PAGE TWO THE DAILY NEBRASKAN. WEDNESDAY. JAMTAKY 12, 193ft THE DAILY NEBRASKAN LWTOIU.Vl. STAFF Mltot Ed Marti) Annulate Mllnr Iun Maimer Managing Krlltor ...Helen Pasrna Nri kdlliirt . Morrla Lllm, Howard Kaplan, Barbara Rosewtter, td titecvc, Marjttrlt ChurrhlU, Joa ZeNey, O.N IH1S ISSl'B Pe.U Editor. ... Night Editor Coder direction nt the Htndenl PnhllcalhHi Hoard, fcdtturiai offlr I nlvrr.lt Hall 4. Business I it fire I nivertlt) Hall 4-A. Telephone ls HUM. Mthti rVMSS. BSSSS (Journal). 1937 Member 1938 Associated Golle&ide Press Distributor of GoUe6iate DL$est Necessary Versus Criminal Negligence Students in the Inquiring Reporter col umn today report that the advisory system at Nebraska creaks and groans, effecting little more than an enormous waste of time. Not only do students complain of total lack of sat isfaction in the choice of subjects, but in some cases the routine requirements for graduation tire not even met. There is something wrong with the system. The Nebraskan, reflecting campus opinion, has published stories and editorials unfavor able to the system for almost a decade. It is reported that at various faculty sessions acrid criticism is leveled at the setup for advising students at the time of registration. Still fur ther evidence is found in the results of the faculty senate committee, which studied the lower division plan for freshmen last spring. The principle product of months of committee meetings was the recommendation of betler machinery for advising and orienting first year students. In view of this evidence against the present method of advising students, one may be inclined to question the integrity of the professors acting in the capacity of ad visors, since every student has an advisor. The fault does not rest with the advisors, however. Professors carrying their usual load of work during registration week sim ply do not have time to give the personal di rection required for the successful drafting of a schedule. A professor with a hundred students to oversee during registration could do nothing else. The professor yesterday who had to give a master's exam, supervise and instruct a laboratory of 16, and take care of regis tering students was probably too busy to be very effective in any of these three places. But professors not only lack the neces sary time to be good advisors. They lack the necessary understanding of the students whom they are supposed to direct. If an advisor be comes acquainted with the personal aims and needs of one of his students during four years at university, it is the exception rather than the rule. The usual advisor-student relation ship of clawing at the completed recislralion form, asking a few questions about require ments, and stamping the original and copies of the form is not conducive 1o valuable advice. There is negligence, then, on the part of the advisors. But it is necessary, not criminal, Early Romance Belter Showing (From the Wichita Oasette.) College students, in the opinion of Pr. Lambertu HekhMs, dean of liberal arts and ex-officio dean of men at the University of Wichita, should resist the urge to marry until they have finished their educations. Taking issue with statements of Prof. George A. Works, University of Chicago dean of students, in a press dispatch that college pro grams must be reorganized, per mitting students to marry before they are 25 years old and forestal ling disastrous biological and psy chological problems. Dean Hek tiuit said: "Such biological anil social pres sure as Professor Works df fries." Dr. Hekhuia pointed out, "is the name as that faced by rtudenu of every generation who seelc higher education. While continence may be difficult to endure, it is like wise character-building." Improve Scholarships. Trofessor Works set forth as his opinion that opening more colleges and undergraduate schools to mar riPd students, and reorganization of rollege crricuia to permit awarding a bachelor of arts de gree at the end of two years col lege work would free students for arly marriage, solve these prob lems and improve scholarships. The University of Chicago dean pointed to a "15-year gap between the biological and social age for marriage, necessitated by our present educational system" as having disturbing oonscquenoes and being responsible for the fact that the death rate among single men it twice that of married men. "The present educational system fcakea it Impossible for a man to Miry