THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
The Daily Nebraskan
Station A. Lincoln, Nebraska
OFFICIAL rUIILICATION
UN1VKKS1TY OK NKIIKASKA
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TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9. 11)27
THE REAL TEST
The facvtUy committee on student organizations
yesterday approved the petition of the Student Council
to prohibit house parties for the rest of this year on
nights when a Varsity dince is scheduled.
The first skirmish for a greater and more demo
cratic student body has been won.
The next fight will be a harder one and a longer
one.
It will be up to the management of the Varsity
dances to make these parties so attractive that students
will all come there not because they are cheaper, not
because they are to be more democratic, but because
they really make possible a good time for all those who
Bo
lt will be a hard battle.
The Varsity dances have a hard tradition to live
a fmm tho Hnva of the old "Mixers." The new
ground they are breaking presents new difficulties.
There; is need for wise, capable, and lar-seeing manag
Some of the problems which this management will
have to solve include:
1. The present difficulty in hearing an orches
tra in all parts of the Coliseum.
2. Some method for taking care of those who
come to the parties without partners.
3. More and better lobby facilities for those
who want to sit out a dance and visit with other
nminlps.
The present committee in charge of the parties
has made a valiant attempt to solve tnese proDiems.
It has been hampered by the competition with private
parties downtown and in the houses. With this com
petition removed in part for the remainder of this
year, and next year, we hope, removed entirely, the
practical responsibility for conduct of the parties and
their success will rest with it. In the end, of course,
the student body will decide it all by its own uncon
scious response.
If the students want a more democratic social
system, they will eventually get it.
If the students do not want such an organization,
but prefer the present system, no artificial restraints
will make them change their tastes.
AN INVENTORY IS NEEDED
The Student Council is sounding out campus senti
ment concerning the restriction of "rep" parties.
Unfortunately the questionaire is confused in
part with the question of Varsity dances, which as
shown above is not yet fully solved.
Let's get down to bed-rock on this proposition, and
not becloud it with any suggestion to make Varsity
parties substitutes for the "rep" parties.
Let's face the facts squarely.
Let's have an inventory of opinion within each fra
ternity and sorority, and find out deep down in our
hearts, and incidentally down in our pocketbooks, if
we really have not been having too much social-climbing,
keeping-up-with-the-Joneses fourflush on this
campus.
Fathers and mothers of Nebraska with great sacri
fice in the majority of cases, do not send their sons
and daughters to this University, nor to any other
university, for one round of parties after another,
week-end after week-end. They send them here for
hard, cerious-minded effort at improvemnt, for an en
largement of their ability to live well, for something
other than sickly, acquired manners of the ballroom,
and an ability to wear with ease a dinner jacket or full
dress suit.
Nebraska in the past has been noted as the home of
a rugged, industrious type of student body. Our ath
letic teams have reflected in great part this virility of
the people of the state.
We have never been marked In the collegiate
world as a "social" school, and heuven postpone the
day when we shall but if our present accelerating
rush toward more and better parties keeps up, we are
mighty near the stage when we'll have a campus full
of roadster boys and a campus full of cold-digger, but
terfly girls.
It's time for an inventory. It's time to think about
the struggling fraternity brother whose burden might
be made a little bit easier if "we didn't hold that party
n"Xt month." He won't tell us himself. Pride too
often prevents, and he wants to be a good sport to
help the good old gang keep in the social swim.
It's time to get down to fundamentals and not
carry to extreme a part of our school life which is fine
5n small doses, but in overdoses destructive of char
acter and ruinous of conscientious preparation for life.
The questionaire of the Student Council is a heal
thy indication that campus leaders are beginning to
think about these trends in our student social life.
"One ideal is worth a thousand ideas," wrote an old
roan to a younger friend. If the idea is the result of
instinct instead of. Teason, we'd say the proportion
-was worse than that.
SERVICE TO THE STATE
Three of the men and women of the extension de
partment of the agricultural college recently conduc
ted a short course in a county seat town in a remote
corner of Nebraska. When a commercial short course
failed to meet its engagements some of the progres
sive men of the town called on the college to supply
the need. There was an instant response and a promise
to furnish all the talent needed for a full day's pro
gram.
The day of the meetings was cold and threatening.
