commercialized. Studens don't ask a controlling voice in the man agement of their own sparetime games, but a few of them would appreciate at least an opportunity of voicing student sentiment so that there may be more evidence of response to the needs and desires of the students for whose benefit the whole show is staged. THE ARTS COLLEGE The arts college how many times that college nas been mentioned of late in speeches, articles and even in newspaper columns. Its doom, its golden age, its present ailments, all have been discussed. i Yes, here is something wrong with the arts col lege. There wouldn't be so much smoke, so much bar rage, so much talk if there wasn't. We don't know what is the matter with the dear old school of higher learning. We'll let the deans and the professors diagnose the case in time. They re all at sea about it just now themselves. But merely as the suggestion of one who has gone through its mill, we'd say that the biggest trouble is its size. It's gotten to be so big that the job of directing it and coordinating its departments and above all, ad vising its students, is too big for one man. We've still gotten the original organization which functioned well back in the days of 2 hundred students or less, and we expect it to function equally well for a student body of 2 thousand or more. The job of dean is too big for one man. Our present dean has realized this and has conveniently delegated the student end of it, registration and all other red tape, to someone else, reserving for himself the more learned leadership of the faculties. This is only a makeshift arrangement at its best though. The dean's prime concern, it seems, should be the students for whose benefit the whole works is maintained. If the present organization is not con ducive to that end, it is time to cast about for antoher. Some colleges, for instance, have a system of "dean lets", others are experimenting with colleges within colleges. Whatever it is, something ought some day to be done for a re-coordination of the work of the arts college, with especial provision for infusion of more faculty interest and zeal in the progress of the indi vidual student. The Campus Pulse Letters from readers are eWlally welcomed apffl ha nrinl4 In all U1M euDJOCt adlT ID u c ping out all libeloua matter, la rhla department, tmi practice ar and- attacka against Individuals and reUgiean. IN PASSING Among the rr.ary new churches being built in Lincoln this year is one which is to be so large when completed that the congregation at present is able financially to build only a half of it. The complete plans call for an orthodox auditorium of worship, the Sunday school rooms, the kitchen, a gymnasium, and all the other extras that modern churches have. Curiously enough that part of the new building which is first to be built is not the main auditorium of worship, but the gymnasium, the committee rooms, and the other acces sories. The auditorium will have to wait, while services are held in the gymnasium. A few generations ago such procedure would have been unthinkable. The auditor ium would have been the first up without question, and the other features might have been built only after some spirited discussions. This observation is presented not out of any feeling of criticism. There is nothing to criticise. But there is food there for thought on the changing ways of the world and the churches as part of it FINAL EXAMS In Campus Pulse is a letter urging "down with the finals" for graduating seniors. We'd like to sympa thize with them but can't get roused much over the proposition. Elimination of finals would probably make the rest of the semester a big loaf in the majority of courses. Instead of eliminating semester finals for seniors or anybody else, it wouldn't be a bad idea to follow the lead of the college of medicine at Omaha, and have a grand session of final exams over the whole four years of college work Such a plan might be possible in several of the other professional colleges and schools, but it would hardly work in the college of arts and sciences where an anarchy of confusion exists in regard to choice of subjects, and where a thousand and one sets of four year final examination questions would have to be de vised. But it's not a bad idea in theory at that In Other Columns Mr. Morrill' Gift Mr. Charles H. Morrill of Stromsburg, one of Ne braska's most public-spirited citizens, has again made a gift to the University of Nebraska. His check for $6,000 which reached the office of the chancellor of the university Wednesday brings the total of his gifts to the