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Tut Daily Nieraskan
TWiNTY NINTH VfAA
Entered aa af.n.l i Uu matter at ia DotX1V
in Uncoiii No.. uiiiri act vt cuiMirw alav a.
(:. anj at (jtiai rate uf hmMb provided fu
section 10S. act ol IXC ft. 1IT. aulliorUaa Jaa
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Official l"iiliiaO.n of the t'ttlveretty of Ns
tvaaka aoj uiuirr lue direvlioa of la IHudeat
fubluallua lV.rvi.
tublinhd evtry morninf daring the avUml
year ut the i-rlKo u ttaiuruay. aiw4aa,
and duno lb various vacaUua parkxU of IM
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Office Hours-fcJilonal Btaff: I W I p.
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to p. m. daily esccol rYlday and buoJay.
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Editorial tuff
Aaaortata editor; Joyce) Ayra.
liana eOiurs. eicar Kacaua. Geo Roba.
News editors: PonaM Carlaoo, Robert Kelly.
William a!cOr7, Eugene McKim. Umonl Wall
HHna editor. Jaca tUUHt.
IVmLntHJtln; aditora; Maurice Akin. Donald
Oarlaon. Lurile lypreanaen. VpvH yvilman. Robact
Kally. William Vlcv1 nr. El roer Bkov.
BusineM Staff
Assistant business managers: Laroy Jack.
Charles Lawlor, Lawter Lohmryer.
Pew Sandy Clau-
Cira
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rtrjdeaita paa
Hf frrad., no flunks
or condition, please, nd
jre tis no more rally raids, and
let th prowler frertc; rnske the
riht "clock class a thing of tbf ;
pension football men if yon will; make the
clo. go round on library ball. that for ye ara
las tood tlfifV Mill; put prnn. cr. tbf drill
field and lay wfJk to Andre w hall : re rv
paraing iipaee for stu
dents, and banieb the
class roll call; brirg
more gold to tbe men
and no woes; bring tb
eoeJ more beauty and
braus. Your, Johnny.
Time for Adieu!
The truth is out! Figures obtained at the
Mud.-nt aetiviti.s office prove it! The green
cap tradition is a monetary "tradition for
the organization sponsoring it.
Fresented on the front page of The Daily
Nebraskan tKia morning an account of the
wat in which the income from the sales of
freshman caps has maintained a Mudcnt s.M-i-ety.
And what is so distressing about it all is
that this group has not seen fit to enforce the
rule which calls for all first year men to wear
the headgears for two months or so i;i the fall
of evei-y year.
PeveraJ times during the present semester,
The Nebrakan has deprecated the idea of au
organization seemingly placing the financial
means of the tradition above the significance
and the meaning of the custom itself. The
green cap tradition is otic of the oldest that
thin university poss-s, dating so far back
that no one seems to know when it did ft art,
but in late years, especially, the students en
tering the university have not felt it an honor
to wear them, due primarily to the laxity in
enforcement.
This newspaper does not with to condemn
the tradition itself. We believe, if handled in
the proper way, this particular aspect of uni
versity life is 'very influential in effecting a
form "of consciousness among the freshmen.
But when the tradition dos not e:it for that
purpose., bnt rather as a means to an end finan
cially, we can see no justification for its con-tinuanca.
Not Satisfied A Yet.
Seeking "credit where credit bs due," a
loytl exponent of the Fraternal Co-operative
Bayers' association asks for an editorial repu
diating the original stand of The N'-braskan
against such an organization. For, nays be,
the association afUr having operated a whole
month is "an unqualified success."
The Fratimal Co-operative Buyers' asso
ciation, formed during the early part of No
vember, has seventeen member fraternities.
After every one of the stewards for the thirty
eight University of Nebraska fraternities had
ample opportunity to study the plan and de
cided upon its feasibility and practicability,
only the seventeen, less than half, deemed it
advisable to' enter.
The Daily Nebrahkan's opposition ! the
plan was not wo virulent as its proponents
seemed to believe. Its purpose, to buy com
modities in large quantities and contract for
service as a body in order that running ex
penses of member fraternities might be low
ered, is commendable. The sincerity of stew
ards affiliated to effect a saving for their re
spective houses is unquestionable. The capa
bility and integrity of present buyers may be
admitted.
It is riot toward the personnel of the or
ganization that Tie Nebraska n's unfavorable
comment is voiced. Bui is the plan fundament
ally sound Will the co-operative system en
dure? Are the benefits to be derived offset by
reults which will prove detrimental to the uni
vrsity? Thote arc tie thine over vhich we
ponder. And those are questions we do not
believe can be answered satisfactorily by advo
cate of co-operative buying:.
