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THE DAILY NEBR ASK AN 2 The Daily Nebraskan OFFICIAL PUBLICATION f UNITKIUmr OF NEBRASKA Uaaar Mvatlaa ml tha Ihtat fitaJIcatlaa PuUhka TWmUt, WiilimiUr. Tra4ajr, mnii nru aw KJharial OIlkM Ualvrlr Hail 10. Oiflaa Hatara AftaraMtt with tha mil tlaa -I IrUn aad Sunday. T.l.iliril Dr. B4U1, Na. 14S (1 - "- ' Hall 10 Be Otteta Haara Artarnoana wita Iba aacaa Tahjaamu r-r MMI. Na. 143 (2 rian.) lt. BV-easa. a) aaaaad-alaa Bsattar al tha paatarftaa ha Uncatn. Nabraaka. uadar act it CmrtH, March S, 1S70, aao al apaeial nhJNtM aravMl far In Sactlon 1103. act a Octakar . 1S1T, authariaad January 2 a, ini. SUBSCRIPTION RATE 2 a waar SI 25 a aaaaa.tar Sfafla Copy, S caata EDITORIAL STAFF WflBaai BaifaD Hugh B. Can wa tara ..Edltar Maoarioc Editor ............ Nm tdixor Mm EAior Pallia 0Haaiaa Nawa Editor Ail TVmu Nan Editor Dorla Trait Nawa Edltor Marawo Lw AMI. fjawa ta laabal CrUBoraa Aaat. Nawa Editor BUSINESS STAFF Claraaea Eiekbalf .....Builnaaa Manacar Otto Skald Aaat. Bua. Manarar Shnaaaa Morton . Circulation Manaaar Raymand Swallow .......Circulation Mana-ar DEFENDS NEWSPAPERS Prof. R. P. Utter, chairman of the Enerlish department. University of California, hastens to the defense of the policy of newspapers in giving greater prominence to university news concerning football games and "wild parties" than to news concern ing scholastic achievement. The fol lowing interview with Professor Ut ter is taken from the Daily Califor nian: If the reading public were not more vitally interested in football games and so-called "wild parties" than in scholas tic achievements, the daily news papers would allot more space to the recording of the intellectu al work accomplished by univer sity students, is the opinion of Prof. R. P. Utter, chairman of the English department. He asks, "How many would read a story with the head 'Extraordi nary Thesis States Einstein The ory Is False' in preference to one having the head 'Nab Three U. C. Students in Raid,' or 'Cal ifornia Expected to Beat Stan ford by Three Touchdowns'? "If you could question busi ness men or the parents of some of our students, who complain of the sort of things they im agine we are interested in, it is probable that you would find them more interested in football, bootleg cocktails, bal loon tires and pretty girls than in sound thinking in any form. When they look at the Univer sity they see nothing but what is in their own minds. "Even if it were true that we are interested more in - those things of the mind, would it not be fair to ask how far the public might be responsible? As it is, it seems impossible to make the public, at least as represented by the newspapers, understand that a man or woman at the Univer sity who was more interested in wild parties than in studies would find it almost, if not ac tually, impossible to get a de gree," Professor Utter conclud ed. a a a But in defending the policy of newspapers, he attacks the great public for being interested in the un usual rather than the usual, . in the common things of life rather than in learned theses. No matter how high the per cent of literacy may be rais ed, the first place in the news col umm of papers will probably never be taken from accounts of unexpect ed happenings. Universities will always suffer because of the eccen tricities of the reading public, but not in silence. the German attitude in China," declared the lecutrer; "in no un- certain terms they condemned Austria, and England instructed the delegates in the League of Nations to support Greece. How ever, in this present situation, all the press but one labor paper and all the people have said that the government has acted wise ly, strongly and well." Professor Earle said that the British government jumped at the chance offered when one of the army of f icials was murdered in Egypt by looking up every important thing that it wanted done in Egypt, and then includ ing it in the ultimatum. Of all these demands, the professor said that the most important was the clause demanding tha the amount of territory in the Sudan irrigated and set aside for the growing of cotton be increased from three hundred thousand acres to an unlimited amount to be determined by Great Britain. The lecturer showed how this would drain the Nile to such an extent that it would ruin the crop in Egypt, but would great ly increase the amount grown in the British owned fields in the Sudan. "Some new law will have to be substituted for the law of the jungle if the present civilization is not to be destroyed," declared the speaker, denouncing imperi alistic methods, "a new law bas ed on arbitration rather than force. The advocates of the Geneva Protocol