THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
The Daily Nebraskan
Station A, Lincoln, Nebraska
OFFICIAL PUBLICATION
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
Under direction of the Student Publication Board
TWENTY-SEVENTH YEAR
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WHY BOTHER ABOUT FACTS?
When an editorial writer glances at a bit of news
and then hastily writes his own opinion of the situa
tion 'without waiting to find out the correct facts of
the matter, a great injustice can be done to those con
cerned in the article. For, when printed on the edi
torial page, the biased bit of opinion assumes the
prestige of the paper and those readers who have con
fidence in that newspaper are apt to be influenced by
the article. A good example of this abuse recently ap
peared in -the Omaha World Herald. The editorial is
reprinted in "In Other Columns".
If the facts had been correct the editorial would
have been a good one. The writer has built for himself
a faulty situation and then criticized it in a worthy
manner. But does that situation exist?
For the benefit of the Lincoln State Journal and
the Omaha World Herald the following press notice,
which was issued shortly after the report that approxi
mately sixty per cent of the University of Wisconsin
students would be dropped this year on account of
scholastic failures, is stated: .
Newspaper reports dispatched throughout the coun
try recently to the effect that 1700 freshmen would be
dropped from the University of Wisconsin this semester,
were utterly without foundation, according; to Frank
Holt, university registrar. ..... .
"My sns-gestion was." said Mr. Holt, from whom the
wwn story ass supposed to originate, "that, based on
the records of last year. 17 members of the tnree
lower classes, freshmen, sophomores and juniors, who
were on the campus Oct. 1, 127, would not return for
work Oct. 1. l.-K." A .
Mr. Holt explained that many dropped for financial
reasons, some transferred to other colleges, many de
cided to enter activities more appealing than college
work, that there was a variety of reasons why many
would not return, but that many would leave because
they were poorly prepared for college work.
Anyone who would have thought over the state
ment that 1,700 out of 2,900 freshmen were to be
dropped for scholastic reasons would have seen how
out of proportion this percentage would be.
As to Nebraska's scholarship requirements, they
are a little higher than the average school in the Mis
souri Valley and rank favorably with the institutions
in the Big Ten and in the east. It certainly does not
lower the scholastic bars in order that more "business
prospects" may "flood the university's coffers".
"It is all a matter of policy," the World Herald
etates. "It is necessary to determine first what it is
that the university is expected to do and to accomplish
before much progress can be made in deciding what
materials and what methods are to be used." He then
concludes that Nebraska's definition of a university
would justify its being termed a business institution.
But what is Nebraska's policy? A glance back in
the records brings out this statement made at the time
when the University was founded:
"With wise forecast it aims to secure to all the
members of the- Commonwealth, who may avail them
selves of its generous provisions, an opportunity for
the liberal culture in literature, science and the arts,
and in such technical courses as shall from time to
time be established."
One of our foremost educators recently remarked,
"Nebraska strives to stimulate mental energy to en
able the student to live a better life."
This is a worthy answer to "Why is a University?"
With euth a policy is it "equally clear why Ne
braska university believes in raising its cash fees rather
than its standards of scholarship as a means of thinning
down the number of students"?
Much ado has been made' over the proposed raise
in fees. Some critics would make one believe that the
school is being limited to "the rich man's son". Such
phrases as "five hundred dollars a year cash into the
university's coffers" are largely responsible for this
erroneous idea.
The average tuition (taken from the College of
Arts and Sciences) has been $28 a semester. Under
the new rate the average fee will be boosted to $34.
Sirce the University of Wisconsin has been used for
comparison in scholastic requirements ranking, a study
of their fees showed the average to be f 42. A compar
ison with other schools proves that even with the in
creased raie, fees at Nebraska will be lower than the
average. The statement that an increase of $6 a sem
ester in fees will prevent many students from attending
the university sounds childish.
"Why, then, dif ve University raise the fees?",
individuals have asked. The answer is simple. The
University depends upon two sources for its funds,
the legislature appropriation and student tuition. When
the appropriation was sufficient for maintenance no
tuition was charged. When maintenance costs exceeded
the siajuuiit allowed Ly tlm legislature, it was necessary
to introduce the tuition charge.
Last year the University authorities asked the
legislature for $3,850,000 for maintenance". They were
allowed $3,500,000, the same amount that bad been
given the two previous years. But new buildings in
creased the maintenance cost and total expenditures
amour-ted to $4,010,271.04 while the toUl income
was $3,744,487.20. Such a condition could not con
tinue. Since the legislature appropriation was not in
creased it was necessary to turn to an increased tuition
for aid. So the amount was fixed so that ncn student
will pay approximately one-fifth of the cost of his in
struction. When the legislature seen fit to i nciease the Uni
versity expropriation the tuition will, in all probability,'
be reduced. Such an increase will be allowed only when
citiztcj of Nebraska find out what the University is
refelly aecoroplitLiug. This U difficult when one of the
leading newspapers of th tt chooses to limit its
iifwtigittioni to superficial comments on such reports
sd their way to tlie editorial desk.
