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Education
Turns Professional.
Tt was once the province of education to
provide a liberal, general survey of mankind's
knowledge. This held true not only for the
elementary educational units, but for the col
leges and universities of the land as well.
Probably the universities were the first
to break away from this tenet with the intro
duction of schools of vocational guidance and
specialization. This latest trend in education
has waxed so influential that today liberal arts
are lost in the labyrinth of scientific, methodi
cal knowledge.
The "humanities" have bowed to the sci
entific. From freshman year on to graduation
a student is trained for the vocation which
sometimes unwittingly came to mind first
when the university asked his choice. One col
lege of vocation ignores the other; each is
jealous of the power it has gained, attempting
to prevent its inmates from investigating those
fields which other branches of the university
so temptingly offer. Instructors become so
well versed in their own lines of endeavor that
the other fellow's point of view is lost in favor
of his egotistical conception of the power of
his science.
Everything becomes interpreted in the
phrases of science. The first test of a subject
offered on the curriculum is that of its rational
value. Economics, sociology, political studies,
history each is termed a science. And those
fields which do not admit of scientific analy
sisLatin, Greek, English are relegated to
the background and kicked from one corner
of the American campus to the other.
This was once true of colleees alone. Now
the spirit of science and specialization the
''preparation for life"' has crept into the high
school scene.
Recently the Nebraska high school super
intendents and principals met with university
officials to protest the university entrance re
quirements, which, in the language of the
plaintiffs, "prevented smaller schools from
giving their students subjects which will edu
cate them for life."
The university, then, for demanding that
high school students enter its portals with a
diploma of general knowledge behind them,
burdens the prep schools. The university is
cuilty for demanding that freshmen know a
bit about mathematics, civics, English, science,
before enrolling. The university is guilty be
cause it demands what in so many eases it
fails to provide, a "liberal arts" education.
Those superintendents and principals who
are obsessed with the idea of "preparing their
students for life," or forcing their students to
select vocations which they will follow for
evermore, have eiven education a regretful
tinge of narrowed outlook. If anything, high
schools and colleges should broaden their stu
dents' conception of the world as it is; open
up new fields which will bp interesting and
valuable in exploration; and, at the termina
tion of a liberal education should help them
select the vocal ions for which they are best
fitted.
It is regret tul that such is not the case.
It is more regretful t hat the pendulum is
swinging more and more in the direction of
penalization, instead of liberal education. The
present modern trend is toward the rational
istic and scientific, and it is towing education
after it. Education, instead of forming the
opinions of those whom it reaches, is being
conformed to the thought of those who
reach it.
The university entrance requirements
should not be relaxed. On the contrary, they
should be made more stringent, so that we wUl
not lose sight altogether of the concept of a
liberal arts education.
HiHMIP
ly Dal Martin.
Insurgent fascist forces have hammered awny
with bombs nnd artillery for more than a week
without making progress into the city. Sev.
eral reasons may be ascribed to this. It appears
that Russia is oontrilmtinv to Madrid's defense
not only with war supplies but also with men.
Loyalists, making n last stand, are afraid to
retreat for fear of being shot down by their
own comrades. With the president and the
government out of the way control of defense
has been more centralized and consequently
more efficient.
STUDENT PULSE
Brlat. eonclM contributions pertinent to matter of
student fife and th university ar wie?nii bv '
newspaper practlca. wnicn excludes all libelous "latter
and personal attacka. Letter, muat be signed, but
nimea will b withheld from publication II so dealred.
Freedom in the
Teaching Profession.
TO THE EDITOR:
From the lips of Harry Elmer Barnes
came this observation: "There has been an at
tempt to suppress honesty, realism and free
dom in the teaching profession." This is not
news nnv more, but coming as it is from a man
of Mr. Barnes' standing it deserves renewed
interest. . . 4yN
Some time ago a movement was ntoot to
urge the congress to enact a national law mak
ing it compulsory for public school teachers to
take an oath of allegiance. The movement ap
parent Iv failed, nnd the noise died out. but the
reverberations can still be felt. William Ran
dolph Hearst, the leader of the movement, still
hopes that some day a means of curbing the
excessive freedom of the teachers can be de-
In theorv our teachers still possess free
dom to teach. But they do not practice this
freedom even if in their hearts they crave i or
the verv thing. They cannot go beyond their
&ubiectmatter lest some one would turn them
in to the school board or to some higher au
thorities. They are always apprehensive, ever
careful of what they teach. The movement for
the taking of oath indicates that the freedom
the teachers now apparently enjoy is hanging
on a balance, insecured.
