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THE DAILY NEHRASKAN
FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1931.
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Wisdom That
Is Profound
Plato, dear old gentleman, writes us a letter
i his morning. Save be, we take ourselves too
seriously, lie wants a resumption of the gcu
t le art of loafing. lie expresses himself with a
wisdom that is profound.
"Why," he exclaims, ''Must we always k "ut
in make our mark in the world?" Well. Plato,
we don't. For instance, the average university
Neuior looks forward to his graduation. He
ihinks someone will offer him a beautiful posU
tiou, and that the world will be his, when the
happy day arrives during which he may pos
sess himself of a degree.
As a result, he does not go out into the
world to make his mark, lie waits, istead. for
i lie world to come and make it for him. The
world, having a few other details on its mind,
neglects this solemn obligation, so no college
graduate pui-6ueing such a policy succeeds in
making any sort of mark at all.
At any rate, IMato, you have made a good
point. students are too ambitious. Think,
lor instance, of the amount of bard work that
is being done in the matter of collecting
pledges, bringing in the cash, for a ntudent
union building. It's terrific. Perhaps you
will be mollified, however, to learn that the
structure is intended as a place to loaf lux.
uriously. One really caunot loaf to full ad
vantage in pool halls, or in eating houses, or
.iu curbstones in front of Social Sciences.
After all, loafing is worth speaking for.
Another thing, spring is coming on. After
all is said and done, it isn't done; not in the
spring it isn't. Nobody does anything, in the
spring, except loaf, laugh and loll around com.
posing Ballads to a Lady.
Something catching about this spring idea.
Everybody gets the fever. Picnics serve every
thing from the old home town family reunion
to the college class of '31. Ukeleles are dusted
dff, and re-strug, as the first robin warbles
from the backyard clothes tree. Portable vic
trolas are suddenly in great demand.
Great harm, too, comes with the first warm
zephers of spring. Classes aw cut, to the right
and to the left. Students sit and think, and
later find themselves just sitting.
All men do all things, until spring. Then no
men do no things. . . For spring has come, and
in the springtime nothing is ever done except
bad poetry. That is why this editorial is bad.
We can't write poetry, and spring is here. Sic
Semper.
Opera
Comment i
(Overheard about the campus )
-The ornchestra was woderful. . ."'
'What pretty costumes. . ."
They roust be pretty good, all right."
And last but not least, one undeniably sin
cere remark: "I may be uncultured, but I just
didn't appreciate the thing at all !''
MORNING MAIL
All For Loafing.
TO THE EDITOR:
For lo, these many years, 'ebraskans have
chanted, "There Is So Place Like Nebraska."
And they are right.
The only trouble is that we all take ourselves
loo seriously. If we could but remember that
10,000 years from now no one will ever remem
ber whether we, as individuals, atteuded this
or any university, we all would get along far
better.
Why, oh why, dear editor, can't we have a
resumption of the practice of the gentle art
of loafing? Why must we always be on the go,
no one knows where, always out to do some
thing, always out to make our mark in the
world? Why can't we resume once more that
skillful conversation about nothing at all or
everything in general that characterized the
university discussions of old?
Wouldn't it be wonderful to sit down and ia
abstract contemplation discuss the frailties of
man? "Wouldn't it be great to once more ab
stractly talk of God and of His works? We
think so.
But the trouble is that we must always dash
here, dash there, make a dollar, only to spend
two. Money madness, joy iuadess, those are
our ills. Let's try to forget them, to settle
dawn once more to idle contemplation of the
business of living. PLATO.
: What's to Be Done About This?
TO THE EDITOR:
; Jiespect and admiration are fine charac
teristics, and no institution should carry these
into practice to a greater degree than the uni
versity, but these admirable characteristics
may if carried too far, be turned into a very
definite evil.
There exists upon the campus a fine old
gentleman, ioved and honored by all his stu
dents. A great part of his life has been given
to the university, and to him a debt of grati
tude is indeed due. '
However, this admirable professor is clearly
unable to hold classes at his advanced age. He
is unable to tell what work has been covered
by the class, and is constantly calling for reci
tations two or three times. His classes are no
conducted as to be almost entirely dependent
upon the lectures for any information, and
these are beyond comprehension. Despite the
respect of the students, the temptation to
avoid work prompts them to lead the profes
sor into meaningless diversions from the sub
ject, until for some time fully half the class
hours have been given over to trivial discus
sions having no relation to the subject, Within
the past M-eek one class has been dismissed 10
to 25 minutes early each day.
