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he play is -
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The first great 'varsity
photoplay ever filmed
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"HER FIRST KISS"
Shows at 1, 3. , and 9
Where Pictures and Music Meet
THUR., FRI, 8 AT.'
NORMA
TALMADGE
In another of her masterful tales
of Metropolitan life.
"THE WAY OF A
WOMAN"
From the drama "Nancy Lee"
Rialto Symphony Orchestra
Jean L Schaefer. Conductor
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THUR., FRI, SAT.
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in the Hawaiian offering;
"ECHOS FROM KILANEA"
THE VENETIAN FOUR
"A NIGHT IN VENICE
CLAYTON & LENNIE
The Choppy and his friend
WiER AND KING
in comedy songs and dances
ENID BENNETT
in the Paramount Picture,
MA DESERT WOOING"
Note Charles Spere of Lincoln,
.who plays" the juvenile part in
this picture will appear in person
Liberty News Weekly
Brader and the Orchestra
S Shows Daily at 2:30, 7 and 9
.Little Theatre With Big Shows
' THUR, FRU SAT.
Countless thousands have
read Marah Ellis Ryan's
famous novel of
pioneer days. Now you
can see the picture.
ROBERT WARWICK
in the Paramount-Artcraft special
"TOLD IN
THE HILLS"
Also comedy and news features
Miriam Frosh's Orchestra
Shows start at 1. 3, 5, 7, 9 P M.
Mats, 15c Night. 20c Chil. 10c
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LIBERAL EDUCATION VITAL
FORCE IN RECONSTRUCTION
cm o engage In. Hut learning, educa
tion, has quite distinct function and
end; hii'1 all the soph Ih try and word
confublLns of many modern schools
of pedngogy cannot confuse the esen
tlal dissimilarity of learning a trade
or a profession and, to adopt at the
outset the old Socratlc definition of
education, of learning to know ones
envnonment and one's powers.
The end of the war has brought
new Questions to the fore in educa
tion. Our university like all universi
ties me world over Is crowded with
tudenta that tax our utmost remuro
es. The universities of the Hrilmh
Isles report a registration thai is
breaking down all educational ma
chinery. Ours here In this country
have received an Influx of students
up to nearly fifty per cent above 'heir
prwar enrollment. The people re
awake to the new needs: and the
communities must and at once ans
wer with more liberal grants or our
work shall be 111 done, a danger
worse than were It not done at all.
Demand Technical Training
The new demand Is for technical
(ironing of a higher order than vhat
satisfied us before the war more ex-
pea engineers, more nearly finirhed
phvslclans, better lawyers, more acute
and saner business men. In the
scramble to make up for the years
of war we need more efficient years
ol peace. But the liberal tradition of
hiher learning has by no means been
ost. The Labor Party in England
the party one would think that would
demand first of all a new series of
laws for better technical training
romes forth with a new demand for
the old culture. And this Is no mere
rarer manifesto. The colleges in Eng
land are Bleed with young laborites
reading the classics and joyously
threading their way through Homer.
Even in Nebraska, where for a while
its adherents feared that the clause
of the classics was dead, we are faced
with a registration in the Ancient
Languages more than double of that
of last year and the end is not yet
There 1b an earnestness in the new
demand which those ot us who have
seen the students face to face, can
not but -feel. They ho longer flee in
crowds from a course because it is
hard, but ask what has It in store.
The department of mathematics has
almost doubled its registration sol
diers and officers found that artillery
men are made out of those who know
their trigonometry and calculUB. The
department of Physics Bees a new in
flux or. Arts students no master of
its principles could fall to render
prompt and tacalcuable service to the
country; and its need in these coming
days of peace can be no less. There
is a new stimulus to all of the human
ities. Instinctively we feel that to
Berve ourselves and to know his so
cial and historical relations, and to
inquire deep into the mysteries of this
world that is to become our more
more perfect machine.
