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HIE DAILY NFJIKASKAN
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER lfi. 1936
The Nebraskan
Station A. Lincoln. Nebraska.
1935 - Member 1936
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THIRTY-FIFTH YEAR
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Minor
Change Needed.
There is one discrepancy in the intert'rnter
nity rushintr rules thnt the Daily Nebrnsknn
believes should lie corrected before another
season of pledije-gcttinp rolls around.
Thnt is that rush re must not necessarily
krrp dates unless he has filed them with the
interfraternity council personally, regardless
of whether the fratrrnity has filed them.
It is common practice for fraternities to
start the rush season with parties and other
forms of entertainment before the brothers
have reaerruainted themselves with home and
the summer vacation. In fact, the major part
of rushine poes on durinp the summer months,
for it is then that contacts are made, prospects
are lined up. and everything made ready and
set for the "poM which is sipnalizrd with the
advent of rush week.
Now when Soo Gamma Soo finds n notable
prospect who will prnce the fraternity lodpe
and. potentially at least, will some day lead
the campus, the brothers put forth every ef
fort to see that the notable one does not fall
into the hands of arch-enemy Sow Uammn Sow.
He may be whisked front hiding place to hid
inp placr, krpt in diseuise. Riven a bodypuard.
sent to a seaside resort anything to protect
him from the unthinkable association with Sow
Gamma. But suppose some one slips up, and
the much rushed rusher finds a Sow Gamma
card with the daily mail. Hates are marked,
and the duplicate filed in the interfraternity
council office. Soo Gamma poes into consulta
tion, and attempts to talk the rusher out of
filing the rival's card. If they succeed, and
chances are that they will, they have a pledge
all but spiked.
In order to give the fratrrnities definite
grounds on which to plan for rush dinners and
smokers during the date week, the Nebraskan
suggests thnt the Interfraternity Counc.!
amend the present rushing rules so that it will
be mandatory for a rushee to keep the dates
which the fraternity sends in to the council for
filing. A fraternity should be advised by the
rushee immediately if the dates it files conflict
with others already accepted.
In this way exact tabulation can be kept on
the number of rushees expected, and arrange
ments can be made to feed and entertain them
while the exact number of "rush sessions"
necessary to spring on the unsuspecting guests
can be planned in advance. Such action by the
council can do much to clear up unfavorable
comments on the campus, of which there have
brrn a few. and can provide a more wholesome
and more clearlv defined rush week.
CONTEMPORARY
COMMENT
Don't
Waste Time.
Very busy people always find time for
everything. People with immense leisure claim
to have time for nothing, which is true if liter
ally interpreted to mean "plenty of time for
doing nothing."
Is thrre no time you can reclaim from
some pleasure that really does not give you
much pleasure, from empty talk, from inferior
entertainments, from doubtfully enjoyable
week ends? Have you learned how not to give
in to idlers?
We continually waste time thru a lack of
order in our living and in the management of
our affairs and possessions. The habit of hesi
tation before action is a huge drain on our sup
ply of time. Concentrate on your problems,
and make definite decisions quickly.
Possibly you do not know how to concen
trate. Concentration is a natural state which
is considered exceptional because people do
not try to accept it. It is impossible if we are
fagged or dull. Eliminate inharmonious
thought or images, and multiply the harmoni
ous images. Writing down one's thoughts is
an infallible method of concentration.
What we n,-c expected to do is only t
make the most of our possibilities. )aily Ok-lahoiunn.
of anv opportunities for student leadership at
all. Iailv Tar Herl.
The Evil
of Exams.
Speaking with a candor ami humility that
is refreshing, a professor in the university
stated last Friday to his classes that he had
been "trying for :." years to find a solution to
the problem of examinations."
And no answ er had been found, it. was in
dicated. It is very probable that no answer ever
will be t'ou'id until there is an effort by ill"
faculty to experiment with various other meth
ods for testing the knowledge and thinking
capacity of students.
If it is agreed that the present system of
examinations is obstructing the work of higher
education, then there should be a definite
eagerness on the part of educators to revise
that system.
