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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1934.
The Daily Nebraskan
Station A Lincoln. Nebraska
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Comment on
Two Convocations,
(VER five hundred persona braved the element
to hear the University Glee Club's concert in
the coliseum Sunday. The affair was the third all
university convocation featuring student talent.
For the most part the Glee Club's recital was
disappointing. It fell far short of the brilliant rec
ord established by the two previous convocations
featuring the Messiah and the R. O. T. C band.
While we do not pretend to be critics of music,
even the most illiterate person can determine pretty
much for himself when group singing is in tune and
when it isn't. A few numbers were well presented,
but for the most part they reflected only a, remote
acquaintance with the written score.
Necessary discriminations must be made in
selecting a program such as this. First it should
consist of numbers which glee club members can
all learn to sing in a reasonable length of time and,
second a program that will hold some appeal for
the common laymen. Sunday's program was not
particularly adapted to either of these qualities. An
ideal glee club convocation program should Include,
we believe, a liberal sprinkling of both classical
and modern compositions. While the program of
fered to University students Sunday was of unques
tionable merit, we would much rather hear "There
Is No Place Like Nebraska" sung In unison, than a
feeble attempt to reproduce the work of a Wagner
or a Rachmaninoff.
As such, university fathers must make a nec
essary discrimination when choosing home talent
features for convocation programs. In spite of
well meaning ballyhoo praising student talent, the
campus population may reasonably expect a pro
gram worthy of the name. Unless this discrimina
tion is made the popularity of all university con
vocations will suffer an immeasurable loss.
We do not say that the University Glee Club
should be omitted from any convocation series.
Theoretically a glee club should be included on a
convocation series featuring student talent. Indeed
should it be an invaluable asset to any institution
Of learning. It must, however, realize that it has
fc responsibility to perform in maintaining a high
grade convocation series. In this respect the con
cert given by the glee club Sunday failed utterly.
It must be acknowledged that a university con
Vocation series would have an excellent basis in
the Messiah, Glee Club, and R. O. T. C Band. In
deed these should be included in any such program.
Perhaps this would offer an incentive for better
performances.
But in addition to home talent the university
fathers realize that foreign talent must be imported.
They also must realize that Imported talent must
be better than the average run of self-inspired con
Vocation speakers.
In securing Phyllis Bentley for an all-university
convocation held recently the administration se
cured as a speaker of real merit whose message
was of broad interest. Indeed she was well quali
fied to discuss the topic which she selected. But
far more important than this, university students
attended the convocation.
Today at the Temple Theater, university stu
dents will have the opportunity of enjoying a con
vocation speaker of real merit. Lorado Taft, who
bas selected "My Dream Museum" as his topic of
discussion Is well qualified to speak on the subject
be has selected.
The Nebraskan feels that students should at
tend this convocation for the same reasons that they
attended the charter day convocation. The speaker
knows his subject, and bas selected a topic of inter
est to the average student Rather than foist our
opinion on university students we suggest that they
attend this morning's convocation and enjoy an in
teresting and capable speaker.
The Engineers
Start- a Reform.
TTHE engineers evidently intend to elevate their
status if the registration bill discussed at the
Engineer's roundup is any indication.
Just how they Intend doing this was the sub
stance of a bill received favorably by the engineers
group Saturday. It provides that no engineer will
be allowed to practice until he Is granted a license
by a state governing board composed of five mem
bers appointed by the governor. The board will be
invested with the power to revoke a license for de
Celt In obtaining it, fraud, gross negligence, or In
competency. Candidates for licenses must have
bad four years of college engineering work and four
years practice, or eight years active practice.
At the outset, the bill should place greater sig
nificance upon the value of college training, for It
should eliminate to a large extent, the numerous
pseudo engineers who are engineers In name only.
This measure well represents a movement in
this country among leading engineers to raise the
standards of engineering to that of a true profes
slon. For as a matter of fact some twenty-seven
states have set up some requirement system before
engineers may practice.
The movement is a worthy one. The tremend
ously increasing importance of engineering in this
country has made it a necessity that engineers
should fight for a professional status to protect life,
health, and public property. Indeed so great is their
responsibility in our present society that higher
standards in the profession Is a recognized need.
Registration of engineers should eliminate the
sense of futility among student engineers. It should
give encouragement to engineering students and
graduates to continue their preparation for engi
neering as a career.
