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SIM)VY. AI'llll. (, 10.10 TVO TIIK DMI.Y NTIIR ASK. N The Daily Nibraskan official tTuocNT ublicatio UNIVfcHhlTV Or NHHkK Public TMHItr. Vdnd,, Thurtdty, PriSty, SunSt miin taring h (.umia. yr. TWINTV NINTH VlAR r ?' ' rid for lit etieri llOt. Ml r 0f t, ill', auinorift iwm'r " lUrtal Otic University Hall 4. aiiialHaaa Office Unlva'tMv Hall 4A, To Dn ! N'ghti MM. JIM (Journal) Aan lar Norr i'ior. UBCmTI0N RATI U a vaar Smsi Caay I aanla sM MiMitti Oana Uk taiar aaliwa.... Uteri Kelly Magrlaa Am WliHam McOaftin I mar Ikav .... Mrgr Oay DtK tlim LaVtiia Oilman Harl N. Andtratn W. J yea Ayrt Maian I. Oay Neal Oeman Maianall sWr .. LaHay Jack I0IT0KIAC STAFF Manalnf ISiter Umant Wail CeMDbutlns Idltara IdHanal 9ott4 UHNCSt STAFF tdilar . ..Aaaecia d'' William McCiaary William 0. Tayiai Fit! Wagnar parti (filar Mary Nichaia Piul C. Fmi Jaan Hathbom letter P. chick Cordon (. Laraau Harold K. Marcait suipN Fiaikai Alan WMHam uaman Manager Chant Lawier Laatar Lenmtytr STUDENT LEADERSHIP. RECOGNITION of the conflict Involving the fac- UHy lomniiurr ou miiuruv auan-., council, the Innocents e Icty. and the Mortar Board organlmtion came from the dean of student affairs la a lengthy letter to the Student council at Iti last meeting. This fctatement from the administration was the flirt frank discussion of a situation that baa been in sad need of reniody for some time. Dean Thompson ha put the matter entirely In the hands of the students where it should be. He has Indicated that the faculty does not wish to In terfere In legitimate enterprises as long as they re main such -which Is also as it should be. He sets forth clearly two needs In the field of student government. First Is the necessity for a renaissance" of school spirit, now overshadowed by Individual allegiance to minor organizations within the Institution. Second is the necessity of co-ordination between Innocents society, Mortar Board and Student council with the powers and pur poses of each organization clearly defined. Now that the matter Is up to the students It will be interesting to note what will happen. Will representatives from each organization and the fac ulty advisory committee make a thorough investiga tion into the existent situation with the idea of rec ommending constructive alterations, or will It dab ble along the remaining two months of school with out getting to the crux of the predicament in which Klra'a atitrijknr hrjv firtrla itr1f? off for tho who inherit breeding and good taats. Total depravity is no longer stub a blessed lux ury." Mr. Williams writes. And then Mr. Williams waxes eloquent an he soars upward: This new bunch la beginning to r that truth Includes beauty aa well a bunk. They will face and accept grim facta with th rent, but they don't revel an much In grlmness now. They re esaentially a healthier, mors norma) brood be cause they have com to their Intellectual birth in peace times." Mr. Williams exaggerates. Young men and young women In colleges today are hardly aa high minded aa he contends in bis fluttering article, gooey with taffy for militant youth whoa honor is lfr-rc!e The new birth that th!a r.cvu.-t" generation experiencing and the pew light it Is supponed to I seeing ar rather common platitudes that mean just nothing. In talking with youth, it is nice to be uptimi.ue and laudatory. But what does Mr. Williams aay outside the article? If he doesn't see plenty of bunkum and a reckless carelessness that Is appal- ling among a goodly share of those who "inherit breeding," he had better take off his rose-colored lectacles and look at the situation in light of the glorious sunshine under whlr-h college youth is basking. Giggling coeds who chortle unceasingly In front of Social Sciences these warm days, are worthy rivals for the howling hounds In campus dog pound, L e., the bamlike structure affixed on the leeward side of Pharmacy hall. After all the hardest thing to deal with - is an old pack of cards. STUDENT REFLECTIONS Will each group be willing to surrender a bit of j Its prestige, if need be, for the welfare of the uni versity, or will each cling jealously to Its old "tra ditions" rather than surrender them to the best interests of their school ? Will this committee bring forth a new constitution for the students to ratify at the May election, or will it be content to work under the old one with duties, powers and authority undefined? Now la the time for student leadership to make itself apparent, If any remains for such a demon stration. The Nebraskan has insisted that the sub jection of the Student council to the will of