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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN. THURSDAY. MAY 12, 1938
THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
TIIIKTY-SEVENTIl YEAR
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The Art of
Apiile-I'tilisliiii
Oae oi the most picturesque expressions in
vofrup anion? Nebraska students is Ihnt of
"apple-polishing," a term which describes sym
bolically that smooth and outward sheen of
'manner by which a student recommends him
self as especially desirable to the more or less
absentminded eyes of the professor who might
otherwise regard this particular pippin as mere
ly an average sample of the box. The term
makes its appearance particularly around this
time of year when examinations loom in the
foreground and students turn their i'ootstjps
toward the door of 1 lie professor's office more
frequently.
The term "apple-polishing," in its origi
nal connotation, was applied to the practices
of those students who believed that a fail
ing grade could be changed for the better by
currying favor with the professor. Flat
tery as to the manner of presentation, ad
vantageous comparison of the work with that
in other colleges, or instructors, intimations
of personal or social charm in the instructor
tacitly assumed in an invitation to lunch,
. tea, or dinner, or long conversations after
class about football, or restaurants, or the
next symphony are all regarded as methods
which constitute, the fine art of "apple
polishing." As a result of these practices, a
sort of stigma has grown up around the term
of "apple-polishing."
And fearing the stigma of "apple-polisher,"
many students have reached the place today
where they condemn any contact with profes
sors outside the classroom. Nothing is more
ELECTRICAL
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How many of these Questions can you Answer ':
1. What was the first luccessful application of reduction
gear drive to a large marine vessel ?
2. How many kinds of heat are supplied by the "Corox"
surface units of a Wcstinghouse electric range?
3. Who introduced the Parsons steam turbine to the United
, States?
4. What are the seven major types of rectifiers?
8. What alloy, consisting of non-ferromagnetic elements,
it nevertheless ferromagnetic?
. What type of power is used on the electrified portions
i of the Pennsylvania Railroad? What voltage?
7. What and where was the first commercial "repeating1"
broadcasting station?
8. When were the main rolls of a steel mill electrified for
I the first time?
9. What was the first large-scale display of incandescent
lighting ever teen?
10. What is a sterilamp?
ANSWERS WILL BE FOUND ON PAGE 4
absurd, for such students, while professing to
want a college education, are throwing away
a main part of what it has to offer them. Altho
educators disagree upon the relative merits of
one form of learning as opposed to another,
they are of one mind on one thing that social
and nientai contacts made during the four
years in college, form perhaps the most influ
ential single factor in student life.
That the mob has pinioned a fault detri
mental to ideal relationship between faculty
members and students and labeled it with so
gTaphic a designation that it is constantly
heard in every quarter does not prove the
general acceptance or use of the practice. The
strong and able humorously shrug shoulders
at it, and proceed as if both concept and name
were non-existent. The merely timid, unfor
tunately, haven't the nerve to establish per
sonal relations. Always there are those who
cannot grasp reality because they have set
up a fetish of fear from which they back
away into the flat plain of nothing venture,
nothing have. But a real hardship is felt by
the modest and retiring who fear any friend
ly overtures made to instructors will be mis
interpreted. Thus the presence of an ex
tremely small minority of those who deliber
ately seek to obtain by external gifts and
beguilements the goods they will not earn by
meritorious work, ironically enough, has
created a class which oversensitive toepithets
prefer to forego, in order to avoid even the
appearance of bribery, a legitimate, natural,
and in some cases enriching adventure in
friendship.
While students should not monopolize pro
lessors' time when they have nothing of im
port to discuss with their instructors, student?
should realize that there are professors that it
is a privilege to know, who are in
spired themselves and have the
faculty of inspiring others. Theso
are the ones whohave started
many a bewildered college student
toward broader fields of interest J
and successful endeavor.
If cultivating the friendship and I
Interest of these faculty memhbers
it "apple-polishing," the samel
course would seem to be to en-!
courage more of it.
STUDENT
PULSE
To the Editor and Gordon Jones:
When Mr. Jones spoke of the cut
"craze," he was right it is just
that . Of all the imbeeilic, dizzy,
downright asinine practices ever
advocated on this campus, that is
it.
Is a fellow a "prig" just because
he goes with a girl? When he
takes a girl to a dance, it is be
cause he wants to dance with her
Isn't that logical? and he r-oes
with the assumption that he will be
permitted to do so if you don't
mind.
