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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 16. I'm. TWO THE DAILY NEB R ASK AN Av. V j V, Daily Nebraskan Statlofl A. Lincoln. Nabraska. OFFICIAL 8TUDENT PUBLICATION UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA This paper la represented for general advertising by the A TMa MPw I repreasns1 far aansras1 advertising by the Nebraska Praia Aaaaalatlaa Entered aa aecond-claia matter at the PC'J" Lincoln. Nahraaka. under act of congress, March 3. 1B7V, and at apeclal rate of postage provided for In i ction 1103. act of October 8. 1917. authorl-ed January 80. 1922. THIRTY-THIRD YEAR. Published Tueeday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friosy and Sunday mornings during the academic year. SUBSCRIPTION RATE. 1.60 a year. Single copy 6 centa. $1.00 a eemestar. $4.60 a year mailed. $1.50 a semester mailed. Under direction of the Student Publication Board. Editorial Office University Hall 4. Business Off Ice University Hall 4-A Telephones Day: B6S.1; Nlgbu B6882. B3333 fJour nal). Ask for Nebraskan editor. EOITORIAL STAFF Burton Marvin Editor-in-Chief MANAGING EDITORS tamolna Bible Fischer NEWS EDITORS Fred Nlcklas Vliglnla Selleck Irwin Ryaa ,.h M.t.rhullat woman sq rar Sanctis Kllbourna Arnold Levlne BUSINESS STAFF Richard Schmidt Business Manager ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGERS Truman Oberndoiff Bob Shellenberg Robert Funk , .Society Editor Sports Editor Parrot System And Thinking. That the "lecture system is probably the worst cheme ever devised for imparting knowledge," is the conclusion reached by Dr. Hamilton Holt of Rol lins college, who recently voiced this opinion in a speech before the Tennessee State Teachers asso ciation. "It assumes that what one man has taken per haps a lifetime to acquire by the most painstaking observation, hard thinking and long continued re flection can be relayed or spoon-fed to another man who has not gone through a like process," declared Dr. Holt. Lectures with their subsequent recitations, in which the lecturer's statements are handed back to the lecturer by the students are opposed to true edu cation and are entirely out of place in the modern picture and situation where thinking men and wom en are demanded, is the conclusion derived from a study of conditions by many educators of our day. An opposite sort of educational method is that which can be best described as "discussion" or "con ference plan" as Dr. Holt terms it It seems that the latter methods, if they could practically be applied in institutions of higher edu cation, would be much more effective in carrying out the true functions of education than is the lecture-recitation system. University graduates who continue to think about problems of the day and therefore have a substantial basis for their opin ions, testify to the fact that if one graduates with the ability to think he will have derived from his many years of schooling that element which should be derived. How can the ability to think be best developed in a student by his professors? At present we go through the machine in the following manner: We attend classes, many of them consisting of lectures, listen to the professor expound his body of knowledge, accumulated over a period of years. We are told to purchase text-books, written by other professors who In turn have gathered their knowl edge from their teachers and their text-books. Of course this system is more thoroughly applied in some courses than it is in others, and a little bit of original thinking does creep into many of the courses, although it is often condemned as being a nuisance and because it is a bit embarrassing to the professor. Such a system as that existing today makes for a near-stagnation, not resulting in a con dition of complete standstill because it doesn't work to perfection and because many students don't obey to the letter the rule against new thought and in their disobedience voice new opinions and present new outlooks. Some professors disapprove of this theory, be cause their minds tell them to revolt against it. They see and oppose the obvious defects inherent in the "parrot" system outlined above. At Rollins college the conference plan is used. Students are assigned a certain amount of work to do and that is their classwork. They may consult their classmates or help each other. When that is completed they are through. After mastering a part of a subject they may pass on to the next without waiting for the, rest of the class. There are no at tendance records kept, but accomplishment records art compiled. Students get credit for what they learn, and not for their