The Student Pulse
Brief, concise, contributions pertinent to matters
of student life and the university are welcomed by
this department, under the usual restrictions of sound
newspaper practice, which excludes all libelous mat.
ter and personal attacks. Letters accepted do not
necessarily indicate the editorial policy of this psper.
Brickbats for
The Glee Club.
TO THE EDITOR:
Shades of Orpheus what a nightmare! After
six months of sustained practice the Glee Club
makes Its first major appearance. As the saying
goes "a cat may look at a king," so the great Uni
versity of Nebraska may look at each of a half
hundred small colleges in this section of the United
States whose combined student bodies and resources
would not equal that of our University any of
them can produce a vocal ensemble which would
completely eclipse our representatives. Represent
atives did I say ? Heaven forbid. Seventy-five per
cent of the fraternities entered in the Ivy Day sing
have better functioning glee clubs.
We will turn from the poverty of the Glee Club
itself with a gesture of despair to mention a few
other details of the concert which deserved com
ment Why was the quartet which appeared on the
program announced as the University quartet? It
is the Lincoln High School quartet of 1931, organ
ized, trained and developed completely outside of
the University. None of its members are members
of the Glee Club. They were evidently imported to
redeem the concert from complete failure, but as
such, why not announce them in their own name as
guests of the Glee Club and give them whatever
publicity their barely acceptable singing might de
serve. The conductor then tries to absolve him
self from blame by singing a few solos. Let him
do that In a recital somewhere, sometime, not as a
part of the Glee Club, and the program itself. No
doubt it will look well in someone's scrapbook ten
years from now, or might even look impressive if
sent to a friend far enough away not to have
smelled the singing. The program should be ar
ranged for singing, not for appearance. Why not
try a few numbers somewhere within the possi
bilities of the Glee Club? There are hundreds of
them. I would suggest "The Farmer in the Dell."
This University should be able to produce a
Glee Club. Why don't they? I don't know. Better
far not have any than to continue this farce.
DISAPPOINTED.
Contemporary Comment
Is College
A Racket?
Going to college is called "the great American
racket" by President Ralph Cooper Hutchinson of
Washington and Jefferson in one of the most scath
ing denunciations of the present higher educational
system and its students issued within the last few
months.
President Hutchinson charges that most stu
dent organizations, both past and present, were
formed for graft, and that fraternity jewelry sales
men and other agents declare that they simply can
not do business on some campuses without practic
ing graft He decries the fact that in general the
old ideals of education, culture and character have
been submerged by the motives of social and finan
cial profit
He does not let the matter drop without a rea
son. Hutchinson declares that the rapid pioneer ex
pansion of the nation created a demand for men of
training greater than the supply, and therefore a
college degree took on a great practical signifi
cance. The general public hence was encouraged
to "send its young men and women through the
sausage grinder and out with a packer's trade
mark." The bitter charges of one so closely in touch
with the university system cannot be Ignored. It
is probable that the American college system has
been permeated in the past by a great amount of
graft but there is a lighter side to the picture. The
university students seem to be staging a "new deal"
of their own in this respect Organizations are hav
ing to Justify themselves to exist, graft isn't toler
ated as it once was and there is a growing interest
in the real Intellectual purpose of a college educa
tion. Indiana Daily Student,
An Excellent
Example to Follow.
Believing that "riches in private hands often
spell ruin for coming generations" Drs. William
J. and Charles H. Mayo, surgeons, gave $500,000
last week to the University of Minnesota to be
used for the promotion of medical science.
The case stands out in direct contrast to
most of the persons in possession of large sums of
capital. For the most part, they will leave the bulk
of their gains for the second generation to squander.
National inheritance tax measures of a dras
tic nature should be taken to prevent the inheri
tance of millions of dollars by persons who have
had no part in the earning of the money.
The capitalistic system has failed and It is now
time that some action be taken to control the mil
lions of dollars that could be spent for educational
and othei beneficial causes. Control of the major
part of inheritance is one of the best ways to bene
fit humanity. There Is no sane reason for a per
son receiving millions of dollars of unearned capital
just because he happens to be the son of a mil
lionaire. It is encouraging to see that there are some
persons of wealth who recognize the uselessness of
trying to leave a path of ease and luxury for their
sons and daughters who, more likely than not, will
be more harmed than benefited by the money.
We tip our hats to the Mayo brothers. Okla
homa Daily.
