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The Daily Nebraskan
Friday, December 13, 1957
Editorial Comment
Downs and Apathy
Did you get your share of downs? To meet
your quota you would have to get somewhere
between one and two hours of downs. The
figure released by the office of the Associate
Dean of Student Affairs, Frank Halgren, was
1.782. This, he said, was the median of the
percentages of down hours per man in fraterni
ties. No figures are compiled for the non-fraternity
males, but they would be comparable
to tnose of the Greek men. Last semester the
all-fraternity average was but a few points
above the all-university male average.
What is the cause of so many down hours,
and is this a creditable critia for judging the
University student to be apathetic? This is no
answer with any a-mount of authority. But, to
most it is evident that the average college
student "just doesnt care."
Neither this Uninversity nor the other Ameri
can, universities were always plagued by this
sense of apathy. All indications seem to show
that at one time, "universities were perme
ated with an atmosphere of excellence. They
used to not just talk about a thing called
"spirit' but to live it in all phases of their
college life.
Whatever things may be said for the well
rounded, smoothly adapted, broadly interested
young college man of today must be said
multifold for the equally undistracted, single
intentioned student of the past whose sole
reason for being at college was to learn.
We have not only lost the spirit and industry
in our present universities, but we have also
lost the sense of competitive spirit. Not the
competition of individuals, of number three
man with number two man, and number two
with number one, but rather that competition
with tradition. The sense of competition the
American uninversities must preserve is the
consistent and sometimes ruthless competi
tion with the great, never-to-be-beaten rival
tradition. We do have tradition, and it is for us
to but try to equal it.
Education is only born in the classroom; it
comes to life in the air of the university com
munity. The tradition, the spirit and the sense
of oompetitkai cultivate this life and con
tribute the "laiSt full measure" to true education.
'Biff' Government?
The following editorial is another In our
scries f editorial from the leading news
paper of the nation. This one is taken from
the Wall Street Journal.
Government, the Tax Foundation keeps re
minding us, continues to grow in costs and
services, ranging from payrolls to pamphlets.
Since there doesn't seem to be very much any
body outside Government can do about it, we
do wish Government would at least heed its
cwn advice.
Take the Federal payrolls, for example. The
civilian employes of the Executive Branch in
1947 numbered 2,116,000 a nd their pay amount
ed to an average of $162 in taxes for every
family in the country. Now 10 years later an
estimated 2,140,000 people on the civilian Fed
eral payroll of the Executive Branch are paid
sn estimated $11,066,000,000 or $255 in taxes for
every family in the country. J)on't know shout
you; but we could use that extra $93 we pay
in taxes.
And we think you could probably use some
of the costs of Government paperwork includ
ing the printing of admonitory advice. The
Government uses 5,400 freight cars of paper
every year for printing, duplicating and office
purposes including such pamphlets as "Tools
for Food Preparation and Dishwashing."
"Tools for Food Preparation and Dishwash
ing" contains some advice we don't think
housewives need at all but, as we started out
saying in the beginning of these comments,
we certainly do wish the Government would
heed its own advice when it comes to over
loading the taxpayers with costs and services.
The advice goes like this:
"Dishpans should be large enough to hold
the dishes but not too large for the sink,"
The Religious Week
By SYLVIA STEIYER
Religious Editor
Methodist Student House
1417 R St.
Friday, Dec. 13
Party"
Saturday, Dec. 14
8 a.m. Work Forty
Sunday, Dec. 15
5 p.m. Supper and choir Christmas Program
Tuesday, Dec. 17
7:05 p.m. Kappa Phi
7:30 p.m. Sigma Theta Epsilon
Wednesday, Dec. 18
7 a.m. Cabinet
7 P.M. Protestant Christmas Service at
Presby House.
Baptist-Christian Sttltient Fellowship
1237 R St.
Friday, Dec. 13
6:30 p.m. Installation Banquet at First Chris
tian Church, speaker Gustave Ferre.
Meet at University Pastor's home for caroling
afterwards.
Sunday, Dec. 15
6 p.m. Supper, worship, and forum "analysis
of the Christmas Story," Dr. Patterson,
speaker.
Wednesday, Dec. 18
7 a.m. Cabinet
7 p.m. Protestant Christmas Program at Pres
by House
Congregational Pretbyterian Fellowship
333 No. 14th
Sunday, Dec. 15
9:30 and 11 a.m. Worship
5:30 p.m. Special Christmas service and
program caroling.
Monday, Dec. 16
7 a.m. Breakfast and bible study; Genesis
3 p.m. Contemporary Theology
6 p.m. Graduate
Wednesday, Dec. 18
7 a.m. Cabinet
7 p.m. Protestant Christmas Service at Presby
House
Evangelical United Brethren Student Fellowship
Student Union
Sunday, Dec. 15
4:45 p.m. Christmas Party, meet in lobby
Newman Club
1602 Q
Sunday, Dec. 15
Masses 8, 9, 10, and 11 a.m. and 12 p.m.
