T 11 K DAILY X i: II It A S K A N
The Daily Nebraskan
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POLITICAL MAKE BELIEVE
We are destined to disappointment if we are anticipating an
election next Tuesday that will be accompanied with heated rivalry,
cut throat competition, Ions of blood, and all tho rest. Tho impor
tant contests for office are decided before election day. so that
when that day rolls around, the school is cheated from the delights
of a really interesting political battle. The privileges of being wit
ness to the under-cover contests between candidates is denied to
all but a favored few. While this practice cannot be censured on
the grounds that it is contaminated with political corruption, still
it would be much better if the candidates saved the fight until
election day, and gave the student body a chance to take a hand in
the matter. Students, faculty, and all, would take a more active
interest in university politics if they were allowed to state their
choice as to candidates.
SACRIFICE A BIT
The games Friday and Saturday nights with Missouri will de
cide the Missouri Valley championship race. The southerners are
coming with a clean record behind them, and are confident of taking
both games. If Nebraska students support the team as they did
last Friday night, we can turn the tables on Missouri. Two vic
tories over Missouri will place Nebraska in first place. Dr. Stewart
promises that the game Friday night will be over by eight-thirty
o'clock, thus giving students plenty of time to go to the several
social affairs afterwards. Realizing, then, that student support will
win, seize this opportunity to boost for Nebraska. Sacrifice" those
first few dances.
COLLEGIATE CREDIT FOR EX-SOLDIERS
Administrative authorities at Nebraska have given most of the
returning soldiers fair credit for work in the army. Those who re
ceived lieutenant's commissions have been given as much as nine
and thirteen hours credit for military science. Credit has also
been granted for matematics, and other technical studies. Such
action on the part of the authorities is highly commendable. With
out doubt the men that have served in army camps have developed
in mind and body far more than they could have done had they
remained in the University for the same period of time.
The knowledge and experience that the men have gained from
travel in America and overseas has ben easily worth three times
the knowledge that might have been gained in college during the
same period of time. Students who have lived in France for six
months or a year have learned infinitely more of French customs,
history, language, and geography than they could ever learn at col
lege. The specific training in war aims has been of a highly prac
tical nature. The ex-soldiers are better men for their experience
in the army. They deserve all the credit they receive in military
science, mathematics, and war aims.
Harvard and Yale are considering the plan of giving any man
who returns to school this semester credit for the full year. Other
institutions are considering the plan of giving from ten to twenty
hours credit for war work. Canadian colleges, such as McGill and
Toronto, are giving full credit for a year's academic work to men
who have joined the military or naval service since last April.
The following article gives a good account of how English uni
versities are solving the perplexing problem of doing justice to
returned soldiers:
The problem of how young students are to "pick up the lost
years of war," after having served with the colors, so that they
shall not suffer for having obeyed the call of duty, is being solved
by universities, colleges, professional institutions and the appoint
ments branch of the ministry of labor, in different ways.
The University of London is allowing such students to pass a
simple examination of a personal character instead of matriculation,
while the interval between the intermediate examinations and the
prescribed courses of study will be shortened. "War degrees" will
also be granted to students who joined the forces just before their
final examination in a faculty other than medicine. These degrees
will be placed on a special list with the word (war) after the short
title M. A., B. A., or others.
Twelve British prisoners, while in Ruhleben camp in Germany,
passed the London University's matriculation examination and
others took intermediate examinations for degrees in science, en
gineering and economics.
The law institute is caring for its young legal students by hav
ing passed the "solicitors' articled clerks act," whereby students
who have been articled may count the period of war service as part
time under articles.
The institute of chartered accountants has already planned
similar reduction of time for serving, while the royal Institute of
British architects has decided to allow "war" students to forego
their final examination provided they pass the Intermediate one.
Orders have been introduced Into the by-laws of the Institution
of civil engineers which will allow students' war service to count
as having fulfilled a similar time In study, apprenticeship or other
practical engineering service.
The appointments branch of the ministry of labor has obtained
grants from public funds toward the training expenses of demobil
ized officers and men who desire financial aid to prepare for a par
ticular vocation.
UNI NOTICES
Catholic Student'! Club
The Catholic Student's Club will
hold a meeting in the K. f f. 1" l
3:00 I'. M.. Sund.iy. February 16t.h.
All Catholic utii.lnitH are Invited.
Fencing Claw
A young woman fencing clnss Is
being organized and classes will start
next week If onoimh register for It.
Classes will meet t 3:00 o'clock on
Monday and Fflilay in S. 102. Regis
tration Is open to r.M and one hour
credit will be nlowd for the work.
First Aid Course
A first aid cours" from which It
will bo possible to s- enre a Red Cross
certificate has been organized. The
calendar number f t"l course Is
Phy. Ed. 0. Tho classes will meet nt
11:00 on Tuesday for lecture, at 11:00
on Thursday for lntxrtory In S. 101.
