THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
The Daily Nebraskan
SUtlon A. Llneoln, Nebraska
OFFICIAL PUBLICATION
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
Under direction of the Student Publication Board
TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR
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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Managing Editor
Isabel O'Hallaran
Gerald Grillin
James Rosse
Florence Swihart
NEWS EDITORS
Dwight McCormack
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Asst. Managing Edjtor
. Asst. Managing Editor
Oscar Norling
Evert Hunt
ASSISTANT NEWS EDITORS
Mary Louise Freeman
Lincoln Frost
Dwight McCormack
Robert Lasch
Gerald Griffin
T. SIMPSON MORTON
Richard F. Vette
Milton McGrew
William Kearns .
BUSINESS MANAGER
Asst. Business Manager
Circulation Manager
Circulation Manager
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 1927
AFTER COLLEGE
The latest popular indoor sport of college students
seems to be suicide if the papers are to be believed.
The reports, of course, are all exaggerated. As proof
of this the actuary of a large eastern insurance com
pany has figured out that suicides this year among peo
ple cf college age are far below normal.
There is nothing to fear then about college stu
dents extinguishing themselves while they are in col
lege. But the hard'times are probably just a little ahead
after the student has graduated or quit school.
After four years of happy life at college among
hundreds of other young people of the same age, all
engaged in the same happy pursuit of knowledge, knit
together by many bonds of friendship in classroom,
study hall, fraternity halls, athletic field, and ballroom
floor, it is quite a change for the average student to
be thrown back into the world.
We don't say that there are many suicides as a
result of this abrupt change from romantic, happy,
crowded college life to secular life but we do think
there is enough of a change there for the average stu
dent just about to leave college, to think about, and
prepare for it in some way. If he doesn't prepare for
the change, or is not already well enough equipped with
natural resistant powers, he is liable to find himself sub
merged! in a sea of loneliness and dissatisfaction.
A little reflection will convince nearly everybody
that such a reaction after college is quite natural to
expect.
In college there is hardly an hour of the day which
is not filled in some way or other. There are classes to
attend, assignments to be got, dates, sessions with the
gang, games, movies, meetings, even conferences with
professors, and if all else fails there are books and
magazines in the library for casual reading. In fact the
average student has his days and evenings so well taken
care of that he never has to worry about having enough
to do.
Then in the matter of associates. The student
has just a lot of young people his own acre, both men
and women with whom to mingle. Most of the older
people with whom he comes in contact are sympathetic
with youth and ready and willing to help out in case
of trouble.
Now compare that with the situation after college.
Instead of haviiig a lot to do every hour of the
day, the young man or women finds many evenings
with nothing to do. There are no late assignments to
worry about, the gang is missing, there are fewer meet
ings. Instead of scores and scores of fellow associates
who all have the same interest in general, the young
man or woman finds a world full of all sorts of people,
nearly all of whom have different interests than his
own. Most of them are older. Many are younger.
Those of the same age are in great part married. If
they're not married they probably have other interests
anyhow.
There is a real problem of readjustment for the
newly graduated college student before he finds his
place in this new order of life, before he finds his as
sociates, and before he finds new interests which take
the place of all the old ones back in college.
Just in the matter of the change from the high
mental strain of college study to the relatively placid
state cf ordinal y business routine there is a great tran
sition, an abrupt change which often breeds intense
dissatisfaction, as the personnel officials of many cor
porations will readily testify.
Of course there are many students who will not
experience this change very much. They will probably
go back to their old home-town and swing back into
their old business and social lives among old associates.
But the many who go to strange towns and great
cities will find the changed conditions staring them full
face. These are the young wen and women in par
ticular who will have to readjust themselves to their
netf environment.
How to meet these new conditions? Well, that's
one of the things which a liberal education is supposed
to help make easy.
A liberal cultivation of the habit of reading, good
reading if you please; an appreciation of musjc and
art; a keen interest in life In generation interest in a
religious life; these are all things which will help to
bridge the gap between the crowded happy'life of col
lege and the till too often dull and dreary routine of
business life.
