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SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1931
Summer Session Kansan
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THE SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
Editor-in-Chief ELIZABETH MOODY
Business Manager GHRAILD PIPES
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FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1931
APPRECIATION
With a full schedule of work, a student in Summer Sesion does not find as much time as he might to enjoy the privileges which are offered him. They are ready for his pleasure, however, and the crowds which attend the entertainments offered are evidence of student appreciation.
Faculty members of the School of Fine Arts have contributed generously of their time and talents to make possible the Sunday evening vespers. These services have given the students an opportunity to hear artists whom they ordinarily would not have a chance to hear.
Throughout the term, the vespers have been well attended and thoroughly enjoyed. The one presented Sunday will be the last of the series.
The old adage reads that we live and learn, but some of us seem to just live.
EDUCATION
Why are we in the University? To secure an education, but what is an education? For many it is 120 hours of credit, with an average grade of C. Some, however, after being out of school for a year or two are somewhat dubious of this definition of an education.
Our inadequate, hide-bound sysem is largely to blame for the too-prevalent belief that the possession of an A. B. degree means that a person is educated. Often this merely implies that the graduate has been a good mimicker; that he has acquiesced to all that the professors have said in long, dry, often meaningless lectures. Criticism and critical thinking by students is too often frowned upon by instructors. How do teachers expect their students to become educated if it is necessary to accept the narrow views and conclusions of the instructor; to give back slavishly in class recitations and examinations what has been expounded to them in lectures.
BY PRODUCTS
Real education means critical thinking and the acceptance of conclusions and viewpoints only after one is throughly convinced of their truth and lasting worth. If a person is educated he will be able to think for himself and to meet and solve—at least to his own satisfaction—the problems which daily confront him. He will be an entity in himself; yet know how to coordinate his beliefs and conclusions with those of people about him.
Many years ago when cotton was first called "King", it was grown for the fiber alone. Now the men in the industry recognize its extensive by-products for their value.
In the art of living itself, the main product is the business of getting a living or mastering the school subjects, but there are by-products in the art
which easily become more valuable than the principal goal.
Friendship, good books, music, contact with minds that stimulate, all add to the joy of living even though they do not aid in earning a living. More time given to the by-products of living will furnish those who want it a life of happiness and satisfaction.
They used to talk about "the heat of the day", but now it lasts all night.
Campus Opinion
Editor Summer Session Kansan:
Last week from the pens of several illustrious journalists came words of severe criticism directed toward certain members of the University teaching staff who had, according to these critics, violated some of the unwritten laws of mankind, in their zealous attempt to direct their youthful charges into proper channels of learning. In defense this message comes from the unknown to call attention to the other side of the question.
Perhaps the student who is always finding fault needs to turn the mirror upon himself. Perhaps this self-appointed critic has never realized that this teacher about whom he rants and raves would but for his better self control express himself in a similar manner.
We suggest that perhaps that professor who has received such uncomplimentary publicity for the "serious" offense of keeping class a few minutes after the whistle, has on numerous occasions, upon entering his class room, found it necessary to hold up the class work or suffer disturbance due to some late arrivals who took advantage of his good nature to visit five minutes overtime, within an hour and thirty minutes the same persons will be grashing their teeth because they are asked to remain for a few final instructions.
What was it the book said about the moat and the beam?
A Student.
We agree with M. M. that the Summer Session students would enjoy and support another party.
Editor Summer Session Kansan:
However, if any plans are to be made we have a suggestion to make. Everything was provided for a good time at the other party except a chance to meet other people. Some of us had our own crowd. Winter students (and a smattering of summer students) had dates, a few stags were brave enough to introduce themselves but the rest wished for new acquaintances.
A. S. and L.B.
Wouldn't a good mixer be in order? By all means have another party! It will be well supported.
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TESTS MADE TO IMPROVE
PAVEMENT AGAINST COLD
Chicago—Old man weather may find future pavements and bridge piers in northern climates less likely to show the marks of his changeable temperament, following an investigation to determine accurately the quality of gravel pebbles used as the coarse material in concrete making. By producing artificially the freezing and thawing conditions destructive in nature to concrete works, the investigators evolved a test for gravel pebbles helpful to concrete engineers.
The procedure consists essentially in immersing a sample for a few minutes in water at approximately 212 degrees and 35 degrees Fahrenheit and also in a brite solution below freezing. The samples are dried and passed over special sieves to determine the extent to which they break down. The test is then carried on with that part of the sample retained on the sieve. A definite per cent of the sample passing through the sieve is set as the limit, and any sample showing greater disintegration is regarded as unfit for use in concrete in exposed positions.
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Plain Tales
It is an ordinary thing for a student to flunk, but the case was reversed when a teacher flunked himself last term.
An instructor lecturing to his class in education gave the example of a practice teacher last term who gave the same standard test in history at the beginning and end of the term. After his year of conscientious effort to instruct the class, one pupil made a lower grade at the end of the year than he made at the beginning.
MOUNTAIN BIRCH IS GROWING
ON STILTS SEVEN FEET HIGH
Gatlinburg, Tenn.— A mountain birch has been found in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park area which apparently stands on stilts seven feet high.
The explanation, according to Dr. Herman S. Pepoon, Chicago botanist, is that the birch seeds commonly germinate in the moss-covered prostrate trunks or stumps of decaying hemlocks or chestnuts. The seedling roots penetrate the mossy covering and go on down into the earth. As the log or stump decays, the seedling grows stronger and stronger. Then, when the original tree has entirely vanished through decay, the young tree is left high in the air, its roots resembling stilts. The greatest elevation of such a birch so far observed by Doctor Pepoon is this seven-foot one, with eleven roots acting as stilts.
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