UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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MONDAY, APRIL 1, 1912.
POOR RICHARD SAYS:
A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.
D. L. ROWLANDS
It is with sorrow that the death of Mr. D. L. Rowlands is noted. For years his close association with student life and student activities has bound him so closely to the interests of the University that he and his book-store appeared to be an essential part of the institution.
It is sufficient tribute to him to say that his death caused general sorrow in the University community and among those with whom he came in contact in a business way.
He was genial, he was kind, he was considerate. What more was needed to win for him the friendships that he enjoyed?
EMPHASIZES NEED OF MONEY FOR REPAIRS
Now that everyone is sure that Spring is really here, isn't it high time that the student boarding houses begin serving sahasrasa tea?
The following quotations deal with two attitudes toward the recent high school conference conducted by the School of Education. The reader should judge for himself which comment seems captious, and which sound. At least one point is clear:—that the University could spend to good advantage an appropriation for repairs:
From the principal of the Abilene high school; in the Abilene Chronicle; There is little doubt but that the high school conference is a means of advertising the state school and mills schools of the state well acquainted with what they have to offer there. And since this is so we cannot but wonder why certain of the meetings mills anything but a credit to the University so far as their appearance went. For instance the room in which the appointee once such as any high school in the state would have been ashamed to usher visitors into. The walls were rough, stained, and full of great color. There were three of the same material as the walls, the black well worn off, full of holes, and covered with scrawls and rude caution, but no body stepped up and disrepair. We cannot but wonder just what the object in receiving the representatives of the schools which furnish the unintended part of its students, could have been.
As for the conference itself, some parts were good and some bad. We have no wish to criticize, but just invite students to attend a invited school men to class as large a state as ours is and listen to long talks by men whose connection with the work discussed if distant, or whose ideas as expressed are vague and women want live topics discussed in a way that will give us a definite idea how to solve common problems. We want men in authority with exerting power to outline the best methods of dealing, not with the problems that come only to the very large schools, or to the people with few real and common problems were touched upon. Fewer even than these were the definite solutions offered. We listened to the instance of two high school grades, who refused to take part in school programs with classmates who were years younger than he, because he felt that it was humiliating to him, and thus landed him in reaffirmation. We listened to the truth that something ought to have been done to keep him from the house of corrections, so we ususet how it was to be done. We listened to a plan for testing the average powers of the high school student
that length of lesson may be estimated, which was good. But this speaker teaches not a single class the year round and draws his pay just to make such investments as he would like. He wird of carrying such a plan on where the teachers teach from five to six classes to prepare for, which means work with hardly a break from early morning that a night school works great good to some communities, but no information relative to the practicability of carrying one on in a small town and that the school is often even. What the majority of teachers want is suggestions to help in the average high school.
From the superintendent of the Junction City schools;
After sufficient time to reflect upon it and allowing my impressions to become clear, I went to express of your time to express to you the conviction that the meeting we had at Lawrence last week was in my judgment, which is such conferences I have ever attended.
That all educational ideals and results are not dependent upon mere polish of furniture and newness of wall finish, (although the University and the School of Education really need this sort of equipment), one should reflect upon the following paragraph, which is taken from the description given by the chemist, Wohler, of his visit to the famous laboratory of Berzelius:—"No water, no gas, no hoods, no oven, were to be seen; a couple of plain tables, a blowpipe, a few shelves with bottles, a little simple apparatus, and large water barrel wherein Anna, the ancient cook of the establishment, washed the laboratory dishes, completed the furnishings of this room, famous throughout Europe for the work which had been done in it. In the kitchen which adjoined, and where Anna cooked, was a small furnace and a sand bath for heating purposes."
As to the program of the conference, it was chiefly unique in that Kansas school problems and concrete school activities were the topics of four-fifths of all the discussions. The University educators found out that the schoolmen of the state were actually doing things which they needed to know about. Even the out-state lecturers centered their discussions upon those issues which were common already to many school communities. The literal specific directions for purely local problems, (apparently desired by one of the above writers), were of course not in evidence, the assumption being that, given a clear statement of the principles at stake and scientific educational methods to be employed, any ingenious schoolman could work out how on salvation. This seems, indeed, to be the consensus of favorable option expressed in numerous letters received by Dean Johnston of the School of Education. As to "definite solutions" it is well that few were proclaimed at this stage of school development.
