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THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 15. 1934. TWO. TtIP HATTY MPRRA sk AM AllLi Mmm.-i ilUUililUlliiii as eaaeeae eaea aaaaaaa- i ! 1 ' 1 III The Daily Nebraskan Station A, Lincoln. Nebraska OFFICIAL STUDENT PUBLICATION UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA SVssoriatrd Cfollrglate 13mt -AvlRf i urn 'at J tMi.wai'pgftng UM) lJ4 - Entered ai second-elsss matter at the postofflee Lincoln, Nebraska, under act ot congress, March 1S', and at special rate of pottage provided for In '" 1103, act of October 3. 19 7. authorized January fO, 192 THIRTY.THIRD YEAR Publlihed Tueeday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday morning during tha academic year. SUBSCRIPTION RATE V.Wayear Single Copy 6 cent $1.00 a Mme.ter 2.50 a year mailed V- a eemester mailed Under direction of the Student Publication Board. Editorial Off lee University Hall 4. Buaine Off Ice Unlvenity Hall 4A. Telephone Day: B-6891! Night: B-8882. B-S333 (Journal) Ak for Nebraskan editor. EDITORIAL STAFF Editor-in-chief Bruce Nicoll Managing Editors .... .... Burton Marvin Violet Croaa News Editors Jack Fischer Fred Nlckla v.7nl.Vueck Society Editor Vlrii n Sporta Editor.... ; V V IT?nT?JE2 Sports Assistants Jack Gruba and Arnold Levine BUSINESS STAFF Bernard Jennings Business Manager Assistant Business Mansgers .' George Holyoke Wilbur Erickson Dick Schmidt Advertising Solicitors Robert Funk Truman Oberndorf Circulation Department Harry West Phyllis Bldner "With malice touaid r.ont, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as Cod gives us tt see the right, let us strive on to finish the n'Orlj we are in; to bind" up the nation's wounds; to care lor him who shall have home the battle, and for his widow and orphan to dn all which may achieve and chsrish a mst and last ing peace among "ourseltej and with all nationj." Abraham Lincoln. Progress and Poverty. rDAY marks the sixty-fifth anniversary of the University of Nebraska. Another milestone passed in the life of an institution created by an act of the Nebraska legislature and signed by Governor David Butler Feb. 15, 1869. Today, in the place of a struggling uncertain institution of the early sev enties, people of the state point to a university that has grown to mammoth proportions and to an in stitution which has sent thousands of successful young men and women into the world. When the University of Nebraska was officially opened in the fall of 1871, but twenty students were enrolled in its single college. Today there are ten colleges far more complete and better organired than the entire university during the early days of its life. From the score of students then attending the university, enrollment has changed to 4,000 or more who seek education in 1934. In the place of U hall, now condemned, the physical proportions of the university have outstripped all plans of building programs. The sixty-five years of this institution have wrought great changes. The growth of the university has gone hand in hand with the progress of a great state. It repre sents a higher thing in life the educational ideal which the early settlers foresaw for their children and future generations. Swarming into the fertile areas of, this state under the free homestead act which congress put Into effect Jan. 1, 1863, the courageous pioneers set tled upon the rich river bottoms. The virgin soil was overturned, and the early settlers put the abun dant forces of nature to work. Cultivation pro gressed as crops were sown and harvested. Grass hoppers, drouths, and adverse weather conditions were obstacles. But to these settlers failure meant certain extinction. Homes were built and soon dotted the barren prairies. The prairie schooner, beaded westward, stopped on the plains of Nebras ka. The iron horse, an advance guard of real civil ization, soon went unnoticed by these people. The pioneer had indeed conquered his dominion. The same determination that built the state founded the University of Nebraska. It is signifi cant that two years after these sons of the soil had achieved statehood, they were bent on having a state university. The institution has taken many strides forward in the brief span of sixty-five years. For, similar to the state, the University of Nebraska's history has been a colorful and picturesque drama. Few realize the spirit that was responsible for the founding of this institution. Perhaps fewer still recognize the possibilities for future development and accomplishment. TJHE real worth of an Institution of learning, how ever, cannot be measured adequately in terms of physical growth and enrollment. Indications of real progress and advancement, on the other hand, can be found only through examination of the academic and cultural aspects of this institution. The cultural influence of this institution on the state of Nebraska cannot be determined. The nu merous college presidents, corporation heads, and professional leaders listed in its alumni directory may indicate that the university has rendered a service of high academic value to the state and na tion. Faculty members of the university, it may be pointed out, are largely responsible for the brilliant showing the university's graduates have made. Ia addition, the high position that the university holds in the educational world may be attributed largely to the influence of ita faculty. Perhaps they deserve no small credit for the building in Nebraska an edu cational institution of which not only students and alumni, but the entire state may be justly proud. But in spite of the institution's physical and cultural growth, it has suffered numerous setbacks at the hands of ill-informed individuals. Future plana and dreams for a better university have often been shattered by the aimless tinkerings of well