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THE DAILY NEBRASKA fi THE DAILY NEBRASKAN OIRcial Paper of the University of Nebraska IVAN O. BEEDE Editor LEONARD W. KLINE .... Mng. Editor FERN NOBLE Associate Editor KATHARINE NEWBRA NCH Associate Editor ARNOLD WILKEN . .Associate Editor GEORGE DRIVER. .Business Manager MERRILL VANDERPOOL Asst. Bus. Mgr. Office News Basement University Hall Business, Basement Administration Bldg. Telephone News. L-8416 Business, B-2o97 Mechanical Department, B-3145 Published every day during the college 'nr. Subscription price, per semester, fl. Entered at the postoffice at Lincoln, Nebraska, as second-class mail matter tinder the act of Congress of March S, 1879. Convocation today will be strictly a patriotic affair, and every student should take time to go, even though he is not a regular attendant at the exercises. The program is distinctly pat to the part we can play in the war; it will formally introduce to stu dent attention the second liberty loan. If you have so far dodged the moral obligation you are under to give what you can to the support of the war, you will be convinced after you have heard Dr. Fling's speech this morning. The liberty loan drive will reach every student in the University, happy should be he who goes to the meet ing this morning and gets into the campaign at the start. One of the regrettable things about the impression visiting teams get of Nebraska sportmanship is that stu dents themselves are not responsible for the sentiment expressed by many spectators. They are not, however, wholly free from the stigma of being poor fans in that they tolerate these childish outbreaks. Students sat quiet ly by Saturday afternoon while some sarcastic bleacherites were repeating in an affected frenzy; "Iowa Fights! Iowa Fights!" The impression the Iowa team on the field got of Ne braska rooters from such kiddish acts as this was probably vivid and un complimentary. In the future such outbreaks should be squelched sud denly and decisively; it is not neces sary that Nebraskans, who pride them selves on being good sportsmen as well as good football players, allow their reputation to be sullied by irre sponsible onlookers. "THE GANG" AGREES After threatening for a while to de velop into a bad mess, the fraternity question in the Lincoln High school has at last been settled, it appears, by an agreement reached by the board of education and the attorney for the fraternities yesterday. The agreement amounts to a promi.se upon the part of high school students to connect themselves in no way with a secret society while students. Their status in the secondary fraternity body after their relations with the Lincoln High school are severed by graduation or withdrawal is of course outside the province of the edict. The students who sign this agree ment will find later on, although they can hardly be expected to see it now, that the school board was acting not only in the best interests of the Lin coin High school, but of the fraternity men themselves. The fervid fealty of "the gan.;" to one another and to their secret troths looms big and all Im portant to the eyes" of the initiated ones, but several years of devoting this loyalty not to a clique but to the school itself will reveal the petty sel Lshness of the former. The signers of the fraternity agreement will certainly not be poorer men for the transfei of their affections and energies, and it is probable that a number of them will be the better for it. ' University fraternity men, in the meantime, should not lose a single opportunity to impress upon every friend they have in high school the fact that they should be glad that the system has been abolished. The bet ter the letter of the University fra ternity council law in regard to the banning of secondary secret-society men from membership in college fra ternities is carried out, the easier it will be for the impulsive youth, be fore whose eyes the large white plumes dance dazzingly, to see their way clear to cultivate the virtues of democracy instead of the narrowing influences of selfish exclusiveness. THE TAILORS' FORWARD MARCH A new spirit animates our tailors. Patriotism has bitten into them and has generated a tremendous ambition. Heretofore we have owed much, in the case of our "smart" women, to the Place Vendome, while our "smart" men have been fashioned in Regent street. Our artificers of masculine gar ments at Yale and Harvard and Prince ton have striven merely to reproduce the