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Vol. 39, No. 67
Lincoln, Nebraska
Sunday, January 7, 1940
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Aestheticist
will address
convo Jan. 11
Dr. Eames to suggest
unification of arts
in student's curriculum
TTvrv mnn has the right to the
beauty, power, truth and health of
music, says Dr. Henry Purmort
Eames, professor of aesthetics and
musical art at senppa cuneBe,
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by Bob Aldrich.
Like a good many other teach
ers on the campus, Rudolph Au
gust Winnacker, assistant profes
sor of European history, proclaims
himself loath to submit to repor
torial questioning.
In fact, when told that he was
to be the victim of the journalistic
third degree, Prof. Winnacker
threw up his hands and addressed
heaven with an appeal for mercy.
However, his smile belied his
words and, finally resigned to it,
he good-naturedly overlooked the
stupidity of the questions thrown
at him and even answered a cou
ple of them, though not without
expressions of deep pain.
He was reminded, he said, of an
DAILY itaff photo.
He got the "last job of the de
pression" at Michigan In 1931.
There he weathered the economic
slump for five years. Then, in
loQft rtoan rtiHffither "made his
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big mistake," invited him to come
to Nebraska, and has regretted it
ever since, Winnacker says.
Besides Harvard, he has attend
ed school at the Universities of
Paris and Munich. He thinks that
education is more thoro in Europe,
that its great fault is that stu
dents are told what to think.
"Thv have all the answers.
Here, when the student is gradu
ated, his mind it open, he will listen
But European stu-
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Lincoln Journal awl Star.
no HENRY P. EAMES
. . everyone has a rlflht to muilc.
Claremont, California, who will de
liver the convocation address at
11 a. m. Thursday in the Temple.
Variety show has
film, vaudeville
Students will gather in the
Union ballroom this afternoon at
4 for the second in the series of
Sunday afternoon Variety hours
sponsored by the Union.
This afternoon's show will fea
ture a full length talking motion
niotnrA "Kant Meets West." three
vaudeville acts, and George Goatas
as master of ceremonies.
Th film, starring Georee Arliss,
is the story of a British-Indian in
trigue. Arliss plays the part of
the Raja of Kungay wno attempts
to block the aims of the British
imperialists.
Vaudeville acts on this after
noon's program include piano num
bers by Mary ninzaDetn ouiart,
accordian offerings by Eldred
Winters, and the tap dancing of
Norma Patterson, 14 year old
Lincoln dancing star.
Admission is free.
Grad college
reveals 100
awards open
Dean announces filings
due Mar. 1, most prizes
carry fee remission
Bengtson
heads junior
division
Board names West
Point man president;
Devoe is vice-president
Mmhfrn of the Board of Re
gents at a regular meeting, held
here yesterday, elected Charles Y.
Thompson, of West Point, presi
dent and R. W. Devoe, of Lincoln,
marked that the picture of Berlin
citizens scurrying madly to shel
ter, when there was no war, wa
rather funny.
"Too cute."
knA thri nnnoared in a De-
sometimes empty, but at lMt they
are open.
Not broadening.
He has returned to Europe 14
times, thinks that traveling is more
narrowing than broadening, i eo
And there appeared in a De- tWnk tnat causc you have
troit paper a large picture of Hit- veled & litUe you know some-
ier Willi I IlC .aViun, wv
Bays Michigan professor."
So Winnacker looks at reporUra
with suspicion.
thing. It is not where you nave
been but what you are doing that
counts."
Ynnr first imoresaion of
Winnacker is that he is too young
tn h ft nrofessor and that you
have probably made a mistake and
are talking to one of his students.
This effect of youthfulness is evi-
dent in his speech and manner
and has helped to make him pop
ular with his classes.
He is youthful in his thinking
as well as in appearance. His at
titude toward his work is that of
an inquiring scholar. He looks at
a subject from all angles, refusing
to accept any definition of con
clusion until it is proved.
