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USINCSt STAFF.
William a. Taylor
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AT ITS BEST.
"TONIGHT the university I making an effort to
emphasize high cholarhlp In It aecond annual
Honoii convocation at which student and organi
sations whose grade percentage have been con
siderably above the average will be recognized for
meritorious achool work.
The motive behind the Honor convocation I
worthwhile, even though the ao-called honora are
based on grade which The Nebraskan ha in
allied do not truly Indicate scholarship.
Honor convocation, however, la a sincere
attempt to promote high scholarship. It la an
effort In the right direction. Until last year there
was no special event at which scholarship was
raised to an exalted position. Students got together
for rallies, football banquets, amateur theatrical
performances and the like, but scholarship as a
part of school life received no recognition. Stu
dents who were tolling over their books and who
wera trying to get some learning out of four years
at college were forgotten in the mad swirl of other
activities which outwardly are more Intriguing.
Parents of students received only the negative
slant on student life not the positive aspect. They
wera mailed notices of the scholastic delinquencies
of their sons and daughters, bui never were In
formed when their children made especially com
mendable records.
reporter to "get the facts." and of the severe penal
ties of reportorlal carelenes. j
Perhaps, If the professor would hlmarlf emu
late the poor repoiter, and try his 11 10 get an
Ihe facts cf the rae, he might not be so harsh In
his Judgment. It I questionable how long any
man with such an attitude could hold a job on a
newapaper. It is extremely doubtful If he could
last very long. This thought la tremendously cheer
ing. Perhaps the situation Is o bad after all!
EDUCATION OR ACTIVITIES?
College activity men have come in for their share
of satirical censure In recent newspaper editorials
and magazine articles. Prominent authors have
suggested that the men elected as 'most likely to
succeed," because of their prominence In collegiate
affairs, are usually weighted down by their lack of
education. Philanthropic sen-ices performed by
them In college have taken all of their time, leav
ing educational pursuit in the dim background.
In the mad rush for publicity, honor and glory
a certain type of college man loses sight of the fact
that his four years In an educational institution
should be preparing him for life. Feeling that he
is working for the good of his alma mater, he
spends his days in committee sessions and organ.
Ization meetings. He awakens on a bright June
morning- to find himself In the cruel world with
nothing to show for his four years but a degree and
a mass of Inconsequential activities.
Extra-curricular endeavors are a valuable sup.
clement to the collegiate education. When they
cease to become the supplement and, are placed
before the actual business of education, however,
the result is usually disastrous.
Luncheon clubs the world over are filled with
former B.M.O.C's who are struggling to make ends
meet Had they taken their education seriously
and their politics and activities in proper doses,
their equipment might be adequate for some ac
complishment other than after dinner speaking.
SHAME ON COLLEGE.
UDUCATORS, colleges and college educated men
took a rap on the nose recently In an article
written by Weldon Mellck, Nebraska graduate, in
the Open Coast. Mr. Melick, to quote the explana
tion appearing before his article: "got an A. B.
degree from the University of Nebraska, threw it
in the garbage can, and took a Job as an office
boy in & moving- picture studio over a year ago.
He is now the youngest contract title and dialogue
writer In Hollywood."
This prodigy from the corn state gives his
answers to the very unusual question: "S'Matter
with College?" It is a trifle difficult to tell just
what is wrong in particular, from Mr. Melick's
verbal concert, but everything in general seems to
be somewhat haywire.
College graduates face the world with a severe
handicap, Melick thinks. They must spend their
first few years in an underhanded attempt to dis
guise the fact that they received college degrees,
after which they must live down the evil educa
tional influences imposed upon them.
Particularly bothered is Mr. Melick over the
'smatterings of this and that" that come with a
college education rather than some definite thing
that will stick. College never has and never will
pretend to give anyone all the preparation neces
sary for a life work. What college should do, what
it endeavors to do, Is to open the door of knowledge
to the student and to inspire him to learn to think.
Of course college doesn't do this to everyone,
and aome like Melick emerge without catching
the gist of what it 's all about. But there are others,
and many of them, who have glimpsed the vision
of a true education through their college careers.
These are the people who can appreciate the value
of four years at a university.
S NOSES FOR NEWS.
QALLING all that one reads in the average daily
newspaper "nothing but a pack of lies," Prof.
Paul II. Grummann vehemently denounced news
paper folk in a recent class discussion. He called
attention to "the worthlessness of the average re
porter," and said that "nine out of ten were re
porters because they were unable to become any
thing else."
HU attention was directed to the news cult
in reviewing one of Ibsen's plays for a class In
Continental drama. The village printer, Aslakan,
la aketched as dishonest, worthless, and a hopeless
victim of self-pity. While calling the present situa
tion in the newspaper world quite hopeless, how
ever. Professor Grummann did hold a faint ray of
aunshine for the future. He believes the school of
journalism may in time remedy the ills of the
daily paper.
