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THE DAILY NERKASKAN SUNDAY, JANUARY fl, 1933. TWO i-3 n .1 ', V p .1 : n i ,.t ; v Daily Nebraskan Station A, Lincoln. Nebraska OFFICIAL STUDENT PUBLICATION UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA Entered at tecond-clnsi matter at ha nnctnffir In Lincoln. Nebraska.. tinder act of congress. Match 3. 1879 and at special rate of postage provided for in section 1103. act of October 3. 1917. authorized January 20. 1922. THIRTY-SECOND YEAR Published Tuesday. Wednesday, Thurs. day. Friday and Sunday mornings during the academic year. SUBSCRIPTION RATE Single Copy 5 cents 2 a year $125 a semester $3 a year mailed $1.75 semester i.ialled Under direction of the Student Pub lication Board Editorial Otilce University Hall 4. Business Office University Hall 4. Telephones Day; B6891: Night. B6882 or B3333 (Journal) ask for Nebra. kan editor. 15.5 reduction. It ia evident that the budget recognizes that certain other state activities can stand greater reductions than edu cation. On the whole education has been well treated. Etlucation Well Treated. FROM the sick bed to which he has been confined since the November election, Gov. Charles W. Bryan Friday sent his biennial budget message to be read before a joint meeting of the Nebraska legislature now in session, out lining his proposals on state ex penditures for the 1933-35 fiscal term. A 39.7 slash in the total budget and a 26 cut in the pro posed appropriations out of tax revenues bear witness that Gov ernor Bryan's economy platform on which the people of Nebraska so recently extended their man date to him to direct their affairs of government was no idle boast. Governor Bryan proposed further economy in state government and put that proposal before the voters of the state. They gave their overwhelming approval and he has proceeded to carry out his promise and their wish. Along with the other state activ ities and institutions which . must accept a reduction in appropria tions and make the necessary cur tailments is the university. Dur ing the fiscal biennium 1933-35 the university, if Governor Bryan's proposals are followed by the leg islature, will get $586,000 less in general operating funds from the state than In 1931-33 and no money for buildings. This reduction, along with re duced receipts from other sources, will doubtless fall heavily on the university which has already been forced to make drastic economies. The university feels and justly so that among all the services for which the state spends money, education of the young people who tomorrow will be its citizens i3 one of the most essential; that of all the state institutions the main tenance of its efficiency is among the most important Some con nected with the- university may feel that in proposing further re ductions in its income, Governor Bryan has acted without due re gard for the importance of edu cation. Under normal circumstances this belief might be justified. Right now it is not. If the farm ers of Nebraska who pay the taxes to support the university had plenty of money, even tem porary curtailment of the state's educational facilities could not be defended. Such is not the case at present. A careful examination of the entire budget proposed by Gover nor Bryan will indicate that edu cation in Nebraska in general, the university included, is being treated very fairly. Governor Bryan has proposed a 26 reduc tion in total appropriations from tax revenues. His proposed reduc tion in university appropriations which conserve about one-third of the state's tax income is 18. The four state normal schools have fared slightly better with a Get Your Man. yjiE semi-annual fog of regis 1 tration complexities is about to descend on the campus. Resi dent students will start groping Monday, and will have until Sat urday noon to get their applica tion blanks to college deans' offices. In the course of the groping, there is no reason to assume that history will not repeat itself, and we may expect to witness ani mated discussion on the relative merits of courses, professors, ad visability of morning classes, prob able book expenditures, etc, etc., ad nauseam. Discussion before taking the plunge, if it be thoughtful discus sion, is highly desirable, and any thing that such consideration can do to decrease the lamentable number of post registration changes is very commendable. But the wisest student is not the one who accepts the bull session verdict and makes his schedule accordingly. Registration wisdom is rather a careful weighing of all the factors involved, and chief among these factors is the character of the men who will for a semester help shape your thinking. It is a com mon thing for the undergraduate to overlook this consideration in an attempt to "get by" with the least work possible. Hence the effort expended in thumbing thru the schedule of classes in search for rumored "pipe courses." Far wiser is the choice of courses which hinges on the qual ity of the men involved. Success ful teaching is largely a matter of human contact, and to enhance the meaning of a college educa tion courses should be chosen with an eye to the men who teach them. If this be the method of choice, it is true that the luxury of laziness may have to be fore sworn, but the stimulation of meeting human richness will more than recompense any sacrifice to convenience. Register, then, with full