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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN It's Rsro NOW NO Jjjj) LYRIC ALL WEEK .TCP The Pierre Watkin Players ' Offer That Great ComlcTradeey The First Year Phone B-4575 for Reservations tyT WEF.IC-'THE WHOLE NEXT TOWN'S TALKING." TUES.-WED. NALTO WARNER BAXTER. LOIS WILSON NEIL HAMILTON GEORGIA KALE d Qaraviount Qictim Fo Nrws On the Staf Urry Scmon Novelty Ralph Burl and Dancinf Scott Had Mfn" Act Organist COMING THUR3.-FRI.-SAT. Cullcnlaiidis A Military Mvatorr ftorv ADDED ATTRACTIONS LIBERTY U WIRYBODY GOts MON. TUES-WED. Two Houra ol Recreation and Real Entertainment i "HEL FRED PARKER & BABB Versatile Artlata with Their PHILIPPINE SEXTETTE , In a Muaical Oddity "BITS OF PERSONALITY" Alice & Walter Hill & Co In Wm. DeMllle's Comedy Skit "POOR OLD JIM" Twenty Minutea of Clean Fun Pitzer & Downey ..l,ir Fnater Presenting NORTH AND SOUTH" Willing & Jordan FEW PLEASANT MOMENTS" THE HERSKINDS Ne Comedy Pictures BABICH Ue ORCHESTRA HOWS AT2:30. 7,00. 8:00 HUSKERS OPEN TRACK SEASON (Continued from Page One.) High Jump: Gillilan, J. Weir, Crocker. Poje Vault: Witte, Downie, Shaner Wirsig, Dailey. Shot put: Hurd, Ashburn, J. Weir, Molzen. Heating and lighting arrangements for the indoor track ar ealready suit able for the meet. Seating arrange ments will be completed within the next few days. Ambitious Senior Will Shin Shoes Two stands, at which ambitious seniors of the University of Wash ington will shine the shoes of all stu dents who have the two-bit tag, will be the center of activity on the cam pus. Music and additional entertain ment features will be provided on the campus. Cosmetics Puzzle Debaters Are cosmetics beneficial? The Stevens debate club of the University of Washington will at tempt to settle this question in a de bate to be held tonight. JOLLIFICATION NIGHT Auditorium FRIDAY NIGHT Dance Frolic Special Floor Attractions and CONAWAY BEAVER and hia MERRY MUSIC MASTERS Doors Open at 8 O'clock Professor Reed Reviewed The School System Of Nebraska For Listeners-In Off? What Is It? MON.-TUES.-WED. You'll regret it if you miss this great drama of adventure and romance THE ICE FLOOD' A Thrilling Story With KENNETH HARLAN AND VIOLA DANA "BRING HOME THE TURKEY" A Scream With "Our Gang" SHOWS AT I, 3, 5, 7, 9. Prof. A. A. Reed, Director of the University Extension Division, talked on the University radio program of Tuesday afternoon, on "Nebraska's Coat of Many Colors." He explained the school organization as first es tablished by the territorial govern ment and the first legislature. "Nebraska's school system," Pro fessor Reed stated, "has come into being in part as an inheritance, and in part by process of evolution. The idea of the public elementary school was inherited, some others were part ly inherited and developed. There is no known form of school organiza tion that has not at some time been tried in Nebraska. We have been a veritable experimental laboratory of educational organization and should have the best now. Professor Reed went on, "The first territorial legislature in 1855 natur ally adopted the district form of school organization. It was the sys tem with which the settlers were best acquainted and it has proved to be the most workable type for frontier life. "However, territorial Nebraska within three years adopted the town ship system of organization, the most modern form known, which was worked out in details that challenges the admiration of every student of educational administration of today. This unusual change has been some what exp'uined by the careful re search of Richard S. Sherman, a graduate student in education in the University of Nebraska. "The district system grew up in New England where compulsory edu cation was first put into effect. At first the church and home, then the towns, and finally the state was re sponsible for the education of the children. After experiences with many different forms, Massachusetts established the district form. This form however was carried to ex tremes and in 1882 was replaced by the town unit type. "By 1855 Nebraska followed the IOrpheimI I o.Rtcr.ON or L.M.GARMAN 1 I Now Twice Daily The Eagerly Awaited Event of the season. "The Year's Greatest Melodrama' eau este geauQ 2:20 8:20 i Company's Own Traveling Symphony Orchestra It's a Paramount Picture Eve: SOc, $1.10, $1.65. Mat. 50c, 75c, $1.10 SEATS NOW SELLING ALL SEATS RESERVED example of New England and similar experiences in other frontier states and established the district system. At this time public lands held for the use of schools were being given to the state for the use of all the schools of the state, supplanting the older system of giving so much land for each school. In 1858, the Nebraska state legislature changed to the town ship form of school organization and distributed the lands to the individ ual township. It is only lately that we have been able to assign a reason for this extraordinary change. "This sudden law of Nebraska is a close copy of a law soon adopted by Iowa and prepared by Horace Mann, then president of Antioch College. The influence of Mann, the example of the neighboring state of Iowa, and some local enthusiasm was the mov ing reason for the change, so inex plicable otherwise. "This system was ideal in many re spects. It did not interfere with the existing districts, except to make them sub-districts of the township. In all essential features, the local control was to be exercised as for