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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN, FK1DAY. JANUARY 7, 1938
THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
THIKTY-SEVENTII YEAR
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LOI AN1ILI rORTUAHO ATTkl
Mr. Fling,
Your University!
Wentworlh. my friend, 1 see by the paper
t7nt you're leaving your beloved alma mater.
Since that fine course in second year French
stuttered thru under you, I've imagined you
as a man who would po ahead and do things.
Besides a Utile more than an over-seas soldier's
comprehension of French, T still remember
some of the interestinp digressions on the
effect the scientific study of phonetics is hav
intr on t ho history of the language. Anyway
that was an interesting and stimulating class.
And 1 am glad you're going up in the pro
fession. Hut Mr. Fling, speaking both yours and
my official capacities, how could you have
been persuaded to leave your position at Ne
braska? If you will turn to-the Inquiring
Reporter column for today you will find a
number of reasons why your decision seems
unwise. It is true that you have the prece
dent, of a lot of other vigorous young men
to follow in leaving Nebraska. Messrs. Donne
and Stoke and Hicks and many others have
gone out info the world to win reputations,
which, of course, they expect to bring back
to Nebraska for her glory and good name.
There are reasons, however, besides the
salient facts in the Inquiring Reporter col
umn why you, Mr. Fling, should not leave
Nebraska. Your teaching quarters were in
the traditional educational atmosphere of
the oldest building on the campus, University
hall. How, Mr. Fling, can you trade your
exciting life in Ye Ole Halle, paragon of
architectural perfection and beauty, for a
job in an endowed eastern school? What
has Hamilton college in New York to offer
to compensate you for the loss of your as
sociation with numerous giant cockroaches?
Your blood will stagnate without the
stimulation of dodging falling bricks and
mortar as you enter your building daily.
You will miss interesting curves in the paint
less and warped woodwork, to say nothing
of the great rolls in the linoleum, and the
homey melodies of the creaking floors. And
too, you will probably develop a number of
foolish hobbies minus the inordinate Ne
braska teaching burden and plus the extra
time you will have when the wind never
comes thru the cracks and blows your papers
helter-skelter several' times a day. And if
you leave now, you'll miss the fun when
the building caves in.
Think about these things, Mr. Fling,
and reconsider!
Most significant reply in the Inquiring
Reporter column today is the last, one, con
demning the policy of no bonded indebted
ness maintained by the state of Nebraska.
The state is advertising Nebraska as the white
spot on the map of the country, free from
excessive taxation. The argument of the ad
vertisements may be sound, but. the fact that
Nebraska's taxes are low is reflected unfavor
ably here at the universily. H is true that
economy has been at the expense of youth.
Incidentally, the "no bonded indebted
ness" policy of Nebraska netted particularly
dire results in the matter of the recent federal
financing thru the YW'X and AVTA. The
state's failure to match federal funds for
buildings was a contribution to the 47 stales
that did, which Nebraska could not afford to
make. Other state universities got three and
four buildings, financed jointly by federal and
state funds. Nebraska needs buildings.
The one charge in Mr. Englund's In
quiring Reporter which is probably least
well founded is the one pertaining to a
poorly planned curriculum. Since several
of the colleges have recently reorganized
their curriculums, and that of the whole
university is kept under competent surveil
ance, the objections tendered in the Inquir
ing Reporter are most likely little more than
personal difficulties with the system.
Concerning the charge of poor adminis
tration as well as something of the reason for
poor support of the university by the legisla
ture, Paid T. lv bson speaking at the June
1937 alumni roundup, offered some good sug
gestions. "This criticism of administrative leader
ship," said Mr. Rabson after his statement
that the middle west lagged behind the east
in administrative leadership, is not personal,
but a criticism of a system that makes it neces
sary for a chancellor to devote more lime to
politicians than to students."
Mr. Rabson went to the heart of the
matter when he laid the fault for the school's
lack of support at the feet of the alumni, whom
he charged with failure to attend reunion
meetings, to boost the university with legis
lators, and to make donations to the school.
"I believe that a loyal body of alumni is
essential to the good of the university," he
declared, "and that such a body can be
developed if the authorities set out to do it."
Stepr
Innes Prefers 'Goose
v to Goose Flesh
In China
....In yesterday's Daily Nebraskan an article
appeared in which some worthy Montana muse
and liberal was getting quite uneasy about
bis inability to make up bis mind concern
ing the Chinese situation. Finally, however,
lie simmered it down to: "The liberal must
choose between a hemic, gloriously foolish
idealism and a sordid ami ugly, but very
practical idealism." His conclusion sounded
something like a young girl trying to decider
v nether she should marry for money or love.
