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FRIDAY. DECEMBER 18. 1914
Snobbery is the pride of those who
are not sure of their position. Berton
Braley.
r.oing hunting Christmas day?
Harold Prince declares our editorial
on four-flushing never touched him.
Heavens! We wish we could write
better.
Petty thieving around the Univer
sity will soon come to an abrupt end.
We had expected to publish this morn
ing tl) names of at least three stu
dents who are known to have sticky
fingers, but we understand the authori
ties want a little more evidence. The
University must be cleaned of these
morally weak individuals who can't
keep their hands off other people's
things.
CHRISTMAS
The Daily Nebraskan wishes it
readers a happy Christmas. Enjoy
yourselves, get acquainted with the
folks, and come back fresh and eager
for solid work. t
We read last night the following
paragraph from Van Dyke, which ex
presses in excellent language the ideal
Christmas spirit:
"Are you willing to stoop down and
consider the needs and desires of
little children; to remember the
weakness and loneliness of people who
are growing old; to stop asking how
much your friends love you, and ask
whether you love them enough; . .
to make a grave for your ugly
thoughts and a garden for your kindly
feelings with the gate open are you
willing to do these things for a day?
Then you can keep Christmas."
THE FORUM
The Student Body of the University of
Nebraska:
The world held up its bands in hor
ror at the press reports of the wanton
destruction of beautiful Louvain. Art
wept at the loss of priceless treasures
used to feed the flames of revenge of
an invading army. Civilization stood
aghast at the atrocious deeds com
mitted in the Twentieth century. But
did we but consider for a moment we
should see that these are but the
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progeny of war, reprisals dealt out by
a hand guided by a mind unbalanced
by a lust for slaughter and devasta
tion, not restricted to one country
alone, but practiced by all who par
ticipate in such a struggle. There are
pages in the history of our own Amer
ican wars too dark for the public eye
to gaze upon. Such things can not be
justified, but may be only partially ex
cused by the spirit of war.
If we can not justify such deeds in
time of war, how can we even allow
acts of destruction and mutilation in
our very midst In times of peace,
when we are in the best position of
any people in the world to appreciate
peace today? We of the University of
Nebraska have been particularly fa
vored, and yet there are men, and
women too, in our institution who, by
their acts in moments of thoughtless
ness, are lowering themselves and the
remainder of the student body to the
level of barbarous war. We have
some beautiful buildings on our cam
pus, and in the near future will have
more. They are not beautiful because
critics have judged them for thtir
architecture and setting, but because
of the men ard women who have
worked within their walls and have
gone out into the world to beter their
fellowmen by teaching and living the
truths they learned here. One of
these buildings is the Law building.
the finest of its kind in the west, just
little over a year old, and yet its
furniture and walls are marred by
scars that are worse than those on
the face of stricken Europe, because
of their being absolutely without justi
fication. In the large freshman audi
torium, which is used by both arts
and science and law students, there
are literally hundreds of initials,
names of men and women, fraterifity
and sorority letters, dates, figures.
imless scratches, marked there with
fountain pens in blue, black and red
ink, and in -one or two instances the
characters are cut deep in the wood
of the desks. In two of the rooms
used only by arts and science stu
dents the conditions are as bad. One
chair in particular has a large grue
some face and the initials II. K. G.
cut above it. Such conduct should be
enough to bar the guilty ones from
the University.
Fellow students, is this right? Is
this a proptr retutn to the taxpayers
of the state for the eighty-five thou
sand dollars invested in that building?
Is It a proper expression of our ap
preciation for the three hundred and
fifty thousand dollars they are going
to give us each year for the next six,
to build more beautiful buildings on
our campus? You organizations,
whose letters are so horribly, dis
played there, are you proud to have
those ugly scars go down In history
as advertisements of the kind of men
and women that you have sent to the
institution that you should love? If
not, see that they are removed and
that no more are placed there. Every
member of the student body and every
organization as a larger unit should
frown upon this thing until it is un
heard of in our school. Every student
should feel a personal interest In
every building that would forbid such
things. Every mark that is made
there not only injures the Individual,
but it injuries society. Last but not
least, there is a law upon our statute
book prohibiting just that thing, and
every person who commits such an
act is a law breaker. Help us to
stamp this out
J. LLOYD M'MASTER.
THE LAST BANQUET
(Continued from page 1)
modeled after the ancient Etruscan to
the member of the team who should
be chosen oy a majority of those pres
ent as the most valuable player. Cap
tain Halligan, Rutherford, Chamber
lain, and in fact all the players in
turn were named and voted down ana
the choice finally fell to Charley Sher
man of the State Journal on account or
his modest ways and reputation for
telling the truth. Mr. Sherman grace
fully accepted the gift, estimated its
value at $300 and then generously re
turned it to the donors w,ith the re
quest that it be used to alleviate the
sufferings of the worthy poor.
Johnnie Westover finished the pro
gram by telling how he used to make
Minneapolis look as if the Uhlans haa
been through. Several hospitals ha
to close up in the Gopher state after
Mr. Westover received his degree
owing to a lack of material, and lire
insurance rates on football men were
rednced 60 per cent throughout the
Missouri Valley on the day he grad-
uaiea. Altogether the affair was a
hilarious cecess and even those who
were not permitted to speak felt that
they had spent a most enjoyable
evening.
Notes From Foundry Work Department
The Advanced Foundry Work, M. E
3a, has begun. The first heat will be
taken off Friday. Castings for the
courses In M. E. 4 and M. E. 5 will be
made by this section.
The new steel cinder box made by
the students in M. E. 3 for the Foun
dry adds very much to the improve
ment of the area-way.
W. H. Xoeltios, '12, of the Faultless
Caster Co., Evansville, Indiana, was a
campus visitor Wednesday.
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It cost the state university $438,
415.96 to run from May 31 to Novem
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of Judge James Stuart Dales, secretary
of the university, for the six months
period just ended. Of this amount
$172,019.32 went for salaries In gen
eral activities, and $31,236.04 for sal
aries in special activities.
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