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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 16, 1938)
? roi' THE DAILY M:i.RSK.N, FRIDAY, DKCOIItF.lt 16, 1933 Edcovors' Onions Reflect Atrifiudss Toward Libraries ":r lotterrt 03 Education :c.F." Say Scltocl KmJs Dm- .15; th: past few years a new nUltm 1 toward the liniary and the part U plays in education has sprunR tip in the Minds of edura tois ti 0 country over. Her.' arc simc o; Hie statements recent y made by those in the first ran!: or American iucation. "A ;,enerr.tion 850 hludents de pended In. pely on te:U'ooo!is for .lrdy and used l!ie library for ir-i-o.-nm collateral reading, .but be cai.pe c.f changes in me'.nods of tcaeiix due to rapid c :.Mnsion of all f'cli a of i-nowk Irc, end the in -pent ncd 0 i;oc;.in;; a'rea.st of t he wo. U m l lhoij;;it of the world, it may be s;iid d"f the prcnt day su'dori'. that the whole library i:i his to. .tools." President Sprout, Univci i'.y of California. "Thi' 1 ii. it important part of our ff.'iip .'nt, fie center of our intol H otn: I wo: l:, is the library. We have i.ioie than doul)led the size Ol orr collection of books in tha last ten years, and have very n:L.:h nupioved our library service . . . A(i( quale library facilities are fin nh: dute necessity for the type of wo; ;- we are tryinnr to do at S-.vart'. f lore, and such facilities are nt the same time extremely ex pensive. The librarian's state ment. . .indicates that our total ex- rmliHire for library pin poses last year was just over $52,000, or bo;.i $.:5 per student. It is, of comic, inevitable that the per capiia cost of a good library will be greater in a small college than in a large university, and it seems to me proliable that we shall be compelled eventually to allocate $100 per student to the library fund." President Sydelotte, Swarthmore. ' "The library is a teaching In strument of the first importance; likewise it is an instrument of the kind of scholarship which I have postulated as the most significant. Other things being equal, the bet ter scholar is the one who makes the largest and mo.t varied use of tlie Ibrary, and who stimulates his students to do likewise. That is to say, the scholar will be the mo; t alert to recognize the serv ice the library may render him in his effort to keep abreast of mod ern knowledge and thought." President Wriston, Brown univcr f ity. "A plan must be developed T h-reby the classes and the li brary can work closely together; where the teaching process can be started and finished by the instruc tor and the learning process car ried on effectively in the library; where btoks, pamphlets, and pe riodicals are easily accessible and convenient, where and when they are needed without waste of time or effort; where suggestions and advice can be given in the library aa well as in the office of the pro fessor." Dean Russell of Teach ers College, Columbia University. "Library, laboratory and class room must be so planned as to re inforce the teaching process in ev ery way possible. The books of the modern college library should be made so willingly accessible, and ine places where thev arc read should be places where It is 1 library building would be in the so good to be, as to encournge the center of lhat part of tne campus forma, ion of a lifelong habit of eHHt (f 14th 8t. This plan was reading much and rending well." ! scrHpped, however, when the de Preoidcrt W.lkins, Obirlin. j m(in(, for ,nnd near fratenilty Rnd , sorority row was able to outdo UHMSY'S INAGEOUACY (Continued from Tage l.l ' tne necdcd classroom and than 5.000. Thim, the seating it.- office space now at a premium pacity of Library hall, on the 2i ! and causing many verbal corn percent standard, is ndeqimt? fori bats in the office of L. F. Seaton, a student body of only 1,600. in charge of allocating that space. The minimum seating capacity .Storage rooms in other btiildinfs for a central librr.ry build n at where books are now put would the Univercity of Nebraska, In order to tcrve 0,000 student:, should b; 1,250. All modern university librr.ry buildings provide alcoves in th? stacks fir use of graduate stu dents and studies for faculty mem bers. There are no alcoves or studies in Library hall. A modest estimate of such needs for this university is 130 alcoves and 32 Studies. The library buildings of institu tions similar to the university have from 9 to 18 seminar rooms. The present library has one. There is need for at least 14 seminar rooms for upperclassmen and graduate students on this campus. Fans at this year's Army-Navy prid battle consumed 70,000 hot dogs, 4,000 gallons of coffee and 11,000 bam sandwiches. MlSSCC dOnS GO IfoCapiioS Kirxpcrrick, Cunkle, White Attend Conclave Howard Kirkpatrick, director of the School of Music; Frank Cunlile, of the School of Music faculty, and Dick White plan to spend Christmas week in Wash ington, D. C, attending the na tional music conventions. Pick White will be the delegate of the Nebraska chapter of Thi I.tu Alpha Sinfonia (men's na tional honorary music fraternity) at the convention of that organiza tion, while Mr. Kirkpatrick and Mr. Cunkle plan to attend the con ventions of the National Associa tion of Schools of Music and of the National Music Educator's association. Mr. Kirkpatrick is to serve Monday, Dec. 26. on a N. A. S. M. committee headed by Dr. Howard Hanson, an alumnus of the uni versity of Nebraska, a famed com poser and head of the Kastmnn School of Music. The highlight of the conveniens is to he a reception given by Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, to which all the delegates are Invited. This reception will be held at the white house on Wednesday afternoon. Two network broadcasts