FRIDAY. OCTOBER 30, 1931
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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
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The Daily Nebraskan
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(MEMBER;
This paper Is rapt anted for tmeraJ
edrerUaiBf ay The Nebraska Trim
Assoeiatioa.
Teachers'
Conventions
Public schools thruout the state have been
closed yesterday and today as the teachers as
sembled for their annual district conventions.
Lincoln and the university arc hosts to the
teachers of district number one. School chil
dren arc glad to get a couple of days vacation,
and teachers are happy to get back to the
university and mingle with their old friends.
There is a deeper meaning, however, in a
teacher's convention than just a vacation.
Five days a week for nine months during
the year, the students of grade schools and
high schools must strive to get an education.
io acquire the fundamentals which are neces
sary for higher education. What they learn,
how fast they learn, and how well they learn
it, depends to a large extent, upon how adept
their instructor is at teaching.
Teachers and all educators have a grave re
sponsibility resting upon them. They are re
sponsible for the education of the young folks
of the land. They are the ones wl.o most often
cet the blame when some sharp-eyed critic sees
something wrong with modern youth. The
schools do not teach properly, is the cry made
by these critics; the educational system is all
wet, so they say. Thus the teacher, especially
ihe grade school and high school teacher, be
sides havine to hand out book learning, must
mold characters, build up strong minds, and
turn out good, upright citizens. I
The convention, then, is not merely a place .
... ... i - i l - :
to have a good time. n is a piace wnen: me
teachers are taught new methods, where they
are made to realize with greater consequence
the responsibility with which they are en
trusted, and shown how to fulfill th"ir obligations.
for the creation of intimate acquaintances. That
is, it is true if one wishes to proclaim the en
tire institution as his friend. But there is no
denying that in a large university just, as many
friends may be hr.d for the asking. It is quite
preposterous, of course, to believe that anyone
can assume a roster of six thousand intimate
friends in any one school, but with such a field
at a student's disposal there should be great
odds for even more and better acquaintances
than the small school can provide.
Perhaps, in the last premise, it also seems
true that large schools which rre Joe:;ted in
large cities promote excessive diversion from
student activities. This can easily bo disproved, :
however, if one examines the state, of ni'fiun!
sufficiently to discover that there is no end oV j
scholastic endeavors awaiting the individual 1
student in a large institution of learning mid i
that several thousands of 1hose students are re-
tively engaged in activities of some sort. A 1
large school can offer so many more udivitie.;
the things which mnkef or a fuller scho'astin
life. 1
Tn the final analysis, then, it appc-rs ihat all j
of the points presented can easily be refuted. '
Smaller colleges do. however, serve a distinct
purpose. To some the expense of attending a
smaller college is much less and theivfore is
necessarv. Others revel in the gloiy of l''ng,
outstanding in fewer numbers rather tlifin be- .
ing mediocre or insignificant in a big pond:!
a privilege all their own. As far as this tmi- :
versity is concerned, the real service thus? '
smaller colleges perform is a reservoir Tor the
overflow which cannot be handled lioiv. t j
present the demands for expansion of the uni-'
versity are so great, and the funds available;
to meet those demands are so inadequate, ihr.t j
it is comforting to have other mediums thru '
which to gain an education. I
I
Literary Group 'to Feature
Hsllowe en Spirit in
Program Theme.
lallove'cn cp'.rit will feature the
meciln.-; cf tho Dclian-Union liter
ary society to re lield tonight at
7:C0 In Its roon, 303, in the
Tct.plt,
IlllcktJ Putney, head of the
pregxa-i co:;imiUie warns every-cv-i
to co:r.e prepared for unusual
Hallowe'en entertainment feat
ure?. Plans for the party call for
fortune tailing, ghort stories,
g'.iocia, gamei. t Units, and a
"cha-abar of horrors."
The lirit hour cf the affair will
bs devote to a program of music
pud cong. , Group tinging will be
l?d by Charles Putney, leader of
tho boyr" industrial school band.
H' Pu'tmy rill also sing several
eo'oc.
Seven-year-old Mary Allen will
do Up and acrobatic dancing,
recovdin to the program com
mitlce, and Viclct Vaughn will
play reveral piano selections. Mrs.
Oabo.n, who ha played several
ro'ei with the University players
will read for the group.
Following the formal program,
the-e will be an hour of games
and Etunts. and the evening will
be concluded by informal dancing.
Marjorle Dean and Dorothy
Kepnor are in charge of refresh
ment?. Chaperones will be Mr.
and Mrs. Elton Lux and Mr. and
Mr. Hupp.
MORNING MAIL
THE CLOTHES LINE
The Growler
By HARRY FOSTER
.4 bout These
Campus Gripes.
