THE DAILY NEBRASKA
The Daily Nebraskan
THE BEST UNIVERSITY NEWSPAPER IN THE WORLD
EDITORIAL STAFF
George E. Grimes. Editor-in-Chief
Ivan G. Beede Managing Editor
Fern Noble Associate Editor
Leonard V. Kline Associate Editor
Eva Miller Contributing Editor
Dwight P. Thomas Sporting Editor
Katharine Newbranch Society Editor
BUSINESS STAFF
Walter C. Blunk Business Manager
Fred W. Clark Assistant Business Manager
Offices: News, Basement, University Hall; Business, Basement.
Administration Building.
Telephones: News, L-4841; Business, B-2597.
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semester, $1.
Entered at the postofflce at Lincoln, Nebraska, as second clasa
mail matter under the Act of Congress of March 5, 1879.
NO SLACKERS WANTED
No slackers should be found among the University men and
women tomorrow. Let it be hoped that there is no one who is
ashamed to give open expression to the love he bears his country.
Failure to get into line will mean that the feeling is a weak one,
or that the student fails to graps the true significance of the parade.
The reason for the patriotic meeting is a simple one. Our
nation is at a crisis in her history. The people, speaking through
their representatives, have declared that the things that the United
States holds most holy are threatened with destruction. So that
they may not be destroyed, so that the battles for which Americans
lought in 1776. in 1SG1 and in 1S9S may not have been fought in
vain, the sons and grandsons of those former fighters are to battle
now. The president, the leaders of the nation, are asking for the
support of the people at this time. The University can demonstrate
that it will give its support, wholeheartedly and without reserve of
any kind, by this meeting tomorrow.
The parade and mass meeting are for the purpose of letting
the indifferent ones, the halting ones, the timid ones, know that
the best young manhood and young womanhood of tire state is
united behind the causes that have led this nation into war.
It is to make scoffers, the ones who are still raising their
voices against a just war, realize that the University does not stand
for hesitation or equivocation.
The man or woman who is in anyway connected with the Uni
versity, who does not march tomorrow to the auditorium, will be
lining up with the two-bit slackers whose patriotism is of a yellow
tinge, and whose blood runs as dishwater.
There must be none of them in the University.
"NON COMPOS MENTIS"
The thing we enjoy reading most in The Daily Nebraskan is,
"Xon Compos Mentis." We don't know how all the readers feel
about it, but we have the idea that none of them misses the inter
mittent fun column of "The Rag."
Life has been called various things, from a vale of tears to one
eternally condemned thing after another. The world is spoken of
as a cold on?; death is said to be marked by an absence of any
sting.
And yet we are all glad we are here.
Things like "Xon Compos Mentis," by poking gently at campus
foibles, by getting off a bit of philosophical fun now and then, are
worth much in giving people the irresponsible, but joyous feeling
that on associates with the fat man with the well rounded middle,
the hearty laugh and the sense of humor. And "Xon Compos" has
the additional value of containing wisdom in not a few of its lines.
It gives one a good insight into human nature. The series
of essays on the mystic brotherhoods of the campus has reveah'd
some sportsmen and some who wpre decidedly not of that classifi
cation. The shoe has pinched once or twice, and instead of trying
to qualify for a better and more comfortable shoe, some of The
Nebraskan's friends have emitted wails.
One interesting thing about the column is the guesswork about
who writes it. To tell would be to reveal one of the secrets of
the sanctum sactorum. Yet subscribers and those who borrow have
made their guesses, and missed it a mile. We mustn't tell, but
it isn't who you think it is.
The writer is one of the most enthusiastic readers of "The Daily
Nebraskan." We believe firmly, not only that it is fully worthy
of its title of "Greatest university newspaper in the world." but
that most student activities and most students on the campus, forced
to do without it, would be as lost as Peter was when he attempted
to walk the waters.
Surely then, it is not a violation of the ethics of the office, for
this one of the staff, at least, to express an appreciation of the
fun that holds forth next to the wtight of lead in the editorial
column!
THE SCHOLARSHIP REPORT
The scholarship report of the fraternities and sororities for the
first seiripster, is most encouraging because it shows a steady up
ward trend in scholarship by both the men's and the women's secret
societies. Their trend is right, and is accomplishing results that
count.
The time has passed when the fraternity ideal was for a social
organization and nothing more. Each year the fraternities are at
tempting more sincerely to live up to the ideals of their founders
and the spirit of their rituals. Almost unanimously the frater
nities realize that excellence in scholarship is the first duty of the
student.
Incidentally, the much higher grades of the women than the
men show that the latter still have heights that must be scaled.
THE DAYS GONE BY
Fourteen Years Ago Today
All clasps were dismissed from
11:30 until 2 while President Roose
velt was in the city.
