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Per Cent.
Much. 1ms been said regard in g the leaching
i.rofossion nml the members of that profession
Writers ami thinkers everywhere have bent
their efforts at least once in their lifetime
toward an attack on education and educators.
Most of them are true, many are practical,
and few are noticed. Trobably one of the
truest observations of the present state of af
fairs is contained in a current issue of the
Saturday Evening Post. Mr. James Weber
Linn records in his article, "Practice What
You Teach," a conservation between a pro
fessor and a dean. The indictment of the col
lege instructors contained therein is edifying.
The professor in the article is portrayed as
an average and typical college instructor. The
dean makes all of the indictments of the pres
ent system. The conversation wends its way
to a point where the dean wants to know if
the Professor has any human curiosity at all.
"All you have," he says, "is only a rest
less, deep-seated, passionate, intellectual curi
osity. Do you really imagine that 80 percent
of our young Main Streeters are like you in
that, or 'that they ought to be like you?"
He accuses the professor of being typical of
all of his colleagues in that he does. He
charges him with believing that the primary
purpose of a college is to develop scholarship.
Jlis pupils do not agree and so, the dean says,
professors think the American college system
has failed. Tt has failed, according to the dean,
only in that the students have not had their
self-interest changed .
Says the dean. "We are not all agreed that
our primary purpose so far as the 80 percent
are concerned is not to interest them in scholar
ship but to provide them with a finer culture.
Perhaps T exaggerate our timidity when I say
that Me do not dure to agree on this." In
agreeing on it taxpayers and benefactors would
have to be insulted by hiring new instrucotrs.
So .'the colleges prefer to muddle along.
"Although Ihe colleges are complained of,
they continue to flourish and to provide a
sufficiently agreeable existence for many thou
sands of men and women who could hardly
cam as much, in as pleasant company, in any
other way as by teaching, and why should
these teachers risk having to go to work?
What other profession is so non-competitive?
In what other profession is incompetence for
and iiialWnlioii to the job rewarded by perma
nence of tenure achieved by attention to recre
ation?" ... "T do call research recreation."
Then says the dean, "What we want are
not brilliant students but independent thinkers:
men a1io are genuinely interested in the best
that has been said and thought in the world,
not. exclusively interested in little bits of it
here and there; men who are all the more in
terest ed in the normal undergraduate because
1hey know themselves to be far from unusual
There are many, of course, who will not
H2rec with the philosophy of the dean in ques
tion. There are many Mho will insist that
the ten percent who are real scholars should
not be sacrificed for the rest. There arc many
more who will declare that it is only by schol
ars that the knowledge of the world is added
to.' But if the principle upon which our gov
ernment is founded is correct, and if education
is to follow the precepts set down by that gov
ernment, then attention must be directed to
ward the satisfaction of the 80 percent.
There arc too many teachers who are schol
ars and too few scholars who are teachers. Too
few of the really brilliant men con teach and
impart their knowledge to their students. Too
few of the professors regard their students
with other than a feeling of contempt. The
present attitude of students cai be charged
directly to the teachers. Students do come to
be taught and do come to learn, but when they
discover that they must learn from dry lec
tures and from dryer textbooks their interest
flags and the process of getting an education
becomes a battle between the student and the
instructor.
And so the whole problem reverts back to
our present educational system. So long as
grades and examinations of the competitive
type are allowed to hold the power and the
whip hand, just so long will education stay
in-its rut. So long as the staid and conserv
ative educators oppose any new experiments
just ito long will those experiments fail.
-onie day soon the educational scheme under
which we labor at the present will have to be
revised. Some day soon the educators will
realize that the system is failing. They will
recognize that they are not accomplishing their
purpose. May the day be not far of
Deferred
Pledging.
Sororities and fraternities are apparently re
garding with apprehension the future, with its
plans for dormitories for both men and women
and the accompanying probability of deferred
pledging. As Chancellor Burnett and Deau
lleppner have assured the students, these de
velopments are yet in the remote future.
