PAGE TWO THE DAILY NEBRASKAN, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1937 Are Dumb. The Daily Nebraskan Entered as second-cms! mntler at the postofflce In Lincoln, Nebraska, under act of cotiKr'SR, March a, 1879, and at a special rate of pslan provided for In section UU3, act of October 3. 1917, authorized January 20, I'i'S-. Five huiulml publication workers from 150 different colleges in 35 states attended the college press convention in Chieiino over the week end. Xebniskn sent two deleirateri from each of its major publications, the Cornhusker and the Nebraskan. Neither publication aroused the envy of representatives of the leading 6chools of the country that was universally ac corded to Hiff Jones' victors in the Minnesota battle. But both publications were well thought of by both student nnd faculty .journalistic moguls, the Cornhusker being virtually a magic word in yearbook circles. The Associated Collegiate Press mana gers and others in charge of the convention deserve an orchid. The tone of the whole was high. Round table meetings dealt with specific and practical problems in college publications. The effort to direct idealism and instill realism in the general meetings was effective. The old stomach upsetting cries of "You are the leaders of tomorrow," "The future rests with you" were displaced by "You can do something if you wake up and think." College Students 2: mentator for Sat urday Evening Tost and Time, laughed at his own lack of knowledge of the international situation as a college editor before the World war. He hinted that his predecessors in the college editorial chairs in this day of international turmoil might also laugh at their own ignorance and that of their fellow students and then do something about it. In fact, Mr. Close considered the intelli gence of college students on world affairs a definite joke, tragic in the extreme. The point of his address was that America needs an adult attitude on the place of this coun try in the world today. Salient aspects of this attitude in respect to the far east would be : Recognition by Americans that the Mon roe doctrine never did and never will be applicable to this part of the world; the U. S. has always pursued a non-Machievellian ethic toward China, and Japan's might makes right policy interferes with our idealism ; we have trade and missionary interests in China .that cannot be violated with impunity; Ja pan has a superiority complex ; she feels that she has the blood of the Son of God in the veins of her people and a superior civiliza tion to perpetrate upon the world ; the best time to put a damper on Japan is now. rViuIrl T'mt- The social life of the e Could Iry convent5on WBS en. The Biff Apple, lightening in two re O II spects. University students are not above throwing bottles from 10, 20, o0 story heights, to the crowded thoro fare of Michigan ave. Other schools of the na tion have pretty generally accepted the Big Apple dance as a main feature of their parties. Convention goers took prolonged delight in this frolicky combination of ring-around-the-rosy and trucking. The dance retires a "call er" as of the old square dance days. Partici pants form in a circle and galavant rhythmi cally to the center, back, nnd to the right and left, interspersing their antics with shimmies, Indian calls, playing sailor, etc. The Big Ap ple is a wholesome departure from the grim faced, moony cheek to cheek ballroom dancing which Nebraska still adheres to. In one of the advertising talktests the speaker suggested that a certain possible nd vertLing campaign that could be sold to pa trons would be one to the public utilities. The purpose of the campaign would be to indoctri nate the college populace with propaganda against government ownership of public utili ties and thus save private investments. Before such a suggestion bears fruit and the utilities pay for space to tell their story, a story which has merits to be sure, it might be well to nip indoctrination in the bud. College provides an occasion for getting n fair view of both sides of a question. t may be remembered with prof't that the utilities will tell onlv one side. I t. Howard Vincent O'Brien. editorial director rf flip Is Ot tree. -hi,,!1K0 Daily News, spoke on freedom of the press. According to his lights the press is not free. It is not dominated by big business because it is big business. He minimized distortion and suppression of news because of pressure brought to bear by advertisers. But he em- ri-i ine rress phasized the curtailment of news effected by the ever present fear of treading on religious, racial, and sometimes industrial tender spots. O'Brien