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TUESDAY, MARCH 21, mi.
THE DAILY MWKASKAN
THREE
UNIVERSITIES TOLD
TO
Ohio State Speaker Declares
State -Owned Schools
Same as Others.
COLUMBUS, O A plea for
high standards of scholarship In
state supported universities equal
to those set by the best privately
endowed universities was voiced at
the winter convocation here by
Trof. George H. Sabine of the de
partment of philosophy of Ohio
State university.
'Are State Universities Differ
ent?" was Dr. Sabine's theme. His
own answer to his question was
Emphatically, no!"
"In its underlying purpose, he
asserted, "a state university is
exactly liVc a privately endowed
university. Both exist to preserve
and extend those higher reaches
of science and art and technology
without which a civilized commu
nity can neither hold its own nor
progress.
Impart Specialixed Training.
"Both Impart a specialized train
ing to students who must always
be a small proportion of the total
population and who possess inter
ests and capacities somewhat un
iixual compared with the total
range of human interests and ca
pacities. In both, the success of
the training depends upon finding
as soon as possible the group of
somewhat unusual students who
are qualified to take it.
"In both the success of the
training will be limited If effort is
distracted in the direction of
teaching a considerable proportion
of unsuitable students. In both
the excellence of the work done is
the condition of its being really
useful.
"In the end the state universi
ties must follow the policy already
adopted by the best private uni
versities of selecting their stu
dents from among those applicants
for admission who have the inter
est and the capacity for a. rela
tively high type of intellectual ef
fort. ' For In this way only can
they conform to the ideal of a uni
versity education and Justify the
confidence which a really enlight
ened public opinion reposes in
them."
Quotes Figures on Graduates.
Professor Sabine quoted figures
to show that out of a thousand
students who enter the university
"only about one in four or five re
ceives a degree." By the beginning
of the sophomore year, he said
the original 1,000 has shrunk by
250, and by the end of another
school year 250 more have
dropped out. "Make no mistake
about it," he told the graduating
class, "education in the state uni
versities is already highly selec
tive if judged by those who suc
ceed 1n taking a degree."
"It would certainly be false," he
went on, "to say that this failure
of entering students to take de
grees represents nothing but wast
ed effort. Many who finish only a
year or two doubtless profit by
their studies. But as one watches
the process one cannot seriously
doubt that there is a great amount
of waste in it. One cannot avoid
the conclusion that entirely too
many of these students get no re
turn that is commensurate with
the time and money they have
spent, or with the effort and the
money that the state has expended
upon them.
"There is certainly some loss of
money, tho that is the least im
portant factor in the situation.
The serious losses fall upon the
human values concerned.
UNION REPRESENTS
MATERIAL REALIZATION
OF STUDENTS' DREAMS
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a large number of our students
and some of the members of the
faculties have been carefully con
sidering the problem of finding a
method of facilitating the inter
course of our young men with each
other.
"Their effort has finally resulted
in the purchase of the residence of
the late Judge Cooley as the home
cf the union The associations
of the house, ao long the abode of
one of the most distinguished and
beloved of our professors, lend
great interest to it."
Frame Addition Built.
This house served as the home
of the union until 1916. In the
meantime, however, a frame Addi
tion had been made at the rear of
the building. This served as a
dance hall; acarcely as adequate as
the ballroom of today which will
seat 800 persons for a banquet or
1,700 for an assembly.
In 1916, ground was broken for
the erection of the present union
building, the Cooley house having
been torn down. The frame addi
tion waa moved to the rear of the
grounds and served aa temporary
headquarters for the organization.
Later the supports at one end of
the dance floor were shortened by
five or six feet; the floor waa
made to elope; a stage waa
aquippea- the ieeult, the Mimes
theater, until lately known as the
home of the T"nion operas.
Although i " aew building waa
only partis '..y completed, troops in
training for the World war were
housed In the structure in 1917
and 1918.
Completed In 1920.
Xn 1920, the union was completed
la its essential details; only the
swimming pool and the library re-
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Social Calendar
Tuesday.
Industrial staff 6 o'clock dinner
in Ellen Smith ball.
Phil Upsilon Omlcron tea for all
home economics women in home
economics parlor from 4 to 0:30
o'clock.
Thursday, March 28.
Phi Upsilon Omlcron meeting at
T o'clock In BUlen Smith hall.
Friday.
Beta Theta Pi spring party at
the Lincoln hotel.
Sigma Phi Sigma spring party
at the Lincoln hotel.
Delta Gamma house patty.
Methodist students party at
Grace M. E. church.
Delta Sigma Lambda Spring
party, Cornhusker hotel.
. Saturday.
Phi Kappa Psl spring party at
the Cornhusker hotel.
Kappa Sigma house party.
Chi Omega house party.
Sigma Nu Gold Rush party.
malning unfinished. Later, how
ever, thru additional contribu
tions, the pool waa put into shape.
A bronze tablet in the natatortum
bears the names of the following
fraternities as outstanding in se
curing funds: Beta Theta Pi, Al
pha Delta Phi, Phi Delta Theta,
Sigma Phi, and Chi Psl.
The library, named In houor of
Edward Waldo Pendleton, '72, was
the gift of Mrs. Pendleton in mem
ory of her husband. This room has
been used beyond the expectations
of the men who planned the build
ing, several hundred students dally
taking advantage of the opportun
ities offered for recreational read
ing. Amorg the other facilities of
fered as service departments in the
union are the pool and billard
room with 24 tables, four ping
pong tables; six bowling alleys; a
nine-chair barber shop; two gen
eral lounges; full restaurant serv
ice in the main dining room with
places for 250 perons; the ball
room; eight private dining rooms.
s Tap Room Popular.
