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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1949
The Editorial Page-
'Intellectual Children'
"The American college student is over-organized and under-educated." This charge came last week from Harold Taylor, president of Sarah Lawrence college. He was speaking at a session of the University of Wisconsin Centennial symposium. We think you'll be interested in some of the highlights of his speech.
Students are under-educated, he said, because they are treated as "intellectual children." He called attention to groups which have set themselves up "as a kind of overall American committee dedicated to protecting American college students from themselves, and to preventing any change in the way they think and act."
President Taylor said these groups are for the most part, "ignorant of the interests, talents, capacities, and maturity of the present American student."
According to President Taylor, such things as credits, units, lectures, tests, and grade point averages are "educational preventives." They are the things that have over-organized the student.
He advocates giving each student the responsibility he deserves in forming his own conclusions. He is in favor of occasional lectures, but for the most part, he would replace them with printed material, research projects by students and teachers working together, discussion groups and informal seminars. He wants comprehensive examinations which demand the use of knowledge to answer big questions, and he wants a decentralized system of classes.
President Taylor also has a few words to say about communism and students. He said that it is a mistake to believe that the center of evil in our age is communism and that if the doctrine and the "evil men" who practice it were removed from the earth everything would be good.
"The doctrines and practices of communism are not the cause of evil, they are the effects of it," he added. And President Taylor said fear that students might become corrupted by communist doctrines indicates a faithless attitude toward the American student.
Reviving Thought Control
American democracy is supposed to be furnishing a model for Japan. The United States has an Un-American Activities committee. What more natural, then, than an Un-Japanese Activities Committee for Japan?
The only trouble is that the proposed committee, its opponents in Japan say, smells altogether too strongly of the old Japanese "thought control" system. That was aimed ostensibly against "communism" as this would be, but it served effectively to banish every last vestige of freedom of thought in prewar Japan. And the new committee, as proposed by Premier Yoshida, would be directly responsible to the reactionary cabinet rather than to the somewhat more democratic Diet.
It is hard for a people like the Japanese, conditioned to authoritarianism, to realize that suppression of fundamental freedoms is not the answer to the Communist challenge. It is hard even for some Americans to realize. But communism, which at present is not a major threat in Japan, will find its nemesis in the positive achievements rather than the negative restrictions of democracy.-The Christian Science Monitor.
Chalk Talk
When the Kappa Alpha Theta sent out invitations for a faculty dessert, one girl assigned to write invitations, invited the guests to a "desert."
The very small daughter of a student was delighted the past Thursday when her bonnet blew off. Her father chased off across the campus after the hat and returned it to the child. She was so impressed that, much to the chagrin of her parent, she tossed it again to the wind.
The heroine of a recent motion picture told her leading man as she made a final break with him, "Its been weird knowing you." On leaving the theatre, a coed said, "You know, I could very well have said that to a lot of my professors."
When a Sigma Chi from Northwestern University visited the campus last week and experienced a Kansas "breeze", he seemed happy to report that the winds in his home town, "the Windy City," could not hold a candle to those of Kansas.
The announcement that K.U. will meet S.M.U. in football should stop all complaints about the inferiority of the team's non-league rivals.
Since the news of the house action on the proposed loyalty pledge, several persons have been heard to advocate overthrow of the "government by farce."
From a newspaper filler we read that "Ancients believed that the azure turquoise attracted desirable possessions." They must have been mighty ancient, In fact, B.C. (Before Convertibles).
Daily Hansan
Graduate Writes Book On Anatomy
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Leverett Allen Adams, '03, who received his master of arts degree in 1906 from the University, is coauthor of the new book, "Comparative Anatomy."
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Managing Editor John Stauffer
Asst. Man. Editor Marvin Rowlands
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Asst. City Editor Ruth Keller
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Asst. Sports Editor Bud Wright
Sports Editor Doug Hoyer
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Asst. Tel Kay Verger
Social Editors Mary Jane Hortner
Norma Hunsinger
Word that it will be published this month was received Monday by John Wiley and Sons, New York publishers. The book is an introductory study of comparative anatomy and vertebrate zoology.
Mr. Adams is professor of zoology and curator of the Museum of Natural History at the University of Illinois.
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Promotion Mgr. ... Robert Bollitho
Schenectady, N.Y.—(U.P.) A hard-working burglar wormed his way through the window of a gas station ladies' room, smashed through the interior wall, tried to crack the safe and rifted coin boxes and vending machines. For his pains, he got: Some cigarettes, razor blades and $1 in change.
He Needed A Labor Union
It may be true that Dr. Samuel Johnson drank 200 cups of tea in one day, but from the looks of one of the booths we saw at the Union fountain recently, his record will be broken before the semester is over.
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