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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 14, 1919)
MEBRASKAN THE DAILY HEiiJtflQ"" M The Daily Nebraskan UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA OFFICIAL PUBLICATION EDITORIAL STAFF Katharine Newbranch .... Edltor-laChlct Gaylord Davl Managing Editor Helen Howe Associate Editor Howard Murfln News )or Jack Landale -New. Ed tor Oswald Dlack SPrts Edllor Ilelca GUtner Socletr Edltor REPORTORIAL STAFF Patricia Maloncy Marian Heunlnger Sadie Finch Story Harding (iayle VinceiU Grubb Rhe Nelson Mary Herzing Kathcrine Drenke Viola Klelnke BUSINESS STAFP Glen II. Cardner Business Manager Roy Wythers ...Assistant Business Manager Offices: News, Basement, University Hall; Business, Basement, Administration Building. Telephones: News and Editorial, B-2816; Business, B2597. Night, all Departments, B6696. Published every day except Saturday and Sunday during the col lege year. Subscription, per semester, $1. Entered at the postoffice at Lincoln, Nebraska, as second-class mail matter under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. OLD KIDS ARE HAPPIEST (Orison Switt Maiden in January Nautilus.) How often do ve hear mature people talk about the silly, foolish things which young people do. They forget that they once went into ccstades over these very things which now seem ridiculous and bore tome to them. As we grow older we gradually lose our zest and our enthusiasm tor the things which once delighted and excited us. When we approach l.ianhood and womanhood we cannot understand how children can be so carried away with their childish plays, with their simple toys; how it is that they'iicvcr seem to tire of things that do not interest us; and then when we get u little older even the tilings which so fascinate us in our youth gradually lose their charm for us, and so it is through life. As we advance in years ve become interested in new things. Those behind us gradually lose their attractiveness. While we cannot, perhaps, retain all of our childish zest and en thusiasm, it is fatal to our wouthfulness to allow all these interests to fade entirely out of our lives, so that we will feel bored and annoyed by the things that so delight the youth about us. All of the people whom I know who have carried youthfulness into l heir advanced years have been extremely responsive to many things in lire which interested them in their early days. When we see a person advancing in years who feels bored with things which seem to give young people so much pleasure, we may be quite sure that his brain cells, his nerve cells, are hardening, that hidden faculties are deadening, and his ability to appreciate things is becoming atrophied. If the dance which exhilarates and captivates your daughter bores you to distraction, if her little parties and plans, which keep her awake nights with delicious anticipation, weary you, you may he pretty sure that you have been touched with the old age germ. The great enemy of youthfulness is the drying-up process, and this is why ye should not only keep as much as possible with the young but should enter into their joys, their play with zest and enthusiasm. We should romp and play with them, interest ourselves in the things that delight them, instead of pushing children away from us and re straining them all the time, regarding them as a nuisance and a bore. Children were given us to keep us youthful to keep our sympathies fresh. A NEW GYMNASIUM X'j real, honest to-goodness Cornhusker can read Dr. Stewart's appeal for a new g;. -ninnMuni without sustaining a vital stab in his fealty to thn University, it makes us think that the old Greeks, who lived thousands of years ago must be having a lot of fun laughing at us, somewhere in the Klysiar. fields, and that we are not so civilized a I Ural'. The tax payers a id law-makers of our slate have provided a very complete agricultural college at the Farm Campus. There they have excellent facilities for raising stock. They spare no expense in hous ing and providing for livestock. The courses at the Farm are made attractive and pleasant by the most recent conveniences. No reas onable expense is spared. Everything is modern and scientific. At the city campus, where the coming citizens and law-makers of the state are being trained to meet the trials and emergencies of life, and to cope with them; where we put the finishing touches on th education of our young n.en and women, to make of them the best people that a twentieth century institution can send into the world, It is not so easy to get equipment and necessities to accomplish this most important son ice of the University. Is it possible that the people of Nebraska put more money and