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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN The Daily Nebraskan Sutton A. Llnealn. Nehrasfca OFrlTlAL rilflLIOATtON VTN1VKRSITY OP NKHHAfKA Under direction of the Student ruhlleation rt TWKNTY-SIXTH YKAR Published Tuesday. Wednesday Thursday, Friday, and 8unday Biarntnsa durinf the academic year. Fdltnrlal nfftee UnWerslty Hll . Husinrs 0 V Hll. Krxim No. . . . Office Hour. Editorial Staff, t :0 to : ereer f Sunday. Business Staff afternoone axcept Friday end TelerhoneS.-Kd.'.orial and Business, Bf.Kl. No. 14t. KIM Entered tecond-elase matter at the poetnffiee In Lincoln. Nebre.sn, under act of Consreas. Merch .' 'J'! rate of pot provided for in section 110S, act of October I. I1T, authorised January tO. l2t. tt rear. SUBSCRIPTION RATfcl Single Copy a fli 1. 16 ifflintn WILLIAM CKJNAR Lm Vance . Arthur Swwl ... Horace W. tiomo Ruth Palmer Florence Swihart NEWS EDITORS ErTTOR-IN-CHlr.r Manealnt Kditor Asst. Manatinc Kdltor ... Asst. Manacinc Kditor Dwlrht stcCormeck ASSISTANT NEWS EDITORS Mary Louise Fryman Oscar Norllnt Gerald Griffin T. SIMTSON MORTON Richard F. Vette Milton McGrew William Kearns BUSINESS MANAGER , At. Business vnar . ... Circulation anairer Circulation Manager THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 24. 1927. PROBATION WEEK The freshman dreads it. The sophomore looks forward to it. The junior is unconcerned. The senior is distrusted. That's the evolution of the probation-week atti tude of many typical college student. The whole works is probably the last kid stage in the development of the young men and women of the University. Probably on that ground it may be ex cused. Trobably on that same ground it ought to be uprooted entirely. It is interesting to note that fraternities composed of older men have never had the institution. It is in teresting also to note that fraternities in general have gradually cut down on the excesses of the week, and in some cases have even cut out the burlesque perform ance altogether. It is also interesting to note that a newly organized group is generally the one which glories most in this performance and that its members talk about it most to outside:. Gradually as the new group grows older and wiser, it glories less and less in probation week, and approaches the normal. The na tional officers of many fraternities at the present time are doing all in their power to curb the kid play and horse play excesses of the institution. It seems that just as the individual from his fresh man days up to his senior and graduate days under goes an unconscious evolution in his attitude toward the performance, so the groups as a whole are gradual ly, more slowly, growing and developing. Perhaps the time may come when the institution will be eradicated entirely. Be that as it may, we have probation week upon us full blast beginning tonight at 10 o'clock. For the persecutors, and the persecuted as well, is printed below an article which appeared -last fall in The lntercollegian. It won't hurt to read it. Making Rolls Royces Into Fords A Chapel Talk on the Mishandling of Freshmen By Rollin H. Walker Ohio Wesleyan University In assuming an autocratic attitude toward fresh men, upperclassmen are laughably inconsistent. For at the very time that they are setting up over new stu dents a paternalistic regime that reminds one of Russia under the Czars, they themselves in a hundred different ways are otsentatiously and passionately proclaiming the revolt of youth, and demanding freedom from the domination of father, mother, teacher, or any of the conventional restraints that the hoary wisdom of the past has laid down for the guidance of youth. Imagine an attempt on the part of a university faculty to order the seniors about in the way in which one often hears of the pledged men in a group being sent hither and thither at the caprice of the committee that has them in charge! Suppose, for instance, atthe next class the professor should read out peremptory orders to his major students to do the kind of things that freshmen are often commanded to do. How would you take it if your major professor should command you to appear at six o'clock tomorrow morning at his home to black his boots, or wash his automobile? What a fierce outcry there would be! But why would this be so highly improper coming from a professor, and yet quite the normal thing coming from a senior? You understand, of