THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
The Daily Nebraskan
SUtlon A. Lincoln, Nebraska
OFriCIAL PUBLICATION
university of Nebraska
Under direction of to Student Publ!r.ation Board
TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR
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Lincoln Frost
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TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 1927
STUDENT LIBERTY
When college students talk about personal liberty
they don't know how much they really have.
Below is a description of life at Oxford University
as related in the Christian Science Monitor a short time
ago by an American student.
The contrast between student life there and at Ne
braska for instance is quite marked.
When it is remembered that Oxford University has
produced more great men than any other institution in
the English-speaking world it will be readily admitted
that its customs merit at least casual consideration.
Whether the regulations described below have been in
strumental in any way in helping Oxford produce great
men would nrobablv be hard to demonstrate. But it is
interesting to note at least that the students attending
Oxford, and the graduates who control its allairs, nave
seen fit to maintain a strict system of discipline and
regulation, quite in contrast with the freedom in Ameri
can and continental universities.
My First Term at Oxford
By An American Student
Seven years an American newspaper man and a
graduate of an American college, I was wholly unpre
pared for the rules which unfolded themselves in one
startling disclosure after another when I began resi
dence at Oxford University, England, to work for a
master's degree.
The first, or Michaelmas, term gave me the oppor
tunity of studying the Oxford system of student regula
tion in actual working. As I began to be a part of the
life of this great university and to live within the rules
which seem so drastic, so sweeping on paper, I realized
that the Oxford system of discipline, though founded
on models centuries old, is none the less a live, growing
thing of today. Perhaps it even explains why Oxford
is able to control its thousands of students and to turn
out men whose exploits have added names to the index
of history.
The Oxford commandments are the following:
I must not loiter in the streets, at the coffee stalls,
or at the stage doors of theaters. I must not attend
any public race meeting. I may not take the chair or
speak at any open-air meeting of a political nature,
without special leave of the proctors. These proctors
are the two police officers of the university. They are
usually officials of one of the colleges.
I like to dance. Hut woe unto me. r or 1 may
not give a dance in a public room. I may not attend
public subscription dances in or near Oxford. I may
not attend private dances given in public rooms, except
by written leave of the proctors. I may not, under any
circumstances attend afternoon tea dances. If I did
not know how to dance and wanted to learn, I could
not take instruction in dancing, except from teachers
licensed by the proctors.
proctor. A copy of each number, as issued, must be
sent to the junior proctor. .
I am allowed to be present only at those entertain
ments or theaters in Oxford which have received the
vice-chancellor's license. Late hours are an impossi
bility. If I am not inside the college gate hy ten o'clock
I am fined; after eleven I am fined an increased amount.
If I am not inside by twelve o'clock I will probably be
".sent down," which means suspension for a term, or
even expulsion. I may, of course, climb over the ten
or twelve foot wall, but this is sometimes an extremely
uncomfortable alternative. After nine o'clock I must
wear a gown on the streets to distinguish me from the
townspeople. I must likewise wear a gown at lectures
or tutorials.
I have now lived with these rules for one term. I
thought them strict at first. They discourage many
forms of social fife. They take the joy out of proxi
mity to London. They restrict many diversions. But
I have gradually seen these rules become a very intel
ligent group of pier.es of fatherly advice to sons who are
living away from home.
They may be strict, but they are none the less wise.
They may seem stifling to the all-around development
of the student, but in reality they are inspirational to
his development along the right lines.
University students, we notice, are raising money
to be used in China for the purpose among other things
of obliterating that old custom of binding women's
feet. Our cub reporter suggests such bandages might
well be removed from feminine China's pedal extreme-
ties, and placed oveT their mouths.
AG CLUB
The move fo consolidate the department clubs of
the College of Agriculture into one greater Ag Club,
expresses another desire for less organization in the
University. Its supporters feel that it is a move to take
some of the "lost motion" and at the same time ac
complish the same "things through the unified effort of
all men in the college. A similar organization of de
partmental clubs may be found in the College of Engi
neering, although this movement has not taken that as
their example.
Opposition is expected of course. A few possibly
feel that their influence may be less in the larger or
ganization. Others think that Ag Club must have a
more definite program before it can ask other clubs to
become a part of it.
