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The Daily Neb r ask an LINCOLN. NKBKASKA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1022 EXPLAINS THEORY OF EVOLUTION AT FROSHLEGTURE Evolution. of Men and Domesti cated Animals is Subject of Lecture EXAMPLES IN NEBRASKA Barbour Brings Subject Close to Home Telling of Finds Here in State "The Evolution of Men and Domes ticated Animals" was the subject o an illustrated freshman lecture deliv ered by Prof. E. H. Barbour Monday evening, and Tuesday morning. Prof. Barbour traced the development of animal life from the earliest marine forms to the present date. He also em phasized the fact that Nebraska Is rich in fossil forms of prehistoric ani mals. The professor showed pictures of the earliest forms of animal life. These creatures resembled fishes in their form and habits. Prof. Barbour explained that they moved landward and developed legs. These land beasts resembled lizards and the name dino saur meaning "terrible lizard' was applied to them. These reptiles de veloped until they walked on four leers, and finally until they walked erect on two. In explaining why this species of animals did not continue to exist, the professor explained that they were sluggish, slow in action, and unable to accommodate them selves to new conditions. The development of the bird was also traced by Prof. Barbour. He showed slides depicting the first fly ing creature. This animal had four wings and a lizard's tail. Another distinguishing characteristic of these early birds was the fact that they had teeth. The professor showed how these creatures lost two of their wings, their tails and their teeth, and de veloped into modern birds. Prof. Barbour also explained the evolution of such familiar animals as the deer, the antelope, the dog, the cat, the elephant and the cow. He stressed the fact that in prehistoric times all of these animals existed in what is now the state of Nebraska. "Remember that I am not saying that man deeloped from monkey," cau tioned Prof. Barbour In taking up the subject of prehistoric man. "In fact," he continued, "scientists are agreed that man did not come from monkey." The professor showed pictures of some forms of prehistoric man. He explained that early man was marked by a flat nose, an immense Jaw, pro truding eyebrows and a low forehead. He explained that these prehistoric men could not straighten their necks, knees or backs. Prof. Barbour maintained that these creatures deserved the name of man because they had reached a stage of civilization where they buried their dead with honor, made Implements out of bone and stone, and rut picture writing into the walls of caves. Frof. Barbour declared that scientists had found a perfect record of their oc cupancy of France for three hundred thousand years. Catholic Student to Entertain Notre Dame The Notre Dame and Nebraska foot ball teams will meet twice on Thanks giving day according to the plans of the Catholic Students Club, which will entertain the two teams at a banquet at the Lincoln hotel after the game. Covers are to be laid for three hon ored. Coach Rockne expressed great pleas ure In accepting the Invitation In be half of the Notre Dame team. L. J. Doyle will probably be toast master and the captains and coaches of the two teams will be called upon for toasts. This Is probably the first time In the history of this Institution that two teams have met around the banquet table after a game. Stadium Campaign Starts in State With the student, faculty, and Lin coln stadium drlvs successfully com pleted, the efforts of the alumni asso ciation to complete the raisine of funds for the stadium Is being cen tered on alumni over the state. County chairmen who jnet In Lin coln several weeks ago to organize the drive among ex-students are starting local campaigns with county banquets. The" drives are being conducted In most cases by the regular county al umni associations. Mrs. P. W. Robinson has moved from Chicago to Hotel Canterbery. Boston, Mass. Convocation for Bishop Wednesday Bishop Paul Jones, of the New York committee of fellowship re conciliation, will address the con vocation Wednesday morning at 11 o'clock. He adheres to the Quaker ideas of pacifism and is heralded as an orator. His sub ject wi'l be "The Christian Way o Peace." Bishop Jones will be a guest' at the meeting of the Y. W. C. A. cabinet at 7 o'clock Wednesday evening in Ellen Smith hall. He will speak to this sma'ler group on a subject which will not be announced in advance. WILKINSON TALKS ON Pastor of Grace M. E. Church Speaks at Vespers Tues day Affiliation with Lincoln churches was the keynote of vespers Tuesday evening when Dr. Herbert S. Wilkin son. pastor of Grace M. K. church spoke about HgM-givtng. He used as his theme "The Spirit of Man is the Candle of the World." Clara Loe- wenstein led the meeting, and spe cial music was furnished by Helen Kummer who played a violin solo, accompanied by Ruth Needhani. Dr. Wilkinson brougTit out the fact that the function of life is to bring light to the world, and said that the light-giving souls who help the world are in conscious contact with Cod. "We cannot give to the world what we have not first received," and "What you are speaks so loud I can not hear what you say" were among the outstanding statements made by the speaker. Dr. Wilkinson spoke at some length