Announcement was made in Tho Daily Ne
braskan yesterday morning of the progress be
ing made on the new swimming pool and its
near completion. The new mall has been com
pleted and enhances the beauty of the campus
outlook a hundred fold. There are, however.
;oo many appropriately dubbed "campus
sripes" to be found within the walls of this
institution of ours; too many who are too gen
erous with destructive criticism and too be
grudging with favorable comments.
All loo often one encounters in ilafesioom,
.n the campus, or in any place where there are
students to be found representatives of this
body of "campus gripes." The chief occupa
tion of these individuals is that of running
down the university for its lack of aesthetic
appeal, for its inadequate housing facilities,
and incomplete equipment. Comparisons are
made between Nebraska and other universities
?nd in all respects, the I'omhusker .school
comes out of the session much the worse for
wear.
Depreciatory remarks have often been mad'1
by graduates of other universities to the effect
that Nebraska is not a hich ranking institution
of learning, and in many instances these derog
atory statements are not ret'tiWl by supposedly
loyal Comhusktrs in attendance! Further
more, there is not only a noticeable lack of de
fense of the name of their alm;i mater-to-be
among Nebraska students, but many of them
ai" even themselves guilty of making similar
remarks. Can any institution not respected by
its own associates or defended by them expect
to merit the respect of others?
With the thousands of dollars expended by
the Mate upon the improvement and heautiii
cation of the campus fhould com a corres
ponding increase in pride among students. To
all adverse comments mad by anyon con
cerning the university students should retali
ate with constructive criticism expressing
their loyalty and pride in the Cornhusker
Ava.-t ye campus gripes! Avast!
Coshl That's Really Bad.
TO THE EDITOR :
Altho 1 address you. I wish to make my re
marks to Oswald whose letter appeared in
Tuesday morning's Daily Nebraskan. I have
talked with the recent editor who suggested
the hard times or "hobo" day and Mho re
ferred it to the Student council for investiga
tion. I have learned that the original idea
was to create a stunt that Mould be more or
less for display and publicity of the university,
but that the editor who suggested it is now
quite amused over the fuss being created by
some supposed campus heavy thinkers.
Oswald, you are right when you say that the
students who objected were merely maintain
ing their apathetic aloofness, which does seem
to be so characteristic. I understand that the
alleged committee appointed by the alleged
student council to investigate this matter of a
"hobo" day spent the sum total of five min
utes in assembling and then an additional one
minute in deciding that there isn't anything
that can be done. (And the Student council
wonders why it is so ineffective.)
That august committee, the same alleged
one, was appointed one week, and made its
massive report on the following Wednesday.
During that time, it had interviewed a score of
faculty men and numerous studenis as to the
adviseability of a "hobo" day. It had written
to all of the other schools which sponsor sim
ilar days, and it had ACTUALLY received re
plies. (At least that is what the committee
should have done.) My, my. what powers of
speed people do have in these modern eras.
Yes. Oswald, you arc right apathetic aloof
ness. "Hobo" day would inject something new
into campus spirit, and there arc many hun
dreds who are highly in favor of it. But just
because some lazy committee refuses to exert
itself, we students can't even find out what the
possibilities are. What I want to know is this:
What in the .same hill do we elect a Student
council for if they spend half their time stay
ing away from meetings and the other half
twiddling their thumbs and thumbing their
noses! Representative men and women of the
campus J Hahhhh! It is a resting place for
the permanently spent inertia of political plum
pickers who are marvelous subjects for cam
pus studios thev have great external worth.
'OSWALD'S BROTHER.
Tho the date (calendar) of the
Military ball is only a month or
more distant, show us the coed
that isn't seriously pondering the
fill-lmnortant Droblem of what to
i wear on this night of nights.
I F-:rnt nerhao. the honorary
colonel, who knows that she'll
have to struggle into a stiff uni
form and a pair of uncomfortable
i boots, i
The rest of us girls are con
cerned with what to wear to make
i a startling or at least an impres-
Fie entrance to a room imea wun
all the other female members of
Unlversitas Nebraskensis. T o
achieve such an entrance shouldn't
be so difficult this year if one's
! frock is well chosen, lor tne eve
ning domes or mis Reason are
positively dramatic.
Shades of our grandmother, if
we haven't bustles in our new
evening gowns! Not the kind that
Grandma wore, however, rather,
pouffs, ruffles, flounces, flares,
; bows inspired oy uranma s gown,
i Grandma herself might not gee
tne resemDiance, lor me uusue
has become very sophisticated in
its modern versions. She might
even throw up her hands in horror
and deny any likeness, for the
new formats are frankly low cut
in back. To make up for this the
newest decolletage is extremely
high in front some ascend almost
to the throat so if Grandma
should appear on the scene Just
right-about fsce.