It is a sad commentary on our democrat
ic form of government that the teachers are
not made to feel that they are free to im
part knowledge they think essential to the
students. Knowledge that could be obtained
from classroom books is undoubtedly good.
But that is only a part of a well rounded
education that a student is supposed to ac
quire. Knowledge peculiar to the text books,
but real and vital to life should not be de
nied the students. But under the present at
tempt to suppress freedom of teaching, the
teachers are loathe to wander into the realm
of reality in their role as light bringers.
That, clearly, is a fundamental defect of
our educational system today. We place too
much stress on the textbooks, too much adher
ence to routine school work, making the teach
er no more than a robot. We overlook the grim
realities of life, and even if we are aware of
them, we try not to expound them to the stu
dents, for fear that they might form ideas
harmful to our established institutions. Stu
dents must know, and are entitled to know, the
truth. Ignorance would hold them back, even
make them a menace to society. Freedom to
teach is freedom to impart the truth so that
the student's mind may be opened, ready to
form an unprejudiced and intelligent opinion
on vital problems.
Any attempt to muzzle the teacher is in
imical to our progress, a definite threat to our
democracy. When he loses his freedom, al
most surely the press and other vanguards of
democracy will also lose theirs, and when that
happens our form of government shall have
reached the end of its rope. A. E. Hamoy.
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Frrtm Llnroln Sunday Journal and Star.
! Quotable
Quotes
"Modem universities in my opin- :
ion can serve two primary func- ;
tions. One is to acquaint the stu- ,
dent with history so as to give him
a background upon which to build ,
his life and to develop the future.
The second is to teach the nation's
youth how to find the true facts
and. once having them, to evalu
ate them so that we might prog- j
ress." Harold L. Ickes, secretary
of the interior, noints out the es
sential purposes of colleges and
universities.
"A surprising thing about Rus
sia is that the administration
does not regard communism as
its immediate objective, but is
The Counsellors Corner
"CONVICTIONS"
BY
By Rev. Gilbert T. Savery
United Brethren Church.
OHIO PROFESSOR SAYS
SUSPEND COMPLICATED
AT
HLEIIC REGULATIONS
Dr.
Obcrteuffer Praises
Simple Code Used
At Amherst.
v nnsrhr not to cherish anv il
lusions as to what is involved in
t lying to retain Religion as an im
portant ingredient of life at its
very best. Nor dare we forget that
religious living requires more than
a little self-discipline ana sen-sac-rifice.
One is inclined to ask
people seem to think that this
will make communism feasible."
Dr. J. Stewart Burgess, profes
sor of sociology at Temple uni
versity, has seen a lot cf this
type of capitalistic communism.
"A total disregard for tradition
us immeaiaie oujecuve, uui is i " ;, . . ,.. ,..
content to progress along cap- totorvtopTMy6m iCCevt
italistic lines if necessary? or in all the implications of true le-
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having his emotions stirred, but
for the experience not to have
reached deep enough to make any
real difference to his life. Religion
i inai regins ana enus ui awuuu
I is neither substantial nor endur-
A. l.oiai disregard ioi irauiuuu. - ----- -
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a critical, aiscnminaung. inquiring ------ , . . , MlJ
mind and attitude, a reliable sense an emotional P J'
of values, a love of play, a love of ron. but it must be the emotion
freedom and the happiness of the that is aroused by the appeal of
' . t a orpat sarrifice and serce.
entire croup, couraee, sirengm, i -
and sportsmanship are qualities
Spanish loyalist defenders of Madrid have
put up an unexpectedly stubborn resistance.
Don't Take
Life Too Seriou;.!).
TO THE EDITOR:
Georce Bernard Shaw once made the re
mark that it was a shame that youth had to be
wasted on the young. The younjr college stu
dent exemplifies all that Mr. Shaw had refer
ence to. ne sees thern on the campus with the
fire of confidential knowledge burning in their
eyes, and the burdens of the future of the
world resting on their collective shoulders. In
the classroom they would put Socrates to the
blush in their serious intellectual debates.
