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TIIF. DULY NKIIKASKAN
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The Daily Ncbraskan
TWaNTV-NINTM VIA
retertd as seconl clui matter at ths roetoffice
la Lincoln. Neb under act of cotigraaa, starch J.
UTa, and at speOal tele of jtM provided for la
evtion U03. ait of tVL S. lU. eulhorlied Jan.
CuTr fTt AND A Ht 10IT0R IN CMIir
J, M. MTU U 1 1 NIU MAN AG C A
tsiteriel Uatf.
M4tuin eduore: tUlsar Backus, On Hobb,
News editors: IVnald Carlson. Rfbert Ktlly.
William McOeery. iene McKim. fclm.nt Wait.
h ports editor: Jack CUi.Mt.
CVnlnbiitmf editors: Maurl.e Aktn. Ponald
Carlson, l.uriU CTrf. David FalimaB. Rotert
Kelly. William HoClf ry. Elmer Ske-v.
Ivy Day Tantrums.
,T day l hat elorious Jar fi'.'oil with
"tnil'rmiu " ce ninoi.lci i to ronie isilier
this ye-ar than heretofore. Iuteal of follow,
in out the sohr.lnle ai outlined in the univrr
ity eaVn.hr. the authorities have il.oiv.il
that the evmti will take pine sometitm- ilur-
the firt wffk in May.
The laily Nebrakan wetvnr the
chance. Wa hive always ajrcM ith the fac
why in it opposition t r"n h' Vibx
e!.vwork nas dinipted jut rrir to final
e amintitions in th second semester. .Imt
why this nrrai uement should continue has
never been fully explained nor ha tlurc
rrr been any attempt to rt the unneces
sary break.
Iut now the p roll em is solved. Ivy day
i to be !Njoiti-.l from roundup week, which
is eeiiti!ly the alumni's wrrk, an way, ami.
h. si n.ii. R this year, is to be placed in the same
f -imp with the other outstanding student af
f. irs takine place erh spring.
The ncM of the ehane of time f.-r Ivy
cr, it is sfe to say, was re-eried wilh no
p. -eat eor.e. rn by the majority of Nebraska
Muenta. To the two or t)iit- l.uiulre.l that
n-cmblt on the lann east of Administration
h.uldinf. the pur pUn only livans that they
h.ive to W present tarlier than usual to wit
iv ss wh.vt's pirc to happen.
To less than 10 percent of the viudoiit
l.!y, however, the alteration mtans that "it
won't be l'V.g until it's hfi-e. so we've cot to
hurry." Ti e time was hort as it was in the
fint'plaee, but now they haw to uiovt alorg
a little faster or they'll be disappointed.
There Is tardly ary reed to point out to
whom we are referrinp. It is obvious and
s. appsnnt on this campus at this timo that
any student who hns any vision at all -hii
what is transpiring. Hut in ease you don't
f..llor us -t'a the "hip" ncniors and the
"comirg" esmp'.is kinps. known otherwise as
jt.i.it'i v Tl.ia is tlnir busy time.
The seniors, about to pivc up their coveted
position as "representative leaders." are
s jirchinp around for equally "representative"
successors. All available "responsible" posi
tions, auch as party committee memberships,
are beinp filled by those who arc expecting to
bo "honored" on hy day.
This newspaper does not object to having
Kludents honored if what tbey receive for their
efforts is really and truly consider' d an honor.
We do object, though, to passing something
off as an honor, when, in the final analysis,
there is nothing to feel honored a'.out.
In anoiher column in this paper appear
two student opinions gleaned from Tie Daily
Ncbraskan files of yesteryear. "We are re
printing these for two reasons: First, in or
der to relieve us from telling the whole story
(for O. V. B. seems to have covered it quite
completely); and second, in order to prove to
our beloved adversaries that the opinions ex
pressed now and then during the current sem
ester have not been the product of a lonely
boy editor.
Having read which, yon should have a
fiiirly good idea how ibis editorial would have
M.ded, so we've decided to drop the matter
a is for today.
The members of the student oinu,ei will
In called upon, late this afternoon, to m;ike
.in iinportaiit decision. They will be asked
to render a final verdict on a proposal, put
before them early in the term, which seeks
10 establish a system of proportional represen
tation on the campus.
Ihis matter of reorganizing the basis of
representation on the student council is of
vital importance to the future of student self
government on th Nebraska campus. Foi
st udent self govern inent will succeed only in
sofar as the organs of selfgovernment through
which campus opinion is expressed are effec
tive. .As a representative body, the student
council's first and primary fund ion is to rop-rfs-ont.
