WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1921.
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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
Daily Nebraskan
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Santa Claus
Uses Intelligence.
L70REGOING t h e spectacular
Christmas parties for the bene
fit of poor children which were
formerly given by many campus
groups, several organizations this
year have adopted a scheme of us
ing the money they have to give,
to bring to these same children a
larger measure of enjoyment more
lasting in its effect.
In past years fraternities and
sororities have received some pub
licity and no doubt some consider
able degree of satisfaction from
the parties they sponsored for
needy children. At these parties a
group of children, selected indis
criminately, were given an eve
ning's entertainment, provided
with gifts of various kintis, and
sent home.
Their enjoyment may have been
great, but it was temporary; their
gifts may have been fifne, but they
were usually impractical; the en
tertainment provided them may
have been good, but it was unsuit
able for children. Last but not
least, their Christmas celebration
had no connection with their par
ents to whom they naturally look
for their enjoyment and with
whom they naturally associate the
idea of Christmas.
Less particular indeed, but "in
finitely less wastefful and more
productive of lasting benefit is
the scheme being adhered to by the
several groups mentioned in to
day's Nebraskan who are giving
the money they have to use for the
purpose directly to the families
whose needs are legitimate. These
families are able to suggest the
needs which are most pressing and
which will bring the greatest satis
faction to the children who will en
joy something more than a fleet
ing Christmas celebration away
from home.
Many of these families have dire
need for milk or for some other
necessity which they are unable to
supply for themselves. The same
amount of money which would be
expended on a single party will
supply such families with milk
perhaps for an entire winter or
even a year.
JN fact several of the groups who
have undertaken this method of
spreading the Christmas spirit in
years past, have become so inter
ested in the families they are help
ing that they have arranged to
continue their gifts thruout the en
tire year. Providing milk for a
family of small children for an en
tire year is clearly more worth
while than any Christmas party for
a group of children could possibly
be, and yet it can be done for the
same amount of money which
some groups customarily spend on
their Christmas parties.
It is too late for any other cam
pus organization to adopt this
plan of helping some needy family
this Christmas. Many who are not
mentioned in the feature story
printed today, are, however, al
ready making provision for some
charitable gifts. But it is pertinent
te suggest that students take es
pecial note now of tfhe relative
r
a aj o
Do Your Christmas Shopping in Lincoln!
amounts of good wiilch a given
amount of money will bring if
used for a Christmas party, or if
used to buy essentials for some
worthy family.
Next Christmas some worthy
members of your own fraternity
sorority, or other organization will
lay their plans for a gala affair for
the newsboys or some other group
of children. Then will be the time
to change the direction of your
contribution. Perhaps it will be
some sacrifice to give up the satis
faction of seeing the enjoyment
which your gifts bring, but the ob
jective is clearly worth some sacri
fice. It is also worth some effort on
the part of the individuals who arc
now submitting to the wasteful
use of their charitable contribu
tions to see to it that more effee
tive use is made of the money.
A 'Charter Member
F you join a lodge, or secret or
ganization of some kind, in all
probability you will be required to
learn the names of the charter
members of .the organization.
Those names will be largely mean
ingless to you. and in few cases
will you ever know much about
the individuals or find them ac
tively connected with the continu
ing work of fthe organization.
Judge J. S. Dales, who will not
be in active connection with the
university when school work re
sumes after vacation, is not known
to many students now in school.
He is, however, one of the three
"charter members" so to speak, of
the University of Nebraska. Fur
thermore, he has been in active
connection wtih the university
ever since his graduation in 1871.
Certainly, his name has consider
able meaning for this university
and his withdrawal from the posi
tion which he has long held marks
the end of what we might almost
term a tradition here at Nebraska.
Altho his position has not
brought him into active contact
with students, Judge Dales is well
known to a large number of fac
ulty members who will miss seeing
him about the campus. He has
seen the university grow far be
yond his own expectations, weath
ering many periods when times
were as hard, he says, as they are
now.