At the Fniversity of Chicago that revision
is being attempted. An experimental program
of comprehensive examinations is being tried.
Those who formulated ami are carrying
out the "Chicago plan" are apparently of the
opinion that higher education should not be
interfered with by frequent, unnecessary ami
distracting quizzes. In each course there is
one examination which is given at the end of
the semester and that examination is a com
prehensive one, that is. it covers the entire
subject which has been under consideration by
the student and professor.
Students are not coached with the aim of
passing regular two week or monthly tests.
All examinations are prepared by a board of
examiners. The function of examining is not
that of the professor.
The teacher is not the judge or the ac
cuser and the student is not the petitioner for
grace. At Chicago, the faculty administration
is hoping to work out an arrangement in w hich
student and instructor are co-partners in the
adventure of learning, with the professor en
joying a respect that is the result of his supe
rior knowledge and insight.
The "Chicago plan" of comprehensive ex
aminations is frankly an experiment.
It seems to be functioning exceedingly
well.
At least at that institution there is some
practical endeavor to determine how the pres
ent examination evils may be overcome. Cali
fornia Daily Bruin.
Support For
A Cultural Activity.
The beginning of thp school year is the be
ginning of a rigamarole of sales drives, sub
scription campaign'!, and purchase demands of
sundry and various en in pi is agencies. The iu
emiiing students, harassed by the university
for tuition, with visions of buying splurges in
mind, finds one and then anolher and slill
another of "essentials" of university life
which he" just can't under anv condition, do
without."
Hut however ubiquitous these sales may be
come, it is here that extra-curricular branches
of the campus find their very life's blood. No
activity can exist without the support of the
student body. In fact, minus his. there isn't
much need or call for that activity. It can't
be a constructive agency, as all extra-curricular
activities should be. This university exists
primarily for its students, and if any partic
ular ramification of it fails to please them, act
ing as both its public and its judges, the uni
versity promptly lops off the unpopular ap
pendage. Student support of the activities is request
ed, ami should be most willingly forthcoming.
F.xtra-curriculars piny an important part on
this campus. They perform a valuable service,
ami should be commended and rewarded by
active assent to them by the students.
In this category especially fall the Fniver
silv Pin vers. Strictly an amateur organization.
but bringing to 1hc campus, and the city of
Lincoln as well, plays which are critically ap
praised as being among the best of the year,
the Players have long set themselves forth as
a cultural inspiration to an altogether too little
inspired campus. Of course the acting isn't pro
fessional, and the settings aren't off Broad
way, but the amateur east of students and in
some cases members of the faculty and alumni
have presented one New York hit after an
other on the Temple stage with remarkably
able interpretation and well-merited apjilau.se
for their efforts.
The Fniversity Players offer legitimate
stage drama, which is perhaps a lost art with
lost appreciation in the midwest. Only very
few opportunities are presented to Nebraska
students to witness meritorious visiting stage
performances. The Players alleviate to a great
extent this lack of cultural benefits receiv
able from professional performances by bring
ing the plays to Lincoln. And not only modern
art. but also that of the classics are included in
the repertory of plays to be staged.
As an activity and undoubted educational
influence, the Players deserve and merit the
support of the student body. This year Ihe
Tassels are conducting a sales campaign with
Players tickets at a reduced price. It is to be
hoped that every student on the campus will
be able to take advantage of this offer. It is
too bad that some may find it a financial im
possibility to purchase tickets.
HARVARD CELEBRATES
Education Moguls of World
Attend Conferences;
Roosevelt Speaks.
National Crisis.
Wonder what draws more interest the
presidential election, or Little Orphan Annie's
mistreatment at the hands of those who run
the county institution in the comic strips?
l By CrillPKe ;.w-g Errvirei.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. The t
"300th anniversary of higher learn-
ing In the United .States" was !
being celebrated this week at
Harvard university, which fran '
founded as "Harvard College" in ',
1636. I
Several weeks of educational ;
conferences, attended by outstand- i
ing scholars and educators from
many parts of the United States,
as well as. foreign countries, were I
to be climaxed with an impressive 1
program of ceremonies, recalling !
the founding of the college. Speak- i
ers were to include President j
Franklin D. Roosevelt. 1904 Har- i
vard graduate, and 62 honorary!
degrees were to be conferred by '
the university on men of eminence .
attending the celebration.
