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THE NEBRASKAN, FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1933. '
The Nebraskan
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"A Letter
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THE Nebraskan hopes in the
near future just how near,
dear readers, depends wholly on
you to inaugurate in connec
tion with its editorial columns
a department for publication of
student opinion.
The purpose thus served
would be to provide a saftey
valve thru which steam gene
rated by the pent up urge which
must sooner or later come upon
a certain number of you to ex
press yourselves publicly on
ome matter, be it weighty
question or trivial incident, in
your lives as summer students
may be let off.
Against such a development
the Nebraskan herewith offers
the use of its columns to any
student so seized for publication
of any reasonable communica
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sent to this office for that purpose.
Execution of this plan, en
tirely honorable in purpose,
awaits only aforementioned
necessary communications. De
spite all efforts, certainly things
cannot be perfect around here.
So let us hear your complaints,
your praises or your sugges
tions.
important part in the kaleidoscopic
political scene of their countries,
American college students have
long been pointed out as a self-centered
lot, little concerned with
current events effecting national
or international welfare.
Recent happening have forced a
revision of this estimate. For with
in the past few years American
collegians have suddenly become
interested in the happenings which
make daily headlines and in the
social, political nad economic
questions which lie back of the
situations giving ri.se to these
headlines.
Particularly in the matters of
opposing organization for war and
in supporting candidates for public
office whose political programs
were tinged with pink have under
graduates made their activities
noticed.
Ocassionally this liberalism has
led to excesses, as it seems from
the news dispatches concerning the
episode to have done at Amherst
recently where the American flag
was burned at a Communist
demonstration.
On the whole, however, the
awakening has been highly grati
fying to those who see it the por
tion of educated men and women
to provide leadership in a social
order so complicated that near
breakdown is periodical.
But desirable as this develop
ment must seem to many, it has
not gone forward without opposi
tion. The form this opposition in
one case has taken is the subject
for comment in an editorial re
printed in our "Current Comment'1
column from the New York Na
tion, a journal of known liberal
views.
BOOK REVIEW
For The Week.
Collegiate
Awakening.
AS a species, the American Col
legian has probably been pro
trayed as as great a variety of con
tradictory things as any subject
that has come up for public in
spection. Popular fiction and the motion
pictures usually depict gogl-eyed,
pipe-smoking youngsters in cords
and tri-colored skull caps, at the
one extreme, and blonde Appoline
3'ouths, on the other, romping
madly thru a world of football
games and parties with an ocas
fcional class period thrown in pure
ly incidentally. Magazine car
toonists lean towards picturing
over-sexed young drunkards as the
typical college man. Educators,
speaking for public consumption,
tend to stress embryo truth-seekers
living on crusts in attics and
church basements in order to con
tinue their pursuit of knowledge.
While individuals might be
found to fit almost any of these
pictures, that none is an accurate
description of the run-of-the-mill
college student bears witness to
the dangers of generalization.
rNE characteristic, however, has
long been held reasonably
typical of the inmates of institu
tions of higher learning in this
country. That was a disinterested
ness in affairs outside the little
circle of events immediately touch
ing their lives. As against Eu
ropean, Far Eastern and South
American students who are ready
at any moment to discard the pen
for the parade torch and play an
CURRENT COMMENT
Umbrella Instruction.
Confidence in the educational
system of New York is not in
creased by the spectacle of the
president of its city college be
laboring students with an umbrella
like an irate old beldame charging
a group of plaguing boys, nor by
the action of the board of educa
tion in calling policemen to pro
tect it from its own teachers. The
city college is busy meting out
discipline because a crowd of paci
fist students blocked the patch of
the president and of course the
inevitable "distinguished visitors
on the way to review a drill by
the reserve officers' training corps.
Certainly some of the city college
students were guilty of rowdyism,
but the cure for that scarcely lies
in chastisement with a presidential
umbrella. The board of education
was equally unhappy in its stra
tegy. Its fairness in dismissing a
teacher had been questioned by a
large number of bis fellows. He
had been dismissed allegedly for
incompetence and falsifying his
attendance record. As to the truth
of the charges we have no knowl
edge, but the fact that the victim
is chairman of the Teachers' Com
mittee to Protect Salaries raises at
least some unfortunate suspicions.
