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t THE DAILY NESS ASK AN i t The Daily Nebraskan Station A. Uneeln, Nebraska OFFICIAL PUBLICATION , UNTViCRSmf OP NEBRASKA Under direction of the Stadtnt Publication Board TWENTY-SIXTH TEAR Published Tuesday. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday earning durlnsr the aanit ysr. Idltoriai Office University Hall 4. Itueinea Office U Hall, Room No. 4. Office Honrs Editorial SUIT, 8:00 to (:00 except Friday and Sunday. Buainete Staff: afternoon! except Friday and 8undajr. Telephones Editorial and Buiineaei B8l, No. 142. Nliht BS8SI Entered ae aeeond-claae matter at the poetoffieo in Lincoln, Mehraika. under act of Concreee. March 1. 187, and at psi&i rata of postage provided for in section 1101, act of October t, HIT, authorised January 10, 1922. II year. SUBSCRIPTION RATE Single Copy I eents tUt emeater WILLIAM CEJNAR Lee Vance Arthur Sweet Horace W. Gomon Rath Palmer NEWS edttSfS Florence Swihart Dwlght IfeCormack ASSISTANT NEWS EDITORS Mary Louie Freeman EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Managing Editor Ant. Managing Editor Asst. Managing Editor Oscar Norllng Gerald Griffin T. SIMPSON MORTON Richard F. Vett ilton HcGrew William Kearna BUSINESS MANAGER Asst. Businees Manager Circulation Manager Circulation Manager SPENDING THE OLD MAN'S DOUGH The large relative number of young college women in Lincoln according to' some' shopping philosophers we have talked with, causes Lincoln stores to carry a "younger" line of goods and dresses than may be pur chased back in the old home, for instance, or in larger, more normal, big cities. The same secerns true to some extent of the men's clothing business, although men as a whole spend less on clothing in a college career than the girls do. (They spend most of their money on dates.) There are other lines of business, theaters, soft drink parlors, and restaurants, which are noticeably well patronized by students. In the summer time1 the city is relatively dead. And yet, the business men and the citizens minimize the business importance1 of the University student and faculty population. Notices In Other Columns All men are liars" runs a proverb. The author must have been a dean- of men. Athenaeum (West Virginia). FRIDAY. MAY 20. 1927. A CLASSIC SPORT Nebraska is host today and tomorrow to the pick of track and field athletes of the Missouri Valley, for two days, in the preliminaries this afternoon ana in the finals tomorrow, these men will vie for honors in the annual track and field championship meet of the conference. As a sport which has the most ancient and at the same time the most illustrious history and background of any form of athletics, track, in both the running and field events, is particularly fitting for intercolle giate competition. The ancient Greeks who gave the sport its greatest ancient glory enjoyed the competitive elements of the sport, and above all prized the attain ment of beauty and grace in form, in the manner of the doing as well as in the accomplishment. Modern track and field athletics under the direction of an ever improving coaching system while stressing a great deal the actual steel-tape and stop-watch accomplishments, at the same time is ever improving the form and man ner of doing as well. So we find today hurdlers leaping ovpr the barriers in more graceful style than a gener ation or so ago. Or we find pole vaulters and high jump ers with much improved form over that existing a lew t'oarc ocro. Track has still another attraction, and. that is the fact that the accomplishments, all recorded as they are in terms of immutable steel-tape and stop-watch, can be compared with those of the past or later on with those of the future, unlike those of the gridiron and basketball court which are purely relative and depend ent on the quality of the opposing team. This feature of the sport, this competition with the past and with the future often lends to the meets an interest far ex ceeding that of the immediate competition. Track is just entering on the era of its greatest collegiate popularity. It is the one great sport most free from professionalism. It is a college sport par excel lence. The University of Nebraska is happy to be host to its finest exemplars in this part of the country. At Wabash the faculty has decided to excuse all graduating seniors having an average of 80 or above in their coui-sm from final prsmintions. Kansas is having a similar agitation. Even Nebraska according to rumors is having somewhat of a senior grumble over final examinations. If only had a few reports from New York and the west coast, we could say it's a nation-wide movement. IN COLLEGE TOWNS One of the economic phenomena suffered by stu dents in every college seat except the very largest where the university or college and its students and faculty are a mere drop in the bucket, is the dispropor tionate spread between the prices students pay for things they buy and the wages they receive for work they do. Practically everybody is out to get all the student trade possible, and good standard prices sometimes hiVed up a bit in those items particularly appealing to students are the rule. Or. the other hand when the poor student wants a job, he is paid such miserable hourly wages (often times as low as 25 cents an hour) that the business men so employing them would probably be ashamed to offer their own sons jobs at such pittances. And no matter how small the wages, the quality and quantity of work expected in return is in nearly all cas quite as much as from other employees better