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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN.
The Daily Nebraskan
Station A, Lincoln, Nebraska
OFFICIAL. PUBLICATION
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
Under direction of the Student Publication Board
TWENTY-EIGHTH YEAH
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Talephonea Editorial: B-6891, No. 142; Business; B-6891,
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ULNUO KEZER ; . . . . KDITOK-IN-CHIE:
MANAGING EDITORS
I Jean Hammond Maurice W. Konkel
NEWS EDITORS
V. Joyce Ayres Ljman Cass
Jack Elliott Taul Nelson
Cliff F. Sandahl
ASSISTANT NEWS EDITORS
Vernon Ketring U.on Larimer
Betty Thornton
WILTON McGREW BUSINESS MANAUEU
ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGERS
William Kearns Marshall Pitzer
Richard Rickelts
THE KICK-OFF
Following the freshman-varsity game Saturday,
Nebraska's nJne-pame football schedule looms ahead
with the opening clash slated this week at Iowa
State.
Thru the rniat, however, one game slicks out
like a sore thumb to Nebraska football followers.
That is the Homecoming day clash with the Uni
versity of Missouri. The Bengals have been most
effective for three years in sullying the Buskers"
gridiron record. It has probably been good treat
ment for those ultra-patriots who cherished the mis
taken impression that Nebraska had any monopoly
on Missouri Valley victories. But three defeats in
a row makes even the uninterested Nebraskan anx
ious for variety this fall.
Football has become a real problem to higher
educational Institutions of the country. As long as
It furnished a medium for the development, of the
rugged qualities of courage and leadership, a men
tal agility under pressure, and a finer sense of
sportsmanship. Its place In the collegiate world was
almost entirely on the credit side of the ledger.
It added another quality whose importance can
hardly be under-estimated. That Is the development
at school loyalty. Probably no single influence has
been so great as football in constructing a con
sciousness In student bodies of the fact they are all
participants in a great experiment. No other factor
has been so effective in binding together the ties
of common Interest which students in a university
might be expected to acquire.
The development of football into a gigantic
spectacle Is another story entirely. It has caused
the focusing of state attention on football rather
then on the technical and cultural achievements of
the university. It has brought an emphasis on win
ning, Instead of an emphasis on development. It
has tended to place universities In the position of
being Judged as to their success, not on the basis of
their significant efforts -with the youth under their
care but on the basis of the victories of a football
team,
Commercialization of the game has lessened
appreciation of the moral fiber which may be de
veloped by the participants. It has Increased the
tendency to seek students for their athletic prowess
and to offer them financial aid, rather than forcing
ajl students of the university to meet on a common
ground of effort in attaining an education. From
such standpoints, all of which have been hashed
over many times in the public press, football pre
sents debit aspects to the university.
Its new developments have made it possible to
extend the physical training program to a large
number of students, a commendable effort. If prop
erly bandied, it has not lessened the possibilities of
developing consciousness of the university as such
in the minds of its students.
Like any other major situation, it has received
its need of praise and has incurred just criticism.
For the present it is here. Its advantages and dis
advantages need to be recognized. For years there
has been a tendency for football followers to cry
"Disloyal" at any voice of protest against any phase
of the system. Likewise. It has been customary for
those opposed to football tendencies to refuse to
recognize the vlrtures it does possess. On the ad
ministration of the university, its athletic board,
students and alumni, depends the future of the
game. In the presence of the advantages and dis
advantages claimed for it, it is a fit subject for discussion.
which the Oklahoma Daily shows such an Interest.
As for the problem of drama in the West, It Is
much the same here as in Oklahoma, despite the ef
forts of the dramatic department. The University
Players have built up a loyal following of apprecia
tive patrons. But neither Lincoln nor the University
as a whole has awakened to the genuine offerings
regularly presented in the Temple.
Monday the University Players will begin a new
season. Students who have not yet made the ac
quaintance of the University Players will have an
opportunity during the week to add a new interest to
the nfany expected of the cultivated citizen.
v THE JOY REIGN.
"We are not here merely to achieve Joy or a voca
tion, " declared J. H. T. Main, president of Grlnnell
college at the opening chapel service at the, Iowa
school recently. He explained that he felt the stu
dents were there to get a conception of the unity of
nature and of the meaning and Ideals of life.
