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SUNDAY, DECEMRKR n. 193.". TOE DAILY NEBRASKAN TWO Daily Nebraskan station A, Lincoln, NabratRa. OFFICIAL STUDENT PUBLICATION UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA Thta paper U repreiantea or otntral advartiaina by tha Mabraika Praat Auoc'tHon. gUfcUtrd. gotleoUte $ri Entarad a eeeendeiaaa mawer ai the P'-0?," kA- ."bS-s vis P-?r2S JIM, act at Octobar S. 1B17. authorlied January 10. THIRTY. FOURTH YEAR, rubllahad Tuaad.y. W.d..d.y. Thuraday. Friday and Sunday morninoa during tha acadamlc Var. EDITORIAL STAFF . . Editor-ln-chiat Jack Flachar MANAaiNtt EDITORS ' Irwin Ryan Virginia Seiiec NEWS EDITORS Oaorga Plp.i ptM,, Arnold Lavln Jshniton Snipaa Dorothy SJanU SOCIETY EDITORS - oroth.. Jan.:.r.Sp.tr,. EdUor Olck Kumman Staff Artitt Bob Thornton BUSINESS STAFF K.Hr Bualnaaa Managor Truman Obarndorf ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGERS .u8-t"Sn9rate ,,.60 . yaar ... Copy . X'ZT "l:r..rS2 a, ... .lud.n,ubHc.on Board. Editorial Ofttea-Unlweralty H TalaonaAryVSrNr'"'' In. Defense. n . CALVATION for the ills of colleges and universities has come to be found m law part in football, according to an articl in the November 27 issue of the Na i on, enU tkd "Football: Hope of American Kdncat on by an author who styles himself "Left ing. Quoting Governor Davy of Ohio who re cently declared that "football has become he supreme purpose of American educat on, the writer asserts that not only the athletic and coaching staffs, ut college presidents and administrations together with students have become subservient to the cause of the grid iron sport. . . , "Left Wing" paints a picture of subsi dized, racket-infested football in this country, which, if it existed, would indeed be terrible. He declares that colleges are putting a pre mium on brawn instead of intelligence, and that the football system "makes educational opportunities depend not on the candidates intellectual potentialities but on the size of his biceps.... selects those proficient in athletics rather than those likely to profit by the quickening experience of educational pro cesses.... in choosing candidates for college, neglects the sensitive and intelligent boy lor tha specialist in athletics." Students, he declares, come to believe that football is all-important in college, the only thing that counts, as a result of which "a false standard of values prevails with the result that these boys carry the worship of the game into their later lives." Furthermore, he asserts, universities must look to football to boost their enrollments, endowments, and gifts or contributions of various kinds. The author of this article apparently has implied to begin with that football and intel lectual achievement cannot dwell side by side in an educational institution. But he is wrong. Some of the foremost universities in the nation are represented by first-class grid teams and the fact does not in any way de tract from their continued high academic rat ing. In support of this contention we offer the names of Minnesota, Columbia, California, Iowa, and Princeton universities, to quote but a few of many examples. In a recent academic ranking of higher educational institutions, these schools all stood close to the top, a po sition they also maintain generally in the grid iron world. That the popularity of football has placed a premium on brawn instead of brains is ab surd. In a university the size of Nebraska, and there are many in the nation which ex ceed it in enrollment, the entire football team comprises less than one-half of one per cent of the undergraduate body. Yes, 35 men out for football a premium placed on brawn, in deed I If such be the case, what are the other 6,000 or more students doing here? And what are all the non-football players doing in other schools! "Again, the author evidently believes that all football men have no brains. It must be admitted that grid players' scholastic achieve ments are far below the average, generally, but that does not mean that the desire for an education is totally lacking in their minds. This nation is full of people who are inferior in mental training to football players and whose ignorance is a drawback to our progress as a people. Casting aside the comparatively few men who come to college only to play football, why condemn football men who capi talize on their physical prowess in an honest effort to achieve something