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Official Summer Session Newspaper.
VOL. II NO. 16.
FRIDAY, JULY 31, 1931.
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
SK.-21H
SOCIAL DELEGATES
DISCUSS
PROBLEMS
OF LOCAL ACTIVITY
,'
Sixth Institute Meetings Are
Center of Light on
Problems.
Burt County Sends Official
Delegate to Session
From Oakland.
With good attendances at each
discussion period the Sixth Social
Work Intitute has, during the past
few days, been considering the
means of stimulating local devel
opment in social work with the
realization that the state depart
ment of public welfare, the univer
sity, and the state conference of
social work all have distinct con
tributions to make.
"These contributions, however,"
declared Miss Lillian Johnson, who
is directing the meetings, "can be
made only through the continuous
cooperation of clubs, civic organi
zations and individuals who are
able to analyze the problem in
their respective communities and
ask for advice and assistance."
An example of community in
terest which has immediately been
aroused is provided in Burt county.
Here the clubs and organizations
have sent Miss Kate O'Connor as
official county representative with
expenses paid. This interest is
said to be due partly to the fact
that Senator Newman, one of the
signers of the county unit plan bill
(Continued on Page 3).
ENGINEERS STUDY
Surveying Group Near Ash
land Studying Hydro
Electricity. In order that they might secure
practical experience n surveying
and in solving various civil engi
neering problems, thirty-eight stu
dents have been studying a hydro
electric project at "Camp Nebras
ka" near Ashland this smmer un
der the direction of Clark EL
Mickey, chairman of the depart
men of civil engineering.
The project, as constructed by
the students, involves building a
canal from the Platte to the
Elkhorn river and the building of
two reservoirs in order that water
may be stored for power purposes.
Under the plan, water would be
taken from the Platte river at a
point southeast of Valley and
Moutbwest of Waterloo and con
veyed east to the Elkhorn river.
A diversion canal would then take
the water from the Elkhorn river
Into reservoirs. Such a project
would be capable of developing
15,000 horsepower a considerably
larger power plant than ordinarily
in operation in the titate.
Altbo the work is undertaken
as If the project were to be started
at that time, the entire plan is as
yet only a study developed by the
civil engineering group. That this
particular project, however, is a
most practical one, baa"Ben the
opinion of those connected with
the work.
Aiding Professor Mickey in the
supervision of the work were I. A.
Crone.- instructor in applied
mechanics; D. If. Markness. in
structor in civil engineering, and
Ft. M. Clute, engineer with the
(Continued on Page 4.)
DENTAL PROFESSORS
PLAN SUMMER TRIPS
A tew of the Dental College Pro
fessors are planning short vaca
tions at the close of the summer
sesBion.
Dr. A. H. Schmidt and Dr. R. E.
Kturdevant will upend a few days
fishing on toe Platte at Schuyler, !
Neb.
Dr. F. Griess plans a trip into
Canada with his wife. !
POWER
PROJECT
Students Discuss AVic
Class Schedule Plan
Although few comments have
been received at the office of
the director of the summer
school regarding the proposed
elimination of afternoon classes
the suggestion has aroused
considerable favorable discus
sions among students. Reports
have been made to the Nebras
kan that a petition is being cir
culated by certain students who
w'sh to make the plan effective
next summer. .
PRAIRIE SCHOONER IS
READY FOR PRINTERS
Summer Issue of Literary
Journal Will Be On
Newstands Soon.
Editorial preparations for the
summer issue of the Prairie Schoo
ner have been completed and it
will soon be off the press. Dr.
Lowry C. Wimberly, editor of the
magazine, reports that material
for this issue has been drawn from
a wide range of sources. The fol
lowing contributors are authors of
articles, poems and short stories
in this number:
Jack Boone, Henderson, Tenn.;
Merle Constiner, Akron, Ohio;
Kenneth C. Randal, instructor at
Michigan Agricultural college: R.
Irvington Odell, New York City:
Earl Cranster. Omaha; Raymond
Kresensky, Bellevue, Iowa; Benja
min Appel, New York City; E. L.
Jacobs, Missouri: Patricia Buch-
ana, Lake Tanevcomo, Missouri:
Nita Muriel Thurston. Sherwood;,
Oregon; Maud E. Uschold, La con.
111.; Jane Groome Love. Washing
ton, D. C; Eva Lou Wildey. Den
ver, Colo.; and Prof. We F.
Thompson, Prof. M. S. Peterson,
members of the University of Ne
braska department of English.
Museum Preparator
Plans Eastern Trip
Henry Reider, preparator in
Morrill ball museum, leaves Aug.
1 for a vacation in the East. He
plans to spend several days in
specting the exhibits at Field Mu
seum in Chicago.
Educational Misfits Form Problem
For Teachers Who Must Help Them
An opinionated analysis of the reason high school pupils fail has
been made by editorial writers on the New York World-Telegram.