"Then.- has b'-n no con. plaint or fraud."
N. J?, d. remarks in bis ment-age to The Nebrss
kan. Of course not. Possible fraud, for which
there i plenty of opportunity, naturally will
not exist the first year when the organization
i; gnided by those honestly interested in its
success. Bnt what about years to come 7 How
ran the integrity of buyera be assured t How
van th aaawlatiuii rutUlt a nafcifiiaiM KiiiM
tiicapatl buyera lirat yir and the lieilf
Certainly no one i!l deny that, whether
utiliiad or not utilised, then i upaclouw room
for rafl and fraternity con. lunation tbat
wouU not only impair the efiu-ieii.-y uf buy
log tut oaat a ilifuia tf u lio!oin-it-ka wvrr
the rutire university.
But grtcioua! What saving in now l( in
accomplished. Seemingly triumphant, the
Kchora writer lata, "Out steward claim
thut lie h avtsl urarlw lis) for the frster.
nity on hui coal bill alorie. Another av that
his meat bill for one month was rrduced
These fururea provide no criterion by which
the Kucceaa of the asaoclation may be judged.
The Nrbrakkan cannot believe that audi a v-
ing could be maaible in one month if tie stew
ard had been reririieed, judicious and eco
nomical in hi f ipenditur of fraternity fund
before.
The idea that everybody is haj'py with tin-co-operative
idea ia far fnuu bring the truth.
Several cotnplainta of poor coal and unsntisfae
lory meals have come from ineinbem of associa
tion fraternitiea Some may be highly plcavd
with the plan, but that group do-s not repre
sent the unanimous opinion, of fraternities eon
nected with the co-operator.
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The Nelraakan has still another plaint.
Grocer ii purchased through the oo operative
association come almoat entirely from chain
store finns. Capitalists and chief stiw Vhold. rs
receiving the profit from these stores live far
from nuddlwcktern Nebraska. No money lin
ing their pockets ever couies back to this state
to support the university, to build bi tter roads
In Nebraska, or to serve this commonwealth in
ny way.
In a state univrreity, students should feel
a deep sense of loyalty to those sople support
ing their school and making possible their edu
cation at minimum cost to themselves. These
benefsctors of the universitj are the fanners,
laborers and merchants of Nebraska lio,
through taxes, maintain this educational habi
tat for their children, who are ii.tf r hted in
Nebraska and it development. By chain store
purchase eastern moneyed mm are reapine the
advantage of Nebraska student trade instead
of the citiien whose hearts, souls arid pocket
books are wrapped up in the university.
As to the Fraternal Cooperative Buyers'
association, tuch generalizations as unqusli
fied sueeesa" are, to say the least, premature, i
Ita success cannot be measured by tliis semes
ter record or be assured through thi school
year's achievement.
If after two or three years fraternities par
ticipating are still wholeheartedly in favor of
the co-operative system of purchase there will
be room for congratulatory comment. But
even then there will still be certain objections
which can never be overcome and which will
prove stumbling blocks in the direction the
association has chosen to move.
JUPiTER HIDES, AND
SIM GIVES TALK
Clouds Mar Plan to Use
Telescope, So Coeds
Listen Instead.
Uevus of elouJy skies Tuteday
evening tboM vleiUng the ualvar
uy obarrvatoiy on the regular
um-ii nlgtil were unable to eam
liie the !uet, Jupiter, through
(lie t.lt-Koix ea had been an
r.ounced l"iof O. l Bweeey, dl
rei-lor of oevrvatory and tnatrue
tor in agronomy, gave his ached-ult-d
li-tlure. "Tue Growth tf Our
Kiiuwlrdj-e of the t'nlverae."
He ilrK-ribed hiw men's knowt
edt;e of the earth and sky baa
jrttrtvn from hie first conception of
it a a flat iiiface until at the
I rrent time he studies ttoa moat
tlistanl etar of the spiral nebulae,
X tour of l he observatory was
cm. die ted by lrofe.ir Bwetey
who ekplaii.ed the different tnetru
nwnta Th fuel and third Tuea
tlaya of e-.ch month are the regu
lar ojcn nights at the observatory.
STAFF OF SCHOONER
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Many Articles Now In, Says
Editor Wimberly; Last
Edition Praised
The winter edition of the. rrairte
Schooner. Nebraska's literary
magazine. Is now being prepared
and will ha lamied some time In
February, according to Prof. U. C
Wimberly, editor.
This number will contain the
UFual amount of atones, poema,
and article. Owd material has
tx-en coming into the editor's of
fi -c daily, but only a few articles
have been definitely decided upon
&ji yet. Oean J. P. Hlcka, of the
eollrpe of arta and sciences, has
written an article on Abraham
Lincoln which will appear in the
winter tsue. Two poems, one by
MIm Kmma MrRae of Omaha,
and one by James Thompson, a
student ta the agU'ullual college.
and stboul of Jounvallaru have also
twen solevted.