Joy or a vocation! How often they are considered
the primary requisites of a collegiate education. The
student who conies to university seeking merely Joy
is rarely satisfied. He does not know the joy of se
rious work. Without that knowledge, he can hardly
compass the full joy of an education. '
For the vocatlonallst, college often is viewed as
a place in which one learns how to avoid work and
get paid for It. Where the conception arose Is V
mystery. Certain it Is that those early leaders who
pinned their faith on an educated citizenry looked to
college graduates for intelligent work, not profitable
loafing.
Dr. Main was primarily concerned with the stu
dent of arts and sciences. He did not begrudge him
the Joy which a well-rounded university program
brings. He did not begrudge him the acquisition of
such vocational fundamentals as might ease his ef
forts after graduation In his chosen field. But he hit
a sincere chord which rings in the heart of all great
educators when he appealed for something more
than joy and vocation. He appealed, fundamentally,
for the development or those higher qualities of
mankind which' make life more liveable as well as
more progressive. The same qualities may well be
sought in students in other colleges than that of
arts and sciences.
ONE DANGER GONE
Closing of R street to all classes of automobile
traffic except passenger cars was announced Friday
morning by the city council of Lincoln following
an Informal conference.
This decision will be welcomed by students,
faculty, and friends of the University who led in
the agitation last spring against traffic regulations
inimical to the University following the establish
ment of parallel parking on It and Sixteenth strets.
Both The Dally Nebraskan and the Student
Council last spring protested against the Influx of
trucking precipitated onto R and Sixteenth streets
as a result of the parallel parking enactment. The
trucking was a serious noise haudicaii to the Uni
versity. It also Increased the danger element on
the streets mentioned.
Relief was promised by Commissioner Balr be
fore school closed in June. Coming now at the
beginning of the university year, elimination of
trucking on R street will solve one of the major
trafflo problems near the University. Removal of
trucking from Sixteenth and solution of the unuB
ually heavy outside traffic in thi midst of that
heavily populated student street still remain for the
city council. The most pleasing thing from student
standpoint is the fact that the city council Is ser
iously considering the best interests of the Uni
versity. ENTERTAINING PLAYS
An Oklahoma discussion of the place of drama
in the West and in western universities Is repub
lished today under the heading, "Other Editors Say."
' The University of Oklahoma student publication has
given an interesting analysis of the problem con
fronting legitimate drama there.
The discussion might apply, equally well, to the
Nebraska campus, with but one exception. A pro
gram of quality plays is not new to the University of
- Nebraska. Through the medium of the University
Players, the citizens of Lincoln and students And
, faculty of the University have for years been able
to vttfig'ss Jyar, ;? r-pUor production a thece Irs
FROM OUT THE DUST.
Amid the ruili of aet'vllie. nodal
Hml riirrlrtilur, I reiwilr to my room
ami from the Hunt eovered bookshelf
I draw a tnltime, ncartrrly noticed
brfore. Here I find nurreMe from
Hie inniiolonoii g-riml of I ho flay
tvhlrh teem to lnmble niton the heels
of tlione preceding.
Interpreted bv Phill Blake
and LaSelle Gllman.
THE RAGGER: No, those fellows aren't taking
fine arts. That's just a trench coat.
And the Kosmet show will probably be bigger
and better this year.
At least It is consoling to learn that so many
students know that there is a library on the campus
as well as a stadium.
Candidates for class presidencies can start
brushing off their personality hand-clasps now that
filings have been called for the fall elections.
fcfudents put on a real rush for reserve books at
the library for a few nights last week. Library assist
ants predict that such energy won't last long.
Freshmen engineers found Saturday that orien
tation wasn't so bad when the rest of the pledges
were put to work. Not so bad, at least, until they
returned.
The country may be getting air-minded, but
those students out tramping the campus the other
day were botany students trying to learn the differ
ence between an elm and a pine tree.
'IN MY OPINION
Fair Play Would Help"
The Regents' Book store. I have always been'
led to believe, is operated for the benefit of Uni
versity of Nebraska students. I find, however, that
such la not the case. Lest you have an experience
like mine I feel it my duty to break down and tell
about it.