To over half a hundred men one of this
professor's courses means u Jhird of their col
lege work for the year. Since it has been made
almost valueless, their work is lo all results
reduced to eight hours. Students will find
themselves entirely unprepared to enter other
institutions, should they seek to transfer, and
will be materially hindered in their profes
sional work. Predicted changes for the full
term will not serve as relief to those wh w
need proper instruction.
Admiration and respect are fine charac
tetisties, but if carried too far they may be
turned into a very definite evil.
K. ti. H.
We noticed something funny the oilier day.
The Faculty Committee- on Student Affair
have a ruling in effect against Sunday picnics,
Sunday card games, and other mnuseiiieiit de
vices. Been "on the books" for years.
The. Campus "Do Mothing,"
TO THE EDITOIJ:
"Fire and Sword"' would deserve some credit
perhaps were it not for the fact that they say
the wrong thing. I am referring especially, to
what was said of the religions workers on the
campus.
The "Y"' cabinet would yield lo a little con
structive criticism, but why include in it the
name of the man who does all the work? He
has worn himself happy in a successful effort
to help the student who has h problem."
Those who know him will affirm that this
work isn't half of it.
Any one capable of slinging the pen as the
Fire and Swordsmeu do should have a morale
sufficient to revolutionise the campus. They
are not doing this. Why are they not doig
it? Revolutions work in the opeu. Any one
who can exert au iota of influence iu the open
will not jump to the uderhauded method.
During the past yenr they have criticized
everything there is to be criticized, and since
they would not criticize whatever they might
be a part of, they must therefore be a part of
nothing. If these professional criticizers write
upon their record all that they have done for
Nebraska, it will be limited to the following:
'We wrote "Fire and Sword".'
Y. M. HCMPEL.
College Comment
A Fete Pounds Difference.
Did someone ask. "What differece do a few
pounds make?'' Well, a baseball bat that is
too light will split, won't it? And a bat that is
too heavy will tire out the batter, won't it?
The bat that weighs exactly what it should is
good for many a home run, isn't it? Well,
there you are.
But that is the difference a few ounces make.
Xow multiply that by sixteen, and that by the
number of pounds over or under weight that
you are, and don't ever ask again what differ
ence a few pounds make.
The stout ones may skip this paragraph
for no doubt a little skipping is just what they
need. For those who are underweight if you
rush through your meals, all the cows on all
the farms in the world can't add an ounce of
flesh to your bones.
Now for the fat man whom nobody loves.
Your first step is to arise and walk. "Keep
moving" should be your song, your motto, your
prnytr even the size of your shoes. If you are
too stout to walk, then roll. If you roll you
can at least wiggle your toes. Burn up that ex
cess flesh. It is a standing invitation to exer
cise. Dailv Kansan.
International Sports.
"The friendly rivalry of the athletes of the
nations not only develops sportsmanship, but
also contributes to the advance of international
good will and fellowship," was the statement
made by President Hoover in a letter written
early this week to Dr. Godfrey Dewey, presi
dent of the Olympic winter games committee.
John R. Tunis, tennis critic of the New York
Evening Post, writing in Harper's for Decem
ber, 1930, said: "Obviously the main purpose
of international athletic contests :6 not to win
a match or a race or a game, but to foster
friendly relations between individuals and na
tions, of which there appear to be none too
many anywhere in the world at the present
time!" Later Mr. Tunis upsets the Hooverian
applecart when he states that in 1924 and in
1927 the "grumblings abroad and amazing
amount of ill will and bad feelings generated
on both sides of the Atlantic" were clearly
revealed in the attitude of the sporting pub
lic. Mr. Tunis questions the feasability of
spending time, and much money on interna
tional competition in athletics even for the
usefulness it is supposed to create. If they
accomplish so much, then he queries why all
the "hard words and hard feelings?"
The fact that many American and foreign
sideline sportsmen have not as yet learned the
essence of real sportsmanship. To lose grace
fully is not only the duty of the athletes, but
is, as well, the task faced by those who dis
like to see their national pride dashed to de
feat. Until sportsmen can learn to swallow the
pill of defeat like a man and not as a petulant
pouting youngster, who having lost its sugar
sticks, goes into a corner to sulk, "hard words
and ill will" will continue to be an ignominious
scar upon friendly international athletic riv
alries. Cincinnati University News.