stress upon the training wn'ch fits young men to be successful farm ers than upon the training which fits them to become successful men and citizens? Are we losing sight of the fundamental aim of demo craic education? In order to attract the young people of today to our University, and to give them the proper physical and mental development, Ne braska must ofter something more on the physical training side. It is not wise to put all our care and energy on the intellectual pursuits of college life. The old maxim that a sound body is vitally necessary to a sound mind is as true tuday as it ever was. Young men and women will always desire physical training. Ath letics is growing constantly in public favor and demand. We. here in Nebraska, need a new gymnasium. Even the most unwilling cannot help but be convinced of that. The need is not trivial. Athletics plays an important, part in the life, popularity and general welfare cf every college. Te cannot hold our present rating In ath letics if we do net have Letter facilities. Dr. Stewart says so and we all know tfiRt fie knows! A new gymnasium at Nebraska is a worthwhile anl a timely slogan. Ltt s have it: DAILY DIARY RHYMES uy Gayla Vincent Grubb A carpenter Knocks the whole day long. Yet Just In a friendly way; The stuff he has 'sawed1 would open your eyes, Hut here's what I want to say: Suppobin he Mopped i Hothlns store t suit himself with some clothes. What style would he choose, I ask right out. And I'll wager that nobody knows Well, niuybe I'm wrong In I he facts of the case, Hut I've got the dope In the main; If a carpenter ordered a suit of clothes Why I'm sure lie would order It plane." I HAND GRENADES .A LITERARY SACRILEGE "The world is so full of a number of things, That I'm sure we would all be happy as kings." You realize that it is not for such as vou to doubt the word of Stevenson. but sometimes you cannot help but wonder whether or not he was in U right mind at the time of that utter antes sure, I know he's dead; I wouldn't be saying that if he were not. For instance, you question his men tal equilibrium when you go to a class blissfully ignorant of the lesson, and the professor blithely spring a quiz! You feel that the world is surely full of a number of things of which you never heard before. Another critical moment in your career is when you are madly rushing to get ready for your eight o'clock, ana your shoe lace breaks. . Again yoi ponder as to Stevenson's cerebral shortcomings. Fresh paint in any of its tragic asJ pects leads you to further thought on the subject. The car you miss, the hash for lunch, the weather, in fact "a number of things," all come in such a train of thought. "Happy as kings! Bah! ! ! No wonder that old Robert Louie became morose and said: "Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie!" GIRLS CHOOSE LEADERS FOR BASKETBALL TEAMS Will Assist Coaches in Picking Squads and Electing Captains ivery thing In Our Store Except Contract Lines 1o TO n Off Leaders for the girls' class basket ball teams were chosen Monday by the reeular snort leader. The girls who will act in this capacity are: Senior, Gertrude DeSautelle. Juniors, Irene Cullen. Sophomore, Sarah Surber. Freshmen, Ruth Fickes. These girls will aid the sport leader! and coaches in choosing the membeis of the class squads and will be respon-i sible for bringing them together to elect team captains. The captains will then be. responsible for every membei of their respective teams appearing ai practice and at the time scheduled foi the games to be played. The teams will be picked within the next, two weeks. No girl is eligible to be chosen on one of these teamJ unless she has been out to at least ten regularly recorded practice. The sorority and Rainbow teami- will also be chosen soon and the Rain bow tournament will probably be play ed the last of this month. The inter sorority tournament will follow about the first week in February and th class games will be played last, at which tournament the Woman's Ath Ietic association is planning to cele brate with an all day party. The com pleted plans will be announced later To a woman the best part of the afternoon reception is when she lr the center of conversation; to a man going out the front door. At twenty a young man. after read Ing books like Samuel Smiles', thinks he can be a uperman; at forty, he knows "there ain't no such person.' Under Personal Direction Orpheum Circuit Matinee 2:15 Evening 8 :2 4-DAYS-4 i v k jr rr m STARTING WEDNESDAY MAT. JAN 15 A POSITIVE SENSATION Langdon McCormick, Presents "On THE HIGH SEAS" A spectacular Meelodrama by George Melrose with ROBERT HOLDEN and BENNET JOHNSTONE WALTER C. 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