OFFICIAL
BULLETIN
Y. W. Interest Groups.
Interest groups of the V. W. C.
A will hold meetings in Ellen
Smith hall at the following hours
this week:
Tuesday at 1 Books and Poet
ry, Janet Vloek.
Tuesday from 12:30 to 2 Hand
craft Ruth Armstrong.
Tuesday at 4 Kodakery, Marg
aret Ward.
Wednesday at 6 Keep Current,
Violet Cross.
Thursday at 4 Know Your City,
Lois Rathburn.
Thursday at 8 Art of Being a
Hostess, Arlene Bors.
Vespers.
Wentworth Fling will speak on
the subject "Puppets" at the ves
pers service on the Agricultural
Campus Tuesday noon.
Stamp Club.
The Stamp Club will hold a bus
iness meeting Thursday night
March 1, at 7:30 in Social Science
room 301.
Y. W. Staff Meetings.
Staff meetings for Y. W. C. A.
members for the coming week are
scheduled as follows:
International, Lorraine Hitch
cock, Tuesday at 4.
Social Order, Bash Perkins, on
Tuesday at 1.
Finance, Marjorle Shostak, on
Thursday at 4.
Swap Shop, Theodore Lohrman,
Thursday at 4.
Publicity, Dorothy Cathers, Tues
day at 4.
Program and Office, Phyllis
Jane Humphrey, Wednesday at 3.
World Forum, Beth Schmid,
Thursday at 4.
Posters, Ruth Allen, Thursday at
4 p. m.
Church Relations, Mary Edythe
Hendricks, Wednesday at 5.
In addition to these staff meet
ings, Miss Miller will conduct a
special study group on "The Life
of Jesus" on Thursday at 1 o'clock
and also on Sunday at 9 o'clock.
Barb A. W. 6. League.
Group meetings of the Barb A.
W. S. league will be held this week.
The schedule of the meetings to
be held at Ellen Smith Hall fol
lows: Marjorie Smith, Wednesday at 5
p. m.; Margaret Medlar, Tuesday
at 4 p. m.
Marjorie Filley, Wednesday at 5
p. m.; and Evelyn Diamond, Thurs
day at 6 p. m.
Bonnie Spangaard will hold a
meeting on the Agricultural cam
pus at 4 p. m. Tuesday.
Bizad Executive Council.
Members of the Bizad executive
council for both semesters will
meet at the campus studio Wed
nesday at 5 for a group picture.
EDGAR HUDDLESON.
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The University Players opened Monday night with their fifth
drama of the year, "Counseller-at -Law." Shown in the picture are
Harold Sumption, who carries the role of the lawyer, George Si
mon; Irving Hill as the young co mmunist; and Jane McLaughlin as
Simon's secretary.
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Soolal Staff.
Social staff of the Y. W. will
give a tea at Ellen Smith hall
Thursday afternoon from 3:30 to
5:30. All girls who entered at mid
year are invited to attend.
Young Democrats.
Secretary of State Swanson will
speak before a meeting of the
Young Democrats club to be held
Wednesday afternoon at 3 in So
cial Science auditorium.
Y. W. C. A. Staff Meetings.
' The international relations staff,
the publicity staff and the social
staff will meet at 4 o'clock this
afternoon at Ellen Smith hall.
Interest Groups.
The interest group on books and
poetry will meet at Ellen Smith
hall at 1 o'clock this afternoon.
Interest groups on kodakery and
art of being a hostess will meet at
4 o'clock this afternoon.
The Girl Reserve group will
meet tonight at 7 o'clock at the
city Y. W. C. A.
Physics Colloquim.
Physics Colloquim will meet at
7 p. m. Wednesday in room 119
during the second semester. Prof.
Chauncey W. Smith or Mr. Sever
ence will speak this week.
Barb Council.
There will be a meeting of the
Barb Council Wednesday afternoon
at 4 o'clock in room 105 of Social
Sciences hall.
REV. HUNT TO SPEAK.
Rev. Ray Hunt of the First
Christian church will give the first
of a series of four talks on "Laws
of Living" at Y. W. C. A. vespers
tonight at S o'clock.
REGIONAL SECRETARY
OF YW TO VISIT HERE
Possibilities for Student
Movement Will Be
Discussed.
Possibilities for a joint student
movement for a better social and
economic order and a federation
to promote international peace will
be the subject of a talk by Miss
Stella Scurlook. regional Y. W. C.