course, that, being an old pro fessor, I am so used to college boys that I do not get excited over their larks. If some wag in a fraternity commands a freshman to rise at five o'clock in the morning ,and perch himself on the back fence and crow like the bird of dawn, if the freshman is willing to do it, I do not propose to get the least bit excited. Neither do I object to the rule that assigns to freshmen such jobs as cleaning out the ashes in the cellar. Only incidentally I would suggest that it would be a good thing for the seniors to put on their overalls and keep the freshmen company, and show them what an artistic finish four years of classical culture en ables a man to give to such a job. And this on the principle that he that is greatest among you is to be least of all, and servant of all. The Goose Step What I am worried about is the occasional domin eering contempt toward the sacredness of the person ality of the freshman, and the not infrequent use of all kinds of pressure to force them into the goose step of the group. This, of course you understand, is no railing accusation against the groups as a whole. I have had too much experience with the luridly efforts of seniors to save freshmen from their follies, to be guilty of such injustice. But even when this interest is very benevolent, it is often officious to a degree that no senior would patiently endure from a member of the faculty. -But soinc one says, these freshmen are so foolish and conceited that they need some rough handling to make men of them. Or in other words, you say they need military discipline. Professor Dewey says that educationists disagree on almost every point, but there is one matter on which all educationists are at one- they agree that of all kinds of discipline, military dis cipline is thj most ineffective. I admit that one frequently finds a cocky and con ceited freshman, but is it not better to use the method which mamma takes when wee little Johnnie acts silly isefore the Household, supposing that he is being cun ning? She simply gives a sign to the rest to pay no attention to him, feeling that he will soon stop if he is not noticed. Freshmen are certainly not helped by being brow beaten and standardized by mechanical pressure. On V,;e contrary, they n?ed to be encouraged to express their individuality. Many of our freshmen are the only ones in the senior class of the little high school that came to college. The teacher noted in them a certain uniqtwr.ev. The elements wcie so mixed in them thtt he tVt instinctively that if they developed efUT their own individual manner a personality of dis tinction would result. And so they have corns here dreaming that they would find fres and normal ex pression for the idealistic impulses that are surging up within them. But they have fallen into ths hands of upperclassmen who are so busily engaged in standard ising them that if the process goes on they will become such factory-made products that if they lose one of their parts they will have no need to worry they can replace it at the next garage. There are men in the present senior class whom God Almighty designed to be unique and striking per sonalities. You were built on the plan of a Rolls-Koyce but unfortunately the committee on pledging men in your group did not understand the mechanism of any thing above a Ford, and the respects in wnicn you of fered lrom the Ford model of your group struck them as unfortunate eccentricities that needed to be taken out of you. And so they began the melancholy task of making over a Rolls-Royce into a Ford. They haw not made a good Ford out of you, but there is reason to fear that they have forever ruined the Rolls-Royce Sometimes you have regretful moments when you think back on your sensitiveness and idealism as a freshman Sometimes you remember wistfully those glorious dreams which you brought to college, and there is a secret resentment at the way you were mishandled But alas! the damage inflicted upon you is so deep as to make it difficult for you ever to get back to your old self. Let me tell you,, my friend, that it would have been better for the upperclassmen who coerced your personality out of its God-given trend, that a millstone had been hanged about their necks and they had been drowned in the depths of the sea. And now, having received such injury from others, let me beg you not to inflict this damage upon the freshmen with whom you have to