SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
COMMENT
What Price Education?
Poster-laden bulletin boards in Frank Strong hall broadcast the fact that we could, for a "small sums," attend such distinguished institutions as the International Summer University of Mexico City, the Universite de Geneve, or the Universite de Dijon. Perhaps if none of these mellow-with-age institutions suit our fancy, we could be satisfied at the Universidade de Coimbra at Coimbra, Portugal.
And if the pecunious student be still unsatisfied, there are countless other institutions, all citadels of Old World learning, that would be willing to dispense knowledge to the student in return for the privilege of helping him dispense his dollars.
There has always been an element of romanticism connected with study in Europe. Although we know nothing of the facts, we just wonder if our young but vigorous universities can't offer twice the educational opportunities.
One Is Plenty
We don't pretend to know. We just wonder. ___
We 'view with alarm' that school in Washington where the wives of Congressmen are being taught how to make speeches.
to make speeches.
Not, we add in haste, that we question the right of any woman to talk as much as any Congressman, if such a thing is possible. And not that we doubt the ability of many of these wives to make better speeches than their husbands. But in a country where the supply of oratory already so far exceeds the demand we don't like the idea of deliberately developing two speech-makers to a family.
Slowing Down
As if we didn't have enough to worry about, here comes a british astronomer, Harold Spencer Jones, with the information that "somewhere an unknown gigantic brake has been clamped on the spinning world, slowing it down."
In some manner we don't quite understand Mr. Jones has figured it out by observing the moon. The earth's slowing-down process, it seems, is going on at about a thousand of a second a century. That means, if our mathematical calculations are correct, that the world's rotation will stop altogether in about the year 8,640,001, 938 A.D. -- or just about the time the members of the human race, judging by their present rate of progress, have learned to live together peacefully and happily.
Depression Victims
The world, as Robert Louis Stevenson observed, is full of a number of things. But, alas it doesn't follow that we're all as happy as kings - or even that all kings are happy.
There's King Sisowath Monivong of Cambodia, for instance, who has just discovered that among the things of which the world is full is depression. Even in far off Cambocia, a little land of jungles and jewel mines next door to Siam,
economy measures are becoming necessary. So poor King Sisowath is "firing" half of his harem, and soon he will be reduced to his las 100 wives. ___.
Being Nice to Athletes
From the New York World-Telegram
"They don't bar a student from mathematics, because he is not good in athletics, and they should not bar a student from athletics because he is not good in mathematics."
That is the new policy of the State Education Department. It is quoted from Hiram A. Jones, director of the health and physical education division of the department. The department is revising its scholarship standards, it is announced, in order to avoid just such interference of study with athletics as Mr. Jones pointed out.
If only it could apply retroactively it would change the score of many a recent game from which some star pitcher or halfback was excluded by flunking the week before. But any way it may come, it certainly is one of the most attractive ideas ever devised for making school popular with the pupils.
Instead of the old-fashioned insistence upon passing one's subjects, the rule henceforth will be to regard athletics as a definite part of the curriculum, and "bona fide" students are to be given decided encouragement to participate. Scholarship requirements won't be allowed to be so rigid as to deprive any student of his athletics. On the other hand, we have no doubt that if any of the bona fide athletes want to hang around a class room they will be perfectly at liberty to do so. The little red school house was never like that, but then its athletic standards were deplorably low.
As if studying late on hot nights isn't enough, the ambitious student must be heckled by bugs of 57 varieties. Our study lamp nightly is the center of an entomologist's paradise.
Speaking of a conscience, what about the student who, exempt from a final, declined the exemption because he felt it would be unfair to his classmates.
Campus Opinion
Undergraduate students of the Summer Session are the innocent victims of a hoax. Acting upon the advice of supposedly more experienced colleagues, many decided to attend summer school, influenced no doubt by the hope of having a delightful vacation.
Editor Summer Session Kansan:
Advance reports of summer school indicated that it would be what is vulgarly known as a "snap." "It's hot for the students and teachers both, so the profs go easy on the assignments," were the words of the wise boys. "Besides they know that everybody is needing grade points or they wouldn't be in summer school."
We were assured that the grade point average would be upped while we were having a delightful time.
