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The Daily Nebraskan
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'Tassels
Have It!'
QAMPAIGNING Tassels plunge into their IiIkhvmI
project Monday morning when they begin the
athletic ticket sale drive on the campus. Supported
by Corn Cobs, Innocents and Mortar Hoards they
will make an intensive .student canvass and by the
end of their snlo hope to have sold enough tickets
to make athletic contests the representative activi
ties they are.
In past years there has been, as the football
season got under way, a tendency for a rash of
"over-cmphasis" cries to break out, and perhaps in
the- boom days those cries were not without some
foundation. But now, this year of 1933, the athletic
department Is fighting to keep all its accessories
intramurals, classes, and a variety of equipment
for the use of the student body, and it is only
thru the, success of the season-book sale that this
aim can be accomplished.
The campaign is in efficient hands, for the
Tassels have already this fall shown themselves
able to manage a ticket drive with the success of
their University Players ticket sale. And the ob
jective toward which they strive is a worthy one.
But without whole-hearted support of the student
body the most efficient of sales organizations
could not achieve its objective.
If Nebraska athletics are to continue to make
sports facilities available to students, those same
students must do their part by purchasing an
athletic tlcketl
The athletic ticket drive gets off to a vigorous
Start Monday morning. DO YOUR PART!
"The Tassels Have It" that's the campaign
slogan. "Buy IT" that's your part.
Demise of
The Born.
story in Thursday morning's Nebraskan stated
that the long planned for decorations for the
coliseum are finally to be realized. They will be in
stalled and ready for use by the first of November.
But it Is the story behind the story which is worthy
of mention.
Various plans for decorating the coliseum to
make it a better place for student social functions
have been advanced in the past, but lione have ma
terialized. Then last year, the Innocents society,
realizing again the actual need for such decora
tions, started an intensive and concentrated cam
paign to secure the funds necessary to purchase the
decorations.
The fund was started by a generous contribution
from the military department. The Innocents con
tributed to the fund, then the Interfraternity Ball,
and Junior-Senior prom committees, and other or
ganizations, until it was suddenly realized that the
decorations were actually within reach. Now the
decorations have been purchased or contracted for
and will be In general use in a short time.
Students new to the univerrity will not appre
ciate the difference the decorations will make in
the appearance of the interior of the field house for
a major social function. The steel girders support
ing the ceiling, and the unsightly brick walls will
be out of sight. Drapes covering the walls to form
a false ceiling will give the appearance of being
much smaller and more like a ballroom. The com
bination of orchestra shell and drapes will improve
the acoustics of the building to a remarkable de
gree. Looking to the future, not far distant, we can
Bee no objection to fraternity and sorority joint
parties being held in the field house rather than
downtown. And perhaps All-University paities will
really attain all-university proportions now that the
barn is transformed.
Every organization which has done its part
In helping toward the acquisition of the decorations
deserves commendation, altho the help of other or
ganizations will be needed to complete payment on
the improvements. And when students attend par
ties In the coliseum In the future they can say with
pride that they did their part toward adding some
thing to campus hocIh! life.
Student Mind
Dissvvled.
'TY) revise an opinion frequently quoted, opinions
are the spice of life. They reveal, especially In
college students, a profundity of thought and win
dow totally unexpected. We present, here, for what
they nitty be worth, some wrlf.cn i lions ol stu
dents on topics and subjects which have caught
their Interest, us a cross-section of the things that
come to the office,
One student, writing at gleat length on the
subject of the advantage and disadvantages ot fra
ternities, says nothing In the following words: "To
lie a fraternity nmii may have a great significance
to some. To others It may mean nothing. It is
solely up to the individual and his trend of thought.
They are both enjoyable -yet disappointing.
("They" probably refers to ?-Kd.l, It Is what you
make out of it yourself which gives yuu the frame
of mind that fraternities are cither an asset or a
detriment to a college. Many fraternity men have
finished their college outside of their 'Oreek
brothels' because they felt like the advantages
outside ol the organization were more significant
than those which existed within the fraternity
chapter."
Hollcd down to one sentence, this speech means
to convey the idea that you should be or should not
be a fraternity man.
Students are not the frivolous, hey-hey, shirt
tail paraders that the folks back in Podunk think
they are. The unsolicited statement of one student
definitely destroys this Illusion.