universty to more than $81,000. Of the $6,000, the greater portion of it, or $5,000, is to be used for equipping Morrill hall, which houses the University of Nebraska museum. The remaining $1,000 is to be applied on the student loan fund at the College of Agriculture of the state university. The start has been made toward a very remark able museum at the University of Nebraska. Morrill hall, named after the man who has shown so much friendliness and devotion to the cause of education in this state," is a building of imposing and impressive pro portions. It contains the room to house the really re markable collection which has been gathered under the direction of Dr. E. II. Barbour. Too few people in Ne. braska know the value of this collection. It contains specimens which many museums generously endowed with funds would pay a great deal to obtain. The fact is Nebraska has profited greatly because the fossil beds in the western part of the state, particularly at Agate, have given up more svidences of prehistoric life than any other section of the United States. Until Morrill hall was completed Nebraska was lacking in facilities to properly display these specimens. It requires a large expenditure to properly house and equip a museum. Mr. Morrill's latest gift will prove very welcome and will be put to a very excellent use. The Lincoln Star. Telegraph Save Girl From Failure Lessons brought to class by telegraph messenger is the latest way to keep up in one's University work. Students in Dr. Anne Phelan's short-story course for three weeks had been warned that by Wednesday, at 12:30 p. m., all brein-child products must be in her hands. Failure meant a start on the road to failure, she told students. Upon arriving at school Wednesday morning one rr?ember of the cla3a remembered, suddenly, that she had forgotten her 7naster production. Hurriedly she telephoned to a telegraph station, ordering them to ene a boy to her home for the missing manuBcript. Five minutes before the hour ended, a messenger burst into the class room with a fist full of paper and a signature blank. The girl, her face , wreathed in smiles, reached for the short story and sighed. .,' , Her honor had been saved. ' ' Minnesota Daily. To the Editor: "Totake them, or not to take them, that is the ques tion," which is now being prepond ered by seniors. And they refer to final examinations, which come in the short time of three weeks. As yet the question as to whether they will be required to undergo the stren uouo ordeal :s rather indefinite Many of the "sooi-to-be-graduated" are wondering, and hoping that the gocd news will be that they are ex cused. It seems reasonable that after seven sieges of finals tne seniors should be relieved of their final ex aminations. Grades are -sent -in to the Registrar after the third quarter and at that time those who will grad uate are definitely decided upon. Why then, should seniors have to take the final quizzes? Isnt it un necessary and a little bit unreason able to require them to do it The grades they receive in the final ex ams are not recorded; they either have or haven't their degree. But it appears that many instruc tors and professors are going oh with their plans that all members of their classes, despite their rank in college, shall take the final examinations. And seniors go on worrying and fret ting as to what the futrue will hold forth. It doesnt seem right that they should be compelled to take the finals as a matter of course. Let's all get together now, again, for that last yell: "Down with thei finals;" C. O. D. School of Chemical engineering T'raOice Individual and practical training at five Industrial plants are important features of the Graduate Course in Chemical En gineering Practice. Field work is carried out at Bangor, Mej Boston, Mass- Buffalo, N. V., and Bayonne, N. 1. 1 in plants producing sulphite and soda pulp, paper, caustic soda, chlorine heavy acids and salts, sugar, coke, gas, steel, petroleum and Other chemical products. The more I mportant oturnrifma of Chessiesl Eugiucciing as typified by the above processes, are studied systematically' by tests and experiments on actual plant apparatus, thus fixing ia the student's mind the principles of Chemical Engineering and correlating these principles with practice. The work is noc-remunerative and independent of plant control, the whole attention of the students being directed to study and experimentation. Registration is limited, as students study and experiment in small groups and receive individual instruction by resident members of the Institute's