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NEWS EDITORS
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WHAT MIGHT BE
The Nebraskan, in the past few
weeks, has given considerable atten
tion to the fraternity problem. The
manner in which fraternities are dis
regarding the principles upon which
they were founded, and are adopt
ing standards that are merely super
ficial, has already, been outlined. It
remains to give an opinion, or ex
press a hope, of what the fraternity,
properly governed, might be.
The fraternity will never be a
force for the advancement of reli
gion, nor is it desirable that it
should be. It may, to some extent,
improve morality; but that also is
an unlikely goal. So this ideal, upon
which most fraternities are founded,
seems impracticable; not because
fraternity men are necessarily im
moral or irreligious, but because
their views are too varied to permit
of a common aim.
The fraternity may inculcate in its
members the social graces, if it will.
These are not, of course, of tremen
dous importance; but they are like
wise not to be dismissed as alto
gether unworthy of attention. Good
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manners ana an unaersianuintf ui j
these smaller things not only help the
individual in life; they also make
life happier for him and for his
associates. Many fraternities, un
fortunately, make little effort to
improve the manners of members.
They assume a superficial attitude;
they tell the freshmen to cut their
hair in a certain style or to buy cer
tain clothes; but little is done in
the way of improving the things that
count more.
The economic advantage of the
fraternity is readily recognized. By
joining together living expenses may
be reduced, of course. It is true that
the living expenses of fraternity
members are generally higher than
those of nonfraternity men, but for
his added expense the fraternity man ,
receives greater comforts and social
advantages. The chief aim of most
fraternities, brotherhood, may be
promoted in this relationship. The
fraternity members should, however,
forget their pompous and empty talk
of brotherhood, and learn to practice
this virtue more. There are, in every
fraternity, many good friends, and
many enemies. The dislikes that
always enter into this relationship
are natural; it is inconceivable that
thirty or forty young men should
live in perfect amity. But by careful
selection of members, and a con
scious attempt to prevent friction,
much can be accomplished.
The most important aim of the
fraternity should be scholarship.
That is, or should be, the primary
object of every student In foster
ing scholarship the fraternity should
be an important force. The colleges
of the English universities, which
somewhat resemble our fraternities
in makeup, exert a tremendous in
fluence toward scholarship. Long
evenings spent in discussing philoso
phy, art, literature, and the thou
sand other subjects that interest the
true student are more valuable thfn
the time spent in the classroom. The
fraternity of today, for some reason,
fails utterly in this. The subjects
discussed, in the main, are of a frivo-
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lous nature parties, booze, and
girls. The fault lies, it seems, in the
individuals who make up the frater
nities. They are not interested in
Rcholarshin generally. Their inter
est, if in education at all, is more
in grades.
How to accomplish this? The only
solution, it seems, is in raising the
standard of membership. To do this
the irresponsible students who come
to the university merely to acquire a
fraternity pin must be kept out
These persons, unfortunately, are
usually those" who make the best im
pression at first; they are, therefore,
the ones most likely to be taken in.
They are never of value to the fra
ternity; on the contrary, it is their
influence that is ruining the frater
nity system. Pledging the second
vear would do much to overcome this
fault Few of the one-r,emester men,
who manage to scrape by for a seni
ester arid thereby a quire a pin
would be willing to stay in school
for a year, even if their lack of schol
arship permitted them. The evil of
the pin-pursuers is not overestimat
ed. It has been shown that while one
of four non-fraternity men who enter
the university graduates; only one of
sixteen fraternity men does. Any
method by which these irresponsible
and shallow-minded members may be
kept out would do a tremendous good
for the fraternity system.
The fraternity system, as it exists
at Nebraska today, is a failure. It
has lost sight of its ideals and sub
stituted for them cheap cynicism and
childish scholarship. It has ordina
rily exercised its influence against
genuine scholarship. Brotherhood
exists chiefly by accident If it is
to redeem itself, and be of worth,
its friends must stop regarding any
move to improve it as an attempt to
destroy it It must improve the
quality of its membership; it must
place emphasis on the ideals of the
true student rather than the dance
hall sheik; it must take stock of
itself and realize its faults in order
to make over the empty shell into
something of genuine value to its
members.
TURN ABOUT
At Columbia University, the stu
dents retaliated by giving the pro
fessors some "intelligence tests," ac
cording to The New York World. It
seems that Columbia students, like
those of many other students, have
been nagged for some time with the
questions like: "Where do pickles
come from?" and "Where are Rolls
Royces made?" They finally pre
pared a questionnaire of their own-,
and submitted it to a selected group
of faculty members. The results are
fully as interesting as those of any
"official" tests.
