THE SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
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THE SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
Published Tuesday and Friday mornings by students in the Department of Journalism, from the press of the Department of Journalism.
Entered as second class mail matter September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March 3, 1879.
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Several communications from students are printed in this issue—from students who happen to learn that contributed opinion would be welcome in the magazine page of the Summer Session Kansas. It is hoped that other letters will be received. They need not be limited to campus objects. They should be short. They should be in good spirit and constructive. In order that the contribution may be considered for publication, the name of the writer must be signed, but a pen name, or incitus only, will be attached to the communication in print. Shoot!
THE TEACHER AND HIS TRAINING
University professors are liable to overemphasize the importance of the number of courses a person takes in the subject he intends to teach in high school. They are horrified at the prospect of a person's teaching a subject which he has not studied sufficiently. Of course a teacher should have all the information possible on his subject, but the best informed teacher is not necessarily the most successful one. A person could scarcely be a graduate of a University without having acquired all the knowledge that the average high school student is capable of assimilating. The main difficulty is in being able to impart the knowledge he possesses to the student. Nine-tenths of the knowledge that a student of the University gains is not suitable for transmission to his high school students; there is not time, and it is beyond the comprehension of the high school student. It rather serves to inspire the teacher; to give illuminating illustrations to make his teaching more interesting; and to increase his prestige among his students.
The problem of the high school teacher is different from that of the university teacher. A successful high school teacher must be able to penetrate the vast ignorance of the student and know how to inject a few facts and ideas into this abyss and not merely give off a large amount of formation without heeding whether it sinks
rolls off. Teaching history to high school
men, for example, is primarily the problem of getting the student to read the text and understand it. For instance, one teacher tells of a student reading h paragraph about Marcus Aurelius was a singular man." Just by chance the teacher stopped him and asked the class what was meant by a singular man. One boy brightly volunteered the information that it meant he wasn't married. Not in the least daunted by the fun this caused, another confident asserted that it meant that there was only one of him. Another statement in Westermann's history that never fails to execiate violent discussion is, "The Great Pyramid is less than two-hundred feet taller than the tallest building in New York." The dispute is over the question as to which is the taller.
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This gap between what the teacher learns in the University and what he must impart to his students is not fully realized and provided for. And it takes the teacher two or three years to realize that he cannot present material to his students in the amount and manner that it was presented to him. Any school board could give countless instances of teachers with degrees from the best institutions of the country, who were flat failures as high school teachers. They know their subjects, but not their students. One remedy for this would be simpler text books, and another, more recognition of this condition in teacher's training courses.
THE STUDENT AND POLITICS
The college man who studies, talks, and endeavors in a small way to take part in local and national politics, finds himself criticised both by other students and older men. He is told that he is "Getting ahead of his years," or that he is talking about something that he does not understand. This attitude is rather inconsistent with the fact that a college education is intended to fit a man in every way for a useful career, and
not only make him better able to make money, but also make him a better citizen.
When one looks at the type of men who are often found controlling the politics and policies of many localities, this attitude seems even more unjustified. A college man should be better fitted than a great many other men to interpret the events of national importance and from them to help say what the policy of that country should be.
There is no doubt that sentiment and idealism play a large part in the political conventions of the average college man, but an element of idealism will serve to help our country rather than harm it. The college man, if he is to gain broad education and make a good citizen, should be encouraged to study, talk and take an active interest in politics and national events of all kinds.
A PRESCRIPTION
Are you worn to a frazzle or melted to a grease spot after your morning on the hill? Don't yield to the temptation to stretch out and "snooze."
to the temptation to steal, There is a remedy, a spicy cordial, guaranteed to cure the most insidious case of somnolence on the campus.
Make a bee line for the gym and take a dose of "Recreative Sports." Giggle and shriek unrestrained as you dash and circle and slide. In other words, lay aside that scholastic dignity and let the red blood rush through your veins for one hilarious hour.
Campus Opinion
Views of Students and Others Submitted for the Open Forum
Look Out for Rent Hogs Editor Summer Session Kansan:
There is a rooming house on the Hill that is charging exorbitant rates for rooms this summer. Thirty dollars for a room that is ordinarily rented for eighteen dollars. Should not exploiters of the Innocent Public go elsewhere than a University town? We students are hard pressed to make both ends meet as it is. I.
Earning $20 a Day?
Editor Summer Session Kansan:
Editor Summer Beach
What is time in school really worth to a man?
That's a question that we have heard discussed pro and ever since we left the eighth grade, some eight years ago. Now, Seriously, what should these days spent in summer session really be worthy to us in actual cash?
Some few years ago I read an article in which John Wanamaker was credited with saying, that he believed it worth $10 a day to a man for every day that he spent in school after he left the high school.
high school.
