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First Woman Editor in IS Years Heads Daily Nebraskan ?! i I jf until, Sarah Louise M7er XTi Virtuous Virtue Whence and Whither? Two things this last column hall not be: Sentimental or soured on It all. I realize that this Is breaking a. precedent of long standing for all retlrcrs from nil posts. But there rmiHt he no tears or Bronx cheers at thlH, my fare well -Us my Inst and final fling. Not to long ago, I was bidding farewell to a frail but fiery . tplmter who had often played nurtemald to the Meyer brat In days gone by. "Be good," I admonished, In purely conven tional salutation. "I have been, honey," she re turned. "But It's so durn lone some." I've been pood and lonesome, 1 reckon -away from my one-time Job as front-page head-ache for the Rag. Forgive me for being presumptions In estimating the ef fects of my efforts even on fel low staff members. But a girl has to have some Illusions about, her self, and the deans have practic ally destroyed all my others. Shotgun Weddln. When the medicos In the admin istration building wielded their freshly blooded notivity knife in my direction, I knew that 1 was being shoved into the position of the little pirl who had to Ret mar ried because her slip showed. My numerous brain children ns a coi umnist were making themselves noticeable In my scholastic person. The only solution was to plunge Into an Immediate alliance with my classroom (and therefore legal) soul-mate. But, from the depths of my matrimonial bliss, I have been wondering about it all. And there teemed to be only one explana tion of my downfall; Virtue is lack of opportunity. But, never ture of my own philosophizing, I questioned others, sinners and non-sinners alike. Their con sensus makes present day vhi.ue pretty milk-soppy. All They Need Is A Chance. Approximately "5 percent of those Interviewed considered that the nowadays virtous were, vir tuous because they had never had real opportunity to lie dtherwlse. There were several surprising de nials of this in super-sinners - evi dently some who had met vvi.'h re verses. And one or two of these black sheep so qualified their virtuous replies that the strength l of their contentions was dc-vnli dated. Of these virtuous dissenters 1 nsked, "What is it that makes those virtuous in the face of op portunity that way?" For reply came the admission: "Reeause they're scared to be otherwise." The virtue-enforcing fear Included fear of the consequences and fear of the disfavor of society. This fear has been inculcated in its bearers by, so the dissenters say, home training. The small minority of virtuous souls not scared into virtue are virtuous on the basis of strong personal convictions. And only these principles, perhaps molded under the most violent fire of opportunity, can I concede as truly virtuous reasons for virtue. All the others are less virtue than weakness. Young people of today, more, perhaps, than any younger genera tion before them, are in a position to analyze shrewdly the standards Tit the ages. They are in this po sition not because they know so much-much less "know it all" -but because they know a little more about opportunities than their predecessors. Blue Noses and Primroses. College kids, current vintage, have all varieties of opportuni ties prlmrosing their path. They're not the hysterical, to-hell-with-everything opportuni ties that the tabled Flaming Youth made the messy most of. They are matter-of-fact, taken-for-granted opportunities, in the ' main, and the way In which these opportunities are faced Is comparatively cold-blooded. Oc (Continued on Page 4.) FINALS IN CREATIVE THINKING, ETHICS REQUIRE NO CRAMMING Exams in Three Courses Need Only Original Thought For Quiz Period. In the midst of n student world that has retired into Its rooms, pulled down the shades, and en tered the Intensive between semes ter cram session, one or two courses stand aloof. They are courses that cannot be mastered in a few hours of concentrated pour ing over a text book. They are cram-proof. Such courses are Ethics 20 under Prof. O. K. Bouwsma and Crea tive Thinking: under Prof. R. P. Crawford. These are not fact studies, to be condensed and mem orized. Rather they teach a man ner of thinking. Mental stimula tion such as this is a gradual proc . ss and cannot be administered by vay of the cram session. Describe Original Invention. Final examinations for these courses are held to comply with the ruling of the board of regents that, decrees that all classes must hold flnnl examinations. The ethics test, as given by Professor Bouws The VOL. XXXVII. NO. '73. Four Deans PUB BOARD If S f CHIEF OF DAILW Tanton Selected Nebraskan Business Head; Campbell Edits Awgwan Again. For the first, time In fifteen years a woman has been elected to fill the editor-in-chief post of the Dally Nehraskan when Miss Helen Pascoe was appointed head of tlv