merly. The annual meeting was re tained, for electing officers and for other purposes of advice and control as in the present annual meeting. A biard of directors was elected for three years, as at present, except that the directors themselves elected their clerk, who served as a member of the township board. Formerly the election was held annually. The local directors elected the teacher and managed and controlled the sub-districts according to regulations pre scribed by the township board, ex cept that contracts had to be repor ted to the township board, which be came responsible for their execution. The township board was the admin istrative body of the school corpora tion, and controlled the property. It had power to appoint and pay a man ager of schools. It also controlled the central, or high school, when such was established and the levy ap proved by vote of the entire town ship. The township board had the right to adjust sub-district lines so as to meet the needs of the situation arising. Taxes were to be uniform over the township, and were to be apportioned to the sub-districts ac cording to census. No sub-district was to contain fewer than ten child ren of school age, 'except in cases where, in the opinion of the Board, ALL SEATS RESERVED ORPHEUM ALL WEEK COMPANY'S OWN TOURING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA "THE YEARS GREATEST MELODRAMA" -08 taT m r twice daily at 2:30 and 8:30 P C Wren's baffling romance of' the Sahara. Hard live., quick deaths, undying love "Beau Geste" with RONALD COLMAN (by arrangement with Samuel ' Goldwyn) A Herbert Brenon Production fisa Ralph ForbTs Noran Trevor P William Po'll Victor McLailea A Paramount Picture Seats Now Selling For AH Performances EVE:-SOc.I.10,$16S MAT. sue, -stft'C '14'' j it is necessary to reduce the number.' City schools could be separate if they so desired. "The features in which this plan differed from the district system were; (1) uniform taxation in the township; (2) easy Adjustment of district lines so as to suit better the needs of the children; (3) the tax for support of the teachers levied without a vote of the district, but other taxes requiring authorization; (4) the property held by the central board, but controlled in the main by the local bourd; (5) contracts filed with the central board; (6) provision for a central graded or high school for the entire township. "It is evident that the lack of con formity of township lines with areas of settlement, with the necessary ad justment of the income form school land so as to apportion it to the township in which located, was a source of trouble, though this must have been more in anticipation than in fact, since there was little income to apportion at that period. At any rate, an attempt was made in 1860 to make the school district lines fol low more nearly settlement condi tions by changing the law so as to make the school township conform with the civil, or voting, township. This latter would follow settlement conditions. A plan was worked out to apportion income from school lands to the township to which it belonged. "When the Enabling Act was drafted, for the change to statehood, it provided for giving the school land to the state, without regard to town ship, as was true with Michigan and nearly all states admitted from that time. At the first session of the state legislature, the state went back to its first love, and brought in the district system in main features as found today. This is not strange, since that plan is better adapted to frontier conditions. However, there have been from almost the beginning of state hood attempts to modify it and to correct certain serious faults which arc in evidence. These changes, ac tual and attempted, will be discussed next week." University of Wisconsin Instructs Nearly Half Million Individuals Get out in the open! After noons or evenings rent a new car to drive as your own. Costs less than the theatre. You can go anywhere, any time, in open or closed cars. Saunders System " 239 No. 11th St. B-1007 Drive It Voursclf) Founders Day Kept At Creighton University Omaha, Nebraska, Feb. 8. Found ers day, February 7, was observed at Creighton University with the annual solemn memorial mass for Edward Creighton and Count John Creighton, founders of the institution. The Rev, Wm. J. Grace, S. J., president, will sing the solemn requiem mass in St. John's church. The Rev. Joseph Ostdiek, superin tendent of Catholic schools for the diocese of Omaha, gave the sermon at the mass. Father Ostdiek is a grad uate of the Arts College in 1917 and is now doing graduate work at the University. Grand Total Includes Over Thirty Thousand Persons Who Are Aided Through Extension De partment! 