THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
The Daily Nebraskan
Station A. Lincoln, Nebraska
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UNIVERSITY OP NEBRATKA
Under direction of the Student Publication Board
TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR
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WILLIAM CEJNAR
Lee Vance
Arthur Sweet
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(nth Palme-
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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Managing Editor
Asst. Managing Editor
Asst. Managing Editor
Isabel O'Hallaran
Gerald Grirtin
James Rosse
Dwleht McCormack
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Evert Hunt
Oscar Norling
T.lnpnln TYost. Jr.
Dwight McCormack
Robert Laach
ASSISTANT NEWS EDITORS
Florence Swihart Tnmaa
Gerald Griffin
T SIMPSON MORTON
Richard F. Vette
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Circulation Manager
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SUNDAY, APRIL SO.j 1927.
A FACULTY COMPLEX
A book-writing complex that's what most faculty
members the country over are suffering with.
In this great age of achievement, tangible and
dollar-realizing achievement, even college professors
have become obsessed with a great ambition to achieve
and to "get ahead." The accepted way to do this is
"to write a book." So we find practically every faculty
member from the oldest with his unfinished manuscript
at death to the youngest chirp of a neyphte, fresh
from graduate seminary, treasuring notes and storing
ideas for "the great book."
It is only natural that it should be so. All their
lives these men and women have been studying from
books, they have been reading books. Books arc their
Bibles. What more fitting then, than that they should
themselves some day write a book to stack up on the
same shelves with other books of the great?
An even greater reason, though, exists for this
book-writing mania among professors and instructors.
It is the plain, hard, practical fact that writing of a
fair book, good and thick, is the best way of gaining
recognition. The ranks of the profession have become
so crowded with the growth in popularity of higher
education, that some such method must be resorted
to to attract attention among the many. It is a recog
nized fact that writing of a successful book almost invar
iably results sooner or later in promotion of some kind
or other by the governing board of the institution or
in a call to other fields where "real" ability is recog
nized. So we have the book-writing mania or complex
among faculty members. ,
And in this book-writing activity, among other rea
sons, may be found some of the causes for the decline
of the professors, and for many of the defects of mass
education.
Instead of becoming good protessors and great
teachers, many instructors as a result of book-writing
activity become poor teachers and poor book-writers
as well. The great mass of books published, without
mention of the equally great or greater mass of un
published manuscript, are mediocre to say the least.
They will hardly live out the student generation during
which they were written. The hours of effort devoted
to mulling over notes, writing and rewriting, which
might more profitably have been spent reading and
storing up greater wisdom for the benefit of future
classes, are in great part wasted.
A professor writing a book is only about 60 to 75
percent efficient as a professor. He rushes from class
to class, thinks about his great effort, has little if any
time outside of classes for his students, and above all,
loses for the time being that interest in the student
which should be the paramount concern of a real pro
fessor. As a result of this book-writing mania the man
who is a great teacher and inspirer of youth in his
classes is unrecognized as such. The teaching and in
spiring functions of the professorial office have been
subordinated to worship of gold embossed designations
on library volumes.
What is needed is a reawakening among educators
of a realization of the importance of the teaching func.
tions of the profession. A realization that mere per
functory delivery of lectures goes only a short way to
the development of well-educated men and women; that
personal contacts and interest in the progress of each
and every student are a priceless contribution to their
development and growth into men and women.
What is needed even more is increased recognition
for those men and women in faculty chairs who are
consciously devoting themselves to this teaching and in
spiring office, and who are embued with a genuine ar.d
sincere interest n the progress of the students whose
plastic minds are entrusted to their care.
There will always be plenty of opportunity for
writing of real books great books inspired by genuine
genius of mind and accomplishment. Great minds which
really have something to give to the world can do to
without serious loss to their other duties. The gains
in their case will far outweigh the losses. But in the
case of less endowed minds, students as well as printing
presses would be better off for less typewriter activity,
and more concentration on teaching.
Pathetic figures students who had dates last Fri
day night and forgot about the midnight show for flood
sufferers, and didn't take advantage of the opportunity
of staying out till 2:30.