of the influence of single lives on the lives of other people and the world. What Is true of a great life is true of any life, and the Influence of anyone can go on and on. He mentioned that in school tb t-t Is a chance to i'.sht-lives th.it will never .orne again. American Students Raise Half Million To Help Europeans Students and faculty of American colleges are raising $500,000 for the Student Friendship fund o aid stu dent rd profesi In Emove and the Near East. Fifteen thousand stu dents are being fed by workers in Russia, and the government Is co-operating by giving free transportation to food donations. Ninety thousand students, many of them refugees. In 127 universities In Russia and Central Europe are being saved from destitution and diseases by tne relief work. Money has al ready been cabled to Smyrna, where many students are victims of the re cent disaster in that country. Classes In some of the European universities are held during the night so that the students can work during the day. Textbooks and equipment are unbelievably inadequate. A stu dent relief worker recently visited a class in economics which had one text book for 250 members. A Russian professor's salary is equivalent to about $10 a year, plus a scanty food ration, which often has to be shared by other members of the family. In famine districts the stu dents have been found eating leaves, clay and bark. One set of clothing is often shared by two or three stu dents. Washington Daily. Penn State Debaters Argue Two Questions Two triangular debates, four single debates, and a possible tour of the forth and east Is the schedule for the Penn State debating team this year. The forecast for the success of the team is cheerful for this year accord ing to Professor T. J. Gates, coach, elnce a large number of men are out for the team and debates have been scheduled with some of the best col lege teams In the country. Two questions are to be argued this year. They are as follows: I. "Re solved that the United States and the sveral states should establish Indus trial courts analogous In principle to the Kansas Industrial court." II. "Resolved that the Towner-Sterl ing Educational Bill should be enacted Info a law." Penn State Collegian. '99 Nelson Davidson Is living at Graf, Neb. W. L. Boomer is living at Sunny- side, Wash. The present address of Fred O. Berge Is 706 San Bernardo Avenue, Laredo, Tex. TRYOUTS FO INTER GLASS DEBATE TEAMS Candidates Will Give Speeches in Law Building Thursday Afternoon THIRTY-SEVEN ARE TO TRY To Talk on "Adjusted Coihpen- sation Question for IWar Veterans Tryouts for the inter-class debate teams will be held Thursday in the Law Building at 4:30. Candidates will try out In the following rooms: Freshmen Room 107. Sophomores Room 201. - Juniors Room 101. Seniors Room 202. Each candidate is to present a seven minute speech on the subject, "Re solved, That the United States Gov ernment Should Grant Adjusted Com pensation to the Veterans of the World War." Part of the speech is to be devoted to refutation. The judges will choose three team members and an alternate to represent each class. Twenty-seven candidates have signi fied their intentions of trying out for places on the teams. Several have withdrawn and several more candi dates have signed since the list of candidates was published In the Ne braskan. The present list of candi dates follows: Senior. Robert Geneoways. E. G. Funke. Vance Doty. David Lindstrom. Byron Parker. Hugh Wilson. Juniors. Clinton Richards. Edward Crook. Floyd Leavit. Richard McCann. Alexander McKee. Willard Krasne. David Mathews. Merde Loder. Sophomore. John Otely. Frank Scrivens. S. L. Smith. Ralph Cole. D. E. Eyer. Freshmen. Fred Kamm. T. P. Cullen. Orvfle Bosely. Hugh Cox. David Webster. Joseph C. Brown. Tyler Buckenau. The College for BY A. W. VERNON. The College for Liberal Arts is a good name for a good thing. The noun does not suggest bread and but ter; neither does it suggest follow ing the course of least resistance. It seems to Ignore necessity; it seems to approve decoration, or at any rate deliberation. It calls on man to thrust his hands into the web of life, to pluck out some threads and weave with them a picture of his own. And the adjective is a blessed adjective; it Is the adjective which suggests the re ligion of America: We both revere It and dread It; we bow down and worship before ft; then wa go forth and build barricades against it. Perhaps we are more than ever as tonished at the spiritual daring of our forefathers In erecting at the very heart of a man's educational pilgrim age an institution explicitly designed to tear him from the deadening coil of necessity and to liberate his spirit. Its persistence Is a noble evidence that we are not Illegitimate children of those pioneers who, while they cleared the forests with their hands, longed to clear the mists from the heavens. We exult In maintaining it, but we would scarcely hayre dared to established It. Since the original establishing, many other Institutions have built In the educational area. They have been built beyond the college, this side of It, on all sides of It But it stands at its central place, undispossessed. Indeed, the more recent foundations tend to clarify Its function. The distinctive aim of the College of Liberal Arts is the orientation of the student in the universe. Its faith is that