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THE NEBRASKAN
Sunday, April 14, 1946
EDITORIAL
COMMENT
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Marthella Iloloonib
Nebraska's Finest. . .
Today's announcement of the retirement ot Dean Rufus A. Ly
man of the college of pharmacy and Dr. C. W. M. Poyntcr, dean of
the college of medicine, brings forth deserved praise from faculty
members and present and former students for the work the two men
farnliv n-iombor expressed it. "We are sorry to
see thejn go. Both of them have tione noble jobs at the university."
Dr. Poynter has faced particularly unusual problems in heading
for 16 years a branch of the university which must be administered
iws s oniw nd a nuhlic eleemosynary institution. He has been
in the difficult position of having: to conduct himself and the med
ical school in a manner satisfactory to both the practising physicians
and the lay public. He has done a magnificent job in both In.
stances, turning; out Jtood doctors and at the same time educating the dog story.
nublic to the need for medical education and hospital service.
He is first a physician and secondly a research scientist and is
held in the highest respect by. both the physicians and research men
on his Omaha staff. According to the members of the administration,
the deon of the medical school has to handle one of the most difficult
budgets in the university. As an executive, Dean Poynter has al-
.av nuHo rprLiin that the medical school cot its money's worth
and more out of that budget.
Dr. Lyman stands out as a national leader in pharmaceutical edu
cation. In his 38 years as head of the pharmacy branch of the uni
versity, he has brought it up from a trade school to a bona fide pro
fessional school. He has stimulated research in the field and ranks
iiv amnntr scientists and educators in pharmacy. He is
also highly thought of by practising pharmacists over the country.
As senior ranking dean of the university, Dr. Lyman's associa
tions with his students has been unusually close. Jokes about the
condition of his office, his preference for the Presbyterian church and
certain of his courses are among the beloved campus classics.
Both Dr. Lyman and Dr. Foynter have known and followed their
students closely. During the war Dr. Toynter corresponded with med
ical students scattered all over the world.
Th university is losinr two deans who have for many years
given of their best to the shool. In doing so they have added immeas
urably to the spirit and tradition of Nebraska.
"That's a stupid way to come to
class," one laboratory assistant
told a student who'd forgotten his
lab manual this week. After years
under a tough sergeant such com
ment didn't faze him in the least,
he just looked up and said, "Hut
I'm stupid." The next session
brought the assistant back to his
desk again, with an apologetic,
"I've thought it -over, and I don't
think you're stupid."
Remember the good old days,
when we swiped golf balls from
dad's bag to play jacks, and
thought penciled initials were
enough to keep them safe from
filching hands? Now we can't beg,
borrow or steal a first rate one,
even to play golf.
Self-conscious and struggling to
maintain a fragment of his cus
tomary applomb, one university
student sat more or less calmly
waiting for a red light to change
the other morning, while some-
ones big yellow dog barked in
frenzied fascination at his scoot
er's tires. No, it isn't a shaggy
News in Brief
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sr.d Cornell to Chicago, Nebraska,
Texas, and Stanford.
"But he had been restless in
college teaching, and he was rest
less during his six-year spell as a
liberal editor. At Texas he had
been the sort of maverick pro
fessor who writes a novel called
"The Professor and the Petti
coat." In New York liberal circles
it was curious to see this big,
hulking Scandinavian farmer
from Nebraska, who told caustic
irreverent stories, and who pre
ferred writing semi-fictional ironic
sketches to finger-pointing editorials.
New School.
"In 1923 he found his metier
and his real life" work, and he has
stuck to it with massive tenacity
ever since. The New School for
Social Research had been started
a few years earlier as a gesture
of protest and freedom in the
dreary wastes of academic ty
ranny. Some of the best minds of
the day were behind it Veblen
and Beard and Harvey Robinson.
But it took Johnson who took
over as director and gave the
school a local habitation and a
name in the American intellectual
world.
"Johnson and the New School
reached the peak of their great
ness in the crisis of European
scholarship under fascism. When
Hitler made life in Germany and
almost throughout Europe a
Gehenna for free men, the great
danger was not that Europe would
lose some of the most creative
minds and skills in history but
that no other culture would find
them.
"Johnson was quicker than
anyone else I know to talfe the
full measure of Europe's loss and
America's opportunity. He quickly
sent word thruout Germany and
Europe that the anti-fascist schol
ars would be welcome here. I
count this the biggest single edu
cational achievement of recent
years, by the side of which most
of the controversial storms raging
now seem thin-spun stuff."
The convocation will begin at
10:15 and classes will be dismissed
from 10 to 12 a. m., according to
Chancellor C. S. Boucner.