His assumption is that if we don't dedicate
ourselves to the business of ducking Japanese
bullets in a gloriously foolish idealistic way,
we shall all be doing the goose step in double
quick time.
Now, personally, I am an idealist; in fact,
a gloriously foolish idealist I even believe
in the limitation of human offspring, but when
I find myself on the verge of offering my old
Kentucky blood in defense of Chinese rights,
including their rich, mellow culture one hears
so much about, I just go to a news reel show
ing the conflict, and somehow I become less
war like.
Despite the close up shots of the Amer
ican flag flying on a sinking gun boat, ac
companied by Gabriel Heatter's insinuations
&nd the stirring background music, my red,
white and blue emotions are curiously ab
sent. All around me, however, thoughtful,
patriotic liberals are shouting and display-
by
Merrill
England
f V,
Catechism of Gripes
The net gains of this university
during the year 1937 may be sum
marised by the various ratings she
received. Ranking 16th In size
among the universities of the
United States, her football team
rated the 14th spot on the na
tional grid roster, and scholastic
ally she ranked In the upper tenth,
but what else did she gain?
It might be a little strong to
say "nothing;" but what Is there
about this institution of higher
learning that gives rise to the oft
repeated definition, outside the ter
ritorial boundaries of this state,
which says: "Nebraska Is the state
with Miss Louise Pound, the capi
tal, and the football team."
Facing the problem frankly, and
one cannot say that there is no
problem, we see that there must
be something definitely wrong
with the University of Nebraska,
we must lack some things neces
sary for the makeup of a truly
great school. These student
opinions are not offered as vitri
olic would be witticisms; they
were made by students who have
an active interest In their university.
From the student angle, the
faults of the university are four
fold:
1. Poor equipment, out of
date phyiical plant, outgrown
buildings.
2. Inadequate teaching staff
of questionable administrative
ability in places. An easy going
executive department.
3. A poorly planned curricu
lum. 4. Insufficnent fundi for
keeping in step with education.
These are directly traceable
to: The attitude of the people
of the state. At it is symbol
ized by: The unicameral legis
lature. J
ing considerable animosity toward the Japa
nese. All I can do is sit there and wonder
at the Jaj facility for removing Chinamen
from the landscape without having had the
misfortune to have removed a few nationals
before this late in the game. A little later,
tho, my wrath was thoroughly aroused as a
newsreel shot showed an old Chinese woman
crying as she tried to wish her dead hus
band back to life ; that is, I was mad after I
discovered that the Nipponese were respons
ible, and he hadn't starved to death after
all in the fashionable manner of their rich,
mellow culture. I cooled down a bit, when
I observed the Chinese giving the Jap
soldiers a hearty welcome to their city.
Here I sat righteously indignant and the
Chinese seemed to enjoy the idea maybe
they like a parade.
Rut we liberals must stick together, ns
always. Last year we identified ourselves
with the rich, mellow culture, or was it just
votten culture of the Ethiopians: this year we
feel the Chinaman is a fellow liberal in need
of our moral aid. It appears that the next
logical chromatic step will be to sympathize
with white people somewhere, but not those
unfortupate white people in America, of course
that wouldn't be heroic, and gloriously fool
ish ; besides, only a damned realist would
notice that thousands of American children
are undernourished. Rut we don't owe them
a thing, because we know their parents have
dirty communistic tendencies, ns they are al
ways wishing for something to happen, in
order that Ihey may buy their children warmer
clothes. Even so, we liberals may give those
people something to do. We may herd them
off to defend the Chinaman's rights, and our
fight slogan will be "Make the World A
Cleaner Place to Live In every Chinaman
You Save May Open a Laundry."
Arts and Sciences senior:
"I find fault with the saintly
attitude of the deans. We college
students aren"t exactly angels, but
neither are we as immoral as
we're cracked up to be. We ob
ject to being told that we must
go to bed at such and such an
hour, and that we may smoke just
so many cigarettes a day."
Bizad junior:
"This is a hell of a campus. If
you traveled all over the United
States and made a survey of col
lege campuses, I doubt if you
could find one in the country
where buildings are in such rotten
shape. I want to be proud of my
school, and who can point with
pride at this collection of con
demned shacks?
Arts and Sciences Junior:
"We lack professors -I mean
real ones. The poor pay given to
professors here makes this uni
versity just a proving ground for
profs. As soon as an instructor
gets to be good, ie is snapped up
by some school which pays its
men salaries, unless he has either
a personal fortune or an overdose
of love for Nebraska. So most of
our profs are just cold potatoes,
left overs- if they could get a
better job they'd take it, but they
can't, so the students are stuck."
