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seen at work. It in certain that they do need con
siderable prodding tf they are to do any boi! oi sal
iNtartory work, and it is not amiss to disclose lo
the oiten too-smug thirteen seniors that theirs is
the re.sHin.-1ilility ot guarantee tog the n-cessaiy
improvement.
There Is little reason to doubt that the effort
to seek that Improvement will not he forthcoming,
and the Nebraskan is glad that the cheer-leader
complexities have been afforded the chance ot being
aired.
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For Thirteen
Senior Men.
"THOROLY disgusted, nut to say burned up, might
very well describe the contributor signing her
self "Irritated" in this morning's Student Pulse col
umn. The burden of the complaint is a vigorous i the
denunciation of the spineless attitude that prevailed
among cheer leaders at Saturday's game, and the
denunciation is brought to a close with a question
that is almost embarrassing in its directness: "Now
I ask you, are they cheer leaders ... or merely
members of another political body?"
It is with a realization ot the gravity ot the
charges for the correspondent is very evidently
sincere that the Nebraskan is forced to say that
to date there has been every indication to substan
tiate that conclusion, and only a vast improvement
before the next game would serve to justify the re
cent selections.
In order to understand more thoroly the pro
cess by which cheer leaders are chosen, In the hope
that some light may thereby be thrown on the
conditions of apathy which "Irritated" laments so
forcefully, it is necessary to remember that the
men's senior honorary, the Innocents society, is in
charge of cheer leader selections. Each year some
member, or members, of the honorary are delegated
as a committee to help with the training ot appli
cants and to make the final choice of the men who
are to serve for one year as leaders of yells.
So far, so good. The svstem operates with a
minimum of friction, and altho it is probably not
the best way of insuring efficient cheer leaders, it
has, at least, worked well enough. Unfortunately
certain complications arose this year, as a result ot
undeniable political pettiness among certain mem
bers of the present Innocents society (who are sup
posed, on attaining the position of member in that
guiding honorary, to put aside their early training
in the skullduggery of "activities" ) and the outcome
was, to say the least, somewhat of a mess.
YHAT actually occurred was that the aroused
society, after seeing the results of its com
" mittee's yell leader selections, stepped in and de
clared them invalid, withholding publication of the
tryout results until a second, less partisan tryout
could be held before the whole society.
The results of this second trvout were choice
C(iHihililifS
Of (lolli'iiiims.
IN a plea for higher intellectual standards among
college graduates, the Miami university presi
dent, Dr. Alfred H. Upham, has put forward the
suggestion that a degree of Master Citizen e given
young ccllege alumni who "make good in public
iife."
To mv miiiii the travesl reflection on out
J Amriican education is the pitiably small number ot
I our graduates who continue to lead anything like
! an intellectual lite. " the educator declared in his
opening address to Miami students, and thruout his
remarks Dt. Oldlmm stressed the need t'oi thoro
revision ot univeisity curricula.
All this, ot course, Is very fine us reflecting
the recognition ot a need tor educational changes,
but it is not at all amiss to suggest that Di. Oldham
gets no further than the stove-league baseball tan
he decries when he proposes a new brand ot col
lege degree as a means of raising the low intellec
tual levels ot American college graduates. How
can a superficiality remedy difficulties that go to
very roots ot education .'
The words "superficial remedy" aie used ad
visedly, tot they reflect the Nebraskan's beliel that
Dr. Oldham's suggestion assumes the present
method ot mass education tor anyone and everyone
is satisfactory, whereas thue is more than a little
evidence t. show that it is that very assumption
which lies at the heart ot many majot educational
troubles in American colleges and universities.
The men ot Dr. Oldham's stamp are so fixed in their
reverence ot the powei ot education per se that
they overlook some rathei fundamental considera
tions that only recently have gained enough support
to throw off the weight ot the American tradition
of "democracy" in education.
College
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the
of the "yell ki:
r.tball fans saw in action, or
rather, without action last Saturday.
The issue, as the Nebraskan sees It, is not
whether the present cheer leaders are figureheads,
for there is always the possibility that the inexpe
rienced new men will improve before they are next
COR a lone, lone time hither education in
r
I'nited States has builded its structures on the
theory that every applicant for enrollment is equally
fitted to receive education, but it it is within the
province of the Nebraskan to point it out- the tacts
do not bear cut that assumption with any degree of
certainty Individual capabilities vary so greatly
that to subject all candidates tor information and
learning to the same type of instruction is to handi
cap educational purposes from the start.
