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PHI BETA KAPPAS
a 8 A HEW A III) for neaily four year of feeding
lntructor verbal taffy and of cramming a
number of undry facu Into their brain. fittylwo
jNnraka eniom and graduate were eietieu to
membership ia Fhl Beta Kspp Tuedy im-ruing.
It la aafe to aumo that lf than half of thU
number wer really deserving of any honor that
can possibly be associated with thl acholastlc fra
ternity. It U also af to aay that probably fifty
I wo othera wer equal or auperlor to thoa cuoaen.
Th biggest fallacy In Thl Beta Karpa tnal
the honor U based on grade rather than scholar
hip. It haa often been atated that any normal
student can be a Thl Beta Kappa if be cIi.h.m- the
proper course and proer instructor, and devote,
a llttla attention to atudy. Unfortunately thla al
legation ia trua.
Thi Bet Kappaa aie the luiky lade and lassie
who have picked their teachera and course wisely.
Of course they have studied but the honor they
have received doe not denote keennes of intellect
but ability to catalog faitual information In their
Bind ao that they can call It forth whenever
needed.
Such generalisations a are made above are
aubject to qualification. To be sure there are a
number of Thl Beta Kappas wbo have pursued dif
ficult eubjects and have mastered them. There are
a number who represent some of the best minds
in the senior cla. But that des not now lor me
entire fifty-two who have. In the majority, led a
cloistered life while attending university. They are
emerging this spring with nothing but a P. B. K.
key and a diploma to show for four years of con
centration on grade getting.
High scholarship and high giades are not
synononious tiTina though they arc frequently em
ployed as such. Too many students gel a slightly
perverted view of the situation and bend their ef
forts toard making high marks instead of per
manently assimilating the subject matter of their
courses. As a matter of fact, there are a number
of courna offered In thi university that are not
worth spending enough time on to make a grade
well up In the nineties. There is some sense of
achievement if such a course is mastered, but it
would bo better for the individual to spend a part
nf hi time on fnui'b!ng e!e.
Scholarship, when separated from the grade
aspect that is o often connected with it, is what
all university students should be aiming toward.
The criterion of high scholaiship. however, is not
to be found In high grades.
Another sorry situation which so often results
from the selection of Phi Beta Kappas is the smug
ness that these newly elected members demonstrate
in associating with other students. This was very
obvious last year and probably will be noted this
year. These key wearers feel themselves to be the
intelligent of the university, believe whatever
they say cannot be Justly challenged by anyone
who Is not a Thl Beta Kappa, and pronounce the
organization to which they have been elected
Phee Beta Kappa, which Is asinine.
This egoism is very diFgusting. Those who
maintain this attitude have missed the gist of
their entire education. The more learned a person
really is, the more he should recognize bis in
dividual Inferiority in the maze of facts which con
fronts the world today. To set himself up as
smarter and mightier than the others is where he
prove he ia not deserving of Thi Beta Kappa
honon. Instead this election should provoke in
him a humbleness and a recognition of the vastness
of the field of learning in which he has been per
mitted to browse.
IT SMOKE THEY MUST
AT Northwestern university, where coeds clut
tered up all the campus eating places and
generally made themselves obnixious by puffing
cigareta continuously, students rerently petitioned
to allow them to have private smoking rooms in
dormitories and sorority houses.
The coeds and the men both sought to have
the university permit women's inhaling establish
ments. A questionnaire circulated by the Daily
Northwestern revealed a 20-to-l majority in favor
of women'i amoking rooms. The university authori
ties are expected to take favorable action shortly.
Tha situation at Nebraska is, to a degree,
analogous to that at Northwestern. Coeds sneak
out on fire escapes, seclude themselves in closets,
invade campua coffee shops, and in the warmer
weather take refuge in automobile ; In order that
they may "enjoy" a good, healthy smoke.
With the gradual disappearance of the double
standard In everything, nearly everyone recognizes
that women have aa much right to smoke when
and where they please as men. Parenthetically,
thla prevalent palaver about a single standard haa
resulted in pulling the women down to the men's
level instead of raising the men to a higher plane.