do. For God's sake, do not do it! Now You Freshmen! Let me speak a word to the freshmen themselves. Many of you come from homes whose traditions and standards are very much more refined than the tradi tions and standards of the upperclassmen who have so officiously taken you in charge. Your social intuitions are more to be trusted than theirs. The Master says, Call no man Rabbi. That is to say, Let no man do your thinking for you, let no man keep your conscience, let no man make your great decisions. There is only one person who has a right to dictate to you, and that is the One who in order to purchase that right died for you, and rose again. Of course you must be ready to take criticism and profit by it. Of course you must welcome kindly sug gestions from the upperclassmen. Of course if you are wise you will get much good from them. But if a con ceited group of seniors try to browbeat you into doing violence to any of your finer instincts, I would rather let them kill me than submit to such an indignity. ltt win Wa print keeping out tmr the kenef The Campus Pulse xter from readers are cJlaU anekensed I thle lament a4 .11 llbS1.a aaatt-r. m attacks ae.ln.t Individuate end relivtoee. set" .lreTersn arbitrary It-it 00 ward, ha. We. One of the best things we like about the end of winter is the removal of those horrible storm doors leading into Red Long's student center. IN-BRED COMMITTEES One of the surest ways to kill interest in a campus project is to limit committee appointments to one of the underground political factions with which this cam pus seems to be irrevocably afflicted. The reason lies in the fact that the members of that one side do not support the thing any more merely because their men happen to be on the committees, and the members of the others side do not feel like contributing whole heartedly to a project which to all intents and purposes is a private preserve of the other side. This is with out mention of the possible inefficiency resulting in an in-bred selection of committee members. Two committees for generai student affairs have recently been announced. One of them contains a fairly equal division of the committee appointments be tween the two sides. The other is a rank one-faction affair, with 4 out of 7 appointments in one fraternity alone. What influence this one factor may have on the success of the respective functions should be watched with interest by campus leaders who will be directing affairs next year. A new house sometimes helps the old family tree. In Other Columns We pity these popular seniors when we see them cross the campus between classes. They exhaust them selves physically tipping their hats to coed friends and mentally by trying to remember the first names of everyone they meet. Ohio State Lantern With the first semester examina tinna over comes nhantom visions of graduation with rosy dreams of new worlds to conquor. This seems a very clear and pretty picture to all pros pective graduates. But coupled with this dream so fair there lurks in the background that ever present and hovering figure which so often shat ters the most rosy and fair of dreams the expense. With four years of col lege education which has for many of us been a drain on the family pocketbook comes the added expenses that are coupled with graduation. The family at home have in the past made sacrifices that we might attain this one hour of realisation of an ideal established when we were youngsters. KWiM this hour of realization be shattered and the dream destroyed because of the stupidity and lack of fftreaio-ht which has been 6hown by certain committees in charge of stu dent affairs, Namely the Invitation committee appointed by tho first sem ester senior president. This commit tee illegally appointed by the first Homester president acting outside his authority and beyond the scope of his rower has entered Into a contract causing each and every graduating student to pay exorbitant prices for everv Invitation thus increasing the price of graduating approximately two dollars a head. The writer has heard from a re liable source that the Wesleyan stu dents are receiving the identical Invi tation that is attempted to be forced on the Nebraska students at a re duction of 7 cents each. Remember ing the success of the student com mittee appointed on the rent-a-Ford question last year a suggestion that such a committee would not at all be out of order at present in regard