The future of Ag Club depends upon its ability
to life itself from the rut into which it has fallen. Since
the responsibility of Farmer's Fair has been taken away,
it has had no definite program to follow. It has al
ways awarded the judging team medals to men who
represented the University in intercollegiate contests,
but this might just as well be done by the clubs of the
departments represented if that is the only purpose
of the Agricultural Club.
The whole question seems to be whether or not
it is possible for Ag Club to function to the interest of
all the departments within each college. The solution
lies in the cooperation of each club in its attempt to
find a satisfactory plan which will be to the interests of
the whole college.
WEEKLY FINE ARTS
PROGRAM IS TODAY
.
Musical Program by Instructors in
The School of Fin Art Will
Be Presented in Temple
The Fine Arts weekly convocation
will be held this morning in the Tem
ple theater at 11 o'clock. Much in
terest is being taken in these convo
cations, an interest which is shown
by the large attendance of Fine Arts
students and many townspeople, j
The programs are mostly musical,
with talent by instructors in the
School of Fine Arts. Following is the
program:
Vera Augusta Upton, Soprano.
Homer Compton, Tenor.
(Mrs. Edith Ross, Accompanist.)
MacFadyen "To a Rose"; "If."
Arditti "Se Sarau Rose". Vera Aug
usta Upton.
Mendelssohn "My Song Shall be
Always Thy Mercy" from Hymn of
Praise.
Maunder "The Blushing Fruits"
from Song of Thanksgiving. Vera
Augusta Upton and Homer Comp
Handel "Where'er You Walk."
Coleridge-Taylor "Onaway Awake"
from Hiawatha'3 Wedding Feast.
Smith "By Wandering Waters".
ilomer Compton.
Linrfiln Minister Gives Third of
Vocational Guidance Radio Talks
TOO LONG AND NO NAME
A 15 hundred word Campus Pulse contribution
signed only with initials was left on the editor's desk
Monday afternoon. If the author will claim it and boil
it down to within hailing distance of the 3 hundred word
limit, the letter will be published.
In Other Columns
England, you know, has no prohibition, and one
can get all aorts of liquor if one has all sorts of shillings
and pence. But I may not visit the bar of any hotel,
restaurant or public house, or use the lounge or other
rooms of such places as a bar. I may dine only at
restaurants or hotels approved by the proctors. I may
not give a dinner party in any restaurant or hotel ex
cept by written leave of my college dean and the
proctor.
Back iti the States I drove various motorcars at
various times. But here, during my first year at the
university, I may not own or drive or hire an automo
bile. Next year I may own a car, but I cannot drive it
unless a proctorial license has first been issued to me.
Even then I may not hire a machine for longer than an
hour or take it farther from Oxford than five miles,
without special leave from the college dean, and even
when such leave is granted I must hire the car from
a garage licensed by the proctors.
Several months before I arrived at Oxford I re
ceived at my home in Cincinnati an announcement
printed in large red letters informing me that I would
not be permitted a machine at Oxford during my first
year here. This applies also to a motorcyile.
Mixed social life I have found a negative factor at
Oxford. In the States I was accustomed to a weekly
round of social parties, and naturally I looked for a
continuance of them here. But no. For parties of men
and women undergraduates may not be held unless each
woman undergraduate has previously obtained leave
from the head of her college. And this leave is not
given for mixed parties in motion picture houses unless
there are at least two women in the party.
I have not been permitted to go on a motor ride
with a woman undergraduate unless she has previously
obtained the permission of her college dean and has
another young woman with her, who has likewise se
cured such permission. I dare not, under any circum
stances, enter the rooms of a woman undergraduate.
ha may come into my rooms, but only after a special
leave has been obtained from the principal of her col
lege, and then she must have a woman companion with
her.
If I desire to form a little social club $f men and
women undergraduates, th principals of the women's
Boc'etiei would first have to give ma permission. And
f I desired to hold a meeting of the group in a men's
college I would have to secure the written permission of
tl:z dean of the college, and then at least two women
must be prerent.
