THE DAILY NEBRASKAN The Daily Nebraskan Statioa A. Lincoln. Nebraska OFFICIAL PUBLICATION UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA Under direction of the Student Publication Board TWFNTY.BITTTH VAH Published Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday mornings during the academic year, Editorial Office Unirersity Hall 4. Business Office U Hall. Room No. 4. Office Houre Editorial Staff, 8:00 to 6:00 except Friday and Sunday. Business Staff) afternoons except Friday and TglcshonesE'di'tcriel and Business i B8881. 142. tttght BS388 Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice in Lincoln, Nebraska, under act of Congress. March S, 1878, and at special rate of postage provided for In section 1108, act of October , 1817, authorised January 20, 1822. II a year. SUBSCRIPTION RATE Single Copy 6 cents 11.15 a semester WILLIAM CEJNAR Lee Vance Arthur Sweet EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Managing Editor Asst. Managing Editor Asst. Managing Editor Horace W. Gomon NEWS EDITORS , Rath Palmer t 0r Norling Dwlght McCormack CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Isabel O'Hallaran JtltJi Gerald Griffin Dwight McCormack lames Rosse Evert Hunt Robert Lasch ASSISTANT NEWS EDITORS . Florence Swihart , , Mary Louise Freeman we live, ever in anticipation of still more work," more play and more life. T. SIMPSON MORTON Richard F. Vette Hilton McGrew William Kearns BUSINESS MANAGER , Asst. Business Manager Circulation Manager Circulation Manager FRIDAY. APRIL 29. 1927. DOOM OF THE ARTS COLLEGE The doom of arts and sciences colleges is forecast by Dean Herman G. James of the Nebraska college of arts and sciences if a report of his address before the Oklahoma chapter of Thi Beta Kappa in the Okla homa Daily is true. The account is reprinted in Other Columns. Junior colleges and specialization in the profes sional colleges are the two main reasons given by Dean James for this prediction of doom. Now the words of educators of the rank of Dean James always carry great weight with students, profes sors and others interested in higher education, but we can hardly escape a feeling in this case, with all due respect fop Dean James, that the prediction of doom for the arts college is quite unwarranted and somewhat alarmist in nature. Concerning the first reason, the rise of junior col leges, nothing very definite can yet be said. The col leges are still in the embryo stage and their long-time effect on the senior college has not yet been observed enough to warrant definite conclusions. The predic tions at best are the results of a priori reasoning. In this regard, then, we prefer to withhold judgment con cerning the doom of the arts college. But concerning Dean James statement that the professional colleges are encroaching more and more on the arts college, and restricting the amount of lib eral arts work taken by their students, a great doubt creeps into our mind. Instead of the professional colleges eliminating liberal arts work from their preparatory requirements, there is a growing movement in the professional col leges for more and more pre-professional arts and science training. Colleges of law, for instance, follow ing the lead of the great eastern law colleges, are more and more requiring three years of pre-law, some four years. Two years of pie-law is an almost universal re quirement where formerly only one year or none was requLed. In college of dentistry circles, for instance, there is a movement for revision of the curriculum to permit of more arts and science work. Our own college of pharmacy only recently announced more preparatory requirements. Engineering colleges, though only a few now have pre-engineering arts and sciences require ments, are coming to realize more and more the broad ening benefits of liberal education. The time may come when even they will require two and three years of liberal preparation. The drift toward more and more liberal prepara tory requirements for entrance to the professional col leges is proceeding at a greater and greater rate from year to year, as the country becomes filled up more and more with professionally educated men and wom en. The fields are becoming so crowded that the pro-1 feftsiona through their various associations and societies out of sheer, self-protection as well as out of a desire' to improve the quality of Iheir new recruits, are in sisting on more and more liberal education in prepar ation for their professional careers. These formal moves toward more and more, arts and sciences preparation are only the result of a more fundamental movement the feeling of thousands of graduates of the professional colleges that they missed out on a great deal when they confined themselves