paid. The situation is of course perfectly explainable on quite a human basis. Many of the students arc here with a lot of money. They are out to have good times, to buy good clothes, and above all they are inexpert n ced in the use of money. The merchants, business men tad all others catering to student trade, are just as much out after money as anybody else, and it is only human that they should take ali the advantage they can. "If I don't, somebody else will," Is a convenient salving rule. And when it cmes to student employment, the simple truth is that the labor market in that particular class is gutted. There are so many students willing to labor away at mere starvation wages, that the business men would consider themselves quite foolish to pay more when they can get just as hard working help for less. And in addition they can't escape a feeling, it seems, that they are doing a charitable deed in employ ing a student, and for that reason they think quite rrturilly VuX ILe aiuueni shouia be willing to work for little, and be thankful in the bargain. The situation will undoubtedly persist as long as college students remain as they are, and tbey will re main that way a long, long time. They are proad, stub born, and individualiistie to too high a degree to band together cr suboili to paternalistic supervision to give up their great privilege of "being done." Too Much Classroom It is rapidly becoming apparent that the intercol Ipgiate race to raise scholastic standards is reacting up on students in a baneful manner. The emphasis on class assignments leaves little to the individual initiative and places a premium upon pedantry. True schol-hip and sane educational methods are suffering as a lciilt of the struggle for Grade AA ranking. The University Daily Kansan, student publication at the University of Kansas, comments on this situa tion: "One of the crying needs of college students is longer day. If the 24 hours could be expanded to about 30 we would have time to fulfill the curdcular require ments along with our necessary activities, such as sleep ing, loafing, and reading for pleasure. The first poli tician who makes the 30-hour day his campaign issue will win the unanimous support of students. "Standards in education have risen to the point where students who desire to execute their assignments faithfully are in danger of developing the encyclopedic mind constipated with half-digested facts. Those who are interested in the highest type of self-development owe it to themselves to neglect at least two-thirds of their work, and to do the other third only when it is convenient." It is bad pedagogy to assign more work than a stu dent can reasonably accomplish. He will, perhaps, make a conscientious effort to do everything at first, find it impossible, and let some of the work slip. When he finds he can "get away with it," he probably becomes less earnest in his efforts and does less work than be fore, until finally he merely tries to get thru on a bluff, Unreasonably high standards thus defeat their own purpose. Marquette Tribune. FRIDAY, MAY 20 Penning Rifle, Perahins- Rifle Prill Friday at 5 P. m in full nnifcrm. 'V7hit6 unif',ms for the parade Tuesday, May 24. Kudi Pal Kappa Psi Senior Farewell party Friday evening at 8 o'clock at Ellen Sm.th Hall. Corn Cobs Luncheon at Cornhusker at 12. National delegates will be there and all Corncobs should be there without fail. United Religious Campus Council An important mcctinir of the United Re ligious campus council at 12 o'clock, at the 1 empie. SUNDAY, MAY 22 Horn Economics Home Economics club breakfast Sunday, May 22, at 8 o'clock at Ag Campus. Fifty cents. Tickets may be secured at the Home r.c buudinjr. TUESDAY, MAY 24 Scabbard and Blade There will be a very important meeting of Scabbard and Blade in Nebraska Hall 205. immediately following the review next Tuesday afternoon. May 24. The session will be short and every member is urged to report immediately the ceremonies are finished so that the meeting may get under way promptly. If Midland college of Fremont acts on the advice of its president and moves to Des Moines to be com bined with Des Moines University and Carthage col !e?e of Elinoi.', it may well lay claim to being the no mad college cl t)j3 part of the country. The proposed merger of plants and endowments, it is said would raise the resources of the new college to 2 million dollars and Fremont would be out one college, and the cham ber of commerce and the rotary club would have to hunt vp new schemes to kelp business in the falL PERHAPS BRICKS ARE CHEAPER MOW Another fraternity announces that It is building a new bouee to ccist only 20 thousand dollars. All last year the atmoanMiserta cf sr bo?H- wer quoted at at krt 45 tnorww) r,d tat&v as high as 65 thousand. W.l-er thf? later ones tut telling the truth, or they have t' covered it is tetter policy to underestimate contem l" ''i t'jrt rather than scare away prospective pledges t r ':;lt lo-Jk with dubious eyes on loads sad loads - fit -re fc:.'