NEBRASKAN
THE' S
PKICH F1VK CKNTS
VOM'MK XXI. No. 164.
Lincoln, Nebraska, Saturday, June 17, 1022.
UMMER
DUSKER TRACK MEN
IN CHICAGO MEET
Nebraska Squad or Eiflht Trackstera
Compete With Start From 53
Schools Today
(Special to The Nebraskan)
CHICAGO, Neb., June 16. The Uni
versity of Nebraska squad of eight
tracksters, who arrived here last night
to engage in the national intercol
legiate track and field championthlp
Saturday, are all in the best of physi
cal lettle. Coach Schulte arrived here
a day ahead of his tracksters. The
Nebraska athletes are rated as one of
the high teams in the meet and are
expected to place better than the sixth
position which the quintet of Corn
huskeis acquired in the 1921 meet.
Captain E. G. Smith who equalled
the Missouri Valley record in the
100 yard dash and broke the Valley
record for the 220-yard event, head
Hie Nebraska team. He is rated as
among the leading dash men to com
pete in the big meet.
Captain-elect Kenneth Hawkins and
Ted Smith are entered in the quarter
mile and are expected to bid strong
for honors. Moulton will compete in
the shot put and discuss throw. Her
bert Gish will run the high and lpw
luirdles.
"Hobb" Turner, winner of the run
ning high jump in the Valley meet,
will also make the trip. "Mud" Gard
ner will compete in the mile and S80
yard runs. E. V. Allen, another Mis
si.uri Valley medal holder, will run the
mile and half-mile events. He is ex
pected to place.
Thousand Athletes Entered
CHICAGO, June 16. Stagg field
swarmed with athletes today for tho
liM'iminaiios of the annual intercoV
legate track and field championships
tu be held there under the auspices
el the University of Chicago. Tho
finals will be held Saturday.
With more than 1,000 athletes en
tered", including the greatest col
lege stars of the country, an as
sault upon records that have stooJ
for years is expected.
Illinois and California continues t
stand out as probable rivals for top
honors. The Californians won th?
intercollegiate meet and Illinois is the
"Big Ten" champion. Each school wH
he represented by a well-balanei J
team interspersed with a formidable
galaxy of stars. Nebraska, Missouri
Vailep track champions, are also given
high rating. Captain Smith is re
garded as one of the fasted 100
yard and 220-yard men in the country.
Pennsylvania, Notre Dame, Grinneli
and other colleges have men entered
that are considered certain point win
ners. With blue law officials taking the
sun out of Sunday and police, deputy
sheriffs, constabulary and federal
agents taking the moon out of the
other six days, about all the average
citizens sees is the 'stars. Denve."
Times.
Who's Who in the Faculty
There is probably no member of the
university family who does more to
introduce the university to the neonle
of tho state than does A. A. Reed, head
of the extension department. By
means of close contact with all schools
of the state and through a bulletin is
sued from this office, Mr. Reed keeps
the "doings" of the university ever be
fore the school nnnnlo of thn ntnrn
His work along this line is largely re
sponsible for the overwhelming in
crease in the summer enrollment this
year. Professor Recdlso holds down
a position as state inspector of accred
ited schools and through his work in
this connection he has an opportunity
to witness the workings of the entire
Nebraska school system.
A. A. Reed is an alumnus of the
University of Nebraska having receiv
ed his bachelor of arts degree in 1S9S.
He was awarded his master of arts de
gree in 1912. He has had wide ex
perience in siublic school work, hav
ing served as a teacher in the rural
schools, as ward principal at Beatrice,
V
A. A. REED,
Head of the Extension Department
VOCATIONAL TEACHERS
IN 3-DAY CONFERENCE
Thirty-five Instructors of Vocational
Agriculture Attended the
Meetings
A three-day conference of teachers
of vocational agriculture in Smith
Hughes schools was held at the state
farm campus Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday of this week. Thirty-five
Instructors of agriculture in high
schools attended the feseions. A num
ber of those in attendance were reg
ular agriculture instructors while
many were graduates of the agricul
tural college who expect to teach next
year. ,
State Supervisor J. H. Pearson was
in charge of the meetings. He was
assisted by Professors H. E. Bradford
and C. C. Menteer.
