THE DAILY NEBR A8KAM
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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
EDITORIAL STAFF
Chas. H. Epperson.... Editor-in-Chief
George E. Grimes .... Managing Editor
Era I. Miller Associate Editor
John Cejnar Associate Editor
BUSINESS STAFF
M. L. Poteet .Business Manager
Roy Harney.. Asst. Business Manager
REPORTORIAL STAFF
Ivan O. Beede Marguerite Kauffman
Jean Burroughs Edgar D. Kiddoo
Vivienne Holland John Wenstrand
Ruth Morgan Fern Noble
Offices: News, Basement, University
Hall.
Business, Basement, Admin
istration Building.
Telephones: News, L-8658.
Business, B-2597.
Published daily, except Saturday and
Sunday, during the college year.
Subscription, per semester $1-00
Entered at the postoffice at Lincoln,
Nebraska, as second-class mail matter,
under the act ol Congress of March
S. 1879.
THE FAULTS OF THE
STUDENT COUNCIL
The Student Council plan is not ad
vanced as a cure for all the evils of
the student body. But it is advanced
as a better system than the one now
in use, and as the best system yet
known to several hundred American
colleges and universities.
The election of twenty or twenty
five students from the various parts
of the student body opens the sys
tem to the attack often advanced
against democracies. It will be con
tended that machines will control the
elections; that undesirable politics
will enter in; in a word, that the best
men will not be able to be elected.
At first glance this would seem to
be true. Wherever a group of men
are selected to govern by any sys
tem yet known to man you will find
many poor men, many of average abil
ity, and Borne of the best type. So,
while will we later show that the Stu
dent Council system will assure bet
ter selections than the ordinary popu
lar election systems, we will concede
for the present that many good men
will be defeated for the Council.
It will furthermore be contended
that while for the first few months
of its existence, the Council would be
an efficient body, it would soon be
come a mere form, and lose its use
fulness. This has not been found to
be the case in other colleges, to any
considerable extent. Our exchanges
show that In other schools the Council
is a very busy body. At least one
of the leading news stories of each
issue is devoted to the doings of the
Council. The editorial columns are
constantly commenting on what it
should or should not do. In the light
of these facts, when the Council
must, through elections, trust to the
student body for approval, the best
efforts of the members are assured.
But conceding for the present, as
we have said before, that the ebove
arguments of the opposition are true,
we have only to compare the proposed
system with the one now at Nebraska
to bring the necessity of the former
to vour attention.
At present student life as far as
the student body may be considered
as a political unit is a ship without
a rudder. There are many small or
ganizations, each representing a cer
tain faction of the students. These
lesser organizations work for their
own interests primarily, and occas
sionly attempt something at random
for. the sake of the school. If there
is something needed by the student
body, there is no one to secure the
need except by volunteers, and vol
unteers always have enemies and
rivals. The student body is without
representation.
Yes, it is possible that democracy
does not always select the best men;
it may be that . the Council would
some day grow weary of its burdens
and weaken.
But we believe that it is too clear to
permit argument that a group of stu
dents, having certain responsibilities
concentrated in them, having a con
stituency to whom to report, having
a daily paper to record and comment
on their doings, will get more work
done for the student body than will
no organization at all, with the fac
tions of the student body working at
random.
"JEANNE D'ARC"
Bv Wednesday night's performance
of "Jeanne D'Arc" the School of
Drama added another to its long list
of remarkable successes. This de
partment of the university is doing
wonderful things for Nebraska. It is
doine more than its share to place
Nebraska among the leading educa
tional institutions of the country.
Other departments can profit by the
example of the University Players.
Incidentally, those who are able to
judge, affirm that the students are
learning to understand this class of
production. Members of the faculty
were heard yesterday to comment on
the extraordinary interest and appre
ciation shown by the students in at
tendance. May the good work continue.
PROPER LENSE8
in a Sure-on mounting have
ended eye trouble the world
oyer.
See
HALLETT
BRIEF BITS OF NEWS
All candidates for student member-
Rhin on the athletic board must file
their applications with Dr. Clapp,
secretary of the athletic board:, by
Monday, May 1.
