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employed and entertained in some sort ot extra
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ministration has every reason to expect better re
sponse from the student body in the class-room.
Three years ago unaffiliated students had no
organized means of gaining any sort of social recre
ation on the campus. There were the varsity par-
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council, but they afforded little opportunity for
friendly, human contacts available on every hand
for the Greek student. There was no such thing as
Barb organization, and the average unaffiliated boy
or girl found little hope of finding happy social life
on the campus.
Although the situation is far from being perfect
at present, and although the Barb social plan hasn't
been fully worked out by the Interclub council, Barb
council, and the AWS league, there is good reason
to believe that non-Greek students have been offered
new and valuable social outlets during the last two
years. There Is every reason to believe that the fu
ture holds for that group hope for a complete social
organization.
It is the general opinion of campus leaders that
the general spirit in the field of campus activities
is a bit more pleasant than it was several years ago.
There has been a trend toward political equality, and
more important than that is the establishment of a
sysitem of all-Barb functions by Barb leaders that
has taken place.
1 7:30 o'clock at Ellen Smith hall,
when reports on results of Prairie
Schooner campaign will be given.
Everyone must be present. '
CORNHUSKER PAYMENTS.
Third installments on copies of
the 1935 Cornhusker are due this
week in the yearbook offices in
University hall.
Lutheran Club.
All Lutheran students are in
vited to attend the meeting of the
Lutheran club in 205, Temple
Bldg., Friday evening. Prof. A.
L. Lugn will speak on "The Ge
ography of the Holy Land."
, Komesky Club.
A regular meeting of the Ko
mesky club will be held Friday,
Jan. XI, at 8 o'clock, in room 203
of the Temple building. Dr. Vraz,
professor in charge of the pro
gram, said all students interested
are welcome to attend.
Time for
Thought.
STUDENT PULSE
Brief, concise contributions pertinent to matters of
student lite and the university are welcomed by this
department, under the usual restrictions of sound news
paper practice, which excludes all libelous matter and
personal attacks. Letters must ba slimed, but names
will be withheld from publication If so desired.
Contributions should be limited to a maximum ot five
hundred words In length.
XITTH student activities somewhat in the back-
vv
ground for the first time this year, every stu
dent on the campus can now turn his attention to
registration and examinations. Registration opens
next Monday, and the registrant must again con
sider his aims, ambitions, and what he hopes to get
out of college education.
Christmas vacation came at a very opportune
time, because it offered students an opportunity to
think a bit about college, and why they are attend
ing the university. Only the most aloof and super
ficial young student can avoid thought on the sub
ject when he is removed from the whirl of social
events.
Most of us are of the opinion that there is some
thing to be derived from college. There is a good
deal of benefit to be gained from social contacts,
and for that reason student activities are valuable.
There is, however, the formal and curricular side of
education. Advisers and students encounter a hard
and difficult task when they proceed to arrange
courses of related subjects, courses that must be
designed, according to the modern concept of edu
cation, to fit the student for work in some profes
sion and also fit him to meet his human and per
sonal problems.
The majority of advisers are well equipped to
direct students in the arrangement of their sched
ules and courses. Many students feel that they
know exactly what they want and resent help or
meddling from the adviser. Every one attending
the university, however, must remember that pro
fessors hold their jobs because they know something
about a university as well as their particular sub
jects. It is difficult to ascertain just where the line
should be drawn between independence of the stu
dent in charting his course and dependence on an
adviser.
Every student should procure a second semes
ter program as soon as possible, meet with his ad
fiser, and plan his course for next semester. All
would do well to check up on credits, requirements,
majors, minors, and number of hours needed. Stu
dents so often find themselves in predicaments of
some sort or other because they failed to exercise
foresight when registering. All credit books can be
obtained at the registrar's office.
Final xm aire just around the corner, the
date for first tests being Jan. 24. That time is just
two short weeks away. The student who has studied
"according to Hoyle" will do little worrying as the
day of reckoning approaches. His less fortunate
or less industrious brethren will become either pan
icky or indifferent.
Now is the time for penitence, industry, and
resolutions. The student who finds himself behind
to his school work should become industrious be
tween now and examination time, and then should
resolve to do better next time. Most educators are
of the opinion that cramming doesn't 6o the student i
any good In the long run, even though it may serve
the purpose of the moment. Numerous experienced
students testify to the truth of that opinion.
'A Fine
Trend.