But lo and behold! The professors have somewhere picked up a mistake notion as to the proper func-
Contributor's Column Another Letter Home
Deer Maw:
I bin so use two teaching high school that Kay. You is purdy hard fore me but not haff so hard fore me as fore Miss Twitch who teaches grammer school. Beesidze, from summer two summer a gal forgetz whut she has taken in summer school. If hit wuz not fore him, eye wood say summer school is a waist of time on account of what I halve just sed, "Him" being Rollando Knucklo a actor on and awf the stage, etc. I gess that is because he is frum Boot Hill (Dodge Sitty two you) where, I wuz reading the other knight, they dye with there boots on an that is why they call hit Boot Hill.
I will bee careful, though Maw, as you no. He will not put anything over on me, though he come two the door the other knight an sed turn around and when I turn around he put his hans on my shoulder bladez then took them away reel quick and sed "Ah ha I thought so, Webster wuz wrong!" Of course, I never scene him befoar. I got real mad, as you no, Maw, an eye wood halve socked him if he warnn't so good looking.
We sat in the living room an talked on he told me he wuz from Boot Hill an that he wuz with the summer players hear at Kay. You and so wright away I new why he had dun that. He is a conseaenshusn player if they ever wuz won on account of he does not stop playing even after he is ther with the stage. He sez he wuz with Eve la Galleyhen whoever she is in Knew York fore a long time. He sed he wood take我 to Knew York sumday, but I dont no, though he is nice looking an has a nice car. If I due, he has two take won of us, not both. Ennyway Eve is not such a angel, I here. I will think about hit, I told him. Fine, he sed an rubbed his hans twogether an sed "Webster wuz wrong, Webster wuz wrong" like he wuz reel glad. After he takes me two the show tonight, I will curious, aint you?
yor winsum dawter,
LIZZIE.
tion of summer school. They now give credence to the false idea that a student should do the required work and then some to earn his grade points. Blithely they go triping down the path of the incorrect assumption that we are here to work.
When we plan our next summer vacation, we shall pick some school where the Hedonistic philosophy prevails and our deficient grade point total may be fattened without effort on our part. Moreover, the faculty of that utopian institution will not have any mistaken illusions about the absurd idea that college is a place where young men and women go to study.
A Disgruntled Undergrad.
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Monday, June 21, 1938
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AT THE THEATERS
GRANADA—Now playing: "Gold Diggers in Paris" with Rudy Vallee, Rosemary Lane and Hugh Herbert. ●Thursday, Friday and Saturday: "Gangs of New York" with Charles Bickford and Ann Dvorak.
●Next Sunday: "Lord Jeff" with Freddie Bartholemew and Mickey Rooney.
PATEE—Now playing: “Prison Nurse” with Marian Marsh and Henry Wilcoxon; “Riding on Air” with Joe E. Brown. ●Thursday, Friday and Saturday: “Riders of the Black Hills” with the Three Mesquiteers; “Night Must Fall” with Robert Montgomery and Rosalind Russell. ●Next Sunday: “Panama” with Torchy Blaine and Lola Lane; “Damsel in Distress” with Fred Astaire, George Burns and Gracie Allen.
DICKINSON—Now through Thursday: “You and Me” starring Sylvia Sidney and George Raft. • Friday and Saturday: “Sinners in Paradise” with John Boles and Madge Evans. • Starts Sunday: Joel McCrea, Marjorie Weaver, Loretta Young in “Three Blind Mice.”
VARSITY—Ends tonight: "Artists and Models," Jack Benny, Ida Lupin, Ben Blue, Judy Canova, The Yacht Club Boys, and Martha Raye.
● Wednesday and Thursday: "The Last of the Mohicans," Randolph Scott, Binnie Barnes, Henry Wilcoxon, Heather Angel, (James Fenimore Cooper's Immortal Classic!); "Goodbye Broadway," Alice Brady, Charles Winninger, Tom Brown, Tommy Riggs, and His Betty Lou.
● Friday and Saturday: "State Police" with John King, Constance Moore, J. Farrell MacDonald; "Rawhide," (the first motion picture of that great baseball player—Lou Gehrig.)
The Cincinnati Trio Which Will Appear Here
Backstage With the Tatterman Marionettes