The professor evidently does not know that
each atory goes through a long and careful editing
process before it finally appears In print that
ail facta are carefully checked at each stop. He
la ignorant of the "office ducatlon" given each cub
BUZZ AND BALONEY.
"TODAY, no doubt, sponsor of thia university'
unlicensed but worthy successor to the Awgwan.
"With Fire and Sword." are gloating over their
latest product and the student Interest manifested
In the scandal sheet.
Now that these unscrupulous Individuals who
originally termed themselves, the liadflies. have
given vent to their misguided passion In three
Issue of excoriating and virulent libel, a brief
review of what they have written Is Interesting.
Two alleged grafts, clothed In Webster' best
adjective, were described .In detail. Investigation
proved that prevlou Irregularitle had been cor
rected and that the Insidious Insinuations were
untrue. Aside from that, the Oadfjiea have devoted
their effort to gross and unsubstantial charges.
hurled collectively and Individually at faculty mem
ber and atudent.
Any student with an Inch of character would
never write such scurvy rot. How the Gadflle can
criticize other In such scathing language for their
shortcoming and have a consistent conscience la
hard to understand.
An example of further inconsistensy In their
diatribe Is shown In the criticism of The Nebraskan.
When founded on fact or when expressing a differ
ence In opinion, criticism Is welcomed. It is re
sented, however, when Its Implications are quite
untrue. Controversy Is commendable when truth
Is recognized, for after all It Is controversy that
make the world an Interesting place to live.
Just why the attack on the campus doghouse
la resented Is a prize example of this inconsistency.
If Nebraska and the Gadflies want a beautiful
campus, the first thing that should be done Is to
remove the canine experimental station to some
remote corner and to tear down the shanty ap
pended to Pharmacy hall.
The principle pain suffered by the Gadflies per
tains to the Innocents society, which by a coinci
dence, was scprcd by The Nebraskan the morning
that the Gadflies reiterated their plea for a cour
ageous editor. The Gadflies In their envy have
come to regard the Innocents society In an ultra
important light. They ask that The Nebraskan go
after "something big" like the Innocents and devote
half of their last issue to a denunciation of pros
pective members.
The Innocents do not merit so much considcra-
tlon. This semester The Nebraskan has not deemed
that organization such an integral unit ifi student
life to criticize it more than certain other campus
groups and customs. It does not join "With Fire
and Sword" and the one track policy of last se
mester's Nebraskan in continuing a tirade on the
the senior men's honorary society.
But ho hum! Such a defense of The
Nebraskan's poition may give the Gadflies an ex
aulted conception of their importance. Their
publication has come to be considered an interest
ing campus Joke. It is fitting, therefore, that
this editorial should be dedicated to the "Bramins
and Boobs" who make up the fire eaters and
sword swallowers. Amen.
BETWEEN THE LINES
By LASEIXE G1LMA.N.
IF third quarterly examination marks are the low
est yet, there are plenty of excuses: A three
day spring vacation which allows a fellow to get
rested up from his trip home just in time to start
back to school, Engineers week, Farmers fair, and
Ivy day with its slugging of Innocents and game
of peek-aboo among Mortar Boards.
CROM the looks of the arena, the May Queen
had better wear mud-guards for Ivy day fes
tivities and expectant Innocents catcher's masks
so they won't get a mouthful of mud when they
"bite the dust."
CPEAKING of the weather for Ivy day, we would
rather get a little hot-headed during the cere
monies on June 1 than sit in water puddles on the
bleachers the first of May.
THE professor who says the average college stu
dent has a vocabulary of 700 words has never
heard a driver of a collegiate whoopee cuss in a
traffic jam.
? IKREWITH is presented the shortest poem on
record which characterizes a national situation:
"Wet yet."
CTUDENTS will be strong for a postponed Ivy
day. It would mean another day without classes.
The Student Pulse
Signed eontrlbutiont pertinent to matters of atu
dent Ufa and the unlveraity are welcomed by this
department. Opinions submitted should be brief
and concrete.
DELIBERATE DELIBERATION.
To the editor:
A few weeks ago, Mr. Editor, you proposed
to the university authorities that the unused park
ing space along the south end of the drill field re
served for faculty members be opened up for uni
versity students in an effort to help solve the park
ing problem. You suggested that the space was
not being entirely used by faculty members and
that it could just as well be opened to the students,
or at least to instructors.
L. F. Seaton's reply was that the space was
being used by professors and that there were a
number of faculty members of lesser rank who
were entitled to it before students. He intimated
that the space might be opened up to those of the
faculty who weren't at that time entitled to it and
said if this were done it would relieve the situation
by making more space where those instructors now
park their cars.