All undergraduate clubs to which I belong must
he re;d sstTed with the proctors. Our secretary is re-Ci-Jred
to supply each term to the junior proctor the
,'....: ul ftiv luTneis and members of committees, the
v "'' '"". tt tne vni'tigraduate members and any other in
' in the pioeior may want to know.
l-'3 sith as are caused every once in a while
: i 1 ihe publication of questionable college
" "-':7 rb"5r.t?9 by tfco rule that every
1 r edited by undergraduates must
ti e y ro' iTi-u and the names of the
! each terra to the junior
Hell hath no fury like the woman so popular every
body thought it was no use to ask her.
The Daily Texan
The Decline of Oratory
On the campuses of most colleges and universities
oratory is kept alive by artificial means, such as the
awarding of prizes and the engraving of names on
plaques. At present among college students there is
even less interest in oratory than there is in debating.
The reasons for the decline of the art of Demos
thenes and Webster in the days of Hearst and Marconi
are not hard to find. In spite of what we may call con
centration of economic population, there is a remark
able diffusion of intellectual population. The radio
and the newspaper have taken the place of the mass
meeting.
Furthermore, the youth of today is too far sub
merged in realism to enjoy the concoction of glowing
phrases and luscious metaphores. Oratory is in a way
the poetic avoidance of calling a spade a spade and
consists in idealization and ornamentation of a modicum
of thought, all of which young people of today as a
whole detest, or at least profess to detest.
University of Colorado Silver and Gold
The Defferential Attitude
Says Thea Grazella, Berlin newspaper woman,
seeking "atmosphere" in America:
"Wherever I have gone, I have found a respectful
even deferential attitude on the part of American hus
bands toward their wives."
The unsophisticated Berliner uses the wrong ad
jectives. The American husband is less deferential and
respectful than fearful and cringing.
America has taught the world a lot of useful things,
but it has taught the American woman the use of the
whip-hand and that is probably Uncle Sam's greatest
contribution to mankind, if any.
The American woman not only knows what she
wants when she wants it but she gets it!
The rush for economic supremacy in America
and we speak of the so-called and widely-advertised
congested centers of population is not so much to
satisfy a lust for the mere piling of gold and negotiable
bonds as it is to obey the feminine impulse for power,
more snd more and more of it.
In America the favorite summer and winter pas
time is "Keeping Up With The Joneses" and back of the
Urge, dear Miss Grazella, stands the Woman.
, Nebraska City News-Press
Time
There are a few instructors on the Hill who need a
referee to call time for them when a class is over.
They sit placidly in their chairs, lecturing on, dis
regarding the warning of the whistle, the shuffle of
feet in the hall as other students go to their classes and
the fact that they are infringirg upon the rights of
every student in the room.
In tho meantime, the victims slip to the edge of
their chairs, guiltily put on coats, scarfs, and gloves and
eagerly wait for that phrase, "Yo'.t are dismissed."
Students hear little, if any, of tho lecture that an
instructor thrusts upon them after the whistle has
blown. ' So the instructor gains nothing, is robbing the
student of the allotted time between classes and is pro
bably causing him to be late in another instructor'6
class.
If ten TniniitP wpm not a reseonablo time to allow
between classes, it would not have been accepted by
the University senate". Of course, the instructor has the
last word, that of handing in the grade, so students
are at his mercy, but he hardly commands the respect
of his students when he does a thing of that sort, and
it is just as easy for him to acquire the habit of
punctuality as for his students, from whom he expects
it.
Daily Kansas
Debate Will Be
Broadcast Over
WNAD, Norman
Norman, Okla., March 7. (Spe
cial) Radio fans of WNAD, Univer
sity of Oklahoma broadcasting sta
tion, will have their first opportunity
Friday night, March 11, to pass judg
ment on a radio debate heard through
the "Voice of Soonerland." The
teams of the Kansas State Agricul
tural college and the University of
Oklahoma will go on the air at 8
o'clock, and the fans will be allowed
nine days in which to send in their
decisions on the results of the con
test. All ballots must be in the hands of
T. M. Beaird, radio director, on or
before March 20, it was announced.
These ballots must be signed by the
listeners and the results will be an
nounced as soon as they are deter
mined. 'The Sooners will be represen
ted in the encounter by Leonard Sav
age, McAlester; Leonard Sibel, Okla
homa City; and Robert Harbison, El
dorado, while the Kaggies will send
Forest Whan, George H. Davis, and
Harold Hughes to uphold the colors
'of the Manhattan school. The debate
is on the regular Missouri Valley
schedule.