claimed in his, the wittiest and most significant, speech of the convention, that the next step on the part of the government will be to require newspaper editors not only to publish how much stock they own in their own enterprise but how much they own in other businesses. O'Brien concluded his address and the con vention by advising that the press is coming more and more to be a mirror insteud of a mo tor. It reflects the people. It has very little power. The reader is the man who really runs the show. When he pitches his taste on a higher level, newspapers will. Commsmt Faculty Psychology. From Bunday's Omaha World-Herald. Eldon Mcllravy, the valiant Husker full back who fell in the battle of Minnesota, is much improved after an operation. A new re port quotes Lincoln surgeons as saying he had suffered from a blood clot that "was pressing the left side brain center which controls the faculty of memory." Maybe the Lincoln surgeons know some thing the rest of the world doesn't. If so, they ought not to hold out on us. The phrenologists are convinced that spe cific faculties such as memory are localized in the brain, so that head bumps give an index to their capacities, but science has never been able to discover any such localization. There have been cases where large parts of the brain were injured without impairing memory; other cases where different parts of it were injured, again without impairing memory. In short, there is no evidence that specific faculties are operated by a specific portion of the brain. If the Lincoln surgeons have evidence to the contrary, a great many psychologists will be intensely interested. Seniors, Can You Read and Write? (From PrenKlrnt HutrhhV pe:h an relntpf rattan of nnlveril IIpi at hlrato'a annual truitecs' dinner fin the faculty of the I nlverilty of Ihlraafl.) My way of achieving the integration we are seeking can be stated in terms that are so simple as to be almost laughable. I propose that all bachelors of arts be bachelors of arts and all our doctors of philosophy doctors of philosophy. But perhaps the suggestion is not so simple as it looks. What should a bachelor be? First, he should have mastered the arts and reading and writing and should have em ployed them in understanding the intellectual tradition in which he lives and which he must understand in order to understand his environ ment. Second, he should have cultivated criti cal tastes in literature, music and the plastic arts, ily preference is for having him show these accomplishments by speaking or writing well about individual works rather than about their history, the domestic relations of their authors, or the economic conditions under which their authors lived. Third, the bachelor of arts must be a bachelor of science as well, in the sense that he must know the princinles and basic facts of natural science, of social science, ana or History. Ihis proposal may sound to you as tho there were nothing new in it at all. How radi cal it is I can perhaps indicate bv savinir that in my opinion bachelors of arts are in no sense competent in the arts of reading and writing they are lacking in aesthetic cultivations; and they are chaotically educated in the sciences ana in history. Hatching Can't Mean Nebraska. Urom rretlitent Hntrhln'i apce-k M Mntt.raU- ( .iv.r.l .L T iniraaoe annual tr.tm- !,, fr lke fM,i a( he lnlK-r.lt, ! him.. To put it on the lowest level, if the univer- smes are to continue to receive. . . support mey must present to the public a more intelli- gent picture than they can show todav. Because the educational system has dis integrated, our population, in spite of the most il n li.n f a ,.. w. 1 C ZMaI - .1 , m , -..,. ..uic vuuo.uii'Nin i.icuiues in me world, is getting more ignorant every day. I sometimes think that it is only their ignorance that saves us irom their wrath. They don't know enough to know how ignorant we have mad them Km they are not yet so ignorant as not to rucks that something ii wronp somewhere. Nobody can go thru the educational system without feeling sharply or vaguely that it is defective in some way. Public efforts at criticism have so iar taken the farcical form of senatorial in esugauons and teachers' oath laws. But we cannot reiy indefinitely on the stupidity of our people. It might be better to get ourselves squared around to meet any attack with a clea conscience. by Merrill Englund We were in a class the other day. In itself, this is an event, but what happened there was of real importance. The professor read some choice excerpts from a paper written by one of the students, and complimented the paper as being very gooa, indeed. The papers were