Arts and Sciences senior:
"In certain respects, the cur
ricula is all wrong. For example,
why should a pre-legal student
just because he is registered in a
certain college be forced to take
chemistry and a lot of other
courses which will he entirely use
less to him in his work? He is
merely wasting his time and his
money. The same is tnie of the
pre-med student who, because of
the college in which he is regis
tered, must take such courses as
biz org.
"Courses should be correlated to
form a vocational background fo?
the profession. This can be done
without narrow specialization. The
pre-law student should be allowed
to get aa much history, political
science, journalism, Dnplish, eco
nomics, speech and such courses
a3 he can. His time is too short
to adequately cover all of them
anyway, so he shouldn't have to
go off on a tangent nnd fool
around with subjects like chem
istry." Art and Sciences senior:
"The trouble with the university
is that instead of going forward
with other educational Institutions
of its kind, It has just stayed
where it has been for the past
10 years and marked time. Com
parisons are odious but inevitable,
and when this school is placed be
side others, that fact is provon.
"Chicago, for example, with its
marvelous equipment, can't even
be compared with Nebraska. I'll
admit that equipment doesn't
necessarily make a fine school,
but it helps."
Arts and Sciences sophomore:
"In the good schools of this
country, students are offered the
opportunity to study under inter
national authorities on various
subjects. Their interest is stimu
lated by pride in their school, and
an impetus to work is given by the
fame of their instructor. We do
have two or three, but there ought
to be 20 or 30."
"There, the competition for posts
is terrific and instructors put
everything 'they have into their
work. The benefit goes to the
student."
Arts and Science junior:
"So many of the instructors,
some of the best ones in fact,
have unpleasant habits which
make it hard or even impossible
for a student to keep up in his
classes. For example talking too
fast for accurate note-taking, cov
ering material so slowly that it is
boring, failing to discuss important
topics, stressing trivialities, talk
ing as if the class weren't even
there, failing to speak loudly,
clearly, and distinctly, putting his
hand up in front of his face so
that students hear only a mumble
instead of words and a lot of
other things."
Arts and Sciences senior:
"Even if we do have some men
rather lacking in drive and initia
tive at the head of things, it's not
so much their fault as it is the
fault of the attitude of the state
in general.
"Maybe we're too proud of that
statement 'No bonded indebted
ness.' I think it would be just as
well to go a little into the hole
to give the young people a chance
to get an education. I read some
where that last year, this state
spent twice as much en relief cli
ents as it did on the university
and the normal schools. It seems
sort of funny to concentrate on the
! result and let the cause go. It isn't
J the trained and educated people
who are on relief and it does
seem that the state should be a
little less proud of its economies
at the expense of its youth,
"This is an agricultural state,
all riRht, but is that any reason
why we can't have brains and ed
ucation here?"
If that means anything to you.
The Song as She Is Sung.
A running account, as it were,
of the verse would read thus:
"Of all the girls I've known
and I've known some; until I first
met you I was lonesome; and
when you came in sight, dear, my
heart grew light and this old
world seemed new to me. You re
really swell, I have to admit it;
you deservo expressions that
really fit you, and so I've racked
my brain, hoping to explain all
the things you do to me:
"IW.l MIR BIST DU SCHON
"Please let me explain.
"B1CI MIR BIST DU SCHON
"Means that you're grand.
"HEI MIR BIST DU SCHON
"Again I'll explain,
"It means you're the fairest in
the land.
"I could say Bella Bella,
"Even say Voonderbar;
"Kach language only helps to
tell me
"How grand you are.
"I've tried to explain
"BEI MIR BIST DU SCHON
"So kiss me and say you understand."
AROUND AND ABOUT
(Continued from Page 1.)
are aware of the translated
meanings, we may lose our en
thusiasm sheepishly. As a
former "Vienl Vieni" fan putt
It, "You feel awfully silly when
you know you've been saying
'Come, come come'."
The almost magical appeal of
"Bei Mir Bist Du Schon" bears
close dissection little better than
the swingier "Vieni Vieni." Altho
the harmonies call forth glowing
eyes from the musicians, it is
supposed to be hard to sing. And
altho the lyrics seem part of its
fatal fascination, they are char
htierized by repetitious simplicity.
Sheet music for the pieces gives
forth this information:
"Original lyrics by Jacob Jac
obs."
"Music bv Sholom Secunda."
"English version by Cahn-Chap-
lin."
"Copyright by Harms, Inc., New
York."
"By arrangement with J. and J,
Kammen Music Co."
"Featured by Leo Forbstein."
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LIBERTY
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Martha Morrow, president of
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man A. W. S. meeting of the new
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at 5 o'clock in Ellen Smith hall.
Edith Knight gave a report on
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secretary. Miss Leonson will act
ns president of the next meeting
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