TWO
SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 1931
Summer Session Kansan
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the SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
Editor-in-Chief ELIZARETH MOODY Business Manager GERALD PIPES
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TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 1931
THE OLD SWIMMIN' HOLE
Everybody remembers the old swimmin' hole, for the ones who didn't get to swim in it wanted to and those who once felt the thrill of its cool waters on a hot day have a memory to treasure forever.
The place doesn't matter so much, but the time is always in those golden days of boyhood. The hot still sunlight covers everything, and the waters of the hole shimmer in the brassy glare. Into the silence comes boys voices, vibrant with expectancy and eager for the cooling relief of swimming. Their steps hasten as they near the pool, and after summarily dispensing with the clothing demanded of a complex civilization, in they plunge. Warm bodies feel the coolness that brings them laughing up on the rock to dive in again and mingle the cries of "Dare memories to University students, but ya, dare ya!" with "Aw, gwan, I'm not afraid to!
Those old swimming hole days are memoires to University students, but swimming never loses its charm. The cooling relief of a plunge is furnished for students at our own swimming pool in Robinson gymnasium. It hasn't the romantic atmosphere of the old swimmin' hole, but it is hygienic, cooling, and refreshing, and there are free instructional classes for those who desire them. The romantic sigh we give for the old swimmin' hole can be followed by a plunge into a cool pool, spotlessly clean and furnished to students by the administration. Civilization is not such a bad thing after all.
IT MIGHT BE ARRANGED
One of its Kansas exchanges, the Eskridge Independent, has special interest this summer for the Kansan because it is being conducted by Prof. W. A. Dill, acting as vacation relief editor for Frank P. Frost, the owner of the paper. Mr. and Mrs. Frost are on a fishing excursion through Minnesota and up into Canada.
Last week's issue was the first under Professor Dill's editorship and it was a newsy sheet. It carried a tophead fish story from Mr. Frost who had lost no time in arriving in the midst of the lake region and starting the piscatorial fireworks.
Mr. Dill knows the weekly newspaper "game" as the result of years of experience before he entered teaching or press association work. Mr. Frost knows the fishing art better than Old Ike himself—especially the Nineteenth hole. So a great summer is ahead for both these worthy Kansans—a summer of thrills, particularly when the Frosts open the Old Home Paper and when the Dills open those boxes of frozen bass or pickerel.
Wonder if Mr. Frost would care to have the Kansan sent to his lakeside address?
A BIT OF TEA OR PUNCH
It is sometimes considered smart to make fun of the English and their frequent teas, but it would really be a good idea to borrow an adaptation of their idea during Summer Session.
It has been said that a great part of the benefit received from college is from the friendships and other social contacts made there, but the opportunities for making these contacts is not so frequent as some optimists suppose. A class room is very seldom a good place to meet and know other people just because it is a class room. Its primary purpose is to stimulate ideas, and assure intellectual progress for students and instructors.
The most practical suggestion is for individual classes to plan an occasional social meeting. It would allow students and instructors to become well acquainted on a basis nearly approaching equality. It would furnish relaxation and an opportunity for forming friendships. Such an entertainment need not be elaborate; it might consist merely in a meeting at which light refreshments could be served.
The English could not be happy without their regular afternoon tea, and it is possible that we should be much happier if we had an occasional informal gathering similar to it.
A DEFINITION OF EDUCATION
Education may be defined as that system of instruction which everyone wants before he has it, and which every person hates after he has been exposed to it. It is a contagious disease, and can be contracted with very little difficulty. The mast favorable conditions for its spread are broad, green parks and spreading elms, with just a few buildings—not too many—scattered over the landscape.
The disease is of long duration, most of the serious cases spreading over a period of from 12 to 16 years. The first period is not as severe as the last and the most virulent attack comes during the last four years. It is then that the victim suffers severe spells of despondency, discouragement, and many times downright disability. At the end of the regular period of sickness the patient suffers a severe relapse, usually as bad as the time of sickness, after which he once more resumes normal living conditions.
Treatment for the disease have baffled medical science for years, and even in this era of scientific advancement there is no certain cure. Some of the milder cases have yielded to the application of cold packs, usually made up of F's and D's, but these are not efficient in the more serious cases. Vaccination with a "no-money" toxin has proved to help in many instances, but the patient usually breaks down this preventative with borrowed money. The only sure treatment is to let the disease run its course, and, finally die out.
In this aliment, as in others, many of the victims become helplessly incurable, and suffer with the insidious germ in their system for the rest of their lives. When in this condition they are known by the technical term "Phi Beta Kappa." Other symbols are used to indicate varying degrees of the seriousness of the plague. They are, ranking in order from worst to
least serious: A—atrociously afflicted; B—better, but still pretty sick; C—could be worse, but far from well yet; D—darned near well; F—finally cured. Another symbol of "T" indicates that the person afflicted is undecided whether to pass or not.
Isolation hospitals of the disease the world over are aggravating the affliction every day. Those of us who are far sighted enough can see the day when every one in the world will be suffering with the insidious ravages of the plague. Science is searching frantically for a cure, but unless these breeding places of the germ are stamped out their efforts will be in vain.
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