The varsity baseball team defeated
the Nebraska Indians by a score of
14 to 2.
PI PHIS ECONOMIZE AND
CONTRIBUTE TO WAR FUND
Thirteen Yean AflO Today
Requirements for membership iu
Phi Ueta Kappa were changed to cor
respond more nearly to the studies
taken by University students.
Eleven Years Ago Today
The tennis season started with a
rush and three new courts were put
in shape. It was planned to arrange
a number of tennis tournaments with
other colleges.
Nine Years Ago Today
All intercollegiate activities in ath
letics by women were forbidden by
action of the board of regents.
A school of pharmacy was established.
Eight Years Ago Today
A plan of the present athletic field
which was being proposed at that
time was printed in The Xebraskan.
The Pi Phis PI Beta, not Pi
Kappa enjoyed a house dance last
Friday night but they bo managed
that the dance resulted in a net
gain for the war fund of the Col
lege Woman's Naval Reserve league
of $5. Nor did anyone have any
the less a good time because It
was, in a way, a charity ball.
Instead of the usual expedient of
doing the usual thing and hiring a
union musician to play the piano
for the dance, the sorority enjoyed
music by one of their own members,
Lillian Gnam volunteered to play
and thus enable the saving of the
V. Her offer was accepted. Satur
day the five dollars that would have
gone toward music was presented to
Alice Proudfit, president of the Col
lege Woman's Naval Reserve league.
Those who went to the dance de
clared that the music was of the
best, and some rumors have been
going around that if Miss Gnam
cared, she could play at other places
for charity.
And one good thing about the
story is that the Pi Phis didn't tell
about it, but the report came by
devious channels.
Seven Years Ago Today
Plans for Ivy Day were being rapid
ly completed, the forenoon to be spent
on the campus and the afternoon en
tertainment to be given at the farm
campus.
Chancellor Avery spoke at a gvt-together-banquet
attended by about
seventy football men at the Temple.
At a meeting of the Missouri valley
conference a resolution was intro
duced providing for abolishment of
football from the represented institu
tions after December, 1910. The de
bate on the resolution lasted the en
tire morning but it was finally defeated.
Four Years Ago Today
The closing act of the legislature
was to refer the question of Univer
sity location to the people to be voted
on at popular election.
One Year Ago Today
"Cub" Wiley broke the University
broad jump record and Edson Shaw
set a new mark in the 16-pound shot
put in the interclass track meet in
which the sophomores won an easy
victory in points.
Nearly one thousand visitors wore
shown the work of the engineers in
their laboratories on University night.
BANDAGE CIRCLE
MAKES MANY ROLLS IN
FIRST DAY'S WORK
One large box of bandages was
the first contribution of the bandage
circle of the College Woman's Re
serve league, which met in the base
ment of the First Congregational
church last Thursday afternoon.
The worfcwas carried on under
expert instruction from Lincoln wom
en, who are said to have declared
that the swift, neat work of the
members indicated that the circle
would be able to render valuable
services.
The bandage circle w ill meet every
Tuesday and Thursday afternoon for
the rest of the school year, and all
University girls who would like to
help can come, even if for only part
of the afternoon. Harriet Ramey,
'IS, and Florence Wood, '18, head
the committee in charge.
"SPA"
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13TH AND P
Maying in the first dual meet in
history the Cornhusker tennis artists
defeated Wesleyan in all three matches
played.
MINNESOTA MAY CUT
SOME SUMMER COURSES
All faculty appointments for the
summer session in the University of
Minnesota this year are made subject
to cancellation or modification on ac
count or the uncertainties of the war
situation. It is not expected that
the summer session will be abandoned,
but the number of courses may pos
sibly be curtailed.
Rat Mail
At the University of Ohio the post
master was bothered with the rats,
that ate up perfectly good bulletins
and licked the stamps off the out
going mail. The postmaster was re
minded of the government rule to
mix cornmeal and poison, and thus
kill the rats. But those were not or
dinary corn-fed rats, and didn't bite.
So he mixed in a little paste, and
not a rat has been heard in the
house since. Ex.
UNIVERSITY NOTICES
Deutscher Geselliger Verein
The Deutscher Geselliger Verein
meets Thursday evening in the home
of G. O. Cast, 660 South Twenty
eighth street. Take Randolph car.
Prof. F. D. Schrag is the speaker of
the evening. His subject is "Penn
sylvania Dufch."
Tuesday's issue of The Ne
braskan will be distributed at
Station A immediately after 8
o'clock classes, before the
formation of the parade. It
will publish the complete pro
gram for the exercises at the
auditorium and also the instruc
tions for the organization of
the parade and seating at the
auditorium.
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