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Station A, Lincoln. Nebraska
OFFICIAL PUBLICATION
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
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IWElNTY-SEVENTH YEAR
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student. "It was too much horseplay."
a a a
The- editor of our humorous magazine (the Aw
ewnn) just dropped in to tell me that if the park closed
and it continued raining, the "Farewell" number would
soon be on the press. At present the editor is busy
let us say in gathering more material.
In Other Columns
Notices
Wednesday, May 16
-.. J .-t-la..ei mrtP fat the DOBtofflOC lO LinCOlfl,
Nebraska, andcr act of Conreaa. H-reh I. 187. and ap.cl.1
rate of Doatage prortded for In aectwn H0, act of October I.
It IT. authorised January 10, Hit.
St a year.
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THE YOUNGSTERS SCORE
We can imagine the smile that came over Coach
Schulte face as he viewed the results of the Missouri
Valley freshman telegraphic meet. For the Husker
youngsters ran away with the annual event with a total
of 63 points. Missouri, the closest competitor, scored
39 points. ... , j
Followers of Nebraska track activities have, during
the past season, bemoaned the fact that such individual
stars as Locke, Weir, Rhodes and Wirsig have grad
uated. To hear some of them talk, one would think
that Nebraska's superiority in track was a thing of
the past. . .
Then came the announcement that the track squad
this season, which had been dismissed as mediocre by
many, had lost only by a scant margin to Oklahoma
and had taken Missouri into camp. Coach Schulte had
been on the job and had again produced, as in numer
ous past seasons, another squad which will be a strong
contender for leading honors in the valley meet Friday
and Saturday.
And now the freshmen gain a decisive victory in
the telegraphic meet. This only strengthens our belief
that if there is any ability at all in a track candidate,
Schulte will find and develop it. And our predictions
for next year's squad climb a notch or two.
6ELF-IMPOSED IDOLATRY
"In all ages man has suffered from self-imposed
idolatry, although by no means invariably in the field
of religion. Today we worship school and college
courses. These are the graven images of the period.
Whatever goes wrong, the school and college are ex
pected to right it. To them we have given over our
moral and civic responsibility. When human behavior
is lamenable, we shrug our shoulders and remark that
the only remedy lies in education. Having said which,
we go happily upon our way, thus neatly shifting the
burden elsewhere."
Thus begins an editorial in a recent issue of the
Saturday Evening Post. Without a doubt, education is
the most valuable asset a man may have, constituting
the most important factor of his potentialities. Yet it
is folly to expect education to be possessed with the
"cure-all" powers that are necessary to right all wrongs.
The educational system may assist in work of .this sort,
but it is only one of a number of similar factors and
should only be considered in that light.
Of course, it is the purpose of the universities
and colleges to educate young people. But they cannot
fulfill that purpose without the cooperation and help
of the young people themselves. Too many people are
possessed with the idea that because someone has en
tered the portals of learning he is sure to come out
fully educated. It is largely up to the student himself
as to what benefits he will derive therefrom.
Thus the results of a university education are more
or less an individual problem. While in their domain
students are taught regarding moral and civic responsi
bility. As such, we are entitled to the belief that edu
cation should aid in the proper adjustment of such
problems. But when we strive to shift the burden of
righting wrong and curing evil to the educational sys
tem we are taking education from its rightful pedestal
and placing it on a make-shift altar designed for our
own mistaken worship an action which brings only
misunderstanding and a reflection on the true value
of education.
The Cynic Sara!
"I've given up polo," said the ambitious young
CHANGING METHODS
It was Robert J. Burdett, minister of the gospel
and one 6f America's most beloved humorists who most
effectively recorded for future generations the tyranny
.... . . tl '111 - I .AaaIUaiIOo"
connected with the mucn sung -nine reu kuuuiihiuw
Tn hi, inimicable story. "The Strike at Hinman's", Bur
dette recounted the hatred of the average schoolboy
in those days for the methods of instruction. Deciding
to protest, they planned a strike wmcn Mr. ninman,
the janitor-schoolmaster nipped in tne duq wun me u
of several elate straps, a hickory cane.ana mucn orusn
wnnd.
It was not so much to learn as to be frightened into
meek submission, it seems, that children were sent to
school in those days. Certain courses were taught only
fnr their value as discipline makers.
However attractive old timers like to make those
former schooldays appear to us of another generation,
we are not favorably impressed with a comparison of
those days and our own.
The switch has been discarded, and in its place has
come an attempt to understand the student in ordeT
that he may be best fitted for the life he must live
after graduation. Cruelty i3 boycotted rather than
taught. And now we have the formation of a great
concern to teach children by moving pictures those
things which they would learn only half as quickly
by the older methods.
There will be criticism of the new idea. Those to
whom study is an end in itself rather than a means
to a more enjoyable life, will bewail the introduction
of anything which reduces study as such. But the new
system will stay, as all things progressive stay. Will it
be unfortunate if instead of sitting quiet all day long
on a hardwood seat, the child may be given the day's
lesson in a moving picture theater attached to the
schoolbuilding, and then allowed to play out doors
during the time he would have been studying had not
the new way been introduced? We think not. Inter
collegiate Press.
