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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1933.
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Hodge Podge
For Sunday.
JT makes no realistic picture of campus life to see
the week just past in retrospect, but something
like an orderly survey reveals, at least, the domi
inant tones. For it was a week of large trends and
its events were unmistakably important for that in
teresting creature of the imagination, the typical
busy undergraduate.
Throughout the period the outstanding influ
rnces on the campus were probably three: examina
tions at the close of the second six weeks, football
which Is woven into every week of the autumn, and
preparations for the approaching Thanksgiving va
cation. Perhaps a fourth important force was pres
ent for many students in the events centering
around the visit of the group of religious leaders.
Looked at in that fashion the happenings of
the week seem neither unusual nor important, but
it must be remembered that the list of three or four
represents only the large forces. They were superim
posed, so to speak, on the routine university activi
ties. Underneath the outstanding things the stead
iness of classes, meetings, professional and social
activities these continued with their customary
lack of spectacular emphasis.
At least one of the outstanding influences, too,
lacked anything spectacular, and that was the
necessity for study as examinations made them
selves felt Perhaps it is the fault of the grading
system that so many students concentrate their
scholastic endeavors into short pre-exam reviews
and cram sessions. It would probably be nearer
the truth to say, however, that it is the fault of the
students themselves, whose ability to order their
lives seems extremely deficient when the time for
examinations comes.
Whatever the cause of the examination confu
sionand we doubt if the blame for It can be very
specifically assignedIt was present during the
week, and it dominated even the sweeping influence
of football for most of the week. On Friday and
Saturday, however, "the game," in typical Ne
braska fashion overshadowed for a time almost
everything else in campus attention. The "build-up"
of ballyhoo, the discussions, the rumors, the rally
the parade all these were present in the growth of
the interest that filled the stadium Saturday after-
I noon with thirty-five thousand people.
There were in the events centering around foot
bull this week some factors calculated to make the
interest as great as it was when game time arrived.
Ancient rivals and strong teams were pitted against
i-aeh other. It was Big Six versus Big Ten, with
the Hawkcyes determined to upset the champions
of the sm.ller conference. It was, too, a conflict
between representatives of two great midwest
rtates.
And accompanying all this was the designation
of the day as Iowa-Nebraska day, with all it meant
in added ballyhoo. The presence of bands, visiting
mayors, special train pilgrims, a ceremony for the
Cornhuskers who are national cornhusking cham
pionsthese were factors in the grid excitement.
Even a touch of sentiment was present at the
Friday night rally when Tassels honored Coach
Bible's four-year-old daughter. It isn't often that
cracks appear in the hai dened campus sophistica
tion, and the occasion of little Barbara's presenta
tion to the crowd added a most unusual feature to
the football furore.
The game itself, with its satisfactory score,
marked the end of the week on the campus itself,
but the other interests carried over in student at- J
tention were not ended with the final gun. There re- j
mained the preparations for Thanksgiving vacation
to make, and the anticipation of rest and change.
Equally important, too, in the way of plans duting
the week just past were those devoted to the busi
ness of fulfilling last minute assignments remaining
before vacation starts.
Interviews
With Ghosts
by Maurice Johnson
I'lin is one ot a series ot imaginary
dialogues concerning the Ideal university
life. Tb dialogue will appear at regu
lar bi-weekly Intervals.
"HIS, then, was the week as it seems in a survey.
As pointed out in the beginning this method of
looking at the life of the campus makes something
very far from a picture with the appeal of "real
ism," for it deals in generalities rather than per
sonalities. A better way of viewing a campus week
would have to take into account the events as they
seem in the eyes of particular individuals the little
and big- feelings, thoughts and emotions of which
every college student's life is composed. Unfortu
nately that kind of presentation is scarcely adapt
able to editorial writing, where forces must replace
incidents.
We content ourselves, then, with a somewhat
inadequate picture of the week as it seems viewed
broadly. A great many things appear to have hap
pened, at first glance, but most startling of ail to
the undergraduate will be the gradual realization
that after all it does not vary significantly from
the collegiate outline of campus work and play.
The business of education, in other words, went
on during the past week, as it always does, no mat
ter what spectacular accessories may be added
from time to time.
HUXLEY.
CVEN scientists have ghosts," I
said, as I saw the figure of
Thomas Huxley floating past me.