Yesterday morning I dropped in at the Regents'
Book store and purchased a $2.50 book. I paid for
it, walked out and met a friend who had taken the
course last year and who offered me his book.
Dollars come a little hard for the average student,
30 I started back to the Regents' Book store. I had
not even opened the book, but I was unable to get
my money back or even trade the book In on some
thing I could use.
"We don't like to be slickered," the clerk came
back when I asked If I might have my money back.
"You went out and picked up a second hand book."
Judging from the look on his face and the tone of
his voice buying second hand books is a crime
similar to axe murders.
Now I have two books. I have no earthly use
For the second. In freshman convocation we were
told to be considerate of our parents and guardians
who are putting us thru this great university at
such a great sacrifice.
This letter will be of no Interest to million
aires. But if you are getting thru school on an
allowance and have been buying your books in a
trusting way at the Regents, take great caution.
Once your filthy lucre enters the cash register at
our own book store, underneath the Administration
building, Kiss it goodbye.
A Disgusted Student.
Critics are making a great to-do,
of late, over a new play on Broad
way entitled "Gentlemen of the
Tress.'' This portends to show to
an enthusiastic public the Inner
sanctums of a newspaper office, ac
auainting II with the laborers
therein, ihelr work, their Ideals,
and to a surprising if not embar
rassing exlent, their language. Re
ferring to the Impression the play
leaves on a willing audience not
to the acting nor the settings which
seem to be extremely good the
critics cry "yea" and "nay" to the
authenticity of it.
Some defend It us a true picture
of pressmen, saying that the plot
and the act ions are not exagger
ated. Others attack It on the
grounds t hat Journalistic Ideals
have not all gone to pot, that news
papermen are not profane, callous
bums, and that, the play, in total, Is
an unfair picture of the profes
sion. Critics, pro and con, should know
whereof they speak, as they write
for newspapers themselves and are
Intimate with the life. Undoubtedly
there are newspapers of the type
portrayed and also reporters, but
It Is doubtful that the majority of
metropolitan news offices could be
Judged by the standards of this
play. "(.Gentlemen of, the Press" Is
"packing them in." however, and
because of its evident popularity,
will become a film version, and
other companies will take It on the
road, in all probability. But let us
hope that the public will take it
with a grain of salt.
James Douglas, writing In the
London Daily Express, has set up
a new mark at which poets may
shoot. Whether he is correct in his
assertions one may not say. Com
ment seems out of place; let the
reader Judge for himself.
"Our poets lavish their art on lit
tle themes," ha states. 'They polish
their tiny moods Into elegant versi
cules. They make pretty pictures
out of their minute emotions. They
display their ingenuity In working
out new ways of saying things that
have been said hundreds of times.
They are clever squirrels who ex
hibit their agility in their conven
tional cages.
"But their energy Is purely liter
ary. It is remote from the great
tides of life. It wastes itself on the
limited sensations of the library
mind. They are bookish bardlets.
They weary us with the subtleties
of the bookworm.
"Now little poets do not grow
into big poets by chewing each
other's cud. They perish of perni
cious anemia by Interning them
selves In their airless, w indless and
sunless cells. What they need Is a
fresh set of themes; and I suggest
that the cure for their parochialism
is contact with lire."
,
"Methuselah Saw Many Repeat
ers," a poem by Carl Sandburg ap
pearing In Harper's for October,
calls to mind the "Incomprehensi
bllia," a series or incomprehensible
verse which appeared in the "Spec
tator." It will be remembered that
the "Spectator" was a column con
ducted last year in The Nebraskan.
follows: George E. Johnson, 1227
J Street; Squire Cassem, 1625
North Ifith Street; Milton Mr
Grew, 1433 R Street; Merle Jones,
1630 K Street, and James Lee Ran
kin, 1617 Washington Street.
Plans are being made to have a
Hoover-Curtis rally within a short
time. At this rally the president
of the Hoover-Curtis club will be
appointed. 1
LEAVEOf ABSENCE
Chemistry Professor Accepts
Position at Cambridge,
Massachusetts
Dr. H. G. Demlng, professor of
chemistry, will begin a one year's
leave of absence next week. Dr.
Denting, who has been connected
with the department of chemistry
In the University of Nebraska for
the last ten years, will leave for
Cambridge, Mass., Tuesday, Oc
tober 2.