After fifty-seven years more
are added to the history of the uni
versity, we hope that some of the
many who graduate each year, will
retain as close an interest in the
institution as has Judge Dales,
and we hope that the progress of
the university will measure up to
the progress of the period during
which he has been connected with
the university.
Pax Vobiscum.
RITICS of college students have
pointed to the high glee with
which undergraduates in general
welcome a vacation respite as in
dication of the immature attitude
with which these students regard
their college education. The oppor
tunities for absorbing learning, the
critics feel, should be considered
with solemnity and vacation pe
riods, tho desirable, should not be
considered childishly as a chance
to "get out of school."
Perhaps it should be admitted
that to some degree university
students are still relatively im
mature and do not fully realize the
value of the educational oppor
tunities to which they are being
subjected. At least it is common
enough to hear graduates of some
years back express regret that
they did not utilize to greater ad
vantage the 'possibilities for ac
quiring broader backgrounds of
knowledge by more diligent appli
cation to studies.
But the anticipation with which
students look forward to vacations
is not a habit monopolized by
students. Everyone bound dowri to
routine work not only enjoys re
cesses and change but needs such
-
change and rest. College students,
despite all Ideas about their care
free lives, conform to a fairly rigid
routine schedule and put in rather
full davs of work during: their
collee-e careers. Workincr hours
are not confined to any set sche
dule and sometimes perhaps only
before examinations, extend to pe
riods prohibited by law in other
industries.
Even the social pleasures which
students indulge in sometimes be
come a strain when combined with
other activities and school work,
and tho few students will forego
them for needed sleep, the vaca
tion periods bring relief.
We hope vacation needs no de
fense. We think students need va
cation and are entitled t6 it. Their
attitude of welcoming vacation is
not to be taken as any sure indica
tion that they do not value their
school work or do not enjoy it. It
is merely an indication that a tem
porary change is desirable.
For those who have resolved to
catch up on delinquent work dur
ing vacation, we wish the fulfill
ment of the ambition. For those
who expect to put in a full two
weeks of social festivities, we
wish the most enjoyable of good
times.
But for those who plan to dis
card all cares of school work and
all social activities, we wish long
mornings in bed and many hours
of complete quiet. We think you
will have the most profitable and
most enjoyable vacation of all.
MERRY CHRISTMAS.
THE STUDENT
PULSE
We Quite Agree.
Wehn's a vacation not a vaca
tion? And the answer is, when
just one professor is obsessed with
the idea that the hunt for know
ledge shall be unending and as
signs a lengthy research to worry
the student over every single day
of the two week period given over
to celebration of the holidays.
The logical reason for an idle
moment midyear is not to study
without classes to attend, but
rather to allow the student a rest
period in which he may forget all
the mental activity connected with
ollege in order to freshen its ac
tivity on the return to scholastics.
Too often the professor, who is in
business, takes the attitude that
his students get enough layoff
during the summer and can easily
spend nine months working, with
two days out of each week de
voted to pleasures.
Along with university tradition,
a rule should be inserted making
a policy of cleaning up all school
work ahead of vacation's official
opening. It wouldn't stop the
proper functioning of a college to
call a holiday that is one, so bid
the pedagogue halt when he talks
of using a whole vacation to com
plete an assignment
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Comment
For Dilettantes.
Th tende'nev in all movements
in which human beings participate
literary, artistic, scientific, has
been for the pendulum of thought
to swing from one extreme to the
other. The field of education shows
this periodic trend and it is due
now for a swing back to the right.
In the last two decades the uni
versity has become an intellectual
bargain basement, where hetero
geneous types are hewn and
shaped to fift a mould which ulti
mately turns out neat automatons
as nearly standarized as possible.
Any single course of study pre
scribed a rigid curriculum from
which the student could not devi
ate a jot irrespective of personal
preference or aptitude.
