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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1947
As The Kansan Sees It
Culture 'Go' Sign
Three things stand out in our mind when we think of the lecture on Humanities given by Dr. T. V. Smith Tuesday night.
His point of making the Humanities to, in a sense, include all the fields of knowledge seemed appropriate to us. As he expressed it, "Imagination is the mother of all knowledge." His was an attempt to keep from narrowing the Humanities down to just literature, history, or the fine arts. It was an attempt to show that the Humanities permeate all knowledge, no matter how exact or non-esthetic.
As never before, the beauty of poetry was brought home to us. Poetry was revealed as not something to be ashamed of or to let the "highbrows" read. It was shown by Dr. Smith to be an expression, tangible and concrete, of the vast areas of feeling that lie in the back of everyone's consciousness.
His somewhat surprising statement that the Humanities gave opportunity for a life of action struck us as being incongruous at first. We tend to identify the philosopher, the musician, and the poet as being persons of inaction—as people who sit by the side of the road and watch and comment upon man.
Dr. Smith gave us the idea that not only do the Humanities give us a life of creative activity, but that
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they give us a chance to promote action in others by their very nature. This last point was perhaps the most convincing argument for a materialistic world. It gives to the Humanities more than a "Art for Art's sake" cast, and shows them as being definite roads to man's ultimate goals from his low-vaulted past.
The T. V. Smith lecture on Humanities Tuesday night showed a gross underrating of the student body by those who arranged the lecture. Fraser theater was used and packed past capacity because someone evidently believed that "it will be large enough for the students who come."
Students will attend good lectures by speakers whom they know to be worthwhile.
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What Page Did Say
Dear Editor.
Now it's my turn to holler "Foul."
Now it's my turn to holler "Foul." Those who furnish news items to neophyte journalists do so with the expectation that on forgivable occasions the prediction of a 5 a. m. sunrise will appear in print as a 7 p. m. moonset. But a public employee and teacher is always particularly careful to say precisely what he means when speaking outside of his classroom in his alter ego as a private citizen. He deserves accurate reporting because of his delicate personal position.
I told the Young Democrats Monday night that the obsolescence (note spelling, please) of our state constitution does contribute to the continued dominance of the Republicans. I also said irresponsibility in both executive and legislative branches is thus fostered, and that malapportionment (again, note spelling) of the seats in the legislature leaves strongly Democratic areas grossly underrepresented.
The University DAILY KANSAN
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These major points are scarcely discernible in the published report. The supporting arguments are indescribably garbled. The speaker looks even less literate and grammatical than he is.
Are Daily Kansan reporters assigned to jobs on the assumption that the less they know about the subject matter to be covered the more they will learn from covering the story?
Tom Page,
Citizen-in this case
(Editor's Note: Mr. Page spelled discernible as "discernable." We've corrected it; mistakes can happen to anyone.)
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