"Stop!" I called. "I want to talk
to you!"
'What about? he asked.
'About what an ideal university
3hould be," I told him.
"In the ideal university," Thom
as Huxley's ghost told me. "the
very air the student breaths should
be charged with an enthusiasm for
truth."
He stroked one long white side-
burn and then the other, looking
at me.
"Such a fanaticism for veracity,'
he went on, "is a greater posses
sion than much learning. I advo
cate the searching out of facts, but
often they are unpleasant. As
boy I once stood for three hours in
a dissecting room, watching knives
cut incisions into a human body
That was good for me."
But just how would you con
duct the university?" I asked. "I
cannot find a single ghost who has
a definite plan to offer.
"I was a teacher by profession,"
Huxley told me. "A biologist. It
is not enough to say that I aided in
j the furtherance of free thought ? I
began a new system of teaching,
which has grown to bear great
fruit. I advocated personal obser
vation, for the papal word of the
instructor is not always to be de
pended upon.
"You tell me that in the univer
sity we seek out truths," I said.
"But just what is the purpose of
this education. What does one do
with the truths?"
"Life," he said, "is a mighty
game of chess, and education pre
pares us to play it To the man
who plays well, the highest stakes
are paid. To the man who plays
ill, comes defeat without baste,
but without remorse."
"You are rather ruthless," I told
him.
"Do not forget that I was a sci
entist" Thomas Huxley's ghost re
minded me.
Featured Solo on Swedish
Harp and Book Report
By Miss Andersen.
Active members and pledges of
the Delian-Union Literary Society
were guests of the Delian-Union
Alumni Association at their an
nual "Alum Night" program held
in Delian-Union Hall Temple build
ing, Friday night.
This traditional program, when
the Alumni Association becomes
the host for one evening during
the semester, was planned by Mr.
Clark Guston, president of the as
sociation, and Mr. Harold Ten
Bensel, secretary and treasurer of
the alumni association.
The Faubel Entertainers, featur
ing a solo on the Swedish Harp, by
Miss Lenore Swanson, and a book
report of the "Flying Carpet,"
written by Richard Halliburton,
noted traveler and writer, by Miss
Viola Anderson, were features of
the program. Included in the pro
gram were skits, readings and mu
sical numbers.
SET UP NEW MASTODON
Contemporary Comment
Display Bones of Fossil
Morrill Hall; Skull Is
Nearly Perfect.
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ATTEND SCHOOL CONCLAVE.
Dr. W. H. S. Morton, Dr. H. C.
Koch, and D. R. Morltz, of the uni
versity teachers college were in
York Thursday night to attend a
four-county district convention of
school superintendents. Dr. Mor
ton spoke on the program.
Fossil bones of a new mastodon
are being set up in the university
museum In Morrill hall. Known
to the curators as "Mastodon
Americanus," the specimen will be
mounted with two of its kind in
the west glass case along elephant
hall. It is believed to have been
alive during the Pleistocene age.
Striking features of the skeleton
are the dark discoloration, which
was probably caused by its long
burial in swampy vegetation; and
the fact that it possessed, when
found, two perfect tusks, and a
nearly perfect skull.
Writes Diicii!gion on
Design of Pipe Lines
R. G. Sturm, who was graduated
from the university department of
civil engineering in 1924, is co
author of a scientific discussion on
the design of large pipe lines, ap
pearing in the 1933 volume of the
annual "Transactions of the Amer
ican Society of Civil Engineers."
Keep a Sharp
Ear Open. Adolph.
Broadway music publishers are
prepared to view with critical eyes
a sleeping experiment in social
control inaugurated by German
authorities recently.
Those high in Nazi councils, ac
cording to news dispatches, "are
discouraging publication or circu
lation in Germany of the American
song, "Lazy Bones." because it en
courages idleness."
Idleness, it is said, does not con
form to Nazi ideals; but if "Lazy
Bones" is the only song which ot-
fends them, Nazi ideals are in for
a thoro overhauling.
Would a Nazi consider it quite
proper to hold a woman in the
palm of his hand? Are all wearers
of the brown shirt likely to shuffle
off to Buffalo? (Shuffling is
doubtless one of the most disgrace
ful corruptions of the goose step.)
Can't Nazis give anything but love
baby?
Do ninety-nine out ot a nunarea
ladv friends of storm troopers
want to be kissed ?