Ilia fail sOltlun vt the Schooner,
whlib appearad on sale ths tnliMie
of November, haa been wtJrly
prau4 by enUucnt trUlu and baa
old welt both la Lincoln and to
HAS SPECIAL MEETING
Learn to Dance
I Wuartntea to taaoH yv la ats
t'nvsts Leaaooa.
Oii evary Moada" aaa
Wedneaday
Private leaaons aooruiaf . after
noon A evening
fall for Appointment
Mrs. Luella Willi.mi
Pnvate Mtudlo
I'boM R4VM 1XV0 O lt
Club Joins hn Singing Songs
And Closes by Having
Treasure Hunt.
A protean aa given by lha
Scandinavian club, mhlch met laat
VI on day evenlnx. Pec. is. from 7
until o'clock. In Temple 300.
The program km berun by Sec
retary Krankltn Anderion reading
the mtautes. 1 bia was followed by
group singing or prandinavian
aonga. euneteting of "Ini rami a.
Pu la," an-l "Vsrt I-and." with
Profeaaor Alexia flaying the piano
accompaniment.
Christmas poems were recited in
Swedish by alius Alexis. Carl
Alexia, and Clemens Gustafmin.
Mr. Hedeen, who led the meeting;
poke on soma of the Yuletlde
cuitoma of the Scandlnavlsn
rountiiea. and be alao presented
"Silent Night" In Swedish.
Group games wera played, and
an old and distinguished Norwe
gian custom, a Christmas t re as tire
bunt, was held.
ORCHKSIS HOLDS
INITIATION FOR
16 CANDIDATES
Sixteen new members have been
Initiated into Orrhesis. honorary
dancing; organisation of the uni
versity, after having been on pro
bation for a month. In entering
Ore heel a these members pledge to
promote Interest tn and apprecia
tion of dancing as a fine art.
The new members are Rowena
Dengtson. Marlorie Hoover, Glen-
evelyn Hubbard. Dorothy Meyer,
Aleen Neely, Alleen Nicholas, Jo
sephine Orr. Dorle Powell. Trma
Randall. Virginia Seabrook. Max
lne Smokes, Harriet N"hltmsn.
Do roth v Zoetlner. Dona'da Per-
klna. Ruth Wimberly, and Phyllis
Dobaon.
STUART BUILDING
BARBERS
For Your
Christmas Work
NKW AND 8AMTATIT
2nd riaar Itosrt Bldo. 9W
Good Or Christmas Time.
The approach of bitter eoM weather and a
surfrstion of hnow msks tis aware of the fact
that t'liristiuas is williiu readi. This uieau-s a
lot to moat of us. S preatly needed Tsetion,
and some maybe not so greatly needed giiis.
but best of all is the spirit of the time.
Old and young, rich and poor alike become
enraptured with the Christmas spirit. This
includes the university student, no nistter how
sophisticated he is, how bored with the world
or bow disillusioned he may be. There's some
thing in the air that says: Cheer up! Forpct
your worries, dull cares and heavy burdens!
Christmas is here!
And what is this (Thristmas spirit that so
affects us all! A feeling of friendliness, a d'
sire to give, to lighten the burdens of others, to
be happy, to smile, to laugh, cheer!
These are wonderful sentiment, never too
old. never worn out or overused, tremendous in
their powers and far reaching in their effect.
When filled with this Christmas spirit we are
inclined to love our enemiea, forget our wrongs
nd believe in the goodness and kindness of
everyone.
With 6uch a generosity of good will it is
to be regjetted tliat Chriatmas come but once
a year, but even at that it does more than its
share to cheer up this dull old world and make
us better beings, iiay its effect be lasting
throughout the yearl
Collins Discusses Remains of Two
Ships Submerged Since Before 1446
Feeling Our I'ulse.
ljut Monday and Tueaday, students at the
University of Washington went to school with
out their notebooks and textbooks. All classes
met retrularlv, but instead of hearing lectures,
student filled out four-page questionnaires
containing 150 question aimed at a survey to
raiue the quality of leaching at the University
of Washington to the highest possible level.
Kah class was given opportunity to make an
appraisal of its professors and courses.
In explaining the research, the inosi ex
haustive ever conducted in the United States,
President M. Lyle Spencer said: "The thief
bar tn the improvement of teaching is our lack
of sufficient information to answer many ques
tiona concerning it.