At Cambridge, he will take
charge of the Department of Chem
ical Information for a large linn
of chemical engineers. "One of
the main reasons for my leave of
absence la lo rest by changing my
type of work for at least a years
time," said Dr. Deming. He will
leturn in September, 1929. when
he will begin his eleventh year
here.
Y. M. C. A. Members Are
Attending Conference
fln.fArn ITno-nr Time til o n t nf tllP
university Y. M. C. A., Wendell
Grolh and William Lancaster, to
gether with a number of other "Y"
WUllvriO, flir aiiriiuiiiftai-iair
ference of the university Y. M. C. A.
at l'oane ruut-Kf, v iri.r, miuiij
started Frldav evening and will
continue today.
J his is a conterence tor oniceis
of student Y. M. C. A.'s and is in
charge of F. C. Stevenson, state
secretary,, A. J. "Dad" Elliott of
nicago, w no sjjuhh ni mai jrm o
.AAtl,i0 In thin .III- U'ill ho th
litre "I1 t'llil wi;. ..... .-v
convention speaker this year.
Brehoort Has Position
With Bureau f Mines
Maurice J. Breboort, formerly an
instructor In physics here. Is now
at the bureau of mines experiment
station at Pittsburgh, Pa. In De
cember, the station will be trans
ferred to Amarillo, Tex., and Mr.
Breboort will go there.
Y.W.CLA.
STUDENT BIBLE STUDY
Development of Leadership
Is Purpose of Group;
. Starts Oct. 7
OTHER EDITORS SAY-
WESTERN DRAMA
For the first time In the history of the uni
versity, an attempt Is being made this fall and
winter to give to students representative drama thru
an institution created especially for the purpose, the
University Playhouse.
The Playhouse was started last year, but the
"greater theater season" for the University o(
Oklahoma actually begins this fall. Not only Is the
great effort being made to put forth a good theater
program for students to be commended, but the
Playhouse movement should have student support.
Yale university will ever stand as a model for
theater effort in this country. An aroused popular
interest in drama In that school has resulted In a
theater tradition and a theater-going spirit which
makes the Yale playhousu a living institution.
There is a splendid reason for lack of interest
In the drama in the "provinces." The truth is that
the provinces never have had enough plays brought
beforo ilium to result In a popular taste for the
theater. A man who has never read good books
scarcely can be called upon to appreciate Shake
speare. That, in so many words, is what is wrong
with the west as Tar as drama goes.
There is something Immensely satisfying about
a good play, well acted. But the, west has for so
long been fed on the cinema that men in the flesh
are less real to audiences than characters Ou cellu
loid. Perhaps with the rise of the talkies there will
be a subsequent movement further In the direction
of reality the man on the legitimate stage.
The University Playhouse shoii'.J t a real con
tribution to the cultuial life of the university this
fall. If It is properly supported It should become an
Institution of reat importance In the fututre.
Oklahoma 'lily
Quest groups in Bible study,un
der the auspices of the University
Y. W. C. A., will be commenced
next week.
These are discussion grotps in
tended mainly for upperclass girls
but are open also to freshmen. One
of the big purposes of the group
discussions is the development of
leadership. Girls interested in
work of this kind, should either
sign on the Y. W. C. A. bulletin
board or consult Miss Appleby as
names must be submitted by next
week.
Following is a schedule of the
different groups: Sunday after
noons, 4 to 5 p. m., Dr. Patterson
of the Philosophy department will
lead discussions on the Old and
New Testament. These meetings,
starting October 7 and lasting un
til Christmas vacation, will be held
in the club rooms of the University
Episcopal church.
Thursday afternoons, starting at
5 p. m., Miss Helen Bllsh, A.M.,
will hold discussions of the Old
and New Testament. These meet
ings will commence next Thurs
day.
Monday afternoons, 4 to 5:30
p. m., Mildred Cole and Inez Holln
will lead discussions of the Wor
ship and Teachings of Jesus.
Thursday afternoons, starring at I
p. in., Frances Lederer, group
leader, will hold discussion groups
on the New Testament.
All except the Sunday groups
will meet In Ellen Smith hall.