to narrcw professional courses, and their own desire that those who follow in tbetr footsteps shall not make the same mistakes. We have talked with many professional graduates, engineers, lawyers, doctors, who express this feeling. If Dean James were only a little better acquainted with the students of his own college and those in fellow professional colleges he could not fail to see that there are Just hundreds of earnest men and women who are trying to make up for all the narrowing deficiences of the professional colleges. He would probably know about the engineering student, for instance, who under the present curriculum is not permitted to take much liberal work, but who inquires of professors and stu dent pastors concerning the best books he should buy for his student library for outside reading to supple ment and counteract the narrow training in his college. He would know about the many students who have transferred at tome time or other from the profes sional colleges of engineering, journalism, business ad ministration so that they might enjoy the more liberal education and the greater culture of the arts college No, the colleges of the arts and sciences are hardly doomed. As this country enters more and more an era of prosperity and leisure, the age of the arts and sciences will only barely be ushered in. Instead of doom, we predict colleges of arts are heading at some future time toward their golden age in American edu cation. They may change. They may adapt themselves to new and changed conditions, but at heart the arts colleges will continue ever greater and ever more glorious as time adds more and more to their already great stores of truths and culture. BATTLE OF AUTOS AT MICHIGAN The president of the University of Michigan and the Michigan Daily, student paper, arp having c sprightly little controversy over student automobiles. It seems that the university some time ago enacted reg ulations governing use of student cars, that these reg ulations are not being enforced, and that the president is campaigning to have them enforced, and the Daily is campaigning to have them abolished, The heat of the argument was reached Sunday when the president criticised the "pueriie" editorial of the Daily, and Tuesday when the Daily replied in de fense of the "puerile" editorial. Following failure of the students to enforce the regulations, the, president of the University, it seems, was in favor of temporary prohibition of all student automobiles. The Michigan Daily editors in conference with the president succeeded in obtaining an armis tice. The prohibition of automobiles will be withheld for the time being, and students will be given one more chance to show their fairness by the regulations. So much for the sketchy outline of the fight. The most important feature about it all was the fact that the president of a great university was openly op posed in matters of university policy concerning stu dent life by the editors of the students, and that he came out like a man in open combat, permitted the student paper full freedom of expression, and let his own theories and plans be tested out in the heat of controversy and exchange of opinion. Now this paper is all in favor of any regulations of students that may be necessary for the best inter ests of the students and university, but it doesalso be lieve that these regulations are not holies of holies, and that if they are sound in principle they will stand the gaff of any amount of student criticism. The more the better. Notices FRIDAY, APRIL 29 Ail Cseeh students and their friends are cordially invited to an entertainment wnicn win be given at the Temple. zu. Catholic Student Club The Catholic Students Club will have a Hard Time Dartv at the Cathedral base ment, Friday April 29. Dress accordingly PalladUn I It.r.rv Society Palladian informal initiation at W. T. Page's 442 West fth St., College View. SATURDAY, APRIL 30 Lutlmran Club The Lutheran Club of the University will hold a hike Saturday afternoon, April 80. Members are asked to meet at 6:80 in Temple Room 101. The destination is Bel mont Park about two miles out on No. 14th St. All desiring further information telephone Otto Gross, L-6267. THURSDAY, MAY S Pi Lambda Theta Meeting is postponed until Thursday, May 6, in T. C. 810 at 7 p. m. THE DEADLINE Sometime between 6 o'clock this morning and 6 o'clock this evening a condemned man at the state penitentiary a few miles south of the campus will be strapped to a chair, the current will be shot through his body, and his earthly existence will come to an end Hi? honra are numbered. His doom is certain. Yet t.o kasi certain ia the ultimate doom of every one of us remaining free creatures. We think we are free and yet we