Announcement of Intramural basketball sched
ules released for Wednesday s Daily Nebraskan re
vealed the fact that a large number of unaffiliated
men are taking part in Interclub cage competition
this winter. Although this is the third season
marked by Barb Intramural activity, never before
has there been such good response to the call for
organization as there seems to have been this fall
and winter. ,
Contrary to general opinion and impression, the
success of any one group on the campus is not to be
The American
University Succeeds.
TO THE EDITOR:
(This is the second of three parts of a letter,
the first section of which was published in the Wed
nesday Daily Nebraskan. It was written in answer
to a series of articles entitled "The American Uni
versity Fails," which appeared in this publication
last spring.)
Why is a university? Assuredly not for star
gazing nor for learning's sake nor culture's sake,
considered as ends in themselves. To answer this
question, we shall have first to answer: "What is
learning?" Education, says John Dewey, is life.
Which is about as ambiguous as any answer that my
philosophically inclined friends might give, yet has
a grain of truth in it. Learning is adaptation to
life. Consider the case of a child. He looks about
him at everything, he asks a myriad of questions,
he learns a store of things which puts the yearly
accumulation of you and I to shame, and what is
the purpose of all this? He is trying to find out
more about the world around him, and Ihe part he
plays in it He is interested in things in their rela
tions to himself, and as they relate to himself he
learns about them.
We are all children. Some of us may have grey
hair, or no hairs at all, but we are all like the child
we never learn, nor ever can learn anything un
less it has some relation to ourselves and to our
lives. The human animal, through the long struggle
of evolution, has learned to lay aside the irrelevant
and trivial, and what has no connection with his in
terests or his life lies outside the circle of his con
sciousness. Thus it is that all education, from
primitive times until now, and from now until such
time as men have ceased to be, does and must con
cern itself, in the last analysis, with but one thing:
to teach men how to live. A university exists for no
other purpose than this. Why is a university? To
teach young men and young women how better to
adapt themselves to the world in which fate has
placed them. And to teach them how to be leaders
among their fellows to help them in turn to better
adapt themselves to life.
In so far, and only in so far as a university
meets this prime requirement may it be said to be a
successful university. An education that removes
men from life, that makes them anti-social, that
makes the ordinary conditions of life impossible and
burdensome for them, that makes association with
their fellows a task rather than a pleasure that is
an education unworthy of the name. Nothing so
conclusively demonstrated that fact as did the mo
mentous years of 1914-1918 when men took the
products of misguided learning and used them to
blast civilization well nigh from our globe.
You tell me I am a reactionary, that like
Gandhi I want to go back to the spinning wheel and
the oxcart. Nothing of the kind. But I do say that
if professors cannot at the same time teach men how
to live with one another, how to use the products of
their own brains, then the scientists who pursue
pure reason and pure knowledge, howsoever noble
their intent may be, are creating a Frankenstein
that will destroy them. Science has meaning only
in so fai as it exists for men. Culture for culture's
sake is not only an empty phrase it is a pernicious
and enervating one. Education and the universities
which pretend to dispense it are like Anteaus of the
fable they lose their power when they lose contact
with the earth. Any scientist would tell you that
science must be based on praxis, and that science
which is molded on pure theory is apt to be pure
bosh. And the criterion applies to every field of
human learning. Knowledge, whether pursued for
its own sake, or for a so-called ulterior end, is based
on the practical fact that men live in a real world
and must adapt themselves to It or die C A.
Religious Council.
Monthly meeting of Religious
Council Thursday noon at Grand
hotel. All three groups are re
quested to be present.
Publicity Committee.
Publicity committee of the
Council of Religious Welfare will
meet at the Temple, room 205, at
4 o'clock Thursday. Prompt at
tendance is requested.
Pi Mu Epsilon Meets Tonight.
Pi Mu Epsilon, mathematics fra
ternity, will meet this evening at
:30 o clock in M. A. room 3u at
which time talks will be given on
tne 'invention of the Calculus."
the strong human interest in prac
tically all the stories. In diversity
of story subjects, the range from
"Rothschild" and "The Barretts" to
"It Hannened One Nieht" and
"Thin Man," covered much terri
tory. Foreign pictures didn't get a
look In this years 'Ten tsest," ana
only one candidate from abroad
"Catherine The Great," got into
the"Honor Roll." In the previous
year s poll the winners included
two productions from the other
side, "Henry vur ano "jwaacnen
in Uniform." Robert Donat, a new
foreign star, however, was respon
sible in good measure for the pop
ularity of "Count of Monte Crlsto,"
one of the winning ten.
