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DAILY NEBKASKAN
wkwsesday, ahul 5, 1939
Official Newspaper of More Than 6.000 Students
THIRTY. EIGHTH YEAR
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January 20, 1922.
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF HOWARD KAPLAN
BUSINESS MANAGER RICH'.RD M'GINNIS
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Managing Editors Merrill Englund,
Harold Niemann,
News Editors June Bierbower, Richard DeBrown,
Norman Harris, Ellsworth Steele, Fern Steute
ville, Ed Wittenberg.
Society Editor Margaret Krause
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
Circulation Manager Stanley Michael
Seldel. Helen Severa.
Aislstant Business Managers Arthur HIM, Robert
CONGRATULATIONS, YOU 53
That minute group of stmlerfts who can
really qualify as scholars in Ihc strict sense
of the word enjoyed their day of campus re
cognition yesterday. Altho they have accom
plished more, and displayed far greater apti
tude for achievement of those goals which uni
versities theoretically represent, the average
Nebraska student looks with feigned contempt
on that scholar who to him can le none other
than a "grind."
No personality, narrow social life, little
sex appeal these are customary descrip
tions of them whose scholastic ideals are not
diverted in the normal course of their col
lege careers. This conception, widely ac
cepted because of popular usage rather than '
conclusive evidence, is one of the greatest
obstacles to a truly intellectual and thought
developing educational system.
Instead of construing the conception of
education as preparatory study for successful
living in the light in which it must originally
have been intended, Ihe selfish undergraduate
has twisted Ihe meaning until it flatters his
own shallow, light-minded method of drifting
thru university. Not knowledge, but person
ality; not study, but flowing conversational
ism, are taking the peak positions as the gjoals
of successful education. Much is to be gained
thru such heightening of these desirable at
tainments, however Ihey have not been ele
vated to their positions of importance thru
Ihe efforts of experienced and practical mind
ed cducalors, but thru the efforts of the un
seasoned minds 1o be educated.
Nevertheless this gradual replacement of
ultimate' aims has deeply affected the system
itself. Instead of the student it has become
the instructor who must study. Instead of
the seeker of knowledge becoming inspired
with that zect to delve and to seek for what
he wants to learn, it has become the edu
cator who does the delving and the seeking.
The inspiration has seeped away at least
from all except the true scholar.
Only he who wants to learn for ihe sheer
delight of "learning, and to study for the yi
comparable joy of recognizing enlightenment,
can escape the entangling octopus of Nebras
ka's overturned sense of values. Influence
upon Ihe mass, and now from the mass, ridi
cules the education as the educators would
have it. A course in which thinking is re
quired, in which knowledge must be gleaned,
is shunned as a plague from the dead. For
tunately for our educational system, however.
Nebraska's attitude does not" reflect that of
all the nation's youth. Shell rimmed glasses
denote a mark of distinction, not of contempt,
in the large universities of the east.
Fifty-three newly elected members of
Sigma Xi and Phi Beta Kappa, yesterday
was not your only day to strut. All thru
your life when you think of your university
record and its ultimate recognition, you will
have reason to strut again and again.
Whether you have a fascinating personality
or not, whether your social life be narrow
or broad, whether your success be repre
sented by great wealth or small, you will be
an intelligent person, well-educated in the
arts of this world, with an accomplishment
none can deny. Be that accomplishment only
a ninety average, it is goal attained that
took four years in gaining, and it is a grade
attained that only one it sixteen can match.
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To he Editor:
I was much amused at the
puerile diatribe on our bibulous
brothers. The author of the mes
sianic theme was basing his tirade
upon falsehoods, either because of
emotionalism or ignorance. He,
like a Puritannical evangelist, im
plied that everyone who "scuttles
the sucis" drinks himself to sleep
and imbibes the spirits such that
his "eyes are not clear, his nerves
are not steady, and his brains
aren't sober." No one defends rack
indulgence, but the majority of
our leading and most esteemed
citizens think on the appropriate
occasion, and drink intelligently.
This is the self control that Mr.
