THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
The Daily Nebr&skan
Statloa A, Lincoln. Mttnikt
OFFICIAL PUBLICATION
UNIVERSITY OF N8BRA8CA
Under direction of tlx Student Fnblleation Board
TWBNTY-flEVXNTH TXAR
rnkltahed TBeaaay. Wedn.idar, Tharidar, Friday, and Sunday
eaonHaca daring th aeademio year.
Editorial OrTlee Unlvereity Hll 4.
Buaineei Office Univerelty Hll 4A.
Offlee Uran JEdltarUI Suit, t:00 to 1:00 exoept rriday end
Bandar. Buaineai Staff i afternoon. ot Friday and
Sunday.
Telephone. Editorial: B6S91, No. 142; Bo.ineaat B68l, No.
77; Night B82.
i . I .1... . t(.. t thm nnatnfflea In Lincoln,
Hehra.ka. under aot of Conrreee. March t. 187t. and at epeeial
nta o noetaa-o nrovided for In aactlon 1101. act of Ootober 1.
1017. authorized January 10. 192i.
It yoar.
SUBSCRIPTION RATE
Single Copy I eanU
SI. to a nmaln
Editor-in-Chief
Managing Editor
Ami. Managing Editor
Loo Tanoo ..
Oscar Norling . . ..
... k Vklma
Oorald E. Griffin ,. , , - Aeet. Managing Editor
NEWS EDITORS
Edward G. DIckion
Monro ateser
ASSISTANT NEWS EDTIOR3
lanl F. Nalaoa
Maurlco KonkeJ
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Kenneth Anderson ,
Munro Kezer
Mary Louiaa Frnman
Paul Marti
Batty Thornton
' Dorothy Nott
Floranea Swihart
Doan Hammond
Kate Goldataln
Maurico Spat
Joyca Ayree
Florence Seward
Otho K. DeVilbisa
Richard F. Vetta
Milton McCraw
William H. Kearna
J. MarihaU Pitier .
Aaat.
. Buaineia Manager
Buaineaa Manager
Circulation Manager
Ciroulation Manager
THE UNIVERSITY FALLS DOWN
"I can't see right now that the University is doing
me a bit of good," a freshman remarked. Hundreds
of other students, not only freshmen but also upper-
classmen could probably -have mads the same remark
with perfact honesty.
This particular freshman admitted that he was
willing to plug along without seeing where college was
going to do him any good, without seeing that he was
getting anything that he could use later, because he
felt it has been so conclusively demonstrated that a
college education is an advantage.
There are many students in a similar situation
feeling that higher education is beneficial but utterly
unable to see its connection to life in the world outside
of college. Unfortunately, there is a considerable group
which does not even have that definite a conception
of the reasons underlying their attendance at the Uni
versity.
These 6tudents can not be blamed for this lack
of understanding. They have come here hopeful of
finding something, they know not what. It is the Uni
versity which is falling down. The University goes on
in its mechanical way offering a wide variety of cour
ses. It offers training but fails to make any attempt
to show students the significance of the' training of
fered.
It is true that the University of Nebraska, as
other institutions, does make sporadic efforts in this
direction. Students in the College of Arts and Sciences
are given one hour a week during their first year, that
is, freshman lecture, in which an elementary attempt
is made to outline the significance of the work offered
in the departments of that college. A similar endeavor
is made in the engineering orientation course.
Helpful as these may be they are far from suf
ficient. They give the student but a bare outline of the
possibilities of certain types of subjects offered. They
do not serve to clarify for him what each individual
course can. do for him. Too often the professor stays
within the narrow outlinea of his subject which do
not permit that widening of the vision of the student
which might show him the real significance of the
course.
Part of this situation is inevitable in the large
university. Direct personal contacts can not be estab
lished to any great extent. The University could, how
ever, make a more serious effort to show students what
they can expect from the work they are taking.
Educational problems have become common sub
jects of discussion in late years. This is one which
vitally concerns the more practical-minded students.
Such students do not readily see the significance of
what they are doing. Unable to see, they can not be
expected to delve as seriously and with as much vigor
and interest into the subjects they are taking as the
student who knows what he is to gain from a course.
