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One Man Who Deserts
The 'Cull of the Now
The crowd thnt thronged the CornhusUer ball
room Sunday afternoon to hear the vesper services
of the (ireat Cathedral choir was hushed, compelled
to a reverent silence by the simple beauty of the
music nnd idras.
They listened ns Dr. Tatteison decried the mod
ern tendency to worship false pods; they seemed
impressed when he classed them as Idolaters of the
"present moment, ' members of the "Cult of the
Now." U was Dr. Hartley Alexander, formerly
inns, who defined our" shallow populace with their
lack of interr.-.t in thnifis spiritual as the short
sighted "('ult of the Now."
The audience seemed deeply moved. As they
listened to the choir a magnificent symphony of
voices their thoughts went wandering over men
and things, over their own lives and the lives of
those around them. And hardly any of them could
have helped as they glanced about, but to come to
this conclusion:
One man in then- midst, had cast aside the false
gods; h? no longer worshiped with the "Cult of the
Now." He was the director of the choir, John Ros
borough. a true disciple of the "Cult of the
Eternal "
For nearly two decades John Rosborough has
worked with little thought of present reward. His
ideal his greatest achievement in his mind lies
in the future. Around a group of university stu
dents whose singing has already won the sincere
acclaim of the nation, he builds his hopes for the
future. They receive no more present reward than
he: they only share in the opportunity to contrib
ute to something lasting and beautiful.
We would deny that his ambition Is not par
tially realized: no one can hear the Great Cathedral
choir and say that it is not the work worthy of a
man's life. But to John Rosborough, the choir is
only a glimpse into the. coming: years an imme
diate future when the entire student body, regard
less of creed, sect, or denomination, can worship in
a Great Cathedral, a' monument to the "Cult of the
Eternal."
The entire campus can share John Rosbor
ough's dream by attending the vespers of the Great
Cathedral choir. Support will come naturally. With
the example that the choir offers, it is not hard to
envision such a temple on the Nebraska campus,
a tribute to those who live for the future.
lis Costs Money
To Flunk a Course.
Oklahoma legislators are spending part of their
time this week considering the abstract question
"Just how much money does the state, under a
democratic form of government, owe to its students
in the form of educational services?"
Specifically, debate centered around a bill in
troduced by Representative Edgar L, McVicker,
which would abolish the University of Oklahoma's
famous "flunking fee," forcing the board of regents
to reverse its recent decree. The regulation re
quires that, all students failing to pass a course
must pay $3 for each credit hour failed before they
can re-enroll in the subject.
McVicker has the backing of a good share of
the legislature, the Oklahoma News, the Oklahoma
Daily, student newspaper, and the signatures on
petitions of 2,000 students, a little less than half
the total enrollment. Opposing the bill are the
board of Regents, the Daily Okluhoman, and prob
nbly some students and faculty who have not pub
licized their sentiments.
Arguments for the bill center around this
theme: Those college playboys who waste their
time instead of studying don't miss the extra fines,
but the extra fees hit working students whose heavy
schedule of courses and employment result in
flunked courses. Against the bill: 3. The legisla
ture should not interfere with the activities of the
board of regents: 2. The rule will actually increase
studying; 3. In rebuttal, the fine would not affect
the indigent, scholars as much as the indiscreet
students.
Reverberations of the fight at Oklahoma may
provoke some needed discussion at Nebraska. Even
students who flunk a course once in a while should
be interested in improving the general level of
scholarship.
To pass a "flunking fee" as Oklahoma has done,
with no accompanying changes in curriculum or
effort to enlist student co-operation, has shown it
self to be a miserable mistake. Purdue has a flunk
ing fee, levied after a student has failed in a course
for the second time, which has worked with a meas
ure of success.
One of these days some bright soul will find a
painless way to penalize the indolent and reward
the industrious. The editor of the Purdue Expo
nent has suggested publishing a list of the recip
ients of failing grades.
The competitive system used by the Nebraska
law college deserves observation. Some other Ne
braska colleges might advantageously require their
students to stay out of the delinquent 20 percent of
their class, not merely aim at beating a flat 60.
At Leasl You're
Frank Alton! It.
To the -dltor:
To a great many students the
"Rag" means very little. Most of
the farm boys, ninny who have
NYA employment, and many who
ent on 3D cents a day, find noth
ing of Interest In the Pally Ne
braskan. They have no Interest
because there simply Is nothing to
Interest thein. The "Rag" Isn't
much good, as far as they are
concerned, and they don't pay
much attention to the "Rag."
