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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN, FRIDAY, JANUARY 7. 193
10 STiFI 1 V &..m mi-mJ
'Man On His Feet'
Finds Ciisors Avowed
To Come Out of It'
"Oh, so you won't stalk, huh?
This we said to ourselves today
as we decided we had drawn too
many of our own conclusions con
cerning the present, none-too-suc
cessful, copers. But when we did
rot out afoot to canvass the powers
Brownemen Set
Strenuous Pace
In Scrimmages
MURAL CAG
E
PLAY COMMENCES
Thomas Remains on First
Squad; Ebaugh Better
in Basket Play.
Coach W. H. Browne drove his
In the know, the information we Husker basketball squad through
acquired was about as ample as two f the most strenuous scrim-
safety razors in George Bernard mages so :ar this year W ednesday
Shaw's toilet kit
For a couple of hours wc tra
versed the coliseum attempting to
pet the bucketeers to admit their
short comings, but they would not.
So we say to them, "Oh, so you
won't talk, huh?" Each player
Muck with his buddies as a fly to
fly paper as we fired the question,
"What was wrong with your win
ning power on the road trip?"
Bob Elliott promised that the
"bovs would come out of it all
right."
Bill Kovonda asserted that the
"bovs would come out of It all
right."
Turning to Frank Tallman we
received the opinion that "the
boys would come out of it all
right."
Varying the reply, Grant Thom-
es thought the "boys would come
out of it all right."
All in all, right down the squad
roster, the boys had convictions
1hat sounded like campaign prom
ises. Thoy didn't seem over-anxious
to discuss the past. Perhaps
that is best after all. We could
let bygones be foo.
However there were a few
things gained from our "man on
his feet" interview:
1. Colleges in the east seemed
to specialize more in basketball
than Nebraska. While there was
no definite proof as to such, the
Huskers sensed that many of
their opponents had been work
ing out far longer than they.
2. The foes were not especially
taller or better equipped phys
ically, but many of them did
have a bit smoother attacks.
Some cagers expressed it as Ne
braska "a team fighting like the
devil to win" and the eastern
quints as "teams that manue
vered without fighting."
3. The Brownemen have had
something lacking in their last
minute stands. No one can lay
a finger on the exact reason. It
isn't stamina lacking, said two
of the cagers, for other teams
play five men straight through.
"I kinda think we lack the fight
of the team last year," admitted
one. However he was quick on
his feats and added that he
thought "the boys would come
out of it all right."
4. Another bit, that was in the
way of confirmation, was that
the team has been pointing too
much for the conference throne
and not enough for the schedule
at large. Don't assume that the
quint is taking these Big Half
Dozen laurels for granted tho
for they emphasized the fact
that loop games are known for
th; Humpty Dumpty aspect,
' " ally in the cast of Ne-
i.
orrow should tell whether
1 carlets have learned a dear
lt;-ton from their whipping cn
route, we hope.
QonimpDhahif.
and Thursday afternoons whipping
them into shape for their game
with the California Bears tomor
row night in the coliseum.
The Huskers this week have
been smoothing out some of the
rough spots which were brought
out in the recent eastern strip that
netted hem only one win in three
starts. They won from Niagara
and lost to Bradley Tech and De
troit university. Speed has been
emphasized in daily drills.
The only change in the starting
five will be at one forward posi
tion. Grant Thomas, rapidly de
veloping sophomore, will replace
Bill Kovanda, a minor lctterman,
at that spot. Thomas started the
season at the forward position but
was crowded out by Kovanda after
the second game. Both have seen
a lot of action in the fi-st seven
games but Kovanda has the most
points to his credit and Is a good
performer on defense. Thomas,
however, showed up well In the
Niagara game, scoring nine points.
Improvement In Ebaugh.
Nebrnskans are pinning their
hopes for a clicking offense on
lanky center Floyd Ebaugh who
has been having trouble getting
under way this season. Ebaugh
showed gradual improvement over
the holidays and hit his stride
against the Niagara quintet, scor
ing 11 points.
