THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
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from The Omaha World-Herald advo
cating a course in International poli
tics, dealing with the cause and pre
vention of wars. We extended an
invitation to students and faculty
members to comment upon that pro
posal. I sent personal notes to
about twenty active participants in
the controversy and authorities on the
subject, asking that they express
their views in our columns. Not one
accepted that invitation.
This is, in my opinion, sufficient
evidence that there is no longer much
interest in the matter on the Uni
versity campus. Such a condition
may or may not be unfortunate. But
from a journalistic standpoint, it is
sufficient reason for refusing to
print letters upon the subject. For
this reason, we shall print nothing in
the future unless it has genuine news
value, brings new arguments to bear,
or advances evidence hitherto unex
pressed. During the past few weeks, The
Dailv Nebraskan has attempted to
keep cool, to present both sides, to
tlrge students to reach a logical, rath
er than an emotional conclusion, and
have failed to show where in you
are a loyal supporter of the land
grant act colleges giving this mili
tary training in colleges. Again, you
have published more speeches and
reports against military training by
a large percentage than you do in
favor of it.
I offered you the lecture Dr.
Fling gave in full, and you could
have made such extracts as would
serve to answer the question you
asked Dr. Fling to answer in fact
you never even mentioned that any
answer was made to your query when
I personally know it was answered,
which certainly shows your utter un
fairness to the school as a military
training institution. The objection
able clause in the R. O. T. C. is not
taught in the lower classes of the
training department. This you have
failed to emphasize.
Now Sir I am a student in the
graduate college doing work in my
Alma Mater a school I love with as
much enthusiasm as you may possess
in your own soul. This may find its
way to the waste basket as my form
er letter did without notice, but in
to state the truth at all times. We rner to ai least, save you iroume oi
love truth more than we love theilnrow,nK wy 1
military department), and we love
CONGRATULATIONS
Every loyal Cornhuskcr will
take time from his studies, his
lunch, his movie, (or whatever
takes time) to congratulate the
new members of Iron Sphinx who
were initiated Tuesday night! It's
your duty! If you don't, who
knows what w-ill happen?
The Daily Nebraskan takes this op
portunity to officially and -publicly
extend congratulations to each and
everyone of the freshmen who paid
$10 (or signified his intention to pay
it) in order to become an Iron
Sphinx. We hope every one of
these young men will write home
and tell his friends what a great hon
or has been conferred upon him at
this institution of learning. Here is
is a chance for home-town papers
to print a lot of names. Will
someone please see that they receive
correct and authentic information in
regard to the momentous initiation
Tuesday night?
It is a great honor to be an Iron
Sphinx. In the first place, it is
evidently necessary to be a fraternity
man. No barbs were included in the I
list. And this is as it should be,
because barbs play an, inconspicuous,
if not entirely negligible, part in the
"big man" race. How many barbs
have been Innocents?
In the second place, Iron Sphinx
is a sophomore organization. It
should be an honor to belong to it,
because no one can get in unless he
is a sophomore. The young men ini
tiated this week evidently plan to be
sophomores next year. They are to
be congratulated on staying in school
this long.
In the third place, their initiation
signifies that they have been here
all this time and not spent all their
money. Iron Sphinx initiations
are not cheap. They are exclusive
and they cost money. After several
months in an environment filled with
temptations such as movies, the
Grace Coppock drive, the Silver
Moon, the Y. M. C. A. drive, the
Liberty, etc., etc. they still have
enough money to join the Iron
Sphinx. Ay, they deserve the heart
iest of congratulations!
And in the fourth place, it is an
honor to be an Iron Sphinx because
of the importance of the great or
ganization's work. Don't confuse
the Sphinx, dear reader, with one of
the societies that never does any
thing. These estimable, picked
young men have usually assumed
responsibility for making freshmen
wear green caps. That is one tra
ditional practice which is the inal
ienable right of freshmen. If a new
student wants ot wear a green cap,
no one should deny him that right!
And it wouldn't be fun for the fresh
men, unless someone' compelled them
to wear such caps. The Sphinx pre
tend to coerce them.