.i"ment paymests. Quoting the Bruin of U. C. L. A. It would seem as though there were enough false representations of college life afloat without deliber ately encouraging the filming of pictures which are a mockery to the dignity and to the educational purpose of a university. A short time ago we loaned our campus to a mo tion picture company for certain scenes in the serial entitled, "The Collegians". The return for our little act of generosity is a play which ridicules us unmerci fully. We made sure that the pictures would not place students in an immoral atmosphere, but we neglected a situation which has proven equally disastrous. We are not allowed a single worthwhile occupation; our only textbook seems to be Elinor Glyn; the dean is an old wind-bag who functions at all class scraps and hops, but is never seen performing any executive office; and the athletic coaches make more of a fracas between two individuals, just to see what happens, than of a varsity game. As an underlying current, all he-men are athletes; university co-eds run about the main quadrangle in bathing suits; and everything else is a student Hardly more realistic is the notion that anyone who is sincerely engaged in the pursuit of higher education wears horn rims and refers to his ''methods of perambulation" and his "powers of locomotion." The harm in distorting normal college life so that its participants do not recognize themselves, lies in the fact that the movies are the only glimpse some people will ever have of a university. It should be to our in terests to make it a true one. The Daily Trojan. "Useless Each Without the Other" A common topic for discussion at school and in the world at large is the relative importance of brain and brawn. Though each is useless without the other, the one is often lost in the glare that is attached to the other. Spectacular brawn lets its light shine forth until mind is as obscure as the desert flower or the "pearls of pur est ray serene in the dark unfatbomed caves" of ocean depths. There are big headlines and many pages for "kings of swat" (ball or "man swatters"). The man who writes a book or patents something gets a brief mention. It is idle to expect the boy in the grammar grades to give up his spectacular muscular heroes to devote his adulations to the less dazzling achievements of scholars. He is too young and immature. Marco Bozaris who died while bleeding at all of his veins or babe Ruth who hit three home runs in a single1 world series game appeal to him more strikingly than other heroes could. The average citizen with n rer:gc ience of sixth grade attainment cannot be expected to appreciate a scholar's record with the same fervor that he would attend a basketball game. because of these attitudes on the part of the boy in the grades, ft does not follow that high schools and colleges should reflect the tame attitude relative to brain and brawn. Schools are dedicated to the promotion of human welfare by arming our young citizens against ignorance with essential knowledge. Knowledge without health being of little use. We mix athletics with knowledge getting for the sake of health and recreation. Contests and publicity are provided to stimulate athletics. Schol arship is encotuiged in like ways. Along with the fos tering of scholarship and athletics there often occurs tne attempt of athletics to dominate, Athletics some times wags the schooL It is a common failing of high schools. Sometimes names and achievements of athletic stars blaze forth on front pages of college publications while scholarship get brief mention. Athletes swagger to the center of the college stage and encamp. Scholar or no scholar, be is it. Athletics has its place fn every school program. &j does rxholarsbip. The Hubby scbolsr who in too bnry for etfrfelif-s or physical exercise i a paUiic pron; so is the athlete who cannot do anything worth while in the classroom. Schools should not give athletics grtkUr prominence than scholarship. Scholarship de serves a fall measure of emphasis. Each should help to improve the flaror of the other. The MoctsaosuL VALLEY TRACK STARS GATHER FOR MEET (Continued from Page One.) steadiest performer on the Husker squad this season. The list of 880 men, however, in cludes Jack Sides, Oklahoma speed ster who fooled the wise-acres at the vn'Iey indoor meet and may do it again, Epstein of Missouri, who tntil a few days ago held the Missjuri Val ley freshmen record in the half mile, Caulum of Iowa State, Conger's run- ring mite, McGrat'i. Axttll, and Moody, the fast Kansa3 Aggies trio, and Van Laningham of Pri c.. Mosi of these same stars will also fight it oat :n the mile run where thi record is again in danger. Frazier May Win Two Mile Toco" Frazier, diminutive Kan san, is the favorite in the two-mile but he will be faced by" as stiff com petition as he has met any time this year in Keith and Niblack of Okla homa, who will also be dangerous contenders in the mile, McCartney and Hays of Nebraska, Sarvia, an other Jayhawker, and Steele of Mis souri. Thft hurdles will br'ng together a battery of stars that will be hard to eliminate. Oklahoma heads the list with four notable" performers, Dun- son, the fleet Indian who took both hurdles at the indoor meet, Flint, sophomore who has ben posbir. Dunson of late, Cornelison, always a dangerous competitor, and "Bud" Taylor, winner of the low hurdles in last year's valley meet. Doornbos is Kansas Hope Kansas has Doornbos who bas pushed first place winners in prev ious years, Drake has Penquite who gave Ed Weir a great race a year ago in the Nebraska-Drake dual meet, Kansas Aggies has Fairchild who has run nip and tuck with both Doornbos and Penquite in meets this season, and the Cornhuskers have the two (Continued on Page Three.) TODAY AT RECTOR'S 25c Devilled Egg TostetU Banana Salad Any 6c drink PORTACLE TYPEWRITER Oh? OmJjJnh'nn This lifetime Gift Beautifully designed, built to last a lifetime thcRopl Portable Typewriter is the ideal gift. Weighs only nine and a half pounds net, has the advantages of a big office machine sec the Royal Portable today. 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