campus dally yesterday by the Publication board which met to choose the second semester staffs of the Dally Nebraskan and the Awgwan. Miss Pascoe suc ceeds F.dward Murray, the out-going chief. The first semester editor of the humor magazine, Bruce Campbell, was reappointed In his position for the next four months. Business managers chosen were Charles Tanton for the Daily Nebraskan and Richard McOiiinis for the Awgwan. Kaplan, Llpp Promoted. Recruited from the ranks of the news editors, Howard Kaplan and Monis Llpp will hold the positions ! of managing editors on the daily, j Appointed to the staff for the first I time were Richard DeBrown, Mer- ' rill Knglund, and Fred Harms, who will serve In the capacity of news editors. Barbara Kosewater, Mar-I Jorie Churchill, ami Ed Steeves ! were re-elected to news editor ships. Assistants in the business of fice of the Daily Nebraskan for the coming semester will be Ar thur Hill and Frank Johnson. As sistant business managers for the Awgwan appointed by the bonrd are .lames Tisdale nnd Leonard Kriedel. Last Girl Editor in 1922. It was in 1922 thnt the last Daily Nebraskan was published under the direction of n girl edi tor. At that time Miss Belle Far num, who is now head of journal ism at Lincoln high, was editor-in-chief of the paper. After her graduation with Phi Beta Kappa. honors, she worked on the Ni braska. State Journal ami attended t Continued on Page 3.) E NEWLY MADE OFFICE IE Bottorf Appointed Cadet Colonel as Crittenden Resigns Place. Colonel O. II. Oury, head of the Nebraska II. O, T. C. division has announced the appointment of Robert L Beaver as brigade colo nel, the assignment to be effective at the beginning of the next se mester. Brigade colonel is a new post that was established in the ! Ft. O. T. C. for the coming term. John A. Bottorff was appointed to the position of colonel of the infantry regiment, following the 1 res'gnation of Bill Crittenden who graduates from Military science at the close of this semester. Haynie Lieutenant Colonel. Harry R. Haynie will serve as lleutennnt colonel, executive of ficer, und Herbert A. Brian as lieutenant, adjutaint. Majors for second semester Will he Robert Avery, commanding the first bat talion, Lnurenco Lansing, S-2, and Richard Wittman, S-4. Captains of the engineering bnt ( Continued on Page 2.) ma, is a series of essays on ab stract propositions. Professor Crawford asks his creative think ing class in their final quiz to de scribe an original invention and its applications. A third course for which last minute study is unnecessary and unavailing is English 211-212 un der Prof. L. C. Wimberly. Require ments of the class include the writing of an article, story, or es say about every other week thru out the semester, and attendance at class meetings where the dis cussion is general and often un planned. The final examination time is set and the students are re quired to meet for the exam, but the quiz period is taken up by the same discussion characterizing all other class meetings of the group. Work In Mind, Not Paper. These are not snap courses, but only courses that require work within the mind and not on paper. Students who finish these courses have no graphs nor laboratory notebooks nor other tangible mat ter to show for their semester; they deal not in maps or daily papers, but in Ideas. Daily Official STUFF REVIEWS LI Steve WimhPrlv Dp.Sr.rihPS1 J '. E. H. Bell's Summer Expedition. Arriving thru the mails today wil be the January issue of the Nebraska Alumnus carrying for its leading features a story of Dr. Fail H. Bell's summer midst the Ponca Indians ami a review of Man Sandoz's "Slogum House" which compares the Nebraska story to the Book of Genesis. In a glowing account entitled "Pages Toward the History of a People," Steve Wimberly, son of Dr. L. C. Wimberly, and member of Dr. Bell's summer expedition. tells of Dr. Bell's experiences with 1 the Poncas and especially of his! friendship with the 80 year old chief, P.irdhead, who entrusted Dr. Bell with a peace pipe that his red skin ancestors had used for 800 years. Reviews "Slogan House." Prof. V. A. Stuff, professor I emeritus of F.nglish has reviewed Slogan House" for the Alumnus. He writes that the characters In the book are Abraham, Lot, and La ban of their time and the val ley of the Niobrara corresponds to the valley of the Jordan The progress of the university In- "37 III cited by a short a .tide by Chancellor K A. Burnett. He points out that the collegiate en rollment in 1937 was greater than (Continued on Page 4.) SL0G1 HOUSE IN MINUS Debussy Opera Climaxes Music Convocations in Temple Today 1 RAYMUND KOCH. Miss Matyas, Long-, Koc.i, Chicago Soloists, Sing Today. With pastoral scenery and cos tume, Maria Matyas, Robert Lontf and Ruymund Koch, members of the Chamber Opera company of Chicago, will present "The Prodi gal Son," an oncruUc work by Student Newspaper