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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 193 1,
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- ' With malic toward
uth jirmness in the right
Tione. twin chanty Jor all.
as Lod guvs uj to tee tne
riehl, let us strive on to finish the irorl; u are in; to
bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall
have borne the battle, and" for his uidniv and orphan
to di all uhich mav achieve ana cherish a just and last'
tnfl. peace among ourselves ana uith
Abraham Lincoln.
all nations."
Keeping the Wolf
From the Door.
TEW Greeks will recognize the vast importance of
the action taken by the board of regents Thurs
dCi afternoon when they established a permanent
ahimni council and its board of control. Perhaps
fewer still will recognize the actual significance of
tire decisive step taken by the university administra
tion. Under the provision of the'Hiniversity's grant to
tha alumni council, and more particularly the board
of Control, undergraduate fraternity chapters on this
campus will be under its full control. Its powers,
briefly, may be summed up as follows:
1. Govern and discipline all fraternities and fra
ternity building corporations.
2. Determine what powers shall be exercised by
the undergraduate interfraternity council.
3. Investigate and pass on such subjects as
rushing, pledging, initiating, social functions, chap
ter houses, and activities of fraternity members.
4. Fraternities desiring to establish chapters at
Nebraska must obtain approval of the board of
control.
5. The decision of the board of control on any
matters pertaining to fraternity lif at the univer
sity shall be final and binding upon all fraternities
unless the board of regents shall decide to review
the decision on appeal.
The all important board of control is to be
composed of seven alumni council members, two
university senate members, and two interfraternity
council members. All will serve for two years ex
cept undergraduates, who will be members for one
year. The organization will function immediately.
This organization grew out of a movement
started last fall, when Dean T. J. Thompson, at the
request of alumni Greeks, called a meeting of chap
ter alumni. Out of this meeting a permanent or
ganization was formed, with a steering committee
of seven members. This committee, to serve in an
advisory capacity only, asked each fraternity's alum
ni representative to submit questionnaires on their
chapter's financial condition. The questionnaires
were studied by the committee and then submitted
to the board of regents. The board of control was
the result
In spite of the bowlings of undergraduate fra
ternity members the organization of this body was
& most fortunate move. It was significant, indeed,
that the all powerful body was formed as a result
of previous findings.
It is a commonly accepted fact that fraternities
in general are out on a limb which is being rapidly
sawed off. Nebraska fraternities, it seems, are no
exception to this indictment. For, according to the
report of the committee, over 50 percent of Nebras
ka fraternities are badly in need of financial super
Vision. The note was not a cheery one.
Undergraduate Greeks are now feeling the real
pinch from something which they had no part in
making. The building spree which the brothers of
the Jeweled pin enjoyed in the days of raccoon coats
and rah rah times is exercising a telling effect on
present day fraternities.
As such, the formation of the alumni council
should be an effective instrument through which
many may be able to solve their financial problems.
They will not be deprived of their God-ordained
right to run their own affairs if they do so cor
rectly. Unfortunately, however, many undergradu
ates fail in this respect. For them the alumni board
should be of some help.
It is questionable, even improbable, that the
alumni board will use its full powers. One thing is
certain, however: Brothers of the jeweled pin should
cast aside any illusions of prosperity and face their
problems with realism or accept the disastrous
consequences.
fiercely tha influences which lead us astray. Sec
ondly, we must revive our faith in our work by re
newing our sense of its value. Thirdly, we must ex'
amine our universities, from curriculum to organ!
zation, and instead of tolerating what is not harm
ful, root out all that Is not helpful."
In short, what the professors want is a revival
of faith in the educational ideal responsible for the
creation of our higher educational system.
They point out that faculty members have lost
sight of this goal. The result has influenced the
student, perforce, to the extent that he wanders aim
lessly about, amazed, even confused, in trying to es
tablish clearly in his mind what he "came to school
for."
Specifically this means that university profes
sors have not resented the comparison of their pro
fession to brick laying or running a filling station.
They have not defended their profession against the
tirades of those who ruthlessly criticized them as
commercial zealots. In short they are only half
convinced that education is something of a decidedly
unique character.
As a result, the professors point out, this has
influenced the undergraduate mind to a point where
it is a rare student who discovers the real value of
education. For students in general have been mis
led as to the true purpose of a college education.