before 25," Dr. Works aatd. AItbo he nay compete his aca tanlc education at 23 or 25, be stust spend a year or two estab lishing himself in hit work before he can assume the responsibility of a wife and family. Students seeking higher drgrtes must post pone marriage until 30 or ater." Problem! Will Increase. Tbene problems, the Chicago man predicted, will Increase ma- TIIIKTY-SEV ENT1I YEAR Llop ..Churchill 11 MO jear 13. SO mailed ttiblliiried Terj Tora ds. Medassdnl, rhnnday. rrldny and Sunday morning nt the arndemlr vear lj atndenta of the linl rerlt nf Nebraska, nnder the annervl.lon nf the Board ol I'ub Ifcatlon. Versus in Books terially during the coming decade, j when an increasingly h'h per ' centage of the general population will attend college and be forced to postpone marrying. Dr. Hekhuia said be believed marriage among college students : should occur only to relieve "ex treme emotional strain" which j may le hampering their scholastic I activities. j Even then," be added, "the ad : ditional family and economic prob ! lems set up by marriage may prove too great a burden for the young student and he may fail in hit studies or be forced out of school by economic pressure." The head of the Wichita univer sity's liberal arts department and adviser to the student council agreed with his Chicago colleague that only a small 7errentage of college students are married. Not Necessarily Better. "Those few University of Wichita students I know to be married are not necessarily better students than single men and women, as Ir. Works holds," declared Dean Hek hu s. "We have both married and unmarried students whose scholas tic standards are of the highest." Dr. Hekhuis said he is familiar with efforts of the University of Chicago director to shorten the liberal arts course from four to two years, but added that he does not believe such a move should be based entirely upon a purported net'd for early marriage. Gadgets Galore: Gongs, Rfd Lights, Though! finders Here are the latest things In the way of tnventiona, products ef professors and colleges. At Oregon university, the pro fessor of public speaking h.i been using a novel system for telling his atudente when the time Is up for a speech. The new system com isti of a red atop light which comet on when time is up for the speaker. Acco-fling to the profes sor, the Improvement of this sys tem over the old gong type Is that it will no longer be accessary HL'SINESS STAFF Pa. men Manager Bob Wadhams Assistant Manager frank Johnson, Arthur Hill Clrrnlatloe Manager Stanley Michael SIBSCKIITION RATE Kindt cnpi t cents 1.00 aememet SI. SO eemeslci mailed Entered aft aecfind-flaas matter at the pnsioftlc In Lincoln. Nfhraskn, nndei art ot connrfss, March s. IH1B. and at snrelal rate nt postage prtivlded tnr In srrttna DOS. act ol October S, ml), aathorlird Janunrj to, lUtt. aarntsaririD ron national AoviariaiNa ar National Advertising Service, Inc Ctlltft Fmblisktn kttrttentttirt 420 MADiaON Ave. New York. N. Y. CMIC0 . BoBTON . SAN riUKCIKO Lea ANasLia Portland aiATtki negligence. The only way the professors could remedy this situation would be by reorganiz ing their work on the tutorial basis. There would need to be about one-fifth as many pro fessors as students. There are considerably fewer students per professor at present. Where the criminal negligence in the situation exists is in the students. The ad visors are advisors all semester. They may be consulted every week in the semester and not just during registration week. Most of the advisory difficulties could be ironed out before the registration rush, providing the students had sufficient interest in well or ganized schedules and intelligent college courses to get the matter attended to before the deadline week. Then registration week would be, as it is anyway, a matter of rou tine. Another Solution Student indifference may be at the bottom of the unfortunate, situation arising out of pro fessors being overworked during registration week. But since human nature is what it is. all that can be done in the matter of education is to dicker with Ihe machinery. To set up new advisory machinery, such as an oricnta lion or educational guidance bureau, at the university, however, requires men and money. Perhaps there is a way in which both eonld be obtained. The idea of a nominal fine on every flunk hour during a semester is a new one at Nebraska. But some rlan could be worked out whereby