WHERE MUD-SLINGING FAILED
Today is Washington's birthday. It is an appro
priate time in which to contemplate his influence, past
and present, on American life and ideals. George
Washington, the father of the country, hns not escaped
the attacks of molern cynics who. have spared no cus
tom in their denunciations. Certain writers have dis
sected the character of the man so as to disparage him
in the eyes of the world. Such has been a recent ten
dency in regard to Washington.
In our early history George Washington was a
name that meant noble tradition, exalted ideals, but
was lacking in any human quality. He was placed on
too high a pedestal for the American public to benefit
from by example. School children were taught about
him in such a manner as to awe them. It is no wonder
then that the country came to accept Washington as
an ideal, and to forget that he was a human being. An
inaccessible ideal does no one any good. So it was that
the people of the country have come to regard Wash
ington as a pedestaled god, and not as a sympathetic
and inspiring man who lived and fought and suffered
for his country.
Then came the radical tendency to strip Wash
ington of his noble qualities and achievements. Often
times these were disgusting and unworthy. The reaction
toward this mud-slinging took a stand between the
creating of an impossible ideal and the attempting to
destroy the people's faith with a series of 'exposes'.
Washington continues to serve his country. School
children should learn of him as a great and sympa
thetic character, so that when they grow" up, they will
have before them not an intangible ideal, but a real
inspiration to achievement and further glory to the
United States by the men who served those states so
welL
As to tb -taction of new chancellor we hv
roll.;r.( to'eay. "La1", wpecy from "tightly-
e" --i l:rs" ere too unreliable to be spread over the
' r"r;i V--- t, from our meager information, well
v-' to -:. y t..t tU&e critics that are waiting to de-
try f ' rr'',!,:l'?:i!:t t'I S 'hyfnj .x
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Notices
Wednesday, February 22
Gamma AlnhaWChi
Gamma Alpha Chi meeting Wednesday at
9 o clock tn Advertising; office.
Pharmacv Week Chairmen
A meeting of the chairmen of the various
sub-committees for Pharmacy Week will be
held Wednesday afternoon. February 22, in
room 102, Pharmacy hall. Distribution of
the work for the week among the entire
pharmacy student body will take place at
this time.
Phi Vau Theta
There will be an open meeting; of Phi
Tau Theta. Methodist men's religious frat
ernity on Wednesday evening Feb. 22, at
7 o'clock. All Methodist men are invited.
An interesting program is planned.
Student Council
Student Council meeting 6 o'clock Wed
nesday afternoon.
A. L E. E.
There will be an A. L E. E. meeting at
E. E. 204. at 7:30 p. m. Thursday.
In Other Columns
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WHY IS A UNIVERSITY?
"Of the 2,900 students of the University of
Wisconsin who entered this fall, 1,700 have been
dismissed for failure to make the grade. This uni
versity has hit upon keeping the enrollment within
reason without discriminating against the people
of moderate means. The student body is trimmed
down, not by raising the fees, but by eliminating
those who cannot maintain a certain scholastic
standard, whether due to laziness or to lack of
mental capacity." The Lincoln Stale Journal
This glimpse of the modus operandi of an institu
tion of learning conducted with state funds, as a part
of the public educational system, should be especially
interesting to the people of Nebraska for two rea
sons. The first is that the University of Nebraska has
only recently decided to Taise its cash fees still higher,
and the second reason is that the University of Ne
braska is still in process of selecting a chancellor to
take the place of Dr. Avery, who resigned two or three
years ago.
It is all a matter of policy. It is a matter of policy
which cannot be decided until one has first answered
satisfactorily what seems to be the simple, but is
really the rather baffling question why is a univer
sity? It is neccessary to determine first what it is that
the university is expected to do and to accomplish be
fore much progress can be made in deciding what ma
terials and what methods are to be used.
As fsr as the patient search for a new chancellor
for Nebraska's university, has until new whisptriagly
plodded along, whatever "leaks" there have been
through the tightly-closed doors behind which the board
of regents see fit to ponder such above-mundane mat
ters indicate that the criterion most popular for meas
uring up prospective new chancellors has been that of i
the breadth and length of ability as a big business
executive, with smill tnsideration fjjr scholarship :
or for inspirational leadership. I
If this is an indication of how the question of the
whyness of this university is to be answered, or a
straw to indicate which way the winds of opinion are
blowing, it might very fairly be assumed that the def
inition of a university in this part of the world is
pretty much the same as the definition of a sausage
factory or a drop forging foundry, and the reasons
for a university just "business reasons."