attendance and ability to remember facts long enough to return them to the original or at least the nearest owner, the professor. There are professors on this campus who are clever and original enough to bring out the student mind and to exercise it Socrates, considered to be oss of th ablest teachers of all time, taught many young Greeks how to think by sitting down witn them in the market place, talking over ethical, in tellectual, and practical problems of his day, and by stages drawing out their opinions and thoughts until these opinions and thoughts were substantial and would stand up against pressure. concerts for the benefit of citizens of Lincoln and vicinity. Presentation of "The Messiah" opens the win ter concert season on the campus. If plans carry through as they did last winter, the university men's Glee club, the university ROTC band, and other mu sical groups will appear on the Coliseum stage. Such public programs give students interested in music opportunity for an outlet, advertise the uni versity very favorably, and entertain several thou sand people of this section of Nebraska. In the eyes of many inhabitants and taxpayers of Nebraska the university is a place where the boys play football and the girls learn to smoke and to talk in harsh tones of voice. There Is, however, as these cultural presentations indicate, the education al side of the institution. It is hoped that this year a number of these Sunday afternoon concerts will be held, and that eminent speakers, such as those heard last year, will appear on the Coliseum stage during the winter and spring. Where is the coed who attended the Mortar Board party, and as a result, would like to check the coats at every Coliseum dance? University Y.W.C.A. tins Its Values. Although most of us at various times caustical ly comment as to the political character of the Y. W. C. A. on the campus, how that organization ex ists for the purpose of manufacturing Mortar Boards, and declare that the association is useless, we forget to consider the good side of the Y. W. ' With the Christmas season at hand leaders of the campus Y. W. C. A. are taking the leading part in conducting an old clothes-old toys drive on the campus. Last year students connected with that organization co-operated with The Daily Nebraskan in carrying on a very successful charity campaign, thus aiding city and county relief organizations. Such enterprises carried on by students develop them into social-winded and altruistic citizens, de- Blrous of working for the good of their fellow men. Y. W. C. A. discussion groups play an Impor tant part in developing the adult mind of freshman women who are as yet unaccustomed to university ways, and are greatly influenced by upperclass leaders in forming their outlook toward life. A sen ior girl who idealizes the better things of life and attempts to transfer that attitude to the girl just entering the university is doing great service to the school and to numerous individuals. The freshman girl molds herself after the pattern of her senior class ideal, the "big shot." Although the Y. W. C. A. has its shoddy and superficial side in the shape of the Ellen Smith hall political machine, that machine doesn't play as great part in that organization as it does in other wom en's groups. In a couple of years or so, after the military de partment has accumulated enough money from the Military ball to pay all basic students' expenses, we suggest that the department use the next year's proceeds to build a new Student Union building. After all, the money on the loans never leaves their bands, so they don't even lose the interest, and there la a limited number of sophomores and freshmen. Campus Concert Season Opens. Sunday afternoon In the Coliseum the thirty Hint!, premutation of Handel's "The Messiah" will b offered by the University Choral union. As a traditional Christmas season event, this perform aace has taken root as one of the great musical af fairs of the season in the state of Nebraska, and raws a huge crowd each year. Last year Sunday afternoon musical concerts were established on the Nebraska campus as highly important and enjoyable factors in the cultural life at the city of Lincoln, ine university aunmiiai.ru tion inaugurated a commendable annual series of STUDENT PULSE Brief, concise contributions pertinent to matters of student life and the university are welcomed by this department, under the usual restrictions of sound news paper practice, which excludes all libelous matter and personal attacks. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld from publication If so desired. Contributions should be limited to a maximum ot five hundred words In length. but I'd a hundred times rather have Avrahm Yarmo linsky's biography, "Dostoevsky." Elizabeth's new novel, "The Jasmine Farm," doesn't raise a flicker of Interest In me, but if you feel extravagant, send me the four volume edition of Marcel Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past," boxed in wood. Forget about Faith Baldwin's "Honor Bound," but why not choose Jesse Stuart's remarkable and uneven sonnet sequence, "Man with a Bull-Tongue Plow," for my Christmas present? Send me Cartoonist Soglow'a "Wasn't the De pression Terrible?" and you'll get it back next year, but I could find chuckles all the way through Peggy Bacon's "Off With Their Heads" or even Robert Benchley's "From Bed to Worse." Julep and magnolia and moonlight make Stark Young's "So Red the Rose" a little sticky, but if you want to buy the best of proletarian novels, send me Robert Cantwell's "Land of Plenty," Albert Halper's "The Foundry," and Waldo Frank's "Death and Birth of David Markand," dedicated to the "Ameri can worker who will understand." Let Max Brand's vigorous novel about the Loomls gang, "Brothers on the Trail," remain on the book counter, but Stefan Zweig's "Erasmus of Rotterdam" sounds interesting to me. You might send me Malcom Cowley's impor tant "Technics and Civilization" or Ruth Suckow's nostalgic novel, "The Folks," -pr "The Letters of Gamaliel Bradford," if you. wish. I'd like to have John O'Hara's "Appointment in Samarra" or the dollar edition of Thomas Wolfe's "Look Homeward, Angel," or the new "Forty Days of Musa Dagh," by Franz Werfel. "- But please, oh, please, don't send me anything by Walter B. Pitkin. I'd rather have "Aunt Har riet's Household Hints" by Allen Prescott (The Wife Saver), in which he tells how to freshen chiffon on page 1S8 and clean a fountain pen on 280. Contemporary Commciit Y.W.CA. Urges International Cooperation. (This is the fourth in a series of religious group opinions in regard to war and peace to be published in the Daily Nebraskan.) The Young Women's Christian Association, at its thirteenth national convention, May 2-8, 1934, took the following action: "It is recommended that the national associa tion adopt the following program in public affairs as an expression of its purpose to serve as a Chris tian social force in the life of the time. International Relations: This program involves primarily a concern for the foreign policy of the United States, the domes tic policy of the United States, where it impinges on International issues, the measures for a world planned economy, and the outlawry of war. The following measures are advocated for study and ac tive support: 1 Adherence to the world court; co operation with and membership in the League of Nations. 2 Substantial progressive reduction of armaments; an embargo on the export of arms to warring nations; opposition to ex pansion of our military and naval estab lishments; opposition to compulsory mili tary training in schools and colleges. 3 The reduction of tariffs by reciprocal agreements or in world conference; the definite settlement of the war debts; inter natlon planning for the control of access to markets and raw materials. 4 As a major emphasis for study, the manufacture of and traffic in arms, par ticularly in the United States. This program was taken from page 28, Actions of the Thirteenth National Convention, Young Women's Christian Associations. ELAINE FONTEIN, President, University Y. W. C. A. Browsing Among The Books By Maurice Johnson Dear Stephen: Yes, I would very much appreciate a book for Christmas; but Stephen, please let roe suggest a list from which to choose. I simply didn't know what to do with "The Romance of French Weaving" you sent last year. I appreciated the book a lot, you understand, but I simply didn't know what to do with it I really wouldn't care about having Mary Pick- ford'a little "Why Not Try God?" in which she tells of "the hardest years of my life," but German Thomas Mann's "Joseph and His Brethren" in my Christmas stocking would make me pleased as Punch. Let me plead with you not to send me William Lyon Phelps stuffy "What I Like in Poetry,' but do consider George Soule's stimulating book, "The Coming American Revolution." Don't bother about looking at Lida Larrimore'i happiness novel called "True by the Sun." but I would very much like to nave the Rockwell Kent illustrated "Canterbury Tales." If you buy "My Own Story" by Marie Dressier you're welcome to keep it for your own library, but a splendid gift would be the new one volume edition of Romain Rolland's "Jean Christophe." Bronlslaw Mallnowski's great classic, "The Sexual Life of the Savages," may be a learned work, Males