of an education? Their fate should be no different than that of the ordinary student who may not have a Thi Beta Kappa turn of mind. Left Wing again visualizes a subsidy ridden corps of football teams from coast to coast. To deny that many athletes are openly subsidized would be folly. But to assert that the majority of college football men are bought is an assertion equally as foolish. Many are tha gridiron men who work long and earnestly in order to go to school while many others are able to pay etheir own way. Tha player who gets room, board, and tuition outright is the exception rather, than the rule. Finally, football lasts but the first two and a half months of the year. If it is supreme, the sole cause of existence for our universities, what on earth keeps them going .he other five and one half months of the year! The arguments against football are legion and some of them are justified. As an adjunct to education, 8S a crutch upon which univer sities must rely for their continued existence, football is indeed out of order. But until our schools are willing and do find some other means to project themselves into the thoughts and consciousness of people the university must aeeept what aid football is able to prof fer. iligh accomplishments in the field of academic and cultural achievement are, to be sure, the things which should incite pride and support in our educational institutions. It is a regrettable fact, however, that such things appeal to but a very few. What the remainder look for, even when they know it is not neces sarily a legitimate function of tducation, is something colorful, entertaining, and appeal ing to the emotions. This, football is. And such it serves as a strong link between the school and the general public. It is unfortunate that education cannot make its appeal and receive th desired re sponse solely on academic accomplishments. But it cannot. Why then look so disdainfully upon football? In spite of the accusations that football is the all of college students, losing teams do not seem to affect enrollment ma terially, nor does the conclusion of the foot ball season bring about a sudden decline in interest in the university on the part of atu dents. The sport merely supplies that recrea tion for the student in college which every individual seeks either in this field or others at all periods of life. Rather than upbraid football so severely, perhaps education should look within to dis cover reasons for its present difficulties. The last paragraph of Left Wing's article seems to cast some admirable light on the subject. "....But we need more than this; we need also a change in our attitude toward college, something more difficult to obtain. Our ideas regarding the ultimate purposes of education are badly in need of revamping. It is not enough to clean out the hired athletes who come to a university with the idea of playing football. We ought to change the attitude which looks without disgust at young men sitting around fraternity houses playing bridge for four years, which considers it per fectly all right for a boy to go to college to make friends, or to be trained for the arduous duties of a bond salesman. We need to start in our primary and secondary schools to teach our youth that a college education entails a serious obligation to the community; we need to weed out the lazy, the incompetent, the shiftless, as well as those who for other reasons are unable to benefit by a real education. We must teach our youth to feel that college is an opportunity given them for work and growth, not a country club or a sanitarium where they can be immured four years without danger of infection from the intellectual virus. Until this attitude is prevalent, not even football can save American education." Off the Campus Lynn Leonard Senator A orris Will not seek renomination for himself to the sen ate in the primaries, because he wants to devote the time a campaign would take to supporting actively President Roosevelt. He thinks he can perform this duty more effec tively if he is not the candidate for senator of any political party. He leaves both party primaries open for the senatorial nomination, but he also leaves the way clear for himself to run as an independent in the fall election. That is what many thought he would do be fore he made the announcement, so it is not a surprise. Congressman Terry Carpenter of Scottsbluff has entered the field as a eandi date for