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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1031.
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Support
The Players!
THIS week the University Players arc making a
4 light for continued high class productions. As
Xinooln'a outstanding stage company, as a service
to student body of the university, as a medium
of txpresslon for students of dramaUcs. and as ser
wtl Tof the university they are appealing to the
JSllo. particularly the student body, for continued
Jt in the annual University Players ticket
sales drive, which started Wednesday.
jL Tassels, women's pep club. Is handling
thl drive With Its usual enthusiasm, and hopes to
rout last year', success. Until Monday evening
rtrteat. will be offered tickets at a low price, and
by iwrchaaing these season tickets can assure them-SToTS-clas.
entertainment thru-out the
Ltudent. in the university and citizens
rf Umooln fall to realize the prominent poslUon oc
rated by the university's own company of players.
S University Player, represent the cultural side
J? IbTcampui contribute greatly to the cultural
Hre c each student coming in contact with the or
SateatlonT and offer first class entertainment to
TSi of Lincoln.. Those who doubt the truth
this last statement should witness the fact teat
Talbot, former Lincoln acior ana m.
I fiin, fame, has expressed the desire to ap
Srwlth the Players In a production this year and
nuTbeen cast In a role for one of the current sea-
" StSThlt. from Broadway have been played
consistently by University Player casts to audioes
of appreciative student, and residents of Lincoln.
But Mil far too many students fail to avail them
selve. of the opportunity of viewing
' quality producticiis in the Temple theater. Self-to-M
taould delate to every one attending the unl
verrtty that be must attend the eight plays this
year, one of which is a Shakespearian work.
Because of the boom occurring of late in the
UrtOmate stage field thru-out the country, the
May management, confident that the people of
Unooln will re-pond with their support, plans
KMier smash hlU than ever before. In the Thurs
STidition of the Nebraskan i. a list of fifteen pro
motions from which eight will be selected to be
ttagwd by the Player, this year.
Havin-T completed elaborate plans for the cur
Bt wason, the Players are depending on students
to wpport them more than ever before. If th s stu
dents fail to offer and guarantee their support by
-srebartng ticket, during the next few days, the
gyTwlll be unable to maintain their present
high standards.
Student, are you willing to help yourselves to
Mao rare entertainment, and will you loyally sup
MKt an outstanding campus organization? If you
a,eea Tassel, and buy a University Player, sea
son ticket
hit '
Theraf'are a number of students arriving on
the campus a week before registration who are not
concerned with fraternity or sorority rushing. These
students are looking for Jobs to earn their way at
university. Some will secure satisfactory places
m which they will earn their room or board while
other, will not be so fortunate.
A. these ambitious youths strive to help them
aelvea many ask the question, "Is it worth it?"
During the period when college education was
restricted to the privileged minority, the children of
wealthy parents, higher education was considered
the lone key to success. Later, state universities
afforded the children of the working an opportunity
to attend college. They found that four year, of
study gave them a tremendous advantage over a
high school graduate in obtaining a position with a
fan income, and ratistlc. .till indicate that If the
unlverrfty graduate doe. get a Job he advances
more rapidly and farther than the individual whose
education is completed In the secondary schools.
However, during the present period of Job
scarcity, student, consider the cultural values of
education a. much as they do the Job-getting ad
vantage It U in considering the latter factor that
the question of "Is it worth It?" la brought forward.
r-it f Bracken, director of the bureau of
employment, rrtio in the working rtudenf. greatest
aid, doe. not agree with the common belief that the
student who "work. W. way" get. more from his
university eductioc He U of the opinion that the
working student mim ta hl" cnege
arar becu fc tisis It dlfflsolt to participate
fc, atudent activities, Thi. loss Is quite obvious and
It Is a great one.
The natural conclusion would be that since the
wo-king student 1. not diverted from his study by
outside activity he would make better grades.
However, even If the general grades of th. working
.,, mrm hf-her In some case, there is no defin
ite indication "tit he receive, more benefit from
lis study. rrofeJSuf. and Instructors sometimes
ay t'je working student solicits their sympathy to
f-cn-e trades. Many studeota who forced to
? -t their a .--'tnent Vcsuse of having to work
s . ; . .r . r time, which may Interfere with
, h'u'v - :!!, seek to avoid grades by ap
- - to t' lr-'ncy of their Instructors. In in
. , gf t the working student Is the loser.
These are the losses of the student who has to
support himself. What are his gains?
Probably the greatest gain that can be named
is the preparation and training he receives for com
petition in the outside world. It is easily seen that
the working student is striving againa heavy odds
while he is attending school and this will undoubt
edly strengthen and develop his abilities to a far
greater extent than the student who receives his al
lowance from home.
The working student receives admiration, re
spect, and understanding, and he needs all three be
cause they may help to answer the question, "Is It
worth it?" The Dally I Mini.
