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SCHOLARSHIP
"The password is Study."
Thus opens n article in a recent issue of The Sijrnet,
national publication of Thi Sigma Kappa. The article
is entitled "For Undergraduates", and deals wish the
.roblems of how and when to study.
In our contact wUh ti.e students of the Univerny
of Nebraska, of whom acre are still a few, we have
been unable to find any rlereotyped method for study
in effectively. It seems to be a matter cf temperament
in the first place, ar-d of he subject in the seconu, and
of surroundings, and of xhe desire to learn.
Despite the uncerU.r.ty surrounl.rg the rroprr
method of studying, the fact remains that hard, con
centrated study is r.Lcciary for the student to oouun
any value from his years spent in any .vjvanceo. educa
tional institution. The importance of study is brougrt
home more than ever at this time of the scliuoi year,
when Hie ones who vcre unable to make the grade the
first semester will be sent home in an ignominious sur
render to the work imposed upon them by a heartless
university. In a few cases it is a defeat, because it may
happen that student has some real and valid reason for
not making his hours. In the great majority of case
it is no more than an abject surrender to the amount
of time and effort required to carry the work success
fully. Of the students who fail in most of their hours, tere
are probably some who did not have the right tem
perament for the kind of subject, or did not have viie
proper place in which to study, but the desire to learn,
seems to be of paramount importance. Too many high
school graduates come here with no definite purpose
in coming, with no intention of applying themselves
to the work in hand and of making a rscord of which
their financial backers, their parents, may be proud.
Conditions of this kind seem to be especially preva
lent among the freshmen of the University, and more
particularly of the freshmen who reside in fraternity
houses. Each quarter when the report of the executive
dean is sent to the various organizations, the number
of freshmen who are delinquent is very oft-.n in excess
vf the number of sophomores, juniors, tzd seniors. If
the reason for this was only known and there was some
possible remedy, the heartache and doubt of many a
fond parent who sees his son getting grades in the
sixties, just keeping his head above the inrushing re
ports of the dean, would be alleviated, and the average
college career would receive a much more auspicious
start than is the usual rule.
Is there a remedy for this condition in the univer
sity as a whole, or Joes not the remedy lie with each
man by himself?
The topic reverts to the issue stated at the begin
ning, that the individual student does mt have enough
interest in his work, enough pride in his record, and
enough gratefulness to his parents to make the effort
necessary to keep his scholarship record clean. There
can be rules upon rules passed, and parents can send
urgent pleas, but if a rule does not have the willing
compliance of every participant it is of no value, it is
the old case of leading the horse to water, bui not be
ing able to force him to drink. We can giv; the de
linquent ones the right atmosphere, the mechanical
equipment, and set the time for his work, but we can
not control his mind or his desires. His initiative is
called into play, and when a person of college age
fails to respond at this point, he must be classed as
hopeless.
THE SMALL COLLEGE
TIfl.st.iri ITS. Nebraska, finished Tuesday at midnight a
strenuous but successful. drir. for $400,000 as addi
tional endowment for Hastings College. The life cf
the College was at stake. One business man borrowed
$5,000 to pay on his subscription. A member of the
Chicago Board of Trade sent a check for $5,000. An
other Hastings man who had already given the colltge
a large sum running to five figures, gave a check fur
$1,000 more. Many pledges Were received by long
distance telephone. Numerous friends of the collage
came personally to Hastings to help out in the last
hours of the campaign.
The success of the drive shows that the people of
Nebraska, at least that part living in and around Has
tings, are still willing to sacrifice, sometimes dearly,
that their children and the children of others may
have the advantages of higher education, It also shows,
that the -virility of the small college is undiminished
even in these days when loyalty ordinarily flocks to
the big and great
The field of service of the small college, the denom
inational school of which Hastings College is a typical
example, is fully as great as that of the giant state
and. private nniversities whose individual size some
times overshadows these smaller neighbors. Probably
half f the college students in the United States are
still enrolled in the traditional small colleges, where
emphasis is still placed on charadsr training rather
than specialization, research, and athletics. The small
colleges cf the country number among their graduates
a surprisingly large proportion of the distinguished
men and women in our national life. The small col
leges are an invaluable asset to the cultural life of the
nation. It is reassuring to see that they still possess
the confidence of the public, and that their usefulness
will not be allowed to wither away and die fer lack of
funds.
SURE!
"Sure! Nobody flanks at Nebraska,? reads the ad
vertisement of a Lincoln merchant in the columns of
The Nebraskan. Sure, and' let somebody come to school
here with that kind of an idea, and heU sure find out
liferent before the end of the semester, if not before,
s.t least after. Yes, sir, he sure wCL
""S'urx;! Nobody fluiis at Nebraska," not often.
