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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 23, 1932)
THE DAILY NEBRASKAN TnREE TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 23, 1932. illilllift V l J House Dances Figure Prominently In Plans of Various Greek Groups Friday and Saturday ISights Will Find Many Sororities And Fraternities Entertaining at Parties Planned by Pledges and Actives. Many sorority find fraternity houses on 1 lie campus will bo the scenes o informal parties this next week end. For Friday right arc scheduled a bowery dance at the Sigma Alpha Kpsilon house, an Alpha Gamma Hho party at the house, and a Phi Omega Pi house dance. On Saturday night there will lie parties at the Kappa Delta and Alpha Dcltr. Pi houses given by the pledges of the respective noron-ci ties, a dance at the Sigma Nu house, and another at the resi dence of Sigma Alpha Mu. Sigma Ait Party Will Feature Panhel Idea. Different sororities will be rep resented in the decorations which the Sigma Nil's are planning for their house dance Saturday night, using the Pan-hellenic motif. Mu sic for Ihe party will be furnished by William Higdon and his or chestra. About sixty couples are expected to attend the affair. House Dat:ce Planned By the Phi Omega Pi's. . . Members of Phi Omega Pi will entertain at a party at the chap ter house Friday evening. Prof. ' and Mrs. Earl H. Bell will be the chaperones. The house will be decorated in accordance with the Washington theme. Music for the dancing will be furnished by Eddie Vandenburg and his orchestra. Pledge Party Listed By Alpha Delta PCs. A St. Patrick's day house dance STATE Wow ADDED JUNICr, FEATURES Tho Rlrjifct;! f'ver.t o," lire Season 35 Male Voicen TUB Russian Ma! Chorus HcrRi" .liir;:, o-.iiivc'ir St. Paul Church. Tuesday, March I "No Word rr.n f!er..---i';i Mich i;nln3. We lir.va hanrd niituy crra. cliuirrf, ntver onn to rniazitiir ci lhl.i. Thry cava tho most plirrnr.'.jnal plrl.irir.-.llon i( ilm Wt.M no-: Fjnn Unit nnyo'ie Is ever gains; Ij rrnr on thla mr'li, end that n.-t pollcry nnd around floor rhrrrnif To.onto' Dally 8tr (auiuiltus ur.rni.Ki. SEATS $1.00. yl.r,0, $2.00 SaU now on enla at Brn Hlmoa A Bona. Lnri-.l MnnnRPinenl, Florcnca Gardner. Q Cossaefc ffi Lincoln Theater Now Open r now XMlr . " OrpIieumT nicoln Ifitfa Not Recommended it S tt riot! Jrjn 'SXJxX -TherrtaeanaJoy JlT But ... if you like I of the Screen! I MARIE I DRESSLER in "EMMA" -THI MAN WHO MADE A MONSTER with JEAN HER8HOLT with Colin Cllve Mae Clarke MYRNA LOY X 3orli Karloff. .r. tho monster! Also Billy House Comedy i'5s. No Children'! Castro's Cuban Band JL JAV l,-t !l Anna May Wong A i?V Donovan Glrli NICE, FLORIO SrfJsi "d Bishop AND LUBOW fsyJ$i. f.2 '5VSloaN "Delineators Dancinn Disciples r9y JSSS 1$ JwVVbN of Harmony" of Jazz VvCfSS l StU3 t 0rCheSt a ft A I I 4 7.9.?.? i Ceaotv IP! ft fcustt J our8 If Vail ft. r kfft ' 7A ow r m rtfllllllllllinTTrrm JiMmtmi. SOCIAL CALENDAR Friday, Feb. 26. Alpha Gamma Uho, dance at the house. Alpha Xi Delta, formal party at the Cornhusker Delta Chi, dinner at the chapter house, followed by formal dance at the executive mansion. Pi Beta Phi, reception for fac ulty at the chapter house. Thl Omega Pi, house dance. Sigma Alpha Epsilon, dance at the chapter house. Saturday, Feb. 27. Alpha Delta Pi, dance at the house. Kappa Delta, house dance. Phi Mu Founders Day banquet at Hotel Cornhusker. Phi Kappa Psi, formal party at the Cornhusker. . Sigma Alpha Mu, dance at the house. Sigma Nu, house dance. will be given by the pledges of Alpha Delta Pi for the members of the active chapter Saturday eve ning. The affair will be chap eroned by Dr. and Mrs. E. J. Hor ner, Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Corey, and Mrs. Ida Bumstead, house mother. Pledges of Kappa Delta Plan Dance at the House. About fifty couples are expected to attend the house dance which the pledges of Kappa Delta are giving for the members of the ac tive chapter Saturday evening. The pledge pin, a shield, will fig ure prominently in the decorations. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Dickey and Mrs. Anna Marsh, housemother, will be the chaperones. Sigma Alpha Mil's to Entertain at House. The Lincoln syncopators will furnish the music for the party which the members of Sigma Alpha Mu are planning for Satur day night. About forty couples are expected to attend the dance, which will be chaperoned by Dr. and Mrs. Ginsburg and Rabbi Jolt. Pharmaceutical Club Will Meet Wednesday. The University Pharmaceutical club will hold a meeting Wednes day evening following dinner at the Annex Cafe at 6:30. The speaker of the evening will be E. T. Sickle, local wholesale druggist Discussion on.. Pharmacy Week will be led by Charles C. Bryant, president of the club. A short business meeting will be held at the beginning of the evening and a new secretary will be elected. Prof. E. F. Schramm of the ge ology department was a dinner 1111 4 193 2 Comedy of Errors f.tePPing , Sisters" 'th LOUISE DREeo M,NNA ot JBVNAHovvLALNLD llA. " GHOST "!.... 