The remaining three positions
will be held down by Paul Amen at
forward and Al Werner and Bob
Parsons, guards.
On Monday the Scarlet will
tangle with the University of Colo
rado Buffaloes in another non-con
ference tilt. Reports yesterday
were to the effect that Byron
"Whizzer" White, all American
football back and Rhodes scholar
will not be with the team when
they meet the Cornhuskors. White
is a regular on the Colorado cage
team but is taking a rest after the
Cotton bowl game before joining
his teammates.
E
Ralph Copenhaver to Lead
Activities Discussion
for Second Term.
First meeting of the newly or
ganized Game Leadership Hobby
group will be held tomorrow eve
ning at 6:50 o'clock in room 210
of Ag hall.
Ralph Copenhaver, assistant ex
tension recreation specialist, will
lead the discussion in planning ac
tivities of the group for the second
semester. Mr. Copenhaver, uni
versity extension sen-Ice repre
sentative, travels over the state,
lecturing to various clubs, organi
zations, and high school assem
blies, and has been secured by
special arrangements for this
meeting.
"Much genuine Interest has been
shown in the organization and
program of this hobby group,"
said Milton Gustafron, chairman
of the Creative Activities board.
Mr. Gustafson added that, "all in
terested should attend the first
meeting, so that all may partici
pate in outlining Its activities."
TRACK ATTRACTS GRIDDERS
Football Mcn . Conditioning
Under 'Pa' Schulte.
Many of the Nebraska football
ers are finding track an ideal way
to keep in condition until spring
practice begins. Charley Brock
keeps in the "pink" by throwing
the shot and running the hurdles.
Marv Plock, one of the fastest of
Coach "Biff" Jones' backs, is going
to help Coach Schulte by winning
points in the sprints and broad
jump. Bob Mills and Bill Pfieff arc
turning In the best performances
in me weignt events. Ken Shindo,
an end. Bob Burruss, a center, and
Hugo Hoffman, a junior backfield
candidate, all work out for condi
tion only.
AT TERM OPENING
W here Arc the Rhodes Scholars
of Yesteryear? Not in Politics, as
Donor Hoped, Uul "Getting Along'
Fraternities Urged to File
by Tonight for League
Competition.
Intramural basketball leagues
will commence tournament play
immediately after the start of the
office announced last night.
Houses are urged to file en
tries, if they plan on competing,
second semester, the intramural
by tonight. Team entries may be
made for cither one or both of A
and B classes.
Seventeen teams had turned in
entries up to ft o'clock last night.
Those fraternities entering and
league classes are:
Alpha Slitmii I'hl A lemtiif.
Alpha Tnu Omrfcii A mid H it-nicum.
Z"tft Hrli Tim A lil!Ui'.
M I'Kl I'hl A Ifhkiip.
Drlta I pillion A and B iPttRtirtt.
Ilolll Niitmil I'nl A krtullf.
I'hl Kuppa 1'nl A h'li Kl.
Nltima Nu A lind H lt-uKUPii.
Bi-1 Thrlti I'l A nnd I InnriH'.
I'hl nrltn Thrill A and B leilKUP.
Ararla A and K IfHguca.
h I'hl A l('iliitl
hlRlna (hi liMKllf.
lambda I'hl Alpha A b'Rifiir
Mnm Alpha bpallon A and H
It-nKllffi.
I'hi (tumniR IMIii A nnd R iPHKHrn.
Ii'lla Tnu Delia A and B h'aiium.
Cecil John Rhodes, the great
English exploiter of South Africa,
left some 60,000 pounds of annual
income which was to finance ca
reers at Oxford for picked stu
dents from the various British col-
I all examinations except those for
j the Final Honor schools at the end
I of his course.
"The education is there if he
j wants to get it, but Oxford is pro
i foundly indifferent to ahis choice.
The American student has spent
onies, from Germany, and from
the United Stales.
! four years under a compulsive
! system. He finds it extremely dif
! ficult to do things on his own in-
His purpose was to educate at itiative in a vastly different edu
Oxford the men who would be the ' cational set-up."
future leaders of their countries
and dominions, and thus to create
an international understanding
that would result ina union of
"superior peoples'' to manage the
universe.