A few of the questions and some
of the answers follow:
"Q. Why do students come to
college? A. Because they have no
place else to go. Because they were
sent by their parents or guardians.
Because they gradually out-grow
high school. Because they want to
be college-bred and so come for a
four-year loaf.
Q. What did President Cool-
idge do to prevent the settlement of
the coal strike? A. Remained sen
sationally inert and spectacularly
passive. Nothing effective, but he
went pretty far. He failed to give
the people hard coal by being a soft
President.
"Q. Who is Countess Vera? A.
The woman whose past has turned
to "Ashes."
"Strongheart was successfully ac
counted for all except one professor,
who mistook him for Calvin Coolidge.
The examination revealed that there
are at least five persons in New
York who do not know who Anne
N'ichols is. Two described her as 'an
exploiter of the drammer, and as a
woman who did not under-estimate
the vulgarity of the American the
atergoer.' 'The Charleston was classified as
an 'awkward, vacillating pose set to
muxic' and as an 'atrocity;' filet mig-
non was mistaken for 'something that
girls wear,' 'a two-year-old race horse
and it was rightly called 'steak at
Tiffany prices.' "
That the English are keeping
their Hindu subjects in ignorance was
the charge made by V. S. Abhyan
kar, a Hindu student at the Uni
versity of Oklahoma. He attributed
the Hindu troubles to a lack of
education of the natives.
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Other Opinions
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no responsibility for the senti
ments expressed by correspon
dents and reserves the right to
exclude any communications
whose publication may for any
reason seem undesirable. In all
cases the editor must know the
identity of the contributor. No
communications will be publish
ed anonymously, but by special
arrangement initials only may be
signed.
From An Author
To the Editor:
I am very much surprised at the
publicity that has been given the
rejected skit "The Court of King
Nero." In behalf of the organiza
tion for which it was written I wish
to say that the skit is not represent
ative of that organization. I was
asked by the president of the or
ganization to try my hand at a skit,
and I wrote the skit on very short
notice and submitted it, with inten
tions of improvements later, if it
were accepted. When I attended
University Night nobody realized
more than I that in cleverness and
originality my skit did not measure
up to those that were presented, and
I was very glad that it had been
rejected. However, I think the Uni
versity Night committee showed very
poor judgment in not returning or
destroying the rejected skits and
keeping quiet about them. I would
like to see an end to the publicity
about this skit R. N.
Majority Rule
To the Editor:
We believe that something in the
xa" of arpreciaiion ar.d sympathy
should be given to those illusioned
idealists who have so trustingly of
fered advice on the improvement of
University Night It is indeed a
hopeful situation when one can find
four (and now five) persons who will
seriously attempt the uplifting of
such a student production. They
have not been disillusioned. They
do not yet know the half. They
should have known that it is utterly
foolish to expect to find either in
telligence or humor in the sketches
produced on University Night.
Monsieur Montesrey has said that
one finds intelligent and sophisti
cated audiences at the teas of the
Classical Club, a place which, by the
way, he frequents. Ah, no one
finds only more sophisticated audi
ences. Where shall we search to
find the competent censor for Uni
versity Night?
Corn Cobs will always imitate the
lofty standards of second-rate vaude
ville circuits. Very well, let them
they enjoy it the students enjoy it
all except the CLisical Club, and
who are they to say the majority
shall not rule.
Therefore, let us permit them
their play, and for our own amuse
ment retire confident that we have
done our part to make the world
safe for democracy.
College Press
DR. MEIKLEJOHN'S "IDEAL
COLLEGE"
(McCill Daily)
Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn, centre
of the storm which broke out at Am
herst College some time ago, newly-
apDointed professor of philosophy at
the University of Wisconsin, recently
drew up his plan for an 'ideal col-
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Iava" and hrw forth to two audi
w.p1c ideas which are so
logical, so pointed, as to practically
leawe no ground for argument com
ing s they do from an educator on
whoso account a group of seniors re
fused to accept their degrees when
he was asked to resign from Amherst
they must, of necessity, deserve our
consideration.
Dr. Meiklejohn hopes to achieve at
some time in the future a university
(cost: about $3,000,000) which will
An witfinnf DYpiitive officers, with
out a board of trustees and which will
be beyond alumni control. In other
words it would be an independent
institution consisting only of teacn
ers and the students. The method of
teaching would curtail the lectures,
tutorial supervision would b insti
tuted and thus independent work
would be demanded from students of
initiative. And so Dr. Meiklejohn
works out the many intricate details
which such a project of necessity in
volves.