The "Honor Roll" made up of
superfine pictures but still, accord
ing to the critics, not included
among the "Ten Best," were "The
Gay Divorcee," "Judge Priest,"
"Queen Christina," "Treasure is
land," "Of Human Bondage,"
Catherine the Great," "Death
Takes a Holiday," "David Harum,"
"Flying Down to Rio," "Design for
Living," "Little Miss Marker,"
"Only Yesterday," "What Every
Woman Knows," "Mrs. Wiggs of
the Cabbage Patch," "Eskimo,"
"Men in White," "Cleopatra,"
"Twentieth Century, "Little Man,
What Now?", "Crime Without
Passion." "Affairs ot Cellini," "As
the Earth Turns," "Her Sweet
heart," "The Lost Patrol," "Alice
in Wonderland," "Hi, Nellie!",
"The Cat's Paw," "Riptide," "No
Greater Glorv." "Cradle Song,"
"The Last Gentleman," "The Life
of Vergle Winters," "Operator 13,"
"The Prize Fighter and the Lady,"
"Caravan," "Handy Andy," "Heir
Comes the Navy," "I Am Suzanne
and "Thunder Over Mexico."
Up above the stage In the Tem
ple theater auditorium Is a narrow
walk sometimes called the "cat
walk" and sometimes known as tne
"pin-rall." Up on this platform is
stationed all the powerful spots
which will be used In the 29 scenes
of "Yellow Jack." It is Don Frled
ly's job to work them all. One
controls the left side of the stage,
and another the right. One Is a gi
gantic blue spot for the back
ground. Still another one flashes
on the center of the stage and an
incidental spot is for the front, it
Is auite a complicated matter to
keep all these working and Just
at the crucial moment. Many ot
the intrlcal workings of the back
stage are placid'y done by this
modest young faculty member.
Director Sumption spent hit
Christmas vacation putting up the
sets which were constructed under
Friedly's guidance. When one goes
in for theatrical work, there are
innumerable details to be reckoned
with, of which the audience Is to
tally unaware.
V.JT . STAFF TO HOLD
FINAL CLASS FRIDAY
V. W. C. A. Social Staff will
sponsor the final dancing class of
the semester at the Armory Fri
day evening, Jan. 11. Instruction
will be given from 7 to 7:30. Social
dancing will follow. Ruth Horn
buckle will have charge of the in
struction period. Hazel Baier is
general chairman.
BUY INDEPENDENT
GAS
Holms 14th and W
11 I.IIIIIIIIN 9
Y. W. C. A.
Freshman cabinet will meet
Thusday evening at 7 o'clock in
Ellen Smith hall.
All new members of Y. W. C. A
should fill out membership cards
by Friday noon.
Sigma Delta Chi.
Sigma Delta Chi will meet at 4
o'clock Thursday afternoon in the
Awgwan offices.
ties depend for almost half their
revenue upon freshmen or new
students.
And it is common knowledge
that a freshman usually has more
money than any other class of stu
dent since he ordinarily comes to
college with his high school and
folks' savings which be squanders
during his first year. It is this
first year bank roll that the Greek
groups depend so much upon; it is
this first year bank roll that, if
it were kept out of fraternity
treasuries, would sound the death
knell for the Greek organizations.
If such a rule is passed at the
university it will undoubtedly have
some effect upon the local situa
tion. The paseage of such a rule
would, we believe, tend to cause
manv tentative O. U. freshman
students desiring to join fraterni
ties to come here to school. For
this reason and because of the
fight that will be put up by the
fraternities we do not believe the
O. U. board of regents will pass
the proposed resolution.
Despite the fact that we think
Rosser's plan will fail at the pres
ent time we do think it will event
ually be brought about, especially
when the Greek groups get their
houses paid for and are able to
function on less revenue.
It will be interesting anyhow to
note the action taken by the O. U.
board of regents.
Daily O'Collegian.
CMAWTS
BY CHANCE.
