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THE DAILY NEBRASKA
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 19.31
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,4 Thought
About Christmas.
With the advent of the Christmas holidays,
and the thought of the mid-year vacation occupy
ing the student mind, the campus, perforce, as
sumes an artificial attitude as student organiza
tions and societies observe the colorful yuletide
season with the usual number of parties and social
functions, forgetting for the moment the dull
routine of finishing up lessons and assignments be
fore vacation period begins. A mingling joy and
cheer pervades the scene as the university popula
tion anticipates the coming of the year's most
sparkling interlude.
For many, perhaps, the vacation period will be
taken up largely with the endeavor to catch up with
delinquent work. To others vacation will mea a
full two weeks of social festivities, while for a few,
vacation will mean a total discard of the cares of
school work and social activity. To all, regardless
of intention, we wish success.
But heard above the din of the holiday season,
the profuse accompaniment of sincere and vain
well-wishing, and the elaborate even extravagant
preparations which the occasion demands, is a
note to which a great deal of sentimentality has
been attached, but which deserves, at least, more
than a passing glance.
This year, as in the past, a very few campus
organizations have foregone the spectacular Christ
mas parties for the benefit of poor children. In
past years too, fraternities and sororities have re
ceived some publicity 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 indiscriminately, were
given an evening's entertainment, provided with
gifts of various kinds, and sent home.
Their enjoyment may have been great, but it
was temporary; their gifts may have been fine, but
they were usually Impractical; th entertainment
provided for them may have been food, but it wag
unsuitable for children. Last but not least, their
Christmas celebration had no connection with their
parents to whom they naturally look for enjoyment
and with whom they naturally associate the idea of
Christmas.
" Less particular, but infinitely less wasteful and
more productive of lasting benefit is the scheme
being adhered to by the civic welfare agencies, with
which the Dally Nebraskan is cooperating. Sub
stituting the expenditure of money for parties,
which merely gives poor children a briet fleeting
glimpse of Christmas away from home, the Nebras
kan attempted to secure old clothes and the money
which would ordinarily be spent In this manner.
Turned over to the welfare agencies of Lincoln, it
would reach families whose needs are legitimate.
Lamenting the lack of response to the Nebras
kan's drive, B. K. in this morning's student pulse,
rather blandly criticizes the disinterest of the or
ganized houses in the project.
With the campaign nearly a week old, figures
indicate that a very small per cent of the organised
houses on the campus had contributed anything to
the project. The pathetic results, as B. K. points
out, carry with them a none too savory flavor.
We admit that B. K.'s criticism has a well di
rected intention, but the story is not a new one,
however, for the blase indifference of the college
tudent in general has often been the subject of
criticism.
While it is too late for many campus organ
izations to cooperate in this project, perhaps next
Christmas, when some member of your organiza
tion suggests a gala affair for needy children, then
will occur the opportunity to change your contribu
tion. Looking above the selfish satisfaction of
seeing the pleasure that your gifts Will bring, the
objective of such a change is well worth the
sacrifice.
Somebody is complaining about the number of
queens elected around here Maybe that is the only
way that we can have queens elect them.
Counting the week before and the week after,
we have four weeks of Christmas vacation.
We don't mind the bad odors, the sultry heat,
or cold, and the falling plaster so much, but the
roaches in University hall are rather annoying.
If at first you don't succeed sit down and howl
about it.
People who live in glass houses are worth a
stone's throw.
If at first you don't succeed sit down and howl
about it.
People who live in glass houses are worth a
stone's throw.
Somebody is complaining about the number of
queens elected on the campus. Maybe that is the
only way that we can have queens elect them.
Counting the week before and the week alter, we
have four weeks of Christmas vacation.
Ag College
By Carlyle llodgkin
MIXER.
The mixer Saturday night is
noteworthy because of its motive.
The Ag Executive Board, big co
ordinator of Ag activities, does not
itself usually sponsor mixers. But
thjs week-end it broke a long pre
cedent because of special circum
stances. " No Ag organization had asked
to sponsor a mixer. Except for
the Mortar Board party, to which
many an Ag man had not the
slightest hope of going, the week
end was empty. Ag students want
ed somewhere to go, something to
do. So the executive board spon
sored the mixer.