believe that in this document they have found it." CRITICISES BRITISH POLICY. Since the recent trouble in Egypt there has been almont continuous dUpute over the merits of Great Bri tain's stand following the murder of Major General Sir Lee Stack. It is difficult to say whether arbitration with the Egyptians would have been the better course. Edward M. Earle, assistant professor of history at Col umbia University, believes that Great Britain reverted to pre-war imperial ism. The Spectator contains the fol lowing article on his recent lecture before the institute of Arts and Sci ences: In all four cases, (Great Bri tain's ultimatum to Egypt, the Kiao-Chau incident between Germany and China in 1897, the Austro-Serbian ultimatum in 1914 and the Corfu affair in 1923) according to Professor Earle, it has been a case of a . murder of a subject of power ful country that has paved the way for an ultimatum contain ing imperialistic demands. No arbitration was permitted in any case and military force was pro vided for in case of rejection of the demands. The British press all over England, the liberals and practi cally everyone In Great Britain expressed tleir condemnation of The College Press LEADERSHIP VS. CULTURE. "In England you go to the univcr sity to develop yourself, while in America you go to the university to distinguish yourself." Thus does an English college student, after a five months' tour of America and Ameri can educational institutions, set down his opinion of the difference between the motive underlying the thirst for college education in the United States and in the "Old Country." The student is William Robson, whose ar ticle appearing in The New Student the result of a hasty survey of what he terms "a representative cross-section of American higher edu-j cation." His conclusion, in spite of the fact that his study necessarily but scratch ed the surface of college life in the United States, is very close to the truth. The American student, as apt ly stated by our English contempor ary, gets "not so much an insight into ways of thinking and methods of reasoning, not so much a back ground of culture, as a training in leadership, citizenship and charac ter." It is an acknowledged fact that leadership," at least, is one of the great ideals that lures the ambitious youth of the United States to the college campus. It also is an acknow ledged fact that "culture," according to the strict English interpretation of the word, is minimized, if not in the curricula of American education in stitutions, at least in the minds of American students. Whether the American point of view should be entirely condemned or the English angle unduly lauded, how ever, might easily be a subject for controversy. Where the student of the western hemisphere is lacking in the Old- World interpretation of "cul ture," the English student fails to acquire the trait of political, commer cial and administrative "leadership" that is demanded by conditions in America. Both of these qualities are highly desirable. The unfortnatf circumstance is that each characteristic is stressed unduly in the country wrom whence it springs. The result is abnormal development of one trait at the ex pense of the other, leading in each instance to a lop-sided growth that becomes a national characteristic. A happy medium, a middle ground of compromise, would lead to a fuller enjoyment of life, and a more use ful life, for both the American and the English college student. Indi ana Daily Student. NEWSPAPERS DISPENSABLE? Bruce Barton in Collier's says he has added thirty minutes a day to his life since he "quit reading newspap ers." He evidently believes that the mass of pews printed in the daily news-sheet of today is of such a char acter tha it is neither instructive nor entertaining, rather, on the contrary, being both non-essential and useless. But, in his condemnation of newspap ers, he seems to think that everything printed is unfit to read. His argu ment would be that because one item is unimportant, all items are unim portant. He would probably chafe at Thom- fes Jefferson's remark: "If it were left to me to decide whether we should have a government .without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I would not hesitate for a moment to prefer the latter." Sil ver and Gold. " Ten Years Ago At a meeting of the board of re gents, considerable time was devoted to routine matters, but action was taken to hurry along the acquisition of all the lota in the block immedi ately east of Twelfth street and north of R, and to secure other lota in the blocks east of the University where reasonable prices may be obtained. The resolution was passed authoris ing the committee to buy such lota as