But that was where the matter ended. Evi
dently it was nothing but a lot of talk rosy prom
ises. Nebraska lads and lassies are famed for their
robustness and good health. But is that any reason
why they should walk blocks and blocks to school
simply because they can not find a parking space
for their cars? The disagreeable weather of the
last few days has not added materially to the
comfort of students who are compelled to do this.
Perhaps in five or six more weeks aome sort
of action toward opening the unur-d apace will be
commenced. It would probably be wiser to wait,
anyway, because such a matter should take several
months of careful deliberation. And anyway, one
can't expect to have everything right, even at an
institution like Nebraska. FLAT FOOT.
ONI: of the littl Ironic of life:
Last week wa called 'spring
vacation" It rained all the tune
and students missed thiee day of
vi bH.
a a a
Alat, alack, to get bar back
To bed by twtlve f ittten,
W bav to gobble down our grub
Although w split our spleen.
All time and tide we cast and
To pacify the dean,
And though the girl I twenty-eight
We treat her at sixteen.
Yea, thouoh the crowd doe cry
aloud,
It can be easily seen,
Twelve-thirty I the right time
but We hah at twelve-fifteen.
a
THIRTY-NINE more day till
1 parole. Six week. Thirty
school days. One month. Nine
hundred and thirty-six hour. Fifty-six
thousand, one hundred and
sixty seconds. One-third of this
time spent In sleep maybe. One
can hardly blame the convicts for
mnklng this the year of the big
prison outorcak.
a a
ryi YES, we went out to "work
wwi i paper." We got a lot of
prartlce and experience In dodg
ing the measles. The town was
full of 'em and we moved three
times In two weeks, and later
learned we'd already had 'em.
a
It was a Danish. Polish, and Bo
hemian community. We had to
read proof on the local Items. The
editoi told us, after we'd practi
cally gone bntty, to see that the
name bad a "sen," or a "wlecz" or
a "ski" on the end of it and let it
go at that.
a a a
YYE'D like to meet this card who
vv writes student opinions about
smoking on the campus. We'll
wager he's from Kansas, his
mother Is a W. C. T. U. member,
his father belongs to the Anti
Saloon league, and he'll wind up in
the Moody Bible Institute. Tsk.
tsk. brother. How would you like
to fry yourself a handful of ice!
a a a
Big shots, red hots, greasy-grinds
and handshakers,
N men, lend men, coffee cakes and
ear-achers,
Freshmen, stale men, politico and
music makers,
Good guys, bad guys, actors and
ticket takers.
It takes all kinds to make up a
campus,
Some are nil and some are mighty.
Most are good but deliver me
from
The lame-brained skates who say,
"All righty!"
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COME one from Europe is ranting
around the U. S. on a lecture
tour, telling us how terrible our
universities are. Lecturers gener
ally tell us something we already
know anyway. He says that the
American university is like the
American drugstore, where pills
and prescriptions take, a back
place, and the soda fountain and
magazine rack shine out. We pre
fer that kind of a drugstore and
that kind of a university. There's
swell reading in the magazines,
and the fountain is full of untold
wonders.
a a a
VTHAT would he have us do'
Emulate the German universi
ties, where the students wear uni
forms, drink great steins of beer,
and engage in saber duels? The
beer idea wouldn't be so bad, but
how would it look to have the edi
tor of The Nebraskan and the edi
tor of Fire and Sword out in front
of Soc Sci slashing at one another
with sabers? On second thought,
that wouldn't be so bad, either.
We'd like to see who won.
a a a
We could get up duels between
heads of departments and have a
field day. The deans could have it
out, once and for all. Those girls
competing for the various queen-
ships could have at one another
with orange sticks. I hereby chal
lenge the author of The Big Six
Shooter to a duel at twenty paces
with hot cross buns.
a a
Y7E sallied forth the other night
to see "Sob Sister" and to dis
cover in what manner our manag
ing editor beat us in the gentle art
of play writing. Herewith we doff
our eyeshade to him. "You're a
better man than I am, Gunga Din."
We have definitely decided we
shan't try to grab off Eugene
Field's place in American litera
ture.
a a a
THE Nebraskan reporter went
about asking the journalism
seniors what they thought of the
trip. As we were not to be found
at the time, the reporter reported
us as saying: "I was very well
satisfied with the trip." How in
sipid! Oh, reporter, if you only
knew what we think!
a a a
ENGINEERS rig up a cement
mixer on the campus. Placid
Laws, forgetting their rich heri
tage, allow the cement mixer to
stand as is. What is the world
coming to? Is the old fight gone
from the ranks of future barris
ters? VfTHAT has become of our Noble
Experiment, we are asked.
And we answer frankly: Competi
tion may be the spice of life, but
who can conduct a freedom experi
ment with any weight to it under
a signed head when his rivals can
say what they think unsigned ? We
are simply left out of the running
and our experiment is overshad
owed. W needs must return to
our trivial drivel.