and Mistletoe. Are college students as brazen or as promiscuous in their neck ing as they are supposed to be? Yesterday,' a mistletoe experi ment was given a trial in several coke'n smoke and in 50 percent of the cases the male welched! Now we have been told in grandfather's time the young gal lants never missed a chance to reap the pleasurable benefits of osculation under the green sprig of mistletoe. Would erandfather have acted In the same manner if he were go ing to college today? Perhaps the reason for the de cline of necking in the open, as sometimes practiced by college men, can be found in the darkened parlors of the sorority nouses, Once the males have become ac customed to a small amount of privacy he is wary about exposing himself to interested audiences. However, regardless of what the experiment proved it was interest ing to note the embarassment of nonchalant, sophisticated students when they were confronted with the enjoyable task of kissing one of the opposite sex. The Daily II-lini. College Days And Indifference. Too many of us slide gracefully along thru this collegiate world of ours with scarce a thought to the inevitable; the inevitable naturally being the time when we shall leave this cloistered place and attempt to adjust ourselves to an existence quite foreign to even our superior capacities. We frequently hear about various forms of self-application such as the belief that as soon as we have our degrees we shall fit ourselves automatically to an unknown world we shall step from Pennsylvania without so much as a worry or care. University 1 i f e regardless of the institution definitely can and does mold a rut of indifference, sloth and complete lack of respon sibility among a certain group of undergraduates. It is this minority upon whom most critics base their findings relative to the college man. They understand his fallings and rightly enough can offer no sympathy. He can learn only by experience. But we question seriously if this minority can learn by experience. College to them has meant noth ing more than four years of pleas ures, no cares conquest over ev erything that is easy to conquer. Their four years have hardened them into believing that they are minute Gods. Unknown to them selves, their life is really over, for a man completely satisfied with himself at the age of maturity is a man completely immatured. The Daily Pennsylvanian. The Only Hope For Peace. The problem of peace is so old that many despair of solving it, yet so young that few, if any, have suggested any sort of fundamental solution. America wants peace. Every body says so, and has said so for years, ever since it came to be realized that the great war might not have ended all war. But oe cause everybody can so easily chant "Peace!", even as they care lessly talk about "freedom of the press" and many other things two unfortunate conditions have come about. In the first place, the oft- ex pressed desire for peace has given many persons a false sense of se curity. They do not want to be lieve that war is inevitable, so they don't believe It. On the other hand, many who sincerely seek an an swer and a program that every civilized adult may support with a firm conscience, find the only ex isting organizations dedicated to the task of making people shout "Peace!" The fallacy behind most pacifist movements is the belief that war can be done away with simply by wishing It did not exist, by getting enough people to abhor it and swear against it. Some persons will always be willing to sign an Oxford pledge and believe in it sincerely. Some will always forcibly oppose con scription even when war time ac tivities make it most unpleasant. But the few who wholeheartedly join and fight for these groups are not likely to be enough to break the back of war as long as certain things are true about the world in which we live. Going about stopping wars by treating the causes is a long, hard way to which it is well-nigh impos sible to secure vociferous converts. It isn't dramatic in nature. And the work will drag on thru the years as peace fervor rises and wanes. Even if the actual research and study are left to trained indi viduals, an enlightened public opin ion must be constantly alert to urge on the work and see it adopted by government authority. At Minnesota a note of optimism is apparent as a campus-wide peace committee is organized. In cluding present peace groups which have been warring among themselves and designed to be broad enough in purpose to Include all shades of opinion. Its propo nents hope that It will be able to "find the most effective means for the expression of campus anti-war sentiment and agree on some