are not. There is an hour of death for every one ol us but we don't know that hour. The sentence has r.ot been announced. And in our ignorance of that lour rests the secret of our aspirations, our hopes, our c, torts, and all our labors. The future for every one of us is humanly limit 1:ks. There is no announced deadline beyond which we 1 row we can not live. We all live in the hope of un t Uirty. And in that uncertainty our mind is freed X 1 worry and morbid anxiety. We work, we play, In Other Columns Arts and Science Colleges And Phi Beta Kappa Are Both Doomed Both Institutions Are on Road to Extinction and Oblivion, Doctor James Believes "The American arts and sciences college is on the road to extinction and oblivion, and like the dodo, the institution of Phi Beta Kappa is similarly doomed," Dr. Herman G. James, dean of the college of arts and sciences of the University of Nebraska, told members and initiates at the annual banquet of Phi Beta Kappa Monday evening in the First Baptist Church. Doctor James was the principal speaker at the banquet and initiation held for 27 University of Okla homa students, two faculty members and two alumni. "Faced by Enemies" The American arts and sciences college is faced by a number of enemies, including the modern pro fessional school and the junior college, which in time will put an end to both the liberal arts college and the liberally educated student, Doctor James believes. "The professional schools of law and medicine have contributed the largest share to the initial de cline of the arts college. They have decided that a lib eral education in the original arts and sciences sense cannot be made a prerequisite to entrance upon the more technical professional curriculum. In doing this, these schools have eliminated from the ranks of pros pective bachelors of arts and presumptive candidates for Phi Beta Kappa, two of the very groups which so ciety cun least afford to have lacking in the essentials of a liberal education," he stated. The professional colleges have not only cut two years off of the original liberal arts education required for an entrance into such schools, but they have also largely professionalized the two remaining years of arts and sliences left to the student, Dortor James asserted. "The great majority of prospective lawyers, doc tors and dentists are, under the present system, lost to the possibilities of a liberal art.) education and availably for Phi Beta Kappa. Disdain Useless Subjects "With their overemphasis on technical proficiency and frank disdain for useless subjects and those who pursue them, the engineering students, like the student in law and medicine, contribute to the development of the prevalent inferiority complex under which the true arts college student is likely to labor. "In the privately endowed insitution, the profes sional schools have not entirely crowded the arts col lege off the scene. But this is not true in the state uni versities. The typical American university of the future is certain to be the state university, just as the typical secondary school of today is the public high school," Doctor James believes. Disaater for College "Aside from venturing the suggestion that tech nical training built upon graduation from high school is vocational rather than professional, and I simply want to point out that the multiplication of these sep arate colleges with their special degrees and their claims to special fitness for directing post-high school activities cannot but end disastrously for the arts college." The establishment of junior colleges, now going on rapidly, can only mean the extinction of Phi Beta Kappa, in the belief of Doctor James. "I, for one, cannot believe that the world has less need than heretofore of the educated man merely be cause it is getting more and more highly trained tech nicians. The ideal of the arts college is needed more, not less, since the tremendous rush of students to our universities has made the possession of a university degree almost meaningless. "By your conduct, your ideals, and your achieve ments, you can make the world regret the loss of the atmosphere and the institutions in which you were developed, so that the college of arts and Phi Beta Kappa may not disappear, if disappear they must, un wept and unsung." Oklahoma Dally. A Deferred Problem Referring to the year's leave of absence granted Professor H. B. Alexander by the state university board of regen.8 a university alumnus asks for light. He writes : "A Lincoln dispatch to your paper says that Dr. Alexander had asked to bo made a dean as tho pike of his remaining with the University. I do not so understand it What was the source of your information and what are the facts?" The Lincoln dispatch