LINCOLN. INKKHASKA, Praise Review 9 Fina Brain Before, Guilford Offers Timely Exam Advice: 'Review!' Psychologist Puts Emphasis On Repetition as Best Quiz Preparation. By .Barbara Louise Meyer. "Review, review, review! And thpn review some more." This timplv iwlvlf'A Of Hi' lr timely advice of Dr. Joy P. Gull ford, chairman of the psychology department, should be heeded by all those who shake with fear anil trepidation at the thought of the approaching final examinations. For the benefit of those who con- siflor fi,lals unnecessary, Dr. Guil- lora aiso aooed inc pert.ineni thought that finals are indeed val uable, entirely necessary, and at all costs should not be abandoned. To those wincing students who complain that the professors pre sent before them such a great mass of material and do not make any attempt to organize, it, the ACCOMPANIST POST OPEN Dougall Unable to Serve In Glee Club Hole. Becnuse of the fact that Dick Dougall will be unable to serve as glee club accompanist during the coming semester. Choral Di rector Tempel would like to have those persons Interested in such a position see him as soon as possible. Applications should be made before the beginning of the Lpmosto, nm, ,,, .... semester, and that person who first meets the requirements will he hired. Mr. Tempel will give fur-1 ther details to those interested. j 1 - - .--'v " n il 5 Sfcu MARIA MATYYAS. Debussy, on the Temple stage this afternoon at 4 o'clock. The opera will compose the final program of ths Wednesday afternoon convoca tion series and is the result of the endeavor of the School of Music to present, ones each semester on its convocation series, well known national artists. In "The Trodigal Ron," Debussy lius S'-'t to music one of the most ebras of the University of WKINKS)..Y. M!UY After Exams warning should be sounded that they themselves should make some effort to assimilate their own ma terial lest they lose the essential power to synthesize even life's own essential problems. By grasp ing this ability, the problem of finals should become comparative ly simple thru the process of per fecting the memory. Woodworth Has Keynote. The keynote of the question is struck by Robert S. Woodworth in his "Psychology." 'In general, memory training consists in im proved management of the learn ing process. Observant study, alive to patterns, relationships. meanings, and promising cues for Inter recall economy of effort in learning, by use of recitation, of whole and part study to fit the material in hand - these, nrinclnles material in hand - these principles j (Continued on Page 3.1 COMPANY INTERVIEWERS TO APPEAR ON CAMPUS Several well known firms with openings for college men In selling, merchandising and accounting will have represent atives on the campus within the next few days. Seniors who may wish to meet them are asked to sched ule interviews today In Social Science hall, room 30J5, between the hours of 10-12, 2-4. Companies which will be rep resented are Proctor and Gam ble Distributing company, Fire stone Tire jnd Rubber com pany, Burroughs Adding Ma chine company, J. C. Penney company, and others. SU'iduy Journ.:l and Star. ROBERT LONG. familiar and beloved of Biblical stories. It is staged with a sim plicX.y of style fitting the story. The musical score i3 youthful and sincere in its expression, and, com bined with the poignancy of the drama, it makes a direct and deep appeal to the layman as well as to he musician. The entire text is sung In Kngllsh. and great care lOontlmicU on Tagc 3.) 4 ' ' If Nebraska '9.I9.'W' E I Klub Chooses 'Hades Ladies' for Annual Spring Presentation. John Fdwards' manuscript en- titled "Hades Ladies" was awarded the first prize of $10 bv the Kos - met Klub last night, anil the script j was announced lor use in this rwosmei kiud spring i ' "" , .-"mini jmizc, carrying an nwaru 'f '0' w"s """nced as going to I Steeves and Bruce Campbell. wno collaborated in their entry Both prize winning scripts will be come the property of the Klub. "Hades Ladies" is described bv Wlnfield Klias. president- of the Klub, as "a show entirely different from anything that has' ever been presented on the Nebraska cam pus." Written in two acts with a cast that will probably carry about 3r names, the show's action re volves about the adventures of a poor, henpecked husband who is sent to Hades by two haunting spirits who feel that even Hades would provide a relief for him. Spirits Afloat. Tart of the action takes place on the surface of the earth, and a part of it occurs in Hades. One of JOHN HIES Will KOSMET SCRIP the unusual features of the show i hall.. will be the two characters, Klot- Figures on registration will not Sam and Jetsam, who are spirits j be available until after all fes dead for 300 years. Now engaged i have been payed, in haunting people ami "working New students and those who out of Hades," the two spirits flit have attended