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Vol. VI. No.03.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, SATURDAY, MARCH 23, J907.
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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
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GYMNASTIC
EXHIBITION
TONIGHT
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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
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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
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