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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Managing naiiur
Isabel O'Hallaran
Gerald Griffin
James Kosse
Florence 8wihart
NEWS EDITORS
Dwlght HcCormack
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Assi Uanaginc Editor
Oacar Norllng
Evert Hunt
ASSISTANT NEWS EDITORS
Mary Loulaa Freeman
Dwlght HcCormack
Robert Lascn
Gerald Griffin
T. SIMPSON MORTON
Richard F. Vette
Milton McGrew
William Kearna
BUSINESS MANAGER
Asst. Business Manager
Circulation Manager
Circulation Manager
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30. 1927
UNIVERSITY NIGHT
"Well, it's history now, let's forget about it".
Remark of one student concerning University Night.
That may be one way of looking at it, but 12
months from now another University Night perfor
mance may be staged. If some of the disgusting fea-
,.o th 1927 show are not censured, the chances
are that the 1928 show will be even worse, because
the idea will again prevail "As soon as it s nisiory, u u
be forgotten."
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University Night yes there was a lot of Night
to the whole performance, but as to the-University
part, it was sadly lacking.
All in all it was an example of an indecent way
of making a few dollars for an otherwise decent Uni
versity activity the Y. M. C. A.
The entire production centered around frater
nities and sororities, drinking, and other extreme and
absolutely unrepresentative features of college life.
Instead of a display of some of the decent wit
mnst nsiirdlv must abound on this campus, stu-
something auite a few notches
below what might reasonably be expected of a semi
official University performance.
There may have been a general lowering of stan
dards since the last war. The stage and the press has
reflected all this in great part. But even the most
cynical observer of campus life would be uncharitable
if he tried to make out university students collectively
or individually as some parts of University Night made
them appear.
Instead of a wholesome, entertaining portrayal of
student and college life, University Night for a period
of years has gradually gone down the toboggan into
more and more of a mire of drink and sex.
Instead of an all-round presentation of all-university
student life, the Night has become the one evening
of the year when several favored fraternities and so
rorities give themselves a lot of free publicity.
The truth of the matter is that the student body,
numbering over 5 thousand as it does, is too big and
unwieldy to make successful any affair on the order of
University Night. That this is so has been evident
more and more of late years as more and more of the
supposed puns and jokes fall flat because they have a
point intelligible to only a few of those who happen
to be acquainted with the circumstances.
And the most inconsistent feature about the whole
works is the fact that the Young Men's CHRISTIAN
Association was sponsoring the show, and even now
has a few hundred dollars in its coffers as a result.
The Y. M. C. A. is one of the few organizations
which along with the University pastors is supposed to
be looking after the higher spiritual welfare of the
students.
Now the Y. M. C. A. officials and the organization
itself are probably not to be blamed directly, and yet
if that organization sponsors the show, and what is
more, gladly accepts the money made by it, it is tacitly
and openly approving such practices.
If University Night ever was a decent and useful
annual student affair, it certainly has degenerated
to the point where the Y. M. C, A, for whose benefit
it was started, should revolt in virtuous disgust, salvage
its self-respect, and wash its hands of the whole matter.
It is hard to imagine that money got by such shady
means can be consecrated in any way for the declared
worthy purposes of the association. Those worthy
purposes are probably just a little bit more difficult of
attainment.
THE GLEE CLUB
Next Sunday the members of the University of
Nebraska Glee Club start on their annual spring tour
of the state. This trip in year after year coming to be
one of the features of the spring season. The Glee
Club may rightfully be regarded as one of the most
worthwhile and value-giving activities in the University.
For the student the Glee Club provides an expres
sion for his musical side, it gives him something that
is not harmful in nature with which to occupy his spare
time, and it gives him this trip every spring.
But it is to the University that the Club probably
proves to be of the most value.
Unlike other organizations that are in the custom
of traveling through the state, the members of the Club
stay at private homes while on the road. Usually they
stay either with friends or with alumni, but in any
case welcome places are found for them.
