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Reportorial Staff
Edith Anderson Frank Tatty
Anna Burtlesi Francis Flood
Oswald Black Eleanore Fogg
Gaylord Datls Crace Johnston
E. Forrest Estes Carolyn Reed
Jack Landale Edna Rohrs
"I always wear my old, dark clothes
on rainy days." a girl, half explained,
half apologized as she fumbled with
her umbrella and made ready to go
out again Into the rain. Such an atti
tude toward the dark, drizzly day Is
common. Clothes are mood bhrxv
meters. They more than meastrrtt
moods they make them, at least to
most people. Dark, rainy days are
commonly dreaded. Such gray, dis
mal days and dismal, colorless clothes
are fatal combinations to tempera
mental, even to people who do not
consider themselves temperamental.
This philosophy is consciously or
unconsciously carried farther. The
difficult, dreaded tasks are often ac
companied by gloomy, grumbly moods
and the tasks as .a result seem more
dismal than ever. It would almost
seem that we through whimsical
moods hindered ourselves as much as
possible. With casual acquaintances,
those whom we are indifferent of, we
rv to be pleasant. It is with the
people we care about, our closest
friends, that we allow ourselves to be
irritable and disagreeable.
dent who wrote tho communication I
not a blacker, nor Is he a "numbskull."
for he wears a Thl Hota Kappa key.
He merely mn.de the observation as
he saw matters, not drawing on hazy
data. There must bo some truth in
his statements, then, and the question
remaining is to the extent of the prac
tice among profensors. How many pro
fessors are handing out work without
regard to the student's time to do it
all?
The men and women of the faculty
ouxht to beRin thinking at least, when
a statement like this comes from a
Thl Met a Kanpa senior. If the burden
Is falling so heavily on this person.
how will the same burdens fall upon
those whose ability is not of the Thl
Beta Kappa calibre? If it is a "physi
cal Impossibility" in one case, what Is
it In the other?
If you, as a member of the faculty,
are guilty of .overdoing your assign
ments, now Is the time to retract a
bit. Demands on the students' time
are greater now than ever before. If
every professor were to pile up the
work needed to finish the semster,
then the observation of the student
who voiced his views would be Justi
fied. It may bo that this student hap
pened to make connections in classes
where the professors were doing this.
We hope, surely, that It Is not a gen
eral practice. And those who are do
ing it ought to "have a heart."
The following was printed in a re
cent number of the Nebraska State
Journal and shows that Nebraska peo
ple appreciate the work which Prof-
tessor Fossler has done for the Lnl
versity. "One of the most gratifying things
connected with the question of pa
triotism at the state University is the
attitude of the head of he department
of German. Prof. Laurence Fossler,
under whose leadership German be
came before the war the most popu
lar subject in the entire curriculum,
was born in southern Germany and
came to Nebraska before he reached
his majority. He was an opponent of
Prussianism as a youth. On every
visit he made to Germany as a stu
dent in his more mature years he was
strengthened in his views in favor
of democracy. When the war began
in 1914 he did not hesitate for &
minute in declaring his position. He
denounced the invasion of Belgium
and ever since has openly and con
sistently been an opponent of the
Prussian program. Professor Fossler
was not obliged to do any back pedal
ing or explaining when the United
Stares entered the war.
"For some time the growing unpopu
larity of everything with an amlaut in
it has reduced the enrollment in the
German classes until the department
is only a shadow of its former self.
The head and a single assistant will
soon be able to handle work that once
kept a large staff busy. But German
could disappear from the campus en
tirely without carrying Professor Fos
sler with it. As some one recently
remarked he could earn his salary by
"Just being Professor Fossler." The
value of so fine a personality, so
strong an idealist and so devoted a
student is great enough to make his
place in the faculty secure, no matter
what may happen to his subject."
NEBRASKA TOO
The following editorial Is copied
from the Ohio State Lantern and is
entitled "Have a Heart."
"A Senior" wrote a communication
to the Lantern of Wednesday morn
ing In which he points out that it is
"physically impossible" for a 6tudent
to do all of the work assigned. The
complaint is that every professor is
speeding up the work In order to get
through by the time school closes,
with the result that more work is
given out than can possibly be done.
We wonder Jnst to what extent this
obsecration Is true. Surely the stu
PATRIOTISM
(Address at Cadet Officers' Banquet,
University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
Nebraska, April 11, 1918, by Colonel
H. L. Roberts, Commandant.)
"My only regret is that I have but
one life to give to my country."
This brief phrase, uttered by an
American youth on the eve of his
execution as a spy, haB enshrined the
memory of Nathan Hale in the hearts
of his countrymen and conferred upon
his name imperishable fame.
Other phrases there are of a Bimilar
character, recorded in the history of
our land, that have impressed them
selves upon us through that unerring
instinct of the people for what they
feel to be the true expression of their
hearts. What an expression of
dauntless courage in Lawrence's
"Don't give up the ship!" It thrills us as
indeed it must, and yet the noble emo
tion conveyed in Nathan Hale's few
words has a peculiar hold, I believe,
upon the American people, not paral
leled perhaps, exactly, in its appeal
by any other.