One of the most popular features
of the building is the tap room
where men may eat, safe in the
knowledge that no woman will
come in and smoke an ill-smelling
Turkish cigarette at the next table.
The walls bear table tops carved
with the initaials of former stu
dents, and historic football season
schedules and scores. Many of
these were brought to the union
tap room from the original Orient
Late in the second semester of each
year, the union extends an invita
tion to graduating seniors to add
their mark to the union's collec
tion of names in public places. A
recent addition to the -tap room
now brings its seating capacity to
220.
Student Representation.
The governing body of the union
organization, the board of direc -tors,
is representatives of students,
faculty, administration, and
alumni. Of the 17 members on
the board, eight are students, the
remaining nine being faculty or
alumni members. The present
membership is composed of the fol
lowing persons: Albert F. Dono
hue, '31, president; Harold O. War
ren, jr, '81, recording-secretary;
six vice-presidents representing
the various schools and colleges in
the university: Frank E. Cooper,
'31, literary; Lyman A. ' Bullard,
'31E; John D. MacPherson, '31M;
Theodore C. Baer, '31 L; Thomas
W. Chamberlain, '31D; and Edward
H. Goodman, '31Ar., representing
the combined schools. Regent
James O. Murfin, Detroit, named
to the post by the board of regents,
represents that body. Prof. Evans
Holbrook, of the law school, is
financial secretary, being elected
to this position by the university
senate. The three faculty represen
tatives chosen by the senate are
Dean G. Carl Huber of the gradu
ate school, Prof. H. C. Anderson of
the engineering college, and Prof.
Joseph R. Hayden of the political
science department. Two alumni
members are chosen by the board
of directors of the Alumni associa
tion, the present members being
Sidney R. Small, Detroit, and Dan
iel L. Zimmerman, of Ann Arbor.
The two ex-officio members of
the board are J. A. Hursley, dean
of students and T. Hawley Tap
ping, general secretary of the
Alumni asociation.
Merit System Used.
The president and recording-secretary,
formerly elected in the all
campus elections each spring, are
now chosen by an electoral com
mittee elected from the member
ship of the board of directors. In
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"U" Hall
accordance with an amendment to
the constitution passed In January,
1030, the electoral committee re
ceives written applications for ap
pointments to the two senior posi
tions about the time of spring va
cation. Announcement of appoint
ments is made on the Saturday
preceding the all-campus elections.
The six vice-presidents are
chosen In the campus election, ap
plications for nomination being re
ceived by the union nominating
committee.
Student activities In the union
are administered by the executive
council .composed of the ten chair
men and assistant chairmen of the
five committees and the president
and recording-secretary.
The committee chairmen are:
House. Hugh R. Conklla, '32 E. and
Edward Kuhn, 32, assistant; pub
licity, .Robert Culver, '32 ; dance,
George Nichols, '82, and Charles
Cory, '31, assistant; reception,
Duane Baldwin, '32. and Louis Bu
tenschoen, '31, assistant; and un
derclass, Alfred J. Palmer, '32, and
Leonard Kamins, '32, and John W.
Lederle, '33, assistants.
tin's Land
PIEY say that all it takes to
popularize a publication is ita
appearance on a blacklist or an
announcement that it has been
censored. Hoping to stimulate the
reader Interest, we wish to let the
public know that an edition of No
Man's Land got suppressed last
Thursday. According to The Jour
nal, it was one of the sections that
felt the heavy hand of censorship."
At the time we came out with ex
pressions of depression over the
suppression, but our present im
pression is that it was a good
thing after all. We havs never had
that much notice taken of us be
fore. INCIDENTALLY a Nebraskan ad
1 earlier in the week stated that
the women's column appeared
every day. Not that we think you
might have noticed that but any
way we have never afflicted the
public with our prattle more than
three times a week and have been
even more lenient in this respect
during the past seven days, due, in
part, to the afore-mentioned cen
sorship. VTE THINK the Big Sister board
w deserves a slap on Its sisterly
back for making its election cam
puswide. That at least puts poli
tics out in the open. Offers oppor
tunities to watcbers and such.
(Pronounce "sich.")
DO YOU know any Scotch stor
ies? So do we, but we don't
want to get censored again, and
anyway that isn't what we meant.
Here's one. The Scotchman who
deals out money in The Nebraskan
office (infrequently, to be sure) up
and promised a reward of 25 bucks
to the apprehender of the anony
mous panner. Somebody asked him
if he would pay 25 bucks for a con
fession. Guess what he did and
you'll have one.
DOLAND MILLER accuses us
I t-a,r. nf nn nf ffettinr SDrinjr
fever and carving our initials on a
lamp post You're au wrong, rui
and. It was a tree. And anyhow,
anything that's done out in the
open like that is better than hiding
behind the door.
D AY RAMSEY doesn't like the
idea of using the present Tem
ple building for a student union
until we get a new one. Neither
does anybody else who doesn't
have to fight their way through
Rag office cobwebs every day. By
the way, what can be the trouble
with Ramsay's olfactory nerves.
He says the Temple doesn't have
atmosphere.
News note: Trev Gillespie is suf
fering from an attack of tonsil
soutus. Another note: People should re
spond to invitations marked R. S.
V. P. This goes for everybody.
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