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MANAGING EDITORS
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NEWS EDITORS
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Irwin Ry.iR
Ruth Matschullat Woman's Editor
Sancha Kilbourne Society Editor
Arnold Levlne Sports Editor
BUSINESS STAFF
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ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGERS
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How About
Some Action?
LJUMAN laziness seems to be a primary and
prevalent characteristic. College students are
human, and some of the campus leaders possess
that primary element in abundant quantities.
There) are several things that should be done by
students who have been placed by election in posi
tions which are so far more important only in
name, and which are rapidly losing any atmos
phere of prestige that has previously surrounded
them. One of these offices is that of the senior
class president
On several previous occasions this semester, the
editor of the Daily Nebraskan, after conferring
with students who are in positions of responsibil
ity, has urged the president of the senior class to
take steps toward organizing that croup into
soma sort of potent force. The feeling that some
such move should be made was expressed by stu
dent leaders and by the editor of the Nebraskan
several days before nominations were made for
senior class president. Any aspirants, who at that
time felt that they would like the honor but
didn't have time for any work, were given ample
time to withdraw from the political race.
This year's senior class president has done
nothing. There is much to be done. If the senior
class at the University of Nebraska was organ
ized each year, addressed by prominent alumni of
the Institution, Nebraska's alumni organization
would be much more potent than it is at present.
This school has a fine alumni organization and a
good secretary working under the handicap of a
largely uninterested graduate body.
On other campuses of the United States organ
ized senior classes gatner several times a year,
particularly In the spring months, for affairs of in
terest to the entire group and also of ultimate
value to the universities. Such functions as Senior
week, a Senior reception, a Senior dance, and a
series of convocations would be of great value on
this campus if they were Immediately planned and
sponsored by a competent committee of class
members.
Laziness, lethargy, and inertia must be cast
aside In order that a program of organization can
be started immediately. There is certainly good
and sufficient reason for organizing the senior
class. Will something be done ?
Iowa game preceding vacation. The yell leading is
also much better this year, and all in all there
seems to be a much livelier student spirit budding
among the basketball spectators.
Military sponsors, held together by the mighty
want-somethlng-to-do bond, are organizing. They
plan to hold a tea at which they will entertain all
cadet officers. We suggest blood scup for refresh
ment. The Spartan women used to feed their men
with that delectable dish.
STUDENT PULSE
Brief, concise contribution pertinent to matters of
student 11 1 e ami tiie university are welcomed by thla
department, under the i:suhI restrictions of sound newx
paper practice, which excludes all' libelous mutter anil
personal attacks. Letters must be nlgned, but numea
will btt withheld from publication If so denired.
Contributions chnuld be limited to a maximum of five
bund red words In length.
The American
University Succeeds.
To the Editor:
(This is the third of three parts of a letter, the
first section of which was published in the Wednes
day Daily Nebraskan. It was written in answer to a
series of articles entitled, "The American University
Fails," which appeared in this publication last
spring).
It seems to me that 90 percent of all students who
fail do so for one reason, and one only: That they
have as yet seen no way In which to adapt them
selves in which the course had any relation to their
lives. And without that they cannot learn. Without
that the greatest genius on earth could not learn
unless he learned by rote, as men may learn non
sense syllables. There is no man living who raises
above the level of a moron who ennnot learn that
which makes life meaningful to him. They tell us
that the athletes are slow are "dumb." Yet they
learn the rules of the game more rapidly than any
professor (who presumes to flunk them out of his
course) could do. Why? Because the rules of the
game are the rules of life as they live it, even tho
it be but for a few brief moments on the football
field or the basketball floor. And if the professor
were wise, he would cease his mutterings about
knowledge being useful for its own sake, and show
his students how that knowledge, too, is a part of
the rules of life. Then ho would have no failures,
And until he does do this, then even his "A" stu
dents are failures.
OFFICIAL
BULLETIN
CORNHUSKER PAYMENTS.
Third installments on copies of
the 1935 Cornhusker are due this
week in the. yearbook offices in
University half.
Lutheran Club.
All Lutheran students are in
vited to attend the meeting of the
Lutheran club in 205, Temple
Blag., Friday evening. Prof. A,
L. Lugn will speak on "The Ge
ography of the Holy Land."
Kometky Club.
A regular meeting of the Ko
mesky club will be held Friday,
Jan. 11, 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.
