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-A Senior Raises
A Question.
THAT the senior class should present the univer
sity with a gift was the opinion expressed by
a member of the graduating class in yesterday's
student pulse column. In order to finance the pro
posal he suggested the following solution: "In order
to raise money for such a donation it need not
necessarily come from the already empty pockets
of the seniors. It might be suggested here that
during commencement week, at which time numer
ous alumni will be back in the fold, a senior prom
could possibly be staged with the two-fold pur
pose of a farewell for the seniors and a get-together
for alumni. Funds from this would be used
to secure a lasting memorial to the university."
What the writer wants, in short, is a revival
of a custom which died soon after universities be
gan expanding the size of their campuses, and
highly efficient publicity bureaus swelled enroll
ments far beyond previous figures. The policy of
leaving a permanent class gift with the university
was discontinued, and necessarily so, when univer
sities reached such proportions that the student
body found its interests diversified. Colleges and
schools came into existence with mushroom-like
growth and undergraduate interest turned from the
old time class unity and rivalry, to college unity
and professional grouping.
It was to be expected, then, many university
seniors found little incentive to act as a group.
Class officers were abolished, senior traditions died
out, and graduating classes found little to bind
them together.
As a solution of the problem, Ray Ramsey, sec
retary of the university alumni organization, sug
gested recently that a senior board composed of
representatives from the various colleges be chosen
to direct the activities of the senior class. At the
same time, Mr. Ramsey pointed out, graduating
classes would be organized during undergraduate
life this simplifying the work of perfecting an effec
tive alumni organization for the university.
Perhaps Mr. Ramsey's suggestion may be worked
out by next year's senior class. Certainly the possi
bility of the present class taking definite action is
too remote for serious consideration.
A means to raiae money for a gift as suggested
in the student pulse column, presents at the outset,
many problems. A senior prom held during com
mencement week would unquestionably brighten up
its traditional dullness. But attendance, arrange
ment, and the financial success of a party held
during the latter part of the year would suffer at
the hands of other interests. Students, at this time,
are winding up their work in extra curricular activi
ties, catching up on classroom work, and prepar
ing for final examinations.
The possibility of holding other observances for
seniors such as dinners, picnics, or receptions quite
obviously are Impracticable. They would do little,
to addition, toward encouraging class unity. Little
food can results from institutionalizing informali
ties. Fortunately the era of "class spirit" has gone
by the boards within recent years. In the main
this practice served only to assure critics that col
lege students were "rah rah boys and girls." But
If Nebraska seniors vish to organize the varied
interests which now characterize their group, it
should be for the express purpose of contributing a
fitting memorial to the university. The possibilities
f Mr. Ramsey's plan, while unquestionably remote,
night bear some investigation.
Liberalization
In Europe?
THE American university of today is apparently
standing on the threshold of a new era in the
field of higher education, if recently changed admin
istrative policies in a number of colleges are any
indication. Revision and modernization of curricula
in various universities thruout the nation, and re
moval of a number of set and routine regulations
governing students are developments which seem to
Confirm the impression that higher education is fit
ting itself to a changing environment. In short, the
trend in universities of the United States seems to
be toward the liberalization which has long been
the cry of the reformer of modern education.
Among the recently announced experlnuuta in
college education is that at Olivet college where
Joseph Brewer, thirty-five year old president of the
school, declared that students there will attend no
Classes beginning next year. Acquisition of educa
tion will be p.aced in the students' own hands.
Chicago university has for some time had In effect
a method of instruction patterned somewhat after
tkat ef English schools where the student's desire
to learn Is the only prodding force which keeps alive
his interest in his studies. Other schools axe effect
ing similar changes, but the transition Is taking
place gradually.
The significant thing Is that In making such
changes, American universities seem to have taken
European educational Institutions as their pattern
to a large extent. Oxford, Cambridge, and various
continental schools have long been hold up before
the eyes of American educators and students as
ideal universities. Rosy pictures have been painted
of European schools where students are rer-rtly
free to do as they please, atttnd class when they
feel so inclined, and in general maintain to a large
degree their independence of thought and actions.
