University of Nebraska Omaha - Tomahawk / Gateway Yearbook (Omaha, NE)

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fice it to say that an incoming- Freshman class puts up a difficult challenge, not only to other college classes, but to all successors, in bidding them to measure up in pep, initiative, and ingenuity in the matter of entertain- ment. There is no more pardonable and wholesome rivalry possible than that between the classes in their ambitions each to contribute a social event that will live in memories of Auld Lang Syne. We shall not soon forget many pleasant and profitable chapel exer- cises during the year. Daily convocation affords a great meeting-point and is the clearing-house of student interests and activities. It promotes the get-together spirit as nothing else can do. In fact, it takes a little re- hgion to hai-monize all kinds of human interests. In the sphere of athletics the University has made a distinctly good record. Very creditable has been the co-operation of the Student Man- agement and the Coach with the Faculty in the effort to place our ath- letics on the highest plane of academic honor. Wfe are resolved that the problems and handicaps which beset us as a young institution in actualiz- ing our ambitions in intercollegiate contests, shall not induce us to juggle with established standards and ideals of academic sportsmanship. Fur- thermore, we cannot permit our chances for recognized championship to be jeopardized by permitting men to play on the team who do not have an academic standing- or whose playing only results in disqualifying the team for any recog-nition on the part of those institutions whom we desii- ' e to emulate. We are not primarily an athletic association incidentally con- ducting some education work. Rather are we an educational institution cultivating brawn as an accessory to brain. Spurious and spasmodic devo- tion to studies does not suffice for eligibility to a place on our teams.

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%v v v.v,v.v v. v.v■v■ v . v.v.vv v.v. Vl.vA I DR. JENKINS ' REVIEW THE current year soon to close has been in every way the very best one in the history of the University of Omaha. It opened with a consid- erable increase in the enrollment of regular college students. This was chiefly due to the large number of Freshmen who entered as regular students and so completely identified themselves with the life and interests of the institution. As must be manifest, this is the kind of an increase that particularly augurs vvell for the growth of the institution ; for, while irregular and special students constitute a large and important element in the student body and contribute immensely to the variety and breadth of our educational inter- ests, nevertheless, it is the students who are pursuing courses with a view to graduation that constitute the nucleating center of the student body. To these we must especially look for the distinctive esprit de corps, for solidarity and unity of interests, for rightly conceived ideals, for well di- rected initiative, and for the perpetuation of our most cherished traditions. Accordingly, it is in the highest degree gratifying to note that the number of regular students is distinctly larger than in any previous year. It is all the more irrtportant to note this fact in view of the admission to the insti- tution of a large group of Federal Vocational Students whose entrance greatly reduces the percentage of regular students in attendance. The year has been one of incessant and varied activity on the part of the students. This activity has not, to be sure, been all spent in the prose- cution of studies. It has, however, been spent in wholesome ways and un- dertakings which have betokened splendid haiTnony, enthusiasm, enter- prise and loyalty to the Univei ' sity. While sharp rivalries have been man- ifest at times, the general disposition has been for the suppi ' ession of par- tisanship spirit and of clique rule. Too much praise cannot be given to the Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W. C. A. for their efforts in connection with the i eception of new students at the opening of the school year. It was a glorious success and set a splendid precedent for the succeeding social events of the year. These organiza- tions have rendered signal service not only in promoting that moral and spiritual growth which is essential to well-rounded personal development, [« ' i| but also in sustaining and crystalizing that sense of common interest and that co-operation which is so vital to the general welfare of the institution. The class parties will be long remembered as highly enjoyable events. It would be difficult and, in any case, graceless to make comparisons. Suf- Page 22.

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