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TWO THE DAILY NEBRASKAN TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 28. 1933. The Daily Nebraskan Station A. Lincoln, NebrniKa OFFICIAL STUDENT PUBLICATION UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA Vsoriu(( d ? otlcpiutcjfh;? aa 19.11 l"... (-H ) i 9 i 4 Entered M aecond-clnn matter At th. J0,',ce Lincoln, Nebra.ka. under act of con0ie". March 3. 187 and at apecul rale ot postaage provided for in eection 1103. act of October 3. 1917. authorized January 20. 1022 THIRTV. THIRD vf.AR Publlahed Tuetdiiy, Wednesday. Thurtday. Friday ana Sunday mornlnga during the academlo year. SUBSCRIPTION RATE 1 50 year Single Copy & cents $1.00 a tern intei iitO a year mailed S150 a aemester mailed Under direction ot the Student Publication Board. Editorial Office University Hall 4. Business Office University Hall 4A. Telephones Days B-6891i Night: B-6882. B-3333 (Journal) Ask for Nebraskan editor. EDITORIAL STAFF Laurence Hall Editor-in-chief Managing Editors Bruce Nlcoil Vloet Cross News Editors Burton Maivin ' Jack Fischer M.uaaret Thiem Virginia Sellcck Society Editor Sports Ed. tor I'wln Rya'l BUSINFSS STAFF Bernard Jennings Business Manage Assistant Business Managers George Holyoke Dick Schmidt Wilbur Erickson Impression carried oway from tho midwest by the two Journeymen barometers of opinion. It Ik prohnbly not all as simple ns that, but re gardless of tho origins of Moley's and Johnson's optimistic opinions, the opinions themselves remain and they assume a confidence in mldwestern peo ple that is, at best, questionable. I'or the sake nl everything that means stability, it Is to be hoped that they are the right opinions, but It should not be forgotten, In the flush ot enthusiasm, that the temper ot the people" declared to be confidence may be nothing but thinly-covered despair. Whether Moley nnd .Tollmen are rl'it cannot ve believe, be determined. But it Ih h nice epics turn, capable of a good many approaches, and an intriguing one. Is their reassuring conclu. 1 in justl f ied ? Contemporary Comment Interlude for Intratnuruls, yHKY aren't spectacular, nor great sums They aren't no Journeyman Diagnosticians. "the temper of the people" that the Nebraskan has some hesitancy in embarking on remarks built around thst worn subject, but nt least two recent ambassadors to the middle west have so brought (lyric of Enthusiasms. On the average university cam pus enthusiasms move in cycles rising with one student generation nnd declining- with the next. Fac ulty members and townspeople who have been in constant touch with tho undergraduate student body In the last thirty years fre quently remark that student ques tions recur . regularly each six years. The columns of the campus daily for the last seven years cor roborate this opinion. In 11127 stu dent leaders crusaded for "more spirit" and "fight" in backing the various athletic: teams. This was in the day ot the collegiate Kurd, bell-bottomed trousers, and the shrieking- cravnt. Carolina "got the spirit" that year, and strangely enough the fall athletic season was not pat ticularly successful, as ."jlale, Davidson and Wake Forest mopped up on the Tar Heel team. In the same year we find the bill "resolved that the honor system be abolished" coming before the IH Senate (this was before that organisation had begun its long period of decline) and the earnest arguments "since the honor system Is not working- it should be abol ished" and the no less erudite opinion vouchsared by the senior '"In all my seven years I have are of money connected with them. limited to any class or group, rivalries have place in them. They teach students to play. They are intramural athletics. In the midst of the great acclaim given foot ball, intramural athletics continue to furnish recre ation for great numbers of students in spile of the lack of any general attention devoted to them. The intramural program ol sports represents, indeed. Ihn frnlf rtf itthlntie m'nfilfl rlerlveil fmin th, ninrn SO MUCH verbiage Is wasted these latter days on I . , . , ' , i spectacular grid sport, and it Is to intianiurals "ilia tomnof nf tho nrci-n.," flint Inn VnlM-uyuNM i observers must look for the university's compre hensive athletic program. i -nil me scne.uue oi companion is popuiai , IU,V(,,. ,,,, anv cheating" proffered Mpptiis hnrnp nut hv st f I.eniin1 s from tin tlirivtt.rs ! in nrn nnd nnn na ..nhnt the topic to public attention that perhaps the re- ()f men.s unJ-wonu,n.s oxlril,u,.riculal. s,,01.ts. waxed