One of the primary instructions given to the Club
members is that they are to spread the gospel of the
University of Nebraska while in. private homes. They
are told that they are agents of our state institution
end should conduct themselves as such. Each mem
ber thinks over some of the salient points and features
of the University so that he may be prepared to tulk
intelligently on the subject.
There are other functions performed by this or
ganization. It appears before schools of the state
white they are in session. It appears at luncheons,
and in ail of these engagements it is spreading the idea
of the University as represented by as perhaps a model
college group as is usually assembled.
It is one of the few phases in the life of the pres
ent colleges that is not permeated with the spirit of
pontics, over-due publicity lor members. The Glee
Cbb, together with a few other organizations, stands
F.ri l, a small but respected part of the University.
In Other Columns
Ain't Sh Dumb!
Accosted in the vestibule of a small town library,
a trim little woman was found carrying an armload of
the latest novels and travel books. As the uneducated
wife of a truck driver, she excited the curiosity of a
college woman who met her there, and asked, "Why do
you read these books Mrs. ?"
"It's just this way," the lady replied, "my hus
band takes an interest in such things. And with ether
women up on all this literature, do I want him to be
saying 'round, "Ain't she dumb!"
Whether or not the girls of Grinnell college are in
the mcrriage market, with respect to- two important
fields of knowledge they may well ask themselves, "Am
I dumb?" What does the average Grinnell girl know
of international relations? How often do Grinnell
women read the daily paper? In dormitory circles it
has often been charged that girls don't even peruse the
official college paper, The Scarlet and Black.
Grinnell Scarlet and Black
Notices
The Preaa and the Individual
We sincerely trust that Mr. David Lawrence was
incorrectly reported when he spoke to a group of school
editors at a recent gathering at Columbia University.
He was made to say that the American press was the
best in the world and that none of its faults were of its
own creation. So able a journalist as the head of the
Consolidated Press Association, and the founder of that
extremely useful publication, the United States Daily,
can hardly have maintained the second thesis even if he
uttered the first. Every tyro in the. trade and every
intelligent reader of dailies knows better. It is, of
course, to be said that if the public would not buy
low-grade newspapers they could not exist. But that
the public supports the debased and debasing tabloids
of New York City, for instance, is no excuse whatever
for the degeneracy of their conductors in offering the
matter that they print; nor does it relieve them from
the responsibility of their acts. And when it comes to
the exploiting of the misfortunes of the individual who
happens to get into the lime light, there is no press on
earth as cruel, as cowardly, as low, or as brutal, and
none which goes to such lengths. Can Mr. Lawrence
or anyone else maintain that this is due to the public
and not to the publishers?
The Nation
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30
lota Sigma Pi
Iota Sigma PI meeting Wednesday, March
80th at aix o'clock in Chemistry Hall.
Junior-Senior Prom Committee
Meeting of the Junior-Senior Prom Com
mittee Wedneaday at 6 o'clock.
Student Council
n i . . . . . . : - tUm Qtti -
ncxuur oi-monimy
urni council win oe neia niuc.j - -o'clock
in Temple 204. All membere are
requested to be present.
Alpha Kappa Pal
Initiation and Banquet at the UnWeraity
Club at 4:80 Wedneaday, March 80.
Tha Lutheran Bible League will meet for
nioie atuay wedneaday at i p. m. in cm'
pie 202. Some queationa will be answered
THURSDAY, MARCH 31
' VI TV.lt.
XI Delta meeting at Ellen Smith Hall
lhursday at seven o clock.
Freshman Commission
Freshman Commission meeting Thursday
at 7:10 at Ellen Smith Hall.
Senior Invltationa
A copy of the senior invitation card la
on display at Long's Book Store. All sen
iors should arrange to place their order
for them as soon aa possible.
University Night People
All University Nisrht persons who have
outstanding bills will turn them in to
Koyc West, the chairman, by Thursday
noon. All billa will be settled at that time.