He says: "Contrary to public opinion, the ma
jority of students at the University of Nebraska
are serious-minded, hard working Individuals, intent
upon learning how to better make a living, and are
not interested solely in the pamperings of society,
social activities, and hub-bub of school. They are
not going to school merely to make desirable social
connections. Most of them are going with a real
purpose In mind." (All rights reserved).
Writing at some length about man's meager
mind, another student discourses profoundly on the
stars. Our vision was somewhat obscured by
clouds of doubt -but we struggled on and found
this:
"Man, with his meager mind, would be quite
likely to conclude that the brightness of Vega
(a star) before it becomes the pole star again (last
time was 14,000 years ago) is 12,000 years, will
rival that of the sun. As a matter of fact the dis
tance of Vega is so enormously great that even this
high velocity of approach will increase its apparent
brightness in 12,000 years by less than one twenty
fifth of one percent. The stars are incomprehens
ively remote. Man's mind is meager."
Self-condemnation and commendation of the
Innocents for their masterful handling of emergen
cies in rallies inspired one student to write. In bal
lyhooing the idea of orderly rallies, he says: "Be
cause the student body has not been able to con
trol its membership in past rallies, it has been nec
essary for the Student council and the Innocents
society to take charge, as well as full responsibility
in case the students get out of hand. It seems to
discredit, rather than to revere the student body,
that such measures are necessary. Systematized
and orderly rallies are much more effective than
unorganized and hair-brained masses of half-crazed
students." Remember this advice the next time you
plan to drive your car in a rally.
A champion of the gentle art of supervised
arguing laments the lack of funds available for
trips for the debate team this year. "Although
debate is not as popular as other extra-curricular
activities and is not accorded the wide publicity and
enthusiasm shown in connection with other intra
school metts," he says, "it has filled a place in the
cultural life of the university necessary to its main
tenance as a worthwhile institution." Call out the
cheerleaders and band, we say.
The office wouldn't be the same without a
number of gripes about the bookstores. Says one
student of economics: "The greatest racket comes
when some bookstore learns that they have the only
copies of a certain copy. It becomes a monopoly
and any student who has had any economics at all
knows that monopoly has full power the consum
ers are robbed." It is possible that the author has
just bought this year's revised editions.
And finally, we present this gem of introspec
tion. The pangs of remorse should gnaw at your
heart-strings when you finish this, if you have any
thoughts for the folks at home. "After all, we're
here for a purpose, ct least our parents at home are
laboring with that one blind hope in their breasts.
But how many of us are looking two, three, or
four years hence toward a predetermined goal ? Ten
percent will take care of all those who have their
goal in mind." Aren't you ashamed, you other
ninety percent?
So it goes. Topics range from a new sewerrrge
system for Lincoln to the good old substantial
"school spirit." Philosophy, economics, extra-curricular
activities, and the merits of kinds of peda
gogy are bandied about with a facility limited only
by the students' conception of the English language.
If you want a comprehensive glance at that
vague thing, the students mind, come and see us
some time and we'll show you our mail.
Ag College
By Carlvle Ilodykin
ESSAY CONTEST.
The Saddle and Sirloin club of
Chicago sponsors annually what
they call the "Medal Essay con
test." Any undergraduate student
in any agricultural college in the
United States or Canada may en
ter. The subject for each year's
contest is set by the club. This
year the essays will discuss "The
Influence of Live Stock Judging
Contests." The essays are to ap
proximate 1,500 words. They are
to be in the office at Chicago by
Nov. 1. For further details go
and read the bulletin board in Ag
hall, or talk to R. T. Prescott or
H. J. Gramlich.
And then go home and write an
essay.
The contest offers a gold medal
as the first prize, a silver medal
as second prize, and a bronze
medal as third prize. Prizes to
the next seven high men are books
on agricultural subjects, the num
3 r vprying from five or six de
.? 'vi the placiTip. Tra next
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the answer to that question, but
I couldn't get it down on paper?"