con structive program in the cause of peace." What success will attend the Minnesota effort is hard to say. Obviously, neither this peace com mittee or any other will have an easy road to follow. Those who are first to affirm their interest in peace may be the last to respond to a movement offering such re mote possibilities, and, lacking popular support, the committee may die before it can suggest any sort of practical program. But one might hope that in a university community, if anywhere, there could be gathered sufficient intelligence to start a significant move of this kind. Michigan Dally. F 1 GIVES MS PROGRAM CMANTS BY CHANCE. A recent mishap caused Armand Hunter to lose one of his precious teeth, but Just in case anyone Is In doubt, he promises to have a new one Installed In time for the performance of "Yellow Jack." Two campus canines who are scheduled to make an appearance In the near future In dramatic pro ductions are "Whiskers" and "Prince Matternich." The former is proud to call Pete Sumption "master" and will be seen In "Yel low Jack." The latter hound Is af fectionately known as "Bruno" to his friends, and is the mascot of the Alpha Phi House. He will be cast as the dead cat in the Chil dren's theater production of "Tom Sawyer." Of course, Bruno Is only a toy Scottie, but nevertheless, he will be one of the main attractions of the show, when "Huckleberry Finn' drags him in by the tall, and announces to "Tom Sawyer" that he bought a dead cat. This afternoon will mark the thirty-ninth consecutive year the "Messiah" has been presented here at the university. The public is invited to the concert, which will begin at 3 o'clock at the coliseum. Joslyn Memorial will present Wil bur Chenoweth in his third organ concert of the season on Sunday, Dec. 16, at 2:30 o'clock. Mrs. and Mrs. Chenoweth entertained for Mr. Chenoweth's pupils last Fri day evening. Valorita Callen, vio linist, will direct a string quartet this afternoon at the Plymouth Congregational church for the Organist Guild program. Miss Cal len, Eunice Bingham, Lee Heming way and Ruth Sibley will compose the quartet. A tradition of the German de partment is the annual Christmas entertainment which will be given this year from 4 to 6 o'clock next Thursday. "The Tempters," a quar tet of university fellows, will sing Es ist ein Reis entsprunger" and "Des Wandrers Nachtleld." Vance Leininger will sing two solos, "Ihr Kindlein kommet" and "Stille Nacht." Wilgus Ebcrly will play some piano selections and tnere will be group singing. Dr. J. E. Alexix and Mr. Eric Waldgren will make some, remarks In German and some Swedish folk songs will be sung. Typical German Christ mas cookies and hot chocolate will be served. Any students in the German department or those intre- ested in Germanic culture, are in vited. One of the outstanding openings of this week's Broadway hits is Maxwell Anderson's "Valley Forge." which the Theater Guild is staging. Phillip Merivale who played the leads in "Death Takes a Holiday" ana "Aiary, ueen OI Scots," is cast as General Wash ington. Marglo Gilmore is cast as Marv Phillips. The play had its tryouts last week in Philadelphia. Altho the Quaker City critics were none too ecstatic over Mr. Ander son s writing, tney were generally pleased with the play. The author has had three outstanding suc cesses in the last lew years ana these three are widely different. "Elizabeth the Queen" which Al fred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne played so effectively in 1930; "Both lour Houses," a ponucai satire and Pulitzer prize winner of 1932; and "Mary of Scotland," an other Guild success of last season, are the three. Mr. Anderson is a graduate for the University of North Dakota and taught there for several years after his gaduation. He Is now recognized as one of the four most outstanding of the American playwrights, whose con tributions to the field of dramatic literature will probably last. The other eminent playwrites are Eu gene O'Neill. Sidney Howard and Phillip Barry. DRS. LACKEY, RIGDOX TO PRESE1ST PAPERS Instructors Will Attend Geographers Meeting In Philadelphia. At the annual meetings of the association of American geograph er! to be held in Philadelphia dur ing the Christmas holidays, Dr. E E. Lackey, associate professor of geography at the university, will present a paper on "A Var iability Series of Frost Maps of Nebraska," Dr. Vera E. Rigdon of the geography department will give a paper on "Physiographic Nomenclature a la William Morris Davis." The programs of this or ganization are limited to papers which have recognized merit as original contributions. Students to Hear Stories, Carols at Gathering Dec. 