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FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1931.
The Nebraskan
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"Why don't young men tare
(about politics)?" is both asked
and answered in the July Harpers
bv Harold J. Laski, former Uni
versity of London faculty member
who has been at Yale and Harvard
recently.
As is visually the case, Laski
draws a comparison between the
situation in this country and that
in England where college men as
pire to the house of commons. He
also comments on the influence of
students in the recent Spanish
revolution and the political role
played in general by European
students.
In the United States he finds the
college students contemptuous of
politics as practiced thruout the
country and prefering to the more
lucrative positions in business.
Politics regarded as an interlude
in the pratice of law, a winter oc
cupation for the farmer but al
most never as the position of one
who aims to high statesmanship
as his life work.
"In America a debate is an art
ificial episode in which some ab
stract theme is debated between
rival, if highly trained teams, with
out party context of any kind,"
states Laski. A glimpse into the
Nebraska legislature during its last
session might change a few of the
London professor's ideas on this
subject.
Eut the general condition which
he describes is true. With the ex
ception of a few specializing in
political science, students pay little
attention to political affairs of the
state or the country. Even when
interests vital to the university
were being discussed by the legis
lature, a class examination brought
to light the fact that many had no
conception of the issues.
Such lack of interest in political
affairs by students and graduates
of the university has made it pos
sible for politicians to pass laws
detrimental to the best interest of
the educational institutions of the
state. And the responsibility for
such actions can be placed, at least
in part, at the feet of those who
have or now are studying at the
university.
"The youth of a nation are the
trustees of posterity," declared
Disraeli, the great statesman. To
attain full stewardship they must
exercise the citizenship which is so
vital to that trusteeship.
NEBRASKA TEACHERS
STUDY AT COLUMBIA
tiveral Nebraskans have been
taking giaduate work at Colum
bia university this summer in
preparation for their Th. D. degree
in school administration, according
to reports received by R. D. Mor
itz, director of the summer session.
Among those taking the gradu
ate work are Paul Siedel of Wa
hoo; Glenn Kendall, Harvard;
Howard R. Best, Wayne; O. H.
Bimson, assistant superintendent
of the schools at Lincoln; Paul W.
Harnley, principal at Grand Is
land, and Galen Saylor of Water
loo. Fitfully Group Inspects
Kan-aH Fossil Diggings
Dr. E. H. Barbour, Prof. E. F.
Schramm, and Henry Reider
left Wednesday morning for
Reasville, Kas., where they will
visit the bone quarry which is
yielding fossil treasures to univer
sity excavators, G. B. Schulze,
Frank Crabill, E. L. Blue, and Eu
gene Vanderpool.
The three faculty representa
tives will remain at the Kansas
quarry until Saturday when they
will return by way of Ravenna
where a Nebraska fossil bed will
be inspected.
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WHAT THEY SAY
HOPE FOR COLLEGE EX
AMINATIONS. Facts brought out by speakers
at the Institute for Administrative
Officers of Higher Education at
Chicago indicate that undergradu
ates of the United States are soon
to be released from the irksome
bondage of the memory type of
examination.
The progiam advocated by the
group has already been adopted in
many courses on this campus, but
much remains to be done, and sug
gestions made at the institute are
readily applicable to the local
situation.
Ben D. Wood of Columbia col
lege has summed up the ills of the
noDular examination in a rather
deft two paragraphs:
"We have grossly underesti
mated the importance of the ex
amining function of education. Ex
amining can be done well only at
the expense of time, talents and
money. We have had little exam
ining in this country, if by exam
ing we mean a measure of indi
vidual growth. Our tests have been
unrelated and distorted snapshots,
not a record of development. Ex
aminations do not and cannot de
termine education, but they should
be a helpful guide to the student
testing his powers.
"The important thing is to ascer
tain what the student has learned
by virtue of being alive, regardless
of what course he has or has not
taken. He should know as much
about the building of Ford cars
as he does about the construction
of Caesar's bridge."
Dr. Wood is entirely correct
about underestimating the impor
tance of the examining function of
education; in the process an unfor
tunate stress has been laid upon
the outworn types of examination
without suflicient consideration of
their merits. Usually examina
tions are a mere mechanical hur
dle for the undergraduate, entail
ing a large amount of "cramming"
and memorization, but revealing
not at all the student's aptitude or
mental growth.
The institute hopes that rather
than abandon examinations alto
gether as a useless waste of time.
a system can be populated
whereby the student's progress in
the ability to think effectively in
new situations can be measured.