such a flunk fine might provide necessary funds for a better advisory system, and also eliminate some undesirables from our badly crowded university. The blatantly democratic theory of edu cation for everybody has run riot. There is no doubt that there are students in the uni versity who do not belong here. There are also others who are wasting their own time and a good deal of the state's money in the university, because they are not interested in what the university has to offer, but find it a pleasant haven in which to spend five or six years. A flunk fee of $3 at Nebraska would un doubtedly yield $12.0V or fri.'i.Oiio. Such a fine yields $12.0imi at Oklahoma, whose enrol ment is about 5.000. Nebraska's is over ti.Ono. Twelve thousand would be no noirlitril'de start toward an educational Guidance bureau. It could be supplemented, if found valuable, from the university coffers. The fine would undoubtedly eliminate some students. And it would prick others to more productive effort. It mk'ht even send sonic to their advisers be fore registration week. to wake other students when a speaker finishes. Students coming in late to the physics classes at St. Thomas col lege will be greeted with a loud gfmg. An electric eye has been installed so the late comers cannot slip in undetected. There is no getting around it. Each one must cross the licht beam an.' when he does, the signal is sounded. A thought detector, which re cords and classifies the dilfercnt states of mind, has been set up at the University of Iowa. The detector indicates that the hiph'-st mental quality, "abstract thought," operates in an electrical field defi nitely unlike the field of other ac tivities of the brain. This highest function works in an electrical calm as apparently unruffled as the states of fleep or of "mental blankness." A new machine which grades 12 test papers a minute was tried out successfully at the University of Texas recently. It it can be made generally applicable, the ma chine may revolutionize the pres ent system of grading examina- j tions, Texas officials state, i A "t ime telescope." which makes j possible remarkable motion pic j ture photography of many motions j formerly imperceptible, hat been j invented at Rutgers university. With the new machine such pro I cesses at the erosion of a road. I or the gradual disintegration of a bridge may be seen easily. The invention, a product of five years of research, will make possible a better study of growing plants. A professor at the University of Iowa has Just finished an "emotion meter," which claims will measure the capacity of one's mood for love by the perspiration in the palm of the hand. According to the pro fessor, the machine it of little use to the ordinary laymen, at It takes a trained psychologist to Interpret the romantic side of tne readings. This little machine measures al most e'cry other type of emotional reaction as ar.ger, fear, Joy, and that produced by lying. Most Ue detectors used today are dependent on the changet In the blood pres sure but. in the opinion of the pro fessor, the hand perspiration Is much more reliable as experiments have proven the sweat glands be come more active when one begins to tell 'falsehoods.' , l tint t um sMt' na Q NEWS PARADE r sJ Marjorie Churchill I ! v."- ..'' .... . -.-J tin's ! "- '-l AKENT OU BITING OFF QUITE A BIT, MR. MUSSOLINI? You're a pretty busy man these days, Mr. Mussolini. And a bad one, too, the little English nd French boys and girls are being told sort of a Fublic Enemy No. One. While there must always be n bogey man upon whom the blame for every grievance may be placed, the fact' still remains, II Duce, that you have been busy-bodying around quite a bit, putting your lingers in a lot of other people's fires. Tlic Caso Against II Duce ETHIOPIA. The starting point in your al leged life of crime, Mr. Mussolini, seems to have been back in the days when you helped yourself to some 3.r)0,000 square miles of your neighbor's property down in Af rica. Yes, we remember that Brit ain and France have taken upon themselves other lr.rge slices of the Dark Continent, but that's off the record and is irrelevant to the case at hand. SPAIN. Large numbers of soldiers are still in Spain, helping the insur gents to beat back government forces. We understand that vou are only helping to further 'the cause of right government, that you have no designs on valuable resources in return for your help, and