But the single standard reigns, and women
are supposed to be on an equal footing with their
boy friends. In advocating that steps similar to
those taken at Northwestern be followed at Ne
braska, there is no desire to cultivate a taste for
smoking among women. In reality, smoking rooms
probably would lessen the craze for cigarets. Smok
ing rooms for women are needed at Nebraska to
get the coeds and their inevitable cigarets out of
sight to some extent.
If coeds may srnoke in their living quarters,
it will lessen their desire to puff incessantly wher
ever they can possibly Inhale without being criti
cized. With an appreciable percentage of Ne
braska's coeds reaching for cigarets instead the
university's unwillingness to recognize the situation
makes it doubly objectionable.
Why need there be such puritanical restric
tions if smoke they must?
LIFTING THE LOAD.
VTHENEVER anything goes wrong in a univer
aity the buck is passed from band to hand in
irua American style to the prexy, chancellor, presi
dentor whatever you may choose to call him. He
get the kicks from the taxpayers, from the re
gent, trustees or curators, from the faculty, and
from the students.
And that isn't all. He must represent the uni
versity OS all sorts of occasions, head campaigns,
supervise hudget making, hire and fire, lecture and
run a college. Max McConn. dean of Ivhigh uni
versity, tells these woes of a university prexy In
the eurrent issue of the North American Review.
a he points to the turnover of more than 7 peuent
in college preident during the pat nine months.
What lan McConn propose la a new way of
governing the unlveraity. II believe that asking
one man to bead uth an Inetitullon I entiiely too
much that It Is a man-killing Job today. Ilia In
terests cannt be broad enough to see the aides of
the faculty, th atudenta. and the taspayer. He
side thl th faculty, tnctuduig pecialUt uperior
in thrir field to him, reaenta being ruled by on
iron hand.
To lift the load from prexy shoulder Mr. Me
Conn euggetta the aubatitution of a board to be
composed of aix faculty member a. three alumni and
three undergraduate honor tudent. Elect iona
would be held periodically ao no on clique might
control the situation permer-eni'v tf ,,, wf,rW '
being done unsatiafactortly. Over thl board would
be trustee (for endowed schools) and the regenta
for stale and municipal universale). But th-e
groupa wouldn't do anytbmg unless omethlng radi
cal happened In operating th university.
Applied to Nebraska. It woukl be fiiteresling to
see how uih a plan would work. Dean McConn
firmly believe that mmi choo aomewhere la go
ing to try something along tbla line. Experiments
have been made in all other phaaea of the univer
sity project In studying and in teaching, he says.
Why not next in administration and government?
rY COL'ltSK It would be folly to advocate such a
proposition at Nebraska In the first place.
Nebraska isn't given over to experimentation es
pecially along educational line. The University of
Nebraska chiefly because of Ha insufficient funds
and eecond'y because of the ery conservative na
ture of it a people when It cornea to anything In the
field of higher learning, has seldom been a leader In
new thlnga.
Dean McConn plan, however, would solve sev
eral problem that will remain problem until a
change in the governmental arrangement of unlver
slties i effected. All the Interest of a university
would be represented. All proposition would be
threshed out on a bai of their merit a een by
the composite group of governors faculty, stu
dent, and alumni.
Nobody would hold the club. And no one per
son would shoulder all the complaint. Introduc
tion of uch a plan would not be a slap at the head
of a univefity. but a system promoted aolely for
the welfare of the institution. Were it Introduced
there is little doubt but that this head would be re
tained as chaltman of the board. With his past
experience and with others to aid him and give him
new point of view auch a plan seems admirable In
every respect.
But it wouldn't be ao popular In tate universi
ties as Nebraska where "democratic" taxpayers
from Valentine to Rulo want their representatives
and no other to run their school. Tt don't
make so much difference to them how it is run as
it does who Is running it. .
And that is what' mighty unfortunate for Ne
braskana and for their university.
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BANQUET ON TUESDAY
Meeting Is Held at Grand to
Honor Fiftieth A.S.M.t.
Anniversary.