The next conference, those directing it assert, will be like the present one, only more so. One of the above quoted comments is unique in being the only unfavorable one noted—and is therefore interesting.
When he was ousted from his position as principal of a grammar school in Bristol, Rhode Island, because he took an active part in city politics., John H. Bailey set to work to secure his re-statement. He entered the political field to accomplish this and aided by his former pupils who went to the polls and talked in his interest, he won carrying the election for himself for membership in the council and seating his candidates on the school board.
PUPILS ARE GOOD POLITICIANS
AN EDITORIAL BY MR. AESOP
NEE day a countryman going to the nest of his Goose found an egg in it and glistened. When he took it and heavy as lead and he was going to throw it way, because he thought a boy had taken it. He took it home on second thoughts, and soon found to his delight that it was an egg of pure gold. Every morning he became rich by selling his eggs, as he grew rich he grew greedy; and so soon became rich by selling his eggs. The Goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find—nothing.
Greed oft o'erreaches itself.
STUDENT OPINION
The editor is not responsible for the views expressed here. Communications must be signed as an evidence of good faith.
ABOUT 'THE TORCH.'
Certainly no more representative body of the leading girls in the senior class can be chosen than the one that has been chosen to form the new society of "The Torch." The method of choosing these girls was in itself a remarkable departure from the ordinary. The theoretically it looks well, and now in practice it has demonstrated that it works well. If such a method will result in approximately as good results everywhere else, then it will let us it for the choosing of members in the rest of our class societies, for the men as well as for the women. It would make our class societies more representative, more significant, and of more consequence in the student affairs of the University.
To the Daily Kansan:
A SENIOR 'ED.
LAW SCHOOLS AND THE LAW'S DELAY
WHAT DO STUDENTS KNOW?
Much of the law's delay, so often discussed and condemned of late, is ascribed in the annual report of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of teaching to the excessive number of law schools and the poor quality of instruction given in many of them. The result, according to the report, is the increase in the number of years of an army of more or less incompetent lawyers, whose ignorance does not a little toward slowing down the wheels of justice.
ILLITERACY IN AMERICA
That may be so, and it cannot be doubted that there are too many law schools, that in many of them the requirements for admission are too low and the course of study too short, or that a good many of their graduates would be better employed had they learned carpentry or plumbing. One cannot help remembering, however, that the little, no-account lawyers are not the men who keep cases dragging along through the courts for years. This is rathmore in fact, with more than simply causes of ignorance or incompetence, that are always asking for postponements and making appeals from decisions.
And it is a fact too, that great lawyers, like great doctors, not infrequently come from schools open, as such, to severe criticism. That, of course, is not a defense of the bad schools, or even an argument against decreasing their number; still less it is to claim that their graduates rank with those from the really good schools. It is only reason for them to fear that education obtains almost anywhere by those who really want to learn and have the brains to use what they are taught—and what they teach themselves—New York Times.
Another professor joins the ranks of the critics of college students with the statement that he has found many students who do not know that France
Of persons over ten years of age in the United States there are five and a half millions who cannot read or write. Of these about 40 per cent are negroes. Born in Africa that there are native-born whites to the number of 1,533,530 who are illiterate.
Some encouragement, however, is to be had from the fact that illiteracy has decreased substantially during the last decade. The proportion, according to the census of 1900, was 10.7 and now only 7.7. There is reason to believe that this will be reduced still more in the next ten years. The chief native white illiteracy is among the "poor whites" of the south, and their needs are being met more thoroughly than ever. Ten years from now will find the health crisis a reality, never been before, with a more widely distributed prosperity, we trust, and more diversified occupations. Wealth and business activity will bring social advantages to the poorer classes and education child<sup>4</sup> among them.