life is more than meat. Its hope is that the gratitude of its grad uates will guard it from defamation and enlarge its power, as they keep passing through its further gate. Its chief present danger appears to me to be that it presents the appearance of a Stock Exchange rather than of a temple of truth and faith. There is too much bustle and too little ser enity. It lacks coheslveness and unity. Its students are always making for Success of Drws in Lincoln Credited to Chamber of Commerce "All the credit for the success of the Stadium drive In this city should be given to the Chamber of Commerce," said Mr. R. E. Camp bell of Miller & Paine, and chair man of the stadium committee for Lincoln. "We were not so sure of being able to raise the specified amount at first, but after that din ner given at the Chamber of Com merce Monday night, no doubt was left in our minds, and we know that it would go over the top." The total amount received In at noon Monday was $155,000, and Mr. Campbell believes that this amount will at least rise to $165,000. As far as intensive campaigning goes, the drive is over. There are still some alumni committees out work ing, and they will carry the cam paign on among the ex-students re sidng in the county. Mr. Campbell said, "The people of Lincoln showed, by the way in which they measured up to their responsibilities, that they appre ciate the university and what it means to Lincoln. The business men realized that the eyes of the students, the faculty, and the rest of the state were on Lincoln, and it was felt that the least Lincoln could do was to oversubscribe the quota allotted by the Stadium committee, and they made good." LATEST UNIVERSITY JOUftiJUBLIStlEu Announces Ten Year Building Program for the Uni versity The November isue of the Univer sity Journal published by the alumni association has just been completed. It is the most complete and the largest number of the magazine that has ever been published. The cover design, quite in season, Is a full size picture of Captain "Chick" Hartley. The alumni as well as the students are Interested in the progress of the football team and the picture will be very accept able to those who are unable to see the Scarlet and Cream in action. The editorial column Is headed by a ten-year program that will make a greater Nebraska. It Is quite con sistent with the realization of the dream whereby Nebraska will have an "Avenue of Columns." There Is not a thing In the program which this University does not need and (Continued on Page Four). Liberal Arts in the Middle West side-tables, championing competitive wares, stealing off to watch current quotations. I have but little doubt that the fu ture development of American educa tion will purify and secure and exalt the distinctive function of the College of Liberal Arts. Here In the middle west, surrounded by colossal state unl versifies, by well-established normal Schools, by growing business and agri cultural colleges, keenly sensitive to the importance of schools for technl cal education, our belief In our mis slon deepens. On the other hand, the comparative paucity of our financial resources, our compulsory support of the institutions of the state, the pres ence in our population of many thou sands who have never bowed their knee at Plymouth Rock, have seemed to compel us to build our colleges of Liberal Arts with the offerings of those who have had but the vaguest Ideas of their purpose. As President Cowling Is forced constantly to re mind ns, "You must back your cars to the siding, where your load Is." But the way of salvation lies here, as always, away from concession and compromise to the underscoring of our distinctive function. We need to rid ourselves by degrees of three types of students. First, those who are pros tltutlng their college course to a prep aration for material or professional success. These are the men who study English to aid them In writing busi ness letters, who study economics that they may be aware of the dangers that threaten the life of commercial enterprises and alive to the best open Ings for alert and money loving youths who study the secrets of biology for the sake of cutting off a year from their far-stretching medical prepara tion, who look into the pecrets of chemistry to prepare them for the more technical sides of the manufac turing trades. These students. If they are dedicated to their clear and petty purposes, may monopolize the A's on the class books, but they defeat the fundamental purpose of the Institu IE FOR PARTY SATURDAY n Ames Football Team Will hi Honor Guests at Fun-fest in Armory IS TO EE A MASQUERADE Ask Mere Co-eds to Attend All University Party Saturday Evening Plenty of fun Is in store for Uni versity of Nebraska students who at tend the all-University dance to be given Saturday evening at the Ar mory. Admission will be 30 cents. This is the last party to be staged this semester by the all-University Party Committee. Members of the Ames foootball team and students and followers of that team will be honor guests at the party. A special invitation has been extended to Iowa State stu dents through their student paper inviting them to be present at the ".mer at th-3 Armory i.i the eveninj. Nebraska students should make it a point to attend the Saturday eve ning party so that the Ames students may be royally entertained. Girls