meaning but ignorant men. The political "football ing" of higher educational institutions has come to be a commonly accepted procedure. In short, the cause and future value of education has been sacri ficed on the altar of the almighty dollar. The damaging experience suffered by this uni versity last spring was such an experience. It was an expression of bitter contempt for an educational system that had seemingly lost it's educational aims and ideals. But the incident was an unfortunate one. Progress in this institution waa halted abrupt ly. Faith in the real value of education and its ex press contribution to society waa shaken. Well may we say that in the brief span of sixty-five years the university of this great eommoawealta aaa expert fnced progresa and poverty! And so might this anniversary day be one f genuine reflection. The university has much to be thankful for on tola day. It ha also muck to cor rect and pUa for in the future. As more ef it graduate become Imbued with the real aim and pur pose of education and its relationship with their everyday life, then will the citizens of this state be come more universally converted to the actual bene fits of a state university. And then too might the university pause to re' fleet For from it should emanate a new type of thought a sane and sober thought-purpose of ac tion, and a true m 'zatlon of the educational ideal which dominated the thoughts of the pioneers who founded this Institution. Ag College by Carlyle Hodgkin "COLUMN" POLICY The Daily Nebraskan this week initiated a new "column" policy. Henceforth Ag College will ap pear twice weekly. It will be published on Tues days and Thursdays. On Mondays and Fridays will appear regularly a column "Beneath the Headlines," by Dick Moran. Columns appearing in the Sunday Nebraskan will be by whatever writers the editors may select. Beneath the Headlines, judging from its contents In the Wednesday Nebraskan, may well serve a very useful purpose on the university campus. It is a common remark among the faculty that students are uninformed on current news developments. The students realize it's truth no less than do the faculty. But what to do about it? Students' interests are here, on the campus. That is natural enough. Moreover, their work keeps their time and attention directed toward school rather than toward things outside of school. Many a student will tell you frankly, and often a little regretfully, that he aim ply does not find time to keep abreast of the news. And he realizes, too, that the news is important If for any considerable number of students that situation is true, and I believe it is, then a short, concise summary of important happenings, national and international, gleaned from the nation's news papers and presented twice weekly in the Daily Ne braskan would seem to be the solution to what many recognize a a vsital need. MIDNIGHT MEETINGS Bull Session: Any meeting where two or more students are gathered together to talk about any subject that happens to present itself. The time is usually well after midnight. The place is usually some student's room. The subject material usually ranges over the whole world of things, people, and ideas, knows no rules, goes wherever it will. These midnight sessions, well known to students anywhere and everywhere, are discussed here be cause they may be the key that unlocks the door to one of the average student's greatest desires. What is that desire? It Is to learn to think. In final analysis, that is the greatest problem of every student in this university to learn to think. To learn facts is a relatively simple process. But to learn to see reason in facts, to learn to see their meaning and significance, to learn to see re lationships between facts, to learn to discover new truth from old truth, to learn to understand and manage one's world by that difficult process called thinking that is not simple. It is the most difficult problem, in fact the chief problem, students face, and that many of them fail to solve it in any satisfactory degree is no deep, dark secret. But what has this problem of how to think got to do with bull sessions? Just this. Discussion is the greatest stimulator of thought. And particularly if it is the right kind of discussion. And the kind of discussion usually found in bull ses sions is the right kind. There are no taboos. Each partner in the discussion says what he thinks. Where in the class room he may keep silent because his question might sound ridiculous, in a good old session he will blurt out what he thinks. And if someone knows why he is wrong, they won't hesi tate to tell him so. Such frank and pointed discussion tends to set minds to working. The partners in the discussion get to clicking. One jars lcose a new thought in another, who in turn may jar lcose a new thought in the next. So the process goes. One aroup of students on Ag campus have, I think, made highly valuable use of such sessions to master their college work. Among that group are Paul Harvey, Elver Hodges, Gall Klingman, Gerald Mott and a number of others who have been closely associated through the medium of their boarding club. And it is safe to say that the value of discus sions such as theirs must have by no means stopped with a better understanding of college work. The point will be raised, of course, that bull sessions usually devote themselves to subjects so trivial that they are without value. That disadvan tage must readily be conceded. But the fact that in such sessions the conversation is entirely sponta neous remains to their credit. The fact that there are no taboos, that the partners in the discussion say what they think, remains as an advantage. The fact that discussion sets minds to working, gets them to clicking, remains as an advantage. StudenUi have In bull sessions the vehicle through which they