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A MESSAGE FROM MR. VAN
LOON
In the College Press department
of The Daily Nebraskan there may be
found an article on intercollrfrinte
athletics, written by Henrick Van
Loon, which appeared in The New
Student last autumn. His attacks on
athletics, on stadiums, alumni and the
general tendency of American col
leges, contain enough truth to make
them formidable. He has selected the
vulnerable spots in college athletics
with a keenness of perception which
places his opponents on the defen
sive. A few more attacks like this
one and those who believe in the value
of intercollegiate athletics as they
are now organized, will be hard put
to find an adequate defense.
SCHOLARSHIP
The interfraternity banquet at
which placques will be awarded to
those fraternities whose scholarship
averages are above a certain rank,
will be held soon.
Efforts such as this to raise the
level of fraternity scholarship are
worthy of support and commenda
tion. It is to be doubted, however,
if they will ever be successful in
what they are attempting to do until
a rather important change takes
place. There will have to be creat
ed in the fraternities a real spirit
of scholarship, a spirit which is con
cerned with some thing more funda
mental than grades and academic
averages. The fraternity members
will have to come to feel a real in
terest in the work that the Univer
sity is doing an interest which will
prompt them not so much to main
tain a certain scholastic average as
it will lead them to read, to discuss
their work and their studies, and to
feel as much respect for the man
who makes scholarship his purpose
in University as for the man who de
votes his energy to other things.
Good grades can be nothing more
than the external indication of the
existence of this spirit. They may
exist without it, but they mean noth
ing. How to create this spirit is a prob
lem. Banquets, placques, scholar
ship contests these things help.
Certain reforms in the organization,
the methods, the curriculum of the
college itself will also be of assis
tance. When these things have suc
ceeded in creating in the fraternity
an interest in scholarship equal at
least to the interest it now has in
activities and athletics, the scholar
ship problem will have reached a
point where the question of grades
and numerical averages will be non-important.
The College Press
THE STADIUM
Henrick Van Loon
It is really quite useless, my writ
ing upon this subject. Whenever I
open my mouth and say something
about football, the answering chorus
is, "Oh well, but how could we ex
pect a poor foreigner to understand
our national game?" And then fol
lows a Chant of Praise to the won
drous and altogether marvelous ef
fect of the game upon our academic,
our national and our racial life.
Until I subside and ask whether any
one has seen "The Ten Command
ments." For somehow or other, that
shoddy and maudlin representation
of a tin of Moses seems to beer the
relation to the true story of
Exodus as modern college football
has to a sound development of heal
thy sport. And whenever I contem
plate the sombre mauseleums that
stand in Cambridge and New Haven
and Princeton (and that some day
will stand wherever three yokels are
met together in the name of Higher
Learning) I feel inclined to regard
them as the tombstones underneath
which repose the ancient and honor
i.lle ideals of the free Common
wealth of Scholars.
labium Emblem of Greed
!".nd you, I have nothing against
t'.s i'.:. (or stadiums of lUdiumsos,
or whatever you wish to call th m in
n un-Greek aze). This Is a free
worlJ. Go ahead and build all the
stadiums and hooch-factories and
bawdey-houses you wish, but do not
build them on the campus. For those
temples of greed are erected to other
Gods than those that ought to be
worshipped within the confines of
an hororable Republic of Letters.
Wherefore, In my simple mind, I con
demn them now on and evermore.
Amen.
Of course, I know the usual an
swer; the cheering crowds, the gay
sights, the strong virile he-men, Idol
izing the even stronger, more virile
he-coach, the grand future before the
boy that makes the winning punt,
admitted straightway to a prominent
position us bond-chafer in Lee Hug-
ginson's well-known counting-house.
Suppose that all these things were
true, which they are not, what in
God's name have they to do with
University life?
The cheering crowds ue the foot
ball game as an anaesthetic for their
own vacuous boredom. They would
rush in triple numbers to bull-fights
if these were allowed on the north
ern banks of the Rio Grande.
Athletic Enticed lo College
The strong, virile he-men, eleven
(or a hundred if you count in the
sub.i) out of four or five thousand
candidates, nine times out of ten are
muts with heavy muscles ond heavy
hams, cajoled into an ocademic ca
reer by the promise of eertuin indul
gences which so upset the honest
soul of the Rev. Doctor Mnrtinus
Luther were innocent rainchecks.
While they are undergoing whot is
commonly called "training"' they are
fed disgusting slabs of red beef and
ore therefore unable to do any work
hieh requires concentrated otten-
ion such as the learning by heart
of the table of multiplication of the
Statute of Limitations. They are fed
warmed-over editorials by Doc.
Crane about "Jesus on the Bleach
ers" and Saint Taul on the Field of
Battle, and this may account for the
fact that they cheat with a sort of
early-Christian simplicity which is
almost touching.
Player In After Life
As for the golden future which
awaited these Crusaders of the Grid
iron, I possess no statistics but off
hand I would say that most of them
became in after life exactly what
they had been in college, rnthcr ami
able but hopelessly second-rate white
collar slaves' The few "Big Bill's
and "Old Ed's" who are forever be
ing dragged out as an example of
what-football-will-do-for-you are not
exactly the sort of people you would
select as specimens should the Good
Lord ever ask us for a few contribu
tions to his Museum of Representa
tive Citizens.
Then what remains?
A circus.
A circus maintained by and for
and of the alumni and their idle
lady-friends.
