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THE DAILY NUHKASKAN
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1932
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or just college is the problem which every stu
doit hns to decide.
The new members of Phi Kappa made their
cnoice. i npy wornou Jinru ami lougni nnru
for it. They have Avon
greetings.
Salutations and
Club.
A new experiment nponnored by the Car
negic Justitute is worthy oC note. The Inter
national JJelalioni.elub is instituted to promote
study of interuaional prol)leni8. The Carnegie
Institute provides books and material upon
which to base study and the club itself con
venes to hear reports on the material and have
a round table discussion on it.
This elub is distinctly not an activity. It is
a group founded for the purpose of studying.
Interested persons Mill find here a club or
ganized only by its common bonds of study.
Faculty members and students alike have been
welcomed into its circle. It should be refresh
ing after all of the other organizations on the
campus.
Members, We
Salute Thee.
Tuesday morning Phi Beta Kappa announced
its forty-five selections for the coming year
There was slight applause as the winning
names were announced. On Ivy i)&y the acti
vitv Deople will have their day. The chief dif
ferences in the two ceremonies will be the size
of the audiences, the amount of cheering and
' the people chosen.
There has always been a distinct division be
tween activities and scholarship. From the list
of fortv-five chosen this year to Phi Beta
Kappa only eight activity workers can be se
lected. ?vot a single member of a major sports
team is listed. But one Innocent and four
Mortar Boards were named.
Or perhaps it works the other way. Perhaps
the scholars are not activity workers. Perhaps
they see the futility in campus leadership and
refrain from participation. Perhaps the high
grades required are indicative of higher
mental capacity. Perhaps not.
At any rate there is a distinct separation be
tween activities and high grades. That is ap
parent at a glance. The reason is as obvious.
Time, the all important factor, is the answer.
Activity people must necessarily slight some
thing in order to get their work done. People
who are striving for Phi Beta Kappa have the
.same trouble. Activity workers slight studies
and students slight activities, and there is the
answer.
There are a few in the list who have the
power of concentration which has enabled
them to participate in both. The ruling which
keeps women in a limited number of activities
accounts for the fact that there are more
women than men on the list, that is of the
activity people.
There are few, too few, who are classed as
scholars by Phi Beta Kappa. Many of the
ones selected and honored have no right to be
on the list. Many of those excluded should be
there. But Phi Beta Kappa has only one means
of selecting its members. That is through
grades. And grades tell no story.
A Scholar writes that activity people are
honored by the number of organizations they
have been able to worm their way into. By
the same token, then, people are chosen to Phi
Beta Kappa as a result of the grades they have
been able to worm out of professors. He de
clares that "every recognizable form of
achievement in the world is an arbitrary stand
ard based on just such an artificial foundation
as grades."
That does not prevent educators from de
manding a change in those arbitrary stand
ards. There is nothing in the rules of human
conduct which forbids criticism, legitimate
criticism, of standards which critics believe to
be wrong. The grading system serves no pur
pose. It is. in fact, a hindrance to all of the
principles of education. Grades have come to
be the goal of all students rather than knowl
edge as it should be. The strife for grades has
1aken the place of the strife for knowledge. It
is not so important to get everything possible
out of a course as it is to get the best grade
possible or at least a passing grade. And so
just as the organization joining complex leads
the honorary seeker on, so does the grade get
ting complex lead the scholarship seeker on.
Upon those flimsy numbers and letters is
based the selection of Phi Beta Kappas mem
bership. -I'po.n those grades, which represent,
not so much what the student knows but what
the instructor felt like giving the student, or
how the reader felt on a certain lay, or the
result of a trick quiz, and luck, upon those
grades, then, does Phi Beta Kappa base its
selections.
Phi Beta Kappa is to be praised for the num
ber of good selections which it does make, de
spite the system of chioce which it is forced to
use. Scholarship is as intangible a quality as
good moral character, the other requisite for
membership in the organization, and yet Phi
Beta Kappa presents its selections each year
on the basis of these intangible characteristics.
It has done as good a job this year as in any
year. Some of them are bound to succeed, just
as some of the activity people are bound to
succeed. Some of them will fail just as some
of the activity people will fail.
Phi Beta Kappa should not sit complacently
atop the heap, hands folded, regarding itself
as the best. It is among the high ones. It is
a worthy organization and it is an honor to be
long to it. There should be no mistaken no
tions about it. The people who have been
selected were picked because they made their
choice early. They made the decision which
everyone has to make. Scholarship, activity, i
MORNING MAIL
Merited Distinction.