World leaders in the fields of
social, physical and biological sci
ences, in the meantime, have held
daily conferences to compare notes.
as it were, on the advance of learn
ing during the 300 years of Har
vard's life. Among the important
figures who took part in the meet
ings were Dr. Albert Einstein, the
physicist; Sir Arthur Eddington.
British physicist end astronomer;
Rudolf Car-nap. German neo-positi-vist
philosopher; Elie Joseph Car-
WHAT'S DOING.
Friday.
University reception for all
students at Morrill Hall, at 3
p. m. This night is closed to
all other university social func
tions. Saturday.
Barb Council party at the
Coliseum.
Lincoln hotel supper dance
for fraternity and sorority representatives.
ton. University of I'aris mathema
tician; Ronald Aylmer Fisher,
geneticist and theoretical statis
tician of the University of London,
and Dr. Robert A. Millikan, Dr.
Arthur H. Compton, and Dr. Karl
Landsteiner, the American Nobel
prize winners.
Many others also were present,
including prominent literary fig
ures, drawn by the display of rare
documents in the Amy Lowell col
lection being exhibited by the Wid
ner Library at Harvard. Keats.
Shelley, Kipling, Lamb and other
names from literary history were
represented in a collection of orig
inal manuscripts included in the
exhibition.
GLIMPSES
Of the World About
Our
Big Men.
Educators who have had the opportunity
of following the careers of ex-undergrnduatr
leaders after the commencement exercises are
consistent in pointing out that a large per
crntngr of the so called "campus big shots"
suffer from their ex-popularity in the early
years of their off campus careers.
It is maintained that the bloated opinion
which a big man on the campus assumes of
himself is often close to disastrous when the
sudden adulation of brother campusites is gone
and thr stark rralities of the business world
arr shoved upon him. No efforts have been
made, ns far as we know, to find out just ex
actly what kind of big men on thr campus suf
fer thr worst.
Our opinion is that you tnkr 90 percent
of thr campus "leaders" and strip them of
thrir superficial titles and find no more com
petent souls than thr average campusite no
more able to lend. And even at thnt. the esti
matr that 10 percent of our campus big shots
are really and truly thr leaders they are sup
posed to be is putting the figure at an unduly
high level.
On this assumption, our guess is that it is
this PO percent which has trouble in adapting
itself to blunt realization that its day of glory
is over until something is done to prove it
should be gained again. AVr know of very few
men who have held responsible positions and
were leaders in fact as well as in title who
have not shown conclusively their superiority
in after-college life just as on the campus.
It cannot be said that such conditions
which support leaders who are not really lend
ers are confined to college campuses. The
same has been all too true, lamentably true, in
our governmental system of America, especial
ly in the small units. The realization that the
big turkey is just a hollow egg shell is prob
ably contributing as much to the present trend
toward trained personnel in public service as
any other one factor.
Thnt the true campus leaders are more
often than otherwise overlooked by the ballot
at election time creates more problems in stu
dent government than many students realize.
The most harmful effect is in the perpetuation
of a vicious circle which finds the activities
systems becoming less and less efficient to thr
obvious diminution of attractiveness to the
better men on the campus. Pursued indefinite
ly, this argument would soon prove that mis
interpretation of who the campus leaders
really are can eventually lead to the abolition
At Toledo, Spain, 1700 unfor
tunate fascist men, women and
children are still trapped in the
beseiged fortress, Alcazar, await
ing almost certain extinction. Loy
alists, after receiving Fascist Com
mander Jose Moscardo's refusal to
release the women and children in
the embattled fort, are prepared
to explode tons of TNT. which have
been placed in two mines, each
more than a hundred yards long,
beneath the fort.