They have been taught at home and in the univer
sity that a college degree is a money maker. Un
fortunately, too, this theory was carried a step too
far. Universities, of necessity, indulged in mass
education. Teaching standards were lowered to ac
commodate the unfit and retard the fit. College de
grees were poured into industry so rapidly that to
day it is little better than a worthless sheepskin.
The authors point out, on the other hand, that
a university education should be a cultural influ
ence. It is something which cannot be sold to the
world. Neither is it a money maker. In other words
education can not teach "success.
This sums up, briefly, one part of a thorough
discussion. The tone and sense of it, however, is
being sounded elsewhere by a few of America's edu
cational leaders. The other side of "education for
all" is being brought forward. Such a cause is a
worthy one.
The doctrine will probably go unheard, while in
this university and others, many brilliant and well
informed faculty members and exceptional students
slowly lose the educational vision. This is unfortu
nate for well might administrative heads and college
presidents prevent this moral bankruptcy. Well
might they break away from the idea that culture
can be sold, and restore to the minds of their facul
ties and students the doctrine that a university is a
cultural institution, not a vocational training ground.
IN NRA POSTAL MEET
Boyd Cops Individual Honors
In Dual Contest With
Missouri Friday.
Completing another stage of the
NRA dual Postal Match with Mis
souri, the Cornhusker riflemen
handed in a total score of 3,615
for the four positions of the ten
varsity men Friday afternoon, at
the Andrews hall range.
John Boyd captured individual
honors with a total of 375 while
Sam Fleishman turned in the sea
son s highest standing score ot 4
to win the second position with
372. Glenn Funk, last week's high
man, slipped to third position by
firing a 368 total.
Sect C. F. MeGimsey reported
that the score is improving stead
ily and great things are to be ex
pected of the present crop of
marksmen.
Summaries of the ten high var
sity members:
Bnvrt 37!S rsihb 3M
Fleishman ... .372'Hrina SM
Kiink 3i;s spurlock 34
, .. .3S.V
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...357 Teajn total 361!i
Score was totaled from results
fired at the positions of prone, sit
ting, kneoling, and standing.
Winter Number of Prairie Schooner
Offers Literary Contributions on
The Beginning of Its Eighth Year
Punklau
Davtfon
Browsing
Among The
Books
Maurice Johnson
OBEL prizeman Sinclair Lewis is increasing in
productivity, decreasing, perhaps in signifi
cance. His recent and cinematized "Ann Vickers"
has been followed by "Work of Art," the uneven
story of Myron Weagle, his brother Ora, and the
Perfect Inn. Sinclair Lewis of "Main Street" and
"Babbitt," some say, has been dead since he bade
good-bye to Martin Arrowsmith. "Arrowsmith,"
these same people say, may become known as
Lewis' best
The American
University Fails.
IN the Daily Nebraskan last week,
M.
under the cap
tion, "The American University Fails," by Dr.
Lancaster and Dr. Stoke of the political science de
partment, appeared a series of four articles which
come as a refreshing interlude to students and fac
ulty members of this university who have been ex
posed, for some time, to over enthusiastic "educa
tionalists" who propound a doctrine based essential
ly on the idea of "seliing the university to the
world."
Not the result of any surface scratching, the
articles represent an exhaustive study into the fun
damental illnesses of our system of higher eduea
,.on. The analysis made by these gentlemen accu
rately sums up the problem at the University of Ne
braska, as a representative state university. Jt is
sot a long range misale Intended to damn a Harvard,
or a Tale, or a Johns Hopkins.
Summing up what appeared to be the problems
of this university, the authors stated: "First, we
must come to a clearer understanding of the goals
of educational enterprise, and resist much, mors
English authoress Phyllis Bentley retold, before
3,200 Nebraskans, the fairy tale of the goblin who
rescued a book rather than a pot of jam. Miss Bent
ley did not mention the many bonks less worthy
than jam of rescuing. Their number, however, does
not include her own many paged "Inheritance." the
story of several generations in an English textile
town, and good reading.
