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If a university does not teach the student to do his own thinking
it fails entirely. If he must rely on his friends, or Eome newspaper
or magazine question column, he is not able to do the work. This is
the time in the semester when "back-work" is being hurriedly made
up, when papers are being written and laboratories are crowded.
A recent issue of the Wall Street Journal says that "to encourage
a student to made 'dead-head' approaches to newspapers is not to
educate him at all. It merely teaches him to pan-handle upon others
for the thing he may get for himself, if he has brains and has learned
the one thing which colleges can teach the discipline of learning."
Does the trouble lie with the students or with the professors who
are supposed to be educating them? If the students do not know how
to think for themselves, then they should be taught to think. Why
should anyone depend upon artificial means of getting information
when they can get it for themselves with a little sincere study. The
habit of independent clear thinking is one of the most valuable of all
and the college professor who can instill that habit into the lives of
his students has accomplished the greatest good that is within his
power to do.
Practically every denominational and tuition school in the country
large enough to have school activities of importance, has the single
tax, according to statistics compiled by The Daily Nebraskan last
spring. In this table there were about twenty universities supported
by the state and having activities of importance.
The fact that the single tax is prevalent in so many of the colleges
and universities throughout the country, does not prove that it Is right
but it will do a great deal in that direction.
The single tax is a voluntary tax levied upon the students at each
semester registration, to cover the expense for student activities. If
the student is interested in activities and supports' them the way he
should, the tax will save him money.
It is urged that the single tax would not be Is' to the poor man.
that it would make him pay for something he caniiui. use, and that he
would have to bear the burden of his wealthier classmate.
If this argument were sound, the denominational schools through
out the country and nearly twenty of the big, progressive state univer
sities, would not advocate the system as heartl'y as they do.
They all agree that their schools have been benefited by the
single tax, that it is fair, popular and successful.
Surely those Interested in the very best for Nebraska would advo
cate such a system of complete and equalized support.
UNIVERSITY NOTICES
o'clock. Every manager is urged to
be there.
CANDIDATES FOR
PLACES ON THE DAILY
NEBRASKAN STAFF
Applications for the various posi
tions on the Daily Nebraskan editorial
and business staffs will be received At
the GfT.ce of student activities until 5
o'clock p. m, Friday, January 19. 191 i.
Blanks on which to 11 out your appli
cation can be secured at the suident
activities office. T. A. Williams. Secretary-
Carr a Candidate
I wish to announce myself a candi
date for Iry Day orator, subject to the
will of the senior class at the coming
election.
EVERETT CARR,
y. w. c a.
Meeting of Y. W. C. A. association
girls this evening at 7 o'clock in the
Y. W. C. A- rooms at the Temple.
Elections will be discussed and also
the work of the newly appointed Y. W.
C. A. commission. It is urgent that as
many as possible be present at this
meeting.
Freshman Debate Tryouts
Tryouts for freshman debating will
be held in Law 101 from 2:30 to 2:20
Thursday afternoon. Anyone who de
sires to try out but who cannot do so
at this time, notify me by Wednesday
evening. R. B. Eldredge, chairman.
Students Guild
The University Students" ' Id of
the First Presbyterian church will
meet Friday evening at the home of
Dean R. Leland, 1312 South Twenty
first street.
,
Class Athletic Managers
There will be a meeting of the class
a'hletic managers U Assistant Coach
Rutherford's office Thursday at 11 J
Civil Engineers
Civil Engineering society meet Wed
nesday night at 7:30, M. A. 206. Elec
tion of officers., Cornbusker business.
FORUM
To the Editor of The Dally Nebraskan:
It is the most dangerous thing in the
wr rid to praise an amateur ftr and
a fortiori an actress remarked Ber
nard Shaw a long time ago; he or she
immediately rushes off and trans
forms a very good amateur Into a very
bad professional. I hope that nothing
I say here will have such tragic effect.
But I can not help saying a word in
unstinted praise of the performance
of Emilia Galottl at the Temple the
atre on Friday evening.
In the first place, after a plethora
of plays of the "Believe me, kiddo"
type, in which cheap people utter cheap
sentiments In cheap language, it is a
pleasure to sit down to a play in which
there are real characters who utter,
real sentiments in a language which
in its simple, noble prose, lifts us out
of the atmosphere of the trivial and
the banaL
ThPt the University is the place
where just this kind of thing should
be done goes without saying. We had
such a play last year in Miss Howell's
"Jean d'Arc." And "Emilia Galottl"
was such another. I don't mean be
cause there were princes and counts
and ffhe clothes and peri-wigs, though
there were these In both plays; but bo
cause there were reliability, and sin
cerity, and human nature revealed In
the heads beneath the periwigs and in
the hearts behind the silk waistcoats.
In other words, there was something
i more tnan nasny supernciames mat
we all of us contrive about us to hide
the deeper realities of our thoughts
and feelings, and which the current
; stage is so trivilially concerned with.
It Is the effort to keep alive in the
community the sense that there-is a
drama of this finer kind that justifies
the existence of dramatics in the Uni
versity. It is this for one thing that
makes the Deutscher Schaugpiel
Verein in general and Miss Heppner
in particular deserve so much for put
ting on a play such as we saw on last
Friday night.
The other thing is that they put It
on so well. - It is ungrateful to dis
criminate where the whole was so ad
mirable. It is especially ungrateful
where the play is in a foreign tongue
to which some come by right of birth
and some by sheer acquisition. More
personal credit may be said to be due
to the latter. And when I think of the
clear, spirited enunciation, under all
the stress of action, on the part of
Miss Luckey, Miss McMahon, and Mr.
