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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN The Daily Nebraskan Station A, Lincoln, Nabranka. OFFICIAL PVULfcATION f tha UNIVERSITY OP NEBRASKA Jnder Direction of the Stud.nt l'ubllcatlon Board rubllhd Tuesday, Wednndmy. Thura tay, Friday and Sunday morning! during lh academla yar. Editorial Offlcas Unlrarsltjr Hall 10. Oi l let Houri Afternoon! with tha t eaption of Friday and Sunday. Trlophonan Day. n-SNHl. No. 142 (Editorial, 1 ring; Uusinsss, 1 rings). Night B-6XN2. Entered aa second-class matter at tha poatnffir In Mnroln, Nebraska, under art of Conirrass, March S. 1K7, and at special rata of poatape provided for in Section IKt, art of October 8, 1917, authoried January 10, 192t. SUBSCRIPTION RATE 12 a year tl.it a sementer Stasia Copy, 5 cents EDITORIAL STAFF Edward Morrow Ttar Victor T. Harkler Manuring- r.ditor J. A. Charat. - News Editor Julius Frandnen. Jr News Editor L. L. Pike News Editor Ruth Schad - New. Editor Dori. K. Tr.ut News Editor Millirent Ginn Ass't. News E.litor Arthur Sweet Asst. Ncw Editor Paul Zimmerman Contributing Editor BUSINESS STAFF Otto JVo'd Ptnina Manairer Simowon Morton ....Ass't. Husineas Manafiter Nieland Van Amdala....Clrcillatlon Manairer Richard F. Vetta Circulation Manager ter. If students could have such in terpretation ns this the relating: of science to life, the making of it a live and interesting; thing, they would probably have more interest in their science courses and do far better work. The understanding and interest in science that come to them long after they have finished their courses might bo given to them while they are still performing ex periments in the laboratory. THE STUDY OF SCIENCE "The study of science should be of more value to the average man than any other course in college. T mvn Vim a 11 tl loTctjl TlA I f . 7 .;, Health" by Mrs. Edholm of Omaha ing of his environment and acquaint J Since writing the above, we have read a news story which appears in another part of this paper relating the comments of Prof. H. G. Deming of the department of chemistry in an address at the World Forum. Tart of his address we repeat: "Try to catch the scientific spirit. I am sorry that most scientific cour ses fail to show the scientific spirit. But try to get it some way, some where. It is the thing that molds the world today." There, expressed quite beautifully Land by a scientist, is what we mean. COLLEGES INTRODUCE CURRICULAR CHANGES (Continued From Fage One) Ten Years Ago The Home Economics Club met to listen to a talk on the "Business of him with the progress that science is brinirine to the world." This is the opinion of ia very intelligent business man- With his idea, we agree. Science should be fascinating; it should open up new vistas; it should give a new understanding of environment But, unfortunately, in many cases it does not. For many students science is simply another requirement to be removed by attending dull lectures and spending hours in laboratories peering through microscopes. The reason for this, we think, is that the courses in science are too technical, are too little correlated with other courses or related to life, and are intended primarily for stu dents who will take advanced work. Our experience in taking science is not wide, and we are depending, in these comments, greatly upon the im pressions of other students w6 have taken the various courses. The common impression, we have found, is that the courses are devoted to small matters. The student spends hours seeking some tiny plant, ani mal, or reaction, and when he has been successful he begins again on al most the same task. The lectures it seems, are devoted largely to those detail matters. The instructors are enthusiastic and interested in their work and their knowledge is pro found. But they have passed the stage of a general survey of the sci ence and are devoting themselves to small matters, to research. Re search, for the qualified scientist, is apparently one of the most absorbing things in the world; but the casual student instinctively avoids this in vestigation into details. He wants, if he is interested in the cultural val ue of the course at all, to learn of the things it has accomplished, how it affects his everyday life, and how it is related to mathematics, or phil osophy, or other subjects hej's tak ing. The hours spent memorizing formula or life cycles in detail are likely to kill his interest. Those students who have read Sin clair Lewis's "Arrowsmith" will prob ably enter their science course with more understanding and more inter est; for Lewis, in some way, makes clear the work and fascination of science. Albert Edward Wiggins, in "The New Decalogue of Science" has written another book that makes the layman understand the scientist bet- The committee on duties was ap pointed and the track and football schedules approved at the meeting of the athletic board. The Students Chemistry Club plan ned to have their pictures taken for the Cornhusker. All those taking chemistry