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RAG CARPET
Aeeis teasel
The Rag Carpet thanks both of
those who have registered no far.
Prof.: Order! Order!
Stude (dreamily) : Ham
wich.
sand-
We also hear that both of the sen
iors who went to the picnic had a
nice time.
AGE OF MIRACLES.
S. K. Waiter, plase change that
mayonaisse nut sandwich I just or
dered into a lemonade.
He: What street do you live on?
She: "Y."
He: Oh, I just wanted to know.
You are excused from all your
exams with a grade of 90.
Yes, we have a fine paying position
for you as soon as yon graduate.
(Then the alarm went off.)
0 death, where is thy sting pro
vided you arrive before next week
She: Show me the best gloves you
have.
Clerk: How long do you" want
them?
She: Don't get insulting, I want
to buy them, not hire 'em.
Honestlv. we doubt if anything' but
a pancake could sit comfortably on
our campus pyramid on a hot day.
BUSINESS STAFF
Clifford M. Hicks Business Manager
Clarence Eickhoff. Asst. Business Manarer
tte Skold .Circulation Manarer
THE VISITING ATHLETES.
A total of 264 athletes are entered
in the track and field events in the
Missouri Valley meet Saturday, and
forty more are entered in the tennis
and jrolf tournaments.
These SOO contestants will be
puests of the University of Nebras
ka for the two days that they are
here, and it behooves every student
to treat our quests in such manner
that they will want to return to Lin
coln for the meet next year.
The athletic authorities are veryjTHE FRXTERNTY VS. INDIVID
anxious to make Lincoln the per-
lepes and universities are crowded
and more has been demanded of the
students with the object that only
the ones that mean business and who
aim to pet the best out of their work,
are allowed to stay.
It is a case of survival of the fit
test. It is a good thing for both the
students and the schools. Univer
sities are no longer the plajirround
of the idler.
And with this new order of things
it would seem that some attempt
would seem that some attempt would
be made to eliminate the bugbear of
final examinations, or at least to im
prove the present system.
It is worth thinking about.
The College Pre.
USHERS NEEDED.
On hundred cadet are wanted to
other in th stadium at th Missouri
Valley track meet Saturday after
noon. Men will be riven free ad
mission to the meet and will be re
quired to do but a few minute work
finding seats before the event start
They must sign up in the military of
fic on the second floor of Nebraska
hall before Saturday. The first 100
men to sign up will be selected.
Military Ball Ticket.
Cadet officers who want tickets
for the Reserve Officers association
ball may secure them from Emmett
V. Maun.
Lincoln the
manent home of the Missouri Val
ley track meet, and this can only be
done with the whole-hearted support
of the students, both in the matter
of ticket sale and also in the treat
ment of the visitors.
These athletes will form some sort
of impression of the students here
and of the University of Nebraska
during their stay here. They will
po back to their homes with kindly
feelings toward us, or an attitude of
indifference.
It is up to every student to go out
of their way in order to make the
stay of our guests pleasant, and send
them home with the desire to return
to the University of Nebraska.
Help make Lincoln the permanent
home of the Misouri Valley track
meet
THE EVILS OF EXAMINATIONS.
Are examinations necessary?
Do they serve any useful purpose?
Is there a better way of accomp
lishing the desired result?
Examinations are the necesary or
unecessary evil to which students of
the University of Nebraska are sub
jected at the end of each semester.
A number of progressive profes
sors have abolished semester exami
nations, so far as their individual
classes are concerned. They do this
with the idea that they do not have
to give the student an examination
at the end of the semester to find
how much he knows about the
course. They assume that they know
all along just what the student is
doing, and that it is not necessary
for them to give an examination at
the completion of the course to find
out how much the student is learn
ing. Other professors continue to give
the old-style final examinations,
compelling the students to go into
"cram" sessions in order to glean
enoujrh knowledge to "get by." And
usually these same instructors let the
student slide along all semester, not
compelling him to learn as he goes,
but conducting the course on a sys
tem that will let the student "cram"
to get through at the end of the sem
ester. We are told by learned educators
that "crammed" or "canned" know
ledge does not stay long. We be
lieve it.
There has .been a great deal of
.discussion in universities in all parts
of the United States on the subject
of final examinations. The Daily
Califomian, student newspaper of
the University of California, sent
questionaires to every universiity in
the country, trying to find out what
stndent opinion was on this sub
ject. In some courses final (examina
tions may be necessary, but there
are very few courses that should
come under this classification.
Most of the instructors who have
abolished final examinations in their
classed give frequent quizzes and ex
aminations every week or two weeks.
The students are compelled to cover
the material as they go along. There
no "sluffing" until the end of the
semester as under the other system.
College life has undergone a de-
cided change in the last quarter of
a century. Requirements have stiff
ened and the courses are harder.
More is required of the student. j
The large increase in enrollment
has caused new problems. The col-J
UAL THINKING.
(Indiana Daily Student)
"Does the fraternity crush individ
ual thinking?"
This question was asked by a stu
dent during a convention held in
Indianapolis. Edwin L. Aubrey, a
member of one of the fraternities,
finding the subject food for thought,
is given space to air his opinions up
on the question in a recent issue of
The Intercollegian. Although Mr.
Aubery begins to answer the ques
tion by saying that "it depends up
on the fraternity," he openly asserts
that Greek-letter societies DO crush
individual thinking. He points to
the exclusiveness and conformity of
fraternities as harmful characteristics.
He elaborates upon the "exclusive-;
ness of fan-Hellenic organizations
by averring that "membership is not
open to all comers; but only to be a
carefully selected score or so of men J
who seem to be interested in the
same things in college." And con
sidering the conformity of frater
nities, he says: "There are few or
ganizations that can bring their
numbers to time as quickly as fra
ternities. The rule of the elders,
that political subterfuge of conser
circles; and the upperclassmen can
easilv force the underclassmen into
conformity.