Your new formal will be of a
heavier material than last year's
frock. It will probably be of satin
or velvet or crepe: all of these
fabrics rate high in the fashion
world. Satin would be stunning in
bla .k or white, and ravishing in
pmn-brown for the extremely in
dividual type. If you select velvet,
it would ke lovliest in one of the
jewel cc lots ruby, garnet, sapph
ire, amathvut. emerald. In crepe
I your choice cf color in almost un
I limited. Let it be more intense
j than anything you would have
j chosen last year, and be sure that
i it pays a nice compliment to your
skin or nair or eyes.
Netraska spirit is on the de
cline in spite of what the last rally
orator might have said. Furvor
is nt. Tea party rallies are the
vogue. The trek to Mlzzou will
consist of a few loyal Cornhusk
ers and a few who 'are going for
the spirits of the affair. The
theory has been advanced that
students are yelled out by the
time they have reached college due
to the rally program adhered to in
high schools, It is true that the
high schools of the slate adopt
Husker yells and Husker songs
and Husker rallys to pattern their
own traditions after. Cheers and
songs should be abolished alto
gether or they should be sup
ported. Youth should relieve its
steam in a harmless way and save
wear and tear on professors.
I wonder what the general pub
lic thinks of college life a la the
talkies. Dear old Upton! College
must be the nuts. I think that the
college as constructed by the
movie deserves the opprobrium of
non-coiiegians. college life is like
any other life. There are just as
many bad people and Just as many
good people-in our university as in
any other society. A drunken col
lege student who runs over or
smashes into somebody makes the
front page; a drug stroe clerk of
the same age and in the same ac
cident may make the personal
mention column. The outstate peo
ple who formulate their opinions
of college from the movies might
as well base their Judgment of
Clara Bows morals on what they
see on the screen. Such a distorted
and warped picture of a truly mor
al society amounts to libel. Col
lege students are serious and they
ar nt all gigolos and Betty Co-eds.
The movies insult the college stu
dent and the American college.
There's an old Greek custom
that's a noble tradtition. Fresh
man sneak night is one of the high
spots of the year for the average
yearling. It brings the class closer
together and the fellows by mu
tual mutiny have an experience
that will out live most of their col
lege experiences. Of course the
naughty youngsters have to pay
for their sin but the fun of rebel
lion and the worm that turned idea
restores some of the self resect and
confidence that is taken away by
fraternity and sorority disclipine.
Individuality is curbed by such so
cial groups and upperclassmen are
Jealous in attempting to get the
freshman to conform to a type.
Educational institutions are Just
the same. Public schools and col
leges advocate self expression and
individuality but as soon as the
student attempts to carry out and
execute this advice they are con
demned as being radicals, freaks !
or anti-socials. Its question of get-'
ing even just like the fellows on
the precipice obtained reveage on !
the sea gulls. i
PLAN THREE
DISARMAMENT TALKS
King, Hill and Lyman Arc
Speakers at Church
Discussions.
that class as. to when it will be
allowed to appear In customary
head-dress.
"Disarmament" will be tho topic
for discussion Sunday nt noon in
university class, First Baptist
church, 14th and K streets. This
will be the first of a series of thicc
discu3sioni on this subject which
the class has planned. Albert King
will lead and the following two
meetings will bo led by Dr. Hill of
the political .science department.
Kugene Eiiaworm win present a
piano solo.
At 6:30 Sunuay evening Dean u.
A. Lyman of tho college of phar
macy will address the Bapti.it
young people's union on "Friend
ship." This will conclude a series
of di.HCiissions on this subject. All
students are urged to attend thcao
services.
CLASS PRESIDENTS
SELECT TUG TEAMS
Continued from Pngo l.i
the other group over a certain
mark, twice out of the three times
wins, and cither tho freshmen dis
card their caps, or continue to
wear them until the first snow
fall. Idea Is New.
The idea of this contest, spon
sored by the Innocents, is a new
one. The Innocents society has
from the time they were instituted
in charge of the sale of ircshman
caps and the supervision of the ob
servance of the custom. A number
of years ago, an annual Olympics
was held between the freshmen
and sophomore classes which de
termined whether or not the fresh
men would continue to wear the
green enpn or not. When the Olym
pics were abandoned, something of
the rigor with which the observ
ance of the green cap custom was
enforced by various campus organ
izations was relaxed. Although the
Innocents continued to sell the
caps, the observance of the custom
by freshmen became more or less
optional, with occasional attempts
to enforce the wearing. Ordinal ily
a certain date was set at which
time the freshmen would be privi
leged to stop wearing the caps.
