THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
The Daily Nebraskan
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TWENTY-SEVENTH YEAR
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JUSTIFIED HONOR
Announcement of the newly elected members of
Phi Beta Kappa will be made this morning at a Uni
versity convocation to be held in the Temple. Those
elected will represent the students with the highest
averages from the classes graduating last July, August,
January or the coming June. .
Students whose averages are not high" enough to
be included in this list often seek compensation by re
peating the old phrase that grades do not indicate edu
cation and that the "grinds" (a general classification of
the members of Phi Beta Kappa) are nearly always
surpassed by the other students after college. This is
such a popular misconception that it is actually be
lieved by many.
A survey of the records of graduates of several
of the larger universities, however, shows that such
an idea is false and proves that there is a true connec
tion between excellent grades in college and connection
afterwards.
True, there are exceptions. Some students must
work their way through college and are unable to de
vote sufficient time to their studies to merit such
grades. Others are taking specialized courses that do
not meet the requirements set by the society. And
others, who have good grades, prefer to devote time to
activities which they consider more beneficial rather
than to the boosting of their grades to the P. B. K.
standard. But in these exceptions the individual learned
the value of diligent endeavor .There are also abuses
of the grade system in which students pick their courses
and play up to the instructors in order that they may
receive excellent grades.
But the . majority of those elected are indeed
worthy of the honor. Although their names are not
heralded by the newspapers, their efforts not cheered
by the student body, the newly elected members of
Phi Beta Kappa represent that achievement which is,
after all, most worthwhile.
The Cynic Says:
The parallel signs that are being put up along R
street indicate that Commissioner Bair is giving the
University parking situation due consideration.
In Other Columns
Co-ed: You had no business kissing me.
Stude: It wasn't business it was a pleasure. Wis
consin Cardinal.
THE STUDENT'S HAT IN THE RING
College students have manifested a keen concern
over political problems as evinced by the organization
of campus political parties. To all appearances the
impending presidential election will not find undergrad
uates apathetic in regard to their civic obligations.
Marked interest has been shown by fraternities and
other societies. These groups have given material ex
pression to their political concern by electing delegates
to conventions and have instituted campaigns.
Student activity such as this refutes the charge
that collegiate youth is uninterested and scornful of
participation in governmental affairs. If there is any
apathy on the part of students in the playing of politics
it may be better attributed to multiplicity of other in
terests or to a feeling of diffidence and inexperience.
The organization of political parties augurs well
for the future of the state for the college trained indi
vidual is better equipped to appraise- and study condi
tions in the government than is the non-college trained
person. There are still to be observed too many rough
and ready, cracker barrel, and log-rolling tactics in
politics. Gross inefficiency still characterizes a deplor
ably large amount of government administration and
maintenance. With the increasing influx of college men
and women into politics much of the approbrium which
has been enveloped about statesmanship may be cast
aside and supplanted by a higher regard and admira
tion. The popular figure of the back-slapping, harran
guing, illogical, soap box politician may then indeed
become a historical novelty along with the cigar store
Indian and the horse drawn trolley car.
The entrance of college men and women into poli
tics is not necessarily the anodyne that will purge
governmental activity of all its graft and corruption,
but the entrance of intelligence and sympathetic un
derstanding always acrues to the benefit and vitaliza
tion of any institution. Any movement that seeks to
focus intelligent attention upon the affairs of state
portends well for the state and should be encouraged.
Certain responsibilities are clothed with the stu
dent who enters political circles as well as the exper
ienced and professional politician has certain obliga
tions to discharge. No student should "toss his hat into
the ring" or participate in political skirmishes with a
cocksure, intellectually-intollerant attitude toward the
"old guard" or toward the conventions of the "game."
Likewise neither should the veteran politician regard
the inexperienced college student with the disdain of
the practical minded for the theories of the idealists.
Feelings of mutual good-will and assistance should
permeate all of the dealings between the political pro
tagonists of the campus and of the workaday world.
