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under tne aci 01 "6.icdo
3, 1879.
THE SINGLE TAX AND
ATTENDANCE AT EVENTS
In addition to the arguments con
sidered on the front page of this is
Bue, those opposed to the Single Tax
have advanced In the Forum others of
interest. Someone has said that at
tendance at schol events is a distrac
tion, pulling the unwilling student
from his studies.
To consider this matter on its mer
its would open up for discussion the
value of activities by way of diver
sion from studies, and supplementary
thereto. We are not disposed to argue
this matter now. The fact that one's
education consists of something be
sides the classroom; the fact that
mingling with one's fellows in society
and self-government is of nearly as
great Importance as the mastery of a
lesson, have been so long accepted
on this campus by students and fac
ulty alike that they are now dead is
sues. The attitude of the grind that
nothing which calls him from his book
should be countenanced no longer
finds sympathy from anyone.
But a more worthy argument is ad
vanced when they maintain that ac
tivities must be attended to be of
any benefit. Why even this argument
must fail, however, is not hard to see.
Such attendance Is important, but not
necessary. Anyone who seeks a po
sition when he graduates will find
that the standing of his school Is due
largely to its prominence in student
activities. Of course, this is not neces
sarily a commendable fact, but it is
true nevertheless. The standing of
a school in athletics, in the matter
of its daily paper, even in its internal
social -activity, are of commercial
value to Its graduates. This value is
accepted equally by the students who
have helped to make the school what
it is and those who have been grinds.
Furthermore, the very spirit in
-which the student lives is largely
determined by the standard of the ac
tivities of the school. A student may
refuse to read his school publica
tions; he may refuse to attend or
pay any attention to athletics con
tests; he may decline to meet his fel
lows In social life; he may neglect
to hear the masters of debate trained
by his alma mater, but he cannot re
sist the feeling of optimism and life,
of progress and hope, brought on by
a great football or debating victory,
a successful social occasion, or a live
student publication. It is this con
stant background of mood more than
the grades he receives that is to de
termine whether he graduates as use
ful and progressive citizen, or a cal
lous and unfeeling grind. The crab
may angrily draw within his shell to
resist the oncoming wave, but it has
never been known to refuse the mor
sels of food which the tide leaves
witMn its reach.
The Student Should Know
STUDENT ACTIVITIES COMMITTEE
The Student Activities committee is
a body of faculty members who ex
ercise a kind but firm supervision over
all student organizations.
Until the organization of this com
mittee, the university had no regula
tions concerning student functions.
Tartles could be held at any time,
with no closing limit. All the chair
men of the various social functions
paid the bills and pocketed the re
mainder. .
All this is changed now. A rule
limiting partlse to Friday and Satur
day evenings, with 12 o'clock closing,
has been Inaugurated. Now the com
mittee chairmen deposit all moneys
received under the direction of the
auditor of the Student Activities com
mittee, and the surplus for class af
fairs goes into the class treasury.
Many unusual questions are sub
mitted to the committee by students.
A few of them, mentioned by Profes
sor Chatburn, chairman, In a recent
article in the University oJurnal, are
given below:
"May dramatic and glee clubs per
form away from Lincoln V
"May women take part in intercol
legiate games?"
"May a law fraternity turn its week
ly meeting Into a dinner at the ho
tel?" "These and numerous other ques
tions, from boarding house regular
tiona to the latest 'dance hold' are
constantly occurring," said Professor
Chatburn.
The personnel of the committee at
present is:
George R. Chatburn, chairman;
Mary Graham, secretary; I B. Tuck
erman, auditor; C. C. EngtK z, Flor
ence McGahey, P. M. Buck at 1 F. W.
Sanford.
UNIVERSITY NOTICES
The meeting of the Business Wom
en's club has been postponed until
March 9. 1916. This is due to the
illness of Professor J. E. LeRossig-nol.
The annual banquet of the Deutsche
Gesellige Verein will be held in the
Lincoln hotel Friday evening, March
3, at 6:30 o'clock.
On University Night the gallery
will open at" 7: 45 o'clock. The regu
lar 10c admission will be charged as
heretofore. Those few who procured
tickets at the Temple and found the
lower floors sold out can exchange
the same at the gallery ticket win
dow on Saturday evening for a regular
Oliver admission ticket to the gallery.
The Palladian society will give a
leap year program Friday evening,
March 3, at 8 o'clock. A cordial in
vitation is extended to all.
The Christian Science society of the
university will meet tonight at 7:30
o'clock in Faculty hall.
CARDINAL MERCIER THANKS
AMERICANS FOR BELGIANS
G. E. Spear, B. Sc., M. D.f Univer
sity of Nebraska, '03; physician and
urgeon. 1417 O St B-3021.
London. Cardinal Mercier, primate
of Belgium, has addressed the fol
lowing letter to Mr. Herbert C.
Hoover, chairman of the American
Committee for Relief in Belgium:
"I understand you have so kindly
addressed anew an appeal to the gen
erosity of your countrymen to pro
vide clothing for our painfully desti
tute people. I confess I had much
preferred to shake hands with my
American brothers in token of thank
fulness for what they already have
done than that we should again
stretch to them the open hand to
beg.
"Your country has already done so
much for us; it has given us much
food, and, above all, in personal co
operation for our economic rehabili
tation, it brings us this help with such
a moving and complete spontaneity
that we have long desired to convey
to your people a full expression of
gratitude, untarnished by renewed ap
peals to their generous impulses. But
you yourself, dear friend, invoke us
to appease our scruples and therefore,
I, knowing better than any one the
destitution of our Belgian people,
Ehould feel myself a traitor to my
duty as their pastor, if, through an
exaggerated feeling of national pride,
I should refrain from also pleading
for those who are suffering.
"Only yesterday tears arose in my
eyes when, crossing the street in Mo-
lines, I met a party of strong, hon
est workmen with stooping heads,
their eyes fixed on new clogs. These
were men habituated to the support
of wives and children through their
own labor, but had been for fifteen
months without work. The last of
their savings are exhausted.- Their
shoes were worn out, and the relief
committee had distributed among
them some clogs, with the Injunction
to usethe leather rags from the worn
out shoes as linings to keep their feet
from dampness.
"You Americans, who prize highly
the value of labor and so possess the
natural impulse of earning comfort
and success by your own exertions,
will well understand the mental suf
fering of noble souls forced to de
pend on charity. Therefore, you also
know how to hide your liberalities un
der anonymous veils and how to dis
tribute them through hands as deli
cate as they are discreet Interpreter)
of the feelings of the Belgian popu
lation, we thank you as much and
more for your way of giving than for
the gifts themselves. May I add that
one of the greatest benefits for which
we shall feel eternally indebted to
the American people will be the fix
ing on America of the admiring at
tention of the Belgians? The Belgian
people have learned to know you well,
to look at you in a beautiful light
to feel to some extent what they
would gain in following in your foot
steps "When the hour of reconstruction
comes, we will invoke them to keep
eyes on your great land of fecun
dating initiatives; your land of ambi
tion for more comfort, not through
covetoushess of other people's wealth,
but through tenacious will to individ
ual endeavor, with a patriotism that
ignores civil discord and draws its
strength from a collective love for na
tional progress; yes, we will invoke
our people to imitate your high vir
tues and we are confident that our
benefactors will find in this spreading
of their own moral influence their
real reward.
"Please accept dear friend, the ex
pression of high esteem and devoted
gratitude.
CARDINAL MERCIER,
"Archbishop of Molines."
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