It must not represent 1 Lis or that par
ticular shade of student opinion, hut all shades.
If half of tho student body is represented, and
half isn't, then the student council is not, in
fact, entitled 1o the very name it bears. No
single part of the s1 udent body has a right
to assume a stewardship for the whole.
Axiomatic as this may scein. the fact is
that the student cuiieil, since, its very incep
tion, his not represented a certain large, sub
stantia element of the student body, it is
undeniable that this monopoly of the, council
by one particular element of 1hc student body,
important and influential as it is. has ser
iously weakened its prestige and limited its
potentialities.
Proportional representation seeks to reor
ganize Ihe student council to the end that it
will, in fact, be a council of the students, rep
resenting all forms of opinion. It frankly ad
mits that differences in points of view and
interests exist among the students, and in
stead of blinding itself to such differences, it
seeks to recognize and reconcile them by mak
ing their mutual co-operation possible.
"P. R.," as a part of the technique of stu
dent selfgovernment, will be a decided inno
vation, clearly an experiment. If it succeeds
and there is no reason it shouldn't the dis
tinction and satisfaction of having blazed a
new trail will be ours. So far, the discussion
is in hypothetical language: one single elec
tion will test its worth. All it asks is a chance.
The members of the student council have
a real oppoi-1 unity 1o demonstrate their cour
age a.nd foresight, fairness and foresight, this
afternoon.
Echoes of the Campus
I Contemporary
Sentiments1!
Cutting Calories.
1m the IMitor of The Ncbraxkan:
A few months ago, an isue of a magaiiiu'
known for its authority on correct style, came
forth with lh announcement that the boy
Mi fiuuie for women wait n thing of the pat.
and that feminine curves would once more
prcxail In the world of fashion.
With this announcement came great
high of relief from those women who have
leudciu-b toward plumpurs. Ooctort gar
the announcement their hearty approval. a
Wing it step toward healthful lixitig. Ton
ft'Ctioiurn and restaurant owuu smiled once
more, and ordered ucw Mipplicn of chocolate
and pastries.
The university coed is a loader in fashion,
just a she i a leader in practically every
other fit Id which she enters. F.spcciall.x In the
west is this true, lor her there are no dibu
tantes r Mihdeb 10 set the styles. Whether
the unixirsity girl sta thin or allows her
self to assume a more natural weight is a
eiucstion. the answer of which will affect the
procedure of niav.y other women in the coun
try. The reducing fad. which has ben the rage
among the womm of the country for the past
few $ ran. is, according to medical authori
ty s, of very great danger to the health. For
the girl who is still in her formative years to
place herself on an unscientific, inadequate
diet, and then attempt to continue her usual
activities, is perfectly absurd. We hear cirls
talkinc of threeday milk diets, orange diets,
or even of complete abstinence of food for a
certain period of time.
What university girls can hope to accom
plish by these unsound, and actually dangerous
practices is beyond comprehension. If they
are seeking physical beauty they arc certainly
mistaken in their conception of the quality.
To me. wothine is move unattractive than
a poorly nourished, underfed irl, whose phy
sical deficiencies are reflected in her mental
state. She is apt to be morose, irritable, and
generally disagreeable. Some girls think that
they will have more male admirers if they
appear sickly, and dependent, but what man
really enjoys tha prospect of pajirg doctor
hills all his life, in addition to putting up with
an illnatured wife!
So snap out. of it, girls; forget your diet,
and begin to look like human beings again.
Show the other women of the world that you
still have some sense, and they rill eventually
follow your lead, in giving proper considera
tion to the rudiments of health. A COED.
tf hnt Abtrnt It?
To the Editor of The Ncbraskan:
In an article which appeared in The Daily
Ncbraskan some time ago, one Dr. Reed "a
graduate of the University of Nebraska, now
in an eastern university" expressed the opin-
ion that if a girl is to get married she should
go to a coeducational school.
Dr. Reed went on to say that, in attend
ing such a school, she would find the type of
mate best suited for her; that, as a classmate
with a man, she could observe him and find !
out w hat sort of a chap he really was. She I
was also of the opinion that a girl might find
it advisable to change schools if man's pres
ence interforred with her class work.