A serious attempt by the University to remedy this
condition would be a first and significant step in im
proving the scholarship and the advantages of college
to the practical student.
braska, who have not received very much credit for
their work, are the judging teams of the University.
Since the establishment of the College of Agriculture,
judging teams have been competing against teams from
other universities .usually bringing home the bacon.
At the American Royal livestock exposition held
in Kansas City Saturday, the senior livestock judging
team of Nebraska competed with f ourtoen universities.
Nebraska was awarded eighth place. One Nebraska
man was high man in the individual stock judging con
test and another Nebraska man placed third. These men
are keeping agricultural Nebraska before the public,
a constant reminder of state acivity.
Members of Nebraska's judging teama receive
nothing but experience for their work. In many cases
they help defray part of the expense of the trips from
their own pockets. They work for the honor alone.
Nebraska, as an agricultural state, should recognize
their accomplishments. Much credit is due them.
Notices
FOOTBALL RUNS THE GAUNTLET
Football, like Prohibition and Fords, must suf
fer. It was never meant that anything gaining such un
usual national prominence and support as the King
of Sports should escape wreathed in bouquets alone.
Along about the? fall of every year, when people start
paying two dollars and more apiece for the privilege
of seeing two football teams in action, and joyously
ruin their throat and lungs, the lid goes off with a bang,
and the Annual Argument is on. Victories and defeats
on the gridiron are sometimes almost submerged to
the battle of fans versus critics.
Two articles appearing in these columns are typ
ical of the opposing stands taken on football. One de
fends the college game as encouraging to higher edu
cation, stimulating to larger school populations, and
even an inspiration to higher scholarship among the
players. The other article attacks the first, disparaging
the belief that football encourages advanced learning;
it discourages absolutely any theory that the game has
any connection whatsoever with brain power, and dis
misses as impossible the idea that football players are
now also good scholars.
Still the game continues to grow in popularity
and appeal. It draws monstrous crowds, pays rich
dividends, and gains new adherents almost without ef
fort. It pushes on in disregard of critical pens. And it
is almost an even bet that those1 who criticize most
ardently, get their Saturday football just the same.
' ; Football is in the blood. It provide" the Great
American Thrill. Pick your side of the argument, and
ihen forget about, it, and enjoy the resv. of the games.
Most everybody does. ,
Daily Nebraskan readers are cordially Invited to contri
bute articlea to this column. This paper, however, assumes no
responsibility for the sentiment expressed herein, and re
serves the right to exclude any libelous or undesirable matter.
A limit of six hundred words has been placed on all contributions.
Long Live tho King!
To the Editor:
Elsewhere on this page is an editorial clipped from
a local newspaper. Its theme is the worship of old
King Football, that monarch who dominates the Amer
ican educational world at this season of the year.
Now, all that will be said in this reply has been
said before. The facts have been gone over time and
again, yet the American people still hold the fond il
lusion that King Football is the greatest boon Educa
tion ever had. The fundamental error in this assump
tion, too, has been pointed out times innumerable,
that football has nothing whatsoever to do with the
improvement of education.
"No other factor has so tended to increase inter
est in education as football," says the editorial in ques
tion. "The most rapidly growing institutions in the
country today are those whose exploits are most feared
and respected upon the gridiron." We respect our el
ders and those sterling thinkers who have seen more
of journalism than we have. But it must be laboriously
reiterated, what any intelligent editorial writer would
surely grant that the size of a university is a poor
measuring-stick of its worth as an educational institu
tion. Must we prove this again, and yet again? Will not
people remember that David slew the giant, that Oedi
pus foiled the Sphinx, and that the squirrel outwitted
the mountain f
But Americans are noted for those peculiar com
plexes which reckon size the noblest of the virtues. Yet
our work is a great one, and we will go on sparring
with the writers who give King Football the laurels
he doesn't deserve. After all, that is the important
point. The protagonists of football and modern educa
tion cry out that football has made education available
to more people, and has aroused more interest in in
tellectual culture. That is not true, and it is not fair
that the King should be lauded for something he did
not do.