The Campus Pulse
Letter froaa readers are aarcUaDy walcoaaaw la this aopartsnaat, and
will be printed in all caeee aubjact asly t th. aN , airsrar ltic.!
kaatrinc out all libel sua Butter, and attacks against tndlvkluala wad raUgiaata. ,
One Year Ago
Theses and Thinking
Eight or nine months ago Palmer H. Craig was
working for his doctor's degree at the University of
Cincinnati. He had majored in physics so his thesis
consisted chiefly of reports on numerous experiments.
He spent weeks on experiments of different kinds.
Some were failures, some were partially successful. He
labored on and he labored hard for he was interested
in his work. .
His thesis was accepted and he took his degree,
doctor of philosophy. So far the story might apply to
any one of hundreds of students who do the same thing
in American colleges and universities year after year.
But here it differs.
Dr. Craig, still young, is now the head of the
physics department of Merder University, Macon, Ga.
He is rich, for he recently sold an invention he made
while working on his doctor's t.heis fnr $100,000. The
invention is a device to take the place of batteries and
vacuum tubes on the ordinary radio receiving sets.
Probably it will revolutionize the entire radio sup
ply manufacturing indi3try for batteries and tubes add
greatly to the expense of radio sets. And now the
young professor is rich because he enjoyed his work,
because he used his brains and because he stumbled on
the invention.
The moral or point to all this, if there is any, is
that experimental theses are not necessarily impractical.
And you seniors who have to write theses, bear in mind
when you work on them that you may make a discovery
or an invention while you are thus engaged that will
make you rich for life.
Remember further that Dr. Craig used his brains
or he wouldn't have made the discovery or known its
value after he made it.
Ohio Stat Lantern
Why Activitiea?
While there may be some undergraduates who are
engaged in activities for the love of Alma Mater or for
the love of ourselves, it is probable that most students
are more naive. We, undoubtedly, row, write, go to
rallies and Varsity Shows because we are interested in
these matters for themselves.
This is hardly as obvious a statement as it appears.
The casual observer, visiting from Mars, perhaps, would
gain the impression that some student organization was
striving for something or other. Forgetting this out
sider, it will be interesting to consider these activities
which engage so. much of the undergraduate's energy
and time. What are they? What ie their spirit? Why
have they only appeared within the last fifty years and
in America? These questions require much the same
answer.
We find in each of the activities, a replica of some
form of active life in the professional and business
world. There are publications, which strive constantly
to imitate the national newspapers and magazines.
There are plays, staged with as much finesse as is pos
sible. There are debates, more thoroughly organized
than their downtown fellows. There are musical clubs
and orchestras as carefully trained as circumstances
will allow. There are athletic teams, earning more in
an afternoon than a world's champion baseball team
could, and managed with an eye to utilizing this earn
ing capacity to the full. There are student governing
organizations; having remarkably little to do, but exist
ing tenaciously.
It is a group of minature imitations of national
institutions which composes the "activity world". Call
it a toy world, if you choose, and class the orgiiniza
tions with mechanical construction sets and ten-line
printing presses. They are models of various institu
tions of the world which most of the students are soon
to enter actively. They are unrelated to the academic
life. They have no concern with books or research.
They are personifications of action.
There will be exceptions to the big business spirit
Many of the undergraduates proceed without remark
ing on this general atmosphere. But the
particularly those in charge, are well permeated with
the urge to do things, and to do bigger and better things
seems quite natural to find the "Times" remark
ing that President Hopkins may suggest what he will
to alter football, but that he is fighting America. For
it is tins passion for success, for doing every task well,
and the easier tasks are always to be chosen when one
insists on success in no matter what. The American
college student is sent out to make his mark in college.
It is easier, more natural, and more concretely visible,
if he makes his scratch in the activity world. Is it any
wonder that he turns there, where his interests lie?