That was several years ago—today the value of the dollar is somewhat less than it was at that time, and it is safe to believe that John Wanamaker would judge time in college to be worth at least $20 a day today, in actual cash. That's good money. Better money than the best paid man in the harvest field will receive this summer. Its true that a man gets out of a thing just what he puts into it. Wanamaker would also probably agree to that. Let's see that we put $10 worth of work a day in on summer school and we'll realize double that amount of value from it.
H. J. V.
Unhappy Happiness
Editor Summer Session Kansan:
There is one condition existing in the University of Kansas against which the students enrolled for the Summer Session wish to protest. It is a condition that is taking half the fun out of life for a lot of Kansans. It is breaking a hitherto irreproachable record for many of the aforesaid students. In vain they search early and late for a chance to remedy that condition—but this chance, unlike other opportunities come not even once. The conditions of which I am complaining, on behalf of the Seven Hundred enrolled is this, "There ain't nothin' to kick about."
We feel that this condition should be remedied Etta Hammer.
After spending a great deal 80 time originating sarcastic remarks to use while enrolling, we found no opportunity to grouch about waiting for hours in an endless line—no chance to growl about the unnecessary red tape of enrolling. We were even denied the privilege of searching hours for a comfortable room. Somebody has gone about carelessly marking all the doors of class rooms so plainly that the hope or having a lively search for each class is blighted. Even the walks are so shaded that it becomes unnecessary to walk leagues under a blazing sun. There is no charm in meeting your friends, for what there is to say to them if we can find nothing to grouch about? We feel that this condition should be remedied.
The Library Ellis Island
Where the Book Immigrants are Welcome on the Accession Shelf
"Heidi, A Tale for Children and For Those Who Love Children" is the charming title of a volume attractively bound in Alpine snows and pine trees. This quaint, simple story of child life written by Johanna Spyri a Swiss woman, has all the primitive romance and wonder of Hans Anderson and all the sympathetic understanding of child life of George Madden Martin.
ing of child life of George Mathews and the ing the quaint pen and ink sketches and the beautiful old fashioned color pages attract and fascinate even staid school teachers and make them forget the heat in their journey over the icy Alps. This book is a recent arrival on the shelf just above the card catalogs in Spooner. C. K.
Alice Sedgewick's latest novel is one of unusual interest. "The Third Window" touches deeply on the keys of the human loyalty of a woman to her dead love—against the living, throbbing presence of her youthful lover. The sub-conscious, spiritualistic element today holds a prominent place in the novel. H.
Evening Time
At evening time when school is done and valley breezes blow,
Coating heat from out the street and trees swish
fn.and.fro.
Tell me where a valley lies which gives more wondrous sight,
I look across the valley where the Wakarusa flows,
flows,
And the blue hills in the distance fade away as daylight goes.
wondrous light;
Than Wakuraasa deeping blue into the shades of
night.
A chickadee is chirping and the crickets seem
mute mad.
quite mad,
But that's a part of evening time upon Mt. Oread.
H. McC.
A Primer of Mount Oread
Answers and Near-Answers to Questions About Things on the Campus
Joshua Allan Lippincott, professor of mathematics in Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., succeeded James Marvin as Chancellor of the University, September, 1883.
Snow Hall was built at a cost of $50,000 in 1885.
By legislative enactment in 1885, the Regents of the University were directed to open a School of Pharmacy. Lucius E. Sayre of Philadelphia, was placed in charge.
F. H. Snow was elected Chancellor of the University in 1880.
J. S. Emery was elected librarian March 21, 1865.
Carrie M. Watson, present librarian, was elected to office in 1887.
Merely Mental Lapses
Jokes and Approximations of Jokes Found by the Wielder of the Shears
COMMON NEW YORK INCIDENT
A man from the backwoods of Western America visited New York for the first time one Christmas and went into a restaurant to have his Christmas dinner.
"You take that blamed thing away at once," he said, evenly. "I reckon I know when to use a handkerchief, without having them darned hints handkerchief, without having them darned hints thrown out!" — London Tit-Bits.
dinner.
All went well until the waiter brought him a napkin. The eyes of the back-woodsman flamed and, pulling a six-shooter from his hip-pocket, he told that waiter his mind.
LOVE-LOGIC
"Gwendolyn, I love you;
"The group you love me;
"1. I love you.
"To prove you love me:
"2. All the world loves a lover.
3. "But I am a lover.
4. Therefore, all the world moves me."
"3. But I am a lover.
15 You are all the world to me.
we learn all the world to me.
6. "You are all here."
7. "Therefore, you love me."—Tar Baby.
Helen Stevenson, a junior in the University of Miami, attended at her home in Stallina with a house party last week. The guests were the follow- of Lawrence.
"PLENTY" OF WHAT
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Few words can be found that rime with 1920—but "plenty" is one of them, which ought to be a good omen. New York Telegraph.
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