The new plan will also measure
the student's growth in the range
of reading interest and in his
power to use the skills he has been
taught.
Types of examinations advocated
are the essay type confined to a
single subject with a time limit of
several hours, objective tests sim
ilar to the ordinary intelligence
test, and problem examinations in
which a student is given a task to
perform on his own resources in
from one to three weeks.
If these new educational theories
can be popularized, university
studies will become more and more
effective as highways to culture
for all undergraduates who rcallv
belong in institutions of higher
learning.
Lnder them instructors will get
away from the idea of trying to
find cut how much a student has
remembered and whether or not he
has done his daily assignment; .ex
aminations will become a construc
tive part of every course rather
than the positive demoralizing in
fluence they often are at the pres
ent time. From The Daily Iowan.
Lackey Chosen
For
Discussion
Lead
cr
Professor E. E. Lackey, of the :
department of geography, will next
week attend the meetings of the
World Federation of Education, in
Denver. Professor Lackey meets
with the National Council of Geog
raphy Teachers as federated with
the larger group and there he will
have charge of one of the discus
sion periods dealing with the "ele
ments and possibilities of geogra
phy that should aid in teaching in
ternational understanding and co
operation." LUNCHES
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No White Elephants, But Nearly
All Other Kinds In Morrill Hall
By ZELLA M. ANDREWS.
No, Elephant Hall is not a place
to park your "white elephant," but
a hall in the Morrill museum
where many interesting specimens
of prehistoric mammoths may be
seen.
At the present time, men may
be seen there, toiling and sweat
ing, planning and measuring, for
the mechanics of mounting an ele
phant head is not so easy as it
may sound.
A few days ago, workmen
erected a scaffold more than four
teen feet high preparatory to the
mounting of a specimen known as
Elephas jeffersoni, by Mr. Reider
and Frank Bell, preparators of the
museum, under the direction of
Dr. Barbour.
This specimen, which weighs 500
pounds, was collected in 1915 near
Campbell, Franklin county, Ne
braska. A great deal of measuring
is required to get just the correct
"pose" and the accurate spread of
the tusks, which in this specimen
are thirteen feet long. Suspension
is from the roof rather than from
the ceiling as it appears. When
finished, the head will be about
fourteen feet to the top of the
skull which is about the actual
height of the animal. The skeleton
will not be mourned.
In the very aear future, Elephas
jeffersoni in all its elephantine
hugeness, may be seen mounted at
the south end of the hall directly
in front of a picture of these early
ON THE CAMPUS
DAWES STUDENTS ARE ALL
FROM CHADRON.
The six students from Dawes
county are all listed from Chad
ron. The number is equally divided
into three women and three men.
Nell Morrisey Brannon, Marguer
ite Morrisey and Florence Gothoff
Noyes are all taking graduate
work toward degrees. Lyle Vernor.
Andrews and Benjamin F. Crites
are also enrolled in the graduate
college. Raymond Richard Noyes,
who will teach in Chadron this
year, is a senior in Teachers col
lege. DUNDY STUDENTS LISTED.
Of the five students from Dundy
county attending the summer ses
sion, two are from Benkleman.
They are Mabel Berneice Lewis, a
sophomore in Teachers college, and
Leonard Lyle Dunn, a freshman in
Teachers colle e.
Ellen DelyU Lasley and R. Har
vey Porter are- from Parks. Ellen
Lasley is- a freshman and Mr.
Porter is a junior in Teachers col
lege. Dwight Eugene Catlett is the
only student from Haigler. He is
taking graduate work towarc an
advanced degree and will teach at
Nebraska Wesleyan university
during the coming year.
FOUR FROM LEXINGTON.
Evelyn Betser, Florence Eliza
beth Peterson, Paul Harvey Ja
cobs and Montford Reginald Kiffin
are registered from Lexington.
Twelve are enrolled from Dawson
county.
Evelyn Betser is a sophomore
and is studviner nursiner trainintr at
the college of medicine at Omaha.
is enrolled in the colleere of arts
and sciences. Both men are taking
work in the graduate college
toward advanced degrees. Both
will return to teach at Lexington
this year.
Floyd A. Davis and Edwin
Charles Edwards are registered
from Sumner. Mr. Davis, who will
teach at Sumner, is taking gradu
ate work. Mr. Edwards is a senior
in the college of business adminis
tration. .
Marguerite F. Hassersmith is
the only student from Farnam.
