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I THE DAILY NEBRASKAN The Daily Nebraskan Station A. Llteola. Nebraska. OFFICIAL PPBLTOATION PNIVF.KSITY Of NKHRASK A. tT4tr Direotie of tn Student Publication Board Publlnhrd Tuasriar, Wednesday, Thar, lay, Friday and Sunday nterntn during U academic rear. KfflfeHnl Of flee Unl-rar.it y Rait . Balnea Offtcee Wt atand of Stadium. Of flea Honrs Aternoona with tha eP Maa at Friday and Bandar. Ttlephonra Editorial: BM, No. 141! Buiine.lt Betl, No. tTt Nightl B8t. Entered as saeond-etsss mattar at th ....... l. t lAln H)Mihi. nndar art ef Conaraaa. Marck I. and at nclal rat of postaea prorlded for In Section 11, act of Octobar , J01T, authoriiad January So, 122. SUBSCRIPTION RATB It yrar ll.tl a semester Stnale Copy, k cant. EDITORIAL STAFF Tolta W. Torrer . -Editor Victor T. Hackler llanalnt Editor NEWS EDITORS J. A. Cnarrat Ellra Hototthlner Julius Frand.an, Jr. Arthur Sweat Ilillioent Oinn Lee Vante ASSISTANT NEWS EDITORS Herbert D. Kelly Neola Skela Frad R. Simmer CONTRIBUTING EDITORS William Oinar Victor T. Hacktar Kenneth W. Cook Edward Morrow BUSINESS STAFF Otto SkoM Ru.ineM Manairer Simp.on Morton ....Asst. Bu.ineM Manaaer Nieland Van Aradala Circnlation Mananer Richard F. Vetta Oircnlation Manager DEBATING Nebraska's annual intercollegiate repetition of what came out of some one elite's these are the things that male a real debate." The Daily Nebraskan wishes that Trof. Stephen Leacock could have heard the Nebraska-South Dakota de bate this week. It was not perfect, but it was probably less subject to such criticism aa his than the aver age college forensic contest. The subject was Dig, but it Is one which students will very likely be called upon to decide in their capacity of citiiens, and it is one which merits ronuine study. All thinking is probably valuable, but that about im portant matters is surely more valu able than that about trivial ques tions. If the child labor amendment is not too big a problem for the Uni ited States Benate, it is not too big for college debaters ask Ex-Senator Burkctt Nor is Prof. Leacock's violent de nunciation of library work entirely justified. One must have something to think about, before he can think. If statistics and statements by others are the wheat which must go through the mill, the greater the quantity, the greater the amount of intelleetua' grinding which must be done. To be sure, if students become so buried in the mass of library material that their original purpose is forgotten, they merit Prof. Leacock's criticism. At Nebraska this seldom happens. The "Think Shop" where debating teams do their preliminary worlc, fully deserves its name. The mem bers usually spend so much time ar- to matters like the child labor amend ment. Let each type be kept, in its proper place. ' If the experiments of other schools prove that this assignment of proper places is wrong, the new plan, like that of no-decision debates, will doubtless spread throughout the country. WE SECOND THE MOTION! In view of the fact that the University Library building needs a new door (the present one is so hard to open that there is every temptation to stay outside), we reprint the follow ing discussion of library doors, taken from The Daily Kansan: debate is over, and the old question of "Who Won?" is being asked by those students who like to think that they are loyal Cornhuskers, but!guing with one another and thinking who haven't sufficient real interest ; about the question, that their con in debating to attend. The answer sciences prick if they glance at the to their question, of course, is that , solid shelves of reference books. Nebraska several years" ago aban- They usually get keen about the doned the practice of having three j question so much so, in fact, that it men arbitrarily pick a winner. The necessity of repeatedly explaining this to the uninformed, back-woods undergraduates is sufficient excuse, is hard for them to keep cool. A few universities are ex- ' nArimdnii.il, tliia Y-Aev until a mttxv perhaps, for a discussion of debating; of debate tiom Several metnods. intercolleeiate forensic contests have This University was one of th , been of a light vein permitting humor first big schools to adopt the no-de-land satirical thrusts. For example, cision plan for holding debates. Stanford University, the University That the innovation has proven suc-jof California, and the University of cessful, is indicated by the absence j Southern California Branch recently of objections to it. Debates are;held triangular debates on the ques fully as interesting, the workmanship : tion. -Resolved, that the type of man of the participants is fully as good, exemplif ied by Babbitt can be vindi and candidates for team member- j cated." ship are still abundant, despite the! This is an admirable question for elimination of the victory incentive, j discussion at midnight talk f ests Few of the men who have engaged j which very smat groups of students in both kinds of debates, advocate sometimes engage in, but it is hardly a return to the old-fashioned de-! appropriate for the formal debate cision method. platform. It belongs to the arena At those schools where debates are of tobacco smoke, and thrives on the still won and lost on the basis of ! pleasant air which pervades small the opinions of three individuals, there is considerable dissatisfaction and criticism. The Rutgers Targum, for example, gives the traditional groups of intimate friends. The child labor amendment seldom has a chance in such exclusive circles, but it does provide excellent opportuni- method a thorough raking over the i ties for careful thinking, straight coals, and exclaims in disgust: "Duty i talking, and honest discussion in a of the negative' memorized oratory, formal debate and at public forums, 'no constructive argument advanced As for humor and satirical thrusts, A thousand or two students walk nonchalantly up to the door of Wat son library daily, grasp the handle on the door firmly, and exert a pull varying from 15 to 125 pounds, de pending on whether it is a freshman woman or a football star. Foolish, thoughtless students They think that just because the doors to the rest of the buildings on the campus open outward these doors to Watson will do the same. But not so! Don't be so foolish. Watson hall is the storehouse of knowledc-e its purpose is to stimu late thought, to cause the mind to work. It has been constructed with this in mind, down to the most mi nute detail convention, custom, con venience and state laws notwith standing. The explanation is simple: If a student goes to the library on a balmy spring day, just out of habit, opens the