the democratic nomination. Norris will be difficult to defeat even as an inde pendent, especially with the extensive support that has been promised him. Italy Settled Dotrn to the business of war with an airplane attack on Emperor Haile Selassie's headquarters in Dessye and a general bombing offensive all along the north. The emperor, who fought against the attack himself, escaped without injury, but occupants of the Red Cross hos pital tent were not' so fortunate. The Red Cross insignia was ignored over both the Ethiopian and the American hospitals. Press correspondents reported that they saw many women and children among the killed and wounded. Hands Off China was the warning given Japan by United States and Er.glish diplomats. The British government is considering calling Japan's at tention to its agreements under the nine-power treaty unless the north China autonomy move ment is quickly clarified. The treaty guaran tees China's territorial integrity. Signatories of the pact were Japan, the United States, the British empire, China, France, Italy, Belgium, Portugal and the Netherlands. China takes the stand that the treaty was never effective because China failed to meet some of its ob ligations. Lindbergh Kidnaping Case was re-opened by the visit of the governor of New Jersey, narold G. Hoffman, to Bruno nauptmann and the governor's statement that Ellis Parker, noted Burlington county detec tive, had declared that he was under the definite impression that nauptmann is not the man who kidnaped the Lindbergh baby. Parker is known for his solution of many baffling crimes and has been working on the case since the kidnapping occurred. Ttco Appropriation Bills of the last legislature were turned down by State Auditor Ayres. Being responsible on his bond for issuance of warrants on the state treasury, Ayres refused to make payments on the bills authorized, because he contends they are outside the governor's call for a special session. One was the ?ppropriation of 2,500 for the defense of the members of the banking committee in Eadke's libel suit against them. The other bill is the appropriation of (3,000 for the us of the director of insurance to in stitute suits in connection with receiverships in the insurance department. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace has a substitute to offer should the supreme court declare the AAA unconstitu tional. He indicated that some ten alterna tives would be a rail able including a sales tax and the use of income Inx funds if the process ing tax feature of the net Is the cause of the action of the highest court. Some decisions of circuit courts nnd the grunting of an injunc tion permitting failure to pay the tux In n spe cial case have led officials to think the net will be voided. BROWSING Among th BOOKS (In the absence of Maurice Johnson, who regularly conducts this column, it is written by Mr. Johnson's small sister Genevieve. Genevieve will be six years old in February.) I figured this out all by myself. I figured out that if you read one of these essays every day, and if there were thirty days in every month, you could read these essays three months and still have fifteen essays left over. I think maybe I'll do that, only I've read eighty-two and a half of them already, skip ping around in the book. One of the nicest things about "It Seems to Me," Mr. Heywood Broun 's new book, is that it goes down ao smoothly. Like marsh mallows. But you find out there's more than smoothness to what he's saying after a while, and as like as not he gets you to believe some thing or other, and you have a kind of thoughtful feeling. Like after you eat too many marshmallows, I suppose I am a young girl for such things, but after reading eighty-two and a half of the essays out of Mr. Broun's "It Seems to Me" I have decided to be a socialist. Yes, I have, even though Papa will probably spank me when he finds out. I'm a "con firmed socialist," ns Mr. Broun says. He doesn't argue much nbout it right out, bul there it is, and he makes you think the way ho does. I get sort of scared when I think that if I rend more things like "It Seems to Me" I might bo a "confirmed communist" Home day. My teacher says all communists get rickets and scabies and horrible diseases like that and die in convulsions. 