This year the Innocents society
not only chun'ged the color of the
caps, but they have supervised an
organized attempt to have the cus-.
torn observed. With every fresh
man wearing a cap. there is con
siderable interest manifested by
OF NEBRASKA CAMPUS
Greek Magazine Displays
Mall, . Buildings in
November Issue.
Pictures of Nebraska's campus
Bliowinij tlu mall south of the coli
neum and surrounding buildings
appeared in Banta's Greek ex
change, college fraternity maga
zine, in tho November issue.
Show.) l.i the illustration a.-e the
me.l!, tflnilan, coliseum, Merrill
hall r.nd ii.v3..-y hall.
Since the picture run in Banta's
was taken, still further improve
ments have been made to the Ne
braska campus. Ground on the eart
front of Memorial stadium hrs
been F,ot!ded and cement nldewdks
laid to the stndium, doing away
with the old cinder paths and a
heating plant for the university
and tho state capitol has been
built to tho north of the field
house.
Tho Nebraska Alumni Associ
ated sponsored the building and
the landscaping of the plot In front
of the stadium, and construction
of the sidewalks, started laFt
spring, was completed during the
summer.
Farther south, the 1931 improve
ment program has already pro
vided for the grading of the old
drill field and construction of a
new east-west mall north of Social
Science building this year. The
drive was completed and opened
for use only a short time ago.
METEOROLOGIST
STATES ISO SNOW
STORM FORECAST
Despite the chilly weather and
high wind of the past few days
there are no indications of a snow
storm even though one was had
in Colorado, according to Prof. T.
A. Blair. United States Meteorol
ogist. The lowest temperature re
corded here Wednesday was 39 de
grees with a thirty mile an hour
wind from the northwe.-t. If the
wind goes down tonight it will
probably frost in some portions of
the state, Blair raid.
NEWSPAPER TALK
Smaller Colleges
Serve Their Purpose.
A N'-hraska -'lilor, in ni.'ikiim a comparivoi
l-tw"n univi-rsitis ;'iil the snialh-r colleges,
lias fltt'-wptwl to place the uii v-rst i-K at a IU
H(lvant;ry'. That writer's intention is to show
how lh- Kiiiallcr college is more enlightening
in moral training thr.n th" institution which
deals ii so-called mass production. He also
points to the more intimate acquaintance which
is gained by studenU of 1 lie smaller schools.
Finally, he deplores the excessive diversion
from student activities in the universities.
Morals, first, are not a matter of local con
cern, whether they boh up in large or small
circles. They are, ret her, of fl more conven
tional consequence. Mon.ls within the outly
ing towns and villngfs are approximately ex
high and a low as they ar in the larger city
and the metropolis. They are no different in
the large or the small education;-l institutions.
Membership in a great university should not
indicate, nwsu ily, either low or high moral
living.
It is iindo'ibtedly true, in the s.coiid point,
that a small college offer greater r.i.i.orl unily
"Boners."
Kvery now and then somebody compiles n
list or' those agonized "misrernernberings" and
misunderstandings that often find their way
into student examination papers. Sometime;
these twisted answers to question arc too good
to he true: One feels that they have been de
vised by a prof . iional humorist, or at least by
somebody more amusing than the ordinary stu
dent can be except in those rare moments of
utter unselfeon.-,eiou.mess. Still, few teachers
are without the recollection of boners culled
from their own clasen; and so possibly we
may accept moft of the following examples s
genuine. I found them in a pamphlet that
eanie the other day in the office mail.
Of this one, the compiler remarks, "Th"
youngster who composed this was no puller of
bone.,; he was an embryo Koehefoueauhl."
The statement is that a compliment is when
you say something to another which he and wc
know is not true. As a definition of the term
monologue one lad is said to have offered ibis:
"A monologue is a conversation between two
people, Hi1(., Hs husband and wife," " ,Milt,n,"
remarked another, "wrote Paradise l,osl. Then
his wife died, and he wrote Paradise je
ga'tned." Here are one or two in what may be called
the renlin of natural science; "A sure footed
animal that when it kicks it dots not miss."
"Quinine is the bark of a tree. Canine is the
bark of a dog." "The animal which poftsesi.es
the greatest rttachment for man is woman."
History papers often reveal rich material in
the way of boners. "The Prodigal Father,"
remarked one victim of examination, "bailed
for the New- World in 1620." Another insisted
thi.t Socrates died "from sn overdose of wed
lock." It may be so. "Where was the Declar
ation of Independence signed?" Answer, "At
the bottom." "Algebra wan the wife of Kite
lid," well, who knows that she wasn't T Put
the piie (,( the lot, I th'nk. is this comment
ij.'O!) the r;!;sequir of William JV; "Thy
gave William IV a lovely funeral, it took six
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is equally smart with none at all.
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