Many teachers asked for a public
trial for the victim a reasonable
request and when this was re
fused by the board, began a dem
onstration. Here again the limits
of decorum may have been passed,
but surely it was stupid for the
board to call policemen with clubs
to cope with an outburst of indig
nant emotion, and still less wise
to suspend two of the protesting
teachers. To grant the public trial
asked for would do more to restore
morale among teachers and stu
dents than stubbornness and pun
ishment Policemen's clubs and
presidential umbrellas are no
longer believed to have much edu
cative value.
The Nation
THE AMERICAN PUBLIC
MIND, Peter Odegard: Columbia
University Press (1930)
It is always a little startling to
meet a man who knows a great
deal about one's motives, but the
shock of meeting such a man in
the person of Mr. Odegard, as he
appears in "The American Public
Mind" is lessened by the complete
ness with which he makes it known
that his indictments and investiga
tions extend to a whole nation of
Americans.
A tremendous task has been un
dertaken in this book, and at first
glance it might seem that only a
frenzied emotional outburst could
succeed in conveying anything of
me cnaos that is America. Far
from finding such emotional
frenzy, however, the reader who
dips into the volume at any point
will discover a reasoned analysis
iounaea on a wealth or keen ob
servation.
From first to last Mr. Odeeard
who is professor of political sci
ence at Ohio State university, is
bent on making clear the forces
objected in modern American life.
and even while rooting these force
out, ne reveals the sources from
which they have sprung in the
course of the nation's develop
ment.
"The American Public Mind" is
not a book for those who dedicate
their efforts to rationalizations
about the existing order of thing's.
nor will it felicitate the consciences
of those devoted to perpetuation
of the vague "stereotypes" whose
true nature Mr. Odegard discloses.
But to the tolerent and the curious
minded reader, the book is real
value.
In substance and content the au
thor has done a thoro and compre
hensive job. Beginning with more
or less fundamental investigations
into "The Foundations of Person
ality" and "Social Behavior." he
considers successively all the more
important influences Involved in
daily American life. Included
among these forces are the fam
Uy, the church, the school, the
press, political parties, pressure
groups, propaganda, movies, books
and the radio. A final chapter on
ensorsnip ana uemocracv ' is
packed with ironic material suita
ble -for development of a second
Mr. Dooley for those with a sense
of humor.
Nebraska summer session stu
dents, for whom this review is pre
sumably written, will be especially
uueresiea in tfte chapter devoted
to the schools, altho, of course,
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other educational factors are, not
by any means neglected.
After surveying the public school
system, Mr. Odegard is inclined to
be brutal: "....It is obvious that
education in America is regarded,
not as a means for stimulating in
the children the desire to know the
truth, but as a means for incoulat
ing them with the stereotypes and
superstitions of the dominant
groups in control."
That there is hope, however, the
author recognizes. "There are
voices in the land," he points out,
"demanding a new approach to ed
ucation. Emphasis is to be laid on
individuality, discussion, learning
by doing, student participation in
school control, and psychological
rather than formalistic learning.
Education in internationalism and
social responsibility is making
some headway. Already, says
Charles Beard, there is a large
body of teachers and school admin
istrators who are convinced that
the love of truth and the desire to
be intelligent are more precious
possessions than any segments of
bigotry."
Norman Stephens, Loup City,
Ruth Stephens, Loup City.
Robert Storer, Lincoln.
Richard Turner, Du Bols.
Robert Walden, Sidney.
Neva Webster, Lincoln.
Robert Westfall, Lincoln.
Verna Wlllbee, Creston, la,
Charles Webster, Lincoln.
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Alvlra Johnson, Taylor.
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Maxine Meyers, Fremont.
Arthur NewbeiK, Lincoln,
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Anna Tllibels, Lincoln.
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