DAILY NEBRASKAN
Friday, May 16. 1941
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Bonds that are harder than steel
Three weeks from tomorrow evening over 500 sen
iors pay their last respects to the Chancellor the deans
and other prominent university personages; they dance
together for the last time in the Union ballroom. And
on the following Monday as each w turn rises to re
ceive his degree, they join the ranks of Nebraska
alumni.
These seniors will leave the school, some to enter
business, others the professions. They will scatter to
all sections of the country. And not a single physical
bond will again bind them together.
They lose direct contact with the university; they
will seldom mingle with one another. Yet till the last
graduate turns up his heels something will tie the diver
gent elements of this class together. Something will emo
tionally bind It closer to this institution than many of ita
members have been tied to it prior to graduation.
That something is the force that has unified over 50,
000 Nebraska alumni all over the globe, haa brought them
back year after year to the annual Cornhusker roundup,
and has made them eager to hear representatives of this
university touring the country. That something call it
what you like, is alumnization.
Characteristically the alumni bondu are largely
memories we are told, memories and a natural love of the
buildings and personages of the university acquired thru
four years of contact. As these 500 seniors take their de
grees and bid the school goodbye what sort of memories,
and what sort of ties wil constitute their alumnize seal?
Probably the strongest of these bonds will be fac
ulty itself. There are the advisors and special friends
of the students with whom they have been in direct
contact, to whom they have turned for advice and of
whom they will always think as friends rather than
teachers.
Then there are the "big names" among the faculty.
Writers of books, prominent scholars and lecturers, of
which Nebraska certainly has its share will make the
graduate proud of the personages with whom he has
associated.
And finally there are the queer or striking personali
ties, men who have left an impression on his mind, men
whose words will not soon be forgotten. It is these men
who are bull meet in alumni meetings, and give to each
pleasant and common memories.
Then there is the sports record of the school. Ne
braska has certainly had that. With four years of win
ning, of cheering and of rallying for teams that have be
come symbols of the yportmanshhip, competition and
physical training of school life, a place will always be in
one's heart for those symbols in the future, for those men
who will tomorrow wear the scarlet and cream.
There are the traditions. Nebraska has a great
many. There are Ivy Day festivities, the engineer-law
battles, the political campaigns, the freshman caps.
There will always be the hell weeks, and the candy
passings among the Greek organizations. And there
will always be the engineers week and rodeo among
the colleges. These traditions make Nebraska a little
different than any other school. They personalize the
institution and its buildings. They give to it something
apart from every other spot. Traditions more than any
thing else make it a graduates own university.
What the university is and what it stands for is Im
portant. The fact that it is one of 33 members in the most
elite of national accrediting associations, the fact that ita
engineering college, its law college and particularly its
agricultural college have enviable standing among the
schools of the nation and the fact that its standards
thruout are held high, all make one proud to be a grad
uate of it and make him able to boast of its accomplish
ments wherever he goes.
Finally there la the fellowship itself. The friends and
classmates after they spread into different fields and into
different parte of the country lose all contact with one
another except thru the university. The class after it
leaves is bound together largely by the feeling that we
are one," and "we are one" largely because we are of the
same class of the same university. And that university is
Nebraska.
This spirit, this alumnization feeling is invaluable.
No matter what one's standing in school, no matter
what he has done in the way of extracurricular activi
ties, if anything, everyone will take a little of this away
with him. Me leaves this school a Nebraskan; he will
always be a Nebraskan. And for this as well as for the
valuable information he is certain to have obtained,
every man is indebted to this school and to its chan
cellor. That chancellor is planning a reception. He is plan
ning it because he wants to say "goodbye to those he has
been able to work with. He represents the head of all that
to which these seniors are indebted. It is only fitting that
the class enmasse turn out for that final reception, to
come together physically for the last time, but to ac
quire possibly at that meeting something stronger than
that contact to acquire alumnization.
