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A Sermon
For Seniors.
IS three weeks nearly eight hun
dred university seniors will pass
through commencement arches at
the Coliseum. They represent, in
part the nucleus around which
the commonwealth of Nebraska
will be built during the coming
generation. They are products or
." the "Age of Debunking." Not pre
cisely the first, for three classes
have been graduated since the
"Era of Flaming Youth" collapsed
with the crash of 1929.
They will graduate from a
campus which has felt the full ef
fects of the depression. They will
graduate in an era which has seen
the debunking cf society. For
during the last decade a degree
was hailed as the "sesame to eco
nomic security." Universities in
dulged in high pressure publicity
-schemes to attract thousands of
"high school seniros to their camp
uses. Our universities were
-clogged with educational martyrs
A lot of folks are asking for
White Double-Breasted Suits
these days . . . and they just
take it for granted that we'll
show them the New White
Palm Beach. Well, they're
right ... we do. In our opin
ion, it's the "Style Suit" of
summer.
-.! art
lk (war falsa Brack
"working their way through," and
farternity lounge lizards. Grad
uates of the "rah rah era" were
apparently mentally stugnant.
And higher education, it seems,
was inflated.
But with the Wall street crash,
so too was education deflated.
With it came disillusionment.
Thousands of unemployed univer
sity graduates have exploded the
educational myth. Four years of
life in flop houses and bread lines
has started education back to nor
malcy. The gilt edged decree has
been deflated.
American youth grad'.w.ting this
ijune will not reflect 11:.'. buoyant
optimism of the trusting twenties
! Four years of disillusionment has
thoroughly discredited hit- faith in
the old leadership.
Adoption ot an actual sense of
realism in facing the economio and
social order of the day in favor of
i the Pollyanna philosophy of the
past decade should be the immedi
ate objective of graduating seniors.
They should discover, sooner or
later, that they are stepping Into
a society which has little patience
with insincere college graduates.
An overwhelming majority of
this year's graduating seniors have
spent four years preparing for
work in professional fields. They
have been fitting themselves for
service in specialized enterprise.
This is unfortunate. For in this
remarkable country ot ours, uni
versities have been turning out
thousands of men and women
trained expressly for employment
in the professions. Doctors, law
yers, engineers, dentists, journal
ists, and accountants have been
sent into fields which have ap
parently reached their saturation
point
As a result, our society has ex
perienced a rapid, almost over
night, development of professional
lines of endeavor. Industry and
invention have progressed by leaps
and bounds. Social order and
science of government have been
far outstripped by the technical
advances of man. And herein lies
the paradox of our strange social
system. And here too is a factor
responsible for the breakdown of
our social system.
It seems then that university
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tkeds tkr imM mmi dirt.
graduates might well turn to gov
ernment and social sciences as an
open field for constructive worn.
In this phase of our society will be
found many opportunities for
young men and women to render
beneficial service to the state and
nation. Recent developments in
education reveal that educators are
attempting to solve the problem.
College graduates, then might
well entertain the notion ot enter
ing public service. Certainly graft
and corruption of the past decade
should stand as an incentive for
youth's interest. Social idealism
rather than merely professional
skill would seem to be a most
fruitful virtue of graduates this
June.
While recent developments have
cast a more optimistic light upon
the chances for graduate employ
ment, the country is slill experi
encing a depression. If college
students are cocky, it they believe
that with degree in hand they will
be able to march triumphantly
forth from cloistered campuses to
become captains of industry, they
should disillusion themselves. For
the 1934 graduate is stepping into
a world suffering from disillusion
ment. True the picture facing the
1934 graduate is not as black as
the one facing the graduate of a
year ago. But pessimism still mars
the minds of a great number.
Nebraska graduates will listen
to a commencement orator expos
tulating in all events about "going
fcrth to correct the evils of so
ciety." But commencemfnt ora
tors, like all platform speakers,
struggle against a human propen
sity. When the country is looking
up. youth is quick to catch the
spirit of the times and reflect the
optimism of society. But when the
pictuie is black, youth quite hu
manely reflects the despair of a
society which envelops him.
Many university seniors are
wondering at the present time
what is going to happen after they
receive their degrees. Most of
them have prospects for little or
no employment What is a degree
worth ? These queries, we suppose,
are typical cf the average grad
uating senior.
But they must console them
selves with the soul satisfying phi
losophy of beating back at the
huge odds piled up against them.
And seniors may do this better by
discarding blase indifference and
superioty complexes, and adopting
a sense of humility and genuine
earnestness. They must satisfy
themselves with a religion a reli
gion which is best defined as "de
votion to an ideal, a way of life
and an order of being."
Ag College
By
Carlyle Hodgkin.
I Retrospect Con.
QNE perennial controversy on
Ag campus centers around Ag
i club. This year it seemed for a
itime as though that controversy
Was settled for all time, for ths
club practically ceased to exist
!Vben election time came, how-
ever, the boys got out and got can
didates to file for Ag club offices.
I It remains now to see what they
jwill do next year.
If Ag club wants to be ot any
consequence, it v.ill have to find it
' self some kind of a job to do. It
will have to find some need to fill
j It will have to find a purpose
strong enough to serve as a bond
jto hold its members together. And
j the competition for students time
and interert is intense,
j In the minds of many there u
!one important need on ag campus.
It is the need for a certain kind of
social activity for all the students.
During their freshman year the
boys and girls on the campus are
in classes together and have con-
j siderable chance to get acquainted.
' point out those who believe this
social need exists, but as soon as
:they become sophomore, they
! bare no more co-classes. The pro
'cess of getting generally ac
quainted stops.