except freshmen were eh gible. A luncheon was given by the En gineers was planned to be held at the banquet room of the Temple. Mr. Fred Rindge, secretary of the indus trial movement was to speak on the "Human Side of Engineering." Twenty Years Ago Some dozen members of the fac ulty met three times a week under the direction of Dr. Clapp to go through a series of severe gymnas tic exercises. So secret were these sessions that the doors were not on ly locked but if a student managed entrance the teachers disbanded and hid. The newly organized Girls' Club issued invitations for a reception to be given the freshmen girls of the University. The members of the dramatic club chose a pin by which they could be recognized. It was a small gold pin bearing the monogram of the sword and mask and the- letters "U. of N." Professor W. W. Cook, formerly professor of law at the University of Nebraska, was honored by the University of Chicago by being ask ed to lecture in its college of law during the summer. On The Air cannot classroom hours be devoted not to the reading of notes that the student can get more, quickly and more completely from a book, but in discussion experimentation, and in an attempt to provoke at least a little original thinking? OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY The University student publication is attempting to save the "many a stubbed toe and Btone bruise" along the . path of learning by explaining at the beginning of the quarter just what several instructors are trying to do in their classes. One instructor "announced that no midterms would be given in his course but that a number of written reports on work covered during the quarter would be required. " In the aggregate these reports re quire "quite ns much work as would preparation for a half dozen mid terms, so he is not making the work my easier, but is directing it into more profitable channels." Another instructor "intends to give four hours a week to lectures and the fifth to class discussions in which he will act as referee when the going gets too rough." " no textbook is required, the professor having gathered enough material on the course to keep the class busy during the four lecture hours. " the members of the class may thrash out any problems that may be bothering them in the course or may present their opinions on these matters. "Not wishing to encourage lying, this instructor does not post lists of required readings. Instead he ' re commends books and portions of books that wil be helpful in the course. This student may read then, if he wishes to get all out of the course he can. This instructor treats his students as young men and wo men rather than as children of kind- argarten age. It is altogether like ly they will react as men and women." NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY An undergraduate committee has been constituted for the purpose of analyzing student problems and mak ing recommendations for changes in educational policy. CORNELL UNIVERSITY The able editors of the Cornell Sun are hard at work on a critique of the curriculum after the manner of the Harvard Crimson's famous criticisms. The Sun explains that the criticisms 'pretend to be, and will be, nothing more than the mere personal reac tion of a supposedly normal under graduate to a course which he has taken." "Every effort will be made to avoid carping criticism and cheap smartness. The articles will be the thoughful, honest, and sincere opin ions of undergraduates. Where the course is considered to be conducted in an admirable manner, the article will say bo. When certain weak nesses or fallacies are seen by under graduates, the articles will likewise say so." PROFESSOR UPBRAIDS AMERICAN COLLEGES (Continued FTom Page One) scholarship which have been main tained. Phi Beta All Blah! "The honor society, Phi Beta Kap pa, today represents only a certifi cation that the wearer of its once boasted key has been successful in 'playing' the faculty. Or it may be the manner in which the same facul ty pays off its social obligation; in awarding" the honors to a man at whose board it has eaten, or whose liquor it has partaken. Or the Thi Beta Kappa award may be a bid for a greater donation for stadium build ing, or the establishment of a depart ment which will mean in the final analysis no more than another 'crip' course for the athletes; or Phi Beta Kappa may be the reward given to an athlete. In no case is Phi Beta Kappa the award to honorable schol arship that it reprosented in th,e days before money became the scale by which money became the scale by which our culture is measured. Quality Unsought Dr. Kennedy flayed unmercifully tendencies toward bigness in our con struction. "The keynote of the time is 'bigness,' " he charged. "We no longer go after quality; but by size we are accustomed to evaluate all things. From a thing to be used, education has become a thing to sell." A savage attack upon athletics fol lowed. "America today has sold her birthright for a band of sinews. From a nation accustomed to the admira tion of learning, a nation that was the inspiration of the world, a na tion that paved the way for the ad vance of mankind, America has be come the dwelling place of a horde of body-worshippers! Neolithic man never worshipped brawn as do the people of this country. This not alone among the lower classes, where such a mania might be pardoned, but in the precincts of the institutions of higher learning themselves, with the men who should be leading the way to better things most active in the advancement of the degeneracy. "The recent wide publicity accord ed to 'Red' Grange and his kind of toughs is typical of this condition. 