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Vol. X. No. 50 UNiVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1910.
Price 10 Cents.
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GRAFT HAS HAD ITS DAY
MEMBERS OF 8EN10R PLAY COM-
MITTEE WILL KEEP
HAND8 OFF.
JUDGES WILL SELECT ALL ACTORS
MISS HOWELL HAS BEEN CHOSEN
AS THE COACH.
Play Has Not Been Decided Upon
Seniors Are Urged to Make
Suggestions.
No member of the senior piny com
mittee will be nble to vote for his own
personal friends for places on the
senior rlay enst. This wns the deci
sion of tho play committee at its
meeting yesterday afternoon. All
chance for grafting places on the caBt
will be eliminated and thero will be
no cause for fear. Every person who
goes onto the Btage for the try-out will
hnvo an equal show with the other
contestants, committee members In
cluded If any should decide to enter
Into the competition for plnces.
The committee passed the follow
ing rule, at its meeting yesterday:
"No member of the play committee or
student of the University of Nebraska
shall have a vote in the selection or
the cast for the senior play of 1911."
Judges Tor the try-outs will be
chosen from tho faculty, as they are
for preliminary debates when teams
are to be picked. Competent judges
'"from .olTlsnie UurBchool-may-be-caHed-in
If "it seems best.
The purpose and aim of the com
mittee, as understood by the mombers,
1b to simply stir up interest In the
try-out, arrange for a date, select a
coach, and attend to the minor details
at the time of tho presentation. Ac
cordingly, they will have no vote in
selecting the cast,
MIbb Howell, who has coached most
of the plays given In recent years at
the university, was chosen as coach.
She is also to bo "stage mnnnger and
oulcjal selector of costumes." While
Miss Howell has not yet accepted, it
is generally understood that she will
accept the position.
No play has as yet been selected,
and any Benior student who has a play
to suggest will be urged by tho com
mittee to submit the manuscript at
once or send in the "name of the play
together with the name of tho pub
lisher. Copies of manuscript will be
particularly appreciated. Byrne C.
Mnrcellus Is chairman of the commit
tee. The members are: W. H. Plast
ei'B. Elroy Munson, Julio. Nagel, .Mar
garet Guthrie, Alice McCullough, Alice
Iverson and Florence Whittler.
HIGH LIVING IS
GO i
CAN YOU STAND THE RAISE?
The cost of high living is going
up. JUBt at present It looks as if
tho liverymen of Lincoln arc about
to kill tho goose that lays the
golden egg.
They contemplate, some of them,
nt lease. Increasing the price of
cabs for formal parties from $3.50
to $4.50. If they make tho boost,
they may et it and they may not.
The way inings look now, chances
are strongly In favor of the "not."
Liverymen, being like the rest
of mankind, think they are not
making enough money. They know
that students would rather ride In
a cab than walk, even If It Is on n
balmy summer's eve. They know,
too, that as a rule "a student nnd
his money are soon parted."
But they evidently do not know
how the cab question has been agi
tated of late, and how closo they
have come to losing out, even at
$3.50. The fact or the mntter Is,
there has been so much criticism
of the cab system tor formals that
many predict Its abolition not far
In the future.
Now, the cab Is a wonderful In
vention. The man who originated
It ought to be given something sub
stantial a Rhodes scholarship, for
Instance. But even -nt that, par
ticularly In the coBe of a student
who only hns to go a block and a
hair and around the corner, thore
is no use putting cab fare up In tho
expense list with such Items as
board, clothing, etc. Where the
cab fare Item belongs, with the
usual exceptions, Ih with such
Items as charitable donations, de
bate tlcketB and a few otherb.
But to get back to our friends '
the Hvermen. If they put their
proposed Increase into" effect, the
probability Is that the university
fraternities will put their hends to
gether and dcclaro war. Since
boycotting Ih Illegal, and boycot Is
not a very good word anyway,
they would probably content them
selves with deciding to formally
escort their respective ladles fair
to dances and things on plain, pain
fully plevean street cars or else
walk, which 1b better for the
health. Anything but stand tho
raise.
STDDENTS PASS THE. HAT
LAWS MAKE UP DEFICIT OF THE
DEBATING DEPARTMENT.
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CHINA IS A COMING NATION
HISTORY CONTINUOUS THROUGH
UNNUMBERED YEARS.- -
PEOPLE JUST BEAMING TO AWAKEN
REAL YELLOW PERIL IS CHINE8F
COMMERCIALISM.
Mrs, .Boose Tucker, Medical Mission
ary, Tells 8ome of the In
side Facts.
"Tho New China" -was the subject
of un address bjr Mrs. Boose' TUcker at
convocation Tuesday. Mrs. Tucker
and her husband aro medical mission
aries stationed in China, and have
just returned to the United States after
an eight years' residence with the
Chinese. Mrs. Tucker's two little
children accompanied her upon the
-platfornir'-nnd,- n't-thelr niQthcr.'s in
stance, sang a song in Chinese.
By 'way of Introduction, the speaker
told of China as a nation whoso name
was not to be juggled with, no mafter
how deep our prejudices might be
against It.
"It Is a noteworthy fact," she said,
"that China's history has been con
tinuous throughout posterity. Na
tions have come and gone, have been
built and rebuilt, yet for more than
five thousand years the history of this
groat Asiatic empire has always been
written under the one name China.
Americans are prone to recognize it
as a great country, but this attributed
to the fact that we do not see China's
best and most natural front. Our as
sociations with the Chinese are for the
most pnrt gained through contact with
the coolies, by far the rougher and
more degenerate class. They fre
quent the coast cities on account oi
the possibilities for venture and ex
portation to America, and hense un
less we travel inland we do not get
the true conception of Chinese people.
Has Been Indifferent.