Of course, most of these farm
boys belong to the Barbi, but
there's very little about Barbs
In the Nebraskan. Why don't
you turn some of your young
aspiring reporters loose on a
column concerning the Barbs?
They don't get paddled on pol
ished floors, nor do they wear
snay brim fuzzer and Balmac
cars, but they're doing Interest
ing work all over the campus.
The column "Seen on the Cam
pus" is punk. Since when has the
Tasty Tastry shop been a part of
the campus? The column itself is
merely about "affiliated" men and
women, and lacks pep and punch.
The Daily Nebraskan is stale,
flat, dry, wearying; it lacks en
ergy, enthusiasm, and democracy;
and it doesn't nearly use all its
possibilities. This is just a note.
You'll hear more from me later
now that the staff has awakened.
Unsigned.
QomwvwdL
'Medicine for
Disordered IincU."
Mil. Vote: The (nllnivlnc article Is
i-mv,.,-rj nf fxrerpts nf a letter from
.Stephen II. Hush. Iiend nf the Rimanee
i-anKtiase department nt the nlveralty
,if Iuhh. tn llr. Kur. head nt the Inenl
detuirtnienr. Hp i?rrent It with the rnni
ment nf Or. Kurt, who term the letter
'the (-nnrhilnn nf a mature mind that
has reflerted oer (irnhlrms fnr u aond
many jears.")
"To nie our job is one of spread
ing the special culture that can
come by the study of French. Our
subject properly studied stimu
lates ami widens the mind as few
subjwts do. To mc without a his
torical sr-r.se there can be no edu
cation worth while. The present
elone is practically important, hut
for the mind it is as nothing in
one sense. An intense preoccu
pation with the present alone de
stroys ail perspective. I often
proclaim that if a man were mag
ically endo'ved with a complete
detailed factual understanding of
everything in the world of today
and at the same stroke cut off
from knowing anything of the
past, the world and man himself
would instantly become a com
plete confusion. Our subject is in
itself historical. The method of
comparison is the one fruitful
method for comprehension of our
selves, others and the world we
live in. To go outside of America
and understand how a nation
with the maturity, the intellectual
quality and the artistic genius of
expression of the French can view
humanity, may be and often is
the most enlightening experience
that a youngster can get in col
lege. "Scientific thought is necessary
and without some notion of mod
ern science one cannot undar
stand. But science is only a means
to ends. These means are terri
fying to anybody who thinks. The
sudden expansion of communica
tion and the grinding juxtaposi
tion of nations and individuals so
far have only brought hatreds.
Our command over nature may
well be the destruction of our gen
erations and many following ones.
The tempo has been interrupted
and speeded up. The consequences
are in fact terrifying. Science is
in itself neutral. It is the attitude
and the mind but also the emo
tions which will make what sci
ence gives us fatal or beneficent
gifts. It is not science in itself.
A murderer may use machine
guns and airplanes. A Hitler may
gather up a great nation and use
it to destroy humanity.
"But the broad view of the
march of humanity and a pro
found understanding of what
society is and has been, some
notion of the endless experi
ments, tendencies, reactions, and
united efforts of humanity, such
a view coming from an under
standing of other civilizations
and literatures, are the best
medicine I know for a sick and
disordered mind, bewlldared by
the chaos of the world."
the state once turned it down
and therefore the resolution
should not be presented again."
One car. easily read between the
lines of this flimsy excuse, hur
riedly brought forward by some
congressman who feared the suc
cess of the measure.
Before long, the Kansas legis
lature will have to deal with the
problem. Perhaps a sufficient
number of far sighted citizens can
band together to put the measure
thru, but the opposition will be
stiff.
We I egret Any
MWonslrnanfe.
To the Editor:
Alt ho I am nursing no resent
ments because of the misconstru
ancc of the passing thought, sub
mitted to this paper, nevertheless,
I should like to clarify my posi
tion. Unfortunately, perhaps, the part
of my contribution which stated in
no uncertain terms my apprecia
tion and love of purely cultural
learning had been expurgated. The
point I raised was to the effect
that today practical learning must
take precedence to cultural learn
ing. Obviously, the students today
spend their time more judicious
ly by preparing systematically
for a definite career than by
speculating as to the nature of
God or studying the trend of
17th century literature, unless
of course, one contemplates en
tering the field of literature,
theology, or philosophy.
With success depending largely
upon demonstrable excellence in
some particular field, how many
students can afford, as did Aris
totle, to stroll about in a zoologi
cal garden and venture specula
tive abstractions ?