A. secretary, in Ellen Smith hall
next Sunday at 2:30 p. m. The
meeting Is open to all students.
Miss Scurlook arrives in Lin
coln Tuesday after a two day visit
at the state Christian Workers'
conference at Fremont snd ex
pects to be here a week. She will
meet rith the Y.W.C.A. cabinet
Wednesday.
r.M. TO HEAR ZI6M0KD
Lincoln Theater Man Will
Talk on Value of
Movies.
J. Sgmend, f the Lincoln
Theater corporation, will give aa
address In the Red room of the
Central Y. M. C. A. building at 7:45
Tuesday night on the subject "The
Powell Crosley,
Jr., the young
Ohio millionaire
light
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pitcher in the years when he
was first studying engineering
and law at Cincinnati Univer
sity. The Crosley who turned
into the big antenna, and dial
man is also a collector of rare
antiques he bought the Reds
and Dazzy Vance on successive
days.
Talking about Reds, red seems
to have sneaked up on us in
formal wear. Waistcoats, for
wear with dinner jackets have
gone colorful on us with little
or no warning.
These are favored
mostly in a not
too conspicuous
wine shade. They
are also to be seen
in a chalk blue.
deep green, and yellow. They
follow closely the popular
fashion of wearing a dark red
carnation with formal clothes,
in itst-lf a rather startling in
novation. Ruby colored studs,
an accepted, but not too fre
quently seen touch of color,
will no doubt find wider ac
ceptance, as the appropriate
type of jewelry worn with a
wine waistcoat.
No less a social function than
the annual aristocratic New
York Horse Show seems to be
the birthplace of this fashion
which is authority enough even
for sticklers for authenticity of
fashion. Possibly the sponsors
gathered the idea from those
Oxford "Dons" who wear club
colored "weskits" at their
formal University dinners.
While on the subject of eve
ning wear . . the smart "tails"
turnout is completed by the
two-stud shirt in fine pique
weaves.
The return of
"J e e m" Londos
to ihe grunt and
1T A grapple industry
AJ7 drew a crowd of
almost 30.000 to the Garden the
other P. M. Watching a Hindoo
behemoth perform in one of the
preliminaries, an embryo
sports scribe cracked, "lie
smells like a birdcage but he
can't Singh . . ." and then we
all went out and had a drink.
A wee drop o'
Scotch is invigor
ating outside as
well as inside. So
the country squire
l a anx iiic campus
; I fashion plate
f I choose Harris
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rough Shetland
fabrics with defi
nite patterns for
their Balmaecan top coats. The
military type collar and rag
Ian sleeves together with the
full, loose sweep of the skirt,
have that "to-hell-with-you,
Sir" swagger touch.
Camel's hair goes "horsey"
and the polo coat still gallops
through the fashion chukkers
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although its trappings are
slightly different following
more closely the standardized
Spring topcoat in line and
detail.
Speakinff of old
--astuff, with a new
slant, they've been weaving a
cloth over in India for lo!
these many years . . . and we
don't mean, Lo the poor Indian
(for after all you should know
your Indians). It's known as
Bandanna Cloth or India Mad
ras. Made of native spun cot
ton and woven into colorful
plaids in colors limited to dyes
from native vegetation, its
popularity has been growing
for neckwear purposes with a
running start at Palm Beach a
year ago.
Particularly smart in not too
wide pointed end bats, it will
undoubtedly start the come
back of bat-ties generally
which will be in evidence this
Spring and Summer. An added
use for these bandanna pat
terns (if not for the native
cloth) is in handkerchiefs of
large dimension woven in ap
propriate textures and follow
ing closely the unusual colors
of the original.
Along with sun tan powder on
the lapels, the striped rep tie
will grace the bosoms of that
masculine group who know
what it's all about. This peren
nial favorite blossoms again in
colors derived from racing
stables. It is quite importantrto
note that wider stripes than
ever before are coming into
vogue and the colorings are in
different complementary ef
fects. So it's really new and
surely popular.
The Yankees are
going II - a - a - a
vahd (Cambridge
to you). Credit
KSQUIRE with
the tip that Char
lie Devens of the Backbay
Denvenses will win eighteen
games without a split infinitive
and put the Yankees in the
series battle.