"Up to the twentieth century China
has been indifferent to tho other na
tions. She has been satlslled with her
own conditions, and has not recog
nized the possibilities that other na
tions might offer her in the way of
Improvement. She hnB produced her
own sages who have ordained a sys-
Jiiin of ethics that reaches more the
perfect llfo than anything else pro
duced by civilization. She has be
lieved the world to bo at peace, and
therefore sought no Intercourse with
foreign nations, being 'content to Jive
an exlBtenco purely Chinese, untaint
ed with the veneer of foreign Influx
epce, as it then would have been bo
considered.
"But the new century Imb brought
about a change. China Is undergoing
an awakening, which has been caused
not by her own Initiative, but by the
persistent growth of world Christian
ity. Modern progress has spught en
trance Into China, and slowly It is
gaining its wny. The. first step has
been along military lines. The Japan
ese invnslonof 189G and 1900 brought
home the necessity of having .suitable
and proportionate military strength.
Tho Chinese army is constantly grow-
ing, bQtinnnuniUers-and-perfecUonr
and today is pronounced by foreign
lTnnraTjnotllrers-tlrnt--ln;hablt--thir-coun'
iry as ueing nearly perrect.
Not a Military Nation.
"But in temperament China is not
a military nation. Commerce appeals
to it more strongly, and as a conse
quence she Is beginning to extract her
natural resources, of which there are
ninny. In this connection the real
yellow peril which wo need fear Is
Chinese commercialism. She has an
unlimited amount of coal, a great sup
lily of cheap labor, and a mlno of un
developed mineral ore. These assets
can easily make her the commercial
peer of the world.
"In politics and morality China is
making rapid strides. Representative
government has already been prom
ised, to go Into effect by 1913 If
found fenslble. Foot-binding is now a
penal offense, tho growth and use of
opium Is being checked, and drinking
has been reduced to moderation.
"Finally. In education China has
made her most rapid advance. The
old system of excessive examinations
has been done away with, and Instead
the American educational system has
been adopted, with American teachers
to carry It out. Five-sixths of the ed
ucational Institutions In China arc
American. Together with this nnd
the fact that we are educating mnn
thousand Chinamen, America has a
great opportunity to do something for
this ancient nntion that will forevei
revert-io Jier own admirable civlll&i-tlon."
TOTAL DISCREPANCY AMOUNTS TO $10
HARD TO GET 8TUDENT8 TO AT
TEND UNIVERSITY DEBATE8..
Report of Debate Management Is Ex
pected to Show 8everal De
plorable Facts.
"DAD" GOES.
Y, M. C. A. Worker Has Been Promot
ing a New Plan.
"Dad" Elliott, who has Jbeen visit
ing the university In behalf of the
proposition of installing a religious
work director in 'Nebraska to super
vise the work of" the Y. M. and Y. W.
C. A., left Lincoln yesterday after
noon for Omaha to attend a meeting
of the state Y. W. C. A. board. From
thore he will depart for Missouri,
where ho will visit the state conven
tion of Y. M. C. A.
At .present nothing definite has been'
announced relative to the adoption of
the plan promoted by Dr. Elliott. It
Is generally understood, however, that
the presentation as made by Dr. EM-
ott-lmB-recelvdmuclufa,YQnibJe.c.on.
ment frpm both associations.
Never boforo In tho history of this
Institution hns debato received such
loyril support as It has this year. This
was made clear to tho students of the
university yesterdny morning when
the members of tho froshman, Junior
nnd senior law classes cleared this
year's debato deficit In about thirty
minutes.
It all started after Pror. Conana had
finished his speech to tho mombers or
tho class on the conditions ot tho
finances connected with debating. It
seems as If no regular appropriation
is set aside in the interest of debute.
All expenses of running debntes,
othor than those of the instructor, are
paid, from tho sale or tickets. Many
times In tho past It has been neces
sary for members or tho faculty who
aro Interested In this nctlvlty to make
good the expense nnd then wait until
some future date, when conditions be
enme better, to get thef. money.
Trying Proposition.
It hns been a trying proposition to
Ket-gunUilont-numhnrR. tn'nttonil twin,
bate to make it a paying endenvor. In
spite of the fact that attendance this
year was larger than, ever boforo.
there was a deficit of about $G0.
When it was announced in law class .
that this deficit existed and that, as
enterprising leaders heretofore Jt
would be a "good stunt-' If tho laws
could keep that name, a cry of "pass
the hat" went up from all sections of
the room. Every member gavo some
thing, and In a vory fejv minutes the
necesBnry amount was collected. To
keep up the spirit while the money
was coming in, the debaters prosont,
Raymond, Oberfeldcr nnd Foster,
wore called upon and respoildcd by
telling "how they did 'it" In the two
debates.
The report of tho debate manage
ment Is about completed, nnd will In
clude several Interesting and some
what deplorable facts. Concerning tho
number of seats sold for the local de
bate, report states that 332 fifty cent
seats and 43 unreserved seats were
sold. The Illinois management dis
pensed with a little better than one
thousand tickets. The manager of the
Nebraska debate does not attempt to
assign nny causes for this condition,
except the unfortunate proposition of
having the debate and Cornhuskcr
banquet on successive nights.
HXENGLISHJET1THR0M
NEBRA8KA MAN PAS8E8 RHODES
EXAMINATIONS.
WESLEYAN STUDENT IS SUCCESSFUL
COMMITTEE" WILL CH008E BE
TWEEN ENGLI8H AND NEWKIRK.
Both Men Have High Scholarship
Records,; but Have .Not Been
e ' Active In Athletics. .
One state university student, Hor
ace B. English of. Lincoln, and one
student of Wesloyan university, LvH.
Newkirk of Adams, Nob., are the two
Nebraska students who passed , the
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