furiously. Both sav they are pleased with interest that has ! And so the cycle moves again, ' ,, . . ,, , : nd in 1933 we lind tho campus been shown so far, and they point to the numbers j (U.cornt0(, wiUl ,JUIlUng, freshmen taking part in the various events as distinct evi- i Mi med with niciranhnncs. "snlit it dence of the programs value. It is indeed a salutary indication when students learn to amuse themselves, and perhaps in this year of stricken student budgets the significance of inter est in intianiurals is to be found in a growing real ization among students of the value of inexpensive sports and games ns a mode of recreation. If that is the current explanation for the popularity of intramurals, let us add still another laurel to the program, for its means that students are learning I that after all it is a pretty good better one nhase of the business of living. I ulinB- marks will not be out ol place, the two am bassadors in mind are Professor Raymond Moley and General Hugh Johnson and both of them, saw, and returned with words of good cheer on their lips. The conclusions to which they came were re assuring. Their visits have evidently served to deny eastern Impressions that the midwest is a place seething with radical discontent, and both men have publicly declared that the impression prevailing was one of willingness to cooperate with the national administration. Both, too, have said that one of the outstanding factors of their trips was the whole hearted welcome given them by the people, whom they picture as close to the realities of life. It is entirely possible that the two investigators possess such a high degree of political insight that their conclusions are fundamentally sound, and the Nebraskan, indeed, is incapable of setting up a judgment in opposition to Moley's and Johnson's optimism. But the degree of that optimism can be questioned on some grounds, even in the absence of any complete reports, for the necesasry super ficiality of the two examinations of the midwest raises the very reasonable doubt of their value. Did the two diagnosticians, in other words, actually hit the mark in their conclusion? To answer such a question dogmatically smacks of insanity and is probably impossible, but to an observer living in the very midwest which inter ested the two men it seems that the men them selves answered their question of the midwest's po sition dogmatically. "THEIR visits, in the first place, were extremely short, and the only apparent bases for their conclusions came from contacts with audiences and governmental representatives at stopping points along the way. The reaction of midwest newspaper men to administrative recovery actions was also gauged; and since both diagnosticians are human it is probable that their decisions were also influ enced to some extent by Pullman porters, barbers, and the host of other people who contribute inci dental impressions to travellers. These, then, are the source from which th conclusion of assuring support of the people was drawn. Influencing the process of drawing the conclusion, however, was yet another important fac tor: the picture each man had formed of what he would find. What that expectancy actually was cannot be definitely known, but it is certain that each had probably given disproportionate weight to the reports of farm strikes and agricultural dis turbances which have been such good news copy but such poor gauges of reality. If they were ex pecting to find conditions very bad, it is only natural that relief or reassurances would be the dominant lor the team" reverberating through the campus. The Hi Sen ate casting aside its labors with bills calling for senatorial investi gation into the Book-Ex, fraternity rushing and the laundry plan, de liberates at length on the honor system, with expressions from the Senators that they have "never in their seven years at the university seen anv cheating." and concludes T m tUia ntmlnnl nrrA if - ft ,ltf. A cheer would almost be in order for the intra- , nonUaik to' awan :i,e average mural division of athletics, if it weren't contrary undergraduate student body from to the steadiness of the principles that makes intra- I its lethargy by demonstrations and murals function succe&srully without show or dis- exhortations of pep and fight, play. But even without the cheer -here's apprecia- ! R"?Rcd individualism and our . stoic determination to hold the tion lor tne intramural program honor system In a personal light are too' strongly entrenched to make any lasting impression on