Under the caption, "What Hap
pens to our Rhoades Scholars'.'",
Milton Mackaye, writing in the
current Srribner's magazine, says
that tlie one thing most obvious
at'let thirty-odd years is that the
scholarships in America have
failed to produce national political
leaders.
900 in United States.
Approximately nine hundred
former Rhodes scholars live in the
United States today. But accord
ing to Mackaye, "No member of
the cabinet has ever ben a Rhodes
scholar. No member of the senate
has ever beeen a Rhodes scholar.
One member of the present house
of representatives, C. R. Clason
of Massachusetts, is a Rhodes
scholar, hut, having been elected
Doing Reasonably Well.
Altho few of them are rich and
few of them are internationally fa
mous, statistics show that the boys
sent over to Oxford with their ex
penses paid have done reasonably
well for themselves.
Without doubt they have given
! a better accounting of their talent
j than an equa 1 number of men
I chosen at random from the alumni
; lists of Harvard or Yale. They pay
i their bills, they have substantial
reputations in their home cities,
and more than a hundred of them
are represented in "Who's Who."
According to figures compiled
by the American Association of
Rhodes Scholars as of 1937, of the
870 men who have returned from
Oxford, there are 289 teaching in
colleges or universities; 28 are en
gaged In college or university ad
ministrative posts; 178 are in law;
27 are in secondary schools; 124
are in business; 54 in government
service; 35 In journalism and
writing; 34 in medicine; 26 in the
ministry and associated fields; 22
in courses of study; 16 are re
search and commercial scientists;
11 are In the army and navy; 7
are engineers; 6 are in miscellane
ous activities, and 13 are un
known. Mackaye's conclusion: "Purely
in an academic sense, Oxford prob
ably offers no more than three
years spenti n one of the best
American colleges. But there are
advantages in spending that time
abroad; in the opportunity to
travel; in the detachment from the
American scene for a time. It's fun
and it's free."
The latest thing in winter night
wear for coeds is not sophisticated
satin and lace, but pajamas of out
ing flannel that have hoods and
feet attached. Woolly sunggle
puppies give the girls something to
snuggle up to on cold winter
nights.
Pretty cold outside
but our beautiful din
ing room li warm and
cozy. No fooling.
Come on out. The
White House.
i
League finals iif volleyball play ; as a Republican (as one of his con-
were run off last night. Scores
were turned in too late to be pub
lished today. Only one team was
sure of its league title before play
began last night, the Sig Eps in
League II.
Quarterfinals in the champion
ship play will be played next Tues
finals scheduled for next Thurs
day night, with semi-finals and
"Host lYrior
ment, "Thou shalt not commit
adultery," with 219 votes against
it. There were 201 votes cast in
opposition to the ninth command
ment, "Thou shalt not covet tny
neighbor's wife."
The fourth commandment,
"Thou shalt honor thy father and
thy mother," registered the lowest
number of negative votes.
These totals are more revealing
when they are transmuted into
percentages. The vote against the
first three was 21 percent of the
total; against the sixth, 14 per
cent; and against the ninth, 14
percent.
The results or tnu interesting
poll may indicate that the con
ception of American colleges as
anti-religious centers is more
popular than it is valid. The ma
jority of students, if the New
York university business school is
typical to any degree, still hold to
Christian tenets of life.
The Minnesota Daily
T
College Plans Work in Rural
Field If Congressional
Bill Is Passed.
Professional to Offer Weekly
Instruction to Club
Members.
Tucked away in a pigeon hole
somewhere in his desk, each dean
of a college on the campus has a
notation of a recommendation
from a representative group of
the student body asking that a
"breathing spell" be included in
the program of his school to allow
students a review neriod between
the last classes of the semester Blood or No?
and the beginning of final ex
aminations. None of the deans has
moved on the proposal as yet. Act
ing President Hermany B. Wells,
who inaugurated a similar plan
two years ago in the business
school when he was dean, has said
that the matter rests entirely in
the hands of the deans of the
various schools.
