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News Editor
LE ROSS HAMMOND
For This Issue
FREEDOM IN THE CLASSROOM
Our American universities are reputed to be institutions of free
thought and free expression. Especialy are the western state uni
versities supposed to be free from the taint of superimposed methods
of thought. Our university's existence is not dependent upon funded
endowments, and our professors are not responsible in their teachings
to the dictates of any acknowledged creed or school of thought.
Theoretically the students of western universities are allowed perfect
freedom of thought, and are permitted to form opinions of their own,
free from any dictatorial influence.
In practice the theory does not work out quite so well. Pro
fessors, true to the rules of their profession, assume the attitude of
possessing infinite knowledge of their particular branch of learning.
This is all well and good. But some professors are prone io go be
yond this, even to the extent of giving the impression that their worJ
is law. They are all-wise, and individual thought, which runs coun
ter to their views, is tabooed. For a student to have a mind of his
own with opinions to match, is beyond the rules of the classroom.
We students like to think that our minds are good for something,
and that we have a right to form opinions and ideas of our own.
Perhaps in five out of ten cases we are in the wrong, but is it noc
possible that professors sometimes err?
The real purpose of a university education is to train the mind
of the student. Of course information is valuable, and is to be
sought by all. But our memories are. not perfect, and much that is
learned in our college years will leave us in the future. The training
that is given our minds, however, by certain courses, will always re
main in our possession. Information we can get after we leave col
lege, from leading and study. But the university is the best place to
acquire mind training, and while we are here, our duty is to receive
the maximum of mental growth and discipline.
We do not want a set of dogmatic rules. We do not want to be
barred from using our minds. We want to have opinions of our
own and we want them to be respected. We want to receive training
in the use of our mental equipment, and do not care so much about
mere masses of facts. We respect the superior wisdom and knowl
edge of our professors and give reverence to their views. But if
their views are contrary to our best way of thinking, we do not want
them shoved down our mental throat undigested. In a free institu
tion we want freedom of thought and opinion.
THE WEAKNESS OF THE HIGH SCHOOL
Quite a storm of criticism is being directed at the methods and
practice of instruction of our high schools and preparatory schools,
together with their teachers. Much of it is justified. Principal of
the indictments is that they do not teach their pupils to think. Many
pupils when they come into engineering institutions find themselves
at sea. unable to cope with the subjects they encounter. The ma
jority, of applicants arriving in this unprepared, half trained way force
the entrance requirements of the college down, and consequently
lower the standard of the curriculum all the way through, unless the
students are carefully chosen, and either taught to think for them
selves during their Freshman year or dropped fro rothe rolls at the
end of it
The second point of criticism, although not so important, ia also
worthy of note. It is that the schools are not including enough
science courses in their prescribed list, and that those that are given
are such half-hearted affairs that the students find little preparation
for college work in them. Besides this they are so little applied to
everyday life, made so abstract, that the student little realises that
he is studying natural phenomena of the world in which he eats and
sleeps and has his being.
Undoubtedly, if the high school is to fill its place in the modern
school system, it must, above all, teach its pupils to think, teach
them how to study and reason for themselves. And by all means let
those whe intend going to scientific schools have an adequate grasp
of the fnnrfumesials of the u&tuiai sciences tney are about to take
tip. The "Tech" Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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SOCIAL CALENDAR
April 19
Dclti IVlta Delta formal Lincoln
Hotel.
Viking formal Lincoln Hotel.
Alpha Phi banqu.t Lincoln Hotel.
Sigma Nu banquet Lincoln Hotel.
Delian Society banquet Lincoln
Hotel.
Alpha Gamma II ho House dance.
Farm Hcuse House dance.
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Irving Chapin, ex--0, who is attend
ing the University of Michigan is
spending his vacation at his home
in Lincoln.
Zella Scott, of Norton. Kansas, Is a
guest at the Delta Delta Delta house.
Mrs. Gertrude Squire--i lager, '19.
loft for her home in Valparaiso.
Cordelia Condra, ex-'15, left for
Chicago, where she will start on a
tour with the Ellison White Chautau
qua system.
Mervin Meyers, cx'22, of Manning,
Iowa, is visiting at the Sigma Nu
house.
William Johnson, ex-'19, of Omaha,
spent Sunday at the Delta Theta Pi
house.
Lieut. Loren Caley, ex-'lS, is spend
ing the week at the Alpha Theta Chi
house.
Rosavere Menaugh, ex'20, of. Denni
son, Iowa, is visiting at the Pi Beta
Phi house.
UNI NOTICES
Beginning Tuesday, April 15, the
University girl's swimming classes
will be conducted at the Lincoln high
school pool at the following hours:
Tuesday, 7:30-9:00; Thursday, 7:30
9:30; Saturday, 2:30-4:30.
There will be a general meeting ofJ
the Woman's Athletic Association
Wednesday evening at 7:15 in Wo
man's Hall.
I see not America only I see not only
Liberty's nation, but other na
tions preparing:
I see tremendous entrances and exits
I see new combinations I see the
solidarity of races;
I see that force advancing with irre
sistible power on the world's
stage;
(Have the old forces, the old wars,
played their parts? are the acts
suitable to them closed?)
I see Freedom, completely armed, and
victorious, and very haughty,
with Law on one side and Peace
on the other,
A stupendous Trio, all issuing forth
against the idea of caste;
What historic denouements are
these we so rapidly approach?
I see men marching and counter
marching by swift millions;
I see the frontiers and boundaries of
the old aristrocracies broken;
I see the landmarks of European
kings removed;
I see this day the People beginning
their landmarks (all others give
way) ;
What whispers are these, O lands,
running ahead of you, passing
under the seas?
Are all nations communing? is there
going to be but one heart to the
globe ?
Is humanity forming, en masse? for
lo, tyrants tremble, crownB grow
dim;
The earth, restive, confronts a new
era.
The perfonn'd America and Europe
grow dim, retiring in shadow be
hind me,
The unperform'd more gigantic than
ever, advance, advance upon me.
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city he saw the sign: "Speed Limit
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his oxen frantically he muttered, "By
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Exchange.
Alpha Tau Omega announces the
pledging of Laurney Mason, '22, of
Lincoln, and John Dodds, 12, of
Aurora.
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WHITMAN'S PROPHECY OF
TODAY
American readers have found pro
phets of today's world situation in
Shakespeare, in Victor Hugo, and in
various foreign writers, but an Eng
lishman calls attention to Walt Whit
man Dr. C. W. Saleebby, writing to
the London Times, makes an extract
from Walt's "Years cf the Modem,"
first published in "Dram Taps," in
1S65, and asks, "Is not this indeed
prophecy the human utterance of the
Divine ?"
Gift's Xiv'imOry Soar a
The Senior Girl's Advisory Board
will hold a short business meeting
Wednesday at 12 o'clock at the W. S.
G. A. room In the Women's Han-Important!