But one of the biggest things probably is to go out
with a realization that new conditions are to be en
countered, and to meet them in the right frame of
mind. A liberal dose of the advantages of liberal edu
cation will go a long way.
"All-Night Battle Holds Up Dam Bill" headline
In New York Times. After they get the speech on the
New York stage purified, why don't they start correct
ing typographical errors in the newspapers?
Quantitative Education
In an ediUiIol "Quantitative Education" printed
in Other Columns a Nebraska paper yesterday took to
t-ask the state legislature and particularly the Univer
sity for the defeat of the bill which would have author
ized junior colleges in seven Nebraska cities.
The plea seems to be for better education by a re
duction of numbers at the University in Lincoln. The
: ,; YipUon in the editor's mind seems to be that the
rrsity is deluded into believing that mere bigness
i I l umbers make better education possible. The
Tfi'.i'J.y the paper proposes is shifting of some of the
burden of numbers to these new smaller proposed jun
ior colleges.
Nm logic of tha editorial seems quite right,
but it is just a little bit inverted. EtiUMishir.cnt of
many smaller colleges instead of making possible better
qualitative and less quantitative education would have
j'iF.fc the reverse effect We would have still more
q unr.tHy of education, and it would be of a lower qual
i'y. Y'h it 13 still worse, the educational resources of
the state which at best are economically limited, would
be diverted in part froiw-the one large first-class in
stitution now maintained here at Lincoln, and scattered
among several smaller struggling infants.
The legislators acted wisely in preferring quality
education at a large state institution, to quantity educa
tion at a half a dozen or more small, ambitious second
rate affairs.
As a western Nebraska paper said some time ago
in commending the action, we would have half a dozen
half-baked affairs sapping the strength of the state
university and the four normal schools instead of one
vigorous university and four efficient normal schools
we now have.
And the paper's remarks concerning standardiza
tion of tducation at the University are somewhat mis
leading. Just because the courses all happen to be
systematically catalogued is no reason for comparing
them with the files of a bedsheet factory. F"ery col
lege and university no matter how large or how small
has a systematic arranging of its course all labelled
and all of them numbered or designated in some way
or other. These are all common-sense administrative
provisions for purposes of keeping records and facilita
ting registration of students, and in way vitiate tne
virility of the courses or hamper the instructors.
The very fact that a large university is able to
offer a wide assortment of courses is first-class in
dication that the students have a wider field to pick
from, that they can more often get the subjects they
want, and what is more, that they will more likely
find professors who are authorities in their particular
field, instead of jacks of all trades.
Notices
In Other Columns
Quantitative Education
The fact that officials of Nebraska university
rather openly opposed the bill authorizing the establish
ment of junior colleges in cities of the state with popu
lations of five thousand or more, may be something of
a significant indication that the university itself is los
ing its perspective, and is coming to regard education as
something other than what it actually is or should be.
Of course if the junior colleges were established in
the seven towns entitled to them outside of Lincoln
it is quite likely that they would draw some of the uni
versity population, and then there would be something
less than 10 thousand students registered at Lincoln.
As a matter of fact this was precisely one of the things
which the sponsors of the junior college bill were try
ing to bring about.
It is undoubtedly true, even in a manufacturing
sense, that quantity production is always achieved at
the expense of quality. Hand-made articles of every
kind are still sought as merchandise rather than ma
chine made articles, and they bring a better price. It
is inevitable that the same principle should also hold
true when applied to education, although education
should never become a manufacturing business. Stan
dardization always necessarily grows with numbers,
and standardization is certainly something that educa
tion should never know if it is to remain education.
That, with 10 thousand students, education has become
highly standardized at Nebraska university, is evident
even from the fact that one takes English 112, or
"poly-si 64" or any one of a few hundred other courses,
labeled like the files of a bedsheet factory.
The quality of a university cannot be measured by
its population. If sections of the state want to help
reduce the congestion in the first two college years at
Lincoln by providing facilities for this part of their
boys' and girls' college education at home, the univer
sity might well welcome the opportunity, be glad to
have the burden of the silling process taken off its
shoulders, and rejoice over its increased ability to per
fect its own part of the educational process.