From Washington comes word
that the government is moving to
re-establish the United States fleet
in European waters. As soon as
possible four warships will be dis
patched to the coast of Spain to
assist American diplomatic and
consular agents and citizens. The
practice of maintaining a fleet in
European waters was discontinued
seven years ago, and although
authorities were quick to deny that
this represents a change in policy,
they appear to be deliberately in
viting trouble. Americans in
Spain have been repeatedly warned
of their danger and told to evacu
ate. Surely our government could
not be held responsible for their
further safety. One of our war
ships in that war torn zone an
"accidental" shot and the United
States finds itself embroiled in an
other war.
Delegates to the 2Pth annual
convention of the Nebraska Feder
ation of Labor at Grand Island,
Nebraska, have indorsed the candi
dacies of Governor Cochran and
President Roosevelt. Labor in Ne
bjaska evidently is hesitant about
killing the goose that laid the
golden egg.
At Madrid. Spain, the govern
ment announced that anti-aircraft
batteries had shot several
huge insurgent bombing planes
out of the skies over Maqueda
and Santa Olalla, and that loyal
ist pursuit planes which took the
air against the bombers "gave a
good account of themselves."
This, however did not prevent a
day long bombardment cf the
sector.
Our political parties are bad
enough, heaven knows, but at
least we can be thankful that
they confine their activities to
mud-slinging rather than shell
slinging. In Washington commerce de
partment officials are planning a
government subsidy to enable pri
vate enterprise to begin work on
a proposed trans-Atlantic dirigible
service. Germany's success is said
to have prompted the action.
Let us hope that private enter
prise will be more successful than
the government has been in the
I pasi.
Meanwhile, with both Hitler
and Mussolini taking a slap at
Russia (all three countries being
well prepared to give a good ac
count of themselves in a scrap),
Fiance, torn by internal strife,
and attracting, attention by
quaking in her boots, and more
trouble brewing between Japan
and China, tense situations are
present in most of the worlds
nations, with the stopper ready
to blow out of the bottle any
minute.
INDIANA STARTS
HEAVY WORKOUTS
WITH 9 VETERANS
' (Continued from Page 1.)
These men, with George "Sparky"
Miller, center, Monongahela, Pa.,
and Jim Sirtosky, Thompson, Pa.;
Tony Campagnoli, Clinton, and
John "Lefty" Olmstead, Baden,
Pa., guards, carried the brunt of
the work. All are veterans, as are
Dick Zoll, Green Bay, Wis., and
Bill Sholty, Wabash, also experi
enced tackles, who were used alter
nately. Although the line positions offer
the most worry to McMillin and
his staff, especially the middle line
positions, it was apparent that a
keen scrap will be waged for the
backfield berths. William Ander
son, Marion: Harry Cherry, In
dianapolis; Willie Dileo, Republic,
Pa.; Ray Fox, Michigan City;
Frank Filchock. Brazncll, la., and
C. W. Norton, Fort Worth, Texas,
are the returning veteran backs
while from the reserves are G. L.
Fowler, Augusta, Kans.; Jim Cav
acini, Windber. Pa.; Don Heistand,
Muncie, and Dale Tanner, Plym
outh, who will vie with a half
dozen sophomores anxious to make
their place on the team.
CONDRA TO ATTEND
ENGINEERING MEET
Dr. George E. Condra. depart
ment of Conservation and Survty
director, will leave Saturday for
Washington. D. C, to attend the
Upstream Engineers Conference.
Sept. 22 and 23.
Members of the general com-
mittee Include: Harold Ickes. sec- ,
retary of the interior; Henry A.
Wallace, secretary of agriculture; ,
Harry Hopkins, WPA administra
tor: R. G. Tugwell, resettlement '
administrator: Robert A. Millikan.
presiding officer; presidents of j
leading universities and directors
of conservaton.
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CORRECTION.
The Daily Nebraskan wishes to
correct the story of Dr. W. F.
Thompson's appointment to Mich
igan State college which appeared
in yesterday's issue.
Dr. William Fawcett Thompson
received the degree of doctor of
philosophy from the University of
Nebraska this summer. He has ac
cepted a position with the Mich
igan State college.
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