1 don't like to think about it. Another nico thing nbout "It Seems to Me" is the table of contents. You enn read it like a poem. Here is a sample: The grand old gal of the North Atlantic Chummy Charlie Around the world in fifty minutes The strike-brenker Mr. Hearst nnd Mr. Lipnuum Horses with their hnir down There isn't any Santa Claus lee and Eagles The man who came back A ride with Roosevelt Charles Evnns Hughes as Tortia Now isn't that fun? One of the essays I like best is called "Tex and the Coolidge Gold Rush." I'm sorry Texas Guinan died because I think she and I might have been good friends. Mr. Broun says she was "an extremely honest and enndid person." In another place he aays: "If ever there was an authority on the idle rich and the wasting of the wasters Texas Guinan was certainly that woman." I guess the day of people like Miss Guinan is over. My teacher says things will be all right Boon and we will be back in the lap of luxury again. But I don't know. Mr. Broun Bays: "The new world of equal op. portunity and the redistribution of wealth draws closer. I am for it heart and soul. The jszi age was wicked nnd monstrous and silly." And then he says, "Unfortunately I had a good time." I wonder why he says that. BARB COUNCIL, A.W.S. E Musical Program Features Ellen Smith Hall Affair Today. Barb Interclub Council and A, W. S. league will sponsor an open house this afternoon at Ellen Smith hall from S to 5 for all members of organised Barb houses on the campus and for all faculty members of the university. Entertainment will Include a va iety of unusual games, group singing, and a program. The pro gram will Include a number of musical selections on the piano by Lenore Teal and Gladys Swift Esther and Perle Hughes will fea ture several vocal selections. Mary White and Will Reedy are serving as co-chairmen on the entertain ment committee. Chancellor and Mrs. E. A. Bur nett, Dean Amanda Heppner, and Dean and Mrs. T. J. Thompson, and faculty members have been extended Invitations to attend. Dorothy Beers and Bill Newcomer are general chairmen of tie affair. GUEST SOLOISTS AND CHORISTERS PRESENT ELIJAH (Continued from Page 1.) inent but full. Urge and lustrous. beaming with the light of genius." The first performance of "Eli jah" was striking. It seems that. just as the gifted musician stepped to his place at the conductors desk, the sun burst forth from behind a cloud and illuminated the scene, while the applause from a densely crowded orchestra and audience resounded on all aidea 'No work of mine," said the com poser, "ever went so admirably at the first performance, or was re ceived with such enthusiasm by the musicians and the public, as this." Yet Mendelsshon was not entirely satisfied with his work. Before it was finally published in July, 1847, he made many revis ions in the score. The recitative in which the open ing prophecy is announced, placed before the overture which vividly describes its effects, Is a grand conception, scarcely exceeded in dramatic force by any subsequent passage. The despairing phrases of the overture lead naturally Into the cry of the wailing people, "Help, Lord: the Harvest is over, the summer days are gone." In the next picture we find Elijah by the brook Cherith. After having been comforted by the soothing strains of the double quartet "He shall give his angels charge over thee," he is summoned to Zarephath, to the house of tne widow, the raising of whose son is painted hi tender accents which find their fitting response in tne chorus "Blessed are the men who fear him," which brings the scene to a conclusion. Then follows the sacrifice, the strains sung by the Baal-worshipers, Elijah's prayer. and the soften harmonies of "Cast thy burden upon the Lord," and the descent of the fire and conse quent recognition of the true God a tremendous scene, which reaches its climax in the destruc tion of the prophets of Baal. It needs all the resources that chorus and orchestra can afford for its efficient representation. After the alto song "Woe unto mm, tne or chestra shows us tha little cloud arista? and the storm bursts In torrents, bring salvation to the famine-stricken people who unite in tha chorus "Thanks be to God." The second part opens with the soprano solo "I am He that com forteth," followed by the chorus "Be not afraid." After this, the audience is brought face to face with Jesebel, who incites the peo ple against the prophet whose prayers have saved them. The re citative in which Obadiah counsels the seer to fly from persecution is strangely beautiful, and introduces one of the most impressive pic tures