Nrbianka section and student
branch of the American tfoelety
of Mechanical Kiigineera held a
banqut Slant night at the Grand
hotel lu commemoration of th
fiftieth anniversary of th organ
Itnliim Mimilsr mwlire were
held at all the branches through
out the country and a national
mrrtiug was held In Washington,
D. C.
Th program consisted of a set
of alidea dealing with th history
and development of the organisa
tion and the progress made in
mechanical engineering during
that time. Two recorded mes
sages, one by Calvin W. Rlc. na
tional secretary, and the other by
Dr. William K. Durand. ex-preai-dent,
were given at the banquet.
These message were th am aa
the ones delivered at the national
meeting In Washington. Prof. A.
K. Bunting acted as toastmaster
in the place of li. J. Latimer, Ne
braska president, who was unable
to attend. Italph K. Guatafson,
mechanical engineering. 'SI, pre
sented a few musical numbers.
Fiftieth anniversary medal
were preacnlcd to foreign repre
sentatives from all over the world
who attended the meeting. Presi
dent Hoover was among th engi
neer presented with medals.
MILESTONES
AT NEBRASKA
1925.
Spring vacation: no paper.
1920.
Delta Omca soiority waa In
stalled as a chapter of Kappa
Delta.
General Argapetian of Armenia
spoke at convwatlon.
Silver Serpents presented the
"Big Circus" for sophomore and
Junior women.
1915.
The Dramatic club presented
"The Man Krom Home" at the
Temple.
The students who had been on
WESTERN WOMEN IN BUSINESS.
BUSINESS women do not enjoy the same prestige
in the east as in the west, according to a state
ment made recently by Mrs. Lola Cranston, mana
ger of an apartment hotel for women in New York j
City. Mrs. Cranston Insists that she speaks witn
authority since she has lived in both part of the
country.
Mrs. Cranston aay that in the west the business
women are still considered as something of a phe
nomenon and are admired for their courage and ,
independence. Men find them good sports and i
pleasant companions. Their married women friends
consider them interesting and invite them to their
homes, she says. But when business women go to
New York they find that they are no longer heroines
became there are too many others.
Mrs. Cranston claims It 1 hard to make friend
ships because married people who might be congen
ial live in the suburbs and their social activity re
volves around exclusive clubs. Most single people
are busy, she says, and absorbed in their own prob
lems. They look upon business women aa more
competitors and consequently are reserved, difficulty
to meet, and suspicious of etrangera.
At any rate women who plan to enter business
have a much more Inviting outlook In Nebraska
than in eastern states. The frigidity and reserve as
sociated with the eaat does not prevail in the cor- I
dial middle west. The western girl is by far the
luckier even if she must wait a month or so longer j
for eastern fashions. j
This description of New York, often romantically i
pictured in its glamor and intense activity, might
well be taken to heart by Nebraska coeds who have
cherished fond dreartlB of making a wonderful go
of things away from home ties and warm Nebraska
friendships.
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OUT IN THE OPEN.
To the editor:
The many articles expressing opinion through
the columns of The Daily Nebraskan, "With Fire
and Sword," remarks of "A Free Citizen." and
worse yet to come, cause the writer to wonder why
all the long range stuff. One would think they
were a million miles apart and could strike at each
other and institutions only with written words and
printed circulars. The truth is they are all on the
same campus.
If these individuals really have grievances why
do they not call a mass meeting of the students,
give vent to their feelings, and air their several
opinions? The Coliseum is excellently suited to this
purpose. Let it be known that on a set day and hour
all those Interested In voicing their ideas regarding
the university, its program, and its personnel, may
come hither and do ao.
To have grievances is natural and usual. To
express them in some conventional way is sensible.
To harbor them until they become an obsession Is
foolish. To circulate them anonymously and attack
someone in a scurrilous manner is both cowardly
and dastardly. Come out in the open and state your
case. We like to see the color of the fellow's eyes
who is shooting at us.
To state that everything is the best possible on
our fair campus today is not true of course. Things
could be altered and perhaps for the better. But
tbe writer doubts if there is any faculty member
who is not anxious to meet any student half way.
For these individuals to think that this university
can be run to suit the wishes and whiaaa of a few is
erroneous and egotistical.
If you have a cae, state it in sn open tJiscussion
ami abide by the wishes, aesiies. and needs of the
majority.
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1110.
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Th member of th junior clas
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The annual staff announced that
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Ual painter raised their trik
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