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THE TT Pi T T v wr.RRASKAN
The Daily Nebraskan
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA OFFICIAL PUBLICATION
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Katharine Newbranch Editor-in-Chief
Gaylord Davis Managing Editor
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Published every day except Saturday and Sunday during the col
lege year. Subscription, per remester, $1.
Entered at the postofllce at Lincoln, Nebraska, as second-class'
mall matter under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
With the gradual return of conditions and customs of our college,
there arises the old, much discussed subject of smoking o nthe campus.
Before the establishment of the Nebraska Training Detachment this
summer, and the Students Army and Navy this October, smoking on
the campus was forbidden by the Board of Regents. In accordance
with the leniency shown to those in the government service in time of
war, no criticism or discipline was manifested toward the men who
broke this rule. Many of the men were from towns in the state and
had come here essentially for government service. It was perfectly
permissable for men in training and in action to smoke. People who
disapproval of smoking, and did everything they could to discourage
such a habit in ordinary times, sanctioned and abetted the donations
of cigarettes to men in uniform.
Under existing conditions it is a slogan that we need not regard
as affecting us. We are no longer a military unit. We are strictly
and wholly a university with the purpose of dispensing higher educa
tion to students, and to fit them to be the best students possible.
In order to do this we must exert the proper influencee and create
the highest ideals among the students that we are capable of main
taining. There is a certain ethicaland moral stimulus in the raising
of principles in the custom of prohibiting smoking within the campus
gates. Such an action establishes a precedent, and helps in forming a
habit of incessant and promiscuous smoking.
Since the war there has been a laxness in observance of this uni
versity custom. Consequently there has been almost too much in
formality, too much loafing. Such things tend to lessen the students'
respect for the institution, and make it appear undignified.
It is time to lay aside the practices of war times and turn our ef
forts to the gentler and more refined pursuits of peace.
WHAT THE COLLEGES CAN DO
When the United . States needed more officers for the rapidly
growing army than the training camps provided, the War Depart
ment, instead of enlarging West Point or establishing new military
schools for the emergency, turned to the colleges and universities of
the nation and asked them to provide quarters and instruction for
thousands of high school graduates, from whom candidates for officers'
commissions might be found. It was a great task for the American
colleges and a great compliment. For it testified that the experience
of the War Department with the young collegians who went to the
Plattsburg camps for military training showed that the American col
lege, even on a peace curriculum, did something for its students which
fitted them to command men.
The S. A. T. C, as organized last autumn in the leading colleges
of the United States, were necessarily tentative and crude. The pro
gram as first worked out contained so much drill and routine military
duty that it left little opportunity for study. If the war had continued
into another year, as was expected when the S. A. T. C. was organized,
modifications and adaptations would have doubtless been made to fit
the conditions. There is little doubt the plan would have worked and
would have provided the army with junior officers.
There was such a valuable idea in the S. A. T. C. that we cannot
afford to lose it in the mobilization for peace, although already the stu
dents' corps in the universities have been disbanded. The government
offered to provide, through the S. A. T. C, not merely tuition and mil
itary training at the public expense in the colleges, for any youth of
eighteen who had had a high school course, but also paid for his
board and clothes and gave him a small allowance. That is to say, the
state, in the emergency of war recognizing the value of trained lead
ership, offered to pay for the support and education of a large number
of young men from whom they expected to find sufficient material to
officer the new armies. If .the state finds it advantageous to secure
leadership in this manner at the public expense during the emer
gency of the war, there is no reason why it should not profitably follow
the game policy in the normal times of peace. Already, especially in
the western states, free college tuition is provided in a state institu
tion for any high school graduate of the state, who desires a college
education and can support himself at college. This puts a handicap
on the youth whose family cannot afford to maintain him beyond the
age of seventeen or eighteen. If college education does nothing for
the boy except assist him in improving his individual chance for
success in life (which until recently "practical" men could be found
to deny), then the state has no interest in providing college education
of any sort to those who cannot afford to get it for themselves. But
if the college does something for capable youths that makes them .
valuable as officers and leaders, as would seem to be the case, accord
ing to the results of war experience not only here but in England and
Canada, then the state cannot afford to lose this leadership in peace
through neglect and indifference.
A certain number of government scholarships in the colleges and
universities of the country could be opened to those high school grad
uates who were especially recommended because of physical, mental,
and moral promise. The government could require a special cur
riculum in the colleges for these scholarship boys, and, if thought
best, require also a certain amount of military drill, so that the grad
uates could be formed into a reserve officers' organization a reservior
of trained men.