that it is only the slowness of the committee on adjustment that prevents your callmc the soldiers Lome, but theu the soldiers re main, and a large section of the forces which held Tcrucl for a long time were your men. JAPAN. Tou are reported to have toll the Brussels Conference that you would spprc no resources to aid .lap.ni in her war with China. You have been accused of forming the wrong kind of associations, when you joined the tri-power council with Hitler and Hirohito THE BALKANS. Now exactly what do vou have in mind in the Balkans. Mr. Mus solini ? Editorials soon after Mr. Vargas' coup d'etat flung out rather ominous predictions of a spread of fascism into Czechoslo vakia thru your agents and Mr. Hitler's. So far that hasn't come about. The Balkans ever the "powder lifg" of Europe are beginning a new intense struggle over the bal ance of power. Important issues are coming up in your conference with Austria and Hungary. Ruma nia seems to be coming over to your party. That would rather break up the little entente, Ruma nia, Czechoslovakia and Jugosla via. Then, with Rumania out of the way, Hungary might join up with Czechoslovakia in a friendly alli ance with France and Great Eiit ain. But then again Hungary is still remembering the territory which she lost to form Czechoslo vakia. It's rathf-r a vicious circle, i.-n't it? However, as head if a large and very interested neighbor nation, it behooves you, of course, to step in and guide the proceed ings so that everything will shape out all right. Your Rome-Berlin axis muv-t be used as a "biJse for piace" which will "lead smaller nations in a common fmr.t " THE NEAR EAST. There arc s&me rather bad stor ies gouig around about your pro ceedings in the Near East, Tales tine is the scene (,f Mcdy revolts Arabs shooting Jews and British troops shooting Arvbs. The whole trouble, they say, bus come about thru the short uac propaganda which you have bet n distributing among the Arabs -even furnishing the thousan.is of radio acts to re ceive the propaganda, Frcr.f j fori e hve only recently put down insum-ftion in North Africa. Now they are faced with Arab uprisings in Syria and Leba non. Tue treaty giving Syria com pute autonomy sli)j-d' thru the French parliament in 3 :"G. says a French writer. Now France must face the issue of granting the au tonomy. But if she does, there are the cil lines from Irak, which cross Syria to go to the port of Tripoli. Should jou be the mnn-of-the-hour to take over guidance of the bewildered newly independent Syria, you coulu make things pretty tough for France in petting her oil across Syria, couldn't you? At least that t what they're saying in France. They're are a lot of different ra cial groups in the Near East who can b- aroused against ear-h other. And that is anolhtr of the charges that your Italian agents are spreading the message to Asvr-lan-Chaldean populations ,f the higher Djezirih: "Since France threatens to abandon you to the mercy of the people of Damascus, be informed that Italy is there to protect vou." WHAT'S THE ANSWER.? All these f eem like quite a lot of protecting, evt-n for the King of Italy and Emperor of Ethiopia. Slow mo'inir as they have been, France and Eritain will not always sit idly by, letting control over their choice colonies slip thru their hands. Sooner or later they're going to call for a showing of hands. Or perhaps that's what you want. flMEL PESTER'S A truly atBular band, at a popular pMc at Llncxin'a Moat popular Ballroom! COM I NO. Friday. Jan. 21, direct from Col Iroe Inn Chicapa. FRANKIE MA&TEPtfc. Continuous Sua frarvlca. 1 miH wast. EE OFFICIALBULLETIN. Red Guidon Association. There will be a meeting of the Red GiiiiUm association Vednes tiny evening; at 7:30 p. m. in room 205 of Nebraska hull. Mnjor Wood will be the speaker. Corn Cobs. All members of Corn Cobs, both actives and pledges, will attend a short business meeting tonight at 7:1s o'clock in room 107-B of so ckil sciences. A treasurer's report will be made. Attendance at bas ketball games will also be dis cussed. Student Council. ' The Student Council will meet today at 5 o'clock in room 106 of University hall for the regular meeting. Flection will be held to fill vacant positions. Former Nebraska Chancellor Former Nebraska Chancellor Honored by Brown Univer sity in Spite of Old Bimetal Feud (Continued from Page 1.) Hall" was made by the board of regents at their meeting Oct. 22, 1927, when