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Associate Editor
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. New Editor
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Helen Glltner Editor
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Business Manager
" Assistant Business Manager
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Story Harding
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Gayle Vincent GruM) Klie Nelson
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Entered at the postoflice at Lincoln, Nebraska, as second-class
mall matter uncter the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
The time of final examinations is rife with temptations. There
are opportunities to write on one's cuffs, to prepare "cribs" made with
a couple of matches, and so forth and so forth. Some times "just a
little" assistance unfairly gained means a passing grade to a student
who would fail otherwise. Whether it is a difficult definition like
Spencer's definition of life, or a chemical formula, or the rule for the
"square of the hypotenuse," or Locke's conception of the mind, or the
list of the different kinds of meter, or any of the other many "hard
places" that are to be found in almost every course, is inconsequential.
Whether students know these things or not. or indeed, whether they
pass or "flunk." or whether they make Phi Beta Kappa or not. is of
no especial importance. No person is judged, and no education is
judged by the conglomeration of facts that are stored away in the
mind, ready for glib recitation at a moment's notice. We are all told
that it isn't the knowledge that we gain at school that is of value to us.
it is, instead, the way we use that knowledge. And how we use the
knowledge we have is not of eo much significance as how we live out
lives. The ideals that we as students set for ourselves here in school are
the ideals that we are going to carry away with us when we leave.
They are bound to influence our lives. Most students have high ideals.
It is easy to sacrifice such an immaterial thing as an ideal for the
sake of three hours credit. It is easy, but it is fatal to the moral
soundness of the individual. ve echo the words of the "Cheerful
Cherub, who said:
I'd rather always fail in life
And die unnoticed and in need
And keep my high aims in my heart.
Than aim at small things and succeed. i
War engenders its own emotional state. Six months ago. when the
fighting was at its hottest, nearly everybody talked international
idealism.
No annexations, no punitive indemnities, no mere vengeance, but
justice, self-determination of peoples, equal opportunities, fraternity.
Such, more or less, was the word nearly everywhere.
But a very able American psychologist pointed out that if we
wanted to know what would happen after the war we hhould look first
of all to the opposite of what was happening during the war, because ;
a highly emotional state throws the mind out of balance, so to speak,
involving the suppression of instincts and motives that normally
operate. When the pressure is removed those suppressed motives
eorue into play more strongly than common.
Broadly speaking, it turned out that way for the time being.
Very soon after the signing of the armistice European utterances in
general took on a different tone. We did not hear much about ideal
justice, eyuality and fraternity. We did hear a great deal about pun
ishments, vast indemnities and imperialistic territorial ambitions.
The complex of European utterances gave a distinct impression of
.the good old game of grab. England and France, it appeared, had
conflicting claims to Syria. Italy and the Jugo-Slavs proposed to take
the same Odriatic lands. Half-born Toland was seizing a favorable
opportunity to overrun country it coveted. Take it all around, the
statesmen of the Congress of Vienna or cf the Congress of Berlin
would have grinned sympathetically and found themselves quite at
home in contemporaneous European atmosphere as current newspaper
comment partially reflected it.
Probably statesmanship always tends powerfully to fall back on
the old stuff. By all the rules it ever learned and accession of national
territory, however acquired, is the chief point in the game. The
statesman who puts the flag in a new place wins. For th,e moment
statesmanship seemed back at the Congress of Vienna. But Europe
is not back there and no statesmanship can put it back. An arrange
ment patterned mainly on the Congress of Vienna would not endure
long because in democratic countries, with equal suffrage, the gov
ernments that made it would not endure long Saturday Evening
Post.
UNI NOTICES
New Course In Rhetoric
Khctorlc 35. A new course In com
mercial composition, designed prl
marllv for students of commerce and
those interested In the use of English
composition in business.
Rhetoric 13. Argumentation in the-
,.wi ,u:utical application. Anal
ysis, evidence, conviction, fallacies,
in .f.ih' wine.
v..h nt these courses gives Uirce
J hours' credit and both require rhetoric
1 1 and 2 for admission.
New Courses in Astronomy
Two new courses in astronomy, of
a non mathematical sort, will be open
to beginners in the second semester:
Astronomy 5. A three-hour course In
general astronomy; two daytime
hours to lecture and text book work,
and one evening a work nt the obser
vatory for the direct study of the skv
with the telescope and other Instru
ments. Astronomy 7.- An one hour course,
covering briefly the same ground as
course 5, but omitting the evening observations.
Botany Course
Professor K. J. Pool announces that
he will offer a new course in botany
next semester that will cover the
ground of botany 1 and 2. This course
will be known as lxitany a and six
hours' credit will be given for it.
Classes will meet every day at 9 a.
m. and there will be laboratory work
from 1 to 5 p. m. on Monday and
Wednesday. Any student taking this
course will thus fulfill his biology re
quirements in the arts and science col
lege In one semester.
American History Changes
The following mistakes were made
in the list of American history courses
given out yesterday. Professor Cald
well will instruct closses in American
history 4 and 24. and Miss Reynoldson
will teach classes in American history
25.
Botany Courses
Professor Pool of the botany depart
ment announces that he will give a
course for students who have had a
late start in order that they may re
move their biology requirements. The
course is listed as Botany "A" and is
a combination of Botany 1 and 2. Six
hours' credit will be given. Five
hours of recitation, the clesses meeting
at 9 o'clock each a. m. and four hours,
laboratory each Monday and Wednes
day afternoon.
Red Cross First Aid Courses
Dr. Clapp as the chairman of the
educational committee of the Lincoln
Red Cross will offer next semester a
course in first aid for young women.
The hours will be arranged to conven
ience the students and one hour credit
will 'be given.
Palladian Picture
Palladian society will meet at Town-
Cornhusker Snapshots
The Cornhusker management will
give a prize of $3 for the best set of
S. A. T. C. snapshots handed in by
February 1.
GYMNASIUM CLASSES TO BE
RESUMED NEXT SEMESTER
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brilliant passino HUSKER MAT PROSPECTS
wins for huskers APPEAR TO BE BRIGHT
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she is tied with Missouri, who has
four wins and no losses to her credit.
However, the standings at this stage
of the campaign are very uncertain
and cannot be taken as a certain pre
diction of the final outcome of th!
race.
The Cornhusktrs h;ive one tr.ore
game with Grinnell Friday and th-n
go back for a second olas-h wi; h luaV.e
Saturday at Des Moines. If they main
tain the clip at which they ar; going
at present .they will cairy home tl.e
tpoils of all four games.
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; the 145 pound class and Weaver, Tro-
t endly and Soulier are scraping their
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j shoulders in the 1.15 and 125 pound
classes respectively.
Tiie meet with Ames wi'.l be pulled
off February 21, and will be followed
by an encounter with the Kansas Ag
' f ies Inter in the season. In addition
t these programs there is the uni
versity tournament in which all stu
dents including freshmen are eligible,
to participate
same. Regular university ncu.i .
granted for all of these courses of the
same basis as other laboratory sub
jects and candidates for athletic teams
who need good.all-around training to
get into first class physical condition
for their sports will he allowed to reg
ister for these classes and substitute
regular athletic training for these
courses the last half of the semester.
All those interested in this work
should consult the department of phys
ical education for further information.
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