returned, and the reader had given that in dividual a "C" on his paper. It started us wondering. How do the students feel toward the reader- system of paper correcting? Do they mind going to a class under one master and then having their papers corrected and their aver ages determined by another? we re not trying to replace a system that is irreplacable in this school; we realize that it is the best possible idea under the exist ing circumstances. We just wanted to see what the students think of it. NEW, ENLARGED BLUEPRINT ISSUE APPEARS TODAY (Continued from rage 1.) constantly lnrrraaing number of modern engineering miracles. Great faetorlia have lrrjnie sym bols of progress, skysrrupers tie depicted at rustics of the air, giant machinery la pictured as a robot In man's han'ls, nd transport J'luries are magic carpets. "The Limitations of Kngtneer Writers" are disrupted by R. W. fang, editor of the Bell System Technical Journal, who states that there is a growing need for en gineers to be able to deliver high grade interpretative writing. Qual ities needed acconhne to Mr. King are clear analysis, logical ex position, reaxonHble accuracy, and a certain attainment of style and vocabulary. He states that no pro fession Is likely to make more di verse demands upon one's literary faculty than engineering. There are the usual business letters end condensed memoranda for the in formation rf executives, technical reports written either for file or publication, and Interpretative writing for the information of the general public. Every Solution an Essay. Mr. King suggests as an answer t the problem that the study of English be taken for granted in engineering curriculi by incorpor ating it In the daily routine. That Is, let every report be gauged as a theme as well as the solution of an enginering problem with gen eral discouragement of hastily and loveni'ly written work as being as undeserving as though It were de faced with errors of science or computation. "Two full pages of the current Blue Print are devoted to pictures of the Morns dam, named for Ne braska's Senator George W. Nor ris, and part of the federal TVA program. General Training Necessary. In his monthly corner, Dean O. J. Ferguson speaks of "Engineer ing Education." He discusses the Importance of giving engineering students not only the technical training which they of course must have, but also quite a liberal con tent. That the latter is highly useful is shown by the number of engineering graduates who become city managers, financial advisers or investment bankers, and direc tors of sales, and Similar officials. Dean Ferguson does not believe that technological advancement Is responsible for any permanent un employment, because where cer tain jobs disappear because of it, many more in number appear. Other regular features of past Blue Prints are being continued this year, such as Englnews, fac ulty notes, and Sledges, Jr. Gen eral manager of the publication is Harry Langston, Gerald K. Glllan is editor, and Jay L. King Is busi ness manager. Prof. M. I. Evlnger is faculty adviser. FIVE ENGINEERING DIVISIONS RECEIVE NATIONAL CREDIT (Continued from Page 1.) the fact that the committee is not entrely of the opinion that agrl cultural engineering should be a distinct department. In spite of approving most of the agricultural engineering curricula of the lead' ing schools, Including the course here, this phase of the question will be further studied during the next two years. It is felt that In general the courses offered In the lourm year of agricultural engi neerlng do not build upon the Dre vious under graduate work In the way mat It ahnnl.i Guarantee Standard Instruction Purpose of the nation -wide fur rlcula examination hy the council is to guarantee to the engineering iroieaaion ana to the students throughout the country standard nq qualified engineering tnstiuo won in an or me leading schools i ne engineering college at the unl versitv waa evamlnari thla anHixr the program actually beginning In w iew tngiana states tn 1933. inis was essentially a nation wide examination of engineering- curricula by engineers themselves, and It will undoubtedly have the same validity as the examination of all the medical schools by the American Medical association and of the law schools by the Ameri can Bar association. Three hundred blurry-eyed, un der-slept Ohio State freshme congregated in the man's gym naslum upon a Wednesday morn lng and waited. They waited half an hour for the rest of their class to arrive for freshman convoca tion. Then one of them looked at his program card to find the meeting scheduled for 8 p. m, not o a. m. Our Rental Department