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some Relics of Barbarism.
Among what may be justly and rightfully called relies of barbarism, I know of none to which the term could be applied with more peculiar appropriateness than some of the principles which constitute the economy of the University of Kansas. Among these the palm of absurdity and general fitness to be embodied in the executive code of the institution just north of us, is that obsolete and fossilscent system of examinations. In and of itself this system would not present features so objectionable, or phases so open to criticism, were it not for the direct and indirect consequences which it entails. I am discussing this question, let it be understood, only as it plays a part in the economy of University life, and as it constitutes one of the absolute or obsolescent systems of managing institutions conducted on liberal and advanced principles of thought. For the tender years of childhood schooldays, it may, for the sake of argument, be admitted that it is sufficient. But the whole system is flagrantly at variance with the principles which should govern the education of the last years of school life. I have little sympathy with the timid conservatism which says that old fogy ideas should not be abandoned until our proud pretensions of being a University indeed are fully realized. I believe that this policy is inconsistent with Kansasistic progressiveness. While I do not favor any pretentious boasting of what it would be impossible to carry to success, I am heartily in favor, on the other hand, of bending every energy toward the realization of the ideal for which we should strive. I believe that the way to develop our institution into the ideal University, is to embody in its management the principles by which the ideal University should be governed. The process is one of evolution, and evolution must self-evidently be attended or hung upon involution. You cannot take out what you don't put in. This is Joseph Cook or Evolution, but it applies as vitally to the case in point. For one I fail to see either the logic or the common sense of the policy which says we are but a University in name, and should therefore adopt nothing which enters into the economy of the ideal University. The single evil of the inevitable tendency to necessitate "cramming" is enough to condemn the whole policy. A system must not be judged alone by its wisdom in theory, but its tendency in practice. It is one of the prevalent sophisms of the age that whatever is perfect in theory must be infallible in practice. It is not so. And thus, while a theory unobnoxious in its conception may lead to evils when carried into practice, these same evils necessarily condemn the theory of which the theory may be perfectly innocent, per se. The tendency to cause "cramming," aside from its intrinsic harmfulness, is a pregnant cause of injustice. Not that it fosters a tendency to favoritism, but as was very pertinently elaborated in the exhaustive expose of the evils of the system to which I have before referred, those who make special and spasmodic preparation for examination have an immense and unfair advantage, for the time being, over those who do not. And the peculiar perniciousness of the matter lies in the fact that on the records these grades far outweigh the others. But by a reaction, those who do not "cram" are better off in the long run. Yet as long as human desire gravitates toward hen-roosts, so long will it prompt students to sacrifice their highest good to obtain the golden—or rather gilded—egg of brilliant grades. And so long will this system
stand as a reproach to enlightened education.
There is another matter which possesses claims upon the appellation of a relic of barbarism which rivals those of the system of examinations, and that is the existence in the University of a clannish aristocracy. Of allisms the most detestable is that of cliqueism. True as it is that sterling worth ever lies in the golden mean, and trite as is the truism that all is not gold that glitters, it is often disheartening to honest worth, even when soothed and sustained by the consciousness that it is true metal and will stand the test in the crucible of experience—it is often dishartening, I say, to be compelled to plod on and up the rugged hill of college life unheeded and alone, and to see the prize of the admiration of its fellow students snatched from it by more showy and attractive individuals. There is a class of these vapid, butterfly aristocrats, brainless and vain as peacocks, whose chief characteristic is a certain glibness which sugarcoats every bitter pill of difficulty which sterling mediocrity is compelled to take without even a drink of water. These, drawn together by the "fellowship of kindred minds," form our vapid, cliquish aristocracy. I have called this spirit a relic of barbarism because it is a last flickering remnant of the aristocracy which it is the mission of the democracy of equality to supersede.
The last reliic of barbarism of which I wish to speak, is that meanest of impositions - the compelling of one man to do two men's work for a boy's wages. As a consequence it follows in the very nature of things that both must be neglected. I refer to Prof. Brownell. Ever since he came here he has been overworked and has been compelled to yield temporarily to the strain placed upon him. The department of elocation alone, desultory and fragmentary as it is, consumes twice the time that another member of the faculty is actively engaged in performing the duties pertaining to his department. Besides this, it is intrinsically the most arduous and exacting of all the departments, exerting a physical strain more severe than is put upon any other professor, and in times of unusual pressure the burden becomes almost unendurable. But not only is Prof. Brownell required to perform all the duties and more pertaining to the department of elocation, but he must take charge of a class in English. Such imposition is a disgrace to our western progressiveness, and is more of a piece with the German conception of paupe pedagogues. U. Z. N.
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What the Courier Would Like to
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Who it is that takes the Courier copy off the hook.
Which one of Highbargin's boarders hooked the cider jug.
Why Allen "don't want any more such stuff."
If some of the boys are not experts at Y. M.C.A.billiards.
When the foot ball team is going to materialize.
And if he didn't feel sold.
If Smith has missed any more articles.
What has become of the chess match that Fox and Little were to play.
And why some one does not write another View on the subject.
When the lunch counter scheme is going into effect.
Freshman chemistry class has over sixty members. It is the largest chemistry class ever enrolled in the University.
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