The Minnesota Daily.
Notices
Phi Lambda Upsllon
Dr. C. J. Hhlrk will speak at an open
meeting of Phi Lambda Upsllon. chemical
society, tonight at 8 o'cloik. Ills subject
will be "the living cell a i-hemical Labor
story." Wednesday, April 4
Aviation Committee
The Aviation Committee of tho Lincoln
Chamber of Commerce has received from
the Aeronautiral Division of the Wichita
Chamber of Commerce Wichita, Kans., a
notice announcing a competition offering
$1,000 in four cash prises for the best prac
tical suggestions of methods, systems and
designs for marking airways and airports.
The detail of the pmn,t it inn mav be leam
cd by Inquiring at the Lincoln Chamber of
Commerce.
A. S. M c. MMtlni
A. 8. M. E. meeting is scheduled for
7:30 Wednesday evening In Mechanical En-
ginwra' building, room 206. William l.
Younkin will give the lecture. The meeting
is open to the general public.
Gamma Alnha Chi
Gamma Alpha Chi meeting at 6 o'clock
Wednesday in the advertising office.
Frosh Any good seats left?
Ticket lady U-21,
Frosh No, I'm not, but if it's that kind of a
show I don't want to see it anyway. Purdue Exponent.
THE BULL SESSION
A first year student said something the other day
that pithily expressed the experience of the freshman
in college. He remarked that he had certainly encoun
tered many new experiences since last September. It
may be that when he is a senior these experiences of
his plebe year will appear insignificant in retrospection.
Yet insignificant as they may appear later, the fresh
man is abruptly thrust into influences and situations
that subtly but surely fashion his ideas and concepts
of society and his conduct in socety. Such an influence
that is much berated and but little defended is the
bull session.
Probably the greatest reason for this bad opinion
of the bull session is the misunderstanding of what a
bull session is. The prevalent opinion is that it is merely
a smut session. Let the difference be clear. The bull
session may be compared to a ladies aid meeting in that
both are a time of discussion, debate, and argument.
One is offered the opportunity to express personal
ideas and philosophies in the atmisphere of the session.
Smut is relegated to the discard; temporarily at least.
Very often a professor is the center of the ses
sion. Drinking coffee or tea, smoking and lounging
about the room a half dozen or so fellows will open
their minds and express themselves as never is done
in the class-room. There is a similarity here with the
education of the ancient Spartan youth. It was their
custom to gather around their elders and imbibe of
their knowledge. The professor who is thus admitted
to warm intimacy with his students is in a far better
position to exert his influence and personality over
them than can ever be achieved in the class-room.
Then there is the even less formal type of bull
session. This kind begins with two fellows debating the
relative value of law and medicine, and breaks up at
three in the morning, in the course of which perhaps
n dozen fellows have swept through politics, history,
science, love, philosophy, religion or any number of
subjects that are popularly supposed to be foreign to
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w.c V.UUI-BIUIB uiuiii. muse persons wno nrmly believe
that religion never bothers the brain of the student
would have been startled to hear the divinity of Christ
and the authenticity of the Bible earnestly debated in
a certain fraternity house the other evening.
The bull session accomplishes what the class-room
fails in. The bull session is an irrestistable attraction
that induces the student to contribute hia ideas and
information before his fellow students. It is a college
institution hallowed by tine .Those who frown upon
this custom certainly have never known the exhilara
tion that comes only from the bull session.
THE PERILS OF CO-EDUCATION
A football codch attributed a spotty season to the
distracting presence of co-eds in the university. An
other found a reason for successful seasons in the fact
that his school was a boys' school. The idea does not
square with romance if it docs with fact. It has been
claimed that men were more verile under the eyes
of women.
Sometime, and perhaps soon, we think the whole
question of' co-education ought to be investigated.
The system has been in practice long enough for its
results to have scientific value.