It may be unwise to attack the existing
order, or even question the views of someone
who has attained to the honor of a doctor's
degree, hut isn't it subverting education a wee
bit if our universities are to become matrimon
ial bureaus from which young females are to
select their husbands? And just how is a girl
at a university to find out the facts about her
chosen one? Where can we find a place of
more hypocrisies than the university where
some live fnr above the standards they have
known at home, and others far below; where
the ashman's son from Podunk belongs to the
so-called "best fraternity on the campus?"
An3 as to the presence of the men inter
fering with the class work of the gills, it is
quite more probable that the girls will be the
more distracting to the male element. Did Dr.
JJeed get her degree in the engineering depart
rnent? Or did she merely neglect to take
biology? E. F.
Bright Babier.
To the Editor of The Ncbraskan:
According to a recent statement of Dean
Ilicks which appeared in an edition of The
Ncbraskan this week, it was suggested 1hat a
simplified process of "e-ducation" be estab
lished by giving a Ph.D. degree at birth to
each baby weighing 1t-n pounds; A.M.'s to
those weighing Dine pounds; A.B.'s to those
weighing eight pounds; and plain teachers'
certificates to those babies barely tipping the
scales at seven pounds or less.
Of course the statement was made in jest
and purposely exaggerated, but does Dean
Hicks wish to give the impression by such an
assertion that sludents registered in the
teachers' college of our university or any other
similar institution may be recognized as infer
ior either mentally or physically? Are we to
infer that so biiiliaut a. man as Dean Hicks
does not support the department which trains
the most efficient educators of our state?
The progress of the nation is dependent
upon the educational sj-stcms which are in
turn dependent upon the efficiency of teachers
within the systems. The uormal departments
of the higher state institutions are today train
ing men and women to become skilled in tbtir
profession. Standards for the acquisition of
certificates have been i-aised to a here-to-fore
unknown level resulting in a higher qualified
and more specialized teaching body.
An A.B. or a B.S. degree in Teachers' col
lege is not to be obtained by a moron as other
colleges might disparagingly infer.
A calendar number preceded by "educa
tion" never suggests the slang expression "it's
a pipe."
The matriculates of Teachers' college arc
purposeful sludents, 1heir goal being 1he ad
mission into one of Ihe most honorable and
most needed professions the instruction of the
. outh of Ihe na1 ion.
Does the teacher not deserve at least an
eight pound start? D. W.
7urn'a Our Svnthnvnti, Too, Illinl.
Daily llliiff: When ia a atudent not
ktlldcllt?
The aiiKWer might well be: "When he U
a- fraternity man." That la, aa a member of
a fraternity he ctaea to be man with Individ
uality amfpcrwonal conviction. With all due
credit, this situation must be admitted by one
unprejudiced and openminded.
An opportunity of witnessing the molding
of pusomd conviction Into group conviction
was granted Thursday evening. The distr.
but Ion of "ln ites" to the ball of the local axe
Kiiiohrs brought about aa many different re
actions as there were fraternities,
MacK.sld. 'a henchmen axed their way
into organizations with rating men n their
roll. And ih.-rc were laughs, frowns, men in
digtmnt, and men excited. Some of them
would yU jovially. "Where ya been Ter
lvnee, sit down and have a bit ti eat," the en
tiro fraternity evincing the same kind of re
action. One rgairatiMi proved cold and conde
scending, even evincing disgust, emitting aueh
exclamations, "Open the door and let'em out."
. . . "Oh my gosh" (with lips cnrllng In di
tasteV All of the orgauiiation members
handed together in the same tone of reception.
When fraternities gather after dinner be
fore the fire for a short "session" the same
phenomenon is exhibited. What one likes, all
like what one dislikes, all dislike. Tarted,
these same men will evince their own Ideas
and beliefs, but together they are rrone to
play "follow the leader."
Snmr WcMx Reflections
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EDITOR'S VOTE: Ordinarily tbla feature ap
pear on Sunday tnit Je to the fact that cold
prohibited prompt mail delivery and the fact most
people do no "reflecting" on Sundays, here tit!
The Educated Mind,
The phenomenal growth in the number of
college students in the United States during
recent years has raised the question of the
general worth of our universitiea to a stage of
acute discriminating discussion. With the
rapid spread of the leveling ideals of democ
racy into the field of higher education, think
ing people have begun to measure the nature
and functions of that higher education. For
school arc not ends in themselves; education
ia not an eternal verity; they exist for the de
velopment of fine and full personalities.
There has been an effore-seence of literary
effort dealing with the meaning of a liberal ed
ucation. Editors and authors, educators and
politicians men in all walks of life have been
trying to determine what the educational prwc
en should accomplish. .