There probably are other reasons
why it is an honor to be a Sphinx;
but the task of discovering or invent
ing them may be left to the minds
of the new members. Let them re
volve the problem in their intel
lects, view it from all angles, con
sider all aspects, and see just how
many reasons there are why they are
deserving of congratulations for
having spent $10v Every eligible
man on the campus who was not in
itiated Tuesday night must be green
with envy.
But a Sphinx is a Sphinx; and
enough is enough, so we must quit.
To the old members who have suc
ceeded in getting their money back,
we extend condolences. It's tough to
think how the pleasures of youth
must vanish. But then, $10 in TEN
DOLLARS.
truth more than any church organi
zation or reform group. If we have
published anything which is not true,
we are willing to be corrected. If
we have been unfair, we are eager
to correct our mistakes.
But I do not believe that The Ne
braskan has been unfair. If any
one has evidence to indicate that it
has, I shall be glad to hear it.
The issue is dead from a newspa
per standpoint, whether you or I
like it or not, Mr. Domer; and no
communications concerning military
training will appear in the news or
editorial columns of The Daily Ne
braskan during the remainder of this
semester unless they have genuine
news value, advance new arguments, j
or contain new evidence. Persons
whose contributions do not measure
up to these standards, may secure
publication of articles in the adver
tising columns at regular rates.
There is no reason why we should
spend our time and money giving
publicity to letters which will not in
terest our subscribers.
Sincerely,
VOLTA TORREY.
envelope for its safe return.
Respectfully yours,
D. S. DOMER, '21,
1500 P St., City.
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 ba
signed.
An Indignant Reader
To the Editor:
About two weeks ago I addressed
a letter for your consideration on
the subject of military training at
the University of Nebraska, giving
a brief review of a lecture that Dr.
F. M. Fling gave to one of his his
tory classes in which there are some
eighty or one hundred young men
and women.
I wTote the letter as a mater of de
fense to the question as to what the
University professors and members
of the faculty are doing to teach
peace in the university and their po
sition on the question of compulsory
training.
I have thus far seen nothing of
the letter or any part of it published
in the paper.
I am well aware of the fact that
you are able and competent to run
your journal without the advice and
help from me, or others unconnected
with the paper. It is your privilege
to print or not to print anything that
you deem worthy or unworthy of
public notice.
But it seems to me that courtesy
and fairness would have appealed to
you to at least make a brief mention
of what is done, and an abstract of
the sentiment of Dr. Fling on the
subject. There is no one on the fa
culty more competent to express his
opinion on the matter than Prof.
Fling. In view of your failure to
publish the lecture as I reported it
I charge The Nebraskan with:
First unfairness; second with
being opposed to military training in
the University; third you publish at
least three times as much material
against compulsory training as you
do for it, as I read the paper every
day and estimate its contents. You
From a Visitor
To the Student Body of the Uni
versity of Nebraska:
I came a stranger to you all,
And told of what I did,
You came in reply to my call,
Yes, boys and girls they did.
I showed you all the dislocations,
And how to treat the same.
I proved to you a sensation,
To heal the sick and lame.
There was Doctor Clapp and Miss Lee
And students by the score,
A man like me they never did see,
And I had to show the students some
more.
And as for the class in anatomy,
You bet I was there,
With a man you all know, Dr. Lati
mer.
So here's to you all,
Good luck and success,
May your life be as happy out
college as it is now in it.
of
From Dr. Ellies Whitman,
Montreal, Que., Canada.
College Press
Half a League Onward
(The Harvard Crimson)
The tutorial system at Harvard is
very much in the same position as a
new baby. It has sufficient ugliness
to make honest friends of the par
ents casual in their praise; it is suf
ficiently naked to allow real inspec
tion by the skeptic who rather doubts
the worth of babies as items in the
sum total of pragmatic profit; and
it is enough of a power, for all ba
bies are autocrats, to make the older
brothers and sisters worry about fu
ture fatted calves.
