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THE DAILY NEBRASKA N. The Daily Nebraskan SUtlon A, Lincoln, Nrhrmnka. OKKK'IAI, IMHU.10AT1ON VNIVKKS1TY OK NKHHA8K A Under Direction of thu Student Publication Hoard l'ubllKhnl Turmlay. Wednndy, Thr rtny, FriiUy unci Sunday mornlnm during the ckdemic ymr. K.lllorUI OfflcM Unlvrly Hull 10. Office Houm Afternoon with the ex ception nf Krtdny and Sunday. THr-phonm ly, n-HMDl, No. 142 (Editorial, 1 rins; Umlnem, 2 rlnKs). Nlicht B-KMi. Kntered at necond-clatta matter at the pontnffire In Lincoln, Nebraska, under art of ConirreRs, Mivrch 8, 1M79, and at npccial rate of pontaxe provided for In Section 11 OS, act of October 3, 1917, authorised January 20, 1982. SUBSCRIPTION RATR 12 year tl.25 a tcmestcr ' Stnule Copy, 6 cents KOITOUIAL, STAFF Volta W. Torrey Kditor Victor T. Hackler ....UananinK Kditor NKWS KniTORS J. A. Charvat Klice Holovtchiner Julius Franden, jr. Arthur Sweet Milliiti.t Uii.n l.rc Vnnrc ASSISTANT NEWS EDITORS Herbert 1). Kelly Neola Skala Fred R. Zimmer , CONTRIBUTING EDITORS William Cejnar Vivtor T. Harkler Kehneth W. Took Edward Morrow BUSINESS STAFF Otto RVold Itusinem Manaiter Simnaon Morton Asut. BuHinewa Manager Nieland Van Ardale ....Circulation Manawer Richard F. Vette Circulation Manairer A GOOD BEGINNING "Track Squad Shows Gain Scores of New Men Check Out Equipment" declares a Daily Nebraskan headline, and the article goes on to state that most of the new members of the squad are inexperienced. No better news than this could come from the athletic department. It would be good news if the traek sters were already widely-known ath letes. There would be much rejoic ing if the list of new names included scores of high school stars and ath letes of proven ability. But this is even better news, and many times as much jubilation is warranted by the simple statement that "most of the new men are inexperienced." Expensive athletic equipment and high-salaried coaches are fully war ranted, when the athletic department reaches the students who really need physical development. The chief task of Nebraska's physical training experts should be coaching of inex perienced rather than "experienced" men. A winning track team is not worth a fraction as much to the Uni versity as a healthy student body. THE CHARLESTON One sorority house at this univer sity is said to have been considerably weakened because the sisters insist ed on doing the Charleston at nil hours of the day and night. After several light fixtures hntl gone out of order or had fallen off they real ized what was wrong. The weak spots in the floors were noted and Chailestoning prohibited on them. Such is the plaint from many schools. Dance hall owners are like wise wearing careworn expressions from worry over the possibility that their buildings may bo wrecked. Building inspectors have prohibited the Charleston in some places. At Ohio State a number of the' collegi ans had to be ejected from a student dance because they refused to stop doing the Charleston when asked by the committee because the building was old and weak. This innovation has been the cause of much woe. The date who shame facedly admits he cannot Charleston with his fair lady is crossed off. He then haunts the corner, plays the phonograph constantly, and slashes the air with his heels until he has attained that state of proficiency that admits him once more to the elite. Ah, Tcrpsicore, what crimes are committed in thy name? Calendar Thursday, February 4 Big Sister dinner, Ellen Smith Hall, at 6-8. Fridayt February 5 riil Mu Formal Lincoln Hotel. Saturday, February 6 Basketball game University of Kansas. Alpha Omricon Pi formal Rorc- wilde, Canima Phi Beta Formal Lincoln Hotel. Kappa Kappa Gamma House dnnce. Lutheran Club Social Faculty Hall. Catholic Club Valentine Dance K. of C. Hall. Kappa Psl House 'Dance. Delta Sigma Delta House Dance. Agricultural Hall nt the agricultural campus. Miss Fcddc's lecture class In homo economics is presenting the play. Art Club Regular monthly meeting, Thurs day at 0:00 In the Art Gallery. Im portant business. lota PI Sigma Iota Sigma Tl meeting Wednes day, February 3, nt 7:15, Chemistry Hall. XI Delta will bo a