And as for the statement, in the editorial reprinted
here, that "the present-day athlete maintains a high
standard of scholarship," well, any one wishing to
find out about this matter had best ask those athletes'
teachers, ask their class mates, and ask the deans. The
answer, we predict, will not be a pleasant one.
G. Y.
Wednesday. November 16
Corncobs
Meeting of the Corncobs Wednesday ovo
nlng at 7:1 In room 164 of tha Temple.
Important that everyone planning on going
to Manhattan be there.
Gamma Alpha hl
Gamma Alpha Chi will meet Wednesday
at 6 o'clock In th eadvertising office.
Girls Commercial Club Picture
Girls Commercial Club picture will be
taken Wedneaday noon at 12:50 o'clock.
Girls Commercial Club
Tha Girls Commercial Club will have a
business meeting Wednesday at 6 o'clock,
at Ellen Smith Hall.
Student Council
Student Council meeting Wednesday, B
o'clock. Temple 204.
Friday, November 18
Palladian Literary Society
The alun ni members of the Palladian
Literary Society have charge of the pro
gram Friday, November 18 at 8:30 sharp,
third floor of the Temple. Everyone is in
vited. Saturday, November 19
Catholic Students Club
The Catholic Students Club will hold a
dance at University Club Saturday.
having the highest average, and an
introduction of the graduate schol
ars in the college.
A. J. Weaver, prominent citizen
of Falls City, Nebr., will address the
students after the awards have been
made. Owing to Mr. Weaver's pop
ularity as a speaker, Bizad students
are assured of an interesting convocation.
Calendar
Thursday, November 17
A. W. S. Tea, Ellen Smith hall
Kindergarten party, Ellen Smith
hall.
Friday, November 18
Delta Sigma Delta fall party,
Rosewilde.
Saturday, November 19
Sigma Chi-fall party, Lincoln.
Cosmopolitan club initiation, room
202, Temple.
PONY CHORUS
IS ANNOUNCED
(Continued from Page 1)
Work has begun on all of the Kos-
n:et acts, and the leads and blues
singers will be announced some time
this week. According to statements
made by members of the Kosmet
Klub committees this show has an
excellent group of variety acts. Dif
ficulty in selecting fraternity and
sorority acts speaks well for the
quality of those skits.
Ray Ramsay, instructor in dramat
ics in the university, will preside
CHURCH LEADER
VISITS LINCOLN
(Continued from Page 1)
general discussion of Lutheran stu
dent activities, national and local.
Tickets for the luncheon may be ob
tained from Miss Martha Mantz, stu
dent secretary, on the first floor of
the Temple, for forty cents each.
Rev. Harry also wishes to estab
lish personal contacts with students
through interviews which any stu
dent can arrange with him.
Miss Mantz announces that this
Friday right's Lutheran club party
will be an initiation of new mem
bers. The party will be held in room
204 Temple building, beginning at
8 o'clock sharp. All Lutheran stu
dents and any other students inter
ested are invited to these parties
which are held every first and third
Friday of each month. The intent of
the club is social as well as religious,
and it aims to create a better un
derstanding and feeling among stu
dents in general.
A. W. S. BOARD
ENTERTAINS AT TEA
(Continued from Page 1)
Jack, chairman of the committee in
charge of the Girls' Cornhusker
party to be held, Friday, December
9 at the nrmory under the auspices
of the Associated Women's Student
board. The affair will be a costume
party and all university women are
invited.
There will be prizes for the best
costumes. Skits will, be put on by
Mystic Fish, Xi Delta,. Silver Ser-
over the entire show as master of Pncs ana tassels ana the evening
ceremonies. The show will have i De spent in dancing and playing
In Other Columns
AGRICULTURAL COMPETITORS
For the past f if teen ' years, Cornhusker football
teams, playing schools of national prominence, have
established an enviable reputation for the state of Ne
braska. They have plated Nebraska on the map.
Other organizations have also done their part
t..v.?:,'7 tln mt, bui it is tho genera! opinion that the
"'I squad i3 mainly responsible for the favorable
i -j' Vi i'y Nebraska has received.