To what "social burners" do you
refer, Mi' Jones? How are they
to be hrolren down, and how is the
individual student to become better
acquainted with and more friendly
toward the lunk who cuts In when
he is dancing with the young lady
of his choice ?
If variety is what you crave, Mr.
Jones, and you, too, Mr. Beezley,
why not schedule personal hour
dances with Carrie Belle Raymond
hall ?
Hankie.
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To the editor:
Our friend Mr. Jones is positive
ly behind hand. "Cut" and 'tug"
dances or program dances aren't a
trend-they're a well entahlinhcd
Institution in practically every uni
versity except dear old Nebraska
U. Don't limit your Inquiries to
K. U. Ask anyone from any uni
versity, east, west, north, aouth or
central whether the while spot
Isn't the only place they've ever
heard of where you dance with
the guy whHt "brung" you through
thick and thin, scuffed slippers and
bruised shins.
At least In this respect there Is
no place like Nebraska, thank
Ood! That variety is Indeed the
spice of life Is amply proved by the
bored faces of Cornhusker dancers
after three hours with the samr;
partner. Why don't we come out
of our provincial sheila and give
ourselves a break!
Kathryn Werner.
A contest la being conducted on
the University of New Mexico
campus to find the male student
with the ugliest legs.
Casque and Cascet Is the name
of the Interfraternlty relations
board at the University of New
Hampahlre.
The University of California
medical school Is planning a sum
mer camp for diabetic children.
Dear Gussie:
Well, dear, I'm still down here
but have been so busy with things
like Ivy day, Farmers Fair, and
all those things that I just haven't
had the time and pcrscverence to
write you. I'm being rushed by a
sorority on the campus here.
They're sure pouring it on. It's
a funny thing, tlio, that they told
me so much about their Mortar
Board two weeks ago, and now
they don't even mention it. That
reminds me, I want to tell you
about the spring election that's
coming up. Wait for the next
letter.
CC
The big thing on the campus
right now is the fingerprinting
that's going on over in the new
Student Union. They're trying to
get all the students and even
members of the faculty to have
their "paws recorded," This civil
lingerprinting, Gussie, is getting
to be quite the thing. I'm sure
glad you aren't down here to get
caught up on all that's going on.
The way you are now, they
can't prove that you were in
Uncle Jeff's chicken coop that
night. They can't prove a thing.
CC
But they rinn't want to incrimi
nate you with your fingerprints.
They just want to get a record of
you so that if you get caught in
the thresher, they can tell who
you were. Seriously. Clussic, it's
a very fine thing, tint this finger
printing business might mean
something down here.
You see, most of the students
wanted to have "pink elephants
on the ceiling" in their new
Student Union building. Since
they can't have what other stu
dents on other campuses have,
they decided that they would be
satisfied with second best "fin
gerprints on the wall." Soon as
they get a record of some per-
I son's fingerprints, they can go
! around with their little glass.
I That way they can catch the
members of this institution who
' were overly anxious to leave
! their souvenir record on the
I Union, The only trouble is, Gus-
1 sie, that there are twice as many
fingerprints on the wall as there
will ever be on the F. B.I. rec
ords from this campus.
It's a fine thing, (hissie. what
this government can do. Mr.
HooVer of the K. B. I. cannot be
, confused with that man who was
i president once. Mr. Hoover's or
j ganization started quite a few
years ago, however. They first
I wanted to get fingerprint records
I of criminals, now they want those
of everyone. This is getting to be
I a mathematical world, Gussie.
Pretty soon the government will
have a set of numbers for each
person living in this country. Think
what fun that would bo.
First, you Could be number
1234567 in the Social Security.
: Your fingerprints could be re-
corded as number 46537208.
j Finally, your congressman could
j have a number for you like
47527935. Now if the govern
' ment was smsrt, it could start
its numbering process at one
corner of the country and keep
, going. That would revolution
; Ize the Postal Service and all
your congressman would have
to do to send you some of his
free literature would be to ad
j dress on envelope: Number
4567823. That would save a lot
of time. Names and personal
ities are often boring anyway.