The results, as so painfully evident on every
hand, and as Dr. Oldham points out, are to cast
grave reflections on American education.
There are encouraging signs of change, how
ever, with an evident trend in the direction of seg
regating students according to their abilities and a
general raising of entrance requirement standards.
Perhaps the proposal for a Master Citizen degTee
should be classed among those encouraging signs,
but the Nebraskan does not think so; that particu
lar plan seems more in a class with projects like
"Hello Day" on our own campus.
The problem goes deeper than consideration of
the kinds of citizens universities turn out, and cer
tainly there can be no sure-fire remedy for increas
ing the value of education and raising the intellec
tual level of collere graduates. Attempts are be
ing made in many places to rub out the noble but
mistaken altitude that every student should receive
the same kind of instruction, and eventually, per
haps, the tnuch-needed American educational
changes will be accomplished, but it will only be
after a long, gradual development
The Student Pulse
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Cheers and Goans.
TO THE EDITOR:
It isn't often that I am moved
to openly accuse anyone, but after
the disappointing, disheartening,
dispirited and certainly unsatis
factory attempt, and I don't mean
attempts, of the socalled cheer
leaders at Saturday's game I can
not refrain from saying something.
I absolutely do not believe the
half hearted cheering was the fauit
of the student body and I have
heard the same thing from many
students, graduates and townspeo
ple. There axe a few times wh-?n
the students want to yell, really
enjoy it, and Saturday was one of
those times, especially during tie
first half hour of play. The cheer
leaders were asked to give yells
repeatedly and the answer was a
wave at the crowd or something
equally unnecessary.
It is the duty of the cheer lead
ers to keep up the enthusiasm dur
ing the whole game, win or lose.
Now I ask you are they cheer lea I
ers, or rather will they be. or re
thry merely members of another
poliitcal body?
IRRITATED.
home had to sell his prize Angus
to meet his last allowance.
For all we know, or can predict,
she may be "getting hers" before
many moons. Or maybe there won't
be so many of those romantic
moons when she has to pay half
the gas to witness them at their
best Campuseers may enter into
the proposed bargain in a spirit of
fun and find the idea soon an in
stitutionaled part of its social
structure. Thv-y might give it a
try-
ONE OF THE GALS.
or afraid to admit, any interests
above the gTade of the Saturday
Evening Post and musical comedy
shows them to bt in much greater
need of sympathy than the much
harassed but mentally alive Ger
man. Lehigh Brown and White.
CONTEMPORARY
COMMENT
'Dutch" Dates.
For a long time we have recog
nized the existence of a sort of
social plane, at the two extremities
of which the gigolo and the gold
digger were placed. The gigalo, far
frum being revered at first, has
gradually become society's Idea of
a prideless scoundrel. He was ridi
ruled in thought, in speech, and
finally in writing. He is now on
his way to extinction, and nurses
his last wounds in the shadows of
the larger cities.
The golddigger was launched
upon her career with considerable
discredit She dug her way up to
a height in the social scheme that
the gigolo never saw, and the pub
lic found itself laughing along with
her tn triumph. It excused her
mercenary successes saying that
men really enjoyed having their
purses taken for a ride if the
process were a pleasant one.
That the coed golddigger doesn't
especially Deed a bothersome old
conscience la almost settled. The
type of pang that makes her won
der If her date wore that frazzled
looking shirt (which wafct sup
pred to show much i in order to
treat her table denote, why that
would be called mutiny by some.
She wouldn't dare stop to think
that maybe Johnny's dad back
Revolt and
The Student.
Mr. Thomas S. BaKer, president
of the Carnegie Institute of Tech
nology, recently returned from a
series of lectures at the larger Ger
man universities, has reported his
finding in a very pussimistic ar
ticle. Men are graduating from
universities three times as fast as
positions are opening for them. It
is this surplus of academically
trained men, which is increasing
every year, to which Hitler directly
owes his recent rise to power. Hit
ler has appealed to the youth of
the nation and it has welcomed the
opportunity to show that it is cap
able of doing something definite.
It is better to be active than to be
a useless parasite, even when the
activity takes the form of the
espousal of the cause of culture,
the very mention of which causes
the naively sophisticated American
student to blush. The recent bar
baric treatment of the Jews in Ger
many with which the German stu
dent has often been directly con
nected is of course reprehensible,
but it is direct proof that the stu
dents do have energy- which only
neds the right kind of leadership
to be turned into something worth
while.