And on these premises, then, it is pefectly consis
tent and explainable why we reek a business executive
for a chancellor instead of a leader of intellects such
at President Glenn Frank of Wisconsin. After all one
would not expect the board of directors of the United
States Steel corporation to seriously consider an Aris
totle or Socrates to guide the- destinies of the steel
business.
It is also equally clear why Nebraska university
believes in raising its cash fees rather than its stand
ards of scholarship as a means of thinning down the
number of students. Naturally a business institution
has profits first in mind, and not foolish theories like
the right of every boy and girl, with the capacity and
industry, to have an equal chance to obtain a univer
sity education. Given a prospective student able to rav
five hundred dollars a year cash into the university's
coners, Dut without conspicuous ability or desire to
plow and till in the laborious fields of humanism and
learning, and another student with the burning desire
and thirst but with a flat pocketbook, the decision is
easy lor a business institution.
To bring democracy into the discussion would only
ve twaddle, everybody wjth a grain of tense knows
that business has little time for such metaphysical poli
tical theories. It is all right for politicians to expand
upon the democratic glories of "the little- red school-
house," where there shall be no distinctions of class
or creed or wealth or lineage, for politics is a harmless
game anyhow, like the snake oil trade. But in business
there is no tme for such foolishness.
There is still one flaw, however, one lingering
par i ine oia idea ol a university. The reeenU. W,k.
ing for a business executive to bead the university,
feel that they ought to get a chancellor for about eight
mousana a year. I he Standard Oil company would
laugh at that! Omaha World-Herald.
Student Snobs Are
Theme of Vespers
(Continued from Page 1)
bother to add that little bit of friend
liness or pleasantness which can
mean such worlds to lonesome girls,
or boys, who have come to the uni
versity from farms, or ranches, or
small towns, and are suddenly
plunged into the whirl-wind of
campus life and city customs among
a great many strange people."
"The basis of snobbishness is in
sincerity," she averred. "Every man
is worth just so much as the things
about which he busies himself."
Marcus Aurelius was quoted sa hav
ing said, "How much trouble he
avoids who does not look to see what
his neighbor does."
Different Kindt
"Are you snobbishness about pins,
about cars, about-dates, money,
clothes?" she asked. "If you are, or
ever catch yourself on the verge of
being snobbish about some one of
these thing, remember the diction
ary says that a snob is a vulgar per
son who apes gentility."
Ruth Davis, a member of the Y. W.
C. A. cabinet, discussed "Snobbish
ness as a Result of Group Organiza
tions." j
She described the intellectual;
snobs who go home from the univer- j
sity and look down on their friends
or relatives because they may say "I
seen," when they don't know any bet-1
ter, and yet when these same stu
dents are here on the campus they
deliberately cultivate their profici
ency in the use of slang.
Social Snob Is Worst
She mentioned and discussed the
snobs concerning physical appear
ance, the conventional and the un
conventional snobs, the racial Bnobs
and the financial snobs," but the
worst snob of alL and the one most
often criticized is the social snob,"
she declared.
"We may be unsMfish toward
some and still be snobs toward others,
if we do not have that element of
'selflessness' which characterizes the
genuinely unsnobbish person. As
Christ said, 'Even as ye have done it
unto the least of these my brethren.
ye have done it unto me'," she concluded.
Elizabeth Jonas led the meeting.
Ellen Smith's Life
Is Booklet Subject
(Continued from Pace 1 1
of that woman who serevd the University.
Booklet Contents
The booklet is comroEed of a
preparatory note, and several dis
courses on her life and reminiscences
of her. Some of the articles included
are: The "Life of Ellen Smith"
Eleanore Hinman, "Memorabilia of
Ellen Smith," by Amy Bruner Almy,
"The Third Sombrero," by J. W.
Searson, "Personal Reminiscences of
Miss Smith," by Georgina Case
&awyer, "Miss Smith as I Knew Her,"
by Maude Atkinson Thavpr. "A
Memories," by May B. Field, and
"Two Reminders," by May Whiting
v esiermann.
Several illustrations are included
in the publication. Some of
are: a portrait of Miss Smith, a pic
ture i miu Emita's Cottage, a fac
simile of Miss Smith's Uh'. ...
tificate, a specimen of Miss Smith's
nandwnting, and a picture of old
University HalL
This booklet has been published by
Chi Delta ITSiL, and can be nroenr.A
from Nellie Jane Compton, at Station
A, Lincoln. The booklets sell at fiftv
nt in a paper cover and one dollar
luuy bound.