the fac ulty committee in all matters has tended to stifle leadership. Today a new era of student govern ment is at hand if the students will only seize it a new opportunity for this leadership to make itself manifest. Failure to make the most of this will give the faculty the perennial right to say students are in capable of forceful, constructive leadership and of assuming accompanying responsibilities. Students must throw aside their apathy and cast off their spirit of complacency in order thflt they may check the downward toboggan of student government. The crisis of this situation is at hand. The voice that the student body of today and tomorrow will have in extra-curricular affairs depends on action of student leaders at this time. Now is the opportu nity to show everyone that student leadership is not dead at the top. THE SCIENTIFIC MIND. The scientific spirit is a mental and emotional attitude which places truth above all other consid erations. It looks within. Into the Intrinsic merits of the object of observation. External gloss It takes for what It is worth. Blind predispositions, Inher ited prejudices, and empty dogmas it brushes aside. Avoiding snap judgments, It seeks causes and con sequences. It burns with the passion of sincere learning for the attainment of pure knowledge. This scientific point of view is too frequmily taken for granted as a natural and long-establlsned part of man's Intellectual equipment. It follows from this that its Importance is generally unuer rated. It wasn't so many years ago that churcn- men argued for days, and searched feverishly in tne Dooks, on the question of how many eggs can be ut in a basket, and stoned an enterprising young em piricist who suggested that a basket h proonmd, and Its egg-holding capacity be measured. The method of induction and experiment is of very re cent origin. Its revolutionizing of man's ways of thinking is distinctly one of the crowning achieve ments of modernity. Nor has the scientific mind become so common that it may be considered a fundamental factor In our present culture. Our empty mouthing of out worn and meaningless political creeds, the ease with which we are victimized by current propaganda. our distrust of the expert and the specialist, out blind worship of rugged individualism in a day oi collectivism, our emphasis upon property rights rather than human rights these are but a few or the indications which may be adduced to bear out the proposition that the scientific spirit has been but thinly diffused among the people. MISS HOFFMAN NAMEO AS METHODIST HEAD Staff of Council Is Selected at Friday Mcctinc of Religious Group. The MethodiM Ktudent council l its tegular rion Friday noon in the Temple cafeteria, held elec tion of of Mi era for the coming yt;;r. Tiny .. a.ik a muntxr of important matters of iniereMt lo the council members. The council is orgnnued to co nidiiiNte the iWiRioua life and ac tivity of the Mcthodidt students representing the nine Methodist churches win-re there art acllvs ct ii. lent groups. The activities for the council have b-en varied dur ing the year. It has been success ful in strengthening the student proj:rnm of each church represent ed and aln.i In sjumsoiing a num ber of religious projects among the students of the Methodist preference. The council is organized, presi dent, vice president, secretary, treasurer, and nine departments of religious activity The officers elected were as follows: president, Berenirce Hoffman: vice presi dent. Mildred Miller; secretary, In- gclxirg NeilHon; treasurer, Myron Kelley. The department heads were clotted as follows: visitation and church relation, Mildred Miller; world missions. Avis Alden; reli gious education. Howard Bonnett, vocational guidance, Mildred Roh rer; social activities, J. Howard Brawn; student organizations. Neva Beth Turner; publicity, Adele Kislrr; business administra tion, trensurcr, Myron Kelley. Among other Items of business that were taken up was the coming of Pr. K. Guv Cutshall. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, April 8th, Pth and 10th. next week. The group was also asked to express themselves regarding the observ ance of Holy week for students and faculty at the University F.piscopul church, where plans for united services are Deing maue. The council unanimously approved both of these events and pledged their hearty co-operation for their success. elves successfully engaged In the teaching of pluloaophy and y etiology and literature. (members Pupils. Whether they finished in 190 or 10211, lr. Alexander keeps In touch with them, reuieiiitcr iAg their Changed addreaaea, their marriages, and their professional achievements In a catalog of graduates which Is one of hi lighter employments." Among the many students who hava taken work under him U Dr. C. IL Pattemon, at prewnt affiliated with the t'liivermty of Nebraaka philosophy derailment. Dr. Patterson, aside from bis Uai Inns. b alieaiy gained recognition In the field of writ ing and lecturing, having Wen an author of philoaophlcal text books and also being sought as a speaker for many occasions. Dr. Alexander, the scholar. Is presented In these word, taken from Miss Moore's account: "Not alon because b la a learned scholar hava so many great uni versities called him to be guent. lecturer the Sorhonne In l arln, Columbia university, the School for Social Research at Chicago, held In the city auditorium. The debating board picked the memlH-ra .( the 11MI3 Intercollegi ate debating team. The Omaha Western leagti baseball team defeated Nebraska, a to 0. The Hon W. J. Bryan spike to Ag college students. COCIIKAX Vll.!,SPKAK AT :o.i) AM) awui "George Washington and His MILESTONES AT NEBRASKA GET MARRIED, MEN! "OLLEGIO marriages and Phi Eeta Kappa honors ' walk band in hand, according t" John H. Mueler, The development of this Intellectual point oi view Is a prime function of the university, and a first charge upon the student In part, the univer sity has been eminently successful. In the labora tories of the physical sciences, the application or the scientific method almost attains perfection. In the realm of social, economic, and political thinking, the scientific method is conspicuously lacking. This may be due In part to the youth and immaturity of the social sciences, but there are other causes for this situation. A fundamental cause for the .student's inability to think scientifically along social lines is his lack of information. Very few students read anything that is of real social significance, aside from what is required to be read in the text-books. A small minority of the students read the intelligent portions of the newspapers. A still smaller section of the student body read the current magazines which are grappling with the momentous issues of the day. How many students have read one thoughtful book dealing with a topic of economics, religion, social institutions, education, or politics, during the past semester, purely on their own volition? How many students ever read such magazines aa The New Re public, The Survey, Current History, The Nation, Harper's, The Atlantic, nay, even the Literary Di gest and The American Mercury? The magazine room in the library, small as it is, is generally empty. It is stating it conservatively professor at the University of Oregon. Records have shown that the highest grades are made by j to assert that fully half of the students of this uni married students, says Mueler. One married woman at Oregon made a 95 percent average during the past semester. Married students are more prone to realize ex- versity are not aware of the fact that there is a magazine and periodical room on the second floor of the main library. There is old saying, "What you don't know can't hurt you." A corollary to this actly why they are in school, the professor says. may be stated thus: "If you don't know, you don't Most couples who are not living i-- luxury know realize there is a hurt." Intelligent thinking about that they must make the best of their opportunities , social problems is impossible if the very existence while they can. Few married couples are supported of those problems is not comprehended by their parents as are the average unmarried ones. Single students think too much about dates and a The reason for this lack of consideration of the ALEXANDER WILL ADDRESS SPECIAL STUDENT MEETING (Continued From Page l.j everyone of them would testify that without Alexander the group would have been very different; it would have lost in teal and helpfulness. With Alexander in the group, it could never be in effective or dull." The magazine account brings out a close association between Alexander and Keene Abbott "The young writers wanted to publish a periodical," states the author of the wrlteup. "I was for delay, until we had mamr scripts ahead for a year's nun bers. Alexander was for prompt action and got it. So the Kiote appeared. It was offered to the public as mature literature, not as apprentice work, ana it was well received." From Nebraska, states the ar ticle, Alexander went aa a stu dent of philosophy to the Uni versity of Pennsylvania and later to Columbia university, where he received the degree of doctor of philosophy. In each of these uni versities he held a