The great war has proved how enormous is the demand in modern
life for specialists and trained leaders. For peace, as well as for war,
a progressive state must utilize its best human material wisely, not
depend on chances of private effort and training. Above all, no demo
cratic state can afford to handicap any of its citizens in education the
fullet education of which they are capable. Robert Herrick.
DAILY DIARY RHYMES .
By
GayU Vincent Orubb
A SATIRE ON RESOLUTIONS'
He a funny sort of feller is,
Ti.fl man who vcur on ear
Resolves his life's a foolish biz.
His actions out of gear.
I ll smoke. I'll swear. Ill drink no
more.
.n.- t-mu.' miih for mine;"
Yet the same old oath he s often
swore,
1 it. . V. llnA
Then ralieu to win "
He has thrown his vice in the gar-
bage can.
And held his right hand high;
While he's told the world to a single
man.
With a clear and steady eye:
My friends, start now, begin anew,
Resolve as I have done,
Wise men like I are scarce and few,
The world's too much for fun."
A Fool there was-so I understan'
And a fool we have today,
In the man who digs in the garbage
can,
For the stuff he's thrown away.
1 reckon you know the critter well,
For he bobs up every year;
And "Henry, sweep out the padded
cell,
, We've another Inmate here."
.ton for feeble tirantB, but the
divine right of government id the key
stone of human progress, and without
It governments link Into police and a
nation la degraded into a mob.
""VuThlng" sharpens the arrow of sar
casm so keenly as the courtesy that
polishes It; no reproach i like that
wo clothe with a smile and present
with a bow. Chicago Evnelng Post.
Wo ought not to judge of men's
merits by the qualification, but by the
use they make of them. Charren.
Take my word for it, if you had
seen but one day of war, you would
pray to Almighty God that you might
never seo such a thing again. Wellington.
ALUMNI
Walter V. Hoagland. '95, of the law
firm of Hoagland & Hoagland, of
North Platte, Nebr., will represent the
twenty-fifth district in the next state
senate. He represented the same dis
trict in 1911 and 1913.
F. S. Baker, Law '03, is an attorney-at-law
at Harrison, Nebr.
J. F. Rotruck, '02, is practicing law
at Denver. He was elected as one
of the twelve representatives to the
Colorado legislature, from Denver, this
fall.
George F. Dobler, Law '03, is an at
torney at Riverton. Wyo.
C. N. Wright. '03, is a banker at
Scottsbluff, Nebr.
Milan S. Moore, '02, is a physician
at Gothenburg, Nebr. Just at present
he is captain of Company L, 134th in
fantry, 34th division, France.
Guilbert H. Hall, '96, has been In
Lincoln recently on his way back to
Galesburg, 111., where he is practicing
medicine. He has been in the medical
service at Camp Cody, N. M.
It is provided in the essence of
things that from any fruition of suc
cess, no matter what, shall come forth
something to make a greater struggle
necessary. Walt Whitman.
To be a good listener is perhaps
quite as desirable an art as that of be
ing a good talker. Interest and eym
pathetic attention are always a dell-'
cate courtesy. It draws out the best
that others have to give, cheers and
comforts those in trouble, sets the
timid at ease and wins and holds
friendship Exchange.
It is a good and safe rule to so
journ in every place as if you meant
to spend your life there, never omit
ting an opportunity of doing a kind
ness, or speaking a true word, or mak
ing a friend Rusk in.
When our vices leave us we flatter
ourselves that we are leaving them.
JUNIOR HOP PLANNED
FOR SATURDAY NIGHT
(Continued from page 1)
Addleman, Helen Giltner, Webb Rich
ards, and Ed Bush. The dance Is to
take the place of the Junior formal,
which has been postponed Indefinitely,
and it is planned to make the party
as much like a formal as possible
without going to extraordinary ex
pense. Refreshments will be served,
and the best Jazz music. Is promised.
There is no school like the school
of experience, except the school of
other folk's experience.
The only good copies are those
which enable us to see the laughable
ness of bad originals.
Real struggling is itself real living,
and no ennobling thing of this earth is
ever to be had by man on any other
terms.
The great secret of life is to know
how in our own way to be receptive
to the spirit, how to read the message
of its Inner whisperings.
He that can be true to his best and
secret nature, that can by faith and
patience conquer the struggling world
within, is most likely to send forth a
blessed power to vanquish the world
without.
Talk about those subjects you have
had long in your mind and listen to
what others say about subjects you
have studied but recently. Timber and
knowledge should not be much used
till they are seasoned.
Believe in yourself; believe in hu
manity; believe in the success of your
undertaking. Fear nothing and no
one. Love your work. Work, hope,
trust. Keep in touch with today,
yourself to be practical and up-to-date
and sensible. You cannot fail.
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T. ! lirave Is not merely not to be
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