Scanning
Our Campus.
jyjANIACAL Barney Oldfields of the Nebraska
campus, intent on terrorizing innocent pedestri
ans on north 12th. street now find their hands tied,
unless they have a yen for incarceration in the city
Jail. The Administration has placed stop buttons
on that erstwhile speedway between Social Sciences
and the Armory. Such action is a fine safety meas
ure. The buttons, however, are so placed that stu
dents will walk across the grass on the parking of
12th. street, thus stamping out that which has found
life so hard this summer. Why can't the buttons
be planted where the sidewalk meets the street?
To students returning to this campus from
burned-out parts of the state, university lawns look
like oases. Care-takers have gone to commendable
extremes in keeping the campus beautiful. Lincoln
citizens found the grounds north of administration
building one of the coolest spots in the city this
summer.
Another improvement that should have and still
should be made on this campus is renovation and
some sort of surfacing of the road north of the en
gineering buildings. It is an abominable eyesore.
The fact that Nebraska's highway testing labora
tories are housed Just south of this road Is ironi
cal, to say the least
Optimism Is
Reinstated.
air of rare optimism is prevalent in adminis
tative quarters and among student groups on
the Nebraska campus today. Registration ia. ris
ing for the first time in several years, soys the ad
ministration, and that statement may be fact. One
is led to believe its authenticity upon hearing of the
extension of the registration period over an addi
tional day.
Sudden announcement Wednesday afternoon
that no classes will be held Thursday took every
one except the administration by surprise. For sev
eral weeks officials have been quietly predicting
that registration was due to experience an up
swing. Soon observers will know the final facts.
It seems that largely responsible for this re
versal are 1 Federal aid FERA' and Corn-Hog
loans; 2 added desire for education prompted by
depression, and 3 the feeling on the part of some
new students that they might as well come to school
as loaf, if they can possibly do so. It is doubtful if
this latter attitude is commendable, but it is a fact
that it exists.
However this announcement of extension of
registration time may not imply all that the un
observing reader is inclined to believe. Time al
lotted to registration activities this year was short
ened considerably by the school officials. They
probably bit off more than they could chew, one-day
facilities possibly being inadequate for handling a
group no larger than the small ones of this depres
sion period. But there is no doubt that registra
tion of freshmen has risen this year.
Congestion in the Coliseum was regrettably
bad thru-out the day Wednesday. Lack of direc
tions and instructions left many of the newcomers
to the campus confused as to what they were to do.
Entrances were used as exits, exits served as en
trances. The . complexity of the whole proceeding
certainly is puzzling to freshmen.
CONTEMPORARY
COMMENT
Are We Being
Educated?
As thousands of young men and women pre
pare to enter universities during the next few days
parents, educators, graduates and undergraduates
critically analyze our educational system to deter
mine whether or not it teaches a man to think and
to exercise and develop his faculties.
The Carnegie Foundation which several years
ago made a report on college athletics that caused
many university authorities to stop and ponder has
completed another critically constructive survey
called "A Study of the Relations of Secondary and
Higher Education." This survey lasted six years
and included the t state universities, privately en
dowed colleges, technical institutions and high
schools of Pennsylvania,
Since the purpose of this study was to deter
mine the value of a college education in May, 1928,
27,000 seniors about to graduate from high schools
in the state of Pennsylvania were given certain
tests. In October of that year 49 colleges were
asked to follow throughout their college career, with
similar tests, all students who had been tested in
high school.
The findings of this study are sensational. John
R. Tunis writing in Scribner's for September says,
"If you are one of those who spent four years of
life', brief span in an American university, you
will be saddened when you learn what has passed
for education In our great land. I doubt whether
you will be surprised.
"If you are attending college to receive an edu
cation you will be surprised! By comparing the
scores of the tests the students made as freshmen
with those made when they were seniors It was
found that in subjects such as spelling and litera
ture, they knew more in thiir freshman year. In
the general culture test 30 per cent of the seniors
were below the freshman average."
This embarrassing survey also discovered that
the average senior In six colleges recognized only
61 words out of 100 words "In familiar use by
educated people," as compared with 58 recognized
by freshmen. One senior knew but 23 words out
of 100.
When condition, such a. these are revealed
there must be something wrong with the system
of . econdary and higher education. Who Is to
blame? The Carnegie Foundation places the re
sponsibility on the so-called credit system. These
tens .bowed that it didn't matter how often a
student "took a course" if he didn't think about
the subject matter for himself.
University professor are quita aware of the
attitude of the majority of students who feel that
they are through with a subject for good as soon
as they receive a passing mark. Once a course is
"taken" there is a desire to forget it as soon as
possible. In one college It was discovered that a
young woman about to receive a magna cum laude
degree took a test and stood fifth from the bottom
in a class of 48, and in the lowest 10 per cent of
the state. This young woman was a "smoothie"
who knew how to "tube" her instructors and take
courses that were easy.