The roads in this section were rough and frozen, and
in places almost impassible". But these difficulties were
easily surmounted by the farm men and women of
that territory who turned out to bear the talks given
by these experts in agriculture. Every one of the
meetings all day was well attended. Interest was
shown by pertinent questions which always followed
the taJVs. The farmers took these visitors to thsir
heart. They confided their problems to them. They
asked that they might learn what the state of Ne
braska is doing for the betterment of the farm in
dustry. Farmers in this section are" looking to the ag
ricultural college for help. They are no different, per
haps, from the farmers over the entire state.
And the college is meeting the demand by sending
these apostles of agriculture to the farmer to help
him, to encourage him ani to bring him the result of
the latest experiment, so that his work may bo better
rewarded. In point of service, there is none, perhaps,
greater than that which the agricultural college is
giving the residents of NebrasKa.
The Ra Man thinks that the first prerequisites
for University social lions are to spend the 10, 11 and
1 o'clock intermissions blocking the west doors of Social
Science.
The Campus Pulse
will be
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Utters from reader, are cordially welcomed In thla dPrtm.nt end
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f Vut all libelous matter, and attack, against 4nU vlduaU and" rellglona.
benefit of reader, an arbitrary limn 01 u wo.-.
We wish to offer our sympathies to students of Penn
sylvania State College for the recent defeat of their
petition to extend the time for dancing from two till
three o'clock. We hope that they will not allow this
defeat to spoil their breakfasts which are held from
two to three as before.
The Peking government fired Sir Francis Aglen
because he wouldn't collect the taxes he was supposed
to.
Let's hire him for our assessor he certainly
would earn his keep.
"The honeymoon is over when she wants a little
stove in the coupe to keep her warm."
The O'Culli-gian
In Other Columns
What I. Your Speed?
Rapid reading may become a habit just as slow
reading may, and either may be acquired, intention
ally or otherwise, says Dr. James B. Angell, noted
psychologist. But unless one is interested in the seen
ery, he goes on to say, it is a sheer waste of time to
travel by a slow train when one might as well have
taken a fast one.
Students who are continually grumbling about
long assignments and complaining about lack of time
might consider his statement seriously. Many of them
go to the library more asleep than awake, settle down
as comfortably as possible in a chair, open a book and
begin to "read". What they do literally is to finger
over every word, examine it minutely, decide what it
is and then pass on to the next.
There is no continuity of thought, no grouping of
sentences, no reviewing of the subject matter or of its
meaning as the reading progresses, and as a result very
little of it ever soaks in. Neither do very many of
them get any joy out of the scenery.
That is why they must spend hours and hours at
the library, that is why college to them is a drudgery
and why they are known to their fellows as "grinds".
Mental alertness and a conscious application of
effort are all that is lacking. Wake up! Sharpen your
intellect to a fine hair splitting precision and then try
it out on everything with which you come in contact
just as you did with your first jackknife, the results
will be surprising.
The University Daily Kantian
Benevolent Despotism
The student-body of the University has neither the
time nor the ability to govern itself. A young man who
is having difficulty in co-ordinating his activities as an
aspirant for the tennis team, for the smiles of a co-ed,
and for passing grades in five courses cannot afford to
disrupt his life by a consideration of the athletic policy
of his alma mater. His capabilities for student govern
ment are rather weakly indicated by his assertions that
Dean Worsellems is an old hypocrite and that the
course in Chinese civilization is a bore.
Consequently we find that the form of campus gov
ernment at the University of Colorado, as at all other
universities and colleges, is a benevolent despotism,
with the faculty as privy council to a more or less auto
cratic administration. And that is exactly as it
should be.
If any student feels that he can tell us wherein a
modification of this benevolent despotism toward de
mocracy will actually improve the government of this
campus, he should address a communication to the
editor. The "Campus Contributions" column has been
yawning for enlightenment on such matters for a long
time.
The Silver and Gold, University of Colorado
Auditing Course.
Little attention and less publicity is given to at least
one practice in the University.
That is the practice of listening in on courses with
out getting credit for them. "Auditing courses" some
one has culled it. No University bulletin recognizes the
practice nnd some students might easily go all the way
through his University career without realizing that it
exists. Most students, however, learn of it before the
close of the sophomore year.
-The procedure in auditing a. course is to obtain the
permission of the instructor or professor and then sit
in on the lectures at your pleasure. Thut's all there
is to it and it even has been done without the formality
of obtaining the professor's permission.
The student sitting in on a course takes no mid
terms or quizzes, has no worries about the final in it
or his grade, does the assigned work and attends class
at his pleasure. He doesn't get any credit for the course
under these conditions, naturally, but he can get a
lot of good out of them.
