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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
DON-ATIONS
are
col-
Lct's make a futile attempt to
get one tiling straight. This isn't
entirely my idea. For instance, I
didn't have a thing to do with
that label. It's just that hired help
around here at the beginning of
the semester is as scarce as lieu
tenant governors in Georgia. And
somebody has to fill this space!
The Hand of Fate fell on me
simply because there was a col
umn to fill, and I was standing
around waiting for someone to
'pop" for coffee. Dit by bit, the
whole gruesome plot has unfolded.
Later, I found that I was ex
pected to write here with some
degree of regularity. Now they
tell me that I've got to see that
a least my monosyllables
spelled right.
In short, I have become a
yumist."
It isn't exactly exclusive. Every
body that ever stumbled onto the
Rag office while looking for the
ping-pong tables has tried his
hand at it at one time or another.
But somehow it's rather fright
ening: to contemplate. Yesterday
I was a simple soul who couldn't
tie his ascot with both hands.
Now that I am a colyumist.
mere are certain tilings you au
tomatically have a right to ex
jert from me. From now on,
you have a right ot expect me
to know everything about any
thing. If Nebraska's squad fails
to win the muddling-through
championship, it will be up to
me to tell you just why and a
day-old doughnut will get you
a new IJuick Koadniaster that
the reason will invariably be:
(1) a gigantic Fascist plot by
the Faculty Senate, or (2) those
poor old vulnerable and anony
mous "university officials," or
(3) some Secret Committee for
the Suppression of iWuddlcrs
Throuch and Promotion of Six
Hour Exams.
As a colyumist, tradition de
mands that I miraculously be
come omnipotent, omni-present
and "omni-right." I'll be com
pelled to issue a resounding call
for more school spirit whenever
you just plain have something
else to do besides gather at the
junction of Highways G and 30 for
a rally. And I II Ivive to loudly
denounce your lack of control:
when your spirit does dcvelon nn.i I
bubble over into a mild "boo" at
the opposition.
I'll be forced by custom to
write everything with the pro
noun "we" instead of "I". Nut
because I have two heads, but just
because that's what a colvumist k-
expectcd to do.
Or is it?
Suppose I so openly broke with
tradition as to try to write a col
umn without using that ubiquitous
editorial "we". Suppose I figured
that too many scribblers had used
that plural form to disguise the
fact that what they wrote was not
the majority opinion of the student
body, or even the opinion of the
paper's staff but, rather, was
merely the opinion of one individ
ual who happened to be acquaint
ed with the mechanics of a typewriter.
Thursday, February 6, 1947
Instructor Contributes1 Eager
To Literature Volume
Supposr instead I made no
pretense that this column would
be anything but my own faulty
opinion on whatever I wrote
about? Suppost instead of try
ing to make this column sound
authoritative by using a flock
of "we's" as an artificial device,
I really tried to reflect your
opinion and make it articulate?
And if I failed, suppose I felt
that you would realize that I
only had the same worm's-eyc
view of this three-ring clam
bake as the rest of you. And,
il my view didn't asree with the
majority, suppose I expected
you to straighten me out, fast?
And suppose I didn't pretend to
have the inside dope that the real
reason we lost the liig Six tiddly-
winks title was because our left
tiddly developed a hangnail titling
a pinball machine the night of the
big match?
Suppose I didn't try at all to be
the "only intentionally humorous
writer on the campus" when I
know there are people in every
coiner or me Kag oltice that can
write funny circles around me.
If some nice guy suddenly found
his weekly allowance would cover
the cost of a box of candy for
a houseful of sorority girls," sup
pose I f.lt that, unless it were
really of exceptional interest, it
should appear in these columns
only at the regular paid advertis
ing rates?
Suppose, in other words I insf
wrote a column that was restrict-
1(1 subject matter onlv hv
your indulgence and your inter
ests? Suppose I just tried to write
it for you instead of at you?
I don't think I can keep all this
in mind either but damned if
I m not gonna try!
