The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, February 25, 1913, Image 2

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    THE DAILY N E B K A S K A N
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THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA.
Lincoln
C. L. HEIN
Edltor-in-Chlof
Managing Editor
Aaeoclato Editor
Associate Editor
ABBOdato Editor..
Literary Editor
BuelnCflH Manager.
Assistant Manngor.
Konnoth M. Snydor
John L. Cutrlght
C. Noll Brown
Elizabeth Mason
.Chandler Trimble
C. Buchanan
J. L. Drlscoll
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $2 PR YEAR
Payable in Advance
Single Copies, 5 Cents Each.
TELEPHONES
Office 13-1888. Night Phono B-4204
Editor B-1018 Manager B-1821
cnl climax, whero Horace Oceoley
would give birth to immortal phrase,
Tho Daily Nebraska!! relies exclusively
on slang Tho Awgwan, an amusing
and valuable paper, Is avowedly an ex
ageration of the same defect Inspec
tlon readily discloses that our short
lived college literature draws a fow
short and feeblo breaths and expresses
itself in meaningless slang
Few studentH deploro tho passing of
WebRterian diction. Many are glad it
is gone They assert that Macaulay's
brand of English is too profuse, too
ornate They assert that it falls to
conceal Its own art, and that the only
kind of sentiments it Is fit to exprh
are tho kind that college students don't
care to road They declare that the
style of Burke or Calhoun is only sult
ed to the expression of ideas that make
people think And they contend that
the ideal college literature is not one
that makes the reader think, but one,
that excites, amuses and dies Thoyi
conch inn an historical drama, like
"Nathan Hale," beoauso they Bay it is,
Impossible for a college student to
, learn to weep, and they insist that a
good college daily is one which coals
up on slang and repeats a passing en
thusiasm in barbarous Engfllsh A do
Bire to be relieved of tho necessity for
thinking underlies to a very large ex
tent the demand for so much slangy
literature.
" "" " We do not sharo this view of an ideal
SLANG. college literature We want to think.
Judged by tho college literature one We want to read literature that makes
Is expected to read and commanded to us think
Entered at tho postomco at Lincoln,
Nebraska, an Becond-clasB mall matter,
under tho Act of CongreBB of March 3,
1879.
TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 25. 1013.
CONVOCATION'.
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enjoy, the English language has out
lived itfl usefulness Slang is the pre
vailing mode of expression Private
conversation rooks with slang The
average Freshman theme, insofar as
such a production has any real life, 1b
slang; slang that 1b usually not sot off
by a single quotation mark to distin
guish it from tho regular, conservative
brand of language. Dally Nobraskan
writers with scarcely five hundred of
Shakespeare's fifteen thousand words
at their command too often express a
literary novlce'B fuzzy sentiments in
slang; slang that syncopates like rag
time but rarely gives expression to a
finely chiseled ideal The new Ian-
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We want to read literature
that makes us think We want that lit
eraure to be expressed in language
that has been long enough in use for
us to know what it means In college
and out of college, that is the sub
stance of our demand
College is primarily an institution
for thought, and college literature
should be the kind that makes you
think This standard does not exclude
lighter stuff It does not exclude hu
mor The humor that survives, like
the poetry, fiction and philosophy that
survives abounds In the truth element
and is expressed in the most beauti-.
ful and conventional language. Until
our collegiate literature changes its
guage, like Tallyrand's, is made not . idoal and makes some headway toward
to express but to conceal thought He-1 realizing its ideal, we'll subscribe for
causo of slang it is Increasingly difll the Rag and the Awgwan but we'll read
cult to distinguish the other sections of Ingersoll and Macaulay
a newspaper from the .sporting section j
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