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Vol. VI. No. 101.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, FRIDAY, MARCH 8, J907.
Price 5 Cents.
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UNIVERSITY FORUM
HOLDS ABANQUET AND INITIATES
THREE MEMBERS.
Debating Club Has Interesting Time
King, Builta, and Forney New
Members Phi Alpha Tau.
The University Forum held an Ini
tiation at the Delta Upsllon fraternity
house nnd gave a banquet at the Wind
sor hotel last night. Three students
W. R. Forney, W. R. King, and F. C.
Builta were received Into the organi
zation. After the Initiation at the
Delta Upsllon house early In the even
ing c fine feast was served to
the ' Club' 'dt the Windsor hotol.
Many Impromptu toasas were
responded to by the Initiates,
and other members of the society
at the. .banquet Professor M.-MrFogg
gave a talk on "Public Speaking,"
whioh was well receivod.
The .University Forum was organi
zed In 1895 to foster debating In this
school and has been the leading foren
sic club here, always having as Its
members the best debaters of the Uni
versity. Among Its' members today
are the students who compose the two
debating teams that are to meet Wis
consin and Illinois next month. The
Forum has been granted a chapter in
the national debating fraternity of Phi
Alpha Tau, which vlll be Installed
April 5 by the members of the Wiscon
sin chapter who come hero for the Wisconsin-Nebraska
debate.
At the present time Phi Alpha Tau
is one of the strongest debating frater
nities In this country,. having chapters
at the lea'dlng universities which in
clude Chicago and Wisconsin. Its
membership is large and Is composed
of the best of the debaters at each in
stitution. The fraternity seeks to de
velop high scholarship and good de
baters as well as the social side of
school life. . -i
The suggestion of establishing a
chapter of Phi Alpha Tau at Nebraska
was first made at Madison, Wisconsin,
lastsprlng at the time of the Badger
Cornhusker debate and at once mot
with the approval of the Nebraska de
baters. It was not decided, however
to accept a chapter for the Nebraska
school until last fall.
The debaters who are members of
. the -University Forum and who will be
come members of. the Nebraska chap
ter of Phi Alpha Tau are Sunderlln,
Craig, Yoder, Corey, Rlnaker, Swen
son, De Young,. Ramsey) Jorgensen,
Hunter, McWhinney, Tunison, Lovy,
Huff, .Builta,, King, and Forney,
Notice.
. The, date of the -girls' intef-class
tournament has beon changed from
Friday, March 15 to Thursday, March
14. .. '
' Young Man.,
Wanted tp wait on table at "frat"
house'Apply at lebraskan office.
. Meeting. .
The Dramatic Club will meet In U.
j.02 at 11': SO a. m. Tuesday 'March 12.
Wanted.
A Walter for "frat" hofljle.
at Nebraskan office.
Apply
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CONVOCATION TODAY
Chancellor W P Aylswotth
OF COTNER UNIVERSITY
s o'clock p. m. "NAPOLEON"
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ALUMNI 8PIRIT.
Old Students Now in Seattle, Wash
ington, Form Club.
The 'alumni of the University now In
Seattle, Washington, are making a big
and, apparently, a very serious effort
to get together as a body with a com
mon Interest and to get bettor ac
quainted. Following is a letter sent
out recently by the committed with"
this end in view:
CaBt your liquid' orbs on the follow
ing and take notice that there will be
A MEETING
WHERE? 811 Lowmaii building.
WHEN? Monday, February 18, '07,
at 8 p. m. sharp.
WHO? Your Royal 'Ighness, and
several other Notables, who were for
merly students of the University of
Nebraska.
WHAT FOR? To organize a Club,
a Camp, a Council, a Lodge, an Aerlo
an Order, an Association, or some
thing of that sort, for the purpose of
holding Pow-wows, Pot-latches, War
dances, et cetera, and keeping allvo
the. Cornhusker spirit of your younger
days.
N. B. SPECIAL. Wear your old
Vest, your sweetest Smile, and -your
Korn-Kob Pipe. Leave your Thirst
at home. Bring with you any eligible
fellow sufferers of your acquaintance.
Bo on time. A fine of $10.00 for non
attendance or tardiness. NulTL Sed.
, HARRY. E. WILSON,
ALFRED H. LUNDIN,
Committee.
Officers' Hop Postponed.
Owing to various unfavorable cir
cumstances and to a disappointment
In securing the desired music, the
committee has been forced to post
pone the Officers' Hop, which was to
occur at the State Farm this evening,
until Friday night March 22.