World-Herald
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23
Tassel
Rehearsal Wednesday from 5 to 6 at tne
Temple building room 204.
THURSDAY, MARCH 24
Tassel
Rehearsal Thursday from 5 to 8 at toe
Temple building room 204.
FRIDAY, MARCH 25
Union
Union will hold Its Annual Girl's meet
ing, Friday, March 25. at 8:80, at which
time the Union girls will be hostesses to
the Union boys and to guests. Everyone
is cordially invited.
MONDAY, MARCH 28
Mechanical Engineers
Meeting Monday, March 28.
One Year Ago
Ground was broken for the erec
tion of the new Student Activities
building, at the Agricultural College
campus. The general contract for the
new building was let by the Board of
Regents to the Bickel Construction
Co., for a base bid of $93,450, to
which ?900 was added for special ac
coustic materials in the auditorium.
The University of Nebraska rifle
team broke even in their matches
with Ohio State and the University
of Akron, losing to the former and
winning from the latter. The Nebras
ka ten-man team shot a score of
3,681, Lammli being high point man
with 378. Ohio State, the winner,
turned in a score of 3760, while
Nebraska just nosed out the Univer
sity of Akron, who reported a score
of 3624.
A film entitled "From Mine to
Consumer," was Bhown at a meeting
of the N. E. S. in Room 110, Nebras
ka Hall. The film showed in detail
how the ore is mined, then smelted,
and turned out into the various brass
and copper products. A man from
the American Brass Company, to
which the film belonged, accompanied
it and answered any questions on the
process.
given to the contestants until one
hour before the time of speaking. He
privileged to draw thru different
topics and choose any one providing
he has not spoken on that subject in
any previous contest. After the selec
tion of his topic the contestant is pro
vided with writing materials and giv
en an hour in a auiet room to pre
pare the speech without the consult
ation of books, notes, or friends.
More About Suicides
Announcement was recently made in the news
papers that the Illinois Society for Mental Hygiene is
promoting a movement to discover and eliminate the
cause of college suicides. "The transition from secon
dary school life to the more complex and independent
work and environment of college, from early to later
adolescence, is very difficult," says the Society. The
organization believes that a psychiatrist could eliminate
the difficulty in many cases. A survey of all the col
leges in the United States is to be made.
It will be interesting to note why we college stu
dents become victims of intellectual nostalgia for the
other world. It will be a revelation to discover why
the youth at Illinois, who was "too lazy to live", killed
himself and. also the reason for the death of the Daven
port lad who' was so steeped in the sentimental and fan
ciful literature of Barrie and others that he ended it all.
And when the Society has conducted a thorough
investigation and discovered all the facts, we suggest
that thev continue their utiwiy and find ovit why other
men, and women commit suicide. Are college students
more important than other people? Newspaper head
lines would indicate that.
Grinnell Scarlet and Black
DEBATE CONTEST
FINALS ARRANGED
South Dakota High School Debating
League Will Hold Contest
March 25 and 26
Vermillion, S. D., March 22. The
final state contest of the South Da
kota High School Debating league
will be held at the University of
South Dakota, March 25 and 26, it
has been arranged by Harry G.
Barnes, instructor of public speaking,
who is in charge of local arrange
ments. The finals in the extemporan
eous speaking contest, the first to be
held by the recently organized ex
temporaneous speaking league, will
he conducted at the name time.
The winners of all t!ie district con
tests will be determined by the end
of this week, which is fixed by the
league as the deadline. The winners
will be reported to the public speak
ing department at the university as
soon as possible after the. close of the
contest. The final contest between
the district winners, which is to be
held at the university, will be con
ducted in the tournament style ap
proved by the league.
High school debaters this season
are discussing the question of the St.