Features SAFETY-RENT-A-CARS Reasonable prices. Atwayi pen. Fords, Chevs, Willys. MOTOR OUT COMPANY BOSH 1120 P It Y.W. Finance Workers To Make Final Report All workers In the Y. W. C. A. Finance Drive are asked to re port at Ellen Smith hall this afternoon at 5 o'clock to turn in the remaining money from the membership drive and a final check will be made on new members. All girls must be present. ed, and so he is incompetent to judge the papers. "When a professor presents a subject, he gives you his ideas, when you write a test, you reflect his ideas. Along comes a reader with his own theory concerning the matter, and there goes your grade." Helen Proctor, Teachers College Sophomore: "I personally like the Instructor to do it. The reader doesn't con duct the classes, it's the professor. No matter how familiar the reader may be with the subject, I don't feel that he is competent to pass on the completeness of reviews of another man s lectures, which, he didn't even hear." The question: "Would you rath er have your papers graded by your instructor or by a reader? Why?" Betty Hill, Arts and Sciences Sen ior: "I'd rather have my papers read by the professor. He is familiar ith the material covered in calss, and he knows what the paper should contain. The reader doesn't he doesn't know a thing about the way the subject has been pre sented in class. Tom Panting, Arts and Science Junior: "I know of too many readers ho discriminate in cases of fra ternity brothers and friends. Their grades are supposed to run ac cording to percentages, so they correct their brothers' papers first, thus allowing them freedom to grade them as high as they please. The remainder, then, must round out the average, so they are all relatively lower marks. The average" system, a fault in it self, would also be avoided were the instructor to do his own grad ing. Not that have any gripe, un derstand, this is just for the gen eral good." Georgene Stuve, Ag College sen ior: "The Instructor. He has a much closer contact with the student. He therefore makes allowances for effort, and even if the word-for-word answer of the text is not on a paper, he sort of reads between the lines, and tempers tne grade by his observation of the student in class. The reader is impersonal he knows nothing of you all he does mark down a grade. 'It is Impractical to think that the instructors could correct their own papers, tho, the classes are Just too large." Russell Carter, Arts and Sciences Freshman: "It makes, no differences to me who corrects my papers I guess those readers can do as good a job as an instructor." Lorraine Grant, Arts and Sciences Sophomore: "I would much rather have the Instructor concentrate all of his time on his lectures, letting the reader grade the papers. The reallv good professors present wonderful lectures that really go deep into the subject which you're studying. Let them all spend their time on their lectures, rather than sitting up half the night reading papers. In that way, the students would get much more out of the course. "Then, the readers are free prar- ttcally anytime you can see them for conference at almost any hour of the dav. The professors, how ever, are rarely ever free except for an hour or two." Msrjorie Dirks, Arts and Sciences Junior; "I would rather have the pro fessor correct all his own papers. When you're taking a test, you have some idea of what the pro fessor means by his questions, but you have no idea of what the read er wants. "When the papers are returned, the instructor can't explain the correction marks put on them by the readers. If the professor grad ed his own papers, you would a, least have some idea of what was wanted." O. E. Lewis, Teachers College Sen lor: "If a reader Is to grade papers. he should attend the meetings of that class. Often n Instructor doesn't assign a certain topic at all; then, when a test Is given, the reader, knowing nothing of the omission, corrects the papers as tho thst psrt hsd been included, "I don't feel thst you csn ex pect each instructor to resd his own papers, but I do think that he should require that his reader at least now his method cf presen tation and the subject-matter which he has covered." Raymond Peterson, Arts and Scl ences Freshman: "I'd rather have the Instructor correct my papers I feel that I'd get a little better grades. "The reader doesn't know how a subject has been presented, and the points which have been stress FAMED ENGINEER TALKS ON FUTURE OF FIELD TODAY (Continued from Page 1.) He was the principal engineer of the Trans-Alaskan Siberian rail road engineered in 1907. - In his earlier yars, Dr. Waddcll was connected with the faculties