COED POLITICS VERSUS THE CHANCELLORSHIP
At a neighboring western university last week oc
curred two major news events. The chancellor of the
University resigned, and the annual student election
was to be held, featured by the aroused political action
of the women students. In the student paper the poli
tical story about the uprising of the co-eds was given
a big headline across seven columns at the top of the
front page. The story about the resignation of tne
Chancellor was given a subordinated four-column
headline. , '
The relative significance of the two events for the
future of the university can be predicted without any
great effort at thinking. The student election will corr.e
and go, and will be forgotten in the whirl of oth' r
student activities. The resignation of the Chancellor
'sfia ' election (, a new one after a period of uncer
tainty, and possible new university policies under s. tivx
administration.
It i3 quite surprising then to find the student paper
featuring just about twice as prominently a story of a
:' '' election as that of the resignation of the head
1 f tie institution.
1 yet it is not so very surprising after nil.
' i i of stuJe-nU are interested like most people
? which, concern them Kt . aircctlv.
Classroom work, studies, dates, activities those are
the things which occupy the attention of most students
most of the time. A student election happens to be one
of these things. The government of the university
managed as it is without any student voice, goes on
affecting only indirectly the students for whose sake
it exists. To most students the work of the university
executive is mighty hazy. They are not concerned.
Therefore, when he resigns, the importance of the event
hardly looms as prominent as the exciting election of
the moment.
Explained on this basis the news judgment of the
paper seems quite proper. But in another way the edi
tors of that paper were sadly lacking. As stewards of
the news columns of their university paper, their re
sponsibilities are greater than mere reflection of cam
pus sentiment as it is. In a sense the college paper
should not only reflect student sentiment, but it should
gtoide it in the right channels as well. If light-headed
students, sophomores, freshmen, and immature juniors
are flighty enough to regard a student election as of
more importance than the resignation of the executive
head of their university, it is the duty of the editors
of the college paper, as the only medium by which all
may be reached, to jolt them out of their puerility, and
lead a bit at least to a more serious-minded evaluation
of the events of the day.
Notices
THURSDAY, MAY 5
Pi Lambda Theta
Meeting Is postponed until Thursday,
May 6, in T. C. S10 at 7 p. m.
It takes a billion dollar flood to relax the 12:30
"back home" rule.
FOR THE FOLKS BACK HOME
Following the lead of Wisconsin and Illinois, the
University of Michigan is beginning next fall publica
tion of a four-page, four-column weekly paper for par
ents of students attending the University, The aim of
the paper will be to keep the parents informed as fully
as possible about the affairs of the University, in the
belief that newspaper accounts and letters from stu
dents themselves are often exaggerated and incomplete.
Establishment of a Michigan Parents' association
will also be shortly undertaken, it is believed, following
the examples of parents' associations at Illinois and
Cornell.
This movement to bring college back to the family
home, and somehow keep up a personal contact be
tween the University and the parents of the young men
and women who are attending, is part of the effort
country-wide to combat the coldness of gigantic insti-
sutions of learning.
NINTH ANNUAL FAIR
HELD SATURDAY
(Continued from Page One.)
Mia Brinton it Goddess
Florence Brinton of Lincoln, was
chosen goddess of agriculture. Her
attendants in the order of their rank
were: Alice Klein, Gladys Martin,
Krissie Kingsley, Hazel Banning, El
ler.dean Wynkoop, and Helen Hilde-hr-and.
These girls were chosen by
ballot from amor-c the seniors of the
home tooromics department.
"The Quest" written by Edna Ben
son, assistant professor of home ec
onomics, was presented to large
crowds both afternoon and evening.
It was an allegorical dramatization
depicting the enrichment of life that
a home economics course offers to
those who choose to take this course.
Viola Hall of Bethany played the
leading part in the role of Life as
symbolic of every homemoker.
Following the pageant, a parade of
seventy-five cattle and horses from
the animal husbandry and dairy de
partments of the college was held on
the main quadrangle of the campus.
Follies Has Clever Program
The Follies girls presented their
program several times. They showed
the old and new in follies in dancing
old fashioned and modern dances.
The Snorpheum boys gave their pro
gram in the form of an old time Fri
day afternoon country school pro
gram
fifteen or twenty minutes length and
will deal with the relation of the
state to the university. He is known
as a very forceful speaker.
CLaiburn Seave
Dean G. R. Chatburn will speak
for five minutes explaining the schol
arship awarded, after which the
plaques will be given out by Prof.
E. F. Schramm, chairman of the
Interfratprnity Council, Mr. Schramm
will preside. There will be no other
speakers.