71-s Igr f4 them heme too rpsick. Sure.
nitics and sororities io those who have successfully
completed at least one college year, was introduced in
the State Senate yesterday.
While the merits and demerits of any such proposed
legislation are many, there is one practicnl considera
tion which should not be overlooked. And that is that
on the economic side, in the mutter of keeping up the
various houses fromVtho purely business point of view
of having enough to pay for the rent and the upkeep,
the fraternity and sorority structure at Nebraska is
4uilt up in lurge extent on the freshman.
Take awny the freshmen and the averago fraternity
unul.1 have hnrd financiul sledding for some time. In
frt. tho fraternities and sororities would have a hard
time for n long time because the recent oxpnnsion of
new chapters has bcH?n made possible in great Pttrt bv
.tail 1.. !i 1.1
the fact that freshmen may be pledged anu inumn-u.
Eliminate the freshman, and there will automatically
fourths the nresent amount of eli
gible fraternity material.
The older fraternities with their well-established
chapters, and hosts of alumni could probably weather
successfully such a restriction. The younger fraterni
ties and sororities would suffer most. If the bill should
pass, it should at least not go into effect for two years
or other length of time which would give the frater
nities and sororities time to adjust themselves to the
new situation.
The Campus Pulse
mrm trm readera ara cordially welcome!
will he printed in all ca.ee eubjacf only mI
keeping! air libelon. matter, and '' J ft '
For the benefit of readera an arbitrary limit ol SOO n
Letter, from reader, are e-?" ZFZZJi n., nractic. of
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,t Indivmuaie ana """-
word, baa been eat.
The story of the absent-minded professor was given
a new turn at Iowa State recently when a member of
the mnthematics faculty danced the whole evening
through with his rubber goloshes on. It was not until
the end of the evening that his exasperated lady friend
discovered the cause of the trouble. The "dating"
stock of that department, according to the student pa
per, has gone down the toboggan.
Evidently the University of Washington believes
that the students should know "what the well dressed
co-ed wears." A parade of fifty co-eds used their strut
ting ability for one evening last week for the enlighten
ment of the student public. The latest in everything
from fur coats to negligees was included on the pro
gram. Suggestion for the ladies who attend the exclusive
($1) Pan-Hellenic ball. Adopt a slow nasal drawl and
inquire of your partner whether the members of any
of the newer upstart fraternities are present, and if
so, why?
Another thought for the "exclusiveness" of Pan-Hel
night, don't take your girl there in the old Ford
Hoopie. It won't harmonize.
In Other Columns
Upperclaaamea
"They think it's funny, do they? Then ail I can
say for them is that they have a mighty preverted sense
of humor. Just because they happen to be 'upper class
men!' Bah. Upper-classmen!
'Til admit that when some poor boob don't know
any more than to bite on a chapel seat, he deserves to
get stung. But the way sophy goes around crowing
when he's sold a twenty-five-cent chapel seat to some
poor hick from the backwoods, you'd think he'd sold the
flatiron building to the president of the freshman class.
."And this idea of taking all of us out for midnight
joy rides is quite the simplest thing I ever heard of.
I'd like to make a few of them walk six or seven miles
on a wet cindery road, without any shoes!
"As for stacked rooms how any sensible person
can think it fun to scatter the personal belongings of
some one else from the garret to the furnace room is
more than I can see. When it comes to green caps and
collars, I don't mind it so much; but then they don't
have to murder us if we forget them some day. They're
always saying, 'You can't do this, you can't do thai.'
They'll be saying next that we can't eat or breathe,
They've already fixed it so I can't sit in comfort.
"I guess all we can do about it is just endure it,
but I hope to gosh I have a better sense of humor when
I get to be an upperclassman. Upperclassmen ! Bah!"
Hasting! Collegian
To the Editor:
The last issue of The Daily Ne
braskan for the past semester carried
a reprint In the column bonded "Col
lege Press", taken frcm the editorial
columns of The Daily Kansnn. In
this article the author depicted the
average college professor as "fitting
upon a high throne, helped up by
student advances in desire of good
will," and this type rs "suffering un
der the strain of a superiority com
plex, makes itself felt in every cor
ner that is penetrated by student
thought"
True this type of instructor is in
the minority. But is the mi tority too
great? To some the criticism of The
Dailv Kansan writer is entirely un
founded and cruel. Others realise the
ituation as one on which they have
made a like decision. Having spent
three and one half years in this'n
stitution, I have felt that there are
more than a few of such figure heads
within this very institution And
having felt the authority of these
pedagogues, I second the motion of
the writer for The Daily Kansan.