the cycle. Many consider it a per sonal affront to bo informed thst the individual must be considered us a ward of tho student body, and that his Judgment to obey the tra dition of a society must bo sub ordinated to a mass sentimental ism. Tho honor system controversy will never be settled, ut least by the undergraduates. The maga zine recommends that discussion bo dropped nnd the problem or cheating on examinations bo re ferred to the faculty, who may see it fit to adopt a proctor system or Interpret the traditions of honor sufficiently to freshmen each fall. - University of North Carolina Magazine. AW the Only Ones, Sixty-four students' in St. Mary's college for girls, Notre Dume, nave noon rudely tnrust into tin limelight of publicity as a result of a "recent quiz lending figures in tho day s news. Commissar Maxim Lltvlnoff, Russian foreign minister who re centlv won I 'resilient Roosevelt over to recognizing his country was identified by some of the girls as a prize fighter. General Hugh S. Johnson was variously labeled as a senator, the manager of tho Washington Athletics baseball team and the former assistant secretary of the treasury. Fiorello La Guardiu, mayor-elect of New York, was cited as president of (una, ambassador to Italy nnd also nt "an Italian." Samuel Sea bury, crusading New York attor ney, was Identified as an author, aviator, editor and a summer re sort. Such answers indeed are ridi culous. College students, to be sure, should know better, yet It would not be difficult to obtain similar replies from any other group of students nt practically any college or university in the United States The average stu dent likes to think of himself ns being well informed, and he needs a jolt like that given the St. Mary's girls occasionally to quick en his interest in current affairs. Indiana Daily Student. Croons, Queens, Cornhusker. CROONERS do have their uses, after all, if the recently announced decision of the Cornhusker to use one as a beauty queen judge is tin indication. Can you picture the renowned Bing as he sorts the pictures, as he passes judgment on jNeDrassa ; iul( armjos hut not for education," coed beauty, and as he gurgles and coos at this : S. V. 13. Mais, English novelist, classic outline or that cov dimple? j educator and journalist, declared Picture, indeed, the picturesque crooner Coo '- n.gh t in f ing me winning pictures. liiai is me ucuue me Novelist Deplores Starvation Budgets Of Universities; Expresses Surprise At Requirement of Military Training Washn.trn Pally. There is money for battleships Cornhusker intends to convey. And then when the book is published, you'll be saying "Has he picture favorite?" In all seriousness, though, the method ot beauty queen selection chosen by this year's Cornhusker staff promises to be a good one. Above nil, it should be a popular policy, for it has two elements that should endear it to the campus -novelty and fairness. The houses themselves chose their candi dates for the beauty pages, and from the candi dates winners will be selected by n judge who should combine impartiality with popularity. What's more (and this should be of supremo importance) there will be from now on even tower candidates remaining for the other numerous queen ships that crowd the campus. And gradually, per haps, if the Cornhusker staffs of the future choose to perpetuate this year's queen policy, the others may diminish in prestige and the student body be left with one supreme goddess of beauty. Which is as it should be. For the present, however, it is enough that the queen-crooner plan has added appeal to the year's Cornhusker. Only poor Crosby! "No country can spend too much : on education." "The ten English universities j with a total enrollment of only I 10,000 are experiencing the same difficulty weathering the depres j sion as American schools," he stated. "Only Oxford and Cam ; brid.te are well off financially." I Mr. Mais is investigating Amer ican universities nnd broadcasting : for the British government each ! week on an international radio hookup. He is dramatic critic of the London Daily Telegraph tand I has written forty-four novels, i among them "Caged Birds" and I "Or.mge Street." "There is no compulsory mili I tary training in England," said Mr. Mais, surprised at the sugges tion of compulsory military train ing in universities. "Only a very small percent of English univer sity students receive any military j education." i The university English depart ment received enthusiastic com ment from the English lecturer. "I have