to the invitation for graduating seniors. C, A. F. Notices THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24 Junior-Senior From sri.. win k. MMinff of the junior- Senior Prom committee Thursday afternoon at the Vi Beta Thi house. Xi Delta XI Ttelta meeting seven o'clock Thursday at Kllen Smith Hall. Pailadian Literary society Ti annual fcov's nroeram will ne Kiver. t the open meeting, Friilay, 8:S0 p. m. tveryone invitel. Scabbar ana rjiaae d.Wi tnn nt new members will Pe held st Nebranka Hall at 7 o'clock Thursday. Kjumm rht TI..M. rill he a kinra Thi party, tivea hr the pledpes for the members at F.llen ifk tt.ll tviav Foh. 2K. at S:1S P. m. This party was orininally scheduled for cb. is. Farmer'a rair Meeting of all Chairmen of Farmer's Fair committees at 6:00 in Room tiome Economics Hall. Fill your tray In tne cafeteria. Journalism 16 Grnnn of Joumalii-m !. Fthics of the Press, will meet in U 10 Thursday at four. Mystic Fish Medina- of the Mvstic Fish Thursday night at 7 p. m. in Kllen Smith Hall. Very mportant. Bnnft money for uornnuneer picture. pershinf Kitie Pershing Rifle meet ins in Room JoR, Wbraska Hall, tonight at R :S0. It is very mportant that every member be present. snd especially members of the dance com mittee. Dance mtcr will b discussed. Uniforms are not necessary. Freshman Council On account of probation week there will be no Freshman Council meeting this week. Meet next Thursday 7 p. m. at Temple. Af Club Ag Club meeting in Dairy Hall Audi- toriam at 7:80 Thursday February 24. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25 Frat Picture All Fraternities wanting group photos should make reservations at Campus Studio by this week to get rates of M.Oft. After March 1 rates will be 15.00 per croup. MISCELLANEOUS Notice The Junior Hockey Team and the Sopho more Soccer Team meet at the Campus Studio at 9:45 Saturday morning Pressed for an out-of-door 'picture. The Hockey Team may get sticks from the dressing matron. Sorority Girls Picture The Comhusker announced today that all sorority girls who have not yet had their pictures taken will be called personally in the next few days. Union Literary Society Open meeting of Union Literary Society. Everybody welcome. Discussion of Negro Literature. Friday, Feb. 26 at 8:80 Temple The Declining Art 'of Writing "The pen is mightier than the sword," once de clared some thoughtful person, and opened up a ques tion which has been a subject of debate for many years. Of course the phrase was used in a general sense, im plying that the written word has more power and in fluence than have the implements of war. But it is interesting to note the fact that the statement taken literally is at present well nigh out of date. To modernize the statement and to make it true to the present day one would have to put it something like this, "The typewriter is mightier than poisonous gas." The facts which this illustrates are only too true. The art of writing is fast becoming a lost art in our modern civilization; while the days when the sword was regarded as the symbol of battle have even more completely disappeared. Writing, or what is now called writing, is still of course in common use, but the modern tendency seems to be for every one to ignore the recognized signs which represent the alphabet and to develop a species of thort hand, intelligible only to themselves. This is only too evident in present day business life, where practically all correspondence is typewritten. Business men realize th difficulty of interpreting tetters written in ordin ary long hand, and they save themselves and their cor respondents considerable time and trouble by arrang ing their transactions thru the medium of the type-writer. In college, the same tendency, tho not perhaps so great an extent, is to be distinctly observed. Any know ledge of the art of writing which the student may have acquired before coming to the university is soon lost upon his arrival, and the preset objectionable system of note-taking compels him to fall in line with his fellow students in inventing a suitable method of short hand to enable him to take down the maximum number of faevs in the minimum of time.' IndeeJ, on the few occasions when he is compelled to writ in exkmir.ations the results are decidedly poor, and it is extraordinary how the examiners are able to translate the scrawls pre sented to them. But altho the university may be responsible for spo'".mg