may learn more about the art of thinking, that one skill which they really went to university to help them attain, than through any other single medium. The one requisite is that the sessions be made to range over the kind of subjects that will stimulate thought. The Greeks had more than one word for it Ac cording to an announcement by on of our classics professors. Roosevelt's naval building program seems to In dicate that Frankie hasn't got over the sail boat days when he was assistant secretary of the navy. If ail the short story contests solicited by our leading publications were laid end to end we would probably have a tall story contest The university is granting an L. L. 73. to one of its first graduates. This should offer encourage ment to some students. The "Campus Cep" hss been selected as the Kostaet show this spring. It should be a Regler affair. It is rumored that this week politician are electing the prom queen. We admit that tha early bird gets the worm. The AMERICAN UNIVERSITY FAILS By Lane W. Lancaster and Harold W. Stoke ' ' of The Department of Political Science, University of Nebrabka Editor's Net! The Mlowtng article Is the third of a eerlrs Of fear aiKontiwis dVallaf Kith rduratlonal problems at Ne braska an ether Amrrtraa oalversltlrs. The last article of this series will appear In rrMay's Daily Nebraskan. The authors present thrne arllrles with the upmi purpone ef en-atlng dis easplans on the Isnues raised by them. N our preceding articles we pointed out the plight of students and teachers which has resulted from the dominance of the commercial spirit in educa tion. We said that teachers had lost heart and were losing their faith in the distinctive, significant char acter of their work. There are even those who have thought so little about their work that they fear the schools may be displaced by radio and correspond ence study. We said that student are bewildered because there appears to be so little connection be tween what they are asked to do and what they came to college for. New that college education ap pears to be almost worthless on the labor market the old motives will no longer suffice to bring stu dents to college or to induce them to study. If the commercial interest can no longer be trusted to op erate the educational system, can we find a substi tute? We believe we can. We have already implied that most of the ills which afflict the educational process are matters of the spirit, not of equipment, program, or organiza tion. If that analysis is correct it suggests the proper remedy. The spirit in which education is carried on must be vitalized and purified. Several suggestions for so doing are offered. First the faculty must undergo a thorough re vival of faith in the distinctive character of their work. Teachers need constant reminding of facts so fundamental that they are overlooked. These facts are that faculties are almost the only groups in a hectic social order who are trying to "find things out" rather than promote and sell them. Fac ulties find the measure of their worth in the devel opment of the personalities under them, in the dis coveries and contributions of their research, and in the extent to which they can bring order for them selves and others into various fields of knowledge. Faculties find the measure of their worth in the de velopment of the personalities under them, in the discoveries and contributions of their research, and in the extent to which they can bring order for themselves and others into various fields of knowl edge. Faculties need their self respect revived by fresh reminders of their awful Importance as the treasurer of the race's knowledge and as the medi um through which that knowledge can be made known. Teachers need to be rescued from the her esy too many of them have accepted that education is a "business" which must meet the same tests and operate on the profit and loss basis of any other business. But that denial must not be made lamely; it must be made with ringing conviction and genu ine demonstration. The educational profession, as we have said, has lost its fervor because it has lost its faith. We need to reaffirm our belief that education should have an intellectual purpose. By this we mean that our ef forts as teachers should not consist of a series of disjointed and unrelated "solutions" of problems by rule of thumb, but should rather be directed toward getting to the fundamentals of the matters with which we deal as scholars. It was a wise man who urged us not to despise theory, for theoretical man is the one who has got to the bottom of things. A good deal of our present confusion is due to noth ing else but superficial thinking. There is a sense in which our "practical" men have been a nuisance, for their decisions have been informed by no prin ciple, they have "played their hunches," and have made the fatal blunder of assuming that things are what they seem to be. But when we criticize them we in fact indict the educational system which "prepared" them to live in society. If that society is badly ordered it may well be due to the presence in it of badly edu cated individuals. In spite of our American atti tude of contempt for the "impractical," it may be suggested that such "impractical" people as, say, philologists, could scarcely have done worse in man aging affairs during the past twenty years. From them we should at least have had a chance to re cruit men accustomed to thinking through their problems, but until our educational institutions are devoted to truly intellectual pursuits they can scarcely hope to produce a cultivated minority able to support such leadership. We take the first step toward the reaffirmation of the faith we have lost when we talk about it It is then that we discover reasons for the faith or lack of faith within us. But how little genuine sin