Thursday one of the FFA boys
down for their state convention
stopped at the Union office to
ask where the banquet would be
held. Betty replied, "In the ball
room." He looked a bit confused.
murmured, "Barroom?" and was
away before she could ' set bim
aright.
There's one English 2 class
which makes noun clauses, dan
gling participles and adverbial ap
positives sound really inviting.
Held at 11 a. m., it s 100 percent
navy, and nas a male teacner.
Darn this heredity, why did moth
er have to be an English teacher.
Even the Thin Man doesn't
have a chance on the early morn
ing busses for school. Tho most
people look forward to Friday as
the end of the week, bus-riders
with 9 o'clocks long for Thurs
day, when stores- open an hour
later, and they can breathe on the
trip downtown.
Ever since the beginning of this
semester we've gazed in rapt' ad
miration at the A-2 jackets flash
ing around the campus with silver
rows of bombs, sexy Petty girls,
Jolly Roger emblems and miscel
laneous selections from Disney
painted on them. Epitome was
reached Friday, however, when
we found staring us in the face
down the aisle, the boldly painted
assertion, "Gentleman Jim." Glad
they told us. Never know when
you might want to know that.
Religious Council
Elects M. Davis
As New President
Martha Davis was elected presi
dent of the Religious Welfare
Council to succeed Bill Miller, at
the regular meeting Thursday
evening.
Other officers elected are:
Gordon Lippitt, vice president;
Alice Rife, secretary: and Miss
L. L. Runge. treasurer.
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WASHINGTON. A veterans' housing bill designed to
speed the construction of 2,700,000 new dwellings by the
end of next year passed the senate Wednesday and went
back to the house for consideration of numerous amend
ments. As the senate passed the bill, it will provide for six
hundred million dollars in subsidies on scarce building mai
terials so that more houses can be built sooner.
The government has relaxed its construction controls
to permit construction of some non-veteran housing proj
ects. Heretofore only discharged veterans could qualify to
build new homes.
President Truman reports an improvement in world
food prospects. Congress has moved to secure more meat
and grain from this country to be sent overseas.
.... The senate atomic energy committee have unani
mously approved the atomic control bill. The bill frives tha
government absolute control over the nrnrlnrti ftn. nwnor.
ship, and use of materials from which atomic energy is de
rived.
General George C. Marshall has concluded his confer
ences with President Truman, and is on his way back to
China.
The senate banking committee has approved the pro
posed $3,750,000 loan to Great Britain.
Renewal of contract negotiations next week between
John L. Lewis and the soft coal miners is forecast by Secre
tary of Labor Schwellenbach.
PORTLAND. Ore. Lt. Nirolai G R
naval officer arrested on espionage charges, has protested
ma innocence ana agreea to return to Seattle -for trial.
Change To Be Proposed
In Siirolus Pronprtv Art
i i j
The War Assets administration
will be requested to change its
manner of disposing surplus prop
erty among educational institu
tions, according to a statement
made Saturday by Dean Roy M.
ureen or the engineering college.
ine 1944 bumlus ProDertv Art
broadly provides that educational
institutions may receive surplus
war property for instructional
purposes at a cost of "packing and
shipping." Green declared. A sub
sequent ruling held, however, that
surplus property to schools would
De sold at the "current market
value less 40 percent."
'Know How."
"Nebraska's educational institu
tions simply can't afford to pur
chase this much needed siimlns
property at market value less 40
percent. At the university alone
the purchase under present policy
of vital teaching materials now
available in surplus property
depots would amount to several
hundred thousand dollars," the
engineering Dean said.
We believe that our conntrv
was victorious in the war because
of our oustandine capacity to
achieve results in the fields of
science and the technology of pro
duction. Education certainly had
much to do with creating this pro
ductive 'know how. We also be
lieve that the ability to solve the
technological problems of peace
can be greatly strengthened by
properly equipped agencies of
education."
Program.
Green was in Washington, D. C,
last week representing the Society
for the Promotion of Engineering
Education in a conference of 21
educational groups.
The conference drafted a four
point program which provided:
(1) a policy of nominal pricing
(cost of care and handling) of
surplus property which would be
of public benefit; (2) provide a
30-day period of offering to per
mit fair flistribution o' property;
(3) reservation of property in
terms of estimated quantities re
quired by educational institutions;
(4) revision downward of mini
mum purchase quantities to per
mit smaller schools to fulfill their
needs.
Green also emphasized that he
would urge all Nebraska schools
and colleges to netitinn th Wai.
Assets administration to revise its
policy. If this were accomplished,
educational institutions could ob
tain much needed
a tremendous saving in cost, and
indirectly improve the quality of
instruction to students.
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