they approved the ar chitect's plans and authorized him to advertise for bids. It was to be in honor of former Chancel lor E. Benjamin Andrews, who en tered upon the functions of that office Aug. 1, 1900, and continued as executive officers of the univer sity until compelled by ill health to retire Dee. 31, 1908. Brown university has special reason to remember the clear headed, independent Dr. Andrews. He had long been a believer in and an exponent of bi-metallism. Altho far from being a radical on the subject, the then president had seen fit to express some of his opinions in public addresses and in articles. Therefore, in 1897, a comittee of the trustees requested him to make "not a renunciation of these views, but to have a forbearance to promulgate them out of regard to the interests of the university." Dr. Andrews took the stand that he could not meet the understood wishes of the corporation "with out surrendering that reasonable liberty of utteranre. . .in the ab sence of which the most ample en dowment for an educational insti tution would have but little worth." Some Discord Arose. He immediately resigned. The trustees had not expected nor de sired this turn of affairs, and wrote an explanatory letter to their militant chief declaring that "it was not in our minds to pre scribe the path you should tread or to testrain your freedom of opin ion or reasonable liberty of utter ance." They asked President Andrews to withdraw his resignation, which he did. He piloted Brown univer sity until 1S93. when he resigned to become superintendent of the Chi cago public schools. There are still those who believe he left Brown more to facilitate the be queathing of much-needed endow ments than for any particular de sire to head the Chicago school system. Dowagers with money to give were inclined to look wit!: jaundiced eye upon advocates of bi-metallism. Dr. Andrew's stay at Nebraska was a period of marked growth. Under his nine year leadership the student enrolln-.er.t advanced from 2.2.06 to 3.611. There were but 5fi members with any professional ranking whatever on the faculty when he err: veil in 1900. Nine years later the faculty had been in creased to 390. Appropriations for his last bi er.nium were 1, 330.067 or nearly three times that of the first, $175 -OoO. Nevertheless, when the board of regerts once added a thousand dollars to his salary, he begged that "so long as the university is compelled to the rigid economy il now exercises" that he "continue to be paid at the pre.vnt rate." Contributed to Publications, During his active chancellorship, Dr. Andrews continued his steady literary production, contributing many books in the fields of history and economics beside numerous articles and sermons. He also found time for various public ac tivities. For a long time while he was chancellor he maintained a course in practical ethics to which stu dents are said to have come n throngs. As a biographer writes in the "Alumnus," "Here he dis played a remar kable skill in expo sition and virility in discussion, that wonderful blending of high ideals, horsc-wonse, humor and racy anecdote which had earlier estab lished his eminence as a teacher." His early life too as not with out color. Eom in Hinsdale, N. H., Jan. 10, JM4. he spent hit early life under the expert thologira! tutelage of two Baptist preacher, one on each side of the family tree Enlisted in Artillery. He began ti prepare for college at the Connecticut Literary Insti tute, but his studies were inter rupted by the onslaught of th Civil war. He enlisted as a private in ine nrst t nnoecticut heavy ar tillery, and at the end of two years had risen to the rank of second ljeutcrmijt. In l'il he was wounded In the siege of I'etcrsburgh and lost his left eye. Mustered out, he re sumed his studies and was gradu ated from Brown university tn 170. He filled several pastorates, until, in 175, he was called to be president of Denison university, a Baptist school, at Granville, O. He was there four years. After resigning from the chan cellorship at Nebraska In 190H, Dr. Andrews and his wife took a vaca tion trip around the world. He died the next year In Florida, where he had gone because of hit health. He is buried on the campus at Deniaon university. Famous Cwlrg Band TONIGHT ADMISSION 2So by . $ merriii . Fngfumi 1 If ' r . k k : A IlJ 1 1 If, at the end of your first and subsequent day of registration, you weren't tired, disgusted, and