The fact that the campus must wait for a
long period of time for these dormitories and
deferred pledging, however, may be regarded
not no much with a feeling of relief as with
gret.. Aside from the inconveniences, financial
and otherwise,, incident to a change of policy
iu regard to pledging, can anyone doubt the
advantages of such a system once it is in opera
tion ?
The rational observer of the annual rushing
fracas must be somewhat impressed by the in
consistency which appears in the pledging of
rushees. The (Ireeks stress to their prospective
members the momentousness of the decisions
they are about to make in selecting a group
with which they will be intimately associated
for four years of college life. Yet in spite of
the importance of this decision, the Greeks
exert all manner of pressure on the rushees
to make the decision within three days of fren
zied, almost insane activity.
Certainly this is one of the most glaring
deficiencies in the fraternity system as con
stituted. The fraternity enthusiast tells of the
many wonderful advantages which the fratern
ity provides and impresses the pledge with the
value of membership in a Greek group. That
such advantages exist is not to be denied, but
that they are seriously impaired by a systeiu
where men get into uncongenial groups be
cause of the haste and superficiality with
which the selecting process is conducted must
also be admitted.
The fraternity and sorority can be and in
many instances is more than a mere boarding
and rooming house. Its influence on its mem
bers can be enormous and whether it will
exert an influence toward snobbery and worth
less activity, or will lend constructive help to
its members toward scholastic and true social
achievement is a matter of the individual fra
ternity. There is most certainly a difference in de
gree, however, with which the various groups
do promote such influences. What then of the
freshman who comes to school and in the, lim
ited time judges unwisely the group with which
he affiliates? Either he is influenced and
moulded into the general type of his group, or
else he is dissatisfied and unhappy and fails
to get the primary benefit which the fraternity
and sorority has to offer, companionship and
friendship.
A number of pledges would probably always
be misfits in any case. But that there would
be very evident advantages in a system where
freshmen students were unable to pledge for
a semester or even a year, during which time
they could gather an idea of the reputation
of a Greek lodge and a better knowledge of
the type of individuals who belonged, seems
apparent.
The fraternity and sorority would also bene
fit by the ability to make well considered de
cisions concerning the pledges they adopted.
Perhaps under such a system the true ad
vantages of fraternity and sorority life would
become more outstanding and be discerned
more readily by the cynics who claim that
all a fralernity or sorority is just another
boardiner and rooming house witn a oreeK
name.
It would seem that Greekdom should look
with hope toward the campus o fthe future
with its freshmen dormitories making possible
a system of deferred pledging.
Prudent ban sore feet. Student decides to
go to university doctor. Student lias morning
classes. Student goes to doc in afternoon. Doc
is not in. Student gris.
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Fine Men.
Younger faculty men should find a great
deal of inspiration in the lives of those two
venerable professors Professor A. L. Candy
ami Professor Laurence Eossler. Both have
just passed the milestone which marks three-,
quarters of a century of existence and both, to
phrase it in current jargon, "are still going
strong."
For the major part of their lives these men
have been teaching students to think. Their
part in campus life has bfjcn infinitely more
than the process of instructing students in
the science, of mathematics or the: study of
Germanic languages. They have always been
willing to give friendly counsel and timely ad
vice to students they' have known. There is
nothing prosaic about such an existence. Their
influence has been a factor in the moulding
of at least two generations of students at the
University of Nebraska.
Their eyes have seen the growth and develop
ment of this campus, both in a physical and
academic sense. From year to year they have
studied the changing altitudes of students.
Their work has not been a monotonoous rou
tine. It has been more than that infinitely
more. Their lives have been given to the
building of human minds. Certainly many
other professions would have been far more
profitable, far more sensational, and probably
more colorful as far as outward appearances
go. But to Ihem their greatest joy has come
from their relations with members of their
classes. They have been happy in a life of
service. Professors Candy and Fossler are to
be congratulated they arc two fine men.
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GERALD BARDO
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The Gamer for president boom
nose-dived in Georgia. The demo
crats down there went fifteen to
one for Roosevelt. Speaker Garner
wasnot on the ballot, but Judge
G. H. Howard was running with
the intention of lining up the
states at Cticago for him.