It will be possible to register any time
before next Tuesday morning.
Menorah Society
All Jewish students and the univer
sity faculty are Inviited to attend a
"get-together" meet inn: of the Men
orah Society on Sunday evening, Febr
uary 16th. at 7:30 l M. in the Wo
men's Building. 12th and Q Streets.
Class Elections
Election of class presidents, Ivy
Day orator, editor in chief, managing
editor and bu.-iness manager of the
Cornhusker will be held Tuesday,
February 18.
All candidates must file applications
with the registrar by 5 o'clock Fri
day, February 14.
Omicron Nu Meeting
There will be a short important
business meeting of Omricon Nu
Thursday evening at 7:30. Every ac
tive member is urged to be present
and all alumnae are welcome.
Dean Sherman to Give Lecture
Dean Sherman will give the first
of a series of lectures on the Inter
pretation of Shakespeare tonight at
8 o'clock In the Faculty Room of the
Temple. He will speak especially up
on "The Appreciation of Shakespeare
and the World's Progress in It."
War Aims Examinations
All the War Aims examination pa
pers have been corrected, and as soon
as the averages are ready, the papers
and averages will be posted in the
corridor of U Hall. An announce
ment will be made concerning this In
the Daily Nebraskan.
A. 1. E. E. Picture
The A. I. E. E. picture will be
taken at Townsend's at 12:15 Thursday.
Blair Students to Organize
University students from Blair are
planning a lively meeting to organize
a University Blair Club. There is a
group of about thirty former Blair
people attending University, and these,
with others formerly connected with
Blair High School, are expected to be
present. They will meet In Art Hall,
in the Library, on Saturday evening,
February 15, for a regular Noah Club.
Union Literary Society
Union Literary Society will meet
Friday, February 14, at 7:30 p. m.
Everybody welcome.
A. S. C. E. Picture
All Civil Engineers be at Town
send's Studio for the A. S. C. E. pic
ture, Thursday, 11:20 A. M.
Iron Sphynx
Important meeting of Iron Sphynx
at Delta Upsilon House, 3:30 Sunday,
February 16, 1919.
Silver Serpent Meeting
Silver Serpent will hold a special
meeting Friday at 12:00 o'clock In the
Woman's Hall. Every member la
urged to be present promptly.
Delian Literary Society
Delian Literary Society will hold
an open meeting Friday evening, Feb
ruary 14, in Faculty Hall. A special
program is being arranged. Univer
sity students are cordially invited.
Class in Boxing
The special class In boxing will
meet in G-206 at 11:00 a. m. Thursday,
February 13, to make final arrange
ments for the regular time for the
class to meet, and to arrange for box-
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HAND GRENADES
And We All Do It.
Funny thing, this borrowing busi
ness. You sit up until the wee small
hours when all is still and the steam
heat is low, and write a fifteen-page
history paper. The next morning just
an hour before class time, one of your
contemporaries borrows your master
piece, varies your words a bit, im
proves your rhetoric and pulls an
"E", whereas your paper is returned
with a generous sprinkling of red ink
and a "G." You are consumed with
rage, yet that very noon, you dash to
French class five minutes early to
copy your neighbor's sentences.
Why is it you always like your
friends' clothes better than your own?
And why do they like yours better
than their habiliments?
Truly under such circumstances the
custom of borrowing is a pleasant
one, but when one of your friends
wears your one and only new spring
hat so often, that when you wear it
yourself others accuse you of wear
ing hers, the sunshine of life is some
what dimmed. Then, too, when you
are in a hurry to reach the Orpheum,
or even such a prosaic place as a
class, and cannot find more or less
essential parts of your wardrobe
your ire is somewhat roused.
As for the people who borrow your
clothes for weeks at a time, and have
their pictures taken therein, for the
society column of the Sunday paper,
words are too mild.
Again, when your emotions are too
deep for words, that IsMo say, for
English words, is when you start to
an eight o'clock, forget your fountain
pen, dash back at top speed only to
find that some one has borrowed It.
Yet you will steal silently into a
neighbor's room and grab her pen
ere she can see you.
Taking it all in all, you about de
cide that old Hamlet was right when
he uttered the words: "Neither a bor
rower nor a lender be." Wittenburg
must have been something like Ne
braska, even In ye good old days.
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NEWS
Foreign Relations Class Large
The class in Foreign Relations has
grown to one hundred and forty. All
the classes in history are large. The
enrollment in the American history
department is greater than ever be
fore. Ninety have registered for the
class in advanced War Alms.
Miss Agnes M. Hal Ito Visit Y. W.
C. A. Miss Agnes M. Hall, student
secretary for the North Central Field
of Y. W. C. A will spend Friday and
Saturday at the University.
Time
Time Was One of the Chief
Factors in
WINNING THE WAR
Y'ou will find the conservation
of time equally efficient in win
ning all other desirable objects
in this life.
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