TO THE EDITOR:
"Why is it that every year when Phi Beta
Kappa announces its new membership a great
outcry is raised over the doubtful scholarship
of some of the members elected to the group?
"Scholarship is not considered" in the selec
tion of members says the editor of the Daily
Nebraskan. "Scholarship is an intangible
quality," he continues and the only way to
measure it under our present system is accord
ing to grades received in courses taken. But
grades are little or no indication of scholar
ship, he declares.
Agreed that grades may be a poor measure
ment of scholarship. Agreed that some mem
bers of Phi Beta Kappa may not conform to
our ideas of true scholarship. "What is the
answer? Shall we refrain from recognizing
"scholastic" achievement in college, and if we
continue to recognize it by what other means
than grades shall we measure it
The point is that every recognizable form of
achievement in the world is an arbitrary stand
ard based on just such an artificial foundation
as grades. In college we see athletes receiving
Ifttpru as the indication of their nrowess. not
necessarily because they played the game well,
but more because they played so many minutes
during the season. We see activity men and
women on the eaniDus who are recognized by
selection into "honorary" organizations, such
as Innocents and Mortar Boards, not so much
nerliflns on the basis of real work accomplished
as on the number of other organizations they
have been able to worm themselves into.
'n doubt the same situations could be
nointed to outside the college world by those
who are more familiar with them. The only
conclusion to be drawn is that for the most
part, the people recognized by these various
methods have achieved some Darticular object.
Injustices are done, and poor selections are
made, but on the whole the rewards are indi
cations of merit and ability.
If wp are to take them too seriously, how
ever, as many people do, then we will prob
ably be unhappy all our lives when wc see
some of the crude people who are rewarded or
when we are rewarded ourselves. It niay justly
he a source of satisfaction of a limited nature
to most people to be elected t Phi Beta
Kappa, to win a letter, or be chosen to an hon
orary organization. But if the artificial and
material recognition is all they have gotten
from their work, and if their chief satisfaction
is derived from this public recognition, then
indeed are the poorly rewarded.
The recognition in reality should lie merely
an incident in the whole process of achieve
ment, the major part of which consists in the
real accomplishment of the work itself, and
from this latter should come the true satisfac
tion. Perhaps this seems an idealistic picture,
but for those who are truly worthy of the
honors, I believe it is an accurate description
of what they will derive, while those who are
not worthy "must be satisfied with the empty
recognition they receive.
Why then pick on Phi Beta Kappa? Let us
congratulate the ones who were recognized and
take satisfaction in the thought that the honor
will bring them about as much happiness as
they deserve to get. SCHOLAR.
College Editors Say
Ethics?
It is difficult to understand the average
college man's conception of ethics. He would
scorn to rob a bank, he would grown on re
fusal to pay honest debts, and yet he blat
antly displays towels and silverware "lifted"
from hotels and other establishments he has
visited.
Perhaps it is a feeling that such items as
towels and silverware are common property.
But a little thought will show that they are
rigidly on a par with any other form of pri
vate property and, as such, should be viewed
with all due respect to the owner's rights.
Gate-crashing is another collegiate breach
of ethics. Some college men boast opduly of
the number of dances they have crashed, much
as the Indian would flaunt his scalps and take
pride in the heap he had been able to capture.
Particularly proud is the collegian who dis
covers some new and novel means to thwart
those who would make him pay or show prop
er credentials before entering a dance.
The Daily California!!, student newspaper at
the University of Southern California, reports:
"Fraternity men were arrested rocently for
taking thirty-five electric light bulbs frpm local
establishments for their house dance. Their
stunt was collegiate and clever, and would have
been lauded by uppperclass brothers who sent
them on the escapade had they been skillful
enough to complete their errand."
This points to another of the many incon
sistencies in collegiate ethics, and at the same
time to a likely means of bringing these stand
ards uti t a plane where society will respect
them. '.Yhen ee'lege men come to view suc
cessful and unsuccessful escapades from the
same angle, they will have created a consistent
code of ethics that brands towel-lifting as rob-bc-ry
and places gate-crashing in the category
of criminal behavior. Pena State Collegian.
WHAT SHOULD BE
CONSIDERED IN CHOOSING
A VOCATION?
BY CHRIS PULOS
Third Prize Essay in the Chancellor" a Contest
What one nhould consider In
choosing: a career falls Into two di
visionsfacts about oneself anu
facts about the various vocations
Man. Is like a plant. Before we can
know under what conditions
given plant will prosper, we must
understand its characteristics; be
fore we can know where those con
dltlons exist, we must discover the
nature of the soil.