According to this analysis the 'wholesale failure of pupils' is one
of the most important problems facing school authorities. The edi
torial follows verbatim:
... .. ... o
in me report oi me superin
tendent of schools, out today, a
single paragraph in devoted to the
general problem represented by
the fact that more than a third of
the pupils who enter high school
faiL
The statistics presented-. bow
eve r, are -not so silent. They re
veal, if properly studied, that 37.8
percent of the pupils in high school
for the year ended June, 1830. were
unable to do the work offered.
This compares with 35.6 for the
previous year, an increase of 2.2
percent.
There can scarcely be a more
important problem facing the
public school authorities than the
wholesale failure of pupils who if
offered courses suited to their tal
ents might come thru with the ex
hilaration of success instead of the
discouragement of failure.
The single paragraph bearing on
the subject of high school failures,
written by Nathaniel AHbolz, di
rector of commercial education,
reads:
"How to salvage the enormous
mass of misfits that never become
adjusted to our present type of
training but hang on in high
school lust lorn enough to satisfy
the compulsory education law is a
formidable problem. The solution
seems to lie in the establish ment
of more trade schools and the of
fering of shortened business
courses in bi' school coupled with
a -itvwide clan of seereeation and
riit-M-tinn nf m'nili aXoaz channels
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GENERAL INCREASE IN
SUMMER
ATTENDANCE
Graduate Registration Plays
Important Role In
1931 Totals.
A general increase in summer
school enrollment over that of last
year has been reported from the
majority of schools over the
country, according to a prelimin
ary statement of summer session
registration received today by
R. D. Moritz, director of the sum
mer session. Of special interest is
the increase in the number of
students taking graduate work
during the vacation period.
In many schools the number of
graduates taking work Is nearly
as great as the undergraduate
group. In Illinois, 1922 of the 30S8
are graduates while in Indianna
802 of the 1974 have degrees. Out
standing graduate enrollment in
other schools follows: Iowa, 2067
out of 4331; Iowa State. 609 out
of 1490; Missouri and Rolla, 1114
of 2268; Nebraska. 717 of 2713;
Stanford. 653 of 1111; Texas. 1127
of 3603.
A comparison of 1931 registra
tion as compared with that of last
summer follows, (1930 totals are
final summary; 1931 figures only
preliminary report):
1930 1931
California 6040 5447
Colorado 2883 3197
Columbia 13800 14000
George Washington . . 1633 1971
Illinois 2553 3088
Indiana 1896 1974
Iawo 3933 4381
Iowa State 1467 1490
Kansas 1741 1774
Michigan 4320 4310
Missouri & Rolla 24 SO 2268
Montana 555 568
Nebraska 2644 2713
New York 3763 3831
Northwestern 2717 2642
Penn State 3202 3712
Stanford 1248 1111
Texas 3126 3603
Washington 2937 3475
Wisconsin 5171 5000
The 1931 totals will be increased
slightly when final reports are
submitted. At Nebraska, the
figures will be increased by the
social institute course which Li
held during the last two weeks of
the session.
in keeping with their native talents
and their acquired interests."
This statement reveals the tragic
viewpoint underlying school treat
ment of those students now in
cluded among the one-third who
fail. Mr. Altbolz speaks of them
as "misfits.
They are not "misfits." It Is the
courses offered that are misfits.
High school pupils would not be
required to wear Identically the
same size of shoes. The difference
in mental inclinations is no less
fundamental than size of body. It
would be barbarous to force a size
nine foot into a size six shoe be
cause size six was the recognized
average size for a given age of
child. It is cruel to force pupils
who lack academic interests into
traditional nigh school courses.
Mr. Altholz's solution of the
problem, however, is excellent and
enlightened. He proposes that boys
who wear size nine or ten scolastic
shoes be given that size to wear,
making an end of the tragedy of
enforced failure and defeat.
Dr. O'Sbea's report is not with
out its forward-looking proposals.
He devotes bis introduction largely
to the problem of maladjusted pu
pils in the elementary schools. The
report throughout stresses this
need for better facilities for the
slower pupils.
It is urgent to provide for the
maladjusted and retarded element
ary school pupils. But it is more
urgent to end the wholesale high
school failure of thousands of
pupils who are not maladjusted or
retarded but who only have differ
ent inclinations and talents.
Agents Misrepresent
Extension Subjects
That certain agents are at
temping to sell correspondence
courses in Nebraska by claim
ing that they are approved and
accredited by the extension di
vision of the. university has
been reported to A. A. Reed, di
rector. Such statements are
misrepresentations, d e c la red
Professor Reed, as the exten
sion courses are never sold by
agents nor does the extension
division recognize commercial
subjects sold in such manner.
CIVIL SERVICE OFFERS
Candidates For Engineering
Positions Should Apply
Before Aug. 21.
Open competitive examinations
for associate and assistant engi
neers have been announced by the
United States civil service commis
sion and received today by Dean
O. J. Ferguson of the college of
engineering. Positions for associ
ate engineers are open in the
branches of aerial navigation,
aeronautical construction, heating
and ventilating, and telephone and
telegraph. Candidates may apply
as assistant engineers in the
branches of constiuction and heat
ing and ventilating.