They have been hailed, too, as the seat of creative
thinking and development of individualism by youth.
A different picture of the European university,
especially in Italy and Germany, however, has been
desc-;'-:d by Dr. Walter Kotschnig, general secre
tary oi Interantional Student Service, who, In a
recent number of the Christian Science Monitor,
declares that universities in those countries are
following closely in the van of fascist and nazl
movements after being without aim or leadership
before the rise of nationalism.
"The new nationalist leaders, Mussolini as well
as Hitler," said Dr. Kotschnig, "concentrated their
efforts on the universities as institutions designed
par excellence to formulate the new nationalist
Ideas and to bring forth a new leadership able and
determined to put these ideas into practice. On
the other hand, the universities were the more vul
nerable, the more ready to accept the new gospel,
because for a long time past they had been suffer
ing from a lack of purpose from the absence of any
clear idea of learning and leadership. As a result
they had lost the loyalty of their students who
were hungering for leadership and who, not find
ing it in the universities, had turned to prophets
in the streets.
In Italy and Germany, declares Dr. Kotschnig,
the university, under the urge of nationalism, has
denounced the ideals of self-interest and mere utili
tarianism. "It is the nation," he says, "and its
outward form, the state, which becomes the pivot
of all learning. All partial knowledge finds its
meaning only when it is related to the nation and
the state. . . . There is no doubt that the over
wheming majority of the students themselves have
joyfully submitted to the demands of state and na
tion, that the student organizations not built upon
the nationalist ideas have dwindled away.
In concluding his discussion, Dr. Kotschnig de
clared that there was need of a new vitalizing prin
ciple in education, and that the easy surrender of
German universities to the impact of nationalism
should serve as a warning to universities in other
countries. Dr. Kotschnig's observations on higher
education in continental Europe may run contrary
to vauntings of this country's patron saints of uni
versity education. The myth of liberalism in Euro
pean halls of learning, it seems, has received a
snai-p setback, at e'ast in Italy and Germany.
Universities and colleges in this country, how
ever, may view Dr. Kotschnig's warning with lit
tle alarm. Obviously the impending danger of
nationalism predominating this country's educa
tional thought is little more than a remote possi
bility. It seems apparent, too, if we are to accept
his views on the subject, that Europe as 'the home
of Individualistic education" is a conception in need
of considerable repair.
Contemporary Comment
Throwing
Away Prejudice.
The aim of education to develop "real think
ing," but that goal is often blocked by nothing other
than sheer prejudice. In a recent survey made in
New York city, it was discovered that out of 1,000
Americans of average intelligence, 98 percent were
prejudiced against Bolsheviks, 90 percent against
Turks, 50 percent against the Mexicans and 30 per
cent against immigrants. Why should such prej
udices be tolerated by any intelligent man or
woman ?
One's prejudices basically are due to the great
stress that is placed on primary values and con
tacts rather than upon ultimate ones. That is to
say, people are primarily interested only in the
groups which comprise their immediate family,
neighborhood, fraternal organization, or even, com
paratively speaking, their nation.
Too many of us have come in for vehement
criticism by sociologists because our visions were
without perspective; our lives, instead of bearing
the least traces of beauty, were trivial, thoughtless
and insipid. As a result we often fail utterly to
gain a more tolerant view of life. Our conclusions
are the result of about 10 percent thinking and 90
percent feeling.
Are you prejudiced?
Indiana Daily Student.
Ag College
By
Carlyle IIodgKin
now Is to give the job to the ones that will put
on the fair. If there is a student on me campus
whrt hs an idea, who has watched the fair and
has a plan for its improvement, who has executive
ability and can command the respect ana co-operation
of the students, let's see his name go on the
ballot next Tuesday.
Let's see the ag voters put the boat qualified
students into the jobs.
A WORD FOR AGRONOMY.