fellowship. For some years after his work as a student, Alexander was an editor, first of the New Inter national Encyclopedia, then of Webster's dictionaries. "One re sult of this hard labor," the story brings out, "was writers cramp; in a letter he announced it aa the first recognition he had received." When Dr. Alexander had com pleted his work for the publish' ers of Webster's dictionaries, he came to the University of Ne braska as professor of philosophy. Here he became chairman of the department of philosophy, which nosition he retained until his formal resignation from the staff. Appearing in the same issue of Present Day American Literature were three other articles devoted to Dr. Alexander. Some excerpts from his long list of contributions to the poetical world are also published in the July, 1929, issue of this magazine. Especially pertinent is the ar ticle "Alexander, the Man," by Ruth Stanley Moore, which sets forth the former Nebraskan in the light of an educator and a scholar. This is what Miss Moore has to say regarding Dr. Alex ander: "Whether at seminar or In class, one secret of his success as a teacher is the genuine In terest he has ir. his students. For twenty years his famous philos ophy courses at Nebraska, lib eral educations in themselves, drew into them from all depart ments of the university the most brilliant and gifted of student good time, while married students know that work , genuine problems of the day by the student body : minds, until now these students comes before play. The married folk are advancing their standing in life by securing a higher education, Mr. Mueler concludes, while the average single student attends college merely because he ha&n't anything else to do. While we hesitate to recommend immediate mar riages for those down in hours, there certainly seems to be adequate grounds for Mr. Mueler's statements. Perhaps a four-year marriage might be arranged for those who are persistent flunkers. Then, at graduation, they would once more become independent, free to go out ar:d conquer the outside world. THE NEWEST GENERATION. A FELLOW by the name of Jesse Lynch Williams, in an article in a recent issue of a college humor magazine, announces bis discovery of a "newest" generation that has discarded the bad manners of the post-war bunch and the bunk of that period for truth and beauty. Ilia story is designed to make the college boys and girls today appear sanctified in a sublime at mosphere of carefree existence. He is another one of these daubers who sketch youth of today aa finer, freer, more noble, and more chivalrous than ever before. The collegiate press is filled with their comment Just aa it is practically devoid of the criti cisms heaped on the "coming" generation of an opposing legion of narrow-minded fogies. 'The novelty of bad manners, it seems, has worn are many. One may cite the sprawling size of our institutions, the lack of proper financial support, the over-emphasis of extra-curricular activities (most of which are of doubtful cultural value), the stress upon specialization of study, the lack of high and selective entrance requirements, the indiscrim inate mixing of serious and frivolous students. Of i course, back of these factors are others which are part of the foundation of our whole modern civiliza- tion, such as the widespread exaltation of material wealth, the emphasis upon external power and show, ; the general lack of poise and social integration, the j rawness and confusion of our culture. The stream j of thought among university students is but a re- flection of the world's stream. . While the undergraduate may feel unequal to the task of enlarging the material bulk of the knowl edge which he baa, still he may catch its spirit and spread it To know that the realities of life are to be actively sought for, and not to be glossed over or ignored, to meet each fresh idea with an inquir ing mind to do this much will go a long way In helping to raise the general standard "f our social institutions. Abstract knowledge is not an end in itself. Given a fact what of it ? And given a prejudice or dogma, what are the facts? Education and the educative" process should lead one out of the darkness and i blindness into the domain of scientific thinking. The : scientific mind should be the student's moral and : intellectual goal. I may be found in collegiate posi tions all over the country, them- Davis Coffee Shops Day and Night 108 N. 13 Facing Campus 1131 R Fountain Service RENT CARS Models "A" Fords, Chevrolet sixes and fours and Reo Wol verines and Flying Clouds. 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