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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, OCT. 3, 1947
As The Kansan Sees It
Science Course
The recent recommendation to the College faculty that a comprehensive physical science course be added to the curriculum should be carried out. Such a step would fill a gap in the knowledge of many students, and be an answer to the increasing cry against overspecialization.
In its haste to train students for specific jobs, modern education has tended to turn out too many specialists, who have no general knowledge of anything other than their own narrow fields. In doing this, the educational system has taught one subject at a time, and too frequently has made no attempt to correlate the courses.
Under the present College requirements, a student may graduate without taking any physical science. In this day and age, it seems too bad that any college graduate should know next to nothing about the world and universe he lives in.
But the College has too many requirements already. The addition of a physical science requirement would be an overload. Also, it would accomplish little more than to give a student just so many more hours of specialized study in one or two phases of physical science.
Under the present system, the College student who is majoring in English, biology, or history has to "bat" in physical science courses against pre-medical and engineering students. In a totally strange field, he is forced to compete with students who
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"know their way around" and are willing to study hard on these subjects which are pre-requisites in their chosen fields.
The logical answer to meet the many problems, then, would seem to lie in an optional comprehensive physical science course. Such a course would aid the student in getting an insight to this field of knowledge without having to take 10 to 20 hours of unrelated specialized subjects. It would infinitely broaden his basic background of knowledge.
The student would be competing against others like himself instead of specialists in the field.
How to set up such a course? This is perhaps the most difficult part of the problem. But the College has an excellent precedent in combining fields of knowledge into one total picture in its Western Civilization course.
Tackles Aint Dumb
A comprehensive physical science course should be adopted as soon as possible by the College faculty. A committee could then work out the difficult problems of combining sciences, setting up laboratory corollaries, and presentation of subject matter.
Maybe it is simple. Let's go get Barney Bigfeet, the biggest guy in town. He's not strong on brains, but he can lift a yearling and can chop wood all day long—so lets just try Barney at this "brainless" game of football.
"Oh, all them college football players is dumb," says the pipe-smoking "quarterback" in the general store. He props his feet on the wood stove and goes on, "They go through college without lookin' at a book. All they do is go out on Saturday afternoon and knock down little guys. It's simple."
Barney runs on to the field and fills in at right tackle. He outweighs the opposing tackle by 50 pounds. He's really chomping at the bit. On the first play Barney finds his nose in the mud and on the second so many tacklers swarm through right tackle that Barney's ball carrier has to run the other way.
Football players do open their books quite often. On the University starting lineup last year there were two pre-medical students, four education majors, three business majors, one in the college, and one in engineering. What's more most of them made excellent marks.
The general store quarterback would undoubtedly yell "Dirty work!" But it's not that—Barney has just run up against the typical college lineman, a boy with brains.
When the ball is snapped, the lineemen don't just push each other. It's a real battle of brains. A smart lineman may try to climb over his opponent on the first down, "submarine" under him on the second down, step back and let him lunge to the ground on the third down, and pull him out of the way to let a teammate in on the fourth down. The lineman who wins those little battles consistently is a real psychologist who reads his opponent's mind and beats him to the punch every time.
Gridiron stars show their mental agility after they leave college, too. When a coach calls some of his old team mates to a rally, they come from banks, brokerages houses, and successful businesses quite as often as they come from a coaching job at some other college.
Give the football player a break by not classifying him as short on brains just as a matter of habit. Besides, the chances are that he may be your boss some day.—R. T. Kingman.
Big Game Hunter Cancels Lecture
Frank Buck, big game hunter, will be unable to talk at the University on Oct.14, Raymond Nichols, executive secretary, was informed today.
A sudden illness has forced the cancellation, Mr. Nichols said. This is the second cancellation in the Community lecture course because of illness of the speaker.
Dear Editor
No Offense Meant
(Editor's Note: This letter explains Haury's letter on long skirts which appeared in the University Daily Kansan ten days ago. C. E. Azure wrote a letter to Haury through the Daily Kansan columns. Today's letter is the third in the series.)
Dear Editor,
Never before was I so neatly and completely scalped. It seems to me that the meanings and motives of my recent letter were misinterpreted.
If anyone considered it of a serious nature and took offense at the word squaw and its use, I've only to refer him to any reference book. It will explain to him that the word squaw was originated in the Algonquian Indian tribe and has since become the word meaning Indian woman among all major Indian tribes and also in the English language.
I meant no disrespect to any race. We have enough of that in our age. I wrote the letter in a lighter vein.
This is an accepted word and not a defamation. Since the words Wop and Okie are slang, I can see no correlation between them and the word "squaw."
I admit I have been around Haskell and have never seen anyone wearing blankets. In closing I hope not too many people are on the warpath.
H. Robert Haury, jr.
Engineering freshman.
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Drum-major Bill, one of the nation's best baton twirlers, left Monday for the first of a series of personal appearances in Kansas and bordering states. His tour is sponsored by the lecture course bureau of University Extension.
The schedule has been so arranged that Bill can come through Lawrence on weekends, and appear with the band at the home games. He will also march with the band at the Nebraska game.
Bill plans to wind up his tour in time to enroll at the University for the spring semester. He will work for his master's degree.
Starting Horsemen May Join Spur Club
Elementary equitation students may now become junior members of the Spur club. This change in membership requirements wa s agreed by the Spur club Tuesday.
Such students will be considered junior members until they have completed the elementary equitation course and have enrolled in the advanced course. Then they will be eligible for formal initiation.
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