ever attempted in the whole range of descriptive music the hiding in the wilderness; the com fort proffered by the angels, in the heavenly trio "Lift thine eyes," and the chorus which follows; the sadness which almost overcomes Elijah; the calm peace of the beau tiful air "O rest in the Lord"; and then the awful history which tells how the Holy One of Israel reveal ed himself in the still small voice. Critics agree that this is one of the finest parts of the oratorio. There follows the "Chariot of fire, and horses of fire," in which tha man of God is taken to receive his reward, and still later the perora tionIncluding the tenor air "Then shall the righteous shine," the quartet, "Oh come, every one that thirsteth," and the chorus "And then shall your light break forth" in which Is summed up the les son of the whole: the lesson of faith in the future and the lesson of hope, peace and joy, which the composer baa impressed upon his audience throughout. VIRGINIA SELLECK IS PRESENTED AT MILITARY AFFAIR (Continued from Page 1.) member of Mortar Board and stu dent council, and is managing editor of the Daily Nebraskan. She belongs to Gamma Alpha Chi, professional advertising sorority, and last spring was co-chairman of the junior-senior prom com mittee. She also was junior at tendant to the May Queen last Ivy Day. Many Spectators. The ball, which ushered in the formal season on the Cornhusker campus, was a mUitary review and formal fashion parade. Sev eral thousand jammed the bal conies of the coliseum to view the presentation and grand march. The presentation scheme was devised by Lester Bursik of Ra venna, sophomore of the business administration college. Ha was awarded a prUe by the military department for submitting the best plan In the presentation con test. Jimmy Joy and his nationally known dance orchestra furnlkhed music for the occasion. The band following its appearance here left for Chicago to open an engage ment in the Trianon ball room. Patrons. Patrons for the gala event in cluded high state, university, and military officiala They were: Governor and Mrs. Roy Cochran, Chancellor and Mrs. E. A. Burnett, Chancellor Emeritus and Mrs. Samuel Avery, Regent and Mrs. Earl Cline, Regent and Mrs. Ar- CHARMING Coiffures are yours for the asking at CHAMPES finger waves as new and modern as tomorrow, Croqulgnole and Spiral Permanents, or a combination of both. Elec tric manicures expert oper ators. Champes Beauty Shop 202 Xresge Bid?. fe53Hn?ffnM;i;;:ti::ili:hi!:n.i:t:"i:ilKsiHU;g Seih9 Gifts for Girls Newest Selections . j t- of... Gifts for Boys Leather Sets $3.00, $3.00, $5.00 Manicure Sets $1-00, $2.00, $3.00, $3.00 Yardley Gift Kit $10-00 Yaxdley Men's Super Sharinf Kit $2.85 Slick Electrio Sharers $15 00 600 No. 14 UNI IRUG B3771 thur C Stokes, Omaha, Regent and Mrs. Stanley D. Long, Grand Island, Regent and Mrs. Frank Taylor, St Paul, Regent and Mrs. W. A. Shaw, David City, Regent and Mrs. C. Y. Thompson of West Point General John J. Pershing, Washington, D. C, Mayor and Mrs. Charles Bryan, Senator and Mrs. Chas. G. Warner, Waverly, Dean and Mrs. T. J. Thompson, Dean and Mrs. W. W. Burr, Dean and Mrs. F. E. Henzllk, Dean and Mrs. C H. Oldfather, Dean Am anda Heppner, Miss Elisabeth Tierncy, General and Mrs. H. J. Paul, Col. and Mrs. Frank Eager, Col. and Mrs. O. E. Engler, Omaha. Judge and Mrs. Chas. A. Goss, Judge and Mrs. Claud S. Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. C F. Schwartz, Misa Mae Pershing, Mrs. F. M. Fling, and Mrs. E. B. Cowles. Sponsors. R. O. T. C sponsors, who ap peared on the stage during the presentation and grand march, were: Miss Jane Temple, Lincoln, regimental sponsor; company sponsors, first battalion, Elisabeth Glover, Grand Island; second bat talion, Ruth DeKloti, Lincoln; third battalion, Mary Louise Steen, Lincoln; provisional battalion, Rheta Morton, Lincoln; Company B, Doris Foreman, David City, Barbara Ann Murphy, Fremont; Company C, Margaret Straub, Lincoln, Betty Van Home, Lin coln; Company D, Helen Hum phrey, Lincoln, Virginia Hunt, St. Joseph, Mo.; Company E, Theora Nye,- Lincoln, Betty Christensen, Lincoln; Company F, Muriel Hook, Logan, la., Mary Flslar, Lincoln; Company G, Jane Barbour, Scotts bluff, June Butler, Norfolk: Com pany L Dorothy Larson, Omaha; Company K, Genevieve Agnew, Fulledton, Lois Blair, Lincoln; Company L, May Simpson, Lin coln, Sarah Hutchings, Falls City; Company L-2, Alice May Living ston, Fairbury, Alice