Misses Frances Williams and Eve
lyn Bauer are recruiters.
Indian Wampum Necklace
Is Presented to Museum
The University of Nebraska mu
soum has obtained recently through
the aid of Dr. H. B. Alexander, for
merly of the university faculty, a
Navajo Indian wampum necklace
taken from a grave, and is an
example of true old stone wampum.
It has been added to the Morrill
collection In the basement of Mor
rill hall.
Hoover-Curtis Club Is
Organized at Nebraska
Appointment of the executive
committee of th- Hoover-Curtis
club at the University of Nebraska,
has been made by Fenton II. Flem
I n g, county chairman of the
Hoover-Curtis club.
Tlie appointments made weie as
Official Bulletin.
This department if The ll'j f
Itrutkuil will b ilevoted frmii ilny til
iluy to nffiriiil niinuinneinenl of
rtrnU nf the rumpus. Any iirrmilin
II. .n or rlnb IrientlriiMl with linlven.ll
life may make iim nf Hi" ilrpurt "lent
by hnmllng In milliiunrenienU lit The
DrIIv Nrhrai.lHn offlre, prior to S
ii'rlork nu ll Hflcrilinni,
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t'nlveraify I'layi-r tijn-ii wnnn wllh
"Tin" HpUln-" Tempi"! inesier at S:20
o'rlurk.
I'nlvirslty ratlin proursni b"gln.
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Venpii rhnli pli'iim- report iyt t'-Hen
Smith hull, I'll. '.y Rl .'1 uYlo.k. Very
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limine! (Jinn Tea, HnpilM Btudem
noui 14 in y sti-ci-l. 3 In ( nVlork.
I'nivi mit.v l'liiycm in-eHenlinK "The
ijpliler" Ti'Hipli. S:"'i oVIm k.
Vedneiiln , October :i
1'nlversity I' .vei-i pi ewuting "The
Spnler," TMiipli :3il nVI.uk,
lVilay, ((Holier 3
Annunl fa. ul! i ri iron. Kllcn Smith
IihII.
teen inches heightens her ugliness.
"The V:"K11b1 vonl"n! who lms
an eno.-mous face like that of some
bovine animal and a huge nose
out of all proportion even to her
large head, presents an equally
grotesque visage.
"It Is a remarkable, fact that
most women with the possible ex
ception of lJit ugly duchess- who
are really ugly are sweet-uatured
and easily attract husbands."
Margeneu JoIiih Yale
Instructional Force
Henry Mai-geneu. A.M., an In
structor In physics here in 1926 27,
and a fellow in physics at Yale
university Inst year, will be an in
structor at Yale this year.
ture ou some of the fo.ssll aninmls
found In tills part of North Aiiipi-.
lea. At noon of the samvday lie"
will address the members or t1H
Unitarian Layman's league of that
city on "An Old Knglish City."
UNI DINING ROOM
Home Cooked Meals
Reasonable
331 North 13th
Men Search for
Ugliest Women
In Whole World
London, Sept. 29 Research ha.s
long been one of the purposes of
American college and university
professors, but Englishmen are as
tonished at the latest bit of re
search work entered into by a
group of American pedagogues
who have Just arrived here.
Their mission Is to find the ug
liest white woman In the world.
While there has always been a dis
pute as to who was the most, beau
tiful woman in history, so far as
is known, there has never been
any doubt as lo the one who pos
sessed the most revolting features.
This Sybil of the sex was the
Duchess Margaret of Carinthia and
Tyrol, who lived In the middle
ages and was the subject of a por
trait by the Flemish master Quen-i
tin Matsys. I
"The recent sale of Matsys' pic
ture has Inspired us to undertake ,
this quest," a member of the j
party said. "It Is remarkable that
at present there are known to be
only two candidates for the Indi
vidual distinction of being the
worst looking woman In the world
a French actres and lin English
woman.
"The French woman has a
mouth extending nearly from ear
to ear while her eyes are narrow
slits. A wapish waist of only four-
Collins Is lo Speak
At Science Academy
F. ti. Collins, assistant curator of
the museum, will visit Sionx City,
Iowa. Tuesday, October 2, where he
has tit-en Invited to open the winter
session of the Academy of Science
and Letters.
He will give an Illustrated lec-
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