Nesbit i judge by names and of the
effective, convincing action under all
the stress of speech in a tongue that
is not native, I can only wonder how
they did it. Claudia on her return.
Emilia in the last scene, and Conti in
the first, will long remain in my mem
ory.
The intrinsic honors, I suppose, must
inevitably go to those who have come
by their German more natively, if not
more honestly. Mr. Grove did a piece
of acting let me refer here to my
first sentence that was very affecting.
The fine cadejjce of his lines, the
variety of tone that bent under the
pressure of his changeable mood, the
winning ease of his bearing spoke of
exceptional abilities, and gave us a
sympathy with the weak, amiable
Prince that lifted the whole play Into
I dramatic momentousness. Mr. Rabe
j will long be remembered as the Polo
nius of the play, dry. grim, sardonic,
j with not a break in his perfect manner
, of the old, proud, unscrupulous mentor
; and counsellor.
I Of Miss Craft's rendering or a most
i difficult part it is hard to speak ade
quately. Like the Prince, Orsina had
i the task of putting a deep humanity
. into an unsympathetic part to win
our sympathy and so heighten the con
flict with which inwardly we repro
duce the tragic presentment of the
: stage. And she did it with a charm
and skill that made this conflict mov
ingly real. Nothing else in the play
I equalr-d the scene between Orsina and
Marinelli; and the touching "Verach
tung" and "Gleichgultig" speeches I
don't know how else to distinguish
them reached a real tragic depth.
Mr. Naber as the outraged father
gave a spirited rendering of the part.
Mr. Ilinze, both as the aged counsel
lor and as the conspirator, won from
the audience a quick and deserved ap
preciation that followed him at every
reappearance. Mr. Welland did his
linf-s clearly and energetically. To
have gone over these latter roles so
hastily Is only to say that every play
has minor parts. So well were they
all rendered that though my aural
German is very shaky and I missed
the nice Intention of many sentences.
I always knew what word it was that
I didn't know the meaning of. The
merit was theirs and the fault mine.
If I may have another line I should
like to say that this experience seems
to me to confirm what I have long
suspected that given a drama of a
noble type and amateurs win do bet
ter in It than In a trivial one. It takes
a very consummate artist to put the
spark of humanity into a stalking
puppet; but put the lines of a good
play into an amateur's mouth and their
very depth and sincerity will carry
him through. To say nothing of the
infinitely greater benefit to the student
himself!
, s SHERLOCK B. GAS3.
THE DAYS GONE BY
Five Years Ago Today
Jerome R. Forbes was in the race
with Will Randall for president of the
junior class. '
Everett M. Jenks of Scranton, Ia.,
a prominent Junior law student, died
as a result of an abscess in the brain.
An investigation of the pawn shops
in Park Row, New York, three or four
Phi Beta Kappa keys and forty-two
pins of prominent fraternities were
found. The prices paid for these arti
cles ranged from 75 cents to $10.00.
Fraternity men scouted the Idea that
the original owners found it necessary
to put their pins in soak, but believed
the pins were either lost or stolen in
most cases.
Two Years Ago Today
The military ball was held at the
Lincoln hotel.
No tryouts were held for the junior
debating team, as only three nien In
tended to try out. These were allowed
to represent the class.
One Year Ago Today
Notice was received that Anan Ray
mond, '13, who was graduated with
Phi Beta Kappa honors, had been tak
en into partnership with Mr. Brogan
a prominent lawyer of Omaha. Mr,
Raymond acted as private secretary to
the chancellor while in school.
ALUMNI NEWS
Luke H. Cheney, '87, attorney at
Stockville, visited alumni headquar
ters yesterday. Mr. Cheney was re
cently elected vice-president of the
state bar association.
MaUe Hall. '13, of York, is visiting
friends in Lincoln this week.
Washington A live fish gradually
frozen in a cake of ice does not die.
It merely suspends all life processes!
When the ice melts, if it does so slow
ly, the fish takes tip its vital activities
again, as if nothing had happened.
This Is also true of frogs and turtles,
and other cold-blooded animals. So
says the department of science. (But
what we want to know is whether or
not the oysters that we eat on the half
shell are alive and kicking, or dead
and buried?) Ex. "
Russel Aker. ex-'17. of Harvard, and
Cirfr Merrick, '13, of Adams, are vis-
tors at the Farm House.
Fred L. Taylor, '16, who has been in
struct or in the Alma high school, has
resigned bis position there and ac
cepted the appointment of assistant
state farm demonstrator.
V
BRIEF BITS OF NEWS
Earl Hogue, '18, spent last week-end
with his parents at Crete.
Clarenoe Mickeland, '17, and Earl
Yates, 17, have gone to York to Inspect
imported nursery stock for the govern
menL
Ulenneim roe, zo, itea Cloud: a
member of the University cadet band
is under treatment this week at the
Lincoln sanitarium. He suffered an
attack pf grip last wetk, but continued
In school, his illness becoming more
serious Saturday.
President Dick of the Kearney Btate
normal school and Superintendent
Caverness, secretary of the state nor
mal school board, visited the Univer
sity yesterday.
Charles McLeod, secretary of the
board of education at Stanton, visited
here yesterday.
Myrtle Gelwick has accepted a posi
tion in the West Point bigh choc1 for
the second semester. She will teach
the sciences. '
Ida K. Roberts, who will graduate
this February, has been elected to
teach English and German in the
Davenport bigh school next semester.
Emily Cox is ill this week with la
grippe.
Miss Graham attended
economics conference at
farm yesterday afternoon.
the
the
home
state
Minnesota A graduate in a com-
munlra Ion to the Dally, says he is In
favor of reducing the size of classes
In college, even going so far as to
make instructors work three or four
hours a day. If necessary. Ex.
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