It is commendable that the
deans have not acted hastily in
accepting or rejecting the pro
posal, for hasty acts are often
bad ones. However, if the problem
that is troubling them Is a ques
tion of the practicability of the
plan, they need only consult the
faculty of the business scnooi.
There they will hear praise
aplenty fot the plan. The Indiana
Daily Student.
New York Students Vote
On Ten Commandments
A considerable portion of the
American public, if we are to
judge from the vigor of their
periodic protests, believes that the
average college student is a bit
gnofv and. or more or less an
atheist.
Some light on the atheistic be
liefs of American college students
was revealed recently by a ques
tionnaire given to 1,485 business
school students at New York uni
versity. These students were
asked, among other things, what
they thought of each of tne ten
commandments as a guide to life
in this century. They were askeS
to cart a vote against those com
mandments which they felt were
unsulted to modern conditions.
Greatest opposition was checked
up against the first three com
mandments, which, in sum, rcpre
sent the basis of faith In a single
deity. The average vote against
each of these was S14. Next ifl
disfavor came the sixth command'
There's been a lot of talk about
lowering the automobile accident
death rate during the last few
years, but not so much has been
done. The world toll continues to
rise.
The anti-accident drive at
Dartmouth has materialized in a
student safety campaign a non
drive period following an accident
involving a student in which there
is a death or injury.
Among other purposes it has
attempted to perpetuate the rec
ord of a year or so in which there
has been a minimum of serious
student accidents.
When compared to the still ris
ing world accident rate, we won
der if perhaps we s'dents may
really attribute our unscathed rcc
ord to careful driving. The nasty
thought that maybe it was just
luck keeps occuring to us per
haps it was just that none of us
happened to be behind the eight
ball when dcam vtsitea couege
drivers in the past year.
We hope that that's all wrong.
But even if it is, no one deserves
congratulations unless he thinks
he deserves them for having
avoided killing himself.
And if that's right then we can
Just sit tight snd wait until the
law of averages picks off a dor.en
of us in one year, to pay for a
couple of bloodless years.
Which is it to be?
The Dartmouth.
The University College of Engi
neering has in mind several far
reaching researches in such fields
as new ues of electric power,
cheaper home wiring with safety,
more economical distribution lines
and equipment in the rural field
as well as the development of
special apparatus for farm uses,
providing a proposal now before
congress, to give engineering col
leges of land-grant institutions
federal aid in the same proportion
that has been given agricultural
colleges during the years, is ap
proved. Dean O. J. Ferguson and
engineering officials in other
schools point out that the engi
neer does as much for the people
as me experimental agriculturist,
and with this in mind Nebraska is
joining with the other leading en
gineering colcges in preparing a
report outlining the major con
tributions that such engineering
experiment stations, government
supported, would make possible.
"Should we be provided with
adequate funds for operating each
year, our experiment station would
be more able to do work of ines
timable valcu to the state," says
Dean Ferguson in a letter to Dean
A. A. Potter of Purdue university
and Dean E. B. Norris of Virgiina
Polytechnic Institute, in support
of the present congressional pro
posal. "While it is true that some
work in rural electrification has
been undertaken under the direc
tion of Prof. E. E. Bracket, chair
man of the department of agricul
tural engineering, our funds have
been dependent entirely upon the
state appropriations, which means
that Nebraska has been largely
without the special sendees that
such a station might have been
abel to afford."
"An engineering experiment sta
tion operating the year around
could help the people of the state
by conducting tests of fuels and
lubricants, by doing research In
the efficiency of heating opera
tions and methods, by studying
Internal combustion engines to see
which are the most efficient, anfl
by carrying on work with centri
fugal pumps," states the Dean. "In
the matter of heating, we could
do much to show our citizens
economies in domestic fuel uses.
Our department of engineering
mechanics is already doing con
siderable work for the state high
way department in the study and
testing of materials for roads and
public buildings.
Experiment Station Needed.
"A, government supported ex
periment statioon could enlarge
this field of work to include re-
temporaries ohserved), he still up- i
holds Oxford's reputation as the !
home of lost causes.