JNTERSORORITY SING
JUDGES ARE NAMED
Mrs. Gutzmcr, Miss Robins,
Cray to Review Annual
Music Compct.
Mr. Maude K. Gutimrr. Ilcibrrt
Giay, and Edith U Robin will be
the judge of the annual inter
sorority ing sponsored by the A.
W. H. board. Sixteen sororities
hnve entered the tiadltlonal sing
to be held on Ivy day. Sally Tick-
ard I the chairman In charge and
mad the announcement of judge
Tuesday.
At leaat a majority of the group
are to be represented In the sing.
The participation of the women
I limited to active member and
pledge. Judge will favor group
singing to quartet and aolo, al
though these are allowed, and the
sororlilea are permitted to have dl
rector. The group may co.-itume
a they pleas.
A cup will be presented to the
winner, and honorable mention win
be given to the group placing
aecond and third. Delta Zct
sorority won the cup on the last
two occasions, and may keep the
cup on the third successive win.
according to the rule.
The Judging will be conducted on
the basis of ensemble, balance with
parts, appearance and selection,
phrasing and interpretation, and
tone quality. Each presentation
will be Judged on the basis or the
hundred percent standard, twnty
points for each of the five qualifications.
MILESTONES
AT NEBRASKA
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1925.
About five hundred students
voted at the annual election for
Student council and Publication
board members.
Miss Harriet Towne discussed
vocations for women at vespera.
Fraternities and sororities very
ably assisted the stadium commit
tee in collecting due pledges.
1920.
The debating team left for Iowa
City to discuss the League of Na
tions question.
Coach Schulte and the track
team left for Philadelphia,
The Pershing Rifles reorganized
and elected new officers.
1915.
The Nebraskan published an
eight page Engineer' edition.
1910.
Nebraska defeated the Highland
Park baseball team of Des Moines,
17 to 6.
Miss Howell read two selections
at a Y. W. C. A. noon meeting.
The Komensky club presented a
musical and dramatic program.
1905.
The baseball team defeated Colo
rado, 9 to 1.
The glee club returned from a
successful tour, which included
seven Nebraska towns.
A large number of track candi
dates attended a meeting In Dr.
Clapp's office.
TRADITIONAL IVY
DAY CEREMONIES
FULLY ARRANGED
(Continued from Page 1 )
vote of the junior and senior
women earlier in the year. The
two pages will then escort to the
throne the winner of the Ivy day
poem contest, and she will read
her poem. Following this the cere
mony of the planting of the ivy,
with the senior and junior class
presidents participating, will be
held.
May Pole Revived
Formerly the May Pole was a
traditional feature of the Ivy Day
services, and though It ha been
omitted during the past few year.
It will be revived a-in this year.
Hue Hall, a member of Mortar
liuard. baa roaihed a group of ten
physical education nuijura. and
they will complete the morning'
ceremony with the May I'ole
dance. Contrary also to previous
custom, at least In recent year,
there will he no recessional.
During the procession of the
daisy and Ivy chain a chorus of
picked voices will lng the Ivy day
chant, and during the real of the
ceremony the R. O. T. C. band will
play.
Intersororlty ling.
Afternoon event will start at
1:00 with the Intersororlty sing
which I being ponored by the
A. W. 8. board. At 2:30 the Ivy;
day oration, with Russell Mattson,
senior law atudent tta Ivy Day ora-
tor, elected In a previous election.
At 2 50 Katherlne Will Cole
man will Introduce the purpose of '
Mortar Board, and the present ac-'
tlve chapter will go out one at a I
time to mask their uccrasor. A ;
they start out, the Mortar Hoard
song will be aung by the Unlver
aity girl's octette. At 3:45 It I ex-1
pected that the InnfMam, m
gin to tap their member.
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It takes more than a start
ling array of haberdashery
and the impeccable taste of
a Ecau Brummel to carry
off the proud title of "best
dressed man" of the senior
class. Don't forget that health
is a vitally important factor.
Shredded Wheat adds that
glow of health that makes
splendid raiment becoming.
Mineral salts and bran to
"The Best
Dressed
Man"
promote a good complexion
carbohydrates and proa
teins for energy and freiha
ness vitamins for pep and
vigor. Try a biscuit or two
tomorrow morning delia
cious with milk or cream,
and a few slices of your
favorite fruit
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"for the JpmmQ(B
that refreshes
When you suffer from large and undiluted
doses of your fellows. When the milk of
human kindness seems to sour. Blow the
whistle for a minute's "time out" on your
own account, to pause and refresh yourself.
In other words, go into a huddle- with
glass or bottleof refreshing, delicious
Coca-Cola. It will make you captain of
s your soul again, ready to live or die
for the dear old alma mater.
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