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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
Official Paper Of th
Unlvaratty of Nabraaaa
FERN NOULE Editor
LEONARD W. KLINE. .. .Mng. Editor
GEORGE NEWTON.... Nowi Editor
ARNOLD W1LKEN Newi Editor
RUTH SNYDER Society Editor
FRANK D. PATTY.. Sporting Editor
HORACE TALCOTT, Acting Bus. Mgr
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Published avery day during the collet
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Entered at the poitomca at Lincoln,
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nder the act of Congresa of March I.
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Reportorial Staff
Edith Anderson Frank Tatty
Anna BurtleM Francis Flood
Oswald Black Eleanore Fogg
Gaylord Darla Grace Johnston
E. Forresfc Eti Carolyn Reed
Jack Landale Edna Rotars
In creating a liberty educational
fund the class of 1S98 are commemor
ntlng their twentieth anniversary la
a lasting way. The University of Ne
braska needs such funds. There are
undoubtedly many men and women
who would attend college if, when they
entered, were given help. When a
studont has been In school a year, or
even a semester, he knows conditions
better, has learned how to study, and
is able to help pay his expenses by
securing work.
Such funds are particularly helpful
to women. It Is more difficult for a
woman to work her way through col
lege than it is for a man because there
are not so many positions open to
women, and many women are not
physically strong enough to do out
side work and their class work too.
The University Girls' club has made
an effort to help University women, but
due to the limited amount in the fund
the sum the club can lend a girl is not
sufficient to give her a year's train
ing. The A. C. A. has in the past
offered $50 a semester scholarships.
The student loan fund is not large
enough to aid many students. All these
funds are a great help, of course, but
as they are now they are merely be
ginnings. Annis Chaikin, '08, alumni secretary,
said of the plans of the class, "Now,
if ever, the class of 1S98 believe is
the time to start such a fund. The
young people of the state of Nebraska
should be kept in school in prepara
tion for the enormous demands that
are to be made upon them for trained
leaders when the wprld is again at
peace. In recognition of what their
alma mater has already contributed
to our country's service the members
of the class of 1S98 hope to mark their
twentieth anniversary with a lasting
milestone."
deavor to assist the freshmen Into the
work. Hut there are many, many fresh
men and few rhetoric professor, and
assistants, and the service, at most,
t hub can be rendered studont U little
compared to what It should be.
The all-university parties, the class
parties, the Girls' club parties, the
Y. W. C. A. meetings are necessary If
the student body Is to be acquainted.
Getting students acquainted, Is the
easiest way to prevent snobbishness.
Next year Bctaool activities will be
Important to a greater degree than
they have been this year. There will
be fewer expensive parties, of course.
Hard work, not money, will be the
price students must learn to pay for
their enjoyments.
That Is why student activities should
be supported, by everyone. There
must be leaders and there must be
lots of helpers. At Nebraska it has
been too much the Aistom for a few
to do the most of the work.
THE CURE FOR HOMESICKNESS
That is what student activities are
for, to pave the way smoothly from
high school to college, especially for
the student who is unacquainted when
he comes. What sort of a college
would there be if all the student did
was to attend classes, return to their
rooms or go to the library and study,
then go to classes again? School ac
tivities make it possible for students
to become acquainted with each other.
They make it possible for students to
do the work they like to do outside of
the history, language and English les
sons. This year student activities have
served more than the students them
selves. The University Red Cross
rooms; established through the ef
forts of the Girls' club, have given
University women a chance to help
more than their fellow students. The
Y. W. C. A. through their many
lines of work, especially the social
service, can render a service that will
count in the lives of the poor of Lin
coin, and they have done so. The in
formation bureaus, conducted during
the first semester registration by the
Girls' club board, helped a large num
ber of freshmen in every way, from
guarding baggage to advising what
sort of dress to wear to the evening re
ception. The information bureau
should be organized again next year.
The bureau which was to help stu
dents Into different school activities
should be a useful one next year. In
structors who have large numbers of
freshmen classes have commented on
the eagerness of the first year class
members to do this sort of work. Rhet
eric professors ask for autobiographl
eal themes, ask the students to tell
what they would like to do. then en
MISTAKES AND CRITICS
From time to time there come to
our ears criticisms of reports appear
ing In the Daily, and often no small
indignation is expressed at wha( ap
pears to be an unfair or erroneous
statement printed in our columns.
With regard to this we feel that a
word of explanation Is necessary.
First of all the Daily is not Infallible.
We are perfectly ready to admit this.
In the case of a publication brought
out entirely by the efforts of students
mistakes are bound to occur more or
less frequently. This year In particu
lar, owing to the absence through en
listment or graduation of practically
all of last year's staff, the number of
men who have had previous experi
ence in newspaper work Is exceeding
ly small. The inexperienced students
who are giving their time and labor to
the production of the paper naturally
have a certain amount to learn, and
they are doing their best to pick this
up in as short a time as possible. While
they are passing through this period
of training they are just as liable as
anyone to make mistakes.
Remember, however, that the staff is
made up of undergraduates; these
men have courses to attend and work
to do no less than those who. never
enter the Daily office, but are the first
to observe and criticise, an error in
the mornin's paper. The editors, asso
ciate editors and reporters are Just as
fond of amusement when they can
get it as anyone else. Some of them
feel that they are neglecting their
studies to a certain extent in order
that the Daily may continue to ap
pear every day for the benefit of
their fellow students, and not unnat
urally they feel somewhat discour
aged at meeting with censure from
these, which they are convinced arises
from a lack of clear understanding
of the facts.
Let it be understood that we are not
trying to make excuses or to shirk re- J
sponsibility; we are willing to accept J
a reasonable amount of blame for
errors that appear in the Daily. But
we can not help feeling that if a few
of the men who are so ready to point
out mistakes would come down to
the office and spend a few nights work
ing on the paper, they would be much
easier to please in the future. We
fail to see why a student, who is con
nected with some form of activity
around McGill, who has all the facts
in his possession, and plenty of time
at his disposal, should find it necessary
to leave the report of this activity to
the editor of the Daily or to a reporter
who of necessity is not very fully
acquainted with undergraduate af
fairs. When such a person complal
of an unsatisfactory "write-up" in the
some heat why he did not see to it in
person that the "write-up" was Just
as he wished it to be. While only too
ready to co-operate in every respect
with the leaders of student activity in
the University, the Daily staff is un
able to produce a finished article with
only a few hastily taken notes or a
hurried talk over the 'phone as raw
materials.
"What about the reporters? will
doubtless be the question prompted by
the above statement Well, the re
porters do their best, like the rest of
the staff. Being drawn entirely from
the first year, however, they can not,
as we have before stated, be expected
to possess as full a knowledge of how
things go in student activities as is the
property of a third or fourth-year
man. They are "new to the game,'
most of them, and they need a certain
amount of sympathetic assistance
from the men whose deeds and words
they report. McGill Daily.
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