N. E. S. Election
Election of office for the year 1928
1921). Wed., May 16 at 6 o clock in
M.E. 2oe,
Clee Club ,
All membera of the University Men a Glee
club are to report at Morrill Hall at d
o'clock Wednesday for a short business
meeting and election of officers.
Student council
fitudnt Council meeting. Wednesday, 6
o'clock. Temple 204.
Pershing Rifles
Tmnnftanf tn..fln uf lVrHhlniT KinCS In
Nebraska Wall Wednesday muni ai i
Girla' Commercial Club
Girls' Commercial club meeting Wednes
day. May 16, In Elli-n Smith hall at 6
o'clock. Election of officers vWll take place.
Gamma Alpha Cm
Gamma Alpha Chi will meet Wednesday
afternoon at live o'clock in the advertising
office. Election of otliccra will be held.
Thursday, May 17
Dramatic Club
The Dramatlo Club picnic will be held at
Antelope Park Thursday, May 17. from
n-Hfl tn nVliwW All members are urged
to attend. A good time is guaranteed.
R.O.T.C. Band Holds
'28 Farewell Dinner
(Continued from Page 1)
viously.
Calhoun Presents Gift
An enormous red "N" blanket was
presented to Captain McCormick by
Lieutenant Calhoun on behalf of the
band, as a token of its esteem.
The band's farewell dinner (has
been an annual affair for a number
of years, and is usually held each
spring shortly after the regimental
inspection. The bandsmen will make
but three more public appearances
this year. They will play for the com-
jpetitive drill, for Ivy Day exercises,
and for Commencement.
Broad Jump; 23 feet 6 1-4 inches
bv Stalkey, Oklahoma. '27: 25 feet
2 inches by M. Taylor, Grinnel (with
wind) '25.
Four Record Removed
Tho four previous records held by
non-member schools and scratched
off the books recently were:
440-yard dash 48 4-10 seconds
by G. Cowman, School of Mines, '14.
880-yard run 1 minute, 65 4-10
seconds by B. Johnson, Dcs Moines,
20.
Mile relay 3 minutes, 19 8-10
seconds by Illinois, '13.
Broad iurriD 23 feet. 8 inches, hv
R. D. Boyd, Chicago, '13.
Many cars are wrecked because the driver refuses
to release his clutch. Siren.
. GRADES AND SUCCESS
Grades are a worry to the average college student,
not because they denote academic achievement, but
because they are required, within generous limits, or
the student will leave school at the suggestion of the
registrar.
Grades merely for the sake of grades mean little.
The objective, theoretically knowledge, has been
changed to A's and B's. In the process of collecting
A's, the student must absorb some knowledge, but the
goal and object has been lowered. The real student
merely seeks the knowledge and the A's follow nat
urally. But taking the college student at large, many seek
neither the A's nor the knowledge. They lower their
sights to a C plus and hammer away. With good fortune
they make their C plus. And with them the belief is
current that the grades don't count as an index of
ability or possible chances of success in later life. The
generality has often been carried to the extreme belief
that the good student will be less likely to succeed than
the average type.
This is a comforting thought but unfortunately
a fallacy.
Those who get the best grades, as a whole, are
the most intelligent. Further, they take their work
more seriously and mean business while their le3s aca
demically prosperous contemporaries look upon study
as something to be avoided if possible and" taken only
when absolutely necessary. The chances are fair that
this attitude will reach beyond the confines of an edu
cational institution and manifest itself in the later life
and activity of the student.
Walter S. Gifford, president of the American Tele
phone and Telegraph company throws some interesting
light on the subject of correlation between colleee
grades and success in business in an article in May's
Harpers. It is based on a survey of the proirress of
almost four thousand university students in the employ
oi me company.
The investigations showed that there is a very
definite connection between the college grades and
the future success. In general the Bell comnanv found
that the employees who were in the first ten per cent
.ii ai.iiuiasi.ic sianaing would be those who advanced
furthest with the company. Those in the urmr tmwi
scholastically stayed in the upper third. University of
Glee Club Will
Present Concert
(Continued from Page 1)
wife, Mrs. Jene Decker. Instrument
al solo numbers will be given by Jo
seph McLees and Charles Calhoun.
Harold Pickett is the president and
James A. Shane the business man
ager of the men's glee club.
Records Fall on
Husker Track
(Continued from Page 1)
seconds by R. Simpson, Missouri, '16.
220-jard low hurdles 23 6-10
seconus by K. bimpson, Missouri,
'!; 23 3-10 seconds M. Taylor, Grin
nell (with wind) '25.
'80-yard relay 1 minute, 28 sec
onds by Nebraska '26.
Mile relay 3 minutes, 22 2-10
se 'nds by Nebraska '22.
Field Events
18-pound shot put 47 feet, 2 22-
25 inches by D. Richerson, Missouri,
2G.
Prle vault 13 feet, 4 27-64 inches
by F. Wirsig, Nebraska, '27.