Big and blond.
He is a blond Nordic, of heavy
build, quite a handsome fellow,
with a friendly smile and a man
A woman student drops m w
Mr. discuss a term paper on Lady Jane
Grey. "Have you maae u nice u
gory," Winnacker asks, "with the
blood all trickling down? Ah,
good!"
A young man arrives to discuss
Phi Beta Kappa. "You're working
for it? Ridiculous. You should
not work for Thi Beta Kappa it
should come to you as an unex
pected honor."
Foremoot function.
He thinks that research is the
fnremost function of a university.
a miw la lust to train students
But a university is founded on th
ideal of researcn. a leacner mum
do both jobs to be any good."
He thinks a teacher does better
wnii a iiK-miij v. jje thinks a xeacner uura ltwi
ner of looking intently at the peo- k Jf he knows little about the
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pie with whom he talks
He says he "hates to buy a suit,
smokes Phillip Morris, speaks
with a slight German accent, is
somewhat egotistic.
He started out to be a doctor. . .
went to Harvard med school...
swears he didn't flunk out, just
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to discussion.
He was reminaea, ne wiu, wi ta everything. VarnM whA WM chaii-man
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Se E1AMES, page 4
Ag extension
workers hear
Bunce, Hoor
Guest soeakers endorse
reciprocal trade policy
as help to agriculture -
TTninn rJ the democratic and re
publican parties on a permanent
foreign trade policy was urged and
a keen analysis of modern educa
tional shortcomings were pre
sented Friday to the "school" for
agricultural extension workers
held this week nere, oy troi. a. .
Bunce of Iowa State college and
Dean Marten Hoor of Tulane uni
versity. Professor Bunce endorsed the
nttitude of Col. Frank Knox, who
has declared his stand in favor of
the reciprocal trade agreements,
and cited benefits which have come
to the farmer through the trade
npTecments. He expressed his be
lief that the United States will "go
into a tail-spin with a very serious
depression if the reciprocal trade
program is repealed now, breaking
down the start we nave maue
toward re-establishing our foreign
trade.
OW program Id lotto
ftrariiiAto soholarshiDfl. fellow
ships and assistantships in several
departments of the university will
be available to approximately 100
graduate students next year, ac
cording to an announcement made
yesterday by Dr. Harold w. &ione,
dean of the graduate college. Ap
plication blanks, available now in
the graduate oirice, musi w mcu
not later than March 1. Most
graduate awards carry remission
of course fees.
TOrht fellowships are provided
for advanced chemistry students.
As a perpetual memorial 10 me
late Chancellor Samuel Avery the
board of regents has established
two research fellowships valued
at $500 each. Six research ienow
ships of $500 each have been pro
See GRAD SCHOOL, page 4.
Cathedral choir
opens 20th series
The. Lincoln Cathedral choir will
open its 20th choral vesper sea
son today at 5:30 p. m. in the
hnilrnom of Hotel Cornhusker.
Warren Jensen, Council Bluffs
sophomore, is the speaker of this
afternoon's conceit, and Hough
ton Furr, Lincoln senior, win oe
at the organ.
onViWt H nlans to teach ancient
history to freshmen next semester,
says that the lectures should be
interesting because he knows so
little ancient history.
He is working on a new book,
ouhiPft! "Historv and Develop
ment of the Third French Repub-
decided that being a doctor wasn't h,. spedalty. H has pub
worth all the sacrifice.
He wanted to do something that
would give him some independence,
some freedom of thought, the
chance to express his own ideas
lished a "number of piffling artl
cles."
"It's part of the racket. You
have to ret them published. But
you keep them hidden from your
Teaching seemed to supply the colleagues." An article of his on
ivu rtroirfiu mflA la widelv known.
W .VJl V." - ml
There Is 'always room for im
provement" in the university. "In
Europe, they send the young men
to the army for a couple of years.
We send them to the university. I
prefer our way."
answer.
