THE D A I L NIBEASKAN
THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
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THE FACULTY AND
THE STUDENT COUNCIL
The faculty 'at the University of
Nebraska have never been oppressive
in their attempt to supervise student
affairs. They have been content
with establishing a few reasonable,
though strict, rules regarding student
conduct. Beyond the enforcement of
these, there has been little interfer
ence in student life here.
There are times, however, when
faculty advice is highly desirable in
matters strictly limited to the life
of the student body as such. At
present such a condition is before us.
The matter of the Student Council is
one of great Importance to the stu
dent body. The faculty have wit
nessed the coming and going of many
generations of students. Most of them
have taught in other schools, and
thus are acquainted with conditions
In different environments. They are
more familiar with the relation of
the student to the state than we are.
We have therefore asked several
prominent members of the faculty to
give their opinion as to the advis
ability of adopting the Student Coun
cil. These opinions, as given on the
front page, have been requested by
us, and are not the attempt on the
part of anyone to thrust anything
down our throats.
ELIGIBILITY TO THE
INNOCENT SOCIETY
amend their rules or cease to lay
claim to being a representative gov
erning body. The four men named
above are but instances of many more
men about the campus -who are very
influential in student affairs. They
are leaders and always will be lead
ers of the student body. The fact
that such men exercise more real
leadership than do the members of
the Innocent society is the reason
why the student body has never been
warm in its welcome of the Innocents
as their leaders. These various lead
ers of the school, under the present
system, can work for good bnly in
their various organizations. These or
ganizations bear no burden of work
ing for the good of the student body
except as they may see fit.
Under the Student Council system,
we would have a plan whereby the
real leaders could be elected to a
body having as Its duty looking after
the interests of the student body.
The two systems stand out in con
trast. You have the opportunity of
telling, the faculty which you prefer
Thursday. Take your choice, and be
sure and let the faculty know how
you have decided.
Recently there appeared In these
columns an editorial expressing' re
gret that Mr. Corey, Mr. Metcalf, Mr.
Riddell and Mr. Marcellus were not
selected as members of the Innocent
society. . The reply that has been re
ceived has been as we expected.
Members of the society, without pub
lishing their rules of eligibility, have
informed us that these men are not
eligible according to the rules of mem
bership. This Is no doubt true. Innocents
say that. their members must be sen
iors. Two, at least, of the above
named individuals have signed
statements to the effect that their
hours are in such a condition as not
to permit their ranking as seniors.
The Innocents, therefore, lived up to
their rules and showed no favoritism
when they omitted these men from
membership. . While we do not con
cede that there is no politics or un
desirable element entering Into Inno
cent selections, we must admit that
the above named four instances do
not prove that such exist, because the
rules prohibited the consideration of
these men.
But nevertheless the failure toxse
lect the above men is a strong in
stance to prove that the Innocent
body is not a representative govern
ing body. Granting that their rules
forbid the selection of these men, It
stands to reason that they must eithe:
SHAKESPEARE TERCENTENARY
(Continued from page 1
envies the English speaking world,
its supreme literary heritage. But
wherein lies his supremacy? and par
ticularly what does ha mean to us
now in the twentieth century?
Our modern humanitarians, since
the days of Rousseau and Words
worth and the Darwinians, have been
busily teaching us that man is the
victim of his environment; that what
ever ills we have are not of nature's
choosing; she is always wise and
beneficent, but the result of bad ar
rangements in society. If a man goes
wrong the fault is not his but socie
ty's. If a man rises so that he un
justly towers above his fellows, the
fault is to be looked for in a so
ciety that permits such things to be.
Society must be reformed, and thus,
without our being keenly aware of it,
the humanitarian movement is laying
the ax at the root of human respon
sibility. To this type of thinking
these lines in "Julius Caesar" are al
most incomprehensible:
"Men at sometimes are masters of
their fates:
"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our
stars.
"But in ourselves that we are under
lings." But Shakespeare, and this is, I be
lieve, his greatest glory, in all of his
plays asserted the iron law of human
responsibility. Man is in a measure
master of his destiny. "Our bodies
are our gardens, to the which our
wills are gardeners." Hamlet's trag
edy is not due to "something rotten
in the state of Denmark," but to a
man's irresolution before an "enter
prise of grent pith and moment." So
ciety was not responsible for the
vagaries of King Lear, but Lear him
self. And so we might go through
the tragedies an the comedies to
read the strong and ever stronger
lesson of man's moral responsibility.
It is this virile doctrine that seems
the most vital significance of Shakes
peare for our age, when literature
seems to be wallowing in a morass of
sickly sentimental excuses for the
criminal, the outcast, the men and
women who fail.
"What is man,
"If his chief good and market of his
time
"Be but to sleep and feed? A beast,
no more. ,
"Since he that made us with such
large discourse,
"Looking before and after, gave us
not
"That capability of godlike reason
"To fust in us unused."
BRIEF BITS OF NEWS
Prof. S. S. Davis, of Ihe rhetoric
department, will give the high school
commencement address at Codans,
Thursday.
The English club will hold a meet
ing at the home of Mary Spualding,
2221 Sheridan street, Saturday night.
Officers for next year will be elected
and short stories will be read by
Ernest Graves, '13, and Will Noble, '16.
Kearney club meets in the ban
quet hall of the Temple at 6:45 to
night for a short business meeting
and election of officers. All members
are asked to be on time.
Treasurers and managers of differ
ent university organizations are ask
ed to .urn in outstanding bills to T.
A. Williams, agent of student activi
ties, before leaving the university. Mr.
Williams urges that this be carefully
attenaed to, so that the accounts will
not be allowed to run during the sum
mer. 1
XI DELTA CONTRIBUTES
TO GIRL'S CLUB TREASURER
Xi' Delta, the honorary sophomore
sorority, turned in Monday $9.06 to
the Girl's club treasury to help pay
the expenses of the recent S. G. A.
convention here. The money was made
at candy sales.
VIOLA WEATHERILL HEADS
BUSINESS WOMAN'S CLUB
Viola Weatherill was elected presi
dent of the Business Woman's club
at the last meeting of the year, last
week. . Clat issa Delano was elected
vice president, and Vera Fleck, secretary-treasurer.
Miss Lulu Horne, of
the Lincoln city library, gave a short
talk.
EXHIBIT PAINTINGS
IN ART GALLERY
A collection of paintings by Chas.
P. Gruppe and Miss Alice Cleaver,
and a pottery collection of the Gen
eral Federation of Women's Clubs
are now on exhibition at the univer
sity art gallery. The gallery is open
to the public, free of charge, from
9 a. m. to 5 p. m. daily, 2 to 5 p. m.
Sunday.
FOR RENT Twelve room house,
five minutes walk from university and
principal business district, suitable for
fraternity or sorority home. Available
June 10. 1544 Q street, B1821. t-w-th
LOST Three hole, black notebook
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leave in student activities office. 240
Lost A class book in English Lit
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note book.- Liberal reward. . Return
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Printing that's better, at Boyd's, 121
Nortfcim.
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