UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MAY 7,1947
PAGE SIX
Kansan Comments
Are you beginning to worry about your grades? It may not be too late to do something about them.
Tips For Pleasing Your Professors
How are you getting along with your professors? That's an important element. The difficult part is that there are so many different kinds of professors. Even so, a simple survey will bring you down to a few essential types and a few basic rules for getting along with each.
There is one sure technique to rise in his esteem. Laugh! Laugh, if you have to practice in front of a mirror before you go to class. Laugh, if that cavity in your tooth is killing you. He'll love you for it.
His opposite is "morose Montrose." Life to Montrose is grim, cold, and hard. He staggers into class burdened with statistics, new theories, and a Phi Beta Kappa key. (Rumors say that he suspends it from his pajama draw string at night.)
First, there's "hale and hearty Harry." Life is one jolly merry-go-round for him. He doesn't care if you just had an argument with your best—or that your landlady just threw you out, life is still jolly. He doesn't care much what he lectures about as long as he can tell all the jokes his wife won't listen to any more.
There is no place for frivolity in his class. Lengthen your face before entering, assume an air of despondency, and try to look stern and grim.
Next is "eager-beaver Eldridge." He simply exudes energy. He never has a hang-over or indigestion. He never fights with his wife and he always eats a good breakfast. He springs into class with a bound and employs physical gymnastics that tire you and mental gymnasties that scare you. He pops questions like a kid with a pea-shooter and becomes violently upset if you can't pop answers back.
In order to get along with Eldridge, 10 push-ups are recommended before each class.
Another type is "meticulous Marvin." Orderliness is the supreme rule of his life. Each seat in each classroom must be occupied by a certain individual at a certain time. Each punctuation mark in each examination is painfully counted. Each deviation from the routine is noted with horror.
Then there is "despitic Derwint." Derwint is always right and never wrong. If he says you're a dope, even though your mother once said otherwise, that's too bad, you're still a dope.
Actually, getting along with Marvin is simple. Tie your shoe strings, get to class on time, dot your its, and you'll pass.
Next is "Milton the mumbler." He mumbles into class and mumbles through his lecture. He takes roll and he gives exams because the administration requires such but he really doesn't care if you're there or not. You could be dead and come to class and he wouldn't mind.
There is no way to get along with mumbling Milton. All you can do is say your prayers at night.
There's only one way to get along with Derwint. Agree! Agree if it kills you. If you must disagree, let him convince you. He has won another disciple and you might get a "D" out of the course.
Lastly, there's "Human Herbert."
He's really normal. Sometimes he laughs, sometimes he doesn't. He doesn't spring into class, he doesn't bumble in. He just comes in naturally. He may not have a Phi Beta Kappa key but once he was a boy scout. He isn't always right and on occasions he will admit it. He doesn't pop questions but he asks the kind that make you think.
If he doesn't forget, he takes the roll. He knows his material and how to get it across. He gives hard exams but he grades fairly. He's teaching because he likes teaching. For some strange reason, he enjoys putting up with you. He doesn't carry the weight of the world on his shoulders. He doesn't consider your grades more important than you.
You don't have to work like a slave to get along with him. You realize that you'll get more out of just knowing him than you would ever get out of any textbook. He's a good professor.
Which is the average K. U. professor? Well, we want to graduate in June. They're all "Human Herberts."
Phyllis Hodgkins
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