Is the radical purity of a steel
helmet stalwart in question when
he lands a Carolina mammy? If a
concerted effort to cover the wa
terfront is made by all Nazi troop
ers, who'll protect the southern
border against the French ?
These questions, of course, are of
some importance. But when the
reich awakens to the really serious
problem widespread fear of the
Big Bad Wolf Tin Pan Alley had
better watch out. Daily Iowan.
'Educational
Relief:
Of interest in today's mail is an
announcement that the University
of Minnesota is planning to finance
one thousand students as part of
its "educational relief" program.
Upon recommendation of the
president, the board of regents at
Minnesota voted to throw open the
university to a number of students
who will be given the usual
courses of instruction at no tuition
charge.
The committee choosing the re
cipients of these funds will be ap
pointed by the governor of the
state. This body will appoint the
students and administer to them
fifteen dollars a month for living
expenses, outside of free tuition.
Classification of those eligible:
Students now attending the Uni
versity of Minnesota who may be
forced to leave because of failing
finances; former students not now
in school because of inability to
meet expenses, and persons who
have never attended the university.
Surprisingly enough, the second
group comprises 2,000 and more
students.
This seems a distinct advance in
progress toward democratic educa
tion, which means, to us, availa
bility of education to all fit for it.
We solve this problem less
formally, but certainly not leis
surely, thru our loan funds. It is a
happy fact mat students of the
university will contribute to sup
port of other students in this way.
Daily Californian.
Calls Long Distance
To Secure Assignment
Scientific developments of mod
ern methods of communication
scored another victory when Roger
Clark, freshman from Seward,
used the telephone to discover
Monday's English assignment. On
returning home for the week-end,
Clark found that he did not have
the assignment, so he phoned
George Pipal, a classmate, at the
Dailv Nebraskan office, to deter
mine what the lesson was. Science
failed only in the fact that Pipal.
another freshman, didn't know the
! assignment either.
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The Student Pulse
Brier, eonrte eontrlbatfon pertl
nrat t nutters of ttudent life and
liic onivrrkity are welcomed bf thin
drrtrt.nmt. under the aoaJ rrctrie
Uon ot toond nepaper practice.
mttUh exclude all Ubelona matter
and personal attack. Lrttera must
be ftlrned, but namea will b with
f eld from public lioa U a delre4.
The "Sormal Curve."
TO THE EDITOR:
Having been informed by an
rther student that the protest
which I am about to present is a
"valid gripe." I have bethought
myself to address still others
through the medium of your paper.
Possibly if sufficient force of stu
dent indignation could be brought
into play something might be done
to correct this "valid gripe."
It is the misfortune of human
mental tendencies that in an effort
to lessen confusion and bring about
intellectual order, an individual
overshoots his mark and tries to
project his own ideas of order
upon external relations. Members
of teachers college faculties over
the country are not free from this
unfortunate mental quirk them
selves. The consequence is that
they have tried to force classifica
tions on student intelligence which
are sometimes distressing in re
sults. I am thinking cf a particular
clats in advanced Ecglish wherein
the instructor gives only a certain
percentage of his students grades
in the nineties. He has learned
this restraint from the teachers
college. He has been Dot unwilling
to cooperate in this respect with
the dictates advanced by the teach
ers college. The members of this
class are fir the most part inter
ested in the specialized subject
with which It deals; and then, too.
there are those in the class who
take the course merely as a cu
riosity, aiming only to pass in a
few more hours of English.
Thus the class gets just about
the usual assortment of good, tad.
and indifferent undergraduate stu
dents. Eut It so happens that each
semester a large number of grad
uate students also register for this
course. More advanced in years In
many cases, concentrating on their
field of specialty, and doing extra
work in the course, they naturally
draw (wb the high mark. The
undergraduate students, the best
of them, take grades in the S0'.
The same unfairness is plainly
manifert in any highly specialized
course, where the students are all
rather well versed in their subject
and an interested enough to work
hard at It Email classes will also
throw off the percentage. i
Why does not the teacben col
lege unsanction this policy?
M. D.
ASSOCIATES OF THE LATE
FREDERICK COLLINS RE
CALL TRAITS nv wr.i.tJ
KNOWN ASSISTANT MU
SEUM CURATOR
(Continued from Page 1.)
was a choice spot for Mr. Collin.