might be secured and to condemn those not purchased in this manner in the one block. A report was received from the Lincoln Traction Company offering eight to ten minute service between the city campus and the state farm. New rails ttod equipment would be necessary if this speeding up of the schedule was accomplished. The Amea basketball team lost two games to the Cornhusker quintet the previous weekend. The first game played on Friday ended with the score of 32 to 15. In the last half of this game the Ames team made only one field goal and one free throw. The second game was played Saturday evening and ended with the score of 25 to 12 in favor of Nebras ka. During this game three of the Ames team were laid out but all of them refused to leave tha floor on that account An article was published showing the various things that students at the University of Texas were doing to work their way through school. Many of the students were doing the ordi nary work usually open to students, such as clerical work and odd-jobs. Some of the unusual means of get ting money were shown when it was related how one man "milked" his way through University, another slept before the door of the state treasury, another was a fumigator, and still another was the University postman. wave of reform that was sweeping the campus just before the final ex aminations. The movement had been started by Chancellor Andrews In his chapel address a few days before, and students and faculty were dis cussing the subject with the greatest interest "It is certainly of sufficient im portance to demand the notice that it does," said the article. One pro fessor abandoned his regular lecture to give a whole period to discuss the subject of cheating. It was his opin ion that the best cure for this evil was action on the part of the stu dents themselves, rather than from the faculty. The question of a new athletic field was before the students. The scheduling of baseball 'games! had started and those in charge were con fronted with the problem of where to play the games. The field on the campus was too small for a regular diamond, and it was felt that if the home games be taken away from the campus it would be too much of a detriment to the already too-small gate receipts. In the regent's report to the gov-, ernor it was noted that the health of the students at the University of Nebraska had been unusually good during the previous two years, only two deaths having occurred, and one of these was the result of an acci dent. Kappa Phi. Kanna Phi open meeting Thursday at 7 o'clock In Ellen Smith Hall. Iron Sphinx. Iron SDhinx picture for the Corn husker will te taken at the Campus studio, Wednesday at 12:80. Manorah Society. Th Manorah Society will have their picture for the Cornhusker tak en at the campus studio Friday Bt 12 o'clock. Lutheran BibU League. There will be an important meet ing of the Lutheran Bible League and an election of officers Wednes day at 7 'o'clock in Faculty Hall. That. Sigma Phi. Theta Sigma Phi will meet Thurs day at 7:15 in Ellen Smith Hall. Episcopal Students. The oicture for the Cornhusker will be taken at 12 noon, Thursday. Please be prompt Episcopal Party. A Mid-Winter Blowout will be held Friday evening at the Grand Hotel at 6:15. This will be our regular month ly meeting and dance. Corncobs. The Corncob oicture will not be taken Wednesday as was formally announced but will be taken Friday, a. uary SO, at 12 o'clock at the campus studio. Twenty Years Ago A mass meeting of the whole stu dent body was called at 11 o'clock in Memorial Hall. Just what the pur pose of this meeting was could not be learned. Chancellor Andrews and Professor Wyers were to address the meeting. It was said that the very fact that the meeting was called suddenly and that Chancellor An drews was to talk indicated that matters of no little importance were to be presented. How (o keep students from cheat ing was the subject of the general Notices , Ketfrnejr Klub. The Kearney Klub picture for the Cornhusker will be taken Saturday at 11 o'clock at the campus studio. Kearney Klub party will be held in Temple 101, Friday at 8 o'clock. Student Council. Student Council will hold a meet ing Thursday at 6:15 at the Lincoln Hotel. Square and Compass Club. Regular meeting of the Square and Compass Club will be held at 7 Tues day, in Faculty Hall of the Temple. The Irish question will be discussed. All Masons are invited to be present Scabbard and Blade. Meeting Thursday at 7:30 in Ne braska Hall 205. The University School of Music Thirty-first Year If you are going to study MUSIC DRAMATIC ART Investigate the advantages offered by this institution. 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