All of these characteristics have
their importance, and each of them
is worrying in its own way the mind
of the University. But the last is
by far the most troublesome. For
ugliness improves with age the red
sprawl of two weeks in the delight
ful, gurgling wonder of two months
nakedness eventually loses itself in
pink ribbons and embroidered flan
nel but autocracy grows greater
and . become more formidable with
the passing of months. The tutorial
system is doing just that. So the
brotherly heart of the lecture system
beats the double time of panic. And
fear seeps its way into the antiquat
ed manuscripts so long used by many
a lecturer as notes for his daily dis
quisitions.
To be biref the truth is this
seniors, allowed freedom by the tu
torial system, are refusing to attend
uninteresting lectures or those whicr
do not add to their knowledge of
their field or their better apprecia
tion of life and learning in general
So many a gentleman long sure of an
audience now remarks empty seats
and wonders if this child, the tutor
ial system, is to fatten up his heri'
tage.
Nor has this wonder been without
its results. The lecturer still has
certain amount of influence in family
circles. He makes his examination
cover his lectures instead of the read
ing and smiles at the worried faces
above the blue books. He is an older
son and knows the world.
Yet there are better and fairer
ways to enjoy brotherhood with the
new infant. One mar. has discover
ed an excellent way, for to contin
ue the metaphor he admits the
child's right to dominance and, freed
from the responsibility of such pres
tige, goes his way rejoicing. So his
lectures arc but marginal notes on
his text, modern and succinct com
ments by a scholar and gentleman up
on a masterpiece of literature. And
Seniors, attend his lectures for the
gain to be derived from his person
ality and his knowledge.
New babies are troublesome cre
atures. But they are inevitable and
their existence cannot be scorned.
The tutorial system already has the
college at its feet. The faculty also
must bow to reality. Lectures must
be made to fit the needs of a college
under such a system they must be
vital. For the college mjnd is a
critical mind in a critical age. By
giving birth to the tutorial system
the University has made one more
contribution to the needs of contem
porary living the present duty of
the University is to make its elder
brothers, lecture and class, as useful
and interesting as the tutorial sys
tem. If this is not done completely,
the infant grown may live on alone
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AN OPEV LETTER
TO MR. D. S. DOMER
Dear Mr. Domer:
In a letter from you (published in
the "Other Opinions" column of this
newspaper today), it is charged that
The Daily Nebraskan has been par
tial and unfair in its treatment of
the compulsory drill controversy. I
have never' received a letter stating
the views of Dr. Fling. No such let-
r is in our waste basket. I had
i -,.T t-veri )i'urd of such a letter be
i re your complaint reached this of
i' " " .,;.,( vnmt ion, The Daily
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with his relation under the sod. Half
a league onward the University has
gone that far. But to bo absolutely
successful the whole league must be
courageously and adequately covered.
Univertitie of the Futur
(Daily Californian)
Dr. Frank Aydelotte of Swarth
more College, recently declared that
the college of the future "will em
phasize quality rather than size. The
race for numbers and the worship
of size for its own sake are rapidly
giving place to a much saner atti
tude."
That this tendency is taking root
is seen in a New York project to
found a College of the Greater City,
which will be organized along the
Ijnes of the colleges of Oxford and
Cambridge. Again, in Southern Cal
ifornia, a plan is under way to found
the Claremont Colleges, unresericted
in number, and each seperate in ad
ministration and faculty.
These facts are worthy of thought
when coupled with the announcement
made yesterday that the University
outstrips its nearest competitor by
nearly 4500 resident students, and
is the largest university in the country.
This is gratifying, perhaps, but it
is hardly important. Possibly, from
the point of view of the cynical ha
bitue of Wheeler steps, it is proper
to wonder whether statistics on qual
ity would have a like appearance,
and to envy a little the student who
can attend such universities of the
future, and yet enjoy the privileges
and advantages of a small college.
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Thi Delta Theta House Dance.
Alpha Theta Chi, Spring Tarty
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Delta Gamma, Spring Tarty
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Saturday, April 24.
All University Mixer (Mu Epsilon)
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Sigma Thi Epsilon House Dance.
Alpha Gamma Rho House Dance.
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