Tried for First Time
This is the first time in the history
of the station trat a debate has been
decided by WNAD listeners through
out the country, the idea only re-
cently having been inaugurated by a
Chicago broadcasting station. The
question to be debated will be "Re
solved: That congress should pass
legislation embodying the principles
of the McNary-Haugen farm relief
bills."
The debate, which is to begin
promptly at eight o'clock will be pre
ceded by ten minutes of announcing
to allow the radio fans to tune in on
the station. The wave length of
WNAD is 254 meters.
The Rev. Paul C. Johnston, minis
ter of the Westminster Presbyterian
church of Lincoln, broadcast a radio
address from the University studio
Monday afternoon. This was the third
of the vocational guidance talks ar
ranged for high school students by
the committee on education of the
Lincoln junior chamber of commerce,
cooperating with the University of
Nebraska. Reverend Johnston talked
on the ministry as a vocation.
"Will you observe for one thing,
in what association, past an? present,
any one who chooses the ministry as
a calling casts himself. Men of the
various fraternal orders point with
just pride to those of their number
who have attained a famed promin
ence. But what of the fraternal order
of the Christian preachers of the cen
turies! What a gathering of minds!
No king, nor emperor, nor people's
idol ever ranjked above the princes of
the pulpit. Augustine built an Afri
can church; but his diocese was the
world. And men from that day to
this have learned their spiritual let
ters at the feet of this mountain
minded personality.
"Other men, whose names are le
gion, trie minister continued, " have
graced the sacred rostrum through
out these centuries, and have built
into themselves and their people no
ble aspirations and achievements,
that only faith could compass. Does
any young man seek a more resplen
dent fellowship? The world can dis
play none Jike to it"
Reverend Johnston said that the
preacher is a sought-for companion.
"In doubt and perplexity, in joy and
in sorrow," he said "I have often
gone from a home into which death
has entered and where I tried to be
an emissary of comfort, across the
street, to be a co-partner in the fell
city of a wedding ceremony. Would
you not covet the permission of
founding homes and stating the
truths that lie so deep in the holy af
fection of those who pledge them
selves at the1 altar of matrimony V
You are building up the nation. You
are a propagator of that seemlyl re
lationship oh which the security of
our civilization rests. And then to
exercise a spiritual overlordship of
the family you helped to ordain, to
bless its continuances, to baptize its
issue, and throw about its growth the
a nner educating
lofty purpose-who can ZoZ f!
privilege?" ow,untthat
A bill to permit the thr .
hand grenades at saxophone h
u ...uvuuvca ,n me assembly 0f
New Jersey. Wonder if thev ,,,...
include a few other instruments?
What article do you u.
most in your School work?
Fountain Pen
I of course
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. 218 No. 12th
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Talks of eating at the
Dinner "When Do We Eat?"
A contributor to The Daily
Nebraskan not long since pre
faced his (or her) complaint
with the very pertinent inquiry,
"When Do We Eat?" ,
It appears that a number of
students who are employed part
time as assistants or instructors
are paid in State warrants
which are discounted at the
banks at rates varying some
what inversely to the amount of
the warrant, the little fellows
bearing the heaviest burden
relatively.
It would seem that the ad
verb in the question quoted is
not exact. "How Much Do We
Eat"? would more nearly fit
the facts. For if you go to the
Central Cafe at 1325 P Street,
you may eat at any time, night
or day.
Of course, if your State war
rant be discounted 3 per cent,
then the answer to the amended
question might be: "We can't
eat more than 97 per cent."
It is deplorable that any ser
vant of the Stat 3, or anyone
else who renders service, should
be paid in depreciated dollars
in dollars worth 97 or 98 or 99
cents in the market; but this is
only a passing phenomenon and
will be corrected in no great
length of time.
However, the prices for food
at the Central Cafe are so rea-
sonable when you consider the
quality of the food and the ser-
vice that the discount on yegr
State warrant can be recouped
by eating there. Why not try
it '
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Collier, this week tell, about the Famous RJ Wheel that j- sell with fia. R.nK,. downstairs. Liberty tell, about M.eic
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