THE DAILY NEBKASKAN
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Nebraska Awards Dr. Elliott Honorary Degree
SUNDAY, FERKUAKY 16, 1936.
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ALUMNUS RECEIVES
Purdue President Principal
Speaker at Anniversary
Program.
Dr. Edward C. Elliott, president
of Purdue university, was honored
as an outstanding' educator, school
administrator and as an author
Friday morning when he was
awarded an honorary doctor of
lawa degree at the University
charter day program held in the
coliseum. Chancellor Burnett con
ferred the honorary award at the
close of the morning program pre
ceding the singing of the Cora
husker. Dr. Elliott was principal
speaker at the sixty-seventh anni
versary program commemorating
the founding of the institution.
He graduated from this univer
oity in 1895 and received his mas
ter's degree from here two years
later. President Elliott began his
teaching career at the University
of Nebraska as a teaching fellow
in chemistry from 1895-97. Later
he served as a high school instruc
tor, then superintendent of schools
at Leadville, Colo., 1898-1903; as
sistant and teaching fellow at Co
lumbia, 1903-05 and associate pro
fessor and professor of education
at Wisconsin from 1905 to 1916.
Montana Chancellor.
Still- later he was appointed
chancellor of the Universities of
Montana and in 1922 became pres
ident of Purdue. He has served on
various commissions, among them
the United States bureau of edu
cation, the New York and Ver
mont school inquiries, a member
of the White House conference on
child health and the national citi
zens conference on crisis in educa
tion and a conciliator in the Indi
ana coal industry in 1929-30. He
is also a member of various so
cieties and is the author of several
nationally known books and edu
cational articles which have ap
peared in leading journals.
ELLIOTT COMMENDS NE
BRASKA FOE PROGRESS
AGAINST ODDS.
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tary .?rvice for the common good.
Unless the human product of the
university is to be rcngnired hy
intelligent and unselfish consecra
tion to good government, then why
adhere longer to the foundation
principle of the university idea
good government and the happi
ness of mankind?"
He stated that the University is
giving the supreme test to the
basic American doctrine that the
lives of free men in a trtate of civ
ilization are directed and deter
mined by that process called edu
cation. He added that the success
of the American university shall
determine whether democracy's
goal of education and education'
goal of democracy shill be at
tained. Believe in Free Education.
"Promoters and politicians knew
then," Dr. Elliott said in recalling
the day when the university was
founded, 'that free men believed
in free educaftm." Today they
realise that same ideal. We are
not entitled now to forget the
wjui-aeuua self sacrificing- de
voti'rti to learning of those few
men who saw what the many could
nt fe, he explained.
"This is a starred day in the
calendar of the university. The
preent bridges the ever widening
chasm of Time to make a reverent
pilgrimage to the past. Today, we,
the posterity for whom the frontier
lorefathem prayed and plowed and
buildnd, gather to do homage to
the charai-Ur and courage, the
spirit and the strength of the pio
neer. Today we, the new pioneers
on the new frontiers, speeding to
the future, bring our own time ma
chines to a ntitp. in order that we
might be refreshed from that
spring of eternal youth, which is
the university."
Emphasizes Government Training.
Chanc'lor Elliott refuted the
note of discouragement sounded
by many when they say that the
dream of the power of educa
tion for the making of mankind
has not come true. He contend
ed that despite rtt shortcomings
in the past or tn the present, Its
ranking among the enterprises
of democracy in America can
not be equaled by any other.
"The school system," he said,
"serves as the hidden arch for
the support of the social struc
ture. To this arch the university
has served as the Keystone.
In emphasizing the need for a
training in the theories and prac
tices of good government, Dr. El
liott proposed the laws he would
enforce were he a benevolent dic
tator of American colleges, univer
sites and technical schools. The
first would be a thorough working
knowledge of the constitutions of
the United States and the state in
which the student lived. Of equal
importance for the graduate of
1936 would be the imposition of an
examination upon the place of
money in modem civilization and
also upon the decisions of the
United Statc3 supremo court in the
cases involving the NRA and the
AAA.
"A-s long as the state university
is not capable of studying and
teaching, or is not permitted to
study and teach scientifically of
the virulent diseases of modern
civilization, it cannot train men
and women who 'see clearly' and
fully eilher their own American
citizenship or the citizenship of
others; it will not inspire the mis
sion of relieving men of the 'tor
ture of not understanding."
NEW NEBRASKA
UNION BUILDING
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combination of face brick and bed
ford limestone. Face brick will be
the old Virginia type laid in Flem
ish bond. The roof will be com
posed of heavy architectural slate,
using colors in mottled green, pur
ple, black and gray, the individual
slates to be graduated in thickness
and in their coursing.
On the first floor will be a
general lounge room, fifty-four by
sixty feet, with a complete foun
tain service room opening off one
end of the lounge, and a game
and billiard room opening off the
other end of the lounge. On the
same floor will also be a large
dining room and ballroom, to
gether with adjacent service room,
a women's lounge with adjacent
toilet facilities, a faculty lounge
and office spaces for the Union
building administrative offices, as
well as office space for the secre
tary of the Alumni association.