D?scus throw 145 feet, 2 3-4
niches by D. Richerson. Missouri,
2,6.
High jump 6 feet, 3 1-8 inches
by T. Poor, Kansas, '25.
Javelin throw 191 feet, 10 1-2
inches by A. Cox, Oklahoma, '26.
Railroad Holds
Opportunities
(Continued from Page 1)
In other departments, the largest
of which 1b the operating depart
ment, a man must pass through all
of the minor positions before he can
expect very much in the way of ad
vancement. Outside of the technical
departments such as engineering,
mechanical, law and medical, a col
lege education in the primary stages
is not so necessary, for the know
ledge desired is not learned out of
books but through experience and
the work is hard and exacting.
It also calls for more sacrifice of
the home life which other business
permits. In the advanced' stages,
however, a college education is of
Incalculable value if the college man
is willing to go through the drudgery
of the lower positions and then draw
on his trained mind after he has fully
mastered all of the fundamentals.
Self-Edur-tinff Work
Railroad work requires intense
concentration, hard work and per
severance to' secure success. It is to
a larsre extent, and nerh.i ns crrpnfor
visa any cihur lino of -ork, & Bwlf-
eaucanng, progressive employment
A man must begin at the very bot
tom or the ladder and work and
'study many years under changing
condlticM to reach the top. He must
ce a willing worker, able to' do the
work in the position" just ahead of
him, and never shirk responsibility
i:-"f Properly belongs to hla job, in
' i to succeed.
i"s orrir.-zation of any large rail
road is enormous. The number of
men employed on the Union Pacific
system is as large as an army, ap
proximately fifty thousand, and it
takes many years of service to ad
vance to the top in such an organi
zation. It is only the best fitted men
who work into the higher positions.
College Men Progress
Again, the work of further per
fecting the railroad industry must
be done by those who have gone
through the primary stages of the
work sufficiently to properly acquaint
them with it in all of its ramifica
tions. The college man who has the
patience, persistence and persever
ance to go through the ranks, coup
led with resource and ability, usually
progresses rapidly. Advancement is
really made upon the basis of merit.
The railroad world welcomes the
college man who comes cheerfully
with the will to accept employment
in its established field, but he should
understand that he cannot start at
the top merely because of his higher
intellectual attainments compared
with his probably less fortunate asso
ciates. T have had a number of let
ters from college men recentlv urnd.
uated who ask for immediate em
ployment in nr. official c.pp3ty.
Promotion Poasibla,
Most men are reallv an PYneran tn
the railroad while thev are o-nino-
through their apprenticeship, and it
is wholly Impracticable to start a. al
lege man off other than at the hnt-
tom in a business so specialized as
railroading. However, after the coL
legv man has mastered and tWmio-h-
Iy familiarized himself with the pri
mary elements of railroading he will
Lave a better chance for promotion
to the more remunerative supervisory
n.iu cjietuuve positions than the non
conege man.
If the colleee man Hnea nn ,
j.i i ... . b
mruugn tnis earlv arnrentWein
then his chances ATA VOW n
There are mighty few positions to
which college men can rise thrnn.!,
white collar jobs; it just is not in the
lonruau curriculum. I do not wish
to be misunderstood about this. v,nii
ever. The collee-e
o Ull MODCl
pioviuea ne comes throno-h ho ,i.
- o Aaun
and file as indicated above.
Executives Are Educated
In the consideration nf ti,; t
ter it should not be taken for granted
me non-coiiege man who rises to
executive positions is not well edu
cated. On the contrary, he may be
very well educated, for il 1111 YlfV V ir.
work and progress he not only has
...aaucrea ine essential elements of
learning m his particular line, but
he has also studied extensively dur
ing after hours on related subjects.
And lastly, I believe that railroad
work as a whole is as remunerative
in the long run as work in other in.
dustries. It is usually more stable
and there iB e splendid chanco for
advancement of those men who are
especially able. For the man nnr.V.
ularly adapted to -the department in
which he enters the service, there is
a good opportunity regardless of
wnat department that may be. No
one department offers any ereater
opportunity for advancement. Tr
will be found from a canvapg of the
railroad executives that they come
from all departments.
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R.O.T.C. Inspection
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Tuesday were given examination in
various phases of military science.
Tactics Drill Given
A tactical exercise, carried on in
the Salt Creek valley was a part of
t.hft morning's activities. This in
cluded an exhibition in patrolling,
scouting, and musketry. The rain
and mud made the exercises quite
difficult, but the exercises were very
wpll rlnnA. A fanflol ..
CAerciSe on
the sand table for the senior officers
was also given.
In the afternoon, C company was
examined in basic theory. Freshmen
were tested in rifle marksmanship
care of the rifle, first aid, military
courtesy, and other department!.
the freshmen course. Sonrmn,.
were tested in the stripping and as.
sembling of the automatic rifle, inte
rior guard duty and other rhnop, .
the second year course.
Major Baird left Lincoln voofn.
day afternoon to continue his trm
inspection.
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