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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
Sunday, March 21, 1943
E NIMBLE
SPANIEL
by Sam Warren
Twice within one school year
two nationally outstanding au
thorities on world affairs have
been brought to the campus by
the Montgomery lectureship on
current government, for a series
of three lectures, Dr. Karl Fried
rlech of Harvard speaking in No
vember on Germany, and Owen
W. Lattimore lecturing this past
week on China.
It was the explicit hope of the
establishes of the Montgomery
lectureship to bring to students,
as well as faculty and townspeo
ple, valuable analyses of world
Situations by authorities whom
they might not otherwise have an
opportunity to hear. Such a hope
is similar to that of the univer
sity convocations committee, al
though its schedule of speakers
includes others than spokesmen
on government.
But both series face one major
problem: Reaching the students.
The difficulty is two-fold. First,
the addresses as a rule are pre
sented in halls that will seat only
350 to 1,000 persons out of the
approximately 8,000 city campus
students, these figures represent
ing, respectively, the capacities of
the Love library auditorium and
the Union ballroom, where con
vocations are usually held. Sec
ond, even if Lincoln had an Ak
Sar-Ben Coliseum s seating ca
pacity to offer, convocations
would still reach a bare ten per
cent of the university population
as long as the administration
maintains its mincing, insiped
policy on the dismissal of classes
for important convocations. (At
present, dismissal is the individ
ual concern of each professor
whose classes come at the hour
of the convocation.)
At the University of Southern
California ten minutes are sub
tracted from each class period
on the day of convocations. All
buildings are locked during the
convocation hour, and the stu
dents flock to the special event
in the thousands, not in five hun
dreds or fifties. This diminishing
of period time is accomplished
without the aid of a central bell
system, but through co-operation
of students and faculty.
At the University of Minne
sota, one period per week is set
aside as convocation hour and
no classes are scheduled at that
hour on that particular day. For
example, the hour chosen may
be 11 a. m. Friday. As many
two-hour courses as possible are
men scheduled for Monday-Wed
nesday and Tuesday-Thursday at
11 so that the third hour does
not interfere with course work
With library and Union closed
during the period (as they were
here when the chancellor spoke
on me Mexican UNESCO confer
ence last December), the majority
vi siuaems wants to attend.
With the thoughtful planning
on me pari or the university ral
endar committee this second type
of program could be worked out
Agreement of the University Sen
ate could enact the first type or
system. At any rate, something
snouia dc done so that a student,
in his four years at university,
could take in more than one or
two from the number offered
eacn year.
ine convocations committee's
main objection to the standard
hour apparently is that it does
not know at the beginning of the
year just when all convocations
will be scheduled, since it often
engages speakers as they "hap
pen" through this part of the
country.
It would seem, however, that
monthly convocations could be
scheduled for the coliseum at the
beginning of the year at a set
hour, with special interest coon
vocations added as they became
available.
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