A person has gone far toward
knowing- himself when he has as
certained the tendency of his in
terest. Ability and interest are In
terdependent. Interest is always
active: if It is not active, u is not
interest but fancy. When I. was a
child, I heard one day some neigh
bors praising a certain doctor for
his surgical acumen. During tne
next week, I was determined to be
a surgeon, and I operated on the
tomatoes In our garden. I was not,
however, really interested in sur
gery; I was but interested in play
Should Enjoy One's Vocation.
One should not feel that one is
interested in a particular profes
sion unless one enjoys doing those
arduous things that are a neces
sary preparation for it. In bis
youth Agassiz found delight in
learning the Latin name for every
plant and animal In his surrould
ings. When he was a boy, Webster
became fascinated by the person'
alitles of words and studied the
dictionary with fervor. Real inter
est. manifests itself in ways like
these. The person that is interested
will pursue with alacrity what
most others would seek to avoid.
Whoever enters on a calling in
which he Is deeply interested can
not but be happy. Vocations are
often regarded as the necessary
routine of life, but in reality they
are the very essence of life. Work
and enjoyment should be one, and,
when they are not, the highest de
gree of happiness can not be at
tained. For one that is interested
In one's work there are flaccid em
ployments in which to degenerate,
no recurrent days of discontent h
which to , turn permanently sour.
The person that is interested In his
task works unawares. He is happy,
because happiness lies In devotion,
in a kind of obliteration of self. In
no other way can there be genuine
self expression. We express our
selves when we put ourselves com
pletely into something.
Interest, however, makes pos
sible not only happiness but also
vocational success. I have already
stated that interest and ability are
interdependent. It is almost im
possible for one to be interested in
the kind of work in which one
shows no facility. Interest is based
chiefly on two instincts the in
stinct of curiosity and the instinct
of mastery. If an interest initiated
by curiosity is not sustained by
the other more powerful instinct,
interest will not survive for long.
When one enters on a calling,
therefore, which offers the kind of
work in Which one has been in
terested for some time, one may
feel assured that one will not
prove incompetent in that calling.
Do Best Things Easiest
Emerson said that a man does
his best thing1 easiest. Yes, a man
does his best thing easiest because
he concentrates without effort,
and concentration without effort is
interest.
A man may be deeply Interested
in a particular kind of work, how
ever, and still fail to distinguish
himself because of certain short
comings. Without physical
strength no one should undertake
a strenuous career. One should
seek to develop physical fitness
before one chooses a "ocation that
requires strength and vigor.
Health is an advantage in any call
ing, but in some callings it is a
necessity. In medicine, law, teach
ing, and the like, success without
health is impossible. It is excel
lent advice for any one to be told
to choose a vocation that will have
a favorable influence upon health.
If one's physical constitution will
not enable one to enter on
strenuous career, let one accept
the fact with resignation, and
make the most of a less strenuous
vocation.
Without leadership It Is inad
visable for one to enter on a career
that requires leadership. The lack
of leadership does not mean that
one can not be successful; it mere
ly means that one can not be suc
cessful in certain things. There
are various degrees of leadership,
The great leader is original and
daring, dominating and audacious.
He makes others think they want
to ao precisely wnat ne wants
them to do. He plans; he takes
chances. Some degree of leader
ship Is needed in large businesses
and in the learned professions.
Many a man highly successful in
a small business has met defeat
when he aspired to handle a large
one. It Is every man's duty to
know himself. No mistake but has
its consequence.
Assert Your Leadership.
Still, let no one feel that he is
destitute of leadership. In fact, let
no one feel that he is not a leader
before he has tested himself con
clusively. Some of the world's
greatest leaders were once sens!
tive and shy. They feared to as
sert themselves because they were
too conscious of their own imper
fections; but in time they came to
realize that if things be judged by
their freedom from imperfections,
silence is sweeter than music.
Plato said that the disparity be
tween human effort and human
achievement will never cease to
appear, but that without that ef
fort there can be nothing-. Never
feal to "speak your latent convic
tion." Unjust criticism is but so
much wind; just criticism, fruit for
a healthy appetite.
In the foregoing paragrapns we
were chiefly concerned wun me
advisability of knowing ourselves
before choosing vocations. After
we know ourselves, we are in a po
sition to utilize as well as to secure
facts concerning the various vo
cations. Information concerning
vocations is just as important as
knowledge of ourselves.