Fedde To Attend
Health M voting
Held In Chief mo
Margaret Fedde, Chairman of
the Home E
will attend (lie National Confer
ence on Rural Health to be held
at the Palmer House in Chicago
Feb. 7 and 8.
Miss Fedde, who is chairman of
the Health Committee of the Nor
thern Great Plains Ponrw-il Mill
participate in this series of meet
ings called by the American Medi
cal association in cooperation with
lepicseniauve larm organizations.
Purpose of the conference is to
give the farmer and the doctor
an opportunity to exchange views
regarding the development of bet
ter health service in rural com
munities throughout the ITi,;i...l
States.
Professor William K. Pfeiler of
the university language depart
ment is one of the 239 scholars
and experts who have contributed
to the writing of the "Columbia
Dictionary of Modern European
Literature." It will be published
in a 1)00 -page volume on Feb.
24 by the Columbia Uni
versity Press, according to ad
vance notices of the book, which
was edited bv the late Horatio
Smith of Columbia university.
The "Dictionary" will con tain
nearly 1,200 articles, covering the
literary activities of 31 continental
European countries from about
l.'JTO to the present. The volume
includes articles on approximate
ly 200 Feneh. authors, ISO Ger
man, 100 Russian, 100 Italian, 100
Spanish, 50 Polish, and 40 Checho
slovakian, including snmo littu
known literatures that are written
about for the first ti mo in I-in.
lish.
Professor Pfeiler. who h.-i
gained distinction for hi "U'.-.r
me merman iumct, the in
troduction for which was writ
ten by Georce N. Sinister
dent of Hunter College, wrote
twelve of the articles in the field
of German literature for the "Dic
tionary." Combining sketchy,
although suffi cicnt. hini'r.'inhv
scholarly evaluation, and original
criticism, he has compiled reports
on authors representing three
major classifications in Germanic
literature: the cosmopolitan classi
fication, Pfeiler chose men such
a Zweig, Schnitzler, and Heinrich
mio strove for the emulation of
a civilized European culture and
who bridged the barriers of na
tionalism by rising above toler
ence to the higher plane of ap-
Fied.uion mid complete under-
sianrung of other cultures Hein
rich, for example, was equally
at home m Pans. Rome, or IVr
hn, writing fn.ciy in the lan
guages of these countries.
Having obtained unmatchable
natenal for his recent book,
which bears the informative sub
! o. "the testimony of men of
''t'"i wh f,)liRht .lt ,h0 fl.(iit
Phis his extensive study of other
literature, Trof. Pfeiler was able
to transfuse an understanding to
ms treatment or ucrman war
literature. His study of Erich
Remarque, author of "All Quiet
on the Western Front," and Lud-
wich Rccm were instrumental in
his being named one of the 39
contributors who are to receive
free copies of thjs volume.
There can be no doubt that
the period of German nationalism
represent a definite phase in that
country's literature, as well as in
its political development, and it
is for that reason that analyses
oi me writers of this period have
been included. Among this group
there arc both those writers whose
works were the forerunners of
Hitler in the anticipation of the
fascist doctrine of nationalism,
and those writers wlin ftioiicii,i
during the reign of Nazism. Men
such as Helman liurte, rabid na
tionalist who wrote both poetry
and essays, and Oevilinger, who
wrote outstanding novels dealing
witn Russian captivity and the
con tl icts between the Kolshevic
and the White T?i
v mil Ul II IIUI,
represent unique literary and psy
chological studies.
Coeds Forget
To Beaver
An entire summer was spent by
Professor Pfeiler in the New York
i uuiic Library reading the com
plete works in the original Ger
man of the auth HI'S tie lrn'i(i,l
An additional period of several
years was spent doing additional
research and tlje final writing of
the theses that range from JJ00
to 1,300 words. The completed
volume to which all of these men
gave their time and effort only
as a contribution to a scholarly
work, represents the best inte
grated and most up to date volume
of its kind ever compiled.