cere discussion of our work goes on! How few the addresses of scholarly and thoughtful men! How rare the demonstrations which might encourage us that people ever actually reach the high roads we glibly describe as the proper ones for noble minds! Most of our faculty meetings are called to care for administrative, not educational, matters and most of us generate such ideas as we have after we arrive and learn the nature of the subject under discus sion. No wonder our meetings are barren of in spiration, educational cliches in sound and depart mental quarrels in fury. There is all too little self examination and efforts at justification of the very ideas that are central to the life and work of a uni versity. People will never do well what they do not believe to be significant, and the vigor of the edu cational quest will not be revived at the University of Nebraska until the faculty makes itself feel that it is an indispensable part of an indispensable enterprise. OFFICIAL BULLETIN Swap Shop. Students whoss books have been sold by the Y. W. C. A. Swap shop will be paid any time from 11 to 3 on Thursday or Friday of this week. The shop will also be open from 11 to 3 on Tuesday, accord, ing to Theodora Lohrman, chair man of the committee in charge of the shop. St. Paul M. E. A Valentine party sponsored by the Epworth league of that church will be held at St Paul M. E. ph. day night at 8 o'clock in the church, 12th and M. Prom Committee, The junior-senior prom commit tee picture for the 1934 Cornhuj ker will be taken tonight at 7:30 at the campus studio. Members of the committee are requested to wear formal dress for the picture. Social Dancing. Friday evening from 7 to 9 o'clock a social dancing class will be held in Grant Memorial hall. Ten cents and an Identification card will admit Dramatic Club. Dramatic club meeting tonight at 7:30 at the Temple theater. AH members and pledges are request ed to attend and to be on time. Interest Group Leaders. Interest ctoud leaders will mt at 5 o'clock Friday in Ellen Smith nan. Y. W. C. A. Staff Meetings. The following Y. W. C. A. staffs will meet Thursday at 4 o'clock at Ellen Smith hall: Finance, Mar- jorie Shostak; Swap Shop, Theo dora Lornman; Nebraska-in-China, Laura McAllister; worm Forum, Beth Snhmid. Hitler Looks First for Support To People Who Have Seen Terrors Imposed by War, Says Werkmeister We are wondering what tha Innocents are do ing these days, now that tha football rallies are out of the way. To the schools of the war pe riod who saw 700,000 women nnd children starve to death as a result of the blockade im posed on Germany in the war; who lived thru the red terror and who had seen whole villages burned in Saxony; who had seen his people stoop to the colored troops stationed in the P.hineland by France, these proud people liked this much as the southern gentlemen in the United States would have ; to the boys in the middle class families who lost homes taht had been in the fam ily for centuries. "It is to these men that Hitler first looked for support," said Dr. Werkmeister in his address at the central Y. M. C. A. building be fore the student group Tuesday evening. Dr. Werkmeistefs lecture is the second in a series of lectures on current topics sponsored by the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. "When the war was over," he stated, "the German people were going to set up a democratic form of government using the ideal points from democracies all over the world." The monarchy was the govern ment which had ruled Germany for generations and the people were not ready for a democracy, he said. In the chaos which followed there was a choice offered of Hit ler or socialism. How well the people of Germany thjnk that the choice was made was expressed by Dr. Werkmeister. People Back Hitler. "It is my belief," he stated, "that 75 percent of the people in Ger many are back of Hitler; they think he might be right. Any pow ers of dictator that Hitler may ex ercise are given to him by the peo ple." Dr. Werkmeister could not un derstand the policy of the press in giving so much space to the statements made against Hitler by his enemies and so little space given to the things that he is ac tually accomplishing. He pointed to the non-aggression pact just re cently signed by Germany and by Poland. The papers made no men tion of this treaty whatever giving preference to statements made TYPEWRITERS All standard makes for rent. Special rates for Ions term. Reconditioned ma chines on easy term. Nebraska Typewriter Co. 110 No. 12 St. B2157 The last All-University party on the down-town cam pus. With permanent decorations, a price you can well afford to pay for an evening of dancing, and . . . Leo Beck and His 12 Piece Orchestra and 3 Entertainers 60 Men 35c i Per Couple Women 25c against Hitler by Stalin. W hen I went to Germany, he concluded, "I was strongly against Hitler; since I have seen what he is doing and the support which he holds I am only mildly against him. It is my belief that Hitler is a sincere, honest man working foi peace." I PLAN IS FINALLY GIVEN APPROVAL (Continued from Page 1.) self, John Gepson, president of the council, stated. A report on campus organiza tions to the council revealed that a majority of the various clubs did not have constitutions on file with the council. The council voted to suspend any organization over which it exercises jurisdiction, that does not have a copy of its con stitution on file with the couneil by the next meeting, Feb. 28. A report that the national organ ization claims more than 60 per cent of the fees of most honorary organizations was given by How ard White, chairman of a special committee of investigation. Fur ther action and an effort to lower these costs will be attempted in the future it was Indicated. 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