Activities, then, are simply the indications of the
American civilization, which has altered the European
character of educational institution. They are the real
native side of .the College life. Undergraduates will
find their interests in these preliminary trials of what
their fathers are actually engaged in. They will turn
to them rather than to the studies which are less evi
dently bound up with their own future.
Columbia Spectator
Prof. M. H. Weseen of the depart
ment cf English addressed the mem
bers of the Lincoln Ad Club on "Bet
ter Business Letters."
Prof. J. A. Rice and Prof. H. H.
Marvin of the University of Nebraska
left for the University of low to h
present at an honor course confer
ence held there.
Governor Adam McMullen '98, was
selected to preside at the Nebraska-
Iowa intercollegiate debate held at
the Temple Theater. The question
was, "Congress should be given the
power to overrule by two-thirds vote
of both houses the decisions of the
Supreme Court declaring acts of
Congress inconstitutional." The order
of the speakers on the affirmative
team was, George Johnson, Volta
Torrey and Alexander McKie. Mem
bers of the negative team were David
Sher, Ralph Brook and Lloyd J.
Marti.
W. W. Burr, professor of agron
omy, broadcasted over Radio Station
WLS giving a series of special seed
corn talks featured by the Sears-Roebuck
Agricultural Foundation.
Dean O. J. Ferguson, of the Col
lege of Engineering, issued a state
ment regarding the engineering in
spection trip to Chicago urging sen
ior and junior students of the engin
eering college to take this trip if
they possibly could.
The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
under the direction of Rudolph Ganz,
with Frederick Fisher, assistant con
ductor, and Miss Kathyran Brown,
soloist, appeared in a concert at the
Lincoln Auditorium.
"Romeo and Juliet" was the con
cluding: presentation of the Univer
sity Players. The famous Shakespear
ian tragedy was at the Temple The
ater.
Halycon Hooker, of the class of
Mrs. Louise Zumwinkle Watson, of
the University School of Music ap
peared in his post-graduate recital at
the Temple. Orchestral parts on the
second piano were played by Mrs.
Will Owen Jones.
Dear Editor:
Well, I took my girl to the Uni
versity Night program la3t night and
I am proud to say that she could not
understand the jokes. I am told that
the event was sponsored by the
Young Men's Christian Association.
Perhaps the reports of ex-service men
concerning that organization are not
so unfounded. I would like to suggest
to next year's University Night com
mittee that they give two perform
ances. The first performance should
be for men only and the second for
other morons. Do you know Where I
could get copies of this year's jokes?
I have attractive offers from Whiz
Bang. I have sent Eugene O'Neill in
vitations for next year's perform
ance. I am sure he is always glad to
get new ideas. Trusting you are the
same, I remain
Salaciously Yours,
, Lon.
Perhaps a ,e of them saw how flat
their attempis at cheap humor fell.
E. D.
Two Years Ago
Dear Editor:
Monday night I was in the audience
at the annual University Night. This
was the first time I had viewed the
heralded spectacle. My confession
was that I was sadly disappointed. I
went there with the expectancy that
the "cracks" would be pointed enough
but the clever ones were obscured by
those which savored of a cheap vau
deville house.
Why was it necessary to make re
marks that might ruin a student's
college career? Although there might
have been some basis for the
"cracks", it seems to me that the stu
dents involved did not have to be
branded so publicly. Gossip and scan
dal spreads quickly and remains long
er in the memory, and so will the
worst things that happened Monday
night.
I think something should be done
to abolish such "dirt" that ruined
the better parts of the show. This is
difficult as I understand that most
of the worst "cracks" were extem
poraneous. But if the actors who
were responsible had their parents
present in the audience they might
feel how the remarks would seem in
other people's eyes, and think twice.
What Would r&riit Think?
To the Editor:
Good Christians, trained to huve
implicit faith in the ministers of the
gospel, the church, and such affiliated
organizations as the Y. M. C. A., are
scoffing at and vigorously denying
the charges of rank hypocrisy which
Sinclair Lewis makes in his latest
vituperative novel, "Elmer Gantry."