th writing of some students, the general bd writing of sthool children is remarkable. Schools at the present t'ay pay little attention to the actual art of writing, and the children are hurried on to other things before '.hey have their letters properly formed. If writing is not taught, something else must be, and typewriting seems to fill the breach as well as anything. Possibly it may not be many years before students at McGill may be seen attending lectures and examination in company with a pocket typewriter. The ,',:iU' Daily 'HELL WEEK" CAUSES TROUBLE AT KANSAS Lawrence, Kan. Feb. 22. Follow ing the arrest of 13 fraternity pledges for creating a disturbance in North Lawrence at 2 a. "m. city of ficials and authorities of the Univer sity of Kansas met with representa tives of the professional and social fraternities to consider means of cur tailing the observance of fraternity "hell week". "Hell week" is the term applied to a period of trial which some frater nities require that their pledges go through immediately prior to initia tion. During this period the initiates are required to perform various stunts which require considerable midnight prowling, and which some times cause complaints from the citi zens of the town. Paper from Eucalyptus Paper made from Brazilian euca lyptus at the U. S. Forest Products laboratory, University of Wisconsin, was found to be good newsprint stock. SCHOLARSHIPS ARE OFFERED (Continued from Page One.) forecasting at Bergen Geo-I'hysical Institute, other Humanistic, technical and scientific subjects. . The awards will be $1,000, and in a few cases, $1,200. There will also be arrangements for some for a re duction in steamship rates on com mercial vessels. Can File Names Now Application papers, including let ters of recommendation and a photo graph, must be filed at the office of the Foundation before March 15 Papers may be sent in directly, but if the candidate wishes the official en dorsement of his college they should be filed at the office of the President or Dean of his college before March, 1. The successful candidates will be notified about April 15, after the final selection of fellows has been made by a "jury of university pro fessors and technical experts appoint ed by the Foundation. In order to get any additional in formation, the student should see Dr E A. Alexis at the city campus or Professor O. W. Sjogren at the Col lege of Agriculture. Application papers -will be mailed on request to James Creese, secretary of The American-Scandinavian Foundation. Printing Of Cornhusker Has Started TIGERT WILL GIVE ADDRESS National Educator li On Oklahoma Commencement Program Norman, Feb. 23., (Special) Dr. John Tigert, national commissoner of education, of Washngton, D. C, will deliver the commencement ad dress at the University of Oklahoma, June 7, President Wi B. Blizzell an nounced today. Before his appointment as com missioner of education, Doctor Tigert was a member of the faculty of the University of Kentucky. He was an Oxford scholar and made r brilliant record overseas during tho war. The baccalaureate sermon on June 5 will be delivered by Dr. Harry C. Wyman, president of William Jewel College, at Liberty, Mo. Learn to DANCE In Classy Studio Luella G. Williams Guarantee's to teach you in six lessons. Toddle and all lata steps. Reductions to students. Call for appointment. B4258 1220 D Si niiiitlitiiiiiiiiiiiniir itiiiiiiiitiiiiiiititiiiiniiitiiiitiiiiiiiliiiiiiiiiiiiuiTiiiiiiMtiititiiiiliiiiii tillMmiiirmniiniiMMirunliluiPliuninwlJiiiHniiililimuomKmtir I VERA MILLS FILLS MAIL ORDERS 1 LEARN ABOUT COMPOSE COLORS HERE 1 MONDAY STORE NEWS DOROTHY GRAY Preparations at our Toilet Goods Department To firm a "crfpy 6 Ida, use Dorothy Gray's Muscle Oil which rounds out and develops flabby muscles especially eUcctiv in overcoming age lines of throat. (Continued from Page One.) to draw from a delightful twenty pages will portray Nebraska life in the current year. The football sea son will be shown in a distinctive layout, something Nebraska students have anticipated for several years. All pictures in the 1927 book will be mounted on a gray backboard with a white tooled line around each picture, making a better appearance in the whole book. Deadline Datoa Sat To facilitate matters and to help in assembling the mass of copy which is still due several deadline dates have been set by the editorial staff. AH copy and pictures for the en graver