It is, however, in the second point
that he has struck a most dominate
note. We have heard it before and
yet it can never be too adequately
emphasized. The substitution or
rnrnri nl Rvstem which of course
would sound the death-knell of com
nulsorv lectures would make for the
encouragement of original work, and
the final elimination of the "sugar-
coated" dishing out of lectures, con
cerning which we have often spoke in
these columns. This setting of the
lectures as the very back-bone of our
educational system and the making of
it as the end of all the studies of
the students instead of merely the
means to real study is a pernicious
tendency which is everywhere assert
ing itself to a greater degree.
One thing more perhaps and Dr.
Meiklejohn's "ideal college" might be
complete. He has not as as we
can see, enunciated whether there
will be any degrees awarded at his
university. We hore that there will
not be any. That would serve to
complete his experiment which we
hope he will shortly inaugurate. The
educational world will certainly
watch Dr. Meiklejohn's efforts with
the greatest interest
SOME COMFORT
(Ohio State Lantern)
It is a painful task for college stu
dents to rid themselves of cherished
illusions. Students in this regard at
least are not different from those
who have never stepped within the
sacred confines. Yet the discomfort
felt bv the student when his beliefs
are challenged is much more curious
than a like state of mind induced in
other people.
Ostensibly, at least, the student
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comes to college to get new ideas.
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and toenail. Among ,the aims of
higher education should be a care-
ful inspection by each student of the
yardstick he uses to measure moral
and intellectual values. Yet if he is
told that one of these yardsticks is
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inaccurate, he is enraged.
If one of
his religious, political, or social
prejudices is questioned, he takes up
arms.
And when he comes to be gradu
ated, few of his prejudices have been
overcome. He has acquired techni
cal knowledge, perhaps, but he is not
much changed underneath.
He has a number of what he calls
opinions on the matter that concerns
him. In the main these opinions
are not his. They belong to nearly
all his acquaintances.
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:The University of Nebraska
Official Daily Bulletin
SUNDAY, MARCH 14, 1920.
VOL. I.
Mid-Semester Report
To the faculty and studenta of the
University:
I have just been informed that the
student hand-book announced mid-
semester reports as due March 20th.
There has been no change from the
date set in the catalog, and these re
ports are due March 27th.
CARL C. ENGBERG.
School of Journalism
Covering Basketball Tournament
1. The copy deadline is, remem
ber, 9 o'clock Monday morning. Ac
counts of some games Friday had not
yet been reported Saturday night
iate.
2. Correspondents are requested
to check the accuracy of the sum
mary record of their'work on Bulle
tin-board II.
M. M. FOGG.
Then, too, there are some students
who leave the campus with a chang
ed viewpoint They like things John
Jones doesn't like. For one thing,
the ordinary movie that affords much
pleasure to John Jones, bores them.
The same is true of the rest of their
likes and dislikes. John Jones will
not respect them. If they have to
live with John Jones and others like
him, they will be uncomfortable.
It may be. therefore, the best
leave the campus with all his preju
dices intact He will be more com
fortable but he will not be edu
cated. On The Air
University Studio,
broadcasting
over KFAB (340.7)
Monday, March 15
9:30 to 9:55 a. m. Weather re
port by Prof. T. A. Blair. Road re
port and Announcements.
10:30 to 11:00 a. m. "Dressing
for Comfort," by Miss Helen Rocke,
Clothing Specialist, Agricultural Ex
tension Service.
1:15 to 1:30 p. m. Address by
Dr. Louise Pound, Professor of En
glish.
Musical numbers by Henry Deines,
Violinist.
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Professor E. W. Lantz, Department
' , T" T . frt 1 ,
t seconaary daucauon, xeacners
College, on "The place of Student
Participation in the Government of
the School."
Address by A. R. Congdon, As-
gistant Professor of the Pedegogy of
Mathematics, on "Uses and Misuses
... . .
Lf Statistical Methods."
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STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS
Cosmopolitan Club
The Cosmopolitan Club will hold
an open meeting at 2:45 Sunday,
March 14, at Faculty Hall. The sub
ject for discussion will be Japan
U's Culture and Customs.
Cornhusker Life
All Students' Life copy for the
student Life Section of the Corn
husker must be turned in by March
ifit.h. Anv contributions may be
turned in at the Cornhusker office.
MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES
"Manufacture and Uses of Ex
plosives" is the title of the illustrated
lecture to be given by Prof. Frank
forter in the Chemistry lecture room
Monday, March 15 at 8 o'clock. The
motion pictures are shown by cour
tesy of the U. S. Bureau of Mines.
by P. H. Stewart, State Extension
Agent in Agronomy.
"The Spray Program", by Profes
sor F. M. Coe, Instructor in Horti
culture. DELICIOUS SANDWICHES.
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