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it; and it became the subject of state legislation when its stand in favor of prohibition helped to place Lincoln in the dry column.
Not only has the city furnished practice in politics and chance for observation of courts and legislatures, but opportunity for social work as well. Investigations of a great variety of social problems, ranging in importance from class and seminar papers to doctoral theses, have been based on local data. Students carry on their field work in the social sciences through numerous community agencies—charitable, penal, educational, industrial, recreational, health, and religious.
To a great degree the city recognizes the responsibility laid upon it through the presence of a large student body. There is a conspicuous absence of any desire to exploit it on the part of the city at large. Its tastes are catered to—perhaps too largely but at least indulgently—in amusements; and the program of the churches is shaped with the students in mind. Their presence has always furnished a talking point for civic reform, and on their account various agencies which might contribute to their demoralization have undoubtedly been more easily disposed of, or have received stricter supervision.
The University justifies its existence best by the service it renders. This consists primarily in the training for leadership; but its second service is the practical help given by men and women of broad study to the problems of the community. More and more must this latter function be exercised, and the community served be enlarged from the locality in which the University is situated to include every town and open country district in the state.
HATTIE PLUM WILLIAMS.
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