So they say there should be
(Something on ag campus to bring
(all the students together oftener.
! It would not soive the problem,
they say, to increase the number
i of mixers because the large num
iber of down town students at the
mixers renders them practically
valueuess as a medium for sg stu
dents to become better acquainted,
i There needs to be some new kind
of a social activity of the campus
m here everyone will get to know
everyone else.
j If this view is true I am not at
!all convinced that it is true but
; if it is, be. is the place for Ag
j club to step In and m a need.
I What could there be cf Uiat na
ture la th r...l iitw?
;the faculty reception is deddexSy
of that nature. Farmers' Formal.
tne party traditionally sponsored
by Ag and Home Ec dub, ia of
that nature.
It would be easy to slip in a kid
party, or old clothes party, or
enzy costume party for ag stu-
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dents only. The matter of cost
would arise, and the sponsors
would have to be satisfied to
charge only cnouah to cover ex
penses. Then an entirely new stunt Ag
club might try next fall is a bas
ket supper. Many a girl on the
campus has never attended such
an affair. It could be made a big
affair, would be worth consider
able publicity, and could be made
a lot of fun fcr everybody. There
could be a short program in keep
ing with the character of the
party. If they wanted to dance,
the club could take enough rake
off from the baskets to pay the
musict The actual situation on Ag
campus is that the students band
themselves together in numerous
sorts of ways. There is a bond of
mutual interest that holds students
together in departmental clubs, in
fraternities and sororities, in hon
orary organizations, in religious
organizations. Their Interests are
split off in numerous small groups,
and there is no particular bond of
interest that holds ag college stu
dents, as such, in close relation
ship. That no such bond exists is
quite apparent. The students who
are asking for more social gath
erings recognize it But I doubt
very much whether any strong
bond of interest between the whole
group of ag students can ever be
j established. If it can, Ag club is
the one to tackle the job and
something like the program here
suggested is the thing to tackle.
Bro
vging
Among The
Books
Maurice Johnson
YfyiTH hot weather, books by
George Santayana and Orte
gay Gasset are left lying unopened
on the table. But what a corking j
murder storv is Dorothv Savers' i
"The Nine Tailors!" In it. Lord
Peter Wimsey gives a startling ex
planation to the problem of who
killed Geoffrey Deacon, and ro
mantic melodrama is combined
with humor and tragedy. There is
the constant ringing of the "tail
ors" in the country church bells
which sound out "Tin tan din dan
Kim Knn, All niAk, Cnni..Ar.
uaiu in, ail uiguu auuicuiiico
Miss Sayers seems almost too ob-1
sessed with bell-ringing, but the i
reader does not bold that against
her in the end. Typical excerpt:
"Lord Peter watched the coffin
borne up the road . . . This e-er-
lasting tolling makes your bones
move in your body . . . two mortal
tons of bawling bronze . . . This
chap's first resurrection was
ghastly enough . . . Silence that !
dreadful bell." " J
On the famous-alumni page of
the 1934 "Cornhusker," only one
j professional author is pictured '
jand that is Willa Cather. Poet
j Laureate John Xeihardt went to
; school in Wayne, and Bess Street-
er Aldrich is an lowan. Willa
j Cather, herself, was born in Vir
' ginia. and although she received
her B. A. from this university, her
LittD. came from the University
of Michigan.
Personal nominations: The roost
graham-crackeru-h book: George
Gissings "Private Papers ot Henry
jRyecroft" The most purple-passaged
book: Walter Pater's "Mar
, ius the Epicurean." The most iov
ially ribald book: Francois' 'Gir
!gantua and PantagiueL" The uiost
I pleasantly stimulating book : H. L.
Mencken's "Selected Prejudices."
! Of Stefan Zweig's thirty-eight
books his "Marie Antoinette" will
j probably be the most widely
j known. Upon its appearance last
jyear it was published in fifteen
I languages, and in the United
' States it was a book club selee
'. Ucn. Zweig sub-titles "Marie An
jtoinette" as "The Portrait of An
i Average Woman." and he main
j tains this point of approach thru
out "With diabolical cunning, his
; tory began by making a spoiled
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darling of Marie Antoinette, who
. . . wore a crown before she was
out of her teens ... But destiny,
having raised her to the pinnacle
of good fortune, dragged her down
again with the utmost refinements
of cruelty." This book is dramatic
and glamorous; Zweig makes his
tory, revolving around Marie An
toinette, seem exciting.
One of the most re-readable
books of modern times is John Dos
Passos" "1919." Hardly a page of
It would be quotable in a univer
sity paper, but the novel runs
along fascinatingly.
"The old man then tcok off one
shoe and put the shotgun under
his chin pulled the trigger with his
toe and blew the top of his head
off we stand looking at the bare
foot and the shoe and the foot in
the shoe and the shot girl and the
old man with a gunny sack over
his head and . . ."
LEO. J. BECK
ORCHESTRA
Take this opportunity to thank the students
for their patronage, and to announce that they
are playing the
Entire Summer at Antelope Park
EVERY NIGHT EXCEPT SUNDAY
The orchestra is now booking their fall parties
and formals for 1934. The nights of every
home game have already been booked. For
available dates call Leo Beck; F2268 or Bl 205.
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MEETS JUNE 27, 28, 29
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on the three-day program.
According to R. D. Morltz, di
rector of the university summer
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being the most outstanding
fees will be charged and no cred
its can be earned for attendance.
Bobby Poser, star University i
Wisconsin basketball and baseba'l
player, will rejoin the Mtnneapolh
club of the American association
in June.
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