Before Harvard, he had attended
Wisconsin, was graduated in 1928.
There he met the late Hartley
Burr Alexander, famed Nebraska
teacher, and the two went to New
Mexico and "dug Indians."
In French hUtory.
His sense of humor is put to
trnnA im! In the classroom. A fav-
rr.AA arhnri h entered orite trae in Historv 117: "They
but he didn't have enough Elba
room so he went back to France."
the Harvard exadua school, stud
led French history for two years,
and obtained his doctor's degree.
The Towa economist also as-
oprtpri that much of the depression
can be traced to me "uiieny iuiouc
and insane foreign trade policy fol-
fowed by the united states during
the post-war period.
The modern belief that knowl
edce in itself is desirable was
described as a tragic mistake by
the Tulane philosopher, and he
also declared that we must have
moral education if science is to
help men instead of to be uccd to
destroy them."
Whether desirable or not, the
church is a declining influence in
mnral education of children, the
Hpnn declared, savintr that he h
Heved the family is the only insti
tution which can do an adequate
job of moral education.
The theme which the choir will
develop this season is "The Saints
of the Tast and the Present." This
afternoon's program, the first of
a series or eleven, taKes up me
definition of a saint. The follow
ing vespers in the series will be
presented each Sunday aiternoon
in the Dauroom at o:ou, mating
half an hour.
Directed since its beginning by
John Rosborough, the choir num
bers 65 voices this season. The
vespers are open to the public
free of charge and students are
invited to attend.
Dewey to speak
here on March 1
Nebraska's republicans will meet
at the coliseum on March 1 to hear
an address bv Thomas E, Dewey,
republican presidential nomination
candidate, on tne occasion 01 me
annual republican Founder's Day
meeting here in Lincoln.
Word of the Nebraska speaking
engagement was announced Fri
day by Lloyd Kain, of Lexington,
National Founder's Day president.
Dewev's talk will be broadcast on
a national hookuo and will follow
the state republican central ccm
mittee meeting and a banquet that
day.
Lincola Journal and StM.
CHARLES Y. THOMPSON
. . . president for a year.
vice-president of that body.
Thompson is president of the Ne
braska Farm Bureau Federation
and Devoe is a Lincoln attorney.
The men were elected foe on
year.
First move of the board, taken
at yesterday's meeting, was to re
duce dormitory rates. New rates,
heviminc effective the second
semester, lower the cost of livm
See REGENTS, page 4.
Senior Fair
board masks
six juniors
Over 200 attend annual
presentation party, blow
whistles, throw confetti
More than 200 students watched
si mpmhers of the senior Farmers
Fair board mask the six ag college
juniors, chosen as members or tne
junior board, with the traditional
Farmers Fair bandannas at the
board's annual presentation dance
1n the activities building Friday
night.
Presented to the ag students at
tending the party were Jane Brine
gar, Sylvia Zocholl, Betty Jo
Smith, Kieth Gilmore, Robert
Wheeler, and Ganis Richmond aa
Junior Farmers Fair board repre
sentatives.
Rousek heads seniors.
Senior board, elected last spring,
Is composed of Edwin Rousek,
manager, Will Pitner, Fred Whit
ney, Ellen Ann Armstrong, Anna
belle Hutcheson. and Peggy Sher-
burn. The twelve students in the
senior and junior boards are in
charge of the Farmers Fair, larg
est event of the spring term on
the ae- camDus. Th Fair is sched
uled for the first weekend in May.
Theme of Friday's party was a
carnival with confetti, paper
streamers, horns, and whistles
given as favors. Faculty sponsors
of the board are Prof. F. E. Mus
sehl and Prof. Ross Miller. The
two professors and their wives
were chaperons at Friday's party.
Music was furnished by Tommy
Anderson and his ten Tomcats.
The weather
Weatherman's prediction r -mains
snow for today as well M
last night, dospite the warming
up in east euid south portions ol
the state.
