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TWO THE NEBRASKAN, FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 1931, The Nebraskan Station A, Lincoln Nebraska OFFICIAL STUDENT PUBLICATION AND BULLETIN OF THE 1934 SUMMER SCHOOL SESSION Published Tuesday and Thursday morning during the summer session and circulated free to summer school students and faculty members from boxes In campus buildings and book tores. Directed by Student Publications Board. Telephones: Night B3960 "law PfiflQI B3333 Monday and Wednesday Nights Bruce Nlcoll ..Editor Wilbur Erlckson ....Business Manager doings and the opinion of the sum mer student body. The Summer Session Begins. YITH this issue w the Summer Session Nebraskan begins its fifth year of existence. Its pur pose is evident. It will bring to student attention all official an nouncements of university offi cials. It will attempt to chronicle all the events which will make the summer session of interest to those enrolled. Its editorial col umns will contain comment on happenings and situations perti nent to the university, aM other subjects of vital interest to young people. The summer session is rather of a peculiar nature. Because there are no organizations to bind sum mer students together, and be cause of few social contacts which tend to promote university con' sciousness, there is a tendency toward lack of interest in the unl versity. To stimulate this missing inter est is. the Nebraskan feels, the purpose of the paper. It is the duty of your newspaper to work for ways and means of bringing the students together, and to promote a feeling of friendliness and fel lowship among the summer stu dents. If the Nebraskan is going to serve in this capacity, however, it is imperative that it receive the ' support of its readers. Without student backing the paper is a fruitless enterprise. While summer school attendants" are here prima' rily to study and to take advant age of the many facilities the uni versity has to offer, they must be urged in addition to keep abreast of the news of the school. Not only will the columns of the Nebraskan attempt to present the news, and its own editorial views, but it is opening its Student Pulse to faculty and student comment. The purpose thus served is to provide a safety valve through which pent up thoughts on some matter, be it weighty or trivial, may be released. Despite all ef forts, things in connection with the Nebraskan or with the university cannot always be perfect and to point out the faults which stu dents have noticed is the idea back Of cur Student Pulse column. Thus, for the nine weeks of the Bummer session, the editor will try to present a readable, newsy sheet which sets forth faithfully the Increase Your Social Prestige by Learning to Dance Electric and Nature Cooled Studio CLASSES EVERY MON. & WED., S P. M. New Students 25c Luella Williams PRIVATE STUDIO B42S8 1220 D St. Politics and Education. In the midst of a new attitude on the part of many educators that the whole system of American education is doomed, the address of Dean Paul C. Packer holds out more than a mere ray of hope. It helps to clear away much of the haziness concerning the true status of education in Iowa. It is hardly to be denied that American education has suffered in the last four years. The signs of a new questioning feeling on the part of the laymen are everywhere at hand. Curricula have been slashed; teachers' salaries have been cut to the lowest level; in many instances teachers have gone unpaid, or schools have had to close their doors entirely. But Iowa has emerged from the back wash of economic depression remarkably fortunate, as com pared with other states. It is true that extra-curricular activities have been cut, and teachers' sal aries have come down in an effort to conform with state laws. However, in Iowa, no schools have been closed, and no child has been denied the privilege of an ed ucation. Dean Packer gives much credit for Iowa's comparative success to the fact that control of education has been left largely in the hands of local governmental units, with a very minimum of control by the state government. Centralization of primary and secondary education, in states where it has been attempted, has led to disastrous results, the dean pointed out. Politics and educa tional restrictions on a wholesale scale have given rise to serious ed ucational evils. Perhaps this is the true reason for Iowa's brighter outlook. An other factor may be found in the fact that Iowa has suffered less, e-enerallv speaking;, than most w v states during this depression. But whatever the primary causes, the far seeing and logical point of view which Dean Packer gave expression to help to refute unfounded fears, and is much to be preferred over the unknowing hys teria which has gripped many Iowa educators. Daily lowan. Watchdog Shatv Speaks His Piece. George Bernard Shaw, bewhisk ered watchdog of the intellectuals, is up and at them again. This time in "Don't Go to University," he has taken formalized education by the trouser seat for a good old Shavian shaking. "I think all the universities in the world should be razed and salt thrown on the sites where they stood," he has barked in his most recent article. But Shaw, refuser of titles, is not so drastic and pedantically dumb as some people conclude afttv seeing his dramatic overstatements. 'While your professors give you facts you should say to yourselves: Nothing of this is worth while being remembered.' Like the rag picker digging in the dust bins of history, you should appraise what Notebooks Fountain Pens Labratory Supplies Artist Materials Stationery History Paper 49c Ream you find, keep the good and leave the rest. "Then you will have cultivated men. You will carry about with a few facts which are really worth while being remembered. The indi vidual who stuffs his memory with the things he should really try to forget easily wins the highest unt versity honors. But the best thing we can do with him is to burn him as quickly as possible. As usual, Mr. Shaw makes startlin? generalization and then digs down to the bed rock of indi vidual failures. Mr. Shaw's con demnation of the crammer is given substance in this month's issue of the American Spectator where Am a Phi Beta Kappa" recounts the exDeriences of a "man about the campus." Intended as a philli pic against the university educa tional system, it turns out to be a confession of stupidity. If a stu dent is content to make the best fraternity, the best managerships and poney his way into Phi Beta Kappa, can we do more than shrug? He is all around us here at Syracuse and on every other cam pus. In our experience, two profes sors out of every three encourage individual work are surprised and delighted to find individual thinkincr in their students. Few professors of our acquaintance, are any longer awed or impressed by a show of encyclopedic factual knowledge. Formalized education can kill Individual thinking and does pro duce an artificial mentality, as Mr. Shaw charges. But we believe it produces artificial mentality where there was none at all. Individual thinkers, worthy of their salt, sur vive four years of college training. While the memorizers cop the Phi Beta averages, they come out with the machinery necessary for indi vidual thinking. Syracuse Daily Orange. MUSIC OFFERED FOK SECONDARY STUDENTS (Continued from "Page 1.) sic Supervisors conference, was formerly on the staff of Columbia Teachers College, and has spent several summers at the National Camp at Iinterlochen, Mich., as sisting Joseph Maddy. Mr. Howerton, who will be in ROOMS! FOR MER $6 Per Month TEKE House 315 No. 14 B3960 charee of the choral work, is di rector of music at Hiram college, is an authority on conducting and is well prepared to present a meth ods and music materials course for choral work in public schools. The state of Oklahoma is fast becoming the home of college wrestling champions. In the na tional intercollegiate tournament, the Sooners won six out of eight championships, and Oklahomans were runners-up in the two divis ions won by contestants from other states. "The average individual is afraid to know himself," according to the Rev. F. D. Tyner who spoke at Hamlin university. Subject of a recent group debate at Concordia college in Moorhead, Minn.: "Resolved, that a house burns up and not down." - - WELCOME Summer School Students Helen E. Ware's Permanent Wave Shop extends a glad welcome to you summer school students who love to look well You will fully appreciate the personal attention and hair styling featured by Helen Ware Kvans, who is really interested that she and her operators please you in every small detail. Right Prices. Helen E. Ware's Permanent Wave Shop ah RpMirit.v Mutual Buildinff Phone B5235 Save Money LOWS Facing Campus (3 fth m (m (A 1BC Firee Sooapoini Tear out this coupon, it is good for 15c worth of food or fountain service only, at the New Husker Inn Cafe, 14th and Q St. No obligations to this coupon, just come in and be served. Limit: One coupon per customer. Good until June 20th at midnight. i YOU WILL WANT TO EAT HERE! THE NEW HUSKER INN CAFE! 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