was incorrect and mislead ing. Dr. Alexander asked for no change in title or salary. He did aak, in the words of his telegram to The World-Harald correcting the erroneous news report, university "reorganization in the interest of certain faculty rights." The regents, being unwilling to con sider the problem of reorganization until after the election of a new chancellor, granted Dr. Alexander's application for a year's leeve of absence. The granting of this leave, it is understood, was satisfactory to Dr. Alexander and his friends. The W.rld Hwaid. Social Calender Friday, April 29. Alpha Delta Pi, house dance." v Delta Delta Delta, Sprii.g Party, Rosewilde, 5LarmeT8Fair. f " Palladian informal initiation. Saturday, April 30. Pi Beta Phi Banquet, Chapter House. Phi Sigma Kappa, House Dance. Phi Kappa Psi, House Dance. Alpha Chi Sigma, Spring Party, Lincoln. School of Fine Arts Carnival, Morrill Hall. "Highland Bill" To Be On Exhibition (Continued from Page One.) rade. Some of these "cows have rec ords for milk and butterfat produc tion and are considered as among the best dairy cattle in the state of Ne braska. Several of the best Belgian and Percheron horses of the College of Agriculture are also to be on display in the exhibit. At 3:15 in the afternoon the live stock will be paraded on the quad rangle. The parade will end in front of the Agricultural Engineering building and will be held there for speakers who will explain the size and extent of the livestock depart ments of the College of Agriculture. The cattle exhibit will be housed in a tent on the east side of the quad rangle of the College of Agriculture Lewis9 14- &0 For that classy fountain service that fine foun tain menu Try our fresh limes and fruit sundaes. And don't miss seeing our Mother's Day box candy display The finest in the city, manufactured in our own Lincoln plant. Talks of eating at the An A La Carte Dinner Perhaps you do not care for the vegetables included with the three-division p l.a t e dinners served at the Central Cafe and would prefer to order every thing a la carte. That is probably the better way for those who know exactly what they want, "and want what they want when they want it." Nevertheless, the plate din ners, "ready to serve", are pre pared under the Chef's direc tions with care and contain us ually very harmonious combina tions. But we will assume that you are a steady-eater. .Let us order a T-Bone Steak with Onions, French Fried or Shoestring Potatoes, Cold Slaw, Apple Tie a la mode (or with cheese if you prefer) and Coffee or Milk. That $1.40. will "set you back" (To be oewtiaued) 1323 P and north of the Plant Industry building. The cattle will be displayed there for the most of the afternoon. After being removed from the exhibit tent they will be placed in their re spective barns. The barns will be kept open for inspection bo that any body that does not get to see the cat tle on the Fair grounds can see them at the barns. UNIVERSITY BAND TO HEAD FAIR PARADE (Continued from Page One.) the Original Nebraskans, to the time of the completion of our geat state capitol, shown in the last float, Ne braska's Triumph, will be reviewed. 1. Indian Scene. 2. Spanish Explorers. 3. Lewis and Clark. n 4. Pony Express. 5. Prairie Schooner. G. Soddy. 7. Grasshopper Invasion. 8. Building of the Railroad. r 9. Nebraska's Admission to the Union. ' 10. Country Doctor. 11. The Great Commoner. 12. Ag College Float. 13. Goddess of Agriculture. 14. Nebraska's Triumph. PLAY WILL OPEN FINE ARTS WEEK "They Blue Boy," "Dance of the Nymphs," "The Glove with the Man," "Mona 'Liza," and "The Lone Wolf," will be among some of the pictures that will be sacrificed to the art connisseurs of Lincoln. Henry Cox and Martin Bush, vio linist and pianist, will take part in the last program of "Fine Arts Week." They will give the third of a series of five Beethoven concerts which are being given under the di rection of Henry Cox. The program will be as follows: Sonata in D Major, Opus 12, Num ber 1, for piano and violin; Allegro con brio; Theme with Variations: Rondo. Sonata in A Major, Opus 12, Num ber 2 for piano and violin; Allgero vivade; Andante, piu tosta Allege to; Allegro piacevole. Sonata in A .Major, Opus 24 for piano nd violin;; Allegro; Adagio molto espressivo; ScherzoAllegro molto; Rondo Allegro ma non trop. po. fcrMMTtMl BJ78 Camlal Engraving Co, '319 SO. &Vt ST. LINCOLN. NEB, (Continued from Page One.) house and the baby, while the mother leaves the home to earn the money to support the family. Famous paintings and statues will be auctioned off by Ray Ramsey. The students of the art department have been busily getting these arti cles ready for the sale. 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