Comment or ials
Cray aks editor
for explanation
Dear Editor:
"A Graduate Student"' has accused the faculty of this
university of dishonesty by stating that his opinions upon
international affairs would cost him his references. He
has accused the administration of dishonesty by saying
that these opinions might cause his expulsion. He has
categorically stated that his own honesty is worth less
than those things. Your own publication of an anonymous
letter of this sort and comment upon it. which completely
ignored these aspects, certainly calls for explanation.
Intellectual honesty is a hard-won possession. The
employees of this institution strive for it, with a success
most would commend. Dirty anonymous slurs have no
place in a campus publication. Nor had you, above all,
any right to allow one to imply an intent of secrecy con
cerning those who signed the recent memorial.
Glen W. Gray.
Just as your colleagues strive for intellectual hon-
esty, this paper strives for free and opne expression. As
members of your faculty themselves have again and
again declared, a student newspaper, if it is to be rep
resentative of the students it serves, must print all views
upon the issues under discussion. Sincerty must be the
only requirement of a writer.
Tho we generally require signatures on contributions,
we have made exceptions in cases where a person can
show reasonable excuse for keeping his name quiet.
Perhaps we weighed this graduate student's fears
too heavily. Perhaps his opinion would have been re
spected by his superiors, bold as his accusations may
have been. But from the ridicule and condemnation we
have received from certain quarters for the expressin
of our views, we reasoned that probably there were
members of that faculty not so intellectually honest as
we know from experience most of the instructors are.
No matter how fair a man tries to be, it would be dif
ficult for him to swallow the accusations this gradu
ate student wished to make.
aws By Oiria Petersen
RED ACTIVITY
This, my friends, ia my version of a report by an
Indian lad, a senior in the reservation school, upon his re
turn home after sneak day in Lincoln.
"In a wigwam full of learning, full of books and
learned sayings, full of cards with names upon them, full
of squaws without papooses; there they read of the lore
of wise men read by fifteen candlepower, read until th
books before them melt into inky darkness. Then to stum
ble outside, groping down the trail to the village there
to taste of fire water, taste of brown and foamy hop
juice, taste until with senses dulled, learning vanishea
past recalling.
"Then to wigwams on sorority row. Wigwams with
alt bars before them. Here live the bright, enchanting
daughters, Daughters of the Sun in wigwams. There the
braves find their pleasure; happy hunting grounds they
have there. Yet before the moon has risen, rounding, ris
ing from the earth, daughters must return to wigwams
leaving braves empty handed, empty armed and empty
armournel, wondering why some squaws they know
think their squawlets will get moonstruck after clock
struck twelve thirty.
"Many moons rise, and fall. Braves enter manhood.
Others come to take their places. Learned fathers kill
the fatted lamb. Write on hide and pass out sheepskins.
Braves leave after spending four seasons with learned
fathers. Learn to seek happy living. Learn to make trade
with profit. Then they leave village and wigwams with
blessing. And for many, many seasons, send their wam
pum back to college so offspring braves can taste brown
and foamy hop-juice, visit squawlets in sorority wig
wams, and get chunk of dead sheep as prize.
We are sorry if our action in this regard has slurs
upon intellectual honesty and freedom of exprsesion of
which we, too, are very proud. Editor.
Student find Lindbergh
controversy ' amusing1
Editor, DAILY NEBRASKAN:
If there is anything amusing about the war con
troversy on this campus, it is the fact that the discussion
has centered more around a man named Lindbergh than
around the war issues. Whether Lindbergh is a rogue or
tin god has nothing to do with whther the United States
should enter he war, or whether his argument against
American participation is nonsense. If the premises put
forth aie true, and if the inferences drawn are valid, the
argument is a sound one, no matter who happens to pre
sent it.
After all, Lindbergh isn't the only man in the
United States expressing this point of view. John T.
Fiynn, Robert Hutchins, Senator Wheeler, Hugh John
son, and many others are arguing against steps which
will lead this country into the European war, and with
arguments more convincing than the stain of mud on
administration presonalities. Mud throwing tacis sug
gest that the mud throwers have weak minds, no argu
ment, or are running off at the mouth in childish in
dlgnation. This suggestion does not help their position
in the least. If Professor Raysor of the English depart
ment, and other men who feel qualified to discuss mili
tary matters and foreign policy, have a good argument,
why don't they confine themselves to Lindbergh's con
tentions and ignore the man?