What feeling was it that Inspired
his breast? Why was this youth en
abled to overcome the physical fear of
death, the ignominy of the scaffold
and disregarding them to fix his
thoughts upon a simple regret, that
what he had to offer was not a great
er gift? You will say that the emotion
which possessed him must rieeds have
been generous and all-compelling.
And so it was. But no more so, let
us believe, than may exist deep hid
den in the heart of any one of you,
awaiting only the supreme octasion
that will awaken it to life.
In time of peace and plenty when
existence is easy and there is litHe
to stir them, the fundamentals of life
are sometimes obscured, lost sight of,
temporarily at least, as when within
the walls of the city we lose from view
the far edge of the prairie or the hills
blue with haze in the distance. Schools :
of thought even arise which deny these
truths or scoff at them as worn out
creeds and which offer strange and
untried formulas as substitutes.
But in times of stress when the
storm comes and beats upon them,
these flimsy fabrics which they have
offered us are torn asunder and scat
tered and we turn by instinct to
those old bases of life, of human life
to our belief in and love of our home.
our country and our God. Who told
us that these or any one of these was
the product, of prejudices, ignorance,
superstition of narrow environment?
Who believes that today?
What man is there now so encrusted
with selfishness, so encased in mate
rialism, as not to see what a beautiful
thing It is to love one's country? And
what is more natural? It it not nature
for man to be born? And what is his
country but his other mother? Her
running streams, her salts and min
erals and all the riches of her bosom,
are they no Incorporated in his being,
his very frame and fabric?
Wrhat is he then but her rhiM
drawing the breath of life from her
gently stirring airs, sustenance from
her broad acres and warmth and
shelter from her boundless forests
and hidden stores? WThat mother
could offer lnore?.
As therefore we love our mother
for her tender care, have we not like
wise a need of devotion to offer for
our country the common mother of us
all? In recognition, then, of the
sweet ties of nature that bind us. let
us forever cherish and protect her.
Nathan Hale had this, then, to com
fort him in his last hours as he pre
pared to pay the common debt and
return to the embrace of Mother
Earth. He knew that what was mor
tal of him he was about to lay before
his country as a tribute and a sacri
fice in her hour of need. But let ui
hope that it was likewise given him
to gaze Into the opened vista of the
future and to know that his 8pirit was
to be ever a quickening grace In the
spirits of b cosntTyineui yet to be.
That, gentlen en, is what we should
regard with solemn pride. The nat
ural Hf t sweet but more precious
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Must we not. then, guard well the
trnt finding unci-
ter on her shore-, our country has
ever cherished and which, upheld and
protected by the strong arms of her
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hour, our ratners. nns now u.-rL . ...
to us ns our heritage from a glorious
past, that priceless ri tno uuiuk.
ablo spirit of Liberty?
ui..miI.i ma nrt ho hnnnv that it Is
our privilege to be the children of
this gracious iann. so iair io
upon, and, withal, the keeper and de
fender of the eternal principles of
rlRht and Justice impianiea in rnn
human heart by our creator?
It Is not difficult after all to under
stand the words of Nathan Hale. Their
appeal is clear to thoso who are im
bued with a love of liberty and of
..nimirv if u-i may not die for these
as he did, let us at least live for them.
May the spirits or nis countrymen
forever keep touch with his I
if h upr here he would propose
to you as a salute those moving words
which, then unuttered, never fell upon
his ears in life but, unskopen and as
yet unformed by lips nevertheless lap
deep in his living heart that day-
America! The Land of the Free and
the Home of the Brave!
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Sam C. Zimmerman, headquarters
company, 354th infantry.
Joseph V. Johnson, Company G,
355th infantry.
Hollis II. KIrsch, Company L, 355th
infantry.
Harold A. Pearson, Company A,
356th infantry.
James H. Pierce, Company B, 356th
Infantry.
Cro6venor M. Porter, Company D,
356th infantry.
Fred J. Schroeder, Company F,
356th infantry.
NEWS FROM CAMP
First Lieut. Walter Call, now in
France, writes in a loMer dated March
hO that be is acting n assistant to a
major, whose nam was cut out by the
censor. Ills work W In connection
with the artillery. From the tone of
his letter It Is probable that he is in
the reserve units now acting as re
enforcements in the b'g drive.
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wnr for all Y. W. C. A. work In and
around Camp Funrton, visited the so
ciology department Monday, prepara
tory to eivInK a course in recreational
work in the National Y. V. C. A. train
ing school at New Vork City. As rec
reational director. Miss Barger plans
amusements for all the various groups
of women brought to Junction I ity,
Army City and Manhattan because of
war conditions. These groups Include
Red Cross nurses, business girls, high
school girls, and lves of the army
people. Ruth Shively, '18, is assisting
Miss Barger in this work, and after
eturning for graduation will take up
her work there for the ensuing year.
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