The author, they say, has made a
round-up of characters and incidents
of imagination and perpetrated on
the public an unwarrentedly abusive
and false volume of muck-racking. At
least, they avow here in Lincoln, such
conditions could under no circum
stances exist in this fair city .of the
virtuous middle-west.
Perhaps the good Christians are
right. But the performance which the
University Y. M. C. A. gave us at the
Orpheum Monday night makes one
wonder, to say the least. The show
itself was good or bad according to
one's own taste.
But I can conceive of no process
of reasoning, mental gymnastics, or
mysticism by which the Y. M. C. A.'s
relation to the affair can be justified.
There is hardly a scheming political
organization or perverted minister
that would dare to be so rankly hypo
critical. The Y. M. C. A.'s answer, I sup
pose, is that it needs the money. It
needs money badly because its sup
port from students has become almost
negligible. It wonders why students
do not support it. PerlS?:
its answer in University NiKrt S ,
far underestimates the intelliln ' 14
Nebraska students if it itfe
do not see the falseness of fn ori f
zation that professes to he devoSl
the "highest ideals" and at tie 1
time snonaora TTni
ia possible, of cours 7 .ut
est ideals" have changed sinwi
learned of the Y. M. C. A.) 1
The Y. M. C. A. Professes to exist
for the purpose of spreading JlJ
Putting, nto practice thn,e idcfl,
ideas which Jesus Cnri,f . , rna
the world. May I ask the officers' and
members of the University y. Jf
Ga Aa
What do you suppose Jesus Christ
would have thought of Un.W:..
Night? . "iy
C Y. N.
The track numeral has
popularity until it is now set as the
goal for every Freshman out for
track.
Cummins9
143 No. 12th
FORMERLY LEDWICH'S
HAVE YOU EVER TRIED
OUR HOT BUTTER
KISTWICH?
Curb Service Luncheons
DANCE
Don't forget that Wednesday nite special at the
L1NDELL PARTY HOUSE
50c Per Couple
Revelers' on ihe job every Wednesday night
Publicity for Track Markers -
Much publicity hs been given to
the set of markers for track and
field events recently devised by
Coach Henry F. Schulte.
Talks of eating at the
Avoidable Waste
Not long ago a prominent
hotel man wrote an article on a
certain phase of the hotel busi
ness for one of .the leading
magazines. It created consider
able comment, because of some-,
startling revelations he made
regarding the large amount of
pilfering done by guests.
Blankets, sheets, pillows and
pillow cases, towels, stationery,
pencils, penholders, ink-wells,
and pictures in great numbers
are carried awy from the
rooms by guests; and in the din
ing room the silverware and
china is looted alarmingly.
This writer showed that the
traveling public, as a whole,
"must pay for the pilfered goods
or the hotel "go broke". And
the successful hotels are obliged
to recoup themselves for such
losses by rates higher than they
could be made if no such losses
occured.
Manager Harris of the Cen
tral Caf finds his losses from
this source growing lighter each
year; and other hotel men cor
robrate him in this experience,
which would indicate that the
public are learning that "sou
venirs" collected fm cafea
and hotels must be paid for by
the public. '
(Ta ba conrlaiuad)
1323 P
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Announcing For
Wednesday and Thursday, March 30th and 31st
A TV , fa- r
a rremier enowincr or
Hart Schaffner & Marx College Clothes
r
To Be Held In Our College Room
Mr. Ben F. Wolfe, personal representative of Hart
Schaffner & Marx, will present the newer versions in
College Clothes, as styled by Mr. Sturbuch, who has just
completed an itineracy covering the Big Colleges of the
- country.
''Nebraska" men will be interested in this showing of
advanced styles They are the clothes that will be
worn this fall.
Come in Wednesday Look at the new models the
newer colorings and patterns See the extent to which
these world clothiers have gone to furnish the authentic
for University of Nebraska men.
taOray aa. iaVrra.