Carl Calvin, state supervisor of
agricuultural education in Illinois,
gave a very interesting lecture.
village principal at Odell, county sup
erintendent of Gage county, city sup
erintendent at Crete, high school prin
cipal at Keokuk, la., and city superin
tendent at Superior.
Professor Reed Joined the staff ot
the Nebraska faculty in 1907 when ho
was made state inspector of accred
ited schools and assistant professor or
secondary education. In 1908 this de
partment was organized as a part of
Teachers college.
Professor Reed had charge of the
bureau of recommendation of teachers
until a short time ago when Teacher's
rnlhee was neoreanized. He took
charge of this department in 1909 and
conducted it most successfully for
more than ten years
pYofessor Reed has had charge of
the extension department since 1911.
He has had charge of the general sup
ervision of the summer sessions since
1909. His efficient work has won for
him hundreds of friends not only
pflnrators of the state but
among students of the university.
ICELAND PARTY IS
POSTPONED A WEEK
Y.
W. C. A. Reception For Women
Students Will Be Held Next
Friday Evening
""The Iceland Frolic, a party for the
summer school women students which
was scheduled or last night, has
been postponed until next Friday eve
ning at 7:45. This announcement
was made Thursday morning follow
ing a story published in The Summer
Nebraskan announcing that the af
fair would be held this week.
The party will be he'd at Ellen
.Smith hall next week if plans as now
arranged work out. It is to be in
the nature of a "get-acquainted" party
for the women students and is the
first of a series of events planned
for the summer school by the asso
ciation. Every woman student in the sum
mer school is urged to attend the
party in order that she may become
better acquainted with the other stu
dents in the school. This is the firtt
time in the history of the university
that there have been enough attend
ing the summer sessions to make a
party worthwhile. The more than
2,000 students attending this year,
.however, serves to indicate that many
parties can be held successfully dur
ing the summer.
An interesting program of games,
music, dancing and refreshments has
been arranged for the Frolic. A
large number of university women
are expected to attend the party.
Human nature is something to train
and refine; it can't be destroyed. Even
the fool reformers ought to know that.
Houston Post.
"First it's the brew law; than it's
the blue law." Buffalo Enquirer.
TAKE A BACK SEAT
RATHER THAN WORK
Educator Says Boys Alio Girls
to
Shine in Classroom Will Not
Reveal all They Know
CHICAGO, June 16. Thruout hign
school and college, oftentimes even in
the grammar grades, most of the boy
students know m e than they reveal
and are capable of doing more than
they actually do, according to Dr. Roy
C. Flickinger, dean of the college ol
liberal acts at Northwestern univer
sity, who discusses the comparative
mental abilities of the average girl
and boy students in school and so
ciety, a journal of psychology.
"In the class room boys scorn the
unreality of tbeir tasks and rebel
against being required to perform
them," Dr. Flickinger, continued.
"They are dazzled by the seeming su
periority of the girls and nourish their
self-respect by a disdainful refusal to
participate wholeheartedly in th re
citations rather than run the risk of
being outdone.
"Their school Record falls far short
of indicating their real ability, which
is revealed by the different conditions
of latter years in graduate school or
the business world."
Concerning the woman student. Dr.
Flickinger, who has been teaching
men and women students Tor twenty
three years said:
"I do not state that women have
better memories than men and scien
tific tests show that there is little dif
ference between the sexes in this re
spect, but women are more willing to
employ what memories they have than
are most men. When students pass
from college into graduate school or
business life, the men middenly forgo
to the front. This happens, as I be
lieve, because memory work, tho o
course still important, occupies rela
tively a less commanding position.
"Since in all co-educational institu
tions there is a distinct tendency for
women to outnumb'r tho men in th5
liberal arts course, they can reasor.
baly be expected, in the same ratK
to outnumber the men nVo in th
award of honors.
"In South Dakota, it was found that
senior men in the high schools of that
state who wf re planning to attend col
lege averaged somewhat lower in an
intelligence' test than the average
score of all senior men, whereas sen
ior girls who were going to college
somewhat surpassed the average for
hall senior women.
"In schools of all grades memorv
work plays an exceedingly important
role and it is my observation that
tnen are quick to rebel against largo
assignments of memory work and that
most of them prefer to receive a gen-
Itleman's grade of C rather than sub
mit to the demand of their instruct
ors." Reformers are reople who take youv
money and give advice. The only thing
we need to destroy our civilization is
a few more reformers. Colombia Record.