Passing the buck (a favorite
indoor sport) has descended to
a new footnote. The brown
buck shoe which has been
slowly gaining favor for coun
try wear is unquestionable in
for its big season in two styes;
blucher front with heavy crepe
soles and heels (which is well
adapted for campus and coun
try wear), and also in the semi
brogue model with leather
soles and heels.
The Trend :The
button -down
collar attached
shirts of cream
Oxford is defi
nitely gaining
in favor. This is the revival of.
an old established fashion
which is typical of sports cloth
ingand will bear watching.
ESQVIRE will answer all
questions on men'$ fashion.
Write ESQl'lRE, 40 East 31th
Street, New York, and enclose
a self -addressed stamped en
velope for reply.
5
FORUM AT
IOWA STATE COLLEGE
Berry, Indianola Publisher,
Stresses Economic
Strength.
AMES, la., Feb. 26. Financial
strength In a newspaper is one oi
the surest guarantees of its edi
torial independence, Don Beiry,
publisher of the Indianola Record
and Tribune, told an Iowa Rtnto
College audience recently.
Mr. Berry, speaking before thu
third forum on press freedom
sponsored by Sigma Delta Chi,
journalistic society, declared that
he found it difficult to agree with
the comment that "It must be ad
mitted with sadness that tha
equivalent of a business offic
dominates every profession In the
world."
"Why sadness?" demanded Mi-.
Berry. "Why should we be sail
t know that a home is run by a
woman who insists on living with
in her family's income? Why is
it unfortunate that a newspaper
has in It people who believe in
paying bills?"
On the contrary, he declared,
the newspaper with economic
strength is most likely to be the
newspaper with editorial freedom.
"Freedom from financial worries
means freedom from outside in
fluences," he said, "and that in
turn means freedom to comment
fairly and to report accurately and
completely."
During his talk Mr. Berry
quoted from a number of publish
ers and newspaper editors to sup
port his statement that "business
office control" is a minor factor in
modern editorial offices.
"Ii. might be true that most
businfsses could get away with
unethical or unsocial practices
without the public's knowing about
It," he explained. "This isn't true
of the newspaper business. Every
thing a newspaper does is wide
open to public scrutiny, and the
instant it lies or misbehaves it is
caught up from a hundred differ
ent angles. . . The thing a news
paper has to sell, primarily, is the
news service it offers. If this isn't
fair, accurate and unbiased, it
soon will cease to exist. I believe
that as is often said the news
paper is different from any other
business in the world in that, in
addition to its obligation to make
money, it has a definite obligation
to serve its community."
Denying that chain newspaper
control tends to influence member
newspapers toward a "capitalistic"
attitude, Mr. Berry declared that
the nation's two largest chsins.
the Hearst and Scrlpps-Howard,
are the two most radical in the
country.
TODAY'S NEWS
BRIEFLY REVIEWED
(Continued from Page II.
last seen alive when a grojp of
town members left the house after
a bridge game.
Twenty-four degrees below zero
were recorded at Valentine Monday
morning, the coldest point recorded
in the state during the present
cold wave. Burwell stood next in
line for the doubtful honors wit'i
a temperature of twenty below.
The lowest recorded in Lincoln was
nine below, which was also low for
the winter.
Belief that C. P. Babb of Lin
coln was murdered was strength
ened Monday when the corner's
jury reported that he met death
from a hemorrhage resulting from
a blow on the head. In the mean
time police followed up tips which
turned out for the most part to be
fruitless.
Gamma Alpha Chi, actives and
pledges, -ill hold a business meet
ing at 7:30 Tuesday evening in
Ellen Smith hall. Please be prompt.
If the young man who called the
police on the murder in the law
school last week can admit it and
prove it, he will be able to take
himself and his date to the Tues
day nipht performance of "Coun-srllor-at-Law"
in the Temple the
ater. This clipping must be pre
sented at the box office.
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mond will show the value of movies
as a peace agent and as a means
of bringing great artists to people
who would otherwise never know
them. The public is invited to at
tend. This lecture is the last of a
series of four lectures on subjects
of current interest sponsored by
the Y.W. and Y. M.
Potential Value of Movies." Zig-
Italian Diplomat Will
Speak at Iowa State
AMES, la., Feb. 28. "The Ori
gin. Growth and Spirit of Fascism"
will be discussed here a week from
today by Dr. Luigi Villari. Italian
diplomat The Cosmopolitan club,
society of foreign students attend
ing Iowa State college, is sponsor
ing the lecture.
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