frfee ail? IRebraehan VOL. XI. NO. 101. UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, THURSDAY MARCH 7, 1912. Price S Cents l .-. p wm it ' rmS Wf. i -v LOYALTY TO SCHOOL AND DEPARTMENT SAME WHAT 13 AND WHAT 18 NOT TRUE COLLEGE SPIRIT. (0 OPERA TUN IS EVER DEMANDED INSPECTING A WATER PLANT EXPERIENCES HUM0R0U8 AND OTHERWI8E OF ENGINEERING PARTY'S EXPEDITION. Departmental Associations Play Great Part In Building Character of Students. ENGINEERS FEAST SATURDAY. BANQUET TO REUNITE FORMER MEMBER8 OF ENGINEERING COLLEGE. Four years at a unlvoraity give, In addition to the mental training re ceived from a certain proscribed course of Btudy, much that can neither be estimated nor defined. For want of a bettor name, call this, If you will, personality. Coming aB It does In the formativo period of life, with its encircling atmosphere of In dependence and with its plcaBant as sociations which inspiro those char itable qualities of mutual helpfulness, the real university is a character builder. The first year after entering a uni versity environment there aro a great many adjustments to be made in the life of every student. An entirely new order of things presents itsolf. Tho new life brings new personal responsi bilities for both physical and mental development. Now asociatlons muBt bo formed. Changes come with such rapidity that a good quality of self control is necessary to maintain one self at such a time. Tho bewildering Introduction, which takes a more or - lo.HH dnpondent person and in the short space of a few days makes of him an independent being and places him in tho midst of a very strenuous life, fortunately does not last long and in the natural order of things an adjustment is soon made. This 1b the critical time for overy person who faces such conditions. When a pre supposed homesickness wears away and tho person is beginning to cast about for points of common interest between himself and his associates, a false standard of ethics may easily be set up and followed. Leaving out the morality side, which in Itself Is too largo a subject for this article, these brief remarks will be dedicated to student loyalty and college spirit. Loyalty Not Misdirected Antics. A student's loyalty toward that de partment, or college, which claims his allegiance is Indicative of the degree of pride ho will later take In the uni versity as his Alma "Mater. This statements is not without excep tion, but it is quite near the truth. But what is student loyalty and what is college spirit? The first comprises an Intelligent defense of tho institu tion, backed up by firm faith In the objects for which tho institution stands. Tho second Is quite llko tho first,' but is sometimes distorted to moan Varlrcolorod points and tho de struction of property. Loyalty and true college spirit' should be synono mous tennB. They came as a growth, are not acquired In a few short days and are bound up in tljevery Hvos pf tho students, Jn some cases, dur ing the reconstruction period when a student first begins to realize that he is a part of a college community there comes a feeling that ho must have a full grown college spirit and must have it at once. Ho proceeds to act qpon this suggestion in a spectacular way, to the discomfort of When a bunch of hob-nailed en gineers invade a town there Is a riot unloBB they have sneaked in without being caught. We wore caught, and tho small boy web very much Ln evi dence with snowballs and the usual Joko about the college man thinking that ho la more important than a proachor at a wedding ceremony. Tho old timers wore thero, too; those who had survived the grasshopper Inva sion back ln '87. As they munched their cud of HorBoahoe and spat with a doxtorlty acquired only by long years of practice, thoy Informed us that their "water plant didn't need no lnvoicln'." But the wlBor heads of tho town said different, and with the co-operation of every man connected with the plant, the hob-nails sail fed forth to count hydrants, electric light poleB, and well, what wo didn't count would bo much easier to enumerate. Three days of hard work were Bpent collecting data, and a wonderful amount was obtained, too. Very little of It was recorded. It la true we re corded all Items of importance con nected with the plant, but tho largest amount of data was the excellent In formation which was literally thrust upon ub, and which each man of us keeps somowhoro back ln his think box aB one of the treasures of his education. This Information was not all oft an engineering nature, as the FIRE CAUSES HEAVY DAMAGE TO MUSEUM 8OUTHWE8T CORNER OF BUILD ING DE8TROYED BY FLAME8. f ussers wlIT Testify, Uut Itwaff -throo f days of practical experience, of which any "hob-nail" could just be proud. Moral: Froshman engineer, get busy ln practical work now; don't wait till you are ready to graduate. surrounding property. Laudable as this exhibition of latont energy is, Bhowlng as It doeB tho physical pos sibilities of the present and the mental possibilities of the future, yet It Is misdirected energy and soon burns itself out, giving place to a safer and saner ambition. In the true collego spirit there is place for everything that looks toward the promotion of a Saturday ovohlng of this week will occur one of tho blggoBt' banquetB of tho yoar, second only to tho Corn- hiiBker banquot In tho mind of tho engineer. ThlB will bo tho annual engineering banquet, at tho Llndoll hotel, which, from present Indications, will far outdlatanco formor banquets of the collego. R. E. Klpllnger. chairman of tho committee In charge, statoB that ar rangements are being mado to ac commodate two-hundred men. Mr. Venable, manager of tho hotel, is making a. special concession in that he will seat tho banqueters ln tho main dining hall. Notices havo been sent to all alumni ln tho state and many of them will bo prosont at tho banquot. A. L. Hoagland, '00, is to bo toaBtmastor. Mr. Hoagland is an engineer in tho employ of tho Bur lington, with headquarters at Lincoln, and 1b prominent in alumni circles. Tho toast list includes Prof. O. V. P Stout, J. D. Hoffman L. W. Chaffe, G. H. Morse, O. R. Chatburn, and sev eral outsldo speakers whose nameB have not yet been announce. An Interesting foaturo of the even ing will bo tho engineers' quartette, which won prominence at convoca tion. Tickets aro now on sale -and' aro going fast. Thoy may bo secured from J. K. Howett, C. J. Erlcson, J. R. Rippej-and -B.