Lawrence-Great Lakes waterway pro
ject which has recently become a live
topic in this state. Topics for the ex
temporaneous speakers will not be
Education in Reels
In order to interest progressive educators all over
the country in the educational possibilities of motion
pictures, Yale University will direct a tour of some six
thousand miles this summer during which a series of
films will be shown at a dozen or more universities at
which summer classes are held.
Besides the demonstrations, conferences will be
held at each university by Yale professors who will ac
company the films. It is hoped that these demonstra
tions and conferences will lead some pioneering elemen
tary schools to use the visual method of education and
particularly educational motion pictures regularly.
Visual education is the corning thing. Scientists
have long since proved its value, but educators have
been slow to take it up. It all goes back to the over
used Chinese proverb, "One picture is worth ten thou
sand words." If the proverb is strictly true, which it
is not, think of the word value of a motion picture in
which sixteen separate and distinct pictures are thrown
on the screen every sixteen seconds.
Yale University was the first educational institu
tion to recognize the educational possibilities of motion
pictures. In 1919 the Yale University Press undertook
the production of films showing all the history of the
United States. These photoplays are called the Chron
icles of America and thirty-three of them have been
produced up to the present time.
" European countries are far ahead of the United
States in the use of visual educational methods. In fact
the principles of visual instruction were discovered in
Prague some three hundred years ago.
Although tii United States leads in the produc
tion of "movies" for popular amusement, it is far behind
in their use for education. If any country is the ac
knowledged leader in that line it is France, where the
government makes it obligatory for all school children
to attend at least once a week the showing of motion
pictures which have been produced by the French gov
ernment with great care.
Just why progress along this line is so slow in the
United States is hard to understand. The benefits of
the method are recognised and surely the school stu
dents themselves would not object to be taught by mo
tion pictures.
While just at present the method is being devel
oped for elementary schools alone, the time will come
when college education will adopt the principle as far
as it is possible.
Ohio SUte Lantern
Talks of eating at the
Buckwheat Cakes
A native of Pennsylvania,
who for many years has lived in
Nebraska, eats breakfast (and
most of his other meals, too) at
the Central Cafe.
Notwithstanding his many
years in Nebraska, he has not
forgotten the delicious flavor
of Buckwheat Cakes, properly
baked and with plenty of Mead
ow Gold Butter and swimming
in a sea of syrup.
So regular is this man in his
breakfasting, that upon seeing
him s'Jated at the first counter,
- the waiter iu charge gives an
order to the chef: "Buckwheat
Cakes must be well." This,
translated into the language of
laymen, means that tne cakes
must be baked to a beautiful
brown and must not be too
thick.
The starch of buckwheat
flour is firmer than that of
wheat and requires a longer
time for the action of yeast to
make a batter from which pala
table Euckwhenl Cakes can be
baked. And 've Central Cafe
chef, knowing t s. stirs up his
batter long enough in advance
of breakfast so that the cakes
baked from it ape, fully the
equal of those baked by Pennsy
vania housewives.
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Committee Votes Down
Freshman Week Plan
(Continued from P.age One.)
Sunday
11:00 All students attend their
own churches.
4:00 General meeting, Coliseum
or Stadium,
a. Vesper service.
b. Musical program.
c. Inspirational talks.
3. We submit a sample program for
the group and sectional meetings for
the Engineering College, not given in
the general program.
Friday
2:00 College group. Address by
Dean.
2:30 Sections make trip to city
campus, visiting various buildings
Morrill Hall, Stadium, Engineering
Library.
4:30-5:30 Supervised games on
Athletic Field.
Saturday
9:00 College group. 15 minute
talks by chairmen of two engineering
departments.
9:30-12:00 Sections visit engin
eering laboratories.
2:00 College group. 15 minute
talks by Chairmen of two other en
gineering departments.
2:30 Sections make trip to agri
cultural college campus, visiting Ag
ricultural Engineering building. 15
minute talk by chairman of Agricul
tural Engineering.
4:30-5:30 Supervised games on
Athletic Field.
J. B. Burt
F. M. Fling
We can make your
Cornhusker nega
tive into a big pic
ture for Mother at a
slight cost. .
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