"Students alone," he said, "know how
interesting they found the course; how clear
the assignments were to them ; how much work
they expended to the course; how the person
ality of the instructor impressed them ; to what
extent ther were stimulated to participate in
class diseuftsions, or how well they could hear
ihe lecturer."
In commenting upon possible results of
ihe plan, the editor of the student daily re
mark that it is unfortunate that more weight
has not been generally given in the academic
work to excellence of teaching in determining
faculty promotion. It is a bit incongruous in
a college, where student supposedly come to
be instructed, that the merils of classroom in
struction count little in raising instructors on
th college ladder. It is almost entirely re
sea rh arid writing, outxide of class hours,
which win coveted positions. The study, he
suggests, maj- aid in pointing out a way to
evaluate instruction and to place the cry of
"research, research" in a different light.
Here on the Nebraska campus there is a
great ned for a survey which will feel the
intellectual pulse by means of a quiz of meth
odology and Instructional" personnel. Such a
test, scientifically designed, would brinjr out n
Hvstematie collection of student judgments on
those aspects of courses on which the student
may be presumed to hae some reliability.
Fossils tn general Hfltf tm tn
particular were featured In the
n tpi'ar museum radio talk, broad-ca-st
over the university radio stu
dio by K. G. Collins, asalatant cur
ator of the museum.
Speaking of foasila In general.
Mr. Collins used a remark made
by a little girl who had been 11a
tenlng to him aa he conducted, a
group of school children oa a tour
about the museum. At the close
of proceedings the lltUe girl told
her teacher that she would have
enjoyed the tour much more If the
curator explores J iwt what a foa
sil" was.
Discusses Term.
The idea had not come to Mr.
Collins that people not aasoctaled
with a museum continually should
not be familiar with the term, and
in an attempt to remedy his mis
take he entered into a dlscuaalon
of the meaning of the term. To
quote the curator. "Today the
word'fofsil' means the remains of
bvgone animals and plants, such
things as you see here In Mor
rill hall In abundance. But that
is the modern and restricted
meaning of the word fossil.
"There was a time when It
meant a great deal more than
that. Literally it means anything
that has been dug up. and It waa
long used tn that broad sense,
whether It was a coin. Jewel piece
of earthen ware or a shell, they
wera all spoken of aa foeaua."
Emphaires Ships.
The fossils In particular which
Mr. Co Ulna devoted moat of his
talk to, are such la the older aenae
of the word. The particular foa
e'Ja were two ships. Imperial plea
sure barges which have laid on
the bottom of Lake Nemi, a lake In
the Alban mountains, about 17
miles southwest of Rome, since the
Mrlv dfivs of the Roman empire.
From time to time there have
been attempts to raiaa these
barpes. The first came tn the year
1446, when a prominent engineer
was invited by the government to
see what he could do. He failed
and about a 100 years later In
1535, another try waa made. This
time a diver went down and gained
only a small harvest and did a
good deal of damage to the relics.
A third attempt waa not made
until 1827 when eight men went
down in a diving bell. They
brought up more material than
had ever before been secured
This is now In the museum at
Home. In 1695 further unsucceas
ful attempts were made, but the
only results have been more dam
age done to the relics by rescue ra
than by water and time together.
Government Stop a
After the fiasco hi 1895 the Ital
ian government forbade any Indi
vidual attempts being made and
then called In a naval engineer
who made a thorough survey of
things. He decided that the
barges could not be brought up
without destruction. He advised
that the only way to get at them
was to lower the surface of the
lake some seventy feet or so.
Aa many people wera Interested
the matter was brought to the at
tention of Prima Minister Musso
lini who promptly oroVred work
being started on it. The project
necessitated pumping the water of
the lake jut Into an old Roman
conduit which waa repaired for
that purpose. This pumping began
in 1028 and now, nearly a year
later, the first of the bargea Is
uncovered.
Find Uttle Value.
Very little of value Is to be
found about It- The wreck mea
sures some eighty feet in length
many of the ribs are In position
and between them and the leaden
plates of the outside there has sur
vived a quantity of thick felt. It
Is hoped that by the end of the
year the other barge will be In
sight, though probably only some
such a reward aa waa discovered
In the first one will be found.
The curator expressed the re
gret felt by many at the destruc
tion, or at least the spoiling for a
few years, of the beautiful lake,
sometimes called the Mirror of Di
ana. Lake Nemi is situated in an
old crater In the side of an extinct
volcano. The lake waa some ten
mUaa In circumference and some
100 feet deep. Rocky cliffs tower
above it some 300 feet, and these
are surrounded by heavy woods.
These woodlands were at one time
considered sacred to the Goddess
Diana.
A Merry Christmas
To Everybody
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If Santa Claus had the
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llr'tl sec tltnl yon got
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