Paul Bstandig.
WADSWORTH SEEKS
REVISED REQUISITES
Desires Class Admittance
Checks in Romance
Department.
Believing that nn economy of
time and money will result from a
revamping of class admittance re
quirements in foreign language
courses, Pr. James R. Wndsworth
of the department of Romance
languages at the university haa
filed his objections in an article
appearing in tho French Review.
He believes that the majority of
students who fall in second year
language classes might have suc
ceeded had they acquired a better
foundation in the beginning work.
Says Dr. Wadsworth:
"These pleas for professorial
leniency recur as each semester
brings its total of casualties. Un
fortunately' the professor can do
nothing about It at the end of the
semester and the impless student
departs into outer darkness nurs
ing a broken heart, a shattered
fraternity bond, a deflated ego, an
inferiority complex, and a more or
less permanent dislike for ad
vanced courses in general, the pro
fessor in particular and a cordial
hatred for the whole institution."
The university Romance lan
guage department recently experi
mented with specialized and gen
eral tests to inquire tnto the cause
of these failures. Dr. Wadsworth
concludes that the present system
which allows a student to continue
into second year French because
somewhere, sometime, he once
made a passing mark in his first
year work is undoubtedly ineffi
cient. He reasons that the students
who pass poorly would probably
have better employed their minds
elsewhere. Probably most import
ant was the fruitless expenditure
of vital energy and the damage
done to teacher and student morale
by this endeavor to accomplish the
impossible. He pleads for a place
ment test which will determine at
the beginning of a semester a stu
dent's probable success in ad
vanced courses.
Nebraska Teacher
To Send Delegates
To Math Convention
Nebraska section of thn Nation
al Council of Teachers of Mat he
matics will send at least one and
possibly four delegates to the
council's annual convention, to be
held in Chicago Feb. 10 and 20.
Trof. A. H. Congdon of teachers
college, state representative of the
council and a regular delegate, will
be unable to be present this year,
as he is planning to attend the
superintendents' section of tho Na
tional Education association at
New Orleans Feb. 20 to 28.
REVISED CHARTER CASTS
NEW LIGHT ON COUN
CIL'S CORNCOB INVESTI
GATION (Continued from rage 1.)
beyond its province as a pep
group, or whether it should serve
a dual purpose, accepting as a
part of its routine the commercial
activities often relegated to such
an organization, the matter was
dropped, and the remainder of
meeting spent in heartrtg and com
menting on the proposed charter,
Operating under the new char
ter, each fraternity should have
the privilege of appointing three
men, one of whom will be elected
to membership by the active mem
bers of the society. Tho barb
council would be extended the
same privilege being permitted to
appoint three candidates for each
of their six pledgcships to be filled.
It is the intention of the new doc
ument that these candidates should
be entertained at a smoker imme
diately after Ivy Day, when they
would be voted on by the chap
ter. "It is hoped," Corn Cob Pres
ident Web Mills stated, "that such
a scheme would result in a
strengthening of the chapter thru
the acceptance of more interested
active members.'1
The new document, stipulates
that the executive chair shall be
filled by an Innocent sanctioned
by the society. The remainder of
the officers secretary, treasurer,
vice president, and sergeant-alarms
shall be filled, according to
the proposed charter, by mem
bers of all political factions, al
ternating in offices from year to
year. Such a plan is designed to
rid the organization of the polit
ical problem w hich has become so
complex in the last few elections.
In their attempt to promote
(BuUsdin
Tatteli.
Tassels will meet tonight at 7
p. m. in social sciences, room 105,
Orcheiis.
Orchesls will resume lta regular
meetings Wednesday evening. Miss
Moore requests that all members
be present. Work will begin on
the spring dance recital.
Kotmet Klub.
Kosmet Klub members will
meet in the Klub rooms In Uni
versity hall at 5 p. m. today.
- 9
At the Campus Studio.
Tlcture of the W. A. A. execu
tive council will be taken at 4:45.
Pictures of the W. A. A. Intra
mural board and of the W. A. A.
sports board will be taken at 8
o'clock.
greater interest among members
of the society the committee mem
bers have provided that any mem
ber, charged with four absences
from anv function of the society
shall be 'liable to expulsion. Such
cases are placed under the juris
diction of a committee on com
mittees acting under the presi
dent. After hearing the new document
members of the judiciary commit
tee proposed minor changes, and
then tabled the discussion until a
future meeting, when they will
make their final decision on the
new constitution.
