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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (May 6, 1924)
A f H E DAILY NEBRASKAN The Daily Nebraskan Stati.a A, Lincoln, Nebraska Editorial and Business Office, University Hall 10. Phone Day, B6891 Night, BS882 OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY PUBLICATION Under the Direction of the Student Publi cation Board 1TE8? Published Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday mornings. . Entered as second-class matter at the Postoffice in Lincoln, Nebraska, under Act of Congress, March 3, 1879, and at spe cial rate of postage provided for m Sec tion 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, au thorized January 20, 1922. Subscription rate 42.00 a year $1.25 a semester Single Copy Five Cents EDITORIAL STAFF. Paul C. Richardson - - Editor William Bertwell..... ..Managing Editor Wm. Card News Editor Hugh Cex New Editor George W. Hylton News Editor Philip CHanlon . News Editor Volta W. Torrey - -News Editor Alice Thuman Assistant News Editor Doris Trott Assistant News Editor BUSINESS STAFF Clifford M. Hicks Business Manager Clarence Eickhoff ....Asst. Business Manager Otto Skold... Circulation Manager SCHOLARSHIP ENCOURAGED. Fraternities are making a serious effort to arise their scholastic stand ards. The first step in this move ment is the interfraternity banquet Wednesday evening, when honor plaques will be awarded the frater nities which had the lowest number of delinquencies during the last two semesters. Ballard Dunn, editor of the Oma ha Bee, will speak to the fraternity men and his message should impress upon these men the ideas of an out sider on scholarship. The scholastic standing of frater nities has been steadily improving in the last few years. The days when fraternity membership stood for poor scholarship are gone, and the fraternities are endeavoring to meet this problem by cleaning house before outside pressure is brought to bear. The fraternities have cooperated splendidly with the Interfraternity Council and every house has sig nified its (intention of closing its table the night of the banquet. It is expected that every group on the campus will attend in a body. The system of awarding these honor plaques should produce the desired result. The alumni that started this movement are working along the right line when they strive to reduce the number of delinquen cies, rather than devote tV.eir time to encouraging high grades. High grades are a worthy aim, of course, but it is better that a fraternity have a small number of delinquen cies, than that it have a high aver age. A number of excellent scholars in a group often raises the aver age and even pulls up the flunkers, but that does not help this class very much. The fraternities should do every thing possible to aid the men that are back of this movement. It is an im portant step and may mean a great deal to the whole fraternity move ment. The most serious objection to fra ternities has always been that they stood for poor scholarship. By rem edying this, fraternities will be re moving the cause for this complaint. RAG CARPET Assistance! Succor I It's spring of the year and we are all going to seed our gardens. Anyway the life of the average housekeeper is just one round of sweeping, mopping, washing, ironing and sew on. The Dartmouth. CURRENT FICTION. If military training were made op tional I would be the first one to sign up. Indiana Daily Student. After all the big argument About the extravagent Foolish Uncalled for Unnecessary Practice of renting Fords For unappreciative dates, We couldn't even get a flivver For our own date Sunday night Dagunnit! Now is the time for all those who raved last winter about the good old summer time to have heat prostration. HEAT HINTSS. Don't get hot under the collar if it is celluloid. Keep cool if you get too warm. Don't let the heat overcome you. You might be a whole lot worse off. NEBRASKAN IS HONORED." Frank M. Johnson, Law '25, has the honor of being first student in the University of Nebraska to be el ected as delegate to a national con vention. Johnson will represent the sixth congressional district in the Republi can national convention, and al though he made the race on the Hi ram Johnson ticket, Johnson will fol low the instructions of his district and support President Coolidge. Another unique feature of this el ection was that Johnson conducted no campaign whatever and did not spend one cent campaigning. That is indeed a lesson to older and wiser politicians. This is indeed an honor to come to as young a man as Johnson. It surely may be offered as evidence that all present-day University students do not belong to the fickle, foolish class that seems to be such a popular theme with some magazines and per iodicals. Several University students are candidates for the state legislature in their home districts and several stu dents in the past have been members of the state body. Thus it would seem that a number of University students attempt to take their place as leaders at an early date. More powr to them. eling in the abstract and wasting their time in gaining a complete knowledge of the past and the an tique, rather than concerning them selves with things of moment. Pro fessors and students must admit that the charge is not altogether un founded, although some will boldly say they care not for the present nor the future, but for a