In the earlv daji of our American culture,
when universities wero few and small, niu! a
college graduate was the rare and ahmlng in
tellectual beacon of 1.U community, the iman.
Ing of a liberal education was clear to all. in
a real physical and tangible way. The eolb-ge
graduate of the generation that fought the
Civil war stood head and shoulder above his
contemporaries, in rultuie. in hi bna.ltli oi
view, in the ranae of his Information, in tlie
measure of hi dignity. He poke a different
language, a language flowered with the wia
doni of the ancients, hi dress was dutim-livc,
hi aspirations were la a class of their own.
He was the leader of his people, the gournor.
the minister, the creator of public opinion, the
natural center of human attraction.
Hut today the honor of holding a A IV j de
gree doea not compare with the honor winch
the pos.sev.or of a high school diploma enjoyed
twenty-rive years ao. In this age of what
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nean iiicsa apuv eniis iu- -
the high aehool graduate who does not attend
some university is rapidly becoming rare. For
going to college is more than an economic ne
cessity or intellectual luxury: it is an Inexor
able social custom, with all the compulsion
which social usage can muster back of it. do
ing to college is "the thing that's done,' and
that, in the final analysis, is the greatest stimu
lant to colb ge attendance today.
Now that college graduates are found in
all walks of life on the farm, in business, in
the professions. In the manual trade it is well
to stop and consider whether there U anj thing
distinctive about them which sets them apart
from their fellow countrymen. It i highly per
tinent to ask whether the college graduate
ha acquired any sort of equipment which
which makes his four years of higher study
worth the trouble. What, In other words, docs
a liberal education mean to him?
Physically and outwardly the college stu
dent appears" no different than those around
him. Nor does bis distinctiveness consist in Ins
acquisition of a certain mass of facts. The ab
sorption of factual Information i no more a
unique and subtle process than that which a
sponge uses to sop up water. Not even the
college student's acquisition of a set of expen
sive habits constitutes a characteristic which
sets him apart as a college student.
The most distinctive thing about the col
lege student is his intellectual point of view,
his well developed mind. The mind of a stu
dent, not his clothes or slang or tangible hab
its, is the measure of his education. True,
many students have failed to develop their
mental faculties even to the extent that they
are intellectually distineuishahle from the
street cleaners. This makes this inquiry all
the more justifiable. It is well to be con
cerned with what oucht to be, with the ideal.
And wh.it sort of mind should a man with
a liberal education havet To indicate briefly,
his mind should be open, cultured, scientific,
objective and spirited.
We hope to discuss these qualities, sepa
rately, In this column laler.
MLDICAL
COLLECt
cr ACTIVITY
PAUL C PLATT, Editor.
Dr. and Mr. PoynUr Enttrtain
Ian Chaa. W. Toynter auJ
Xlra. ruyuter ertertalue4 the
seniors giadualing l lh cliwe o(
this meter at dinner PriJay y
night at thtlr home. The dinner
an elaborate affair.
Th present besldea 1 r nud
Mr. Poynler were: HerU-rt k.
AnUrm.vu. Charles I'. Uk,r,
Winfred It illume. Molvin C.
lU.lender. Kobert O. UoM.
erelt a Unllhait, One U CtlJ.
ell. Clarence I. Prumm-ma,
Keith O. Kolger. Frank 8. Fur.
man, Kenneth Gates. Uoyd K.
(i riff la. Thomaa U liriik.
niarlea K. Uurnet. Uoyd l
llethermcton. Hobert U llo..,
Arthur K Jensen. Jerry C. Kll.le
beck. lUvmoml U. Lel. Kse
ljnman.' Ial O. Uoyd. Kdward
M. Mark. Louis Marx. Holier! II.
Moore, Uovd H. Mouael. John M.
Neelv. W illiam K. Olson. How aid
Koyer. Albert C Schmidt, John
M. Sheldon. William Wayne Wad
dell. Ilorare H. Whillock, Mis
AJaline Jooea and Miss Helen
Poyntef. .
Oe Letts Talks.
In the Knday Iatly Nebrasksn
was an account of the election of
seven new men Into Tbeta Nu,
honorary holtic premed fra
ternity. Dr. J. S. Lalta. head of
the embryology department,
gave an address at their initia
tion. These men are starting on
their medical course with records
which are enviable. They are to
be congratulated and we take
this means of doing so. There ia
no higher Meal for a student to
try to qualify for than that of .
understanding of bis basic sub
jects tn the profession be is go
ing into. The gradea tt Is true,
do not qualify one for a success
ful career, but there ta no doubt
but that a thorough understand- jk
ing of the material taught with-'l
an application of sound Judg
ment will enable one to go much
farther In bis chosen profession.
