Tl DAILY NEBRASKAN I- I i f THE DAILY NEBRASKAN Official Pmpnr Of th L'nlvvralty of Natiraaka FERN NOnLE Editor LEONARD W. KLINE. .. .Mng. Editor GEORGE NEWTON.... News Editor ARNOLD WILKEN Newt Editor RUTH SNYDER Society Editor FRANK D. TATTY.. SporUng Editor HORACE TALCOTT. Acting Bus. Mgr. Offices wa Bwaement Unlvaralty Hall Buatneaa, laanant Admlnletratlon BUS Talaphonaa Nawa. L-J416 Hualnna. P-J67 Mechanical Department. B-1145 IMbllahad every day during the collet fur except Saturday and Sunday. Subscription price, per aetneater. $L Entered at the poatofflce at Lincoln, Nebraska, aa eecond-claa mall matter n1er the act of Conrea of March t. 17. Reportorlal Staff Edith Anderson Frank ratty Anna Burtless rrancls Flood Oaylord Dt1s Carolyn Reed E. Forrest Estes Edna Rohrs Dean Ferguson's appeal to all en gineering students to let nothing of lesser Importance than military ser vice or its equivalent deflect them from their college course applies equal ly to all university students. The world needs trained men and women. There are enough of the untrained to fill the positions open to them. A former university student, now in the navy, recently wrote: "You know I did not secure my degree. At the end of three and one-half years I ac cepted a position which at that time looked too good to be turned down. The other day 1 took examinations for the six weeks officers training school at Annapolis. I passed the examina tions all right, but my recommenda tions were held up because I was not a college graduate. I had not consid ered that last semester in school of so much importance." The opinion of an ignorant person if of as great value as that of a person who "knows everything," it has been said. There are many EOalled edu cated people who opinions are so fixed that no amount of evidence one way or the other changes them. They give the impression that they knew all about it from the first, though often it was impossible for them to do so. Such fixation of opinion is as much the result of the way they were taught as anything else. There is too much of the "it is true because the book says so," attitude among teachers of today. This is particularly true of untrained teachers. When students learn that authors are human as well as anyone else and that they can not but unconsciously in terpret as they write, the students are going to be deeper thinkers them selves. They will look beyond the statement they read in their texts. University classes usually consider enough different texts, which are sup plemented by lectures, so that students realize that authorities often do not agree. But in many high schools and grade schools the situation is a differ ent one. There may be only one text. Teachers should encourage pupils to study carefully, then form opinions that may be changed if more material is found that justifies it IN CONCLUSION We have tried to be Just, to support tat which deserved succeed, that which would make a better school, to oppose that which was petty and mean. We have bad opinions and we have not hesitated to express them. We have been frank in the things we have stood for, expecting the same of students and faculty. We have net be lieved in "behind closed doors" sort of meetings and criticism. We have felt that students were hampered from working out their own problems by authority from the top down. Perhaps the fact that our coun try was at war to make "the world safe for democracy" impressed upon us that college students, as well as the peoples of Serbia, of Poland, of Bel glum, should be allowed to rule them selves. We have felt that the spirit of the college would be improved if students were obeying and enforcing their own laws. FINAL EXERCISES SHORT THIS YEAR (Continued from tae one.) to and including tuat of 1S95 are en titled to ons delegate; all classes since that to two delegates. The gen eral business meeting will be held at the University Farm t 7:30 o'clock. Following ft the alumni addrets w fil be given by Prof, 8. W. Ttxtcter, dean and director of the department f agriculture at the Vniverslty of Min-net-ota. This address Is always gives by some one who has boon out of school for twently years. Dean Thatch er graduated in 1S98. At nine o'clock the class carnival will be held. Miss Nellie Compton, '98, Is chairman of the committee and she says that som novel features are be ing planned. The class celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary won the trophy last year. Individual Reunions The Individual class reunions will be held as follows: 1878 Fortieth anniversary of the class of 1878. H. H. Wilson has is sued Invitations to the six living mem bers of the class which has lost but one member In forty years. They will meet for luncheon at his home. 1897 Twenty-fifth anniversary. Mrs. Frank II. Woods will entertain the members of the class of 189S at her home, Sheridan Boulevard and Lake street, at a luncheon at 12:30. 1898 TwentMh anniversary. The class of 1898 will meet at the Com mercial club for luncheon, 12:15. Mem bers notify secretary, Miss Frances Gere, 849 D street. 1S99 The class will meet for lunch eon at the Commercial club at 12:00 noon. Members notify Mrs. C. O. Bruce, University School of Music 1900 The class will meet for lunch eon at the Y. W. C. A. at 12:30. Mem bers notify the president, Fred C. Wil liams, 1702 Sewell street. 1902 The class will meet for lunch eon at the Commercial club at 1:00 p. m. Members notify the president, Mrs. Robert D. Anderson. 123$ II street, or A. M. Voss, secretary. 1903 Fifteenth anniversary. Lunch eon at the Commercial club at 1:00 p. m. Members notify the secretary. Miss Edna Gund, 234 South Twenty seventh street. 1906 Picnic luncheon. Members will meet at alumni headquarters at 12:00 noon to' be taken by automobiles to picnic grounds. Notify Mrs. Louise Allen Good. 1448 E street. 1907 Friday, May 24, reunion to be held at Omaha. Lincoln members will meet at the University Temple at 2:30 to be taken by automobiles to Omaha Members who can not leave then will take the 4:30 Burlington train. The class will be entertained at dinner by Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Sunderland and provision will be made for all who wish to remain over night. 1908 Tenth anniversary. Luncheon at the Commercial club at 12:00 noon. Members notify the secretary, Mrs. C. Petrus Peterson, 1S00 South Twenty second street. 1909 Arrangements are underway. 1910 Class will meet at the Com- J mercial club at 12:30. Members no tify president, Ralph loseley, or the secretary, Mrs. Edward Gehrke. 1911 Class will meet "at the Com mercial club. Members notify the president, Harvey Rathbone. 1912 The class will meet at 12:15 for luncheon at the Commercial club Notify the president, C. L Clark, or secretary, Marjorie Selleck. 1913 Fifth anniversary. Class will meet for luncheon at the Commercial club at 12:45. Notify the president, A. L. Hiltner, or the secretary, Mrs. Carl Bumstead, 1810 South Twenty third street. 1914 Luncheon at the Commercial club at 12:30. Members notify Mrs. Chas. Roberts, 3158 Sheridan Boulevard. 1917 First anniversary. Luncheon at the Commercial club at 12:30. Mem bers notify the secretary, Ethel Hart ley, 2345 R street. Senior Pins Black Mask Silver Serpent Saddle and Sirloin Dramatic Club Union Palladian School of Music T. C. H. 8, P. B. K. Sigma Xi HALLETT Uni. Jeweler Established 1871 1143 O Tucker-Skean 1123 O Street Mfg. 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