Hot-house foliage behind her, slender Miss
Bentley stood well poised as she spoke the king's
English. Writing skill, though, does not necessarily
imply speaking ability. The late Arnold Bennet,
author of "The Old Wives' Tale" and creator of
"Five Towns," mentioned by compatriot Miss Bent
ley, could not talk without stuttering. Edwin Ar
lington Robinson, three times Pulitzer prize winner
in poetry, author of '"Tristam" and "The Man Who
Died Twice," refuses to make public appearances,
although he is considered by many the greatest liv
ing poet in America.
Those who buy copies of money-making ''An
thony Adverse," by Hervey Allen, get their money's
worth in bulk, if nothing else. Many give up read
ing after the first 500 pages of racing, colorful
prose.
The newest "Esquire," men's slick, includes an
other story by Erskine Caldwell, southern wnation
alist His dramatized "Tobacco Road," called
"pretty low," is still playing in New York, and
"God's Little Acre," banned for a time, is being read
by increasing numbers of people. Caldwell's latest.
"We Are the Living," a book of short stories, does
not disappoint violence seekers, is not for children
or the frail.
Sometimes it is easy to agree with pessimist
Arthur Schopenhauer, who insisted that over-read
ing kills the ability to think, making the mind a
storehouse for other men's thoughts.
World-known Willa Cather, B. A., Neb.. '95, is
reported working on a short Nebraska novel. Crit
ics cannot decide whether her "Death Comes for the
Archbishop" is better than her "My Antonia" or
whether her "Lost Lady" is best Miss Cather's
most recent is "Three Women," three long stories.
In collaboration with Dorothy Canfield ("The Bent
Twig," "The Deepening Stream," "The Bonfire"),
Miss Cather wrote her first published story on the
Nebraska university campus, a football tale.
Drama seems to be at a new low, and the great
est playwrights of the United States, England, and
Germany, are accused of mediocrity. Our once
raorbid Eugene O'Neill has stooped to comedy in
Ah, Wilderness," quibbles about religion in "Days
Without End." Bernard ShaWs "On the Rocks" got
few plaudits, and Gerhart Hauptmana's 'Before
Sunrise" was booed.
For March, experimental "Story" magazine in
cludes among its authors John Held, jr., collegiate
Illustrator. Mr. Held is devoting more of bis time
nowadays to writing than to drawing. Others try
to cross Muses, too: John Dos Passoa, a grand au
thor "Three Soldiers" and "1919"), who tries to
paint; and Rockwell Kent, a grand artist ("Rock-
weUkentUaa"i, who tries to wsiU.
MAE WEST SKIT
WINS PRIZE FOR
FARM OPERATORS
(Continued from Page 1).
last skit, and the evening ended
with everybody dancing.
Two skits presented Friday eve
ning were not eligible for prize
money. One, an astrology demon
rtration which drew wide applause,
was presented by Irving Walker
and Reuben Hecht, both graduate
students. They represented the
Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity.
Gypsy Scene.
The other ineligible skit was a
gvpsy scene played by fifty mem
bers of the Ag college chorus. Mrs.
Altinaa Tullis, chorus director, said
the chorus act was a prize winner
last year, but that the act was pre
pared as regular class work and
should, therefore, not be entered
for prize.
Picking the first prize winning
skit, judges said, was done largely
on the basis of the size and color
of the Nile Night production. There
were two dozen men in the act, a
wide array of color and novelty in
their Egyptian costumes, and their
dances were pronounced the most
entertaining part of the skit.
Two dozen husky young farmers
nlaved the roles of Egyptian danc
ing beauties. The King, (Robert
Skinner), ordered the Egyptian
court as he chose. Mae West
(Donald Orht), descended upon the
scene, stopped the show. Judges
praised the impressiveness of the
winning skit, thought it might
have been a bit longer because of
the number involved.
Second Prize.
Second prize the judges award
ed to N. C. L. M. P. (National
Cows Like Music Program) played
by members of the Farm Cafete
ria boarding club because, they
said, it was played to the limit of
its possibilities. It was possibly
a little overplayed, some of them
thought.
A destitute farmer whose oj.ly
remaining cow had got down to
only two quarts of milk a day, or
dered the butcher to kill her for
beef. Before the butcher arrived
he tried an idea suggested by
Prof. H. P. Davis' dairy depart
ment, and milked her to music. All
the buckets, kettle s, pots, and pans
on the farm she filled with milk, j
but when the music stopped she
died. Set to parodies on popular '
songs, the skit won loud applause
from the crowd.