The course credit system has been spoken of
as the automat of American education. A student
puts in a coin, a certain number of hours a week.
Into the slot and automatically he receives a credit
for the course.
As. long as the course credit system exists in
the American universities and colleges it will be
difficult to educate students who have learned how
"to take and forget" courses during the four years
of high school. Dally llllnl.
1 CA8INE
J
MENDERS
MEET SATURDAY NIGHT
Officers Launch Program of
Welcome for New
Men Students.
Starting; with an informal sup
per for cabinet members in the
YMCA rooms in the Temple build
ing Saturday evening at 6 o'clock,
th YMCA has inaugurated it.
program of welcome for new men
students on me campus, v,. u.
Hayes, general secretary, and
Charles Hulac, president, have
planned a complete program for
the organization during me pum.
week. Ray Kinch is president of
the Ag college YMCA organiza
tion.
Freshman men interested in
YMCA membership and meetings
t invited hv the cabinet to eo on
a freshman retreat to Camp Kin-
.. ... . i n a nn
nikinnik near Valparaiso oepi. x-j
anrt an Ac rolleee men will hold
their annual retreat for first year
students at the same place Oct. 6
and 7.
Another activitp sponsored by the
association was a stag party for Ag
freshmen at 8 p. m., Wednesday
Sept. 19, in the Ag college Student
Activities building.
Taurine the vear reeular Wed
nesday night meetings of the city
campus iMCA are neio in me
rooms in the Temple building.
ENROLLMENT GAIN
CAUSE OP ACTION
(Continued from Page 1.)
logues they stood waiting for their
chance to see tne assignment com
mittee. On the coliseum stage they
filled out class cards, paid tneir
fees and were directed to a side
room to be photographed as the
last step in registration. Camera
men were takine "mufrs" at the
rate of nearly two a minute during
the morning.
Wparv nerformers and deans
nmiM sef tin lpt-un in their work
as students continued to form lines
the length of the 200-foot coliseum
floor, waiting for assignment com
mittee cards. Classes were con
stantly being closed as sections
filled. At the.extreme end or tne
building, Dr. A. R. Congdon, chair
man nf the assieiment committee,
would climb on a box and, using an
improvised megapnone, snmit oi
the numbers of closed sections to
advisors over t' 'oor.
"Departments had not provided
for this rush to register," Dr.
Congdon said with a worried smile.
"Suddenly classes are filled up and
professors are forced to raise their
limits on number of students or
add emergency courses to their
schedules.
Profs Order Box Lunches.
Advisors and helpers found the
lunch hour crowded out, and at 11
o'clock, doors were shut against
more comers. Box lunches were
ordered by the dozen for faculty
members who hoped to be able to
be thru the line of student, in time
for another rush at one o'clock.
Wuth but one day of registration
this year as compared with the
two days of past years, compara
tive figures were hard to obtain.
In 1933, 1,776 students had regis
tered in the spring and paid their
fees during the summer, as com
pared with the 2,056 who had com
pleted their registration during the
summer of 1934. In 1933, when
there were two days of registra
tion, 1,096 students completed their
registration the first day and 964
the second day. The total regis
tration at the end of the first week
last year was 3,985 and the total
collegiate registration for the first
semester was 5.075.
Working until late Tuesday
night, the assignment committee
checked the registration forma of
758 students who had started their
registration during freshmman
day. Last year they checked some
what more than 500 forms.
Classes will start at 8 a. m. Fri
day. Graduate students will have
until October 6 to complete their
registration and students at the
medical college in Omaha will
register Friday.
TASSELS CONDUCT
TICKET CAMPAIGN
(Continued from Page 1.)
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worth," "Nine Pine Street."
New Seats in Theater.
In addition to a finer group of
plays the Players also have a few
more attractions to offer the pub
lic. Included among these is the
entire renovation of the Temple
theater with new seats. Murals
depicting the growth of drama
from its primitive stages until the
present day also add greatly to
the appearance of the auditorium.
Due to the fact that they lost
very few actors and actresses be
cause of graduation, the Players
will offer a much more experi
enced and capable group of actors
than has been seen in Lincoln for
a number of years. Armand Hun-
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ter, genial leading man of last
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Perkins, labelled as the "year's
greatest discovery" last season
will also continue his work with
the Players. Perkins plays juve
nile roles.
Lyle Talbot May Appear.
Another outstanding attraction
which the Players may offer this
year will, be the guest star ap
pearance of Lyle Talbot, Nebras
ka's own, direct from Hollywood.
Talbot may do a show here during
the middle of January or the first
part of February The time de
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Edith Hendricks, and Alaire
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