As a rule, those students who audit courses have
a sincere desire to get an education and their chances
of so doing are good.
The Ohio Slate Lantern
No Idler. Need Apply
Yale university has adopted a new policy in its school
of law. Hereafter only the best students will be ad
mitted; enrollment will be restricted and standards
will be raised.
This reverses the almost universal American custom
of giving instruction to anyone and everyone indiscrim
inately.
It sounds undemocratic and snobbish, at first. But
maybe it is a good idea.
There is too much idling and loafing in all of our
universities. If this action will tend to reduce those
evils, and impress on students the fact that universities
are places for real work, it will be a most excellent
thing.
The Fremont Tribune
Money-Back Education
Finding their own interests have been served, and
urged by no altruistic motives whatsoever, several Il
linois utility companies have adopted a policy of paying
half the tuition costs of employees enrolled in accredit
ed institutions of learning. Hundreds of employees
have taken advantage of the plan and further exten
sions are proposed.
Technical and cultural training alike have been
found to be worth dollars and cents to the corporations
as well as the workers themselves. Such co-operation
for mutual gain, formerly rare in industry, is becom
ing more and more common. The "half fare" educa
tional plan should enjoy further growth.
The Michigan Dally
To the Editor:
"Who started the custom, seem
ingly so well established at Nebraska,
of having an Ivy Day orator?" Who
started all the other traditions of
the University of Nebraska? What
difference does it make?
Who started the custom of requir
ing freshmen to wear green caps?
Who first thought of having an an
nual "scrap" between the freshmen
and sophomores and named it the
Olympics? Who began the tradition
of electing a May Queen and crown
ing her along with the other exer
cises at the end of the year? .
Who selected scarlet and cream
for Nebraska's colors? The wearing
of these colors is quite well estab
lished at the University of Nebraska
and the writer of the letter urging
the abolishment of the Ivy Day Ora
tor may think this is another custom
that is somewhat worn out. Someone
started all of our traditions and
there is little doubt but each was in
tended to be of some benefit to the
university.
What would a college or university
be without traditions? It would prob
ably be an institution where the stu
dent paid a certain amount of money
for a corresponding amount of know
ledge. After the student had grad-
Notices
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9
Exhibition of fundamental irymnastics by
Sophomore and Freshmen majors, Wednes
day evening at 7:30 o'clock.
Band, Orchestra and Chorus
Band practice and orchestra will meet
In Morrill Hall beRinning Wednesday of this
week. Chorus also.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10
P. E. O.
All P. E. O. students are requested to
meet Thursday Feb. 10, at 4 p. m. in
Social Science Hall, Room 101.
Silver Serpent
Silver Serpent picture at the campus
studio Thursday at 12:00.
Sigma Delta Chi
The regular monthly meeting of Sicma
Delta Chi will be held in the School of
Journalism library at 7 :30 Thursday eve
ning. Election of new members will be
the principle business.
Scabbard and Blade
Scabbard and Ulade meet Thursday at 6
o'clock in Nebraska Hall for election of
new officers.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11
Lutheran Bible League
The Lutheran Bible League will hold its
monthly social on Friday evening at Parish
Hall of the Trinity Lutheran Church, 13
and H Sts.
Methodist Student Party
A Valentine party will be given Friday
evening at 8:15 in Ellen Smith Hall under
the auspices of the Methodist Student coun-
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12
Home Economics
Home Economics rummage sale Sat. Feb.
12 at 210 N 10th St. iirinc clothes to
Horn Management houw or H. . parlors by
Friday.
Catholic Student Club
The Catholic Student will have a welcome
party at the K. C. Hall Sat. evening. Feb.
l'i. Dancing and refreshments will be on
the eveuinx's program.
Chess Club
Special meetinir of University Chess Club
next Saturilfty at 7:30 Y. M. C. A. roomH,
Temple. All btudents interented in Chens
re invited.
W. A. A.
The W. A. A. con ce km ion pirt ure will be
taken Saturday morning at 1U:80 rain or
shine. Meet at lampim ittudio. Red and
white com t umos preferable. ,
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 13
Y. M. C. A. Cabinet l
The University Y. M. I. A. cabinet will
held a meeting at the Cniversity Y. M. C.
A. ItuildinK. Sundav. February 13, at 2:30.
Chairman John Allison desires that all
members of the cabinet be present.
MISCELLANEOUS
Vikings
Viking picture will lie taken next Tues
day noon at 1 1 Meet at the Campus
Studio.