Must Meet This Demand
The Arts College must meet this
demand and will meet this demand
with a new definition of Its ideals and
a new direction to its energies. We
cannot stand cold before this vital im
pulse that is felt from Calcutta to
California. The call for a new dentin
ition or a new' statement of the sge
long definition of what educated men
should think and feel, what their at
titude should be before the many in
sistent problems that press for imme
diate solution, is too clear to remain
unanswered.
The Arts College remains sti'l the
core and center of our higher educa
tlon; to use the language of old ben
Johnson, "instruct to good life, inform
manners, and no less persuade ana
lead men," that education which Mil
ton planned "to fit a man to perform
justly, skillfully, and magnamlously
all the offices, both private and pub
lic, of peace and war."
Notice that both these old classi
cal ideals of an art education were
primarily directed t& an actual, prac
tical life, but a magnanimous life too,
a life wherein the duties of useful cit
izenship were inextricably bound up
with the duties a man owed to him
self. And it is this double thread
run through all our consideration of
what we should and should not o
that Is sharply significant today.
The early centuries of the educa
tional renaissance In Europe turned
with disgust from the logic chopping
of the mediaeval dialectic, and felt
themselves refreshed only with the
higher humanism of the ancient
Greeks and more liberal Romans. The
first and second century Romans when
they came Into the freest 'contact
with the Greek civilization cut their
literature and their civilization on the
same platform. As a result the tra
ditional Arts education has twined
for centuries around the study trunk
of the classics. And there still re
main those who feel the potent charm
of Latin and Greek and lament hat
our newer humanities lay less and
less store by the ancient treasury that
There are three vital considerations
we must bear" to mind " while reor-1
baa made them rich.
(antclng the Arts College. We must
maintain, I believe, the ancient class
ical and liberal humanistic tradition
that all learning Is a single and or
ganic unit. Our aim, to quote Milton
again must be "to fit a man to per
form Justly, skillfully, and "magninl
mouHly all the offices, both private
and public, of peace and war." In
thlB pattern fit all departments, wne-
ther scientific or literary or soclul.
Each has Its part to play In the com
pleted program, but each differing In
Its proportion as the varying needs of
the student or his vocational aspira
tions demand. In other words depart
ments must break down the barriers
tnd correlate their work with each
other, using as their guide the varie
ties of reasonable specialization the
students should demand. On the oth
er hand the student wanders In
search of easy credit must be curbed,
until he shall fit into such a program
as shall be to his best advantage.
Where are certain natural group
ings of departments. The coordina
tion of theBe groups should, I be
lieve, be secured as early as possi
ble; bo that they may come to the
fullest pORRible understanding of each
others' alms and Ideals, and how
they may best be realized. For ex
ample, History, Political Science, So
ciology, Economics, Philosophy and
probably Literature form a broad
group with many Identical alms. Un
der the old plan It was quite posbible
and Btill is, for a student to narrow
his view to one of these studies to
the almost total exclusion of tho oth
ers. I for one feel it quite impossible
to teach a course in say seventeenth
rr eighteenth literature without first
assuring myself that the students are
fairly well acquainted with the !ii3
tory and the political and social ideas
of tne time. The Arts college of this
university is now considering the ad
visability of making a close sttudy of
the needs of each department, an1
how far each and all' of the other de
partments cm help to meet Ihoii?
n?eds.
Tl-ere is a; ..tt.er cousldera o'l
equally iressing which i hope will
before long receive the attention it
deserves. Our education is a process.
The technical colleges have taken up
and answered the question as to tne
arrangement of the courses to corres
pond to the development of the stu
dent and the subject.
Orderly Presentation of Subjects
Their plan is to reduce the worn o
an orderly presentation of subjects
beginning with the elementary and
ending with the more special and
complex. The student thus articulates
each subject in his course with all
that has gone before and follows. The
result is an organic whole, of waicn
strikes Into despair anyone who com
pares with its orderly arrangement
the almost hopeless jumble of sub
jects and departments in the Arts Col
let, f :
Yet even here something must he
done. Any many universities hove
proceeded on the theory that at least
the first two years of the four for
each student should be set off by
themselves into a noviate, as It were,
a preparation for the full freedom of
college life. I refer to the junior
college or junior division and the sen
ior division or colleges into which the
Arts College has been divided by Chi
cago and Wisconsin.