Belonging to a group first and
learning its ideas afterwards is the
menace to individual thinking, Mr.
Aubery writes. By dint of this fact
the fraternity, if it be so minded,
can "exert a baneful control over
our thinking," he declares.
In the final paragraph of Mr.
Aubery's article he concludes:
"Four years, unrivaled in impor
tance m the intellectual career ol a
men, are the college years. During
those strategic years the most intim
ate group affecting his thinking is !
his fraternity or society. What will
the fraternity do to him? Well, he
can have something to say about that
himself if he has the courage."
In our opinion, fraternity fireside
sessions tend to enhance, rather than
crush, individual thinking. What ob
ejetion can justly be registered if a
fraternity is exclusive? Think of
the ditty that says something about
meeting "her in the moonlight alone."
The very realization that they are
"exclusive" within their own walls
would encourage fraternity members
to express their individual thoughts
in the presence of the "brothers."
What "conformity" there may be in
a fraternity is done in accordance
with house rules, social customs,
mode of dress anything but con
formity in thought, we think. In
fact, a casual listener-in at a frater
nity lounging-room discussion at any
hour of the night or morning will
vouch that difference inthought is
in vogue among the Greeks! We
have no one-man type of fraternities
at Indiana!
Journalism 186 Ethics, Law of
the Press.
Final lecture May 20. Semester
examination Monday evening. May
26, beginning at 7 o'clock. M. M.
Fogg.
Junior League of Women Voter.
Thare will be a mass meeting1 for
all members of Junior League of
Women Voters and other girls inter
ested at Ellen Smith hall, Thursday,
May 22, at 5 o'clock.
Mathematics Club.
The club will hold a picnic at An
telope park Thursday at 5:30. Meet
at the A street bridge.
Scabbard and Blade.
Regular meeting Thursday at 7:15
in Nebraska hall.
Kappa Phi.
Kappa Phi will hold a senior fare
well picnic at Antelope park Friday.
Meet at Ellen Smith hall at 5 o'clock.
P. E. O.
University P.E.O. will hold a pic
nic Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock
at the Lincoln Auto club. Meet at
the Temple at 2 o'clock. Bring 50c
Lutherans.
The Lutheran Bible League will
hold a social meeting at the Parish
hall of Trinity church at 13th and
H Friday evening at 8:30.
Home Economics.
There will be a Home Economics
picnic at the Ag campus Thursday at
5:30. Election of officers will be
held.
Pallad
Palladian will hold an open meet
ing at 8:30 Friday at the hall
Notices.
Awpras.
Applications for the position of
editor and business manager for
the 1924-25 Awgwan will be re
ceived in the student activities of
fice until noon, Monday, May 25.
Application blanks may be got at
the student activities office.
Cosmopolitan Club.
There will be a meeting at the
Tempte at 7:30 Saturday.
Theta Sigma Pfci.
Theta Sigma Phi will meet Thurs
day at 5 o'clock in Ellen Smith hall.
Lutheran Club.
Lutheran club will me Thursday
at 7 o"clock in SSI 13.
Calendar
Friday.
Silver Serpent banquet, University
club.
Silver Lynx house danc-s.
Pi Kappa Alpha house dance.
Kappa Delta house dance.
Saturday.
Delta Upsilon house dance.
Beta Theta Pi house dance.
Alpha Chi Sigma party, Ellen
Smith halL
Girls Commercial club party, Del
ta Z-eta house.
Xi Psi Phi house dance.
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ToBob-or .
Not to ' Bob?
Deans of treat universities, leading; hair,
dressers, health authorities, screen and stage
actresses express their views on this tantalizing
question that is causing the greatest discussion
American women have ever engaged in. One
woman says the bob is barbaric A noted hair
dresser fears bobbing will bring bald heads. Others
defend it vigorously, while some call it the great
est boon ever conferred upon the fair sex. Their
remarks, pro and con, reveal an amazing division
of opinion in the first nationwide survey of this
important subject.
Clone SWeee efcft kef
'The Battle of Bobbed Hair"
If you are planning to have your hair bobbed don't do it until you see all
the styles illustrated in June Photoplay. They are authoritative designs and
give you a wide selection to choose from. One of them will be the one you
will require l you want your bob to fit your head and face.
"Great Lovers of the Screen"
THERE is a kick in every kiss,
whether it be on the screen or else
where. The thrill of being loved by
the greatest Romeos in pictures is
bareabyfourteenprominentactress-
es with amazing frankness. They tell
which stars are the greatest screen
lovers and why. Nothing as fascinat
ing as these intimate disclosures of
love-making that has ever been printed.
The Kiss that Shocked the Sheiks"
RAMON NOVARRO and Alice
Terry did it. They walked right out
on the Sahara Desert and smacked
the kiss that started pandemonium
in the land where a man can have
four wives and kiss them all at once
if he wants to. But inch a kiss as the
$5,000 in Prizes
Don't miss the great prize contest
announcement in this issue. $5,000
in cash prizes and four De Forest
Radio Sets for the title to a great
story by Arthur Stringer.
pu
screen stars gave to each other was
too much for the real sheiks. They
simply gargled Arabic in their ex
citement and their orchestra of
Bipes and drums ran wild. Herbert
owe tells all about it in his inimi
table 6tyle.
Pbotoflats wmwh of new pictures
it the greatest tervicm ever given to pic
ture font. Authoritative and orrraf
summaries of current film dramas in
tabloid forms shorn yon at a glancm
mhetker yon want to tern them. They
save yarn time and money.
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