!Va nncrfo ViIa BT11 TllTI foils. Vilo
When asked how the - geologist
could give a reliable estimate of the
age of a fossil or the age of the earth
without making a dogmatic statement
Mr. Schramm replied," "We have
something to base our statement on.
We know how long it takes the earth
to erode. We have watched1 deposi
tions for centuries. This gives us a
rough estimate as to the aga of the
earth. When we find a fossil em
bedded in rock which we know to be
of a certain period, we are able to
make an approximate estimate as to
the time of the existence of that ani
mal." He admitted that climatic condi
tions might have been different in
earlier times, but declared that it was
still possible to give a rough estimate.
When a geologist estimates a fossil to
be 2,000,000 years old, he does not
pretend that he knows exactly its
age, but he is reasonably certain that
it is somewhere nearly that age. He
i knows, at least, that it is very old and
not the product of the last few hun
dred years, according to Professor
Schramm.
"The geologist is a mere amateur
in the use of time and distance as
compared with the astronomer," he
asserted, "We have traced the earli
est forms of life and find them fos
silized. We can trace life on through
and see the progress from one rock
formation to the other and in this
way get an idea of the evolution that
is in progress."
o'clock when the final count is taken.
It is definitely assured that there
will be no stuffing of the ballot box
as votes are at a premium of $3.00
each. Each ticket carries with it a
vote for the prom girl and they can
be had only through the purchase
of an "admit one." The votes will
be counted just before intermission
so that the Prom Girl can make her
entrance at that time.
Tickets can be secured from rep
resentatives or from Charles Bruce
at the Cornhusker office.
Y. M. C. A. Men
Are Nominated
(Continued from Page 1)
of what was formerly called the In
tercollegiate representative, which
office is now extinct. On the Rocky
Mountain field student council each
student association in the field is
represented by one member.
Ballots will be mailed to the "Y"
members this week, according to
General Secretary C. D. Hayes, and
in order that they might be counted
they must be returned to the Uni
versity Y. M. C. A. office not later
than five o'clock Thursday, March 1
The new officers will assume office
about a month later.
The nominating committee, which
had charge of the selection of candi
datej, is composed of Dr. 0. H. WeN
ner, chairman of the advisory board
Robert Davenpovt, Lee Rankin, and
Anton Frolik, who constitute the
senior members of the cabinet, and
C. D. Hayes, general secretary!
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Campus Topics Revolve
About Prom Girl
(Continued from Page 1)
preme, especially in the matter of
voting for a prom girL The girl's
choice for the honor will no doubt
bt the fellows' choice, at least by 10
"They laughed when I started to speak to the
waiMH- in rrencn.
- "How come?"
"The waiter wts Chinese." St. Bona Venture.
ABOUT BALD HEADS
Another pleasin? illusion U haiirA tt nf-
lona Periford of London is right in her belief about
vw neaas. iney are not a sign of brain power, bttji
ness ability, or anyf the other praiseworthy attribu
tions that people are wont to believe, she says.
Then aftrr Hi.ill
.....,s yuwi.c oj inee
statements, she strips hald heads oY their final vestage
yi vj aHsemng that they merely indicate poor
circulation! Her attitude is brutal.
For generations bald headed man bav consoVd
thenuelve with the belief that Heavyweight brains
and heavy suits of hair could not go together, and
.have secretly prided themselves on the outward ap
pearance of brain power.
For y?n thf rt ftf th vrM bs. jV tbv UXj.
headed men seiousJy Oklahoma Daily.
DIAMOND RING
Would Please Her
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1143 O St
ways Shop First at
SPEIER'S
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Hundreds of New
Spring Ties
$100
MAIN FLOOR
Thy'r hsre! Hundred! of
colored cut silks and silk and ayuol four-in-hand
tics. Wool lined. Etripro, noika
dots. firurcd . siiks in a wide ranr;
of fantastic and subdued colors,
that will pleasa the most parti
cular. Yon are urered to make
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SPEIER'S
Burnett Plans
Parking Change
(Continued from Page 1)
ed," be declared. "Space for two
more cars will not help any in solv
ing the parking problem, but there
is a possibility of great loss in the
event the cistern is hWtti."
Scientists Are Always
Open to Conviction
(Continued from Page 1)
it is not."
The reason that some of their
statements rnpear to be dogmatic,
according to lb. eprofessor, is because
many of them are made without suf
ficient evidence. The preliminary
study of a subject may lead to an
wpJnfoa wbtek further evident dis
proves. In that case, the scientist it
obliged to change bis pinion. This
sometimes leads to thj belief that
natural law cannot be relied upon
M ts.n-iii io JLcrt-Jil Uc,ic. be
cause, to some persons, it appears to
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