must be in by March lMh. All pictures of military officers and sponsors, which includes majors, cap tains, battalian adjutants, staff of ficers and second-in-command cap tains must be taken by the first of March. This is imperative for the military section will be one of the first printed, and all pictures must be in so that engravings can be made. So manv fraternity and sorority members have not yet had their pic tures taken that the staff has given them until Saturday noon to go to either Hauek's or Townsend'a studio to have their individual pictures taken. The following list includes sorority women who have not ap peared at cither studio. If there are any mistakes and any of the people have had their pictures taken they should see the studio and have the mistake corrected. Sorority women who do not have their pictures for their panel are: Alpha CM Owa. Dorothy Barron, Lois GranriMaff, firao Jnsa. Alpha IVHa Pi. Cornrlia RanVin, Corina Oolilfon, Mary Gnssman, Ina Maa Latta, Evrlyti Scholt, Dorothy VopaU Mari Diei richs, Mary Roavis. Alpha Doha Theta: Poatrica Row. Hatl S-ott, Violrt Valkry, Elma Cartrr, Mariaj) Davis, Kmma Harr. Alpha Omioroa Pi: Franc Aikrti. Par hara Ethrrton, Beatrix Floranc, GrraWinr Hi-ikes, Mary Margaret Daulhitt, Mildred Stahl. Alpha Phi: Raohrl Parham, Anna Alex ander, Genevieva Moritx, Jane Storks, Mar- )one varr, MadaJin Hunt, ueia irwin, Geneve Tyler. Zota Tau Alpha: Era Williams, Manraret Brown. Alpha Xi Delta: Virginia DougalL Leaor KeH. Chi Omega: Viola Porsell, Margaret Sand erson, Frances Wiggins, Catherine Graves, Evelyn Wood. Delta Delta Delta: Vera Welsh, Evelyn Stotts. Delia Gamma: Maxine O'DonnelL Mary Eileen Mahin. s Delta Zeta: Merle Herrog, Flora louise Scott. Florence Flodeen, Winifred McChjre, Ruth Shallcross. Gamma Phi Pcta: Jean Rail, Eunice Ham mer, Virginia Vorhees, Helen Henderson, crmaneu wrisn. Stem-art, Mary Louise Welsh, Alice Ieslie, v . . n j , . ii . i - i i grille tjiry, jaarjory nan, farrna iveuougn, Frances Lederer, Grace Pierce, Betty York, Margaret Anderson, Dorothy Pahcock, Fran ces Johnston, Margaret Smith. Louise Teb- Kappa Kappa Gamma i Ur. i Paulina Oaamld, Catherine uS.lS Ph'V . Charlrttu V,l ,r ' J? Sadler. Margaret Saunders, U T, VM Kltseheth miugl,, Anita FelWr ?u Melville, France. Elisabeth Th7.r'.,. rVp, ..ret Turley. Helen w.,?, T, . Jana Everett, Helen t.eH.sl,T "'. Phi Omeaa Pi, Jull. Il'h K' snlller. Herntce ClatrernuekT Jli. t PI Het. Phi: Caroline 'K Pecker, Owen M.es.y. Ut, savins v?"" Foley, Eleanor Mill.. H,,,i, j -'nr Rlgma kappa: Helen Wish I IT- ' . F.dn. niumenthal, l.. 'V m Hudson, Martha Wollmer, Minerva S"1 Theta Phi Alpha: Violet DonU, r Carroll. France. McFeeley. HEBRASKAHS MEET AGGIESSATURDAY (Continued from IW (V. v Rodgers, sophomore. Morrison it tain of the team and has had three years of collegiate debating ience. This is the first year of dobsi ing for the others. l The Kansas team will debate ft same Question with the t'ni,v,-:. . South Dakota at Vermillion Frid, Librarian At South Dakota Gets Mention Vermillion. S. D.. Peh. snr.i . ' w&nei K, Richardson, librarian at the Uni. versity of South Dakota. special mention in the recent contest conducted Dy tne New York TimM for the best essay on the vain the Times index and file as a news- paper record. Miss Richardson placed fourth in the contest in which U brarians from many states competed. Learn to Dance Quickly, easily, at small cost, from competent instructors. Instruction day and evening, Thelma Stroh Dance Studio lOS Nebr. Stare Bank Bldg. IS A 0 PhaM B48IS (or appointment Have You Noticed That unsightly complexion and uncut hair never accompany a man on the road to success in the good old U. S. A. Liberty Barber Shop E. A. Ward, Lib. Th. BIdg. A Badge of Ambition Class, declare that th wearer refuses to ba handicapped by defective eyesight Every other peraoa need glasses for some purpose. Your eyes may be hold ing yoa back. Classes, complete with reading or distance lenses, frame of your choice and a thorough eya examination full suarantsw included $7.50 $9.00 $12.00 Kindy Optical Co. Open Saturday Ev 1209 "O" SU sings B-1153 Y ' A Xdkdfjf LOST!! Valuables that fraternity or sorority pin. Purses books or money. 4 The only chance for their recovery is by advertising for theni in our Want Ad column. It is put in the paper for your convenience. So make use of it. The Daily Nebraskan BUSINESS OFFICE New location Basement of U Hall