1929_05 The Daily Collegian May 1929

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SHALL WE RECOGNIZE THEIR  EFFORTS?
We find in the "Here and There" column of this issue a
rather sincere proposal.   Perhaps, the very evident sincerity ol
the  Collegian   writer  should   be   mentioned   as   the  motivating
factor of this editorial.
Now. this publication certainly cannot support, as a matter
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of policy, any or all suggestions made by members of its staff.
But when we chanced upon this suggestion to add prestige to
managerial positions, a plan to acknowledge the services of our
present track manager, we just had to acquiesce.   It would avail
little to repeat the argument here.   Read the article and render
your own judgment.
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Again remember that the opinion offervd is not necessarily
above criticism.   However, we do not think that the "Here and
There" writer  is  airing a  personal  prejudice.    Having accom
panied the team on week-end trips and observed the group as a
unit, he should know whereof he speaks.
If. after reading  the proposal,  you   find   that  the proposal
is a healthy one, then it is your duty to urge the award in your
student body.
Whatever your attitude may be. tlo n..t forget that the dis
position of this case will probably set a precedent.   If you believe
in a university; if you recognize the efforts of students who are
fostering "large college" ideas, you. the creator of managerships.
must dispose of the issue promptly and without bias.
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THE POSSIBLE HIGH SCHOOL ROW
Secondary school fraternities under faculty supervision is
the aim of the bill passed by the lower house of the state legislature and now before the senate. Since the passage of the law
prohibiting high school fraternities in 1909, that law has been
much of a farce, its enforcement trained the high school students, who were members, to be deceitful and to play the hypocrite.   And as well iLs enforcement was ineffectual.
Concerning the matter the Daily Californian says, "A sidelight of the legislativtvact—not without iLs point—is that the
high school principals who opposed the measure admitted that
there now exist more fraternities than ever. Like their kinsmen enforcing prohibition, it seems that the education reformers
never give up hope. But the satisfactory' s'de of the wl
is that if the senate approves the new law thousands of high ""","*
school students each will swear lo one less untruth annually !
and perhaps the world will be spared a few excess hypocrites.
Looking a bit farther and comparing this change with th
movement of other university customs and activities to the hig]
school, it would appear that the legalization
the secondary school will tend to tarnish a
dor of the collegiate brass to the eye of the entering student.
No sooner does a thing become popular and customary i.. _
university than it is immediately copied by the students in sec-  wllh
ondary schools.   With the high school student in "»-«««ii.n of1    ""
the university custom, that same custom becomes
sirable in the eyes of the university man.
A prediction cannot be made but if high scht
y openly, the university fraternity will ht
ng, for the fraternity will have become '
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GRADUATION—THEN
The time draws nigh when a certain number of students if
there on time can gather in a diploma. Otherwise it will be sent
them by mail.
Then what? A scrap of paper, like the German neutrality
treaty with Belgium? An important document like Wilson's Fourteen Points? A waste of time—like the Volstead law
lately the Jones law? In other words, what's the bit ot
tary evidence that so and so has passed through college, or sojourned therein for four years going to mean to so and
months from now?
6ns Sonnenbu rg went to Dartmouth, got a diploma,
football team, and then became a wrestling champion.
i The benefit of a college education further comes to light
through the Chicagoan who executed a football tackle on a holdup man and tanked him over to tbe police.
A graduate of a college is only a freshman in the school of
experience. The Only trouble with that course is that you can only
take it once. And you get no diploma and no credits.
- in other words, philosophy is wonderful when you have time
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