THE SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
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THE SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
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SUGGESTIONS FROM OLD GRADS
An alumnus who knows from personal experience how affairs other than educational are run, advocated this program for the University, while here attending commencement:
First establish, on the basis of the best authority in such matters, a maximum limit above which the student body can not go without deterioration of work. The numbers that ought to be allowed in a class in any given subject can be closely determined. The capacity of a laboratory is easily figured.
Second: announce that applications for enrollment in the University will be approved up to the maximum, but no further.
Third: put it up to the state to decide whether it will furnish the means for expanding the University to meet the demands upon it.
There were other details as to hiring only so many teachers as could be adequately paid out of the salary budget, refusing to sacrifice the interests of upper classmen and graduate students in order to take care of a mob of freshmen, etc.
All of which sounds refreshing and businesslike. Very likely the method outlined is good in theory. The State of Kansas, the party of the first part, ought not to hold the University of Kansas, the party of the second part, to an inequitable requirement. But, after all, it is only theory. In the minds of the people, the University has assumed a contract to educate, with or without adequate financial means, with or without adequate equipment, all who come to it. It would be a bold, yes foolhardy, administrator who would attempt to eradicate this notion.
And yet it would be interesting to see it tried. Perhaps after the riot, the idea would have gained more general recognition that education costs money—and is worth it.
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Another suggestion brought to commencement by an eminently successful alumnus was, that, in some maner, every freshman be confronted with a statement of his case running something like this:
You are seeking to enter the University. If you remain here one year the state will have spent upwards of $200 to afford you an opportunity for education. If you stay here four years and graduate, the amount on the debit side of your account will be at least $1,000. This is freely given to you now, when you need and, perhaps, could not otherwise get it, because the state has a certain interest in seeing that you get an education—you will probably be a better producer and will be less trouble for the police. But there is a string tied to this gift. Don't overlook the string. The state asks for your solemn assurance that after you have completed your education and entered upon your productive life, you will repay this obligation to the University or, at least, pay the equivalent of interest on the amount the state has invested in you. If you don't like this argument, if you don't see the fairness of its, if you are going to be one of the sort who considers the incident closed on commencement day, go somewhere else.
This idea may seem a trifle mercenary when baffled stated. But it is the foundation of the greatness of all privately endowed educational institutions. Why need it be so utterly banished from an institution conducted by the state? The alumni and the state, working together, might build a noteworthy university.
"A-B-C Shooters"
Perhaps we are worrying too much about the situation of the public-school teachers. If worst comes to worst, and all those who have strength and intelligence to earn a living elsewhere desert the schools, we can fall back upon a "system" that was used during the latter part of the Middle Ages in central Europe. Then, as now, education was suffering a temporary slump. Parents, for lack of other instructors, turned their children over to what were known as Vagants or Bacchants. These were hobo teachers, strolling from
place to place, taking seasonable jobs as teachers and living off the country. Wretched sons of ambitious parents attended them with the idea of learning to read and write, but they learned chiefly the roistering, bacchanalian habits of their masters, whom they served as fags and body servants and sometimes as tools in crime. The unhappy boys were known through a century or two as "A-B-C. Shooters." It was not an altogether satisfactory educational system, but think of the taxes it saved! Of course, if we encourage the development of this method in America, we may have to spend more money for jails and reformatories. But, as Miss Helen Taft remarked in Collier's not long ago, our present teachers are walking out, anyhow, so that we will need the new jails—until our communities make the teacher's job worth having and holding.
Attract the good teacher and keep him happy He's a bigger asset to your town than the court-house or the calaboose.—Colliers.
A Keats Memorial
In anticipation of the celebration, next year, of the centenary of Keats's death, a movement has been started in England to save from destruction "Lawn Bank," the poet's house near Hampstead Heath.
This house, in which Keats lived during the most fruitful period of his literary career, is about to be thrown on the market as an "eligible building site." A representative committee, which includes Sir James Barrie, Dr. Robert Bridges—the Poet Laureate—Thomas Hardy, Viscount Bryce, and H. G. Wells, has been formed with the object of preserving it for the benefit of the public, including Americans who visit the "literary shrines" of England.
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A short-time option has been obtained to afford an opportunity of procuring the necessary funds. It is estimated that not less than $50,000 will be needed for the purchase and maintenance of "Lawn Bank" as a Keats Memorial House. "Lawn Bank" is the house which Keats and his circle knew as Wentworth Place. In December, 1818, after the death of his brother Tom, Keats went to live there with Charles Brown, and this was his home until he left England for good two years later. It was soon after he went to "Lawn Bank" that he became engaged to Fanny Brawne. Her mother rented the cottage while Keats and Brown were away on their Scottish tour.
Anomalous as it may seem, it is the "wets" who are dry — Shreveport Times.
Within its walls or under the shelter of the trees which still flourish in its old-world garden, Keats planned and wrote. The old mulberry tree, under which he is said to have written his "Ode to a Nightengale," is still growing.
JUST SO
Answers and Near-Answers to Questions About Things on the Campus
"The place of his death is Rome," state the committee in their appeal, "is piously preserved, but England has no corresponding memorial. If 'Law Bank' is destroyed no similar memorial for him can be found in the land of his birth. Such an irreparable loss would be deeply and permanently deplored."—Christian Science Monitor.
Gen. John Fraser, president of the Agricultural College of Pennsylvania, was elected Chancellor and President of the faculty, Dec. 4, 1867, to succeed Chancellor Oliver, who had resigned to go to Nebraska.
The first difficulty in securing sufficient appropriations was experienced with the legislature of 1868.
North College was the first building erected at the University of Kansas, 1866.
University classes first occupied Fraser Hall, Dec. 2, 1872.
James Marvin of Dendville, Pa., was elected Chancellor, Nov. 19, 1874.
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The Law School was opened in October, 1878, with thirteen students under the charge of J. W. Green.
Merely Mental Lapses
Jokes and Approximations of Jokes Found by the Wielder of the Shears
TOO QUIET
Husband—"That new maid is certainly quiet. One would never know that she was about the place."
Wife—"She isn't. She left the place this morning." -London Tit-Bits.
HIS LINE
"What do you work at, my poor man?"
"At intervals, lady."—St. Paul Non-partizan Leader.
NECESSITIES AND LUXURIES
"Just bought a fine motor-car—immediate delivery."
"What style car did you get?"
"What style can you get? "A Dashing Dime Six." Now, if I could only get a half a pound of sugar somewhere the whole family would be happy."—New York World.
HELP WANTED
Nancy was saying her prayers "And, please, God," she petitioned, "make Boston the capital of Vermont."
"Why Nancy?" exclaimed her shocked mother.
"What made you say that?"
"Cause I made it that way on my examination-papers today and I want it to be right."—The American Legion Weekly.
PRESERVING HIS DIGNITY
Daughter (having just received a beautiful set of mink skins from her father)—"What I don't see is how such wonderful fur can come from such a low, sneaking, little beast."
Father—"I don't ask for thanks, dear, but I really insist on respect."—The American Legion Weekly.
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