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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, APRIL 23, 1951
Marvin Arth
the editorial page
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Phi Bets Can Ignore This—
Our prize rationalization on low grades has been squelched. We feel terrible about it, and we want to pass the article we have just read on to you. In fact, the only light now shining into our previously happy office is that money really isn't everything.
The article which dampened our spring gayety was the column Strictly Personal by Sydney J. Harris and appeared in the Chicago Daily News recently. We reprint it here so we may have company in our mourning.
"Sure, he gets good marks," said the man at dinner, "but what does that mean? Those brilliant scholars don't succeed in the world."
I didn't have the facts at my fingertips, so I kept my mouth closed, which was a great strain. Because of all the fallacies that have been exploded by research, the biggest error is supposing that scholars who don't do well in the market place.
Some years ago Dr. Hugh Smith of the University of Wisconsin made a two-year study of the business records of 1,800 graduates who had been out of school 15 years or more. He
The best scholars, by and large, had the best income; the mediocre and poor scholars, with few exceptions, had the lowest incomes. Moreover, when 97 names were picked from the 1.800 as those who were "the most worthy, successful or eminent," it was found that 93 had had the highest grades at college.
found that the ones who succeeded in school were substantially the same ones who succeeded in business.
John R. Tunis, on the 25th anniversary of his graduating class at Harvard (1911), examined the records of all 541 classmates, and came out with the same answer.
In his book, Was College Worth While?, published in 1936, Tunis divided the class into four groups: Athletes, Phi Beta Kappas, clubmen, and average men of whom no one knew anything about in college.
"Financially," he reported, "the best scholars lead the field, and not by a small margin. The clubmen were next, the average men third and the athletes last. This is the more astonishing, because the athletes had more rich men among their numbers in college."
Tunis also found that the group that contributed most to the welfare of the nation, and came closest to achieving their goals were the Phi Beta Kappas. "If our class is typical," he added, "you had better urge your son to give up football and concentrate on his courses."
There is also Dr. C. M. Stines study of the most important railroad inventions—none of which was originated by a man whose business was railoads, but by doctors, artists and teachers. I hope I catch old loud-mouth at a dinner party again soon.
Francis Kelley
galley-west
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Here's what a group of news specialists predict for education in the year 2000:
"On the basis of present trends, education will expand along the following lines:
"There will be more graduates of colleges than there are high school graduates today.
"Radio and television will be common instruments of teaching.
Radio and television will be common instruments of teaching. "Junior, or community colleges will be as available to prospective students as high schools now are.
"A new concept of financial support for education will mature. It will approximate 5 per cent of the national income, with federal support.
"Educational research for and on behalf of children will be recognized to be as important as research designed to improve the quality of bacon, corn, science, engineering and technology.
"One-room rural schools will be practically non-existent. A 12-month program will take shape in schools to co-ordinate in and out of school learning. Camping and other recreational activities will be included.
"Greater emphasis will be placed upon science and mathematics as a means of understanding and living in an increasingly technical society.
"Vocational education will be greatly extended."
They said nothing about student drafts or aptitude tests
A Chicago thief stole $1,400 worth of new clothes and later learned they were for corpses, having only tie-strings for backs. At least he'll be able to put up a good front.
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The Yankees are undoubtedly wishing someone would slip them another Mickey.
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The Philadelphia Phillies, are probably still wailing about the curt summons Curt Simmons got from the army.
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We know they can send pictures by wire as well as wire for sound, but the K.U. campus is the only place we know of where they've wired for grass.
(Because of space limitations, the editor reserves the right to condense letters of more than 100 words. Anonymous letters will not be published, but names will be withheld on request. Letters should be addressed to the editor of the Kansan.)
Letters-
Jellyfish
In reference to your editorial on jellyfish, (University Daily Kansan, April 16) it is good to know that there are some who are unsatisfied—a few who can see beyond conformity—a few who think and seek. To hell with the great clan of "jellyfish" and the Status Quo!
To the editor:
Jud Greer,
Fine Arts Senior
Many Thanks
To the editor:
After arriving at K.U. from Lea-
enworth for the Relays, the grey
Plymouth in which we were riding
stalled hopelessly many times. The
generosity and helpfulness that the
students of K.U. offered us, made a
wonderful impression and we were
convinced, even though the incident
was small, that K.U. students are
very kind. Thanks—all who helped.
Jane Ellis
Ann McLish
Connie Bradley
Joan Acherman
Leavenworth
high school seniors
Yesteryears
Thundering 1000
(From the U.D.K., Sept. 17, 1920)
All he-students in the University will eat together next Thursday noon. September 23, at Robinson Gymnasium, in the first of a series of "Thundering Thousand" lunch- ceens given under the direction of the Y.M.C.A. and the "Thundering Thousand represented by Cheerleaders Winsor, Glenn, and Peters.
A hearty, man-sized lunch for the modest sum of twenty-five cents, two bits, the quarter of a dollar, is promised by the management.
Lot and Lot's Wife are neighboring 1,500-foot volcanic peaks on St. Helena, the lonely British island of Napoleon's exile which rises from $2\frac{1}{2}$-mile depths in the South Atlantic ocean.
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Huntington Park, Calif (U.P.) The 29-year-old wife of a soldier missing in Korea asked the F.B.I. today to investigate telephone calls she said she received from Chinese Red sympathizers.
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Mrs. Ernestine McRoberts, 29, told officers the calls started shortly after the war department notified her that her husband had been listed as a prisoner of war in a Peiping Red radio broadcast.
The husband, M-Sgt. James D. McRoberts, 25, was reported missing in action Dec. 8. They have two children, James Jr., three months, and Kathleen Anne, 15 months.
Mrs. McRoberts said her husband's name also appeared in a prisoner-of-war list printed in a left-wing New York newspaper.
"It was right after that these telephone calls started coming in," she said. "I guess they though they could recruit another member by telephoning me and pretending sympathy for me. They're not fooling me, though."
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