Jeffrey refers to as manhood.
No one with any knowledge of
individual differences and with
any appreciation of the spirit of
Americanism and the meaning of
the word 'tolerance" would claim
authorship of the article of March
30. Certain reasonable limits have
to be imposed, but the whole pur
port and intent of the emotional
blast referred to smacks too much
of the hide-bound, intolerance pre
valent in Kurope at the present
time. We must estracize those who
drink without discretion and to ex
cess, and conversely we must os
tracize those who condemn intel
ligent drinkers out of a spirit .of
hate, emotionalism, and intoler
ance. Lee T. Clare.
Sigma Upsilon meets
at Wimberly's home
Sigma Upsilon, literary honor
ary fraternity, held its bi-weekly
meeting Sunday night at the homo
of Dr. L. C. Wimberly, 3201 R
street. A short business meeting
preceded the literary discussion.
Manuscripts were read by Art
Bukin, Stanley Breuer, Everett
Cunningham and Olcn Burrctt.
Guests present were Stanley
Breuer and Bui kett Graf. The next
meeting will be held Sunday.
April 16.
Trial-
(Continued from Page 1).
Marti is a practicing attorney in
Lincoln and instructor in law col
lege. .
The plane took off from a Lin
coln airport, stopping at Red
Cloud, Kearney and Gothenburg to
pick up additional pasengers. At
Gothenburg, the pilot landed the
plane on a field designated for use
only in emergencies, bounded on
one side by high power lines. Th"
power lines forced the pilot tc.
Youth voices its opinions
thru weekly student surveys
Ky Stmlriil Opinion Survey of Anwrl. ,
AUSTIN, Tex.. April 4. "It be
hooves us ... to allow youth to
have its say... if we are going to
keep ourselves ready to face the
world of tomorrow," Mrs. Frank
lin D. Roosevelt declared in a ra
dio address not long ago. And to
day just that is happening, the
DAILY N ERR A SKA N doing its
part by publishing the week by
week polls of the Student Opinion
Surveys of America.
For the first time in the history
of American democracy college
youth now has a regularly recur
ring sounding board for its opin
ions, which may well be said to be
the opinions that will mold the
destinies of the future United
States. The scientific sampling ref
erenda of the Student Opinion
Surveys are presenting a com
posite picture of campus thinking
and for the first time actually
represent all collegians of the
country, because all types of stu
dents are included in the carefully
selected cross-section.
At regular intervals ballots from
the Surveys headquarters at the
University of Texas reach 85 key
institutions in every part of the
nation. Staff interviewers go into
dormitories, boarding houses,
lounges, halls, and ask series of
take off with a tail wind, and,
unable to gain altitude rapidly
enough, the plane lost one wing on
a telephone pole and crashed into
a canal.
Plaintiff charges negligence.
The crash resulted in a brain
concussion for the plaintiff, who
filed suit against the airplane com
pany for laxity in taking proper
precautions. The trial lasted for
three half days, and such a con
fusion of evidence resulted that
the jury deadlocked. The most con
fusing part, that of the brick
salesmen's samples, was purely a
concoction of plaintiff's attorneys.
Practice trials are held in the
model courtroom every Friday and
Saturday afternoon to give law
college seniors practical experi
ence in trying cases. The jury is
selected from spectators.
questions that have been pre
tested for their neutral wording.
Within a week returns which are
then summarized and mailed back
to the DAILY NEBRARKAN are
used in each poll, which statisti
cally provide an adequate sample
of the entire student enrollment.
Methods used are identical to those
of the Gallup and Fortune polls
of recognized authority.
t The Surveys, which are oper
ated - entirely by undergraduates,
are "a very significant piece of
work," believes Dr. Homer Price
Rainey, director of the American
Youth Commission and well known
for his studies of young people's
needs. "I think it will help at all
times for the public to know how
our youth are reacting to condi
tions that are facing them," he
says.
Joe Belden, University of Texas
senior, is organizer and editor of
the service.
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held on Thursday evening.
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Corn Cobs meet today
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