Commenting on the indefatig
able work of the editor, Horatio
Smith, who died last summer be
fore seeing .the completion of ids
gigantic undertaking, Professor
I feiler said that he was truly an
outstanding man. both under
standing and ai mreri il i n ,.r
work of the contributers, allow
ing them a free-hand in their
work.
i "if K0 aKain. trudgim?
back and forth to class like 3
of turtles. After Ce,: .... tra
cnt prayers for exam week to end
we re all in a worse predicament
going to school again tumcnt
When, during the wiu
session, nno little .-..i ... .
discovered a 7n ,
. , , , . I'";, uook sue
had neglected ....... .
the semester, she fii-mi- " . "u
to keep un with .nil ,., .'..:. .
by spending 14 hours per day in
the library. ShoV , .. "
but yesterday she met an eligible
batchelor in the nn ... .
, con now Uiey re rmnr
steady. Scratch one off. 1, 8
There was the innocent fresh
man who decided that cutting
classes was a definite detriment
to a hlllh aver.Ti'e t:
- Doe i e
solved also firmlv. to mh.i ....
of her classes at all times. Rut
after three days of going to school
from eight until six, she found it
necessary to cut at least one class
per day to eat lunch. After cutting
that single time, she fell back into
iicr iormer nabits, and now -he
spends her day sleeping.
One eager girl changed her ma
jor to chemistry and began to de
vote her life to science. In at
tempting to develoo a
research project, she discovered a
susceptible male, and is now do
ing extensive research on him.
iwu ..in uraw a lot ol conclu
sions from the above statistics
but just remember that you can't
study and learn anything, because
studying too much interferes with
your education. Anyhow, the way
love seems to be floundering
around here, it must be
don't lose heart if you can't con
centrate on Egyptian hieroglyph
ics, because spring was meant tor
finer things than studying.
Penny Carnival Will Reveal
Coeds'1 Remarhable Talents
BV GRACE SMITH
Ever stop to think that the com
poser of "There Is No Place Like
iNebraska really had something
smoKing in his 'ole pipe when he
wrote those still sweet lvriev.
There must be other places in
the world better, or maybe worse,
than our university, but so few of
us win ever live to see them.
Yes, we came to college for an
education both scholastic and so
cial. The only remaining hope is
scholarly we shall be and suc
ceed, if socially we can endure.
Going to classes and battling our
ways through overly crowded
nails (a reference to the 20 min
utes agony of getting into and
out of Sosh) is expected of us as
U. of N. students.
along relaxing and entertaining
lines is plentiful.
Penny Carnival!
For instance, there's the Penny
Carnival.
Sweet and charming Nebraska :
coeds were given an opportunity
to prove their scholastic abilities
in the recent (fatal) final exams
and now they are going to have
the chance to exhibit their in
dividuality and originality in the
forthcoming Penny Carnival.
Let them prove that they can
Push their long and graceful, if
bowed, let's into a whirling rope
hoop. Give them the chance to
win your hearts by song and
dance routines and how-to-win-a-man
campaigns. The Permv
nival will give all an opportunity
see uie outcome of every-day
brain storms.
Last Vear's Winners
Last year, the Phi girls gave
forth with the winninf ttnnt
P.eauty Shoppe routine. while
Jowne Club showed originality in
iheir story book personalities.
This year, the gals on ramniK
promise an even biicor :.ti i,il
tor variety of booths :m,l l,..,.
stunts. You may expect to find
,u"u oi me latest hat styles
excellent suggestions in fortune
telling, and, her usual, you may
rely on a rem.-nlf.-iMr. '
limb and style exhibitions. Who
knows, you might even run into
uiai cnaiming guy or gal you've
been anxious to meet!
Yes, we know you're tired of
crowds and loud voices, but when
t is accompanied bv smiles and
laugnter, you never seem to real
ize that the old elbow j the back
actually hurt as mu- h as it really
did. J
So grab that husband or girl
friend and join us all in an aft
ernoon of fun rnd l.a.d.c a.,.,
way, studying bores us for the
lime beinff, and any legitimate
excuse is commendable.
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