SOCIAL SCIENCE TEA.
Social science department will
hold a tea hour for the faculty and
graduates in Social Science, room
217, Ffiday, 4:15 to 5:15.
Y. W. C. A.
All new members of Y. W. C. A.
should fill out membership cards
by Friday noon.
A Cyclone
Hits Lincoln.
Saturday evening basketball will again swing
Into the limelight to punctuate the post-holiday
period of cramming preceding examinations.
Coach Browne will send his 1935 Nebraska basket
ball machine against the undefeated Iowa State
Cyclones on the coliseum floor, with the visitors
favored to start the Huskers out on the wrong
side of the Big Six ledger.
Nebraska basketball has been down in the
dumps for several years. Coach Browne, however,
has been gradually improving the teams. This
season many cage followers are saying that the
Scarlet quintet in the best that has appeared for
four years, the most proficient since the 1931
team.
As the Big Six season starts, the Kansas Jay-
hawkers are favored to cop the conference title as
they have done the past three seasons. Iowa
State, in tbe picture with an unusually good team,
m rated the dark horse of the conference, and
might go places this winter.
Nebraska student spirit doesn't, as a rule, wax
warm over basketball. This year, however, students
should back the basketball team in its Big Six
competition, because tbe football team failed for
tha first time since 1930 to cop the conference
football bunting. There is a strong team in Ne
braska togs this year, and It la deemed capable of
some very good basketball. Considering the
fact that last winter's five was the only one in
the conference to defeat Kansas, and that this
year's team is obviously Improved, there is no
reason to feel certain that the Husker team doesn't
have a chance for the title.
Between-the-half programs offered by fraternity
and orority groups will liven up the proceedings
this season. This fact was demonstrated at the
Judged by this criterion, namely, that the pur
pose of education is adaptation to life, is the Amer
ican university a failure? No! In fact, the American
university is among the first since the dawn of
higher education which is not a failure. Many have
called attention to the vacillation and weaknesses
which have recently prevailed among: American
universities. Such an indictment is perfectly just.
But the reason ascribed for this fact is in error. It
is a mark of the transition whereby the Ameri
can university is turning from a learned and
highly colored failure to become an institution
capable of serving rightly the young men and
women who attend it. It is the sign of the grow
ing predominance of pragmatism (by which
mean emphasis on the practical) over a mistaken
idealism. It is the sign of the growing governance
of able and energetic men. It is the sign of the
passing of the old guard who were nurtured on
the tradition of Newman's "Idea of a University;"
who follow knowledge for knowledge's sake.
When these gentlemen have passed on to a well
deserved emeritus chairmanship, the days of vacil
lation and cowardly policies will be about over. We
will be ready to take up the work of building a
university which can serve as no other university
has ever done. We wil lbe ready to settle students'
problems which have for them a real and vital in
terest. We will be permitted to discuss the topics
that sway the world without being recalled to some
dry-as-dust textbook discussion. We shall be per
mitted to discuss the topics that move men, the
goals for which they live and die as they never
do for the sake of pure knowledge. Ob, I shall grant
you that a few rare and great souls will sacrifice
their lives in the interests of pure science, but most
of us live out our lives by other rules. And if the
men of science persist in putting in the hands of
these other men the instruments whereby life is
iestroyed without at the same time so 'pragma-
tizing' the institutions of learning that men may
learn to live and adapt themselves to an ever-grow
ing life, then these scientists but dig their own
graves in a common shambles of war and desolation.
The ideal of human understanding, of teaching
men how to live with one another, is the ideal
toward which the 'pramatic American university
strives. This is true idealism; Idealism which is
meanful and real, and not a mouthing of empty
phrases about 'knowledge for its own sake,' 'pure
science,' or 'independent research.' There is no
knowledge for its own sake, for knowledge, whether
of how to bake a pie or of the factors in the in
finitesimal calculus, Is knowledge which bears re
lation to life, and should be so taught. There is no
pure science, for the discoveries of the most aloof
scientist may be used by some man whom that
scientist never sees, to revolutionize a world. And
there is no Independent research, for the whole
system of our reasoning and our thinking is inter
related, and the whole structure is related to life,
to the life of every man.