Basement floor consists of ample
rooms for checking; coats and hats,
together with main toilets for both
men and women, space for a stu
dent book and supply store, to
gether with service rooms, kitchen,
kitchen stores, and space for stu
dent publications.
Provides for Library.
The second floor consists of a
large main lounge and ballroom,
together with a separate library
and reading room, rooms for stu
dent activities, offices, meeting
rooms as well as several for con
ference purposes.
The third floor consists entirely
of areas devoted to student activi
ties, and will be divided into a
large number of offices, confer
ence and meeting rooms, in com
pliance with the requirements' of
the various student organizations.
Davis and Wilson are the arcui-tects.
FOUNDATION TO SUPPLE
MENT TAXATION AS A
REVENUE SOURCE.
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whom it serves and who support
it, with the cause of education
which gave it birth and which, in
turn, it nourishes and advances.
Alumni Part in Plan.
"In the second suggested pur
pose of the Foundation, that of
providing means whereby alumni
may contribute to the enrichment
of undergraduate life," Smith con
tinued in stressing the parts of his
three point plan, "it is not my
thought that the Foundation as
such, should be the primary force
of such undertakings.
"It should ruther be the agency
of the alumni associations. The
alumni, as such, should recognize
the need for Student Union and
similar projects, as they did recog
nize the need for a modern ath
letic plant, and should provide the
basic financial suppoit. The Foun
dation, under its corporate powers,
can provide the machinery for
carrying out their purpose."
Smith said that in his third sug
gestion lay possibilities for great
est speculation and imagination.
Its results will be noted over a
period of fifty to one hundred
years. Under the third point he
urged a vastly enlarged program
of cultural and scientific progress
not confined entirely to the limita
tions of a narrow definition of ed
ucation. "It is a function of education
not only to train students in his
torical trends and in scientific
formulas but also to inspire them,
by precept and example, to lives
of worthwhile endeavor." He
summarized his program for the
Foundation to the alumni and
faculty audience by suggesting
possible use for money received hy
the fund. "Too frequently, how
ever, the scholars who can best
offer such inspiration cannot be
held to chairs of eight hours a
day, six days a week classroom in
struction; their genius thrives in
part at least on original study and
scientific research."
He suggested endowed chairs
whose occupants may be leading
sources of scholarly inspiration,
developing and leading the trend
of thought in their respective
fields.
"In a word," Smith concluded,
"while tax raised funds may pro
vide the bone and sinew of the
university's body, the Foundation
may provide the means for the
university to preserve and develop
its scholastic soul."
TALKING IT OVER,
SETTLES ELLIOTT'S
STUDENT PROBLEM
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stride. "All of the state institu
tions get together, and we plan a
budget which is submitted to th.
governor," he disclosed. There is
no organized university lobby, no
set method of influencing the legis
lature. But there is, he inferred,
a conscious effort to further the
interests of the university by deal
ing directly with the governor and
representatives.
Ptter Treatment.
In reference to Nebraska, there
is hope, he believes, for better
treatment in the hands of a uni
cameral legislature. "I have al
ways believed in the theory of a
unicameral system for state gov
ernments, since it offers the best
chance to have issues squarely
analyzed and the responsibility
fixed." Because Nebraska's cause
is a valid one. the university
should profit by a change in sys
tems. In a nutshell, this might be
President Elliot's administrative
philosophy: The best way to di3l
with students is to "sit around a
table and talk it over. The
main difference between student
bodies now and when I was in
school is that they are now cT
fered greater temptation for dis
traction and diversion," this he
meets by seeing that "something
is going on every minute at Pur
due." The best way to get big
things done is to attach less im
portance to trifles, and the best
way tj get financi.il support is
to take the initiative in going
after it.
DISKW TO SI'HAk
VESPEKS TUESDAY
AT
U't'sleyan Fonmlatitm
Pastar (list's livview
Of Kagamt Philimitphy
Dr. E. E. Drew, pastor at the
Wesleyan Foundation, will speak
at the weekly vesper set vice in El
len Smith hall Tuesday at 5
o'clock. He will talk on the prac
tical application of the philosophy
which Toyolnko Ka;;ava present
ed at the StuficiU Christian Move
ment Confereni-.1 Friday aa 1 Sat
urday. Dr. Drew will rniphn.si-e the
way in which univc. ;.ily students
can aid in the program hicli Ka
gawa outlined and presented.
Betiy Cherny, chairman of the
creative leisure stiiff. will conduct
the oevo. ionals. and sjvcial music
will ho presented by the vesper
choir undo? the direction of Mar
garet 1'hd'ippi.
IVyr!rci!:y S'roiVsror to
(!iiliii:i I!'":trrJi in Y.aA
Dr. J. Hunt, recently of the psy
chology staff, left Saturday for
Washington where he will con
tinue his research work during the
spring months o.i psychological
loss in schizophrenic patients. He
will be station-! at t'.t. KlizabelVs
hospital.
Dr. Hunt received copies of his
publication featuring a compre
hensive review of ail the Knglish
psychological experiments dealing
with disordered pel sons. He also
received reprints of his articles on
"Psychological Government and
the High Variability of Schizo
phrenic Patients" and "Psycho
logical Loss in Paretics and Schizophrenics."
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