TRAMPING ABROAD
I am going to make the fourth trip to Europe with my boy in the future. It will be a staeerage trip and third-class on the Continent. Any young man who cannot "rough it" and forego the meaningless luxuries is a molly-coddle. A college boy, above all, ought to be able to make a trip like that. While money is a necessity, it is by no means the most important factor. It is, however, absolutely necessary that one know something about European history, art, economics, and science. With this knowledge and a broad mind such a trip can be made on an allowance of $250 for an eight-weeks' tramp all over Europe—HARVARD in New York Times.
FRIENDSHIP OF BOOKS
a taste for books is the pleasure and glory of my life...I would not exchange it for the wealth of the Indies...
The miseries of a vacant life are never known to a man whose hours are insufficient for a man the inexhaustible pleasures of study. ...The love of study,
from enjoyment, supplies each day, each hour, with a perpetual round of independent and rational pleasure.
EDWARD GIBBON
is a republic or think that Portugal is a city, who have no knowledge of the chief industries of a great country or are ignorant of the difference between latitude and longitude. Recently a Harvard professor complained that not a student in a class of 100 knew anything about Artistole; other instructors have lamented the ignorance of the Bible and English literature.
Poor college student—what does he know? Yet somehow he is admitted to the college and eventually is graduated from it. The number of college students has greatly increased over the years, quality determined by number? There are still scholars, doubtless, but what is the average student?
If such criticisms continue, indignant graduates of mature years may demand an investigation to determine what has happened to the colleges and preparatory schools. The public already may well ask: What is education, anyway? - Chicago Record-Herald.
UNDERGRADUATE STUNTS
It is easy to poke fun at the performances imposed upon university students ambitions to add their names to the roster of famous undergraduates societies, but is there nothing to be done as them as a serious preparation for life?
Rolling an undressed peanut with a needle for an eight of a mile, while hampered by a hobble skirt, a picture hat, and high-heeled shoes, for instance, may seem a rather severe test, but the student who goes through it may congratulate himself if he never wishes in for the task. In many cases, for the task, let us say, of defending a client of more shrewdness than scruppulousness.
Measuring a given distance with a live eel, too, undoubtedly has its peculiar difficulties, but is it so much harder than appeal plausibly for honest votes upon the basis of a crooked party record? Momentarily embarrassing as it may be to ask impudent questions of strangers, or to be taken for a lunatic, the compromise that one thus makes with his self-respect is not very serious. To be a really faithful reflection of non-academic doings of the sort we have mentioned, undergraduate" stumps will have to be extended to involve deeper outrage of one's notions of what is really respectable.
THINK IT OVER
A good, two poors, and a con, Bill,
Those are my marks this year.
There're rotten, there's no doubt
about it.
The fact is, I didn't come near.
And with book lying flat out before me,
My thoughts idly drift away
A child's selfish desire.
at the job when billed hours.
At a hundred a month, darned good pay!
I'm no stude-that's a foregone conclusion,
I'm no study -- that's a m-
clusion,
so why make my time here at school,
I could easily earn my own living,
so why pass it up — what a fool!
But pondering o'er my folly
and cursing myself for it all
My mind wanders back to the pleasures
Of college and then I recall.
The fun on the lake in the springtime.
With banjos a-strummen' long shore
And the parties the boys will be having
While I am cooped up in a store.
And I think of the hearth in the winter
With follows all gathered around
Of the songs that I'm sure they'll be
singing.
And I think of how good they will
know.
I know I can loafer at studies,
但 I haven't quite yet got the "kick"
I'm going to start once again, Bill
For I guess I've decided to stick.
—B. R, B. in the Sinhin.
OLD FRIENDS IN VERSE
THE FLIGHT OF YOUTH
There are gains for all our losses,
There are balms for all pain;
But it takes something from our hearts,
And it never comes again.
We are stronger, and are better,
Under manhood's sterner reign;
She told that something sweet
Followed me down feet,
And will never come again.
Something beautiful is vanished,
and nothing at all remains;
We behold it everywhere,
On the earth, and in the air,
But it never comes again.
H Spondon
—R. H. STODDARD.
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