The true idealist is the man who accepts the
wor. J as it Is and strives to make it a better place
In which to live; not that man who turns his eyes
away from reality to a mystical ideal of things as
they ought perfectly to be. And it is the greatest
and surest mark of the dawning success of the
American university that it is turning away from
vain and foolish flights of professorial fancy and
misbegotten 'idealism' to the realm of fact and
truth. Gerald H. Aaans.
about these aims. Tho article at
tacks un-American activities at
the University of Minnesota with
specific reference to the Armistice
day anti-war anti-fascist mass
meeting held last quarter.
In considering this charge, con
demning Minnesota students of
casting aspersions on the reasons
for which 2 million American
youths went to France in 1918,
those reasons must be reviewed.
Most boys who volunteered or
peaceably submitted to the draft
believed that they were fighting to
"make the world safe for democ
racy in the war which was to "end
all war'." These worthy alms, used
as slogans in every newspaper and
by every public speaker during the
war years, are certainly nothing
any student is ashamed of.
However, all can see that In
spite of the American doughboy's
honest and idealistic trigger pull
ing for democracy, three-fourths
of Europe is now governed by dic
tatorships. Regardless of all the
tnousands of men who died under
machine gun fire in 1918 with the
fond hope that thev were doing:
ineir on to guarantee ruture peace,
war scares fill the newspapers and
every major power is armlne to
the limit.
Therefore some college students
are interested in drawing up peace
action programs to disclose the
machinations behind America's en
try into the war. Next time war
threatens, thinking students want
to know the real reasons behind
supposed attempts to preserve
democracy or safeguard America's
honor. University students are
not ashamed of the aims for which
the veterans of the war thougnt
mey were ritfhtinsr. but thev are
determined to resist future at
tempts to set up false patriotic
aims in order to build war-time
armies. Minnesota Dailv.
A.B. Hollingshdad Reports on
National Convention
Held in Chicago.
Alpha Kappa Delta, nation'
sociology research group, held its
monthly dinner meeting Thursday
evening. August B. Hollingshead,
delegate to the national meeting in
Chicago, gave a report of that
meeting and announced the sched
ule for the remainder of the school
year.
The complete program schedule
for meetings in the following
months Is as follows:
January: Report on social trends
In southwestern Nebraska by Au
gust B. Hollingshead.
February: Report by the district
representative of F. E. R. A.. Rob
ert E. Nuernberger on, dealing
with homeless men in Lincoln thru
the FERA, and a discussion of or
ganizatlon of the American church
by Rabbi Jacob J. Ogle.
March: Esther Powell, Barbara
Harrison, and Margaret Medlar
will report on different phases of
the administration of relief to
needy families and relating sub
jects.
April: Dr. Earl h. Bell, Marian
Dunlevy, and Paul H. Cooper will
speak to an open meeting on dif
ferent phases of "Extinct Indian
Cultures in Nebraska."
May: Annual picnic and steak
fry.
CHANTS
BY CHANCE.
Ag Column
BY
DICK JACKSON
and GORDON HOBERT
Interest this week is centered
around the meetings held as part
of the Organized Agriculture pro
gram, It is possible for the stu
dent on the Ag campus to get t
fairly good summary of some of
the college's activity during the
year and at the same time obtain
a broader outlook on the situation
of the business by listening to
some of the speeches delivered by
O. E. Baker and other prominent
men and women who know what
they are talking about. Many of
the alums are here for the week
getting reacquainted as well as ac
qualnted.
About the only activity on the
campus this week is the whipping
into shape the Col-Agri-Fun skits
which are to be presented a week
from Friday night in the Activities
Building. The program promises
to be one of the best ever presented.
The Harvard Crimson, student
daily, has gone. "Wall street" with
the announcement that "From time
to time , . . the Crimson will pre
sent a few individual recommenda
tions that seem to offer better than
market opportunities to make or
lose tuition fees."
At the University of Alabama a
girl has just enrolled in a boxing
course.
When you hear a soft southern
drawl and see the performance of
Jack Nicholas as the American
oldier from the south In "Yellow
Jack," you will be seeing tha
young man In his debut as a Uni
versity Player. Although he has
participated In high school and
Junior college productions, he Is a
newcomer before local audiences
Besides dramatics, Jack Is Inter
ested in traok and sailing boats. He
ownt two sail boats and a motor
boat, and during the summer,
spends his leisure time fooling
around with them. Chop Suey
his favorite dish, and one of his
Idiosyncracies it that he smokes
nothing other than a pipe. This Is
Jack's junior year, but his first
year was not spent here. At the
present time, this blond-haired
chap is assistant business manager
of the Awgwan and a member of
Beta Theta PI. When he attends
the movies, he prefers to see
Madge Evans or Spencer Tracy,
When queried concerning his ideas
of an Ideal girl, he said, "She must
have average intelligence, a good
sense of humor and be a good
sport." Well, that was a very wise
and rather vague statement to
make; but It is understood that he
likes to play the radio at the Delta
Gamma House; so, enough said.