Applications must be on file with
the TJ. S. civil service commission
at Washington, D. C, not later
than Aug. 21. Competitors will
not be required to report for er
araination at any place, but will be
rated on their education, training
and experience.
General requirements include a
degree in engineering from a col
lege or university of recognized
standing. Where the applicants
have completed only two years oi
an accepted engineering course,
there may be substituted a year
of experience in strictly technical
work of professional grade. Those
applying for the position of asso
ciate engineer must have had three
years of recent, progressive and re
sponsible professional experience
or postgraduate study. Assistant
engineers should have two years
of similar experience.
Vacancies now open for appli
cants include the position of asso
ciate aerial navigation engineer at
Wright field, Dayton, O.; associ
ate telephone and telegraph engi
neer for research and development
work for the signal corps at Fort
Monmouth, N. J.; and vacancies in
positions of associate and assirtant
construction engineer, supervising
architect's office, treasury depart
ment The entrance salary for
associate engineers is' from $3,200
to 3,M0. .and for assistant engi
neers, 2,G00 to $3,200.
OPEN BIDS FOR
SWIMMING POOL
LAST WEDNESDAY
Bids for the new swimming pool
to be built at once in the base
ment of the coliseum were opened
ui the office of L. F. Seaton, uni
versity purchasing agent and op
erating superintendent, Wednes
day afternoon. The contract, how
ever, will not be let until the bids
are tboroly investigated, Mr. Sea-
ton said.
A committee composed of Mr.
Seaton, John K. Selleck, business
manager of athletics, and L. K.
Gunderson, finance secretary i
the university, is in charge
awarding the contract
University Herds
Kept Out of Fair
Show cattle from University of
Nebraska herds will not be on ex
hibition at the state fair this fall
since the elimination of the open
steer class, according to Prof. Ray
Thai man.
Other prize cattle at the agricul
tural college are being groomed
for the three large national live
stock ehows the Ak-Sar-Ben at
Omaha, the Kansas City Royal
Livestock K.poriti"n ard th; In
ternational Exposition at ' bicago.
ENGINEERS
N
AG CAMPUS CHOSEN
AS SITE OF FINAL
ALL-SUMMER MIXER
Singing of Artist Harriet
Cruise Kemmer Is
Featured.
Commences At 9 O'clock In
Student Activities
Building.
Tonight marks the sixth and
final all student party of the 1931
summer session. It will be held
in the student activities building
on the college of agriculture cam
pus, beginning at 9 o'clock.
This summer's series of mixers
have all been sponsored under a
new plan. Previously such affairs
were organized by university offi
cials. This summer a student ex
ecutive committee was inaugurated
and eight students were selected to
work with Prof. E. W. Lantz in the
formation of a definite recreational
program. In addition to the sit
parties, two picnics have been
held, thus providing entertainment
each Friday of the session.
Record crowds and genuine stu
dent co-operation have made such,
affairs extremely successful.
Tonight's program will be fea
tured by the singing cf Harriet
Cruise Kemmer. radio singer, ac
companied by Harold Turner, pi
anist in a downtown theater.
Admission prices to the affair
remain at ten cents per person.
Reason for location of the danci
at the agricultural college is be
cause of numerous student re
quests. UNIVERSITIES ARE
UNDER SCRUTINY
(From tbe Daily Cardinal'.
University systems in America,
have been under piercing scrutiny
of late and the findings of the in
vestigations reveal serious prob
lems to be existing in the college
The inquest of tbe federal offioa
of ducation found that one of th
most serious problems arose frosa
presence of both fraternity anj
sorority houses on the same earn
puses. Visiting between fraternity
and sority members was found to
be loosely regulated in the sixty
nine land grant colleges investi
gated. Eleven of the institutions
reported women could go to men s
houses for other than scheduled
social events. Control is generally
left in the band.- of tbe Pan-
Hellenic council and student or
ganizations. In the thirty schools reporting
that women were permitted to at
tend only duly announced social
events the rule is frequently
broken. The report brought out
that regulations were lax until tha
students in some way met wita
disaster, and then they were pun
ished severely. The office of edu
cation maintained that tbe answer
was not stricter regulation but
closer co-operation, more real in
terest by authorities and more as
sistance in avoiding difficulties.
INSTRUCTOR ENJOYS
KINDERGARTEN WORK;
Mrs. Florence Noyes of Chadron
a visiting instructor this summer
from Chadron Normal, is having
a very successful time teaching
her kindergarten class. Sbe enjoys
her work a great deal but her stu
dents also seem to get much pleas
ure from being in her class. Sb ig
working on an advand degree.
PARISIAN VISITOR
PRESENTS CURIO
Miss Sarah Vance, . who has re
turned to Lincoln after a year ia
Paris, h&s given tbe university
museum in Morrill ball a woman'
bret on which she secured in Brit
tany collection in tbe downstairs
gallery where a pair of carved
wooden shoes, loaned by Miss Mar-
jorie Shanafelt, is on display.
GRADUATES PAY VISIT.
Drs. Ralph Ludwick, class '09,
Lincoln, and Miles Banks, class '30,
Fairbury, vinited the dental collega
Wednesday morning.