'Red' Grange " Calendar Thursday, January 21 Theta Sigma Phi tea for all Uni versity women from 4 to 6 o'clock at Ellen Smith hall. Friday, January 22 Delta Gamma formal Lincoln hotel. Phi Omega Pi formal Scottish Rite Temple. Phi Kappa house dance. University Ice Carnival 7 to 10 o'clock. Saturday, January 23 Alpha Delta Pi formal Lincoln hotel. University Ice Carnival 7 to 10 o'clock. Basketball game Armory. Noti ices Students at Pennsylvania State Col lege have joined the crusade against compulsory chapel. Their disap proval was expressed by a vote of 1709 to 315. Hotel D' Hamburger 5c Buy 'em by the tack 1141 Q St. Phone B1S12 University Studio broadcasting over KFAB, (340.8). Thursday, Jan. 21 9:30 to 9:55 a. m. Weather re port by Prof. T. A. Blair. Road re port and announcements. This is the time of week to start thinking about sending the "Tux" in to be cleaned and pressed (or the week end affairs. Varsity Cleaners ROY WYTHERS. Mfr. B3367 316 No. 12 St. The Hauck Studio Skogland " Photographer 1216 O B 2991 Meals that surprise u & I COFFEE SHOP 240 N 13 St. Opposite Bank Bldg. . Awgwan Contributor! Awgwan contributors are request ed to begin turning in copy for the February number. More contribu tors are desired. Each student should make it a point to drop at east one piece of campus comedy in the Contrib Box in Long's Bok Store. All copy must be in by January 31. There will be a meeting of the Christian Science Society Thursday at 7:30 in the Faculty Hall of the Temple. Horace Mann Club E. M. Ilosman will speak to all in terested in education at the City Y. M. C. A., Thursday evening at 6:15. There will also be an election of of ficers. All teachers should be there. Palladian Palladian Literary Society meets on Friday evening at 8:30 in Falladian hall. The new members of the soci ety will have charge of the program. Delian Literary Society Open meeting of the Delian Liter ary Society Friday at 8:30 in the Fa culty Hall. freshman Group Freshman girls in the groups meet at Ellen Smith Hall on Thursday, at 7 o'clock. P. E. O. All P. E. O.'s who wish to attend the Founder's Day dinner to be held at the Rosewilde, Thursday, Janu ary 2J, a t630 o'clock may get tickets from Mrs. Axtell or Mrs, Brown in Miller and Paine's rest room between two and five Saturday afternoon or by calling Mrs. I. O, Axtell before Tuesday. Cosmopolitan Club Pictures for the Cornhusker to have been taken on Thursday at 12:30 will be taken on Tuesday January 20. Delta Omicron Delta Omicron will meet Thurs day at 7 o'clock in Ellen Smith Hall TEACHERS needed now. LBOOMERS TEACHERS AGENCY. Harvard, Yale and Princeton are having bridge tournaments. Students in colleges are trained to fill jobs rather than to be educated says C. G. Erickson, president of Up sala College of East Orange, N. J. rm am m m m md mm wm t M ! THE CAPITAL i I i I I Ul Shoe Repairing and Shining Parlor Hat Cleaning and Re-Blocking 17 Years Conscientious Service to the Public Shine free with every half Hole and heel. We clean twenty-six Bhades of women's shoes. Private section for ladies. I I CAPITAL ! I Shoe Shop Company 1236 "O" St. L. 8179 niaiBiBil j! jaMteiB LMtay ttor. tm. VMi A . Tin aWa r Lassv II i dH & CT Specials In Our Beauty Shop! jjj 6.00 in Ser- j I V"7 vice for only 50 g 'l A A Discount jl I aNv La M PI ES! 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STETSON HATS Styled for young men For Sala hyr Farquhar's, Leon's Inc., Mayer Bros Co., Ben Simon & Magee s, Kudge & uuenzel Co., Speiers. Sons, -4 "That's a clean, neat, intelligent piece of work" THE professor continues, "Perhaps other papers were equally intelligent, but their merit was obscured by illegible penmanship. If everybody would learn to use a portable typewriter, it would save your time and mine and relieve me from the druery of reading longhand." Neat, legible, typewritten manuscript keeps the "profs" in perfect "reading humor." And perfect "reading humor" tends to mean better marks. Then too, a writing machine for your personal use is helpful in compiling your notes, and in writing those letters home. The New Remington Portable is preferred by students because it is the lightest, smallest, and most compact of all standard keyboard portables. We will gladly show you this machine and ex plain our easy payment plan. COLLEGE BOOK STORE 1135 R Street, Lincoln Neb. 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