University of Nebraska Kearney - Blue and Gold Yearbook (Kearney, NE)

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HEW I, CISIIIf, . . Senator Edward Burke and President Herbert Cushing leave the administration building where Mr. Burke had just spoken at con- vocation . . .' Someone, a student, once said, If you don't like President Cushing it's your own fault. Well, a generality is a generality, but most students, seeing him swing through the halls, stopping to speak to them, or know- ing the manner in which he congratulates an athlete on a good play, have felt the warm glow of his friendship and his sincere interest in young people. He is the biggest man and the tallest man on the campus. Someone else once said that a person as large as he is doesn't have much to worry about. Of course, we know that a college president always has some- thing to worry about, but the idea is that his broad shoulders seem more than adequate to carry the burden of the thousand-and-one problems to be found in any college. Prospective teachers who anticipate with fear their first week of teaching, might be relieved to know that as a gangling seventeen-year- old boy out of high school, President Cushing experienced the same Page 12

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Students come and go, while the men and women of the administra- tion and faculty strive unceasingly to improve the institution. Nor have their strivings been in vain, for on all sides we see tangible evidence of their persevering efforts—a new Men's Hall, a well-planned athletic field, an unusual course in radio broadcasting, improvements in the library, and in other departments of the school. Not so obvious per- haps, but just as much felt, was the raising of scholastic standards. The students of our college can be justly proud of the administrators and faculty they have to guide them. . . . while getting ready hr a faculty meeting, Miss Robinson and Mr. Dail of the language department glance through some German newspapers ... Page 11

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feeling. Rumor has it that, though his rural school was only eighteen miles away, he didn't get home until Christ- mas. After being graduated from Grand Island College, President Cushing man- aged to find diversified positions: first, he was a newspaper man, then in turn, county superintendent, secretary of the Food, Drug, Dairy, and Oil Commission, deputy state superintendent, and last, college president. Graduate work for the Master's de- gree was taken at the University of Chicago, and at the University of Ne- braska. In 1936, Nebraska Wesleyan University conferred on him the Doc- tor's degree. He likes to write; he likes to sing; he likes to play golf; and he likes to read Robert Browning. All this and presi- dent, too, but, probably, he likes to be president best of all. . . President Cushing and Mrs. Ruby Mathews 'chat' at a faculty dinner held in September. . . . Antelope Editor, Jean Sullivan and the editor and business manager of the Blue and Gold discuss publica- tions with President Cushing. . . Page 13