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be ails IFlebraefcan X Vol. VI. No.03. UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, SATURDAY, MARCH 23, J907. Price 5 Cents. , Tf j& id ARE TURNED DOWN LAWS FAIL TO GET 8AT18FACTI0N FROM BOARD. ' Laws Appeal Above Editor to Publica 1 tlori Board 'and Lose '"Their tr Fight Left to Staff. Another chapter was added to the Cornhusker. controversy as to the inan nor of law representation in the book, yesterday when the publication board, ' to whom Ihe laws had appealed their case, refused point blank to mix up-ln the affair. At the request of the lawyers who are agitating the new move to have a' sep arate and distinct department in the Cornhusker .Chairman Richards called a meeting of the Publication Board 'yesterday afternoon to consider the claim's set forth by them. The laws were represented at the meeting by Mbssrs DeLacy,' 'Durham," and Af folter, while the other side of the con troversy was represented by Mr. Meyers. The contentions made by the laws, to, the board were precisely those printed, in. the communications in yes terday Nebraskan, as also were the statements of' Mr. Meyers. The laws stated that they had demanded that the question be submitted to the entire Cornhusker" Staff, .consisting of about thirty members of the Senior, Junior, ,LaW, and Medical 'classes, for .decision, and that Mr. Meyers had refused the same and was acting as the "big I am" in the matter. Mr. Meyers stated, however, that he was -willing to submit t it to the staff, If the lawyers would agree to abide by. the decision reached -by the staff. This they Tefused to do, so there the matter stood. He in formed the Board of this stand in the matter. - When questioned by the .board as to whether they would abide by the de cision if the question were submitted to the staff, the laws stated that they .would not forfeit their right of appeal and would carry the matter up to the highest authority possible. . After listening attentively to the arguments- on both sides, and asking a few minor questions, ,the Board ex cused the witnesses and went into exe cutive session. After a very' brief dis cussion, the board came to the unani mous conclusion that they had no de sire, and did not ieel themselves called upon, to meddle in the matter. A mo tion "was made, to refuse to interfere In the controversy and to submit the question, to the Cornhusker Editorial Staff for settlement, where the board felt the. matter should- be decided. The motion prevailed. The arguments of neither side were reviewed by the board. (Continued oh page 4.) T German Club. The Gernian Club met Thursday evening with Dr. and Mrs. Wallace There was a very good attendance ,and the evening was, spent in a most en joyable manner. After the meeting the members serenaded Prof. Grum man.' , The following new t members were elected: Mary Jeffrey, Esther Keller, Ethel Syford, John H Beckman '; 0mO)KC0C0K)ro GYMNASTIC EXHIBITION TONIGHT CsKW3K05KKroK EXHIBITION TONIGHT. A Few of the Stunts That Will CJme Off Thls Evening. The program of the Gymnastic Ex hibition tonight will bo entirely dif ferent from any of the annual exhibi tions of former years. One of the features that is lo"bkod forward to with great expectation is the, "FrykBdans polska," a Swedish folk dance, by the young women. For this dance Mrs. Clapp has furnished an entire equip ment of native Swedish costumes which she collected from the various provinces In Sweden while visiting there a few years ago. The exhibition will open with a dumb-bell drill by 125 men, constitut ing the first-year class. After this there will be elementary apparatus work by the first year classes, followed by work of the second year men, after which the gymnastic team will per form. In this, each of the team men will go thru one of the "stunts" he Is expected to do at Chicago in the .com ing intercollegiate meet. The championship In the lnterclass relay race is to be decided .by three races, the Soph-Freshman race, the Junior-Senior race, and the final run ning' off by the winners. The real humor of the evening promises to be in the obstacle races, which have been very cleverly planned. Among the patrons and patronesses this evening will be Governor and Mrs. Sheldon, Chancellor and Mrs. Andrews, Dean and Mrs. Pound, Pro fessor and Mrs. W. G. Lt Taylor, Supt. and Mrs. W. L. Stephens, Dr. and Mrs, Stein and Professor and Mrs. Wolfe. It is not yet decided just how many men will constitute the team to be sent to Chicago. The number sent will depend on the amount of funds raised tonight. Dr. Clapp hopes to be able to send four or 'five men, as he has a team of that, size which he thinks' will have ar good show In the big meet. In German Eye. The A906. volume of the Jahrbuch dor deutschen Shakespeare-Gesellsch- aft, rencently received at the library, Indicates that the Uhlverslty of Ne-, braska-, through the Shakespeare re searches of Dr. Charles William Wal lace, Professor of English Literature, has recently been much In the eye of the German scholar and general .pub lic. From the list o'f periodicals cited lt would seem that the important news papers and chief periodicals of Ger many and Austria united in spreading our fame over the continent. While working in the Chemical la boratory Thursday afternoon, Earle Jorgensen had his face badly burned by the explosion bf