Incidentally, the tone of certain self-righteous faculty
members who have taken upon themselves the burden of
showing a lethargic public what the men who wear braina
think about the war impels me to quote a statement Oliver
Cromwell once made: "I beseech you, gentlemen, in the
towels of Christ, to remember that it ia possible that you
might be mistaken."
Currin Shields.
Defense-
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lf ultryinen point out that expan
sion in permanent new housing
probably ir not justified since
rver crowding present housing fa
til.ti'.s uill not solve the prob
lem. The ag college poultrymen point
rut that Nebraskans who can rsl";
sni plus pullets will probably find
a teady market for laying pulMs
this fall, in view of'the newly an
nounced program.
Secretary of Agriculture Wi k
ard also asked for an increase of
ri0 percent more canned tomatoe.t
rr lr million more eases than
were packed last year. Huge or
ders for tomatoes are needed to
meet the extra demands of ou'
army and navy and for shipment
under the lend-lease act, for the
distribution by the American Red
Cross, and relief needs at home.
Tomatoes are one of the cheap
est and richest sources of vitamin
C. When packed in cans they keep
indefinitely and are convenient to
shin. For these reasons they take
their place along with ggs, pork,
find (iairy products in the govern
ment's food for defense plans.
To obtain this great pa k i f
tomatoes, the l.'S department of
agriculture has ariar.gcd to pay
canners enough more for earn
case bought from the l'Ml park
so that they can pay farmers from
J2.75 to 13 00 more a ton for to
matoes. Farmers cooperating i:i
the plan to produce more cannej
tomatoes for defense will need
not only plant more acres to to
matoes but wjl also need to us'
various methods for making plants
bear moie heavily.
A higher price from the canriei
will enable farmers to afford to
plant tomatoes on their best land
and prepare the land with a lib
eral amount of well balanced fer
tilizer. Debate-
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and Delta Upsilon, after losing to
the DCs in their first debate. Del
ta Upsilon, prior to their elimina
tion last night, had c'ivitfed in their
only two debates, matches with
SAM.
Results of the contests have so
far done little to determine the
proper answer to the debate ques
tion. Zeta Beta Tau's victory to
night brought the fourth decision
to the negative fide, while the af
firmative teams have won five
matches.
Three former members of the
varsity debate squad, George Hea
ley, a Lincoln attorney, Eugene
Curtiss, law senior, and Paul
Rhodes, first year law student,
were judges at last night's de
bate. Harvard flower
exhibit modernized
with new lighting
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (ACP).
The famed glass flower exhibit at
Harvard university which attracts
200,000 visitors annually, has been
modernized with fluorescent light
ing to bring out more exactly the
fidelity to natural colors. - .'.',',
News Oddities
John Carrico of the Kentucky
Kernel turns to writing poetry
with an ode to the Brooklyn
Dodger fan. Excerpts from this
contata include:
"Getcha hot d"gs. get 'em while
they're hot!"
Some of dern wid mustard, some
of dem wid not!
Getcha score boards and pro
grams here
Pass dis up to the gent in the
rear
Another part of the composition
consists of the Serenade of the fan
to the umpire:
"Why he's the lowest rat dat
ever call his own mudder out at
foist!
And dat's not de woist; he's
from the Bronx!
Kill the umpire! Berl de rat in
erl.
Bounce a bottle off his head.
Leave him on the field for dead.
Kill the umpire! ,
The decline of baseball as a
college sport is emphasized in the
Cincinnati News Record by the
fact that many students on that
campus don't know where the
baseball diamond is located Do all
N'ebraskans know where our play
ing field is?
Baseball Coach Buck Bailey of
Washington State gives spectators
a show by bouncing around all
over the bench and kicking over
the team water pail in nearly
every game.
The
Daily Nebraskan
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