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The Daily Nebraskan
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA OFFICIAL PUBLICATION
Published every day except Saturday and Sunday during the col
lege year. Subscription, per semester 1.2B.
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EDITORIAL STAFF
Carolyn Reed EdItor
Le Rose Hammond Managing Editor
Sadie Finch Associate Editor
Story Harding - N8 Edltor
Leonard Cowley - -...News Editor
Dorothy Barkley Society Editor
iValter White - Sports Editor
BUSINECS STAFF
Roy Wythers - Business Manager
Fred Bosking - - Assistant Puslness Manager
Jesse Tatty - Circulation Manager
Newt Editor
STORY HARDING
For This Issue
THE PHI BETA KAPPA KEY.
This day we dedicate to the serious student 'who has played fair
with hi's studies, his professors and himself. Those who have applied
themselves conscientiously throughout the three and a half years of
their college career are today placed in the shining limelight of public
honor. The student who has industriously tackled and conquered
each day's problem as it has been placed before him, comes forth
this morning to receive the due approbation and applause of his
fellow students and friends. Let us accord him the honor which he
so justly merits.
There was a time when the Phi Beta Kappa key did not carry
with it the (significance it bears today. Time was, when we asso
ciated the key entirely with the "grind" who had acquired nothing
more in his college career than a mass of Greek and Latin phrases,
with an occasional mathematical formula thrown in here and there.
The type we refer to, got nothing more from college than a pair of
strained eyes, a stoop to his shoulders, and an outlook upon the
world wholly bookish, and impractical. His equipment for life was
quite below that which was being demanded by the great world out
side. He had been wholly trained to digest books, and not to under
stand that which is infinitely more important, the ability to meet
and converse with people. If such ever were the case, we are glad
to say that such conceptions have been relegated to a remote past.
That this is the case, we cannot doubt as we scan the list of those
students who have been chosen for Thi Beta Kappa honors this year.
Many of them have been actively interested in the campus affairs
and activities of their school. Study has been important with them
but it has not been their sole interest. This lias been largely made
possible by the change in the requirements for membership in Phi
Beta Kappa, which make it unnecessary that Greek and Latin be
included in the curriculum. Few students now days believe that
these studies are essential to their education. The world is changing
rapidly, and accompanying this change, has come different views on
education. Students who have not chosen an intellectual career of
study and research, do not feel that they have time for the Classics.
Hence the elimination of these subjects is quite certain to cause
radical change in the personnel of the Society in the future.
We may look then, to the not distant time, when the Thi Beta
Kappa key will be carried to new and strange environments. It
will be found, of course, within all college halls, but, in addition, it
will find its way to diplomatic councils, great business conferences,
and financial districts, with ever growing frequency. Its influence
will be felt in an ever widening area, and thus will its power aud
significance be multiplied.
POOR ADVERTISING.
Have you ever seated yourself in a classroom and glanced down
at the desk to find yourself puzzled by Hie array of Greek leiters
which confront you? From the most insignificant Greek clubs to the
best-known fraternities am! sororities all are there in gala appear
ance, as if to say: "This is the way we advertise."
Don"t you think that, if this is advei tising. it is a rather poor
way to go about it? Advertisements which involve school activities
and actions, are far more valuable to ihe advertiser than the Greek
letters which represent the organizationespecially when they are
plastered all over desks, windows, doors, benches, library walls, and
ev"ii the interior of buildings.
There is something vitally wrong with the organization that
allows some of its members to decorate the buildings on the Univer
sity can. pus with its abbreviated name, in Greek lettcis. It is a poor
form of bringing that name before the public eye, and not only leaves
a bad impression with the reac'.er of the inscription, but inevitably
causes a distasteful remark about that particular organization.
THUMB-PRINTS IN THE SAND.
Advocates of a typically American style of art can find some
interesting food for speculation in Hie hieroglyphics described upon
the seat backs in the natural science auditorium.
There, apparently, lies revealed the soul of a group of persons
struggling for its true medium of expression. Greek letter. United
Plates letters, monograms, crude, impressionistic sketches, scratched,
scraped and scarred in the red varnish in a profusion which rivals
the carvings on ancient obelisks, lay bare a craving for representation
which suggests the outcry of a primitive people for artistic handi
work. Perhaps these markings are only the nervous scribblings of
languid attendants at freshman lectures, or again, as one prefers to
believe, they may accept a growing tendency of the race to seek out
the beautiful; to regenerate its soul in the work of its hands.
