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THE DAILY NEB RASKAN
The Daily Nebraskan
Station A. Lincoln, Nebraaka
OFFICIAL PUBLICATION
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
Under direction of the Student Publication Bomrd
TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR
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Lee Vance
Arthur Sweet
Horace W. Gomon
Ruth Palmer
Isabel O'Hallaran
Gerald Griffin
James Rosse
Florence Snihart
NEWS EDITORS
Dwlght McCormack
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Managing Editor
Asst. Managing Editor
Oscar Norling
Evert Hunt
ASSISTANT NEWS EDITORS
Mary Loulae Freeman
Dwlght McCormack
Robert Laach
Gerald Griffin
T. SIMPSON MORTON
Richard F. Vette
Milton McGrew
William Kearns .
BUSINESS MANAGER
Asst. Business Manager
Circulation Manager
Circulation Manager
FRIDAY. MARCH 18, 1927.
COMPENSATION
For every action there is a reaction, and for every
gain there is a compensating loss. That in compressed
form is a summary of Emerson's famous essay on Com
pensation. In probably no other walk of life do we find the
truth to this essay so prominently displayed as in
college and university. Here in the short space of
three or four years one student generation cause-and-effect
relations and development of individuals
along one line to the detriment of development along
other lines can readily be watched.
Probably the most striking illustration of this law
is found in a comparison of the scholarly inclined stu
dent with the activities and athletics students.
In college the activities boy -or girl who wins out
in the race for membership in the various societies,
or nnallv succeeds to official position on the many stu
dent enterprises such as publications, college and de
partmental weeks, social functions, and so on, gets all
the glory. The columns of the student paper mention
his name frequently and his younger fraternity broth
ers look up to him as a "coming" or possibly even a
"big" man on the campus.
,The athlete not only gets a lion's share of publi
city in college, but he gets a mighty big slice of state
and national publicity besides. He is a campus hero,
a town hero, often a state hero, and some times even
a national hero.
At the same time the humble scholarly inclined
student who is concentrating on the very things for
which college and university were originally founded,
and the very things which are still the fundamentals
of college and university, finds himself mentioned,
unheralded and uncheered. In fact he often finds him
' self shunned and avoided by many students. At the
best he is considered a crank with a loose joint some
where, and slightly unbalanced. He is not a social
lion because he can not dance, and because he often
lacks that greatest of all essentials a clever line of
piffle talk. He just doesn't rate.
Now let's run along about 20 or 25 years.
The big activities men and women are probably
somewhere in some line of business. They may have
achieved some measure of financial success, but they
haven'tcaused the world to sit up and listen much.
They 'probably rate well socially, they make good hus
bands and good wives, but that is about all. They
could have accomplished almost as much without even
' going to college.
The athletes well that's a tender subject. Some
of them achieve success because they were wise enough
not to disregard too much the real serious side of uni
versity life, but a large number of them are never
heard of again except when something happens to them,
and an enterprising reporter finds out they were on the
varsity back in '99. If success in modern life depended
on physical wellbeing entirely, and not on brains as
it does, they would probably clean up big in the world
because they surely concentrated plenty on the physical
while they were in college, oftentimes to the neglect
of the intellectual which is the prime purpose of uni
versity. And then the scholars those dull uninteresting
people who somehow plodded alonsr back in collep-e.
We find their names in Who's Who among the
great thinker3, the great scientists, the great writers,
the great teachers and the great leaders of the nation
and the world.
They are having their inning, their glory, their
mention not only in the ephemeral press of the time,'
but in the permanent record books of science, art,
literature, and other enduring and abiding higher pur
suits of mankind.
It's the old story of compensation. The activities
boys and the athletes had their day in college. They
concentrated on the things of the moment, to the neg
lect of the more worthwhile things. In later life they
paid the price. The scholars paid the price in col
lege, and reaped their reward later on.
The Prom Girl idea will be all right if they don't
get ambitious and decide to have more than one a year.
THOSE JOBS
A professor and a graduating senior were discuss
ing a short time ago tho line of work which the senior
was planning to enter after graduation.