Another favorite place for him to
sit and laten waa near the ruins
of a burned lodge which stood
nearby.
John says of him. "He waa one
of those men to whom other coxae
with their troubles. Ha waa al-
glad to bear, and tried to
nip a much aa be could. I have
never bb bim angered. Every.
pleasant way: and he met events
as they came along, without
fretting."
Many things besides books and
museums filled Mr. Collins' wide
sphere of life. Before his eyes
troubled him too much, he enjoyed
motion pictures, especially the act
ing of George Arliss. But most
of all, he was interested in people.
Knew Geologists.
Writing of him. Dr. Barbour
says. "As a voung man in England
he had for his associates many
Scotch geologists who were fa
mous in their profession. So he
came naturally to have a scien
tific turn of mind. He was inti
mately acquainted with the promi
nent officers of the British mu
seum, and its annex, South Ken
sington. His long-continued direc
torship of the Essex museum fitted
him for his position in the Uni
versity of Nebraska, but the
preparation that outweighed and
overbalanced everything was the
academic mode of thought ac
quired from his philosophic and
broad literary study.
"When he met and talked at
schools, clubs, and organizations of
au Kinas, ne was not lacking in the
Knowledge of history, literature.
and philosophy. His background
cnarmea nis work in broadcasting,
so mat people in Nebraska and
surrounding states eagerly awaited
hi Thursday morning radio talks.
In addition to this fine back
ground, came a well-modulated
voice, a delicacy of feeling, and a
remarkably subtle sense of humor.
Hi disposition was fine, hi mode
of approach always agreeable, and
he never lost a sense of elegant
leisure wnicn enabled him to talk
indefinitely with children and
adult alike without any feeling of
excitement or nervousness on his
part"
Possessed Sense of Humor.
Two trait In Mr. Collins which
all hi friends recall were hi fine
sense of humor, and what Dr. Bar
bour describe as a "sense of ele
gant leisure." John Easley be
member one of the favorite types
of story that pleased Mr. Collin.
The two men had stopped at a
drug store for sodas, and when the
clerk came to wait on them, Mr.
Collin asked if a certain tream
near there wa a tributary of the
Platte. "No," answered the
waiter, "I think It just run into
it"
Disliked Triteness.
Disliking triteness, hi joke
bobbed up freshly at any moment
They were spontaneous and good
natured, keeping hi listener al-
way on the alert for a sudden
burst of humor, and a laugh.
Living with a "sense of leisure."
Mr. Collins took time to plan.
After his death some slips of paper
were found lying on bis desk. On
one is the title. "Rules of Life."
Then follows a list:
"Bed at ten o'clock.
"No debt in money, time, or effort
"Don't crowd to much onto the
time, money, or brain at your
disposal.
"Try to do good to others."
Wrote Poetry.
The other slip contains a few
lines of poetry written by him, and
signed "F. G. C. Pelican Lake.
Sunday July 4th. 1925." Above
the signature is:
"All has been done before," I heard
one say,
"Which is small matter to a
sincere.
"Yet dare I doubt if this be ever
true.
The trail once blazed, no other
route is sought
Ten steps from beaten, track the
world is thine."
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ATTENDS CHICAGO MEETING
Dean Ferguson Convenes
With Engineers Who Were
Former Students.
While in Chicago attending a
meeting of the Land-Grant col
lege and universities. Nov 15,
Dean O. J. Ferguson of the college
of engineering met with thirteen
engineers of that city who had
been former students at the Uni
versity of Nebraska. Alumni at
tending the luncheon held in the
Engineers' association club room
were: Virgil 8. Acton, '22; D. M.
Campbell, "28: Charle M. Candy.
ex-'13; Ralph R. Fowler, '28; Her
bert S. Frederick. '29; Lawrence
T. Hearson, '30; John J. Kner, '28:
Walter J. Lempke. '11; L. R.
Potadle, '28; Arthur B. Smith, '22:
Kenneth P. SUles, '28, Clyde E.
Wilcox. '22; and J. M. Zimmerman,
'22.
Gilbert Doane Head
Paper to Librarians
At a meeting of the Lincoln
chapter of the American Library
association, held Friday evening
in the Lincoln city library. Gilbert
H, Doane, university librarian.
read his paper "The Librarian a a
Writer." Recently Mr. Doane had
given the paper before the national
assembly in Chicago.
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