18. A French Christmas program consisting of Christmas stories and carols will be presented by the French department to all interested-students at 7 o'clock Tuesday eveninr. Dec. 18. In Morrill Hall auditorium. First on the program is group singing of Christmas carols, which will be conducted by Ruasel Cum mings. Following. Dr. Harry Kurz, chairman of the romance language department, will tell Christmas stories and Vera Mae Peterson will read the story of the first Christ mas from the French Bible. Russel Cummings will sing a solo entitled, "Cantique de Noel." Violet Vaughn will play Schu mann's "Vienna Carnival Scene" In which the theme of the French national anthem is predominant. The committee in charge of ar rangements consists of Marjorie Smith, Evelyn Diamond, Joy Hale, Ruth Haggman and Lucille Hunter. 'Never Take a Job, But Create One,' Is Earnest Advice of Dorothy Thompson Lewis, Town Hall Lecturer Last Week. (Continued from Page 1). of the year, she had an opportun ity appear and the Ingenuity to offer something that couldn't be turned down. "I wanted to write for a Vienna newspaper at space rates, but with the assurance that I would be the only correspondent hired .Within eight months, they were printing so much of my copy that tney were paying me much more than they had in tended, and so I was reduced to a salary." For lour years sne neia wu position and became chief of a foreign oureau in cemrai jcuruye for the New York Evening Post and Philadelphia Public Ledger. Another four vears at this ,and she found that she was tiring of dally journalism, that she was more interested in what was be hind the news than in the facts themselves. That was 1928, and in May of that year she was mar ried to Mr. Lewis and came to this country. "I tried to be a may or leisure those next two years, but 1 de tested it. So I found what I had started to seek two years before, in free-lancing." She ad this to say about journalism in general, jour nalism is a marvelous profession, and it is improving. A better type of Derson is empioyea, ana ne is less interested in scoops than he is in giving an intelligent interpreta tion of the news." While in Germany, like all jour nalists, Mrs. Lewis endeavored to know the country. But unlike most of them, she succeeded very well. She immersed herself In German literature and history found out what Germans have been thinking for the last three or four hundred years besides examining their modern modes. As a result, her judgment of the present order is, "I am convincea mat mis is noi the final front of Germany. No race can get away from its herit age- . . Concerning the movement 10 place the woman in the home again, Mrs. Lewis believes that on the whole it will be unsuccessful, for as she says, "There are two kinds of women: the free, if you want to use that word, and wives. And you cannot make one type into the other. Such a plan cannot suc ceed for it is contrary to nature." She was exiled from Germany last August because of publication of her opinions on Hitlerlsm, thus be ing distinguished as the only wo man correspondent to be so con demned. Dorothy Thompson Lewis is within herself the symbol of alert and Intelligent journalism the way she talks, the way she thinks. She has been on a five-week speak ing tour since Nov. 10, having lec tured every day for thirty consec utive days. She has written sev eral books, one on Russia, and has lectured on the latter topic, but much prefers to discuss Germany at the present time. COMMISSIONS College World Approximately three-fourths of the college women in the United States attend coeducational col leges. More students are registered for the commerce degree at the Uni versity of Georgia than for any other undergraduate honor, a re cent survey revealed. "Working my way thru col lege" is not a gag at Commercial, college of Boston university. Al most half a million dollars was earned by students there last year. Harvard was the first school to play the modern game of football. The Harvard University grad uate school of business administra tion has opened a coury? which is designed, to train students for "brain truster"- careen, I 0 GIVE XMAS DINNER Banquet for Y.W. Freshmen To Follow Vespers On Dec. 18. Christmas vespers, which will bo sponsored by freshman cabinet and freshman commission groups, Tuesday, Dec. 18, will be followed by a dinner for all freshman com mission members and all interest' freshman members of Y, W. C. A., it was announced at cabinet meet ing Thursday evening, Dec. 13. Tickets for the dinner should bo bought by noon Monday, according to statement of Helen Nolte, chair man of committee in charge of ticket sales. Tickets are