The occupation the s-erier has chosen happens to
be entirely different from that which the professor
had expected the student to choose. The professor
was quite surprised. Thinking, possibly, that considera
tion of salary may have been in part the reason for
the unexpected choice, the professor asked the senior
what his pay would be. He was more surprised than
ever to find out that the senior, although he has had
the position arranged for nearly a year, did not know
just what his salary would be, nor was he worried
vers much about it.
Other people would also probably be surprised if a
friend of theirs, had agreed to start working for a cor
poration without knowing definitely what his salary
would be. It may possibly even be foolish on the part
of the senior to so disregard this important item of
his future employment.
Bvt on second thought it is apparent that the sen
ior is probably wise in not concerning' himself much
with the initial salary ha is to receive, for the following
reasons: ' ,.
1. There is prejudce enough against college men
without aggravating it with misinterpreted concern
over salary.
2. The corporation for which he is going to work
employs so many thousands of people that it already
bq established scale of talaries.
" 3...I7! ultimata salary will depend very little on
'tils iniUai rating.
In spite of a slight weakening of prejudice against
college men as they slowly prove their worth in the
business world, there is still a lot of antagonism. A
large proportion of the officials and managers in busi
ness are still from the ranks of those who never had
the opportunity of going to college. A still larger pro
portion of fellow workers were never able to go to
college.
It is a wise policy, then, for the college graduate
to forget as much as possible about his college training;
If he shows it off, either by indiscreet talking or by ill
considered demands for high initial salary, he is only
arousing natural feelings against himself, and will
have a harder time of it as & result.
The second point about a standard salary scale
in the corporation is a thing that just has to be ac
cepted. Nothing much can be done about it even
though a man is a college graduate. The corporation
probably has a salary scale for green college graduates
The senior will receive that scale, whatever it is, and
any negotiating of his own will not change it.
The third point concerning ultimate salary is one
little appreciated by many people. The first essential
to success in any occupation is probably a real interest
in the work. And the second is a lot of hard work
Ability is taken for granted in large part. Recognized
ability is in large part only that fraction which others
see as a result of the interest that individual shows
and the effort which he puts forth.
If a man after sober estimate of the situation
decides that a certain business is the one he wishes
to enter, and then puts forth every effort to master
that business, the initial salary he receives while learn
ing the business will have only slight bearing on his
ultimate success. In fact he is probably better off if
he doesn't worry about his salary at all, and accepts it
simply as a reward for the services which he is render
ing. A high salary is somewhat like happiness. If
you seek it direct you are disappointed at every turn of
the road. If you concentrate on other things, it comes
as a natural consequence.
Notices
In Other Columns
Student Suicide "Wave"
For weeks the tenderest sensibilities of millions of
newspaper readers have been wounded by recurring
newspaper reports of a "suicide wave" among young
college or high school students, 26 such cases having
been thus connected in this country since the first of
the year.
We believe that many of our readers must have
wondered, as have we, whether the insistent emphasis
upon the "suicide wave" was justified by the facts or
would not ultimately lead to the charge that the news
papers have recklessly spread the suggestion of self
destruction and influenced weak or morbid youths to
their mad acts. In none of the reports that we have
read has there been any evidence that the suicide was
impelled by a common suggestion. On the contrary,
each case that we have seen described seemed to be
either a complete mystery or to have assigned to it
causes which were wholly individual.
It comes, therefore, as only mildly shocking that
the statisticians of the Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company completely riddle the theory of a "student
suicide wave", showing by figures gathered during 15
years among 90 percent of the population of the coun
try that there is nothing strange or unusual in the num
ber of suicides of persons of student age this year.
Indeed, according to these statistics, the number of
suicides of persons between the ages of 15 and 20 this
year, as during 1926, is under the usual average.
We need not moralize on this matter, for the pos
sibilities of harm in scare suicide wave stories are per
fectly obvious to any newspaper man. The power of
suggestion through imagery created by the printed word
is a very well-established principle in psyrholnjry and if
the newspaper stories that we have read have not, as
appears to be the case, started an epidemic of self
destruction among morbid youths it should be a matter
of congratulation.