That the alumnus is a thrice-curs
ed evil to the college which he left
ten or twenty years before, all those
who have ever studied the subject
know. He sees the old place through
a haze from old jimmy-pipes (ten
dollars at Ye College Shoppe), yo
dels the academic National Anthem
wherever he gets drunk at his class
dinner and then decides that it is
time to do something for "Good Old
I'enn."
The Alumni Influence
This "doing something for the old
place" usually means doing some
thing which gives him (the grad)
some definite advantage or pleasure
and which has no connection what
ever with the college itself except
that it bears the same name, like
Harvard beer or Yale suspenders.
As the diploma upon the wall of his
billiard-rooms shows that he has
spent four years forgetting how to
think for himself, he easily believes
those slogans of success which are
provided into the present generation
by the' emmlnent spiritual leaders of
the local Pelman Institute.
Of course if the alumnus asked
his beloved president or his dear old
professors about it, he would hear
differently. But he never asks them
about anything. He regards these
good people as slightly Imbecile and
suncr-annuatcd retainers who hove
failed to make a success of things
and who had better shut up, now
that their salaries have been increas.
ed by ten dollars and forty-nine
rents every term during the last five
years. He tolerates them; but he
would as likely asked their opinion
upon the subject of stock investing
as that of education. And so he goes
In for football. For that, after all,
gives him the greatest chance to
pplurgc with his new car and his new
fire and go back to the dear old
place and make a damned nuisance
himself.
Some day we shall have a college
president who will possess private
means and a serious sense of his
high obligations and he shall shout
these things from tho top of the near
est stadium. Then the assembled
alumni, 'led on by the professional
roaches, trainers, rubbers, nose
guard manufacturers and the Board
of Trustees, regretfully but firmly
shall insist upon the immediute resig
nation of their Commander-in-Chief.
So why, I repeat it, should I try
to give you my opinion? The New
Student.
accompany. Ths program is as follows:
Bethoven Sonata, Op. 12, No. 1;
Allegro con brio; Tertia con vsrla-
cons; Rondo.
Durante Dansa, dansa, Fanclulla
gentile.
Scarlatti Lento nel core.
Dell' Acqua Villsnelle.
Dvorak Songs my, mother taught
me.
Schumann The Nut Tree.
Hcuberger-Krolsler Midnight
Bells.
Dvorak-Kreislcr Negro Spirit
ual Melody.
Drdla Hungarian Dance, No. 1.
Debussy Les Cloches.
Fourdrain Carnaval.
Charpenticr Dcpuis lo Jour, from
"LouiBe."
Gassec Gavotte.
d'Ambroslo Canzonetta
Bohm Perpetuo mobile.
Seller Butterflies.
Ganz A Memory.
Horsman The Bird of the Wild
erness.
Martin Come to the Fair.
Herbert I list tho trill.
WILL 6IYE RECITAL
by Mrs. Smith. The program Is as
follows:
Beethoven Sonata, Op. 110; Mo
derate canUblle molto expreislvo;
Allegro molto; Adagio ma non trop
po; Fugs.
Chopin Prelude, D minor.
Schumann Sonata, F sharp mi
nor Andante.
Liszt Etude, D flat Major.
Bridge Arabesque, F Major.
Debussy Clair De Lune.
Dohnanyi Rhapsody, C Major
Rubinstein Concerto, D minor;
Andante; Finale.
A tradition of the University of
Oregon forbids smoking on the cam
pus, but agitation started by the
student smokers threatens to over
turn tho tradition and permit smok
ing anywhere on tho campus.
Five varsity boatloads of Califor
nia crew-men work out every day in
Kpite of bad weather. The rain has
been so furious that it is sometimes
difficult fur the coach to seo the
oarsmen.
Notices
TWO WILL GIYE PROGRAM
Mary Ellen Edgerton and Harriet
Cruiie Will Give Recital
Mary Ellen Edgerton, violin, and
Harriet B. Cruise, voice, will give
their junior recital Thursday eve
ning, May 14, at the Temple theater.
Miss Edgerton is a student of Carl
Frederic Steckleberg of the Univer
sity School of Music and Miss Cruise
is a student of Homer Compton of
the University School of Music. Dor
othy Payne and William Hart will
Clara Collander Will Present Pro
(ram at Temple Friday
Clura Callender will give her sen
ior recital Friday evening, May 15,
at the Temple theater. She is a
student of Laura Schuler Smith of
the University School of Music. Or
chestral parts on the second piano
All notice for this column must
be written out and handed in at the
editorial office, U Hall 10, by 4:00
the afternoon previous to their pub
lication Big Siater Initiation
Big Sister Initiation will be held
Thursday from 5-7 at the College of
Agriculture campus. Tickets for
the picnic supper may be secured at
Miss Cook's office until Wednesday
night.
Co mope W tan Club
Members of the Cosmopolitan Club
will hold dinner and election of
officers Suirday at 10 o'clock in tha
Elk'a Club rooms.
Square and Compass Club
Square and Compass Club will meet
this evening at 7 o'clock at the Tem
ple. Round table discussion is on the
program, also election of officers.
Tassel
Meeting of the Tassels Tuesday at
7:10 in Ellen Smith Hall.
Union . .
Business .meeting of the Union
Tuesday at 7 o'clock.
Secondary Education Club
Annual picnic for all prospective
high school teachers at the Epworth
lake park Wednesday. Meet at the
Teachers College at 5 o'clock. Tickets
fifty cents.
Gamut Club
Gamut Club members will hold a
picnic at tho Antelope park Friday
from 5 to 7 o'clock. Tickets fifty
cents. Meet east of the Teachers
College.
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