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SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1931
Summer Session Kansan
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THE SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
Editor-in-Chief ... ELIZABETH MOODY
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FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1931
PARTLY OVER
Whopee! six weeks of summer school, with all its disagreeable weather and long unending classes which start in the middle of the night, is about to come to a close.
Regular students, who have stayed here this summer to make up work in which they failed last winter, ambitious persons who have remained to cut a semester off their time in school, as well as teachers who have come to brush up a bit will heave a sigh of relief when the last book is closed. It has been strenuous for some, but no doubt more profitable than remaining idle at home.
Friends have irked us with "having a wonderful time—wish you were here" greetings posted from some delightful summer resort. (There should be a law prohibiting those things.)
Six weeks are completed for some who can join those friends and make up for the fun they have missed. They can play hard, knowing that they have accomplished something worthwhile this summer. For others, the end of the first term means the beginning of four more weeks at hard labor. Vacation plans sound alluring, but there will be a real satisfaction in piling up more hours, learning new things, meeting more professors and fellow students.
Four weeks will speed by pleasantly and busily for those interseted in their work. For both those who are through and those who are beginning more work, the end of examinations Saturday will mark a goal attained.
The worst pun in history was perpetrated in a literature class when a naive freshman, asked for his favorite form of poetry, surreptiously scratched his ankle and answered, "Owed to a Chigger".
KID BASEBALL
The boys' baseball league which plays its games at South Park, and the thousands of similar leagues throughout the United States are of real value to the sport besides being excellent fun for the fans and the kids who play.
The leagues in organized baseball are looking for players at all times. Some of the players go directly to the majors from the sandlots, and some others spend a short time in the major league.
The games are fun for the fans who attend them. The youngsters are deadly serious, and they play with all the ability they can acquire by long practice hours. Some of them display such unusual skill that only a little training may develop them into professional leaguers. The sandlots are the training fields for the professional teams, goal of every youngsters aspirations.
The grubby little tike who proudly makes a home run when the score is tied may sometime thrill the thousands who pack the baseball parks.
And in the meantime, it's fun to watch the baseball games with players who are unspoiled by adulation, and in deadly earnest over their game.
A man arrested in Kansas City on a charge of robbery of $2 was sentenced to ten years in the state penitentiary. And on the other hand, there is Mr. Fall who spent ten years putting off a one-year sentence for a crime which involved so many many millions nobody remembers the amount, and now he's getting lots of pity. Ain't justice wonderful?
The words of an old song say that not until the sun ceases to shine do we appreciate its worth.
THE OLD SONG'S WRONG
There may be truth in the idea, but a suggestion that it be reversed at certain seasons of the year is in order. Just about this time of year it ought to read: Not until the sun shines for an indeterminate period, do we appreciate the rain.
Not until one has suffered for days does he realize how wonderful a rainstorm can be. Only after realizing the possibilities of a heat wave does one begin to feel that there is a genuine thrill in seeing a storm cloud as it gathers and approaches. It is only then that instead of cursing fate for its interference with picnic plans he utters a silent prayer to the weather god and exclaims that it will be such fun to have the picnic lunch in the kitchen rather than in the appointed spot beneath the trees.
WE STILL SAY—
In the Campus Opinion column there is a communication signed Another Student, with which we wish politely to disagree. The earnest professor who conscientiously keeps his class after the whistle blows is defeating his own purpose. The whistle means the end of one class, and serves as a warning for the beginning of the next. The instructor of the next class, earnest and conscientious too, awaits in vain some stragglers who have been made to stay overtime in the previous class.
Too much can not be said in commendation of the instructor who strives to give his students what they want in the course. But when his zeal makes him lose his sense of consideration for other instructors and students, the commendation changes to condemnation. The motto indicated seems to be more consideration rather than less conscientious effort.
Things that make the heat hotter: Looking at a loaded University coal truck after climbing the Hill.
HINTS FOR HOT WEATHER
hipping on melted tar in the streets.
An instructor entering the room
wearing a dark coat and vest.
Slipping on melted tar in the streets.
Our Contemporaries
William Allen White wrote a famous editorial, "What's the Matter With Kansas?" and the following answer, reprinted in part, appeared in the Chicago Tribune:
The ever-dry drinking fountain in Fraser hall.
A long walk to the gymnasium to find the swimming pool closed.
Things that might make us cool: Do not take final exams.
Bring along a portable electric fan. Do not take final exams.
Bring along a cake of ice to cool your fevered brow.
Do not take final exams.
THIS IS THE MATTER WITH KANSAS
Do not take final exams.
Chloroform the examining instructor.
Take the first boat to Alaska.
"The recent hot weather experience in these parts, even mitigated as they have been by the lake and its good works, should be useful in a better understanding of fellow Americans elsewhere, in Kansas, for instance. It may be taken as typical of certain underprivileged states where climate, soil and topography just about destroy human optimism and amiability. The depressive influences reduce the citizen below the level of melancholy. He could not aspire to be sad. That would require a romantic unhappiness for which he would feel himself unequal. Too much had been taken out of him by the aridity of locale and prospect. The winds, hot and hopeless, and the blazing sun, baking the eventless plains and fields, leave humanity gazing into the future with the eyes of dead haddock, fortunate only as the senses are atrophied and the expectations deadened.
"The citizen, seeing nothing but the dust of an endless monotony and hearing nothing but the groans of the growing corn, has become a misanthrope. He hates himself, but even more he hates any one to whom he suspects existence reveals itself gaily, with charm and varied pleasures. Joyousness, being out of his expectations, has become malign. Simple physical comfort being unattainable, anything beyond that has become immoral. The Kansan's social code is one of despair in which the only alleviation is the hope that he may make other Americans as wretched as himself."
The heat makes misanthropes out of Kansans. Logically, then, it must be the cooling breezes from the lake which make the Chicago racketeers such kindly fellows.
A monoplane wasp, with underslung landing gear, has caused considerable discomfort by its persistent reconniissance around several classrooms these days. Pacifist members of the faculty
state that the specimen is a member of a parade flight and is just out for exibition, but tradition gives him the undisputed right of way in any company.
Campus Opinion
Editor Summer Session Kansan:
And since students have faults as well as professors, let us remember that
I, too, want to defend the summer session teaching staff. If a professor is so earnest and conscientious about his work, why criticize him for keeping a class after the whistle blows? This professor is working hard to give his students the full benefit of the course for which they have enrolled.
There is so much bad in the best of us
And so much good in the worst of us
That it hardly behaves any of us
Tn.talk about the rest of us.
to talk about Students hinder a professor's work considerably in interrupting his lectures instead of getting the material from some one who has learned to take notes.
It might be all right to make criticism, but one should write the favorable as well as the unfavorable.
And is it polite to enter a classroom before the preceding class has been dismissed? The instructor is endeavoring to finish a pragraph, or if it is a quiz, students are hurrying to put down some last minute information, when in comes a student for the next class. The majority do wait outside of the door, but a few do not take cognizance of the fact.
Plain Tales
A fly caused an unintentional display of intelligence by a student yesterday when he attempted to brush it away and was recognized by the teacher's hopeful voice. No dire consequences were felt by either party.
There's an old story, but a good one, about the laws who went into their finals exams marching to the tune of "Lord God of hosts, be with us yet, lest we forget, lest we forget". They came out chanting "Lord God of Hosts was with us not, for we forgot, for we forgot!"
The Cafeteria
Appreciates Your Loyal Support and Patronage During the Past Six Weeks.
TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 21st
The Cafeteria will begin serving to the students in the last four weeks of the Summer School
The Cafeteria
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