The ideal professor is one who
takes an interest, yes a personal in
terest, in each of his students. His
attitude is" one of aid and assistance
to the student. The type of instruc
tor I am thinking of is the absolute
opposite. This professor thinks un
less he flunks half of his class he is
not doing his duty. This very type
is the one who makes his lectures
so interesting that students contin
ually go to sleep in class. He forgets
from one class meeting to the other
just what was gone over the last
time.
At the end of the semester he re
quires the student to do about three
weeks work in three days, write a
semester paper, and review for his
examination; which he makes as un
intelligible and disjointed as one
would who never heard tell of the
course. Said instructor generally as
signs lessons as if his course were
the only course the student was tak-
wV Spirit Meuifi
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle says thai, he has received
a "spirit message" from Robert Burns to the effect that
Mr. Burns is worried over the portraits of himself which
are most popularly used now and that he wants a par
ticular portrait, long unnoticed, to be made more con
spicuous. -
The reliability of Conan Doyle's statement would
be difficult to establish, but it is clear that if it is true,
those of us who are looking forward to a restful im
mortality are likely to be disappointed.
That affairs of the world, such as portraits, should
send wandering spirits worrying and complaining
around eternity is disconcerting.
There are, of course, many and various notions
about life after death, but this one is, to say the least
strange.
One lifetime seems enoogh in which to bewail a
picture that doesn't do one justice.
Columbia Ifinaoariaa
TKZ DIFFICULTIES
"! o Y.m'l r";-:rg cr loaning of college frater-"
More Me.; Leaa Women
"More men than women" is the desire of North
western University this fall. In order to obtain this
result, authorities at Northwestern passed legislation
to establish a ratio of 450 men to 350 women.
This measure has been resorted to "in order to ii
crease the professional atmosphere of Northwestern,"
according to Dean Raymond A. Kent. John Pavers,
assistant secretary of the general alumni association,
explains farther that "It was done to protect the men.
"Women have jumped into the pools of higher edu
cation at the big Evanston university with such a splash
they threaten to wash all the men ashore," he admitted.
The drive for "more and tetter men," will at least bring
"more men". A generation ago such a problem would
never have occurred. It is only since the so-called
"weaker sex" have developed their strong-arm ai?a en
tered into politics and business that it has arisen.
Well, if they cannot hold their own in open com
petition, perhaps men should be protected by legisla
tion. Universitr Daily Kansas
Dolls and Religions Belief
Professor O. O. Norris says, "I believe that the
lack of dolls in the modern nursery is one great reason
for the rapid increase in atheism and disbelief in a per-
sonal God. If Professor Norris can demonstrate first
that fewer dolls are distributed among children and
cherished by them th.tn Vere possessed and played with
by children cf a generation ago, and second that there
really is less belief in God than there was in the nine
teenth century he msy begin to be interesting.
Meanwhile he might spend a little time flouring
out why it is that men have been the leaders of re
ligious faith and thought throughout the ages, although
boys s a rule preter almost any other toy to a doll,
and generally dote on something that will make a noise;
the more infernal the noise the better. Maybe if be
thinks hard, the professor may be able to develop the
theory that operation of a tin horn and a drum simul
taneously jras really the origin of most modern adult
r-elief in Ltll.
fc Tfce Detroit FpeevPreM
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Shoes
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A new leather
a new style
a new feature
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If
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at all times.
Mest stxki Si O
Magee's
ing and the only one of importance
in the college curiculum, ,
This ia a sad but true representa
tion of the type of pedagogue spoken
of by the Daily Kansan writer. It is
also sad but true that such specimens
exist in the average American uni
versity. I firmly believe that this type
exists, and absolutely second the
motion of the Daily Kansan author
when he, or she, as the case may be,
says, "as long as the incompetent
pedagogue is given final authority he
should be subject to failure in a class
in jjrhich he may wreck the life, car
eer, and ambitions of students
through his own failure."'
Yours respectfully,
D. E. M.
South Dakota Adds
Two Greek Courses
Vermillion, S. D., Feb. 1. The
addition of two correspondence
Here
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courses in Greek history has been an
nounced by the extension division of
the University of South Dakota.
These courses do not require a know
ledge of the Greek language. Other
courses in Greek being offered by
correspondence not requiring a know
ledge of the language are Greek
literature, Greek art, Greek myth
ology, and Greek religion. A course
in' Homer, the second year of Greek
language, is also offered:
Laboratory Moved
To New Location
The Thysiology laboratory in Phar
mncy Hall has be. n changed du'.ng
the short vacation after examina
tions. This laboratory was formerly
in the basement of the building and
has been moved. to the third floor.
The basement was not large enough'
to accomodate the classes and waj
poorly lighted.
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