Saturday Is the Trl K clubs grain judging con
test. Philip Henderson, Elmer Heyno, Raymond
Kinch, Boyd Shank and some of the other boys in
terested in that department are making prepara
tions for the day.
It Is Interesting to note the standing on the
campus of the men who take part in activities in
the agronomy department. Almost to a man they
are members -of Alpha Zeta. It is noteworthy that
iih. v.atm initiation usually occurs In the
biiu miiiia env.w - - v
agronomy rooms.
The members of Trl K club who are active in
the affairs of that department are usually to be
found at the head of Farmers' fair, Coll-Agri-Fun,
Farmers' formal, and this and that on the cam
pus. When there is a meeting to be attended and
work to be done they are usually among the ones
to be there promptly and ready to pay serious atten
tlon to the business.
It is noticeable that the students whose par
ticular Interest turns to the agronomy department,
usually find work when they leave the campus, and
very often turn in highly satisfactory records in
the work to which they turn. In its general policy
toward and dealings with its students, it seems the
agronomy department can truly be commended.
ASSIGNMENT COMMITTEE
HAS BIG JOB AHEAD AS
STUDENTS WAIT UNTIL
LAST DAY TO FILE REG
ISTRATION SCHEDULES
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ing the correct subjects. The burs
ar's office will send out a state
ment in July of the amount of fees
due and with the instructions that
they must be paid before Sept. 6,
or pay a late registration fee of $3.
New Rule.
a new rule is belne nut Into ef
fect this year that a student who
pays his fees late win lose ms
nlarp in a full section and will
have to register over again.
"Advisors, deans, and the as
signment committee are holding
students to a more carefully
planned schedule," declared Dr.
Congdon, "and more pressure is
being used to make stuaenia remo
ter as they should. As a result,
thn prist of registration to the uni
versity in February, 1934, is less
than half ot wnat is was in
Notify Students.
Registration has also been im
proved upon in recent years due to
the fact that instead of the office
rhnncinir schedules without the
student's knowledge, the commit
tee now calls m tne stuaems iirsi
to find out if the change is con
venient. A few years ago, if the
office changed the student s sched
ule itself in the spring, the change
made trouble in the fall and the
schedule had to be again rear
ranged.
PI Mil EPSILON SELECTS
NEW MEMBERS THURSDAY
"Mow members of Pi Mu Epsilon,
honorary mathematics organiza
tion, were elected at a meeting oi
the club Thursday evening, but no
announcement of names is to be
made as yet.
At the Thursday nlnht meeting
plans for the annual late May Pi
Mu Epsilon picnic were started
nnrt a committee was appointed to
complete arrangements. Members
Of the committee are otaniey
Jameson and Kenneth Carlson.
Dr. M. K. Gaba, of the mathe
matics department, talked on Mor
ley's geometric theorem, giving a
proof which he originated himself
noon
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BRING OUT YOUR MEN.
Next Tuesday Ag students go to the polls to
elect, among other things, a Farmers' fair board
for next year. Direction of the fair is the biggest
extra-curricular job students have to do on the cam
pus. It follows, therefore, that the most capable
students should have that job.
Now there is a precedent that says the mem
bers of the junior board shall become the senior
board. But there is no unimpeachable reason why
that precedent should always stand. Maybe the
senior board made a mistake when they selected the
junior board. Maybe the junior board work does
not Justify their promotion.
That is the students' job to decide. It is theirs
and the faculty's. Fcr the faculty have a definite
advisory role to play in the fair, and the better the
student board does its job the less advising they
have to do. There is no reason why there should
not be conferences between students and faculty
members concerning the personnel of the new
board.
There is nothing more deadening to ones sense
of political responsibility than to go to the polls
and find on the ballot three names with Instructions
to "Vote for Three." What's the use, one properly
says, of voting at all. If three are to be elected
and there are four or five names on the ballot, then
there is a contest. It becomes worth voting.