realiza tion of the value of men. Choose men, not courses. Contemporary Comment (Kilitnr'8 note: Thin In the firnt of a sol-ion of four nrllclon on outstand ing lurront developments in tle He Ul of IiIkIkt education, wrnum for The Dally Nehru.sl;an by the editor of College New.H service.; YWCA ASKS FOR GIRLS AS WELFARE MEMBERS Secretary Desires Help in Americanization and Girls9 Clubs. Several girls are needed by the Y. W. C A., some to aid in the Americanization of Mexican and German women, and some as spon sors of Girl Reserve Clubs in Lin coln grade and high schools it was announced Saturday by Miss Eer niece Miller, Y. W. C. A. secretary. The Americanization work is sponsored by the board of educa tion of Lincoln, and consists of visiting in homes or doing class work with women at Bancroft and Havward schools. Upperclass girls, preferably those who have had German or Spanish, will aid in teaching the women the English language and ideals and standards of the United States. The work will require about an hour and a half one afternoon a week. Advisors are also needed for sev eral of the Girl Reserve clubs which are sponsored by the Girl Reserve staff of the Y. W. C A. Any who are interested in experi ence along either line are asked to report to Miss Miller at the Y. W. C A. office. HICKS HAS "MERRY WIT" According to the Wisconsin Daily Cardinal, Prof. J. D. Hicks is fast winning a reputation for "his merry wit and his course in recent American history ia the most thorough story on the rise of Nebraska . . . Nebraska, the home of Hicks." By J:mcs Crenshaw. Anyone who says that American higher education is becoming standardized had better take a post graduate course in observa tional perspicacity. For, tho there obviously are certain significant co-ordinative movements -part of a great cur rent of development, moving gen erally in one direction styles in higher education are becoming so variegated that one can almost order an education, like the best clothes, to fit one's personality. It is not to be denied, of course, that important co-ordinative trends are apparent, as in the case of Oregon, which has just decided to combine its five institutions of higher learning under one admin istration of Washington, which may take similar steps, and Cali fornia, where a Carnegie survey now in progress promises a closer co-operation between numerous publicly endowed regional colleges and the state university. These, however, are evidence of mutation, rather than standardiza tiona groping after the right educational pattern which will best, satisfy the needs of a younger generation now in the throes of a vital economic readjustment This mutation is not sectional. It is the keynote of progress in practically every major and most minor institutions of higher learn ing in America. All are " experi menting to a greater or lesser de gree with new types of curricula, new educational formulae and, in several cases (e. g. the Universi ties of Chicago and Wisconsin) entirely radical departures from the beaten path. Here are a few selected "inner" symptoms of mutation: 1. The movement opposing compulsory class attendance. Within recent months, the Uni versity of Illinois under its new president, Harry Wood burn Chase has abolished a rigid cut system, making students responsible only to individual instructors; Minne sota U. has taken similar steps, with one of its colleges (education) going so far as to allow unlimited cuts; Michigan State has elimi nated the negative credit for ex cessive cuts and has substituted a plan whereby best students are granted the privilege of voluntary class attendance; Idaho has abol ished penalties for class absences; many other colleges are experi menting with new class attendance plans, designed to stimulate stu dent responsibility. 2. General attacks on grading systems and credit hours, both by faculty members and students, with neither knowing exactly what to do. Some suggest granting degrees to students on the basis of per sonal observation; still others would depend upon comprehen sive examinations. There is a gen eral inclination toward this latter suggestion, with or without course grades; North Dakota U. this year will for the first time demand that liberal arts and education seniors take comprehensives in their major fields. Columbia's School of Journalism plans to in stitute a "pass-fail" system. 3. Introduction of tutors; Har vard, Yale, Princeton and Wis consin are conspicuous examples. At Lafayette college in Pennsylva nia a system of fraternity tutors or advisers was instituted this year. 4. Introduction of honors courses for students adjudged cap able of guiding their own studies with faculty advice. 