8,220 Resident Stu dents. More individuals are now receiv ing instruction from the University of Wisconsin than from any other university or college of the United States. I Including 32,130 extension stu dents, and 8,220 full time resident students, the Badger state university thia year has a "super-grand total" enrollment of 40,450, well in ad vance of the similar total of 37,734 full time, part time, and extension students of Columbia university. New York City, given, along with statistics on registration of the larger United States universities in the cur rent number of "School and Society." The Wisconsin extension enroll ment is more than twice as large as the registration of 14,321 extension students in the University of Califor nia which ranks second. No other universities have more than 10,000 extension students. Wisconsin ranks ninth in the number of full time reg ular students. The University of Cal ifornia leads in full time student registration with 17,101. The summer session of Wisconsin in 1920 was the fourth largest in the country. Its 5,060 students compare with 13,219 at Columbia, 10,663 at California, and 6,532 at Chicago. Resident students of Wisconsin lean toward, the general course more than do those of most other univer sities, the "School and Society" sta tistical compilation indicates. The 6,164 students in liberal arts at the Badger institution "constitute the sec ond largest enrollment in such col leges or departments. California leads with 9,309 liberal arts students. The Wisconsin student body also is differentiated from others by the large proportion of women. Again it is second only to California in this respect with 2,660 as compared with the Golden State university's 5,458 women undergraduates. It may be surmised, although exact figures are not given, that Wisconsin .1 women enrollment ts the largest on any one campus, it.ce the California figures are for both the Berkeley and the Los Ange'es :'S.'uthcm Brunch) stu dent bodies. The Wisconsin enroll ment of wtr.:e.a is larger than the student body of any of the exclusive ly women's colleges except Hunter. Wisconsin's 338 journalism stu dents are more than those in any other university. Missouri ranks sec ond with 253. Wisconsin leads all other universi ties in the number of music students with 243. Northwestern, with 232, is second. The enrollment increase in the full time student body at Wisconsin 6 per cent is well above the average increase in the 25 largest universi ties of the country, which show this year an average increase of 4 per cent over 1925, according to the sta tistical report. Wisconsin ranks twelfth among United States universities in size of faculty, although it is ninth in size of resident enrollment and first in extension enrollment. The teaching staff numbers 555 and the adminis trative faculty in the country with 2,132 teachers and 67 administrative officers. Today at Rector's 30c Oven Baked Beans Bread and Butter Sandwich Cake a la Mode Any Sc drink Drive-It-Yourself All New Fords & Cryslers We Deliver Real Insr'ance National Motor Car Co. 1918 O St. B2125 B-J78 Capitol Engraving Co. 319 SO, 12T0 ST. LINCOLN. NEB, Phipps Elected Editor Of Creighton Weekly For Ensuing Semester Omaha, Neb., Feb. 8 Robert G. Phipps of Seward, has been appoin ted editor-in-chief of The Creighton inn, student weekly newspaper, by the board of Governors of the Creighton Students newspaper, by the board of Governors of the Creighton Students Union. The ap pointment is made in line with an es tablished precedent of changing the heads of the publications nt the mid year to insure an experienced staff at the opening of the school year in the Fall. Phipps, who is a Junior in the Col lege of Arts and Sciences, will suc ceed Paul J. Cash who has been serv ing his second term in the capacity as editor-in-chief of the weekly. The new editor came to Creighton from Trinity College, Sioux City, Iowa, where he took his first year of college work. He has gained consid erable experience on newspapers owned and edited by his father at Chadron, Nebr., and Gordon, Nebr., and while the latter was publicity director at Fort Sill Oklahoma, dur ing the World War. Hardy Smith BARBER SHOP Clean towel used on each cus tomer. 9 CHAIRS 116 No. 13th Street l :, V-l L Sy r.'.'-'. ii.J XiA L- L J Li aMtolmtosicatioii 4A Ik 1 A i a " The Criterion Theater, in New York, continues to maintain its statue as the Champion long-run house for Paramount pictures, with i e TT x Tl 'Beau Ueste , wnicn neroerc uren- Twooontorl there on Mondav nitrht UU, ji,voi,ii. J August 25th, and where it is sur passing the success of "The Covered Wagon and "Ten commandments, ; tinniroii fnr Lincoln at the Ornheum Thootoi. fnr nna week beeinnine Monday night, February 7, and play ing twice daily thereafter. Hoar" was tiroducfeJ on an elaborate scale on the Arizona des ert and at the Lasky Studio in Cali fornia. It was cut and titled under the supervision of William Le Baron, associate producer at Paramount' Long Island Studio. Bv arrangement with Samuel Goldwyn, Ronald Colman plays the title role of "Beau Geste". Ihe as sociate players are Neil Hamilton, Ralph Forbes, Noah Beery, Alice Joyce, Mary Brian, Norman Trevor, William Powell, George Rigas, Ber nard Siegel, Victor McLaglan, Don ald Stuart and Paul McAllister. As everv reader of nevels and lit erary reviews knows, "Beau Geste" is an advelTture story by Major Per cival C. Wren, whose tremendous success has led him to carry on the adventures of Major de Beaujolais in "Beau Sabreur" a new novel just published. Musical presentation by Hugo Riesenfeld, furnished by the company's traveling symphony or chestra. Adv. J2 No use trying to rise and shine . while vou're keeping vourself V ) half - dead from self - generated poisons. Put your system on a paying basis. Keep your digestive organs func tioning properly. Make an attempt to balance your daily diet. eat dJL ml 1 i-v . rp3 rT"3 i' BRAN, SALTS, VITAMINS, PROTEINS and CARBO HYDRATES are all contained in Shredded Wheat in appetizing and digestible form. Crisp, delicious shreds of vital body-building nutriments. Two daily biscuits of Shredded Wheat eaten regu larly will make you fit and keep you nt. Begin now and see! - JWake it a daily habit