the university prc ahout the theater guiding the i vlously hut who were not in at show's action, now from the stage I tendance during the first semester and now from the audience. will register and pay fees on Kri- According to Klias, the action moves very rapidly and the show will run almost continuously. Since Greek mythology Is utilized to a great extent in the show, with (Continued on Page 3.) AG LADS CRAM BY STEALTH FOR MEATS CUTTING EXAM Pasture Lot Proves Scene Of Mid-night Bloody Study Session. It was a night for bloody mur der. The ghastly moon plied its pale glimmer thru the silvery trac eries made by bushes and trees. Also it shed its ghastly rays on a small, mysterious conclave oi dark figures which now slithered slnisterly from silent nutnmoblles parked on a roadside far, far from the madding crowd. Thru r barbed wire fence they went into a collapsible cow lot Steel clanked against steel as the slaughterous butcher's knives were shifted into positions less likely to Inflict personal damage on theii bearers. A muffled outh was ut tered when a loop of six strand, ever-wear rope cuught on a barb of the fence and tripped the one who carried it. With measured tread the assem blage proceeded over to a group of trees at the far end of the pasture, with a herd of cows huddled under I hem. There was n moment of sharp suspense when the farmer's bulldog tunic up, but he just KAN rinci: i ivi: i.lnts L Deans Oldfathcr, Foster, Ferguson. Thompson Give Exam Views. By Merrill Enrjlund. I Final exams, long one of thu takeoff points for I he wailin.'js and the gnashing of teeth of op pressed .students, have been with this institution a very long tunc. In fact, a checkup yesterday aft ernoon revealed that the quaint j scmestei 's-end-custom has been here as long as the university. First affinal action recorded on i the subject was taken at the April, 1 19fl.r). meeting of the university senate. At that time, it was de- ; cided that "a final written or oai l examination shall be given by the , instructor of each class at the time and place designated by him." Senate Passes Exam Ruls. These early examinations were customarily held during the last, class session of each semester. Then, on May 7. 1!27, the senate passed the rule providing for a special examination period lasting for a single week and each test was limited to 2 hours in length. In use for the first time in the seconn semester of the 1 931 -31! school year was the present one day examination period with a :$ hour limit on the individual ex amination. Has our examination system : proved itself? What are the benc- I fits of such a system ? Finals Permit Recapitulation. ' According to Arts and Sciences i Dean Oldfathcr: "I'm very strong for finals, they give the student j the opportunity to go back, to re capitulate, to pick up the connec- tion between the various topics, and is thus enabled to get the sig. nificance of the course as a whole, j The repitition fixes the material in 1 his mind. "By general principle, the tra'n I ing given students by cxamina I tions is the best they get in edu- 1 ,,,on- Th,e bili,-v carry a lot f fac'8- ,0 cram 8 bo,l' ot ' I (Continued on Page 2 i STUDENTS PAY SPRING FEES BEFORE JAN. 2? University Exacts Extra Charges for Lateness In Payments. January -7 has been set as ihe final date for the payment of sec ond semester fees for students at tending tne university the first semester. All fees which have not been payed by that time will re sult in an additional fee. Payment j niay be made in ('.rant Memorial , day, Jan. 28. t irst on the program for the new registiants will be a meeting with the registrar at the south door of Social Science build ing. From these they will go to the (Continued on Page 3.) wagged his tail and looked on. Ths passive bovines passivly aros? and also looked on, comfortably chew ing their suppers. Soon a I'-ngth of rope was slung over a stout tree limb and made fast at both ends. Then the scene became tense. There was an excited bustle of ac tivity. The hair on the dog's back arose straight on end, he emitted a weird wail, and streaked out of sight with his tail between his lejs. And then, the sickening st?nch of fresh blood pervaded the still night air. Was this the G. P. U. bent oa some foul errand of retribution? No, this was a group of Farm Housers, who were cramming on the night before an examination in "meats cutting" class out at the Ag college. Heedless of classes und lab demonstrations on methods of butchering and cutting up meats, no less than 11 members of Farm House found themselves sans knowledge of the procedures only six hours before the fateful quiz. Hence this stealthy foray into the cattle pens of a Lancaster cnuntv farmer. Butchering a cow Isn't ex actly an operation to be learned by inductive logic, mental telepathy, or crib notes. It lakes practice Is RECORDS REVEA EXAMS BEGINNING BACK IN APRIL '05