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The effort of tome of the university
students to pursuad the board of re.
gents at their last meeting to grant
then the uae of the armory for their
university dancing parties brought no
remit other than a tired feeling on the
sart of the students who dance. It had
we have sot thought it necessary to
deny the use of the gymnasium for the
purpose. I think such buildings are
allowed by most of the eastern collegee.
even the so-called denominational col
leges, Williams, for instance."
The president of the state university
bees hoped by many citiiena who have of Iowa says: "This university docs not
possess an armory or assembly nail. 11 it
did, I feel sure that our students would
be allowed to use it for dancing, and I
do not think we would hear of any com
plaints." Joseph Swain, president of the Uni
versity of Indiana, says dancing has
never been allowed in any of the asaeai
bly buildings. He adds: "The people
don't learn fine manners of the state of Indiana are not agreed as
BOT bow to talic by study- 10 ae uewraimuy 01 uauciug, auu 11 us
therefore thought best not to encourage
a kind of amusement in which there is
at best a difference of opinion held by
the patrons of the university.
Here is what K. H. Jesse, president of
the university of the state of Missouri,
says: We never allow students to use
university buildings for dancing. They
dance freely at hails which tbey them
selves rent down town, and when the
invite me, which they generally do, on
grand occasions. I go and enjoy myself
very much; so do many of the professors.
intelligent and enlightened opinions
about things in general that the time
had come at last for a formal recogni
tion by the board of the necessity and
utility of some cultivation of the social
side of college life. The university has
turned out so many scholars; how easy
and how satisfactory it would be to turn
out polished gentlemen at the same
time! People
out of books
iag rhetoric. Culture is a growth just
as much as attainment along any other
line and culture requires laboratory
work surely as does chemistry. Cul
ture, iu fact, is something of a science;
indeed, it is the master trade of all.
These other thiegs, classics, liteiature,
cbemistrv, art, medicine, are only its
handmaidens and if a man have all these
without culture he is worse than sound,
ing brass. He has nothing of the sweet -bsss
and light that Matthew Arnold
tsJke about. He is like a miser who has
the wealth, but doesn't know how to get
any good out of it There is always a
time is the development of a people
when learning and abiliiy are supposed
to lurk only behind a boorish manner
and an uncultivated personality. It will
be as occasion for a jubilee when this
epoch pauses forever intohietory for Ne
braska. It seems strange when one
tops to think of it, that we should pay
so little attention to the cultivation of
personal graces and so much to the cul
tivattoB of our intellects when we inflict
our personalities on people incessantly
and our nlellecta so comparatively
seldom.
The pity of this incident is not so
much that the board have seen fit to
refuse to grant a request of the students
but that they should be apparently un
willing to make any advance along the
lines indicated. The trouble is, there
are so many things to consider! The re
geats are in politics of course. They
have political aspirations, and sometimes
a political aspiration is as deadly to
progress as real incompetency. There
are the people out through the state, in
the cities and on the farms, people who
pay just as much taxes as if they were
not Barrow-minded, and they must not
be aroused. And then there are the
foolish people who allow their enthu
siasm is behalf of student freedom to
go past its proper limitsasd by the very
extravagance of -their ideas make sen
sible people afraid of them and their
theories and they must not be encour
aged. And thea there is the ministerial
association, which doesn't even p7
taxes! Their impertinent asscmirg to
interfere in the matter really ought to
have won the regents over to the other
side. But the regents have thought
otherwise aad all there s for us to do is
to ait still and wait for them to change
their minds.. Liberal.
also. But public sentiment in Missouri
would not tolerate the use of state prop
erty for dancing."
E, A. Birge, dean of the College of
Letters and Science, University of Wis
consiu, makes the following statement:
"The students of the University of Wis
consin have been permitted to use the
assembly hall for occasional dances, and
also, more rarely, the university gym
nasium. . . . The university has
never been criticised so far as I know,
for granting its halls to parties of this
kind. In my opinion it is better for the
university to penr.it the use of its build'
IngB under proper restrictions, 'for par
ties of this sort, than to have the students
give parties in halls outside of the uni
versity without official supervision. All
of our social affairs are under the charge
of a standing committee who receive all
applications for parties, consider them,
grant or refuse them, and who exercise
-a good deal of influence unofficu-lly over
students in restricting social matters of
this kind."
President Northrop, of the University
of Minnesota, writes that occasions,
dances are permitted in the university
buildings.
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tion to know the practice of other insti
tutions similar to the University of Ne
braska with reference to dancing.
The president of the University of
Michigan writes: "We do permit stu
dents to use the gymnasium for dancing
ea certain occasions. . . . We have
bee Boasswhat criticised by persons who
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Tbe following notice of the Sunday terrices The quartet of Mendelssohn was un '
in the UniTmalut chnrch April 12 and of If Us -fj a - j,
RichanWs recital wen. crowded oat of exPectedl- dramatic-unexpectedly to
laat week's Conner. me at any . for despite certain im-
passioned strains in his -Elijah" and in
The rain kept many persons from the concert overtures, I am apt to think
attending the usual performance of the of Mendelssohn as a composer whose
llagenow Quartet on last Sunday after- works are permeated with a serene
noon. At four o'clock it was raining beauty rather than with the rugged
hard and the musicians took their strength of a rVethoven.
places in the presence of a devoted few Nevertheless this work is dramatic
who nevertheless were rewarded for enoush. Intent anil aimm .:..
A movement from an The quartet was at its best in this numl
early work of that greatest of Russian ber.
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