It would seem that we have here something either eniirely de
plorable or inestimably valuable. If it be of value why let it stop
here? Why not as we call upon a friend leave a mark of appreciation
upon his mahogany, phonograph or grand piano, or carve the initial
of one of ou.- organizations on his favorite briar pipe as we sit
liesurely by his fire-side. One reflects that some thumb-print of this
beauty should be left upon the sands of time. Dally lowan.
UNI NOTICES J
Senior Invitations
Senior invitations will be on sale
Tuesday and Wednesday at the Col
lege Book Store, or from memoes
of the Invitation Committee. The
prices of the invitations are as fol-
Leather
Taper Folders
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Absolutely no invitations can be
purchased after Wednesday.
Iron Sphinx
There' will be an Iron Ephinx meet
Ing at the Thl Delta Theta house
Tuesday evening, at 7:30.
Senior Ivy Day Committee
The meeting of the Senior Ivy Day
Committee has been postponed until
the first Thursday after spring vacation.
University Union
University Union will hold a busi
ness meeting Tuesday night at 7:00
p. m. sharp. Urgent.
U. S.
Civil Service Examination
April
Mold maker; posting machine oper-
ator; mechanic expert; mecnanum
aid; auditor; specialist in cotton class-
ling or marketing; bacteriologist and
junior bacteriologist; mechanical
j draftsman; rodman and chainman;
; local and assistant inspector of boil
J era and hulls; junior aid and labora
tory apprentice; mechanician, quali
tied as instrument maker; technist,
machine tool expert; electric drafts
man; salesman and appraiser of ma
I chine tools; dairyman; steam fitter's
helper; superintendent of forest
pathological field station; administra
tive assistant, chief clerk or registrar;
administrative assistant, property of
ficer; teachers; primary specialists;
model teachers; mechanician and lab
oratory assistant; petroleum engineer;
assistant petroleum engineer; trans
lator; computer; radio clerk; plate
cleaner; transferrer; picture en
graver; letter engraver; statistical as
sistant; statistician; medical interne;
animal husbandman; investigator in
office management; deputing shipping
commissioner; apprentice; laboratory
assistant, intermediate grade; labora
tory assistant, junior grade; senior
aid; laboratory assistant; physicist;
technologist; physical laboratory help
er; assistant fuel engineer; investi
gator in marketing wool; domestic
science teacher; assistant in market
ing wool; matron. Indian service; ap
prentice fish culturist; automobile
mechanic; farmer. Indian service;
salesman.
Persons desiring to take any of
these examinations may obtain the
necessary application blanks and in
formation concerning them by apply
at civil service window, postoffice.
Lincoln, Nebraska.
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Statement of the Ownership, Manage
ment, Circulation, Etc.
The Daily Nebraskan is published
every day except Saturday and Sun
day at Lincoln. Nebraska.
Before mo, a notary public, personally
appeared Jesse Patty, who. having
been duly sworn according to law, de
poses and says that he is the circula
tion manager of the Daily Nebraskan.
That the names and addresses of
the publisher, editor, managing editor,
and "business managers are:
Publisher: Kline Publishing Co.,
Lincoln. Nebraska.
Editor: Carolyn Reed. Lincoln, Ne
braska. Managing Editor: Le Boss Ham
mond, Lincoln, Nebraska.
Business Manager: Roy Wythers,
Lincoln, Nebraska.
That the owners are: University of
Nebraska, sole owner.
That the known bondholders, mort
gagees and other security holders
ow ning or holding 1 per cent or more
of total amount of bonds, mortgages,
or other securities are: None.
That the average number of copies
of each Issue of this publication sold
or distributed, through the mails or
otherwise, to paid subscribers during
the six months preceding the date
shown above is 1.300.
JESSE PATTY.
Circulation Manager.
Sworn to and subscribed before me
this 29th day of March. 1920.
MAX WESTERMAN.
Notary Public.
(My commission expires August 4.
1921.)
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