are to originated at the Sinfonia conven tion. The first is a 15 minute pro gram over the NBC blue network at 12:00 o'clock Tuesday and the second over the Columbia network on Wednesday. LIBRARY EOOSTED (Continued from Prge 1.) state planning board and repre sentatives of the normal schools, President Cushing of Kearney asked board members if a new library on this campus should not be classed as an emergency. Board members agreed that construction of the library should immediately be included In a proposed building program and not be dependent on the slate educational survey which is now being made to determine needs for a ten year building program. NEW LIBRARY SHOULD BE FIRST. The argument that the new li brary building should be the first in the program of campus de velopment has been advanced by these organizations for many rea sons: First is location. Site for the new building has already been de termined to be on 13th and R, be tween Social Sciences and the present site being occupied by El len Smith hall. A far sighted building plan made more than 25 years ago planned for the library's location on R at. at the north end of the proposed 15th 8t. boulevard which would link the Nebraska campiiB and the 10 million dollar , nonitil hiiildinfr fn mirki a iIIa , wh,.rc several sorority houses and ,.,v,... u,, 11,11. , f,t iv,. a projected building program. . Removal from the present li- ! V . , . . 1 tn(n a Ubih ... , 1 , J ,i 1 1 1 r 1 also be available for this space This table shows what a new II- brary would mean in the way of I creating additional classroom and ; office space: I ClHsarufimK Offlren L.ilimrv tmll iwiih'iut lnrllhunint; (liv purmliihitiM Sitriiil m-lfnccR ArtdrpWB liull Former muiMMim Brace liituinttory Ijtw InHlilltiR ,,,, University tmll . 11 .21-i'H 7 2 4 1 2 2 1 2 TYPEWRITERS All itandard makrt for ante or rent. Used and rebuilt machines on easy terms. Nebraska Typewriter Co. 130 No. 12 Bt. BZ167 Lincoln. Nebr. Awgican Reveals Warren AUson As Beauty Queen Long live the queen! Warren Alfson, the people's choice, has been pushed tip to the throne of Beauty Queen of the 1938 Cornhusker football squad by an overwhelming majority of votes submitted in the Awgwan's looks-plus- personality yumpf poll. Besides winning thj plaudits of the feminine electors Warren Alfson gained recognition on the gridiron by his performances at guard and fullback." His Pulchritudinous Highness has another year of competition remaining in which to impress gridiron opponents with his foot ball prowess and coeds with, quoting the humor magazine, "his devil-may-care spirit, his life of the party manner, and the mole on his left ear." Trailing His Muscular Majesty in the poll were gridders Bus Knight, Forrest Behm and Jack Dodd. For the purposes of identifica tion, superfluous as it may be, the "Queen" is a native of Wisner, Neb., and a member of Chi Phi fraternity here in the university. Mi;s Lec Entertains Staff, P. E. Students Miss Mabel Lee, director of the girls physical education depart ment, entertained at a Christmas tea for the staff of the department and the physical education majors and minors, yesterday in her office in Grant Memorial. I rom IT ARROW WHITE I i f t I 2 The New Trump (Soft collar). .$2 The Hitt (Aroset collar) $2 The Hull Low collar) $2 The Gordon (Oxford I Students Seeking Study Spsce Find Little Solace Library Seats But Eight Ter Cent of Enrollment The Nehinskft librarv is not Unlv inadeouate for the housing of the book collection, but it is !also too small to provide room Ifor the number of students and professors who desire to study and read there. The averarc college library, it was shown by a survey of 200 colleges, seats Z5 percent 01 us student body, a sealing capacity that is usually necessitated in the universities. Nebraska's library seats 8 percent of its total enroll ment. The following reveals seating nnaritv of universities based on their total enrollment: Iowa State 20 percent Minnesota 20 percent Illinois 30 percent Michigan 33 percent Chicago 33 1-3 percent L Dartmouth 40-50 percent Nebraska 8 percent The inability of the library to house the students desiring to study is all the more alarming in Iview of the fact that there are 'no study-halls of any size on the L-ity campus. There is one room set aside in one or two buildings that can be used for study, but itaken all together, these rooms cannot accommodate any more jthan 2 percent of the student body. With these conditions many students find it almost Impossible 011 r Salierv o dijls No gift is mora cpprsriaitd than a fine Arrow Whits Shirt. . .end to make a giJt complete select a smart tie and handkerchief to complement It. Men appreciate the Arro label as a symbol of qual.fy. perfect fitting and sa:isfa tion. Your gilt will mean mere because an Arrow will wish him Worry Christmas for many months to com?. cloth). . .$2 The Claridge (Soft collar). .$3.50 to study between classes on the city campus. A few may be seen making their preparations for classes leaning against walls, sit ting on stair-steps and on the floor. Others go to some of the campus eating places and try to study over a "coke." SAM FRANCIS ACCEPTS INSURANCE POSITION Back In Lincoln after his second year of pro football with the Chi cago Bears, Sam Francis, former VjomnusKer aii American full back report that he will take over a po sition with an insurance firm in Lincoln. Francis' play with the Bears this fall drew much praise from the hie SA,rA FKANClS' town writers T.lnriln Journal. W h o covered the pro contests. ARCADE RENT CAnS FORD j and CHEVROLET Phone B1C!7 1C11 N St. SHIRTS r r The Dart (Arcweave collai) $125 The Dale (Aroset collar). . .$2.50 The Paddock (neck band) $2.50