Political unrest in Germany has
had a very bad effect on the Ger
man universities. Calm, studious
scholarship is impossible under a
continual threat of political inter
ference, but what the German stu
dent has lost in actual knowledge
he has more than compensated for
by increased, unashamed interest
in national affairs, both political
and cultural.
Mr. Baker bases his lack of op
timism for the future of German
youth on the fact that "the present
student body is beta trained in
an atmosphere of revolt" The
German student is Just as indus
trious and serious in his efforts as
the American student. Though the
percentage of students failing to
Secure positions after graduation
is smaller here than in Germany,
the fact that practically all Amet
ican students are ettner lacmng
The Worship
Of Things.
Is America turning its back on i
materialism ? President Koosevelt
believes that this nation is again
seeking spiritual values, for in his
New York talk before the National
Conference of Catholic Charities
he said. " . . . . the people of the
United States still recognize and.
I believe, recognize with firmer
faith than ever before, that spirit
ual values count in the long run
more than material values."
But is Roosevelt correct? A sur
vey of our entire recovery plan
from the RFC to the NRA shows
that our entire effort is aimed to
bring back the flesh pots of the
twenties. Americans are still
dreaming of the two-car garage
and they are measuring happiness
in dollars and cents. The president,
to say the least, is a bit optimistic
when" he says that Americans are
placing more worth on the spiritual
values. Ask the man on the char
ity rolls whether he would rather
have a clearer conception of God or
a five-dollar-a-day job. Ask your
fellow student if he would rather
be a missionary in Tibet at $500 a
year or a second lieutenant in Wall
street at $5,000.
Maybe wt misinterpret the
president when he refers to things
spiritual; perhaps he means only a
rekindling of our pioneering spirit
If that is his measure of things
spiritual, he has chosen a poor
ideal for his purpose, because our
recovery program forces the people
to forget the individual urge of the
pioneer. The rallying word is co
operation and every effort is made
to curb the selfish individualism of
the pioneer.
Roosevelt is wrong. America
puts its real faith in these material
things which in the past decade
have brought not happiness, but a
gigantic bellyache. Minnesota
Daily.
DISCOURSE ON
AG CLUB.
w hen Ueorge Round was editor
ot the Cornhusker some three o.
four years ago, he edilorialed on
the need ot bringing Ag club back
to life or having it abolished. The
status ot that club seem to be to
nay about what it was when
Round made that subject a part
ot his editorial campaign on the
student monthly magaazine. Prob
bly the Ag club has been a prob
lem longer than tli.it, pronanly be
fore my time or befoie Round's.
Today the Ag club is as much
ot a problem as ever. It is dead.
' he spirit and enthusiasm ol the
group is practically nil. Nobody
seems interested in Ag club. The
students would rather do some
thing else than go to Ag club
meeting. The membership is small,
and the students who do belong
don't go regularly
In past semesters the club offi
cers have sometimes gone to con
siderable trouble to secure inter
esting speakers tor the meetings.
And the officer's pay usually con
sisted of being embarrassed at
having to introduce the speaker
to so small a crowd. And other
times the officers have not been
so concerned about the programs
thry arranged for the meetings,
and' there was not much of worth
for the students who did attend.
So it has been. No particular
spirit, no goal to work toward, no
major activities that challenged
best efforts of the club and made
membership in it seem a really
worthwhile activity for the stu
dents The decline ot Ag club (I as
sume that it once flourished i
many think can be attributed to
the rise 'f the departmental clubs
Block and Bridle, the Dairy
Club, newly formed Tri K Club,
and others. And with that idea in
mind Vernon Filley, once an offi
cer in Ag club, has brought for
ward a plan to bring Ag club back
to life.
Filley's Plan.
The Plan is this: Let a student
belong to one department club
only. Let membership to a de
partment club automatically be
come a member of Ag club. Thus
all Ag club members would be
department club members, and all
department club members would ;
belong to Ag club. Ag club would
be the co-ordination center for the
activities of all the other clubs. ;
might be assigned to have charge !
of the program at each Ag club !
meeting. Ag club would meet ;
monthly: so would the department
clubs, but not on the same night. ;
Ag club's night would be the big
night
As a means of revitalizing Ag j
club, the plan seems woikable. '
But officers of the department
clubs are likely to view it with ap-,
prehension. They are likely to ask ,
why they should merge their own '
club with Ag club' w hen they are
very well satisfied with their club
as it is. It is likely to seem to
them that they are sacrificing
their own department club for the '
gord of Ag club, and many will
not approve.