Whereas the motive for campus
organization's mixers is chiefly
I profit, the motive for the mixer
! Saturday night was simply to pro
j vide entertainment for Ag stu
dents. That is why the admission
was reduced. The measure of suc
cess of the mixer, therefore, is not
the returns it paid but the extent
to which it furnished entertain
ment for Ag students.
DAIRYMEN.
Marty, program committee chair
man, presided at the meeting.
After the ice cream party and
the pictures came the club's
monthly business meeting. Joe
Huffer, junior, is president ot the
club.
CHRISTMAS PARTY.
Last, and perhaps best, of the
nre-varntion activities on Ac cam-
Fifty students and faculty mem-1 plla is tne Christmas party at 7:30
bers attended the Varsity Dairy
club's meeting last week. Two rea
sons made the meeting particular
ly attractive: ice cream was serv
ed to all the guests, and they saw
Tuesday night in the activities
building. Last year at the Christ
mas party Albert Ebers, then a
senior, and his Salem male chorus
sang several numbers. This year
a series of pictures of the Chicago j thev will sing again.
v orirj s fair. Last year th program included
Tne pictures, most of them in
color, were shown by K. H. Kretch
mer, Omaha. He had taken them
himself. Prof. H. P. Davis. L. K.
Crowe, P. A. Downs and other
dairy faculty members present
pronounced the pictures an excel
lent piece of work. Raymond Mc-
a sermon. This year it win in
clude a reading. Mrs. Bess Gear
hart Morrison, Lincoln, widely
known reader, will present "The
Hem of Her Garment."
Gerald Mott, Ag college senior,
will sing "I Come to The Garden
Alone." There will be additional
4 Contemporary Comment
A Change
For the Better. .
The era of "flaming youth" ' Is
definitely gone. A radical and wel
come change has taken place, dur
ing the last three or four years,
in. the men and women of college
age in America. Whereas recently
the collegian who knew where he
was going and what he wanted
was the exception, today nearly
all have a driving purpose and a
recognised air. Only yesterday the
man who could make the most bril
liant "wise cracks," who spent
money most readily and lavishly,
who was, in short, the typical "Joe
College," was the ideal of college
men. Today achievement is the
ideal, and he who excels in schol
arship and in leadership is the
character for emulation.
It is not unreasonable to lay this
to what has received so much
adverse publicity and assorted
blame the depression. The de
pression has been crammed down
the throat of everyone able to read
a newspaper or understand a pres
ent day conversation. Everyone, ir
respective of age, has had it borne
in upon him Chat life isn't alto
gether one grand bowl of cherries.
All of which is a good thing, an
excellent thing, perhaps not for the
peace of mind of the individual,
but for the welfare of the nation
as a whole. This depression,
through its gruelling process, has
collected and concentrated the
scattered brains of yesterday's
youth, and, though incapable of
peopling the world with Utopian
young men and women, it has cre
ated a generation which can think
as straight as any other and can
see as clearly. The Daily North
western. PWA Helps
Texas University.
Announcement Wednesday of
the federal public works adminis
tration's allotment of $1,663,000
for the completion of the new li
brary budding is , probably of
greater importance then the an
nouncement several years ago by
the regents to the effect that a
$3,290,000 building program would
be undertaken, despite the fact
that the money to be used in the
latest construction program is
nearly one-half less than that used
to finance the program preceding.
Foolish, as ... it .may seem, the
changes which will be brought
about by this program will prob
ably be more drastic than the one
which ended in the dedication of
nine new structures. It is the be
ginning of the end of the old build
inj era. Main building, long a cen
ter of attraction to forgotten exes,
will not live to see another winter.
B. Hall and Women's building will
be forgotten by the next genera
tion of undergraduates for they
too will likely be razed when the
new administration-library build
ing is completed. The current pro
gram will no doubt end with the
tearing down of the law building
a1 1 journalism building.
Whether this new construction
age will fiir-pass its predecessor
can not be t.scertained. Legal dif
ficulties have arisen over the con
struction of tho two new dormi
tories which may hold up the allot
ment of tunr'' for several months.
The breadth of the entire project
can sureiv net be guessed at such
an early dt.te.
The method of financing the two
programs is quite different. The
Greater University program was
financed tl rough the issuance of
bonds by the university available
fund to Le paid for before 1944
from .hj incrme and the interest
of the university permanent fund.
The first project of the new pro
gram will be constructed by money
loaned and given to the university
by the federal public works ad
ministration. Thirty percent of the
allotment is an outright grant.