These students are the same ones v,ho used
to put on their mother's and father's long
clothes and play grown up. Now they put on
long faces and a serious attitude and pretend
to be thinkers. Of course there is always that
chance that they will add to the knowledge of
the world and free civilization from its chains,
but, as a rule, their contributions to the world
are laboriously culled from books by other
writers who didn't take the world so seriously.
There really isn't any danger in any of
these superficial things whirh the long faced
student resorts to, except that he may wl a
wrong idea concerning himself and be a social
misfit in later life. In college he may gain
some ground for the very reason that he takes
himself so seriously and no one else is particu
larly interested in beating him out. Rut after
he gets out in life in the professions and busi
nesses where people are out for blood, then he
will discover that his platitudes and Phi Beta
Kappa key are not so impressive as he had once
imagined.
Of course, there is always the chance that
these long faced boys may grow into long faced
men and still be taken seriously by the masses.
For instance. Mr. Einstein seems to be doing
all right. All he has to do is to keep s straight
face and change his mind about every four
years about the finite or infinite size of the
universe. He has the advantage of the ordi
nary man, because his laughter could be hid
den behind his beard. But the ordinary long
faced student will find a world that laughs in
his long face, and he will immediately cry out
against the stupidity of the masses for over
looking genius such as his. He will find that
figuring the percentage profit on a can of
beans is far below what his mind was intended
for. He is doomed to a misspent life all be
cause the professors kidded him along during
his college career, until he really imagined
that he was the boy to wear the crown. Boyd
Innes.
which the school should endeavor
to inculcate in its pupils without
the loss of strong loyalties to the
principles upon which a free and
happy society must stand." Carl
G. Snavely. head football coach at
Cornell university, looks toward a
real Utopia.
"The danger of expecting mir
acles from science is no less seri
ous than that of seeking to dis
credit science. It may lead the
public to disregard warnings of
the exhaustion of essential re
sources in the faith that science
will find substitutes. Yet at the
same time the public is not will
ing to provide adequate means
for training the scientists who
may perhaps bring ultimately
the desired solution." Dr. Karl
T. Compton, president of Massa
chusetts Institute of Technology,
sketches briefly a strong social
argument for capitalism.
RAMSAY MASTER
CEREMONIES FOR
KOSMET S REVUE
(Continued from Page J.)
that their act is not more han
eight minutes in length. The show
is expected to be three hours long,
running from 9 a. m. to 12 noon.
"A correct list of members par
ticipating in each skit must be
submitted to the Kosmet Klub by
5 p. m. today," Shellenbcrg
stated. "The program for the show
will be made up at that time, and
only those who are eligible will
allowed to take part in the Re
vue. Roll will be taken the morn
ing of the show, and ineligible
students will be eliminated from
the acts."
Shellenberg advised that "every
skit master hould conduct an in
tensive practice each day this
week with the Kosmet Klub rnem- i
her who han been aasiened to aid !
the production. Two or three arts
that have been accepted require
much more work, and if they tio
not improve noticeably in the next
few days, we will not he.sitate to
cut them out of the program."
Workers Aid Skit Masters.
Winfield Elias. chairman of the
committees in charge of show
properties, appointed a Klub
worker to aid each skit. Ail skit
masters are advised to "feel free
to call upon their aid for sug
gestions and help in obtaining and
making the necessary properties."
The appointment are aa fol
low: Pershing Rifles. Don Gon
zaJe; Ag College Cafeteria group,
Carl Cleveland; Alpha Chi Omura,
Joe Steven: Men' Glee club. Bill
Moore: Kappa Sigma. Richard
McGinni: Sigma Phi Epsilon,
Forrest Wilke; and Delta Delta
Delta, John Collin.
Kappa Kappa Gamma. Phil
Southwick: Kappa Alpha Theta,
Kermit Hansen; Phi Kappa Psi,
Robert Mooe; Beta Theta Pi. Rob
ert Gannon; Alpha Tau Omega
Phi Delta Theta, Don Moss; Rav
mond Hall, HaroM Ledford: Pi
Beta Phi, Stan Brewster: Kappa
Delta, Paul Wagner; Zeta Beta
Tau-Pi Kappa Alpha, Howard
Kaplan: Sigma Nu. Ed Steeves:
and Alpha Omlcron Pi, Frank
, Johnson.