Recognition of the biological con
cept of Individual differences is
gradually spreading to every phase
of human relations, and in educa
tional circles this recognition is
bound to bring drastic changes in
academic training. In universities
the four year standarized curricu
lum has given away to the practice
of elective privileges during the
last two years.
Since the aim of higher learning
is to enable the individual to .take
his place in society as a well
rounded person, the requirement of
two years general study now de
manded is highly desirable. The
choice of a major subject in the
last two years is compulsory, and
to the ordinary student who is de
finitely preparing for the bread-and-butter
fray, this system is the
practical one.
But there are scores of findi-
viduals for whom this is highly dis
tasteful. The requirements of a
major choice prevent their taking
courses in which they are inter
ested because the elective privilege
is limited.
Every year hundreds of gradu
ates of this type are "bounced" by
irate administrators as being un
fitted for college work, and later
many of these students achieve re
nown after having elsewhere ap
plied themselves to that in which
they were interested.
Why can't the fact be recog
nized officially that there are per
sons to whom academic rigidity is
not applicable? Why can't provi
sion be made for a "dilettante's de
partment" in which this sort of in
dividual can enroll after the first
two yaers of standard study? Ab
surd? Perhaps but decidedly
worth an experimental trial.
Syracuse Daily Orange.
UPPEHCLASS GIRLS
HOLD TAFFY PULL
TUESDAY EVENING
Upperclass commission had a
taffy pull Tuesday afternoon at 5
o'clock at Ellen Smith hall. Mary
Buffington and Caroline Link were
in charge of the affair. This group
and the sophomore commission are
Other Mother
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Grandeon
Granddaughter
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Uncle
Niece
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Couoln
AND
AOOUKTMKWTiJ ARE PRICED
$1.00 A BOX
KODAK STORES, INC.
to Mrs. Green
who has
been leading the discus
sions in these groups for the past
few weeks.
After vacation upperclass com
mission will start a series of in
formal discussions on vocational
guidance, and all upperclass girls
are invited.
Y.W. AND Y.M. PLAN
CHRISTMAS PARTY
Students Staying Here Arc
Invited to Attend on
Wednesday Night.
For students who are not leav
ing Lincoln for the holidays, and
for foreign students, the Y. W.
C. A. and Y. M. C. A. are giving
a party Wednesday evening from
8 to 11 o'clock at Ellen Smith hall.
The special feature of the eve
ning's entertainment will be a
grab-bag for which each guest is
asked to bring a 10 cent gift.
Other entertainment will consist of
games and puzzles and dancing,
marshmallows will be roasted and
corn popped.
Miss Bernice Miller, Mr. and
Mrs. C. D. Hayes, Rev. and Mrs.
Dean R. Lcland, and Dr. and Mrs.
Jenness as well as other faculty
members .have been invited to at
tend. ,
Arrangements for the party
have been made by a committee of
which Lidusa Ninger is chairman.
Other . members are: Margaret
Grant, publicity, Alice Kier and
Marjorie Dean, entertainment, and
Troy Meyers, refreshments.
Prof. Bengtson Goes
To Washington Meeting
Prof. N. A. Bengtson, head of
the geography department, will
leave Sunday for Washington,
D. C, where he will deliver a paper
on "The Distribution of Native
Peoples in Central America" at
the national convention of the As
sociation of American Geogra
phers. Gillespie Is Latest
Winner of Law Derby
Howard Gillespie, Alpha Tau
Omega punster was awarded the
brown derby by the freshmen of
the law college. In a discussion
concerning legacies the talk event
ually swung to the question of
heirs. Gillespie, in his own inimit
able fashion, remarked, "How
about heresy?"
According to Herman Rosen
blatt, newly-appointed chairman of
the committee on awarding the
brown derby several new rules
have been formulated so that any
one refusing to wear the brown
derby hereafter shall be given the
title "poor sport."
This action is not retrogressive
accordlng"-io Rosenblatt but is for
the purpose of establishing a pre
cedent for following freshmen
classes and for maintaining good
fellowship among the prospective
advocates of the law.
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