June Goas. Lincoln; Company M, Cynthia Peddley, Minden, Theresa Stava, Lincoln; Company M-2, Margaret Bilby, Fairbury, Mary K. Johnson, Fremont; Headquarters 1, Louise Thygeson, Nebraska City, Mary Jane Munger, North Platte; Head quarters 2, Jane Walcott Lincoln, Vivian Price, North Platte; band, Dorothy Hood, Fort Crook. BUTTERMAKERS WILL ATTEND SHORT CLASS (Continued from Page 1.) tures, which are open to the pulic, there will be lectures and labora tory demonstrations on butter making and on the chemical and bacteriological phases of work with butter and cream. Other university facutly mem bers who have a part on the pro gram include Prof. E. L. Reich art, presiding chairman; Prof. L. K. Crowe, Dr. P. A. Downs, Prof. H. P. Davis, and D r. L. E. Skid-more For many, many years Gruen has specialised in small, accurate movements ... Tbev snow bow to build dependa bility ino a tiny case... That'a why w urge you to chooee a Gruen . . . Another raeaon is because of their naart styles and reasonable price. See them nov. aUKSAaa. aiaslieity in CHCfcM buMW UtK OUR LAYAWAY PLAN "ww i ia .i a a 1020 "O" Street BOARD SELECTS UNIVERSITY PREP CONTESTS State Basketball Tourney Starts March 1 1 in Coliseum. State hlph school competition In basketball, track, wreHtling and swimming will bo held In Lincoln under the facilities of the univer stty, ss awarded Friday by the high school athletic board of con trol. Adding an additional class to the basketball program, the board sot the date for the annual cage tourney for March 11 to 14. Re gional winners in classes A, B, and C assembling at the Huaker colise um for the blue ribbon competi tion of the prep basketball year. The classification of schools, on the basis of attendance, places in Class C attendances up to 75; Class B, 76 to 176; Class A, over 175. The eight winners and run ncraup in tho eight Class A re gional tournaments; the sixteen winners in the Class B regionals; and the playoff winners of the thirty-two Class C tournament champions will assemble at the tourney. Omaha was the only other city bidding for the cage tournament. Memorial stadium will find tho prep tracksters competing May 15 and 16 in four classes, also based on attendance enrollment Service As Citizen and Scientist Wins Dr. Barbour Hiwaian's Medal. New York City, for the American museum of natural history; and R. S. Lull of the Yale-Peabody museum. Reviews Science. Reviewing the growth and de velopment of the sciences, Mr. Wilson told the club: "You hava done wifely In going to the uni versity for a proper recipient of your distinguished service medal. The state university Is easily the most profitable Investment the people of the state ever made." "The teacher who communicates to his pupils the facts of his special subject, is a worthy work man and worthy of his hire, but the teacher who develops In his students the power to obtain facts for themselves, is a teacher of nobler mold and a workman wor thy of a higher reward. It has been the characteristic of this ge ologist that he has greatly pro moted in his students the scienti fic faculty of acquiring knowl edge for themselves." Lefler Speaks. Superintendent Lefler described Dr. Barbaur as " a man of dis tinctive personality and unim peachable character," who loyally assumed the obligation on which a townsman owes to the state, the nation, and the community of which he is a part. At the out set we pay our sincere respects to Dr. Barbour as a man sterling in character and forceful in per sonality a modest, scholarly, gentleman. "Dr. Barbour Is preeminently a scientist and a teacher. These represent his scholarly and pro fessional attainments. There is, however, a very real sense in which his long connection with the University of Nebraska typifies a service to the state which is in no sense technical. As a curator of a great museum, it is one thing to collect, classify, and arrange its specimens for those who would be careful students of its lore, but it Is quite another thing to at tract the people of many states to a "Hall of Elephants," and by so doing inspire them with a nobler meaning of life, and with the dignity and grandeur of Ne braska's ancient forms." Werner Speaks at Murdock. Prof. O. H. Werner, professor of principles or education, ad dressed the Murdock School Men's club recently on "Opportunty Calls Educators." 5 Christmas Giit p SUGGESTIONS . . dor HIM! 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