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    THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
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Talophonm Editorial: rtIXl, No. 141:
Buaineaa: K6X1. No. 77; Night i B6882.
Entrrd aa aaeod-laB mattar at tba
poatnfftca ta Lincoln, N.hraaka, ander art
at Cnnarreaa, March I. 17. and at apwial
rata of postair provided for In Section
1108. act of Octobar 8. 1917, authorised
January 20, 1922.
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EDITORIAL STAFF
olta W. Torrey JMItor
Victor T. Dackto alanaln Editor
NEWS EDITORS
J. A. Cbarrat Fllce Holnvtchlner
Juliua Frandsen, Jr. Arthur Swet
Milllcent itm Lea Vanca
ASSISTANT NEWS EDITORS
Herbert D. Kelly Neola Slcala
Fred R. Zimmer
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
William OJtiar Victor T. Hacklar
Kannrth W. Cook Edward Morrow
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TAKING ONE'S PICK
The names of the newly-elected
members of Thi B"ta Knppa appear
on the first page this morning. Many
of these names have seldom been
there before. And many of those
which are repeated in The Daily Ne
braskan columns day after day are
not in this particular list. These
facts may be significant of several
things.
In the first place, it is evident
that less is said about the students
who attain the real objects of col
lege than about those who acquire
reputations for being "big men" even
though their efforts in that direc
tion may cost scholastic honors.
Making grades is less spectacular
than making athletic teams and al
leged honorary societies. Even class
elections are more exciting.
Of course, it will be argued that
grades are but poor estimates of
what an individual's bead contains,
and all of the faults of the grading
system will be recited. But the fig
ures compiled by Professor Cong
don and published in this newspaper
yesterday indicate that the system is
not as bad as it is often pictured.
With very, very few exceptions, the
best grades do go to the students
who most deserve them.
There are, to be sure, many bril
liant students in the senior class who
are not included in the Phi Beta
Kappa list. But the chief reason
why they are not among the chosen
probably is that they have spent
too much time doing something else.
They have been too eager for the
pretty robe of an activity-honorary,
the glory of an athletic hero, or the
distinction or leadership in some
other phase of undergraduate life.
Few of these activities are entire
ly worthless. Many of them provide
opportunities for gaining experience
of inestimable value. But when they
gain such a prominent position in the
student's mind that they obscure the
more quiet glories of the classroom
and study table, a college career be
comes a tragedy.
There are a few people who have
time and strength for a wide range
of both activities and studies, but
the majority must decide between
one field or the other.
Is it better to be a "big man" on
a college campus at twenty, or a cul
tured citizen at forty?
class presidencies and the class com
mittees as one of the more useless
outlets to which those students, who
come to college to acquire a reputa
tion for activity instead of to devel
op themselves, devote their energy.
Founded in the past, most of them
for some purely political reason, they
have now a tradition which lends
them an air of pseudo-greatness.
Their activities are negligible and for
the most part neither important nor
valuable. One of them, for example,
administers the elementary course in
the mob mind inflicted on the fresh
men at the beginning of every year
we refer to the green-cap tradi
tion. Another manages the newly in
stituted Dads Day, a duty
could as well be performed by a
committee appointed for the purpose.
With the exception of such activ
ity as this, they are content with tak
ing an initiation fee from their mem
bers; staging an initiation which is
sometimes brutal, sometimes ritual
istic; having their pictures in the
Cornhusker; and giving an annual
party.
The time may come when an ap
praisement will show their actual
value and they will be junked. For
the present they are tolerated, ap
proved, even applauded, with a do
cility which does not speak well for
the critical spirit of the students. 1
(The editorial which you have just
read was published in this column a
year ago. Nebraska students are
fond of traditions. Why not make
the publication of something like this
an annual event? Of course, if
members of the lower classes show
the same intelligence in this respect
that they did during the class-committee
season, such a tradition will
be as needless as the societies.)
WE SECOND
THE MOTION!
ARCHITECTS
A few weeks ago a prominent Lin
coln architect, speaking to a Univer
sity student organization, discussed
the advisability of lengthening the
years of college training for archi
tects for the purpose of including
more work such as is given in the
Liberal Arts college. The architect's
is a profession of great importance
and much interest. The following
news account from an exchange is
self-explanatory:
"Because a liberal education is
deemed essential as a background
for advanced studies in the field of
architecture, the school of architec
ts, at Harvard University devel
oped into a graduate institution.
"The Harvard Official Register ex
plains the necessity for this change.
It states that the architect needs a
thorough and varied knowledge of
all fields in order to be successful in
his profession. In the first place he
should have a general business abil
ity to enable him to expend wisely
the great amounts of money entrust
ed to his care. Then he needs the
fundamental scientific knowledge ne
cessary to plan and construct build
ings.
"Beyond all this he should nave
vision and an imagination in order
to conceive ideas. To attain this end
he needs an appreciation of art in
general, and, a knowledge of the
great works of the past. To this he
should add a practical knowledge of
the building needs of his community
and an understanding of business
values. There are few fields of
knowledge that do not hold an in
terest for the architect art, science,
history, law, and finance all touch
his work."