Seventy percent is a loan to be
paid back from income received
from grazing and other surface
leases. Bonds were used in the
transaction.
Probably the most interesting
feature of this future structure
will be the thirty-one story tower
extending 288 feet in the air, some
seventy feet less than the state
capitol's heighth. Work on the
project will probably be done in
two parts. The tower will be built
on to the central portion of the
building which was completed re
cently. The main, front addition
will be constructed to the south
of the present uncompleted build
ing. The Daily Texan.
singing singing for the entire
group with Albert Ebers and his
chorus leading.
Scarcely an Ag student, except
freshmen, who does not remember
Al Ebers, big, broad shouldered,
good natured man-about-the-cam-pus
for four years. While in col
lege he sang regularly in the Creat
Cathedral choir at Westminster
church. The Salem male chorus,
which he had first helped to or
ganize In his home community
south of Seward needed his serv
ices. So during those busy college
years Al went home every Friday
night to practice with the chorus.
At home now getitng his farming
operations started. Al and his
chorus are in closer contact, plan
nine bigger thiners. That they are
will be on Wed iesday a discussion
of "Federal AM to Rural Credit,"
by F. N. Peck, Co-operative bank
commissioner. There will be on
Tuesday a discussion of "The Ag
ricultural Adjustment Program,"
by George N. Peek, formerly chief
administrator of that program,
now head of a cr mmission !igging
up new foreign markets for farm
products And there will be on
Monday an address by Louis J.
Taber, National Grange Master,
who Ag students heard at a con
vocation early in the semester.
Beside these general discussions
of the profo inder problems of ag
riculture (some of them so pro
found they give one a headache I,
there will be meetings for all the
specific interests crops, hogs.
sheep, erardens. foods, babies, what
moV nor nrne-rAiB m'lll riniihtless be . I. ....
. , " i not. Many Ag students nave gone
apparent Tuesday night. ,n f reticular interest will
Af itn vi i ium.
When Ag students get back to
the campus for classes Wednesday
noon, Jan. 3, they will find them
selves in the midst of one of the
bigger activities that occur on Ag
campus Organized Agriculture.
The days when farmers from
nearly all parts of this state as
semble on the campus for meet
ings, business and social, general
and particula are Jan. 1, 2. 3, 4.
On the general programs are the
speakers whom Ag students will
find it worth wMle to hear; doubt
less some students will come back
a day or two early to hear them.
There will be on Thursday at the
general session a discussion of the
"Present Economic Flight of Agri
culture," bv B. H. Hibbard. There
want to be back for some particu
Iar series of meetings.
And there are two matters of
service:' Organized Agriculture
means gobs of work to be done.
The faculty does the bi? end of it,
but there are many places where
students can and should, by reason
of long established precedence give
some help. The fun feed is one of
the biggest of these. Assistance
with other meetings, passing out
information, and preparing dem
onstrations are other ways.
The other chance for service is
at home during vacation. Have the
Organized Agriculture program in
mind. Tf some one in the home
community wants to know who
will speak, or about what, or when,
or why, be table to tell them.
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Dramatic Club.
Members of the Dramatic club
nr reauea d to renort Tuesday
evening at the campus studio at
7:15 for a group picture. Formal
dreas is required.
keu rUKTKK, i'restaeni.
Pershing Rifles.
Pershing Rifle initiation will be
hold in Nebraska hall, Tuesday
afternoon at 5 o'clock. All those
being Initiated must be In uniform.
Lutheran Party.
The Lutheran club Christmas
party will be held at the downtown
Y. W. C. A. Tuesday, Dec. 19, at
8:30. It was incorrectly stated In
the Daily Nebraskan that the
party would be at Ellen Smith hall.
4T THE ALPHA PHI house
Monday night was held the annual
Christmas party for the alums and
their children.
DEBATE ACTIVITY
ENDS UNTIL NEXT
SEMESTER TRIALS
(Continued from Page 1.1
the possible exception of the Delta
Sigma Rho tournament which will
be held in Iowa City about the
first of March.
However the teams did make a
trip into Kansas arguing against
Kansas State college and Kansas
university before the high schools
at Marysville, Washington and
Concordia, Kansas. The team also
went to Omaha and met the
Creighton arguers in two contests
one before the Omaha Central
high school and the other was
broadcast over station KOIL. The
squad also had other engagements
with these schools here.