Organizations representing the University of Ne-
THIS IS THE LIFE
When a number of college presidents a year ago
protested that football was beginning to dominate all
of the campus activities, they were Btating the case
rather mildly. '
Roughly estimated, more than a million people
gathered in the university and college stadiums in the
United States last Saturday to watch their favorite
elevens battle for supremacy upon the gridiron.
The financial side of football has become nearly
as absorbing as the sport itself. Nebraska, far removed
from the great centers of population, is a typical case
in point. Her athletic plant as it stands today represents
an expenditure of $750,000, none of which has come
from the pockets of the taxpayers. The stadium was
built through popular subscription, and from the prof
its of football at a cost of $450,000. The field house,
which not only fills a most vital part in the athletic
program but likewise has become a community center,
cost another $300,000. Receints from football
in which Nebraska has or will participate this year
will exceed $200,000, of which Nebraska receives a
half. Interest charges upon outstanding obligations,
additions to the bond retirement fund, eauinment.
coaching staff and other expenses will practically utilize
every cent of it.
And yet no other factor has so tended to increase
interest in education im football. The most rapidly
growing institutions in the country today are those
whose exploits are most feared and respected upon the
gridiron. A game which has sufficient fascination to
inspire a desire in thousands of young men to attend
the universities and colleges, which implants high ideals
and a spirit of sportsmanship in these same young
chaps, which develops a brand of devotion and loyalty
akin to the patriotism which one holds for country, is
well worth-while and is performing a most valuable
service.
After all has been said by these critics, football
is accomplishing the prime purpose of the college and
university. The bid type of football player who at
tended college for the sole purpose of playing football
has all but disappeared from the campus. He is f. owned
upon by the faculty and by the student body itself.
The present-day athlete maintains a high standard of
scholarship, generally works harder than the young
men who have no part in athletics, and leaves college
well-prepared for the grimmer battle which confronts
him.
Excerpt from Lincoln SUr.
some of the characteristics of Uni
versity Nights of previous years,
and will contain local color and skits
pertaining to university life. In all
probability a downtown theatrical
company will present an act, but in
the main this show4will have a Uni
versity of Nebraska cast. The Dra
matic club will present a one-act
play, which will be in line with the
spirit of the variety show.
Coming on the morning of the last
Cornhusker football game of this
season, this vaudeville will be inter
spersed with cheers and Nebraska
songs.A Kosmet Klub breakfast at
the Idyl Hour will precede the show.
It will start at 8 o'clock, and all stu
dents are invited to attend. A
beat-New York spirit will be fostered
in this gathering, and will permeate
the entire Kosmet production. Per
sons planning to attend the New
York-Nebraska game on Tnanksgiv
ing are being invited to attend the
Kosmet Klub variety show of 1927.
1927.
BIZAD STUDENTS
MEET AT DINNER
(Continued from Pago 1)
Business Administration students
will be held Tuesday, November 22.
The first part of the convocation will
be given to the awarding of the
freshmen scholarship prizes, the
Delta Sigma Pi key to the senior
games. The program of skits and the
judges for tho costumes will be an
nounced later by the chairman of
the party.
Skeleton Is Subject
For Recent Work
(Continued from Page 1)
the skeleton in oven drying, while
the adult skeleton loses but 35 per
cent. Male skeletons were found
to be heavier in the adult stage, but
the females mature earlier.
Ir. Latimer has found that the
weight of the oven-dried skeleton of
the male increases 200 times from
hatching to maturity, while that of
the female increases but 162 times
The paper compares the increase of
the various bones to the total skeletal
increase. In addition to the differ
ences in weight, a sex difference in
length of the bones was found in the
wing bones and those of the lower
extremities.
American Watches
for Americans
Our Specialty
Fenton B. Fleming
1143 "O"
HEY CORNHUSKERS
Meet the
Sensation of the Year
THE
U of N
HAND SOKS
Get a pair wear 'em on the
campus wear 'em to Manhat
tan wear 'em at the New
York game show your TEAM
you're backing them to your
fingertips. Yep, you'll be as
enthusiastic about them as we
are. What are they? they're
the hottest thing in town when
it comes to mittens Red on
one side and white on the other
-you said it they're WOWS.