The skit judged third was played
by Mildred Tickler, its author, and
several other girls. Its chief clev
erness, the judges said, was due to
the fact that it was written entire-1
ly in rhyme. Only one digression
from a humorous type of skits was
a solo. "Drink to Me Only with
Thine Eyes," by Max McCamley.
Farm House Skit.
Two other skits winning favor
able applause from the Coll-Agri-Fun
audience were Ve Olde
School." presented by Farm House
fraternity, and "An Afternoon at
the Chautauqua," humorous read
ing by Albert Nore, Ag student
who returned to the camui this se
mester after several semesters ab
sence. Coll-Agri-Fun admission funds,
Waldo told the audience, will be
placed in a fund to be loaned to Ag
college students. The loans are
made to luniors or seniors to be
paid back in two years after the
students finish college, Waldo said.
Members of the Coll-Agri-Fun
student committee included Bill
Waldo, manager; Mildred Tickler,
secretary ; Catherine Agnew, Hel
en Steffensmeyer, Elmer Heyne,
Philip Henderson, James Warner,
business manager; Bill Donahue,
news correspondent; Wesley Dunn
and Raymond Wilson, stage and
seating, and Ray Hoy, seating.
BARB LEADERS DECRY
LOSING MANAGEMENT
OF VARSITY PARTIES
(Continued from Page 1).
dents do not attend the dances be
cause they believe It strictly a
Barb affair, but I think the answer
to the small fraternity attendance
is that there are already a large
number of fraternity functions to
occupy the time of Greek men.
Barb leaders pointed out that
they have bandied the business ec
onomically, having no outstanding
debt after five ears of all-university
party management whereas
the vars ty committee that form
erly controlled the parties was
forced out of existence because of
its poor management of the events'
which piled up a oebt ox some
(2,000.
"Political Plum" Charne.
The new plan was also criticized
as liable to become nothing but an
other political plum to be fought
for by political faction. "Now
there are no factions among the
Barbs, and they all work together
to make the dances a success," Er
ickson declared. It is specified that
the Barbs be represented on the
new committee with four mem
ben. This cuts dowr the number
Beginning its eighth year of pub
lication, Prairie Schooner, literary
magazine of the university and the
prairie country, last ween issueu
its winter number. Several writers
well known in the mlddlewest and
to the magazii e itself have con
tributed to its 4ft pages of stories,
articles and poetry. Michael S.
Ginsberg of the classic department
nt the University of Nebraska has
written the first article under the
title "Stalin." Richard Sullivan,
whose home is in Kenosha, Wis.,
and Harold Vinal, editor of
"Voices," are also among the au
thors whose works appear here.
Edited by Dr. L. C. Wimberly,
professor of English at the univer
sity, the winter issue of Prairie
Schooner has attempted again to
match the quality of writing thnt
has brought its stories much rec
ognition from literary men. Con
taining no advertising the maga
zine depends upon its readers, and
the aid of the university for sup
port. It has long been an outlet
for some of the finest writing of
the prairie region.
The author of "Stalin" in this
issue, Michael S. Ginsberg, has
here contributed his second article
to the publication, having written
"League of Nations; Snapshots" in
1932. He foretells the end of the
famous Russian's power. Edward
T. Kaveny, author of'Survival of
the Fleetest," is a new contribu
tor. He is in newspaper work and
lives in Milwaukee, Wis. Ralph
Anchell Kahn, of Omaha, appears
for the second time in Prairie
Schooner, writing "A Few Words
on Words."
Two short stories are printed:
"The Kiss" by Richard Sullivan,
who lives in Kenosha, Wis., and
"And on the Seventh Day," by
Francis Fuhr, a former Kansan,
who Is now in Walkes Barre, Penn.
Mr. Sullivan has had work pub
lished in the Midland, and is the
author of a number of plays.
Nebraska poets hold a large
place in this issue of the magazine.
Carl I. Kilander, who has written
"Affirmation" teaches German at
the University of Nebraska. G. H.
Agans makes his first appearance
in the pages of Prairie Schooner
with a poem, "In the Ancient
Ways." He is an assistant in the
department of philosophy at the
university. A freshman In the uni
versity, James E. Cox writes,
"Plea of a Rtwer." He has contrib
uted before to the magazinp. Floyd
T. Powell Is the author of the poem
"Farming," and is a graduate of
the university.
