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SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
FRIDAY, JULY 16, 1937
Comment
Comparisons
"Outrageously" increased nonresident fees here at the University have been the cause for a lot of banal belliaching in recent months. And certainly a 100 per cent hike of any sort is something to excite comment
But consideration of fees levied by other institutions in the Middle West shows that the Kansas tariff compares favorably. Figures given in the June issue of the Graduate Magazine, just off the press, make a surprising comparison. Here are the figures:
School Fees Resident Fees Non-Res.
Colorado - - $ 66.00 $132.00
Iowa - - - 96.00 136.00
Kansas - - 50.00 150.00
Michigan - - 110.00 150.00
Minnesota - - 60.00 90.00
Missouri - - 60.00 155.00
Nebraska - - 60.00 150.00
Ohio - - - 60.00 210.00
Texas - - - -50.00 150.00
Wisconsin - - - 55.00 255.00
Kansas, it seems, has a non-resident fee which is undersold by only three of the 10 institutions considered—Colorado, Iowa, and Minnesota—while Ohio demands $60 more per year, and Wisconsin "bleeds" its foreign population to the extent of $255, or $105 more than non-residents will pay at Kansas.
The fact of the matter is that the Kansas fees have been ridiculously low, compared to those in other states. Whether the general scale is too high is a point that cannot be determined here. But it would be wise and just to give the above table a little consideration before drawing hasty conclusions.
Skip It
Recently this column discussed the necessity for every serious student—in whatever branch of learning he may follow—to develop a system of phrase-reading. The phrase-reader, it was pointed out, goes through material more rapidly, covers more ground than the word-reader, and by comparison and correlation of information which this speed facilitates, is better able to concentrate, and to remember what he has read.
But even the most nimble phrase- reader would find him hopelessly snowed in were he to attempt to keep up to date with all the material published upon even a specialized phase of any particular subject, so great is the volume turned out each year.
A process of culling or weeding out and discarding is necessary. This, for lack of a better term, has been called "skip-reading." It is a practice as old as the art of reading itself, yet many an over-conscientious person has failed to realize its imperative necessity.
Consider the following, quoted in the Columbus Dispatch from Margot Osford's book, "More or Less About Myself." The quotations:
"Doctor Jowett, master of Balliol college, Oxford, said to me, when we were discussing the merits of various books. 'You will never be a reader till you learn the art of skipping.'
"I was profoundly shocked, and told him that from my earliest years I had been taught that it was like cheating at cards to leave out a single word of any book I was reading.
"Pointing to the books piled upon his crowded shelves, he said: 'Do you mean to assert that every word in all these volumes is worth reading? You must choose in life what is worth and what is not worth your attention, and few authors would be so pretentious as to claim that every word they had written was worth reading.'
"From that moment I skipped several of the sunsets, many of the comments, and most of the reflections of half the books I read."
What Doctor Jowett taught, many people have learned independently. But as many others still are ignorant of it.
Part of the success of the process depends upon having a definite reading objective. Know what you seek, and a glance frequently will inform you of the worth of a paragraph, a page, or even a chapter. Skip the verbosity and bear down on fundamentals.
Opinion seems to be pretty much unanimous that Amelia Earhart's apparently untimely end is to be blamed upon nothing but her own recklessness. Frequent expression is heard of the belief that the navy should not spend the nation's money attempting to rescue such persons. But trying to save a person's life—any person's lift—is a much more praiseworthy activity than that for which military organizations are primarily designed. Now isn't it?
THIS and THAT BY KENNETH KITCH
News headline: "F.D.R. to Keep Hands off if Clark Runs." The President may be something of an expert at it, but it really takes Jim Farley to make the boys run.
The Kansas City Journal-Post's campaign for "uniform arm signals" leads Schiller Shore, warden of Potter's Lake, to announce that moonlight habitues of his precincts long ago accomplished such a system. (1) Arm around soft shoulders, "All's well;" (2) Arms folded behind reclining head, "This is my date and I'm stuck with it;" (3) Hand waved urgently toward rear, "Getell out of here, this is my diggin'; (4) Finger pointing gracefully toward heavens, "Get a load of that; kindah sublime, ain't it?"
Paramount's new movie, "Souls at Sea," might be about any one of three things: a typical Hollywood ocean story; Amelia and her navigator; or a bunch of plain common ordinary folks trying to figure out the present situation.
Last Sunday's rotgraveure prints carried pictures of cowboys in action in Hawaii. Judging from the ease with which they rope-in all the visiting firemen and delegate-Elks, the island's hula dancers ought to be given a trial.
The navy department is boasting of its new submarine being able to descend 600 feet. That's nothing in comparison to the young man who discovers that his girl friend contracted a bad case of poison ivy while attending Epworth League last evening.
And speaking of hula dancers, that little lady who recently won the national hula dancing contest in California, must have been great shakes as a dancer.
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Things: Education folk are making big preparations for their annual "fun fest"—disguised as a banquet—which will be held Wednesday evening in the Union building. Technical details such as time and tickets are included elsewhere in the Kansan. Intimate details can be secured only by attendance. . . It's one banquet where the same thing never happens twice. . Schiller Shore, fairly godmama to this column, reports that he found George, the Campus Cop, asleep on his feet the other day—thereby proving Newton's theory that a heavy object generally rests upon its largest part. . . Painters are now in the Union building, which is just a warning to those who don't wear hats. . . The latest issue of the Grad magazine is just off the press and contains a fine resume of what K.U. journalism graduates have been doing (aside from voting for Roosevelt) . . . The "orals mill" has been started in the School of Education; and judging from the shrieks and laments, it is one example of the mills of the gods grinding quickly but exceedingly fine. . . With the news that the Chancellor is off on his fishing trip to Mexico, we'll wager that if he happens to run across Trotsky down there and the public prints find it out, Kansas protectors-of-democracy will once again start raising more hell than corn—even though a bumper crop of the latter is anticipated this year.
LETTERS to the EDITOR
Editor Summer Session Kansan:
In a recent issue of your paper, I read a letter in which the writer complained about merchants receiving 2-mill tokens on five-cent sales. May I suggest that this person should know his subject before he writes?
he writes.
All one-cent, two-cent, three-cent and four-cent sales also pass through the merchant's cash register. On these sales (and they are many), the merchant receives no tax and yet he pays tax to the state on his entire cash sales.
This whole system was figured out by some pretty smart people, and while not every sale runs true to a two per cent tax, the average is supposed to be that--both for customer and retailers.
A grocer's wife
Will you kindly see that this letter reaches the writer, (presumably a brilliant K. U. student)?
Editor Summer Session Kansan:
A few pet gripes—the man who tantalizes you by eating caramels and not offering you any; the girl who "pops" her gum; boys who make their dates only at the library, and girls who come to the library with social aspirations; boys size up the flippers audibly; the woman with the floppy hat who obstructs the passage of friendly smiles.
Oh, that striped shirt, and the moustache that goes with it;] more fun: looking at flies doing the rumba on a bald pate.
Nuisances? Maybe. Maybe entertainers.
M.F.M.
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