"SMALL LATIN AND LESS
GREEK"
(Columbia Spectator)
Wholesome indeed is the increas
ing tendency to regard college edu
cational eystems rot as firmly es
tablished institutions, beyond the
pale of human interference, but on
the contrary as in need of radical
reform and improvement When
authorities ranging all the way from
university presidents to undergradu
ate editors persistently assail our
educational procedures, we may be
reasonably certain of the necessity
for alteration. There is by no means
agreement on just what reforms are
essential only on the need for
change do the critics agree.
The "cafeteria" system of elect
ive courses has been attacked on the
grounds that it makes for liberally
uneducated persons. On the other
hand the prescribed course is criti
cized as irksome and usually unwar
ranted and illogical. Huge lecture
courses, it is said, do not offer equal
advantages to every student. Tests
show that certain seats are better
placed than others for hearing and
retaining the material discussed. The
discussion type of course is all right
except that the front-row students
are liable to be intimidated by the
snickers, real or imagined, of those in
the rows behind. Furthermore, the
sum and substance of the discussion
can usually be phrased Detter ana
more tersely by the instructor. As
an antidote to the fears of snickers,
the round table, face to face, dis
cussion, familiar to honor students
has bc-cn suggested.
Assuming that there is need for
some form of examination, the writ
ten must vio with the oral quiz for
supremacy, and the superiority of the
which plus and minus questionnaire has not
yet been definitely established. The
time-honored final examination is
often criticized as being unlike any
thing which will be met in the out
side world, yet upon analysis it is
found to demand many of the quali
ties which the last-minute rush job
requires of the worker.
Compulsory class room attendance
is decried by persons who glibly com
pare the Columbia student with the
English university man, forgetful
that the average Oxford or Cam
bridge student has been "on his own"
from the age of eight or nine years,
while many boys desert home influ
ences for the first come to Morning-side.
The question of activities versus
studies will continue to loom up. A
Chicago professor reports that the
"grinds" do not come out on top in
after life. A Princeton professor
finds that good grades at least are
synonymous with longevity. From a
Columbia professor comes the really
worthwhile suggestion that degrees
of B. F. (Bachelor of Football) be
awarded those whose interests are
not primarily centered in the pure
arts.
That students do and should have
opinions on these matters is patent
That their opinions are not more fre
quently expressed is unfortunate.
The Dartmouth Senior Report was
the first concrete step in the direc
tion of getting student opinion n the
educational problem. Similar re
ports have followed, and are still to
come. Much good should be derived
from them.
Other Opinions
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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.
"Whatsoever Things Are True"
In the interest of accurate state
ment and clear understanding of the
real issue in this matter of military
training in the land grant colleges
students and others will find one of
the current magazines interesting
and instructive, the April number
of Current History, published by the
New York Times Company. Two ar
ticles for and against are found here
under the title of "Military Train
ing In American Universities and
Colleges."
Dr. David Y. Thomas, professor of
history and political science in the
University of Arkansas, is critical of
required military training in our
colleges, and Major General Sum
merall, U. S. A., states the case for
the United States government. Both
these honorable gentlemen are in a
position to deal with the subject on
its merits, and are able, on a basis
of facts, to define the real issue.
As an evidence of Professor Thom
as' fair-mindedness, he has the cour
age to acknowledge a mis-statement
found in his article. He makes re
ference to instruction in the use of
the bayonet, and afterwards finds
that he has been mis-informed, and
sends to the editor a re-written para
graph correcting his article, but it
comes too late to be included in the
body of the article, and is found in
the preceding notes of the editor of
the magazines. Prof. Thomas frank
ly states that the War Department
forbids instruction in the use of the
bayonet, and that it is not worth
while devoting any more attention to
this matter.
Our Commandant, Col. Jewett
when asked about instruction in the
University of Nebraska, states posi
tively, "The use of the bayonet is
not taught in the R. O. T. C. course.
The War Department instructions are
clear and definite that no course in
bayonet work is to be given. No
mention is made of this subject in
any present authorized text book."
The emphasis if instruction in the
military course is upon command and
leadership, teaching the fundament
als of the military profession, enab
ling the graduate to serve more ef
ficiently to the best interests of the
nation in time of military necessity.
It is well for us to remember this
erroneous idea as to what is real in
struction in the military course.
Many are making use of this particu
lar matter of the bayonet as a part
of the appeal to secure signers to the
initiative petition now in circulation.
Mr. . Sorenson in an article in The
New State tries hard to make his ar
gument impressive and appealing by
putting in italics the following: A
boy graduating from the University
may not know how to spell or punt-
tuate correctly, but ne must Know
how to use a bayonet, showing pro
ficiency in the art of killing."
Such argument is sophistical and
misleading. D. R. L.
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wooden plow turns up the rich black soil A
woman drives, another woman pulls and a black
ox pulls beside her.
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