knowledge of man's history and the history of man's thought. If reports are true, the German universities are taking the lead in concerning themselves with the present. A Swiss journal says of the change in the German at tidude: "Shortly before the war the disassociation between the uni versity and the people reached a point where the former com pletely lost contact with the nations spiritual life. The fac ulties were hypnotized by re search, and carefully abstained from generalizing or taking de finite positions toward the pro blems of the day. They dealt with the past with an air if cold detachment. No historian dis cussed the period subsequent to 1870. No critic occupied himself with contemporary literature. Naturally, therefore, university teachers paid no attention to pol itics and public affairs. Even if their devotion to scientific re search had left them leisure for such topics, their objective habit of thought would have effectual ly prevented their taking an in terest in them. . . . Since the war, however, a notable change has occurred. Today several prominent professors are taking an active part in public life. . . Coincident with this awakened interest in public affairs has been the appearance of courses dealing with recent and con temporary history." American colleges have seldom been prone to lose all connection with the world at large, but they have, in general, cared little or nothing for contemporary literature, contempor ary art, and contemporary politics. The odium of present day topics seems now to be disappearing, and it cannot go too fast. Our age can stand up with any age of production of worthwhile thought and action, if only we realize it. And men are thinking as much today as ever. Mod ern writers do not need time to add quality to their work. And modern painters do not need dust collected on their work to make them pieces of art. What we do need to realize is that the present is the past of the future, and that the college man might as well live with his age as behind it. The College Press. STRESSING THE PRESENT. (Hi Dartuioath.- Laymen have long held the- senti ment that academic circles were rev- Notices. No notices will be taken over the telephone. Woman's Press Books. Girls using the books belonging to the Woman's Press will please re turn them to EUen Smith hall at once. Girls Commercial Club. Business meeting next Wednesday in Social Science 107. Union. Union will meet at 7 o'clock Tues day. Silver Serpent Meeting Thursday at 7 o'clock in Ellen Smith hall. W. A. A. W. A. A. nominating committee will meet Tuesday in Memorial hall 101. General meeting Wednesday in So cial Science 218 at 7 o'clock. Board meening and dinner at 6 o'clock. Calendar Thursday. Silver Serpent meeting, 7 o'clock, Ellen Smith hall. SECOND ROUND PLAY IN COURT TOURNEY BEGINS Newton Defeats Waite in First Game of Second Frame of Tennis Contest. Pairings for the University tennis tournament have been made and sev eral games have already been played. First round results were: Newton won from Medlin, and Shildneck, Lantz, Eyer, Swanson, Colby, Waite, Burke and Scharmann drew byes. One second round match has been played, Newton defeating Waite. The last eight men in the tourna ment will compose the tennis squad, and the three men who will compose the team to play at Ames Saturday, May 10, will be selected from the las four men remaining in the tourna ment. Semifinals and . finals will be the best three sets out of five. A dual match is scheduled at Ames for Saturday, so it will be necessary to determine the tournament winners before that date. All contestants should play off their matches as soon as possible. Civil Engineers Pick Turnbull President The student chapter of the Ameri can Society of Civil Engineers Thurs day morning, elected the following officers for the coming school year: W. J. Turnbull, president; Don Ro berts, vice president; Don McCosky, secretary; and H. A. Scott, treasurer. The newly elected executive com mittee consists of J. Marshall, sen ior member, T. E. Armstrong and Glenn Sudman. The student officers of the Ameri can Institute of Electrical Engineers were elected at a meeting Wednesday morning. The following men were chosen: chairman, Harold Edgerton; vice-chairman, R. R. Schindler; sec retary, A. O. Andrews; treasurer, Harry Moyer. , Home Ec Club. Meeting Tuesday at 7 o'cldck in Ellen Smith hall. Lutherans. Lutheran students will meet Wed nesday at 7 o'clock in Faculty hall. Methodist Students. Methodist students will hold a pic nic at Epworth park Friday evening, May 9. Meet at Tenth and O streets. Delta Omicron'. Delta Omicron will meet at 7:15 Tuesday in Ellen Smith hall. Xi Delta. Meeitng Thursday evening Ellen Smith hall. No use discarding your soiled pair of gloves. The Evans Clean ing Prices makes them like new and is the odorless sys tem so many people depend upon. l sVUSt "Lower the Cost of Dressing JVett" KIRSCHBAUM CLOTHES Htmnrrrntmmtrrti Wi will show you fine style and tailoring in men's and young men's new Spring clothes the kind of style that lasts as long as die tailoring, and the Kirschbaum experts have carefully tailored these to give long service. 35 to 50 Store for Men on N . ACTUAL SIZE. You like to grasp a pen like this. It's big. Ifa husky. It looks strong, reliable, long-lived. And it Is. This new Wahl Signature Pen is won der for college work. 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