Our own impression is that co-education is a very
mixed blessing. As someone once put it, "It's swell for
the girls and hell for the boys."
The average girl matures two or three years earlier
than the average boy. By the time she gets to college
she is an adult physically, mentally, and socially. Her
chief concern is finding a husband, (!) and a co-educational
college offers her four years of daily contact
with a select type of male. It is a made-to-her-order
bargain counter in husbands, and the number of col
lege romances attest to the fact that the co-ed is aware
of her opportunity and takes full advantage of it . . .
The average boy, on the other hand, reaches col
lege still in the horse-play stage of adolescence. He
still needs to ease his growing pains with rough sports,
and his interests are still the learning, and making,
and collecting interests of the boy. The girl is a woman
when she reaches college; the boy is not a man until
he leaves college. The contacts of co-education, which
are natural to the girl, are unnatural to the boy. He
is distracted . . . The girl is being fitted for life;
tne boy is wasting the time he should be using in be
coming fitted for life. ...
So we suggest co-education if any for women.
For men, four years among men. Which presents rather
a problem in arithmetic, if you care to take is as ser
iously as that. Chicago Tribune.
deal line has necessarily been set in
order to allow an announlement of
the results.
Games for the furtherance of the
horseshoe singles tourney were
scheduled yesterday. They follow:
Tuesday, Court 1, Phi Kappa Psi
vs. Sigma Alpha Mu, 4 to 5; Delta
Sigma Phi vs. Delta Tau Delta, 5 to
C. Court 2, Tau Kappa Epsilon vs.
Pi Kappa Phi, 4 to 5; Theta Chi vs.
Beta Theta Pi, 5 to 6.
Wednesday, Court 1, Phi Kappa
vs. Pi Kappa Alpha, 4 to 5; Sigma
Phi Epsilon vs. Phi Sigma Kappa, 5
to 6. Court 2, Alpha Tau Omega vs.
Alpha Sigma Phi, 4 to 6; Theta Xi
vs. Farm House, 5 to 6.
Instructors Christen
New Car With Pop
(Continued from Page 1)
the bottle of "pop"' high in the air,
blessing it and breaking it on the
front of the car.
One by one the packages were
opened and as each gift was present
ed the little horn gave two "Thank
You" toots. What car wouldn't be
proud to receive such gifts as a
sponge, a chamois, a wind-shield
wiper, and a highly decorated, tire
cover?
(Instructors must have their fun
even if there is Pi Lambda Theta initiation.)
Engineers Go on
Annual Spring Trip
(Continued from Page 1)
through the International Harvester
Company. This company will act as
hosts to the group at lunch.
Visit Edison Plant
A tour of inspection will also be
made to the Edison Commonwealth
Company. Wednesday will see the
party at Buffington, Indiana, view
ing the plant of the Universal Port
land Cement Company. An inspec
tion of the Inland Steel Company at
Indiana Harbor, is included on the
Wednesday program. i
Thursday will be spent at Kenosha
and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Trips
will be made in Chicago Friday, and
Saturday morning.
Headquarters for the party will be
established at the Fort Dearborn
hotel, Chicago.
Kosmet Klub Starts
Ticket Sales
(Continued from Page 1)
met Klub troupe will journey to Fre
mont where they play the second
time, the evening of April 10. From
Fremont the show will be taken to
"Hello babe wanta go for a little ride?"
"Oh I'd love to go."
"You'd have to." Idaho Argonaut.
After St Patrick had labored many, many years
to rid Erin of her vermin, and had completed his task,
he celebrated. Thus it happened that on his way home
after the celebration he ran across a huge dragon, well
over seventy feet long, which he had never met before.
He drew his sword and rushed to the attack. The tough
hide of the monster resisted the blows of the great
weapon, but finally the dragon succumbed and was
hacked to bits. St. Patrick feebly staggered home. The
next morning a neighbor was agreeably surprised to
see the large oak tree which he had felled the day
before, cut to kindling and scattered over his front
lawn. Cornell Daily. Sun.