-N-Wilaan, LOSS REACHES 511,000 OR 512,000 Valuable Specimens Burned and Work of Years Rendered Useless De fective Wiring the Cause. Notice. The Senior Masquerade committee will meet at 5:00 o'clock today in U. 10G. University Loyalty Does Not Suffer. The undergraduate has ilttlo time to come into actual contact with and to cultivate a vital appreciation for many departments of tho unlvoraity work, hence, during his collego course, his own particular department re ceives, "aft-a natural consequence, that exhibition of loyalty which, if called for, would be as freely given to tho A fire, occurring between five and six o'clock yesterday morning, burned out the southwest corner of tho Museum building, causing a, total damage estimated at between $11,000 and $12,000. The fire started on the first floor of the building and, shoot ing up through the stairways In on mass of flamo, completely destroyed the woodwork, cases and specimens of that quarter of the structure. Su perintendent Chowlns states that It will require at least $5,000 or $0,000 to reconstruct the damaged portion of the building Itself, and Professor Barbour places the loss to cases and specimens at some $6,000. The fire started beneath the stair case on the first floor whore a series of electric wires ran within a few Inches of a gas meter and probably came In contact with the woodwork, sotting- this afire. The fire from tho woodwork melted tho motor and tho gas, issuing with full prossure from the pipes, was Ignited by the flange and rushed up tho plno stairs. When the night watchman left at five o'clock yoBterday morning thore was no in- flner typo of student fellowship and university. Ho loves his own dopart tho placing, of the university upon a mont because there are thoBe close plane ono notch higher than ever be fore. It does not presuppose a blind faith which overlooks all faults, but it does assume a -hearty co-operation in every lino endeavoring to eliminate faults and bring about a better ordor of things throughout. This evolution of tho Btudent's ideals from tho oarly spontaneous stage to that deep-seated and abiding lovo for everything which reflects honor upon the institution is a growth that comes only with timo and train ing. Like the boy about to leave the old homo to begin life for himself, as he looks back upon his first efforts to attract his father's attention by showing him how well ho could per form some boyish feat of skill, and sees the great changes that have taken, placo ln his, life, so the studont about to graduate surveys his course and realizes what a ppwer the uni versity associations have been ln molding his ideals and how he has un i'ohscIouBly been a! factor in forming thoso college traditions that now so gently bind tilm to tho university- his' university. ' ' companionships developed by mutual work but for all that ho loves his university none tho less -as a student, and because of . it ho will chorlah thoso splendid memories all the more as an alumnus of tho larger institu tion whose name ho soon expects to bear. The cosmopolitan make-up of a uni versity brings together a wide va riety of talent, both latent and active, and gives an equal opportunity for all to develop along lines not prescribed in the course of study. The student who falls to take advantage of his share of these opportunities must sooner or later come to feel a more' or less onesided development. Student activities, when not taken to excess and when proporly selected, have a bonofliclal effect upon both the stu dent and his associates. Finally, 'the accomplishments of a university course re bound up ln thoso-clpso departmental associations, where each learns to feel for and with tho other, accentuated by a consistent depart mental , interest In the all-unVrerslty affairs. v ,. rt- v '' , ', J .. . , - ' dlcatlon of anything wrong and it was but shortly after ho left that the fire started. Whllo tho electric wires all over the other parts of the bulldlgg are enclosed in iron conduits, thoy were loft exposed at the west end of the building for the reason that that portion of the structure Is morely temporary, it having been tho inten tion of the authorities to build on to the west end as soon as sufficient funds could bo acquired. Tho wooden stairs were to have been replaced next summer by circular Iron ones. All the rest of tho building, with the ex ception of this ono point, was entirely fire-proof. Will Not 8top Classes. Tho debris is being cleared away and the staircases being temporarily repaired so that classes will not be materially Interfered with. The lab oratories and offices ln 'the east end of tho museum were uninjured. A largo amount of Professor Bar bour's most valuable specimens were destroyed. Ono large panel mount of a small two-horned rhinoceros upon which tho museum officials were work ing and which is valued at $1,000, was burned to a crisp. This specimen was of extreme value to Professor. Barbour, slnco'it was an Illustration of a now system of panel mounting of his own invention, and had won much praise from zoologists. Another slab, containing a large number- of bones, that was destroyed was also valued at $1,000. The fur and feathers on many specimens we're crumpled and singed, and the' results .of years of work on the part pf professors aad assistants has been .rendered useless. Cause Clearly .Shown. ' Professor Barbour, makjfa the state- (Cont lneToaMBfoiirT? ' ' m n i - - r'i '' ' ' I - -Y , . ....J fW .w, ,.,! Tj.-ff-w.' ir