New Proposition Named.
The proposition for debate the
first semester was Resolved: That
the United States should adopt the
British system of radio control
and operation. The team members
who worked on this topic were
Eugene Pester, Harvey H. Hill
man, A. Elmer Anderson, Walter
Wick, and Edmund W. Hollstein.
The argument of the second se
mester will center around the
question Resolved: That the Uni
ted States should enlarge the pow
ers of the president as a matter of
permanent policy. The squad for
the second semester who will de
bate this proposition will be chos
en at a tryout on January 11. As
the same question will be used in
the tryouts, bibliographies on the
subject are available from Profes
sor White and the books are on
reserve at the main library.
Tentative Schedules.
Tentative schedules for the last
half of the year indicate that Ne
braska speakers will engage in
wordy combat with representa
tives from Morningside, Grinnell,
and Iowa State college when these
schools will send teams through
Kansas and Nebraska.
There is a possibility that Ne
braska will also have arguments
during the second semester on the
question of federal control of radio
though the arrangements are not
definite.
Minnesota's Big Ten conference
champion hockey team will play a
schedule of fourteen intercollegiate
games this winter, and is nerotiat-
ine for mora.
The federal public works board
last Friday granted $86,100 for
the building of a new physical ed
ucation building unit at the Uni
versity of Minnesota in Minneapo
lis. The building will house an in
door swimming pool, new gym
nasium, and a number of other
rooms for class and administrative
occupation.
MARSHAL
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RECEIVING
West Virginia School Asking
Several Improvements
With Money.
MUCH REPAIRING NEEDED
nnl.i Thl TIbIIV K UlirAII k Hit W
reprlntlnc the following artlcl from tin
Parthenon, Marshall college paper. It H
Interesting to students on this campus In
view of the fact that on Monday of thlj
week work to Improve the local atadlum
and practice field was started.
Since Monday's approval of the
Marshall $110,000 appropriation
hv the state civil works adminis
tration, an improvement program
comprising various new features
and repairs about the college will
begin at once, rresiaem. onawitey
said yesterday.
The lornr needed reoiacement
with cement of board walks at the
rear of the Morrow library, and
the narrow wooden steps leading
nn to thp terrace toward the main
building, is included in the project
ed schedule, ne saia.
Redecorate Auditorium.
Other plans revealed take in tin
construction of a gate entrance to
the college drive from Fourth
avenue, with a low brick wall ex
tending along Sixteenth street and
Third avenue to wnere me cycione
fence now protecting a part of the
north campus begins.
Redecoration of the auditorium
and the employment of landscape
gardeners and engineers to direct
and assist in the work at hand are
permitted under the allotment as
signed, the presiaenc runner ai
firmed. He added that the bricks In the
campus drive will be taken up to
be laid again, ana mac necessary
work on the curbing bordering it
mav result in the drive's beinj
widened.
Flagging Walk From Union.
Although not more than 15 per
cent of the fund may be invested
in materials, according to stipula
tions of the CWA. he expressed
himself ax confident that the Droi-
ects cited may be readily achieved.
An eight foot walk or iiagsiones
from the Shawkey Union will join
a cement oath to be made from
the east doors of Science hall to
the gymnasium, he said, explaining
that the flagging will carry out
the colonial architecture of the
new building.
Minor repair jobs listed ny me
president entail repairs on the roof
nf Main. Science and the gymna
sium, and a general renewal of
paint with particular auenuon io
the inside of Main.
J. L. Mullen, superintendent of
buildings and grounds, said that
the entire plumbing system and
wire circuits will be inspected for
necessary remedial work.
The county CWA approved the
Marshall project Friday.
WAA WILMJIVE PARTY
Annual Affair at White Hall
Orphanage in Charge of
Evelyn Diamond.
A Christmas party, to be giveu
by the W. A. A. for the home for
dependent children, is beinj
planned by Evelyn Diamond. The
party, which i3 an annual affair,
will be held at the White hall
Orphanage. A short program of
musical numbers and readings will
be presented and gifts and candy
will be distributed to the children.
Miss Diamond will be assisted
by Vera Oxenford and Hallene
Haxthausen. All are members of
the W. A. A. Council.
Wrestling prospects at the Uni
versity of Oklahoma are the best
ever. Seventy-five grapplers
turned out for the school tournc
ment recently.
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