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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 16, 1942)
Wednesday, December 16, 1942 DAILY NEBRASKAN Players Give Children's Program V r f yipmn . 1 Kat; If 1 vV'!' Courteiy Lincoln Sunday Journal-Star. University Flayers appearing with members of the Lincoln Junior league gathering around the microphone before presentation of one of the League's radio dramatization for children. ACP Survey Shows Over One-half High School Students Want to Attend College By Associated Collegiate Press. More than half the 10,000,000 high school students in the United States hope to continue their edu cation upon leaving high school or when they complete their service with the armed forces, the latest Fortune Survey reveals. This survey also discloses that: High school students over whelmingly plan to enter the professions rather than train for skilled labor jobs. Students hope to be earning an average of $49.81 a week ten years from now. Both boys and girls would pre fer to marry someone whose outstanding qualities were a sense of humor and ambition to get ahead. Here is how student opinion was divided on the question: "What do you expect to be when you finish high school?" All Students Boys Girls Go on to school .. 57.8 51.1 M.6 Go to work 26.1 2X9 28.3 Go in armed forces .. 11.3 21.7 .7 Get married 1.8 . .2 3.6 Don't know 4.7 4.7 4.7 "Unfortunately Fortune declares, or otherwise," "it is extremely unlikely that anything like 57.8 percent of our 10,000,000 high school students will, as they hope, go on to a higher education. For only about one-tenth of the youth of college age was enrolled in col leges, universities and vocational schools during the pre-war decade. Even though college attendance may continue to rise after the war, there is probably a wide margin of wishfulness between the number of students who plan for college education and the num ber who will actually achieve it."' Next question was: "What oc cupation are you planning to enter?" The students answered as follows: Engineering, nursing, teaching, arts, medicine, law 35.8 36.1 35.5 Mainly clerical and secretarial Factory work, skilled trades 21.1 8.0 34.4 Government work, mostly armed forces .... 4.5 8.5 .3 Farming .. 3.2 6.2 .2 Other .... 11.4 12.2 10.4 Don't know 15.4 14.6 16.1 "This tabulation of the chosen occupations of the next members of the working force," the survey . v" rl. Vl.-. ..'.-'.Si."jr""''vi t jr i ii - - msmh m ' ft r" ;t I mi 1 ir l,i,i.i;..V...... trtifl, ,i MCE FOWTCL.Crmed by Msx factor Hollywood b original color harmony shades. In atusc- 00 tive holiday box. 1 nut tai -n iiiiiii i j ininii i iiinui says, "must give educators and so ciologists pause for thought. For their expectations do not even add up to a skeleteon force for an in dustrial and agricultural nation, with only a bare 15 percent of the children of both farming and la boring families choosing to con tinue in their parents work." However, when students were asked to choose between secure low-wage jobs and uncertain but high-wage jobs, their replies showed "a cautiously venturesome majority among boys of 58 per cent who chose the uncertain bet ter paid jobs. The girls are in clined to prefer to find cover un der poorly paid security." The survey brought forth thor- oly American and adolescent re plies to the question: "How much do you think you should be earning about 10 years from now?" Earnings expected by All Students Boys Girls Under $20 a week ... 1.6 $20 to 39 .30.7 .3 18.0 36.3 15.9 2.3 9.6 17.6 2.9 43.7 24.7 3.7 .5 1.7 22.8 $40 to $59 .30.5 $60 to $79 . 9.9 $80 to $99 . 1.4 $100, over. 5.7 Don't kn'w20.2 Average fig. na'ed $46.81 $59.65 $39.14 To questions concerning stu dents' relationships at home, the survey found that "the majority of United States school children are in comfortable accord with their immediate personal environ ments. Excluding the moot sub ject of bedtime, the percentages of high school children who agree with their fathers range from 65.7 on the subject of boy friends to 87.3 on the subject of churchgoing; the scale of agreement is about the same in the case of mothers. This speaks for domestic harmony." When asked to grade their teachers, the high school students rated them as follows: Percentage of teachers re ported as top-flight ....52.6 Percentage reporting no teachers second-rate ...21.7 Percentage of teachers re ported as second-rate ..27.4 Percentage who consider no teachers top-flight . . 1.9 "Schools are generally regarded by the students adequate," Fortune says, but warns that "the more intellectual curiosity a pupfl has, he longer his attendance, the less s his satisfaction with the teach ing he gets." r ' v ft.jpiggwwuin n ' ' " - i ii nmnuiini I y' 1 Mm- " r. " " ' ' ' "Mlilllii - -mi iimiiih r . Li iiimi jimimii Courteijr Lincoln Sunday Journal-Star. Rudolf Kogan, 20, pre-medical student at University of Minnesota and a native of Russia, recently overcamen ationality barriers and was inducted into the army after a 12-month struggle to get in. A new armory is being con structed at University of Maryland. i.ihiiiii i nwiii i , nium ,iiH nmiiiiiliiii I ii i ii i !. ...i -iii iinii''f Tau Omega fraternity has spon sored a . Walk-a-Date plan at Santa Barbara State college to conserve tires and include more students in the social calendar. , University of Minnesota Will ask the state legislature for an1 increase of $357,000 in Its annual maintenance appropriation Serials, plays and sketches are presented by the University Play ers cooperating with the Lincoln Junior League for the entertain ment of children in the KFOR area. Currently Junior League Play ers of the air have been present ing the adventures of a Polish family who through courage and wit defeat the villain known as "Buttonface." The concluding episode of this series, directed by Prof. Robert E. Summers of the speech department, was presented last week. The university speaking choir and singing choir cooperating with the League began yesterday gave a half hour religious Christmas program telling the Christmas story of the Bible. Through the winter the group will present "Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates," "Lazy Liza Lizard," and "Mr. Poppin's Penguins." University students who have appeared on the program this year are Romulo Soldcvilla, Dave Kins man, Lee Gissler, Cleve Gcnz linger, Bill Stiefler, Bill Major, Myron Levinson and Dave Rosen berg. They have played leading male roles, character and bit parts and performed the sound effects duties as well VJ ueead ft VJ ,M. w, INDBREAKER JACKETS . . . with clean lean lines. Made of cotton gabardine treated for water repellance. Fully . 1A QC 11 QC lined with fleece. and REGULATION NORWEGIAN SKI PANTS . . . sleek and flattering, designed for action and warmth 6.95 , 8.95 An array of colors . . . sixes 12 to 18 Christmas gift-idea! 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