latest modes of Oxford and Cambridge. Our tailors strive for higher things now. They have vowed that our of fleers shall be the "smartests" officers in the world. In London, in Paris, even (if fortune favors) in Berlin, they shall be remarkable and they shall be "right." Our flower of manhood is in vading the capitals of the world ami clothes proclaim the man. American shoulders shall measure up to the shoulders (titled or democratic) of old Europe in battles and in clothes. This Is a proud moment in the sartorial history of America. The young officer, eager to be out fitted and away, is, for the moment, taking his orders from the tailor. And the tailor tells him that he must have both a light uniform and a heavy one price, say $75 and $80 respectively. The "right" sort of flannel shirt will cost him $7.50. Boots, gaiters, haber dashery, Sam Brown belt, and trench overcoat conform to the same price scheme. If he felt that there was some discrepancy between what he must pay to be habited as the patriotic tailor desires, he would be failing in his duty as an officer and a gentle man ; as one who would haggle about money when delenda est Carthago and he has the great opportunity of carry ing his country's glory into the proud est of world capitals. Gone are the ante bellum, imitative days the days of an America mercenary and unbeau- tiful. Our tailors are doing their part in this war. And if we will but leave unhampered their anxious, aspiring loyalty, young America, caparisoned as no other, will march forth splendidly to its premier victory. THE "ONE-HOSS SHAY" A SATIRE "The Wonderful One-Hoss Shay," everybody is familiar with; a rollick ing piece of foolery by Oliver Wendell Holmes. But "The Wonderful One- Hoss Shay" as a satire .the idea comes almost as a shock. The re-reading of Barret Wendell's delightful "Literary History of Amer ica," published almost twenety years ago, recalled the fact that he had characterized Doctor Holmes' poem as "one of the most pitiless satires in our language." The satire is on Jonathan Edward's system of theology, and once the fact is pointed out the application of the poem is readily seen. Edwards was one of the greatest of American thinkers. His book on "The Freedom of the Will" is a wonderful piece of logic. Granted the premises, and his reasoning cannot be refuted. Like the reacon's one-hoss shay, it is perfect in every part, a suberb presen tation of the Calvinistic theology of the Eighteenth Century. A hundred years later, however, it had tew de fenders and, in the opinion of Holmes the liberal, was quite worn out. The Edwards book was published in 1755, the year of the Lisbon earth quake and of Braddock's defeat The poem says: Seventeen hundred and fifty-five; Gecrgius Secundus was then alive Snuffy old drone from the German hive; That was the year when Lisbon-town Saw the earth open and gulp her down. And P.raddock's army was done so brown. Left without a scalp to its crown. It was on the terrible earthquake day That the deacon finished the one hoss shay. It will be recalled that the deacon decides the chaise is to be built in a perfectly logical way. In the building of chaises there is "always somewhere a weakest spot," and that Is the reason the chaise "breaks down, but doesn't wear out." So the deacon, in the fash ion of Jonathan Edwards, determines that there must be no vulnerable spot in the finished work. And Holmes ex presses his admiration for the book as well as for the chaise when he says: "She was a wonder, and nothing less!" The poem follows the course of the chaise down through the next hundred years until it comes to 1855: Little of ail we value here Wakes on the morn of its hundredth year Without both feeling and looking queer. In fact, there's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth. (This is a moral that runs at large; Take it; you're welcome no extra charge.) First of November the earthquake day; There are traces of age in the one hoss shay, A general flavor of mild decay, But nothing local as one may say. By this time Unitarianism had made great headway among the intellectuals of New England, and Hoimes felt that the system of Edwards had fallen. to pieces. So the poem ends with the col lapse of the wonderful one-hoss shay: You see, of course, If you're not a dunce, How it went to pieces all at once, All at once and nothing first. Just as bubbles do when they burst. End of the wonderful one-hoss shay. T.ni?ift is loeic. That's all I say. A letter to Mr. Wendell, who