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Publication Board
Will Meet Thursday
The Student Publication
board will meet Thursday, Jan
uary 23, at 3:30 p. m, in Uni
versity hall room 106. It will
consider the applications for the
various positions of The Dally
Nebrasksn staff for next sem
ester. All applicants are asked
to be available at that time.
ELECTS NEW HEADS
Members Choose Alfred A.
Hook as President of
Bizad Club.
Alfred A. Hook, senior tn the
collcg-e of business administration,
was elected Tuesday night to the
presidency of the University Com
mercial club, u-hicb is composed of
more than 100 men students of
Bizad college
Sidney Epstein was elected sec
retary; H. M. Demel, treasurer,
Merrill Johnsen, (lassie Baron, di
rectors, and Glen Reichenbach was
elected representative to the Bizad
Executive board.
Election was held in Social
Sciences hall Tuesday night, and
was presided over by Cassie Baron,
because of the absence of the ex
president. Glen Reichenbach.
Hook announced that commit
tees for the ensuing semester
would be appointed soon, and that
actios would soon be taken to
sponsor a traditional pie feed for
the men of the college, of business
administration. The pie feed la
given at the beginning of each
semester in order to get acquain
ted with new students.
RECORD CROWDS SE
'Queen's Husband' Attracts
Capacity Patronage
Despite Cold.
Unusually large crowds have
braved the cold weatber to attend
"The Queen's Husband" given by
the University Players at the Tem
ple theater this week. Record
crowds have been reported for
every performance.
The play, a comedy-satire by
Robert Sherwood, proves to be
highly amusing. It concerns the
North sea region, and is believed
by manv to be modeled after the
private life of the royal bouse of
Roumania.
do ngs of the royal family of an
anonymous kingdom located in tbe
Ray Ramsay as tbe king is tip
to his usual standard. He amuses
tbe audience very much with bs
unique characterization of that
hen-jecVed individual. His ques
tioning look and timid snile soon
win the bens of all.
Maurine lrayton as tbe queen
and Mildred Orr as ber daughter
do much to add to the general ex
cellence of tbe play. Miss Drayton
is very stately and queen-like even
though ber attitude toward ber
husband is that of a superior. Miss
Orr is very charming and gracious
on the stage, and she does espe
cially well In the sentimental
scenes wttb Frederick Granton, ber
father's private secretary, played
by Walter Vogt.
Only two more performances of
tbe play will be given. Evening
shows start promptly at 7:30 p. m. ;
Single play tickets may be ob-;
tained at Rosa P. Curtice's.
Davis Coffee
Shops
Day and Niht 108 N. IS
Facirg Campus 1151 X
Fountain Serrice
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IS till
JLhirty-five miles from the rail
road the editor got his stoiy
UP on the Gatioeau River, with the mercury
clear out of sight, a huge winter con
struction job was going forward! Here was
a story the industry wanted to know ... a
McGraw-Hill editor covered it.
The railroad ended at Maniwaki; thirty-five
miles north lay the job. His "paper" was going
to press, to the editor mushed through thirty
five miles of snow-choked forestlacd.
Whether in the frozen north ... in tropic areas
laid bare by a hurricane ... or in flooded re
gions where army trucks are the only form of
transport; if there's a story that industry should .
know . . . McGraw-Hill editors get tbe facts
first band.
Industry and business look to McGraw Hill
Publications for news and guiding opinion
because they know that these papers are edited
from the field. For leaders of industry realize
that they must keep contact with progress . -or
fall behind.
The college man, who now looks forward to
tbe day when he too will enter business, can
profitably spend an hour a week reading the
publication which covers the field in which
he is to work. From it he will learn hat busi
ness and industry are thinking and doing to
day . . . before he leaves the campus.
Copies of every McGraw-Hill Publication are
or should be in your college library.
Butioess men, industrialists sod eo gioeert 600,000 of tbem regularly read ibe McGraw-Hill
Publication. More (has 3,000,000 nse McGraw-Hill books and magazines ia tbeir bvsioeas.
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Mineral Market
Fng-ineerint- and
Mining World
Flectrical Yoild
Electrical Merchandising
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