not seen its equal in any other university for cempai mess Ag College Br Carl vie Hodgkin THE CASE AGAINST TEXT BOOKS. It must be conceded at the start that the case against text books is neither conclusive or complete. It is worth making, nevertheless. There are weaknesses and inade quacies and misuses of text bonks that need to be considered. Text books, mere books, are often raised to too high a position of eminence before the eyes of col lege students. You take a three hour course in, let us say, bacter iology. You graduate, and go home to work on the farm with your brother who has not gone to college After ten years you are both given an examination in bacteriology. If at no time in those ten years you re-studied any of that material you learned in bacteriology, he will take the same examination and get just as high, or almost a3 high, a grade as you Jo. In other words, you who took a course in bacteriology, or any other subject tnat you do not definitely use, will know no more about the subject after ten years than some one who never took the course. The question arises, why study the subject at all? And the an swer is that you had to study it to get thru university, and that, until you forgot all you'd learned, you got some satisfaction from knowing little about the subject. But, of course, if fate should hap pen to make you a bacteriologist, then having been exposed to the subject in college, it would be much easier to learn. And one never knows what fate may have In store. Another consideration of read ing text books often arises in class. One student can promptly answer every question answer it parrot like from remembering the text book. Another student may be able to answer few questions promptly, but occasionally he may be able to figure in his own mind the answer to a question. Now which is worth the most, to re member something from a book when, as already pointed out. It will soon be forgotten anyway, or to actually figure out something with one's own brains? Some times it almost seems that it would be better not to read text books at all. Its a iazy man's job to go to a .class after having read a book, and simply repeat to the instructor what the book said. One doesn't have to be very keenly awake to do that. But to go to class and, having not read the book, be quizzed orally keeps one awake and alive. It sharpens ones wits to be under fire, to actually have to think. It dulls ones wits to loll there in a chair and when a question comes your way simply say, "Memory do your stuff." The best instructor I have had in university was one who made the students think. They all read the text it was the kind of a sub ject for which one had to read the text for there were endless detairS. But there was no riding thru on memory in that course. Every ques tion was a question of application. You had to use your wits. The instructor designed his questions to tax the students wits, not memory. For him a wild guess was far better than to give up and say, "I don't remember." Now the student who doesn't go in for much text book reading won't get good grades. But I con tend that when a student does figure out the answer in his own head, it gives him more satisfac tion, and perhaps does him more good, than remembering a string of book facts as long as a calf rope. The case against text books is that their importance is over exaggerated, with Jhe result that students, if they do anything at all, do too much remembering and too little thinking. The weakness in the case against text books is obvious. In all his life a man could figure out so few things in his own mind, as compared with the ihings he can learn in a few years in books, that one would not get far. With out books on science, for example, most students would be little further along in scientific know! and convenience," he said, refer ring to the ararngement in Par ring ton hall where classrooms, conference rooms and library are all in the same building. Mr. Mais believes the American high school the outstanding point of superiority over the English educational system where com pulsory education ends at the age of 14. "I wish we had your idea of education," he complained. "Young people between M and IS just litter up our streets. There is rcither work nor education for them. Their situation is deplor able nnd constitutes one of our most serious problems." While talking about education, Air. .Mais commented on llie Euio pean political situation. "There shall be no war as far as England is concerned," he be lieves. "We must get