of several universities, among them the Renssealer Polytechnic Institute and the Imerial Univer sity of Japan. He has also been a consulting engineer in Kansas City and other large centers before go ing to New York City where he is now a partner of the engineer ing firm, Waddell and Hardesty. Built Local Bridges. Locally, Dr. Waddell is well known as the builder of the Sioux City-Missouri river bridge, as chief engineer for the Omaha Bridge and Terminal company where he de signed the double track railroad and highway bridge across the Missouri in 1893, and other bridges over the river at Jefferson City and St. Charles, Mo. He Is also internationally known for his extensive researches in the use of nickel steel for bridge con struction. As a result of this study, bridge in New York City, the Free three large bridges, the Manhattan bridge at St Louis, and the Que bec k bridge were constructed of metal suggested by Dr. Waddell. Since Dr. Waddell was in Oma ha on business, he was pleased to come here and talk to the students. He will also give this same speech at a later date to the engineering studenta at the University of Il linois. In 1911 the University of Ne braska presented him with an hon orary doctor of engineering de gree. Also on this occasion the me chanical engineering building was officially dedicated and speaker was present for the ceremony. At mis time he showed his interest in the university by presenting i,uoo as a fund to helD needv engineering students acquire an education. Since then this principal nas increased mrough interest ac cumulation to J2,000. In spite of the title, "Conversa tion At Midnight," which is rem iniscent of her well known: "What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why, . I have forgotten, and what arms have lain Under my head till morning; but the rain Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh Upon the glass and listen for a reply, And in my heart there stirs a quiet pain For unremembered lads that not again Will turn to me at midnight with a cry," Edna St. Vincent Millay's latest book of poetry has nothing in it of the writings of female emotional ism. Not only is it completely ob jective, but all of the characters are masculine. As may be expected of a poem that is objective rather than subjective, Miss Millay has turned from the medium of purely lyric poetry to that which is es sentially dramatic. "Conversation At Midnight" i3 written in dialogue form and is divided into four parts, or scenes, that indicate progres sion of time and change of topic. Man's Mind Wanders. Seven men, all friends, are gath ered in the luxurious New York apartment of one of them, smok ing, drinking, talking. The discus sion ranges from the training of hunting dogs to the subject of war, including racing, love, mechanical noises, politics, women, religion, advertising, economics; but it al ways comes back to the question of man and his ultimate destiny, All of the men except Lucas are middle-aged. Mcrton is a stock broker, votes republican, and ad mires pre-twentieth century po etry; John is a painter and is by sympathy a democrat; Pygmalion, whose comments are gay, satiric, and verging on the risque, is a short-story writer and never both ers to vote; Carl is a poet and a communist: Anselmo is a Roman Catholic priest, a musician, and a mystic; Ricardo, at whose apart ment the conversation takes place, is a connoisseur of the aits who makes a living a fine art; Lucas, tall, blond, and possessed of beau tiful clear grey eyes and dark lashes, is hardboiled, idealistic, and unhappy over a recent love affair." All Modern Americans. The point of view, the language, and the manner of expression of each is colored bv tho character istic bias of his particular belief, yet each distinctly expresses the point of view of a 1937 American. Carl is a communist and he has known poverty, but he is not rude, untoutored member of the proletariat; he has attended llarv ard, he hunts grouse with Morton, plays tennis with Lucas, and is something of a critic of music and painting. Anselmo Is a priest and a mystic, but he enjoys RicarJo's I u'tno flnH la a rnncrAnial i ....... ,w w..e,w.,,ul iiieuiuer of this sophisticated group. All are the products of today's American scene with Its publio schools and its mechanized scheme of living, yet mentally and spirit. uauy eacn represents a separate thought, or school, or movement, present in today's publio opinion Miss Millay has given us a cross section of the philosophy of Amer- lea and she has done so drama tically and realistically. Tne Question. She takes no sides; no one win the argument; each in his own way is as strong