"Do not be content to enter on
a business," said Garfield, "that
does not require and compel con
stant intellectual growtL." Now
any respectable and useful work
requires and compels constant in
tellectual growth. If a person can
not see, however, that a certain
vocation offers such an opportun
ity, that person should not choose
that vocation whatever It be. Suc
cess and happiness ultimately de
pend on choosing a calling in
which one descries an opportunity
for perpetual growth. All of the
ennobling effects one's work has
upon one should form an expand
ing preparation for t'.ill another
and another uplifting. Tennyson's
Ulysses says
'Experience is an arcn wnereinro
Gleams that untravell d world
whose margin fades
For ever and for ever when 1
move."
When one finds that the margin
of the untraveled world of ones
work does not move when one
moves, one will soon die though
one live a hundred years.
Be Sure of Vocation.
Before one chooses a certain vo
cation, one should also make sure
that it is pretty much what one
thinks it to be. We are all familiar
with the fact that Woodrow Wil
son practiced law for a year or
two only to find that he had
chosen the wrong profession. The
.mistake Wilson made in his first
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choice, I believe, was this he
failed to ascertain whether the
Uyplcal lawyer of today Is exactly
like the typical lawyer of the past.
Wilson was a lover of history. He
associated law with great orators
with men like Webster. But wil
son soon discovered that the pro
fession of law had undergone a
tremendous chanc-e. One of the
most distinguished lawyers of re
cent times says: "The successful
lawyer of today Is the business
lawyer. By that I mean.... the
man who can map out and show a
business man a successful business
plan. The old fashioned lawyer is
fast passing away." changes are
taking place In other vocations
also. One should seek to know
what the requirements of a voca
tion are today.
There is, furthermore, a grow
ing tendency at the present time
for men and women to concentrate
their abilities upon one branch of
their chosen vocations. A dying
scientist said that he had unwisely
tried to learn all about beetles,
when he should have confined his
study to horned beetles. Not long
ago psychology, sociology, educa
tion, and political science were all
included in philosophy. Today they
are not only separate fields, but
also are fields with their own
plots. A great French psychologist
devoted many years of his life
studying the emotions only. Today
a person must be trained to do
some special thing like a palyp of
a Portuguese man-of-war. in
choosing a vocation, therefore, one
should choose also some one spe
cific thing that it includes in
which to become most proficient.
General knowledge or ability to
day is the foundation not the
aspiring part of the structure of
achievement.
Money Isn't Happiness.
If there be any mistake made
again and again in choosing a vo
cation, however, it is to make sal
ary the chief consideration. No
one should let salary divert one
from ones true calling. One does
not need a million dollaM to be
happy, and one that abandons
one's' true pursuit for riches is
likely to gain neither riches nor
happiness. A man's best oppor
tunity lies in his true pursuit. No
vocation Dut offers enougrh money
for comfortable living.
One were wise, nevertheless, not
to consider creative art a vocation
at least until one has distin
guished oneself. If one loves cre
ative art, let one consider it one's
avocation until one has established
a reputation. Musset said that his
state of poverty was conducive to
his ability as poet, but one must
remember that the French poet
was famous when he made that
statement. It is one thing to speak
these brave words to a listening
world, and quite another thing to
speak them to one's own ears
only. There is this difficulty also
true merit Js seldom immedi
ately recognized. Not long ago a
penniless artist died in an insane
asylum. In Omaha there is a
beautiful painting done by him
now valued at thousands of dollars.
Choice Important.
In one's choice of a vocation,
one should consider, finally, to
what degree each vocation is or is
not crowded. It is a mistake to
believe that every one has a de
cided bent for a particular calling.
Some persons can do but one thing
acceptably; others can do any one
of a number of things welL A per
son whose abilities are balanced
in this manner will do best In the
least crowded of hla possible voca
tions. The happiness of the Individual
and the welfare of society alike
depend upon every one's choice of
the right vocation.' If every young
man and woman would think ser
iously bet ore choosing a vocation,
human suffering would be greatly
ameliorated und crime consider
ably teduced. Whoever drifts into
a vocation will never cease drift
ing; and the habit of moving about
aimlessly from one job to another
will preclude the unfolding of true
manhood or true womanhood.
Drifting into jobs destroys enthu
siasm, progressiveness, and self
respect; nnd nourishes discontent,
hate, and immorality. Maladjust
ment is oehind nearly all misery
existing in the world,
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