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
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Office
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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.
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