Faculty. Admission requires adequate preparation in chemistry and engineering. Able students can complete the requirements for the Master of Science degree in one and a half years. For further detaiit addrtti th SCHOOL CHEMICAL ENGINEERING PRACTICE Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. Calendar Friday, May 6 Pharmacy banquet, Cornhusker hotel. Zeta Tau Alpha spring party, Lincoln hotel. Farm House, house dance. Saturday, May 7 Alpha Tau Omega spring party, Lincoln hotel. Kappa Kappa Gamma banquet, Cornhusker hotel. Sigma Alpha Nu house dance. Alpha Chi Omega spring house dance. Phi Omega Pi house dance. Alpha Phi spring party, chapter house. Sigma Kappa spring party, Lin dell. Chi Omega house dance. Kappa Alpha Theta party, Corn husker hotel. Kappa Sigma house party. CLOSING OUT percent Discount $12,000.00 Stock of Musical Instruments & Accessories! 10 DAY SALE ENDING MAY 18TH. NEBRASKA INSTRUMENT COMPANY (In Crancers) 1210 O Talks of eating at the fftirtftml A Mothers' Day Dinner Year by year the list of com memorative days grows longer. Christmas, Nw Year, Easter and Fourth of July seemed am ple for the fathers and grand fathers of our immediate ances tors. But we add Washington's Birthday, Lincoln's Birthday, Memorial Day, Labor. Day, Ar bor Day, and a host of others which are not officially recog nized as "holidays", but are nevertheless observed generally. One of the vitally important of these later commemorative occasions is "Mothers' Day". Each of the days observed is to commemorate some event of supreme importance in th his tory of the world or of our country. Becoming a Mother, bearing the burdens and duties and worries of a Mother, consti tute an event of universal im portance and of the utmost sig nificance to the human race as a whole. Without Mothers, the human race soon ceases to exist. The Florists have a happy slogan for use on Mothers' Day: "Say It With Flowers". And the Telephone and Telegraph Com panies say in effect to tell Her by phone or wire. Perhaps the radio people will find a way to congratulate Her. The Central Cafe -v ill have a Dinner on Mothers' '.ny which in its way will su.. iient the flowers and candy and messages of love and give Her that sense of peace and contentment for which mankind is constantly striving. If your Mother is in Lincoln that day, bring Her to the Central for dinner: 11:30 to 3:00 or 5:00 to 8:00. But Mothers' Day is for all mothers old, middle-aged and young. Bring your Wife and Her Children (and your own Mother if possible) and you will iiever regret iU Comfort, clean , Iiness, and good cooking make the Central Cafo famous far be. ond the boundaries of Nebras ka a aaatUaiiM) 1325 P Men's Fancy-Hose A fw plain, checks and stripea and plaids. ?Jew deaiitna. 10 to 11 1-2. MAY SALE PRICE 40c pr. Men's Pyjamas Slipover and coat atylrat with collar. Sires. A. B, C. D. Styles and patterns different from any we have abown before. ME Good Looking SHIRTS $1.75 ' 3 for $5.00 MAY SALE PRICE $1.85 1 N i Men's if I Athletic JJ Union Suits - Broadcloth, II genuine soin- II ette, Brodie II effects. l checked dim- II itys and II fancy madras. II Full sizes. MAY SALE 3 for $2.00 Men's Handker- II chiefs "Seconds" I Direct import II of all linen II handker- II i chiefs. sppoJ tally priced 3 for First Floor I II NECKBAND, ATTACHED AND COLLAR TO MATCH STYLES" All new spring patterns, in cluster effects, stripes, plaids, checks etc. Broadcloths, percales, madras and jacquards. BUY YOUR SUMMER'S SUPPLIES DURING THIS SALE Men's Wear Section LINCOLN NEBRASKA uvino OFPietst - flatiia W YORK rio LONDON' If You Are Wise You9 11 attend the Speier Day Sale FRIDAY SATURDAY A stupendous value giving event especially for your benefit. Young men's and women's wearing apparel at extremely-low prices. MENS FURNISHINGS Dress Shirts, collar attached 1.38 Men's fancy silk hose 39c Plain and knit silk ties 59c Rayon and linen. fancy hdkfs. 5 for $1 Pure silk fancy hdkfs. 79c Hats, new styles and colors $3.69 Latest models in caps $2.49 Shoes, good looking, good wearing $3.95 MENS SUITS Hundreds of Speier's fine grade Spring Suits for young men will be included in this remarkable merchandising event Suits by Fashion Park, America's pre mier hand tailored clothing, and by Bradford and Clothcraft. 21 and $ 31 WOMEN'S SHOES J. Millar .Sheas, rxtaular S12.SO and SM.SO Popular Va,u I Spring and Suaoaaar. Rafuiar SS.60 and $10. $9.83 - $5.85 WOMEN'S HOSIERY Society Maid, C;t and J. Millar silk bos Wry in Black. White. Cm Metal and the new tlfbr. shades for spring. $1.29-3 for $3.75 ZZZ CUP. WINDOWS lt-4 CORNER 10TH O