Christine Hanson, '17, and Frank
Boehmer, '19, were initiated into the
Deutsche Gesellige Verein at the
meeting held at the home of Hedwig
Bonekemper last evening.
Important meeting of all senior
girls in Faculty ball, the Temple, at
2:30 o'clock Saturday, April 29.. Ivy
Day songs and daisy chain will be
practiced. Those who have not made
their costumes will have an opportun
ity to make them.
The
met w
South
Report
heard,
formal
played
Deutsche Gesellige Verein
ith Hedwig Bonekemper, 2049
Nineteenth street, last night,
of the picnic committee was
which was followed by an in
program. Later games were
and refreshments served.
The Chicago school of civics and
philanthropy has written asking for
copies of the alumni edition of the
University Journal, which contains a
sketch of the life of Edith Abbott,
'01. Miss Abbott is at present asso
ciate director of the school.
Optometrist
Est. 1871
1143 O
G. E. Spear, B. Sc., M. D., ' Univer
sity of Nebraska, '03; physician and
surgeon. 1417 O 8L B-S02L
Printing that's tetter, at Boyd's, 1M
North 11th.
After dinner dances at Mccormick's
Cafe. Open till 1 p. m. 129 South
Twelfth street.
E. M. Cramb. AH.. B.O., UnL of Ne
braska, '99, Osteopathic Physician,
Burlington EHl. 13th and O Bta.,
Phone B-2734. 44 to M
NON
COMPOS
MENTIS
A CAT OF NINE LIVES
HAS NOTHING ON DICK
Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde can't hold
a candle to Dick Koupal in "Jeanne
D'Arc." The versatility, rapidity and
agility with which Richard took the
part of a Dominican priest, a haughty
governor of Compiegne,' a cringing
tailor, a pious monk and a "wicked"
soldier, must not go unmentioned.
Talk of dual personality, how about
a "quintential" personality?
When outdoors is brighter,
It's hard to sit and think,
The peck of that dern typewriter,
Would drive a man to drink.
And some more:
I'd hate to be a pot of paste,
It really doesn't stick;
I'd rather be a bottle of ink,
It doesn't come off so quick.
"WEATHAH FOCAST"
Tonight: Fair and warmer.
FOR DR. MAXEY
It is rumored that Dr. Maxey is
going to teach in Boulder, Colo., this
summer. Mercy, the doctor certain
ly is getting bolder and bolder every
day.
MAY
All the buds and bees are singing,
All the lily bells are ringing;
All the brooks run full of laughter,
And the wind comes whispering after.
What is this they sing and say?
This is examination day!
See! The fair blue sky is brighter,
And our hearts with hope are lighter,
All the bells of Joy are ringing;
All the grateful voices singing;
All the storms have passed away,
Yesterday was examination day!
Isn't this a) beautiful production of
literary art?
. If you don't like this column, read
the "ads."
SENIORS TRY FOR THE
"GIRL WITH GREEN EYES"
Miss Howell Not Yet Ready to An
nounce the Cast
Senior play tryouts for places in
the cast of "The Girl with the Green
Eyes," were held yesterday, but Miss
Alice Howell, professor of dramatics,
was not able to announce last night
who would make up the cast, nor
would she promise to make the an
nouncement today. A tentative list
was made up in the afternoon, but
additional trials were held later on,
and the list is subject to change.
NEBRASKA ALUMNAE
HONORED IN WE'ST
In a recent meeting at Spokane of
the- Inland Empire Teachers' associ
ation, which includes teachers from
Idaho, Oregon, Montana and Washing
ton, two Nebraska alumnae were
electedj officers. Minnie Petrashek,
'05, was made vice president, and
Golden Denny, '06, assistant profes
sor of home economics of the Wash
ington state university, was made
head of the home economics section
for the coming year.
For Rent Ideal fraternity or sor
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Thirteenth street B-3580. 137-189
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The University School of Music
RELIABLE INSTRUCTION IN ALL
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