The committee on organizations,
representing tho Corn Cobs was
composed of: Dave Bernstein, Web
Mills, Don Boehm, Karl Headlund,
Bob Martz, nnd Bob Wadhams.
The student council judiciary com
mittee includes: Student council
president, Arnold Levin, Jean
Walt, chairman, Marylu Petersen,
Flea nor Clizbe, and William
Marsh. Prof. Carl Lantz, faculty
sponsor of the council, also sat
as a member of the committee.
PROF. IRION FLAYS
The State
Have Failed
Education Demands Small
Percent of Wealth
Thruout Year.
Daily Kansan.
Mary Rutter, Editor.
An argument most frequently
used against the federal govern
ment's assumption of the power
to administer relief and social se
curity, is that "the states can do
it better."
On one important issue, the
states have been given a chance
to show how much better they
can do it. and they have failed to
meet that challenge.
Child labor is an ever growing
menace to the future of America,
yet comparatively few states have
passed laws regulating it, and
many of these are so hedged about
by restrictions as to be almost
useless. Further, a sufficient num
ber have as yet failed to ratify
the child labor amendment to the
constitution which has been before
them since 1924 when congress
passed it
The Missouri legislature is now
reviewing the amendment, which
they have refused to ratify in
three previous years. One news
paper reports that "In past ses
sions opposition has been raised to
the ratification on the ground that
"The percent of Nebraska's !
(wealth devoted to education forj
any one year since 1930 has been i
less than one-half of one percent," i
says Dr. W. H. Morton, chairman
of the department of secondary
education at the University of Ne
braska. "The direct property tax I
cannot be fair unless their is I
equality in the assessments. For
example, in 1935 Lancaster coun- j
ty reported 6.211 electric refrig
erators while Douglas county with
more than twice as many people
reported only 6,456. One year, Ce
dar county assessed 1,277 electric
washers while Wayne county as
sessed 99 washers. And again Lin
coln was assessed in one year for
$209,000 worth of jewelry whereas
all the citizens of Omaha reported
jewelry to the amount of $136,000.
"In Nebraska, a manager of a
corporation received a salary of
$20,000 per year. He lived in an
apartment and paid only $19 prop
erty tax for the year.
Dr. Morton says that a recent
study showed that one rural school
had an assessed valuation of only
$23,855 while a similar rural school
in another county had only $796.
125. The first district levied 16
mills to try to maintain a one
room rural school, but could raise
only $445. The other district levied
only one mill but it had $796 with
which to maintain its school" In
j other words, says Dr. Morton, Ne
i braska needs more equalized cd
1 ucational opportunity
Turn About
Is Fair X&,
To the Editor':
Last semester the University of
Nebraska students were treated to
the ice cream and cake of fascism
as propounded by Dr. Schoene
mann. The quintessence of education
thru the ages, expressed by the
great teachers of all time and still
at least verbally adhered to by
university officials today, is the
search for truth. Unbiased, un
bigoted, with open mind, clear
conscience, and pure soul the stu
dent is supposed to be guided in
the realm of learning truths by
instructors equally as guileless.
Dr. Schocnemann presented one
phase of the search for truth
the fascist side. Bui. every ques
tion, especially in the field of gov
ernment and economic theory, has
two rides. Unfortunately, propa
ganda for but the one has been
allowed on the campus.
If this university professes to
be true to the educational ideal
of learning all that is possible
about any controversial subject,
it would not confine its activi
ties in the opposite field radi
calism, communism, leftist, so
cialism, call it what you will
to a few supposedly educatory
courses, but would invite with
open arms and a cheery smile
an exchange professor from the
other side of the fence, notably
Russia.
Dr. Schoenemann was well at
tended at the university, and in
terpreted the fascist creed at the
numerous opportunities given him
by agencies acting in private, or
semi-public capacity. He made
his point, it is only logical that
now an interpreter of communism
makes his appearance in a similar
role.
I do not expect this suggestion
to be acted upon favorably by the
administration of this university.
They perhaps are not wholly to
blame. Public opinion guides their
policies to a miserably unfortu
nate extent But no member of
the university administration or
professorial force can -ieny the
truth of my statements and still
claim honest adherence to instruc
torial tenets. Ivan Krolovet
Vesper Choir Tryouts
Wednesday at 5 1. M.
Additional members for the
vesper choir may try out at
Ellen Smith hall at 5 o'clock
on Wednesday, Feb. 10.
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