5:30 p.m. Newman Club supper
Wednesday, Dec. 18
7 p.m. Caroling
-Weekday Masses 6:45 a.m. and 7:15 a.m.
Saturday Masses 7:15 a.m. and 8 a.m.
Confession 7'30 p.m. Saturday and before all
masses.
Legion of Mary
4:15 p.m. Tuesday and Friday
8 p.m. Tuesday, Ag Activities Bldg.
B'nal B'rlth Hillel Foundation
Tifereth Israel Synagogue
32nd and Sheridan
Friday, Dec. 13
8 p.m. Friday evening services
Saturday, Dec. 14
8 a.m. Sabbath services
South Street Temple
20th and South St.
Friday, Dec. 13
8 p.m. Friday evening services
University Lutheran Chapel (Missouri Synod)
15th It Q
Friday, Dec. 13
7 p.m. Married students pot -lurk supper
Sunday, Dec. 15
10:45 a.m, Pre-Christmas Worship
5:30 p.m. Gamma Delta supper and caroling
Tuesday, Dec. 17
7 p.m. Christian Doctrine
Wednesday, Dec. 18
7 p.m. Choir
Thursday, Dec. 19
3:30-5:30 p.m. Coffee hours
Ag International
3357 Holdrege
Sunday, Dec. 15
5 p.m. Supper, worship, caroling and Christ
mas decorating
Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship
Student Union
Friday, Dec. 13
7 p.m. Caroling
Tuesday, Dec. 17
7 p.m. Bible Study at 317 No. 18th
Thursday, Dec. 19
7:30 p.m. Fellowship
Lutheran Student House
535 No. 16th
Friday, Dec. 13
6 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. Club Christmas Supper
Dr. R. Videbeck, speaker
Sunday, Dec. 15
9:45 a.m. Bible classes at 1200 No. 37 and
535 No. 16th
8:30 a.m. Choir sings at Veterans' Hospital
(Meet at Student House)
10:30 a.m. Coffee and rolls
11 a.m. Worship
5:30 p.m. L.S.A. Christmas supper
6:15 p.m. L.S.A. Christmas Candlelight Serv
ice 7:30 p.m. Carolling to shut-ins Cocoa and
cookies at the house after carolling
Wednesday, Dec. 18
7 p.m. Protestant Christmas Services at Pres
by House
Choir party at House after Services
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A Nebraskaii Scries
AEOs Rickover Attributes U.S. Education Las
To the Failure to Adapt to Changing Needs
This is the second in a scries
of articles featuring ex
cerpts from the speech deliv
ered by Admiral H. G. Rick
over at the dedication of the
Naval Nuclear Power Training
School in New London, Conn.
Adm. Rickover is chief of the
Naval Reactors Branch of the
Division of Reactor Development
under the I'.S. Atomic Energy
Commission.
One of the great defects of our
educational system is that it does
not respond to changing national
needs for specific kinds of pro
fessional people. Because of the
considerable latitude allowed to
the student in selecting subjects,
not only in college but even in
high school, he may be so un
prepared to study for a given pro
fession as virtually to bar him
from it unless he has begun de
liberately to prepare himself for
it in high school. For example, we
need a great many physicists now.
But a youngster who has taken
no physics and little mathematics
in high school, as is true of most
of our high school graduates, and
who then takes the usual two years
of liberal arts in college is, in
effect, precluded from becoming
a physicist. And yet in today's
rapidly changing technological civ
lization it is absolutely essential
that the educational system be
sufficiently elastic to permit stu
dents to shift quickly into study
for those professions most needed
at any given moment.
This inelasticity of our school
system is the direct result of the
sentimental attachment we hold
for the concept of a comprehensive
school in which all children stu
pid, average, talented and bright
march sedately up to the 18th
year, absorbing so little real edu
cation that it takes another four
years at college before the pre
professional stage of education is
completed. In order to make some
small allowance for different men
tal capacities we allow junior and
senior high schoqj pupils consider
able leeway in selection of sub
jects. Electives are a necesary
conequence of forcing the educa
tional strait jacket of the com
prehensive school on all children
in the name of educational democ
racy. We thus thrust upon our
teen-agers decisions which may
adversely affect not only their
own professional careers but also
the country's ability to obtain the
professionals it needs.
I have long felt that we erred
grievously when we set up our
own public education system with
out first making a thorough study
nf what at that time were the
best foreign educational systems;
that is. those of continental Eu
rope. England whose educational
experiences have in many ways
paralleled our own showed greater
wisdom. Though then the premier
nation of the world, she was not
too proud to profit from the ex
periences of small countries like
Holland or Switzerland; or poten
tial enemies like France and Germany.