Jesus knew exactly how to
deal with men and women who
came to Him under the surface
stirring of emotion. They said,
"Lord. I will follow Thee . . ."
But He said. "Yes. but if you do
you must be prepared for lone
liness, rough roads, pains, and
apparent failure." The question
is as to whether we are pre
pared to be bound by the God
ward and manward implications
of a religious profession. It is
not so much what we FEEL
about God and about men, as
what we DO about ihat we feel.
The very best expression of
one's religious intention is in
COLUMBUS, O. (ACP). Sug.
geatlng a moratorium on compli
cated rules and programs regulat
ing the eligibility of college ath
letes, Dr. Delbett Oberteuffer.
non-coaching professor of physical
education at Ohio State university,
recommends the system of govern
ing used Amherst college.
"Perhaps we should suspend all
rules and start over," he said.
"Let's find out what college games
are for really. For 85 years, more
or less, we have been piling rulu
upon rule without ever stopping
for a careful analysis.
"All this time some over-enthusiastic
coaches and directors of
athletics have been responding to
the victory-hungry public by go
ing to all lengths to produce win
ners. "It is suggested that the solu
tion of this problem lies in an ex
amination of fundamental con
cepts (of amateurism) and In a
return to simplicity of adminis
tration." Avoid Being too Rigid.
Commenting in "The Journal of
Higher Education" upon eligibility
by the president of the University
of North Carolina, he said they
are "so firm, so rigid, and so re
actionary as to stun those who
might be trying to foster athletics
for the benefit of all boys regard
less of age, income, or previous
condition of servitude."
Congratulates Amberst.
Dr. Oberteuffer congratulated
Amberst college for the simplicity
i of its athletic'constitution.
j "There rules, all ur.der the jur
! isdiction of the college itself, are:
, First, an athlete must be physl
I cally in good condition to play;
second, he must be in good stand
ing as a student, and third, ha
must have been a student there
: for one year of orientation.
"Three simple rules are they
. impractical of administration in
the Southern conference, or tho
Western, or the Ohio, or in any
conference ?
Dr. Oberteuffer stated that per
haps we are not yet in the posi
tion to place too much confidence
in the other fellow. If we do need
bigger anci better and more re
strictive rules, "then let us retain
noble living and generous serv
ice.
A man whose religion is tied up
with all manner of personal res
ervations U not likely to make a
very large contribution to a better
1 A a.. am in hie ftU'n P VT1P T i-
V aa - I i all ILbl. C M....J,
ence to achieve a greater person- some lawyers and give them six
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amy. mere must uc a. jk.""" monins 10 uiaw aam-
abandon in personal religious liv
ing if it is to prove a reauj en
riching experience.
An eminent religious thinker
once wrote: "A man who is
touched only on the surface of his
soul by a religious movement and
has yielded to the current without
understanding what it means,
whither it tends, and what it in
volves, is doomed to apostasy in
the season of trial. When the tide
ble and all embracing, and place
a trained sheriff in every ainieiic
department to guard against infractions."
BULLETIN.
Sigma Delta ChL
Meeting of Sigma Delta Chi,
men's professional journalism so
ciety, will be held Wednesday noon
at the Grand hotel. All member!
of enthusiasm subsides and tie is i urged to be present
left to carry on single-handed the 6 . K .
struggle with temptation, he has j Ko.met Kluo.
no heart for the work, and his re- I Kosmet Klub members will meet,
ligion withers like the wheat this afternoon in the University
growing on rocky places under the hall rooms at 5 p. m.
scorching sun." Pershing Rifle.
Let us lift religion out of the R , meeting of Pershing
spnere or speculation. u pif, honorary basic mill-
tionalism, into the place where it
definitely becomes a part of life.
That may not be a very easy thing
to do, but It is eminently worth
trying, and a successful adventure
along this line will provoke a
great deal of enthusiasm both in
the soul of the one who tries it
and in those who watch its
progress.