a compound. EIGHT O'CLOCK ARMORY GERMAN 8CH00L8. Professor Grummann Compares Them to American 8chools. Prof. Grummann road a paper at Convocation yqstorday on the 'subject "Some Aspects of American Educa tion' comparing our faults and virtues wlth'those of Germany. The dignity of a Ph.D. degree Is somewhat lost today when graduates go by the hundreds to study In Europe, where only a few went several years ago. The innovations of the last twenty-fivo years show two systems; elective and coeducational. Americans have become faddish along educational lines. A new high school principal will Introduce the study in which he is in terested and lt must be adopted. The new elective courses are detrimental because they are not well graded. A Sophomore ought to know more than a Freshman, and a Senior should not receive credit for first year work. One hour courses are too numerous, while In Germany a course of study is pursued for years, and all German schools are more thorough. The schools' of a generation ago were bet ter than they are today, but the teacher was more barbarous and de manded more. Women have put schools on a nobler plane, yet these schools have become effeminate, Binco a child needs masculine as well as feminine ideas. Early teachers, were drill masters "and in Germany they knew method as well as subject matter. Normal schools In America are not so high and they turn out poor leathers often times. They have thus made high schools into experimental laboratories for begin ners. The. primaries have been "found good, the high schools weak, and the colleges too general. The. remedy sug gested is a course in methods both' practical and theoretical In which teachers should thoroughly know and unprstand the subject they are to teach. ' Two parties of Junior Engineers In the University of Wisconsin are to make an Inspection tour, one .party numbering about eighty students goes to Niagara Palls, Buffalo, Dunkirk and Pittsburg, the other, In which, thqre are only thirty, visits Chicago and Mil waukee. The parties, both 'of which represent all branches of engineering will inspect the various plants and. fac tories lit the cities, visited. F. J. Popir, Fr R. Cooper, G. W. Lamb and J. Higgins will go to the Dismal River Forest Reserve to study nursery and planting (aparatus about April 1. W. WKoding expects to follow a little later. ' Chapln Bros., Florists, 127 So. 12th. MORE ATHLETICS I" !! FAVORED A8 A 80LUTI0N TO THE ATHLETIC PR0BLEM8. Physical Director at Cornell 8ays a Wider Field for College Students Will Eliminate the Evils. Mr. Charles V. P. Young, dlroctor of physical training at Cornoll University,' contributes an interesting article to the "Intorcolloglnn" for March on "Athletics and the Collogo Student," iu which ho advances a plan of a wider field for athletics as a solution to the athletic problem which confronts the universities today. He would follow the examplo of the English universi ties and have ah athletic Hold for all students, whore they might flock at certain periods and participate to gether "in the different sports. With all the students thus engaged in frlond ly competition, In oneor another form of sport, he believes that breach of etiquette or sportsmanship would bo a matter of rare or unheard-of occur rence. Mr. Young's article in part fol lows: Wo hear frequent objections raised against athletics as at -present con ducted in many of our institutions of learning; among these, that they are confined too much to the few who are already 'physically proficient; that the play element Is largely lost sight of in the zeal for victory; and that an at mosphere of professionalism is there by created which is antagonistic to the proper object and aims of true sport. The close scrutiny to which athletic conditions have been, subjected In many colleges and universities is a fair guarantee, I think, that many of the evils, complained of will bo eradi cated. In fact, already have very de cided steps been taken" looking toward that end, and in this connection might be mentioned, particularly, ., two .rules recently adopted by the larger Eastern Institutions. I refer to the rule re quiring one year of residence on the part of a student before representing his college on a 'varsity team, and to the rule fixing the period of his ath letic life at three years. These rules should eliminate the "subsidized" ath lete and, the "peripatetic" athlete, a consummation for which we may be devoutly thankful. But there is ope aspect of the prob lem, hinted 'at In the objections raised above, .which needs to be especially, . emphasized, because lt is an objection that will not be met by multiplied and minute eligibility rules. It Is the logical result of the somewhat exag gerated athletic conditions of the day. . The severe corse of training entail- s ed upon candidates for an athletlo team, in order to attain to the neces sary degree of endurance flciency, and the absorbing and of-interest with which its progress Is watched from day to day, owing to the inten sity oft intercollegiate rivalry, do .tend almost inevitably to surround both practice and game with an air of pro-, fesslonalism, which cannot but find ex pression' at times in acts which par take something of rowdyism. It is not (Continued on page 4.) , : - - ' . i'fW v 1 W H i &?l - 1 A ) tf 'ft JP tt. V j. , ? - r.. . r. "H " ., , t Jj- 'i.