out of this economic mess we are in before we can even think of war." English people have a great deal of respect for Franklin D. Roosevelt and do not regard him rs a dictator. "The K;:glish abhor even the word 'dictator' and feel exceedingly friendly towards the i United States as a nation whih , also would not tolerate a die- t.itor. English people know nothv ing about the NRA," he added. LACK OF SLEEP IS CAMILLAS Students Need Nine Hours S'eep or Resistance Is Weakened. WuFhlniitun Dally. Approximately 5800 University students are laying' themselves Aide open to Illness, nccordlng to University health officials, who yesterday declared that tour out of every five students sulfer from lack of sleep. "This sleeplessness weakens the student's resistance and under- mlnny Ilia hnflllh Ht'ttllU! UU H PCT- nicious condition which leaves the body defenseless against cold or other germs that might nttack it," infirmary authorities said. "Wvprv student needs at least nine hours of sleep each night ami should see that he aets it. Students who tind themselves blinking over their hooks at nierht should stop trying to study and go to bed," Dr. David C. Hall, health director, ad vised. When a student is auftering from lack of sleep, he is unable to con centrate readily, takes more time to do hi studies, r.id so loses even more sleep, Dr. Hall believes. Also criticised by Dr. Hal was the under-nourishment among women students at Washington. Coeds should spend less time worrying about their figures and pay more attention to getting enough to eat, he warned. Scanty and "cow-food" lunches are harm ful to growing people, he said. "These raw salads are all right as a part of a meal," Dr. Hall said, but thev certainly are not suffi cient in themselves." Asked as to the ideal morning meal, Dr. Hall replied, "A good breakfast should consist of a fruit juice, cookf d cream of wheat, one or two fried or soft-boiled eggs and one or two strips of imderdono bacon." NORTH CAROLINA UNIVER SITY PLANNING REVI SION OF CURRICULUM; WILL PROVIDE TWO CUL TURAL YEARS; TWO SPE CIALIZED. (Continued from Page 1.) guage and literature, social sci ences, natural sciences. 2. That each faculty (or division I be set up as a separate uunit for purposes of formulating and conducting programs of study within the division; that it be organized for administrative purposes with a chairman (or dean or director) and an ad ministrative board. 3. That each faculty formulate programs of study providing specialization in each of its sev eral departments, allowing proper election in other divis ions. 4. That admission to the upper college be determined by the satisfactory completion of all requirements of the lower col lege, provided that the proper options in the first two years' program leading to the division 5. 6. of tho student's choice shall have been exercised. That all matters pertaining to courses of study be determined by tho division, but that mat ters of class attendance mid other so-called student privi leges be determined as ques tions of university policy. That graduation be determined by tho successful completion ot a program ot division and the passing of a final comprehen sive examination on all thu work of the division. dents will not be in Lincoln at the time. Will Sell Programs. "While our plans are still incom-' plete," Kosman said. "Coin Cobs Alio remain in Lincoln for the : gallic Will villi, luui; V-vj iKiin.il- edge today than they were in the .sale of football programs before dark ages. We nce'd text books I t;,0 game. Also the organization have to have them, of course, will attempt to organize a compact But books are to be used as a and effective cheering section for starting point. One should go from there on into the future, and not spend all one's time going student spirit." backward, remembering wnai nas been. After all. if the case against text books has any validity, it lies mediately. in this: After college most or wnaj one remembered will soon be for gotten. But if a fellow learns in college, by being put on the spot in classes, to figure a few things out with his own brains, he is likely to have very, very many opportunities to tfse that ability once he gets out in the big hard world. the Thanksgiving dav game, and give the crowd a real display of BASKETBALL ENTRIES CLOSE A and B basketball entries for the int?rfraternity basket ball tournament close Wednes day afternoon at 5 o'clock. Harold Petz, Intramural ath letic director stated that all en tries must be in at this date or frats would be ineligible