Paging Jhe
Smart Qoed
For Beautiful
Nail
Gllese Style.
Several weeks ago I wrote a
little article for this series on
what constitutes a beautiful hand.
The standards I set up were soft
ness and smoothness. But since
then a number of you have asked,
"What about the nails?"
The fingernails are, of course,
a very important part of hand
beauty. No hand can be consid
ered beautiful with ragged,
stubby nails, with long unkempt
claws, with little white spots
running through the nails, with
ragged miserable looking cu
ticle. The fingernails must be
smooth and pink and well
shaped. The half-moons should
be distinct and the cuticle so
thin and even that it I almost
invisible. If your nails are to
add to the loveliness of your
hands, they must be given their
own special beauty treatment.
The first step in this treatment
employs the proverbial ounce of
prevention. You must not let your
nails be. banged up or crushed.
This causes the white spots that
are so attractive on summer
dresses, but a drawback in nails.
You must not chew your nails or
cuticle for obvious reasons. You
must not use sharp, heavy instru
ments to push back the cuticle
because this causes ridges.
Secondly, you must remember
that the nail are a part of the
skin and must be treated accord
ingly. If they are dry and brittle,
breaking off easily, they need a
lubricant. A good nail tome ap
plied daily will do marvel in
keeping them 6upple and will pre
vent cracking and splitting. It
wiJ also soften cuticle and make
it easy to push back, thus help
ing you to avofd ridges.
In using liquid polish and pol
ish remover, there are two
things to think about. One I
appearance and the other is
your nail. Bright, dark pol
ishes are very attractive with
ome clothe on dress up occa
sions. But they're not so good
for daily class room and cam
pus wear. They need renewing
more frequently than light pol
ihes because there's nothing
more hideous than a bright pol
ish that's peeling. They require
the use of more nail polish re
mover. Most removers leave the
nails a little duller, an infinitesi
mal fraction less strong. An
oily polish remover is far bet
ter, but the nail tonic still needs
to be applied immediately after
the remover to restore natural
gloss and toughness.
The best way to keep your nans
in good condition at all times is
to use your nail tonic regularly,
a bright polish only for dress oc
casions and at other times a nat
ural shell pink polish that's in
the very best of taste for campus
wear and actually remains on the
tarv nre-anization. is scneauiea
for' 5 p. m. today in Nebraska halL
All members are urged to be pres
ent on time.
Panhellenic Council.
The Panhellenic council will
have their Conuusker pictures
taken at noon today in the Cam
pus studio.
4-H Club.
The University 4-H club will
take Cornhusker group picture at
5 p. m. today in the Campus stu
dio. Lutherans.
Lutheran students will meet lor
regular Bible study With Rev. H.
Erck, Wednesday, Oct. 18. from
7 to 8 p. m. in room 203, Temple
building.
Corn Cobs.
Corn Cobs will hold a regular
meeting in room 101 'of Social
Science hall Wednesday night. AU
members are requested to be present.
wear and actually remains on the doVk.B rfpreSenting faith, hope, J
nails for two weeks at a time. Oi ljce tharityi and u.isdom will
course, you'll use only an oily tallec, thi8 month in the He
polish
stein.
remover. Helena Ruben-
The personal papers of the late
Dr. Henry Van Dyke, author,
clergyman, diplomat, and educator,
who died in 1933, have been pre
sented by his literary executors to
the Princeton university library.
Prodigies usually compensate
for their genius in some manner.
A 12 year old mathematic wiz
ard at'the University of Louvain,
in Belgium, concentrated bo much
on his special abilities that he had
the mind of a 5 year old child in
other respects. Professor Arthur
Fauville of the .university states
that after special training, thi
boy improved greatly, his IQ in
creasing from 55 to 77 within 15
months.
Some students at Louisiana
State university get the air for $5
an hour. They are member of the
aviation class who fly the com
munity plane, a Fairchield three
plane cabin type equipped with the
latest eaiety devices.
Five pairs of stained glass win-
us-
be
installed this month in the Heinz
Memorial chapel at the University
of Pittsburgh.
Jason Bernie, son of the "ol'
maestro," is a freshman at Rutgers
university; he is pledged to the
Phi Epsilon Pi fraternity. ff
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