The Revelers orchestra will play
during the dinner, and special enter
tainment in a two-piano act by Har
old Turner and Wilbur Chenoweth,
pianist and organist, respectively,
for the Lincoln theater, has been
obtained.
It brings back to mind the days twelve or more I Preceding each presentation of the
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years ago when our own Dean of Men was still able in
part to keep up personal contact with the parents by
means of letters. Since that time the student body has
grown so large in numbers that it is almost impossible
at times for the deans and other officials to answer per
sonal letters sent by the parents themselves.
The movement is a refreshing reminder that edu
cators realize more than ever their obligations to the
parents of the boys and girls who are sent to theii
care for the last four great formative years of their
lives. So long as educators are alive to their responsi
bilities in this respect there need be very little alarm
about the future of higher education.
In Other Columns
Winsome Wisdom
College students and college life have been greatly
misinterpreted and misrepresented to the general pub
lic through the well-meaning efforts of novelists and
dramatists who have seized upon the sensational and
caused it to assume the character of the casual and or
dinary. Oh, that we had a Boswell to properly under
stand and interpret us!
George Jean Nathan, the congenial dramatic critic,
has delivered his opinion as to the advantage of a col
lege education in a recent publication. He says: "If the
American university doesn't teach a man wisdom, it
at least teaches him how to loiter through life grace
fully, and how to make other men do his work for him, j
and how to laugh and sing, and how to make love, and
how to remember just a little more romantically than
any other man, and how to smile tolerantly and pleas
antly at his critics."
This is far from a discouraging picture. That the
much-aligned life of a college student, with its over
emphasized temptations, its mythical pits for the un
wary, and its too-sudden freedom for men and women
at an age when freedom is' apt to whirl the brain, can,
by Borne strange associations, whether with other stu
dents or members of faculties, foster a sense of the joy
of living is, indeed, a fulfilment of a greater purpose
than we could expect. Our living has become too com
mercial; we have begun to aspire to too-great ends in
industry as well as life. We have come to think that
nothing is impossible. That college teaches a man or
woman to turn back and recapture some of the old joys
and simplicities of life is not to be decried. Nor is it to
become condemned that a person can enjoy life while
he is in college.
To loiter through life! What does it depend upon?
It is not always a matter of financial independence;
rather it is a condition of the mind which makes it pos
sible for a man or woman to accept the finalities of life
and never lose the sense of spectatorship. From the
sidelines of their own minds, they can watch others,
less wise than they, hurrying, fighting and scrambling
blindly toward climaxes they do not understand. To be
able to plunge into life and still maintain a psychical
distance is an accomplishment worthy of study.
Since earliest ages, the strong have dominated the
weak. Physical ptrength Y been supplemented by men
tal strength, and men with superior ability to think
and plot have been able to use to their advantage, in
dividuals not so gifted. That the time should come when
men generally and college men in particular should
have acquired in their short term of study, the ability
to think and remember the energies of others is also an
accomplishment for which colleges can justly be proud.
Is it a sin to laugh and sing and make love? Tha
greatest enjoyment of life comes to those who have
learned to make life enjoyable. When, in the disap
pointments of the day, men can turn their faces, calm
and unperturbed, to public view, hiding their personal
dissatisfactions, and laugh and sing and make love, it
is a sure sign they have learned a fundamental lesson
the ability to manipulate themselves in relation to their
environment for the best Interests of themselves. .
And, a splash of romantic recollection for what has
been pleasant in the past is always a welcome attitude.
Men who can remember better days and look forward
to better days to come, have conquered an enemy of
life.
Abov all, the ability to smile tolerantly upon
critics is 1 1 be desired. The man or woman who can
stand unmoved by unjust criticism and not blinded to
constructive ideas has attached to himself a graceful
ness a "sang froid" in living. It is almost a sense
of humor which makes this toleration possible. Lincoln
had it; Burns found solace in it. Both of th?se men,
because of their generous and tolerant acceptance of
ciitic.siia, vi auie h cuiuinue n none loo pleasant
task in the face of popular disapproval. To invite and
understand the processes of others' thought which com
ments upon their lives, is a cirtue to be encouraged.
This justification is a seal of approval and the new
race of men, bred of this spirit and fashioned in this
mould, can but be a credit to the system which gave
them inspiration for being,
srtnieoU Dail.
pageant, a style show was held in the
grotto in front of Davisson's foun
tain, the eccne of the pageant.