Scarface Al Cnpone will be in
Chicago a while longer, but In the
Cook county jail While granting a
stay which permits him to remain
there, the United States circuit
court of appeals refused a rehear
ing. Al must now appeal to the
United States supreme court and
undoubtedly he will because his
sentence of eleven years and fifty
thousand dollars fine isi not attractive.
Pioneers used to use guns to
hunt with; guns were necessary to
secure food. Guns are used to hunt
with today.
The people who use guns most
are soldier? policemen and gang
sters. But occasionally civilians
use them in moments of fear or
anger as die' a University of Mis
souri student the other day. He
seriously wounded a fellow stu
dent. It is not surprising that such in
stances happen. Most anyone can
get a gun in the United States.
You can buy an automatic pistol
most any time in any town. Many
people have a revolver or pistol in
their home. Some people carry an
automatic in their automobile. The
guns aro small and easily con
cealed. We have laws prohibiting the
carrying o concealed weapons,
but too often the weapon is used
before it is found to be concealed.
And I suppose it is too late now
to suggest the licensing of fire
arms. There are many folk though
who wish they had never had a
gun.
Distasteful is the news that
comes from Shanghai saying that
Chines? ar- threatening to enter
the twelve and a half mile neutral
zone and that Japanese are pre
paring to hold them out. Peace
had appeared closer with last
week's negotiations. Little firing
had been done along the front At
Geneva the recently created "paci
fication committee" may have to
sit a long time as it expected to
continue work until Japan and
China are pacified.
Regarding Senator Norris' two
triumphs in two weeks Time re
marks, "In Senator Norris' pa
tience there is an Odiehtal quality
which takes no heed of time to
accomplish its purpose. For a full
decade he worked to enact the
'lame duck' amendment. His advo
cacy of anti-injunction labor legis
lation is of almost aa long stand
ing." '
DEAN RELEASES
SCHEDULE MAY
SPRING EVENTS
(Continued from Page 1)
activity of May 5 An open house
will be held by the engineers from
7:30 to 10:30 in the evening. Wil
lard Dann has been elected to have
charge of the program of tlje an
nual engineering event.
University day will be Friday,
the oay aftir Ivy day. Classes
will be dismissed at 11 o'clock in
the morning so that college convo
cations may be held thruout the
campus. University field events
will also be held
The Farmer's Fair is scheduled
for Friday, May 7. and all of the
students in thr agricultural college
will be excused from attending
classes. The Farmer's Fair is the
big event of the agricultural col
lege during the year, besides com
petition in agricultural products
and displays a carnival is the an
nual climax to the affair.
Pre-medic day also occurs on
Saturday and pre-med students
will make a trip to Omaha to visit
the medical college. All pre-med
students will be excused from
clashes.
During the following week, on
May 20, the annual competitive
drill for students In military
science will be held from 1 to 5
a'clock In the afternoon. Students
rvgtrtered In the R. O. T. C. unit
are excused tfom classes to parti
cipate In this event.
All university class activities
will be suspended for Memorial
day ceremonies May 30. The 61st
annual commencement will bo
hel.1 in the university coliseum on
Monday, June 6, and the Baccalau
reate sermon will be preached on
Sunday, June 5.
TUESDAY SCHEDULED
FOR FULL REHEARSAL
(Continued from Page 1.)
the scenery under the supervision
of Norman Hoff is rapidly nearlng
completioa
"The Omaha performance will be
held in the Brandeis theater under
the management of Joy Sutphen,
April 16 and the Hastings trip is
scheduled for April 13. The latter
performance will be staged in the
Hastings auditorium. IVcderick
Daly, Nebraska alumnus, has been
instrumental in bringing the show
to the mid-state city.
There will be five different
changes of costumes for the chor
uses in the show: an opening num
ber, Corncob-Tassel dance, a snow
flake chorus, a pajama number and
the grand finale.
Characters for the show have
their lines well in mind as individ
ual practices have been held with
Herbert Yenne for the last week.
Choruses have been practicing and
the pony chorus made a public ap-1 on a program presented by the In
peaiance at the state penitentiary mates March 17.
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