as the other. That is, with the exception of Lucas. Ho is the only young man therefore, one expect3 contrast with the older men, and one finds it. Lucas is not handsome but is beautiful; he is idealistic and hardboiled; and tie is colorless and futile. His artru- ments show a muddled mind. He is more in sympathy with each argu ment put forth by the other six men than any of the others could possibly be. His own arguments give evidence of a blurred perspec tive. Mentally and emotionally he seems capable of being any of the other six, but he is not; he is a combination of them. Is this the contrast that Miss Millay wishes to present? Is she saying that American youth, as a result of promiscuous traffic with every known variety of the world's thought, is incapable of decision, of choice, of a personal credo? Is she saying that mentally and spirit ually American youth is burning the candle at both ends, as she one said it was doing physically? Is this a comment, one wonders, which Miss Milley wishes to be a part of her fine dissection of American thought? Si HARM AC Y STUDENTS SWALLOW 802 TABLETS FOR DIET STUDY '(Continued from Page 1.) "There appeared to be an In crease in the length of time tab lets would remain In the stomach as the day progresses," he said. inis no doubt was due In part o fatigue. Diets of carbohydrates or cellulose were conducive to more rapid passing of the tablets from the stomach. Fat diets were the least efficient, while one of cellulose containing a hith content of bran caused the ereatest dia- Integration of tablets in the stom ach. Our experiments Indicate that the best type of diet to insure rapid passage of the tablets from the stomach would be a mixture of carbohydrates and cellulose." The university phsrmacist found that the quantity of food con sumed had no apparent affect on the time the tablets remained In the stomach. In the case of the students who were given a meal weighing 19.5 grams, the pills were passed from their stomachs in seven hours, while It required six hours for the tablets to pass irom me siomaciis or students who had eaten 608 grams of food. Reactions Varied. Individual variation was a factor of considerable importance. It was found that the same persons did not react the same on different days with the respect to the pass- ng or tne unlets, alt ho given Identical diets, In his most recent paper on pill coatings, Prof, Bukey was assisted by MUs Mariorie Brew who received her master's degree from the department of pharmacy. Coed Counselor Tap Dance Group to Meet In Grant Hall Tonight Members of the tsp dancing hobby group, sponsored by coed counselors, will meet for the first time tonight at Grant Memorial letween 7 and 8 p. m. Theda Cha poton will direct the group which will be divided for beginners and advanced dancers. Anyone who is Interested in learning to tap or continuing their work is welcome to attend. it Tlnira Tufid, 'North of lhr , (irJ Pl'u "Hornm" ana Wntnrndar ,. Flvnn CHARGE of the LIGHT BRIGADE" u ntirj in- A.k'i 1or It" nm. f,ir. The only male enrolled in tha home economics course at Purdue university must wear a bright pink powaer-putr sewed to tho top of his freshman cap. He wants to become a dietitian. Novv Showing 1 1 ml SUN Mat. loe Eva. 15c HYTHM, HERE WE COME! MKrt MMTKI 1 mkim Htm i 1 FRED ASTAIRZ GIMGft OGEBJ r1 . . . PLUS . . . Step Lively Jeeves PATRICIA ELLIS ARTHUR TREACHER NOW! , rial HOW FAR W ul. HOW! "You Can't Have Everything" ilh RIT7. HHurilKKK Allra f lua AiiM-che Starting Friday! Tht GAYEST . . . SMARTEST . . . Crandatt Entertainment in Week I "WIFE, DOCTOR and NURSE" with LORRETTA YOUNG WARNER BAXTER VIRGINIA BRUCE -Ximoln- GO FOR Muctw- . See SrrrenA'""' C'-Y jKomiinlic it finnN-er ! 'THE BRIDE YJORE RED" with Joan Crawford Franchof lone Robert Young Billle Burl" Reginald Ow' EXTRA I EXTRA I 'NANKING BOMBING' M, UiArA Their Mr lit bririH ",7",.-.Sn..li.-' o " MORE Ror,.rt Bencnleyln ,unw TO START THE DAT M,r.v Mou..-Don.ld O-CK "CLOCK CLEANERS WATCH FOR THESE TWO EVENTSI Hut from the South! BIG APPLE dance craze! Get ready for bushels of fun Sat. at midnight! One nf the lUg Mu'imli of 1V37 Blng Crotby Martha Raye In 'DOUBLE or NOTHING' with Mary Carlisle Andy Devlna Banny Baker Fraternity and Sorority Sections Townsend Studio Please co-operate by having Cornhusker photographs taken immediately to avoid t last minute rush. Start! Thursday! Stage Shout are Ixuh a with us bif hit la open the new ivaton'.l Enda Wedneidayl "LIFE OF THE PARTY" iv I'Miner lima Raymond llarrlrt Milliard "MAN WHO CRIED WOLF" IN PEE3GQN. f 2itUt FROM THE I PARADISE OF THE PACIFIC! 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