to participate. Kosman urged all Corn Cobs who will be in Lincoln for the game to get in touch with him im- ARNDT SELECTED CORN COB FACULTY ADVISOR (Continued from Page 1.) quirements, and a change in the date of elections. Plan for Game. No definite plans have as yet been made by Corn Cobs for game and pre-game activities for the Oregon State contest to be held Thursday, Kosman stated. Action of the pep group will await deci sion of the Innocents society con cerning a rally for the game, he added. Opinion Monday was that no campus rally would be attempt ed before the game due to the fact that a large percentage of stu- SPECIAL THANKSGIVING RATES OMIHA l.f-0 DfcNVKK 1.00 HASTIM. l.M XKT'lOIT .'- CiK4.NO 1-HVD l.M SKBR. CITY l.Sfl C.OTHI.VHIKO 4.00 MOI.IIIIKOK 4.21 Hlf ; S.OO MrfOOK .0 NIOI X CITY l.M KKR.KY , S.? NOKTH Pi. 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Upper class commission will have charge of Ag vespers to be hold Tuesday, November TS, at 12:20 noon in the Home Economics parlors. This is to be a special Thanksgiving service and everyone is urged to attend. 'Did 'opportunity' ever knock at your dooi ?" "Yi-s, but I thought it was a tramp and I didn't open the door." ttniHiidwJi 9 Isn't it exasperat ing to hive to miss a wonder '-.'! party because of "r ecurrittc" pains? Embarrassing, too, ben you can't tell friends the ref -on. But now, no need to flunk an exam or misj - par.. hen yon are below par. take Kalms, quick-acting tablets developed by Johnson Ac Johnson especially to relieve "re curring" pain such as headache, back ache and neuraljcia. netabletisenoojthformostcases. Kalms e safe, do not affect digestion or heart actir n. and ere not habit-forming. Your drag. gist has the '.in purse-size boxes of 12 tablet. rOR RELIEF OF "RECURRING" flU PAINS FT. SAM?1-SEND :OUPON I) '-"i" i) ! Send me a FREE sample of ICiim. " J 'rnr .ddrns M-1 lAIMQ lf1LI LINCOLN SYMPHONY PRESENTS CONCERT (Continued from Page I.) by tho orchestra was very well re ceived. It was a well balanced pro gram that drew the approval of every music lover. One of the more beautiful num bers presented by the orchestic was Uimsky-Korsakoff's "Th i Wedding March" from "Le C d'Or." Another very pleasing num ber was "The Music Box by Lia dow, a number in which by the i-n? of clarinets, flutes and th- relesti', a sound like that of a child's mu sic: box is effected. The program follows: Overture, "Oneron," W e b e r; Symphony No. 7, Deethoven; or chestra. Symphony Rspagnolc, 1-alo; Kmmanucl Wishnow. WoiliHnir Mnrrh. from "I.i Cnn d or" by Himsky-Korsakoff ; Dan.so riedmontese, sinagagua; aiusio Cox, Liadow; Hungarian Rhap sody No. 1 Liszt: orchestra. annuMip1ctures may be taken during vacation (Continued from Fage 1- who are kept extremely busy with school work to get t'icil pi-tun s taken when schedule I," ThM stated. "Consequently we have arranged with the photographer r nniniH u t rt ctiiilmlta rllllino tH LV rtl,vniw.t tit...... ,.vw ... ........ .... vacation period and we hope that as many as possuue viu uv.iu themselves of the opportunity. Pictures for the junior and senior section are priced at $2 fi ) with an additional 25 r nt chain if the picture is to appeal In tl. f i.n rti-iit t nr- cnpiiritv m "ft inn. Tli charge for a fraternity or sorority pictue alone is SI. 25. Women students at the Univer sity of Kansas who want to attend out-of-town football games must show a written permit from their parents to the dean of women. Of Course You Want. Your Garments Lcakir'" d Nice AH ths Time f We can help you keep Mr them that wav. Just have us clean and press ; tlicin when tliev need it 5 h Phone F2377 for Service f 5 Modern Cleaners Soukup Weslover "2'flh 1 vur in Lincoln" 5J , Free Pie! Siiisker kn Free Pie! Every Student Visitor to Mcndcy end Tuesday This Week This is "opening week" at the nw and greater Husker Inn Cafe, 14th and Q. To introduce thi3 new cafe the new management will give a full size piece of delicious pie absolutely free to every uni vsrsity student ar.d to every university faculty member or university employee who will call at the r.ew Husker Inn Cafe at 14th and Q. No con ditions, no rsstriitions. We want you to know that this is the most beautiful, most completely equipped and attractive restaurant in Lin coln. "Seeing Is Believing." Husker Inn 14th r.d Q k k i "k Art Kassel and his Kassels in the Air The band that has played a long engagement at the Bismarck hotel in Chicago. Featured over WMAQ and at the popular Chez Pare. Get a Date Today Military December 8 Ball