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VOL. XV. NO. 97.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1916.
PRICE 5 CENTS.
JAP INFLUENCE
HURTING KOREA
8AY8 HENRY CHUNQ, BEFORE
WORLD OUTLOOK SEMINAR
The Military Power of the Island
Empire .la Overcoming
Democracy
The problems of Korea, the life of
the little Asiatic nation now dominat
ed by Japan, formed the theme for
the first meeting of the World Out
look Seminar, at the Temple last eve
ning. Henry Chung, Y. P. Chung, and
K. C. Chang, native Koreans,, dis
cussed their native land, and the au
dience of students was deeply in
terested. Henry Chung, speaking on "The
Political Life of Korea," told of the
influence of Japanese , domination
"Korea was annexed by Japan for the
same reason that the United States
annexed New Mexico," he said. "Force
made it right. The reason Korea is
the least heard of nation in the world
today is because Koreans can say
nothing without being heard by the
Japanese.
"The only weapon for Korean ad
vancement," he continued, "is to
arouse public sentiment and education
on the subject in the United States.
"The Japanese have helped debauch
Koreans by the introduction of Japa
nese prostitutes and vices. I have
nothing against the Japanese as a na
tion, but their military power rules,
and the beaurocrats dominate."
Y. P. Chung spoke briefly of Korea's
industries and problems of industrial
life. He was followed by K. C.
Chang, who told of Christianity in
Korea.
Christianity, first brought to Korea
in 1873, has grown in Influence until
the Christian population numbers
250,000 today, according to Chang.
"It is due to Christianity that Korean
women have been raised from their
degraded condition," he said, "and
there are now high schools and col
leges for women there."
INTERFRAT COUNCIL MEETS
An important meeting of the active
men of the interfraternity council will
be held Thursday at 11 o'clock in U
107 D. Bring lists of active men and
pledges.
REGISTRAR GREER
DISPUTEEDITORIAL
Declares No Resolutions for Paving
Petitions Have Been Given Him
"I never saw such a thing, and I
want to be quoted in a general de
nial of the editorial in The Daily Ne
braskan for Tuesday," Registrar
Greer stated Tuesday afternoon. He
referred to the statement in The Ne-
braskan that members of the faculty
had prepared resolutions looking to
ward the petitioning for paving of
streets near the university, for the
elimination of noise.
"Had you ever heard of such a
thing?" Mr. Greer was asked.
"No," he replied, and then he qual
ified it slightly by saying that he did
know of a resolution proposed by a
member of the faculty of th law
college, that referred to the noise, but
did not refer to paving. Mr. Greer
handled this resolution merely as sec
retary of the faculty body, he said.
The Student and the University
To The Nebraskan:
Your question, "What Is the Most
Important Thing for the Student to
Get Out of Hia University Life," puz
zles me. I feel like a hungry youth
handed a menu card in a great res
taurant with the words, "What is the
best thing there." Tastes differ, needs
differ. The principal order today
might not be the same tomorrow.
The answer I give you is on the Im
pulse of the moment.
Let the student first of all get from
his studies, from his relations with
his fellows, and from the student ac
tivities an ability to think soundly.
Honest, fearless, sound thinking will
bring other important things. It will
lead the student to prepare for life
adequately and teach him to use his
acquired skill wisely. It will enable
him to estimate things at their true
value. It will prevent him from be
coming a careless trifler on the one
hand and a fanatical egoist on the
other.
I am giving the students nothing
startlingly new in the above para
graph. Most new ideas come as the
result of unsound thinking. When
sound thinking actually produces
something new, the world remembers
it a long while and when it becomes
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CHANCELLOR AVERY
an old truth an occasional re-statement
is justified. This is why I am
writing to you in this vein.
S. AVERY.
Y. W. C. A, HISTORY
T0LDAT VESPERS
ALUMNAE RELATE EARLY ASSO
CIATION STRUGGLES .
SILVER SERPENTS
AGAINHELP POOR
WILL SEND MAGAZINES INTO
FIFTEEN HOMES
Junior Girls' Society Disposes of the
Remainder of Christmas
Tag Day Fund
The Silver Serpents, Junior girls'
society, will make fifteen homes of
Lincoln poor people happy by send
ing them for one year The Youth's
Companion. This decision was made
at a meeting of the girls in Faculty
hall yesterday.
"You have no idea of the benefit and
the joy you will give them, and we
greatly appreciate your action in mak
ing this work possible," Miss Corbin,
principal of the Bancroft school, wrote
in a letter to the girls about the sub
scriptions for the magazine.
The money for the subscriptions,
$30, is the remainder of the amount
raised at Tag Day last Christmas. At
that time about $140 was raised, but
little over $100 of which was needed
for dinners for the poor not otherwise
cared for. Since then some baskets
of coal have been sent to people rec
ommended by some charitable organi
zation.
The approach of spring made the
usual charity gifts unnecessary, ana
the girls cast about for some way of
spending the money that was left in
their treasury. Mrs. Williams, of the
department of sociology, suggested
that the greatest good could be done
with the amount in hand by sending
some good weekly magazine to homes
with children who could not afford it.
This suggestion was discussed and
finally adopted as the best means of
disposing of the money.
O. T. ' Swan, '04, secretary of the
Hemlock and Hardware Manufacur
ers' association, one of the largest
i.imhor Associations in the northwest.
gave at the last annual convention,
held at Milwaukee, an important re
port, which was printed in the Lum
ber World Review of this month.