5. Suspension of class recita tions two weeks prior to final ex aminationsHarvard, Yale. 6. Extension of courtesy priv ileges to "roving" students who wish to attend certain classes and lectures without credit, in addi tion to scheduled courses. Syra cuse U. approved this idea last fall. , Not a comprehensive survey of all the new movements nor even, perhaps, the most outstanding current examples of educational change, these "symptoms" never theless serve to indicate some thing more far reaching than the usual year by year advances of education. The war retarded edu cation; the depression appears to be a stimulant. PROF. FOSSLER, HEAD GERMAN DEPARTMENT, DIES SATURDAY, 4:3 (Continued from Paee 1. til 1889. In that year he became an instructor in modern languages in the University of Nebraska and, aside from the time devoted to three trips to Europe, he had been in active service at the institution since that time. Masters in 1890. In 1890, Fossler received his M.A. degree and was made ad junct professor . of modern lan guages. The following year the classes in German became large enough to justify the formation of an independent department, and he was made head of it with the ti tle of associate professor of Ger manic languages. He had been chairman of the department since that time. It grew rapidly, and before the World war was second only to the English department in enrollment. During the war attendance in his classes fell rapidly until there were less than fifty students in the department, and he was the only instructor, but after the war it again became one of the most im portant departments in the uni versity. Last spring, at a service to commemorate the centennial of Goethe's death at which Fossler spoke on his life and works, he was presented with a watch by his friends in the faculty as an expression of their affection for him on his seventy-fifth birthday. Because of illness, Professor Fossler was unable to meet with his classes last fall, and had been confined to his home at 1547 South Seventeenth street. Chemistry Fellowships Are Available for Year A number of Teaching fellow ships in Chemistry at Washington Square College of New York for the coming academic year, are open to applicants of the Univer sity of Nebraska, a bulletin recent ly released announces compensa tion in the jimior grades ranges from $700 to $800 for two terms, and in the senior grade $900 to $1,000. Fees are exempted. Appli cation blanks can be obtained from the Chairman of the department of chemistry at Washington Square College, New York. Miss Marjorie Shanefelt, curator of visual education, addressed the Girls Reserves at the Lincoln high school Monday afternoon. She spoke on "The Spirit of Music." Thursday afternoon, January 14, she will go to Wahoo where she will be the guest speaker at a meeting of the Wahoo Women's club. There she will discuss "The History of Bells." BURUNGAME TO SPEAK AT J0UM1 MEET Vanity Fair Article Author Will Defend Debunking At Monthly Dinner. A defense of artistic "debunk ing" will be the main theme of Robert Burlingame's address at the regular monthly dinner meeting of Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalism fraternity, next Thurs day night at Gold's dining room. Burlingame is an instructor in journalism at Nebraska Wesleyan university. Alumni and active members of Sigma Delta Chi will attend the banquet. About thirty are ex pected to be present, according to Jack Erickson, member of Sigma Delta Chi, who is in charge of ar rangements for the affair. Burlingame, who is a member of Sigma Delta Chi at the Grinnel college chapter, will also speak on his various newspaper experiences. He formerly worked on the staff of the Des Moines Register and has been connected with the publicity department of Iowa State college. Burlingame is now registered for graduate work at Nebraska and formerly was an assistant in the history department. He is the au thor of the article "Nebrasa on the Make," published recently in Van ity Fair. VAN ROYEN WRITES ARTICLE Instructor Discusses Use Of Fertilizer for Europeans. William Van Royen, instructor in geography has written an article on Some Geographical Considera tions Regarding the Use of Fertili zer in the United States, which will be published in the March issue cf the March issue of "Bijdschrift voor Economische Geographiev, the only European magazine on economic geography. Van Royen's recent article, for which he has been gathering sta tistics and material for the last two months, includes a compari son of the different type of soil, the different types of crops and the areas in which fertilizer is now used, and the distribution and de cline of the use of fertilizer in the United States. Company Will Publish Book by Dr. Reinliardt Dr. J. M. Reinhardt, associate professor of sociology at the Uni versity of Nebraska, has just signed a contract with the Ameri can Book Company for the publi cation of the book "Contemporan eous Social Problems", which he wrote in collaboration with Prof. J. M. Gillette, head of the depart ment of sociology at the Univer siity of North Dakota. Engineering College Cancels Inspection Dean O. J. Ferguson of the col lege of engineering has announced that this year the annual inspec tion trip for engineering seniors has been cancelled. The inspection trip has formerly been a require ment for graduation. The cancella tion, of course, waives this requirement. YOUR DRUG STORE Catering to you with the bert In Drujf Store needs. Fountain and luncheonette service. Whitman A Gillen's Chocolates The Owl Pharmacy WE DELIVER 148 No. 14th Ml P Sts. Ph. B1068 L. R. (Lee) Messenger Garage (Formerly R. R. Bailey Garage) FORD, CHEVROLET AND PONTIAC SERVICE AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES GENERAL AUTO REPAIRING Conoco Germ Processed Oil Washing and Greasing Phone B 1701 Tires Batteries 112 So. 16th St. COURTEOUS SERVICE WE CALL FOR AND DELIVER The University Players You've Seen "As Husbands Go," but there's a different way of looking at it See "IME IF DR. SIT MRS. FRASIEQl" By ST. 0 ERVIE Temple Theatre All Week, Jan. 9 to 14 Curtain Promptly at 7:30 'IP