SANDWICHES
SUNDAES
PHARMACY
C. E. BUCHHOLZ. Mgr.
proboscidian creatures painted by
Miss Elizabeth Dolan.
Another specimen of Elephas
jeffersoni collected last year near
Trenton, Neb., will be mountea anu
exhibited as soon as completed.
This specimen is much larger than
the one collected in iyio. &o iar,
onlv the laws, skull and tusks are
in. It is interesting to note that
this is the only pair of tusks yet
found unseparated. This win give
an absolutely correct spread,
which appears to be nine or ten
feet.
The lower jaw of a giant
"shovel tusker" was sent in this
week from Valentine, Neb., by Mr,
McGrew. a student of the univer
sity and a resident of Lincoln. At
present, this specimen may ie seen
in the workroom.
This "shovel tusker," so named
by Dr. Barbour because it resem
bles a shovel, is the only one of
this type in the museum. It is al
most complete and reminds one of
pictures of this type found by Roy
Chapman Andrews in Asia. Two
years ago, a "shovel jaw was
found, but the jaw and tusks were
very much longer but not so wide
as this new specimen. Imagine if
you can, the hugeness of the ani
mal that wagged this four and
one-half foot jaw.
"Shovel Jaws" are now being
found in southern as well as in
northern Nebraska. This species of
elephant seems to have had a wide
range, and there is a possibility
that they came directly to Amer
ica from Asia by the Bering
Strait route.
She is a sophomore in Teachers
college.
Sadie Jane Loibl and Florence
Mildred Morris list Cozad as their
home. Miss Loibl, who will teach
at Sargent this year, is a senior in
Teachers college. Miss Morris, who
will teach at Cozad, is a freshman j
in the same college. j
Cleo Hazel Bailey, a freshman in j
the agricultural college, and Eve- j
lyn Mayo Hubka, a freshman in j
Teachers college who will teach at !
Overton, are the two students en- i
rolling from Overton. j
Alma Pauline Holbein, who lives j
near Eustis, is a senior in Teach
ers college.
Five Are From Hardy.
Five women are attending the i
summer session form Hardy. All
have been taking work in Teachers
college. They are Marie Johanna
Christensen, sophomore; Lillian
Julia Hansen, freshman who will
teach at Hardy; Mary C. Moran,
junior and a teacher at Columbus,
and Helen Ann Sorenson and
Mabel Dorothy Sorensen, who are
freshmen and teachers at Hardy.
Hattie M. Brainard, who is tak
ing special work in Teachers col
lege, and Romona Alva Heins, fre
shman in Teachers college won will
teach at Big Springs, are from
Rusk in.
Martha A. Behling, who leaves
near Davenport, is a freshman in
Teachers college and will teach at
Davenport.
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ELEVEN FROM PAWNEE.
Eleven of the twenty-one stu
rents from Pawnee county attend
ing the summer session from Paw
nee City.
Five are taking work in the
graduate college toward advnaced
degrees. They are Mary Gene
vieve Fletcher; M. Mildred Krouch,
Edith Ann Little, who will teach
at Hastings; Maragret Olive Os
born and Vernon Edward Hungate;-'-.
who will teach at Wauneta. Olive .1
Elizabeth McClure is taking nurses .
training at the college of medicine
at Omaha. She is a junior.
Five are also enrolled in Teach
ers college. They are Vera Eliza
beth Callen, junior who will teach
at Sidney; Lois O. Madden, junior;
Frieda Ruth Miles, another third
year student who will teach in
Wawnee City, Emma Grace Fritz
and Miriam Calhoun Farker.
Three women are registered
from Table Rock. They are Elsie
May Petrasek, freshman in the
college of arts and .sciences: Olive
Wanda Tomek, teacher at Nemaha
and Velma Irene Wopata. The
last two are freshman in Teachers
colleg.e
Myrtle Ellen Knapp and Mian
Turnbull, sophomores in Teachers
college, and Robert Henry Knapp,
graduate student who will teach
at Burchard, are ine tnree irom
Burchard.
DuBois is also represented by
three students. Mrs. Reva Hun-
zeker is a sophomore in Teachers
college and will teach at DuBois
this week. Ernest T. Hein, who
will also -eturn to DuBois, is tak
ing graduate work. Ferald Os
wald Turner is a freshman in the
college of engineering.
Laura Mae Bookwalter is the
only student from Armour. She is
a junior in Teachers college and
will teach in Pawnee county.
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