door in the customary way for doors to open (outward) just out of habit, and enters the building, the chances are that he'll check out a book, just out of habit and dream over it for an allotted two or three hours all on account of habit. But picture to yourself the differ ence in the mental process that re sults simply because of this clever scheme of hanging doors over at the library. The student marches up to the door and thoughtlessly exerts his customary pull of 15 to 125 pounds on the nanaie tnereoi. ine uwr creaks and groans (or maybe it laughs) ; the casing may give slight ly, and the student's feet slide on the door sill but the door remains closed. Now the remarkable thing occurs. The student wakes up, he thinks; the cells of his grey matter start to whirl, they chase up one inner wall of his cranium and down the other they come to res and the student re alises that the door open inward. He pushes open the door and enters, wide awake and alert, due to the pre liminary mental calisthenics. is now in a mental condition to study, all due to the remarkable fore thought of those who hung the doors at the library. Other Opinions The Daily Nebraskan assumes 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. LET'S HAVE FACTS To the Editor: The Sunday Nebraskan contained the statement that: With a good attendance, seventy- five per cent of whom were fresh men and sophomores, the Nebraska Engineering Society, at their meeb- ing Friday, passed a resolution ex pressing the' belief that the military training offered here was beneficial and should be retained." A member of the Nebraska Engin eering Society tells me that the at tendance was good, to be sure, but that at least half of it did not vote on the resolution, not being in any way connected with the society, which was represented by twenty three out of the total membership of something like a hundred and fifty. The item in the Nebraskan would seem to indicate that the compulsory feature of the training received no consideration, but my friend says that was the very issue of contro versy. He says, and his statements have been verified by other members of the society, that of the twenty three votes, eighteen were in favor and five against the compulsory pro vision. The article said that seventy-five per cent of those present were fresh men or sophomores, whereas my in formation is to tha effect that this member was unable to discover any freshman among those who voted and only enough sophomores to comprise over "seventy-five per cent" of the dissenting votes. Now here we have two sets of fi gures, each suited for a different oc casion. Maybe we should be satis fied, since there are enough figures to go around for both sides. I may be too particular, but personally, I should prefer facts. Are there any in this case? If so, I would like to know them. If the twenty-three men had voted unanimously on either side of the is sue, would even that be representa tive of a group of one hundred and fifty? My informant could hardly have any motive for warping the facts against compulsory training, as he was one of the eighteen who voted for the compulsory characteristic of military discipline. Yet he was deep ly chagrined that anyone w.ho agreos with him In his views should stoop to such flagrant misrepresentation of facts. Can it be that he hat not had enough experience with the military department to become hardened to that aort of thing? WELDON MIELICK. Airplane Club Twenty aviation enthusiasts who are qualified pilots at Harvard have decided to form a Harvard Airplane Club. Membership is limited to fif ty. The club will purchase and op erate an airplane. Tours Japan Cronston Halman, Stanford's crack tennis player, has left school to tour Japan and play matches in Japan, Phillipplnes and Hawaii. EA T at The Little Sunshine Cafe Meal, Sandwich and Lunelle QUICK SERVICE First Door East of Tampl in rebuttal': foolishness! Is debate an artificial game of verbal fencing or a witty chairman is sufficient. Both Babbittry and child labor are is it training to think, to investigate worthy 0f thought, and there are with something of the scientific spirit and method, to honestly convince an audience?" At Nebraska, these evils have quite largely disappeared since the depart ure of official judges. Debating is much better training, more fair and open-minded, and more interesting when it is done for its own sake rather than for the sake of a petty victory. The glory which a debater may gain by virtue of three men's decision is not to be compared with the satisfaction which comes to one who does a job well. There is no in centive to distort logic or facts, to haggle over rules of procedure, or to emphasize other than the real issues, when the .speaker's only aim is to logically and honestly convince his audience. The scientific spirit which j 3 enters when the judges leave, brings with it a desire to present arguments fairly, a willingness to grant that which is logical and true, even though it be advanced by the other team, and to permit the audience to de cide for itself, not on the merits of the oratory, but on the merits of the question. If no score were kept in football games, there would probably be few er violations of rules, less danger of professionalism, and more real sport manship. Tearing down the score board wonld certainly eliminate the aleged "anything-to-win" spirit. For the present the score-keepers need not worry about losing their jobs, but the adoption of this sys tem in debating indicates that the ideal may not always be impossible. A good game played for its own sake is more fun than one played only for the sake of a victory. Another general criticism of de-j bating methods comes from Stephen j Leacock, a world-famous jester and a professor at McGill University. I He speaks harshly: j "Some huge subject is selected as 1 broad as the continent and as com- j prehensrve as the census. The sub- ject selected, the two college cham-1 pions dfsceod into the bowels of the j library... And the victory goes to whatever side has more completely ! swallowed the census and makes a I longer array of citations and statistics. "The proper method should be ex- , aclly the reverse. The real prepar ation for that debate is to think abont it, to get keen about it.-.. And the Btpdent who cn't think outrht not to be a charr,pi"ii: he should study to be a ptuU .or. "A nA-jrct of intercut, defying eliautt.ive slalintiral treatment, Te la' ivtrly short notice, rather than col lrrt.ion cf mnt trial, the attempt to ! ":.! -vli.t is in cr.e's mind, lot the appropriate places for the discussion of each. 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