especially are asked to attend the party. At all of the previous par ties, girls have been noticeably scarce and. a special invitation is ex tended to the co-eds to make the Ar- morv their pleasure-seeking head quarters Saturday evening. Good Music and Floor. There will be plenty of good music at the Saturday mixer.. The best orchestras available are always en gaged for the University parties and students may dance there to the best of music. The newly-enlarged floor is now in fine shape. The partition has been entirely removed and the scaffolding taken down. The enlarged Armory makes a fitting place for an all-University dance and students should avail themselves of the Cornhusker atmosphere Saturday night. To Have Masks. Masks will be provided for the early evening entertainment. The spirit of a masquerade is always more jovial and more companionable than an ordinary dance and the com. mittee feels that students will mix more readily after the spirit of a masquerade has been used to start off the evening. A short entertainment act is belna, planned for the intermission. The long games usually featuring the early part of the all-University par ties are being dispensed with this week and the affair will be simply a dance. tion. They are the stalwart inhabi tants of our Trojan horse. There are students of a second and opposite sort that threaten us, less numerous and influential than in eastern universities. These are the holiday-seekers. They come to us for a four-years' or more likely for a twq years' vacation between the drudgery of home and school and the drudgery of going to work. The fraternity and sorority, or their camouflaged surro gates and the thrills and publicity and vigor of lnter-collegiate athletics al lure them. I, myself, believe the time is close at hand to abolish both these forms of extra-curricular "activities altogether. They have doubtless done much good: the fraternity has often been the chief enemy of uncouthness and self-assertion; intercollegiate ath letlcs have moralized the atmosphere of the college. But they are both medicines, corrective and hence tem porary. Physical education can now safely carry on what inter-colleglate athletics have begun. These latter consume a quite undue share of the student's time and particularly of the student's Interest and aspiration, and introduce Into our rather finely articu lated system an Indigestible mass which performs for the college the same doubtful service which Is sup plied in our diet by cabbage I leave to the ghost of Dean Swift the ex acerbating details of the figure. The third type of deleterious stu dent Is much more numerous In our regions than further east where well- established academies discharge more than 75 per cent of their students Into college, and may lay claim to he called preparatory schools. I refer to the 111 prepared students who either desire to find, or are compelled to find, col lege a disciplinary Institution. They have frittered away their time in the high schools, studying and scorning Shakespeare, cramming up the const! tutlon of their state, learning the calo ries of food, the intricacies of knitting and of carpentering, and abjuring all thought not only of Latin and Greek (Continued on Page fl.) New Regents Will Meet on Thursday The Board of Regents of the University will meet for the first time since the election in Chan cellor Avery's office Thursday at 11 o'c'ock. President the Hon. H. D. Lan dis, of Seward, recently re-elected to the Board, will be present. Hon. F. W. Judson, Omaha; Hon. J. R. Webster, Omaha; Hon. W. Y. Bates, Kimball; Hon. G. N. Seymour, Elgin, will also attend the meeting. Hon. W. P. Warner, recently elected to the Board, will be the only member absent from the Thursday meeting. SIGMA DELTA CHI TO MEET THURSDAY NIGHT 'Oa" Black Will Discuss Pro ceedings cf National Con vention "Oz" Black wil report the proceed ings of the recent national convention of Sigma Delta Chi held in Manhattan. Kas., at a meeting of the Nebraska chapter Thursday at 6 o'clock at the Graid hotel. This will be a regular business meeting, according to the president, Harlan Boyer. Members will pass on the forms for application blanks to be sent to Ne braska high schools, which desire to compete for the two silver loving-cups offered by the fraternity to the school which publishes the best paper this year. Initiation details will also be dis cussed at the meeting Thursday. Advise Runners to Enter Thanksgiving Cross-Country Race In regard to the coming inter-fraternity cross-onntry meet, Coach Mc Master advises that all men who ex pect to participate in this meet should run in the Y. M. C. A. meet to he held next Saturday. The opposition offered by the other1 men running in the meet will be beneficial to the fraternity men who expect to run the second Saturday after Thanksgiving. Information In regard to the T. M. C. A. meet can be gotten from Coach McMaster any afternoon. Men expect ing to run In the inter-fraternity meet should start practising immediately if they expect to make a good showing. Students Employed for Household Work By Lincoln Residents Returns are already coming in from the canvass of the residential district made last week by the Employment Bureau of the University Y. M. C. A. Such jobs as washing windows, taking down screens, and putting up storm doors are numerous, and boys are