Orton Gives Ohio
Graduation Talk
(Continued fr ji Page 1)
the difficulty of getting a start any
where in these professions without
influence or money is admittedly
very severe."
To remedy this over-production of
graduates, and to increase the qual
ity of iht oolpnt, Ocaem! Arton fa
9rs fewer cc-l'ogo graduates. He
blames the quantity on the ease with
which !otv cost education May bo had
in ett universities. Reduction In
the number;' of students would not
only eliniinate overcrowding in a
few field, but would nlso raise the
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April Fools Day
Brings Many Jokes
(Continued from Page 1)
porting fires and they no doubt, be
came tired of their task before call
ing up 'more fraternities. At least
most of the boys were left in peace
to enjoy the beautiful day.
Too Tired to Care
The S.'mr.a Chis weren't quits .sure
whether any cue tried to fool them
or not. They couldn't be disturbed
in the morning, not even by the tele
phone, (as was probably the case
with a few others,) and by afternoon
were gone on so many picnics that
the phone may have jingled merrily
for the rszt of the day. Chick Dox
stated that few jokes were pulled at
the Delta Tau Delta house, "At least
not that you could print in papers,"
he added.
Interfraternity Meet
Will Be Soon
(Continued from Page 1)
new diamonds have been secured for
the games. No closing date for the
entrance blanks has been set but
Lewis is anxious to start action in
this sport as it taxes the round robin
schedule to complete all the games
before the Bummer recess period be
gins. New Ruling;
Concurrent with the announce
ments regarding track and baseball
came a new ruling affecting the
horseshoe doubles contests, stating
that r!l games not played by pril
5 at 6 o'clock will not be counted in
the final scoring. Fraternities have
been lax in turning back the score
sheets, according to Lewis, and the
Hoover, Smith
Lead in Polls
(Continued from Page 1)
Republicans, chosen to appear on the
ballots received in all 46,879 votes,
while the total count for all the
choices, including a score or more
names not generally listed, approach
ed 60,000.
Among these the also rans were
Will Rogers, Aimee Semple McPhcr
son, "Big Bill" Thompson of Chi
cago, Lindbergh, Norman Thomas,
Senator Heflin of Alabama, Pres
ident Butler of Columbia, and a col
lege professor.
Five women's colleges took part:
Wellesley, Mt. Holyoke, Smith, Bryn
Mawr, and Connecticut. In all these
institutions Hoover was overwhelm
ingly the winner. A cosiderable
number of votes were recorded for
Borah, Hughes, and President Cool-idge.
Wesley Players
Achieve Ambition
(Continued from Pasre 1)
Miss Margaret Nielsen, of Omaha.
president of the Wesley Players. De
borah, mother of Adina, was por
trayed by Miss Malinda Keller, Lin
coln. Ucal, Jewish merchant and
brother of Deborah, was depicted by
Harold Woods, of Niobrar. Mary
of Magkala was played by Miss Irene
Fee, of Lincoln.
Other characters were Titus, a Ro
man soldier, Harl Andersen; Agur, a
learned physician, Dudley Dobbs;
Pandira, a Greek lad, Gilbert Buhr
man, and Servant to Magdala, Aileen
Sturbbe.
Phi Beta Kappa
Announcements Today
and
(Continued irom Pane 1)
from the College of Arts
Sclents have been fulfilled.
2. Afl grades made in the univer
sity previous to the date of election
shall be averaged with the exception
of shorthand, typewriting and re
quired work in physical education
and military science,
S. No student shall be eligible who
has less than sixty-four hours credit
in this university, exclusive of the
above named subjects, recorded in
grade per cent in the office of the
registrar on March 5, at least twenty
four hours of these credits being in
the group requirements.
4. No student who is considered
for membership at th time of the
annual election, being eligible underJ
the foregoing rules, snail again be
considered for membership except as
an alumnus.