The r'an has much to commend it.
Freshmen and Sophomores are set off
n a clasB or division by themselves
with a fairly fixed routine of studies;
exceptions can be made in the Judg
ment of the faculty of those who
wish to vocationalize early and leave
college before or at the end of the
sophomore years and courses special
ly designed sett apart for them. All
courses especially fitted for Sopho
mores or Freshmen are marked as
such In the catalogs, and straying be
yond these boundaries forbidden ex
cept In the most exceptional esses.
When the student has completed his
sophomore year he enters into the
large freedom of the senior division
and may specialize or not as hid na
ture dictates and as the curriculum
permits. He may not, excep t under
specified conditions, return to suh
jects advertised as the peculiar pro
perty of those serving their novitiate.
In this way at a stroke the college
frees Itself from these parasites who
fatten through their four years or. tne
soft tissue of freshmen courses. It is
as near an approach to the set ached
ule of law or engineering as the arts
college can tolerate; It encourages all
the necessary freedom of the election
which is the core of the Arts ideal,
and yet retains the organic wholeness
of the classical tradition of a liberal
education.
We have spent years In declaiming
ng a Inst annual wastage due to in
tractable boys and we have put forth
huge efforts to reclaim them by the
most persuasive of pedagogy. A mob
of boys and young men In our metro
politan city shows m a night the fa
tuity of our best effort.
The lesson must be taken to heart
In universities, high schools, and kin
dergarten. If our education can al
low such traveetiee on Justice and
CLASS
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of these suits.
Fine feathers do not
make fine birds but
did you ever see a fine
bird without fine feath
ers? So it is with clothes.
Fine clothes do not
make the man but they
do reflect the personal
ity of the wearer.
When you come in to
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cial direction of your
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Fecial order we have written our im
potence in letters large the heavens
"To instruct to good life, inform man
ners, and no less persuade and lead
men."
This is what the seventeenth cen
tury set down as the ideal. The ideals
of the best educators from the dawn
of history, from Confucius and Piato
to the Arts College of today have
been ever the same. In this day of
perilous reconstruction after the war,
when Interest in education is at its
highest, we must more than ever put
our emphasis upon the spirit rather
than the letter, upon conduct in life
rather than upon mere metal agility
or technical training. Public life in
one form or another must be the ena
which most of our graduates have In
view. Whether as members of a
womans club or mayor of the city our
graduate will carry on in the decades
to cone, and his manners and ideals
will in much be those, which this Arts
College has inspired.
These sentences smack a little of
the peroration of a commencement
address In a village high school, and
for this I ask for pardon of such
members of the faculty as recognize
the fault. But I do In all earnestness
plead that these are students recog
nize the huge responsibility that uea
upon us all. As huge an earnestness
should be the answer of the Arts
College.
"Public life in one form or other
must be in the end which most of
our graduates have in view." de
clared Dean Buck In his address at
Convocation Thursday morning. In
addressing thestudenta he told of the
vital needs In perfecting educational
methods during the present period of
reconstruction.
Dean Buck spoke, following the
presentation of the Hainer cup to the
Slrma Alpha Epsllon fraternity, la
whose possession It will remain for
the coming Tear. ' He emphasized
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DR. JOHN ANDREW IIOL.MKS, Pastor
MRS. CARRIK It. RAYMOND. Musie;d Director
10:80 Reception of student members, regular wid
affiliate, and sermon by the pastor on "The
Omaha Riot."
12:00 Student classes in charge of Rev. Theodore
S. Dunn and Mrs. E. L. Hiuman.
4:30 Quarterly Celebration of the Lord's Supper.
6:00 Young People's Luncheon.
7:00 Young People's Society.
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