meeting of There will bo a Delta Thursday nt 7:15 Smith Hall. at XI Ellen Chen Match A Faculty-Student chess match, Saturday nt 2 o'clock at Fuculty Men's Club rooms In the Temple. Komenaky Klub Komensky Klub will meet Satur day, February 6, nt 8:15 in Temple 204. College Press Notices TIME CLOCKS Yale University, not to be outdone by fair Harvard, has followed the latter's innovation of permitting sen iors, in good standing unlimited class cuts. The plan is gaining consider able popularity and if it proves a success is likely to be adopted universally. The chief reason for the abolition of compulsory attendance is found in the claim that more freedom will de velop independence and more nearly approximate real life. The New York Herald-Tribune, however, disagrees, declaring that the plan "is quite at variance with the workaday system which is sure to be imposed upon its beneficiaries as soon as they leave Cambridge and set out to earn their livelihood." The Herald-Tribune, we think, takes a very narrow view. The stu dents who have left school and are engaged in business will not be given that paternal attention that is sym bolic of the compulsory attendance system. Rather, they will be placed absolutely on their own responsibil ity, to rise or fall by their own ef forts. No executive dean will tell them tkey must do this or that. Per haps the man working in an office, who is constantly under the surveil lance of his superiors, will have that attention. But for many others the salesman, the newspaper man, the engineer, the lawyer there is no boss hovering in the offing ready to pounce upon the loafer. The only indication will be a slip of dismissal; similar, indeed, to the result at the end of the semester for the student who felt no responsibility to attend class. Few students will be punch ing time-clocks when they graduate, and an elimination of the time-clock idea in the university might be beneficial. VARSITY DANCES The University party committee will be unable to use the new field house for dances this school year be cause the floor in the building is only temporary and not suited for this purpose. Regular varsity dances will be held beginning with the next school year, however, similar to thosa, at Kansas. The parties this year have been rather succesful, judging by the at tendance. The price has ben twenty-five cents. This, according to Charles Warren; chairman of the committee, allows for no profit. The theory is that the students should be jn'ven parties at cost, and not be charged prices that will roll up prof its to be divided mong a number ci organizations of doubtful worth.' When the field house can be used the attendance will be practically unlimited. A large orchestra will be obtained and it is thought that the Cedents will attend hese dances mher than the downtown dances. At Kansas the "varsities" as they ! e called attract bnge crowds ;.i;d the students seldom attend the r. v . ' ;-wn dances. Like Kansas, no ttI wiil be mad here to make v.'fs parties; tney ww simply .( for students exclusively. ?! r.t w i.-a should turn out ", ) i.t est, at ail other TWO SCHOOLS (McGill Daily) Someone once wrote that the uni versities of the English-speaking world may be roughly divided into two categories, those that assume that the work of the university is to train the mind, and not necessarily to teach facts, and those that consid er it their duty to educate their stu dents principally in a practical and technical way. The one group in creases the mental power, the other the actual amount of knowledge. Now it is obviously utter foolish ness seriously to declare that one university concentrates its efforts on the acquirements of mental prowess, while another devotes itself to sess ions of dignified and methodical cramming. No hard and fast rule can possibly laid down, and no mention of making a dogmatic state ment was in the writer's mind. He went on, however, to say that in his opinion the universities on the other side of the Atlantic tended rather to be of the first class, while American institutions favored more the alter native policy. If his view of the question be cor rect, as it is assumed to be for the sake of argument, considerable