Oksy, Jackl
Now that the recent announce
ment was made of the plans formu
lated by the music department for
presentation this coming May of
the opera "Aida," it is another sign
that opera is still appreciated.
"Aida," Verdi's spectacular opera
which will be given, closed the re
cent engagement of Fortune Gal
lo's San Carlos Grand Opera com
pany when they were in Omaha.
The tour which the company is
making is Gallo's silver jubilee, or
twenty-fifth annual excursion. A
survey record shows that his com
pany has sung for more than 16,-
000,000 persons, with an intake of
almost $18,500,000.00 in theaters
and auditoriums from Maine to
California, British Columbia to
Louisiana. In some years the In
come has exceeded $i,UOU.uuu.uu.
More than that amount has been
paid the railwuys, tours have been
run as high as 25.000 miles, ami
total mileage has been slightly
above 300,000.
Gallo has given 0,800 pertorni
ances in 365 cities of forty operas,
often at a season's cost for pre
liminary expenses amounting to
$25,000.00. The company owns
scenery for thirty-five operas and
a music library worth $100,000.
The impressarlo's best season was
when he had Anna Pavlowa and
Leonora Duse, in addition to his
opera company. He made $300,000
that year. His best single opera
week was in 1927 in Richmond,
Va., with receipts of $61,000. His
record single performance was an
outdoor presentation of "Aida" in
New York in 1922, with 60,000 per
sons paying $65,000.
This season's tour is booked for
forty-four weeks, and opens for a
month's season in Los Angeles tho
first of February, continuing to
San Francisco the first of March
for another month's engagement,
hofore returning- east via southern
cities. When "Aida" is given hero
In May, the local music lovers will
have a chance to see the same type
of music drama this company is
presenting. Reinald Werrenrath of
thn MetroDolitan Opera company
will be one of the artists scheduled
to annual' in leading rule, bo, ir
any of you singers are interested
in hr-ine- in the performance, the
course in chorus is commended to
you, as all students In that organ
ization will appeal'.
Harvard university library has
purchased a collection or more
than 8,000 photographs of notables
of the past century.
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the big ears sitting in the middle. Get your Corn
husker group picture taken.
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Contemporary
Comment
A Slight
Contradiction.
"But, while we are on the sub
ject of liberty, I may confess that
Is acme thing that I am very much
interested in. That part of the
constitution of the United States
that means most to me is the
guarantee of the right of free
speech, free press, and free assem
blage. ..I haven't looked at the
restitution for a long time, but
that Is where they were when I
last looked. And I don't think that
they have been deleted or trans
planted or amended. I think they
are still there."
This and more of admirable vein
was expressed by Secretary Ickes
in an address before a small group
in Washington recently. The secre
tary went on to disparage such or
ganizations as the Liberty league
ana sucn people as James M. Beck:
he failed "certain gentlemen who
go aooui me una uttering loud
outcries about the Impending de
struction of our liberties." The
speech was delivered with con
siderable force and with apparent
ly great sincerity; it was received
with applause.
But this privilege of free speech
seemingly does not apply to Park
Commissioner Moses. He has criti
cized some of the PWA projects.
and according to Secretary Ickes,
he must go.
There is a slight contradiction
between your words and your ac
tions, Secretary Ickes. But perhaps
you wished to make that clear
when you said in your address:
think that all of us make the very
human mistake of emphasizing the
right which happens to mean most
to us. . .It is dangerous for me to
subscribe to the theory that funda
mental constituuonai rights may
be turned on or off, just as you
turn water in a spigot on or off to
suit your own convenience." Daily
Princeton! an.
American Legion
Condemns Students.
In a banner head the Minnesota
Legionnaire, official publication of
the Minnesota American Legion
proclaims "U. Students Ashamed
of Aims Vets Fought For" and
then proceeds to say no more
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