almost ready to go back home, don't read any further. If, after being pushed and shoved, told "Take this-Don't take it," This professor is keen He's lousy He's not," "Here's a swell course It's terrible," rushed through the madhouse that is registration, you have never wondered if you really belonged here, it would be a waste of your time for you to continue to read. But if you have been dissatisfied with your registration, the courses into which you were stuck, or the activities into which you fell, you'd better stop a moment and think about it. Is there a remedy which if properly applied will do away with round mental pegs in square class holes; misfits preparing themselves for professions in which they will never fit; students, good ones, wasting their time pre paring for a vocation for which they are not equipped? Would it help to have a group of advisors, old enough to have some wisdom, young enough to understand the problems of the student, with time enough to spend to be able to talk things over with their charges? They could give new students a perspective of col lege life, of courses, instructors, social life and activities and at the same time be able to help the older students as well. Arts and Sciences junior: "We're in too much of a hurry, here, to get anything done realiy well. The main trouble is that the instructors are forced to take care of registration besides their other duties. They're expected to teach, to have the laboratory courses, and take care of everything else which they ordinarily have to do; then, on top of that, they have to handle registration. They're in such a hurry, they have so many to advise, that they just assign students to classes without really helninor them. So all you have is a bunch of students ! taking courses which they don't like, and sooner or later flunking out. 6 1 'The Idea of a regular group of advisors with no other functions is a good one. Give them an office, pick men who are not so old that they've forgotten how they felt when they were in college. Then the students would have some one to go to for advice. The freshmen aren t the only ones who have problems. And the way things are j now, whom can you go and really I taiK lo "I guess what I'm looking for is a shoulder to cry on. somebody who understands what a mess things can ret into. There inst ! isn't anyone like that now." Bizad junior: " A for t'jrt vt,M Vau T . l . ,i ai a nor, 1 it-ei I just as disgusted with registration ' as I did when I was a freshman. ' It's the same old stuff-advisors ! wno don t advise. I suppose its rot their fault, but why do I have to nave an advisor if he can't or won't help me? j "The special advisor idea Is a good one, if they could re.illv ad- , vise. Only, why not. instead of just I getting a down slip, get a request 1 to drop in and see one of the ad- ! visors? That way, instead of let-1 tir.g things go till the end of the : semester when it s too late to do I anything a bruit it, the student ! could talk to somebody who'd un- ! acrstann, and who could help him." Arts and Sciences junior: "I just found out the other 1hv that the slightly dumb gentleman j who has been my a ivi.w.r wiuld have fixed it so that I'd have been i lacking just six hours of a re- ! quiremcnt at the end of next vear. ! "The present advisor svstern is ! terrible. Us in Ificient, and a i waste of time both f,,r the stu- ' dent and for the professor. No, it's ! worse than a was'.e of time for the student, for he trusts b. i.iv,., ' and him believes that he is helping ; uui about naif the time, the siuoem gets a real jolt when he wakes up and finds that b lack-, some requirements to graduate." Bind sophomore: "Kight now, our advisors are DO YOU LIKE ONIONS ON YOUR HAMBURGERS? . . it makes no differ ence whtther you do or not . . . you're ture to "ke .... CLATJDETTE COLBERT In the year's twetltt comedy "TOVARICH" (Pronounced "Tot.vsr.rlch) "d tt meant a million oollirt worth of fun for you!! Stirts SAT. ""' JOT SllliH! I HI '"K I) ft tit. , I good enough they can take care of things easy e'lou.ili, if uu.y jU: t have the time. Instead of ehaii '. ing things around, just fix it so that the present advisors are given more time to handle students. "You can't tell ma that any body flunks a course unless ile just doesn't have the ambition t0 do it. No course is useless, it ji.st depends on how the student looks at it. 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