in terest is attached to the statement of the London Express that the lect ures arranged in Oxford and Cam bridge are now more in touch with the twetnieth century. In ten yean a change, almost revolutionary in its effects has taken place. The flaccid liberal almost dilettante attitude of pre-war days to the problems of the age has disappeared; the young men no longer dream dreams; they search for the knowledge without which no solutions are possible." The same journal describes the passing of the ancient preeminence of the classical "Greats" in favor of more contemporary subjects. "The most popular 'schools' at Oxford and the most popular 'triposes' at Cam bridge are now history and English, with the common studies of poli tical science and economics. These are taking the place of the old, strict ly classical "Greats' and at Oxford there is now a modern "Greats," for which a knowledge of Latin and Greek is not essential, while econom ics, once a degraded adjunct to the history and clerical schools , now stands on its own." The old, old question of the rela tive merits of the classical and 'modern' sides of education need not be discussed here. In all probability the best solution betwee i these poles is the happy medium that most Can adian Universities sctm to find. But assuming that the writers of the above Quotations know what thev are I talkink about, does not the evidence seem to point that the host known English Universities are following a lead which is so popular in America, although by no means limited to this continent, and are conforming more closely to the younger but vigorous I school of education familiar to the undergraduates of the country?" Advertising Club Advertising Club will hold a meet ing, Thursday at 8:00 at the Grand Hotel. Information on Chicago ad vertising will be given. Iron Sphinx Iron Sphinx pictures will be taken February 10 at 12:15, Campus stu dio. Iron Sphinx meeting and initiation on Tuesday, at 7:15 at Beta Theta Pi House. Myttic Fiah Mystic Fish meeting, Thursday, at 7:15 at Ellen Smith Hall. Import ant business. Advertising Club Important meting of the Advertis ing Club at the urand Hotel nt t o'clock this evening. Freshman Council The Freshman Council will meet at 6:00 Thursday at the University Y. M. C. A. Business meeting from 6 to 7. Corncobs Corncob picture for the Cornhus ker will be taken at Campus Studio, Thursday, February 4, at 12:15. Members wear a black bow and the Corncob sweater. Ag Convocation A play entitled "The Life of Mary Ellen Richards" will be given Thurs day, February 4, at 11 o'clock in If"1 j. waMsisisjsjsEiaiaiaiajsjsiaiaisjsia 1 LEARN TO DANCE & Mrs. Luella G. Williams will you to dance in six private A rl - ( . . j . ...... .......c. j 3 Phone B 4258 Studio 1220 D GO HI II teach f lessons. nD Published in the interest of Elec trical Development by an Institution that will te helped by uhafr ever helps the Industry. Mast&r of Icebergs a new kind of college degree T TASTER all the intellectual icebergs you 1 A sight at college, and your degree villmean something. The cold facts you learn, like a2b?c9, afe but the visible tops of these icebergs. Underneath, as with floating ice, lie the other eight-ninths. Facts are of little importance till you see the in relation to their great underlying principles The facts of mathematics strike deep into other sciences. The facts of history strike deer into sociology, ethnology, geography. hat is why an engineer who learnea-Uhm s LawVan develop a creat telephonexchancre and controKUi fascinatingjbrces' Viewed tlmsTthe endless array of dry facts and dull figures that seem to crowd the years brighten and beckon with a challenge to look deeper, ever deeper. V Published for the Communication Industry by Efectric Cotfi&uttw Makers of the Nation's Telephoms Number SB of a teriet Divorce rates among college grad uates in this country are only one out of every 57 marriages, while the average in the rest of the country is one out of seven, according to Professor C. H. Cooley of the Soci ology department of the University of Michigan. On The Air University Studio broadcasting over KFAB (340.7) Thursday, February 4 9:30 to 9:55 