Matthew Arnold, the poet,
equipped with that curious ver
satility so noticeable in England's
educational methods which proved
most useful when England finally
established her own public sec
ondary school system. We might
profitably study these reports our
selves today.
The significant aspect of the
continental educational system is
that it is efiicient and inexpensive
when measured aganst the re
sults obtained. That is not sur
prising when we consider thai in
its basic form it was invented by
Prussia after her defeat by Na
prleon in 1806. At that time, the
country lay prostrate under the
heel of the conqueror; her richest
lands torn away; her treasury
empty. Poor though she was, Prus
sia had to bring the entire country
rapidly from the 17th to the 19th
century, or forego all hope of
ever rising again. A small band
of devoted men did the country
over from top to bottom, includ
ing a thorough and rapid reform
of her educational system which
had deteriorated badly.
Prussia was one of the first
countries to recognize that a mod
ern state must have a citizenry
with at least an elementary edu
cation; that she must have lead
ers sufficiently educated to deal
with the problem of the coming
industrialization. She was one of
the first to make elementary ed
ucation compulsory and free, and
to put all of education under state
control. Being a poor country she
could not afford the leisurely, lux
ury education for her leaders
which wealthy England had de
veloped in the closed circle of
(privately endowed) "public
school" Oxford and Cambridge.
"Public School" students were
taught by Oxford and Cambridge
men and then themselves went to
Oxford and Cambridge if they
wanted mere education.
Continued Tomorrow
Into The Limelight
davc rhoados
In a building where people usu
ally come to view ice hockey, op
eras, and dances, one man com
manded the emotions of about 2,
000 people Tuesday evening by-
preaching the
healing power
of God, empha
sizing, "God
can heal I
can't!" Thir
ty - nine-year
old Rev. Oral
Roberts pre
sented h i s
' s p i r ited
through
prayer and
Rhoades
testimony amid a continual chorus
crying: "Praise the Lord" and
"Ifs good'.
E a rl i e r, Robert F. DeWeese,
Roberts' right hand man, prepared
those attending for what was to
follow, asking the people to clap
their hands and then commenting,
"Now don't your hands feel warm
er?". After a rather dull rendition
of a hymn, he said: "If you sang
for a living, youd starve to
death!"
Then the Rev. Roberts strided
quickly to the center, clutched the
microphone and smiling said: "All
t h os e who love the Lord say
'Amen' ". And ttie chorus rang
clear: "AMEN"!
Later, Oral Roberts sat in a fold
ing chair with his expensive suit
coat off and commanded "Be
healed!" As he pressed his large
hands on the head of a boy to heal
his eyes and with the palms of the
audience uplifted, Roberts ordered
the youngster's sight to be "healed
.with God's saving grace." A wom
an who had to be carried to tre
auditorium because of arthritis
walked shakily down the platform
feeling ttiat "Wonderful Power".
Mr. Hart Armstrong, the Cru
sade's public relations man, told
me in an interview during the three
hour service that Roberts is al
wavs mistaken as a "Faith heal
er". "Not Oral only God heals,"
he commented. At one time dur
ing the service, Rev. Roberts
asked those who desired him to
pray for them to raise their hands,
then to stand, and a moment later,
to come forward to the planform.
After 100 or so had garnered
around him, Roberts asked how
many had come to "give their
hearts to God?" certainly asking
a question they supposedly had not
come to answer. At another point
in ttie service, DeWeese called for
"those who had been saved by
Roberts' ministry to come to the
stage." Again a misleading ques
tion was asked: "What was your
a f f 1 i c t ion and how were you
healed?" The answers came back:
"cancer,' "spine ailment," "stom
ach upset." In answer to this, Mr.
Armstrong readily admitted tnat
sometimes misleading questions
were asked to get the people before
the battery of TV filmcameras. He
said, "Sometimes we give them a
push to receive a more natural
expression of their faith. We also
want to give them something speci
fic to talk about when they come
forward instead of the usual testi
mony of the joy of Crhistian liv
ing." Most students visiting this cam
paign now at the auditorium would
view quite critically the proceed
ings. Many are already comment
ing on this "emotional Faith-healer"
and the value of his program.
It is perhaps easy to be skeptic
of the value of the "healing and
saving nature" of the Crusade.
Like other crusades of this type
and even church ministries, for
that matter the follow up on the
individual's decision is all import
ant. Nevertheless, one cannot oe
skeptical about the value of his
ability to stir these people to feel
a closeness to God and hope with
Oral Roberts that they remain
alive to the message he booms as
he grasps the microphone an
clenches his fists: "All things are
possible through Faith."
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