REPUBLICANS TO MEET
A meeting of the university repub
licans has been called for tonight.
No hint as to what is to be done
could be obtained, but the mere an
nouncement that the business is to be
"startling" has aroused the curiosity
of democrats.
WALLACE'S WORK
SUBJECTS PROGRAM
THURSDAY CONVOCATION IN
HONOR OF ABSENT TEACHER
COMMITTEE REPORT
ON STUDENT HONORS
RECOMMENDATIONS FOR UNDER
GRADUATE HONORS
Close Vote on Establishing Commit
teeLost, 31 to 29; Report
Tabled, 42 to 16
Phi Beta Kappa Chapter Will Pre
sent Wallace's Shakes
pearean Studies
The proposed system of student
honors, turned down by faculty vote
as reported in The Nebraskan Tues
day, is given below, as presented to
the faculty by the committee.
The, members of the faculty found
nna difficulty in the proposed sys
tem would be to give a definition of
"advanced courses," In the sense used
in the report.
A close division of the faculty oc
curred on the vote on that part of
the recommendation that provided for
a committee on honors in the arts and
sciences college. It lost 31 to 29.
The motion to lay the report on the
table was carried, 42 to 16.
The committee report is given be
low:
The purpose of the system of hon
ors herewith proposed is to encour
age a high standard of scholarship
in the university. The plan suggested
is based upon a study of devices which
seem to have been successful elsewhere.
I. Sophomore Honors.
At the close of each semester lists
shall be prepared of those students
who have obtained high standing in
their two years' work; that is, in their
first sixty hours. Students whose av-
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Prof. C. W. Wallace's Shakesperean
discoveries will be discussed at con
vocation tomorrow morning. The pro
gram has been arranged by Dr. Louise
Pound, president, and Prof. R. J.
Pool, secretary of the local chapter of
Phi Beta Kappa, under whose auspices
it is given, and of which Professor
Wallace is also a member.,
The program will be: .
"The Aims of Professor Wallace,"
and "Professor Wallace and the Eng
lish Drama before Shakespeare," by
Dr. L. A. Sherman.
"Professor Wallace and Shakespear
ean Biography," by Miss Amy Arm
strong.
"Professor Wallace and the Black
friars and Globe Theatres," by Prof
S. B. Gass.
"The London Public Record Office,"
by Dr. Guernsey Jones.
All the papers will be short and the
program will not run over the custom
ary half hour fixed for the convoca
tion period. Everybody is invited to
come. Convocation will open prompt
ly at 11 o'clock.
Prof. C. W. Wallace is at present
on leave of absence in London. He
is' a member of the faculty in Eng
lish literature of the University of
Nebraska.
BIG DEMAND FOR
ENGINEERS STOUT
"There are more positions open for
graduate engineers than can be filled,"
said Dean O. V. P. Stout yesterday.
During the past week companies have
heon writing in to Dean Stout ask
ing him to Bend out men for every
position from tool designer to that of
instructor in engineering subjects.
Organization Has Given Splendid
Women Workers to
the World
The history of the Y. W. C. A. was
told to the members at vespers yes
terday. Mrs. A. G. Warner, '86, said
that twelve girls met at her home one
Saturday afternoon and organized the
university Y. W. C. A. It met only on
Sundays and about twenty out of the
thirty members came out. This was
an exceptionally good attendance for
the number of girls in school at that
time. The first thing the Y. W. C. A.
accomplished for university women in
general was to furnish a women's rest
room in the southwest corner of "U"
hall, which was the main building at
that time.
Mrs. J. E. Almy, '96, said that while
she was in the university, the Y. W.
C. A. had a very strong missionary
spirit. Out of the five officers in 1895,
three are foreign missionaries today.
In 1893, the association had a settle
ment house at Eighth and X streets
in an old schoolhouse. Services were
held here on Sunday and the teachers
were furnished by the Y. M. C. A. and
the Y. W. C. A.
Dr. Winifred Hyde gave as her idea
of a justification of the Y. W. C. A.
work, the recognition of the develop
ment of the spiritual in life. Because
so much stress is laid on the intellec
tual side of school life, one is almost
ashamed of the spiritual side. It is
the thing that distinguishes humans
from animals. The Y. W. C. A. is an
organization for bringing girls to
gether to further spiritual life aild
this Is needed to develop a person
just as much as the intellectual side
of life.
There is not an individual who lives
a normal life who does not find, at
Borne certain time, that he, as an in
dividual, is not sufficient. If the Y.
W. C. A. stands for this spiritual life,
its members should try to control the
life and ideas of the student body.
CO-EDS TAKE UP
VOLLEYBALL GAME
New Indoor Sport Follows Basket
ball Season
Co-ed athletes are now batting a
light and airy volley ball across a
tennis net instead of tossing the bas
ketball into the baskets, for the bas
ketball season closed with the tour
nament last Saturday night, and vol
ley ball is now "the game." Miss
Ina Gittings, director of the women's
gymnasium, states that so many girls
expressed their wish to know the
game of volley ball that it was de
cided to teach the game during the
time intervening between the basket
ball season and the track and indoor
baseball season. There will be no
class tournament, unless the girls de
mand It. Practices are held at 1
o'clock Monday, Tuesday, Thursday
and Friday. The large number of
players that have turned out predict
an enthusiastic season.