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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1914
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- Schiller.
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tend Convocation this morning. Al
bert Watkins, state historian and
well known writer, will give an ad
dress on "What Not to Study in Col
lege."
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day night dance? If it is a good
thing, and we think it is, let's have
one before Thanksgiving. The Daily
Nebraskan staff will be there in full
force.
DEMOCRACY AND SUFFRAGE
One of the fundamental tenets of
democracy is the proposition that gov.
ernments derive their just powers
from the consent of the governed.
Democracy recognizes only one
limitation. For the general good of
society, those very young, those
mentally defective, and those guilty
of anti-social acts are governed with
out their consent.
The ballot is the means through
which the governed express their con
sent. It follows, then, that all except
those subject to the above limitation
are entitled to the franhclse.
Now, no one will for a moment con
tend that women can be classified
under this limitation applicable to the
Intellectually and morally unfit. And
women, of course, are half of those
governed. A real believer in democ
racy, therefore, cannot but come to
the conclusion that women ought to
have a direct voice in the manage
ment of their government.
To those who do not believe in or
have never caught a vision of democ
racy, the above reasoning naturally
carries little weight
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The Black Masques are completing
plans to fill a section In the north
stands with 400 girls. They have re
served a complete section at Harry
Porter's. These tickets will be re
served for any Unl girl till Thursday,
so all those wishing to sit In this sec
tion should secure their reservations
immediately.
EFFECTS OF WAR IN THE
EVOLUTION OF THE DRAMA
By Felix Newton.
Many people think that war destroys
scholarship, literature, art and the
drama. These people are prophesying
a return of the dark ages and a deluge
of the civilized intellect as the in
evitable results of the present war In
Europe, Asia, , Africa and Odeanica,
which toy reason of its widespread,
Armageddon-like nature eludes all
bur attempts to classify and name it.
As a matter of fact, these pessi
mistic prophets, if they would drink
more deeply at thia fountain of the
history of the drama, would do all in
their power to recall these hastily
uttered words. For a careful perusal
of world history and more particularly
that of literature, art and the drama
reveals how much the mustes are in
debted to Mars. i
The drama originates from war
songs or ballad dances. The primi-.
tlve man after capturinng or defeat
ing his enemy sang songs and sup
ported them by their sister arts of
music and dancing. The first his
torical war song or canticle was sung
by Moses in tilumphing over Phar
aoh. (Cf. Exodus, Ch. 15, v. l, etc.)
The second war song of history is
Miriam's song 6f deliverance described
in verses twenty and twenty-one of
chapter fifteen of Exodus which tell
how Miriam "took a timbrel in hier
hand, and all the women went out
after her with timbrels and With
dances." iA, third war song is the
noted canticle of Deborah described
in the book of Judges, chapter five.
Biblical examples of war songs can
ba multiplied almost indefinitely.
When tribes defeated one another
they celebrated triumphs in great re
ligious festivals such as the dithyram
bic dance used in honor of the god,
DIonysius, better known as Bacchus,
his p"et name, by the GreelB. The
Greeks have many dramatists. When
they conquered the Persians new dra
matists appeared among them. The
three great tragic poets, Aeschylus,
Sophocles and Euripides, called the
fathers of Greek tragedy, were all in
fluenced by the Greeko-Perslan wars.
Aeschylus, the oldest or at least the
first tragedian, was a combatant both
at Marathon annd Salamis. Sophocles
was onie of the generals of the Athen
ian armament against Samos in 440
B. C, and both Sophocles and Euri
pides expired only a year before the
battle of Aegospotami, Just in time to
escape the bitter humiliation and
suffering of that mournful period. The
"Parsae" of Aieschylus, brought out in
472 B. C, is a magnificent dramatic
song of triumph, celebrating the vic
tory of Greece over the invading hosts
of Persia. Sophocles' "AJax," because
of its martial tone, "appealed power
fully to the national pride." In the
case of the Greeks these mytnical
types of heroes portrayed In the
'Ajax" and other tragedies of these
great poets had not merely an artistic
and a moral interest they had a politi
cal and religious Interest, because the
Greeks believed that the epic heroes
sprung from thia gods, were their own
ancestors. Direct lineagw was the
ground on which the Greeks trusted
that the Greek gods would help them
against other men, speaking "barbar
ian" tongues, and other gods, the pro
genitors of "barbarians." Ia this we
see the martial spirit affects Greek
and German alike.
During the Elizabethan age, when
Drake and Hawkins were ravaging the
Spanish main and the glorious victory
over the Armada was celebrated in
song and verse, the drama reached its
climax In England. Dramatists such
as Shakespeare and Ben Johnson ap
peared on Jhe scene. At the same
period Spain produced Lope Felix de
Vega Carpio (1562-1625), commonly
known as Lope de Vega. Cervantes
called him a "prodigy of nature" and
own dramatic attempts seemed worth
less to him. At the age of fifteen he
sierved as a soldier against the Porta
guese and later Joined the famous Ar
mada eent against England. He wrote
nearly ' a thousand books. Calderon
was a noted contemporary of Lope de
Vega and both were the pets of their
nation. A. W. Schl'egel says of them:
"All Is finished with the most perfect
talent, agreeable to fixed principles
and to the first rules of art."
, The thirty years' war and that of the
Spanish succession raised the French
drama to its highest elevation under
the leadership of Cornenille, Racine
and Mollere and their followers.
In Germany, after the conquests of
Frederick the Great, a new dramatic
era came, and men like Klopstock,
Lesslng, Goethe and Schiller appeared
at the front. The deeds of the ancient
German hero, Armlnlus (Hermann),
were celebrated in the dramas of
Klopstock. Lessing's chief works were
"Laccoon" and the tragedy of "Emilia
Galottl." Goethe, Germany's, greatest
poet, attained the height of his power
during the Napoleonic wars when
Europe was convulsed as never be
fore until now. This cosmopolitan gen
ius was too broad to be tied down by
the leading-strings of any single na
tion. "To the present day his out
spoken admiration of Napoleon and his
cold abstenatlon from the ardent en
thusiast of the Prussian war of libera
tion has not been forgiven by certain
Germans." In "William Tell" and
"Wallenstein" we see thie germs of the
war spirit had been innoculated into
Schiller.
During the revolutionary war in our
country, when the Hessians partici
pated in the attempt to suppress
American liberty. Hunger's drama,
"Stur znand Drang," appeared in Ger
many.
The Crimean war brought forth
Count Alexis Tolstoi, the author of the
famous dramas, "Ivan the Terrible,"
"Czar Feodor," and "Czar Boris Go-
unoff."
From these illustrations, we per
ceive that war is th'a germinating soil
for the growth of the drama for which
It provides new heroes and characters.
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UNIVERSITY STUDENT
IN GERMAN ARMY
Gertrard Krugger Responds to Call of
Fatherland Good Student While
in Nebraska.
Gertrard Krugger, an alumnus of
Nebraska, has responded to the call
of his fatherland and is now in the
ranks fighting for the Kaiser. While
In the university Krugger applied him
self closely to the course he took and
secured fine grades. He made many
acquaintances and all of them became
friends who are now awaiting some
word as to his safety. It has not been
definitely ascertained whether he has
been in any of the battles thus far or
not, but the probabilities are that he
has had more than one chance to
prove his loyalty to his king. Previous
to the outbreak of the war he was in
the United States, and was among the
first to go back to take up arms
against the nations which the Kaiser
has decreed should be vanquished.
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