Is there a shadow of doubt that
one of the most vital attributes of
one who purports to be educated
is the ability to speak and write
accurately? Is there any doubt
that many, nearly all. of tbe .rt"
dents who go out of Ag college
into responsible posit i
called upon to make accurate, con
cise written reports,
prepare agricultural articles for
magazines? If tht .
true, then what logic can there be
for neglecting an opportu.iu .
an excellent bit of practice in
contest affords just that thing,
writing? The Saddle and Sirloin
Ag college students are sup
posed to know something about
agricultural subjects, to be able
to discuss agricultural problems
intelligently, to have done some
original thinking on agricultural
questions. Here is a chance to put
that knowledge, and that original
thinking into use. Here is an op
portunity to try yourself out, to
see if you really know anything
about agriculture, to have a try at
putting your ideas down ac
curately. Not one single student will en
ir the "Medal Essay contest"
v -.'.hot profiting from It. The
' - - - -a j-.-ime Is at the bot
- cf twenty pub
t just as much
-, than the one
-'al. It's the
nee that
as many from Kansas, and from
Illinois, and from Ohio, and from
Michigan, and from other states.
Why are there only two or three,
or perhaps only one, from Ne
braska? What sort of apathy ex
ists among the students, or among
me iacuuy : Are the Nebraska
students illiterate, or devoid of
ideas, or just uninterested ?
Nebraska students are neither
illiterate or devoid of ideas. The
reason Nebraska is almost unrep
resented in the contest is partly
that the students are indifferent,
and partly that the faculty mem
bers are indifferent. Nebraska
will be represented in the con
test when (1) the faculty see to
it that all students are made
aware of the fact that there is a
contest and the opportunity that
it affords, and (2) when Ag stu
dents are a bit more alive to the
fact that ability to express one
self is important I think that it
would not be too much for every
instructor in the college to an
nounce the contest in his classes.
And I think it would not be too
much for every student, girls are
excepted if they wish, in every
English and animal husbandry
class to have a try at writing an
essay.
TO THE CITY CAMPUS
THEY GO.
Around the same central point
revolve the reflections that arise
from the removal of Prof. Craw
ford's magazine article course to
the city campus.
The course was not one in gram
mar, or in sentence structure.' It
was a course as practical as any
Ag college course and Ag In
tructors are peculiarly proud ol
low "practical" they make theli
ouisch. The criterion of buccch:.
n the course Is whether or not the
iitlelc will "sell." If the chances
ire against selling, the article just
hin't written, i
Crawford's course belongs at Ag
college because it is practical, and
.lecause It Is a course of training
.or Ag students In the art of ex
'iressing themselves. But only a
handful of Ag students took the
course. There was no reason to
Hive a course on Ag campus when
most of the students came out
from down town to take it,
The vital necessity of accurate
self expression is well enough
known to Ag Instructors at least,
it should be to all those who read
their own examination papers,
And It Is n no way to their credit
that interest In the one strictly
writing course on Ag campus has
been allowed to dwindle to almost
nothing.
CONTEMPORARY
COMMENT
Samuel Johnson:
A Rvmeinhrnnre.
Beginning with the time he came
to London with a letter of recom
mendation and a three act tragedy
under his arm, Samuel Johnson,
famed lexicographer and literary
lion whose 221th birth anniversary
was observed this week, lived a life
that fulfilled the popular concep
tion of the eccentric man of let
ters. His life was a series of
strange paradoxes; he was a friend
of the poor and he rebuked the
patronage of Lord Chesterfield;
his dress was usually slovenly, his
speech and behavior was blunt and
queer, and yet his social and af
fectionate nature and keen wit
gave him entrance to the best so
ciety of his period.
Robert Lynd, in his book, "Dr.
Johnson and Company," describes
him thus: "Poor, repulsively ugly,
uncouth, with disgusting table
manners, surly, irascible, a bully,
Intolerant, dlr'tly, slovenly and ri
diculous in dress, eccentric, un
healthy, morbid and gloomy,
haunted by a bad conscience, tor
mented by the fear of insanity and
death-one would say it was the
portrait of a sour misanthrope,
doomed to avoid and be avoided by
his fellow-man."
What a mountain of defects for
a man to conquer! And yet John
son's virtues counterbalanced his
faults, for he became the center of
a group of the most brilliant men
in the England of his time, and his
personality had such a deep effect
on the period's literature that his
name has been accepted as a con
venient guide mark to the literary
output of the eighteenth century.
Boswell, the famed chronicler of
Johnson, often used to arouse the
Sage's ire by his repeated desire
to know the why and what of
everything that went on around
about him. Once he exploded, "I
will not be baited with the what
and why: What is this? What is
that? Why is a cow's tail long?
Why is a fox's tail bushy?" An
other time he said, "Sir, you have
but two topics, yourself and me. I
am sick of both."