The students at Syracuse, are ad
vocating somo form of self govern
ment. A committee was appointed to
investigate the expediency of estab
lishing a student senate and drawing up
a constitution similar to that used at
Yale and Harvard.
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AT CONVOCATION.
Interesting Program Rendered Yester
day Morning.
The Song Recital by Charles H. Mil
ler at Convocation yesterday morning
was a treat to music lovers, and in
cluded a variety of selections ranging
from light, delicate airs to heavy,
operatic selections. Mr. Miller's voice
!is a rich bass with the higher tones
of a baritone. The following num
bers were given:
(a) Absent Motcalf
(6) Nightfall Metcalf
"The Two Grenadiers" Schumann
(a) "Drink to Me Only With Thine.
Eyes" Old English Affr
(b) "Happy Three" Roeckel
Aria "Homy and Arms" . '.
(Sampson) Handel
Boone County Students' Club.
.Tho Boone County Students' Club
will meet tonight at tho home of State
Treasurer Brian at 1728 G street.
Music and short tnlks will coinprlso
the program, and as a business mat
ter, the question A of r organizing a
baseball team from members of tho
clubiWill bo taken up, Owing to their
strong YepresojfuUion In the .Univer
sity, the Boorre county boys expdet to
organize an efficient team for work
in the spring.
Good Man 8ecured.
W.. E. Chancellor, superintendent of
the public schools of Washington D.
C, has been secured for a series of
lectures in the Summer School. Mr.
Chancellor is one of the leading edu
cators of the country and his services
hero this summer will greatly in
crease the valuo of the work of tho
school.
F. S. Phillbrick, 1887, formerly an
assistant in the physical laboratories,
hns presented the department of
physics with a photographic engraving
of Tyndall, the great authority on tho
physics of sound.
' The Senior ibasket-ball team will
practice in the gymnasium at 4:30
p. m. tpday.
P. M.
75 CENTS $
A RECENT CRITIC
EDUCATIONAL METHODS UN
80UND 8AY8 C. E. ADAMS.
Classes Not In Close Touch with In
structors Elective Idea an
Advance iNew 8c heme.
A recont number of tho Unlvorslty
Qunrtorly contains the nddross given
bofore the Phi Bota Kappa of Column
bia by Charles Francis Adams. This
address is In effect an indictment of
tho methods and resultB of 'modern
college training. The charges may bo
summarized undor two hoads tho first
of which has to do with tho general
conditions of college life, tho second
with the courses of study.
College clnsses are so largo and tho
lecture course so frequently replaces
the recitation hour, that tho averago
Btudent passes thru colloge without
coming in personal contact with his in
structors. Yet this Is tho most Im
pressionable period of tho student's
life, the time when ho may most pro-
foundly bo Influenced by association
with a fine and inspiring personality.
This vitalizing personal contact mod
ern college training fails to glvp.
The elective idea, which stands for
Individuality and cultivation of apti
tudes, is an adyanco over the "educa
tional Procrustos bud which preceded
it." Yet It presupposes that tho stu
dent, fresh from high school or -acad--emy,
where he has had constant guid""
nnco and advice, will know his own
aptitudes and bo able wisely to choose
from the- bewildering multitude of
courses, Left free, he follows the line"
of least resistance. . .
Mr. ' Adams proposes he Jojlpwlng
educational scheme. He would break
every college up Into groups of sub
collogesr n'p one numbering over eighty
students; and each having for Its head
a professor, of eminepco In the partic
ular line that college Is to (each. Tho
student would register In tho college
bf his . profession. Tho head of that
college would, working from, his per
sonal knowledge of each student, map
out his entire course.
It Js noteworthy that Mr. 'Adams
would have this, course be along tho.
lines of the studies for wftlch tho stu-;
dent has least liking. If ho is of an
imaginative temperament he should
persistently- be trained in reason and
observation. In other words, Mr.
Adams would force tho student along
the line of greatest resistance. ,
Tho Anthonaeum, the paper pub
lished at West Virginia University,-'
.gives a column In a recent tissue to
the discussion by a noted stock ox
pert of laws of hereditary among tho
Horfords and so on, then heads It
all, "Laws of Inheritance."
On account of the Y. M. C. A. ban-1
quet, the time of the meeting of the
Palladian Society has beon changed '
from Friday to Saturday evening.
Professor Caldwell went to York
yesterday morning to deliver an ad
dress before a meeting of the history
teachers.
Do not forget the Y, M. C. A.fban.S-4-'
nit nt flm .T.lmlnll tinfol fnnlvWf ' '?!
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