Phi Betta Kappa, founded at Will
(am and Mary College in 1776, has
for its object the promotion of
scholarship among the btudents and
graduates of the American colleges.
The Alpha chapter was founded in
1896. The chapter elects from one
tenth to one-sixth of those eligible
whose scholarship average is the
highest.
The initiation banquet will be held
later in -the year at which time ad
dresses by both the man and the wo
man with the highest averages of the
newly elected members will be in
cluded in the program.
Omaha, where it will be put on April
11 in the auditorium of Omaha Tech
nical high school. Persons who in
tend to be in Omaha during the
spring holidays may make seat res
ervations fo. "The Love Hater" with
Austin Sturtevant at the Delta Tau
Delta fraternity house.
The Kosmet Klub pony chorus,
whose picture appeared in the Daily
Nebraskan last week, is causing con
siderable comment. Their clever
dancing and modern antics, together
with five complete changes of cos
tume, will constitute one of the high
lights of "The Love Hater." ' The
chorus is being developed by Ralph
Ireland.
Civil Service Places
Open to Astronomers
'Old Buck Is
Nerve
Wrecker
(Continued from Page 1)
right, but there is something wrong."
The coach lies down beside the
man and consols him like a baby,
pats him on the back and tells him,
Now, Bill remember each shot
counts ten. Fire each shot. Don't
think of your total score, but think
of the shot you are firing only. You
have the 'Buck', forget it Bill. You
know 'Buck' is not material it is a
condition one gets into when his
nerves fail to function properly.
If you relax completely and forget
you ever had nerves, your next shot
will be a 'bull'." With this consola
tion, he finishes his ten shots, makes
97 out of 100, gets "bawled" out for
getting the "Buck" in the first two
shots, and not making a perfect
score.
So ends six weeks firing for an
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Application Will Be RcceiTed at
Washington, D. C, Not Later
Than April 28
Applications for junior astronomer
are being considered, according to an
announcement . made by the United
States Civil Service Commission. Ap
plications must be on file with the
Civil Service Commission at Wash
ington, D. C, not later than April
28, 1928.
The Navy department states that
men in the naval observatory are de
sired for this position. Other posi
tions may be secured when vacancies
John S. Bishop
Union University, A.B., -C.E., L.L.B.
Republican Candidate
State Representative
34th District
diligent student of laws and legis
lation. A successful lawyer of long
experience. A proven friend of the
University and our public schools.
Refer to Dr. C. J. Pope, Baptist Uni
versity Pastor, or Dean O. J. Fer-ruson.
occur that require similar qualifica
tions. Mathematics Are Basic
Applicants will be rated ot mathe
matics, including algebra, geometry,
trigonometry, plane analytics, calcu'
lus, and mechanics; elementary ques
tions in general and spherical as
tronomy and related branches of
physics; and practical computations
including the use of logarithms.
The entrance salary is $1,860 a
year. A probationary period uf six
months is required, advancement
after that depends upon individual
efficiency, increased usefulness, and
the occurrence of vacancies in higher
positions.
Full information may bo obtained
from the United States Civil Service
Commission at Washington, D. C, or
the secretary of the United States
Civil Service board of examiners at
the post office or custom house in
any city.
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SKILL
THE twist of the wrist, the
"throw" of the arm, the shifting
of the weight these are among the
many little points which make the
skill that you admire in the javelin
thrower as he hurls the shaft two
hundred feet or more.
As on the track or the football
field, in the gymnasium or on
the water, so in industry prog
ress is the result of fine ,
improvements a thousandth
of an inch here a minute variation
in a curve there slight changes
foreseen by engineers and carried
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It is this attention to detail that
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Electric apparatus and contributing
to the electrical industry, which,
though still young, is already
a dominant force, increasing
profit and promoting success
in every walk of life.
Whether you find this monogram on an electric refrigerator
for the home or on a 200,000-horsepower turbine-generator
for a bower station, you can be sure that it stands for
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