1 I T " I V guest at the Tau Kappa Epsilon house last week end. During the evening he showed alidea of Quate mala, South America, and related some of hla experiences in that country. FRESHMAN ADVISORS EXPLAIN USES OP PHYSIOLOGICAL TESTS (Continued from Pago 1.) the tests indicate and just exactly how the testa are used at Ne braska are matters which all threo of the advisors were decidedly careful In explaining. All of them stated particularly that the exam inations are not considered infal lible indications of Intelligence nor are they given for the purpose of determining which field of work a student should be advised to enter. Professor Jenness, who has the .largest group of btudents to take care of, files his examination re sults and uses them only occasion ally when he feels that the results on the examination may serve to throw some light on the nature of a student's trouble with his school work. Students who have difficulty with their work and whose test scores indicate they are slower than other students, according to Mr. Jenness, are often advised to carry a lighter load of hours. "When we can refer to the psy chological tests, we are able to get something of an idea of how much work the student is able to do," he said. Both the American counciler ex amination, and the Ohio State uni versity test, presuppose a consid erable degree of educational train ing in contrast to some of the other psychological testa such as the army Alpha tests which are designed to measure intelligence of people who have had little or no education. When it is possible to give a test requiring previous edu cational training, .more accurate results can be obtained, in Profes sor Jenness' opinion because those taking the test are not such a het erogeneous group and the test can cover a more limited range. Speed, Accuracy Count. Both tests used are designed to measure speed and accuracy in the performance of relatively simple operations. This kind of a test gives a good indication of what a student's possibilities are in his school work. It is because these tests only measure this type of ability, Mr. Jenness Indicated, that there is considerable prejudice against their use. "The test does not pretend to show whether a person will get along well or badly in life," de clared Mr. Jenness. "No matter how high a score a person may make indicating as it does a real degree of ability, the result does not show whether the person has other essential qualities to make him successful or unsuccessful. That is why we make no attempt to use the tests as absolute indica tions of worth." Nevertheless the tests are put to really constructive use in cases of individuals who have .occasion to consult the various freshmen ad visors. In the Teachers' college and the Engineering college, freshmen classes are comparatively small, and the freshmen advisors come in close contact with the individual students and have an opportunity to use the tests to a greater ex tent. The Ohio tests used in these two colleges are composed of three parts, the first a vocabulary test, the second a grammar test and the third a test in reading. As Profes sor Colbert said, the tests do not classify one as dumb or bright, they merely indicate his ability to some extent, and measure to a de gree his speed and accuracy. The reading part of the test dis covers the ability of the individual to read quickly and comprehend what he has read. This ability to comprehend is generally recog nized as one fairly good indication of intelligence, according to Mr. Ibert. Reading Test Used. In the Teachers' college results of the reading section of the test are used extensively. Professor Corey teaches a course in the cor rection of reading deficiencies. Those freshmen who make a low score in the reading test are given the opportunity to take another specialized test in reading ability. If they again show up poorly in this test they may be advised to register for the course to correct reading habits. The ability to read rapidly and comprehensively is one of the most essential attributes of a good stu dent, in Mr. Corey's opinion, and his course is designed to develop this ability to the fullest extent. A numoer of students each semester, who have not taken the psycholog ical test or who have received fairly good scores in the test reg ister for the course in order to im prove their ability to read. The course, which is purely elec tive, uses a manual which provides a number of exercises designed to improve the eye movements of the reader. The proper movements of the eyes on a printed page is the basis for rapid and comprehensive reading. Further exercises are pro vided as the student's ability pro gresses gradually. "We get a number of students," declared Professor Colbert in de scribing the practical use of the results of the tests in the Engi neering college, "whose test re sults are not consistent with the work they are doing in the eollege. The psychological test results pro vide us with information so that we are net working quite so blindly in giving advice to these students." Find Different Causes. Dr. Colbert cited the example of the student with a high test score whose work is poor. With the in formation provided by the test score, Mr. Colbert has a place from which to start in his effort to dis cover where tho discrepancy is. Sometimes it is found by question ing that the student is doing full time work aside from the school work, that he is engaged in a num ber of other activities which take all his time, that he is having some difficulty which is worrying him, or that he is absolutely uninter ested in the work. Occasionally, too, he said, students are discov ered who are just plain sluffers. "When a student has a high test score and is doing poor work," he continued, "we have a basis for assuming that one of these causes Is present. If the student is in En gineering college because he is forced to go, or if his real Inter ests He elsewhere, we can find it out usually in this way. In any case we are able to get more ac curate ideas of the troubles which delinquent students are having and can give more adequate and help ful advice." That the tests are never used as positive proof either of intelligence or non-intelligence, nor as Infal lible evidence of ability was em phasized by all three of the fresh man advisors. The fact that results are never used as the basis for ad vising students to leave school or anything of that sort was also stressed. As Dean Ferguson, of the En gineering college expressed it, in commenting on the use of the tests: "We can use the results as rubber hammers to pound the stu dents with, tut we never use them as axes to decide their fate." Results Filed, Checked. The Engineering college test re sults which have been kept for two years will be accumulated for a number of years and the results checked with the graduates from the college and those who drop out of school, according to Mr. Col bert. This will give a better basis for judging the value and the ac curacy of the tests. Some colleges and universities in the country whose enrollment is Jimited are using psychological tests extensively in selecting appli cants for admission. Statistical re sults prepared by psychological re search workers show that there is a relatively small percentage of students who flunk out of school from a given group which ranks highest In a psychological test. From the group which ranks in the lowest half of a given intelli gence test, a comparatively high percentage flunks out of school. Highly selective schools use this knowledge In picking their appli cants from the highest ranking group of applicants after giving them all one of these examina tions. That such a use of the tests could never be made in a state in stitution is self-evident. Neverthe less, the use of psychological tests in a variety of constructive ways is gaining headway throughout the entire country. In the opinion of Mr. Jenness, the results of the tests cannot be relied on entirely, but be believes the tests will be steadily improved and that the practical uses of them will also be constantly increased. Former Instructor of ' English Seriously 111 Dr. Charles William Wallace, former professor of English litera Hagniappe (Nrw OrltMl Frtnch) Something extra given over and beyond the value that is expected or paid for. j'"' ''j ,.......1 I,. .a -fn.f...w....f'iiT)..itfi A popular model with trim pointed collar attached and bar rel cuffs. Splendidly tailored of Strand broadcloth, firm and lus trous, $2.30. . 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"I have never held a prize or a title for figure skating but I was supposed to bo the only woman in the state who could make the Mal tese Cross backward, the double grapevine, and many waltz fig ures. "I have also liked to ski I have a beautiful pair of sklls from Sweden but I had less experience with these sports than with tennis, golf, cycling, and skating," she as serted. Aids Physical Department. For about ten years Miss Pound was associated with the basketball teams of university girls, at the Invitation of Mrs. R. G. Clapp, then head of the physical science de partment for women. Miss Pound says: "I helped with tennis tournaments for girls, and with track meets, without pay, in addition to my regular teaching duties. Nevertheless no basketball team that I coached was ever de feated." Games were played with Mis souri university, the Haskell In dian girls, the Omaha Y. W. C. A. team and the Peru Normal team. The games attracted many enthus iastic spectators, and were chaper oned by the chancellor's wife, Mrs. W. J. Bryan, the governor's wife, and many other prominent Lincoln ladies. Men's rules were followed when the stronger teams were played. "The health of no girl was ever injured, for it was only the most skillful who made the teams and the players through participation in the contests had one of the most enjoyable and valuable experiences of their lives," states Miss Pound. "In those days, too, there were track meet champions and cham pion jumpers, ball and Javelin throwers, and shot putters among the girls. "I never went out of my way to play in tournaments but took part if I happened to be where one was held." the Sport-English teacher concluded. Leaders among men and men's apparel have Lagniappe WILSON BROTHERS Jja berdashery 7W5 WILSON a k(t m a ..a TW2 ATTACKED BYAUTHOR Book by Leahy Deals Blow to Profession Taught in Universities. Journalism, the profession pro ducing newspapermen in the class room rather than in the city room, received an attack from the fourth estate In the latest Issue of "News paper Adventure Stories" by John Howard Leahy. The author, who claims editor ship of a newspaper and gradua tion from a journalism school, contends that these schools should be abolished on the grounds that they fail to offer either practical instruction or a cultural back ground. He complains that colleges pride themselves on large enjoll ments, disregarding the likelihood of employment after graduation. "Schools of journalism live, breed, and multiply for very sim ple reasons," Mr. Leahy writes. "With the higher education de bauched as it is by courses in mil linery, fire insurance salesman ship, embalming, and fly-casting, why should there not be room for journalism? 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According to Mr. Leahy, "Not all tho published work of the pro fessors rises to these absurd heights. Most of It is merely dull, flat, uninspired, contrasting strangely with the spirit of tha thing they write about. Occasional ly they art plainly childish." Professor Koch Talks at Hastings Meeting Dr. H. C. Koch, professor of sec ondary education was guest speak er at the annual professional meet ing of the Hastings city teachets in Hastings Wednesday evening. Dr. Koch's subject was "Times and the Teachers." Dr. Koch has recently been noti fied by the American School Board Journal that, his article, "The High School Principal in the Role of Supervisor," will be included in the contents of that publication's April issue. TWO ALUMNI VISIT ENGINEER OFFICES Returning alumni who visited the college of engineering offices last week are Donald G. Taylor, '30, on leave of absence from tba Westinghouse Electrical and Man ufacturing company, East Pitts burgh, Pa.; and John L. 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