Fw in Politics. 1
"A sprinkling of men have :
served in state legislatures, but on
the whole the political careers of
the Oxonians have not been ad
vanced much since the era when
j it was customary at the annual
i Rhodes dinner in New York to '
toast wryly the mayor of Hobokus, i
New Jersey as their one American
statesman.'' j
The fiiur qualities whirh Rhodes:
j listed in his will as things which
should be considered in choosing!
students were: (1) literary nnd
scholastic attainments. (2 fond-!
ness of, and success in manly out-1
door sports, (3i qualities of man
hood, truth, and courage, (4) ex-!
hihition during school days of
moral force of character and of j
"instincts to lead. . .for those lat-
ter attributes will be likely in
after life to guide him to esteem
the performance of public duties
as his highest aim."
Later, Rhodes is supposed to
have defined these attributed to
a friend as being smugness, bru-1
tality, unctuous rectitude, and
tact.
Ignorance of Donor.
According to Mackeye's in-1
terpretation. "this political ster
ility" was caused not so much hv
the inability ot the Rhodes schol
ars as hy the ignorance of the
donor himself. Rhodes was an
Englishman and erroneously be
lieved that political leaders in
America were drawn from the
elected yet, although, several W. A. j aristocratic upper stratum of so
A. members have been considered cjetv iust as thev were in England
Oxford. User., has little in com-
Because W. A. A. members are
showing interest in the creation of
a golf club, the council at its
regular weekly meeting yesterday
voted to include such a club in
its yearly calendar.
Although the club will not ac
tually be organized until spring, it
is planned to give university
women interested in golf a chance
to learn the fundamentals of the
sport before then. The council is
planning to secure a professional
to give instruction during the j
week. In the spring the club mem- j
bers will play on a regular golf
course. j
A head for the club has not been
for the positioon. When a golf
leader is secured, the club will be
organized in the very near future.
CORNHUSKERSMNKED 14TH
Jonesmen Drop Three Rungs
According to Williamson.
mon with American universities, ;
and is not the most favorable en-1
vironment which mipht be chosen
in which to develop the embryonic
politico. ;
There Is very little of the Anier-!
ican "university spirit" for the
university is broken down into 22
men's colleges and four women's
colleges, each with its own huilfl-
Coach Lawrence Birr Jones lnp.Si athletic field, faculties, lec
Husker football team was rated in i ture rooms, dormitories and din
14th place among the nation's : ing halls. The student who has
outstanding elevens of 1937 by, Men a bis man on the campus of
Paul B. Williamson. The California his state university frequently
Bears, '38 Rose Bowl kings, wonfjn,s the scope of college activi
the No. 1 spot and were followed j ties too narrow to suit his anibi
by Pittsburgh and Santa Clara, tio: s.
respectively.
Williamson has been rating grid '
rout fits for the past six years be-;
sides predicting game results. j
searches in methods of improving
highways and highway materials.
We could also go several steps
further In our studies of the
thermal properties of gases and
in the study of the most efficient
methods and types of building con
struction, design and heat insula
tion." Dean Ferguson feels sure that
an active engineering experiment
station, operating the year around,
could jc the means of not only
pointing the way to a fuller uti
lizing of the state's resources, but
would also help to bring Into
realization for rural and urban
dwellers a standard of living
superior to that which thpy hsvo
been accustomed to during the
years.
No Scholastio Discipline.
Mr. Mackaye says further: "The
scholastic discipline to whirh the
American college boy is accus
tomed dues not exist at Oxford.
There arc certain social regula
tionshe must be In his college,
on the penalty of dismissal, by
midnight hut there is no scholas
tic discipline whatever.
'.le may attend lectures or ab
sent himself as he pleases. He
may spend his time at Oxford
studying racing charts and bon-
i ing up on the llenty books; no one
will protest. He is exempt from
A doctor in San Francisco has
been sued for the cost of his edu
cation by his parents who put
things on a business basis when
he attained manhod, mortgaged
the home to keep him in schol, and
kept strict account of every cent
they spent on him.
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