CC -
And there's another thing. You
like to put yn:ir money in tlio.se
slot machines :) well that I'm be
ginning to believe that you have
the gambling spirit. Why not have
a government lottery like they do
in KiiL'tami. They would throw
all the fingei print leconlH and no
dal security records together and
let Dopey, who they Hay is in the
White lio:iFe. nil out the lucky
number, tn that way, these guys
wouldn't g"t writ em' cramp over
"pump-priming." They could give
all the money away at one time
and then hire WPA men to put
M The Union
Thursday, May 12
Gamma Alpha Chi meeting 5:00 p. m.
Speech department dinner 6:30 p.m.
Motion pictures, open free to students 8:30 p.m.
Friday, May 13
Gridiron dinner 6:00 p. m.
American Chemical society dinner 6:00 p.m.
Phi Tau Theta banquet 6:00 p. m.
Phi Alpha Delta dinner 6:00 p.m.
Beck-Jungbluth dance, 35c per couple .... 9:00 p. m. to 12:00 p. m.
Saturday, May 14
W. A. A. luncheon 12:30 p.m.
Matinee dance open to students free of
charge 3:30 p. m.
Sigma Gamma Epsilon banquet 6:00 p. m.
Private faculty dinner and party '. 6:00 p.m.
Barb hour dance 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Farmhouse sweetheart dinner 7:00 p. m.
"N" club dance 8:00 p. m. to 12:00 p. m.
onnrtomorp rlflsa nn thp PnllA--i
HHi ooam. Tnroc men and three
women who will be seniors nex
year will be elected for the Farm
ers Fair board.
Aspirants to the Barb council
must file before 5 Friday in the
activities of ice in the coliseum.
Positions open are for one senior
man and one senior woman, two
junior men and two junior women,
one sophomore man and one sopho
more woman.
e
the records back in place until
next year.
CC
But getting back to this finger
printing again, Gussie. They want
everyone to dip their fingers in
the ink and record their impres
sions. It's a real idea. They even
offer the service to professors.
Well, bye now.
Minnie.
News Parade
Hv Marjurie Churchill
now is the time for all good men
now is the time for all you said to
yourself just another typographi
cal error didn't you? BUT in
these words is the thought that's
running through the minds of ob
servers of the maelstrom of Euro
pean eventsthat now is the time
for all so-called champions of de
mocracy to come to the aid of their
so-called principles of liberty and
wake from their roseate dream of
a big, happy British-French-Ger-man-ltalian
family.
Mussolini is holding few illus
sions about the happy family busi
ness. Ironing out French and Ital
ian differences would take at least
a year, he says in one of his and
Hitler's rainy clay confabs. Con
versations between Britain and
Germany might take an even
longer time. And right now Hitler
can go ahead in Czechoslovakia
exactly as he pleases as far as
Mussolini is concerned. II duce
hopes that Get many will be able
to solve the problem "on her own
strength." But he's going to bring
diplomatic pressure to bear upon
the Czechoslovak government to
be "reasonable" in meeting Ger
man demands.
And so now is definitely the
time for all good Frenchmen and
Englishmen to find out that au
thoritarianism is getting set for
j another major stride in central Eu
j rope, and all the palavering and
! philosophizing are just so much
I palavering and philosophizing.
Both countries thought agreement
with Italy was a cinch with Ger
man troops menacing the Italian
border. But they have failed to
reckon the hold which the Rome
Berlin axis has on 11 duce. Ger
many still represents Italy's best
bet when it comes to getting the
j best deal out of an alliance, and
: all their concessions seem about to
avail them nothing.
' CANDIDATES FILE FOR
j COUNCIL AG, BARB, PUB
! POSTS.
(Continued from Page 1.)
I one from the college of agricul
ture, business administration, and
i school of music.
I Nine junior women: Three from
I the college of arts and sciences,
! three from Teachers college, one
j from the college of agriculture,
business administration, and school
i of music.
One junior man and one junior
woman from the graduate col
lege. Four seniors: Two men and two
women elected at large by the stu
dent body.
The four women and four men
elected by the council from the
junior members of that body to be
hold-overs members will serve as
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the coming year.
One senior man.
One junior man.
One sophomore man.
Agricultural college students
file for the ag executive board,
Coll-Agri-Fun board, and the
Farmers' Fair board until Friday
in Dean Burr's office in Ag hall.
This election will also take place
on May 17.
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available for two men and two
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