is pro fpssnr of English in Harvard Univer sky, asking for the source of his clew to the satire, brings this repiy: I have no source of information The fact that it is satire seemed to me bo obvious when I wrote my "Liter ary History" that I was never more sumrised than to find the laci ques tioned by certain critics. I never knew Doctor Holmes well, so I can't answer your question as to his intentions, i should suppose them, However, . more crptic than those of Voltaire .Swift or Aritophane3. When you get to that most puzzling of satirists, Rabelais, the. case is different. In view of the attitude of Holmes and the application of the poem to the Edwards theology there seems no rea son to doubt the correctness of Pro fessor Wendell's assumption. Writes Rag "Hungrily ' Devoured' at Snelling "Very many thanks for sending the "Rag." Received Monday s paper to day. Withfn an hour it had been hun grily devoured by three former U. N. men and tomorrow I am going to take it over to one of the men who is in the hospital. "This morning the second battery marched out one mile west of our bar racks and proceeded to dig some very real gun emplacements such as used In France. To add to the realism we have a French officer, Captain Chefend, here to show us how. He wears the blue uniform so makes a very promi nent figure among the khaki-clad of ficers and students. The work was not at all hard for me, but some of the fellows denied any former acquain tance with the shovel as numerous blisters amply testified. "A new outfit of field guns came in this afternoon as we will probably be doing some mounted work next week. Every night at 6 o'clock, as we stand at "present arms" and the band plays The Star Spangled Banner, while Old Glory is slowly hauled down, my heart goes out with a silent prayer as I think of the God-given liberties which I have sworn to defend in the name of the Red, White and Blue. "The University of Minnesota does not open until October 10 so the first football game will be played a week from Saturday. Of course it won't be like seeing old Nebraska play but then it will be real football. They play only four games at home but those will serve to pep up the regular outine of army life. v "The camp will probably be over about November 27 so hope to be in Lincoln for the Syracuse game. Tell any of the old bunch "Hello" for me." Sincerely, ROBERT J. MATHEWS. Sigma Xi Holds First Meeting Saturday Sigma Xi held its first meeting of the year Saturday evening in the Red room of the city Y. M. C. A. A dinner was served, followed by a program and a brief business- meeting. Thirty-five members were present. The evening's program consisted mainly of a series of short talks hy members of the faculty. Sigma Xi plans to hold a meeting every month this year. Scientific pa pers will be read at each meeting. The officers of the fraternity for this year are Prof. O. J. Ferguson, presi dent; Prof. Geo. Borrowman, vice-pres ident; Prof. G. E. Swezey, counsellor; Prof. H. H. Waite, corresponding sec retary; Miss Margaret Hanna, record ing secretary; Prof. N. A. Bengston, treasurer. Dean Heppner to Give Third Tea Thursday The third tea, for all University girls will be held Thursday afternoon from four until six, in Art hall. Dean Amanda Heppner is anxious that as many girls as possible attend these teas, which will be held every Thurs day afternoon until Thanksgiving, be cause they promote a general feeling of friendliness, among the girls of the 6tudentbody, and help them to be come better acquainted with members of the faculty. Faculty women of scientific courses will assist Dean Heppner. NEW UNI RINGS Also New Sororitv and Fraternity Rinsrs Solid Gold and Sterling: Silver HALLETT - UNI JEWELER Estab. 1871 1143 0 The Ezo.n CLEANERS-PRESSERS-DYERS HAVE THE EVANS DO YOUR CLEANING ' ' TELEPHONES B2311 nd B3355 Those Spare Hours Can be profitably employed. Arrange for some work at the Lincoln Business College Fully Accredited By National Association of Accredited Commercial Schools 14th and P Sts. B-6774 Lincoln, Nebr A POSITION FOE! YOU There is a position for everv one who nroDerlv craalifies at this school. We have more calls than we can till. Modern Courses. Best Instruction Complete Eauinment. Hannv Environment. Enroll' anv Monday. Beautiful catalof free. Nebraska School o! Business "Credits Accented Everywhere'' T. A. Blakeslcc, President H. F. Carson, Secretary Gertrude Beers, Treasurer . . 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