See them on the campus today
then tear down to Simon's
and climb into a pair be a
hot handed Cornhusker. "
35c Pair
WORK PROGRESSES
FOR MILITARY BALL
(Continued from Pag 1)
stretched overg their square, and
two elaborate flower decorations
will be placed in front of them. Two
similar decorations will be placed at
the head of the stairs leading to the
fortress.
The honorary colonel will be pre
sented at 10:30 o'clock, after which
the guns will fire a salute to her. A
grand march will be formed made
up of all the commissioned officers,
which will line up in front of the
fortress. The honorary colonel and
cadet-colonel will then lead the
march in various formations.
CONDRA RAISED
TO HIGH POST
(Continued from Page 1)
of Michigan 1891-2, received his B.
Sc. degree from the University of
Nebraska in 1896, his A. M. degree
in 1898, and his Ph. D. degree in
1903.
He has been connected with the
University of Nebraska as professor
and chairman of the department of
industry and survey, and director of
the conservation and survey division
since 1902. He is founder of the
High School Fete day, freshman
sophomore Olympics, freshman initia
tion and advisory member of the In
nocents. j
He has spent a large part of his '
time on conservation work both
state and national and is author of
many papers and bulletins, chiefly
on geology, geography and isoilsf
Nebraska. He is a member of sev
eral national scientific societies and
is also a member of the Association
of American Geographies, Sigma Xi
Alpha Zeta, Innocents and is a Ma
son and Shriner.
Omega (smoothing down
unruly hair:) Lend me
ypttrStayslick,uillyout
Alpmfi all out; but
ffiucantiskmyHiggins'
Pslc that'll stick
anything.iA
X0 matter w;ho ou stick or
what ypu'. stick? : tube of
II;ggins' Office I)uoU '.Will never
fail you. yllsQin. ftl4ss jars.
Smooth, toft and. easy tAspread.
Keep some -handy for tl many
daily needs ot your biisife.
One dime or more depfin&ng
on how much yd-j wantafyour
dealers.
FOR SALE BYt
College Book Store
Don Pendell Walter C. CMalley
"DON'S WAY"
SANDWICH, PIE and
COFFEE HOUSE
Our Slogan: "Nothing Over 5c"
Curb Service
Phone B-2352 1637 O St.
Lincoln, Nebr.
l.JiiirinmaOnlnrOneJi bade Mart a. f, Pat.oc,
27
rn
hf
7cPressureless
Touch
"Npn-Breakable
barrel
28 lighter than rubber
"Sure-fire" every time you call
on it to write that's why the
Parker Duofold already 2 to 1
favorite among students is con
stantly increasing Its load.
If any Duofold Pen should
ever fail to perform to perfection,
send it to Parker with 10c for re
turn postage and insurance and
well make it good free.
Mandarin Yellow with smart
black tips is the latest effect that
this style starter introduces. Duo
fold in Black-tipped Lacquer-red,
Jade, Lapis Lazuli Blue, or Flash
ing Black and Gold is the same
pen in a different dress.
Give your eyes a feast give
your hand a treat, at the nearest
Parker Duofold pen counter.
Thb Parker Pen Company
ianesvo.lb, wis.
T&rter
VuqfoldJr.
Over-en 7
'Hp Expense After 'Purchase
To pmre Parker Duofold Pene will etay In
twfwt orrter. Parker agreee to maka good
"n? fho"ll 'ail, provided complete
by th" owner direct to Parker
who lbc for return portage and Inaaraoee.
ID Sodetr Brand
wouldn't think
it could be done!
In fact, you'd think it
quite as impossible as the
feat pictured in our illus
tration. What? A Society
Brand overcoat 67 the
very smartest sort, made
up in an unusually fine
fabric, at this price! You
wouldn't think it could
be done but by limiting
it exclusively to this one
style and this one type of
fabric, Society Brand has
done it. A wonderful
coat by name. The
Chief.
$40lo$75
$25 tsW
$30 lJ
$35 V Sooletr Brand
OTHEITTa
a I V t
tUAlS
Clothing Dept., 2nd Floor
v" W1"? m L..S. - - -e.
EL! SrtlEfiS.pfcES.
Roy Miltonberger, Dept. Manager
SOCIETY BRAND CLOTHES