available from freshman cabinet members or at the Y. W. C. A. office. "The response to the Christmas giving campaign has been very good," Kathryn Wlnquest, chair man of the campaign reported. Each euinnilsaion group has vis ited a family and Is planning to care for the needs of its family this Christmas. Some groups are planning to take the mother of the family shopping so that she can select the things her family espec ially needs. All freshman commission girls are asked to come to Ellen Smith hall some hour Monday afternoon to help fix things for the families. Committees are, vespers, Marie Katouc, chairman, Betty Cherny, Jane Pennington, and Barbara Jearv: dinner, Agnes Novacek, Helen Nolte, Iva Miller, Mary Stewart, and Elinor Kelley; Christmas-giving, Kathryn Win ouest. Doris Burnett. Mildred Hol land, and Virginia McAdama. Ladies,' Gentlemen Requested Not to Wear Hoops, Sword to Presentation of Handel's "Messiah," April 13, J742. (Continued from Page 11. in the room, and the sum collected for that noble and pious charity amounted to about 400 pounds . . ." The story is told that the people in that first audience became ex cited and aroused as "The Messi ah" was sung toward its climax. Finally as the singers began the incomparable "Hallelujah" chorus the king and all the other listeners stood, and this custom is still fol lowed today. On that day a Mrs. Cibber sang the solo "He Was Despised." Al though her voice was weak, she so touched her hearers that it is said Mr. Delany, friend of Swift, e :- claimed from the boxes, "Woman, for this be all thy sins forgiven." Oratorio Written In 24 Days. Handel composed "The Messiah" in less than twenty-four days be tween Aug. 22 and Sept. 14 of 1741. He placed in it a messaye for everyone of all classes and ages. Beside music of such power and sublimity that it goes beyond the understanding of ordinary mor tals are passages so simple and direct that anyone may compre hend. Thomas Jennens compiled the text, and from the prophetic language of the Old Testament he has selected words of tenderness that are almost poetry. "The Messiah" teus the story or man's redemption. It is divided Y into three parts. The first sets forth the promise of the Redeemer, the birth of Christ and His mission of healing and comfort. The sec ond is devoted to His passion,' res urrection, and ascension, ' the preaching of the gospel, the dis comfiture of the heathen, and the establishment of the kingdom of God upon earth. The third part deals with the Christian belief in tthe resurrection of the body, and ends with the triumph of the re deemed and the glory of heaven. World of Sin Presented First. Beginning with an overture which gloomily presents a world of sin, suddenly the voice of the Comforter comes like magic with the recitative "Comfort ye my peo ple." By contrasts Handel makes his work impressive, and reaches a climax with the chorus r or unto us a child is born." In the pastoral symphony and the following numbers Handel pre sents drama which tells of the shepherds in the fields and the angels' song to them. It grows more and more exciting until the angelic choir bursts In with its cry of "Glory to God." The second part of "The Mes siah" opens with a solemn chorus of tragic loneliness and leads into the famous "He was despised." Handel traces the spread of the gospel, then pictures the wrath of the heathen in the bass solo "Why do the nations so furiously rage to gether?" and the chorus "Let us break their bonds asunder." Then the heathen , are crushed and all the earth Joins in a song of tri umphthe majestic "Hallelujah" chorus. After the thunders of the "Halle lujah" Handel makes another con trast by hte simplicity of "I know that my Redeemer llveth," the so prano solo which opens the third part of "The Messiah." This last part tells of resurrection and life of the world to come. "Behold I tell you a msytery" sounds the trumpet-call of doom. There fol lows "The Trumpet shall sound and the duet "O death, where is . thy. sting?" Then in its final chorus "Worthy is the Lamb" sound the voices of the rednenm Dr. G. E. Condra Spends Several Days in Texas Dr. G. E. Condra, chairman of the department of Industry and survey at the university, left this week for Austin, Tex. He spoke on Saturday at the quarter cen tury celebration of the natural re source survey department of the University of Texas. For several daya Dr. Condra will study in the field as the guest of Di. Sellers, Texas state director of survey. 135 of 283 Cornell University freshman women Included in a re cent survey have parents who are college guduates. At Northwestern University, the men have just organized a knit ting club. V