There was about Johnson a
childish spirit that remained with
until his death. If, while he was
walking through a park with some
friends, someone in his party
should happen to point out a tree
that he climbed as a boy, Johnson
would immediately cry, "Why, I
can swarm it now," and would
start off to prove his boast. He
would often startle his admirers by
climbing gates and going other
agile feats, even when he was
quite advanced in years, once,
upon finding a rail which he used
to vault over as a youth, Johnson
peeled off his coat and wig and
jumped over the fence twice, al
though he was seventy years old
at the time.
It is hard to reconcile the mo
ments of deep depression which
Johnson suffered with the mo
ments at which his volatile spirits
soared to their highest. Miss Reyn
olds describes a foot race he once
ran against a young lady who had
boasted that she could run better
than anybody. The two set off,
and Miss Reynolds, in relating the
contest, says, "The lady had the
advantage at first, but Dr. John
son, happening to have slippers on
much too small for his feet, kicked
them up into the air, and ran a
great length without them, leav
ing the lady far behind him, and
having won the victory, he re
turned, leading her by the hands
with looks of high exaltation and
delight" Another time, not having
had, as he described it, a "roll" for
a long time, he emptied his pockets
of the trinkets they contained and
turned somersaults down the en
tire length of a hill upon which he
happened to be standing when
struck by his whimsy.
It was this very flair for the un
expected that made Johnson one
of the greatest comic figures of
literature. Dr. Johnson is now so
well recognized as a wit that his
slighte. remark is a cause for
laughter, tine writer sums up the
great lexicographer thus: "He is
almost unique as a comic char
acter: no other comic character is
at once so loved for his good heart
and so admired for his good sense.
Other comic characters are most
amusing in their misadventures:
Johnson is amusing in his tri
umphs. Daily Trojan.
OFFICIAL
BULLETIN
All .indents omanlfMtlnni or family
roups desiring In publish nollcis uf
nra-llnKS or itthrr liiftirmMliin for
inrmlM-rs may hiiv tilrm printed by
inlllni the liilly Nebrnskiui office.
Lambda Gamma.
Lambda Gamma, Lutheran girls
sorority, Invites all Lutheran girls
to a reception to be held Sunday,
Oct. 1 from 3 to 5 p. m. at Ellen
Smith hall.
Inter-Club Council. .
There will be a meeting of the
barb Inter-club council, Tuesday
7:30 p. m., in the third floor of the
Temple building In Palladlan hall.
Rally Monday.
All Corn Cobs and Tassels will
meet In uniform at the Temple
Monday afternoon, at 5:45 p, m.
A. W. 8. Meeting.
There will be an A. W, S. coun
cil meeting Monday at B p. m. at
Ellon Smith hall.
Bizad Newt Staff.
All applications for associate
.,uin... aaulutnnt hiiH ness man-
ruibuin,
ager, editorial and business staff
for the Blzad News must be at the
office of tho dean of the college
of business administration by 5
p. m. Tuesday, Oct. 3.
NORMA PRUCKA,
Bizad Executive Committee.
Activities Group.
A. W. S. freshman activities
group will hold Its first meeting of
the year Monday at 4 in the A.
W. S, room. New students are In
vited to attend and become ac
quainted with the purpose of the
group. Marian Smith will have
charge of the meeting,
Interfraternity Meet.
An Important meeting of the In
terfraternity council at 7:30 Tues
day evening at Morrill hall.
Ag Vespers.
Dr. Rebecca Gibbon will speak
at Ag Vespers Tuesday noon on
"Temple Dfance of Vali." As usual
the group will meet in the Home
Economic parlors.
Former Instructor Gets
l'liarmaoology Fellowship
James M, Dllle, formerly an In
structor of physiology nt the tri
vcrslty of Nebraska, has ,ei:c
a fellowship in the department
pharmacology In the medlcsi
O i.lltVI'l Hill,
Urnuilnrnn n l -. .... ."
Washington, D. C. Mr
granted his master's
Dlllo
I'groe
t
nhnrmnfinlno-v nf V, a TT..I "I
Nebraska last June. ' '
Dr. Mauler I'uhlihln,,
Paper jhi TiTiim.,,,!,.,
Dr. W. H. Manter, proicasoi t
zoology at the University 0f P.
braska, has published, as N0, 174
of the studies from the zoolgi(H
laboratory, a paper on 'A .PW
Family of Trematodes from Ma.
rlno Fishes." The trcmatodcH are
a group of parasites commonly
liwtiin a a li i If net '
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