Harold Vinal Is well known to
readers of the Prarle Schoo,.or,
being editor of the poetry maga
zine, Voices. Howard Nutt and
Kerker Qulnn who write for this
Issue both live in Peoria, 111. Mr.
Quinn contributes for the first
time, while Mr. Nutt has had his
writing published here before. The
works of both men have been very
widely published in American
magazines. Billy B. Cooper, a Kan
sas poet is well known to readers
of the Prairie Schooner, and he
has written a sonnet, "Deduction."
Myra Hall, author of "Unpersuad
ed" is one of the issue's new writ
ers, and lives in Dcs Moines.
OFFICIAL
BULLETIN
Study Group.
At 9 o'clock on Sunday morning
the study group on the Life of
Jesus wil meet under the direction
of Miss Miller, at Ellen Smith hall.
Any girl Interested is welcome.
Swap Shop,
Students who sold books thru
the Y. W. O. A. Swap Shop this
semester may receive their money
at the Student Activities office in
the coliseum Friday and Saturday
from 9 to 12 and 1 to 6 o'clock,
The list of thoje who are to be
paid is posted in the Temple.
BASEBALL.
Coach Wilbur Knight asks that
all men interested in baaball var
sity competition appear at the Ag
college Student Activties building
at 5 o'clock Tuesday afternoon,
Feb. 20.
of barbs involved by a margin of
14.
"The new plan will undoubtedly
give the parties less of a mixer
quality," Vernon Filley, member of
the Barb and Interclub councils,
declared. "When the Student Coun
cil takes over this additional task,
the fraternity date will become a
fixed policy. At present, stag lines
are encouraged and students are
free to become acquainted with
other people.
"Loss of control of university
parties would mean almost the
complete annihilation of the Barb
Council," Filley declared, "and the
majority of :he unaffiliated stu
dents are against the plan. They
feel that theirs is not a selfish
point of view since they have run
the business successfully and with
out loss of money.
ENGINEERS HOLD
FOURTH ROUNDUP
HERE ON FEB. 24
(Continued from Page 1).
and his committee will give a re
port of "Registration of Profes
sional Engineers," which has been
started in the United States.
Seaton Will Speak.
Dean R, A. Seaton of Kansas
State college will speak at 2 o'clock
in the afternoon on the subject,
"What Enables an Engineer to be
Classified as a Business Man?"
Frank D. Tomson, publicist of
Wakarusa, Kas., presents the sec
ond address of the afternoon, "En
gineering and Its Relationship to
the General Public Welfare." Fol
lowing an informal dinner at 6:30
p. m., E. E. Howard of Ash, How
ard, Needles and Tammen, con
sulting engineers of Kansas City,
Mo., will talk on "The Engineer
and His Responsibilities and Obli
gations as a Professional Man."
On the program for the ladies is
a 12:30 luncheon, and an address
by John Curtis, district manager
of the Iowa-Nebraska Light and
Power company of Lincoln. His
subject is in the form of a ques
tion: "Where do we go from
here?" Ladies who care to be en
tertained in the afternoon may
choose between sight-seeing tripu
over the city, a theater party, or a
bridge party. They attend, with
the men, the dinner and evening
program.
TODAY'S NEWS
BRIEFLY REVIEWED
(Continued from Page 1).
plies were lost.
Seventy-flv hundred CWA
workers In Nebraska will be
dropped from the federal payroll
in the state by next Friday Na
tional Administrator Hopkins has
directed. That will leave a total of
28,500 laborers still employed on
construction jobs thruout the
state.
On top of the announcement of
the cut in the number employed
for CWA projects comes the in
formation that new CWA projects
totaling about $50,000 are being
planned in the county. This money
will be spent mainly on the re
pair and upkeep of roads and
bridges.
We've Taken the Plunge
n4 reduced our Rent-A-Car rates
aa much as or now i'i to 7e
per mile. Insurance is available for
customer. Phone u for all details
or coma and set them.
Motor Out Company
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Lack of interest in elective phy
sical education courses will bring
the abolition of all such courses for
arts students at the University of
Minnesota, the director of the
courses predicts.
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