Contemporary
Coiixsncnt
Hearst Wares
A New Banner,
The Sage of San Simeon has a
new ace up his sleeve. Not content
with prattling against Internation
alism, be is now devoting his at
tention to the eradication of col
communism, which, he pro
claims, la growing rapidly through
the aubversive teachings of
bearded profeaeora
Mr. Hearst has a perfect right
to resent communism, but there is
atufficient evidence to abow that
under the guise of this "100 per
cent Americanism" he is waging a
tuttle agalaat all dissenting opin
ion. That the methods whereby he
attempted to Justify his personal
ends at tSyracu and GiumU
were promptly exposed and con
demned does little credit to Mr.
Hearst. It doea, however, honor
a j-rtrp of private educators who
f-re determined to no intru-
r.v-.a ex raacaroe oocmne on m
out freedom of thought and ex
pression. Mr. Hearst, apparently,
is going to encounter more oppo
sition than he has anticipated.
Another professedly "clever
move" was to sponsor a Washing
ton meeting of the editors of all
college dailies. There they were
feted and dined, and then removed
to New York to be subjected to
the wisdom of some of Mr.
Hearsts foremost satellites. Two
Washington newspaper men of
recognized enterprise asserted this
was just his way of pouring syrup
after a challenging letter sent him
by the Association of College Edi
tors. Mr. Hearst Imagined, they
declared, that such generosity
would make immeasurably easier
the progreae of the " red scare"
among the separate coUegea
Following the conference, News
Week claimed the "Hearst-Youth
hatchet buried" as farcical a mis
statement as ever appeared in
prist. It cannot be denied that a
few of those present cad slightly
too much regard for Mr. Hearst's
altruism, and were rudely shocked
when he was accused of ulterior
motives. But the overwhelming
majority came and west In firm
opposition to his principles and
methods. Talks br Hearst-writers
i"-.ni nmn an tueUv ere-I Richard Washburn Quid and
t'l :eJ against this Cort to stamp Bainbridge Colby and indirect of- since the fraternities and aorori-
fers to become wavers of the
Hearst banner did surprisingly lit
tle to alter their opinion. Drop in
the bucket though it may have
been, the money which rolled from
the Hearstian coffers to smooth
the surface can be written in the
ledger with red Ink. Mr. Hearst, it
would seem, is pinning too much
(aith in human stupidity.
Daily Princetonian.
More Trouble
For Greeks.
The first harbinger to appear In
Oklahoma of the eastward break
up of the fraternity system may
be the resolution to be presented
at the next meeting of the board
of regents at Oklahoma university
by Malcolm Koiwr, board mem
ber, decreeing that the pledging
of freshmen to fraternities be pro
hibited.
As only about one-fifth of the
student body here belot-g to fra
ternal organizations, such a rule,
if applied at Oklahoma A. and M.
college, would not affect the great
mass of students but it would be
of vital Interest to those who are
affiliated with Greek group.
The prohibition of the pledging
of freshmen here would bring dis
aster to almost every Greek group
Previously most of the publicity
given various members of the cast
of. "Yellow. Jack", has. centered
around the members carrying prin
cipal roles. Now, however, those
who are alio to be featured, should
be given a break. Six more sol
diers who have been cast are Clif
ford Domingo. Arnold Gadeken.
Charles Fair, Henry Peterson, Bill
Strong, and Jack Beasley. These
characters will be costumed in uni
forms of the Spanish-American
war period. At this play is sup
posed to have an army back
ground, there is yet room for any
fellows who desire to be in it. Re
hearsals are being held every eve
ning on the second floor Studio
theater in the Temple. Jock, the
well known campus canine of past
dramatic experience, will once
mora be featured in this produc
tion. "The Barretts of Wimpole
Street" was the best picture of
1934 in the opinion of 348 out of
424 motion nicture critics in the
w . . . .
Thirteenth annual nationwide
critics' poll of the 'Ten Best
Films." Ranking in subsequent
places were "The House of Roths
child," "It Happened One Night,"
"One Nisjht of Love," "Little Wom
en." 'The Thin Man." "Viva.
Villa!." "Dinner at Eight," "Count
of Monte Cristo" and "Berkeley
Square." "Little Women" and
"Berkeley Square" were released
at the end of 1933. but not in time
to get into the competition that
year. "Berkeley Square" was near
ly eliminated by "The Gay Divor
cee." This was bad luck for the
highly enjoyable "The Gay Di
vorcee." but an even more lament
able fate befell "Judge Priest,"
which appeared to be of a certain
bet for "Ten Best" honors, but ap
parently was out thru the decision
of votes with the other outstanding
Will Rogers picture, "David
Harum."
The notable characteristics of
the 1934 "Ten Best" vomers was
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