Without Fire
and Sword
By MfcFEDITH NELSON
And HOMER DEADMAN
One of the earliest thoughts or
childhood i that of growing up
and it is one of the ambi
tions that Is seldom attained. It
is trulstlc to say. that we do grow
up physically. What we mean by
growing up 1h to attain to a ma
turity in the conduct of life. Ob
viously that ia much more than a
mere physical development. Com
mon observation will show us that
In this respect then the ambition
is infrcqutntly realized. It may
be that all of ua are still very im
mature. Perhaps we are all ado
le;icsnta and most of us will never
become anything else, we shall
never grow up. Suppose that we
all want to grow up and attain
this maturity of life and of con
duct. How Is this to be accom
plished? How are we to go about
it? Perhaps we came to colllege
or were cent to the campus by our
parents who thought that thus we
might be able to grow up. And
yet moat of us are adolescents
in niir conduct. We have little of
the art of living in our conduct,
we live mostly for present desire
and very few of us ever think of
transforming this present desire
so that it will yield the greatest
possible values, and it is almost
never that we find one among us
who has passed from the realm of
established ideals to the lure of
unexplored possibilities. Let this
be no condemnation of ourselves
but 1 t it rather be an opening that
will lead us in our understanding
of what it means to grow up and
achieve a maturity in the conduct
of life.
It is no easy time in which we
live to really grow up. It is dif
ficult but this is not to say that
it is any the less worthwhile. The
first step which is universally
necessary for growing up is the
transition from the urge of life to
the art of life. This simply means
that we pass from the blind urge
of continued activity without pur
pose to the reasoned and the pur
poseful life. We cease to batter
ourselves into a bloody pulp
against any stone wall that may
come in our way. We seek a way
out or if we must batter ourselves
we do it to some purpose hat it
is possible for us to interpret in'
terms of the good. It is first of
all an individual problem and then
it is the problem of all humanity.
The individual develops to the
highest state that the culture of
the race permits and then strives
to aid the race in its further de
velopment. The mature man looks
upon all others as his brothers and
knows that together they are
reaching out into the untravelled
trails of reason and art where
there is no highway established.
Again to grow up one must
transform his present desires so
that they will yield the most
abundant fulfillment. So many of
us live as if the greatest value
could be obtained by merely satis
fying the desires that we have at
any particular time. This may be
true in some cases but in other
cases it is plainly false. To search
for the major values of life, then,
we must have the desires that lead
to them, not any set system or
kind of desires for our desires
must meet the neds of our chang
ing world. But desires must be
changed. If we recognize this
fact and then make this transfor
mation of desire as valuable as the
satisfaction of desire, then we be
come mature.
Nothing is finer than for us to
find a new ideal and work towards
it. But theese ideals are not to
be permanent and irrevocable for
how can they be In a world that
is in constant flux of change? In
thi3 changing world the only per
son who is really mature and
grown up is the one who realizes
that his present ideals are inade
quate and devotes his life to the
seeking after those possibilities
which have not yet been set forth
as an ideal accepted by society.
In this case the individual ceases
to live for the lure of permanent
and established ideals but lives for
the higher call of new possibilities
and fields of conduct that are un
explored. In our stereotyped lives and ac
tivities it would be a peculiar
thing to see a large group of really
grown up people as we have in
terpreted this term. We, as stu
dents, are oftentimes complacent
thinking about changing the world
and makiny it betfr. We are the
youth and the spirit of youth is all
that is needed, we say. But this
alone will lead us nowhere. The
spirit of youth is fine and good
but unless it is accompanied by
the growing up of youth, then it
is nothing. It might be worth
while trying. Let's grow up!
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TOPIC OF HUNT TALK
Christian Church Pastor Will
Lead the Meeting
Saturday.
"What Is Religion?" will be the
suhject of Dr. Ray E. Hunt's dis
cussion in the young people's group
of tne First Christian church, Six
teenth and K streets, Sunday eve
ning in the regular meeting of the
group.
This discussion is one of several
in a series by Dr. Hunt based
upon the recent book by Dr.
Henry Nelson Wieman of the Uni
versity of Chicago "The Issues of
Life." The discussions propose 'to
work out a satlsfatcory answer to
the question: "What order of exist
ence will bring human life to its
highest fulfillment and promote
tl.e greatest possible values?" The
discussions have taken the form
of an open forum and all students
are welcome to participate and
share ideas with the leader.