The problem is up for considera
tion at the next meetings of all
the clubs involved, and now seems
to be an opportune time for a -look
at the purposes of the clubs and j
their relations to each other. The ;
purpose of Ag club as outlined in
its constitution is to cultivate
ability in agricultural organiza- :
tion. to perfect and maintain a,
permanent organization ot valuer
to the university, and to facilitate !
social contacts not possible in the
class room. j
The purpose of the department
clubs is in general the same. But
specifically the department clubs
are designed to further the inter
ests of students in some particular
, department. And the students
who join them do so because of
that specific interest.
Now while a department club
is furthering the interests of stu
dents in one subject, it is at the
same time doing all the thinp.
that the Ag club has as its pur
pose cultivating ability in agri
cultural organization, perfect in"
and maintaining an organization
of value to the university, and fa
cilitating social contacts not pos
sible in the class room. It may
be then that in a very large mea
sure the need that was responsible
for the creation of Ag club is now
being filled by the departmert
clubs, and that, just to that extent.
Ag club has come to be without a
vital purpose.
Without a Purpose.
If that is true, then it is an or
ganization without a need, and tin
only reason for its existence is
that It is like all organizations
once set in motion they tend to
perpetuate themselves without re
paid for the needs that first set
them in motion. If that is true
then all the efforts of students to
bring the club to life and get it
going again are futile. If that
is true, the department clubs
stand to gain nothing and lose i
everything by merging with Ag
club, for they would carry the
central club alone, in membership
and activity while the central
club would have nothing to give in
return: Ag club, as a co-ordinat-
. ..ii il amnill 1.. I hll HLUlieiUS HUM Itl ICI liu
mg center ror - u.'l" ..7 . i .. ut a vi.wk. A muslcale pro-
WOUIU lie OIUI1...Y " ... ,ur
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partment clubs
rigUnebeild. .
Whether Ag club nas sacrificed
,ts usefulness to the department
clubs depends entirely upon the
students, rt depends upon how
much use they wish to make of
th.it "cultivate ability tn organiza
tion" clause, in other words, how
much practice they want in or
ganizing and governing them
selves The department clubs of
fer that practice, and more. Ag
club offers that practice, .at least.
One purpose of all college clubs,
looking at them In a larger sense,
is simply to give students prac
tice in organization, and self-government,
and leadership. The
amount ot that sort of training
that sort ot training that students
want will determine how many
clubs they will want to maintain.
The department clubs seem to
nave a first lien on the students
because ot their interest in that
specific subject. There is a place
for Ag club If the students want
to make use of the what it has to
offer The question of merging
the two. ultimately to be decided
by members of all the clubs, looks
now like a far better proposition
for the Ag club than for the others.
MUSIC
NOTES
The organ program scheduled
last week to be given by Edith
iSurlmgim Ross, professor of or
gan and piano, was postponed and
will be give" this v ek over KFAB
at 2-30 Tuesdry.
Al.na Wagner ill ' " at ome to
o-t-um
nf tlir students. Marcella Laux
ami Morntt Wells, ass.siei. by
Wilgu. E:e:ly with several piano
numbers, p-r-nted a program at
the tea river I the Woman a de
partment of the Baptist church at
the home ot Mrs. John P. Wil
liams. Merritt Wells sang at a
meeting ot the Co-operative club
at t' Lincoln hotel, Thursday
noon. These are students with
Miss Wagner.
Mary Hall Thomas will direct
the Hartlev P. T. A. Rl club
and the Warren M. E. church choir
the comlnB year. Mrs. Thomas'
students took p rt in the follow
ing activities during the past
week: Russell C" mnes gave a
program Thursday afternoon .t
the t. ce M. E. "Mirch: Gerald
Mott was aoloi" for the Clatonia
church services Sunday. Marian
Williamson and Lester Rumbaugh
were soloists for the Sunday morn
ing service Warren M. E.
vhurch.
A trio, direc by Ethel Owen,
will furnish music during Chan
cellor and Mrs Burnett's recep
tion to the faculty at Carrie Belle
Raymond hall Friday evening
Miss Owen has charge og the City
Wide Tabernacle orchestra for the
coming year. She played a violin
solo fcr 'their even'ng- service Sun
day. Several st'iden- with Miss
Owen -e presenting a progran
for the breakfast of the university
student of St. Paul's church to
day.
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