be ing required every day to answer these calls. Last week several boys can vassed sections of the city, telling the residents of the work of the Univer sity Employment Bureau. Within two weeks the whole city will have been gone over and more calls will be re ceived. Hundred "N" Books to Be Given to Students One hundred "N" books remain In ihe Y. M. C. A. office. Any stu dent desiring one of these should see the Employment Secretary. At the first of the year, these booklets were distributed only to Freshmen. Since all first year men have been supplied the rest of the books will be given to any man or woman student wishing one. Schulte Addresses Scottsbluff Alumni Coach H. F. Schulte addressed the alumni at Scottsbluff Monday even Ing. The alumni of Scottsbluff con tributed $600 dollars to the stadium fund. The quota for the county Is $2,200. John Cook, former 'varsity man, was elected president of the county association. Team Managers Select Women's Hockey Team Team managers for the class hockey teams have been appointed by Jessie Hiett, hockey sport leader. Each class manager will observe her class mates at 'practice, as she helps to choose the class team. The managers as apointed are: Freshman Katherine McDonald. Sophomore Irene Mangold. Junior Anna Hlncs.-; Senior Helen Yoat. DECEIVE PARENTS IN DEMANDS FOR IDE ALLOWANCE Stadium Committee Finds Stu dents Asked Parents for Full Amount cf Pledge UNCOVER THREE CASES Men Not the Only Ones Who Used This Plan to Get More -Money Gross deception practiced by a few students of the University of Nebraska upon their parents with the express and only purpose of se curing money under false pretenses has come to light since the close of the campaign for Stadium funds among students. Three definite examples of unsuc cessful attempts of students to se cure money from their parents have been unearthed within the last few days by the alumni secretary. Men are not the guiltiest parties to the deception for two of the three stu dents attempting to get extra spend ing money were girls, one of them a sorority girl, and the other not. Out of respect for the parents of the students, names are not being used but the stories of the attempts at securing money will be told. Other students, if there are any, who have tried similar stunts, hiding their re quests for increased allowances be hind shields made up of deception, had better set themselves right now for the Memorial Stadium commit tee will fiave U sympathy In dealing with them aeording to those in charge of the campaign. Univer sity authorities intend to set par ents right on the question. Claim Co-rcion. All three examples which have come to light have revealed the fact that the students have told that they were co-erced Into making their pledges, that the University assessed them the $23. The fact of the campaign are simply this. Out of 5,345 students in the University, 3,740 made pledges and 1,605 did not pledge Some ol those who pledged subscribed less than $25; many loyal sons of Ne braska subscribed more than $25. And to make the deception even blacker, at least two of the three students who have attempted to se cure money from their parents un der false pretenses made "voluntary pledges the first day ot the cam paign. The Examp'es. A girl, who pledged wrote to her sister, who Is helping her through school, saying she had subscribed $25. The sister, believing the girl had paid the $25 in whole, asked the Memorial Stadium committee to re duce the pledge to $10. The girl has paid the first installment of $5. Mr. Harold Holtz, alumni secretary, has written to the sister explaining he exact circumstances; that the $23 is paid In five installments, and asking If she still believes the girl should lower the pledge. He says in part, "I doubt if there are many stu dents in the University who do not spend a great deal more than this in two years on little extravagances which could be sacrificed." The Boy's Example. 1 A sophomore man, made a volun tary pledge of $25. He made the first payment of $3 and wrote to his parents savin? in part, "every stu dent in school has been assessed $25 for the Nebraska Stadium fund This is absolutely compulsory and must be paid by December IV His father, after thus quoting his son, says, "I cannot understand what au thority the University has for mak ing such an assessment." The son was called Into the Sta dium Builders' office and questioned. He admitted these facts. He told his folks he had to pay the $25 on December 35. He deceived them that he might get the extra $20, because, he said, "I wanted to go to some dances." He had not received any of the money as yet, his parents waiting for an explanation from University authorities. Reflects on University. And another girl, made a volun tary pledge of $5, paying $1 down and promising the rest in later In stallments. She told her parents that she had been co-erced Into sub scribing $25 and asked for the extra money, rather for $3 with which to make the first payment She showed her parents voluntary pledge card which she had filled out for the amount of $25. Tue Memorial Sta dium committee has a record ot a. volunteer pledge of $5. Such conditions of gross decepUoa In order that students my secure money to fill their own selfish de sires are regarded as reflections on the University and must be stopped. (Continued on Page Four).