Preceding the discussion meet
ing there will be an Informal social
hour in the young people's parlors
at 5:30. The games will be in
charge of Ethel James and light
refreshments will be served by a
committee headed by Gladys Wil
liams. According to Lloyd Pospis
hll, the president of the group, all
university students are invited to
attend these services.
MILESTONES
PALLADIANS PLAN
VARIED PROGRAM
FRIDAY EVENING
The juniors of the Palladian
Literary society will give the pro
gram on Friday evening at 8:30.
A feature of the varied program
will be a comedy, "The Wedding
Present" presented by Dorothy
Atkinson, Glenn Burton and Myron
Kelley. Palladian members invite
those interested to come to the
meeting in Palladian hall on the
third floor of the Temple.
March 20, 1901
Junior law students met to ap
point a committee whose duty
was to see that every member of
the class turned out for practice
on the newly formed baseball
team. In as much as lawyers are
generally known to be enthusias
tic lovers of the sport, the Jun
iors deemed it their duty to take
immediate steps to perpetuate
this characteristic of their profes
sion. Ladies were urged to attend the
mass meeting of the Anti-Saloon
League.
1911
"Moonlight" dances, which were
a popular feature of nearly every
campus party, were officially and
permanently banned. This form of
dance was characterized by the
dimming of practically all the
lights iu the ballrooms, creating
a most romantic atmosphere The
transformation of alleged moon
light into complete darkness at the
freshman law hop furnished the
prime reason for the action of the
faculty supervisors.
1921
A column on the editorial page
carried this choice bit of verse:
Her Song
Of all the things I wish I might,
I wish I had a date tonight.
His Sonir
Roses are red; violets are blue;
Everyone's broke I am too.
.Tumea Monte-omerv Flatrr. well-
ImAiim vHt PAnunlAfl tn act as
t . i r L 1 , T 1 , . . ral. nntl . I
sole juage 01 mo vtuui; rem w...
test sponsored by the Cornhusker. I
Of a number of pictures sent in ,
by the co-eds, Mr. Flagg was to j
choose the eight most beautiful, :
which would be reproduced In the I
Vanity Fair section of the Corn-j
busker. .
1928
Herbert Yenne was selected to i
portray the hero-lover in "Romeo I
and Juliet," which was to be given i
by the University Players as their
annual Shakespearian production. ;
"Student Sins" furnished the ;
wide and interesting topic of dis
cussion at the weekly Vesper service.
MISS Dl EH L IN WASHINGTON.
Miss Ruth Dlehl, a former Ne
braska student, Is now attending
the Washington pchool for secre
taries in Wnrl- 'n, D. C.
Deformed.
JUdge IOU any J""' ""J"-"
is cruel to you? Possibly his de
formity is responsible for that.
Maggie uerormuy, mo
That's where I hit 'im witn a nai-
iron. Vancouver province.
ESTES REUNION
IS CALLED OFF
The reunion which was set for
next Sunday of those who attended
the Estes Park Y. conference to
gether last year has been indefin
itely postponed, according to Viv
ian Hhdretb, chairman ot the con
ference staff.
! The UNITARIAN CHURCH
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! "The Church Without
a Creed"
I Subject, March 22 "The Mean
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(Continled from Page 1.)
Neely is one of the newly chosen
vice presidents of Y. W. C. A. She
has directed vesper choir on the
cabinet for the past year.
Non-sorority senior members of
the board are: Julienne Deetken,
present member of the board and
newly elected president of Tas
sels; Ruthalee Halloway. who is a
member of Farmers fair board
and is connected with Y. W. C. A.
work; and Ardeth Pierce who is a
member of Tassels, president of
Mu Phi Epsilon, national music
sorority, and has done work in
Y. W. C. A.
The other sorority junior mem
ber of the board for next year in
addition to Miss Upson is Ger
trude Clarke, Alpha Xi Delta, who
has been a member of the board
for a year and has been identified
with staff work in the Y. W. C. A.
particularly in the department of
conference statf, she is also a
member of Physical Education
club.
Non-sorority juniors who will
help to make up the personnel of
the board for next year are: ve-
lores Deadman, a present member
of the board, and Margaret Reedy,
who is a member of Palladian Lit
erary society, Physical Education
club, and is identified with the
W. A. A. organization.
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