All it takes to get a student's name on the
ballot for Farmers' fair board is a petition bear
ing twenty-iive signatures. If there are students
in the college who are the qualified ones for the
positions, then let's see that their names are on
the ballot That goes for both boys and girls.
It Isn't who gets the job that counts. It's the
fair next year that counts. And the vital thing
OR NIGHT
FOR breakfast, Kellogg's
Corn Flakes set you up for
the day. Those crisp de
licious flakes, with milk or
cream, or fruit added, sup
ply the energy you need
and are easy to digest.
For a quick, satisfying
lunch, eat a bowlful of
Kcllogg's Corn Flakes. So
much better than hot,heavy
dishes that often slow you
up in afternoon classes.
Then if you're hungry
at bedtime, Kellogg's Corn
Flakes are just the thing.
Ask your club or fraternity
steward to keep them on
band or get them
your campus
at
restaurant.
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CORN
FLAKES
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and which simplifies the theorem
considerably.
No announcement concerning
the winners of the annual analyt
ics and calculus examination
prizes given Wednesday is to be
made until later in the month it
was decided at the meeting.
GREETING CARDS
FOR
MOTHER'S DAY
We have many suitable to send to your own Mother, a friend's
Mother, Father and Mother, Aunt, Wife, Sister, Daughter or
Grandmother.
1217 0 St.
Eastman Kodak Stores Inc.
A diamond ring, valued at moro
than $100, was lost by Miss Dor
othy Pender, freshman In teachcr'j
college, In the washroom of tha
lit. TiiAB1a f t an PaMrli" t
uui eta j su-uv
had taken off the ring to wash her
hands and returned a few minute i
later to find It missing.
A liberal reward is being of.
fered by Miss Bender for the return
of the ring, and the finder is urge 1
to notify the Nebraskan office or
call Miss Bender at F1344.
Put Them
Away Clean
Beware of Moths
Have your winter garments
cleaned. Protect them from
Coats Overcoats
Tuxedos We will store them
for you for a very small
charge.
Modern Cleaners
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"Let it be said of Mothers that
from their flesh and blood
the race of men is fashioned."
cMofhe
Motthers are adorably shy about tell
ing their age; but whatever her age
eighteen to seventy, and even for
youngsters beyond you'll find a gift
at Simons that all Mothers will appre
ciate receiving
Give Mother
McCallum Hose
THER knows
that McCallum stockings have
such a fine tradition behind
them. Their beautiful, sheer
perfection is a beauty to be
hold, and to wear. McCallum
stockings may be had for as
low as $1.00 or up to $4.95 for
the most elegant.
Silk Underwear
w HAT more beau
tiful gift for Mother than
Vanity Fair silk underwear!
A lovely pure silk gown, dain
ty chemise or a tailored, fitted
slip. For the more sophisticat
ed mothers Vanity Fair brief
and bandeaux, $1.00 to $2.95.
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Select a
Purse
Fine
OU can find ex
actly the purse that expresses
your Mothers fine taste anii
personality in Nat Lewis and
other lovely styles. Leathers,
fabrics, and beads, $1.95 to
$10.00.
Gloves for
Mother
II
ERE you will find
gloves In kid, suede, fine wash
able English doeskin, pigskin
and fabrics, both plain and
elaborate. Gloves that Mother
would select for herself.
w Nelly Don
Frocks
w
HETHER your
Mother Is young or old a Nelly
Don frock is the thing. Shell
enjoy wearing it from Moth
er's ty on light through the
summer and longer. $1.95 to
$7.95.
Lucian LeLong
Perfume
L'UCIEN Lelong'a
floral odors in perfume J and
Mon Image express the lovely
tribute that the perfect gift
convej-s to Mother. Buy it by
the dram or flicon with pride
in it's quality and knowledge
of its hearty welcome.
Simons Gift Shop
Shop here for Mother's Day "Gifts that endure!" Here you win find
tins out of the ordinary, decorative, practical and useful.
All Mother's Day gift wiU be handsomely packed and wrapped.
It's a Simon meticulous service which we are glad to render.
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