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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1951
Thought for the Day
Education should be as gradual as the moonrise, preceptible not in progress but in result —George Melville.
The Editorial Page-
No More Lugs
Editor's note: The following editorial appeared in the Hutchinson News-Herald, Hutchinson, Kan. We believe it expresses an important viewpoint on a matter of primary importance to every student.
The state budget committee has suggested that K.U., K-State, and other state schools make up what their budgets lack by increasing student fees.
The suggestion illustrates how far from the beaten track you may stray when led by a passion for economy.
Student fees should not be raised. They are too high already.
To expect the student to contribute more toward running the school because the state wants to make a showing of economy is to ignore the reason for and to defeat the purpose of the state schools. It injects the ugly condition of "ability to pay" into the offer of higher education for Kansas youth. It discriminates against the poor youngster who may be better qualified for college training than the rich one.
Already the cost of eating, sleeping, and books limits enrollment at K.U. to those fortunate enough to have parents with an extra section of wheat land. Even at Emporia, Pittsburgh, and Hays, which once were poor kids' colleges, you must watch your diet—unless you travel via the GI bill or get extra help from home.
State schools should remain places where the student with determination and a willingness to wash dishes or sling hash can get through—even if the folks are on relief.
Economies can and will be exacted in state school budgets. The educators themselves might evolve a system to open college doors to students who are mentally and emotionally worth-while and close them to the incompetent—regardless of the state of the family pocketbook. But if Kansas cannot finance the schools in the manner implied by the name, "state schools," without bigger lugs on the students, we may as well close them. Then those who can afford it may go to Harvard or Vassar, and the others may lump it.
Excavation for the Union addition is progressing rapidly but one has the strange feeling that it may really be a bomb shelter for full professors and department heads.
College students are ignorant of geography, a survey printed in the New York Times states. So immediately Uncle Sam arranges to take millions of America's college men on all-expenses-paid tours of the world.
Easter Sunday will soon be upon us, which means Sally Sophomore must start planning her spring wardrobe. Sam Senior doesn't need to worry—he already knows what his new suit will look like.
Little Man On Campus
by Bibler
"Better clean it up today, Prof. That's the dean of women wearin those colored glasses in the back row."
George Studies Human Beings But George Wouldn't Be Caught With Sam At The Races
Dear Editor:
Please send your science reporter around to see me. I've been performing some interesting experiments on human beings that can now be released to the public.
For a long time we dogs have been interested in analyzing how human beings act under chronic self-induced frustrations. My work in this field is being financed by a generous grant of dogbiscuit from the E.L.A.F.S.O.B. (Exalted Lodge of American Poor Sons of —).
Long ago, of course, we discovered how effective simple and dumb displays of what is called affection are in producing free services for our species. This has long since passed into rather familiar dog-lore about folks.
The present experiments are being conducted with inbred but highly trained human beings of the subfamily psychologist. They are confined for long periods of time in overheated and poorly ventilated kennels, or classrooms. Then, for the field runs, they are taken out into secluded rural beauty spots full of interesting sounds and smells. So far we have established that they invariably return as rapidly as possible to the same confining kennels to which their minds have been warped by their inbreeding. This finding has almost the mathematical probability of an unnatural law.
We are now testing them to discover the range and variety of excuses they will fabricate for themselves to explain our absence until we decide to visit their kennels in order to subject them to another experiment. This portion of the research is not fully standardized. The prevalence of some truly fantastic folk-myths about dog nature has so far blocked effective rapport. I am trying to clarify these problems with techniques of semantic analysis.
Too Conspicuous
Yesteryears
(From the Sept. 24, 1914 issue of the U.D.K.):
When the Jayhawker football team trots on McCook field for its first game Oct. 3, the players will be clad in navy blue jerseys, and for the first time in years the Kansas colors—crimson and blue—will not be worn on the gridiron. Manager Hamilton ordered the new jerseys yesterday. Coach Jack Wheaton is responsible for the change in colors.
Last year the Kansans wore gaudy jerseys with crimson and blue stripes. Wheaton tabooed these outfits because, he said, "they are too conspicuous. A referee or an ampire is more liable to see a foul committed by a man in a loud-striped jersey than in one of a dark color."
European Study Awards Available
Fellowships for graduate study in Austria, Germany or Switzerland, offered by the Germanistic society of America; and for study in the Netherlands, offered by the Netherlands government, were announced today by J. A. Burzle, professor of German.
Mrs. Bowen is the author of "Yankee from Olympus," the story of the late Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. Her latest book is "John Adams—the Story of the American Revolution."
If the successful candidates choose to study in Switzerland, they are eligible for a tuition grant under the Swiss American Student exchange of the Institute of International education.
The awards are for the 1951-52 school year. Application blanks and further information are available at the German office, 302 Fraser. Applications must be made by March 1.
Catherine Drinker Bowen, biographer, will lecture on the techniques of collecting and writing biographical material at 4 p.m. today in Strong auditorium.
She will use the "John Adams" story, a June 1950 Book-of-the-Month club selection, as the basis for her lecture.
One interesting sidelight on the work so far has been the isolation of the humans' conception of a canine mating standard. They have convinced themselves that pure biological differences are the basis of attraction in other species as well as their own. These particular poor talkative creatures have been trying to foist off on me as a sort of bribe a questionable item they call "Sam." She is, if you will pardon the expression, a "crow." I wouldn't
be caught at the human racher.
Remember Her February 14
Even if no startling scientific advance comes out of this particular study, I feel some benefit will be produced by getting these psychological subjects out in the fresh air and close to nature. Interest in simple things is the beginning of mental health.
Very truly yours,
George, Ph.D.
(Philosophic Dog)
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