Several hundred people were
shown interesting points on the cam
pus in the sightseeing busses which
left every fifteen minutes from the
main depot. These busses were ac
companied by guides which explained
the important points about the places
which were visited.
WEAVER NAMED
BANQUET SPEAKER
(Continued from Page One.)
ted from Wyoming Seminary at
Kingston, Pa., with the degree of
A. B.
Mr. Weaver is known as "Richard
son county's leading citizen" and
has received numerous honors in his
home country. The new Hotel Wea
ver at Falls City was named for him.
Mr. Weaver's address will be of
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race itself. Business training
is nearly sixty years old. Busi
ness training in the VAN SANT
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Education is a Partnership of
Maturity and Youth, Exper
ience and Inexperience. We
have two of these. You have
the other two.
Invest those two, together
. with a small amount of money
and a few weeks' time in a Van
Sant Partnership and secure a
return highly satisfactory to
your parents and yourself.
VAN SANT SCHOOL OF
BUSINESS
205 So. 19th St.
Omaha, Nebraska
BIG SISTERS TO INITIATE
Large Group Expected at Affair
At Ag College Thursday
Big Sisters will hold their annual
picnic and intiation on the College of
Agriculture campus on Thursday aft
ernoon, May 6, according to plans an
nounced Saturday. More than 500
Big Sisters will gather on the campus
at 5 p. m. Initiation will follow the
picnic, and will be in charge of the
advisory council.
Tickets may be secured at Mrs.
Lantz's desk at Ellen Smith hall.
Talks of eating at the
A fl
An A La Carte Dinner
Perhaps you do not care for
the vegetables included with the
three-division plate dinners
served at the Central Caf 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,
App! Pie a Ja xods (r witn
cheese if you prefer) and Coffee
or Milk.
That
$1.40.
will "set you bak"
(Te he Mtbiud)
1325 P
HISTORIAN TELLS
OF WAR CONDITIONS
(Continued from Page One.)
won the war, it was not the United
States.
"The Americans exerted a great
influence on that last battle. They
stood for a single line in France, a
single line at home, a single idea, and
a single and intact army of the
United States," he pointed out.
The war might have been lost here
or there, but no one can say who won
the war. The person who can say
which blade of the sheas does the
cutting may have the answer to the
question of 'Who won the war?'
Nation Fight Own War
"Each major nation was fighting
its own war. England had a war,
concerned with her own problems,
those of the English Channel. France
waS concerned with the road to Paris.
Italy was concerned with the safety
of her people and the country. When
the United States entered the war
the other nations each had their own
armies and their own war, Dr. Pax
son declared.
"From the first the Americans
wanted a single line in France, they
wanted the fighting bodies under on
head. The Allies would not even let
the Americans fight under their own
leaders, they shoved them in under
English and French officers. They
said the Americans couldn't fight,
and they couldn't be taught to fight.
But Pershing would not give in, and
the Allied forces gave the Americans
a section that neither the French nor
the Germans had pushed very hard.
"The single line at home was a
matter of great importance in win
ning the war, the speaker declared.
The United States was organized
from top to bottom on the fact that
organization at home would win the
war.
Single Idea Necessary
"In the spring of 1918 it was fin
ally decided by the allied n
the only thing that could make t?.
war anything but a total loss was I
single idea. Up to this time each
country wna fichtir.a- ifa v ,7.
- . , - "u wattle,
but the Americans fought for a uni
fied purpose among the Allies Dr
Paxson continued. '
The fourth point was the idea of .
single army of the United Rf. .
miracle took place m the change from
mo nanuiui oi soiaiers when we ne
tered the war to those in service on"
that Armistice Day. The men did
better than they knew how. They
were thinking in millions instead of
tens and twentys and they did well
The determination of the United
Sta'tes for a coordinate unit finally
worked out.
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DO YOU LIKE STRAWBERRIES?
This is FRESH STRAWBERRY WEEK at RECTOR'S.
Every day our special luncheon will feature a delicious
dessert made from strawberries. As usual, we will have
Strawberry Shortcake at 15c; Club House Shortcake
at 25c.
Monday May 2
25c
Minced Ham Tostette
Strawberry Shortcake
Any 5c Drink
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The Upper Classmen Know
The Under Classmen
Think It a Tradition
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They Should Wear
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