Home Economics rummage sale Saturday
February 12. Mring rlothes to Home
management house or H. K. parlors by
Friday. Sale at 2111 North 10th atr.
teachers College
All students who have registered or ex
pect to rcgixier under the department of
educnt tonal service, Teachers College and
are intending to teach next semester are
reuuehted to meet in Social Science audi
torium at 5 o'clock Tuesday, February 15.
stcpanek a Classes
Students of Mr. Stcpanek will find their
papers on the table across from SS 32:1.
l'aiers remaining alter February 14 will be
destroyed.
uated, the school would be forggtten
except for personal friendships ac
quired during; the four-years of
bring the college or uni
versity nearer to the students. After
graduation, the memories of their
old school will be centered around
the traditions; thoughts of their class
work will soon be lost.
When anyone speaks of abolishing
the Ivy Day oration, they are con
templating the elimination of one of
the traditions, of which the Univer
sity of Nebraska has so pitifully few.
If any student has the courage to
file for this office, be probably has
the ability to prepare a satisfactory
oration. What Is harmful about the
Ivy Day oration? If the Student
Council or any other organization
attempts to do away with this tradi
tion, they must also consider the ad
visability of abolishing several other
traditions, such as the crowning of
the May Queen, the election of class
officers, and a number of other seem
ingly worthless but harmless customs.
S. C.
To the Editor:
You say that "The Awgwan" in
the last few years has been worse
than usual and not collegiate.
You do not take account of Claire
Montesrey's "Tub of Tea", nor of
those fairy tales In slang that were
In last year'a numbers, nor of "Alice,
In Bewilderland", nor of that dram
atic page of book reviews transcribed
by Wm. Card. Do you read "The
Awgwan?"
V. It.
South Dakota Chess
Tourney Next Week
Vermillion, S. D., Feb. 8 The an
nual chess tournament, an indoor
event that has been popular on the
University of South Dakota for more
than twenty years, will open next
week according to Felix Graber,
Fargo, N. D., who is in charger of the
event. The game's popularity suf
fered a decline of popularity follow
ing the war but is now rapidly gain
ing In favor. Erven Montgomery
of Wakonda, was the champion of
the tournament last year and is
favored to win again this winter.
Extraordinary Politic
Evanston, 111., Feb. 8. One mors
body of university women at North
western university are tired of havi
ing the minor offices thrown at them"
They are going to wrest control of
campus politics from men. Twenty,
six of the twenty-seven university
sororities have bn ided together to
fipht tho fraternities, which tliuy
charge, control all election 4.
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DANCE
Don't forget that Wednesday nite special at the
L1NDELL PARTY HOUSE
50c Per Couple
Revelers on the job every Wednesday night
Talks of eating at the
Breakfasting
Perhaps in no meal of the day
is there a greater variety of
habit and choice as to time,
amount and kind of food con
sumed than at breakfast. This
meal lusts five hours at the
Cntrl from 6:00 to 11:00 a.
m.
For the hearty eater, who
feels able to "eat a horse and
his rider", an ample breakfast
of steaks, chops, sausage, ham
or bacon and eggs, or omelettes,
with vegetables, may be selected
from the face of the menu card.
A T-Bone Steak with French
Fried Potatoes, Bread, Butter
and Coffee or Milk, would cost
you 85 cents.
Ham and Eggs, Lyonnaise
Potatoes, Stewed Tomatoes,
Bread, Butter, and Coffee or
Milk, would cost 80 cents. And
so on H endless combination of
your own choosing, costing you
from about 45 cents up to $1.65
or even more, depending upon
your capacity.
But the American people, es
pecially those who live in Ne
braska, are not, as a rule, in
ordinate eaters at Breakfast.
Cakes or Toast, Fruit, Eggs per
haps, a rasher of Bacon, Waf
fles, Cereals these are most
called for. And so the break
fast side of the menu card is
most often consulted by those
who. upon coming in, are still
uncertain as to what to eat.
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THOMAS h
ALVA I
His FAITH unconquerable, his passion for
work irresistible, his acxomplishment not sur
passed in the annals of invention, Thomas
Alva Edison has achieved far more than man
kind can ever appreciate. February eleventh is
the eightieth anniversary of his birth.
Wherever electricity is used in homes, in busi
ness, in industry there are hearts that are con
sciously grateful, that humbly pay him homage.
GENERAL ELECTRIC
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