a. m. Weather re port by IYof. T. A. Blair. Road re port and announcements. (Other Periods Silent) DELICIOUS SANDWICHES. SOUPS HOT DRINKS Ledwich's Tati Shopp 1 2th anal P. W DaUvar Pssnt B 21 SB Greenback Dividers Are a happy departure from the old style Division sheets. Note The Handy Tab. Don ' t Fo rget The Greenback Family Students Demand Quality and on that have we built our fine School Business. If by chance you buy from us and are not satisfied we feel grate ful when you tell us. This is your store and we want to serve you as you feel you should be served. We value your good patron age and feel that you de serve the best. v . J- -' - ?Tll" Greened ge Paper grows more popular every day. It's Boxed Special Free with every Royal, Brown Lea ther, metal hinge Note Book. One ream (its Boyer) of our Famous Green edge History Paper. See This New Note Book it .mm i i mu mil i b1 u mus "5? Vr - 1' GREENBACK Note Books in New Colors Khaki Grey Green. Special Free with every ream of Greenedge History one of our " Latsch Handy Note Book Covers." Special Greenback Dividers 4 for 10c StaTt This Semester with a Sheaf fer Lifetime Pen and Pencil sch Brothers inc. Lett 1118 O Street n m n ii ii ii n Seoul: s : Spring's Perkiest Hats Arrive at the Famous! you can be delightfully new season above-bob, regardless of the weather under foot, in one of these smart new chapeaux! Fresh from their wrappings are they, and flaunting every bright and pastel shade that is in vogue Lovebird, pink Pearl, Meerschaum, Periwinkle don't these colors sound allur ing enough to investigate in the Famous Millinery Section? Hats of the new silks and straw combinations are these fash ioned and trimmed in ways that make you better and smarter looking! Priced so reasonably at $2.95 and $4.95. Valentines Ad Infin itum, at the Lincoln Photo Supply Co. exquisite sentiments in beau tiful dress that will please your mother; cunning valentines for kiddies; comics; semi-comics; specialized greetings for every variety of relative and friend; fussy effects for those that an swer your favorite telephone numbers; in fact, there are valentines, valentines, and more valentines at the Lincoln Photo Supply Co., 1217 O. Also do not forget to remember this attractive shop if you would send a pretty gift or two on February fourteenth! Beauti ful pottery, pictures and allied wares await you here, as well as a complete selection of Eastman Kodaks. A Floor Full of Spring Frocks at the Famous! rack after rack of the clev erest new dresses you ever saw are waiting to help you look like the pictures in Vogue! Wear one, and another co-ed will have made the most of her appearance perhaps a-formal-ing or otherwise a-dancing; or perhaps on the other social and studious occasions of everyday life. There are taffetas (the last word for spring by the way), fiat crepes, crepe Ro maine and other favored silks made and adorned as only Spring 1926 could fashion them. Priced at $15, $19.75, $25 and up to $69.50 at the Famous! JO per cent less for Cash and Carry at the Apex! think of it! That means a shoe shine, an O'Henry, or a bottle of ink for every dollar's worth of expert work you have done by this reliable firm. So press the fliwpr into service and make it earn its way! You ket the same satisfactory cran ing and pressing service at the Apex of course, regardless of whether or not you "cash or carry." And reasonable prices! Only $1.50 for cleaning and pressing ladies plain dresses or men's suits, for example (less 10 per cent c. and c). The Apex is located at 123 S 23rd, P. M. Plamondon as president, and William John as manager. Phone B 3331. New Students will soon Discover Piller's! it won't take long for them to make this popular drug store a habit especially if there's a seasoned upper-classman or two around, to point out the good things of Lincoln! Here you will find a luncbeonett service that is de luxe; the best fountain concoctions you ever tasted, and hot drinks, soups, sandwiches, pastries, salads, and light refreshments of all sorts. Piller'a is a good place, too, you'll discover, to buy your candies, stationery, magazines, toiletries and to have your pre scriptions filled. At 16th and O. nnnnnnnnni