Anyone who knows the news field in this country
is well aware that it is a simple matter to create stories
of alleged general conditions by associating isolated
cases picked up by wire among the people of the coun
try. If all the cases of legs broken b;r short falls
among more than a hundred million people should be
connected in the news daily for a week or a month timid
people might be so frightened that they would hesitate
to walk across a room.
It is absurd and extremely mischievous to call a
number of suicides a "wave" when vital statistics in
dicate that the number is less than ordinary.
Editor and Publisher
FRIDAY, MARCH 11
Palladian Literary Society
Seniors will be In charge of the program
for the open meeting Friday at 8:80 P.
m. Everyone invited.
SATURDAY, MARCH 19
Chess Club
Meeting of University Cheas Club, Satur
day at 7:80, Y. M. C. A. room Temple. All
students interested in cheas are invited.
Lutheran Clum
Lutheran Club meeting, March 19, 8
p. m. Faculty Hall. University Temple.
Prof. O. W. Sjogren, speaker. Musical
numbers. Refreahments. All Lutheran
students eordially invited.
MONDAY, MARCH 21
Lutheran Club
Lutheran Club Lenten Meditation Mon
day evening, March 21, 7 p. m.. Room 204,
Temple Building, theme "The Criais of the
Cross." AH Lutheran students are asked
to attend.
One Year Ago
Dr. R. H. Wolcott, of the Zoology
department received specimens for
the laboratory of demonstration ma
terial from the Mexican National
Museum at Mexico City. The speci
mens were large tropical spiders, and
were received in return for material
sent from here.
A rule limiting the "probation
week" of all fraternities to fifty-four
hours, was passed at a meeting of
the Interfraternity Council. The rule
further provided for the submission
by each fraternity of its probation
plans, for approval by the newly-
formed executive committee of the
Council. A motion to strike out this
part of the rule was lost. The amend
ment to the Constitution which nro
vided for the creation of an execu
tive council of six members, within
the Council organization, was also
passed as a part of the Council's
program to further regulate frater
nities. Members considered the pas
sage of these two pieces ofvlegisla
tion the most important steps taken
by the Council in recent years.
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(To be continued)
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Out of the Ditch
No students can spend four years on a college cam
pus and not learn something. But what do they learn
and to what use are they going to put it when they
face the task of bucking Old Man Reality?
Is the fellow who went to work as soon as he took
his high school diploma going to make more of a success
than the college graduate? He will surpass some of
them to be sure. But many college graduates will sur
pass him. What is the percentage and is it great
enough to justify everyone taking a college education?
A story was once told that illustrates a good point:
A young fellow, just out of college, returned to his
home town for a brief visit with his parents. His
father was a contractor. Labor was short and the
young fellow went to work in a ditch to fill in the
ranks.
A bulking fellow next to him had known him be
fore he left for college.
"Well, John," he said, "four years ago you worked
in the ditch with me. Then you went to college. Now
you are back in the ditch. What good does an educa
tion do you if you, have to come back to where you
started? I am just as well off that way without an
education as you are with one."
"There is just one difference," replied the young
fellow, "I can climb out of the ditch and you can't."
The Oklahoma Daily
Scholastic Freedom
Freshman students at Yale who maintain an aver
age of 80 percent or better are no longer required to
attend classes according to schedule; they are permitted
as many "cuts" as they desire. This is quite a novelty
in college administration. Most of the eastern colleges
have introduced a system allowing freedom of atten
dance to seniors and in some cases to juniors who are
satisfactory scholastically, but the extention of this
system to freshmen is somewhat of a surprise.
At Nebraska a number of professors teaching ad
vanced courses have introduced such a system without
particular authority. They usually call the roll, but
they neglect to report absences to the administrative
offices and they take no account of absences in evaluat
ing the students' work.
This system has much to recommend it. Mortals
are lamentably prone to balk at that which they are
forced to do and to enjoy anything done voluntarily.
Compulsory class attendance for juniors and seniors
who have shown sufficient responsibility to maintain a
gooJ average seems a bit futile, for if these btudenU
are ever to realize their responsibilities they should do
ao in college.
The Lincoln Star
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